In all seriousness, though, what are the odds that the developers of WINE (or a 3rd party) will write clear documentation to make installation easier in the near future?
Page numbering and footers work fine for me - even importing them works. What version are you using?
"Security" is non-existent in MS Office. Those passwords can be cracked very quickly and very easily. If you want security, you need a 3rd-party encryption tool anyway - such as GPG.
Revision control... I can't argue with you here. I personally prefer SVN/CVS, but I understand that for document revisions, an in-document feature is needed. I don't know if OO.org has this or not. Maybe you should submit a bug report?
I use MS Office at school; OO.org at home. I've never had any conversion problems, and I've never found anything in MSO that I couldn't do in OO.org. The reverse is not true.
Ever make a relay call (I have, both ways, tty->relay->voice and v->r->t)? The CAs (Communication Assistants) are trained well enough that it's considered secret/anonymous. They cannot divulge conversations, even under police order or with a warrant. The only way to tap your conversation is to tap the wire. See the previous/. articles. This kind of privacy issue is dealt with all the time in the disabled world.
Try reading some of the standards of ethics set out by the National Association of the Deaf for interpreters sometime - or any other body that sets standards for assistants or interpreters. Arguing that your vote is no longer secret is like arguing that we have to trust POTUS' translators to be honest. If you don't trust them, find someone you do trust.
Or here's an idea, if you don't trust anyone very much, or need a truely secret vote. Get an assistant to fill out multiple ballots - one real one and several fake. Have them put them all in envelopes. They leave; you take the envelopes with the fake ballots, and throw them away. The one you want gets mailed. Or if you can't throw them away (can't pick 'em up or whatever), get one person to fill out the ballots and seal them. Have them leave. Get a second person to select the envelope you want, mail it, and throw the others away.
I don't think e-voting is ready for primetime yet. But it's not a conspiracy against the disabled.
Yes, US scientists use metric. High school students use it in science class, too, and I've noticed (in my years in school) a trend towards math class using it as well - although non-decimal systems are useful for some things (modulus, anybody?).
Part of the reason metric is used is because it makes solving equations easier (what's 1/12 of a foot in angstroms again?), but also because no one has ever come in contact with a slug (which is apparently the US answer to the kilo; the pound is technically force, like Newtons, not mass).
I'm a geek (gasp! a geek on/.?), so this may not mean anything, but I estimate better in meters and liters than in feet and gallons. Mass/weight I suck at estimating anyway, so that doesn't matter.
that says, post humously != post humorously, you do realize that posthumously means after death? As in, a way of retaining even more than AC-level anonymity?
Agreed, which is why they only allow certain API calls. But my point is that memorizing the capitalization of this array access function, or the specific name of this method, is not CS. It's figuring things out. Giving the coder references allows them to spend more time problem solving, and less memorizing crap. They wouldn't ask for a recursive sorting algorithm; instead, they ask for a solution to a "practical" problem.
It's too long to explain here, but google for "Marine Biology Case Study" to see what I mean. They did it in C++ originally, but (I believe) it was also used in the Java exam.
If you get your work done, who cares whether you're at home/playing Half-Life/surfing the web?
Granted, web filters are necessary because of harassment litigation and potential "illegal" activity... but other than that, I see no reason to restrict employee activity. And that extends to allowing them to work at home, too.
Giving all patches to illegal users except those which wouldn't affect the rest of the net, but could still cause a security hole.
But any hole is a risk to the rest of us - if it's writeable, it can be used to create another spamming, DDOS'ing, crap-flooding zombie. If it's read-only, then it can either be used to find a writeable hole, or it increases costs by increasing, say, credit-card theft (chargebacks aren't totally free), ID theft (which could be used to hurt those people who know the user, or those who do business with the user), etc.
I'm just saying, they have not always been an (generalization coming) aggressive, intolerant set of nations.
Just like we've had our... nasty spots (assuming you are also American).
Agreed. That was the point of my post above; I am not great at remembering every last detail of every last member function, but give me a reference, and I think I'm pretty decent.
When I started programming outside of class, it was another hurdle for me to leap before sharing my code with others - we used deprecated crap (#include vs. #include ), didn't do anything with stdio.h, and knew nothing about STL. It's not that much harder; students can handle it.
As Americans, we hear a lot about Iran and China's internet firewalls and censorship. What is the situation in Egypt with respect to:
Internet censorship?
legality of certain types of software (deCSS, encryption tools, anything else you can think of)?
passage of email in/out of country to/from other nations - i.e., is email filtered or read? Is it illegal, or "suspicious" to send mail to certain countries, or recieve it from those places?
I'm sure you can think of other stuff that we might want to know about w.r.t. Egyptian law.
start treating criminals the way God intended [...] Jesus, whom I'm sure you respect
I'm not even gonna touch this.
stated repeatedly that luke warm actions are not enough, you have to take a stand and do the right thing, no matter the consequences.
There's a difference between courage and stupid, senseless futile actions. If he stood up in the local coffee house, is that going to change anything? Is it quite likely that he'd be killed?
The way to change things is by getting the government to treat criminals as criminals. And actually, AFAIK, Egypt, while it's a horrible place, law-wise, isn't sending suicide bombers into Israel. Don't paint all Arab nations with one brush. Keep in mind, too, that non-extremist Islam (in the Ottoman Empire, up to and including Suleyman's reign) has historically been one of the most tolerant and peaceful cultures in the world.
Especially compared with Christians, who were responsible for the Crusades, the destruction of Native Americans in the US, and several other atrocities. That was also a generalization, but at least I'm generalizing about the mainstream of the time, rather than the extremists.
I know you're being funny, but... you code by hand. No computer. Which is a PITA, as knowing how to use references and resources is a major part of programming. But then any idiot with any programming knowledge could spend a few days getting ready, and use the Java API, I suppose.
I took it last year; because of a disability, I'm allowed to use a computer, but I had to use WORD! They wouldn't even let me use notepad, for it's nicer indentation styles.
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Are you dreaming the impossible dream that top-posting will die?
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Would you solve the Dirac equation?"
Apologies to Richard P. Feynman.
But I never wasted my time figuring out how to do it in MS Office, either.
Regardless of the software I'm using, I find it much simpler to create a *separate* title page, then start numbering at 1 on the next page.
Then, zip the two together. Whatever compression you want, zip or gzip or bzip. Just so they're in one file.
with WINE ... but can it run Linux?
In all seriousness, though, what are the odds that the developers of WINE (or a 3rd party) will write clear documentation to make installation easier in the near future?
Page numbering and footers work fine for me - even importing them works. What version are you using?
... I can't argue with you here. I personally prefer SVN/CVS, but I understand that for document revisions, an in-document feature is needed. I don't know if OO.org has this or not. Maybe you should submit a bug report?
"Security" is non-existent in MS Office. Those passwords can be cracked very quickly and very easily. If you want security, you need a 3rd-party encryption tool anyway - such as GPG.
Revision control
I use MS Office at school; OO.org at home. I've never had any conversion problems, and I've never found anything in MSO that I couldn't do in OO.org. The reverse is not true.
Ever make a relay call (I have, both ways, tty->relay->voice and v->r->t)? The CAs (Communication Assistants) are trained well enough that it's considered secret/anonymous. They cannot divulge conversations, even under police order or with a warrant. The only way to tap your conversation is to tap the wire. See the previous /. articles. This kind of privacy issue is dealt with all the time in the disabled world.
Try reading some of the standards of ethics set out by the National Association of the Deaf for interpreters sometime - or any other body that sets standards for assistants or interpreters. Arguing that your vote is no longer secret is like arguing that we have to trust POTUS' translators to be honest. If you don't trust them, find someone you do trust.
Or here's an idea, if you don't trust anyone very much, or need a truely secret vote. Get an assistant to fill out multiple ballots - one real one and several fake. Have them put them all in envelopes. They leave; you take the envelopes with the fake ballots, and throw them away. The one you want gets mailed. Or if you can't throw them away (can't pick 'em up or whatever), get one person to fill out the ballots and seal them. Have them leave. Get a second person to select the envelope you want, mail it, and throw the others away.
I don't think e-voting is ready for primetime yet. But it's not a conspiracy against the disabled.
Yes, US scientists use metric. High school students use it in science class, too, and I've noticed (in my years in school) a trend towards math class using it as well - although non-decimal systems are useful for some things (modulus, anybody?).
/.?), so this may not mean anything, but I estimate better in meters and liters than in feet and gallons. Mass/weight I suck at estimating anyway, so that doesn't matter.
Part of the reason metric is used is because it makes solving equations easier (what's 1/12 of a foot in angstroms again?), but also because no one has ever come in contact with a slug (which is apparently the US answer to the kilo; the pound is technically force, like Newtons, not mass).
I'm a geek (gasp! a geek on
Because while I'm familiar with the ADA, I'm not familiar with voting laws.
Just a disclaimer; a way of saying, "I'm not sure".
BS. I mean, I understand what they're thinking, but this is insecure!
Try voting with a write-in, or ask someone you trust (relative? friend? hired personal aid?) to help, either in-booth, or with a write-in.
IANAL, but I believe you are allowed to bring an assistant into the booth if you so choose.
that says, post humously != post humorously, you do realize that posthumously means after death? As in, a way of retaining even more than AC-level anonymity?
I think I need my humor checked.
Agreed, which is why they only allow certain API calls. But my point is that memorizing the capitalization of this array access function, or the specific name of this method, is not CS. It's figuring things out. Giving the coder references allows them to spend more time problem solving, and less memorizing crap. They wouldn't ask for a recursive sorting algorithm; instead, they ask for a solution to a "practical" problem.
It's too long to explain here, but google for "Marine Biology Case Study" to see what I mean. They did it in C++ originally, but (I believe) it was also used in the Java exam.
This is probably the best tutorial I've come across for the Standard Template Library.
Good luck!
In a perfect world, where people care about outcomes rather than unimportant crap ...
I can dream!
Now he can't find/email you! Even if he did announce himself, how would you friend him without an account?
What was it about the pot and the kettle?
If you get your work done, who cares whether you're at home/playing Half-Life/surfing the web? Granted, web filters are necessary because of harassment litigation and potential "illegal" activity ... but other than that, I see no reason to restrict employee activity. And that extends to allowing them to work at home, too.
Giving all patches to illegal users except those which wouldn't affect the rest of the net, but could still cause a security hole.
But any hole is a risk to the rest of us - if it's writeable, it can be used to create another spamming, DDOS'ing, crap-flooding zombie. If it's read-only, then it can either be used to find a writeable hole, or it increases costs by increasing, say, credit-card theft (chargebacks aren't totally free), ID theft (which could be used to hurt those people who know the user, or those who do business with the user), etc.
No security hole is a benign security hole.
Sorry, I meant #include vs. #include
I'm just saying, they have not always been an (generalization coming) aggressive, intolerant set of nations. Just like we've had our ... nasty spots (assuming you are also American).
Agreed. That was the point of my post above; I am not great at remembering every last detail of every last member function, but give me a reference, and I think I'm pretty decent.
When I started programming outside of class, it was another hurdle for me to leap before sharing my code with others - we used deprecated crap (#include vs. #include ), didn't do anything with stdio.h, and knew nothing about STL. It's not that much harder; students can handle it.
And the AP classes were most assuredly not GPL. There were, however, 3rd-party LGPL rewrites (pretty simple classes). pstring, pvector, etc., IIRC.
bicho means "bug" in S.A., but "penis" in Puerto Rico.
- Internet censorship?
- legality of certain types of software (deCSS, encryption tools, anything else you can think of)?
- passage of email in/out of country to/from other nations - i.e., is email filtered or read? Is it illegal, or "suspicious" to send mail to certain countries, or recieve it from those places?
I'm sure you can think of other stuff that we might want to know about w.r.t. Egyptian law.start treating criminals the way God intended [...] Jesus, whom I'm sure you respect
I'm not even gonna touch this.
stated repeatedly that luke warm actions are not enough, you have to take a stand and do the right thing, no matter the consequences.
There's a difference between courage and stupid, senseless futile actions. If he stood up in the local coffee house, is that going to change anything? Is it quite likely that he'd be killed? The way to change things is by getting the government to treat criminals as criminals. And actually, AFAIK, Egypt, while it's a horrible place, law-wise, isn't sending suicide bombers into Israel. Don't paint all Arab nations with one brush. Keep in mind, too, that non-extremist Islam (in the Ottoman Empire, up to and including Suleyman's reign) has historically been one of the most tolerant and peaceful cultures in the world. Especially compared with Christians, who were responsible for the Crusades, the destruction of Native Americans in the US, and several other atrocities. That was also a generalization, but at least I'm generalizing about the mainstream of the time, rather than the extremists.
I know you're being funny, but ... you code by hand. No computer. Which is a PITA, as knowing how to use references and resources is a major part of programming. But then any idiot with any programming knowledge could spend a few days getting ready, and use the Java API, I suppose.
I took it last year; because of a disability, I'm allowed to use a computer, but I had to use WORD! They wouldn't even let me use notepad, for it's nicer indentation styles.