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http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1242089/thumbs/o-GLADIATOR-2000-facebook.jpg
(thanks @RaceProUK for reminding my of my GIS duties)
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Really? Either he had to blow her up, in which case I doubt she'd be too worried about a late phone call, or I can only assume his relationship was quite short!
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Seems to have been fixed...
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FP has been broken for days - what's with that? All articles have "0 Comments - Last Comment @ -none-", and nothing under Sidebar WTF. It could just be me, but how?..
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I kind of hope that 2014 was hard coded in the FP code somewhere.
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Sorry, me not good English. Me promise be better following time.
give this guy a nice welcoming badge
Filed under: Translation Server Error
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FTFY
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Filed under: I admit I've wasted too much of my life watching this channel.
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Believe me, I know how bad that game is.
I know all... too... well...
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How many furs are there in a metric furlong?
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One. And it's long.
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TRWTF is that MS Office programs can already save documents as .pdf out of the box since Office 2010, and via a free official add-on in Office 2007.
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I suspect it was a proprietary app but the actual app and format weren't specified, so probably it was changed to Word to make it make sense. A lot of the submissions are missing crucial information like that.
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Actually, it was a quite old submission, pre-2010 IIRC. So it's not unlikely that they needed a converter.
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That'd do it too :)
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This article clearly needs background music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbBB1j5qAFs
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that needs to go in the songs thread!
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Except that it's on topic here seeing as how it's the Papers, Please theme song.
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allow me to be clearer. then.
:-D
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A Metric tonne, obviously.
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It's also not really unbelievable for a federal institution of some distant country to be stuck on Office 2003, even today ...
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Are they using floppies?
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I still have 2003 on a couple machines. Why? Because my 2010 licenses are in use on other machines. As far as my use, nothing new has been added to word/excel/access since 2003. Sure, the
ribbon was forced down our throatsUI has changed, but the functionality I need is the same.Admin
It is a good word "furlong". But not as fun as "furbelow" which unfortunately doesn't mean what you really wish it meant.
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You shut up. The ribbon is mostly a lot better.
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what ribbon?
did they do something to my keyboard shortcuts?
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I've gotten used to it. Still takes me way longer to find seldom used features.
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Around here, a tonne is a commonly used amount of money. Dates back from when guilder coins were made of silver - a 1 guilder coin would weigh exactly 10 grammes, hence a tonne's weight of guilders was ƒ100.000,- . The name stuck with the euro transition.
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That is true of everything. But if it becomes true after you get used to it, then it was already true and you just didn't know it.
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In Office. (And Win8 Explorer - but here, I do find it easier to use.)
Don't know - I only use the very simple ctrl+B, ctrl+S, etc.
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Well, sure. That's because (say it with me) it's optimized for commonly-used features.
But, as I'm sure you know, the design goal was also to get rid of having to guess between 3 or 4 different methods (task panes or whateve they were called, the tool bar, the menu, I think there was something else) if you didn't know how to invoke something. Now you know it's always on the ribbon.
I know they talked at first about a "smart" ribbon (I keep typoing that as riboon) that would adjust itself to what you used, so that that moved up to be easier to find, like the Office 2003 (?) personalized menus, but I don't use it enough to know if they actually did that or not.
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Enjoy your :crossed_flags:
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That's the only worse idea than the smart menus they implemented.
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office has a ribbon?
news to me. i just learned the keyboard shortcuts...
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Hah. I thought you were joking.
It's had a ribbon since 2007 or 2010, I forget which. The ribbon was invented for Office, and then added to Windows in general.
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The fact that the keyboard shortcuts all appear over their icons on the ribbon when you hit Alt is nice, too.
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i was, kinda.
i unpin it so it rolls up out of the way and lets me do my work. i almost never need to use it becauuse i'm not doing typesetting in word (i use [image] to typeset) and i use the keyboard controlls in outlook. the others i don't think i've opened once....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIIRFpvpl0
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Hopefully ... I wouldn't want seldom used features be taking unnecessary screen. What are you complaining about actually? Office has complicated features you don't use that often? You have to look for those features the one day in the year you want to use them ...
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If only office had a search box for menu items ... Like, you know, E-fucking-clipse.
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When I need to find a function I don't use often, I can find it a lot faster in the (old 2003) menus than I can in the ribbon. Sure, the ribbon is great for things the ribbon designer thinks you use a lot. But it takes way more clicks for those lessor things.
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And other times it doesn't. For example when table or image related stuff only pops up when you are inside a table or have an image selected
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Woah! Never thought I'd run into a fellow Game Grumps fan here of all places!
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Why not?
Incidentally, I find it amusing that Steam Train is using Ross and Danny's faces to censor nudity in the Leisure Suit Larry 6 videos.
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Dang. Where's that You Must Be New Here badge when you need it?
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It's not even that big. It's 1024 kilobits (not kilobytes), which is only 128000 bytes (128kB).
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I dunno, I guess I just very rarely run into people on the 'net with interests overlapping my own.
EDIT: Although speaking of, anybody else pay their panel a visit at PAX Prime?