Yes, but I suggested OOo because it's good enough for most people. Most people not only don't need the kind of fine control that LATex gives you, they'd resent being forced to learn it and resist using it. It'd be nice, of course, if it were available for the few who'd want or need it, but schools have to concentrate on what most of their students need if they're going to do any good.
OpenOffice is better for schools because it's free. No school ever has enough money for everything it wants to do, and paying the Microsoft Tax on enough machines for their students to work on in class can be a big drain on very limited resources. OpenOffice is similar enough in look, feel and use to MSOffice (Except for 2007, of course.) that it's easy for somebody who knows one to work with the other, so it's a reasonable choice.
The point is that most pages are either correct, or have only minor errors, such as not properly closing a paragraph tag before opening a new one. The Acid Tests, from what I gather, do everything their authors can think of to break the standard. I think it's all well and good that browsers aren't too strict in following the standards and have a little wiggle room included for accidental errors, but to me, the Acid Test goes far beyond that and encourages sloppy coding. In the long run, the Acid Test is a test that nobody can ever pass because as soon as programmers learn how to render it, there's another, even more b90rken implementation of it.
The Acid Test is all about seeing if browsers can properly render intentionally mis-written, broken code, including things that I find it hard to believe that anybody would do on propose on a real-world page. The important question isn't whether or not browsers can render the Acid Test correctly, but whether or not they can render 99.44% of all pages out there correctly. Personally, I don't care if my browser can render such malformed pages correctly or not, or if any other browser can. If somebody's really going to write such crap code and put it on the web, the only response they deserve is letters to the webmaster telling them their page is garbled.
In Fedora, at least, Uptodate works as a daemon and notifies you when there are updates to download, rather like Windows with Automatic Update. how would gtksudo help?
The Uptodate program in Fedora runs automatically in X, and prompts for the root password. Sudo, although a good program, wouldn't help here. (Having the program suid to root would work, of course, now that I think of it.)
If you want to fix a problem, design a system where the drawing of district boundaries doesn't matter much instead of one where it does
There is one, and some states used it until (I think) the Supremes ruled it out: members are elected "at large," instead of representing specific districts and share the responsibility for representing the entire population of the state among them.
...the Linux guys in the office don't update their software.
Considering what you say later, I presume you think this is a Good Thing. If you want them to stay current with updates, use a distro such as Fedora that has a built-in update feature. Of course, using it would require the regular users to have the root password, or have somebody come through to enter it, but the same thing's true about Windows boxen and the Administrator password.
Not only that, the loser had the "D Day" set to his own birthday. I'm not condoning or defending this type of thing, but if you're going to do it, do it well and for crying out loud, don't leave a trail of friggin' bread crumbs leading right to you.
I agree. If you're going to do something like that, do it right! Everybody knows D Day is June 6!
If they block P2P traffic they take out much of the traffic and can keep the *whatever MB/s* they advertise without having to spend extra money to get the network
"Still, the spacecraft is also expected to throw back some never-before -seen images, NASA said."
Am I the only Slashdotter who looked at this and thought, "Of course they've never been seen, they haven't even been taken yet." Yes, yes, I know what they meant, but couldn't they have said what they meant instead of something dramatic but wrong?
OK, folks, see if you can manage to mod me down with a -1 Pedant, now.
Last Sunday's Nancy had Sluggo being kept late at football practice because he fumbled so much. He told Nancy that he wasn't the only one getting extra practice because their kicking team needed work. In the background, there's Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown.
The way I understand it, it's removed from the directory right away, but the inodes aren't cleared until the last program using it closes it. Of course, I'm not a *nix guru and Could Be Wrong.
There's one difference between AOL and Spam that you're overlooking: AOL paid postage on every one of those disks and CDs they sent out. Even at the bulk rate, they paid enough to help keep postage rates lower for everybody else, just like all the other people sending junk mail. Spammers don't pay for what they send, they make everybody else pay for it. That's why there's so much spam.
French spelling seems to be every bit as arbitrary as English spelling.
I've heard that French used to be pronounced the way it's now spelled. As the language shifted, scribes insisted on keeping the old spelling because they were paid by the letter. Don't know if it's true or not, but considering other things I know about France, I wouldn't be surprised.
The precinct instructions here in California refer to spoiled ballots and how to handle them. The voter is entitled to three tries to Get It Right if needed, and spoiled ballots are retained until the polls close and are sent back to the district.
Voting error usually means that there was some problem, technical or otherwise, that prevented the voter from communicating the vote to the tabulator.
And this, right here, is yet another reason to ignore the ACLU. There's already a perfectly good term for this: "spoiled ballot." It's been in use, probably, for well over a century. There's no reason, other than stupidity, to invent such an unintuitive term as "second chance" to replace the current, well-understood one of "spoiled ballot." Proof, if such were needed, that the ACLU is completely out of touch with reality.
In most states,the Primaries are done party by party. The voters are deciding on who they want to represent their party in the main election. That means that there's a different ballot for each party.
My poling place is in a retirement community in California. The precinct workers are all senior citizens. Last election we used something like this and they had no trouble running the equipment and printing out ballots as needed.
3. Someone accidentally goes to the wrong precinct.
In which case, they're sent to the right one. You can't (at least not in California, where I've worked the polls for over twenty years) vote in any random precinct, you have to go to the one you're registered in.
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Yes, but I suggested OOo because it's good enough for most people. Most people not only don't need the kind of fine control that LATex gives you, they'd resent being forced to learn it and resist using it. It'd be nice, of course, if it were available for the few who'd want or need it, but schools have to concentrate on what most of their students need if they're going to do any good.
OpenOffice is better for schools because it's free. No school ever has enough money for everything it wants to do, and paying the Microsoft Tax on enough machines for their students to work on in class can be a big drain on very limited resources. OpenOffice is similar enough in look, feel and use to MSOffice (Except for 2007, of course.) that it's easy for somebody who knows one to work with the other, so it's a reasonable choice.
The point is that most pages are either correct, or have only minor errors, such as not properly closing a paragraph tag before opening a new one. The Acid Tests, from what I gather, do everything their authors can think of to break the standard. I think it's all well and good that browsers aren't too strict in following the standards and have a little wiggle room included for accidental errors, but to me, the Acid Test goes far beyond that and encourages sloppy coding. In the long run, the Acid Test is a test that nobody can ever pass because as soon as programmers learn how to render it, there's another, even more b90rken implementation of it.
The Acid Test is all about seeing if browsers can properly render intentionally mis-written, broken code, including things that I find it hard to believe that anybody would do on propose on a real-world page. The important question isn't whether or not browsers can render the Acid Test correctly, but whether or not they can render 99.44% of all pages out there correctly. Personally, I don't care if my browser can render such malformed pages correctly or not, or if any other browser can. If somebody's really going to write such crap code and put it on the web, the only response they deserve is letters to the webmaster telling them their page is garbled.
In Fedora, at least, Uptodate works as a daemon and notifies you when there are updates to download, rather like Windows with Automatic Update. how would gtksudo help?
The Uptodate program in Fedora runs automatically in X, and prompts for the root password. Sudo, although a good program, wouldn't help here. (Having the program suid to root would work, of course, now that I think of it.)
There is one, and some states used it until (I think) the Supremes ruled it out: members are elected "at large," instead of representing specific districts and share the responsibility for representing the entire population of the state among them.
I guess there's not going to be a Mars-Shattering KABOOM! And I was so looking forward to it.
Considering what you say later, I presume you think this is a Good Thing. If you want them to stay current with updates, use a distro such as Fedora that has a built-in update feature. Of course, using it would require the regular users to have the root password, or have somebody come through to enter it, but the same thing's true about Windows boxen and the Administrator password.
I agree. If you're going to do something like that, do it right! Everybody knows D Day is June 6!
Oh, come on, now. Everybody knows that the right speed to have things activate is 88 mph! Gotta keep your nerd cred up, man!
And, in fact, it looks like that's exactly what they're doing. How does it feel to have made such an accurate prediction?
Am I the only Slashdotter who looked at this and thought, "Of course they've never been seen, they haven't even been taken yet." Yes, yes, I know what they meant, but couldn't they have said what they meant instead of something dramatic but wrong?
OK, folks, see if you can manage to mod me down with a -1 Pedant, now.
In Soviet Korea, only old people imagine a Beowulf cluster of Suns.
Last Sunday's Nancy had Sluggo being kept late at football practice because he fumbled so much. He told Nancy that he wasn't the only one getting extra practice because their kicking team needed work. In the background, there's Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown.
The way I understand it, it's removed from the directory right away, but the inodes aren't cleared until the last program using it closes it. Of course, I'm not a *nix guru and Could Be Wrong.
So handle it the same way *nix does: the deletion takes place when the last program using it closes the file.
There's one difference between AOL and Spam that you're overlooking: AOL paid postage on every one of those disks and CDs they sent out. Even at the bulk rate, they paid enough to help keep postage rates lower for everybody else, just like all the other people sending junk mail. Spammers don't pay for what they send, they make everybody else pay for it. That's why there's so much spam.
I've heard that French used to be pronounced the way it's now spelled. As the language shifted, scribes insisted on keeping the old spelling because they were paid by the letter. Don't know if it's true or not, but considering other things I know about France, I wouldn't be surprised.
The precinct instructions here in California refer to spoiled ballots and how to handle them. The voter is entitled to three tries to Get It Right if needed, and spoiled ballots are retained until the polls close and are sent back to the district.
And this, right here, is yet another reason to ignore the ACLU. There's already a perfectly good term for this: "spoiled ballot." It's been in use, probably, for well over a century. There's no reason, other than stupidity, to invent such an unintuitive term as "second chance" to replace the current, well-understood one of "spoiled ballot." Proof, if such were needed, that the ACLU is completely out of touch with reality.
In most states,the Primaries are done party by party. The voters are deciding on who they want to represent their party in the main election. That means that there's a different ballot for each party.
My poling place is in a retirement community in California. The precinct workers are all senior citizens. Last election we used something like this and they had no trouble running the equipment and printing out ballots as needed.
In which case, they're sent to the right one. You can't (at least not in California, where I've worked the polls for over twenty years) vote in any random precinct, you have to go to the one you're registered in.
So do what I did and use .us instead. No problem.