Actually, some of the nicer homes in that area are in Tukwila. It's truly strange that they would be cash-strapped. Everything in town is kept up very well. Weird.
> It's made clear in both articles that this is a cash-strapped district
I'm surprised at this - Tukwila is a place with LOTS of businesses - one of the greater Seattle area's largest malls is there (Southcenter), with LOTS of busineeses around it - all new stuff that's used all the time, too - no ghetto anything. One wonders how they're all that cash-strapped.
At the very least, they could upgrade the existing Macs with the new ones, then sell off the old ones and any other unused new ones and buy more PCs. Or textbooks. Or IT staff who understand 'multiplatform support'. It's a school ferchrisssake - sell one of the new Macs and buy some Mac books!
Remember the old days when basically EVERY computer in school was an Apple ][?:)
IE is what I usually use, so it's IE I've been having problems with Acrobat Reader with. Which one is to blame is left as an exercise to the reader, as I surely don't know. It hardly matters - I can't friggin' _stand_.PDF files. About 99% of the ones I've run into on the Web would've been much better off being in HTML.
> Here's something that can convert your Word files to PDF... for free!
Here's a file format that can bloat your Word files to enormous sizes! And make viewing them very slow! For free!:)
RTF is much better for the vast majority of users. Plus the Acrobat reader does NOT deal well when used as a browser plug-in - it hangs very often on every machine I've tried it on over the last several years. Works much better run outside of the browser, though, plus the latest version 6 is much, much snappier when scrolling through said PDF files. YMMV.
> we seem to have registered for our accounts here on the same day!;-)
Coolio. I remember being annoyed at all the anonymous coward "first post" nonsense, and decided to go ahead and register to get rid of them once Slashdot implemented the scoring system. Until then, I didn't see a need to bother. Now, of course, I realize I could've had a 3 digit user ID if I'd done it at the get-go. *shrug* Oh well, no biggie. Reading at +3 helps cut down on that a _lot_.:)
Well, I see your point, but I think MS has taken the behaviour to new heights. It's only frustrating to me because they have the talent inhouse to create the most amazing products ever, and that's not their focus.:(
Apparently when they modified the production helicopter to create AirWolf, the changes they made improved the aerodynamics. Funny.
When some military types first saw AirWolf on TV, and it was doing some non-helicopter-capable stunts, they immediately called the people of the show to ask them how the hell they did that, only to be told it was 'tv magic.' hehe
The machine guns on the sides of AirWolf were, of course, fake. To make them look real during firing, they fed gasoline through them and ignited them with sparkplugs. Wicked.
My favourite episode was the one with 'AirWolf II' - seeing that thing firing multiple missiles at once was pretty startling. Rather like the first time I saw a video of a Tigershark (F-20?) unloading its whole weapons rack.
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I mentioned this just the other day - don't forget the Emergency Pants!
You can learn a lot from Sluggy Freelance.
Hmmm, yes, that WOULD make the way clear for a hyperspace bypass, too. Excellent suggestion. You'd make a good Vogon. Can you write poetry?
"FOX News...your source for Evil(tm)." :)
Actually, some of the nicer homes in that area are in Tukwila. It's truly strange that they would be cash-strapped. Everything in town is kept up very well. Weird.
> but $500 buys a lot of beer...
Dude, you PAY for beer? I heard that there's a 'Linux' beer that's free...you should check it out.
> Isn't this kind of government waste why god invented Fox News at 10?
God invented FOX News? That explains a lot...
But what if you want every node of each of those Beowulf clusters to have its own public IP address? :)
It's like having "Emergency Pants."
"You never know."
"You know, it'd be a shame if something were to happen to that subnet..."
> It's made clear in both articles that this is a cash-strapped district
:)
I'm surprised at this - Tukwila is a place with LOTS of businesses - one of the greater Seattle area's largest malls is there (Southcenter), with LOTS of busineeses around it - all new stuff that's used all the time, too - no ghetto anything. One wonders how they're all that cash-strapped.
At the very least, they could upgrade the existing Macs with the new ones, then sell off the old ones and any other unused new ones and buy more PCs. Or textbooks. Or IT staff who understand 'multiplatform support'. It's a school ferchrisssake - sell one of the new Macs and buy some Mac books!
Remember the old days when basically EVERY computer in school was an Apple ][?
Please to note my post said ' u ' to ' you ' - see the spaces? I put those there just for someone like you, Elwood. :)
IE is what I usually use, so it's IE I've been having problems with Acrobat Reader with. Which one is to blame is left as an exercise to the reader, as I surely don't know. It hardly matters - I can't friggin' _stand_ .PDF files. About 99% of the ones I've run into on the Web would've been much better off being in HTML.
"Hack the Planet!"
Just a suggestion.
> Here's something that can convert your Word files to PDF ... for free!
:)
Here's a file format that can bloat your Word files to enormous sizes! And make viewing them very slow! For free!
RTF is much better for the vast majority of users. Plus the Acrobat reader does NOT deal well when used as a browser plug-in - it hangs very often on every machine I've tried it on over the last several years. Works much better run outside of the browser, though, plus the latest version 6 is much, much snappier when scrolling through said PDF files. YMMV.
> It also saves to a smaller file size
.doc than as an MS Word-saved .rtf. Go figure.
Not always. My resume, for example, is much smaller as an actual MS Word
> if u want the extra performance boost
Maybe you wouldn't find macros so useless if you created some keyboard macros to replace ' u ' with ' you '.
Just a thought.
That was an obviouth joke.
Tho thue me.
No macroth? Thath too bad. ;)
> And then, when they come home one day and ask about loops, conditionals, and arrays
:)
Yeah, be prepared for a very long wait. Hold your breath - you may look good in blue.
> we seem to have registered for our accounts here on the same day! ;-)
:)
Coolio. I remember being annoyed at all the anonymous coward "first post" nonsense, and decided to go ahead and register to get rid of them once Slashdot implemented the scoring system. Until then, I didn't see a need to bother. Now, of course, I realize I could've had a 3 digit user ID if I'd done it at the get-go. *shrug* Oh well, no biggie. Reading at +3 helps cut down on that a _lot_.
> Flash! Could there be greater proof of their villainy?
Oh yeah: "Client-side Java"
*shudder*
BZFlag !
From the website:
BZFlag won best in class for "Best Free Multiplayer Action Game" in the HappyPenguin competition.
What I wonder is how much MS spends on free soda to keep the workers hopped-up enough to work 80 hour weeks.
"Free Soda!" Great - free dental plan, too, I hope.
Well, I see your point, but I think MS has taken the behaviour to new heights. It's only frustrating to me because they have the talent inhouse to create the most amazing products ever, and that's not their focus. :(
> Why bother buying up an antivirus company when their future plans
:)
> are to make virus scanners obsolete?
See also: RAV Antivirus, _multi-platform_
I'm not sure MS does _anything_ that _isn't_ anti-competitive.
Oh yeah, amusing anecdotes re: AirWolf
Apparently when they modified the production helicopter to create AirWolf, the changes they made improved the aerodynamics. Funny.
When some military types first saw AirWolf on TV, and it was doing some non-helicopter-capable stunts, they immediately called the people of the show to ask them how the hell they did that, only to be told it was 'tv magic.' hehe
The machine guns on the sides of AirWolf were, of course, fake. To make them look real during firing, they fed gasoline through them and ignited them with sparkplugs. Wicked.
My favourite episode was the one with 'AirWolf II' - seeing that thing firing multiple missiles at once was pretty startling. Rather like the first time I saw a video of a Tigershark (F-20?) unloading its whole weapons rack.