Yes but even as a land lord there are strong restrictions on your ability to evict people. It can take weeks or months after a violation is identified.
Sure I know it is PUBLISHED to the web, and if you ask for it, it will be SERVED to you. And if it were printed out and on a wall, the idea that I could forbid you from looking at something PUBLICLY visible would be clearly ludicrous, this is different... because it is on the INTERNET!
My documents are going towards ODT. When I save to ODT, the documents are stable. When I save to.DOC the indices and contents get messed up. Custom masks get messed up.
However, I do use OOo to fix corrupted word documents. I open them, save them as ODT, then resave them as word and then word does not crash on them any more.
I think you should assign them to the home of a federal district judge or a state or federal representative.
Then something would be done about it.
I remember reading stories (here i think) that people have already died because of resisting mistaken police swat teams breaking into their house without warning in the middle of the night.
So as an experiment, I took one of my 43 page documents with approximately 200 graphics, 30 tables, special formatting, indices and contents.
Here is my experience with OOo 2.3.
I loaded it from word, saved it to ODT, loaded it from ODT, and saved it to word.
It was now a 51 page document. Examining the document, my TOC went from 3 columns wide to 1 column wide, 4 pages long. My index did the same. This took a few minutes to fix. I right clicked, edit index, set to 3 columns- it was wrong. I adjusted the page page margin by.1", it was correct.
One page had broken in a different location. I had to shorten the table vertically by 1/8" so it would break properly again.
A circular graphic with a custom wrap mask had a bad mask. This was a significant problem. The only apparent way to fix it was to repaste the circular graphic and redo the mask. I couldn't fix the one in the document.
Everything else was correct. Fonts, font size, page breaks, wierd fonts (Symbol, custom). My custom headings and footers.
I agree... it's not correct. It is not perfect.
However, if perfection is the goal, it is going to be difficult to reach since microsoft can and has changed to format of their programs and operating systems to break competitors in the past.
Are You assuming that with sufficiently tightly written rules we can eliminate loopholes?
Usually, the more detailed the rules, the more subject they are to unstoppable abuse and/or being unenforcable.
Attitude is everything-- Basketball in the 70's was not the same as basketball today because of attitude towards the game. Good sportsmen are viewed as stupid today- and were admired back then.
When you have to start codifying things explicitly, you have probably lost what was good about the activity.
Actually, the chance is X% you will live shorter than an average live span and Y% you will live longer than an average life span. Some very tiny percentage of people actually die on the average life span depending on your unit of measurement.
I would say most people live longer (X% Y%) than the average life span since a lot of babies and young children dying skew the average.
The down=modding for a fairly mild comment that was actually informative (I looked at the posting histories and saw most had long posting history) was more of a "straw". I had been suspicious before.
What was suspicious was the speed at which so many of the pro-microsoft/anti-open office comments slammed +5 insightful. It was like someone had nothing better to do than sit around waiting to plus mod the comments. I've seen other hotter threads of similar age where the many posts reached +5 much more slowly.
And when I thought about it, if I had a 40 billion dollar company at stake, why yes I would have motive and could easily afford to keep a hundred people posting for mod points to manipulate a site like Slashdot. When ways to manipulate the modding system occured to *me* last year, I created other id's and tested the concept and yes, it does work. It takes a while but you can mod your own comments occasionally. I can't think of any way that slashdot can close that hole so I had not mentioned it until I see suspiciously fast pro-microsoft moderation occurring.
Panels are not more efficient as they receive more light but they produce more power.
There are several products (Sunflower being one) that use cheap mirrors to concentrate light onto an expensive bank of solar cells to produce more power per dollar.
Keep in mind that Microsoft office is one of the three legs Microsoft is built on.
You literally have billions of dollars at stake here. If you had billions of dollars at stake, I think you would do what you needed to to manage the public impression of your product. In time, I could see offices full of inexpensive indian or chinese labor whose job was to manage slashdot and other sites.
I mean, heck, we recently saw Microsoft try to BUY the IEEE international standards approval very blatantly.
Open office is an excellent solution for the home user and small business. It isn't there yet for the large businesses.
However- my large business barely uses the sharepoint and other advanced features. OOo would work well for about 90% of our usage.
JUST last tuesday, we had a word document which crashed the entire machine everytime it was loaded (Win XP- fully patched). The cursor flashed quickly for about 70 seconds before the crash but it crashed every time the document was loaded. The fix? Load the document with OOo, and resave it as a.Doc. OOo handles corrupted MS Word documents better than MS WOrd does. You get a corrupted section header in your 85 page word document, you are in a world of hurt. Without OOo, the only recovery is to save it as html or text, reload it, and the redo all your special formatting.
The moderation has been a bit strange on this one.
I looked into people's posting histories and nothing suspicious tho.
Still.. if I were a huge corporation, it would be worth my while to have a nice group of profiles to mod things up on a site like this. It wouldn't be hard- as a private individual, I maintain a couple id's here.
While I agree that OO is not equal to MS Office yet, I can't understand why you are having trouble keeping comments, styles, and formatting straight other than that you are trying to use the product like microsoft office. It's not. It has a slightly different paradigm and you need to train/use it to internalize it (Just as you DID for microsoft office).
I can't comment on the spreadsheet- I do not use advanced features of spreadsheets.
I've been following OO since version 1. As of the 2.0 series, it can finally open all my most complicated word documents and is solid.
OO is a good product and it's not $500 a seat (which is what small businesses pay). It only gets better with each new release.
A lot of the features Word has added lately seem as useful as tits on a boar personally. That means the domain may be stable at last. If true, then OO will catch up.
In fact, most couples are constantly training each other. The problem is that in order to train someone, you need to decide what the desired behavior is, then decide on how to reward them, and finally to avoid being trained yourself. Random rewards work best.
I think that operant conditioning is why a lot of couples do not have sex. (NOT the only reason)
Each time they are rejected, it is a punishment. There has to be an optimum odds of approval (over 90% but below 100% I think.) Finally, the behavior extinguishes. It's odd because even 1 in 6 food pellets can keep a rat going but humans and sex seems to require higher reinforcement to keep a high rate going. Our "discouraged" rate seems to be once every three to five weeks.
While I do not agree they are completely worthless, I find that I watch them less and less.
Right now I have a roughly 170 hour backlog of current things to watch (as do most of my friends). There is too much good new stuff coming out to keep up.
There was an android hunter called Deckard... who flew about in the sky he tracked androids down and got knocked around until he found a pretty one to ply
Slashdot Mirror
Yes but even as a land lord there are strong restrictions on your ability to evict people. It can take weeks or months after a violation is identified.
So you may not read it.
Sure I know it is PUBLISHED to the web, and if you ask for it, it will be SERVED to you. And if it were printed out and on a wall, the idea that I could forbid you from looking at something PUBLICLY visible would be clearly ludicrous, this is different... because it is on the INTERNET!
My documents are going towards ODT. .DOC the indices and contents get messed up. Custom masks get messed up.
When I save to ODT, the documents are stable.
When I save to
However, I do use OOo to fix corrupted word documents. I open them, save them as ODT, then resave them as word and then word does not crash on them any more.
I think you should assign them to the home of a federal district judge or a state or federal representative.
Then something would be done about it.
I remember reading stories (here i think) that people have already died because of resisting mistaken police swat teams breaking into their house without warning in the middle of the night.
So as an experiment, I took one of my 43 page documents with approximately 200 graphics, 30 tables, special formatting, indices and contents.
.1", it was correct.
Here is my experience with OOo 2.3.
I loaded it from word, saved it to ODT, loaded it from ODT, and saved it to word.
It was now a 51 page document.
Examining the document, my TOC went from 3 columns wide to 1 column wide, 4 pages long. My index did the same. This took a few minutes to fix. I right clicked, edit index, set to 3 columns- it was wrong. I adjusted the page page margin by
One page had broken in a different location. I had to shorten the table vertically by 1/8" so it would break properly again.
A circular graphic with a custom wrap mask had a bad mask. This was a significant problem. The only apparent way to fix it was to repaste the circular graphic and redo the mask. I couldn't fix the one in the document.
Everything else was correct. Fonts, font size, page breaks, wierd fonts (Symbol, custom). My custom headings and footers.
I agree... it's not correct. It is not perfect.
However, if perfection is the goal, it is going to be difficult to reach since microsoft can and has changed to format of their programs and operating systems to break competitors in the past.
Thanks very much!
I post in flat text to avoid this wierdness but < is < special > apparently.
I would say lawful neutral.
Given the extent of the law and the fear of the police, you might even say lawful evil.
Are You assuming that with sufficiently tightly written rules we can eliminate loopholes?
Usually, the more detailed the rules, the more subject they are to unstoppable abuse and/or being unenforcable.
Attitude is everything-- Basketball in the 70's was not the same as basketball today because of attitude towards the game. Good sportsmen are viewed as stupid today- and were admired back then.
When you have to start codifying things explicitly, you have probably lost what was good about the activity.
X% LESS THAN Y% (ate my less than symbol)
Actually, the chance is X% you will live shorter than an average live span and Y% you will live longer than an average life span. Some very tiny percentage of people actually die on the average life span depending on your unit of measurement.
I would say most people live longer (X% Y%) than the average life span since a lot of babies and young children dying skew the average.
a lot of CTS is really tendonitis
I see a lot about typing but mousing causes more problems than typing for me.
Course mine is now compounded by chemo and diabetes.
The down=modding for a fairly mild comment that was actually informative (I looked at the posting histories and saw most had long posting history) was more of a "straw". I had been suspicious before.
What was suspicious was the speed at which so many of the pro-microsoft/anti-open office comments slammed +5 insightful. It was like someone had nothing better to do than sit around waiting to plus mod the comments. I've seen other hotter threads of similar age where the many posts reached +5 much more slowly.
And when I thought about it, if I had a 40 billion dollar company at stake, why yes I would have motive and could easily afford to keep a hundred people posting for mod points to manipulate a site like Slashdot. When ways to manipulate the modding system occured to *me* last year, I created other id's and tested the concept and yes, it does work. It takes a while but you can mod your own comments occasionally. I can't think of any way that slashdot can close that hole so I had not mentioned it until I see suspiciously fast pro-microsoft moderation occurring.
Panels are not more efficient as they receive more light but they produce more power.
There are several products (Sunflower being one) that use cheap mirrors to concentrate light onto an expensive bank of solar cells to produce more power per dollar.
Are there any ODT to Latex converters? Or can Openoffice export in latex format?
That seems like it would be cool. Quickly rough up in wsywig until the doc got too big, then export to latex and continue.
Actually, Master documents work in Word. Until the day they suddenly mysteriously don't. And then man are you in for a world of hurt.
Walmart year round in Texas at least. Glass bottles-sugar- spanish labels (i.e. mexican coca cola).
Keep in mind that Microsoft office is one of the three legs Microsoft is built on.
.Doc. OOo handles corrupted MS Word documents better than MS WOrd does. You get a corrupted section header in your 85 page word document, you are in a world of hurt. Without OOo, the only recovery is to save it as html or text, reload it, and the redo all your special formatting.
You literally have billions of dollars at stake here. If you had billions of dollars at stake, I think you would do what you needed to to manage the public impression of your product. In time, I could see offices full of inexpensive indian or chinese labor whose job was to manage slashdot and other sites.
I mean, heck, we recently saw Microsoft try to BUY the IEEE international standards approval very blatantly.
Open office is an excellent solution for the home user and small business. It isn't there yet for the large businesses.
However- my large business barely uses the sharepoint and other advanced features. OOo would work well for about 90% of our usage.
JUST last tuesday, we had a word document which crashed the entire machine everytime it was loaded (Win XP- fully patched). The cursor flashed quickly for about 70 seconds before the crash but it crashed every time the document was loaded. The fix? Load the document with OOo, and resave it as a
Interesting down-modding. Makes me even more suspicious of astroturfing.
The moderation has been a bit strange on this one.
I looked into people's posting histories and nothing suspicious tho.
Still.. if I were a huge corporation, it would be worth my while to have a nice group of profiles to mod things up on a site like this. It wouldn't be hard- as a private individual, I maintain a couple id's here.
While I agree that OO is not equal to MS Office yet, I can't understand why you are having trouble keeping comments, styles, and formatting straight other than that you are trying to use the product like microsoft office. It's not. It has a slightly different paradigm and you need to train/use it to internalize it (Just as you DID for microsoft office).
I can't comment on the spreadsheet- I do not use advanced features of spreadsheets.
I've been following OO since version 1. As of the 2.0 series, it can finally open all my most complicated word documents and is solid.
OO is a good product and it's not $500 a seat (which is what small businesses pay). It only gets better with each new release.
A lot of the features Word has added lately seem as useful as tits on a boar personally. That means the domain may be stable at last. If true, then OO will catch up.
Actually, you can reprogram just about any living thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning
In fact, most couples are constantly training each other. The problem is that in order to train someone, you need to decide what the desired behavior is, then decide on how to reward them, and finally to avoid being trained yourself. Random rewards work best.
I think that operant conditioning is why a lot of couples do not have sex. (NOT the only reason)
Each time they are rejected, it is a punishment. There has to be an optimum odds of approval (over 90% but below 100% I think.) Finally, the behavior extinguishes. It's odd because even 1 in 6 food pellets can keep a rat going but humans and sex seems to require higher reinforcement to keep a high rate going. Our "discouraged" rate seems to be once every three to five weeks.
While I do not agree they are completely worthless, I find that I watch them less and less.
Right now I have a roughly 170 hour backlog of current things to watch (as do most of my friends). There is too much good new stuff coming out to keep up.
I prefer the narrated version.
I do not even keep free copies of the other versions in my collection.
There was an android hunter called Deckard...
who flew about in the sky
he tracked androids down
and got knocked around
until he found a pretty one to ply
I thought you were allowed to use a trademark to make an ad that criticized or compared another product to that trademarked product.