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Ok heres the deal... Girlfriend has an old computer that has a bunch of pictures and other things on it that she wants. Windows won't install for some god aweful reason but thats not what I want resolved. The folder that has all her stuff in it is the admin folder and when I put the drive in her ne...

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Each game handles widescreen differently. I know there was a huge row about BioShock recently when people installed it and found out that it simply blew up the standard 4:3 picture and cropped the top and bottom. It really depends on what you do. The 16:10 ratio on my Mac is absolutely wonderful for...

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Great job! I think it would look best if the letters were red-painted metal and scratched to all hell. That kind of detail was hard to capture in the original game, but would be quite fitting, I believe.

Awesome work.

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You could also use GNU Make through Cygwin.

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Sounds like a corrupt makefile. Could be that the makefile was written for a different version of make than the one you're using. From the looks of it, `depend' is supposed to be a phony target that generates a makefile containing source dependencies so that make can build things like devil.o.

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Grizz: every time you convert between compressed formats you lose audio and video fidelity. You're best off working in the first format you can and then converting from there, but if you recorded with a digital camera to begin with there's not a whole lot you can do to make it better.

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fliptw wrote:is WGA still an optional download from WU?

If it is, they do a damn good job of hiding it. I love how after Windows decides to download an update, you can't cancel that specific update's installation. *miffed*

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One of those kids is coming here as a 21-year-old sophomore. Now, I've been mildly interested in this case since it broke, but this kid Collin Finnerty has a real rap sheet (assault). There's already plenty of buzz going around among the administrators here that the board is not happy with the new p...

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I think the old Active Directory wouldn't let you see non-M$ computers. Is that right? That's not entirely true, though in practice it sort of is. MS's LDAP implementation (Active Directory) doesn't conform to standards for POSIX account info, so it takes a lot of atribute remapping to get other LD...

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Is there some reason to think the only way that it can be done to building code is if an electrician does it? In New York City, for one example, if anyone other than a licensed electrician messes with the power, it violates the code. Too much risk of an electrical fire. Then again, it's also illega...

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Yes that is a red flag, but lets put blame where its due, and thats not the fault of ooxml, its the fault of over 15 years of MS Office. Which is why I suggested that the new file format not be loaded with all of the old cruft. Keep that in the binary format, and engineer a clean, logical XML-based...

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The point is that the whole point of an interchange standard is that you cannot limit the domain of the standard. Isn't the standard a domain limited to office products? Remember, this standard IS an application of XML to a class of specific tasks. When you make it impossible to perform semanticall...

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Compare reading data from an XLSX file and XLS file. It's many times easier to generate your own graphs and tables based on the spreadsheet data now. XML is easy to read and documented. XML is easy to read and documented, OOXML is not. That's the whole point of the article. It's much easier to writ...

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I'm sorry, I can't address all of your points. Understandable. I can give you this though: backwards compatibility is a huge feature. If Office 2007 didn't support Office 2003 documents, people would look at it as if the product was crippled. There's no reason that backwards-compatible features be ...

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Well, I'll summarize what I consider to be valid points: Critical flaw / Things that should be fixed in the standard / Invalid complaints 1) Self-exploding spreadsheets: Horrible design, a mistake worthy of denying OOXML standards status 2) Entered versus stored values An artifact of IEEE floating-p...

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PDF is mostly an open ISO standard now. There are certain proprietary parts, but most is open and royalty-free.

As far as DOCX etc., see my other post.

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...but Microsoft Office just lost a *lot* of points.

Give and take, and all that.

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Did your name seep into this About box too, somehow?

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Is Ω the entity code for infinity? I'm too lazy to check.

And I'm sure you've noticed by now that phpBB doesn't like HTML in usernames.

Anyway, welcome to the DBB!

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Heading to England for three months starting in mid-September. That's pretty much it.

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Dcrazy, Fair enough.. but, I have to admit I was hoping that our conversation from last year sparked an interest and you were going to come back at me with some new/updated info that would force more research on my part. I enjoy reading and REALLY enjoy reading about money. :) Nope, I spent the int...

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I would be happy to discuss with you our currency, the FR, the gold standard, etc.. We went through this before and you very respectfully(and admirably) ended the conversation. Something like: "I am just a student, but I do like Economics.. This is the point were I have to stop because I'm not...

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The people who made the Linux version (Loki) went belly-up. Last I heard Suncho was working on posting the necessary files on descent3.com, since he works for THQ and Loki re-assigned the copyrights to Outrage upon death.

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Coming back to woodchip's original snippet, it's important to point out that what the BBC is saying isn't necessarily \"incorrect\". It's \"wrong\" in the sense that their interpretation of the uncertainty principle isn't really what the principle is all about (and using the word...

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That may or may not be suitable for what he wants to do. If you're sticking to Access because you find it \"simpler\", then you're doing yourself a disservice. But you can't really beat Access for rapid GUI building.

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So why can't you just do two measurements? Because a measurement can only be done via an interaction with the particle (e.g. hitting an atom with light/photons), so the interaction from the first measurement would actually change the particle's speed and/or position. It's important to remember that...

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Basically it boils down to the fact that you cannot simultenously know an atom's position and momentum -- you can know one with arbitrary certainty, but you can only estimate the other (Wikipedia does a decent job of explaining this more technically: link ). The BBC's statement about a \"consci...

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...of bull**** from a supposedly reputable (and widely-sourced) website? The first time someone here linked to Capitol Hill Blue I got that smell. Turns out it wasn't just me. Now don't get me wrong, I'm no Ron Paul fan. But I'm glad to see Capitol Hill Blue exposed as a fraud.

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Are you talking about an inability to connect to PXO? PXO has been dead for years; your best bet is to use Vortex.

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Another thing too is that, to the best of my knowledge, you can buy the Intel version of OSX through retail channels just yet. What's being sold is the PowerPC version. The only way you can get the Intel version legally is to buy an Intel Mac. Leopard will change this but that's not due out until O...

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Well I found a place in Baltimore selling OEM-replica regulators for $100. Bought one, a Haynes manual, and the tool you need to get the door panel off (the clips are pretty far inside the panel). Total cost: $140. The problem is you can't get the regulator off without raising the window all the way...

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That can't be done without fixing the regulator. The cables bind around the motor and lock the regulator's range of motion to near-zero.

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Ferno wrote:or you could just sell the car.

Cars are hard to sell when their passenger windows are permanently open. The point is that I can't afford to replace the window regulator, not that I don't want to pay for it.

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If you replace it with another regulator, it will go bad as well. And you will be back in small claims court again. I guarantee it because it will have the same defect that broke the last one. Well the first regulator lasted six years, this second lasted seven. The car has 61K miles on it already; ...

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Im guessing multi plan was replaced by lotus notes? Multiplan was the original name for Microsoft Excel. It had its ass kicked by Lotus 1-2-3 on DOS and VisiCalc on the Apple II, but was the first GUI spreadsheet app for the Mac. Topher, whom can I kidnap to force more information out about Office:...

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There's a recurrent problem with GM window regulators that's now affected my 2001 LeSabre Custom for the second time. At over $500 to replace the regulator, and knowing that this problem affects models up to and including the 2007 model year, I'm quite miffed that there is no recall. The last time t...

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woodchip wrote:I say open Christian schools next door to the muslum extremist schools and teach the christian children to hate muslums

I don't think Pakistan is that interested in adopting American culture.

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Apple is the only supplier of parts for a Mac that runs a legal copy of OS X. Well, within reason. Specifically the logic board and the processor have to be Apple products. You can stick any drives or PCI-express cards into a Mac Pro that you want. That being said, what makes a Mac a Mac is OS X. T...

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Assuming you have all genuine Apple parts it shouldn't be a problem to put them in a tower. But that means you need everything. Generic mobo won't work. If you get PowerPC parts there's pretty much no doubt they'll be genuine Apple, but you can't just go out and buy Intel parts that match the specs ...

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How is Sprint in the wrong for people racking up $5000 credits by calling customer service 40 times a month?

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