Speaking of names, is it actually "Apache OpenOffice" now? That would be an improvement over calling an office suite by the name of its website, "OpenOffice.org".
I mean, did anybody ever call it "Open Office dot org"? Judging by the comments in this thread, no.
Same for Postgres / PostgreSQL ("post greh ess queue elle").
Well, even if a corp "pockets" the cash, all that means is that they have it in the bank (whether savings account or mutual fund). What that means is that there is more capital to go around to be lent to people who want to start businesses.
So it might not be the one corp itself that creates a job, but it might be Joe Bob's New Plumbing Store.
The US tax laws provide that any income earned by US citizens worldwide is taxable by the IRS. So even if they put the money in Swiss banks, it (interest) would still be taxable. Unless you're talking about money laundering which wouldn't attract the punitive 90% tax rate anyway.
Regarding art, if an artist draws a painting and sells it for $1 million, he has to pay anywhere from 1/4 to 1/3 of that in income tax, after deducting studio rental and canvas costs. Or, if you sell previously bought art, you have to pay capital gains tax on that.
I mostly agree, but don't you have to rebalance after rotating your tires? Also, what's the recommended tire rotation? 4 or 5? And front to back or criss-cross pattern?
Yeah, that Faq entry explains the story selection. That doesn't have anything to do with the comments or readership, though./. has an international readership, which is probably why the editors increasingly post stories regarding Europe (the Europe/Canadian ACTA story from today), Australia (NBM stories), China, India (censorship), Africa (OLPC) etc.
I don't really see anything wrong with this because I learn a lot about different areas of the world.
You seem pretty upset about Citizens United, and this story seems to be a good excuse for you to vent. Unfortunately, you have no understanding the decision whatsoever.
It was not in relation to lobbyists giving money to Senators.
Citizens United was a corporate body, meaning just that it was an organization with a board and not a single person. They produced and sold CDs with a documentary expressing their views about a politician.
It's hard to see how the Supreme Court could have ruled otherwise. Do you really propose that people should not be able to express their views about politicians? Or they can, but they can only distribute their books, CDs, newspapers, whatever for free?
You're welcome to dispute any and all of his policy points. What I'm talking about is calling someone "insane" because you disagree with his policies. If you take that standard, one of the two US political parties (and half the population) will appear "insane" to you.
If "insane" is meant merely as hyperbole (usually accompanied by "literally" as in "literally insane!", when it's really neither), OK, then. If it's something else, that's a problem.
Lenora Fulani, Jesse Jackson, Chuck Baldwin, Lyndon LaRouche, Ron Paul, and others have policies that many or most people would not vote for. But that doesn't make them insane. The right word is radical or extremist (as a descriptive not a pejorative).
Why do you say he is insane? Some would say he's the only sane person in the room. The others are just doing the same things and expecting different results.
Secondly, he recognizes that many people have come to depend on government help, and he doesn't want to throw them on the street. He just wants to enable young people to invest their Social Security money because there isn't going to be any SS around for them.
Umm, if you don't want to spend time maintaining your system, Fedora would hardly be choice #1. After all, it's not a polished release, it's explicitly just a testing vehicle for RHEL.
Well, one thing that categorizing by app does is it allows you to find your window.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have about 10 or so icons. You'd have one icon, and when you clicked on it you'd get 40 or so documents in big jumbled list. Would that be better?
Not only that, but sometimes, stuff is about apps. E.g., I don't want to edit a PDF, it's for viewing. It wouldn't make sense to include all "documents" in a list, mixing readonly PDFs and write/read OpenOffice files.
It doesn't make any sense at all to include VirtualBox VMs in the big list of documents.
Finally, the app-centric model works because I may be doing different stuff with the same kind of documents in different programs. For example, I may have a drawing open in Gimp for bitmap editing, in Inkscape for vector editing, and in Eye of Gnome for viewing.
Also, isn't the right-click menu in Nautilus (Open with default app, Open with Gimp, Open with Inkscape, etc.) document-centric enough?
I agree that I want to do work on the computer, not fix the computer. Your points are valid, but I think a time may be coming when Ubuntu will be a viable option:
>I'm not going to install a desktop OS when I can buy a computer with a perfectly good computer with a desktop OS. True that. The answer lies in Ubuntu tie-ups with OEMs for a nice desktop OS for less $$. This may have to occur outside the monopoly US market for traction, and then to the US.
>People want a computer that works with the software their friends use. Well, as their people get familiar with Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice, the comfort level may increase. Also, people usually want to use the same software their customers use, not their friends, because their friends are sending them Excel sheets with macros.
>People want a computer that can play the games their friends play. Valve + Android on Ubuntu?
>People want a computer that is easy to get help and support on from their '13 year old kid who is "computer literate". Unity's not too hard to work with, and it solves the problem of opening up yet another window.
>People also want devices that give them social status (like iphones). People want sleek elegant and modern looking computers. Yeah. Though, I might mention, when I opened up my Lenovo laptop with Unity running, a business partner asked, "Oh, is that Apple?"
You don't have to wonder. They have breakdown where you can specify where your $$ go: graphics, desktop UI, gaming, Debian/upstream, *buntu variants, etc.
One of the reasons libertarians focus on federal politics is that most of the anti-government ire is against the federal government.
At the local level:
1) you can affect the government much more easily. You can drive to your local council easily, and lobby/get a chance to speak. 2) you can run for local council, and you probably won't be asked what your opinion on the federal income tax or Medicare is. Many/most of these seats are nonpartisan, anyway. 3) the local level is what provides you your schools, local roads, parks, etc. I.e., bang for buck. The federal government is much more nebulous.
>Sure, this would be great if programs required no math, were short, single threaded, didn't require complex algorithms,
You just described the everyday CRUD program running in almost every business in the world. Goes something like this: 1. Show search field for patient name. 2. Show patients matching that name. 3. After user selects it, show that patient's record. 4. When user clicks save, save the updates.
Where's the math, the multithreading, the complex algorithms? (Other than in the OS and the DBMS.)
>and didn't require interfacing to other things..
And what would those be? I doubt they spent 5 months talking about CSV, XML, REST, or RPC at your college.
If you're interfacing to an oscillator or some weird piece of scientific machinery, you might need some complex math. Or not, if you've bought it off the shelf, and the manufacturer provides a Visual Basic API, as many do.
Maybe. But if you're going to go with blue-collar coding, you'll need to stop with the uber-coolification of programming.
I'm talking about stuff like the obsession with adding functional programming to Java. Java's a perfectly good language for the blue-collar programmer. It lets you check and find a lot of your bugs at compile time. The static nature of the language lets your IDE give you Intellisense-type (code completion) features, very handy for the blue-collar programmer.
A very General Motors factory line type of language. You basically know what's happening, where something is coming from.
Now add functional programming to the mix. Suddenly your blue-collar programmer is wondering, "Where did $BLAH come from?"
So there's a tension between having an environment that's geared for production-line code creation and "coolness" (trying to be like Ruby) on the other hand.
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Strangely enough, I've had better lucking importing huge documents ( > 400 pages ) into OO and formatting for print than in Word itself.
Speaking of names, is it actually "Apache OpenOffice" now? That would be an improvement over calling an office suite by the name of its website, "OpenOffice.org".
I mean, did anybody ever call it "Open Office dot org"? Judging by the comments in this thread, no.
Same for Postgres / PostgreSQL ("post greh ess queue elle").
Oh, was that the legal theory Apple was using in the Samsung case?
By the way, the US works under first to file now.
Well, you could decrease taxes (slightly) by merely reducing the rate of increase in spending.
Well, even if a corp "pockets" the cash, all that means is that they have it in the bank (whether savings account or mutual fund). What that means is that there is more capital to go around to be lent to people who want to start businesses.
So it might not be the one corp itself that creates a job, but it might be Joe Bob's New Plumbing Store.
I'm trying to explore your assertion.
The US tax laws provide that any income earned by US citizens worldwide is taxable by the IRS. So even if they put the money in Swiss banks, it (interest) would still be taxable. Unless you're talking about money laundering which wouldn't attract the punitive 90% tax rate anyway.
Regarding art, if an artist draws a painting and sells it for $1 million, he has to pay anywhere from 1/4 to 1/3 of that in income tax, after deducting studio rental and canvas costs. Or, if you sell previously bought art, you have to pay capital gains tax on that.
Is there a way to (easily) turn off USB flash device ability in Linux (particularly Debian variants)?
All this while also preserving the ability to use USB mice and keyboards?
I mostly agree, but don't you have to rebalance after rotating your tires? Also, what's the recommended tire rotation? 4 or 5?
And front to back or criss-cross pattern?
Hardy har har.
But small cars are handy for city driving. What do you need an Escalade for if you you're living in the big city?
Yeah, that Faq entry explains the story selection. That doesn't have anything to do with the comments or readership, though. /. has an international readership, which is probably why the editors increasingly post stories regarding Europe (the Europe/Canadian ACTA story from today), Australia (NBM stories), China, India (censorship), Africa (OLPC) etc.
I don't really see anything wrong with this because I learn a lot about different areas of the world.
You seem pretty upset about Citizens United, and this story seems to be a good excuse for you to vent. Unfortunately, you have no understanding the decision whatsoever.
It was not in relation to lobbyists giving money to Senators.
Citizens United was a corporate body, meaning just that it was an organization with a board and not a single person. They produced and sold CDs with a documentary expressing their views about a politician.
It's hard to see how the Supreme Court could have ruled otherwise. Do you really propose that people should not be able to express their views about politicians? Or they can, but they can only distribute their books, CDs, newspapers, whatever for free?
You're welcome to dispute any and all of his policy points. What I'm talking about is calling someone "insane" because you disagree with his policies. If you take that standard, one of the two US political parties (and half the population) will appear "insane" to you.
If "insane" is meant merely as hyperbole (usually accompanied by "literally" as in "literally insane!", when it's really neither), OK, then. If it's something else, that's a problem.
Lenora Fulani, Jesse Jackson, Chuck Baldwin, Lyndon LaRouche, Ron Paul, and others have policies that many or most people would not vote for. But that doesn't make them insane. The right word is radical or extremist (as a descriptive not a pejorative).
Why do you say he is insane? Some would say he's the only sane person in the room. The others are just doing the same things and expecting different results.
Secondly, he recognizes that many people have come to depend on government help, and he doesn't want to throw them on the street. He just wants to enable young people to invest their Social Security money because there isn't going to be any SS around for them.
How would it be allocated? Lines of Code?
Umm, if you don't want to spend time maintaining your system, Fedora would hardly be choice #1. After all, it's not a polished release, it's explicitly just a testing vehicle for RHEL.
Well, then you can allocate your dollars to Debian in the allocation chooser they have.
Well, that certainly differentiates you from the others calling for Ubuntu 10.04-style functionality, because that used Gnome2 with Compiz.
Well, one thing that categorizing by app does is it allows you to find your window.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have about 10 or so icons. You'd have one icon, and when you clicked on it you'd get 40 or so documents in big jumbled list. Would that be better?
Not only that, but sometimes, stuff is about apps. E.g., I don't want to edit a PDF, it's for viewing. It wouldn't make sense to include all "documents" in a list, mixing readonly PDFs and write/read OpenOffice files.
It doesn't make any sense at all to include VirtualBox VMs in the big list of documents.
Finally, the app-centric model works because I may be doing different stuff with the same kind of documents in different programs. For example, I may have a drawing open in Gimp for bitmap editing, in Inkscape for vector editing, and in Eye of Gnome for viewing.
Also, isn't the right-click menu in Nautilus (Open with default app, Open with Gimp, Open with Inkscape, etc.) document-centric enough?
I agree that I want to do work on the computer, not fix the computer. Your points are valid, but I think a time may be coming when Ubuntu will be a viable option:
>I'm not going to install a desktop OS when I can buy a computer with a perfectly good computer with a desktop OS.
True that. The answer lies in Ubuntu tie-ups with OEMs for a nice desktop OS for less $$. This may have to occur outside the monopoly US market for traction, and then to the US.
>People want a computer that works with the software their friends use.
Well, as their people get familiar with Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice, the comfort level may increase. Also, people usually want to use the same software their customers use, not their friends, because their friends are sending them Excel sheets with macros.
>People want a computer that can play the games their friends play.
Valve + Android on Ubuntu?
>People want a computer that is easy to get help and support on from their '13 year old kid who is "computer literate".
Unity's not too hard to work with, and it solves the problem of opening up yet another window.
>People also want devices that give them social status (like iphones). People want sleek elegant and modern looking computers.
Yeah. Though, I might mention, when I opened up my Lenovo laptop with Unity running, a business partner asked, "Oh, is that Apple?"
You don't have to wonder. They have breakdown where you can specify where your $$ go: graphics, desktop UI, gaming, Debian/upstream, *buntu variants, etc.
I gather reason you call it a "stink" pad is because it's not a Toughbook? Why didn't you just buy a Toughbook, then?
going with Core i3/i5/i7 for their servers, underestimating the advantage of Xeon (support for ECC memory and hence protection from cosmic rays).
One of the reasons libertarians focus on federal politics is that most of the anti-government ire is against the federal government.
At the local level:
1) you can affect the government much more easily. You can drive to your local council easily, and lobby/get a chance to speak.
2) you can run for local council, and you probably won't be asked what your opinion on the federal income tax or Medicare is. Many/most of these seats are nonpartisan, anyway.
3) the local level is what provides you your schools, local roads, parks, etc. I.e., bang for buck. The federal government is much more nebulous.
>Sure, this would be great if programs required no math, were short, single threaded, didn't require complex algorithms,
You just described the everyday CRUD program running in almost every business in the world. Goes something like this:
1. Show search field for patient name.
2. Show patients matching that name.
3. After user selects it, show that patient's record.
4. When user clicks save, save the updates.
Where's the math, the multithreading, the complex algorithms? (Other than in the OS and the DBMS.)
>and didn't require interfacing to other things..
And what would those be? I doubt they spent 5 months talking about CSV, XML, REST, or RPC at your college.
If you're interfacing to an oscillator or some weird piece of scientific machinery, you might need some complex math. Or not, if you've bought it off the shelf, and the manufacturer provides a Visual Basic API, as many do.
Maybe. But if you're going to go with blue-collar coding, you'll need to stop with the uber-coolification of programming.
I'm talking about stuff like the obsession with adding functional programming to Java. Java's a perfectly good language for the blue-collar programmer. It lets you check and find a lot of your bugs at compile time. The static nature of the language lets your IDE give you Intellisense-type (code completion) features, very handy for the blue-collar programmer.
A very General Motors factory line type of language. You basically know what's happening, where something is coming from.
Now add functional programming to the mix. Suddenly your blue-collar programmer is wondering, "Where did $BLAH come from?"
So there's a tension between having an environment that's geared for production-line code creation and "coolness" (trying to be like Ruby) on the other hand.