Any chance you remember what cartoon it was? I'm not having any luck finding anything of the sort, and I've GOT to have this for my door (I work in a school).
I do this, too. And when they ask for the phone number I give them 776-5577 (which is the phone number for a local pizza place that advertises all over, so all the "locals" know its fake).
Win95: Have it running our school weather station on a P-133 (you know, where the TV stations report conditions from regional schools http://www.aws.com).
I'm not anti-Corel or pro-Microsoft, but this post has a few *ahem* inaccuracies I'd like to address...
- WordPerfect.... plus frame placement that actually works.
As long as you don't change printers. Whenever you change your printer it "helps" you by shuffling things around - even if the margins and paper sizes are all the same.
- Paradox. An awesome database engine. Far better than Access, last I read from the pointy-heads that know this sort of thing.
A sorry excuse for a database (not saying Access is any better). The worst week of my school year is when the computer applications class covers databases and uses Paradox to do so. Half the time they won't open, and no way to relocate your files once they're saved (within Paradox itself - you can always use the OS).
Quattro. At least up to Office 97, it matched Excel for features. I haven't the foggiest what either company has added (or even could add!) to the spreadsheets, so I don't know how they compare now.
Are you on crack?!? Quattro Pro is the primary reason for movine *away* from Corel. Try importing text - braindead. Charts & Graphs are pathetic and inflexible. OpenOffice beats Quattro Pro by a mile, and it's not even quite to the level of Excel.
If you're using your spreadsheet as a glorified calculator, sure, but any real work will have you dumping Quattro Pro quickly.
Maybe the reason everyone is looking up vi on google is because it is so *intuitive* and *easy-to-learn*?
As opposed to emacs?
Let's face it - though both are powerful, they both come with the price of a learning curve. As others here have suggested, pico (I haven't tried nano) will work for most basic functions if you want to just sit down and use it.
The "boondocks" I'm around are in Kansas. Lots of miles of straight highway, with nothing between distant towns except maybe some wildlife (mostly possum and deer). I could live with "cell free" zones for those places where driving is more hazardous (I don't think finding auto accident statistics would be hard to come up with). I would actually argue that the problem is that cell-phone drivers refuse to tell the other party (whether out of politeness or cluelessness or...?) to tell the other person they need to focus on driving at certain times. A passenger in a car can see when these things are going on, but the person on the other end of a cell phone needs to be told.
Whilst driving and talking on your cell phone simultaneously, you get into a situation that requires a small fraction of the amount of attention required to play an FPS. Say "Hold on a minute" to the person on the phone. They're usually very accomodating.
As well they should - I think we can all agree that murder is morally wrong (my right to swing my fist ends at the tip of your nose). The constitution party (as a platform) believes fetuses are human, therefore defining them as such in a legal sense would be tantamount to making abortion illegal.
As for their other "moral" stances (drugs, gambling), they deal very little with the individual and deal greatly with government regulation (in other words, the same thing as libertarians). The only other stance they have taken (IIRC) that would be contrary to the libertarian viewpoint is opposition to same-sex marriages - they explain why, but I don't recall at the moment.
In my case, that would just mean I could move my entire computer desk back to the wall, since the reason it's about 4"-5" away is because my 17" monitor hangs over it that far. I'd be happy with a 15" LCD.
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Any chance you remember what cartoon it was? I'm not having any luck finding anything of the sort, and I've GOT to have this for my door (I work in a school).
Since people have answered that one, what about Coleco and Intellivision?
Actually, I think the Atari 2600 (before it was called the 2600 when the "new" 5200(?) came out) was my last game console. What can I say? I'm tight.
No pun intended.
That should be "assuming there isn't an afterlife." Your beliefs have nothing to do with it.
As long as we're offtopic...
Give a man a fire and he stays warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he stays warm for the rest of his life.
I would, too except... ummm.... I haven't used any of their products for nearly 7 years anyway.
Moral building? From televangelists?
The demoroniser is your friend.
How about a server that can withstand a slashdotting?
I do this, too. And when they ask for the phone number I give them 776-5577 (which is the phone number for a local pizza place that advertises all over, so all the "locals" know its fake).
MeSsy-DOS: Use it for Norton Ghost multicasting.
WinNT 3.51: Now you're just being sick.
Hmmm...
looked like a sendmail.cf to me.
- WordPerfect. ... plus frame placement that actually works.
As long as you don't change printers. Whenever you change your printer it "helps" you by shuffling things around - even if the margins and paper sizes are all the same.
- Paradox. An awesome database engine. Far better than Access, last I read from the pointy-heads that know this sort of thing.
A sorry excuse for a database (not saying Access is any better). The worst week of my school year is when the computer applications class covers databases and uses Paradox to do so. Half the time they won't open, and no way to relocate your files once they're saved (within Paradox itself - you can always use the OS).
Quattro. At least up to Office 97, it matched Excel for features. I haven't the foggiest what either company has added (or even could add!) to the spreadsheets, so I don't know how they compare now.
Are you on crack?!? Quattro Pro is the primary reason for movine *away* from Corel. Try importing text - braindead. Charts & Graphs are pathetic and inflexible. OpenOffice beats Quattro Pro by a mile, and it's not even quite to the level of Excel.
If you're using your spreadsheet as a glorified calculator, sure, but any real work will have you dumping Quattro Pro quickly.
As opposed to emacs?
Let's face it - though both are powerful, they both come with the price of a learning curve. As others here have suggested, pico (I haven't tried nano) will work for most basic functions if you want to just sit down and use it.
The "boondocks" I'm around are in Kansas. Lots of miles of straight highway, with nothing between distant towns except maybe some wildlife (mostly possum and deer). I could live with "cell free" zones for those places where driving is more hazardous (I don't think finding auto accident statistics would be hard to come up with). I would actually argue that the problem is that cell-phone drivers refuse to tell the other party (whether out of politeness or cluelessness or ...?) to tell the other person they need to focus on driving at certain times. A passenger in a car can see when these things are going on, but the person on the other end of a cell phone needs to be told.
I was wondering why his homepage looked identical to mine.
Whilst driving and talking on your cell phone simultaneously, you get into a situation that requires a small fraction of the amount of attention required to play an FPS. Say "Hold on a minute" to the person on the phone. They're usually very accomodating.
Maybe driving requires your full faculties in the dense urban areas, but out here in the boondocks, it doesn't even come close.
As for their other "moral" stances (drugs, gambling), they deal very little with the individual and deal greatly with government regulation (in other words, the same thing as libertarians). The only other stance they have taken (IIRC) that would be contrary to the libertarian viewpoint is opposition to same-sex marriages - they explain why, but I don't recall at the moment.
They have lots of marketing materials (some funny, some anti-MS, some pretty boring) on their Promotions & Events Videos page.
No, Melinda is quite a philanthropist. Bill didn't give a d*mn about philanthropy until he started getting laid. Thank you, Melinda!
Wrong again. If you're on the right (like me), vote Constitution Party. It's like libertarianism, but with morals.
I bet I'd sue your @$$ off if my 2-year-old had the misfortune of coming near your electric fence.
In my case, that would just mean I could move my entire computer desk back to the wall, since the reason it's about 4"-5" away is because my 17" monitor hangs over it that far. I'd be happy with a 15" LCD.
Get a backbone Internet connection, and partner with a credit card clearinghouse?