Actually M$ did a great job of M$ Office. Office 97/98 was great, did what it needed to do, had straight forward macros (admittedly not very secure) but real easy to program, didn't take up much space, was pretty quick even on that era's hardware, came with a manual and it wasn't annoyingly over unhelpfully helpful. M$ Office 2000 was borderline, it was starting to cross the line of being unhelpfully helpfull and was slower and more annoying to use
But what about Clippy?
Actually, I would have to say the Office 97 was probably the first version that wouldn't choke on opening documents that it had previously created itself, unlike, say, Office 95.
Who's to say that the evidence that you speak of is not staring us right in the face? We assume that assume everything out there is natural. However, once you get outside of our immediate neighborhood, you start needing ever increasingly strange physics to describe some of what's going on out there. Doesn't that seem a little odd? What if dark matter and Hubble's constant aren't real, and we're living in the middle of some advanced civilization's gigantic engineering project?
I suppose the message could be to turn on your magical hindsight machine to see if you're going to be safe. Seriously, at the time no one knew the extent of the attacks going on. A good message would be to tell people to stay home (many people would just be starting their day) and to avoid major landmarks and large buildings. If there were more attacks such a message could have saved many lives.
Assuming it's a LCD or plasma TV, by the time you've figured out how to take the damn thing apart and got to to the jack, repaired it, and put it back together you're probably looking at more than an hour's worth of time. I've taken a few apart to do "simple" repairs like that and it's a pain in the ass as generally they are not meant to be taken apart and repaired.
How does HFT add any liquidity? They don't act until they already have a buyer lined up, who is going to pay them more than they are buying. They don't create any new transactions, they only inject themselves as middlemen into transactions that were going to occur anyway. The flash crash was a good example of this - when the pool of buyers suddenly dried up and the HFT firms certainly were not stepping in to take their place.
If you think about it, the number of people correlates better with the size of an economy than the size landmass that the people live on. Hence per capita, despite a few flaws, is much a better measure. Or are you going to argue that Wyoming has a larger economy and should be allowed to pollute more than, say, Delaware?
I would think that those layouts would be better for hunting-and-pecking as all the commonly used keys are grouped together. Though I've actually never tried either layout (I use the regular two-handed Dvorak all the time).
As useful as this function is, I do hope duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] improves their search algorithm.
Duckduckgo actually gets a lot of it's search results from other search engines, including Bing (as well as Yahoo and others). Though apparently they are operating their own crawler now and have their own index to pull from too. It's actually my search engine of choice too, as I finally got fed up with Google constantly second-guessing me and giving me results for things I didn't search for.
The PIII was pretty solid. Given that the typical AMD system from that period was running the horrible VIA KT133 chipset, Intel had the superior platform though you had to pay for it.
Kind of an interesting place to build a plant. In the unlikely event that anything go catastrophically wrong, it would render a lot more of Belgium's land uninhabitable than France. If I was Belgium, I wouldn't exactly be happy about something like that built almost in my territory that I have absolutely no control over.
You don't want or need a Dvorak on-screen keyboard. You can't touch-type on a tiny touch-screen, so a Dvorak layout would just be more work. Swype provides a superior model for on-screen input, as long as you want to enter dictionary words.
I would actually think the one-handed Dvorak variants would work well for phones where you do a lot of one-digit typing, but I've never seen such a feature.
I think it's the Pontiac Sunfire, and it's not the headlights but the daytime running lights. Been a while since I drove one, but I remember GM used to do odd things with the way their daytime running lights would work.
But as medicine might allow people to start living indefinitely, we might get more interesting trends. At some point, it may be statistically likely that everyone dies from horrible traffic accidents because there's simply no other way to go;-)
I once heard that even if we were immortal (no old age, no disease), the average lifespan would still be slightly under 200 years just because of accidents, suicides, murders, wars, and other causes of death. Wish I could remember the source.
That's probably because whenever something gets automated to the point where two people would only have to work 20-30 each hours to accomplish something in a week, they fire one of them and pile the rest of the work onto the other.
Maybe they can stock the store very generously with their keyboards and mice. Then after people go and buy a Mac in the Apple store, they can stop by the Microsoft store to get a real mouse and keyboard.
Inflation is right now is a real problem for anyone trying to save money. With the Fed doing everything they can to push interest rates down, most any low-risk investment option won't even keep up with inflation nowadays. That forces anyone who wants to get any returns on their investments, or simply to not lose value over time, to jump into riskier investments like stocks. If you ask me, it's a big bubble that's going to come crashing down at some point.
The biggest problem with a laptop screen is the ergonomics. Being hunched over a laptop screen and keyboard for hours starts to get uncomfortable. Sure, sometimes you've got no choice, but otherwise I vastly prefer working on a monitor, keyboard and mouse. The next biggest problem with laptop screens is nowadays you can't get a decent resolution screen in a non-massive laptop, but that's another rant.
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But what about Clippy?
Actually, I would have to say the Office 97 was probably the first version that wouldn't choke on opening documents that it had previously created itself, unlike, say, Office 95.
Agreed. Creepers can be annoying but at least you know when and where they damage your stuff.
Who's to say that the evidence that you speak of is not staring us right in the face? We assume that assume everything out there is natural. However, once you get outside of our immediate neighborhood, you start needing ever increasingly strange physics to describe some of what's going on out there. Doesn't that seem a little odd? What if dark matter and Hubble's constant aren't real, and we're living in the middle of some advanced civilization's gigantic engineering project?
I suppose the message could be to turn on your magical hindsight machine to see if you're going to be safe. Seriously, at the time no one knew the extent of the attacks going on. A good message would be to tell people to stay home (many people would just be starting their day) and to avoid major landmarks and large buildings. If there were more attacks such a message could have saved many lives.
Interesting how you are the one who brought up India, when all the poster talked about was open sewers. Maybe you ought to check your assumptions?
What if everyone was a IPv6 source? Doing P2P when everyone is on IPv6 should be a lot easier than doing P2P when everyone is behind a NAT.
Assuming it's a LCD or plasma TV, by the time you've figured out how to take the damn thing apart and got to to the jack, repaired it, and put it back together you're probably looking at more than an hour's worth of time. I've taken a few apart to do "simple" repairs like that and it's a pain in the ass as generally they are not meant to be taken apart and repaired.
How does HFT add any liquidity? They don't act until they already have a buyer lined up, who is going to pay them more than they are buying. They don't create any new transactions, they only inject themselves as middlemen into transactions that were going to occur anyway. The flash crash was a good example of this - when the pool of buyers suddenly dried up and the HFT firms certainly were not stepping in to take their place.
If you think about it, the number of people correlates better with the size of an economy than the size landmass that the people live on. Hence per capita, despite a few flaws, is much a better measure. Or are you going to argue that Wyoming has a larger economy and should be allowed to pollute more than, say, Delaware?
It may also have to do with Apple suing anyone who makes a device that resembles the iPad's form factor.
What the hell are you talking about? A circa 2001 system isn't going to have USB 2.0, let alone be able to boot from its very slow USB 1.1 ports.
I'm referring to the one-handed Dvorak layouts, which are designed for one handed typing. There's one for right-handed, and one for left-handed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#One-handed_versions
I would think that those layouts would be better for hunting-and-pecking as all the commonly used keys are grouped together. Though I've actually never tried either layout (I use the regular two-handed Dvorak all the time).
Duckduckgo actually gets a lot of it's search results from other search engines, including Bing (as well as Yahoo and others). Though apparently they are operating their own crawler now and have their own index to pull from too. It's actually my search engine of choice too, as I finally got fed up with Google constantly second-guessing me and giving me results for things I didn't search for.
The PIII was pretty solid. Given that the typical AMD system from that period was running the horrible VIA KT133 chipset, Intel had the superior platform though you had to pay for it.
Kind of an interesting place to build a plant. In the unlikely event that anything go catastrophically wrong, it would render a lot more of Belgium's land uninhabitable than France. If I was Belgium, I wouldn't exactly be happy about something like that built almost in my territory that I have absolutely no control over.
I would actually think the one-handed Dvorak variants would work well for phones where you do a lot of one-digit typing, but I've never seen such a feature.
Guess it depends. Often if someone can't make the payments on the car, they can't afford the upkeep and maintenance either.
Need I point out that unless you have a handicap permit, that those spots are strictly off-limits?
Cheap electricity also makes hydrogen powered cars more viable as you can use the electricity as a cheap source of hydrogen.
I think it's the Pontiac Sunfire, and it's not the headlights but the daytime running lights. Been a while since I drove one, but I remember GM used to do odd things with the way their daytime running lights would work.
I once heard that even if we were immortal (no old age, no disease), the average lifespan would still be slightly under 200 years just because of accidents, suicides, murders, wars, and other causes of death. Wish I could remember the source.
That's probably because whenever something gets automated to the point where two people would only have to work 20-30 each hours to accomplish something in a week, they fire one of them and pile the rest of the work onto the other.
Maybe they can stock the store very generously with their keyboards and mice. Then after people go and buy a Mac in the Apple store, they can stop by the Microsoft store to get a real mouse and keyboard.
Inflation is right now is a real problem for anyone trying to save money. With the Fed doing everything they can to push interest rates down, most any low-risk investment option won't even keep up with inflation nowadays. That forces anyone who wants to get any returns on their investments, or simply to not lose value over time, to jump into riskier investments like stocks. If you ask me, it's a big bubble that's going to come crashing down at some point.
The biggest problem with a laptop screen is the ergonomics. Being hunched over a laptop screen and keyboard for hours starts to get uncomfortable. Sure, sometimes you've got no choice, but otherwise I vastly prefer working on a monitor, keyboard and mouse. The next biggest problem with laptop screens is nowadays you can't get a decent resolution screen in a non-massive laptop, but that's another rant.