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Now, I refuse to buy anything from Sony, because of the rootkit flap and their general evilness; but I'm sure there are many other deserving targets out there. Who should Hatrack boycott? Help me form a little list of companies that won't be missed!
Sony
Wal-mart
EA
GM
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Games using Starforce. The product has caused some people hardware problems, which the company refuses to acknowledge. Also, the software runs under ring 0 privileges, and there are a few known issues caused by this. Of course, there is also a security risk.
Also, I've had a low opinion of the company since the time one of their employees provided links to torrents for Galactic Civilizations 2. Yeah, it was only one isolated incident, but it really is lacking in ethics and professionalism.
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Wal-mart. Considering boycotting future EA games... Too many damn bugs! I used the freaking patch and then ages later I GOT THIS STUPID BUG! It took me HOURS to get these folks through college... Then i could not get them to get married or have woo hoo. #@$@#%$#@%
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Speed channel because they cut most of the real racing including WRC for tractor pulls, nascar and poker.
And ditto on Sony. Anything I've ever gotten that was sony has prematurely broken or ceased to operate without apparent cause.
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Can somebody tell me about the rootkit flap? I gather Sony's cds put spyware onto your system? Is it true for audio cds on PCs, or just something on game consoles?
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quote:Word is, quite simply, the best word processor ever.
I wish I could figure out why Word 2003 sometimes will let me place images wherever I want and sometimes won't let me do anything but move them up and down.
That said, I'm satisfied with Word. Mostly.
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quote:Word is, quite simply, the best word processor ever.
I wish I could figure out why Word 2003 sometimes will let me place images wherever I want and sometimes won't let me do anything but move them up and down.
That said, I'm satisfied with Word. Mostly.
Right click on the image and type the letter i. Click on the tab for layout, and select either the option where the image floats above the text, or the one where it's below the text. Then you can adjust it any way you like.
I wish that were the default, but I can't seem to find a way to make it so.
EDIT: Changed i to lowercase so it would not look like an L.
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Dagonee: the problem is, many people who use word don't need a word processor, they need a page layout program or a text editor
Granted, this isn't exactly word's fault, though its awful attempts to succeed in both areas (particularly the former) may lead many to use it these ways.
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quote:Word is, quite simply, the best word processor ever.
I don't have enough experience to know if that's true or not, but I sure do hate WordPerfect. I'm doing an editing job right now on a book, all 800 pages of which are in ONE WP document. I told the client I'd do the editing on paper only, if they sent me a file already double-spaced so I could print it out and mail the marked-up pages back to them. I once did an edit (using some kind of track changes system) in a WP document from the same client and I was ready to rip my hair out and smash the computer against the wall before I was finished.
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Noemon: a text editor is for editing text, not formatting it. People who use word for editing html files (by writing the tags out by hand) should really be using a text editor, for instance.
A good text editor has several crucial features, two of which are the ability to alter the on-screen display of the text without altering any properties of the text itself and syntax highlighting. The former allows one to work with text files in a way that best presents them for personal consumption, without actually changing anything for other people, and the latter allows one to better follow the syntax of structured files.
Additionally, text editors have the significant advantage of being lightweight.
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Regarding the Sony Rootkit, Mark Russinovich (www.sysinternals.com) is the one who discovered it. He's kind of a rootkit guru. His first blog entry (and subsequent ones) is found here:
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*gasp* Don't boycott GM stuff! The Big Three are in the greatest danger they've ever faced, they need our support... and if the USA loses our manufacturing capabilities....that's not good long term. And besides, Michigan, where I live, has the highest rate of unemployment in the nation now as a result. While the rest of you are doing just fine we are in a depression. All our factories are shutting down and moving to China/Mexico/Russia...
I'd hate to see us in another major war. "Yay! Let's go to war! Build those tanks! Oh wait... we don't have any factories anymore... doh!" [/end off topic]
Who I do boycott is the "Cracker Barrel" restaurant, because they are openly bigoted and have said they will not employ gay people.
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Word is, quite simply, the best word processor ever.
I've used both WordPerfect and Word for many years now, and I still hate Word. Hate it hate it hate it.
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That's interesting, Ela. I'd thought that the Nestle thing had been positively resolved, but I see that I was wrong.
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I hate them!!!!!!!! I don't want their freakin' CD's , I don't want their phone calls, I don't want their internet and I don't want their programs on my computer!!!!!!
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anyone who sticks junk in my doors. anyone who sends me junk mail. anyone who sends me spam.
I make a special effort to go to stores people are boycotting for reasons I disagree with. Think I'll go to wal*mart or The Gap today... And maybe buy a disney movie.
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Or maybe voluntarily curtail one's own freedoms? Provide authorities with transcripts of one's phone conversations, lists of library books recently checked out, that sort of thing?
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quote:Who I do boycott is the "Cracker Barrel" restaurant
gasp! oh no, that would mean no more country fried steak and mashed potatoes smothered in country gravy with a side of dumplings and fried apples. mmmmmm, fried apples. good lord.
thats right up there with boycotting Proctor and Gamble. i know its a good idea and worth doing, them being a pretty evil company (what with the animal testing an all) but they make so much yummy food. i couldn't do it.
how about boycotting Target for allowing their pharmacists to refuse to distribute certain drugs based on moral grounds.
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I like Word, except for the 2003 version, wherein they switched around all the shortcut keys for special characters. Grrr.
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quote:how about boycotting Target for allowing their pharmacists to refuse to distribute certain drugs based on moral grounds.
I'd be more inclined to do the opposite, but I'm pretty sure that Target hasn't done this.
I will not shop from any pharmacist who does things like this. Drugs like birth control pills have legitimate medical uses besides preventing pregnancy but pharmacists who refuse to sell on moral grounds don't care why someone takes the drugs they just won't sell to you. It's an unfair practice which should be stopped especially by big corporations like Target. If a pharmacist wants to refuse drugs on moral grounds they should open their own personal drug store.
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It is especially disheartening that pharmacists who won't sell women birth control or emergency contraceptives will sell men things like Viagra without asking if they will be using the pills with their wives or if they are married. Such selective moralism is disgusting.
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