It's ugly, it takes up space, it's barely customisable, it doesn't react how you'd expect it to (dragging, right-clicking etc).
No-one is going to put it on a tablet! Why the big buttons?! They wouldn't work on a tablet anyway! They don't seem to have thought how normal people actually use their computers.
Besides, nobody has stated the obvious. Kodak had a reputation as a maker of film, not cameras.
Okay, sorry to waste a post just to complain about yours, but about two dozen people have said that exact same statement! I'm getting sick of reading it!
Yeah, but had to save things as PDF. Then get a PDF print-driver because printing direct to PDF wouldn't save italics if they weren't supported by the font. Then she wasn't able to edit it when at school. We'd lose references in the transfer to.doc and back. Positioning of illustrations would of course get ruined, and forget about using autonumbering. This was before Zotero, so we used whatever crap referencing thing OOo offered.
I had to save the gradient background of her OOo Presentation as a bitmap, otherwise the colours got stuffed up terribly on export to PPT. The few simple transitions used (e.g. final line hidden until click) would go awry.
Fortunately I was a student myself at that stage, so had plenty of time to waste. It was for her Masters though! We're not together anymore, but that's the one thing in our relationship I feel most guilty about!
in that case why not use Acrobat if legality is not a factor? it is vastly superior to either Word or LibreOffice
Because Word is a quick download, it runs fast, is found on every computer and looks exactly the same on every computer, and does anything we'd need it to do.
I've never used Acrobat, but when I think what Adobe has done to Macromedia Flash, and I think of the splash screen for Adobe Reader, and I think of that desktop icon that keeps getting created by Reader, and I think of the ease of use of photoshop for a novice - I think no way.
Word - quick; easy to get copy; well-supported; high compatibility; ubiquitous Acrobat - no experience with this; probably bloated and awkward to use; not going to find on computer lab computer; OpenOffice - slow; ugly; low compatibility for anything but simple documents; cumbersome;
Yep, if I could do it again I'd have borrowed that Word 2000 CD from her friend.
Dems, the rules. It's what you have to follow to use public roads. I think you should be free to purchase your own private road, get completely hammered, and drive as fast as you like. I'd prefer people with alcohol (which impairs judgement) off roads that others use. It's common sends.
I'd also like everyone who gets caught drink-driving on a public road to have to resit the practical driving test.
... and MS Word does a better job with retaining perfect formatting from older versions of Word? not in my experience it doesn't!
In my experience it does. After using OpenOffice (and now LibreOffice) on my home computer for 7 years, I am amazed when I use Word at work or elsewhere at how quick, easy to use and reliable it is.
It's not worth it to me to actually pay for the ease of use and consistency of Word, which is why I use Libre or GoogleDocs. But Word doesn't have the multitude of very minor flaws that LibreOffice has. I feel quite terrible for forcing my girlfriend at the time to do her essays and presentations in OOo all those years back! I should have just let her use her pirated version of Word.
"I don't regard [Brandt] as a valid source about anything at all, based on my interactions with him. I tried very hard to help him, and he misrepresented nearly everything about our conversation in his very strange rant. He considers the very existence of a Wikipedia article about him to be a privacy violation, despite being a public person. I find it hard to take him very seriously at all. He misrepresents everything about our procedures, claiming that we have a 'secret police' and so on." - Jimbo Wales
The government needs to target the rental car industry. I was shocked at the low advertised prices of rentals when I was in the States, but even more shocked when I got to the hire place and the price more than quadruples with various fees. It's immoral and that should be illegal.
Fortunately, I think Expedia includes these compulsory extras in its calculations.
The study hinges on the observation that the composition of the cytoplasm of modern cells is very different to that of seawater.
I always thought this was the whole point.
In animals, the inside our cells has high levels of potassium and low levels of sodium. Outside the cells the sodium concentration is higher (~140mmol/L) and potassium lower (~4mmol/L); there is also an electronegativity difference (i.e. stick a tiny probe inside and one outside the cell membrane and you'll see a voltage). It is like this because of the Na K ATPase pump. The difference between the two concentrations acts as a source of potential energy for other things the cell does. The obvious examples are neurons and muscle cells, but the kidneys, liver, and every other cell uses this concentration gradient.
I imagine that in a primordial soup, the simple lipid micelle that formed with pieces of self-catalysing RNA would use an ion gradient to accomplish reproduction and survival. And when this eventually evolved into a early cell we'd see that difference between cytoplasm and the sea persisting.
I hope these get done. I've tried similar "minor gripe" reporting in OO.org. They're not majors, but they're little things that are annoying.
(Another one I have is not being able to select the internal colour when writing in "outline" text mode.)
I was actually quite pleased by the quick responses in OOo, although they just sort of sat there. Most are still "ACCEPTED" even though I submitted them in 2003 about version 1.1!
The irony with this whol thing is I'm anti-piracy, I'm one of those weirdos who thinks artists deserve to get money for what they produce, however easy it is to copy bit for bit.
Well they don't deserve it. There's a law saying they should, but it's not inherently fair.
It's copying. It's not like they've got to stop what they're doing and perform the song everytime it pops up on someone's iPod!
They can accept money for performing. They can sell MP3s on their website. But there's no reason that they should be able to control what I do on my computer with my own data!
It looks like they're defaming the owners: "The majority of music files that were available via this site were stolen from the artists."
It's like arresting someone on suspicion of rape, and then (before any conviction) stating publicly "this guy's a rapist". Rape's a serious crime, copying files isn't.
When people make my entire retirement savings (me+wife working for 30 years) in a weekend, I wonder why I bothered doing science. Clearly, I was in the wrong line of work and the world changed out from under me.
No-one forced you to do science. No-one promised you hundreds of millions of dollars. Why didn't you just start a highly successful business?
(20 years ago, Microsoft Word was in version 4. Can you still read those documents properly today on your tablet or smartphone, or even on Windows 7?).
Every reformed addict has something that stops them using. Ain't it ain't no evil sky goblin.
They stop because they want to (or sometimes because they're forced to). What the hell does any God have to do with it? I don't require faith to believe that God didn't do it, I actually have faith in humanity and science to cure illness, to save trapped people, to help them recover after being trapped in the wilderness, to have search and rescue squads.
If anything, God causes cancer in people, causes car crashes and fires and flood. Then it's up to us, the human race, to try and help others. We've got this nasty, sadistic, foul bastard of a God inflicting cruelty on us all. Thank g.. uh, us, for the science and progress to minimise his inhuman destruction. I hate your nasty God.
Every piece of evidence implies god does not exist - so therefore he doesn't. That's how we justify a fact - using evidence.
I have a shoe to put on. Ir is curved concave on the left, convex on the right, and only my left foot fits in it. There's no debate, there's no but you can't prove it, it's my left shoe! (Sorry, if I tidied up around the place then maybe I'd get a better example.)
Divers sometimes use helium to replace some of the nitrogen. If you're at pressure, then the amount of nitrogen that goes into your blood stream can cause nitrogen narcosis. If you lower the partial pressure of N2 (by using He) then this is less likely.
Helium also diffuses quicker than nitrogen. But this can mean that decompression is a bit more difficult.
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I hate Unity too.
It's ugly, it takes up space, it's barely customisable, it doesn't react how you'd expect it to (dragging, right-clicking etc).
No-one is going to put it on a tablet! Why the big buttons?! They wouldn't work on a tablet anyway! They don't seem to have thought how normal people actually use their computers.
I tried adding this filter to Adblock Plus, but for some reason some of my favourite websites stopped functioning.
I forgot to say in my above post that this has all been an elaborate scheme to get to know you better, h4rr4r. I'll explain why soon.
I can tell you what's killing us early right now. Diet. Toxic chemicals - in particular inorganic ones.
Inorganic ones?
So NaCl is dangerous, but organic compounds such as CH3OH are okay to consume? I'll remember that.
Besides, nobody has stated the obvious. Kodak had a reputation as a maker of film, not cameras.
Okay, sorry to waste a post just to complain about yours, but about two dozen people have said that exact same statement! I'm getting sick of reading it!
Yeah, but had to save things as PDF. Then get a PDF print-driver because printing direct to PDF wouldn't save italics if they weren't supported by the font. Then she wasn't able to edit it when at school. We'd lose references in the transfer to .doc and back. Positioning of illustrations would of course get ruined, and forget about using autonumbering. This was before Zotero, so we used whatever crap referencing thing OOo offered.
I had to save the gradient background of her OOo Presentation as a bitmap, otherwise the colours got stuffed up terribly on export to PPT. The few simple transitions used (e.g. final line hidden until click) would go awry.
Fortunately I was a student myself at that stage, so had plenty of time to waste. It was for her Masters though! We're not together anymore, but that's the one thing in our relationship I feel most guilty about!
in that case why not use Acrobat if legality is not a factor? it is vastly superior to either Word or LibreOffice
Because Word is a quick download, it runs fast, is found on every computer and looks exactly the same on every computer, and does anything we'd need it to do.
I've never used Acrobat, but when I think what Adobe has done to Macromedia Flash, and I think of the splash screen for Adobe Reader, and I think of that desktop icon that keeps getting created by Reader, and I think of the ease of use of photoshop for a novice - I think no way.
Word - quick; easy to get copy; well-supported; high compatibility; ubiquitous
Acrobat - no experience with this; probably bloated and awkward to use; not going to find on computer lab computer;
OpenOffice - slow; ugly; low compatibility for anything but simple documents; cumbersome;
Yep, if I could do it again I'd have borrowed that Word 2000 CD from her friend.
I've driving intoxicated before,
You intoxicated now? :-D
Dems, the rules. It's what you have to follow to use public roads. I think you should be free to purchase your own private road, get completely hammered, and drive as fast as you like. I'd prefer people with alcohol (which impairs judgement) off roads that others use. It's common sends.
I'd also like everyone who gets caught drink-driving on a public road to have to resit the practical driving test.
Microsoft isn't evil. Google isn't evil.
They are companies and want to make money.
Apple is evil - as they are a religion.
... and MS Word does a better job with retaining perfect formatting from older versions of Word? not in my experience it doesn't!
In my experience it does. After using OpenOffice (and now LibreOffice) on my home computer for 7 years, I am amazed when I use Word at work or elsewhere at how quick, easy to use and reliable it is.
It's not worth it to me to actually pay for the ease of use and consistency of Word, which is why I use Libre or GoogleDocs. But Word doesn't have the multitude of very minor flaws that LibreOffice has. I feel quite terrible for forcing my girlfriend at the time to do her essays and presentations in OOo all those years back! I should have just let her use her pirated version of Word.
http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Daniel_Brandt
"I don't regard [Brandt] as a valid source about anything at all, based on my interactions with him. I tried very hard to help him, and he misrepresented nearly everything about our conversation in his very strange rant. He considers the very existence of a Wikipedia article about him to be a privacy violation, despite being a public person. I find it hard to take him very seriously at all. He misrepresents everything about our procedures, claiming that we have a 'secret police' and so on." - Jimbo Wales
The government needs to target the rental car industry. I was shocked at the low advertised prices of rentals when I was in the States, but even more shocked when I got to the hire place and the price more than quadruples with various fees. It's immoral and that should be illegal.
Fortunately, I think Expedia includes these compulsory extras in its calculations.
Well don't shop there if you feel it's too expensive! Shop at the guy with the lower prices; it's not that complicated!
The study hinges on the observation that the composition of the cytoplasm of modern cells is very different to that of seawater.
I always thought this was the whole point.
In animals, the inside our cells has high levels of potassium and low levels of sodium. Outside the cells the sodium concentration is higher (~140mmol/L) and potassium lower (~4mmol/L); there is also an electronegativity difference (i.e. stick a tiny probe inside and one outside the cell membrane and you'll see a voltage). It is like this because of the Na K ATPase pump. The difference between the two concentrations acts as a source of potential energy for other things the cell does. The obvious examples are neurons and muscle cells, but the kidneys, liver, and every other cell uses this concentration gradient.
I imagine that in a primordial soup, the simple lipid micelle that formed with pieces of self-catalysing RNA would use an ion gradient to accomplish reproduction and survival. And when this eventually evolved into a early cell we'd see that difference between cytoplasm and the sea persisting.
I hope these get done. I've tried similar "minor gripe" reporting in OO.org. They're not majors, but they're little things that are annoying.
(Another one I have is not being able to select the internal colour when writing in "outline" text mode.)
I was actually quite pleased by the quick responses in OOo, although they just sort of sat there. Most are still "ACCEPTED" even though I submitted them in 2003 about version 1.1!
Good luck with yours.
The irony with this whol thing is I'm anti-piracy, I'm one of those weirdos who thinks artists deserve to get money for what they produce, however easy it is to copy bit for bit.
Well they don't deserve it. There's a law saying they should, but it's not inherently fair.
It's copying. It's not like they've got to stop what they're doing and perform the song everytime it pops up on someone's iPod!
They can accept money for performing. They can sell MP3s on their website. But there's no reason that they should be able to control what I do on my computer with my own data!
I've written a complaint to SOCA.
It looks like they're defaming the owners: "The majority of music files that were available via this site were stolen from the artists."
It's like arresting someone on suspicion of rape, and then (before any conviction) stating publicly "this guy's a rapist". Rape's a serious crime, copying files isn't.
When people make my entire retirement savings (me+wife working for 30 years) in a weekend, I wonder why I bothered doing science. Clearly, I was in the wrong line of work and the world changed out from under me.
No-one forced you to do science. No-one promised you hundreds of millions of dollars. Why didn't you just start a highly successful business?
(20 years ago, Microsoft Word was in version 4. Can you still read those documents properly today on your tablet or smartphone, or even on Windows 7?).
To quote the anon:
"Yes, you sure can."
Umm, no.
Every reformed addict has something that stops them using. Ain't it ain't no evil sky goblin.
They stop because they want to (or sometimes because they're forced to). What the hell does any God have to do with it? I don't require faith to believe that God didn't do it, I actually have faith in humanity and science to cure illness, to save trapped people, to help them recover after being trapped in the wilderness, to have search and rescue squads.
If anything, God causes cancer in people, causes car crashes and fires and flood. Then it's up to us, the human race, to try and help others. We've got this nasty, sadistic, foul bastard of a God inflicting cruelty on us all. Thank g.. uh, us, for the science and progress to minimise his inhuman destruction. I hate your nasty God.
But something tells me that killing non-virgins on their wedding night isn't a moral thing to do...
Watch out there. What you just said is considered "racist" by many, you must respect their culture.
No. Gods do not exist. It is decidable.
Every piece of evidence implies god does not exist - so therefore he doesn't. That's how we justify a fact - using evidence.
I have a shoe to put on. Ir is curved concave on the left, convex on the right, and only my left foot fits in it. There's no debate, there's no but you can't prove it, it's my left shoe! (Sorry, if I tidied up around the place then maybe I'd get a better example.)
Is it possible to get them to register/park a whole lot of gibberish domains? They're never going to sell gjioewjr3njk32.com.
There's always about 80% of commenters here whining about how new technology is going to ruin our lives.
There's just an input box so they can email you when they're ready for more users.
He sounds like Yakky Doodle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaa9ZJ2KSoQ
Divers sometimes use helium to replace some of the nitrogen. If you're at pressure, then the amount of nitrogen that goes into your blood stream can cause nitrogen narcosis. If you lower the partial pressure of N2 (by using He) then this is less likely.
Helium also diffuses quicker than nitrogen. But this can mean that decompression is a bit more difficult.
It talks about it a bit here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimix_(breathing_gas)