I LOVE Mozilla, I hate to think about what I'd be forced to use without it. But I have never liked the Mozilla "T-Rex icon". I wish it would go away and be replaced with something better.
Gator IS Spyware. My right to free speech allow me as an individual to say that. So I'll say it again. Gator IS Spyware. I can also say that Bush is a dick if I want. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but I can say that.
You get to decide whether you believe me or not. That's why using our own brains is so important.
MS didn't happen to make any significant donations to your computer science department, did they?
Good question - I don't know. However, I can tell you that there were plans to switch over from Novell to Microsoft Networks. As far as switching away from Oracle, I don't believe there were any plans to do so, but I seem to recall some momentum to get away from mainframe licensing costs (which seemed to be quite high).
Not me, amigo, but as a consultant, I can't count on my two hands the number of times I've had to either warehouse data from, or (worse) interface with an existing Access database.
Funny, when I was in college, I was told over and over again that MS Access was a solution to be touted to customers. While we were taught Oracle, Access was great for small businesses and non-profit organizations. Now that I know better not to use Access, I can think of a bunch of alternatives that I would rather use. Access is not a multi-user-friendly system.
Isn't the obvious problem with touchscreen technology the marks left by previous voters? I mean, if Arnold Schwarzenegger had massive amounts of finger prints on his box, and other candidates had near-zero prints on theirs, couldn't that alter my choice?
Why does anybody want to get rid of the paper system? Sheesh.
But I think it's incredible how much people rip on those company practices that are pretty much standard. Aren't there plenty of pure-evil things for you guys to rip on?
I'm not sure I understand your reasoning. Everybody else does it, so why single out any company? In other words, just accept it and don't bother complaining because everybody does it? I hope that's not your message.
Yes, there are plenty of pure-evil things to rip on. Microsoft is the largest target and has the greatest impact on the people of this planet aside from government itself. Why go for relatively small fry when you can have bigger impact by altering Microsoft's course through lobbying and so on? Sure, I'm just bitching on Slashdot, but I've made my personal choice not to support Microsoft or buy any of their products ever again. I let my friends know the truth as I see it as well, so that they can make more informed choices.
Anyway, I don't plan to stop ripping on Microsoft anytime soon. I urge you to not give up on whatever you feel strongly about, too.
"Unless Apple decides to make radical changes to their service model, a Windows-based version of iTunes will still remain a closed system, where iPod owners cannot access content from other services," said Fester. "Additionally, users of iTunes are limited to music from Apple's Music Store... this is a drawback for Windows users, who expect choice in music services, choice in devices, and choice in music from a wide-variety of music services to burn to a CD or put on a portable device.
The gist of this is that people want to be able to interface with other systems and that because Apple doesn't let you do this - which is something Windows users expect - the service is "dismissed".
Well, well, Microsoft double-speak at its best again. Pass me some of whatever you're smoking, will ya? Because last time I checked, users of instant messaging want the same thing - interoperability - and Microsoft isn't letting them have it with their IM service.
Conclusion: Microsoft is pointing at a "flaw" that they would actually like to have in their own system once they reach the critical mass that iTunes has.
Reminds me of one of the companies I worked at, long ago. SMTP addresses went first initial, last name. However they made an exception for a Samuel Hitt.
Strong typing turns a lot of would-be logic errors into syntax errors that can be caught at compiletime, not runtime. Runtime errors are much more expensive to locate and fix.
Strong typing forces you to think harder about what you are doing, someone like how Java's exception handling makes you think about what exceptions you are generating or what you should be catching.
I would argue that there is a place for strong typing and also for "variants", so both serve as very useful features of their respective languages. Since each language is based on the fact that it does or does not require strong typing, I don't see how changing that trait would be beneficial.
No, the ultimate goal isn't to "believe in nothing". The goal -may- be to not play favorites and present one belief system as superior (or even the default) though.
That's perfectly fine with me, as long as every belief system is free to express themselves in any place, including school.
That said, I am much less disturbed, for example, by the generic "under God" or "in God we trust" in the pledge or in currency than I am by prayer in schools or by the placing of the ten commandments in front of government buildings. But though it may be less disturbing to me personally, it is just as unconstitutional.
Let me ask you a question, then: where do you draw the line? Is the ultimate goal for everybody to believe in nothing? For fear that it may upset someone else? I hope not, because that will never happen since someone will always be offended by something. So what do Americans stand for? Obviously by certain political issues you can tell that there are at least two very opinionated viewpoints in America. Who gets to have their feelings not hurt? Nobody, I say. There needs to be tolerance of certain things in society, or nobody will get what they want. Schools must expose children to multiple viewpoints. I think that eliminating religion entirely is a bad thing, because that is one viewpoint. And nobody I have ever talked to has said that they don't have a choice just because they were brought up Christian or Catholic or Jewish. Some stayed that religion, some switched, some have no religion at all anymore.
As someone who regularly makes fun of AOL and their CD spamming, this is the best thing I've seen come out of their company in years. Good luck to them, and may their CD spamming someday come to an end.
I know that the shows I've seen on the History Channel (that were clearly made for US consumption) put a very different slant to what I was taught at school here in England.
Here's a simple example:
Is the cup half empty or half full?
My answer to this is that it depends on what you want to emphasize. If I was thirsty, I'd say it was half empty. If I wasn't, I would probably say half full. Two historical points of view can say the same thing, but in a completely different way. You have to read between the lines. Of course, anybody can bend the truth, but that's another (probably common) matter.
I argued about the separation of church and state in a previous story, and why money says "one nation under God" on it, and why that isn't being attacked.
The answer I got then was that there is no specific god being talked about, therefore no descrimination against other religions.
Well well, it looks like just the "generic" word "God" is too much for some people. Down the slippery slope we go.
You know, even though I believe in Jesus Christ, I would at least feel better if our society was as adamant about removing the devil and evil things from our society as they are with genuinely good things which happen to be religious. The only time it seems okay to say God, Jesus, Our Lord, is when cussing or joking. That's pretty sad. It's too bad the few rule the majority. I guess they have the most time on their hands or someone is funding their agenda, while honest and good people have to work for a living.
But what on earth are you doing, storing such important stuff as your resume in 'Word 97 template' format?
It's *based on* the template, not saved as a template.
Use HTML for stuff that _needs_ to be kept for a long time.
I tried that, but I didn't find the results pleasing enough. Plus, some places specifically request a Word document.
I'd be more inclined to hire a guy who made a clean and simple HTML resume than some guy messing around with proprietary file formats.
Sounds like you'd be hiring a high school student anyway, which I am not. Besides, I don't need to mess around with the proprietary format - there's an interface for editing it called Word.;) But seriously, OOo can easily import my Office 97 document anyway in a pinch, so I know I'll never be stranded. And BTW, I don't plan on ever upgrading MSOffice either.
I would really like OO to displace MS Office, but my experience is that there are too many glitches when sharing *.doc and *.ppt files for OO to be a realistic alternative to MS Office.
Unfortunately, that is the situation I am in as well. My resume is based on the simple Word 97 template and it doesn't display properly in OO Writer. I tried updating my resume 6 months ago in OO but then it didn't look right in Word.:(
Thankfully this is the only document I have to pass around, so I do use OOo for many of my personal documents.
I really wish they would hurry up and fix the word count so you could count selections and count (or not count) footnotes. Unfortunately its pretty useless for many academics and postgrads until it lets you do this.
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I LOVE Mozilla, I hate to think about what I'd be forced to use without it. But I have never liked the Mozilla "T-Rex icon". I wish it would go away and be replaced with something better.
You can't accuse anyone you want of anything you want.
Correct. Please quote appropriately if I made any accusations.
Gator IS Spyware. My right to free speech allow me as an individual to say that. So I'll say it again.
Gator IS Spyware. I can also say that Bush is a dick if I want. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but I can say that.
You get to decide whether you believe me or not. That's why using our own brains is so important.
10 years is farther back than I was introduced to the 'net, but my point was freedom, not ease of use.
The Internet is thereby de-democratized and rolled back 10 years.
I would love to see the Internet rolled back 10 years (or say, 6-7), aside from the bandwidth losses. It was a much more free system then.
Endowedeon?
MS didn't happen to make any significant donations to your computer science department, did they?
Good question - I don't know. However, I can tell you that there were plans to switch over from Novell to Microsoft Networks. As far as switching away from Oracle, I don't believe there were any plans to do so, but I seem to recall some momentum to get away from mainframe licensing costs (which seemed to be quite high).
Not me, amigo, but as a consultant, I can't count on my two hands the number of times I've had to either warehouse data from, or (worse) interface with an existing Access database.
Funny, when I was in college, I was told over and over again that MS Access was a solution to be touted to customers. While we were taught Oracle, Access was great for small businesses and non-profit organizations.
Now that I know better not to use Access, I can think of a bunch of alternatives that I would rather use. Access is not a multi-user-friendly system.
Only bad guys like that dude on Robocop...
OH man! I still remember that part clearly. LMFAO.
Isn't the obvious problem with touchscreen technology the marks left by previous voters? I mean, if Arnold Schwarzenegger had massive amounts of finger prints on his box, and other candidates had near-zero prints on theirs, couldn't that alter my choice?
Why does anybody want to get rid of the paper system? Sheesh.
But I think it's incredible how much people rip on those company practices that are pretty much standard. Aren't there plenty of pure-evil things for you guys to rip on?
I'm not sure I understand your reasoning. Everybody else does it, so why single out any company? In other words, just accept it and don't bother complaining because everybody does it? I hope that's not your message.
Yes, there are plenty of pure-evil things to rip on. Microsoft is the largest target and has the greatest impact on the people of this planet aside from government itself. Why go for relatively small fry when you can have bigger impact by altering Microsoft's course through lobbying and so on? Sure, I'm just bitching on Slashdot, but I've made my personal choice not to support Microsoft or buy any of their products ever again. I let my friends know the truth as I see it as well, so that they can make more informed choices.
Anyway, I don't plan to stop ripping on Microsoft anytime soon. I urge you to not give up on whatever you feel strongly about, too.
From the article:
... this is a drawback for Windows users, who expect choice in music services, choice in devices, and choice in music from a wide-variety of music services to burn to a CD or put on a portable device.
"Unless Apple decides to make radical changes to their service model, a Windows-based version of iTunes will still remain a closed system, where iPod owners cannot access content from other services," said Fester. "Additionally, users of iTunes are limited to music from Apple's Music Store
The gist of this is that people want to be able to interface with other systems and that because Apple doesn't let you do this - which is something Windows users expect - the service is "dismissed".
Well, well, Microsoft double-speak at its best again. Pass me some of whatever you're smoking, will ya? Because last time I checked, users of instant messaging want the same thing - interoperability - and Microsoft isn't letting them have it with their IM service.
Conclusion: Microsoft is pointing at a "flaw" that they would actually like to have in their own system once they reach the critical mass that iTunes has.
Reminds me of one of the companies I worked at, long ago. SMTP addresses went first initial, last name. However they made an exception for a Samuel Hitt.
What's his nospam address? noshitt@aol.com? LOL
So, where did you get the idea that Microsoft doesn't support pipes?
It's not just an ordinary pipe, either. In certain fonts, there is a break in the pipe right in the middle. It's a crack pipe.
But seriously, if Microsoft invested money to fuel SCO's legal rampage, that just shows how desperate they are. Linux is kicking ass, baby.
Strong typing turns a lot of would-be logic errors into syntax errors that can be caught at compiletime, not runtime. Runtime errors are much more expensive to locate and fix.
Strong typing forces you to think harder about what you are doing, someone like how Java's exception handling makes you think about what exceptions you are generating or what you should be catching.
I would argue that there is a place for strong typing and also for "variants", so both serve as very useful features of their respective languages. Since each language is based on the fact that it does or does not require strong typing, I don't see how changing that trait would be beneficial.
No, the ultimate goal isn't to "believe in nothing". The goal -may- be to not play favorites and present one belief system as superior (or even the default) though.
That's perfectly fine with me, as long as every belief system is free to express themselves in any place, including school.
The problem with Chinese space missions: they all look the same.
That said, I am much less disturbed, for example, by the generic "under God" or "in God we trust" in the pledge or in currency than I am by prayer in schools or by the placing of the ten commandments in front of government buildings. But though it may be less disturbing to me personally, it is just as unconstitutional.
Let me ask you a question, then: where do you draw the line? Is the ultimate goal for everybody to believe in nothing? For fear that it may upset someone else? I hope not, because that will never happen since someone will always be offended by something.
So what do Americans stand for? Obviously by certain political issues you can tell that there are at least two very opinionated viewpoints in America. Who gets to have their feelings not hurt? Nobody, I say. There needs to be tolerance of certain things in society, or nobody will get what they want.
Schools must expose children to multiple viewpoints. I think that eliminating religion entirely is a bad thing, because that is one viewpoint. And nobody I have ever talked to has said that they don't have a choice just because they were brought up Christian or Catholic or Jewish. Some stayed that religion, some switched, some have no religion at all anymore.
As someone who regularly makes fun of AOL and their CD spamming, this is the best thing I've seen come out of their company in years. Good luck to them, and may their CD spamming someday come to an end.
I know that the shows I've seen on the History Channel (that were clearly made for US consumption) put a very different slant to what I was taught at school here in England.
Here's a simple example:
Is the cup half empty or half full?
My answer to this is that it depends on what you want to emphasize. If I was thirsty, I'd say it was half empty. If I wasn't, I would probably say half full. Two historical points of view can say the same thing, but in a completely different way. You have to read between the lines. Of course, anybody can bend the truth, but that's another (probably common) matter.
I argued about the separation of church and state in a previous story, and why money says "one nation under God" on it, and why that isn't being attacked.
The answer I got then was that there is no specific god being talked about, therefore no descrimination against other religions.
Well well, it looks like just the "generic" word "God" is too much for some people. Down the slippery slope we go.
You know, even though I believe in Jesus Christ, I would at least feel better if our society was as adamant about removing the devil and evil things from our society as they are with genuinely good things which happen to be religious. The only time it seems okay to say God, Jesus, Our Lord, is when cussing or joking. That's pretty sad. It's too bad the few rule the majority. I guess they have the most time on their hands or someone is funding their agenda, while honest and good people have to work for a living.
But what on earth are you doing, storing such important stuff as your resume in 'Word 97 template' format?
;) But seriously, OOo can easily import my Office 97 document anyway in a pinch, so I know I'll never be stranded. And BTW, I don't plan on ever upgrading MSOffice either.
It's *based on* the template, not saved as a template.
Use HTML for stuff that _needs_ to be kept for a long time.
I tried that, but I didn't find the results pleasing enough. Plus, some places specifically request a Word document.
I'd be more inclined to hire a guy who made a clean and simple HTML resume than some guy messing around with proprietary file formats.
Sounds like you'd be hiring a high school student anyway, which I am not. Besides, I don't need to mess around with the proprietary format - there's an interface for editing it called Word.
I read the FAQ item, but must admit I missed the "selection" bit of the original post.
Doesn't matter though - what you want to do can be accomplished easily with a macro.
I would really like OO to displace MS Office, but my experience is that there are too many glitches when sharing *.doc and *.ppt files for OO to be a realistic alternative to MS Office.
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Unfortunately, that is the situation I am in as well. My resume is based on the simple Word 97 template and it doesn't display properly in OO Writer. I tried updating my resume 6 months ago in OO but then it didn't look right in Word.
Thankfully this is the only document I have to pass around, so I do use OOo for many of my personal documents.
I really wish they would hurry up and fix the word count so you could count selections and count (or not count) footnotes. Unfortunately its pretty useless for many academics and postgrads until it lets you do this.
/ oo o_ufaq.html#Writer0
I find it amazing that you did not read the FAQ:
http://opensource.mimos.my/fosscon2003cd/extras