I am a Linux advocate and I've been using Open Office in Windows and Linux for at least four years. Open Office works fine for me unless I am opening documents that were created using Microsoft Office that use anything besides very basic features. Images frequently load improperly if at all and excel graphs never work correctly. I haven't made a PowerPoint Presentation in a couple years but last I tried my Open Office presentation had a couple problematic slides when opened in Microsoft Office.
I love Open Office and I will always use it when I can. Unfortunately some of my classes in college require me to open Word documents with images or math formulas in them that do not load properly in Open Office. My Physics labs require me to use Excel so when if I need to add something to my excel sheets and I am using my own computer I end up needing Excel. Open Office is excellent, but just like Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect, collaborating documents with other office suites just doesn't work sometimes.
Reading websites with dark-on-light text is somewhat more natural for most people because most books and physical paperwork are dark-on-light.
As for the article, Google gets many more hits than that website would ever get. The amount of power Google would be able to save would be much greater compared to that one-time-slashdotted blog. Regardless, I think Google users should have a choice of which Color scheme to use. Being able to swap out the stylesheet used easily would be nice.
It's lovely how both Slashdot post and the original article state that scientists at the "University of California" discovered this. This could mean the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, or others. The website link is to the University of California, Santa Cruz website so I assume that's where the scientists were located.
I agree. It is a big enough step for a large IT corporation such as IBM to freely open up so much of their intellectual property. These standards can be used by open source applications now. That is what really matters when it comes to open source and this issue.
According to the thread the image was taken on a slope, meaning relative to the rover the surface in the picture appears flat. Relative to a flat plain this surface is fairly slanted, so if this was a liquid one would think it would appear to be flowing. My guess is that it is just sand. If you have ever seen a desert that can get windy the sand in some areas can look incredibly smooth like a liquid would. I think this may be what happened here.
I dont know anyone who doesn't block either BUT to be fair I generally only know smart educated people.
Speak for yourself there. All the educated people I know are stupid educated people.:P
The video was up within hours of the actual incident. I'm a student at UCLA and based on the little information that has been spread on the news and the hearsay here, I think there is so little known for sure that the whole thing may have been blown out of proportion. Who can tell what the cops and kid were doing based on the video? The views here seem to be pretty evenly split regarding which party was more at fault, the cops or the kid. I'm somewhat surprised this made national news.
It appears as if there is actually a somewhat tame political discussion in effect on a Slashdot thread. What has the world come to? Rights and lefts can now discuss things in a civilized manor? When did this happen?
UT2004 and Bust-A-Move cover all grounds for my comfort. I'm either in a running-around-shooting-everything mood or a puzzle-with-bubbles mood. If I am in any other mood then I'm not in the mood for a video game anyways.
I like the Y2K prediciton one. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/net.bugs/brows e_frm/thread/64696a1b035aab72
I didn't realize it was predicted so long ago.
My answer was how easy it is to remove files permanently. There should be an option to archive files when deleting in a..Removed directory. This would be similar to ReiserFS's way of ensuring directories are not corrupted while removing, but it would be permanent.
As a webmaster I decided my associates would not appreciate their email addressses being spammed because they were listed on a website but they still wanted their addresses listed on my website. I decided to develop SandTrap, which is now a SourceForge group.
The way it works:
1. bots see an empty HTML link tag in the page source and follow it
2. The page they follow it to has meta tags instructing nice bots not to follow the links on the page (noindex,nofollow)
3. The bad bots of course ignore the warning and follow the links
4. The ip address of the bot is recorded and blocked from the server
It's written in perl and I've only used it on one website so far but it seems to work in theory at least. Oh... I also replace at symbols in email addresses with an image of an at symbol. That is pretty fail proof.
I would rather enter a programming contest than a robotics contest. I'm not big on making robots but I'd love writing the software for one. Also a physics contest would be fun. Physics is fun because it is a good example of how difficult the standard system is to use.
I would work off of mostly good free small software packages that allow for donations. Then you can make some bigger software that sells for a nice fair price. This is how people like Mike Lin do it.
In my opinion, at least for portable programs the GPL is the way to go.
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This was already done in Shenzhen last year. I don't understand why this is such a surprise.
Damn... why isn't there a +1 Ooh Burn! mod?
I am a Linux advocate and I've been using Open Office in Windows and Linux for at least four years. Open Office works fine for me unless I am opening documents that were created using Microsoft Office that use anything besides very basic features. Images frequently load improperly if at all and excel graphs never work correctly. I haven't made a PowerPoint Presentation in a couple years but last I tried my Open Office presentation had a couple problematic slides when opened in Microsoft Office. I love Open Office and I will always use it when I can. Unfortunately some of my classes in college require me to open Word documents with images or math formulas in them that do not load properly in Open Office. My Physics labs require me to use Excel so when if I need to add something to my excel sheets and I am using my own computer I end up needing Excel. Open Office is excellent, but just like Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect, collaborating documents with other office suites just doesn't work sometimes.
I've never heard of Congres before. Is this anything like Congress or is this a new type of cheese?
Reading websites with dark-on-light text is somewhat more natural for most people because most books and physical paperwork are dark-on-light. As for the article, Google gets many more hits than that website would ever get. The amount of power Google would be able to save would be much greater compared to that one-time-slashdotted blog. Regardless, I think Google users should have a choice of which Color scheme to use. Being able to swap out the stylesheet used easily would be nice.
Why is this rated insightful? What is insightful about this remark? Funny, maybe... but insightful?
It's lovely how both Slashdot post and the original article state that scientists at the "University of California" discovered this. This could mean the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, or others. The website link is to the University of California, Santa Cruz website so I assume that's where the scientists were located.
No, that just means it's either Slashdot or Digg.
I agree. It is a big enough step for a large IT corporation such as IBM to freely open up so much of their intellectual property. These standards can be used by open source applications now. That is what really matters when it comes to open source and this issue.
The blue is digitally added. This comment on the thread linked above to the original image.
According to the thread the image was taken on a slope, meaning relative to the rover the surface in the picture appears flat. Relative to a flat plain this surface is fairly slanted, so if this was a liquid one would think it would appear to be flowing. My guess is that it is just sand. If you have ever seen a desert that can get windy the sand in some areas can look incredibly smooth like a liquid would. I think this may be what happened here.
I dont know anyone who doesn't block either BUT to be fair I generally only know smart educated people. Speak for yourself there. All the educated people I know are stupid educated people. :P
[insert punny chain-related joke]
Yes, I did just use the word punny.
The video was up within hours of the actual incident. I'm a student at UCLA and based on the little information that has been spread on the news and the hearsay here, I think there is so little known for sure that the whole thing may have been blown out of proportion. Who can tell what the cops and kid were doing based on the video? The views here seem to be pretty evenly split regarding which party was more at fault, the cops or the kid. I'm somewhat surprised this made national news.
It appears as if there is actually a somewhat tame political discussion in effect on a Slashdot thread. What has the world come to? Rights and lefts can now discuss things in a civilized manor? When did this happen?
UT2004 and Bust-A-Move cover all grounds for my comfort. I'm either in a running-around-shooting-everything mood or a puzzle-with-bubbles mood. If I am in any other mood then I'm not in the mood for a video game anyways.
I tried both the downloadable and web versions with various artists. It doesn't work.
2600 magazine seems to keep a little more up-to-date than phrack anyways.
I like the Y2K prediciton one. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/net.bugs/brows e_frm/thread/64696a1b035aab72
I didn't realize it was predicted so long ago.
The command line will always be around as long as our fingers are faster than our mouths.
60 Minutes dumbed down the interview way too much. At least they mentioned the GLAT.
My answer was how easy it is to remove files permanently. There should be an option to archive files when deleting in a ..Removed directory. This would be similar to ReiserFS's way of ensuring directories are not corrupted while removing, but it would be permanent.
As a webmaster I decided my associates would not appreciate their email addressses being spammed because they were listed on a website but they still wanted their addresses listed on my website. I decided to develop SandTrap, which is now a SourceForge group. The way it works: 1. bots see an empty HTML link tag in the page source and follow it 2. The page they follow it to has meta tags instructing nice bots not to follow the links on the page (noindex,nofollow) 3. The bad bots of course ignore the warning and follow the links 4. The ip address of the bot is recorded and blocked from the server It's written in perl and I've only used it on one website so far but it seems to work in theory at least. Oh... I also replace at symbols in email addresses with an image of an at symbol. That is pretty fail proof.
I would rather enter a programming contest than a robotics contest. I'm not big on making robots but I'd love writing the software for one. Also a physics contest would be fun. Physics is fun because it is a good example of how difficult the standard system is to use.
Slashdotted so quickly. I never realized how fast posts accumulate on Slashdot or how many people read it.
I would work off of mostly good free small software packages that allow for donations. Then you can make some bigger software that sells for a nice fair price. This is how people like Mike Lin do it. In my opinion, at least for portable programs the GPL is the way to go.