Ridiculous. Even if OOo were the only application to support Open Document Format, those with accessibilities could still view those documents in MS Word.
It would be trivial to write, for example, a Windows app that associated itself with OOo file formats (including OpenDocument). When used to open a OOo document, the app would use a background OOo instance to convert the document into an MSO format, then launch the correct MSOffice app to open the converted document. A more sophisicated version could use OOo libraries without launching the GUI application itself.
Computing has a long history of "a2b" converters. "odf2doc" is undoubtedly feasbile. There is no substance to the claim that open-format documents endangers their dependency on Microsoft, even if Microsoft tries to make it harder to migrate.
Here's a pop quiz. How's a device that uses near-IR to see active blood vessels going to work.......on a hand with no blood pressure, and no hot blood flowing through it? Seems to me a cut-off hand would be virtually worthless within seconds; the veins would become the same temperature as the rest of the hand, and collapse due to lack of blood pressure.
So, I just have to hook my severed hand up to a dialysis machine?
For crying out loud, just stick a chip in my head and get it over with.
Looking back on anyone's life will also yield certain "important" choices or events or whatever. Those are items that shaped your life.
All this talk of liberal arts and looking-back reminded me of this passage from The Power of Myth, a conversation between Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell:
Campbell: Schopenhauer, in his splendid essay called "On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual," points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as though composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed accidental and of little moment turn out to have been indispensable factors in the composition of a consistent plot. So who composed that plot? Schopenhauer suggests that just as your dreams are composed by an aspect of yourself of which your consciousness is unaware, so, too, your whole life is composed by the will within you.
Star Wars News --> Your Rights Online?? Did I miss something? I wasn't aware that speculating about Lucas' future production plans constituted a "online rights" issue.
Mission: Impossible -- know thyself ("People are lousy observers of their own behaviors. Entire religions are formed with the goal of helping people understand themselves better; therapists rake in billions working for this very end.")
I know that English stinks as a language for expressing logic, but why can't lawyers depend on something English-like such as Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, or a special legal dialect that could be reduced to clear answers and effects.
Loglan is a well-known constructed language designed to this end.
I'm sure he runs Jesux... It's what all the Christian Hackers use...
Apparently, Jesux is the Linux distro that intolerant and homophobic Christian Hackers use. From the Jesux home page:
What is different about Jesux? ... # qmail replaces sendmail as the standard MTA (sendmail was written by a prominent homosexual)
Sendmail, written by a Prominent Homosexual? In league with the Devil, no doubt! No wonder I get all those penis-enlargement ads.
Also from their home page:
Also, we are seriously considering changing some fundamental OS features. The idea would be that function calls and features suggesting evil and otherwise pagan ideas would be changed.
The one thing that will be interesting is what happens when they realize that in most organizations people turn off their machines at night. Will they write a caching server for people's calendars and such? Or will those people's shared resources just vanish?
Chandler's decentralized, server-optional architecture, which permits easy self-management of collaborative environments is highly appealing to people in a wide variety of work-related settings.
Presumably "server-optional" means that you can (optionally) use a server.;-) But I didn't read much further, perh. they have a server design in mind.
I know it's not as cool as writing, say, a kernel patch or a first-person shooter, but there are a lot of programmers who happen to be US citizens as well. Why not contribute some time and build a tax package yourselves?
It would be great to have some tax advisors contribute some pro bono work to get the rules straight. Maybe some of Larry Lessig's friends?
What a perfect domain for an open-source project. After all, don't you want to be able to verify how your tax software is calculating your return?
Frankly I'm surprised that the IRS hasn't invested in a Web-form-based tax preparation method. Surely this would cut down on their paperwork and save them a bundle! (I mean, save you a bundle, it's your tax dollar, after all.)
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It would be nice if you could have the best of both worlds.
Perhaps your carpet would last indefinitely in your living room, but when it was time to toss it out, you could spray it with some enzyme that would eat the thing up and decompose it into non-toxic waste...
Just imagine,
It's 4 A.M.,
you're wake up to the sound of alarms going off in your kitchen.
You rush out of bed to see what the hell is going on...
The LCD panels on your fridge, microwave and toaster are all blinking GNUppliance Panic! CODE EXPIRING!! Twisted pair cables shoot out of all your appliances, groping your walls blindly in search of a network drop so they can update their firmware...
I bet the Maytag man ain't snoozing in his chair tonight!
I don't know anything about it, so caveat emptor, but there's a python-based app called Pythonica that claims to be 'inspired by Mathematica'. It isn't there yet; this quote is from the author:
Pythonica demonstrates how symbolic mathematics can be implemented on a computer. As a research tool, it is inadequate, but it may serve as a useful tutorial for those wishing to understand better how such programs operate. With additional work, it could even be made into a minor math tool useful to those who can't justify the purchase of expensive commercial software.
But perhaps with a bit of support from other interested/.ers it might become something.
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Ridiculous. Even if OOo were the only application to support Open Document Format, those with accessibilities could still view those documents in MS Word.
It would be trivial to write, for example, a Windows app that associated itself with OOo file formats (including OpenDocument). When used to open a OOo document, the app would use a background OOo instance to convert the document into an MSO format, then launch the correct MSOffice app to open the converted document. A more sophisicated version could use OOo libraries without launching the GUI application itself.
Computing has a long history of "a2b" converters. "odf2doc" is undoubtedly feasbile. There is no substance to the claim that open-format documents endangers their dependency on Microsoft, even if Microsoft tries to make it harder to migrate.
For crying out loud, just stick a chip in my head and get it over with.
Star Wars News --> Your Rights Online?? Did I miss something? I wasn't aware that speculating about Lucas' future production plans constituted a "online rights" issue.
Sendmail, written by a Prominent Homosexual? In league with the Devil, no doubt! No wonder I get all those penis-enlargement ads.
Also from their home page:God help me.
YMMV.
;-)
And, depending on how close you stand, YVMV. (your voltage may vary.
From their site:
Presumably "server-optional" means that you can (optionally) use a server.
I know it's not as cool as writing, say, a kernel patch or a first-person shooter, but there are a lot of programmers who happen to be US citizens as well. Why not contribute some time and build a tax package yourselves?
It would be great to have some tax advisors contribute some pro bono work to get the rules straight. Maybe some of Larry Lessig's friends?
What a perfect domain for an open-source project. After all, don't you want to be able to verify how your tax software is calculating your return?
Frankly I'm surprised that the IRS hasn't invested in a Web-form-based tax preparation method. Surely this would cut down on their paperwork and save them a bundle! (I mean, save you a bundle, it's your tax dollar, after all.)
It would be nice if you could have the best of both worlds.
Perhaps your carpet would last indefinitely in your living room, but when it was time to toss it out, you could spray it with some enzyme that would eat the thing up and decompose it into non-toxic waste...
True, but as far as I can tell from the posts, Hurd=0. That leaves us with nothing to talk about at all...
Just imagine,
It's 4 A.M.,
you're wake up to the sound of alarms going off in your kitchen.
You rush out of bed to see what the hell is going on...
The LCD panels on your fridge, microwave and toaster are all blinking GNUppliance Panic! CODE EXPIRING!!
Twisted pair cables shoot out of all your appliances, groping your walls blindly in search of a network drop so they can update their firmware...
I bet the Maytag man ain't snoozing in his chair tonight!
But perhaps with a bit of support from other interested
(python guy)