i tried sending papers to friends so they could proofread it for me and help me out (im a lousy writer), and nobody wanted to be hassled to download an entire office suite, then install something, just to read it.
If it's just proofreading, then why not use plain vanilla ascii text? Why do you need fonts and page setup just for proofreading?
There are things about Linux that do annoy me. The way mousing out of a text box takes focus off the txt in KDE for example (I have an older version so this may have been fixed, it's just a random example).
The difference is, if I'm more annoyed and less lazy I can change it at will.
Game DRM is NOT about locking a game down forever.
Then why do I either need a third party pirate patch to play Road Rash (1995) or have the CD in?
We're not stupid.
Some of you seem to be absolutely brain dead.
People working in the industry now have been through all the copy protection out there you have.... Yet you still use it. That's just retarded. If you can't get it through your head that DRM inconvieniences paying customers while doing nothing whatever to reduce piracy one whit, you are as dumb as a box of rocks. Sorry, there's no way of being honest here without being insulting. DRM and anybody who uses it is Stupid with a capital S.
Games have a shelf life like movies and all other popular entertainment.
Which makes it Stupid with a capital S to make your games so you need state of the art bleeding edge hardware for it. As someone pointed out in today's DOOM thread, the gamer's best choice is to buy a game 3 years after its release. The game itself is bargain bin priced and you don't need to buy new hardware.
Movies do NOT have a shelf life. Go into WalMart and you can get yourself that copy of Unforgiven or Blade Runner (1979 iirc).
Lastly, don't be so quick to blame the creators of the game. 95% of the time they have nothing to do with this stuff.
Excellence and incompetence both start at the top. If the CEO is a moron he's going to hire morons. If you're good enough you can work for anybody.
Most people in the Americas, Europe, Australia, Middle East and Africa have no use for Asian characters, so this bug doesn't affect us. If yo uneed accurate word counts using Asian characters then you should indeed buy, pirate, or shoplift a copy of Word.
I thought you nailed it pretty good. If you don't like choice, then the US is not the place to be. One of the Muslim nations might be more to your liking.
Choice is IMO always good. Ther's no difference between having no choice at all or having lots of choices and picking one at random.
I can't understand why so many people these days are against freedom.
That's the best thing - you don't have to give anything up with Linux. You don't have to do things the way somebody else wants you to do it. With Micorosoft it's their way and their way only.
I prefer KDE to Gnome, for example. I can choose. I prefer 98 to XP, but I'm stuck with XP. It won't be long before you need Vista to run a Windows program.
I have to disagree about the learning curve. When I update the Mandriva side of my PC there is no learning curve at all. Some things are better and there are new things, but it works the same way as before. When I update the Windows side they've changed everything; what was once under "file" is now under "tools", etc. Every time I "upgrade" a Microsoft product it's completely different than the last version and my learning curve is as steep as if I'd never used the program before.
I was hanging around with Duke when he was a aqueaky little side scroller. I saw him yesterday, the poor old guy isn't doing too well.
"Duke!" I said. "Hey, dude, it's mcgrew, haven't seen you in a while! Where you been?"
"In the hospital mostly." He was bald, wrinkled, walked with a stoop and carried a cane. No doubt the cane had a sword in it. Or even more likely, a chain saw.
"What happened?"
"Well, after Mr. Broussard and the guys retired me I started drinking pretty heavy. I wound up homeless and depressed, and tried to kill myself. They said I had PTSD and put me on Paxil. Boy, mix that stuff with alcohol...
"Then I got a bad case of gout. I have arthritis all over now."
It was sad, seeing my old hero like this.
"Who's your doctor?" I asked.
"I'm indigent, so I have to go to the VA hospital and take whoever they give me. The new doctor's name is 'Proton'. They tell me he's pretty good."
I absolutely hate getting puzzles in an FPS. When I play an FPS I want action, adrenaline, and mindless carnage. I want to vent, to get rid of my frustrations.
Back when Wolfenstien was new there was a german shepherd in the yard next door that would bark all night. I'd take great pleasure in firing up wolfenstien just to shoot the dogs.
If traffic had me pissed on the way home I'd fire up Screamer. If jaywalkers and those damned idiotic runners had me pissed I'd play Road Rash.
Puzzles? No thinks, I'll buy a newspaper for 75 cents and save my $60. Or have those damned games gone up even higher? Seems everything except my paycheck has.
I'd been playing DOOM since I played the first one on my old 386, with the graphics turned down enough that it was playable. As soon as I saw DOOM 2 on the shelf I bought it, too. I had hundreds of user-created levels for the two DOOMS.
DOOM 3 came out. I'd just had my CPU fry from its fan failing, and bought a new motherboard and video card. I bought DOOM 3, knowing I had enough hardware to throw at the game.
It required the new Windows OS, XP. Sixty bucks for a game that wouldn't run on my OS. It still sits on the shelf uninstalled. I didn't RTFA, but don't think I have to to know that it's going to require a four CPU machine with a $10,000 video card and Windows Vista (service pack six) to run.
I'm done with Id's software. R.I.P. Springfield Fragfest.
DOJ has been heavily promoting it as set of laws (and amendments to existing laws) for fighting crime.
But these criminals*are terrorists! Every housewife is terrified that her philandering husband will hire one of the terrorists. Every parent is terrified that little johnny will come in contact with the terrorists. Every child is terriried that their parents might fall victim to this terrorism.
FEMA was merged with DHS (Department of Humungous Size) to fight these terrorists.
Alas, these terrorists, who kill half a million Americans every year, are part of a corporation and are therefore exempt from all US laws.
-mcgrew
*Just so you don't have to click that particular link to understand what is being said here, it is to an old journal about prostitutes.
Yes, you can convert an OO document to Word with an open source tool. But that's Open source's strength; Microsoft didn't write the tool. My point is that out of the box, Word is useless for opening an OO document.
While OpenOoffice.org has many features that are more than enough for the average user (e.g. Me), Microsoft Office has more and many that many users can't do without.
If Word has a feature you need (especially one you ABSOLUTELY need) that OO lacks, then you should get Word; it's a no-brainer.
You get what you pay for...
Not always! Often you pay far mor than for what you get. More expensive is not always better or higher quality. You usually pay for what you get, however.
When was the last time you used Microsoft Office and what version was it?
I had Excel and Access open at work today, probably 2000 or 2003 (not there right now).
OOo has about the same functionality now that Office had 10 years ago.
We have Word (and Word Perfect) at work, and I don't use anything in it I didn't use ten years ago.
At its best, an unused feature is bloat. At its worst it's a security risk.
If OO lacks a feature you need that Word has, you should buy Word. If not and you still buy Word IMO you're either not thinking clearly or you're spending someone else's money.
If you want to spot a terrorist, Look for someone that has a hat like this or this. If he has a shirt like this he's not a terrorist, but if the shirt looks like this he is.
RUN! RUN! RAISE THE THREAT LEVEL FROM YELLOW TO "SCARED SHITLESS!"
The fact that 40,000 people that die on the American highways every year tells me some of that damned Homeland Security money should go to highway safety improvements. You want to spot a terrorist? Look in a tobacco company boardroom; half a million Americans die every year from cancer.
Terrorism is a tool of the US government to take away Americans' liberties. You, sir, are part of the problem.
The biggest problem with open source that most people have with it is user friendliness, something that their proprietary competitors either nail or create
Maybe that's why I love Linux and hate Windows. I don't need "user friendly". I need user obedient. I don't care if it sneers at me and insults me so long as it does what I want it to do the way I want it to.
Microsoft programs do what they allow you to have them do, the way they want or no way at all.
As an added bonus with Linux, it doesn't unsult me, while my intelligence is often insulted with Microsoft's "user friendliness".
I don't need my hammer to be user friendly, either. I just want to drive a nail and no backtalk from the damned hammer. Like Linux, it is user-obediant.
You got that backwards there, son. Even though I know you're either trolling or (more likely) astroturfing, I'm going to bite.
I can open a word document with OO. I cannot open an OO document with Word. I can open a Word Perfect document with OO. I cannot open a WP document with Word. OO has the cool cachet of the GPL, while Word is just another boring corporate moneymaker. OO has fewer bugs and faster bug fixes. OO costs nothing, while stupid people pay good cash for Word that could otherwise be spent on more important things like beer, games, and more beer.
The only thing Word has going for it is that the Uncyclopedia parodies Bill Gates (and even includes a real criminal justice system mug shot of him) but not Scott McNealy. I mean, if Uncyclopedia doesn't make fun of you your software must really suck, right?
In 1983 you didn't hold copyright AT ALL unless it was registered with the copyright office. It was some time later than the law was changed to grant copyright automatically.
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i tried sending papers to friends so they could proofread it for me and help me out (im a lousy writer), and nobody wanted to be hassled to download an entire office suite, then install something, just to read it.
If it's just proofreading, then why not use plain vanilla ascii text? Why do you need fonts and page setup just for proofreading?
There are things about Linux that do annoy me. The way mousing out of a text box takes focus off the txt in KDE for example (I have an older version so this may have been fixed, it's just a random example).
The difference is, if I'm more annoyed and less lazy I can change it at will.
Game DRM is NOT about locking a game down forever.
Then why do I either need a third party pirate patch to play Road Rash (1995) or have the CD in?
We're not stupid.
Some of you seem to be absolutely brain dead.
People working in the industry now have been through all the copy protection out there you have.... Yet you still use it. That's just retarded. If you can't get it through your head that DRM inconvieniences paying customers while doing nothing whatever to reduce piracy one whit, you are as dumb as a box of rocks. Sorry, there's no way of being honest here without being insulting. DRM and anybody who uses it is Stupid with a capital S.
Games have a shelf life like movies and all other popular entertainment.
Which makes it Stupid with a capital S to make your games so you need state of the art bleeding edge hardware for it. As someone pointed out in today's DOOM thread, the gamer's best choice is to buy a game 3 years after its release. The game itself is bargain bin priced and you don't need to buy new hardware.
Movies do NOT have a shelf life. Go into WalMart and you can get yourself that copy of Unforgiven or Blade Runner (1979 iirc).
Lastly, don't be so quick to blame the creators of the game. 95% of the time they have nothing to do with this stuff.
Excellence and incompetence both start at the top. If the CEO is a moron he's going to hire morons. If you're good enough you can work for anybody.
Most people in the Americas, Europe, Australia, Middle East and Africa have no use for Asian characters, so this bug doesn't affect us. If yo uneed accurate word counts using Asian characters then you should indeed buy, pirate, or shoplift a copy of Word.
Your hammer analogy sucks, here.
I thought you nailed it pretty good. If you don't like choice, then the US is not the place to be. One of the Muslim nations might be more to your liking.
Choice is IMO always good. Ther's no difference between having no choice at all or having lots of choices and picking one at random.
I can't understand why so many people these days are against freedom.
That's the best thing - you don't have to give anything up with Linux. You don't have to do things the way somebody else wants you to do it. With Micorosoft it's their way and their way only.
I prefer KDE to Gnome, for example. I can choose. I prefer 98 to XP, but I'm stuck with XP. It won't be long before you need Vista to run a Windows program.
I have to disagree about the learning curve. When I update the Mandriva side of my PC there is no learning curve at all. Some things are better and there are new things, but it works the same way as before. When I update the Windows side they've changed everything; what was once under "file" is now under "tools", etc. Every time I "upgrade" a Microsoft product it's completely different than the last version and my learning curve is as steep as if I'd never used the program before.
I was hanging around with Duke when he was a aqueaky little side scroller. I saw him yesterday, the poor old guy isn't doing too well.
"Duke!" I said. "Hey, dude, it's mcgrew, haven't seen you in a while! Where you been?"
"In the hospital mostly." He was bald, wrinkled, walked with a stoop and carried a cane. No doubt the cane had a sword in it. Or even more likely, a chain saw.
"What happened?"
"Well, after Mr. Broussard and the guys retired me I started drinking pretty heavy. I wound up homeless and depressed, and tried to kill myself. They said I had PTSD and put me on Paxil. Boy, mix that stuff with alcohol...
"Then I got a bad case of gout. I have arthritis all over now."
It was sad, seeing my old hero like this.
"Who's your doctor?" I asked.
"I'm indigent, so I have to go to the VA hospital and take whoever they give me. The new doctor's name is 'Proton'. They tell me he's pretty good."
-mcgrew
There were no interesting puzzles to solve
I absolutely hate getting puzzles in an FPS. When I play an FPS I want action, adrenaline, and mindless carnage. I want to vent, to get rid of my frustrations.
Back when Wolfenstien was new there was a german shepherd in the yard next door that would bark all night. I'd take great pleasure in firing up wolfenstien just to shoot the dogs.
If traffic had me pissed on the way home I'd fire up Screamer. If jaywalkers and those damned idiotic runners had me pissed I'd play Road Rash.
Puzzles? No thinks, I'll buy a newspaper for 75 cents and save my $60. Or have those damned games gone up even higher? Seems everything except my paycheck has.
-mcgrew
Fool me twice, shame on me.
I'd been playing DOOM since I played the first one on my old 386, with the graphics turned down enough that it was playable. As soon as I saw DOOM 2 on the shelf I bought it, too. I had hundreds of user-created levels for the two DOOMS.
DOOM 3 came out. I'd just had my CPU fry from its fan failing, and bought a new motherboard and video card. I bought DOOM 3, knowing I had enough hardware to throw at the game.
It required the new Windows OS, XP. Sixty bucks for a game that wouldn't run on my OS. It still sits on the shelf uninstalled. I didn't RTFA, but don't think I have to to know that it's going to require a four CPU machine with a $10,000 video card and Windows Vista (service pack six) to run.
I'm done with Id's software. R.I.P. Springfield Fragfest.
-mcgrew
DOJ has been heavily promoting it as set of laws (and amendments to existing laws) for fighting crime.
But these criminals* are terrorists! Every housewife is terrified that her philandering husband will hire one of the terrorists. Every parent is terrified that little johnny will come in contact with the terrorists. Every child is terriried that their parents might fall victim to this terrorism.
FEMA was merged with DHS (Department of Humungous Size) to fight these terrorists.
Alas, these terrorists, who kill half a million Americans every year, are part of a corporation and are therefore exempt from all US laws.
-mcgrew
*Just so you don't have to click that particular link to understand what is being said here, it is to an old journal about prostitutes.
I'm sure I forgot way more than one big one.
Yes, you can convert an OO document to Word with an open source tool. But that's Open source's strength; Microsoft didn't write the tool. My point is that out of the box, Word is useless for opening an OO document.
So easy to trade for drugs.
While OpenOoffice.org has many features that are more than enough for the average user (e.g. Me), Microsoft Office has more and many that many users can't do without.
If Word has a feature you need (especially one you ABSOLUTELY need) that OO lacks, then you should get Word; it's a no-brainer.
You get what you pay for...
Not always! Often you pay far mor than for what you get. More expensive is not always better or higher quality. You usually pay for what you get, however.
When was the last time you used Microsoft Office and what version was it?
I had Excel and Access open at work today, probably 2000 or 2003 (not there right now).
OOo has about the same functionality now that Office had 10 years ago.
We have Word (and Word Perfect) at work, and I don't use anything in it I didn't use ten years ago.
At its best, an unused feature is bloat. At its worst it's a security risk.
If OO lacks a feature you need that Word has, you should buy Word. If not and you still buy Word IMO you're either not thinking clearly or you're spending someone else's money.
Three hindred dollar hammers and you complain about laptops?
The guy said he was a drug dealer down on his luck. Now I understand why it had these pictures in it.
I smoked a joint and got all paranoid and shit and threw it in Lake Springfield. Sorry.
A good compromise where no one gets lynched
Spoilsport
Some poeple consider features to be more important than compatability
Yes, and almost all of them work for Microsoft.
The PHB hires the HR guy who hires everybody else. Excellence starts at the top. So does mediocrity. If the CEO is a moron, he's going to hire morons.
If you want to spot a terrorist, Look for someone that has a hat like this or this. If he has a shirt like this he's not a terrorist, but if the shirt looks like this he is.
If he's drinking this look out for car bombs!
this guy would have ME calling the Department of Homeland Cowardice in a New York minute! And how about this guy?
Look at da bomb in that terrorist's hand!
this asshat is not a terrorist.
SCARY TERRORIST! ANOTHER SCARY TERRORIST! EVEN SCARIER TERRORIST! And OMFG the scariest one of al!!!!
RUN! RUN! RAISE THE THREAT LEVEL FROM YELLOW TO "SCARED SHITLESS!"
The fact that 40,000 people that die on the American highways every year tells me some of that damned Homeland Security money should go to highway safety improvements. You want to spot a terrorist? Look in a tobacco company boardroom; half a million Americans die every year from cancer.
Terrorism is a tool of the US government to take away Americans' liberties. You, sir, are part of the problem.
Good ol' slashdot, always first with the scoop! What month is it again?
The biggest problem with open source that most people have with it is user friendliness, something that their proprietary competitors either nail or create
Maybe that's why I love Linux and hate Windows. I don't need "user friendly". I need user obedient. I don't care if it sneers at me and insults me so long as it does what I want it to do the way I want it to.
Microsoft programs do what they allow you to have them do, the way they want or no way at all.
As an added bonus with Linux, it doesn't unsult me, while my intelligence is often insulted with Microsoft's "user friendliness".
I don't need my hammer to be user friendly, either. I just want to drive a nail and no backtalk from the damned hammer. Like Linux, it is user-obediant.
You got that backwards there, son. Even though I know you're either trolling or (more likely) astroturfing, I'm going to bite.
I can open a word document with OO. I cannot open an OO document with Word.
I can open a Word Perfect document with OO. I cannot open a WP document with Word.
OO has the cool cachet of the GPL, while Word is just another boring corporate moneymaker.
OO has fewer bugs and faster bug fixes.
OO costs nothing, while stupid people pay good cash for Word that could otherwise be spent on more important things like beer, games, and more beer.
The only thing Word has going for it is that the Uncyclopedia parodies Bill Gates (and even includes a real criminal justice system mug shot of him) but not Scott McNealy. I mean, if Uncyclopedia doesn't make fun of you your software must really suck, right?
In 1983 you didn't hold copyright AT ALL unless it was registered with the copyright office. It was some time later than the law was changed to grant copyright automatically.