This is more of a technological progression and commerial tool than a scienfic exploration unlike a lot of other projects, which I think is a shame, but in any case, this diagram looks very impressive.
Just to explain where that funny sounding "Sloshsat" comes from: The name Sloshsat Flevo is derived from: 'Slosh' for the movement of liquid, 'sat' for satellite and FLEVO, the acronym for Facility for Liquid Experimentation and Verification in Orbit, and also one of the newest regions in the Netherlands, Flevoland, east of Amsterdam.
The UK Independence party, riding mainly on anti-Europe feeling, and is gaining support from many traditional Tory voters, is (unsurprisingly) against the directive. MEP candidate Damian Hockney commented: "We believe that software patents are a barrier to competition, freedom of expression and economic development. The party also believes that such changes should not be forced on member states."
If I were to choose software protecting my company, I would use commercial software. Why? Because if something does go wrong, it is the vendors fault and not yours. With free software, it is your fault.
However, for protecting yourself, I think there are ethical reasons to use Free Software - Stallman argues that you should choose software for those reasons alone, and not technical reasons. If you listen to Linus, however, he tells us that technical reasons are valid reasons to choose to software. Your decision on this issue is the first step to your overall decision.
Clicking that link crashed Konqueror (Which was quite annoying, since I had about 15 tabs open which I wanted to read). Had it been on Windows, I might have moaned, but in this case I just want to thank the KDE team for preventing me being exposed to such rubbish with their inbuilt Anti-Starship-Troopers-Protection!
So you think the movie Pi is better than the number Pi?
Don't you think they are kind of uncompareable?
(Personally, I bought the film after hearing something on Slashdot saying it was very good. I thought it was okay but not brilliant, but it is pretty hard to compare it to a number, don't you think? Especially as useful a number as this. Although I have a feeling you were joking anyway so feel free to ignore me.)
I concur, backward and forwards compatibility is good in Microsoft Word and quite good in Microsoft Excel. I think Microsoft Access is neither forward not backwards compatible between version releases, however. Which is annoying.
I'm not sure about Publisher or Visio (or whatever it is called), since I've never used them. I do have to use the basic three pieces for (highly Microsoft-biased) school work, though. If it wasn't for Words Forward/Backward compatibility, my grades would've been lower.
I seem to have gone back down to +3 (without any reason of why:-\) anyway, so you've had your way. In any case, I was not trolling.
The first part of my post said I prefer Microsoft to Apple. That was just my opinion, and I wasn't trying to force it on anyone else, and I didn't try and say any other opinion was invalid. I didn't say "..and if you don't think so, you're a fag0rt" or something like that.
The next part was just pointing out that we should be open minded about companies and not love them. I think some people here don't do that.
I wasn't trolling: the first part was my opinion, and in the second part I was just pointing things out. It wasn't intended to get a negative reaction, and indeed the only negative reactions other than you I got were people pointing out that I used too strong language (saying that companies are just their to "screw us over", when of course I didn't mean that exactly). I corrected and justified what I meant in replies to these posts (as an AC, though).
Slashdot Moderation has failed here - My post which was modded up by people who saw it was justified and not zealous, has been modded down by people just using the "Overrated" mod. Now fewer people will see that some "Slashdotters" have sense and are not religious about these things.
If you don't like my opinions, that doesn't make my troll. Just don't read my posts. I hope when you moderate you don't mod down people who you disagree with. I know this happens, though, and for that reason I give trolls moderations a +6 bonus. This means I see a lot of trolls. Most of them are either people making valid points that aren't popular, or people making jokes (which are sometimes very funny!). However, sometimes there are trolls which link to horrible shock sites and so on, and I'd like to avoid those posts. I can't, if I want to see balanced comments, because of the way Slashdot moderates.
I got to say, I find Apple to be much worse than Microsoft as a company.
In terms of products, they're probably just about the same. Microsoft have some good products, Apple have too. There's no reason to be religious about either products though, much less be religious about a company which exists merely to screw you over. In light of that, I think most people can admit that Apple are indeed being dicks.
Of course, there are lots of examples of other companies being dicks, too.
As many of you have probably seen, Wikipedia is listing charities in various countries of a temporary page. They mention the need to look out for fraud, but I hope none of the sites listed are fraudulent in any way. The page is here.
This is a news story about somebody changing e-mail headers to pretend to be the British government confirming friends of the recipients to be dead. Very sick. Luckily, the police acted in this case.
No, sorry, I wasn't implying you didn't think they existed, I just wanted to show you one so that now you don't have to take that on faith. (I find things like this interesting, so I have this habit of assuming other people might want to know too...!)
As for Fermat's Last Theorem, it has been checked fully now. Of course, there was a time when it hadn't been.
Slashdot Mirror
Because there isn't much to bash him about, I guess?
He actually did give good answers. And the sound file meant we didn't even have to bother reading what he said!
This is more of a technological progression and commerial tool than a scienfic exploration unlike a lot of other projects, which I think is a shame, but in any case, this diagram looks very impressive.
Just to explain where that funny sounding "Sloshsat" comes from:
The name Sloshsat Flevo is derived from: 'Slosh' for the movement of liquid, 'sat' for satellite and FLEVO, the acronym for Facility for Liquid Experimentation and Verification in Orbit, and also one of the newest regions in the Netherlands, Flevoland, east of Amsterdam.
Not sure about that:
The UK Independence party, riding mainly on anti-Europe feeling, and is gaining support from many traditional Tory voters, is (unsurprisingly) against the directive. MEP candidate Damian Hockney commented: "We believe that software patents are a barrier to competition, freedom of expression and economic development. The party also believes that such changes should not be forced on member states."
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If I were to choose software protecting my company, I would use commercial software. Why? Because if something does go wrong, it is the vendors fault and not yours. With free software, it is your fault.
However, for protecting yourself, I think there are ethical reasons to use Free Software - Stallman argues that you should choose software for those reasons alone, and not technical reasons. If you listen to Linus, however, he tells us that technical reasons are valid reasons to choose to software. Your decision on this issue is the first step to your overall decision.
Whenever you want?
Well I suppose BSD is terrible if all you care about is money. Others of us care more about software and freedom.
Also, I think the article was stupid. The writer is an idiot.
I do like the GPL though!
Clicking that link crashed Konqueror (Which was quite annoying, since I had about 15 tabs open which I wanted to read). Had it been on Windows, I might have moaned, but in this case I just want to thank the KDE team for preventing me being exposed to such rubbish with their inbuilt Anti-Starship-Troopers-Protection!
Thank god for Linux!
So you think the movie Pi is better than the number Pi?
Don't you think they are kind of uncompareable?
(Personally, I bought the film after hearing something on Slashdot saying it was very good. I thought it was okay but not brilliant, but it is pretty hard to compare it to a number, don't you think? Especially as useful a number as this. Although I have a feeling you were joking anyway so feel free to ignore me.)
For my personal interest, could you expand on your comment.
Especially "...was immediately after the attacks on 9-11 when the TV news channel that I was watching got shut down."
Yeah, http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/
Enjoy.
Be the first kid on your block to have the entire set!
You're unlikely to be the first kid on the block to have the whole set of Pie digits...
Happens even without extentions (Although I've just installed a new plugin to try and fix it.
2 7
Read https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2175
It seems to be "reflowing". There is another (much less extream than mine) screenshot, too.
Here is a screenshot of how it sometimes goes wrong. It happens about 1/6 times for me.
I took that screenshot just for you three in this thread, so be proud...
I concur, backward and forwards compatibility is good in Microsoft Word and quite good in Microsoft Excel. I think Microsoft Access is neither forward not backwards compatible between version releases, however. Which is annoying.
I'm not sure about Publisher or Visio (or whatever it is called), since I've never used them. I do have to use the basic three pieces for (highly Microsoft-biased) school work, though. If it wasn't for Words Forward/Backward compatibility, my grades would've been lower.
Your subject line implied there'd be pictures with regards to whoring, however all I found were some strange landscapes.
In any case, the link is actaully http://anthony.liekens.net/huygens_static.html
Glad to still you're still alive, Jerf! I was getting worried between those posts...!
From having used The GIMP on Windows, I guess we can say goodbye to the beautiful interface of Evolution then?
I know what you mean - all they had to do was a quick Google search to come up with a host of tutorials!
Call themselves geniuses...
Linux is a hell of a lot less complicated that Calculus. A hell of a lot (bothing using, understanding the insides of, and writing Linux)
I seem to have gone back down to +3 (without any reason of why :-\) anyway, so you've had your way. In any case, I was not trolling.
The first part of my post said I prefer Microsoft to Apple. That was just my opinion, and I wasn't trying to force it on anyone else, and I didn't try and say any other opinion was invalid. I didn't say "..and if you don't think so, you're a fag0rt" or something like that.
The next part was just pointing out that we should be open minded about companies and not love them. I think some people here don't do that.
I wasn't trolling: the first part was my opinion, and in the second part I was just pointing things out. It wasn't intended to get a negative reaction, and indeed the only negative reactions other than you I got were people pointing out that I used too strong language (saying that companies are just their to "screw us over", when of course I didn't mean that exactly). I corrected and justified what I meant in replies to these posts (as an AC, though).
Slashdot Moderation has failed here - My post which was modded up by people who saw it was justified and not zealous, has been modded down by people just using the "Overrated" mod. Now fewer people will see that some "Slashdotters" have sense and are not religious about these things.
If you don't like my opinions, that doesn't make my troll. Just don't read my posts. I hope when you moderate you don't mod down people who you disagree with. I know this happens, though, and for that reason I give trolls moderations a +6 bonus. This means I see a lot of trolls. Most of them are either people making valid points that aren't popular, or people making jokes (which are sometimes very funny!). However, sometimes there are trolls which link to horrible shock sites and so on, and I'd like to avoid those posts. I can't, if I want to see balanced comments, because of the way Slashdot moderates.
In summary, I wasn't trolling.
I got to say, I find Apple to be much worse than Microsoft as a company.
In terms of products, they're probably just about the same. Microsoft have some good products, Apple have too. There's no reason to be religious about either products though, much less be religious about a company which exists merely to screw you over. In light of that, I think most people can admit that Apple are indeed being dicks.
Of course, there are lots of examples of other companies being dicks, too.
That website is very funny! =D
Check out the FAQ.
As many of you have probably seen, Wikipedia is listing charities in various countries of a temporary page. They mention the need to look out for fraud, but I hope none of the sites listed are fraudulent in any way. The page is here .
This is a news story about somebody changing e-mail headers to pretend to be the British government confirming friends of the recipients to be dead. Very sick. Luckily, the police acted in this case.
I agree. Not being a Computer Expert doesn't make you stupid.
I'm sure many people here don't know much about Fine Art or Knitting or something, and that doesn't make them stupid, either.
Their jobs aren't to work with computers, so whilst it is 'okay' to laugh at their mistakes, we mustn't mistake them for stupid.
No, sorry, I wasn't implying you didn't think they existed, I just wanted to show you one so that now you don't have to take that on faith. (I find things like this interesting, so I have this habit of assuming other people might want to know too...!)
As for Fermat's Last Theorem, it has been checked fully now. Of course, there was a time when it hadn't been.