As somebody who has used FF since Phoenix, the most annoying functionality break in recent FF builds is the search box. You can no longer pick your search engine before typing, defeating the benefit of any predictive auto-complete.
Well, when you start building communes, seizing the means of production, and shutting down dissent and any political opposition, I'm pretty comfortable using the "communist" label.
At my workplace, a state government agency, they just redeployed Windows XP on brand new core-i5 machines. I got the excuse of legacy/custom software needs.
I'm expecting Win7 some time shortly after the rapture.
I graduated from the University of Rochester (NY), and you needed to have a "cluster" of 12 credits (usually 3 classes, as most are 4 credits) in the two general areas that are not your major. So a CS degree would be a math/science major, so you'd need a Humanities cluster and a Social Science cluster, plus the freshman writing course, which is the only single required class. You can make your clusters pretty much whatever you want, and they don't have to be contained to any one department. For instance, my math/science cluster was two semesters of calc and one of stats.
Philosophy (at least analytical philosophy) might not be as useless to a CS degree as you think (--there are symbolic logic courses in the Philosophy dept), so that might be your humanities cluster. Throw in an Econ cluster and you're set. 24 credits of clusters plus 4 of freshman English writing and you can spend the rest of your time taking every CS course you can schedule.
I didn't have to take a single laboratory science class, nor any English lit, nor phys ed,...
Why, as an end-user, switch? Libre is first out with a final release for version 3.3. Oracle is on Release Candidate 10 of their 3.3 suite.
However, I tested my word-doc resume (which is heavily formatted) in OOo 3.2 versus Libre 3.3 (final) (on Ubuntu, under Virtualbox), and Libre butchered the rendering. OOo 3.2 did fine. I haven't tested the OOo Release candidates.
Abiword does not have true.doc export, nor do they plan to. The.doc export function is just renaming an rtf as doc, which will certainly look doc-ish and will open in Word, but complex documents are going to be mangled.
In my experience, OOo exports a reasonably good.doc , which I always verify with the free Word Viewer from MS before sending out. In the rare event of mangled formatting, I fire up my ancient installation of Office97 as a last resort.
First, there's a preference to turn off automatic updates in FF. Second, even automatic updates only get executed if you're running as an admin account. Why somebody would routinely run a web browser (even FF or Opera) as a privileged user is beyond my comprehension. That is a security break waiting to happen.
Argue with a Mormon using the Book of Mormon and they'll either argue back or refer you to a higher-up.
Argue w/ CoS about Xenu and they'll sue you for copyright infringement.
What's the easiest way to get stock data into OO? I figured out how to do it with a GoogleDoc Spreadsheet, but that is darn slow so I don't use it too much.
It's a little buggy, but a decent charting package. There hasn't been an update since Feb2007, and that was in reaction to Yahoo changing their format and breaking all the clients who used their data.
The original developer turned it over to "the community", who made some commits but never put out a real release.
For somebody who knows what they're doing this project could be a great foundation.
I still use it some because it gives you a more control over the chart than any other package I've used, but there seems to be a memory leak and there is a date-related bug. I think the neural net features are in the code somewhere (or in a module somewhere) but aren't usable in the official release.
NR wrote a much more in depth article about why wind was largely impractical. The NYT seems to have left out the part about back-up/stabilizing nat-gas capacity that would be needed, and that the nat-gas generators that would need to be used are not very efficient.
If the NYT was going to rip off a NR column they could at least have the courtesy to do it right.
One would think that a POTUS would be able to find a simpler method of laundering money than to start a long and costly war.
The total military budget in peacetime has got to be easier to mess with than the wartime one where you have to, you know, fight a war, which I understand isn't cheap.
Could you suggest a good resource for learning Python? I tried some to teach myself with limited success. Most of the online resources start very very slow and then make some quantum leap that loses me. Necessity being the mother of invention, I've only managed to make a few quick scripts to generate some basic html that I needed for personal use. Which gui kit would you recommend?
Most certainly for brand enhancement, but "relationship with Big Oil"? Big Oil wants high oil prices. Car companies want low oil prices in order to sell bigger cars for a premium.
Look, I acknowledge that some people hate capitalism and the profit motive. I just wish they'd understand how it works when they criticize it.
I have to admit, that even as an American who is a Republican party member and admired Howard for being with us militarily, I think Howard said a few things about American politicians that went slightly over the line. I may have agreed with most of his comments, but heads of government should refrain from making snide remarks about another democracy's electoral process.
I was rather impressed with Rudd when he visited the US, and I was surprised how well the joint press conference with Bush went despite their many differences.
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As somebody who has used FF since Phoenix, the most annoying functionality break in recent FF builds is the search box. You can no longer pick your search engine before typing, defeating the benefit of any predictive auto-complete.
Well, when you start building communes, seizing the means of production, and shutting down dissent and any political opposition, I'm pretty comfortable using the "communist" label.
They're Communists. This is their bag. Don't put communists in power. Full stop.
At my workplace, a state government agency, they just redeployed Windows XP on brand new core-i5 machines. I got the excuse of legacy/custom software needs. I'm expecting Win7 some time shortly after the rapture.
I graduated from the University of Rochester (NY), and you needed to have a "cluster" of 12 credits (usually 3 classes, as most are 4 credits) in the two general areas that are not your major. So a CS degree would be a math/science major, so you'd need a Humanities cluster and a Social Science cluster, plus the freshman writing course, which is the only single required class. You can make your clusters pretty much whatever you want, and they don't have to be contained to any one department. For instance, my math/science cluster was two semesters of calc and one of stats. Philosophy (at least analytical philosophy) might not be as useless to a CS degree as you think (--there are symbolic logic courses in the Philosophy dept), so that might be your humanities cluster. Throw in an Econ cluster and you're set. 24 credits of clusters plus 4 of freshman English writing and you can spend the rest of your time taking every CS course you can schedule. I didn't have to take a single laboratory science class, nor any English lit, nor phys ed,...
Why, as an end-user, switch? Libre is first out with a final release for version 3.3. Oracle is on Release Candidate 10 of their 3.3 suite. However, I tested my word-doc resume (which is heavily formatted) in OOo 3.2 versus Libre 3.3 (final) (on Ubuntu, under Virtualbox), and Libre butchered the rendering. OOo 3.2 did fine. I haven't tested the OOo Release candidates.
I haven't updated my FB info because the last FB "upgrade" nuked a lot of it.
Abiword does not have true .doc export, nor do they plan to. The .doc export function is just renaming an rtf as doc, which will certainly look doc-ish and will open in Word, but complex documents are going to be mangled.
In my experience, OOo exports a reasonably good .doc , which I always verify with the free Word Viewer from MS before sending out. In the rare event of mangled formatting, I fire up my ancient installation of Office97 as a last resort.
First, there's a preference to turn off automatic updates in FF. Second, even automatic updates only get executed if you're running as an admin account. Why somebody would routinely run a web browser (even FF or Opera) as a privileged user is beyond my comprehension. That is a security break waiting to happen.
Argue with a Mormon using the Book of Mormon and they'll either argue back or refer you to a higher-up. Argue w/ CoS about Xenu and they'll sue you for copyright infringement.
There was a period of time on Dells where the front-access USB was USB-1, but the USB access on the rear of the machine was USB-2.
What's the easiest way to get stock data into OO? I figured out how to do it with a GoogleDoc Spreadsheet, but that is darn slow so I don't use it too much.
It's a little buggy, but a decent charting package. There hasn't been an update since Feb2007, and that was in reaction to Yahoo changing their format and breaking all the clients who used their data. The original developer turned it over to "the community", who made some commits but never put out a real release. For somebody who knows what they're doing this project could be a great foundation. I still use it some because it gives you a more control over the chart than any other package I've used, but there seems to be a memory leak and there is a date-related bug. I think the neural net features are in the code somewhere (or in a module somewhere) but aren't usable in the official release.
Not only is the interest rate over 11%, but the Feds took a 79.9% equity stake in AIG. The US Taxpayer now owns 80 percent of AIG.
NR wrote a much more in depth article about why wind was largely impractical. The NYT seems to have left out the part about back-up/stabilizing nat-gas capacity that would be needed, and that the nat-gas generators that would need to be used are not very efficient. If the NYT was going to rip off a NR column they could at least have the courtesy to do it right.
At what point is a publicly traded 20 billion dollar market cap company no longer a "little startup"? http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=fslr
The total military budget in peacetime has got to be easier to mess with than the wartime one where you have to, you know, fight a war, which I understand isn't cheap.
Could you suggest a good resource for learning Python? I tried some to teach myself with limited success. Most of the online resources start very very slow and then make some quantum leap that loses me. Necessity being the mother of invention, I've only managed to make a few quick scripts to generate some basic html that I needed for personal use. Which gui kit would you recommend?
As long as it's not running win9x that should help quite a bit.
Look, I acknowledge that some people hate capitalism and the profit motive. I just wish they'd understand how it works when they criticize it.
Last I checked the ATT plans they were not unlimited. Sprint has an unlimited plan but extremely poor coverage.
I was rather impressed with Rudd when he visited the US, and I was surprised how well the joint press conference with Bush went despite their many differences.
If it ran under Win98 you will probably get decent performance out of a virtualized Win98 in VirtualBox.
Slow down there, Aussie Bob. I don't recall Oz being annexed recently.
Yes, and making H from NatGas produces carbon! Also, you're running around in a vehicle with a tank of extremely explosive gas.