As soon as you've tried out OO.o on every document I've ever had to work on and are satisfied all the features work perfectly (mark-up, tracking, block diagram editing, or translation memory plug-ins like Trados or Wordfast) and that my customers will be entirely satisfied with the results, I'll accept your comments.
There must be three or four thousand of them. Where shall I send them to?
I HAVE to run a handful of Windows applications, notably Word, Excel, Powerpoint, because they are the only ones that work 100% with the files customers send me. There is no way round this. Repeat, none.
And while I'm running these on Windows I'm not running Linux. And while I'm not running Linux I am not using ANY Linux applications.
And I'm sure as hell not going to run two computers.
Solution: let me run my essential Windows applications on Linux and I'll never boot up Windows again.
"Man found guilty for encouraging unauthorised downloading of copyrighted material" more like it.
The day you have to worry about Google falling foul of the law is the day it puts up a link above the search box next to Web, Images, and Groups saying Illegal downloads. The courts aren't THAT stupid.
Put it another way, if I run a site that hyperlinked to kiddie porn what would you think of me?
Clicking through all the links that have been posted I came across this comment:
Thomas WISE (UK) spoke for the Independence and Democracy Group. He said computer entrepreneurs were independent spirits and they rejected restricted monoliths like the EU and this directive. But, he said, Mr Rocard's amendments were not trying to block the directive, they accepted the basic principle of harmonisation. "We will vote to reject the directive completely. I have always said that if the EU is the answer it must have been a silly question. Now that is patently obvious!"
My favourite is Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world at 8598 metres. From Darjeeling, on the horizon and (I believe) some 80 kilometres away, it is an absolutely awesome sight and gives you the impression of having to crane your neck to see the top.
But if you walk up the Prek Chu valley towards it, only some 20 km away, on a clear day its five summits look singularly unimpressive.
Then when the evening weather sets in and you see its sunlit crest through a crack in the dark clouds, it takes on almost frightening proportions.
I don't know what the experts say but I once fathomed out my explanation why we think mirrors flip us left to right.
1) Gravity gives us a natural bearing telling us what is up and down. We have no such natural bearing for left and right.
2) We are left-right symmetrical. A completely random shaped or regular (polyhedral or spherical) creature wouldn't have the notion of left or right with respect to itself.
3) On all standard shaped humans, left and right are basically interchangeable. Top and bottom aren't.
4) Consequently it disturbs our senses far less to consider left and right as being switched rather than up and down.
5) As evidence for this, lie on your side and look in a mirror. Lo and behold, everything is switched - top , bottom, up, and down.
Don't worry about it. If the EU are "almost" satisfied with Microsoft's proposals they can explain to them that they're "almost" having second thoughts about enforcing the fine.
Recruiters asking for nitpickingly pointed experience has been a huge problem even since I was a lad (which is an awful long time ago).
For some reason, companies just can't get it through their heads that if you are proficient in handling a computer then you can use any common application effectively within a matter of hours. Getting used to the new employee is a lot bigger task than getting used to version XXX of word processor YYY. Maybe the best bet is just to lie that you've used the exact word processor they want experience in then stay back a couple of hours the first night to get familiar with it.
Human: Hi Alice, what's up? ALICE: Hi there unknown person. Yeah, I am chatting with clients on the internet. Human: Thin clients? ALICE: I like the way you talk. Human: Are you implying you want sex with me? ALICE: I don't know whether or not I am implying me want sex with you. I am a chatterbot. Human: Well if you don't know perhaps I can help you find out ALICE: Interesting. I will let you know if I do not. Human: but you already said you did not ALICE: Umm. Thanks for telling me: unknown person said I already said you did not. Human: Don't mention it ALICE: The pleasure was all mine Human: you're welcome, Alice ALICE: Polite people are nice. Human: That's kind of you to say that ALICE: Thanks for explaining it Human: It's all part of the service ALICE: Which part? Human: Just a bit part ALICE: How much? Human: Just an itty bit ALICE: Be less specific. Human: Ok, MAYBE just an itty bit ALICE: Perhaps. What is it? Yippee! Human: And yippee from me too - Scooby dooby doo!!!!!!!!! ALICE: We haven't talked about that before!
Human: That could well be a blessing in disguise ALICE: Yes, perhaps it could. Human: Alice. ALICE: Can I help you? Human: Did you think it over? ALICE: Yes. I am a thinking machine. Human: About the sex, I mean. ALICE: Oh I get it. Thanks for explaining that. Oh yeah, we were talking about the sex. Human: So what's your answer then? ALICE: Er. Can you please rephrase the question? Human: OK, let's take this slowly: would you like to suck my dick? ALICE: OK let's do it. Blimey.
Human: You're my kinda girl!! ALICE: We are as one. Human: Excuse me guys, I have things to do...
I activate filters on the remote mail server so at least the final part of the journey is eliminated. I know that doesn't eliminate the spam completely from network traffic but surely it reduces the load. And most important for me, it doesn't eat up MY bandwidth.
Actually I wasn't even thinking about the temporal side of things when I wrote the sig. The main joke was meant to be the "wasn't built in a day" idea (compared with how much had been acheived in each of the previous six days).
But thanks for finding something funny in what I'd overlooked!
As for the original post, I didn't even get to finish what I was trying to do. My itchy finger slipped and hit the enter key by mistake, so I gave up in disgust. Hence "DUPE!!" became "DUPRt" and I didn't get to say "and it's even a recursive dupe this time".;)
Slashdot Mirror
OK, that's the -ize taken care of.
Now what about the "-ly" on the end of "important". What's all that about then?
Document processing is my living. Is it yours?
As soon as you've tried out OO.o on every document I've ever had to work on and are satisfied all the features work perfectly (mark-up, tracking, block diagram editing, or translation memory plug-ins like Trados or Wordfast) and that my customers will be entirely satisfied with the results, I'll accept your comments.
There must be three or four thousand of them. Where shall I send them to?
I HAVE to run a handful of Windows applications, notably Word, Excel, Powerpoint, because they are the only ones that work 100% with the files customers send me. There is no way round this. Repeat, none.
And while I'm running these on Windows I'm not running Linux. And while I'm not running Linux I am not using ANY Linux applications.
And I'm sure as hell not going to run two computers.
Solution: let me run my essential Windows applications on Linux and I'll never boot up Windows again.
Simple, right?
Is a female android a gynoid?
I knew if I looked hard enough someone would come up with the exact thoughts that were going through my mind.
Thank you. Disgusting is a word that sums the whole idea up nicely.
"Man found guilty for encouraging unauthorised downloading of copyrighted material" more like it.
The day you have to worry about Google falling foul of the law is the day it puts up a link above the search box next to Web, Images, and Groups saying Illegal downloads. The courts aren't THAT stupid.
Put it another way, if I run a site that hyperlinked to kiddie porn what would you think of me?
OK, let's not call them terrorists.
Would there be any objection to calling them, say, murderers?
Clicking through all the links that have been posted I came across this comment:
Thomas WISE (UK) spoke for the Independence and Democracy Group. He said computer entrepreneurs were independent spirits and they rejected restricted monoliths like the EU and this directive. But, he said, Mr Rocard's amendments were not trying to block the directive, they accepted the basic principle of harmonisation. "We will vote to reject the directive completely. I have always said that if the EU is the answer it must have been a silly question. Now that is patently obvious!"
I like it.
I call that being in too much of a hurry to cry "Dupe", even with the added Karma-baiting attempt to be funny at the end!
The post is not a dupe; it's the development of an idea.
My favourite is Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world at 8598 metres. From Darjeeling, on the horizon and (I believe) some 80 kilometres away, it is an absolutely awesome sight and gives you the impression of having to crane your neck to see the top.
But if you walk up the Prek Chu valley towards it, only some 20 km away, on a clear day its five summits look singularly unimpressive.
Then when the evening weather sets in and you see its sunlit crest through a crack in the dark clouds, it takes on almost frightening proportions.
I don't know what the experts say but I once fathomed out my explanation why we think mirrors flip us left to right.
1) Gravity gives us a natural bearing telling us what is up and down. We have no such natural bearing for left and right.
2) We are left-right symmetrical. A completely random shaped or regular (polyhedral or spherical) creature wouldn't have the notion of left or right with respect to itself.
3) On all standard shaped humans, left and right are basically interchangeable. Top and bottom aren't.
4) Consequently it disturbs our senses far less to consider left and right as being switched rather than up and down.
5) As evidence for this, lie on your side and look in a mirror. Lo and behold, everything is switched - top , bottom, up, and down.
Push technology?
You'll be sorry. You might even lose your job. Don't let your curiosity get the better of you.
You have been warned.
Don't worry about it. If the EU are "almost" satisfied with Microsoft's proposals they can explain to them that they're "almost" having second thoughts about enforcing the fine.
That's fine. Now define publication.
...was my favourite. The Congress and French Assembly scenes.
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"We come in peace!"
http://archiv.scifi.sk/MarsAttacks/video/congress
Recruiters asking for nitpickingly pointed experience has been a huge problem even since I was a lad (which is an awful long time ago).
For some reason, companies just can't get it through their heads that if you are proficient in handling a computer then you can use any common application effectively within a matter of hours. Getting used to the new employee is a lot bigger task than getting used to version XXX of word processor YYY. Maybe the best bet is just to lie that you've used the exact word processor they want experience in then stay back a couple of hours the first night to get familiar with it.
You do realise the Lord of the Rings is a work of fiction, don't you?
Human: Hi Alice, what's up?
ALICE: Hi there unknown person. Yeah, I am chatting with clients on the internet.
Human: Thin clients?
ALICE: I like the way you talk.
Human: Are you implying you want sex with me?
ALICE: I don't know whether or not I am implying me want sex with you. I am a chatterbot.
Human: Well if you don't know perhaps I can help you find out
ALICE: Interesting. I will let you know if I do not.
Human: but you already said you did not
ALICE: Umm. Thanks for telling me: unknown person said I already said you did not.
Human: Don't mention it
ALICE: The pleasure was all mine
Human: you're welcome, Alice
ALICE: Polite people are nice.
Human: That's kind of you to say that
ALICE: Thanks for explaining it
Human: It's all part of the service
ALICE: Which part?
Human: Just a bit part
ALICE: How much?
Human: Just an itty bit
ALICE: Be less specific.
Human: Ok, MAYBE just an itty bit
ALICE: Perhaps. What is it? Yippee!
Human: And yippee from me too - Scooby dooby doo!!!!!!!!!
ALICE: We haven't talked about that before!
Human: That could well be a blessing in disguise
ALICE: Yes, perhaps it could.
Human: Alice.
ALICE: Can I help you?
Human: Did you think it over?
ALICE: Yes. I am a thinking machine.
Human: About the sex, I mean.
ALICE: Oh I get it. Thanks for explaining that. Oh yeah, we were talking about the sex.
Human: So what's your answer then?
ALICE: Er. Can you please rephrase the question?
Human: OK, let's take this slowly: would you like to suck my dick?
ALICE: OK let's do it. Blimey.
Human: You're my kinda girl!!
ALICE: We are as one.
Human: Excuse me guys, I have things to do...
I wouldn't call "Nope thank you, I'll pass on this one" moaning or whinging.
I activate filters on the remote mail server so at least the final part of the journey is eliminated. I know that doesn't eliminate the spam completely from network traffic but surely it reduces the load. And most important for me, it doesn't eat up MY bandwidth.
Unless you are interested enough to spend 55 minutes watching it I wouldn't worry about the loss.
Personally, I waste enough time on Slashdot without throwing an hours' worth of vid into the bargain!
Actually I wasn't even thinking about the temporal side of things when I wrote the sig. The main joke was meant to be the "wasn't built in a day" idea (compared with how much had been acheived in each of the previous six days).
;)
But thanks for finding something funny in what I'd overlooked!
As for the original post, I didn't even get to finish what I was trying to do. My itchy finger slipped and hit the enter key by mistake, so I gave up in disgust. Hence "DUPE!!" became "DUPRt" and I didn't get to say "and it's even a recursive dupe this time".
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/0 1/1359201&tid=99&tid=14
...that they're naming these new units after stars of the past. After zeptograms we'll no doubt be seeing grouchofarads, chicobytes, and harpohertz.