SWEET! I never heard of that before. Guess I should search SourceForge more often. Looks like it offers not only a Qt-based GUI, but also includes command line tools. IMHO, that gives it an edge over OOo 3.x because it makes batch editing possible without having to learn OOo's obtuse API. Thanks!
The linux drivers for nvidia suck too, nvidia clearly take a long time to get up to speed on new operating systems, it's one reason I no longer use them. Having said that, they're pretty damn solid, so its most likely becuase vistas so mucked up when it comes to drivers. Well, from my experience (not trolling), but they historically have sucked somewhat less than the ATI drivers, which have been known to cause freezes when switching to a console, etc., due to bugs in the driver, firmware, AMD processors (ironically enough), various chipsets and all sorts of things.
The problem is that in the race to produce the biggest, baddest, fastest, video cards for gamers, ATI/AMD and NVIDIA have often overlooked stability for performance. I don't know about you, but I'd gladly trade off a couple of FPS for a card that was rock solid stable.
Star Trek V? Didn't the numbering go 1, 2, 3, 4, 6? You must be joking about this "5" thing. No. Do you really believe that, or is that just wishful thinking?;)
I don't use it every day anymore. I used to. But my wife does. I keep my e-mail for a long time and build up a big mailbox, and found that Evolution was very slow and unreliable in handling large mailboxes. Other than that, I used it for 2 years as an outlook replacement in a corporate environment. Worked great.
Yeah, for that matter, we should just go back to using transparencies and overhead projectors. REAL professionals don't embed video or audio or anything in their presentations either. Just an outline. Why, back in my day, we just wrote on big sheets of paper with a marker!
Looks like (with the 3D effeects) that they've taken a (nice) leaf out of the iWorks book. Cool! Ummm...more like Keynote took a leaf out of Impress' book.
You see, OpenGL support was once present in StarOffice, but was removed due to problems with the newer OOo code.
Note the difference between Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader is one of several PDF readers available on Linux, along with evince, KPDF, xpdf, etc. Acrobat lets you create and modify PDFs. Right now, OOo only lets you create PDFs -- modifying them is currently not possible.
Right. All you people going "about time" "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" didn't even read the summary. The deal is with BitTorrent, Inc. and probably has nothing to do with ALL bittorrent traffic, just the stuff Comcast is doing with video.
BIG HINT: This is probably why they started throttling bittorrent traffic to begin with.
Home connections still have fairly poor upstream compared to their downstream... Either you didn't at least hover over my link, or you actually have no idea that Verizon FiOS offers the same speed up and down. And that's not all -- all the telcos (included AT&T) are in the process of developing, deploying and testing this same tech[1].
[1] This knowledge comes from unofficial sources inside of AT&T
It kinda boggles my mind that this got modded 'insightful'. I dunno, but something tells me you might want to ask this guy. He's even managed to hide all his posts!
Who said anything about leaving your own IP? Duh, go for the low-hanging fruit! Do you have any idea how many home users running various insecure, unprotected versions of Windows there are out there?
Fatter pipes are bigger targets to would-be evildoers, as it gives them more bandwidth with which to carry out their nefarious deeds. That makes a rooted.edu box almost as important a component of Dr. Evil In Trainings' arsenal as a hollowed out volcano island. At one time that was true. Not anymore. Haven't you heard? Fat pipes are cheap and increasingly common these days.
Well, these guys aren't the only ones. Of course, this controversy has been raging for quite sometime over cordless phones, radios, microwaves and other devices that make use of low-level radiation. I doubt that this low-level radiation is causing any sort of severe problems in most people, especially considering that we're constantly being exposed to low levels of background radiation, and higher levels of radiation from the Sun.
1) Pirates is a dramatization, and a poorly-written, highly inaccurate one. Hardly scholarly material.
2) Why did kellyb9 get modded down for his/her comment about Pirates? Stupid iMods? The comment in true and insightfully shows how stupid, poorly-written and inaccruate that Pirates is.
3) Stuff I have read/watched/listened to that is scholarly, including the aforementioned Triumph of the Nerds, one or more unauthorized biographies of Bill Gates, and some of the original periodicals from the day all say the opposite is true -- people ripped off Gates' code, he didn't rip off anybody elses.
4) I haven't seen Revolution OS (yet! can't wait for my DVD to arrive -- thanks!) but from what I saw on their website, I'd have to say that any material about Bill Gates in the movie is likely to be just a wee bit biased, don'tchathink? Gates did make unauthorized use of Harvard's computing facility to write Altair BASIC.
One key difference is that Apple and Google's products have always been best-of-breed, while Microsoft has always been the lowest-common-denominator. That's just not true. I hate Microsoft as much as the next Linux-using geek, but... Excel was always well ahead of its closest competitors. So far ahead that for a few years it was considered by many to be one of the best reasons to get a Mac, ironically enough. Microsoft's development tools were considered second to none in the DOS days and are still the easily amongst the best tools to use on Windows -- so much so that other, competing development tools have done a great job of imitating them (think Eclipse).
Apple's corporate goals don't appear to include even TRYING to gain a majority of the market share. Sure they are. And they might just succeed, as long as Microsoft keeps making the same stupid mistakes.
Their phone only competes in the "smart" market which is 1% of the total market; their computers have no low-end offerings whatsoever; the iPods, despite having some of the best margins in the industry, are consistently undercut on price-per-feature. Their phone seeks to pull cell phone users from the 'standard' cellphone market into the smart phone fold by being the easiest to use; Apple has the iMac and the Mac Mini, both of which are low-end offerings; iPods might be consistently undercut on price-per-feature, but they still sell more than all of their closest competitors.
Bill Gates bought DOS from another programmer, and for BASIC took a large amount of publically accessible code from the homebrew club, and decided he would put a copyright on it since no one else had bothered. You're right on DOS, but BASIC? Um, no. Try again. Bill Gates was the first guy to shove a fully-functional BASIC interpreter into 4K. And FAT? It wasn't developed for MS-DOS or Q-DOS (or CP/M). It was developed first for BASIC.
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SWEET! I never heard of that before. Guess I should search SourceForge more often. Looks like it offers not only a Qt-based GUI, but also includes command line tools. IMHO, that gives it an edge over OOo 3.x because it makes batch editing possible without having to learn OOo's obtuse API. Thanks!
The problem is that in the race to produce the biggest, baddest, fastest, video cards for gamers, ATI/AMD and NVIDIA have often overlooked stability for performance. I don't know about you, but I'd gladly trade off a couple of FPS for a card that was rock solid stable.
I don't use it every day anymore. I used to. But my wife does. I keep my e-mail for a long time and build up a big mailbox, and found that Evolution was very slow and unreliable in handling large mailboxes. Other than that, I used it for 2 years as an outlook replacement in a corporate environment. Worked great.
IIRC, there was very limited support for OpenGL transitions, but it was there.
OOo has had PDF export for quite some time -- since around v2.0 or so. GIMP's support for importing PDFs is limited to the images, I believe.
Yeah, for that matter, we should just go back to using transparencies and overhead projectors. REAL professionals don't embed video or audio or anything in their presentations either. Just an outline. Why, back in my day, we just wrote on big sheets of paper with a marker!
C'mon, don't be such a luddite.
You see, OpenGL support was once present in StarOffice, but was removed due to problems with the newer OOo code.
That already exists. It's called Evolution.
Note the difference between Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader is one of several PDF readers available on Linux, along with evince, KPDF, xpdf, etc. Acrobat lets you create and modify PDFs. Right now, OOo only lets you create PDFs -- modifying them is currently not possible.
I can't wait for that. PDF import will turn OpenOffice.org into a poor-man's Adobe Acrobat.
Right. All you people going "about time" "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" didn't even read the summary. The deal is with BitTorrent, Inc. and probably has nothing to do with ALL bittorrent traffic, just the stuff Comcast is doing with video.
BIG HINT: This is probably why they started throttling bittorrent traffic to begin with.
[1] This knowledge comes from unofficial sources inside of AT&T
pwned by local root exploit? Time to find the user who started the process and kill the user's account.
(pwned by remote root exploit in this case is just too bizarre to think about.)
And what if that fails to work? Will we have to reboot the world?
Who said anything about leaving your own IP? Duh, go for the low-hanging fruit! Do you have any idea how many home users running various insecure, unprotected versions of Windows there are out there?
What about the EM field that surrounds the Earth (which, if it weren't for that, there would be no 'life as we know it' on this planet)?
Well, these guys aren't the only ones. Of course, this controversy has been raging for quite sometime over cordless phones, radios, microwaves and other devices that make use of low-level radiation. I doubt that this low-level radiation is causing any sort of severe problems in most people, especially considering that we're constantly being exposed to low levels of background radiation, and higher levels of radiation from the Sun.
Now you do. Don't you feel better now?
^D
1) Pirates is a dramatization, and a poorly-written, highly inaccurate one. Hardly scholarly material.
2) Why did kellyb9 get modded down for his/her comment about Pirates? Stupid iMods? The comment in true and insightfully shows how stupid, poorly-written and inaccruate that Pirates is.
3) Stuff I have read/watched/listened to that is scholarly, including the aforementioned Triumph of the Nerds, one or more unauthorized biographies of Bill Gates, and some of the original periodicals from the day all say the opposite is true -- people ripped off Gates' code, he didn't rip off anybody elses.
4) I haven't seen Revolution OS (yet! can't wait for my DVD to arrive -- thanks!) but from what I saw on their website, I'd have to say that any material about Bill Gates in the movie is likely to be just a wee bit biased, don'tchathink? Gates did make unauthorized use of Harvard's computing facility to write Altair BASIC.