Did I ever tell you about the time Jobs and I were in a production of The King and I? Anyway, on opening night, Jobs chloroforms the entire cast and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews.
...well there's always the option of developing cross-platform apps like those based on the Mozilla Application Framework. It'll keep your sub-aquatic Hummer rolling to Fiji, or whatever's fashionable in money-wasting these days.
I've never seen a page that wouldn't render with Firefox but would with Safari or Konqueror. Can you post an example? I assume there are a few sites that would render slightly better, since Firefox doesn't yet pass the acid2 test.
I'm just surprised anyone would design a site specifically for Safari, even if the site is Mac-oriented.
...kryptonite isn't "fine to handle if you're only human". If I recall correctly, it killed Lex Luthor in the comics (after taking his hand). Until, of course, he was cloned inside a younger body and masqueraded as his own red-haired heir.
Evolution supposedly has great Exchange support, but I can't vouch for it. I use the Exchange plugin for Kontact (KDE) and it works well with only a few minor annoyances (i.e. you have to manually publish calendar items to the Exchange server).
There's definitely an audience for this, and I can think of dozens of my own friends who'd be interested (some of them teachers). Academia has been waiting for a service like this to be available for some time. Right now, I get my lectures through P2P and torrents but this will be nice for stuff I don't want to keep, don't want to wait for, or can't find elsewhere.
Umm...why not just turn off the option in Preferences > Security? You could even "deploy" Firefox with this set as the default (unless you're just offering people the installer).
You really don't understand the problem of software patents if you think openSUSE (a huge distribution with thousands of packages) doesn't infringe on any patents. If all patents were actually enforced, software development would virtually come to a halt.
Not sure what you mean...I've been working on websites for years and bugs in IE (or just plain lack of support for standards) have never helped me out. Perhaps they would in the hypothetical case that all my visitors used IE, and then they would probably have to be using the same version of IE.
IE6's atrocious PNG support is a real hassle, to name one case. How could a workaround for this (there's a Joomla component, for example) possibly help me out?
Maybe this is a dumb question but it seems too obvious not to mention: If a Vista app requires one of the services the White House's "secure" Vista has turned off by default, does that mean it can't be installed (or at least shouldn't be installed if the mandate is actually followed)? How about if the application installs a new service?
"Programming whiz"? I've heard others say this also, but what exactly was Billy boy so good at (besides sending nasty letters to early innovators)?
I'm under the impression that he made his mark by announcing vaporware and then coming up with something quick (primarily using someone else's work), before showing it off to potential buyers (e.g. QDOS, Altair BASIC interpreter).
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A white paper based on a technical comparison between the ODF and OOXML formats
...the OOXML "standard" is terrible from a technical point-of-view, even if you forget about Microsoft's motivation behind it.
A comment on the article page says Amazon has this crappy truncating problem too...can anyone verify this?
Well, it's definitely not a new "meme".
We once had a bachelor party for Jobs. He ate the entire cake before we could tell him there was a stripper in it.
Did I ever tell you about the time Jobs and I were in a production of The King and I? Anyway, on opening night, Jobs chloroforms the entire cast and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews.
...isn't this the kind of tivoization GPLv3 will attempt to block?
...well there's always the option of developing cross-platform apps like those based on the Mozilla Application Framework. It'll keep your sub-aquatic Hummer rolling to Fiji, or whatever's fashionable in money-wasting these days.
If you're right, this sounds like the Cartmanland marketing strategy to me...
...this new effort to "reorganize time" he's embarking on. Maybe he could go back and make GPLv2 contain the same text as v3!
I've never seen a page that wouldn't render with Firefox but would with Safari or Konqueror. Can you post an example? I assume there are a few sites that would render slightly better, since Firefox doesn't yet pass the acid2 test. I'm just surprised anyone would design a site specifically for Safari, even if the site is Mac-oriented.
...kryptonite isn't "fine to handle if you're only human". If I recall correctly, it killed Lex Luthor in the comics (after taking his hand). Until, of course, he was cloned inside a younger body and masqueraded as his own red-haired heir.
...let's not forget there was plenty of wacky-colored kryptonite in DC's Silver Age. This one probably turns Jimmy Olson into Dr. Chris Stanley.
Firefox users can use the User Agent Switcher extension to fool websites into thinking they're using IE. At least it's a temporary solution...
Edubuntu, anyone?
Evolution supposedly has great Exchange support, but I can't vouch for it. I use the Exchange plugin for Kontact (KDE) and it works well with only a few minor annoyances (i.e. you have to manually publish calendar items to the Exchange server).
There's definitely an audience for this, and I can think of dozens of my own friends who'd be interested (some of them teachers). Academia has been waiting for a service like this to be available for some time. Right now, I get my lectures through P2P and torrents but this will be nice for stuff I don't want to keep, don't want to wait for, or can't find elsewhere.
Umm...why not just turn off the option in Preferences > Security? You could even "deploy" Firefox with this set as the default (unless you're just offering people the installer).
The content is the advertising. The fill is the car chase or the sex scene or something, that's supposed to keep you going between ads.
They must have been part of the same karass.
You really don't understand the problem of software patents if you think openSUSE (a huge distribution with thousands of packages) doesn't infringe on any patents. If all patents were actually enforced, software development would virtually come to a halt.
Well, it doesn't have to be proprietary...
That'd too bad, I woulda liked "Joombots". They could have waged war with the Decepticons.
For anyone interested, that Joomla workaround for PNGs is actually a mambot (not a component): http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_ mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,859/Itemid,35/ ...although I assume mambots will be called something else (joombots?) in version 1.5 or 2.
Not sure what you mean...I've been working on websites for years and bugs in IE (or just plain lack of support for standards) have never helped me out. Perhaps they would in the hypothetical case that all my visitors used IE, and then they would probably have to be using the same version of IE. IE6's atrocious PNG support is a real hassle, to name one case. How could a workaround for this (there's a Joomla component, for example) possibly help me out?
Maybe this is a dumb question but it seems too obvious not to mention: If a Vista app requires one of the services the White House's "secure" Vista has turned off by default, does that mean it can't be installed (or at least shouldn't be installed if the mandate is actually followed)? How about if the application installs a new service?
"Programming whiz"? I've heard others say this also, but what exactly was Billy boy so good at (besides sending nasty letters to early innovators)?
I'm under the impression that he made his mark by announcing vaporware and then coming up with something quick (primarily using someone else's work), before showing it off to potential buyers (e.g. QDOS, Altair BASIC interpreter).