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  1. But he has to do it with the finished ODT document.. so not "linux print to pdf", but "convert/export odt to pdf".. Thinking and research should be done prior buying printer. After, it is too late. For a few pages, print screen solution could be used even on smartphone. That's how some Android apps work. They load document in proprietary file format to which there is library, and then print to PNG and then merge to final PDF (therefor it is damn huge).
  2. I would be a very surprised that such odd file, non-standard, file format is supported... Not really.. Option which always work is to press print screen key and save file as PNG.. Repeat for every page manually, or make script which will do it for you.. AutoHotkey should help. https://www.autohotkey.com/ There is also Linux alternative. It is built-in my distro, IIRC. It is irrelevant. You can use VirtualBox or VMWare. It is not a big download.. https://www.virtualbox.org/ Download Windows 10 ISO from the Microsoft website. It is a huge download > 4 GB. Windows have virtual printer and any document can be printed to the file. LibreOffice should have an option to export to PDF: https://www.google.com/search?q=LibreOffice+export+pdf
  3. ..it does matter if you write "Volodya" or "volodya".. ..because it tells your attitude toward mass murderer..
  4. ..what is a fake? Aren't you fake? You would not be able to prove you are not fake..
  5. You misspelled it. Iron-y-meter...
  6. ..oh my little loved bits on my little computer memory..
  7. ..God loves computers..
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  10. A particle at rest cannot be detected by measuring equipment that is in the same reference system as the said particle. A particle is detected if it - emits photons, rarely other particles, with well-known signatures (i.e., frequencies/wavelengths) - reflects photons sent toward it - absorbs photons and ejects photons with lower energies sent toward it - hits the detector by itself (which undermines "being at rest") - produces an electric or magnetic field that causes some reaction inside the detector, such as induction. etc. In classical physics, "being at rest" is often used to refer to very slow-moving objects, with a Lorentz factor close to 1.0.
  11. B AR GA IN => HANGOVER..
  12. If you don't mind an application with a GUI, there is an application written by Microsoft engineers FileMon: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/filemon Later replaced by ProcessMon: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon Such an application installed on your computer can tell you if someone has used your computer without your permission or if someone has hacked into your computer, even if anti-virus applications find nothing. I don't think it's interesting to monitor file activity to spy on someone (unlike keyboard presses and mouse movements). It is an anti-spyware application, not a spyware application....
  13. Of course. You can always write it yourself. Then it will meet all the tight requirements. Source code on MSDN: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.filesystemwatcher?view=net-8.0 This type of operation is widely used by legitimate applications to monitor changes in configuration files. When you open a text file in editor X and editor Y, and save in one of them, you click another, and it complains that the file needs to be reloaded, this is due to the use of this API..
  14. No. The Sun does not rise. That's a premature, childish version of ancient people who didn't understand how the world works. The Earth rotates, causing the illusion that "the Sun rises" and "the Sun sets", when in fact it emits light all the time, just to a different part of the Earth.. Hydrogen fuel burnout.. ..do people know about the future when they prepare supplies for the winter.. ? (In Africa, Central and South America, and the Islands, they don't do that.. year-round fresh fruits and vegetables).
  15. ..progress is failing miserably so far.. ..with money as the driving force behind any human activity, God doesn't have much faith in this project.. ..that is the beauty of restart option.. you don't remember..
  16. ..which will lead to an increase in food prices.. and poor people will have even more trouble buying them than they do now.. In 2022, after the attack on Ukraine, grain prices rose due to the blockade of Ukrainian exports (which is/was a significant global market participant in several areas, such as sunflower oil, 42% of global market share in 2019. It was the oil I used most often, every day before the war. Approximately 1L per month. Its price has doubled). Farmers were "uberhappy".. When everything "calmed down," prices fell to almost "normal" pre-war prices and.. farmers began to complain, go on strike, etc. etc. What is a PITA for some (customers) is heaven for others (farmers, sellers, stock market investors, investment banks playing on commodity exchanges).. Capitalism.
  17. ...sometimes highly educated and rich people lose touch with the reality that is the reality of most of the rest 8 billions.. ..soon (with growing population and side effects of global warming) you can have a completely new level of "war for resources" e.g. for a fresh clean water.. ..only those who will pay.. This is how capitalism works.. "We"? Who is "we"? Rich Westerners? 70% of Americans who have $1000 or less savings? 1) construction industry is significant industry in the world. The less developed the country, the higher the percentage of GDP. 2) agricultural industry is significant industry in the world. The less developed the country, the higher the percentage of GDP. 3) The whole reason they have problems with shelter, food and water is because they have no money to buy them.. This is how capitalism works..
  18. If it is a mechanical toy, it may use the same technology as vintage mechanical clocks.
  19. Meat or plants are a source of food, i.e. a source of stored energy created by autotrophs. Humans can become autotrophs through genetic manipulation of DNA or technology (CO2+H2O+N2+little others-> organic matter) and stop killing other animals and plants to survive. Overpopulation will force such solutions sooner or later..
  20. AFAIK, companies only receive the gross amount, not the net. Even if the b2b catalogs have a net amount. If you receive 200 EUR gross, with 25% VAT, your company has a net 200/1.25 = 160 EUR income, and 200-160 = 40 EUR VAT it will have to send to the government. When a company creates a product catalog, it does the opposite, i.e. 160 EUR net x 1.25 = 200 EUR gross or 200 EUR net x 1.25 = 250 EUR gross. In reality, it is a bit more complicated. A company sells something with VAT to its customers/companies, and has to pay other companies for something (the ingredients to make the product) also with VAT. Sometimes these VAT taxes are different, e.g. food has a low VAT, but a finished meal in a restaurant is taxed differently than the ingredients. Only the difference is sent to the government. The company that sold the ingredients/components also has to pay VAT, but at a different rate. The company that sells the ingredients/components does not know whether the buyer is a retailer or another company and whether it is a VAT taxpayer or not (company can opt-in or opt-out in some industries to some level of income)
  21. "Life feeds on life".. You are eating a great meal, but someone died to become your meal..
  22. When you buy something for $106 gross, $100 is the net amount and $6 is the tax amount. Then, from this $100, the seller must subtract CIT ("corporate income tax") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax , the rest must be used to purchase goods in the warehouse or to production, employee salaries and other bills.
  23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_gradient "temperature rises in about 25–30 °C/km (72–87 °F/mi) of depth near the surface in most of the world." Reduce the cost of drilling, and everyone can benefit from the heat..
  24. Procedure for disabling SSL certificate verification errors in Chrome: https://superuser.com/questions/27268/how-do-i-disable-the-warning-chrome-gives-if-a-security-certificate-is-not-trust How about --ignore-certificate-errors in command-line?
  25. Sensei replied to mar_mar's topic in Speculations
    "Color" is a poor human perception of the wavelengths of visible light. When you look at the color "yellow" on an LCD, LED, CRT, smartphone screen, it is simply a mixture of red and green light at maximum values. A human perceives it as the color "yellow". But there is no yellow wavelength there at all! Some screens have three LEDs: red, green and blue. They form pulses. If the end of the pulse is at the beginning of the pulse, it is equivalent to a continuous signal, and we have the light of a given wavelength (R, G and B) on all the time. If the pulse on time is equal to the pulse off time, it is half bright, and so on. Everything else is created in the human brain. All the gray scales, all the intermediate colors. It is simply in the brain. It is called PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation You create it with 0, 1, on time and off time signals.

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