Ask yourself what microsoft has done to innovate office in the last 5 years. Fortunately, office software isn't a moving target to compete with. Innovation is only the best thing to do in this case, not the only thing to do.
IWM ProWord is a very innovative product based on MS Word. Its features speak for themself, but it's only available in German, for now. You'll never lose time formatting the document again. Among its features:
- True templating
- An efficient touch system ("10-Finger System") for editing and formatting
- Numerous services, eg international address and form letter service, office printing, transform a document into a letter or into a book,...
If you're planning to create your own online gallery, I highly recommend G2, the successor of the original Gallery. It's a solution for personal galleries, for you and your friends and for community / commercial sites.
It features plenty of features and more and more modules for the end user and it's a beauty on the inside for developers.
Re:Shouldn't that be too bloated to test?
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What is it about software construction that makes this so difficult a concept [unit/component tests] to grasp?
Maybe an illusionary view of time-to-market, costs of bad design, costs of ignoring design for testability etc.
In other areas, i.e. ASIC / integrated circuits, the costs of wrong decisions and errors explode during the design cycle. This is why the whole IC industry commits itself to a "first-time-right" ideology. Each step, from specification to the final layout, involves testing. As a ASIC designer, you're happy if you can spend more than 25% of your time and effort on designing the actual architecture. 75-90% of the overall effort is "wasted" for testing.
A friend uses acroread 7 (beta) on his solaris (or was it linux) machine and it's really good. I'm also very pleased with the reader in version 7 on windows. It's so much better, faster, more responsive,... than version 6. It's probably as fast as version 5 with more features than version 6.
After the disastrous version 6, Adobe fixed the issues with version 7 and I can honestly recommend using the most recent Acrobat Reader version again.
Actually, not only has a solo circumglobal flight been done before, Fossett was the one who did it, albeit in a balloon.
Maybe the first man who did it solo, but the kudos go to Bertrand Piccard and his co-pilot Brian Jones who did the thing first, 3 years before.
Betrand Piccard is also an adventurer and pioneer like his father and grandfather. The next thing he plans to do is flying around the world, non-stop, in a solar powered aircraft. The project, Solar Impulse should also encourage the use of alternative energies.
It's true. Lately I've been noticing that living in the open source universe can be a lot like attending high school: everything is a popularity contest. If you're not one of the "cool kids" you don't get any attention, even if what you're working on is more mature, more sophisticated, and just plain better than what they're working on.
No. Writing open source software isn't about popularity. There may be people that do it for the glory, people that need the application for themselfs, people that get paid for writing FOSS, people that just have fun coding or being part of something that may help other people,... it's not about getting attention or the urge to be popular.
A few weeks ago, the leader of a FOSS project I'm part of was looking for new developers to join the project. Along his lines you could read...
Whats in it for you:
* No cash. Money is fleeting, glory is forever!
* Contributing back to Open Source Software
* Name recognition from working on a very popular Open Source Project
* Great resume experience
* Networking with a global team of professional developers, system administrators, security experts and professional photographers who work for companies such as Sun, Google, and Microsoft.
I thought, wow, that's true! It doesn't only make fun, it has many other advantages too!
I didn't read up all the 802.16?.? stuff, working groups etc., but why are they considering a high data rate standard with just 70 Mbps max?
I mean, we built a 216 Mbps (480 Mbps raw data rate) MIMO-OFDM SoC (+/-802.11a compliant) at the university. 216 Mbps is nothing special for next generation, > x Gbps have been achieved. But our System on a Chip (SoC) seemed to be a low cost solution.
Did anyone read all the workin group notes? Are multiple antennas only considered at the basestation?
But so many make this guy [Bill Gates] out to be the devil. It's a combination of good strategy, good planning, and probably a little luck that got him where he is today.
On May 19th [Star Wars Episode III] we will all understand. Just combine the quoted paragraph with Bill Gates Open Letter to Hobbyists from 1976 and the Star Wars pseudo-philosophy by Yoda "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering".
No, I don't actually think B. Gates is evil or in similarities to Anakin Skywalker.
But it is unethical to post such a link under your own username rather than anonymous... this way, it's kinda karma whoring, which is probably why the moderator modded you down.
Unethical because of what? Staying logged in is just the natural way of posting and posting a mirror is always a good thing. Especially in this case, where the original article was/.ed before the 1st post. And so what if the author of the post gets a few karma points.
I will definitely miss that loading time (of approx. 2 minutes) of Acrobat Reater and that invaluable information on those 4573 (or something) patents that they have for one document reader software!
I too was very disappointed with Adobe because of the Acrobat Reader in Version 6.x.
But they managed to fix the performance problem in version 7. I haven't benchmarked Acrobat Reader 7, but it feels like it loads and scrolls as fast as version 5 with all the benefits from version 6/7.
Now they only need to improve their digital ink implementation and make it available for the free.
I never really saw any reason to own a Tablet PC, what does it have over a labtop?
I've always dreamed of a Tablet PC and now, as I'm participating in a market analysis for Tablet PCs and WLAN, I must admit that the potential is there but the products are not ready yet.
On the hardware side, there's the darn trade-off between the portability/mobility (weight, size) and the usefulness as a digitial ink writing pad. While I highly appreciate the mobility of my 12" convertible tablet pc, I stopped quite early using it as a writing pad for non-trivial diagrams and longer texts because 12" is too small and you even lose another 2"-3" because of the casing and tool bars.
On the software side, there's a lack of applications and those applications that should be predestined for the tablet pc have serious disadvantages. As I've pointed out in the paragraph about hardware, IMO the tablet pc isn't ready or suitable for authoring longer texts or designs. I use my convertible in the notebook mode for these tasks.
The tablet pc in slate mode is still perfect for taking notes, sketching some graphs and the like. For a student like me, this would be perfect, if a) all material would be available in a digitized form (lecture material, scripts, textbooks,...) and b) if the document viewer application had great digital ink support.
Acrobat Reader: Most documents at our university are either.pdf or.ps. Version 6 of the Acroreader is a nightmare. The application takes so much time to start and it handles documents with images really bad, just turning to the next page can take half a minute. In acroread 5, the same documents work perfectly. And if you want to use your tablet pc features in.pdfs, you got to buy the top of the line edition of the application! And even these features are not implemented that well. The digital ink is much better in the MS products and the GUI isn't very efficient. All in all, I'm extremely disappointed with this product.
MS PowerPoint: I'm not a MS fanboy, but I must admit that their whole MS Office line shows how applications can benefit from the tablet pc features. Only a few lectures are based on powerpoint presentations, but these are the only lectures where I can take my notes right there where I need them and it works like a dream.
GhostView: Well, half the documents I got are postscript documents. Ghostview has no digital ink features, so I'd simply print these files with a pdf printer if the acroreader didn't suck that bad at digital ink.
Jaws PDF Editor: Disappointed with the Adobe product, I buyed the student version of the Jaws pdf editor. But it isn't digital ink ready.
MS OneNote: MS OneNote is the application I use to sketch some block diagrams, take meeting notes, lecture notes, etc. It's far from perfect, i.e. there's a strange bug that makes it use 100% CPU time in certain documents, but I still like it and together with MS Powerpoint, it's the only application I use in tablet pc mode.
Are all codecs from the shootout based on DCT? And if so, why is that? Are all wavelet based codecs too early in their development? I mean, wavelet is known for a pretty long time now, not as long as DCT:), but still. There's jpeg2000 and I'd have thought wavelet should be superior to DCT.
It's not that I have absolutely no idea of codecs, I 've learned the basics by programming a very low bitrate (low quality:)) codec a few years ago.
Finally, there is a problem with skills of developers. There are many s/w developers who are very good with C/C++. But not that many are good with Verilog (and its wickedly evil predecessor, VHDL:-) Hardware design is very, very different from software design.
Not only that, I guess most people that design ASICs and FPGAs for a living spend already too much time on their current projects. The little time that is left, would you spend it on yet another project or with your friends and families?
Besides: I didn't like VHDL in the beginning, but now, I kinda tend to like it:)
Strong typing etc. has its advantages.
[bush]You mean they are on the axis of evil, they are terrorists?
And what are the spammer harboring countries? Should we bomb them? Or do they have enemies? You know, the enemy of our enemy is our friend.
They should add the update functionality before an actual "1.0", don't you think?
This has been discussed a couple of times, especially in the latest/. firefox stories. This feature should have top priority in the current firefox development. Or do you want to get first a 20% market share to disgruntle and disappoint the masses (painful uninstall, install, get all extensions again process). They will back off from firefox and lose their interest in IE alternatives.
However, I hope I'll reach my destination tomorrow in time: 170 km in 8 hours on a mountain bike:/
I hope you have slick tires.
That's the only reason why I believe that it will get very "close" - I'm riding with tires that have the highest, widest tread and the wheels are only 26". It's gonna be a pain for sure.
I find cycling a lot less stressful than driving, it's relaxing really.
Relaxing? Not really, when I'm on my bike, I feel the ultimate urge to cycle as fast as I can. Well maybe that's because I'm always late:).
However, I hope I'll reach my destination tomorrow in time: 170 km in 8 hours on a mountain bike:/
Is that why I am downloading in 10k/s on my 10mbit connection?
I think they could use som help...
The problem is that the/. story links directly to a specific content server of the global akamai network (mp3content03.bcst.yahoo.com). Normally, you would make a HTTP/... request to yahoo for the movie file. Akamai would check which content server is the best for your request (geographically, load,...) and you would download the file from this specific, for your request at that time optimal content server.
It's obvious that this single content server can't handle the total bandwidth/load of all/. requests for a 30mb file.
Conclusion: Please don't link to a specific content server, but to the original website/URL.
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- True templating
- An efficient touch system ("10-Finger System") for editing and formatting
- Numerous services, eg international address and form letter service, office printing, transform a document into a letter or into a book,
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If you're planning to create your own online gallery, I highly recommend G2, the successor of the original Gallery. It's a solution for personal galleries, for you and your friends and for community / commercial sites.
It features plenty of features and more and more modules for the end user and it's a beauty on the inside for developers.
In other areas, i.e. ASIC / integrated circuits, the costs of wrong decisions and errors explode during the design cycle. This is why the whole IC industry commits itself to a "first-time-right" ideology. Each step, from specification to the final layout, involves testing. As a ASIC designer, you're happy if you can spend more than 25% of your time and effort on designing the actual architecture. 75-90% of the overall effort is "wasted" for testing.
Related information: IEEE Standards Wireless Zone (WLAN, WiMax, Bluetooth, and future technologies as UWB, ZigBee,
Sure, the right planet, right...
See for yourself:
The Truth about the NASA Mars Mission
Yeah, the quality sucks. But these were done in a boring "Stochastic models and systems" class.
A friend uses acroread 7 (beta) on his solaris (or was it linux) machine and it's really good. I'm also very pleased with the reader in version 7 on windows. It's so much better, faster, more responsive, ... than version 6. It's probably as fast as version 5 with more features than version 6.
After the disastrous version 6, Adobe fixed the issues with version 7 and I can honestly recommend using the most recent Acrobat Reader version again.
Betrand Piccard is also an adventurer and pioneer like his father and grandfather. The next thing he plans to do is flying around the world, non-stop, in a solar powered aircraft. The project, Solar Impulse should also encourage the use of alternative energies.
A few weeks ago, the leader of a FOSS project I'm part of was looking for new developers to join the project. Along his lines you could read... I thought, wow, that's true! It doesn't only make fun, it has many other advantages too!
PS: Beta in a few weeks: Gallery2.
Could someone summarize the state of the standardization process of the different task groups of 802.16? :)
This might be a good starting point: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/16/
Mod parent up or grandparent down.
I didn't read up all the 802.16?.? stuff, working groups etc., but why are they considering a high data rate standard with just 70 Mbps max?
I mean, we built a 216 Mbps (480 Mbps raw data rate) MIMO-OFDM SoC (+/-802.11a compliant) at the university. 216 Mbps is nothing special for next generation, > x Gbps have been achieved. But our System on a Chip (SoC) seemed to be a low cost solution.
Did anyone read all the workin group notes? Are multiple antennas only considered at the basestation?
No, I don't actually think B. Gates is evil or in similarities to Anakin Skywalker.
And so what if the author of the post gets a few karma points.
But they managed to fix the performance problem in version 7. I haven't benchmarked Acrobat Reader 7, but it feels like it loads and scrolls as fast as version 5 with all the benefits from version 6/7.
Now they only need to improve their digital ink implementation and make it available for the free.
On the hardware side, there's the darn trade-off between the portability/mobility (weight, size) and the usefulness as a digitial ink writing pad. While I highly appreciate the mobility of my 12" convertible tablet pc, I stopped quite early using it as a writing pad for non-trivial diagrams and longer texts because 12" is too small and you even lose another 2"-3" because of the casing and tool bars.
On the software side, there's a lack of applications and those applications that should be predestined for the tablet pc have serious disadvantages.
As I've pointed out in the paragraph about hardware, IMO the tablet pc isn't ready or suitable for authoring longer texts or designs. I use my convertible in the notebook mode for these tasks.
The tablet pc in slate mode is still perfect for taking notes, sketching some graphs and the like. For a student like me, this would be perfect, if a) all material would be available in a digitized form (lecture material, scripts, textbooks,...) and b) if the document viewer application had great digital ink support.
Are all codecs from the shootout based on DCT? And if so, why is that? Are all wavelet based codecs too early in their development? I mean, wavelet is known for a pretty long time now, not as long as DCT :), but still. There's jpeg2000 and I'd have thought wavelet should be superior to DCT. :)) codec a few years ago.
It's not that I have absolutely no idea of codecs, I 've learned the basics by programming a very low bitrate (low quality
Besides: I didn't like VHDL in the beginning, but now, I kinda tend to like it
And what are the spammer harboring countries? Should we bomb them?
Or do they have enemies? You know, the enemy of our enemy is our friend.
to be continued
This post represents Georg Bush, please mod it troll or overrated (because there's no "evil" or "malicious" mod).
This post represents John Kerry, please mod it insightful or informative (because there's not a "lesser evil" mod).
They should add the update functionality before an actual "1.0", don't you think?
/. firefox stories. This feature should have top priority in the current firefox development. Or do you want to get first a 20% market share to disgruntle and disappoint the masses (painful uninstall, install, get all extensions again process). They will back off from firefox and lose their interest in IE alternatives.
This has been discussed a couple of times, especially in the latest
However, I hope I'll reach my destination tomorrow in time: 170 km in 8 hours on a mountain bike
It's obvious that this single content server can't handle the total bandwidth/load of all
Conclusion: Please don't link to a specific content server, but to the original website/URL.