I don't understand why people think that OpenOffice gets better the more it's like MS Office. OpenOffice.org seems to try hard to be an MS Office clone, but it's like the Linux distros that try to be "Windows-like"; Windows is the reason we want something else, so why are you copying it?
Macs, for instance, do looks of things differently than Windows and Linux, and people are attracted to them because they're different, not because it's just a way to do MS-things, the MS-way, with non-MS program. Until OpenOffice, and a lot of other Open Source Software projects, understand this, they aren't much better than what they emulate. The feature bloat in both Office and OpenOffice is gross.
My 8th-grade pranks involved exploiting a weakness in the regional school board's network and gaining admin access to the entire system, allowing me to make changes to things on a whim, and have access to every teacher's and administrator's e-mail accounts. My father, who was working as a programmer at the time, was simultaneously proud and miffed.
This is what I've been waiting for, seriously. I will be able to buy my music online, and actually own it now. I don't think anything more than "awesome" need be said.
When people complain about Microsoft and IE, they aren't complaining because they run it, they're complaining because they have to design for it. I am a Mac user since Tiger, and before my Mac days I did not use Internet Explorer. But I've been designing web sites in that time and I can't ignore the huge number of people running Windows/Internet Explorer.
I've switched to non-MS alternatives; what we web designers and developers want to see is MS switch to a way of providing the majority of computer users with a way of accessing the internet that doesn't involve hacks, which is basically what this amounts to being. In IE 6 and IE 7, I wrap special CSS styles in conditional comments; in IE 8, I add a tag to all of my validating pages to say that they're valid. Please, someone, give me the "MS is not totally fucked" side of this argument.
I guess there's always IE 9, but my hopes aren't high...
It depends... the people in the office who only use e-mail to communicate are often the ones I get one-line e-mails with bad grammar and no signatures, etc., from. However, a lot of us use an office-wide Jabber system now, so I increasingly get brief messages or requests over iChat.
Unless I'm just really quickly rattling off an e-mail from my iPod or something, I make sure to treat an e-mail much more formally than I suspect many others do. Working in government, it's considered an official gov't document/record, so I tend to treat it more officially than a quick chat message.
Yes, people should definitely pay for their mistake of buying Office in '97 when they could have got OpenOffi-- oh wait, that's right: it wasn't even released in '97. People don't deserve to "pay for their mistakes" because they bought the best software at the time for office/productivity work. They deserve to scope out the alternatives now (iWork and OpenOffice, though OpenOffice still sucks, largely, except for Writer), but they didn't do anything wrong by buying good yet closed software.
Gays have next to no rights, healthcare is fucked, but the real problem is that seventeen isn't old enough to see animated gore. You should be eighteen. Man, I sure feel bad for you Yanks.
Other than what bands I like and what shows I might be going to at local pubs, Facebook knows nothing about me. But the price of putting yourself, and your thoughts, out onto the Internet has always been that anyone can know what you post.
But that's just it, isn't it: what you make public becomes public. That's not shocking news, unless you think that your boss might not notice your "My boss is a dingbat!" Facebook group/blog.
If you're happy (or, in some cases, stupid enough) to be posting (semi-)private details of your life on the web for people to see, especially on sites that you really don't control (like a blog not on your own server or on Facebook/Myspace/etc.), then be prepared to face the consequences; we've already heard lots of stories about students/employees getting in shit for what they write on personal pages. We've been forewarned, and to keep acting shocked, appauled, or violated is absurd.
Your private life is your's, yes, but when you post its details in a public forum... well... shit might happen. Not a new idea.
While many clients of mine are eager to embrace words like "wiki" or "CMS", they never actually want to have to use them. I don't doubt that in some cases, a "webmaster" role can be handed over to WordPress or Drupal now (it's what we often try to do where I work, seeing as we have so many clients), but my experience has been, with a few exceptions, that people love the idea of "Web 2.0", but once they figure out that they have to do it, be responsible for it, and learn a new technology (TinyMCE), then they want to back away.
It's fair enough in some respects; their job isn't to maintain websites, it's more mine. But there are some clients who e-mail me things to post to a CMS where they themselves can post.
... since I was sixteen (my first job), swearing has been the norm in every workplace I've been in. I used to have a bit more of a polite mouth, at least when it came to profanity, before I started working.
Sounds like reasonable points though; the people I work with closely at my job are all people I don't filter my tongue around. My bosses, yes, but even so, they often swear.
Most businesses I've bought from on eBay, even Canadian ones, who have stores, may be Powersellers, and are clearing operating like any other (online) consumer electronics business in Canada (selling, mostly new, goods to end-users) don't charge me federal sales tax. I mean, taxes suck, but they also pay for my healthcare, used to pay for my education, and I do a lot of work for the Government, so I realize that taxes ought be collected. I sound like such a commie, but I'm not.
Anyway, I guess this is good. I don't want eBay business to dwindle, but they should be treated the same as Apple Canada or TigerDirect.ca. What else is there to say? Business, big or small, shouldn't be trying to dodge tax.
... isn't that why I own a notebook in addition to my desktop machine?
Seriously, why would I want to use anything short of Keynote wherever I am?
The mobile ads are kind of cool though; I imagine with the advent of Safari on the iPod, we'll be seeing a tonne of mobile versions of things we love now.
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I don't understand why people think that OpenOffice gets better the more it's like MS Office. OpenOffice.org seems to try hard to be an MS Office clone, but it's like the Linux distros that try to be "Windows-like"; Windows is the reason we want something else, so why are you copying it?
Macs, for instance, do looks of things differently than Windows and Linux, and people are attracted to them because they're different, not because it's just a way to do MS-things, the MS-way, with non-MS program. Until OpenOffice, and a lot of other Open Source Software projects, understand this, they aren't much better than what they emulate. The feature bloat in both Office and OpenOffice is gross.
Crazy. We were talking about PETA and their craziness today. This seems way more reasonable.
I'm a vegan, but it's just a health thing... I still cook steaks for others. ^_^
My 8th-grade pranks involved exploiting a weakness in the regional school board's network and gaining admin access to the entire system, allowing me to make changes to things on a whim, and have access to every teacher's and administrator's e-mail accounts. My father, who was working as a programmer at the time, was simultaneously proud and miffed.
A huge portion of the iTunes music store is still DRM'd...
This is what I've been waiting for, seriously. I will be able to buy my music online, and actually own it now. I don't think anything more than "awesome" need be said.
When people complain about Microsoft and IE, they aren't complaining because they run it, they're complaining because they have to design for it. I am a Mac user since Tiger, and before my Mac days I did not use Internet Explorer. But I've been designing web sites in that time and I can't ignore the huge number of people running Windows/Internet Explorer.
I've switched to non-MS alternatives; what we web designers and developers want to see is MS switch to a way of providing the majority of computer users with a way of accessing the internet that doesn't involve hacks, which is basically what this amounts to being. In IE 6 and IE 7, I wrap special CSS styles in conditional comments; in IE 8, I add a tag to all of my validating pages to say that they're valid. Please, someone, give me the "MS is not totally fucked" side of this argument.
I guess there's always IE 9, but my hopes aren't high...
It depends... the people in the office who only use e-mail to communicate are often the ones I get one-line e-mails with bad grammar and no signatures, etc., from. However, a lot of us use an office-wide Jabber system now, so I increasingly get brief messages or requests over iChat. Unless I'm just really quickly rattling off an e-mail from my iPod or something, I make sure to treat an e-mail much more formally than I suspect many others do. Working in government, it's considered an official gov't document/record, so I tend to treat it more officially than a quick chat message.
Yes, people should definitely pay for their mistake of buying Office in '97 when they could have got OpenOffi-- oh wait, that's right: it wasn't even released in '97. People don't deserve to "pay for their mistakes" because they bought the best software at the time for office/productivity work. They deserve to scope out the alternatives now (iWork and OpenOffice, though OpenOffice still sucks, largely, except for Writer), but they didn't do anything wrong by buying good yet closed software.
Proving, every year, that people who play GTA do more than just kill real people.
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?Chinese Democracy has been vaporware for what, eight years now? And is anyone really looking forward to it anyway?
Fonts have copyrights?
Oops.
Gays have next to no rights, healthcare is fucked, but the real problem is that seventeen isn't old enough to see animated gore. You should be eighteen. Man, I sure feel bad for you Yanks.
... if you were forced to get a Facebook account.
Other than what bands I like and what shows I might be going to at local pubs, Facebook knows nothing about me. But the price of putting yourself, and your thoughts, out onto the Internet has always been that anyone can know what you post.
But that's just it, isn't it: what you make public becomes public. That's not shocking news, unless you think that your boss might not notice your "My boss is a dingbat!" Facebook group/blog.
If you're happy (or, in some cases, stupid enough) to be posting (semi-)private details of your life on the web for people to see, especially on sites that you really don't control (like a blog not on your own server or on Facebook/Myspace/etc.), then be prepared to face the consequences; we've already heard lots of stories about students/employees getting in shit for what they write on personal pages. We've been forewarned, and to keep acting shocked, appauled, or violated is absurd.
Your private life is your's, yes, but when you post its details in a public forum... well... shit might happen. Not a new idea.
I agree. Who the fuck cares about APIs? It's not like people are joining Facebook just to add fifty million stupid applications to their profile.
Ultracodec1000 > all your base.
While many clients of mine are eager to embrace words like "wiki" or "CMS", they never actually want to have to use them. I don't doubt that in some cases, a "webmaster" role can be handed over to WordPress or Drupal now (it's what we often try to do where I work, seeing as we have so many clients), but my experience has been, with a few exceptions, that people love the idea of "Web 2.0", but once they figure out that they have to do it, be responsible for it, and learn a new technology (TinyMCE), then they want to back away.
It's fair enough in some respects; their job isn't to maintain websites, it's more mine. But there are some clients who e-mail me things to post to a CMS where they themselves can post.
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Install this app now, and make sure your contact list is filled with other iPhone users.
... since I was sixteen (my first job), swearing has been the norm in every workplace I've been in. I used to have a bit more of a polite mouth, at least when it came to profanity, before I started working.
Sounds like reasonable points though; the people I work with closely at my job are all people I don't filter my tongue around. My bosses, yes, but even so, they often swear.
Forget patches, this is how Microsoft is going to make Windows Server and IIS secure...
Most businesses I've bought from on eBay, even Canadian ones, who have stores, may be Powersellers, and are clearing operating like any other (online) consumer electronics business in Canada (selling, mostly new, goods to end-users) don't charge me federal sales tax. I mean, taxes suck, but they also pay for my healthcare, used to pay for my education, and I do a lot of work for the Government, so I realize that taxes ought be collected. I sound like such a commie, but I'm not. Anyway, I guess this is good. I don't want eBay business to dwindle, but they should be treated the same as Apple Canada or TigerDirect.ca. What else is there to say? Business, big or small, shouldn't be trying to dodge tax.
... isn't that why I own a notebook in addition to my desktop machine?
Seriously, why would I want to use anything short of Keynote wherever I am?
The mobile ads are kind of cool though; I imagine with the advent of Safari on the iPod, we'll be seeing a tonne of mobile versions of things we love now.
who just uttered "Fucking Word!", I can't imagine why they'd have to buy the vote...
Err, the Linux kernel, Mac OS X, and Windows all have support for TPM. Still using AmigaOS then?