I hate to break it to you, but your sister is just stupid. My 8 year old nephew is fully aware that the the Internet isn't everything and that landlines tend to work even when there is no power. He's fully capable of ordering from any place on the list of numbers hanging off the fridge as long as you provide him with some way to pay.
Being worried about the exact spot a graphic is in means you give two shits about how your presentation looks. It's a presentation, so like, visuals are sort of key.
You've already failed.
Powerpoint presentations are almost universally bad because people spend more time making the presentation than they do making the content they are going to speak about, and you're just type type of person confirming that fact.
The visuals of a presentation either need to present and image/animation/movie of something that can't be described by the speaker accurately enough, or simply a rehash of the major bullet points of the presentation itself.
The powerpoint IS NOT THE PRESENTATION, it is a SECONDARY AID to help with the speaker's description.
Unless the aspect ratio is WAY off, it is irrelevant. HTML is PERFECTLY acceptable for presentations if they are done properly.
The issue you have with HTML versus powerpoint means you're doing it wrong in the first place, not that HTML is the issue.
I don't know about Win8 as I haven't bothered/needed to try yet, but I maintain a VB6 app using the VB6 IDE on Windows 7 currently. Works the same as it always has. Add VB6ScrollWheel fix and it sucks a little less than they originally intended too.
I have a MacBook pro sitting next to me right now that has a nice dent in it because I sat it down and it touched the corner of the desk first.
The 2009 model denys easy as shit.
I REALLY like my MacBook Pro (Typing this on a decked out 15" Retina as a matter of fact) but they do dent easy. The bottom cover is extremely thin, its not the least bit surprising that they dent all the time.
Plastic doesn't tend to dent, it flexes and then flexes back or cracks. Metal dents.
I'd bet a weeks pay that you can't find a single electronic device/appliance in your home that doesn't have something from Foxconn in it, and that was true before you even knew who they were.
EVERY PC made in the last 10 years has Foxconn components in it.
So... everyone joined to ActiveDirectory then eh? Its been known that NTLM hashes could be reused for years.
And for the record, my Samba servers have been using kerberos for years, not sure why yours aren't. Shitty admin perhaps? Must be as the previous stated reason is what causes a clueful admin to move to kerberos back in 2001 when XP made it possible to use network wide.
When you start mixing unix and windows servers on a domain you pretty much start off by switching everything to kerberos so everything works properly.
Mommy may want to buy some shitty Ouya console cause its cheap, but little Jimmy won't want to play this shitty half assed games on it.
Seriously, do you think people WANT to phone quality graphics on a 60" TV? No, they don't even want to see it on a 15" laptop.
Anyone who thinks streamed games have chance hasn't played a game. Even for turn based games, lag that is noticeable sucks ass, and no ones internet is lag free all the time. Even if the last mile doesnt' lag, there are plenty of other hops to cause problems and introduce lag.
Consoles, current or next gen, have no worries at all about being beat out by a Gamestick or Ouya console, local or streamed. Anyone who thinks this is utterly disconnected from reality.
No, you don't need to give away software. You don't even need to give away GPL'd software (nothing stops you from charging money for software under that license).
I'm really tired of seeing this utterly retarded statement.
What prevents me from charging for it is that the first person that pays me for it can then turn around and provide a virtually unlimited supply for no cost to anyone who wants it.
Saying there is nothing that stops it shows you have absolutely no fucking clue how the economy works.
There is no room for competition in RMS's world. No incentive to produce a better product since any other person can just steal it and do what you do. You can not put effort into giving yourself an edge because you have to then give your edge to everyone else.
Why is it that they fix the case sensitive issue (I assume, since Linux is case sensitive by default) for Linux, but the Mac client still refuses to work on a case sensistive volume?
WHAT THE FUCK?
I could ramble on about how you actively have to do something stupid to not support case sensitive, but I'll leave that for another day.
I can't speak to #1 as I don't have any spreadsheets complex enough to max out the processor long enough for me to notice. #2 is false. #3 is false. #4 is false, his system is fucked if thats the case as its not up to excel to support the feature, its built into the OS. #5 may be true, I've not yet noticed, but I wouldn't call that a bug, I'd call it a feature. Nothing is more annoying that moving a document to the trash, replacing a backup at the old location, then opening an app and having it edit the document in the trash rather than the one you restored, only to discover the problem after you delete the trash. #6 not sure of. #7 So do a lot of apps that provide functionality that the built in clipboard doesn't provide. Closing the app gets you a prompt that asks if you want to store the actual data on the clip board or clear it. If you tell it to store on the clipboard it renders to a more generic format and places it there, which is the same thing that happens when you copy from an office app to a non-office app anyway. While office apps are open, they don't store ALL the data from a copy on the clipboard, just the required reference to the data so it can be pulled up as needed. This is the EXACT SAME WAY it works on Windows.
Please? Can we just kill him and be done with this useless bag of shit?
As near as I can tell, never in his life has he actually been a useful member of society. Thats not a crime in and of itself of course, but he actively goes out of his way to show examples of why he shouldn't be permitted to waste oxygen and water resources.
This is a prime example of when a drone strike should be permitted on a US citizen.
I'd say just execute him in a normal way, but his flamboyant behavior deserves a proportional removal from the planet. Just shooting or hanging him would be an unfitting end.
I myself as well as a few people I know have/were drug addicts to the extreme and were perfectly capable of hiding it from direct relation sometimes even those that lived with us. Hell I did it for years by just being 'discrete' about it and it wasn't until I brought it up that other people found out I did drugs even though I was pretty much high the entire time I was around them for YEARS.
Just because you are unable to function and be a drug addict doesn't mean the rest of us are as slow as you are.
I assure you, I could be sober or stoned off my ass on various different drugs and you'd never know.
Or the way, once or twice a year, Eclipse just goes senile and forgets how to build Android projects, and the only way to fix it is to create a brand new project and reimport everything into it by hand?
With revision control and diff it seems to me that this can not possibly be only fixable by creating a new project. Sounds a lot more like you don't know how to troubleshoot something for shit.
It seems to me to be a retarded description, like calling infinity + 1 a negative number.
They need to use a proper name for it, not something that only makes sense if your the kind of person that likes to say things in such a way that no one else understands what you mean just so you can claim its technically correct with a smug attitude.
Your just looking at the wrong CPU. An Atom processor maybe controlling the general function, but there's some other processor(s) handling the hard work then.
High speed IO still requires high speed processing.
There are plenty of Over the Counter drugs you could take that would knock you out fairly quickly with 1/4 the dose and have no noticeably different effect with 4 times the dose.
Benadryl comes to mind as a drug thats safe to use to knock many things out without harm even with wildly different dosages. Pretty much any antihistamine for that matter.
Yes, and they are a lie. There really is no such thing. It may be 'sealed' but all it takes is a judge ordering it unsealed so that they can use it in court.
Its a silly saying used to trick kids into behaving better. Not that I'm against using it, but you never have anything on your 'record' truely 'expunged' and 'sealed' means your insurance guy can't see it, nothing more.
It already is. If you listen to all the hype, you save money by buying electricity rather than gasoline already. If thats not true than we shouldn't by all uppity about EV anyway.
What should happen is all vehicles should be taxed based on milage * average weight per contact surface (may classify different types such as wheel/tire versus track), regardless of type pf powerplant used.
Sure, if you drive out of state a lot, the wrong state will be getting the tax money, however when done on a nationwide scale, this balances itself out and really isn't an issue except for those uppity people who want to claim they shouldn't be taxed for driving in another state and neither should Amazon.
Problem solved. You should still save money (at least until you take battery replacement costs into account) driving EV over combustion engine powered, hence there is an obvious incentive do drive an EV.
Of course the reality of it is, if you actually look at the total cost per mile traveled with an EV, its worse, not better than a good old gas guzzler.
In a few years when the next next next awesome battery tech comes along, that will probably change.
Until then I don't want to hear any bullshit about incentizing EVs just like I don't want to hear any Ethanol subsidy bullshit.
I thought EVs were supposed to be cheaper anyway already, how many more incentives do you need or are you admitting the 'its cheaper!' battlecry is bunk?
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I hate to break it to you, but your sister is just stupid. My 8 year old nephew is fully aware that the the Internet isn't everything and that landlines tend to work even when there is no power. He's fully capable of ordering from any place on the list of numbers hanging off the fridge as long as you provide him with some way to pay.
Being worried about the exact spot a graphic is in means you give two shits about how your presentation looks. It's a presentation, so like, visuals are sort of key.
You've already failed.
Powerpoint presentations are almost universally bad because people spend more time making the presentation than they do making the content they are going to speak about, and you're just type type of person confirming that fact.
The visuals of a presentation either need to present and image/animation/movie of something that can't be described by the speaker accurately enough, or simply a rehash of the major bullet points of the presentation itself.
The powerpoint IS NOT THE PRESENTATION, it is a SECONDARY AID to help with the speaker's description.
Unless the aspect ratio is WAY off, it is irrelevant. HTML is PERFECTLY acceptable for presentations if they are done properly.
The issue you have with HTML versus powerpoint means you're doing it wrong in the first place, not that HTML is the issue.
I don't know about Win8 as I haven't bothered/needed to try yet, but I maintain a VB6 app using the VB6 IDE on Windows 7 currently. Works the same as it always has. Add VB6ScrollWheel fix and it sucks a little less than they originally intended too.
And the same is true with many other communications protocols.
Skype isn't impressive.
selling high end -anything- is hard these days. "which is cheaper? I'll get that one."
Apple must have missed your memo, they seem to have no problem selling high end.
I have a MacBook pro sitting next to me right now that has a nice dent in it because I sat it down and it touched the corner of the desk first.
The 2009 model denys easy as shit.
I REALLY like my MacBook Pro (Typing this on a decked out 15" Retina as a matter of fact) but they do dent easy. The bottom cover is extremely thin, its not the least bit surprising that they dent all the time.
Plastic doesn't tend to dent, it flexes and then flexes back or cracks. Metal dents.
I'd bet a weeks pay that you can't find a single electronic device/appliance in your home that doesn't have something from Foxconn in it, and that was true before you even knew who they were.
EVERY PC made in the last 10 years has Foxconn components in it.
So ... everyone joined to ActiveDirectory then eh? Its been known that NTLM hashes could be reused for years.
And for the record, my Samba servers have been using kerberos for years, not sure why yours aren't. Shitty admin perhaps? Must be as the previous stated reason is what causes a clueful admin to move to kerberos back in 2001 when XP made it possible to use network wide.
When you start mixing unix and windows servers on a domain you pretty much start off by switching everything to kerberos so everything works properly.
They won't keep up.
Mommy may want to buy some shitty Ouya console cause its cheap, but little Jimmy won't want to play this shitty half assed games on it.
Seriously, do you think people WANT to phone quality graphics on a 60" TV? No, they don't even want to see it on a 15" laptop.
Anyone who thinks streamed games have chance hasn't played a game. Even for turn based games, lag that is noticeable sucks ass, and no ones internet is lag free all the time. Even if the last mile doesnt' lag, there are plenty of other hops to cause problems and introduce lag.
Consoles, current or next gen, have no worries at all about being beat out by a Gamestick or Ouya console, local or streamed. Anyone who thinks this is utterly disconnected from reality.
No, you don't need to give away software. You don't even need to give away GPL'd software (nothing stops you from charging money for software under that license).
I'm really tired of seeing this utterly retarded statement.
What prevents me from charging for it is that the first person that pays me for it can then turn around and provide a virtually unlimited supply for no cost to anyone who wants it.
Saying there is nothing that stops it shows you have absolutely no fucking clue how the economy works.
Wrong. It destroys the playing field.
There is no room for competition in RMS's world. No incentive to produce a better product since any other person can just steal it and do what you do. You can not put effort into giving yourself an edge because you have to then give your edge to everyone else.
Also, I don't really think it's the job of programmers to make an elegant UI.
You and every other person who works on OSS desktop software. And this is why it will never rule the world.
Why is it that they fix the case sensitive issue (I assume, since Linux is case sensitive by default) for Linux, but the Mac client still refuses to work on a case sensistive volume?
WHAT THE FUCK?
I could ramble on about how you actively have to do something stupid to not support case sensitive, but I'll leave that for another day.
RMS doesnt' fucking bath or shave and tends to eat his own toe jam. Following RMS's example is one of the more retarded things you do in your life.
The person you're replying too is trolling.
I can't speak to #1 as I don't have any spreadsheets complex enough to max out the processor long enough for me to notice.
#2 is false.
#3 is false.
#4 is false, his system is fucked if thats the case as its not up to excel to support the feature, its built into the OS.
#5 may be true, I've not yet noticed, but I wouldn't call that a bug, I'd call it a feature. Nothing is more annoying that moving a document to the trash, replacing a backup at the old location, then opening an app and having it edit the document in the trash rather than the one you restored, only to discover the problem after you delete the trash.
#6 not sure of.
#7 So do a lot of apps that provide functionality that the built in clipboard doesn't provide. Closing the app gets you a prompt that asks if you want to store the actual data on the clip board or clear it. If you tell it to store on the clipboard it renders to a more generic format and places it there, which is the same thing that happens when you copy from an office app to a non-office app anyway. While office apps are open, they don't store ALL the data from a copy on the clipboard, just the required reference to the data so it can be pulled up as needed. This is the EXACT SAME WAY it works on Windows.
Please? Can we just kill him and be done with this useless bag of shit?
As near as I can tell, never in his life has he actually been a useful member of society. Thats not a crime in and of itself of course, but he actively goes out of his way to show examples of why he shouldn't be permitted to waste oxygen and water resources.
This is a prime example of when a drone strike should be permitted on a US citizen.
I'd say just execute him in a normal way, but his flamboyant behavior deserves a proportional removal from the planet. Just shooting or hanging him would be an unfitting end.
You're just stupid, nothing more.
I myself as well as a few people I know have/were drug addicts to the extreme and were perfectly capable of hiding it from direct relation sometimes even those that lived with us. Hell I did it for years by just being 'discrete' about it and it wasn't until I brought it up that other people found out I did drugs even though I was pretty much high the entire time I was around them for YEARS.
Just because you are unable to function and be a drug addict doesn't mean the rest of us are as slow as you are.
I assure you, I could be sober or stoned off my ass on various different drugs and you'd never know.
Or the way, once or twice a year, Eclipse just goes senile and forgets how to build Android projects, and the only way to fix it is to create a brand new project and reimport everything into it by hand?
With revision control and diff it seems to me that this can not possibly be only fixable by creating a new project. Sounds a lot more like you don't know how to troubleshoot something for shit.
It seems to me to be a retarded description, like calling infinity + 1 a negative number.
They need to use a proper name for it, not something that only makes sense if your the kind of person that likes to say things in such a way that no one else understands what you mean just so you can claim its technically correct with a smug attitude.
Your just looking at the wrong CPU. An Atom processor maybe controlling the general function, but there's some other processor(s) handling the hard work then.
High speed IO still requires high speed processing.
There are plenty of Over the Counter drugs you could take that would knock you out fairly quickly with 1/4 the dose and have no noticeably different effect with 4 times the dose.
Benadryl comes to mind as a drug thats safe to use to knock many things out without harm even with wildly different dosages. Pretty much any antihistamine for that matter.
Ever heard of a sealed or expunged juvenile file?
Yes, and they are a lie. There really is no such thing. It may be 'sealed' but all it takes is a judge ordering it unsealed so that they can use it in court.
Its a silly saying used to trick kids into behaving better. Not that I'm against using it, but you never have anything on your 'record' truely 'expunged' and 'sealed' means your insurance guy can't see it, nothing more.
Does it not surprise anyone else that one of their first thoughts was to drug test the milkshake?
I can not possibly imagine waking up groggy and at any point thinking 'Was I drugged?!?!?!'
It already is. If you listen to all the hype, you save money by buying electricity rather than gasoline already. If thats not true than we shouldn't by all uppity about EV anyway.
What should happen is all vehicles should be taxed based on milage * average weight per contact surface (may classify different types such as wheel/tire versus track), regardless of type pf powerplant used.
Sure, if you drive out of state a lot, the wrong state will be getting the tax money, however when done on a nationwide scale, this balances itself out and really isn't an issue except for those uppity people who want to claim they shouldn't be taxed for driving in another state and neither should Amazon.
Problem solved. You should still save money (at least until you take battery replacement costs into account) driving EV over combustion engine powered, hence there is an obvious incentive do drive an EV.
Of course the reality of it is, if you actually look at the total cost per mile traveled with an EV, its worse, not better than a good old gas guzzler.
In a few years when the next next next awesome battery tech comes along, that will probably change.
Until then I don't want to hear any bullshit about incentizing EVs just like I don't want to hear any Ethanol subsidy bullshit.
I thought EVs were supposed to be cheaper anyway already, how many more incentives do you need or are you admitting the 'its cheaper!' battlecry is bunk?