On a related note just how good/bad is Ability Office that Tesco are repackaging? Panda AV is ok, but does Ability (for example) read Microsoft Office files?
No question. I took a $20K pay cut to take my current job. Sanity is worth more than money, as long as there's enough money to get by on eating store brand.
I wish I could say it was just because I wanted OSS to succeed, and that definitely plays a role for me. Also, the better OSS is doing, the more people will work on it.
Truly, however, it is for my sanity. *I*'m the one everyone goes to when their MS products break, and I'm *SICK* of having to fix things, and having people blame me for Microsoft's shoddy work.
I will second this sentiment. They consistently let me down, and I'm kicking myself for not trying a support call in my first year of using them before paying for five years.
They get payments wrong, they ignore supports, and they have provably false things on their support sites. In one case where I actually got response from them, I had an issue that I brought up. I was told that it was working, and replied with examples showing that it was not (this exchange took multiple E-mails.) The support technician then declared he/she was stumped and passed me on to a second technician, who also claimed it worked. I re-pasted my long proof that it didn't work, and they also declared themselves stumped. After five months and 6 technicians, none of whom actually bothered to look at the backlog of support requests, I finally gave up.
This was my reaction as well. Makes sense: the faster your metabolism, the faster your body runs in general, and the more rest it will need for the extra work it's doing. I have an over-active thyroid and my girlfriend has no thyroid--I eat twice what she does and sleep half again as much as her.
That's the reason at least in the USA, cars with cruise control systems are required to have a master kill switch in addition to the normal methods of turning them off (some subset of the brake, clutch, and steering-wheel "cancel" button.) I have no faith in the computers put in cars these days. Part of it is definitely a 1997 Accord which has a couple of problems with it. Similar to the guy in the post, cruise control will sometimes settle on a speed 5-15 mph higher than what it was set at (but is luckily responsive to turning it off.) Also, and possibly more annoying, is the door locks. The doors are supposed to lock when the car starts, and unlock when it stops, and they do, but they keep doing as such randomly. I'll be driving around, and the doors will randomly click locked a dozen or so times. Can't wait for them to get such features as online, software/firmware updates--it'll be great to have virusses on my car.
Definitely, my college friends and I have spent many a time smoking pot then going straight for the visualization plugins.
xplsisnjasp is especially good for this (and sober use, too) since with a little bit of electronics, you can light up your whole room (I have eight strings of Chrismas lights attatched to it with a series of relays.)
I searched the posts, and couldn't find anythign about this, and was surprised nobody thought of it. If they can produce these, and they work with normal CD-ROMS, then some people, at least, will hopefully start using them, and if enough people do, I wonder about releasing them like floppy disks--just as they are proposing now, but with a case and sliding shield to keep them safe, it would mean a different drive, but if people are using them already, it would probably sell, and production would be very similar to the current CD production lines, so it wouldn't cost much to make new assembly lines. Still would have the downside of not being able to write on them, but they'd probably be better than current CDs, at least.
Yeah, I listen to a bunch of European metal, and they still use the smaller size CDs for singles. Often, actually, what they do is take a normal-sized CD, only write on the area in the middle of it that is of the size for the smaller CDs, and then cut out bits of the larger CD to make a shaped CD to fit whatever picture is on the CD (like Here)
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On a related note just how good/bad is Ability Office that Tesco are repackaging? Panda AV is ok, but does Ability (for example) read Microsoft Office files?
From this side-by-side Ability Office/MS Office comparison posted above, Ability Office can open "Word, RTF, ASCII, AMI Professional, [and] HTML" files, although it admits (sort of) that MS Office can open a larger array of formats.
A moderated online Wiki would work wonderfully.
No question. I took a $20K pay cut to take my current job. Sanity is worth more than money, as long as there's enough money to get by on eating store brand.
I wish I could say it was just because I wanted OSS to succeed, and that definitely plays a role for me. Also, the better OSS is doing, the more people will work on it.
Truly, however, it is for my sanity. *I*'m the one everyone goes to when their MS products break, and I'm *SICK* of having to fix things, and having people blame me for Microsoft's shoddy work.
I will second this sentiment. They consistently let me down, and I'm kicking myself for not trying a support call in my first year of using them before paying for five years.
They get payments wrong, they ignore supports, and they have provably false things on their support sites. In one case where I actually got response from them, I had an issue that I brought up. I was told that it was working, and replied with examples showing that it was not (this exchange took multiple E-mails.) The support technician then declared he/she was stumped and passed me on to a second technician, who also claimed it worked. I re-pasted my long proof that it didn't work, and they also declared themselves stumped. After five months and 6 technicians, none of whom actually bothered to look at the backlog of support requests, I finally gave up.
This was my reaction as well. Makes sense: the faster your metabolism, the faster your body runs in general, and the more rest it will need for the extra work it's doing.
I have an over-active thyroid and my girlfriend has no thyroid--I eat twice what she does and sleep half again as much as her.
That's the reason at least in the USA, cars with cruise control systems are required to have a master kill switch in addition to the normal methods of turning them off (some subset of the brake, clutch, and steering-wheel "cancel" button.)
I have no faith in the computers put in cars these days. Part of it is definitely a 1997 Accord which has a couple of problems with it. Similar to the guy in the post, cruise control will sometimes settle on a speed 5-15 mph higher than what it was set at (but is luckily responsive to turning it off.) Also, and possibly more annoying, is the door locks. The doors are supposed to lock when the car starts, and unlock when it stops, and they do, but they keep doing as such randomly. I'll be driving around, and the doors will randomly click locked a dozen or so times.
Can't wait for them to get such features as online, software/firmware updates--it'll be great to have virusses on my car.
Definitely, my college friends and I have spent many a time smoking pot then going straight for the visualization plugins. xplsisnjasp is especially good for this (and sober use, too) since with a little bit of electronics, you can light up your whole room (I have eight strings of Chrismas lights attatched to it with a series of relays.)
I searched the posts, and couldn't find anythign about this, and was surprised nobody thought of it. If they can produce these, and they work with normal CD-ROMS, then some people, at least, will hopefully start using them, and if enough people do, I wonder about releasing them like floppy disks--just as they are proposing now, but with a case and sliding shield to keep them safe, it would mean a different drive, but if people are using them already, it would probably sell, and production would be very similar to the current CD production lines, so it wouldn't cost much to make new assembly lines. Still would have the downside of not being able to write on them, but they'd probably be better than current CDs, at least.
Yeah, I listen to a bunch of European metal, and they still use the smaller size CDs for singles. Often, actually, what they do is take a normal-sized CD, only write on the area in the middle of it that is of the size for the smaller CDs, and then cut out bits of the larger CD to make a shaped CD to fit whatever picture is on the CD (like Here)