>Yes and no--it rocks for those who would be >intimidated running cvs or diff or using any >utility that isn't integrated in their authoring >software.
I don't use TC for version control; as I replied to somebody else, maybe that's where some of the dislike of the feature comes from (misunderstanding what it is for). Of course it would be terrible for version control.
>This is what makes me use word from time to >time--my collaborators can't figure out the >better ways to do things.
Well, if you're collaborating, you need to work with the possible. I don't think I'll be teaching our customer support team cvs anytime soon. Not so much because they *couldn't* learn it, but because that would be a poor use of their time.
>It is really poor for version control. It is also >poor if you ant to submit to multiple people, all >who should be able to make changes.
I maintain the master document; I just integrate whatever changes are desirable back into it. I would have to do that anyway, whatever method I chose; TC just lets me see *exactly* what change they are suggesting. No cryptic markup on paper, no rambling email prose about what they would like to see changed.
I used to hear people say things like "Track Changes?!? Nobody would ever use that!"
Well, if you need to send documents around for review, Track Changes absolutely ROCKS. If you write technical documentation, it's foolish not to use it (yeah, I know, I used to think that too; just try it and see...).
So this leads me to believe that all kinds of stuff I scratch my head at (when I see it in the menus) is making somebody else's day go much easier that it otherwise would. Just because I don't use it doesn't mean that it is bloat.
I switched local phone providers away from SBC a year or two ago. Service just as good, and $10-$15/month cheaper.
Then I dropped cable internet in favor of DSL (from the same alternate provider). Their DSL normal rate is the same as SBCs "introductory" three-month rate (I didn't even look at what the SBC "normal" rate would be, and it certainly wan't obvious).
What's most funny is the commercials that SBC was running for awhile, picturing burly linemen putting up telephone poles, complaining that their competitors were operating "over OUR lines, over OUR networks". Uh, you bought the baby bell like a couple of years ago. I doubt you've wired 0.5% of the damn network.
Damn that was funny 4 years ago. Do you have any good "hanging chad" material?
Oh, so you guys are over that? Good... I don't think some of you got the memo...
Al Gore was talking about creating *legislation* that helped foster the Internet.
But that's not what he said. And yes, I've seen the "full quote", and it doesn't change anything. The stuff around it is just vapor.
He made a grandiose claim. It was stupid, and funny to those who knew better. Get over it! I mean I know it's not as bad as using a regional spelling for "potato", but come on... no need to be so sensitive about it;)
>This is due to many reasons IMHO, from a >different work ethic --where you don't bring work >home with you, and thus you have less reason for >a home PC-- to cost to lifestyle differences to >infrastructure (simply put, GSM phones are much >more reliable and sometimes cheaper than regular >PSTN lines).
>So, the article is not really news, it's just US >being behind the curve on this one.
So, we're behind the curve because we have flexible work arrangements and great wired infrastructure?;)
Mozilla and it's tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, pop up blockers, type ahead find and the raft of other nifty features is great for the "power surfer" but I swear that based on the people in my office, it's not something they particulary need or feel the need to have enough to even go out and try.
Well, they don't know that it exists, or that it is even possible. They're not going to say "I want tabbed browsing", they're going to say (maybe, and only if you ask them or watch them surf) "I hate how I always lose my place, or accidentaly close my window. I hate how I can't easily check out search results without getting lost".
I asked my mother about pop up adverts last month and she'd only ever come across one in the two years she'd been surfing the web. Granted, she wasn't surfing a very large number of sites - but it was difficult to sell a feature to her when she didn't really know why she needed it.
You're mother is pretty unusual, then. Take most people on a tour of their favorite sites with popups blocked, and with the mozilla Adblock and Flashblock plugins, and watch their jaws drop.
The only way to lose weight is to consume less kilojoule (4,18 Joule = 1 Calories for those Americans who don't understand the metric system) than you spend on living
Great post otherwise, but "for those Americans who don't understand the metric system"?
We don't use your units. Just get over it and stop taking it so personally. It gets really old seing little digs slipped into everything. If I need a conversion ration (which is pretty rare) I'll look it up.
"Don't know" (something which in my environment is pretty useless information) != "don't understand".
>>Virtually no cargo room >A large percentage of the time, I have virtually >no cargo. Like everyone else.
You make some odd assumptions. Groceries? Lunch? Briefcase? Thermos of coffee? Stack of work stuff? Heavy coats you don't want to wear while driving?
>>Can't bring the kids along, since they won't be >>allowed to even sit in your PM until they get a >>drivers license >Everywhere I am aware of in North America, kids >get free bus rides to school if it's too far to >walk. Life's tough. Be glad your kids haven't >been drafted to go fight over oil.
You obviously aren't a parent. Who said anything about school? How about stores? Parks? Daycare? Friends houses? Family gatherings? Doctor? Classes, activities, etc., etc.... oh, that's
right, there's magically going to be a clean, safe, bus for all these things. And every parent wants to have their children in a big crowd of random people for extended periods of time.
If your the type that needs a service that allows servers, static ips, 4 hour service resolutions, higher upload then you can pay extra for those things and get a business class connection. That's really what it boils down to.
Or (for everything but the static IP) you can just pay less and get DSL. Which is what I'm doing now, having dumped Comcast.
Why are you telling Slashdot, instead of the mozilla project?
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Americans have long been enjoying underpriced gas. Why the big surprise that the levels are rising to something that more accurately reflects the cost to society? It's not unfair, it's not a conspiracy, it's just about time.
What a load of bunk.
Non-Americans have long been "enjoying" overpriced gas. I don't see why your lot thinks that gas should just magically cost more than it does, just because you (theoretically) don't like it. It's Europe that has been artificially inflating it's gas (petrol) price all this time.
You're trying to tell me that the huge taxes we pay here nonetheless aren't enough? Their main purpose it to provide "highway funds" for our congresscritters to buy each other off with. Everybody, including the public balance sheets, would benefit if we just abolished gas taxes.
Catseye reflecting studs already line thousands of miles of highways, without such prohibitive problems.
In the North? I've seen plenty down south, maybe as far north as Virginia, but they get pretty scarce after that (course I haven't taken many road trips lately, so things may have changed, but around my parts they're still rare as hen's teeth).
americans don't know shit about the rest of the world. the rest of the world knows tons about america. not only do we export movies and tv shows, the rest of the world has informative news programs with correspondents reporting honestly on life in other countries and shedding light on global issues rather than focusing on the bad parts of a city like a teenager fretting over a breakout of zits (bad neighborhoods, like zits, will improve and possibly disapper with time and care but don't try to attack either
Yes, of course; that's why Al-Jazeera and Xinhua are my choice for news of all things American;) Their consistently high standards of reporting honestly on life in other countries.
By the way, it is your attitude that is utterly, boringly, conventional, yet you think it is insightful and rebellious.
It's my understanding that the studs are embedded in the roadway and cannot be hit. As this page backs up, there is only a 4mm spot that is raised above the pavement, which allows snow removal to occur over it.
But then they invented winter. Water gets into any less than perfect crack (and the damn roadway itself is less than perfect, much less holes sunk into it). Freezes and expands. Thaws and fills more cracks. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
These things will rise to the surface like bobs, or the road will sink around them. Just watch.
Lot's of things make sense in an abstract sort of way. That doesn't necessarily mean that they make sense to do, in a given situation.
Frankly, for most purposes our paper sizes suit us just fine. We may switch over some day, when we're good and ready. Probably it will be piecemeal. Yawn. If it makes you feel better about yourself to crow about friggin paper sizes, have at it.
There are often reasons for things, you see, if only historical. Take phones - we don't get all worked up about wireless the way you do, because we've had an awesome wired infrastructure for, oh, approximately as long as there have been wires.
Ah well, have fun:) I'll probably get called something for replying to US-bashing, as though it were me pushing my ways down your throat.
There are a lot of fundamentalist religious groups in the world who would love to see a "super-AIDS" wipe out the homosexuals and scare the rest of us into monogamy or abstinence.
Actually, there a lot of anti-fundamentalist groups (for lack of a better term) who were very, very disappointed that the promised heterosexual epidemic never materialized. I'd keep my eye on them, if I were you...
>Out of curiousity, is there an OSS alternative for >Flash? A quick Google search did not provide >anything that stuck out to me, maybe a fellow >slashdotter can fill us in!
It would probably be SVG/SMIL, if there was any browser support worth a damn.
For me, the charm of the original Doom was that it was the perfect balance between realism and cartoon.
I really don't find that ever more realistic body parts and blood sprays or echos really add anything. Kinda like poetry;) - the limitations of the format fostered creativity:) With simple sprites and repetitive sounds, Doom managed to be very cool.
I had a music CD confiscated at a Naval Nuclear Prototype Training Facility. In 1990. It was in my bag. It was "recording media" (did they have home burners in 1990, much less portable ones?).
They did let me have it back at the end of the day...
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>Yes and no--it rocks for those who would be
>intimidated running cvs or diff or using any
>utility that isn't integrated in their authoring
>software.
I don't use TC for version control; as I replied
to somebody else, maybe that's where some of the
dislike of the feature comes from
(misunderstanding what it is for). Of course it
would be terrible for version control.
>This is what makes me use word from time to
>time--my collaborators can't figure out the
>better ways to do things.
Well, if you're collaborating, you need to work
with the possible. I don't think I'll be
teaching our customer support team cvs anytime
soon. Not so much because they *couldn't* learn
it, but because that would be a poor use of their
time.
>It is really poor for version control. It is also
>poor if you ant to submit to multiple people, all
>who should be able to make changes.
I maintain the master document; I just integrate
whatever changes are desirable back into it. I
would have to do that anyway, whatever method I
chose; TC just lets me see *exactly* what change
they are suggesting. No cryptic markup on paper,
no rambling email prose about what they would like
to see changed.
CVS is great! But in my opinion, Track Changes isn't really version control. It's a review-and-suggest-changes tool.
Maybe it needs to be renamed? ;) If people think it is a version control tool , no wonder they hate it!
I used to hear people say things like "Track Changes?!? Nobody would ever use that!"
Well, if you need to send documents around for review, Track Changes absolutely ROCKS. If you write technical documentation, it's foolish not to use it (yeah, I know, I used to think that too; just try it and see ...).
So this leads me to believe that all kinds of stuff I scratch my head at (when I see it in the menus) is making somebody else's day go much easier that it otherwise would. Just because I don't use it doesn't mean that it is bloat.
I switched local phone providers away from SBC a year or two ago. Service just as good, and $10-$15/month cheaper.
Then I dropped cable internet in favor of DSL (from the same alternate provider). Their DSL normal rate is the same as SBCs "introductory" three-month rate (I didn't even look at what the SBC "normal" rate would be, and it certainly wan't obvious).
What's most funny is the commercials that SBC was running for awhile, picturing burly linemen putting up telephone poles, complaining that their competitors were operating "over OUR lines, over OUR networks". Uh, you bought the baby bell like a couple of years ago. I doubt you've wired 0.5% of the damn network.
Damn that was funny 4 years ago. Do you have any good "hanging chad" material?
Oh, so you guys are over that? Good ... I don't think some of you got the memo ...
Al Gore was talking about creating *legislation* that helped foster the Internet.
But that's not what he said. And yes, I've seen the "full quote", and it doesn't change anything. The stuff around it is just vapor.
He made a grandiose claim. It was stupid, and funny to those who knew better. Get over it! I mean I know it's not as bad as using a regional spelling for "potato", but come on ... no need to be so sensitive about it ;)
>This is due to many reasons IMHO, from a
;)
>different work ethic --where you don't bring work
>home with you, and thus you have less reason for
>a home PC-- to cost to lifestyle differences to
>infrastructure (simply put, GSM phones are much
>more reliable and sometimes cheaper than regular
>PSTN lines).
>So, the article is not really news, it's just US
>being behind the curve on this one.
So, we're behind the curve because we have
flexible work arrangements and great wired
infrastructure?
The advantages of MS Office are:
The advantages of OpenOffice are:
What the heck are the advantages of EIOffice?
So, WTF?
Mozilla and it's tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, pop up blockers, type ahead find and the raft of other nifty features is great for the "power surfer" but I swear that based on the people in my office, it's not something they particulary need or feel the need to have enough to even go out and try.
Well, they don't know that it exists, or that it is even possible. They're not going to say "I want tabbed browsing", they're going to say (maybe, and only if you ask them or watch them surf) "I hate how I always lose my place, or accidentaly close my window. I hate how I can't easily check out search results without getting lost".
I asked my mother about pop up adverts last month and she'd only ever come across one in the two years she'd been surfing the web. Granted, she wasn't surfing a very large number of sites - but it was difficult to sell a feature to her when she didn't really know why she needed it.
You're mother is pretty unusual, then. Take most people on a tour of their favorite sites with popups blocked, and with the mozilla Adblock and Flashblock plugins, and watch their jaws drop.
Thar be terminology confusion!
The only way to lose weight is to consume less kilojoule (4,18 Joule = 1 Calories for those Americans who don't understand the metric system) than you spend on living
Great post otherwise, but "for those Americans who don't understand the metric system"?
We don't use your units. Just get over it and stop taking it so personally. It gets really old seing little digs slipped into everything. If I need a conversion ration (which is pretty rare) I'll look it up.
"Don't know" (something which in my environment is pretty useless information) != "don't understand".
>>Virtually no cargo room
... oh, that's
>A large percentage of the time, I have virtually
>no cargo. Like everyone else.
You make some odd assumptions. Groceries? Lunch?
Briefcase? Thermos of coffee? Stack of work
stuff? Heavy coats you don't want to wear while
driving?
>>Can't bring the kids along, since they won't be
>>allowed to even sit in your PM until they get a
>>drivers license
>Everywhere I am aware of in North America, kids
>get free bus rides to school if it's too far to
>walk. Life's tough. Be glad your kids haven't
>been drafted to go fight over oil.
You obviously aren't a parent. Who said anything
about school? How about stores? Parks? Daycare?
Friends houses? Family gatherings? Doctor?
Classes, activities, etc., etc.
right, there's magically going to be a clean,
safe, bus for all these things. And every parent
wants to have their children in a big crowd of
random people for extended periods of time.
Because remember, bashing your own country makes you a cool rebel ;)
If your the type that needs a service that allows servers, static ips, 4 hour service resolutions, higher upload then you can pay extra for those things and get a business class connection. That's really what it boils down to.
Or (for everything but the static IP) you can just pay less and get DSL. Which is what I'm doing now, having dumped Comcast.
Why are you telling Slashdot, instead of the mozilla project?
Americans have long been enjoying underpriced gas. Why the big surprise that the levels are rising to something that more accurately reflects the cost to society? It's not unfair, it's not a conspiracy, it's just about time.
What a load of bunk.
Non-Americans have long been "enjoying" overpriced gas. I don't see why your lot thinks that gas should just magically cost more than it does, just because you (theoretically) don't like it. It's Europe that has been artificially inflating it's gas (petrol) price all this time.
You're trying to tell me that the huge taxes we pay here nonetheless aren't enough? Their main purpose it to provide "highway funds" for our congresscritters to buy each other off with. Everybody, including the public balance sheets, would benefit if we just abolished gas taxes.
Maybe road commissions are just cheap in the Great Lakes then ;)
Catseye reflecting studs already line thousands of miles of highways, without such prohibitive problems.
In the North? I've seen plenty down south, maybe as far north as Virginia, but they get pretty scarce after that (course I haven't taken many road trips lately, so things may have changed, but around my parts they're still rare as hen's teeth).
americans don't know shit about the rest of the world. the rest of the world knows tons about america. not only do we export movies and tv shows, the rest of the world has informative news programs with correspondents reporting honestly on life in other countries and shedding light on global issues rather than focusing on the bad parts of a city like a teenager fretting over a breakout of zits (bad neighborhoods, like zits, will improve and possibly disapper with time and care but don't try to attack either
Yes, of course; that's why Al-Jazeera and Xinhua are my choice for news of all things American ;) Their consistently high standards of reporting honestly on life in other countries.
By the way, it is your attitude that is utterly, boringly, conventional, yet you think it is insightful and rebellious.
It's my understanding that the studs are embedded in the roadway and cannot be hit. As this page backs up, there is only a 4mm spot that is raised above the pavement, which allows snow removal to occur over it.
But then they invented winter. Water gets into any less than perfect crack (and the damn roadway itself is less than perfect, much less holes sunk into it). Freezes and expands. Thaws and fills more cracks. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
These things will rise to the surface like bobs, or the road will sink around them. Just watch.
Well, to me, anyway.
Lot's of things make sense in an abstract sort of way. That doesn't necessarily mean that they make sense to do, in a given situation.
Frankly, for most purposes our paper sizes suit us just fine. We may switch over some day, when we're good and ready. Probably it will be piecemeal. Yawn. If it makes you feel better about yourself to crow about friggin paper sizes, have at it.
There are often reasons for things, you see, if only historical. Take phones - we don't get all worked up about wireless the way you do, because we've had an awesome wired infrastructure for, oh, approximately as long as there have been wires.
Ah well, have fun :) I'll probably get called something for replying to US-bashing, as though it were me pushing my ways down your throat.
>The heterosexual epidemic never materialized?
>What the hell do you call the AIDS crisis in
>Africa?
The hype was about it happening here (the Western
world), not Africa. Maybe you're too young to
remember.
>Oh, right, they're not all white American
>christians and therefore don't count.
That's you talking, not me.
But thanks for confirming my point; you sound
pretty disappointed.
There are a lot of fundamentalist religious groups in the world who would love to see a "super-AIDS" wipe out the homosexuals and scare the rest of us into monogamy or abstinence.
Actually, there a lot of anti-fundamentalist groups (for lack of a better term) who were very, very disappointed that the promised heterosexual epidemic never materialized. I'd keep my eye on them, if I were you ...
>Out of curiousity, is there an OSS alternative for
>Flash? A quick Google search did not provide
>anything that stuck out to me, maybe a fellow
>slashdotter can fill us in!
It would probably be SVG/SMIL, if there was any
browser support worth a damn.
For me, the charm of the original Doom was that it was the perfect balance between realism and cartoon.
I really don't find that ever more realistic body parts and blood sprays or echos really add anything. Kinda like poetry ;) - the limitations of the format fostered creativity :) With simple sprites and repetitive sounds, Doom managed to be very cool.
I had a music CD confiscated at a Naval Nuclear Prototype Training Facility. In 1990. It was in my bag. It was "recording media" (did they have home burners in 1990, much less portable ones?).
...
They did let me have it back at the end of the day