Maybe, but version 6 was the result of Novell's dicking around with the software. While I'm very unhappy with the way Corel has messed up the program since purchasing it with version 7, at least they got WYSIWYG completely right (you never have to use Print Preview) with version 9, which is what I still use. And even though they do use graphic elements in reveal codes (actual codes, not regular letters and numbers, are presented as buttons), it is still primarily text based and shows the document without any other formatting elements.
Actually, Word isn't true WYSIWYG, it's WYSBYGI ("what you see, but you get instead", which a friend of mine coined; I'm not sure about 2007, but I truly doubt this has changed).
Print Preview in Word is critical for seeing what you'll end up with before you print, as opposed to WordPerfect, which is true WYSIWYG since at least version 9, maybe earlier (I have never had to print preview in WordPerfect since I switched to Version 9, and Print Preview is essentially another variation of the editor without any of the formatting marks).
Of course, I use draft mode in WordPerfect, but and there are a few elements that don't show correctly (vertical center, for example) but I can still print without previewing first. Also, WordPerfect doesn't format anything unless you tell it to, so I usually don't have to think about formatting anything after I've set up the initial document codes (WordPerfect uses proprietary stream formatting, so the formatting codes are found in the text). I only wish someone would build an open source word processor based on WordPerfect.
I know this is somewhat off topic, but I actually helped publish a three volume gazetteer, written by my father and bound by the BYU library, using WordPerfect. One can tell the work was prepared by an ameteur, but I believe it is also evident a great deal of care was put into preparing the book for print.
I spent about four months reformatting and indexing the text (my father's used to typewriters, and tried doing the indexing and page numbering manually), taking his hand drawn map of the state (sectioned off by county, but with no other detail) and giving it a professional look, combining what he had determined would be twelve volumes of variable size into three of roughly equal size, and setting up the final appearance.
As I said, the final result doesn't look professional, but does show that a great deal of time and thought were put into printing preparations. That said, I can't imagine how long the project would have taken had I done the work in Word, and I can't imagine it would have looked nearly as nice.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I've never found the Mac version's widgets all wrong. Slightly different than most applications, yes (the sides of the buttons, for example, are more rounded), but nothing that looks horrifically out of place, and the same goes for the Windows version. Moreover, I find the buttons and drop down lists look consistent with the Cocoa interface in Mac OS X while they are consistent with their Windows equivalents in Windows. Irregardless, I find nothing looks out of place on either platform. And for the record, I use the Mac version on my laptop, the Windows version at work, and the Ubuntu version on my tower.
Sorry for responding so late, but hear, hear. While I personally believe that some politicians genuinely seek to empower themselves for selfish purposes, I agree with you that most seek to do the right thing, but fail to take the time to consider all the harm to society their actions will incur. There are very few, if any, circumstances where the truth lies at one extreme or the other.
You might also recall that even though Win98 wasn't a true OS (and neither were Win95 or WinME, for that matter), they were still marketed as if they were, and MS then lied about ditching DOS.
Not very many people want to rebuy all their programs just because their new laptop has Vista.
That, and many people don't have the money to purchase the newest versions of all their software, either. As you pointed out in your list of apps, those, and most commercial software packages, are very expensive. The irony is Bill Gates, who we mustn't forget brought us to this point, once said his goal was to get computers into every home.
Very true. And to make matters worse, once they are in the driver's seat, they avoid listening to anyone else; Vista's new user interface is, in my opinion, a perfect example of what I mean, with things moved for no reason other than moving them and error messages that don't describe anything.
Well written, though I felt your second to last sentence could have been improved by adding the word 'again' after 'ever' or adding 'another' after 'have', since it's obvious that the major change that brought us from 2.4 to 2.6 occurred, so the point is to avoid letting that happen again. No offense, but I'm an author so I catch that kind of thing.
Seriously, the correct word is seem (a intransitive verb used in reference to how something appears), not seam (a noun to describe the joint between two pieces of fabric).
Excellent point. Reminds me of an episode of Perry Mason where a once wealthy actress's entire estate had been sold off; most of the people who dealt with her still believed she had a lot of money, but her business manager didn't even draw a salary during the last five years (she was murdered, of course). Sounds a lot like what's happening at Microsoft today (as does the actress's business manager's statement about how she was in the public eye).
Good response. My Ubuntu machine, if I recall correctly, won't attempt to set the resolution higher than my monitor can handle, and this is a desktop, not a laptop. I certainly agree it could be better, but at least I don't have to concern myself with a "beyond maximum resolution" issue (if I don't recall correctly, I still don't need to worry because I know my monitor's upper limit).
Good point. Furthermore, within the composition of the atmosphere, CO2 makes up only about 0.04%, and humans contribute, at the very most, perhaps a little less than 3% of that, so our effect on the CO2 in the environment is less than.001% of the atmosphere as a whole. Personally, I'd be more concerned about the levels of CO, and other deadly toxins rather than a simple, minor greenhouse gas (the biggest greenhouse culprit is DMHO vapor).
I completely agree. While I agree Comic Sans is inappropriate under some circumstances, at least all of the letters are legibly unique. Ariel is a poorly conceived sans-serif font that offers virtually no distinction between the capital I and lowercase L (yes, the latter is slightly taller, but that doesn't make it easier to read at any point size). Though serif fonts are slightly more difficult to read on a monitor, I still find that I tend to prefer them over sans-serif fonts under most circumstances, since the only two characters that can get confused are lowercase L and the numeral one (1), though those are certainly easier to distinguish in context.
American punctuation rules require the question mark, period, exclamation mark, comma, etc, to be inside the quotes, regardless of whether or not the context of the statement calls for it. Not logical, I'll agree, but that's the general rule (I am an American, but that doesn't mean I'll fail to recognize a stupid rule when I see one).
Exactly. Furthermore the 'report' was written more like something you might expect out of grade school student (such as the repeated use of the word 'cool' as a noun, and it's extreme overuse). My analysis is that we were subjected to what amounts to little more than petty, one sided advertisement thinly disguised as a serious, but poorly written dissertation.
Utah's representatives aren't Jack's representatives. He has never, to my knowledge, been eligible to vote for any of them as he has never (that I know of) been a resident of Utah. I'm not saying this changes the validity of your arguments, by the way, just pointing out that he is not a citizen of Utah, so that statement is not based on fact.
I must say your assertion is well written and thought out, though where you state 'to big' should be written 'too big' (I do not say this to detract from your comment in any way, just being a grammar nazi, as is my nature; I, too, can state that I know God in a very real sense).
"Liberty" is not the same concept as "freedom", especially not in the sense you mean it, as in anarchy.
Very well stated. In my opinion, further evidence that freedom and liberty are not direct synonyms of each other can be proven using a statement based on the mathematical proof of a definition.
Gaining freedom requires the presence of liberty, but gaining liberty does not require that you be free, merely determined to do all you can to become so. At least, that's the way I look at it.
Well stated. I'm from Orem, UT (the city just north of Provo), and I can say we have, per capita, one of the largest urban LDS populations in the world. And no, we don't stop other people from drinking, though I will admit that we do our best to discourage it.
I think maybe you're oversimplifying Dave Lister a bit too much in your all too general analysis of the Red Dwarf characters. Rimmer and Cat are certainly awful people on the inside and the outside (though Rimmer's certainly the worst of the two), but Kryton is more of a likable buffoon with an overactive guilt chip, and Lister is one of the strongest characters I've ever seen (quite comparable to Homer Simpson, in my opinion).
On the outside, yes, Lister's an obnoxious, barely literate slob with all the attractiveness of a gelf, but on the inside, he's warm, caring man devoted to improving his little corner of the universe. Among the examples of this I can think of are "Waiting for God", where he agonizes over the demise of the cat people, and in the end redeems the one loyal cat priest who had just about given in to doubt. On multiple occasions, he has worked with Kryton to help the android overcome his programming, and he also gently chastises Rimmer for his selfishness. He is, in my opinion, one of the best antiheroes of all time.
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Maybe, but version 6 was the result of Novell's dicking around with the software. While I'm very unhappy with the way Corel has messed up the program since purchasing it with version 7, at least they got WYSIWYG completely right (you never have to use Print Preview) with version 9, which is what I still use. And even though they do use graphic elements in reveal codes (actual codes, not regular letters and numbers, are presented as buttons), it is still primarily text based and shows the document without any other formatting elements.
Actually, Word isn't true WYSIWYG, it's WYSBYGI ("what you see, but you get instead", which a friend of mine coined; I'm not sure about 2007, but I truly doubt this has changed).
Print Preview in Word is critical for seeing what you'll end up with before you print, as opposed to WordPerfect, which is true WYSIWYG since at least version 9, maybe earlier (I have never had to print preview in WordPerfect since I switched to Version 9, and Print Preview is essentially another variation of the editor without any of the formatting marks).
Of course, I use draft mode in WordPerfect, but and there are a few elements that don't show correctly (vertical center, for example) but I can still print without previewing first. Also, WordPerfect doesn't format anything unless you tell it to, so I usually don't have to think about formatting anything after I've set up the initial document codes (WordPerfect uses proprietary stream formatting, so the formatting codes are found in the text). I only wish someone would build an open source word processor based on WordPerfect.
I know this is somewhat off topic, but I actually helped publish a three volume gazetteer, written by my father and bound by the BYU library, using WordPerfect. One can tell the work was prepared by an ameteur, but I believe it is also evident a great deal of care was put into preparing the book for print.
I spent about four months reformatting and indexing the text (my father's used to typewriters, and tried doing the indexing and page numbering manually), taking his hand drawn map of the state (sectioned off by county, but with no other detail) and giving it a professional look, combining what he had determined would be twelve volumes of variable size into three of roughly equal size, and setting up the final appearance.
As I said, the final result doesn't look professional, but does show that a great deal of time and thought were put into printing preparations. That said, I can't imagine how long the project would have taken had I done the work in Word, and I can't imagine it would have looked nearly as nice.
Actually, I had a WTF about that comment too, until I noticed the source.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I've never found the Mac version's widgets all wrong. Slightly different than most applications, yes (the sides of the buttons, for example, are more rounded), but nothing that looks horrifically out of place, and the same goes for the Windows version. Moreover, I find the buttons and drop down lists look consistent with the Cocoa interface in Mac OS X while they are consistent with their Windows equivalents in Windows. Irregardless, I find nothing looks out of place on either platform. And for the record, I use the Mac version on my laptop, the Windows version at work, and the Ubuntu version on my tower.
Sorry for responding so late, but hear, hear. While I personally believe that some politicians genuinely seek to empower themselves for selfish purposes, I agree with you that most seek to do the right thing, but fail to take the time to consider all the harm to society their actions will incur. There are very few, if any, circumstances where the truth lies at one extreme or the other.
An excellent response, with just one minor drawback; it's MacGyver.
You might also recall that even though Win98 wasn't a true OS (and neither were Win95 or WinME, for that matter), they were still marketed as if they were, and MS then lied about ditching DOS.
That, and many people don't have the money to purchase the newest versions of all their software, either. As you pointed out in your list of apps, those, and most commercial software packages, are very expensive. The irony is Bill Gates, who we mustn't forget brought us to this point, once said his goal was to get computers into every home.
Very true. And to make matters worse, once they are in the driver's seat, they avoid listening to anyone else; Vista's new user interface is, in my opinion, a perfect example of what I mean, with things moved for no reason other than moving them and error messages that don't describe anything.
Well written, though I felt your second to last sentence could have been improved by adding the word 'again' after 'ever' or adding 'another' after 'have', since it's obvious that the major change that brought us from 2.4 to 2.6 occurred, so the point is to avoid letting that happen again. No offense, but I'm an author so I catch that kind of thing.
So what are they sewing?
Seriously, the correct word is seem (a intransitive verb used in reference to how something appears), not seam (a noun to describe the joint between two pieces of fabric).
Excellent point. Reminds me of an episode of Perry Mason where a once wealthy actress's entire estate had been sold off; most of the people who dealt with her still believed she had a lot of money, but her business manager didn't even draw a salary during the last five years (she was murdered, of course). Sounds a lot like what's happening at Microsoft today (as does the actress's business manager's statement about how she was in the public eye).
You are correct. Apple did not add bash to their system until Mac OS X. Before that, no Macintosh system had a CLI.
Good response. My Ubuntu machine, if I recall correctly, won't attempt to set the resolution higher than my monitor can handle, and this is a desktop, not a laptop. I certainly agree it could be better, but at least I don't have to concern myself with a "beyond maximum resolution" issue (if I don't recall correctly, I still don't need to worry because I know my monitor's upper limit).
Error correction: Sorry, I meant DHMO instead of DMHO.
Good point. Furthermore, within the composition of the atmosphere, CO2 makes up only about 0.04%, and humans contribute, at the very most, perhaps a little less than 3% of that, so our effect on the CO2 in the environment is less than .001% of the atmosphere as a whole. Personally, I'd be more concerned about the levels of CO, and other deadly toxins rather than a simple, minor greenhouse gas (the biggest greenhouse culprit is DMHO vapor).
I completely agree. While I agree Comic Sans is inappropriate under some circumstances, at least all of the letters are legibly unique. Ariel is a poorly conceived sans-serif font that offers virtually no distinction between the capital I and lowercase L (yes, the latter is slightly taller, but that doesn't make it easier to read at any point size). Though serif fonts are slightly more difficult to read on a monitor, I still find that I tend to prefer them over sans-serif fonts under most circumstances, since the only two characters that can get confused are lowercase L and the numeral one (1), though those are certainly easier to distinguish in context.
American punctuation rules require the question mark, period, exclamation mark, comma, etc, to be inside the quotes, regardless of whether or not the context of the statement calls for it. Not logical, I'll agree, but that's the general rule (I am an American, but that doesn't mean I'll fail to recognize a stupid rule when I see one).
Exactly. Furthermore the 'report' was written more like something you might expect out of grade school student (such as the repeated use of the word 'cool' as a noun, and it's extreme overuse). My analysis is that we were subjected to what amounts to little more than petty, one sided advertisement thinly disguised as a serious, but poorly written dissertation.
Utah's representatives aren't Jack's representatives. He has never, to my knowledge, been eligible to vote for any of them as he has never (that I know of) been a resident of Utah. I'm not saying this changes the validity of your arguments, by the way, just pointing out that he is not a citizen of Utah, so that statement is not based on fact.
I must say your assertion is well written and thought out, though where you state 'to big' should be written 'too big' (I do not say this to detract from your comment in any way, just being a grammar nazi, as is my nature; I, too, can state that I know God in a very real sense).
Very well stated. In my opinion, further evidence that freedom and liberty are not direct synonyms of each other can be proven using a statement based on the mathematical proof of a definition.
Gaining freedom requires the presence of liberty, but gaining liberty does not require that you be free, merely determined to do all you can to become so. At least, that's the way I look at it.
Well stated. I'm from Orem, UT (the city just north of Provo), and I can say we have, per capita, one of the largest urban LDS populations in the world. And no, we don't stop other people from drinking, though I will admit that we do our best to discourage it.
I think maybe you're oversimplifying Dave Lister a bit too much in your all too general analysis of the Red Dwarf characters. Rimmer and Cat are certainly awful people on the inside and the outside (though Rimmer's certainly the worst of the two), but Kryton is more of a likable buffoon with an overactive guilt chip, and Lister is one of the strongest characters I've ever seen (quite comparable to Homer Simpson, in my opinion).
On the outside, yes, Lister's an obnoxious, barely literate slob with all the attractiveness of a gelf, but on the inside, he's warm, caring man devoted to improving his little corner of the universe. Among the examples of this I can think of are "Waiting for God", where he agonizes over the demise of the cat people, and in the end redeems the one loyal cat priest who had just about given in to doubt. On multiple occasions, he has worked with Kryton to help the android overcome his programming, and he also gently chastises Rimmer for his selfishness. He is, in my opinion, one of the best antiheroes of all time.