Funny enough, I lost my debit card the other day, and while Lloyds were farting about sending a new one out, my pay came in. On a Sunday (for Merkins, dunno if it's different in the USA but in the UK a huge number of people get paid by direct bank credit. Quite why the credit went through on Sunday I have no idea, but still.) And I needed to do some shopping, and I couldn't go to an ATM (for obvious reasons) and I couldn't go to the bank or the post office to withdraw cash. So I had to use cheques, which in the event were a lifesaver.
Cheques are actually fairly common at the supermarket where I work (save your jokes), we get a fair few of them for...whatever reason. Presumably, a lot of people don't like debit cards, or just want to take advantage of float time. Or maybe want a paper record of their outgoings. I don't know. But they're a handy backup.
Come to think of it, why in the hell would you date someone who uses myspace?!
A huge percentage of people under the age of 25 do now. You'd be a little lonely (although I doubt this affects most Slashdotters;).
FWIW I met my last girlfriend over MySpace, and she wasn't an attention whore. She thought I was an arsehole though, hence why she's my "last" girlfriend...
All fucktarded communist open-sores loving fucktards should go earn themselves a darwin award by finding a razor, running a hot bath, and slitting their fucking wrists.
Technically that wouldn't be a Darwin Award, as they hadn't done anything particularly stupid to get themselves killed, they'd explicitly set out to kill themselves.
Apple is gunning for open source software...and he bases this on a pie chart?
Apple's main target by releasing Safari on Windows is Internet Explorer; they want to basically get newbies who have tried iTunes or have iPods and liked it, and might be willing to try other Apple stuff. They aren't going after Firefox users, so a comparison of Safari v IE v Firefox makes no sense. Hell, why not include Opera as well, and OmniWeb, and Lynx! It'll be one confusing motherfucker of a pie chart, but by god Norwegians, both the people using OmniWeb and text-mode fetishists need representation too!
To me, this smacks of "Yoo hoo! Over here! Firefox still exists! Yes! Wooooo! Give us publicity too!". And he's somehow extrapolated a simple omission from a pie chart into a hatred of open source software in general. Very nice.
(Not that I think Safari for Windows is there yet, it's nice but not wonderful. I still use Firefox if I'm use Windows, but prefer Safari under OSX.)
Don't forget those of this group who simply deny that any "rights" are being violated by sending some ones and zeros around. Plenty of that type will get all up in arms about genuine rights violations; they just deny that copying data is such a crime.
I like the ones who claim that people don't P2P music, they P2P a binary MP3-encoded representation of it and therefore it is out of copyright law (seriously, I swear I've seen this on Slashdot). I'm sure they won't mind me kicking them right in the fucking head, after all, they are just a bag of water made of cells.
It's the same "bundling" that got IE as the majority browser used against Microsoft for a change.
If Apple did that, they would be opening themselves up to antitrust actions, for the precise same reasons Microsoft got hauled over the coals; leveraging their monopoly in one area to gain one in another. Why the sudden glee at this thought? Is an antitrust violation now somehow a good thing if it's Microsoft on the receiving end? What sort of playground logic is this - two wrongs make a right, the enemy of my enemy...what? Why the sudden love of peoples' settings being changed transparently, and unrelated software being installed, by third-party software installers? Isn't that what RealPlayer gets slated for every so often on Slashdot?
Seriously, you're not the only one to suggest this, and it's a stupid idea. Maybe if you spend your time formulating ways to bring down Microsoft, it's a lovely thought, but to everyone else it's just plain stupid.
I have started receiving documents stored in docx format and can't open it in word 2003 or openoffice. I found this http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/01/26/dismantli ng-a-docx/ which is true. docx is basically a zip file with xml files and word document. My problem is I can't seem to find the.doc in it. The author of the website does state that the hack doesn't work anymore. Anyone else know how to open these files without access to Office 2007?
He was unable to get the text out because a) he was looking for a.doc file that doesn't exist because b) he was using outdated/false information and lastly c) no OSS office suite has implemented DOCX yet, either because it's a new format or because the inclination isn't there yet. Not because of OMG MICRO$OFT IS EVILZ!.
I'm a GNU/Linux user and I can't do anything with M$'s new "open" format. Mac users are in the same boat.
That wouldn't happen to be because the new Office for Mac isn't out yet, or because no Linux office suite has implemented support for the new format yet?
Here's a thought; use your "open" advantage and code support for DOCX into OpenOffice or KWord or AbiWord or something. It's XML, shouldn't be too hard. After all, you are an accomplished IT professional.
Limiting choice to free things is a good limitation. Allowing things like slavery is bad. Yes, the difference is really that stark and the issue will not go away.
Slavery. Yes, twitter, this is a battle of LIFE AND DEATH!!1
M$ spends about a billion dollars a month on marketing. I spend a few minutes a day.
Marketing, yes. Not astroturfing Slashdot.
Bill Gates' supposed charity is his bid to 0wn medicine and education... Everything he does comes with strings attached, such as pledging to use M$ software, respect their patents and other nonsense that has nothing to do with medicine or education... For every dollar spent, the typically "leverages" nine in public spending... he's used foundation funds to purchase independent newspapers that have looked into his misdeeds.
Conspiracy theory much? How about some proof? And not from one of your Slashdot comments, or indeed from Slashdot at all, or any website with "Linux" in the name. A reputable source.
And when your apt-get upgrades include a new kernel, what do you do then?
Bill Gates can spend ALL of his money making Slashdot carry his message, but no one will believe it
I'm not sure he really gives a fuck, to be honest. When you're a billionaire ex-CEO of one of the world's largest and most successful companies, whose time is increasingly devoted to running a charity foundation to distribute AIDS drugs and whatnot, I really doubt your top concern is astroturfing Slashdot.
Non free is dead.
Yes, of course, because nobody runs Windows or Mac OS, or even the NVidia drivers under Linux. Must be dead.
Jesus, why is it I come away from your posts thinking I need to get my Prozac dosage upped? It's depressing in and of itself that someone can be as mouth-foamy as you are about some fscking software.
I really hate to say it, but I'm with you on this one. I've always found Amarok to be very snappy and a nice piece of software, if a little buggy at times (and I found that even that's due to underlying code like taglib and such).
You can get just Microsoft Word 2007 for about $80 bucks.
Can you imagine twitter using Word 2007 and liking it? I imagine the cognitive dissonance would make his head explode...
I'm going to disagree with you on Office being fast on just about any hardware though...it runs like absolute shite on an Intel iMac, as it's not a Universal binary. But even with that handicap it runs infinitely faster than OpenOffice...
Oh come on. If I was in your shoes (god forbid) I'd at least make a joke about Microsoft "loving" their customers in the same sense as a big tattooed black guy "loving" someone in prison who dropped the soap. And that would be funny.
But no, just some inanely spiteful crap about Gates hating his customers (yeah, CEOs tend to really hate people who buy their products!) Classic.
I switched to the Guardian for the simple reason that the Independent has become nothing more than a left wing Daily Mail, presenting biased editorials as front page leaders, producing an increasing amount of celebrity/fashion coverage and treating its readers like children. Additionally, the Guardian appears to do more actual investigative reporting than any other newspaper. A few reasons, among many others, why I switched.
I really don't get this. I've been using OpenOffice for quite a while now and it seems much more useable and intuitive than MS Office. Its also compatible with MS formats and is free in all senses of the word.
Only problem is that OpenOffice doesn't run nicely on the Mac. And by "doesn't run nicely", I mean it's a bloated, ugly, craptacular pile of shite that doesn't integrate with OS X at all.
The paedophile list was, IIRC, the News Of The World, and the paediatrician was not on it; in fact, it was just some cretin not knowing the difference between a paediatrician and a kiddy fiddler, and kicking down the door of the former.
It's an April Fool's joke from the Daily Mail, a newspaper that loves a) making shit up, b) railing against Muslim evil and c) making shit up about Muslim evil. It's bullshit, and I'm shocked that the editors didn't even notice the BBC News article about it being bullshit.
Slashdot Mirror
Funny enough, I lost my debit card the other day, and while Lloyds were farting about sending a new one out, my pay came in. On a Sunday (for Merkins, dunno if it's different in the USA but in the UK a huge number of people get paid by direct bank credit. Quite why the credit went through on Sunday I have no idea, but still.) And I needed to do some shopping, and I couldn't go to an ATM (for obvious reasons) and I couldn't go to the bank or the post office to withdraw cash. So I had to use cheques, which in the event were a lifesaver.
Cheques are actually fairly common at the supermarket where I work (save your jokes), we get a fair few of them for...whatever reason. Presumably, a lot of people don't like debit cards, or just want to take advantage of float time. Or maybe want a paper record of their outgoings. I don't know. But they're a handy backup.
Come to think of it, why in the hell would you date someone who uses myspace?!
;).
A huge percentage of people under the age of 25 do now. You'd be a little lonely (although I doubt this affects most Slashdotters
FWIW I met my last girlfriend over MySpace, and she wasn't an attention whore. She thought I was an arsehole though, hence why she's my "last" girlfriend...
Someone in a bath trying to kill themselves with an electric razor. OK, yeah, that's pretty fucking stupid, and probably Darwin worthy. :)
All fucktarded communist open-sores loving fucktards should go earn themselves a darwin award by finding a razor, running a hot bath, and slitting their fucking wrists.
Technically that wouldn't be a Darwin Award, as they hadn't done anything particularly stupid to get themselves killed, they'd explicitly set out to kill themselves.
(Sorry.)
(No, really... sorry.)
Apple is gunning for open source software...and he bases this on a pie chart?
Apple's main target by releasing Safari on Windows is Internet Explorer; they want to basically get newbies who have tried iTunes or have iPods and liked it, and might be willing to try other Apple stuff. They aren't going after Firefox users, so a comparison of Safari v IE v Firefox makes no sense. Hell, why not include Opera as well, and OmniWeb, and Lynx! It'll be one confusing motherfucker of a pie chart, but by god Norwegians, both the people using OmniWeb and text-mode fetishists need representation too!
To me, this smacks of "Yoo hoo! Over here! Firefox still exists! Yes! Wooooo! Give us publicity too!". And he's somehow extrapolated a simple omission from a pie chart into a hatred of open source software in general. Very nice.
(Not that I think Safari for Windows is there yet, it's nice but not wonderful. I still use Firefox if I'm use Windows, but prefer Safari under OSX.)
Don't forget those of this group who simply deny that any "rights" are being violated by sending some ones and zeros around. Plenty of that type will get all up in arms about genuine rights violations; they just deny that copying data is such a crime.
I like the ones who claim that people don't P2P music, they P2P a binary MP3-encoded representation of it and therefore it is out of copyright law (seriously, I swear I've seen this on Slashdot). I'm sure they won't mind me kicking them right in the fucking head, after all, they are just a bag of water made of cells.
It's underhanded, but no less than anything Microsoft has ever done.
Wrong * 2 != right.
It's the same "bundling" that got IE as the majority browser used against Microsoft for a change.
If Apple did that, they would be opening themselves up to antitrust actions, for the precise same reasons Microsoft got hauled over the coals; leveraging their monopoly in one area to gain one in another. Why the sudden glee at this thought? Is an antitrust violation now somehow a good thing if it's Microsoft on the receiving end? What sort of playground logic is this - two wrongs make a right, the enemy of my enemy...what? Why the sudden love of peoples' settings being changed transparently, and unrelated software being installed, by third-party software installers? Isn't that what RealPlayer gets slated for every so often on Slashdot?
Seriously, you're not the only one to suggest this, and it's a stupid idea. Maybe if you spend your time formulating ways to bring down Microsoft, it's a lovely thought, but to everyone else it's just plain stupid.
And if Safari starts getting bundled with iTunes, then watch the install base soar, and the Firefox user market shrink.
And isn't that precisely the same thing Microsoft got nailed for?
He was unable to get the text out because a) he was looking for a
I'm a GNU/Linux user and I can't do anything with M$'s new "open" format. Mac users are in the same boat.
That wouldn't happen to be because the new Office for Mac isn't out yet, or because no Linux office suite has implemented support for the new format yet?
Here's a thought; use your "open" advantage and code support for DOCX into OpenOffice or KWord or AbiWord or something. It's XML, shouldn't be too hard. After all, you are an accomplished IT professional.
Limiting choice to free things is a good limitation. Allowing things like slavery is bad. Yes, the difference is really that stark and the issue will not go away.
Slavery. Yes, twitter, this is a battle of LIFE AND DEATH!!1
Jesus christ.
M$ spends about a billion dollars a month on marketing. I spend a few minutes a day.
... For every dollar spent, the typically "leverages" nine in public spending... he's used foundation funds to purchase independent newspapers that have looked into his misdeeds.
Marketing, yes. Not astroturfing Slashdot.
Bill Gates' supposed charity is his bid to 0wn medicine and education... Everything he does comes with strings attached, such as pledging to use M$ software, respect their patents and other nonsense that has nothing to do with medicine or education
Conspiracy theory much? How about some proof? And not from one of your Slashdot comments, or indeed from Slashdot at all, or any website with "Linux" in the name. A reputable source.
apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
Done, no need to reboot.
And when your apt-get upgrades include a new kernel, what do you do then?
Bill Gates can spend ALL of his money making Slashdot carry his message, but no one will believe it
I'm not sure he really gives a fuck, to be honest. When you're a billionaire ex-CEO of one of the world's largest and most successful companies, whose time is increasingly devoted to running a charity foundation to distribute AIDS drugs and whatnot, I really doubt your top concern is astroturfing Slashdot.
Non free is dead.
Yes, of course, because nobody runs Windows or Mac OS, or even the NVidia drivers under Linux. Must be dead.
Jesus, why is it I come away from your posts thinking I need to get my Prozac dosage upped? It's depressing in and of itself that someone can be as mouth-foamy as you are about some fscking software.
Amarok is snappy on any 1GHz class CPU or better.
I really hate to say it, but I'm with you on this one. I've always found Amarok to be very snappy and a nice piece of software, if a little buggy at times (and I found that even that's due to underlying code like taglib and such).
No, but it'd make for a fucking excellent Ouija session.
You can get just Microsoft Word 2007 for about $80 bucks.
Can you imagine twitter using Word 2007 and liking it? I imagine the cognitive dissonance would make his head explode...
I'm going to disagree with you on Office being fast on just about any hardware though...it runs like absolute shite on an Intel iMac, as it's not a Universal binary. But even with that handicap it runs infinitely faster than OpenOffice...
Oh come on. If I was in your shoes (god forbid) I'd at least make a joke about Microsoft "loving" their customers in the same sense as a big tattooed black guy "loving" someone in prison who dropped the soap. And that would be funny.
But no, just some inanely spiteful crap about Gates hating his customers (yeah, CEOs tend to really hate people who buy their products!) Classic.
iTunes doesn't add DRM to ripped CDs. iTunes doesn't add DRM to ripped CDs. iTunes doesn't add DRM to ripped CDs. iTunes doesn't add DRM to ripped CDs. iTunes doesn't add DRM to ripped CDs. iTunes doesn't add DRM to ripped CDs.
Please repeat until you gain a clue.
I switched to the Guardian for the simple reason that the Independent has become nothing more than a left wing Daily Mail, presenting biased editorials as front page leaders, producing an increasing amount of celebrity/fashion coverage and treating its readers like children. Additionally, the Guardian appears to do more actual investigative reporting than any other newspaper. A few reasons, among many others, why I switched.
I really don't get this. I've been using OpenOffice for quite a while now and it seems much more useable and intuitive than MS Office. Its also compatible with MS formats and is free in all senses of the word.
Only problem is that OpenOffice doesn't run nicely on the Mac. And by "doesn't run nicely", I mean it's a bloated, ugly, craptacular pile of shite that doesn't integrate with OS X at all.
If you wanna play technicalities, Australians are pretty much descended from the British and were ruled by the British for a long period of time.
;)
To quote House: "You put the Queen on your money...you're British."
The paedophile list was, IIRC, the News Of The World, and the paediatrician was not on it; in fact, it was just some cretin not knowing the difference between a paediatrician and a kiddy fiddler, and kicking down the door of the former.
Otherwise, yes, it's bollocks.
He said credit card...if Canadian dollars are decaf money, what the fuck are credit cards then, instant?
This. Is. A. Load. Of. Bollocks.
It's an April Fool's joke from the Daily Mail, a newspaper that loves a) making shit up, b) railing against Muslim evil and c) making shit up about Muslim evil. It's bullshit, and I'm shocked that the editors didn't even notice the BBC News article about it being bullshit.
Yes, that would be a way to dissuade teens from texting, yes.