as someone who has just finished two books on Microsoft Word... (uses 10% of my processor just sitting open in the dock... has only two choices for background color... has a sub-par thesaurus) and as someone who has previously written a book on Appleworks... (document manager slows significantly with over a few hundred documents... plain white background is only choice [yes, this is a nice feature to be able to change when you work with text for 5+ straight hours]... doesn't consistently convert files properly... finally, it appears to be stagnant.) I can safely say that the next evolutionary step is to Nisus Writer Express. The software has recently been updated and is worth a second look. If this sounds like a plug for Nisus... it is. New features for nisus can be found here.
If you think there's no solution for appleworks other than Word and other office variants... check it out.
Is any software really at the point where we can install it and forget about it?
yadda yadda... flame me... whatever... the answer is yes. I've been using my mac for eight years--spent a lot of time on some pretty sketchy sites (infer what you will)--and I've never once got, thought about, or had to remove a virus. I realize this statement is batted back and forth endlessly... but yeah--some software is at that point. And ya know what, I don't really give a damn why apple's stuff isn't targeted. Market share? sure, maybe... but what the hell do i care what the rest of the world is running when all I can see is the ibook sitting in my lap? If they choose to use something else that's fine by me... but don't think that there aren't solutions out there because you don't use or can't see them.
Dude, this thing has fourwheel drive! Can I go offroad? Please?
speaking of off-roading... here's hoping they didn't use firestone tires. "Ummm... well, Boss... it appears we lost a little tread and blasted back into orbit."
you're missing the point of an allegory... it's not supposed to be a link to a new story--it IS the story. the matrix is an allegory, and hence--an interpretation... if you miss the allegory, the matrix trilogy hardly makes any sense at all and has no artistic cohesiveness... basically, there is no secondary parallel storyline in this circumstance. the characters are personifications that don't exist outside of the allegory...
If you didn't fully understand the matrix trilogy it's probably because you didn't realize it was an allegory to the second coming of the messiah. No, I'm not some religious quack who tries to find God in everything... step back and think about it: The lead character was NEO... machines/consumerism/earthly possessions wielded power over fields of humans/the masses... these same machines were attacking ZION. This isn't an art site, so I'm not gonna go into the details of every character, but it's safe to say that this trilogy was well planned out from the beginning, and that the symbolism is so thick it barely even makes sense if you don't recognize the allegory. Finally, the protagonist sacrafices himself to save his race... come on! (smacking head) more people should be able to see this than english majors...
okay... one more character just for the hell of it... the merovingian was charged in the movie with governing all knowledge of the matrix and the movements of underground programs, so to speak. Back in the real world, the merovingian's are an ancient frankish bloodline that supposedly gaurds the true history of the holy grail... the brothers didn't even bother to change the name of the character in this instance...
and just another off the top of my head, the sermon on the mound was nice in M2, after you realize what it was... they fly these huge ships around and you're telling me that they don't have a freaking megaphone for morpheus to speak into? or lights, perhaps, instead of torches? this was done in this archaic fashion so that the symbolism was easier to notice... only, it seems, few people did...
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True, at least in my opinion.
as someone who has just finished two books on Microsoft Word...
(uses 10% of my processor just sitting open in the dock... has only two choices for background color... has a sub-par thesaurus)
and as someone who has previously written a book on Appleworks...
(document manager slows significantly with over a few hundred documents... plain white background is only choice [yes, this is a nice feature to be able to change when you work with text for 5+ straight hours]... doesn't consistently convert files properly... finally, it appears to be stagnant.)
I can safely say that the next evolutionary step is to Nisus Writer Express. The software has recently been updated and is worth a second look. If this sounds like a plug for Nisus... it is.
New features for nisus can be found here.
If you think there's no solution for appleworks other than Word and other office variants... check it out.
And then there was the whole HAL 9000 thing...
argue about it with mark twain...
That's actually kind of amusing that arnold was rooting NASA on when you consider how bad his last trip was.
dude.. the aliens have burrowed underground... everyone knows this. quit spreading rumors
There were so many incomplete sentences in the C/Net article that I was shocked. This a 'News' outlet?
Shaddup
Is any software really at the point where we can install it and forget about it?
yadda yadda... flame me... whatever...
the answer is yes. I've been using my mac for eight years--spent a lot of time on some pretty sketchy sites (infer what you will)--and I've never once got, thought about, or had to remove a virus. I realize this statement is batted back and forth endlessly... but yeah--some software is at that point. And ya know what, I don't really give a damn why apple's stuff isn't targeted. Market share? sure, maybe... but what the hell do i care what the rest of the world is running when all I can see is the ibook sitting in my lap? If they choose to use something else that's fine by me... but don't think that there aren't solutions out there because you don't use or can't see them.
What's the big friggin deal? I've been using this stuff in the flux capacitor of my DeLorean for like twenty years...
~Doc
it could be a great war machine AND sex toy
unfortunately... it probably wouldn't be the best P.R. move to have arnold come back in time and annhialate you every time during climax.
Dude, this thing has fourwheel drive! Can I go offroad? Please?
speaking of off-roading... here's hoping they didn't use firestone tires.
"Ummm... well, Boss... it appears we lost a little tread and blasted back into orbit."
Dude, this thing has fourwheel drive! Can I go offroad? Please?"
I'd say this is about as far "off road" as you're gonna get.
let me know when we find a big black monolith... then we're talking.
you're missing the point of an allegory... it's not supposed to be a link to a new story--it IS the story. the matrix is an allegory, and hence--an interpretation... if you miss the allegory, the matrix trilogy hardly makes any sense at all and has no artistic cohesiveness... basically, there is no secondary parallel storyline in this circumstance. the characters are personifications that don't exist outside of the allegory...
If you didn't fully understand the matrix trilogy it's probably because you didn't realize it was an allegory to the second coming of the messiah. No, I'm not some religious quack who tries to find God in everything... step back and think about it: The lead character was NEO... machines/consumerism/earthly possessions wielded power over fields of humans/the masses... these same machines were attacking ZION. This isn't an art site, so I'm not gonna go into the details of every character, but it's safe to say that this trilogy was well planned out from the beginning, and that the symbolism is so thick it barely even makes sense if you don't recognize the allegory. Finally, the protagonist sacrafices himself to save his race... come on! (smacking head) more people should be able to see this than english majors... okay... one more character just for the hell of it... the merovingian was charged in the movie with governing all knowledge of the matrix and the movements of underground programs, so to speak. Back in the real world, the merovingian's are an ancient frankish bloodline that supposedly gaurds the true history of the holy grail... the brothers didn't even bother to change the name of the character in this instance... and just another off the top of my head, the sermon on the mound was nice in M2, after you realize what it was... they fly these huge ships around and you're telling me that they don't have a freaking megaphone for morpheus to speak into? or lights, perhaps, instead of torches? this was done in this archaic fashion so that the symbolism was easier to notice... only, it seems, few people did...