The richness of competitive choices in the market is good for our customers and for the industry as a whole.
I believe this means that any good feature ODF has over Office will be quickly incorporated into the next release. Do you really need to ask what Office has over Open Office? It has closed format feature, meaning you can almost open those 5 year old word documents better than in Open Office.
*yawn* One of the most misquoted arguments ever, he said he "took the initiative to create the internet" and it was taken completely out of context. He really was one of the main people to take the initiative to create it by supporting it in the government as an educational tool when hardly anybody knew anything about computers (early 70s, remember) and that's all he was trying to say.
But if Vint is the father, and Al took the initiative of the "creation" then I wonder what that means for their "professional relationship" at the time...
You must be covered in some meat too, if you're a fanatic pork eater then probably quite alot of it too. I wonder what Hannibal Lector would have to say about your statement.:)
By the way I can't help noticing you using religion as an excuse to do something without considering the moral aspect. Well if god didn't want us to blow each other up why did he let us invent bombs?
If it wasn't for the Enigma machine it is unlikely computers would be as advanced as they are today since cracking the enigma code was THE reason computer development really got started with the Mark I in WWII.
Judging by your remarks about Dutch TV adds you either must be Dutch or have been to the Netherlands recently, I am Dutch myself.
I find your comparison to the recent unrest in some European countries very inaccurate. For starters, the socalled tolerance of the Netherlands and other countries like the UK has been overhyped for a long time. The enlightened majority didn't want to believe there was still a large undercurrent of racial and cultural intollerance, having political parties like the CD made that a lot easier because they were impossible to take seriously. However, now with the rising fear of terrorist attacks, and these always being linked to the religion and culture of Muslims by the media and politicians, people that were far from tolerant but being quiet about it felt they are finally free to speak out. When they find a leader figure that seems somewhat acceptable and not as ridiculous as far right freaks like Janmaat in somebody like Pim Fortuyn, all these bottled up feelings of xenofobia are released and magnified by their peers also feeling free to express similar views.
As you hopefully know however, killing innocent people is not in the agenda of muslims, but only terrorists. It is also not in the Bible that we should kill innocent people but hasn't stopped Christians from commiting the most religion motivated murders in history.
So how comparing this to web adds whose sole purpose it is to get your attention in ways which are annoying would make sense escapes me. Not that I am trying to defend the advertisers in any way but those adds pay for the sites you are visiting, so if everybody starts blocking adds then they will either have to find another way of funding themselves or just go down. But when the whole system of advertising goes down, the way we live our lives allowing us to become lazy fat slobs will change forever.
So I guess the link between both situations is, it's easy to be your own worst enemy and then blame it on somebody else, but if anything it's the advertisers fault for making us lazy fat slobs and not the terrorists.
You can smoke pot, but don't you dare illegally download music! Hmmm....
I don't see what's so strange about that...
Cigarettes and alcohol kill more than a million people each year yet they are perfectly legal in most countries where downloading copyrighted material is illegal.
Fortunatly for me, in the Netherlands they are both legal.:)
despite the public critique even in mainstream media, the parties currently in coalition government decided to approve the legislation
Is it just me or is the tendency of so-called "democratic" governments to make laws that seem to please big companies and p-off just about everybody else seem very "undemocratic"? I wonder if people are forgetting it's their rights they ought to be defending, not defending big companies against citizens wanting to exercise their right to make a copy of a CD or DVD they bought for private use for instance...
In one way I guess it means that only the best of the best will ever get a music contract these days.
I hate to say I agree. These days, it takes REAL talent to get the attention of the music industry, not the musicians goofing off like in the punk or hippie era. It takes somebody with the brilliant creativity and style of Britney Spears to convince them to take a chance.
Seriously: I'm still trying to work out if your post was meant to be taken sarcastically or not.
I find these remarks of American patriotism to be very ironic. In your eyes they are undoubtedly true, but to 99% of the world living outside of the US, we do not care much for the way of life and "freedom" the U.S. is trying to force upon us while disobeying just about every international treaty they ever commited to.
Your "illness-fighting" drugs are mostly consumed by yourselves, most people here don't feel the need to take an average of 10 different medicine when they have nothing seriously wrong with them because they haven't been brainwashed by the pharmaceutical industry to feel inherently unhealthy (yet).
The military inventions that you feel save thousand of lives take thousands of lives in places that never did you any harm and never threatened to do so, and they didn't ask for your help either but they did happen to have the second largest oil reserve in the world.
And hundreds of countries were not much worse of then they have been since the U.S. economy started dominating the world, consuming 5 times as much per person as the rest of the developed world and producing 4 times as much polution.
But thanks anyway, at least you mean it the right way and it's the thought that counts I guess...
P.S. Why don't you try watching Fahrenheit 911, then watch it again. If your eyes haven't been opened then they never will.
I just recovered from being in stitches over a wonderful image of all the women in a bar giving this one dude dressed up like a dork with a horrible pick up line an incredibly hard time... wahaha.
I can spend days playing Civilization, the only problem is it kinda gets on the neighbours nerves after a few hours of moaning and groaning things like:
"Ohhh yeah Queen Elizabeth, give it to me baby... I want ALL your cities... yeah, yeah, yeah... Ohhhh GOOOOOD I love the way you move those armies all across Europe. You really turn me on with your superior technology, share it with me please oh please."
I just don't understand why people bother with sex at all.
In that case it makes perfect sense to me.
Even the most robust IQ-testing devices would have trouble calculating Bush' IQ, you are bound to run into some division by zero errors sooner or later.
That's the problem with being honest... He's not going to get rich quick like this:
BEWARE OF COMMERCIAL AFDBS: Since you should trust no one, always construct your AFDB yourself to avoid the risk of subversion and mental enslavement. Sometimes, AFDBs will be sold on places like eBay. Do not purchase these pre-made AFDBs, even if the seller seems trustworthy. They may contain backdoors, pinholes, integrated psychotronic circuitry or other methods that actually promote mind control.
Yeah, we'll all be runnin' round trying to crash each others backpacks. In the end the person with the most updated, most secure OS and software on his backpack will be the winner.
It will be so much fun, the nerds ultimate wet dream!
Oh give it up!
The "average user" may actually be "assuming" that the AMD64 and G5 platforms are faster because they took a look at some benchmarks, unlike some people who insist 64-bits will make no difference because of blablabla. Those people are just living a year in the past before the Opteron was released and the first reviews hit the net.
We have AMD64 and PPC cpu's working at around 2Ghz beating anything Intel can offer at up to 3.2Ghz at almost anything. It's true that it doesn't really matter they're 64-bit, because that part of them isn't even supported yet.
You can philosophize (is that a word in English?) all you like about trees not making a sound if nobody is there to hear it, but the fact is this CPU forrest happens to be crowded with millions of ears who are all hearing the sound of Itanium and P4 lumber crashing to make room for fresh AMD64 and PPC wood. And unlike the Mhz-myth, it's not just some cheap marketing trick.
Slashdot Mirror
Artists receive royalties every time their song is played on the radio.
"Reversing it significantly"...
As opposed to reversing it insignificantly I suppose?
The richness of competitive choices in the market is good for our customers and for the industry as a whole.
I believe this means that any good feature ODF has over Office will be quickly incorporated into the next release. Do you really need to ask what Office has over Open Office? It has closed format feature, meaning you can almost open those 5 year old word documents better than in Open Office.
*yawn* One of the most misquoted arguments ever, he said he "took the initiative to create the internet" and it was taken completely out of context. He really was one of the main people to take the initiative to create it by supporting it in the government as an educational tool when hardly anybody knew anything about computers (early 70s, remember) and that's all he was trying to say.
But if Vint is the father, and Al took the initiative of the "creation" then I wonder what that means for their "professional relationship" at the time...
Not that I'm a vegetarian, but...
:)
You must be covered in some meat too, if you're a fanatic pork eater then probably quite alot of it too. I wonder what Hannibal Lector would have to say about your statement.
By the way I can't help noticing you using religion as an excuse to do something without considering the moral aspect. Well if god didn't want us to blow each other up why did he let us invent bombs?
If it wasn't for the Enigma machine it is unlikely computers would be as advanced as they are today since cracking the enigma code was THE reason computer development really got started with the Mark I in WWII.
Judging by your remarks about Dutch TV adds you either must be Dutch or have been to the Netherlands recently, I am Dutch myself.
I find your comparison to the recent unrest in some European countries very inaccurate. For starters, the socalled tolerance of the Netherlands and other countries like the UK has been overhyped for a long time. The enlightened majority didn't want to believe there was still a large undercurrent of racial and cultural intollerance, having political parties like the CD made that a lot easier because they were impossible to take seriously. However, now with the rising fear of terrorist attacks, and these always being linked to the religion and culture of Muslims by the media and politicians, people that were far from tolerant but being quiet about it felt they are finally free to speak out. When they find a leader figure that seems somewhat acceptable and not as ridiculous as far right freaks like Janmaat in somebody like Pim Fortuyn, all these bottled up feelings of xenofobia are released and magnified by their peers also feeling free to express similar views.
As you hopefully know however, killing innocent people is not in the agenda of muslims, but only terrorists. It is also not in the Bible that we should kill innocent people but hasn't stopped Christians from commiting the most religion motivated murders in history.
So how comparing this to web adds whose sole purpose it is to get your attention in ways which are annoying would make sense escapes me. Not that I am trying to defend the advertisers in any way but those adds pay for the sites you are visiting, so if everybody starts blocking adds then they will either have to find another way of funding themselves or just go down. But when the whole system of advertising goes down, the way we live our lives allowing us to become lazy fat slobs will change forever.
So I guess the link between both situations is, it's easy to be your own worst enemy and then blame it on somebody else, but if anything it's the advertisers fault for making us lazy fat slobs and not the terrorists.
You can smoke pot, but don't you dare illegally download music! Hmmm....
:)
I don't see what's so strange about that...
Cigarettes and alcohol kill more than a million people each year yet they are perfectly legal in most countries where downloading copyrighted material is illegal.
Fortunatly for me, in the Netherlands they are both legal.
despite the public critique even in mainstream media, the parties currently in coalition government decided to approve the legislation
Is it just me or is the tendency of so-called "democratic" governments to make laws that seem to please big companies and p-off just about everybody else seem very "undemocratic"? I wonder if people are forgetting it's their rights they ought to be defending, not defending big companies against citizens wanting to exercise their right to make a copy of a CD or DVD they bought for private use for instance...
In one way I guess it means that only the best of the best will ever get a music contract these days.
I hate to say I agree. These days, it takes REAL talent to get the attention of the music industry, not the musicians goofing off like in the punk or hippie era. It takes somebody with the brilliant creativity and style of Britney Spears to convince them to take a chance.
Seriously: I'm still trying to work out if your post was meant to be taken sarcastically or not.
So basically, like all good business plans:
1. Collect underpants
2. ?
3. Profit
PS. Don't call me a pussy, pussy!
I find these remarks of American patriotism to be very ironic. In your eyes they are undoubtedly true, but to 99% of the world living outside of the US, we do not care much for the way of life and "freedom" the U.S. is trying to force upon us while disobeying just about every international treaty they ever commited to. Your "illness-fighting" drugs are mostly consumed by yourselves, most people here don't feel the need to take an average of 10 different medicine when they have nothing seriously wrong with them because they haven't been brainwashed by the pharmaceutical industry to feel inherently unhealthy (yet). The military inventions that you feel save thousand of lives take thousands of lives in places that never did you any harm and never threatened to do so, and they didn't ask for your help either but they did happen to have the second largest oil reserve in the world. And hundreds of countries were not much worse of then they have been since the U.S. economy started dominating the world, consuming 5 times as much per person as the rest of the developed world and producing 4 times as much polution. But thanks anyway, at least you mean it the right way and it's the thought that counts I guess... P.S. Why don't you try watching Fahrenheit 911, then watch it again. If your eyes haven't been opened then they never will.
It does absolutely NOT install any kind of spyware, shareware, silverware, or ladies wear onto the users system.
:)
Easy to miss that one.
I just recovered from being in stitches over a wonderful image of all the women in a bar giving this one dude dressed up like a dork with a horrible pick up line an incredibly hard time... wahaha.
Yeah I know what you mean...
I can spend days playing Civilization, the only problem is it kinda gets on the neighbours nerves after a few hours of moaning and groaning things like:
"Ohhh yeah Queen Elizabeth, give it to me baby... I want ALL your cities... yeah, yeah, yeah... Ohhhh GOOOOOD I love the way you move those armies all across Europe. You really turn me on with your superior technology, share it with me please oh please."
I just don't understand why people bother with sex at all.
I was hoping that was a mirror, metku.net seems to be /.ted.
Well, for the people who can read Italian: http://modding.hwupgrade.it/news/132.html
In that case it makes perfect sense to me. Even the most robust IQ-testing devices would have trouble calculating Bush' IQ, you are bound to run into some division by zero errors sooner or later.
These computers were already refurbished 10 years ago?
I'm surprised they run Windows at all!
That's the problem with being honest... He's not going to get rich quick like this:
BEWARE OF COMMERCIAL AFDBS: Since you should trust no one, always construct your AFDB yourself to avoid the risk of subversion and mental enslavement. Sometimes, AFDBs will be sold on places like eBay. Do not purchase these pre-made AFDBs, even if the seller seems trustworthy. They may contain backdoors, pinholes, integrated psychotronic circuitry or other methods that actually promote mind control.
Yeah, we'll all be runnin' round trying to crash each others backpacks. In the end the person with the most updated, most secure OS and software on his backpack will be the winner. It will be so much fun, the nerds ultimate wet dream!
You got it all wrong, there's no problems or hacks in Windows. Coming pre-hacked is a feature!
Oh give it up! The "average user" may actually be "assuming" that the AMD64 and G5 platforms are faster because they took a look at some benchmarks, unlike some people who insist 64-bits will make no difference because of blablabla. Those people are just living a year in the past before the Opteron was released and the first reviews hit the net. We have AMD64 and PPC cpu's working at around 2Ghz beating anything Intel can offer at up to 3.2Ghz at almost anything. It's true that it doesn't really matter they're 64-bit, because that part of them isn't even supported yet. You can philosophize (is that a word in English?) all you like about trees not making a sound if nobody is there to hear it, but the fact is this CPU forrest happens to be crowded with millions of ears who are all hearing the sound of Itanium and P4 lumber crashing to make room for fresh AMD64 and PPC wood. And unlike the Mhz-myth, it's not just some cheap marketing trick.