The OSS community will continue to get their best idas from the same places as they and Microsoft do now.
Individual OSS developers - each other
End user suggestions
Macs (my opinion)
The reason so much in Linux seems like a greatly improved version of what you find in Windows is that not only does Microsoft "borrow" ideas, but it does it badly...
Funnily enough, in the UK, many people find that most of their spam comes from the USA. If you could kindly get your government to do a similarly fine job on spam, I would get less offers for enlargement of body parts and other tempting offers...
Sounds like what experts said 45 years ago when they were rubbishing the idea that the USSR could put anything into space.
Sounds like what I understand all the generals were saying when Mig15s started shooting down our planes in Korea!
Just because you & I have a low opinion about the social order of a society, it doesn't mean that there are not a number of well funded clever people there...
KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB and so on are a load of rubbish! They are not real units and were only 'invented' to give the dishonest sales droids something to try and fall back upon when challenged.
ffs Microsoft gets it right! My PC tells me that I have 74,885,554,176 bytes free and then says 69.7GB. That is the sort of evidence that Trading Standards Authorities are likely to consider. After all, surely the biggest & richest company in computing must have some idea?
My work email address contains my employers domain. My email address contains that of my ISP. It may get more complicated if I decide to host my own domain.
Tha vagueness of this may be related to the fact that the UK, just like th US has a lot of lawyers in government. They do tend to looak after one another!
I think it depends on what people mean by unrefined.
A lot of people use the word as a shorthand for "it doesn't look/handle the same as the Microsoft equivalent." Unfortunately, sometimes when people are working on improving something, that is the refinement they are doing.
Prior to any break, anyone at the top end of the elevator would experience some gravitational force. It would orient them with "down" actually away from the earth. Following a break, they would actually go into free fall. It might be a drift but it would be away from the earth. The actual speed and direction of that fall would depend on the actual height of the top before the break. It would feel like falling...
It uses every font installed on my computer - whether I boot Linux or Windows. It does them in every size and the printed output looks the same as any other word processor.
Yes, there are deficiencies. It doesn't have a database or email/calendar programme. I'm not sure what I would use for the former but I know they are debating it in their mailing lists. For email/calendar there is Mozilla. That's not perfect either, but it's the only browser I use.
I recently gave a copy to a nurse at work who wanted MS office but was not going to pay that sort of price. I installed OOO on her laptop and she took it home. The only verbal assistance I gave was a reminder to save things to.DOC.XLS or whatever format when bringing files to work, or emailing them to people.
I asked how it was going after a couple of weeks. The reply was "it just works".
The cable is under tension. I presume the bit above the break would shoot up into space. The remaining few thousand metres, below the impact, would go down. This lower part wouldn't do a lot of damage. It would be a bit tough on the people on the top end though. They would immediately fall into space!
The problem there is Carbon monoxide. CO2 is not poisonous. It can suffocate you by excluding oxygen but most garages are draughty. Anyway, doesn't your car have a catalytic converter?
That would be a chip shop? Got something from one last week.
I have nothing against US culture. I think my sig gives away one bit I have followed for a long time. I also wear jeans & t-shirt so I probably don't look that different either.
"Attitude of a Frenchie"? If you mean did I oppose the war our leaders created in Iraq - yes. I didn't think that showed...
Correct spelling is something I was taught at school. I would just as readily objected if they had redefined Pi to 3. That is just as wrong.
Linux can use whatever form of technology that there is support for.
Are you thinking of WinModems? Linux doesn't use many of these because the manufacturers do not release the specs in case a Linux user was to buy one. They only want money from Windows users. Apparently $MS are more valuable than just plain old $ money...
You can spell it like that if you want. You can spell it FLAVAH or !"$%^&* if you like.
The correct spelling,however, is F L A V O U R.
For correct spelling, do not use Websters. Try the Oxford English Dictionary. It does acknowledge the US variant. It remains just that - a variant...
If someone succeeded, MS would turn their entire corporate attention towards completely destroying them. They would (mis)use copyright, DMCA, criminal law and anything else they could get their greasy fingers into.
One thing that has saved Linux (so far) is that they can't figure out who to aim at. All they can do is bribe lawmakers and promote FUD. They know that if they take out Redhat, someone else would have the code within seconds anyway.
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Put a copy in an envelope - printed or CD, whatever you like. Post it to your solicitor and have them put it in their safe unopened.
Later when Parasitesoft trys to claim you stole it from them, the solicitor can produce this as legally acceptable evidence of its date of existence.
Apparently he really startled the guys on the ISS. They had dialed out for pizza!
like in Partition Magic, but without the reboot.
Would go nicely with the hot swoppable HDD and memory.
The OSS community will continue to get their best idas from the same places as they and Microsoft do now.
Individual OSS developers - each other
End user suggestions
Macs (my opinion)
The reason so much in Linux seems like a greatly improved version of what you find in Windows is that not only does Microsoft "borrow" ideas, but it does it badly...
That means that you want to play games. If the games you wanted to play needed BEOS you would use that instead.
Or would you do without the game?
look it up... :)
Funnily enough, in the UK, many people find that most of their spam comes from the USA. If you could kindly get your government to do a similarly fine job on spam, I would get less offers for enlargement of body parts and other tempting offers...
Sounds like what experts said 45 years ago when they were rubbishing the idea that the USSR could put anything into space.
Sounds like what I understand all the generals were saying when Mig15s started shooting down our planes in Korea!
Just because you & I have a low opinion about the social order of a society, it doesn't mean that there are not a number of well funded clever people there...
KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB and so on are a load of rubbish! They are not real units and were only 'invented' to give the dishonest sales droids something to try and fall back upon when challenged.
ffs Microsoft gets it right! My PC tells me that I have 74,885,554,176 bytes free and then says 69.7GB. That is the sort of evidence that Trading Standards Authorities are likely to consider. After all, surely the biggest & richest company in computing must have some idea?
My work email address contains my employers domain. My email address contains that of my ISP. It may get more complicated if I decide to host my own domain.
Tha vagueness of this may be related to the fact that the UK, just like th US has a lot of lawyers in government. They do tend to looak after one another!
A comment like that indicates a room temperature IQ. He probably got confused when someone switched on his $5,000 new computer for him.
I read that he got himself a VW when the new beetles came out.
I think it depends on what people mean by unrefined.
A lot of people use the word as a shorthand for "it doesn't look/handle the same as the Microsoft equivalent." Unfortunately, sometimes when people are working on improving something, that is the refinement they are doing.
Prior to any break, anyone at the top end of the elevator would experience some gravitational force. It would orient them with "down" actually away from the earth. Following a break, they would actually go into free fall. It might be a drift but it would be away from the earth. The actual speed and direction of that fall would depend on the actual height of the top before the break. It would feel like falling...
And in 10 years most people will have forgotten it ever did.
It uses every font installed on my computer - whether I boot Linux or Windows. It does them in every size and the printed output looks the same as any other word processor.
.DOC .XLS or whatever format when bringing files to work, or emailing them to people.
Yes, there are deficiencies. It doesn't have a database or email/calendar programme. I'm not sure what I would use for the former but I know they are debating it in their mailing lists. For email/calendar there is Mozilla. That's not perfect either, but it's the only browser I use.
I recently gave a copy to a nurse at work who wanted MS office but was not going to pay that sort of price. I installed OOO on her laptop and she took it home. The only verbal assistance I gave was a reminder to save things to
I asked how it was going after a couple of weeks. The reply was "it just works".
The cable is under tension. I presume the bit above the break would shoot up into space. The remaining few thousand metres, below the impact, would go down. This lower part wouldn't do a lot of damage. It would be a bit tough on the people on the top end though. They would immediately fall into space!
The problem there is Carbon monoxide. CO2 is not poisonous. It can suffocate you by excluding oxygen but most garages are draughty. Anyway, doesn't your car have a catalytic converter?
They are getting unhappily close to monopolies in a lot of places.
My Panasonic has a removable transparent back that I can put pictures under. I got it 2 or 3 months ago.
That would be a chip shop? Got something from one last week.
I have nothing against US culture. I think my sig gives away one bit I have followed for a long time. I also wear jeans & t-shirt so I probably don't look that different either.
"Attitude of a Frenchie"? If you mean did I oppose the war our leaders created in Iraq - yes. I didn't think that showed...
Correct spelling is something I was taught at school. I would just as readily objected if they had redefined Pi to 3. That is just as wrong.
Linux can use whatever form of technology that there is support for. ...
Are you thinking of WinModems? Linux doesn't use many of these because the manufacturers do not release the specs in case a Linux user was to buy one. They only want money from Windows users. Apparently $MS are more valuable than just plain old $ money
You can spell it like that if you want. You can spell it FLAVAH or !"$%^&* if you like.
The correct spelling,however, is F L A V O U R.
For correct spelling, do not use Websters. Try the Oxford English Dictionary. It does acknowledge the US variant. It remains just that - a variant...
If someone succeeded, MS would turn their entire corporate attention towards completely destroying them. They would (mis)use copyright, DMCA, criminal law and anything else they could get their greasy fingers into.
One thing that has saved Linux (so far) is that they can't figure out who to aim at. All they can do is bribe lawmakers and promote FUD. They know that if they take out Redhat, someone else would have the code within seconds anyway.
I think that if a RH distro is available for download it is free to use but may have had some stuff removed.
This is a beta and support is done in the more traditional way. You ask people - email, NNTP forums and so on.
Netware did something similar - except it wasn't ping 'cos it was IPX.