You know, the fact that China has managed to become the manufacturing center it has is rather astounding. They turn around and steal the technology of the companies who have decided to put plants there. Their system of law is simply unpredictable. By and large, companies who moved there should have known better.
As irritated as outsourcing to India has been, in retrospect, we should have made a more concentrated effort in making India, rather than China, the mass-manufacturing center for the American market. India has a few things going for it that China probably never will. First and foremost, they have a republican (small r) system of government. They have benefitted from hundreds of years of English Common Law, which is arguably what makes Biz so seamless and efficient (relatively speaking) in the UK, US, and Canada. Finally, they don't seem to have an appetite for superpower status.
We picked the wrong country to invest in. If I owned a manufacturing company, I'd get the heck out of China.
Seriously, I cannot grasp why companies continue to do business with Sony. With the exploding batteries, defective CCD and LCD components, and their sneaky software practices, you'd think corporations wouldn't want to touch them with a ten foot pole. I certainly won't buy any of their products, and I'll try to avoid anything that contains a Sony component./Dell-Sony battery recall really pissed me off.
No, I know how to turn it off, otherwise I probably wouldn't have mentioned that it was a default. Point is, the default itself (which isn't exclusive to OO) is annoying.
Worse still, I find the automatic numbering and bulleting MORE intrusive than in Office, and a little more difficult to turn off, because the toolbar for it seemed to keep "forgetting" I wanted the numbering off. The menu setting did, however, work in stopping it.
Still less intrusive than Office.
Having lost my Office CD a few months back in an unfortunate smelting accident... Okay I stepped on it... I was forced to switch to OpenOffice myself. I'm still using Windows due to compatibility issues with my hardware components, but everything besides Windows and IE7 has been replaced with OSS.
My personal opinion:
1) OpenOffice Writer is 95% as good feature-wise as Office imho, and the PDF support is a boon. My two biggest complaints are the somewhat limited spellcheck, and the fugly Office 97 interface. Needs some polishing, but other than that, it is a perfect replacement for Office, for me. Additionally, as a law student, the excellent cross-program file support is a boon. I started using OO originally to open WordPerfect documents (WP is heavily used in the legal profession), and it didn't need the darned Office CD to do it!:) Odd cursor behavior, occasionally, and the default word completion are annoying...
2) Thunderbird is a great replacement for the mail component of Outlook. However, again, interface problems make it a little more difficult to use than the Microsoft offering. Visually, the interface is a little more up to date than OO. However, some default settings are very irritating, like starting a reply message at the bottom. Plus, some options are difficult to locate, but I do like the ability to adjust settings for all accounts on the same screen.
3) Gaim. Please make the cursor work correctly. It is a wonderful problem, but for some reason, on some of my machines, there is no text cursor.
Seriously,
Advise the professor about this via a letter or e-mail. Allergies are an oft-overlooked issue. I'm sure he'd rather find out about it now and test for it, then find out about it via lawsuit because the filters didn't have a warning, etc...
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Don't offer the information for money or for free. Shut up about it, or talk to a lawyer before you say another word. You could already be in trouble.
When I submitted this article, it was intended to provoke discussion and see if it could be verified. It ran on Fark.com yesterday, but I didn't feel it prudent to rely on the research skills of the average Farker to confirm or deny the assertions of the article.
Personally, I think it probably IS fud.
Who really cares anymore? FF1.5 and IE 6 BOTH allowed sites infect your computer with virii, spyware and adware if you weren't vigilant. FF2 and IE7 look almost identical, function very similar, and both have been working fine for me since I downloaded them. To tell you the truth, rather than running FF2 on high risk sites, I've just taken to logging into a limited account and using IE 7, because I like some of the interface "features" a little better.
Right now, while both are pretty new and no major problems are cropping up (at least ones that don't get fixed asap) in either, it is silly to sit here and listen to fanboys argue about how many downloads each has.
Your average FF user is on top of the situation with FF and has downloaded the update. Your average IE user probably couldn't give a damn, and will download theirs when MS tells them they should. Who cares what gets downloaded immediatedly after releases?
Heck, one of my top five complaints about linux is the ugly interface that you get with a default installation, particularly the crummy fonts. When my Dell 3000cn dies or gets a fully working (not a workaround) Linux driver, and when they finally deal with the nasty fonts in a manner not requiring user intervention with MS fonts, I'll finally switch over. But for now, with a clean XP install and IE7/Moz2, I'm running clean.
No, it would be insensitive to label the countries "developmentally challenged" and THEN call it a dumb phone./Maybe we should start describing countries like N.K. as "developmentally challenged"
Obviously plenty of them, as everwhere I go on the weekends I have to dodge the "two-wheelers" when out for a drive. I've even seen a few riders in weekday rush-hour traffic, and this is in Birmingham, Alabama. Then again, they aren't generating electricity.
1) Why did you make the IE protected mode only for Vista? Is it for technical reasons, or marketing reasons?
2) Will IE ever have a way to permanantly set the window size on open from within IE? I've always been irritated by IE (and Windows) only occasionally remembering what size I want it when not maximized, and more frequently deciding to store the smallest size possible.
3) How do you feel about the new interface. I mean, obviously you like it, or it wouldn't be there, but what is your opinion? Personally, after a few days, the lack of top menus and the new placement of buttons seems really logical. IE is really simplified. I really appreciate the close buttons ON the tabs. That has always annoyed me about Firefox's tabbing support.
4) Have you considered implementing a "certified" toolbar system? Or even drop toolbars altogether?
5) You folks aren't going to name the next version of IE something stupid, like vista or anything, right.
Everybody forgets that pencil lead is conductive. Anybody who has taken an electronics class has probably made a circuit out of pencil lead on paper. Heck, I've used a pencil lead as an arc-lantern before, inside of a soda bottle filled with water. Really bright, but only for a few seconds, sometimes minutes if you don't get greedy with the light.
You sir are wrong. Two presidents have been impeached. Niether was removed from office as a result of their impeachment. Think of impeachment as an indictment by the House, after which the Senate holds the trial and sentencing phase.
Look up the subject if you don't believe me.
Well, now to be fair, at least my printer works in Windows. The only two things that I see as a major problem with Linux right now (which are keeping me from switching) are the lack of decent looking fonts in some distros (Fedora Core comes to mind) and the lack of driver support, which isn't the fault of Linux, so much as device manufacturers. Since I cannot use ANY of my printers in linux to their normal functionality, or at least not without bizarre results, I cannot make the switch.
Linux will not be ready for primetime until it works with people's stuff, AND doesn't look like 1997. Both of which are getting a lot better, but the average desktop user is simply more likely to put up with the insecurity and unreliability of Windows than the annoying lack of support for devices in Linux and the downright ugly look of some distros. Apple would be a great alternative if there weren't annoying software and hardware incompatibilities for people wanting to switch.
Checkmate. Guess the part-time law school suggestion means he discovered the ABA's rule about not graduating more than like, a semester early.
1 Year Undergrad = Kid 1, System 0
2.5-3 Years of law school = Kid 1, System 1
Although can't you take the patent bar before you have a JD?
Just remember what doctors were doing 200 years ago while lawyers (and others) were writing the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, forming the rules that govern the modern commerical system, and overcharging their clients. They were using leeches for goodness sake! System administrators were a wet dream of the abacus, and scientists were still trying to figure out why farts stink.
He may still do great things. Give lawyers a little credit, and remember, chances are you'll need one someday.
I've seen cellphones not work a altitudes of 2000-3000ft ASL, despite being in line-of-sight with several cell towers less than 3 miles distant, and showing full signal. I'd bet that the same problem is occuring there. Be a really interesting little project to see how many different cell towers you could pick up from a single location.
Because winds are unpredicatable and currents only go certain places. It is still a silly idea to make solar the sole source of power, but sails combined with a solar electric motor would be an excellent combination of both worlds. I'd still want a diesel backup, just in case, but you could use biodiesel...
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Yeah, but at least in India you might have a small chance of at least attempting a lawsuit over it.
You know, the fact that China has managed to become the manufacturing center it has is rather astounding. They turn around and steal the technology of the companies who have decided to put plants there. Their system of law is simply unpredictable. By and large, companies who moved there should have known better. As irritated as outsourcing to India has been, in retrospect, we should have made a more concentrated effort in making India, rather than China, the mass-manufacturing center for the American market. India has a few things going for it that China probably never will. First and foremost, they have a republican (small r) system of government. They have benefitted from hundreds of years of English Common Law, which is arguably what makes Biz so seamless and efficient (relatively speaking) in the UK, US, and Canada. Finally, they don't seem to have an appetite for superpower status. We picked the wrong country to invest in. If I owned a manufacturing company, I'd get the heck out of China.
What pissed me off was that they NEEDED a recall in the first place.
Seriously, I cannot grasp why companies continue to do business with Sony. With the exploding batteries, defective CCD and LCD components, and their sneaky software practices, you'd think corporations wouldn't want to touch them with a ten foot pole. I certainly won't buy any of their products, and I'll try to avoid anything that contains a Sony component. /Dell-Sony battery recall really pissed me off.
Actually, if I recall, it was the cafeteria for one of the house office buildings. Not the entire government.
No, I know how to turn it off, otherwise I probably wouldn't have mentioned that it was a default. Point is, the default itself (which isn't exclusive to OO) is annoying. Worse still, I find the automatic numbering and bulleting MORE intrusive than in Office, and a little more difficult to turn off, because the toolbar for it seemed to keep "forgetting" I wanted the numbering off. The menu setting did, however, work in stopping it. Still less intrusive than Office.
Having lost my Office CD a few months back in an unfortunate smelting accident... Okay I stepped on it... I was forced to switch to OpenOffice myself. I'm still using Windows due to compatibility issues with my hardware components, but everything besides Windows and IE7 has been replaced with OSS. My personal opinion: 1) OpenOffice Writer is 95% as good feature-wise as Office imho, and the PDF support is a boon. My two biggest complaints are the somewhat limited spellcheck, and the fugly Office 97 interface. Needs some polishing, but other than that, it is a perfect replacement for Office, for me. Additionally, as a law student, the excellent cross-program file support is a boon. I started using OO originally to open WordPerfect documents (WP is heavily used in the legal profession), and it didn't need the darned Office CD to do it! :) Odd cursor behavior, occasionally, and the default word completion are annoying...
2) Thunderbird is a great replacement for the mail component of Outlook. However, again, interface problems make it a little more difficult to use than the Microsoft offering. Visually, the interface is a little more up to date than OO. However, some default settings are very irritating, like starting a reply message at the bottom. Plus, some options are difficult to locate, but I do like the ability to adjust settings for all accounts on the same screen.
3) Gaim. Please make the cursor work correctly. It is a wonderful problem, but for some reason, on some of my machines, there is no text cursor.
Seriously, Advise the professor about this via a letter or e-mail. Allergies are an oft-overlooked issue. I'm sure he'd rather find out about it now and test for it, then find out about it via lawsuit because the filters didn't have a warning, etc...
Ah, the Boo-Hoo theory of geo-political interaction.
Manners and personal responsibility? No personal gain?
What about all those years of colonialism.
It was the ULTIMATE in personal gain.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Don't offer the information for money or for free. Shut up about it, or talk to a lawyer before you say another word. You could already be in trouble.
When I submitted this article, it was intended to provoke discussion and see if it could be verified. It ran on Fark.com yesterday, but I didn't feel it prudent to rely on the research skills of the average Farker to confirm or deny the assertions of the article. Personally, I think it probably IS fud.
Who really cares anymore? FF1.5 and IE 6 BOTH allowed sites infect your computer with virii, spyware and adware if you weren't vigilant. FF2 and IE7 look almost identical, function very similar, and both have been working fine for me since I downloaded them. To tell you the truth, rather than running FF2 on high risk sites, I've just taken to logging into a limited account and using IE 7, because I like some of the interface "features" a little better. Right now, while both are pretty new and no major problems are cropping up (at least ones that don't get fixed asap) in either, it is silly to sit here and listen to fanboys argue about how many downloads each has. Your average FF user is on top of the situation with FF and has downloaded the update. Your average IE user probably couldn't give a damn, and will download theirs when MS tells them they should. Who cares what gets downloaded immediatedly after releases?
Heck, one of my top five complaints about linux is the ugly interface that you get with a default installation, particularly the crummy fonts. When my Dell 3000cn dies or gets a fully working (not a workaround) Linux driver, and when they finally deal with the nasty fonts in a manner not requiring user intervention with MS fonts, I'll finally switch over. But for now, with a clean XP install and IE7/Moz2, I'm running clean.
No, it would be insensitive to label the countries "developmentally challenged" and THEN call it a dumb phone. /Maybe we should start describing countries like N.K. as "developmentally challenged"
Obviously plenty of them, as everwhere I go on the weekends I have to dodge the "two-wheelers" when out for a drive. I've even seen a few riders in weekday rush-hour traffic, and this is in Birmingham, Alabama. Then again, they aren't generating electricity.
1) Why did you make the IE protected mode only for Vista? Is it for technical reasons, or marketing reasons?
2) Will IE ever have a way to permanantly set the window size on open from within IE? I've always been irritated by IE (and Windows) only occasionally remembering what size I want it when not maximized, and more frequently deciding to store the smallest size possible.
3) How do you feel about the new interface. I mean, obviously you like it, or it wouldn't be there, but what is your opinion? Personally, after a few days, the lack of top menus and the new placement of buttons seems really logical. IE is really simplified. I really appreciate the close buttons ON the tabs. That has always annoyed me about Firefox's tabbing support.
4) Have you considered implementing a "certified" toolbar system? Or even drop toolbars altogether?
5) You folks aren't going to name the next version of IE something stupid, like vista or anything, right.
Everybody forgets that pencil lead is conductive. Anybody who has taken an electronics class has probably made a circuit out of pencil lead on paper. Heck, I've used a pencil lead as an arc-lantern before, inside of a soda bottle filled with water. Really bright, but only for a few seconds, sometimes minutes if you don't get greedy with the light.
Not exactly correct to say that MOST were from the US. Approximately half of them were. That is not most.
US: 1,054
USSR: 715
France: 210
UK: 45
China:45
India: 5-6
Pakistan: 3-6
North Korea: 1 (maybe)
Isreal/South Africa: Possibly 1
Source: Wikipedia
You sir are wrong. Two presidents have been impeached. Niether was removed from office as a result of their impeachment. Think of impeachment as an indictment by the House, after which the Senate holds the trial and sentencing phase. Look up the subject if you don't believe me.
Well, now to be fair, at least my printer works in Windows. The only two things that I see as a major problem with Linux right now (which are keeping me from switching) are the lack of decent looking fonts in some distros (Fedora Core comes to mind) and the lack of driver support, which isn't the fault of Linux, so much as device manufacturers. Since I cannot use ANY of my printers in linux to their normal functionality, or at least not without bizarre results, I cannot make the switch. Linux will not be ready for primetime until it works with people's stuff, AND doesn't look like 1997. Both of which are getting a lot better, but the average desktop user is simply more likely to put up with the insecurity and unreliability of Windows than the annoying lack of support for devices in Linux and the downright ugly look of some distros. Apple would be a great alternative if there weren't annoying software and hardware incompatibilities for people wanting to switch.
Checkmate. Guess the part-time law school suggestion means he discovered the ABA's rule about not graduating more than like, a semester early. 1 Year Undergrad = Kid 1, System 0 2.5-3 Years of law school = Kid 1, System 1 Although can't you take the patent bar before you have a JD?
Just remember what doctors were doing 200 years ago while lawyers (and others) were writing the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, forming the rules that govern the modern commerical system, and overcharging their clients. They were using leeches for goodness sake! System administrators were a wet dream of the abacus, and scientists were still trying to figure out why farts stink. He may still do great things. Give lawyers a little credit, and remember, chances are you'll need one someday.
I've seen cellphones not work a altitudes of 2000-3000ft ASL, despite being in line-of-sight with several cell towers less than 3 miles distant, and showing full signal. I'd bet that the same problem is occuring there. Be a really interesting little project to see how many different cell towers you could pick up from a single location.
Because winds are unpredicatable and currents only go certain places. It is still a silly idea to make solar the sole source of power, but sails combined with a solar electric motor would be an excellent combination of both worlds. I'd still want a diesel backup, just in case, but you could use biodiesel...