I agree with both of you. It may have been done stylistically. However, they spent months deciding the exact wording of the bloody thing and then wrote a book on why and how they made each decision (federalist papers). I tend to think the word choice was with intent and great care.
I just wanted to say THANKS for all the offers of assistance from around the world. It's the first I've heard of it. I've been busy pitching in myself.
Most impressive to me are venuzuala and cuba who we have animosity with as a nation. The offers from all the nations are appreciated! Please pass the word on to your countrymen that we here in Texas appreciate the gesture!
Yes... that's why they are completely ignoring the whites and asians in mississippi and alabama to take care of the blacks in new orleans.
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Calling racism in this massive catastrophe is only going to make things worse and may result in people dying. Please set it aside until things get quieter and you can resume politics as usual.
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We will know what happened next year- for now go donate your time and money and volunteer to help those in need. I spent last night doing the same and will continue to do so over the rest of this holiday. I set my ego aside and just helped wherever they needed me down here in houston- now please do the same and set your racism aside for a few weeks and get the job done now without it.
Actually they sell pretty regularly for $279 at fry's.
You can get a pentium 3.0 for $379- replace two fans with quiet fans and it is a good machine. Add a $200 video card and you have last year's top end gaming machine.
Clearly MS sells the OS cheap to some people- I can't scratch build as cheaply as these machines go for.
There is a way for people to voluntarily share the load for costs like this and that is insurance. If insurance companies won't offer coverage then either you pay the full cost and take the full risk or you don't build there.
If you want to donate your OWN money (as I have already done) or your own time (which I'm considering) to help those affected by this then more power to you. It's your money and your time.
I can agree with a limited federal disaster fund but that should be tied to not recreating the disaster again (which rebuilding new orleans would be). New Orleans needs to be moved or raised. It seems to me with all the money they make they could have been raising the city inside the levees. The Superdome might not have been needed if 180 million had been spent on dirt and stone to bring the area inside the levees up to a couple feet above sea level.
I have plenty of friends- some for over 20 years. And I have a good relationship with my relatives.
That doesn't change the fact that people permanently break off relations with friends and relatives every day. If you think otherwise, you need to get in touch with reality.
People stop talking to sisters, brothers, parents and children for the rest of their life every day.
People end long friendships every day.
Friends and family are nice but "stuff" can be more dependable and harder to replace than people. You can almost always find more friends (and even start a new family) if you have cool stuff and/or money to have fun with.
Of the things to joke about, death is one of the funnier things- second only to someone else falling into a sewer just before slipping on the expected banana peel.
Why should we dwell on all the bad things as you ask when instead we can find something to laugh about. Millions of people die terrible, painful, untimely deaths every day around the world. Have you been avoiding laughing your entire life, every day, to honor those who die untimely deaths each day?
Help the people in trouble and if at all possible find some way to help them laugh- sometimes laughter is the only way to stay sane. In any case, we have a right to laugh about anything we find funny (and you have a right to bitch about it).
I'm sorry but a hot summer is not a natural disaster. Large areas of texas have those every year and do not need natural disaster relief for them.
Tornadoes are an issue but a season of tornadoes doesn't cause the huge destruction a single hurricane can cause.
Looking over your list really only Earthquakes are close to Hurricanes and they don't hit every fall 2-3 times. Serious earthquakes are a bit more like Cat 5 hurricanes (pretty rare and even Katrina landed as a Cat 4).
One you don't include is drought. It's slower than other disasters but can make large areas unlivable for a decade or more.
I agree with you. I have a few personal documents with extremely complicated lay out that won't load/display correctly yet. I load them with each release and bug report them. I'm happy to say there has been enormous improvement since 1.1.1 but unhappy to say that my largest one still won't load.
The failing one is about 9 megabytes with 40-50 pictures, lots of tables, section breaks, etc.
The smaller one (about 7 megabytes with about 150 pictures) loads now and is 99% correct.
All my other documents seem to load, display, and edit correctly now.
I don't have problems with native documents that got that big and I don't have problems if I save them to word format and then load them in word. The problems come from those two huge word documents that I import into OO. I can definately understand how reformatting a document that size isn't worth it.
I agree. Games are a serious hole for linux. I keep windows for games. I can get a cheap $400 computer AND winXP gaming machine (toss in a $200 video card and you have 60% of the performance of a top end machine for 25% of the price.)
Game software and some custom software are developed only for windows. These are valid points.
A counter to that is, if you can find a java version (or other language that runs on any OS/hardware)- it's better because it works on windows AND any other OS. And it works on windows when windows changes. I've had some custom windows software that stopped working after required patches or new OS versions.
But that's not an option with games much of the time. If Linux ever gets to 20%+ of the home market, that will change. And once it does, the home market will tip to linux very fast. At some point I expect to see good linux games that are not yet available for windows.
And those people are not valid targets for FOSS anyway. They essentially have unlimited budgets and a mandate that it has to work and must have a vendor who can provide support. A big company can lose millions of dollars a day if the software has an issue.
The FOSS market is targeted at people who have limited budgets. They want it to work but can forgo vendor support since they are smaller and can't afford to spend 80% more to get 99.9% reliability instead of 99.7% reliability.
Part of the reason FOSS has been making inroads is that in some cases (web servers) it provides 99.999% reliablity AND it's free/cheaper.
Microsoft doesn't want to lose the little customers because they are the only ones who are really paying $500 a seat for office. The big companies are paying $50 a seat (Hell- I can BUY a copy of most microsoft software for $20 to use at home since I work at a big company).
Most people I know see microsoft marketing as fud, and the company as being dishonest, unethical, and scummy. The first level that seems to change is up at the VP level where the decisions are usually made.
Despite the downsides, microsoft does deliver a lot of support and reliablity in return for lockin and large amounts of money. That is good- but they embrace and extend that to other products we could be getting for free so there is a definate tradeoff.
This is odd since I've used open office to -fix- mangled word documents so that word could read them again since OOO writes exactly to spec. Perhaps you are mixing an older version of OOO with a newer version of Office?
Mangling from linux to windows sounds unlikely unless you were transferring the file incorrectly and mangling the actual data.
A safer approach is to accidentally spill your jumbo soda on the offender and apologize profusely. Just remember to bring it with you and wave it about a bit before you do so. With a gentle squeeze the top comes off right as you gesture with it towards them.
The volume has reached a point that I get a headache even with earplugs. It's not loud just in the loud parts- it's loud everywhere. I complained to the manager recently and he just refunded our money instead of adjusting the volume.
Second- I MUST sit through 6-8 minutes of commercials before the showtime when the movie is new to get a good seat. I don't mind slide-show ads but blurry pixelated "projector" ads (again with high volume) are very unpleasant.
I don't download movies. I just stopped going to see them because the experience became so unpleasant that the movie has to be -excellent- not merely -good- to put up with those conditions.
Other minor nits
The movie either needs to be the kind that plays better with a crowd or the kind that plays better on a big movie screen. And with a 57" screen at home from 9' away- the theatres are losing ground with these 16'-20' screens, only the really big screens give the "movie theatre" feel.
There is so much entertainment I cannot see it all (I'm at least 200-300 hours behind on TV shows now). I've gotten SO far behind that now some of the movies I missed, I can pick up $5 used or $7.50 new. This makes it even less likely that I'm going to go to a theatre.
If it is strong as advertised, it seems like you could sweep it over enemy lines and kill dozens at a time- perhaps disabling non-armored vehicles- maybe even armored vehicles.
Also seems you need to be very careful about what you fire it at since a miss could kill something miles beyond your intended target.
What both of these guys are ignoring is that with the latest Divx6 codec, I can fit an entire season of a series on 1 dvd and it looks stunning at 220mb per episode.
They are starting to sell players that can play.avi files just like those CD players can play.mp3 files.
So people are going to reasonably ask... "Why are you charging me $30 dollars for a season when it fits on a single disk?"
Why does it cost $28 dollars for songs that would have been out of copyright if the laws had not been changed after the music was created to extend the copyright on them?
The costs of making that music were realised 30 years ago. Everything since then over the cost of the media is pure profit for someone- it may be the store, it may be the shipper, some of it is certainly the corporation- but most of the artists are dying or dead at this point.
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I agree with both of you. It may have been done stylistically. However, they spent months deciding the exact wording of the bloody thing and then wrote a book on why and how they made each decision (federalist papers). I tend to think the word choice was with intent and great care.
Doesn't matter. We should accept them. This is different.
Short of an active war going on- disasters like this call for setting aside these things- maybe even during an active war with some disasters.
I just wanted to say THANKS for all the offers of assistance from around the world. It's the first I've heard of it. I've been busy pitching in myself.
Most impressive to me are venuzuala and cuba who we have animosity with as a nation. The offers from all the nations are appreciated! Please pass the word on to your countrymen that we here in Texas appreciate the gesture!
NO has issues with drugs and gangs. They are magnified by the disaster, reduced police, and smaller/sicker/older population left to prey on. ---
In many places around the world, people are killed/raped without the need for a natural disaster. ---
If you want to look what the country is full of, look at Texas. In fact, people frequently say Texans are full of it... hehe.
Yes... that's why they are completely ignoring the whites and asians in mississippi and alabama to take care of the blacks in new orleans. --- Calling racism in this massive catastrophe is only going to make things worse and may result in people dying. Please set it aside until things get quieter and you can resume politics as usual. --- We will know what happened next year- for now go donate your time and money and volunteer to help those in need. I spent last night doing the same and will continue to do so over the rest of this holiday. I set my ego aside and just helped wherever they needed me down here in houston- now please do the same and set your racism aside for a few weeks and get the job done now without it.
Not only is it illegal but the military really does not want to do this or set a precedent.
They really do want to help but they don't want to risk our democracy by having federal troops used against civilians.
Two thirds of the NO police held under horendous conditions. They are true heroes and we need to recognize the MAJORITY of the police who stayed.
Actually they sell pretty regularly for $279 at fry's.
You can get a pentium 3.0 for $379- replace two fans with quiet fans and it is a good machine. Add a $200 video card and you have last year's top end gaming machine.
Clearly MS sells the OS cheap to some people- I can't scratch build as cheaply as these machines go for.
There is a way for people to voluntarily share the load for costs like this and that is insurance. If insurance companies won't offer coverage then either you pay the full cost and take the full risk or you don't build there.
If you want to donate your OWN money (as I have already done) or your own time (which I'm considering) to help those affected by this then more power to you. It's your money and your time.
I can agree with a limited federal disaster fund but that should be tied to not recreating the disaster again (which rebuilding new orleans would be). New Orleans needs to be moved or raised. It seems to me with all the money they make they could have been raising the city inside the levees. The Superdome might not have been needed if 180 million had been spent on dirt and stone to bring the area inside the levees up to a couple feet above sea level.
I have plenty of friends- some for over 20 years. And I have a good relationship with my relatives.
That doesn't change the fact that people permanently break off relations with friends and relatives every day. If you think otherwise, you need to get in touch with reality.
People stop talking to sisters, brothers, parents and children for the rest of their life every day.
People end long friendships every day.
Friends and family are nice but "stuff" can be more dependable and harder to replace than people. You can almost always find more friends (and even start a new family) if you have cool stuff and/or money to have fun with.
Of the things to joke about, death is one of the funnier things- second only to someone else falling into a sewer just before slipping on the expected banana peel.
Why should we dwell on all the bad things as you ask when instead we can find something to laugh about. Millions of people die terrible, painful, untimely deaths every day around the world. Have you been avoiding laughing your entire life, every day, to honor those who die untimely deaths each day?
Help the people in trouble and if at all possible find some way to help them laugh- sometimes laughter is the only way to stay sane. In any case, we have a right to laugh about anything we find funny (and you have a right to bitch about it).
I'm sorry but a hot summer is not a natural disaster. Large areas of texas have those every year and do not need natural disaster relief for them.
Tornadoes are an issue but a season of tornadoes doesn't cause the huge destruction a single hurricane can cause.
Looking over your list really only Earthquakes are close to Hurricanes and they don't hit every fall 2-3 times. Serious earthquakes are a bit more like Cat 5 hurricanes (pretty rare and even Katrina landed as a Cat 4).
One you don't include is drought. It's slower than other disasters but can make large areas unlivable for a decade or more.
I agree with you. I have a few personal documents with extremely complicated lay out that won't load/display correctly yet. I load them with each release and bug report them. I'm happy to say there has been enormous improvement since 1.1.1 but unhappy to say that my largest one still won't load.
The failing one is about 9 megabytes with 40-50 pictures, lots of tables, section breaks, etc.
The smaller one (about 7 megabytes with about 150 pictures) loads now and is 99% correct.
All my other documents seem to load, display, and edit correctly now.
I don't have problems with native documents that got that big and I don't have problems if I save them to word format and then load them in word. The problems come from those two huge word documents that I import into OO. I can definately understand how reformatting a document that size isn't worth it.
I agree. Games are a serious hole for linux. I keep windows for games. I can get a cheap $400 computer AND winXP gaming machine (toss in a $200 video card and you have 60% of the performance of a top end machine for 25% of the price.)
Game software and some custom software are developed only for windows. These are valid points.
A counter to that is, if you can find a java version (or other language that runs on any OS/hardware)- it's better because it works on windows AND any other OS. And it works on windows when windows changes. I've had some custom windows software that stopped working after required patches or new OS versions.
But that's not an option with games much of the time. If Linux ever gets to 20%+ of the home market, that will change. And once it does, the home market will tip to linux very fast. At some point I expect to see good linux games that are not yet available for windows.
And those people are not valid targets for FOSS anyway. They essentially have unlimited budgets and a mandate that it has to work and must have a vendor who can provide support. A big company can lose millions of dollars a day if the software has an issue.
The FOSS market is targeted at people who have limited budgets. They want it to work but can forgo vendor support since they are smaller and can't afford to spend 80% more to get 99.9% reliability instead of 99.7% reliability.
Part of the reason FOSS has been making inroads is that in some cases (web servers) it provides 99.999% reliablity AND it's free/cheaper.
Microsoft doesn't want to lose the little customers because they are the only ones who are really paying $500 a seat for office. The big companies are paying $50 a seat (Hell- I can BUY a copy of most microsoft software for $20 to use at home since I work at a big company).
Most people I know see microsoft marketing as fud, and the company as being dishonest, unethical, and scummy. The first level that seems to change is up at the VP level where the decisions are usually made.
Despite the downsides, microsoft does deliver a lot of support and reliablity in return for lockin and large amounts of money. That is good- but they embrace and extend that to other products we could be getting for free so there is a definate tradeoff.
This is odd since I've used open office to -fix- mangled word documents so that word could read them again since OOO writes exactly to spec. Perhaps you are mixing an older version of OOO with a newer version of Office?
Mangling from linux to windows sounds unlikely unless you were transferring the file incorrectly and mangling the actual data.
I have read that one of the largest man made non-nuclear explosions to date was due to bad data like this.
The story goes that we let russia steal sabotaged pump designs for their oil pipeline.
more details here:
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/ntr41080.htm
A safer approach is to accidentally spill your jumbo soda on the offender and apologize profusely. Just remember to bring it with you and wave it about a bit before you do so. With a gentle squeeze the top comes off right as you gesture with it towards them.
And I would have applauded you too! Good work!
The volume has reached a point that I get a headache even with earplugs. It's not loud just in the loud parts- it's loud everywhere. I complained to the manager recently and he just refunded our money instead of adjusting the volume.
Second- I MUST sit through 6-8 minutes of commercials before the showtime when the movie is new to get a good seat. I don't mind slide-show ads but blurry pixelated "projector" ads (again with high volume) are very unpleasant.
I don't download movies. I just stopped going to see them because the experience became so unpleasant that the movie has to be -excellent- not merely -good- to put up with those conditions.
Other minor nits
The movie either needs to be the kind that plays better with a crowd or the kind that plays better on a big movie screen. And with a 57" screen at home from 9' away- the theatres are losing ground with these 16'-20' screens, only the really big screens give the "movie theatre" feel.
There is so much entertainment I cannot see it all (I'm at least 200-300 hours behind on TV shows now). I've gotten SO far behind that now some of the movies I missed, I can pick up $5 used or $7.50 new. This makes it even less likely that I'm going to go to a theatre.
If it is strong as advertised, it seems like you could sweep it over enemy lines and kill dozens at a time- perhaps disabling non-armored vehicles- maybe even armored vehicles.
Also seems you need to be very careful about what you fire it at since a miss could kill something miles beyond your intended target.
What both of these guys are ignoring is that with the latest Divx6 codec, I can fit an entire season of a series on 1 dvd and it looks stunning at 220mb per episode.
.avi files just like those CD players can play .mp3 files.
They are starting to sell players that can play
So people are going to reasonably ask... "Why are you charging me $30 dollars for a season when it fits on a single disk?"
A lot of the commandments and phrases like "under god" were added in the 20th century - over 120 years after the US was founded.
Why does it cost $28 dollars for songs that would have been out of copyright if the laws had not been changed after the music was created to extend the copyright on them?
The costs of making that music were realised 30 years ago. Everything since then over the cost of the media is pure profit for someone- it may be the store, it may be the shipper, some of it is certainly the corporation- but most of the artists are dying or dead at this point.
Exactly. I totally agree with you.
It's public information but some public information should probably not be easy to search- or at the least you should be informed
1) If someone is searching for information about you. 2) Who they are.
And you should be able to "opt out" and say "Do not return searches about me."
My point was now the google president can understand how it feels since since it has happened to him.