In a report from El Segundo, Calif.-based consulting firm Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), Microsoft dominates the office suite market, with 95% of the overall share and more than 300 million users worldwide.
However, the report notes that OpenOffice.org, an open source alternative to Microsoft Office, has secured 14% of the large enterprise office systems market, with over 16 million downloads and countless CD installations.
Even with Microsoft retaining 95% overall marketshare, the fact that OpenOffice now holds almost 15% of enterprise workstations, means it's only a matter of time before John Cubicle brings OO.org home.
Why should the government require private corporations to pay to give the government easier access to their networks. That's what this is, an unfunded mandate. The government doesn't care how technically difficult this is, or how much it would cost to implement.
I can't believe this got posted to Slashdot in the way it is. It's a complete non-story. The guys didn't get the rights to publically exhibit it... and on top of that they want to charge 10 bucks a head (even more than most rip-you-off theater chains), and yet they didn't expect to get a C&D.
Slashdot needs to stop sensationalizing it's headlines. They didn't get the rights to even show it in the first place. Of course they were going to get a C&D, parody has nothing to do with it.
I've heard about smart sprinklers that get weather from the internet/satellite and water accordingly. What have other Slashdot readers done?"
When you put in a sprinkler system... you plan it out accordingly so it fits your lawn, where you have trees (and need less water due to shade), where you need more water (gardens), and so on. As well, you can also have a rain gauge put in with the sprinkler system so that it doesn't run after it's rained. The only reason to have a satellite controlled system is to impress your neighbors momentarily before they realize what a dope you are for wasting money on that.
I downloaded and have been using Yoper, however, in finally getting my dual monitor support working, I found a new problem:
Whenever I play a video (or visualization in Xine, for that matter), it shows up, well, squished. Even the 'Xine' logo displays itself wrong. That is, to say, that all of my videos are essentially only half as high as they are supposed to be. It's taking my 4x3 videos and essentially making them 16x9... and my 16x9 videos... well, ultra-anamorphic.
Even if I switch to full screen mode, everything is still displayed this way. I've already messed with the settings in the program that allow you to change the display mode, but to no avail. Being that my PDF files also display in a similar matter in KGhostview (8x11 pages are pretty much 11x11), I'm pretty certian it's not an xine issue.
Perhaps in theory a big telescope in Antartica is a good idea, but I've read some stories over the years that they get a fair amount of snow yearly that would maybe interfere with an exposed, outdoor telescope.
Just an FYI on Linksys. While the WRT45G is a fabulous router (I have one myself), do not buy the linksys 802.11G cards that they tend to sell along side it. They have a broadcom chipset which does not have native drivers available for linux/bsd. While you can use ndiswrapper (in linux at least, I'm not familiar with BSD) to make it work... I'd prefer a native solution, that and I've never managed to make ndiswrapper work.
A cockroach-like robot named RHex is the starting point for a major project to understand animals' most distinguishing trait: how they move without falling over.
I'm truly amazed, that with all the modern science we have today, that we don't know the answer to this question. I'm not trying to troll, I truly am amazed. We can fly to the moon and back, but something that seems this simple is really incredibly complicated. Wow.
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...that Bush didn't write those answers himself. For one thing there are words of more than three syllables used throughout.
The Bush campaign hasn't suffered at all from this attack on Bush's intelligence. It didn't suffer in 2000 either. However, Al Gore's campaign did latch onto it in an attempt to put down Bush and gain more support for the Dem's. It didn't work, in fact, it played to Bush's advantage. Instead of focusing on real issues, Gore was busy telling us all what a moron W was. You'll notice Kerry hasn't taken that strategy. There's a reason.
Note: The article summary is misleading. While the 'original' (Han shoots first) prints may have been restored by this company, this is not the print that will be on the DVD. Lucas is not releasing the original trilogy, only the special edition
Of course. Release the DVDs now. Special edition DVDs next year. Limited Edition DVDs the year after that. Then redo the whole cycle again on high definition DVDs, making it so that people have to buy the trilogy six times, spending a couple hundred bucks.
It'd be great if it'd work, but it's hard to beat the money of the big corporations....The more I read the news, the more I see the big boys on the hill getting in on this....
Ask any politician which he would prefer: 1000 voters going to the polls, or $10,000 (extra '0'.) You'd be hard pressed to find one that would take the money. Interest groups for corporations hold power, but there aren't 1000 Jack Valenti's in each and every district to vote for Congressman X.
Asnwer this then: 1/5th the gun deaths in Canada compared to the US. We watch your shows, we listen to your music, we buy the same cars, food, etc. Except we have very strict handgun laws, and you don't. We even have the same % of rifle ownership as the US per capita, its just the limited access to handguns and assualt-style semi-automatics that makes up the difference.
Like someone else said, there are far less people in Canada. So lets compare the statistics on an even playing field.
1. In 2001, there were 842 gun deaths in Canada ( source.)
2. In 2002, there were 10857 gun deaths in the United State. ( source.)
3. The population of Canada in 2001 was 30,007,094. ( source.)
4. The (estimated) population of the United States in 2004 is 293,027,571. (source.)
I've done all the hard math, and this is what I came up with:
The United States has 9.765 times the population of that of Canada. So, we multipy Canada's murder rate by that number, and we come up with 8222 gun deaths. Again, the US gun death rate is 10857. While the number is still about 2500 deaths lower for Canada, no statistic can take into account the fact that the US has far more urban areas with more people packed more tightly together than Canada. That is, to say, it's a lot easier to take 4 steps in the US and shoot someone than it is in Northern Alberta... your next door neighbor could be 4 miles away.
Jeopardy rules essentially state that if a contestant leaks the results of a match before it has aired, that they forfeit their winnings. While this story may be true, someone's head will roll for it.
Well, the technology services available on my campus definitely had a major effect on me. I moved off campus. Among other things, certain policies changed from my freshman to sophomore year (without them telling anyone, or updating their posted policies until after students had come in, and a certain someone (myself) asked because what worked freshman year didn't work anymore.)
Anyway, I moved off campus. In fact, the company that I have internet with right now really stinks... they claim it's high-speed, up to 1.5 mbps, but my last dslreports.com speedtest pulled 22... thats 22 kilobits a second, not bytes.
If I want 28.8 access, I'll get my DeLorean and move back to 1997. So anyway, I'm about to drop this company and pick up another one. Living off campus is nice, and honestly, after I figured in all of the costs that your 'room&board' on campus doesn't cover (like parking), it was actually LESS expensive to live off-campus.
Ok, so pebble bed reactors are not prone to meltdown. Fantastic. They could replace all of the Nuclear reactors in America that are a true risk. That is a good thing, however, it doesn't change the fact that we still have no place to put all of this stuff. The Yucca mountain plant is looking less and less likely every day (and the more I read about it, I think that is a good thing.)
When we have a permanent place to store nuclear waste, then I think that we can look to the future of Nuclear reactors in America, but until that point, it has to wait.
What idiot reporter came up with the idea for this story. Hasn't Cape Canaveral ALWAYS been in Florida. Hasn't Florida ALWAYS gotten hit by hurricanes. Hello McFly?
I'm not saying people from Texas are stupid. The combination of words 'Mystery Science Theater' makes about as much sense as 'Mister Sinus Theater', that is, it doesn't. BBI typically is very flattered by the fan productions. There are at least half a dozen fan productions floating around the internet (and even more live groups that pop up at scifi cons), they don't go after them. These guys (Mr Sinus) are different in that their show is a sound alike (and an acronym alike), and that they're making money off of it.
I'm sorry if you have a speech impediment that causes you to pronaunce two different words the same way. I've never had a problem distinguishing between 'Science' and 'Sinus.'
You may not, so I'm going to guess you either come from the Northeast or the Pacific northwest part of America. Down in Texas, a large percentage of people roll their words together in classic southern style.
In that way, both Sinus and Science become one syllable. Especially if you were say, listening to a radio promo or 2 people talking about it and didn't see printed letters in front of you.
Best Brains (the company behind MST3K) has always been extremely liberal about allowing others to use their likenesses and format without questioning. There are at least a half dozen different fan production groups that have episodes in circulation around America (I have copies of several.) As well, there are typically many MST3K related items on ebay (by storefront seller) which are using BBI's copyrighted and trademarked content to make a fast buck. Unlike certain people (THE FOX NETWORK), BBI has never shut down websites simply for having show related content.
Jim Mallon doesn't mind them using the format... it's been done many times... both for fan episodes and in commentary tracks on feature films (Ghostbusters, Muppets From Space, etc.) They just don't want them to use their name. Mister Sinus Theater 3000 is awfully damn familiar sounding, especially if one was listening on the radio and couldn't see their name printed out in an add. As well, the aycronym, MST3K, is the same.
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But will it work natively (read: no ndiswrapper) with my Linksys WMPP54G wireless card (stinkin Broadcom chipset.)???
In a report from El Segundo, Calif.-based consulting firm Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), Microsoft dominates the office suite market, with 95% of the overall share and more than 300 million users worldwide.
However, the report notes that OpenOffice.org, an open source alternative to Microsoft Office, has secured 14% of the large enterprise office systems market, with over 16 million downloads and countless CD installations. Even with Microsoft retaining 95% overall marketshare, the fact that OpenOffice now holds almost 15% of enterprise workstations, means it's only a matter of time before John Cubicle brings OO.org home.
Disclaimer: I use OO.
c) You have missiles in space.
Yea, and any time you have missles in space, there's a risk Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones will fly up there and challenge eachother to a duel.
Why should the government require private corporations to pay to give the government easier access to their networks. That's what this is, an unfunded mandate. The government doesn't care how technically difficult this is, or how much it would cost to implement.
I find it humorous that Sony, a company with it's hand in filmmaking, markets a region-free DVD player over-seas... or at all really.
I can't believe this got posted to Slashdot in the way it is. It's a complete non-story. The guys didn't get the rights to publically exhibit it... and on top of that they want to charge 10 bucks a head (even more than most rip-you-off theater chains), and yet they didn't expect to get a C&D.
Slashdot needs to stop sensationalizing it's headlines. They didn't get the rights to even show it in the first place. Of course they were going to get a C&D, parody has nothing to do with it.
I've heard about smart sprinklers that get weather from the internet/satellite and water accordingly. What have other Slashdot readers done?"
When you put in a sprinkler system... you plan it out accordingly so it fits your lawn, where you have trees (and need less water due to shade), where you need more water (gardens), and so on. As well, you can also have a rain gauge put in with the sprinkler system so that it doesn't run after it's rained. The only reason to have a satellite controlled system is to impress your neighbors momentarily before they realize what a dope you are for wasting money on that.
I downloaded and have been using Yoper, however, in finally getting my dual monitor support working, I found a new problem:
Whenever I play a video (or visualization in Xine, for that matter), it
shows up, well, squished. Even the 'Xine' logo displays itself wrong.
That is, to say, that all of my videos are essentially only half as
high as they are supposed to be. It's taking my 4x3 videos and
essentially making them 16x9... and my 16x9 videos... well,
ultra-anamorphic.
Even if I switch to full screen mode, everything is still displayed
this way. I've already messed with the settings in the program that
allow you to change the display mode, but to no avail. Being that my
PDF files also display in a similar matter in KGhostview (8x11 pages
are pretty much 11x11), I'm pretty certian it's not an xine issue.
This sound familiar to any new Yoper users?
Awesome! I knew all these TNT Ultra cards would be worth something one day.
Perhaps in theory a big telescope in Antartica is a good idea, but I've read some stories over the years that they get a fair amount of snow yearly that would maybe interfere with an exposed, outdoor telescope.
Just an FYI on Linksys. While the WRT45G is a fabulous router (I have one myself), do not buy the linksys 802.11G cards that they tend to sell along side it. They have a broadcom chipset which does not have native drivers available for linux/bsd. While you can use ndiswrapper (in linux at least, I'm not familiar with BSD) to make it work... I'd prefer a native solution, that and I've never managed to make ndiswrapper work.
A cockroach-like robot named RHex is the starting point for a major project to understand animals' most distinguishing trait: how they move without falling over.
I'm truly amazed, that with all the modern science we have today, that we don't know the answer to this question. I'm not trying to troll, I truly am amazed. We can fly to the moon and back, but something that seems this simple is really incredibly complicated. Wow.
...that Bush didn't write those answers himself. For one thing there are words of more than three syllables used throughout.
The Bush campaign hasn't suffered at all from this attack on Bush's intelligence. It didn't suffer in 2000 either. However, Al Gore's campaign did latch onto it in an attempt to put down Bush and gain more support for the Dem's. It didn't work, in fact, it played to Bush's advantage. Instead of focusing on real issues, Gore was busy telling us all what a moron W was. You'll notice Kerry hasn't taken that strategy. There's a reason.
Note: The article summary is misleading. While the 'original' (Han shoots first) prints may have been restored by this company, this is not the print that will be on the DVD. Lucas is not releasing the original trilogy, only the special edition
Of course. Release the DVDs now. Special edition DVDs next year. Limited Edition DVDs the year after that. Then redo the whole cycle again on high definition DVDs, making it so that people have to buy the trilogy six times, spending a couple hundred bucks.
Star Wars HD: The Search For More Money.
800,000 geeks vs $800,000 (campaign donations?)
It'd be great if it'd work, but it's hard to beat the money of the big corporations....The more I read the news, the more I see the big boys on the hill getting in on this....
Ask any politician which he would prefer: 1000 voters going to the polls, or $10,000 (extra '0'.) You'd be hard pressed to find one that would take the money. Interest groups for corporations hold power, but there aren't 1000 Jack Valenti's in each and every district to vote for Congressman X.
Asnwer this then: 1/5th the gun deaths in Canada compared to the US. We watch your shows, we listen to your music, we buy the same cars, food, etc. Except we have very strict handgun laws, and you don't. We even have the same % of rifle ownership as the US per capita, its just the limited access to handguns and assualt-style semi-automatics that makes up the difference.
Like someone else said, there are far less people in Canada. So lets compare the statistics on an even playing field. 1. In 2001, there were 842 gun deaths in Canada ( source.)
2. In 2002, there were 10857 gun deaths in the United State. ( source.)
3. The population of Canada in 2001 was 30,007,094. ( source.)
4. The (estimated) population of the United States in 2004 is 293,027,571. (source.)
I've done all the hard math, and this is what I came up with:
The United States has 9.765 times the population of that of Canada. So, we multipy Canada's murder rate by that number, and we come up with 8222 gun deaths. Again, the US gun death rate is 10857. While the number is still about 2500 deaths lower for Canada, no statistic can take into account the fact that the US has far more urban areas with more people packed more tightly together than Canada. That is, to say, it's a lot easier to take 4 steps in the US and shoot someone than it is in Northern Alberta... your next door neighbor could be 4 miles away.
'Buckling under the strain of new technologies'? What about buckling under software patents?
Jeopardy rules essentially state that if a contestant leaks the results of a match before it has aired, that they forfeit their winnings. While this story may be true, someone's head will roll for it.
Well, the technology services available on my campus definitely had a major effect on me. I moved off campus. Among other things, certain policies changed from my freshman to sophomore year (without them telling anyone, or updating their posted policies until after students had come in, and a certain someone (myself) asked because what worked freshman year didn't work anymore.)
Anyway, I moved off campus. In fact, the company that I have internet with right now really stinks... they claim it's high-speed, up to 1.5 mbps, but my last dslreports.com speedtest pulled 22... thats 22 kilobits a second, not bytes.
If I want 28.8 access, I'll get my DeLorean and move back to 1997. So anyway, I'm about to drop this company and pick up another one. Living off campus is nice, and honestly, after I figured in all of the costs that your 'room&board' on campus doesn't cover (like parking), it was actually LESS expensive to live off-campus.
Ok, so pebble bed reactors are not prone to meltdown. Fantastic. They could replace all of the Nuclear reactors in America that are a true risk. That is a good thing, however, it doesn't change the fact that we still have no place to put all of this stuff. The Yucca mountain plant is looking less and less likely every day (and the more I read about it, I think that is a good thing.)
When we have a permanent place to store nuclear waste, then I think that we can look to the future of Nuclear reactors in America, but until that point, it has to wait.
What idiot reporter came up with the idea for this story. Hasn't Cape Canaveral ALWAYS been in Florida. Hasn't Florida ALWAYS gotten hit by hurricanes. Hello McFly?
I'm not saying people from Texas are stupid. The combination of words 'Mystery Science Theater' makes about as much sense as 'Mister Sinus Theater', that is, it doesn't. BBI typically is very flattered by the fan productions. There are at least half a dozen fan productions floating around the internet (and even more live groups that pop up at scifi cons), they don't go after them. These guys (Mr Sinus) are different in that their show is a sound alike (and an acronym alike), and that they're making money off of it.
I'm sorry if you have a speech impediment that causes you to pronaunce two different words the same way. I've never had a problem distinguishing between 'Science' and 'Sinus.'
You may not, so I'm going to guess you either come from the Northeast or the Pacific northwest part of America. Down in Texas, a large percentage of people roll their words together in classic southern style. In that way, both Sinus and Science become one syllable. Especially if you were say, listening to a radio promo or 2 people talking about it and didn't see printed letters in front of you.
Disclaimer: I am a card carrying 'Mstie.'
Best Brains (the company behind MST3K) has always been extremely liberal about allowing others to use their likenesses and format without questioning. There are at least a half dozen different fan production groups that have episodes in circulation around America (I have copies of several.) As well, there are typically many MST3K related items on ebay (by storefront seller) which are using BBI's copyrighted and trademarked content to make a fast buck. Unlike certain people (THE FOX NETWORK), BBI has never shut down websites simply for having show related content.
Jim Mallon doesn't mind them using the format... it's been done many times... both for fan episodes and in commentary tracks on feature films (Ghostbusters, Muppets From Space, etc.) They just don't want them to use their name. Mister Sinus Theater 3000 is awfully damn familiar sounding, especially if one was listening on the radio and couldn't see their name printed out in an add. As well, the aycronym, MST3K, is the same.