I just changed my company's ISP a week ago. Guess who's shiny new external IP address was apparently reported as an Open Relay prior to December, 2006?
A Morse Code signaler's distinctive style was referred to as their "fist". I thought it was also called their "hand" but couldn't find a reference for this.
...to do some research on why the Microsoft brand has developed such a negative association and to try and understand just why we continue to lose market share and get bad press.
I have been instructed to spin this situation as being "people's perceptions of Microsoft and the heavily negative bias of that perception" and "Microsoft hatred" rather than attribute it to any product shortcomings, late delivery, anti-competitive behaviour or other mis-steps conducted by my employer/client.
So, I wanted to know: just what is wrong with you? Please be as descriptive and as thorough as you like. Counter arguments and positive comments are also appreciated, as it makes our copywriters' jobs much easier.
But in my case, my dad found OpenOffice to be just ugly! "The icons are too big," he complained. Even after making them "smaller" the whole interface remained "ugly."
Your Dad needs to choose between paying for MS Office and all that comes with it or accepting the free OpenOffice without impotent complaints about its "ugliness". Either shut up and enjoy the free software or contribute to the Open Source community by pointing out exactly what needs to be improved. Try writing some help documentation.
The Gnome or GTK file dialog did not help matters at all. He found that he could not paste an HTTP link into this file dialog to have OpenOffice open the referenced file. In other words a file to be opened MUST exist on the local or mounted file system.
So your Dad makes extensive use of opening URLs on foreign systems instead of local files? 1) can this even be done with MS Office's File Open dialog, and 2) who does this?
Its help system seemed incomplete!
Then help to complete it!
There did not exist a credible alternative to Microsoft Access. The integrated database application is not friendly at all and leaves a lot to be desired.
MS Access isn't included in MS Office Standard anyway. If your Dad is such a database maven, look into other tools. Just out of interest, did your Dad pay for MS Office Professional in the first place?
Sure, one is a file format, one is a compression algorithm and the latter is a U.S. corporation that sounds like an inter-op transsexual -- but I just has a flashback.
Thank you for writing exactly what I feel about Heinlein. Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw were little more than thinly cloaked (and boring) fantasies of the author. I wonder if he ever met real women.
...who happens to have studied the bible and is surrounded by amazonian bisexual women and who may be named "Jubal Harshaw" then count me out.
Heinlein jumped the shark for me many, many years ago. I remember being half-way through one of his novels ("Friday" I think) for the first time and finding it so formulaic that I had to turn to the last chapter to see if I had read it before. I put it down and haven't read any of his work since. I doubt that even Spider Robinson could breathe any new life into that sadly clapped-out body of work.
Personally I thought TFA was pretty lame, the author shows misunderstandings of some very basic Mac OS X facts.
As do many posters here. Thank you for addressing the balance and thank you for the valuable resource that is www.afp548.com -- it has removed my ass from a sling more than a few times.
While agree with your stance against the RIAA, I think that you are part of the problem, rather than the solution, viz:
This is exactly why I have a second unsecured access point in my apartment piped to the internet. Plausible denyabilty. Who know who's using it? My modem's IP address could be connected to any one of the 50 apartments in my building.
It seems that you are trying to hide your own "illegal" activities. Perhaps this is why some states in the U.S. are considering making having an unsecured Wi-Fi access point illegal.
I think that the RIAA and equivalent a-holes will go the way of the dinosaur. Until then, we are at risk of being crushed by their flailing tails as the corporate-sponsored U.S. Administration continues to suckle at their teats./O.K. how many large disosaurs were mammals?
...they are protecting themselves. Fair enough. What remains to be seen is if LimeWire will provide the RIAA (or other thugs) with personal information of the people sharing files (if they even have that, I'm not familiar with their architecture).
Well, that's obviously their problem. They've melded their OS and HW together in some freaky Doctor Moreau experiment.
Either that, or their IT guys suck.
Apache works fine on Windows, if that's what you want to do.
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I just changed my company's ISP a week ago. Guess who's shiny new external IP address was apparently reported as an Open Relay prior to December, 2006?
Oh joy...
A Morse Code signaler's distinctive style was referred to as their "fist". I thought it was also called their "hand" but couldn't find a reference for this.
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... isn't there some editorial process here that is supposed to filter out obvious stupidity?
...to do some research on why the Microsoft brand has developed such a negative association and to try and understand just why we continue to lose market share and get bad press.
I have been instructed to spin this situation as being "people's perceptions of Microsoft and the heavily negative bias of that perception" and "Microsoft hatred" rather than attribute it to any product shortcomings, late delivery, anti-competitive behaviour or other mis-steps conducted by my employer/client.
So, I wanted to know: just what is wrong with you? Please be as descriptive and as thorough as you like. Counter arguments and positive comments are also appreciated, as it makes our copywriters' jobs much easier.
So your Dad makes extensive use of opening URLs on foreign systems instead of local files? 1) can this even be done with MS Office's File Open dialog, and 2) who does this?
Then help to complete it!
MS Access isn't included in MS Office Standard anyway. If your Dad is such a database maven, look into other tools. Just out of interest, did your Dad pay for MS Office Professional in the first place?
Your {Dad's} complaints ring hollow.
Sure, one is a file format, one is a compression algorithm and the latter is a U.S. corporation that sounds like an inter-op transsexual -- but I just has a flashback.
The writers of Penny Arcade (and others) will disagree with you on that (language not safe for work) http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/15
Thank you for writing exactly what I feel about Heinlein. Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw were little more than thinly cloaked (and boring) fantasies of the author. I wonder if he ever met real women.
...who happens to have studied the bible and is surrounded by amazonian bisexual women and who may be named "Jubal Harshaw" then count me out. Heinlein jumped the shark for me many, many years ago. I remember being half-way through one of his novels ("Friday" I think) for the first time and finding it so formulaic that I had to turn to the last chapter to see if I had read it before. I put it down and haven't read any of his work since. I doubt that even Spider Robinson could breathe any new life into that sadly clapped-out body of work.
If so, it's hardly an accolade. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Frog in case you were lucky enough to avoid it.
Lighten up, Francis. It's only one day a year.
Ah yes, because "the intelligent thing to do would have been to keep his mouth shut". That'll learn 'em.
...they are protecting themselves. Fair enough. What remains to be seen is if LimeWire will provide the RIAA (or other thugs) with personal information of the people sharing files (if they even have that, I'm not familiar with their architecture).
Well, that's obviously their problem. They've melded their OS and HW together in some freaky Doctor Moreau experiment. Either that, or their IT guys suck. Apache works fine on Windows, if that's what you want to do.