I would be surprised if they even bother to recompile Notepad between Windows versions. It's practically unchanged from the Windows 95 days.

IIRC you have to file even if you make as little as $900 per year.

The way to kill religion is to laugh and ridicule it to death. Violence just strengthens it.

You're talking about those floodlight-shaped CFLs, right? Those damn things take forever to warm up (the light starts near the base and takes a few seconds to reach the tip) but I've found putting regular instant-on CFLS in those fixtures works just as well. Regular CFLS usually start >50% brightness and warm up much faster.

that, plus any type of gas-discharge lamp gets way too hot to safely use indoors (outside of specially designed enclosures). Even the big high-bay lights with an open bulb have metal heat shields.

The only lamps I know of that can put out that much light are metal halide and HPS (neither of which are really designed for indoor use unless you have a big warehouse or box store to light up).

For me, CFLs have worked fine for years but I wish they would make giant LEDs you could screw in like regular light bulbs. Maybe LED technology doesn't work if you scale it up that much, I don't know for sure b/c it isn't my area of expertise. At least they have warmer color temperatures for white LEDs now.

Jesus. If a headhunter actually charges money then they better damn well guarantee (in writing!) that they will find you a GOOD job in your field or give you your money back.

Give us more tax breaks or we will wreck the economy again.

FTFY.

Don't you Americans have any basic right to privacy?

Nope. We have a bunch of fucking sociopaths running the corporate world these days. Another 10 years of this shit and we're all going to be stuck in some neo-dickensian nightmare. The only "people" who have rights anymore are the corporations. The rest of us are just cattle unless you happen to have a high-enough net worth.

Mod++ (if I had the points).

I swear, there's a bunch of goddamn prudes in this country (yet violence is ok for some reason). Sex is the most natural thing ever and nothing to be ashamed of.

Off the top of my head I know there's at least one Vim port for Windows (I forget what it's called but I had it installed years ago). If you're complaining that Windows doesn't give you anything comparable out of the box then you have a point.

Wordpad is a very stripped-down word processor, not a text editor (as unix/linux veterans understand the term). Have you ever opened a source file in Wordpad? It treats code like a regular document and the results are absolutely dreadful. Meanwhile, Notepad is god-awful as far as plain text editors go--it doesn't even understand Unix-style line breaks. If you want a decent text editor for Windows, I recommend Notepad++.

Perhaps this would be too steep if you are a grandmother with limited resources who only wants to create a single page note about a missing cat and print it for her nearest neighbors. As a business, you want to be as sure as it ever gets that the important proposal that you are writing will be correctly opened by the soliciting party. (In many cases editable Word documents are requested, not a PDF.)

This. Google docs and OpenOffice/Libreoffice are low-to-midrange tools. They are WAY better than *nothing* and much better than that stripped-down Wordpad tool that Windows gives you out of the box. I got through college just fine using OpenOffice and I still recommend it to people (if it's appropriate for their needs), but when something just has to work without problems I get the big tools out. MSOffice is professional grade and is what you use when nothing else will do.

I even take issue with the term Human Resources. Resources in an office context are computers, filing cabinets, copiers, etc. I'm a person, not a fucking resource! If management places people in the same category as furniture, then no wonder these companies are such god-awful places to work.