I like walking, too. I walk everywhere. However you did not address the quality of the movie selection at the video stores within walking distance, or even reasonable driving distance.
For those of us who are not interested in blockbusters, but prefer old, obscure, or foreign films, most video stores don't cut it. Hence Netflix.
For me, there are very few video stores where it is a pleasure to browse the shelves.
You also did not address late fees. Netflix has no late fees.
You also did not address cost. For people who watch quite a few movies, Netflix is cheaper.
"Netscape turned into crap as they piled features on it to try to make it complete with Microsoft IE and MS's millions of dollars dumped into it's developement."
And Open Office is crap because, basically, Office Suites suck, and they are just following the trends.
OOWriter is a slow clone of Word. Word sucks: unpredictable pagination across sessions/computers/platforms/printouts(!), primitive typesetting, asinine default settings.
At least OOWRiter can make PDFs and has acceptable default settings.
What would really make a splash is an open-source approach to word processing (or the whole office suite idea) that is better than the ugly, intrusive, slow, WYSIWYG implementation that Microsoft offers.
This isn't a polemic for LaTeX, but for a new kind of word processor, even office suite. Once you show people why Word sucks from a user experience perspective (and not just an idealist, technical, political, or economic, perspective), many will switch.
We need a wordprocesser that encourages semantic layout. I'm talking about templates that are easy to use, not hidden, with accessible formatting controls (think WordPerfect reveal codes).
Microsoft Office sucks. Word sucks. Pagination is totally unpredictable across sessions/computers/printouts, the typesetting quality is shit, its default settings are asinine, the formatting is too complicated and is much harder to deal with than WordPerfect "reveal codes." PowerPoint sucks because either it intrinsically leads to moronic presentations or it unleashes the inner moron in its users.
OpenOffice - OOWriter sucks because it is a slow clone of Word. At least it can make PDFs and has acceptable default settings.
Also, in the area of writing, elitism is a good thing. Expert knowledge of a topic does not mean an expert ability to write on the topic.
What wikipedia needs is a system for editing its content for style and grammar. The writing is generally awful: awkward sentences stitched together from the contributions of multiple different authors, thousands of malapropisms, blatant misuse of jargon, etc.
Wikipedia is OK for what it is, but reading it is painful. If I want a quick survey of hair metal bands, or an explanation of a piece of technology, it's a decent place to take a look. But it is not, in my opinion, a great source of knowledge. It is extremely flawed in both content and style.
Eternal September RELOADED!!!!!!!!111111one
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First the troglodytes gave us Eternal September. Now in Canada they've upped the ante---eternal added fees for something that used to be standard.
I would be very dissapointed if my ISP did not provide Usenet service.
I do not care what brain dead kids who cannot type proper English think of it.
I do not care that complete idiots have difficulty avoiding viruses and spam on Usenet.
I still enjoy Usenet on a regular basis. I still use tin. Just leave me alone!
The conventional wisdom (I am not sure if it is true) is that Atari made a huge mistake in letting almost any third-party release games for the 2600. There were hundreds of bad games. Some thing this led to the crash in the video game market.
This issue was also very prevalent in the NES / Sega Master System era. Sega, doing the opposite of Atari, tightly controlled its games. Nintendo maintained looser controll than Sega but tighter than Atari. NES had more games than SMS not just because it was more popular, but because of company policy based to some extent in response to Atari's failed policy.
Nothing of content to add. I just want to say that this is very, very righteous.
8-bits are still fun to use!
Wicked Friday night in the 8-bit era:
7-8pm Q-Link 8-9pm Play Airborne Ranger 9-10pm break for new Kids in the Hall episode 10-11:50pm Q-Link 11:50pm-12:00am Call local BBSs, make moves in Space Empire to initiate attack another system. Buddy/ally does same. (as do your slave accounts) 12:01am-12:10am Use fresh Space Empire turns for the new day to complete sneak attack. Double fists of fury! 12:10am-1:00am Play Test Drive 1:00am-2:00am Play California Games 2:01 turn on wardialer and go to bed
I'm not trying to be snarky, but comments like this regarding "stability" just baffle me.
You've used E17 for the "past few days", and it is "as stable as" or perhaps more stable than any desktop environment you have used.
Therefore you have never used a desktop environment that could run for more than a "few days" without crashing?
I thought "stable" means runs for days/weeks/months/years on end without crashing. Am I wrong? If not, how do you already know that E17 is EITHER as stable as OR more stable than any other desktop environment?
This reminds me of someone telling me that Mandrake 9.2 was more stable than 9.1---the day after it was released! (No, they hadn't been using cooker.)
I'm a grad student in the humanities. I primarily use JSTOR to find articles.
I've only played with Google Scholar a handful of times, but my search results were often heavy on book reviews that merely contained the keywords, as opposed to scholarly articles/books dealing with those keywords.
Again, I have not spend much time learning how to use Google Scholar.
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He is on the council, but the do not grant him the rank of Master.
Zonk, I'd like you to meet Complete Sentence. Complete Sentence, this is Zonk.
I think this is the first appropriate use of the word 'solution' in the history of Slashdot.
Whomever has mod points should mod you up for providing such excellent comment solutions.
I like walking, too. I walk everywhere. However you did not address the quality of the movie selection at the video stores within walking distance, or even reasonable driving distance.
For those of us who are not interested in blockbusters, but prefer old, obscure, or foreign films, most video stores don't cut it. Hence Netflix.
For me, there are very few video stores where it is a pleasure to browse the shelves.
You also did not address late fees. Netflix has no late fees.
You also did not address cost. For people who watch quite a few movies, Netflix is cheaper.
I for one welcome our new anti-anti-counter-revolutionary overlords.
"Netscape turned into crap as they piled features on it to try to make it complete with Microsoft IE and MS's millions of dollars dumped into it's developement."
And Open Office is crap because, basically, Office Suites suck, and they are just following the trends.
OOWriter is a slow clone of Word. Word sucks: unpredictable pagination across sessions/computers/platforms/printouts(!), primitive typesetting, asinine default settings.
At least OOWRiter can make PDFs and has acceptable default settings.
What would really make a splash is an open-source approach to word processing (or the whole office suite idea) that is better than the ugly, intrusive, slow, WYSIWYG implementation that Microsoft offers.
This isn't a polemic for LaTeX, but for a new kind of word processor, even office suite. Once you show people why Word sucks from a user experience perspective (and not just an idealist, technical, political, or economic, perspective), many will switch.
We need a wordprocesser that encourages semantic layout. I'm talking about templates that are easy to use, not hidden, with accessible formatting controls (think WordPerfect reveal codes).
Seriously.
Microsoft Office sucks. Word sucks. Pagination is totally unpredictable across sessions/computers/printouts, the typesetting quality is shit, its default settings are asinine, the formatting is too complicated and is much harder to deal with than WordPerfect "reveal codes." PowerPoint sucks because either it intrinsically leads to moronic presentations or it unleashes the inner moron in its users.
OpenOffice - OOWriter sucks because it is a slow clone of Word. At least it can make PDFs and has acceptable default settings.
I agree completely.
Also, in the area of writing, elitism is a good thing. Expert knowledge of a topic does not mean an expert ability to write on the topic.
What wikipedia needs is a system for editing its content for style and grammar. The writing is generally awful: awkward sentences stitched together from the contributions of multiple different authors, thousands of malapropisms, blatant misuse of jargon, etc.
Wikipedia is OK for what it is, but reading it is painful. If I want a quick survey of hair metal bands, or an explanation of a piece of technology, it's a decent place to take a look. But it is not, in my opinion, a great source of knowledge. It is extremely flawed in both content and style.
First the troglodytes gave us Eternal September. Now in Canada they've upped the ante---eternal added fees for something that used to be standard.
I would be very dissapointed if my ISP did not provide Usenet service.
I do not care what brain dead kids who cannot type proper English think of it.
I do not care that complete idiots have difficulty avoiding viruses and spam on Usenet.
I still enjoy Usenet on a regular basis. I still use tin. Just leave me alone!
I came to chew bubblegum and spread freedom, and it looks like I'm all out of bubblegum.
"As far as I know, nobody has actually refuted "Darwin's Black Box" by Michael Behe."
The entire reason the scientific community opposes Behe is that he has proposed nothing falsifiable.
Of course it has not been refuted. It is not (scientifically) refutable, because it is not a testable, falsifiable hypothesis. Thus it is not science.
The conventional wisdom (I am not sure if it is true) is that Atari made a huge mistake in letting almost any third-party release games for the 2600. There were hundreds of bad games. Some thing this led to the crash in the video game market.
This issue was also very prevalent in the NES / Sega Master System era. Sega, doing the opposite of Atari, tightly controlled its games. Nintendo maintained looser controll than Sega but tighter than Atari. NES had more games than SMS not just because it was more popular, but because of company policy based to some extent in response to Atari's failed policy.
Nothing of content to add. I just want to say that this is very, very righteous.
8-bits are still fun to use!
Wicked Friday night in the 8-bit era:
7-8pm Q-Link
8-9pm Play Airborne Ranger
9-10pm break for new Kids in the Hall episode
10-11:50pm Q-Link
11:50pm-12:00am Call local BBSs, make moves in Space Empire to initiate attack another system. Buddy/ally does same. (as do your slave accounts)
12:01am-12:10am Use fresh Space Empire turns for the new day to complete sneak attack. Double fists of fury!
12:10am-1:00am Play Test Drive
1:00am-2:00am Play California Games
2:01 turn on wardialer and go to bed
I'm not trying to be snarky, but comments like this regarding "stability" just baffle me.
You've used E17 for the "past few days", and it is "as stable as" or perhaps more stable than any desktop environment you have used.
Therefore you have never used a desktop environment that could run for more than a "few days" without crashing?
I thought "stable" means runs for days/weeks/months/years on end without crashing. Am I wrong? If not, how do you already know that E17 is EITHER as stable as OR more stable than any other desktop environment?
This reminds me of someone telling me that Mandrake 9.2 was more stable than 9.1---the day after it was released! (No, they hadn't been using cooker.)
...the year of BSD on the countertop!
...of BS on the desktop!
This artical definately begs the question, is you're grammer more important that what you say with it?
I myself don't think grammer is more important then what you say. Its not that important at all, and all those grammer nazis, their just asshats.
I'm a grad student in the humanities. I primarily use JSTOR to find articles.
I've only played with Google Scholar a handful of times, but my search results were often heavy on book reviews that merely contained the keywords, as opposed to scholarly articles/books dealing with those keywords.
Again, I have not spend much time learning how to use Google Scholar.
I use iCal, but I'd rather use something from the command-line.
Does anyone know of a good schedule/calendar app for the console? I want something screenable and available from any computer on the internet.
I tried some emacs scheduler thing once, but didn't like it. Perhaps it was because I use vim, not emacs.
How on earth could you have modded that 'offtopic'?
Look at the subject!
No, it does not beg the question.
People, if you do not know what that phrase means, please stop using it.
Post the summary in French at least.
UUOC - Useless use of cat.
Ok, so I'm a dog person.
Delightful! Maybe you could be a BOFH after all.
On the other hand, a BOFH is usually able to tell when someone is joking.
I'll duck out before 'Hitler' gets mentioned. Feel free to have the last word.
That is a systemwide alias for the mere users.
If you weren't an emacs user, perhaps you would be familiar with the distinction!