1) pdf export doesn't work for many people. OO.o has it but as I understand it worthwhile PDFs require you to purchase some sort of pdf maker.
2) from OO.o's point of view PDFs aren't necessarily the right tool for the job. My last post was something I hadn't thought of before. I now am wondering why OO.o doesn't make an OO.o reader. I think it would be a great idea. Then you don't have to worry about supporting a format (PDF) that a) might look incorrect and b) is controlled by someone else who might decide oneday to change it and thus remove your ability to use it.
I remember Word used to have Word document readers. But it's been many years (7) since I've used Windows frequently so I don't remember just what it was called. Anyway, I suspect it helped them one-up WordPerfect.
Not to mention the frustration in having to export to RTF or.DOC or PDF for other people to deal with your documents _at all._ I think it would be a benefit generally if you could have an OO.o reader.
The Chinese suicide rate is indeed high (note: i grew up in China), but the reasons aren't easily guessed.
First, obviosly, China has 4-5 times the population. That makes China's about twice the percent.
Second, China has a very high rural suicide rate. Many of the people who commit suicide are women. While men in America successfully kill themselves more than women do, women attempt it twice as frequently as men. Imagine if America had the same poor heathcare and readily available means of suicide (deadly pesticides are commonly used, as I understand it. those are available in rural China in a way that they are not available here in the U.S.)
I don't know these numbers but I'd like to check out suicide attemp rates in the U.S. I can't really guess which would be higher. As much as I love both countries (and an American who was raised in China might), both have serious problems that could lead to high suicide rates.
Having grown up in China finding such high levels of depression in America was a surprise. After all, we're supposedly leading the lives everyone wants to emulate...
wow -- if it's.99 dollars and.99 euros then apple might just be making money on iTunes in euro! at the very least, they bring in 33% more for each song.
(though i don't know how much they have to pay in other costs so the profit may still be the same.)
I think it is rated something-other-than insightful because the benefit of such a reader would be considerable.
If I could send someone a OO.o dock and not have to worry about whether they had it because I included a link to an official and small reader I would be happy. I also think that it would make OO.o considerably more successful.
People don't understand technology that well. If some group was given an OO.o document and said "can't open it? download openoffice.org/reader" they would just think it was some new PDF-type format that they should start being aware of.
I think it would help OO.o get into the mainstream's subconscious. And, to me, that's necessary. Or else it will always be "a MS office alternative." If people start feeling more comfortable sending OO.o documents around because there is a small reader available that they could easily point people to then its popularity will grow.
note: sorry for the redundancy. I have an awful headache and staring at the screen is hurting my eyes. i hope you get what i mean.
I'm sorry if you think this is forward. When I saw your post I wondered, "who could possible have this kind of draw?" Then I figured it out. Natalie Portman!
audio editing software. This includes programs like ProTools, FruityLoops, etc. While a little bit exists it all competes very weakly with the closed-source software.
personally i think it's just a kid who wants to pretend like he knows what all that is. like the 15 year-olds who think they know it all re: computers. but once someone who is a professional or who just knows more comes in they shut up because they don't want to look like fools.
i know tonnes of these people. they were 15 and self-obsessed in high school and still are in college, unfortunately.
I think he was thinking more in the lines of a single company.
A lot of airline companies are now switching to self-checkin. In fact one (I think northwest) is starting to say that you have to pay extra money to check in with a person!
Ways to read it:...before calling me an "evil republican" hater as in someone who hates only the evil republicans or if someone considered all republicans evil....before calling me an "evil" "republican hater" as if there were good and bad "republican haters"
My girlfriend (the most honest person I know) has just moved out of her house and off to college. Her iPod, which she has owned for a couple of years, was synced with her mom's Mac. For whatever reason her mom's HD fried.
My girlfriend was SOL. She had downloaded a good amount of music legitimately but now couldn't get any more because if she sync'd with her iTunes and the new music she'd gotten it would wipe her iPod clean.
What did we do? We restored her music to her PC using a tool similar to these.
So that's one legit reason. Some quick ones I can come up with off the top of my head include:
-getting a new computer -using two computers (i.e. laptop and desktop) and wanting be able to use both for adding music to the library -computer (hardware or software) is messed up in some way
and, as another poster said, it is YOUR iPod and YOUR music. why can't do with it as you please? What if I got the thing to be both my music player and a good sized portable HD for me to take with me as i travel the world? It's my iPod, after all.
Man -- people in France don't dream the "american dream."
1st -- turkmenistan is exactly the place where people _would_ dream it. there is a very poor economy (drug and cotton and natural gas being what most of it centers around). people do _not_ have good healthcare. people don't have enough work (60% unemployment.)
people don't have much -- except dreams. and what do they dream? of a life where hard work gets you somewhere. it doesn't make you rich -- that isn't the dream. it means you have control, to a greater degree, over how you live.
you say that in my logic you have to be pissed that your boss earns more but works less. no -- in my logic you are not comparing yourself to your boss. in my logic all you want is to be able to work harder and to get something back for it.
i'm not talking about some fantasy economy where incomes are based on hard work and not on anything else. i am saying that if you are a mechanic with a 9th grade education you can work 6, 8, 10 or 12 hours a day and have that corrolate to your pay.
in turkmenistan, since i used that example, many are employed by the state to do menial work. they have a whole army of street sweepers. they all get 40 bucks a month. one might sit on her ass and get 40 bucks a month. you might work with pride. but you know what? both of you are going to get 40 bucks at the end of the month. no matter how much harder you work. no matter how many hours you work. to that lady the dream -- whatever you want to call it -- is to be able to say "i'm going to improve my life" and actually have some control over it.
empowerment is what people dream of. i'm not saying it is only in america. i'm saying that that is what i've defined the "american dream" as. the belief that you get back whatever you put in.
Man -- I'm not saying that it is the dream to work yourself to death. The dream is to have your hard work _mean something._
Most places I've been one guy (Turkmenistan is a good example) might work 40 hours a week. Another may work 10. Both get paid 40 bucks a week.
I'm not promoting workaholism. I'm just saying that in many places it DOESN'T matter how hard you work. If you need some extra money because your wife needs surgury YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. You can't work extra shifts. You can't get another job (in many places it is illegal to work more than one). You can't do anything.
So to all the people who have felt helpless like that taking out the trash for 20 hours a day, being paid at an hourly rate, is a Dream.
I didn't say that everyone gets paid the same. But at whatever socio-economic level you are you get to work as hard as you want and get paid for that effort.
In many parts of the world you can't do that. Either you can't (as in aren't allowed to) get a second job or you get paid just as much as the next guy who doesn't work nearly as hard.
I'm not saying it's a perfect system. All I'm saying is that I've found many people who are envious of and appreciative of the opportunity to have a fairly direct relationship between how hard you work and what you get paid.
Meaning if you work hard you get something for it. I know many people who are very envious (mostly who are from other countries) of how we are able to work 3 crappy jobs and get paid for every hour we work. That's the American dream in my opinion -- that there is a more direct corrilation between how hard you work and what you get back for it.
That or our culture is changing and you can't escape change to a more open culture regarding sex.
can you think of another place in the world where the government has successfully (while not actively suppressing people) reduced it?
i don't agree with "this is what a condom does" sex ed. i don't agree with "don't have sex" sex ed. i support "you need to learn to make your own decisions and not get pressured into anything. this is what happens. this is how it all works. this is how you can get around _having_ to do it if you'd like."
i'm only a few years out of high school. few of the girls in my school (that i spoke to about this) _wanted_ to have sex. they just went along with it when they felt they had to.
I would say that it is true for the 20+ crowd but i have seen an interesting trend in the 18-20 crowd. i have concluded that because they were 15 and 16 on 9/11 and were very taken by the president's persona then they have a particular love for him. i can only guess that this is because they had not had the "normal" slow into to national/international/political affairs and were bounced into it. and what was the first thing they saw? a nation rallying around bush.
i think some people who have just gotten out of high school haven't yet been eaten up by the predominatly liberal-leaning youth culture.
btw -- churchil (i think) said, "if you're under 30 and are not liberal you have no heart. if you are over 30 and are not conservative you have no brains." -- i don't necessarily agree but i quote it to say i don't think there is anything wrong with either party. different aspects of both have their place.
I can't say I agree with this. My girlfriend's _default_ candidate is Bush. But she is looking for a _good_ reason to vote against him. She is not voting for or against him. She is trying to actually know whether Kerry will be better before she changes her vote.
I think she is representative of a good deal of the undecided vote.
I would guess they won't because either 1) they have some no-compete-on-x86 clause with their deal with MS or 2) they couldn't have quite as nice an experience with x86 -- if you don't control the hardware it is much harder to have such a nice stable system
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why? a couple of reasons:
.DOC or PDF for other people to deal with your documents _at all._ I think it would be a benefit generally if you could have an OO.o reader.
1) pdf export doesn't work for many people. OO.o has it but as I understand it worthwhile PDFs require you to purchase some sort of pdf maker.
2) from OO.o's point of view PDFs aren't necessarily the right tool for the job. My last post was something I hadn't thought of before. I now am wondering why OO.o doesn't make an OO.o reader. I think it would be a great idea. Then you don't have to worry about supporting a format (PDF) that a) might look incorrect and b) is controlled by someone else who might decide oneday to change it and thus remove your ability to use it.
I remember Word used to have Word document readers. But it's been many years (7) since I've used Windows frequently so I don't remember just what it was called. Anyway, I suspect it helped them one-up WordPerfect.
Not to mention the frustration in having to export to RTF or
The Chinese suicide rate is indeed high (note: i grew up in China), but the reasons aren't easily guessed.
First, obviosly, China has 4-5 times the population. That makes China's about twice the percent.
Second, China has a very high rural suicide rate. Many of the people who commit suicide are women. While men in America successfully kill themselves more than women do, women attempt it twice as frequently as men. Imagine if America had the same poor heathcare and readily available means of suicide (deadly pesticides are commonly used, as I understand it. those are available in rural China in a way that they are not available here in the U.S.)
I don't know these numbers but I'd like to check out suicide attemp rates in the U.S. I can't really guess which would be higher. As much as I love both countries (and an American who was raised in China might), both have serious problems that could lead to high suicide rates.
Having grown up in China finding such high levels of depression in America was a surprise. After all, we're supposedly leading the lives everyone wants to emulate...
wow -- if it's .99 dollars and .99 euros then apple might just be making money on iTunes in euro! at the very least, they bring in 33% more for each song.
(though i don't know how much they have to pay in other costs so the profit may still be the same.)
I think it is rated something-other-than insightful because the benefit of such a reader would be considerable.
If I could send someone a OO.o dock and not have to worry about whether they had it because I included a link to an official and small reader I would be happy. I also think that it would make OO.o considerably more successful.
People don't understand technology that well. If some group was given an OO.o document and said "can't open it? download openoffice.org/reader" they would just think it was some new PDF-type format that they should start being aware of.
I think it would help OO.o get into the mainstream's subconscious. And, to me, that's necessary. Or else it will always be "a MS office alternative." If people start feeling more comfortable sending OO.o documents around because there is a small reader available that they could easily point people to then its popularity will grow.
note: sorry for the redundancy. I have an awful headache and staring at the screen is hurting my eyes. i hope you get what i mean.
Hey Natalie,
I'm sorry if you think this is forward. When I saw your post I wondered, "who could possible have this kind of draw?" Then I figured it out. Natalie Portman!
It's an honor. Truly and honor.
Can I have your number?
Thanks!
Sincerely,
A Guy Whose Doesn't Matter
yup. we're in the same boat. my laptop is 100% linux. but i have to work on windows machines to make music.
audio editing software. This includes programs like ProTools, FruityLoops, etc. While a little bit exists it all competes very weakly with the closed-source software.
personally i think it's just a kid who wants to pretend like he knows what all that is. like the 15 year-olds who think they know it all re: computers. but once someone who is a professional or who just knows more comes in they shut up because they don't want to look like fools.
i know tonnes of these people. they were 15 and self-obsessed in high school and still are in college, unfortunately.
I think he was thinking more in the lines of a single company.
A lot of airline companies are now switching to self-checkin. In fact one (I think northwest) is starting to say that you have to pay extra money to check in with a person!
does my ticket get cheaper? no.
re: iTunes -- i agree totally.
but it was a legit reason, and that was the question.
Ways to read it: ...before calling me an "evil republican" hater ...before calling me an "evil" "republican hater"
as in someone who hates only the evil republicans
or if someone considered all republicans evil.
as if there were good and bad "republican haters"
possibly more but i got bored.
I can give you a real-world example.
My girlfriend (the most honest person I know) has just moved out of her house and off to college. Her iPod, which she has owned for a couple of years, was synced with her mom's Mac. For whatever reason her mom's HD fried.
My girlfriend was SOL. She had downloaded a good amount of music legitimately but now couldn't get any more because if she sync'd with her iTunes and the new music she'd gotten it would wipe her iPod clean.
What did we do? We restored her music to her PC using a tool similar to these.
So that's one legit reason. Some quick ones I can come up with off the top of my head include:
-getting a new computer
-using two computers (i.e. laptop and desktop) and wanting be able to use both for adding music to the library
-computer (hardware or software) is messed up in some way
and, as another poster said, it is YOUR iPod and YOUR music. why can't do with it as you please? What if I got the thing to be both my music player and a good sized portable HD for me to take with me as i travel the world? It's my iPod, after all.
also --
a lot of people here believe saddam helped plan 9/11. there has been a lot of misinformation that contributed to "everyone" backing bush.
We should indeed fault them.
but not everyone supported the war -- not in america and certainly not in the world.
look up early iraq war dissent on google.
here is a mirror of the divx file.
L oR es.avi
please -- someone get a bit torrent seed up!
http://www.otakuinaroom.com/videoclips/SH_Ep01_
Man -- people in France don't dream the "american dream."
1st -- turkmenistan is exactly the place where people _would_ dream it. there is a very poor economy (drug and cotton and natural gas being what most of it centers around). people do _not_ have good healthcare. people don't have enough work (60% unemployment.)
people don't have much -- except dreams. and what do they dream? of a life where hard work gets you somewhere. it doesn't make you rich -- that isn't the dream. it means you have control, to a greater degree, over how you live.
you say that in my logic you have to be pissed that your boss earns more but works less. no -- in my logic you are not comparing yourself to your boss. in my logic all you want is to be able to work harder and to get something back for it.
i'm not talking about some fantasy economy where incomes are based on hard work and not on anything else. i am saying that if you are a mechanic with a 9th grade education you can work 6, 8, 10 or 12 hours a day and have that corrolate to your pay.
in turkmenistan, since i used that example, many are employed by the state to do menial work. they have a whole army of street sweepers. they all get 40 bucks a month. one might sit on her ass and get 40 bucks a month. you might work with pride. but you know what? both of you are going to get 40 bucks at the end of the month. no matter how much harder you work. no matter how many hours you work. to that lady the dream -- whatever you want to call it -- is to be able to say "i'm going to improve my life" and actually have some control over it.
empowerment is what people dream of. i'm not saying it is only in america. i'm saying that that is what i've defined the "american dream" as. the belief that you get back whatever you put in.
Man -- I'm not saying that it is the dream to work yourself to death. The dream is to have your hard work _mean something._
Most places I've been one guy (Turkmenistan is a good example) might work 40 hours a week. Another may work 10. Both get paid 40 bucks a week.
I'm not promoting workaholism. I'm just saying that in many places it DOESN'T matter how hard you work. If you need some extra money because your wife needs surgury YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. You can't work extra shifts. You can't get another job (in many places it is illegal to work more than one). You can't do anything.
So to all the people who have felt helpless like that taking out the trash for 20 hours a day, being paid at an hourly rate, is a Dream.
I didn't say that everyone gets paid the same. But at whatever socio-economic level you are you get to work as hard as you want and get paid for that effort.
In many parts of the world you can't do that. Either you can't (as in aren't allowed to) get a second job or you get paid just as much as the next guy who doesn't work nearly as hard.
I'm not saying it's a perfect system. All I'm saying is that I've found many people who are envious of and appreciative of the opportunity to have a fairly direct relationship between how hard you work and what you get paid.
I always defined the American Dream as:
believing you get back whatever you put in.
Meaning if you work hard you get something for it. I know many people who are very envious (mostly who are from other countries) of how we are able to work 3 crappy jobs and get paid for every hour we work. That's the American dream in my opinion -- that there is a more direct corrilation between how hard you work and what you get back for it.
Well, that's for her to decide. She is researching and watching very attentively.
That or our culture is changing and you can't escape change to a more open culture regarding sex.
can you think of another place in the world where the government has successfully (while not actively suppressing people) reduced it?
i don't agree with "this is what a condom does" sex ed. i don't agree with "don't have sex" sex ed. i support "you need to learn to make your own decisions and not get pressured into anything. this is what happens. this is how it all works. this is how you can get around _having_ to do it if you'd like."
i'm only a few years out of high school. few of the girls in my school (that i spoke to about this) _wanted_ to have sex. they just went along with it when they felt they had to.
empowerment is the answer. i'm sure of it.
That or him saying they are going to do it means that enough of the population thinks it's okay.
I would say that it is true for the 20+ crowd but i have seen an interesting trend in the 18-20 crowd. i have concluded that because they were 15 and 16 on 9/11 and were very taken by the president's persona then they have a particular love for him. i can only guess that this is because they had not had the "normal" slow into to national/international/political affairs and were bounced into it. and what was the first thing they saw? a nation rallying around bush.
i think some people who have just gotten out of high school haven't yet been eaten up by the predominatly liberal-leaning youth culture.
btw -- churchil (i think) said, "if you're under 30 and are not liberal you have no heart. if you are over 30 and are not conservative you have no brains." -- i don't necessarily agree but i quote it to say i don't think there is anything wrong with either party. different aspects of both have their place.
I can't say I agree with this. My girlfriend's _default_ candidate is Bush. But she is looking for a _good_ reason to vote against him. She is not voting for or against him. She is trying to actually know whether Kerry will be better before she changes her vote.
I think she is representative of a good deal of the undecided vote.
I would guess they won't because either 1) they have some no-compete-on-x86 clause with their deal with MS or 2) they couldn't have quite as nice an experience with x86 -- if you don't control the hardware it is much harder to have such a nice stable system