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Comment Re:Blacklists and signing applets (Score 1) 55

Recent Java updates, for around the past year or so, have been increasingly draconian in their security measures.

Well, considering that Oracle has been consistently bashed here in Slashdot and other sites because of the security problems with applets and client side Java I would think that is very reasonable for them to increased greatly security.

Comment Re:Why not more than a clone of Windows and Office (Score 1) 283

Please explain the features of Flexisheet that would put it in anyone shopping list. I could only find a domain for sale, a Sourceforge project with no released files and a CVS repository and also it seems only runs in Mac OSX.

About LyX, I guess most people wouldn't want it a little rough, wouldn't them? From the site:

It does look a bit rough, but don't worry, because the output will be fine

I think most people would want to edit text, not mathematical formulas for LaTeX and science papers which seems to be the main focus of this editor. It may be very good for that for all I know.

Comment Re:Gawd (Score 1) 434

Someone is using FORTRAN for life critical control systems? really? FORTRAN?
There are much more use cases that don't need that kind of hard real time constraint in today world. Even phones can run over more high level languages.

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