I've had MS pro copies of Office for many years and I've had years of experience with Linux. My opion is Open Office doesn't yet touch MS pro office, especially Power Point.
Can you make 3D primitives in MS Office 2003? No. I often use OOo to make a diagram using these primitives, save the diagram in ppt format in OOo, and use it in my overall presentation. It's good to have both office programs on your machine if you use win.
If it weren't for the hundreds of millions of tons of grain grown with pesticides and fertilizers and now also with genetically modified plants, people would starve.
Earth to dude..millions of people around the world are starving or suffering from malnutrition! The main reason for this is that food is wasted in tonnes by the US government and by private industries. What do you think happens to all the fresh vegetables/produce at your grocery stores that look nice and pretty glistening with water? You think they give them away to some farmer's market or to some food bank or homeless shelter? Most of it goes in the trash!!!!
Everything was boring except for the home patient monitoring system. As the VC says, interfacing the monitoring system to the hospital will be the difficult part because not only do the systems not exist, but neither does the network infrastructure.
Most of the systems at hospitals are closed off. That is, an ECG or pulse oximeter may only be sending data directly to a monitoring station or hub where nurses are stationed 24/7, so it's a very small internal system.
1) Use the current monitoring systems available at hospitals for the most part.
2) Build a back-end at the hospital to interface to their current monitoring station and to receive data from various locations from people's houses.
3) Profit!
After having read the anandtech article mentioned previously in this thread, a quote:
Unfortunately, seeing a future for Cell far outside of Playstation 3 and Sony/Toshiba CE devices is difficult at best.
Perhaps for the people at Anandtech but it's times like these that I feel badly for all those rendering houses and farms that built their systems off SGI's or clusters of expensive opterons/xeons/itaniums. The Cell is basically a very advanced DSP that performs extremely well at rendering and SIMD algorithms (floating point calcuations). A farm of PS3's could easily do what much more expensive grids do.
Such a system could also be used for doing parallel calculations in various scientific applications.
You are uninformed. 150W is the output power. In order to get the lasing medium to actually *LASE* requires lots more input power than 150W. In addition to hit a target miles away and put 150W of power on it for any period of time requires even more input power. Depending on the lasing medium and what sort of laser it actually is (pumped, double pumped, etc) they will require considerably much more power than 150W.
From the previous/. article today about Intel's "next-gen" CPU offerings in 2006, it is evident that Intel is currently behind AMD in the dual core arena. What Intel will offer in 2006 is already available from AMD (single die dual core and lower power consumption).
In case you blathering folk didn't know, Oregon State University is home to one of the largest open source initiatives anywhere. Just go to http://osuosl.org/ . They host mirrors for lots of linux distributions (gentoo ebuild source, open source projects, and other stuff). It was only a matter of time that the government clued in on how it could save money by studying the guys at OSUOSL.
ahha! yes I knew it was true, now this proves it!..no seriously this is the most idiotic study I've ever seen. If the flash based test was any indication of actual tests used in their study then its ridiculous. The pictures are going so quickly that a reference to a picture tilted 90 degrees to the left or right would be difficult to spot anyways. I couldn't even make out what most of the pictures represented. You might as well flash a bunch of pictures and ask me to find Waldo!!!
Indeed, you cannot print stationary with OOo, nor can you track changes to word/odt documents. This comes in handy when you are collaborating on a paper and you give it back to someone who needs to see your changes.
a beowulf cluster of blackdogs attached to your computer, could I create a mini super computer using a bunch of these devices hooked up to my computer using MPI or some other message passing protocol?
use dispatch-conf instead, it doesn't blow as many goats as etc-update
and I have to approve each one of DOZENS of files by hand.
You have to update a dozen files by hand only if you emerge -avuDN world once in a blue moon. When this happens almost every existing package in your world file will have to be updated because the last time you updated was 6 months ago. Furthermore you can use package.mask or make your own script perl script (I made one in less than 25 lines) for upgrading only certain packages.
There are some X alternatives, but guess what? I don't run X on my gentoo box, because I don't want to wait for 16 hours for X to compile.
*FUD ALERT* There are binary packages that you can get from the official gentoo repositories for things like Xorg, KDE, Gnome, and openoffice. I always compile xorg because on my slowest machine, a celeron-m 1.3ghz laptop with 512mb ram compiles it in 45minutes.
Also, the boys who maintain portage have been refusing to allow these third-party tools into the portage tree because "it might confuse users" and the tool (in use and active maintenance for 2 years by a sizable group) isn't "proven".
Many gentoo developers and those who have access to the portage CVS maintain and add new ebuilds on a volunteer basis. Most of these people are not being paid to make Gentoo better. Like many other GPL distributions it relies on user support. I'm not exactly sure which 3rd party tools you're talking about. If you want something in portage (which no one else has time to take care of) I've never had a problem with posting a bug on bugs.gentoo.org, attaching an ebuild to the bug myself, and maintaining it as future versions are released.
I refuse to recommend gentoo to anyone anymore on this basis; gentoo has not matured in the slightest as a distribution since its first release or two.
Good!! We don't want non-contributors like you anyways. Gentoo is built by users for users, and if you don't want to help then STFU and use what is available or don't use it at all.
A particularly creative scene I recently saw was in "XXX: State of the Union" starring Ice Cube. I'll leave the critics to judge the movie, but I think Steven Seagal movies are entertaining so you can see where I'm coming from.
The scene I am particularly interested in is near the end of the movie when XXX (Ice Cube) jumps from a train going about 150mph off a 150-200ft high bridge into a river or lake. Just a split second before he hits the water he shoots his shotgun into the water where he will enter. Could one survive such a speed (perhaps terminal velocity) / force (negative deacceleration) if he/she were to break the surface tension of the water by shooting a shotgun into it or using something else to make a large splash?
Slashdot Mirror
It comes with solaris 10, didn't read the url did you? Here's another one you won't read:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp
MS doesn't innovate they regulate, steal ideas, call them their own using marketing techniques, not giving credit where it is due.
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/campaign_docs/expertexcha nge/knowledge/solaris_zfs_gen.html
I've had MS pro copies of Office for many years and I've had years of experience with Linux. My opion is Open Office doesn't yet touch MS pro office, especially Power Point.
Can you make 3D primitives in MS Office 2003? No. I often use OOo to make a diagram using these primitives, save the diagram in ppt format in OOo, and use it in my overall presentation. It's good to have both office programs on your machine if you use win.
If it weren't for the hundreds of millions of tons of grain grown with pesticides and fertilizers and now also with genetically modified plants, people would starve.
..millions of people around the world are starving or suffering from malnutrition! The main reason for this is that food is wasted in tonnes by the US government and by private industries. What do you think happens to all the fresh vegetables/produce at your grocery stores that look nice and pretty glistening with water? You think they give them away to some farmer's market or to some food bank or homeless shelter? Most of it goes in the trash!!!!
Earth to dude
Everything was boring except for the home patient monitoring system. As the VC says, interfacing the monitoring system to the hospital will be the difficult part because not only do the systems not exist, but neither does the network infrastructure.
Most of the systems at hospitals are closed off. That is, an ECG or pulse oximeter may only be sending data directly to a monitoring station or hub where nurses are stationed 24/7, so it's a very small internal system.
1) Use the current monitoring systems available at hospitals for the most part. 2) Build a back-end at the hospital to interface to their current monitoring station and to receive data from various locations from people's houses. 3) Profit!
After having read the anandtech article mentioned previously in this thread, a quote:
Unfortunately, seeing a future for Cell far outside of Playstation 3 and Sony/Toshiba CE devices is difficult at best.
Perhaps for the people at Anandtech but it's times like these that I feel badly for all those rendering houses and farms that built their systems off SGI's or clusters of expensive opterons/xeons/itaniums. The Cell is basically a very advanced DSP that performs extremely well at rendering and SIMD algorithms (floating point calcuations). A farm of PS3's could easily do what much more expensive grids do.
Such a system could also be used for doing parallel calculations in various scientific applications.
You are uninformed. 150W is the output power. In order to get the lasing medium to actually *LASE* requires lots more input power than 150W. In addition to hit a target miles away and put 150W of power on it for any period of time requires even more input power. Depending on the lasing medium and what sort of laser it actually is (pumped, double pumped, etc) they will require considerably much more power than 150W.
From the previous /. article today about Intel's "next-gen" CPU offerings in 2006, it is evident that Intel is currently behind AMD in the dual core arena. What Intel will offer in 2006 is already available from AMD (single die dual core and lower power consumption).
and still no linux/mac version?
Can someone please post a full mirror with the complete article you fscking slashbots?!?!
..I forget the guys name, replied.."Business ethics? There's no such thing. There are only ethics you either have them or you don't."
It seems most corporate megalomaniacs and their poltical cronies don't.
In case you blathering folk didn't know, Oregon State University is home to one of the largest open source initiatives anywhere. Just go to http://osuosl.org/ . They host mirrors for lots of linux distributions (gentoo ebuild source, open source projects, and other stuff). It was only a matter of time that the government clued in on how it could save money by studying the guys at OSUOSL.
ahha! yes I knew it was true, now this proves it! ..no seriously this is the most idiotic study I've ever seen. If the flash based test was any indication of actual tests used in their study then its ridiculous. The pictures are going so quickly that a reference to a picture tilted 90 degrees to the left or right would be difficult to spot anyways. I couldn't even make out what most of the pictures represented. You might as well flash a bunch of pictures and ask me to find Waldo!!!
Nature once again proves that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Comment taken from the website:
"18.516 must be wrong. My athlon 2400+ did
1 million places of PI using FASTPI in 4.4 secs.
Maybe the number should read 1.8516 secs.
That would be more in line with factors of
speed differences between my 2400 and
the P4 system."
Indeed, you cannot print stationary with OOo, nor can you track changes to word/odt documents. This comes in handy when you are collaborating on a paper and you give it back to someone who needs to see your changes.
a beowulf cluster of blackdogs attached to your computer, could I create a mini super computer using a bunch of these devices hooked up to my computer using MPI or some other message passing protocol?
uhh..ever heard of Demetri Skylarov, the russian hacker who reverse engineered the acrobat e-book DRM?
should have been, "Use Gentoo, because shit scrolling by for hours makes your boss think you're doing something productive".
Mod down parent -3 as FUD:
Call me when etc-update doesn't blow goats.
use dispatch-conf instead, it doesn't blow as many goats as etc-update
and I have to approve each one of DOZENS of files by hand.
You have to update a dozen files by hand only if you emerge -avuDN world once in a blue moon. When this happens almost every existing package in your world file will have to be updated because the last time you updated was 6 months ago. Furthermore you can use package.mask or make your own script perl script (I made one in less than 25 lines) for upgrading only certain packages.
There are some X alternatives, but guess what? I don't run X on my gentoo box, because I don't want to wait for 16 hours for X to compile.
*FUD ALERT* There are binary packages that you can get from the official gentoo repositories for things like Xorg, KDE, Gnome, and openoffice. I always compile xorg because on my slowest machine, a celeron-m 1.3ghz laptop with 512mb ram compiles it in 45minutes.
Also, the boys who maintain portage have been refusing to allow these third-party tools into the portage tree because "it might confuse users" and the tool (in use and active maintenance for 2 years by a sizable group) isn't "proven".
Many gentoo developers and those who have access to the portage CVS maintain and add new ebuilds on a volunteer basis. Most of these people are not being paid to make Gentoo better. Like many other GPL distributions it relies on user support. I'm not exactly sure which 3rd party tools you're talking about. If you want something in portage (which no one else has time to take care of) I've never had a problem with posting a bug on bugs.gentoo.org, attaching an ebuild to the bug myself, and maintaining it as future versions are released.
I refuse to recommend gentoo to anyone anymore on this basis; gentoo has not matured in the slightest as a distribution since its first release or two.
Good!! We don't want non-contributors like you anyways. Gentoo is built by users for users, and if you don't want to help then STFU and use what is available or don't use it at all.
unfortunately mplayer does not work on the rm or the asf posted by someone else. Only the audio works. But both audio and video works fine in xine!
A particularly creative scene I recently saw was in "XXX: State of the Union" starring Ice Cube. I'll leave the critics to judge the movie, but I think Steven Seagal movies are entertaining so you can see where I'm coming from.
The scene I am particularly interested in is near the end of the movie when XXX (Ice Cube) jumps from a train going about 150mph off a 150-200ft high bridge into a river or lake. Just a split second before he hits the water he shoots his shotgun into the water where he will enter. Could one survive such a speed (perhaps terminal velocity) / force (negative deacceleration) if he/she were to break the surface tension of the water by shooting a shotgun into it or using something else to make a large splash?
...that in South Korea, dog is a delicacy.
it's not what it won't give you, but it's what winxp will soon be excluded from running in the future.
mirror anyone?