They should spend all of their time on a prison bus, being ferried around to different schools where they explain how they fucked up.
I like this idea.
They should be paraded in front of every class wearing full restraints, including leg and waist chains, while they explain exactly how stupid they were.
Tyler Barris got someone killed directly as a result of his mindless douchebag behavior, and he should spend the rest of his life paying for it.
What "not bad" today may be "bad" tomorrow, maybe something innocuous that YOU do. And whose definition of "bad" are we using, anyway? Yours? Mine? The Chinese government's?
Chinese pick security.
Chinese pick totalitarianism. No thanks. It's bad enough in the US, we don't need petty bureaucrats second-guessing everything we do. Hey, is someone at your door, humaniverse? Were you watching something bad on the internet?
I have a few friends that use Office 365, and they say it's not bad. Not perfect, but not bad.
Fun Fact: Office 365 won't pass Microsoft's own tests for compatibility with Word and Excel. It's true, I know a tester that works at MS and he says it's an open secret there.
Have you actually ever had a problem with Word files saving wrongly in Libre Office? If so, have you tried saving them to an older version Word format?
Yes, it screws up a bunch if different stuff, and not consistently.
Sometimes it's the margins that get all borked, sometimes it's images, tables, etc etc. I never know if it'll look okay when they open it in Word.
That sounds odd; I open all sorts of documents in Word 2010, 2013 and 2016 in VMs (in Win 10) in VirtualBox 6 (previously 5.x) on Manjaro host (previously KDE neon) and have never had any issues at all with Word behaving differently to how it would if it wasn't in a VM.
If you would ship me your PC I would not only stop complaining but I'd send you a genuinely nice Thank You card for all your trouble.:)
The advantage of Wine over Virtualization is primary the fact the Application will run will less resources, and you are not running a full OS layer, so a small App lets say the Calc.exe App will not need 4 gigs of ram, and 1 reserved CPU core, and a few gigs of storage. to hold the OS and the Calc.exe app.
I understand, but in this instance I'm not concerned with ram or how many cores it uses, I just need it to work and I'm willing to give it all the resources it needs.
There's no reason that virtualbox would cause word to crash when updating a TOC, you're running a full version of windows and word just under a hypervisor instead of bare metal hardware... That crash could just as easily happen in a native install.
Except it never, ever did this in a native install under Win7.
The real question is "how well does it actually work" with mainstream Windows programs like Word/Excel, Photoshop, etc.
I use VirtualBox to run Win7 under Linux Mint, and while some stuff works great, a lot of stuff doesn't.
For example, I can use MS Word under VirtualBox and most things work fine, but do something like update the Table of Contents and *boom* Word crashes.
So...is Wine better, or is Crossover a viable solution?
(I'd happily dump Word/Excel in a heartbeat, but the fact is that some of my clients use Word and they're not gonna change. I need to be able to send them a file that they can use.)
My company did the same thing, asking employees (including contractors lol) to post positive reviews so they could attract better job candidates.
I gave an honest review (which was mostly good).
The bottom line is that I'm not going to sing the praises of a place that is genuinely bad or unpleasant to work at. If they sucked I'd say so in no uncertain terms.
Yes, G+ was all about harvesting data. If they'd actually gotten significant traction they might have kept it going, but they got enough of what they wanted.
What's amazing is that the same people who saw a conspiracy in everything the Clintons and Obama did refuse to connect far more evidence-based dots in Trump's case. No matter what happens, it's always "fake news" or "nothing to see" or "But Hillary and Obama..."
You people posting these hateful replies and death threats (!!) in response to a movie review need to get a life.
If you have a life, then you need to get a better one.
I can't imagine being so incensed over a movie review as to actually start making death threats.
For example, casting that pint-sized douchebag Tom Cruise as the character "Jack Reacher" really, really, really pissed me off, but it never occurred to me to send a death threat to anyone over it. Sheesh.
(For those of you who aren't familiar with the original, actual Jack Reacher character, one of his main distinguishing features is that he's a big guy- really big. Like, way way way bigger than Tom Cruise. That's part of his whole schtick- he's a great big dude. It's central to his entire character. Picking Tom Cruise to play Jack Reacher was the single most fucked-up character casting choice I've ever seen in my life, period. It would be like picking one of the Oompa Loompas to play Arnold Schwarzenegger, or having Liberace play "Dog The Bounty Hunter.")
I can't talk for others, but on quite an occasion i upvote comments i disagree with but are well argumented and worth considering a thought, and downvote comments i might agree with due to offensive language.
And here I thought I was the only one who did that.
Yes, I may upvote a comment I disagree with if it's a well-formed argument or raises a valid point. And I may downvote comments that are technically correct but are written with an abusive form or tone.
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They should spend all of their time on a prison bus, being ferried around to different schools where they explain how they fucked up.
I like this idea.
They should be paraded in front of every class wearing full restraints, including leg and waist chains, while they explain exactly how stupid they were.
Tyler Barris got someone killed directly as a result of his mindless douchebag behavior, and he should spend the rest of his life paying for it.
Isn't putting someone in PRISON for 20 years just because they made a phone call pretty much the definition of censorship?
Congratulations, you win the Dumbest Comment Award on Slashdot today!
"Hey, I just wanted to rob a bank and those dirty cops denied me the right to express myself with a gun and a mask!"
Facebook cheat people? ME SO SHOCKED, SO VERY VERY SHOCKED
(and fuck your all caps filter error, give me a break.)
If you have nothing bad, why you want to hide.
What "not bad" today may be "bad" tomorrow, maybe something innocuous that YOU do. And whose definition of "bad" are we using, anyway? Yours? Mine? The Chinese government's?
Chinese pick security.
Chinese pick totalitarianism. No thanks. It's bad enough in the US, we don't need petty bureaucrats second-guessing everything we do. Hey, is someone at your door, humaniverse? Were you watching something bad on the internet?
This is horrifying. They want to create a social-pariah class and a surveillance society at the same time.
<Nelson voice> HA HA </Nelson voice>
I'm laughing at my own suggestion but I'm genuinely curious how well it would actually work:
https://office.live.com/start/...
How well does the online version work?
I have a few friends that use Office 365, and they say it's not bad. Not perfect, but not bad.
Fun Fact: Office 365 won't pass Microsoft's own tests for compatibility with Word and Excel. It's true, I know a tester that works at MS and he says it's an open secret there.
Well, first off does it crash on a native Win7 box?
Nope, never. Literally never saw this behavior until I started running it in the VM.
Have you actually ever had a problem with Word files saving wrongly in Libre Office? If so, have you tried saving them to an older version Word format?
Yes, it screws up a bunch if different stuff, and not consistently.
Sometimes it's the margins that get all borked, sometimes it's images, tables, etc etc. I never know if it'll look okay when they open it in Word.
That sounds odd; I open all sorts of documents in Word 2010, 2013 and 2016 in VMs (in Win 10) in VirtualBox 6 (previously 5.x) on Manjaro host (previously KDE neon) and have never had any issues at all with Word behaving differently to how it would if it wasn't in a VM.
If you would ship me your PC I would not only stop complaining but I'd send you a genuinely nice Thank You card for all your trouble. :)
The advantage of Wine over Virtualization is primary the fact the Application will run will less resources, and you are not running a full OS layer, so a small App lets say the Calc.exe App will not need 4 gigs of ram, and 1 reserved CPU core, and a few gigs of storage. to hold the OS and the Calc.exe app.
I understand, but in this instance I'm not concerned with ram or how many cores it uses, I just need it to work and I'm willing to give it all the resources it needs.
There's no reason that virtualbox would cause word to crash when updating a TOC, you're running a full version of windows and word just under a hypervisor instead of bare metal hardware... That crash could just as easily happen in a native install.
Except it never, ever did this in a native install under Win7.
The real question is "how well does it actually work" with mainstream Windows programs like Word/Excel, Photoshop, etc.
I use VirtualBox to run Win7 under Linux Mint, and while some stuff works great, a lot of stuff doesn't.
For example, I can use MS Word under VirtualBox and most things work fine, but do something like update the Table of Contents and *boom* Word crashes.
So...is Wine better, or is Crossover a viable solution?
(I'd happily dump Word/Excel in a heartbeat, but the fact is that some of my clients use Word and they're not gonna change. I need to be able to send them a file that they can use.)
Damn Boris, you got back to him in only 37 minutes. I feel slighted...
Ask your doctor if "not being a dumbfuck" is right for you.
It comes in a convenient suppository form so I know you'll like it.
Hey there, shitbag. You're nothing but a fear-mongering, goose stepping bitch.
Oh noes, did I trigger you?
My company did the same thing, asking employees (including contractors lol) to post positive reviews so they could attract better job candidates.
I gave an honest review (which was mostly good).
The bottom line is that I'm not going to sing the praises of a place that is genuinely bad or unpleasant to work at. If they sucked I'd say so in no uncertain terms.
I agree it may not be any better, but it surely has the potential to be worse.
I mean, Facebook servers operating in Russia, what could possibly go wrong?
"Not to worry, Comrade! Your data perfectly safe with us!"
I see nothing sinister about this at all, not even a little teensy-tiny bit.
Google plus was a data harvesting scheme.
^^^^This.
Yes, G+ was all about harvesting data. If they'd actually gotten significant traction they might have kept it going, but they got enough of what they wanted.
"If it's what you say it is, I love it."
What's amazing is that the same people who saw a conspiracy in everything the Clintons and Obama did refuse to connect far more evidence-based dots in Trump's case. No matter what happens, it's always "fake news" or "nothing to see" or "But Hillary and Obama..."
You people posting these hateful replies and death threats (!!) in response to a movie review need to get a life.
If you have a life, then you need to get a better one.
I can't imagine being so incensed over a movie review as to actually start making death threats.
For example, casting that pint-sized douchebag Tom Cruise as the character "Jack Reacher" really, really, really pissed me off, but it never occurred to me to send a death threat to anyone over it. Sheesh.
(For those of you who aren't familiar with the original, actual Jack Reacher character, one of his main distinguishing features is that he's a big guy- really big. Like, way way way bigger than Tom Cruise. That's part of his whole schtick- he's a great big dude. It's central to his entire character.
Picking Tom Cruise to play Jack Reacher was the single most fucked-up character casting choice I've ever seen in my life, period. It would be like picking one of the Oompa Loompas to play Arnold Schwarzenegger, or having Liberace play "Dog The Bounty Hunter.")
I can't talk for others, but on quite an occasion i upvote comments i disagree with but are well argumented and worth considering a thought, and downvote comments i might agree with due to offensive language.
And here I thought I was the only one who did that.
Yes, I may upvote a comment I disagree with if it's a well-formed argument or raises a valid point. And I may downvote comments that are technically correct but are written with an abusive form or tone.
Actually, being a "satan worshiping jew" sounds pretty cool.
"It is bold from you to assume that I didnt read the TFA. Of course I did. "
You must be new here. The DNA of Slashdot readers prevents us from reading TFA.
Wait- there's an article?