Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org

sander writes "As noted on linxfr.org, Microsoft has published a competitive guide on OpenOffice.org 1.1 vs Microsoft Office. Some of the weirder things they claim in it is that by choosing MS Office over OpenOffice.org one is protected from the threat of viruses. But the giant seems to be sweating -- and with a good reason."

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PDF link

[Zangief]

I despise this trend about considering PDF valid web links. Depending on what you seek, you can find a lot of links to PDFs, which are generally not navegable, and weight a lot. I don't think that the google option "view as html" is such a good idea. They are just validating the post of PDFs on the web.

FR

[Marc2k]

First Reply.

Church

[Anonymous Coward]

Link

DEBIAN NOOB QUESTION

[Anonymous Coward]

I just downloaded the current sid images using jigdo, then booted from the first CD and after making some choices (keyboard layout etc.) I was presented with a menu. For some reason there seems to be no menu option there to actually install Debian. I can do stuff like "launch a shell", "verify cdrom integrity" and "reboot" however.

Am I missing something or did I just download and burn 14 CDs containing a distribution with a broken installer?

If I cannot install sid using the CD images, what is the preferred method then? Install woody and upgrade? Install sarge and upgrade?

Re:DEBIAN NOOB QUESTION

[Mystical Presence]

I've always just installed Woody and then do an upgrade. Never had much luck with the jigdo images and the 14 CD's are outdated very quickly.

But then again I have a local mirror (ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Linux/debian/debian -nonUS) and I'm installing off the University's CA3 connection.

A better free alternative to Open Office

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't wait for the day that Bush is relected. It's not that Bush is a great president, but that it will piss of the EUrinals. Anything to piss off the likes of Chirac and other Eurotrash socialists is a good thing. Bush will win
decisively and there is nothing that a bunch of slashdorks can do about it. I advise all of you leftist Americans to move to the EUrinal so that you can be equally miserable in the socialist paradise that is the EU.

pdf on mozilla

[Anonymous Coward]

why does it keep acroread.exe in memory even when i close the mozilla window with the pdf in it?
cant anyone please fix this?

Re:Unresolved bugs.

[Anonymous Coward]

wow - that really is insightful

What about Abiword?

[Anonymous Coward]

The reason that most Americans hate Europeans is because of the constant appeasement of terrorist organizations like Hamas and the constant need to go further down the socialist/fascist path. John Kerry had to quickly renounce any foreign endorsement of his candidacy because he knew that an endorsement from the likes of Chirac will be a deathnail on his candiacy. Americans are baffled by the perpetual slide of countries like France into 3rd worldom. All of the misery that Europe has caused in the world wars is not forgotten. The bottom line is that Europe cannot be trusted.

SR

[Anonymous Coward]

Second Reply.

Re:Fallacies

[TehHustler]

Why *THE HOLY FUCK* has this been modded a troll? It's his opinion, it seems well informed, and well researched based on this users experienced. This is another one of those "HOW DARE HE SIDE WITH MICROSOFT!!!111oneoneone" things isnt it?

Re:some stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

Hitler, Sadam, Bin Ladin, Jeffery Dahlmer, Steve Balmer and my mainman believed in god. So what? I believe in many gods on even numbered days and one on odd numbered days.

OT: ICBM guidence systems

[Stephen Samuel]

At this point, I really don't care if ICBM guidance systems work.. Consider the two possibilities:

1. They don't get used... the fact that an guidance system is bogus is pretty much an academic question
2. They do get used.. If people start launching ICBMs, I really don't care where they land... I'f I'm still alive 8 hours later, I'll be too busy, between thanking/cursing god that I'm alive and digging for survivors, to care about who "won". I expect that it will be the same no the other side, too.

   "I don't know what weapons WW3 will be fought with, but I can say that WW4 will be fought with clubs and rocks."
   Albert Einstein

your sig

[Anonymous Coward]

>Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein believed in God. So do I.

So did Hitler.

Logical fallacy: appeal to authority

Not to mention scientific cosmology in Galileo's and Kepler's day wasn't even remotely advanced as it is today. You would almost be convincing if you stuck with post-Darwin scientists, but youre suffering from that fallacy.

Re:your sig

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

You didn't post with your name... but I'll respond anyway.

If you want to play logic hardball, so be it.

In order to assess a statement according to the rules of logic, it should be of the form: Statement A, therefore Statement B.

You have mistaken my sig for an assertion of this type. If you read my sig, however, you will not be able to find a "therefore" because my statment is of the form Statement A - and that's it. If you would like to disagree with my Statment A, by all means do. But don't accuse me of making a fallacious argument just because you read to much into it and misunderstood the logic. My sig is meant as a counter example to those who think that only the weak-minded beleive in God.

If you would like to argue this logic further, I would be more than happy to indulge you.

Re:some stuff

[Le Marteau]

Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein believed in God. So do I.

Belief. Ewww. Do you believe the sun will rise? No. Do you believe YOU exist? Hopefully not. Why would ANYONE 'believe' in anything, when KNOWLEDGE is available? Why do you have 'believe' in anything? Why can't you just be satisfied that 'you ARE', and you KNOW it, not just BELIEVE it, and the World, in all its Glory and Magnificenc, EXISTS and you KNOW IT! Why is than not enough for you, that you've got to 'believe' in something?

Disgusting, actually, how willingly people are ready to through out their logical faculties for a bunch of tripe. Without a doubt, the True Reality is Magnificent and certainly Holy, but why 'believe' a bunch of stories? Get a grip, my man, live as a thinking, spiritual individual and not like a superstitious primitive!

Re:Unresolved bugs.

[Anonymous Coward]

man, all I have are aluminum pans. stinkin' rich MS elitists.