I use Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and think they are the best Linux distributions but come on!
These are code words for "don't mod me down as flamebait."
Well, I don't know if it would have any affect at the house outlets. Think of a car -- the contacts on the battery get yucky, but you never see that at the terminals in a car.
Anyway, it's nothing that can't be fixed with a little baking soda once a month.
That looks more like syntactic sugar to me. How is that different? More importantly, how would that translate differently into assembler code? You pretty much will wind up with the same thing, that is: "do your thang, increment the accumulator, if the accumulator equals the count, jump to do your thang."
gcc and other compilers have options such as -funroll-loops, which will unroll loops (no matter how they were specified) for you if the count can be determined at compile time. So you wind up with "Do your thang, do your thang, do your thang, do your thang... Do your thang". You get the idea.
no videogame (no matter how passive or violent) that is played for 8 hours a day 7 days a week can really be good for a person (the same can be said for television, movies, comic books, novels, etc.).
Hey, when I was a kid, I played PacMan just about 24/7. I've had no ill effects...
Wacka, wacka, wacka, wacka, wacka, wacka, HEY! Energizer! Run you ghosts!
Apple clearly limited the product to 100 songs on purpose. Whether or not they wanted to "sabotage" the MP3 phone market is another issue, but clearly the decision to limit the ROKR to 100 songs was a result of Apple's greed and stupidity.
I think Apple was looking to establish itself in other markets outside of the PC-enthusiast market, and figured their meal ticket was the ROKR. But they didn't want the ROKR or similar MP3 phones to compete directly with their iPods, so they purposely limited the first high-profile MP3 phone, the ROKR, to 100 songs so that people would get the idea that MP3 phones are okay, but you need an iPod if you're a *real* music enthusiast.
But the product bombed due this limitation, and it didn't work out. An example of greed and stupidity at its finest.
Seriously, Apple doesn't deserve a free pass here. Most companies in the computer business have been afflicted by greed and stupidity at one time or another, and Apple is no exception.
1. Hemos, I find your sarcasm disappointing. There are quite a few factions when it comes to different religions, and you've just compared two related, yet completely different religions to one another. i.e. It's about the same as if you mentioned that Chrisitians are bemused by Mormons. The two religions don't think of one another as "correct" even though one builds on the other. The only difference is that the Jewish and Christian faiths tend to be much more amicable toward one another.
The Jewish and Christian faiths may, in fact, be different religions, but they are not inseparable. Like it or not, Jesus was an Essene Jew. This is an historical fact. His message was intended for the Jewish people. He worked and lived His life according to the Torah, the Jewish Law. Almost the entire Christian Bible (yes, including the New Testament, with the exception of Paul's letters) was written down by Jewish people who were practicing what they viewed as the Jewish faith.
2. The Vatican embraced the evolutionary theory several years ago under Pope John Paul III. Opponents like to point out that the Vatican also accepted a geocentric view of the Universe. As a result, only devote Catholics take the Vatican seriously on matters of science.
John Paul II. There is no John Paul III. Additionally, why should anyone listen to the Vatican or to Rabbinical Counsel or to the Hare Krishna or to the Most High Pastafarian Pirate Priest, for that matter, on matters of science. Those folks' area of expertise is on matters of religion. You surely wouldn't care about what Professor Stephen Hawking had to say about whether or not the Gospel of Thomas should be included in the Bible, now would you?
4. Save your flames. This is intended as an informational post only, and I probably won't respond to any replies. Don't like it? Too bad. Find some objectivity.
That may be true, but the interesting thing to note is that a certain young man by the name of Thomas Alva Edison tried over 3,000 different theories since about 1878 before inventing the incandescent light bulb in 1879.
Actually, cutting and pasting a block of text within Calc 2.0 happens instantaneously for me. Also cutting and pasting a block of text from OOo Writer to OOo Calc 2.0 happens instantaneously for me. Cutting and pasting your post from Firefox to OOo Writer 2.0 happens instantaneously. What took time for me was cutting and pasting your post from Firefox to OOo Calc 2.0. That took closer to 3-5 seconds. Not sure if that's a 'bug' or not, though, because Calc has features such that if tabular data is sitting in the clipboard from other applications, it will format it into multiple cells automatically. Copying a smaller chunk of text (like a single number) , was near-instantaneous. I think probably that code is a bit slow. But the amount of times I copy and paste from a web browser to a Calc is quite negilibigle, so I can live with it.
Accessibility for OpenOffice.org on Windows is provided via the Java Access Bridge. So any screen readers, etc., on Windows would need to use that API. On Linux, OOo is compliant with the GNOME Accessibility API and therefore is supported by the Gnopernicusscreen reader app.
SBC/AT&T announced they were looking to acquire the SCO Group and Lucent Technologies. Judge Greene's rotting corpse is reported to have been purchased by the local electric company, who announced it would be used for electric power generation it was spinning so fast, for an undisclosed sum
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On what platform/hardware/etc., though?
I've found the OOo runs much quicker on my Linux box than it does on Windows running on the same box. As for how much memory it consumes, well, the thing about that is that while Calc uses much more memory than Excel, when you load 'Calc', despite appearances, you are in fact loading almost the ENTIRE office suite into memory, including the word processor, database front end and presentation graphics application. There is not much different architecurally between OOo and the older StarOffice 5.x -- they've just gotten better at hiding the fact that you need to load the entire office suite to load one application.
So a truer comparison would involve starting Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access, watching how much this entire toolset takes up in memory, and then load the Excel and Calc files and see the difference.
Seriously though, why would someone subscribe to this service? Its not like computers are overly expensive anymorew and there is a fairly broad base of expertise to draw upon nowadays for system admin services.
Ever manage a grid before? I have. Once you get beyond a few machines and start running enough jobs to fully utilize all that hardware, management becomes a non-trivial task.
Some companies may want to utilize a grid, say for rendering, but they don't have the IT resources to manage such a system. Especially if their rendering needs aren't so great that they need a grid system full-time -- think small CGI studios or architectural firms that use visualization -- they won't be able to afford the IT resources to manage such a system, either.
That's why there exist service bureaus that have large rendering farms available for hire. Only many of them charge much less than $1/cpu-hour.
Define a P2P network. The typical definition revolves around the idea that all nodes are both client and server. I could easily make an argument that the Internet itself is a peer-to-peer network (and it would be true). Most modern LANs are essentially peer-to-peer in nature.
Now define an anonymous peer-to-peer network. One that uses some different routing rules to try to disguise which hosts are requesting what? Hey, doesn't that sound familiar? The use spoofing and zombies and whatnot to disguise where an attacker is coming from? Oh yes, that's the Internet, too.
They can try to pass such laws, but the fact remains that these networks will continue to exist because 1) they will become to widespread to stop, and 2) such a law could easily be eaten for lunch by an enterprising barrister.
If I give you code, I can't stop you from giving other people the code.
I can modify the code I give you, but I must display prominent notices for each file in the code I change that I changed it, I must offer the code to you under the terms of the GPL, and most importantly, my program must display an appropriate copyright notice and a notification that the program is available under the terms of the GPL.
From TFA:
The other programs and drivers included are old versions of some popular open source, freeware and shareware products without licenses, documentation or even credit to their authors...
Furthermore, the offer for the source code needs to be available to any third party (you need not have purchased DR-DOS to get it), plus they can charge for no more than their cost of physically distributing the source (i.e., $1-2 for burning a CD-ROM and $1-2 or so to mail it). The offer they have seems to imply that you need to get a price quote -- I'm guess a they're not gonna quote you $4-5 for the cost of the open source utilities.
"Compatible with MP3 players from Apple, Dell, Creative, etc." would be good enough for accessories that aren't iPod-specific. Which is probably most of what's available.
Let's start off with the fact that they aren't likely to associate the.sx? extensions with Office, even if they do implement it. They're likely to break the schema somehow, and there most definitely will be warnings when you go to save the document that formatting could be lost, just like there are with other filters.
Exactly. Yeah, I suppose that pigs could fly, too, if they had wings.
Read between the lines very carefully. What Nick Tsilas says is:
Andy, this is not accurate. I think what we have said is that features are dictated by customer demand and, until the Massachusetts-related activity occurred, Open Document was not even on our radar screens.
Yep. OpenDocument is not even on their radar screens. Nope. Never heard of it before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts wanted it.
Puh-lease. Does he think we're all stupid?
Microsoft may or may not support it. More likely not. But I agree with you. What difference would it make?
Actually, what they are requiring is that people who auction things on eBay by consignment get an auctioneers license.
So the transaction is actually between the seller and the stand-in auctioneer, not between the seller and the buyer.
Still, I don't see where consignment auctioneers should have to be licensed as auctioneers. Like or not, they are STILL not running the auction, eBay is.
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I use Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and think they are the best Linux distributions but come on! These are code words for "don't mod me down as flamebait."
Well, I don't know if it would have any affect at the house outlets. Think of a car -- the contacts on the battery get yucky, but you never see that at the terminals in a car.
Anyway, it's nothing that can't be fixed with a little baking soda once a month.
That looks more like syntactic sugar to me. How is that different? More importantly, how would that translate differently into assembler code? You pretty much will wind up with the same thing, that is: "do your thang, increment the accumulator, if the accumulator equals the count, jump to do your thang."
... Do your thang". You get the idea.
gcc and other compilers have options such as -funroll-loops, which will unroll loops (no matter how they were specified) for you if the count can be determined at compile time. So you wind up with "Do your thang, do your thang, do your thang, do your thang
no videogame (no matter how passive or violent) that is played for 8 hours a day 7 days a week can really be good for a person (the same can be said for television, movies, comic books, novels, etc.).
Hey, when I was a kid, I played PacMan just about 24/7. I've had no ill effects...
Wacka, wacka, wacka, wacka, wacka, wacka, HEY! Energizer! Run you ghosts!
Apple clearly limited the product to 100 songs on purpose. Whether or not they wanted to "sabotage" the MP3 phone market is another issue, but clearly the decision to limit the ROKR to 100 songs was a result of Apple's greed and stupidity. I think Apple was looking to establish itself in other markets outside of the PC-enthusiast market, and figured their meal ticket was the ROKR. But they didn't want the ROKR or similar MP3 phones to compete directly with their iPods, so they purposely limited the first high-profile MP3 phone, the ROKR, to 100 songs so that people would get the idea that MP3 phones are okay, but you need an iPod if you're a *real* music enthusiast. But the product bombed due this limitation, and it didn't work out. An example of greed and stupidity at its finest. Seriously, Apple doesn't deserve a free pass here. Most companies in the computer business have been afflicted by greed and stupidity at one time or another, and Apple is no exception.
The Jewish and Christian faiths may, in fact, be different religions, but they are not inseparable. Like it or not, Jesus was an Essene Jew. This is an historical fact. His message was intended for the Jewish people. He worked and lived His life according to the Torah, the Jewish Law. Almost the entire Christian Bible (yes, including the New Testament, with the exception of Paul's letters) was written down by Jewish people who were practicing what they viewed as the Jewish faith.
John Paul II. There is no John Paul III. Additionally, why should anyone listen to the Vatican or to Rabbinical Counsel or to the Hare Krishna or to the Most High Pastafarian Pirate Priest, for that matter, on matters of science. Those folks' area of expertise is on matters of religion. You surely wouldn't care about what Professor Stephen Hawking had to say about whether or not the Gospel of Thomas should be included in the Bible, now would you?
I did. See my response to point 2.
That may be true, but the interesting thing to note is that a certain young man by the name of Thomas Alva Edison tried over 3,000 different theories since about 1878 before inventing the incandescent light bulb in 1879.
Netcraft confirms it: SCO is dying!
No, the parent is right. You can declare the variable in the for loop, but only if you are using the C99 standard.
The following compiles just fine without errors or warnings with gcc -std=c99
include <stdio.h>
int main() {
for (int i=0; i < 10; i++) {
printf("%d\n",i);
}
return 0;
}
Actually, cutting and pasting a block of text within Calc 2.0 happens instantaneously for me. Also cutting and pasting a block of text from OOo Writer to OOo Calc 2.0 happens instantaneously for me. Cutting and pasting your post from Firefox to OOo Writer 2.0 happens instantaneously. What took time for me was cutting and pasting your post from Firefox to OOo Calc 2.0. That took closer to 3-5 seconds. Not sure if that's a 'bug' or not, though, because Calc has features such that if tabular data is sitting in the clipboard from other applications, it will format it into multiple cells automatically. Copying a smaller chunk of text (like a single number) , was near-instantaneous. I think probably that code is a bit slow. But the amount of times I copy and paste from a web browser to a Calc is quite negilibigle, so I can live with it.
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SBC/AT&T announced they were looking to acquire the SCO Group and Lucent Technologies. Judge Greene's rotting corpse is reported to have been purchased by the local electric company, who announced it would be used for electric power generation it was spinning so fast, for an undisclosed sum
I've found the OOo runs much quicker on my Linux box than it does on Windows running on the same box. As for how much memory it consumes, well, the thing about that is that while Calc uses much more memory than Excel, when you load 'Calc', despite appearances, you are in fact loading almost the ENTIRE office suite into memory, including the word processor, database front end and presentation graphics application. There is not much different architecurally between OOo and the older StarOffice 5.x -- they've just gotten better at hiding the fact that you need to load the entire office suite to load one application.
So a truer comparison would involve starting Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access, watching how much this entire toolset takes up in memory, and then load the Excel and Calc files and see the difference.
Ever manage a grid before? I have. Once you get beyond a few machines and start running enough jobs to fully utilize all that hardware, management becomes a non-trivial task.
Some companies may want to utilize a grid, say for rendering, but they don't have the IT resources to manage such a system. Especially if their rendering needs aren't so great that they need a grid system full-time -- think small CGI studios or architectural firms that use visualization -- they won't be able to afford the IT resources to manage such a system, either.
That's why there exist service bureaus that have large rendering farms available for hire. Only many of them charge much less than $1/cpu-hour.
Now define an anonymous peer-to-peer network. One that uses some different routing rules to try to disguise which hosts are requesting what? Hey, doesn't that sound familiar? The use spoofing and zombies and whatnot to disguise where an attacker is coming from? Oh yes, that's the Internet, too.
They can try to pass such laws, but the fact remains that these networks will continue to exist because 1) they will become to widespread to stop, and 2) such a law could easily be eaten for lunch by an enterprising barrister.
Real DB developers use a hex editor ... ;)
- If I give you binaries, I have to give you code.
- If I give you code, I can't stop you from giving other people the code.
- I can modify the code I give you, but I must display prominent notices for each file in the code I change that I changed it, I must offer the code to you under the terms of the GPL, and most importantly, my program must display an appropriate copyright notice and a notification that the program is available under the terms of the GPL.
From TFA:Furthermore, the offer for the source code needs to be available to any third party (you need not have purchased DR-DOS to get it), plus they can charge for no more than their cost of physically distributing the source (i.e., $1-2 for burning a CD-ROM and $1-2 or so to mail it). The offer they have seems to imply that you need to get a price quote -- I'm guess a they're not gonna quote you $4-5 for the cost of the open source utilities.
Worse. The volatility isn't as bad as many think, however. Probably no worse than gasoline, really.
Probably had something to do with this. People have a strange aversion to being exploded.
How does LDAP and BitTorrent improve anything? LDAP still requires a degree of centralization.
"Compatible with MP3 players from Apple, Dell, Creative, etc." would be good enough for accessories that aren't iPod-specific. Which is probably most of what's available.
Let's start off with the fact that they aren't likely to associate the .sx? extensions with Office, even if they do implement it. They're likely to break the schema somehow, and there most definitely will be warnings when you go to save the document that formatting could be lost, just like there are with other filters.
Read between the lines very carefully. What Nick Tsilas says is:
Yep. OpenDocument is not even on their radar screens. Nope. Never heard of it before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts wanted it.
Puh-lease. Does he think we're all stupid?
Microsoft may or may not support it. More likely not. But I agree with you. What difference would it make?
Actually, what they are requiring is that people who auction things on eBay by consignment get an auctioneers license. So the transaction is actually between the seller and the stand-in auctioneer, not between the seller and the buyer. Still, I don't see where consignment auctioneers should have to be licensed as auctioneers. Like or not, they are STILL not running the auction, eBay is.