Was it a doc file? Did he do it without opening the app first? Was MS Office preloader enabled?
No, OOo loads spreadsheet files fully into RAM while Excel only loads the part which is currently being worked on. The result for extremely large spreadsheets is that OOo is slower than Excel.
This is a pretty good example of how the FUD and astroturfers work. You analyse the competition for an area where your own product has a theoretical advantage, then just refer constantly to the competitor's flaw as though it was a showstopper instead of just a mild inconvenience.
The intent is to hijack discussions like Slashdot and prevent real comparisons which might show your product in a bad light. Even though most posters debunk the claims you've made, they're defending and discussing a flaw in their product, not yours. Eventually the FUD becomes groupthink, and you can't even mention OOo without some shill chipping in with an "Open Source office software is slow" comment.
He said South Australia. It's different down there, and a little scary. They've named their cricket team after a spider and make beer out of sewage. Their main football team wears the German flag for a jumper, and the state capital was designed by an obsessive-compulsive.
They do brew one some of the best mass-production beers in the country (Coopers), but if you're ever invited to a keg party in a small SA town, run like hell.
I, for one, welcome our new PlayStation LCD touch screen-controlled robot overlords?
I don't. The single biggest problem with this project is that it requires a Sony product, and I aint gonna buy Sony products no more. I'll be doing my best to discourage others from buying them too.
A major part of the problem is that CFO types don't like spending money on things they don't see a need for.
That's a common theme with all loss control divisions. All of the major performance measures are trailing indicators - they're only measurable in the event of a failure. You guys should look around and take a leaf out of the older loss control disciplines' books.
Safety, reliability, risk management etc all have positive performance measures available and in use. Put together a dashboard of leading indicators and keep it in your management's view (ie, monthly reports). If you do that, you'll have a lot easier time of it when the budgets are in.
I can't help feeling like this is a sort of symbolic, yet useless (almost tongue-in-cheek) move on the part of Kazaa.
Given the distance the individuals concerned have created between themselves and any legal consequences, I'd say they've positioned Sharman as a flack catcher. They'll let the government and *AAs atack Kazaa, do their worst, and once the dust has settled, they'll have a clear legal position for their next venture. If a lame duck like Kazaa gets wrecked in the process, it'll be no great loss.
Ahh, "Blockbuster Movie Syndrome": Everything put on film must be exciting.
Yeah, to me the formulaic blockbuster movies are boring as batshit. Some of the technical films in the Prelinger archives http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger are much more interesting. How can you go past a film like;
Personal Hygiene (Part I) - U.S. Army
Military training drama showing how the residents of a barracks convince a sloppy soldier to clean up his act. With many folk songs on cleanliness.
It's unintentionally hilarious, and there are thousands like it in the collection.
Tunes is probably good for buying music. For playing music, I find it about as bloated and awkward as Windows Media Player 10.
Yeah, I tried iTunes for a while, but didn't didn't really get into the way it worked. QCD is the one I keep going back to; http://www.quinnware.com/.
It feels like the Firefox of media players - the basic player is fairly lean (2.5 megs download) and you can add plugins for just about everything.
Of course the Earth regulates itself in response to atmospheric changes
The Earth is not sentient and does not respond to atmospheric changes or even prodding with sticks. It's actually quite inert.
Climate is a metastable condition. It will remain stable in the absense of a stimulus, but will change to a new state which balances the input of the stimulus. It responds slowly (to us) because it is a big complicated system, but it follows the laws of physics, not some personal whim.
It would be an interesting orbital-mechanics problem to do this (geologically speaking in a short period of time) and at the same time maintain Mars' orbit and rotation.
You wouldn't bother with that though, would ya. You'd use the mass of the asteroids to caroom Mars off Venus, make sure you've got enough side on it to curve right around Sol and slide nicely into Earth's Lagrange L3 ready for the next shot.
Closer for transport that way too.
Slashdot Mirror
Was it a doc file? Did he do it without opening the app first? Was MS Office preloader enabled?
No, OOo loads spreadsheet files fully into RAM while Excel only loads the part which is currently being worked on. The result for extremely large spreadsheets is that OOo is slower than Excel.
This is a pretty good example of how the FUD and astroturfers work. You analyse the competition for an area where your own product has a theoretical advantage, then just refer constantly to the competitor's flaw as though it was a showstopper instead of just a mild inconvenience.
The intent is to hijack discussions like Slashdot and prevent real comparisons which might show your product in a bad light. Even though most posters debunk the claims you've made, they're defending and discussing a flaw in their product, not yours. Eventually the FUD becomes groupthink, and you can't even mention OOo without some shill chipping in with an "Open Source office software is slow" comment.
What would Jesus do?
He'd lie on the ground bleeding, same as Mirecki did.
except people still use DOS
And people can still use HTML1 and it'll render fine in a HTML5 capable browser. Did you have a point to make?
Quick! What's the password for gcc?
main()
Shhh, I'm angling for "Informative".
Can I see?
Yup.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Australia isn't First World?
He said South Australia. It's different down there, and a little scary. They've named their cricket team after a spider and make beer out of sewage. Their main football team wears the German flag for a jumper, and the state capital was designed by an obsessive-compulsive.
They do brew one some of the best mass-production beers in the country (Coopers), but if you're ever invited to a keg party in a small SA town, run like hell.
I, for one, welcome our new PlayStation LCD touch screen-controlled robot overlords?
I don't. The single biggest problem with this project is that it requires a Sony product, and I aint gonna buy Sony products no more. I'll be doing my best to discourage others from buying them too.
it makes you dumber.
So you don't get to be a geek, but you can succeed in sport, politics and country music. You also get to enjoy sitcoms, reality tv and Fox news.
Negative, huh?
Quick, someone call Homeland Security!
They already know. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164912/
Eh? Why do you say that?
Just wait until Frank Smith starts suing the daylights out of people with combovers.
In other news, Donald Trump just wet himself.
A major part of the problem is that CFO types don't like spending money on things they don't see a need for.
That's a common theme with all loss control divisions. All of the major performance measures are trailing indicators - they're only measurable in the event of a failure. You guys should look around and take a leaf out of the older loss control disciplines' books.
Safety, reliability, risk management etc all have positive performance measures available and in use. Put together a dashboard of leading indicators and keep it in your management's view (ie, monthly reports). If you do that, you'll have a lot easier time of it when the budgets are in.
I can't help feeling like this is a sort of symbolic, yet useless (almost tongue-in-cheek) move on the part of Kazaa.
Given the distance the individuals concerned have created between themselves and any legal consequences, I'd say they've positioned Sharman as a flack catcher. They'll let the government and *AAs atack Kazaa, do their worst, and once the dust has settled, they'll have a clear legal position for their next venture. If a lame duck like Kazaa gets wrecked in the process, it'll be no great loss.
Yep, it works like this;
Besides, when's the last time you heard of traffic being shut down/diverted for the practice landings?
How do you explain this then? http://www.405themovie.com/
Maybe it's just me, but what's so great about using this as car paint?
Having cars which turn white or reflective in summer and dark in winter could be a huge energy saver.
Having an intelligent chunk of meat there to reference everyone's receipt to their items.
So you're suggesting a steak-out?
Yeah, to me the formulaic blockbuster movies are boring as batshit. Some of the technical films in the Prelinger archives http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger are much more interesting. How can you go past a film like; It's unintentionally hilarious, and there are thousands like it in the collection.
To be fair though, both of those treaties were with a country that no longer exists.
Wow! What'd we use on them?
Tunes is probably good for buying music. For playing music, I find it about as bloated and awkward as Windows Media Player 10.
Yeah, I tried iTunes for a while, but didn't didn't really get into the way it worked. QCD is the one I keep going back to; http://www.quinnware.com/.
It feels like the Firefox of media players - the basic player is fairly lean (2.5 megs download) and you can add plugins for just about everything.
Just not on a female mother of five. If she were a male, they definitely would screw him over.
A male mother of five has bigger problems than the RIAA.
Of course the Earth regulates itself in response to atmospheric changes
The Earth is not sentient and does not respond to atmospheric changes or even prodding with sticks. It's actually quite inert.
Climate is a metastable condition. It will remain stable in the absense of a stimulus, but will change to a new state which balances the input of the stimulus. It responds slowly (to us) because it is a big complicated system, but it follows the laws of physics, not some personal whim.
It would be an interesting orbital-mechanics problem to do this (geologically speaking in a short period of time) and at the same time maintain Mars' orbit and rotation.
You wouldn't bother with that though, would ya. You'd use the mass of the asteroids to caroom Mars off Venus, make sure you've got enough side on it to curve right around Sol and slide nicely into Earth's Lagrange L3 ready for the next shot.
Closer for transport that way too.
I cannot think of any single source that could possibly show up as well as H2 O
I'm convinced it's C2H5OH with a chunk of magnesium iron silicate in it. Shaken, not stirred.