You make it sound like I owe my time to Libre Office when they can't even count 1 2 3 4 5. It's the other way around. You deign to release an office suite? Test the fucker first.
Re:OK, so now can we start making it usable?
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Who said it was a MS Word template? Making stuff up is pretty lame too. It was a odt template, FYI.
How DARE you! But seriously, all these problems typically pop up on Friday afternoons with looming deadlines. Who has the energy to start Googling for half an hour for what should be basic functionality?
OK, so now can we start making it usable?
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Sorry, but Libre Office is an unusable mess.
1) Trying to update it. The updater complains about the quickstarter still running and it exits. It doesn't tell you what that is, or how to turn it off, or even present you with the choice of turning it off. So now what do I do? Any answer other than "Libre Office messed up the update process" is why Apple has too much money while the open source geeks are perceived as smelly losers.
2) Try to use Writer as anything more than a notepad? Forget it. I loaded our company's template that uses heading styles. It already had four headings which Writer numbers automatically 1 2 3 4. Fine. So I add another heading, expecting it to be "5". Is it 5? Of course not. Writer numbers my new heading as "2" with not a damn thing I can do about it. Does no one check the code for basic things here?
3) Try to use the export as PDF? You better check that PDF because if you think that in 2012 we are 20 years beyond WYSIWYG, think again. Export as PDF exported a mess with every single letter replaced with various-sized dots. Jesus wept, my Commodore 64 running GEOS outperforms that. And don't you DARE say there's something wring with my system becasue using a PDF print driver worked flawlessly.
So, asking a valid question to clarify the OP's statements, with a cheap Star Trek reference thrown in is a "troll" around here now? No wonder I never post anymore.
"Do you know how damned fussy and temperamental some of these machines were to start with?"
No, I don't Hairyfeet. Why don't you enlighten us? Name a few, and what was fussy and temperamental about them? And also please, define precisely what you meant by those terms. The computer not responding when you talk into the mouse doesn't count.
"As a result, computers were hopelessly complicated,"
That doesn't follow. Computers were hopelessly simple back then. Or are you claiming the latest quad core CPU with a billion transistors is simple compared to a relay adder?
All you need to do is store your family pictures on them. Hard drives are soooooooo fragile and unreliable. Yet everyone worries about how reliable they are when it's time to throw them out...
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You make it sound like I owe my time to Libre Office when they can't even count 1 2 3 4 5. It's the other way around. You deign to release an office suite? Test the fucker first.
Who said it was a MS Word template? Making stuff up is pretty lame too. It was a odt template, FYI.
How DARE you! But seriously, all these problems typically pop up on Friday afternoons with looming deadlines. Who has the energy to start Googling for half an hour for what should be basic functionality?
1) Trying to update it. The updater complains about the quickstarter still running and it exits. It doesn't tell you what that is, or how to turn it off, or even present you with the choice of turning it off. So now what do I do? Any answer other than "Libre Office messed up the update process" is why Apple has too much money while the open source geeks are perceived as smelly losers.
2) Try to use Writer as anything more than a notepad? Forget it. I loaded our company's template that uses heading styles. It already had four headings which Writer numbers automatically 1 2 3 4. Fine. So I add another heading, expecting it to be "5". Is it 5? Of course not. Writer numbers my new heading as "2" with not a damn thing I can do about it. Does no one check the code for basic things here?
3) Try to use the export as PDF? You better check that PDF because if you think that in 2012 we are 20 years beyond WYSIWYG, think again. Export as PDF exported a mess with every single letter replaced with various-sized dots. Jesus wept, my Commodore 64 running GEOS outperforms that. And don't you DARE say there's something wring with my system becasue using a PDF print driver worked flawlessly.
So Intel, what are you gonna do about this?
So, asking a valid question to clarify the OP's statements, with a cheap Star Trek reference thrown in is a "troll" around here now? No wonder I never post anymore.
No, I don't Hairyfeet. Why don't you enlighten us? Name a few, and what was fussy and temperamental about them? And also please, define precisely what you meant by those terms. The computer not responding when you talk into the mouse doesn't count.
That doesn't follow. Computers were hopelessly simple back then. Or are you claiming the latest quad core CPU with a billion transistors is simple compared to a relay adder?
I enjoyed his Inherit the Stars series.
Copseyes! Obscure reference?
I often dream of being a goat. Wanna get together?
As the kids say these days: "THIS". The temptation to reinvent the wheel when we are surrounded by wheels? I don't get it.
http://www.etsmtl.ca/nouvelles/2011/Voiture-solaire
http://translate.google.ca/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsmtl.ca%2Fnouvelles%2F2011%2FVoiture-solaire&act=url
Anyways, I work 5 minutes from ETS, maybe I can drop by tomorrow and take a look.
All you need to do is store your family pictures on them. Hard drives are soooooooo fragile and unreliable. Yet everyone worries about how reliable they are when it's time to throw them out...
Imagine having to anneal a Mumetal can the size of a MRI room?
You're off by a "k"....
Don't you dare outbid me!
Don't forget tidal. Seriously, I forgot about tidal during an exam once. Cost me a point. Didn't like that.
I can dream...
Seriously. Except for the anechoic chamber in which to run the hearing test, there's nothing too exotic here.
How about the frozen ones?
Is that for an adult bear or a baby bear?
Yeah, not the Ned Chapin horror. He's one of those people who can write and write and write and not communicate a single clear concept.
The one you read? As opposed to hollow out to keep a flask of scotch in it?
I never said that. I said technology can be traced back to the 1960s.
It's called the Optacon.
Some video.
*Go ahead, try me. :)
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