The average user only needs to pay, at most $150, for the Student/Home Edition of Office which can be installed on three computers in the same household.
I do respect Open Office and have used it at certain times in my life, but for school reports, Open Office did not have the TOC, TOF, page numbering, section break, formatting options that worked well enough for those reports.
I find it funny that you are so determined that the iPad is a superior ebook reader when you haven't even seen one, much less read a book on one.
I am open to it being a better reader, however until I can see one for myself and try reading for 4+ hours on it, I cannot judge whether it is a better ebook reader or not.
Surprisingly, unless you have some super inside secrets and have already used an iPad, you are unable to conclusively say it is superior at the task of reading ebooks. Most people are in this same category and may believe it is superior, but very, very few people are able to make a blanket statement about this issue.
Just because eye strain isn't a problem for you or numerous other people, doesn't mean there are people who don't have eye strain problems.
For example, I can not turn down the brightness on my laptop screen, or my LCD monitors at work low enough to be completely comfortable, and this is in a well lit environment.
I will agree that the color screen is an advantage, but faster updating means next to nothing for an ebook reader. If you want an ebook reader only, then the Kindle is the superior choice, if you want something more general purpose then the iPad might be sufficient.
There are a lot of games that cost close to $75 Cnd. They are much more strategy based games with more mechanics that moving around a board in circles, or squares depending if you have the new Monopoly board or not.
A lot of the games that I play are developed in Europe and are finally starting to get some real exposure to the NA market. It is about time us NA residents realize what a great hobby board games can be.
It also depends how many different friend groups you play the games with. If you have 3 or 4 different game groups are you going to buy enough iPhones that each person can have one? Or do you buy enough for your 6 player game and leave them on the shelf until you play the game?
Myself, I will continue to buy the $50+ board games and play them with whom I like when I like without having to be interrupted by text messages or phone calls when making a critical move.
Unfortunately you may have bought what will be one of the first smart phones to fall victim of a virus/bot in mass quantity. Because Apple has sold so many iPhones, and because they are all identical within each generation they make for a very large and appealing market for virus writers.
I couldn't agree with you more about Half Life I and Unreal. I found the original Unreal to be so involved because you were doing a few things at a time, one was finding journals of dead marines that gave you information about the bad aliens, the other was reading up on the culture of the native aliens. Best of all this was all done in a unique way, no cut scenes!
In 2000 they released a free Opera, but it was ad-supported, which I for one would never tolerate in a web browser.
You do realize that Firefox is ad-supported as well. There is a reason Google it the default search provider, and why the Google toolbar is distributed with Firefox. You may not like a visible ad, but you certainly have bought into an ad supported browser.
Hmmm, good point, I still haven't been able to find the original article I read explaining this, so I'll have to rethink and hopefully come up with the correct answer next time.
You are describing how the last generation of theatre 3D functioned. In that generation if you titled your head to the left or right you would see the screen blank out because of the fixed polarization of the glasses and images.
What is used now is circular polarization where there is a circular filter on the lens. The filter is split into two halves, each with a different polarization filter on it. The filter then rotates three times per frame, so as to not be noticeable to the human eye. This way the polarization is constantly changing so that even if you tilt your head, the polarized filters on the glasses will still let light through. Unfortunately I can't find the link to this information, I thought I read it on Wired, or in the Wired comments section.
Any help with the link would be appreciated.
I probably stalled because it is near impossible to tell the difference between a smuggled nuclear bomb and a TSA approved nuclear bomb in check luggage.
As other have said, when you buy the computer you are paying for the whole bundle that the manufacturer put together. You can't go return the 5400 rpm hard drive from the laptop. If you don't like buying a bundle that includes a Windows license, that you can get a certain amount of money back for, think of it is a restocking fee being applied, then go find one of the barebones laptops and build your own. Otherwise get off your elitist ass and petition to more manufacturers to offer laptops without Windows installed on them. Sitting on Slashdot complaining isn't going to change anyone's practices.
Rather than trying to secure more weapon grade uranium why don't they consider either licensing the design or designing their own reactors that do not need the enriched uranium. Off the top of my head there are the 2nd generation CANDU reactors.
This does make FireFox 3 look very good, however I have a few problems with the methodology. I do not know how any browser other than Opera caches data, for example in Opera even if you close a tab, it still retains the full history associated with that single tab if you decide you need it again, this memory would only be reclaimed if the browser's recycle bin is cleared. Secondly, in Opera when you go back a page most pages are still cached so a reload is not necessary, on this one I do not know if FireFox 3 offers the same feature or not.
The history of closed tabs along seems enought to make Opera look worse, when in fact it is simply because it is caching much more data than any of the other browsers
Actually, it is funny that this review is claiming this 'New consumer feature.' I bought a Lenovo Y410 in Feb, and it had been out for much longer than that, with the same feature. Except the software on the Lenovo isn't fooled by pictures.
Note: I find the feature to be a big gimmick, it is always faster to type my password than have it try to recognize my face.
Another Note: You can always choose to log on with a password instead of the facial recognition.
I haven't completed my degree yet, but yeah, I am one of the people that came into university engineering like that. Actually at U Vic in Canada, same school?
I agree that most engineering grads aren't sufficiently equiped. My solution was to go to a local college first and get a diploma in Computer Engineering Technology, which was almost all hands on. Then through a transfer program I went into 3rd year Engineering and will finish that in a year or so. Not to mention that school I'm at requires at least four 4 month coop work terms in order to graduate.
Yes it has had the extension for quite sometime but Opera has had it as a built in feature for many years. I don't know when they were first introduced since I first used Opera in 2001 and it already had mouse gestures.
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The average user only needs to pay, at most $150, for the Student/Home Edition of Office which can be installed on three computers in the same household.
I do respect Open Office and have used it at certain times in my life, but for school reports, Open Office did not have the TOC, TOF, page numbering, section break, formatting options that worked well enough for those reports.
How dare you go claiming there is a legitimate use for linux distros! Especially on /.
I will second TrendMicro. We have a small organization ( 50 computers + servers) and have had no problems with TrendMicro's security suite.
I just got analyzed by using the state machine I am currently coding in C. Turns out I am informally a man and formally a woman.
I find it funny that you are so determined that the iPad is a superior ebook reader when you haven't even seen one, much less read a book on one.
I am open to it being a better reader, however until I can see one for myself and try reading for 4+ hours on it, I cannot judge whether it is a better ebook reader or not.
Surprisingly, unless you have some super inside secrets and have already used an iPad, you are unable to conclusively say it is superior at the task of reading ebooks. Most people are in this same category and may believe it is superior, but very, very few people are able to make a blanket statement about this issue.
Just because eye strain isn't a problem for you or numerous other people, doesn't mean there are people who don't have eye strain problems.
For example, I can not turn down the brightness on my laptop screen, or my LCD monitors at work low enough to be completely comfortable, and this is in a well lit environment.
I will agree that the color screen is an advantage, but faster updating means next to nothing for an ebook reader. If you want an ebook reader only, then the Kindle is the superior choice, if you want something more general purpose then the iPad might be sufficient.
No, no, no, the Silmarillion was the prequel to the Lord of the Rings.
There are a lot of games that cost close to $75 Cnd. They are much more strategy based games with more mechanics that moving around a board in circles, or squares depending if you have the new Monopoly board or not.
A lot of the games that I play are developed in Europe and are finally starting to get some real exposure to the NA market. It is about time us NA residents realize what a great hobby board games can be.
It also depends how many different friend groups you play the games with. If you have 3 or 4 different game groups are you going to buy enough iPhones that each person can have one? Or do you buy enough for your 6 player game and leave them on the shelf until you play the game? Myself, I will continue to buy the $50+ board games and play them with whom I like when I like without having to be interrupted by text messages or phone calls when making a critical move.
With the way his day is going it wouldn't be a failure suicide it would be a failed failure suicide.
Unfortunately you may have bought what will be one of the first smart phones to fall victim of a virus/bot in mass quantity. Because Apple has sold so many iPhones, and because they are all identical within each generation they make for a very large and appealing market for virus writers.
I couldn't agree with you more about Half Life I and Unreal. I found the original Unreal to be so involved because you were doing a few things at a time, one was finding journals of dead marines that gave you information about the bad aliens, the other was reading up on the culture of the native aliens. Best of all this was all done in a unique way, no cut scenes!
In 2000 they released a free Opera, but it was ad-supported, which I for one would never tolerate in a web browser.
You do realize that Firefox is ad-supported as well. There is a reason Google it the default search provider, and why the Google toolbar is distributed with Firefox. You may not like a visible ad, but you certainly have bought into an ad supported browser.
But how are you supposed to hold your coffee if you need one hand on the keyboard to simulate right mouse clicks?
They doubled your salary? Was that the salary before or after all the wage cuts at the old place?
Hmmm, good point, I still haven't been able to find the original article I read explaining this, so I'll have to rethink and hopefully come up with the correct answer next time.
You are describing how the last generation of theatre 3D functioned. In that generation if you titled your head to the left or right you would see the screen blank out because of the fixed polarization of the glasses and images. What is used now is circular polarization where there is a circular filter on the lens. The filter is split into two halves, each with a different polarization filter on it. The filter then rotates three times per frame, so as to not be noticeable to the human eye. This way the polarization is constantly changing so that even if you tilt your head, the polarized filters on the glasses will still let light through. Unfortunately I can't find the link to this information, I thought I read it on Wired, or in the Wired comments section. Any help with the link would be appreciated.
I probably stalled because it is near impossible to tell the difference between a smuggled nuclear bomb and a TSA approved nuclear bomb in check luggage.
As other have said, when you buy the computer you are paying for the whole bundle that the manufacturer put together. You can't go return the 5400 rpm hard drive from the laptop. If you don't like buying a bundle that includes a Windows license, that you can get a certain amount of money back for, think of it is a restocking fee being applied, then go find one of the barebones laptops and build your own. Otherwise get off your elitist ass and petition to more manufacturers to offer laptops without Windows installed on them. Sitting on Slashdot complaining isn't going to change anyone's practices.
Rather than trying to secure more weapon grade uranium why don't they consider either licensing the design or designing their own reactors that do not need the enriched uranium. Off the top of my head there are the 2nd generation CANDU reactors.
This does make FireFox 3 look very good, however I have a few problems with the methodology. I do not know how any browser other than Opera caches data, for example in Opera even if you close a tab, it still retains the full history associated with that single tab if you decide you need it again, this memory would only be reclaimed if the browser's recycle bin is cleared. Secondly, in Opera when you go back a page most pages are still cached so a reload is not necessary, on this one I do not know if FireFox 3 offers the same feature or not.
The history of closed tabs along seems enought to make Opera look worse, when in fact it is simply because it is caching much more data than any of the other browsers
Actually, it is funny that this review is claiming this 'New consumer feature.' I bought a Lenovo Y410 in Feb, and it had been out for much longer than that, with the same feature. Except the software on the Lenovo isn't fooled by pictures.
Note: I find the feature to be a big gimmick, it is always faster to type my password than have it try to recognize my face.
Another Note: You can always choose to log on with a password instead of the facial recognition.
I haven't completed my degree yet, but yeah, I am one of the people that came into university engineering like that. Actually at U Vic in Canada, same school?
I agree that most engineering grads aren't sufficiently equiped. My solution was to go to a local college first and get a diploma in Computer Engineering Technology, which was almost all hands on. Then through a transfer program I went into 3rd year Engineering and will finish that in a year or so. Not to mention that school I'm at requires at least four 4 month coop work terms in order to graduate.
Yes it has had the extension for quite sometime but Opera has had it as a built in feature for many years. I don't know when they were first introduced since I first used Opera in 2001 and it already had mouse gestures.