You really think? Those keys are generated by purposely obsfuscated algorithms. I'm sure Excel is obsfucated (too early to spell correctly) but probably only as an accident due to years of Microsoft beauracracy.
If open office is so open, why can't it export into a format excel can read?
I mean, I really doubt the translation between excel and openoffice uses any one-way functions that can't be reversed. If openoffice can read Excel, it can write it. If it can write it, it should.
Creating another proprietary standard just demonstrates why unix hasn't defeated windows yet, even though it should have by now.
People who splinter standards in an effort to standardize are hypocrites whether they know it or not.
That being said, I was the ONLY one in the movie theatre to cheer and clap when they shot Bill Gates in the South Park movie. I blame the acid.
Nicotine, unlike marijuana, is a toxic poison. The nicotine in one cigarette can kill. Fortunately, when smoking, the majority of the nicotine is destroyed.
A common old-west murder trick was to soak a cigar in bourbon (or something to that effect), get them to drink it, and wait for them to die of nicotine poisoning.
Nicotine, unlike marijuana, is a toxic poison. The nicotine in one cigarette can kill. Fortunately, when smoking, the majority of the nicotine is destroyed.
A common old-west murder trick was to soak a cigar in bourbon (or something to that effect), get them to drink it, and wait for them to die of nicotine poisoning.
That 1 in 9 smoke pot weekly? I went to the government section of the library and read that myself straight out of the NIDA national phone survey.
Incidentally, not everyone phoned by the government is willing to admit they smoke pot, so the actual number is likely much higher than 1 in 9.
Sex can kill you.
Marijuana can not kill you, toxicologically.
Someone will invariably say "What about the person who drives on it?". To which I would respond, "What about the person who drives while having sex?" [which also would be more dangerous].
Most pot smokers are adults with jobs. 1 in 9 americans smokes pot weekly. Much higher than the unemployment rate.
More potsmokers than gay people, but they have less rights, despite the fact that gay (or straight) sex, especially unprotected, is more dangerous to your health than smoking pot is.
Wasn't there another slashdot story that involved someone being prosecuted as an ISP for doing something?
I really forget the details, but the point was that this guy was charged because he was an "ISP" by legal standards. But he was NOT an ISP by geek standards. (ie the truth)
I really forget the details, dammit. But if he can be an ISP, so can you. Sue away!
There is. It's the plus symbol. This tends to only work on unix server, but anything after a "+" but before the "@" is ignored by your mailserver.
So let's say my address is ClintXYZ@unix.org. I could sign up for something as ClintXYZ+ajkfdsjdfasjoifdoj@unix.org and the email would still be received by me.
Come up with a system, like ClintXYZ+yahoodotcom@unix.org. Then, if a spammer ever harvests your address, and doesn't cleanse out the extra characters, and then spams you, you will know it was yahoodotcom that did it. [This is just an example; don't sue me Yahoo.]
This has worked at least once for me (After doing it for a few years). A yahoo store violated yahoo privacy policy by doing this, and I reported them to yahoo. Never followed up though.
It's also good for mailfiltering. ClintXYZ+slashdot@unix.org for example if I wanted to filter everything that came from slashdot into its own filter.
Beware of webforms that don't allow +'s in the email addresss. It's a grey area of email address validity.
I wonder how this affects my TV-output. I hear all this talk of refresh rates, but nothing address the fact that when I play Quake3, it is on both my monitor, and my 36' TV at once.
How does vsync affect this? No clue.
How does my tV render diff than my ATI card? No clue.
Last, but not least, when will they come out with a video card that supports 3-D glasses *FOR IT'S TV OUT*. I know this is technically hard, but 3-D glasses are useless for me now. If I had to pick between a 36" 2-D quake3 and a 15" 2-D Quake3 -- well -- bigger is better.
Well, I would say that is great if you are already established under unix. But if not, I would say a native solution is better than an emulated one.
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Well, I guess I'll respond to that troll, probaby inviting further trolls...
It's funny that you say that. I'm actually rarely alone. Having met my now-wife when I was 18 (am 29 now), I was the first in my social circle to "hook up" with someone who ended up being their permanent spouse. And I am admittedly antisocial (not that I don't like poeple, I just refuse to participate in typical social heirarchies), so my relationship with her has outlasted my relationship with every other person.
Don't need anyone else. Why would I give them the opportunity to interrupt our good times? We don't answer the phone when watching cartoons, playing DDR, or having sex, so why should we each pay $50 a month extra just to add an additional stressor in our life?
If anyone's read this far... I question your sanity.
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It's the idea that you are "always reachable". That is annoying. Who wants to be able to be called 24/7? Not me.
I also think pagers suck.
I also don't answer my home phone when people call.
I also ignore most IMs.
*I* decide when I want to talk to someone. Getting a cellphone transfers that decision to whomever decides to call me during primetime television to tell me to "look at this cool ".
If you need to reboot to linux for good ol CLI goodness, you may want to try using JPSoft's 4NT, a superior (think zsh vs sh) command line for Windows boxes. I'm pretty sure it can do just about everything any unix command line can do, once you gather a few supporting utilities (ie grep).
I have many, many AVIs with multiple audio tracks. You just need to install the Morgan StreamSwitcher plugin. It's great for dvd rips with audiocommentary.
The alternate 4NT/4DOS command-line interpreters (think "zsh for windows") have been supporting the clip: device for many years now. Since Windows 95-ish days.
At work, I frequently write quick "clipboard massager" perlscripts. Cut text in clipboard, run scrubber, paste out newly modified text without having to do any work. Saves tons of time wasted on possibly repetitious cut-and-paste operations.
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Take that cigarette you ate, and feed it to your cat.
Or eat a whole pack yourself.
Then I'll be laughing.
Of course this is all conjecture.
If hackers can crack software registration key-generation algorithms, someone could reverse engineer an excel file.
Well, perhaps my criticism should be towards the operator and not the software. After all, operator error is responsible for most problems anyway.
I mean, I really doubt the translation between excel and openoffice uses any one-way functions that can't be reversed. If openoffice can read Excel, it can write it. If it can write it, it should.
Creating another proprietary standard just demonstrates why unix hasn't defeated windows yet, even though it should have by now.
People who splinter standards in an effort to standardize are hypocrites whether they know it or not.
That being said, I was the ONLY one in the movie theatre to cheer and clap when they shot Bill Gates in the South Park movie. I blame the acid.
"Open" is a slight misnomer if the majority of people can't read it.
But, you know, I guess I deserve it, for supporting Mirosoft.
It would kill you....
Nicotine, unlike marijuana, is a toxic poison. The nicotine in one cigarette can kill. Fortunately, when smoking, the majority of the nicotine is destroyed.
A common old-west murder trick was to soak a cigar in bourbon (or something to that effect), get them to drink it, and wait for them to die of nicotine poisoning.
Yea right!
Geeks aren't into sports or football. I've watched one football game in my life. It was boring.
It would kill you.
Nicotine, unlike marijuana, is a toxic poison. The nicotine in one cigarette can kill. Fortunately, when smoking, the majority of the nicotine is destroyed.
A common old-west murder trick was to soak a cigar in bourbon (or something to that effect), get them to drink it, and wait for them to die of nicotine poisoning.
That 1 in 9 smoke pot weekly? I went to the government section of the library and read that myself straight out of the NIDA national phone survey.
Incidentally, not everyone phoned by the government is willing to admit they smoke pot, so the actual number is likely much higher than 1 in 9.
Sex can kill you.
Marijuana can not kill you, toxicologically.
Someone will invariably say "What about the person who drives on it?". To which I would respond, "What about the person who drives while having sex?" [which also would be more dangerous].
More potsmokers than gay people, but they have less rights, despite the fact that gay (or straight) sex, especially unprotected, is more dangerous to your health than smoking pot is.
Highschoolers go to college kids for alcohol.
College kids go to highschoolers for pot.
Because highschoolers can't get alcohol nearly as easy as pot. Ask any highschooler who does both drugs which he could get easier.
Here's a hint: Pot.
I'm hoping that was a troll.
I really forget the details, but the point was that this guy was charged because he was an "ISP" by legal standards. But he was NOT an ISP by geek standards. (ie the truth)
I really forget the details, dammit. But if he can be an ISP, so can you. Sue away!
So let's say my address is ClintXYZ@unix.org. I could sign up for something as ClintXYZ+ajkfdsjdfasjoifdoj@unix.org and the email would still be received by me.
Come up with a system, like ClintXYZ+yahoodotcom@unix.org. Then, if a spammer ever harvests your address, and doesn't cleanse out the extra characters, and then spams you, you will know it was yahoodotcom that did it. [This is just an example; don't sue me Yahoo.]
This has worked at least once for me (After doing it for a few years). A yahoo store violated yahoo privacy policy by doing this, and I reported them to yahoo. Never followed up though.
It's also good for mailfiltering. ClintXYZ+slashdot@unix.org for example if I wanted to filter everything that came from slashdot into its own filter.
Beware of webforms that don't allow +'s in the email addresss. It's a grey area of email address validity.
How does vsync affect this? No clue.
How does my tV render diff than my ATI card? No clue.
Last, but not least, when will they come out with a video card that supports 3-D glasses *FOR IT'S TV OUT*. I know this is technically hard, but 3-D glasses are useless for me now. If I had to pick between a 36" 2-D quake3 and a 15" 2-D Quake3 -- well -- bigger is better.
Let's ban them.
Well, I would say that is great if you are already established under unix. But if not, I would say a native solution is better than an emulated one.
It's funny that you say that. I'm actually rarely alone. Having met my now-wife when I was 18 (am 29 now), I was the first in my social circle to "hook up" with someone who ended up being their permanent spouse. And I am admittedly antisocial (not that I don't like poeple, I just refuse to participate in typical social heirarchies), so my relationship with her has outlasted my relationship with every other person.
Don't need anyone else. Why would I give them the opportunity to interrupt our good times? We don't answer the phone when watching cartoons, playing DDR, or having sex, so why should we each pay $50 a month extra just to add an additional stressor in our life?
If anyone's read this far... I question your sanity.
I also think pagers suck.
I also don't answer my home phone when people call.
I also ignore most IMs.
*I* decide when I want to talk to someone. Getting a cellphone transfers that decision to whomever decides to call me during primetime television to tell me to "look at this cool ".
If you need to reboot to linux for good ol CLI goodness, you may want to try using JPSoft's 4NT, a superior (think zsh vs sh) command line for Windows boxes. I'm pretty sure it can do just about everything any unix command line can do, once you gather a few supporting utilities (ie grep).
Good day sir!
And remember...
If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws with evolve.
I have many, many AVIs with multiple audio tracks. You just need to install the Morgan StreamSwitcher plugin. It's great for dvd rips with audiocommentary.
That has got to be the most idiotic viewpoint I've seen posted on slashdot in at least 3 months.
You make the Goatse guy look like Mother Theresa!
At work, I frequently write quick "clipboard massager" perlscripts. Cut text in clipboard, run scrubber, paste out newly modified text without having to do any work. Saves tons of time wasted on possibly repetitious cut-and-paste operations.