You mean Microsoft Office 2007 is so much worse than OpenOffice.org 2.0 and Microsoft Office 2003 ? It still doesn't number paragraphs (1.1, 1.2) or update references automatically whitout dirty hacks ? It still retains locks on directories when closed ? It still somehow corrupt your document once in a while (*) ? ...
(*) Last month I needed to save the document as an XML document because saving it as.doc would cause MS Office to crash a few ops after opening the file.
(luckily they've stayed away from horoscopes for now)
With all personal data you're giving them when using their products, they could probably come up with a better horoscope than any astrologer... and even without knowing your astrological sign...
Being a standard does not imply being patent-free.
For example JPEG and MPEG are standards covered by patents.
GP might be right. I checked, and MS actually has patents on Mono, except Microsoft licenses them royalty-free. But in order to work Mono needs technologies not covered by the ECMA standards (see for example).
Of course, they're not infringing in Europe, where software patents are (still) illegal...
A deadline approaching ? Don't stress ! Just log in the quantum network and get the code you will write after the deadline !
I've heard that Microsoft is constantly trying to master that technology since 30 years. Sadly it doesn't work that well for them, hence the legendary late releases.
Do you know how that project compares to the french "Carte Vitale" ? From the summary, it seems quite similar, except that the "electronic storage" is a smart card. Does anyone know if similar IT healthcare systems exists elsewhere ?
Except trolls nobody seems to disagree with you in that thread (when I started writing this post), so i feel I need to explain why you arguments are bogus instead of modding you down.
Since every package modifies the base system, the only way to prove that a package will work is to test it against every possible package configuration available!
Each package is independant with others except with its own dependencies. Those dependencies happen to be linear : for P packages, nP total dependencies, with n an integer independant of the number of packages. It's the job of a Debian package maintainer to check the dependencies are fulfilled and working : each maintener just needs to check n dependencies. That's part of the job people are doing to move a new version of a package from sid (unstable) to testing. I will add that chain of dependencies are irrelevant : if A needs B and B needs C, maintainer of A checks his program working against B, while it's the duty of the maintainer of B to check his program works with C. The only cross-dependancies are for kernel-mode code, that is only drivers.
In fact it's better than the windows "DLL hell", because the state of the system is known (for a Debian stable for exemple), while on MS Windows... Your program has been developped and tested for DirectX 8, will it work with DirectX 9 ? No way to know what the state of the user's system will be (and no developper includes DirectX as a static dependency, it isn't even possible). It's no wonder that most OSes are using repositories (Linux, BSD, QNX, BeOS with software wallet, that one being somewhat different IIRC).
any software that's not in the repository is not well supported by the packaging system.
You seem to ignore that there isn't a single central repository. Want Opera browser ? Just add http://deb.opera.com/opera/ in your repositories list, and you get the official binary matching your version of Debian, checked against it.
If something is not clear, feel free to ask for details.
AFAIK, if you're using Xinerama, both screens act as a single one, so virtual desktops are expanding to the 2nd screen.
If not using Xinerama, Both screens act independantly, and you therefore get twice as much virtual desktops. The drawback being, you can't move one window from one screen to the 2nd (some gnome apps like gimp can, though, but not by dragging windows)
These additional independant virtual desktops are the reason why I'm not using Xinerama with my home Window Maker setup.
I think the console war is essentially over. Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are targeting different markets :
Microsoft : "hardcore gamer" market, for people playing in solo, mainly teenagers and young adults. Lots of FPSes.
Nintendo : "social gamer", smaller console you can carry around easily (like the gamecube), for people playing with friends or family on more diverse game genres, mainly kids and teenagers.
Sony : it's not a console it's a media center, to put under the familial (HD)TV set. Targeted more towards adults. I feel more adventure games, interactive films.
FYI, your AC parent is trolling, Debian works fine out of the box :
Sound and UDMA support are OK.
Bluetooth I can't say.
3D acceleration doesn't work for nvidia and most recent ati cards out of the box, because binary only modules are banned on Debian, and install media won't include non-free section. You can get support by including non-free section in your repository and downloading the approopriate package.
Plays on your TV set contents lying on your computer. Both are using a modified / encapsulated VLC. You still need to download onto your PC first (at the time the functionnality was developped, TVoDSL decoders didn't integrate an hard-disk).
And doesn't a MS Windows Media Center already provide this functionnality ?
Reading between the lines of TFA, it's not Google that will scan old news. Real newspaper will do the scanning, but those newspaper will open the otherwise paying-for service for Google to indexing. Then (simplifying a little) Google will point you to the paying service, or - acting as a proxy - collect the fee for smaller newspapers.
Maybe you need to inform yourself of what RobotExclusion is and isn't.
Its purpose is not to censor information but to avoid incident by agressive robots that could stress WWW servers (introduction in the first link).
HA action is revisionism. Like a politician yelling something then a few years later claiming he never said such a thing and threatening people with a piece of evidence to the contrary.
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With the gap between OO and MS Office widening
.doc would cause MS Office to crash a few ops after opening the file.
You mean Microsoft Office 2007 is so much worse than OpenOffice.org 2.0 and Microsoft Office 2003 ?
It still doesn't number paragraphs (1.1, 1.2) or update references automatically whitout dirty hacks ?
It still retains locks on directories when closed ?
It still somehow corrupt your document once in a while (*) ?
...
(*) Last month I needed to save the document as an XML document because saving it as
Sure !
:)
Google for 'XBox360 disassembled' and 'PS3 disassembled', et voilà
Whiter than white? Like #GGGGGG?
:P We're in a 64-bit era ! It would be #GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG now !
(old joke, I know).
From an old Slashdoter, I guess
And for those who don't have time, motherboards photos :
(luckily they've stayed away from horoscopes for now)
With all personal data you're giving them when using their products, they could probably come up with a better horoscope than any astrologer... and even without knowing your astrological sign...
Being a standard does not imply being patent-free.
For example JPEG and MPEG are standards covered by patents.
GP might be right. I checked, and MS actually has patents on Mono, except Microsoft licenses them royalty-free.
But in order to work Mono needs technologies not covered by the ECMA standards (see for example).
Of course, they're not infringing in Europe, where software patents are (still) illegal...
A deadline approaching ? Don't stress ! Just log in the quantum network and get the code you will write after the deadline !
I've heard that Microsoft is constantly trying to master that technology since 30 years. Sadly it doesn't work that well for them, hence the legendary late releases.
Do you know how that project compares to the french "Carte Vitale" ?
From the summary, it seems quite similar, except that the "electronic storage" is a smart card.
Does anyone know if similar IT healthcare systems exists elsewhere ?
Especially when you just have to check for Slashdot polls to get it.
People want techno (26%) !
a techno beat was removed from considering
A mistake ! At least take a Heavy Metal tune, then ! (23%)
Everything else is worse than silence (19%).
Please submit an Ask Slashdot entry and you won't ever be lacking dupes. If it's less than 16 777 216 crates, Slashdot will handle it just fine.
Now that you say it...
:)
Is DirectX 10 just a Windows port of GLX ?
the Zune MP3 player is cancelled for everyone outside the US, Vista won't be out for home users before the big day
:P
And you think it's bad news ?
I can't wait for the law requirinq malign electronic life checkings (and sterelization) for all consumer electronic devices...
Except trolls nobody seems to disagree with you in that thread (when I started writing this post), so i feel I need to explain why you arguments are bogus instead of modding you down.
Since every package modifies the base system, the only way to prove that a package will work is to test it against every possible package configuration available!
Each package is independant with others except with its own dependencies. Those dependencies happen to be linear : for P packages, nP total dependencies, with n an integer independant of the number of packages. It's the job of a Debian package maintainer to check the dependencies are fulfilled and working : each maintener just needs to check n dependencies. That's part of the job people are doing to move a new version of a package from sid (unstable) to testing. I will add that chain of dependencies are irrelevant : if A needs B and B needs C, maintainer of A checks his program working against B, while it's the duty of the maintainer of B to check his program works with C. The only cross-dependancies are for kernel-mode code, that is only drivers.
In fact it's better than the windows "DLL hell", because the state of the system is known (for a Debian stable for exemple), while on MS Windows... Your program has been developped and tested for DirectX 8, will it work with DirectX 9 ? No way to know what the state of the user's system will be (and no developper includes DirectX as a static dependency, it isn't even possible). It's no wonder that most OSes are using repositories (Linux, BSD, QNX, BeOS with software wallet, that one being somewhat different IIRC).
any software that's not in the repository is not well supported by the packaging system.
You seem to ignore that there isn't a single central repository. Want Opera browser ? Just add http://deb.opera.com/opera/ in your repositories list, and you get the official binary matching your version of Debian, checked against it.
If something is not clear, feel free to ask for details.
AFAIK, if you're using Xinerama, both screens act as a single one, so virtual desktops are expanding to the 2nd screen.
If not using Xinerama, Both screens act independantly, and you therefore get twice as much virtual desktops. The drawback being, you can't move one window from one screen to the 2nd (some gnome apps like gimp can, though, but not by dragging windows)
These additional independant virtual desktops are the reason why I'm not using Xinerama with my home Window Maker setup.
Why would the USA government bother to read the press when it is already writing it ? :P
FYI, your AC parent is trolling, Debian works fine out of the box :
Sound and UDMA support are OK.
Bluetooth I can't say.
3D acceleration doesn't work for nvidia and most recent ati cards out of the box, because binary only modules are banned on Debian, and install media won't include non-free section.
You can get support by including non-free section in your repository and downloading the approopriate package.
FreePlayer and MP9 (links in French)
Plays on your TV set contents lying on your computer. Both are using a modified / encapsulated VLC. You still need to download onto your PC first (at the time the functionnality was developped, TVoDSL decoders didn't integrate an hard-disk).
And doesn't a MS Windows Media Center already provide this functionnality ?
Reading between the lines of TFA, it's not Google that will scan old news. Real newspaper will do the scanning, but those newspaper will open the otherwise paying-for service for Google to indexing. Then (simplifying a little) Google will point you to the paying service, or - acting as a proxy - collect the fee for smaller newspapers.
The duration of U.S. copyright for works created before 1978 is a complex matter; however, works published before 1923 are all in the public domain.
From 1978, 70 years after author's death, I guess lots of things from 1923-1978 era still are copyrighted.
News from 1723 to 1923, then ?
NYT founded in 1851, TIME in 1923, erm I see a problem arising with that last one...
Maybe you need to inform yourself of what Robot Exclusion is and isn't.
Its purpose is not to censor information but to avoid incident by agressive robots that could stress WWW servers (introduction in the first link).
HA action is revisionism. Like a politician yelling something then a few years later claiming he never said such a thing and threatening people with a piece of evidence to the contrary.
I wondered who was "we". The editors or the Slashdot community ? I guess you answered ;)
Fair enough. Now, go explain that to Tom Yager ;)
:)
Those damned viral licenses ! Maybe the BSA could make accurate estimates ?