As a practical matter, you are "locked in" to whatever Office program you use - online or otherwise
But why are people locking themselves into a closed, proprietary format that is way too expensive when there is a free version that's every bit as good (actually better since Oo doesn't have that god damned stupid ribbon bullshit I have to put up with at work)
It frustrates the hell out of me. Word 2007 is not compatible with Word 2003, which is not compatible with Word 98. And Word is not available on all platforms. But after obtaining 10 IDBNs I was contacted via snail spam (a postcard) from a printer. Microsoft Word or PDF. Same with the ISBN people, Word or PDF. Lulu, Word or PDF. I hate Word! I'll be so glad when I retire next year!
This insistence on using Microsoft pisses me off. ODF is OPEN, people. It should be the standard.
1.2 billion living Catholics, as well as all the Catholics in the last 2000 years. Note that when the present Pope was a Bishop in South America, he refused the large suite the church offered and lived in a small apartment in the poor part of town.
That said, I disagree with a lot of Catholic teachings and practices. I'm not Catholic, just generic Christian.
You got me interested since it seems I'm wrong. Apparently my definition came from this
The Chimera (/kÉËmÉÉ(TM)rÉ(TM)/ or/kaÉËmÉÉ(TM)rÉ(TM)/, also Chimaera, Chimæra; Greek: ÎÎμαÎÏα ChÃmaira) was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of three animals â" a lion, a snake and a goat. Usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat arising from its back, and a tail that ended in a snake's head,[1] the Chimera was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra.
I predate this by a long while; when I was young, such a thing didn't exist. I was a year old when the double helix was discovered, 16 when "The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA" was published by James Watson, and was in the USAF when Paul Berg created the first recombinant DNA molecules by combining DNA from the monkey virus SV40 with that of the lambda virus. Strange that I never ran across that use of the term since they've used donated organs (at least experimentally with animals) all my life.
New use of an old word, thank you for the education! I know a fellow with both a donated liver and donated corneas. He has an artificial knee so he's both chimera and cyborg.
I take it you never "upgraded" to KDE 4.2... my computer still has nightmares about that foul beast. Or worse, GNOME. Thank God I was warned about Unity.
But yeah, the nice thing about linux is KDE sucks? Well, swap desktops or distros (I just dialed mine back until it got less retarded).
Poor Windows users. That's what they get for using a toy OS.
I'm confused, doesn't a chimera have to be two different species, not different organisms? Like someone with a pig's liver? Just a friendly question from a cyborg...
So, while this whole subthread may be off-topic, and down-moddable as a result, you are seriously misreading a post and response. As for Oligonicella's statement of either badly worded or trolling, I think the AC was trying to make a point, but the words overtook the message.
Wow, who's got mod points today? An on-topic post gets modded offtopic and your offtopic (and completely inaccurate) comment gets modded up! Is someone trying to kill slashdot??
You accuse the GP of trolling, you're the one who's wrong. The tea party is indeed the faction that shut the government down, and what's more they say they're willing to do it again.
Now if you folks will excuse me I need to go metamoderate. There are a lot of folks with points that should never get any.
And editors, I could use some, it's been a while.
PS- both the parent and I are offtopic and should be modded as such.
I think we'd (the Linux community) be a lot farther ahead if they got together and implemented a single solution that solved all the known requirements.
A single solution? In Linux?? You're as crazy as whoever modded you "offtopic". Mods, read the FAQ. He isn't offtopic. I disagree with him, too, but that's not a reason to downmod someone.
Nerdfest, choice is one of the best things about open source. You're wrong, Shuttleworth is wrong, and those opposed to him probably are, too.
If you want a single solution, get an Apple or a Windows machine. Leave my choice alone, I LIKE choice.
That's what I have and it streams just fine, even with bittorrent running, but I live alone so there are never more than 4 devices online (counting my Android phone).
OWS probably does have a lot of stoners, but their agenda is lessening the historically huge difference between the 1% and everyone else.
The Tea Party, OTOH, is for smaller government and lower taxes and paying off the national debt. We have far more prisoners per capita than any other country, and half of them are nonviolent drug crimes. Imagine the cost of investigating, arresting, trying, and incarcerating all those people? Legalization should be right up the tea party's alley.
The alternatives are the Green Party and the Libertarian party, both of whom are for legalization. Both were on enough ballots to win the Presidency last election if the corporate media hadn't convinced everyone that a vote for a loser was a wasted vote. If that were true, a vote for Romney was wasted.
Maybe, but not now. Netflix? Pshaw, most cable channels are on the internet. The truth is only flamebait to the stupid.
The cable companies are killing themselves. I've been OTA for years, 400 channels but I might want to watch six of them and you want $80? Are you insane?
Cable use to be a good deal. A dozen extra channels, including HBO, none with commercials and local TV without snow or ghosts for ten bucks a month.
Now? Not only do they have commercials but you get commercials during the actual content! Empty-V played music videos, now they show the same reality TV bullshit you get OTA (which no longer has ghosts or snow since it's now digital). History showed ancient Greece, WWII, etc, now they have "Ice Road Truckers". Discovery used to have science and tech, now it's "Trick My Truck".
They expect me to pay them for that?
But I'm a geezer, I remember 3 black and white stations in a large city. I get half a dozen stations in a small city, crystal clear, in higher definition than cable streams.
You think I'm paying for that?
Flamebait, my ass. Wake up. If cable wants me back they can offer a la carte with no fucking commercials. If I'm paying for content and with my eyeballs you're charging me twice and you're ripping me off. Fuck cable and the horse it rode in on,
Wishful thinking. When Galileo's presentation was found to be at odds with religion by the ultimate arbiter of such things (the then-Pope), they certainly were in conflict.
The pope both misunderstood the science, or he was one of the man wolves in sheep's clothing that was elected pope, which is why Martin Luther broke. The pope is not religion.
When religion tries to tell us how the world came to be and why we are here, it falls flat on its face, each and every time.
You never heard the phrase "no harm, no foul?" You're not going to hurt me for torrenting my book (out soon), on the contrary you're doing me a favor by giving me free advertising. As Doctorow says, nobody ever lost a dime to piracy but many have gone hungry from obscurity.
The RIAA hates piracy because they don't need it, they have radio, TV, and movies. Your sharing indie files does harm them, because you might find a good indie band, buy their stuff, which leaves you less money to spend on RIAA tunes.
OTOH if you sell copies of my book*, you are in possession of money that I should own. You have very literally stolen from me.
* That is, if you're making copies and selling them, not reselling copies you bought.
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As a practical matter, you are "locked in" to whatever Office program you use - online or otherwise
But why are people locking themselves into a closed, proprietary format that is way too expensive when there is a free version that's every bit as good (actually better since Oo doesn't have that god damned stupid ribbon bullshit I have to put up with at work)
It frustrates the hell out of me. Word 2007 is not compatible with Word 2003, which is not compatible with Word 98. And Word is not available on all platforms. But after obtaining 10 IDBNs I was contacted via snail spam (a postcard) from a printer. Microsoft Word or PDF. Same with the ISBN people, Word or PDF. Lulu, Word or PDF. I hate Word! I'll be so glad when I retire next year!
This insistence on using Microsoft pisses me off. ODF is OPEN, people. It should be the standard.
Wikipedia backs him up.
1.2 billion living Catholics, as well as all the Catholics in the last 2000 years. Note that when the present Pope was a Bishop in South America, he refused the large suite the church offered and lived in a small apartment in the poor part of town.
That said, I disagree with a lot of Catholic teachings and practices. I'm not Catholic, just generic Christian.
You got me interested since it seems I'm wrong. Apparently my definition came from this
I predate this by a long while; when I was young, such a thing didn't exist. I was a year old when the double helix was discovered, 16 when "The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA" was published by James Watson, and was in the USAF when Paul Berg created the first recombinant DNA molecules by combining DNA from the monkey virus SV40 with that of the lambda virus. Strange that I never ran across that use of the term since they've used donated organs (at least experimentally with animals) all my life.
New use of an old word, thank you for the education! I know a fellow with both a donated liver and donated corneas. He has an artificial knee so he's both chimera and cyborg.
What a great operating system you spent money on!
I take it you never "upgraded" to KDE 4.2... my computer still has nightmares about that foul beast. Or worse, GNOME. Thank God I was warned about Unity.
But yeah, the nice thing about linux is KDE sucks? Well, swap desktops or distros (I just dialed mine back until it got less retarded).
Poor Windows users. That's what they get for using a toy OS.
The moderators are all smoking pot this Saturday night, I see. The only mods are +5 funny when you should be sitting at +5 informative.
Too bad I don't need karma or I could clean up tonight (yeah, I just burned one).
I'm confused, doesn't a chimera have to be two different species, not different organisms? Like someone with a pig's liver? Just a friendly question from a cyborg...
Several of the nine affected customers were disappointed.
Get an account, that was funny but the mods never saw it.
Hey, watch it buddy, that comment came up when I metamoderated and I agreed, funny.
I mean, it isn't like it's a big secret or anything. Oh, you need to clean the elephant poop off of your rug...
Johnson was one of the worst Presidents in my lifetime, I certainly wouldn;t quote that loser.
ipfwadm.. ipchains.. iptables.. nftables... progress sucks. :(
Go to bed, grandpa. It will be transparent to the end user. I'm looking forward to it.
So, while this whole subthread may be off-topic, and down-moddable as a result, you are seriously misreading a post and response. As for Oligonicella's statement of either badly worded or trolling, I think the AC was trying to make a point, but the words overtook the message.
That's possible.
Wow, who's got mod points today? An on-topic post gets modded offtopic and your offtopic (and completely inaccurate) comment gets modded up! Is someone trying to kill slashdot??
You accuse the GP of trolling, you're the one who's wrong. The tea party is indeed the faction that shut the government down, and what's more they say they're willing to do it again.
Now if you folks will excuse me I need to go metamoderate. There are a lot of folks with points that should never get any.
And editors, I could use some, it's been a while.
PS- both the parent and I are offtopic and should be modded as such.
I think we'd (the Linux community) be a lot farther ahead if they got together and implemented a single solution that solved all the known requirements.
A single solution? In Linux?? You're as crazy as whoever modded you "offtopic". Mods, read the FAQ. He isn't offtopic. I disagree with him, too, but that's not a reason to downmod someone.
Nerdfest, choice is one of the best things about open source. You're wrong, Shuttleworth is wrong, and those opposed to him probably are, too.
If you want a single solution, get an Apple or a Windows machine. Leave my choice alone, I LIKE choice.
That's what I have and it streams just fine, even with bittorrent running, but I live alone so there are never more than 4 devices online (counting my Android phone).
You can set your preferences so that submissions show up on the front page, and you can vote from there. I participate.
OWS probably does have a lot of stoners, but their agenda is lessening the historically huge difference between the 1% and everyone else.
The Tea Party, OTOH, is for smaller government and lower taxes and paying off the national debt. We have far more prisoners per capita than any other country, and half of them are nonviolent drug crimes. Imagine the cost of investigating, arresting, trying, and incarcerating all those people? Legalization should be right up the tea party's alley.
The alternatives are the Green Party and the Libertarian party, both of whom are for legalization. Both were on enough ballots to win the Presidency last election if the corporate media hadn't convinced everyone that a vote for a loser was a wasted vote. If that were true, a vote for Romney was wasted.
You might want to go with DSL, it serves my purposes, even though I think $47 a month is too much.
So what? It's still a ripoff.
You haven't heard of the firehose? If you didn't vote against the story don't bitch about it being posted.
Maybe, but not now. Netflix? Pshaw, most cable channels are on the internet. The truth is only flamebait to the stupid.
The cable companies are killing themselves. I've been OTA for years, 400 channels but I might want to watch six of them and you want $80? Are you insane?
Cable use to be a good deal. A dozen extra channels, including HBO, none with commercials and local TV without snow or ghosts for ten bucks a month.
Now? Not only do they have commercials but you get commercials during the actual content! Empty-V played music videos, now they show the same reality TV bullshit you get OTA (which no longer has ghosts or snow since it's now digital). History showed ancient Greece, WWII, etc, now they have "Ice Road Truckers". Discovery used to have science and tech, now it's "Trick My Truck".
They expect me to pay them for that?
But I'm a geezer, I remember 3 black and white stations in a large city. I get half a dozen stations in a small city, crystal clear, in higher definition than cable streams.
You think I'm paying for that?
Flamebait, my ass. Wake up. If cable wants me back they can offer a la carte with no fucking commercials. If I'm paying for content and with my eyeballs you're charging me twice and you're ripping me off. Fuck cable and the horse it rode in on,
Wishful thinking. When Galileo's presentation was found to be at odds with religion by the ultimate arbiter of such things (the then-Pope), they certainly were in conflict.
The pope both misunderstood the science, or he was one of the man wolves in sheep's clothing that was elected pope, which is why Martin Luther broke. The pope is not religion.
When religion tries to tell us how the world came to be and why we are here, it falls flat on its face, each and every time.
Science says how, religion says why.
As I said, either you misunderstand the science or you misunderstand the religion. Clearly you have no clue about religion.
You never heard the phrase "no harm, no foul?" You're not going to hurt me for torrenting my book (out soon), on the contrary you're doing me a favor by giving me free advertising. As Doctorow says, nobody ever lost a dime to piracy but many have gone hungry from obscurity.
The RIAA hates piracy because they don't need it, they have radio, TV, and movies. Your sharing indie files does harm them, because you might find a good indie band, buy their stuff, which leaves you less money to spend on RIAA tunes.
OTOH if you sell copies of my book*, you are in possession of money that I should own. You have very literally stolen from me.
* That is, if you're making copies and selling them, not reselling copies you bought.