I agree. It's not even pleasant to look at. I like the idea of visually and conceptually re-designing the index, but this is a failed attempt to do so imho.
Sooner or later this sort of hypocrisy is going to catch up to them and their business practices. No doubt there are legal interpretations of this that will eventually have to be answered as well.
Yeah for sure! Remember in the late 1990s there was a company doing things like this, and the Justice Department went after them. We got a full ruling on the facts from a federal judge detailing count after count of monopolistic practices. The Justice Department really put that company in its place for breaking the law. What was that company called again? Oh, wait a minute...
So? The point the poster above was making is that PDF is not the answer to document security. Especially if you're not using the password protection built into PDF, but even with it, the information can be manipulated by someone who wants to. The GP poster didn't make any sense - why would putting docs in PDF guarantee they hadn't been changed? Someone could easily create an entirely different PDF if they didn't want to buy (or steal) acrobat to toy with the original one.
That was my question below too... Being able to export to PDF is something third party extensions have been doing long before OSX came along, and even the third party extensions put the export command in the "print" dialog for every other program, so it might as well have been built into the OS. I am sure Windows users have had similar options for years too. The searches they're getting for "PDF support" probably want something more involved than an "export to PDF" command.
If that is what they're doing, this could be pretty useful.... But I also would not trust MSWord to import PDF files and screw with them. Look at what they did with HTML import-export -- and that's just an open markup language, not a complete document format. Just imagine how badly they can screw up PDF if they put their minds to it.
The new Word looks like a nightmare. I'm glad I use it on a Mac. Native PDF support's been in the OS for a while so that's never been an issue. Hell, under MacOS 7.5+ I could print to PDF from Word using third-party extensions.
The real question though is what they mean by native PDF support. Will I be able to fire up Word, open a PDF document, edit it and save as a Word document that someone else using earlier versions of Word can open? I bet a significant portion of the searches they see for PDF support involve something on that level, rather than simply being able to print to PDF - if I've been able to do that on a Mac for this long (long before OSX had it natively) I'm sure there are many similar options for Windows users.
It's very typical of christians to seek out folks who're really suffering, and offer them help in a veiled attempt to bring them "into the flock"
"Turn the other cheek" and "love thy enemy" are actually excellent teachings to offer suffering people if your intention is to make them suffer more while you steal their land and resources.
The sooner OSS and other people writing software out there realise this the better.
That's right. Quit wasting time naming things, and get to work, you layabouts! We don't need no stinking names for things. If I want to use that spreadsheet I'll just say, give me that, uhh, counting thing.
According to my ballot, the judges on the panel are chosen by being selected randomly from a pool of volunteers and then being filtered by the legislative leaders from the two parties -- each legislative leader selects a judge from the opposite party; of the remaining pool, three are selected at random with the caveat that each party must have at least one rep. Each of these judges must ssign a pledge not to run for offices affected by the districts they draw or accept public jobs for five years.
It's far from ideal, but it doesn't say anything about the judges being appointed by the Gropenfuhrer. Perhaps you got a different ballot than me....
(The irony of my joke is that this prop was almost left off the ballot due to slightly different versions of the proposition being on the petition). But three, umm, non-retired judges put a stop to that.
I haven't decided whether I support it yet but it seems more reasonable to me than the current system. The big problem I have with it is the concentration of power; that's only three people someone has to bribe or threaten. Two, actually. But I don't have too much of a problem with how the panel is selected (except the obvious built-in bias to a two-party system, but that won't change if we reject this proposition).
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you OpenSSH fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a terminal window running openssh for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from computer to another. 20 minutes. At home, on my Windows box running SSH, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Linux box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Konqueror will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even emacs is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various computers running OpenSSH, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen an OpenSSH keygen program that generates a key faster than its commercial SSH counterpart, despite the OpenSSH faster software architecture. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that OpenSSH is a superior application.
OpenSSH addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use OpenSSH over other faster, less ideological, more expensive solutions.
This will make things more efficient, but what they really need to do is pair up these robotic patients with robotic doctors and cut out the middleman!
that just getting our results from "good old p=mv" doesn't let us spend our budget blowing up crap in space by smashing it into giant space rocks. Bring on the explosions!
Actually, on the controversial political pages people tend to be meticulous about insisting on sources being cited. I'm not saying a lot of junk doesn't get through, but it is a lot less than you seem to imagine.
Blatant falsehoods are usually spotted quickly and fixed, at least in my experience. I work on a lot of the political pages that get mucked with a lot. It is a pain though and it only works because so many editors devote so much time to keeping articles accurate. I tell students to use wikipedia as a resource rather than a "source" - I don't let them cite it in papers but I encourage them to use it as a resource for finding other sources of information and for finding out basic background info. There is no guarantee that an entry is correct at any given time, but by and large corrections are made quickly, and it is very often a useful starting place for doing research or finding answers to questions.
Apparently, these dolphins swim around fully armed, 24-7!
You know what they say; an armed society is a polite society. Have you heard of a single dolphin-on-dolphin crime using a toxic dartgun that occurred when both dolphin were armed?
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I agree. It's not even pleasant to look at. I like the idea of visually and conceptually re-designing the index, but this is a failed attempt to do so imho.
I agree! They could call it "Preview."
Yeah for sure! Remember in the late 1990s there was a company doing things like this, and the Justice Department went after them. We got a full ruling on the facts from a federal judge detailing count after count of monopolistic practices. The Justice Department really put that company in its place for breaking the law. What was that company called again? Oh, wait a minute...
So? The point the poster above was making is that PDF is not the answer to document security. Especially if you're not using the password protection built into PDF, but even with it, the information can be manipulated by someone who wants to. The GP poster didn't make any sense - why would putting docs in PDF guarantee they hadn't been changed? Someone could easily create an entirely different PDF if they didn't want to buy (or steal) acrobat to toy with the original one.
If that is what they're doing, this could be pretty useful.... But I also would not trust MSWord to import PDF files and screw with them. Look at what they did with HTML import-export -- and that's just an open markup language, not a complete document format. Just imagine how badly they can screw up PDF if they put their minds to it.
The real question though is what they mean by native PDF support. Will I be able to fire up Word, open a PDF document, edit it and save as a Word document that someone else using earlier versions of Word can open? I bet a significant portion of the searches they see for PDF support involve something on that level, rather than simply being able to print to PDF - if I've been able to do that on a Mac for this long (long before OSX had it natively) I'm sure there are many similar options for Windows users.
"Turn the other cheek" and "love thy enemy" are actually excellent teachings to offer suffering people if your intention is to make them suffer more while you steal their land and resources.
I'm just sayin'....
That's right. Quit wasting time naming things, and get to work, you layabouts! We don't need no stinking names for things. If I want to use that spreadsheet I'll just say, give me that, uhh, counting thing.
Is there a "-1, Obvious" to go with that "+1, Funny"?
It's far from ideal, but it doesn't say anything about the judges being appointed by the Gropenfuhrer. Perhaps you got a different ballot than me....
(The irony of my joke is that this prop was almost left off the ballot due to slightly different versions of the proposition being on the petition). But three, umm, non-retired judges put a stop to that.
I haven't decided whether I support it yet but it seems more reasonable to me than the current system. The big problem I have with it is the concentration of power; that's only three people someone has to bribe or threaten. Two, actually. But I don't have too much of a problem with how the panel is selected (except the obvious built-in bias to a two-party system, but that won't change if we reject this proposition).
Some patents are much more useful, however. ;)
Someone already beat you to it.
*ducks*
Better yet, just change the Wikipedia version and claim victory!
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you OpenSSH fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a terminal window running openssh for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from computer to another. 20 minutes. At home, on my Windows box running SSH, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Linux box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. In addition, during this file transfer, Konqueror will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even emacs is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various computers running OpenSSH, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen an OpenSSH keygen program that generates a key faster than its commercial SSH counterpart, despite the OpenSSH faster software architecture. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that OpenSSH is a superior application. OpenSSH addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use OpenSSH over other faster, less ideological, more expensive solutions.
This will make things more efficient, but what they really need to do is pair up these robotic patients with robotic doctors and cut out the middleman!
You mean all we have to do is to get everyone to like tentacle sex?
Me neither. I'm calling in sick today.
It requires the end user to run BeOS.
that just getting our results from "good old p=mv" doesn't let us spend our budget blowing up crap in space by smashing it into giant space rocks. Bring on the explosions!
Actually, on the controversial political pages people tend to be meticulous about insisting on sources being cited. I'm not saying a lot of junk doesn't get through, but it is a lot less than you seem to imagine.
Blatant falsehoods are usually spotted quickly and fixed, at least in my experience. I work on a lot of the political pages that get mucked with a lot. It is a pain though and it only works because so many editors devote so much time to keeping articles accurate. I tell students to use wikipedia as a resource rather than a "source" - I don't let them cite it in papers but I encourage them to use it as a resource for finding other sources of information and for finding out basic background info. There is no guarantee that an entry is correct at any given time, but by and large corrections are made quickly, and it is very often a useful starting place for doing research or finding answers to questions.
ixnay on the mule-e-ay!
They wanted them prepared for the looting that followed.
You know what they say; an armed society is a polite society. Have you heard of a single dolphin-on-dolphin crime using a toxic dartgun that occurred when both dolphin were armed?
I didn't think so.