IE is only sorta a requirement. You need it to install (part of the GUI or sth.), but then it respects your default browser choice (say, Firefox or Opera).
There's a dedicated "backup" function in this. Just FYI. And even the old version (by which I mean Google's, as that was the first one I ever used) let you do backups, as long as you were OK with putting some HTML next to it...
The export as XHTML feature is especially nice... it exports a folder full of pics as a photo gallery in XHTML and CSS. Very nicely done, and makes it easy to modify with python (which I'm doing now for a photo archive of an old building that just got torn down).
AND... they fixed the one bug I saw. Used to be, the width didn't have a closing '"' on the blown-up picture page. That was the first thing I checked with 2.0, and it's fixed.
There is a problem for you Canadians, and I say this after having lived in Canada. Socialized medicine sucks. Same in Germany (I've experienced both) and elsewhere. Long wait times, not as many specialists, etc. I hate to say it, but providing free healthcare is a bad idea.
That was mean. Reverse psychology does work on people who've never heard of goatse before! OTOH, at least goatse.cx is down, so they'd have to google for it.
Other than being free, I don't see what OpenOffice has to offer on the OS X platform.
Is there any (major) word processor, for any platform that does word completion other than OOo? If it doesn't have that, I won't willingly use it, and that was the case even before I started experiencing joint problems.
Using GeekLog. It fell through, in part because the newspaper's advertising contracts didn't allow it, and our literary magazine had enough trouble getting submissions that we didn't have time to set up the site... but GeekLog itself was very nice. The best part of the project, although that's not saying much.
I'm not sure if this is Intuit or some other tax software, but... as an addition to your open letter, they should not make a program that has to overwrite the friggin' MBR just to install.
But another point is why should users spend so many resources learning, buying firewalls, using windowsUpdate, updating anti virus software, and keep updating lavasoft? Yes users need to take precautions of course but what is happening is just silly.
How long did it take you to learn to drive - at least a few hours with an instructor, right? And you do most of what they told you, including oil changes and such, right? If you set up WindowsUpdate, AV, and LavaSoft right, you don't need (or the average user doesn't need) to fiddle with it all that often. People need to take responsibility for their computers, just like they do with their cars.
In fact... if you leave the keys in your car, and someone steals it, and kills somebody in an accident, you can be held at least partially responsible. Why is it that you can be a spam zombie with an unpatched/unfirewalled machine, but CAN-SPAM doesn't apply?
You think that's bad? Pah. I have serious failures developing in my knees and ankles, and my hips are already jury-rigged as it is. But it would be more practical to replace the whole thing than to replace all six of those parts, so it ain't happening any time soon. Any designer that doesn't plan for incidental damage and repair isn't worth it's salt.
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IE is only sorta a requirement. You need it to install (part of the GUI or sth.), but then it respects your default browser choice (say, Firefox or Opera).
Eh, elephant fat? We're fresh out. Got a coupla vats of mastodon fat in the back, though. Y'might wanna try that.
I call shenanigans. Didn't happen to me, and I have most incoming and outgoing ports blocked off.
There's a dedicated "backup" function in this. Just FYI. And even the old version (by which I mean Google's, as that was the first one I ever used) let you do backups, as long as you were OK with putting some HTML next to it ...
The export as XHTML feature is especially nice ... it exports a folder full of pics as a photo gallery in XHTML and CSS. Very nicely done, and makes it easy to modify with python (which I'm doing now for a photo archive of an old building that just got torn down).
... they fixed the one bug I saw. Used to be, the width didn't have a closing '"' on the blown-up picture page. That was the first thing I checked with 2.0, and it's fixed.
AND
If I was in charge, I'd insist they name it linksys. That'd be funny as hell.
You, sir, have redeemed what was a dead joke (confirmed by Netcraft - that'll show them!). My hat is off to you.
There is a problem for you Canadians, and I say this after having lived in Canada. Socialized medicine sucks. Same in Germany (I've experienced both) and elsewhere. Long wait times, not as many specialists, etc. I hate to say it, but providing free healthcare is a bad idea.
By that argument, why not G-Nome, as in "genome"? Sounds cool, and it makes sense.
I didn't get this until I realized that K. Rines is that customer in that AOL ad ... just a hint for anyone else who got confused.
Hey, if the AOL browser comes up with anything cool, it goes straight back into Firefox, right?
Not necessarily. Moz is licensed under the MPL, which is very BSD-like.
That was mean. Reverse psychology does work on people who've never heard of goatse before! OTOH, at least goatse.cx is down, so they'd have to google for it.
Other than being free, I don't see what OpenOffice has to offer on the OS X platform.
Is there any (major) word processor, for any platform that does word completion other than OOo? If it doesn't have that, I won't willingly use it, and that was the case even before I started experiencing joint problems.
Using GeekLog. It fell through, in part because the newspaper's advertising contracts didn't allow it, and our literary magazine had enough trouble getting submissions that we didn't have time to set up the site ... but GeekLog itself was very nice. The best part of the project, although that's not saying much.
I'm not sure if this is Intuit or some other tax software, but ... as an addition to your open letter, they should not make a program that has to overwrite the friggin' MBR just to install.
I could try to get rid of those five per day emails, but I'm afraid of increasing the amount by using their 'unsubscribe' link.
Why not just blacklist that domain?
But another point is why should users spend so many resources learning, buying firewalls, using windowsUpdate, updating anti virus software, and keep updating lavasoft? Yes users need to take precautions of course but what is happening is just silly.
... if you leave the keys in your car, and someone steals it, and kills somebody in an accident, you can be held at least partially responsible. Why is it that you can be a spam zombie with an unpatched/unfirewalled machine, but CAN-SPAM doesn't apply?
How long did it take you to learn to drive - at least a few hours with an instructor, right? And you do most of what they told you, including oil changes and such, right? If you set up WindowsUpdate, AV, and LavaSoft right, you don't need (or the average user doesn't need) to fiddle with it all that often. People need to take responsibility for their computers, just like they do with their cars.
In fact
You think that's bad? Pah. I have serious failures developing in my knees and ankles, and my hips are already jury-rigged as it is. But it would be more practical to replace the whole thing than to replace all six of those parts, so it ain't happening any time soon. Any designer that doesn't plan for incidental damage and repair isn't worth it's salt.
Throw them a frikkin' bone, man.
BS. Try it for an extended period of time, and you'll see. But yes, I do have joint problems (though I'm not lazy - it's an arthritis-like symptom).
Why aren't touchscreens commonplace? Google for "gorilla arm syndrome" sometime.
Linking college computers to military base computers is *exactly* the situation in which I would think you'd want security ...
Conviction? For a breach of civil law?
Funny doesn't get you any karma.
There's a difference between art and some of the crap in churches today that costs so damn much.