StarOffice developers claim better Microsoft Office compatibility with every new release, but like all programs that are not Microsoft Word, Writer will never convert every single document perfectly.
Hm. So is the writer implying that Word perfectly converts every single WORD document? Because that's totally orthogonal to my experience.
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Ooh. Either slashdot will take them out, or Taco's going to have an interesting late-night visit with some Chinese gentlemen. Either way.... PAAAARTAY!
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You assume that the "old" engineer has no idea about Linux. You also assume that the young engineer has the first clue about what the company really needs.
I read the same post you did, and yet we draw totally diametrically-opposed conclusions. I think the parent poster was making a nice point about how the senior engineer really had a lot more of a clue than the young engineer, who was gung-ho on transferring a system to a totally different platform, with all of the inherent risks in that. The young engineer used the buzzwords, but the older, conservative guy was probably a lot safer.
Personally, I have never learned LaTeX, although I used to use LyX quite a bit before OpenOffice. It was in many ways better than OpenOffice, but it took me quite a while to learn how to do new things. Also, of course, I could never share documents with others at work.
You might want to try the 1.3.6 version (latest stable), or, if you're adventuresome, the 1.4.0 in CVS. LyX is NOT designed for short documents, such as very quick notes or things of that nature. But it's phenomenal for long documents (several page letters, technical notes, books, theses, and, with the beamer class, even presentations which knock the crap -- admittedly not a difficult task -- out of PowerPoint).
I suppose you meant you could never share *editable* documents with others at work. Well, LyX exports to just about every "nice" standard, including.pdf. Also, since there are now very nice LyX ports (and officially supported by the LyX team!) for Windows and ports for OS-X, it's worth another look. The learning curve is much less steep now. And, using LaTeX on the back end (ahem) virtually guarantees much nicer-looking, and consistent, documents than using even OpenOffice (which I also like quite a bit, but only for the sharing of documents with Word-crippled colleagues).
If I'm wearing camo or something and I'm out in the woods, will it pick me up? If I'm wearing a green shirt and its out on my lawn will it still target me or maybe just my pants?
My god -- think of the neck-strain that men everywhere will get. I mean, we've got the side-to-side BRBRBRRRRBRLRBRBRL thing down, but going up and down? Or, heaven forbid it, diagonally?!?
Hm... On the other hand, they could keep all four of my ears warm. You have a point.
Hey, man, I got the joke. Sorry for the idiot mods.
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Today's "Hardcore English Instructors" are the same people that would have been importing Latin words into English wholesale back in Shakespear's time, because Latin was "better".
Interesting. And how does one spell "Shakespear" in Latin?
The November-December 2000 issue of American Scientist (vol. 68) has an article about this, which somewhat clarifies things. ( I attended the 2002 Physical Acoustics Summer School, and one of the speakers was Steve Garrett, from Penn State, who helped develop the little "laser" device referred to earlier, and he included one of these articles in his talk.)
Anyway, the article draws some analogies:
"Borrowing some vocabulary from optics, one would say that a non-equilibrium condition (correspongind to the population inversion of electron energy levels in a laser material) is maintained across the heated stack. The test tube amounts to an acoustic resonator, which, like a laser cavity, allows a standing wave to build in amplitude as energy bounces back and forth. The open side of the test tube serves the same function as the partially silvered mirror [...] Although Chen's "acoustic laser" produces about a watt of sound power, a similar device heated by the burning of natural gas produces in excess of 10 kilowatts..."
I'm partially agreed with your points. On the other hand: Why do people keep building villages next to volcanos, museums with important artifacts in large cities, data centers in flood plains, major network hubs in cities.
To the points of 'why place museums and hubs in cities'? Really: duh. That's where people are, to go to the museums, to research the artifacts, to work on the hubs.
As to the 'villages near volcanos' point: On volcanic islands, you don't have a choice. And where people DO have a choice, volcanic soil is often the very best to grow things in. As long as it's not red-hot and flowing, of course.
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StarOffice developers claim better Microsoft Office compatibility with every new release, but like all programs that are not Microsoft Word, Writer will never convert every single document perfectly.
Hm. So is the writer implying that Word perfectly converts every single WORD document? Because that's totally orthogonal to my experience.
Anyone who finds unhealthy online stories can visit http://net.china.cn/ [china.cn] and report.
Ooh. Either slashdot will take them out, or Taco's going to have an interesting late-night visit with some Chinese gentlemen. Either way.... PAAAARTAY!
You assume that the "old" engineer has no idea about Linux. You also assume that the young engineer has the first clue about what the company really needs.
I read the same post you did, and yet we draw totally diametrically-opposed conclusions. I think the parent poster was making a nice point about how the senior engineer really had a lot more of a clue than the young engineer, who was gung-ho on transferring a system to a totally different platform, with all of the inherent risks in that. The young engineer used the buzzwords, but the older, conservative guy was probably a lot safer.
...robotic overlords! I, for one, welcome thee.
Personally, I have never learned LaTeX, although I used to use LyX quite a bit before OpenOffice. It was in many ways better than OpenOffice, but it took me quite a while to learn how to do new things. Also, of course, I could never share documents with others at work.
.pdf. Also, since there are now very nice LyX ports (and officially supported by the LyX team!) for Windows and ports for OS-X, it's worth another look. The learning curve is much less steep now. And, using LaTeX on the back end (ahem) virtually guarantees much nicer-looking, and consistent, documents than using even OpenOffice (which I also like quite a bit, but only for the sharing of documents with Word-crippled colleagues).
You might want to try the 1.3.6 version (latest stable), or, if you're adventuresome, the 1.4.0 in CVS. LyX is NOT designed for short documents, such as very quick notes or things of that nature. But it's phenomenal for long documents (several page letters, technical notes, books, theses, and, with the beamer class, even presentations which knock the crap -- admittedly not a difficult task -- out of PowerPoint).
I suppose you meant you could never share *editable* documents with others at work. Well, LyX exports to just about every "nice" standard, including
If I'm wearing camo or something and I'm out in the woods, will it pick me up? If I'm wearing a green shirt and its out on my lawn will it still target me or maybe just my pants?
Best alien-probe post ever!
A good slashdotting should be just what they want to test their servers.
So, unless someone with a scanner embedded into his/her pants bumps into you, I imagine you will be OK.
It's not the scanners I'm worried about. It's the guys who *call* it a scanner, and are just really happy to see me -- THEM I worry about.
Did you notice the dude on Microsoft's page? He's bent-over. I call THAT interactive.
Plaid is the new Blue.
Switch to a less math intensive dicipline, like culinary arts.
Mmmm.... Doughnuts! (continuously deformable into a coffee mug, and therefore topologically of genus unity) Mmmm... coffee....
All but one of the renders on the company's online gallery page features gratuitous cleavage
Hey, it's really hard to render in personality and sense of humour. Spheres are easy.
...just Sun's Bold New Ad Campaign.
I'm sorry. You must refer to Boone's by the proper "Bitch Candy".
she did remark that if she had been born that way 100 years ago, she'd have been left for dead as an infant because of the "deformity."
Man! And people say that our standards just keep going up.
My god -- think of the neck-strain that men everywhere will get. I mean, we've got the side-to-side BRBRBRRRRBRLRBRBRL thing down, but going up and down? Or, heaven forbid it, diagonally?!?
Hm... On the other hand, they could keep all four of my ears warm. You have a point.
Hey, man, I got the joke. Sorry for the idiot mods.
Today's "Hardcore English Instructors" are the same people that would have been importing Latin words into English wholesale back in Shakespear's time, because Latin was "better".
Interesting. And how does one spell "Shakespear" in Latin?
a priest comes and the person wakes up?
This sounds like a really bad fraternity joke.
Fortunately, Matt spells better than me ;)
;)
Unfortunately, it's "better than I."
I mean, seriously, who would want to watch a film about Ant-Man?
The studio is obviously hoping that swarms will want to watch.
The November-December 2000 issue of American Scientist (vol. 68) has an article about this, which somewhat clarifies things. ( I attended the 2002 Physical Acoustics Summer School, and one of the speakers was Steve Garrett, from Penn State, who helped develop the little "laser" device referred to earlier, and he included one of these articles in his talk.)
Anyway, the article draws some analogies:
"Borrowing some vocabulary from optics, one would say that a non-equilibrium condition (correspongind to the population inversion of electron energy levels in a laser material) is maintained across the heated stack. The test tube amounts to an acoustic resonator, which, like a laser cavity, allows a standing wave to build in amplitude as energy bounces back and forth. The open side of the test tube serves the same function as the partially silvered mirror [...] Although Chen's "acoustic laser" produces about a watt of sound power, a similar device heated by the burning of natural gas produces in excess of 10 kilowatts..."
I'm partially agreed with your points. On the other hand:
Why do people keep building villages next to volcanos, museums with important artifacts in large cities, data centers in flood plains, major network hubs in cities.
To the points of 'why place museums and hubs in cities'? Really: duh. That's where people are, to go to the museums, to research the artifacts, to work on the hubs.
As to the 'villages near volcanos' point: On volcanic islands, you don't have a choice. And where people DO have a choice, volcanic soil is often the very best to grow things in. As long as it's not red-hot and flowing, of course.
Linus is a good guy, but in this instance I metamoderate him over the head with a rancid carp.
Gah! Every noob knows that a four-day-old trout is MUCH better for metamoderation!
This has resulted in Linux playing a significant role in the recruitment and retention of IT staff and managers."
I don't know about elsewhere, but the IT staff here are plenty retentive already.