The problem is for some things like, say, writing a 1 page letter or memo, it is easier to pull up a word processor (in the style of Word/OO etc) and get it done with quickly.
If all that is being written is a quick 1 page memo or letter, why would you need a word processor? I do all my short notes in a text editor. Sure I don't have fancy fonts, millions of colors, or images to help enhance the document, but I also don't have fancy fonts, millions of colors, or images distracting my audience from the actual content of my document.
Were I creating something that had to be eye catching, such as a flyer or the like, I would use an app like MS publisher more than I would use MS Word or even OOo's word processor.
Personally, I feel that word processors provide little to no real benefit in most real-world appications.
Another poster already mentioned SLAMD64, and I have to say I agree it's a good distro, since it's essentially slackware compiled for 64 bit CPUs. However, slack 10.2 for 32 bit systems will run just fine on an AMD64 system, you just won't have a 64 bit OS or toolchain.
If you're going to get all new hardware I recommend against getting a SATA DVD/RW drive. mine has been nothing but trouble (as SATA ATAPI isn't entirely stable yet).
As to making your slack box your firewall, I don't see a point to that. if you already have a solution that you're happy with stick with it. Slack would be happy enough acting as a firewall/router, but I don't see the reason at the moment.
Bearing that in mind, Slackware has handled every piece of hardware I've tried it on, though there have been times when cheap third party peripherals had flaky operation.
The various fiction sections at Barnes and Noble are also larger than the science section; this doesn't indicate that people take fiction more seriously, rather it indicates that people tend to feel that fiction will be a more entertaining read than science books.
This same could apply to the New Age section. Yes there are some who read it seriously, and some who read it for amusement. When you factor in the books on ghost stories that get shelved with new age but are about as enjoyable as the books in the fiction section the attraction to readers becomes somewhat greater. Greater attraction to readers means the section will be more popular, and if popular enough it will expand.
Much as I loathe Dell and like my 2 Macs, I've always had reasonably pleasant experiences with Dell technical support. I always end up talking to some nice female, usually with a southern accent, who will skip the first few pages of the script when I mention that I've done it all before.
Unfortunately, I never have these pleasant tech support experiences without first running into a problem that is either beyond my experience, or (more frequently) getting handed something from my boss and being told to call Dell about it (The fact that I can solve it without their help most of the time is irrelevant to this guy, we paid for the extended support and he'll damn well make me use it).
You know, that's a good idea: make the eject button eject the currently selected removeable media
Or make the eject button eject the cd if no removeable media is selected (with additional fall-throughs to eject the ipod if no cd is inserted, or the floppy if no cd is inserted and no ipod is connected).
At that point though, it's usually easier just to go to the hard drive and click the eject button next to the media to eject.
Your post reminded me of a dilbert strip. Alice is going on and on about how women make 75 cents on the dollar compared to men. She starts to complain that men make 25% more than women and that it's not fair Dilbert then points out that one dollar is a 33% increase over 75 cents, not 25%
I was trying to figure out how Google's market cap had increased by $.767 "Barnes and Nobles." I wasn't even aware the market cap could be tracked using bookstores as a medium of exchange.
"friend" is slave-driver speak for "Slave Driver". it's used when speaking to geeks. but don't tell the friends that I figured it out, they might beat me with the whip.
The fact that a psychopath might kill for a hamburger doesn't imply that the hamburger is a need, simply that the hamburger is more important to the psychopath than the life being extinguished so he/she could acquire that hamburger. It's not that they need the hamburger, it's just that the other things aren't very important anyway (to them).
The selection of units of measurement isn't very important. you could express C in lightseconds per second if you so desired, but then, assuming you expressed M in kilograms your E would be measured in Kilogram Lightyears/Second. which is generally not a very useful measurement. we could also use lbs and feet/second in which case E would be measured in foot pounds/second. yes this changes the number that we use for E, but assuming all the values that we choose for M are equel then all those values of E are equal, just expressed in different units.
let's define 1 numeter as being precisely.9 meters.
C = 299,792,458 meters per second 1 numeter = 1.11111111 meters C = 333,102,731 numeters per second.
assuming M = 1 Kg
E = M * C ^ 2 E = 1Kg * (333,102,731 numeters/sec) ^2 E = 1Kg * 110957429399658361 numeters/second E = 110957429399658361 Kg numeters/second.
Now, if you work this same problem for normal meters, and then do a conversion between meters and numeters (remembter 1 numeter = 1.1111111 meters) you'll find the values are equivalent.
We could solve the same problem for lightsecond/second if we wanted ( 1 Kg lightsecond/second) but that number is rather meaningless until we convert it to a more standardized and useful unit of measurement.
If we were to all stop eating meat, I'd go insane and devour people. I like eating meat, and I won't stop until the last meaty thing on the planet is myself or until I am no longer hungry; whichever comes first.
In order to help balance the field and show a lack of discrimination, I reluctantly volunteer to sacrifice myself to having atleast one supermodel select me as her sexpartner. Someday, perhaps a statue will be constructed to help memorialize my great selfless deed.
Each of the 19 terrorists averaged roughly 158 deaths. This would put them, each, on par with McVeigh, or does the fact that there were 19 of them working together somehow make profiling ok?
Using profiling would only be effective until one person who doesn't fit the profile was used to commit another attrocity.
Then what would you do? expand the profile to now include the old group and the new group? try to stay a step ahead and expand it to include the next likely group? or simply ignore profiling as best as possible and do your best to avoid major problems?
No solution is perfect, but adding profiling to any of the solutions we have would do not one bit of good.
As to the guy with the nail bomb. If he really felt that a bomb which fits the definition of an antipersonel device was not going to kill anyone, then he has serious troubles and should be locked away for his (and our) own protection.
Scare tactics always work in US. Tell them, doom is near and people will do anything, even hire you;)!
I'll have you know that telling people in the US that doom is near will spur them to do absolutely nothing. However, if you carefully word the statement and say "doom is nigh" you will evoke the intended effect.
While I completely agree with you that space warfare is inevitable, your post caused me to imagine tactical satellite-to-satellite warfare... Which would be especially interesting with geostationary satellites.
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I was under the impression that Emacs was its own platform
The problem is for some things like, say, writing a 1 page letter or memo, it is easier to pull up a word processor (in the style of Word/OO etc) and get it done with quickly.
If all that is being written is a quick 1 page memo or letter, why would you need a word processor? I do all my short notes in a text editor. Sure I don't have fancy fonts, millions of colors, or images to help enhance the document, but I also don't have fancy fonts, millions of colors, or images distracting my audience from the actual content of my document.
Were I creating something that had to be eye catching, such as a flyer or the like, I would use an app like MS publisher more than I would use MS Word or even OOo's word processor.
Personally, I feel that word processors provide little to no real benefit in most real-world appications.
Dear Sir, you're paranoid.
I just have to wonder if you're paranoid enough.
I also found "heresay" to be an amusing typographical error. It seems to link hearsay with heresy.
I should start taking everyday practices and patenting them after making them original by adding "on the moon" to the end of their descriptions.
like "ordering books online by clicking on a link on the moon."
Another poster already mentioned SLAMD64, and I have to say I agree it's a good distro, since it's essentially slackware compiled for 64 bit CPUs. However, slack 10.2 for 32 bit systems will run just fine on an AMD64 system, you just won't have a 64 bit OS or toolchain.
If you're going to get all new hardware I recommend against getting a SATA DVD/RW drive. mine has been nothing but trouble (as SATA ATAPI isn't entirely stable yet).
As to making your slack box your firewall, I don't see a point to that. if you already have a solution that you're happy with stick with it. Slack would be happy enough acting as a firewall/router, but I don't see the reason at the moment.
Bearing that in mind, Slackware has handled every piece of hardware I've tried it on, though there have been times when cheap third party peripherals had flaky operation.
The various fiction sections at Barnes and Noble are also larger than the science section; this doesn't indicate that people take fiction more seriously, rather it indicates that people tend to feel that fiction will be a more entertaining read than science books.
This same could apply to the New Age section. Yes there are some who read it seriously, and some who read it for amusement. When you factor in the books on ghost stories that get shelved with new age but are about as enjoyable as the books in the fiction section the attraction to readers becomes somewhat greater. Greater attraction to readers means the section will be more popular, and if popular enough it will expand.
Much as I loathe Dell and like my 2 Macs, I've always had reasonably pleasant experiences with Dell technical support. I always end up talking to some nice female, usually with a southern accent, who will skip the first few pages of the script when I mention that I've done it all before.
Unfortunately, I never have these pleasant tech support experiences without first running into a problem that is either beyond my experience, or (more frequently) getting handed something from my boss and being told to call Dell about it (The fact that I can solve it without their help most of the time is irrelevant to this guy, we paid for the extended support and he'll damn well make me use it).
You know, that's a good idea: make the eject button eject the currently selected removeable media
Or make the eject button eject the cd if no removeable media is selected (with additional fall-throughs to eject the ipod if no cd is inserted, or the floppy if no cd is inserted and no ipod is connected).
At that point though, it's usually easier just to go to the hard drive and click the eject button next to the media to eject.
Your post reminded me of a dilbert strip.
Alice is going on and on about how women make 75 cents on the dollar compared to men.
She starts to complain that men make 25% more than women and that it's not fair
Dilbert then points out that one dollar is a 33% increase over 75 cents, not 25%
I was trying to figure out how Google's market cap had increased by $.767 "Barnes and Nobles." I wasn't even aware the market cap could be tracked using bookstores as a medium of exchange.
"friend" is slave-driver speak for "Slave Driver". it's used when speaking to geeks. but don't tell the friends that I figured it out, they might beat me with the whip.
You're being modded "Funny" because there's no "Damn, he's right".
/me won't say what type of moderation he thinks this will get in the hopes that it gets something else instead.
Sure there is, we just call it "redundant"
The fact that a psychopath might kill for a hamburger doesn't imply that the hamburger is a need, simply that the hamburger is more important to the psychopath than the life being extinguished so he/she could acquire that hamburger. It's not that they need the hamburger, it's just that the other things aren't very important anyway (to them).
The selection of units of measurement isn't very important. you could express C in lightseconds per second if you so desired, but then, assuming you expressed M in kilograms your E would be measured in Kilogram Lightyears/Second. which is generally not a very useful measurement. we could also use lbs and feet/second in which case E would be measured in foot pounds/second. yes this changes the number that we use for E, but assuming all the values that we choose for M are equel then all those values of E are equal, just expressed in different units.
.9 meters.
let's define 1 numeter as being precisely
C = 299,792,458 meters per second
1 numeter = 1.11111111 meters
C = 333,102,731 numeters per second.
assuming M = 1 Kg
E = M * C ^ 2
E = 1Kg * (333,102,731 numeters/sec) ^2
E = 1Kg * 110957429399658361 numeters/second
E = 110957429399658361 Kg numeters/second.
Now, if you work this same problem for normal meters, and then do a conversion between meters and numeters (remembter 1 numeter = 1.1111111 meters) you'll find the values are equivalent.
We could solve the same problem for lightsecond/second if we wanted ( 1 Kg lightsecond/second) but that number is rather meaningless until we convert it to a more standardized and useful unit of measurement.
If we were to all stop eating meat, I'd go insane and devour people. I like eating meat, and I won't stop until the last meaty thing on the planet is myself or until I am no longer hungry; whichever comes first.
You mean like an integrated circuit?
Quick witted to the very end, I see. Well all I can say is "touché".
In order to help balance the field and show a lack of discrimination, I reluctantly volunteer to sacrifice myself to having atleast one supermodel select me as her sexpartner. Someday, perhaps a statue will be constructed to help memorialize my great selfless deed.
Each of the 19 terrorists averaged roughly 158 deaths. This would put them, each, on par with McVeigh, or does the fact that there were 19 of them working together somehow make profiling ok?
Using profiling would only be effective until one person who doesn't fit the profile was used to commit another attrocity.
Then what would you do? expand the profile to now include the old group and the new group? try to stay a step ahead and expand it to include the next likely group? or simply ignore profiling as best as possible and do your best to avoid major problems?
No solution is perfect, but adding profiling to any of the solutions we have would do not one bit of good.
As to the guy with the nail bomb. If he really felt that a bomb which fits the definition of an antipersonel device was not going to kill anyone, then he has serious troubles and should be locked away for his (and our) own protection.
It would seem God isn't responding. And none of the mods care.
Scare tactics always work in US. Tell them, doom is near and people will do anything, even hire you ;)!
I'll have you know that telling people in the US that doom is near will spur them to do absolutely nothing. However, if you carefully word the statement and say "doom is nigh" you will evoke the intended effect.
While I completely agree with you that space warfare is inevitable, your post caused me to imagine tactical satellite-to-satellite warfare... Which would be especially interesting with geostationary satellites.
The only problem with Locke's conclusion is infinite regression (ie who created the creator?).
I believe you are neglecting the post script to that comment. It involved superglue.