Jakub Kaplan

Reply to Favorite childhood memories in Blogging Stardock Forums

Do you still have vivid visual memories of you skating on the pond across the street? Reading this, I can actually still see images in front of my eyes from the times I was skating as a child on the various ponds in the forest... And it's not that the memories would be uniformly distributed: rather one gets to remember a few discrete situations for which it's not quite apparent why they are remembered as opposed to some others (obviously usually from enjoyable times). In fact

Reply to Office 2010 beta Impressions: Word in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I agree that Excel might be useful for certain tasks, though in my experience I only used it for Physics experiments. But as for Word and Powerpoint, the only other Office programs I have ever properly used (ignoring Outlook), I can see why normal users use them, but don't see the reasons for fairly frequent occurrence in non-scientific technical documents, where it competes with LaTeX. Although I am a CompSci, I am very much the kind of person who appreciates Windows-like GUI a

Reply to Are the rich just greedy pigs? in World Trade Issues JoeUser Forums

Thank you, Draginol, for another insightful article. Since most of the users here live in the USA, you may have not recognized it, but the quotes VERY accurately resemble those of the late communist regimes in Eastern Europe. I am an 18 years old Czech, so I myself had not a first hand experience, but I have read, heard and seen quite a lot from different sources, as I have been really curious about it. I think that most of the indented quotes