In the opinion of Slashdotters, what is the best alternative to Paypal for sending and receiving small payments from friends and acquaintances? And don't say checks.
I use only Ernie Ball strings for my electrics. I wish they made acoustic strings too.:-)
I think the reason that the public doesn't mind the BSA is that the vast majority of people don't know who the BSA is. Also, BSA doesn't target individuals. Only companies. Most people don't mind if there is some unknown business sticking it some other unknown businesses.
What's your point? What has the failure of the automotive industry to respond to customer demand for fuel efficient cars have to do with the RIAA wanting to squeeze it's customers for every penny they can get? The two involve corporate entities, but beyond that, they have little to do with each other. I believe that's what is called a straw man argument.
Gmail is no longer in beta. Google Earth is not in beta. The linux version is beta, but not the windows version. I don't believe that Google Groups is in beta anymore. Google beta is just a disclaimer so that they can change it at will.
I'm using Office 97 and OOo 2.0 on Win 2K. I'm using the OOo Quick starter, which means that soffice.bin is resident and taking about 15M. I'm also using MS Office Startup, which is soffice.exe taking about 1.1M. When I start Winword.exe it takes an additional 7.5M, and open a simple document that merely has the text "This is a test" it take another Meg or two, and only takes a second or two. Now when I open an OOo document (.odt), there is no other process that starts, but soffice.bin shoots up to 42M! However, it opens in two seconds.
So, while I do see more memory usage, a real speed test is not really very different. I suspect in the article, he is not using the OOo quick start, whereas he is using the Office Startup. And how much Office stuff is being hidden by it's hooks deep into the OS, and thus it's startup time is part of the OS startup.
This is not to say that OOo couldn't be improved. I'm sure it will be. But OOo 2.0 is an excellent tool to have in anyone's toolbox.
"I am consistently pro-death. Pro abortion, pro death penalty, pro assisted suicide, pro regular suicide. Anything that keeps the freeways moving."
-- Bill Maher --
www.newshounds.us
Their motto is "We watch FOX so you don't have to." They monitor the political slant of FOX News. The people that run this blog are the media monitors from the movie "Outfoxed" by Robert Greenwald.
There is a growing movement of secular homeschoolers, while the religious sector of home schoolers still dominates. With the current failures of public schools, many people are looking for secular homeschool, unschooling, and other alternative education options. We have a group, L.E.A.R.N. which is committed to home education for education reasons. That's not to say that people in our group are not religious, as some of them are, but we have over 150 families who work together to give their children a better chance in the world, and we don't use religion as the basis of teaching.
Some HS children DO come out great, while others merely do well. It's not the goal of most homeschool families to turn out a great child, but rather to allow them to follow a path of their choosing. US Public Schools try to cram every kid into the same GD mold. That's the real problem.
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And just use cash, right? What if the person you want to give $20 to lives 100 miles away? Sneakernet would actually be more expensive than Paypal. :-P
In the opinion of Slashdotters, what is the best alternative to Paypal for sending and receiving small payments from friends and acquaintances? And don't say checks.
I use only Ernie Ball strings for my electrics. I wish they made acoustic strings too. :-)
I think the reason that the public doesn't mind the BSA is that the vast majority of people don't know who the BSA is. Also, BSA doesn't target individuals. Only companies. Most people don't mind if there is some unknown business sticking it some other unknown businesses.
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What's your point? What has the failure of the automotive industry to respond to customer demand for fuel efficient cars have to do with the RIAA wanting to squeeze it's customers for every penny they can get? The two involve corporate entities, but beyond that, they have little to do with each other. I believe that's what is called a straw man argument.
Nope, I was wrong. I replied too fast. Sure enough, mail and groups still have the beta tag. My bad.
Gmail is no longer in beta. Google Earth is not in beta. The linux version is beta, but not the windows version. I don't believe that Google Groups is in beta anymore. Google beta is just a disclaimer so that they can change it at will.
I'm using Office 97 and OOo 2.0 on Win 2K. I'm using the OOo Quick starter, which means that soffice.bin is resident and taking about 15M. I'm also using MS Office Startup, which is soffice.exe taking about 1.1M. When I start Winword.exe it takes an additional 7.5M, and open a simple document that merely has the text "This is a test" it take another Meg or two, and only takes a second or two. Now when I open an OOo document (.odt), there is no other process that starts, but soffice.bin shoots up to 42M! However, it opens in two seconds.
So, while I do see more memory usage, a real speed test is not really very different. I suspect in the article, he is not using the OOo quick start, whereas he is using the Office Startup. And how much Office stuff is being hidden by it's hooks deep into the OS, and thus it's startup time is part of the OS startup.
This is not to say that OOo couldn't be improved. I'm sure it will be. But OOo 2.0 is an excellent tool to have in anyone's toolbox.
Peace,
Jim
"I am consistently pro-death. Pro abortion, pro death penalty, pro assisted suicide, pro regular suicide. Anything that keeps the freeways moving." -- Bill Maher --
www.newshounds.us
Their motto is "We watch FOX so you don't have to." They monitor the political slant of FOX News. The people that run this blog are the media monitors from the movie "Outfoxed" by Robert Greenwald.
Some HS children DO come out great, while others merely do well. It's not the goal of most homeschool families to turn out a great child, but rather to allow them to follow a path of their choosing. US Public Schools try to cram every kid into the same GD mold. That's the real problem.
Some kids suceed DESPITE the school system.
Peace,
Jim