I had the opportunity to live with Salvatore's younger son last year. . . and while I didn't care for the kid, I've got to say that his dad is incredibly awesome. He nabbed us some free swag from Sony and promised to tweak any EQ chars we created - his kid's chars were evidence of this.
So while I don't know a lot about the others, I can say that Salvatore's got some serious gamer cred. . . say what you will about his novels, the guy is good.
We'll ignore Demonstone for now, Mr. S.:)
I find the bit about less local interest interesting as I know that I had little desire to leave Tennessee until I began surfing the internet regularly, meeting people from other places and reading about them on online news sites. Indeed, the first time I truly wanted to leave my state came when I 'dated' a girl online. . . and it's thanks to internet research that I ended up here at Boston U.
Naturally curious person enabled by the net, or innocent Southern boy corrupted by the tubes'o'satan?
Open Office Killed My Printer, and I Cried
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OpenOffice Bloated?
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With Java on, Open Office more often than not kills my poor PC, which is a relatively speedy AMD 1.7ghz with 512MB of RAM. . . to such an extent that it apparently killed my 6 year old Canon.
I only blame it on OO.o because it worked fine earlier in the day when I was printing w/ MSO, but the second I installed OO.o and printed, it went kaput. Le sigh. I miss ol' Canny, she was a good printer.
Seriously though, I don't have the time or the system resources to load OO.o anymore. P2P apps, chat apps, browsers (At least I use Firefox), WinAmp, WordWeb, and the occasional Warcraft 3 session don't need an oversized freeware app sucking their precious RAM. Unless OO.o can offer me comparable quality at a lower price point, I for one will make sure that my money is well spent.
You know, by switching to OSx and just pirating MSO:)
Hi there. I'm a Slashdotter who's spent the past 17 years of his life living on dusty dirt roads in backwoods Tennesseean cities and towns of less than 20,000 people each.
I'd like you to know that I now hate 51% of the nation with a burning, burning passion.
Therefore, I request that 51% of the nation hand over their IP address so that I may begin transmitting viruses at a rate of at least 2.5KB/sec.
. . . Please?
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I had the opportunity to live with Salvatore's younger son last year. . . and while I didn't care for the kid, I've got to say that his dad is incredibly awesome. He nabbed us some free swag from Sony and promised to tweak any EQ chars we created - his kid's chars were evidence of this. So while I don't know a lot about the others, I can say that Salvatore's got some serious gamer cred. . . say what you will about his novels, the guy is good. We'll ignore Demonstone for now, Mr. S. :)
I find the bit about less local interest interesting as I know that I had little desire to leave Tennessee until I began surfing the internet regularly, meeting people from other places and reading about them on online news sites. Indeed, the first time I truly wanted to leave my state came when I 'dated' a girl online. . . and it's thanks to internet research that I ended up here at Boston U. Naturally curious person enabled by the net, or innocent Southern boy corrupted by the tubes'o'satan?
With Java on, Open Office more often than not kills my poor PC, which is a relatively speedy AMD 1.7ghz with 512MB of RAM. . . to such an extent that it apparently killed my 6 year old Canon.
:)
I only blame it on OO.o because it worked fine earlier in the day when I was printing w/ MSO, but the second I installed OO.o and printed, it went kaput. Le sigh. I miss ol' Canny, she was a good printer.
Seriously though, I don't have the time or the system resources to load OO.o anymore. P2P apps, chat apps, browsers (At least I use Firefox), WinAmp, WordWeb, and the occasional Warcraft 3 session don't need an oversized freeware app sucking their precious RAM. Unless OO.o can offer me comparable quality at a lower price point, I for one will make sure that my money is well spent.
You know, by switching to OSx and just pirating MSO
Hi there. I'm a Slashdotter who's spent the past 17 years of his life living on dusty dirt roads in backwoods Tennesseean cities and towns of less than 20,000 people each. I'd like you to know that I now hate 51% of the nation with a burning, burning passion. Therefore, I request that 51% of the nation hand over their IP address so that I may begin transmitting viruses at a rate of at least 2.5KB/sec. . . . Please?