"I have no intentions of granting adobe access to anything I work on. I'm almost done getting off adobe products"
Amen sir. A great big SCREW YOU to Adobe. I have no particular liking for depending on someone else's machines to handle MY stuff. I have even less liking for having to be connected to the internet to do something as simple as ink a blasted picture.
Thank heaven for the OSS community. I can at least hope that there will be something worth using out there that doesn't require my machine to be connected to a network to use.
They always try to put you on the newest ones, which are more expensive. If you buck that, and tell them that that won't work for you, you can usually get an incredibly cheap generic.
But you need backbone, and when you're sick... well, you generally don't have the energy to argue with the doctor.
I feel your pain with the electronic pen pads. I'm right handed, but hold my pen, and adjust my paper as though I were the mirror image of a lefty. Don't even ask why. Anyway, my signature on those things literally looks like hen scratches. I'm surprised they even accept it.
Y'know, that's the first time I've heard that make sense.
It's a matter of point of view, isn't it? Liberals (statistically) see the need for the programs but dont' really like to give themselves, so they think that most people are like them won't give and there needs to be an authority that forces people to give. Conservatives (statistically) also see the need for charity programs but often give their own money so they assume that most people are like them and would give more if not forced to.
Out of curiosity, could I ask what you do with them? I don't work in Admissions, but I get all our feedback forms, and when I see one of those it goes straight to the trash. I don't know if I do it for the sake of the Admissions' officers or for the fool who sends them.
Whoa, now I wish I'd registered our damn epson. I'd long suspected that what they were doing was counting pages, not weighing ink or whatever, since I once took a cartridge that was empty and put it back in and the cussed thing thought it was full and wouldn't give it back to me even though it was truly empty. I sat there and watched it buzz back and forth, printing nothing while showing a completely full icon on the screen. I can't remember how I ended up getting the thing out... think I unplugged the printer in mid-print so I could get to the cartridges.
It went out the window shortly after and I told my folks to buy a Canon. Hopefuly Canon will remain decent, they're really the only printers I even remotely trust any more.
I'm 10 years younger than you, but I, too, remember 3-2-1 contact. Of course, I remember Mr. Wizard, too; he just happened to be on during the stretch of years my family had cable. And Square One, that was my other geeky show.
Has Scribus improved in the last year or so? I know I tried using it to layout a cover for a desktop-published book (something really simple) and just couldn't get the hang of it. Tried the same thing in InDesign (which I was just as unfamiliar with) and had it finished in half an hour.
I'm just curious to know if it's gotten any more intuitive. The group I was laying out the cover for really wants to have another book printed, this one with a complex interior layout (color pictures), and if Scribus has gotten more intuitive, I'll give it a shot again.
Actually, the better taste is probably because the local ones you got were picked at the right time rather than shipped green. That said, we can definitely tell the difference between the food that comes straight out of out garden (not 100% organic, because we spray for Japanese beetles) and what comes from the store.
Wow, what kind of idiot doctor made that mistake? I want his name so I can avoid him.
I've been on the pill for a long time (for a hormone problem, not so I can sleep around, mind), and any time I need to go on an antibiotic I'm warned at *least* three times -- by the doctor, the nurse, and my pharmacist when I pick up the meds. Maybe I just lucked out and ended up with all the right people, I dunno.
Amen, sister. Same problem here. Only way you can get a hysterectomy without having cancer or something is to do it yourself, and you know... that's just no fun.
I'll never take maternity leave, and there's no danger of me cutting off early because my cat needs picked up from school;)
When I was in college, the CS and Math department professors were overwhelmingly male. That can be a bit discouraging to young women entering the field, so having some female teachers is a good thing.
Of course, none of that ever bothered me. I've always been the sort to do whatever the hell I felt like doing, norms be damned.
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Sounds like there's going to be a lot of burnt food in the world soon.
I mean, it takes me 2 minutes at home and 5 at work to boil the same amount of water in the microwave. A barcode isn't going to be smart enough to figure that one out.
You must be my long lost twin. I've done this at work forever.
Much better than my family's method which is all four people throw everything into one folder, regardless of who made it, needs it, or when it was last accessed.
Speak for yourself -- *I* used it. And it's why I went on to use OpenOffice when I got a box that didn't have it on it, because OpenOffice was far more similar to Star than to MS word.
I'm a day late and a dollar short but I had to comment on this.
Why on earth can't grade school be more like college, or even high school in the sense that you move ahead in the subject matter that you do well in and repeat, or do remedial work in the subject matter that you're bad at? It could work in semesters rather than years, so that if you need to rework something you're only four months behind "average" instead of eight.
I mean, I can see there being a limit (if you're 5 grades ahead in math and 4 behind in reading, for example, things might get messy.), but doesn't it seem like it would train people up better?
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"You mean to prevent stuff like the riots in Detroit when the Pistons won the championship? Or the flaming mattresses in Columbus when OSU won?"
Or lost. Or tied.
Sorry, I live near Columbus. Those people are *nuts*
I'm intrigued. Can you expand on that?
Depends on where you're employed. Everyone here is on 35 hours and it's considered full time. We're a college.
"I have no intentions of granting adobe access to anything I work on. I'm almost done getting off adobe products"
Amen sir. A great big SCREW YOU to Adobe. I have no particular liking for depending on someone else's machines to handle MY stuff. I have even less liking for having to be connected to the internet to do something as simple as ink a blasted picture.
Thank heaven for the OSS community. I can at least hope that there will be something worth using out there that doesn't require my machine to be connected to a network to use.
Is that verified? That they're going to force IE 7?
Ick, I may have to kill myself then. I've got to use IE for a web product at my office and I flat out can't stand 7.
Heh.
Well, you know, all these cures for cancer in mice made a market for an uncure. We all should have seen this coming.
They always try to put you on the newest ones, which are more expensive. If you buck that, and tell them that that won't work for you, you can usually get an incredibly cheap generic.
But you need backbone, and when you're sick... well, you generally don't have the energy to argue with the doctor.
I feel your pain with the electronic pen pads. I'm right handed, but hold my pen, and adjust my paper as though I were the mirror image of a lefty. Don't even ask why. Anyway, my signature on those things literally looks like hen scratches. I'm surprised they even accept it.
Y'know, that's the first time I've heard that make sense.
It's a matter of point of view, isn't it? Liberals (statistically) see the need for the programs but dont' really like to give themselves, so they think that most people are like them won't give and there needs to be an authority that forces people to give. Conservatives (statistically) also see the need for charity programs but often give their own money so they assume that most people are like them and would give more if not forced to.
Hmm.
You too?
Out of curiosity, could I ask what you do with them? I don't work in Admissions, but I get all our feedback forms, and when I see one of those it goes straight to the trash. I don't know if I do it for the sake of the Admissions' officers or for the fool who sends them.
Whoa, now I wish I'd registered our damn epson. I'd long suspected that what they were doing was counting pages, not weighing ink or whatever, since I once took a cartridge that was empty and put it back in and the cussed thing thought it was full and wouldn't give it back to me even though it was truly empty. I sat there and watched it buzz back and forth, printing nothing while showing a completely full icon on the screen. I can't remember how I ended up getting the thing out... think I unplugged the printer in mid-print so I could get to the cartridges.
It went out the window shortly after and I told my folks to buy a Canon. Hopefuly Canon will remain decent, they're really the only printers I even remotely trust any more.
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MathNet!
OK... I was young and geeky.
I'm 10 years younger than you, but I, too, remember 3-2-1 contact. Of course, I remember Mr. Wizard, too; he just happened to be on during the stretch of years my family had cable. And Square One, that was my other geeky show.
Has Scribus improved in the last year or so? I know I tried using it to layout a cover for a desktop-published book (something really simple) and just couldn't get the hang of it. Tried the same thing in InDesign (which I was just as unfamiliar with) and had it finished in half an hour.
I'm just curious to know if it's gotten any more intuitive. The group I was laying out the cover for really wants to have another book printed, this one with a complex interior layout (color pictures), and if Scribus has gotten more intuitive, I'll give it a shot again.
Actually, the better taste is probably because the local ones you got were picked at the right time rather than shipped green. That said, we can definitely tell the difference between the food that comes straight out of out garden (not 100% organic, because we spray for Japanese beetles) and what comes from the store.
Hah, and to make it worse, the options don't even show up if you have javascript turned off.
I'd like to tell Google to stuff it, but I've yet to find a better alternative.
Wow, what kind of idiot doctor made that mistake? I want his name so I can avoid him.
I've been on the pill for a long time (for a hormone problem, not so I can sleep around, mind), and any time I need to go on an antibiotic I'm warned at *least* three times -- by the doctor, the nurse, and my pharmacist when I pick up the meds. Maybe I just lucked out and ended up with all the right people, I dunno.
You might try CookieSafe? It's like NoScript for Cookies. Much easier than the old "Ask Me Every Time".
Amen, sister. Same problem here. Only way you can get a hysterectomy without having cancer or something is to do it yourself, and you know... that's just no fun.
;)
I'll never take maternity leave, and there's no danger of me cutting off early because my cat needs picked up from school
Might not be a waste when you think about it.
When I was in college, the CS and Math department professors were overwhelmingly male. That can be a bit discouraging to young women entering the field, so having some female teachers is a good thing.
Of course, none of that ever bothered me. I've always been the sort to do whatever the hell I felt like doing, norms be damned.
Sounds like there's going to be a lot of burnt food in the world soon.
I mean, it takes me 2 minutes at home and 5 at work to boil the same amount of water in the microwave. A barcode isn't going to be smart enough to figure that one out.
I see popcorn flambe in our future.
It helps if you have a home "office" that is the only place you do your work and that you stay out of it any other time.
Yeah, that probably means having multiple computers and may take up more space that most people have to give up.
You must be my long lost twin. I've done this at work forever.
Much better than my family's method which is all four people throw everything into one folder, regardless of who made it, needs it, or when it was last accessed.
Speak for yourself -- *I* used it. And it's why I went on to use OpenOffice when I got a box that didn't have it on it, because OpenOffice was far more similar to Star than to MS word.
I'm a day late and a dollar short but I had to comment on this.
Why on earth can't grade school be more like college, or even high school in the sense that you move ahead in the subject matter that you do well in and repeat, or do remedial work in the subject matter that you're bad at? It could work in semesters rather than years, so that if you need to rework something you're only four months behind "average" instead of eight.
I mean, I can see there being a limit (if you're 5 grades ahead in math and 4 behind in reading, for example, things might get messy.), but doesn't it seem like it would train people up better?