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andrel wrote:
> subtle way that it is sort of conventional to remember what people have
> told you.
I'm much less bothered by people who don't bother to remember things than
people who say "I don't want to know why." :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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Invisible wrote:
> Of course, you can obtain Acrobat Reader for free. (What good is an
> authoring tool without a ubiquitous platform to deploy for?) But the
> full Acrobat package, last time I looked, is about £400.
>
> But what the hell do you actually *get* for your money?
>
> Of course you get the ability to generate PDF files. But you know what?
> Any number of freeware tools can do this also.
Similarly, there are tons of freeware readers, not just Acrobat.
Acrobat Reader is like Internet Explorer: many people think it's the only
way, but it's actually the one with the most proprietary features and
security holes, and there are alternatives.
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> You're in the UK. The brits conquered 90% of the world. The only place
> I've ever been where nobody spoke English is China.
Really? I was in China and some people spoke English :-)
A lot of places I've been you only have to travel a little bit outside of
the cities and then hardly anyone speaks English. I was just in Italy a few
weeks back, Italian or German was fine, but English? No chance.
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> I have to say, though, selling drinks on the beach sounds better than
> truck driving. :-)
I was lying on the beach with my sister's boyfriend and watching these
people trying to sell (very unsuccessfully) absurd things like cheap watches
and sunglasses to people. We started talking about it and decided that what
would really sell would be cold drinks and snacks. We figured out we'd only
need to work for about an hour or two each day to make enough to survive.
But then I don't know if you need to pay the local government something for
a permit or whatever, or knowing Italy you probably have to pay the Mafia
half your profits :-)
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Darren New wrote:
> You're in the UK. The brits conquered 90% of the world. The only place
> I've ever been where nobody spoke English is China.
Or America. ;-)
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> Or, better, say "You're so funny sometimes." Really, you get worked up
> because you're taking it seriously. It isn't *your* computer that's
> broken, it's the company's.
When somebody is standing over you demanding that the PC gets fixed
*right now*, yet you have no clue what the problem is... not very
amusing, no.
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Similarly, there are tons of freeware readers, not just Acrobat.
>
> Acrobat Reader is like Internet Explorer: many people think it's the only
> way, but it's actually the one with the most proprietary features and
> security holes, and there are alternatives.
I've yet to see an alternative that produces half-decent graphical
output. (E.g., Ghostscript can display PostScript and PDF, but its
output is so awful that every time I need to view a PostScript file, I
have Ghostscript convert it to PDF just so I can view it with Acrobat.)
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"scott" <sco### [at] scott com> wrote:
> > You're in the UK. The brits conquered 90% of the world. The only place
> > I've ever been where nobody spoke English is China.
>
> Really? I was in China and some people spoke English :-)
>
> A lot of places I've been you only have to travel a little bit outside of
> the cities and then hardly anyone speaks English. I was just in Italy a few
> weeks back, Italian or German was fine, but English? No chance.
areas in London where they only speak Cantonese.
Lots of young people can understand English due to American films and computers.
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> When I was a lad I served a term
> As office boy to an Attorney's firm.
> I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,
> And I polished up the handle of the big front door
>
> I polished up that handle so carefullee
> That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!
>
> That one?
>
> Stephen
>
Close, but no coconut.
"When I was a lad, we lived in a shoe box in middle of t'road"
"Luxury, when I were a lad &c &c ..."
Monty Python
John
--
"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei
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Doctor John <joh### [at] homecom> wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
> > When I was a lad I served a term
> > As office boy to an Attorney's firm.
> > I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,
> > And I polished up the handle of the big front door
> >
> > I polished up that handle so carefullee
> > That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!
> >
> > That one?
> >
> > Stephen
> >
>
> Close, but no coconut.
> "When I was a lad, we lived in a shoe box in middle of t'road"
> "Luxury, when I were a lad &c &c ..."
> Monty Python
>
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list--I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed--who never would be missed!
All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs--
All children who quote Monty Python at every opportunity
All Peter Pan enthusiasts who spoil this fine community
All TAG members who reply to newbies with monosymbolic answers
And expect us all to read the manual like effen Pov-Ray advancers.
They'd none of 'em be missed--they'd none of 'em be missed!
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