I in fact DID NOT get a good deal on my new Sorny 52" plasma flat screen or my Magnetbox bluray player?

Wasn't terrible. Waited 1hr due to machine not wanting to accept ballots for like 20 minutes. Was in line behind an old, vocal harpy. She was easy to ignore in line, however when it was my turn to vote she got in the booth next to me. Her cell phone rang, she took the call and started an interesting conversation about how "Yeah, we gotta vote the President out! Oh, and for the OK Supreme Justices, we gotta vote them out too, they're all bad..." This went on for a few minutes, many of us around her telling her, "Ma'am, please don't do that." or "Please be quiet ma'am!" She was apparently part of some group here wanting to vote a certain way, no issues with that, but at least show the etiquette to not take the damned phone call in the booth!

Can someone humor me, but aren't there rules against this kind of behavior as it can be seen as electioneering?

How did you get the names of four of my eight bosses?!

The pancake/waffle breakfast, of which I invited all of /., now to be served with sides of bacon! Give me a few weeks, working on the coffee heist, errrrr, procurement process.

Depends, am I in Japan and how much have I been drinking?

Out of curiosity, rewarding them how? Their stock has been dropping, they're getting bad PR from ripping off other game ideas, and they seem to be the largest plague of spam on Facebook.They don't do social gaming. Asking me to give you X of something in WhateverVille is not being social. It's just begging. The messages are totally automated, so logging in every few weeks and seeing dozens of them is most annoying. Hell, I only have a few people on my Facebook friends list. I've had more social gaming experience with my friends playing paper football at TacoBell. At least then it's an activity with conversation mixed in. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Issuing invitation to all of /. for world's largest pancake and waffle breakfast! Bring your family, we have so much syrup to unload...

While I was not aware of this particular software, you've kinda missed the point. That point being accountants here seem to hate change, ANY change. It would be yet 'more software' I would have to convince corp. to allow us to install. Then there's the added cost of buying said software for all the accountants (Hint: This isn't a small shop). Plus, from the forums and rating system, the flavor of Office in use here (Office 2010) gets a bronze rating while Office 2000 gets a gold, understandable given it is 12 years old. The comments on using the add-ins system Excel uses with Crossover have me a little nervous given that the solution to many of the problems experienced are 'disable them'. Add-ins are somewhat vital to these accountants. There are some that actually ARE tech savvy. Then there are most of them who panic if a particular window does not look exactly like they remember it. I'm sure all this has been covered before in many many many previous posts of others who have juggled a similar idea.

I do appreciate knowing this exists though, thanks.

If you think this is the only issue, you've never seen an accountant freak out when you tell them, "Well, it's LIKE Excel..." Some of the tools won't work on anything else. Although I do see some of my supported software moving away from being an add-in to being a web based interface. Take it for what it is, just my own opinion formed from my somewhat limited anecdote.

Everything looks like a watermelon?

You mean the episode, The Drumhead?

Part of me thought that the story would at least involve Hot Pockets with a temperature range that high...

Does GEM count? When my father got me my first desktop computer that wasn't a hand me down from him, it was some off brand of 8088 machine that came with GEM OS. The hours of fun I had poking at, breaking it, reinstalling it and repeating the process all over again. Plus, you could play SimCity on that thing! If I remember right, it had color schemes, and all sorts of interesting (well, to me they were then) things to tinker with. I even remember Symantec defrag running on that machine, not sure if it ran from GEM though. Still something oddly calming about watching the lil boxes on the defrag status relay their actions as all your data gets put back into order...

What is GEM?

This message paid for by Coprophiliacs For a Brighter Tomorrow.