Oh, come on. Lot is presented as one of the few good folk amongst the people of Sodom. And he pulls that nonsense? The bible presents a person who would throw his daughter (you know, the one he got drunk and fucked) to the wolves as having virtues which make him truly righteous despite this.
That is disgusting, as is any school of thought which considers a love for God more important than love for fellow man.
My point is the bible is full of weirdness. Take a poke at the other things I mentioned, please. How can anyone read that without being appalled at the command it has over the hearts and minds of so many.
In the UK, even if you agree to buy something online you have a seven day 'cooling off' period in which to cancel. If she agreed to purchase OpenOffice from these (cretinous) people in the UK and didn't cancel within that time, she'd be liable to the charge.
Obviously, if they're going to lengths to make it appear as though it is a free download but in reality you have to pay it would be fraud.
Remember, the GPL allows you to resell the software. I doubt many people would like to see the GPL changed to mandate free (as in beer) sale of all software distributed under that license.
Apologies for the rambling nature of this comment, I'm quite drunk.
Linux can be superior in every other way, but Windows will always work better than Linux *with other Windows machines*. Microsoft guarantees this with the closed nature of their networking protocols.
This means that as long as most people are using windows, it is to the short term advantage of a non-technical user to use Windows also. This has results in the current situation where most everyone uses Windows.
With almost everyone using windows software/hardware/drivers/manual producers can get away with just producing Windows versions.
As Linux Distributions become increasingly usable (ultimately I believe surpassing Windows in usability) these two factors will remain and retard Linux adoption:
* The 'lock in' effect where another Windows machine is the most compatible choice in a world populated with Windows machines * The 'one size fits most' effect, where people producing anything related to technology can cut corners and only support windows because it's used by almost everyone.
Would you want anyone to repair your computer if they can't be bothered to teach themselves basic first aid or biology?
If you're a sane person you wouldn't care one way of the other. It's the worst type of intellectual arrogance to suggest that an intrinsic understanding of one field is a prerequisite for competence in any other.
I'd agree that OpenOffice is a good - possibly superior replacement for Word.
But you can't expect me to believe that OpenOffice is as compatible with Word as another copy of Word is. The complexity and obfuscation in the Doc format is guarantee enough that OpenOffice doesn't have it 100% correct.
So if you need to author word documents, and you need to be 100% confident that the recipient will receive view them properly and you're IT skills are limited, the benefits of using OpenOffice are moot. Unless you are interested in upping your IT skills and using PDF (and why would you want to invest time in that) you have to produce.doc files and you would be an idiot to rely on OpenOffice's best stab at guessing a closed format for anything important.
Until everyone uses OpenOffice, most people won't. It's not pretty, but it was a big win for MS arranging it this way,
I'd really like my computer to automatically log me in if it detects a bluetooth device with a particular signature (ie my phone) close to the machine.
Even the parts about stoning to death disobedient children or selling your daughter into slavery?
Especially the parts about stoning to death disobedient children or selling your daughter into slavery, or leaving your daughter to be gang raped so a guy doesn't have to endure homosexualit, or helping out your sworn enemies just because it is the right thing to do, or not lighting fires on the weekend.
'a humourous exaggeration' in this context is synonymous with 'evidence of being a retard'.
Inaccuracies should be corrected, whether they are sincere or simply concoted to inflame. This minimises the risk they will be taken as truth by the naive.
OSX is built on Darwin, a particular flavour of UNIX. It's best not to call it a 'distribution', because you risk confusing it with a linux distribution, which are collections of similar software, artwork and (Very often) repositories of more software built on the same kernel.
I know you're two nerds comment was a humourous exaggeration, but I really think there are people who believe that about major distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat.
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Lots of business analysts will find themselves much less agile if they can't access their data sets in any arbitrary ways.
Though perhaps in some cases it would be useful if there was a security module in a database that could say for some set of users, abort any query that returns more than 3% of all the rows in the customers table and notify an admin.
Northern Irish people *are* British. The principle is the same though; It's an inappropriate knee-jerk reaction to second guess a persons intentions based solely on the culture they grew up in.
I'd agree, but remember it's not just David Tennant leaving the show but Russel T Davis, the creative force behind much of the remake.
You're best off looking not just at the general trend of the episodes, but who wrote them. Most of the schmultzy luvvy duvvy episodes that I (and most others here I'd wager) aren't fond of were written by Russel.
Steven Moffat is taking over Russels position as the shows head writer, and I reckon that his episodes are some of my favourite.
28 year old actor playing the part? Hmm, will reserve judgement on that one until 2010.
How can that be legal? I pay to go to university (admittedly in the UK) - the idea that I'm paying a university to let me create ideas for them is disgusting.
Well, if energy was a currency then what you say would be perfectly true! It would also be true that with every breath you get a little richer despite the cost.
When people say "Linux is free only if your time is worthless" it's really just a pithy way of saying it is naive to assume licensing costs are the sum total of all costs around software. It is certainly not true that people who value their time pay more for linux.
I'm not a fan of pithy ways of saying things, I'd prefer it be unambiguous, bland, and easy to understand. But that's just my peculiarities. Most people like sexy phrases which invite the type of misunderstanding that I (and perhaps you? - maybe time to get tested for Aspergers) find difficult to avoid.
Well, the Irish have been terrible terrorists in the UK over the last few decades. Still, the cahnces of a fellow being a murderer just because he's Irish are pretty low, so picking on a chap for that is a little harsh.
Not for us, we rent a server from Rackspace, dump all of our interesting data onto it overnight (overwriting any existing data), and use their 'managed backup' to actually keep point in time backups of the mirror.
We're going to looking to close the windows from one day to a few minutes for files, and real time backup from the databases using transaction logs.
What could possibly go wrong? Well, getting complacent could. A while ago we realised that backups ad stopped working, and no one had noticed. Sure am glad I learnt that lesson the EASY way. Still, I think we've built a pretty robust, straightforward, fast restoring process using internet based backups.
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Maybe they do. I've never watched a porn film through to the end.
Good plan. Are you going to do it?
Oh, come on. Lot is presented as one of the few good folk amongst the people of Sodom. And he pulls that nonsense? The bible presents a person who would throw his daughter (you know, the one he got drunk and fucked) to the wolves as having virtues which make him truly righteous despite this.
That is disgusting, as is any school of thought which considers a love for God more important than love for fellow man.
My point is the bible is full of weirdness. Take a poke at the other things I mentioned, please. How can anyone read that without being appalled at the command it has over the hearts and minds of so many.
In the UK, even if you agree to buy something online you have a seven day 'cooling off' period in which to cancel. If she agreed to purchase OpenOffice from these (cretinous) people in the UK and didn't cancel within that time, she'd be liable to the charge.
Obviously, if they're going to lengths to make it appear as though it is a free download but in reality you have to pay it would be fraud.
Remember, the GPL allows you to resell the software. I doubt many people would like to see the GPL changed to mandate free (as in beer) sale of all software distributed under that license.
Apologies for the rambling nature of this comment, I'm quite drunk.
Linux can be superior in every other way, but Windows will always work better than Linux *with other Windows machines*. Microsoft guarantees this with the closed nature of their networking protocols.
This means that as long as most people are using windows, it is to the short term advantage of a non-technical user to use Windows also. This has results in the current situation where most everyone uses Windows.
With almost everyone using windows software/hardware/drivers/manual producers can get away with just producing Windows versions.
As Linux Distributions become increasingly usable (ultimately I believe surpassing Windows in usability) these two factors will remain and retard Linux adoption:
* The 'lock in' effect where another Windows machine is the most compatible choice in a world populated with Windows machines
* The 'one size fits most' effect, where people producing anything related to technology can cut corners and only support windows because it's used by almost everyone.
Would you want anyone to repair your computer if they can't be bothered to teach themselves basic first aid or biology?
If you're a sane person you wouldn't care one way of the other. It's the worst type of intellectual arrogance to suggest that an intrinsic understanding of one field is a prerequisite for competence in any other.
I'd agree that OpenOffice is a good - possibly superior replacement for Word.
But you can't expect me to believe that OpenOffice is as compatible with Word as another copy of Word is. The complexity and obfuscation in the Doc format is guarantee enough that OpenOffice doesn't have it 100% correct.
So if you need to author word documents, and you need to be 100% confident that the recipient will receive view them properly and you're IT skills are limited, the benefits of using OpenOffice are moot. Unless you are interested in upping your IT skills and using PDF (and why would you want to invest time in that) you have to produce .doc files and you would be an idiot to rely on OpenOffice's best stab at guessing a closed format for anything important.
Until everyone uses OpenOffice, most people won't. It's not pretty, but it was a big win for MS arranging it this way,
I'd really like my computer to automatically log me in if it detects a bluetooth device with a particular signature (ie my phone) close to the machine.
Even the parts about stoning to death disobedient children or selling your daughter into slavery?
Especially the parts about stoning to death disobedient children or selling your daughter into slavery, or leaving your daughter to be gang raped so a guy doesn't have to endure homosexualit, or helping out your sworn enemies just because it is the right thing to do, or not lighting fires on the weekend.
Isn't the bible weird?
'a humourous exaggeration' in this context is synonymous with 'evidence of being a retard'.
Inaccuracies should be corrected, whether they are sincere or simply concoted to inflame. This minimises the risk they will be taken as truth by the naive.
OSX is built on Darwin, a particular flavour of UNIX. It's best not to call it a 'distribution', because you risk confusing it with a linux distribution, which are collections of similar software, artwork and (Very often) repositories of more software built on the same kernel.
I know you're two nerds comment was a humourous exaggeration, but I really think there are people who believe that about major distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat.
Oh yeah, I've heard of it. Try using vi. To edit python files.
He he.
This is an awesome idea, can I implement the project in Python ;)
SCO is hoping the justice system will eat this shit.
McDonalds customers already...well, you get the idea.
Select * from [[view containing records user has access to]]
Lots of business analysts will find themselves much less agile if they can't access their data sets in any arbitrary ways.
Though perhaps in some cases it would be useful if there was a security module in a database that could say for some set of users, abort any query that returns more than 3% of all the rows in the customers table and notify an admin.
Northern Irish people *are* British. The principle is the same though; It's an inappropriate knee-jerk reaction to second guess a persons intentions based solely on the culture they grew up in.
I'd agree, but remember it's not just David Tennant leaving the show but Russel T Davis, the creative force behind much of the remake.
You're best off looking not just at the general trend of the episodes, but who wrote them. Most of the schmultzy luvvy duvvy episodes that I (and most others here I'd wager) aren't fond of were written by Russel.
Steven Moffat is taking over Russels position as the shows head writer, and I reckon that his episodes are some of my favourite.
28 year old actor playing the part? Hmm, will reserve judgement on that one until 2010.
How can that be legal? I pay to go to university (admittedly in the UK) - the idea that I'm paying a university to let me create ideas for them is disgusting.
Well, if energy was a currency then what you say would be perfectly true! It would also be true that with every breath you get a little richer despite the cost.
When people say "Linux is free only if your time is worthless" it's really just a pithy way of saying it is naive to assume licensing costs are the sum total of all costs around software. It is certainly not true that people who value their time pay more for linux.
I'm not a fan of pithy ways of saying things, I'd prefer it be unambiguous, bland, and easy to understand. But that's just my peculiarities. Most people like sexy phrases which invite the type of misunderstanding that I (and perhaps you? - maybe time to get tested for Aspergers) find difficult to avoid.
Amazing. It's like they're saying 2009 some special YEAR OF SOMETHING, oh, I dunno, how best to put it?
Well, the Irish have been terrible terrorists in the UK over the last few decades. Still, the cahnces of a fellow being a murderer just because he's Irish are pretty low, so picking on a chap for that is a little harsh.
This posting should, verbatim, be reproduced. Post it, reference it, make it heard.
Because it's true, and it's HORRIBLE.
Not for us, we rent a server from Rackspace, dump all of our interesting data onto it overnight (overwriting any existing data), and use their 'managed backup' to actually keep point in time backups of the mirror.
We're going to looking to close the windows from one day to a few minutes for files, and real time backup from the databases using transaction logs.
What could possibly go wrong? Well, getting complacent could. A while ago we realised that backups ad stopped working, and no one had noticed. Sure am glad I learnt that lesson the EASY way. Still, I think we've built a pretty robust, straightforward, fast restoring process using internet based backups.
This bug is to implement the feature I want, and has alot of input from others who want it too http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
6 years old, little progress - I think most people would agree this lends credence to Mr. Meeks assertion of project stagnation
Does the word processor have outline mode in the latest version?
Propper outline mode, just like Word?