...several surprising developments, including OpenOffice's ability to open old Word documents that even the new Word versions were having troubles with...
This sums it up so well...
Actually, has anyone out there run into any issues with OpenOffice as a substitute for M$ Office? I'm considering switching everything over, especially after reading this article.
Um...I think you meant to say show some respect...
If you have a problem with this country save up and by a one-way ticket to somewhere else.
No. I think I'll stay here in MY country and work for change. I'm sure you and the rest of your neo-conservative fascist mouth-breathing ilk would love it if people with ideologies slightly different from yours just ran away, but sorry...we're not going to make it that easy for you.
To sum up, you are a moron. Log off before you hurt yourself.
Heck, try to stay overnight in a chain hotel in another state without a credit card. It ain't easy.
It's plenty easy...just tell the clerk you don't have your credit card on you, and ask if you can use your uncle Andy's, as you nonchalantly slide a twenty dollar bill across the counter to him.
I've found that Mr. Jackson's credit is good at a surprisingly large number of establishments.
I'm must [sic] amazed that it suddenly becomes evil because they add this extra bit to an already government mandated identification card.
Nice try, but no. Plenty of people were having problems with this before it was mandated...which may explain why they had to tack it onto an existing military spending bill to get it through Congress.
I know you're being ironic here(right?), but I still feel compelled to drive the point home by pointing out that Yusef Islam (the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens), was barred from entering the U.S. because his activities "could be potentially linked to terrorism".
I'm not sure I trust the judgement of a government that denied entry to the author of "Peace Train".
After all is said and done, I have to wonder if anyone from Redmond, Washington had any input towards HP's decision to offer Linux to the "3rd World" and exclude the U.S. (the richest Windows market) from it's[sic] Linux program. I would certainly like to believe not. Of course, we all love a good conspiracy theory now, don't we?
Wow...sounds like Gundeep Hora wrote this article with Slashdot specifically in mind...
Netscape browser needed several fixes hours after its release.
Netscape browser will not install unless IE is installed.
Installation of Netscape breaks IE.
Back in the day, I was a big Netscape fan, and I waas really hoping that this new release would bring them back as a player, but enough is enough, guys. Three strikes, and you are OUT.
One more thing... <zealot> Firefox rules...IE sucks...let's fight! </zealot>
No, you'll start getting random failures and erratic data loss.
Yes....exactly like a platter-based hard drive.
It won't just mysteriously stop working like a platter drive.
I've had plenty of conventional (read:platter-based) hard drives come acros my desk in various states of failure. Symptoms of impending HDD failure, platter or flash, are the same...random failures and erratic data loss. There's nothing 'mysterious' about it, either, provided you have the proper tools and experience.
However, it might be possible to have a flash RAM in your system that backs up the state of your memory every five seconds or so (or faster). Lose power, and when you boot up next, you've lost at most a few seconds of work.
There were systems built back in the day with static RAM (rather than dynamic RAM) used exclusively. Although fast, they were pricey, and still required a current to the memory to keep it alive.
I've never heard of a system built with flash RAM as its only memory...I'm guessing the combination of price, reduced performance, and utter pointlessness soured people on the idea.
Yeah, but maintenance is a bitch. You have to keep fresh blood flowing through the thing all the time, or it just stops working. Honestly...they're even more touchy than AMD CPUs.
Also, if you don't defrag regularly, they go insane.
Again, please refer to this paper about flash technology in HDD applications. The document is a bit lengthy, but the conclusion is that today's flash technology allows for enough erase/write cycles to make them more than viable for HDD use.
Here's a great paper about flash technology in HDD applications. The document is a bit lengthy, but the conclusion is that today's flash technology allows for enough erase/write cycles to make them more than viable for HDD use.
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Yikes...I do a lot of work with PP presentations...so that one might be a deal-breaker. Thanks for the info.
I've heard the same thing, but I have no idea of what constitutes a "power user".
From TFS:
This sums it up so well...
Actually, has anyone out there run into any issues with OpenOffice as a substitute for M$ Office? I'm considering switching everything over, especially after reading this article.
Your disgusting.
His disgusting what?
Grow up and get some respect.
Um...I think you meant to say show some respect...
If you have a problem with this country save up and by a one-way ticket to somewhere else.
No. I think I'll stay here in MY country and work for change. I'm sure you and the rest of your neo-conservative fascist mouth-breathing ilk would love it if people with ideologies slightly different from yours just ran away, but sorry...we're not going to make it that easy for you.
To sum up, you are a moron.
Log off before you hurt yourself.
People without hands or eyes generally make poor terrorists.
^_^
Heck, try to stay overnight in a chain hotel in another state without a credit card. It ain't easy.
It's plenty easy...just tell the clerk you don't have your credit card on you, and ask if you can use your uncle Andy's, as you nonchalantly slide a twenty dollar bill across the counter to him.
I've found that Mr. Jackson's credit is good at a surprisingly large number of establishments.
I'm must [sic] amazed that it suddenly becomes evil because they add this extra bit to an already government mandated identification card.
Nice try, but no. Plenty of people were having problems with this before it was mandated...which may explain why they had to tack it onto an existing military spending bill to get it through Congress.
I know you're being ironic here(right?), but I still feel compelled to drive the point home by pointing out that Yusef Islam (the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens), was barred from entering the U.S. because his activities "could be potentially linked to terrorism".
I'm not sure I trust the judgement of a government that denied entry to the author of "Peace Train".
I don't go to other countries.
My country's foreign policy makes such excursions a risky proposition.
If the Britons don't knuckle under, it's clear that they HATE OUR FREEDOM.
^_^
From TFA:
You're kidding, right? Interfering is what we do
^_^
From TFA:
Wow...sounds like Gundeep Hora wrote this article with Slashdot specifically in mind...
^_^
Back in the day, I was a big Netscape fan, and I waas really hoping that this new release would bring them back as a player, but enough is enough, guys. Three strikes, and you are OUT.
One more thing...
<zealot>
Firefox rules...IE sucks...let's fight!
</zealot>
^_^
Anyone here old enought to remember Death Race 2000? Remember why Frankenstein (David Carradine) wanted so badly to win the race?
^_^
No, you'll start getting random failures and erratic data loss.
Yes.... exactly like a platter-based hard drive.
It won't just mysteriously stop working like a platter drive.
I've had plenty of conventional (read:platter-based) hard drives come acros my desk in various states of failure. Symptoms of impending HDD failure, platter or flash, are the same...random failures and erratic data loss.
There's nothing 'mysterious' about it, either, provided you have the proper tools and experience.
I'll stop overusing white space when you stop overusing that 'Submit' button.
^_^
It's not fast enough...not by a long shot.
However, it might be possible to have a flash RAM in your system that backs up the state of your memory every five seconds or so (or faster). Lose power, and when you boot up next, you've lost at most a few seconds of work.
Heh...yeah, that is a big drive.
I missed that when I originally went through their website...thanks.
Mod parent up, please.
There were systems built back in the day with static RAM (rather than dynamic RAM) used exclusively. Although fast, they were pricey, and still required a current to the memory to keep it alive.
I've never heard of a system built with flash RAM as its only memory...I'm guessing the combination of price, reduced performance, and utter pointlessness soured people on the idea.
My computers have fans...they move rather vigorously.
Perhaps because they're informative?
Yeah, but maintenance is a bitch. You have to keep fresh blood flowing through the thing all the time, or it just stops working. Honestly...they're even more touchy than AMD CPUs.
Also, if you don't defrag regularly, they go insane.
Yes. Flash memory can only be written to a finite number of times, and your flash disk-drive will stop working at some point.
Exactly like platter-based disk drives.
Again, please refer to this paper about flash technology in HDD applications. The document is a bit lengthy, but the conclusion is that today's flash technology allows for enough erase/write cycles to make them more than viable for HDD use.
Here's a great paper about flash technology in HDD applications. The document is a bit lengthy, but the conclusion is that today's flash technology allows for enough erase/write cycles to make them more than viable for HDD use.