I'm with you all 1" on screen column width. What?? The printable view was readable, but it doesn't look good not rendering well in an open-source browser.
I'm not sure about this as I didn't read the PDF, but in order to create vibrations there might be moving parts to transfer the sound, even if only slight and small. perhaps the pressure would eliminate/reduce that vibration, thus no sound.
Winglee estimates that a control nozzle 32 meters wide would generate a plasma beam capable of propelling a spacecraft at 11.7 kilometers per second. That translates to more than 26,000 miles an hour or more than 625,000 miles a day.
I poo-poo your silly idea Philleas Fog.. It's impossible and I'll wager my reputation that you won't make it from the Gentleman's Club in London to Mars and back within 90 days!
if it's viewing then PDF's the better option anyway, let's see MS Office do that (without acrobat printer etc.. installed). If there's a need to edit, then perhaps you've got a point, but for other people to simple read, then why give them an editable format, which is massive anyway? The biggest problem being that it might not even look like your document on their computer, even if you both use MS Word - because of fonts etc.. PDF will look like it did on your PC for them.
I always wonder a little about this whole VoIP killing telephone lines. Here in the UK for a large number of people their broadband is through ADSL, which requires a phone line.
So basically, that means the line needs to be there anyway so BT (rip-off-monopoly-who-own-standard-lines) still rake in their installation charges and connection fees, "more power to them".
I guess businesses would have other options, so it's the large scale stuff - but I'm pretty sure the same telco's are providing their VoIP anyway...
I on the other hand have cable and wouldn't touch a BT line with a barge pole.
I can understand peoples Gconf is a lot like windows registry so it's bad...but as far as I can tell it differs in some pretty major ways, and really is a sensible way of doing things.
Window's Reg uses one file, gconf uses loads of files, essentially it manages the old style.rc files for you (although they're xml and stored in one place and cached, so you can't edit by hand which is a pain in the ass, but rare).
Because gconf is a central server based system, a change to it from one app can be reflected in other applications immediately, i.e. change proxy settings, they change everywhere then. (This obviously requires the app to play nice with this).
GConf allows top-level locking of certain settings.. This may not be that useful to you or I, but for corporate desktops being able to make alterations and lock them for your users (i.e lock their proxy, keep remote desktop open/closed) very helpful in a IT infrastructure.
I'm sure there are many other reasons for it, it's maturing nicely. Gnome did get stripped pretty big, and put a lot of noses out of joint, but it really has been a good move.. It reminds me a little of Mozilla, loads of issues with that bloated app, but the work is paying off with Firefox etc.. now wooping IE's ass..
Admittedly gnome has had some pretty large changes for it's revisions, but they are becoming smaller and smaller over time.
"We are going to continue to improve our DRM, to make it harder to crack, and easier, easier, easier, easier, to use"
Funny in one of the articles linked to (above) Balmer does his usual "repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat loudly... then they will believe us" method of speeches.
The issue isn't just the fact that higher image size means the ability to print larger, it also means you're able to do more useful crops without ending up with a low res shot.
Imagine that the top left of an image is really interesting, and that's the shot you decide on, you can crop out the rest without losing much quality (i.e. it is still higher res than some digital camera images), so you can do more post production stuff like real film photographers do.
But the article clearly states, and the post, that they (ISC) have written a useful gdiscan tool.
He's pretty much stating that more intellegent information than "might be/might not, who knows, we don't" and then, certainly for the (hopefully) capable system administrators, something can be done. Better information for the novice even, other than "Wotcha".. something about how, why and should you be afraid, be very afraid?
He's simply remarking on the fear that this induces in a novice, and the lack of info and a decent solution for the more capable users. So if the non-microsoft guy (him/them) can write a better fix, surely the MS team should, given they wrote the DLL in the first place.
I really don't think that's microsoft have been producing the superior products. I realise that office, well word and excel are pretty well used applications, but to call them superior is a little much.
What Microsoft do have is a superior marketing team. That's the long and the short of it. That and pre-installed default's. If PC's were being shipped with firefox installed as the default browser and OpenOffice, well configure to handle MS office files, the majority would be using that.
People find MS apps easy to use because of one good thing, consistency in user interface, all apps work the same. That doesn't mean that way is better, but it does mean that it's easy to pick up new apps, but also it means that other apps (say free office's) which do things differently, some times in an easier way, seem harder, because they don't do it the MS way.
A lot of people buy into the Microsoft marketing, I know people who were looking forward to when XP came out, because it was "better". I asked them in what way was it better, and they couldn't give an answer. I admit XP was better than 98 (I mean only if it was ME/95 could it be worse), but the fact was They Believe Microsoft and that's why they're locked in... because they don't understand the differences, but the media machine of microsoft shouts loudest, so they win.
You can't complain about something like this, America (and others) have done just this to other countries. As they say, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
America claims to have concern for democracy to be in place in other countries and has a history of meddling in other countries political affairs. You can't say that "America Is Different" and the "Land of The Free", and then complain when other nations question what you consider to be "Democratic". Hey if you are democratic and people are free, then it will stand up to scutiny, and you can all go back to claiming to be the "free world" again, otherwise, you'll be shown for what you are (if scrutiny shows this, not my view of what you are), and there'll be a lot of questions asked.
Don't you want the government to be accountable to the people? American policies end up dumped on many other countries, inculding Europe's nations, so we're just making sure we can hold you accountable for things which effect us.. That's us in our democracy, and how we intend to keep ourselves free..
A company that has a wheel for navagating quickly through data which takes up more than a screen on the iPod should really get their heads around mice with scrollwheels..
I can't stand browsing the net without a wheel mouse.. I know macs can use other mice, but apple not grasping this seems a bit silly..
Assuming they fully release this game via steam. What if later the law suit goes against Valve, and they're not allowed.
Could this mean that the versions obtained via steam would be invalidated? That's pretty bad for Valve and the Customers. Presumably (I am not an expert on steam) there is a way to revolk privillages for the game? Valve would have to refund money so the users can get a "legal" copy?
Maybe this wouldn't happen, but anything is possible with the legal system of the US..
this is a list of 86,800 words, so naturally this includes words used by people with larger vocabularies than yourself.. otherwise it would be a list of about 100 words, if that..
I've got to say, that although I'm generally opposed to being given someone elses defaults, I think the "consumer" idea has some merit. Maybe some functionality/extentions by default would be a good thing. The geeks don't have to have it, they could get the others. Obviously the list would vary, but your usual windows IE guy tends to use the defaults so picking a few common (i.e. google bar, gestures) and going with them as "Flagship" extensions, maybe some themes, that way they can try a few before having to hunt through the extention libray (not for newbies necesarily)
Obviously an overhead to manage the package, but nothing major. I don't think that the guy was totaly out of line.
He was however silly to not post his issues, so people could comment and the Moz release team could have some constructive critique.
apart from owning them you mean?.. or are you asking why did they buy them?
SuSE has been an extremely user-friedly and well-equipped distro - coming on DVD's because of the quantity of packages.. and YAST was seen as a stepping stone to some of their auto-move-from-windows-to-linux systems..
I think that the fact than MS anounced some image related flaws and exploits caused the open source community to go searching through their image code and see if similar bugs can be found.
They did indeed find these bugs, so microsoft found it in theirs, o/s community responded to this.. This isn't to say that MS is bad for having the bug, and O/S is better, because they had these sorts of bugs too.
The magic is in the fact that because open source is open the community was able to respond to this sort of thing, and act.. Closed source software is dependant on the vendor to fix this.. This is pretty much the whole reason for RMS to start his FSS stuff, because of some buggy printer driver I believe, he was quite prepared to fix it, for free, but the vendor was having none of it.
The biggest issue open source people have with MS and proprietry software is that fact. Microsoft have shown so many times that they're unable to deal with the major issues, especially as some are more important to different parties. OS allows people with the ability to fix what's important to them. I'm sure if Windows and IE was open source (proper, not "shared source" crap) then there'd be a massive community of windows fans at the ready to plug those holes...
Because Microsoft can't get their head around business models where the source is freely available, they can't see the benefit. A community contributed windows would result in a much better Corporate Image for Microsoft, and related stock stuff..
of course you'd have to know that the add was google's before hand.. otherwise, you need to search for most recently registered domains, and then look for numbers.
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I'm with you all 1" on screen column width. What?? The printable view was readable, but it doesn't look good not rendering well in an open-source browser.
I'm not sure about this as I didn't read the PDF, but in order to create vibrations there might be moving parts to transfer the sound, even if only slight and small. perhaps the pressure would eliminate/reduce that vibration, thus no sound.
I poo-poo your silly idea Philleas Fog.. It's impossible and I'll wager my reputation that you won't make it from the Gentleman's Club in London to Mars and back within 90 days!
if it's viewing then PDF's the better option anyway, let's see MS Office do that (without acrobat printer etc.. installed). If there's a need to edit, then perhaps you've got a point, but for other people to simple read, then why give them an editable format, which is massive anyway? The biggest problem being that it might not even look like your document on their computer, even if you both use MS Word - because of fonts etc.. PDF will look like it did on your PC for them.
I always wonder a little about this whole VoIP killing telephone lines. Here in the UK for a large number of people their broadband is through ADSL, which requires a phone line.
So basically, that means the line needs to be there anyway so BT (rip-off-monopoly-who-own-standard-lines) still rake in their installation charges and connection fees, "more power to them".
I guess businesses would have other options, so it's the large scale stuff - but I'm pretty sure the same telco's are providing their VoIP anyway...
I on the other hand have cable and wouldn't touch a BT line with a barge pole.
- Window's Reg uses one file, gconf uses loads of files, essentially it manages the old style
.rc files for you (although they're xml and stored in one place and cached, so you can't edit by hand which is a pain in the ass, but rare).
- Because gconf is a central server based system, a change to it from one app can be reflected in other applications immediately, i.e. change proxy settings, they change everywhere then. (This obviously requires the app to play nice with this).
- GConf allows top-level locking of certain settings.. This may not be that useful to you or I, but for corporate desktops being able to make alterations and lock them for your users (i.e lock their proxy, keep remote desktop open/closed) very helpful in a IT infrastructure.
I'm sure there are many other reasons for it, it's maturing nicely. Gnome did get stripped pretty big, and put a lot of noses out of joint, but it really has been a good move.. It reminds me a little of Mozilla, loads of issues with that bloated app, but the work is paying off with Firefox etc.. now wooping IE's ass..Admittedly gnome has had some pretty large changes for it's revisions, but they are becoming smaller and smaller over time.
Funny in one of the articles linked to (above) Balmer does his usual "repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat loudly... then they will believe us" method of speeches.
it does!
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The issue isn't just the fact that higher image size means the ability to print larger, it also means you're able to do more useful crops without ending up with a low res shot.
Imagine that the top left of an image is really interesting, and that's the shot you decide on, you can crop out the rest without losing much quality (i.e. it is still higher res than some digital camera images), so you can do more post production stuff like real film photographers do.
I think there's probably a few more heads scratching, even in the Microsoft camp.
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We are Microsoft.
We hate OpenSource (it's a "cancer" etc..)
We release another OpenSource project
My head hurts...
But the article clearly states, and the post, that they (ISC) have written a useful gdiscan tool.
He's pretty much stating that more intellegent information than "might be/might not, who knows, we don't" and then, certainly for the (hopefully) capable system administrators, something can be done. Better information for the novice even, other than "Wotcha".. something about how, why and should you be afraid, be very afraid?
He's simply remarking on the fear that this induces in a novice, and the lack of info and a decent solution for the more capable users. So if the non-microsoft guy (him/them) can write a better fix, surely the MS team should, given they wrote the DLL in the first place.
I really don't think that's microsoft have been producing the superior products. I realise that office, well word and excel are pretty well used applications, but to call them superior is a little much.
What Microsoft do have is a superior marketing team. That's the long and the short of it. That and pre-installed default's. If PC's were being shipped with firefox installed as the default browser and OpenOffice, well configure to handle MS office files, the majority would be using that.
People find MS apps easy to use because of one good thing, consistency in user interface, all apps work the same. That doesn't mean that way is better, but it does mean that it's easy to pick up new apps, but also it means that other apps (say free office's) which do things differently, some times in an easier way, seem harder, because they don't do it the MS way.
A lot of people buy into the Microsoft marketing, I know people who were looking forward to when XP came out, because it was "better". I asked them in what way was it better, and they couldn't give an answer. I admit XP was better than 98 (I mean only if it was ME/95 could it be worse), but the fact was They Believe Microsoft and that's why they're locked in... because they don't understand the differences, but the media machine of microsoft shouts loudest, so they win.
You can't complain about something like this, America (and others) have done just this to other countries. As they say, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
America claims to have concern for democracy to be in place in other countries and has a history of meddling in other countries political affairs. You can't say that "America Is Different" and the "Land of The Free", and then complain when other nations question what you consider to be "Democratic". Hey if you are democratic and people are free, then it will stand up to scutiny, and you can all go back to claiming to be the "free world" again, otherwise, you'll be shown for what you are (if scrutiny shows this, not my view of what you are), and there'll be a lot of questions asked.
Don't you want the government to be accountable to the people? American policies end up dumped on many other countries, inculding Europe's nations, so we're just making sure we can hold you accountable for things which effect us.. That's us in our democracy, and how we intend to keep ourselves free..
I heard that the Dutch revolked their vote for EU software patents.
A company that has a wheel for navagating quickly through data which takes up more than a screen on the iPod should really get their heads around mice with scrollwheels..
I can't stand browsing the net without a wheel mouse.. I know macs can use other mice, but apple not grasping this seems a bit silly..
you mean too small to notice things like alien languages and uniforms fastening on opposite sides?
Assuming they fully release this game via steam. What if later the law suit goes against Valve, and they're not allowed.
Could this mean that the versions obtained via steam would be invalidated? That's pretty bad for Valve and the Customers. Presumably (I am not an expert on steam) there is a way to revolk privillages for the game? Valve would have to refund money so the users can get a "legal" copy?
Maybe this wouldn't happen, but anything is possible with the legal system of the US..
this is a list of 86,800 words, so naturally this includes words used by people with larger vocabularies than yourself.. otherwise it would be a list of about 100 words, if that..
Here in the UK, WC used to stand for "Water Closet", also known as the toilet.
Are you saying that their compiler is 1 better than a crapper?
I've got to say, that although I'm generally opposed to being given someone elses defaults, I think the "consumer" idea has some merit. Maybe some functionality/extentions by default would be a good thing. The geeks don't have to have it, they could get the others. Obviously the list would vary, but your usual windows IE guy tends to use the defaults so picking a few common (i.e. google bar, gestures) and going with them as "Flagship" extensions, maybe some themes, that way they can try a few before having to hunt through the extention libray (not for newbies necesarily)
Obviously an overhead to manage the package, but nothing major. I don't think that the guy was totaly out of line.
He was however silly to not post his issues, so people could comment and the Moz release team could have some constructive critique.
apart from owning them you mean?.. or are you asking why did they buy them?
SuSE has been an extremely user-friedly and well-equipped distro - coming on DVD's because of the quantity of packages.. and YAST was seen as a stepping stone to some of their auto-move-from-windows-to-linux systems..
they think of Internet Explorer..
No one pays for that, so Microsoft "Get Out Of Jail" for that? I think not...
And also according to those click-through licenses my rights pretty much include "up to but not more than $5".. so that's a comfort is it?
I think that the fact than MS anounced some image related flaws and exploits caused the open source community to go searching through their image code and see if similar bugs can be found.
They did indeed find these bugs, so microsoft found it in theirs, o/s community responded to this.. This isn't to say that MS is bad for having the bug, and O/S is better, because they had these sorts of bugs too.
The magic is in the fact that because open source is open the community was able to respond to this sort of thing, and act.. Closed source software is dependant on the vendor to fix this.. This is pretty much the whole reason for RMS to start his FSS stuff, because of some buggy printer driver I believe, he was quite prepared to fix it, for free, but the vendor was having none of it.
The biggest issue open source people have with MS and proprietry software is that fact. Microsoft have shown so many times that they're unable to deal with the major issues, especially as some are more important to different parties. OS allows people with the ability to fix what's important to them. I'm sure if Windows and IE was open source (proper, not "shared source" crap) then there'd be a massive community of windows fans at the ready to plug those holes...
Because Microsoft can't get their head around business models where the source is freely available, they can't see the benefit. A community contributed windows would result in a much better Corporate Image for Microsoft, and related stock stuff..
of course you'd have to know that the add was google's before hand.. otherwise, you need to search for most recently registered domains, and then look for numbers.