I may agree in principle with Coyne, but I wish he weren't such an asshole. If I had a choice of being trapped in conversation with Haught or Coyne, I'd choose Haught. He's at least thoughtful. Coyne is just irritating and smug--the worst sort of poster boy for science.
Daryl Bem was asked about the James Randi Foundation prize in an interview in New Scientist (subscription required).
James "The Amazing" Randi, a fellow magician and prominent sceptic, has put up a prize of $1 million for anyone who can provide evidence of the paranormal. Are you tempted to enter?
No. He controls the entire process and he has never been totally clear as to what level of probability he would accept. He also insists on having all the rights to reporting what happened and that's not how we as scientists progress.
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When FF crashes, I usually lose 10-20 tabs that I was looking at and will never recover.
Of course, you could dig through your history to find those sites. But better yet, install the SessionSaver extension—after a crash (or quit), you'll get back all of your windows, tabs and sites. I originally switched to FF because I was tired of IE crashing on me, and IE has no such capability.
I tried using OpenOffice once, and it was just as good. But the Mail Merge interface sucked, and that was an important feature for me.
I too have annoyances from OpenOffice—like why on earth can't I drag and drop a column or row to insert it elsewhere (holding down shift does this in Excel)? That said, it's useful to keep around as an MS Office document repair tool. I've run across many Word and Excel files that MS Office can't open at all (or open without crashing), and yet OOo can open them with no problem.
Television is filled with rotten music, but Enterprise plumbed new depths of the banal bucket with that wretched song. The few times I heard it, I kept thinking it was the intro to a religious, self-help video. Nothing like seeing dislike become universal.
The Mozilla family is fairly popular on the Mac, but Safari is still leading the way.
Of course, this might have something to do with the fact that as of MacOS 10.3, you're forced to launch Safari to set the default browser. Ditto for picking a default mail client (which actually forces you to partially configure an account before letting you at the settings).
This is the Achilles Heel for Windows clients. At least Skyrix responded to your boss--they never bothered to return my request to purchase a single license (to evaluate).
Actually, the lastest patch adds spell checking in the web email client.
It's lovely and intuitive software with a few odd bits here and there, mostly related to the fact that non-native English speakers designed the interface. I even heard a Novell exec refer to it as "Germanglish," which is about right.
Then again, with it open sourced, we can all get in and fix that little stuff, right?
I'm rolling two slox servers out right now, and most users have been very impressed.
GPL'ing it should accelerate the development cycle, which you can see here: http://devel.slox.info/
For some interesting input on so-called "new economies," I encourage you all to read Doug Henwood's book After the New Economy (note: this link comes from his excellent site, Left Business Observer, and therefore credits it with any purchases).
He is an articulate and very learned writer. I highly recommend his publication as well. (Guess I should do a book review....)
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I may agree in principle with Coyne, but I wish he weren't such an asshole. If I had a choice of being trapped in conversation with Haught or Coyne, I'd choose Haught. He's at least thoughtful. Coyne is just irritating and smug--the worst sort of poster boy for science.
Daryl Bem was asked about the James Randi Foundation prize in an interview in New Scientist (subscription required).
Television is filled with rotten music, but Enterprise plumbed new depths of the banal bucket with that wretched song. The few times I heard it, I kept thinking it was the intro to a religious, self-help video. Nothing like seeing dislike become universal.
Now playing in elevators everywhere.
The Mozilla family is fairly popular on the Mac, but Safari is still leading the way.
Of course, this might have something to do with the fact that as of MacOS 10.3, you're forced to launch Safari to set the default browser. Ditto for picking a default mail client (which actually forces you to partially configure an account before letting you at the settings).
Talk about greedy and obnoxious!
This is the Achilles Heel for Windows clients. At least Skyrix responded to your boss--they never bothered to return my request to purchase a single license (to evaluate).
At least with Slox/Open-Xchange, you can try out the connectors: http://www.sloxhelp.org/filemgmt/index.php/.
Actually, the lastest patch adds spell checking in the web email client.
It's lovely and intuitive software with a few odd bits here and there, mostly related to the fact that non-native English speakers designed the interface. I even heard a Novell exec refer to it as "Germanglish," which is about right.
Then again, with it open sourced, we can all get in and fix that little stuff, right?
I'm rolling two slox servers out right now, and most users have been very impressed.
GPL'ing it should accelerate the development cycle, which you can see here:
http://devel.slox.info/
He is an articulate and very learned writer. I highly recommend his publication as well. (Guess I should do a book review....)