Microsoft are lying there mate. The XML doesn't support images and, guess what, it SHOULDN'T! All Open Document does is stick the images inside the container and place in the XML a "insert picture here", exactly how it should be done.
On the other hand though, you're right in that the Microsoft marketting department are morons!
The point of it is that as the GGP said the dimensions are wrapped up. I don't pretend to actually understand or comprehend it, and possibly noone truly does since it's a mathematical model, however just think of "why can't we see stuff in other dimensions" this way: in the other dimensions if something goes a few millionths of a nanometre forward it gets back to where it is. Just think how we could comprehend something like this when our smallest cells are hundreds of nanometres big?!
I'm using candles and will never upgrade to lights for the same reason I'll never upgrade from cooking fires or fountain pens: The problem is solved and the old version does everything it should without any new useless cruft (why should I have to connect to the electricity grid just to get some light around here? Why should I have to pay more just to run a light I've already payed for?)
Did all the "old school" Slashdot editors leave or something? These new guys they have are pretty lame.
Last time I installed Linux it took about half an hour (25 mins for installation, it surprised me as well, and 5 mins for installation of the graphics drivers). Admittedly that's perhaps half an hour of my life gone but since I'm getting paid $16 (AUS) an hour for a sideline job whilst doing uni and an OEM copy of Windows costs $116 over here that's still plenty of money/time saved.
Add to that that noone's actually forcing him to compile his kernel or anything or even *shock horror* open the command line. Why can't the guy just wait until the distro has compiled it for him?
I sort of wonder when we'd use stuff like RFID to make it so when you get to the checkout counter you'd pile your stuff on the conveyer belt and it will automatically detect everything that goes over it and charge automatically. You'd have the checkout girl/guy packing bags at the other end. The ultimate speed checkout.
or perhaps "Non Profit organisation declines to spend money on Microsoft's offer of an independent study". Why would OSDL spend money on comparing Linux and Windows when they don't even own Linux?
With bevarages the actual test is relatively simple: its simply a matter of taste.
Bullshit. Companies like coke thrive off of marketting not taste. Someone above mentioned "New Coke", and don't think that New Coke came about without heavy taste testing, and blindfolded people would have picked New Coke as the better tasting product, however it didn't have the prestige that the old formula had, people had the image of the old formula's taste as being excellent, and New Coke upset that.
To support your argument, it's exactly the same in the software world. Microsoft Windows didn't gain its virtual monopoly off of making good software, they gained it from marketting.
Probably XGL and luminocity won't be ready for a while. Not that that matters, Linux already has hardware acceleration equal to what Vista promises to have on an ordinary X.Org server (*don't* use translucency or composite without hardware acceleration turned on!). You probably don't even realise that it's there, it's usually activated automatically.
You'd have thought that he and the two mods that rated his post would have figured out that it was a joke especially seeing how the origin misspelt "grammar".
Sheesh, now you're attacking me when I'm on your side. Since you didn't read what either me or the GGGP wrote very well you obviously didn't get what I was talking about. You were attacking the GGGP for refuting the study (or at least the interpretation of the statistics) and giving a (in my opinion) valid reason for the statistics.
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but then the guys at OpenOffice will trump Microsoft and give their software away for free as well.
I think that if a legislater wants something like this to happen badly enough then Microsoft would need a *lot* of money to stop it.
Microsoft are lying there mate. The XML doesn't support images and, guess what, it SHOULDN'T! All Open Document does is stick the images inside the container and place in the XML a "insert picture here", exactly how it should be done.
On the other hand though, you're right in that the Microsoft marketting department are morons!
The point of it is that as the GGP said the dimensions are wrapped up. I don't pretend to actually understand or comprehend it, and possibly noone truly does since it's a mathematical model, however just think of "why can't we see stuff in other dimensions" this way: in the other dimensions if something goes a few millionths of a nanometre forward it gets back to where it is. Just think how we could comprehend something like this when our smallest cells are hundreds of nanometres big?!
Isn't that the same argument Microsoft has against Linux?
oh yes of course! I should have looked at the bottom of the bloody page, but hey I'm too lazy for something like that.
I'm using candles and will never upgrade to lights for the same reason I'll never upgrade from cooking fires or fountain pens: The problem is solved and the old version does everything it should without any new useless cruft (why should I have to connect to the electricity grid just to get some light around here? Why should I have to pay more just to run a light I've already payed for?)
Did all the "old school" Slashdot editors leave or something? These new guys they have are pretty lame.
Perhaps he should have said Open Source based web site. Unless the Open Source Development Network is just a name...
psst mate don't tell anyone, let us take the credit.
Perhaps at Sept 30 things may start to change. A stable render and composite will be nice.
Raised Concern seems to be default if it has not registered any mail.
As an Australian I'm pretty sure that the bill doesn't come out of my taxes...
I had trouble with corrupted DVDs (CDs burnt fine) in kernel 2.6.11. This seemed to be magically fixed when I upgraded to 2.6.12.
Last time I installed Linux it took about half an hour (25 mins for installation, it surprised me as well, and 5 mins for installation of the graphics drivers). Admittedly that's perhaps half an hour of my life gone but since I'm getting paid $16 (AUS) an hour for a sideline job whilst doing uni and an OEM copy of Windows costs $116 over here that's still plenty of money/time saved.
Nope. The windows in Vista are foggy.
I have never seen a sig so succinctly round up a post.
Add to that that noone's actually forcing him to compile his kernel or anything or even *shock horror* open the command line. Why can't the guy just wait until the distro has compiled it for him?
I sort of wonder when we'd use stuff like RFID to make it so when you get to the checkout counter you'd pile your stuff on the conveyer belt and it will automatically detect everything that goes over it and charge automatically. You'd have the checkout girl/guy packing bags at the other end. The ultimate speed checkout.
or perhaps "Non Profit organisation declines to spend money on Microsoft's offer of an independent study". Why would OSDL spend money on comparing Linux and Windows when they don't even own Linux?
With bevarages the actual test is relatively simple: its simply a matter of taste.
Bullshit. Companies like coke thrive off of marketting not taste. Someone above mentioned "New Coke", and don't think that New Coke came about without heavy taste testing, and blindfolded people would have picked New Coke as the better tasting product, however it didn't have the prestige that the old formula had, people had the image of the old formula's taste as being excellent, and New Coke upset that.
To support your argument, it's exactly the same in the software world. Microsoft Windows didn't gain its virtual monopoly off of making good software, they gained it from marketting.
Probably XGL and luminocity won't be ready for a while. Not that that matters, Linux already has hardware acceleration equal to what Vista promises to have on an ordinary X.Org server (*don't* use translucency or composite without hardware acceleration turned on!). You probably don't even realise that it's there, it's usually activated automatically.
OOffice need's a gammar checker
Linux can run on this thing (using a Linux version released last year). What makes you think it can't run on a 386 with 4MB of RAM?
You'd have thought that he and the two mods that rated his post would have figured out that it was a joke especially seeing how the origin misspelt "grammar".
Sheesh, now you're attacking me when I'm on your side. Since you didn't read what either me or the GGGP wrote very well you obviously didn't get what I was talking about. You were attacking the GGGP for refuting the study (or at least the interpretation of the statistics) and giving a (in my opinion) valid reason for the statistics.
Please read my post again. There's no need or reason to triangulate since you can find the distance to an object by timing the pings.