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  • Hard News: The Southern Apps,

    It isn't just shifting docs from one App to another, different versions of the same App

    Yes, but if I open up the backwards compatibility argument I might get shot. I guess god intended us to buy one Word Processor and use it for the rest of our lives, but forgot to tell the marketing department.

    It's perhaps a key difference between the OpenSource and the proprietary model. One upgrades while the other replaces.

    [Light tab and stand clear]

    You've mostly switched to what

    Umm, OpenOffice. Sorry, must be Smart-arse Monday.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Southern Apps,

    We have mostly switched to OpenOrifice, but given the majority of our documents, including 100s of SOPs, were written in Word, the formatting is all shot to hell. And reformatting Word tabs or bullets onto a new system is like having a tooth pulled without anaesthetic.

    Perhaps this is STO, but the majority of problems come from shifting docs from one App to another. If you use them as god intended, mostly they're lovely little cherubs.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Southern Apps,

    If there is a circle of hell for this heinous crime, I'm sure it's still several rungs farther from the bottom than the one where the designer of PowerPoint is going to be spend eternity.

    A Faust App?

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: Doing Science in Court,

    Frankly, I'd assume that's why French
    is the language of diplomacy...

    The language, maybe, but actions speak louder... and all that.

    Wherever I Roma
    I take my diploma
    for diplomats with a predilection
    for 'non-ethnic' eviction

    Yeah, right!

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Creepy Party,

    A round headed boar from Epsom
    was turning his party to jetsum
    His petulant bride
    was tanning his hide
    While he acted all jilted and fretsome.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Creepy Party,

    personally I think that is the exact position NZ could be taking - as a biological control zone (and possibly even in Antarctica)...

    Totally agree.

    In the mean time though, we are running out of Helium. That's it for party balloons, and steampunk dirigibles then.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: Doing Science in Court,

    Speaking of science and stuff, I don't remember it being this much fun.

    Check out photo 8 with Cornell's super computer for the 'Game Design' students. And number 13. Lightening by design.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Creepy Party,

    I am currently reading The Windup Girl, seems like
    a very possible future to me...

    Yes, I have been having nightmares since reading that, and then there was all this about the Russian Seed bank stuff. If anyone has a few spare billions, and some ships, we could relocate it to New Zealand maybe?

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2010:…,

    And how big the tie is. Note to self: Bring HUGE tie.

    I prefer a narrow tie, by 'n' large. Wait, what did I just walk into?

    What will I get if I wear a waist-coat and a pencil tie? Apart from thrown out.

    PS. All the best Jackie.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Creepy Party,

    The good
    * John Key seems to want to throw Act a lifeline.

    Can someone please explain to me in plain English what about this statement meets any definition of 'good'?

    Perhaps someone should show Mr Key this video.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

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