To people at our company, where Windows and Office is installed on every machine, very different.
To avoid your obvious 'install adobe then' answer, n not many people need it. To have a rarely used file format require a specific piece of software to load it is not a great sitation, in my view.
but I find.pdf files a *major* ballache. I often find the computer I'm on doesn't support loading them so I have to go and install some v.slow and large application to load them.
If these XDocs (can't resd artcile, slashdotted) load into Office automatically, all the better.
In my experience, 'punk' or 'goth' is a way for school-age nerds to be 'cool'. What baffles me is it seems to be timeless - there's gimpy goth kids running round my local school now...
That's fine for geeks, but a lot of people who have the time don't have the know-how. For them, spending $1000 on a fairly dumb appliance is a lot happier a prospect than spending 1000 hours swearing at Unix manuals.
Especially since
a) my free time is worth more that $1 an hour and
b) I spend all day programming to earn money and consequently $1000 is a piss in the ocean.
"designed for swapping MP3s or porn for those who have got the wrong idea, it's purpose is (as the name implies) to guarantee freedom of speech by allowing totally anonymous yet scalable publishing"
Yes, I cannot see how anonymous posting would be useful for porn or MP3's.
I think it's something to do with CDROM drives. I say this because last time I flew, we could use your computers on the condition we didn't access the CDROM. Bizarre.
This proposed systems would probably be controllable from the cockpit as well, and could easily make any cell phone on the plane inoperable. Maybe that is what the control oriented security freaks want, but I think it has many dangers.
Fuck, not only will I be dying 50 years early in a ball of flame, but I won't be able to ring my wife before it happens. This is a very serious issue!!
Agreed, so the issue is not taking away guns, it keeping them out of the hands of stupid people
You are a right arrogant prick. If you believe accidents only happen to stupid people then you have alot to learn about life. What about if your child was round at a house with a loaded gun?
IN other news, I would just *love* to see you (probably a high school nerd) try and protect yourself against a gangster who had decided they wanted you dead, gun or not.
My point is, if you can't stop criminals and psychopaths getting hold of weapons, you might as well at least allow ordinary people to fight on the same level.
So if we can't stop psychopaths killing people randomly, maybe we should legalise that too?
And he'd still probably have a gun if they were more strictly regulated
actually, I disagree. he may well have been able to get hold of a 'saturday night special' (crappest of crap guns) but it would be unlikely he'd be able to get hold of the kind of long-range specialist weapon he's using at the moment.
In the UK, we do have gun crime, but we don't have drive-bys with semi-automatic machine guns etc - its more idiot little ganster wannabe's with 400 dollar lamo-guns they picked up from the local pub.
No sireee, he is not terrorising anyone AT ALL. Heve you heard the word terrorist mentioned in news reports of this man AT ALL? Is this not entirely hypocritical?
In fact, to stretch it even more, if this guy did legally buy the weapon he's using, shouldn't big dubya be lining up a war againstthe American regime which sold this terrorist a weapon;-)?
I'm in the UK, so I don't know the full story - but the two people they pulled in yesterday, neither has been charged, but they've been passed to immigration.
what's the chances that these are just two poor non-white guys who happened to be in a white van near the shooting - so they get thrown in a police van, questioned for hours, then deported.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah I'd like it to load in less than a week and use less that 128Mb to view 'HelloWorld.html'.
;-).
Portable Document Format. As in documents you can edit.
Yeah, with an application you have to pay for. Don't wee hate that round here?
How is this any different from Word Documents?
To people at our company, where Windows and Office is installed on every machine, very different.
To avoid your obvious 'install adobe then' answer, n not many people need it. To have a rarely used file format require a specific piece of software to load it is not a great sitation, in my view.
but I find .pdf files a *major* ballache. I often find the computer I'm on doesn't support loading them so I have to go and install some v.slow and large application to load them.
If these XDocs (can't resd artcile, slashdotted) load into Office automatically, all the better.
Microsoft Word, Excel etc. are proprietary formats. Why would anyone who knows about these things use MS Office anyway?
Because (insult removed here), the OS / Apps your company chooses to use shouldn't influence the people / companies you work with.
Because when you tell your client 'we can't read *.doc format', you'll look a bit of a dick.
News for NERDS!???
The Pistols were never for nerds...
In my experience, 'punk' or 'goth' is a way for school-age nerds to be 'cool'. What baffles me is it seems to be timeless - there's gimpy goth kids running round my local school now...
it's like 10000 spoons, when all you need is a knife. when you think about it.
That's fine for geeks, but a lot of people who have the time don't have the know-how. For them, spending $1000 on a fairly dumb appliance is a lot happier a prospect than spending 1000 hours swearing at Unix manuals.
Especially since
a) my free time is worth more that $1 an hour and
b) I spend all day programming to earn money and consequently $1000 is a piss in the ocean.
The top-of-the-line DMR-HS2 ($1000 US) has a 40 GB hard drive
Er, or they could do a 60Gb one for $1040?
your sig kinda looks like a slashdot reply to eahc of your messages - is that intentional ;-)?
Not if you wanted to distribute / collect illegal pornogaphy, you wouldn't.
Incidentally, I don't run freenet - before the police come knocking down my door.
"designed for swapping MP3s or porn for those who have got the wrong idea, it's purpose is (as the name implies) to guarantee freedom of speech by allowing totally anonymous yet scalable publishing"
Yes, I cannot see how anonymous posting would be useful for porn or MP3's.
"not getting it running in 2 minutes flat annoys me to no end"
;-)
hope you don't run Linux then
I think it's something to do with CDROM drives. I say this because last time I flew, we could use your computers on the condition we didn't access the CDROM. Bizarre.
Fuck, not only will I be dying 50 years early in a ball of flame, but I won't be able to ring my wife before it happens. This is a very serious issue!!
don't send an artist to do an engineer's job
Seen written above the toilet roll in my old exams building - 'Art Degrees'.
Agreed, so the issue is not taking away guns, it keeping them out of the hands of stupid people
You are a right arrogant prick. If you believe accidents only happen to stupid people then you have alot to learn about life. What about if your child was round at a house with a loaded gun?
IN other news, I would just *love* to see you (probably a high school nerd) try and protect yourself against a gangster who had decided they wanted you dead, gun or not.
Switch to kuro5hin - it has a wayyy bettre moderation system. although less stories (ducks)
It might well be seven. And I agree it was pretty funny - some people have no sense of humour :).
Did you know it'simpossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than 5 times?
So if we can't stop psychopaths killing people randomly, maybe we should legalise that too?
In the UK, we do have gun crime, but we don't have drive-bys with semi-automatic machine guns etc - its more idiot little ganster wannabe's with 400 dollar lamo-guns they picked up from the local pub.
In fact, to stretch it even more, if this guy did legally buy the weapon he's using, shouldn't big dubya be lining up a war againstthe American regime which sold this terrorist a weapon ;-)?
Indeed. I think that basically, a gun is only going to help you defend yourself when your assailant *doesn't* have a gun.
I'm in the UK, so I don't know the full story - but the two people they pulled in yesterday, neither has been charged, but they've been passed to immigration.
what's the chances that these are just two poor non-white guys who happened to be in a white van near the shooting - so they get thrown in a police van, questioned for hours, then deported.