What I said was that if you are doing data analysis that could be solved with PivotTables, then you should use a different tool entirely.
Hard to make a general statement like that. I'd be more comfortable with "beyond a certain complexity tipping point..."
For general business crap like quarterly sales by region, pivot tables have the virtue of being simple, straightforward, and giving the non-specialist that intangible feeling of adequacy, which is not to be underestimated.
More to the point, this should exert downward pressure on all display prices.
I, for one, have enjoyed running multi-monitor systems, when I had the spare, old hardware laying around, but for $400, I expect about a 21" monitor, probably with speakers. Props to the capitalists dropping a '0' behind that figure, and getting it.
Display technology seems priced like beverages at your favorite death-burger counter.
What do you mean? This is business, plain and simple. Balls. The amount of/. mindshare that could be spent on writing better FOSS software, alone, is staggering. In the US National Football League, this maneuver is known as a 'play action fake'.
I had one boss, who, showing up late for something, would say, "Time...is a western disease".
Better than that, though, was his concept of obstructive conformity, the theory that, given a sufficiently large rulebase, you can always find a legalistic reason not to accomplish a task.
Consider how many different interfaces there were for keyboard shortcuts, and such.
Like it or not, Mr. 800 lb. Gorilla has a stabilizing affect on interfaces, hardware, and other standards.
TMTOWTDI isn't a good thing, from a management perspective, as it hints at unbounded problems.
No, the question is whether or not you should run exactly one OS. Your statement seemed to imply an assertion that all should run the same.
Anyway, MS has stabilized the market, but, are they a cure worse than the disease?
Joking aside, will non-US countries rally around FOSS and turn MS into a giant suppository for the US economy?
<your speculation here>
Is there an implicit assumption in your last sentence that all users employ just one OS? I run a dual-boot, and end up spending the bulk of my time in a proprietary vein, mainly for hardware reasons, but also Exchange Server.
I may be ronngg, but doesn't LSB consider itself with what more than how?
As long as the stuff is in the prescribed locations, what difference does it make whether it's an RPM or Portage install?
Biggest stumbling block, irrespective of distro, is things like 802.11g firmware. That is usually a DIY piece, largely for licensing reasons, and it really makes getting ANY distro installed a right mother. Especially the research step: where do I find my firmware easter egg, and what magic incantations get it loaded and initialized.
Hopefully LSB will prove better than LSD in convincing vendors that there is cold, hard cash to be made targeting a stable, FOSS platform.
See, now, totally is too strong a word.
The point I was developing is that
And likewise, it would be a clear win for the Perl people to use Python-style C extensions.
is an example of small thinking. When all your language objects are belong to Parrot, swapping out various regex engines, database engines, XML parsers, etc. suddenly enters the realm of the possible.
Someday.
Well thanks for tottering my humble observation on the edge of a slippery slope. Of course humans make mistakes.
Yeah, this is somewhere close to where I break down with a lot of secular philosophies, for example, Ayn Rand.
Accepting the null hypothesis that God exists blows up at the intellectual level, kinda like accepting any other null hypothesis.
Even buying off at some spiritual level, call it 'faith', ends up being a slippery, fanatical slope all too often.
My recommendation is, read Eccelsiastes, then John, and pray deeply.
Best,
Chris
Genesis seems reasonable to me, for all I know, which is nothing. Why wouldn't the holy spirit manifest itself and spontaneously create man, woman, and all the beasties? Who am I to say it didn't happen that way? It is, in my opinion, an amazing act of arrogance to say in any certain terms how the world started when all of my arguments are based on such a limited stream of information in such a constricted context.
My response is that the Bible and reality are harmonious and of a common author. Scientists and Theologians share a common inquisitiveness. We don't all have to be driven to explore the Almighty in various ways. It is cool to be compassionate on those with smaller propellers on their headgear.
OTOH, my experience has been that ignorance, while blissful, isn't cheap. I respect the "God said it, I believe it, that settles it." crowd, except that belief should never be used as an excuse to shirk critical thinking. Far from it. The Gospel is all about taking a continuous, critical look within _and_ without.
Best,
Chris
Doesn't that mean that our collective perception of what is right is relative to the times?
Well, that certainly seems as great a convenience as my confidence in my views, sir.
I'm sure that a lot of Ba'athists in Iraq felt themselves dealing firmly with thieves, to paraphrase Saddam.
It's like determining the temperature outside. You can argue that you're really only talking about the kinetic energy of air molecules at a given measurement spot. You can talk about it all being heat, Fahrenheit or Celsius. But if you refuse to admit to an absoulute zero, I fall short of seeing how you derive any useful scale.
Best,
Chris
Well, we've made a brace of subjective statements. Could we prove anything objectively within the scope of time, the economic effects would be profound. As long as we hold fast the distinction between what we choose to believe, and what we can make stick (very little), then we can lovingly tolerate all folks and pleasantly ignore stuff with which we fall short of agreement.
Big Daddy is the power supply of life within my worldview; other views are, thus, ungrounded. YMMV.
Dan,
Like you, I consider myself a devout Christian. In fact, while an admirer of Hugh Ross, I'm a member of a pretty stereotypical how-conservative-can-we-get ABA church. So, let me offer you a typical response to why Creationism and Evolution are not compatible:
If you accept the Bible as truth, and
If you accept the literal read of Genesis, God went from null to reality in 168 hours, then
Any other explanation triggers a buffer overflow, allowing arbitrary doctrine to execute in the service (and boy, does some of that doctrine get arbitrary).
Furthermore, allowing unsupervised evolution into the dialogue is the first step towards atheism. Life can be (foolishly) seen as a vast, extended chemical reaction of vague origin and uncertain destination.
Taking the purely Darwinian route, for me, seems to come up nihilism. All statements go relative, and subjective. How do we differentiate between Stalin and Ghandi?
Now, maybe my life experience, which heavy exposure to Paul Tillich makes me a wierd duck; I read Genesis as a true, but poetic, qualitative abstract of the implementation. God taking it easy on the wet-ware. I don't think the sum of human knowledge more than the tip of the iceberg. And I look forward to a full debrief in the afterlife, when it might be possible to grasp all.
So, while all real instances of Christianity are quite open to criticism, I still haven't heard anyone mount a bulletproof attack against Christ, argued through the Gospels.
Remember, Jesus was a Jew, and have a nice day.
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Concur. I refer to this as the "acute vs. chronic" question. Technical types view the world as chronic, which is often a failing, in my experience. ;)
For general business crap like quarterly sales by region, pivot tables have the virtue of being simple, straightforward, and giving the non-specialist that intangible feeling of adequacy, which is not to be underestimated.
MS Access pivot tables are spelled "crosstab query".
More to the point, this should exert downward pressure on all display prices.
I, for one, have enjoyed running multi-monitor systems, when I had the spare, old hardware laying around, but for $400, I expect about a 21" monitor, probably with speakers. Props to the capitalists dropping a '0' behind that figure, and getting it.
Display technology seems priced like beverages at your favorite death-burger counter.
At a high enough level of abstraction, it's a video game.
What do you mean? This is business, plain and simple. Balls. The amount of /. mindshare that could be spent on writing better FOSS software, alone, is staggering.
In the US National Football League, this maneuver is known as a 'play action fake'.
I had one boss, who, showing up late for something, would say, "Time...is a western disease".
Better than that, though, was his concept of obstructive conformity, the theory that, given a sufficiently large rulebase, you can always find a legalistic reason not to accomplish a task.
Correlation with the Incompleteness_theorem is left as an exercise for the reader.
My own management theory is that if you make policy you do not need, will not enforce, or which turns the people into criminals, you are teh l00z3r.
Of course, the GPL obviates much of this...
Consider how many different interfaces there were for keyboard shortcuts, and such.
Like it or not, Mr. 800 lb. Gorilla has a stabilizing affect on interfaces, hardware, and other standards.
TMTOWTDI isn't a good thing, from a management perspective, as it hints at unbounded problems.
No, the question is whether or not you should run exactly one OS. Your statement seemed to imply an assertion that all should run the same.
Anyway, MS has stabilized the market, but, are they a cure worse than the disease?
Joking aside, will non-US countries rally around FOSS and turn MS into a giant suppository for the US economy?
<your speculation here>
Is there an implicit assumption in your last sentence that all users employ just one OS?
I run a dual-boot, and end up spending the bulk of my time in a proprietary vein, mainly for hardware reasons, but also Exchange Server.
I may be ronngg, but doesn't LSB consider itself with what more than how?
As long as the stuff is in the prescribed locations, what difference does it make whether it's an RPM or Portage install?
Biggest stumbling block, irrespective of distro, is things like 802.11g firmware. That is usually a DIY piece, largely for licensing reasons, and it really makes getting ANY distro installed a right mother. Especially the research step: where do I find my firmware easter egg, and what magic incantations get it loaded and initialized.
Hopefully LSB will prove better than LSD in convincing vendors that there is cold, hard cash to be made targeting a stable, FOSS platform.
The point I was developing is that is an example of small thinking. When all your language objects are belong to Parrot, swapping out various regex engines, database engines, XML parsers, etc. suddenly enters the realm of the possible.
Someday.
The whole Parrot thing is about having a language-neutral virtual machine.
Your statement applies equally to both of the major parties.
Of the two, W seems more predictable, though many don't seem to view this as a feature...
Yeah, emacs: yeah.
I dunno. Maybe if I got some more sleep I could be coherent. Regret inconvenience.
Accepting the null hypothesis that God exists blows up at the intellectual level, kinda like accepting any other null hypothesis.
Even buying off at some spiritual level, call it 'faith', ends up being a slippery, fanatical slope all too often.
My recommendation is, read Eccelsiastes, then John, and pray deeply.
Best,
Chris
OTOH, my experience has been that ignorance, while blissful, isn't cheap. I respect the "God said it, I believe it, that settles it." crowd, except that belief should never be used as an excuse to shirk critical thinking. Far from it. The Gospel is all about taking a continuous, critical look within _and_ without.
Best, Chris
I'm sure that a lot of Ba'athists in Iraq felt themselves dealing firmly with thieves, to paraphrase Saddam.
It's like determining the temperature outside. You can argue that you're really only talking about the kinetic energy of air molecules at a given measurement spot. You can talk about it all being heat, Fahrenheit or Celsius. But if you refuse to admit to an absoulute zero, I fall short of seeing how you derive any useful scale.
Best,
Chris
Heretic! "Yom" == "24 hour time period"
Oh, wait, earth's rotation speed is not a constant...
Well, we've made a brace of subjective statements.
Could we prove anything objectively within the scope of time, the economic effects would be profound.
As long as we hold fast the distinction between what we choose to believe, and what we can make stick (very little), then we can lovingly tolerate all folks and pleasantly ignore stuff with which we fall short of agreement.
Big Daddy is the power supply of life within my worldview; other views are, thus, ungrounded.
YMMV.
Like you, I consider myself a devout Christian. In fact, while an admirer of Hugh Ross, I'm a member of a pretty stereotypical how-conservative-can-we-get ABA church. So, let me offer you a typical response to why Creationism and Evolution are not compatible:
If you accept the Bible as truth, and
If you accept the literal read of Genesis, God went from null to reality in 168 hours, then
Any other explanation triggers a buffer overflow, allowing arbitrary doctrine to execute in the service (and boy, does some of that doctrine get arbitrary).
Furthermore, allowing unsupervised evolution into the dialogue is the first step towards atheism. Life can be (foolishly) seen as a vast, extended chemical reaction of vague origin and uncertain destination.
Taking the purely Darwinian route, for me, seems to come up nihilism. All statements go relative, and subjective. How do we differentiate between Stalin and Ghandi?
Now, maybe my life experience, which heavy exposure to Paul Tillich makes me a wierd duck; I read Genesis as a true, but poetic, qualitative abstract of the implementation. God taking it easy on the wet-ware. I don't think the sum of human knowledge more than the tip of the iceberg. And I look forward to a full debrief in the afterlife, when it might be possible to grasp all.
So, while all real instances of Christianity are quite open to criticism, I still haven't heard anyone mount a bulletproof attack against Christ, argued through the Gospels.
Remember, Jesus was a Jew, and have a nice day.
Send Stevie W. Much better vision of where things are going, e.g. "Higher Ground".
Yes, there are a couple of ways to put HTML in an emacs buffer. But let's be reasonable, shall, we? Boot an X session, and light off a proper browser.
When I want browsing, I want Firefox. The rest is emacs.