Because we are a small country we do tend to hold on to assets like this a little bit tighter. Or try to, anyway.
"Try to" being the operative phrase.
CSIRO filed the patent on OFDM in 1992, and informed IEEE in 1997 that the method was patented and would attract royalties. American businesses including Lucent, Cisco and HP have ignored CSIRO's request for companies using the technology (which took 8 years to develop) to license IP rights.
What I have seem these days are wonderful looking games. Full of bugs, with lousy content, and almost a copy&paste of 40 other games just like it.
That's just Sturgeon's law in action.
I'm looking forward to a fully ray-traced Half-Life 3, or whatever other game picks up the HL.x mantle. It will happen, and the game will be the better for added realism, despite the reams of crud which will be released to compete.
People should be smart enough to know not to go wandering around with that kinda stuff like that.
Yes, everybody should look like everybody else.
In fact, it would be a good idea to issue everybody with a standard close-fitting tunic and pants, in a standard colour that shows shadows and bulges well - mid grey, for example. That would make it much simpler to protect the American people, and reduce stress for security people forced to use sense and judgement.
Anybody not wearing grey could be shot with impunity. You know it makes sense.
I don't see why Microsoft should be held to higher standard than FSF.
They're not being held to a higher standard.
Microsoft's licenses govern the USE of software. FSF (and other FOSS licenses) govern the DISTRIBUTION of software. That detail is what creates the incompatibility and confusion.
AV detection rate comparisons tend to be somewhat questionable. Many of the testers are sponsored by anti-virus vendors.
It's a shame Clamwin/Winpooch wasn't included in the test - it normally scores resonably highly
(http://advosys.ca/viewpoints/2007/08/clamav-beats-mcafee-and-norton/), and it would have been nice to see how Microsoft's effort compares to that of some unpaid volunteers.
That's not all. Australia has ordered 59 M1A1 Abrams tanks that are too big for any of our transport equipment (based around the existing Leopard fleet).
We'll have to ask any bad guys to come to our tank training ground so we can fight 'em fair.
This stuff's not always simple, so I wouldn't kick yourself too hard. Learning's a good way to stop being an idiot anyway.
If you've been using the XP partition for some time, it's probably fragmented (bits of files are scattered all over it). If you use Norton tools, they also put data right at the end of the disk. Either way, there's no space for GParted (Ubuntu's partition tool) to recover.
You can try using XP's defrag, but it's not very good, and may not consolidate the file fragments enough to get you the space back. A better option might be to use an evaluation version of one of the commercial defrag utilities like PerfectDisk, or spend the money to buy a copy if you think you'd get value from it.
When a system needs a re-install is there a rolled up update one can get from MS? or is it still like the dark days of win98?
Dark days.
There used to be a utility which did what you want, but Microsoft killed it off a fortnight ago. Now if you install from a pre-SP2 cd, you have to get online to patch, and take your chances with the viruses.
If I set my computer to "Download and notify", that's what I want it to do.
If it installs updates while it is set to "Download and notify", it is doing something I explicitly told it not to do. That means I do not have control of my own computer.
We went from at least $3000 for a home PC setup to today's sub-$500 home PC setup... and NONE of it would have been possible had Microsoft not started the ball rolling.
Commodore 64; Released: September 1982: Price: US $595.
Amiga 500: Released: April 1987: Price: US $595.
Archimedes A3000: Released: April 1987: Price: US $650.
Amstrad PCW 16: Released: July 1994: Price: US $450.
Atari STE: Released: May 1990: Price: US $599.
Microsoft Vista: Released: December 2006: Price: US $399.00.
Microsoft killed cheap computing, you moron. It's what monopolies do!
While the specific merits of Be's anti-trust case against will never be known, in its lawsuit Be did allege "the destruction of Be's business resulting from the anti-competitive business practices of Microsoft." http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3073811
I can't for the life of me figure out why ODF can't support them
ODF is a file format, not a word processor.
If you're thinking of Open Office.org Writer, which is a word processor, it may support what you're trying to do already, but in a different way. I don't really understand what it is you want to do, but I think it's to put 3 text elements on one line, one bit justified left, one centred, and one justified right. Is that correct?
If that's what you're trying to do, the simplest way is to make a 3 column, 1 row table with an invisible border, and put your 3 text elements in that. You can then justify each separately.
So for Word, it may be 100 * 200 = 20,000, while OO would 100 * 0 = 0.
OOo is downloaded about half a million times each week.
Hard to say how many of those downloads are actual users, but that implies a pretty substantial installed base.
Don't get sucked in by all the hype. If you try to use Open Office as a surrogate MS Office, it's competent but unexceptional. In the background though, OOo and the ecosystem around it have the capacity to overhaul the way office documents are created, distributed and managed. Companies which tap into those efficiencies early will save money and compete better.
Microsoft knows that, which is why you get all this marketing hype whenever there's a discussion of OOo or ODF.
If we had a standard document format (which Microsoft supported instead of attacked), minimalist document writers that worked like WP5.1 could be developed and would interoperate freely with MS and Open Office.
People wouldn't be forced to use these bloated great office packages if they didn't want to.
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"Try to" being the operative phrase.
CSIRO filed the patent on OFDM in 1992, and informed IEEE in 1997 that the method was patented and would attract royalties. American businesses including Lucent, Cisco and HP have ignored CSIRO's request for companies using the technology (which took 8 years to develop) to license IP rights.
Hypocrisy runs deep in big business.
That's just Sturgeon's law in action.
I'm looking forward to a fully ray-traced Half-Life 3, or whatever other game picks up the HL.x mantle. It will happen, and the game will be the better for added realism, despite the reams of crud which will be released to compete.
Yes, everybody should look like everybody else.
In fact, it would be a good idea to issue everybody with a standard close-fitting tunic and pants, in a standard colour that shows shadows and bulges well - mid grey, for example. That would make it much simpler to protect the American people, and reduce stress for security people forced to use sense and judgement.
Anybody not wearing grey could be shot with impunity. You know it makes sense.
They're not being held to a higher standard.
Microsoft's licenses govern the USE of software. FSF (and other FOSS licenses) govern the DISTRIBUTION of software. That detail is what creates the incompatibility and confusion.
It's a shame Clamwin/Winpooch wasn't included in the test - it normally scores resonably highly (http://advosys.ca/viewpoints/2007/08/clamav-beats-mcafee-and-norton/), and it would have been nice to see how Microsoft's effort compares to that of some unpaid volunteers.
We'll have to ask any bad guys to come to our tank training ground so we can fight 'em fair.
These guys NeoOffice are still waiting.
No, I was referring to the Boise - Minneapolis channel.
One other distro I'd recommend, especially if you like games, is Sabayon. It's Gentoo based, but installs from a live DVD and is _fast_.
This stuff's not always simple, so I wouldn't kick yourself too hard. Learning's a good way to stop being an idiot anyway.
If you've been using the XP partition for some time, it's probably fragmented (bits of files are scattered all over it). If you use Norton tools, they also put data right at the end of the disk. Either way, there's no space for GParted (Ubuntu's partition tool) to recover.
You can try using XP's defrag, but it's not very good, and may not consolidate the file fragments enough to get you the space back. A better option might be to use an evaluation version of one of the commercial defrag utilities like PerfectDisk, or spend the money to buy a copy if you think you'd get value from it.
I used to be a blastocyst, you insensitive clod!
Dark days.
There used to be a utility which did what you want, but Microsoft killed it off a fortnight ago. Now if you install from a pre-SP2 cd, you have to get online to patch, and take your chances with the viruses.
If I set my computer to "Download and notify", that's what I want it to do.
If it installs updates while it is set to "Download and notify", it is doing something I explicitly told it not to do. That means I do not have control of my own computer.
It's been confirmed.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=779
I don't see why you'd be suspicious. Microsoft has a history of ignoring user preferences when it comes to privacy choices.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/09/ms_wga_phones_home/
http://www.jeffcohenstudio.com/bagoftoast/comic.cgi?comic=71
Commodore 64; Released: September 1982: Price: US $595.
Amiga 500: Released: April 1987: Price: US $595.
Archimedes A3000: Released: April 1987: Price: US $650.
Amstrad PCW 16: Released: July 1994: Price: US $450.
Atari STE: Released: May 1990: Price: US $599.
Microsoft Vista: Released: December 2006: Price: US $399.00.
Microsoft killed cheap computing, you moron. It's what monopolies do!
http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm
Forget humans.
How much faster will my shark go with this thing bolted to it's head?
The consumer never had the choice.
While the specific merits of Be's anti-trust case against will never be known, in its lawsuit Be did allege "the destruction of Be's business resulting from the anti-competitive business practices of Microsoft." http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3073811ODF is a file format, not a word processor.
If you're thinking of Open Office.org Writer, which is a word processor, it may support what you're trying to do already, but in a different way. I don't really understand what it is you want to do, but I think it's to put 3 text elements on one line, one bit justified left, one centred, and one justified right. Is that correct?
If that's what you're trying to do, the simplest way is to make a 3 column, 1 row table with an invisible border, and put your 3 text elements in that. You can then justify each separately.
Blind MS hate? Bitter experience, more likely.
OOo is downloaded about half a million times each week.
Hard to say how many of those downloads are actual users, but that implies a pretty substantial installed base.
Don't get sucked in by all the hype. If you try to use Open Office as a surrogate MS Office, it's competent but unexceptional. In the background though, OOo and the ecosystem around it have the capacity to overhaul the way office documents are created, distributed and managed. Companies which tap into those efficiencies early will save money and compete better.
Microsoft knows that, which is why you get all this marketing hype whenever there's a discussion of OOo or ODF.
Yes, this is the lesson plan; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov.
This is why ODF is so important.
If we had a standard document format (which Microsoft supported instead of attacked), minimalist document writers that worked like WP5.1 could be developed and would interoperate freely with MS and Open Office.
People wouldn't be forced to use these bloated great office packages if they didn't want to.