You have to bear in mind that the singles were never released on albums as they are today. So, to say 'those are the songs that people loved most' is not correct. They are simply the songs chosen to be released as singles as opposed to those written as part of albums. They are not the best songs by any means imho. On a side note, I think you are trolling a little, even if you don't know it. I have met many people who dismiss certain influential bands without really providing any decent evidence to support their opinion. If I were to meet you, I fear you would fall into this category.
I'm not too familiar with how well the formula editor works in OOo but I know you can insert a formula into a drawing and export it to pretty much any graphic format you could want. Not ideal but at least it's a browser/email friendly way of sending a formula.
Quote: FTSE Group is an independent company whose sole business is the creation and management of indices and associated data services. FTSE has no capital markets involvement. The company originated as a joint venture between the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange..........The best known indices are the FTSE UK Series which includes the FTSE 100.
As I was driving the other day, listened to a show on AM called "Fear the Lord", whose premise was that we aren't afraid enough of the wrath of God. I'm serious! It was funny as all hell.
A friend of mine, Rayner, who works at a University in England has also received a job application from an undergraduate that contained 'L33T' speak (well, Mobile Phone abbreviations). Think about it, this person had already GOT TO UNIVERSITY!
Needless to say he told them to rewrite it (after getting a copy).
Franklin Loufrani, who is credited with creating the original smiley to indicate good news in some European newspapers in 1972. See more here.
He apparently has them trademarked in various contries and has threatened to defend the trademark" though I suspect it might be a bit late to do so in the UK after the acid house craze. (Incidentally, this article to provides a different explanation for the history of the smiley.)
it saves alot in the long run to be able to encode the data all on one dvd instead of seperate ones for english/spanish/blah blah blah. That's assuming that the region codes are specific to languages. I was under the impression that Europe had it's own region code (2) and it of course has many languages. As long as you only author DVDs to the US and Spain (ie. one language per region) then you're OK. Otherwise this won't work.
Sadly the forms are no where near Access 2 even, in terms of features. Yet. It's worth bearing in mind, however, that this is OpenOffice ver. 1 Also, most home users don't own Access (it is part of Office Pro).
Unfortunately, in most places I've worked, Access is the one thing that will keep MS in dominance - crap though it is, it is marvellous for very fast development of simple single user applications. (or even as a prototyping tool).
Wow your managers are tolerant. If I tried that I'd get "well it works on my machine, and my secretary's machine so I suggest you sort it out on yours. You are, after all, the computer guy and I'm to busy.
Also, I was under the impression that Windows does come with a programme to produce pdfs. You have to pay for Acrobat Exchange to do that (or use any number of free, but shit, programmes that are available).
I believe that this kind of advocacy will just put people off Linux (Manager type - "No no no, we can't have that in our company, it doesn't even do Word documents or excel documents.)
Read to the end of the article and it notes that Europe is planning to force manufacturers to recycle their products at the end of the product's lifespan.
This is Slashdot. You'll be lucky if anyone bothers to read the start of the article.
I live in Leeds, UK where a similar system was on trial (for eventual roll-out nationally). As far as I can remember, the whole thing didn't catch on. I personally thought it was a good idea but never actually got one myself. The benefits didn't seem to outway the (small amount of ) effort. Now if I could use this Europe-wide when I am travelling around I think it would be far more useful - no more trouble with cash machines or transactions. And (including in UK I should add) I would have no worries about the "waitor taking down my credit card number while I'm not looking" problem.
As for these internet payment cards, I think they're a great idea. A little more anonymity never goes amiss (especially in the UK where it seems to be disappearing by the minute).
Often, however, when you pay for an expensive meal, you are paying for the skill in preparation rather than the fact that no-one else knows the ingredients. Although I consider myself a good cook, there are many of the best meals I've eaten that are well beyond my own abilities - even though I can reverse-engineer the ingredients and preparation method of that dish.
The fact that "reverse-engineering" of meals is possible and that recipe sharing (even amongst professionals) is common is a testament to the general availability if quality food in restaurants.
Perhaps one day the software world will reflect this (I personally doubt it).
Most definitely not. I'm pretty much in the same situation (UK, dialup, no time to be arsing around for 3 days just to get X up and running). I used Redhat for a while and just got sick of the time it took to get a usable desktop system - that should happen upon installation, my time should be spent configuring things more specific to my own setup and writing software rather than endlessly trying to make someone elses software work. Then I tried Mandrake 7.1 (free with magazine) and it worked well: X configured itself, and I had everything up in no time. I occasionally upgrade vital apps but on the whole just wait for the next Mandrake release and upgrade the whole OS. I actually get some work done now instead of spending 90% of my time mucking around with Linux itself.
It's quite interesting how the average computer user is unused to patching applications for security concerns/product upgrades. Most people won't apply this patch regardless of any problems the installation may or may not cause. It's just not something they are aware of - they have never really been told (by the software houses) that the product must be upgraded. When I first became interested in the unix world it was quite a shock to see the rapidity with which everyone spread the word about a major bug or (minor) security issue. This information doesn't filter down to average users, and they don't go looking for it (I find most www.linuxrules.org or www.macrulez.com websites as boring as hell so god knows how most people would find them).
I think it really is time that some of the companies that produce software started to make it clear that patching is an important part of software maintenance for everyone and not try to hide the whole process incase someone thinks their software is crap.
There's an interesting article on Linux Planet interviewing David Boyes (the man who had 41,400 Linux images running on a single mainframe using System/390.
Personally, I'm not that bothered except that there is great potential for abuse - in that I don't believe this is happening just yet.
Is all this surveillance actually wanted by the citizens, or is it being shoved down your throats by the Evil Empire?
It is wanted by a surprising number of people. Friday and Saturday nights down town are now much safer in certain areas than they used to be as the emergency services have much better response times. Alcohol fuelled violence is now dealt with more efficiently (where the cameras are in place).
Does it effect your daily lives?
Personally, no.
Any stories of when the surveillance goes wrong, or is used for something especially good?
It goes wrong if it simply pushes the crime from one (usually wealthy) neighbourhood to another (usually not-so-wealthy) one. In terms of drink-related violence (see above) this is not really a problem. But shifting car theft etc. to a suburban area is a step backward - it's easier to deal with in the city center where most of the police are stationed.
Unnamed experts in that story say that in Britain "an individual is already likely to be filmed by up to 300 cameras a day."
That individual must be pretty pissed off. Unless they're talking about Carol Vorderman who's filmed by more cameras than that on an average day (Note for the non-British on Slashdot: Carol Vorderman is constantly on British TV).
I'm a supporter of the Mozilla project, I use it as my primary browser (on windows - on Linux it seems to be a bit of a dog). It rarely crashes and now renders (most smaller) pages very quickly. I'm glad they are taking their time to build a standards compliant cross-platform browser that will hopefully be easier to upgrade to future standards than the competition.
But I'm REALLY bored of reading about it. I'm bored of constantly hearing trolls who obviously haven't even bothered to use it, let alone understand the technology, slagging it off. And I'm bored of people saying "all I need is a browser, not an email/composer/toaster" (hint, read the fucking install instructions).
Please, Mozilla developers, hurry - not so that you don't lose more market share - just so I don't have to read
from the dead-as-a-dodo dept. A reader writes: "Mozilla 1.0 has now been delayed by more bugs found in milestone 9.9999"
One interesting thing you could do would be to use the gtkhtml widget which I believe is based on mozilla.Thus you could open a mozilla browser from within IE.
No you couldn't. This is about using PHP to control a GTK application front end (all on the one machine), it has nothing to do with website features.
They put traps on the Windows to crash the Netscape browser, don they?
If so they didn't need to bother, netscape crashes more than any production grade app I have ever know on Linux. On windows it's just slow and insecure.
I can't recall the number of times I've had to manually re-install fucked up ISP installations on various friends' Windows 9x boxes. Now I realise that this is not the fault of the operating system, but it has taught me that the manual installation is absolutely not one bit easier on windows than it is in linux. In fact if you run linuxconf (which is on most "users" machines) it is almost exactly identical.
I speak as an MS user of 8 years and a linux user of only 1.5, so MS has the OS with which I am more familiar.
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You have to bear in mind that the singles were never released on albums as they are today. So, to say 'those are the songs that people loved most' is not correct. They are simply the songs chosen to be released as singles as opposed to those written as part of albums. They are not the best songs by any means imho.
On a side note, I think you are trolling a little, even if you don't know it. I have met many people who dismiss certain influential bands without really providing any decent evidence to support their opinion. If I were to meet you, I fear you would fall into this category.
I'm not too familiar with how well the formula editor works in OOo but I know you can insert a formula into a drawing and export it to pretty much any graphic format you could want. Not ideal but at least it's a browser/email friendly way of sending a formula.
After all, if science can't help drunk/horny/single people get laid, what good is it? :-)
Only on Slashdot would this be moderated "insightful" rather than "funny".
Quote: FTSE Group is an independent company whose sole business is the creation and management of indices and associated data services. FTSE has no capital markets involvement. The company originated as a joint venture between the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange..........The best known indices are the FTSE UK Series which includes the FTSE 100.
As I was driving the other day, listened to a show on AM called "Fear the Lord", whose premise was that we aren't afraid enough of the wrath of God. I'm serious! It was funny as all hell.
I think you've just proven their point;-)
A friend of mine, Rayner, who works at a University in England has also received a job application from an undergraduate that contained 'L33T' speak (well, Mobile Phone abbreviations). Think about it, this person had already GOT TO UNIVERSITY!
Needless to say he told them to rewrite it (after getting a copy).
Franklin Loufrani, who is credited with creating the original smiley to indicate good news in some European newspapers in 1972. See more here.
He apparently has them trademarked in various contries and has threatened to defend the trademark" though I suspect it might be a bit late to do so in the UK after the acid house craze. (Incidentally, this article to provides a different explanation for the history of the smiley.)
See World Smile Corp if you want to use the trademark.
They didn't care about the pot that showed up as a big grey cylinder in the middle of my pack.
You're lucky you didn't get the full rubber glove treatment with a big cylinder of pot in your bag.
it saves alot in the long run to be able to encode the data all on one dvd instead of seperate ones for english/spanish/blah blah blah.
That's assuming that the region codes are specific to languages. I was under the impression that Europe had it's own region code (2) and it of course has many languages. As long as you only author DVDs to the US and Spain (ie. one language per region) then you're OK. Otherwise this won't work.
Sadly the forms are no where near Access 2 even, in terms of features. Yet.
It's worth bearing in mind, however, that this is OpenOffice ver. 1
Also, most home users don't own Access (it is part of Office Pro).
Unfortunately, in most places I've worked, Access is the one thing that will keep MS in dominance - crap though it is, it is marvellous for very fast development of simple single user applications. (or even as a prototyping tool).
Also, I was under the impression that Windows does come with a programme to produce pdfs. You have to pay for Acrobat Exchange to do that (or use any number of free, but shit, programmes that are available).
I believe that this kind of advocacy will just put people off Linux (Manager type - "No no no, we can't have that in our company, it doesn't even do Word documents or excel documents.)
This is Slashdot. You'll be lucky if anyone bothers to read the start of the article.
As for these internet payment cards, I think they're a great idea. A little more anonymity never goes amiss (especially in the UK where it seems to be disappearing by the minute).
Perhaps one day the software world will reflect this (I personally doubt it).
Trying to find something on the internet is like searching for the page you need in a library hit by a hurricane...
...with the lights turned out.
Most definitely not.
I'm pretty much in the same situation (UK, dialup, no time to be arsing around for 3 days just to get X up and running). I used Redhat for a while and just got sick of the time it took to get a usable desktop system - that should happen upon installation, my time should be spent configuring things more specific to my own setup and writing software rather than endlessly trying to make someone elses software work. Then I tried Mandrake 7.1 (free with magazine) and it worked well: X configured itself, and I had everything up in no time. I occasionally upgrade vital apps but on the whole just wait for the next Mandrake release and upgrade the whole OS. I actually get some work done now instead of spending 90% of my time mucking around with Linux itself.
It's quite interesting how the average computer user is unused to patching applications for security concerns/product upgrades. Most people won't apply this patch regardless of any problems the installation may or may not cause. It's just not something they are aware of - they have never really been told (by the software houses) that the product must be upgraded. When I first became interested in the unix world it was quite a shock to see the rapidity with which everyone spread the word about a major bug or (minor) security issue. This information doesn't filter down to average users, and they don't go looking for it (I find most www.linuxrules.org or www.macrulez.com websites as boring as hell so god knows how most people would find them).
I think it really is time that some of the companies that produce software started to make it clear that patching is an important part of software maintenance for everyone and not try to hide the whole process incase someone thinks their software is crap.
DILBERT: But what about my poem?
There's an interesting article on Linux Planet interviewing David Boyes (the man who had 41,400 Linux images running on a single mainframe using System/390.
DILBERT: But what about my poem?
Suppose this had happened at kuro5hin. Would the posts have been deleted? I don't think so.
Rusty has deleted posts in the past, not for being illegal, but for being offensive (IIRC).
DILBERT: But what about my poem?
How do you feel about these cameras?
Personally, I'm not that bothered except that there is great potential for abuse - in that I don't believe this is happening just yet.
Is all this surveillance actually wanted by the citizens, or is it being shoved down your throats by the Evil Empire?
It is wanted by a surprising number of people. Friday and Saturday nights down town are now much safer in certain areas than they used to be as the emergency services have much better response times. Alcohol fuelled violence is now dealt with more efficiently (where the cameras are in place).
Does it effect your daily lives?
Personally, no.
Any stories of when the surveillance goes wrong, or is used for something especially good?
It goes wrong if it simply pushes the crime from one (usually wealthy) neighbourhood to another (usually not-so-wealthy) one. In terms of drink-related violence (see above) this is not really a problem. But shifting car theft etc. to a suburban area is a step backward - it's easier to deal with in the city center where most of the police are stationed.
DILBERT: But what about my poem?
Unnamed experts in that story say that in Britain "an individual is already likely to be filmed by up to 300 cameras a day."
That individual must be pretty pissed off. Unless they're talking about Carol Vorderman who's filmed by more cameras than that on an average day (Note for the non-British on Slashdot: Carol Vorderman is constantly on British TV).
DILBERT: But what about my poem?
I'm a supporter of the Mozilla project, I use it as my primary browser (on windows - on Linux it seems to be a bit of a dog). It rarely crashes and now renders (most smaller) pages very quickly.
I'm glad they are taking their time to build a standards compliant cross-platform browser that will hopefully be easier to upgrade to future standards than the competition.
But I'm REALLY bored of reading about it. I'm bored of constantly hearing trolls who obviously haven't even bothered to use it, let alone understand the technology, slagging it off. And I'm bored of people saying "all I need is a browser, not an email/composer/toaster" (hint, read the fucking install instructions).
Please, Mozilla developers, hurry - not so that you don't lose more market share - just so I don't have to read
from the dead-as-a-dodo dept.
A reader writes: "Mozilla 1.0 has now been delayed by more bugs found in milestone 9.9999"
DILBERT: But what about my poem?
One interesting thing you could do would be to use the gtkhtml widget which I believe is based on mozilla.Thus you could open a mozilla browser from within IE.
No you couldn't. This is about using PHP to control a GTK application front end (all on the one machine), it has nothing to do with website features.
DILBERT: But what about my poem?
They put traps on the Windows to crash the Netscape browser, don they?
If so they didn't need to bother, netscape crashes more than any production grade app I have ever know on Linux.
On windows it's just slow and insecure.
DILBERT: But what about my poem?
I can't recall the number of times I've had to manually re-install fucked up ISP installations on various friends' Windows 9x boxes. Now I realise that this is not the fault of the operating system, but it has taught me that the manual installation is absolutely not one bit easier on windows than it is in linux. In fact if you run linuxconf (which is on most "users" machines) it is almost exactly identical.
I speak as an MS user of 8 years and a linux user of only 1.5, so MS has the OS with which I am more familiar.
DILBERT: But what about my poem?