Amen to the parent. I ALWAYS write "CHECK ID" on the back of my card with a Sharpie (R), and I EXPECT the cashier to ask for it. They often apologize--"Sorry, but I have to check your ID. The card says so."--to which I reply with a big smile and a "No, *thank you* for protecting me from unauthorized purchases. I actually get kinda mad when people don't ask for my ID."
I have to disagree with most of your post. It's not that people are too stupid, or that they would find things "significantly difficult" to try something else. Actually, they simply REFUSE to try something else. I, for one, find OpenOffice Writer and MS Word 2003 to be extremely similar. Take your example about footnotes, um, for example. A teacher wanted me to add footnotes, and I said it was too difficult...I would rather do endnotes because footnotes get shifted off the page if I add a line of text. The teacher then explained that I should click "Insert > Citation > Footnote" or something like that in Word. Well, I don't have word, so at first I thought that I was screwed. I figured I would try anyway. Turns out it's easier or just as easy in Writer: "Insert > Footnote." If people would simply TRY, we wouldn't have this kind of problem.
Having said that, I just finished a course on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Expression Web, and Access 2007. I officially LOVE the ribbon, and I can't wait until (hopefully) OpenOffice implements this feature. It is SO much more logical! I wish I had it in front of me now to give examples. Basically, everything is on a ribbon at the top. I find that much more convenient than having to dig through umpteen menus and submenues, then dig through 12 tabs in a dialog box, then if it's not there I'd have to dig through the menus again. No...the MS Ribbon wins this round.
The major problem I had with that course, though, was the book. Most of what we learned was done by simply reading the book and never having to look up at the screen. I never really knew what I was doing (especially in Access) because it didn't really matter, so long as it compared properly to the picture in the book. Still, if people know how to use one word processor, they can use any of them, given some time.
I really like McAfee SiteAdvisor to help me decide. It's available as a Firefox extension and turns green if a site is not known to have any bad downloads or send unwanted emails. It's gray if unknown, and red if a site has malicious downloads or sends out a lot of emails. It's by no means an excuse for not using your brain FIRST, but it helps sometimes.
>>Next you need to think about what would happen if a derivative work >>in form of translation wouldn't need permission from the copyright holder: >>I could translated Harry Potter into swedish and sell copies as I saw fit >>since JK Rowlings wouldn't have anything to say about it...
You are comparing apples and oranges. These Polish people were creating Subtitle files to be added to a movie. In other words, people could theoretically go purchase an English-speaking movie, then rip it and add the subtitles. There is^H^Hshould be nothing illegal about translating a movie. They are adding TEXT to FILM. People pay for the FILM--or the content--and the TEXT helps them understand what's going on. This is additive, without taking credit for or copying the main content.
With a BOOK, however, the text *is* the main content. If you translate it for yourself, that's fine. If you read it to someone else while translating, that's fine. But if you SELL a *copy* of the book, that's wrong. Now if there was a way to *add* a translation to the book, so long as the person receiving the translation had already purchased a copy, there would be no problem.
Yes, you are correct in that they are an equal driving force in the movies, but just because they are equal does NOT mean that we should use the masculine form of the word to speak of women. Should the current Monarch of England be called King Elizabeth II?
Man I hate it when professors do that. I much prefer for a professor to say "...and you need at least 1 (or 2) sources from a REAL BOOK."
As for Wiki, I use it all the time for basic concepts in my paper, but for really important stuff I dig deeper.
And how old are y'all (parent and grandparent to my post)? I'm 20, and the Internet wasn't even widely available when I was in elementary school; the only available resource was an Encyclopedia. In fact, I got my first computer in 5th grade, and only about 5 about of 20 in the class had a computer, and only 2 or 3 of those had AOL (which equaled the Internet to us then, lol).
AMEN. I use Windows for many of the same reasons, except for games, which I don't really play.
I just installed Linux again on my Gateway 400vtx laptop. I've tried many many distros of linux, including (but not limited to): Knoppix, Fedora, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linspire, and (most recently) openSuSE. Last night, I finally found my XP install disc and today I've been re-updating to SP2. Here's why:
Ubuntu (live cd) and SuSE wouldn't even boot for a while, thanks to not being able to see a literally burned up internal wireless network card that I don't even use because it's wireless B. Why would they freeze during the boot instead of just booting and forgetting about it? Knoppix works, so that just doesn't make sense since SuSE has MS backing them now. I manually removed the internal card, and bingo - it starts up. Of course, this isn't really a major problem with Linux since I got it fixed; however, XP just *works.*
Knoppix was the ONLY one to support my Netgear WG511 PCMCIA network card right out of the box. And by support I mean it works fairly well, but not like it does under Windows. I couldn't even get SuSE to install the drivers for it because it was missing a C compiler or something. The same lack of C compiler also prevented me from using gaim. Of course, this is actually more of a problem with Netgear not offering Linux drivers (something I didn't even consider or know about several years ago when I bought the card). With Windows, it's easy: just install a little.exe (I couldn't connect to the internet to get the drivers automatically - I need my wireless card for that, which isn't install...catch 22), and plug in the card. Again, XP just *works.*
My biggest problem with EVERY version of Linux was that NONE of them (as in no Distro I've ever used) has supported my video card, an integrated Intel 82852/82855 WG/WGE piece of $#!+. And by supported I mean it works at 800x600 on Linux, but 1024x768 on Windows. I tried everything: drivers, editing my X11 files, etc. Once again, this is more of Intel's fault for not offering decent drivers (even though they had some labeled "linux"), but XP just *works.*
Another major problem was seeing my ATP ToughDrive 2GB usb thumbdrive. Linux could open my Sandisk cruzer micro just fine, but not my ATP. I didn't have time to fool with that, mostly because I was too sick of 800x600.
Now I am happily running XP again. Don't get me wrong - I *LOVE* open source, particularly Gaim, OpenOffice, VLC, and Firefox. I've used Windows 3.1 and up through XP, and the others have been bug ridden and would simply crash the system if a single file screwed up. XP rarely crashes on me. I haven't used Vista, but doubt I ever will because of the insane requirements for it. In some ways I miss my few short days of using nothing but Linux - particularly *not* having to use the mouse. I liked just using the keyboard to get around. My next computer will either be an Apple (a friend just WON a macbook pro intel core 2 duo and I am so jealous!) or I will build a system generic enough to run Linux (with Beryl...oh so pretty!).
So am I a Microsoft XP fanboy - No. I HATE IE, the Zune, MS Word, and any Windows OS (except XP).
Am I an XP fanboy - Maybe. But that's more because it works *well* for me, and nobody makes my hardware work with linux.
HELL NO. I HATE COINS! Why the Hell would you want to carry around pockets full of coins, anyway? Don't you remember the Sacajawea Dollar? It was a miserable failure! Or maybe you carry a purse, which is fine for coins. But me - I carry a bilfold, knife, lighter, and contact eye drops...I don't need anything else in my pockets.
In an actual response to the devaluing of the $1 bill, the treasury has released many more $2 bills - so head on over to the bank and get you some of them.
about:config > new boolean > extensions.checkcompatibility > False
That works for fixing most of your extensions...and I only have 1 that doesn't work - Google send to phone.
actually...I don't have ANY of the problems listed. It's probably some buggy extensions...
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>>but that doesn't mean that everything is
>>all roses north of the 49th parallel.
49th parallel? What the hell happened "Fifty-Four Forty, or Fight"?
Amen to the parent. I ALWAYS write "CHECK ID" on the back of my card with a Sharpie (R), and I EXPECT the cashier to ask for it. They often apologize--"Sorry, but I have to check your ID. The card says so."--to which I reply with a big smile and a "No, *thank you* for protecting me from unauthorized purchases. I actually get kinda mad when people don't ask for my ID."
Ctrl+K will go to the search box in Firefox.
Use Ctrl+E to go to the search box in IE7, or press Alt+D and tab twice.
I have to disagree with most of your post. It's not that people are too stupid, or that they would find things "significantly difficult" to try something else. Actually, they simply REFUSE to try something else. I, for one, find OpenOffice Writer and MS Word 2003 to be extremely similar. Take your example about footnotes, um, for example. A teacher wanted me to add footnotes, and I said it was too difficult...I would rather do endnotes because footnotes get shifted off the page if I add a line of text. The teacher then explained that I should click "Insert > Citation > Footnote" or something like that in Word. Well, I don't have word, so at first I thought that I was screwed. I figured I would try anyway. Turns out it's easier or just as easy in Writer: "Insert > Footnote." If people would simply TRY, we wouldn't have this kind of problem.
Having said that, I just finished a course on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Expression Web, and Access 2007. I officially LOVE the ribbon, and I can't wait until (hopefully) OpenOffice implements this feature. It is SO much more logical! I wish I had it in front of me now to give examples. Basically, everything is on a ribbon at the top. I find that much more convenient than having to dig through umpteen menus and submenues, then dig through 12 tabs in a dialog box, then if it's not there I'd have to dig through the menus again. No...the MS Ribbon wins this round.
The major problem I had with that course, though, was the book. Most of what we learned was done by simply reading the book and never having to look up at the screen. I never really knew what I was doing (especially in Access) because it didn't really matter, so long as it compared properly to the picture in the book. Still, if people know how to use one word processor, they can use any of them, given some time.
I really like McAfee SiteAdvisor to help me decide. It's available as a Firefox extension and turns green if a site is not known to have any bad downloads or send unwanted emails. It's gray if unknown, and red if a site has malicious downloads or sends out a lot of emails. It's by no means an excuse for not using your brain FIRST, but it helps sometimes.
>>Next you need to think about what would happen if a derivative work
>>in form of translation wouldn't need permission from the copyright holder:
>>I could translated Harry Potter into swedish and sell copies as I saw fit
>>since JK Rowlings wouldn't have anything to say about it...
You are comparing apples and oranges. These Polish people were creating Subtitle files to be added to a movie. In other words, people could theoretically go purchase an English-speaking movie, then rip it and add the subtitles. There is^H^Hshould be nothing illegal about translating a movie. They are adding TEXT to FILM. People pay for the FILM--or the content--and the TEXT helps them understand what's going on. This is additive, without taking credit for or copying the main content.
With a BOOK, however, the text *is* the main content. If you translate it for yourself, that's fine. If you read it to someone else while translating, that's fine. But if you SELL a *copy* of the book, that's wrong. Now if there was a way to *add* a translation to the book, so long as the person receiving the translation had already purchased a copy, there would be no problem.
Yes, you are correct in that they are an equal driving force in the movies, but just because they are equal does NOT mean that we should use the masculine form of the word to speak of women. Should the current Monarch of England be called King Elizabeth II?
Good thing the US of A doesn't train terrorists, or give weapons to Osama bin Laden, or anything like that...
...oh, wait...
My father-in-law bought his wife an HP computer for Christmas that came with an HD-DVD burner.
I think you are confusing Foxit with Firefox. It was Firefox that rescued me and my fiancee from the burning fires of Hell (aka IE).
Man I hate it when professors do that. I much prefer for a professor to say "...and you need at least 1 (or 2) sources from a REAL BOOK."
As for Wiki, I use it all the time for basic concepts in my paper, but for really important stuff I dig deeper.
And how old are y'all (parent and grandparent to my post)? I'm 20, and the Internet wasn't even widely available when I was in elementary school; the only available resource was an Encyclopedia. In fact, I got my first computer in 5th grade, and only about 5 about of 20 in the class had a computer, and only 2 or 3 of those had AOL (which equaled the Internet to us then, lol).
Wow, that thing is crazy ugly. It looks more like an eel toward the back than a shark.
AMEN. I use Windows for many of the same reasons, except for games, which I don't really play. I just installed Linux again on my Gateway 400vtx laptop. I've tried many many distros of linux, including (but not limited to): Knoppix, Fedora, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linspire, and (most recently) openSuSE. Last night, I finally found my XP install disc and today I've been re-updating to SP2. Here's why: Ubuntu (live cd) and SuSE wouldn't even boot for a while, thanks to not being able to see a literally burned up internal wireless network card that I don't even use because it's wireless B. Why would they freeze during the boot instead of just booting and forgetting about it? Knoppix works, so that just doesn't make sense since SuSE has MS backing them now. I manually removed the internal card, and bingo - it starts up. Of course, this isn't really a major problem with Linux since I got it fixed; however, XP just *works.* Knoppix was the ONLY one to support my Netgear WG511 PCMCIA network card right out of the box. And by support I mean it works fairly well, but not like it does under Windows. I couldn't even get SuSE to install the drivers for it because it was missing a C compiler or something. The same lack of C compiler also prevented me from using gaim. Of course, this is actually more of a problem with Netgear not offering Linux drivers (something I didn't even consider or know about several years ago when I bought the card). With Windows, it's easy: just install a little .exe (I couldn't connect to the internet to get the drivers automatically - I need my wireless card for that, which isn't install...catch 22), and plug in the card. Again, XP just *works.*
My biggest problem with EVERY version of Linux was that NONE of them (as in no Distro I've ever used) has supported my video card, an integrated Intel 82852/82855 WG/WGE piece of $#!+. And by supported I mean it works at 800x600 on Linux, but 1024x768 on Windows. I tried everything: drivers, editing my X11 files, etc. Once again, this is more of Intel's fault for not offering decent drivers (even though they had some labeled "linux"), but XP just *works.*
Another major problem was seeing my ATP ToughDrive 2GB usb thumbdrive. Linux could open my Sandisk cruzer micro just fine, but not my ATP. I didn't have time to fool with that, mostly because I was too sick of 800x600.
Now I am happily running XP again. Don't get me wrong - I *LOVE* open source, particularly Gaim, OpenOffice, VLC, and Firefox. I've used Windows 3.1 and up through XP, and the others have been bug ridden and would simply crash the system if a single file screwed up. XP rarely crashes on me. I haven't used Vista, but doubt I ever will because of the insane requirements for it. In some ways I miss my few short days of using nothing but Linux - particularly *not* having to use the mouse. I liked just using the keyboard to get around. My next computer will either be an Apple (a friend just WON a macbook pro intel core 2 duo and I am so jealous!) or I will build a system generic enough to run Linux (with Beryl...oh so pretty!).
So am I a Microsoft XP fanboy - No. I HATE IE, the Zune, MS Word, and any Windows OS (except XP).
Am I an XP fanboy - Maybe. But that's more because it works *well* for me, and nobody makes my hardware work with linux.
Ok, I could go with that: remove the penny, move $1 to coin, and Add $2 bills.
HELL NO. I HATE COINS! Why the Hell would you want to carry around pockets full of coins, anyway? Don't you remember the Sacajawea Dollar? It was a miserable failure! Or maybe you carry a purse, which is fine for coins. But me - I carry a bilfold, knife, lighter, and contact eye drops...I don't need anything else in my pockets. In an actual response to the devaluing of the $1 bill, the treasury has released many more $2 bills - so head on over to the bank and get you some of them.
about:config > new boolean > extensions.checkcompatibility > False That works for fixing most of your extensions...and I only have 1 that doesn't work - Google send to phone. actually...I don't have ANY of the problems listed. It's probably some buggy extensions...