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It can be an incredible hassle to view a PowerPoint file on a Mac without Microsoft Office or iWork. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be any modern viewer application. The only solution I’ve found thus far is to use NeoOffice, which is as slow as heck. And then there’s the added problem if the file is in the new Office format, .pptx. Then it has to be converted to .ppt by some other means before it can be viewed in NeoOffice. Oh, and did I mention how incredibly slow NeoOffice is? It’s really overkill for just wanting to view a file.
So, Preview is used for viewing documents. Why not add support for PowerPoint files into it? I realise that one of the driving points of Preview is that it’s so lightweight and fast, but I doubt adding in support for PowerPoint would compromise this. It could even convert it to some viewable intermediate file like it does to PostScript files if it would help.
Every nation needs an anthem. There’s no reason the pirate nation should be an exception. Thus, I nominate He’s a Pirate (Orchestral Mix) by Dj Tiësto to be the anthem of the pirate nation.
With the air of adventure and exploration, the song captures the spirit of the pirate that lives on since the golden age of piracy. In addition, the electronic sounds bear witness to the modern state of piracy as well as the projection of piracy into the future.
As I was at a conference, a doctor was speaking. Already, he had oiled his institution and programme in prestige. The arrogance metre was elevating. He was telling of how he had considered giving some pointers for the admission interview to a prospective student of the graduate programme of this particular doctor’s institution. Explaining why he chose not to do so, with the air of having received a revelation in his personal journey in life, he suddenly declared, “Because that would inject a bias!”. Whilst making this declaration, he cocked his head, jolted both index fingers into the air and even his buttocks from off his seat. I can’t say a normal person would have acted this way.
I have no quarrel with his decision nor his reasons behind it, but the way in which he recounted the event and turned it into an academic outburst is what raised the eyebrows. The whole incident was so prestigious.
Uhm, yeah. So this is a commercial I saw on TV for a service that purportedly helps people with their sucky PCs and problems related therein. My question is, What’s the deal with showing Macs in half the commercial’s scenes and then saying available for PCs only? It’s not that Macs would actually need this service, but yeah, so why show them in the first place? There’s something off about that.
Almost every day, I spend a few minutes that I’ll never get back playing Vampires on Facebook. I’m not sure why I play, it’s not an overly exciting game really. Perhaps it’s the prospect of levels, and points, and rank.
Anyway, there’s an item, or rather weapon, called the Chicken Suit. One can only use the Chicken Suit against a player who is in their friend list. Whoever has the Chicken Suit used against them, loses all their battles for two entire days.
If you have any strategic intelligence, you’d quickly realise that since you gain more points for defeating a higher level opponent, you could reap masses of points by fighting a top tier player who had been suited.
Unfortunately, that line of thinking is so totally wrong. You’d think that you, being maybe level 5 or so, would reap, oh, say, hundreds of points for victories against a player with over an hundred thousand experience points, right? But, again, that thinking is totally incorrect. There’s a few unwritten details of how this works.
First, the most points you can get from a victory is 10 points (per fight, so that’s 30 if you use 3 fights at a time). This result is providing that you are fighting a monster of another species than your own, and that the opposing monster has significantly more points than yours. If it’s the same species of monster, you get 9 points (or 27 points for a triple attack).
Clearly, this is better than the measly 5 points or so that you normally get from a battle, but it’s not going to land you in the top tier anytime soon as this situation only lasts for 2 days.
Now you might be thinking to search through the rankings for top tier players who are already suited, and simply attack them. But, this is even worse. If you’re not a friend of the suited player, you will receive only 1 point per fight.
So, yeah, the Chicken Suit isn’t overly useful these unwritten stipulations in place. My recommendation is that these unwritten rules for the suit be altered to either allow players to suit non-friends andor receive the normal amount of points from attacking a non-friend suited player.
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