Actually, while I agree that LibreOffice isn't the greatest choice, a change away from OpenOffice might not be bad.
You'd be surprised how many people think it's only a tool to OPEN (View) MS Office documents, and not a full office suite! When we see "open", we think "open source" or "open standards". The general public thinks of the action of opening.
I entirely agree - OpenSUSE 10.2 (final) has the best-looking fonts I've seen in any distro, ever. Easily. I've yet to have the time to find out why, but it really is a beautiful thing.
Just to nitpick this to death.... In Windows 1 and Windows 2 (in their various incarnations), the app was known as "Paint" just as it is now - and it looked nothing like the Win 3.0/3.1 Paintbrush. Only in Win 3.0 did it get renamed to Paintbrush - they returned to the original "Paint" name in Win95.
Win95 Paint and Win 3.1 Paintbrush are more similar than Paintbrush and the original Paint are.
Actually, all Mac 128K/512K/512Ke/Plus machines had the signatures in the case, and it seems about half of all SE units did (from my experience; I've opened several myself - even some "FDHD" or "SuperDrive" units had the signed cases, but not all).
Well, #2 would present a bit of a problem I suppose, being that a speeding ticket is generally issued to a person and not a car.
However, #1 is easily explained: two RFID sensors at a known distance apart on the road. Knowing how long it took to travel that known distance will give them your average speed between the two points.
Well, that's a nice idea and all, and the initial logic seems to follow, but... will the US actually follow suit? The US isn't exactly known for following the rest of the world. Think of the metric system, for one...
Ok, here's what I want to know: Why is it that Intuit got such a backlash from this that they removed the protection scheme and even issued a public apology, but Microsoft gets away with the same thing and even worse yet with their Windows XP product activation? It baffles me how this kind of thing is just ignored when Microsoft does it...
Well, if it'll help anyone, I've had nothing but very good experience with UPS. I live really close to a major distribution center, so that might help, but my packages are *always* delivered on the promised date, and if I'm not home it's really easy to have them hold it and go pick it up later.
Actually, I witnessed the destruction of such a keyboard once... The guy wanted to use the board as an interface for custom game controls. To extract the board he ended up having to melt his way through the casing with a soldering iron (don't try this at home, kids). Not a pretty sight, but he did end up getting in.
Actually, you may have... They used to be known as Caldera. They own the rights to DR-DOS and a few other random forgotten pieces of software, and they used to sell Caldera Linux too. That last bit is partially why this whole debacle is ironic, of course...
Cigna... They've provided me with non-SSN numbers now through two employers and two separate medical plans. The employer has to request it when they sign you up for the benefit plans.
My insurance company provides me service just fine without my SSN. It really isn't that hard, and I certainly don't trust every random doctor/dentist/etc office to treat the number properly. *Only* my employer and the government have my number. It takes a bit of talking and explaining, but most companies have ways of identifying you by a randomly assigned member ID number instead of your SSN.
Don't do that to me again.... Here I am eagerly awaiting details on MacOS X 10.3 (Panther), on the day that said details were promised, and I see the Apple topic icon with a title like "Mac OS X Unleashed". I click on it and find this book review, now that's just cruel!!!
Seriously, that's about the best news I've read today. I love PuTTY under Windows, can't wait for the Mac version! According to the
Mac Port Readme, the project is moving along smoothly and there are builds for MacOS X and for earlier versions (System 7 and up), both for PPC and 68k.
I think this one will be our answer once it's completed, I have high hopes!
True enough, but in this specific instance, the addition of bug tracking, there has yet to be any evidence of ulterior motives. It's also hard to argue that tracking and fixing bugs is anything but an attempt to improve software quality. Microsoft or not, analyzing the cause of software crashes is inevitably a good thing.
If anything, messages like that are a late attempt to catch up. Netscape/Mozilla have had the Quality Feedback Agent at least since the Netscape 4 era, and it was hailed as an example to follow. Well, like it or not, the example has been followed. MS may well not treat the information the same way, but tracking bugs has become increasingly important as applications get increasingly larger and more complex.
I don't trust Microsoft in general, but in this case they've yet to prove that their intentions are any other than making quality software.
Would you happen to know anything about the "Canadian Minitel 1B"? I was itching to experience Minitel before the services died so I bought this on eBay. It has a North American 115v mains plug, and RJ-11 North American phone connections. It even has a QWERTY keyboard and the Fnct-[x] functions are translated to English! I haven't yet tried to use it as a local terminal, but there's a certain excitement in calling France to have it connect to Minitel services just for fun...
Well, I would have to assume that in order to transfer the license, you would have to have been subject to the license at some point.
The retailer is never in that position, having never torn the shrinkwrap nor clicked through the license during installation. MS would have a hard day in court trying to convince anyone that a transfer of the license occurred during a retail sale, IMHO. Of course, IANAL...
Actually, the original Apple II, II+ and IIe ran on a 1 MHz 6502 CPU. The later-revised (late eighties) Apple IIe and the Apple IIc used the 65c02 at a whopping 2 MHz.:)
Yep. It is indeed easier... I certainly didn't need a guide! Of course, I suppose you could write a guide for non-geek guys on how to pick up a geek guy. Geeks are a "different" breed across the board, gay or straight. I know that most non-geek guys would never put up with me and my computers.
Speaking from experience, for two geek guys to hook up is relatively painless, and it makes couple life a whole lot easier too. For one, we both realize that Valentine's day is a scam and basically exists to make money and we refuse to buy into it. It's pointless. We show our love for each other daily, and we lead generally happy geeky lives.
Actually, that's precisely what happens now with these low-end machines, currently bundled with MS Works (oxymoron jokes aside...). Anyone who has to deal with Works will inevitably get peeved enough to find a way to use Word.
WordPerfect Office is better than MS Works by several orders of magnitude, and it's a complete office suite (unlike the latter). I'd expect that more people will actually use a preinstalled copy of WP-Office than MS Works. That's a good thing, because it will bring directly to the forefront the issue of file compatibility. At the moment, people don't realise that not everyone can read Word files. Add all these WordPerfect users into the mix, and file format compatibility becomes something people want. Supply-and-demand follows, and such entities as Microsoft will have to offer options for their customers [gasp! MS forced to do what their customers want?? Is the world coming to an end??].
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Aaannnndd that marks the first time I feel targeted by the phrase "of a certain age." You insensitive clod.
Actually, while I agree that LibreOffice isn't the greatest choice, a change away from OpenOffice might not be bad.
You'd be surprised how many people think it's only a tool to OPEN (View) MS Office documents, and not a full office suite! When we see "open", we think "open source" or "open standards". The general public thinks of the action of opening.
I entirely agree - OpenSUSE 10.2 (final) has the best-looking fonts I've seen in any distro, ever. Easily. I've yet to have the time to find out why, but it really is a beautiful thing.
*sigh* You know you're a geek when.....
Just to nitpick this to death.... In Windows 1 and Windows 2 (in their various incarnations), the app was known as "Paint" just as it is now - and it looked nothing like the Win 3.0/3.1 Paintbrush. Only in Win 3.0 did it get renamed to Paintbrush - they returned to the original "Paint" name in Win95.
Win95 Paint and Win 3.1 Paintbrush are more similar than Paintbrush and the original Paint are.
Actually, all Mac 128K/512K/512Ke/Plus machines had the signatures in the case, and it seems about half of all SE units did (from my experience; I've opened several myself - even some "FDHD" or "SuperDrive" units had the signed cases, but not all).
It does? What do they call it in marketspeak? I'm having trouble finding it, their cheapest plan seems to be $14.99...
Well, #2 would present a bit of a problem I suppose, being that a speeding ticket is generally issued to a person and not a car.
However, #1 is easily explained: two RFID sensors at a known distance apart on the road. Knowing how long it took to travel that known distance will give them your average speed between the two points.
Well, that's a nice idea and all, and the initial logic seems to follow, but... will the US actually follow suit? The US isn't exactly known for following the rest of the world. Think of the metric system, for one...
Precisely:
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Ok, here's what I want to know: Why is it that Intuit got such a backlash from this that they removed the protection scheme and even issued a public apology, but Microsoft gets away with the same thing and even worse yet with their Windows XP product activation? It baffles me how this kind of thing is just ignored when Microsoft does it...
Might I ask how you pulled off the feat of connecting an ADB keyboard to a PC? You've got me really curious now...
Well, if it'll help anyone, I've had nothing but very good experience with UPS. I live really close to a major distribution center, so that might help, but my packages are *always* delivered on the promised date, and if I'm not home it's really easy to have them hold it and go pick it up later.
Actually, I witnessed the destruction of such a keyboard once... The guy wanted to use the board as an interface for custom game controls. To extract the board he ended up having to melt his way through the casing with a soldering iron (don't try this at home, kids). Not a pretty sight, but he did end up getting in.
Actually, you may have... They used to be known as Caldera. They own the rights to DR-DOS and a few other random forgotten pieces of software, and they used to sell Caldera Linux too. That last bit is partially why this whole debacle is ironic, of course...
Cigna... They've provided me with non-SSN numbers now through two employers and two separate medical plans. The employer has to request it when they sign you up for the benefit plans.
My insurance company provides me service just fine without my SSN. It really isn't that hard, and I certainly don't trust every random doctor/dentist/etc office to treat the number properly. *Only* my employer and the government have my number. It takes a bit of talking and explaining, but most companies have ways of identifying you by a randomly assigned member ID number instead of your SSN.
Don't do that to me again.... Here I am eagerly awaiting details on MacOS X 10.3 (Panther), on the day that said details were promised, and I see the Apple topic icon with a title like "Mac OS X Unleashed". I click on it and find this book review, now that's just cruel!!!
That would be sweeeeeet!!
Seriously, that's about the best news I've read today. I love PuTTY under Windows, can't wait for the Mac version! According to the Mac Port Readme, the project is moving along smoothly and there are builds for MacOS X and for earlier versions (System 7 and up), both for PPC and 68k.
I think this one will be our answer once it's completed, I have high hopes!
True enough, but in this specific instance , the addition of bug tracking, there has yet to be any evidence of ulterior motives. It's also hard to argue that tracking and fixing bugs is anything but an attempt to improve software quality. Microsoft or not, analyzing the cause of software crashes is inevitably a good thing.
If anything, messages like that are a late attempt to catch up. Netscape/Mozilla have had the Quality Feedback Agent at least since the Netscape 4 era, and it was hailed as an example to follow. Well, like it or not, the example has been followed. MS may well not treat the information the same way, but tracking bugs has become increasingly important as applications get increasingly larger and more complex.
I don't trust Microsoft in general, but in this case they've yet to prove that their intentions are any other than making quality software.
Would you happen to know anything about the "Canadian Minitel 1B"? I was itching to experience Minitel before the services died so I bought this on eBay. It has a North American 115v mains plug, and RJ-11 North American phone connections. It even has a QWERTY keyboard and the Fnct-[x] functions are translated to English! I haven't yet tried to use it as a local terminal, but there's a certain excitement in calling France to have it connect to Minitel services just for fun...
Well, I would have to assume that in order to transfer the license, you would have to have been subject to the license at some point.
The retailer is never in that position, having never torn the shrinkwrap nor clicked through the license during installation. MS would have a hard day in court trying to convince anyone that a transfer of the license occurred during a retail sale, IMHO. Of course, IANAL...
Actually, the original Apple II, II+ and IIe ran on a 1 MHz 6502 CPU. The later-revised (late eighties) Apple IIe and the Apple IIc used the 65c02 at a whopping 2 MHz. :)
Yep. It is indeed easier... I certainly didn't need a guide! Of course, I suppose you could write a guide for non-geek guys on how to pick up a geek guy. Geeks are a "different" breed across the board, gay or straight. I know that most non-geek guys would never put up with me and my computers. Speaking from experience, for two geek guys to hook up is relatively painless, and it makes couple life a whole lot easier too. For one, we both realize that Valentine's day is a scam and basically exists to make money and we refuse to buy into it. It's pointless. We show our love for each other daily, and we lead generally happy geeky lives.
WordPerfect Office is better than MS Works by several orders of magnitude, and it's a complete office suite (unlike the latter). I'd expect that more people will actually use a preinstalled copy of WP-Office than MS Works. That's a good thing, because it will bring directly to the forefront the issue of file compatibility. At the moment, people don't realise that not everyone can read Word files. Add all these WordPerfect users into the mix, and file format compatibility becomes something people want. Supply-and-demand follows, and such entities as Microsoft will have to offer options for their customers [gasp! MS forced to do what their customers want?? Is the world coming to an end??].