Maybe you can tell me, but i cannot for the LIFE of me see how my above comment is flamebait. I think someone is going around back-modding me every time i wine about being screwed with. Somebody comes to my aid, reads my comment, points out a few things, or another comes along and neutralizes my score back to where it was before some jerk came along and slam-dunked it to hell. Then, ticked they see i'm monitoring my comments for feedback or scoring changes, the fraking childish ones go and screw with another comment. I wish slashdot had a monitoring system that looks out for these abuses and bans the ip or the user for a week, or longer.

Anyway...

I don't see anything in my commentary (and, it is my personal experience, and i don't see how anyone here is slashdot could refute or lambaste or critically pan my experience without accessing the email servers of openoffice.org from around 2000-2002...) that is flamebait.

I have in the past and even now will admit that Lotus and IBM are dropping the ball, but there have been and still are features in SmartSuite that beat the shocks off of oo.o. Unfortunately for S/S, the same is true. oo.o has a newer set of cleaned up code, less patent bullshit risks, and fresher eyes able to inspect the code to some greater degree than SmartSuite does. Also, i have in the past and concede now, too, that if Sun and IBM/Lotus put away their gauntlets/mauls/maces and merged the best features of their suites, they could then see what they and Google might do to pry msofts domineering, anti-competitive hands off the personal and office document suite software industry.

Kid gets beaten by asshole adults, beaten to death (not as if he tried to play superhero and fly from a cliff or such), and he gets mocked in a geek forum. I imagine slashdot's karma is taking some hits, too. There should be a moderation for "crass-assed humour"... I'd like to see each and every "funny" commentator and supporting moderator explain to the bereaved parents how they think this shit's funny. Imagine if one of YOUR kids or relatives got beaten to death, here in the US. You'd be out for blood. If *I* laughed, and poked fun at your pain, you'd (if endowed) hunt down every shred of info on me and begin a smear campaign, until the law caught up with you.

(Go ahead, mark it off-topic... I'm getting that lately...)

Fuck it. There is some SERIOUS assholery here. FUCK karma. I'm burning some, aiming flames whatever bast-itches targeting me.

George Washingtons and other people of the time...

Can i get a moderator (or rescuer) here? I am marked 0, redundant, and i cannot find a single post prior to 1136 that preceded my comment so as to make mine redundant.

Curious/Interestingly, there are TWO posts "kitty-porn" and neither is marked redundant.

Seems to me /. needs a tag for "report abuse". Seems i have been hit again by a foe.

Anyone care to remode me to just nothing instead of redundant? And, be on the lookout for abuses of others?

and you end up with a Pack-it (in) Storm.

I wonder if extreme latency, though will give longer TTL (time to live) for those shooting pics with TTL (thru the lens).

In any case, a barrage of packets would heap on "layers" of love.

Ask the cat (to the tune of the cat food commercial):

"What's NEW, PUSSYcat (not pussyCAT)"

"Chaow--chaowww-chaoowwww"

Deprive the cat of pussy flix and it my shit a cataleptic fit.

Depends on if the fatherboard was bored (by) the mother, or the motherboard was bored by the mother...

Somehow, we get daughterboards and daughter cards. So far, i haven't seen son-boards, or son cards...

Dependency on a bunch of "monkey business"... let the irony begin...

Oh, well, have you looked for the word? Why is it that you get to use your dislike for the world to mod two people off topic? Are you a "player hater"? Or, are you a pro-sco person hiding behind the lazy slashdot code that allows hit-and-run modding?

Looking at sco's conduct, and splaying their ass up in the air for microsoft to do ms' bidding, sco is (after ms) the LAST company topic for which boo-hoo off-topic-modding should be tolerated. Downward-trending scoring, maybe, but a slam-dunk off-topic? HELL NO.

to keep that SCOkenstein (SCO Frankenstein) ventilated.

If he thinks the company is beyond rehabilitation, then if the effer is brain or lung dead (mostly dead, not fully dead per submitter?), pull the plug. Why keep SCOkenstein writhing or huckin' and buckin' on 5 amps and 200 volts when the skull-cracked hodge-podge needs (or wants) to neck-suckle on 40 amps and 50,000 volts. It's just keeping open doors to the court and a drain on public resources. (Tell them to go find a power transmission tower, bite it, & blacken their asses like toast. Maybe SCO should get into the energy deliver business?) What's SCO anyway these days? Seems like a twig or tumbleweed blowing around trying to snag something, or an alien husk awaiting seminal insemination to resurrection. Right now, they've got their damned terminals reversed.

ANY interface in an office suite that Sun/OO.o should be copying, they need to pull their heads out of the sand and clone Lotus WordPro. It handles multiple documents in a superior way. If you have multiple, various-orientation/various sheet sized docs to handle, as divisions and sections, then WordPro would be IT. I have begged until i got sick of even trying to suggest any more yet they just don't seem to care. It's as if NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome is preferable to actually FIXING the GUI. OO.o needs

-- non-modal interfaces,
-- snappier/tighter icons,
-- better (more Lotus Approach-like) database
-- better multi-doc handling (get RID of the "rule line" separating docs and use LWP's tabbed interface, larger/thicker border to differentiate the docs

They would rather beat their heads against the wall than ape Word Pro or work constructively with Lotus/IBM. Sigh

Tho i don't have any intention of promoting ms, the OO.o Impress ribbon for some reason made me think way back to circa 1992 or 1994 and some of the jumbo-ish Word Perfect icons. If they were resizable, and if one could nest a few together under larger, more used buttons/icons, they'd almost look ribbon-ish, less the boundary/shadow effects.

A bunch of mad people's paid-off stooges grant this stuff. Just as you indicated the prior art methods, it is unbelievable that the USPTO is THIS damned "overwhelmed". There should be a moratorium on all new tech patents issuance having applications dating back to, oh, say 2004, and a (public) review of all tech patents involved in anti-competitive activities dating from 1992 forward.

How can these "people" in that company suing Twitter even DARE bring themselves forward to sue. It is incredibly easy for database tools such as Lotus Approach, Borland/Corel/et al Paradox, ms' access, the various CRM tools build in LAMP/AMP, and more, and much of it is just plain common sense-enabled after a couple of hours of wrangling out a basic set of parameters.

-- User goes to browser/input device

-- user enters some tidbit of info

-- designated input triggers response to an action list (isn't this starting to sound like JIT product manufacturing/tracking, say, Expandable?)

-- action triggers reports to cognizant persons in the various departments, the vendors/suppliers/contract manufacturers outside the company, AP/AR handle the cost accounting/other accounting/inventory matters....

Expandable is from AT LEAST 1999, and we used it when i was a 400-person company from 1997-1999 and it got replaced by Oracle stuff. PeopleSoft ALONE had a massive set of tools for doing such things. We even used Vantive, which got knocked off from our company when that fiber optic company and their ORCA/Oracle slayers came in and ruthlessly waged battle internally in OUR CONFERENCE ROOMS to purge things like Expandable, Vantive, and other internally-built databases.

Techwhatever from Texas will probably be found to be a patent troll because other business model attempts aren't so rosy these days.

to send them crash/bug information.