That Shelley Long and Jude Law lived together in the 1970s and had an Apple II in their kitchen? Even one of those magical ones that doesn't even need cables to work!

It's from the 1960s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier

What size we are talking about here. I don't know about you, I don't know offhand the "real" size of the Enterprise.

From wiki:

Length 642.5 Meters

Width 467.0 Meters

Height 137.5 Meters

This is not trivial. There are no structural integrity fields in the real world. 150M$ for that? Doubtful.

I was about to mention mumetal, but its claim to fame is very high permeability. It doesn't repel magnetic fields, it Shamwows them. I suppose if the mumetal is saturated from the inside, then it doesn't hide the object from an external field. Although it takes a lot to saturate properly treated mumetal.

Old man story time. My Tektronix 547 CRT oscilloscope has its CRT encased in a mumetal shield. I got a powerful magnet and put it on the side of the case, the trace didn't budge at all. Great stuff. Of course, mumetal loses its properites if it's dinged, deformed or otherwise mechanically abused.

You make it sound like I owe my time to Libre Office when they can't even count 1 2 3 4 5. It's the other way around. You deign to release an office suite? Test the fucker first.

Who said it was a MS Word template? Making stuff up is pretty lame too. It was a odt template, FYI.

How DARE you! But seriously, all these problems typically pop up on Friday afternoons with looming deadlines. Who has the energy to start Googling for half an hour for what should be basic functionality?

Sorry, but Libre Office is an unusable mess.

1) Trying to update it. The updater complains about the quickstarter still running and it exits. It doesn't tell you what that is, or how to turn it off, or even present you with the choice of turning it off. So now what do I do? Any answer other than "Libre Office messed up the update process" is why Apple has too much money while the open source geeks are perceived as smelly losers.

2) Try to use Writer as anything more than a notepad? Forget it. I loaded our company's template that uses heading styles. It already had four headings which Writer numbers automatically 1 2 3 4. Fine. So I add another heading, expecting it to be "5". Is it 5? Of course not. Writer numbers my new heading as "2" with not a damn thing I can do about it. Does no one check the code for basic things here?

3) Try to use the export as PDF? You better check that PDF because if you think that in 2012 we are 20 years beyond WYSIWYG, think again. Export as PDF exported a mess with every single letter replaced with various-sized dots. Jesus wept, my Commodore 64 running GEOS outperforms that. And don't you DARE say there's something wring with my system becasue using a PDF print driver worked flawlessly.

So Intel, what are you gonna do about this?

So, asking a valid question to clarify the OP's statements, with a cheap Star Trek reference thrown in is a "troll" around here now? No wonder I never post anymore.

"Do you know how damned fussy and temperamental some of these machines were to start with?"

No, I don't Hairyfeet. Why don't you enlighten us? Name a few, and what was fussy and temperamental about them? And also please, define precisely what you meant by those terms. The computer not responding when you talk into the mouse doesn't count.