Many people who are familiar with Corel WordPerfect Suite feel that Presentations, Quattro Pro, and Paradox are equal or superior to PowerPoint, Excel, and Access. Each program has its strengths and weaknesses, granted: Quattro Pro does some things better than Excel, and vice versa; the same goes for the other programs.
What concerns me is that this technique requires twice the time under anaesthesia, and presumably twice as much time with the heart bypassed. I read an article recently in the Dallas Morning News about research into changes in personality in bypass surgery survivors, and how this might be caused by impurities introduced via the bypass pump, resulting in some brain damage. Case in point: my father, whose entire outlook on life changed after his bypass surgery. He went from a very optimistic person to one who is frequently pessimistic and bitter.
re: "Maybe these scum-sucking lawyers are but a small fraction of the total lawyer population. Perhaps 99% of all lawyers on ethical beings dedicated to the spirit of the law. But that remaining small fraction is doing a lot of harm to the United States."
Thanks. I wouldn't go as high as 99%, actually; but I would say the majority of lawyers I know are honorable and caring people. I even know a couple of personal injury lawyers I respect. I'm a lawyer who wishes that minority of the profession would all go get drowned somewhere.
If you knew what you were talking about you could discuss stream-based formatting (WordPerfect) intelligently. What stream-based formatting does is allow extremely precise control of document formats and presentation. Objects (including text) in WordPerfect can be positioned to 1/1200". When one has to divide a document into units of letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, and pages, each unit of which has pointers to the header in which the formatting information is placed, that makes for an unwieldy and corruption-prone document, as compared with one where formatting simply starts and ends in places. That's why the code is viewable in WordPerfect. WordPerfect, unlike Word, is flexible enough to do things Word's way (i.e., Styles based) as well.
Oh yes, and if you want to talk "retarded," consider the wisdom of Word's practice of embedding macros within documents, thus creating virus possibilities. WordPerfect only allows macros to be embedded within clearly-designated templates. All other macros are their own files, easily transferrable and editable (unless you remove the source code).
Quite so: WordPerfect 6 for Windows really, really stank -- but that was the fault of the WordPerfect Corporation. That caused unbelievable damage to WordPerfect's reputation, which is still unrepaired. WordPerfect 6.1, however, was to WP 6 as Windows 3.1 was to Windows 3.0. 6.1 was stable, fast, and useful. Since then, Novell and then Corel have followed a pattern of releasing a buggy version that, once a service pack or two come out, turns out to be pretty good.
WordPerfect's current version is 10, and the beta for 11 is coming out soon. It is quite stable, still has Reveal Codes, still has myriad advantages over Word, and can publish to PDF natively.
Regarding brassknuckles.net, it was a humor site which has since been discontinued and the articles folded into http://www.rightwingnews.com , another site run by the same fellow.
Simple answer: because everything that aims to emulate Outlook is structurally inadequate. I still use InfoCentral 7, after its abandonment by Corel in 1996, because it's an actual relational database with the ability to create connections and definitions on the fly. That's what this new project sounds like. Outlook, and all other PIMs I know of, use a quasi-hyperlinking type of technology that requires a specific defined field for each link. I could go on, but already have in http://members.aol.com/mkoenecke/InfoCentral/why ic.html .
Wrong. All parties do *not* "concede" that there are limits on copyrights. The essence of the problem is that the Government's claim is that Congress has the power to extend copyright to an arbitrary extent. The question is whether "limited" means "not infinite," or whether there is a more practical interpretation. If "limited" means "not infinite," then Congress could make copyright last 1,000,000 years and be done with it. I doubt anyone who can reason would argue that that term would be within the intent of those who drafted and voted for the Constitution. Therefore the Supreme court must clarify what "limited" is, and frankly that is easy to do: if one may *retroactively* extend copyright, the power is unlimited, and should be struck down.
As many do, you clearly haven't a grasp of the function of the Supreme Court, thinking solely in terms of "elected" Congress versus "appointed" Court. That's the whole *reason* the court is appointed, subject to Congressional approval: so that Constitutional review may not be subject to the political whims and pressures of the day. Congress, despite being elected, is not supposed to be able to do whatever it wants. Its powers are supposed to be limited, and the Constitution sets the limits.
Formatting issues? That's, frankly, a silly comment, since WordPerfect has it all over Word when it comes to formatting. In fact, WordPerfect formats with 100 times Word's precision (1/1200" versus 1/12"), which is exactly why some problems can crop up with printer or video drivers. If you're not familiar with WordPerfect (which you clearly are not), you won't know how to troubleshoot problems.
Word *does* have advantages over WordPerfect: for one thing, more flexible variable handling. But formatting is undeniably inferior.
Compatibility is a problem, yes, but the same goes for Word's compatibility with WordPerfect and Lotus's compatibility with either. Sure, if everybody would just knuckle under to MS and use the latest version Word, there would not be compatibility issues, and we could just rent our software from MS the way they want to.
For most people, open source alternatives are okay. But for advanced document production (i.e., legal use), StarOffice and OpenOffice are inadequate.
I read a couple of the briefs in the case, and the government's position is essentially that any term is okay as long as it is "limited." Yet, what if Congress decided that copyrights were to last for 1,000 years? 1,000,000? Both terms are limited. It seems to me the government would have to maintain that either of these terms would be fine, but at some point the law is so clearly in violation of the intent of the Constitutional provision that it must fail. No one seems to have made this point in this case, and I wonder why.
My sympathy for your condition. My sister had severe dyslexia for years, and it took considerable work for her to overcome it.
In a public forum, the only thing people have to judge you by is your language and your use of it. Like it or not, grammatical and spelling errors not only impact the credibility of your expressed opinion, but act as positive distractions from your arguments or statements.
Funny how, on Slashdot, criticism of pretty much anything *but* grammar and spelling is deemed acceptable by the moderators.
Sorry for being pedantic, but seeing this particular error online is really starting to drive me out of my tree. It is not an obvious typo, and I see it so *often*: "loose" = not tight. "lose" = fail to win.
I guess I can understand that many people haven't grasped the idea that "it's" is a contraction of "it is," and not the possessive form of "it," but the "loose/lose" error is just flat wrong and astonishingly common.
Regarding reading e-books on a PDA, in my opinion a jog dial makes all the difference in the world. Reading on my Clie (either the old S300 or the new NR70V) is pretty comfortable. Not that I'm giving up the dead tree medium or anything, of course, but being able to carry around 20 books with me on trips is pretty nice.
The next release of IE isn't a story mainly because it's proprietary and Windows only. Mozilla is cross-platform and open source, meaning its development is accessible and relevant to everyone interested.
And those who don't like tabbed browsing, I believe, haven't given it a try. Take Slashdot, for example. I middle-click on all sorts of associated links on the right of the screen, which load in tabs in the background, while I continue reading the page. I can then peruse the other tabs at my leisure, and close them with another middle-click.
Another feature Mozilla has that IE doesn't: shortcuts to bookmarks. For example, if I type "gg [something]" in my location bar that does a search of Google Groups for that thing. "PW" takes me to Pricewatch. "Dict" to Dictionary.com. These can be combined with Javascript ("bookmarklets") for truly nifty automation.
Brief comment: HP makes wonderful hardware and horrible software, in my experience. I've been quite pleased with my Lexmark Optra S1250 (as contrasted with the HP Laserjet 5L it replaced some time ago), largely because the software driver works as advertised. It's a shame, really: if HP could get its act together and write bulletproof drivers, it would utterly overwhelm its competition. As it stands, I recommend against HP due to its software glitches.
This is probably irrelevant, but Sony tries to get you to do the same thing with the audio players in their Clie series (I have an NR-70V). I've never bothered with their software: just rip the MP3s myself and copy them over to the memory stick, using the Clie's "MSImport" function to mount the memory stick as a removable device in Windows. If your Sony product uses memory sticks, perhaps it too has an option to mount it as a removable drive, in which case that's the technique to use.
Interesting how company counsel chooses to go after some individual who is unlikely to possess the resources to contest their claim. I wonder if they're going after more commercial uses of variations on the word "Godzilla?"
"Deists and Freemasons." Puh-leeze. By and large, they were pretty much a bunch of Anglicans with a Quaker or two tossed in. This does not vitiate the First Amendment, but frankly it shows an ignorance of real history to buy into the "deists and Freemasons" claptrap. Yeah, I suppose you could argue Jefferson was a deist. He had pretty much zero influence on the Constitution. Beyond that, I'd love to see a "deist" roll call.
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Many people who are familiar with Corel WordPerfect Suite feel that Presentations, Quattro Pro, and Paradox are equal or superior to PowerPoint, Excel, and Access. Each program has its strengths and weaknesses, granted: Quattro Pro does some things better than Excel, and vice versa; the same goes for the other programs.
What concerns me is that this technique requires twice the time under anaesthesia, and presumably twice as much time with the heart bypassed. I read an article recently in the Dallas Morning News about research into changes in personality in bypass surgery survivors, and how this might be caused by impurities introduced via the bypass pump, resulting in some brain damage. Case in point: my father, whose entire outlook on life changed after his bypass surgery. He went from a very optimistic person to one who is frequently pessimistic and bitter.
"I'm opening a boutique, Brian."
re: "Maybe these scum-sucking lawyers are but a small fraction of the total lawyer population. Perhaps 99% of all lawyers on ethical beings dedicated to the spirit of the law. But that remaining small fraction is doing a lot of harm to the United States."
Thanks. I wouldn't go as high as 99%, actually; but I would say the majority of lawyers I know are honorable and caring people. I even know a couple of personal injury lawyers I respect. I'm a lawyer who wishes that minority of the profession would all go get drowned somewhere.
If you knew what you were talking about you could discuss stream-based formatting (WordPerfect) intelligently. What stream-based formatting does is allow extremely precise control of document formats and presentation. Objects (including text) in WordPerfect can be positioned to 1/1200". When one has to divide a document into units of letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, and pages, each unit of which has pointers to the header in which the formatting information is placed, that makes for an unwieldy and corruption-prone document, as compared with one where formatting simply starts and ends in places. That's why the code is viewable in WordPerfect. WordPerfect, unlike Word, is flexible enough to do things Word's way (i.e., Styles based) as well.
Oh yes, and if you want to talk "retarded," consider the wisdom of Word's practice of embedding macros within documents, thus creating virus possibilities. WordPerfect only allows macros to be embedded within clearly-designated templates. All other macros are their own files, easily transferrable and editable (unless you remove the source code).
Quite so: WordPerfect 6 for Windows really, really stank -- but that was the fault of the WordPerfect Corporation. That caused unbelievable damage to WordPerfect's reputation, which is still unrepaired. WordPerfect 6.1, however, was to WP 6 as Windows 3.1 was to Windows 3.0. 6.1 was stable, fast, and useful. Since then, Novell and then Corel have followed a pattern of releasing a buggy version that, once a service pack or two come out, turns out to be pretty good.
WordPerfect's current version is 10, and the beta for 11 is coming out soon. It is quite stable, still has Reveal Codes, still has myriad advantages over Word, and can publish to PDF natively.
Regarding brassknuckles.net, it was a humor site which has since been discontinued and the articles folded into http://www.rightwingnews.com , another site run by the same fellow.
Simple answer: because everything that aims to emulate Outlook is structurally inadequate. I still use InfoCentral 7, after its abandonment by Corel in 1996, because it's an actual relational database with the ability to create connections and definitions on the fly. That's what this new project sounds like. Outlook, and all other PIMs I know of, use a quasi-hyperlinking type of technology that requires a specific defined field for each link. I could go on, but already have iny ic .html .
http://members.aol.com/mkoenecke/InfoCentral/wh
Wrong. All parties do *not* "concede" that there are limits on copyrights. The essence of the problem is that the Government's claim is that Congress has the power to extend copyright to an arbitrary extent. The question is whether "limited" means "not infinite," or whether there is a more practical interpretation. If "limited" means "not infinite," then Congress could make copyright last 1,000,000 years and be done with it. I doubt anyone who can reason would argue that that term would be within the intent of those who drafted and voted for the Constitution. Therefore the Supreme court must clarify what "limited" is, and frankly that is easy to do: if one may *retroactively* extend copyright, the power is unlimited, and should be struck down.
As many do, you clearly haven't a grasp of the function of the Supreme Court, thinking solely in terms of "elected" Congress versus "appointed" Court. That's the whole *reason* the court is appointed, subject to Congressional approval: so that Constitutional review may not be subject to the political whims and pressures of the day. Congress, despite being elected, is not supposed to be able to do whatever it wants. Its powers are supposed to be limited, and the Constitution sets the limits.
Or MOMAchrome: black and white, but totally abstract with no readable fonts.
Formatting issues? That's, frankly, a silly comment, since WordPerfect has it all over Word when it comes to formatting. In fact, WordPerfect formats with 100 times Word's precision (1/1200" versus 1/12"), which is exactly why some problems can crop up with printer or video drivers. If you're not familiar with WordPerfect (which you clearly are not), you won't know how to troubleshoot problems.
Word *does* have advantages over WordPerfect: for one thing, more flexible variable handling. But formatting is undeniably inferior.
Compatibility is a problem, yes, but the same goes for Word's compatibility with WordPerfect and Lotus's compatibility with either. Sure, if everybody would just knuckle under to MS and use the latest version Word, there would not be compatibility issues, and we could just rent our software from MS the way they want to.
For most people, open source alternatives are okay. But for advanced document production (i.e., legal use), StarOffice and OpenOffice are inadequate.
I read a couple of the briefs in the case, and the government's position is essentially that any term is okay as long as it is "limited." Yet, what if Congress decided that copyrights were to last for 1,000 years? 1,000,000? Both terms are limited. It seems to me the government would have to maintain that either of these terms would be fine, but at some point the law is so clearly in violation of the intent of the Constitutional provision that it must fail. No one seems to have made this point in this case, and I wonder why.
IAAL, and thought I'd point out that "(c)" doesn't do squat. Really. You must either use the copyright symbol ("©"), and/or spell out the word "Copyright."
For what it's worth, I thought "(c)" would work, too, until being informed otherwise by a lawyer who specializes in intellectual property.
Not possible. You can only access the internewt using Mozilla. [Rimshot]
My sympathy for your condition. My sister had severe dyslexia for years, and it took considerable work for her to overcome it.
In a public forum, the only thing people have to judge you by is your language and your use of it. Like it or not, grammatical and spelling errors not only impact the credibility of your expressed opinion, but act as positive distractions from your arguments or statements.
Funny how, on Slashdot, criticism of pretty much anything *but* grammar and spelling is deemed acceptable by the moderators.
Sorry for being pedantic, but seeing this particular error online is really starting to drive me out of my tree. It is not an obvious typo, and I see it so *often*: "loose" = not tight. "lose" = fail to win.
I guess I can understand that many people haven't grasped the idea that "it's" is a contraction of "it is," and not the possessive form of "it," but the "loose/lose" error is just flat wrong and astonishingly common.
Regarding reading e-books on a PDA, in my opinion a jog dial makes all the difference in the world. Reading on my Clie (either the old S300 or the new NR70V) is pretty comfortable. Not that I'm giving up the dead tree medium or anything, of course, but being able to carry around 20 books with me on trips is pretty nice.
The next release of IE isn't a story mainly because it's proprietary and Windows only. Mozilla is cross-platform and open source, meaning its development is accessible and relevant to everyone interested.
And those who don't like tabbed browsing, I believe, haven't given it a try. Take Slashdot, for example. I middle-click on all sorts of associated links on the right of the screen, which load in tabs in the background, while I continue reading the page. I can then peruse the other tabs at my leisure, and close them with another middle-click.
Another feature Mozilla has that IE doesn't: shortcuts to bookmarks. For example, if I type "gg [something]" in my location bar that does a search of Google Groups for that thing. "PW" takes me to Pricewatch. "Dict" to Dictionary.com. These can be combined with Javascript ("bookmarklets") for truly nifty automation.
You misunderstand: what Mozilla allows you to do is block *unrequested* pop-up windows. Other, requested pop-ups work just fine.
I'm assuming Dresden was a mistype, and he meant to say "Tokyo," although I think all the deaths in the Tokyo fire-bombing were "only" around 100,000.
Brief comment: HP makes wonderful hardware and horrible software, in my experience. I've been quite pleased with my Lexmark Optra S1250 (as contrasted with the HP Laserjet 5L it replaced some time ago), largely because the software driver works as advertised. It's a shame, really: if HP could get its act together and write bulletproof drivers, it would utterly overwhelm its competition. As it stands, I recommend against HP due to its software glitches.
This is probably irrelevant, but Sony tries to get you to do the same thing with the audio players in their Clie series (I have an NR-70V). I've never bothered with their software: just rip the MP3s myself and copy them over to the memory stick, using the Clie's "MSImport" function to mount the memory stick as a removable device in Windows. If your Sony product uses memory sticks, perhaps it too has an option to mount it as a removable drive, in which case that's the technique to use.
(Does "IAAL" work as an acronym?)
Interesting how company counsel chooses to go after some individual who is unlikely to possess the resources to contest their claim. I wonder if they're going after more commercial uses of variations on the word "Godzilla?"
http://gozilla.com
"Deists and Freemasons." Puh-leeze. By and large, they were pretty much a bunch of Anglicans with a Quaker or two tossed in. This does not vitiate the First Amendment, but frankly it shows an ignorance of real history to buy into the "deists and Freemasons" claptrap. Yeah, I suppose you could argue Jefferson was a deist. He had pretty much zero influence on the Constitution. Beyond that, I'd love to see a "deist" roll call.