I had moved my stuff to GnuCash, but I got sick of it's weird handling of investments and it's lack of scheduled transactions (which are coming soon, I know, but not soon enough). So I've moved my stuff back to Quicken now - the wife's computer still has Windows.
On a lark, I decided to see if I could get Quicken to run in Wine. Surprisingly, it runs pretty well. The online features are a bit hit-or-miss, but otherwise it works perfectly. I'd be willing to bet MS Money wouldn't be as cooperative as Quicken was though.
You claim that either answering "yes" or "no" limits God's power. You are incorrect. An answer of "yes" limits God's power. An answer of "no" does not.
Think in terms of physics. A being with limitless power can move an object of any size. Since matter and energy are equivalent, this being can also create an object of any size. However, no matter how big the object he creates, he will still be able to move it.
Thus, the reason God can't create a rock so big He can't move it is because it is a logical impossibility. There is no limit to the size rock He can create, nor the size rock He can move, thus His "power" has not been limited. He has simply been constrained to the realm of logical possibilities. This no more limits His power than the fact that He can't create a circle with corners.
Does anybody feel perfectly represented by their nation's government?
If you were listening to All Things Considered last Friday night, you'd know the answer is "no". The Voice of the People survey, conducted by Gallup, interviewed 36,000 people from 47 different countries. Two-thirds disagree that their country is "governed by the will of the people". In only four countries did a majority of respondents agree. They are the Dominican Republic, Israel, Luxembourg, and Malaysia.
Well, you're sort of right. With the corporations controlling the government though, there's no need to speak of them as separate entities. It's almost as if we've been so staunchly pro-capitalist and anti-socialist, that we've become what we hated most. What's the real difference between state-owned corporations and a corporate-owned state?
For more depressingly accurate views of today from years ago, try Brave New World or Fahrenheit 451.
Hey waiter, there's a flywheel in my laptop! Ba-da-bing, thanks, I'll be here all week.
Seriously, wouldn't the gyroscopic effect seriously affect the portability of a small device with a flywheel? Imagine the struggle to turn your laptop vertically so you can slide it into your backpack.
I've got one. It's the original ROMs of the games. So if Nintendo had a Galaga clone that played *exactly* like Galaga, then maybe it's Nintendo. Otherwise, no, it's MAME.
I have a Galaga arcade machine. It runs on a vertically-mounted monitor. So if you had to turn your TV on its side to play, or the game only took up the middle half of your TV, then maybe it's MAME. Otherwise, no, it's Nintendo.
Some small bands even sell CD-Rs with their own music on them (it costs a lot of money to make CDs `professionally'.)
If you're talking about a couple dozen, maybe. At quantities of a thousand, your prices will get into the $1.50/disc range, and you don't have to waste time babysitting a CD burner. You also have a better looking product, and no eBay hassles.
That's just a pass-through connection...if you plug a TV directly into the cable outlet, it'll pick up analog. Here in Las Vegas at least (maybe in other Cox markets as well), I'm fairly sure that if you subscribe to digital cable, all channels are delivered as digital channels.
Not the case with Charter in Alabama. The lower channels are analog, even if you have a digital box.
That said, our analog is snowy and crappy - I'd rather have an occasional decoding glitch, especially since I watch Enterprise on a widescreen TV in zoom mode. Incidentally, last night's episode was one of the best so far. I love the way it played off the fact that we've been prodded to mistrust the Vulcans so far in the series.
Digital is worse in my experience, on all channels below 100. (do a side by side comparison and you will notice the difference)
I don't know about your cable system, but on mine (Charter, in Alabama) the channels below 100 aren't digital, they're analog. And, their quality is horrible.
who's going to explicitly ask for the three religious channels, the channel where they talk about hot rods, and that one that's just a bad radio station?
Actually, Jesus was an uncomplicated sort of guy, so I'd think he would be a sans-serif font, possibly Helvetica or Letter Gothic. Then again, he did live in Roman times, so maybe Times Roman is appropriate.
We use the 172.16.0.0/12 range where I work now. My last place of employment used 10.0.0.0/8, but with about 30 locations across the US, they had a good reason. The second byte was used to indicate which site a machine was at, so each site had two bytes of address space to assign numbers sensibly.
I remember returning it to EB the same week I bought it, after finding out I needed windows disks in order to run windows programs.
I seem to recall there were two versions: the one you apparently bought, OS/2 for Windows Users, and a slightly more expensive version (because of royalties to MS) which included the necessary bits of Windows 3.1. The idea was you bought the cheaper one if you already had Windows and didn't want to pay MS twice (if you had a pirated copy of Win 3.1, s/twice/once/).
...they didn't mean to say "The music on copy protected audio CDs is worthless"?
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Are you even try to upgrade Mandrake 8.2 to 9 without loosing all users configuration. Or Upgrade any other distribution to the same, but more recent, distribution whom was updated every four to six mouth ? no ! I try more than one. And every time, I have to reconfigure all the user preference.
That's funny, I upgraded from Mandrake 8.2 to 9.0 (for free, I might add; I typically buy boxed sets at every other release, which is obviously not a legal option with Windows). I didn't loose (let go of, release) any configuration, nor did I lose (fail to keep possession of) any configuration.
Also I should point out that if you update every "four to six mouth", you might have problems keeping track of time. The rest of us count months, not mouths. Or is it just that your N key is umop apisdn?
You can simplify the equation and get high precision, but your accuracy will be horrible, and someone will complain about it.
By "a fuckload better than Space.com" I could simply mean three significant figures. But of course someone would complain - this is Slashdot!
Space.com is taking the conservative approah here, and I don't blame them.
Yes, but if they're going to be imprecise, they could at least fudge the numbers to where their multiplication works. If they had said the distance to the Oort cloud was 240AU, about 6 times further than the 40AU to Pluto, they would have been close enough on all counts, and wouldn't have looked like they failed third grade arithmetic.
Sure I'd heard of them, and the 163 which the other response to my post mentioned. To say "A lot of pilots were killed by jet fuel" as the original poster did, though, is simply not reasonable, considering the far greater number of pilots who were killed in "conventional" aircraft.
I can't believe no one modded this +1, Funny. The poster is obviously joking. Has no one here ever read the old NY Times editorial which stated that space flight is impossible because there's "nothing to push against" and said that Robert Goddard "seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high school"?
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Art - from the Darwinist point of view - is just a waste of energy and as such had no reason to evolve in our brain.
Not true. Artists get laid a lot. It makes as much sense for art to evolve as for a peacock's tail feathers.
Natural selection isn't about the strongest and most efficient, it's about who has the most babies.
I had moved my stuff to GnuCash, but I got sick of it's weird handling of investments and it's lack of scheduled transactions (which are coming soon, I know, but not soon enough). So I've moved my stuff back to Quicken now - the wife's computer still has Windows.
On a lark, I decided to see if I could get Quicken to run in Wine. Surprisingly, it runs pretty well. The online features are a bit hit-or-miss, but otherwise it works perfectly. I'd be willing to bet MS Money wouldn't be as cooperative as Quicken was though.
Can God make a rock so big He can't move it?
You claim that either answering "yes" or "no" limits God's power. You are incorrect. An answer of "yes" limits God's power. An answer of "no" does not.
Think in terms of physics. A being with limitless power can move an object of any size. Since matter and energy are equivalent, this being can also create an object of any size. However, no matter how big the object he creates, he will still be able to move it.
Thus, the reason God can't create a rock so big He can't move it is because it is a logical impossibility. There is no limit to the size rock He can create, nor the size rock He can move, thus His "power" has not been limited. He has simply been constrained to the realm of logical possibilities. This no more limits His power than the fact that He can't create a circle with corners.
Does anybody feel perfectly represented by their nation's government?
If you were listening to All Things Considered last Friday night, you'd know the answer is "no". The Voice of the People survey, conducted by Gallup, interviewed 36,000 people from 47 different countries. Two-thirds disagree that their country is "governed by the will of the people". In only four countries did a majority of respondents agree. They are the Dominican Republic, Israel, Luxembourg, and Malaysia.
Well, you're sort of right. With the corporations controlling the government though, there's no need to speak of them as separate entities. It's almost as if we've been so staunchly pro-capitalist and anti-socialist, that we've become what we hated most. What's the real difference between state-owned corporations and a corporate-owned state?
For more depressingly accurate views of today from years ago, try Brave New World or Fahrenheit 451.
Hey waiter, there's a flywheel in my laptop! Ba-da-bing, thanks, I'll be here all week.
Seriously, wouldn't the gyroscopic effect seriously affect the portability of a small device with a flywheel? Imagine the struggle to turn your laptop vertically so you can slide it into your backpack.
Umm, which version of Missile Command allowed you to destroy your friends? Not the Atari version I remember.
Sure there was two-player mode, but it was alternating, not simultaneous.
I've got one. It's the original ROMs of the games. So if Nintendo had a Galaga clone that played *exactly* like Galaga, then maybe it's Nintendo. Otherwise, no, it's MAME.
I have a Galaga arcade machine. It runs on a vertically-mounted monitor. So if you had to turn your TV on its side to play, or the game only took up the middle half of your TV, then maybe it's MAME. Otherwise, no, it's Nintendo.
Some small bands even sell CD-Rs with their own music on them (it costs a lot of money to make CDs `professionally'.)
If you're talking about a couple dozen, maybe. At quantities of a thousand, your prices will get into the $1.50/disc range, and you don't have to waste time babysitting a CD burner. You also have a better looking product, and no eBay hassles.
I'm currently working on an amphibious GNU/HURD-based vehicle. Who's cool now?
Well, considering you can't handle disk partitions larger than 2GB, it isn't you!
That's just a pass-through connection...if you plug a TV directly into the cable outlet, it'll pick up analog. Here in Las Vegas at least (maybe in other Cox markets as well), I'm fairly sure that if you subscribe to digital cable, all channels are delivered as digital channels.
Not the case with Charter in Alabama. The lower channels are analog, even if you have a digital box.
That said, our analog is snowy and crappy - I'd rather have an occasional decoding glitch, especially since I watch Enterprise on a widescreen TV in zoom mode. Incidentally, last night's episode was one of the best so far. I love the way it played off the fact that we've been prodded to mistrust the Vulcans so far in the series.
Digital is worse in my experience, on all channels below 100. (do a side by side comparison and you will notice the difference)
I don't know about your cable system, but on mine (Charter, in Alabama) the channels below 100 aren't digital, they're analog. And, their quality is horrible.
who's going to explicitly ask for the three religious channels, the channel where they talk about hot rods, and that one that's just a bad radio station?
I take it you've never been to Indiana.
You misspelled Alabama.
We'd just invented pr0n before that...
Oh, I doubt it. Eventually someone will discover paintings of nekkid Neandarthal women on a cave wall somewhere.
TIMES ROMAN IS JESUS
Actually, Jesus was an uncomplicated sort of guy, so I'd think he would be a sans-serif font, possibly Helvetica or Letter Gothic. Then again, he did live in Roman times, so maybe Times Roman is appropriate.
We use the 172.16.0.0/12 range where I work now. My last place of employment used 10.0.0.0/8, but with about 30 locations across the US, they had a good reason. The second byte was used to indicate which site a machine was at, so each site had two bytes of address space to assign numbers sensibly.
I can tell that most Slashdot readers are single by the fact that this post isn't +5, Funny (not that I didn't know beforehand, mind you).
BTW, you forgot to mention the remote control for the TV in the living room being left on the kitchen table.
I remember returning it to EB the same week I bought it, after finding out I needed windows disks in order to run windows programs.
I seem to recall there were two versions: the one you apparently bought, OS/2 for Windows Users, and a slightly more expensive version (because of royalties to MS) which included the necessary bits of Windows 3.1. The idea was you bought the cheaper one if you already had Windows and didn't want to pay MS twice (if you had a pirated copy of Win 3.1, s/twice/once/).
At this rate, I expect my quantum computer to arrive by Christmas.
Okay, as long as you don't ask for anything really far-fetched like the release of HURD.
...they didn't mean to say "The music on copy protected audio CDs is worthless"?
Are you even try to upgrade Mandrake 8.2 to 9 without loosing all users configuration. Or Upgrade any other distribution to the same, but more recent, distribution whom was updated every four to six mouth ? no ! I try more than one. And every time, I have to reconfigure all the user preference.
That's funny, I upgraded from Mandrake 8.2 to 9.0 (for free, I might add; I typically buy boxed sets at every other release, which is obviously not a legal option with Windows). I didn't loose (let go of, release) any configuration, nor did I lose (fail to keep possession of) any configuration.
Also I should point out that if you update every "four to six mouth", you might have problems keeping track of time. The rest of us count months, not mouths. Or is it just that your N key is umop apisdn?
You can simplify the equation and get high precision, but your accuracy will be horrible, and someone will complain about it.
By "a fuckload better than Space.com" I could simply mean three significant figures. But of course someone would complain - this is Slashdot!
Space.com is taking the conservative approah here, and I don't blame them.
Yes, but if they're going to be imprecise, they could at least fudge the numbers to where their multiplication works. If they had said the distance to the Oort cloud was 240AU, about 6 times further than the 40AU to Pluto, they would have been close enough on all counts, and wouldn't have looked like they failed third grade arithmetic.
Sure I'd heard of them, and the 163 which the other response to my post mentioned. To say "A lot of pilots were killed by jet fuel" as the original poster did, though, is simply not reasonable, considering the far greater number of pilots who were killed in "conventional" aircraft.
I can't believe no one modded this +1, Funny. The poster is obviously joking. Has no one here ever read the old NY Times editorial which stated that space flight is impossible because there's "nothing to push against" and said that Robert Goddard "seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high school"?