For another take on the whole question, there's CS Lewis' trilogy, where he starts from the premise that Earth is the only fallen planet, and the only one needing redemption.
Nothing new about theology wondering about extraterrestrial life, but it's good to see the Vatican finally getting round to it.
The summary is totally false, and badly misrepresents what the full article actually says.
Once the bleeding dismembered quote is replaced in its context, it simply notes that Vista/Win7 don't use menu bars, and these are generally replaced by ribbons. Firefox needs to do something to replace these missing menus, that's all.
So let's all stop panicking. Current plans are apparently to make it look like Chrome, not Word.
And that's pretty much why OO.o needs to implement it. Like it or not, more and more people will become used to using the ribbon over the next years. Good or bad, it will become the standard. Let MS do the initial development, force business to retrain, whatever, but once there's a good proportion of people using the ribbon, OO.o's got to follow suit.
3. Admins that set up such systems generally forbid the use of password keychains.
End result? At work, I have to remember passwords for about 8-10 systems, all with different rules and password expiration schedules. Naturally, each will lock you out after 3 tries. So what I generally have to do is, each time I've gone more than a week without using a particular system, I get the IT guy to reset the password. Only because I'm one of the good guys, I don't write them down. But I've been sorely tempted.
Why not just write all your passwords (with the corresponding web site or app) in a text file, and then put that in an encrypted zip file? Simple to use, will accept the most complicated passwords, and you can even add in free text!
In the end this sounds like feature bloat. It is not part of what MS said IE8 would be, which is a faster, more standards based browser.
Although, to be scrupulously fair to Microsoft, this new browser loads pages faster, and follows standards better... so one could perhaps be forgiven for suggesting that IE8 actually is faster and more standards based regardless of any additional functionality.
Quite agree. As a "religious" person myself, I'm always interested in different points of view, but it's a bit discouraging when faced with someone who can't take the difference seriously, whether that person's beliefs are christian, muslim, atheist or whatever.
Give us the arguments, great, and let's discuss. Start by assuming others are morons, and you can't be taken as seriously. In Dawkins case it's particularly surprising as there's no shortage of professors with religious beliefs at Oxford University.
I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else.
I realise the reason for the 4.0 release, but I think they did it badly. They did so may changes it was a half-baked release. It may turn out to be the right decision in the end and I will re-try KDE, but I suspect I'm not the only person they lost.
I got the update through Fedora and there was a mismatch from KDE 3 to KDE 4.0. The desktop was not as functional and it was just a bad experience for me. I'll revisit it when I reinstall the next machine which tends to be every six to eight months.
Which isn't exactly the same thing, and probably not many people at KDE will be all that surprised. KDE4 is new, it has teething problems. It was risk, but we'll find out later if it was a risk worth taking.
It's a bit worrying that the creationist movement is starting to raise its head in Europe as well.
It's not starting to raise it's head over in Europe, and probably never will. Even in Christian circles it's a pretty limited phenomenon in the UK, and has been since Darwin got buried in Westminster Abbey.
I suspect the reason it's getting so much press recently is the rise in Atheistic Fundamentalism. The more cases of daft Christianity they can get in the newspapers, the more their stance seems reasonable.
This article is a case in point - Reiss is not even a creationist, but hey, let's create an uproar (these anti-enlightenment Christians eh, who've even infiltrated the Royal Society - Newton would be turning over in his grave... hold on...) and hope no-one notices.
And in the mobile phone market, it seems like Google and Apple (Goople?) are playing nice with each other, which will allow iPhone to rule the high end and Android to dominate the middle-to-low-end phone market. I don't know anyone who loves Windows Mobile, but a lot of people are pretty excited about their iPhones and/or the promise of Android. Yup, but the business market will find the ability to open and edit Office docs on the fly very tempting. Unless of course the move to XML allows everyone to write simple document viewers/editors, in which case it's anyone's game.
I don't think the Status Quo is justifiable. I don't think the lawsuits, the intimidation, the harsh penalties, none of this is justifiable I don't think that Status Quo can be justified either. They've caused far more damage to Music than p2p.
1. Post a notice saying it's bad to link to your website 2. Wait for the reaction, as gullibles add a load of links to your website just to spite you 3. Sip cider as your Googlerank and exposure quietly increase 4. [optional] ??? 5. Profit!
It looks to me like where this is really useful is in preparing the presentation. Rather than having to email versions around the office, forgetting which is the current one, all those involved can just edit it online.
As for doing a presentation, Firefox 3 should allow this app to work offline. That's when it gets interesting, and web connections are no longer an issue.
Basically, Torchwood = Doctor Who + sex/whatever - charm - decent storylines. Except for "They keep killing Suzie": that episode was good. Goodness knows how they got to make a second series though, as it was overall total crap.
Except for one problem. The majority of Christians belong to churches that don't, in fact, deny evolution. The key to all of this lies in the fact that a good many churches, including big ones like Catholicism, Lutheranism and Anglicanism, do not espouse Biblical literalism. Not every word of the Bible had to be a literal truth for the book to still be the word of God. ...particularly given that, in my experience at least, Genesis is not generally subtitled "A thesis. By God. How I created everything. For the benefit of 21st Century Scientists".
I mean, modernity is quaint and all that, but imposing a historical scientific reading on a book like Genesis is pure silliness.
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The US could even outsource it to the Chinese...
What does Gnome not do that you want it to?
Cancel caps lock with shift. The option disappeared a couple of years ago. Even Windows allows you to do that.
Interesting - thanks for that Dan.
For another take on the whole question, there's CS Lewis' trilogy, where he starts from the premise that Earth is the only fallen planet, and the only one needing redemption.
Nothing new about theology wondering about extraterrestrial life, but it's good to see the Vatican finally getting round to it.
The summary is totally false, and badly misrepresents what the full article actually says.
Once the bleeding dismembered quote is replaced in its context, it simply notes that Vista/Win7 don't use menu bars, and these are generally replaced by ribbons. Firefox needs to do something to replace these missing menus, that's all.
So let's all stop panicking. Current plans are apparently to make it look like Chrome, not Word.
And that's pretty much why OO.o needs to implement it. Like it or not, more and more people will become used to using the ribbon over the next years. Good or bad, it will become the standard. Let MS do the initial development, force business to retrain, whatever, but once there's a good proportion of people using the ribbon, OO.o's got to follow suit.
3. Admins that set up such systems generally forbid the use of password keychains.
End result? At work, I have to remember passwords for about 8-10 systems, all with different rules and password expiration schedules. Naturally, each will lock you out after 3 tries. So what I generally have to do is, each time I've gone more than a week without using a particular system, I get the IT guy to reset the password. Only because I'm one of the good guys, I don't write them down. But I've been sorely tempted.
Why not just write all your passwords (with the corresponding web site or app) in a text file, and then put that in an encrypted zip file? Simple to use, will accept the most complicated passwords, and you can even add in free text!
As someone once said, the American evangelical scene is like a swimming pool.
Most noise at the shallow end.
In the end this sounds like feature bloat. It is not part of what MS said IE8 would be, which is a faster, more standards based browser.
Although, to be scrupulously fair to Microsoft, this new browser loads pages faster, and follows standards better... so one could perhaps be forgiven for suggesting that IE8 actually is faster and more standards based regardless of any additional functionality.
Quite agree. As a "religious" person myself, I'm always interested in different points of view, but it's a bit discouraging when faced with someone who can't take the difference seriously, whether that person's beliefs are christian, muslim, atheist or whatever.
Give us the arguments, great, and let's discuss. Start by assuming others are morons, and you can't be taken as seriously. In Dawkins case it's particularly surprising as there's no shortage of professors with religious beliefs at Oxford University.
I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else.
I realise the reason for the 4.0 release, but I think they did it badly. They did so may changes it was a half-baked release. It may turn out to be the right decision in the end and I will re-try KDE, but I suspect I'm not the only person they lost.
I got the update through Fedora and there was a mismatch from KDE 3 to KDE 4.0. The desktop was not as functional and it was just a bad experience for me. I'll revisit it when I reinstall the next machine which tends to be every six to eight months.
Which isn't exactly the same thing, and probably not many people at KDE will be all that surprised. KDE4 is new, it has teething problems. It was risk, but we'll find out later if it was a risk worth taking.
Hope you get a nice cheap deal!
It's a bit worrying that the creationist movement is starting to raise its head in Europe as well.
It's not starting to raise it's head over in Europe, and probably never will. Even in Christian circles it's a pretty limited phenomenon in the UK, and has been since Darwin got buried in Westminster Abbey.
I suspect the reason it's getting so much press recently is the rise in Atheistic Fundamentalism. The more cases of daft Christianity they can get in the newspapers, the more their stance seems reasonable.
This article is a case in point - Reiss is not even a creationist, but hey, let's create an uproar (these anti-enlightenment Christians eh, who've even infiltrated the Royal Society - Newton would be turning over in his grave... hold on...) and hope no-one notices.
I was sure it wasn't going to work under Linux/Firefox, using Silverlight or something. But no, it's in Flash, like they want people to watch it.
you'll need a subscription to read more than the abstract.
Slashdot gets worse: now we can't RTFA. Not that that'll make the slightest bit of difference to anyone's comments.
Turns out Live.com's market share for today has tripled due to Slashdot users clicking on the above links...
it'll certainly catch any unauthorised commandos.
Although given some of the comments here, it's not obvious which is which.
Anyone work out what Bezos' mum had to do with anything?
Sounds like a great idea to me:
1. Post a notice saying it's bad to link to your website
2. Wait for the reaction, as gullibles add a load of links to your website just to spite you
3. Sip cider as your Googlerank and exposure quietly increase
4. [optional] ???
5. Profit!
It looks to me like where this is really useful is in preparing the presentation. Rather than having to email versions around the office, forgetting which is the current one, all those involved can just edit it online.
As for doing a presentation, Firefox 3 should allow this app to work offline. That's when it gets interesting, and web connections are no longer an issue.
It should read "Firefox doesn't loosen ground". It was put in the article to stop anyone confusing a web browser with a spade. Simple typo.
Basically, Torchwood = Doctor Who + sex/whatever - charm - decent storylines. Except for "They keep killing Suzie": that episode was good. Goodness knows how they got to make a second series though, as it was overall total crap.
I mean, modernity is quaint and all that, but imposing a historical scientific reading on a book like Genesis is pure silliness.