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Re:Say what you will about Microsoft, but...
According to this site, A4 envelopes are either C4 (folded in half) or DL (folded in thirds).
To print to an envelope, method 1:
- Open a new Writer document
- Format->Page
- Click on the "Page" tab
- Change the "Format" to "C4" or "DL" (if you want A4; #10 if you want US letter folded in thirds; there are other paper/envelope sizes available
- You probably also want to set the page to "Landscape" mode
- Click the "OK" button
- Your envelope is now ready; type on it as you wish.
To print to an envelope, method 2 (or attach one to a document):
- Open a new Writer document
- Insert->Envelope
- Click on the "Format" tab
- As before, set the "Format" ("Size" sub-category) to the envelope type desired.
- Click on the "Printer" tab and verify how your printer will be printing on the envelope
- If desired, you can click on the "Envelope" tab to set sender/receiver addresse and you can even use the "Database" "Table" and "Field" lists to configure a list of addresses to print envelopes for. More information is available here and here (the second and first major results for a Google search for "a4 envelope openoffice" by the way)>
- Click "New Doc" to create a new document consisting of your envelope, or "Insert" to insert it into an existing document
- Enjoy!
(I understand that you're a troll and can't help but spread misinformation, but this is for those with an open mind who found your post "insightful".)
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Mod parent down - false claim
> Canada actually consumes more energy per person than the US and also produces more CO2 per person.
The first claim is true, but the second---the one pertinent to this discussion---is false, even using the most recent data available (2004).
Canada uses more energy per capita than the US, but has lower CO2 emissions per capita (link1, link2, link3). -
Re:What about Canada?
Canada actually consumes more energy per person than the US and also produces more CO2 per person.
Americans like to come on Canadian forums and repeat that claim, though I've yet to see anyone give a citation. Would you like to be the first?
I did a quick google and didn't find much except this page which states that Canada has a slightly lower per capita production of CO2 than the USA. -
Re:$100 a pop!?
Excuse me Pickle-san, but my worry is ethics ne.
Even if Chito-san were willing to be ground up, to do so violates his human rights. -
My Breakup with Star Trek
A while ago, I wrote a quiet little rant about how I broke up with Star Trek.
I think a hiatus would be a very good thing. It just might make my heart grow fonder. But I'm not holding my breath.
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Re:Advice
There's lots of people in this world that are just as smart as you.
The thing that separates intelligence and genius is a lot of disciplined, tiring, rigorous work. And by tiring, I mean staying at the lab for days straight while your roommate calls the cops thinking you have been nabbed. The trap I see many "unusually bright" people fall into is that because everything came easily to them in High School, they never learned to really work at things. But really working at things is how you get somewhere in life... really working at things is how you separate the unusually bright and kind of good from the unusually bright who dedicates their life in a sheer bloody minded pursuit. Simply being brighter and better than most of the people in your High School isn't even enough to avoid crappy jobs... a friend of mine memorized my set of Encyclopedia Britannicas in the span of two weeks, yet jumps from crappy retail job to crappy retail job because he just doesn't "enjoy" doing anything. In reality, he's not dedicated enough to get beyond crappy jobs and into something that he would like doing.
We all say that intelligence is the highest achievement, but that's not entirely true. Intelligence is distinct from knowledge, which is distinct from dedication. All three are necessary for success.
If you want my advice, do a trial by fire. Do something REALLY hard and unpleasant, like outward bound, the AIDS ride across Alaska, or spend a summer of thankless backbreaking toil on an Alaskan fishing boat. Ultimately, you will be glad you did.
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The UNIX clock will overflow on my birthday!
By coincidence, the UNIX clock will overflow on my birthday. In fact, it will almost overflow in my birth-hour. How cool is that?!
You're right, it's not cool, it's just geeky and lame. But I wrote about it on my website.
How lame is that?
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Re:Virtually real
Flamebait, huh? Typically
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Re:Virtually real
If you believe that he didn't exist, then how can you ignore all of the evidence that supports his existance? The existance of Jesus was recorded by several different people in different places and at different times. The existance of Jesus is accepted by most scholars, including atheists.
This turns out not to be the case. There is quite a bit of doubt about the authenticity of the bible, especially since the gospel accounts were all written well after Jesus's time and contradict each other.
The problem there lies that the majority of people he interacted with (back then and even now) claimed that he was a healer, a great teacher, and a prophet. I doubt you would get the same response for the cults you refer to.
The majority of people who interacted with Hercules (according to the Greek writings we have) described him as a great hero. Is he real? Superman always seems to get good press in his various books. Do you see the point? All you have to describe Jesus's supposed actions is the bible, the authenticity of which is in grave doubt (since it contains many errors, inconsistencies and tales of things that didn't happen).
This is very much untrue. The authenticity of the Bible has been proven by many scholars. I would suggest you read the book "The Case For Christ" by Lee Strobel. It contains several scientific references to why the bible is authentic.
It certainly has not been proven that the bible is divinely inspired or a true history. I suggest you read the various rebuttals that have been written to Strobel's book.
They did know right from wrong, and we still do... by our conscious. But we "choose" to do wrong by our free will.
Reread Genesis; it was the Tree of Knowledge of Right and Wrong that they ate from. God said they'd die, the snake said they wouldn't. Gee, they didn't die. But that's not the point; the point is that they didn't know right from wrong until they ate of the tree. And that's what pissed god off, that they learned right from wrong. Even though, being all-knowing, he knew in advance that this would happen.
God wishes that none shall perish (John 3: 16). All we have to do is to accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour which saves us from our debt of sins and therefore we do not go to hell.
If he wished that none would perish, none would perish. All-powerful, remember? The christian god is the ultimate mafia boss. "Gee, that's a nice soul you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it."
Jesus had to die not to change the rule, but to keep the rule. The consequence of sin is death (spirtual death) and therefore there has to be payment for our sins. And with Jesus's death, He pays the debt for us so we do not have to die.
The consequence of sin (according to christian beliefs) is only death because god wants it to be. If he didn't want that to be the consequence, it wouldn't be (all-powerful, remember?) God creates the rule, creates the consequence, creates beings that he knows will break the rule, then threatens to torture them for all eternity unless they jump through his hoops. If the christian god existed, by definition nothing would happen in this universe in anything other than the precise way in which that god wanted it to happen (all-powerful, remember?)
You are right. But not for the reasons you state. It's because people don't want to believe that we are sinful and not perfect.
This is an interesting theory. I assume you have evidence that atheists consider thems -
Supply, Demand and the American Way
Assuming fixed demand, the price of oil would rise as the supply diminished.
This statement is true in economics, however in economics "supply" is defined differently than the parent implies.
The economical supply is the amount of oil (being sold/ready to sell) on the market (which is continuing to increase, and has actually grown by a factor of 6 in the last 50 years, despite a "diminishing supply").
In short, the world's supply of oil and the market's supply are NOT the same thing. The market's supply is measured in barrel's per year and the world's supply is measured in barrels.
The market's supply is actually based on the costs of production (and not on limits of raw materials). In the long term, the market's supply will increase if the market is favorable (selling products for a profit) and decrease if the market is unfavorable (making a loss) as competitors enter and exit the market or companies expand or contract production. Current market (and government-legislated) conditions for the oil market are favorable, so supply is increasing.
At some point, the limited raw materials for the oil market will raise costs such that supply will fall. For oil (as a raw material), when it occurs, this will progress rapidly (making oil unaffordable to most within a period of 2-3 years I speculate) due to the incredible inertia of everything that runs off of it (since oil is an inelastic good, no matter what the cost, in the short term demand will remain constant regardless of price). This rapidity means that there will not be time for alternatives to take its place without incredible economic consequences (unless everyone has spent time preparing for it.....it's probably like Y2K that way).
People may keep cars 2-3 years (unless you're like me=8-10yrs) but large industries are based off of oil, and would take decades for them to make a smooth transition.
Other, noneconomic factors also will keep the oil prices artificially low:
Political Pressure: Some governments (read US) are in the habit of pressuring other countries to keep prices low. This is remarkably akin to convincing someone to give you a dollar by pointing a gun to his head. He probably won't be worried about whether it's his last dollar at this point either. -
Where do they get these names from?
"W32/Nachi.worm"...sounds like a new spinoff group from Japan's pop-idol Hello! Project
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Depends what you measure...While Canada's generation of pollutants is increasing, it's still producing less greenhouse gases than the United States. From John H. Walsh's 2001 carbon dioxide fact sheet:
Tons of atmospheric carbon generated per capita (2001):
- Canada: 4.4
- United States: 5.9
- European Union: 2.5
- China: 0.58
Also, I would point out that while Canada's generation of all pollutants rose by about 7%, its production of greenhouse gases dropped by about 2.2%, more than the US's did.
Note also there is too much focus on the Kyoto treaty. This treaty is a dog. It would not do more than slow global warming by a few decades.
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Yawn (again)Nothing new there. Is Slashdot a nostalgia technology site????
More than 20 years ago, I remember seeing at a computer show a daisywheel printer whose head was propelled by a linear motor (it was manufactured by a subsidiary of Exxon).
And in 1984, in Toronto, the Scarborough RT (Rapid Transit) line opened, which was the first full scale ICTS implementation. Since then, the small linear motor subway has found home in Vancouver and Detroit.
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Yawn (again)Nothing new there. Is Slashdot a nostalgia technology site????
More than 20 years ago, I remember seeing at a computer show a daisywheel printer whose head was propelled by a linear motor (it was manufactured by a subsidiary of Exxon).
And in 1984, in Toronto, the Scarborough RT (Rapid Transit) line opened, which was the first full scale ICTS implementation. Since then, the small linear motor subway has found home in Vancouver and Detroit.
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Re:Still needs cooling.
Not much, since you would still need a refridgeration unit to keep the 'wire' cold. Super low means on the order of a few Kelvin. High-temp superconductors means about the same temperature of Liquid Nitrogen or better.
Did you even read the article? You don't need to keep quantum wires cold at all, just so long as the structure isn't damaged. Any old piece of wire will superconduct at low enough temperatures, that's no big deal... quantum wires here superconduct because there's no defects that lead to resistance. Nothing in the article suggests low temperatures, or mentions Cooper pairs, which are typically found in a superconductor.
For those of you who do not know, a Cooper pair is a pair of electrons whose close proximity allows their spins to cancel out, and acts as a "Boson" rather than a "Fermion." Bosons obey one sort of statistical laws, whereas Fermions obey another. Fermions have half-integer multiple spins, and bosons have whole-integer multiple spins, so combining two fermions together creates the effect of a boson. Because bosons do not follow the Pauli exclusion rule, they can all be in the same energy state, and flow through a superconductor unimpeded. The article does not mention this.
Once again, if they discovered that a tiny wire conducted electricity perfectly when very cold, that would not be news, that would be 100 year old history. It's a sorta moot point anyways, you won't be seeing this in your portable computer for a long time.
More on superconductors here.
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Inter.net
I found this quote on my company's US website:
Inter.net was created by joining together all of PSINet's consumer Internet and portal businesses and is the only global consumer Internet Service Provider. While PSINet will retain a minority ownership position in Inter.net Global, there will be no future financial obligation to Inter.net Global and no seats on the Board of Directors.
The whole link is here.
I guess this means that all former small business subscribers to PSInet may actually get folded to Inter.Net. Since I work for the Philippine subsidiary, I have no idea how this might work in the US or if this might actually happen.
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Nearly there...
It's been coming for a while now; I reckon we're abut ten years away from a practical application.
For more on regeneration, check this out.