"Since her selection as John McCain's running mate, the Republican National Committee spent more than $150,000 on clothing and make-up for Gov. Sarah Palin...." - j1m
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I'm sure somebody has tied together the whole pork barrel spending to put lipstick on a ... well, anyway. So mean. She's actually quite pretty. I bet it's really not that much more than they spend to pretty up her running mate. - Mandi
I doubt they spend anything like that on McCain. I'm told Obama, for example, buys his own suits. - j1m
well you can't go on national tv and look like a hillbilly - ♜ Bjorn Tipling
same as excel, at least up to 2003. Use Access. :p - Josh Haley
65536 you say!? ....I'd know that number ANYWHERE!.. thats the old MAX_INT number....now that i think about it, Excel used only to be able to handle this number of rows....either way, the problem is the "array of rows" is indexed using a small(ish) [16-Bit] integer rather than a full "modern" integer - i'd check you are running the latest version of OOo *End geeky explanation* - Mr.Tiggr
16-bit integer. 8-bit will only go to 256. - Morton Fox
Bug for bug compatible: A Microsoft Office Excel worksheet contains 65,536 rows and 256 columns. You cannot increase the number of rows or columns beyond the maximum row and column limits. - Sam Pullara
ok...so we (developers) ALL forgot to use 32bit Integers!!...even THEN people would complain you can't have more than 2147483647 rows in a spreadsheet ......IMHO if you are misusing a SPREADSHEET for what a DATABASE should be used for (65535+ rows!) then it really aint a bug...best tool for the job please people! :D - Mr.Tiggr
Tiggr, all well and good until you're on a project that, when it began, would never need 60K rows, but grows over time. You can't expect a general office worker to think 'wow, this sheet is getting really big, I should write a database to port it to' especially when many people doing data entry have neither the skill or the influence to enact such a project. - Kevin Fox
In other words, it'd be nice if OpenOffice warned you at, say, 40K rows "Hey, this spreadsheet's getting pretty big. Just so you know, I'm going to crap out on you at 65K rows. Just sayin'." - Kevin Fox
@Kevin....I hear your point but rebut that in such a case, it doesn't just get to the stage of "gee this is getting big" overnight - this kind of performance issue (such a big SS will more than likely be slooooow!) becomes one of thous painful office jokes over time; suffice to say that there is always plenty of time to do a quick import into MS Access and keep on going (or a number of other techniques)... again "the right tool for the job" ; even lack of foresight when creating the Spreadsheet originally can be corrected easily later; there is no reason to blame Speadsheets for being "buggy" when you hit their practical limits if you are using them outside of thier inteded Use Case. - Mr.Tiggr
Ahh, but I didn't blame it for being buggy. I'm only commenting on the practical realities of the workplace and how tools can help users out, even when the right answer is to let users know that they need to move to different tool. Regarding gradual slowdowns over time, there's a story about frogs and pots of water... - Kevin Fox
@Kevin - apologies, its true YOU didn't complain about its bugginess - sorry; and well you will get no argument from me WRT interfaces becoiming more smart and usable - Tell the user that you are getting towards the limit of the product they are using AND give them an option to do something about it; HECK its even a great chance for you (Microsoft) to push your OTHER product down the user's throat a'la "Would you likew to purchase MS Access to better manage this large amount of data?" - Mr.Tiggr
True. It's a great upsell opportunity. "Software getting slow? Pay $100 and we'll automatically update you to the Pro version!" Though that *might* piss some people off. ;-) - Kevin Fox
"might Piss some people off" has never been on the list of MS Reasons not to do something (See windows 98,ME Vista, Clippy, UAC...the list goes on)...expect MS are watching this and this will be introduced as a new and "Innovative" feaure in MS Office LIve 2009 *LOL* - Mr.Tiggr
"The Microsoft Web Platform is a reliable, high-performance web stack that is capable of hosting both ASP.NET and PHP applications on a single server, and can scale to run the largest sites on the web. The Microsoft Web Platform, including SQL Server, Visual Studio, IIS7 and the .NET Framework, is available for free, and can be obtained with the new Microsoft Web Platform Installer, a tool that both simplifies installation and keeps your server up-to-date." -Microsoft - DeWitt Clinton
In one of the most delicious ironies I've seen lately, the Microsoft Web Platform homepage pops up a dialog asking to install Silverlight then takes you away from the page. - DeWitt Clinton
it appears to be called /web. add that to .NET and you have an unhealthy attachment to pointless leading punctuation... - Alex Gawley
Microsoft's next two branding initiatives: #top and _blank. - Robert Cooper
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Huge mistake - Not making it compatible with XP - Charlie Anzman
That's crazy if its not compatable. Heavy handed marketing from Microsoft. Whats new! - Michael Fidler
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I already have SL2.0 final installed (installed on this particular machine not more than a couple hrs ago, in fact). The popup's telling me the beta period is over and to take off and grab an update. wtfail? - abacab
Many people have asked whether enough Americans really care any more about the cultural convulsions of the 1960s. The answer? It doesn't matter. For the McCain campaign, Bill Ayers has nothing to do with 60s radicalism. Ayers is nothing more than a tool that permits McCain, Palin and all their surrogates to use the noun "terrorist" in polite company in the same sentence as "Obama," over and over and over again. It allows them to cobble together a 'respectable' version of those Obama smear emails they can push in commercials and robocalls and surrogate talking points every hour of every day. - Robert Cooper
"I'll eat his buttocks with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." - Grant Fitzgerald
LOL, but its an inner laugh, as I have to be restrained see, in place of paid employment and have to hold steady as she goes etc wotever trevor - Jason Brooks
Thanks, @Erica. Looking at http://youtube.com/?v=cWpumTQj..., it seems like a goofy and playful move that any one of us could have made. And I don't mean that in the "hey, he's just like us, he should be president! sense". More like, he's human, this is inconsequential, and we can't fault him for everything. - DeWitt Clinton
yeah, this is not some 'crazy man' stuff. it's actually vintage McCain. if he had been keeping this up throughout the campaign, i think he would have done much better. but it's definitely a problem for the persona he crafted recently. - MikeAmundsen
Obama IS devilishly handsome. Could he turn even a right-wing republican OAP? - Gez
@DeWitt Quite true but perception is reality. I'm sure McCain and Howard Dean will have a drink and lament that fact in years to come. - Erica Baker
McCain looks like the undead, obama looks like his master - Kyle Weller
he also could be grabbing obama's ass - Kyle Weller
Yeal "Lemme bite dat ass" was my initial caption there. - Robert Cooper
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During the Wednesday night debate, McCain once again brought up the issue of the $3 million "projector" that Obama asked appropriators for in 2007 as an example of an egregious earmark request. The "projector," it turns out, is Chicago's Adler Planetarium Sky Theater Projector, which is a complex piece of equipment used for public education purposes, and it was in severe need of an upgrade. - Robert Cooper
@eggsy: to me, Obama means everyone owes me something. - Morgan Warstler
My understanding of this is hoping (perhaps needing) the American people to renew the spirit shown during WWII. We were rationed, we conserved, we grew our own food so farmed food could be sent to troops. This type of willing personal sacrifice for a greater good. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
We did that because there was a cause behind it that we believed in as a people. We don't have that luxury today, today's wars are more like Vietnam than WWII. Our society is very displeased with the government and they have a lot of things to fix. - Adam Posey
Adam, it doesn't have to be about the wars though and I think that's the difference this time around. All those same tactics are great conservation moves as well, and with getting off foreign oil being all the rage in the US right now these should be easy steps to take. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Wow. I have so much to say about this. Frankly the answer to the "sacrifice" question in the second debate was "SAVE!" Not just the US Govt but the US people have a negative savings rate. Buy Bonds. Save. Stop overspending. That is a good message. - Robert Cooper
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It's a different time, different generation, etc. - Adam Posey
You know, it is funny. I revisit my Douglas Coupland two decades later, and the less I think it is a different time/different generation, etc. - Robert Cooper
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His comparisons to Gen X and the Roaring 20s generation strike me as more and more relevant all the time. - Robert Cooper
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Where Obama (and the Ds miss it) is failing to pivot to Right to Privacy and Unenumerated rights. I find it HILARIOUS that the "Federalist Society" is all against unenumerated rights, when the original Federalist opposition to a bill of rights was that it would imply that no rights specifically reserved for the people were not forfeit to the government. - Robert Cooper
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Look, we don't need the liberal science/medicine/economic/peace complex telling us how to run our nature/body/economy/nations. We got the Bible and our Gut. Nuff said. - Robert Cooper
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From 2008 this isn't really "every single laureate": 0/1 Peace, 0/1 Economics, 0/1 Literature, 0/2 Medicine, 1/2 Physics, 2/2 Chemistry. Not that this isn't an impressive list of Laureates, just not all 2008 Laureates. - Kenny Stoltz
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@Kenny I think it is every single *american*. (And I don't think you can say 0/1 econ. We damned well know who Krugman is voting for. ) - Robert Cooper
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54 year-old white male, voted Kerry '04, Bush '00, Dole '96, hunter, Nascar fan...hard for Obama said: "I'm gonna hate him the minute I vote for him. He's gonna be a bad president. But I won't ever vote for another god-damn Republican. I want the government to take over all of Wall Street and bankers and the car companies and Wal-Mart run this county like we used to when Reagan was President." - Robert Cooper
I enjoyed: http://is.gd/409p ... "Very rarely does one see such an informative billboard. Ripping it down would just be another case of the Obama goon squad censoring free speech in America." - Robert Cooper
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I also have to love the quote abuse... as though that were just a nickname. - Robert Cooper
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Again, what he said isn't technically incorrect. It just happens that the government those "government scientists" were working for was the Brittish government. - Robert Cooper
“Sarah Palin is awful, just awful. At first I thought she was merely unqualified to be Vice President of the United States. Now I think she is unsuited to even be the Governor of Alaska.”
Apparently a large percentage of the world is as confused about the word "nucular" as Sarah Palin. - DeWitt Clinton
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According to Wikipedia - U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, as well as Presidential Candidates Walter Mondale, and Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, have all used this pronunciation. - Atul Arora
@Atul I have heard Carter speak on the radio recently. I noted he *didn't* say nucular. - Robert Cooper
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I love the look on Katie Kouric's face as she is fed this horrible answer. - Brett Cannon
Srsly WTF? I would have just said the NYT and WSJ even if it wasn't true. - LauraBrarian
I think she didn't want to name any newspapers like the NYT because her constituency sees them as part of the "liberal media elite", which she has railed on a few times. Her gut said to not name any and to avoid irking those she didn't mention, but the end result was worse. - Louis Gray
Are you kidding me?! She can't (or at least refuses) to name ONE, I don't believe this! What is the strategy behind her behavior? There has to be one because there is just no way there anyone can be that ridiculous. (can they?) - Nicholas Kreidberg
I just named a bunch of newspapers off the top of my head, I think I should run for VP. - Michael
I just named about thirty newspapers and assorted online web services off the top of my head - I think I should run for President. - J. D. Ebberly
Hopefully she'll repeat this type of response during the debate tomorrow and look foolish next to Biden. I hate to say that about a woman candidate, especially, but incompetent is incompetent, regardless of gender. We've certainly seen how incompetent Bush is. - Cathryn Hrudicka
@Cathryn, I thing that misses the point. The people who like Palin like her because she doesn't read newspapers and thinks the Flintstones is a documentary. She's a hockey mom, not some policy wonk or some Washington insider! - Robert Cooper
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@Louis, I'm sure you're right. She could have at least given a nod to her local paper! Honestly, I cannot tell Sarah Palin and 'Tina Fey as Sarah Palin' apart at this point. - LauraBrarian
from Europe, good luck to the USA and its citizens if this woman becomes VP... you will miss Bush/Cheney - Alex Barredo
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