And Microsoft is planning to release an online version of Office 2010 [cnn.com]... And I'm yet to hear of similar plans from the OpenOffice scene.
why no online version? probably because online document editing and storage is a horrible, horrible idea.
Add to that the little fact that the online Office 2010 is a subscription based service. Stop making payments, kiss it goodbye.
Maybe I'm too old school, but I remember VERY well using a timeshare terminal hooked up to a mini mainframe, and I welcomed the PC when it came out because I could use my apps on my own workstation without having to worry about using time on the mini mainframe.
Only problem I ran into when I upgraded to 9.04 was with Fluxbox. It worked on the laptop, but not so well on the desktop machine. Turns out I hadda delete ONE file in my flux directory to make it work right. Took me awhile to figure that out. I tend to hold off a few days after the new releases to dist update to allow everybody else to step in the minefield for me.
The problem is, Office tends to be 'compatible enough', certainly to the point where most people don't think twice about which version a.doc is created in when they open it.
OpenOffice has yet to reach that threshold.
I just save all my OO.o documents as 'Office XP' docs & spreadsheets. ZERO problems with formatting so far when my buddy (using the latest and greatest MS Office) opens them. And I use some strangeassed templates, too...
The crawler is going to get seriously depressed if it crawls YouTube conversations.
I'm just wondering what they'll do when it hits 4chan. Do they block that, or do they send all that to the FBI & let them wade thru the pedobear posts?
[Deity/] himself will lead them, for they will be doing His work. There will be absolution and remission of sins for all who die in the service of [Deity/]. Here they are poor and miserable sinners; there they will be rich and happy. Let none hesitate; they must march next summer. [Deity/] wills it!
And for 100 extra points, which Catholic pope of the 1100s said that to whip up support for a Crusade? Fanaticism isn't restricted to Islam, you know...
But given that the same song said that "President Clinton should delete them", I guess it wasn't as popular as it could have been:) and sadly, since 9/11 they are actually percieved to have a job again.
Strange. Kennedy fired Dulles & his Number Two, then wrote a couple executive orders breaking the CIA into a thousand pieces to be swallowed up by the various military intelligence services. His body was still cooling off when LBJ rescinded those orders and ended up starting the Vietnam War.
The Russian Federation's experiences with ex-spooks (former KGB officers) tells us that if you fire them, they'll just go underground as criminals. Russian Mafia, anybody?
Why a US government agency needs an "investment arm?"
To help fund off the books black ops projects, of course. Can't exactly go before the House Budget Committee and request multiple millions for bribe money to be used on foreign dictators, now, can you? And to provide plausible deniability, like 'Air America' back during the Vietnam days.
And just to avoid making a pedantry post elsewhere, I'll roll in a comment to the GP that it's a six day creation, not seven. The seventh day was a well-earned rest and probably spent browsing Slashdot.;)
Bullshit. Obliviously, 'God' partied all week and then pulled an all-nighter, just like they do at Cal Tech.
Which means nobody needs to use MS software. But they want it! Why? Because it's less effort. One can be lazy. And the excuses "always work", to lie even to oneself, about wanting to switch.
No, they want it because it's bundled with the computer. Except for geeks like (most?) of us, bare OS-less computers turn into paperweights. One of my old customers remarked way back in the day, "We pay people like you to handle the computer details, we're busy making MONEY." And other than geeks like (most?) of us, the last thing we wanna do when we get home from the 9 to 5 is work on a computer.
Spare me the 'learning curve' line. There is a learning curve involved with Windows and Microsoft products, otherwise there wouldn't be any of those 'For Dummies' books in the computer stores & book stores to teach Joe Sixpack a good portion of what he needs/should know.
While some slashdotters think otherwise, Java/Windows install base is huge thanks to couple of very popular apps and tiny games. Since companies these days looks for multi platform, multi arch; MS needed to show that their herd has been installed/infected by.NET too.
Coulda swore Windows was so popular because it shipped on just about everything computer-related back in the day, and still does to this day for desktop & laptops, and those popular apps found homes because of its wide spread distribution. Most commercial app writers write to Windows because it's out there. If Linux were to have the same market penetration, the commercial app writers would be writing to Linux with ports to OS-X.
Ion thrusters use only energy and atmospheric (even space isn't a perfect vacuum) particles for reaction mass. There are some nifty underwater engine prototypes that use ionic thrust to accelerate water out a (very low speed) jet.
I was under the impression these sats were going to be a LONG way away from an atmosphere.
Can we please stop with the "registry editing will end the world" warnings? It's no more dangerous to delete something from your registry than it is to delete something from the Program Files or Windows folders, and System Restore is more-than-capable of bringing the system back to life after your incompetence.
Joe Sixpack doesn't have a clue about editing the registry, he just wants something 'That Just Works(tm)'. Anything else, he'll let his 'computer geek kid' screw up for him til it needs to go to the shop, then bitch when they charge him an arm & a leg to fix it. Having done several years of those kinda repairs, I can categorically tell you that a lot of the registry repair software isn't made for the regular user, it's made for us geeks.
System Restore in XP takes you back to your restore point. If your restore point includes the 'patch', you're gonna have to start all over again.
This is why you should read the release notes before you install software. This is also why introducing new functionality through Windows Update is a bad idea.
That's all very well and good for legitimate software. Haven't noticed much malware with release notes and opt-outs. And from what I've seen of the previous 'patch', it installed it as part of the.NET upgrade. 'Consent' was implied by activating the 'Allow Upgrades' button at the system level.
Too many movies makes you think strange things. For instance most people see the CIA as a bunch of bad asses with cell phone watches that project holograms of your dossier into thin air while sending you messages via ESP. Real life: rotary phones, paperwork in triplicate, and a gigantic fucking bureaucracy that thinks pagers are still useful.
Or the idea of NSA 'agents' running around shooting up everything in sight (because the CIA isn't the big Boogie Man anymore). Real life: Bunch of bureaucrats overseeing a bunch of pastyfaced nerds and cubicle rats busy doing signal intercepts and codebreaking. Though the bandwidth and internet access is great, I hear...
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I don't think AT&T would have a problem supplying prepaid unlimited 3G service that nobody uses. Not a bit. Barnes & Nobel, on the other tentacle...
I don't live in California. Just what I need, some company taking and patenting my genetic sequence and suing me for using it.
How much a month for the 3G service to get 'unlimited'?
Add to that the little fact that the online Office 2010 is a subscription based service. Stop making payments, kiss it goodbye.
Maybe I'm too old school, but I remember VERY well using a timeshare terminal hooked up to a mini mainframe, and I welcomed the PC when it came out because I could use my apps on my own workstation without having to worry about using time on the mini mainframe.
Only problem I ran into when I upgraded to 9.04 was with Fluxbox. It worked on the laptop, but not so well on the desktop machine. Turns out I hadda delete ONE file in my flux directory to make it work right. Took me awhile to figure that out. I tend to hold off a few days after the new releases to dist update to allow everybody else to step in the minefield for me.
I just save all my OO.o documents as 'Office XP' docs & spreadsheets. ZERO problems with formatting so far when my buddy (using the latest and greatest MS Office) opens them. And I use some strangeassed templates, too...
I'm just wondering what they'll do when it hits 4chan. Do they block that, or do they send all that to the FBI & let them wade thru the pedobear posts?
And for 100 extra points, which Catholic pope of the 1100s said that to whip up support for a Crusade? Fanaticism isn't restricted to Islam, you know...
Halfasec, there's a knock on my do..
Strange. Kennedy fired Dulles & his Number Two, then wrote a couple executive orders breaking the CIA into a thousand pieces to be swallowed up by the various military intelligence services. His body was still cooling off when LBJ rescinded those orders and ended up starting the Vietnam War.
The Russian Federation's experiences with ex-spooks (former KGB officers) tells us that if you fire them, they'll just go underground as criminals. Russian Mafia, anybody?
To help fund off the books black ops projects, of course. Can't exactly go before the House Budget Committee and request multiple millions for bribe money to be used on foreign dictators, now, can you? And to provide plausible deniability, like 'Air America' back during the Vietnam days.
Better question: Will he blend??
This would surprise you how?
Bullshit. Obliviously, 'God' partied all week and then pulled an all-nighter, just like they do at Cal Tech.
This means fusion is now 9.5 years away?
OK, so this means I gotta rename my deceased uncle's "Atomic Rib Sauce".
Hell, coal releases more nuclear materials into the biosphere than nuclear powerplants. Cite.
Melted down and burned up. There was no mushroom cloud, no loud BOOM, no electromagnetic pulse found in a typical nuclear explosion.
No, they want it because it's bundled with the computer. Except for geeks like (most?) of us, bare OS-less computers turn into paperweights. One of my old customers remarked way back in the day, "We pay people like you to handle the computer details, we're busy making MONEY." And other than geeks like (most?) of us, the last thing we wanna do when we get home from the 9 to 5 is work on a computer.
Spare me the 'learning curve' line. There is a learning curve involved with Windows and Microsoft products, otherwise there wouldn't be any of those 'For Dummies' books in the computer stores & book stores to teach Joe Sixpack a good portion of what he needs/should know.
Coulda swore Windows was so popular because it shipped on just about everything computer-related back in the day, and still does to this day for desktop & laptops, and those popular apps found homes because of its wide spread distribution. Most commercial app writers write to Windows because it's out there. If Linux were to have the same market penetration, the commercial app writers would be writing to Linux with ports to OS-X.
I was under the impression these sats were going to be a LONG way away from an atmosphere.
Besides, power supplies can and do fail.
Microsoft's opinion differs.
Per TFA, the trading took place from Jan 2007 to July 2007 and they're just making arrests now? Interesting...
Joe Sixpack doesn't have a clue about editing the registry, he just wants something 'That Just Works(tm)'. Anything else, he'll let his 'computer geek kid' screw up for him til it needs to go to the shop, then bitch when they charge him an arm & a leg to fix it. Having done several years of those kinda repairs, I can categorically tell you that a lot of the registry repair software isn't made for the regular user, it's made for us geeks.
System Restore in XP takes you back to your restore point. If your restore point includes the 'patch', you're gonna have to start all over again.
That's all very well and good for legitimate software. Haven't noticed much malware with release notes and opt-outs. And from what I've seen of the previous 'patch', it installed it as part of the .NET upgrade. 'Consent' was implied by activating the 'Allow Upgrades' button at the system level.
Or the idea of NSA 'agents' running around shooting up everything in sight (because the CIA isn't the big Boogie Man anymore). Real life: Bunch of bureaucrats overseeing a bunch of pastyfaced nerds and cubicle rats busy doing signal intercepts and codebreaking. Though the bandwidth and internet access is great, I hear...