So in other words, you became rich by being a douchebag?

I simply do not care enough to spend 5 minutes figuring out how to do it. I would rather just use OpenOffice.

I figured there was some sort of way to do it, but nobody I asked knew how. Thanks for that tip.

The company I work at has Office installed on everyone's computer. I generally use Excel, since that's the default for spreadsheets on my PC (too lazy/apathetic to change it). However, whenever I have to deal with some complex data, I will always use Calc. Why?

I will log a bunch of program output from my software (such as memory allocations), and I want a simple way of sorting them by file and line number, then I can see the ones that I really want. I could write a tool for this of course, but I would rather take an extra minute to do it by hand, as this doesn't come up that much. But importing arbitrary data (not comma separated but separated by words/spaces/newlines/various) is a pain in the ass in Excel. It involves saving it out as a txt file then importing. Calc will simply pop up a box asking what your delimiters are.

I've never had Calc crash on me, and I honestly don't know what the problem is. In fact, I've never seen any reason to use Office over OpenOffice. Granted, I spend more of my day in Notepad++ than Office, but still. People keep citing macros, but that just seems like an abomination to me anyway. Good riddance.

If I were the person who made this app, I would be attempting to put together a viral video RIGHT NOW where that actually happens, and why people need my app.

What conceivable use is this to a terrorist? I've been considering this for a few minutes now. My kneejerk reaction was that the government is being fucking stupid. Then I pondered on exactly how knowing which plane is which is at all helpful. Any ideas anyone? Perhaps I'm focusing too much on the hijacking scenario, and someone could use it to select a target for a SAM. But that just doesn't seem likely, since I would think you would already know your target if you go through the trouble of bringing a SAM to an airport.

Troll Review:

Believability: 1/10. I would have given you a zero, except I notice one comment here that seems to think it's a legitimate point.

Humour: 6/10. The punch line was honestly not expected, and elicited a smile from me. But it would need a bit more work to truly be hilarious.

Anger response: 4/10. A fairly good natured troll. It does little to incite anger, but I think that if you worked on it a bit more and made the story more plausible, you could be a real contender, inciting hundreds of flames.

Overall: 5/10. A nice effort, but a little too obvious, and the punchline just wasn't enough, given the length of the post. The punchline could have been delivered in one simple paragraph.

Ah, yes. In that case then, I'm still waiting for proper 3D acceleration. (I used to use an ATi card with the open source ATi drivers. They weren't THAT terrible, but still really slow).

I work in video games. That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. This is obvious trolling, so I won't bother with a deep response, but porting from D3D to OpenGL (or vice versa), is fairly straightforward. A much bigger problem is different CPU and memory architecture that makes porting a pain in the ass, as well as different first party requirements.

My nVidia video card supports OpenGL 3.1 in Linux. I don't have a 4.0 capable card unfortunately, but yes, the drivers are out there.

It's advertising. I'm making a simple game right now that's taken me all of 5 evenings, using entirely open source software. I haven't played XONG, but the technology doesn't look all that advanced. My own code is composed of a few simple libraries:

Ogre (Graphics)
Lua (Scripting)
ToLua (Script Bindings)
OpenAL (Audio)

All of this is open source, and aside from OpenAL is a BSD or similar license. I could probably release my code right now, after 5 days of work, and let users have their own sandbox to play in (it's only really good for 1 type of game... but still). I would, but I don't feel like dealing with my employer about whether I am/am not allowed to do so, and it's easy to reproduce anyway.

This seems like a good idea, but I honestly can't see it being anything but advertising.

Someone is certainly full of themselves.

It's true that I rent. But that doesn't change anything. I don't see how I have the right to impose my rules on my neighbors. So long as they aren't dumping anything on my lawn, I don't see what the problem is. And quite honestly, I would be the person with the uncut lawn that everyone bitches about.

But you know what? If someone came over and asked me to cut my lawn and remove whatever garbage I had on it, so that they could get extra money for their house, I would do it for a while. It would be even less of a problem if they did it for me. Because I quite honestly don't care, they are the ones who care.

But if they were to call the authorities and attempt to get the city to force me to do it because they didn't like looking at my lawn? That's when I would put on the war paint.

People need to stop worrying about what the fuck their neighbors do. It's their land, they are free to do whatever they want with it. So the hell what if your resale value goes down?