This should be simple to do. I just built a system for my church to do presentations on a projector, and it looks like we'll have to buy a copy of Office just for this reason. I've got OpenOffice installed everywhere else, and it can do the presentations, but it doesn't support multiple monitors.
I've seen others complaining about this also.
The only reason I can think of to not support it is if they don't want it to be supported on Windows (where I'm told by other programmers it's very easy to do) and not Linux (where people on a couple of different boards have said it's not easy).
It's intentional. MG originally intended it to be a joke; Bart didn't respect his dad, but he worshiped a clown who looked exactly like his dad. He mentioned this on an NPR interview last week.
I think the NASA brass is correct when they say that the risk is too great, in light of recent events. The POLITICAL risk is too great. I'm not saying they don't care about the astronauts, they obviously do, very much. But the risk is no greater now than it was 2 years ago, and only a complete moron would think that spaceflight isn't going to kill people occasionally. They just don't feel that they can get egg on their faces again.
The truth is, I think that every astronaut in the country would get on the shuttle tomorrow if asked. If we're going to stop doing manned spaceflight unless every mission is as safe as any mission can possibly be made, we might as well crawl back into the oceans right now, because we're done.
This has been disproven. Within a day or two of this story coming out, it was shown that this isn't really generally true. It is largely true if your text is at about a 3rd grade level, but if you take text with a reasonable quantity of 3+ syllable words and do this, it's nearly impossible to read.
Example, the last few words of that paragraph: "it's nrealy ilbopmsise to raed"
This is not to mention that if you scramble many words just right, you get other, valid words with possibly vastly different meaning.
In sort, this was a fun cocktail party story, but nothing more.
Why would you not benefit from it? I thought TiVO had a cable box control puck, and could get data for any cable system? Shouldn't be hard, cable companies all carry essentially the same channels, all they have to do to support your cable system is to map channels to the right channel numbers on your box and they're done.
Sorry if I'm duping others answers, I'm heading out the door. The cable companies are full of shit. If your dish is properly installed, outages are very minor. I lose signal maybe 10 minutes a year, when it's absolutely raining like hell. It doesn't even notice normal rain showers, only torrential downpours. Also, the picture quality is better on satellite.
I have Dish Network, if it matters. If I was getting new I'd probably look at DirecTV because of their TiVO tie-in; you can get a 35 hour tivo for about $99 or less when you sign up. Dish has a PVR but no TiVO-like service, even though they do charge you to have a PVR hooked up.
Try re-aiming the antenna. My system is over 5 years old, and it was getting pretty flaky, dropping in light rains as you say. I figured it couldn't hurt to re-aim. It was 10 degrees off. I found out one of the kids had hit it with a basketball and tilted it the previous year, gee, just about when it started getting flaky.
At 42* north, I'm getting 87% signal. In Florida you should get 90+.
Well shit man, in Hudson bay you're practically skimming the horizon to see a geosync satellite. You're looking through a hundred miles of mud.
I have Dish Network at 42* north, and I lose signal maybe 10 minutes a year.
When I had cable, sometimes a whole dish (5 or 10 channels) would go out Friday night, and the cable operator didn't give enough of a shit to bother resetting the receivers until Monday morning.
I have Cable internet now, and the company is much better run, but from talking to my neighbors that there are still outages that can last 20 or 30 minutes, several times a year. Still way worse than Dish.
Also, Dish is cheaper (even with paying the extra $10 for broadband without cable TV) and the picture quality is better. All in all, I don't know why anyone would use cable for TV. But they are a good choice for cheap broadband. I'm getting 2Mbps down/256K up for $30+$10 a month. Hard to beat.
Yes, but in the case of satellite, you can control it. You can get the repair guy out, or fix it yourself. (unless it's provided by the landlord as in your case; most people have their own satellite systems).
If you have bad cable, you're probably just screwed. When I had cable, it was horrible and they didn't give a damn, because you had no other company to go to.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You're confusing urban legends with reality. In fact, you're confusing one urban legend with another.
Go do some research on what the metric system is based on.
Besides, I see no reason why making a meter this size or that size alters its legitimacy. It's a system based on intertied and base-10-divisible units of measure. What the original source of the measure was is irrelevant. But in any case, it wasn't railroad tie sizes.
Snow and weather is not a problem for satellite TV, though of course, the cable companies spread a lot of FUD that it is. The cable companies also say that digital cable looks better than satellite, which is also a load of crap.
Weather MIGHT bother the uplink or degrade the downlink somewhat, I don't know.
You used to be able to, before DSL was invented. They were called "alarm" pairs and they cost about $15 a month. Then some wise guy figured out how to use them to transmit high speed data. The phone company found out that they were getting competition for their (horrible) high speed data services, and petitioned the FCC to let them stop providing dry pairs.
They had no problem supplying dry pairs for cheap until they found out it was getting used to compete against them.
I was reading Boardwatch during the few years when this all came about, and it was quite amusing to watch.
Then there's something wrong with the system. This is not typical. I have Dish Network and see outages only when there is a terrifically bad thunderstorm going on. As grandparent says, way less outage than cable.
Someone I know is probably the smartest guy I know for unix/internet admin. I've seen him debug and fix routing problems in a machine 300 miles away in 30 seconds from a laptop, talking to people at a party.
Unfortunately, he is the technical contact for hundreds of domains. He gets on the order 5000-10000 spams a day and 500 to 1000 legitimate emails.
Changing his email address and not publicising it are not options for him. He is required to publish the address.
This is somewhat off-topic, but I saw a lot of people talking in this direction so I thought I'd post a top level comment.
Wal*Mart has a policy; every year they will approach their vendors, and they will demand a 5% reduction in wholesale cost. AFAIK this is not negotiable.
For the first few years, it's doable. However, eventually the supplier will run out of fat to trim, and will start to cut into the meat.
This means (pick at least one): Lower quality merchandise Lower pay/benefits to workers Offshore manufacturing
Levi Strauss used to make the best jeans on the planet. They employed many US workers, and you could buy a pair and wear them for 20 years. They now make NOTHING, and are nothing more than a relabeller of crappy asian knockoffs that wear out in a few dozen wearings. This is due mainly from pressure from their largest buyer, Wal*Mart.
This has happened to MANY companies. The problem is, by the time it gets down to deciding to offshore your manufacturing, you're screwed. You're 5+ years into the relationship with Wal*Mart by then, and they're your biggest customer. You've invested millions into production capacity to feed them. You do what they say or you go out of business. They know this, and they will crush your balls until you lower your price, and they don't give a damn if that means that you now have to close your US plant, turn the town it was in into a slum, and have your clothes made by 10 year old girls in the Phillipines. And if, in the end, you decide to not fire your US workers (or whatever) to drop your price to them, you'll quickly find out how one-sided your "relationship" with them was; they'll drop your ass into the pit of bankruptcy, find another supplier to screw, and not shed a tear.
By all means, if you want the quality of what you're buying to keep going down, and to eventually have everyone in the US employed flipping burgers for each other, keep shopping at Wal*Mart.
See, it's all very good to shout "capatalism" from the rooftops. But capitalism isn't strictly dollars. Consumer choice is part of the equation as well, and consumers make their choices NOT strictly on price, or everyone would be driving Kia's, or strictly on quality, or everyone would be wearing Carhartt's.
Personal morality also enters into purchasing decisions. A moral consumer does not just say "I'll buy whatever's cheapest, fuck everyone else." Retailers know that; if they didn't, you wouldn't see them backpedalling every time they get associated with sweatshops.
Also, capitalism doesn't usually take the form of a buyer waiving a death sentence at a seller and saying "Now, I think you're going to drop your price this year, RIGHT?" That's not capitalism, that's extortion.
...because everyone knows that the worst problem facing the world today is people giving their time voluntarily to build things and then give them away for the common good, and allowing the benefits of technology to come within the grasp of everyone from barely-funded libraries to multimillion-dollar corporations.
We must stop this and ensure that people with little money are not allowed access to the same quality of software that the priviledged enjoy!
You know, you could just grab a couple of chairs, go to a parking lot, and practice for 30 minutes. Assuming you still have intact chairs, you should be able to parallel park just fine for the rest of your life. It's not that hard, but maybe some people would rather spend a few thousand dollars than 30 minutes learning something. I've heard that some drivers training instructors are using toy cars to demonstrate how parallel parking works; some people can have a hard time visualizing it. I think the problem is that cars steer radically different when in reverse than when they're going forwards; this could be why some people have trouble backing up in general.
Several of my friends on a mailing list retain a large corpus of emails for analysis (a couple years worth, many tens of thousands of emails). After seeing this, they went through and determined that they had NEVER received a ham email with this in it, but had started receiving spam with it.
As a result, they now have added SpamAssassin rules to make this be a near-sure indication of spam.
Anybody doing anything nontrivial should be using a calculator. My least favorite part of math class was when the prof would make us do long division by hand. God, what a pain in the ass.
You do the calculations with a calculator. But you need to set up the calculations on paper. I'm not talking about a few additions and multiplications, I'm talking about real physics problems, with dozens of steps, taking several sheets of paper.
Yes, you do the MATH with a calculator, but you still have to set up the actual problem. Having to remember to include a bunch of conversions using strange numbers makes things needlessly complex.
You have a few decent points in the rest of your message, BTW. But of course the one about not learning anything but English is nonsense. There is a cultural understanding and heritage to be had from other languages. There's pretty much nothing but confusion to be had from multiple systems of measurement.
I'd have no problem with imperial measurements being presented in the same way that pre-standard measurements are presented now. "Check it out, a pound used to mean different things in different areas, as did all other units of measurements. Chaos! Really caused havoc for merchants!"
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Support multiple monitors for presentations.
This should be simple to do. I just built a system for my church to do presentations on a projector, and it looks like we'll have to buy a copy of Office just for this reason. I've got OpenOffice installed everywhere else, and it can do the presentations, but it doesn't support multiple monitors.
I've seen others complaining about this also.
The only reason I can think of to not support it is if they don't want it to be supported on Windows (where I'm told by other programmers it's very easy to do) and not Linux (where people on a couple of different boards have said it's not easy).
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How come Homer and Krusty look like clones?
It's intentional. MG originally intended it to be a joke; Bart didn't respect his dad, but he worshiped a clown who looked exactly like his dad. He mentioned this on an NPR interview last week.
I think the NASA brass is correct when they say that the risk is too great, in light of recent events. The POLITICAL risk is too great. I'm not saying they don't care about the astronauts, they obviously do, very much. But the risk is no greater now than it was 2 years ago, and only a complete moron would think that spaceflight isn't going to kill people occasionally. They just don't feel that they can get egg on their faces again.
The truth is, I think that every astronaut in the country would get on the shuttle tomorrow if asked. If we're going to stop doing manned spaceflight unless every mission is as safe as any mission can possibly be made, we might as well crawl back into the oceans right now, because we're done.
This has been disproven. Within a day or two of this story coming out, it was shown that this isn't really generally true. It is largely true if your text is at about a 3rd grade level, but if you take text with a reasonable quantity of 3+ syllable words and do this, it's nearly impossible to read.
Example, the last few words of that paragraph:
"it's nrealy ilbopmsise to raed"
This is not to mention that if you scramble many words just right, you get other, valid words with possibly vastly different meaning.
In sort, this was a fun cocktail party story, but nothing more.
Why would you not benefit from it? I thought TiVO had a cable box control puck, and could get data for any cable system? Shouldn't be hard, cable companies all carry essentially the same channels, all they have to do to support your cable system is to map channels to the right channel numbers on your box and they're done.
Gotta be the color screen. I have a Samsung with an old b/w screen, and my batteries last a week.
Sorry if I'm duping others answers, I'm heading out the door.
The cable companies are full of shit. If your dish is properly installed, outages are very minor. I lose signal maybe 10 minutes a year, when it's absolutely raining like hell. It doesn't even notice normal rain showers, only torrential downpours.
Also, the picture quality is better on satellite.
I have Dish Network, if it matters. If I was getting new I'd probably look at DirecTV because of their TiVO tie-in; you can get a 35 hour tivo for about $99 or less when you sign up. Dish has a PVR but no TiVO-like service, even though they do charge you to have a PVR hooked up.
To what end? I don't see how that would help anything.
Try re-aiming the antenna. My system is over 5 years old, and it was getting pretty flaky, dropping in light rains as you say. I figured it couldn't hurt to re-aim. It was 10 degrees off. I found out one of the kids had hit it with a basketball and tilted it the previous year, gee, just about when it started getting flaky.
At 42* north, I'm getting 87% signal. In Florida you should get 90+.
Well shit man, in Hudson bay you're practically skimming the horizon to see a geosync satellite. You're looking through a hundred miles of mud.
I have Dish Network at 42* north, and I lose signal maybe 10 minutes a year.
When I had cable, sometimes a whole dish (5 or 10 channels) would go out Friday night, and the cable operator didn't give enough of a shit to bother resetting the receivers until Monday morning.
I have Cable internet now, and the company is much better run, but from talking to my neighbors that there are still outages that can last 20 or 30 minutes, several times a year. Still way worse than Dish.
Also, Dish is cheaper (even with paying the extra $10 for broadband without cable TV) and the picture quality is better. All in all, I don't know why anyone would use cable for TV. But they are a good choice for cheap broadband. I'm getting 2Mbps down/256K up for $30+$10 a month. Hard to beat.
Yes, but in the case of satellite, you can control it. You can get the repair guy out, or fix it yourself. (unless it's provided by the landlord as in your case; most people have their own satellite systems).
If you have bad cable, you're probably just screwed. When I had cable, it was horrible and they didn't give a damn, because you had no other company to go to.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You're confusing urban legends with reality. In fact, you're confusing one urban legend with another.
Go do some research on what the metric system is based on.
Besides, I see no reason why making a meter this size or that size alters its legitimacy. It's a system based on intertied and base-10-divisible units of measure. What the original source of the measure was is irrelevant. But in any case, it wasn't railroad tie sizes.
Snow and weather is not a problem for satellite TV, though of course, the cable companies spread a lot of FUD that it is. The cable companies also say that digital cable looks better than satellite, which is also a load of crap.
Weather MIGHT bother the uplink or degrade the downlink somewhat, I don't know.
You used to be able to, before DSL was invented. They were called "alarm" pairs and they cost about $15 a month. Then some wise guy figured out how to use them to transmit high speed data. The phone company found out that they were getting competition for their (horrible) high speed data services, and petitioned the FCC to let them stop providing dry pairs.
They had no problem supplying dry pairs for cheap until they found out it was getting used to compete against them.
I was reading Boardwatch during the few years when this all came about, and it was quite amusing to watch.
Then there's something wrong with the system. This is not typical. I have Dish Network and see outages only when there is a terrifically bad thunderstorm going on. As grandparent says, way less outage than cable.
Someone I know is probably the smartest guy I know for unix/internet admin. I've seen him debug and fix routing problems in a machine 300 miles away in 30 seconds from a laptop, talking to people at a party.
Unfortunately, he is the technical contact for hundreds of domains. He gets on the order 5000-10000 spams a day and 500 to 1000 legitimate emails.
Changing his email address and not publicising it are not options for him. He is required to publish the address.
This is somewhat off-topic, but I saw a lot of people talking in this direction so I thought I'd post a top level comment.
Wal*Mart has a policy; every year they will approach their vendors, and they will demand a 5% reduction in wholesale cost. AFAIK this is not negotiable.
For the first few years, it's doable. However, eventually the supplier will run out of fat to trim, and will start to cut into the meat.
This means (pick at least one):
Lower quality merchandise
Lower pay/benefits to workers
Offshore manufacturing
Levi Strauss used to make the best jeans on the planet. They employed many US workers, and you could buy a pair and wear them for 20 years. They now make NOTHING, and are nothing more than a relabeller of crappy asian knockoffs that wear out in a few dozen wearings. This is due mainly from pressure from their largest buyer, Wal*Mart.
This has happened to MANY companies. The problem is, by the time it gets down to deciding to offshore your manufacturing, you're screwed. You're 5+ years into the relationship with Wal*Mart by then, and they're your biggest customer. You've invested millions into production capacity to feed them. You do what they say or you go out of business. They know this, and they will crush your balls until you lower your price, and they don't give a damn if that means that you now have to close your US plant, turn the town it was in into a slum, and have your clothes made by 10 year old girls in the Phillipines. And if, in the end, you decide to not fire your US workers (or whatever) to drop your price to them, you'll quickly find out how one-sided your "relationship" with them was; they'll drop your ass into the pit of bankruptcy, find another supplier to screw, and not shed a tear.
By all means, if you want the quality of what you're buying to keep going down, and to eventually have everyone in the US employed flipping burgers for each other, keep shopping at Wal*Mart.
See, it's all very good to shout "capatalism" from the rooftops. But capitalism isn't strictly dollars. Consumer choice is part of the equation as well, and consumers make their choices NOT strictly on price, or everyone would be driving Kia's, or strictly on quality, or everyone would be wearing Carhartt's.
Personal morality also enters into purchasing decisions. A moral consumer does not just say "I'll buy whatever's cheapest, fuck everyone else." Retailers know that; if they didn't, you wouldn't see them backpedalling every time they get associated with sweatshops.
Also, capitalism doesn't usually take the form of a buyer waiving a death sentence at a seller and saying "Now, I think you're going to drop your price this year, RIGHT?" That's not capitalism, that's extortion.
Please see my posting out in the main area.
...because everyone knows that the worst problem facing the world today is people giving their time voluntarily to build things and then give them away for the common good, and allowing the benefits of technology to come within the grasp of everyone from barely-funded libraries to multimillion-dollar corporations.
We must stop this and ensure that people with little money are not allowed access to the same quality of software that the priviledged enjoy!
Or something...
IBM type M.
I buy every one I find at a garage sale. If I find an old PS/2 for $20, I buy it, keep the keyboard and dump the PC in the trash.
As a bonus, the old ones don't have Windows keys.
You know, you could just grab a couple of chairs, go to a parking lot, and practice for 30 minutes. Assuming you still have intact chairs, you should be able to parallel park just fine for the rest of your life. It's not that hard, but maybe some people would rather spend a few thousand dollars than 30 minutes learning something.
I've heard that some drivers training instructors are using toy cars to demonstrate how parallel parking works; some people can have a hard time visualizing it. I think the problem is that cars steer radically different when in reverse than when they're going forwards; this could be why some people have trouble backing up in general.
Several of my friends on a mailing list retain a large corpus of emails for analysis (a couple years worth, many tens of thousands of emails).
After seeing this, they went through and determined that they had NEVER received a ham email with this in it, but had started receiving spam with it.
As a result, they now have added SpamAssassin rules to make this be a near-sure indication of spam.
Anybody doing anything nontrivial should be using a calculator. My least favorite part of math class was when the prof would make us do long division by hand. God, what a pain in the ass.
You do the calculations with a calculator. But you need to set up the calculations on paper. I'm not talking about a few additions and multiplications, I'm talking about real physics problems, with dozens of steps, taking several sheets of paper.
Yes, you do the MATH with a calculator, but you still have to set up the actual problem. Having to remember to include a bunch of conversions using strange numbers makes things needlessly complex.
You have a few decent points in the rest of your message, BTW. But of course the one about not learning anything but English is nonsense. There is a cultural understanding and heritage to be had from other languages. There's pretty much nothing but confusion to be had from multiple systems of measurement.
I'd have no problem with imperial measurements being presented in the same way that pre-standard measurements are presented now. "Check it out, a pound used to mean different things in different areas, as did all other units of measurements. Chaos! Really caused havoc for merchants!"
This isn't exclusively about US currency. In fact, the body that wrote the black box code is in Europe, I think sponsored by the Euro central bank.
Doesn't sound like you were doing full immersion, does it?