OpenOffice, like Word and everything else I can think of, gets
one fundamental thing wrong in the user interface design.
Documents are 8 1/2" wide x 11" tall with say 6.5" x 9" tall
useable writing area.
Hey!!! In my country, documents are 210 × 297 mm, you insensitive clod.
(Okay, so I'm actually an American too. Fine:-P.)
I'm a Canadian and I've been doing most things in metric for over 30 years. However my paper is all 8 1/2 x 11, my lumber is measured in feet and inches, and I know my height and weight in imperial but not metric.
(But if someone uses Fahrenheit I get very confused very fast... *sigh*)
If so, and if they really believed it, I would expect them to be far more worried about their daughter's eternal fate, than what the community thought.
I'm thinking that the religious people you know might not behave as the ones I know.
It turns out that by connecting an accelerator capable of destroying the universe to a computation depending on random numbers, one could in principle solve problems that are otherwise intractable. I termed this "doomsday computation"
Was that right after you published your paper on Bistromath?
Some 'Canadian' ISPs, such as PEER1, are actually based out of the US.
Throws a bit of a monkey wrench into the caving in to a law from a foreign country...
You are correct that PEER1 would be subject to DCMA, however a single counter example does not disprove the general case that Canadian's can tell Americans to stick it where the sun don't shine.
Weren't several Python members also from Cambridge Footlights? I do recall that Douglas Adams was soon after the Python phenomenon. IIRC he had a great quote about "wanting to grow up to be John Cleese, it took me many years to realize the position was already filled."
Lately I've been listening to the Goon Show a lot, that being a British radio show from the 50s, and it's pretty clearly one of the places that Monty Python was coming from,
not to mention the Firesign Theater (my favorite line: "Are you going to go quietly, or do we need to use earplugs?").
I've been wondering if there might be other sources in play over there on the other side of the pond... British radio of the 40s is not exactly a subject most of us know about over here.
My mother is of the same generation as the Pythons and grew up in England listening to the BBC. She's a big fan of both the Goons and the Pythons. Her take on it is that the Pythons were really the next logical (or illogical) step. The Goons are delightfully silly and irreverent, the Pythons are silly, irreverent AND surreal.
Yes, alas, a lot of Americans don't seem to grasp that there are many quite different British accents. It all gets lumped into one non-existent "British accent", presumably spoken by aristocratic Scottish chimney sweeps born to the sound of the Bow Bells in Victorian-era Calcutta, growing up as Oxford educated street urchins in the back-alleys of Serbiton and eventually settling down in the East End of Cardiff.
Actually, that sounds a great deal like one of my great-great uncles who's father was Irish but grew up in Scotland. Joined the army and did a tour of duty in South Africa prior to the Zulu war, shipped back to Kent for a few years and then headed off to India to work as the Municipal Engineer for Rowalpindi. (Now in Pakistan)
Great-great uncle left India to go to school and ended up teaching at Cambridge. I shudder to think what his children's accents sounded like. Irish-Scottish-South African-Indian-Cambridge?
You _should_ be scared if Microsoft enters your segment with a free product. It may not be the best, but that's never stopped Microsoft from crushing competitors in the past.
I have worked on a number of products that compete directly or indirectly with Microsoft. You hit the nail on the head, but it's not just about the free ones, if Microsoft enters your market segment in any way at all you should be sitting up and taking notice. (And polishing your CV)
Define "everyone," because I can think of some pretty scary scenarios in which "everyone" has nukes.
Everyone. Everybody should get one. I'll keep my nuke in my living room and put a round glass top over it and use it as a coffee table. It'll be a good conversation piece. Oh, what's that? You have a headache and some clumps of hair are falling out of your head? No worry, lets move out onto the patio where I keep my smallpox vials...
Dude, you're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to put the fissionables in the lead lined closet in the fallout shelter!
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Is the display any better than the Kindle at displaying porn?
Do you usually get yours as PDF or ePub? If so yes...
OpenOffice, like Word and everything else I can think of, gets one fundamental thing wrong in the user interface design.
Documents are 8 1/2" wide x 11" tall with say 6.5" x 9" tall useable writing area.
Hey!!! In my country, documents are 210 × 297 mm, you insensitive clod.
(Okay, so I'm actually an American too. Fine :-P.)
I'm a Canadian and I've been doing most things in metric for over 30 years. However my paper is all 8 1/2 x 11, my lumber is measured in feet and inches, and I know my height and weight in imperial but not metric.
(But if someone uses Fahrenheit I get very confused very fast... *sigh*)
And then Mithrandir told you could just piggyback on the eagle to Rivendel, that must have really set you off.
That's what she said?
If so, and if they really believed it, I would expect them to be far more worried about their daughter's eternal fate, than what the community thought.
I'm thinking that the religious people you know might not behave as the ones I know.
Seriously. What do you expect Michale Dell to say? That Windows 7 is crap? Why is this marketing drivel being reported on Slashdot any way?
So we can try to impress each other with our technical prowess and argue about it without reading the article?
Does anyone here who posted on the subject, know what the fuck they are on about.
I'd go with "you must be new here" but your userid is only slightly higher than mine.
It turns out that by connecting an accelerator capable of destroying the universe to a computation depending on random numbers, one could in principle solve problems that are otherwise intractable. I termed this "doomsday computation"
Was that right after you published your paper on Bistromath?
Canadian's
Somebody shoot me.
Some 'Canadian' ISPs, such as PEER1, are actually based out of the US.
Throws a bit of a monkey wrench into the caving in to a law from a foreign country...
You are correct that PEER1 would be subject to DCMA, however a single counter example does not disprove the general case that Canadian's can tell Americans to stick it where the sun don't shine.
Wasn't that just so last year? (And an epic fail?)
... at least read the summary carefully. They didn't patent the natural structures.
I should know better than to ask questions that are better solved by google or wikipedia.
Weren't several Python members also from Cambridge Footlights? I do recall that Douglas Adams was soon after the Python phenomenon. IIRC he had a great quote about "wanting to grow up to be John Cleese, it took me many years to realize the position was already filled."
Lately I've been listening to the Goon Show a lot, that being a British radio show from the 50s, and it's pretty clearly one of the places that Monty Python was coming from, not to mention the Firesign Theater (my favorite line: "Are you going to go quietly, or do we need to use earplugs?").
I've been wondering if there might be other sources in play over there on the other side of the pond... British radio of the 40s is not exactly a subject most of us know about over here.
My mother is of the same generation as the Pythons and grew up in England listening to the BBC. She's a big fan of both the Goons and the Pythons. Her take on it is that the Pythons were really the next logical (or illogical) step. The Goons are delightfully silly and irreverent, the Pythons are silly, irreverent AND surreal.
My nipples explode with delight!
Definitely, in fact my hovercraft is full of eels.
Yes, alas, a lot of Americans don't seem to grasp that there are many quite different British accents. It all gets lumped into one non-existent "British accent", presumably spoken by aristocratic Scottish chimney sweeps born to the sound of the Bow Bells in Victorian-era Calcutta, growing up as Oxford educated street urchins in the back-alleys of Serbiton and eventually settling down in the East End of Cardiff.
Actually, that sounds a great deal like one of my great-great uncles who's father was Irish but grew up in Scotland. Joined the army and did a tour of duty in South Africa prior to the Zulu war, shipped back to Kent for a few years and then headed off to India to work as the Municipal Engineer for Rowalpindi. (Now in Pakistan)
Great-great uncle left India to go to school and ended up teaching at Cambridge. I shudder to think what his children's accents sounded like. Irish-Scottish-South African-Indian-Cambridge?
And of course they'd inexplicably have an enormous interstellar spaceship shaped like a Viking ship and covered in spikes.
Wïth löts öf ümläüts!
(Bëcäüsë ümläüts cän mäkë änythïng bädäss...)
And of course they'd inexplicably have an enormous interstellar spaceship shaped like a Viking ship and covered in spikes.
Wïth löts öf ümläüts!
Bonus points for pointing out the assumption of base 10!
So it's like the difference between being hit by a car going 1mph and one going 100,000,000,000,000,000mph? Am I doing these car analogy things right?
But the cars are very tiny.
Do they get stuck in tubes?
You _should_ be scared if Microsoft enters your segment with a free product. It may not be the best, but that's never stopped Microsoft from crushing competitors in the past.
I have worked on a number of products that compete directly or indirectly with Microsoft. You hit the nail on the head, but it's not just about the free ones, if Microsoft enters your market segment in any way at all you should be sitting up and taking notice. (And polishing your CV)
+informative Never a mod point when I really need one!
Define "everyone," because I can think of some pretty scary scenarios in which "everyone" has nukes.
Everyone. Everybody should get one. I'll keep my nuke in my living room and put a round glass top over it and use it as a coffee table. It'll be a good conversation piece. Oh, what's that? You have a headache and some clumps of hair are falling out of your head? No worry, lets move out onto the patio where I keep my smallpox vials...
Dude, you're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to put the fissionables in the lead lined closet in the fallout shelter!
*WHOOSH*
the IT staff is undervalued, demoralized and stressed.
Which is exactly the way they like us