Rob comes off very condescending. He starts off his interview talking about how "The people who use OpenOffice first... They seem to look down on the unsophisticated user and say, 'It's easy!' " and proceeds to do that himself the entire interview:
2.0 is better, faster and smoother. The interface is much easier to use. (opinion... I disagree)
The spreadsheet utility in 2.0 is now able to handle a much larger spreadsheet, at least as large as Microsoft Office's at this point. It is admittedly slower than Office with really huge spreadsheets, so huge they're probably not that functional anyway. (so I shouldn't have a spreadsheet larger than Rob says I should... he neglects to mentions that my macros won't work.)
(Charts and Graphics) It could be a lot better, but that's no reason not to use OpenOffice (so I should gimp my presentation? Just to use OO?)
(con't)... You pay about 75 bucks for the same thing as OpenOffice, [StarOffice]... What you may pay extra for in StarOffice is a trivial amount of money compared to what you'd pay for any Microsoft product. (Office XP is $73, $77 for 2003 on Pricewatch, standard edition (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook))
All in all very disappointing. How old is this guy? He comes off like a defensive 16 year old. "Oh yea, sun doesn't pay me to say this. Sun doesn't like me". Grow up, man.
Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer....
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Easy Programming Model ASP.NET makes building real world Web applications dramatically easier. ASP.NET server controls enable an HTML-like style of declarative programming that lets you build great pages with far less code than with classic ASP or technologies like PHP or JSP. Best of all, ASP.NET pages work in all browsers - including Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer... from the official website. Sounds kinda cool.
Aid Grimmel was probably my favorite. Had to spend AA's to unlock all your tradeskills, then get them all past 220 and complete a series of 7 quests to get this Signet of Might... a very long and involved quest but well thought out.
EQ was my baby for about 4 years as well. Till my wife got pregnant then I knew I had to give it up.
Because I can. Like any responsible data company, they don't want you to lose important data... so they back it up. Independently. Into offline storage.
No, because they are an advertizing company. Aggregating your personal data, including personal data that not longer means anything to you, means they can sell you stuff more effectively.
Let's see... several months ago he offered to supply a custom build of Windows free of charge for this machine. I don't see how he'd make any money off that venture.
He has through his own and other charities. Perhaps you missed it, Gates and Bono were Time's 2005 "People of the Year" for their charitable work.
Gates offered his advice and help with the $100 notebook. (this was on/. late last year...) He had some ideas on the design of the device: no only that he also offered a free custom version of Windows for the machine. Negroponte very rudely ran Gates off. This is tit for tat if you ask me, but of course being/., Negroponte and the $100 notebook can do no harm and Gates is Satan, incarnate...
That's not the point. Parent stated that he hadn't found software that " that isn't directly ported to the Mac or that I couldn't find a comparable "replica" on the Mac.". Doesn't matter if it is trivial or not. It isn't there and there's no replacement. Windows is the only choice. And there is a whole host of other pieces of software like it, that are unique and only available for Windows.
here's a thought: wars are not about killing people !!! we are not out "killing defenseless people", we are out defending defenseless people and trying to equip them to defend themselves in the future. Having big guns and shiny weapons is a deterrant, just like the chain link fence, and "beware of dog" sign are deterrants to anyone who wants to wander into my neighbor's yard.
Modern warfare reduces body counts. It saves lives. It is a fact. Google it.
I assume you don't think Iraqi dead actually count as you don't even consider them worthy of mention.
No, they count, and its depressing how many die. However it isn't an example of modern warfare (my point). They fight with crudeer weapons and cruder tactics and thats why the death toll is higher (my point).
You have to convince all 200+ countries to demilitarize. Simultaneously. You won't be able to.
End of story.
I'd rather return to the "No Standing Army" policy of individual state militias that can be called up to defend our borders in the event of a real declared war.
... because the problem with that is "individual state militias" can't afford ICBM's, helicopters, attack aircraft, missiles, etc. We now have a defenseless America, and the rest of the world is up to speed. The state of war has been beyond the militia for over 150 years now. You have to prepare for the war 20 years from now, not the war at hand.
The beauty of modern warfare is very few people die relative to former wars. We've only lost around 2,000 men and women in Iraq so far and although it is a trajedy (not the war, but the loss) it is far less than wars of the same scale in years prior. Technology makes the difference.
OEM Volume licensing. google some old slashdot threads, some people better in the know than I cited prices ranging between $10-$30 depending if you were Dell or a smaller company. (You obviously aren't Dell... you can't get it for $10 on the street)
But everyone is missing my point... it is more expensive to support multiple platforms than 1 platform.
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I have yet to find a program on Windows that isn't directly ported to the Mac or that I couldn't find a comparable "replica" on the Mac.
PRODAS (Projectile Rocket and Ordinance Design and Analysis Software)
Don't know if you are trolling or serious, I am an aerospace engineer wrapping up my masters and I use this piece of software regularly to do 6DOF ballistics and trajectory modeling. There **are** no substitutes for a mac. Similar programs exist for radar modeling, etc. that have no Mac equivalent.
Besides the key apps that target a small but deep-pocketed audience (PRODAS license: $6000) (hence no motivation to port - small audiences, target 1 popular platform) you have gamers: a very large audience with smaller pocketbooks, but you have volume. Gamers want to customize their systems - they can't do that currently with a mac. Now with the move to Intel hardware, Apple has the chance to change that trend. We will see...
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the 1,000 applications that can't (or haven't) been replicated on a mac.
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Nope, those are standard editions not OEM. Standard editions don't come with Access (database).
Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System????
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098546/
Office XP Standard (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) is $73 on Pricewatch, 2003 is $77.
No over the counter bulletin board stocks. Wake me up when they support em :P
All in all very disappointing. How old is this guy? He comes off like a defensive 16 year old. "Oh yea, sun doesn't pay me to say this. Sun doesn't like me". Grow up, man.
Easy Programming Model ASP.NET makes building real world Web applications dramatically easier. ASP.NET server controls enable an HTML-like style of declarative programming that lets you build great pages with far less code than with classic ASP or technologies like PHP or JSP. Best of all, ASP.NET pages work in all browsers - including Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer... from the official website. Sounds kinda cool.
Good News, Everyone!
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Aid Grimmel was probably my favorite. Had to spend AA's to unlock all your tradeskills, then get them all past 220 and complete a series of 7 quests to get this Signet of Might... a very long and involved quest but well thought out.
EQ was my baby for about 4 years as well. Till my wife got pregnant then I knew I had to give it up.
Because I can. Like any responsible data company, they don't want you to lose important data... so they back it up. Independently. Into offline storage.
No, because they are an advertizing company. Aggregating your personal data, including personal data that not longer means anything to you, means they can sell you stuff more effectively.
... but still retain every email server-side.
Remember, Google unabashadly says it wants to index the world's knowlege. Your emails, personal or not is part of that knowlege...
If Mr. Gates thinks kids won't sit typing into too small a screen, I'd suggest he take a look at the kids texting madly into their phones.
These phones also fit in their pockets. Which is the device Mr. Gates proposed.
Put OpenOffice on it. Its not that hard. Then the end user can pick the product they think is superior.
Let's see... several months ago he offered to supply a custom build of Windows free of charge for this machine. I don't see how he'd make any money off that venture.
He has through his own and other charities. Perhaps you missed it, Gates and Bono were Time's 2005 "People of the Year" for their charitable work.
/. late last year...) He had some ideas on the design of the device: no only that he also offered a free custom version of Windows for the machine. Negroponte very rudely ran Gates off. This is tit for tat if you ask me, but of course being /., Negroponte and the $100 notebook can do no harm and Gates is Satan, incarnate...
Gates offered his advice and help with the $100 notebook. (this was on
That's not the point. Parent stated that he hadn't found software that " that isn't directly ported to the Mac or that I couldn't find a comparable "replica" on the Mac.". Doesn't matter if it is trivial or not. It isn't there and there's no replacement. Windows is the only choice. And there is a whole host of other pieces of software like it, that are unique and only available for Windows.
Picking a fight in a bar is stupid and pointless
here's a thought: wars are not about killing people !!! we are not out "killing defenseless people", we are out defending defenseless people and trying to equip them to defend themselves in the future. Having big guns and shiny weapons is a deterrant, just like the chain link fence, and "beware of dog" sign are deterrants to anyone who wants to wander into my neighbor's yard.
Modern warfare reduces body counts. It saves lives. It is a fact. Google it.
I assume you don't think Iraqi dead actually count as you don't even consider them worthy of mention.
No, they count, and its depressing how many die. However it isn't an example of modern warfare (my point). They fight with crudeer weapons and cruder tactics and thats why the death toll is higher (my point).
No. That's their war, fighting on their terms. That's not modern warfare.
You have to convince all 200+ countries to demilitarize. Simultaneously. You won't be able to.
... because the problem with that is "individual state militias" can't afford ICBM's, helicopters, attack aircraft, missiles, etc. We now have a defenseless America, and the rest of the world is up to speed. The state of war has been beyond the militia for over 150 years now. You have to prepare for the war 20 years from now, not the war at hand.
End of story.
I'd rather return to the "No Standing Army" policy of individual state militias that can be called up to defend our borders in the event of a real declared war.
The beauty of modern warfare is very few people die relative to former wars. We've only lost around 2,000 men and women in Iraq so far and although it is a trajedy (not the war, but the loss) it is far less than wars of the same scale in years prior. Technology makes the difference.
Like a lot of stuff designed at NASA
The robotic arm wasn't designed by NASA... it is Canadian (the so-called "Canada Arm")
I mean, why is it so important to land like an airplane
To retrieve Soviet satellites... among other things. So you are right. Prettymuch pointless now. Which is why the CEV removes this requirement.
"but I thought root was the default account"
"I just changed that setting in xorg.conf, why won't it go back to a safe setting like Windows?"
"Why doesnt **game x** work" or "cedega isn't working quite right help me get it working"
yeah. sorry. There are plenty of legitimate things that a "typical Dell customer" could do that would cause a lot of tech support problems.
OEM Volume licensing. google some old slashdot threads, some people better in the know than I cited prices ranging between $10-$30 depending if you were Dell or a smaller company. (You obviously aren't Dell... you can't get it for $10 on the street)
But everyone is missing my point... it is more expensive to support multiple platforms than 1 platform.
I have yet to find a program on Windows that isn't directly ported to the Mac or that I couldn't find a comparable "replica" on the Mac.
PRODAS (Projectile Rocket and Ordinance Design and Analysis Software)
Don't know if you are trolling or serious, I am an aerospace engineer wrapping up my masters and I use this piece of software regularly to do 6DOF ballistics and trajectory modeling. There **are** no substitutes for a mac. Similar programs exist for radar modeling, etc. that have no Mac equivalent.
Besides the key apps that target a small but deep-pocketed audience (PRODAS license: $6000) (hence no motivation to port - small audiences, target 1 popular platform) you have gamers: a very large audience with smaller pocketbooks, but you have volume. Gamers want to customize their systems - they can't do that currently with a mac. Now with the move to Intel hardware, Apple has the chance to change that trend. We will see...
the 1,000 applications that can't (or haven't) been replicated on a mac.