In the spirit of open source, screw the MS Office suite. Take the open OOXML standard and write your own office suite. Since you've apparently not followed the saga, the purpose of the MOOXML "standard" is that you cannot reimplement it because it isn't fully specified (in addition to being a festering mess).
Only Microsoft has the blobs required to make MOOXML work. Only partial compatibility can be attained by other in the best of cases. OTOH ODF actually *is* an open format which is properly documented and which does evolve in the open.
On top of that, I'm not certain whether all of the Microsoft users can actually read/write MOOXML files. A large number haven't switched to the latest version of Office and don't seem to want to (or cannot if they're on Macs). In small structures I doubt they even know about the translator add ons for their version of Office (if it's even available for their version).
Only reason to leave the Win partition now is for the games. Only reason to have one really... Only reason I've had one, on and off, in the past ten years.
The drawback is that if you don't use Windows at work you're soon out of touch with the mainstream desktop and have absolutely no idea what software is available for the Windows people and soon won't really know how the latest versions of Windows work. It can be a problem sometimes. You typically won't care yourself of course.
(Drivers in the US never seem to bother using their ashtrays. Burning cigarettes dangle out the window, and then are cast aside when they're finished. It's like, what the hell, people? Why do you think that's OK?) From what I've noticed on the roadside in the US, people mostly seem to do this with empty bottles. Regularly the roadside would glitter for kilometres at a time with waste bottles. It was completely surreal.
...any computer or network hardware used to "facilitate" a copyright crime and auction it off. So this includes entire ISPs and root DNS servers? I don't see why not. And of course they'll have to dig up all that fibre. Looks suspiciously like network hardware to me.
I don't think he was commenting on the storage density, just the fact that it was a lot harder to lug around a 350 on your keychain. Not at all. If you look carefully at the top of the unit, there is a little ring specifically for attachment to keychains.
Personally I do all my programming in functions, often I just need 1 or 2 big functions for a program if I make sure the functions all behave entirely differently depending on the values of the 30 or so parameters I pass to them. Makes sense. All you usually need is initStuff() and doStuff(). Saves having to think up function names too. Saves a lot of time.
Yes, Microsoft makes money on its software. I still fail to see why this is a bad thing. Does anyone believe Microsoft should gather several thousand software engineers together and then ask them to work for free? I find your bold business ideas to be very interesting. Please get in touch for implementation details.
Meh. I think the number one procrastination-trigger around IT-companies is still/. and not e-mails. That's why I have a script that dumps/. stories in my email. "Look, I'm working ! It's email !"
Proper, or at least consistent use of the words Avenue, Boulevard, Court, Drive, Road, Lane, Way is also very handy. I'm looking at a map of Liverpool and notice whether a road travels east-west, north-south, or diagonally it's usually named a street. Sounds pretty consistent to me;)
[Off-topic] Check that. I was in similar situation with Windows + US keyboard layout vs. German umlauts. fyi.
Thanks. I already knew of this (or a very similar) program. Another way is to use a custom keymap (which apparently requires dev tools to generate) which is floating around and is better than the one from MS.
However I'm lucky enough that I don't have to use Windows for work so it's not really a problem anyway. Just a bother every now and then when I have to borrow an account somewhere (and then of course I cannot really remap the keyboard).
Regarding the US keyboard, I think you can switch to what is labeled as the "International US keyboard" which support something a bit like the Unix compose key.
But M-softies have no choice: Windows is sold in many markets and in all the markets IE/etc has to support all the peculiarities of internationalization. Maybe they do in browsers but certainly not in other apps. For example you can' type French text with the French keyboard layout. Accented uppercase characters and ligatures are impossible to obtain directly. Worst support I've seen on any platform really (those are all trivial to do in Unix/Linux and easy on MacOS btw).
I live in Europe, and we have had names for our streets since... Well, since the streets were placed there. And I can tell you that we're not hopelessly getting lost all the time. The human brain is quite capable of linking names to places... The human brain is, however the grid system is rather handy. For example "4242 Don't Panic St. South". Odds are it's 42 blocks south of city center, with the nearest cross street being 42nd. No grid system is perfect, there are almost always hills, ravines, rivers, lakes, junk in the way.
One can learn the streets of a city, but an intelligent syntax and order are there to help out those who are not so intimately familiar with your city. A good layout a person without a map can establish direction of travel and ever be hopelessly lost, well for the most part. So now all we have to do is to raze all the messy European cities built along those twisting centuries (or millenia) old roads and ways and rebuild them along neat grids.
'Why they don't make lug nuts with tapers on both sides...'
Cost. At least one tapering end will have to be machined or stamped as it cannot be part of the mould.
Or isn't it because the other end of the nut is closed ?? I can't recall seeing a nut open at both ends (from a car wheel that is) on anything but a pre WWII vehicle in a museum. I've certainly never seen it live, on a vehicle operated by me or by relatives (owned or rented). And I'm 40 btw.
Maybe European legislation is different regarding this issue...
I'll buy the poorly seated wheel though (as exposed a few posts below). On most models I've changed wheels on you have to lift the wheel and push to seat it properly, something people doing it for the first time might miss.
I'm not sure that one is being related 100% correctly. I'm not sure when this happened or who the canopy manufacturer was, but most skydiving work these days is done with mini-dv cameras. True, but most of it is also done with a parachute.
End-effect: A 10-minute re-attachment of a wheel turned into the need to completely replace the disc-brake on one wheel, and readjust suspension. $1500, for what would otherwise have been like $100 (she could've put the wheel back on herself really, if she had half a clue) But how does a wheel "fall off" to begin with ? I don't drive all that much (mostly using my bike, buses and the metro, comes from living in the city), but I can't recall ever having a wheel "fall off". And what would she put it back on with ? Super-glue ?
This doesn't quite fit in to the category of data disaster, because no data was lost....once as I was going to bed my cat was chasing something on the floor of my room,[... ] the next day I discovered it was a gopher, and it had lodged itself in between the old Reset and Turbo button panel and the motherboard.. and struggled.. and bled to death.. all over my running 386 SX 40 motherboard. You cat should have used Veronica.
The fact that GP runs KDE means that he can't be as stupid as JOE. Yeah, right. I guess that's why the first sticky thing on the official Ubuntu forums these days is "if someone tells you to run 'sudo rm -rf/' don't do it". I suppose there have been a few issues with that kind of thing. The general public has come to Linux, like it or not.
But it creates a nice buying opportunity for Netflix stockholders... or selling opportunity for people who had already shorted Netflix. Are you kidding? it creates an opportunity for envelope maker stockholders !
Holy scheize, 999! There's nobody in the world I want to talk to that badly. Apparently it's sold for 750 €s in France and should be 100 €s cheaper in six months. 999 €s is outrageous. Presumably the French ones can be used elsewhere.
While techically true, it will never fly. I'll stick to calling it MOOXML though, both because of the MS Office origin and in reference to the amount of bullshit MS has spewed about it.
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But how do you know this?
Electronic (and mechanical) machines have no feelings, only chemical machines have feelings. Just ask your VCR.Only Microsoft has the blobs required to make MOOXML work. Only partial compatibility can be attained by other in the best of cases. OTOH ODF actually *is* an open format which is properly documented and which does evolve in the open.
On top of that, I'm not certain whether all of the Microsoft users can actually read/write MOOXML files. A large number haven't switched to the latest version of Office and don't seem to want to (or cannot if they're on Macs). In small structures I doubt they even know about the translator add ons for their version of Office (if it's even available for their version).
The drawback is that if you don't use Windows at work you're soon out of touch with the mainstream desktop and have absolutely no idea what software is available for the Windows people and soon won't really know how the latest versions of Windows work. It can be a problem sometimes. You typically won't care yourself of course.
For extra points you can run a few apps in Wine on the desktop. :)
...any computer or network hardware used to "facilitate" a copyright crime and auction it off. So this includes entire ISPs and root DNS servers? I don't see why not. And of course they'll have to dig up all that fibre. Looks suspiciously like network hardware to me.Please get in touch for implementation details.
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Seems like an elegant (if somewhat expensive) solution for the problem in the more risky cases :)
"Look, I'm working ! It's email !"
[Off-topic] Check that. I was in similar situation with Windows + US keyboard layout vs. German umlauts. fyi.
Thanks. I already knew of this (or a very similar) program. Another way is to use a custom keymap (which apparently requires dev tools to generate) which is floating around and is better than the one from MS.However I'm lucky enough that I don't have to use Windows for work so it's not really a problem anyway. Just a bother every now and then when I have to borrow an account somewhere (and then of course I cannot really remap the keyboard).
Regarding the US keyboard, I think you can switch to what is labeled as the "International US keyboard" which support something a bit like the Unix compose key.
One can learn the streets of a city, but an intelligent syntax and order are there to help out those who are not so intimately familiar with your city. A good layout a person without a map can establish direction of travel and ever be hopelessly lost, well for the most part. So now all we have to do is to raze all the messy European cities built along those twisting centuries (or millenia) old roads and ways and rebuild them along neat grids.
No reason why it shouldn't work.
Cost. At least one tapering end will have to be machined or stamped as it cannot be part of the mould.
Or isn't it because the other end of the nut is closed ?? I can't recall seeing a nut open at both ends (from a car wheel that is) on anything but a pre WWII vehicle in a museum. I've certainly never seen it live, on a vehicle operated by me or by relatives (owned or rented). And I'm 40 btw.Maybe European legislation is different regarding this issue...
I'll buy the poorly seated wheel though (as exposed a few posts below). On most models I've changed wheels on you have to lift the wheel and push to seat it properly, something people doing it for the first time might miss.
And what would she put it back on with ? Super-glue ?
The general public has come to Linux, like it or not.
While techically true, it will never fly. I'll stick to calling it MOOXML though, both because of the MS Office origin and in reference to the amount of bullshit MS has spewed about it.