Wow, life turns out okay 99% of the time! Amazing. I should never be careful or cautious. You've opened my eyes!
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This is interesting that the anti cop sentiment on slashdot appears to be about as bad as the rabid anti copy right sentiment.
I'm usually in the side disliking the cops and arguing against gross copyright durations. But I can always count on someone here to say musicians and artists shouldn't get any money for even a newly created work (information should be free!) and apparently that cops are always bad- not human beings in a challenging job who are thuggish and lie at times but who also do a job society needs under challenging circumstances.
People don't agree but this kind of thing happens.
A flirty pretty girl walked up to a co-worker a decade ago in the parking lot outside a bar and next thing he had a knife in his back and then no car or wallet.
Bad things happen. They start off cute and funny sometimes.
Cops have to be careful (in both directions don't be a jerk and don't be a sucker)
So the cop backs away and the crowd edges forward.
What now?
I get it-- the cop looks dumb here. A lot of cops are pretty thuggish these days. I think it is great that we are recording police. They should be recorded 24/7 while on duty to protect the public AND to protect the cops. People lie. Cops are falsely accused all the time. Cops lose control and hit when they shouldn't-- and then they lie about it.
But any case where the crowd outnumbers the cops can turn ugly fast. They've probably been in situations in the past where it turned ugly.
One second people are blowing bubbles and the next they are throwing bubble bottles and then next it's rocks and people are setting cars and buildings on fire and looting.
Haven't seen the video and think police have turned thuggish over the last 40 years but...
They are trained to take control of situations and something silly like not respecting their authority and blowing bubbles can sometimes escalate quickly into something worse.
It was really a no win situation for the police officer.
Sometimes, they are going to make the wrong call and bring the wrong level of intensity to the situation. Some times they won't be aggressive enough and things will turn ugly... other times they'll be too aggressive and look dumb.
The businesses I've been in cared about the degree because it showed 1) you could finish a 4+ year project 2) which had lots of jerks along the way and you didn't melt down 3) that had ridiculous hours at times 4) that had absolutely inflexible deadlines at times and you made them. 5) you had to communicate a lot with others.
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Other that than, I can't count how many times someone is moved laterally away from their degree within 18 months of being hired.
Microsoft ran into it and added the Ribbon which basically hid most of your choice. The feature is there but in some cases it took me months to find it again.
It may have a feature you need, but if you don't know the feature exists or where it is or what their name for it is, you may have a hard time finding it.
But otherwise- of course, you are absolutely correct. If your job runs around putting drop shadows and soft oval masking of images, then Word >>> OO (for now).
If everyone was like your wife, microsoft wouldn't be concerned and this thread wouldn't have occurred.
I was like your wife with version 1.x and 2.x and even 3.0. However, as of 3.04 (maybe.06), I hit a horrible snag in Word and was forced to spend about 8 hours converting a document to OOo to print it (It wouldn't print in Word-- it was a Word 2003 document).
After that, I found myself *missing* features in Word that I'd gotten used to in OO. I still use word for work. But all my personal documents are open office. And we used google docs recently for a major collaborative web project. Microsoft is *expensive as hell* (millions of dollars) for my company. And it's "all or nothing" except for Project. So we get Word included. Can't break it out. I imagine if there was a good free Project replacement, they would start rolling it into the overall site license as well.
Word is "THE" format for business in the same way that IE was "THE" format for internet browsers.
As OO gets better, the cost difference becomes increasingly compelling.
Within word, documents from word 2003 to word 2010 don't display correctly, don't print, print painfully slow, don't open/crash word. It's not common and it's not word salad (tho the non-printing issue is what drove me to OO).
I've used OO a LOOONG time to open and fix word documents which Word crashed on or hung when opening. They have added a "fix document" option- but it didn't work. It seems to work on the crash/hang problem tho.
Wow- I'd think this is informative more than funny.
I'm independent (i.e. Fiscally conservative (smaller government AND businesses) but socially liberal (i.e. do what you want with your own body but you are responsible).
I like some aspects of FNC. And it started off as a reaction to strong liberal propaganda that had dominated TV for the prior 30 years. But, it lost its way and wandered into not caring (hence the court case).
However, by making emotional arguments they are winning, even if they are not telling the truth.
I remember when they first brought out the phillips thin screen and they had a bunch of 20somethings take it into a long but narrow room and put it on one wall and sit on a couch on the other wall and at the time I thought "Man that seems very close!" It was probably about 8' leaning back and 6' leaning forward.
If someone would give you a free Veyron or Civic with the stipulation that you couldn't sell it and it had to be your only car for the next seven years, which would you choose?
I agree we can't afford 1.7 million dollars. But even free, the maintenance cost is likely over our annual gross incomes. The insurance cost might be as well.
Word is a really robust vehicle that can format pictures with ellipses, is integrated with Sharepoint, and perform many other tasks that OOo cannot perform. It costs $500 (unless student, teacher, limited functionality version, etc.)
I was actually thinking of the big yellow hummers here, not the military vehicles. So I was comparing a $55,000 TO $65,000 car which is awesome off-road to a $21,000 TO $31,000 car which is equally good for driving too and from work.
And my post was pro-civic. Most people don't need hummers. Most people don't need Office. Word processing is basically a commodity at this point. There should be a market to make millions, or even tens of millions of dollars per year. Other than lockin and forced upgrades, I can't see a market for billions of dollars a year being justified. Word is a great product at the $20 I have to pay with a corporate discount. However, my friends who don't work for large corporations can't afford it.
They used to use old versions of word and excel. Lately, they are making the shift to Openoffice since all my gaming documents are in that format.
I've written a pretty awesome Star Fleet Battles software (sound effects, full rules) for Calc. It won't run on Microsoft Excel without changes. I can't count on all my SFB buds having Excel but I can count on having Calc on my memory stick. (it won't run well from the memory stick so I have to copy it to their hard drive-- too slow).
If the writer of the D&D utility wanted it to work, it would work. The macro languages are very similar- just not identical.
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Wow, life turns out okay 99% of the time! Amazing. I should never be careful or cautious. You've opened my eyes!
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This is interesting that the anti cop sentiment on slashdot appears to be about as bad as the rabid anti copy right sentiment.
I'm usually in the side disliking the cops and arguing against gross copyright durations. But I can always count on someone here to say musicians and artists shouldn't get any money for even a newly created work (information should be free!) and apparently that cops are always bad- not human beings in a challenging job who are thuggish and lie at times but who also do a job society needs under challenging circumstances.
The best is tit for tat with a forgiveness strategy.
Otherwise an inevitable communication problem results in pure tit for tat turning destructive with no way to recover.
Once i"m home I'll have to check out the video. Probably he's being a major jerk from the posts.
No.
I was being serious.
People don't agree but this kind of thing happens.
A flirty pretty girl walked up to a co-worker a decade ago in the parking lot outside a bar and next thing he had a knife in his back and then no car or wallet.
Bad things happen. They start off cute and funny sometimes.
Cops have to be careful (in both directions don't be a jerk and don't be a sucker)
wow. harsh downmods but still has 11 replies.
Not sure why the mod- nuking. Either too pro police or too anti police for someone I guess.
Man... I'd love to even have a 1gb mail box.
I'm under outlook and limited to 100mb (as is everyone at the company).
I have 5gb each in my personal accounts.
My outlook work accounts clogs with a few screen shots these days.
So the cop backs away and the crowd edges forward.
What now?
I get it-- the cop looks dumb here. A lot of cops are pretty thuggish these days. I think it is great that we are recording police. They should be recorded 24/7 while on duty to protect the public AND to protect the cops. People lie. Cops are falsely accused all the time. Cops lose control and hit when they shouldn't-- and then they lie about it.
But any case where the crowd outnumbers the cops can turn ugly fast.
They've probably been in situations in the past where it turned ugly.
One second people are blowing bubbles and the next they are throwing bubble bottles and then next it's rocks and people are setting cars and buildings on fire and looting.
Haven't seen the video and think police have turned thuggish over the last 40 years but...
They are trained to take control of situations and something silly like not respecting their authority and blowing bubbles can sometimes escalate quickly into something worse.
It was really a no win situation for the police officer.
Sometimes, they are going to make the wrong call and bring the wrong level of intensity to the situation. Some times they won't be aggressive enough and things will turn ugly... other times they'll be too aggressive and look dumb.
heheh.
Now that you but it that way, it's so obvious!
Display, fail to print, and print incredibly slow.
Just mix tables and graphics with tight tolerances. The only way I could recover was to convert to OO.
OO showed me (with bounding boxes) that office 2003 had allowed overlapping graphics and tables but Word 2007 (and later) was choking on those.
Also had terminal "margin out of bounds" issues.
Agree on the Libre office and other things could be an issue. Jury is out on that.
Why did I go to school?
The businesses I've been in cared about the degree because it showed
1) you could finish a 4+ year project
2) which had lots of jerks along the way and you didn't melt down
3) that had ridiculous hours at times
4) that had absolutely inflexible deadlines at times and you made them.
5) you had to communicate a lot with others.
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Other that than, I can't count how many times someone is moved laterally away from their degree within 18 months of being hired.
Glad to see a nice calm response. Don't respond to trolls.
Understand comcast has some issues of behavior that users don't like and leave that for another day.
Absolutely. And then I decide what I'm going to allow.
You run into the paradox of choice.
Microsoft ran into it and added the Ribbon which basically hid most of your choice. The feature is there but in some cases it took me months to find it again.
It may have a feature you need, but if you don't know the feature exists or where it is or what their name for it is, you may have a hard time finding it.
But otherwise- of course, you are absolutely correct. If your job runs around putting drop shadows and soft oval masking of images, then Word >>> OO (for now).
If everyone was like your wife, microsoft wouldn't be concerned and this thread wouldn't have occurred.
I was like your wife with version 1.x and 2.x and even 3.0. However, as of 3.04 (maybe .06), I hit a horrible snag in Word and was forced to spend about 8 hours converting a document to OOo to print it (It wouldn't print in Word-- it was a Word 2003 document).
After that, I found myself *missing* features in Word that I'd gotten used to in OO. I still use word for work. But all my personal documents are open office. And we used google docs recently for a major collaborative web project. Microsoft is *expensive as hell* (millions of dollars) for my company. And it's "all or nothing" except for Project. So we get Word included. Can't break it out. I imagine if there was a good free Project replacement, they would start rolling it into the overall site license as well.
Periodically load it and crash it and then click "send error report".
They use them. Your crashes will stop happening.
Microsoft uses theirs too. (and have been using it longer).
I only have "crash on open" errors these days.
Word is "THE" format for business in the same way that IE was "THE" format for internet browsers.
As OO gets better, the cost difference becomes increasingly compelling.
Within word, documents from word 2003 to word 2010 don't display correctly, don't print, print painfully slow, don't open/crash word. It's not common and it's not word salad (tho the non-printing issue is what drove me to OO).
I've used OO a LOOONG time to open and fix word documents which Word crashed on or hung when opening. They have added a "fix document" option- but it didn't work. It seems to work on the crash/hang problem tho.
Wow- I'd think this is informative more than funny.
I'm independent (i.e. Fiscally conservative (smaller government AND businesses) but socially liberal (i.e. do what you want with your own body but you are responsible).
I like some aspects of FNC. And it started off as a reaction to strong liberal propaganda that had dominated TV for the prior 30 years. But, it lost its way and wandered into not caring (hence the court case).
However, by making emotional arguments they are winning, even if they are not telling the truth.
Thank you!
I remember when they first brought out the phillips thin screen and they had a bunch of 20somethings take it into a long but narrow room and put it on one wall and sit on a couch on the other wall and at the time I thought "Man that seems very close!" It was probably about 8' leaning back and 6' leaning forward.
If someone would give you a free Veyron or Civic with the stipulation that you couldn't sell it and it had to be your only car for the next seven years, which would you choose?
I agree we can't afford 1.7 million dollars. But even free, the maintenance cost is likely over our annual gross incomes. The insurance cost might be as well.
Word is a really robust vehicle that can format pictures with ellipses, is integrated with Sharepoint, and perform many other tasks that OOo cannot perform. It costs $500 (unless student, teacher, limited functionality version, etc.)
I was actually thinking of the big yellow hummers here, not the military vehicles. So I was comparing a $55,000 TO $65,000 car which is awesome off-road to a $21,000 TO $31,000 car which is equally good for driving too and from work.
And my post was pro-civic. Most people don't need hummers. Most people don't need Office.
Word processing is basically a commodity at this point. There should be a market to make millions, or even tens of millions of dollars per year. Other than lockin and forced upgrades, I can't see a market for billions of dollars a year being justified. Word is a great product at the $20 I have to pay with a corporate discount. However, my friends who don't work for large corporations can't afford it.
They used to use old versions of word and excel. Lately, they are making the shift to Openoffice since all my gaming documents are in that format.
It's not there yet.
Partially because of political decisions by the authors.
But I only create / modify a dozen images a year (mostly maps for D&D or photo manipulation).
I can't justify $600 to do that.
Gimp could use improvement- but it's the right price for the amount I'm going to use it.
I've written a pretty awesome Star Fleet Battles software (sound effects, full rules) for Calc.
It won't run on Microsoft Excel without changes. I can't count on all my SFB buds having Excel but I can count on having Calc on my memory stick. (it won't run well from the memory stick so I have to copy it to their hard drive-- too slow).
If the writer of the D&D utility wanted it to work, it would work. The macro languages are very similar- just not identical.
Partially. I have friends who have an autistic child.
Among the more successful therapies were horse training and changing her diet.