... why a hardcopy? One of the greatest appeals of Wikipedia is its searchability and linking. You can take a snapshot of Wikipedia and put it on a CD or DVD - save a tree or two and have a more useful version of the information. And still accessible to those without Internet connections or when Wikipedia is down.
English is not my mother tongue, but my impression is that the original (quoted) poster didn't abuse, but only use, the "beg the question" expression. It did not try to prejudice an outcome.
Feel free to correct me or confirm - I'll learn something either way.
Windows Vista and the forced upgrade to it (or the forced retirement of Windows XP) is what finally broke this came's back and convinced me to get myself an Eee PC - with Xandros. It's got all I need to do work.
We really don't have time to engage in any emotional involvement with our computer software - not the OS, anyway. We need to test our mathematical models, we need our FEA package to do what it has to do (and if you have ever used Comsol Multiphysics you will see what is an unobtrusive interface that does what we need - no stupid ribbons, just your meat-and-potato menu system), and other SW of the kind, which is difficult enough to use because you have to understand the whole background - so we don't want to get into smart new interface concepts. We write scientific papers with whatever will create the best looking.pdf where we insert micrografies, diagrams and formulas. This is what we use our computers for. They are tools and we have no emotional attachment to them. If Windows XP will do, without crashing, the job of supporting the running applications, we are satisfied. If Vista will do that, we are satisfied. If Linux will do that, we are satisfied. We don't care about who the vendor is.
I don't really mind the ribbon - because I found how to remove it. And in general, the ribbon is _not_ the issue - it's the menu system that is. As I said in another post, I actually found Office 2008 for Mac _usable_! Though it fscked up the formulas due to (apparently a known) bug, otherwise I didn't have major problems with that. But Office 2007/win has a menu that left the three of us scratching our heads and laughing in disbelief.
Actually, I used Office 2008 for Mac, and the interface is considerably more sane. It's different enough from Office 2007/Windows, that I didn't have any problems finding the various stuff and edit a fairly complex scientific document. The only (big) problem was that once I converted it to.pdf, the formulas looked like ass. Later I was told that it's a known bug and that when it does that, I should close Word and restart it, and do another conversion and then it usually the formulas look OK.
Interesting then, that all three of us are mildly retarded, and yet we are all young researchers. Kinda hard to survive in nanotech research while being retarded.
Could it be that Microsoft just fscked up? I submit to you as a possibility that Microsoft has just shuffled around the interface in order to justify the publication of a new office suite, when there was nothing to "improve on" anymore.
Is there anyone else besides me whom Microsoft Office 2007 drives completely bonkers? I have never had the gross misfortune of using such an unfriendly POS of an office suite, in my life. The only reason I did use it, was because I had to include some Powerpoint slides into a.ppt file prepared by my boss - so I HAD TO use the company-wide office suite - MS Office 2007 - even though otherwise we are quite free to use whatever we prefer. So I use OO.o usually and just publish my works in.pdf.
Anyhow, it was a traumatic experience. "Where the eff is "Save as"? And how do I insert a slide? OK, how do I center-align this text? No, I don't want to insert Wordard or multimedia clips, thank you. Just a slide. And then save the file under a new name."
For me, the value of an office program, like for example Powerpoint or Impress, is in the speed I can create the presentation (for example) and how good it will look in the end. OO.o Impress is more than adequate in that sense - Powerpoint 2007, well, it failed me. Same with OO.o Write vs Word 2007 - plus the added argument that OO.o creates standstds compliant documents which I will be able to open with a reader of my choice or own creation in 40 years from now. But yeah, the fact that I can create it quickly and without logic-killing brain-damaging consequences is the greatest value.
..the voice of the Tibetans is lost. I say, who cares about hypocrites and nationalists, who even cares about Olympic games and sponsors and the Great Market of China; isn't sympathizing with an oppressed minority a good thing - regardless? ESPECIALLY when the odds are stacked so firmly and outstandingly against them? Because being on the receiving end of China is, in the end, being on the receiving end of any country that wants to do business with and in China.
The problem hardest (in fact, impossible) to tackle for my blind friends, have been flash websites. None of the readers can cope with them.
So if you are a webmaster for a company that offers services that could be useful to blind people as well, please do not design them with flash - they won't be able to read them.
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"We are incompetent, irrelevant and corrupted, and we have a deep attachment to all that."
STEC makes some of the best (in terms of reqrite/erase endurance) Flash RAM modules for the money. As a new Eee PC user, I am about to buy one or two of their SD cards, as their models are actually unmatched WRT write endurance, by any SD manufacturer, as far as I could tell. Very few focus on this characteristic - all the others mostly only care about transfer speed and capacity. Why does the juggernaut Seagate have to go after this particular manufacturer?
The firings that happened in the 50.000-employee company I used to work, were random with regards to talent or usefulness: both deadwood and excellent employees, were fired. They outsourced our jobs to China, in spite of the rumours that most of the people at the site that already worked for us, were woefully incompetent and we ended up fixing their mistakes and wasting just as much time with that, as if we did the development ourselves.
It doesn't matter how good you are, you'll be outsourced. And you know why? Because this whole outsourcing is just a big scam. It's NOT about making things better; it's about managers PRETENDING they are doing something to justify their salaries, and an opportunity to get bonuses.
I use local trains, so I don't suffer from traffic congestion. And most of the time I commute by bike (to uni or work). Dunno, I think most people around Helsinki still get to have more of their own life for themselves, than people in N. america.
...even though I know it's currently over-priced. But after my dis-adventure on my last travel across Europe, I came back home with a BURNING desire for a light laptop that has the tools I need. The Eee PC has everything I need, and is very light. It fits the bill to a T and so...
It's now here, next to me. So nice to be able to carry it literally everywhere (if I want to), so nice the quiet (SSD) and the 3+ hours of battery life. And the fact that Linux works on it out of the box (Xandros) is a huge plus.
The funny thing is, many Eee PC users are trying and even succeeding to install Vista on it! What's their motto? "Why have something working well, when I can completely subvert the purpose of it and make it work like a pyle of shit."?
Of course, I could have bought a full laptop for the price - that's the comment I read very often - but I don't need a laptop that'll be 3 times heavier, with noisy HDD and power-hungry CPU. There's very little that all that weight and power consumption REALLY buys me. I do my gaming at home at my desktop.
Microsoft will NOT burn through their cash for this aquisition. It's not a cash-only aquisition AND Microsoft makes (roughly) $10.000.000.000/year, netto.
This deal WILL NOT destroy Microsoft. I may wish it did, but I'm a realist.
I don't care what kind of movies he did - it doesn't really matter. What matters is to have self-esteem, and that means noone is going to tell me what I should or should not do. It's not a democracy; when it comes to my life, I am the only one responsible to make the decisions. If I feel that my movies have a value, then just because there's lots of people who disagree doesn't mean much. You know the saying: eat shit - one billion flies can't be wrong.
At least at my UK bank you login using the bank code, account number and a PIN number: all typed in at the keyboard and can be logged and re-used later. How does that make you feel? I'd be nervous.
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... why a hardcopy? One of the greatest appeals of Wikipedia is its searchability and linking. You can take a snapshot of Wikipedia and put it on a CD or DVD - save a tree or two and have a more useful version of the information. And still accessible to those without Internet connections or when Wikipedia is down.
English is not my mother tongue, but my impression is that the original (quoted) poster didn't abuse, but only use, the "beg the question" expression. It did not try to prejudice an outcome.
Feel free to correct me or confirm - I'll learn something either way.
Windows Vista and the forced upgrade to it (or the forced retirement of Windows XP) is what finally broke this came's back and convinced me to get myself an Eee PC - with Xandros. It's got all I need to do work.
We really don't have time to engage in any emotional involvement with our computer software - not the OS, anyway. We need to test our mathematical models, we need our FEA package to do what it has to do (and if you have ever used Comsol Multiphysics you will see what is an unobtrusive interface that does what we need - no stupid ribbons, just your meat-and-potato menu system), and other SW of the kind, which is difficult enough to use because you have to understand the whole background - so we don't want to get into smart new interface concepts. We write scientific papers with whatever will create the best looking .pdf where we insert micrografies, diagrams and formulas. This is what we use our computers for. They are tools and we have no emotional attachment to them. If Windows XP will do, without crashing, the job of supporting the running applications, we are satisfied. If Vista will do that, we are satisfied. If Linux will do that, we are satisfied. We don't care about who the vendor is.
I don't really mind the ribbon - because I found how to remove it. And in general, the ribbon is _not_ the issue - it's the menu system that is. As I said in another post, I actually found Office 2008 for Mac _usable_! Though it fscked up the formulas due to (apparently a known) bug, otherwise I didn't have major problems with that. But Office 2007/win has a menu that left the three of us scratching our heads and laughing in disbelief.
Actually, I used Office 2008 for Mac, and the interface is considerably more sane. It's different enough from Office 2007/Windows, that I didn't have any problems finding the various stuff and edit a fairly complex scientific document. The only (big) problem was that once I converted it to .pdf, the formulas looked like ass. Later I was told that it's a known bug and that when it does that, I should close Word and restart it, and do another conversion and then it usually the formulas look OK.
Interesting then, that all three of us are mildly retarded, and yet we are all young researchers. Kinda hard to survive in nanotech research while being retarded.
Could it be that Microsoft just fscked up? I submit to you as a possibility that Microsoft has just shuffled around the interface in order to justify the publication of a new office suite, when there was nothing to "improve on" anymore.
Is there anyone else besides me whom Microsoft Office 2007 drives completely bonkers? I have never had the gross misfortune of using such an unfriendly POS of an office suite, in my life. The only reason I did use it, was because I had to include some Powerpoint slides into a .ppt file prepared by my boss - so I HAD TO use the company-wide office suite - MS Office 2007 - even though otherwise we are quite free to use whatever we prefer. So I use OO.o usually and just publish my works in .pdf.
Anyhow, it was a traumatic experience. "Where the eff is "Save as"? And how do I insert a slide? OK, how do I center-align this text? No, I don't want to insert Wordard or multimedia clips, thank you. Just a slide. And then save the file under a new name."
For me, the value of an office program, like for example Powerpoint or Impress, is in the speed I can create the presentation (for example) and how good it will look in the end. OO.o Impress is more than adequate in that sense - Powerpoint 2007, well, it failed me. Same with OO.o Write vs Word 2007 - plus the added argument that OO.o creates standstds compliant documents which I will be able to open with a reader of my choice or own creation in 40 years from now. But yeah, the fact that I can create it quickly and without logic-killing brain-damaging consequences is the greatest value.
..the voice of the Tibetans is lost. I say, who cares about hypocrites and nationalists, who even cares about Olympic games and sponsors and the Great Market of China; isn't sympathizing with an oppressed minority a good thing - regardless? ESPECIALLY when the odds are stacked so firmly and outstandingly against them? Because being on the receiving end of China is, in the end, being on the receiving end of any country that wants to do business with and in China.
Just think about that, for a moment...
The problem hardest (in fact, impossible) to tackle for my blind friends, have been flash websites. None of the readers can cope with them.
So if you are a webmaster for a company that offers services that could be useful to blind people as well, please do not design them with flash - they won't be able to read them.
"We are incompetent, irrelevant and corrupted, and we have a deep attachment to all that."
Well done, then.
And let me guess: he did not care to disable the swap file. If he did, he's in a small minority.
If he didn't he'll be soon hitting the upper limit of the rewrite cycle endurance of the SSD.
STEC makes some of the best (in terms of reqrite/erase endurance) Flash RAM modules for the money. As a new Eee PC user, I am about to buy one or two of their SD cards, as their models are actually unmatched WRT write endurance, by any SD manufacturer, as far as I could tell. Very few focus on this characteristic - all the others mostly only care about transfer speed and capacity. Why does the juggernaut Seagate have to go after this particular manufacturer?
The firings that happened in the 50.000-employee company I used to work, were random with regards to talent or usefulness: both deadwood and excellent employees, were fired. They outsourced our jobs to China, in spite of the rumours that most of the people at the site that already worked for us, were woefully incompetent and we ended up fixing their mistakes and wasting just as much time with that, as if we did the development ourselves.
It doesn't matter how good you are, you'll be outsourced. And you know why? Because this whole outsourcing is just a big scam. It's NOT about making things better; it's about managers PRETENDING they are doing something to justify their salaries, and an opportunity to get bonuses.
I use local trains, so I don't suffer from traffic congestion. And most of the time I commute by bike (to uni or work). Dunno, I think most people around Helsinki still get to have more of their own life for themselves, than people in N. america.
Posts and sub-threads like this make me really appreciative of living in Finland.
Upgrading the Eee PC involves a $30 purchase (2GB SO-DIMM) and 45 seconds of work.
...even though I know it's currently over-priced. But after my dis-adventure on my last travel across Europe, I came back home with a BURNING desire for a light laptop that has the tools I need. The Eee PC has everything I need, and is very light. It fits the bill to a T and so...
It's now here, next to me. So nice to be able to carry it literally everywhere (if I want to), so nice the quiet (SSD) and the 3+ hours of battery life. And the fact that Linux works on it out of the box (Xandros) is a huge plus.
The funny thing is, many Eee PC users are trying and even succeeding to install Vista on it! What's their motto? "Why have something working well, when I can completely subvert the purpose of it and make it work like a pyle of shit."?
Of course, I could have bought a full laptop for the price - that's the comment I read very often - but I don't need a laptop that'll be 3 times heavier, with noisy HDD and power-hungry CPU. There's very little that all that weight and power consumption REALLY buys me. I do my gaming at home at my desktop.
I like your plan. I probably would have made it like that, pretty much.
High five, my friend, and may this plan become reality - for the whole world.
Microsoft will NOT burn through their cash for this aquisition. It's not a cash-only aquisition AND Microsoft makes (roughly) $10.000.000.000/year, netto.
This deal WILL NOT destroy Microsoft. I may wish it did, but I'm a realist.
$20?
I don't care what kind of movies he did - it doesn't really matter. What matters is to have self-esteem, and that means noone is going to tell me what I should or should not do. It's not a democracy; when it comes to my life, I am the only one responsible to make the decisions. If I feel that my movies have a value, then just because there's lots of people who disagree doesn't mean much. You know the saying: eat shit - one billion flies can't be wrong.
I hope they improve existing lie detectors, the "at a distance" option is much less important.