Not to discredit your statement, which is perfectly valid, you misspelled foreigners; I know, it's one of many words that breaks the bloody i before e rule.
What I'd like to know is how your post, which says next to nothing even remotely threatening, at least to me, got modded as Flamebait. Maybe because the modders think you're threatening them.
Neither is prime; 65535 in octal is 27485, a multiple of five, and 65535 hex is 415029, a multiple of three. I really wish some of the old 6502 representation of Base-n numbers were still used; the hex value you asked is $65535, but I'm not sure about the octal, however, as it's been a very long time.
Safari, Quicktime, and Itunes aren't wedged into the system to the point that removing them would damage the OS, which is the way IE and Windows Media Player are programmed into Windows. If you type in the path of a folder on your computer in IE, you instantly get Windows Explorer, because both applications are the same. If you were to somehow successfully remove IE, your system would no longer function properly, and the same goes for Windows Media Player. That's why faults in IE and Media Player can cause issues with other web browsers and media programs. The same issues don't show up with remote apps on the Mac OS because they're not having to rely on the Mac apps to get the job done. That's the difference.
Horsehockey. My assembled computer, not manufactured, is basically a high end, low budget system which I purchased and built for far less than I'd be able to get a true equivalent to from Dell, Compaq, or even Gateway, and that includes the two foot tall tower. All of the equipment one needs for a modern system is relatively inexpensive; if I needed to upgrade my entire system today, or just build one from scratch, without the OS, I'd be paying about $650-750 for everything, including labor. As for the OS, Ubuntu is free, so there's no added cost there, and putting the machine together takes less than a day if you get all of the hardware at the same time.
Well written point; I agree completely. As much as I prefer my AMD over any Intel CPU, I would like Ubuntu drivers for my AMD board that make using the sleep functionality work. Of course, that's a minor issue, and Ubuntu manages everything else perfectly fine, so I'm not complaining too much.
That's not actually true. On one hand, while it is possible for more than one generator to exist on the same lines, it is impossible to distinguish which generator is producing which power; forcing the primary electric company in an area to allow competitors to 'use its power lines' would be absurd for technical reasons.
On the other hand, our present power grid is unnecessary. Edison had two options for delivering power to the masses, centralized or individualized, and chose to support the centralized structure because he felt it would work better. In practice, however, it has been clearly shown that the power grid is more vulnerable than individualized power would ever be. With centralized power, all terrorists or any enemy has to do to cripple a society is take out the power grid, the generators, or knock out a few dams, and everything goes down. With individualized power, each person has his or her own generator, and is therefore responsible for its upkeep. Individualized power, which is more feasible than you might realize, is more secure, and allows true competition in a way centralized power can never provide.
I can't say whether that's particularly true or not, but what I can say is that when I bought my MacBook, after nearly a decade without any regular Mac use, only occasional use of my mother's then Mac OS 9 iMac, I had no problems adapting to the new interface. It just seemed like the old interface, as far as I was concerned, and my mother, who had never used Mac OS X before buying her new iMac, found the new interface equally easy to fall into. Yes, there are annoyances, but for the most part, my mother has been quite satisfied with her new machine. IMHO, what Apple did with Mac OS X was make the old interface simpler and more user friendly than it had been before, while from what I've seen of Vista, it's become more cumbersome and complicated than before, and while I've seen many people rave about Aero, I've personally found the interface to be a horrible, disgusting mess.
I really like the look and feel of Mac OS X, particularly Aqua. Aero is like putting thick smoky glass in front of the background, which severely distorts the image; I wouldn't be able to use Aero for more than a few minutes without switching to the classic view (I detest XP's eye candy, too; makes the computer feel like a Fisher-Price toy that I can't really do anything with). Aqua's transparencies are more subtle and pleasant, giving me the ability to see what's behind what I'm looking at without distorting it; I can still read what's behind the menu or the dialog box, which I can't in Vista.
Sorry about the long post. Seems I've made a habit of that tonight. Weird how your mind can play those kinds of tricks on you when you're exhausted.
AFAIK, one thing *nix does that Vista doesn't is demand passwords for everything that requires administrative privileges without exception. Linux and MacOS X have always demanded that I authenticate myself whenever I'm trying to do something restrictive, even though I'm always logged in as an administrator on both machines, and sometimes, I'm asked twice. I've read and heard that UAC merely asks those logged in as an administrator to accept/refuse a request without asking for a password for anything it thinks requires more attention. IMO, that's a significant difference.
Interesting viewpoint. I'm not sure what percentage of Christians feel this way, though to say that there is a single Christian religion, IMO, is inaccurate, particularly considering the tremendous differences between so many Christian based religions, such as Catholicism and Protestantism. I, myself, am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but I, too, have made many of the same mistakes you refer to. I once tried to push my cousin toward believing as I do, and ultimately turned him into an enemy; I have long been very unhappy with my decisions in that regard. I also tried to help another friend understand some of the similarities between her religion and my own with similar results, though in her case I avoided trying to impose my beliefs, but merely explain them. I, however, do not feel your need to separate myself from my church to avoid systematic corruption; the LDS religion heavily discourages my first attempt at converting another person, and while my second method is preferred, I'm not sure I managed that appropriately. I won't deny that there are members of my church who do not listen as carefully to the advice our leaders give us regarding proselyting, but I would prefer not to judge an entire people, of any religion, nation, or organization of any type, by the actions of a few of those I meet from those organizations or nations. I personally feel that extremism in any form is not as common as it appears to be, and I remember that sensationalism tends to draw attention far more often than those who seek peace for themselves.
I wasn't that interested in the story, just the comments, but I like your analysis. Just a few minor grammatical and spelling issues I'd like to point out to you, for your own future benefit.
First of all, complaint is a noun, complain is a verb; using complaint as a verb hurts your sentences by disrupting the word flow.
Secondly, and this was probably just a simple typo, you used the word 'and' in place of 'an' in your security statement; not a major issue, but something that again, but as I am a writer, I notice typos more often than others might.
Again, I'm not trying to chastise you with this, merely point out a few minor points where your comments could improve, becoming more legible for the reader.
I'm not particularly fond of GNOME, and I'd rather have something that functioned a little more like the MacOS Finder, which, IMHO, is a much sleeker, and simpler interface with more raw power and a smaller margin for stupid mistakes, but I totally agree with you that it's infinitely better than Windows Explorer; I, personally, detested the XP start menu and look, and always switched back to the classic menu and look because I felt they worked better, though I generally tolerated them in the first place, but I love the Applications, Places, and System menus in GNOME. Note that I wouldn't want to see the same thing in Finder, simply because I've quickly come to feel that the Apple menu and the dock are superior, particularly the ability to add shortcuts to folders to the right side of the dock so I can easily and quickly access commonly used folders. Also, the way GNOME handles the desktop, which is more MacOS like, is, IMO, much better than the way Windows Explorer does; I detest having to open a global 'drives' folder to access any of the files on my computer. The only thing GNOME does really well that I feel the MacOS could improve upon is showing hidden files in folder views, but that's not a major issue to me. Anyway, sorry about the long post; just wanted to express my opinion in comparison to yours.
I completely agree with you regarding the superiority of WordPerfect over MS Word. WordPerfect was written by writers, for everyone. They knew what a good writer needed, and expanded on that design to give everyone the ability to produce excellent products. While I was pissed at Novell for buying it, after the founders hosed the company, for the simple purpose of ripping out one product from it. I'm more pissed at Corel, who added a little functionality to it with versions 7, 8, and 9, then let the program fall into a nasty slump as they decided it needed to be more MS Word like; I tried WP Office 12 once because I didn't have my WP Office 9 install disks available to me, and I switched back to WP Office 9 at the first opportunity. I've had to use MS Word several times, and I've always found the experience painful; WordPerfect is true WYSIWYG, even in draft view, while MS Word cannot be used efficiently without Print Preview.
I particularly detest the way MS Word selects text; can anyone give me one good reason why Shift-End should select all of the text from my current cursor position to the beginning of the next line? To me, Shift-End should select text exactly the way simply pressing End moves the cursor, by selecting all of the text to the end of the line, excluding the carriage return; I cannot think of any reason to change the function of the end key, or any other cursor control key, such as home, page up/down, etc, while selecting. Also, WordPerfect has key combinations that let you easily move the cursor to the top of the previous or next pages, or to the top or bottom of the current page, and don't even get me started on the amazingly useful formatting marks that I've never seen in any word processor except WordPerfect. Sorry about making this so long; I just wanted to add my two cents, but WordPerfect is something I'm very passionate about, as I'm a writer.
I can side with you completely on these points, but the problem I face the most is with Calc and Impress, mostly the former. I do a lot of heavy spreadsheet work that is quite unusual, as I frequently use spreadsheets for things people wouldn't commonly think of doing that way, simply because I find the process of using the spreadsheet for that application more sensible and useful. For example, I'm designing a 2D video game, and I've used spreadsheets for maps, item list tables, enemy definition tables, and other things that I can't reasonably rely on Writer to deal with (I've tried dealing with tables in Writer, and they just don't feel right; I'm a huge WordPerfect fan, as the original software worked, though I really loved Version 9, and tables in WordPerfect lived up to the name, IMHO). The problem I face is that after an hour or two of work, which, I'll admit, involves, among other things, intense use of copying and pasting colored cells, the program bogs down to the point that I can't use it and have to quit and restart. Impress never allows me to do more than an hour worth of work without doing the same. I never have this problem with any other application, and I never had to restart Quattro Pro or Presentations, the WordPerfect equivalents to Calc and Impress.
As a very experienced user and occasional programmer (I'm a bit too much of a perfectionist to spend too much time coding, but I know what I'm talking about, even if I can't always figure out what to do), I can tell that this is a memory leak involving the clipboard, which, in my opinion, is inexcusable. I'm also using a 56k connection, due to certain situations beyond my control, which makes downloading the gigantic updates impractical. I know OOo has a lot of support on/., but I have been unable to add my own support due to productivity issues I commonly experience such as those I have already outlined, as well as a number of text issues with Impress that I never had to think about in Presentations; Presentations would allow me to set font settings without actually committing to entering text, and I detest the use of list boxes as color selectors in any program; every color selector in WP was a table or a color wheel, which made color selection simple and intuitive. Furthermore, I've come to absolutely detest most of Writer's features, like the insanely wide line spacing 'single' spacing gives. Sorry about the long post, but I just wanted to add a few of my own comments to what I felt was your excellent viewpoint.
Better yet, I upgraded my GForce2 32MB card with a GForce4 128MB card, not sure of the exact details, but I don't often pay much attention to more than the model and memory, and the only thing I had to do was reactivate the accelerated graphics driver. My friend, who gave me the new card, thought we might have to switch to another base driver, but he was pleasantly surprised to find he didn't have to.
I think the GP wasn't aware that the GGP was being facetious. Mildly off topic, it's spelled misread, a single word. Just trying to help you out so others can understand you more easily.
That is one way of doing it, yes, but it's not even half as efficient as the way WP does it, and unnecessarily wastes time, memory, and resources, which was part of my point. You can do it the same way in WP, but again, that wastes time, memory, and resources for something that shouldn't. Another method is to change the tab settings, but again, that wastes time, memory, and resources that could be better used for other purposes.
The codes I referred to are part of WP's file format, and I can't see why XML couldn't utilize the same resources to produce an effect that is as useful. Center on margin and right flush are both formatting codes that change the justification for a portion of a line without changing the current justification or the tab settings; also very useful if you only need one or two lines of text centered or right flushed. Indent allows you to indent a single paragraph without changing your margin settings; there are actually two settings, single, which does only the left side, and double, which does both. Again, these are things that could easily be included within the file format.
A word processor file format should be designed to support all of the needed features, and the three I've posted are extremely efficient codes that provide functionality for very common elements within many documents. It is a travesty that these features are not present in many modern word processing applications. The absence of these features is one of the reasons I refuse to ever use MS Word for anything more than what I have absolutely no other choice regarding. It is also one of the primary reasons I cannot stand using Open Office Writer. IMO, word processors should be developed for people who write; all other use falls into play automatically. WP satisfies this requirement, but I haven't seen any other word processor applications that do the same.
There are a number of in text features WP has always had that I've never seen a direct equivalent to in any other word processor, despite how obvious it would seem that such features should be, and I can't for the life of me figure out why ODF can't support them. Three of the biggest are indent, center on margin, and right flush; with the latter two it is actually possible, without touching your tabs, to divide a line into three sections, which I have actually done a few times. It's also so much easier to just right flush the two or three lines of a document header rather than relying on switching to right justification, typing in a few lines, then switching to left justification, or full justification, or center justification to get the text to look right. One my resume, which I developed in WP, the job dates have been centered using center on margin after the company name was typed on the left hand side, which helps make it look more professional. Anyway, that's my two cents on WP (I actually love WP9, and have found it to be very stable).
I know this is a little late, but maybe you should provide the dictionary definition. Actually, I will:
communismn. a social theory that the common people should own all property and means of production.
socialismn. ownership of exploitable capital and means of production by the government, not by individuals or by private enterprise.
Webster Handy College Dictionary Third Edition, New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. New York August p 629 1995
In practice, communism essentially requires that a country's entire economy be socialist; note that the only real definition for 'common people' is the community as a whole, which ultimately means government. Socialism was never, and will never, be about helping other people, but about stripping all people of the right to private property.
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Not to discredit your statement, which is perfectly valid, you misspelled foreigners; I know, it's one of many words that breaks the bloody i before e rule.
Try 4369 * 15 (which should equal 65535).
What I'd like to know is how your post, which says next to nothing even remotely threatening, at least to me, got modded as Flamebait. Maybe because the modders think you're threatening them.
What did Excel and Microsoft Calculator return for 1/77.1? My calculator (an HP), returned .0129701686122.
For the same reason the 64 bit version of Windows can't deal with 32 bit code while every other 64 bit OS can; they're lazy.
Neither is prime; 65535 in octal is 27485, a multiple of five, and 65535 hex is 415029, a multiple of three. I really wish some of the old 6502 representation of Base-n numbers were still used; the hex value you asked is $65535, but I'm not sure about the octal, however, as it's been a very long time.
Which, I believe, proves my point about the technical absurdity of distributing electricity that way.
Safari, Quicktime, and Itunes aren't wedged into the system to the point that removing them would damage the OS, which is the way IE and Windows Media Player are programmed into Windows. If you type in the path of a folder on your computer in IE, you instantly get Windows Explorer, because both applications are the same. If you were to somehow successfully remove IE, your system would no longer function properly, and the same goes for Windows Media Player. That's why faults in IE and Media Player can cause issues with other web browsers and media programs. The same issues don't show up with remote apps on the Mac OS because they're not having to rely on the Mac apps to get the job done. That's the difference.
Excellent point, but did you have to post as an AC?
Horsehockey. My assembled computer, not manufactured, is basically a high end, low budget system which I purchased and built for far less than I'd be able to get a true equivalent to from Dell, Compaq, or even Gateway, and that includes the two foot tall tower. All of the equipment one needs for a modern system is relatively inexpensive; if I needed to upgrade my entire system today, or just build one from scratch, without the OS, I'd be paying about $650-750 for everything, including labor. As for the OS, Ubuntu is free, so there's no added cost there, and putting the machine together takes less than a day if you get all of the hardware at the same time.
Well written point; I agree completely. As much as I prefer my AMD over any Intel CPU, I would like Ubuntu drivers for my AMD board that make using the sleep functionality work. Of course, that's a minor issue, and Ubuntu manages everything else perfectly fine, so I'm not complaining too much.
On the other hand, our present power grid is unnecessary. Edison had two options for delivering power to the masses, centralized or individualized, and chose to support the centralized structure because he felt it would work better. In practice, however, it has been clearly shown that the power grid is more vulnerable than individualized power would ever be. With centralized power, all terrorists or any enemy has to do to cripple a society is take out the power grid, the generators, or knock out a few dams, and everything goes down. With individualized power, each person has his or her own generator, and is therefore responsible for its upkeep. Individualized power, which is more feasible than you might realize, is more secure, and allows true competition in a way centralized power can never provide.
I really like the look and feel of Mac OS X, particularly Aqua. Aero is like putting thick smoky glass in front of the background, which severely distorts the image; I wouldn't be able to use Aero for more than a few minutes without switching to the classic view (I detest XP's eye candy, too; makes the computer feel like a Fisher-Price toy that I can't really do anything with). Aqua's transparencies are more subtle and pleasant, giving me the ability to see what's behind what I'm looking at without distorting it; I can still read what's behind the menu or the dialog box, which I can't in Vista.
Sorry about the long post. Seems I've made a habit of that tonight. Weird how your mind can play those kinds of tricks on you when you're exhausted.
AFAIK, one thing *nix does that Vista doesn't is demand passwords for everything that requires administrative privileges without exception. Linux and MacOS X have always demanded that I authenticate myself whenever I'm trying to do something restrictive, even though I'm always logged in as an administrator on both machines, and sometimes, I'm asked twice. I've read and heard that UAC merely asks those logged in as an administrator to accept/refuse a request without asking for a password for anything it thinks requires more attention. IMO, that's a significant difference.
Interesting viewpoint. I'm not sure what percentage of Christians feel this way, though to say that there is a single Christian religion, IMO, is inaccurate, particularly considering the tremendous differences between so many Christian based religions, such as Catholicism and Protestantism. I, myself, am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but I, too, have made many of the same mistakes you refer to. I once tried to push my cousin toward believing as I do, and ultimately turned him into an enemy; I have long been very unhappy with my decisions in that regard. I also tried to help another friend understand some of the similarities between her religion and my own with similar results, though in her case I avoided trying to impose my beliefs, but merely explain them. I, however, do not feel your need to separate myself from my church to avoid systematic corruption; the LDS religion heavily discourages my first attempt at converting another person, and while my second method is preferred, I'm not sure I managed that appropriately. I won't deny that there are members of my church who do not listen as carefully to the advice our leaders give us regarding proselyting, but I would prefer not to judge an entire people, of any religion, nation, or organization of any type, by the actions of a few of those I meet from those organizations or nations. I personally feel that extremism in any form is not as common as it appears to be, and I remember that sensationalism tends to draw attention far more often than those who seek peace for themselves.
First of all, complaint is a noun, complain is a verb; using complaint as a verb hurts your sentences by disrupting the word flow.
Secondly, and this was probably just a simple typo, you used the word 'and' in place of 'an' in your security statement; not a major issue, but something that again, but as I am a writer, I notice typos more often than others might.
Again, I'm not trying to chastise you with this, merely point out a few minor points where your comments could improve, becoming more legible for the reader.
I'm not particularly fond of GNOME, and I'd rather have something that functioned a little more like the MacOS Finder, which, IMHO, is a much sleeker, and simpler interface with more raw power and a smaller margin for stupid mistakes, but I totally agree with you that it's infinitely better than Windows Explorer; I, personally, detested the XP start menu and look, and always switched back to the classic menu and look because I felt they worked better, though I generally tolerated them in the first place, but I love the Applications, Places, and System menus in GNOME. Note that I wouldn't want to see the same thing in Finder, simply because I've quickly come to feel that the Apple menu and the dock are superior, particularly the ability to add shortcuts to folders to the right side of the dock so I can easily and quickly access commonly used folders. Also, the way GNOME handles the desktop, which is more MacOS like, is, IMO, much better than the way Windows Explorer does; I detest having to open a global 'drives' folder to access any of the files on my computer. The only thing GNOME does really well that I feel the MacOS could improve upon is showing hidden files in folder views, but that's not a major issue to me. Anyway, sorry about the long post; just wanted to express my opinion in comparison to yours.
I particularly detest the way MS Word selects text; can anyone give me one good reason why Shift-End should select all of the text from my current cursor position to the beginning of the next line? To me, Shift-End should select text exactly the way simply pressing End moves the cursor, by selecting all of the text to the end of the line, excluding the carriage return; I cannot think of any reason to change the function of the end key, or any other cursor control key, such as home, page up/down, etc, while selecting. Also, WordPerfect has key combinations that let you easily move the cursor to the top of the previous or next pages, or to the top or bottom of the current page, and don't even get me started on the amazingly useful formatting marks that I've never seen in any word processor except WordPerfect. Sorry about making this so long; I just wanted to add my two cents, but WordPerfect is something I'm very passionate about, as I'm a writer.
As a very experienced user and occasional programmer (I'm a bit too much of a perfectionist to spend too much time coding, but I know what I'm talking about, even if I can't always figure out what to do), I can tell that this is a memory leak involving the clipboard, which, in my opinion, is inexcusable. I'm also using a 56k connection, due to certain situations beyond my control, which makes downloading the gigantic updates impractical. I know OOo has a lot of support on /., but I have been unable to add my own support due to productivity issues I commonly experience such as those I have already outlined, as well as a number of text issues with Impress that I never had to think about in Presentations; Presentations would allow me to set font settings without actually committing to entering text, and I detest the use of list boxes as color selectors in any program; every color selector in WP was a table or a color wheel, which made color selection simple and intuitive. Furthermore, I've come to absolutely detest most of Writer's features, like the insanely wide line spacing 'single' spacing gives. Sorry about the long post, but I just wanted to add a few of my own comments to what I felt was your excellent viewpoint.
Better yet, I upgraded my GForce2 32MB card with a GForce4 128MB card, not sure of the exact details, but I don't often pay much attention to more than the model and memory, and the only thing I had to do was reactivate the accelerated graphics driver. My friend, who gave me the new card, thought we might have to switch to another base driver, but he was pleasantly surprised to find he didn't have to.
I think the GP wasn't aware that the GGP was being facetious. Mildly off topic, it's spelled misread, a single word. Just trying to help you out so others can understand you more easily.
The codes I referred to are part of WP's file format, and I can't see why XML couldn't utilize the same resources to produce an effect that is as useful. Center on margin and right flush are both formatting codes that change the justification for a portion of a line without changing the current justification or the tab settings; also very useful if you only need one or two lines of text centered or right flushed. Indent allows you to indent a single paragraph without changing your margin settings; there are actually two settings, single, which does only the left side, and double, which does both. Again, these are things that could easily be included within the file format. A word processor file format should be designed to support all of the needed features, and the three I've posted are extremely efficient codes that provide functionality for very common elements within many documents. It is a travesty that these features are not present in many modern word processing applications. The absence of these features is one of the reasons I refuse to ever use MS Word for anything more than what I have absolutely no other choice regarding. It is also one of the primary reasons I cannot stand using Open Office Writer. IMO, word processors should be developed for people who write; all other use falls into play automatically. WP satisfies this requirement, but I haven't seen any other word processor applications that do the same.
There are a number of in text features WP has always had that I've never seen a direct equivalent to in any other word processor, despite how obvious it would seem that such features should be, and I can't for the life of me figure out why ODF can't support them. Three of the biggest are indent, center on margin, and right flush; with the latter two it is actually possible, without touching your tabs, to divide a line into three sections, which I have actually done a few times. It's also so much easier to just right flush the two or three lines of a document header rather than relying on switching to right justification, typing in a few lines, then switching to left justification, or full justification, or center justification to get the text to look right. One my resume, which I developed in WP, the job dates have been centered using center on margin after the company name was typed on the left hand side, which helps make it look more professional. Anyway, that's my two cents on WP (I actually love WP9, and have found it to be very stable).
communismn. a social theory that the common people should own all property and means of production.
socialismn. ownership of exploitable capital and means of production by the government, not by individuals or by private enterprise.
Webster Handy College Dictionary Third Edition, New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. New York August p 629 1995 In practice, communism essentially requires that a country's entire economy be socialist; note that the only real definition for 'common people' is the community as a whole, which ultimately means government. Socialism was never, and will never, be about helping other people, but about stripping all people of the right to private property.
Sorry, by NES, I meant GameCube.