I just tried your example in Word, opened it in Open Office and it's all exactly where I put it.
More complex examples can certainly be smeared about, but this one does not stand up to test. Nice MS troll though. There is every reason to start using Open Office. Unless you get paid not to?
Unfortunately I know how painful de Quervain's tenosynovitis is, because I suffer from it in my right thumb. I used to use a Logitech trackball instead of a mouse, and it was fine for 5 or more years. It still is fine to whizz that ball around with the affected thumb. I suspect the damage was actually done when I used to carry 4 or 5 DLT's back and forth from server room to office. A DLT is just wide enough to strain my thumb when held by the edges. When I started to strip paint and wallpaper off the walls at home to prepare for decorating, I started to suffer the pain. I guess I had been straining that thumb already, and the additional pressure from using the shaving hooks just inflamed the tendons.
I no longer handle DLTs in that way! I'm too old to want to spend all my time thumbing away at a cell/mobile phone or a Blackberry, too. And I no longer spend hours stripping paint off walls. The pain, however, remains, and only cortisone injections relieve it for a few months at a time. As they hurt like hell for a few days afterwards, I don't want to do that anymore.
Anyone got any other remedies they can recommend? Other than amputation or rectal insertion!
"As I look at you, Rick Berman, I see a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand. And I hear sounds, the sounds of billions of people calling your name."
Exactly. 1 GB flash memory, first boot install modified, simplified Knoppix to flash, run from a partition on the flash, rest of flash for/home and config, no hard disk, update by copying new CD into flash, TV for low res graphics, monitor for higher res.
I'd love to have the time and money to try this out, I have a 90-year-old Auntie who can whip anyone at Scrabble (smart cookie), and who could keep her neurones firing by being online.
You paid us for NT4 (you DID pay us for NT4, didn't you?) some time ago. We know it still works fine, we just want more money from you. So we'll stop supporting it and you'll get in trouble from your PHB unless you upgrade to the new, wonderful, Windows (insert current version here).
We don't think in terms of long term reliability, we just want you to keep our cashflow healthy by buying new versions every couple of years. If your applications break with the new version, we don't care! You'll buy our new development tools, we think. If you have to buy new hardware, well, too bad. We don't care if our new version is more bloated than the last version, just so long as it's new and improved! And you think you just have to keep buying your OS and applications from us!
Yours,
A Microsoft sales resource.
!@$%^"!$%mphh. What happened? Did I "go off" again? What did I write this time?
Apple has a load of money, a charismatic leader, and rising kudos over Itunes, iPods and computers that use IBM processors.
IBM has sold off its PC business and thereby made itself less vulnerable to M$ attack if it moves to more openly support Open Source software. It's strong in services and is already actively supporting Open Source software and Linux. Now it's opening up patents to Open Source developers, contrary to the Gates Corp approach.
Could it be? Could IBM and Apple be the marriage of heaven and hell? Consider the possibilites...Can Microsoft really prevail in a shoot-out against companies that are so obviously picking up and wearing the white hats?
I had the chance to move to IBM from my current employer. I chose not to for family reasons, and when I read stories like these I don't regret it http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/10/ibm_jobs_i ndia/ but they do seem to be more strategicly constructive than the opposition. And consider this. Apple don't have a low cost offering to compete with the budget end of the PC market. Geode systems notwithstanding, the less developed nations could do with low cost internet-enabled devices that could provide communications and educational support for their increasingly educated populations. They need robust non-ground -based communications networks too. Distributed tsunami and other disaster warning systems, anyone? I would love to see something like this happening in the world today.
Gates says everybody who uses FireFox has IE installed too, so he's not worried.
Gates is wrong. At home I have Win98SE (why no, I am not a masochist) reinstalled using 98Lite Preview http://www.litepc.com/preview.html. No IE at all. No OE at all. Just Firefox and Thunderbird.
It works.
I use XP Pro at work, with no admin access. Regrettably, that just works too. I suspect that the latter will be more easily hacked than the former, but as the former is mine, and the latter is pwned by my employer's IT support Morlocks I don't care!
I doubt whether the home machine is too vulnerable either on those occasions when I'm using it with Mandrake instead.
No, Gates should be more worried by the likes of Knoppix. When I saw Knoppix for the first time, I saw the writing on the wall for Windows.
You're doomed, Bill. You can't patent imagination and creativity.
By the way, if he ever checks out, look out for a note saying "The ascension of the ordinary man"...
My thoughts exactly. It looks like it's a poor science fiction matt in the second picture. Any self-respecting Babylon 5 fan knows it should be curving up at each side, unless they have gravity generators. I immediately thought of "The Fall Of Night". Needs more Vorlons.
Either in Infernal Exploiter 6 (XP SP1) with high security settings (throws a load of cookie warnings that I decline, then IE asks if it can allow subframes to navigate across different domains, which I impolitely decline, then IE commits seppuku, so that's a result!), or in Firebird 0.7 (justs sits there, not spawning a new window or tab, so that's a result too.)
Am I the only one who thinks that we're just seeing the same vulnerability repackaged over and over again?
Just looking at some of the posts here, and the links to other sites (yay, someone doesn't want the combat sim to be completely lost!) I'm reminded of just how deeply B5 could embed itself into the geek world. Did you ever see poster ads with Serpentine font before B5? Do you still hear references to "the last, best" (yes, I know it was Abraham Lincoln originally but how did it get revived)?
I'm sorry, I haven't seen Firefly, but having seen an episode of Buffy, and read countless writing about Joss Whedon, I can't see how this compares. I seem to be Whedon-immune. The SF pot seems to have gone off the boil.
Oddly, the only thing that does compare in some respects is the Harry Potter phenomenon. It has surprising depth for an ostensibly child-oriented work. And if you can watch the new movie (recommended even if you haven't got an eight year-old HP fan daughter) without thinking how Shadow-like the Dementors are... I keep thinking I see hints in the books (I read to her every night) of influence, but perhaps I'm looking through tinted spectacles.
Oh, yes! "Marines In Space". It used all the cliches (remember the ep where they did silent running on a cargo ship in order to bait and hook the Chig?). Wonderful show, limited scope but so well executed. As you say, the exploration of racism and torture ("Wang, Paul") beautifully explored for SF. Fortunately I still have some on VHS.Sigh. Babylon 5 was and is my favourite show but JMS's antics have not stood the test of time very well. The five-season four-season stuff wasted it for me. Better to view it now without the whole fifth season (but for "Sleeping In Light"). Crusade was just scraping the barrel. "I know, let's have a human Kosh Wise Old Man archetype this time!"
Only a 1 mod? Why is it that when I get mod points there's nothing worthy, yet when I have none, I see this kind of helpful, informative post? If there were more posts like this, and less knock-and-run trolling then Slashdot would be a far better place.
When I send my browser to a website, I want to read the text and look at the images. I don't want my attention to be constantly drawn to the Flashee-Clickee-Monkee-Lookee-Here nonsense that tries to sell me something I almost certainly don't need.
I look on these as mosquitos.
Do you like to be pestered by mosquitos buzzing around your face?
Do you hold out your arm for them to have a suck?
Or do you swat the little pests!
Any company that thinks people are impressed by flashy internet ads these days is operating on an outdated business model. Infernal Exploiter didn't block pop-ups out of the box, and we just put up with them and the ads, until we could use blockers like Google Toolbar. Now Firefox is giving us the mosquito net to keep these little bloodsuckers out of our faces. If this drives some companies out of business, well, sorry, but you should stop treating people like an easy lunch.
First, he was "the new guy downstairs."
Then, he was "John in IT".
Now he's the guy who blocks your patronising ads.
Could it be time to start selling stuff more intelligently?
How do you get your damn brother to stop using IE to visit porn sites?
Engage Content Advisor, put all his pr0n sites into the blacklist, stop access to anyone but yourself?
Hide/disable IE, install Firefox?
Put a boot password on your box?
Tell him to go buy his own box?
Yecchh, I can't believe I'm telling someone how to use Infernal Exploiter. I feel, somehow, soiled.
Re:Still for sale though
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The VHS is Dead
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Even if you do have one.. why would you bother buying a
new one?
Because you have children with lots of tapes they want to
watch?
Because your two-year-old son can handle putting a tape in a
VCR but you won't let him near the DVD's?
Because regardless of picture quality issues you balk at the
thought of paying again for the same content in another format,
assuming it's still available?
Because you're getting sick of being sold the new
stuff when the old stuff still just works?
Other than these reasons, no, can't think why anyone would want to buy a new VCR.
Thanks for this. The exact link http://www.publications.parliament.uk/cgi-bin/ukpa rl_hl?DB=ukparl&URL=/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo020703/debtext/20703-05.htm for those interested is to Hansard, the official report of debates in the UK Houses Of Parliament. It is worth reading the whole of the linked page to get a flavour of Mr. Blunkett's personality. Note the reference to "intellectual pygmies". This from a man who in the course of a radio debate a couple of weeks ago told the interviewer to "piss off".
Not exactly overwhelming the debate with the intellectual force of the argument, is it?
There may well be a case for an entitlement card to combat fraud. This whole affair is more to do with the ID database, and the desire to get the mug^b^b^btaxpayer to pay for it. I just pray we in the UK don't get a nine-eleven incident before the next election, because that would play right into the hands of the paranoia-merchants, and we don't have a realistic opposition to vote for, unlike the Spanish.
but isn't iexplore.exe required for the system to boot properly?
Perhaps not http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html. I don't use XP at home, but I can vouch for the free version of 98Lite, which I do, and which enabled me to evict IE in favour of Firefox.
Disclaimer: I don't work for LitePC, and I also use Mandrake Linux. (phew, I think I covered my geek cred there...)
Strangely my memory at the time of CD's being new was that that they were "oh so expensive to make because they had to be made in clean rooms". I can recall HiFi magazines banging on about how certain mastering facilities were so good, and pictures of pre-Intel white-suited bunnies trundling racks of masters around. At that time it seemed like the Brave New World of the future. What it really meant was "new format = new opportunity for hike in mark-up".
Unfortunately I also recall how many of the original CD players sounded so glassy that they physically hurt my ears. Thank goodness things have improved in that respect.
If the Washington Post was to print a series of anti Blair articles in the run up to the UK elections, would that be wrong? I can't see how...
Wrong? No, free speech means you can say anything (ducks). Irrelevant? Somewhat. How many British voters read the Washington Post?. Unless of course there's a Washington Post published in Washington, County Durham. I agree with you, though, that the Grauniad's nonsense was wrong-headed, and should have been spiked.
That and since it's a government institution so part of it's job is not simply to provide services, but also to provide jobs.
I beg your pardon? The National Health Service is NOT a job-creation system. Well, other than for managers perhaps. It actually exists to provide healthcare that is predominately free at the point of use, to use the politician's expression. I agree with the tone of your other comments, but you can't get away with that one about job creation without providing evidence.
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More complex examples can certainly be smeared about, but this one does not stand up to test. Nice MS troll though. There is every reason to start using Open Office. Unless you get paid not to?
Unfortunately I know how painful de Quervain's tenosynovitis is, because I suffer from it in my right thumb. I used to use a Logitech trackball instead of a mouse, and it was fine for 5 or more years. It still is fine to whizz that ball around with the affected thumb. I suspect the damage was actually done when I used to carry 4 or 5 DLT's back and forth from server room to office. A DLT is just wide enough to strain my thumb when held by the edges. When I started to strip paint and wallpaper off the walls at home to prepare for decorating, I started to suffer the pain. I guess I had been straining that thumb already, and the additional pressure from using the shaving hooks just inflamed the tendons.
I no longer handle DLTs in that way! I'm too old to want to spend all my time thumbing away at a cell/mobile phone or a Blackberry, too. And I no longer spend hours stripping paint off walls. The pain, however, remains, and only cortisone injections relieve it for a few months at a time. As they hurt like hell for a few days afterwards, I don't want to do that anymore.
Anyone got any other remedies they can recommend? Other than amputation or rectal insertion!
"My followers?"
"Your victims."
I'd love to have the time and money to try this out, I have a 90-year-old Auntie who can whip anyone at Scrabble (smart cookie), and who could keep her neurones firing by being online.
If you get enough of these out in the real world, then the virus kids will target them. Sort of like "If you build it, they will come".
Dear NT4 user,
You paid us for NT4 (you DID pay us for NT4, didn't you?) some time ago. We know it still works fine, we just want more money from you. So we'll stop supporting it and you'll get in trouble from your PHB unless you upgrade to the new, wonderful, Windows (insert current version here).
We don't think in terms of long term reliability, we just want you to keep our cashflow healthy by buying new versions every couple of years. If your applications break with the new version, we don't care! You'll buy our new development tools, we think. If you have to buy new hardware, well, too bad. We don't care if our new version is more bloated than the last version, just so long as it's new and improved! And you think you just have to keep buying your OS and applications from us!
Yours,
A Microsoft sales resource.
!@$%^"!$%mphh. What happened? Did I "go off" again? What did I write this time?
IBM has sold off its PC business and thereby made itself less vulnerable to M$ attack if it moves to more openly support Open Source software. It's strong in services and is already actively supporting Open Source software and Linux. Now it's opening up patents to Open Source developers, contrary to the Gates Corp approach.
Could it be? Could IBM and Apple be the marriage of heaven and hell? Consider the possibilites...Can Microsoft really prevail in a shoot-out against companies that are so obviously picking up and wearing the white hats?
I had the chance to move to IBM from my current employer. I chose not to for family reasons, and when I read stories like these I don't regret it http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/10/ibm_jobs_i ndia/ but they do seem to be more strategicly constructive than the opposition. And consider this. Apple don't have a low cost offering to compete with the budget end of the PC market. Geode systems notwithstanding, the less developed nations could do with low cost internet-enabled devices that could provide communications and educational support for their increasingly educated populations. They need robust non-ground -based communications networks too. Distributed tsunami and other disaster warning systems, anyone? I would love to see something like this happening in the world today.
Gates is wrong. At home I have Win98SE (why no, I am not a masochist) reinstalled using 98Lite Preview http://www.litepc.com/preview.html. No IE at all. No OE at all. Just Firefox and Thunderbird.
It works.
I use XP Pro at work, with no admin access. Regrettably, that just works too. I suspect that the latter will be more easily hacked than the former, but as the former is mine, and the latter is pwned by my employer's IT support Morlocks I don't care!
I doubt whether the home machine is too vulnerable either on those occasions when I'm using it with Mandrake instead.
No, Gates should be more worried by the likes of Knoppix. When I saw Knoppix for the first time, I saw the writing on the wall for Windows.
You're doomed, Bill. You can't patent imagination and creativity.
By the way, if he ever checks out, look out for a note saying "The ascension of the ordinary man"...
My thoughts exactly. It looks like it's a poor science fiction matt in the second picture. Any self-respecting Babylon 5 fan knows it should be curving up at each side, unless they have gravity generators. I immediately thought of "The Fall Of Night". Needs more Vorlons.
I thought Windows XP was spyware?
Am I the only one who thinks that we're just seeing the same vulnerability repackaged over and over again?
Nothing says "mug me" more clearly than white headphones. It's like wearing a kick-me sign. Think of it as evolution in action?
I'm sorry, I haven't seen Firefly, but having seen an episode of Buffy, and read countless writing about Joss Whedon, I can't see how this compares. I seem to be Whedon-immune. The SF pot seems to have gone off the boil.
Oddly, the only thing that does compare in some respects is the Harry Potter phenomenon. It has surprising depth for an ostensibly child-oriented work. And if you can watch the new movie (recommended even if you haven't got an eight year-old HP fan daughter) without thinking how Shadow-like the Dementors are... I keep thinking I see hints in the books (I read to her every night) of influence, but perhaps I'm looking through tinted spectacles.
Oh no! I see on the referred website Tim Choate dead too! Zathras can't be beast of burden anymore.
Oh, yes! "Marines In Space". It used all the cliches (remember the ep where they did silent running on a cargo ship in order to bait and hook the Chig?). Wonderful show, limited scope but so well executed. As you say, the exploration of racism and torture ("Wang, Paul") beautifully explored for SF. Fortunately I still have some on VHS.Sigh. Babylon 5 was and is my favourite show but JMS's antics have not stood the test of time very well. The five-season four-season stuff wasted it for me. Better to view it now without the whole fifth season (but for "Sleeping In Light"). Crusade was just scraping the barrel. "I know, let's have a human Kosh Wise Old Man archetype this time!"
Only a 1 mod? Why is it that when I get mod points there's nothing worthy, yet when I have none, I see this kind of helpful, informative post? If there were more posts like this, and less knock-and-run trolling then Slashdot would be a far better place.
I look on these as mosquitos.
Do you like to be pestered by mosquitos buzzing around your face?
Do you hold out your arm for them to have a suck?
Or do you swat the little pests!
Any company that thinks people are impressed by flashy internet ads these days is operating on an outdated business model. Infernal Exploiter didn't block pop-ups out of the box, and we just put up with them and the ads, until we could use blockers like Google Toolbar. Now Firefox is giving us the mosquito net to keep these little bloodsuckers out of our faces. If this drives some companies out of business, well, sorry, but you should stop treating people like an easy lunch.
First, he was "the new guy downstairs."
Then, he was "John in IT".
Now he's the guy who blocks your patronising ads.
Could it be time to start selling stuff more intelligently?
Engage Content Advisor, put all his pr0n sites into the blacklist, stop access to anyone but yourself?
Hide/disable IE, install Firefox?
Put a boot password on your box?
Tell him to go buy his own box?
Yecchh, I can't believe I'm telling someone how to use Infernal Exploiter. I feel, somehow, soiled.
Because you have children with lots of tapes they want to watch?
Because your two-year-old son can handle putting a tape in a VCR but you won't let him near the DVD's?
Because regardless of picture quality issues you balk at the thought of paying again for the same content in another format, assuming it's still available?
Because you're getting sick of being sold the new stuff when the old stuff still just works?
Other than these reasons, no, can't think why anyone would want to buy a new VCR.
Not exactly overwhelming the debate with the intellectual force of the argument, is it?
There may well be a case for an entitlement card to combat fraud. This whole affair is more to do with the ID database, and the desire to get the mug^b^b^btaxpayer to pay for it. I just pray we in the UK don't get a nine-eleven incident before the next election, because that would play right into the hands of the paranoia-merchants, and we don't have a realistic opposition to vote for, unlike the Spanish.
Ex-Internet Explorer...
Disclaimer: I don't work for LitePC, and I also use Mandrake Linux. (phew, I think I covered my geek cred there...)
Unfortunately I also recall how many of the original CD players sounded so glassy that they physically hurt my ears. Thank goodness things have improved in that respect.
Wrong? No, free speech means you can say anything (ducks). Irrelevant? Somewhat. How many British voters read the Washington Post?. Unless of course there's a Washington Post published in Washington, County Durham. I agree with you, though, that the Grauniad's nonsense was wrong-headed, and should have been spiked.
I beg your pardon? The National Health Service is NOT a job-creation system. Well, other than for managers perhaps. It actually exists to provide healthcare that is predominately free at the point of use, to use the politician's expression. I agree with the tone of your other comments, but you can't get away with that one about job creation without providing evidence.