Well, since it's put THAT way, all we need is someone to find a way to substitute most of the online available porn images with some District 9 references: Human-Prawn Inter-species Prostitution. Or, in the case of Wickers (the main character), make it anal, with references to Nigerian scams. (Butt, in the end would it be ISP, or Interspecies bestiality?) This would probably severely blunt the internet prawnorgraphic imagery distribution.
To the well-endowned Prawns, once could say, "All your prawn things be LONG to USSS." Butt, once enough porn sites have been taken down, anti-porn geeks the world over could say to the porn sites "PRAWNED!"
To save to client money and from excessive treatment costs:
-- Create an addiction sign up site -- Commit the addict to an "outed tracking" list to which they agree to remain monitored for 90 to 180 days -- Daily update a list of the hours and general category of site (not the URLs, content or such-- could be a liability for ID theft, etc...) -- Charge the client.... $0.00 (Surely, there are some Open Source geeks/fans/fanatics with exceptional programming skills who can direct their energies into this kind of project) -- In advance, client agrees that early termination results in their name and status remaining indefinitely listed.
$15,000+ is a HELL of a steep price. For that price, the biopharmas might see a market for distribution/charging of Surfing Aversion Drug...
I saw it at Metreon in SF, and when i got in, the line had about 200 people ahead of me. 5 minutes after i got into line, some 50 more were behind me, and this was 25 to 30 minutes before starting. After i seated, the auditorium was about 70% full. It has seats for maybe 600, IIRC, (based on the size of the imax one i'd seen Trek in at the same complex). By the time we were 5 minutes from start, it was pretty chock-full. (Yeh, and we had some 12 to 15 minutes of promotionals and trailers...)
After a few anatomic (funny yet gross, gross, yet funny) scenes and some limb damage, a couple walked out. Even tho it was dark, the people to either side of me exchanged glances with me. We smiled, like "Welll.... guess it's not for EVERYbody..."
But, i have to say, whenever i eat prawns, I'll probably ALWAYS think of this excellent film.
Wild West, somehow immune to federal regulation. But, i have to say (yes, we here know my stance toward msoft) that in this case, this kind of judge is MY kind of judge for dealing with a lawyer who persisted in improper conduct in the judge's court. I not to long ago ranted off a tirade of vitriolic (expletive-laden) language (didn't help my cause one bit, but i get emotional when ms does certain things and gets away with it), but while i cannot claim this judge's fine on the lawyer is not exactly "vindication" (after all, $40M is NOTHING to ms), it sends a signal that ms' chicanery/tricky-dickery won't ALWAYS be tolerated.
(no subscriber bonus; terrible karma; limited to 2 posts per day until i escape the/. karma hells; reincarnation in/. is voter-dependent, regardless of uniqueness/clarity/honesty of posts by submitter)
You know, maybe that is the quiet point of the report, to tell the public and businesses to leverage pressure on the government and cause more transparency. On the other hand, maybe it'll backfire.
I know from personal experience in late 2004 that US-passport carrying persons entering Japan with that passport being stamped can visit, legally, up to 90 days, but CANNOT work to earn income. Those who play/played the immigration/visa-limit merry-go-round could simply leave the country and return (with proper stampings) 24-36 hours later and restart the clock. If they had illegal gigs/income sources, such persons could indefinitely reside in Japan, so long as the neighbors did not finally get fed up and as the police to inquire.
However, many citizens/passport-presenting persons NOT presenting a US passport could/can enter for up to 3 MONTHS, AND the could/can subsidize their stay by working. Such passports-holding people could be from Canada, France, Germany, Australia, and a few South East Asia countries. I think Mexico and Brazil were permitted, too.
But, i think the Japanese limitations on the US stemmed from a spat between the US and Japan, maybe before the 80s. IIRC, the US or someone in the US was complaining about too many Japanese filling up US colleges and workplaces and soaking up information that would enable more intense Japanese competition against the US. But, also, probably more plausible is that the US probably has far more visitors to Japan (especially certified/authorized language instructors/teaching assistants, as well as the illegal types) than many of the other countries combined. Too many US passport holders, combined with the often begrudged presence of US military personnel, led to a severe restriction that US passport presenters could not work (in Japan) and subsidize their visit to Japan. This makes it possible to allow in a wider diversity of cultural contribution (artists, chefs, photographers, and so on) that otherwise might be impeded if too many jobs-takers from the US were allowed.
(Plus, cynically, i (and some i've talked with) have a feeling that an event in a month of August many decades ago may or may not be part of the mix.)
Flamebait my ASS, motherfrakin' asshat. I'm commenting on my OWN comment's comment and you dare mark me flamebait. Fortunately for you, i am not omnipotent nor above the law. Otherwise....
To the one who modded me to flamebait, you seem to not realize that left unchecked, mshaft would be one of the most fucking dangerous companies on the planet. Maybe you're an ms shill. You surely cannot be impartial, especially when you can hide behind an undisclosed moderator shield. Moderators, are in effect, anonymous, and some are cowards. They get to be because by design slashdot doesn't require nor allows moderators to JUSTIFY their actions.
"Residential areas are packing in more people The City is projected to take in more than 150,000 new residents in the next three decades and the need to manage traffic and parking availability is becoming a key concern for transportation planners, according to a new study by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority."
"The study estimated there are more than 600,000 parking spaces in San Francisco, of which 320,000 are on-street and only 24,000 are regulated with parking meters. Residential parking permits (RPPs), as evidenced by the map above, have been added throughout the city in an ad-hoc fashion and in many areas are not synthesized with metered parking."
"The so-called e-parking meters installed in 2003 for around $25 million include features that are supposed to deter theft, according to manufacturer J.J. MacKay Canada.
But a trio of programmers and engineers say it took them only three days to create imposter cards that can offer free metered parking in The City.
Through computer code, the security researchers said they discovered how value is stored on the prepaid cards and were able to create fake cards valued at $999.99. They also found out how to create cards that wont deplete in value after being used."
msoft is involved with or actively and quietly coercing hardware manufacturers (especially consumer computers/laptops/cell phones/multipurpose devices capable of loading and usefully running Linux or non-windows apps/OSs), then i dare say that ms needs to be NUKED TO HELL by any and all means possible. I won't do it myself, but if an escrow account asking for money popped up, i would seriously consider donating a few dollars (unless the government turned me into a pussy wishing to avoid jail/prison time).
If they call it something like "Legal fund to put ms into restraints" (or, at least didn't use obvious terms that imply illegal plans to illegally depose ms once and for all), then i would imagine those in favor of crippling/knee-capping and skull-cracking ms the entity should be legally safe... After all, there are all sorts of charities that are not under scrutiny (and some, for anti-terrorism reasons and banking irregularities/money laundering activities) in which a court might not find against an individual. I would imagine the perps would have to set up, operate, and account as a legitimate business... until the VERY END, when they hear that frackin' tune that switches Cylons on...
But, tell you what, I'd rather be a sleeper Cylon or turgid Hybrid water than yield to mshaft... If, only IF i had a magic wand with any wish available... of ALL the possible wishes, i'd even give up immortality to see a handful of companies pummel mshaft into permanent oblivion. It would force individuals, companies, and countries to pull ms' trunk out of their rear ends and take control of their computing landscape.
(Go ahead, mark me troll/flamebait/inflammatory/etc... At least this will get read.)
Gods.... Like, did they keep commitments to deliver the vaporware they used to gas to death a slew of companies over the past 20+ years that offered an add-on to or superior product than ms' wares? That spokesperson must not have seriously studied ms' history, or is too enamored with the company to be honest about it.
Maybe you can tell me, but i cannot for the LIFE of me see how my above comment is flamebait. I think someone is going around back-modding me every time i wine about being screwed with. Somebody comes to my aid, reads my comment, points out a few things, or another comes along and neutralizes my score back to where it was before some jerk came along and slam-dunked it to hell. Then, ticked they see i'm monitoring my comments for feedback or scoring changes, the fraking childish ones go and screw with another comment. I wish slashdot had a monitoring system that looks out for these abuses and bans the ip or the user for a week, or longer.
Anyway...
I don't see anything in my commentary (and, it is my personal experience, and i don't see how anyone here is slashdot could refute or lambaste or critically pan my experience without accessing the email servers of openoffice.org from around 2000-2002...) that is flamebait.
I have in the past and even now will admit that Lotus and IBM are dropping the ball, but there have been and still are features in SmartSuite that beat the shocks off of oo.o. Unfortunately for S/S, the same is true. oo.o has a newer set of cleaned up code, less patent bullshit risks, and fresher eyes able to inspect the code to some greater degree than SmartSuite does. Also, i have in the past and concede now, too, that if Sun and IBM/Lotus put away their gauntlets/mauls/maces and merged the best features of their suites, they could then see what they and Google might do to pry msofts domineering, anti-competitive hands off the personal and office document suite software industry.
Kid gets beaten by asshole adults, beaten to death (not as if he tried to play superhero and fly from a cliff or such), and he gets mocked in a geek forum. I imagine slashdot's karma is taking some hits, too. There should be a moderation for "crass-assed humour"... I'd like to see each and every "funny" commentator and supporting moderator explain to the bereaved parents how they think this shit's funny. Imagine if one of YOUR kids or relatives got beaten to death, here in the US. You'd be out for blood. If *I* laughed, and poked fun at your pain, you'd (if endowed) hunt down every shred of info on me and begin a smear campaign, until the law caught up with you.
(Go ahead, mark it off-topic... I'm getting that lately...)
Can i get a moderator (or rescuer) here? I am marked 0, redundant, and i cannot find a single post prior to 1136 that preceded my comment so as to make mine redundant.
Curious/Interestingly, there are TWO posts "kitty-porn" and neither is marked redundant.
Seems to me/. needs a tag for "report abuse". Seems i have been hit again by a foe.
Anyone care to remode me to just nothing instead of redundant? And, be on the lookout for abuses of others?
Oh, well, have you looked for the word? Why is it that you get to use your dislike for the world to mod two people off topic? Are you a "player hater"? Or, are you a pro-sco person hiding behind the lazy slashdot code that allows hit-and-run modding?
Looking at sco's conduct, and splaying their ass up in the air for microsoft to do ms' bidding, sco is (after ms) the LAST company topic for which boo-hoo off-topic-modding should be tolerated. Downward-trending scoring, maybe, but a slam-dunk off-topic? HELL NO.
to keep that SCOkenstein (SCO Frankenstein) ventilated.
If he thinks the company is beyond rehabilitation, then if the effer is brain or lung dead (mostly dead, not fully dead per submitter?), pull the plug. Why keep SCOkenstein writhing or huckin' and buckin' on 5 amps and 200 volts when the skull-cracked hodge-podge needs (or wants) to neck-suckle on 40 amps and 50,000 volts. It's just keeping open doors to the court and a drain on public resources. (Tell them to go find a power transmission tower, bite it, & blacken their asses like toast. Maybe SCO should get into the energy deliver business?) What's SCO anyway these days? Seems like a twig or tumbleweed blowing around trying to snag something, or an alien husk awaiting seminal insemination to resurrection. Right now, they've got their damned terminals reversed.
ANY interface in an office suite that Sun/OO.o should be copying, they need to pull their heads out of the sand and clone Lotus WordPro. It handles multiple documents in a superior way. If you have multiple, various-orientation/various sheet sized docs to handle, as divisions and sections, then WordPro would be IT. I have begged until i got sick of even trying to suggest any more yet they just don't seem to care. It's as if NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome is preferable to actually FIXING the GUI. OO.o needs
-- non-modal interfaces, -- snappier/tighter icons, -- better (more Lotus Approach-like) database -- better multi-doc handling (get RID of the "rule line" separating docs and use LWP's tabbed interface, larger/thicker border to differentiate the docs
They would rather beat their heads against the wall than ape Word Pro or work constructively with Lotus/IBM. Sigh
Tho i don't have any intention of promoting ms, the OO.o Impress ribbon for some reason made me think way back to circa 1992 or 1994 and some of the jumbo-ish Word Perfect icons. If they were resizable, and if one could nest a few together under larger, more used buttons/icons, they'd almost look ribbon-ish, less the boundary/shadow effects.
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Well, since it's put THAT way, all we need is someone to find a way to substitute most of the online available porn images with some District 9 references: Human-Prawn Inter-species Prostitution. Or, in the case of Wickers (the main character), make it anal, with references to Nigerian scams. (Butt, in the end would it be ISP, or Interspecies bestiality?) This would probably severely blunt the internet prawnorgraphic imagery distribution.
To the well-endowned Prawns, once could say, "All your prawn things be LONG to USSS." Butt, once enough porn sites have been taken down, anti-porn geeks the world over could say to the porn sites "PRAWNED!"
To save to client money and from excessive treatment costs:
-- Create an addiction sign up site .... $0.00 (Surely, there are some Open Source geeks/fans/fanatics with exceptional programming skills who can direct their energies into this kind of project)
-- Commit the addict to an "outed tracking" list to which they agree to remain monitored for 90 to 180 days
-- Daily update a list of the hours and general category of site (not the URLs, content or such-- could be a liability for ID theft, etc...)
-- Charge the client
-- In advance, client agrees that early termination results in their name and status remaining indefinitely listed.
$15,000+ is a HELL of a steep price. For that price, the biopharmas might see a market for distribution/charging of Surfing Aversion Drug...
Before i went to see it, i'd read that on IMDB, it was around 8/10. Now, it's higher:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/
!8.9! out of 10.
And, at Crunchgear, it's got some high remarks, too.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/17/district-9-loved-on-imdb-ranked-89-out-of-10/
I saw it at Metreon in SF, and when i got in, the line had about 200 people ahead of me. 5 minutes after i got into line, some 50 more were behind me, and this was 25 to 30 minutes before starting. After i seated, the auditorium was about 70% full. It has seats for maybe 600, IIRC, (based on the size of the imax one i'd seen Trek in at the same complex). By the time we were 5 minutes from start, it was pretty chock-full. (Yeh, and we had some 12 to 15 minutes of promotionals and trailers...)
After a few anatomic (funny yet gross, gross, yet funny) scenes and some limb damage, a couple walked out. Even tho it was dark, the people to either side of me exchanged glances with me. We smiled, like "Welll.... guess it's not for EVERYbody..."
But, i have to say, whenever i eat prawns, I'll probably ALWAYS think of this excellent film.
Wild West, somehow immune to federal regulation. But, i have to say (yes, we here know my stance toward msoft) that in this case, this kind of judge is MY kind of judge for dealing with a lawyer who persisted in improper conduct in the judge's court. I not to long ago ranted off a tirade of vitriolic (expletive-laden) language (didn't help my cause one bit, but i get emotional when ms does certain things and gets away with it), but while i cannot claim this judge's fine on the lawyer is not exactly "vindication" (after all, $40M is NOTHING to ms), it sends a signal that ms' chicanery/tricky-dickery won't ALWAYS be tolerated.
(no subscriber bonus; terrible karma; limited to 2 posts per day until i escape the /. karma hells; reincarnation in /. is voter-dependent, regardless of uniqueness/clarity/honesty of posts by submitter)
You know, maybe that is the quiet point of the report, to tell the public and businesses to leverage pressure on the government and cause more transparency. On the other hand, maybe it'll backfire.
I know from personal experience in late 2004 that US-passport carrying persons entering Japan with that passport being stamped can visit, legally, up to 90 days, but CANNOT work to earn income. Those who play/played the immigration/visa-limit merry-go-round could simply leave the country and return (with proper stampings) 24-36 hours later and restart the clock. If they had illegal gigs/income sources, such persons could indefinitely reside in Japan, so long as the neighbors did not finally get fed up and as the police to inquire.
However, many citizens/passport-presenting persons NOT presenting a US passport could/can enter for up to 3 MONTHS, AND the could/can subsidize their stay by working. Such passports-holding people could be from Canada, France, Germany, Australia, and a few South East Asia countries. I think Mexico and Brazil were permitted, too.
But, i think the Japanese limitations on the US stemmed from a spat between the US and Japan, maybe before the 80s. IIRC, the US or someone in the US was complaining about too many Japanese filling up US colleges and workplaces and soaking up information that would enable more intense Japanese competition against the US. But, also, probably more plausible is that the US probably has far more visitors to Japan (especially certified/authorized language instructors/teaching assistants, as well as the illegal types) than many of the other countries combined. Too many US passport holders, combined with the often begrudged presence of US military personnel, led to a severe restriction that US passport presenters could not work (in Japan) and subsidize their visit to Japan. This makes it possible to allow in a wider diversity of cultural contribution (artists, chefs, photographers, and so on) that otherwise might be impeded if too many jobs-takers from the US were allowed.
(Plus, cynically, i (and some i've talked with) have a feeling that an event in a month of August many decades ago may or may not be part of the mix.)
Flamebait my ASS, motherfrakin' asshat. I'm commenting on my OWN comment's comment and you dare mark me flamebait. Fortunately for you, i am not omnipotent nor above the law. Otherwise....
To the one who modded me to flamebait, you seem to not realize that left unchecked, mshaft would be one of the most fucking dangerous companies on the planet. Maybe you're an ms shill. You surely cannot be impartial, especially when you can hide behind an undisclosed moderator shield. Moderators, are in effect, anonymous, and some are cowards. They get to be because by design slashdot doesn't require nor allows moderators to JUSTIFY their actions.
Installing parking meters in residential areas is on SF's mind:
Cashing in with more parking meters:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/City-could-cash-in-with-more-parking-meters-51363987.html
"Residential areas are packing in more people The City is projected to take in more than 150,000 new residents in the next three decades and the need to manage traffic and parking availability is becoming a key concern for transportation planners, according to a new study by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority."
---------------
Exhaustive Parking Study
http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/07/21/sfcta-completes-exhaustive-parking-study-supervisors-delay-action/
"The study estimated there are more than 600,000 parking spaces in San Francisco, of which 320,000 are on-street and only 24,000 are regulated with parking meters. Residential parking permits (RPPs), as evidenced by the map above, have been added throughout the city in an ad-hoc fashion and in many areas are not synthesized with metered parking."
--------------
Bilkable Meters:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Electronic-city-parking-meters-are-easy-to-bilk-52402397.html
"The so-called e-parking meters installed in 2003 for around $25 million include features that are supposed to deter theft, according to manufacturer J.J. MacKay Canada.
But a trio of programmers and engineers say it took them only three days to create imposter cards that can offer free metered parking in The City.
Through computer code, the security researchers said they discovered how value is stored on the prepaid cards and were able to create fake cards valued at $999.99. They also found out how to create cards that wont deplete in value after being used."
... Will be buzzing, busy, DIZZY bees if they sip too much. Maybe a little MSG will give them the msg (message) to be sleepy...
msoft is involved with or actively and quietly coercing hardware manufacturers (especially consumer computers/laptops/cell phones/multipurpose devices capable of loading and usefully running Linux or non-windows apps/OSs), then i dare say that ms needs to be NUKED TO HELL by any and all means possible. I won't do it myself, but if an escrow account asking for money popped up, i would seriously consider donating a few dollars (unless the government turned me into a pussy wishing to avoid jail/prison time).
If they call it something like "Legal fund to put ms into restraints" (or, at least didn't use obvious terms that imply illegal plans to illegally depose ms once and for all), then i would imagine those in favor of crippling/knee-capping and skull-cracking ms the entity should be legally safe ... After all, there are all sorts of charities that are not under scrutiny (and some, for anti-terrorism reasons and banking irregularities/money laundering activities) in which a court might not find against an individual. I would imagine the perps would have to set up, operate, and account as a legitimate business... until the VERY END, when they hear that frackin' tune that switches Cylons on...
But, tell you what, I'd rather be a sleeper Cylon or turgid Hybrid water than yield to mshaft... If, only IF i had a magic wand with any wish available... of ALL the possible wishes, i'd even give up immortality to see a handful of companies pummel mshaft into permanent oblivion. It would force individuals, companies, and countries to pull ms' trunk out of their rear ends and take control of their computing landscape.
(Go ahead, mark me troll/flamebait/inflammatory/etc... At least this will get read.)
Tears running from my eyes...
"We keep our commitments."
Gods.... Like, did they keep commitments to deliver the vaporware they used to gas to death a slew of companies over the past 20+ years that offered an add-on to or superior product than ms' wares? That spokesperson must not have seriously studied ms' history, or is too enamored with the company to be honest about it.
I'm sure Chevy's "getting a charge" out of it somewhere downline... What will be the carrying capacity of the rolling electron?
Maybe you can tell me, but i cannot for the LIFE of me see how my above comment is flamebait. I think someone is going around back-modding me every time i wine about being screwed with. Somebody comes to my aid, reads my comment, points out a few things, or another comes along and neutralizes my score back to where it was before some jerk came along and slam-dunked it to hell. Then, ticked they see i'm monitoring my comments for feedback or scoring changes, the fraking childish ones go and screw with another comment. I wish slashdot had a monitoring system that looks out for these abuses and bans the ip or the user for a week, or longer.
Anyway...
I don't see anything in my commentary (and, it is my personal experience, and i don't see how anyone here is slashdot could refute or lambaste or critically pan my experience without accessing the email servers of openoffice.org from around 2000-2002...) that is flamebait.
I have in the past and even now will admit that Lotus and IBM are dropping the ball, but there have been and still are features in SmartSuite that beat the shocks off of oo.o. Unfortunately for S/S, the same is true. oo.o has a newer set of cleaned up code, less patent bullshit risks, and fresher eyes able to inspect the code to some greater degree than SmartSuite does. Also, i have in the past and concede now, too, that if Sun and IBM/Lotus put away their gauntlets/mauls/maces and merged the best features of their suites, they could then see what they and Google might do to pry msofts domineering, anti-competitive hands off the personal and office document suite software industry.
Kid gets beaten by asshole adults, beaten to death (not as if he tried to play superhero and fly from a cliff or such), and he gets mocked in a geek forum. I imagine slashdot's karma is taking some hits, too. There should be a moderation for "crass-assed humour"... I'd like to see each and every "funny" commentator and supporting moderator explain to the bereaved parents how they think this shit's funny. Imagine if one of YOUR kids or relatives got beaten to death, here in the US. You'd be out for blood. If *I* laughed, and poked fun at your pain, you'd (if endowed) hunt down every shred of info on me and begin a smear campaign, until the law caught up with you.
(Go ahead, mark it off-topic... I'm getting that lately...)
Fuck it. There is some SERIOUS assholery here. FUCK karma. I'm burning some, aiming flames whatever bast-itches targeting me.
George Washingtons and other people of the time...
Can i get a moderator (or rescuer) here? I am marked 0, redundant, and i cannot find a single post prior to 1136 that preceded my comment so as to make mine redundant.
Curious/Interestingly, there are TWO posts "kitty-porn" and neither is marked redundant.
Seems to me /. needs a tag for "report abuse". Seems i have been hit again by a foe.
Anyone care to remode me to just nothing instead of redundant? And, be on the lookout for abuses of others?
and you end up with a Pack-it (in) Storm.
I wonder if extreme latency, though will give longer TTL (time to live) for those shooting pics with TTL (thru the lens).
In any case, a barrage of packets would heap on "layers" of love.
Ask the cat (to the tune of the cat food commercial):
"What's NEW, PUSSYcat (not pussyCAT)"
"Chaow--chaowww-chaoowwww"
Deprive the cat of pussy flix and it my shit a cataleptic fit.
Depends on if the fatherboard was bored (by) the mother, or the motherboard was bored by the mother...
Somehow, we get daughterboards and daughter cards. So far, i haven't seen son-boards, or son cards...
Dependency on a bunch of "monkey business"... let the irony begin...
Oh, well, have you looked for the word? Why is it that you get to use your dislike for the world to mod two people off topic? Are you a "player hater"? Or, are you a pro-sco person hiding behind the lazy slashdot code that allows hit-and-run modding?
Looking at sco's conduct, and splaying their ass up in the air for microsoft to do ms' bidding, sco is (after ms) the LAST company topic for which boo-hoo off-topic-modding should be tolerated. Downward-trending scoring, maybe, but a slam-dunk off-topic? HELL NO.
to keep that SCOkenstein (SCO Frankenstein) ventilated.
If he thinks the company is beyond rehabilitation, then if the effer is brain or lung dead (mostly dead, not fully dead per submitter?), pull the plug. Why keep SCOkenstein writhing or huckin' and buckin' on 5 amps and 200 volts when the skull-cracked hodge-podge needs (or wants) to neck-suckle on 40 amps and 50,000 volts. It's just keeping open doors to the court and a drain on public resources. (Tell them to go find a power transmission tower, bite it, & blacken their asses like toast. Maybe SCO should get into the energy deliver business?) What's SCO anyway these days? Seems like a twig or tumbleweed blowing around trying to snag something, or an alien husk awaiting seminal insemination to resurrection. Right now, they've got their damned terminals reversed.
ANY interface in an office suite that Sun/OO.o should be copying, they need to pull their heads out of the sand and clone Lotus WordPro. It handles multiple documents in a superior way. If you have multiple, various-orientation/various sheet sized docs to handle, as divisions and sections, then WordPro would be IT. I have begged until i got sick of even trying to suggest any more yet they just don't seem to care. It's as if NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome is preferable to actually FIXING the GUI. OO.o needs
-- non-modal interfaces,
-- snappier/tighter icons,
-- better (more Lotus Approach-like) database
-- better multi-doc handling (get RID of the "rule line" separating docs and use LWP's tabbed interface, larger/thicker border to differentiate the docs
They would rather beat their heads against the wall than ape Word Pro or work constructively with Lotus/IBM. Sigh
Tho i don't have any intention of promoting ms, the OO.o Impress ribbon for some reason made me think way back to circa 1992 or 1994 and some of the jumbo-ish Word Perfect icons. If they were resizable, and if one could nest a few together under larger, more used buttons/icons, they'd almost look ribbon-ish, less the boundary/shadow effects.