The key component, at least in my mind, is how interoperable it is. How does this office suite handle things from Office for Windows? Like it or not, most of the business desktops in the world use Office 97 or 2000, and if you can't easily open Word files (Let alone Excel, Powerpoint, and Access) then this office suite will fail. Opening in text-only is no good, since then you'll lose all the nice formatting that some poor cubicle drone put together. (and if you don't think the look and feel of a document isn't more important then the content, then you should try working support in an corporate office!) Anybody have any thoughts? I really want this to succeed.
short of the game actually "showing how to use a gun" (yeah right).
I wanna use the grenade launcher. How do you right-click this thing?
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It's easy (relatively) if you have a filter that has an opt-in feature. In other words, it blocks everyone not on a certain list. That's how my e-mail works. I get no spam. Of course, I get no legit e-mail if I forget to add them to the list.
your local mailman/lady would be too scared to put ads in your mailbox, or bills for that matter...
Maybe the mailman would be too scared, but bill collectors themselves fear nothing! Nothing, I tell you! BWA-HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
The bastards.
It doesn't have to be that way, though. My point is, we could be healthier for a longer time. Aging has all of the indications of disease, but because EVERYONE is afflicted with it, it wasn't treated as such until fairly recently. Just because it's "normal" doesn't mean we have to accept it. As for having the will-power to keep yourself in shape and thus countering the effects of aging, that's just a delaying action at best. You will still die. That "ripped" cop will look good at his funeral. Those 70-80 year olds who run marathons will be running until they have a heart attack and die. In the end, all physical fitness does is delay the inevitable. Science can help to delay the inevitable even further. Not to mention the fact that as you get older, you increase the odds of some limiting disease or injury that will reduce your ability to work out. By the way, some extremely unhealthy people live to be very old, and some really healthy people die in their 50's. Excersize is no guarantee. Oh, and thanks for counseling suicide for those who get upset when friends and family die. I wasn't saying that the death of a loved one was an event that couldn't be survived, I was saying that there is no event that will more wrench at your soul. And, no, death will never be "beaten". People will always die, and it will always hurt those that care for them. But it would be nice to remove the element of certainty from death. The knowledge that you WILL die, and you have just moved one day closer to that death. It would be nice to think that, hey, maybe my friends and I will still be hanging out together 50 years from now. Or that I will still see my mom every year for the holiday season up through the next century. Let the accidents and tragedies fall where they may, but remove the inevitability from the equation.
Or, if you're a sinner, you get to spend all that fun time in Hell! another reason to extend your lifespan. Besides, hangin' with Big G and Lil' J might or might not be a blast (assuming that they exist, of course), but I know that I'll be loving Final Fantasy MMX!
The problem with this is that growing old is not a fun thing to do. Body parts start to hurt. The mind stops funcioning as quickly. You tire easily. You forget things (short and long term). And, if that isn't enough, you get the joy and satisfaction of watching your friends and family die around you, and knowing that your turn is coming soon. Dying of old age might be peaceful, as compared to a car accident, but I would much rather retain all of my functionality up to the point of my death then slowly wither away. Visit a nursing home sometime to see what I mean. I'm glad that scientist are finally treating aging like the disease that it is. I'm even happier that they seem to be very careful about how they do it (according to this article, at least).
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That's an awfully feirce attack on someone who was just trying to be funny. You trying to compensate for something, MICROBerto?
The key component, at least in my mind, is how interoperable it is. How does this office suite handle things from Office for Windows? Like it or not, most of the business desktops in the world use Office 97 or 2000, and if you can't easily open Word files (Let alone Excel, Powerpoint, and Access) then this office suite will fail. Opening in text-only is no good, since then you'll lose all the nice formatting that some poor cubicle drone put together. (and if you don't think the look and feel of a document isn't more important then the content, then you should try working support in an corporate office!)
Anybody have any thoughts? I really want this to succeed.
I wanna use the grenade launcher. How do you right-click this thing?
It's easy (relatively) if you have a filter that has an opt-in feature. In other words, it blocks everyone not on a certain list. That's how my e-mail works. I get no spam. Of course, I get no legit e-mail if I forget to add them to the list.
your local mailman/lady would be too scared to put ads in your mailbox, or bills for that matter...
Maybe the mailman would be too scared, but bill collectors themselves fear nothing! Nothing, I tell you! BWA-HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
The bastards.
It doesn't have to be that way, though. My point is, we could be healthier for a longer time. Aging has all of the indications of disease, but because EVERYONE is afflicted with it, it wasn't treated as such until fairly recently. Just because it's "normal" doesn't mean we have to accept it.
As for having the will-power to keep yourself in shape and thus countering the effects of aging, that's just a delaying action at best. You will still die. That "ripped" cop will look good at his funeral. Those 70-80 year olds who run marathons will be running until they have a heart attack and die. In the end, all physical fitness does is delay the inevitable. Science can help to delay the inevitable even further. Not to mention the fact that as you get older, you increase the odds of some limiting disease or injury that will reduce your ability to work out. By the way, some extremely unhealthy people live to be very old, and some really healthy people die in their 50's. Excersize is no guarantee.
Oh, and thanks for counseling suicide for those who get upset when friends and family die. I wasn't saying that the death of a loved one was an event that couldn't be survived, I was saying that there is no event that will more wrench at your soul. And, no, death will never be "beaten". People will always die, and it will always hurt those that care for them. But it would be nice to remove the element of certainty from death. The knowledge that you WILL die, and you have just moved one day closer to that death. It would be nice to think that, hey, maybe my friends and I will still be hanging out together 50 years from now. Or that I will still see my mom every year for the holiday season up through the next century. Let the accidents and tragedies fall where they may, but remove the inevitability from the equation.
Or, if you're a sinner, you get to spend all that fun time in Hell! another reason to extend your lifespan. Besides, hangin' with Big G and Lil' J might or might not be a blast (assuming that they exist, of course), but I know that I'll be loving Final Fantasy MMX!
The problem with this is that growing old is not a fun thing to do. Body parts start to hurt. The mind stops funcioning as quickly. You tire easily. You forget things (short and long term). And, if that isn't enough, you get the joy and satisfaction of watching your friends and family die around you, and knowing that your turn is coming soon.
Dying of old age might be peaceful, as compared to a car accident, but I would much rather retain all of my functionality up to the point of my death then slowly wither away. Visit a nursing home sometime to see what I mean. I'm glad that scientist are finally treating aging like the disease that it is. I'm even happier that they seem to be very careful about how they do it (according to this article, at least).