I agree with you, my friend - America definitely could use more nuclear power plants in place of fossil fuel plants. I think I remember reading that the average nuclear power plant produces something like 9 cubic yards of waste per year (picture a 3-yd by 3-yd by 3-yd block). Not much compared to the average amount of trash generated by a single household in a year!
Unfortunately, most of the American public can't be bothered to look past what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. These two incidents have ruined the reputation of nuclear power - which is too bad, really. I spent several years working with the nuclear-powered ships of the US Navy, and those ships are a testament to the tremendous advantage of safely-managed nuclear power.
I, for one, hope that Americans realize the advantage of nuclear power before it's too late.
I agree that OOo can do most of what the average MS Word/Excel user needs... but the problem that I ran into when I was trying to import a Word document, then export it to PDF through OOo, was that the formatting was not preserved. Tabs, margins, etc. ended up at different locations - which was a real dealbreaker for the document I was working on at the time. Everything had to be in exactly the place I had set it.
Unfortunately, in that case, OOo didn't cut it. Does anybody know whether this is something that the OOo folks are working on? I wonder if this would have implications for some of the documents that are being imported and converted in the headline story...
How exactly does your Powerbook "love you back"? What kinds of strange and wonderful GUI interactions constitute love from a pile of circuitry (or more specifically in this case, OS code)?
No, but I imagine some folks will get a small crowd around the monitor to pool their collective knowledge... entering under the name of the most knowledgeable among them.
It might be a decent way to get through the computer gauntlet, anyway.
Well... despite the seeming misnomer, the American version of football doesn't really offer much entertainment if the participants don't use their feet to move around the playing field.
Besides, can anyone think of another name that we should call the sport that the NFL plays (that doesn't include the word "football")?
You can also close a tab by right-clicking on it, and choosing "Close Tab." This works even if the tab that you want to close is not the one you're viewing.
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It's a fancy "G" - that stands for Gnome. Yeah, seriously.
'Course, I agree, we could probably use something a little bit better.
That sucks, dude. I totally feel your pain. Even though most all of the apps that are developed for internal use at my company rely on IE, I still use Firefox for everything else. It's just too bad that your IT guys don't realize that you're actually helping them by reducing the chance of malware entering your corporate network.
You'd think that the IT guys at a company would "see the light" so to speak, instead of mindlessly carrying out some antiquated marching orders.
Seems you're not alone. FTFA:
"At first I was looking around for a place to download Automatix, but as I continued to read the tutorial, I learned that I'd need to open a terminal and type some things on the command line. It's an easy thing to do, but I wonder if it would be confusing to a new Linux user."
It seems to me that PhotoMesa has nearly the exact same layout as, and many common features of, Canon's Zoom Browser program that they include with their digital cameras. CZB is a pretty decent program - decent enough that I don't even bother loading Picasa or anything else when importing pics from my camera. I think it's freely available through Canon's website.
Another decent photo-browsing / lite editing program I like is FastStone Image Viewer. It's got a pretty cool interface, tons of options, and best of all, it's free as in beer.
I think you missed the discussion point of whether all Canadians are born knowing how to play hockey. That, and whether the entire country is prepared to apologize for Bryan Adams. Other than those two points, I think you've just aboot got it covered.;)
Just to clarify: this trick only works when you've navigated forward at least one page. If you try to do this on the ghosted Back button of a freshly-instantiated tab, nothing will happen.
As other posters have said, it's too bad that more people don't expend the energy to look for free alternatives. A quick trip to download.com or Ned Wolf's site usually does the trick for me.
I've found Avast anti-virus to take care of my needs, and have installed it on computers for my family members as well. It auto-updates, so they don't need to trouble themselves with any configuration, or worry about how old their virus definition files are.
Best of all, the product is free (and just requires annual (free) re-registration).
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You could find a different place to work, I guess. :) Not ideal, but it may solve the problem you're describing.
Unfortunately, most of the American public can't be bothered to look past what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. These two incidents have ruined the reputation of nuclear power - which is too bad, really. I spent several years working with the nuclear-powered ships of the US Navy, and those ships are a testament to the tremendous advantage of safely-managed nuclear power.
I, for one, hope that Americans realize the advantage of nuclear power before it's too late.
Unfortunately, in that case, OOo didn't cut it. Does anybody know whether this is something that the OOo folks are working on? I wonder if this would have implications for some of the documents that are being imported and converted in the headline story...
Priceless... I make a crack about Apple fanboy-ism, and immediately get modded down. Just as I thought!
"But... but... but... it's Apple! You can't say anything bad about T3h Appl3!"
Huh?
How exactly does your Powerbook "love you back"? What kinds of strange and wonderful GUI interactions constitute love from a pile of circuitry (or more specifically in this case, OS code)?
No, but I imagine some folks will get a small crowd around the monitor to pool their collective knowledge... entering under the name of the most knowledgeable among them. It might be a decent way to get through the computer gauntlet, anyway.
Yeah, except maybe Murderball. *ducks*
Well... despite the seeming misnomer, the American version of football doesn't really offer much entertainment if the participants don't use their feet to move around the playing field. Besides, can anyone think of another name that we should call the sport that the NFL plays (that doesn't include the word "football")?
You can also close a tab by right-clicking on it, and choosing "Close Tab." This works even if the tab that you want to close is not the one you're viewing.
It's a fancy "G" - that stands for Gnome. Yeah, seriously. 'Course, I agree, we could probably use something a little bit better.
That sucks, dude. I totally feel your pain. Even though most all of the apps that are developed for internal use at my company rely on IE, I still use Firefox for everything else. It's just too bad that your IT guys don't realize that you're actually helping them by reducing the chance of malware entering your corporate network. You'd think that the IT guys at a company would "see the light" so to speak, instead of mindlessly carrying out some antiquated marching orders.
Seems you're not alone. FTFA: "At first I was looking around for a place to download Automatix, but as I continued to read the tutorial, I learned that I'd need to open a terminal and type some things on the command line. It's an easy thing to do, but I wonder if it would be confusing to a new Linux user."
It seems to me that PhotoMesa has nearly the exact same layout as, and many common features of, Canon's Zoom Browser program that they include with their digital cameras. CZB is a pretty decent program - decent enough that I don't even bother loading Picasa or anything else when importing pics from my camera. I think it's freely available through Canon's website. Another decent photo-browsing / lite editing program I like is FastStone Image Viewer. It's got a pretty cool interface, tons of options, and best of all, it's free as in beer.
I think you missed the discussion point of whether all Canadians are born knowing how to play hockey. That, and whether the entire country is prepared to apologize for Bryan Adams. Other than those two points, I think you've just aboot got it covered. ;)
Just to clarify: this trick only works when you've navigated forward at least one page. If you try to do this on the ghosted Back button of a freshly-instantiated tab, nothing will happen.
As other posters have said, it's too bad that more people don't expend the energy to look for free alternatives. A quick trip to download .com or Ned Wolf's site usually does the trick for me.
I've found Avast anti-virus to take care of my needs, and have installed it on computers for my family members as well. It auto-updates, so they don't need to trouble themselves with any configuration, or worry about how old their virus definition files are.
Best of all, the product is free (and just requires annual (free) re-registration).
Even if you were trying to be funny, you should still eat a dick for your elitist attitude.