This almost reads like an old-school Mac evangelist taking FUD to the next level, doesn't it?*
"...if implemented according to the standard, may cause loss of life, property, and capital..." OMGZ0RZ!!one!!eleventy!ROFL! MiCr0$0fT W1Ll PwN j00!
Seriously though: If this OOXML system has so many holes in it, why haven't they just adapted the already-written Excel software that they have? Microsoft doesn't have the best track record when it comes to writing new stuff: if anything, they're famous for keeping legacy code, no?
I'm just wondering why this isn't the procedure they're applying here, is all.
*Disclaimer: I am not anti-Mac - I work as a Mac sysadmin. Just couldn't think of a better analogy.
Do sprint use GSM? If so, then there's no need for activation: GSM phones just attach themselves to the network, using the information found on the SIM card.
If, of course, you're using CDMA (is it CDMA? I can never remember that acronym), then you may not be able to use it.
It's a GSM-only handset, at the moment. That may change with later revisions, dependent on software/firmware requirements.
Actually, that's deliberate. The stylus they give you is a pen, stylus and laser-pointer, according to the website.
Sorry - I broke the RTFA rule. Just had to check it out and salivate a bit...
Fair enough. The last couple of USB WiFi dongles I used were Linksys, and they were fine. Nonetheless, you're right: they do have a habit of buggering about with the chipset every so often...
T be fair, Pinouts.ru has always been pretty reliable and safe, my past experience. Always check the "does this work" box, though - other people will have tried it before you, and it's a fairly good estimate.
because they're saving that for the 'premium edition' - intel won't have ventured too far from microsoft's marketing approach yet. the 'ultimate edition' will have a case made from some expensive, flashy, but heavy (and soft) metal, such as gold. probably monogrammed with that horrible louis vitton thing, too. ick. plastic may look crap, but it's easily customisable.
That's not strictly true: although he was definitely the most business-minded of the two, Gates did have a significant, if not equal role in the coding itself. The main reason that everyone stated to despise him was the 'Open Letter to Hobbyists', not any lack of coding capability. While I don't dig the whole stance on software sales that he cultivated, I do respect his coding abilities, much as I respect anyone that can code competently.
The thing that everyone seems to forget is that while Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak are both geeks, they went down the two most obvious divergent paths: Wozniak is the geek's geek: he's just in it for the love of computing, while Gates saw the financial possibilities, and ran with them. I don' think that he's left his geekiness by the wayside, but his lucrative decisions have spawned several entire corporate generations of fools like Steve Ballmer.
Well yes, it sounds like a Gibson novel, but the *pertinent* difference is that if your governement were a corporation, they'd be a damn sight more accurate at pinpointing and destroying any relevant threats, and they definitely wouldn't be in anywhere near as much debt as they currently are.
Plus, they'd use railguns, instead of nukes.
the trouble with that is that people may mispronounce it as 'i-pony' - in east london slang, 'pony' (used as a referential, anyway) specifically means that the item in question is shit.
oh dear.
Don't get me wrong: I have no problems with doing all of these things: if anything, that's part of the reason that I enjoy Linux. However, will your average user understand all of this, is my question? Microsoft's great victory is in removing the thought process from software installation and configuration. Linux has much ground to recover, if it is to capture the attentions of the general public.
I don't see why this guy has been modded a troll: he's got a point - Joe Public isn't going to know/understand/care about what *we* know that Linux is better at (threading, security, flexibility, adaptibility, customisation etc.) - they're after something that's a no-thought-required interface (after all, what's an OS to the average 'user'?), which works straight away. One of the biggest arguments I have with my friends about Linux is that it takes work to get it going properly: I'm not talking about getting the core OS up and running - that's easy these days; I'm talking about the seemingly silly things, like flash playback, java support, DVD and mp3 support. The kind of things that the great unwashed are going to care about, as soon as they're aware of it presenting a problem. At the moment, I'm running xubuntu on my old(ish) Athlon system; it's sweet as anything. However, the fact that I had to 1) change the sources.list a bit, 2) independently install Flash on the command line 3) install VLC and then run install-css.sh to get DVDs playing, and then 4) set up xmms to play mp3s - this is trivial stuff, you all know, but it's unnecessary arseache for the average user to do.
Please, please don't bang on about the free alternatives: you'll be missing the point, if you do. I know that.ogg is a nicer format, but until Apple 'allows' it, no-one's going to know or care, outside of the geek community.
...building something that I think is pretty cool.
Basically, I'm finishing off a degree in Digital Arts (went back to university after working for a few years), and my final piece is going to be an interactive VJ set, using a P5 virtual reality glove, an old QuickShot II joystick (harvested from one of my Commodore 64s), a Thinkpad 240X (lovely machine, that - perfect for coding at all hours of the day), and a couple of Mac minis (ideal rendering machines for this sort of thing...). I'm hoping to have it all ready for February: if any of you will be in London at the time, gimme a shout, and I'll send you directions to it:)
Nice concept, but you try finding a place that it's safe to implant something in, that a suitable determined person couldn't dig it out of. if you put the RFID tag in too deep, there's a pretty good chance that it won't register. too shallow, and most people that feel 'compelled' to get rid of it will successfully do so.
Never underestimate the drive of a deviant.
It's almost entertaining to see all of these indignant responses on this page, especially so, considering that the item that's two lines below on the RSS feed is 'Everyday Objects Place In A Microwave'.
C'mon people: we're not exactly showing ourselves to be the brightest and best anymore, are we? If we're not bitching about Microsoft/SCO/Novell/our managers, then we're resorting to lowest-common-denominator statements about lives that we'll never understand. "In Soviet Russia" being a perfect example. Like you've got a fucking clue. My girlfriend lived under that regime. It's not funny. It never was.
Stop whining about what this dude has to say. Take this guy's statement as a challenge. Fine: he says there's not enough people with the appropriate knowledge in the field: spread what you know among your subordinates. Do the intelligent thing. Stop appealing to the US/UK 'Compensation Culture' - it's no-one else's fault but our own.
Rise to it. Seriously. Prove him wrong.
I'm a school dropout. I was trained in IT support by my father, because it was the only thing that genuinely interested me, barring Art. As it happens, I took to it fairly well, and I worked hard. I now administer approximately a third of a the computers in a prominent London university. I'm proud of my job. More importantly, I'm proud of the fact that I can receive criticism and actually improve myself because of it. Since leaving school, I got in on a degree course more on good faith than on any kind of academically demonstrable aptitude. As it stands, I flourished. I graduated. I'm now CompTIA certified, alongside various other peripheral qualifications, and have a few years' experience.
My measure of what makes a good technician is the ability to adapt to the job, not the politics. So people don't like you. Big deal. The ideal point to occupy is that they don't even notice you: that's when you know that you're doing your job well.
Hell, mod me into obscurity if you want. I know that there's going to be some of you that will agree with me. Even if you don't voice that agreement, it'll still be there.
I still have faith in our industry. I'm never afraid to say that I work in IT. If anything, I'm proud of it. Even when our industry bites us, and makes everyone that works within it look like fools to the common man.
This may have seemed like a disjointed rant, but my point is rise to the challenge. If you're finding that people coming up to work with you have got major holes in their skills, then help to plug the gaps. Show them what you need to be, to actually be a good technician/programmer/designer/whatever. Don't just carp about it.
Now, for fuck's sake, mod me flamebait before I lose all respect for you.
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Seriously though: If this OOXML system has so many holes in it, why haven't they just adapted the already-written Excel software that they have? Microsoft doesn't have the best track record when it comes to writing new stuff: if anything, they're famous for keeping legacy code, no? I'm just wondering why this isn't the procedure they're applying here, is all.
*Disclaimer: I am not anti-Mac - I work as a Mac sysadmin. Just couldn't think of a better analogy.
Do sprint use GSM? If so, then there's no need for activation: GSM phones just attach themselves to the network, using the information found on the SIM card. If, of course, you're using CDMA (is it CDMA? I can never remember that acronym), then you may not be able to use it. It's a GSM-only handset, at the moment. That may change with later revisions, dependent on software/firmware requirements.
Actually, that's deliberate. The stylus they give you is a pen, stylus and laser-pointer, according to the website. Sorry - I broke the RTFA rule. Just had to check it out and salivate a bit...
Fair enough. The last couple of USB WiFi dongles I used were Linksys, and they were fine. Nonetheless, you're right: they do have a habit of buggering about with the chipset every so often...
It's a wee bit offtopic, but try this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread .php?t=462105
Insofar as I'm aware, Linksys ones tend to work ok.
Dude, Google is your friend: http://lwn.net/Articles/229984/
T be fair, Pinouts.ru has always been pretty reliable and safe, my past experience. Always check the "does this work" box, though - other people will have tried it before you, and it's a fairly good estimate.
because they're saving that for the 'premium edition' - intel won't have ventured too far from microsoft's marketing approach yet.
the 'ultimate edition' will have a case made from some expensive, flashy, but heavy (and soft) metal, such as gold. probably monogrammed with that horrible louis vitton thing, too. ick. plastic may look crap, but it's easily customisable.
back to camelot with you.
That's not strictly true: although he was definitely the most business-minded of the two, Gates did have a significant, if not equal role in the coding itself. The main reason that everyone stated to despise him was the 'Open Letter to Hobbyists', not any lack of coding capability. While I don't dig the whole stance on software sales that he cultivated, I do respect his coding abilities, much as I respect anyone that can code competently. The thing that everyone seems to forget is that while Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak are both geeks, they went down the two most obvious divergent paths: Wozniak is the geek's geek: he's just in it for the love of computing, while Gates saw the financial possibilities, and ran with them. I don' think that he's left his geekiness by the wayside, but his lucrative decisions have spawned several entire corporate generations of fools like Steve Ballmer.
palindromic pi? *head explodes*
Well yes, it sounds like a Gibson novel, but the *pertinent* difference is that if your governement were a corporation, they'd be a damn sight more accurate at pinpointing and destroying any relevant threats, and they definitely wouldn't be in anywhere near as much debt as they currently are. Plus, they'd use railguns, instead of nukes.
the trouble with that is that people may mispronounce it as 'i-pony' - in east london slang, 'pony' (used as a referential, anyway) specifically means that the item in question is shit.
oh dear.
Don't get me wrong: I have no problems with doing all of these things: if anything, that's part of the reason that I enjoy Linux. However, will your average user understand all of this, is my question? Microsoft's great victory is in removing the thought process from software installation and configuration. Linux has much ground to recover, if it is to capture the attentions of the general public.
I don't see why this guy has been modded a troll: he's got a point - Joe Public isn't going to know/understand/care about what *we* know that Linux is better at (threading, security, flexibility, adaptibility, customisation etc.) - they're after something that's a no-thought-required interface (after all, what's an OS to the average 'user'?), which works straight away. One of the biggest arguments I have with my friends about Linux is that it takes work to get it going properly: I'm not talking about getting the core OS up and running - that's easy these days; I'm talking about the seemingly silly things, like flash playback, java support, DVD and mp3 support. The kind of things that the great unwashed are going to care about, as soon as they're aware of it presenting a problem.
.ogg is a nicer format, but until Apple 'allows' it, no-one's going to know or care, outside of the geek community.
At the moment, I'm running xubuntu on my old(ish) Athlon system; it's sweet as anything. However, the fact that I had to 1) change the sources.list a bit, 2) independently install Flash on the command line 3) install VLC and then run install-css.sh to get DVDs playing, and then 4) set up xmms to play mp3s - this is trivial stuff, you all know, but it's unnecessary arseache for the average user to do.
Please, please don't bang on about the free alternatives: you'll be missing the point, if you do. I know that
An 'Internet Liberté Disc', perchance?
Really? Does that mean that my +3 Charisma talisman will amount to something? Sweet...
That is *incredibly* cool. Kudos to you :D
...building something that I think is pretty cool. :)
Basically, I'm finishing off a degree in Digital Arts (went back to university after working for a few years), and my final piece is going to be an interactive VJ set, using a P5 virtual reality glove, an old QuickShot II joystick (harvested from one of my Commodore 64s), a Thinkpad 240X (lovely machine, that - perfect for coding at all hours of the day), and a couple of Mac minis (ideal rendering machines for this sort of thing...). I'm hoping to have it all ready for February: if any of you will be in London at the time, gimme a shout, and I'll send you directions to it
Click on the link that says 'tagging beta', and it'll lead you to a page with the information on it.
Nice concept, but you try finding a place that it's safe to implant something in, that a suitable determined person couldn't dig it out of. if you put the RFID tag in too deep, there's a pretty good chance that it won't register. too shallow, and most people that feel 'compelled' to get rid of it will successfully do so. Never underestimate the drive of a deviant.
followed by a really ominous sounding descending 'bzhoooooowm' tone...
William Gibson's book Count Zero makes use of the term squirt to represent high-speed data transmissions. :)
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It's almost entertaining to see all of these indignant responses on this page, especially so, considering that the item that's two lines below on the RSS feed is 'Everyday Objects Place In A Microwave'. C'mon people: we're not exactly showing ourselves to be the brightest and best anymore, are we? If we're not bitching about Microsoft/SCO/Novell/our managers, then we're resorting to lowest-common-denominator statements about lives that we'll never understand. "In Soviet Russia" being a perfect example. Like you've got a fucking clue. My girlfriend lived under that regime. It's not funny. It never was. Stop whining about what this dude has to say. Take this guy's statement as a challenge. Fine: he says there's not enough people with the appropriate knowledge in the field: spread what you know among your subordinates. Do the intelligent thing. Stop appealing to the US/UK 'Compensation Culture' - it's no-one else's fault but our own.
Rise to it. Seriously. Prove him wrong.
I'm a school dropout. I was trained in IT support by my father, because it was the only thing that genuinely interested me, barring Art. As it happens, I took to it fairly well, and I worked hard. I now administer approximately a third of a the computers in a prominent London university. I'm proud of my job. More importantly, I'm proud of the fact that I can receive criticism and actually improve myself because of it. Since leaving school, I got in on a degree course more on good faith than on any kind of academically demonstrable aptitude. As it stands, I flourished. I graduated. I'm now CompTIA certified, alongside various other peripheral qualifications, and have a few years' experience. My measure of what makes a good technician is the ability to adapt to the job, not the politics. So people don't like you. Big deal. The ideal point to occupy is that they don't even notice you: that's when you know that you're doing your job well. Hell, mod me into obscurity if you want. I know that there's going to be some of you that will agree with me. Even if you don't voice that agreement, it'll still be there. I still have faith in our industry. I'm never afraid to say that I work in IT. If anything, I'm proud of it. Even when our industry bites us, and makes everyone that works within it look like fools to the common man.
This may have seemed like a disjointed rant, but my point is rise to the challenge. If you're finding that people coming up to work with you have got major holes in their skills, then help to plug the gaps. Show them what you need to be, to actually be a good technician/programmer/designer/whatever. Don't just carp about it.
Now, for fuck's sake, mod me flamebait before I lose all respect for you.
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