OOo does miss a lot of the little features like this which some people love and everyone else is ignorant of.
My personal cross was rectangular cut and paste which I and others have lobbied for about 3 years. It looks like it will be in 2.4. This is a key feature when manipulating log files.
I'm disappointed that IBM is doing this. I would have preferred that they focused on fixing Openoffice.
The recent tendency to put protesters over a mile away in a designated "free speech zone" completely violates the intention of the constitution. Unfortunately the constitution was created in an age when there were a lot less people. I understand that someone has to pay for the police when an obnoxious group wants to march and piss a lot of people off. Way back when, the police would have protected the property but let everyone beat on the obnoxious group which would tend to reduce their desire to march.
While my roots are libertarian, it became clear to me that in a libertarian society, people with the most wealth can abuse the legal system to take away everyone else's rights.
A libertarian society *could* work- but you would keep everyone small or you would have to have a brutally powerful government that somehow stayed small anyway (impossible) that could absolutely crush abuse and abusers.
I finally decided short of taxing 100% of wealth over about 10 million dollars (to keep us a jeffersonian democracy of many tiny wealthy people), that it just isn't going to happen. I'm beginning to think that the corporate structure is fundamentally flawed and will inevitably lead to aristocracy.
I agree that we are free to choose to use linux. Microsoft is certainly no electric company or gas company where a competing company would have to build an entirely new infrastructure to compete.
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Microsoft has a softer monopoly (probably over 90% for businesses) and has taken steps to lock in that monopoly. It is our right through the government to make Microsoft stop that. Microsoft has no natural rights. If we want, we can pass a law that they have to pay a 99% tax on their profits if they wish to sell in our country, state, government, etc.
Doing that would not fair. It wouldn't encourage other businesses to take risks, build facilities, expand into our market but we could do it. Microsoft always has the option of withdrawing from the EU and then it won't be subject to their laws.
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As far as Churches (and the scouts) and gays (and atheists, hindi's, islamics) go... The second that they take a government benefit (freedom from taxes, free use of government property) then every citizen of society can argue they should be able to benefit from that organization. If churches want to give up their tax free status on their 5 acres of prime property down town on which they run several businesses (day care, dry cleaning) at a substantial tax free profit, then I absolutely support their right to exclude anyone they want to. But if they are getting a 2 million dollar a year tax benefit that any other non-religious group would not, then everyone who is paying extra taxes (i.e the gays.. atheists, hindi's, etc.) can lay claim to use their facilities.
Some groups are very disrespectful to it ("Piss Christ") while others constantly try to sneak it into civil life (Prayer at a high school football game, the ten commandments in a court). It doesn't get the hands off treatment that islam does tho.
The others in this thread have a good point- if the rational group freaked out and got rude instead of just following appropriate procedures then they may have been banned for being asshats more than because religious people at google and youtube spiked them.
I look forward to finding out more about this one.
I am saying that banning one of the two groups is the problem.
The natural give and take of "this is DMCA violation", take it down, "No this is not a DMCA violation" , put it back up. would respect both groups of users.
Banning the second group was the problem in my view.
Do they want to appeal to the religio-creationist market or to the more technical athiest, sceptic, agnostic market.
The way they handled this (with banning the rational guys) is going to mean they can't have both.
I think they would have been better served to take the videos down, and then after processing that they were fair use, put them back up. That would have not pissed off either market particularly.
In EQ, when they would try to run a special event, a large number of players would try to join and crash it.
If you have 100,000 users and some kind of non-instanced shared event (say you tried to have a virtual stadium where spectators in the stands saw an event below) the capacity required is beyond the capacity of current hardware.
Introversion is a quality like "white skin" or "blue eyes".
People who are introverts (75% of the population) expend energy interacting with others- especially new people. People who are extroverts (25% of the population) gain energy from interacting with others.
My training allows me to get along with people- but it doesn't change the fact that large masses of strangers wear me out.
The training is more about things like: How to handle worrying so it doesn't kill you. How to carry on an enjoyable casual conversation. Getting experience talking in front of large crowds of people (which makes talking in small crowds easier). etc.
The Les Giblin book focuses on: Smile Know their name. Only allow yourself to disagree 1 time out of 10 opportunities-- this makes you save your disagreements for situations where it really matters and builds up a relation with the other people so they will listen to you that one time.
Dale Focuses on Memory (so you are confident) Talking in front of groups (same) How to teach and train without criticizing or condemning (I saw some miraculous things in class from this with others in their relationships with their spouses). etc.
I use my training at work and home daily and I can say my happiness, success, and satisfaction have improved out of proportion to the effort I expended learning it.
You can find Dale Carnegie books at Amazon or any other place. Dale Carnegie: * How to Win Friends & Influence People * How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
These are the big two. I found others to be less useful.
Dale Carnegie has courses too. They are expensive (about $1700) but are life changing. I saw a dozen shy or awkward or mildly anti-social people all grow through incredible growth over the duration of the 12 week course.
I am introverted myself and found the course very helpful.
They focus on building confidence, techniques for remembering things, how to hold an enjoyable casual conversation with a new person, and how to talk in front of groups of people. The last is important for this reason-- if you can talk in front of 40 people, you will never find a smaller group as intimidating again.
Marxist, With proper training, people are almost as certain as micro-processors. I recommend you read up on dale carnegie and "how to be people smart" by les gibson. With regard to women in particular, I recommend D'Angelo (and the "cocky funny" bit).
Using these very straight forward 10 to 12 "opcodes", you will find you can make the people around you happy. When you make them happy, they are nice to you. This often creates a positive feedback loop between you (you feel happier so you are nicer to them so they are nicer to you.. and so on).
This is important stuff-- I made my daughter read these things and internalize them since she is an introvert/nerd like me.
I've seen 4 waves of cheap novices now repeat the same mistakes I was making 25 years ago.
And skilled indians are now up to 65 to 75 dollar burn rates (vs 90 for americans). The advantage is fading-- I personally think it is going to be a very sweet time to have skills from 2012 to 2020.
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You've seen the video. He's a young college student with no obvious places to conceal a weapon.
Did the guy in any way seem like a serious danger to several policeman?
Is your default policy now that the police should be free to taser anyone who fails to comply quickly?
I've never heard of the feature myself.
OOo does miss a lot of the little features like this which some people love and everyone else is ignorant of.
My personal cross was rectangular cut and paste which I and others have lobbied for about 3 years. It looks like it will be in 2.4. This is a key feature when manipulating log files.
I'm disappointed that IBM is doing this. I would have preferred that they focused on fixing Openoffice.
I agree with you.
The recent tendency to put protesters over a mile away in a designated "free speech zone" completely violates the intention of the constitution. Unfortunately the constitution was created in an age when there were a lot less people. I understand that someone has to pay for the police when an obnoxious group wants to march and piss a lot of people off. Way back when, the police would have protected the property but let everyone beat on the obnoxious group which would tend to reduce their desire to march.
I think any year that a policeman uses a taser, they need to have a taser used on them... just to remind them what they are doing to people.
Some how I think those estimates were based on an actively (and possibly armed) resisting suspect.
I do not think historically that journalism students have whipped out a knife at a political rally when the police attempted to arrest them.
You think?
Holy crap.
Man... apparently this is the thread of the humorless today.
I didn't expect this kind of Spanish Moderation!
While my roots are libertarian, it became clear to me that in a libertarian society, people with the most wealth can abuse the legal system to take away everyone else's rights.
A libertarian society *could* work- but you would keep everyone small or you would have to have a brutally powerful government that somehow stayed small anyway (impossible) that could absolutely crush abuse and abusers.
I finally decided short of taxing 100% of wealth over about 10 million dollars (to keep us a jeffersonian democracy of many tiny wealthy people), that it just isn't going to happen. I'm beginning to think that the corporate structure is fundamentally flawed and will inevitably lead to aristocracy.
I agree that we are free to choose to use linux. Microsoft is certainly no electric company or gas company where a competing company would have to build an entirely new infrastructure to compete.
---
Microsoft has a softer monopoly (probably over 90% for businesses) and has taken steps to lock in that monopoly. It is our right through the government to make Microsoft stop that. Microsoft has no natural rights. If we want, we can pass a law that they have to pay a 99% tax on their profits if they wish to sell in our country, state, government, etc.
Doing that would not fair. It wouldn't encourage other businesses to take risks, build facilities, expand into our market but we could do it. Microsoft always has the option of withdrawing from the EU and then it won't be subject to their laws.
---
As far as Churches (and the scouts) and gays (and atheists, hindi's, islamics) go...
The second that they take a government benefit (freedom from taxes, free use of government property) then every citizen of society can argue they should be able to benefit from that organization. If churches want to give up their tax free status on their 5 acres of prime property down town on which they run several businesses (day care, dry cleaning) at a substantial tax free profit, then I absolutely support their right to exclude anyone they want to. But if they are getting a 2 million dollar a year tax benefit that any other non-religious group would not, then everyone who is paying extra taxes (i.e the gays.. atheists, hindi's, etc.) can lay claim to use their facilities.
Come on... we know the last thing they would be expecting is the Spanish Inquisition!
(sorry you got troll-modded, clearly someone didn't get your joke.)
The question then becomes (since they are not law enforcement officers) are they committing crimes themselves?
I agree. .25 a song AND they keep a record that I purchased it so I can redownload it in the future for cost (.10?, .05?).
then why can't we make our own ring tones instead of using RIAA's?
If every users is doing 100gb of upload/download then comcast shuts them all off.
now no one has bandwidth.
the solution is to actually raise the bandwidth so that 100gb is trivial (like in korea and japan).
You have a good point.
Christian religion is treated in an odd fashion.
Some groups are very disrespectful to it ("Piss Christ") while others constantly try to sneak it into civil life (Prayer at a high school football game, the ten commandments in a court). It doesn't get the hands off treatment that islam does tho.
The others in this thread have a good point- if the rational group freaked out and got rude instead of just following appropriate procedures then they may have been banned for being asshats more than because religious people at google and youtube spiked them.
I look forward to finding out more about this one.
I am saying that banning one of the two groups is the problem.
The natural give and take of "this is DMCA violation", take it down, "No this is not a DMCA violation" , put it back up. would respect both groups of users.
Banning the second group was the problem in my view.
Do they want to appeal to the religio-creationist market or to the more technical athiest, sceptic, agnostic market.
The way they handled this (with banning the rational guys) is going to mean they can't have both.
I think they would have been better served to take the videos down, and then after processing that they were fair use, put them back up. That would have not pissed off either market particularly.
Hmmm.
I always wondered what happened to my recipe for making apple pie after I shared it with a friend.
I have a vague memory of telling someone how to program a VCR too-- now i realize when I shared those instructions with them, I forgot them myself.
It's amazing we can share any knowledge at all! I am sure one person.. somewhere in the world.. knows how we do it.
In EQ, when they would try to run a special event, a large number of players would try to join and crash it.
If you have 100,000 users and some kind of non-instanced shared event (say you tried to have a virtual stadium where spectators in the stands saw an event below) the capacity required is beyond the capacity of current hardware.
Introversion is a quality like "white skin" or "blue eyes".
People who are introverts (75% of the population) expend energy interacting with others- especially new people.
People who are extroverts (25% of the population) gain energy from interacting with others.
My training allows me to get along with people- but it doesn't change the fact that large masses of strangers wear me out.
The training is more about things like:
How to handle worrying so it doesn't kill you.
How to carry on an enjoyable casual conversation.
Getting experience talking in front of large crowds of people (which makes talking in small crowds easier).
etc.
The Les Giblin book focuses on:
Smile
Know their name.
Only allow yourself to disagree 1 time out of 10 opportunities-- this makes you save your disagreements for situations where it really matters and builds up a relation with the other people so they will listen to you that one time.
Dale Focuses on
Memory (so you are confident)
Talking in front of groups (same)
How to teach and train without criticizing or condemning (I saw some miraculous things in class from this with others in their relationships with their spouses).
etc.
I use my training at work and home daily and I can say my happiness, success, and satisfaction have improved out of proportion to the effort I expended learning it.
What is astounding to me is with thousands of obvious juicy targets, they keep picking horrible cases and even lying in a couple of them.
I messed up his name Marxist. "Les Giblin" is the name.
Here is a link to some of his books.
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Giblin,%20Les
You can find Dale Carnegie books at Amazon or any other place.
Dale Carnegie:
* How to Win Friends & Influence People
* How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
These are the big two. I found others to be less useful.
Dale Carnegie has courses too. They are expensive (about $1700) but are life changing. I saw a dozen shy or awkward or mildly anti-social people all grow through incredible growth over the duration of the 12 week course.
I am introverted myself and found the course very helpful.
They focus on building confidence, techniques for remembering things, how to hold an enjoyable casual conversation with a new person, and how to talk in front of groups of people. The last is important for this reason-- if you can talk in front of 40 people, you will never find a smaller group as intimidating again.
Good Luck man!
I liked a sig I saw here. It said:
To understand recursion, first understand recursion.
Marxist,
With proper training, people are almost as certain as micro-processors.
I recommend you read up on dale carnegie and "how to be people smart" by les gibson.
With regard to women in particular, I recommend D'Angelo (and the "cocky funny" bit).
Using these very straight forward 10 to 12 "opcodes", you will find you can make the people around you happy.
When you make them happy, they are nice to you. This often creates a positive feedback loop between you (you feel happier so you are nicer to them so they are nicer to you.. and so on).
This is important stuff-- I made my daughter read these things and internalize them since she is an introvert/nerd like me.
Very true.
I've seen 4 waves of cheap novices now repeat the same mistakes I was making 25 years ago.
And skilled indians are now up to 65 to 75 dollar burn rates (vs 90 for americans). The advantage is fading-- I personally think it is going to be a very sweet time to have skills from 2012 to 2020.