One of my favourite sayings: "As well try to understand a woman as to understand the sun".
Of course, that saying was set back when they didn't have a clue about the sun. Now we mostly understand how it works, and yet women are still a complete mystery!
(Oh, and it's not just us guys who can't understand girls. A large number of my female friends agree that girls can't understand each other either!)
That clause is not part of the license, but part of the preface stating that the license applies to the software in question, and is entirely optional on the part of the copyright holder.
In the case of the Linux kernel, much of the code is NOT 2-or-later.
Firefox is known for starting considerably slower than most of its competitors. True, it's still fast enough to not be a problem to anyone, but it's a smaller program than Openoffice.
I know that. You know that. Most slashdotters probably know that. But the majority of people out there want their pretty graphics and fancy WYSYWYGness.
(..OK, I completely screwed up that post. It was supposed to be the following: )
"First of all, OpenDocument format, or in this case the ODT, OpenDocumentText file format is an encrypted XML. This means that M$ Office can't open it. I've tried, you get only a few long lines of encrypted data."
Actually, no. It's zipped XML, that's all. Try it yourself. Open it in your favourite ZIP program and look inside.
KOffice actually has the same advantage MS Office does - it's integrated to some extent with the platform it runs on. OpenOffice will always have performance disadvantages due to being cross-platform.
Even notepad, good as it is, isn't as good as it should be. It fails with UNIX-style line endings, which most other text editors - even windows-only - can manage, as can Wordpad IIRC. It also can't handle files of a certain size.
Fix that much, and it'd be perfect for what it's intended to be.
The speed advantage MS Office has, I would guess, is mostly due to it being single-platform. Making OO.o cross-platform probably had a lot of costs in efficiency of code. Also, MS Office can take advantage of windows-specific libraries and functions and so forth more easily.
And that advantage is something OO.o will never have; it has to make up in other ways. It's possible that, taking that into account, OO.o is actually faster in comparison.
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How does paying them for their uselessness have ANY chance of making things better?
Anyone using something like this for the first time in the presence of a customer should have bigger problems than just tubgirl...
That proof is a great classic. Old but good.
One of my favourite sayings: "As well try to understand a woman as to understand the sun".
Of course, that saying was set back when they didn't have a clue about the sun. Now we mostly understand how it works, and yet women are still a complete mystery!
(Oh, and it's not just us guys who can't understand girls. A large number of my female friends agree that girls can't understand each other either!)
The thing about porn site logins is that they're generally paid, and so people don't want to give them out.
"If you write a letter in badly broken English, do you expect others to be able to read it and fully comprehend it?"
A lot of people actually DO expect that.
"Even if its competition from Microsoft, it will be a good thing, as long as MS doesn't try it usual anti-trust crap."
I think you're hoping for too much.
The Mozilla Foundation is non-profit. The Mozilla Corporation is not. The later was created to support the former.
That clause is not part of the license, but part of the preface stating that the license applies to the software in question, and is entirely optional on the part of the copyright holder.
In the case of the Linux kernel, much of the code is NOT 2-or-later.
Ireland is part of the EU, and uses the Euro as its currency.
One of my lecturers told us to google for google scholar.
The fun thing is, it's about as fast if not faster than tracking down the link through google's site, if you can't remember the right address.
There is a Space Invaders game. It distracted me for an hour the other day.
You'd calculate the values in a table and graph them from that. Possibly awkward, but really not that hard.
And again, most people don't use Linux. That's the way it is, currently.
Firefox is known for starting considerably slower than most of its competitors. True, it's still fast enough to not be a problem to anyone, but it's a smaller program than Openoffice.
I know that. You know that. Most slashdotters probably know that. But the majority of people out there want their pretty graphics and fancy WYSYWYGness.
Many people wouldn't have any clue how to find or install that. And again, learning how to use it is not what most people want.
(Myself, I've downloaded it now and will try it with a short essay in a few days. Thanks for the link.)
(..OK, I completely screwed up that post. It was supposed to be the following: )
"First of all, OpenDocument format, or in this case the ODT, OpenDocumentText file format is an encrypted XML. This means that M$ Office can't open it. I've tried, you get only a few long lines of encrypted data."
Actually, no. It's zipped XML, that's all. Try it yourself. Open it in your favourite ZIP program and look inside.
(That'll teach me to preview my posts...)
Actually, no. It's zipped XML, that's all. Try it yourself. Open it in your favourite ZIP program and look inside.
Latex is great for people who create that sort of document professionally and regularly. For most people, it's overkill and too much effort to learn.
Most people want a simple WYSIWYG editor, and on windows there's little option of that for Latex.
KOffice actually has the same advantage MS Office does - it's integrated to some extent with the platform it runs on. OpenOffice will always have performance disadvantages due to being cross-platform.
See, I should've known there'd be SOMETHING.
Even notepad, good as it is, isn't as good as it should be. It fails with UNIX-style line endings, which most other text editors - even windows-only - can manage, as can Wordpad IIRC. It also can't handle files of a certain size.
Fix that much, and it'd be perfect for what it's intended to be.
Competition is almost always good for the consumer/customer. It would NOT be a good thing for OO.o to entirely displace MS Office, I think.
The speed advantage MS Office has, I would guess, is mostly due to it being single-platform. Making OO.o cross-platform probably had a lot of costs in efficiency of code. Also, MS Office can take advantage of windows-specific libraries and functions and so forth more easily.
And that advantage is something OO.o will never have; it has to make up in other ways. It's possible that, taking that into account, OO.o is actually faster in comparison.