Word blew compared to WP. One of the last issues of WordPerfect Magazine had tables of the "500 things Word 97 can't do". Our department tried hard to keep it.
Actually, around version 7 or 8 you could see how the "Word compatibility" was dumbing WP down. But I still have 7 on Win4lin on linux for when I want to do something that needs more than a glorified text editor.
One of _THE_ primo examples of how monopolies can tromp quality with their crap. More so than even the Microsoft OS itself.
For the last couple years, I've been citing that attitude as the #1 reason linux isn't growing like it should as a desktop. Coming from an OS/2 culture in the last half of the '90s where people were supportive and at least one survey found a decidely middle-aged demographic, the "only newbies need documentation" attitude strikes me as juvenile, unproductive, and, unfortunately, really common in linux culture. Look:
Is price the problem? Duh Hardware compatibility? Naw Installation difficulty? The major distros are as easy as Windows now.
No, it's use and maintenance. Where does a person learn how to use and maintain something if not from the documentation? Believe it or not, some people don't enjoy doing a half-hour Google search among various sites each time they need to have this-or-that setup explained competently and professionally.
At the very least, I think the phrase "POOR hosting company" says it all. Sure, all they have to do to get their business back on a solid footing is to hire a D.C. law firm to file a two-year-long suit against the FBI.
I doubt if the FBI is losing sleep over destroying a business here or there.
If the FBI shoed up at my door... there would be a hell of an international incident as I live in Sweden (you insensitive clod!)
You're kidding, of course. The FBI are literally EVERYWHERE. I find it weird myself. I don't know when joining the FBI became an opportunity to see the world but you only have to read the papers. There has to be a book's worth of material in this for an investigative journalist.
But anyway, I presume they would be accompanied by your local police -- if that makes you feel better.
I think once (Whiskey Tax? or Revolutionary War pensions?) the people came close to marching upon Washington. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen. As the Neocons unapologetically turn the country transparently fascist, we'll just see more Oklahoma City's, more "pub" and restaurant bombings like Britian or apartheid South Africa, more ricin and the like.
As always, the opposite of the security people are promised by repression. It's just history and tedious that a government without wisdom doesn't care.
Laziness. Just laziness. I didn't have my collection sorted by year, I have more important things to do, whatever....
Now, the _Microsoft_ class action notice I received -- THAT I can't even understand whether I qualify for! Isn't law school supposed to teach people to be succinct at least when it suits their best interests?
Didn't the FCC drop a jackboot on this idea just a very few years ago? So I wonder what's up. Maybe they are now convinced that 90% of them will move the corner street preacher onto a microphone and only 10% of them will be liberal? But I can tell you Democracy Now comes to me from the community 100W station -- not the local Big 10 station. So it might open up some possibilities.
Would that this will provide a lot of interesting dialing, but I don't know that for a fact. _Many_ years ago, I heard the inaugural weekend of a college station probably seven miles away crow flies through metro. The very next weekend the MEGA-Rock!! station fired up their million watt antenna on top of the tallest downtown skyscraper and overloaded my tuner with harmonics across all empty space on the dial. So it is sort of ironic that the FCC's concern is that 100w stations might interfere with the big boys.
Just darned annoying to you and everyone around you.
That's the nice thing about having the stereotypical/. 20-year-old car. The only things electronic are the fuel injection and the LED for the clock/radio.
Now if I could figure out how to protect the fuel injection from nuclear EMF.....
Gore doesn't have a stellar academic record either, it's perhaps even a bit worse than Bush's (Bush at least completed grad school).
So you're thinking it's the decades of alcoholism that gave Dubya his "Deer-in-the-headlights" glare and rambling inability to finish a sentence? I can believe that. He has the same befuddlement that was reported about Grant.
Since he doesn't read a newspaper, what are the odds he'll even hear about this protest?
I've just built a machine for my wife and it was hell. Could not get it stable.
Testing from the start.
Starting right down with a PS tester. All green, no regulator problems? Check.
MB and RAM in. Six passes of the 3 256s with memtest-86 in a CD boot. Zero errors. (And on and on for other parts and swaps.)
Called the motherboard tech support.
THEM: Try it with only DIMM slot 0
ME: But I got zero errors with six passes of memtest-86!
THEM: Try it with only DIMM slot 0
Tried it with only DIMM slot 0. Stable. Took that stick out. Put the other two in. Still stable.
Moral? Like the guy who puts out memtest-86 writes: Buy RAM one speed grade above spec for Athlons and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. Quality is important from the start.
Some of us have DSL because we have never had cable ever (honest). So this is how they kill the dodo of free internet by having your TV station provide internet? Does that mean every web link change will activate a 30 second video commercial or every web link change will cost a nickel?
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$300 and you could be an amateur radio operator like the young astronomer in Contact and broadcast into space every night. But, I guess, not after you're dead.
Whole thing doesn't appeal to me. I vote for a pyre on the beach at dusk with Iggy Pop rendering a few numbers.
No kidding. I worked graveyard shift, so to speak, at a hospital for a few years in my 20s. One night I'm the only person in the lunch room. A guy in a gown comes in with stitches in his skull. Goes up to the change machine and _repeatedly_ tries putting a dollar in long-side when it was one those that sucks it in narrow-side.
Made me wonder what he was like _before_ the operation.
Well Actually, Linux for travellers might be handy...
Remember that you boot Knoppix. I'm totally cyber-cafe and Kinkos ignorant. You can actually do that? Most of these places have the BIOS set to include "boot from CD" and/or the BIOS isn't password protected?
I've used Knoppix a bit, usually on less than stable machines while I'm trying to get the hardware working, but I haven't taken it that seriously for traveling. If most public places will let you boot it, yes, a CD and USB stick would be an interesting way to travel.
Haven't tried SuSE. Debian has its good points (and is on one of my servers). But it is famous for its installation -- which, although ok for a person familiar with linux, I challenge anyone to say is "switching to" friendly.
However, you could play with Debian by downloading a Knoppix ISO -- and then it's quite easy uncompressing an install to hard drive actually. And it gives you an impressive amount of desktop for that minimal effort. Generally, if you want a desktop, a lot of people start with Mandrake or Red Hat/Fedora/whatever. I've had Red Hat installs _significantly_ easier than Windows installs.
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Word blew compared to WP. One of the last issues of WordPerfect Magazine had tables of the "500 things Word 97 can't do". Our department tried hard to keep it.
Actually, around version 7 or 8 you could see how the "Word compatibility" was dumbing WP down. But I still have 7 on Win4lin on linux for when I want to do something that needs more than a glorified text editor.
One of _THE_ primo examples of how monopolies can tromp quality with their crap. More so than even the Microsoft OS itself.
Yeah, thanks. Even if it doesn't pan out, it's a _way_ cool step beyond the "face on mars".
It is not the employer's responsibility in a free market to provide a "safe working environment."
I say, "No rights without responsibilities." Why should corporations be given special dispensations to act like psychopaths or spoiled children?
3 Nobody likes documentation... except 4 n00bs
For the last couple years, I've been citing that attitude as the #1 reason linux isn't growing like it should as a desktop. Coming from an OS/2 culture in the last half of the '90s where people were supportive and at least one survey found a decidely middle-aged demographic, the "only newbies need documentation" attitude strikes me as juvenile, unproductive, and, unfortunately, really common in linux culture. Look:
Is price the problem? Duh
Hardware compatibility? Naw
Installation difficulty? The major distros are as easy as Windows now.
No, it's use and maintenance. Where does a person learn how to use and maintain something if not from the documentation? Believe it or not, some people don't enjoy doing a half-hour Google search among various sites each time they need to have this-or-that setup explained competently and professionally.
Those are my thoughts.
Karl Rove moonlights?
I got my wife a palmtop PC compatible over a decade ago and it had 512 of memory:
http://www.reto.com/
Oh, wait. Did you say MEG?
At the very least, I think the phrase "POOR hosting company" says it all. Sure, all they have to do to get their business back on a solid footing is to hire a D.C. law firm to file a two-year-long suit against the FBI.
I doubt if the FBI is losing sleep over destroying a business here or there.
If the FBI shoed up at my door... there would be a hell of an international incident as I live in Sweden (you insensitive clod!)
You're kidding, of course. The FBI are literally EVERYWHERE. I find it weird myself. I don't know when joining the FBI became an opportunity to see the world but you only have to read the papers. There has to be a book's worth of material in this for an investigative journalist.
But anyway, I presume they would be accompanied by your local police -- if that makes you feel better.
Yes, but what if the check to the Republican National Committee gets lost in the mail?
Apparently, "The FBI, a proud tradition of stomping on high tech small business since 1990."
Oh, sure. But will the greedy bastards share it with flightgear.org?
I think once (Whiskey Tax? or Revolutionary War pensions?) the people came close to marching upon Washington. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen. As the Neocons unapologetically turn the country transparently fascist, we'll just see more Oklahoma City's, more "pub" and restaurant bombings like Britian or apartheid South Africa, more ricin and the like.
As always, the opposite of the security people are promised by repression. It's just history and tedious that a government without wisdom doesn't care.
So the moral is: instead of tin hats, people who live under power lines should coat their houses in light bulbs?
Laziness. Just laziness. I didn't have my collection sorted by year, I have more important things to do, whatever....
Now, the _Microsoft_ class action notice I received -- THAT I can't even understand whether I qualify for! Isn't law school supposed to teach people to be succinct at least when it suits their best interests?
Didn't the FCC drop a jackboot on this idea just a very few years ago? So I wonder what's up. Maybe they are now convinced that 90% of them will move the corner street preacher onto a microphone and only 10% of them will be liberal? But I can tell you Democracy Now comes to me from the community 100W station -- not the local Big 10 station. So it might open up some possibilities.
Would that this will provide a lot of interesting dialing, but I don't know that for a fact. _Many_ years ago, I heard the inaugural weekend of a college station probably seven miles away crow flies through metro. The very next weekend the MEGA-Rock!! station fired up their million watt antenna on top of the tallest downtown skyscraper and overloaded my tuner with harmonics across all empty space on the dial. So it is sort of ironic that the FCC's concern is that 100w stations might interfere with the big boys.
That doesn't seem like unreasonable behavior.
Just darned annoying to you and everyone around you.
That's the nice thing about having the stereotypical
Now if I could figure out how to protect the fuel injection from nuclear EMF.....
Gore doesn't have a stellar academic record either, it's perhaps even a bit worse than Bush's (Bush at least completed grad school).
So you're thinking it's the decades of alcoholism that gave Dubya his "Deer-in-the-headlights" glare and rambling inability to finish a sentence? I can believe that. He has the same befuddlement that was reported about Grant.
Since he doesn't read a newspaper, what are the odds he'll even hear about this protest?
I've just built a machine for my wife and it was hell. Could not get it stable.
Testing from the start.
Starting right down with a PS tester. All green, no regulator problems? Check.
MB and RAM in. Six passes of the 3 256s with memtest-86 in a CD boot. Zero errors. (And on and on for other parts and swaps.)
Called the motherboard tech support.
THEM: Try it with only DIMM slot 0
ME: But I got zero errors with six passes of memtest-86!
THEM: Try it with only DIMM slot 0
Tried it with only DIMM slot 0. Stable. Took that stick out. Put the other two in. Still stable.
Moral? Like the guy who puts out memtest-86 writes: Buy RAM one speed grade above spec for Athlons and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. Quality is important from the start.
Moral Two: Testing doesn't replace experience.
Some of us have DSL because we have never had cable ever (honest). So this is how they kill the dodo of free internet by having your TV station provide internet? Does that mean every web link change will activate a 30 second video commercial or every web link change will cost a nickel?
Awfully expensive way to dispose of the body.
$300 and you could be an amateur radio operator like the young astronomer in Contact and broadcast into space every night. But, I guess, not after you're dead.
Whole thing doesn't appeal to me. I vote for a pyre on the beach at dusk with Iggy Pop rendering a few numbers.
No kidding. I worked graveyard shift, so to speak, at a hospital for a few years in my 20s. One night I'm the only person in the lunch room. A guy in a gown comes in with stitches in his skull. Goes up to the change machine and _repeatedly_ tries putting a dollar in long-side when it was one those that sucks it in narrow-side.
Made me wonder what he was like _before_ the operation.
(As posted at 10:37).
Sounds to me like Munich is having second thoughts about not keeping Office.
They also reboot after 24 hours (intentionally, no less!)
Well, that's a feature, isn't it? Better intentionally than unintentionally with Windows.
Well Actually, Linux for travellers might be handy...
Remember that you boot Knoppix. I'm totally cyber-cafe and Kinkos ignorant. You can actually do that? Most of these places have the BIOS set to include "boot from CD" and/or the BIOS isn't password protected?
I've used Knoppix a bit, usually on less than stable machines while I'm trying to get the hardware working, but I haven't taken it that seriously for traveling. If most public places will let you boot it, yes, a CD and USB stick would be an interesting way to travel.
Haven't tried SuSE. Debian has its good points (and is on one of my servers). But it is famous for its installation -- which, although ok for a person familiar with linux, I challenge anyone to say is "switching to" friendly.
However, you could play with Debian by downloading a Knoppix ISO -- and then it's quite easy uncompressing an install to hard drive actually. And it gives you an impressive amount of desktop for that minimal effort. Generally, if you want a desktop, a lot of people start with Mandrake or Red Hat/Fedora/whatever. I've had Red Hat installs _significantly_ easier than Windows installs.