Hrmm...cut off their connection, or ninja special-ops team to take them out...cut off their connection, or ninja special-ops team to take them out...tough decision.
I'm guessing the U.S. doesn't have an extradition treaty with Latvia?
Spend the time learning how to use Open Office? Dude, your in the wrong University then. I'm talking about a Community College here and 60% of the students I surveyed managed.
You do realize the interface is almost the same, the hotkeys are the same, the layout is the same....etc, etc., right?
With about 5 minutes of reconfiguring, it looks and feels exactly the same as MS Office. Hell, I'm pretty sure you can create MS Office template clones.
Another thing I forgot to mention in my first post. Of the people I asked in my survey, three of them had a point I had not considered. In many of my classes, students have had to do presentations and MANY used PowerPoint to do so. They also had presentations fail completely because of some stupid problem actually pulling up the presentation IN CLASS, with everyone there and waiting. Those three I mentioned said they have not had a SINGLE experience such as that since they started using the Open Office equivalent of PowerPoint. I think the reason they mentioned it is because they specifically remember the embarrassment of having shit fail in front of a class and instructor while using MS Office and that, so far, Open Office hasn't put them on the spot like that.
So, it's not just documents these people are using. One of them also mentioned his preference for the spreadsheet app included with OpenOffice, although I personally haven't used it.
I did a recent verbal survey in a literature class at the community college I am attending and 45% of the class was using it exclusively(other then the forced use of MS Office at the college labs).
I did it again at the end of the semester and that number had changed to 60%. It is possible that my first survey prompted the increase, but I also asked if the newer users preferred it over MS's product. ALL of them said they did. I then asked WHY.
The most common answer was that it was completely cross-compatible as far as opening MS created files...and it was free. The students could create files on the school MS system, then go home and open it in Open Office. And that it was free. Another reason they gave was that it was free.
I understand that there are some issues with bouncing back and forth between MS Office and Open Office, but most students choose one or the other. And its free.
As you might expect, students are not keen on spending upwards of $200 on MS Office when they can get Open Office for...free.
Alcohol has a maximum limit of.08% in my state. What will the limits for all the others be? There HAS to be a limit to rule out environmental absorption(i.e., walking through a room full of pot smokers) just as alcohol has a limit to rule out DUIs from gargling with mouthwash, etc.
Who defines all this? D.AR.E. lobbyists? Certified medical personnel? The DEA? Individual townships/cities?
From the summary: "is there anything that can be done to hinder companies from adding advertisements retroactively"...and you nailed it. Don't buy their products anymore. While not a retroactive solution, proactive is better then no solution. When they see sales start to drop, along with the increase in complaints, the money starts to talk.
Back in 1990, after the Loma Prieta Earthquake, there was certain bank (damaged by the quake) that was demolished right downtown in Santa Cruz, California. One day I was walking past and noticed in the debris/rubble pile the night deposit box, bread-box style door hanging open, still mounted in a fair portion of the wall it was attached to.
I realized it was exactly the same kind of door that was used on MY banks night deposit box just a few blocks down the street, a bank that still did business.
I had a very boring job at the time and had lots of time to daydream. It is here that I devised my plan.
Late in the night, head down with a pickup and load up the night deposit box from the rubble pile. Take it home. Reproduce the wall the other one, the one at my bank, is mounted in. As it turns out, the night deposit box there was located in a sort of wall "extension" that one could reproduce, lay the fake right over the top (quickly unloaded from the back of a pickup) and as long as it looked right would appear no different. Simply leave it in place with the lock modified so ANY key will open it.
Set it up late Sunday night, around 11pm, and wait for the night deposits from all the businesses that cater to the tourist industry in Santa Cruz every weekend. Head back around 5 am, swing the false wall out of the way, pick up all the deposits, and walk away...
There was even a parking garage across the street for spotters.
Alas, I have morals, so it shall remain a daydream.
"...and seems to implicate just about everything you can think of: the atmosphere, geologic activity, emergent effects from complex system dynamics, boundary layers, energy dissipation, fluid turbulence, climate change, dissolved minerals, the rotation of the earth, gravitational effects of the moon, etc., etc..."
In a possibly-not-so-futuristic World at War where AI bots, in "Terminator" fashion, have essentially the same decision making processes as us, a world where we SHOULD be on a level playing field with our enemy, humans will always have the upper hand.
I agree that the leaps and bounds were exactly what they were. Leaps and bounds.
My point is that none of them, regardless of level of innovation, were that much of increase in my standard of living. Certainly not worth paying more for, and in some examples, features that I personally consider a nuisance.
So what if my ringtone is different. I'm supposed to pay more for that? Lame example, but hopefully you get the point.
I got my Star Trek Communicator. I don't need a damned Tri-Corder, because I'm the fucking Captain.
Slashdot Mirror
"I don't see public pressure stopping this."
I applied very little pressure and it stopped completely. I didn't buy any of their fucking products.
Hrmm...cut off their connection, or ninja special-ops team to take them out...cut off their connection, or ninja special-ops team to take them out...tough decision.
I'm guessing the U.S. doesn't have an extradition treaty with Latvia?
But Open Office is free...that means it cost $0.
I think that is significantly less then $60.
Borked cache?
I restarted Firefox and it fixed it. Did the latest patch introduce something oozing and nasty?
Yeah, but Open Office is free...I did mention that, didn't I?
"Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one." A. J. Liebling
I guess we know now that Rupert is only interested in the money...
OK, now I'm confusilated.
Anyone else having /. scrambling the order of posts like I just had it do?
Whoops, responded to wrong post.
Intended to respond to GF678 (1453005).
Sorry.
Spend the time learning how to use Open Office? Dude, your in the wrong University then. I'm talking about a Community College here and 60% of the students I surveyed managed.
You do realize the interface is almost the same, the hotkeys are the same, the layout is the same....etc, etc., right?
With about 5 minutes of reconfiguring, it looks and feels exactly the same as MS Office. Hell, I'm pretty sure you can create MS Office template clones.
Another thing I forgot to mention in my first post. Of the people I asked in my survey, three of them had a point I had not considered. In many of my classes, students have had to do presentations and MANY used PowerPoint to do so. They also had presentations fail completely because of some stupid problem actually pulling up the presentation IN CLASS, with everyone there and waiting. Those three I mentioned said they have not had a SINGLE experience such as that since they started using the Open Office equivalent of PowerPoint. I think the reason they mentioned it is because they specifically remember the embarrassment of having shit fail in front of a class and instructor while using MS Office and that, so far, Open Office hasn't put them on the spot like that.
So, it's not just documents these people are using. One of them also mentioned his preference for the spreadsheet app included with OpenOffice, although I personally haven't used it.
Same here.
Combined with DVD43_4-4-0_Setup.exe you can burn/play anything. DVD43 eliminates all those pesky region locks and such.
Da link... http://www.dvd43.com/
Open Office + Thunderbird?
Works for me, and has for quite some time. It really isn't that hard to Control-c and Control-v.
Thanks for the info. Enough reason to delete it from my download folder.
That's interesting.
I did a recent verbal survey in a literature class at the community college I am attending and 45% of the class was using it exclusively(other then the forced use of MS Office at the college labs).
I did it again at the end of the semester and that number had changed to 60%. It is possible that my first survey prompted the increase, but I also asked if the newer users preferred it over MS's product. ALL of them said they did. I then asked WHY.
The most common answer was that it was completely cross-compatible as far as opening MS created files...and it was free. The students could create files on the school MS system, then go home and open it in Open Office. And that it was free. Another reason they gave was that it was free.
I understand that there are some issues with bouncing back and forth between MS Office and Open Office, but most students choose one or the other. And its free.
As you might expect, students are not keen on spending upwards of $200 on MS Office when they can get Open Office for...free.
Did I mention that it is free?
Thanks.
I couldn't make it to page 4 before it got /.-ed.
That ratio for ads/content is sitting right about 50/50 on the Comcast cable I have in the Pacific NW of the U.S.A.
Its not really worth paying for anymore(I won't be when I move next month).
Yes, I agree. Specific molecules and all that.
But how MUCH?
Alcohol has a maximum limit of .08% in my state. What will the limits for all the others be? There HAS to be a limit to rule out environmental absorption(i.e., walking through a room full of pot smokers) just as alcohol has a limit to rule out DUIs from gargling with mouthwash, etc.
Who defines all this? D.AR.E. lobbyists? Certified medical personnel? The DEA? Individual townships/cities?
To mod or reply...to mod or reply...
REPLY!
From the summary: ...and you nailed it. Don't buy their products anymore. While not a retroactive solution, proactive is better then no solution.
"is there anything that can be done to hinder companies from adding advertisements retroactively"
When they see sales start to drop, along with the increase in complaints, the money starts to talk.
In all honesty, I couldn't understand any of them (the germans) anyways.
Hell, Google can barely understand them...
Back in 1990, after the Loma Prieta Earthquake, there was certain bank (damaged by the quake) that was demolished right downtown in Santa Cruz, California. One day I was walking past and noticed in the debris/rubble pile the night deposit box, bread-box style door hanging open, still mounted in a fair portion of the wall it was attached to.
I realized it was exactly the same kind of door that was used on MY banks night deposit box just a few blocks down the street, a bank that still did business.
I had a very boring job at the time and had lots of time to daydream. It is here that I devised my plan.
Late in the night, head down with a pickup and load up the night deposit box from the rubble pile. Take it home. Reproduce the wall the other one, the one at my bank, is mounted in. As it turns out, the night deposit box there was located in a sort of wall "extension" that one could reproduce, lay the fake right over the top (quickly unloaded from the back of a pickup) and as long as it looked right would appear no different. Simply leave it in place with the lock modified so ANY key will open it.
Set it up late Sunday night, around 11pm, and wait for the night deposits from all the businesses that cater to the tourist industry in Santa Cruz every weekend. Head back around 5 am, swing the false wall out of the way, pick up all the deposits, and walk away...
There was even a parking garage across the street for spotters.
Alas, I have morals, so it shall remain a daydream.
Durnit.
Forgot specifics.
Note 5 on the Wiki page. Regarding Hydrostasis.
"...and seems to implicate just about everything you can think of: the atmosphere, geologic activity, emergent effects from complex system dynamics, boundary layers, energy dissipation, fluid turbulence, climate change, dissolved minerals, the rotation of the earth, gravitational effects of the moon, etc., etc..."
You forgot Sea Cow farts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Cow
So, what is this now?
Tracking sexual predators is the new Geo-caching?
In a possibly-not-so-futuristic World at War where AI bots, in "Terminator" fashion, have essentially the same decision making processes as us, a world where we SHOULD be on a level playing field with our enemy, humans will always have the upper hand.
Intuition. The "Hunch".
Saved my bacon more times then fast feet.
IANAL and I know that is a bad idea. (wow. almost spelled that "I ANAL")
There are legal means of addressing the situation, and contempt of court is not one of them.
I agree that the leaps and bounds were exactly what they were. Leaps and bounds.
My point is that none of them, regardless of level of innovation, were that much of increase in my standard of living. Certainly not worth paying more for, and in some examples, features that I personally consider a nuisance.
So what if my ringtone is different. I'm supposed to pay more for that? Lame example, but hopefully you get the point.
I got my Star Trek Communicator. I don't need a damned Tri-Corder, because I'm the fucking Captain.