The headline should have the word "alleged" somewhere in realtion to the Firefox market share.
Why? Because there exists no proof that all parties involved in market share tracking can agree on. I will not be surprised if anoher party comes up and says something to the effect..."not so fast Firefox..."
Well, I hope you do not think fonts in OpenOffice.org are generally better looking than their Windows counterparts, do you? In my previous installation, these fonts looked blurry, huge and ugly. I guess I should have broadened the scope of my premise to include the general look and feel of OpenOffice.org. This is fact: This application looks better on Windows than on Linux. Now you tell me it does not.
The issue is decent looking fonts. I always have to download the webfonts.sh script http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/webFonts4Linux/webFonts. sh, and turn off anti-aliasing in order to have a desktop that is a pleasure to work with. Heck ebven the most recent OpenOffice.org release is uglier on Linux than it is on Windows.
Guys, we need to have an attractive desktop by default in order to make the user experience at least more appealing. In one installation of Ubuntu, I had to tweak the X.org conf file in order to have it display these fonts correctly! And believe me...it took more than 4 hours to get right! Who would have that time in the "real" world?
Will the broadcast be viewable in Linux by default? Or will one have to tweak their distros in order to see the content. I guess the more accurate question would be..."Will Open Standards be employed in this effort?"
Before I leave, I should mention that I have my doubts as to whether browser applications like Firefox and Konqueror will work out of the box.
After all, even for Google, which is seen to support open standards and Linux, had to be asked to provide support to Firefox and Konqueror when it came to Google Maps. For companies like Yahoo, their Launchcast service is not available for folks using Linux and Firefox or Konqueror. This is after more than 5 years of [Launchcast's availability. These are sad times indeed. I hope I am wrong.
...If RedHat wants XEN in the [Linux] Kernel, they can put it in there themselves or they could pay someone to do it...or they could fork the Kernel. I have failed to see what is preventing RedHat from putting XEN in there. So right ahead RedHat. Go!
> Ok except consider the following: If your developing for Windows, the JetSQLengine will be built in. For small databases that will always run on windows, Access is good enough. Add the fact that you can distribute the end app as a single exe, or an exe and a few custom DLLS, and MS access means no external dependencies.
Not to mention the fact that in the Linux world, nothing comes close to Access as a [programmable] frontend. When you need to add business logic to a database, Access does a pretty good job. Kexi, while promising, does not cut it yet...and phpMyAdmin is worse...Navicat is not so bad but still does not cut it. as the saying goes.
Are the creators of this technology saying that we shall at some point in future, have to send patients into space in order for them to have surgery? How expensive! To me, the whole project sounds ludicrous.
Terrorists will simply adapt the Al-Qaida way. That is, horse-back or any primitive means. The FBI seems to think that terrorists are stupid. This is way we have failed to capture Bin Laden even after spending close to $1.3 billion in efforts to find him.
If one writes about possible rains or a harvest or even congratulates somebody for fathering a child, yet the actual meaning behind this is a facilitation of terrorist activity, this is very dangerous. This is the Al-Qaida way. We as Americans cannot succeed in such an environment.
That is why for example, IEDs are exploding daily, killing and maiming our GIs despite the fact that Baghdad was "combed" by coalition forces. To me, this is a wasted effort by the FBI. They should devise more effective means to deliver.
...in my case, I have found that the total disk space consumed by Windows 2000 patches is bigger than the original Windows 2000 install itself! To make matters worse, I am now very low on disk space. I console myself by the fact that disk drives are cheaper nowadays. Whether these patches actually work as advertised is an open question, but I have my doubts though. All I see are a bunch of Hot Fix entries and nothing more.
NEC and Panasonic can think of shipping these phones because geeks cannot easily assemble these phones from legacy parts. If this ever becomes possible, NEC and Panasonic will jump ship on the effort, just like other OEMs in the computer world. That's one of the reasons why it's very hard to find a Linux-ready and loaded notebook.
To me, OpenOffice.org is fine except for its beauty. It's just plain ugly on Linux systems! How can one make it a pleasure to look at just like SUN's StarOffice or OpenOffice are on Windows systems?
...as long as they employ open standards which would guard against vendor lock-in. If M$ were involved in any way, I'd be very worried, but Novell, no problem. If Novell tried any monkey tricks, that will automatically generate bad publicity. I am sure Novell does not like this.
...if I were anywhere near that location. Mine is an IBM with a 36Mhz processor and 1MB of RAM, bought 1981 and I recently installed MS-DOS 5.0 onto it. I was not easy as it could not read most of my floppies. It takes 19 seconds to boot and had a 12" green monitor.
"...The stem cells to be transplanted in the brain aren't human embryonic stem cells, which are derived from days-old embryos. Instead, the cells are immature neural cells that are destined to turn into the mature cells that makeup a fully formed brain."
I have issue with this statement. The question is: -
Is it possible to make "human matter" from non-human matter? I doubt. With this kind of reasoning, I am beginning to doubt whether we as a human race actually understand when life begins. Again, using this kind of reasoning, a scientist could argue that sperm(s) cannot be anything human since these immature neural cells are not human matter at all anyway. But we all know that sperm(s) help form what is known as human beings today.
If Bill Gates is so angry, let him attempt the E^3. That is, E mbrace, E xtend and finally E xtinguish, on all non-conforming entities. After all, he still has loads of cash to spend.
...the fact that it can be used to push realtime currency and stock data to remote computer networks and devices. As a full-time currency speculator, I can trade realtime just like the guy on the New York trading floor. The last time I did this was when I an on "holiday" in East Africa. All made possible because of java. In this field, PHP is of no use.
The Zend announcement of a technology to rival.NET and java might change the picture though.
I wish they made the Linux version's icons look more like those of StarOffice on Windows. I find those of OpenOffice.org huge and not that pleasant to look at. Plus, the text lokks blurry...why?
These Russians have years of experience in the field. Heck, they had MIR for 15 years. That is, 3 times the time it was intendd to last. Sad that we as Americans can only sit and observe at least for now. Even aftr pumping billions into our space program, I will not be suuprised if things just do not work for us.
Could the same paradigm be extended to the browser and browser standards? I mean, just like Massachusetts kind of stood its ground on document formats, it goes an extra mile and does something similar with the browser.
This would be very beneficial since every web page would look the *same* and act the same regardless of the browser use to view it.
>"...noted that the software uses information already available from public sources and the images displayed are about one to two years old, not shown in real time."
Guys, emphasis is mine, but where else can I get this already available information to the public apart from a service similar to what Google offers? I do not know of any!
I am a mathematics teacher and in my class, only foreign born students see the value of education and put efforts at learning. Even those from impoverished economies in Africa do better when compared to my American students. Meanwhile, in another class at my school, our American [educational] system is producing pretty confident students, but who cannot deliver in the real world.
As me what they are confident at: Gameboys, iPODs and PS2s. Sad indeed.
We have a theory though:
At our school, we think that American students are growing up with too many distractions and marketing to kids by companies wishing to expand profits is not helping our efforts at all.
The other thing is hip-hop. You have these fellows bragging about how they dropped out of school, but now own limos.
Then you have the "race to the bottom" with low paying jobs (read Wal-Mart), to the extent that to be in the middle class now, as a family, there MUST be at least 2 income earners. Studies show that it was not like that in the fifties.
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Why? Because there exists no proof that all parties involved in market share tracking can agree on. I will not be surprised if anoher party comes up and says something to the effect..."not so fast Firefox..."
Well, I hope you do not think fonts in OpenOffice.org are generally better looking than their Windows counterparts, do you? In my previous installation, these fonts looked blurry, huge and ugly. I guess I should have broadened the scope of my premise to include the general look and feel of OpenOffice .org. This is fact: This application looks better on Windows than on Linux. Now you tell me it does not.
Guys, we need to have an attractive desktop by default in order to make the user experience at least more appealing. In one installation of Ubuntu, I had to tweak the X.org conf file in order to have it display these fonts correctly! And believe me...it took more than 4 hours to get right! Who would have that time in the "real" world?
Before I leave, I should mention that I have my doubts as to whether browser applications like Firefox and Konqueror will work out of the box.
After all, even for Google, which is seen to support open standards and Linux, had to be asked to provide support to Firefox and Konqueror when it came to Google Maps. For companies like Yahoo, their Launchcast service is not available for folks using Linux and Firefox or Konqueror. This is after more than 5 years of [Launchcast's availability. These are sad times indeed. I hope I am wrong.
...If RedHat wants XEN in the [Linux] Kernel, they can put it in there themselves or they could pay someone to do it...or they could fork the Kernel. I have failed to see what is preventing RedHat from putting XEN in there. So right ahead RedHat. Go!
In the Windows world, Access is not a database; it's the [programmable] frontend to the "Jet Engine" database. Now you know.
Not to mention the fact that in the Linux world, nothing comes close to Access as a [programmable] frontend. When you need to add business logic to a database, Access does a pretty good job. Kexi, while promising, does not cut it yet...and phpMyAdmin is worse...Navicat is not so bad but still does not cut it. as the saying goes.
Are the creators of this technology saying that we shall at some point in future, have to send patients into space in order for them to have surgery? How expensive! To me, the whole project sounds ludicrous.
If one writes about possible rains or a harvest or even congratulates somebody for fathering a child, yet the actual meaning behind this is a facilitation of terrorist activity, this is very dangerous. This is the Al-Qaida way. We as Americans cannot succeed in such an environment.
That is why for example, IEDs are exploding daily, killing and maiming our GIs despite the fact that Baghdad was "combed" by coalition forces. To me, this is a wasted effort by the FBI. They should devise more effective means to deliver.
...in my case, I have found that the total disk space consumed by Windows 2000 patches is bigger than the original Windows 2000 install itself! To make matters worse, I am now very low on disk space. I console myself by the fact that disk drives are cheaper nowadays. Whether these patches actually work as advertised is an open question, but I have my doubts though. All I see are a bunch of Hot Fix entries and nothing more.
NEC and Panasonic can think of shipping these phones because geeks cannot easily assemble these phones from legacy parts. If this ever becomes possible, NEC and Panasonic will jump ship on the effort, just like other OEMs in the computer world. That's one of the reasons why it's very hard to find a Linux-ready and loaded notebook.
To me, OpenOffice.org is fine except for its beauty. It's just plain ugly on Linux systems! How can one make it a pleasure to look at just like SUN's StarOffice or OpenOffice are on Windows systems?
File a patent to this invention - fast! Otherwise someone may do it making you lose money big time.
...as long as they employ open standards which would guard against vendor lock-in. If M$ were involved in any way, I'd be very worried, but Novell, no problem. If Novell tried any monkey tricks, that will automatically generate bad publicity. I am sure Novell does not like this.
But I am a young man myself...a 35 year old male!
I have issue with this statement. The question is: -
Is it possible to make "human matter" from non-human matter? I doubt. With this kind of reasoning, I am beginning to doubt whether we as a human race actually understand when life begins. Again, using this kind of reasoning, a scientist could argue that sperm(s) cannot be anything human since these immature neural cells are not human matter at all anyway. But we all know that sperm(s) help form what is known as human beings today.
If Bill Gates is so angry, let him attempt the E^3. That is, E mbrace, E xtend and finally E xtinguish, on all non-conforming entities. After all, he still has loads of cash to spend.
The Zend announcement of a technology to rival .NET and java might change the picture though.
I wish they made the Linux version's icons look more like those of StarOffice on Windows. I find those of OpenOffice.org huge and not that pleasant to look at. Plus, the text lokks blurry...why?
These Russians have years of experience in the field. Heck, they had MIR for 15 years. That is, 3 times the time it was intendd to last. Sad that we as Americans can only sit and observe at least for now. Even aftr pumping billions into our space program, I will not be suuprised if things just do not work for us.
This would be very beneficial since every web page would look the *same* and act the same regardless of the browser use to view it.
What about that?
Guys, emphasis is mine, but where else can I get this already available information to the public apart from a service similar to what Google offers? I do not know of any!
As me what they are confident at: Gameboys, iPODs and PS2s. Sad indeed.
We have a theory though:
At our school, we think that American students are growing up with too many distractions and marketing to kids by companies wishing to expand profits is not helping our efforts at all.
The other thing is hip-hop. You have these fellows bragging about how they dropped out of school, but now own limos.
Then you have the "race to the bottom" with low paying jobs (read Wal-Mart), to the extent that to be in the middle class now, as a family, there MUST be at least 2 income earners. Studies show that it was not like that in the fifties.
Guys, I think it's time to avoid non home made products. May be companies like HP will learn a thing or two. I am I asking for too much?
Time to fork Innobase right? Programmers, are you listening?