However, if the cost is actually less than the cost of removing the problem , bizarre as it may sound, it might not actually be worth it."
What makes you think that this isn't true for any OS or application?
The Moz Foundation has substantial financial resources. It does not have unlimited resources. Development and maintenance of OpenOffice remains dependent on staffing and funding by Sun:
Almost all features which were planned for 2.0 were implemented by Sun engineers. Having a whole bunch of full-time developers was helpful to get most of the features done in time.Interview with OpenOffice.org staff
Nanook shows people who had a meaningful life and seemed masters of their environment, harsh as it was.
"Nanook" died of starvation two years after the film was made.
Sahlins' evidence is not water-tight:
Some anthropologists claim that the studies Sahlins relies on are far from representative of the people they observe. The Arnhem Land studies observe groups of only nine and thirteen over a period of one or two weeks. Moreover, McCarthy herself admitted that the individuals used in one of the studies were picked up from a mission station and were accustomed to using the food available at these stations.
Lee's study is also alleged to be a poor representation of a hunter-gatherer society. Kaplan argues that as the investigation only covered a four-week period, it is in no way representative of the living conditions of a whole year -- especially as there are significant differences in climate between the wet and dry seasons. Moreover, Lee discovered that the !Kung he studied occasionally worked for wages or grew their own food. Hence, it is claimed that the society studied is far from "purely" hunter-gatherer. Original affluent society
Hunter and gatherers has much more free time than most people today -- and time is also a form of wealth.
This works only for so long as there is something to hunt and gather. "Easily satisfied?" Only an academic could write such nonsense. Nanook of the North
The basics of human health haven't changed in thousands of years. Americans would be a whole lot healthier (and health care expenses a whole lot lower) if health care was about prevention. (Mammograms & prostate exams, et al, are NOT prevention - they're screening for conventional treatments).
There is scarcely need to screen the general population for prostate cancer if your fittest males are dead at age sixty of other causes.
Diet matters in diseases like diabetes. Quit smoking and you reduce your risk of cancer. But talk of prevention forty or sixty years after a disease has taken root isn't terribly helpful. Asbestos was in every home for decades - as a fire retardant, thermal insulation and so on. You could argue quite plausibly that it saved - or extended - more lives than it harmed.
You rarely get an unambiguous answer to the questions "What should I do?" or "What should have been done?" You can't speak of a strategy for "preventing Alzheimer's Disease" or other diseases of aging with any degree of confidence. Particularly if your goal is to do it on the cheap.
What the elderly most need is outside contact, a secure and yet stimulating environment. Not the warehousing of the nursing home but something more intimate and humane. That costs money - rather a lot of money = and it doesn't eliminate the need for conventional medical care.
History class is for the lazy writer since there is little to 'invent'. Sure, history is really interesting and educational, but not in the same way as scifi is entertaining and thought provoking.
Laziness is not a quality one associates with Patrick O'Brian.
History is not invention, it is discovery, but re-imagining the past and making it understandable - and meaningful - to a modern reader is the work of the artist.
At first glance, the sanitized Dodge City of "Gunsmoke" lies light-years away from "Deadwood," which almost seems in comparison like a circle in Dante's Inferno. But a closer look shows they have much in common. "Gunsmoke" began as a radio series and was much earthier at its inception: Miss Kitty, the proprietor of the Long Branch Saloon, was easily identified as a brothel owner, and Doc was a cynical alcoholic, much like Brad Dourif's hard-boiled Doc Cochran on "Deadwood." The Western historian Jeff Morey, a frequent consultant for the History Channel, sees other connections: "Both series are about the evolution of moral chaos into order. We don't remember 'Gunsmoke' that way because in the show's later years, those issues were pretty much settled, but in its own day, and in its own way, 'Gunsmoke' was as bold as 'Deadwood.'"
Morey sees another similarity: "Both 'Gunsmoke' and 'Deadwood' are acclaimed because of their writing. For a show about the Old West to be authentic, it has to make clear that there was a hard-core Victorian morality struggling against the anarchy of vice and violence, and that is best expressed through the quality of the scripts. 'Gunsmoke' and 'Deadwood' are probably the two best-written Westerns in the history of television." The Man Who Made 'Deadwood
Well, I've also noticed that there isn't a good representation of women in garbage collection force either. Oh no, they're also under-represented in the mines!
It isn't enough to design a building that is structurally sound.
It must also meet the more abstract and indefinable needs and values of its users.
If your clerical staff is overwhelmingly female - and feels comfortable and productive with the "ribbon" in Office 2007 - that makes OpenOffice a much tougher sell.
As long as people with money have more influence over those who make laws than people without money, the system will continue to represent the interests of those who have money.
I'll take it as a safe bet that owning an XBox 360 or PS3 makes you are one of the people who have money. Especially if you are willing to chance taking a soldering iron to a $400 appliance.
But neither would I be be surprised to learn that your mutual fund or 401(K) retirement plan has substantial investments in Microsoft, Sony, and others who benefit from the DMCA.
If you wish to not be in a situation where money decides power, move to a country with a representative democracy, where the representatives are purely chosen via 1 vote per 1 person, and where lobbying money is not allowed.
Lobbying exists in every political system. In the American system it is simply more open.
"Are you kidding me? With drug dealers everywhere, murder, porous borders, terrorism the Feds are concerned about game mods?? Holy crap. Next I supposed they will be cracking heads over unlocked phones. Great."
ICE - US Customs and Immigration Enforcement - employs 15,00.
CPB - US Customs and Border Protection - Including Border Patrol - 44,000
Law enforcement has the resources to multi-task. The FBI alone has a budget of $6 billion. "Getting your priorites straight" does not reqiure handing out a lifetime "Get Out Of Jail Free" card to the Geek.
Crimes of violence - rape and murder - almost always come under state jurisdiction.
Economic crimes that cross state boundaries tend to become a federal responsibility, because that is often the only way they can be successfully prosecuted, if they are to be prosecuted at all.
they got 10x as much illegally downloaded stuff as I do.
I was shocked to see one of my friends whaving over 1TB of videos. The other has over 20k songs downloaded.
My sister has a shitty dialup internet connection, every time she comes over to my place she brings her laptop and leeches music off the net
and leaving a trail behind that leads straight to you - and your own 100 GB stash of videos and 2,000 tunes.
Its sad to see such a good ideology been tossed aside because of market pressure.
Explain to me again how the bazaar [the marketplace, market values] came to symbolize Linux and the cathedral [political correctness, ideological purity] Windows.
.. no crime can be punished on evidence. People have to be stopped in the act.
If you are the victim, which would you choose? To see your attacker stopped in his tracks or wait for his arrest while lying in the morgue? Mall camera catches 2 men kidnapping woman
It is #70 in software sales at Amazon.uk. Microsoft Works 8 #122 in the U.S. For comparison: Sun Star Office 8 is #614 in the U.K., #655 in the states - despite costing only $15 more.
Even more people using a program that saves to proprietary formats that can't be used by other programs.
Sigh.
Works is a quick and easy tool for home users who have scant interest or need to import or export anything - except perhaps later to their own copy of Word or Office.
Maybe OpenOffice should try and arrange to have their products put on Windows computers. It won't cost manufacturers anything, and it won't have annoying ads.
The free OEM install didn't work for Corel and Word Perfect. Why should it work for OpenOffice?
Microsoft has been in the home since 1977. Thirty years experience and billions of dollars free to spend on research can teach you a lot about this market.
I think this makes the case for writing off Manhunt 2, which can only be a distraction.
The "M" rating is no longer a sure bet for GTA - and GTA is franchise gold. Rockstar has to get this one right.
2008 is a presidential election year - an election will almost certainly turn on core issues like Iraq and health care. But it is all to easy to picture Rockstar in a another spectacular PR crack-up, the center of a messy, politically-charged debate over video game violence.
given that it's not a particularly functional package
MS Works appeals to home users who want to do some very ordinary, everyday things, without a lot of hassle. Print a greeting card, a poster for a garage sale.
The Print Shop has been around for twenty years.
But I've yet to see an open source replacement for this ageless "killer app" on any platform.
Share & edit Works Word Processor and Spreadsheet files with Microsoft® Office Word and Microsoft® Office Excel and vice versa. *MS Office versions 97-2007Microsoft Works 9
There is absolutely no good reason to continue using this crap, even if it's free.
There can be a reason if you are unfamiliar with - or uncomfortable with - what passes for home user support in open source.
When you are Microsoft you can afford to put up a bright, colorful, Works home page, post a quarterly newsletter, create unique, customized, tutorials, templates, clip art, fonts, etc.
There will no geek-speak, not the faintest whiff of the patronizing attitude that pisses off the "luser."
In open source, the public face of your project tends to look more like this or this.
The fed doesn't seem to want to raid businesses for hiring illegal aliens, but they spend their time raiding businesses and homes for having mod chips.
Morning Edition July 2, 2007 Some 62 illegal immigrants in Beardstown, Ill., who worked for a company that cleans a pork processing plant, are preparing for deportation following an immigration raid. One family anticipated problems and has a house waiting in Mexico.Illegal Immigrants Anticipate More Raids
Do you want to hear a recital of all the stories like this that can be found in a one-minute search through Google?
As the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is primarily a law enforcement agency. In addition to the core law enforcement occupations, there are also hundreds of professional and administrative functions that support the ICE mission. ICE has approximately 15,000 employees working in 400 offices nationwide and over 50 locations internationally.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Why does it always surprise the Geek that law enforcement multi-tasks? That the game of life hasn't dealt him a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card?
a loon who was still employable as a system administrator hacks into a military network. inevitably triggering a very expensive audit and perhaps a rebuild of the net.
I can't remember any instance of a football player dying from physical contact on the field. It may have happened once or twice, but it would be a freak accident, not a result of regular contact. Oh, and btw, have YOU watched a football game lately? Because "beating each other to a bloody pulp" is kind of against the rules.
The violence of the college game came within a hair of destroying American football in 1905 - 23 deaths - and 1909:
In a match between Harvard and West Point, the Army captain, Eugene Byrne, exhausted by continual plays to his side of the line, was fatally injured. Earl Wilson of the Naval Academy was paralyzed and later died as a result of a flying tackle. And the University of Virginia's halfback Archer Christian died after a game against Georgetown, probably from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered in a plunge through the line. "Does the public need any more proof," wrote the Washington Post, "that football is a brutal, savage, murderous sport? Is it necessary to kill many more promising young men before the game is revised or stopped altogether?" At both Georgetown and Virginia, football was suspended for the remainder of the season, and the District of Columbia school system banned it altogether. Even Col. John Mosby, the old Confederate raider, used Christian's death to rail against football as "murder." Inventing Modern Football
And whether or not you personally feel those movies were "maligned", they were actually quite popular with the intended audience that CHOSE to watch them
1 a : evil in nature, influence, or effect. malignant.
2 : having or showing intense often vicious ill will. sinister.
The audience has faded to black. The genre summer box office poison. Captivity grossed $2.6 million. Rockstar tried to catch the wave and missed.
. Why should your personal judgment override Manhunt 2's intended audience's CHOICE to play it?
A video game is not a movie.
The movies put you at a physical and psychological distance from the action. Manhunt 2 encouraged you to mime a disembowelment using the Wii controller as your weapon.
A good read in this context is Gene Wolfe's "When I Was Ming The Merciless."
As you grow older, you grow weary of attending a high school graduation one week and a funeral the next. The adolescent's judgment is not mature, and his choices are often wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
What makes you think that this isn't true for any OS or application?
The Moz Foundation has substantial financial resources. It does not have unlimited resources. Development and maintenance of OpenOffice remains dependent on staffing and funding by Sun:
Almost all features which were planned for 2.0 were implemented by Sun engineers. Having a whole bunch of full-time developers was helpful to get most of the features done in time. Interview with OpenOffice.org staff
Which proves what, exactly? 40 PCs. One network. One owner.
"Nanook" died of starvation two years after the film was made.
Sahlins' evidence is not water-tight:
Some anthropologists claim that the studies Sahlins relies on are far from representative of the people they observe. The Arnhem Land studies observe groups of only nine and thirteen over a period of one or two weeks. Moreover, McCarthy herself admitted that the individuals used in one of the studies were picked up from a mission station and were accustomed to using the food available at these stations.
Lee's study is also alleged to be a poor representation of a hunter-gatherer society. Kaplan argues that as the investigation only covered a four-week period, it is in no way representative of the living conditions of a whole year -- especially as there are significant differences in climate between the wet and dry seasons. Moreover, Lee discovered that the !Kung he studied occasionally worked for wages or grew their own food. Hence, it is claimed that the society studied is far from "purely" hunter-gatherer. Original affluent society
This works only for so long as there is something to hunt and gather. "Easily satisfied?" Only an academic could write such nonsense. Nanook of the North
A ball player's life expectancy in the nineteenth century was about sixty years. For Love, for Money, for Real Money: Life Expectancy Among 19th Century Baseball Players
There is scarcely need to screen the general population for prostate cancer if your fittest males are dead at age sixty of other causes.
Diet matters in diseases like diabetes. Quit smoking and you reduce your risk of cancer. But talk of prevention forty or sixty years after a disease has taken root isn't terribly helpful. Asbestos was in every home for decades - as a fire retardant, thermal insulation and so on. You could argue quite plausibly that it saved - or extended - more lives than it harmed.
You rarely get an unambiguous answer to the questions "What should I do?" or "What should have been done?" You can't speak of a strategy for "preventing Alzheimer's Disease" or other diseases of aging with any degree of confidence. Particularly if your goal is to do it on the cheap.
What the elderly most need is outside contact, a secure and yet stimulating environment. Not the warehousing of the nursing home but something more intimate and humane. That costs money - rather a lot of money = and it doesn't eliminate the need for conventional medical care.
More dangerous than running the Tex-Mex border in the blast-furnace heat of midsummer? More dangerous than a gun shot wound?
Laziness is not a quality one associates with Patrick O'Brian.
History is not invention, it is discovery, but re-imagining the past and making it understandable - and meaningful - to a modern reader is the work of the artist.
At first glance, the sanitized Dodge City of "Gunsmoke" lies light-years away from "Deadwood," which almost seems in comparison like a circle in Dante's Inferno. But a closer look shows they have much in common. "Gunsmoke" began as a radio series and was much earthier at its inception: Miss Kitty, the proprietor of the Long Branch Saloon, was easily identified as a brothel owner, and Doc was a cynical alcoholic, much like Brad Dourif's hard-boiled Doc Cochran on "Deadwood." The Western historian Jeff Morey, a frequent consultant for the History Channel, sees other connections: "Both series are about the evolution of moral chaos into order. We don't remember 'Gunsmoke' that way because in the show's later years, those issues were pretty much settled, but in its own day, and in its own way, 'Gunsmoke' was as bold as 'Deadwood.'"
Morey sees another similarity: "Both 'Gunsmoke' and 'Deadwood' are acclaimed because of their writing. For a show about the Old West to be authentic, it has to make clear that there was a hard-core Victorian morality struggling against the anarchy of vice and violence, and that is best expressed through the quality of the scripts. 'Gunsmoke' and 'Deadwood' are probably the two best-written Westerns in the history of television." The Man Who Made 'Deadwood
It isn't enough to design a building that is structurally sound.
It must also meet the more abstract and indefinable needs and values of its users.
If your clerical staff is overwhelmingly female - and feels comfortable and productive with the "ribbon" in Office 2007 - that makes OpenOffice a much tougher sell.
The economy of pirating of foreign authors made it extraordinarily difficult for an American writer to get a hearing.
Even some of the very best had to go the "vanity press" route, a huge barrier for a working-class writer like Poe. Copy Wrong: Internet Piracy and Dickens and Melville
I'll take it as a safe bet that owning an XBox 360 or PS3 makes you are one of the people who have money. Especially if you are willing to chance taking a soldering iron to a $400 appliance.
But neither would I be be surprised to learn that your mutual fund or 401(K) retirement plan has substantial investments in Microsoft, Sony, and others who benefit from the DMCA.
If you wish to not be in a situation where money decides power, move to a country with a representative democracy, where the representatives are purely chosen via 1 vote per 1 person, and where lobbying money is not allowed.
Lobbying exists in every political system. In the American system it is simply more open.
ICE - US Customs and Immigration Enforcement - employs 15,00.
CPB - US Customs and Border Protection - Including Border Patrol - 44,000
Law enforcement has the resources to multi-task. The FBI alone has a budget of $6 billion. "Getting your priorites straight" does not reqiure handing out a lifetime "Get Out Of Jail Free" card to the Geek.
Crimes of violence - rape and murder - almost always come under state jurisdiction.
Economic crimes that cross state boundaries tend to become a federal responsibility, because that is often the only way they can be successfully prosecuted, if they are to be prosecuted at all.
I was shocked to see one of my friends whaving over 1TB of videos. The other has over 20k songs downloaded.
My sister has a shitty dialup internet connection, every time she comes over to my place she brings her laptop and leeches music off the net
and leaving a trail behind that leads straight to you - and your own 100 GB stash of videos and 2,000 tunes.
Explain to me again how the bazaar [the marketplace, market values] came to symbolize Linux and the cathedral [political correctness, ideological purity] Windows.
If you are the victim, which would you choose? To see your attacker stopped in his tracks or wait for his arrest while lying in the morgue? Mall camera catches 2 men kidnapping woman
Of course they have.
It is #70 in software sales at Amazon.uk. Microsoft Works 8 #122 in the U.S. For comparison: Sun Star Office 8 is #614 in the U.K., #655 in the states - despite costing only $15 more.
Sigh.
Works is a quick and easy tool for home users who have scant interest or need to import or export anything - except perhaps later to their own copy of Word or Office.
The free OEM install didn't work for Corel and Word Perfect. Why should it work for OpenOffice?
Microsoft has been in the home since 1977. Thirty years experience and billions of dollars free to spend on research can teach you a lot about this market.
The market least understood by the Geek.
The "M" rating is no longer a sure bet for GTA - and GTA is franchise gold. Rockstar has to get this one right.
2008 is a presidential election year - an election will almost certainly turn on core issues like Iraq and health care.
But it is all to easy to picture Rockstar in a another spectacular PR crack-up, the center of a messy, politically-charged debate over video game violence.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 for XP and Vista. #1 in software sales at Amazon.com.
Microsoft Works 8. #122.
The Print Shop 22 Deluxe for Windows. #240
Sun Star Office 8. #655
[Ratings August 2nd 4 PM ET]
After discounts, Star Office at $55 costs $15 more than Works 8.
Ill leave you to contemplate the realities of a home market that barely acknowledges Star Office's existence.
MS Works appeals to home users who want to do some very ordinary, everyday things, without a lot of hassle. Print a greeting card, a poster for a garage sale.
The Print Shop has been around for twenty years.
But I've yet to see an open source replacement for this ageless "killer app" on any platform.
Share & edit Works Word Processor and Spreadsheet files with Microsoft® Office Word and Microsoft® Office Excel and vice versa. *MS Office versions 97-2007 Microsoft Works 9
There is absolutely no good reason to continue using this crap, even if it's free.
There can be a reason if you are unfamiliar with - or uncomfortable with - what passes for home user support in open source.
When you are Microsoft you can afford to put up a bright, colorful, Works home page, post a quarterly newsletter, create unique, customized, tutorials, templates, clip art, fonts, etc.
There will no geek-speak, not the faintest whiff of the patronizing attitude that pisses off the "luser."
In open source, the public face of your project tends to look more like this or this.
Morning Edition July 2, 2007 Some 62 illegal immigrants in Beardstown, Ill., who worked for a company that cleans a pork processing plant, are preparing for deportation following an immigration raid. One family anticipated problems and has a house waiting in Mexico. Illegal Immigrants Anticipate More Raids
Do you want to hear a recital of all the stories like this that can be found in a one-minute search through Google?
As the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is primarily a law enforcement agency. In addition to the core law enforcement occupations, there are also hundreds of professional and administrative functions that support the ICE mission. ICE has approximately 15,000 employees working in 400 offices nationwide and over 50 locations internationally. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Why does it always surprise the Geek that law enforcement multi-tasks? That the game of life hasn't dealt him a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card?
a loon who was still employable as a system administrator hacks into a military network. inevitably triggering a very expensive audit and perhaps a rebuild of the net.
The violence of the college game came within a hair of destroying American football in 1905 - 23 deaths - and 1909:
In a match between Harvard and West Point, the Army captain, Eugene Byrne, exhausted by continual plays to his side of the line, was fatally injured. Earl Wilson of the Naval Academy was paralyzed and later died as a result of a flying tackle. And the University of Virginia's halfback Archer Christian died after a game against Georgetown, probably from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered in a plunge through the line. "Does the public need any more proof," wrote the Washington Post, "that football is a brutal, savage, murderous sport? Is it necessary to kill many more promising young men before the game is revised or stopped altogether?" At both Georgetown and Virginia, football was suspended for the remainder of the season, and the District of Columbia school system banned it altogether. Even Col. John Mosby, the old Confederate raider, used Christian's death to rail against football as "murder." Inventing Modern Football
Malign
1 a : evil in nature, influence, or effect. malignant.
2 : having or showing intense often vicious ill will. sinister.
The audience has faded to black. The genre summer box office poison. Captivity grossed $2.6 million. Rockstar tried to catch the wave and missed.
. Why should your personal judgment override Manhunt 2's intended audience's CHOICE to play it?
A video game is not a movie.
The movies put you at a physical and psychological distance from the action. Manhunt 2 encouraged you to mime a disembowelment using the Wii controller as your weapon.
A good read in this context is Gene Wolfe's "When I Was Ming The Merciless."
As you grow older, you grow weary of attending a high school graduation one week and a funeral the next. The adolescent's judgment is not mature, and his choices are often wrong.