In Korea, you are 1 year old the minute you are born.
I understand that this is the way abortions are deemed legal or not, no? For atheists, the fetus is viable when it is born. For Christians, the fetus is viable when it is conceived. For Jews, the fetus is viable when it graduates law school.
Yeah, the gravity thing seems to work on Firefox 3 as well. Most of these things should work with a browser that is relatively standards compliant.
The gravity thing works in Firefox, but it is environment dependent. When I turned the monitor on it's side, nothing happened. You've got to have the monitor perfectly level.
Are you kidding? TFA doesn't even work in Firefox 3! Try clicking on one of the thumbnail images. It just takes you right to the top of the page. Nice job, writing an article critical of IE in IE-only code.
The post header is a flamebait - and the mods have really screwed up for not having caught it. If you read the TFA (yes yes, I know this is/.), the article headline says "Shell dumps wind, solar and hydro power in favour of biofuels" They are saying that compared to investing in wind, solar and hydro, they want to invest in biofuel reseach, since they think it will be profitable (duh! they are a company - they exist to make a reasonable profit). The impression I got from reading the slashdot post header was that shell has decided to go completely out of alternative energy (/non fossil fuels) entirely. Posting sensationalist headlines is o.k. for mags - why do that here on/.?
Slashdot is a company - they exist to make a reasonable profit. Posting sensationalist headlines is a way to get you to open a page, make an ad impression, and maybe get disgusted enough to want to leave. Where are you going to go? Well, that colourful ad looks interesting!
To make the software better. It might now work for him today, but with the bug fixed it might work for him two years from now when the company is contemplating MS Office 2011.
Clearly you've never worked in a major organization. Posting internal spreadsheets attached to bug reports?
No. He can post the formula to a new spreadsheet with dummy data. You are right that I've never worked in a major organization but I handle confidential documentation often. That has never stopped me from filing a bug.
I know, I mentioned that. It really is the only drawback that I've found. I wrote to the developers about that, but have yet to get an answer. I certainly hope that the issue is addressed.
I'm not familiar with Windows, but Ubuntu installs programs into an area that is accessible to all users as well:/usr/bin/. The program is accessible to all users, but each user's data (say, his Firefox profile) is in his home directory.
I do. I happen to communicate with people who use MS Office. By "use" I mean "type an email in Word and send it as an email attachment". I'm going to become rich and famous after I invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.
Did you write to Adobe and let them know that you are interested in Linux support? They won't do it if we don't express interest. Here's the Adobe contact page: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/contact.html
That's not a troll. "All Linux" in the literal sense would mean nothing but Linux, so there's no Open Office either. I think the GP confused "all Linux" with "all open source" or more likely "no Microsoft".
...it got thrown in my lap to determine how well it would work...All in all though, I ended up recommending that we stick with Office...
Please post links to the bugs that you filed in an attempt to improve Open Office so that it would work in the future. I'd like to triage some of the bugs and see what I can come up with.
Don't forget to attach spreadsheets of example cases so that the Sun devs can work on it.
[Quickly pulls numbers out of thin air] I strongly suspect that the number of people who need features present in Office 2007 but not in OOo 3.x is a lot less than the number of people locked into WIndows because of Quickbooks.
I strongly suspect that the number of people locked into Windows because of Quickbooks is a lot less than the number of people locked into Windows because of the fact that they share documents with other humans.
I have to agree, why bother? If I want to do something important I use LaTex, if not then OpenOffice works just fine.
As much as I hate Microsoft's operating system, their office suite is pretty decent. I happen to like the ribbon design, as a sometimes-user I have no intention of memorizing the menus. MS Office has terrific shortcut support as well, with hit-a-hinting like in Konqueror. I do have a problem with the proprietary document format, but I have heard that MSO 2007 SP-something or other supports ODF so that is not an issue anymore.
This Open Office extension lets the user save a document as a valid PDF file with the original ODT file embedded for editing. This is, in my opinion, the perfect document format: viewable in common software already installed on most desktop systems, and editable in an open source, cross-platform office suite. Furthermore, all the wonderful command-line PDF tools available for Linux work on these documents perfectly. The only thing missing from the extension is better save support, as the user currently must be careful to export (not save) as a Hybrid PDF file. For someone in the habit of hitting Ctrl-S after each sentence, this is quite a limitation.
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I meant the PCpro article is designed for IE. The experiments work fine.
Well going by the v1.0 is the birth of a project, then Wine is very young
That is why there are no naked pictures of Wine on the Internet yet. Just give it time.
In Korea, you are 1 year old the minute you are born.
I understand that this is the way abortions are deemed legal or not, no? For atheists, the fetus is viable when it is born. For Christians, the fetus is viable when it is conceived. For Jews, the fetus is viable when it graduates law school.
Yeah, the gravity thing seems to work on Firefox 3 as well. Most of these things should work with a browser that is relatively standards compliant.
The gravity thing works in Firefox, but it is environment dependent. When I turned the monitor on it's side, nothing happened. You've got to have the monitor perfectly level.
Why does this frecking site do not work in ie6...
Are you kidding? TFA doesn't even work in Firefox 3! Try clicking on one of the thumbnail images. It just takes you right to the top of the page. Nice job, writing an article critical of IE in IE-only code.
The post header is a flamebait - and the mods have really screwed up for not having caught it. If you read the TFA (yes yes, I know this is /.), the article headline says "Shell dumps wind, solar and hydro power in favour of biofuels" They are saying that compared to investing in wind, solar and hydro, they want to invest in biofuel reseach, since they think it will be profitable (duh! they are a company - they exist to make a reasonable profit). The impression I got from reading the slashdot post header was that shell has decided to go completely out of alternative energy (/non fossil fuels) entirely. Posting sensationalist headlines is o.k. for mags - why do that here on /.?
Slashdot is a company - they exist to make a reasonable profit. Posting sensationalist headlines is a way to get you to open a page, make an ad impression, and maybe get disgusted enough to want to leave. Where are you going to go? Well, that colourful ad looks interesting!
Well, gee, I don't think _that_ has been posted before
- kdawson, 2006
Well, gee, I don't think _that_ has been posted before
- kdawson, 2007
Well, gee, I don't think _that_ has been posted before
- kdawson, 2008
Well, gee, I don't think _that_ has been posted before
- kdawson, 2009
They run Linux! In one of the photos it can be clearly seen that the user is running KDE:
http://nearspace.0x58.com/launches/CONNERY-2/pictures/Sean's_Camera/DSC_2061.jpg
(Notice the Amarok icon)
Post links and I will take the time to triage them. Thanks!
> Why would he file bug reports?
To make the software better. It might now work for him today, but with the bug fixed it might work for him two years from now when the company is contemplating MS Office 2011.
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Clearly you've never worked in a major organization. Posting internal spreadsheets attached to bug reports?
No. He can post the formula to a new spreadsheet with dummy data. You are right that I've never worked in a major organization but I handle confidential documentation often. That has never stopped me from filing a bug.
I know, I mentioned that. It really is the only drawback that I've found. I wrote to the developers about that, but have yet to get an answer. I certainly hope that the issue is addressed.
an orbital velocity of 17,500 milers per hour
17500 milers per hour = 28163.52 kilometes per hour
I'm not a developer either. I use open source applications, and in turn I file bugs that I find. Where is the contradiction?
"Hello, OOo devs, when doing XYZ the program goes ABC but I was expecting DEF. Here is a small document on which you can perform XYZ. ktnxbye"
I didn't read the article- but...
You know, the article addresses that very question.
I'm not familiar with Windows, but Ubuntu installs programs into an area that is accessible to all users as well: /usr/bin/. The program is accessible to all users, but each user's data (say, his Firefox profile) is in his home directory.
They're going to be getting some interesting job applicants, aren't they?
I've already applied. It's what I do all day anyway. Well, that and /..
who the hell needs that on linux?
I do. I happen to communicate with people who use MS Office. By "use" I mean "type an email in Word and send it as an email attachment". I'm going to become rich and famous after I invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.
Did you write to Adobe and let them know that you are interested in Linux support? They won't do it if we don't express interest. Here's the Adobe contact page:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/contact.html
That's not a troll. "All Linux" in the literal sense would mean nothing but Linux, so there's no Open Office either. I think the GP confused "all Linux" with "all open source" or more likely "no Microsoft".
Except for this part: ./winetricks gdiplus riched20 riched30 msxml3 msxml4 msxml6 corefonts tahoma vb6run vcrun6 msi2
And the part where he links to a legal download of MSO from Microsoft servers:
http://www.programmerfish.com/free-direct-download-microsoft-office-2007
You do need a product key, though.
...it got thrown in my lap to determine how well it would work...All in all though, I ended up recommending that we stick with Office...
Please post links to the bugs that you filed in an attempt to improve Open Office so that it would work in the future. I'd like to triage some of the bugs and see what I can come up with.
Don't forget to attach spreadsheets of example cases so that the Sun devs can work on it.
[Quickly pulls numbers out of thin air] I strongly suspect that the number of people who need features present in Office 2007 but not in OOo 3.x is a lot less than the number of people locked into WIndows because of Quickbooks.
I strongly suspect that the number of people locked into Windows because of Quickbooks is a lot less than the number of people locked into Windows because of the fact that they share documents with other humans.
I have to agree, why bother?
If I want to do something important I use LaTex, if not then OpenOffice works just fine.
As much as I hate Microsoft's operating system, their office suite is pretty decent. I happen to like the ribbon design, as a sometimes-user I have no intention of memorizing the menus. MS Office has terrific shortcut support as well, with hit-a-hinting like in Konqueror. I do have a problem with the proprietary document format, but I have heard that MSO 2007 SP-something or other supports ODF so that is not an issue anymore.
However, I am now saving my documents as hybrid PDF-ODF files:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
This Open Office extension lets the user save a document as a valid PDF file with the original ODT file embedded for editing. This is, in my opinion, the perfect document format: viewable in common software already installed on most desktop systems, and editable in an open source, cross-platform office suite. Furthermore, all the wonderful command-line PDF tools available for Linux work on these documents perfectly. The only thing missing from the extension is better save support, as the user currently must be careful to export (not save) as a Hybrid PDF file. For someone in the habit of hitting Ctrl-S after each sentence, this is quite a limitation.