If you need power pointish stuff you need Crossover office.
I am not trying to troll. I much prefer KDE to gnome, maybe the ugly icons everyone complains about are just easier for me. Also the trqagable partial title bars in the B3 decoration are joyous for me.
But AbiWord is IMHO the best office clone for simple projects. It is snappy, has a cute ant splashscreen and types letters as well as office (for anything more then that use scribbus, that's what it is for).
I use gnumeric because when the two projects started (Koffice, Gnome office) Gnumeric was the most complete spreadsheet.
currently they both pretty much do what I need with stability. That is let nme add and multiply and divide lots of shit, but I stick to gnumeric because my expense sheet has a useless Macro that craps out Kspread, but works (is ignored by) gnumeric. All the macro does is multiply fields so I can make the spreadsheet do that.
Kword is based on FrameMaker and is thus foreign if you are used to MS office (it used to be anyway) and is touted as more powerful for that reason. Of course if you need something more powerful then AbiWord it is probably worth moving up to Scribbus.
KDE still kicks Gnomes ass as a destop though. Only because Konquerer is awsome, slidable short title bars are great, and the Gome save box sucks ass.
Also previously in Gome there was serious issues to saving into the desktop folder (wich was also hidden). Files would take quite a while to show up, and update their size while downloading. This was not a problem if you were using Nautolous to put stuff there, but otherwise it blew.
That is probably fixed now, but I still like Konquror too much to even check.
Except if I buy a camera for 250.00 I am not going to buy branded accessories.
That camera case will be a random manufacturer, most likly different brand from the camera. That memmory card? yet another brand. The external charger and spare battery will be the same brand, but most people don't buy them.
With the Ipod, all the accessories are from apple, so they do much better.
The big problem with the GC controller for fighting games is the location of the control pad.
The typical 2-D fighter does not want big swing from left to right, it just slows down response time. And the control pad is too low to be comfortable.
Mortal combat wouldn't even support the control stick, so as soon as I got sore from the pad I was done. But that was just crappy on their part.
A move like towards, down, diagonal towards is a real bitch on a stick though.
Also, this is a game issue, but most games require a full depression (till the click) for L and R. This leads to some serious cramping too, but I can't really blame that on Nintendo.
solving a problem with a different approach is not wrong, it is just different.
Branch mispredictions are rare (3 in 1000 I think, though it may be in 10,000)
so if it stalls 20 or 30 cycles it still has 333 cycles to gain them back.
all things being equal (they arn't though) I would take double the speed with triple the pipeline.
if they can add 33% to the prossessor speed with a 50% increase in pipline it's not too bad. But when it allows them to go even faster it can be a big plus.
the P4 is supposed to be capable if 10Ghz. that allows for a lot of wasted cycles while still being really fricken fast.
You know it is also wuite possible they could cost more money?
If they cherry pick what proffits (per unit) they can from the poorer areas, by selling them at a price that would not be sustanable if they all cost that, but still make them a few extra dollors. They can use that money to repay some of the overhead of producing a movie.
If the average price was used, the poorer areas could not buy any DVDs, so now we in the affluent areas have the burden of repaying more of the production cost ourselves, which means that the average price would actually have to be higher then what we currently pay.
Of course I live in America and good ald movies are like 10 dollors on DVD. Mediocer just past new release are 12 and new releases rarly break 20 dollors. So compared to Europe our DVD's are cheap.
Of course our CDs are too, even without region locking. Last time I went to Vienna (about 5 years ago (or more)) I bought a new CD for 20-25 dollors (which was about the normal price). In the US I would have expected to pay about 11 or 12 dollors (this was pre-napster, which destroyed our record shops in town. It is a college town so the largest CD buying population all the sudden could get any CD they wanted for free over broadband. Napster may encourage CD sales, but not amongst college students with broadband, now I pay as much as 15 dollors for a CD).
So, I guess I am saying I deffinatly benifit from region coding prices, and possibly you are too, but I doubt it, you are probably helping to subsidize my low cost, just as you were in non-region encoded CDs.
Also, there is very little competition in the DVD market region encoding or no. That is what copyright means. You get a monopoly on your product.
I will agree that China does not even remotly play by the rules, with gross human rights violations, no minimum standards on wage or conditions and no environmental controls. Plus they are a close ally of the Axis of Evil (which I don't particularly agree with, but if we are going to single out three countries as motherfuckers, the close allies of those countries shouldn't be our friends).
India on the other hand is not quite so bad. I don't think we need to hold all of our trade partners to our standards, but a minimum should be established and countries not meeting it should be tarrifed hard.
As for the outsourcing of jobs. There are cases where it actually costs more, but the accountants make it look like a savings for stock reasons, and there are others where it is legitimate.
But the loss of jobs and the dropping of salleries for what becomes commodity jobs is how the economy grows. More is done with less resources, leading to resources being freed to do something else productive.
IT in general has lead to hundred's of thousands of job losses. Imagine if everything still was typed, and all communication by mail.
the telegraph lost so many mailmen their jobs. Imagine if we had stopped it, things would be so much better.
end rant. begin coharentness (if someone replies that is)
That is way ahead of it's time and I am suprised noone has copied that.
As and enthusiest that doesn't do too much work at home, but re-installs every couple of months I would like a distro that didn't force me to watch 2:00 am TV when I installed.
I was gonna sit out but the mention of Ween makes me jump in.
My first was a live recording of "You fucked up"
but I remember an early one was aconcert they did locally (some bar in NJ I think). It was 90+ megs on 14.4 modem. It used some streaming MP3 thing where it sent a playlist to winamp. I remember feeling like quite the little hacker figuring out how to get to the real file to download.
it had a very long LMLYP with a polish rapper.
I lost that when I had an HD crash (churnoble virus from the early BO2K mirrors).
That was my largest modem download until CIV3 came out.
PS. If you know the concert with the polish rapper I would like to know so I could download it.
I like MK Trilogy, except that I have it on the PSone and when they guy shape changes it has 2 seconds of load time.
I really like the thud sound it makes when you block something.
Also there is some satisfaction to finally beating the impossibly hard bosses after breezing through everything else (including the endurance matches) but I wasn't too good.
Also back from the dead does not seem to mortal to me either.
maybe you don't remember being a kid. But not calling and not showing up is really not that big of a deal. happens all the time and the cops wouldn't give a shit.
If the cell phone was discarded it would mean much more. As said 13 year old is probably using it to talk to their friends almost continually.
Also if said cell phone was trackable it would very likly have finger prints of the criminal on it.
Also depending on the MO of the criminal the cellphone in the purse my very well remain. Not all crimes are committed by experts, or even people that know how to commit them.
If someone grabs child and then binds them in the back of the van they may take the back pack in a seperate part of the vehicle for later mastibatory purposes.
Just because a security messure is easily cercomvented does not mean it is totally useless (window locks for example do not protect the glass from being broken).
If someone wants them or their child to be trackable it is completly within there rights to do so.
This is not an excuse to have this built into/default to activated on every cellphone. It is only my belief that it could possibly have a use and that a child really has no choice if their parent wants to track them. There is nothing inherently wrong with that unless the tracking is overly used and makes it s the child is overly sheltered and never becomes a well adjusted adult. But smothering parents set there childrens' developement back by years all the time. The cellphone tracker shouldn't really make things any worse.
Anyway it should be a purchasers choice to have the tracking for safty reasons, weather a parent for their kids, or just a wierdo that wants to be tracked.
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You should use AbiWord and Gnumeric.
If you need power pointish stuff you need Crossover office.
I am not trying to troll. I much prefer KDE to gnome, maybe the ugly icons everyone complains about are just easier for me. Also the trqagable partial title bars in the B3 decoration are joyous for me.
But AbiWord is IMHO the best office clone for simple projects. It is snappy, has a cute ant splashscreen and types letters as well as office (for anything more then that use scribbus, that's what it is for).
I use gnumeric because when the two projects started (Koffice, Gnome office) Gnumeric was the most complete spreadsheet.
currently they both pretty much do what I need with stability. That is let nme add and multiply and divide lots of shit, but I stick to gnumeric because my expense sheet has a useless Macro that craps out Kspread, but works (is ignored by) gnumeric. All the macro does is multiply fields so I can make the spreadsheet do that.
Kword is based on FrameMaker and is thus foreign if you are used to MS office (it used to be anyway) and is touted as more powerful for that reason. Of course if you need something more powerful then AbiWord it is probably worth moving up to Scribbus.
KDE still kicks Gnomes ass as a destop though. Only because Konquerer is awsome, slidable short title bars are great, and the Gome save box sucks ass.
Also previously in Gome there was serious issues to saving into the desktop folder (wich was also hidden). Files would take quite a while to show up, and update their size while downloading. This was not a problem if you were using Nautolous to put stuff there, but otherwise it blew.
That is probably fixed now, but I still like Konquror too much to even check.
Except if I buy a camera for 250.00 I am not going to buy branded accessories.
That camera case will be a random manufacturer, most likly different brand from the camera. That memmory card? yet another brand. The external charger and spare battery will be the same brand, but most people don't buy them.
With the Ipod, all the accessories are from apple, so they do much better.
The big problem with the GC controller for fighting games is the location of the control pad.
The typical 2-D fighter does not want big swing from left to right, it just slows down response time. And the control pad is too low to be comfortable.
Mortal combat wouldn't even support the control stick, so as soon as I got sore from the pad I was done. But that was just crappy on their part.
A move like towards, down, diagonal towards is a real bitch on a stick though.
Also, this is a game issue, but most games require a full depression (till the click) for L and R. This leads to some serious cramping too, but I can't really blame that on Nintendo.
about as hard as using preview.
Tivo Series 2 lets you configure on the web.
Therefore the web module makes it as useful as Tivo. ANot the most useful PVR out there.
Me too, except mine has 256MB of Flash ram
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Wow record stores don't get anything then?
They are very charitable folks, I'm glad to have one in my town.
Actually I thinked it claimed the silver was 99% pure.
and that it contained over 70% of it by weight.
Why don't you give a short list of flaws.
/. is that alpha is the only real prossessor.
I am too lazy to read long detailed articles, that lead to many others being read to understand them.
And all I here on
people complain about x86. but then people say x86 64 cleans it up.
Then I here Itanium called Itanic, and too difficult to make a good compiler for.
Then I here RISC is to CISCy now.
so please enlighten me on the huge flaws of x86 that make it so useless.
even though it does quite well in the benchmarks and spanks in price performance?
Like Heratic?
and the original Tomb Raider?
Programming Linux Games from Loki is pretty good for getting graphics into things.
I am a wanna be programmer, and read that and can move stuff around the screen easily.
I would recomend doing a text based RPG in C to learn about compiling etc. and then a bood like that. It goes through making a simple game too.
Except that the the stradegy is working.
The P4's were the fastest x86 for a while.
solving a problem with a different approach is not wrong, it is just different.
Branch mispredictions are rare (3 in 1000 I think, though it may be in 10,000)
so if it stalls 20 or 30 cycles it still has 333 cycles to gain them back.
all things being equal (they arn't though) I would take double the speed with triple the pipeline.
if they can add 33% to the prossessor speed with a 50% increase in pipline it's not too bad. But when it allows them to go even faster it can be a big plus.
the P4 is supposed to be capable if 10Ghz. that allows for a lot of wasted cycles while still being really fricken fast.
You know it is also wuite possible they could cost more money?
If they cherry pick what proffits (per unit) they can from the poorer areas, by selling them at a price that would not be sustanable if they all cost that, but still make them a few extra dollors. They can use that money to repay some of the overhead of producing a movie.
If the average price was used, the poorer areas could not buy any DVDs, so now we in the affluent areas have the burden of repaying more of the production cost ourselves, which means that the average price would actually have to be higher then what we currently pay.
Of course I live in America and good ald movies are like 10 dollors on DVD. Mediocer just past new release are 12 and new releases rarly break 20 dollors. So compared to Europe our DVD's are cheap.
Of course our CDs are too, even without region locking. Last time I went to Vienna (about 5 years ago (or more)) I bought a new CD for 20-25 dollors (which was about the normal price). In the US I would have expected to pay about 11 or 12 dollors (this was pre-napster, which destroyed our record shops in town. It is a college town so the largest CD buying population all the sudden could get any CD they wanted for free over broadband. Napster may encourage CD sales, but not amongst college students with broadband, now I pay as much as 15 dollors for a CD).
So, I guess I am saying I deffinatly benifit from region coding prices, and possibly you are too, but I doubt it, you are probably helping to subsidize my low cost, just as you were in non-region encoded CDs.
Also, there is very little competition in the DVD market region encoding or no. That is what copyright means. You get a monopoly on your product.
sure, I dont't just talk like that.
I am showing off my geek cred.
right... thats the ticket.
I liked the game, but only played duel mode with my friend, so i don't know.
Wasn't the great thing about frontlighting is that you could still see it in the sun?
I thought the front lit screen was much better then most backlit screens I have used.
Also backlighting sucks battery life. Unless it is OLED.
and if it uses a GBA chip but doesn't support compatability I would feel frowny.
What are the rules?
that people be paid american wages?
that doesn't make sense.
I will agree that China does not even remotly play by the rules, with gross human rights violations, no minimum standards on wage or conditions and no environmental controls. Plus they are a close ally of the Axis of Evil (which I don't particularly agree with, but if we are going to single out three countries as motherfuckers, the close allies of those countries shouldn't be our friends).
India on the other hand is not quite so bad. I don't think we need to hold all of our trade partners to our standards, but a minimum should be established and countries not meeting it should be tarrifed hard.
As for the outsourcing of jobs. There are cases where it actually costs more, but the accountants make it look like a savings for stock reasons, and there are others where it is legitimate.
But the loss of jobs and the dropping of salleries for what becomes commodity jobs is how the economy grows. More is done with less resources, leading to resources being freed to do something else productive.
IT in general has lead to hundred's of thousands of job losses. Imagine if everything still was typed, and all communication by mail.
the telegraph lost so many mailmen their jobs. Imagine if we had stopped it, things would be so much better.
end rant. begin coharentness (if someone replies that is)
It had the games during the install right?
That is way ahead of it's time and I am suprised noone has copied that.
As and enthusiest that doesn't do too much work at home, but re-installs every couple of months I would like a distro that didn't force me to watch 2:00 am TV when I installed.
I have a bad feeling like this.
Like they just don't know how to put it together, but have developed it and need to release it.
I mean I know they try not to over hype, but this thing is out soon enough that a little teaser shot would be quite appropriate (unlike my spelling).
I havn't played pacman vs.
but the reviews I have read of it said it was terrible. Incredibly terrible.
Not even worth free.
I was gonna sit out but the mention of Ween makes me jump in.
My first was a live recording of "You fucked up"
but I remember an early one was aconcert they did locally (some bar in NJ I think). It was 90+ megs on 14.4 modem. It used some streaming MP3 thing where it sent a playlist to winamp. I remember feeling like quite the little hacker figuring out how to get to the real file to download.
it had a very long LMLYP with a polish rapper.
I lost that when I had an HD crash (churnoble virus from the early BO2K mirrors).
That was my largest modem download until CIV3 came out.
PS. If you know the concert with the polish rapper I would like to know so I could download it.
I think that a solid argument could be made that a right to "life" and in "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" includes healthcare.
not saying it is a winning argument, just that a solid one could be made.
Also, I don't think welfare is a right to have people take care of you if you don't want to work.
It is for limited times, or requires you to have real problems and you need to look for jobs a lot of the time.
I don't know what you mean by hidden in HTML
but if you mean a link with a mailto:
I find that surprising.
That would seem to be the first clue that something is an email address.
I am not doubting the finding. I am just suprised.
I like MK Trilogy, except that I have it on the PSone and when they guy shape changes it has 2 seconds of load time.
I really like the thud sound it makes when you block something.
Also there is some satisfaction to finally beating the impossibly hard bosses after breezing through everything else (including the endurance matches) but I wasn't too good.
Also back from the dead does not seem to mortal to me either.
maybe you don't remember being a kid. But not calling and not showing up is really not that big of a deal. happens all the time and the cops wouldn't give a shit.
If the cell phone was discarded it would mean much more. As said 13 year old is probably using it to talk to their friends almost continually.
Also if said cell phone was trackable it would very likly have finger prints of the criminal on it.
Also depending on the MO of the criminal the cellphone in the purse my very well remain. Not all crimes are committed by experts, or even people that know how to commit them.
If someone grabs child and then binds them in the back of the van they may take the back pack in a seperate part of the vehicle for later mastibatory purposes.
Just because a security messure is easily cercomvented does not mean it is totally useless (window locks for example do not protect the glass from being broken).
If someone wants them or their child to be trackable it is completly within there rights to do so.
Crap...
I got distracted and didn't finish my post.
This is not an excuse to have this built into/default to activated on every cellphone. It is only my belief that it could possibly have a use and that a child really has no choice if their parent wants to track them. There is nothing inherently wrong with that unless the tracking is overly used and makes it s the child is overly sheltered and never becomes a well adjusted adult. But smothering parents set there childrens' developement back by years all the time. The cellphone tracker shouldn't really make things any worse.
Anyway it should be a purchasers choice to have the tracking for safty reasons, weather a parent for their kids, or just a wierdo that wants to be tracked.