> As far as compatibility goes otherwise, I haven't noticed any difference in the look of my slides as I switch between PowerPoint and Impress. The only thing that is keeping the new 2.0 version of Impress from matching PowerPoint is the lack of slide backgrounds and clip art that really are essential to making a good presentation. Background designs and clip art used to make a PowerPoint slideshow do, however, open in Impress without problems. That said, I still prefer PowerPoint for making professional-looking presentations because of all the predefined design backgrounds and clip art.
Folks, I hope I am not forgetting my English...but can anyone say there is anything compatibility in the above quote? If there is, I do not see it!
Because I wonder what we as Americans can ever do *right*. From being whipped in Iraq, out sourcing that's out of hand, border problems and immigration, the [huge] deficit, the soaring health-care costs within a system that is broken, what can I say? Please, can some American tell me what we as Americans can ever do right?
We can learn a little from our European friends. The port of Rotterdam's entire loading and off loading of containers plus tracking is operated 100% by robots. There is no human soul on the tarmac! None! Even the trucks seem to understand traffic rules on the piers...and everything just goes smoothly. I guess we can learn from them. USA has become a technology importer and not an exporter. All in all, I am not surprised. Only the chimp can save us it he/it decides to put priority in investing in America.
Desktop Linux will still be a long way off until applications can be installed and un-installed in an easy way. I know folks are going to mention apt-get and its sister dpkg tools. But these are not very useful unless one can configure them and is also on the internet. With the rich resources of the OSS community, one wonders why rpm dependency hell has no adopted solution. Autopackage http://www.autopackage.org/ would be a good start but all major distros are not even giving it support! From a developer's point of view, writing an application for Linux means testing the application on no more than 6 distros! In some cases, I have seen more than 17 binaries for the same applications targeting different Linux distros. In the Windows world, there could be just 1 or 2. So it follows that if we in the Linux world can make life easier for developers, then that is positive. Our egos alone will not deliver. I think we need some kind of dictatrship here.
The other thing Desktop Linux needs is good fonts. I am yet to find a desktop Linux installation that is beautiful out of the box. Often times, one has to download M$ fonts or could use the script found here: http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/webFonts4Linux/webFonts. sh to get good fonts for the web.
Next thing is multimedia and multimedia applications. Totem in the GNOME world and Amarok in the KDE world will not play mp3s out of the box, yet there are no licensing restrictions on these formats! These are so many other examples in the multimedia field.
There is a bug/feature I found in Linux that needs attention in relation to how devices are mounted. Remember that we in the Linux world are aiming at domination. So we should attract as many users as we can. The bug is here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111173. I was surprised that there was a wontfix mentioned. So how are we to attract users if there will always be confusion in how devices are mounted?
Last but not least, we need publicity - good publicity. Right now, Linux is being touted as very good or good enough for the average user. What happens is that folks then have to understand that Linux is just a KERNEL and that there are many implementations associated with this kernel. To many, understanding this is a challenge. So one says "I use Linux at home, it's freely available on the net...try it out..." (and they leave it at that)! What follows is confusion as newbies find tons of distros and incompatible packages. Folks what do you think?
While I see your point, I find that what is even more interesting is the fact that this is one statistic we in the USA can be proud of. I believe we are in the lead here. I know that very soon, several countries will catch up and pass us just like all the other statistics have shown. Until that happens, I can claim bragging rights. Let's watch China, South Korea, Sweden, Japan, Finland, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Suppose a terrorist simply types phony emails simply to lead authorities into "dead ends" thus wasting time and resources?
Suppose another terrorist, knowing that an email is likely to be intercepted, decides to write false information using "stolen" identity?
Let this be known: Terrorists are not stupid. Heck, they even managed to smuggle or manufacture weapons under our noses in Iraq! Remember that we have more than 100,000 eyes over there. This month's loss of 14 marines in just one blast was a real shock! The marines were using a reinforced tank - one of the best in our entire fleet. This expensive machine was no match for the explosive they used.
They could even engineer a DDoS attack. The possibilities are endless. The best way to avoid all the problems is to figure out why a person would hate us so much to the extent of sacrificing their life. To me, this is simple. Let's just mind our own business and leave others to mind their own.
>...bemused by any notion that Linux is poorly supported in the enterprise since he has never had any trouble finding support for De Bortoli's open-source systems'
In today's world, it isn't the truth that matters. What people perceive as the truth is what matters. I will give a few examples.
When I was young, I thought Africans are black because of the "intense heat" on their continent. As such, I'd think twice before visiting. How wrong I was! There are places on the continent that are cooler than my own country...whose temperatures never go beyond 28 degrees celcius. And there are rivers formed by snow! Who knew that? In fact, the hottest places on the continent do not have black people. There, you find Arabs.
I also thought that America was the best place to be, and that there was no suffering. How wrong I was. There is corruption in the USA too. Sometimes I think it is more than that of a banana republic.
One computer based example would be that Linux is hard! It took me some time to figure out that Linux is just another way of doing things in the computer world. So I am not surprised about this. Monkey Boy is exploiting this and to some expent, he's been successful.
....and that is, not a lot of he US is "wired" appropriately to receive this kind of service. Though dial-up is good enough for rural America, I doubt anyone can simply dial in just to get information on the service through google maps!
How has redundancy been implemented? Have these bright people considered a fact that a Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attack could potentially be fatal to a soul on the surgery table?
What they (politicians) forget, is that the real terrorists use very old fashioned means to deliver their messages. I guess in Afghanistan, it would be via horse-back with an encrypted message talking about the "next season" whereas the actual message is a "delivery of chemicals." Heck, these guys (terrorists) are not stupid.
It makes me wonder why we as the most advanced and technologically superior country, have failed to capture Osama bin Laden yet yet continues to direct operations against us 4 years later and US$350 billion spent and counting.
What happens to logical reasoning when one gets to the White House?
M$ will do something similar, very fast. Of late, I have noted that M$ has been playing "catch-up" on several fronts. Google could be in trouble since M$ is bigger and more present than Google in many markets. But I also know that being bigger does not necessarily mean better or even relevant.
Is there any nomenclature in the particular way these worms/viruses are given names? In windows, *.exe files are executable, *.sys files are system files. In Unix, *.conf files are configuration files. I have heard of Backdoor.Nibu.N and we now have Zotob.A. Is there a way to know more information on a virus by the format of its name?
You forgot to add that the so called ice age is a theory. What about this?
In the beginning, God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the garden of Eden...and the story goes on. In the beginning to the present day, no mention is made of the ice age - anywhere. Now that's strange.
[President] Bush refused to commit to an agreement reducing green-house gases because he wanted to "protect" American jobs. So what happens? USA continues to pollute! The results of pollution can be seen in the increase of skin cancers and asthma in America especially children. Others say that Louisiana, which appears to be sinking is also a victim of global warming.
That aside, one wonders what presidents eat when they get into the White House. How can one protect American jobs while exporting our entire industrial base with the so called out-sourcing?
While I welcome the goals of the executive from HP, I just beg him to have more patience. The two companies he mentions will [soon] discover that their licences are not managing to have them cut it. I do not know of any company that has done what a rival has wanted it to. Otherwise SUN would have released java under the GPL long ago.
By the way, the executive would have taken this chance to announce that HP has placed all its software under the GPL that he seems to worship. Of course he didn't. Why? Because HP is afraid of taking that very important first step. What happened to "leading by example?"
Now, I know and confirm that it's always about the money. Even when a company like Sony or any other says that they are helping consumers, behind it is the profit motive. Folks, the inconsiderate desire for money is the root of all evil.
For Sony, life must be worth living, for even when costs sky-rocket and profits dwindle as its traditional money sector is invaded, they still hang on.
...It's not coded using the GTK API... How amusing...so you are now inferring that Firefox is codded using the GTK API? Come on, listen to yourself.
Let me inform you: Firefox is codded using XUL - period. But at building, support for GTK can be made...just like any other application. Hope you get it now.
While I appreciate Infoworld's piece, I wonder whether anyone relevant is listening. My boss for example will not even take a look. He says, M$ products have been doing fine for him for more than a decade and can still do more for another few years.
Question is: Are the people who matter reading these kinds of reports?
You know why I say your reasoning is flawed? Here is why:
So when one uses QtCurve to make a native KDE application look like a GTK one that makes the KDE app a GTK application and vice versa?
Now I conclude you write no code at all - You shuldn't anyway. Please google QtCurve and convince me that what it does is converting a KDE app into a GTK app and vice versa depending on results.
> And I always find myself running GTK apps, like Firefox, GAIM, X-chat, Evolution/Thunderbird, the list goes on.
Since when has Firefox been a GTK application? Just because it can be built with GTK support (and sometimes is), does not make it a GTK application. So meny apps can be built with GTK support but this does not make them GTK apps. Got it?
I wrote that comment but I agree that it depends on the user. Everything is relative,. I will just mention some problems I find with KDE.
=>> I cannot have my devices mounted and unmounted on the fly in KDE without some form of hack!
=>> Getting my fonts correct without manually editing the configuration file of X11 is not possible. Before you draw conclusions on this one, keep in mind that to get my fonts the way I need them, I must tell the system my monitor size manually. KDE is always picking the wrong one.
=>> Konqueror has all these tool-bars by default! Why? They eat up my real estate.
...Just one thing and that is KDE! You may take this as a troll but as things stand now KDE offers a better Desktop Experience and with KDE 4.0 along the way with its superkaramba and improved performance, that experience can only get better. You have my compliments DesktopBSD.
The DesktopBSD pot would be better if they adopted autopackage so that all those packages can be fully portable.
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> As far as compatibility goes otherwise, I haven't noticed any difference in the look of my slides as I switch between PowerPoint and Impress. The only thing that is keeping the new 2.0 version of Impress from matching PowerPoint is the lack of slide backgrounds and clip art that really are essential to making a good presentation. Background designs and clip art used to make a PowerPoint slideshow do, however, open in Impress without problems. That said, I still prefer PowerPoint for making professional-looking presentations because of all the predefined design backgrounds and clip art.
Folks, I hope I am not forgetting my English...but can anyone say there is anything compatibility in the above quote? If there is, I do not see it!
Because I wonder what we as Americans can ever do *right*. From being whipped in Iraq, out sourcing that's out of hand, border problems and immigration, the [huge] deficit, the soaring health-care costs within a system that is broken, what can I say? Please, can some American tell me what we as Americans can ever do right?
We can learn a little from our European friends. The port of Rotterdam's entire loading and off loading of containers plus tracking is operated 100% by robots. There is no human soul on the tarmac! None! Even the trucks seem to understand traffic rules on the piers...and everything just goes smoothly. I guess we can learn from them. USA has become a technology importer and not an exporter. All in all, I am not surprised. Only the chimp can save us it he/it decides to put priority in investing in America.
The other thing Desktop Linux needs is good fonts. I am yet to find a desktop Linux installation that is beautiful out of the box. Often times, one has to download M$ fonts or could use the script found here: http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/webFonts4Linux/webFonts. sh to get good fonts for the web.
Next thing is multimedia and multimedia applications. Totem in the GNOME world and Amarok in the KDE world will not play mp3s out of the box, yet there are no licensing restrictions on these formats! These are so many other examples in the multimedia field.
There is a bug/feature I found in Linux that needs attention in relation to how devices are mounted. Remember that we in the Linux world are aiming at domination. So we should attract as many users as we can. The bug is here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111173. I was surprised that there was a wontfix mentioned. So how are we to attract users if there will always be confusion in how devices are mounted?
Last but not least, we need publicity - good publicity. Right now, Linux is being touted as very good or good enough for the average user. What happens is that folks then have to understand that Linux is just a KERNEL and that there are many implementations associated with this kernel. To many, understanding this is a challenge. So one says "I use Linux at home, it's freely available on the net...try it out..." (and they leave it at that)! What follows is confusion as newbies find tons of distros and incompatible packages. Folks what do you think?
While I see your point, I find that what is even more interesting is the fact that this is one statistic we in the USA can be proud of. I believe we are in the lead here. I know that very soon, several countries will catch up and pass us just like all the other statistics have shown. Until that happens, I can claim bragging rights. Let's watch China, South Korea, Sweden, Japan, Finland, the United Kingdom and Germany.
...To call it a shuttle is almost a misgnomer... misgnomer or misnomer? Otherwise I see your point.
You are right! My apologies. Do you agree with my point?
Suppose another terrorist, knowing that an email is likely to be intercepted, decides to write false information using "stolen" identity?
Let this be known: Terrorists are not stupid. Heck, they even managed to smuggle or manufacture weapons under our noses in Iraq! Remember that we have more than 100,000 eyes over there. This month's loss of 14 marines in just one blast was a real shock! The marines were using a reinforced tank - one of the best in our entire fleet. This expensive machine was no match for the explosive they used.
They could even engineer a DDoS attack. The possibilities are endless. The best way to avoid all the problems is to figure out why a person would hate us so much to the extent of sacrificing their life. To me, this is simple. Let's just mind our own business and leave others to mind their own.
In today's world, it isn't the truth that matters. What people perceive as the truth is what matters. I will give a few examples.
When I was young, I thought Africans are black because of the "intense heat" on their continent. As such, I'd think twice before visiting. How wrong I was! There are places on the continent that are cooler than my own country...whose temperatures never go beyond 28 degrees celcius. And there are rivers formed by snow! Who knew that? In fact, the hottest places on the continent do not have black people. There, you find Arabs.
I also thought that America was the best place to be, and that there was no suffering. How wrong I was. There is corruption in the USA too. Sometimes I think it is more than that of a banana republic.
One computer based example would be that Linux is hard! It took me some time to figure out that Linux is just another way of doing things in the computer world. So I am not surprised about this. Monkey Boy is exploiting this and to some expent, he's been successful.
....and that is, not a lot of he US is "wired" appropriately to receive this kind of service. Though dial-up is good enough for rural America, I doubt anyone can simply dial in just to get information on the service through google maps!
How has redundancy been implemented? Have these bright people considered a fact that a Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attack could potentially be fatal to a soul on the surgery table?
It makes me wonder why we as the most advanced and technologically superior country, have failed to capture Osama bin Laden yet yet continues to direct operations against us 4 years later and US$350 billion spent and counting.
What happens to logical reasoning when one gets to the White House?
M$ will do something similar, very fast. Of late, I have noted that M$ has been playing "catch-up" on several fronts. Google could be in trouble since M$ is bigger and more present than Google in many markets. But I also know that being bigger does not necessarily mean better or even relevant.
Is there any nomenclature in the particular way these worms/viruses are given names? In windows, *.exe files are executable, *.sys files are system files. In Unix, *.conf files are configuration files. I have heard of Backdoor.Nibu.N and we now have Zotob.A. Is there a way to know more information on a virus by the format of its name?
There are individuals sentenced to [jail] terms far exceeding the time they are expected to be alive.
Does the state keep their bodies once they die in jail in order to meet the terms of the sentence?
In the beginning, God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the garden of Eden...and the story goes on. In the beginning to the present day, no mention is made of the ice age - anywhere. Now that's strange.
That aside, one wonders what presidents eat when they get into the White House. How can one protect American jobs while exporting our entire industrial base with the so called out-sourcing?
PS: I am speaking as an American.
Where can one grab the Mac OSX torrents? I need to try this out.
By the way, the executive would have taken this chance to announce that HP has placed all its software under the GPL that he seems to worship. Of course he didn't. Why? Because HP is afraid of taking that very important first step. What happened to "leading by example?"
For Sony, life must be worth living, for even when costs sky-rocket and profits dwindle as its traditional money sector is invaded, they still hang on.
Question is: For how long?
Let me inform you: Firefox is codded using XUL - period. But at building, support for GTK can be made...just like any other application. Hope you get it now.
Question is: Are the people who matter reading these kinds of reports?
So when one uses QtCurve to make a native KDE application look like a GTK one that makes the KDE app a GTK application and vice versa?
Now I conclude you write no code at all - You shuldn't anyway. Please google QtCurve and convince me that what it does is converting a KDE app into a GTK app and vice versa depending on results.
Take a look at http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5 065
and look at those posted images. Once you are satisfied with yourself, tell me what you think is going on.
Since when has Firefox been a GTK application? Just because it can be built with GTK support (and sometimes is), does not make it a GTK application. So meny apps can be built with GTK support but this does not make them GTK apps. Got it?
I wrote that comment but I agree that it depends on the user. Everything is relative,. I will just mention some problems I find with KDE.
=>> I cannot have my devices mounted and unmounted on the fly in KDE without some form of hack!
=>> Getting my fonts correct without manually editing the configuration file of X11 is not possible. Before you draw conclusions on this one, keep in mind that to get my fonts the way I need them, I must tell the system my monitor size manually. KDE is always picking the wrong one.
=>> Konqueror has all these tool-bars by default! Why? They eat up my real estate.
The DesktopBSD pot would be better if they adopted autopackage so that all those packages can be fully portable.