There have been people who have hacked debug/service modes on the console showing backwards compatibility tests on the current hardware. And there was a European version that had backwards compatibility via software emulation.
Is there any good reason to disable this and keep it from consumers paying big bucks for the hardware?
My daughter broke my first PS3, so I have purchased two of them. I like the hardware. I really do. But I feel Sony is holding out on me.
I generally don't respond to ACs, especially vulgar ones who troll.
If you are the same AC who said the other day I was proven wrong, I suppose I will address that since you think I'm dodging you.
I posted that OOo had features MS Office didn't.
Someone responded that MS Office can produce PDFs if you add third-party software. They responded that MS Office can produce ODF with third-party software. They didn't have a comeback for MS Office being expensive and OOo being free. They didn't have a comeback for OOo running native on Mac, Linux and Windows.
That is an important point. I work for a newspaper where Macs litter our newsroom. Right now the Mac Office edition is different from what they use on Windows. Our CEO/Publisher has been wanting to standardize on one version of Office, which is difficult. We have users with Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, and Mac Office 2004. This is a compatibility and usability issue.
So the person was only confirmed my argument with their response. You need third-party products to add in functionality that MS is missing. To boot, OOo is free, and runs the same on multiple-platforms.
So how was I proven wrong?
How about this. You log in, stop posting AC, and respond like a human being.
As for a technical crusade, I responded in this article defending Microsoft. I spend more time working on Windows systems than I do Linux systems with my current job. My would-be next job that I'm hopefully landing with Pay Pal would be all Windows work. I don't loathe Windows and Microsoft. I don't have a technical crusade.
You're fabricating lies.
Look, I've only used one handle since before I even had Internet access. I used this handle on BBSes. I don't hide who I am. I'm the only Enderandrew on the internet, and I don't post AC. I don't lie. And I don't duck responses.
The only person hiding, lying and ducking responses here are ACs like you.
I really wish Slashdot would just ban AC posting, but then you'd probably just jump around with several puppet accounts.
For the record, when I'm wrong, I admit it. Someone called me out today when I made a false statement (in this very thread I believe) when I said Microsoft has never sued over a patent (a claim I believe I heard Gates throw around). I forgot that no longer is true because Microsoft sued TomTom over FAT. I admitted I was wrong immediately. That's how I roll.
So are you man enough to post a response now admitting you are completely in the wrong here?
I doubt it.
And for the record, the primary reason I'm responding is that I'm anal-retentive enough to recognize posting styles. I've seen your repeated responses to me as an AC. I'm pretty sure I recognize you every time you post. You're not very anonymous.
So you're saying it is fair to try and price the iPhone without the dataplan, but you should compare it to a netbook that is being subsidized with a data plan?
What is especially troubling is the iPhone data plan is $30 a month, and you're suggesting the netbook with the $60 a month data plan is cheaper.
If you're the kind of gadget freak who is considering dropping $400 on an eReader, there is a decent chance you have an iPhone.
The iPhone has its faults, but one of the best aspects of the iPhone is that it replaces several other gadgets. It is one less thing to carry, charge, or worry about. It is also one less thing to purchase.
You're definitely going to carry a cell phone. Are you going to carry a Kindle?
I just installed the Stanza app on my iPhone, and I can pull all the classics from Project Gutenberg for free. And when the new Star Wars novels come out, my wife downloads them on her Kindle app on her iPhone. Paid content and free content both accessible via free apps on the iPhone, and no $400 reader required.
Perhaps there are some technical details I'm missing as I'm not a.NET developer. But I believe in principal that since the EU demanded that Microsoft work on interoperability, if Microsoft was sucking people into a patent trap here to sue them, that the EU would just jump all over them.
And while Microsoft has taken a number of anti-competitive measures, and assembled a wealthy patent portfolio, I'm not aware of a single case of Microsoft suing anyone over a patent yet. Though, Ballmer's threat that every business running Linux could be sued was a pretty shady tactic.
We could test this theory by trying to perform a Bing Bomb. Everyone post on every forum they can, on all their forums, on various pages they host, etc. a specific term.
Maybe, "What city has the highest Linux usage per capita" and Bing Bomb it to say Redmond.
I know what you wrote was parody, but I do want to make it clear that Microsoft made a patent pledge to the EU to avoid more massive fines. Part of that pledge is not to sue for anything Mono related. Microsoft has made repeated public statements that Mono owns all Mono code, and that Microsoft will never sue over Mono touching on.NET patents.
If Microsoft tried suing over Mono patents, the DoJ and EU would be all over them.
If we supposedly hate FUD, then lets not resort to FUD tactics ourselves.
Word doesn't render exactly the same way all the time, which is precisely why there are programs like Acrobat and In Design.
Furthermore, people sending Word 2007 documents to Word 2003 users is problematic.
OO.o doesn't open Word 2007 documents perfectly, but it beats not opening them at all. And I've yet to come across any problems going back and forth with MS Office 2003 and OO.o, which I do daily.
It looks like there are several bugs filed for this. They thought they had a working implementation for this for 3.1, but there were still issues.
This feature should working correctly in 3.2, which ship at the end of November. However, you can likely find development builds before then built from the 3.2 trunk.
If you're a Linux user, you should find 3.2 SVN builds here starting mid to late August after 3.1.1 ships.
Apple does not have a monopoly. But for all the specific anti-competitive practices we blast Microsoft for, Apple either matches them, or does worse in many regards.
What really gets me is when I used to read Matt Asay's supposed blog about FOSS. Repeatedly he would praise people for leaving Microsoft for Apple, Lotus or other proprietary products. In fact, it seemed not a day would go by without him praising what a wonderful company Apple was, again on a blog supposedly focused on FOSS.
If we're discussing enterprise ready winners, why not talk about Zimbra and Alfresco?
The main reason suits don't want to talk about leaving Microsoft or considering FOSS on their desktop is because they are very much tied to Outlook. And right now Sharepoint is Microsoft's new big gun.
Outlook needs to be replaced with a full, proper PIM solution. Evolution, Kontact, Thunderbird/Sunbird, etc. all do the chore. OpenOffice can play nice with those apps.
And again, if most users at home will never use it, why does OOo need it?
I know many people who have used OpenOffice and not one of them thinks it holds its own against MS Office. Including myself.
OO.o will:
* Export to PDF * Import a plethora of formats that MS Office can't open. * Export to Open Document Format (MS Office 2007 with SP2 will do this, but previous versions can't) * Allow me to easily install and manage extensions * Run natively on Mac, Linux and Windows * Doesn't cost a penny.
We pay $400 a pop for MS Office licenses here at work. Novell's Go-oo fork implements better macro support and such which is one of the few complaints I get about vanilla OO.o. So, a free product that implements 99% of the paid product's features, including every feature I've ever needed over the past 20 years, and then does several things that MS Offiice can't do, can't hold its own?
Not to mention that if you're using OpenOffice (like this article suggests you do) then you don't need a separate PDF app. OO.o generates PDFs just fine.
Wave can be implemented into other sites, because Google is cool like that. Except I'm sure it will be like their other APIs.
You can post a Google map on your business site if you only get X number of hits. But Facebook couldn't simply implement Wave without paying Google for it. And Microsoft also wouldn't stand for it.
So Orkut will likely be the first (and perhaps only) social network built around Wave. Well, no one you know is on Orkut, which somewhat kills that you say?
Well, when Gmail implements Wave, and Blogger implements Wave, and GTalk ties into Wave, you'll suddenly be hooked on Wave and introduced to Orkut. The point is that Google has all the tools to put together the absolute killer network that could take down giants like Facebook.
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There have been people who have hacked debug/service modes on the console showing backwards compatibility tests on the current hardware. And there was a European version that had backwards compatibility via software emulation.
Is there any good reason to disable this and keep it from consumers paying big bucks for the hardware?
My daughter broke my first PS3, so I have purchased two of them. I like the hardware. I really do. But I feel Sony is holding out on me.
I generally don't respond to ACs, especially vulgar ones who troll.
If you are the same AC who said the other day I was proven wrong, I suppose I will address that since you think I'm dodging you.
I posted that OOo had features MS Office didn't.
Someone responded that MS Office can produce PDFs if you add third-party software. They responded that MS Office can produce ODF with third-party software. They didn't have a comeback for MS Office being expensive and OOo being free. They didn't have a comeback for OOo running native on Mac, Linux and Windows.
That is an important point. I work for a newspaper where Macs litter our newsroom. Right now the Mac Office edition is different from what they use on Windows. Our CEO/Publisher has been wanting to standardize on one version of Office, which is difficult. We have users with Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, and Mac Office 2004. This is a compatibility and usability issue.
So the person was only confirmed my argument with their response. You need third-party products to add in functionality that MS is missing. To boot, OOo is free, and runs the same on multiple-platforms.
So how was I proven wrong?
How about this. You log in, stop posting AC, and respond like a human being.
As for a technical crusade, I responded in this article defending Microsoft. I spend more time working on Windows systems than I do Linux systems with my current job. My would-be next job that I'm hopefully landing with Pay Pal would be all Windows work. I don't loathe Windows and Microsoft. I don't have a technical crusade.
You're fabricating lies.
Look, I've only used one handle since before I even had Internet access. I used this handle on BBSes. I don't hide who I am. I'm the only Enderandrew on the internet, and I don't post AC. I don't lie. And I don't duck responses.
The only person hiding, lying and ducking responses here are ACs like you.
I really wish Slashdot would just ban AC posting, but then you'd probably just jump around with several puppet accounts.
For the record, when I'm wrong, I admit it. Someone called me out today when I made a false statement (in this very thread I believe) when I said Microsoft has never sued over a patent (a claim I believe I heard Gates throw around). I forgot that no longer is true because Microsoft sued TomTom over FAT. I admitted I was wrong immediately. That's how I roll.
So are you man enough to post a response now admitting you are completely in the wrong here?
I doubt it.
And for the record, the primary reason I'm responding is that I'm anal-retentive enough to recognize posting styles. I've seen your repeated responses to me as an AC. I'm pretty sure I recognize you every time you post. You're not very anonymous.
Every smartphone comes with those fees. If you want to download ebooks to a device, you have to pay for internet access.
People are already paying a cell phone bill. So it isn't like they're adding a monthly fee they don't already have.
A Kindle is an additional $400 purchase, and an additional gadget to carry.
So you're saying it is fair to try and price the iPhone without the dataplan, but you should compare it to a netbook that is being subsidized with a data plan?
What is especially troubling is the iPhone data plan is $30 a month, and you're suggesting the netbook with the $60 a month data plan is cheaper.
iPhones are $99 right now. What netbook costs less than that?
If you're the kind of gadget freak who is considering dropping $400 on an eReader, there is a decent chance you have an iPhone.
The iPhone has its faults, but one of the best aspects of the iPhone is that it replaces several other gadgets. It is one less thing to carry, charge, or worry about. It is also one less thing to purchase.
You're definitely going to carry a cell phone. Are you going to carry a Kindle?
I just installed the Stanza app on my iPhone, and I can pull all the classics from Project Gutenberg for free. And when the new Star Wars novels come out, my wife downloads them on her Kindle app on her iPhone. Paid content and free content both accessible via free apps on the iPhone, and no $400 reader required.
Err, I forgot about the FAT lawsuit. So you're right there.
My point is that even if they sued in US court, the EU could say they are in violation of the EU's demands to increase interoperability.
Honestly, the only reason I think Microsoft is playing nice with Mono, Moonshine and the like is because of the EU's demands.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6801/1/
Perhaps there are some technical details I'm missing as I'm not a .NET developer. But I believe in principal that since the EU demanded that Microsoft work on interoperability, if Microsoft was sucking people into a patent trap here to sue them, that the EU would just jump all over them.
And while Microsoft has taken a number of anti-competitive measures, and assembled a wealthy patent portfolio, I'm not aware of a single case of Microsoft suing anyone over a patent yet. Though, Ballmer's threat that every business running Linux could be sued was a pretty shady tactic.
We could test this theory by trying to perform a Bing Bomb. Everyone post on every forum they can, on all their forums, on various pages they host, etc. a specific term.
Maybe, "What city has the highest Linux usage per capita" and Bing Bomb it to say Redmond.
I know what you wrote was parody, but I do want to make it clear that Microsoft made a patent pledge to the EU to avoid more massive fines. Part of that pledge is not to sue for anything Mono related. Microsoft has made repeated public statements that Mono owns all Mono code, and that Microsoft will never sue over Mono touching on .NET patents.
If Microsoft tried suing over Mono patents, the DoJ and EU would be all over them.
If we supposedly hate FUD, then lets not resort to FUD tactics ourselves.
Thanks.
Excuse me, but isn't the reason Microsoft has been complaining to the DoJ, claiming that Google is unfairly tainting results towards Google?
The Go-oo fork runs Excel VBA macros. I don't know about Access.
Word doesn't render exactly the same way all the time, which is precisely why there are programs like Acrobat and In Design.
Furthermore, people sending Word 2007 documents to Word 2003 users is problematic.
OO.o doesn't open Word 2007 documents perfectly, but it beats not opening them at all. And I've yet to come across any problems going back and forth with MS Office 2003 and OO.o, which I do daily.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3740
It looks like there are several bugs filed for this. They thought they had a working implementation for this for 3.1, but there were still issues.
This feature should working correctly in 3.2, which ship at the end of November. However, you can likely find development builds before then built from the 3.2 trunk.
If you're a Linux user, you should find 3.2 SVN builds here starting mid to late August after 3.1.1 ships.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/UNSTABLE/openSUSE_11.1/
Well, I did suggest Evolution, Kontact and Thunderbird/Sunbird.
Out of curiosity, have you tried filing a feature request for it?
Didn't MS Office drop Works support?
Go-oo (which must Linux distros use, and I also use on my Windows boxes) has Works support.
You aren't likely find goatse in a dictionary app.
But Safari is included out of the box.
Apple does not have a monopoly. But for all the specific anti-competitive practices we blast Microsoft for, Apple either matches them, or does worse in many regards.
What really gets me is when I used to read Matt Asay's supposed blog about FOSS. Repeatedly he would praise people for leaving Microsoft for Apple, Lotus or other proprietary products. In fact, it seemed not a day would go by without him praising what a wonderful company Apple was, again on a blog supposedly focused on FOSS.
If we're discussing enterprise ready winners, why not talk about Zimbra and Alfresco?
The main reason suits don't want to talk about leaving Microsoft or considering FOSS on their desktop is because they are very much tied to Outlook. And right now Sharepoint is Microsoft's new big gun.
Outlook needs to be replaced with a full, proper PIM solution. Evolution, Kontact, Thunderbird/Sunbird, etc. all do the chore. OpenOffice can play nice with those apps.
And again, if most users at home will never use it, why does OOo need it?
I know many people who have used OpenOffice and not one of them thinks it holds its own against MS Office. Including myself.
OO.o will:
* Export to PDF
* Import a plethora of formats that MS Office can't open.
* Export to Open Document Format (MS Office 2007 with SP2 will do this, but previous versions can't)
* Allow me to easily install and manage extensions
* Run natively on Mac, Linux and Windows
* Doesn't cost a penny.
We pay $400 a pop for MS Office licenses here at work. Novell's Go-oo fork implements better macro support and such which is one of the few complaints I get about vanilla OO.o. So, a free product that implements 99% of the paid product's features, including every feature I've ever needed over the past 20 years, and then does several things that MS Offiice can't do, can't hold its own?
What is your definition of hold its own?
Not to mention that if you're using OpenOffice (like this article suggests you do) then you don't need a separate PDF app. OO.o generates PDFs just fine.
Wave can be implemented into other sites, because Google is cool like that. Except I'm sure it will be like their other APIs.
You can post a Google map on your business site if you only get X number of hits. But Facebook couldn't simply implement Wave without paying Google for it. And Microsoft also wouldn't stand for it.
So Orkut will likely be the first (and perhaps only) social network built around Wave. Well, no one you know is on Orkut, which somewhat kills that you say?
Well, when Gmail implements Wave, and Blogger implements Wave, and GTalk ties into Wave, you'll suddenly be hooked on Wave and introduced to Orkut. The point is that Google has all the tools to put together the absolute killer network that could take down giants like Facebook.