It was the Lego Technics for me, with the (no defunct I think) pneumatic pistons.
As a side note, I really REALLY hate those XYZ-branded Lego sets: the whole point of Lego bricks is that you invent your own stuff. With thos dedicated sets (Star Wars, Jurassic Park and whatnot), the child's imagination is locked in. I reckon that's a major reason why Lego have become much less popular these days. They really should stick to building generic bricks and parts.
That's the biggest load of bollocks I've ever read. I've never been able to export to.DOC without at least one formatting problem, in the best of cases. And importing isn't much better. That's with the lasted OOo...
??? Format that can't be read, maybe they used a Mac. Oo can read virtually ANY format.
If only it could read and write MS formats properly, I'd be happy enough. Not that it's OOo's fault that Microsoft regularly messes with their formats to shaft competitors, but still, you'd think older Office formats would be supported 100% by now...
If you think "OOo vs. Office" can be summed up by the price difference, you're a fool:
1 - How much will it cost to reinstall everything? That's IT time, == $$$.
2 - How much will it cost to upgrade some computers, since OOo is usually more resource-hungry than Office?
3 - How much will it cost in money and grief to retrain everybody (yes, there are people who just get by with Word provided you don't ever change anything to their computers).
4 - How much grief will the remaining file format incompatibilities with Office bring to the school?
So please stop being the typical mindless free software drone and start being a bit more realistic.
Case #1: students and/or personel work exclusively with OOo:
* PROS: OOo costs $0 and it's more than adequate
* CONS: None or nearly so
Case #2: student and personel want to exchange file to/from MS Office, to work at home or communicate with other non-OOo organizations:
* PROS: See above
* CONS: plan on commiting suicide soon after deploying OOo, when everybody comes to you and says "this documents looks like @*#& on Word, it's all your fault, it worked before!!"
Since case #2 is prevalent, as much as I enjoy OOo myself, I say stay the hell away from it if you're in any position to be blamed for problems.
I am not trolling . I think the Linux community will be very difficult to adapt standards because blah blah blah
You ARE trolling: look at your sig and you'll understand why the "Linux community" (which is just an small offshot of the wider Unix community) has in fact adopted each and every standard that makes Unix attractive : most POSIX implementations, the BSD init,/dev, etc..etc...
The LSB has been around for many years, and it's never attracted much interest, but mostly Linux distros aren't all that different from each other. It gets to be a real pain for very big commercial packages that have to be supported on many platforms, but otherwise it's not that bad to adapt a package made for a distro to another.
Especially if they tape their deeds and share the movies on pee-to-pee!
Like 1 year for the rape, 3 years for the filesharing, cuz the copyright holder (the rape victim) didn't consent to the "prerelease"...
Re:knowing most /. eating habits.........
on
Linux Cookbook
·
· Score: 2, Informative
No no no, there's MUCH BETTER under Linux: the Pizza Party utility.
The one thing I noticed in this review is
on
Linux Cookbook
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· Score: 5, Funny
the book sounds fairly technical from what the reviewer says, which means:
1 - A chick wrote a tech book on Linux 2 - Another chick reviews it, and even reminisces on the "old days" and "how we did back then"
Which means that Linux is becoming sexy enough an OS to leave the circle of pimple-faced geeks and other smelly RMS-like characters. Which is good news...
Why can't someone make a device that records my voice in real time, sends it to a different computer, where it is played?
Because VoIP really isn't a Voice over IP service, it's a service that links a normal phone number to a digital audio channel. "devices that record your voice in real time and play it on a different computer" have been around for a long time, at least a decade. Any voice chat program (MSN, SpeakFreely...) does exactly that. But you can't get incoming calls from a regular phone number.
I'm sorry, perhaps I'm old fashioned or something, so you misunderstood me: I meant a real, physical ebook I can read from in the train (like the Franklin ebook, that I think is no more in fact...).
My point is, there is a sore lack of good such devices, simply because there's not enough demand for them. If publishers put out digital content, then maybe enough people will ask for a portable device to read it and someone will finally manufacture one that's better than those sorry excuses for ebooks called PDAs.
I'm still waiting for a good, low-power, high-quality, open-format A4 ebook. There was a french manufacturer who almost got the equation right some years ago, but the format was closed, and it was flippin' expensive. But if I could have read text files, and PDFs, and HTML from it, I'd have bought it...
But now that your average PDA is small than the magazine, and you can get the latest news online, not to save the number of trees you save, there's not really a justification for having paper publication of periodicals. But I still prefer reading my books on paper. And most people I know feel the same.
There is a perfect justification for reading from dead-tree media: not everybody can afford computers. You know, those poor people who like to read but choose to spend all their money on food (silly them!)...
It's just like paper money: card banking is good, but paper money should be kept around as the basic method of payment, so that people who can't afford/can't have a card can still live. Similarly, people who can't have/don't want a PDA or a computer to read from should have the ability to buy a news-paper.
It'd be a sad thing if a sizeable portion of the population was denied access to basic news simply because it makes it cheaper for the publisher to supply them to more well-off people who have the necessary equipment to access them.
(not to mention, as you say, I have the feeling it'll be a very long time before there's a computer display that can display print as comfortably as ink-and-paper...)
The more publications go online successfully, the more demand there will be for ebooks and other portable reading devices, the quicker we'll finally get usable cheap ebooks.
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It was the Lego Technics for me, with the (no defunct I think) pneumatic pistons.
As a side note, I really REALLY hate those XYZ-branded Lego sets: the whole point of Lego bricks is that you invent your own stuff. With thos dedicated sets (Star Wars, Jurassic Park and whatnot), the child's imagination is locked in. I reckon that's a major reason why Lego have become much less popular these days. They really should stick to building generic bricks and parts.
While this is too young for most of us to participate in
9 to 14 years old? I think many here are eligible...
You may as well commit suicide right away, cuz you won't ever be woken up upon such conditions...
Who actually pays for MS Office?
Those who can realistically expect a visit from the BSA. That's everybody who isn't an individual at home.
That's the biggest load of bollocks I've ever read. I've never been able to export to .DOC without at least one formatting problem, in the best of cases. And importing isn't much better. That's with the lasted OOo...
??? Format that can't be read, maybe they used a Mac. Oo can read virtually ANY format.
If only it could read and write MS formats properly, I'd be happy enough. Not that it's OOo's fault that Microsoft regularly messes with their formats to shaft competitors, but still, you'd think older Office formats would be supported 100% by now...
If you think "OOo vs. Office" can be summed up by the price difference, you're a fool:
1 - How much will it cost to reinstall everything? That's IT time, == $$$.
2 - How much will it cost to upgrade some computers, since OOo is usually more resource-hungry than Office?
3 - How much will it cost in money and grief to retrain everybody (yes, there are people who just get by with Word provided you don't ever change anything to their computers).
4 - How much grief will the remaining file format incompatibilities with Office bring to the school?
So please stop being the typical mindless free software drone and start being a bit more realistic.
What were the pros and cons from your migration?
Easy that one:
Case #1: students and/or personel work exclusively with OOo:
* PROS: OOo costs $0 and it's more than adequate
* CONS: None or nearly so
Case #2: student and personel want to exchange file to/from MS Office, to work at home or communicate with other non-OOo organizations:
* PROS: See above
* CONS: plan on commiting suicide soon after deploying OOo, when everybody comes to you and says "this documents looks like @*#& on Word, it's all your fault, it worked before!!"
Since case #2 is prevalent, as much as I enjoy OOo myself, I say stay the hell away from it if you're in any position to be blamed for problems.
Sad, but that's the way it is...
I see Linux as a kernel, not the OS there is a Popular Linux based OS like GNU-Linux which has many distributions.
Richard, is that you?
I am not trolling . I think the Linux community will be very difficult to adapt standards because blah blah blah
/dev, etc..etc...
You ARE trolling: look at your sig and you'll understand why the "Linux community" (which is just an small offshot of the wider Unix community) has in fact adopted each and every standard that makes Unix attractive : most POSIX implementations, the BSD init,
The LSB has been around for many years, and it's never attracted much interest, but mostly Linux distros aren't all that different from each other. It gets to be a real pain for very big commercial packages that have to be supported on many platforms, but otherwise it's not that bad to adapt a package made for a distro to another.
Especially if they tape their deeds and share the movies on pee-to-pee!
Like 1 year for the rape, 3 years for the filesharing, cuz the copyright holder (the rape victim) didn't consent to the "prerelease"...
No no no, there's MUCH BETTER under Linux: the Pizza Party utility.
the book sounds fairly technical from what the reviewer says, which means:
1 - A chick wrote a tech book on Linux
2 - Another chick reviews it, and even reminisces on the "old days" and "how we did back then"
Which means that Linux is becoming sexy enough an OS to leave the circle of pimple-faced geeks and other smelly RMS-like characters. Which is good news...
Everything you always wanted to know about Wikipedia here.
Why can't someone make a device that records my voice in real time, sends it to a different computer, where it is played?
Because VoIP really isn't a Voice over IP service, it's a service that links a normal phone number to a digital audio channel. "devices that record your voice in real time and play it on a different computer" have been around for a long time, at least a decade. Any voice chat program (MSN, SpeakFreely...) does exactly that. But you can't get incoming calls from a regular phone number.
In short, VoIP is a misnomer.
How the hell do thes companies get away with these idiotic taxes?
Well, for idiotic tax problems, a good solution is to throw teabags in Boston harbour.
It's not windows fault that there is spyware.
Yes. Most other OSes generally don't let foreign programs run willy-nilly and do things behind users' backs.
It's idiots who buy products that are being advertised. If you stop buying penis enlargement pills, etc. Spam would stop.
Spam != spyware.
Spam and Spyware are like Porn - Hard to define, but you know it when you see it.
I didn't realize those dirty jpegs and avis reported keystrokes to Natalie Portman...
And they plan to enforce this... how?
One effective way to enforce this would be to render Windows illegal to use across the nation...
Is there any way to filter out stories about Google on Slashdot?
/etc/hosts.conf file:
Sure: put this into your
0.0.0.0 slashdot.org
The important question is : will google.org get mirrored too?
Project Gutenberg isn't cheap enough for you?
I'm sorry, perhaps I'm old fashioned or something, so you misunderstood me: I meant a real, physical ebook I can read from in the train (like the Franklin ebook, that I think is no more in fact...).
My point is, there is a sore lack of good such devices, simply because there's not enough demand for them. If publishers put out digital content, then maybe enough people will ask for a portable device to read it and someone will finally manufacture one that's better than those sorry excuses for ebooks called PDAs.
I'm still waiting for a good, low-power, high-quality, open-format A4 ebook. There was a french manufacturer who almost got the equation right some years ago, but the format was closed, and it was flippin' expensive. But if I could have read text files, and PDFs, and HTML from it, I'd have bought it...
But now that your average PDA is small than the magazine, and you can get the latest news online, not to save the number of trees you save, there's not really a justification for having paper publication of periodicals. But I still prefer reading my books on paper. And most people I know feel the same.
There is a perfect justification for reading from dead-tree media: not everybody can afford computers. You know, those poor people who like to read but choose to spend all their money on food (silly them!)...
It's just like paper money: card banking is good, but paper money should be kept around as the basic method of payment, so that people who can't afford/can't have a card can still live. Similarly, people who can't have/don't want a PDA or a computer to read from should have the ability to buy a news-paper.
It'd be a sad thing if a sizeable portion of the population was denied access to basic news simply because it makes it cheaper for the publisher to supply them to more well-off people who have the necessary equipment to access them.
(not to mention, as you say, I have the feeling it'll be a very long time before there's a computer display that can display print as comfortably as ink-and-paper...)
No kidding, that's almost 500M Turkish Liras!
Maybe that's why the Wall Street Journal isn't published in Turkey...
The more publications go online successfully, the more demand there will be for ebooks and other portable reading devices, the quicker we'll finally get usable cheap ebooks.