[...] taking into account the source of all that money in the first place? How much of the world's GDP has microsoft skimmed [...]
Also worth remembering that that legality of exactly how (at least a portion of) the skimming took place has been called into question on more than one continent.
Hiding a game must be so they can claim OOo is competitive on features with MS Office 97.
From memory in XL97 you could:
hit F5
Type X97:L97 and hit return.
Tab once so that cell M97 has focus
Control-shift-click the chart wizard button.
Is there a pinball game in Writer as well?
I hope the OpenOffice guys managed to do decent collision detection. The Microsoft ones were virtually unplayable.
No, sorry, but you're wrong. Classical music was, at best, the theatre music of its time. It was never even available, unless you happened to be both lucky in where you lived and extremely rich to pay for it.
Regularly I suggest that people go along and listen to realisations of 13th century AD (as early as we have printed music) realisations of 'popular'/'dance' music of the time. They sound like MTV unplugged sessions, without the made-up front man singing. There's been no significant advance in popular music in several hundred years - it's the perfect triumph of market over art.
The classical music which has survived is a tiny fraction of what was produced (and will be a tinier fraction going forward) because it represented a perfection of the art of harmony and, many who are educated enough in the matter to discuss harmony would argue, its abuse.
I have nothing to add to your argument, except that what is understood as classical music is actually a tiny selection of selected 'high art' across the ages. Certainly not 'pop' or 'rock'. For that, look to the bards.
You may regard classical music as the definition of 'high art', but don't expect moderm 'pop' to last hundreds of years on that basis.
I'm aware that this may prove an unpopular opinion, but...
Why have kids got cellphones in school anyhow? They're disruptive, and they get in the way of the school's purpose. Schools already have mechanisms in place to contact students/pupils if necessary. That's setting aside and impact they might have on the social development of children, but I don't think that's within the scope of this article and I don't feel informed enough to discuss it without a great deal more research.
Get rid of them from school premises: if they're found, confiscate them and return them to the parents. It's beyond the school's authority to be taking responsibility for criminal matters.
Shared workbooks in Excel are very good for specific instances: they work fine, so longs as the datasets aren't huge, everyone knows when they're going to synchronise/update, nobody, but nobody get's a connection problem, Excel doesn't crash and nobody's box goes down. And if one of those happens mid-save, your spreadsheet could be toast.
Excel has many features that allow it to be used as a sort of database - I've even seen heavily 'locked down' workbooks relying on enormous quantities of VBA code working as client applications to databases. Encouraging that, though, is a sure-fire way to ensure that you IT/IS department will have to intervene when the next system upgrade breaks something.
Don't use them for anything mission-critical. That would be silly. You'd even be safer with Access for that.
A simple answer: physics teachers are still teaching it. I'm only 26, but at age 17 my A-level teacher (I live in the UK, and in any other circumstance my A grade in A-level physics would be a strong recommendation) taught us that the reason microwaves operated as they did was due the the 'resonant frequency' of water.
The same teacher had a strong reputation locally, largely I think for being forthright in expression of his opinions and dismissive in his treatment of others (much like many Slashdot readers, it seems).
I have no idea, now, as the the truth of this. The theory isn't beyond me, but what is beyond me is the time I'd need to dedicate to studying it. But there's your reason.
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[...] taking into account the source of all that money in the first place? How much of the world's GDP has microsoft skimmed [...]
Also worth remembering that that legality of exactly how (at least a portion of) the skimming took place has been called into question on more than one continent.
I wonder much of IE6's residual popularity is due to being the latest version of Internet Explorer to run on Win2K.
How bis is the presence of pre-XP Windows versions?
From memory in XL97 you could:
Is there a pinball game in Writer as well?
I hope the OpenOffice guys managed to do decent collision detection. The Microsoft ones were virtually unplayable.
No, sorry, but you're wrong. Classical music was, at best, the theatre music of its time. It was never even available, unless you happened to be both lucky in where you lived and extremely rich to pay for it.
Regularly I suggest that people go along and listen to realisations of 13th century AD (as early as we have printed music) realisations of 'popular'/'dance' music of the time. They sound like MTV unplugged sessions, without the made-up front man singing. There's been no significant advance in popular music in several hundred years - it's the perfect triumph of market over art.
The classical music which has survived is a tiny fraction of what was produced (and will be a tinier fraction going forward) because it represented a perfection of the art of harmony and, many who are educated enough in the matter to discuss harmony would argue, its abuse.
I have nothing to add to your argument, except that what is understood as classical music is actually a tiny selection of selected 'high art' across the ages. Certainly not 'pop' or 'rock'. For that, look to the bards.
You may regard classical music as the definition of 'high art', but don't expect moderm 'pop' to last hundreds of years on that basis.
I'm aware that this may prove an unpopular opinion, but...
Why have kids got cellphones in school anyhow? They're disruptive, and they get in the way of the school's purpose. Schools already have mechanisms in place to contact students/pupils if necessary. That's setting aside and impact they might have on the social development of children, but I don't think that's within the scope of this article and I don't feel informed enough to discuss it without a great deal more research.
Get rid of them from school premises: if they're found, confiscate them and return them to the parents. It's beyond the school's authority to be taking responsibility for criminal matters.
Shared workbooks in Excel are very good for specific instances: they work fine, so longs as the datasets aren't huge, everyone knows when they're going to synchronise/update, nobody, but nobody get's a connection problem, Excel doesn't crash and nobody's box goes down. And if one of those happens mid-save, your spreadsheet could be toast.
Excel has many features that allow it to be used as a sort of database - I've even seen heavily 'locked down' workbooks relying on enormous quantities of VBA code working as client applications to databases. Encouraging that, though, is a sure-fire way to ensure that you IT/IS department will have to intervene when the next system upgrade breaks something.
Don't use them for anything mission-critical. That would be silly. You'd even be safer with Access for that.
A simple answer: physics teachers are still teaching it. I'm only 26, but at age 17 my A-level teacher (I live in the UK, and in any other circumstance my A grade in A-level physics would be a strong recommendation) taught us that the reason microwaves operated as they did was due the the 'resonant frequency' of water. The same teacher had a strong reputation locally, largely I think for being forthright in expression of his opinions and dismissive in his treatment of others (much like many Slashdot readers, it seems). I have no idea, now, as the the truth of this. The theory isn't beyond me, but what is beyond me is the time I'd need to dedicate to studying it. But there's your reason.