LOL - I knew it was a mac user writing that tread as soon as i saw the words "aesthetic mediocrity that permeates" it sounds like a steve jobs train of thought to me:D
Dude, you feel down about it now and complain a little but once it all works for you two things will happen
a) you'll know a lot more about computers and pcs in general, the stuff that windows hides away from people. b) you'll feel as if you've accomplished something yourself, like building a model aeroplane or painting your first warhammer drone and its your system not some generic system that everyone else has...
Ya know, i posted below a joke about windows way less offensive then this one and i got rated a 30% flamebait. I mean way less offensive then this, i even used smilies and still got flamebated..
All i gotta say is there are some over sensative mods out there that need to learn to take a joke a bit better if they are going to rate these threads... And yes i feel sorry for the windows using mods, they are really torn here in slashdot..
It was perfectly legible, it just didn't follow his written instructions, again he used a freaking ruler.
If this is the case it is so far away from open offices responsability, heck if it was an instruction set by the teacher and it wasnt followed there isnt anything that can be done. The teacher sounds like a dick for instantly failing the student that shows lack of patience and tollerence with students and he is just using his position to walk all over people, but again i fail to see how openoffice is responsible for this...
Simply put the parent of the kid should of looked after her and taken it too the next level, i seriously doubt the is a requisite set down in the education system stating that students must use Microsoft Office. But if it was the case that the margin was making the assessment illegable to the teacher then i hardly see how OpenOffice is to blame, the same behaviour can be just as easily replicated by Ms Office as it can be done by OpenOffice.
I mean comeon, its the w3 15th anniversery (or comming close too it according to wikipedia) so what are we talking about "what if the net was invented today" really ????? we should have a bit more of a positive slashdot artical for this.
Personally i believe any restriction of freedom which is advocated by todays w3 would result in a lacking of support by the general public, we as people of democratic societies (some of us) believe this to be a trait in all aspects of our lives and i dare say it translates in to the internet and is the inherent reason as to why it is as popular as it is..
As for vulturistic behaviour of lawyers, personally i find this is a disgusting part of our society and mearly whats happened over the past 2 centuries to make todays "civilized" society is that we've simply just replaced gun slinging cowboys with guys wearing suits walking around with a briefcases full of torn up newspapers ripping people off blind to get them out of trouble... i hate lawyers as they take advantage of their position...
I recommend you guys actually view src and see that there isnt any flash on the site, it uses ajax style programming and generates the map as images...
I can see this being a very powerful tool for the tourism trade (or any service that maps are useful) in the states and canada.
It hasnt got the wowness of google earth with the satillite outlook and the zooming functionality but it makes up for it definatly in functionality, too bad it doesnt map my country (australia).
Sorry, I'm not quite getting how one follows from the other... simply being based off of debian doesn't imply adopting the community's philosophy, regardless of what their press release claims, especially since they seem to be outside the community altogether.
Ofcourse it doesnt imply anything but doesnt mean that its not the case, and yeah the fact they arnet directly associated with debain does make it less possible.
Their perspective will ultimately dictate what they become, and only time will tell what that perspective is (though we can certainly make some wild speculative assumptions at this point).
True True, i cant agree anymore..
But come one lets face it they have debain/hurd, debian/linux, debian/fbsd and debian/netbsd now they are going on about utilising debian for solaris. This is a fact not specualtion here and the fact that its not a part of debian dev team and is seperate group is just the essance of the GPL working in the way that it is intended, take something that already exisits and build on to it.
Not too sure about game cube but playstations comeout out with second releases almost with every console and its the same with xbox, usually to do with hardware issues, with the xbox it was the cdrom..
Sorry for stating the obvious but i dare say this is just Nokias way of developing a method to deter its way from being forced into using commerical apps for their consumers...
I wonder if this will have any lasting affect on the Mobile/PDA industry causing competitors to lend from what Nokia appears to be starting.
So, VB is not for you. Thank you for deciding what is best for the whole world. For your next trick, please tell us what the solution is for world hunger or poverty.
So how did i decide it for the world?? I dont like VB because its utter s***, sorry it is! for simple tasks? name one and tell me its the only language out there that can fulfill it. I think I'm allowed to have an opinion, so blow it up your a**.
Next, I suppose that you will be saying that VI is the only real editor, and anybody who uses anything else is dumb.
HUH??? why take bs cheap shots at people i never said anything of ths sort
at the end of the day i dont thing an sh**ty m$ propertry app has any place on an os full of squillions of FREE programming lanaguges... and im the idiot? right? fuck you!
Sorry, but im going to run under my bed and hide now..
The mear thought of having VB!!! (scream) anywhere near linux just gives me that horrid feeling in the pit of my stomach, its bad enough it exists and is used in windows in the 1st place!
I rarely act out and say nasty things about people but this quote needs to be added to the "get a clue" pile and the author needs to go back to school and figure out what a programming language really is... In my view VB is not a real language, its just... its wrong i tells ya.. this whole artical is just wrong:(
Its the other way around ms should be lending from linux oh wait that was in yesterdays artical about symbolic links and we wont mention who was 1st to have remote desktop technology, i think it was XFree about 1/2 a decade before microsoft (please dont hold it too me im just guessing) but heck thats right linux needs to take from microsoft, we need to have more bugs more bloat ware and more security flaws!
Agreed, but the fact that it outlines that it is a debian based system, therefore it is set to follow debians intended purpose and mission statement... this is most likey the reason why debian a base was chosen instead of say redhat.
From this artical i expect alot of cyinics, these guys must of 1st logged onto the internet with xp or 2000, maybe even windows 98. For the trumpet winsock users and 95 users, IRC was the only way to go since the days of IM apps came in and crept into the scene but even then real IRCers never really forgone IM over IRC so it was never really an issue.
Since skype and yahoo chat came along this was the time people started saying "text chat? why?" but still IRC has kept its stature with various communities, esspecailly programmers. Hackers is another one of these communities which they've gone and formed their own chat networks (box.sk) and other various groups such as w00w00.
"Back in the day" IRC was awsome fun for me, great for online trouble making, fun, but not detrimental fun and the various circles i was invloved in was usually the #coders and #linux chat lines and it was great i remember having conversations with one of the developers of ext3 on efnet and wheather he was the real deal or not the guy had the know how to back it and it did lead to alot of what i wished to aspire too in my nerdish goals.
IRC is with ego though, esspecially on #linux, its as if people race to beat the other guy in offering advise! and as for the hacking communities (the dark side) its their little corner of the internet that is unhampered to this day .
But heck its our online chat "roots" and for that it should be appriciated and respected for what it still is..
Before people comment on why Debian is doing this i suggest reading Debains core statement of what they are all about http://www.debian.org/intro/about
Esspecially this bit:
Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide.
However, work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on top of a microkernel (such as Mach) to implement different features. The Hurd is free software produced by the GNU project.
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LOL - I knew it was a mac user writing that tread as soon as i saw the words "aesthetic mediocrity that permeates" it sounds like a steve jobs train of thought to me :D
Dude, you feel down about it now and complain a little but once it all works for you two things will happen
...
a) you'll know a lot more about computers and pcs in general, the stuff that windows hides away from people.
b) you'll feel as if you've accomplished something yourself, like building a model aeroplane or painting your first warhammer drone and its your system not some generic system that everyone else has
Ya know, i posted below a joke about windows way less offensive then this one and i got rated a 30% flamebait. I mean way less offensive then this, i even used smilies and still got flamebated ..
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... And yes i feel sorry for the windows using mods, they are really torn here in slashdot..
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168061&thr
All i gotta say is there are some over sensative mods out there that need to learn to take a joke a bit better if they are going to rate these threads
Only until 2008? I was hoping to ignore it for much longer then that :)
It was perfectly legible, it just didn't follow his written instructions, again he used a freaking ruler.
If this is the case it is so far away from open offices responsability, heck if it was an instruction set by the teacher and it wasnt followed there isnt anything that can be done. The teacher sounds like a dick for instantly failing the student that shows lack of patience and tollerence with students and he is just using his position to walk all over people, but again i fail to see how openoffice is responsible for this...
I think the teacher should be hung...
Simply put the parent of the kid should of looked after her and taken it too the next level, i seriously doubt the is a requisite set down in the education system stating that students must use Microsoft Office. But if it was the case that the margin was making the assessment illegable to the teacher then i hardly see how OpenOffice is to blame, the same behaviour can be just as easily replicated by Ms Office as it can be done by OpenOffice.
Microsoft is behaving unethically by misleading people and using its power as a large company to get what it wants.. and this is news? How?!?
I mean BFG, Bio Force Gun .. (late afternoon for poor old me)
Is it just me or are these over paid trekkers pushing it a bit to far to make the word phaser to name this weapon.
Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response (PHASR)
I recon it looks more like a BGF or Bio Force Cannon.
Has always been badly handled!
I mean comeon, its the w3 15th anniversery (or comming close too it according to wikipedia) so what are we talking about "what if the net was invented today" really ????? we should have a bit more of a positive slashdot artical for this. Personally i believe any restriction of freedom which is advocated by todays w3 would result in a lacking of support by the general public, we as people of democratic societies (some of us) believe this to be a trait in all aspects of our lives and i dare say it translates in to the internet and is the inherent reason as to why it is as popular as it is.. As for vulturistic behaviour of lawyers, personally i find this is a disgusting part of our society and mearly whats happened over the past 2 centuries to make todays "civilized" society is that we've simply just replaced gun slinging cowboys with guys wearing suits walking around with a briefcases full of torn up newspapers ripping people off blind to get them out of trouble ... i hate lawyers as they take advantage of their position...
I recommend you guys actually view src and see that there isnt any flash on the site, it uses ajax style programming and generates the map as images ...
I can see this being a very powerful tool for the tourism trade (or any service that maps are useful) in the states and canada.
It hasnt got the wowness of google earth with the satillite outlook and the zooming functionality but it makes up for it definatly in functionality, too bad it doesnt map my country (australia).
Sorry, I'm not quite getting how one follows from the other ... simply being based off of debian doesn't imply adopting the community's philosophy, regardless of what their press release claims, especially since they seem to be outside the community altogether.
Ofcourse it doesnt imply anything but doesnt mean that its not the case, and yeah the fact they arnet directly associated with debain does make it less possible.
Their perspective will ultimately dictate what they become, and only time will tell what that perspective is (though we can certainly make some wild speculative assumptions at this point).
True True, i cant agree anymore..
But come one lets face it they have debain/hurd, debian/linux, debian/fbsd and debian/netbsd now they are going on about utilising debian for solaris. This is a fact not specualtion here and the fact that its not a part of debian dev team and is seperate group is just the essance of the GPL working in the way that it is intended, take something that already exisits and build on to it.
Not too sure about game cube but playstations comeout out with second releases almost with every console and its the same with xbox, usually to do with hardware issues, with the xbox it was the cdrom ..
Usually the 1st realease of most consoles are a) buggy b) overpriced c) lacking in game support.
Its not until 6 months down the track when the amount of games increase, prices drop and they bring out a revised and bug fixed version anyway.
Sorry for stating the obvious but i dare say this is just Nokias way of developing a method to deter its way from being forced into using commerical apps for their consumers...
:)
I wonder if this will have any lasting affect on the Mobile/PDA industry causing competitors to lend from what Nokia appears to be starting.
Good on ya Nokia for keepin it real!
So, VB is not for you. Thank you for deciding what is best for the whole world. For your next trick, please tell us what the solution is for world hunger or poverty.
So how did i decide it for the world?? I dont like VB because its utter s***, sorry it is! for simple tasks? name one and tell me its the only language out there that can fulfill it. I think I'm allowed to have an opinion, so blow it up your a**.
Next, I suppose that you will be saying that VI is the only real editor, and anybody who uses anything else is dumb.
HUH??? why take bs cheap shots at people i never said anything of ths sort
at the end of the day i dont thing an sh**ty m$ propertry app has any place on an os full of squillions of FREE programming lanaguges... and im the idiot? right? fuck you!
I dont get how this can be insightful?
Sorry, but im going to run under my bed and hide now ..
... its wrong i tells ya .. this whole artical is just wrong :(
The mear thought of having VB!!! (scream) anywhere near linux just gives me that horrid feeling in the pit of my stomach, its bad enough it exists and is used in windows in the 1st place!
I rarely act out and say nasty things about people but this quote needs to be added to the "get a clue" pile and the author needs to go back to school and figure out what a programming language really is... In my view VB is not a real language, its just
Its the other way around ms should be lending from linux oh wait that was in yesterdays artical about symbolic links and we wont mention who was 1st to have remote desktop technology, i think it was XFree about 1/2 a decade before microsoft (please dont hold it too me im just guessing) but heck thats right linux needs to take from microsoft, we need to have more bugs more bloat ware and more security flaws!
and i always believed that most of the internets "out-geeking" would usually happen on /.
Agreed, but the fact that it outlines that it is a debian based system, therefore it is set to follow debians intended purpose and mission statement ... this is most likey the reason why debian a base was chosen instead of say redhat.
From this artical i expect alot of cyinics, these guys must of 1st logged onto the internet with xp or 2000, maybe even windows 98. For the trumpet winsock users and 95 users, IRC was the only way to go since the days of IM apps came in and crept into the scene but even then real IRCers never really forgone IM over IRC so it was never really an issue.
Since skype and yahoo chat came along this was the time people started saying "text chat? why?" but still IRC has kept its stature with various communities, esspecailly programmers. Hackers is another one of these communities which they've gone and formed their own chat networks (box.sk) and other various groups such as w00w00.
"Back in the day" IRC was awsome fun for me, great for online trouble making, fun, but not detrimental fun and the various circles i was invloved in was usually the #coders and #linux chat lines and it was great i remember having conversations with one of the developers of ext3 on efnet and wheather he was the real deal or not the guy had the know how to back it and it did lead to alot of what i wished to aspire too in my nerdish goals.
IRC is with ego though, esspecially on #linux, its as if people race to beat the other guy in offering advise! and as for the hacking communities (the dark side) its their little corner of the internet that is unhampered to this day .
But heck its our online chat "roots" and for that it should be appriciated and respected for what it still is..
Convienently locked in a basement, with no lights or a staircase in a filing cabinet labled "beware of the lepard"
:)... It is there it can be found from debs sitemap along with a few bsd builds
Or however the famous arthur dent saying goes
Before people comment on why Debian is doing this i suggest reading Debains core statement of what they are all about http://www.debian.org/intro/about
Esspecially this bit:
Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide.
However, work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on top of a microkernel (such as Mach) to implement different features. The Hurd is free software produced by the GNU project.
i would like to see the driver support for a notebook!