What does excel do as far as data analysis that isn't done much, much better by minitab or matlab or something else of that nature? Isn't Excel sort of a shitty tool for doing huge complex calculations (the thing is basically an invoice program). I'm not trying to elicit a reaction. I'm actually interested in what Excel would do better.
Continuing your unfinished last sentence which you mistakenly cut off with a period: ", because it would be wrong, since IE has a really bad track record of not fixing bugs even though they've been discovered, and not even publicly acknowledging them."
Sir,
I'm assuming that you don't live in Florida or any other state/country near the hemisphere. If I set my AC below 75, the power bill would be outrageously high. At 69, I might not be able to afford it. 80 is pretty normal for thermostats here, so 85 isn't that outrageous (though it would be a little hot).
While it's not right for everyone, I am a major advocate of lyx (lyx.org, doesn't seem to be working right now). It's completely content-oriented for the user, all formatting/TOC/Listing/Indexing is automatic. The output is suitable for print (the thing is basically a latex frontend) and it can output into DVI,PDF, and PS. It works great for scientific/mathematical work with a very comprehensive and robust equation editor. Personally, I don't like to muck around with formatting. The finished documents are very professional, and I think it's the best publishing system available for linux (besides latex of course).
Please don't embarass me:) but I can think of three things: a) gets is a shitty function, never to be used in a production environment b) you need to allocate memory for s before you give it to gets c) you should be checking the return value of gets (least strong answer)
And how about this angle? Kids that don't have sex are really, really fucking tense. Have you ever talked to a guy who hasn't masturbated for a month? He's on edge like you wouldn't believe. I personally think that a lot of anger-related violence would be solved if we didn't repress such an important part of our lives. Are you more likely to fight a guy while you're blue-ballin' or just jacked off? Sex is an addiction that everyone has, and when people don't get their fix (mormons), they suck.
How are things in the civilized world? You probably don't know who I am. That's okay. I'm here to inform you of my mission, what I've found, and what I hope to teach all of you.
I work for the United Christians Food for Poor Kids Foundation, and let me tell you, there's a lot of poor kids in Afghanistan. As in most countries in the Middle East, most people are unemployed, and therefore poor. And where there's a lot of poor people, UCFPKF is needed.
UCFPKF always has the latest in technology. In this instance, we had access to some Pentium 4's(r) 2GHz. Obviously, we needed an operating system that could handle the power of Intel's beast. Unfortunately, we didn't have any computer experts on hand up to the task, so it was going to be trial and error.
We'd heard good things about Linux and its "ACL's". Little did we know of its incompatibility with modern hardware. It didn't even support Token Ring networking, the newest form of Ethernet(r), which we require to always keep in contact between bases. Also, it didn't seem to use SSE optimizations, which when processing food amounts, are also very important. Also, there were homo-erotic implications in the structure of Linux, which is strictly unallowable in a Christian organization such as ours,
The next obvious step was to install Windows. We hesitated because we knew that it was common knowledge that Windows crashed incessantly. Our experience was less than stellar. It also didn't support Token Ring networking. Security is important in this region because many people try to steal food, but "Windows 2000" (which I hear didn't even come out in 2000) doesn't even allow you to have seperate permissions. Once again, the SSE optimizations were not used.
I was in a situation that seemed impossible. The two most famous operating systems had failed me. I walked around the base in a dazed stupor. What was I going to do for our ultra-important network? A boy saw me pouting and sighing, and asked me what was wrong. I said nothing, but we exchanged names, and little did I know, that young Junis had a gift for computers.
Junis saw me the next day, slaving away at the sparse terminal that "Windows 2000" makes you type in. He asked what I was doing with that primitive OS. I laughed and told him that I was doing inventory. He ran to his village, into his hut, and pulled out a box I had never seen before. The box said "SCO Xenix" the front. I had never seen or heard of this Xenix before. But I soon learned that Junis was a computer genius.
All we had to do was put the Xenix CD into the computer, and everything worked like magic (not the devil's magic... good magic:) ). Our Token Ring network integrated flawlessly with it. And it even used SSE optimizations. Well, me and Junis are now on a new mission. We're spreading the word. It might not be the word of the lord, but then again, maybe it is;).
SCO Xenix: The Unix of Tomorrow.
Janet Milman Network Administrator, UCFPKF Afghanistan base
There comes a time in a person's life when they must change. When we're growing up, with all of our hormones, we'll do anything. Gone are the days for many of us for rebellion, anarchy, and bedlam. Gone are the days where we live in pandemonium, of screaming and shouting for our friends, of living like its our last day every day.
With that stability comes comfort. A comfort we all need. The comfort of knowing that law and equilibrium won't fall out from under us. Knowing that, if we wake up tomorrow, there's still going to be something left. Microsoft gives us that comfort. And Linux doesn't.
I'll do the computer-illiterate a favor and explain the history of computers. You see, Microsoft was started by a computer genius named Bill Gates. He wrote an operating system called MS-DOS. In the early 70s, MS-DOS was the operating system of choice for computing professionals. In the early 80s, he added a UI (usable interface) to DOS and called it Windows.
At the same time (in the late 80s) Bell Labs made an Operating System called UNIX, a copy off of MS-DOS only without the UI. In Unix, you had to type commands like "sed -ne '/^-----/{;n;h;n;/^----/{;g;/^.\{72\}$/s/ *//;p;};}' %" to read your e-mail or "find . | awk -F/ '{for (x=1;xNF;x++) { printf "\t"}; print $NF}'" to make a new document for word processing. Over 10 years later and they still don't have the industry standard GUI (Good User Interface).
You may be wondering where Linux comes in. Linux is based on Unix, only 10 years later. It was started in 1996, when cracker (computer criminal) Linus Torvalds decided to create a free clone of the obsolete operating system. Obviously rebelliously (and questionably illegally) he created this clone with help of other hackers. After 6 years, it finally has a UI (though not a GUI) and runs on most x86 processors available (except Pentium 4).
Meanwhile, Microsoft has done nothing but innovate. Over the past few years, their GUI is the most acclaimed. Don't believe me? Just ask Linus. He was recently quoted in IT Professionals Today Magazine as saying "Linux may not be as stable, secure, or easy to use as Windows, but I'm going to try my hardest."
So who are you going to stick with? The hunter or the hunted? It may be fun to root for the underdog at sporting events like the SuperBowl, but when it comes to your business, your family, and your money, who are you rooting for? Are you going to root for the fly-by-night operating systems or the ones that will fly and take you where you want to go today?
Slashdot Mirror
small closed mind lulz
give me a billion years
what, are there like 5 scientifically competent non-christians who believe in ID that suddenly make it not complete bullshit?
If you think people stop masturbating when they get into sexual relationships, you're pretty fucking retarded.
I used to think people with UIDs in the 600000s were bad, but they're nothing compared to these 900000s retards.
What does excel do as far as data analysis that isn't done much, much better by minitab or matlab or something else of that nature? Isn't Excel sort of a shitty tool for doing huge complex calculations (the thing is basically an invoice program). I'm not trying to elicit a reaction. I'm actually interested in what Excel would do better.
So, when the customer's bill comes out to $5 at MacDonald's where you work, do you only take $4 from him?
$80 for a couple of pairs of jeans in paris? maybe if you buy them from a homeless guy.
I can't believe anybody trying to make a point would link to a Robert Novak article.
Continuing your unfinished last sentence which you mistakenly cut off with a period: ", because it would be wrong, since IE has a really bad track record of not fixing bugs even though they've been discovered, and not even publicly acknowledging them."
China: The country that manages to be simultaneously third and first world.
still no crash here, maybe firefox is different?
FireFox 1.0 PR does not crash on this code (unless you need millions upon millions of A's, i just tested it with hundreds).
Sir, I'm assuming that you don't live in Florida or any other state/country near the hemisphere. If I set my AC below 75, the power bill would be outrageously high. At 69, I might not be able to afford it. 80 is pretty normal for thermostats here, so 85 isn't that outrageous (though it would be a little hot).
While it's not right for everyone, I am a major advocate of lyx (lyx.org, doesn't seem to be working right now). It's completely content-oriented for the user, all formatting/TOC/Listing/Indexing is automatic. The output is suitable for print (the thing is basically a latex frontend) and it can output into DVI,PDF, and PS. It works great for scientific/mathematical work with a very comprehensive and robust equation editor. Personally, I don't like to muck around with formatting. The finished documents are very professional, and I think it's the best publishing system available for linux (besides latex of course).
I would think that you would never want to do option (c) in the summer in the middle of the desert.
Buy one for me.
debian unstable [and yeah i know it's not easy for new users to install]
From the man that brought you Intercal... 20 second wait thing is retarded.
Please don't embarass me :) but I can think of three things:
a) gets is a shitty function, never to be used in a production environment
b) you need to allocate memory for s before you give it to gets
c) you should be checking the return value of gets (least strong answer)
and this is a troll how?
*slobber all over myself*
And how about this angle? Kids that don't have sex are really, really fucking tense. Have you ever talked to a guy who hasn't masturbated for a month? He's on edge like you wouldn't believe. I personally think that a lot of anger-related violence would be solved if we didn't repress such an important part of our lives. Are you more likely to fight a guy while you're blue-ballin' or just jacked off? Sex is an addiction that everyone has, and when people don't get their fix (mormons), they suck.
Hello Slashdot:
;).
How are things in the civilized world? You probably don't know who I am. That's
okay. I'm here to inform you of my mission, what I've found, and what I hope to
teach all of you.
I work for the United Christians Food for Poor Kids Foundation, and let me tell
you, there's a lot of poor kids in Afghanistan. As in most countries in the
Middle East, most people are unemployed, and therefore poor. And where there's a
lot of poor people, UCFPKF is needed.
UCFPKF always has the latest in technology. In this instance, we had access to
some Pentium 4's(r) 2GHz. Obviously, we needed an operating system that could
handle the power of Intel's beast. Unfortunately, we didn't have any computer
experts on hand up to the task, so it was going to be trial and error.
We'd heard good things about Linux and its "ACL's". Little did we know of its
incompatibility with modern hardware. It didn't even support Token Ring
networking, the newest form of Ethernet(r), which we require to always keep
in contact between bases. Also, it didn't seem to use SSE optimizations, which
when processing food amounts, are also very important. Also, there were
homo-erotic implications in the structure of Linux, which is strictly
unallowable in a Christian organization such as ours,
The next obvious step was to install Windows. We hesitated because we knew that
it was common knowledge that Windows crashed incessantly. Our experience was
less than stellar. It also didn't support Token Ring networking. Security is
important in this region because many people try to steal food, but "Windows
2000" (which I hear didn't even come out in 2000) doesn't even allow you to
have seperate permissions. Once again, the SSE optimizations were not used.
I was in a situation that seemed impossible. The two most famous operating
systems had failed me. I walked around the base in a dazed stupor. What was I
going to do for our ultra-important network? A boy saw me pouting and sighing,
and asked me what was wrong. I said nothing, but we exchanged names, and little
did I know, that young Junis had a gift for computers.
Junis saw me the next day, slaving away at the sparse terminal that "Windows
2000" makes you type in. He asked what I was doing with that primitive OS. I
laughed and told him that I was doing inventory. He ran to his village, into his
hut, and pulled out a box I had never seen before. The box said "SCO Xenix" the
front. I had never seen or heard of this Xenix before. But I soon learned that
Junis was a computer genius.
All we had to do was put the Xenix CD into the computer, and everything worked
like magic (not the devil's magic... good magic:) ). Our Token Ring network
integrated flawlessly with it. And it even used SSE optimizations. Well, me and
Junis are now on a new mission. We're spreading the word. It might not be the
word of the lord, but then again, maybe it is
SCO Xenix: The Unix of Tomorrow.
Janet Milman
Network Administrator, UCFPKF
Afghanistan base
There comes a time in a person's life when they must change. When we're growing
/;p;};}' %" to read
up, with all of our hormones, we'll do anything. Gone are the days for many of
us for rebellion, anarchy, and bedlam. Gone are the days where we live in
pandemonium, of screaming and shouting for our friends, of living like its our
last day every day.
With that stability comes comfort. A comfort we all need. The comfort of knowing
that law and equilibrium won't fall out from under us. Knowing that, if we wake
up tomorrow, there's still going to be something left. Microsoft gives us that
comfort. And Linux doesn't.
I'll do the computer-illiterate a favor and explain the history of computers.
You see, Microsoft was started by a computer genius named Bill Gates. He wrote
an operating system called MS-DOS. In the early 70s, MS-DOS was the operating
system of choice for computing professionals. In the early 80s, he added a UI
(usable interface) to DOS and called it Windows.
At the same time (in the late 80s) Bell Labs made an Operating System called
UNIX, a copy off of MS-DOS only without the UI. In Unix, you had to type commands
like "sed -ne '/^-----/{;n;h;n;/^----/{;g;/^.\{72\}$/s/ */
your e-mail or "find . | awk -F/ '{for (x=1;xNF;x++) { printf "\t"}; print
$NF}'" to make a new document for word processing. Over 10 years later and they
still don't have the industry standard GUI (Good User Interface).
You may be wondering where Linux comes in. Linux is based on Unix, only 10 years
later. It was started in 1996, when cracker (computer criminal) Linus Torvalds
decided to create a free clone of the obsolete operating system. Obviously
rebelliously (and questionably illegally) he created this clone with help of
other hackers. After 6 years, it finally has a UI (though not a GUI) and runs on
most x86 processors available (except Pentium 4).
Meanwhile, Microsoft has done nothing but innovate. Over the past few years,
their GUI is the most acclaimed. Don't believe me? Just ask Linus. He was
recently quoted in IT Professionals Today Magazine as saying "Linux may not be
as stable, secure, or easy to use as Windows, but I'm going to try my hardest."
So who are you going to stick with? The hunter or the hunted? It may be fun to
root for the underdog at sporting events like the SuperBowl, but when it comes to
your business, your family, and your money, who are you rooting for? Are you
going to root for the fly-by-night operating systems or the ones that will fly
and take you where you want to go today?