What the article really says (I know, who ever RTFA?) is that if everyone lives at the same standard of living as those people in Britain, then we'll need 2 1/2 earths, or whatever that crazy number was.
Last I checked, most of the world (including India, where TFA was published it seems) lives at a considerably lower standard, consuming far less resources than the "representative sample" of Britons.
The article isn't news. It's more make believe than blaming Katrina on not signing Kyoto.
I use it now and then for simple stuff, but apparently it's the "standard" for writing submissions. Almost all the stuff she sends and receives, including from published authors - so it's not just an "amateur" thing, is in.rtf format.
When she told me that, I tried using OO to open some.rtf's I had on my computer - very simple documents, but with font and formating.txt won't save. They opened ok, but for each one OO created a 2nd file with a $xxxx name to go along with the original.
I knew the.doc format keeps changing. I didn't know the.rtf does (or does it?, looking at posts further down). Maybe the folks making OO don't think the format gets enough use to justify development time for it.
Call me crazy but I can see the conflict of interest. You fork a project to create a better version. LibreOffice and Open Office are directly competitive products. How many people do you think will use both?
I haven't heard much about LibreOffice before this, but I know I had to buy a copy of MS Office 2010 for my wife because Open Office mangles the.rtf files she sends and receives from other writers.
Hopefully one fork or the other will become standards compliant soon.
Amazing how everyone immediately thinks of encryptions and sniffers in terms of security.
But how many well-placed bombs would it take to take down the entire internet (or at least most of it). It's not nearly as redundant a network as some would like to believe, and if you can take down the backbone, the trunks have nothing to talk to.
You don't have to convince a jury. There's a ton of case law precedent in the U.S. that pornography is indeed "art" and fully entitled to copyright protection.
I'm not sure Larry Flint was the first case, but it was one of the first big milestones, and there have been others since.
First, I would think slashdotter's would be for this. Remember, the GPL and other "free" or "open" licenses all get their power of enforcement from copyright law. So if you want strong open source software licenses, you need strong copyright protection.
Second, Porn sites don't cost much. A lot of them will offer a discount if you click out of the signup page. Join for a few months, download all you want high quality and DRM free, then cancel. Beats searching around through random links where you never know what will pop up.
Third, porn may be one of the last pillars we have left in this economy. When all the other businesses are starving for customers, people still want their porn. And it's the adult entertainment industry that's been on the forefront of internet and network development for years. Stuff like live chat, streaming video, secure billing.
Without porn the internet would still be a dry and barren wasteland where only the most computer savvy could tread.
Microsoft is always going to be concerned with maximizing their profits (their legal fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders). If they see ways to do that by working with or using open source, then they will.
Microsoft is in a position similar to IBM, where they can provide solutions and support them. If part of that solution is open source, MS still gets all the support dollars. A lot of companies use some open source stuff now, but the last thing you want to tell your PHB is that your support comes from some usenet forum.
to adult stem cells - you know, the ones that have actually led to productive therapies.
Embryonic stem cells are said to have a lot of "potential". Strange, by this time I would think they would have come up with something for all the hype made over them.
1) Isn't hard to find - my local bookstore has a copy of it on the shelf, and I'm sure the OSG would have access to a copy, so why bother looking at Wikipedia at all.
2) Isn't used to diagnose mental illness. What it does do is classify them - basically it's a big book of definitions and billing codes. If you did want to diagnose someone from a book, you'd use the appropriate Handbook for Differential Diagnosis (also not hard to find a copy of).
Of course, none of this matters, since the material in the book(s) needs to be interpreted and applied to a specific individual's case by someone qualified to make proper use of the information - you know, those guys who go to school for years and years then study under other practicioners for a few more years of residency.
It may be pedantic, but MS Office is the de facto standard for word processessing, spreadsheets, etc...
If a program can't open and view Office files correctly, than that app is not standards compliant and is not yet ready for prime time. All the talk in the world about "moving targets" doesn't change that. Now how compliant Open Office is depends on what files you need to view. If the people you deal with also use open office or older versions of MS office, then you'll be good to go.
1)Dune - Frank Herbert 2)20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne 3)Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip Dick 4)The Hobbit (alt choice: The Silmarillion) - JRR Tolkien 5)The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan 6)Le Morte d'Arthur - Sir Thomas Mallory
Those should give students a lot to think about and discuss while being interesting enough to actually read at the same time (I still remember slugging through The Fountainhead in high school).
You can still buy real chemistry sets - at least in the US. Do a search for chem c3000. You could get quite a bit of "bang" out of that if you wanted to.
As for science in general - it depends by what you mean by "popular". How many young children learn about dinosaurs? What about forensic science (Quincy, CSI, NCIS, etc...)? Learning about science is fun. Actually learning science is hard (not that it can't be fun). Add to that the level of mathematics required for most "real" science and it's not surprising that most people choose other vocations.
"Animal Science" is another popular one to watch on TV (Jacques Cousteau, Steve Irwin, et al.), but most people turn aside once they realize how much work (and not particular exciting work at that) is involved to learn that craft.
First they need to troll through all the communication looking for patterns. Once they find something, then they can eavesdrop specific targets and go for a warrant.
But you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.
It sounds like not much is changing really, except FISA has given the ok to the datamining.
Talk to any victim of sexual abuse you know. Most of them don't report it, especially while it's happening.
Fear and shame are very, very powerful forces.
What is truly scary is the thought that he kidnapped Ownby as a "replacement" for Hornbeck. Hornbeck had grown older, and was starting to look like an adult. Ownby is a very young looking boy.
Even more scary is the thought that Shawn may have been a replacement for someone else.
People were upset that Microsoft was bundling Internet Explorer too deeply in the OS.
Now, they've found a way to sever one of their products, MS Office, away from IE, at least for this purpose, so Internet Explorer is no longer required for Office users to render email.
I would think Slashdotters would consider this a Good Thing(tm).
If you RTFA you'll notice that teachers are still free to use the movie in their classes, all they need to do is present an opposing viewpoint. That is consistent with the school's position on all controversial topics, and yes, global warming (and especially its causes) is controversial.
If the theory behind global warming is so strong, then surely it will hold up under debate and scrutiny. Global warming advocates should welcome this opportunity to confront their skeptics head on.
Instead, they attempt to shout down and silence their critics (which seems to be a liberal trend). That doesn't strike me as being confident in your position.
If they allowed consumers to purchase the laptops, they would need to develop the corporate infrastructure that would begin at the factory and end with a worker putting a single laptop in a box and shipping that box to a single consumer.
There went all the cost savings they gained by only supporting large purchases.
By only supporting large sales, they can pack, sell, and ship these computers by the container. Load the container onto a train at the factory (or truck to a train), then to a shipping port, and ship to final destination country.
Is not a tragedy to the people who get in first and use the most.
You've got to play things smart. The investment arm of the foundation should be concerned with making the most money they can. They do limit themselves somewhat, by not buying tobacco stocks for example, but their investment decisions should be motivated by financial statements, not fuzzy ethical questions.
The grant side should be (and is) concerned with the ethical, moral, and responsible side of things.
That is the best way to do the most good for the largest amount of people.
Yes, but what if I don't care about funding one for some kid somewhere.
Presented with a choice of paying $300 for a new one, or $200 (or less) for a new one off ebay, I'll go with the one off ebay.
Here's another consideration. The laptops will cost the physical distributors in these countries nothing. That's a pretty high incentive and opportunity for corruption if a market for these does develop.
And considering that Pakistan is one of the countries on the list, I don't think potential ties to terrorism is very far-fetched at all.
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He should start buying his poster hooks from walmart...
Mod this up.
What the article really says (I know, who ever RTFA?) is that if everyone lives at the same standard of living as those people in Britain, then we'll need 2 1/2 earths, or whatever that crazy number was.
Last I checked, most of the world (including India, where TFA was published it seems) lives at a considerably lower standard, consuming far less resources than the "representative sample" of Britons.
The article isn't news. It's more make believe than blaming Katrina on not signing Kyoto.
*shrug*
I use it now and then for simple stuff, but apparently it's the "standard" for writing submissions. Almost all the stuff she sends and receives, including from published authors - so it's not just an "amateur" thing, is in .rtf format.
When she told me that, I tried using OO to open some .rtf's I had on my computer - very simple documents, but with font and formating .txt won't save. They opened ok, but for each one OO created a 2nd file with a $xxxx name to go along with the original.
I knew the .doc format keeps changing. I didn't know the .rtf does (or does it?, looking at posts further down). Maybe the folks making OO don't think the format gets enough use to justify development time for it.
Call me crazy but I can see the conflict of interest. You fork a project to create a better version. LibreOffice and Open Office are directly competitive products. How many people do you think will use both?
I haven't heard much about LibreOffice before this, but I know I had to buy a copy of MS Office 2010 for my wife because Open Office mangles the .rtf files she sends and receives from other writers.
Hopefully one fork or the other will become standards compliant soon.
Amazing how everyone immediately thinks of encryptions and sniffers in terms of security.
But how many well-placed bombs would it take to take down the entire internet (or at least most of it). It's not nearly as redundant a network as some would like to believe, and if you can take down the backbone, the trunks have nothing to talk to.
You don't have to convince a jury. There's a ton of case law precedent in the U.S. that pornography is indeed "art" and fully entitled to copyright protection.
I'm not sure Larry Flint was the first case, but it was one of the first big milestones, and there have been others since.
First, I would think slashdotter's would be for this. Remember, the GPL and other "free" or "open" licenses all get their power of enforcement from copyright law. So if you want strong open source software licenses, you need strong copyright protection.
Second, Porn sites don't cost much. A lot of them will offer a discount if you click out of the signup page. Join for a few months, download all you want high quality and DRM free, then cancel. Beats searching around through random links where you never know what will pop up.
Third, porn may be one of the last pillars we have left in this economy. When all the other businesses are starving for customers, people still want their porn. And it's the adult entertainment industry that's been on the forefront of internet and network development for years. Stuff like live chat, streaming video, secure billing.
Without porn the internet would still be a dry and barren wasteland where only the most computer savvy could tread.
Microsoft is always going to be concerned with maximizing their profits (their legal fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders). If they see ways to do that by working with or using open source, then they will.
Microsoft is in a position similar to IBM, where they can provide solutions and support them. If part of that solution is open source, MS still gets all the support dollars. A lot of companies use some open source stuff now, but the last thing you want to tell your PHB is that your support comes from some usenet forum.
to adult stem cells - you know, the ones that have actually led to productive therapies.
Embryonic stem cells are said to have a lot of "potential". Strange, by this time I would think they would have come up with something for all the hype made over them.
1) Isn't hard to find - my local bookstore has a copy of it on the shelf, and I'm sure the OSG would have access to a copy, so why bother looking at Wikipedia at all. 2) Isn't used to diagnose mental illness. What it does do is classify them - basically it's a big book of definitions and billing codes. If you did want to diagnose someone from a book, you'd use the appropriate Handbook for Differential Diagnosis (also not hard to find a copy of). Of course, none of this matters, since the material in the book(s) needs to be interpreted and applied to a specific individual's case by someone qualified to make proper use of the information - you know, those guys who go to school for years and years then study under other practicioners for a few more years of residency.
It may be pedantic, but MS Office is the de facto standard for word processessing, spreadsheets, etc...
If a program can't open and view Office files correctly, than that app is not standards compliant and is not yet ready for prime time. All the talk in the world about "moving targets" doesn't change that. Now how compliant Open Office is depends on what files you need to view. If the people you deal with also use open office or older versions of MS office, then you'll be good to go.
First off, is this a one semester class or two?
1)Dune - Frank Herbert
2)20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
3)Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip Dick
4)The Hobbit (alt choice: The Silmarillion) - JRR Tolkien
5)The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
6)Le Morte d'Arthur - Sir Thomas Mallory
Those should give students a lot to think about and discuss while being interesting enough to actually read at the same time (I still remember slugging through The Fountainhead in high school).
But how many of those "drug cases" were drug sales used to finance terrorism or terrorist groups?
The two categories (drugs and terrorism) are not mutually exclusive.
You can still buy real chemistry sets - at least in the US. Do a search for chem c3000. You could get quite a bit of "bang" out of that if you wanted to. As for science in general - it depends by what you mean by "popular". How many young children learn about dinosaurs? What about forensic science (Quincy, CSI, NCIS, etc...)? Learning about science is fun. Actually learning science is hard (not that it can't be fun). Add to that the level of mathematics required for most "real" science and it's not surprising that most people choose other vocations. "Animal Science" is another popular one to watch on TV (Jacques Cousteau, Steve Irwin, et al.), but most people turn aside once they realize how much work (and not particular exciting work at that) is involved to learn that craft.
here and think that taxes are voluntary. The government isn't too keen on that apparently.
Block off Europe from the internet and make them build their own network if they want one.
They love to get the benefits of U.S. technology and services but love to hate them and fight them at the same time.
Which is a good thing.
First they need to troll through all the communication looking for patterns. Once they find something, then they can eavesdrop specific targets and go for a warrant.
But you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.
It sounds like not much is changing really, except FISA has given the ok to the datamining.
Talk to any victim of sexual abuse you know. Most of them don't report it, especially while it's happening.
Fear and shame are very, very powerful forces.
What is truly scary is the thought that he kidnapped Ownby as a "replacement" for Hornbeck. Hornbeck had grown older, and was starting to look like an adult. Ownby is a very young looking boy.
Even more scary is the thought that Shawn may have been a replacement for someone else.
is to sell the mailing lists to raise more money for more pork projects.
The only thing that should be written on a head of Guinness is a shamrock!
People were upset that Microsoft was bundling Internet Explorer too deeply in the OS.
Now, they've found a way to sever one of their products, MS Office, away from IE, at least for this purpose, so Internet Explorer is no longer required for Office users to render email.
I would think Slashdotters would consider this a Good Thing(tm).
If you RTFA you'll notice that teachers are still free to use the movie in their classes, all they need to do is present an opposing viewpoint. That is consistent with the school's position on all controversial topics, and yes, global warming (and especially its causes) is controversial.
If the theory behind global warming is so strong, then surely it will hold up under debate and scrutiny. Global warming advocates should welcome this opportunity to confront their skeptics head on.
Instead, they attempt to shout down and silence their critics (which seems to be a liberal trend). That doesn't strike me as being confident in your position.
If they allowed consumers to purchase the laptops, they would need to develop the corporate infrastructure that would begin at the factory and end with a worker putting a single laptop in a box and shipping that box to a single consumer.
There went all the cost savings they gained by only supporting large purchases.
By only supporting large sales, they can pack, sell, and ship these computers by the container. Load the container onto a train at the factory (or truck to a train), then to a shipping port, and ship to final destination country.
Far simpler and more economical.
Is not a tragedy to the people who get in first and use the most.
You've got to play things smart. The investment arm of the foundation should be concerned with making the most money they can. They do limit themselves somewhat, by not buying tobacco stocks for example, but their investment decisions should be motivated by financial statements, not fuzzy ethical questions.
The grant side should be (and is) concerned with the ethical, moral, and responsible side of things.
That is the best way to do the most good for the largest amount of people.
Yes, but what if I don't care about funding one for some kid somewhere.
Presented with a choice of paying $300 for a new one, or $200 (or less) for a new one off ebay, I'll go with the one off ebay.
Here's another consideration. The laptops will cost the physical distributors in these countries nothing. That's a pretty high incentive and opportunity for corruption if a market for these does develop.
And considering that Pakistan is one of the countries on the list, I don't think potential ties to terrorism is very far-fetched at all.