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  1. Re: Throw them in the trash... on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? · · Score: 1

    You're mistaking mockery for anger.

  2. Re:Invisible Hand. on Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    at limited skill levels like a welder at a Navy shipyard

    You do not know what you're talking about.

  3. Well, you started with "What kills LibreOffice is that no one uses a desktop office suite anymore." which is factually incorrect. (no one includes businesses) Perhaps you could cite for us which applications are more used.

  4. Having a thesaurus integrated is a near must for a writer.

    As well as a dictionary and (for OO & LO) secondary dictionaries you get ot populate specific to your writing with auto-correct keyed to them.

  5. Re:Are you using it on a 1999 Mac? on LibreOffice 5.4 Adds More New Features, Improves Office File Format Compatibility (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, in my case I use OO 3.1 and the document I referenced in another comment is 186,274 words and opened in less than half a second. That's from no OO running, double clicking an icon for the document until ready to type. That is not slow.

    Anyone with a frustration level of 1 second (much less .1) has the problems, not the software.

  6. Re:Are you using it on a 1999 Mac? on LibreOffice 5.4 Adds More New Features, Improves Office File Format Compatibility (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I just opened a 523 page manuscript and it took less that half a second. I use OO.

  7. The problem is most manifest whenever you hit the artificial "page" boundary, especially if you edit the start or middle of a book, and it needs to recalculate all following "pages".

    Apparently that's changed since OO. I don't have any page numbering lag issues and I'm not one who starts page one and writes to end. I jump all over the place.

  8. Re:Surely they mean nitrates and phosphates? on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Those who wish others to take a particular course of action should work harder to make sure that they communicate in ways that are proven to make others to take a particular course of action.

    In other words, deploy propaganda.

  9. Remember the cheating scandal? on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here: http://magazines.scholastic.co...

    Same thing's going to happen with internships.

  10. Re:Cue the outrage! on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    That's true only if you're unaware of how much that field has been infiltrated by the social science people.

  11. Pfft!! Big deal. on One Man's Two-Year Quest Not to Finish Final Fantasy VII (newyorker.com) · · Score: 2

    I spent the last two years not even making the attempt.

  12. Re:TV Shows - ALL episodes at once on Netflix Shows Are All Worldwide Hits -- Until They're Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    One problem is the lag time before another season. If you have ten episodes spaced out one per week that's two and a half months. All at once is a week. Say the delay until the next season is six months, the first is only a 3.5 month wait and the second almost an entire six months. Interest wanes.

  13. Re:Success can be cancelled on Netflix Shows Are All Worldwide Hits -- Until They're Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At first. But - never *ever* bring back a character that you have demonstrably killed off. Do that and the viewer will then rightfully think that every closure, regardless of how small, is just a plot device to be demonstrated as a trick later. Lazy third grade story telling. No, sorry, not even an eight year old does that.

  14. Re:Dear Netflix, a bit of advice on Netflix Shows Are All Worldwide Hits -- Until They're Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you might enjoy Netflix's Jessica Jones. Oh, wait.

  15. Re:The Down Side on Netflix Shows Are All Worldwide Hits -- Until They're Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Indeed. Both are adequate rebuttals of some knee-jerk call of racist.

  16. not so great for competitors on Netflix Shows Are All Worldwide Hits -- Until They're Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And the problem with that is what?

  17. Re:WTF Are you Serious? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    Many, many years of coding in COBOL here. No you do not translate the abstraction of code into English to grok it. You translate it into (kinda) English to implement it. You had better have grokked it's abstraction before that happens.

  18. It's *code* on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    I don't translate code into English when I read or write it. I don't need to nor would I want to.

  19. Re:A double-sided problem... on The Oculus Rift Still Isn't Selling, In a Worrying Sign For VR (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    XBox is a subset of gaming. PS is a subset. There are many PC games, FPS and otherwise and many games have cross-platform. No point made.

  20. Re:Reading thoughts vs Inputting thoughts on Former Oculus Exec Predicts Telepathy Within 10 Years (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Not to mention she says the beam of light would penetrate the friggin' skull forcefully enough to provide bounce back. Gotta hurt.

  21. To occur immediately after promised flying cars. on Former Oculus Exec Predicts Telepathy Within 10 Years (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And we've been waiting how long for those? The woman is spouting bullshit. Watch for a money grab.

  22. Re:Reading thoughts vs Inputting thoughts on Former Oculus Exec Predicts Telepathy Within 10 Years (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You, sir or ma'am, do not understand what the word telepathy means.

    "the supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses."

    MRIs are not capable of telling you what thoughts or ideas someone has, regardless of the hype.

  23. Re:Answer is NO on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Doing what you promised to do is not an unusual definition of friendship.

  24. Re:I choose on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    social media, a place where humans are nothing more than a product.

    You're conflating the owner of the media (FB, /.) with the people using it. Unless, of course, you actually see your friends and acquaintances as products.

    People used to value a real friendship.

    They still do, you need to find better friends.

  25. Re:I choose on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly my POV as well.