Well I really do recommend you try 2007. Full revision control, it lets you add sources to your papers in any format you want (References, Works Cited; MLA, APA, chigago..) just by filling in the fields, and it's full of context-sensitive style suggestions that let you make an attractive-looking document with a single click. The ribbon is annoying but powerful. And everything is really amazingly fast. Yeah it's expensive, but it certainly is a step up and will save you some serious headaches.
Have you used Office 2007 very much? It seems like you have some biases from the 95-2003 days. Outlook is beautiful and utilitarian, and search is fast. I've noticed that Powerpoint and especially Word make far less ridiculous default choices for list and table formatting than they used to; it tends to just work the way you wanted it, although it would still be difficult to wrangle into a different look. The Ribbon is kind of gimmicky but perfect for Outlook's compose interface where you only need a few operations on gigantic buttons.
Also you should look into Gnumeric instead of Calc.
And yes, it's probably against your terms of service to offer any kind of internet services from your home without a hosting service account. That doesn't mean you can't forward ports- you can still netcat data into your network and stuff like that- but you can't provide services. Of course it's absurd and unenforcable, but it's not good to break the ToS for years at a time; play it safe.
Yes; just because you can give every molecule in the solar system an IP address doesn't mean you should. There's no reason to let your home networked devices face the internet directly- it's a very bad idea to even open any ports, since you shouldn't need to. You shouldn't be providing any services to the internet from your home, even remote desktop or a network share; it's bad practice and you won't sleep well at night- it's against your ISP's terms of service anyway, if you're in America. Get a virtual server somewhere if you really need something while on the go. I'm sitting comfortably in my NAT fortress knowing everything within the physical space of my house is nmap-proof.
Yeah but regardless of the politics, it's still possible to make your phone open. All that means is that Google's phone isn't open out of the box like some people expected. Which means it's just another phone- it has to compete fairly based on features instead of hopping on the "Free" train towards moneyville. But you can still jailbreak it just like anything else.
Also some people would argue that giving a reasonably powerful java sandbox is pretty much all you need. You can't really change the hardware anyway, or the network, so it's not like you have complete control even with a fully open phone. Of course a fully open phone is more desirable, but Android isn't really that terrible. And if you don't like the nickel-and-diming, then don't use the network, or at least those features of the network. Instead of using $10,000 per gigabyte SMS, use email. It's not terribly hard.
Yes, the key is AJAX. And the last time I checked you can't run C++ code in a browser, so openoffice is completely irrelevant. Unless you want to copy and paste the source code and resources into some kind of javascript C++-interpreter-and-JVM monster. Anyway, OpenOffice is so bloated already that it's snail slow and uses obscene amounts of memory.. even a rewritten javascript version of it would be horrifying.
This is amazing if you think about it, because by this point I could nearly feel the pressure waves of sound coming from that siren. I have no idea what the decibel rating of a modern siren is, but it must be huge. Which makes sense, given that the sound of the siren has to penetrate the cabin of modern, sound-proof automobiles and overpower the sound of unmuffled Harleys.
But the fact that I was having to hold my ears to avoid deafness, while cars were moving into the intesection oblivious to the siren's sound, shows that we have reached the end of siren technology. It is time to think of a better solution. Sirens cannot get any lounder without causing local earthquakes. Sound waves simply are not the answer.
I don't see censorship as the problem at all. Retailers can refuse to sell whatever they want, especially if it's very important to their soccer-mom customers.
But there's always alternative distribution methods- like indie music; if you don't like the terms of the labels, publish your music yourself. It's tough, but plenty of bands have made millions by relying on word-of-mouth and bootleg/internet distribution fueling concert sales.
The problem as I see it is that there are no alternative distribution methods for console-based gaming. The DMCA has brought the FBI down hard on mod chip manufacturers, leaving (cryptographically) signed products sold by retailers the ONLY way to get console games.
It's very tempting looking at the cheap price and easy operability of today's consoles compared to a computer to just limit yourself to mainstream games and bite the bullet censorship-wise. After all, you might fight for the rights of people to make Columbine Massacre RPG, but come on, on an average day you just want to pop in CoD4 and have some fun, without worrying about politics.
I've staunchly opposed console gaming since its inception. Console makers have consistently engineered their hardware to exclude independent game designers, colluding with major game publishers to corner the market with expensive commercial games. Meanwhile, people are sharing millions of neat games for free on a completely open and completely documented platform- the computer. It's a more expensive investment, but it can do anything without arbitrary restrictions designed to cost you as much money as possible. More importantly, any aspiring artist can share his or her ideas with the world, even in the medium of video games.
And we're not just talking a few technical points that make computers better philosophically. The "independent" model has produced some of the most universally-acclaimed games of all time: Counter-Strike, Cave Story, La-Mulana, N, The Battle For Wesnoth, Nethack... And of course (in the slashdot tradition) even if independent game publishing had led to absolutely no progress in the gaming field, we owe it to future generations to build a solid foundation for free expression. After half a century of work, lovers of freedom have gotten fully-programmable, open systems into the hands of people who can excel in an abstract and wonderful science that society had no place for in previous centuries. From the original young hackers at the MIT AI lab scratching out hundreds of thousands of lines of assembly code (not to mention the assemblers themselves written in machine code) so that those who share their passion don't have to obey the absurd and arbitrary rules of the IBM priests, submitting programs and getting the output a week later.. creating a toolchain from machine code all the way up to a time-sharing operating system.. to the hardware hackers of the 70s, trying to get hardware into the hands of the people. Thanks to the efforts off Lee Felsenstein and others, computing equipment became ubiquitous and familiar to society instead of foreign and terrifyingly complex. The renowned Homebrew Computer Club kept the spirit of the art alive through staunch promotion of utterly free principles (much to the frustration of Bill Gates), so steeped in idea that they didn't even understand the concept of proprietary software. Into the Internet era, RMS, the EFF, and countless others have fought tenaciously to defend digital freedoms. Thousands of volunteer developers have put the time equivalent of tens of billions of dollars into developing a comprehensive, relevant, usable platform based squarely on openness and equality and independence from business powers. This legacy is what we've inherited and this is what I think of when deciding whether to go with the more technically-challenging, expensive, but open model of computers and computer gaming, or the locked-down, corporate cashmongering model of console gaming.
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How do you VPN through a web interface? A java applet full of exploits to hijack the networking drivers? Seriously I'm interested to know.
As I understand it, this is just another way for changes to occur. We already know how miniscule molecules of DNA effect large-scale changes on an organism.. apparently this is just a series of proteins that can mutate somewhat nondestructively to change the organism.
Yeah I really don't understand that about google. What kind of privacy regulatory agency actually has the power to say "sorry startup company, we forsee you aggregating too much data in the next 10 years so we're freezing all your assets." That's ludicrous
Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable travelling to a lot of the EU countries, especially Germany. I know it probably wouldn't be an issue, but they have godawful free speech protections. I'm very comfortable in America being able to tap whatever keys I want without fear of police harassment, but you can get in big trouble for saying the wrong thing in europe.. I mean I'd probably enjoy myself but I'd be tiptoeing on eggshells the whole time. Paranoid I know.
might as well disconnect your internet and tv completely and erect a chain link fence around your house. But what's better for your kids, censoring their view of the real world and locking them inside or letting them actually grow up?
Yeah but good luck extraditing american citizens for a non-case. An american judge would throw out the case in an instant, and an american judge would deny extradition just as fast.
So how would I go about finding trustworthy opponents and making sure they aren't molesters?
This has me stymied. Please, why would you possibly care if your opponents are pedophiles? Sure you get to know people very well by playing on the same server for years (another huge advantage over xbox live crap) but it's not like you're bringing your daughter over to their houses, it's over the internet. Live and let live.
lol what
who has friends anyway. there are millions of people on the internet who want to play with you
also framerates drop unforgivably on split screen
are you kidding me? music and games are completely different media. that theres a common metric of the time it takes to cycle through available content is purely coincidental. You can't compare enjoying music hour-by-hour to enjoying a game hour-by-hour.
Music is enjoyed verse by verse, movement by movement; games are enjoyed level by level. You can't possibly construct some intricate morass of comparison points between the media and expect a fair (even meaninful) framework for a discussion of value.
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Well I really do recommend you try 2007. Full revision control, it lets you add sources to your papers in any format you want (References, Works Cited; MLA, APA, chigago..) just by filling in the fields, and it's full of context-sensitive style suggestions that let you make an attractive-looking document with a single click. The ribbon is annoying but powerful. And everything is really amazingly fast. Yeah it's expensive, but it certainly is a step up and will save you some serious headaches.
Have you used Office 2007 very much? It seems like you have some biases from the 95-2003 days. Outlook is beautiful and utilitarian, and search is fast. I've noticed that Powerpoint and especially Word make far less ridiculous default choices for list and table formatting than they used to; it tends to just work the way you wanted it, although it would still be difficult to wrangle into a different look. The Ribbon is kind of gimmicky but perfect for Outlook's compose interface where you only need a few operations on gigantic buttons. Also you should look into Gnumeric instead of Calc.
And yes, it's probably against your terms of service to offer any kind of internet services from your home without a hosting service account. That doesn't mean you can't forward ports- you can still netcat data into your network and stuff like that- but you can't provide services. Of course it's absurd and unenforcable, but it's not good to break the ToS for years at a time; play it safe.
Yes; just because you can give every molecule in the solar system an IP address doesn't mean you should. There's no reason to let your home networked devices face the internet directly- it's a very bad idea to even open any ports, since you shouldn't need to. You shouldn't be providing any services to the internet from your home, even remote desktop or a network share; it's bad practice and you won't sleep well at night- it's against your ISP's terms of service anyway, if you're in America. Get a virtual server somewhere if you really need something while on the go. I'm sitting comfortably in my NAT fortress knowing everything within the physical space of my house is nmap-proof.
I use linux- does that mean that I have IPv6 support? Is it built into recent kernels?
I suppose this is possible if you compile the OO.o source code to java bytecode and stick it in an applet.
*shudder*
Well, those are bad examples you know :)
See JRuby, JPerl, and JPython
They're probably powered by batteries on the order of AAs, or at most Cs :)
Yeah but regardless of the politics, it's still possible to make your phone open. All that means is that Google's phone isn't open out of the box like some people expected. Which means it's just another phone- it has to compete fairly based on features instead of hopping on the "Free" train towards moneyville. But you can still jailbreak it just like anything else. Also some people would argue that giving a reasonably powerful java sandbox is pretty much all you need. You can't really change the hardware anyway, or the network, so it's not like you have complete control even with a fully open phone. Of course a fully open phone is more desirable, but Android isn't really that terrible. And if you don't like the nickel-and-diming, then don't use the network, or at least those features of the network. Instead of using $10,000 per gigabyte SMS, use email. It's not terribly hard.
Oh ho you are soo clever
Yes, the key is AJAX. And the last time I checked you can't run C++ code in a browser, so openoffice is completely irrelevant. Unless you want to copy and paste the source code and resources into some kind of javascript C++-interpreter-and-JVM monster. Anyway, OpenOffice is so bloated already that it's snail slow and uses obscene amounts of memory.. even a rewritten javascript version of it would be horrifying.
http://sadtech.blogspot.com/2006/01/sirens.html
I don't see censorship as the problem at all. Retailers can refuse to sell whatever they want, especially if it's very important to their soccer-mom customers.
But there's always alternative distribution methods- like indie music; if you don't like the terms of the labels, publish your music yourself. It's tough, but plenty of bands have made millions by relying on word-of-mouth and bootleg/internet distribution fueling concert sales.
The problem as I see it is that there are no alternative distribution methods for console-based gaming. The DMCA has brought the FBI down hard on mod chip manufacturers, leaving (cryptographically) signed products sold by retailers the ONLY way to get console games.
It's very tempting looking at the cheap price and easy operability of today's consoles compared to a computer to just limit yourself to mainstream games and bite the bullet censorship-wise. After all, you might fight for the rights of people to make Columbine Massacre RPG, but come on, on an average day you just want to pop in CoD4 and have some fun, without worrying about politics.
I've staunchly opposed console gaming since its inception. Console makers have consistently engineered their hardware to exclude independent game designers, colluding with major game publishers to corner the market with expensive commercial games. Meanwhile, people are sharing millions of neat games for free on a completely open and completely documented platform- the computer. It's a more expensive investment, but it can do anything without arbitrary restrictions designed to cost you as much money as possible. More importantly, any aspiring artist can share his or her ideas with the world, even in the medium of video games.
And we're not just talking a few technical points that make computers better philosophically. The "independent" model has produced some of the most universally-acclaimed games of all time: Counter-Strike, Cave Story, La-Mulana, N, The Battle For Wesnoth, Nethack... And of course (in the slashdot tradition) even if independent game publishing had led to absolutely no progress in the gaming field, we owe it to future generations to build a solid foundation for free expression. After half a century of work, lovers of freedom have gotten fully-programmable, open systems into the hands of people who can excel in an abstract and wonderful science that society had no place for in previous centuries. From the original young hackers at the MIT AI lab scratching out hundreds of thousands of lines of assembly code (not to mention the assemblers themselves written in machine code) so that those who share their passion don't have to obey the absurd and arbitrary rules of the IBM priests, submitting programs and getting the output a week later.. creating a toolchain from machine code all the way up to a time-sharing operating system.. to the hardware hackers of the 70s, trying to get hardware into the hands of the people. Thanks to the efforts off Lee Felsenstein and others, computing equipment became ubiquitous and familiar to society instead of foreign and terrifyingly complex. The renowned Homebrew Computer Club kept the spirit of the art alive through staunch promotion of utterly free principles (much to the frustration of Bill Gates), so steeped in idea that they didn't even understand the concept of proprietary software. Into the Internet era, RMS, the EFF, and countless others have fought tenaciously to defend digital freedoms. Thousands of volunteer developers have put the time equivalent of tens of billions of dollars into developing a comprehensive, relevant, usable platform based squarely on openness and equality and independence from business powers. This legacy is what we've inherited and this is what I think of when deciding whether to go with the more technically-challenging, expensive, but open model of computers and computer gaming, or the locked-down, corporate cashmongering model of console gaming.
It may seem somewhat bombastic to summon ima
How do you VPN through a web interface? A java applet full of exploits to hijack the networking drivers? Seriously I'm interested to know.
Yeah "Darwin was wrong, with modern science and our -ahem- quite brilliant intellects, we have invented a superior theory" is a bit sensational.
That claim doesn't make sense anyway; what does that have to do with fast booting?
As I understand it, this is just another way for changes to occur. We already know how miniscule molecules of DNA effect large-scale changes on an organism.. apparently this is just a series of proteins that can mutate somewhat nondestructively to change the organism.
It is exactly like hibernate, but instead of saving the memory image after hours of use it saves an image just after boot.
Yeah I really don't understand that about google. What kind of privacy regulatory agency actually has the power to say "sorry startup company, we forsee you aggregating too much data in the next 10 years so we're freezing all your assets." That's ludicrous
Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable travelling to a lot of the EU countries, especially Germany. I know it probably wouldn't be an issue, but they have godawful free speech protections. I'm very comfortable in America being able to tap whatever keys I want without fear of police harassment, but you can get in big trouble for saying the wrong thing in europe.. I mean I'd probably enjoy myself but I'd be tiptoeing on eggshells the whole time. Paranoid I know.
might as well disconnect your internet and tv completely and erect a chain link fence around your house. But what's better for your kids, censoring their view of the real world and locking them inside or letting them actually grow up?
Yeah but good luck extraditing american citizens for a non-case. An american judge would throw out the case in an instant, and an american judge would deny extradition just as fast.
This has me stymied. Please, why would you possibly care if your opponents are pedophiles? Sure you get to know people very well by playing on the same server for years (another huge advantage over xbox live crap) but it's not like you're bringing your daughter over to their houses, it's over the internet. Live and let live.
lol what who has friends anyway. there are millions of people on the internet who want to play with you also framerates drop unforgivably on split screen
are you kidding me? music and games are completely different media. that theres a common metric of the time it takes to cycle through available content is purely coincidental. You can't compare enjoying music hour-by-hour to enjoying a game hour-by-hour. Music is enjoyed verse by verse, movement by movement; games are enjoyed level by level. You can't possibly construct some intricate morass of comparison points between the media and expect a fair (even meaninful) framework for a discussion of value.