I'm not certain what you're trying to say since your sentence is badly mangled, but in the post I responded to you said this:
Ubuntu and the like are pretty close
Hopefully it won't be long before people start moving the majority to Linux or OS X rather than the minority.
I agree that Linux is a serious alternative to Windows, and I too wish lots of people would move to Linux or OS X, but that has nothing to do with this article.
Where did he say "digital restrictions management" was a less proper or less accurate name? You're going slightly off topic to make yourself look good, because if you had actually stuck to the point you wouldn't have gotten modded insightful.
Planet Source Code groups Java and JavaScript together. It doesn't seem to understand anything besidse the name.
JavaScript, is a scripting language used to create interactive web pages. Though less powerful than the Java programming language, it is also much simpler to learn.
I've never experienced problems with Firefox or SeaMonkey leaking memory, but SeaMonkey's preferences has been extremely buggy for me. Enabling or disabling quick launch seemed to have about a 50% chance of succeeding.
You shouldn't believe all of it because/. got the summary wrong again. While it's true that DRM still sucks, the solution here is to unplug and reinsert the HDMI cable, not the power cable. How lazy and apathetic do you have to be to miss something like that?
In fact I feel much more productive when writing everything in a simple text editor and then pasting it in work and formating it without changing it.
I used to do the same thing. Although OpenOffice isn't nearly as good as Microsoft Word is many ways (choosing a color for example) at least I've never desired to do this with OOo. I feel confident that I can edit text as much as I want without the styling going nuts.
An article that appeared on the front page of/. explains a little about Microsoft Office Open XML. The spec is filled with stuff like this:
2.15.3.6 autoSpaceLikeWord95 (Emulate Word 95 Full-Width Character Spacing)
This element specifies that applications shall emulate the behavior of a previously existing word processing application (Microsoft Word 95) when determining the spacing between full-width East Asian characters in a document's content.
[Guidance: To faithfully replicate this behavior, applications must imitate the behavior of that application, which involves many possible behaviors and cannot be faithfully placed into narrative for this Office Open XML Standard. If applications wish to match this behavior, they must utilize and duplicate the output of those applications. It is recommended that applications not intentionally replicate this behavior as it was deprecated due to issues with its output, and is maintained only for compatibility with existing documents from that application. end guidance]
2.15.3.26 footnoteLayoutLikeWW8 (Emulate Word 6.x/95/97 Footnote Placement)
This element specifies that applications shall emulate the behavior of a previously existing word processing application (Microsoft Word 6.x/95/97) when determining the placement of the contents of footnotes relative to the page on which the footnote reference occurs. This emulation typically involves some and/or all of the footnote being inappropriately placed on the page following the footnote reference.
[Guidance: To faithfully replicate this behavior, applications must imitate the behavior of that application, which involves many possible behaviors and cannot be faithfully placed into narrative for this Office Open XML Standard. If applications wish to match this behavior, they must utilize and duplicate the output of those applications. It is recommended that applications not intentionally replicate this behavior as it was deprecated due to issues with its output, and is maintained only for compatibility with existing documents from that application. end guidance]
2.15.3.32 mwSmallCaps (Emulate Word 5.x for the Macintosh Small Caps Formatting)
This element specifies that applications shall emulate the behavior of a previously existing word processing application (Microsoft Word 5.x for the Macintosh) when determining the resulting formatting when the smallCaps element (2.3.2.31) is applied to runs of text within this WordprocessingML document. This emulation typically results in small caps which are smaller than typical small caps at most font sizes.
[Guidance: To faithfully replicate this behavior, applications must imitate the behavior of that application, which involves many possible behaviors and cannot be faithfully placed into narrative for this Office Open XML Standard. If applications wish to match this behavior, they must utilize and duplicate the output of those applications. It is recommended that applications not intentionally replicate this behavior as it was deprecated due to issues with its output, and is maintained only for compatibility with existing documents from that application. end guidance]
2.15.3.51 suppressTopSpacingWP (Emulate WordPerfect 5.x Line Spacing)
This element specifies that applications shall emulate the behavior of a previously existing word processing application (WordPerfect 5.x) when determining the resulting spacing between lines in a paragraph using the spacing element (2.3.1.33). This emulation typically results in line spacing which is reduced from its normal size.
[Guidance: To faithfully replicate this behavior, applications must imitate the behavior of that application, which involves many possible behaviors and cannot be faithfully placed into narrative for this Office Open XML Standard. If applicatio
Weather forecasts are never anywhere near accurate enough to worry about that. Does it really make a difference to you when the forecast goes from 73 degrees Fahrenheit to 74 degrees Fahrenheit?
It seems to be common to misuse FF as the FireFox abbreviation.
"FireFox"? Maybe you should read what you linked to:
How do I spell Firefox? How do I abbreviate it? Firefox is spelled F-i-r-e-f-o-x - only the first letter capitalized (i.e. not FireFox, not Foxfire, FoxFire or whatever else a number of folk seem to think it to be called.) The preferred abbreviation is "Fx" or "fx".
With Long Play (LP) technology available by the mid-80s, a VHS cassette using the PAL system could run for up to 8 or even 10 hours, at the expense of picture quality and inter-machine compatibility. The longest Betamax tape marketed is the L-830 which runs for 3 hours and 35 minutes on the PAL system.
Sony suffered by their reluctance to sign licensing agreements with studios to have films made available in Betamax. Sony also refused to allow pornographic material to be released for their system.
Not everyone thinks "zOMG Betamax pwns VHS!!!!11!1one".
this has nothing to do w/ technology or email at all... let's stick to news for nerds
Nerds are less social and more computer literate, so they buy more online, which places a greater importance on snail mail for us.
I'm now not so sure I'm going to get my light saber and years supply of ramen, just because I ordered a tiny little bit of uranium and antrax along with it.
When it's bright outside, my room is filled with beautiful white light. Then when it gets dark, I have to turn on the fake lights and it looks really terrible in comparison. Incandescent lights have an extreme yellow-orange tinge. Some fluorescent lights are also very yellow-orange, but others aren't and they still look very unnatural. Even claimed "full-spectrum" bulbs are nothing like real sunlight.
You're right. California also extends all state rights of marriage to gay couples through "domestic partnerships". Connecticut's civil unions don't give everything that marriage gives.
Oh gawd, not another free energy device. At least they have a pretty website. It'll be interesting to see how they react after their claims have been examined by credible scientists.
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I'm not surprised. Seems like standard Microsoft behavior.
/. behavior.
I'm also not surprised that you went off topic and mentioned Linux and OS X just to get modded up. Seems like standard
From Wikipedia: I don't see how H.264 is related to GSM or G.729.
H.264 is not an implementation of MPEG-4 Part 10.
The ITU-T and ISO/IEC worked together to create a standard that the ITU-T calls "H.264" and the ISO/IEC calls "MPEG-4 Part 10" (among other names).
You might be thinking of x264, an H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 encoder.
You're crazy. Everybody knows Linux is 100% perfect and has never had the slightest flaw.
Where did he say "digital restrictions management" was a less proper or less accurate name? You're going slightly off topic to make yourself look good, because if you had actually stuck to the point you wouldn't have gotten modded insightful.
What I don't like is that it treats them like they're related, as if JavaScript is based on Java or something.
I've never experienced problems with Firefox or SeaMonkey leaking memory, but SeaMonkey's preferences has been extremely buggy for me. Enabling or disabling quick launch seemed to have about a 50% chance of succeeding.
You shouldn't believe all of it because /. got the summary wrong again. While it's true that DRM still sucks, the solution here is to unplug and reinsert the HDMI cable, not the power cable. How lazy and apathetic do you have to be to miss something like that?
What the hell is an EVO and why are they using such an obscure file format?
I've never had any reliability problems with OpenOffice on Windows XP. It's awfully slow at times, but it's never crashed on me.
Weather forecasts are never anywhere near accurate enough to worry about that. Does it really make a difference to you when the forecast goes from 73 degrees Fahrenheit to 74 degrees Fahrenheit?
I just tried both of those in Firefox 2.0 and they worked as expected. Neither behaved the way you described.
"FireFox"? Maybe you should read what you linked to:
Not everyone thinks "zOMG Betamax pwns VHS!!!!11!1one".
Why tell the truth if you're going to get your quote published regardless?
1 + 1 != 3
The customer pays for 2 laptops. 1 laptop goes to the customer, and 1 laptop goes to a poor kid who will likely sell it for food.
I'm now not so sure I'm going to get my light saber and years supply of ramen, just because I ordered a tiny little bit of uranium and antrax along with it.
When it's bright outside, my room is filled with beautiful white light. Then when it gets dark, I have to turn on the fake lights and it looks really terrible in comparison. Incandescent lights have an extreme yellow-orange tinge. Some fluorescent lights are also very yellow-orange, but others aren't and they still look very unnatural. Even claimed "full-spectrum" bulbs are nothing like real sunlight.
You're right. California also extends all state rights of marriage to gay couples through "domestic partnerships". Connecticut's civil unions don't give everything that marriage gives.
Oh gawd, not another free energy device. At least they have a pretty website. It'll be interesting to see how they react after their claims have been examined by credible scientists.