Google may have to look at whether having more internet users that don't have the same disposable income to buy their advertisers' products is worth alienating a smaller user base known to have the spare cash to buy their advertisers' products. Their advertisers will be watching.
The point is Stallman is quick to point out how insignificant the Linux kernel is compared to GNU, but when it comes to producing a GNU kernel, GNU has been a resounding failure thus far.
It's the GPUs memory and it probably should be nearly write only. The GPU will read/write from it blazing fast and the CPU can load data into it blazing fast. The CPU has limited business reading it anyway.
Adobe only claims ownership of their own Adobe PDF logo. Their own list of trademarks on their website does not include "PDF" on its own. MS Office only refers to it as PDF in dialogs.
Microsoft Office 2007's PDF support conforms to ISO 19005-1 PDF/A. Adobe would actually have to find a court with the balls to tell someone that implementing an international standard is something Microsoft can't do. I doubt even the International Standards Organization would be happy with Adobe at that point.
He or she is posting on Slashdot. In other words: who cares? Activate grammar/spelling Nazi mode when you're not on a website filled with techies that don't write formally for a living. This is stuff that is typed at the spur of the moment upon seeing a silly subject or idiotic post. It's one thing to write documents or letters and a completely different thing to just splash your two cents on an internet forum.
If you're the #1 group in growth due to rampant births (go go anchor babies) and constant streams of illegals coming in, why would you want to learn a second language when you'll eventually be able to force everyone to adapt to you?
The problem is that those hiring illegal workers aren't telling anyone and aren't pricing themselves so low that it's obvious unless others using illegal immigrants are competing with them. The few that don't hire illegals just look like they're trying to reap massive profits or operate inefficiently when a consumer sees the price in the supermarket. It's not as if when you go to Wal-Mart and looks at what's on the shelf, you have any idea whether an illegal worker happened to load it on the truck or even stock the shelf. Blaming the consumer for just buying whatever happens to be cheapest with no way of knowing who or what picked the ingredients is slightly braindead.
We would prefer they not enter intending to work and consume taxpayer funded services unless they're actually documented and paying taxes. Most of them just jump the fence and do whatever the hell they want letting the rest of us pick up the tab on already mounting deficits.
PDFs created by MS Office were viewed in Adobe Reader. When will Slashdotters make sure they know what the hell they're talking about before spouting off conspiracy theories?
PDF and ODF are both document formats. PDF "creation tools" were just apps that created PDF documents as their output. We could just as easily dub OpenOffice an ODF "creation tool" and claim Microsoft is entering the "ODF creation tools" market if they implement it. Microsoft has had product creating documents in so many formats I find it hard to believe anyone would think that PDF should somehow be protected. If anything, the case has been made as to why Microsoft shouldn't implement standards. The niche players already implementing those standards will sue them for it!
I jump around from C to C++ to Managed C++ to C# to Java to Ada to PL/SQL all the time and I find that my skills work just fine in whatever language I'm typing in. You just adjust to the syntax/API and the "best practices" for the language and go.
You should still be able to mix and match assemblies. In a big project everything should be componentized (assemblies!) anyway. I remember mixing Managed C++ with C# within the IDE in VS2k3
So European citizens were choosing to get on planes when they knew their data was going to go right to the US or they'd have to give that data to the US when they land, and the EU has a problem with just handing over the data ahead of time?
Restraint of trade in... people? I don't think there's a court on the planet that will tell the US government they can't dictate who or what enters their own airspace or on what terms. They could probably shoot the planes down after entering US airspace if not in compliance.
So let's bury our head in the sand while people who want to ram planes into buildings fly into our country? I suppose we shouldn't be worried that the Middle East is rapidly filling with nuclear powers who are on the virge of collapse anyway and could leave their nuclear weapons in the hands of fanatics?
I believe it's the motherboard that MS considers the "heart" of the system. I don't know why they don't just marry the OS to the case the machine shipped in since that's normally where they put the damn sticker anyway;o It's probably a trap for upgraders though.
Slashdot Mirror
Google may have to look at whether having more internet users that don't have the same disposable income to buy their advertisers' products is worth alienating a smaller user base known to have the spare cash to buy their advertisers' products. Their advertisers will be watching.
The point is Stallman is quick to point out how insignificant the Linux kernel is compared to GNU, but when it comes to producing a GNU kernel, GNU has been a resounding failure thus far.
Microsoft does have more than a couple different products for collaborating between Office users.
It's the GPUs memory and it probably should be nearly write only. The GPU will read/write from it blazing fast and the CPU can load data into it blazing fast. The CPU has limited business reading it anyway.
ISO 19005-1 is PDF 1.4. The alternate version is probably the latest (1.6 IIRC). This is just FUD.
Adobe only claims ownership of their own Adobe PDF logo. Their own list of trademarks on their website does not include "PDF" on its own. MS Office only refers to it as PDF in dialogs.
Microsoft Office 2007's PDF support conforms to ISO 19005-1 PDF/A. Adobe would actually have to find a court with the balls to tell someone that implementing an international standard is something Microsoft can't do. I doubt even the International Standards Organization would be happy with Adobe at that point.
My parents bought a DVD of Celine Dion music videos thinking it was a CD in a funky new case... :/
I think I'll take this shitty console at half the price of the "non-shitty" competition, thank you.
He or she is posting on Slashdot. In other words: who cares? Activate grammar/spelling Nazi mode when you're not on a website filled with techies that don't write formally for a living. This is stuff that is typed at the spur of the moment upon seeing a silly subject or idiotic post. It's one thing to write documents or letters and a completely different thing to just splash your two cents on an internet forum.
If you're the #1 group in growth due to rampant births (go go anchor babies) and constant streams of illegals coming in, why would you want to learn a second language when you'll eventually be able to force everyone to adapt to you?
The problem is that those hiring illegal workers aren't telling anyone and aren't pricing themselves so low that it's obvious unless others using illegal immigrants are competing with them. The few that don't hire illegals just look like they're trying to reap massive profits or operate inefficiently when a consumer sees the price in the supermarket. It's not as if when you go to Wal-Mart and looks at what's on the shelf, you have any idea whether an illegal worker happened to load it on the truck or even stock the shelf. Blaming the consumer for just buying whatever happens to be cheapest with no way of knowing who or what picked the ingredients is slightly braindead.
We would prefer they not enter intending to work and consume taxpayer funded services unless they're actually documented and paying taxes. Most of them just jump the fence and do whatever the hell they want letting the rest of us pick up the tab on already mounting deficits.
Except Adobe can still sue on anti-trust grounds.
I think when niche players can prevent the #1 vendor from providing its customers with open standards, someone's freedom is being taken away.
PDFs created by MS Office were viewed in Adobe Reader. When will Slashdotters make sure they know what the hell they're talking about before spouting off conspiracy theories?
PDF and ODF are both document formats. PDF "creation tools" were just apps that created PDF documents as their output. We could just as easily dub OpenOffice an ODF "creation tool" and claim Microsoft is entering the "ODF creation tools" market if they implement it. Microsoft has had product creating documents in so many formats I find it hard to believe anyone would think that PDF should somehow be protected. If anything, the case has been made as to why Microsoft shouldn't implement standards. The niche players already implementing those standards will sue them for it!
It's not really open when the vendor producing the operating system that 90+% of the world uses can't use it, is it?
You mean like msvcrt.dll which has a version for just about every visual c release ever?
I jump around from C to C++ to Managed C++ to C# to Java to Ada to PL/SQL all the time and I find that my skills work just fine in whatever language I'm typing in. You just adjust to the syntax/API and the "best practices" for the language and go.
You should still be able to mix and match assemblies. In a big project everything should be componentized (assemblies!) anyway. I remember mixing Managed C++ with C# within the IDE in VS2k3
So European citizens were choosing to get on planes when they knew their data was going to go right to the US or they'd have to give that data to the US when they land, and the EU has a problem with just handing over the data ahead of time?
Restraint of trade in... people? I don't think there's a court on the planet that will tell the US government they can't dictate who or what enters their own airspace or on what terms. They could probably shoot the planes down after entering US airspace if not in compliance.
So let's bury our head in the sand while people who want to ram planes into buildings fly into our country? I suppose we shouldn't be worried that the Middle East is rapidly filling with nuclear powers who are on the virge of collapse anyway and could leave their nuclear weapons in the hands of fanatics?
I believe it's the motherboard that MS considers the "heart" of the system. I don't know why they don't just marry the OS to the case the machine shipped in since that's normally where they put the damn sticker anyway ;o It's probably a trap for upgraders though.
You must be a troll ;p I don't see how China was harmonious and happy when they were running their own people down with tanks.