I especially like number 3:
3) Folks who are depressed are not every productive. In a deep recession there will be a lot of fear, anxiety, and depression.
That describes me when I have to get up in the morning for an unpleasant client!
If you believe that, then you will believe:
- You have to buy their router package to support more than one computer,
- No more switching customers from billing in arrears to billing in advance,
- No more low balling prices only to raise them without notice,
- No more bundling with undesired cable TV services,
- No more sports scandals in Philadelphia.
Sorry, these guys make Microsoft look like an honest, reliable service provider who would NEVER try an underhanded trick, even when they can can get away with it. As bad as they are, I'll stick to Verizon for DSL and DirectTV for video.
It is a lot easier to achieve cost overruns that the government will pay for if you don't have a history of operating costs! New projects/new facilities are the way to get more money. The game is simple; your status in the government is measured on how much you overrun your budget - the more the better.
Not all of us have the luxury of going out and just buying more memory.
I run into memory problems easily on my work machine, WinXP w/1gb ram. And getting this much was difficult! A typical work session will have:
- Firefox 2 with 3-5 windows into different email and PeopleSoft instances
- WinSQL logged on to 1-2 database instances
- Excel with nVision (PeopleSoft) add-ins, commonly 2-3 relatively small sheets open
- xplorer2 lite (file manager)
- Palm Desktop (PIM, Scheduler)
My personal WinXP/PCLOS dual boot is hardware maxed out at 2gb ram.
I'm looking forward to the lower memory requirements of FF3.
Ditto. Personal stuff is usually odf important business st; business stuff is generally.doc. Truelyuff (like my resume, gets saved in both and often rtf also.
HUH, you need a little history; Excel did it differently than Visicalc, Smartcalc, THE Spreadsheet, or even Microsoft's own Multiplan. It was intentional on Microsoft's part to break compatibility so you would have difficulty going back to another product. OOo returns to the standard used by all other apps.
Calc does open CSV files as spreadsheets if you tell it to do so in the File Open Dialog. Check the Help Index under 'CSV'. It has been there as long as I have needed it. By definition, a CSV file IS a TEXT file and all Text files are opened with Writer unless you tell it otherwise.
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Have you tried READING THE HELP file??? Calc CAN open a CSV file as a spreadsheet. It works differently than Excel, but why is that a problem; Excel does it WRONG. By definition, a CSV file IS a text file and unless you provide other guidance in the File Open dialog, why would you expect it to do other than what it is programmed to do?
...christian saying we should respect the devil... When you create your own (not pre-existing) near-god-like figure in your religion, yes, the devil deserves your respect. That doesn't mean you have to agree with him. [There is no 'devil' in Judaism, the character was borrowed from a merging of the greek/roman concept of Hades and the Zoroastrian God of Darkness - both common religions at the time of the rise of Christianity.]
Respect is earned and M$ haven't earned it. Respect can be 'earned' through other factors besides 'I want to be like you.'. Fear can be a reason to respect another. I respect poisonous snakes and try to stay away from them, as an example - don't you?
Let's see;
Genetic diversity down since 1700 years ago in Europe (fall of the Roman Empire)...
How many times has one group or another tried to slaughter all of their rivals; Goths, Huns, Jews, Romani, Cossacks, Basques, Irish, the Balkans, Hundred Years War, Reformation, Counter Reformation, Inquesition, Crusades, WWI, WWII, Napoleonic Wars, suppression of minoties (pick a country) etc.
And plagues, anyone, anyone, Bueller?
If diversity wasn't sharply down, THAT would be news!
Of course Goddard made the first successful liguid-fueled rocket, although other teams all over the world were working on it at the same time. And, the Wright Brothers were the first team to succeed in powered takeoff of a plane, out of the many teams around the world. But rockets and guns were invented by the Chinese, as was spaghetti. The blimp was just a motorized balloon, invented by the French. The car was a German invention; Henry Ford simply applied mass production techniques to reduce the cost. The first practical motorized boat was developed by Fulton in the US, based on an English engine design. As to the other inventions, I can't comment.
BTW, the Saturn V was a highly upscaled German V2, designed primarily by the mostly German-born American team. In spite of American propaganda, the Russian space effort was not based on German designs. The telling factors:
-German and US designs call for a single set of pumps per combustion chamber,
-Russian designs, which predate the early German designs, call for multiple combustion chambers for each set of pumps.
Oh yes, since some of you will want to call me a foreigner; to some of you I am. Born and raised in New Jersey, resident at various times in New York, Connecticut, and Maryland.
There are public beaches in the US that are open to anyone for free; those that charge a fee, like state and federal parks; there are others where preference is given to local taxpayers and usually owned by the local municipality or county. Then, there are others that are privately owned (not unusual in a resort area), and are often owned by the hotel closest to the water. In beachfront NJ, there is even a town owned by a church and restricts it's beach to residents and by day of week (no swimming on Sunday )[Ocean Grove, north of Bradley Beach and south of Asbury Park]!
When was the last time you DIDN'T PAY on a 'public property' toll road or 'public property' parking (even in TEXAS)? How about for fresh water or sewer lines? What about 'public property' sports stadiums? How about museums? (OOPS, sorry I forgot you were in TEXAS.) Do shipping companies pay to use the Ship Channel? And trucks to use the 'public property' highways, even those without tolls?
Unfortunately, the beaches don't get groomed or cleaned for free. Someone has to pay for it if it is going to be done. Whether you call them 'taxes' or 'usage fees', somebody pays.
Verizon, at least in Maryland, is sending out standalone modems and wireless routers to its customers that reject connections from Firefox, Opera, Win Safari, Konqueror, and Dillo because they aren't IE. If Linksys can make a browser-independent configuration routine, why can't Verizon??? And, in this area of Maryland, the only choices a consumer has is Comcast and Verizon. Other DSL vendors like Cavalier only resell Verizon.
If you do as WIAKywbfatw (307557) suggests, AND do not boot the Win partition:
1-You don't have to 'cleaning the trash off'. It doesn't matter! And it adds to the resale value since you can claim 'exactly as purchased.'
2-OOo is available on Win too, Why buy MSOffice?
3-No spyware/virii to deal with on the Win partition if you don't boot into Win or mount it in Linux.
According to several sources (summarized in this Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_card/, the 80-column card format was formalized by IBM in 1928 on the size of the 1928 US Dollar bill. Almost everyone has copied this format, making it the 'standard' when the earliest digital computers were built. So, when the early terminals came out, it was natural to have screens the same width as the earlier card format. Early personal computers used a variety of formats from 40 character (e.g., Apple ][) to 64 character (e.g., TRS-80) to 80 character, but most moved to the 80 character 'standard'. Also, the early typewriter convention of 10 characters per inch (non-metric) results in 80 characters across a US Letter sized (or even A4) sheet of paper with some margins. This lent a lot of impetus for the glass terminal to be the same as the earlier paper terminal.
What is there about the iphone that should warrant Corp IT to support it? Is it compatible with existing services? Does it add new capabilities to field personnel? Or is merely a new toy?
I dowmnloaded Safari twice; first to see what the hype was about and the second time because of the almost immediate bug-release fixes. One of the first things I tried was to open an html file (as it so happens, my bookmarks.html file from Firefox) on my hard drive, just like IE, Firefox, Opera, SeaMonkey, Dillo, Konqueror, and any number of other browsers (on multiple OS's). Safari kept telling me it couldn't open it. I have already deleted it from my machine. I'll try it again when it works!
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Environmentally friendly DVD makes better drink coasters!
Huh, isn't this GRUB?
I especially like number 3:
3) Folks who are depressed are not every productive. In a deep recession there will be a lot of fear, anxiety, and depression.
That describes me when I have to get up in the morning for an unpleasant client!
If you believe that, then you will believe: - You have to buy their router package to support more than one computer, - No more switching customers from billing in arrears to billing in advance, - No more low balling prices only to raise them without notice, - No more bundling with undesired cable TV services, - No more sports scandals in Philadelphia. Sorry, these guys make Microsoft look like an honest, reliable service provider who would NEVER try an underhanded trick, even when they can can get away with it. As bad as they are, I'll stick to Verizon for DSL and DirectTV for video.
As a descendant of Moses' older brother, Aaron, you can send me the royalty checks!
It is a lot easier to achieve cost overruns that the government will pay for if you don't have a history of operating costs! New projects/new facilities are the way to get more money. The game is simple; your status in the government is measured on how much you overrun your budget - the more the better.
Not all of us have the luxury of going out and just buying more memory.
I run into memory problems easily on my work machine, WinXP w/1gb ram. And getting this much was difficult! A typical work session will have:
- Firefox 2 with 3-5 windows into different email and PeopleSoft instances
- WinSQL logged on to 1-2 database instances
- Excel with nVision (PeopleSoft) add-ins, commonly 2-3 relatively small sheets open
- xplorer2 lite (file manager)
- Palm Desktop (PIM, Scheduler)
My personal WinXP/PCLOS dual boot is hardware maxed out at 2gb ram. I'm looking forward to the lower memory requirements of FF3.
Too low... 99%
Ditto. Personal stuff is usually odf important business st; business stuff is generally .doc. Truelyuff (like my resume, gets saved in both and often rtf also.
HUH, you need a little history; Excel did it differently than Visicalc, Smartcalc, THE Spreadsheet, or even Microsoft's own Multiplan. It was intentional on Microsoft's part to break compatibility so you would have difficulty going back to another product. OOo returns to the standard used by all other apps.
Calc does open CSV files as spreadsheets if you tell it to do so in the File Open Dialog. Check the Help Index under 'CSV'. It has been there as long as I have needed it. By definition, a CSV file IS a TEXT file and all Text files are opened with Writer unless you tell it otherwise.
Have you tried READING THE HELP file??? Calc CAN open a CSV file as a spreadsheet. It works differently than Excel, but why is that a problem; Excel does it WRONG. By definition, a CSV file IS a text file and unless you provide other guidance in the File Open dialog, why would you expect it to do other than what it is programmed to do?
Let's see; Genetic diversity down since 1700 years ago in Europe (fall of the Roman Empire)... How many times has one group or another tried to slaughter all of their rivals; Goths, Huns, Jews, Romani, Cossacks, Basques, Irish, the Balkans, Hundred Years War, Reformation, Counter Reformation, Inquesition, Crusades, WWI, WWII, Napoleonic Wars, suppression of minoties (pick a country) etc. And plagues, anyone, anyone, Bueller? If diversity wasn't sharply down, THAT would be news!
Why not just use a distro that HAS the codecs in the default repositories? It just takes a little research to find one of the MANY.
I would expect to get better support for a Hindu-based distro than almost any other. Have you called a tech support line lately??
Of course Goddard made the first successful liguid-fueled rocket, although other teams all over the world were working on it at the same time. And, the Wright Brothers were the first team to succeed in powered takeoff of a plane, out of the many teams around the world. But rockets and guns were invented by the Chinese, as was spaghetti. The blimp was just a motorized balloon, invented by the French. The car was a German invention; Henry Ford simply applied mass production techniques to reduce the cost. The first practical motorized boat was developed by Fulton in the US, based on an English engine design. As to the other inventions, I can't comment. BTW, the Saturn V was a highly upscaled German V2, designed primarily by the mostly German-born American team. In spite of American propaganda, the Russian space effort was not based on German designs. The telling factors: -German and US designs call for a single set of pumps per combustion chamber, -Russian designs, which predate the early German designs, call for multiple combustion chambers for each set of pumps. Oh yes, since some of you will want to call me a foreigner; to some of you I am. Born and raised in New Jersey, resident at various times in New York, Connecticut, and Maryland.
There are public beaches in the US that are open to anyone for free; those that charge a fee, like state and federal parks; there are others where preference is given to local taxpayers and usually owned by the local municipality or county. Then, there are others that are privately owned (not unusual in a resort area), and are often owned by the hotel closest to the water. In beachfront NJ, there is even a town owned by a church and restricts it's beach to residents and by day of week (no swimming on Sunday )[Ocean Grove, north of Bradley Beach and south of Asbury Park]! When was the last time you DIDN'T PAY on a 'public property' toll road or 'public property' parking (even in TEXAS)? How about for fresh water or sewer lines? What about 'public property' sports stadiums? How about museums? (OOPS, sorry I forgot you were in TEXAS.) Do shipping companies pay to use the Ship Channel? And trucks to use the 'public property' highways, even those without tolls? Unfortunately, the beaches don't get groomed or cleaned for free. Someone has to pay for it if it is going to be done. Whether you call them 'taxes' or 'usage fees', somebody pays.
I agree, just use a different player. VLC doesn't use the proprietary codecs and still plays the content.
Verizon, at least in Maryland, is sending out standalone modems and wireless routers to its customers that reject connections from Firefox, Opera, Win Safari, Konqueror, and Dillo because they aren't IE. If Linksys can make a browser-independent configuration routine, why can't Verizon??? And, in this area of Maryland, the only choices a consumer has is Comcast and Verizon. Other DSL vendors like Cavalier only resell Verizon.
If you do as WIAKywbfatw (307557) suggests, AND do not boot the Win partition: 1-You don't have to 'cleaning the trash off'. It doesn't matter! And it adds to the resale value since you can claim 'exactly as purchased.' 2-OOo is available on Win too, Why buy MSOffice? 3-No spyware/virii to deal with on the Win partition if you don't boot into Win or mount it in Linux.
According to several sources (summarized in this Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_card/, the 80-column card format was formalized by IBM in 1928 on the size of the 1928 US Dollar bill. Almost everyone has copied this format, making it the 'standard' when the earliest digital computers were built. So, when the early terminals came out, it was natural to have screens the same width as the earlier card format. Early personal computers used a variety of formats from 40 character (e.g., Apple ][) to 64 character (e.g., TRS-80) to 80 character, but most moved to the 80 character 'standard'. Also, the early typewriter convention of 10 characters per inch (non-metric) results in 80 characters across a US Letter sized (or even A4) sheet of paper with some margins. This lent a lot of impetus for the glass terminal to be the same as the earlier paper terminal.
What is there about the iphone that should warrant Corp IT to support it? Is it compatible with existing services? Does it add new capabilities to field personnel? Or is merely a new toy?
I dowmnloaded Safari twice; first to see what the hype was about and the second time because of the almost immediate bug-release fixes. One of the first things I tried was to open an html file (as it so happens, my bookmarks.html file from Firefox) on my hard drive, just like IE, Firefox, Opera, SeaMonkey, Dillo, Konqueror, and any number of other browsers (on multiple OS's). Safari kept telling me it couldn't open it. I have already deleted it from my machine. I'll try it again when it works!
Um,
I think they have been publishing city phone directories for decades. Can you say 'Prior Art?' Anybody? Buehler?