All I can say in response to this is that the Macintosh version of Office has always been a superior looking product, if not always superior operating. Version 5.1 for the Macintosh (circa 1992?) is still damn usable today.
If they put out a crappy version, no one will use it at first. They'll be forced to improve. 3 revs later and it'll be decent.
Microsoft embracing Linux would immediately convince many people, particularly in the small business market, that they can dump Windows. It would imperil other sectors of their business that currently are solid. Also, many environments are 'anything but Microsoft' as much as they can be. RH and Novell would do fine in that kind of world.
Crossover isn't good enough. It's not faultless, and the problems you have aren't explainable to the end user. Plus, it costs more money when you've already bought Windows licenses.
If Office were on Linux I could port all my end users to Linux without issue.
OOO/Star/Koffice/whatever just aren't good enough to prevent the person proposing the change losing their job once the end users have trouble interoperating with Windows clients. If it's Office, just blame Microsoft and keep your job.
And yes, I would keep a copy to stop from having to dual boot like I do now.
The problem with all these scanners is that once you load them all on a system, it's slow. Big time slow, noticeable slow.
I have never run a virus scanner on a system for longer than a day without removing it. On corporate networks, I disable the services. Funny thing is that I have never, ever gotten infected with anything from 1988 (when my first modem was installed) to now. The conclusion is that you have to do something utterly stupid with your system to get infected with any kind of virus, worm, or spyware.
Ultimately, I regret the fact that WebTV didn't catch on better. I think it's far more suitable for most people than having a home computer.
When everyone uses the same supply chain, the way to justify higher prices is to make the store less of a shithole and throw a ton of electronic crap at the customers.
Alternatively, you can sell food out of a shack that should have been knocked down 10 years ago, for less.
That's why 1ed is the best. Less rules, and convenient ways to handle unexpected stuff. The apex of AD&D was reached in about 1985 when Unearthed Arcana was released. They had just about covered everything worth covering outside of a Dragon magazine article.
Straight downhill from there, and I have read through each rules edition since. The later editions spend way too much time holding the hand of people who aren't imaginative enough to GM a session.
I am not favoring a preemptive strike on the NKs either.
Two things one can hope for here. Either continued liberalization in China will make them less willing to prop up the NK government, or an internal uprising in North Korea will unseat him. In the meantime, the Cold War isolation of North Korea must continue. To do otherwise would just extend and compound the misery of the North Koreans who have lived their whole lives under that brutal regime.
Well, the RIAA does figure in because otherwise I might buy CDs for my gf or my daughters as gifts, and I utterly refuse to.
The only new music i've liked in the last 5 years has been indie stuff. That said, it had a short shelf life, short enough that I did buy it, but I bought it for my then-live-in gf who then ripped some mp3s of it which I listened to, then proceeded to forget about.
It might be that i'm not a huge fan of new stuff anymore, too. Which in fact is the case. That/. poll a few days ago about 'age when new music is disturbing to you' is apparently about 32-35.
I have just about everything I listen to on either vinyl or CD purchased pre-1998.
Perhaps you would enjoy millions more dying this time since you blow off the last war and the endless sniping on the DMZ plus cross-border attacks that have been going on since then.
Learn history or be doomed to repeat it. This Stalinist state has been immune to diplomacy for the past 60 years. Nothing works. They have three world powers to play off against each other, and China has been shielding them to some extent since 1951.
I keep thinking that a 'human bus connector' would be a good idea, once you've identified the areas of the brain most conducive to electrode implantation for control purposes, you create a standard connector and tolerances for the controls. Identify motion axes that can be trained. Create a computer that hooks into the bus connector (mounted in the most logical place, perhaps behind the neck?) and allows the user to train using the motion axes in a therapy environment, then move them up to the vehicle that can provide mobility, a grasping hand and communications.
The advantages of this would be that as new hardware is invented, the brain electrodes wouldn't need to be re-implanted and the new hardware could simply take advantage of the existing control interface.
It's been a dream to regrow spinal cords. This provides a technological end run that while not 100% desirable, gives them a far more mobile and productive existence than would otherwise be possible.
True, but I think we've already seen the possibilities of artificial eyes run by electrodes directly implanted into the brain, for instance, and that a couple years ago. Seems like practical application of this technology is going to be another 10 years away by the speed of things, and it's sad because if it works now, it could benefit people...now.
It's a way of pinning down patents to a specific algorithm. Some (most) of these applications are so broad it's difficult to figure out what the patent covers and what it doesnt. A working implementation makes this 100% clear.
If you use the code, if you use their patented stuff, you had best negotiate a license or be sued out of existence. However, if you want to code around the patent, this could be very useful.
I've been putting in car stereos for 20+ years. It is easy and rewarding. I can't believe a geek on/. wouldn't do it. Stock stereos in general suck, low quality components abound in that arena. Bad tuners and anemic CD players. I replace and throw out the stock stereo in each new car I get.
The one thing the automaker can do for you is give you a good speaker rig, and i'm not talking about chest thumping bass either. I am talking about quality sound reproduction including the high range above 10khz, which I can hear just fine, but in most cars is muffled because the speaker grilles point towards my feet or in the rear have to bounce off a rear window.
You aren't going to get that rig without spending an arm and a leg on the high end stereo package that the automaker offers. If you aren't willing to pay the extra $1k for the stereo, or waiting the week or two it takes to get your special order in. You're going to have to start mixing and matching speakers too. Not that that is the end of the world either.
Yeah, I know, same here. When they moved to the 686 architecture with the PPro and PII, they created a pool of registers which are renamed to eax, ebx, etc. Apparently they can be accessed individually at the assembly level. I just found out about them today, so I can't speak to how. I'll test it out and see what I can find and post in my journal or something.
Why does the mapping have to be direct to be efficient? We've already got JIT compilers for Java bytecode, what makes you think it's impossible to do the same thing with a real world instruction set? Have you even thought about it?
Look at PearPC. They are getting not-great numbers right now (1/15 clock speed even with JIT like you are referring to). Yes, I have thought about it a bit, and i'd love to emulate, but it just isn't there for x86 and unless this CherryOS thing turns out not to be vapor, it probably never will be until the PPC architecture is so old (>5yr) that it isn't useful for running current applications.
Even without reading the site. Never mind the shortage of general purpose registers on x86 and the lack of a direct mapping between instruction sets, one has to question any vendor that is running on IIS with debugging enabled and with the.NET framework enabled.
For the reasons why - just look at their site right about now.
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All I can say in response to this is that the Macintosh version of Office has always been a superior looking product, if not always superior operating. Version 5.1 for the Macintosh (circa 1992?) is still damn usable today.
If they put out a crappy version, no one will use it at first. They'll be forced to improve. 3 revs later and it'll be decent.
Microsoft embracing Linux would immediately convince many people, particularly in the small business market, that they can dump Windows. It would imperil other sectors of their business that currently are solid. Also, many environments are 'anything but Microsoft' as much as they can be. RH and Novell would do fine in that kind of world.
Crossover isn't good enough. It's not faultless, and the problems you have aren't explainable to the end user. Plus, it costs more money when you've already bought Windows licenses.
If Office were on Linux I could port all my end users to Linux without issue.
/Star/Koffice/whatever just aren't good enough to prevent the person proposing the change losing their job once the end users have trouble interoperating with Windows clients. If it's Office, just blame Microsoft and keep your job.
OOO
And yes, I would keep a copy to stop from having to dual boot like I do now.
Spybot incorporated two types of realtime scanner in 1.3.
You must not be up to date.
The problem with all these scanners is that once you load them all on a system, it's slow. Big time slow, noticeable slow.
I have never run a virus scanner on a system for longer than a day without removing it. On corporate networks, I disable the services. Funny thing is that I have never, ever gotten infected with anything from 1988 (when my first modem was installed) to now. The conclusion is that you have to do something utterly stupid with your system to get infected with any kind of virus, worm, or spyware.
Ultimately, I regret the fact that WebTV didn't catch on better. I think it's far more suitable for most people than having a home computer.
When everyone uses the same supply chain, the way to justify higher prices is to make the store less of a shithole and throw a ton of electronic crap at the customers.
Alternatively, you can sell food out of a shack that should have been knocked down 10 years ago, for less.
That's why 1ed is the best. Less rules, and convenient ways to handle unexpected stuff. The apex of AD&D was reached in about 1985 when Unearthed Arcana was released. They had just about covered everything worth covering outside of a Dragon magazine article.
Straight downhill from there, and I have read through each rules edition since. The later editions spend way too much time holding the hand of people who aren't imaginative enough to GM a session.
I am not favoring a preemptive strike on the NKs either.
Two things one can hope for here. Either continued liberalization in China will make them less willing to prop up the NK government, or an internal uprising in North Korea will unseat him. In the meantime, the Cold War isolation of North Korea must continue. To do otherwise would just extend and compound the misery of the North Koreans who have lived their whole lives under that brutal regime.
The 'DAT tax' was an element of the Home Recording Act of 1992.
Amen, brother.
Well, the RIAA does figure in because otherwise I might buy CDs for my gf or my daughters as gifts, and I utterly refuse to.
The only new music i've liked in the last 5 years has been indie stuff. That said, it had a short shelf life, short enough that I did buy it, but I bought it for my then-live-in gf who then ripped some mp3s of it which I listened to, then proceeded to forget about.
It might be that i'm not a huge fan of new stuff anymore, too. Which in fact is the case. That /. poll a few days ago about 'age when new music is disturbing to you' is apparently about 32-35.
I have just about everything I listen to on either vinyl or CD purchased pre-1998.
I'm still not buying any more RIAA CDs, Walmart or elsewhere.
Perhaps you would enjoy millions more dying this time since you blow off the last war and the endless sniping on the DMZ plus cross-border attacks that have been going on since then.
But yes, diplomacy. Sure.
Learn history or be doomed to repeat it. This Stalinist state has been immune to diplomacy for the past 60 years. Nothing works. They have three world powers to play off against each other, and China has been shielding them to some extent since 1951.
How good is your hit/miss ratio on games with joystick control? Over or under 70%?
It might be good enough.
I keep thinking that a 'human bus connector' would be a good idea, once you've identified the areas of the brain most conducive to electrode implantation for control purposes, you create a standard connector and tolerances for the controls. Identify motion axes that can be trained. Create a computer that hooks into the bus connector (mounted in the most logical place, perhaps behind the neck?) and allows the user to train using the motion axes in a therapy environment, then move them up to the vehicle that can provide mobility, a grasping hand and communications.
The advantages of this would be that as new hardware is invented, the brain electrodes wouldn't need to be re-implanted and the new hardware could simply take advantage of the existing control interface.
It's been a dream to regrow spinal cords. This provides a technological end run that while not 100% desirable, gives them a far more mobile and productive existence than would otherwise be possible.
True, but I think we've already seen the possibilities of artificial eyes run by electrodes directly implanted into the brain, for instance, and that a couple years ago. Seems like practical application of this technology is going to be another 10 years away by the speed of things, and it's sad because if it works now, it could benefit people...now.
wiring it up to an electric wheelchair?
Wireless, perhaps?
Robotic arm on said wheelchair?
Seems they aren't plumbing the feasible current possibilities yet, and i'm not even talking about artificial legs and arms. Yet.
It's a way of pinning down patents to a specific algorithm. Some (most) of these applications are so broad it's difficult to figure out what the patent covers and what it doesnt. A working implementation makes this 100% clear.
If you use the code, if you use their patented stuff, you had best negotiate a license or be sued out of existence. However, if you want to code around the patent, this could be very useful.
I've been putting in car stereos for 20+ years. It is easy and rewarding. I can't believe a geek on /. wouldn't do it. Stock stereos in general suck, low quality components abound in that arena. Bad tuners and anemic CD players. I replace and throw out the stock stereo in each new car I get.
The one thing the automaker can do for you is give you a good speaker rig, and i'm not talking about chest thumping bass either. I am talking about quality sound reproduction including the high range above 10khz, which I can hear just fine, but in most cars is muffled because the speaker grilles point towards my feet or in the rear have to bounce off a rear window.
You aren't going to get that rig without spending an arm and a leg on the high end stereo package that the automaker offers. If you aren't willing to pay the extra $1k for the stereo, or waiting the week or two it takes to get your special order in. You're going to have to start mixing and matching speakers too. Not that that is the end of the world either.
Yeah, I know, same here. When they moved to the 686 architecture with the PPro and PII, they created a pool of registers which are renamed to eax, ebx, etc. Apparently they can be accessed individually at the assembly level. I just found out about them today, so I can't speak to how. I'll test it out and see what I can find and post in my journal or something.
Why does the mapping have to be direct to be efficient? We've already got JIT compilers for Java bytecode, what makes you think it's impossible to do the same thing with a real world instruction set? Have you even thought about it?
Look at PearPC. They are getting not-great numbers right now (1/15 clock speed even with JIT like you are referring to). Yes, I have thought about it a bit, and i'd love to emulate, but it just isn't there for x86 and unless this CherryOS thing turns out not to be vapor, it probably never will be until the PPC architecture is so old (>5yr) that it isn't useful for running current applications.
Since the Pentium, actually. But, hey, it has come a long way. 40 gp registers. Wow.
Amazing the things you find when compelled to look.
Even without reading the site. Never mind the shortage of general purpose registers on x86 and the lack of a direct mapping between instruction sets, one has to question any vendor that is running on IIS with debugging enabled and with the .NET framework enabled.
For the reasons why - just look at their site right about now.