From the name I assume (I know nothing about the service) it acts as a "dead man switch". That means that you have to always do something (while alive) to let it know that you are alive. Maybe log on periodically to a given website etc. Of course, that means that you can't afford a long vacation, an extended coma or jail time where you don't have internet access...
Reading an article means making a copy of the content on the retina. This may infringe on someone's copyright. It's just safer to avoid such potentially illegal activities.
I don't drive. I've only ever been passenger... I'd surely trust a computer more than most people I have ridden with. People who have been driving for a long time, seem to feel secure while driving, and don't realize how often they don't pay attention to what's happening on the road, (admonishing the children, drinking the coffee and taking pains so it doesn't spill, getting really involved with what's going on on the radio, talking on the cell-phone, with the passengers, or just plain daydreamnig... and let's not forget accelerating from unsane distances from the intersection because the light just turned yellow, and God forbid we wouldn't want to get there when it was red). I'd really feel safer with a computer behind the weel than one of those loonies. That's why I don't ride along with other people if I can avoid it, and go everywhere I can biking or walking. I don't think I'd be any safer than the average crazy driver (yes all drivers are crazy:) ).
Google's best shot is through Firefox... with the integrated google search and google "I Feel Lucky" feature in the addressbar, if it was promoted enough and became a common browser, then yes it could have a chance. But by the time IE does transparent searches using MSsearch, the Monopoly effect will be felt by Google, regardless of their possible technological superiority.
I believe it is not so much about how long MS has been around, but rather how long since it was not a feisty upstart anymore. By 1986 it would have been considered a well established company, and not a feisty upstart.
Ditto on that. Equation editing and graphics handling (as well as master document arrangement for largis things like theses) are the big seller for me.
My supervisors both use MS Word and I must say that I have not problems exchanging docs with them... as long as I remember that I cannot use the builting "Caption" feature for images.
This little problem I work around by using an auto text which inserts a "Figure " followed by a counter for the figures in a paragraph style called FigureCaption that is preceded by a paragraph of style Figure... this "Figure" paragraph style is set so that it will not be separated from the next paragraph... so the caption will always follow the figure. It is best then to anchor the image as character. This is not a limitaion, however, since I have noticed that MS Word can only add Image counters and captions for images that are inserted inline with text anyways. My only grip is that the counter does not seem to be saved nor retrieved from.doc format files which are necessary to exchange files with my supervisors.
Also, I love the context menu in OO.o. You can do so much so easily from them. Particularly form image anchoring, etc. It's just a breeze, and way better than the clumsy image dialogue-based only interface in MS Word. As a rule I prefer the way things are done in OO.o.
I also love the fact that you can include dimensions in the drawing format of OO.o, and that you can set the physical scale of the drawing, and change the units displayed by dimensions in a given style. That is sooo cool. The only suggestion I would have with respect to dimensions is the addition of angular dimension, and leader type dimensions for circles, where they would not be defined by 2 points but by pointing to a circle. More sophisticated object snaps to endpoints, intersections and center of objects would also bring it very close to an actual 2D CAD drawing package. I've been using it for just that, and if I ever find some time to write a macro to this effect I will. With some time.
My main grudge is that it is not as simple to switch themes as let's say Mozilla. Using KDE, Gnome, and Mozilla, I have come to realize how important the seemingly trivial ability to change and create themes can be for the vitality of a program.
But Gnome is way more responsive on a Pentium II with 64MB of memory. There is quite a difference between Gnome 2.4 (although I realize I may be a bit behind with it) and KDE 3.3.
In any event, I can never decide which one I prefer. When I have the resources I install both, and switch depending on my mood and application need.
The features that I need the most are
1. a good equation editor,
2. good management (and ease of placement) of many images
3. good management of large compound documents.
MS Office offers none of those but OpenOffice does. All other features that I use, are equivalent in both. The only one that I am aware of that many people want and OpenOffice does not have is the grammar check. What other features does MS Office have that OpenOffice does not? I'm serious, I really don't know that it offers anything else that I might find useful in everyday work. Although Excel does have better charting capabilities than OpenOffice, I moved away from spreadsheet graphing back in the days when I was still using MS Office because I found it exceedingly limited for scientific plots (gnumeric's charting is going in the right direction, though, although there is still much to be done).
My move away from MS Office was more of a liberating experience, away from the frustration of trying to get those damned figures to behave the way I wanted them to. I'm only reminded of those days when my supervisor asks me for some help because is in the middle of one such fight.
Of course, I'll admit that OpenOffice could do with a Mozilla style Theme manager. The day we get the theme diversity in OpenOffice that we do in FireFox will be a great day indeed.
A lot of people say that and to be honest I never understood. I moved away from spreadsheet graphing back in the days when I was still using Excel. The graphs never worked the way I needed them to. At first I went for Grapher, and later to gnuplot. Batch graphing is way more useful.
Reformatting 100+ graphs by changing a single file when your supervisor thinks that the graphs should look like "this" instead... o, no, let's make it "this" now... beats any other approach. Of course, when I have a bit of free time, I work on an OpenOffice macro to handle gnuplot calls transparently so that drawing a graph ends up being as easy as in Excel. I'll post it on sourceforge when I'm done... probably after I'm done with my thesis and have serious time to work on it, say in 6 to 9 months from now.
I was wondering how they could know they would necessarily be the world's first commercial spaceflights? Although Rutan's ship has already made the flight and will almost undoubtedly take the X-prize there is another X-prize team who should soon be spaceworthy and have long been talking of turning their exploit into a commercial venture. I'm talking of the Canadian Arrow team who have, at the same time as they were getting their rocket ready for lauch been busy building a private astronaut training center, and they've also been thinking about space diving. There are also other X-prize teams looking for commercialization of space, although I don't know how close those are to launch.
Although Virgin's vehicle will be the first out there, the business itself will undoubtedly take some time to launch. They might actually be beaten to the commercial punch by other teams which have been working on the business plan of putting people in space for a profit for a while now.
Nope, I'm just saying that we should criticize their slogan based on the unfounded reasons given in their code of conduct. The feeling that I had reading the posts was that people were saying that Google was violating it's code of conduct. What I was trying to point out, improperly because I'm worth nothing at explaining myself, was that what we should criticize is their code of conduct (that they did respect) but does not include any freedom of speech clause.
I agree that given the function of Google, in order to boast a slogan like "Don't do evil" their code of conduct should include it. I was only trying to comment on the fact that they actually did not violate their code of conduct... it's just that their code of conduct does not match their slogan. They should definitely rethink their slogan.
Sorry about the misunderstanding
Technically, if their motto is based on respecting the principles expressed in the page you pointed at, then "not doing evil" involves "VII. Obeying the Law". Nowhere in that code of conduct do they imply that doing no evil involves some great principles and the protection of the freedom of speech.
So although their definition of doing no evil may not represent our individual impression of what it should be, they are at least consistent with their published definition. Our criticism of their slogan should not come from what their position on complying with chinese restrictions, but from their definition of doing no evil as represented in their code of conduct. I don't think they have breached their code of conduct as it is stated there (of course I didn't read it in detail, but from quickly peeking at it, it involves more fiscal responsibility and protection of privacy than freedom of speech related topics).
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Yeah, but in orbit you only have to worry about radiated heat loss. You probably lose wayyyyy more heat by condution. That's why you drop things into water to cool them faster even than in air. The same goes for air versus vacuum. At least we won't depend on a shuttle to service it... though we'll need brave doggies to pull the sleighs all the way there.
Hi there,
I was wondering if anybody knows how this engine compares with other OSS stuff like the CrystalSpace and particularly the VegaStrike engine. VegaStrike has the advantage of having a game already built using it. But I don't know anything about the interfaces of these toolkits and the capabilities such a bumpmapping and the like. I'd really like to hear from someone with the ability to compare the programming interfaces and features.
Yeah, but they won't be "tenants" but the real owners of the building. Each will bring a few bricks or a bag of cement to participate in the collective construction. And everybody will be allowed to add extensions and new wings to the building.
It will be a pleasant mix of the gothic cathedral, and more than a little sprinkling of the mauresque bazaar. And let's not forget a little touch of the IKEA mansion.
I believe that it does actually. I believe that a lot depends on the web site you are downloading from. Not all servers suppor "resume downloads". But on a few occasions I found out that the download resumed. I believe that Firefox adds an extension (I don't remember what exactly, ".incomple" or something else) to the end of the file so that it knows that it wasn't over. But of course, it all depends on the protocol for the download (http or FTP etc.). If you can check the filename in the download folder of a long download you probably can find out what this extension is, and change it for a file that had started downloading (and been interrupted) from a file where the protocol made Firefox unable to know if the download had been completed when the connection was broken (and the extension is removed from the file).
Most of this is an impression that I got from past observations. I didn't do a systematic test on the topic... just noticed that sometimes it DID resume downloads.
After second season. That season was very bad with the obvious mutants on the loose and all. The last episode finished on a cliffhanger that should have lead to the third season. But I guess by then the ratings were low enough that it didn't happen.
But however bad the show was, I still diligently watched just because of her.
Yup Jessica Alba is there. I used to watch Dark Angel, not because the show was great (they had starting material to make something good, but it got cheezy pretty soon) but she always rocked. You can definitely sign me up for this one, and I don't even care if the movie stinks.
Electronic forgery, and fraud is even easier than actually replicating a physical object, as any slashdotter would know. If you really want to make fraud more difficult, you have to go to metallic coins. That takes a substantial infrastructure investment that cuts down substantially on possible profits from forgery, thus making it a much less interesting avenue. Let's go back to metallic coins NOW. Long live the good old days, Yeah
We should just revert back to using metallic coin. It sure requires more sophisticated equipment to replicate coins... makes it harder to falsify, and of course, when your wallet is set on fire you still have your cash.:)
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Actually, since they are resting on legs and not directly on the ground you could have a design like an inverted wing, with a longer path under the building than on top, and thus pushing the building down during high winds, rather than up like the little wings they have at the back of race cars. With proper design as a function of the location we might be pleasantly suprised.
Who wants to get a project started with simulations of such conditions? We might make a SlashDot home design center and all.
When used in everyday speech, yes it is indeed improper and even offensive to use those terms. There is, however poetic license and in songs and poems that is another matter.
It is very common then to use those terms for "manly" and "feminine", at least in Mexico (see Ay Jalisco! among many, but also in many flamenco songs from Spain (none comes to mind right now by I definitely remember having heard "esa hembra gitana" among others). In those cases, the term "hembra" is used in a most definitely non-pejorative way.
However, outside of the song lyrics and the poetic realm, or when talking about the sex of newborn babies (where the terms "varón" and "hembra" are used for male and female) it will be improperly used just about everywhere, as far as I know.
Actually Spanish is very much the same from country to country. What changes is slang, not only from country to country but from region to region in a given countries. The proper words for things will never get you in trouble anywhere, but beware of the euphemisms and other slang, hehehe.
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From the name I assume (I know nothing about the service) it acts as a "dead man switch". That means that you have to always do something (while alive) to let it know that you are alive. Maybe log on periodically to a given website etc. Of course, that means that you can't afford a long vacation, an extended coma or jail time where you don't have internet access...
Reading an article means making a copy of the content on the retina. This may infringe on someone's copyright. It's just safer to avoid such potentially illegal activities.
Then instead of "Sun Microsystems" we'd get "Sun Ecosystems"
This idea I like.
I don't drive. I've only ever been passenger... I'd surely trust a computer more than most people I have ridden with. People who have been driving for a long time, seem to feel secure while driving, and don't realize how often they don't pay attention to what's happening on the road, (admonishing the children, drinking the coffee and taking pains so it doesn't spill, getting really involved with what's going on on the radio, talking on the cell-phone, with the passengers, or just plain daydreamnig... and let's not forget accelerating from unsane distances from the intersection because the light just turned yellow, and God forbid we wouldn't want to get there when it was red). I'd really feel safer with a computer behind the weel than one of those loonies. That's why I don't ride along with other people if I can avoid it, and go everywhere I can biking or walking. I don't think I'd be any safer than the average crazy driver (yes all drivers are crazy :) ).
Google's best shot is through Firefox... with the integrated google search and google "I Feel Lucky" feature in the addressbar, if it was promoted enough and became a common browser, then yes it could have a chance. But by the time IE does transparent searches using MSsearch, the Monopoly effect will be felt by Google, regardless of their possible technological superiority.
I believe it is not so much about how long MS has been around, but rather how long since it was not a feisty upstart anymore. By 1986 it would have been considered a well established company, and not a feisty upstart.
Ditto on that. Equation editing and graphics handling (as well as master document arrangement for largis things like theses) are the big seller for me. My supervisors both use MS Word and I must say that I have not problems exchanging docs with them... as long as I remember that I cannot use the builting "Caption" feature for images. This little problem I work around by using an auto text which inserts a "Figure " followed by a counter for the figures in a paragraph style called FigureCaption that is preceded by a paragraph of style Figure... this "Figure" paragraph style is set so that it will not be separated from the next paragraph... so the caption will always follow the figure. It is best then to anchor the image as character. This is not a limitaion, however, since I have noticed that MS Word can only add Image counters and captions for images that are inserted inline with text anyways. My only grip is that the counter does not seem to be saved nor retrieved from .doc format files which are necessary to exchange files with my supervisors.
Also, I love the context menu in OO.o. You can do so much so easily from them. Particularly form image anchoring, etc. It's just a breeze, and way better than the clumsy image dialogue-based only interface in MS Word. As a rule I prefer the way things are done in OO.o.
I also love the fact that you can include dimensions in the drawing format of OO.o, and that you can set the physical scale of the drawing, and change the units displayed by dimensions in a given style. That is sooo cool. The only suggestion I would have with respect to dimensions is the addition of angular dimension, and leader type dimensions for circles, where they would not be defined by 2 points but by pointing to a circle. More sophisticated object snaps to endpoints, intersections and center of objects would also bring it very close to an actual 2D CAD drawing package. I've been using it for just that, and if I ever find some time to write a macro to this effect I will. With some time.
My main grudge is that it is not as simple to switch themes as let's say Mozilla. Using KDE, Gnome, and Mozilla, I have come to realize how important the seemingly trivial ability to change and create themes can be for the vitality of a program.
But Gnome is way more responsive on a Pentium II with 64MB of memory. There is quite a difference between Gnome 2.4 (although I realize I may be a bit behind with it) and KDE 3.3. In any event, I can never decide which one I prefer. When I have the resources I install both, and switch depending on my mood and application need.
The features that I need the most are
1. a good equation editor,
2. good management (and ease of placement) of many images
3. good management of large compound documents.
MS Office offers none of those but OpenOffice does. All other features that I use, are equivalent in both. The only one that I am aware of that many people want and OpenOffice does not have is the grammar check. What other features does MS Office have that OpenOffice does not? I'm serious, I really don't know that it offers anything else that I might find useful in everyday work. Although Excel does have better charting capabilities than OpenOffice, I moved away from spreadsheet graphing back in the days when I was still using MS Office because I found it exceedingly limited for scientific plots (gnumeric's charting is going in the right direction, though, although there is still much to be done).
My move away from MS Office was more of a liberating experience, away from the frustration of trying to get those damned figures to behave the way I wanted them to. I'm only reminded of those days when my supervisor asks me for some help because is in the middle of one such fight.
Of course, I'll admit that OpenOffice could do with a Mozilla style Theme manager. The day we get the theme diversity in OpenOffice that we do in FireFox will be a great day indeed.
A lot of people say that and to be honest I never understood. I moved away from spreadsheet graphing back in the days when I was still using Excel. The graphs never worked the way I needed them to. At first I went for Grapher, and later to gnuplot. Batch graphing is way more useful.
Reformatting 100+ graphs by changing a single file when your supervisor thinks that the graphs should look like "this" instead... o, no, let's make it "this" now... beats any other approach. Of course, when I have a bit of free time, I work on an OpenOffice macro to handle gnuplot calls transparently so that drawing a graph ends up being as easy as in Excel. I'll post it on sourceforge when I'm done... probably after I'm done with my thesis and have serious time to work on it, say in 6 to 9 months from now.
commercial space flight?
I was wondering how they could know they would necessarily be the world's first commercial spaceflights? Although Rutan's ship has already made the flight and will almost undoubtedly take the X-prize there is another X-prize team who should soon be spaceworthy and have long been talking of turning their exploit into a commercial venture. I'm talking of the Canadian Arrow team who have, at the same time as they were getting their rocket ready for lauch been busy building a private astronaut training center, and they've also been thinking about space diving. There are also other X-prize teams looking for commercialization of space, although I don't know how close those are to launch.
Although Virgin's vehicle will be the first out there, the business itself will undoubtedly take some time to launch. They might actually be beaten to the commercial punch by other teams which have been working on the business plan of putting people in space for a profit for a while now.
Nope, I'm just saying that we should criticize their slogan based on the unfounded reasons given in their code of conduct. The feeling that I had reading the posts was that people were saying that Google was violating it's code of conduct. What I was trying to point out, improperly because I'm worth nothing at explaining myself, was that what we should criticize is their code of conduct (that they did respect) but does not include any freedom of speech clause.
I agree that given the function of Google, in order to boast a slogan like "Don't do evil" their code of conduct should include it. I was only trying to comment on the fact that they actually did not violate their code of conduct... it's just that their code of conduct does not match their slogan. They should definitely rethink their slogan.
Sorry about the misunderstanding
Technically, if their motto is based on respecting the principles expressed in the page you pointed at, then "not doing evil" involves "VII. Obeying the Law". Nowhere in that code of conduct do they imply that doing no evil involves some great principles and the protection of the freedom of speech.
So although their definition of doing no evil may not represent our individual impression of what it should be, they are at least consistent with their published definition. Our criticism of their slogan should not come from what their position on complying with chinese restrictions, but from their definition of doing no evil as represented in their code of conduct. I don't think they have breached their code of conduct as it is stated there (of course I didn't read it in detail, but from quickly peeking at it, it involves more fiscal responsibility and protection of privacy than freedom of speech related topics).
Yeah, but in orbit you only have to worry about radiated heat loss. You probably lose wayyyyy more heat by condution. That's why you drop things into water to cool them faster even than in air. The same goes for air versus vacuum. At least we won't depend on a shuttle to service it... though we'll need brave doggies to pull the sleighs all the way there.
Hi there, I was wondering if anybody knows how this engine compares with other OSS stuff like the CrystalSpace and particularly the VegaStrike engine. VegaStrike has the advantage of having a game already built using it. But I don't know anything about the interfaces of these toolkits and the capabilities such a bumpmapping and the like. I'd really like to hear from someone with the ability to compare the programming interfaces and features.
Yeah, but they won't be "tenants" but the real owners of the building. Each will bring a few bricks or a bag of cement to participate in the collective construction. And everybody will be allowed to add extensions and new wings to the building. It will be a pleasant mix of the gothic cathedral, and more than a little sprinkling of the mauresque bazaar. And let's not forget a little touch of the IKEA mansion.
I believe that it does actually. I believe that a lot depends on the web site you are downloading from. Not all servers suppor "resume downloads". But on a few occasions I found out that the download resumed. I believe that Firefox adds an extension (I don't remember what exactly, ".incomple" or something else) to the end of the file so that it knows that it wasn't over. But of course, it all depends on the protocol for the download (http or FTP etc.). If you can check the filename in the download folder of a long download you probably can find out what this extension is, and change it for a file that had started downloading (and been interrupted) from a file where the protocol made Firefox unable to know if the download had been completed when the connection was broken (and the extension is removed from the file). Most of this is an impression that I got from past observations. I didn't do a systematic test on the topic... just noticed that sometimes it DID resume downloads.
After second season. That season was very bad with the obvious mutants on the loose and all. The last episode finished on a cliffhanger that should have lead to the third season. But I guess by then the ratings were low enough that it didn't happen. But however bad the show was, I still diligently watched just because of her.
Yup Jessica Alba is there. I used to watch Dark Angel, not because the show was great (they had starting material to make something good, but it got cheezy pretty soon) but she always rocked. You can definitely sign me up for this one, and I don't even care if the movie stinks.
Electronic forgery, and fraud is even easier than actually replicating a physical object, as any slashdotter would know. If you really want to make fraud more difficult, you have to go to metallic coins. That takes a substantial infrastructure investment that cuts down substantially on possible profits from forgery, thus making it a much less interesting avenue. Let's go back to metallic coins NOW. Long live the good old days, Yeah
We should just revert back to using metallic coin. It sure requires more sophisticated equipment to replicate coins... makes it harder to falsify, and of course, when your wallet is set on fire you still have your cash. :)
Actually, since they are resting on legs and not directly on the ground you could have a design like an inverted wing, with a longer path under the building than on top, and thus pushing the building down during high winds, rather than up like the little wings they have at the back of race cars. With proper design as a function of the location we might be pleasantly suprised. Who wants to get a project started with simulations of such conditions? We might make a SlashDot home design center and all.
When used in everyday speech, yes it is indeed improper and even offensive to use those terms. There is, however poetic license and in songs and poems that is another matter. It is very common then to use those terms for "manly" and "feminine", at least in Mexico (see Ay Jalisco! among many, but also in many flamenco songs from Spain (none comes to mind right now by I definitely remember having heard "esa hembra gitana" among others). In those cases, the term "hembra" is used in a most definitely non-pejorative way. However, outside of the song lyrics and the poetic realm, or when talking about the sex of newborn babies (where the terms "varón" and "hembra" are used for male and female) it will be improperly used just about everywhere, as far as I know.
Actually Spanish is very much the same from country to country. What changes is slang, not only from country to country but from region to region in a given countries. The proper words for things will never get you in trouble anywhere, but beware of the euphemisms and other slang, hehehe.