There's a problem with that solution. If your host OS has been infected with keylogging malware, your keystrokes to the virtual OS are being intercepted anyway.
I followed the link you posted for tableau. That is one hot looking piece of software, but you weren't kidding about the price. This is definitely a program that I like to see an OSS implementation of.
That's not a legitimate answer. Please read what Dan wrote in response. My original question was not a troll, it was a technical question. Sun's 65k row limit is most likely to reduce how much memory is allocated when creating or opening a spreadsheet.
I was curious to see how many people are in Dan's situation that actually need that many rows. (Dan if you're reading this, how many rows do your reports average out to?)
If there are that many people that use more than 65k rows then that would justify Sun reworking their code, perhaps even a preferences option that allow toggling on and off large spreadsheets. This would allow for the average user to not experience the unneeded overhead.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like being hindered by my apps either, but if the demand for a memory taxing feature isn't that great, why waste the time implementing it.
I once read a quote that more than 65k rows was overkill and that if you needed that many rows, you should be using a database instead. If you're not under some kind of NDA, what does your company do that they need that many rows on a spreadsheet?
Can anyone else chime in on legitimate reasons to need that many rows in a spreadsheet?
That's exactly what happened to my starcraft key on battlenet. Someone out there using a keygen must have generated the same key and I couldn't play online if they were logged in. I quit playing the game after that. My key was legit and I wasn't going to be bothered with going through the mess of having them issue me a new one. I haven't purchased another blizzard game or any other one that requires a key since.
Go back there and read the comment by squigglyp. If he's not a slashdot user, he friggin should be.
SquigglyP (36 minutes ago)
We'd all love to own Ferraris, but I do alright with my Hyundai. Granted, the experience is important, but I would argue it's better to drive with Linux's manual transmission than Windows' or Mac's automatics. If you want to look flashy on the track, or actually feel want to feel the power and have real control over the experience.
Am I taking this analogy too far now?
NPR is actually quite fair and balanced, unlike the network that makes that claim. In most political discussions on their shows they get someone to represent both sides. If your sensing a liberal slant, it's because something the Republican party did was so outrageous that just reporting the events appears to be slightly slanderous.
Obviously power to weight ratio is not the only thing that needs to be considered if the drone can reach that height. Other factors include operating range of the RC transceiver. Video transmission doesn't seem to be a problem. You can find a professional
transmitter that can broadcast up to 2 miles LOS (though if your flying in the city LOS may be an issue). Then there's the issue of depth of field, or lack thereof. Aiming at an moving object with
no concept of your distance from it is difficult. Then their wind to contend with which can vary a great amount at that altitude. It's not a issue for the drone because it is computer controlled and can compensate. If you could find a rc heli pilot that thinks they could pull it off, I'd love to hear about it.
nevermind the fact that you can't really win a war on an idea. I only wish that were true. Freedom, Democracy, and critical thinking are all ideas that the current administration, and an upsetting percentage of the U.S. population, have managed lay to waste.
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It's a ducted fan design. I didn't see any flight length info (probably classified). Although they do mention it has an operational ceiling of 10,500 feet (their goes anyone's idea of hitting it with an rc copter) and that it can store 100 waypoints in it's flight plan.
Being a super hero yourself, Captain Obvious, I'm sure you hang out with them quite often. Maybe you could help them solve the mystery of the anonymous joke killer.
If you want BeOS, check out Haiku. It runs BeOS R5 binaries and some of the key employees are ex Be developers. The chances of getting the original source is slim to none. Be was bought by Palm/3Com with the intention of using BeOS for web appliances (fscking dot com bubble!), and since then Palm/3Com has been through one or two new owners. There probably isn't even anyone left in the company that knows that they own it.
That's not quite accurate. NT started as a reimplementation of DEC's VMS. They hired a bunch of developers out from under Digital. In fact, the name Windows NT came from the letters WNT, each letter being one greater than VMS. They made up the phrase New Technology to give meaning to the N and the T. Now, the Win32 api may have been based off of work they collaborated with IBM on.
Short answer? Doctors, Lawyers, Stock Brokers, Mortgage Brokers or anyone else in a position to enter a technological arms race with their colleagues. They have the best computer, the best internet connection, the best HDTV, the best 7.1 THX certified system they know nothing about DRM and wouldn't care either way because everything is disposable.
Example conversation:
(a) My E55 is the sh!t.
(b) My M5 is faster.
(a) But my home theater system kicks your system's @ss.
(b) I have appleTV so I can.. (blah, blah, blah)
There is a market for this stuff, we're just not the targeted audience.
W.i.n.e. (wine is not emulation) - wine is a compatibility layer. It remaps windows api calls to the host operating system's equivalent calls or replicates windows api calls where no host os corresponding ones exist. There is no cpu instruction set emulation / jit recompiling and therefore, no performance hit. Wine has been known to execute software faster than windows in some cases.
I had the same thing happen to me. Restoring the session when I started firefox again brought the problem right back. I killed the task and brought it back up again and chose 'New Session' and everything went back to normal.
I couldn't disagree more. I've been using Open Office for about a year now and I have yet to have it crash on me once. As far as file compatibility, I've had better luck working with.xls files in Open Office Calc. On one occasion, attempting to print the file in Excel caused the system to lock, I couldn't even bring up the task manager (probably Microsoft hooking into the kernel for speed again). On another occasion we had a file wouldn't even open in Excel. Calc parsed it just fine. Just the other night, I had a.odt open in Writer that was located on a shared drive. I had to reboot the computer the file was located on so my fiance could use XP, but I forgot to close the document first. When I went to close the file (which had already been saved), Writer exited gracefully. Try leaving a network share open in Office XP and rebooting the server. See what happens. I'm willing to bet it won't be pretty.
It could be witches
Some evil witches
Which is ridiculous 'cause witches they were
Persecuted Wicca good and love the earth and
Women power and
I'll be over here
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There's a problem with that solution. If your host OS has been infected with keylogging malware, your keystrokes to the virtual OS are being intercepted anyway.
I followed the link you posted for tableau. That is one hot looking piece of software, but you weren't kidding about the price. This is definitely a program that I like to see an OSS implementation of.
That's not a legitimate answer. Please read what Dan wrote in response. My original question was not a troll, it was a technical question. Sun's 65k row limit is most likely to reduce how much memory is allocated when creating or opening a spreadsheet.
I was curious to see how many people are in Dan's situation that actually need that many rows. (Dan if you're reading this, how many rows do your reports average out to?)
If there are that many people that use more than 65k rows then that would justify Sun reworking their code, perhaps even a preferences option that allow toggling on and off large spreadsheets. This would allow for the average user to not experience the unneeded overhead.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like being hindered by my apps either, but if the demand for a memory taxing feature isn't that great, why waste the time implementing it.
I once read a quote that more than 65k rows was overkill and that if you needed that many rows, you should be using a database instead. If you're not under some kind of NDA, what does your company do that they need that many rows on a spreadsheet? Can anyone else chime in on legitimate reasons to need that many rows in a spreadsheet?
That's exactly what happened to my starcraft key on battlenet. Someone out there using a keygen must have generated the same key and I couldn't play online if they were logged in. I quit playing the game after that. My key was legit and I wasn't going to be bothered with going through the mess of having them issue me a new one. I haven't purchased another blizzard game or any other one that requires a key since.
New hire orientation must look something like this.
NPR is actually quite fair and balanced, unlike the network that makes that claim. In most political discussions on their shows they get someone to represent both sides. If your sensing a liberal slant, it's because something the Republican party did was so outrageous that just reporting the events appears to be slightly slanderous.
Obviously power to weight ratio is not the only thing that needs to be considered if the drone can reach that height. Other factors include operating range of the RC transceiver. Video transmission doesn't seem to be a problem. You can find a professional transmitter that can broadcast up to 2 miles LOS (though if your flying in the city LOS may be an issue). Then there's the issue of depth of field, or lack thereof. Aiming at an moving object with no concept of your distance from it is difficult. Then their wind to contend with which can vary a great amount at that altitude. It's not a issue for the drone because it is computer controlled and can compensate. If you could find a rc heli pilot that thinks they could pull it off, I'd love to hear about it.
Here. It's a ducted fan design. I didn't see any flight length info (probably classified). Although they do mention it has an operational ceiling of 10,500 feet (their goes anyone's idea of hitting it with an rc copter) and that it can store 100 waypoints in it's flight plan.
::blinks:: Whoa. For a second I thought my dad was posting on /.
Being a super hero yourself, Captain Obvious, I'm sure you hang out with them quite often. Maybe you could help them solve the mystery of the anonymous joke killer.
If I had any mod points, I'd mod this up. You could probably even set up an mp3 player that reports itself as a flash drive.
We're not talking about the guys that built the railroad here, Walter!
If you want BeOS, check out Haiku. It runs BeOS R5 binaries and some of the key employees are ex Be developers. The chances of getting the original source is slim to none. Be was bought by Palm/3Com with the intention of using BeOS for web appliances (fscking dot com bubble!), and since then Palm/3Com has been through one or two new owners. There probably isn't even anyone left in the company that knows that they own it.
That's not quite accurate. NT started as a reimplementation of DEC's VMS. They hired a bunch of developers out from under Digital. In fact, the name Windows NT came from the letters WNT, each letter being one greater than VMS. They made up the phrase New Technology to give meaning to the N and the T. Now, the Win32 api may have been based off of work they collaborated with IBM on.
Short answer? Doctors, Lawyers, Stock Brokers, Mortgage Brokers or anyone else in a position to enter a technological arms race with their colleagues. They have the best computer, the best internet connection, the best HDTV, the best 7.1 THX certified system they know nothing about DRM and wouldn't care either way because everything is disposable. Example conversation: (a) My E55 is the sh!t. (b) My M5 is faster. (a) But my home theater system kicks your system's @ss. (b) I have appleTV so I can .. (blah, blah, blah)
There is a market for this stuff, we're just not the targeted audience.
You'll never get a blimp to reach 88 mph or even take off with the amount of solar cells you'd need.
W.i.n.e. (wine is not emulation) - wine is a compatibility layer. It remaps windows api calls to the host operating system's equivalent calls or replicates windows api calls where no host os corresponding ones exist. There is no cpu instruction set emulation / jit recompiling and therefore, no performance hit. Wine has been known to execute software faster than windows in some cases.
I had the same thing happen to me. Restoring the session when I started firefox again brought the problem right back. I killed the task and brought it back up again and chose 'New Session' and everything went back to normal.
I couldn't disagree more. I've been using Open Office for about a year now and I have yet to have it crash on me once. As far as file compatibility, I've had better luck working with .xls files in Open Office Calc. On one occasion, attempting to print the file in Excel caused the system to lock, I couldn't even bring up the task manager (probably Microsoft hooking into the kernel for speed again). On another occasion we had a file wouldn't even open in Excel. Calc parsed it just fine. Just the other night, I had a .odt open in Writer that was located on a shared drive. I had to reboot the computer the file was located on so my fiance could use XP, but I forgot to close the document first. When I went to close the file (which had already been saved), Writer exited gracefully. Try leaving a network share open in Office XP and rebooting the server. See what happens. I'm willing to bet it won't be pretty.
Chaka Luther King. "I think George Lucas is gonna sue somebody!"
Be careful, Stallman might track you down and kill you for a comment like that.
It could be witches Some evil witches Which is ridiculous 'cause witches they were Persecuted Wicca good and love the earth and Women power and I'll be over here