Generally, most people use a word processor to edit their own documents, not somebody else's
Why was this modded insightful? In a business environment, a document seldom is edited by only one person. Yeah, typical home use would have one user at the buttons. But then do you think that all those Word features are for the typical home user?
I couldn't agree more. But, being the open source lover that I am, I figured that I could log a bug for something easy: pagenumbers in the table of contents misaligned when you import from an MS Word document.
1. Log bug
2. See mails flying about the problem
3. Wait for more than a year
Sigh... OOo is NEVER going to take over the world if they don't have flawless im/export!!!
Try editing a client/colleague's Word document, save it and send it back. Wait till they reply/call you and say that the document is mangled. It's not that good.
What people should realize, is that it can cost quite a bit of effort to build a unittest. I.e. if you write some code that reads several rows from a database and as a result writes a bunch of rows in another table, you need to run scripts before and after your unittest. It's of course all doable, it's just that it's sometimes more work than writing the method itself.
[sarcasm]Good idea. I would definitely move because their PC is unsecured. Moving is fun and it's SO easy to find alternative housing. Of course, my girlfriend really likes moving, too.[/sarcasm]
Why in the holy name of cosmic Chaos is this modded insightful??
I have an additional question while people are reading this thread: I have a Dell D600 which has a severe harddisk heat problem. The harddisk heats up and because it is located under the left palm area, it gets uncomfortably warm there. I wanted to cool this disk, but there's almost no room. Could I try to transfer the heat using some sort of heat-conducting strip? The CD drive bay could be emptied so I could conduct the heat to that place and dissipate it using a small cooler.
Questions I have: what sort of strip (material?) should I use to conduct heat to the empty drive bay? Can it be really thin, like 1mm? And would any small cooler be enough? Or could I connect the heat conducting strip to the drive bay cover? (it's made of some sort of aluminium, AFAIK). The drive runs up to 55C. I'd prefer not to use a fan.
I'd like to see the video of your babysitter after you're gone too....
Aaaahhh that brings back memories. When I was fourteen, I decided I'd like a glass of water and when I walked into the living room, the babysitter was going at it with her boyfriend. I didn't get my glass of water but it was pretty educational:D
And if you refuse to submit to Trusted Computing then your friends and family and boss all blame YOU for having an old obsolete and incompatible machine, that YOU are causing the problem.
This is funny, but true. I've had similar situations using OpenOffice. I'd receive MS Office documents and after editing with OpenOffice, sometimes a glitch would occur in the MS Word-export. Then colleagues and/or the boss would come up to me saying to stop using OpenOffice and just "run MS Office like everybody else".
And you didn't know this before you bought the equipment? Don't be daft, man. I've bought mobile telephones, CD players, video recorders, etc which went broke. It's no use repairing them. That's the world we live in. I still maintain that you're whining.
I bought a keyboard from Kinesis. It broke after the warranty of two years. $300 down the drain. That's how it goes.
Maybe I could've bought an extended warranty, but I thought I'd take the chance. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. I think it's a bit childish to start whining in a public forum when you decided to take the chance and lost.
OTOH if they refuse to cooperate within the guarantee, then you fully stand in your rights.
Any competent group generally needs to be able to handle a mix of languages
I find that statement a bit strong. In my experience, most people are fluent (i.e. practiced, experienced) with only one or maybe two programming languages. Getting to know a language and its assorted libraries can take quite some time, and the knowledge quickly gets old. Coding in both Java and C++ is probably already too much for most people.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Gaim related to offshore work yet. I've been using Gaim extensively to work with the offshore part of the team. Works like a charm. It's not so intrusive as the phone, and it also circumvents language barriers. I'm not exactly Betazoid and sometimes have a problem understanding their English, instant messaging neatly circumvents this.
Now you could say this about any instant messaging client, but Gaim supports a nice bunch of protocols and VERY regularly brings out a new update. There have been a number of problems with Yahoo in the 0.7x series, but these have been gone for long now. I plan on using it for a LONG time to come.
I've wanted to use paypal to donate, but they don't support that; instead they sell stuff on eBay but I find that too much of a hassle.
The *only* way to build Linux gaming community is via native Linux ports [...] There will be no "Linux gaming community", not until Linux gamers accept similar solution.
Yeah you're SO right. I use Linux exclusively, but I run Microsoft Office with Crossover Office. So, I am a member of the Windows Office community.
Your logic is truly astounding. Your moderators too.
Can we please skip these sort of comments? I read one out of every ten stories. Do you see me complaining in the other nine? And why the fsck is this modded up? What is 'insightful' about complaining?
I don't buy this shit. You say you work 80 productive hours per week? Let's do the math. I assume you take sunday off. Each of those other six days, you have to get up at 06:00 AM, start at 07:00 AM and finish by 08:30 PM. Then you can be home at 09:00 PM, make dinner and eat at 09:30 PM. After dinner, you have to go to bed otherwise you're having trouble getting up at 06:00 AM again.
Note that NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING fits in this schedule. No parents, no friends, no significant other, no dog, no hobby, no TV. Of course, when you spend time on any of those, that's not working.
they don't have the balls to push back and say "no"
True, and your "no" better really be "no" instead of hinting "I'll be quite busy, I might not be able to pick up the phone".
I said this to my project manager and of course he didn't get the hint. So when I finished talking to the real estate agent, I had missed thirteen phone calls.
Now I ask you, who the fsck would call **13** times when the phone is not being picked up?
Look at how much trouble OO.o has with Word... and they can afford to get things wrong.
That's a pet peeve of mine. Maybe they think they can, but you know what? Me and almost every one of my colleagues has tried OOo -- after which they concluded it was too much of a hassle with the far-from-perfect im/export filters.
The OOo guys are setting the wrong priorities, if you ask me.
And to make this post on-topic: if the Scribus guys want to have some of that MS Publisher market share, I couldn't agree more with you: they better have their im-/export facilities right.
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Why was this modded insightful? In a business environment, a document seldom is edited by only one person. Yeah, typical home use would have one user at the buttons. But then do you think that all those Word features are for the typical home user?
1. Log bug 2. See mails flying about the problem 3. Wait for more than a year
Sigh... OOo is NEVER going to take over the world if they don't have flawless im/export!!!
Try editing a client/colleague's Word document, save it and send it back. Wait till they reply/call you and say that the document is mangled. It's not that good.
LOL sorry, I misunderstood... *slaps forehead*
What people should realize, is that it can cost quite a bit of effort to build a unittest. I.e. if you write some code that reads several rows from a database and as a result writes a bunch of rows in another table, you need to run scripts before and after your unittest. It's of course all doable, it's just that it's sometimes more work than writing the method itself.
[sarcasm]Good idea. I would definitely move because their PC is unsecured. Moving is fun and it's SO easy to find alternative housing. Of course, my girlfriend really likes moving, too.[/sarcasm]
Why in the holy name of cosmic Chaos is this modded insightful??
Here's a pic of the internals: http://www.josesandoval.com/images/D600Fix2.jpg. The harddisk is in the lower left, the drive bay is in the middle right (the big grey cover).
Questions I have: what sort of strip (material?) should I use to conduct heat to the empty drive bay? Can it be really thin, like 1mm? And would any small cooler be enough? Or could I connect the heat conducting strip to the drive bay cover? (it's made of some sort of aluminium, AFAIK). The drive runs up to 55C. I'd prefer not to use a fan.
We lived on the countryside where noone could hear you scream...
Aaaahhh that brings back memories. When I was fourteen, I decided I'd like a glass of water and when I walked into the living room, the babysitter was going at it with her boyfriend. I didn't get my glass of water but it was pretty educational :D
This is funny, but true. I've had similar situations using OpenOffice. I'd receive MS Office documents and after editing with OpenOffice, sometimes a glitch would occur in the MS Word-export. Then colleagues and/or the boss would come up to me saying to stop using OpenOffice and just "run MS Office like everybody else".
In the end, I bought Crossover Office and be done with it.
Japanese (?) commercial: Asian_girls_do_it_best.mpeg. Pretty funny. It's office safe.
And you didn't know this before you bought the equipment? Don't be daft, man. I've bought mobile telephones, CD players, video recorders, etc which went broke. It's no use repairing them. That's the world we live in. I still maintain that you're whining.
Maybe I could've bought an extended warranty, but I thought I'd take the chance. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. I think it's a bit childish to start whining in a public forum when you decided to take the chance and lost.
OTOH if they refuse to cooperate within the guarantee, then you fully stand in your rights.
I don't see how this is different from other products that have a one year guarantee.
A lesbian couple? Lucky you! :-)
I find that statement a bit strong. In my experience, most people are fluent (i.e. practiced, experienced) with only one or maybe two programming languages. Getting to know a language and its assorted libraries can take quite some time, and the knowledge quickly gets old. Coding in both Java and C++ is probably already too much for most people.
Now you could say this about any instant messaging client, but Gaim supports a nice bunch of protocols and VERY regularly brings out a new update. There have been a number of problems with Yahoo in the 0.7x series, but these have been gone for long now. I plan on using it for a LONG time to come.
I've wanted to use paypal to donate, but they don't support that; instead they sell stuff on eBay but I find that too much of a hassle.
Is this ViaVoice? The linux packages have been pulled off the IBM site a year or so ago but they're still floating around.
Yeah you're SO right. I use Linux exclusively, but I run Microsoft Office with Crossover Office. So, I am a member of the Windows Office community.
Your logic is truly astounding. Your moderators too.
Can we please skip these sort of comments? I read one out of every ten stories. Do you see me complaining in the other nine? And why the fsck is this modded up? What is 'insightful' about complaining?
I don't buy this shit. You say you work 80 productive hours per week? Let's do the math. I assume you take sunday off. Each of those other six days, you have to get up at 06:00 AM, start at 07:00 AM and finish by 08:30 PM. Then you can be home at 09:00 PM, make dinner and eat at 09:30 PM. After dinner, you have to go to bed otherwise you're having trouble getting up at 06:00 AM again.
Note that NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING fits in this schedule. No parents, no friends, no significant other, no dog, no hobby, no TV. Of course, when you spend time on any of those, that's not working.
True, and your "no" better really be "no" instead of hinting "I'll be quite busy, I might not be able to pick up the phone".
I said this to my project manager and of course he didn't get the hint. So when I finished talking to the real estate agent, I had missed thirteen phone calls.
Now I ask you, who the fsck would call **13** times when the phone is not being picked up?
You call that freaky? I use a hidden camera for that.
(just kidding people)
That's a pet peeve of mine. Maybe they think they can, but you know what? Me and almost every one of my colleagues has tried OOo -- after which they concluded it was too much of a hassle with the far-from-perfect im/export filters.
The OOo guys are setting the wrong priorities, if you ask me.
And to make this post on-topic: if the Scribus guys want to have some of that MS Publisher market share, I couldn't agree more with you: they better have their im-/export facilities right.
Well, why don't you check the site?