At 08:23 PM Wednesday 4/23/2008, jon louis mann wrote:
Doesn't take much disruption in the supply chain to cause havoc.
Petrol in Melbourne is now $1.51 a litre (USD1.43 a litre, or about
$5.70 a gallon).
Charlie.
here in the usa, people will manage; poverty in america is wealth in
africa. it
So... I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of what
I used to do because I can't find anything. They seem to have succeeded in
making it harder to use.
The most bizarre thing is that I cannot find the Help menu anywhere. My
wife, who was forced into this particular torture
At 10:05 AM Thursday 4/24/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people that their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
Digital TV, frex?
. . . ronn! :)
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At 10:05 AM Thursday 4/24/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
So... I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of what
I used to do because I can't find anything. They seem to have succeeded in
making it harder to use.
The most bizarre thing is that I cannot find the Help menu anywhere.
On 4/24/08, Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:05 AM Thursday 4/24/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people that their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
Digital TV, frex?
The one that really gets me is razor blades.
Does
On 4/24/08, Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people that their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
Digital TV, frex?
Isn't digital TV an entirely new product? Or are you suggesting
everyone has cable already so it is
Nick Arnett wrote:
So... I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of what
I used to do because I can't find anything. They seem to have succeeded in
making it harder to use.
The most bizarre thing is that I cannot find the Help menu anywhere. My
wife, who was forced into
If you go to the Powell's website, you'll find a blurb for a book which
described in detail how the author's family lived on potatoes and bland,
processed (or packaged) products scavenged... during one spell of poverty.
Enjoy them, mashed, fried, and mixed with onions.
On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:21 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 10:05 AM Thursday 4/24/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
The whole point of using drop-down menus in a GUI is to be table to
slide the cursor across them and immediately see what's available.
Somebody in Redmond apparently thought they were
Reality check.
Coal power is about 0.04 cents / kWh
I'm in the solar biz. The reality is:
Orbital stations are operational for 100% of the time. Earthbound stations
are operational at most 50% of the time (because of the day/night cycle).
But orbital stations cost a LOT more to get going. This
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people that
their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
The one that really gets me is razor blades.
Does anyone really need 5 blades vibrated by a small motor to shave?
Is the new Gillette FusionPower Phenom with 5 blades and onboard
It _is_ an improvement, if you give it a chance. Where over the years
the Menus became nearly non-sensical containers of cruft (what was the
difference between the old Edit menu and Tools or Insert?
schnipp
I'm a software engineer, and I hate the new ribbon interface -- yet it's
pervasive:
Curtis Burisch wrote:
This kinda backfired, where I'm from. Sensor II razor was so popular they
were forced to continue selling the blades ever after. I'm on a 15 year old
razor, buying a blade every 2 months. The modern innovations do not impress.
I give gilette like around a dollar a month,
Yah well I'm as I said an IT pro, so the beardy look doesn't quite cut it.
Much as I'd love to live on pemmican in the appalacians for the rest of my
life, things just aren't that simple. So go figure. Clean shaven gets me a
nearly US-equivalent salary in a third-world country, and I'm not about
Curtis Burisch wrote:
It _is_ an improvement, if you give it a chance. Where over the years
the Menus became nearly non-sensical containers of cruft (what was the
difference between the old Edit menu and Tools or Insert?
schnipp
I'm a software engineer, and I hate the new ribbon
On 24 Apr 2008, at 19:31, Curtis Burisch wrote:
Yah well I'm as I said an IT pro, so the beardy look doesn't quite
cut it.
Much as I'd love to live on pemmican in the appalacians for the rest
of my
life, things just aren't that simple. So go figure. Clean shaven
gets me a
nearly
So, KR and frikkin Ken Thompson FTW. So? Is there a point forthcoming??
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of William T Goodall
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:08 PM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Subject: Re: What were they
If you go to the Powell's website, you'll find a blurb for a book which
described in detail how the author's family lived on potatoes and
bland, processed (or packaged) products scavenged... during one spell
of poverty. Enjoy them, mashed, fried, and mixed with onions.
- Original Message -
From: Curtis Burisch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion' brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:24 AM
Subject: RE: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)
Gillete's dictum : give away the razors, charge the hell out of 'em
At 01:08 PM Thursday 4/24/2008, Dave Land wrote:
On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:21 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 10:05 AM Thursday 4/24/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
Vi is easier than this.
;)
If only because nobody makes money from vi, it hasn't been fscked-
around with over the years. If you
At 01:24 PM Thursday 4/24/2008, Curtis Burisch wrote:
Gillete's dictum : give away the razors, charge the hell out of 'em for the
blades.
Copied by Lexmark (among others).
. . . ronn! :)
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 4/24/08, Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:05 AM Thursday 4/24/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people that their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
Digital TV, frex?
The
At 10:33 AM Thursday 4/24/2008, you wrote:
On 4/24/08, Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people that their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
Digital TV, frex?
Isn't digital TV an entirely new product? Or are you
On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Curtis Burisch wrote:
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people
that
their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
The one that really gets me is razor blades.
Does anyone really need 5 blades vibrated by a small motor to shave?
Is the
At 10:33 AM Thursday 4/24/2008, you wrote:
On 4/24/08, Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people that their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
Digital TV, frex?
Isn't digital TV an entirely new product? Or are you
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Curtis Burisch wrote:
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people
that
their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
The one that really gets me is razor blades.
This reminds me of two multi-bladed-razor bits of comedy:
The first is a commercial by Philips for their Coolskin 2005 electric,
which begins with a fake ad for Quintippio with 15 blades.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV42I26tx2s
The second is an Onion piece, F*** Everything, We're Doing
Charlie Bell wrote:
Petrol in Melbourne is now $1.51 a litre (USD1.43 a litre, or about
$5.70 a gallon).
Petrol (gasoline) in Rio de Janeiro is now (and for many months)
about R$ 2.70 a litre (about USD 1.625 a litre), of which 25% is
ethanol and 50% are taxes. And food prices are rising
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, jon louis mann wrote:
This reminds me of two multi-bladed-razor bits of comedy:
The first is a commercial by Philips for their Coolskin 2005 electric,
which begins with a fake ad for Quintippio with 15 blades.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV42I26tx2s
The second
Nick Arnett wrote:
So... I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of
what I used to do because I can't find anything. They seem to have
succeeded in making it harder to use.
And you don't even have to handle the mistranslations of the commands.
The idiots that translated
At 03:18 PM Thursday 4/24/2008, Dave Land wrote:
On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Curtis Burisch wrote:
What else is like this... endless upgrades to convince people
that
their
perfectly good old product is obsolete?
The one that really gets me is razor blades.
Does anyone really
(Subject line corrected to more accurately fit the
corporate/government mindset.)
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So... I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of
what
I used to do because I can't find anything. They seem to have succeeded
in
making it harder to use.
I can't find it now, but IIRC Penny Arcade's Tycho wrote saying that he
found the new Office interface so beautiful he
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Ronn! Blankenship
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. I'm talking about people like Nick's little old lady, whom
(I'm guessing) does not have cable (If not her specifically, there
are millions like her who don't.) and who has to sometime in the next
9.5 months
On 24 Apr 2008 at 8:05, Nick Arnett wrote:
So... I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of what
I'd suggest upgrading further to Open Office, it's less of a change
in UI from Office 2003 and costs less.
AndrewC
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On 24 Apr 2008 at 11:37, Max Battcher wrote:
* The PDF Exporter (Save As PDF) for Office 2007 is a free download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041displaylang=en
(Adobe blocked it from the out of box install, which to me is a
On 22 Apr 2008 at 8:38, Nick Arnett wrote:
As David Brin observed in The Transparent Society, research has shown that
self-righteous people are high on endorphins.
And romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from severe
obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Andrew
Dawn Falcon
Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 24 Apr 2008 at 8:05, Nick Arnett wrote:
So... I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of what
I'd suggest upgrading further to Open Office, it's less of a change
in UI from Office 2003 and costs less.
...and does half as much.
On 24 Apr 2008 at 20:18, Max Battcher wrote:
Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 24 Apr 2008 at 8:05, Nick Arnett wrote:
So... I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of
what
I'd suggest upgrading further to Open Office, it's less of a change
in UI from Office 2003
Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 24 Apr 2008 at 20:18, Max Battcher wrote:
Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 24 Apr 2008 at 8:05, Nick Arnett wrote:
So... I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of
what
I'd suggest upgrading further to Open Office, it's less of a change
in UI
On 25/04/2008, at 4:19 AM, Curtis Burisch wrote:
Reality check.
I'm a proponent of earthbound CPV systems, and am actively seeking
investment in my particular design. I know this industry inside and
out, and
can tell you straight out that orbital power gen systems will simply
not
fly,
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 25/04/2008, at 4:19 AM, Curtis Burisch wrote:
Reality check.
I'm a proponent of earthbound CPV systems, and am actively seeking
investment in my particular design. I know this industry inside and
out, and
can tell you straight out that orbital
Max Battcher wrote:
...
YMMV, but for me there I get a huge dissonance from OO.org and many of
the things that I rely on in Office simply cannot be found. Not to
start a flame war, but I could probably name a bunch of little pet
...
Max--
It may well be a matter of what features one is
At 09:14 PM Thursday 4/24/2008, David Hobby wrote:
Max Battcher wrote:
...
YMMV, but for me there I get a huge dissonance from OO.org and many of
the things that I rely on in Office simply cannot be found. Not to
start a flame war, but I could probably name a bunch of little pet
...
Max--
Petrol (gasoline) in Rio de Janeiro is now (and for many months) about R$
2.70 a litre (about USD 1.625 a litre), of which 25% is ethanol and 50% are
taxes. And food prices are rising obscenely, despite the fact that we are net
exporters of food. It's a blessing that 1st world countries put so
I gave up on razors 17 years ago -- the last time I used one, I cut a
lovely little gash in my ankle the night before a job interview. :P
Julia
i use a rotary norelco when in a hurry, and when its power pack gives
up the ghost, i buy the newest latest model. cheaper than repair and i
get
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, jon louis mann wrote:
I gave up on razors 17 years ago -- the last time I used one, I cut a
lovely little gash in my ankle the night before a job interview. :P
Julia
i use a rotary norelco when in a hurry, and when its power pack gives
up the ghost, i buy the
My pits get stinky a lot less quickly if I shave them, and if I'm going to run
around bare-legged a lot, some folks find it more appealing if they're shaved.
(I shave my legs only for other people, I shave my pits for myself.)
Julia
and thank you for that, being american i have been
Coal power is about 0.04 cents / kWh
Whoops. That was supposed to be 4 cents / kWh.
I also neglected to mention the following stats that may be of interest:
Power in earth orbit: 1300 W/m^2
Power at earth surface: 1000 W/m^2
Regards,
Curtis.
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, jon louis mann wrote:
My pits get stinky a lot less quickly if I shave them, and if I'm going
to run around bare-legged a lot, some folks find it more appealing if
they're shaved. (I shave my legs only for other people, I shave my pits
for myself.)
Julia
and
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sounds like the school district is not allowing religion to be an
excuse for
inappropriate teaching.
Um. *blink* I'm talking about the school kids and parents supporting
the teacher's bad (and, um, probably criminal)
On 25/04/2008, at 2:46 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Sounds like the school district is not allowing religion to be an
excuse for
inappropriate teaching.
Um. *blink* I'm talking about the school kids and parents supporting
the teacher's bad (and, um, probably criminal) behaviour.
Point
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