>If only Libre or Open Office supported VB macros.
It does (if the macros are already in your worksheet imported from XL).
It doesn't really allow you to create new macros with the MS dot notation and there's no Intellisense (popup list of object properties).
That's because, in typical fashion, it's over-engineered ("Universal Network Objects") and useless: the objects are dynamic, so the system can't know what the object properties are at the time of editing. Colossally stupid, and also the #1 reason why Calc isn't very useful for normal office calculation work. (You're supposed to look up object properties in some half-completed documentation somewhere, all the while trying to dynamically execute the code in your head so you can know what the object properties are at any given line in your Basic program.)
No, Rush Limbaugh is not in favor of a slower economic pace. You're familiar with how he lives, right?
As for me, I wouldn't mind slowing down the rat-race. But most people wouldn't like it. There'd be no Facebook to waste your time with "friends". Just your real friends that live within a few miles from you. There'd be no Priuses to show off your environmental consciousness. But you wouldn't need it to save the environment because you'd be walking everywhere (again, fine by me).
Also, I didn't quite catch which direction you were coming from. Do you want women to spend more time on stuff that appliances save them from doing? Women won't have careers in a happy nation. There isn't enough economic excess to pay nannies while you go work.
Great theory. The problem is that, once you downshift to a lower pace of life, you also have less economic development to create armaments of war. So then your neighbors eat you up.
The reason it works in Bhutan is that it's a protectorate of India, which basically uses Bhutan as a frontline state against China. Now, Bhutan can engage in national happiness, but India (and China and Japan) cannot.
Another reason it's unlikely is that the modern economic system elevates the power of women. Eco-feminists don't really realize this, but in a society without labor-saving devices made in China, they will be back to washing clothes by hand, gathering wood for making dinner, milking the cows, etc. And without 911 and a police dispatch system, they will need a man.
You have as much credibility as the people calling the Occupy folks a bunch of homeless hobos while ignoring their call for financial equity.
Similarly, you are ignoring the Tea Partiers' main demand for fiscal restraint while focusing on something which didn't even figure in those protests (other than one guy with a stupid sign).
Question: is there a problem going from LISP to Java and vice versa like people encounter when trying to hook up object-oriented languages and relation databases?
Yeah, while it's true that.com was always under US jurisdiction, prior to this time, they administered it with half a clue.
Now, however, they're seizing domains on a whim.
Think of it like this: all the cars, houses, and businesses in the United States are under federal/state jurisdiction. (Most are owned by Americans, some by foreigners.)
Yet, people (both Americans and foreigners) would be outraged if the government started seizing cars and buildings on the mere accusation of malfeasance.
Exactly why people are reacting as they are on Slashdot. A handful of dumbos in the government are setting off something which they won't be able to control.
It used to be a very calm MAD scenario.
It will be no longer.
Ironically, the State Department makes available software tools to subvert the Great Firewalls of Iran and China. But bureaucrats have no sense of humor or irony.
And then the "US" (actually, just a very few people/entities bribed by Hollywood) will start banning DNS requests for megaupload.xyz .
Also, people want due process of law, so that a domain should only be seized if that's part of the sentence in a court trial, not on the whim of executive-branch officials.
It might be nice if, to get things started, certain PKI keys were included in your browser. (That would be totally up to the browser maker, and there's competition in that space.)
So, then, you type in IBM, Coke, or whatever in a search box, and either goes to the main site for that word ("I'm feeling lucky"), or provides you a list.
>With search services, it's quite possible to find hosts that have no domain name at all.
I'll give you one: Nissan.
http://nissan.com/ is Nissan Computer, registered buy a guy whose last name is Nissan, when Nissan cars weren't being sold in the US (they were Datsun).
http://www.nissanusa.com/ is Nissan Motor Co. People seem to be finding which site they are looking for just fine.
This is exactly why we all need to get behind the movement to remove air conditioning from the corridors of power in Washington, DC.
In case you don't know, before AC, summers used to be unbearably hot in DC. Congress would take long recesses. Now, with AC, they're busy making all sorts of useless laws, and then the executive enforces them with abandon.
So, again, the #1 thing that can be done to trim the government is to remove the air conditioners.
Sorry, thanks for the catch. I just meant that modern diesel cars are computer-controlled, injected, etc., and hence they are already properly tuned. It's not the black smoke of yesteryear.
I hope this won't be used to fuel the hysteria against diesel.
For some reason, tree-huggers driving huge waste-emitting SUVs (so they can drive to the forest to hug those trees) seem to think diesel is the Devil's fume.
A properly tuned modern diesel engine is sort of six of one, half a dozen of the other vs. gasoline. Some emissions are better, some worse. The Euro Standards have done a lot to reduce them.
And if you're riding a bicycle, you might have some standing. But please don't preach about diesel sitting in your gasoline-guzzler.
p.s. Since diesel engines are built (and have to be built) tougher (to withstand higher pressures), they last longer. Which in itself is a great savings for the environment. The throwaway society (get a new car before you're done with the "old" one's payments) is not something I'm really into.
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>If only Libre or Open Office supported VB macros.
It does (if the macros are already in your worksheet imported from XL).
It doesn't really allow you to create new macros with the MS dot notation and there's no Intellisense (popup list of object properties).
That's because, in typical fashion, it's over-engineered ("Universal Network Objects") and useless: the objects are dynamic, so the system can't know what the object properties are at the time of editing. Colossally stupid, and also the #1 reason why Calc isn't very useful for normal office calculation work. (You're supposed to look up object properties in some half-completed documentation somewhere, all the while trying to dynamically execute the code in your head so you can know what the object properties are at any given line in your Basic program.)
That sort of thing is really mind-blowing.
I saw a guy with a brand-new BMW that just decided to stop, while running on the road.
What, then, remains the point of spending 2X or 3X the cost of a "normal" car for a "luxury" car.
Certainly not being able to not worry.
O for the day that cars were cars, toasters were toasters, and men were men ...
No, Rush Limbaugh is not in favor of a slower economic pace. You're familiar with how he lives, right?
As for me, I wouldn't mind slowing down the rat-race. But most people wouldn't like it. There'd be no Facebook to waste your time with "friends". Just your real friends that live within a few miles from you. There'd be no Priuses to show off your environmental consciousness. But you wouldn't need it to save the environment because you'd be walking everywhere (again, fine by me).
Also, I didn't quite catch which direction you were coming from. Do you want women to spend more time on stuff that appliances save them from doing? Women won't have careers in a happy nation. There isn't enough economic excess to pay nannies while you go work.
Great theory. The problem is that, once you downshift to a lower pace of life, you also have less economic development to create armaments of war. So then your neighbors eat you up.
The reason it works in Bhutan is that it's a protectorate of India, which basically uses Bhutan as a frontline state against China. Now, Bhutan can engage in national happiness, but India (and China and Japan) cannot.
Another reason it's unlikely is that the modern economic system elevates the power of women. Eco-feminists don't really realize this, but in a society without labor-saving devices made in China, they will be back to washing clothes by hand, gathering wood for making dinner, milking the cows, etc. And without 911 and a police dispatch system, they will need a man.
You have as much credibility as the people calling the Occupy folks a bunch of homeless hobos while ignoring their call for financial equity.
Similarly, you are ignoring the Tea Partiers' main demand for fiscal restraint while focusing on something which didn't even figure in those protests (other than one guy with a stupid sign).
Yeah, you beat me to it.
For those who haven't seen it:
Don't Talk to the Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Question: is there a problem going from LISP to Java and vice versa like people encounter when trying to hook up object-oriented languages and relation databases?
I know you're just joking, but for anyone just following along, please don't be scared off by the parentheses.
A good editor will keep track of the parentheses, and indent for you.
Knowing LISP or Scheme is a huge brain training exercise. If you want to sing (as a programmer), you have to train your voice.
Great Scheme implementation
http://racket-lang.org/
How to Design Programs
http://www.htdp.org/
Free LISP book
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
Wait, what? The only language that browsers have now is Javascript.
As for all the others (Dart, Shmittzle, Whatzit, and Whodat), you'd need browser extensions for those, too.
Anyway, I wasn't specifically referring to browser languages.
Well, one is a an out-of-control government that seeks to control all aspects of its citizens' lives.
And the other is a former dictatorship in North Africa.
Yeah, while it's true that .com was always under US jurisdiction, prior to this time, they administered it with half a clue.
Now, however, they're seizing domains on a whim.
Think of it like this: all the cars, houses, and businesses in the United States are under federal/state jurisdiction. (Most are owned by Americans, some by foreigners.)
Yet, people (both Americans and foreigners) would be outraged if the government started seizing cars and buildings on the mere accusation of malfeasance.
Exactly why people are reacting as they are on Slashdot. A handful of dumbos in the government are setting off something which they won't be able to control.
It used to be a very calm MAD scenario.
It will be no longer.
Ironically, the State Department makes available software tools to subvert the Great Firewalls of Iran and China. But bureaucrats have no sense of humor or irony.
> 'one striking commonality in all modern programming languages, especially the popular ones, is how little innovation there is in them!'
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
"Every sufficiently complex application/language/tool will either have to use Lisp or reinvent it the hard way."
So why do people (hotshots) keep reinventing the wheel, instead of contributing to libraries for LISP and/or Scheme?
For non-hotshots, get back to rowing at bottom of the ship with PHP and Java business-logic oars!
No need to fight, he's probably just in a different part of the Anglosphere than you.
I guess the reason would be that those U.S. Americans didn't have maps.
"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
And then the "US" (actually, just a very few people/entities bribed by Hollywood) will start banning DNS requests for megaupload.xyz .
Also, people want due process of law, so that a domain should only be seized if that's part of the sentence in a court trial, not on the whim of executive-branch officials.
I don't know if this was part of your idea, but:
It might be nice if, to get things started, certain PKI keys were included in your browser. (That would be totally up to the browser maker, and there's competition in that space.)
So, then, you type in IBM, Coke, or whatever in a search box, and either goes to the main site for that word ("I'm feeling lucky"), or provides you a list.
>With search services, it's quite possible to find hosts that have no domain name at all.
I'll give you one: Nissan.
http://nissan.com/ is Nissan Computer, registered buy a guy whose last name is Nissan, when Nissan cars weren't being sold in the US (they were Datsun).
http://www.nissanusa.com/ is Nissan Motor Co. People seem to be finding which site they are looking for just fine.
This is exactly why we all need to get behind the movement to remove air conditioning from the corridors of power in Washington, DC.
In case you don't know, before AC, summers used to be unbearably hot in DC. Congress would take long recesses. Now, with AC, they're busy making all sorts of useless laws, and then the executive enforces them with abandon.
So, again, the #1 thing that can be done to trim the government is to remove the air conditioners.
Sorry, thanks for the catch. I just meant that modern diesel cars are computer-controlled, injected, etc., and hence they are already properly tuned. It's not the black smoke of yesteryear.
I hope this won't be used to fuel the hysteria against diesel.
For some reason, tree-huggers driving huge waste-emitting SUVs (so they can drive to the forest to hug those trees) seem to think diesel is the Devil's fume.
A properly tuned modern diesel engine is sort of six of one, half a dozen of the other vs. gasoline. Some emissions are better, some worse. The Euro Standards have done a lot to reduce them.
And if you're riding a bicycle, you might have some standing. But please don't preach about diesel sitting in your gasoline-guzzler.
p.s. Since diesel engines are built (and have to be built) tougher (to withstand higher pressures), they last longer. Which in itself is a great savings for the environment. The throwaway society (get a new car before you're done with the "old" one's payments) is not something I'm really into.
That chart was created by a partisan by dividing all federal dollars by which state it's most proximate to.
The problem with that is that includes retirees receiving benefits, military bases, and more.
A more honest approach would be looking at actual subsidies.
More generally, what's your point? That federal spending should be cut? Great idea. In fact, if you're from a blue state, why are you complaining?
The reason people on Slashdot are wary of the term "smartphone" is that engineers like precision, and "smartphone" is one slippery marketing term.
OK, "smartphone" is a moving target? That would also mean there's no clear line defining smart from non-smart, right?
And when someone says "I have a smartphone," he's saying "I have one of the top X% most expensive phones?"