It's because the english language makes absolutely no sense. Science, electronics, and computer languages are rooted in math, logic, and a strong set of RULES.
In english, every 'rule' is followed with a list of exceptions. There are no rules to remember because every rule has an exception.
Grammar is sheer memorization, you can not apply a logical set of rules to the english language and produce good grammar.
In this way it's a little like Visual Basic.
When the iPod came out years ago, I said to myself "Oh, it's just a HD-based MP3 player which uses a small HD. That will keep them ahead of the competition for about a month." Last week I walked into CompUSA to replace my aging Rio (64mb). I looked at all their MP3 players and walked out with an iPod mini. What happened?? The players on the shelf with the iPod were totally out classed and out priced. Why isn't anyone competing with the iPod? Is it really that hard?
At my work we have a site license for Office.X so I've been able to compare Office and Neo side by side without $$ being part of the equation. My use of both consists or writing technical software manuals. These documents require the use of Table Of Contents, Index, Cross-references, screen shots with captions, and are generally in the ball park of 100 pages long.
Office.X simply isn't up to the task. Maybe the PC version of Office is better, it has to be or no one would use it. Office simply can not remember formatting, styles, tables, lists, graphic positions and it often corrupts the document I am working on.
NeoOffice/J is rock solid in all these areas. I have never gotten a corrupt document. It remembers things like lists, tables, graphics positions, formatting, etc...
Having a Mac, I have not had a chance to play with OpenOffice 2.x, but let me say this. If OpenOffice adds support for advanced scripting (via something better than VBS, say Ruby, Python, Perl...) Microsoft will have their ass handed to them.
If we all become managers, get MBA's, focus on corporate strategy/direction, and financial analysis. WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO MAKE THE PRODUCTS?? Top-heavy boats tip over.
How much to you spend on a monitor? How much do you spend on RAM, HD's, Video Cards? Why is $30 the limit people will spend on a keyboard? Especially when you have wrist pain and your job requires you to type all day long?
Anyway, I just want to give credit to the Kinesis keyboard. I bought a used Kinesis keyboard a few years ago when typing all day was getting really painful. I could work (programmer) for about 20min before having to take a break. The Kinesis lets me go all day. So, I take every chance I can to spread the good news that this keybord kicks RSI in the balls.
I have all those same problems working with Office for the Mac. I don't know if the windows version is any better, but I often will open a.doc in word and not see what I wrote there 20min ago. Word doesn't open.doc files correctly all the time. Even files created with the same version of word on the same computer will suddenly appear different. Maybe all these problems are isolated to the mac version of word, I don't know.
Those reasons caused be to swithch to OOo for all my documents that require lots of formatting, TOC, styles, outlines, etc... OOo reads and writes.sxw files 100% correctly. Yeah, so it's not so good reading and writing.doc files... show me an app that is.
They started by banning firearms. And before that measure has even been ratified, they turn to limiting free speech. Wake up people!
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Well, the server products aren't really that expensive compaired to the x86 competition. Apple always gloats about the XServer RAID being the cheapest per MB in the market.
Aside from that, the server environment is the one place where it absolutely makes good business sense to pay more $$ in exchange for higher quality components. If you web store goes down for 48hrs because your server had a junky $20 power supply, you will wish you had spent the extra $100 or so for a quality supply.
You CAN buy sound cards for the mac, they fit in the nifty PCI slots on the PowerMacs. Check out www.midiman.com If you don't have PCI slots, then you just use a USB or FireWire sound output box.
Ever seen the fast user switching 'cube' effect in Mac OS X? Ever heard of Quartz Extreme? That stuff is all done on the 3D portion of the video card. They use the 3D portion for fast compositing too.
Re:Before I hear another "guns don't kill people..
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But following the NJ logic, lets appoint a government body to admin all our (and your) mail servers. Following CA logic, lets prohibit large mail servers, or mail servers that can send mail more than once a month. Following IL logic, lets ban mail servers all together and send SWAT teams after people who defy the government.
Following CO logic, let people have any mail server they want but make sure to catch spammers and send them to jail for a very long time.
Everybody in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey had better buy all the guns they might ever want in the next 3 years or do with out. What's the good of a self-defence weapon that is 90% reliable??
$100 says they don't enforce that law for Police Officers. Why? Because the technology won't be reliable enough to trust with your life.
Us lowly 'citizens' are going to be dog food against armed criminals once this law goes into affect.
Sometimes I look at the (actual) sky and start to critique the over-done cloud layering effect (ala Unreal), and a swear I actually see the cracks between texture maps. "These graphics look so fake." Then I know I need to take a break.
At work, how many of you have a badge with one of those key cards that automagically opens doors when you wave it past the little black reader doohicky with the light on it?
Do you realize you have been handed the same anti-libertarian treatment as these kids for years and never complained?
I don't think it is right to track people this way. It is amaizing how these technologies have already become every day things for most of us.
I'm sorry, but I can't defend Apple here. They should have signed an agreement with Real months ago. At least then they could have made a deal that benefited their goals (like getting Real to use AAC). As a consumer, I like competition. If Real's store is better than Apple's (it's not), then it will drive Apple to improve. Either way Apple sells more iPods.
How can we defend apple in this instance and not defend Apple regarding the HYMN-Project??
Right on. We all know deep down that copying a game we did not pay for hurts the game developer... and that it is wrong. We can get all bent out of shape at the insane prices of software (Office for the Mac is $500!!), and we can get even more bent out of shape when anti-piracy controls are put in place and the price doesn't drop (Windows XP costs the same as 2000, even though fewer people pirate it), but in the end the only solution that works is to vote with your feet.
I have a different password for every site/account/etc... I base all the passwords off a 6 char random sequence say s#8ogu for instance. Then, for each site I modify the password based on a fixed pattern to reach 8 characters. For instance: First letter of name of site, 3 of the fixed sequence, last letter of name of site, last 3 of fixed sequence. So, in the above example:
Amazon.com (site name amazon) as#8nogu
Slashdot.org (site name slashdot) ss#9togu
By following this pattern, I only have to remember one password and I have a unique password for each account.
Slashdot Mirror
Check your facts. The right is NOT pro-union.
It's because the english language makes absolutely no sense. Science, electronics, and computer languages are rooted in math, logic, and a strong set of RULES. In english, every 'rule' is followed with a list of exceptions. There are no rules to remember because every rule has an exception. Grammar is sheer memorization, you can not apply a logical set of rules to the english language and produce good grammar. In this way it's a little like Visual Basic.
like JEdit.
When the iPod came out years ago, I said to myself "Oh, it's just a HD-based MP3 player which uses a small HD. That will keep them ahead of the competition for about a month." Last week I walked into CompUSA to replace my aging Rio (64mb). I looked at all their MP3 players and walked out with an iPod mini. What happened?? The players on the shelf with the iPod were totally out classed and out priced. Why isn't anyone competing with the iPod? Is it really that hard?
At my work we have a site license for Office.X so I've been able to compare Office and Neo side by side without $$ being part of the equation. My use of both consists or writing technical software manuals. These documents require the use of Table Of Contents, Index, Cross-references, screen shots with captions, and are generally in the ball park of 100 pages long. Office.X simply isn't up to the task. Maybe the PC version of Office is better, it has to be or no one would use it. Office simply can not remember formatting, styles, tables, lists, graphic positions and it often corrupts the document I am working on. NeoOffice/J is rock solid in all these areas. I have never gotten a corrupt document. It remembers things like lists, tables, graphics positions, formatting, etc... Having a Mac, I have not had a chance to play with OpenOffice 2.x, but let me say this. If OpenOffice adds support for advanced scripting (via something better than VBS, say Ruby, Python, Perl...) Microsoft will have their ass handed to them.
Not if the rich ban guns.
There is a reason for the 2nd amendment.
There is a reason why socialists want the 2nd amendment appealed.
If we all become managers, get MBA's, focus on corporate strategy/direction, and financial analysis. WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO MAKE THE PRODUCTS?? Top-heavy boats tip over.
How much to you spend on a monitor? How much do you spend on RAM, HD's, Video Cards? Why is $30 the limit people will spend on a keyboard? Especially when you have wrist pain and your job requires you to type all day long? Anyway, I just want to give credit to the Kinesis keyboard. I bought a used Kinesis keyboard a few years ago when typing all day was getting really painful. I could work (programmer) for about 20min before having to take a break. The Kinesis lets me go all day. So, I take every chance I can to spread the good news that this keybord kicks RSI in the balls.
sans optical drive.
I have all those same problems working with Office for the Mac. I don't know if the windows version is any better, but I often will open a .doc in word and not see what I wrote there 20min ago. Word doesn't open .doc files correctly all the time. Even files created with the same version of word on the same computer will suddenly appear different. Maybe all these problems are isolated to the mac version of word, I don't know.
.sxw files 100% correctly. Yeah, so it's not so good reading and writing .doc files... show me an app that is.
Those reasons caused be to swithch to OOo for all my documents that require lots of formatting, TOC, styles, outlines, etc... OOo reads and writes
They started by banning firearms. And before that measure has even been ratified, they turn to limiting free speech. Wake up people!
Well, the server products aren't really that expensive compaired to the x86 competition. Apple always gloats about the XServer RAID being the cheapest per MB in the market.
Aside from that, the server environment is the one place where it absolutely makes good business sense to pay more $$ in exchange for higher quality components. If you web store goes down for 48hrs because your server had a junky $20 power supply, you will wish you had spent the extra $100 or so for a quality supply.
because an adder is a snake.
You CAN buy sound cards for the mac, they fit in the nifty PCI slots on the PowerMacs. Check out www.midiman.com If you don't have PCI slots, then you just use a USB or FireWire sound output box.
Ever seen the fast user switching 'cube' effect in Mac OS X? Ever heard of Quartz Extreme? That stuff is all done on the 3D portion of the video card. They use the 3D portion for fast compositing too.
But following the NJ logic, lets appoint a government body to admin all our (and your) mail servers. Following CA logic, lets prohibit large mail servers, or mail servers that can send mail more than once a month. Following IL logic, lets ban mail servers all together and send SWAT teams after people who defy the government.
Following CO logic, let people have any mail server they want but make sure to catch spammers and send them to jail for a very long time.
Everybody in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey had better buy all the guns they might ever want in the next 3 years or do with out. What's the good of a self-defence weapon that is 90% reliable?? $100 says they don't enforce that law for Police Officers. Why? Because the technology won't be reliable enough to trust with your life. Us lowly 'citizens' are going to be dog food against armed criminals once this law goes into affect.
Sometimes I look at the (actual) sky and start to critique the over-done cloud layering effect (ala Unreal), and a swear I actually see the cracks between texture maps. "These graphics look so fake." Then I know I need to take a break.
At work, how many of you have a badge with one of those key cards that automagically opens doors when you wave it past the little black reader doohicky with the light on it? Do you realize you have been handed the same anti-libertarian treatment as these kids for years and never complained? I don't think it is right to track people this way. It is amaizing how these technologies have already become every day things for most of us.
You could also ask: If you're not using the software, why should you care what license you agree to?
I'm sorry, but I can't defend Apple here. They should have signed an agreement with Real months ago. At least then they could have made a deal that benefited their goals (like getting Real to use AAC). As a consumer, I like competition. If Real's store is better than Apple's (it's not), then it will drive Apple to improve. Either way Apple sells more iPods. How can we defend apple in this instance and not defend Apple regarding the HYMN-Project??
"credit card-sized' 8.9m x 6.2 x 1.4cm " 8.9 meters!! Holy crap, what kind of credit cards to they use in Japan??!!
Right on. We all know deep down that copying a game we did not pay for hurts the game developer... and that it is wrong. We can get all bent out of shape at the insane prices of software (Office for the Mac is $500!!), and we can get even more bent out of shape when anti-piracy controls are put in place and the price doesn't drop (Windows XP costs the same as 2000, even though fewer people pirate it), but in the end the only solution that works is to vote with your feet.
I have a different password for every site/account/etc... I base all the passwords off a 6 char random sequence say s#8ogu for instance. Then, for each site I modify the password based on a fixed pattern to reach 8 characters. For instance: First letter of name of site, 3 of the fixed sequence, last letter of name of site, last 3 of fixed sequence. So, in the above example: Amazon.com (site name amazon) as#8nogu Slashdot.org (site name slashdot) ss#9togu By following this pattern, I only have to remember one password and I have a unique password for each account.
They should call it rupert.