I just gotta wonder why so many institutions buy them
'Cause their cheap and institutions (like many people) are greedy SOB's who only care about money, and are willing to sacrifice any amount of quality for even the smallest decrease in price?
Windows expand to fill either the window dimensions or enough space to fit all their contents without scrolling, whichever is smaller (some apps don't widen their windows to fill the whole width of the screen).
Also, the open(1) command is your friend. "open filename" with open that file using whatever the registered application for it is (just like it was double-clicked in the finder). "open -a appname" will try to find an application in/Applications, ~/Applications, or/Network/Applications whose name matched appname (without ".app"; e.g. "open -a Firefox" will open Firefox). Lastly, "open -e file" will open that file in TextEdit. Good for editing files text/config/ascii files by hand, but note that TextEdit will always render HTML and rtf (and maybe now MS Word) files, so if you want to beat on those you'll need something else.
Someone else who replied told you about how cmd-tab and cmd-backtick work; also, you should learn to love the flexibility of hiding entire apps versus minimizing windows. And if you want to minimize (or expand, or close) all of an apps windows at once, hold option and click the relevant box.
People often ask how to convince schools to use OOo over MS Office. The usual counter-argument is that the kids all have Office at home, and it would confuse them to have a subtly different thing in front of them at school, especially if the default format of the school computers is incompatible with their home computers.
One solution I heard suggested is to burn a whole bunch of OOo CDs and distribute them to the students; that way, they can install it on their home computer too. If you don't tell them that it's perfectly legal to do so, they'll likely be excited about the prospect and do it right away.
As an added bonus, you could include source code and a free set of Windows build tools. Or even a small linux distro!
Actually, the fortunes are created because of this. If every kid who ever bought Action Comics #1 or any of those old comics still had his copy, they'd all be hardly more than a novelty collector's item (like an issue of TIME from the same period). The same goes for baseball cards, etc. The very fact that these things are now seen as "valuable investments" and saved means that, most likely, they never will be.
Well, write one. It shouldn't be too hard, you just need to have it be able to assume full screen mode. And, you'll get bonus points if it can work as a Desktop Background.
He's just trying to karma whore by whining. I bet, if I submitted articles (sans links) that said I got modded down for mentioning the submitted story, I'd get modded up. Even if I was lying. Mod him down and put a stop to this practice.
You need a national law for software patents to work, right? So all you have to do is put patent-violating software on a boat in international waters, and run it through ssh and x-windows.
Excuse me, I'm filling out a patent application...
I kinda want to see Hero and House of Hidden Daggers. Anyone know if they have unskippable trailers?
I don't know, but skip them anyway. The only way to justify spending any money on them whatsoever is to see them in a big-screen theater. If you want to get the same esthic effect, watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon over and over again until you get sick of it. That's the first scene of one movie.
I wonder why more war3z d00dz don't consciously embrace the pirate mythology (other than thepiratebay.org, of course). It seems that the cyber-equivalent of high-seas adventure would be very appealing to that class of pasty-skinned loser.
It's somewhat different from traditional pen-and-paper RPGs; for one thing, there's a greater abundance of power-gamers on these online RPGs. That probably has a lot to do with both the heritage of these games from single-player games like Final Fantasy (a power-gamer's paradise if ever there was one), and also due to its predictable establishment and quantification of character rank and power. Not only are the weapons, classes, and monsters well-defined (deterministically so, in fact), but there is typically a much more coherent "progression" in terms of quests and tasks that characters fulfill. Hence, there's a much greater sense of progession from "I have a Sword of Firedoom" to "I have a Sword of Thunderblast", in terms of real in-game effects, than there might be between a sword of sharpness +6 and a vorpal sword +4.
That, and there's a lot less use for ingenuity in MMORPGS than in tabletop games, which translates to a lot more goal-oriented hack-n-slashing.
If a reviewer is sent an advance copy of my CD, and shares it, he could be prosecuted and imprisoned even if I don't care about it, as long as I never explicitly said he could. I might make it known after the fact that my album is public domain, but he shared it when it was still copyrighted.
I dont' know if this is still the case, but I remember at some point in the past there being questions about the security of modules as opposed to a true monolithic kernel. I believe the thinking went that having modules meant another potential point of security failure. In other words, it's a lot harder to inject code into the kernel if you have to recompile it than if you can just add a module and have it be loaded (plus much harder to track down).
There may be ways to secure against this now, I don't know.
Actually, in most places after billion comes 'billiard.' It's just us damn yanks that always jump the gun on these things and want to start changing the root of the word before we're supposed to.
Weren't Sony the ones hyping their system beyond any reasonable expectations of its capabilities? It seems (to me, at least, a compulsieve between-the-lines reader, that) Nintendo is just trying to be wary of not doing the same thing and then getting hosed when the final product fails to meet expectations.
You know, I was just thinking that's one of the things about the German legal system that they got right. All this bullshit about "precedent" just means that, above and beyond the civil codes, you also have to read up on every case that ever happened to make sure it doesn't set a "precedent" (which can still be over-turned, like Brown vs. Board of Education), and then wonder about how far-reaching the precedent is. The notion of precedent as a legal concept more or less originates in England, and only has any worth if the legislature doesn't do its job and pass laws to cover new scenarios as they develop. It shouldn't be up to the courts to re-write^H^H^H^H^^Hinterpret standing legislation.
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You could have left off the last two words there.
'Cause their cheap and institutions (like many people) are greedy SOB's who only care about money, and are willing to sacrifice any amount of quality for even the smallest decrease in price?
Just a guess.
Windows expand to fill either the window dimensions or enough space to fit all their contents without scrolling, whichever is smaller (some apps don't widen their windows to fill the whole width of the screen).
/Applications, ~/Applications, or /Network/Applications whose name matched appname (without ".app"; e.g. "open -a Firefox" will open Firefox). Lastly, "open -e file" will open that file in TextEdit. Good for editing files text/config/ascii files by hand, but note that TextEdit will always render HTML and rtf (and maybe now MS Word) files, so if you want to beat on those you'll need something else.
Also, the open(1) command is your friend. "open filename" with open that file using whatever the registered application for it is (just like it was double-clicked in the finder). "open -a appname" will try to find an application in
Someone else who replied told you about how cmd-tab and cmd-backtick work; also, you should learn to love the flexibility of hiding entire apps versus minimizing windows. And if you want to minimize (or expand, or close) all of an apps windows at once, hold option and click the relevant box.
"There should be less government in business and more business in government." -- Warren G. Harding, a Republican
One solution I heard suggested is to burn a whole bunch of OOo CDs and distribute them to the students; that way, they can install it on their home computer too. If you don't tell them that it's perfectly legal to do so, they'll likely be excited about the prospect and do it right away.
As an added bonus, you could include source code and a free set of Windows build tools. Or even a small linux distro!
Actually, the fortunes are created because of this. If every kid who ever bought Action Comics #1 or any of those old comics still had his copy, they'd all be hardly more than a novelty collector's item (like an issue of TIME from the same period). The same goes for baseball cards, etc. The very fact that these things are now seen as "valuable investments" and saved means that, most likely, they never will be.
Well, write one. It shouldn't be too hard, you just need to have it be able to assume full screen mode. And, you'll get bonus points if it can work as a Desktop Background.
You got modded insightful. You have no idea how much that disturbs me.
He's just trying to karma whore by whining. I bet, if I submitted articles (sans links) that said I got modded down for mentioning the submitted story, I'd get modded up. Even if I was lying. Mod him down and put a stop to this practice.
People produce better work when they collaborate instead of keeping secrets? Preposterous!
Yeah, if you're going to go to all that trouble, why not just use a filesystem with versioning?
Excuse me, I'm filling out a patent application...
I don't know, but skip them anyway. The only way to justify spending any money on them whatsoever is to see them in a big-screen theater. If you want to get the same esthic effect, watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon over and over again until you get sick of it. That's the first scene of one movie.
I wonder why more war3z d00dz don't consciously embrace the pirate mythology (other than thepiratebay.org, of course). It seems that the cyber-equivalent of high-seas adventure would be very appealing to that class of pasty-skinned loser.
That, and there's a lot less use for ingenuity in MMORPGS than in tabletop games, which translates to a lot more goal-oriented hack-n-slashing.
Buzzword-compliancy.
If a reviewer is sent an advance copy of my CD, and shares it, he could be prosecuted and imprisoned even if I don't care about it, as long as I never explicitly said he could. I might make it known after the fact that my album is public domain, but he shared it when it was still copyrighted.
If I read the bill's text correctly, 'three years' is the maximum sentence for one shared file that is downloaded one time.
There may be ways to secure against this now, I don't know.
Actually, in most places after billion comes 'billiard.' It's just us damn yanks that always jump the gun on these things and want to start changing the root of the word before we're supposed to.
Weren't Sony the ones hyping their system beyond any reasonable expectations of its capabilities? It seems (to me, at least, a compulsieve between-the-lines reader, that) Nintendo is just trying to be wary of not doing the same thing and then getting hosed when the final product fails to meet expectations.
OS X has an X in its name. Hey, it was a good enough reason for Xbox linux!
Just tell them that they can be uber-leet information samurai by remaining loyal to their retainer.
You know, I was just thinking that's one of the things about the German legal system that they got right. All this bullshit about "precedent" just means that, above and beyond the civil codes, you also have to read up on every case that ever happened to make sure it doesn't set a "precedent" (which can still be over-turned, like Brown vs. Board of Education), and then wonder about how far-reaching the precedent is. The notion of precedent as a legal concept more or less originates in England, and only has any worth if the legislature doesn't do its job and pass laws to cover new scenarios as they develop. It shouldn't be up to the courts to re-write^H^H^H^H^^Hinterpret standing legislation.