Posts by sageev

CURSE you, EINSTEIN! Humanity still chained in relativistic PRISON

Quantum, eh?

Oh well, collapsars are out. Infinite Improbability Drive is it, then. Tea any one?

I watched Excel meet 1-2-3, and beat it fair and square

Re: Hmm - MS dirty tricks forgotten?

Yes, I was one of the users of that era. I think I had an inkling of the MS dirty tricks strategy.. I was constantly noticing that OLE functionality that made copy and pasting sophisticated and/or formatted data objects from one app to another worked insanely well between MS apps (like taking that fancy looking graph from Excel and plopping it into a Word document, or copying 5 lines from Word and pasting it into Excel), but looked like crap for non-MS apps (bad formatting in pasted content, or no pasting at all).

College students like me at that time knew that something weird was going on.

1. Maybe the non-MS app designers weren't thinking long-term, which made no sense, since the software designers of this time were really good.

2. More likely, the API documentation was sorely lacking.

Every user going from Ami Pro to MS Word would think, "Wow, Word looks like crap!", but if they could work through the pain, the inter-operability made Office the only possible winner.

Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses

How about "Yes, with a but"?

I think user customization of an existing Linux install is a grand idea, within limits. Just make sure that the software packages have nothing to do with the security of the system, or if they can affect security, make sure that the defaults are set to keep the system secure and can't be changed without root access. I could imagine a limited software repository full of useful, throwaway programs like Notepad or Scientific Calculators.