Most non-geeks never use any of the function keys or any of the keys in the insert/delete/end/home set. And if they do use those, it's just because they were taught by a geek how to use the home key in Word.
I had no use for the extra two Windows keys for a long time. I still don't use the menu key. I only need one alt, ctrl, and shift. I have no idea what scroll lock does. I forget the term, but I'm aware you can change what keys do in Linux (no idea about Windows), so I'm sure if I looked into it I could make the keys useful, but I just never use them. I also don't need the two extra "internet" keys on this keyboard.
* I'm of the opinion this key should be removed on most keyboards.
Sci-fi isn't just about aliens. Star Trek had aliens, robots, artificial intelligence and time travel. But it wasn't just about that. There were, you know, plots. Like what Firefly and Serenity had. It wasn't them going from one place to another saying "YAY-HA! This planet is just like home!" Sci-fi isn't there to get us over our biases. It's there to entertain, which, as evidenced by DVD sales of Firefly and the fans.
I'm not a rabid Whedon fan, or anything. But you totally misunderstand what people liked about the show. "Cowboys in space" isn't even top five for most people I know, and most of my friends are pretty rabid fans.
You just compared a man who orchestrated the killing of around six million Jews and five million other ethnic minorities to a guy who makes a crappy operating system. Godwin's Law.
J.K. Rowling is worth over a billion dollars (American) by most estimates now. Unless you're going to tell me you burn Harry Potter books, what she did is pretty damned honest.
Yes because slashdot really loves the idea of quashing all anti-religious speech. Even if all religious bashing is illegal in Singapore, that's not acceptable to us, because we like the idea of the freedom to bitch about EVERYONE.
As for a more peaceful society, maybe you need to educate yourself about the goings on around Singapore...
I *own* an N64. I liked the analog stick and games mentioned; the controller was designed funky and the vast majority of the games couldn't compare to the things Sony was putting out. Nintendo lost Squaresoft with the N64, and they still survived despite the popularity of FF7; my point wasn't to denigrate Nintendo but point out the way the fans are loyal.
If gamers weren't loyal, Nintendo would have sank when they released the awful N64 to compete with the Saturn and Playstation. Gamers are very loyal, in my experience as a gamer. Sega stayed alive in the console market as long as they did because of the few loyal fans they had. The reason Microsoft is having so much trouble is because of loyalty; Sony and Nintendo have huge fan bases.
The Revolution will be able to play NES games (as well as SNES and Gamecube, N64 too but who really cares?). NES ROMs exist all over the place. So you can play the games (and other systems) on one system (no more daisy chains of RF adapters!), assuming Nintendo makes it easy and cheap to download them to the system, legally and on your television... or you can download them illegally (no judgment; I have quite a few ROMs), and play them on just about anything.
I wouldn't buy a knock-off unless it combined more systems. The NES alone isn't worth paying more than the cost of a used NES. I loved a lot of the games, grew up with them, but really. I'm not a huge Nintendo fanboy and I don't have loyalty to them. I just don't care. Why buy some made-in-Taiwan crap version of something you can get for free or (hopefully) play in an officially supported capacity?
Now, if someone makes a knock-off that plays *any* cartridge based system and had a great controller or supported a variety of controllers, I'd be willing to pay out the nose for it. Just so I could have ONE system hooked up and still play old games. But having decent controllers is a must; Pac-man is more fun with a joystick, but not so much for Mario Brothers.
I've worked in retail. The stores say that employees steal more than anything. I've worked a place where a manager had to walk employees out to be sure they didn't snag something. So I'd just like to add evidence, from experience, that "everyone" does know that. At least everyone even remotely involved.
You just called Windows efficient. I'm not an apologist, but really, that's a little crazy. I find Windows lacking in every way -- it has awful permissions, it's bug ridden and a security nightmare. That said, Microsoft Office is pretty good. It's, hands down, the most well built software Microsoft puts out. But it does have flaws (the compatibility is a big one).
OO.o is pretty ugly compared to Word, but it loads.doc files better than Word does. OO.o saves.doc files at about half the file size. How is using twice the space "efficient"? This isn't anecdotal evidence: Copy this post into Word. Save the file as a.doc. The file size, up to the last sentence, is 24KB in Office 2003. For a paragraph and a half of text. Same exact file, opened and saved in OO.o? 9KB. Really efficient, there. If they can't even save a file efficiently... Of course, OO.o takes forever to start.
Important finishing polish... with all the bugs and compatibility issues and security holes? And you're accusing other people of being apologists? Pot. Kettle. Black.
Oh, it does count headers. I misunderstood what was said, then. I guess I'm just wordy enough that a few words in the headers and footers has never really made a difference.
I've never written a paper in which the header and footer counted towards word count... and I've written a lot of papers. As for the rest of the post, yeah, you're right.
(unrelated to parent poster, but I don't feel like making a second post:) Past that, my main complain with OOo until today was the interface. The last version I used (1.6 or something) looked like a Windows 95 application. Now, I'm one of those who turns that blue taskbar off in Windows XP, so I'm not all about the graphics, but Word is just more pleasant to look at than OOo.
That said... it's nice how you can open a 44kb.doc, save it with OOo as a.doc, and it's half the size. Makes me wonder what that extra space was used for.
How does Apple have a monopoly? I don't have an iPod for an MP3 player, or anything, and I never intend to get one. There are dozens of companies making MP3 players.
1. They're often annoying. I use adblock and noscript to avoid most javascript and all flash. I don't like ads that screw with things. Talking ads are right out.
2. Flashy ads are distracting. Flashing.gifs and the like are just irritating when I'm trying to read.
3. A lot of embedded ads also try and embed cookies, which I also block. I have it set to "ask" for cookies. This is really annoying when I visit new sites for the first time.
4. It's my damn computer and my damn bandwidth, and I don't want to load and store an ad and cookie on my hard drive. I don't mind gmail style text ads, and I don't mind regular banner style ads. But those Javascript-flash-bells-and-whistles numbers that slow down page loading just piss me off.
I don't know what it is, but some ads cause a temporary freeze-up in browsers -- both IE and the Mozilla browsers, so it's not just Mozilla. I don't like that and want no part of it. I mute TV commercials, too, especially those used car dealership ads that are REALLY LOUD AND EXCITED ABOUT THEIR CARS.
Bring people who can swing a hammer. Hammers, nails, two-by-fours, roofing shingles -- food and water seem to be in hand, there are stores open and people still giving away free food. Housing is really the major problem at this point.
However, that's not to say water wouldn't help. Gallon jugs are cheaper, so I'd go for those and some sort of sealable containers people can take with them, like to build. (Bottled water is insanely high priced.) As for food, I'd suggest things that don't need refrigeration, but this may be obvious.;) If you bring canned food, bring non-electric canopeners. Pet food is apparently a big deal, too.
Canvas tents would be good. Water purifying tablets. Duct tape was suggested and may be a good idea. Batteries, for people to power radios with. Many areas have no phone/power/net even now. If space allows, small fans that can be plugged into generators -- the heat is just awful.
What does it matter? What would France or Germany have brought to the coalition? They spend so little on defense they couldn't fight off a horde of ewoks armed with spears and rocks.
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I misread the headline initially and thought it said $1.98. I was like, "Wow, what my friends said about Maxtor's worth was true!"
Capslock.*
Most non-geeks never use any of the function keys or any of the keys in the insert/delete/end/home set. And if they do use those, it's just because they were taught by a geek how to use the home key in Word.
I had no use for the extra two Windows keys for a long time. I still don't use the menu key. I only need one alt, ctrl, and shift. I have no idea what scroll lock does. I forget the term, but I'm aware you can change what keys do in Linux (no idea about Windows), so I'm sure if I looked into it I could make the keys useful, but I just never use them. I also don't need the two extra "internet" keys on this keyboard.
* I'm of the opinion this key should be removed on most keyboards.
Sci-fi isn't just about aliens. Star Trek had aliens, robots, artificial intelligence and time travel. But it wasn't just about that. There were, you know, plots. Like what Firefly and Serenity had. It wasn't them going from one place to another saying "YAY-HA! This planet is just like home!" Sci-fi isn't there to get us over our biases. It's there to entertain, which, as evidenced by DVD sales of Firefly and the fans.
I'm not a rabid Whedon fan, or anything. But you totally misunderstand what people liked about the show. "Cowboys in space" isn't even top five for most people I know, and most of my friends are pretty rabid fans.
She was askin' for it, she kept talking about fingering and mounting...
You just compared a man who orchestrated the killing of around six million Jews and five million other ethnic minorities to a guy who makes a crappy operating system. Godwin's Law.
J.K. Rowling is worth over a billion dollars (American) by most estimates now. Unless you're going to tell me you burn Harry Potter books, what she did is pretty damned honest.
Yes because slashdot really loves the idea of quashing all anti-religious speech. Even if all religious bashing is illegal in Singapore, that's not acceptable to us, because we like the idea of the freedom to bitch about EVERYONE. As for a more peaceful society, maybe you need to educate yourself about the goings on around Singapore...
I *own* an N64. I liked the analog stick and games mentioned; the controller was designed funky and the vast majority of the games couldn't compare to the things Sony was putting out. Nintendo lost Squaresoft with the N64, and they still survived despite the popularity of FF7; my point wasn't to denigrate Nintendo but point out the way the fans are loyal.
If gamers weren't loyal, Nintendo would have sank when they released the awful N64 to compete with the Saturn and Playstation. Gamers are very loyal, in my experience as a gamer. Sega stayed alive in the console market as long as they did because of the few loyal fans they had. The reason Microsoft is having so much trouble is because of loyalty; Sony and Nintendo have huge fan bases.
Gamers are almost as loyal as Linux geeks.
The Revolution will be able to play NES games (as well as SNES and Gamecube, N64 too but who really cares?). NES ROMs exist all over the place. So you can play the games (and other systems) on one system (no more daisy chains of RF adapters!), assuming Nintendo makes it easy and cheap to download them to the system, legally and on your television... or you can download them illegally (no judgment; I have quite a few ROMs), and play them on just about anything.
I wouldn't buy a knock-off unless it combined more systems. The NES alone isn't worth paying more than the cost of a used NES. I loved a lot of the games, grew up with them, but really. I'm not a huge Nintendo fanboy and I don't have loyalty to them. I just don't care. Why buy some made-in-Taiwan crap version of something you can get for free or (hopefully) play in an officially supported capacity?
Now, if someone makes a knock-off that plays *any* cartridge based system and had a great controller or supported a variety of controllers, I'd be willing to pay out the nose for it. Just so I could have ONE system hooked up and still play old games. But having decent controllers is a must; Pac-man is more fun with a joystick, but not so much for Mario Brothers.
I've worked in retail. The stores say that employees steal more than anything. I've worked a place where a manager had to walk employees out to be sure they didn't snag something. So I'd just like to add evidence, from experience, that "everyone" does know that. At least everyone even remotely involved.
That's because you're posting on slashdot -- the condom could be made of fishnet, and you're still just as safe.
Dude. You should be moderated down just for the lack of formatting in that post. I didn't even bother reading past the second sentence.
You just called Windows efficient. I'm not an apologist, but really, that's a little crazy. I find Windows lacking in every way -- it has awful permissions, it's bug ridden and a security nightmare. That said, Microsoft Office is pretty good. It's, hands down, the most well built software Microsoft puts out. But it does have flaws (the compatibility is a big one).
.doc files better than Word does. OO.o saves .doc files at about half the file size. How is using twice the space "efficient"? This isn't anecdotal evidence: Copy this post into Word. Save the file as a .doc. The file size, up to the last sentence, is 24KB in Office 2003. For a paragraph and a half of text. Same exact file, opened and saved in OO.o? 9KB. Really efficient, there. If they can't even save a file efficiently... Of course, OO.o takes forever to start.
OO.o is pretty ugly compared to Word, but it loads
Important finishing polish... with all the bugs and compatibility issues and security holes? And you're accusing other people of being apologists? Pot. Kettle. Black.
Oh, it does count headers. I misunderstood what was said, then. I guess I'm just wordy enough that a few words in the headers and footers has never really made a difference.
I've never written a paper in which the header and footer counted towards word count... and I've written a lot of papers. As for the rest of the post, yeah, you're right.
.doc, save it with OOo as a .doc, and it's half the size. Makes me wonder what that extra space was used for.
(unrelated to parent poster, but I don't feel like making a second post:)
Past that, my main complain with OOo until today was the interface. The last version I used (1.6 or something) looked like a Windows 95 application. Now, I'm one of those who turns that blue taskbar off in Windows XP, so I'm not all about the graphics, but Word is just more pleasant to look at than OOo.
That said... it's nice how you can open a 44kb
I never said Microsoft had a monopoly, either.
Okay, uh. I love Wikipedia. Which is why I want to fix it. I want it to succeed and grow and be better.
How does Apple have a monopoly? I don't have an iPod for an MP3 player, or anything, and I never intend to get one. There are dozens of companies making MP3 players.
I block ads because...
.gifs and the like are just irritating when I'm trying to read.
1. They're often annoying. I use adblock and noscript to avoid most javascript and all flash. I don't like ads that screw with things. Talking ads are right out.
2. Flashy ads are distracting. Flashing
3. A lot of embedded ads also try and embed cookies, which I also block. I have it set to "ask" for cookies. This is really annoying when I visit new sites for the first time.
4. It's my damn computer and my damn bandwidth, and I don't want to load and store an ad and cookie on my hard drive. I don't mind gmail style text ads, and I don't mind regular banner style ads. But those Javascript-flash-bells-and-whistles numbers that slow down page loading just piss me off.
I don't know what it is, but some ads cause a temporary freeze-up in browsers -- both IE and the Mozilla browsers, so it's not just Mozilla. I don't like that and want no part of it. I mute TV commercials, too, especially those used car dealership ads that are REALLY LOUD AND EXCITED ABOUT THEIR CARS.
OSS seems to be doing just fine the way it is, without a whole hell of a lot of input from the average users.
You're using the IMDB as a source? Next you're going to cite a slashdot poll...
I saw this quote somewhere, and I can't be sure where so I can't source it, but:
"Designing for 90% of browsers is like answering ten percent of sales calls with 'Hello, could you please fuck off?'"
(I realize you aren't advocating the position so much as explaining it.)
Bring people who can swing a hammer. Hammers, nails, two-by-fours, roofing shingles -- food and water seem to be in hand, there are stores open and people still giving away free food. Housing is really the major problem at this point.
;) If you bring canned food, bring non-electric canopeners. Pet food is apparently a big deal, too.
However, that's not to say water wouldn't help. Gallon jugs are cheaper, so I'd go for those and some sort of sealable containers people can take with them, like to build. (Bottled water is insanely high priced.) As for food, I'd suggest things that don't need refrigeration, but this may be obvious.
Canvas tents would be good. Water purifying tablets. Duct tape was suggested and may be a good idea. Batteries, for people to power radios with. Many areas have no phone/power/net even now. If space allows, small fans that can be plugged into generators -- the heat is just awful.
And change to what? An Amiga?
What does it matter? What would France or Germany have brought to the coalition? They spend so little on defense they couldn't fight off a horde of ewoks armed with spears and rocks.