Keep the administrators on MS Office. they will no doubt need some of the stupid things that openoffice cannot do, like macro support for weird school system things.
And what happens when the admins need a file from a teacher and she sends it in OO.o format? Remember, file compatibility is a one-way street for OO.o/MSO.
I've been predicting the rise of indy music for quite some time now, and I believe this is a great tool that will further the movement.
We already went through that. It was called "grunge." At the end of the day, the good indy bands were still laboring in obscurity while cheap immitators sold millions of albums, and the term "alternative" went from signifying something to being just another word for "rock".
The guy in charge of the fourth season of Enterprise (Manny Coto) was asked "Why Nazis?" regarding Storm Front. His response (bitterly)? "You'd have to ask Berman and Braga." Storm Front is the last vestige of the crap that Berman and Braga have been spewing for the first three years.
Casual Viewer: I tried watching Enterprise, but it's just pathetic crap trading on the "Star Trek" name.
Fanboy: For the first three seasons, maybe. But Season Four r0x0rz!
Casual Viewer: I just watched the first episode of hte fourth season, and it's just as bad as what came before.
Fanboy: You saw the bad episode. Trust me, it gets better.
You know, after a certain point, these excuses wear thin. When more than 75% of a series sucks, it deserves to get canceled.
If every human on the planet disappeared tomorrow, our foot-print would be visible in the fossil record for megayears to come. Even if every screw and bolt, nut and washer were crushed beyond recognition by geological processes, they'd still leave behind very distinctive mineral deposits.
That is not exactly true. The inquisition was a wholly Catholic affair that effected peoples of varied faiths, and assigned to them the role of heretic and firewood.
Heretics=/=witches.
For most of its history, the Catholic inquisitions were concerned with stamping out sects that went against church teachings, or, in the case of the Spanish Inquisition, making sure that Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity stayed converted. It was only after the Protestants took up witch-burning that the Catholics discovered how effective it could be as a political tool.
There's a reason why the great witch-hunting manuals were written by Protestants (King James, frex), and the most famous incidents took place in Protestant territories (Scotland, New England).
For a very interesting read, and a very thought provoking read, try:
Holy Blood, Holy Grail.
It really shows how much the Roman Catholic church has lied, cheated and killed to remain in power.
Too bad it's a work of fiction.
Look, I'm a hard-core atheist who believes organized religion is the biggest scam ever created, but that doesn't mean I have to accept every crazy depredation laid against a church. HBHG belongs in the same category with books about J. Edgar Hoover being on the Grassy Knoll, and Elvis living in Peoria under an alias created for him by the Federal Witness Protection Program.
And while we're at it, the Catholics didn't burn witches in the dark ages; it was a heresy to even believe in them until the High Middle Ages, and it was the Protestants who made witch hunting an organized sport.
So basically, you want the web to go back to the days when it consisted of hobbyists putting up pictures of their cats and the latest Star Trek convention?
Talk about false premises, your statement assumes that the Google guys are going to be selling their stock sometime soon.
That one buck a year they're earning doesn't go very far. Chances are they'll liquidate some stock every year for income, and have to pay capital gains on that.
If you'd RTFA, you'd know that Page and Brin earned 150K a year, and Schmidt earned 250K/year.Cutting their salaries to $1 does mean a substantial tax savings, as the poster indicated.
Going from $150,000 to $1 is a 99.99933333% reduction in salary, so unless they were paying 99.9994% in taxes, there's no savings.
You can't legally refuse to accept any real denomination of money in payment of a debt unless you establish it as a policy and post a notice to that effect in advance.
Wow, so if I get a thousand dollar bill, I can go into 7-11 and get free sodas and candy-bars because they don't have enough cash to break it? Cool.
I guess my point is: try not to confuse the poor cashier.
I'd have more sympathy for that position if the cashiers had more than first grade math skills. I was in a Best Buy once, and the total came to something like $17.32, so I handed over $22.52. The clerk couldn't figure out why I'd hand over such an odd amount of money, and ended up giving me the $2.52 back, punching $20 into the register and giving me $2.68 in additional change.
No, but Picasa+Hello is -- you just select a picture in Picasa, hit a button, and Hello puts it on your blog. You can also use Picasa+Hello as a private filesharing network.
There's a Firefox plugin called CookieCuller that I find very convienent. Basically, it deletes all your cookies when you close the browser (or perhaps when you start it up.. either way). It will also allow you to see the current cookies easily and to set individual ones as "protected", meaning it won't touch these.
Everything you just listed can be done through Firefox's normal cookie management system (tools-> options-> privacy-> cookies).
Why would you leave your computer on, doing nothing over night?
Unless it's a server or you want to participate in SETI like projects, there is no point.
Your imagination is awfully limited. I have Thunderbird running in the background all the time, so when I get up in the morning and home in the evening, all my emails are there waiting for me. I have my system set up to automatically perform maintenance -- defrag, disk clean up, virus scan, Spybot -- overnight. I run Shareaza, and even when I'm not downloading files, I keep it up so other people can access my copies of Firefox, TB, etc.
Oh, yeah, I also run Folding@home, but that's an afterthought compared to the other tasks.
That's a very good question. Classic rock stations have a cut-off in the '80s, and modern rock stations rarely go back more than five years. Surely Depeche Mode and Duran Duran are old enough to qualify as oldies; and Nirvana and Pearl Jam are pretty close to joining them.
Yes, BBC America is so superior to American television. If, that is, you happen to like gardening shows, home decorating shows, and antiquing shows. If not, then it's not worth it for that one hour a day when they show other programming.
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Keep the administrators on MS Office. they will no doubt need some of the stupid things that openoffice cannot do, like macro support for weird school system things.
And what happens when the admins need a file from a teacher and she sends it in OO.o format? Remember, file compatibility is a one-way street for OO.o/MSO.
I've been predicting the rise of indy music for quite some time now, and I believe this is a great tool that will further the movement.
We already went through that. It was called "grunge." At the end of the day, the good indy bands were still laboring in obscurity while cheap immitators sold millions of albums, and the term "alternative" went from signifying something to being just another word for "rock".
The guy in charge of the fourth season of Enterprise (Manny Coto) was asked "Why Nazis?" regarding Storm Front. His response (bitterly)? "You'd have to ask Berman and Braga." Storm Front is the last vestige of the crap that Berman and Braga have been spewing for the first three years.
Casual Viewer: I tried watching Enterprise, but it's just pathetic crap trading on the "Star Trek" name.
Fanboy: For the first three seasons, maybe. But Season Four r0x0rz!
Casual Viewer: I just watched the first episode of hte fourth season, and it's just as bad as what came before.
Fanboy: You saw the bad episode. Trust me, it gets better.
You know, after a certain point, these excuses wear thin. When more than 75% of a series sucks, it deserves to get canceled.
If every human on the planet disappeared tomorrow, our foot-print would be visible in the fossil record for megayears to come. Even if every screw and bolt, nut and washer were crushed beyond recognition by geological processes, they'd still leave behind very distinctive mineral deposits.
That is not exactly true. The inquisition was a wholly Catholic affair that effected peoples of varied faiths, and assigned to them the role of heretic and firewood.
Heretics=/=witches.
For most of its history, the Catholic inquisitions were concerned with stamping out sects that went against church teachings, or, in the case of the Spanish Inquisition, making sure that Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity stayed converted. It was only after the Protestants took up witch-burning that the Catholics discovered how effective it could be as a political tool.
There's a reason why the great witch-hunting manuals were written by Protestants (King James, frex), and the most famous incidents took place in Protestant territories (Scotland, New England).
For a very interesting read, and a very thought provoking read, try:
Holy Blood, Holy Grail.
It really shows how much the Roman Catholic church has lied, cheated and killed to remain in power.
Too bad it's a work of fiction.
Look, I'm a hard-core atheist who believes organized religion is the biggest scam ever created, but that doesn't mean I have to accept every crazy depredation laid against a church. HBHG belongs in the same category with books about J. Edgar Hoover being on the Grassy Knoll, and Elvis living in Peoria under an alias created for him by the Federal Witness Protection Program.
And while we're at it, the Catholics didn't burn witches in the dark ages; it was a heresy to even believe in them until the High Middle Ages, and it was the Protestants who made witch hunting an organized sport.
So basically, you want the web to go back to the days when it consisted of hobbyists putting up pictures of their cats and the latest Star Trek convention?
So now when I flick onto a [...] cookery show, I'll get hard core porn.
Hmm, pr0n with carrots? And Wesson Oil? Sub-SCRIBE!
Hehe. I still have rabbit ears.
Rabbit ears? Rabbit ears? Rabbit ears? What sort of nerd poseur are you? You should make your own antenna out of coaxial cable!
Talk about false premises, your statement assumes that the Google guys are going to be selling their stock sometime soon.
That one buck a year they're earning doesn't go very far. Chances are they'll liquidate some stock every year for income, and have to pay capital gains on that.
If you'd RTFA, you'd know that Page and Brin earned 150K a year, and Schmidt earned 250K/year.Cutting their salaries to $1 does mean a substantial tax savings, as the poster indicated.
Going from $150,000 to $1 is a 99.99933333% reduction in salary, so unless they were paying 99.9994% in taxes, there's no savings.
You can't legally refuse to accept any real denomination of money in payment of a debt unless you establish it as a policy and post a notice to that effect in advance.
Wow, so if I get a thousand dollar bill, I can go into 7-11 and get free sodas and candy-bars because they don't have enough cash to break it? Cool.
Sacagawea coins, while near the same size as a quarter, they are not easily mistaken. First, they are gold in color.
Only when fresh from the mint. If you've ever seen one that's been in active circulation, you'd know it turns an ugly brown.
I guess my point is: try not to confuse the poor cashier.
I'd have more sympathy for that position if the cashiers had more than first grade math skills. I was in a Best Buy once, and the total came to something like $17.32, so I handed over $22.52. The clerk couldn't figure out why I'd hand over such an odd amount of money, and ended up giving me the $2.52 back, punching $20 into the register and giving me $2.68 in additional change.
Wow, an Indian advocates outsourcing mathematical research to a computer.
Picasa isn't blogging.
No, but Picasa+Hello is -- you just select a picture in Picasa, hit a button, and Hello puts it on your blog. You can also use Picasa+Hello as a private filesharing network.
There's a Firefox plugin called CookieCuller that I find very convienent. Basically, it deletes all your cookies when you close the browser (or perhaps when you start it up.. either way). It will also allow you to see the current cookies easily and to set individual ones as "protected", meaning it won't touch these.
Everything you just listed can be done through Firefox's normal cookie management system (tools-> options-> privacy-> cookies).
Why would you leave your computer on, doing nothing over night? Unless it's a server or you want to participate in SETI like projects, there is no point.
Your imagination is awfully limited. I have Thunderbird running in the background all the time, so when I get up in the morning and home in the evening, all my emails are there waiting for me. I have my system set up to automatically perform maintenance -- defrag, disk clean up, virus scan, Spybot -- overnight. I run Shareaza, and even when I'm not downloading files, I keep it up so other people can access my copies of Firefox, TB, etc.
Oh, yeah, I also run Folding@home, but that's an afterthought compared to the other tasks.
...and then on Saturday, Timothy posted twelve articles, all of them dupes...
But finding un-biased opinions is becoming increasingly difficult.
In much the same way it's becoming more difficult to find snipes.
Anyone with a modicum of intelligence should be able to read through a source's biases to find the facts.
Wow, that explains how vibrant the reds, greens, and blues look in black and white!
That's a very good question. Classic rock stations have a cut-off in the '80s, and modern rock stations rarely go back more than five years. Surely Depeche Mode and Duran Duran are old enough to qualify as oldies; and Nirvana and Pearl Jam are pretty close to joining them.
The only algorithm I've ever understood well enough to write an implementation is RC4.
You're doing better than me. The only one I could write an implementation for is ROT-13.
Its not the two-hour finale because Enterprise isnt done.
It's dead, Jim. Time to move on and get a life.
Yes, BBC America is so superior to American television. If, that is, you happen to like gardening shows, home decorating shows, and antiquing shows. If not, then it's not worth it for that one hour a day when they show other programming.
Actually, they don't even need to provide software. Just put the prohibited sites in a HOSTS file and give it to people.