Comment Re:Wrods for mare mortals (Score 4, Funny) 364
no amount of marketing money would make a name like GIMP gain wide acceptance.
So... you're saying I should reevaluate my KDE Ultimate Network Tool then?
no amount of marketing money would make a name like GIMP gain wide acceptance.
So... you're saying I should reevaluate my KDE Ultimate Network Tool then?
1) Make selection
2) Open "Image" menu in main menubar
3) Click "Crop to Selection"
It's even easier than that these days:
Done in two. I have no idea why OP is having such a difficult time.
At my local grocery store, they sell three different types of bananas: "standard" (49c/lb), organic (79c/lb) and fair trade (89c/lb). Without some form of labelling, the cashier cannot distinguish between the types.
Of course, the self-checkout lanes make this entire argument almost moot...
You know, I used to think it was solely an OpenOffice.org issue, and while the application certainly could be snappier and less bloated in some areas, I don't think it's nearly as bad as people make it out to be.
As the only Computer Science teacher at my high school, I often inherit lots of older hardware. The other day our local technician gave me three old Celeron 600MHz laptops that he was just going to throw in the trash. I decided to turn them into workstations for my students who did not have easy access to computers at home. As they were slow machines, I set them up with a basic Ubuntu install running IceWM -- it runs quite snappy, and is a bit more user-friendly than say DSL.
I considered installing AbiWord for a word processor, but chose OO.o mainly because we have it installed on the school servers anyway. The result? It takes about 6-7 seconds to load up, and responds quite well. As a point of comparison, the 2GHz Pentium 4 machines running XP and Word in our department office launch Word in approximately 5-6 seconds, so it's pretty much on par.
I know that OO.o is a beast sometimes, but my experiences have been fairly positive.
I know you were going for funny, but in reality Jeopardy never uses one(or two)-word answers.
They often do, but they're typically framed within a narrow, specific category. For example, the category might me "National Drinks" or some such thing. Typical Q/As might be Japan (Sake), Russia (Vodka), and so forth. Jeapoardy! also has a few other categories (anagrams, for example) that frequently use one or two words.
If you are sick on a Friday or Monday...
I frequently hear this argument, but it presupposes a truly "random" sick day. I suspect that the dates are indeed biased, with more people being "sick" on a Monday or Friday. I know that would certainly be my choice.
Somewhat related, it's like flipping a coin 999 times and coming up heads each time. What is the probability that it will come up heads again? If it was truly random, the probability would be 50%. More likely, however, the coin is weighted on one side and biased toward heads. Bias is definitely a factor.
He who has but four and spends five has no need for a wallet.