Is There a Non Software Equivalent of Stellarium?

Yes. A planetarium projector. Lot's of planetariums are using Stellarium now as their "projector." Stellarium costs a lot less than the maintenance of an actual of an actual projector does. You actually have to go to a planetarium when a public show is scheduled. heavens_above IS SOFTWARE. Your question does not make sense.

1. Is software from NCH Software safe? [closed]

Some (many) years ago, their Prism converter was good. Now they use their website to hack your computer - or so it seems. I simply updated what I had installed from them (Prism) and then decided to browse through the options. ..And there was the "TOOLBOX" with very short descriptions of what it supposed to offer. I clicked few links - nothing told me that I am installing applications. A bit later, while I was searching the web, a window comes up asking if I want to change my default searcg engine. I answered "NO" - and shortly after that I see a whole bunch of photoediting, sound-conversion, slide who and hell know what else installed on my computer. To top it off - the home page of both browsers I use changed to NCH, the Google Toolbar was replaced with something from NCH - of course, without anyone asking my permission. And that is with antivirus running. When I tried to uninstall the unwanted software using Windows Control Panel, the programs refused to uninstall, informing that I should finish the previuos "installation". (probably, another malicious code did not finish running by the time I switched off the internet connection just in case). I removed the NCH add-on in Firefox, changed the home page back to what it was - but when I restart Firefox, everything is back - which means the NCH gadgets and their home page. I had better luck with Explorer - there it cleaned up the NCH from the first try. Now back to uninstalling. I found the NCH folder and in the subfolders there (some 5 or 7 of them) were separate uninstallers for each one of their wonderful programs. Just one of them worked - the rest asked you for a feedback, tell you that all is uninstalled - and nothing changed. So I cleaned the registry with regedit - searching for "NCH Software" and other names in their folders and deleting each one of them. Still did not fix the Firefox. Now I have to run a deep virus scan and perhaps, restore the system to some previous points

2. Which one is more difficult, development of software or the testing of software?

Testing is a kind of skill related work whereas software writing is related to thinking (If developers implements his own algorithms). So software writing is more difficult.Skill can be acquired but thinking can not

3. What is the purpose of OCR software?

Optical character recognition refers to the branch of computer science that involves reading text from paper and translating the images into a form that the computer can manipulate (for example, into ASCII codes). An OCR system enables you to take a book or a magazine article, feed it directly into an electronic computer file, and then edit the file using a word processor. All OCR systems include an optical scanner for reading text, and sophisticated software for analyzing images. Most OCR systems use a combination of hardware (specialized circuit boards) and software to recognize characters, although some inexpensive systems do it entirely through software. Advanced OCR systems can read text in large variety of fonts, but they still have difficulty with handwritten text.

4. Ripping software for Mac [duplicate]

For copy protected dvds, do this :1, Use MacTheRipper to remove the protection.Handbrake is the best software now for DVD-movie ripping. Playback, just use Quicktime w/ Perian, Nice Player, or VLC.

5. Possessive pronouns and software titles

There are some goods that are purchasable and customizable, that provide the feeling that the good you own is "one-of-a-kind." With respect to cars, there is a level of true customization, and also a level of endearment, that leads to it being referred to as a personal possession.In the case of literature, whether it's of the written, spoken, recorded, or engineered kind, the concept of an urtext exists; that is, an authentic, immutable property of original literature that marks it as authoritative. Works of literature are titled for this reason -- to always identify a work as what it is. Normally we would purchase only a copy of these urtexts. In other cases, we may purchase versions of these, which may or may not be authoritative, but they still are not exactly customizable. However, you do not own the literature, you own a copy of it.For the common person to possess something truly authentic, unique, and authoritative, all in one item, is not so common. It's far more common for that original authentic source to be one that copies are created from, that people own. Because literature tends to be regarded as a collective, social experience in this way, we normally express that we do not own Pride and Prejudice but we may own a copy of it. However, even though the car may have already been built with options when you choose it at the lot, it's the fact that the one that is chosen and the one that's right next to it that looks the same from the outside may actually be very different inside, so it has been personalized or chosen to be yours, unlike others