I don't know about you, but even if I was an ordained priest of pastafarianism, I think I would feel a bit silly addressing my prayers to The Great Spaghetti Monster.
The study is deemed to have *no* point at all, SINCE the result came as negative.
Err, no. If it is a proper scientific study, a binary true/false answer is exactly what is sought.
A resounding "No" is perfectly acceptable and useful. It is not the purpose of any properly planned experiment to second-guess any subjective criteria the reader might entertain.
I read a couple of days ago that the Pope and all his toadies were supposed to have been praying for the safe deliverance of that 17-month-old baby that got kidnapped (and subsequently killed).
Looks like his hotline to God must be running through a dodgy telco...
but I really don't want one device that does everything
Same here. The grandparent post asked why "anyone with an ounce of taste and technical knowledge" would buy a device that only plays music. The simple answer to that in my case is when that that's all I want, I'm quite happy to buy the gadget that does it best. I'm not saying I have no reservations about the iPod.
I would have been happier if Apple had not seen fit to insist on incorporating my music into that easily-corrupted database. There's no real reason why they couldn't have let us simply drop tracks into folders and then indexed it separately, but even so. These are considerations I'll bear in mind if the time comes when I have to replace the machine.
Attempts to market "one gadget to bind them all" are doomed from the start, as they usually don't perform more than one function very all, if that. I only have to reach into my pocket and pull out my phone to see that. Sure it has a camera on it, but it is so bad that any disposable camera would take better pictures.
"Arial" is just M$'s new name for the Helvetica font cut
You're obviously not a font nerd then. Sure, Arial has its origins in Helvetica as a sans-serif face, but the metrics are as significantly different as Times New Roman is different from ISO Times.
You're probably fortunate, though; I am a typeface nerd, and I tend to be accused of being excessively anally-retentive when I point out typographical features which I consider merit comment while others don't.
There is still an issue (morally speaking) as to whether it is "piracy".
Sure, some craniorectally inverted companies have taken out patents on a plethora of genetic sequences, but whether they have any right to do so is another matter altogether.
their responsibility to their shareholders may eventually REQUIRE them to use the patents to prevent a loss in share value from "unfair" "patent infringing" competition.
With all due respect, that is rubbish.
If Microsoft has deliberately taken out over 3000 patents over the last year (hint: how many products have they come up with in that time? Hmmmm? Thought so.) it is safe to assume that they are planning to use their well-funded legal team in predatory attacks.
That is not a fair use of the patent system. Nor does it reflect on any competition as unfair. Of course, it certainly is legal, but all that means is that "justice" is for those who can afford it.
I would have thought the money would have been better spent on improving their products, but maybe Microsoft is so out of ideas that all they have left is a lesson from Darl McBride's copybook.
For now. Although Howard is doing his best to drag us into a position of satellite-state to the US, Beazley's dominant characteristic is that he is every bit as right-wing as Howard, and for that reason can't think of a way to convince anybody that it's worth voting for him instead.
Grim times indeed. The Liberals are evil and don't care who knows it. The Laborites who have a say are also evil, but are too shy to admit it. The Greens have some good people, but are also saddled with some inarticulate cretins who don't present an intelligent face to the world. And as for the Democrats, the less said about them the better...
That list is reassuring, but the US has a nasty habit of attempting to apply its legislation outside its jurisdiction. Here in Australia, a number of cases have come up where a suspect can be or has been extradited to the US for crimes committed outside the US, and our government chooses to do absolutely nothing about it.
If Blair's government in the UK isn't already making its way down that path, I would be surprised.
...so theoretically they are free to rule based on their conscience.
...Which appears to be part of the problem. Justice is for those who can afford it.
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Evince is a friendly usable and full featured reader of lots of stuff. don't be silly.
Err, I'm not being silly. Evince usually fails to render PDFs for viewing, and almost invariably fails to print them. As for "friendly usable", I'm not sure what you're talking about, since the interface is almost identical.
Or simply do what a large proportion of iPod users (including myself) do, and simply encode their own mp3s from CD.
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And to think I once advocated GNOME over KDE.
OK, I've been a fan of Gnome since ~1997 (Hell, almost 10 years!).
But I agree with most of your post. I have lost count of the number of times I've ground my teeth in frustration at the latest useful feature which has been deemed by some craniorectally inverted individual to be redundant or unnecessary. Not to mention the number of times the wheel has to be reinvented (gpdf -> evince is a recent and particularly egregious example).
That said, I still try every now and then to be fair to KDE. The attempt never lasts long, though. I happily agree that many things in KDE "just work" much better than they do in Gnome, but I find KDE just makes me irritable every time I use it.
I had been tempted to write a First Post asking how long it would be before the first KDE shill writes an off-topic post, but you've saved me the trouble.
Maybe the telling thing is in the submission that Acooma is "backed by the Chinese government".
I don't want to come across as racist, but I don't think it's unfair to draw a parallel with all those other Chinese copycat products we've all used that just don't work very well.
It sounds very much as if you didn't Read The Fine Article. The author makes the point that code from 20 years ago will still compile and run today. In fact, many of the utilities distributed by default with Linux/BSD/OS X *WERE* written 20 years ago.
It's not that complicated a sentence. While I realise that corporate suitspeak and that despicable Microsoft grammar checker exhort us to use baby-talk sentences ("This is Spot. See Spot run."), there's nothing that says we have to listen to them.
I could go on at great length about the iniquity of PowerPointisation of the English language, but I won't. Suffice to say that we should not have to assume that our audience has the attention span of a flea.
I would agree that LaTex is superior in many ways to the wysiwyg offerings, especially for a mathematician.
I am a biotech student, but I more or less have to live with my wife:-D who is a PhD student in mediaeval history. She feels she has to coexist in MS-ese with the rest of her colleagues, and there's not much I can do about it except make sure she's backed up appropriately. However, her conversion to Mac hasn't been without its pitfalls. She used to use my Slackware setups (and OOo) with few complaints, but her rationale for adopting MSOrifice is that she "has" to use EndNote to keep up with her ever-expanding bibliography.
I turn SSH on on machines I routinely have to maintain. It's very useful. But I make damn sure I don't use an idiotic password crackable by any snotty-nosed little 11-year-old script-kiddie...
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I don't know about you, but even if I was an ordained priest of pastafarianism, I think I would feel a bit silly addressing my prayers to The Great Spaghetti Monster.
Err, no. If it is a proper scientific study, a binary true/false answer is exactly what is sought.
A resounding "No" is perfectly acceptable and useful. It is not the purpose of any properly planned experiment to second-guess any subjective criteria the reader might entertain.
I read a couple of days ago that the Pope and all his toadies were supposed to have been praying for the safe deliverance of that 17-month-old baby that got kidnapped (and subsequently killed).
Looks like his hotline to God must be running through a dodgy telco...
*ducks*
Same here. The grandparent post asked why "anyone with an ounce of taste and technical knowledge" would buy a device that only plays music. The simple answer to that in my case is when that that's all I want, I'm quite happy to buy the gadget that does it best. I'm not saying I have no reservations about the iPod.
I would have been happier if Apple had not seen fit to insist on incorporating my music into that easily-corrupted database. There's no real reason why they couldn't have let us simply drop tracks into folders and then indexed it separately, but even so. These are considerations I'll bear in mind if the time comes when I have to replace the machine.
Attempts to market "one gadget to bind them all" are doomed from the start, as they usually don't perform more than one function very all, if that. I only have to reach into my pocket and pull out my phone to see that. Sure it has a camera on it, but it is so bad that any disposable camera would take better pictures.
You're obviously not a font nerd then. Sure, Arial has its origins in Helvetica as a sans-serif face, but the metrics are as significantly different as Times New Roman is different from ISO Times.
You're probably fortunate, though; I am a typeface nerd, and I tend to be accused of being excessively anally-retentive when I point out typographical features which I consider merit comment while others don't.
I live in Australia, and 100% (I am not exaggerating) of the spam I get originates from the US. So much for the usefulness of stats.
Sure, some craniorectally inverted companies have taken out patents on a plethora of genetic sequences, but whether they have any right to do so is another matter altogether.
With all due respect, that is rubbish.
If Microsoft has deliberately taken out over 3000 patents over the last year (hint: how many products have they come up with in that time? Hmmmm? Thought so.) it is safe to assume that they are planning to use their well-funded legal team in predatory attacks.
That is not a fair use of the patent system. Nor does it reflect on any competition as unfair. Of course, it certainly is legal, but all that means is that "justice" is for those who can afford it.
I would have thought the money would have been better spent on improving their products, but maybe Microsoft is so out of ideas that all they have left is a lesson from Darl McBride's copybook.
For now. Although Howard is doing his best to drag us into a position of satellite-state to the US, Beazley's dominant characteristic is that he is every bit as right-wing as Howard, and for that reason can't think of a way to convince anybody that it's worth voting for him instead.
Grim times indeed. The Liberals are evil and don't care who knows it. The Laborites who have a say are also evil, but are too shy to admit it. The Greens have some good people, but are also saddled with some inarticulate cretins who don't present an intelligent face to the world. And as for the Democrats, the less said about them the better...
Indeed. And there are those that are so swamped with glitzy Flash shows that there is no room for actual content.
If Blair's government in the UK isn't already making its way down that path, I would be surprised.
...Which appears to be part of the problem. Justice is for those who can afford it.
Err, I'm not being silly. Evince usually fails to render PDFs for viewing, and almost invariably fails to print them. As for "friendly usable", I'm not sure what you're talking about, since the interface is almost identical.
Or simply do what a large proportion of iPod users (including myself) do, and simply encode their own mp3s from CD.
OK, I've been a fan of Gnome since ~1997 (Hell, almost 10 years!).
But I agree with most of your post. I have lost count of the number of times I've ground my teeth in frustration at the latest useful feature which has been deemed by some craniorectally inverted individual to be redundant or unnecessary. Not to mention the number of times the wheel has to be reinvented (gpdf -> evince is a recent and particularly egregious example).
That said, I still try every now and then to be fair to KDE. The attempt never lasts long, though. I happily agree that many things in KDE "just work" much better than they do in Gnome, but I find KDE just makes me irritable every time I use it.
Indeed. Now just excuse me for a moment while I go shave my palms...
I suspect they might not have had much choice in the matter. Maybe they should join a union...
;-)
I don't want to come across as racist, but I don't think it's unfair to draw a parallel with all those other Chinese copycat products we've all used that just don't work very well.
It sounds very much as if you didn't Read The Fine Article. The author makes the point that code from 20 years ago will still compile and run today. In fact, many of the utilities distributed by default with Linux/BSD/OS X *WERE* written 20 years ago.
I could go on at great length about the iniquity of PowerPointisation of the English language, but I won't. Suffice to say that we should not have to assume that our audience has the attention span of a flea.
Not quite. The SI unit for mass is the kilogram. It's unfortunate that the SI unit has the "kilo" prefix, but we're sruck with it now.
This is true, but you still have to have sshd running for that to be useful...
I am a biotech student, but I more or less have to live with my wife :-D who is a PhD student in mediaeval history. She feels she has to coexist in MS-ese with the rest of her colleagues, and there's not much I can do about it except make sure she's backed up appropriately. However, her conversion to Mac hasn't been without its pitfalls. She used to use my Slackware setups (and OOo) with few complaints, but her rationale for adopting MSOrifice is that she "has" to use EndNote to keep up with her ever-expanding bibliography.
I turn SSH on on machines I routinely have to maintain. It's very useful. But I make damn sure I don't use an idiotic password crackable by any snotty-nosed little 11-year-old script-kiddie...