Help me apolyton, you are my only hope!

[BlackCat]

Make backups of all important documents.
JM

Why should he do that - Ben is a real man and they don't make backups

[Jon Miller]

And Open Office is complete **** which is why I use microsoft office (or usually just Powerpoint and OneNote, as I prefer to do Latex instead of Word and ROOT instead of Excel).

And there is nothing even like OneNote in OO.

JM

[KrazyHorse]

Well, then you are quite a liar - or said in other words - your comment of being a regular linux user is irrelevant

No it's not, ****.

I've used OO before. It sucks. I've learned that it's much easier to keep a Windows machine around to do Office stuff than it is to use ****ty linux apps.

[KrazyHorse]

Seriously, anybody who's ever used the two knows which one's better.

[KrazyHorse]

ROOT instead of Excel

???

Obviously I don't use Excel to do any real number-crunching. But aren't the two more complementary than replacements for each other?

[Q Classic]

For that purpose, when I need to use Excel or OneNote, I fire up the Windows VM. I <3 seamless mode in VirtualBox.

One of the reasons I favor Excel is largely because I had to use it so many times that the shortcut keys are all memorized now, and I don't really feel the need to learn others. 'sides, I like 2007.

[BlackCat]

Seriously, anybody who's ever used the two knows which one's better.

Well, count me in

Iv'e programmed unix/linux for years and used word for doc, so I kind of agree with you.

Lately, though, we have hired a bunch of newly hatched PhD's in comp sci and they are OO fanatics.

[Q Classic]

And props to Vista for crashing out Open Office rather then being able to successfully close it! Why am I not allowed more then 4 hours to delay an update!

Only a ****e workman blames his tools for mistakes he made.

[KrazyHorse]

For that purpose, when I need to use Excel or OneNote, I fire up the Windows VM. I <3 seamless mode in VirtualBox.

Yeah, I've been using virtualbox to keep my linux install on. Dual-booting was getting annoying.

[KrazyHorse]

Lately, though, we have hired a bunch of newly hatched PhD's in comp sci and they are OO fanatics.

Then you've hired a bunch of morons.

Even the frigging linux geek support people in my department use Office.

OO sucks monkey balls.

[KrazyHorse]

Can (i.e., the ability to) and will (i.e., the desire to) are different things.

I don't know why he would ask this question at a place where 90% of the people dislike him intensely. 95% if you only count the people who have a hope in hell of actually helping him.

[Q Classic]

I don't know why he would ask this question at a place where 90% of the people dislike him intensely. 95% if you only count the people who have a hope in hell of actually helping him.

I'd sooner help Pol Pot.

Not because I think Ben's worse than he was, but Pol Pot is older than I am and also there's the whole Asian connection thing going.

[Asher]

No it's not, ****.

I've used OO before. It sucks. I've learned that it's much easier to keep a Windows machine around to do Office stuff than it is to use ****ty linux apps.

Even better is to run a Windows instance in VMWare, or set up WINE to run MS Office inside of Linux.

[KrazyHorse]

Scroll up and you'll notice that I keep a fedora instance running in virtualbox.

Generally I don't do anything memory intensive in linux because I run all that **** remotely. Locally I just use it to edit and run gnuplot and stuff.

[Asher]

Then you've hired a bunch of morons.

Even the frigging linux geek support people in my department use Office.

OO sucks monkey balls.

Yes.

This is a rule you can always count on: Never trust a PhD in computer science. There are, without exception, savants. They're stupid in just about every possible way except some highly specialized, trivial academic field they jerk off over.

The more intelligent CS grads realize you can do more in the private sector. Not just in terms of building useful things, but research. You want a big R&D budget and open-ended research goals, start your own company or work for one of many comp R&D orgs like Microsoft Research.

CS academics get virtually no funding, and you have to teach most of the time too.

Summary: If someone has a PhD in CS, they're stupid.