| Takyoji | Oh joy; apparently some instructor of some college is exclusively forcing a friend of mine to only submit their work as an Office Open XML spreadsheet with no other formats allowed. | 03:39 |
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| kermit | Takyoji: cool | 03:42 |
| Takyoji | No, you read that wrong. | 03:42 |
| kermit | not cool? | 03:42 |
| Takyoji | Office Open XML = OOXML | 03:42 |
| Takyoji | Also known as MOOXML | 03:42 |
| kermit | ohh | 03:42 |
| kermit | dyslexicia! | 03:42 |
| Takyoji | They probably named it like that for that reason. | 03:43 |
| kermit | haha | 03:43 |
| kermit | fortunately open office can export to that, right? | 03:43 |
| Takyoji | I think only the ISO-approved version of it | 03:43 |
| kermit | i've noticed a huge amount of colleges seem to be more like software/media resellers, requiring you to buy all sorts of very expensive content | 03:44 |
| kermit | i've heard they even intentionally dont tell you what books you need for the course unless you physically visit the bookstore that sells them | 03:44 |
| kermit | and i'm sure they get kickbacks or donations from those content providers | 03:45 |
| kermit | the fact that they're even still using printed material while calling themselves higher learning institutions should be enough of a hint | 03:45 |
| * Takyoji pulls up his sleeves and writes ragemail. | 03:50 | |
| * Takyoji sends multi-page long ragemail | 04:49 | |
| Takyoji | No, I wrote it formally and seldom said Microsoft; and didn't even refer to OpenOffice.org at all | 04:50 |
| Takyoji | and reasserted that it wasn't anything as a personal attack or criticism. | 04:50 |
| kermit | so is office open xml actually open? | 04:54 |
| * Takyoji tinkers around on OSGrid | 06:41 | |
| kermit | Takyoji: whats that? their about page 'has not been set up yet' | 06:46 |
| Takyoji | This: http://www.osgrid.org/ | 06:46 |
| kermit | yes, thats what i was refering to | 06:46 |
| Takyoji | It's a virtual sim that runs on the open source OpenSim server software | 06:46 |
| Takyoji | Like SecondLife, but no vendor lockin | 06:47 |
| kermit | fun | 06:47 |
| Takyoji | The viewers are derived from the SecondLife viewers | 06:47 |
| kermit | with the popularity of secondlife, i'm surprised htere still arent common VR headsets | 07:11 |
| Takyoji | heh | 07:12 |
| Takyoji | The fluidity of things in SecondLife are a bit bleh | 07:12 |
| kermit | a couple of ipods should be enough.. they even have the motion sensors in them already. | 07:12 |
| kermit | i've only played briefly | 07:13 |
| kermit | http://www.i-glassesstore.com/i-3d.html | 07:44 |
| Takyoji | Wasn't there a Slashdot article implying VR headsets cause sight issues? | 09:57 |
| tonyyarusso | ha, someone else awake | 09:57 |
| Takyoji | Yes, at 3:58am | 09:58 |
| Takyoji | I've been awake at these hours recently | 09:58 |
| * tonyyarusso has work at 9 too | 09:58 | |
| Takyoji | Bonus news: I'll be flipping burgers for money in 2 days. | 09:58 |
| tonyyarusso | haha | 09:58 |
| Takyoji | At least it's not freaking McDonalds. | 09:59 |
| tonyyarusso | My brother was at DQ this summer | 09:59 |
| Takyoji | My mother is the manager of the local Dairy Queen | 10:02 |
| Takyoji | for many many years now | 10:02 |
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