WordPerfect allows a simultaneous left and right align on the same line of text. Do you know how many school papers start out with a title on the left and my name on the right?
All you need to do in other word processors (well, in Word for as long as I can remember) is use left or right aligned tab markers. If you set a right-align tab at the edge of the page, you tab over and type and voila.
How could you make it through high school not knowing that? (NOTE: question only applies if computers were in use when you were in high school, old timers)
Lets see what don't we have. Flying cars? Yup got those just need some obscene amount of cash + piolts lisecense to get one. http://www.moller.com/skycar/ Hover boards? Got those too,although their more surf board than skate board sized, and with a large engine hanging on the back. Still not cheap. http://www.futurehorizons.net/hoverboard.htm Thos cool screens that take up the whole wall. Got those too, provided you can afford it. http://www.superscreen.com/ Video phones. Got those, not too expensive but most people just don't care about them. Won't bother posting a link every knows about these. OK so where still missing our space elevator, can't have everything I guess.
OK, I've been around Slashdot for a while now, and that is possibly the WORST grammatical post I have ever read with a +5 moderation. I mean, we all type fast and have a typo here and there, or decide to post the link text rather than an anchor that takes 4 more seconds to type, but Dear God! This had every element of badness I've ever seen!
Try some punctuation. Or, how about some spelling? What is a lisecense? And of course the they're, their and there distinctions. Sentence fragments (yes I realize that "sentence fragment" is a sentence fragment... even Linguo made that mistake). I hope your first grade English teacher hunts you down and beats you.
All of the CDs I have that have had CD rot have been pressed commercial CDs, same situation - left in the sun one too many times in one of those case logic holder doodads (although admittedly in New England, not So. Cal.) I've never had this issue with burned CDs, blank or otherwise. Not ot suggest it's not a problem on burned CDs, just that from my experience it can be equally probably to happen with a pressed commercial CD.
How will the "no purchase necessary" part of this promo work? I can't see them mailing out cans to people who send in a postcard... or are companies not required to do "no purchase necessary" anymore?
Why are companies required to do the "no purchase necessary" clause anyways? If you're required to purchase is it considered gambling or something?
I suppose I could look this information up but I'd rather turn to the informed Slashdot community......
Now THAT'S an interesting point. Being a follower of most religions is actually the same as being one who ridicules all religions, because you are "against" all other groups but your own. I honestly have no retort to that, other than that in most religions, in theory, you are taught to love and tolerate other people (for the most part), so hopefully you draw the line well between tolerance and... demonization.:)
As for the why... I'm convinced it's all upbringing. Like yourself, I consider myself to have a logical mind, and cannot convince myself that there is a being that defies all the laws of physics and logic that I know to be true. But at the same time, the first 14 years of my life were spent as a Catholic, with Sunday School and Church on Sundays and the old Italian family carrying roasaries around with them everywhere they go. When you're told to believe something for your entire upbringing, no matter how much you try to talk yourself out of it later, it's always there. Because, as you said, there's no argument against "all things are possible, even the impossible." 90% of what you are taught in Sunday School is that you just have to take things on faith. Sure, they teach you the stories and the Bible and all that jazz, but the one thing I remember to this day is that the entire basis of everything is faith when there is no proof. So even though I haven't been a "Catholic" in ten years, and haven't even set foot inside a church for five... well there's always that thought in my mind.
So, like most problems in the past 20 years, blame the parents.
I never tried to insinuate that YOU should believe in God, or anything like that-- I haven't considered myself a Christian since I was 13 years old, either. I was merely trying to say that IF IN FACT you are one who believes in God, then obviously you don't care about the logical arguments against the stories of the Bible, because you take the entire concept ON FAITH, not proof. How do you tell soemone who believes a big man in the sky created the entire universe in a couple of days that he couldn't have flooded earth because there wasn't enough water? It's absurd. And if you DON'T believe in God, you'd never even consider the story for a second-- the fact that there's not enough water is just icing on the cake -- because the only way for something like that to happen would be from something that defies nature and logic. You believe it, or you DON'T.
As for respect for faith... it's just a general respect for other people's beliefs. Every religion sounds absurd to those who don't believe it. Hindus believe in some shape-changing God and reincarnation, both of which sound silly to me. The gist of Islam is the same thing as Christianity, except instead of Jesus they had Muhammad (in a really general, glossed over way). They both have some all-knowing all-powerful God and a bunch of "half-baked myths" to back them up. I'm relatively sure (not positive) that there are more people who believe in some sort of supreme being in the world than NOT, so thinking of them all as a bunch of fools who believe in "fairy tales" may not be the best way to be an understanding member of that "Global Community" everyone keeps raving about.
I find it hard to believe that the world was flooded so much that a ship landed on top of a 17,000ft high mountain. . . . . I find it hard to believe that the world was flooded so much that a ship landed on top of a 17,000ft high mountain.
The entire argument is based on the assumption that A SUPREME BEING, AKA GOD, made it rain for that long. If you believe that, you also believe that God created the Earth (and Universe) in seven days, and you think it's a big deal that He magically came up with a bunch of water which then subsequently disappeared? The Bible isn't a fucking physics problem. You believe it or you don't, but you can't discredit it on something stupid like there's not enough water.
Realistically no one can part water by waving their hands at it or cure the sick by laying a hand on them. It's something you're supposed to take on faith. If you don't HAVE faith, of COURSE you can disprove nearly anything in the Bible, or any other related text. That's what makes God a god. That's what makes religion. Saying that scientifically the stories in the Bible don't add up isn't +5 Insightful, it's -1 Duh.
Also, calling the basis of one of the largest religions in the world a fairy story is a little insulting to the rather large populous that believes it. Have some respect for people who think differently than you.
This overview contains more details and a spectacular image showing the European heat wave of the summer of 2003
Spectacular image? Honestly. It looks like a pencil sketch of Europe with Paprika sprinkled on it. A four-color map does not a "spectacular image" make.
The technology may or may not be spectacular. The image, decidedly NOT.
To put it in different words do I have to feed it plutonium or bananas?
If it's plutonium then it has too be overpriced, really difficult to get at your local gas station.
C'mon, dont you know your movie trivia? The engine runs on ordinary GASOLINE, it's the time circuits that need the 1.21 gigawatts (jiggawatts?) from the plutonium / bananas. And since it does not have a "Mr. Fusion," I would assume time travel would require a plutonium rod.
I never saw the images from 9/11 until weeks afterward. Life was the same for me, before and after, but everyone else around me adopted new postures on life. It was wild. Nothing in their life had changed either, but they went mental. The iraq war did more to change actual life instead of virtual life, becuase some of them have kids over there. Thats reality.
Dude, it's one thing to have the typical arrogant "I don't own a TV, people who watch TV are slaves" attitude, but to insinuate that the only reason anyone was affected by an event like 9/11 was because it was on TV is one of the most ignorant things I've ever read... especially with a +5 Moderation.
I agree with you that more people are probably personally affected by the Iraq war (err, more Americans would probably be mroe accurate, OBVIOUSLY more PEOPLE are affected). Most folks have kids over there, or know someone who's over there. Certainly more people than knew someone in the towers or on the plane on 9/11. But it doesn't mean that if TV hadn't been around that people woudln't be affected by 6000 innocent citizens being killed by terrorists. That's an extermely ignorant statement.
Look, I'm the first one to agree that there's not much good new music out, but how long has this whole internet piracy thing really been going on? Five years? Napster came out in '99. You're telling me five or six years ago there was something worth buying out there? Music was equally crappy in 1999 as 2004. Early '90's I'd say there was some good stuff out there (see Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc) BUT if the numbers do point to a decrease since the popularity boom of music downloads I don't think the "there's no music worth buying" argument works for shit.
Personally, I doubt the numbers are that bad, when you factor in the economy and such. I'm just saying if you buy into the "record sales are declining" propoganda you can't use the "no good music" excuse. Music hasn't changed much in the past half-decade. Wish it had.
This is a tough one. I'm trying not to get too offtopic here, but I assume this pot calling the kettle black thing has to do with the war in Iraq, and I think that's a stretch.
First, the war with Iraq STARTED as protecting the safety of Americans, IN THEORY. You may think it was just big bad Republican GWB wanting to bomb the shit out of a bunch of Arabs, but the official reason for going to war STARTED out as "Iraq is a threat, we want to neutralize that threat." Agree or disagree with the logic and pre-emption, you may be right, but at no point was this about imposing VALUES upon another culture.
Now everything has been confused, and protection of the US has taken a back burner to "regime change from a bad man." That sounds a lot more like "we don't like the way this man was doing things, let's step in and do it our way" which even I don't agree with. But while the US can be blamed for their METHODS, keep in mind that even the UN didn't like the way Saddam and the like did things. They never approved military action against Iraq, but there WERE various unenforced ultimatums imposed on Iraq by the UN, both related to the infamous WMD and the treatment of its people. Almost all global organizations were in agreement on this. What the US did wrong was to go behind their backs and tried to take care of it without approval.
I'm sure this will get flamed to death, but keep in mind, you most likely do not agree with the war, or the President, or any actions of this current administration. But that doesn't mean that everything they do or say is hypocritical and related to each other.
Yeah, I know, Score(-1) : Offtopic. I can't help myself.
For some reason remembering seeing the Apple I in the Smithsonian was the first thing I thought of when i thought of a wooden computer case. Have a look Smithsonian Apple I
Jesus, I really thought that was a joke, until I backtracked to find it. Towards the bottom of this page, it says that the Apple I was a kit that you designed your own case for. Who knew?
I don't know why you'd need to change anything... I get surround sound right now with my ordinary stereo MP3s. It's called Dolby Pro Logic:-)
Exactly right. Dolby Pro Logic works with regular stereo channels. If left and right are identical, it's the center channel. If they're exactly opposite (can't think of the "waveform" word for this) the sound goes to the rear channel. Otherwise they go to the front per usual. Other than making sure the sound is encoded in this way (which would take no extra "space", it's still just two stereo channels) I don't see what else they would have to do. If you want full discrete signalled digital surround sound, don't use the mp3 codec.
First off, I think that this is a bad post, seems like another slashdot ad.
I know this is slightly oftopic, but folks really need to come to terms with what slashdot REALLY is. I know the tagline is "news for nerds. stuff that matters". But it's just a discussion site. It's a forum for people to discuss news, topics, and PRODUCTS which are of interest to nerds. And obviously, with the number of PVR stories on Slashdot and the number of meaningful posts they all get, people are interested. I read slashdot every day because it provides some news, sure, but it also informs me of a lot of products that I would not hear about otherwise. While this may seem like "just another ad," I'm sure a lot of the slashdot community finds it helpful and useful. And if you don't - skip it.
I'm not a microsoft support but I think it is a little remiss not to include the next generation of Outlook in your review. It seems to be the "most popular" client everywhere I've ever worked.
SIGH. About six comments are moderated 3 or better with this exact same sentiment. So not only did the posters not read the article, neither did the moderators. While you can argue that his logic is flawed or that he could have included Outlook EXPRESS, he specifically states:
The only reason Outlook was even included was to serve as a reference with what is commonly available for the majority of users (which still run Windows unfortunately) today.
Using the latest Office 2003 would not have done most of them any good, as upgrading can cost hundreds of dollars (or more!), and might not be an option for some time. After reading the review they can, however, immediately decide it is time to try out one of the alternatives, several of which are multi platform.
Also, I only had Office XP at hand when writing the review, which only helps to better illustrates my point I think.
ALSO note that the author seems to be focusing on Linux mail clients (or at least AVAILABLE for Linux), which Outlook is NOT (AFAIK...).
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WordPerfect allows a simultaneous left and right align on the same line of text. Do you know how many school papers start out with a title on the left and my name on the right?
All you need to do in other word processors (well, in Word for as long as I can remember) is use left or right aligned tab markers. If you set a right-align tab at the edge of the page, you tab over and type and voila.
How could you make it through high school not knowing that? (NOTE: question only applies if computers were in use when you were in high school, old timers)
Are some of these options platform specific? Specifically, on WinNT I did not have
network.http.pipelining.firstrequest
or
nglayout.initialpaint.delay
options available to me to change (unless they were out of alphabetical order or something).
Is yahoo susceptible to the slashdot effect? I haven't been able to get into it since this story came out. How can you slashdot YAHOO??
If my fantasy baseball team (service hosted by yahoo) suffers because of this you will all pay....
Lets see what don't we have. Flying cars? Yup got those just need some obscene amount of cash + piolts lisecense to get one. http://www.moller.com/skycar/ Hover boards? Got those too,although their more surf board than skate board sized, and with a large engine hanging on the back. Still not cheap. http://www.futurehorizons.net/hoverboard.htm Thos cool screens that take up the whole wall. Got those too, provided you can afford it. http://www.superscreen.com/ Video phones. Got those, not too expensive but most people just don't care about them. Won't bother posting a link every knows about these. OK so where still missing our space elevator, can't have everything I guess.
OK, I've been around Slashdot for a while now, and that is possibly the WORST grammatical post I have ever read with a +5 moderation. I mean, we all type fast and have a typo here and there, or decide to post the link text rather than an anchor that takes 4 more seconds to type, but Dear God! This had every element of badness I've ever seen!
Try some punctuation. Or, how about some spelling? What is a lisecense? And of course the they're, their and there distinctions. Sentence fragments (yes I realize that "sentence fragment" is a sentence fragment... even Linguo made that mistake). I hope your first grade English teacher hunts you down and beats you.
In the upper states (buffalo, etc)
Crap, when did Buffalo attain statehood? I'm getting sick of buying new flags....
All of the CDs I have that have had CD rot have been pressed commercial CDs, same situation - left in the sun one too many times in one of those case logic holder doodads (although admittedly in New England, not So. Cal.) I've never had this issue with burned CDs, blank or otherwise. Not ot suggest it's not a problem on burned CDs, just that from my experience it can be equally probably to happen with a pressed commercial CD.
How will the "no purchase necessary" part of this promo work? I can't see them mailing out cans to people who send in a postcard... or are companies not required to do "no purchase necessary" anymore?
...
Why are companies required to do the "no purchase necessary" clause anyways? If you're required to purchase is it considered gambling or something?
I suppose I could look this information up but I'd rather turn to the informed Slashdot community...
Now THAT'S an interesting point. Being a follower of most religions is actually the same as being one who ridicules all religions, because you are "against" all other groups but your own. I honestly have no retort to that, other than that in most religions, in theory, you are taught to love and tolerate other people (for the most part), so hopefully you draw the line well between tolerance and... demonization. :)
As for the why... I'm convinced it's all upbringing. Like yourself, I consider myself to have a logical mind, and cannot convince myself that there is a being that defies all the laws of physics and logic that I know to be true. But at the same time, the first 14 years of my life were spent as a Catholic, with Sunday School and Church on Sundays and the old Italian family carrying roasaries around with them everywhere they go. When you're told to believe something for your entire upbringing, no matter how much you try to talk yourself out of it later, it's always there. Because, as you said, there's no argument against "all things are possible, even the impossible." 90% of what you are taught in Sunday School is that you just have to take things on faith. Sure, they teach you the stories and the Bible and all that jazz, but the one thing I remember to this day is that the entire basis of everything is faith when there is no proof. So even though I haven't been a "Catholic" in ten years, and haven't even set foot inside a church for five... well there's always that thought in my mind.
So, like most problems in the past 20 years, blame the parents.
I never tried to insinuate that YOU should believe in God, or anything like that-- I haven't considered myself a Christian since I was 13 years old, either. I was merely trying to say that IF IN FACT you are one who believes in God, then obviously you don't care about the logical arguments against the stories of the Bible, because you take the entire concept ON FAITH, not proof. How do you tell soemone who believes a big man in the sky created the entire universe in a couple of days that he couldn't have flooded earth because there wasn't enough water? It's absurd. And if you DON'T believe in God, you'd never even consider the story for a second-- the fact that there's not enough water is just icing on the cake -- because the only way for something like that to happen would be from something that defies nature and logic. You believe it, or you DON'T.
As for respect for faith... it's just a general respect for other people's beliefs. Every religion sounds absurd to those who don't believe it. Hindus believe in some shape-changing God and reincarnation, both of which sound silly to me. The gist of Islam is the same thing as Christianity, except instead of Jesus they had Muhammad (in a really general, glossed over way). They both have some all-knowing all-powerful God and a bunch of "half-baked myths" to back them up. I'm relatively sure (not positive) that there are more people who believe in some sort of supreme being in the world than NOT, so thinking of them all as a bunch of fools who believe in "fairy tales" may not be the best way to be an understanding member of that "Global Community" everyone keeps raving about.
I find it hard to believe that the world was flooded so much that a ship landed on top of a 17,000ft high mountain. . . . . I find it hard to believe that the world was flooded so much that a ship landed on top of a 17,000ft high mountain.
The entire argument is based on the assumption that A SUPREME BEING, AKA GOD, made it rain for that long. If you believe that, you also believe that God created the Earth (and Universe) in seven days, and you think it's a big deal that He magically came up with a bunch of water which then subsequently disappeared? The Bible isn't a fucking physics problem. You believe it or you don't, but you can't discredit it on something stupid like there's not enough water.
Realistically no one can part water by waving their hands at it or cure the sick by laying a hand on them. It's something you're supposed to take on faith. If you don't HAVE faith, of COURSE you can disprove nearly anything in the Bible, or any other related text. That's what makes God a god. That's what makes religion. Saying that scientifically the stories in the Bible don't add up isn't +5 Insightful, it's -1 Duh.
Also, calling the basis of one of the largest religions in the world a fairy story is a little insulting to the rather large populous that believes it. Have some respect for people who think differently than you.
Only half?
He must be ambidextrous.
This overview contains more details and a spectacular image showing the European heat wave of the summer of 2003
Spectacular image? Honestly. It looks like a pencil sketch of Europe with Paprika sprinkled on it. A four-color map does not a "spectacular image" make.
The technology may or may not be spectacular. The image, decidedly NOT.
To put it in different words do I have to feed it plutonium or bananas?
If it's plutonium then it has too be overpriced, really difficult to get at your local gas station.
C'mon, dont you know your movie trivia? The engine runs on ordinary GASOLINE, it's the time circuits that need the 1.21 gigawatts (jiggawatts?) from the plutonium / bananas. And since it does not have a "Mr. Fusion," I would assume time travel would require a plutonium rod.
I never saw the images from 9/11 until weeks afterward. Life was the same for me, before and after, but everyone else around me adopted new postures on life. It was wild. Nothing in their life had changed either, but they went mental. The iraq war did more to change actual life instead of virtual life, becuase some of them have kids over there. Thats reality.
... especially with a +5 Moderation.
Dude, it's one thing to have the typical arrogant "I don't own a TV, people who watch TV are slaves" attitude, but to insinuate that the only reason anyone was affected by an event like 9/11 was because it was on TV is one of the most ignorant things I've ever read
I agree with you that more people are probably personally affected by the Iraq war (err, more Americans would probably be mroe accurate, OBVIOUSLY more PEOPLE are affected). Most folks have kids over there, or know someone who's over there. Certainly more people than knew someone in the towers or on the plane on 9/11. But it doesn't mean that if TV hadn't been around that people woudln't be affected by 6000 innocent citizens being killed by terrorists. That's an extermely ignorant statement.
Look, I'm the first one to agree that there's not much good new music out, but how long has this whole internet piracy thing really been going on? Five years? Napster came out in '99. You're telling me five or six years ago there was something worth buying out there? Music was equally crappy in 1999 as 2004. Early '90's I'd say there was some good stuff out there (see Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc) BUT if the numbers do point to a decrease since the popularity boom of music downloads I don't think the "there's no music worth buying" argument works for shit.
Personally, I doubt the numbers are that bad, when you factor in the economy and such. I'm just saying if you buy into the "record sales are declining" propoganda you can't use the "no good music" excuse. Music hasn't changed much in the past half-decade. Wish it had.
AP and many others report that the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
I gotta stop reading so quickly, I thought they were suing over stolen PORNOGRAPHY..... that was a close one....
Offtopic: Why did it take me 15 seconds to realize the word "Google" was no where in the story title? Anyone else have that problem?
Not only that, but I got really excited that Google was finally going to have boolean search queries.
Alas....
This is a tough one. I'm trying not to get too offtopic here, but I assume this pot calling the kettle black thing has to do with the war in Iraq, and I think that's a stretch.
First, the war with Iraq STARTED as protecting the safety of Americans, IN THEORY. You may think it was just big bad Republican GWB wanting to bomb the shit out of a bunch of Arabs, but the official reason for going to war STARTED out as "Iraq is a threat, we want to neutralize that threat." Agree or disagree with the logic and pre-emption, you may be right, but at no point was this about imposing VALUES upon another culture.
Now everything has been confused, and protection of the US has taken a back burner to "regime change from a bad man." That sounds a lot more like "we don't like the way this man was doing things, let's step in and do it our way" which even I don't agree with. But while the US can be blamed for their METHODS, keep in mind that even the UN didn't like the way Saddam and the like did things. They never approved military action against Iraq, but there WERE various unenforced ultimatums imposed on Iraq by the UN, both related to the infamous WMD and the treatment of its people. Almost all global organizations were in agreement on this. What the US did wrong was to go behind their backs and tried to take care of it without approval.
I'm sure this will get flamed to death, but keep in mind, you most likely do not agree with the war, or the President, or any actions of this current administration. But that doesn't mean that everything they do or say is hypocritical and related to each other.
Yeah, I know, Score(-1) : Offtopic. I can't help myself.
F'ing newbie... I bet you've only been into computers, what, ten, fifteen years?
Well, Mr 632846, my 191138 says I've been around here much longer than you.
Still one of the six-digit unwashed masses, but....
For some reason remembering seeing the Apple I in the Smithsonian was the first thing I thought of when i thought of a wooden computer case. Have a look Smithsonian Apple I
Jesus, I really thought that was a joke, until I backtracked to find it. Towards the bottom of this page, it says that the Apple I was a kit that you designed your own case for. Who knew?
I don't know why you'd need to change anything... I get surround sound right now with my ordinary stereo MP3s. It's called Dolby Pro Logic :-)
Exactly right. Dolby Pro Logic works with regular stereo channels. If left and right are identical, it's the center channel. If they're exactly opposite (can't think of the "waveform" word for this) the sound goes to the rear channel. Otherwise they go to the front per usual. Other than making sure the sound is encoded in this way (which would take no extra "space", it's still just two stereo channels) I don't see what else they would have to do. If you want full discrete signalled digital surround sound, don't use the mp3 codec.
I've heard book sales are up, but not reading, which is highly interesting
Based on this article, maybe all the book sales are strategy guides?
First off, I think that this is a bad post, seems like another slashdot ad.
I know this is slightly oftopic, but folks really need to come to terms with what slashdot REALLY is. I know the tagline is "news for nerds. stuff that matters". But it's just a discussion site. It's a forum for people to discuss news, topics, and PRODUCTS which are of interest to nerds. And obviously, with the number of PVR stories on Slashdot and the number of meaningful posts they all get, people are interested. I read slashdot every day because it provides some news, sure, but it also informs me of a lot of products that I would not hear about otherwise. While this may seem like "just another ad," I'm sure a lot of the slashdot community finds it helpful and useful. And if you don't - skip it.
"This sucker is pushing 250,000 BTUs."
"Wow! Man on a Windows box that'd be BSOD City."
"Yes. Yes it would."
Geez, I have the worst headache right now from trying to wrap my head around that story. Truly bewildering.
I'm not a microsoft support but I think it is a little remiss not to include the next generation of Outlook in your review. It seems to be the "most popular" client everywhere I've ever worked.
:
SIGH. About six comments are moderated 3 or better with this exact same sentiment. So not only did the posters not read the article, neither did the moderators. While you can argue that his logic is flawed or that he could have included Outlook EXPRESS, he specifically states
The only reason Outlook was even included was to serve as a reference with what is commonly available for the majority of users (which still run Windows unfortunately) today.
Using the latest Office 2003 would not have done most of them any good, as upgrading can cost hundreds of dollars (or more!), and might not be an option for some time. After reading the review they can, however, immediately decide it is time to try out one of the alternatives, several of which are multi platform.
Also, I only had Office XP at hand when writing the review, which only helps to better illustrates my point I think.
ALSO note that the author seems to be focusing on Linux mail clients (or at least AVAILABLE for Linux), which Outlook is NOT (AFAIK...).