Comment Re:The sweet stink of rebranding! (Score 1) 364
Yeah re-branding never works.
Netscape > Mozilla > Phoenix > Firebird > Firefox. Colored Apple Logo > White Apple Logo Star Office > Openoffice.org oh wait....
Comment Really pretty sweet (Score 3, Interesting) 283
I had a chance to play with one a little bit, it was really nice.
I was particular impressed by the quality of the screen and the fast response times in Google Maps.
Comment Re:The article has suggestive and leading lanuage. (Score 2, Insightful) 391
Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors.
No they don't 'believe' they use reason based on radiocarbon dating of fossils and other hard scientific and rigorously tested and reviewed evidence to reach the most accurate and logical conclusion based on findings and observation.
Wow, you clearly do not know the definition of the word "belief." Here you go (From Merriam-Webster):
1: a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing
2: something believed ; especially
Notice that your little screed about evidence is completely irrelevant.
Comment Re:Word count (Score 1) 327
Does it offer the ability to have an auto-updating word count in the status bar yet?
This extension seems to do exactly that.
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/eurooffice-my-progress
I've never used it, but I hope it works for you.
Submission + - Alan Cox on Patent Law and GPLv3 (abclinuxu.cz)
tykev writes: "Linux kernel guru Alan Cox talks about kernel features, cooperation with hardware vendors, and software patents. From the interview: "I don't think [Microsoft's patent threats] are the biggest danger. As Microsoft has been finding out recently it is the patent trolls, and organisations with buried patents in interesting areas that are the biggest threat in the USA. The real answer to that problem, however, is to pull the USA back into line with the majority of the world which simply does not recognize patents on software but respects them as literary works subject to copyright law. Also therefore we have to make sure the continuing US attempts to spread bogus patent law into the EU are defeated.""
Submission + - Indiana to make Solaris "better Linux than Lin
ramboando writes: "In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of Linux's success.
Sun has been trying for years to restore the luster of Solaris, but that since has faced a strong challenge chiefly from Linux. Sun wants to embrace some Linux elements so "we make Solaris a better Linux than Linux," said Ian Murdock, Sun's chief operating systems officer, quoting Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, whose latest start-up, Ning, uses Solaris.
But it's a tricky balance to adopt elements of Linux while preserving Solaris technology and advantages such as the promise of backward compatibility. "As we make Solaris more familiar to Linux users, we don't [want to] lose what makes it more compelling and competitive.""
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