The full truth is openoffice sucks and is hardly usable for real world use.
Have you actually used OpenOffice.org in the real world? Five or six years ago, I was in the mortgage industry and I used Calc to create some pretty complicated spreadsheets such as amortization tables (including adjustable rates loans). In fact, I used such spreadsheets as a sales tool because I could show a client how much he or she could save by refinancing or the potential impact of rate changes on an ARM.
"Hardly usable for real world use"? Bah. Hyperbole not based on real world use. Is it right for every situation? No, it's not but it is sufficient for about 95% of real world users.
I may sound like a jerkwad here, but why waste all that battery power watching a dvd when you could watch the divx version off local storage?
That's not a jerkwad sort of suggestion. If one knows one is going on a flight/trip, it makes all the sense in the world to rip that video to the harddrive where battery performance is far greater than with a DVD spinning for a couple hours. I'd recommend handbrake. http://handbrake.fr/
No. It's pure naivete to think that Tesla will somehow continue in this business as a car manufacturer. They don't even manufacture the body of the car they sell. They are an IP company through and through.
O, how I hope you're wrong. I hope I am not merely naive. The Model S appears to be one heck of a car. I have long dreamed of a purely electric car. If they are successful with it and the price drops ~$15,000 (due to improved manufacturing efficiency), I think this car could become very popular and make a huge impact in the car industry.
How does a company that makes $1,000,000 in profit over 1 full year, get 465 Million dollars in loans from our government?? How will they pay that back in a reasonable time?
Imagine you have an account at a bank that has unlimited ability to borrow money from other banks. Now imagine that bank actually borrows money from other banks to pay the interest on the previously borrowed money. It's not a problem for the bank because if the interest payments get too large, the bank can---and will---borrow still more money. Now say you ask to borrow money from that bank. The amount is less than an hour's worth of revenue (real and borrowed) for the bank. If you default on the loan, the bank can just borrow more money to cover the loss. At best you can only pay back interest on this relatively small loan. Do you really think this bank would care?
I don't know about other women, but I don't care to be the recipient of any kind of sacrifice. Obviously this woman has the qualities he values, such that he wants to marry her. We should love one another for our virtues, not our vices...
Oh, we do love one another for our virtues, but our love is also in spite of our vices.
As a woman, you don't want a man who will care for you when you are sick, even if he would rather go golfing with his friends? You don't want a man who will spend time planning a date or will go out of his way to find the perfect gift for you on your birthday? You don't want a man who is concerned about your needs over his own?
Wait, what? Christ died for the church? I sincerely hope you're just trolling... or being sarcastic or whatever.
Huh? Ephesians 5:25-28: "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her..."
The christian ideas about marriage are sick to the core and should never be applied without liberal amounts of interpretation.
Huh? "Christian ideas about marriage" like, "Husbands, love your wives?" Wow. Nasty stuff.
Fact is, the christian interpretation of the bible is very heartless and uncaring, no matter the words they spout.
Huh? "Love your neighbor as yourself." Oh, the cruelty. Dude, are you serious, or are you just spewing anti-Christian hate?
Love your wife sacrificially, even when she DOES NOT deserve it? I know that christians tend to sound like crackpots, but how in the seven levels of hell do you expect this to work?
Ah! A great question! The answer is not that difficult. Jesus Christ, the eternal God who became a Man, died in my place and suffered the just penalty for my sin---and I don't deserve it! Because Jesus Christ is able to forgive me when I don't deserve it, I am able to forgive my wife of 15+ years, regardless of whether she deserves my love. I forgive as I have been forgiven.
Do you really think your it-girl wife will respect you for lying at her feet whimpering for attention like a dog, never saying a word while she throws your money out the window? This is the stuff sitcom-stereotypes are made of and you want to tell us this somehow works?
No, I don't think a groveling, whimpering man would be respected (and I do not grovel or whimper), nor did I suggest that the OP become such a man. What I told him to do was to respond in love and kindness when his wife is not acting loving. Oh, it's far easier to just respond in kind, but to respond with kindness? That's tough, but without it a marriage is doomed.
Marital harmony will ensue... It isn't harmony, when half of the involved people have to completely bend over backwards for the other in the hopes that this person will take pity on them for it...
It is not in hopes of receiving pity. It is out of love for my wife that I bend over backwards for her. If she needed my heart for a transplant, I would gladly give it to her. I love her. That's not an emotional feeling. It's an action.
Man, you are a seriously fucked up individual...
Yes, but not for the reason(s) you cited. As broken and fractured as I am, God still became a man and still offered Himself as a substitute for me, and still bore my sins in His body on the cross. That's love.
(Some) women may think that what they want in a man is someone who is 'in touch with his emotional side', essentially a girly-man, but in reality a woman with a penis isn't any more attractive to women than it is to men.
You have to be someone she can look up to. In this day and age this doesn't have to mean huge amounts of muscle bulk. She might look up to you for your leet skillz, your artistic prowess or your meticulously cultivated good manners, whatever, but if that element is missing, but being all touchy-feely is not a plus, but something that has to be compensated for.
This also explains why highly successful women so often end up single, or go through divorce after divorce. The selection of men they can look up to is much smaller, and in that segment they have to compete with not very successful but seriously good looking girls.
This poster is on to something. I teach a class for engaged and newlywed couples at my church. The poster is, perhaps unknowingly, articulating the biblical instructions for husbands and wives. Wives are to respect their husbands. If he is not a muscular jock (which is not a great reason for respect), she should find reason to respect him (his intelligence, kindness, love for others, character, work ethic, etc.). Husbands are instructed to love their wives sacrificially. The Apostle Paul wrote that a husband's love should be like that of Jesus Christ, who died for His bride (the church, who doesn't deserve His love).
Advice for the original poster: love your wife sacrificially, even when she doesn't deserve it. Become wife-centered rather than self-centered, focusing on her needs. If you do that, your wife will respect you. Marital harmony will ensue.
If I had an old 17mpg pickup I would be allowed to get a 19mpg SUV and get the free congressional money...
Wait. There's free congressional money? I think you mean free taxpayer money. But even that statement is false. You see, that $4500 comes from me and you and your neighbor and the guy next to him---and all of our children. It is not free. This is the problem with all of these congressional expenditures. They're spending your money and claiming to be helping you. The President and the Congress are so arrogant (as they have been for decades) to believe that they know better how to spend your money. America ceased to be truly free when America allowed its leaders to determine how the taxpayers should spend their own money.
Repeat after me: "There's no freedom without economic freedom...there's no freedom without economic freedom...there's no freedom without economic freedom..."
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Dan Brown claims 99% correctness with the Da Vinci Code. I'm sure no one would care if he hadn't made that and similar claims.
Yes, but he also claimed the other 47% was just made up.
And now the moderators wonder: +1 Funny...or +1 Informative?
It's a good thing, too, what with all the muscles and tendons that attach to the tailbone. What would they attach to if we didn't have a tailbone? I mean, can you imagine not having a tailbone as a vital part of the weight-bearing structure? We wouldn't be able to sit down.
I've been using Debian for..... 8+ years, since 2001, and I've NEVER heard anything about "GNOME" being in the "default" install. Anything resembling a "default" install would be the the Debian base system, which includes things like basic system files, core-utils, bash, pam, etc.
If one installs, via tasksel, the "desktop" environment, GNOME is installed by default. One can certainly install another window manager/desktop environment, but unless one specifies another wm/de, one gets GNOME. From the Debian wiki: "You could simply mark the Desktop environment option. It will install the packages for Gnome and some packages that are considered "standard" for a Debian desktop." (http://wiki.debian.org/tasksel) It is in this sense that GNOME is in the "default" install.
Well, they're not going to run Windows any time soon. Good opportunity here. I hope the application availability is going to be good - as a Nokia Tablet user I've been running a variant of Linux on a ARM processor for some time now and I can't wait to get my hands on a ARM netbook.
For all the fun poked at Debian for having such lengthy release cycles, I, for one, am glad that ARM is a fully-supported architecture. (Part of the reason for the long release cycles is each supported platform must be ready for the release.) I could have essentially the same setup on my x86-based laptop as I could on an ARM-based laptop. In other words, application availability really isn't an issue when it comes to the ARM platform.
Except Yahweh is is close to the pronunciation of the Hebrew for "I AM", which is God's name as per Exodus 3.
This is not precisely true. God told Moses, "I am who I am," which in Hebrew is 'Ehyeh. "Yahweh" is closer to "He is who He is." We have the pronunciation of YHWH from Clement of Alexandria (second century) who heard Christians and Jews pronouncing the name YHWH. He transliterated it into Greek with "iota alpha omicron upsilon epsilon," or iaoue, hence, "Yahweh."
Bonus tidbit: It was some time after Clement that the Jews stopped pronouncing YHWH, substituting "the Lord" whenever YHWH occurred in the text; whenever you see "the LORD" (in all caps) in the Old Testament it is the Hebrew name YHWH as the translators often follow the Jewish convention.
I don't get what the big deal is. How can they lead to healthy living? They don't exactly have a lot of nutritional value---just a smidgeon of vitamin C. Don't get me wrong; they are yummy and all---especially the hot house variety, with fewer seeds and the flavor...oh, the flavor is wonderful.
Handbrake is the hands-down option for DVD ripping under Linux. It has presets for iPod, PSP, etc. I have tried lots and lots of apps for this, including my beloved commandline. Nothing beats Handbrake. See http://handbrake.fr/ for more info.
No actually I believe there is global warming. As I run a financial blog I did some number crunching on CO2, energy and the likes. Conclusion, unless we cut by 50% we are screwed. So my advocacy is that we need to deal with the change coming.
Do I care if it came from humanity or not? Not really, actually it's beside the point. Sort of like arguing about a truck that's about to hit a crowd of people and asking, "well did that truck stop before making a right hand turn or not?" I said who shives a ghit, we need to do something about the ramifications of the truck....
Actually, it matters greatly whether global warming is caused by human behavior. If it does not---if it's actually a naturally occurring phenomenon, whether caused by the sun or some other extremely complex and poorly understood source---then it is very unlikely that human behavior can change it. That is the problem with incredibly expensive plans such as Kyoto (trillions upon trillions of US dollars). We must first understand the cause before we can correct it---if it's even correctable. If it is caused by human activity then changing human activity should be able to correct it. If it is not it is doubtful that changing human activity can have much of an impact. I think we need to have a much better idea of the cause before we make decisions that could greatly alter human society.
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The full truth is openoffice sucks and is hardly usable for real world use.
Have you actually used OpenOffice.org in the real world? Five or six years ago, I was in the mortgage industry and I used Calc to create some pretty complicated spreadsheets such as amortization tables (including adjustable rates loans). In fact, I used such spreadsheets as a sales tool because I could show a client how much he or she could save by refinancing or the potential impact of rate changes on an ARM.
"Hardly usable for real world use"? Bah. Hyperbole not based on real world use. Is it right for every situation? No, it's not but it is sufficient for about 95% of real world users.
You changed the outcome by observing it.
True dat. If they hadn't seen it, it wouldn't have happened.
A username could be anything, but root is always root.
Pfff. I changed "root" to "admin". No one would ever expect that on my Linux box. Security through obscurity, baby.
I may sound like a jerkwad here, but why waste all that battery power watching a dvd when you could watch the divx version off local storage?
That's not a jerkwad sort of suggestion. If one knows one is going on a flight/trip, it makes all the sense in the world to rip that video to the harddrive where battery performance is far greater than with a DVD spinning for a couple hours. I'd recommend handbrake. http://handbrake.fr/
No. It's pure naivete to think that Tesla will somehow continue in this business as a car manufacturer. They don't even manufacture the body of the car they sell. They are an IP company through and through.
O, how I hope you're wrong. I hope I am not merely naive. The Model S appears to be one heck of a car. I have long dreamed of a purely electric car. If they are successful with it and the price drops ~$15,000 (due to improved manufacturing efficiency), I think this car could become very popular and make a huge impact in the car industry.
How does a company that makes $1,000,000 in profit over 1 full year, get 465 Million dollars in loans from our government?? How will they pay that back in a reasonable time?
Imagine you have an account at a bank that has unlimited ability to borrow money from other banks. Now imagine that bank actually borrows money from other banks to pay the interest on the previously borrowed money. It's not a problem for the bank because if the interest payments get too large, the bank can---and will---borrow still more money. Now say you ask to borrow money from that bank. The amount is less than an hour's worth of revenue (real and borrowed) for the bank. If you default on the loan, the bank can just borrow more money to cover the loss. At best you can only pay back interest on this relatively small loan. Do you really think this bank would care?
Welcome to America.
What mistake? The ribbon is fine, it takes 5 mins to pick up unless you have a learning disability or a brain dead MS hater.
Does that five minutes start before or after the half hour it takes to figure out how to open a stupid file?
I don't know about other women, but I don't care to be the recipient of any kind of sacrifice. Obviously this woman has the qualities he values, such that he wants to marry her. We should love one another for our virtues, not our vices...
Oh, we do love one another for our virtues, but our love is also in spite of our vices.
As a woman, you don't want a man who will care for you when you are sick, even if he would rather go golfing with his friends? You don't want a man who will spend time planning a date or will go out of his way to find the perfect gift for you on your birthday? You don't want a man who is concerned about your needs over his own?
Huh.
Wait, what? Christ died for the church? I sincerely hope you're just trolling... or being sarcastic or whatever.
Huh? Ephesians 5:25-28: "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her..."
The christian ideas about marriage are sick to the core and should never be applied without liberal amounts of interpretation.
Huh? "Christian ideas about marriage" like, "Husbands, love your wives?" Wow. Nasty stuff.
Fact is, the christian interpretation of the bible is very heartless and uncaring, no matter the words they spout.
Huh? "Love your neighbor as yourself." Oh, the cruelty. Dude, are you serious, or are you just spewing anti-Christian hate?
Love your wife sacrificially, even when she DOES NOT deserve it? I know that christians tend to sound like crackpots, but how in the seven levels of hell do you expect this to work?
Ah! A great question! The answer is not that difficult. Jesus Christ, the eternal God who became a Man, died in my place and suffered the just penalty for my sin---and I don't deserve it! Because Jesus Christ is able to forgive me when I don't deserve it, I am able to forgive my wife of 15+ years, regardless of whether she deserves my love. I forgive as I have been forgiven.
Do you really think your it-girl wife will respect you for lying at her feet whimpering for attention like a dog, never saying a word while she throws your money out the window? This is the stuff sitcom-stereotypes are made of and you want to tell us this somehow works?
No, I don't think a groveling, whimpering man would be respected (and I do not grovel or whimper), nor did I suggest that the OP become such a man. What I told him to do was to respond in love and kindness when his wife is not acting loving. Oh, it's far easier to just respond in kind, but to respond with kindness? That's tough, but without it a marriage is doomed.
Marital harmony will ensue... It isn't harmony, when half of the involved people have to completely bend over backwards for the other in the hopes that this person will take pity on them for it...
It is not in hopes of receiving pity. It is out of love for my wife that I bend over backwards for her. If she needed my heart for a transplant, I would gladly give it to her. I love her. That's not an emotional feeling. It's an action.
Man, you are a seriously fucked up individual...
Yes, but not for the reason(s) you cited. As broken and fractured as I am, God still became a man and still offered Himself as a substitute for me, and still bore my sins in His body on the cross. That's love.
(Some) women may think that what they want in a man is someone who is 'in touch with his emotional side', essentially a girly-man, but in reality a woman with a penis isn't any more attractive to women than it is to men.
You have to be someone she can look up to. In this day and age this doesn't have to mean huge amounts of muscle bulk. She might look up to you for your leet skillz, your artistic prowess or your meticulously cultivated good manners, whatever, but if that element is missing, but being all touchy-feely is not a plus, but something that has to be compensated for.
This also explains why highly successful women so often end up single, or go through divorce after divorce. The selection of men they can look up to is much smaller, and in that segment they have to compete with not very successful but seriously good looking girls.
This poster is on to something. I teach a class for engaged and newlywed couples at my church. The poster is, perhaps unknowingly, articulating the biblical instructions for husbands and wives. Wives are to respect their husbands. If he is not a muscular jock (which is not a great reason for respect), she should find reason to respect him (his intelligence, kindness, love for others, character, work ethic, etc.). Husbands are instructed to love their wives sacrificially. The Apostle Paul wrote that a husband's love should be like that of Jesus Christ, who died for His bride (the church, who doesn't deserve His love).
Advice for the original poster: love your wife sacrificially, even when she doesn't deserve it. Become wife-centered rather than self-centered, focusing on her needs. If you do that, your wife will respect you. Marital harmony will ensue.
If I had an old 17mpg pickup I would be allowed to get a 19mpg SUV and get the free congressional money...
Wait. There's free congressional money? I think you mean free taxpayer money. But even that statement is false. You see, that $4500 comes from me and you and your neighbor and the guy next to him---and all of our children. It is not free. This is the problem with all of these congressional expenditures. They're spending your money and claiming to be helping you. The President and the Congress are so arrogant (as they have been for decades) to believe that they know better how to spend your money. America ceased to be truly free when America allowed its leaders to determine how the taxpayers should spend their own money.
Repeat after me: "There's no freedom without economic freedom...there's no freedom without economic freedom...there's no freedom without economic freedom..."
Dan Brown claims 99% correctness with the Da Vinci Code. I'm sure no one would care if he hadn't made that and similar claims.
Yes, but he also claimed the other 47% was just made up.
And now the moderators wonder: +1 Funny...or +1 Informative?
Huh. I had no idea that watching my wife grow in beauty over 15 years was watching evolution in process. Nice.
This discovery has lead to the solution to a particular slashdot meme.
a. Yes, this post is sappy and sentimental.
b. Yes, I am sending my wife a link to this post.
c. Yes, the kids are going to bed early tonight.
d. Profit!!!
Rats. It wasn't nearly as romantic as I intended, since I had to explain what a slashdot meme is and what this particular meme meant.
Then again, she did say it was funny, and more importantly, romantic.
Profit.
Huh. I had no idea that watching my wife grow in beauty over 15 years was watching evolution in process. Nice.
This discovery has lead to the solution to a particular slashdot meme.
a. Yes, this post is sappy and sentimental.
b. Yes, I am sending my wife a link to this post.
c. Yes, the kids are going to bed early tonight.
d. Profit!!!
And humans still have tailbones.
It's a good thing, too, what with all the muscles and tendons that attach to the tailbone. What would they attach to if we didn't have a tailbone? I mean, can you imagine not having a tailbone as a vital part of the weight-bearing structure? We wouldn't be able to sit down.
Basically, they only allow developers who are willing to sit through a 30-minute video to work on their software.
...during which Theo tells them if they don't hit their release deadlines, he'll eat their children.
Hopefully the drag from all those windmills will slow the earth's rotation enough to eliminate those damnable leap years.
Pff...what if they're facing the other way? Hmm? Wouldn't that speed up the earth?
Am I missing something?
I've been using Debian for ..... 8+ years, since 2001, and I've NEVER heard anything about "GNOME" being in the "default" install. Anything resembling a "default" install would be the the Debian base system, which includes things like basic system files, core-utils, bash, pam, etc.
If one installs, via tasksel, the "desktop" environment, GNOME is installed by default. One can certainly install another window manager/desktop environment, but unless one specifies another wm/de, one gets GNOME. From the Debian wiki: "You could simply mark the Desktop environment option. It will install the packages for Gnome and some packages that are considered "standard" for a Debian desktop." (http://wiki.debian.org/tasksel) It is in this sense that GNOME is in the "default" install.
Well, they're not going to run Windows any time soon. Good opportunity here. I hope the application availability is going to be good - as a Nokia Tablet user I've been running a variant of Linux on a ARM processor for some time now and I can't wait to get my hands on a ARM netbook.
For all the fun poked at Debian for having such lengthy release cycles, I, for one, am glad that ARM is a fully-supported architecture. (Part of the reason for the long release cycles is each supported platform must be ready for the release.) I could have essentially the same setup on my x86-based laptop as I could on an ARM-based laptop. In other words, application availability really isn't an issue when it comes to the ARM platform.
Meet the new overlords, same as the old overlords.
Dude, 01/20/09 was several months ago.
Since you need root on the box first, how is this anything new?
If you have root you can plant a root kit in any number of ways, heck just replace the kernel if you want.
If you have root why in the world would you need to plant a root kit?
Except Yahweh is is close to the pronunciation of the Hebrew for "I AM", which is God's name as per Exodus 3.
This is not precisely true. God told Moses, "I am who I am," which in Hebrew is 'Ehyeh. "Yahweh" is closer to "He is who He is." We have the pronunciation of YHWH from Clement of Alexandria (second century) who heard Christians and Jews pronouncing the name YHWH. He transliterated it into Greek with "iota alpha omicron upsilon epsilon," or iaoue, hence, "Yahweh."
Bonus tidbit: It was some time after Clement that the Jews stopped pronouncing YHWH, substituting "the Lord" whenever YHWH occurred in the text; whenever you see "the LORD" (in all caps) in the Old Testament it is the Hebrew name YHWH as the translators often follow the Jewish convention.
See the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh
I don't get what the big deal is. How can they lead to healthy living? They don't exactly have a lot of nutritional value---just a smidgeon of vitamin C. Don't get me wrong; they are yummy and all---especially the hot house variety, with fewer seeds and the flavor...oh, the flavor is wonderful.
Wha? Oh. *N*ukes.
Sorry.
Handbrake is the hands-down option for DVD ripping under Linux. It has presets for iPod, PSP, etc. I have tried lots and lots of apps for this, including my beloved commandline. Nothing beats Handbrake. See http://handbrake.fr/ for more info.
No actually I believe there is global warming. As I run a financial blog I did some number crunching on CO2, energy and the likes. Conclusion, unless we cut by 50% we are screwed. So my advocacy is that we need to deal with the change coming.
Do I care if it came from humanity or not? Not really, actually it's beside the point. Sort of like arguing about a truck that's about to hit a crowd of people and asking, "well did that truck stop before making a right hand turn or not?" I said who shives a ghit, we need to do something about the ramifications of the truck....
Actually, it matters greatly whether global warming is caused by human behavior. If it does not---if it's actually a naturally occurring phenomenon, whether caused by the sun or some other extremely complex and poorly understood source---then it is very unlikely that human behavior can change it. That is the problem with incredibly expensive plans such as Kyoto (trillions upon trillions of US dollars). We must first understand the cause before we can correct it---if it's even correctable. If it is caused by human activity then changing human activity should be able to correct it. If it is not it is doubtful that changing human activity can have much of an impact. I think we need to have a much better idea of the cause before we make decisions that could greatly alter human society.