In my experience, we used StarOffice across an entire school district for years and were plagued with compatibility problems with other schools. Also, Star/OOo lacks some very useful interface features compared even to Office 2000. [...] OOo and Star simply are not "there" when compared with Office.
It sounds like you're saying that OOo/StarOffice compatibility with MS Office is not "there", not the complete package per se.
This might sound pedantic, but I think it's an important distinction.
It's actually a lot cheaper to build a (multi-) million-dollar supercomputer to filter/analyze day to day internet traffic than to actually send goons out with $5 wrenches to beat the information out of hundreds of millions of people (on a daily basis).
False dichotomy, if I ever saw one. Typically your average slashdotter thinking in black and white.
Why not have the cost savings of the multi-million-dollar supercomputer, and enjoy going out and whacking people with $5 wrenches?
I bank online about once a week. Everytime I connect, I check the HTTPS certificate. Also, my bank does not know my email address. If I get email from my bank, I KNOW it's a fake. period.
Not giving the bank your e-mail address means major hassles for them. Printing a letter, licking a stamp, then licking the envelope, et cetera.
So in order to save them money, the bank has my e-mail address. However, it's a special e-mail address that routes over a ToA network connection (TCP-over-Avian). Thus when I see the pigeon arrive, I know for a fact that -- yes -- it's my bank that's sending me an e-mail.
You just have to outsmart the scammers. I guess I have that talent.
Is it our past or our current behavior that defines us? What would Jesus do?
Jesus didn't really say anything straight about it, I think. But when he was hanging at the cross with two criminals, and the other criminal said something like "I'm getting what I deserve", Jesus said, "See you in paradise".
There are a lot of Phonegap-based apps in the App Store, too. But there have been a lot of rejections as well. Apple doesn't like you using third-party frameworks. This will be no exception -- a couple of apps in the App Store is not evidence that it's OK to use 3rd-party frameworks.
Yeah, but there's no rule that says that the code has to be hand-written. If it uses all the right APIs chances are that Apple will never even notice how the app was generated in the first place.
No, there is no specific rule, but there are a lot of complaints from developers using Phonegap. This framework allows HTML/JavaScript based development on iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. Apps developed using this framework have been rejected from the App Store in unusually high percentages.
There are a lot of unwritten rules to the App Store as well. One of them is: don't use frameworks.
No, you idiotic AC. Let me bulletize what your parent post said and whom you ridicule so easy:
Netgear now shows its open source friendly face.
However in the past, they took an existing, supposedly OSS-friendly router, then replaced the innards probably for cost-saving reasons and kept sticking the same name/type on it
This has fucked me and many others who paid a premium for an OSS-friendly router, but actually got a cheap-ass router
Conclusion: the Netgear fuckers are not OSS-friendly at all, they're unreliable bastards just like the rest. Surprising? No.
Despite being a heavy tech head I will still print out any extended text to dead tree media because it's simply more comfortable and convenient to access in that manner.
I print out long texts just to have an excuse to get the hands and eyes off the keyboard/screen. When you're working 12 hours a day behind a screen, this is an absolute necessity for me to avoid getting caught up in RSI.
If there are any Star Trek fans reading this, you'll recall the PADD - an e-book like device ubiquitous enough to be carried in stacks
Unfortunately, they only carry one document at a time. Otherwise there would be no reason to stack them.
This is pretty funny indeed. Star Trek: The Next Generation is getting pretty old, to the point that technology has caught up with it sometimes. I watched a re-run where the Captain was displayed as being overloaded with work. Then his commander walks in with three PADDs and puts them on his desk, which is already filled with PADDs.
I thought to myself: why isn't his personal PADD just updated? Why the hell would his commander bring in three PADDs when the information could be transferred to just one PADD.:-) It annoyed me and got me momentarily out of the normal hypnotic state that I enter when watching Star Trek:-)
Now to other thoughts. I can sum these up simply: the DX is an iPod for books.
Think carefully about what that means. [...] PDF, on the other hand, is an extremely common and widely used format. This means that one could load up their DX with hundreds of pirated PDF books, all in one portable, simple to use package.
My first question is: have you ever tried to read a file in PDF format as an e-book?
You have an awful lot of opinion on something which I guess you have not tried.
PDF as a format for an e-book reader is a very bad format. The e-book reader cannot nicely fill out the screen with text; the point of a PDF is that the markup is page-perfect. Thus you are constantly either centering the page if the zoom is correct. If the zoom is not sufficient for your e-book reader, then you are even moving the page for every line you read.
I second this. The speed difference is remarkable. On a 1Gbit network, the transfer speed jumps from 2.2 MB/s (using AES encryption) to 7.7 MB/s (using Arcfour).
When I informed my college computer class just today that Google scans their searches, gmail, etc., for content to serve them targeted ads, the response was uniformly outright horror.
Well, half of these people don't even know the difference between paid apps and normal search engine results. So while they display their utmost horror to you, they also do not care to inform themselves about it.
Let's hear it for cosmic rays. We need something to kick evolution into gear. Things seem to have been at a standstill lately.
I disagree, it's just not a good idea. I've got some bad experiences with this. When the last wave of cosmic rays hit, I got a useless superpower (the power to kill a yak from 200 yards away). But there are no yaks where I live.
The energy density of a li-ion battery is 540 KJ/kg(...) The energy density of coal is 24 MJ/kg.
This is a strange comparison to make. To release energy within the battery, one has to only bring the poles together. To get the energy out of the coal is a lot more work.
Getting screamed at by some fake-and-bake guy [...] "Do you people do anything" [...] "if you could get your job done right you could have come golfing with us." [...] "why should we pay you to help you keep your job?"
Shitty people are everywhere. It's not restricted to IT.
The BSD party kit is so much easier. Weed and sunglasses.
I thought I smelled sulphur after installing FreeBSD 7.2. I ascribed it to an over-livid imagination. But now that you mention it, it could've been pot!
Stacy Griffith, 15, liked frequenting chat rooms online. One day, she met a funny, goofy boy who was deep and intelligent. They talked all the time and eventually, they decided they were going to meet up at a mall in Stacy's home town.
Only when they met, Stacy realized he was no boy.
It was motherfucking Cthulhu. Holy fucking shit.
5,000 Americal girls lose their sanity to Cthulhu each year. Stop online predatation from Great Old Ones before it can start. Educate your children about Cthulhu today.
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In my experience, we used StarOffice across an entire school district for years and were plagued with compatibility problems with other schools. Also, Star/OOo lacks some very useful interface features compared even to Office 2000. [...] OOo and Star simply are not "there" when compared with Office.
It sounds like you're saying that OOo/StarOffice compatibility with MS Office is not "there", not the complete package per se.
This might sound pedantic, but I think it's an important distinction.
It's actually a lot cheaper to build a (multi-) million-dollar supercomputer to filter/analyze day to day internet traffic than to actually send goons out with $5 wrenches to beat the information out of hundreds of millions of people (on a daily basis).
False dichotomy, if I ever saw one. Typically your average slashdotter thinking in black and white.
Why not have the cost savings of the multi-million-dollar supercomputer, and enjoy going out and whacking people with $5 wrenches?
I bank online about once a week. Everytime I connect, I check the HTTPS certificate. Also, my bank does not know my email address. If I get email from my bank, I KNOW it's a fake. period.
Not giving the bank your e-mail address means major hassles for them. Printing a letter, licking a stamp, then licking the envelope, et cetera.
So in order to save them money, the bank has my e-mail address. However, it's a special e-mail address that routes over a ToA network connection (TCP-over-Avian). Thus when I see the pigeon arrive, I know for a fact that -- yes -- it's my bank that's sending me an e-mail.
You just have to outsmart the scammers. I guess I have that talent.
Is it our past or our current behavior that defines us? What would Jesus do?
Jesus didn't really say anything straight about it, I think. But when he was hanging at the cross with two criminals, and the other criminal said something like "I'm getting what I deserve", Jesus said, "See you in paradise".
"Eat your vegetables, or I won't pay your license fee, and Monsanto will come to take you away!"
Imagine their horror when they grow up and find out that, indeed, the boogeyman from their youth does really exist :-)
Do you get extra points if your essay begins with the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night."?
Yep! Another favorite is:
"I put on my robe and wizard hat..."
There are a lot of Phonegap-based apps in the App Store, too. But there have been a lot of rejections as well. Apple doesn't like you using third-party frameworks. This will be no exception -- a couple of apps in the App Store is not evidence that it's OK to use 3rd-party frameworks.
Yeah, but there's no rule that says that the code has to be hand-written. If it uses all the right APIs chances are that Apple will never even notice how the app was generated in the first place.
No, there is no specific rule, but there are a lot of complaints from developers using Phonegap. This framework allows HTML/JavaScript based development on iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. Apps developed using this framework have been rejected from the App Store in unusually high percentages.
There are a lot of unwritten rules to the App Store as well. One of them is: don't use frameworks.
What makes you say that, eh?
ACHTUNG!
Ze parent post vas compleening about him not being able to recoknize ze cultural background of ze vriter.
VICH IS REDICULOUS! YOU VILL RECOGNIZE ZE GENIUS OF GERMAN AUTHORS EVERYVERE!
No, you idiotic AC. Let me bulletize what your parent post said and whom you ridicule so easy:
Conclusion: the Netgear fuckers are not OSS-friendly at all, they're unreliable bastards just like the rest. Surprising? No.
Despite being a heavy tech head I will still print out any extended text to dead tree media because it's simply more comfortable and convenient to access in that manner.
I print out long texts just to have an excuse to get the hands and eyes off the keyboard/screen. When you're working 12 hours a day behind a screen, this is an absolute necessity for me to avoid getting caught up in RSI.
If there are any Star Trek fans reading this, you'll recall the PADD - an e-book like device ubiquitous enough to be carried in stacks
Unfortunately, they only carry one document at a time. Otherwise there would be no reason to stack them.
This is pretty funny indeed. Star Trek: The Next Generation is getting pretty old, to the point that technology has caught up with it sometimes. I watched a re-run where the Captain was displayed as being overloaded with work. Then his commander walks in with three PADDs and puts them on his desk, which is already filled with PADDs.
I thought to myself: why isn't his personal PADD just updated? Why the hell would his commander bring in three PADDs when the information could be transferred to just one PADD. :-) It annoyed me and got me momentarily out of the normal hypnotic state that I enter when watching Star Trek :-)
The relevant part of my journal entry follows:
Now to other thoughts. I can sum these up simply: the DX is an iPod for books.
Think carefully about what that means. [...] PDF, on the other hand, is an extremely common and widely used format. This means that one could load up their DX with hundreds of pirated PDF books, all in one portable, simple to use package.
My first question is: have you ever tried to read a file in PDF format as an e-book?
You have an awful lot of opinion on something which I guess you have not tried.
PDF as a format for an e-book reader is a very bad format. The e-book reader cannot nicely fill out the screen with text; the point of a PDF is that the markup is page-perfect. Thus you are constantly either centering the page if the zoom is correct. If the zoom is not sufficient for your e-book reader, then you are even moving the page for every line you read.
If you can't blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit -- Unknown
Mine plays [the Imperial March] for my current wife.
Complaining already, eh? You better pray that she doesn't alter the agreement any further.
I second this. The speed difference is remarkable. On a 1Gbit network, the transfer speed jumps from 2.2 MB/s (using AES encryption) to 7.7 MB/s (using Arcfour).
Of course, there are situations where you have to zip-and-dash, like when your girlfriend's husband walks in, unannounced
Why first zip? Just run, man! Swing that sword!
When I informed my college computer class just today that Google scans their searches, gmail, etc., for content to serve them targeted ads, the response was uniformly outright horror.
Well, half of these people don't even know the difference between paid apps and normal search engine results. So while they display their utmost horror to you, they also do not care to inform themselves about it.
One of our maximum security prisons [...] includes a Cricket Field.
I do not care what crime you've committed, that is an inhumane and utterly cruel punishment.
Let's hear it for cosmic rays. We need something to kick evolution into gear. Things seem to have been at a standstill lately.
I disagree, it's just not a good idea. I've got some bad experiences with this. When the last wave of cosmic rays hit, I got a useless superpower (the power to kill a yak from 200 yards away). But there are no yaks where I live.
The energy density of a li-ion battery is 540 KJ/kg(...) The energy density of coal is 24 MJ/kg.
This is a strange comparison to make. To release energy within the battery, one has to only bring the poles together. To get the energy out of the coal is a lot more work.
Getting screamed at by some fake-and-bake guy [...] "Do you people do anything" [...] "if you could get your job done right you could have come golfing with us." [...] "why should we pay you to help you keep your job?"
Shitty people are everywhere. It's not restricted to IT.
The BSD party kit is so much easier. Weed and sunglasses.
I thought I smelled sulphur after installing FreeBSD 7.2. I ascribed it to an over-livid imagination. But now that you mention it, it could've been pot!
A work of evil worthy of the old gods it is.
They are among us and they are on the internet.
Let me tell you a story.
Stacy Griffith, 15, liked frequenting chat rooms online. One day, she met a funny, goofy boy who was deep and intelligent. They talked all the time and eventually, they decided they were going to meet up at a mall in Stacy's home town.
Only when they met, Stacy realized he was no boy.
It was motherfucking Cthulhu. Holy fucking shit.
5,000 Americal girls lose their sanity to Cthulhu each year. Stop online predatation from Great Old Ones before it can start. Educate your children about Cthulhu today.
(Seen on Wil Wheaton's blog.)
... an innocent user in, say, Germany would loose his email...
So it would be in the wild?
Yes, zat is correct! Ve Germans do not send Email! Ha! Noes! Our Email escapes, leaving a bloody Trail of innocent Bystanders in its Wake!