I am happy Netscape is gone. For one, folks will survive the adware that was always included.
The other reason is that for government sites that used to only post support for Internet Explorer and Netscape like this one: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/help/adobenotice-e.html, I can see them mentioning Firefox, which will be good for Firefox. Do you see in the text that mentions Netscape, denying Firefox its rightful place?
With all the efforts to fix the patent system lately, it appears that the court that originally made that decision may be regretting it, and has agreed to hear a new case that could overturn that ruling and restore some sanity to the patent system."
It's good this software patent regime might be re-visited, but what is unfortunate is that we as USA, are again simply following Europe on this issue. They have beaten us on all issues concerning the common man and IT by being more pragmatic. I hope this will change with a new administration next year.
I will agree with you on every point you raised. I had not considered those facts. I would like to inform you that I was once a day trader dealing with currencies and a 20% return per month is pretty possible. But I must also mention that success in the stock market or even forex market is tough. I made money (lots of it) in a day.
I once remember making over USD 6,000 in a single day...that was when our trade deficit numbers were read and the market went wild. But I was also burnt several times to the point that I asked myself what I was doing.
I know from statistics that success in this field is less than 5%. That is dismal. I thought of buying some stock predicting software but the cost is just too much, over US$3,000.
What is your formula for success in this business? Do these softwares work? I'd like to know. Thanks.
Agreed. I wonder whether the editor could have re-phrased the title to avoid confusion. What about inserting the word "based" after the word Android? I think this is part of good editing skills.
Darl McBride will leave a rich man. At least richer than he is now. From my own estimates, he will leave at least US$ 10 - 14 million richer. At 4% interest in a fixed deposit account, Mr McBride can live a pretty decent life even in America's most affluent neighborhoods for virtually no work to be done.
Indeed, Android is a platform. Just googled it up and came up with this link: http://code.google.com/android/. It says in part...
"The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform."
But the title suggests that there is an Android phone which will be killed! Android is a platform just like Linux, and Alienware's device will be based on the Android platform. so to me, this development will perpetuate Android instead of killing it.
It's like saying..."Bogaboga Systems is gonna come up with a Linux killer which will be based on Linux!" This does not make much sense to me.
...that mention is made of [full] integration with GTK but no mention of KDE! My be it's time folks at KDE tuned Firefox to look at a native KDE application or make lots of noise while Firefox development is going on.
China couldn't even keep its roads open this winter...
Do I need to remind you of hurricane Katrina? By the way, it was predicted...with all its might...but things went wrong...and remained wrong for over three months. Some are still wrong to date!
Russia today couldn't even compete militarily with USA from the 80's.
I'd say that this is a figment or your imagination and that's why America will always be surprised. Do you know that when Russia talks in military terms, America listens...and listens very very carefully?
Russians do not trumpet their technological achievements like we Americans. If they were the ones relying on our rockets for the ISS (like it's gonna be soon, but in reverse), we'd be blowing our own trumpets. I'm sure you know what I mean.
I wish I could say that this is not wasting resources, but it is. All these plans would not be that necessary if the USA kept out of other countries' business. But we will not leave them alone.
There are greater threats to USA's security than these mach 6 planes will address. Things like terror are far worse. Imagine six 9-11's on our [critical] infrastructure.
These plans also assume that Russia and China are sitting idle. Once again, we shall be surprised just like we were when Russia put into service, a nuclear capable missile with independent, multiple war-heads. This made our missile shield obsolete.
This confirms to me that my president and his administration are just incompetent.
Let me remind you that this very piece quotes in part...
"According to the indictment, Chinese aviation industry representatives began sending Chung 'tasking' letters as early as 1979. Over the years, the letters directed Chung to collect specific technological information, including data related to the Space Shuttle and various military and civilian aircraft...."
Now if the fact that nothing was done is not incompetence I wonder what is. On the above quote, emphasis is mine.
I would like the USA to confirm or deny the fact that it too, has a number of spies operating in these countries.
What bothers me most is the fact that my president's term is quickly coming to an end but I am yet to see any good to remind me of his legacy. What am I missing about my president's record?
It is all been incompetence, poor judgment, corruption and cronyism. The sooner this administration goes, the better.
I think that by deciding what you cannot see, they are in a way determining what you can see...or by deciding what you can see, they are determining what you cannot see. Right? I know you do not go to office nude. So by dressing up, you are deciding what we can see of you. Right?
I have said it over and over again, let's fork Zimbra. Any [Zimbra] code we can lay our hands on should be forked...period...then we can debate what name we should call the product. I suggest "Zimbiya".
If you need to read a PDF file, why not start a PDF viewer and load it up?
GNOME does not know how to handle this! If you knew what you were talking about, you'd have asked the question: "If you need to read a PDF file, why not save the PDF file, start a PDF viewer and load it up?"
It's people like you who are contributing to GNOMES apparent playing catchup to other desktop environments.
Clicking on the link will not help either! You will be prompted to save the file...what I'd like to happen is for GNOME to call the appropriate application and have the application open the link. This does not happen.
I am yet to be impressed because I cannot copy an Internet URL, paste it in a native GNOME application and have the application in question open the link. If the link points to a PDF document, some error is returned, even with the default PDF application installed. The only way out of this misery is to save the document onto the hard-disk. This is an non-starter GNOME folks, something MUST be done.
The Python development community is working towards a new, backwards-incompatible version of the language, version 3.0, which is slated for release in early 2009.
I'd like to hear from slashdotters who used to blame Microsoft when Microsoft release software that broke backwards compatibility with existing versions. Is Python's development team following Microsoft's lead here?
I'd like to ask Mr. Ballmer if this [potential acquisition] is part of what it calls innovation. I dislike Yahoo and Microsoft because of what I see as bias in search results and the bloated home pages.
I can assure you that [some] magic is real. From you, I can get glass of water and turn that into dimes you could use at a store...or I can ask you to think of a number and tell you with absolute certainty what that number is.
I can even tell you what underwear you are wearing and what the gender of the person you are going to talk to when you get home is, including what color of watch and shirt/blouse they will be wearing. So be careful man.
With these developments, it's my hope that more good news will come by. Let me hope that the recipient will not eventually "inherit" the donor's "bad" or weak characteristics. What about DNA? Suppose that the recipient's DNA changes to the donor's?
Ayala said.' If you don't use Windows you don't get the cash."
I wonder whether slashdotters know that western governments' dollar aid to needy countries is tied to these countries purchasing hardware and technical services from corporations in their countries. It does not matter whether the beneficiary country has better technocrats who know the [local] language and are ready to deliver cheaply and immediately.
I guess Microsoft borrowed a leaf from the USA. Sadly, the results of this practice have been very dismal and not those one can be proud of. They continue to do the same after all, there is a saying that goes..."a beggar has no choice...!"
In my experience, I have not found speech recognition engines/software that productive. Too many errors and a slow [and steep] "learning" curve for the engine. I will have to be convinced that this simon thing is any different for me to give it a spin.
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...is that enough resources get geared to having KDE 4.1 as complete as can possibly be. Guys, KDE 4 rocks and can be made better. Go guys.
The other reason is that for government sites that used to only post support for Internet Explorer and Netscape like this one: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/help/adobenotice-e.html, I can see them mentioning Firefox, which will be good for Firefox. Do you see in the text that mentions Netscape, denying Firefox its rightful place?
It's good this software patent regime might be re-visited, but what is unfortunate is that we as USA, are again simply following Europe on this issue. They have beaten us on all issues concerning the common man and IT by being more pragmatic. I hope this will change with a new administration next year.
I once remember making over USD 6,000 in a single day...that was when our trade deficit numbers were read and the market went wild. But I was also burnt several times to the point that I asked myself what I was doing.
I know from statistics that success in this field is less than 5%. That is dismal. I thought of buying some stock predicting software but the cost is just too much, over US$3,000. What is your formula for success in this business? Do these softwares work? I'd like to know. Thanks.
Agreed. I wonder whether the editor could have re-phrased the title to avoid confusion. What about inserting the word "based" after the word Android? I think this is part of good editing skills.
Darl McBride will leave a rich man. At least richer than he is now. From my own estimates, he will leave at least US$ 10 - 14 million richer. At 4% interest in a fixed deposit account, Mr McBride can live a pretty decent life even in America's most affluent neighborhoods for virtually no work to be done.
"The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform."
But the title suggests that there is an Android phone which will be killed! Android is a platform just like Linux, and Alienware's device will be based on the Android platform. so to me, this development will perpetuate Android instead of killing it.
It's like saying..."Bogaboga Systems is gonna come up with a Linux killer which will be based on Linux!" This does not make much sense to me.
...that mention is made of [full] integration with GTK but no mention of KDE! My be it's time folks at KDE tuned Firefox to look at a native KDE application or make lots of noise while Firefox development is going on.
Do I need to remind you of hurricane Katrina? By the way, it was predicted...with all its might...but things went wrong...and remained wrong for over three months. Some are still wrong to date!
Russia today couldn't even compete militarily with USA from the 80's.I'd say that this is a figment or your imagination and that's why America will always be surprised. Do you know that when Russia talks in military terms, America listens...and listens very very carefully?
Russians do not trumpet their technological achievements like we Americans. If they were the ones relying on our rockets for the ISS (like it's gonna be soon, but in reverse), we'd be blowing our own trumpets. I'm sure you know what I mean.
There are greater threats to USA's security than these mach 6 planes will address. Things like terror are far worse. Imagine six 9-11's on our [critical] infrastructure.
These plans also assume that Russia and China are sitting idle. Once again, we shall be surprised just like we were when Russia put into service, a nuclear capable missile with independent, multiple war-heads. This made our missile shield obsolete.
This confirms to me that my president and his administration are just incompetent.
Let me remind you that this very piece quotes in part...
"According to the indictment, Chinese aviation industry representatives began sending Chung 'tasking' letters as early as 1979. Over the years, the letters directed Chung to collect specific technological information, including data related to the Space Shuttle and various military and civilian aircraft...."
Now if the fact that nothing was done is not incompetence I wonder what is. On the above quote, emphasis is mine.
What bothers me most is the fact that my president's term is quickly coming to an end but I am yet to see any good to remind me of his legacy. What am I missing about my president's record?
It is all been incompetence, poor judgment, corruption and cronyism. The sooner this administration goes, the better.
I think that by deciding what you cannot see, they are in a way determining what you can see...or by deciding what you can see, they are determining what you cannot see. Right? I know you do not go to office nude. So by dressing up, you are deciding what we can see of you. Right?
I have said it over and over again, let's fork Zimbra. Any [Zimbra] code we can lay our hands on should be forked...period...then we can debate what name we should call the product. I suggest "Zimbiya".
Welcome to GNOME's way of doing things! Remember they are after total customer/user satisfaction.
GNOME does not know how to handle this! If you knew what you were talking about, you'd have asked the question: "If you need to read a PDF file, why not save the PDF file, start a PDF viewer and load it up?"
It's people like you who are contributing to GNOMES apparent playing catchup to other desktop environments.
Clicking on the link will not help either! You will be prompted to save the file...what I'd like to happen is for GNOME to call the appropriate application and have the application open the link. This does not happen.
I am yet to be impressed because I cannot copy an Internet URL, paste it in a native GNOME application and have the application in question open the link. If the link points to a PDF document, some error is returned, even with the default PDF application installed. The only way out of this misery is to save the document onto the hard-disk. This is an non-starter GNOME folks, something MUST be done.
I'd like to hear from slashdotters who used to blame Microsoft when Microsoft release software that broke backwards compatibility with existing versions. Is Python's development team following Microsoft's lead here?
I'd like to ask Mr. Ballmer if this [potential acquisition] is part of what it calls innovation. I dislike Yahoo and Microsoft because of what I see as bias in search results and the bloated home pages.
I'd be more than happy to see those that labeled me say something meaningful about this. Worse still, we might have to deal with toxic substances.
I can even tell you what underwear you are wearing and what the gender of the person you are going to talk to when you get home is, including what color of watch and shirt/blouse they will be wearing. So be careful man.
With these developments, it's my hope that more good news will come by. Let me hope that the recipient will not eventually "inherit" the donor's "bad" or weak characteristics. What about DNA? Suppose that the recipient's DNA changes to the donor's?
I wonder whether slashdotters know that western governments' dollar aid to needy countries is tied to these countries purchasing hardware and technical services from corporations in their countries. It does not matter whether the beneficiary country has better technocrats who know the [local] language and are ready to deliver cheaply and immediately.
I guess Microsoft borrowed a leaf from the USA. Sadly, the results of this practice have been very dismal and not those one can be proud of. They continue to do the same after all, there is a saying that goes..."a beggar has no choice...!"
In my experience, I have not found speech recognition engines/software that productive. Too many errors and a slow [and steep] "learning" curve for the engine. I will have to be convinced that this simon thing is any different for me to give it a spin.