The 810s are nice, but as long as I have a flat surface, I'm comfortable enough with the on-screen keyboard, for short sessions anyway.
I have to strike an uneasy truce between my inherent unwillingness to spend, and my geeky attraction to shiny toys. Upgrading the N800 would be crossing the line...
You do know there isn't a fully compliant ODF implementation either right?
More spin.
This statement is misleading. Every file written by OpenOffice.org, KOffice or IBM Symmphony (to use common examples) is ODF compliant. The file may not require every tag in the full specification to describe the contents each application is capable of writing, but it will comply with the standard.
In other words, each application is fully compliant with the subset of the standard mandated by the application's content creation role.
By contrast, MS Office does NOT write compliant OOXML files at all.
I agree with you that they shouldn't state in laws that a certain standard should be used, just that they be open.
The common way to do it is to have legislation which refers to a standard managed by an external agency. The standard can then be changed without requiring legislative change.
This works well in fields like safety, where OHS laws can reference equipment like fall prevention harnesses, and still allow manufacturers the opportunity to innovate in their products.
It will fail in an arena where the resident monopolist is willing and able to trample standards bodies in order to perpetuate its monopoly. Until the monopolist is unseated, or demonstrably changes its ways, more specific legislation, such as mandating a particular format will be needed.
Bill Gates denies saying 'You won't foreseeably need any more than 640K.'
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
We at Microsoft disagreed. We knew that even 16-bit computers, which had 640K of available address space, would be adequate for only four or five years.
Bill Gates interview with the Smithsonian three years prior:
It [640K] was ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address base for applications within - oh five or six years people were complaining. I'd take his denial with a grain of salt.
since linux runs fine on old 486 boxes and has support for a wacom tablet, if you're not a Linux user already, that old Concerto sounds like a perfect way to try it out.
Thanks for the advice. I am a Linux user, but the Concerto is not a Wacom device. Linux tools for it do exist, but only for old kernels.
I only keep it for interest sake now. I have other more useful computers to work on.
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...or maybe the Nokia N810 with the keyboard.The 810s are nice, but as long as I have a flat surface, I'm comfortable enough with the on-screen keyboard, for short sessions anyway.
I have to strike an uneasy truce between my inherent unwillingness to spend, and my geeky attraction to shiny toys. Upgrading the N800 would be crossing the line...
Putty on a Sony-Ericsson M600i works ok for me, but most of the time, I'd keep the M600i in my pocket and use my Nokia N800 through Bluetooth.
I often use a fusion source that emits light at 6504K. It's not very portable though.
Misleading. 32 bit Vista can only access 3.1GB without a hardware hack called PAE which will not work with all software.
No, that's not it.
It's because Microsoft has just ripped the lungs * out of their dreams.
* They were aiming for the heart, but couldn't find a decent anatomy text on Live Search Academic.
The line has never been real anyway. Like many arbitrary social lines, it's an artificial constraint imposed by moralists.
I think Blade Runner, Neuromancer and Brazil might have been a bit more influential.
I loved the 20 Minutes Into the Future/Max Headroom series, but they always stood on the shoulders of some fairly large giants.
Betamax and videocassettes are hardware standards. ODF is an electronic document format.
Do you even have the faintest idea what the X in XML really means?
The key difference is that the failures in interoperability in the suites I mentioned will be treated as bugs and fixed promptly.
Office's incompatibilities will be flaunted as failures of the format and exploited to justify extending and extinguishing it.
More spin.
This statement is misleading. Every file written by OpenOffice.org, KOffice or IBM Symmphony (to use common examples) is ODF compliant. The file may not require every tag in the full specification to describe the contents each application is capable of writing, but it will comply with the standard.
In other words, each application is fully compliant with the subset of the standard mandated by the application's content creation role.
By contrast, MS Office does NOT write compliant OOXML files at all.
The common way to do it is to have legislation which refers to a standard managed by an external agency. The standard can then be changed without requiring legislative change.
This works well in fields like safety, where OHS laws can reference equipment like fall prevention harnesses, and still allow manufacturers the opportunity to innovate in their products.
It will fail in an arena where the resident monopolist is willing and able to trample standards bodies in order to perpetuate its monopoly. Until the monopolist is unseated, or demonstrably changes its ways, more specific legislation, such as mandating a particular format will be needed.
We at Microsoft disagreed. We knew that even 16-bit computers, which had 640K of available address space, would be adequate for only four or five years.
Bill Gates interview with the Smithsonian three years prior: It [640K] was ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address base for applications within - oh five or six years people were complaining. I'd take his denial with a grain of salt.It was.
The ribbon is a direct rip off of the Blender interface. It's not widely praised there either.
- SCO
- "Vista Capable"
- Get the Facts.
- Windows Genuine "Advantage"
- Fake ROI/TCO models
- Misleading security stats (multiple)
- 235 Patents
- Zune astroturf sites
- XBox sales figures
- XBox failure rates
- OOOXML and ISO corruption
- Subverting OLPC (multiple lies)
There's plenty more. Feel free to add some yourselves - this could be fun.No, I just installed Mandriva 2008 Spring and it did it all for me.
??? WTF?
You set it up so it works and treat it like any other appliance.
I don't think I've touched any part of mine, apart from the remote, since I built it.
I think Ferraris are commonly considered overcompensation...
You do that, and I'll set Candlejack o
There is an antidote.
I'd add the Nokia N800 to that list. I picked one up for AU$330 brand new, so second hand versions would likely be cheaper.
You owe him a goatse.
Their disto still seems fairly popular though, so being more complicated isn't necessarily as big an impediment as you might think.
Tell your wife to enable Javascript.
Thanks for the advice. I am a Linux user, but the Concerto is not a Wacom device. Linux tools for it do exist, but only for old kernels.
I only keep it for interest sake now. I have other more useful computers to work on.
http://fedoraproject.org/ http://www.opensuse.org/
Is there something I'm missing completely here, or are the comments above complete non-sequiturs?