"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in
How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind" with this slim volume, first published in 1954. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff.
There is a wide gulf between potential exploits and actual exploits. The fundamental yet simple flaw in the Windows/DOS operating system is that any file is executable based in the name (such as.exe or.com). This is not the case for either Mac OSX or UNIX-based operating systems.
I'm getting 52 on my ancient 1982 diesel Jetta with a normally-aspirated 1600cc engine. I have also clocked about 365,000 miles on the original engine.
A better hybrid could be produced that utilizes an electric motor for the propulsion, and a fixed rpm diesel to produce electricity, regeneration from coasting and braking, and an additional sterling engine to capture heat from the coolant and the exhaust manifold.
The easiest way to gain fuel economy, however, is to drive a car that weighs 1500 lbs instead of 3000 lbs.
That's a strawman argument. What's killing employees is big business, not small business. IF salaries are such a huge problem for your small business, I suggest you pack up and move to a country that exploits human beings more than the US and Europe. How about India? It's a race to the bottom.
There has been a PR campaign against unions for many, many years. Frankly, it has worked. Unions are run by the people that belong to them. Just remember that next time you read crap about how 'bad' unions are -- who is the author?
Unions have also failed in the US because of the laziness of the union members and their reluctance to organize non-union places of work.
Until (and if) the unions get their act together, it truly IS a race to the bottom!
OOo has some serious problems that continue to keep it out of my toolbox (I design and produce books for a living). The most serious of these is that kerning for Type 1 fonts is broken from 1.1 onwards. Ooo is so huge, that it is getting more than 100 bug reports/feature requests per day. Many developers don't know what kerning is, don't know what spot color means, etc.
It could be forked into a great standalone DTP program by tearing out the spreadsheet and PowerPoint stuff and combining features from Draw and Write. Needs spot color support, chaining of text boxes in the Draw component, ability to specify element values in 100ths-point increment, a couple of other things. It is really, really close -- just not close enough.
They produced a Beta version for Linux several years back. It worked great! I was excited about it. But they simply dropped the project with no reason given.
Same with Deneba's Canvas. Their version used Windows code compiled against WINElib. The Beta was fast and clean and quite stable (in contrast to Corel using Windows binaries running under WINE for their Linux Draw). Then they dropped the project -- giving no reason or excuse!
There's more to serving your country that whether or not you agree with the President.
Funny how all the warmongers sit in their mansions while the serfs get convinced that they are ones who have to 'kick raghead ass'. It's a crock of shit. You don't owe any goddam thing to your goddam country except to pay your taxes and defend it's borders.
Seems like vote fraud really worked well in Georgia.
"Republican Rep. Saxby Chambliss defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Max Cleland by a margin of 53 to 46 percent. The Hotline, a political news service, recalled a series of polls Wednesday showing that Chambliss had been ahead in none of them. The closest was the most recent Zogby International poll that had showed Cleland leading 46 to 44 percent, within the plus or minus 4 point margin of error."
"In Georgia, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll shows Democratic Sen. Max Cleland with a 49%-to-44% lead over Republican Rep. Saxby Chambliss."
Final Result
53 to 46 percent Chambliss
HOW ACCURATE?
Polls had Cleland winning by 2 and 5 points, he lost by 7
POST POLL SWING:
9 to 12 points towards Republican Party
OK, the article speaks of 3 dual core PowerPC 976-processors fabbed at 65 nm. These babies would do _at_least_ 3 GHz per core. That's a total to 18 GHz on 6 cores. It WILL beat the hellout of ANY Wintelbox this side of a full blown datacenter.
...unless the article is completely bogus. I don't think Microsoft has the capability to move to a 64-bit PowerPC architecture anytime soon. Their internal code/compilers are so crappy that they can't even move to a 64-bit x86 architecture (Athlon64) in a reasonably timely manner!
You are so very mistaken about "free trade" with India. Western countries can't export shit to India because they are an essentially closed market. This isn't "free trade" it is "free consumption on credit".
India has some of the highest import tarrifs in the world, local content laws, and property ownership laws.
It all depends on your benchmarks. If you benchmark something that does simple math on a large set of streaming data, the the CPU will shine... and that proves that the length of piplines don't matter!
Those old PCI Macs will run Linux fine, but when you consider their anemic 50mhz memory bus, it makes more sense to sell them on ebay and get an old x86 PC and run Netatalk and CUPS under Linux/BSD for your Mac shares.
It was the availability of Netatalk that convinced me to go with Linux/x86 back in 1996 to serve my Mac shop.
1) why hasn't the Mac done better?
I think it has always been a point of price, especially in the business/office world. I bought a Mac 128K in 1985 new for something like $1,499. It really hurt. That's the most I've paid for a computer, ever.
Please Gentoo: lose the hubris, sort our the installation! I'm ready to believe that you're the best distro ever - just as long as I could just run you!!
According to this, the US national debt is $7,009,324,223,489.17. Or $23,919 per PERSON. Now, I'd be happy to go to the moon if it and other spending was covered by something more substantial than merely printing money.
If you're willing to open your wallet, than I'll think about going to the moon. Very funny that Bush will also be proposing another tax cut as the newest fashion for the political season...
You'd even have better results if you used a modern version of KDE coupled with a modern version of XFree86 and modern glibc. These are much more stable than what's in the Debian 3 series.
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Why don't you just look at the statistics and read them for what they are.
Statistics?
There is a wide gulf between potential exploits and actual exploits. The fundamental yet simple flaw in the Windows/DOS operating system is that any file is executable based in the name (such as .exe or .com). This is not the case for either Mac OSX or UNIX-based operating systems.
...most likely. Though I'm not going to bother investigating ties between M$ and Secunia.
In the real world, Windows machiness are real sinkholes for real exploits, while Mac and Linux machines aren't.
A better hybrid could be produced that utilizes an electric motor for the propulsion, and a fixed rpm diesel to produce electricity, regeneration from coasting and braking, and an additional sterling engine to capture heat from the coolant and the exhaust manifold.
The easiest way to gain fuel economy, however, is to drive a car that weighs 1500 lbs instead of 3000 lbs.
Unions have also failed in the US because of the laziness of the union members and their reluctance to organize non-union places of work.
Until (and if) the unions get their act together, it truly IS a race to the bottom!
It could be forked into a great standalone DTP program by tearing out the spreadsheet and PowerPoint stuff and combining features from Draw and Write. Needs spot color support, chaining of text boxes in the Draw component, ability to specify element values in 100ths-point increment, a couple of other things. It is really, really close -- just not close enough.
Same with Deneba's Canvas. Their version used Windows code compiled against WINElib. The Beta was fast and clean and quite stable (in contrast to Corel using Windows binaries running under WINE for their Linux Draw). Then they dropped the project -- giving no reason or excuse!
Funny how all the warmongers sit in their mansions while the serfs get convinced that they are ones who have to 'kick raghead ass'. It's a crock of shit. You don't owe any goddam thing to your goddam country except to pay your taxes and defend it's borders.
Don't accept slavery -- no how, no way.
"In Georgia, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll shows Democratic Sen. Max Cleland with a 49%-to-44% lead over Republican Rep. Saxby Chambliss."
Final Result
53 to 46 percent Chambliss
HOW ACCURATE?
Polls had Cleland winning by 2 and 5 points, he lost by 7
POST POLL SWING:
9 to 12 points towards Republican Party
ThHis is from an article on Scoop.
India has some of the highest import tarrifs in the world, local content laws, and property ownership laws.
Surely you jest. Remember what the guy said to Deckard in Blade Runner, "If you're not corporate, you're little people!"
It was the availability of Netatalk that convinced me to go with Linux/x86 back in 1996 to serve my Mac shop.
I think it has always been a point of price, especially in the business/office world. I bought a Mac 128K in 1985 new for something like $1,499. It really hurt. That's the most I've paid for a computer, ever.
2) why hasn't the Mac died?
Innovation, I'd say.
Awww c'mon! Gentoo is for sissies. Manly men use Linux from Scratch
If you're willing to open your wallet, than I'll think about going to the moon. Very funny that Bush will also be proposing another tax cut as the newest fashion for the political season ...
You'd even have better results if you used a modern version of KDE coupled with a modern version of XFree86 and modern glibc. These are much more stable than what's in the Debian 3 series.