On the Office 2007 interafce, yes, it does take time to get used to such a big change but once you do, you soon realize that MS really did a good job on it and you can customize the damn ribbon somewhat as I'm starting to do. I think the one thing I really appreciate is the spell/grammar checking feature. Yes Open Office can Spell Check but it doesn't do grammar checking worth a damn. Since I save/export to RTF on a regular basis, file sizes tend to be the same.
2) That's why I don't like any linux not built from source code - gentoo/lfs ftw - because you have to depend on somone else deciding what apps/features/tools/purpose your computer is used for
One thing I've learned is to check the Newegg reviews for linux probs/support from hardware since use Linux users will report if something works or how much trouble it was to get working. Very useful for those of us in mixed households as it allows us to support Linux hardware makers while getting stuff that works fine on Windows. As an example, I was looking for webcams and found two models that specified Linux Support both of which had reviews indicating Yes it does work. The first one indicated it was a UVL device with support in 2.6-26 kernel (V4L) while the other also supports linux (debian-lenny) out of the box. That's the kind of info I now look for when it comes to Linux support.
On Topic: The Open-PC project looks down right good to me though I think they screwed up by using such a large PSU in the case. Isn't that the entire purpose of the mini ITX design? Less Power needed? Heck that's like a Via mini-itx board being powered by a 500 watt PSU. It'll work but it's serious overkill for the hardware.
You're not the only one to ask that Grasshopper so I'll explain it to you. A TV (television) was a magical device created by great wizzards to allow us to view people and events from anywhere until the great evil Advertise cam to dominate it. Then the great Enabling Internet was born to fight the great evil and that battle continues today on many fronts.
Even if the entire offer was a Joke, the courts could consider the offering of money as an inducement to violate trade secrets, thus giving the Go Ahead to the pursuit of a major lawsuit. Anyone who actually accepts the money and provides what has been requested, then opens them up to a criminal investigation of Industrial Espionage. "Jonny Menomic" was based upon the entire precept of Industrial Espionage wasn't it?
Having used Noscript for over 2 years, I've built a whitelist of all the sites I use that absolutely need jscript working. That's 11 sites in all over the last 2 years. If that few need Javescript to be useful, why in hell even allow javascript to begin with?
I've been using Noscript since forever dude. Sure it broke lots of things to start with but that's finally settled down as I've built up my whitelist of allowed websites. The important thing is to block all by default then whitelist as needed and that prevents crap like this from happening in the first place.
According to Google, China is only a 300M Dollar Market. Not much money when you factor in normal expenses for their China Operations. Raises the question is it Profitable to remain in China? From what they've said, not really so why continue expending money on a market where the Government does not want you? Pack up and Leave I say and tell the bastards to eff off and die.
Considering the fact that as 7 year old, I was wrongly diagnosed with ADHD at the School Districts behest instead of the real problem being addressed - I was bored out of my skull with normal class work due to an I.Q. of 138. "Get to the meat of the subject Teach" - My primary teacher allowed me during class reading time to use the library where I hit the encyclopedia's on any subject that caught my attention. Mainly Civil Engineering (Hoover Damn) the space program (Apollo, Pioneer) and grew up on Star Trek ToS, Project Shadow and had my interest in science and technology encouraged by both parents through Radio Shack and HeathKits (Yes I built several Crystal Radio's as the house we lived in had an AM Antena with connection for such endevors).
You might have some vague grasp of why I feel that the issue of ADHD is over blown/rated. It's too damn easy to say "Have one of Momma's Little Helpers", which was an actual advertisement for Valium in the Late 50's early 60's. Talk about drug pushers. The pharmacutical Companies have gamed the entire system with the War On Drugs because it isn't Profitible for them or their Share Holders. It's all got to be certified by the FDA or it's bunk/junk or useless, just like the DEA told California that they Would Not honor the Medical Use of Marijuana and would continue violating the States Rights in direct Violation of the Constitution, which since 9/11 has been so badly gutted by Congress through the Patriot Act, extensions of Copyright and other acts that you now can be charged with a crime for any reason. And to top it all off, the tax burden upon the so-called Middle Class is not the 38 percent they keep telling us about but almost 90 percent. It used to be that everyone's tax burden was paid in full by March 15 (that was all taxes) with the rest of your income coming back either as a refund of taxes overpaid when you filed. Damn I hit one of my own buttons/rant
Just like I'm spending $800 on a Desktop Replacement system from HP - the DV2xxx series. It's got a 250GiB drive, 4GB ram, M320 Dual Core Athlon, DVD-RW/DL burner and Win7-64 and the 17.3 inch screen. The big reason for the purchase though is the full 105keyboard. Very important on a desktop replacement and that's it's purpose. Nice to have a built-in UPS with at least 60 minutes of run time. Saves me hassle of managing one on the floor.
Damn You: I don't know whether to mark you as Funny or Insightful becuase you've succeeded in reaching both.
It's very true that you can't idiot proof something as I gleefully instructed a salesperson on regarding flip phones. I'm a trekie (grew up on it) and the first thing I did was flip it open. Funny thing is, he got hit in the knee with one screen while the other flew across the room and just missed hitting his boss in the face. Yep totally destroyed a $300 dollar phone in less then 2 seconds only to ask the guy "Now do you understand why I don't like flip phones?"
I'll take a brick phone over a flip any day of the week simply because I wont destroy telling the ship to "Beam Me Up. There's no Inteligent Life here."
Having been classified as ADHD in the early 70's it's so nice to finally get my revenge now that everyone has been infected with the damn Attention Deficit Syndrome. Those who don't learn to focus and develop short term memory are bound to fail and I can sincerely state "Welcome to my World" - sukkers.
In regards to IBM pulling the same against Oracle you forget one of the biggest reasons against it. Federal Action and Lawsuits. This would fall squarely under Anti-Competitive actions, thus the Feds (DOJ/Regulators) would all jump in and Oracle would have a Damn near ironclad suit against IBM for Lots more then 100M dollars. Even though the Nazgul would be out in droves, they still couldn't keep the ring bearer away from Mount Doom as the Armies of the 7 lands would be fighting them at the same time.
Thankfully I am not one of their legion of Slack Jawed Idiots as I have never bought an EA Game. The Copies of SImCity 3000 and SimCity 4 Dlx came with hardware purchases, thus were freebies. My Only Paid for Copy of SimCity was SimCity 2000. I've hated EA since the beginning when a friend asked me to grab the latest patches/updates for Sims. Couldn't download fixes as I didn't have a valid registration code. WTF is up with that. These are supposed to fix problems and they wont provide them? Hell that was such a PITA that I simply gave up buying any games at all as it's likely that the EA jugernaught will eventually swallow what ever product I'm interested in.
Don't need no stinking FBI to do this. DHS (dept. homeland security) already has that authority granted under the Patriot Act. It's called Suspension of Habeous Corpus and the only agency granted that suspension was DHS. So they already have the right to grab you without warrant or charges and hold you as long as they like for any reason so long as the grab is done by DHS or under the Order plus they have to right to tell you to shut up or they can grab you.
While you're at it, give my HoloDeck, Warp Drive, Transports, Replicators and EMH (emergency medical hologram) and I'll let you off lightly. Otherwise you'll have to listen to Bo Peep Rock for the next year.
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Oh how I long for the slashdot days of lore....
Oh how I long for the slashdot days of yore... Fixed that for ya
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On the Office 2007 interafce, yes, it does take time to get used to such a big change but once you do, you soon realize that MS really did a good job on it and you can customize the damn ribbon somewhat as I'm starting to do. I think the one thing I really appreciate is the spell/grammar checking feature. Yes Open Office can Spell Check but it doesn't do grammar checking worth a damn. Since I save/export to RTF on a regular basis, file sizes tend to be the same.
2) That's why I don't like any linux not built from source code - gentoo/lfs ftw - because you have to depend on somone else deciding what apps/features/tools/purpose your computer is used for
One thing I've learned is to check the Newegg reviews for linux probs/support from hardware since use Linux users will report if something works or how much trouble it was to get working. Very useful for those of us in mixed households as it allows us to support Linux hardware makers while getting stuff that works fine on Windows. As an example, I was looking for webcams and found two models that specified Linux Support both of which had reviews indicating Yes it does work. The first one indicated it was a UVL device with support in 2.6-26 kernel (V4L) while the other also supports linux (debian-lenny) out of the box. That's the kind of info I now look for when it comes to Linux support.
On Topic: The Open-PC project looks down right good to me though I think they screwed up by using such a large PSU in the case. Isn't that the entire purpose of the mini ITX design? Less Power needed? Heck that's like a Via mini-itx board being powered by a 500 watt PSU. It'll work but it's serious overkill for the hardware.
What's the diff between a Bot and an NPC (GW Hero's/Henchies)?
The NPC is Sanctioned while the Bot is not, yet both are bots.
You're not the only one to ask that Grasshopper so I'll explain it to you. A TV (television) was a magical device created by great wizzards to allow us to view people and events from anywhere until the great evil Advertise cam to dominate it. Then the great Enabling Internet was born to fight the great evil and that battle continues today on many fronts.
Even if the entire offer was a Joke, the courts could consider the offering of money as an inducement to violate trade secrets, thus giving the Go Ahead to the pursuit of a major lawsuit. Anyone who actually accepts the money and provides what has been requested, then opens them up to a criminal investigation of Industrial Espionage. "Jonny Menomic" was based upon the entire precept of Industrial Espionage wasn't it?
I thought Red Tape was the perfect thing for building a Space Elevator
Having used Noscript for over 2 years, I've built a whitelist of all the sites I use that absolutely need jscript working. That's 11 sites in all over the last 2 years. If that few need Javescript to be useful, why in hell even allow javascript to begin with?
I've been using Noscript since forever dude. Sure it broke lots of things to start with but that's finally settled down as I've built up my whitelist of allowed websites. The important thing is to block all by default then whitelist as needed and that prevents crap like this from happening in the first place.
According to Google, China is only a 300M Dollar Market. Not much money when you factor in normal expenses for their China Operations. Raises the question is it Profitable to remain in China? From what they've said, not really so why continue expending money on a market where the Government does not want you? Pack up and Leave I say and tell the bastards to eff off and die.
CHI 3000 Key. Soon enough you wont be able to get a Thinkpad with anything except a Mandarin Keyboard.
I've now learned my daily quota of something new - Thank you for that clear/concise explanation - Now it's off to veggie status.
Depends on whether you want to squick em by searching for Chocolates, Roses, Dog Biscuits, Leashes and Hand/Ankle Cuffs.
Why deploy a DIFFERENT backup and make all the users buy ANOTHER device when they ALREADY HAVE LORAN-C equipment?
To sell, at an exhororant price, new equipment that some company designed to be incompatible with Loran-C and to fail after the warranty expires.
Considering the fact that as 7 year old, I was wrongly diagnosed with ADHD at the School Districts behest instead of the real problem being addressed - I was bored out of my skull with normal class work due to an I.Q. of 138. "Get to the meat of the subject Teach" - My primary teacher allowed me during class reading time to use the library where I hit the encyclopedia's on any subject that caught my attention. Mainly Civil Engineering (Hoover Damn) the space program (Apollo, Pioneer) and grew up on Star Trek ToS, Project Shadow and had my interest in science and technology encouraged by both parents through Radio Shack and HeathKits (Yes I built several Crystal Radio's as the house we lived in had an AM Antena with connection for such endevors).
You might have some vague grasp of why I feel that the issue of ADHD is over blown/rated. It's too damn easy to say "Have one of Momma's Little Helpers", which was an actual advertisement for Valium in the Late 50's early 60's. Talk about drug pushers. The pharmacutical Companies have gamed the entire system with the War On Drugs because it isn't Profitible for them or their Share Holders. It's all got to be certified by the FDA or it's bunk/junk or useless, just like the DEA told California that they Would Not honor the Medical Use of Marijuana and would continue violating the States Rights in direct Violation of the Constitution, which since 9/11 has been so badly gutted by Congress through the Patriot Act, extensions of Copyright and other acts that you now can be charged with a crime for any reason. And to top it all off, the tax burden upon the so-called Middle Class is not the 38 percent they keep telling us about but almost 90 percent. It used to be that everyone's tax burden was paid in full by March 15 (that was all taxes) with the rest of your income coming back either as a refund of taxes overpaid when you filed. Damn I hit one of my own buttons /rant
Just like I'm spending $800 on a Desktop Replacement system from HP - the DV2xxx series. It's got a 250GiB drive, 4GB ram, M320 Dual Core Athlon, DVD-RW/DL burner and Win7-64 and the 17.3 inch screen. The big reason for the purchase though is the full 105keyboard. Very important on a desktop replacement and that's it's purpose. Nice to have a built-in UPS with at least 60 minutes of run time. Saves me hassle of managing one on the floor.
just fly naked. If they don't like it, you can claim it's a security related measure.
Damn You: I don't know whether to mark you as Funny or Insightful becuase you've succeeded in reaching both.
It's very true that you can't idiot proof something as I gleefully instructed a salesperson on regarding flip phones. I'm a trekie (grew up on it) and the first thing I did was flip it open. Funny thing is, he got hit in the knee with one screen while the other flew across the room and just missed hitting his boss in the face. Yep totally destroyed a $300 dollar phone in less then 2 seconds only to ask the guy "Now do you understand why I don't like flip phones?"
I'll take a brick phone over a flip any day of the week simply because I wont destroy telling the ship to "Beam Me Up. There's no Inteligent Life here."
Get Off My Lawn Kids
Having been classified as ADHD in the early 70's it's so nice to finally get my revenge now that everyone has been infected with the damn Attention Deficit Syndrome. Those who don't learn to focus and develop short term memory are bound to fail and I can sincerely state "Welcome to my World" - sukkers.
What Spell Check? I didn't know I was writing a Spell. Is it a good or evil spell?
Damn it's evil. Now I've got to listen to da da da de - da da de bop all the time.
In regards to IBM pulling the same against Oracle you forget one of the biggest reasons against it. Federal Action and Lawsuits. This would fall squarely under Anti-Competitive actions, thus the Feds (DOJ/Regulators) would all jump in and Oracle would have a Damn near ironclad suit against IBM for Lots more then 100M dollars. Even though the Nazgul would be out in droves, they still couldn't keep the ring bearer away from Mount Doom as the Armies of the 7 lands would be fighting them at the same time.
"Luke Raised his Macroculars to the sky and watched the Rebel ship be destroyed by the Imperial Star Destroyer"
To me this sounds suspicously like a Oil Filled Variable Focus Lens with higher magnification and image stabilization.
The big question though is this something new?
Thankfully I am not one of their legion of Slack Jawed Idiots as I have never bought an EA Game. The Copies of SImCity 3000 and SimCity 4 Dlx came with hardware purchases, thus were freebies. My Only Paid for Copy of SimCity was SimCity 2000. I've hated EA since the beginning when a friend asked me to grab the latest patches/updates for Sims. Couldn't download fixes as I didn't have a valid registration code. WTF is up with that. These are supposed to fix problems and they wont provide them? Hell that was such a PITA that I simply gave up buying any games at all as it's likely that the EA jugernaught will eventually swallow what ever product I'm interested in.
Don't need no stinking FBI to do this. DHS (dept. homeland security) already has that authority granted under the Patriot Act. It's called Suspension of Habeous Corpus and the only agency granted that suspension was DHS. So they already have the right to grab you without warrant or charges and hold you as long as they like for any reason so long as the grab is done by DHS or under the Order plus they have to right to tell you to shut up or they can grab you.
While you're at it, give my HoloDeck, Warp Drive, Transports, Replicators and EMH (emergency medical hologram) and I'll let you off lightly. Otherwise you'll have to listen to Bo Peep Rock for the next year.