Not true. LibreOffice has some serious bugs when working with doc, docx, & odt that are extremely problematic and have not been fixed for months on end. Exhibit A is the "read-error" bug when files have images. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52226
This renders a word processor basically unusable. The solutions are either disabling autosave or not using images. I've been using OpenOffice for over a decade & I am this close to going back to MS Office. It used to be good. Post-fork, it's a piece of junk, & the community refuses to acknowledge this. Sticking our heads in the sand will not help.
Re:A long historical tradition of dumb names
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Wega was initially a German company, which is why the "w" was pronounced as a "v." It was bought by Sony in 1975, & they just kept the name. See: Wikipedia.
It isn't just for newbies -- I've been using various versions of Linux for 4 years now, & I currently use Kubuntu, simply because I'm not an IT professional & I have work to do. It's nice to have an operating system that "just works," because all the time saved in configuration & on a learning curve allows me to actually get stuff done.
Not that bad?
The Prophet with a bomb for a turban? The Prophet with horns on his head? Not that bad?
I'd be the first one to admit that violence in order to protest being depicted as terrorists is absurd to say the least. But don't belittle just how offensive the cartoons were.
And they weren't even particularly funny.
I wish...but the electricals had been a problem for a long time before, & the strange symptom described above didn't start till over 2 months after I got the car back. Unless the problem lay dormant for that long, somehow.
I had a 1988 Toyota Cressida which had automatic (but not remote) locking, & did this quite frequently in the month before I sold it. I'd park the car, turn off the ignition, & suddenly everything electrical would just die -- the door lights, the seatbelts, the windows & locks, & worst of all, the ignition. However, if I got out & waited a few minutes, everything would magically come back to life.
Never did figure out why that would happen, though God knows the electricals in that car were a mess. Before anyone asks, no, that car did not have any security system beyond the Club on the steering wheel, which I bought after some dopeheads stole it from my parking lot by breaking a window & hot-wiring it. (The cops found it 2 days later & the guy they caught pled guilty, but that's another story, for another thread somewhere.)
For the record, the United Arab Emirates, the country that Abu Dhabi is the capital of, does not do beheadings. They have capital punishment, just like America, & they use a firing squad. So far this year they have not had a single execution, unlike the US. (Source: http://www.amnesty.org/resources/report04/stats-en g/text/06b.html )
I agree, but I have to say I've never seen shoplifting like I have at Walmart...I can't tell you the number of times I've walked past double-packs of everything ranging from shampoo to batteries & seen one missing, cut out, stolen.
Despite these draconian security measures.
So obviously, they aren't working...
...& before you ask why I not only shop at Walmart but pay such close attention, I'm a grad student, & poor. I do, however, accept Paypal.
The small problem of shipping them halfway around the world, to put it in a nutshell.
Would you want to be the one that spent a ton of money to have a dvd shipped from the US or Europe to India, & then discovered you didn't really like it?
Now that I live in the US (moved here from India), I can rent and watch pretty much any Hollywood/European movie I want.
However, back in India, it's hard to get your hands on any movie (to legally rent) other than the major blockbusters. If you want to watch an offbeat indie film, chances are it's never going to make it to the big screen - your only option is to download.
One of my best friends sits & downloads Ingmar Bergman movies because he has absolutely no other way of ever being able to watch them.
Piracy is wrong, I agree, but these things aren't always black and white.
So then what about other pharmaceutical companies? Don't they all handle the same sorts of "nasty shit"?
A company is as good or bad as the people staffing it. Eli Lilly's top bosses suddenly suspected some of their employees might be terrorists - so why didn't Pfizer's??
...so once upon a time, IBM had a monopoly - meaning, market power. Of course they acted as any company would in those circumstances.
Now they don't, so they adapt to a changed business environment. IBM does not support Linux because it gives their top bosses a warm fuzzy feeling inside. They support Linux because they see big money in it, long-term.
Note: I'm a free-market economist, so I see this as a Good Thing.
Re:A Summary of Personality Development
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One entire semester & you still can't spell Freud??
That's Exhibit (b) proving you slept through the class, Exhibit (a) being the post itself. Freud dealt with Viennese fruitcakes & so developed his slightly crazy sex-based theories. By all reports he had the most stable, boring sex life one can imagine.
I agree. Personality isn't hardwired, by a long shot. I took the Type Test 2 years ago, & tested INTP - basically, introverted. I took it right now (admittedly after some very dramatic changes in my life - but no deliberate changes to my personality) and tested ENTJ - slightly extroverted.
So no, while I'm still the same person I was, a lot of personality traits are not carved in stone.
Obviously expected lifetime utility...I would have thought that much was obvious!:)
However I don't really see any difference between an optimal lifetime state & an optimal present state. After all, I was pretty clear that p refers to the intended state, not necessarily the actual.
As for the value of x changing over time, since I would never have any idea of the direction this change would take, I'd have to model it as a stochastic variable, with a known expected value, estimated variance, and unknown distribution. Since x is itself drawn from a (presumably) normal distribution (my current assumption is it has a mean of 0.5 with a very small variance), this might make the problem excessively complex & almost intractable. However it might be working on...I'll let you know if I get anywhere with it!:)
I spent an hour this afternoon deriving a utility function modeling my preferences over relationships, since I know that they're unusual, discontinuous, and non-monotonic. At the end of it I was convinced I had finally, completely, truly, lost my mind, so I showed what I'd done to some friends/colleagues and they agreed.
For those who might be interested, it goes as follows:
where x = quality of man
x belongs to the set [0,1)
notice that the set of x is closed at the lower bound (since men graded 0 exist aplenty), while it's open at the upper bound (since the perfect man does not exist. This isn't sexist; I don't believe the perfect woman exists either.). Therefore x can approach 1, but never equal it.
and where p = intended level of commitment
where p belongs to [0,1]
with p = 0 implying no relationship at all, p = 1 implying a ring on my left hand. Further examples: p = 0.1 or 0.2, say, imply a casual fling; p = 0.4 or 0.5 imply dating officially; p = 0.8 or 0.9 imply living together with no intention of anything more.
We have:
For p between [0,1): u(x,p) = x^p
For p = 1: u(x,p) = 2*ln(x+p)... of course, this can just as well be written as:
u(x,p) = 2*ln(x+1)
Those who take the time to solve it for a few representative values will notice a very clear mapping of preferences as under:
Committed relationship with highly-ranked man is strictly preferred to being single, which in turn is strictly preferred to anything less than full commitment. However, being single is strictly preferred to a committed relationship with a man with quality less than approximately 0.65.
I already admitted I'm insane. No irate comments on my irrationality please.
What's the point of this exposition here? Well, the posted article proves one of two things:
a. When I'm finally institutionalized, I shall have a cellmate, or;
b. Someone beat me to getting relationship math published, dammit!!!
The answer's pretty obvious, if you do actually think about it.
First up, making an automobile takes not just man (woman?) power, but also metal and machinery and what-not. Given a reasonably good PC & UPS (to deal with blackouts), all it takes to write good code is a good brain, or a good codewriting brain to be specific.
Developing countries have terrible infrastructure, badly depreciated machinery, and poor maintenance of said machines. So, to put it simply, an automobile made there would be more likely to be unreliable - note, not guaranteed unreliable - than one made in the US or Europe or Indonesia.
But code?
Given the right training, someone from Ghana or Chad or Burkina Faso can write code that's as good as, if not better than, code written by anyone else in the world.
Simple.
I'm someone who tinkers with computers for fun, it's not part of my line of work at all (though it used to be, a while ago). I was a helluva newbie when I installed Mandrake 9.0 as a dual-boot on my XP Home system, having first tried Red Hat 8.0 & ditched it after it refused to recognize my sound card.
Bottom line being, Mandrake works like a dream. Yes, it took me a whie to get some of the minor details fixed, but everything I needed worked right away, & a lot of what went wrong was due to my own stupidity/ignorance/not having bothered with TFM. Not being much of a gamer, I hardly use XP at all now.
Anyone, newbie or not, who goes for an ~entirely new OS~ without at least some basic background research is bound to get bitten a few times. Would you buy a new car without reading up on it first? A new house? Yes, as has been pointed out, Tsu Dho Nimh is obviously someone trying very hard to act dumb, & like a man in drag trying to come off as a woman, is just trying too damn hard.
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How about: LibreOffice loses images from documents regardless of which file format you use, resulting in hours of extra unnecessary work & a great deal of annoyance for coworkers? http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/2515/writer-with-pictures-often-fails/
Not true. LibreOffice has some serious bugs when working with doc, docx, & odt that are extremely problematic and have not been fixed for months on end. Exhibit A is the "read-error" bug when files have images.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52226
This renders a word processor basically unusable. The solutions are either disabling autosave or not using images. I've been using OpenOffice for over a decade & I am this close to going back to MS Office. It used to be good. Post-fork, it's a piece of junk, & the community refuses to acknowledge this. Sticking our heads in the sand will not help.
Wega was initially a German company, which is why the "w" was pronounced as a "v." It was bought by Sony in 1975, & they just kept the name. See: Wikipedia.
It isn't just for newbies -- I've been using various versions of Linux for 4 years now, & I currently use Kubuntu, simply because I'm not an IT professional & I have work to do. It's nice to have an operating system that "just works," because all the time saved in configuration & on a learning curve allows me to actually get stuff done.
Not that bad?
The Prophet with a bomb for a turban? The Prophet with horns on his head? Not that bad?
I'd be the first one to admit that violence in order to protest being depicted as terrorists is absurd to say the least. But don't belittle just how offensive the cartoons were.
And they weren't even particularly funny.
I wish...but the electricals had been a problem for a long time before, & the strange symptom described above didn't start till over 2 months after I got the car back. Unless the problem lay dormant for that long, somehow.
Er....not necessarily.
I had a 1988 Toyota Cressida which had automatic (but not remote) locking, & did this quite frequently in the month before I sold it. I'd park the car, turn off the ignition, & suddenly everything electrical would just die -- the door lights, the seatbelts, the windows & locks, & worst of all, the ignition. However, if I got out & waited a few minutes, everything would magically come back to life.
Never did figure out why that would happen, though God knows the electricals in that car were a mess. Before anyone asks, no, that car did not have any security system beyond the Club on the steering wheel, which I bought after some dopeheads stole it from my parking lot by breaking a window & hot-wiring it. (The cops found it 2 days later & the guy they caught pled guilty, but that's another story, for another thread somewhere.)
And what about the 12-year-old sex slave?
Is she an innocent victim, or is her HIV infection also somehow her own fault?
Those who see HIV/AIDS as a "punishment for immorality disease" have yet to come up with a plausible explanation for all the collateral damage.
For the record, the United Arab Emirates, the country that Abu Dhabi is the capital of, does not do beheadings. They have capital punishment, just like America, & they use a firing squad. So far this year they have not had a single execution, unlike the US. (Source: http://www.amnesty.org/resources/report04/stats-en g/text/06b.html )
Sorry to feed a troll, but I had to do this.
Or, you could change it to XP's silver color scheme, which looks nicer than the snot green but is equally clunky.
But at least that's genuine eye-candy. I mean, the silver really is pretty.
I agree, but I have to say I've never seen shoplifting like I have at Walmart...I can't tell you the number of times I've walked past double-packs of everything ranging from shampoo to batteries & seen one missing, cut out, stolen.
...& before you ask why I not only shop at Walmart but pay such close attention, I'm a grad student, & poor. I do, however, accept Paypal.
Despite these draconian security measures.
So obviously, they aren't working...
The small problem of shipping them halfway around the world, to put it in a nutshell.
Would you want to be the one that spent a ton of money to have a dvd shipped from the US or Europe to India, & then discovered you didn't really like it?
Now that I live in the US (moved here from India), I can rent and watch pretty much any Hollywood/European movie I want.
However, back in India, it's hard to get your hands on any movie (to legally rent) other than the major blockbusters. If you want to watch an offbeat indie film, chances are it's never going to make it to the big screen - your only option is to download.
One of my best friends sits & downloads Ingmar Bergman movies because he has absolutely no other way of ever being able to watch them.
Piracy is wrong, I agree, but these things aren't always black and white.
So then what about other pharmaceutical companies? Don't they all handle the same sorts of "nasty shit"?
A company is as good or bad as the people staffing it. Eli Lilly's top bosses suddenly suspected some of their employees might be terrorists - so why didn't Pfizer's??
Right on.
...so once upon a time, IBM had a monopoly - meaning, market power. Of course they acted as any company would in those circumstances.
Now they don't, so they adapt to a changed business environment. IBM does not support Linux because it gives their top bosses a warm fuzzy feeling inside. They support Linux because they see big money in it, long-term.
Note: I'm a free-market economist, so I see this as a Good Thing.
One entire semester & you still can't spell Freud??
That's Exhibit (b) proving you slept through the class, Exhibit (a) being the post itself. Freud dealt with Viennese fruitcakes & so developed his slightly crazy sex-based theories. By all reports he had the most stable, boring sex life one can imagine.
I agree. Personality isn't hardwired, by a long shot. I took the Type Test 2 years ago, & tested INTP - basically, introverted. I took it right now (admittedly after some very dramatic changes in my life - but no deliberate changes to my personality) and tested ENTJ - slightly extroverted.
So no, while I'm still the same person I was, a lot of personality traits are not carved in stone.
There's a limit to being anti-capitalist...why is it such a problem if Visa/MC make money? They're giving you a credit card, aren't they?
If it weren't for them & other credit-card companies, there'd be no such thing as business on the Internet, so calm down, buddy.
Obviously expected lifetime utility...I would have thought that much was obvious! :)
:)
However I don't really see any difference between an optimal lifetime state & an optimal present state. After all, I was pretty clear that p refers to the intended state, not necessarily the actual.
As for the value of x changing over time, since I would never have any idea of the direction this change would take, I'd have to model it as a stochastic variable, with a known expected value, estimated variance, and unknown distribution. Since x is itself drawn from a (presumably) normal distribution (my current assumption is it has a mean of 0.5 with a very small variance), this might make the problem excessively complex & almost intractable. However it might be working on...I'll let you know if I get anywhere with it!
I spent an hour this afternoon deriving a utility function modeling my preferences over relationships, since I know that they're unusual, discontinuous, and non-monotonic. At the end of it I was convinced I had finally, completely, truly, lost my mind, so I showed what I'd done to some friends/colleagues and they agreed.
... of course, this can just as well be written as:
For those who might be interested, it goes as follows:
where x = quality of man
x belongs to the set [0,1)
notice that the set of x is closed at the lower bound (since men graded 0 exist aplenty), while it's open at the upper bound (since the perfect man does not exist. This isn't sexist; I don't believe the perfect woman exists either.). Therefore x can approach 1, but never equal it.
and where p = intended level of commitment
where p belongs to [0,1]
with p = 0 implying no relationship at all, p = 1 implying a ring on my left hand. Further examples: p = 0.1 or 0.2, say, imply a casual fling; p = 0.4 or 0.5 imply dating officially; p = 0.8 or 0.9 imply living together with no intention of anything more.
We have:
For p between [0,1): u(x,p) = x^p
For p = 1: u(x,p) = 2*ln(x+p)
u(x,p) = 2*ln(x+1)
Those who take the time to solve it for a few representative values will notice a very clear mapping of preferences as under:
Committed relationship with highly-ranked man is strictly preferred to being single, which in turn is strictly preferred to anything less than full commitment. However, being single is strictly preferred to a committed relationship with a man with quality less than approximately 0.65.
I already admitted I'm insane. No irate comments on my irrationality please.
What's the point of this exposition here? Well, the posted article proves one of two things:
a. When I'm finally institutionalized, I shall have a cellmate, or;
b. Someone beat me to getting relationship math published, dammit!!!
The answer's pretty obvious, if you do actually think about it.
First up, making an automobile takes not just man (woman?) power, but also metal and machinery and what-not. Given a reasonably good PC & UPS (to deal with blackouts), all it takes to write good code is a good brain, or a good codewriting brain to be specific.
Developing countries have terrible infrastructure, badly depreciated machinery, and poor maintenance of said machines. So, to put it simply, an automobile made there would be more likely to be unreliable - note, not guaranteed unreliable - than one made in the US or Europe or Indonesia.
But code?
Given the right training, someone from Ghana or Chad or Burkina Faso can write code that's as good as, if not better than, code written by anyone else in the world.
Simple.
I'm someone who tinkers with computers for fun, it's not part of my line of work at all (though it used to be, a while ago). I was a helluva newbie when I installed Mandrake 9.0 as a dual-boot on my XP Home system, having first tried Red Hat 8.0 & ditched it after it refused to recognize my sound card. Bottom line being, Mandrake works like a dream. Yes, it took me a whie to get some of the minor details fixed, but everything I needed worked right away, & a lot of what went wrong was due to my own stupidity/ignorance/not having bothered with TFM. Not being much of a gamer, I hardly use XP at all now. Anyone, newbie or not, who goes for an ~entirely new OS~ without at least some basic background research is bound to get bitten a few times. Would you buy a new car without reading up on it first? A new house? Yes, as has been pointed out, Tsu Dho Nimh is obviously someone trying very hard to act dumb, & like a man in drag trying to come off as a woman, is just trying too damn hard.