No, I had been using a copy of Word 97 for that long because I was not in a position to buy a updated copy of office. When I finally got rid of that computer, I was working at a place that got me a discount on office. Then three years later, they realized (for some reason) they had no resume on file for me and wanted an updated resume. At that point, I had to try to open a 3+ year outdated resume built originally in 1999.
I don't use office day to day. In fact the ONLY document I've ever written was my resume. I don't change jobs yearly, so is it really hard to believe I've only updated the resume a few times in a decade? Why would I pay hundreds of dollars just to get updated versions of a application I never open except for once every few years?
The only reason I get Office 2008 was because of the huge discount i was able to get. The only reason I bought iWork was because I was teaching a class at a community college and wanted to use keynote. BTW, keynote is awesome.
I had used a resume template to build the resume. I kinda liked it and have stayed with it. The template had lines drawn on it. These lines were moved all over the page and the text blocks were also not aligned. Basically, it would require a re-write.
This was done because my current job didn't have a copy of my resume on file, so I wanted to update it before giving it to them.
Recently, I've started re-desiging it anyways just to come up with something modern to feel out the market. I'm using Apple's pages now.
Honestly, I like iWork over office or openoffice.
My work is pushing open office right now. We have it easy as most outbound documents are published as pdf. The transition for us has been seamless. We are dual piloting office 2007 and open office. More users are leaning to open office because the interface of 2007 is 'scary'.
Our college pushes open office to students (we do not sell office in our bookstore as the license was too high). We tell all of our students to save as PDF if they have to make sure everything is just right.
All instructor and lab computers have open office and MS office installed.
I wrote my resume in Word 97. I needed to update it recently and found that it did not look correct at all in Office 2008. I was forced to use open office. After saving it as Office XP in open office it opened in Office 2008 just fine.
LAN on SC2 didn't bother me, because in RTS games I like to play random people. So I rarely plan on a lan.
FPS games are a different story. I work at a college and we frequently have large scale LAN games hosted on campus for play. That doesn't work very well if there is no dedicated server software for us to run.
It's not about revenge, it's about if it is worth it for me to pay for content when it is this hard to use it?
It is actually easier to violate copyright.
This update had no other purpose but to attack homebrew users. It gave no benefits to normal users and it may brick their system. This is a lose lose deal for everyone involved. If it bricks my system, I'll eat the cost I've spent to nintendo, but I sure as hell am not giving them any more money.
Look at it this way. I bought a wii for homebrew. I then bought 4 controls, 4 nunchucks, 4 classic controllers, 4 game cube controllers, etc. Then I bought some wii games that I thought were neat (zelda, mario, etc). There are new games out there that I might buy (the new metroid re-release, etc).
I also buy virtual console games before using my downloaded roms because a lot of those virtual console games have been modified to fit my TV better and I want to support nintendo.
However, if this update bricks my system, or if any future update stops home brew, then I'm done. I'm not going to buy any more nintendo games, any more VC games, etc. So by preventing me from using homebrew, they cost themselves those precious sales.
Honestly, most of the games released for the wii are crap. I bought the wii for virtual console. A lot of the games I want are not on virtual console, so I have homebrew. Take that away and you have just enough of a breaking point for me to say "Fuck it" and just build a small pc to do the same thing.
My company no longer requires me to write to IE6. In fact they don't even care if it fails gracefully in IE6. I however tend to make sure my sites fail gracefully even if javascript and css are not functioning properly.
Our internal websites are different, they have to work in IE7/IE8 but do not have to be perfect. For example, one site had nice rounded corners that everyone loved. However the method I was using was not implemented in IE yet (It's a safari/firefox thing). I could of been forced to write javascript to do this in IE. But instead we just decided it wasn't worth it.
Another example is a long running report we have. It takes a long time to get the data. To improve the feel of the report I rewrote it be dynamic and have sortable columns and real time updates to options (year, etc). Firefox and safari handle this wonderfully. IE7 and IE8 simply barf on the amount of data. It can take minutes to refresh. Some of the sorting simply crashes the browser completely. It was decided to just remove the crashing features from IE and put a disclaimer about the sort time. No point in trying to figure out how to speed it up when it works almost instantly in firefox/safari.
Companies that are still using IE6 are probably not going to let their users install things like this. In fact, they are probably likely to ban it due to some misinformation.
In 90% of cases, SMC supports linux. There are a few minor exceptions (ISYS 110 is windows focused and can be tested out of but is required), but in those cases you can simply use a computer on campus to complete the requirements.
Those of us in the IT department tend to use linux for most of our servers and even some of our desktops. I myself use a mac full time. I'm always pushing to remove the dependancies on a single operating system.
Yea, I personally own a WASR-10. It's the lowest end possible semi auto AK-47 variant, but I love taking it out to the range. When I bought it at a gun show in indianapolis, IN. I had to walk it out without a case holding it in my hands 2 city blocks downtown to get to my car. Nobody called the police. In fact, my friend was carrying the other weapon I bought, a AR-15.
Or maybe the police were smart enough to realize there was a gun show in town.
No, anyone in the USA can own a AK-47 providing they are willing to pay the money to buy one, and pay the tax stamp.
Or they could just drop 450 bucks and buy a semi-auto version without the hassle. I have friends who own multiple fully automatic weapons. We take them to the range all the time. The guy in question doesn't even carry a pistol day to day. It's a hobby for us, like fly fishing or building muscle cars.
I don't think feature parity means you can use MS office documents. Feature parity means you can do anything in open office that you can do in MS office.
I actually love my macbook pro's trackpad. It's easily double the size of any other notebook, and I always use tap to click (I never push the thing down to click)
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You sir are an asshole. :-p
I have a plastic case. Shouldn't be too hard to make a brand...
No, I had been using a copy of Word 97 for that long because I was not in a position to buy a updated copy of office. When I finally got rid of that computer, I was working at a place that got me a discount on office. Then three years later, they realized (for some reason) they had no resume on file for me and wanted an updated resume. At that point, I had to try to open a 3+ year outdated resume built originally in 1999.
I don't use office day to day. In fact the ONLY document I've ever written was my resume. I don't change jobs yearly, so is it really hard to believe I've only updated the resume a few times in a decade? Why would I pay hundreds of dollars just to get updated versions of a application I never open except for once every few years?
The only reason I get Office 2008 was because of the huge discount i was able to get. The only reason I bought iWork was because I was teaching a class at a community college and wanted to use keynote. BTW, keynote is awesome.
Why, Openoffice worked properly. It was MS office that failed to open the Word document.
I had used a resume template to build the resume. I kinda liked it and have stayed with it. The template had lines drawn on it. These lines were moved all over the page and the text blocks were also not aligned. Basically, it would require a re-write.
This was done because my current job didn't have a copy of my resume on file, so I wanted to update it before giving it to them.
Recently, I've started re-desiging it anyways just to come up with something modern to feel out the market. I'm using Apple's pages now.
Honestly, I like iWork over office or openoffice.
My work is pushing open office right now. We have it easy as most outbound documents are published as pdf. The transition for us has been seamless. We are dual piloting office 2007 and open office. More users are leaning to open office because the interface of 2007 is 'scary'.
Our college pushes open office to students (we do not sell office in our bookstore as the license was too high). We tell all of our students to save as PDF if they have to make sure everything is just right.
All instructor and lab computers have open office and MS office installed.
I wrote my resume in Word 97. I needed to update it recently and found that it did not look correct at all in Office 2008. I was forced to use open office. After saving it as Office XP in open office it opened in Office 2008 just fine.
LAN on SC2 didn't bother me, because in RTS games I like to play random people. So I rarely plan on a lan.
FPS games are a different story. I work at a college and we frequently have large scale LAN games hosted on campus for play. That doesn't work very well if there is no dedicated server software for us to run.
I'm sure the EFF would take up the cause.
It's not about revenge, it's about if it is worth it for me to pay for content when it is this hard to use it?
It is actually easier to violate copyright.
This update had no other purpose but to attack homebrew users. It gave no benefits to normal users and it may brick their system. This is a lose lose deal for everyone involved. If it bricks my system, I'll eat the cost I've spent to nintendo, but I sure as hell am not giving them any more money.
They force you if you want to use the virtual console. Buying VC games only works if you have the latest release.
And if you want to be able to buy virtual console games and use the features of homebrew?
Look at it this way. I bought a wii for homebrew. I then bought 4 controls, 4 nunchucks, 4 classic controllers, 4 game cube controllers, etc. Then I bought some wii games that I thought were neat (zelda, mario, etc). There are new games out there that I might buy (the new metroid re-release, etc).
I also buy virtual console games before using my downloaded roms because a lot of those virtual console games have been modified to fit my TV better and I want to support nintendo.
However, if this update bricks my system, or if any future update stops home brew, then I'm done. I'm not going to buy any more nintendo games, any more VC games, etc. So by preventing me from using homebrew, they cost themselves those precious sales.
Honestly, most of the games released for the wii are crap. I bought the wii for virtual console. A lot of the games I want are not on virtual console, so I have homebrew. Take that away and you have just enough of a breaking point for me to say "Fuck it" and just build a small pc to do the same thing.
My company no longer requires me to write to IE6. In fact they don't even care if it fails gracefully in IE6. I however tend to make sure my sites fail gracefully even if javascript and css are not functioning properly.
Our internal websites are different, they have to work in IE7/IE8 but do not have to be perfect. For example, one site had nice rounded corners that everyone loved. However the method I was using was not implemented in IE yet (It's a safari/firefox thing). I could of been forced to write javascript to do this in IE. But instead we just decided it wasn't worth it.
Another example is a long running report we have. It takes a long time to get the data. To improve the feel of the report I rewrote it be dynamic and have sortable columns and real time updates to options (year, etc). Firefox and safari handle this wonderfully. IE7 and IE8 simply barf on the amount of data. It can take minutes to refresh. Some of the sorting simply crashes the browser completely. It was decided to just remove the crashing features from IE and put a disclaimer about the sort time. No point in trying to figure out how to speed it up when it works almost instantly in firefox/safari.
Companies that are still using IE6 are probably not going to let their users install things like this. In fact, they are probably likely to ban it due to some misinformation.
Not to mention, this patent is broad enough to effect every single multiplayer game they might release. Starcraft2, diablo3, etc.
Doesn't 10.6 come with HFS+ drivers for windows? You should be able to copy those to another windows machine of your choice in a worst case situation.
I've never reformatted a USB stick. I've just used them as is.
In 90% of cases, SMC supports linux. There are a few minor exceptions (ISYS 110 is windows focused and can be tested out of but is required), but in those cases you can simply use a computer on campus to complete the requirements.
Those of us in the IT department tend to use linux for most of our servers and even some of our desktops. I myself use a mac full time. I'm always pushing to remove the dependancies on a single operating system.
Well, Calli is always the exception in this country. You can grow pot, but you can't own firearms that look scary.
Yea, I personally own a WASR-10. It's the lowest end possible semi auto AK-47 variant, but I love taking it out to the range. When I bought it at a gun show in indianapolis, IN. I had to walk it out without a case holding it in my hands 2 city blocks downtown to get to my car. Nobody called the police. In fact, my friend was carrying the other weapon I bought, a AR-15.
Or maybe the police were smart enough to realize there was a gun show in town.
No, anyone in the USA can own a AK-47 providing they are willing to pay the money to buy one, and pay the tax stamp.
Or they could just drop 450 bucks and buy a semi-auto version without the hassle. I have friends who own multiple fully automatic weapons. We take them to the range all the time. The guy in question doesn't even carry a pistol day to day. It's a hobby for us, like fly fishing or building muscle cars.
You can buy a AK-47 replica in almost any sporting goods store...
I don't think feature parity means you can use MS office documents. Feature parity means you can do anything in open office that you can do in MS office.
I don't use either, so I can't comment on that.
I actually love my macbook pro's trackpad. It's easily double the size of any other notebook, and I always use tap to click (I never push the thing down to click)
That wouldn't end a sun box
shutdown -i5 -g0 -y