Ok, not really, but I've learned that such subjects get more readers, so now that you're here...
The Opera press release reads:
For example, Opera's presentation tool, Opera Show, can empower users to replace Microsoft PowerPoint, creating light-weight, Internet standards-based presentations that can also make post-publishing a breeze.
After a cursory examination of the features of Opera Show I can see it won't match up against PowerPoint. For example, the tutorial linked above, you'll find:
In order for documents to become Opera Show presentations, Opera must be told how to turn the HTML document into a presentation. This is done by adding a CSS2 style sheet in the document head... The rest of this tutorial is mainly for those wishing to make or adapt their own Opera Show presentations, which is quite simple provided you know a little about HTML and CSS.
I certainly think PowerPoint wins hands down in ease of creating a custom look for the presentation. PowerPoint also offers near-mandatory features such as printing notes with the slides or printing 4 slides per page.
One of the advantages listed for Opera Show is "It will not annoy your audience with tacky animations." That's one way to spin the absence of a feature, but last time I checked the inclusion of "tacky animations" was the choice of the presentation's author, not the presentation software.
In a nutshell it seems PowerPoint and Opera Show serve different purposes. PowerPoint is for presentations with excellent support for handouts and poor (but functional) support for publishing to the web. Opera Show is for taking existing web pages and turning them into presentations, but does not appear to be a serious tool for giving a talk at a conference, for example, where people expect handouts.
I wrote above that Opera Show doesn't match up to PowerPoint, and it doesn't, at least on PowerPoint's turf. Opera Show is clearly superior to PowerPoint in what Opera Show is designed for; it is just not a PP-killer.
On the Internet, dynamic navigation of the Web allows Advanced Edition users to access Web sites merely by speaking the link name, while navigating to bookmarks with a simple voice command. Natural Language Commands and Voice Navigation macros provide Command and Control to navigate within the supported operating system and within many popular Windows applications.
Surfing the Web with voice activated linkage, creating e-mail or voice chats are tools within Advanced Edition, which allow users to enjoy the comfort of these productivity features while working on the Web.
So Opera rolled it into their browser. I'm sure that will be less expensive than buying ViaVoice Advanced separately but is this really newsworthy? "Hey, we bought a license to use another company's library!"
Opera's first marketing target: enterprise. Sure, the starship Enterprise had everyone speaking to their computers but in my enterprise I don't want cubicles full of people mumbling to their browsers. I don't see why this would enhance productivity either, except for the disabled. A two button mouse with a scroll wheel will be faster than speaking, certainly.
It's got more features than the Dell, a bigger screen, and it's cheaper. Search google for "zd7000 review" for a couple of good reviews (sorry, I'm too lazy to make the link, especially when there are 600 comments ahead of mine...I doubt the poster will ever see this). I have one with the docking station and it's a great machine. I'm very happy with it.
No longer do I use "gay", "homo", and "fag" when playing CS. Now I use "ghey", "hoemoe", and "fagg". I try to be sensitive to all, including my butt-loving brothers.
...the Steve Guttenberg project. Can you imagine it? All of his works, from the seminal "Police Academy" series to the touching "Cocoon", all available for free. Savor the acting in "Diner", then laugh your ass off at the zany antics in "Short Circuit". Oh, whose heart didn't go out to "Number 5" in that masterwork?
Text is dead; long live video. Free Steve's work now!
Here's what's so extra sleazy about this: when iI worked at microsoft, "we" (not me) stole intellectual property from apple, outright theft of technical documents.
Oh yeah? Well, when I worked at Microsoft "we" fed hungry children, built houses for the homeless, gave money to Apple to keep them from going under, and forced the CIA to cancel a clandestine hit on Linus Torvalds.
So there you have it. More unsubstantiated claims. Please mod me up as informative, as was the parent post. Don't let the man keep this information down!
I have no idea what you're talking about. Now step over here so I can jab this pencil in your eye, give you a paper cut across the neck and stick your fingers in this space heater.
I predict this will be the next great urban legend, following in the vein of kidney theives and zombies created by criminals. "I woke up in my room and there were wires coming out of my head. I could only scream silently in my head as my body walked out the door and proceeded to rob a bank." Hmmm...reminds me of Spock's Brain...
Back in the halcyon days of grad school, this...this...ad! shows up in a newsgroup I favored. I dashed off an e-mail them (several, in fact) including many full copies of their post. I encouraged my fellow students to do the same.
We were quite happy to learn later the flood of mail took down their server. Yes, there I was riding the crest of the spam fighting movement without even knowing it. And at the time it was just a break from Netrek and posting via anon.penet.fi...
This message has no point. Just some memories of an old guy. Did I ever tell you about programming the Commodore PETs in the math department in high school? It was like this...
Two points. Is this real, and is the dollar figure correct?
If it's real, consider the source. The e-mail was not widely distributed so did someone raid an inbox for this? Was it printed out and left on the printer? In either case, the source must be close to the principals. Why hasn't more information been forthcoming from this source? Certainly this source would have been able to pick up things like, oh, what the infringing code was, who SCO is planning on suing...
Let's say the e-mail is authentic. Consider the $86M figure. From the memo:
Microsoft will
have brough in $86 million for us including Baystar.
The poster (and many many of those leaving comments) seem to assume MS gave SCO $86M. If you read the memo, clearly that's not the case. It says MS has brought in that money, including Baystar. From the commentary, we know that Baystar provided at least $50M. MS just referred SCO to Baystar.
Take a look at Baystar's site. They invest in many companies, not all tech related. If you read the Baystar news section, you'll see this article that shows Baystar is not letting SCO have free rein and is interested in protecting its investment.
Bottom line: MS is not funnelling money to SCO via Baystar. MS introduced them but Baystar made the decision to fund, based on the best interest of its investors. Of course, the way Raymond spins it is, "If not for Microsoft, SCO would be at least $15 million in debt today." No, if not for Baystar. Sure, MS introduced them but you may as well say, "If not for the mothers of Baystar's founders giving birth to those founders..." A lot of things came together for SCO to secure the funding.
It's a lot less ominous than the excitable posters here seem to think, or certainly Raymond:
There you have it. A hundred million funnelled from Microsoft to SCO
Thanks. I read in several places (such as this one - scroll down to Tennessee, and this much longer one - going to have to search) that the nickname came from his toughness...that he was as tough as old hickory. I assume that's pretty solid. I'm sure it's better than "Old Balsa" or "Old Cork".
BTW, I have no idea why you were modded as "redundant". Hopefully it will show up in my 3x a day metamod list. I'm getting so many opportunities to metamod I'm beginning to feel like an employee.
Think of the implications. You have 14 wives, each with an RFID tag. You can track them coming and going but do you want the government to know about them? Of course not. The mormons had to renouce polygamy as a condition of statehood, wink wink.
I, with my one wife, have no such problems. I know where she is by listening to her periodic yelling at the kids.
Nice description...online singles bar. That's pretty accurate for at least part of the game. Or environment. There are also games (racing type, paintball, cards), exploration (it's a large world), commerce (design and buy/sell items) in addition to the large social aspect. You can build or buy a house too (not my thing but a number of people do this). One guy even built a space station. I suppose it's what you make of it.
They're hyping the super accurate physics because they get it for free. There already has a really nice physics model (I'm a member of There and have been since beta). They didn't put in the physics for the Army. There already has flying craft, driving craft, and weapons. Paintball guns to be exact. There even has outer space - if you go up high enough the Earth eventually vanishes.
Anyway, while the physics model may not be necessary for what they're doing, they may as well tell you about because it sounds good. It's like my minivan. I don't really need 38 cupholders but I always point them out to the passengers:)
But it's immensely more satisfying than any online experience.
And your point is...what? That you'd rather go outside than play a game? So because Long Island is a 3d environment you don't play anything because it can't rival reality?
I agree. I didn't say it's always who you know, just that it helps. I hired an intern who had no real world experience, just so he could get some experience. Turned out to be a great programmer and I hired him when he graduated.
A lot of companies, including the one I work for, have cattle call job fairs as well. They're worth going to, if only for the food:)
While I've had success using the job boards (I still get calls about outdated resumes I left floating around from my job hunting days) to get a job you need to exploit your connections.
I got my current job from someone bringing in my resume. I then submitted resumes for 8 of my acquaintances and 5 of them received job offers.
Keep in touch with former coworkers after you leave. An e-mail every few months just to say hi will do. You never know when you'll need a job or when your company will need an employee.
That being said, any programmers (US citizens only) needing a job near Balitmore just reply to this message with your e-mail address. See, the system works!:)
And when you're older still...
on
Singularity Sky
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· Score: 4, Interesting
...you'll look back on your Slashdot submission and realize what a pretentious uptight snob you were, and you'll wish you had the time back you spend shunning things that were actually entertaining.
Based on your review, I'll take Anthony over Stross:
There are problems with the book, mostly in the perennial bugbear of science-fiction, character development, but the rush of ideas glossed over that for me.
I'm sorry, I prefer a few good ideas and good characters versus poor characters and many ideas.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, not really, but I've learned that such subjects get more readers, so now that you're here...
The Opera press release reads:
For example, Opera's presentation tool, Opera Show, can empower users to replace Microsoft PowerPoint, creating light-weight, Internet standards-based presentations that can also make post-publishing a breeze.
After a cursory examination of the features of Opera Show I can see it won't match up against PowerPoint. For example, the tutorial linked above, you'll find:
In order for documents to become Opera Show presentations, Opera must be told how to turn the HTML document into a presentation. This is done by adding a CSS2 style sheet in the document head...
The rest of this tutorial is mainly for those wishing to make or adapt their own Opera Show presentations, which is quite simple provided you know a little about HTML and CSS.
I certainly think PowerPoint wins hands down in ease of creating a custom look for the presentation. PowerPoint also offers near-mandatory features such as printing notes with the slides or printing 4 slides per page.
One of the advantages listed for Opera Show is "It will not annoy your audience with tacky animations." That's one way to spin the absence of a feature, but last time I checked the inclusion of "tacky animations" was the choice of the presentation's author, not the presentation software.
In a nutshell it seems PowerPoint and Opera Show serve different purposes. PowerPoint is for presentations with excellent support for handouts and poor (but functional) support for publishing to the web. Opera Show is for taking existing web pages and turning them into presentations, but does not appear to be a serious tool for giving a talk at a conference, for example, where people expect handouts.
I wrote above that Opera Show doesn't match up to PowerPoint, and it doesn't, at least on PowerPoint's turf. Opera Show is clearly superior to PowerPoint in what Opera Show is designed for; it is just not a PP-killer.
It appears IBM already provides this if you buy ViaVoice Advanced:
On the Internet, dynamic navigation of the Web allows Advanced Edition users to access Web sites merely by speaking the link name, while navigating to bookmarks with a simple voice command. Natural Language Commands and Voice Navigation macros provide Command and Control to navigate within the supported operating system and within many popular Windows applications.
Surfing the Web with voice activated linkage, creating e-mail or voice chats are tools within Advanced Edition, which allow users to enjoy the comfort of these productivity features while working on the Web.
So Opera rolled it into their browser. I'm sure that will be less expensive than buying ViaVoice Advanced separately but is this really newsworthy? "Hey, we bought a license to use another company's library!"
Opera's first marketing target: enterprise. Sure, the starship Enterprise had everyone speaking to their computers but in my enterprise I don't want cubicles full of people mumbling to their browsers. I don't see why this would enhance productivity either, except for the disabled. A two button mouse with a scroll wheel will be faster than speaking, certainly.
It's got more features than the Dell, a bigger screen, and it's cheaper. Search google for "zd7000 review" for a couple of good reviews (sorry, I'm too lazy to make the link, especially when there are 600 comments ahead of mine...I doubt the poster will ever see this). I have one with the docking station and it's a great machine. I'm very happy with it.
Well, no, but in Soviet Russia, Beowulf clusters imagine you!
I looked at the audiolunchbox site and the only band I recognized was "Various Artists".
No longer do I use "gay", "homo", and "fag" when playing CS. Now I use "ghey", "hoemoe", and "fagg". I try to be sensitive to all, including my butt-loving brothers.
...the Steve Guttenberg project. Can you imagine it? All of his works, from the seminal "Police Academy" series to the touching "Cocoon", all available for free. Savor the acting in "Diner", then laugh your ass off at the zany antics in "Short Circuit". Oh, whose heart didn't go out to "Number 5" in that masterwork?
Text is dead; long live video. Free Steve's work now!
Here's what's so extra sleazy about this: when iI worked at microsoft, "we" (not me) stole intellectual property from apple, outright theft of technical documents.
Oh yeah? Well, when I worked at Microsoft "we" fed hungry children, built houses for the homeless, gave money to Apple to keep them from going under, and forced the CIA to cancel a clandestine hit on Linus Torvalds.
So there you have it. More unsubstantiated claims. Please mod me up as informative, as was the parent post. Don't let the man keep this information down!
But I can see a the potential for misuse too.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Now step over here so I can jab this pencil in your eye, give you a paper cut across the neck and stick your fingers in this space heater.
I predict this will be the next great urban legend, following in the vein of kidney theives and zombies created by criminals. "I woke up in my room and there were wires coming out of my head. I could only scream silently in my head as my body walked out the door and proceeded to rob a bank." Hmmm...reminds me of Spock's Brain...
Back in the halcyon days of grad school, this...this...ad! shows up in a newsgroup I favored. I dashed off an e-mail them (several, in fact) including many full copies of their post. I encouraged my fellow students to do the same.
We were quite happy to learn later the flood of mail took down their server. Yes, there I was riding the crest of the spam fighting movement without even knowing it. And at the time it was just a break from Netrek and posting via anon.penet.fi...
This message has no point. Just some memories of an old guy. Did I ever tell you about programming the Commodore PETs in the math department in high school? It was like this...
Two points. Is this real, and is the dollar figure correct?
If it's real, consider the source. The e-mail was not widely distributed so did someone raid an inbox for this? Was it printed out and left on the printer? In either case, the source must be close to the principals. Why hasn't more information been forthcoming from this source? Certainly this source would have been able to pick up things like, oh, what the infringing code was, who SCO is planning on suing...
Let's say the e-mail is authentic. Consider the $86M figure. From the memo:
Microsoft will have brough in $86 million for us including Baystar.
The poster (and many many of those leaving comments) seem to assume MS gave SCO $86M. If you read the memo, clearly that's not the case. It says MS has brought in that money, including Baystar. From the commentary, we know that Baystar provided at least $50M. MS just referred SCO to Baystar.
Take a look at Baystar's site. They invest in many companies, not all tech related. If you read the Baystar news section, you'll see this article that shows Baystar is not letting SCO have free rein and is interested in protecting its investment.
Bottom line: MS is not funnelling money to SCO via Baystar. MS introduced them but Baystar made the decision to fund, based on the best interest of its investors. Of course, the way Raymond spins it is, "If not for Microsoft, SCO would be at least $15 million in debt today." No, if not for Baystar. Sure, MS introduced them but you may as well say, "If not for the mothers of Baystar's founders giving birth to those founders..." A lot of things came together for SCO to secure the funding.
It's a lot less ominous than the excitable posters here seem to think, or certainly Raymond:
There you have it. A hundred million funnelled from Microsoft to SCO
Nonsense.
Dude, wrong article.
Thanks. I read in several places (such as this one - scroll down to Tennessee, and this much longer one - going to have to search) that the nickname came from his toughness...that he was as tough as old hickory. I assume that's pretty solid. I'm sure it's better than "Old Balsa" or "Old Cork".
BTW, I have no idea why you were modded as "redundant". Hopefully it will show up in my 3x a day metamod list. I'm getting so many opportunities to metamod I'm beginning to feel like an employee.
You should have been modded up for that old school humor. Jackson was a man's man apparently...get your history lesson for the day here.
Think of the implications. You have 14 wives, each with an RFID tag. You can track them coming and going but do you want the government to know about them? Of course not. The mormons had to renouce polygamy as a condition of statehood, wink wink.
I, with my one wife, have no such problems. I know where she is by listening to her periodic yelling at the kids.
It's very simple: junk culture leads to junk mail.
Oui oui, I agree mon ami. Now I must go, I am taking le family to Eurodisney! How do you say...ah yes...w00t!
Nice description...online singles bar. That's pretty accurate for at least part of the game. Or environment. There are also games (racing type, paintball, cards), exploration (it's a large world), commerce (design and buy/sell items) in addition to the large social aspect. You can build or buy a house too (not my thing but a number of people do this). One guy even built a space station. I suppose it's what you make of it.
They're hyping the super accurate physics because they get it for free. There already has a really nice physics model (I'm a member of There and have been since beta). They didn't put in the physics for the Army. There already has flying craft, driving craft, and weapons. Paintball guns to be exact. There even has outer space - if you go up high enough the Earth eventually vanishes.
:)
Anyway, while the physics model may not be necessary for what they're doing, they may as well tell you about because it sounds good. It's like my minivan. I don't really need 38 cupholders but I always point them out to the passengers
Nice way to work in the referral link, Brad.
But it's immensely more satisfying than any online experience.
And your point is...what? That you'd rather go outside than play a game? So because Long Island is a 3d environment you don't play anything because it can't rival reality?
I agree. I didn't say it's always who you know, just that it helps. I hired an intern who had no real world experience, just so he could get some experience. Turned out to be a great programmer and I hired him when he graduated.
:)
A lot of companies, including the one I work for, have cattle call job fairs as well. They're worth going to, if only for the food
Oh, don't say "hit me up"...my wife might be reading this...
While I've had success using the job boards (I still get calls about outdated resumes I left floating around from my job hunting days) to get a job you need to exploit your connections.
:)
I got my current job from someone bringing in my resume. I then submitted resumes for 8 of my acquaintances and 5 of them received job offers.
Keep in touch with former coworkers after you leave. An e-mail every few months just to say hi will do. You never know when you'll need a job or when your company will need an employee.
That being said, any programmers (US citizens only) needing a job near Balitmore just reply to this message with your e-mail address. See, the system works!
...you'll look back on your Slashdot submission and realize what a pretentious uptight snob you were, and you'll wish you had the time back you spend shunning things that were actually entertaining.
Based on your review, I'll take Anthony over Stross:
There are problems with the book, mostly in the perennial bugbear of science-fiction, character development, but the rush of ideas glossed over that for me.
I'm sorry, I prefer a few good ideas and good characters versus poor characters and many ideas.