The question is not "Are tubes better?", but "Which sound better to you - EL84's or SLS's?"

Oh, and vinyl isn't distorted, it's compressed (so the needle won't jump out of the groove).

If you think ALL it is is a thin sheen of snot, then you're the one in denial.

Unnecessary validation: I'm a parent too :)

What about if you're using a goosegun?

Actually it goes way back to William the Conqueror.

It was a class thing, but not out of envy - the people who worked in the kitchens spoke French, so they used French words for everything they cooked (and presented out to the court as food). The common people - people who actually raised the animals, spoke English (as did most of the actual members of the court who were allowed to hunt), so they used English words for the names of the animals.

The dichotomy was absorbed into English like we've absorbed parts of pretty much every language.

There may be a bunch of things it can do well, but there are some it can't do at all. And when something as basic as handling .rtf files doesn't work properly 'out of the box' the program is still 'not ready for prime time'.

Yes, people still do use .rtf files: professional authors use them quite a bit actually.

I can easily imagine how this German town ran into similar problems along the way - maybe file formats, maybe localization, maybe something else.

Screw the politicians!

I want my Dr Pepper dammit, and I want to buy it in a size that will last me the whole trip while I run errands.
Laws like this serve no purpose other than to irritate the common citizen. People and going to drink what they
like, and it's not the governments job to tell me what I can and can't eat.

Thank the Goddess I live in a state where I can still get a medium rare cheeseburger. Just north of me is
a state that lets children drink a beer at a bar as long as their parent buys it and hands it to him. Hopefully
we'll get that one implemented soon.

Yeah, I get that obesity is a problem that ends up costing everybody because of the health care costs
involved. A much better solution would be to encourage people to exercise. The government loves to
build things (like more prisons), so let them build health clubs that people can join free of charge. Or
sponsor sports programs so adults can participate, rather than the current system where once you're
in high school you're only allowed to play if you're good at it and there's pretty much nothing after that.
Castro's an evil dude, but he got that right - we should copy Cuba's model of sports for everyone.

Now I'm going to go out and buy myself a Route 44 sized cup of Dr Pepper, cause all this writing
has tired me out and I need to get me some energy ;)

Actually, at the time the "wage" was set, I'm sure $5 was a decent days pay.

They just never adjusted the pay.

I served jury duty in New Jersey years ago.

The pay has never been raised in something like over a hundred years. You get $5 a day.

They keep you in a room with a small booth in the back that serves lunch. The hamburger, drink, and chips costs more than $5.

It's not just that you control people building houses and placing objects. The views, even (and especially) the music are VERY reminiscent of playing The Sims. The way you interact with items and other people. Not exactly, but very, very close. You've even got the Needs to take shower, wash hands, etc...

At best, it's a sim clone, the way Torchlight is a Fate/Diablo clone. At worst, it's infringement and Zynga is going to be zapped.

Same thing happened with Reagan and Schwarzenegger. I think Reagan was the first, or at least first major candidate where that became an issue.

He should start buying his poster hooks from walmart...

Mod this up.

What the article really says (I know, who ever RTFA?) is that if everyone lives at the same standard of living as those people in Britain, then we'll need 2 1/2 earths, or whatever that crazy number was.

Last I checked, most of the world (including India, where TFA was published it seems) lives at a considerably lower standard, consuming far less resources than the "representative sample" of Britons.

The article isn't news. It's more make believe than blaming Katrina on not signing Kyoto.

*shrug*

I use it now and then for simple stuff, but apparently it's the "standard" for writing submissions. Almost all the stuff she sends and receives, including from published authors - so it's not just an "amateur" thing, is in .rtf format.

When she told me that, I tried using OO to open some .rtf's I had on my computer - very simple documents, but with font and formating .txt won't save. They opened ok, but for each one OO created a 2nd file with a $xxxx name to go along with the original.

I knew the .doc format keeps changing. I didn't know the .rtf does (or does it?, looking at posts further down). Maybe the folks making OO don't think the format gets enough use to justify development time for it.

Call me crazy but I can see the conflict of interest. You fork a project to create a better version. LibreOffice and Open Office are directly competitive products. How many people do you think will use both?

I haven't heard much about LibreOffice before this, but I know I had to buy a copy of MS Office 2010 for my wife because Open Office mangles the .rtf files she sends and receives from other writers.

Hopefully one fork or the other will become standards compliant soon.