Opera is late to the party here, won't even be in 10.0 initial release
That's fine because websites don't support it yet, either. Buy the time major websites will support it, Opera will have had a version or three out already.
Hell, the sites probably won't support HTML 5 video until after IE does.
That's why you never, ever send documents meant for reading in Word format, only PDF. Even different versions of MSO on different hardware will make a difference. Even a different printer driver installed can make MSO documents appear differently! MSO, OOo, and other word processors are designed for creating documents for print. Collaboration and other features have been tacked on over the years, but they are usually used in homogeneous environments, business where everyone is on the same hardware.
When you send a document for reading, send it in PDF. Any OS, even a cellular phone, can read it and display it exactly as you intended.
TextMaker and especially PlanMaker are great software. Even on Linux, those used to MS Excel can perform 99% of the special functions in Excel, I'm talking about those Excel-abuses that you read about on thedailywtf every so often. The program only has two major flaws that I could find:
1) It feels like Wine or Java. It does not use the system's open / save dialogues, system colours or other settings, etc. The open / save dialogues are so bad that they are deal breakers for me. While I would prefer that they use the native KDE dialogues as even OOo has found a way to do that in Kubuntu, even the crappy GTK dialogues would suffice.
2) Terrible unicode support! This, from a non-American vendor, who's native language includes characters outside of ASCII. That is completely unacceptable. RTL support is non-existent in TextMaker and PlanMaker, which is a deal breaker for Hebrew, Farsi, and Arabic speakers. That's only about one third of the worlds's population which cannot use the software due to RTL issues, and of the remainder 95% will have unicode problems.
Even if they take care of those issues, the OOo mailing list support is terrific. I am a casual user, I do not have the time nor patience to learn the office suite inside and out. But if I cannot find what I need in ten minutes of googling and RTFM, the OOo mailing list is very friendly and often come up with very creative solutions. That alone is enough to keep me using their arguably inferior product. And OOo 3.1 really isn't that bad. I know of at least 20 MS Office users who have switched to OOo due to it's rather intuitive interface.
The moons are tiny, and not round. They do not form symetrical cresents like ours does, and they show absolutely no surface detail other than their unusual shape from the Martian surface. Oh, and they are tiny.
Storm implies rain, as other commenters have mentioned. However, this is more than just wind, it is is a phenomenon typical of Mars but rare on Earth: very small tornadoes. The Mars folks call these "dustdevils" as the appear and move similar to Taz. So "wind" is inappropriate, "storm" implies water, and "dustdevil" sounds weird to the layman. "Wind event" suffers none of the drawbacks, and the less-inquiring layman will not ask any more questions.
Even as a KDE user, I find Zim to be the pest note-taking application there is. It even support checklists, something no other note taking software does as far as I know. It does all the little "wiki" things too like linking pages, hierarchies, and so forth. It's written in Perl and GTK, with a Python port in the pipes.
If they really are going to try to crack every email , it would be fun to send a highly encrypted email , containg only large amounts of gibberish , to a friend everyday.
Sounds like a great way to get them to harass and investigate your friend. Your goal to drain their resources will just give them legitimacy to switch to more invasive tactics.
If they cannot break your code, they just might break the legs of someone who can.
How is definite evidence different from regular evidence?
It is different from supposed evidence. Remember, we have not gotten their yet, so until someone pulls up something wet there are varying degrees of "evidence".
hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
********* see!
hunter2
doesnt look like stars to me
*******
thats what I see
oh, really?
Absolutely
you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
haha, does that look funny to you?
lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
awesome!
wait, how do you know my pw?
er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
oh, ok.
Seriously, wouldn't it be neat if there was new evidence of water on Mars based on hi res pictures and someone would actually link to said pictures? That would be neat-o.
Don't get me wrong, Defrosting Spots Over Polygonal Ground sounds interesting and all, but...
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Opera is late to the party here, won't even be in 10.0 initial release
That's fine because websites don't support it yet, either. Buy the time major websites will support it, Opera will have had a version or three out already.
Hell, the sites probably won't support HTML 5 video until after IE does.
Well, if everyone in slashdot was like me, we all wanted to see if it flaps like a vulture or like a hummingbird before posting...
European vulture, or African?
0 comments and it's already slashdotted.
What the hell is this? Who are all the noobs who went off to RTFA?!? Has /. been trolled?
fap fap fap
That's what singing meat sounds like, right?
People can't drive cars so now we give the same people flying cars...
Flying cars? It's a nano flying vehicle, not a nanny flying vehicle.
That's why you never, ever send documents meant for reading in Word format, only PDF. Even different versions of MSO on different hardware will make a difference. Even a different printer driver installed can make MSO documents appear differently! MSO, OOo, and other word processors are designed for creating documents for print. Collaboration and other features have been tacked on over the years, but they are usually used in homogeneous environments, business where everyone is on the same hardware.
When you send a document for reading, send it in PDF. Any OS, even a cellular phone, can read it and display it exactly as you intended.
TextMaker
TextMaker and especially PlanMaker are great software. Even on Linux, those used to MS Excel can perform 99% of the special functions in Excel, I'm talking about those Excel-abuses that you read about on thedailywtf every so often. The program only has two major flaws that I could find:
1) It feels like Wine or Java. It does not use the system's open / save dialogues, system colours or other settings, etc. The open / save dialogues are so bad that they are deal breakers for me. While I would prefer that they use the native KDE dialogues as even OOo has found a way to do that in Kubuntu, even the crappy GTK dialogues would suffice.
2) Terrible unicode support! This, from a non-American vendor, who's native language includes characters outside of ASCII. That is completely unacceptable. RTL support is non-existent in TextMaker and PlanMaker, which is a deal breaker for Hebrew, Farsi, and Arabic speakers. That's only about one third of the worlds's population which cannot use the software due to RTL issues, and of the remainder 95% will have unicode problems.
Even if they take care of those issues, the OOo mailing list support is terrific. I am a casual user, I do not have the time nor patience to learn the office suite inside and out. But if I cannot find what I need in ten minutes of googling and RTFM, the OOo mailing list is very friendly and often come up with very creative solutions. That alone is enough to keep me using their arguably inferior product. And OOo 3.1 really isn't that bad. I know of at least 20 MS Office users who have switched to OOo due to it's rather intuitive interface.
I did, _after_ posting. Just trying to help.
I did grow up somewhere nice. I've never heard the term in any other context. Thanks!
Here's one from Saturn:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060927.html
And my personal favourite, from the Epoxi comet chaser:
http://www.ccvalg.pt/astronomia/noticias/2009/06/3_agua_planetas_extrasolares.htm
The moons are tiny, and not round. They do not form symetrical cresents like ours does, and they show absolutely no surface detail other than their unusual shape from the Martian surface. Oh, and they are tiny.
Storm implies rain, as other commenters have mentioned. However, this is more than just wind, it is is a phenomenon typical of Mars but rare on Earth: very small tornadoes. The Mars folks call these "dustdevils" as the appear and move similar to Taz. So "wind" is inappropriate, "storm" implies water, and "dustdevil" sounds weird to the layman. "Wind event" suffers none of the drawbacks, and the less-inquiring layman will not ask any more questions.
You had punch cards! In my day we made do with turing-complete matchsticks!
There is no cellphone reception in the elevator. So how is he supposed to get back to his Flintstones?
MALWARE WARNING! DO NOT CLICK ON PARENT'S LINKS!
not yelling not yelling not yelling not yelling not yelling not yelling not yelling not yelling not yelling not yelling
If someone called ME a boffin, I might be obliged to bandy their knickers a bit.
But this begs the question - can anyone at NASA do the moonwalk convincingly?
Impetuous minds want to know.
It's boffn, not boffin! Did you miss the whole Web 2.0 thing.
I have been very happy with Zim for about a year now:
http://zim-wiki.org/
Even as a KDE user, I find Zim to be the pest note-taking application there is. It even support checklists, something no other note taking software does as far as I know. It does all the little "wiki" things too like linking pages, hierarchies, and so forth. It's written in Perl and GTK, with a Python port in the pipes.
If they really are going to try to crack every email , it would be fun to send a highly encrypted email , containg only large amounts of gibberish , to a friend everyday.
Sounds like a great way to get them to harass and investigate your friend. Your goal to drain their resources will just give them legitimacy to switch to more invasive tactics.
If they cannot break your code, they just might break the legs of someone who can.
Yeah, but what happens if instead, everything east of the San Andreas fault sinks into the Atlantic ocean?
Then the term Arizona Bay is even _more_ fitting!
This is in fact one of four sites being surveyed for the next rover mission.
How is definite evidence different from regular evidence?
It is different from supposed evidence. Remember, we have not gotten their yet, so until someone pulls up something wet there are varying degrees of "evidence".
http://www.bash.org/?244321 .
hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
********* see!
hunter2
doesnt look like stars to me
*******
thats what I see
oh, really?
Absolutely
you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
haha, does that look funny to you?
lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
awesome!
wait, how do you know my pw?
er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
oh, ok.
Seriously, wouldn't it be neat if there was new evidence of water on Mars based on hi res pictures and someone would actually link to said pictures? That would be neat-o.
Don't get me wrong, Defrosting Spots Over Polygonal Ground sounds interesting and all, but...
Here you go, on the NASA site since 2003:
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/nov/HQ_03364_MGS_delta.html
on the same day I play Duke Nukem Forever in HURD.
You jest, but last month swine flu.
http://xkcd.com/594/