Word needs to be stricter about them and not spam the syle list with idiotic crap like "Normal + italic" when you italicize for emphasis or to introduce a new term. If I want a separate style for that, I'll make it myself, thankyouverymuch.
That is in fact how Word does it in Office 2007. In fact, styles take up a large portion of the default interface. It's a huge improvement.
One of the paragraph formatting options is the minimum amount of blank space before and after a paragraph. So if you have a section header style, you would just specify that there must be, say, 24 points of blank space between it and the next paragraph. That way, you don't have to enter two line breaks, you just enter a single paragraph break, always. The upshot is that if you later decide to use 12 points, or 36 points, you just change the style. You don't have to go back and insert or remove empty lines.
Come on, though. You're acting like Word is a plain-text editor and doesn't have it's own built-in equation editor. You can do your examples just fine just by pressing ALT+= first. (And instead of \frac{4}{5} you just type 4/5.)
They're called styles in Word, too, and they're really easy to use in Word 07. You can even have style sets that allow you to swap in and out groups of styles very easily, like loading different CSS sheets.
Is it? Or is that just what the government propagandists want you to believe because it conveniently "fits?" I personally have videotaped several highly scientific experiments in my backyard that conclusively prove that gravity is in fact a velocity, or, in rare cases, a volume. Sadly, I've tried to publish these results in reputable journals or pamphlets only to find it CENSORED.
If you're right, the U.S. must be absolutely incompetent at the task of "censorship." I see that Loose Change has almost 2.5 million views on YouTube. And you can still watch it FWIW.
What do you mean, "welcome to the club?" This is one thing the U.S. does right: works of government are not copyrightable by anyone, not even the government.
In many countries, works of government are indeed owned "by the people." Of course, by "the people," we really mean "the government," since obviously the government represents the people. Net result: like everything else, the government wields the copyright to its own benefit while claiming it is doing so in the best interests of "the people."
The best thing to do is what the U.S. thankfully does: works of government are not copyrighted by anyone. They are automatically placed in the public domain.
I must be missing something. If the train requires 110 megawatts to operate, then to operate the train for 1 hour would require 110 megawatt hours, no? So to operate - say - four hours per day would require 440 megawatt hours of electrical generation, or about 18 megawatt days, far more than the optimistic 2.9 you calculated. That seems ridiculously high to run a train, but I can't think of what else that 110 megawatt figure is supposed to mean.
There must be something obvious I'm missing. Can someone point it out?
Does it have select fire to switch between semi-automatic, full auto, or three round burst? What is the firing rate? Can it be field-stripped with a minimum of tools?
Prices below market average -> Attempting to monopolize, anti-competitive dumping
Prices at market average -> Collusion
Prices above market average -> Abuse of monopoly position
Who gets prosecuted is a purely political decision.
How is the resource consumption? Comparable to XP and the average Ubuntu system?
Numerically, it's on par with Ubuntu, maybe a little higher. Subjectively, it feels about as fast as XP. Much faster on some tasks, a little slower a couple of others. On my system it feels a little faster than Ubuntu.
Is the DRM/total-encryption insanity any better than with Vista?
I was never really sure what all the fuss was about, but it does seem that for whatever reason media playback uses less CPU than on Vista. Sometimes much less. Again, just my own observations.
Can it beat Linux, console-/scripting-wise?
I'd say yes, but then again I took the time to learn how to use Power Shell. Just like Bash, it's got a learning curve, but it's very powerful.
Is there a real package manager for applications?
For programs that use it, the MSI infrastructure provides that kind of functionality. No single repositories though, that is a pity.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the "May Day," the labor holiday, is May 1 and pretty distinct from the holiday of Cinco de Mayo.
Oh man, I'm exactly the same. I've been using my MX1000 for 5 years too, and I haven't found anything as good to replace it. I love it for gaming, too, because it has so many buttons. Left click, right click, wheel click, wheel left, wheel right, page up, page down, forward, back, and that button between forward and back. That's what, 10 buttons? Does anybody know of any other mouse with 10 buttons?
While you're somewhat right about the defense allocation with regards to other budget priorities, you're wrong in the first part because only considering "discretionary spending," which isn't even a majority of federal spending. In other words, your post is only true if you don't count:
- Social Security
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- SCHIP
- Interest payments on the federal debt
- A whole bunch of other entitlement programs.
And the second part isn't entirely accurate because that $800B "security" isn't just for the DoD, it's for DoD + Homeland + TSA + CIA + FBI + NSA + NRO etc. etc.
It's ridiculous, but not as ridiculous as you seem to think.
For references, please see table S-8 of the budget document.
I'm assuming that this 3% GDP is intended to be in the form of government spending on research and development.
It would be nice if government spending was reduced by 3% of GDP somewhere else, to make up the difference. It would certainly be a shame if increased government R&D came at the expense of private R&D.
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Word needs to be stricter about them and not spam the syle list with idiotic crap like "Normal + italic" when you italicize for emphasis or to introduce a new term. If I want a separate style for that, I'll make it myself, thankyouverymuch.
That is in fact how Word does it in Office 2007. In fact, styles take up a large portion of the default interface. It's a huge improvement.
One of the paragraph formatting options is the minimum amount of blank space before and after a paragraph. So if you have a section header style, you would just specify that there must be, say, 24 points of blank space between it and the next paragraph. That way, you don't have to enter two line breaks, you just enter a single paragraph break, always. The upshot is that if you later decide to use 12 points, or 36 points, you just change the style. You don't have to go back and insert or remove empty lines.
Come on, though. You're acting like Word is a plain-text editor and doesn't have it's own built-in equation editor. You can do your examples just fine just by pressing ALT+= first. (And instead of \frac{4}{5} you just type 4/5.)
They're called styles in Word, too, and they're really easy to use in Word 07. You can even have style sets that allow you to swap in and out groups of styles very easily, like loading different CSS sheets.
Is it? Or is that just what the government propagandists want you to believe because it conveniently "fits?" I personally have videotaped several highly scientific experiments in my backyard that conclusively prove that gravity is in fact a velocity, or, in rare cases, a volume. Sadly, I've tried to publish these results in reputable journals or pamphlets only to find it CENSORED.
If you're right, the U.S. must be absolutely incompetent at the task of "censorship." I see that Loose Change has almost 2.5 million views on YouTube. And you can still watch it FWIW.
What do you mean, "welcome to the club?" This is one thing the U.S. does right: works of government are not copyrightable by anyone, not even the government.
In many countries, works of government are indeed owned "by the people." Of course, by "the people," we really mean "the government," since obviously the government represents the people. Net result: like everything else, the government wields the copyright to its own benefit while claiming it is doing so in the best interests of "the people." The best thing to do is what the U.S. thankfully does: works of government are not copyrighted by anyone. They are automatically placed in the public domain.
Really? You think you're going to have pleasure running Ubuntu 9 on hardware you're not sure can handle Windows XP?
To be fair, the actual users of those interstates pay a great deal for them in form of fuel taxes and tolls.
I must be missing something. If the train requires 110 megawatts to operate, then to operate the train for 1 hour would require 110 megawatt hours, no? So to operate - say - four hours per day would require 440 megawatt hours of electrical generation, or about 18 megawatt days, far more than the optimistic 2.9 you calculated. That seems ridiculously high to run a train, but I can't think of what else that 110 megawatt figure is supposed to mean.
There must be something obvious I'm missing. Can someone point it out?
You get yourself a USB optical drive. As an added bonus, you can schlep it around to any other computers that might have need of it.
Does it have select fire to switch between semi-automatic, full auto, or three round burst? What is the firing rate? Can it be field-stripped with a minimum of tools?
Technically "charging for software" --> "Getting Paid"
I would hate to see an America where there was only one party.
Uh...I've got some bad news for you.
Prices below market average -> Attempting to monopolize, anti-competitive dumping
Prices at market average -> Collusion
Prices above market average -> Abuse of monopoly position
Who gets prosecuted is a purely political decision.
How is the resource consumption? Comparable to XP and the average Ubuntu system?
Numerically, it's on par with Ubuntu, maybe a little higher. Subjectively, it feels about as fast as XP. Much faster on some tasks, a little slower a couple of others. On my system it feels a little faster than Ubuntu.
Is the DRM/total-encryption insanity any better than with Vista?
I was never really sure what all the fuss was about, but it does seem that for whatever reason media playback uses less CPU than on Vista. Sometimes much less. Again, just my own observations.
Can it beat Linux, console-/scripting-wise?
I'd say yes, but then again I took the time to learn how to use Power Shell. Just like Bash, it's got a learning curve, but it's very powerful.
Is there a real package manager for applications?
For programs that use it, the MSI infrastructure provides that kind of functionality. No single repositories though, that is a pity.
It's because generations ago blacks and Mexicans smoked cannabis and whites smoked tobacco.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the "May Day," the labor holiday, is May 1 and pretty distinct from the holiday of Cinco de Mayo.
Oh man, I'm exactly the same. I've been using my MX1000 for 5 years too, and I haven't found anything as good to replace it. I love it for gaming, too, because it has so many buttons. Left click, right click, wheel click, wheel left, wheel right, page up, page down, forward, back, and that button between forward and back. That's what, 10 buttons? Does anybody know of any other mouse with 10 buttons?
I didn't expect a kind of Slashdot inquisition!
While you're somewhat right about the defense allocation with regards to other budget priorities, you're wrong in the first part because only considering "discretionary spending," which isn't even a majority of federal spending. In other words, your post is only true if you don't count:
- Social Security
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- SCHIP
- Interest payments on the federal debt
- A whole bunch of other entitlement programs.
And the second part isn't entirely accurate because that $800B "security" isn't just for the DoD, it's for DoD + Homeland + TSA + CIA + FBI + NSA + NRO etc. etc.
It's ridiculous, but not as ridiculous as you seem to think.
For references, please see table S-8 of the budget document.
Except...it's not. Just FYI.
Actually, I don't believe he mentioned NASA as being in line for increases at all.
It would be nice if government spending was reduced by 3% of GDP somewhere else, to make up the difference. It would certainly be a shame if increased government R&D came at the expense of private R&D.