I *never* said there were no bugs in Word. Just that you people trashing it are trashing it based on your ignorance for the most part. You're utterly not "getting" the object-orientedness of it. You castigate it for no "reveal codes" feature, when WP only has such a feature as a hack for the nasty way it formats text (i.e. inserting control codes at the cursor location, even if that makes no sense whatsoever, such as setting page margins!)
On the contrary, the blind worship of WordPerfect and the ignorant slamming of Word for imagined problems is what's getting boring. Word has legitimate problems (especially in pre-XP versions), and I fully acknowledge that. But to slam it for no "reveal codes" feature just because you have no concept or understanding of style sheets is just silly.
And I haven't posted ten messages on the topic, so it's not just me, apparently.
That's the problem - next time I place cursor in slightly different place and then text looks different and it doesn't show why it looks different.
I've used WORD for ten years, and I have no idea what you're talking about here. Maybe you just have no clue about Style sheets and styles??
Also, turning on the display of paragraph marks helps as well, because the formatting of a paragraph is bound up in the paragraph marker... if you delete it, the paragraph will inherit the formatting of the following paragraph.
It's really a very simple and logical system. And I vastly prefer it to the WordPerfect 'shove control characters in at the cursor' method. If you try to use Word as if it were WordPerfect, of course you'll hate it. It'd be like trying to speak French as if it were English.
Inserting unusual characters (div, del, gamma, etc...) is very easy in WP. In Word you need to find a seperate program (Character Assistant) and paste through the clipboard.
Um, no you don't. That's one option certaily... but implying it's the only way is rather ignorant.
Reference generation (ToC, references, Figures, etc...) in WP just seem to work. Word's is wonky.
Always just works for me. And I've never really had a problem with figure placement either. Maybe you have the wrong options turn on. Or maybe you just don't "get" the way word operates or anchors images and figures... there are multiple ways, and you're probably using the wrong one for your purposes.
What this is referring to is the ability to easily edit things like table widths without having to go through a mass of dialogs.
I edit table widths all the time in Word, and have NEVER had to go through a mass of dialogs to do it, either. Just click and drag... presto.
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about... it's like you're bending over backwards to do things in the hardest way possible. Or more likely, you're trying to directly translate word perfect actions into word actions, which given their fundamentally different underlying philosophies, obviously doesn't work very well.
There are options in Word that you can set to allow you to just place the cursor anywhere on the page, and start typing, without having to properly set tabs and other such "set up" issues. Are you just not utilizing Word's features??
Besides, I've never ever had a problem putting text where *I* want it, using Word. And I don't even have the above feature turned on.
Your post is so full of utter lies, I don't even know where to begin.
You can do most things in Word with the keyboard, and can create macros and remap things to your whim. You aren't FORCED to use the mouse, but the mouse is there for you to use if you are fluent with it, and to "discover" things via menus and right-clicks, etc.
Also:
by doing things it wasn't asked to do (and of course, cannot be undone)
More utter lies. You can turn off any auto-assisting feature you don't like, and you can always undo any automatically applied formatting. ALWAYS. And the XP version has gotten even better about this, by not getting in your way so much by default.
And if typing speed is really a problem (you must have a slow computer), you can always type in draft mode, instead of page view mode. Much faster. And I doubt you could out-type it.
Actually, I think the only people REALLY at risk for vertigo and motion sickness were any over-the-shoulder observers that you were trying to show the game to;-)
I seem to recall that "Descent" had arbitrary 3D (along with MAPPING!, which the Quake series simply doesn't have) way way before it ever came out in any id software games.
How come the Descent series doesn't get any respect? There's some AWESOME graphics in them thar games! Smooth indoor/outdoor transitions, even rain on your windshield, not to mention a full six degrees of freedom in moving about.
Don't forget Max Payne... I loved the meshing of the graphic novel (comic book!) with the FPS genre. Very entertaining, imho. And of course, you gotta love "bullet-time"...
Well, checked exceptions must be caught OR DECLARED TO BE THROWN. You don't HAVE to catch them the moment they're thrown, they just have to be caught eventually.
I Loved the movie, and loved it even more the second time I saw it. I thought it was amazing.
And in Moria, they do mention the amount of time, so while you don't really get a FEEL for it, I did know it intellectually at least.
I was never confused, or lost, and certainly never bored either. It was one of my favorite movies from last year, and I'm eagerly anticipating the next film.
gnosticism: The doctrines of certain pre-Christian pagan, Jewish, and early Christian sects that valued the revealed knowledge of God and of the origin and end of the human race as a means to attain redemption for the spiritual element in humans and that distinguished the Demiurge from the unknowable Divine Being.
...it will now be illegal to tune into a TV program at any other time than the beginning. Bookmarks will also be illegal. On DVD players, the scan and chapter functions are now illegal; you may not jump arbitrarily into the movie. In books, indexes will be illegal from now on. Showing up at a party "Fashionably Late" is now illegal.
Is this the most ridiculous and stupid ruling a court has come up with yet? Why yes, I think it is. Be wary of the potential for precedent if this ruling isn't overturned or at least deeply ignored.
That you don't "get it", doesn't mean that there's nothing there to get. Only that you aren't "getting it". Trust me, it's there. Buffy is a show about context as well. You can't just watch one random episode and really get it. You just can't. That's probably the biggest problem with the show. You have to watch a serious arc of episodes. Or you have to be pulled in by one of the few stand-alone episodes, like "Once More With Feeling", "The Body", or "Hush"... all were daring, original, and very worthy of Emmy nods. Beyond that, the show is amazingly consistent (with plot twists fore-shadowed sometimes several seasons in advance... it's amazing to watch repeats of previous episodes in previous seasons), and very self-referential. It's also amazingly witty and humerous, as well as using its contrived setup to explore real world situations and emotions with a much greater-than-expected depth.
Alas, too many people simply cannot get beyond the title of the show. They judge the book by its cover, and ignore the treasure within. I was a naysayer at first, but got sucked in around the end of the second season. I've been with it ever since, and it's practically the only show I look forward to and schedule my life around. It's amazingly creative and amazingly entertaining. But it's not spoon-fed pablum that you're just going to get on a casual watching of one or two random episodes.
Just for the record, I went to see Fellowship of the Ring last weekend. It's still playing in a first-run theater here. At the end, instead of fading out to "Directed by Peter Jackson" as Frodo and Sam were walking away, it faded to "This Christmas, the story continues...", followed by a LENGTHY preview of The Two Towers. I was very surprised... it was VERY cool.
Which brings up an interesting argument... these same people who can't tell our mono-chromatic denominations apart might suddenly fall back (lazily) on their own associations with color, and assume the blue bill is less than the orange bill, because that's the way it is in THEIR country... even though it might be the opposite in OUR country. I'm sure someone will then complain about that, no?
Well, the new bills looks different under black light. Each has a "security stripe" in it, and each glows a different color under black light. So our money is already color coded. You just can't tell unless you're looking at it under a black light!:-)
It's interesting that most of the Americans posting seem to find it incredible that anyone might find their currency even a little confusing -- whilst many of the non-Americans have agreed that the money could be improved.
You've created a false dichotomy. I do find it incredible that anyone could find our money all that confusing. But I don't disagree that it could be improved.
I think adding color is a great idea. Adding braille or a different feel to part or all of each denomination of bill is cool too.
I will fight any attempt to make different denominations be different sizes with my very last dying breath. That is the MOST annoying feature of other currency, and it would ruin all that is good about our currency. A nice standard size, easy automated handling in tellers and vending machines, easy handling in my wallet, easy to fan out and deal with. Someone will institude multi-sized bills over my dead body. I cannot imagine anything more annoying or pointless.
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The penny should absolutely be abolished in all cash transactions. Keep track of it in all credit and check transactions, but as for cash, it's worthless.
It costs almost a penny to make a penny, and they don't circulate at all. They end up in shoeboxes and jars all over, but they just don't circulate. They're a complete and utter waste. They should be abolished.
Likewise, the dollar bill should be abolished in favor of the dollar coin. And the two dollar bill should be brought back into prominance. Thus we end up with the same number of coins (subtract the penny, add the dollar) and the same number of bills (subtract the dollar, add the two dollar), so cash drawers don't have to be redesigned.
It's an overhaul that's way over-due. I think the people complaining that abolishing pennies would hurt the poor are showing an amazing lack of imagination, and are suffering a horrible case of "the sky is falling" syndrome.
Yeah, well, it wasn't a troll, it was my honest opinion. Name ONE reason other than piracy that anyone is using bnetd. I haven't seen any posted here (well, the cheating and hacking reason was posted, but by definition that'd be worse on bnetd, so that hardly counts).
And I'm NOT blindly jumping on the stupid "Boycott Blizzard" bandwagon, because I'm not an idiot. Programmers deserve to get compensated for their efforts when other people use their software.
It's not a damn thing like interoperating with AIM or any of the other lame rationalizations I've seen. Interoperating with AIM does not rob AOL of revenue, since AIM is free. Interoperating with AIM doesn't enable or ENCOURAGE piracy.
From all I've seen, from reading EVERY post on this thread, the sole purpose that bnetd is being used for is to run pirated games. Prove me wrong. Show me the percentage breakdown of people using bnetd that are using legitimately purchased versions of Blizzard products, please.
You can mod me down all you want for disagreeing with you, but this isn't a troll, this is my honest reaction and opinion. I do not support piracy in any way, and I think Blizzard is well within their rights here to protect their property.
I certainly won't be boycotting them. I also have zero intention of using bnetd, and have no idea why I'd want to. I've never had any "horrible" experience on Battle.Net (sure, it's down once or twice, but big deal, I'll play single player until it's up again, it's not like it's life-or-death!)
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I *never* said there were no bugs in Word. Just that you people trashing it are trashing it based on your ignorance for the most part. You're utterly not "getting" the object-orientedness of it. You castigate it for no "reveal codes" feature, when WP only has such a feature as a hack for the nasty way it formats text (i.e. inserting control codes at the cursor location, even if that makes no sense whatsoever, such as setting page margins!)
On the contrary, the blind worship of WordPerfect and the ignorant slamming of Word for imagined problems is what's getting boring. Word has legitimate problems (especially in pre-XP versions), and I fully acknowledge that. But to slam it for no "reveal codes" feature just because you have no concept or understanding of style sheets is just silly.
And I haven't posted ten messages on the topic, so it's not just me, apparently.
That's the problem - next time I place cursor in slightly different place and then text looks different and it doesn't show why it looks different.
I've used WORD for ten years, and I have no idea what you're talking about here. Maybe you just have no clue about Style sheets and styles??
Also, turning on the display of paragraph marks helps as well, because the formatting of a paragraph is bound up in the paragraph marker... if you delete it, the paragraph will inherit the formatting of the following paragraph.
It's really a very simple and logical system. And I vastly prefer it to the WordPerfect 'shove control characters in at the cursor' method. If you try to use Word as if it were WordPerfect, of course you'll hate it. It'd be like trying to speak French as if it were English.
Inserting unusual characters (div, del, gamma, etc...) is very easy in WP. In Word you need to find a seperate program (Character Assistant) and paste through the clipboard.
Um, no you don't. That's one option certaily... but implying it's the only way is rather ignorant.
Reference generation (ToC, references, Figures, etc...) in WP just seem to work. Word's is wonky.
Always just works for me. And I've never really had a problem with figure placement either. Maybe you have the wrong options turn on. Or maybe you just don't "get" the way word operates or anchors images and figures... there are multiple ways, and you're probably using the wrong one for your purposes.
What this is referring to is the ability to easily edit things like table widths without having to go through a mass of dialogs.
I edit table widths all the time in Word, and have NEVER had to go through a mass of dialogs to do it, either. Just click and drag... presto.
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about... it's like you're bending over backwards to do things in the hardest way possible. Or more likely, you're trying to directly translate word perfect actions into word actions, which given their fundamentally different underlying philosophies, obviously doesn't work very well.
There are options in Word that you can set to allow you to just place the cursor anywhere on the page, and start typing, without having to properly set tabs and other such "set up" issues. Are you just not utilizing Word's features??
Besides, I've never ever had a problem putting text where *I* want it, using Word. And I don't even have the above feature turned on.
Your post is so full of utter lies, I don't even know where to begin.
You can do most things in Word with the keyboard, and can create macros and remap things to your whim. You aren't FORCED to use the mouse, but the mouse is there for you to use if you are fluent with it, and to "discover" things via menus and right-clicks, etc.
Also:
by doing things it wasn't asked to do (and of course, cannot be undone)
More utter lies. You can turn off any auto-assisting feature you don't like, and you can always undo any automatically applied formatting. ALWAYS. And the XP version has gotten even better about this, by not getting in your way so much by default.
And if typing speed is really a problem (you must have a slow computer), you can always type in draft mode, instead of page view mode. Much faster. And I doubt you could out-type it.
Sounds great! I hate autoformat.
... so turn it off in the options.
Actually, I think the only people REALLY at risk for vertigo and motion sickness were any over-the-shoulder observers that you were trying to show the game to ;-)
:-(
Sad to hear Descent4 isn't going to happen...
I seem to recall that "Descent" had arbitrary 3D (along with MAPPING!, which the Quake series simply doesn't have) way way before it ever came out in any id software games.
How come the Descent series doesn't get any respect? There's some AWESOME graphics in them thar games! Smooth indoor/outdoor transitions, even rain on your windshield, not to mention a full six degrees of freedom in moving about.
I loved those games.
Don't forget Max Payne... I loved the meshing of the graphic novel (comic book!) with the FPS genre. Very entertaining, imho. And of course, you gotta love "bullet-time"...
Well, checked exceptions must be caught OR DECLARED TO BE THROWN. You don't HAVE to catch them the moment they're thrown, they just have to be caught eventually.
I never read the book.
I Loved the movie, and loved it even more the second time I saw it. I thought it was amazing.
And in Moria, they do mention the amount of time, so while you don't really get a FEEL for it, I did know it intellectually at least.
I was never confused, or lost, and certainly never bored either. It was one of my favorite movies from last year, and I'm eagerly anticipating the next film.
I highly recommend the Greg Bear series: "Eon" and "Eternity". Even better is the series: "The Forge Of God" and "The Anvil Of Stars".
I also highly recomment Niven/Pournell's "The Mote in God's Eye".
Another vote for Vinge's "A Fire Upon The Deep", and LeGuin's "The Disposessed".
"Stranger in a Strange Land" is a classic as well (thought not without its flaws).
gnosticism: The doctrines of certain pre-Christian pagan, Jewish, and early Christian sects that valued the revealed knowledge of God and of the origin and end of the human race as a means to attain redemption for the spiritual element in humans and that distinguished the Demiurge from the unknowable Divine Being.
Lucas didn't direct Jedi.
He didn't direct Empire either.
He directed the original.
...it will now be illegal to tune into a TV program at any other time than the beginning. Bookmarks will also be illegal. On DVD players, the scan and chapter functions are now illegal; you may not jump arbitrarily into the movie. In books, indexes will be illegal from now on. Showing up at a party "Fashionably Late" is now illegal.
Is this the most ridiculous and stupid ruling a court has come up with yet? Why yes, I think it is. Be wary of the potential for precedent if this ruling isn't overturned or at least deeply ignored.
That you don't "get it", doesn't mean that there's nothing there to get. Only that you aren't "getting it". Trust me, it's there. Buffy is a show about context as well. You can't just watch one random episode and really get it. You just can't. That's probably the biggest problem with the show. You have to watch a serious arc of episodes. Or you have to be pulled in by one of the few stand-alone episodes, like "Once More With Feeling", "The Body", or "Hush"... all were daring, original, and very worthy of Emmy nods. Beyond that, the show is amazingly consistent (with plot twists fore-shadowed sometimes several seasons in advance... it's amazing to watch repeats of previous episodes in previous seasons), and very self-referential. It's also amazingly witty and humerous, as well as using its contrived setup to explore real world situations and emotions with a much greater-than-expected depth.
Alas, too many people simply cannot get beyond the title of the show. They judge the book by its cover, and ignore the treasure within. I was a naysayer at first, but got sucked in around the end of the second season. I've been with it ever since, and it's practically the only show I look forward to and schedule my life around. It's amazingly creative and amazingly entertaining. But it's not spoon-fed pablum that you're just going to get on a casual watching of one or two random episodes.
Just for the record, I went to see Fellowship of the Ring last weekend. It's still playing in a first-run theater here. At the end, instead of fading out to "Directed by Peter Jackson" as Frodo and Sam were walking away, it faded to "This Christmas, the story continues...", followed by a LENGTHY preview of The Two Towers. I was very surprised... it was VERY cool.
I love them both. I can't imagine not loving them both.
:-)
My favorite games, in no particular order:
* Return to Castle Wolfenstein
* StarCraft
* Max Payne
* WarCraft II
* Jedi Knight 2
* Age of Empires
* Half-Life
Oh yeah, and "Roller Coaster Tycoon" and "Diablo 2"
I've got a legitimate copy of WarCraft III reserved, and will be picking it up bright and early on July 3rd.
See, that's why you bring back the $2... for the strippers :-)
:-)
Besides, which do you prefer to carry, 4 quarters, or one dollar coin? A dollar coin would consolidate much of the coinage you carry around, imho.
Besides, if you really hate it, just use your check-card for a nice, exact-change cashless transaction!
Which brings up an interesting argument... these same people who can't tell our mono-chromatic denominations apart might suddenly fall back (lazily) on their own associations with color, and assume the blue bill is less than the orange bill, because that's the way it is in THEIR country... even though it might be the opposite in OUR country. I'm sure someone will then complain about that, no?
Well, the new bills looks different under black light. Each has a "security stripe" in it, and each glows a different color under black light. So our money is already color coded. You just can't tell unless you're looking at it under a black light! :-)
It's interesting that most of the Americans posting seem to find it incredible that anyone might find their currency even a little confusing -- whilst many of the non-Americans have agreed that the money could be improved.
You've created a false dichotomy. I do find it incredible that anyone could find our money all that confusing. But I don't disagree that it could be improved.
I think adding color is a great idea. Adding braille or a different feel to part or all of each denomination of bill is cool too.
I will fight any attempt to make different denominations be different sizes with my very last dying breath. That is the MOST annoying feature of other currency, and it would ruin all that is good about our currency. A nice standard size, easy automated handling in tellers and vending machines, easy handling in my wallet, easy to fan out and deal with. Someone will institude multi-sized bills over my dead body. I cannot imagine anything more annoying or pointless.
The penny should absolutely be abolished in all cash transactions. Keep track of it in all credit and check transactions, but as for cash, it's worthless.
It costs almost a penny to make a penny, and they don't circulate at all. They end up in shoeboxes and jars all over, but they just don't circulate. They're a complete and utter waste. They should be abolished.
Likewise, the dollar bill should be abolished in favor of the dollar coin. And the two dollar bill should be brought back into prominance. Thus we end up with the same number of coins (subtract the penny, add the dollar) and the same number of bills (subtract the dollar, add the two dollar), so cash drawers don't have to be redesigned.
It's an overhaul that's way over-due. I think the people complaining that abolishing pennies would hurt the poor are showing an amazing lack of imagination, and are suffering a horrible case of "the sky is falling" syndrome.
Yeah, well, it wasn't a troll, it was my honest opinion. Name ONE reason other than piracy that anyone is using bnetd. I haven't seen any posted here (well, the cheating and hacking reason was posted, but by definition that'd be worse on bnetd, so that hardly counts).
And I'm NOT blindly jumping on the stupid "Boycott Blizzard" bandwagon, because I'm not an idiot. Programmers deserve to get compensated for their efforts when other people use their software.
It's not a damn thing like interoperating with AIM or any of the other lame rationalizations I've seen. Interoperating with AIM does not rob AOL of revenue, since AIM is free. Interoperating with AIM doesn't enable or ENCOURAGE piracy.
From all I've seen, from reading EVERY post on this thread, the sole purpose that bnetd is being used for is to run pirated games. Prove me wrong. Show me the percentage breakdown of people using bnetd that are using legitimately purchased versions of Blizzard products, please.
You can mod me down all you want for disagreeing with you, but this isn't a troll, this is my honest reaction and opinion. I do not support piracy in any way, and I think Blizzard is well within their rights here to protect their property.
I certainly won't be boycotting them. I also have zero intention of using bnetd, and have no idea why I'd want to. I've never had any "horrible" experience on Battle.Net (sure, it's down once or twice, but big deal, I'll play single player until it's up again, it's not like it's life-or-death!)