Yes. Every time I install Open office it asks for registration information.
In my case, I registered and now tell it that I'm already registered.
OO gets better every release but it still crashes on one of my important (large) personal documents. I send in a bug report every time. I need to greek the document and then find an OO developer who would be interested in finding out why it is crashing.
The fly in the ointment is that microsoft certainly tolerated and likely promoted piracy of their products until very recently. I suppose now they think they have a lock, or alternatively, they are scared that they are losing their lock, and they want to solidify their position to prevent further shrinkage.
I want my data to be completely portable to anywhere. I own it. I do not like the direction Microsoft is going with regard to MY computer and MY data.
Why use free Openoffice when you can get a "free" copy of Office?
However, faced with a choice between a $579 full office or a Openoffice, the equation changes dramatically. Even a "home" office at $99 is a tougher choice.
As a corporate customer, I can buy office for $20! so there is no incentive to go to openoffice either way except the fact that I want to be free of microsoft operating systems. Word is a superior product to OO currently (tho as of 2.15 OO is even closer- still crashes importing one of my main personal documents tho) but the direction Microsoft is going is very antagonistic to me personally. Plus they've been incredibly scummy ever since "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run" back in the 80's.
You know.. because storage warehouses might be used to store illegal goods or even dead bodies in barrels,
We should require storage warehouse owners to personally search and scan every warehouse daily, looking inside all containers to be sure nothing illegal is in them.
I agree. At this time, if I put $100,000 (the quoted production cost for the system) into the bank, it would generate roughly 4,700 (risk free). It would still be generating it as the solar system broke down in 25 years.
I was very excited to read that prices are dropping 7% per year however. That would imply the production cost would be roughly $50,000 in 6 years. $50,000 in six years is very unlikely to generate enough interest income to cover gasoline and electricity (my electric runs about $1800 a year and gas about $1200 a year).
I've been tracking this for the last six years and every year, solar looks promising but doesnt' make sense yet without government grants. But it is getting there and it won't be long before it starts to put pressure on the price of oil.
You are correct. I also had a car totaled (while stopped at a red light no less) by a truck full of drunk young hispanics. They tried to escape but their truck radiator was too messed up. I had physical therapy for about 3 months. They walked on the tickets (moved to california apparently) and the judgement (the judge said, "I award you $25,000 pain and suffering- good luck ever collecting a dime.) They had insurance - but it was some funky kind of insurance where I couldn't get any money from it- it only covered their losses. Apparently they had signed a form saying they were responsible for other people's losses (which of course they had no intention of covering).
Don't know about the DUI. Definately know about the unlicensed and uninsured bit.
And it raises costs for everyone else on the road. I have a perfect driving record and pay over 5% of the value of my car every year-- someone has to cover the people they stiff for accidents (and schooling and hospital time) so I guess it's me.
1) Yes. Apparently, the social values are that noise is okay. My neighborhood is silent as a tomb during the day and at night. My friend's neighborhood used to be. Now that it is about 40% hispanic, the noise is just constant. The police don't even try to stop it any more. They have parties in their garage with the garage door open and a big boom box inside and the party is not inside the house- it's out on the front lawn and driveway.
3) You have a good point there. Right wing christians and left wing types are just as bad as catholics in terms of wanting to tell me how to run my life. The point tho is that catholocism is intolerant and wants to drive out other belief systems and that a large part of the culture is breeding those values into a majority.
4) The reason america is strong as that we melt into one people. It doesnt' matter that i'm part two kinds of native americans, several kinda of european, and a tiny bit black. I'm an american. The hispanics are staying separate and the language is part the problem. English unites us as a common nation. As I said elsewhere, they view themselves as mexican and fly mexican flags. They are not americans. When 40% of them are speaking spanish, it's going to become a real problem just doing business and buying groceries. As it is, I already speak a bit of spanish just to get by in day to day life. That's absurd to me.
5) Hmm. Do we have another part of the population that views itself as living here and wanting all the benefits of living here but still really views itself citizens of say china or italy? No. If you don't get the problem of supposed citizens walking around with flags of another nation, then there is not much I can say that's going to get through to you.
7) The law can't be everywhere. It's up to parents and parental values. When I was growing up (in a single mom house), I wasn't allowed to run the streets til 10:30 at night. And the problem is so bad now that we have an official "catch and release" situation here these days anyway. So bad that the police just ignore a bunch of crap since no one will file a complaint against them.
8) America is turning authoritarian - it's a pale shadow of mexico.
>>> But your answer mostly revolved around bigotry and intolerance of others, so I don't find your reasoning to be compelling. I would say my answer is based on hard experience with the subculture. I have friends in neighborhoods that transformed into hispanic neighborhoods and the results are uniformly terrible. The "hard" facts I'd point at is that while property values have doubled in other neighborhoods, they've only gone up about 15% in those neighborhoods. Where there used to be a nice family atmosphere (and mind you- there were hispanics in the neighborhood- but at lower numbers so that their values didn't dominate), now there are gangs on the street and a much higher crime rate.
>>White folk have been in a majority for a long time, and have caused all sorts of problems. Yes. They were oppressive, bigoted, racist, etc. Can't disagree there.
>>Might be good to experience being a minority for once, see what it's like. Tell you what- you try being a christian minority in Iraq or Egypt. Sure, that's an extreme, but the problem is the majority issue. Just as being white majority was bad- being a hispanic majority (really super minority) is going to be just as bad.
>> Once upon a time there were no white people in America, but they didn't have any problem with becoming a majority and pushing the native people out. The whites expected the natives to learn English, not the other way around. Pretty easy to talk shit from a position of privilege.
Man-- what to say about that statement. Based on your logic, the indians shouldn't have resisted or fought back since clearly various indian tribes had killed other tribes off and taken their territory over the 10k years they were here first (oh yea "native americans" are treated as a block
Microsoft is so huge now (and i work for a huge corporation as well) that it may be easier/more natural to just let the business mangle things in a natural way than to get a purposeful plan going to do this kind of thing.
The project planning and meeting time alone would be bad plus you wouldn't want a documentation trail showing you intended to lock in to word or it might come back to bite you later.
1) They play their music (heavy polka/bass beat) in their houses so loud at 2 am that you can hear it 3 blocks away. 2) They play their music during the day so loud that you can hear it even further away. 3) They are mostly catholic and are going to enforce catholic social values once they are in the majority. 4) They mostly speak spanish- not english so I can't understand them. 5) Many feel they should take the area back to Mexico and carry mexican flags when they demonstrated recently. 6) I can deal with the pink and blue houses but it does depress property values (maybe it won't once they are in the majority). 7) Their children tend to form gangs more than we did when we were children. 8) They tend to favor more authoritarian governments (because of the catholicism I suspect).
I don't - I could go on but why bother. You've already made up your mind.
You have an interesting idea. There might be some way to capture part of that energy- raising the fire rate to 11 times per day or something like that.
There was no conclusion on my part that the differences were purely psychological, unwarranted or otherwise.
I agree that culture has a lot to do with it.
It's not a straw man since it is such a common (and false) belief among women and both sexes in the left. They don't even want to formally study it (or any possible racial differences) because hard facts are going to make it difficult for them to maintain the position.
The fact is that humans are on many different kinds of bell curves. Those curves overlap in lots of ways and have many different standard deviations. Any given individual human may completely blow the curve but as populations we can draw certain conclusions.
Oh come on man. Clinton (a democrat but really a centrist except on the gay issue and the national health care issue (which I think we should have at a low level) ) ended the last of the "great society" and "lifetime welfare" which had the government supporting people from the time they were teenagers until they died.
The fact that you don't see the welfare programs LBJ started as massive socialism shows how skewed your perspective is.
But... just in case you weren't alive yet then and got a typical education today...
the theory or system of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by society rather than by private individuals, with all members of the community coerced to share in the work and the products.
But it is close enough for me. With up to 70% tax rates in the 1980's, they were basically taking everything the wealthy made (and a bunch of what the middle class made) and giving it away to the rest of the country.
America is sexually conservative (even most of the left wing).
America is capitalistic so the socialism tends to camouflage itself as "Think of the Children" and "Save our Seniors from Destitution (after they partied their savings away)."
We had a massive experiment with socialism starting with lyndon johnson and it failed horribly. it probably destroyed an entire generation of the poor.
Axiom: Men and Women are identical mentally. Query: Why are they different with regard to engineering?
Problem: Axiom is insane. No rational conclusion can be drawn from insane first premises. Conclusion: As long as political correctness pervades our universities, any science they produce in these areas is warped.
Basically national network news was slightly left of center (yet still pretty racist) for almost 30 years from the mid 60's until the 90's. Their bias basically pre-selected the questions they would choose to ask.
I deal with SOX daily and we do some crazy stuff to satisfy the rules. Some days I may spend my entire day on paperwork getting authorization to actually do work the next day.
Historically, the media presented the "middle" as the "right" and then of course the "left" as the middle.
On the rare occasions that they would get a true right wing person on, they would completely undercut them and edit them to death.
It would be like asking "Should we have never been in Iraq, or was it reasonable but we should get out now?"
And for like 30 years, we didn't know any better.
I disagree like hell with most conservative social policies and agree strongly with most (old style) conservative fiscal policies. These days the conservatives spend money like water and want to expand government while the liberals... hmm. spend money more conservatively (I mean face facts- years of deficits, then Clinton turned in a surplus, then years of even bigger deficits) and want to expand government.
The media is increasingly pro-corporate on all fronts these days. In many cases, actual news outlets run segments produced by a corporation. That's pretty ghastly.
Personally, I think the right wing media flourished because it was suppressed so long but now, it is running out of steam. Once the conservatives win the abortion issue, they are dead in the water for at least a couple decades in my opinion. Anti-gay stuff just isn't enough to keep them going.
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Vista has the ability to enforce this kind of DRM if the publisher chooses to use it.
It won't play unless a secure path exists from input to output.
English overloads words all the time.
Am I blue when singing the blues in a blue room?
Piracy as a synonym for copyright infringement is well known and has a history decades deep.
Besides... english is also like alice in wonderland. English words mean exactly what we want them to mean- no more and no less.
Yes. Every time I install Open office it asks for registration information.
In my case, I registered and now tell it that I'm already registered.
OO gets better every release but it still crashes on one of my important (large) personal documents.
I send in a bug report every time. I need to greek the document and then find an OO developer who would be interested in finding out why it is crashing.
The fly in the ointment is that microsoft certainly tolerated and likely promoted piracy of their products until very recently. I suppose now they think they have a lock, or alternatively, they are scared that they are losing their lock, and they want to solidify their position to prevent further shrinkage.
I want my data to be completely portable to anywhere. I own it. I do not like the direction Microsoft is going with regard to MY computer and MY data.
Why use free Openoffice when you can get a "free" copy of Office?
However, faced with a choice between a $579 full office or a Openoffice, the equation changes dramatically.
Even a "home" office at $99 is a tougher choice.
As a corporate customer, I can buy office for $20! so there is no incentive to go to openoffice either way except the fact that I want to be free of microsoft operating systems. Word is a superior product to OO currently (tho as of 2.15 OO is even closer- still crashes importing one of my main personal documents tho) but the direction Microsoft is going is very antagonistic to me personally. Plus they've been incredibly scummy ever since "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run" back in the 80's.
I keep trying.
For minor stuff it reads fine.
For large stuff (5-7 mb with 200+ pictures) it crashes.
I *really* want it to work.
I send in bug reports on every crash and try it on every new version.
You know.. because storage warehouses might be used to store illegal goods or even dead bodies in barrels,
We should require storage warehouse owners to personally search and scan every warehouse daily, looking inside all containers to be sure nothing illegal is in them.
There are also pretty nice benefits to having solar when a storm knocks out the grid.
But, don't forget batteries (and charges to discard them are only going to increase).
You have 3 sets of batteries over 20 years.
You are almost certain to blow at one inverter too ($2kish today).
And you can bet on this.
If enough people do it, the government is going to start taxing it (to replace lost revenue from your current power bill).
Gasoline.
He uses the Hydrogen to power his car.
My gas bill is $200 a year. not bad.
I agree. At this time, if I put $100,000 (the quoted production cost for the system) into the bank, it would generate roughly 4,700 (risk free). It would still be generating it as the solar system broke down in 25 years.
I was very excited to read that prices are dropping 7% per year however. That would imply the production cost would be roughly $50,000 in 6 years. $50,000 in six years is very unlikely to generate enough interest income to cover gasoline and electricity (my electric runs about $1800 a year and gas about $1200 a year).
I've been tracking this for the last six years and every year, solar looks promising but doesnt' make sense yet without government grants. But it is getting there and it won't be long before it starts to put pressure on the price of oil.
You are correct.
I also had a car totaled (while stopped at a red light no less) by a truck full of drunk young hispanics. They tried to escape but their truck radiator was too messed up. I had physical therapy for about 3 months. They walked on the tickets (moved to california apparently) and the judgement (the judge said, "I award you $25,000 pain and suffering- good luck ever collecting a dime.) They had insurance - but it was some funky kind of insurance where I couldn't get any money from it- it only covered their losses. Apparently they had signed a form saying they were responsible for other people's losses (which of course they had no intention of covering).
Don't know about the DUI.
Definately know about the unlicensed and uninsured bit.
And it raises costs for everyone else on the road. I have a perfect driving record and pay over 5% of the value of my car every year-- someone has to cover the people they stiff for accidents (and schooling and hospital time) so I guess it's me.
1) Yes. Apparently, the social values are that noise is okay. My neighborhood is silent as a tomb during the day and at night. My friend's neighborhood used to be. Now that it is about 40% hispanic, the noise is just constant. The police don't even try to stop it any more. They have parties in their garage with the garage door open and a big boom box inside and the party is not inside the house- it's out on the front lawn and driveway.
3) You have a good point there. Right wing christians and left wing types are just as bad as catholics in terms of wanting to tell me how to run my life. The point tho is that catholocism is intolerant and wants to drive out other belief systems and that a large part of the culture is breeding those values into a majority.
4) The reason america is strong as that we melt into one people. It doesnt' matter that i'm part two kinds of native americans, several kinda of european, and a tiny bit black. I'm an american. The hispanics are staying separate and the language is part the problem. English unites us as a common nation. As I said elsewhere, they view themselves as mexican and fly mexican flags. They are not americans. When 40% of them are speaking spanish, it's going to become a real problem just doing business and buying groceries. As it is, I already speak a bit of spanish just to get by in day to day life. That's absurd to me.
5) Hmm. Do we have another part of the population that views itself as living here and wanting all the benefits of living here but still really views itself citizens of say china or italy? No. If you don't get the problem of supposed citizens walking around with flags of another nation, then there is not much I can say that's going to get through to you.
7) The law can't be everywhere. It's up to parents and parental values. When I was growing up (in a single mom house), I wasn't allowed to run the streets til 10:30 at night. And the problem is so bad now that we have an official "catch and release" situation here these days anyway. So bad that the police just ignore a bunch of crap since no one will file a complaint against them.
8) America is turning authoritarian - it's a pale shadow of mexico.
>>>
But your answer mostly revolved around bigotry and intolerance of others, so I don't find your reasoning to be compelling.
I would say my answer is based on hard experience with the subculture. I have friends in neighborhoods that transformed into hispanic neighborhoods and the results are uniformly terrible. The "hard" facts I'd point at is that while property values have doubled in other neighborhoods, they've only gone up about 15% in those neighborhoods. Where there used to be a nice family atmosphere (and mind you- there were hispanics in the neighborhood- but at lower numbers so that their values didn't dominate), now there are gangs on the street and a much higher crime rate.
>>White folk have been in a majority for a long time, and have caused all sorts of problems.
Yes. They were oppressive, bigoted, racist, etc. Can't disagree there.
>>Might be good to experience being a minority for once, see what it's like.
Tell you what- you try being a christian minority in Iraq or Egypt. Sure, that's an extreme, but the problem is the majority issue. Just as being white majority was bad- being a hispanic majority (really super minority) is going to be just as bad.
>> Once upon a time there were no white people in America, but they didn't have any problem with becoming a majority and pushing the native people out. The whites expected the natives to learn English, not the other way around. Pretty easy to talk shit from a position of privilege.
Man-- what to say about that statement. Based on your logic, the indians shouldn't have resisted or fought back since clearly various indian tribes had killed other tribes off and taken their territory over the 10k years they were here first (oh yea "native americans" are treated as a block
You know that's an interesting take.
Microsoft is so huge now (and i work for a huge corporation as well) that it may be easier/more natural to just let the business mangle things in a natural way than to get a purposeful plan going to do this kind of thing.
The project planning and meeting time alone would be bad plus you wouldn't want a documentation trail showing you intended to lock in to word or it might come back to bite you later.
1) They play their music (heavy polka/bass beat) in their houses so loud at 2 am that you can hear it 3 blocks away.
2) They play their music during the day so loud that you can hear it even further away.
3) They are mostly catholic and are going to enforce catholic social values once they are in the majority.
4) They mostly speak spanish- not english so I can't understand them.
5) Many feel they should take the area back to Mexico and carry mexican flags when they demonstrated recently.
6) I can deal with the pink and blue houses but it does depress property values (maybe it won't once they are in the majority).
7) Their children tend to form gangs more than we did when we were children.
8) They tend to favor more authoritarian governments (because of the catholicism I suspect).
I don't - I could go on but why bother. You've already made up your mind.
Same issue in the southern US only it's catholic hispanics.
Essentially, in 40 years they are going to be the majority.
Rest of us are not breeding. I only had one child myself.
You have an interesting idea. There might be some way to capture part of that energy- raising the fire rate to 11 times per day or something like that.
Man!
A hit on a moving target probably smaller than a car at 140 miles.
Yes, I'm sure there are a million practical problems right now but that impresses me a lot.
There was no conclusion on my part that the differences were purely psychological, unwarranted or otherwise.
I agree that culture has a lot to do with it.
It's not a straw man since it is such a common (and false) belief among women and both sexes in the left.
They don't even want to formally study it (or any possible racial differences) because hard facts are going to make it
difficult for them to maintain the position.
The fact is that humans are on many different kinds of bell curves. Those curves overlap in lots of ways and have many different standard deviations. Any given individual human may completely blow the curve but as populations we can draw certain conclusions.
A minor short term safety net is not socialism. What we had was.
"Think of the children" is an endless wedge they use to expand government at every opportunity.
If I want to give money to charity (which I do) then it's MY choice.
I do not like the government taking all my money and giving it to others without my consent.
It's a version of socialism. Not pure socialism where they take the means of production but close enough.
Welfare is only safe for very short periods. Any kind of long term welfare destroys its recipients.
If you want to help people- DO IT. Don't TAKE MY MONEY or TIME to do it with.
I've built homes for habitat, I've loaded trucks for various hunger organizations, I've donated my cash to a variety of charities.
MY CHOICE. MY MONEY. MY TIME.
Oh come on man. Clinton (a democrat but really a centrist except on the gay issue and the national health care issue (which I think we should have at a low level) ) ended the last of the "great society" and "lifetime welfare" which had the government supporting people from the time they were teenagers until they died.
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The fact that you don't see the welfare programs LBJ started as massive socialism shows how skewed your perspective is.
But... just in case you weren't alive yet then and got a typical education today...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_welfare
Now, I agree it doesn't strictly match socialism:
the theory or system of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by society rather than by private individuals, with all members of the community coerced to share in the work and the products.
But it is close enough for me. With up to 70% tax rates in the 1980's, they were basically taking everything the wealthy made (and a bunch of what the middle class made) and giving it away to the rest of the country.
(http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/images/B_
Different kinds of liberal and conservatism.
America is sexually conservative (even most of the left wing).
America is capitalistic so the socialism tends to camouflage itself as "Think of the Children" and "Save our Seniors from Destitution (after they partied their savings away)."
We had a massive experiment with socialism starting with lyndon johnson and it failed horribly. it probably destroyed an entire generation of the poor.
Axiom: Men and Women are identical mentally.
Query: Why are they different with regard to engineering?
Problem: Axiom is insane. No rational conclusion can be drawn from insane first premises.
Conclusion: As long as political correctness pervades our universities, any science they produce in these areas is warped.
I lived through it man. It's true.
Basically national network news was slightly left of center (yet still pretty racist) for almost 30 years from the mid 60's until the 90's. Their bias basically pre-selected the questions they would choose to ask.
Yes. I live in a bizarro world called America.
I deal with SOX daily and we do some crazy stuff to satisfy the rules.
Some days I may spend my entire day on paperwork getting authorization to actually do work the next day.
Historically, the media presented the "middle" as the "right" and then of course the "left" as the middle.
On the rare occasions that they would get a true right wing person on, they would completely undercut them and edit them to death.
It would be like asking "Should we have never been in Iraq, or was it reasonable but we should get out now?"
And for like 30 years, we didn't know any better.
I disagree like hell with most conservative social policies and agree strongly with most (old style) conservative fiscal policies. These days the conservatives spend money like water and want to expand government while the liberals... hmm. spend money more conservatively (I mean face facts- years of deficits, then Clinton turned in a surplus, then years of even bigger deficits) and want to expand government.
The media is increasingly pro-corporate on all fronts these days. In many cases, actual news outlets run segments produced by a corporation. That's pretty ghastly.
Personally, I think the right wing media flourished because it was suppressed so long but now, it is running out of steam. Once the conservatives win the abortion issue, they are dead in the water for at least a couple decades in my opinion. Anti-gay stuff just isn't enough to keep them going.