I'm in highschool, and to date I've never NEVER used scripting languages/macros in my documents. Everything that ended up in a teacher's hands were either HTML documents (For an extra class that was just too easy to pass up) or a printed copy. I'd occasionally send myself a RTF and fix it up at school before doing the PDF, but everything was on paper.
And, how is OO.o any scarier than Office's? Office acts like it's from a whole other OS, OO.o mostly fits in with the native scheme. In Writer, the Spellcheck launcher is more or less in a logical place, you can bold with ctrl+b, italics with ctrl+i, underline with ctrl+i, headers are easy enough to find, and images can be copy+pasted in documents. That's pretty much what most people use in Word. As for Excel, if Calc isn't good enough, use Gnumeric (Best one out there, IMHO). Impress is nicely done, and easily rivals PowerPoint. The only problem I had was that weird wizard at the start, but powerpoint might do that, and the tech guy at our school just configured it not to that.
As for exchange+outlook... Is it really that hard to use open-xchange, or maybe something like Sunbird/Firebird, along with Evolution or Thunderbird? And can't people show up in person to meetings, and use a big whiteboard or something to plan stuff?
Sadly, some people give out completely random file formats and expect everyone to be able to read it... I remember at one point, one of my friend's teachers gave her some completely random formatted file, turned out to WordPerfect, and it took about an hour to come to that conclusion... OO.o handled it OK, but an RTF or a PDF would have been much better.
For those of you in the district that the article was reffering, show up at the next meeting of sorts, complain, and propose an alternative. (IE, everyone needs to submit texts in LaTeX or PDF or something) I know I'd do that if they tried something sneaky like that at my school... Thank {God of your choice} all my teachers want printed documents, except for one but that class we work with web pages & stuff like that.
The issue was that Apple left you "islanded". There were very little USB-flash drive based solutions available; 1999, a USB flash drive (8MiB or 16MiB I can't recall) was something like 30$-40$... Memory is foggy, but that's more or less it. And that's freaking expensive.
I will regret seeing PATA go down the drain... I've got many systems still using PATA, and I liked it. But my next system will be SATA; the SATA drive would cost less than the PATA drive, so why not? And in the rare case one of my older hard drives fail... I could always get a CompactFlash card with a PATA adapter, find an elusive PATA hard drive (I don't think they'll go overnight) or buy a SATA card like someone suggested. But, due to power issues, I don't think the card would be all that great; there's a lot of Dells out there, with only enough power to accept another PCI device.
That said, do PATA drives deteriorate if left in, say, my closet? I'm thinking of just picking up 3-4 drives, most likely 40/80GiB in size, in case my current drives fail. But they've been running for 7 years, I'm sure they could run for another 4 at least.
At one point he asks Harry to look at him. Maybe once last glimpse to dream about Lily?
But otherwise... It appears the eyes did help remind Snape who he was, and not all James Potter... He would have ignored him or bust his chops if he was like James.
But how Lily went with James... A bit tricky. We know she got pissed at Snape after he called her a mudblood, and he did say James liked her, maybe he got closer to her that day and everything just went from there?
Sorry to bust your chops, but IIRC, Windows XP is NT 5.1.
SP2 might have changed that to 5.2, but it's not #6. Vista might be 6, I don't know, as I don't have a copy of Vista around, or a machine that could run it.
I don't think just iPods should be shafted... Maybe just anything marked as MP3 players? It would really suck if they go crazy enough to try and levy CD drives...
Is that this doesn't affect all media players. Sadly, I'd rather iPod users get shafted than all of us. I don't want to have to import my next media player.
If this spreads crazily to like DVD players, CD players, PCs, etc. that's freaking bullshit. Who says I'm playing MP3s on my PC? Shouldn't I be working/slashdotting?
Needs to go: (To hell) - Domain squatters - Lack of annonymity/beingannonymous - Government interference with what goes on the Internet (Censoring = Bad, arrests = meh) - RIAA/MPAA/etc. and their actions to "clean" the Internet.
What needs to come in: - More fiber optics if possible - More gigabit connections if possible - Less of the older, slower, connection cables - More P2P (When used legally) - A system to allow the RIAA/MPAA to send "Cease and Decist" letters to copyrighted content uploaders - A nice big picture of Goatse with "TAKE IT UP YOURS!" written on it, to be mailed to said terrorrists.
So faster connections, more freedom, more goatse.
Aaaand, if we're fixing domain names too, so by extension the WWW, implement.xxx, and give free transfers to porn sites to get them on.xxx. Get ISPs and web hosts to not host porn unless it has.xxx. Since the Internet is being updated, this is a perfect time to implement it, since we'll be following them around for a month or so while we move them. If anyone resists, well I guess they should be taken off the web. So if we can move porn to.xxx entirely, and possibly push adult sites (Or those with heavy-vilence/swearing/etc.) there too, we could implement.xxx blockers in net tools. It'll also make looking for porn easier: tell Google to only look for sites that end in.xxx
Needs to go: (To hell)
- Domain squatters
- Lack of annonymity/beingannonymous
- Government interference with what goes on the Internet (Censoring = Bad, arrests = meh)
- RIAA/MPAA/etc. and their actions to "clean" the Internet.
What needs to come in:
- More fiber optics if possible
- More gigabit connections if possible
- Less of the older, slower, connection cables
- More P2P (When used legally)
- A system to allow the RIAA/MPAA to send "Cease and Decist" letters to copyrighted content uploaders
- A nice big picture of Goatse with "TAKE IT UP YOURS!" written on it, to be mailed to said terrorrists.
So faster connections, more freedom, more goatse.
Aaaand, if we're fixing domain names too, so by extension the WWW, implement.xxx, and give free transfers to porn sites to get them on.xxx. Get ISPs and web hosts to not host porn unless it has.xxx. Since the Internet is being updated, this is a perfect time to implement it, since we'll be following them around for a month or so while we move them. If anyone resists, well I guess they should be taken off the web. So if we can move porn to.xxx entirely, and possibly push adult sites (Or those with heavy-vilence/swearing/etc.) there too, we could implement.xxx blockers in net tools.
It'll also make looking for porn easier: tell Google to only look for sites that end in.xxx
MS NEVER follows standards. EVER. IE7 does NOT support proper (X)HTML/CSS, doesn't include a native SVG viewer, and created the phenomenons known as "ActiveX from Hell" and "Sorry, this site needs IE".
Office XML isn't a standard. Hell, the only reason it's still being reviewed in ISO, is because some secretary in bed with MS pushed it in.
And even if it gets recognised by ISO, they're going to have to release the source code. I don't care if we can't make deriatives, just let us create interoperability, and you can keep your shitty format.
CO2's plain fucking nasty.
Smells like shit, gives you cancer, makes you brain dead. Nasty-assed smog and gasses and other shit sticking in the air, casting big black clouds of death over cities.
Climate change is something we can NEVER stop, but we can stop tossing garbage into our lungs.
If you don't mind making the PDF's yourself and uploading (Rather than being dynamicly created as needed) OO.o has an "Export as PDF" function. Couldn't you just open the (X)HTML file and export as PDF?
Kernels, APIs, and everything else like that (I group 'em up to kill confusion) will be here forever.
There's no doubt about it. At all. PCs will forever be able to work without being connected to the Internet, at least here in North America, and over in Europe. No one's allowed to force you into connecting with complete strangers, even though it is a very useful tool. How else can you laugh at noobs?
We will still see regular software like we knew before, completely dependant, but alot of things are going to change.
- GUIs will be different. Somehow. Or replaced by something completely different maybe. - Alot of stuff will be internet-connected, but not forced into it - Empires will rise and fall. That can never be forgotten. It's only a matter of time before MS goes down, and someone else takes that blasted place.
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Sir TBL developped HTML on a NeXT Cube. So I'm assuming he had a reader to go with it.
What the hell?
I'm in highschool, and to date I've never NEVER used scripting languages/macros in my documents. Everything that ended up in a teacher's hands were either HTML documents (For an extra class that was just too easy to pass up) or a printed copy. I'd occasionally send myself a RTF and fix it up at school before doing the PDF, but everything was on paper.
And, how is OO.o any scarier than Office's? Office acts like it's from a whole other OS, OO.o mostly fits in with the native scheme. In Writer, the Spellcheck launcher is more or less in a logical place, you can bold with ctrl+b, italics with ctrl+i, underline with ctrl+i, headers are easy enough to find, and images can be copy+pasted in documents. That's pretty much what most people use in Word. As for Excel, if Calc isn't good enough, use Gnumeric (Best one out there, IMHO). Impress is nicely done, and easily rivals PowerPoint. The only problem I had was that weird wizard at the start, but powerpoint might do that, and the tech guy at our school just configured it not to that.
As for exchange+outlook... Is it really that hard to use open-xchange, or maybe something like Sunbird/Firebird, along with Evolution or Thunderbird? And can't people show up in person to meetings, and use a big whiteboard or something to plan stuff?
Sadly, some people give out completely random file formats and expect everyone to be able to read it... I remember at one point, one of my friend's teachers gave her some completely random formatted file, turned out to WordPerfect, and it took about an hour to come to that conclusion... OO.o handled it OK, but an RTF or a PDF would have been much better.
For those of you in the district that the article was reffering, show up at the next meeting of sorts, complain, and propose an alternative. (IE, everyone needs to submit texts in LaTeX or PDF or something) I know I'd do that if they tried something sneaky like that at my school... Thank {God of your choice} all my teachers want printed documents, except for one but that class we work with web pages & stuff like that.
That wasn't the issue.
The issue was that Apple left you "islanded". There were very little USB-flash drive based solutions available; 1999, a USB flash drive (8MiB or 16MiB I can't recall) was something like 30$-40$... Memory is foggy, but that's more or less it. And that's freaking expensive.
I will regret seeing PATA go down the drain... I've got many systems still using PATA, and I liked it. But my next system will be SATA; the SATA drive would cost less than the PATA drive, so why not? And in the rare case one of my older hard drives fail... I could always get a CompactFlash card with a PATA adapter, find an elusive PATA hard drive (I don't think they'll go overnight) or buy a SATA card like someone suggested. But, due to power issues, I don't think the card would be all that great; there's a lot of Dells out there, with only enough power to accept another PCI device.
That said, do PATA drives deteriorate if left in, say, my closet? I'm thinking of just picking up 3-4 drives, most likely 40/80GiB in size, in case my current drives fail. But they've been running for 7 years, I'm sure they could run for another 4 at least.
Wasn't WordPerfect bought straight-out by Corel? (Not from WordPerfect to Novell to Corel.)
Sadly, WordPerfect was purchased by Corel right after it went bust thanks to Office...
At one point he asks Harry to look at him. Maybe once last glimpse to dream about Lily?
But otherwise... It appears the eyes did help remind Snape who he was, and not all James Potter... He would have ignored him or bust his chops if he was like James.
But how Lily went with James... A bit tricky. We know she got pissed at Snape after he called her a mudblood, and he did say James liked her, maybe he got closer to her that day and everything just went from there?
All the Time Turners were broken after fish-head went crazy in the Ministry of Magic.
;P...
That said, we all know they're not real, like Thestrals, and the Deathly Hallows. Only a noob would beleive in them
Sorry to bust your chops, but IIRC, Windows XP is NT 5.1.
SP2 might have changed that to 5.2, but it's not #6. Vista might be 6, I don't know, as I don't have a copy of Vista around, or a machine that could run it.
In retrospect, I take that back.
I don't think just iPods should be shafted... Maybe just anything marked as MP3 players? It would really suck if they go crazy enough to try and levy CD drives...
Is that this doesn't affect all media players. Sadly, I'd rather iPod users get shafted than all of us. I don't want to have to import my next media player.
If this spreads crazily to like DVD players, CD players, PCs, etc. that's freaking bullshit. Who says I'm playing MP3s on my PC? Shouldn't I be working/slashdotting?
Sorry, fucked up the older post.
.xxx, and give free transfers to porn sites to get them on .xxx. Get ISPs and web hosts to not host porn unless it has .xxx. Since the Internet is being updated, this is a perfect time to implement it, since we'll be following them around for a month or so while we move them. If anyone resists, well I guess they should be taken off the web. So if we can move porn to .xxx entirely, and possibly push adult sites (Or those with heavy-vilence/swearing/etc.) there too, we could implement .xxx blockers in net tools. It'll also make looking for porn easier: tell Google to only look for sites that end in .xxx
Needs to go: (To hell)
- Domain squatters
- Lack of annonymity/beingannonymous
- Government interference with what goes on the Internet (Censoring = Bad, arrests = meh)
- RIAA/MPAA/etc. and their actions to "clean" the Internet.
What needs to come in:
- More fiber optics if possible
- More gigabit connections if possible
- Less of the older, slower, connection cables
- More P2P (When used legally)
- A system to allow the RIAA/MPAA to send "Cease and Decist" letters to copyrighted content uploaders
- A nice big picture of Goatse with "TAKE IT UP YOURS!" written on it, to be mailed to said terrorrists.
So faster connections, more freedom, more goatse.
Aaaand, if we're fixing domain names too, so by extension the WWW, implement
Needs to go: (To hell) - Domain squatters - Lack of annonymity/beingannonymous - Government interference with what goes on the Internet (Censoring = Bad, arrests = meh) - RIAA/MPAA/etc. and their actions to "clean" the Internet. What needs to come in: - More fiber optics if possible - More gigabit connections if possible - Less of the older, slower, connection cables - More P2P (When used legally) - A system to allow the RIAA/MPAA to send "Cease and Decist" letters to copyrighted content uploaders - A nice big picture of Goatse with "TAKE IT UP YOURS!" written on it, to be mailed to said terrorrists. So faster connections, more freedom, more goatse. Aaaand, if we're fixing domain names too, so by extension the WWW, implement .xxx, and give free transfers to porn sites to get them on .xxx. Get ISPs and web hosts to not host porn unless it has .xxx. Since the Internet is being updated, this is a perfect time to implement it, since we'll be following them around for a month or so while we move them. If anyone resists, well I guess they should be taken off the web. So if we can move porn to .xxx entirely, and possibly push adult sites (Or those with heavy-vilence/swearing/etc.) there too, we could implement .xxx blockers in net tools.
It'll also make looking for porn easier: tell Google to only look for sites that end in .xxx
MS NEVER follows standards. EVER. IE7 does NOT support proper (X)HTML/CSS, doesn't include a native SVG viewer, and created the phenomenons known as "ActiveX from Hell" and "Sorry, this site needs IE". Office XML isn't a standard. Hell, the only reason it's still being reviewed in ISO, is because some secretary in bed with MS pushed it in. And even if it gets recognised by ISO, they're going to have to release the source code. I don't care if we can't make deriatives, just let us create interoperability, and you can keep your shitty format.
CO2's plain fucking nasty. Smells like shit, gives you cancer, makes you brain dead. Nasty-assed smog and gasses and other shit sticking in the air, casting big black clouds of death over cities. Climate change is something we can NEVER stop, but we can stop tossing garbage into our lungs.
http://psychocats.net/essays/gamingperspective You got owned. Games don't do shit.
If you don't mind making the PDF's yourself and uploading (Rather than being dynamicly created as needed) OO.o has an "Export as PDF" function. Couldn't you just open the (X)HTML file and export as PDF?
Kernels, APIs, and everything else like that (I group 'em up to kill confusion) will be here forever.
There's no doubt about it. At all. PCs will forever be able to work without being connected to the Internet, at least here in North America, and over in Europe. No one's allowed to force you into connecting with complete strangers, even though it is a very useful tool. How else can you laugh at noobs?
We will still see regular software like we knew before, completely dependant, but alot of things are going to change.
- GUIs will be different. Somehow. Or replaced by something completely different maybe.
- Alot of stuff will be internet-connected, but not forced into it
- Empires will rise and fall. That can never be forgotten. It's only a matter of time before MS goes down, and someone else takes that blasted place.