It is rather like saying that you can do any given task in any Turing complete language - its true, but they are not all equally well suited to a particular task (even ignoring speed/efficiency considerations).
Similarly, using Power Point when what you want is:
1) A tool to jot down notes to speak from (a text editor or word processor) 2) A tool to produce a report to be circulated (typically a word processor - although personally I think something like Lyx is more productive) 3) A tool to produce diagrams to embed in the above
or some combination of the three will lead to a bad result.
You should use Power Point for, and only for, slides to accompany a talk you have already drafted.
--vocal: just talking for an hour, which is popular in many religions, and we all remember what the sermon was about last Sunday, right?
I can remember stuff from some sermons I heard years ago: it depends on whether the speaker has anything interesting to say and whether they can speak well. If you have nothing to say and cannot speak well you should STFU.
--visual text: just endless paragraphs so they can read along which, as far as I can tell, no one does
If you do that, you might as well drop the talk and just let people read it - that is often the best thing to do anyway.
--multimedia: pictures, audio and video that attempts to explain in a manner easily digestible
Easily digestible if done right, which is difficult to do and takes far more work than simply writing it down and circulating copies.
Not spending on music does not destroy jobs because they money will either
1) be spent on something else, or 2) be saved in a bank account and lent to someone who will spend on something else (often investing in building a business).
I have no objection to someone taking a copy of my bank account, as long as they leave my copy unaffected.
That is not expressing an opinion, or an artistic expression, or anything else to do with free speech: it is a potentially damaging hoax. It is no more free speech than forging a document is.
One of the effects of excessively tight rules on food distribution has been to centralise food processing, which means that when food poisoning does occur it affects far more people.
A lot of the rules are made without weighing of, or knowledge of all consequences: is the lower incidence of certain diseases that results from banning unpasteurised milk worth the (ten fold) increase in allergies it causes? Allergies kill too.
You will still pay the same price, its just spread out over your bill. Its like buying something an a credit card and paying the bill off over the next year: you pay less up front, but you end up paying a lot more in total.
A PC running Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro) lets me:
1) Remove any app I do not want 2) Turn off services that are not needed so save RAM/CPU 3) Add third party repos 4) Install a different OS
I am pretty sure vanilla Android will let you do all of the above. Vendor or operator modified versions of Android often will not, and that is the problem.
Konqueror is an extremely flexible browser, file manger and document reader. It can browser remote file systems over ftp or ssh (OK, lots of file managers can do that, but not all). You can spilt views arbitrarily - so a vertical split can emulate an old-fashioned FTP app, but you can split within those views as well.
I agree. We know more, there are some things in our social organisation that are better (democracy, vs feudalism, bans on toruture, etc.).
On the other hand, we can sometimes be worse: we can be cruel and uncarig - which is perhaps why 13th century England had only 188 suicides over a century, whereas the UK currently has about 3,000 a year (a MUCH higher per capita rate even with the roughly 30 fold population growth).
You might well be right: the only game actually play, Battle for Wesnoth, clearly values artists and has beautiful artwork - although if you look at the original release it started with crappy graphics. Is it true that the developers of game with poor graphics do not value artistic contributions.
I do not think the graphics in Glest are that bad either.
Incidentally, the GP should note it has lots of fun single player campaigns,
On the other hand without the word lawful in there they could not cut off spammers or child porn distributors.
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Mandriva (which I currently use), and PCLinuxOS are good. So is Mepis, but it has an older KDE 4 version. SuSe is supposed to be good but memory hungry.
I found Mint KDE better than Kubuntu, and it is still closer to what you are used to, but probably not as polished as the others.
If you want something more geeky, then Arch, Slack, or Sabayon.
The other problem is that all the ISPs will end up with similar policies: they all have the same cost base, and the same revenue opportunities. Most customers do not know enough to choose a more network-neutral ISP even if it would benefit the.
Competition does fix these problems if you have a competitive market, and well informed computers.
The distinction between a window manager and a desktop environment matters: I use KDE with Open Box because Open Box works better on my hardware (Kwin uses lots of CPU).
KDE is heavily customisable (good for productivity and for saving space on laptops etc.), it is customisable in the GUI (I like Open Box by itself, but cannot be bothered with customising in config files), if you use a lot of KDE apps you might as well use a KDE desktop - and there are a lot of very good KDE apps as Kate, Konqueror, Dolphin, Kile, Akregator, Ktorrent and many more.
Expert systems seems to be like artificial intelligence; mostly unheard of outside of academia
Expert systems are useful. My first paid job (holiday between school and university) was to work on an expert system for analysing the results of tests on heat for BP.
I did a prototype that performed reasonably well. It was expanded into a reliable system that was used for at least a decade.
1) Good education, health, well equipped armed forces, good infrastructure, a policeman on every street corner state subsidies to protect jobs (especially in marginal constituencies!), etc. 2) Low taxes 3) The elderly looked after, good state pensions, etc. 4) No immigration to balance out the ageing demographics 5) Civil liberties, fair trials, an end to the surveillance society 6) The government to monitor and stop everyone who MIGHT be a terrorist, paedophile or whatever 7) No interfering nanny state 8) The government to prevent every domestic crime and fix every dysfunctional family.
Brown managed the financial side of this with off balance sheet financing in the form of PFI,PPP and various other ways of hidden borrowing from the private sector, but the price for that has started materialising with the recession.
Not only that, the evidence of the existence of aliens in no way contradicts Christianity, or the theistic religions.
I can imagine a few problems for religions that believe in reincarnation (how do they account for everyone who claims to remember past lives, only remembering past lives on earth?).
The existence of aliens would be no more a challenge to Christianity then the existence of angels (a non-human intelligence, that just happens to be naturally closer to God.....).
Christianity would regard aliens a fellow servants of God.
The existence of other intelligence life and their relationship to us has often been discussed: for Christians whether they are redeemed the same way: if Christ came for all, whether there might be other incarnations for other species or different ways to redemption, etc.
It is not discussed that much because we lack material for more than speculation until we find some ETs.
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Yes and no. Power Point tends to encourage this.
It is rather like saying that you can do any given task in any Turing complete language - its true, but they are not all equally well suited to a particular task (even ignoring speed/efficiency considerations).
Similarly, using Power Point when what you want is:
1) A tool to jot down notes to speak from (a text editor or word processor)
2) A tool to produce a report to be circulated (typically a word processor - although personally I think something like Lyx is more productive)
3) A tool to produce diagrams to embed in the above
or some combination of the three will lead to a bad result.
You should use Power Point for, and only for, slides to accompany a talk you have already drafted.
--vocal: just talking for an hour, which is popular in many religions, and we all remember what the sermon was about last Sunday, right?
I can remember stuff from some sermons I heard years ago: it depends on whether the speaker has anything interesting to say and whether they can speak well. If you have nothing to say and cannot speak well you should STFU.
--visual text: just endless paragraphs so they can read along which, as far as I can tell, no one does
If you do that, you might as well drop the talk and just let people read it - that is often the best thing to do anyway.
--multimedia: pictures, audio and video that attempts to explain in a manner easily digestible
Easily digestible if done right, which is difficult to do and takes far more work than simply writing it down and circulating copies.
How does this affect foreign copyrights? Do Czech collecting agencies now get control of foreign GPL or CC stuff?
For those who think IP is property, this is a massive land grab by the government - a step back towards communism.
Stop being inchoherent.
Not spending on music does not destroy jobs because they money will either
1) be spent on something else, or
2) be saved in a bank account and lent to someone who will spend on something else (often investing in building a business).
I have no objection to someone taking a copy of my bank account, as long as they leave my copy unaffected.
That is not expressing an opinion, or an artistic expression, or anything else to do with free speech: it is a potentially damaging hoax. It is no more free speech than forging a document is.
Oracle benefits from Linux: they can provide a complete platform for the main product on it.
I have doubts about how numerous they are: being vocal and media savvy can make a group seem much larger than it is.
Also remember that they are largely restricted to the US and the Middle East.
One of the effects of excessively tight rules on food distribution has been to centralise food processing, which means that when food poisoning does occur it affects far more people.
A lot of the rules are made without weighing of, or knowledge of all consequences: is the lower incidence of certain diseases that results from banning unpasteurised milk worth the (ten fold) increase in allergies it causes? Allergies kill too.
You will still pay the same price, its just spread out over your bill. Its like buying something an a credit card and paying the bill off over the next year: you pay less up front, but you end up paying a lot more in total.
A PC running Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro) lets me:
1) Remove any app I do not want
2) Turn off services that are not needed so save RAM/CPU
3) Add third party repos
4) Install a different OS
I am pretty sure vanilla Android will let you do all of the above. Vendor or operator modified versions of Android often will not, and that is the problem.
ReKonq is just a browser.
Konqueror is an extremely flexible browser, file manger and document reader. It can browser remote file systems over ftp or ssh (OK, lots of file managers can do that, but not all). You can spilt views arbitrarily - so a vertical split can emulate an old-fashioned FTP app, but you can split within those views as well.
Sounds like you could be describing half the CEOs in the industry.....
I agree. We know more, there are some things in our social organisation that are better (democracy, vs feudalism, bans on toruture, etc.).
On the other hand, we can sometimes be worse: we can be cruel and uncarig - which is perhaps why 13th century England had only 188 suicides over a century, whereas the UK currently has about 3,000 a year (a MUCH higher per capita rate even with the roughly 30 fold population growth).
Without the "network management" and "lawful content" clauses they would not be allowed to cut off spammers.
You might well be right: the only game actually play, Battle for Wesnoth, clearly values artists and has beautiful artwork - although if you look at the original release it started with crappy graphics. Is it true that the developers of game with poor graphics do not value artistic contributions.
I do not think the graphics in Glest are that bad either.
Incidentally, the GP should note it has lots of fun single player campaigns,
Its not 2004, and one is a very poor statistical sample.
Ubuntu alone has 12m installs hitting repo servers for updates.
On the other hand without the word lawful in there they could not cut off spammers or child porn distributors.
Mandriva (which I currently use), and PCLinuxOS are good. So is Mepis, but it has an older KDE 4 version. SuSe is supposed to be good but memory hungry.
I found Mint KDE better than Kubuntu, and it is still closer to what you are used to, but probably not as polished as the others.
If you want something more geeky, then Arch, Slack, or Sabayon.
The other problem is that all the ISPs will end up with similar policies: they all have the same cost base, and the same revenue opportunities. Most customers do not know enough to choose a more network-neutral ISP even if it would benefit the.
Competition does fix these problems if you have a competitive market, and well informed computers.
The distinction between a window manager and a desktop environment matters: I use KDE with Open Box because Open Box works better on my hardware (Kwin uses lots of CPU).
KDE is heavily customisable (good for productivity and for saving space on laptops etc.), it is customisable in the GUI (I like Open Box by itself, but cannot be bothered with customising in config files), if you use a lot of KDE apps you might as well use a KDE desktop - and there are a lot of very good KDE apps as Kate, Konqueror, Dolphin, Kile, Akregator, Ktorrent and many more.
Expert systems seems to be like artificial intelligence; mostly unheard of outside of academia
Expert systems are useful. My first paid job (holiday between school and university) was to work on an expert system for analysing the results of tests on heat for BP.
I did a prototype that performed reasonably well. It was expanded into a reliable system that was used for at least a decade.
No we cannot. The voters want:
1) Good education, health, well equipped armed forces, good infrastructure, a policeman on every street corner state subsidies to protect jobs (especially in marginal constituencies!), etc.
2) Low taxes
3) The elderly looked after, good state pensions, etc.
4) No immigration to balance out the ageing demographics
5) Civil liberties, fair trials, an end to the surveillance society
6) The government to monitor and stop everyone who MIGHT be a terrorist, paedophile or whatever
7) No interfering nanny state
8) The government to prevent every domestic crime and fix every dysfunctional family.
Brown managed the financial side of this with off balance sheet financing in the form of PFI,PPP and various other ways of hidden borrowing from the private sector, but the price for that has started materialising with the recession.
Oops, typo. The last sentence should refer to a Muslim who believes that the Quran confirms the existence of aliens.
They should have known that Hurd is unstable
Not only that, the evidence of the existence of aliens in no way contradicts Christianity, or the theistic religions.
I can imagine a few problems for religions that believe in reincarnation (how do they account for everyone who claims to remember past lives, only remembering past lives on earth?).
The existence of aliens would be no more a challenge to Christianity then the existence of angels (a non-human intelligence, that just happens to be naturally closer to God.....).
Christianity would regard aliens a fellow servants of God.
The existence of other intelligence life and their relationship to us has often been discussed: for Christians whether they are redeemed the same way: if Christ came for all, whether there might be other incarnations for other species or different ways to redemption, etc.
It is not discussed that much because we lack material for more than speculation until we find some ETs.
Please read what the head of the Vatican observatory has to say http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/believing_in_aliens_not_opposed_to_christianity_vaticans_top_astronomer_says/
Incidentally, while Googling for the link above, I came across a article by a Muslim who believes that the Quran confirms the existence of angels.