I love my music device, especially when I can glide past the ever annoying people trying to sell you something on the streets.
Almost every street block now in Sydney, we have these hawkers that try to come up to with "with a question" or some other crap, now I just simply ignore them - and it doesnt seem as rude if you have something stuck in your ear!
Naomi Watts -> Ring Series Cate Blanchett -> Lord of the Rings Hugo Weaving -> Lord of the Rings Sam Neil -> Jurassic Park (Grow up in Melb) Anthony LaPaglia -> Without a Trace Geoffrey Rush -> Pirates of the Caribbean Nicole Kidman -> Days of Thunder Heath Ledger -> The Brothers Grimm
Lots of others, most born in Oz, some moved at an early age.
Oh yes thats right, if its not done the "US way" instead of a democratic model like the UN then its not good enough.
Shit all over the UN if you will, but its the closest thing the world has to a level playing field - and thats a fact.
Actually scrape the looking out your backyard, lately, the US has had the run of the playground in areas of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Ohhh thats right, its because the oil is there - sorry I forgot. For a moment I thought the US was protecting the best interests of their citizens, but instead they were looking after Uncle Sam and the massive gobs of cash to be made in the self interest of private enterprise.
This is a complete generalisation but of all the countries in the world, the US would have to be the most blind - which is suprising given its severe economic influence. I travel the world with my job all the time and you think you have it all - which you don't.
There is some beautiful countries out there, all I'm saying is look around - you'll be surprised what you find.
This is just another example of why I am glad to live here in the United States of America. We may complain about things from time to time, but at least we do have more freedom of information and able to know more, then most other countries out there.
You'll be suprised how many countries there is actually out there.
*Most* countries have the same body of regulators, have you heard of this thing called the UN? Check it out same time, you'll find a lot of countries "doing the right thing" in terms of freedom and law.
Mod me down, but I hope that one day the US citizens will look outside the scope of their backyard once and while.
Because since linux is mostly a from source OS with constant changes, the model is totally different. With a mac its done via s/w update patches, if a critical security patch is provided for Linux and an update to the Kernel is required - you could be screwed. But possiby not with other close sourced systems ala mac.
Anyways, the point wasnt totally about closed source, its around vendors fully supporting their drivers and hardware from what is a primiarly a from source operating system.
When Linux supports the full range of hardware that is currently under NDA's and vendors that refuse to "support" Linux other than supplying tainted binary kernels; then and only then will Linux be ready.
I personally have moved to a mac because I couldnt wait any longer. Will revisit Linux on the desktop in maybe 3 - 5 years.
Usually what happens when something goes IPO is their product offerings will go up in price before the IPO is sought.
I hope either way that they continue to develop fine products and keep the prices at a reasonable level.
Their prices are purely driven by what the market is prepared to pay, and from it seems the introduction to these tools at a commerical level is fairly steep in price for a small commerical developer.
On a side note, I would love to see a new ISO C++ standard (royalty free) to especially cater for cross platform GUI development.
What, however, would be far more sensible is being paid by the project with a given deadline.
You've hit the nail on the head. Well in regards to my work thats certainly the case. I've been doing consulting in security for the past 6 years and my proposals always have a few basic things:
1) Hours needed to complete task 2) Deadline set for the draft report 3) Total cost of the job
Hours needed to complete task does not necessarily equal to the exact deadline because I'm juggling other stuff (or just plain goofing off)
I might sit at home on my laptop for 5 or 6 hours of the day and write a report but the other 2 hours I'm sitting up a cafe up the road, or reading a book or listening to some music.
This is a complete hands-on review from someone who has used the product religiously for years. And I think you'll see why OpenOffice 2.0 truly Kicks MS Office around the block.
It was a one page review with some luke-warm analysis of some of the functions of either product. Nothing really in-depth here. Rambles a whole paragraph about PDF exports which is kind of irrelevent. I have a PDF phaser that I use to export to PDF, let the processor do the real word processing.
I have been using Word as a power user writing on average documents up to 300 pages a shot. Sure, Word has some shortfalls - I have seen times when a doc has shit itself in a few rare occasions. I have tried Oo, its quite good but I think it has a few more years to catch up to anything remote to Word. And I love Linux! Its unfortunate that I am stuck with Office in some respects, although no religious war will win me over when you have no choice but to be 100% collaborative with other Word users on very large documents, the slightest change to the formats can screw you big time, no Word importer will do.
I recently moved to a mac with Office 2004 which isnt bad although I'm still trying to get use to less use of shortcuts that arent consistant with the Windows version. I only moved to the platform for the *nix backend and to ability to contine my c++/dev hobbies outside of working hours on a platform built for development.
Saying that I think Oo has a real chance, especially in areas of the free market, small business, students and home users.
Jean-Louis Gassée should of accepted their offer of $200 million.
The problem was, it was more of an emotional want (he wanted 400). In business you can't let your decisions be driven by emotion or revenge when clearly his company wanted worth that much.
What I want is a native version of Vmware Workstation that will run on OS X.
VPC is pretty watered down, and simply doesn't cut it in a number of areas outside of this post.
With OS X being UNIX under the hood, I will be suprised if they don't consider selling it sooner or later. I mean, why give VPC all the fun on the platform?
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Half their shit is still in beta after 7 years, surely they are broke by now!
:)
Come on guys, to step up to plate and actually ship a product to make some cash, some quick decisions will have to be made
Thankyou AC.
Last time I heard he was very ill, anyone have the latest?
I love my music device, especially when I can glide past the ever annoying people trying to sell you something on the streets.
Almost every street block now in Sydney, we have these hawkers that try to come up to with "with a question" or some other crap, now I just simply ignore them - and it doesnt seem as rude if you have something stuck in your ear!
Naomi Watts -> Ring Series
Cate Blanchett -> Lord of the Rings
Hugo Weaving -> Lord of the Rings
Sam Neil -> Jurassic Park (Grow up in Melb)
Anthony LaPaglia -> Without a Trace
Geoffrey Rush -> Pirates of the Caribbean
Nicole Kidman -> Days of Thunder
Heath Ledger -> The Brothers Grimm
Lots of others, most born in Oz, some moved at an early age.
Yes, it was supposed to be a joke.
Unstable & Stable.
Although Stable will probably be realised sometime after, around 2017.
Go and do it for sure - I'm 30 years old but already looking at remote places to retire. :)
Oh yes thats right, if its not done the "US way" instead of a democratic model like the UN then its not good enough.
Shit all over the UN if you will, but its the closest thing the world has to a level playing field - and thats a fact.
Actually scrape the looking out your backyard, lately, the US has had the run of the playground in areas of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Ohhh thats right, its because the oil is there - sorry I forgot. For a moment I thought the US was protecting the best interests of their citizens, but instead they were looking after Uncle Sam and the massive gobs of cash to be made in the self interest of private enterprise.
This is a complete generalisation but of all the countries in the world, the US would have to be the most blind - which is suprising given its severe economic influence. I travel the world with my job all the time and you think you have it all - which you don't.
There is some beautiful countries out there, all I'm saying is look around - you'll be surprised what you find.
This is just another example of why I am glad to live here in the United States of America. We may complain about things from time to time, but at least we do have more freedom of information and able to know more, then most other countries out there.
You'll be suprised how many countries there is actually out there.
*Most* countries have the same body of regulators, have you heard of this thing called the UN? Check it out same time, you'll find a lot of countries "doing the right thing" in terms of freedom and law.
Mod me down, but I hope that one day the US citizens will look outside the scope of their backyard once and while.
Because since linux is mostly a from source OS with constant changes, the model is totally different. With a mac its done via s/w update patches, if a critical security patch is provided for Linux and an update to the Kernel is required - you could be screwed. But possiby not with other close sourced systems ala mac.
Anyways, the point wasnt totally about closed source, its around vendors fully supporting their drivers and hardware from what is a primiarly a from source operating system.
When Linux supports the full range of hardware that is currently under NDA's and vendors that refuse to "support" Linux other than supplying tainted binary kernels; then and only then will Linux be ready.
I personally have moved to a mac because I couldnt wait any longer. Will revisit Linux on the desktop in maybe 3 - 5 years.
Did support for aqua buttons etc make it in for this release?
heh - indeed.
By the way, love your spade tools Steve.
Usually what happens when something goes IPO is their product offerings will go up in price before the IPO is sought.
I hope either way that they continue to develop fine products and keep the prices at a reasonable level.
Their prices are purely driven by what the market is prepared to pay, and from it seems the introduction to these tools at a commerical level is fairly steep in price for a small commerical developer.
On a side note, I would love to see a new ISO C++ standard (royalty free) to especially cater for cross platform GUI development.
What, however, would be far more sensible is being paid by the project with a given deadline.
You've hit the nail on the head. Well in regards to my work thats certainly the case. I've been doing consulting in security for the past 6 years and my proposals always have a few basic things:
1) Hours needed to complete task
2) Deadline set for the draft report
3) Total cost of the job
Hours needed to complete task does not necessarily equal to the exact deadline because I'm juggling other stuff (or just plain goofing off)
I might sit at home on my laptop for 5 or 6 hours of the day and write a report but the other 2 hours I'm sitting up a cafe up the road, or reading a book or listening to some music.
This is a complete hands-on review from someone who has used the product religiously for years. And I think you'll see why OpenOffice 2.0 truly Kicks MS Office around the block.
It was a one page review with some luke-warm analysis of some of the functions of either product. Nothing really in-depth here. Rambles a whole paragraph about PDF exports which is kind of irrelevent. I have a PDF phaser that I use to export to PDF, let the processor do the real word processing.
I have been using Word as a power user writing on average documents up to 300 pages a shot. Sure, Word has some shortfalls - I have seen times when a doc has shit itself in a few rare occasions. I have tried Oo, its quite good but I think it has a few more years to catch up to anything remote to Word. And I love Linux! Its unfortunate that I am stuck with Office in some respects, although no religious war will win me over when you have no choice but to be 100% collaborative with other Word users on very large documents, the slightest change to the formats can screw you big time, no Word importer will do.
I recently moved to a mac with Office 2004 which isnt bad although I'm still trying to get use to less use of shortcuts that arent consistant with the Windows version. I only moved to the platform for the *nix backend and to ability to contine my c++/dev hobbies outside of working hours on a platform built for development.
Saying that I think Oo has a real chance, especially in areas of the free market, small business, students and home users.
I've been using http://adium.sourceforge.net/ for a while now, it totally rocks.
Insightful?
Don't be so sure, Microsoft needs Dell just as much as Dell needs Microsoft. There will always be a compromise.
Nobody but Dell's gorilla size production house can push Microsoft products out to the corporates.
Jean-Louis Gassée should of accepted their offer of $200 million.
The problem was, it was more of an emotional want (he wanted 400). In business you can't let your decisions be driven by emotion or revenge when clearly his company wanted worth that much.
What I want is a native version of Vmware Workstation that will run on OS X.
VPC is pretty watered down, and simply doesn't cut it in a number of areas outside of this post.
With OS X being UNIX under the hood, I will be suprised if they don't consider selling it sooner or later. I mean, why give VPC all the fun on the platform?
The BSA, RIAA and MPAA successfully lobbied .....
Lets get to the point, the above just gave a huge chunk of cash to congress in order to make it happen.
I litterally got back from London last week (I'm living in Sydney) and the market is healthy.
Most good IT workers in the UK are being paid very well so that alone should make them think twice before whinging.
Check it out it here :)
v olution.html
http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/e
Nice going tex - now google is slashdotted, when will people learn?