It's not unusual for me to have guys in their late 20s or early 30s in my class. Everyone likes the older guys. Plus, offer to buy beer = instant study group (as long as you can keep those 18-year-olds sober DURING the study sessions).
Sounds a bit off topic, but I thought this tied in interestingly to something I saw on Alton Brown's Good Eats (it's a cooking show).
When movie theaters started to boom in the 1920s, a time of general economic prosperity, the theaters used to rent out space in front of the theaters to sell popcorn. Then, during the depression, the theaters realized they weren't making enough money. They also realized that it's almost free to make their own popcorn, and that you can mark up popcorn by obscene amounts and nobody will say boo. Thus, movie theater concessions were born.
Sometimes it takes an economic downturn to realize that you're getting hosed by renting out space, whether it be on your hard drive, or in front of your movie theater.
I switched over to OO.org for reliability reasons. Most notably, I used to split my time working between a nice, new tower using MSWord from somewhere in the 2000s. Then, I would save these files in an old file type, and drag them over to a desktop that could kindly be referred to as "crap-ass" running Windows 95 and an MS Office suite to match.
Because of cost concerns (Read: Cheap bastards), I wasn't able to upgrade the software on the old machines. OO.o was free and always up-to-date, so I switched and now use it almost daily.
Now, off to parent's question. I did get used to it. I use oo.o for all my word processing, presentations, publishing work, and I'm now comfortable saying that I'm more proficient with oo.o than I am with MS office. I used to work around the differences, now I embrace them and need to work around MS's differences.
Now, let me grab my OSS soapbox for a minute. EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING that goes on with governmental computers should be visible to the public. The software should be visible, the editing should be visible because that prevents these travesties!
We have this story about one man hijacking an entire freakin' city. One news post down from here, we have more evidence that Diebold has been tampering our elections! How much outrage does the public need in order to demand a little bit of technological transparency?!
I just finished watching it and I've gotta' say, extremely well written. The whole cast turns out to be fantastic singers, which is a hilarious change of pace for those of you who know Nathan Fillion from Firefly. You'll love his "A Man's Gotta' Do!
Next installments are on Thursday and Saturday. I'll be watchin' at midnight!
I'm always criticized for my sloppy handwriting, and it's refreshing to see that the experts in the field of readable, beautiful type can be just as "lazy" or sloppy as me.
Linux has always interested me. I've been a computer nerd since I was born, and first tried to install Linux when I was somewhere around ten years old. Well, we've seen a decade pass since then, and there's a lot of truth in this statement. I stuck with windows so long because of the inaccessibility of installing and putting together a distro the way you wanted. Now, more than ever, we are seeing a trend toward usability, starting from when you first boot the kernel. I personally love this phrase because every advertising campaign needs a slogan and with all the usability-centric distributions out there (case-in-point, Ubuntu), we've come a long way and we are finally ready for the average users' desktop.
One has to wonder, how popular would Wikileaks be if they had never been censored by an overzealous judge! In the immortal words of Killer Instinct: "C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!"
...that fight between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi? Bah, look who I'm asking!
This feels like a slow-motion fight for the soul of computer development and standard's future. I hope the forces of good (with whom India has aligned themselves) do better than Ol' Ben.
I do almost all of my computing with my laptop, lying on the couch. No desktop real-estate at all here. I tried optical mouses and they were okay, not great. So, when my mouse got stolen (yeah, stolen), I took it as an opportunity to try something new. I've been gaming for a while and heard miracle stories about trackballs in FPS, so I picked one of the thumb-controlled dealies from Logitech. I can understand what you mean about no more precision, it's just as bad as my mouse was on precision, but I don't move it around at all, don't have to lift it up when I make a big move and it's comfortable. I don't know why these things ever went out of style!
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I vote "do it."
When movie theaters started to boom in the 1920s, a time of general economic prosperity, the theaters used to rent out space in front of the theaters to sell popcorn. Then, during the depression, the theaters realized they weren't making enough money. They also realized that it's almost free to make their own popcorn, and that you can mark up popcorn by obscene amounts and nobody will say boo. Thus, movie theater concessions were born.
Sometimes it takes an economic downturn to realize that you're getting hosed by renting out space, whether it be on your hard drive, or in front of your movie theater.
In this case, Idle is NOT pants.
Because of cost concerns (Read: Cheap bastards), I wasn't able to upgrade the software on the old machines. OO.o was free and always up-to-date, so I switched and now use it almost daily.
Now, off to parent's question. I did get used to it. I use oo.o for all my word processing, presentations, publishing work, and I'm now comfortable saying that I'm more proficient with oo.o than I am with MS office. I used to work around the differences, now I embrace them and need to work around MS's differences.
Is there a "slashdotted" button on P2V? Post the IP, and we'll run a test right now :P
I know you said no word processors, but OpenOffice has a math thing built in. I don't have much experience with it, however. Anyone weigh in?
Now, let me grab my OSS soapbox for a minute. EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING that goes on with governmental computers should be visible to the public. The software should be visible, the editing should be visible because that prevents these travesties! We have this story about one man hijacking an entire freakin' city. One news post down from here, we have more evidence that Diebold has been tampering our elections! How much outrage does the public need in order to demand a little bit of technological transparency?!
I just finished watching it and I've gotta' say, extremely well written. The whole cast turns out to be fantastic singers, which is a hilarious change of pace for those of you who know Nathan Fillion from Firefly. You'll love his "A Man's Gotta' Do! Next installments are on Thursday and Saturday. I'll be watchin' at midnight!
I miss Pluto.
I'm always criticized for my sloppy handwriting, and it's refreshing to see that the experts in the field of readable, beautiful type can be just as "lazy" or sloppy as me.
Elephants have been rather underrepresented in space recently.
Linux has always interested me. I've been a computer nerd since I was born, and first tried to install Linux when I was somewhere around ten years old. Well, we've seen a decade pass since then, and there's a lot of truth in this statement. I stuck with windows so long because of the inaccessibility of installing and putting together a distro the way you wanted. Now, more than ever, we are seeing a trend toward usability, starting from when you first boot the kernel. I personally love this phrase because every advertising campaign needs a slogan and with all the usability-centric distributions out there (case-in-point, Ubuntu), we've come a long way and we are finally ready for the average users' desktop.
And nobody was surprised.
One has to wonder, how popular would Wikileaks be if they had never been censored by an overzealous judge! In the immortal words of Killer Instinct: "C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!"
...that fight between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi? Bah, look who I'm asking! This feels like a slow-motion fight for the soul of computer development and standard's future. I hope the forces of good (with whom India has aligned themselves) do better than Ol' Ben.
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Gentlemen, start your Correlation != Causality engines!
Chair, Desk, Computer. Now you're started.
I do almost all of my computing with my laptop, lying on the couch. No desktop real-estate at all here. I tried optical mouses and they were okay, not great. So, when my mouse got stolen (yeah, stolen), I took it as an opportunity to try something new. I've been gaming for a while and heard miracle stories about trackballs in FPS, so I picked one of the thumb-controlled dealies from Logitech. I can understand what you mean about no more precision, it's just as bad as my mouse was on precision, but I don't move it around at all, don't have to lift it up when I make a big move and it's comfortable. I don't know why these things ever went out of style!