One of the ways that they catch spies who've started selling secrets to foreign governments is by identifying if they are "living beyond their means." Even so, one would imagine that $7K wouldn't set off that alarm. That's a lucky streak in Vegas.
A down payment on a new home is more the magnitude that I would be thinking.
Nope. I'm a card-carrying member of the FSF, and almost every product that I mentioned in that conversation is FOSS. It's just FOSS that I think is better than OOo.
Yes, but if all of the hype is accurate, and industry really is interested in moving to FOSS, then compatibility with a closed server like Exchange wouldn't be much a concern.
That very observation contradicts 90% of the hype.
I think that the Mozilla calendar app will smoke Evolution. You have to remember how long we've been hearing about Evolution... Just how many generations do we have to kill before we see any useful mutations!!??!?!
But, seriously, Evolution was pretty cool when it first came around, as was Ximian, but I hopped to KDE and didn't look back, never boarded the train for their email client, straight to Thunderbird from Mozilla, and I imagine that their calendar client will pretty much rock my world too once it's finally ready (and by finally, I mean they haven't had long yet!).
I think that it goes without saying that Keynote is clearly on top on the presentation software front. Keynote makes PowerPoint look downright clunky. Unfortunately, OOo's presenter software looks clunky by relation to PowerPoint.
I wish that there were KeyNote for Linux, or an open source presentation package that was half as cool. I've even thought of starting such a project once I get a moment free from school.
Brutal, honest, truth. I'm not fond of OpenOffice.org
It's ok. It's not as great as people say it is. Organizations that have the money for MS Office and want it, honestly, have a bit better product.
I do most of my writing in LaTeX if it requires any formatting, and coding in gedit. I use Kile, though it's buggy as it gets, just for the completion feature.
If I need a presentation, I use PowerPoint. I find the OOo presentation software to be a bit clunky. It'll open a PowerPoint presentation, but it doesn't look very good on the other side (this is stock Gentoo Linux... perhaps there are other bells and whistles).
OOo seems to run slow and with a lot of overhead. The interface is a little clunky too.
Now, I don't do much in MS office, but if I'm not using LaTeX, and have a Windows box with it installed handy, I'll usually use MS Office prior to using OOo. Usually, I'll use KWord if I need to open or write a doc. Honestly, the KDE presentation tool seems better than the OOo one, but PowerPoint still smokes those two.
ThunderBird smokes Outlook, honestly... if it's compatible with your installation (I'm thinking university Kerberos auth still doesn't work). The guy is right about the lack of email integration, but, honestly, all that ever did was irritate me. It facilitates group writing... lovely.
Most of my writing with multiple authors is handled via CVS, in LaTeX.
For spreadsheets I use gnumeric.
Plots and charts, gnuplot, which I think everyone on the planet uses.
Did I miss some crucial thing that OOo does? It's a nice product and all, but, the truth is, it doesn't match the hype. Firefox probably made a big ripple for open source apps under windows, but Firefox is an awesome browser. Firefox offers a real improvement over IE.
My Linux solution barely involves OOo. I think that I uninstalled it it a while ago so I wouldn't have to wait for Gentoo to emerge the update. I don't really think that the hype is justified, and I used StarOffice back in the day and everything. There's just, simply put, better stuff available.
DARPA has to keep operating. This year Universities too gigantic cuts in their funding from DARPA, so, I'm not sure what you're talking about with DARPA coming out on top. NASA still has its budget (though it perhaps isn't great). And the entire military is essentially deployed, so you're have to get the draft going to get Bin Laden. If you're THAT gung ho about it, I suggest that you enlist.
You are 100% right. But, Slashdot has kind of turned into that. Sad. It used to rock!
Hey, the Taco was asking how he could fix things in an article. I'm sure he wasn't looking for ways to make it easier to astroturfers to screw this place up.
No way. He needed to win republican states. Military folks are mostly republicans. He couldn't have risked saying anything about it. That's not support for the war, that's positioning.
Yeah, that hippie "I hate war" platform has always been a real winner.
The fact of the matter at the time was that we were already in Iraq, and that political handlers wouldn't have let anybody with a chance say much else. All of that aside, Kerry lost the election when he said that he'd have had France and Germany's support, and then France and Germany pretty much said they didn't want to have anything to do with him. The frat boy crack about Cheney's daughter wasn't such a winner either.
Oh, wait, I left part out of that that I thought was in the article.
There are programs discussing the implantation of these in people. It's being piloted in the military as a way of tracking medical records, and there are already medical trials of having this inserted into people.
Verichip is pushing for people to get implants, and bars and clubs in other countries are already using them as debit cards linked to your tab.
So, the implants are here, and people are already using it to trade. There has been discussion of a national program to implant Americans with these, and it's being backed by a former head of the FDA (I forget the dudes name).
That's where the idea that it's the mark of the beast comes from.
I should note that I'm not some kind of nut. I'm just saying, if you're going to build up an argument like that, this is WAYYY easier than most of the popular conspiracy theories.
And, hey, if TV bores you, you should listen to some of them. It's amazing how they are constructed, and it's even more amazing the assertions that people will make.
OBVIOUSLY Aliens crashed at Area 51, bringing a message of peace (see, the aliens are always so evolved that they became pacists).
If that'st the hallmark of a conspiracy theory, then this one stands head and shoulders above the crowd.
This is a little different. There really are passages in the Bible signifying the placement of a mark on people that is required to trade, and people are already using these things as debit cards at night clubs. I guess that people don't mind getting a chip injected after a few beers.
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Wow, my mistake.
Even so, it's probably the most widely used tool that I know of!
One of the ways that they catch spies who've started selling secrets to foreign governments is by identifying if they are "living beyond their means." Even so, one would imagine that $7K wouldn't set off that alarm. That's a lucky streak in Vegas.
A down payment on a new home is more the magnitude that I would be thinking.
Yay Ren & Stimpy.
Dada, is that you ;-)
Yeah, because my stalker told me that they were stalking me.
Ahh. I tried "slides" which isn't so hot if you have a widescreen projector. I'll have to check out beamer.
Nope. I'm a card-carrying member of the FSF, and almost every product that I mentioned in that conversation is FOSS. It's just FOSS that I think is better than OOo.
Did the "gnu" in "gnuplot" fail to give it away?
Yes, but if all of the hype is accurate, and industry really is interested in moving to FOSS, then compatibility with a closed server like Exchange wouldn't be much a concern.
That very observation contradicts 90% of the hype.
I think that the Mozilla calendar app will smoke Evolution. You have to remember how long we've been hearing about Evolution... Just how many generations do we have to kill before we see any useful mutations!!??!?!
But, seriously, Evolution was pretty cool when it first came around, as was Ximian, but I hopped to KDE and didn't look back, never boarded the train for their email client, straight to Thunderbird from Mozilla, and I imagine that their calendar client will pretty much rock my world too once it's finally ready (and by finally, I mean they haven't had long yet!).
I think that it goes without saying that Keynote is clearly on top on the presentation software front. Keynote makes PowerPoint look downright clunky. Unfortunately, OOo's presenter software looks clunky by relation to PowerPoint.
I wish that there were KeyNote for Linux, or an open source presentation package that was half as cool. I've even thought of starting such a project once I get a moment free from school.
Brutal, honest, truth. I'm not fond of OpenOffice.org
It's ok. It's not as great as people say it is. Organizations that have the money for MS Office and want it, honestly, have a bit better product.
I do most of my writing in LaTeX if it requires any formatting, and coding in gedit. I use Kile, though it's buggy as it gets, just for the completion feature.
If I need a presentation, I use PowerPoint. I find the OOo presentation software to be a bit clunky. It'll open a PowerPoint presentation, but it doesn't look very good on the other side (this is stock Gentoo Linux... perhaps there are other bells and whistles).
OOo seems to run slow and with a lot of overhead. The interface is a little clunky too.
Now, I don't do much in MS office, but if I'm not using LaTeX, and have a Windows box with it installed handy, I'll usually use MS Office prior to using OOo. Usually, I'll use KWord if I need to open or write a doc. Honestly, the KDE presentation tool seems better than the OOo one, but PowerPoint still smokes those two.
ThunderBird smokes Outlook, honestly... if it's compatible with your installation (I'm thinking university Kerberos auth still doesn't work). The guy is right about the lack of email integration, but, honestly, all that ever did was irritate me. It facilitates group writing... lovely.
Most of my writing with multiple authors is handled via CVS, in LaTeX.
For spreadsheets I use gnumeric.
Plots and charts, gnuplot, which I think everyone on the planet uses.
Did I miss some crucial thing that OOo does? It's a nice product and all, but, the truth is, it doesn't match the hype. Firefox probably made a big ripple for open source apps under windows, but Firefox is an awesome browser. Firefox offers a real improvement over IE.
My Linux solution barely involves OOo. I think that I uninstalled it it a while ago so I wouldn't have to wait for Gentoo to emerge the update. I don't really think that the hype is justified, and I used StarOffice back in the day and everything. There's just, simply put, better stuff available.
By my calculations, based on Godwin's law, this thread is likely to die quickly.
I thought that it would be a scare article about pedophiles.
We're not prioritizing like that at all.
DARPA has to keep operating. This year Universities too gigantic cuts in their funding from DARPA, so, I'm not sure what you're talking about with DARPA coming out on top.
NASA still has its budget (though it perhaps isn't great).
And the entire military is essentially deployed, so you're have to get the draft going to get Bin Laden. If you're THAT gung ho about it, I suggest that you enlist.
Wow.
You are 100% right. But, Slashdot has kind of turned into that. Sad. It used to rock!
Hey, the Taco was asking how he could fix things in an article. I'm sure he wasn't looking for ways to make it easier to astroturfers to screw this place up.
No way. He needed to win republican states. Military folks are mostly republicans. He couldn't have risked saying anything about it. That's not support for the war, that's positioning.
And your implant is a necessity in this, since you couldn't just carry the thing on a keychain.
Just imagine a world where my stalker can pick me out in the crowd with such convenience... where my exact movements are tracked at all times.
It's a wonderful world indeed.
Yeah, but you said that cutting the robodonkey was somehow related to this.
The universities would close, and you'd have nobody to work at NASA.
Like I said, these folks aren't enlisted folks.
I'm insisting on total fallacy of your argument, which makes no sense.
Yeah, that hippie "I hate war" platform has always been a real winner.
The fact of the matter at the time was that we were already in Iraq, and that political handlers wouldn't have let anybody with a chance say much else. All of that aside, Kerry lost the election when he said that he'd have had France and Germany's support, and then France and Germany pretty much said they didn't want to have anything to do with him. The frat boy crack about Cheney's daughter wasn't such a winner either.
Eh, I was offering in what little I knew about it since nobody else did.
Oh, wait, I left part out of that that I thought was in the article.
There are programs discussing the implantation of these in people. It's being piloted in the military as a way of tracking medical records, and there are already medical trials of having this inserted into people.
Verichip is pushing for people to get implants, and bars and clubs in other countries are already using them as debit cards linked to your tab.
So, the implants are here, and people are already using it to trade. There has been discussion of a national program to implant Americans with these, and it's being backed by a former head of the FDA (I forget the dudes name).
That's where the idea that it's the mark of the beast comes from.
I should note that I'm not some kind of nut. I'm just saying, if you're going to build up an argument like that, this is WAYYY easier than most of the popular conspiracy theories.
And, hey, if TV bores you, you should listen to some of them. It's amazing how they are constructed, and it's even more amazing the assertions that people will make.
OBVIOUSLY Aliens crashed at Area 51, bringing a message of peace (see, the aliens are always so evolved that they became pacists).
If that'st the hallmark of a conspiracy theory, then this one stands head and shoulders above the crowd.
This is a little different. There really are passages in the Bible signifying the placement of a mark on people that is required to trade, and people are already using these things as debit cards at night clubs. I guess that people don't mind getting a chip injected after a few beers.
Ahh, it wasn't an degree of skepticism. I was being downright sarcastic :-D
The statement "what planet are you on where there is popular support for the war" seemed to be pretty blunt.