Comment Re:Low Hanging Fruit (Score 1) 349
How would I check what goes wrong when my email server dies (which is what actually happened to me this morning)? I'm basically locked out forever.
How would I check what goes wrong when my email server dies (which is what actually happened to me this morning)? I'm basically locked out forever.
6 attacks and both have airtight alibis?
They both don't need airtight alibis - if one of them as an airtight alibi, then both can use it, since they're identical....
Not really. Identical twins may be identical to strangers, but close friends and family can easily distinguish the two.
Safari uses webkit, and testing in chromium will usually suffice (I haven't come across safari-specific issues that can't be reproduced in chromium either).
And, yeah, sure, one of my development laptops has 1GiB RAM, another is a PowerPC. I can't even run a windoze VM there. I wouldn't do it if I could either.
So 90% of your time is spend writing things like "document.getElementById()"?
The problem with IE is that it's hard to test, since both IE and Trident are not available for most platforms.
Out of all the PCs where I work and at home, none run windows, so it's not easy to test IE, while I can test Chrom{e,ium}, Firefox, Opera, etc on almost any desktop OS.
Unless you're a stock holder, or trying to increase sales of Office 365.
What a humorous example! I've run into numerous stereos that have an antitheft feature where it requires a code after losing power. Some dealerships will provide the code for free, most won't. The real bad ones demand that you bring the car in for service and pay an hour of labor. Sometimes the code was provided to the original owner of the car, sometimes not. Good luck finding it, you're not supposed to keep it in the car.
Is sounds to me that you should demand this code when you buy your car, and go to the next dealer if they'll deny it.
This was my exact first thought.
How do you define "device"?
Is it a new one when I change the Motherboard? CPU? Video card? Monitor? Keyboard? Who draws the line?
Wow, bet you haven't ever paid for a magazine then, or a newspaper, or how about cable television? The ads are allowing big companies to subsidize your gold subscription. You're welcome.
Cable TV used to be ad-free, that's what the original idea was. Plenty of newspapers are free, and those with a cost are dirt cheap.
How many people in this list would pirate instead of pay.
Not just pirate. I only use MSO for looking at funny PPT/PPS I get by email or some *.doc file once a year. I'd never have installed any office suite if it cost me anything at all.
Software AND hardware costs about twice the price in third world countries, it DEFINITELY does not cost less.
I have. It's a WONTFIX, since the interest of LO developers is to attract as many MSO users as possible.
You may not be aware, but that is correct behavior.
The correct behaviour for software I use, is for me to be able to control how it behaves, not for MS to dictate how I should use it.
IMHO, OpenID is better. Whether google is trustworthy or not is a matter of opinion, and google can be just another OpenID provider. If we want a single provider, the world will never settle for a single trusted entity.
Sadly, they departed too much from their OpenOffice origins.
As a former OO user (who never really used MSO), I find LO very alienating. There are some stupid features that annoy me to a point where it becomes unusable.
Here's a really stupid, but extremely annoying example:
OO opened ".pps" files in impress, so I could quickly view attachments from my email client and quickly scroll through them.
LO attempts to imitate MSO by opening them only in a fullscreenviewer, with transitions and music (which I'd rather avoid). There is no way to go back to the OO behaviour. The path is now:
1) save file to RW disk.
2) rename file
3) open renamed file.
The worst part isn't the change in default, but the fact that there is no option to go back to OO behaviours. Sure, MSO users feel more at home, but OO users feel they're using some new, wierd office suite they don't quite understand.
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.