We have a mixed office, with most users running MS-Office and (mainly) the developers running OpenOffice.org.
Most of the problems are with word document are with imbedded graphics. Sometimes they show up in funny places. Sometimes not at all.
Large spreadsheets can be a problem (export from something). OOo has a limit at 32000 rows, it does give a nice warning about it, thought.
Haven't had any problems with powerpoint presentations.
If I could get the rest of the house to spend the time to learn to use OOo, MS-Office would be dumped in a second. One thing is sure - we will not be buying new Ms-Office licences (but as we have already payed for those we have, I'll not be forcing something new on exsisting users, when it isn't nessesary).
I started of with Frameshift (hugo finalist). Which was rather confusing and pointless (or rather it had to may points for any of them to mean anything). Thinking that I might be missing something (with Sayer getting all those awards), I tried The Terminal Experiment (Nebula winner), which was even worse.
Both books suffer badly from Sayer inablility to stick with the topic or hold a logical plot together. His characters are annoying sons-of-hippies, who thinks unlike any real people. They mostly act like politically correct robots.
I'm never going to read another Sayer novel, no matter how may awards it gets.
I'm not sure about it and frankly I'm not going to spend the time checking on it, but I've this idea that all these awards corolate with him having been President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc..
I'm not saying that there's a direct connecting, but he must have a lot of friends and be well connected. Probably a good guy to know and brown-nose, if you what a good quote on the back of your next novel...
Because the choice given to the user in this instance is:
Do you want either: X, Y or Z?
Please note that your choice will have a big inpact on your future. Sorry, no further help is available on what X, Y or Z actually and you can not open a browser window and investigate before you choose. Please note that making the wrong choice could render you impotent.
Yes, but the amount that I've spend is nothing, compared to most hobbies. And I would be buying the books anyway.
Well, I had clean forgotten, that the book review site actually has made it possible for me to meet and interview interesting people (Peter F. Hamilton for one), and some publishers actually send me review copies of books. So maybe I'm not really loosing money on it.
But I would do it, event if I never recieved a review copy and if I never made a dime from amazon.
(I may be misunderstanding the term "OpenContent" - but I take it to mean "providing content, without making money on it").
I started to review the books I had read, about 7 years ago. It mainly started of as a way to remember what I had read. It quickly became a way to practice my english (which isn't my primary language) and an excuse for maintaining a homepage with some actual content.
My site has gone from static page to phpNuke (and my own extensions). My reviews has gone from a couple of stumbeling lines to fairly substansial things (when I feel like it).
I've worked hard at promoting the site and I've learned a lot about online advertising in the process.
Sometimes I can use a review as a soapbox, and vent a few of my feelings/ideas.
All this while providing something that may be useful to other people.
I've even spend a good deal of money on it, and the returnes from amazon(co.uk/.com) has been nothing compared to my expenses (mostly books/hosting).
The questions for me is more like: Why aren't you making open content? It's does take time, but if you actually know something, you'll get better and more confident with this knowledge in the process of sharing.
In all likelihood they will both be abysmal pieces of nonsensical garbage. That's ok. All you have to do is read them both and pick the one you find more appealing, for whatever reason. Your decision might be based on a single word that you happen to like. It doesn't matter. Just pick whichever one strikes your fancy.
I like it!
Could somebody please add this to the/. moderation guidelines?
I just had a look around and there seems to be plenty of different bluetooth adapters availible, both for pci, usb and PCMCIA. Starts at around 50/us$.
Couldn't find a card or basestation with both 802.11b(/g) and bluetooth though.
It does seems to be possible to connect to linux through bluetooth.
I've a palm Vx and the only reason that I use 7 of the 8mb it has, is that I've a 6½mb dictionary installed. I don't need anything that the new machines can give me. Lot's of the new features would be "nice" and "cool", but I don't need them.
What I really don't need is a gadget bigger or heavier than the Vx, as it's just at the limit of what you can have, relativly, unseen in a pant/shirt pocket.
But then again... I also have a mp3 player (MPIO) and a mobilephone (nokia 6210) and if i could get something that did everything that these gadgets do, but still keep the size of the Palm Vx...
Anybody know if it's possible to get it to syncronize with the desktop over the bluetooth connection?
A bit slow, but if you just want to update a few minor things it would be great (and it would save you a cradle, if you do it with secondary computers).
I've been thinking about adding some kind of micropayment system to my book review page.
"If you found this review useful, please click here to donate 10cent to our bandwidth bill" or something. But adding the possibility of diverting some of those cents to the person who wrote the review and some of them to the sites account, would be very, very interesting.
Today people just write the reviews because they can and for the fun of it, but nothing says "I like that" as a bit of money, even if it's only a few cents.
One of the simpler ones, is that the govement ownes all natural resources, but leases thing (airwaves, land, mining rights) to the highest bidder for a periode of time (or an amount of stuff-taken-from-ground). The time periode is dependent on start-up costs.
I haven't seen a set of those in ages. Now that take me back....
Cute, but I'm not sure this is the thing. Search for "net" on the page, find one instance of net.. as in "net weight".
I would go for a Slimp3 if they where 100 cheaper or had 802.11b (or.11g). They say on the slimp3 page that wireless is to expensive, but it would be no where as expensive for them to change their network chip to a 11b one, than it is to add a standalone bridge. That's plain stupid. A bridge costs about 100. I'm sure they could do it for an extra 50.
(I'm guessing that they are already working on it, but don't want people to hold back buying their current unit, waitning for the 802.11b enabled one.)
Google finds a couple of nice screen shots from battle chess.
I played it for hours just to get as many combinations of battle between pieces as possible. It as actually kind of hard go get a game going in a way that would make interesting battles.
Meanwhile, the guy or gal who really enjoys growing blueberries will put up a site out of the love of the activity -- and it will show in the way they write about blueberries. Those who are interested will seek that site out rather than the Blueberry, Inc. (R) (all rights reserved) (copy anything from us and feel our lawyer's wrath) site. It only gets 100 or 200 hits a day? The site owner is thrilled.
Yes and no. As somebody else said, it's just a matter of defining your niche small enough to be king of it.
My site is probably king of "Personal science fiction book review sites, with about 300 reviews, the occational news item and visitor comments".
That doesn't mean that 99% of the people who could benefit from my site never visits my site. They go directly to BlueBerry-Inc.Com (or in my case scifi.com/amazon.com).
Everytime somebody buys a bag of blueberries, the text BlueBerry-inc.com is stamped on the site. It's doesn't matter that bbi.com only contains positive information on blue berries and that their recipies uses way to much sugar. They don't even mention the less know breeds of blueberries (they don't sell they, so why should they?).
Oh and bbi.com never links to anybody else. From reading this site you never get the idea that their may be a different opinion on how to grill blue berries.
I get good positioning on google, when people search on the right key words (I'm going for "science fiction book reviews" as the words that will get you to my site - that's my real niche). And most of my visitors come from google.
Google may be the great equalizer, but the thing is, most people will go directly to the site they think will provide them with the information they need.
I guess what I'm trying to say is: Finding a niche is fine and all, but you are going to be king fish of a very small pond, if somebody with real money one day decides to move into your corner of the woods. Like when Amazon added the "visitor review" feature.
Denmark also made noteworthy contributions to the war on terrorism. On the economic front under its European Union (EU) Presidency leadership, in forging a workable EU Clearinghouse they froze assets of terrorist groups, even those not taken to the UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1267 Sanctions Committee. On the military front, they continued their commitment to Operation Enduring Freedom through the Danish-Norwegian-Dutch F-16 contingent at Manas Airbase.
Makes me all fussy and warm inside. NOT.
The current danish goverment is so pro-US it's sickening. They are alienating us from the rest of europa, so fast it's unbelivable.
When Bush tells our Primeminister to jump he goes "I would love to Mr Bush, but as you are currently also fcking me up the arse it's a bit hard for me to comply"...
Well, well, this freedom thing is probably overrated anyway. I mean, how I can reject slavery when I haven't even tried it...
But if that was true, they would have a superconductor.
I highly doubt that, then the headline on the article would be very, very different. I guess they mean "any deterioration, we could (care to) measure".
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We have a mixed office, with most users running MS-Office and (mainly) the developers running OpenOffice.org.
Most of the problems are with word document are with imbedded graphics. Sometimes they show up in funny places. Sometimes not at all.
Large spreadsheets can be a problem (export from something). OOo has a limit at 32000 rows, it does give a nice warning about it, thought.
Haven't had any problems with powerpoint presentations.
If I could get the rest of the house to spend the time to learn to use OOo, MS-Office would be dumped in a second.
One thing is sure - we will not be buying new Ms-Office licences (but as we have already payed for those we have, I'll not be forcing something new on exsisting users, when it isn't nessesary).
I'm not sure where all the w's went...
Sorry about that.
I've had similar experiences with Sayer.
I started of with Frameshift (hugo finalist). Which was rather confusing and pointless (or rather it had to may points for any of them to mean anything). Thinking that I might be missing something (with Sayer getting all those awards), I tried The Terminal Experiment (Nebula winner), which was even worse.
Both books suffer badly from Sayer inablility to stick with the topic or hold a logical plot together. His characters are annoying sons-of-hippies, who thinks unlike any real people. They mostly act like politically correct robots.
I'm never going to read another Sayer novel, no matter how may awards it gets.
I'm not sure about it and frankly I'm not going to spend the time checking on it, but I've this idea that all these awards corolate with him having been
President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc..
I'm not saying that there's a direct connecting, but he must have a lot of friends and be well connected. Probably a good guy to know and brown-nose, if you what a good quote on the back of your next novel...
There seems to be a stuck pixel in the demo video.
I would check the return policy on this thing before looking into buying one....
Yes, but the amount that I've spend is nothing, compared to most hobbies. And I would be buying the books anyway.
Well, I had clean forgotten, that the book review site actually has made it possible for me to meet and interview interesting people (Peter F. Hamilton for one), and some publishers actually send me review copies of books. So maybe I'm not really loosing money on it.
But I would do it, event if I never recieved a review copy and if I never made a dime from amazon.
(I may be misunderstanding the term "OpenContent" - but I take it to mean "providing content, without making money on it").
I started to review the books I had read, about 7 years ago. It mainly started of as a way to remember what I had read. It quickly became a way to practice my english (which isn't my primary language) and an excuse for maintaining a homepage with some actual content.
My site has gone from static page to phpNuke (and my own extensions). My reviews has gone from a couple of stumbeling lines to fairly substansial things (when I feel like it).
I've worked hard at promoting the site and I've learned a lot about online advertising in the process.
Sometimes I can use a review as a soapbox, and vent a few of my feelings/ideas.
All this while providing something that may be useful to other people.
I've even spend a good deal of money on it, and the returnes from amazon(co.uk/.com) has been nothing compared to my expenses (mostly books/hosting).
The questions for me is more like: Why aren't you making open content? It's does take time, but if you actually know something, you'll get better and more confident with this knowledge in the process of sharing.
Have: Facehugger.
Want: Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipley!
In all likelihood they will both be abysmal pieces of nonsensical garbage. That's ok. All you have to do is read them both and pick the one you find more appealing, for whatever reason. Your decision might be based on a single word that you happen to like. It doesn't matter. Just pick whichever one strikes your fancy.
/. moderation guidelines?
I like it!
Could somebody please add this to the
Oh, wait...
I just had a look around and there seems to be plenty of different bluetooth adapters availible, both for pci, usb and PCMCIA. Starts at around 50/us$.
Couldn't find a card or basestation with both 802.11b(/g) and bluetooth though.
It does seems to be possible to connect to linux through bluetooth.
Kind of agree with you.
I've a palm Vx and the only reason that I use 7 of the 8mb it has, is that I've a 6½mb dictionary installed. I don't need anything that the new machines can give me. Lot's of the new features would be "nice" and "cool", but I don't need them.
What I really don't need is a gadget bigger or heavier than the Vx, as it's just at the limit of what you can have, relativly, unseen in a pant/shirt pocket.
But then again... I also have a mp3 player (MPIO) and a mobilephone (nokia 6210) and if i could get something that did everything that these gadgets do, but still keep the size of the Palm Vx...
Anybody know if it's possible to get it to syncronize with the desktop over the bluetooth connection?
A bit slow, but if you just want to update a few minor things it would be great (and it would save you a cradle, if you do it with secondary computers).
Good idea!
I've been thinking about adding some kind of micropayment system to my book review page.
"If you found this review useful, please click here to donate 10cent to our bandwidth bill" or something. But adding the possibility of diverting some of those cents to the person who wrote the review and some of them to the sites account, would be very, very interesting.
Today people just write the reviews because they can and for the fun of it, but nothing says "I like that" as a bit of money, even if it's only a few cents.
There's lots of different idea on this.
One of the simpler ones, is that the govement ownes all natural resources, but leases thing (airwaves, land, mining rights) to the highest bidder for a periode of time (or an amount of stuff-taken-from-ground). The time periode is dependent on start-up costs.
Their Programming Panel has dip switches! Wow!
.11g). They say on the slimp3 page that wireless is to expensive, but it would be no where as expensive for them to change their network chip to a 11b one, than it is to add a standalone bridge. That's plain stupid. A bridge costs about 100. I'm sure they could do it for an extra 50.
I haven't seen a set of those in ages. Now that take me back....
Cute, but I'm not sure this is the thing. Search for "net" on the page, find one instance of net.. as in "net weight".
I would go for a Slimp3 if they where 100 cheaper or had 802.11b (or
(I'm guessing that they are already working on it, but don't want people to hold back buying their current unit, waitning for the 802.11b enabled one.)
"The game is intended for play only within North America"
Hello? LucasArts? Anybody home?
It's an ONLINE GAME. Nobody cares where people are in reality.
Morons.
Google finds a couple of nice screen shots from battle chess.
I played it for hours just to get as many combinations of battle between pieces as possible. It as actually kind of hard go get a game going in a way that would make interesting battles.
They've also developed a "real world" version of Doom
"Sorry, this version of Doom, need the Microsoft - DirectRW version 5.3."
Yes and no. As somebody else said, it's just a matter of defining your niche small enough to be king of it.
My site is probably king of "Personal science fiction book review sites, with about 300 reviews, the occational news item and visitor comments".
That doesn't mean that 99% of the people who could benefit from my site never visits my site. They go directly to BlueBerry-Inc.Com (or in my case scifi.com/amazon.com).
Everytime somebody buys a bag of blueberries, the text BlueBerry-inc.com is stamped on the site. It's doesn't matter that bbi.com only contains positive information on blue berries and that their recipies uses way to much sugar. They don't even mention the less know breeds of blueberries (they don't sell they, so why should they?).
Oh and bbi.com never links to anybody else. From reading this site you never get the idea that their may be a different opinion on how to grill blue berries.
I get good positioning on google, when people search on the right key words (I'm going for "science fiction book reviews" as the words that will get you to my site - that's my real niche). And most of my visitors come from google.
Google may be the great equalizer, but the thing is, most people will go directly to the site they think will provide them with the information they need.
I guess what I'm trying to say is: Finding a niche is fine and all, but you are going to be king fish of a very small pond, if somebody with real money one day decides to move into your corner of the woods. Like when Amazon added the "visitor review" feature.
[shameless plug on]
I've review everything MacLeod has written:
http://sfbook.com/modules.php?authorid=30
[All done...]
How about you buy your own car....
I would rather kiss Gollum than watch MTV for a day or two.
:-). I promiiiise. Good /.'ers. We wantss it.
Oh, and download speed from theonering.net has gone from 25kbps to 1kbps during the last five minuts.
If everybody else would please stop - I'll finish my download and put it on bittorrent and emule/donkey.
Has anybody ever heard about anyone who actually fall for this scam?
I can see the pile of stupid dead robbed people just outside of the Nigerian Internation Airport...
And the poor guy who's job it is to remove them... "Damn, now, I've run out of Darwin Awards again..."
Makes me all fussy and warm inside. NOT.
The current danish goverment is so pro-US it's sickening. They are alienating us from the rest of europa, so fast it's unbelivable.
When Bush tells our Primeminister to jump he goes "I would love to Mr Bush, but as you are currently also fcking me up the arse it's a bit hard for me to comply"...
Well, well, this freedom thing is probably overrated anyway. I mean, how I can reject slavery when I haven't even tried it ...
But if that was true, they would have a superconductor.
I highly doubt that, then the headline on the article would be very, very different. I guess they mean "any deterioration, we could (care to) measure".