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  1. Continuing office problems anyways on OpenOffice vs. MS Office for Education? · · Score: 0

    Microsoft Office just plain doesn't work. I have been dealing with importation issues re: office documents and engineering software FOR 5 YEARS DAMMMNNIITT!!!. Using Autocad engine and microstation. The documents DO NOT PASTE CORRECTLY. The results are the same in both applications leading me to believe the faulty code is in the OLE libraries. Windows just plain doesn't work. I have not tried open office with ole on these engines but after a bad week last week I will. I am planning on showing some people here my next laptop. AMD 64 running suse, with Blender as the drafting platform and Open office. I'll let you people know how my install goes..

  2. Re:yes but... on Photo-Centric Handheld Can Be A Doom Console · · Score: 0

    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~weimer/atris/

    http://qtetris.sourceforge.net/

    but screw tetris:

    http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Freeciv

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG

  3. Facts on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 0

    Cia world factbook North Korea
    http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factboo k/geos/ kn.html

    Cia world factbook Iran
    http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook /geos/ ir.html

    I can't find the link, but I read a news article this week that said South Korea would be counting on 690,000 troops from the U.S. in the event of an attack from North Korea. Time for Japan to stop teaching ASIMO to dance and give him an RPG

  4. Still have my original dice... on 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&D · · Score: 0

    Went back to PA from CA this thanksgiving. I came here (CA) in a hurry for a new job, and couldn't pack everything. Needless to say, I have been pining overy my dice since I left. One of the first things I did when I got to PA was to find my dice bag and pack it. I may have to buy some white crayons to re-do the numbers though...

    Playing since 1984, and still going strong.. contact me if you are in lake tahoe and need a dungeon master, I need Players!!! jamesjsheridan at hotmail.com
  5. GNAA RULZ FRANCE!!! on Google-branded Firefox? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GNAA rulz france!! With the introduction of pinktv the GNAA european council has successfully achieved its goal of introducing quasi-lesbian american tv shows from the 1970's into french society. A 30 year program GNAA operatives recruited in the slums of detroit, raised on wonder woman and later trained in the infiltration of french bungholes in the slums of Cameroon, has finally born "fruit".

  6. BAD KARMA!!! on Linus on All Sorts of Stuff · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How could I possibly get bad karma from a site that even has the word BARBARELLA on the page?

  7. mod your snitch cam into a snatch cam on Thinking About the SnitchCam · · Score: 0

    CNET is reporting that a 3rd party developer has developed a 3rd party add-on available only in Japan (of course) that allows snitch cams to see through bikinis, thereby comverting them into fully-fuktional snatch cams

  8. I know on Europe's New ET Life Search Programme · · Score: 1

    I can get her across the border withouth any check points... Not just the hell's angels know how to get across the us/canada borde with no probs.. And I am not being drafted so I can work there.. I plan on voting...

  9. That's Cool on Europe's New ET Life Search Programme · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My sister turns eighteen this year, and with women being placed in combat roles, looming war in IRAN probably for both the EU and the U.S., the specter of a draft has thrown my mother's full support for my plan to emigrate to CANADA. And now I get to take my Sister!!!!!!

  10. GLAD I LEAKED MY SCREEN SHOTS ON P2P on Doom Movie in Production For Aug 2005 Release · · Score: 0, Troll

    It was my awesome performances that inspired the creative genius behind this movie..

  11. Chips now this? on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 1

    I still drive classic cars with carburetors bacause I find them cheaper to maintain, cheaper to buy, and in general (other than totally new cars) more dependable. Not to mention being hardend to magnetic pulse guns the police are starting to introduce. I have a degree in EET, and am well aware of the limitations of microchips. If GM is trying to woo me to buy some of their pricey new products, it's not gonna happen by installing windows.

    Disclaimer: three of my family members work as engineers for FORD.
  12. NOT LEGAL - SO WHAT on GTA: San Andreas Leaked · · Score: 1

    A one sided agreement dictated by one party and backed up with the use of force is not morally binding, whether it is technically legal or not. I never agreed to the distribution system and am indifferent to the legal code. If you want my money you have to come up with a system that I am comfortable with.

  13. huh? on I Love Bees Coming to an End · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If I REALLY loved bees my fire pokers, whips, collars, scourges, iron maidens, and regular maidens would all get soooo lonely.

    oh well, time to get out the asbestos rubbers and rub my love juice all over those hives..
  14. BETTER IDEAS OUT THERE on Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed · · Score: 1

    This is a great piece of the puzzle, allowing methane waste from landfills to be re-cycled. It is only a stepping stone to truly revolutionary and sustainable development. Methane is desirable as a fuel source as it can be generated from both waste and mining. But it is a secondary product of biomass decay. I think that truly revolutionary technologies are available and more advantageous as they stop the actual material from being taken to the landfill in the first place, and can replace oil. Such revolutionary technologies as that can be more effective by solving several problems at once.

  15. doubletalk on FEC May Regulate Online Political Activity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the article:

    "I don't think anybody here wants to impede the free flow of information over the Internet," Weintraub said. "The question then is, where do you draw the line?"

    This statement makes no sense. I could see regulating the flow of money, but that is obviously not the issue here. The issue is at what point do they impose rules on SPEECH. The money will still flow from the corporations to the political parties, but we will no longer be allowed our little sandbox of freedom.
  16. I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR GAY NIGGER UNDERLORDS on Sony Launches DVD-Burning Appliance · · Score: -1, Troll

    yeah> baby>>.

  17. Re:COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE on Genetically-Modified Everything · · Score: 1

    Perhaps ants "modifying" is inaccurate, i refer to the ability of queens to determine the active genes in their offspring, selecting rations of workers, warriors, winged, etc. according to the needs of the environment. This is a tremendous advantage and one that we could conceivably benefit from the ability to do. This ability to select the traits of our children for competitive advantage is one of the 'bugbears' of both cloning and gmo. It would be of great use for us to maintain our dominance over the ecosystem, organize it and spread life into the cosmos. A lot of people who are of an "environmental" bent seek to preserve an ideal environment. The truth is that we are in a highly competitive environment both on this planet, in this galaxy, and universe. We need every advantage to survive at all, never mind maintain our current status at the top of the food chain (generally). Never underestimate you enemy, especially E. COLI

  18. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE on Genetically-Modified Everything · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Other organisms alter their genes purposefully, and share this with their neighbors (bacteria), also others purposefully manipulate their own DNA (ants) just on this planet. As humanity delivers the seed of DNA to other stars and the cosmos it will be to the advantage of all of the creatures we take with us to be able to adapt rapidly to many different environments. Genetic Modification is necessary not only for the advancement of the human species, but for all life in the solar system as strive to expand our reach ever outward. Anyone who is opposed to Genetic Engineering does not see the entire picture.

  19. ONLY ON SLASHDOT on Rio Karma User Review · · Score: 1

    Could someone who is obviously just a KARMA WHORE get listed as a "review"

  20. Re:Worse jobs... on One Terrible Job: IT Manager · · Score: 1

    Nice sig... I just wonder if Jesus got some sort of racial bonus, is he a half - elf perhaps?

  21. IT Manager on One Terrible Job: IT Manager · · Score: 1

    I agree that this job sucks, I quit a similar position, albeit in a small organization, because I could not cope with the superstition and demands of a management team that was completely out of touch with the realities of the computing environment. Yes you do make more than minimum wage, you work in a climate controlled environment, yada yada. I now work for a survey company in Lake Tahoe, My office is the sierra woodlands 50% of the time, and when a high-ranking member of our team needs help burning a CD, I refer them to the IT department... I am sure my blood pressure has dropped considerably..... And now I have more energy and computer lust to contribute to open-source projects yahooo!!!!!

  22. IT SUPPORT on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who the F**k is there it consultant? Didn't he ever hear of an off-site backup? The search warrant did not revoke their right to operate, just that they turn over the RACKSPACE drives. An off-site back up, and a few hundred dollars could have gotten them back up in a jiffy. It would be very advantageous to have the off-site back-up to be read only to prevent the argument that it too had to be seized in order to do forensic analysis to detect erased material. Learn from this ye who yearn to cry in the dark.

  23. I GOT MY ACCOUNT!!!!! on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    NOw, can someone e-mail me doom3? - oh, and the codecs to play gay nigger from outer space? -THNX (JUST KIDDING ABOUT DOOM3 I WOULD NEVER INFRINGE)

  24. Great on 2.2 inch LCD Display featuring VGA Resolution · · Score: 1

    Movie theaters for all those guys in gulliver's travels...

  25. Government Regulations on Vehicles of Tomorrow? · · Score: 0, Troll

    All of this "intelligent" car crap is possible, but in the U.S. is basically illegal. Powered car systems are required to default to operator control in all situations. This is ostensibly to ensure that these futuristic systems do not cause any damage. In truth, the purpose of the automobile in modern U.S. society is not as a transportation device. Transportation was faster and cheaper in Los Angeles BEFORE the invention of the automobile. This is probably true of most very large cities. Of course smaller cities without established public transportation benefit from the automobile. Nevertheless, it is absolutely imperative for the United States government to keep the responsibility of the car in the hands of the driver in order to maintain the voluntary I.D. system represented by the Driver's License. In order to protect the vested interests, and to maintain the loop-hole that allows the government "search and seizure rights" that circumbent the Bill of Rights it is very unlikely that I will be able to get in a Johnny Cab anytime soon. And that sucks.