yes, yes. Good idea. However, I remain confused as to show her this video or the incomparable masterpiece " Cool as Ice" staring Vanilla Ice. It has motorcycles, and white guys dancing in parachute pants.
Ok, cool. I'm still confused. IBM is contributing code it got from open office to... open office? That seems like it should have been required in the first place. I don't know what Sun would have done without IBM donating its own code back to it.
That is a good point, and I must admit I thought that as well... at first. Then I started thinking, How long is something really first? Is something first always first? Like the first European to visit the Americas, Columbus. He was first, but only for 400 odd years before we discovered that the vikings were the first. Also, one can never be so certain that time travel will never exist. Therefore, all of our first records in any given field may be only temporary, before some one from the future comes back and does it first.
I applaud the gp's modesty, and four dimensional thinking. I think we should all be a little more considerate of our resources, both natural and produced, in light of the fact that they may belong to someone else before us, in the future.
That is the imperative phrase. Of course you can still read something that was saved in word 6 and converted to the new Word xml format. The text is still there. If you completely ignore the formatting, and use the default you can still read the document. I wrote a custom parser to import my old documents from Easy working word processor to Word. The formatting isn't exactly the same, but I can't imagine anyone would care. Now if you make ODF your standard, your sort of screwed as to displaying that word 6 document exactly as word 6 did anyways, so what have you really lost by simply marking it as word 6 style in the Word xml?
Remeber those crazy formats are for backwards comparability, not forwards compatibility. So just don't save your stuff with the crazy format tags and you should be safe.
I often go to physical stores to compare items like appliances and furniture. Am I stealing from them, if I spend an hour talking with a sales rep ( The store has to pay for cooling/heating plus rent) and don't buy anything from them? ( I actually had a car salesman tell me I was stealing by not purchasing a car from them after 3 or 4 test drives.) I don't really see how this is any different. I can name countless other scenarios where business expect my actions to result in their profits, but I don't commit those actions ( paying off credit card every month, trial offers, ect). The sites I willingly visit that I trust, I usually want to see the ads, as they sometimes advertise things I want in a non obtrusive manner. So no I don't feel its ever theft to block ads. Stealing personal information and tracking users, now thats a crime.
Yeah, I always considered that a stupid criticism. Does anyone still have mission critical documents in word 6 that depend on the exact formating Word 6 had?
Good question. Its been my longstanding dream of building a cell phone with a phone dial and no screen. It would be an old school handset with a dial, and a hook built into the belt holster. Maybe the dial should be on the holster as well. And I would tell everyone my "phone was off the hook", sometimes as a joke, sometimes as an excuse for not picking up the phone. Although, I really don't know how many people would get the joke.
Interesting, if true. Can't find a reliable 3rd party source on it. Seems to have been removed from wikipedia. All signs, including your extra long post to a yes or no question, lead me to the conclusion that this theory is either completely wrong, or its proponents have done it a great disservice by not perusing it in the correct academic forums.
Right because its usually Standard procedure to crash a plane loaded with normal cruise missiles? Or perhaps the plane might get called into active duty in mid flight and deploy its weaponry? or the crew normally sells half of the inventory to the first shady looking guy standing next to the fence of the airport when they land?
What extra precautions would you advise someone carrying nukes as opposed to conventional weapons?
We've actually witnessed collisions in space. And found evidence on earth for them. We've never seen any evidence for electrical arcs between heavenly bodies that would cause craters. So that at least implies that they are more rare, if they are possible. scientists discount interpretations of observations that are not supported by other observations. That is it. Only when an event cannot be explained by any existing model formed from previous observations, will they resort to wild guessing ( see string theory, multiple universe theory, etc).
No, actually its Billy Madision. I wrote the other post late at night. I get the two confused sometimes as well, but its from the academic competition at the end.
As an undergrad I wrote a general purpose action minimizer for the intention of approximating the shape of nuclei. If you figure out the action for the wave in four space, I can plug it in for you. Now I never got past 2d visualization, via a simple vb program making use of mschart, or exporting it in a list Mathematica could visualize. Its been 6 or so years since I've looked at it so it would take some time to figure it out. And looking back on it, I'm a bit embarrassed/impressed at the coding level. Its in raw c++ and includes a sloppily home brewed parser and custom templated linked list implementation.
I thought it would be instantly recognized and someone would reply with the response:
Okay, a simple "wrong" would've done just fine.
But I thought it applies in this case. Sure there are other factors that can impare driving, and in most states they are treated the same. Even if you are drunk you can be charged with DWI driving while impared. If you have drunk to a level not impeding your driving ability you won't be pulled over unless you hit a roadblock on a holiday. There has been a lot of press about the dangers of driving while tired and if there was an objective test, of course they would punish tired drivers just the same. In my state those over a certain age must re certify their licenses yearly, and they are rasing talking about raising the legal driving age.However all of this does not take anything away from the dangers of driving in an alcohol or drug induced state, and it the laws should be even more stringent. I would propose mandatory breathalysers in cars, disabling the car for a period of time, if the driver was impaired.
Mr. justcauseisjustthat, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
I object to that moderation. Everyone knows its based on Next Step which predated Linux's popularity. If you disagree tell me what Linux contributed to OSX that wasn't in Next Step or BSD prior to it. Thats not a troll, thats a reasonable argument based upon facts, with very little opinion mixed in.
Ran out of mod points earlier so here is my idea...
I think a news collector/ comment allowing website in the slashdot model should assign moderation points but let the user choose when to activate them, subject to predefined rules that would prevent the usage of so many points over a given time span or used in a single article.
Remember you heard it from me first as the time stamp shows. Tune in next week for the secret to free energy, and world peace. That is all.
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yes, yes. Good idea. However, I remain confused as to show her this video or the incomparable masterpiece " Cool as Ice" staring Vanilla Ice. It has motorcycles, and white guys dancing in parachute pants.
Ok, cool. I'm still confused. IBM is contributing code it got from open office to ... open office? That seems like it should have been required in the first place. I don't know what Sun would have done without IBM donating its own code back to it.
That is a good point, and I must admit I thought that as well ... at first. Then I started thinking, How long is something really first? Is something first always first? Like the first European to visit the Americas, Columbus. He was first, but only for 400 odd years before we discovered that the vikings were the first. Also, one can never be so certain that time travel will never exist. Therefore, all of our first records in any given field may be only temporary, before some one from the future comes back and does it first.
I applaud the gp's modesty, and four dimensional thinking. I think we should all be a little more considerate of our resources, both natural and produced, in light of the fact that they may belong to someone else before us, in the future.
that can still be read
That is the imperative phrase. Of course you can still read something that was saved in word 6 and converted to the new Word xml format. The text is still there. If you completely ignore the formatting, and use the default you can still read the document. I wrote a custom parser to import my old documents from Easy working word processor to Word. The formatting isn't exactly the same, but I can't imagine anyone would care. Now if you make ODF your standard, your sort of screwed as to displaying that word 6 document exactly as word 6 did anyways, so what have you really lost by simply marking it as word 6 style in the Word xml?
Remeber those crazy formats are for backwards comparability, not forwards compatibility. So just don't save your stuff with the crazy format tags and you should be safe.
I often go to physical stores to compare items like appliances and furniture. Am I stealing from them, if I spend an hour talking with a sales rep ( The store has to pay for cooling/heating plus rent) and don't buy anything from them? ( I actually had a car salesman tell me I was stealing by not purchasing a car from them after 3 or 4 test drives.) I don't really see how this is any different. I can name countless other scenarios where business expect my actions to result in their profits, but I don't commit those actions ( paying off credit card every month, trial offers, ect). The sites I willingly visit that I trust, I usually want to see the ads, as they sometimes advertise things I want in a non obtrusive manner. So no I don't feel its ever theft to block ads. Stealing personal information and tracking users, now thats a crime.
Yeah, I always considered that a stupid criticism. Does anyone still have mission critical documents in word 6 that depend on the exact formating Word 6 had?
Sounds cool. Always loved the language and the speed. Any idea of how well it scales?
However I don't think I can donate $500 for the phone:( Maybe a $200 price cut is in order, as long as the early adopters don't get pissed.
Good question. Its been my longstanding dream of building a cell phone with a phone dial and no screen. It would be an old school handset with a dial, and a hook built into the belt holster. Maybe the dial should be on the holster as well. And I would tell everyone my "phone was off the hook", sometimes as a joke, sometimes as an excuse for not picking up the phone. Although, I really don't know how many people would get the joke.
No, No, No.
You keep the lights on to make the thieves at ease, infrared motion detectors to trigger the machine guns.
Yes Zed == SCO. In fact, Zed === SCO. I call dibs on his chopper.
Cause Sco's dead. Being a penny stock means you don't have the wads of cash to support many evil organizations.
Interesting, if true. Can't find a reliable 3rd party source on it. Seems to have been removed from wikipedia. All signs, including your extra long post to a yes or no question, lead me to the conclusion that this theory is either completely wrong, or its proponents have done it a great disservice by not perusing it in the correct academic forums.
Ok, I think I understand where you are coming from let me summarize:
Some craters are obviously created by impacts with meteors, comments or any other solid body.
There are some unusual features to some craters that can not be explained by our current theory of solid body impacts
Electrical phenomenon could explain these features
Is this what we are talking about? Do you agree with these points?
Right because its usually Standard procedure to crash a plane loaded with normal cruise missiles? Or perhaps the plane might get called into active duty in mid flight and deploy its weaponry? or the crew normally sells half of the inventory to the first shady looking guy standing next to the fence of the airport when they land?
What extra precautions would you advise someone carrying nukes as opposed to conventional weapons?
We've actually witnessed collisions in space. And found evidence on earth for them. We've never seen any evidence for electrical arcs between heavenly bodies that would cause craters. So that at least implies that they are more rare, if they are possible. scientists discount interpretations of observations that are not supported by other observations. That is it. Only when an event cannot be explained by any existing model formed from previous observations, will they resort to wild guessing ( see string theory, multiple universe theory, etc).
No, actually its Billy Madision. I wrote the other post late at night. I get the two confused sometimes as well, but its from the academic competition at the end.
As an undergrad I wrote a general purpose action minimizer for the intention of approximating the shape of nuclei. If you figure out the action for the wave in four space, I can plug it in for you. Now I never got past 2d visualization, via a simple vb program making use of mschart, or exporting it in a list Mathematica could visualize. Its been 6 or so years since I've looked at it so it would take some time to figure it out. And looking back on it, I'm a bit embarrassed /impressed at the coding level. Its in raw c++ and includes a sloppily home brewed parser and custom templated linked list implementation.
1999 called. They want their Jornada back.
Sweet. I've been looking to offload that piece of crap. Any chance they'd be interested in taking back a then first lady?
I thought it would be instantly recognized and someone would reply with the response:
Okay, a simple "wrong" would've done just fine.
But I thought it applies in this case. Sure there are other factors that can impare driving, and in most states they are treated the same. Even if you are drunk you can be charged with DWI driving while impared. If you have drunk to a level not impeding your driving ability you won't be pulled over unless you hit a roadblock on a holiday. There has been a lot of press about the dangers of driving while tired and if there was an objective test, of course they would punish tired drivers just the same. In my state those over a certain age must re certify their licenses yearly, and they are rasing talking about raising the legal driving age.However all of this does not take anything away from the dangers of driving in an alcohol or drug induced state, and it the laws should be even more stringent. I would propose mandatory breathalysers in cars, disabling the car for a period of time, if the driver was impaired.
Mr. justcauseisjustthat, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
I object to that moderation. Everyone knows its based on Next Step which predated Linux's popularity. If you disagree tell me what Linux contributed to OSX that wasn't in Next Step or BSD prior to it. Thats not a troll, thats a reasonable argument based upon facts, with very little opinion mixed in.
Ran out of mod points earlier so here is my idea...
I think a news collector/ comment allowing website in the slashdot model should assign moderation points but let the user choose when to activate them, subject to predefined rules that would prevent the usage of so many points over a given time span or used in a single article.
Remember you heard it from me first as the time stamp shows. Tune in next week for the secret to free energy, and world peace. That is all.
OS X = BSD done right.
Linux didn't really contribute anything, even ideologically. Next Step = OS X which was prior to any popular version of Linux.
*couch*slashdot-editors*cough*
Holy crap! thats one heck of a cough you have there if you're coughing up furniture. You may want to see a doctor or an upholsterer for that.