Shouldn't be this hard

Well, I did manage to get my Droid DNA back, which is all I wanted in the first place, AND, after almost 2 hours on the phone, this one hasn't dropped a call (fingers and toes crossed, knocking on all the wood I can find), so it is possible to get some help from Verizon.
My problem is with the company policies that made it impossible for the Customer Care reps to provide service. I got frustrated with them, and I'm sure they with me, but some corporate suit(s) are to blame, and they really need to rethink some of their decisions.
But I am happy and it was well worth the effort - even though it should NEVER EVER have been as difficult as it was.
The DNA is a fantastic phone, and my next phone will probably be another HTC as well. For folks that don't know, HTC phones are also the only phones that will receive MMS with data turned off :-) (for data misers like myself)
Woohoo!

I like the HTC ONE but don't like lwhat they did to the bottom 3 buttons. Should be Menu, Home, Back. Not Back, HTC logo, Home.
I'll wait for the next one too.....

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Might be the blue one, but I can't find any documentation anywhere.
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Moving house shouldn't be this hard!!!

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I like the HTC ONE but don't like lwhat they did to the bottom 3 buttons. Should be Menu, Home, Back. Not Back, HTC logo, Home.
I'll wait for the next one too.....

Kept getting pop up messages to update Mozilla browser which I did today. When I click on the icon , it won't open. shouldn't be this hard!!

Updated to latest version today and it won't
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Exporting Widescreen - It shouldn't be this difficult!

Hello all,
I really hope someone can help me here, I'm a long-term user of Premiere Pro yet I recently upgraded to CS4 with the new media encoder, and simple operations now seem impossible, in this scenerio - exporting a widescreen video...in widescreen!
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Ryan

The other formats won't let me change the frame size from 720x576.
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The only real safe bet, in my mind, is to use square pixels when encoding for computer playback, especially when dealing with less-than-technically-savvy clients. Computers use square pixels, and that's what they like. Encode using square pixels for web playback and local playback formats (like WMV, FLV, H.264, some QT flavors), and you'll avoid the weird stretchies. This does, of course, involve some small amount of computation on your part to determine what is the proper pixel count when using square pixels, but in the case of 16:9 widescreen display, it's usually just a case of dividing your height by 9, and multiplying that result by 16 to get the width. Punch those values into AME, and set your pixel aspect ratio to Square Pixels, and you should be in good shape... pun slightly intended.

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This should be so simple, yet I fear a dearth of solutions.
I built a big, fat pdf deliverable for a client using structured Frame 9/DITA. They're tickled pink. Now they want, for a difference audience, a book composed of only the tasks. No concepts or reference topics. I'll want to include the "topic" topics because they're what I used for the chapter titles and brief intro blurb. Other than that, just the tasks, ma'am.
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Ideas?

larose7 wrote:
This should be so simple, yet I fear a dearth of solutions.
I built a big, fat pdf deliverable for a client using structured Frame 9/DITA. They're tickled pink. Now they want, for a difference audience, a book composed of only the tasks. No concepts or reference topics. I'll want to include the "topic" topics because they're what I used for the chapter titles and brief intro blurb. Other than that, just the tasks, ma'am.
My own requirement is that the process must be automated. Manually setting attributes on every topic I want or don't want doesn't cut it. While I don't mind doing some manuaI labor initially, I need a way that the client can generate this book automatically, going forward. It really shouldn't be so hard to just exclude all concepts and ref topics, or to include only topics and tasks. But the only way I can find to do this is by filtering by attribute, which means manually setting attributes every time. Although I haven't gotten very creating with attributes, I don't know of a way you can automatically set a particular attribute value every time the element is used.
Ideas?
I haven't worked with structured FM in a long time, and never did anything with DITA or filtering by attributes, so this might just be a wild shot:
If there's some consistency to the items you want to tag with one or the other condition, you might be able to use a combination of Edit > Copy > Special to copy a condition from a sample to which it's applied, and Find/Replace > By Pasting, to apply the copied condition to found instances of the element you want to conditionalize.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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Optical Bus:
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Hi.
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