So, it sounds like you're a 'no', actually. You essentially used OO as an editor, but not a publisher. The final output didn't come from it, right?
I essentially troll by claiming nobody has published anything professionally with OO, and not a single person comes forward with a counter-example. I think I may be more right than I actually thought I was...
Wow. How recently was that? It makes me want to take some of my ultra-left-wing profs from undergrad down there to see what racism really is. In college, we were all taught that every white person is racist, and that we can't help it. It's a subtle logic that one can only make from an ivory tower without seeing the full gamut of the world.
Yeah, the thing is, we're kinda missing the "polar opposites" part at most universities. Most places are pretty much uniform liberal safe-zones, and a few universities are right-wing safe-zones. And very few places (none that I've been to) have any semblence of a dialogue. One sides gets control, and it's all over.
Also, for the record, evolution really IS a shitty theory as a scientific theory. It's about time people admit that. It can't be tested and it predicts nothing. Sure, microevolution is testable (and is intuively obvious) but that's a long way from proving all aspects of life evolved with no outside help.
My GUESS is that it's all evolution, but a truly honest person has to admit that such a position is not science, but a sort of secular faith. That's not to say we should teach ID, which is scientifically not even on the charts, but that we should teach evolution with a bit more humility and acknowledge that it's nothing more than a guess. Until we can create our own set of universes as an experiment, and actually watch life grow from nothing, evolution will always be a theory.
Actually, the vast majority of gnu/linux has been around far longer than windows. And OS X was NextStep before Windows was 95. I'm not sure what the comparison is for OpenOffice (it has a long ancestry) and Office, but my guess is that your version of Office 2003 has more fresh code than your copy of OpenOffice. I'd like to see one person who has made something with OpenOffice that was published professionally. People use Word to publish scientific papers by the hundreds of thousands each year. As long as OO takes the dubious model of copying a commerical product with volunteer programmers, I'm not sure it's really going to save the world.
Let me make a humble suggestion: if the OSS community had the creativity to actually produce something BETTER than office, we might have something. So let's have a conversation about whether or not OSS is capable of real innovation on the scale of an office product, or if it's just about sticking it to the man with free software.
I think you got it backwards! You want the exaust of the vacuum (if you have access to it) to be directed in the room. The cleanroom needs to be at high pressure, not low, so that shit stays out. But I like your idea. Just add a HEPA filter to the exaust of a shopvac and you're in business.
I'm not sure it would be difficult so much as far less fun. Let's be honest, the dorks who do AV fancy themselves some sort of paramilitary guys, with their "ThreatCons" and situation rooms. It's a bit childish and poserish, but worse of all, it glamorizes the whole business. Really, writing viruses should be seen for what it is: a pasttime of pasty white kids living in their parent's basement. Let's lose the grand-scale pseudo-military fantasy. I'm certain nobody will take my advice, or even notice it, but I'm quite confident virus writing would decrease if we would tone done the rhetoric around it and give viruses the banal, mundane names they deserve.
I've always suspected that the people who fight virii were actually quite enjoying themselves and happy to have the business. This is pretty clear in the fact that they always give virii cool sounding names.
Quit doing that! It just glorifies the writers of these things. It's pretty cool sounding to be the guy that wrote Doom or Sasser or Sober. But maybe there'd be a small drop in virus writing if we named them things like 2005 Virus #345. You say that's hard to remember and they will all sound the same? That's the damn point. It will take the fame aspect away. The only real reason for naming them is technical, so give them boring technical names that nobody can remember and much of the notoriety from writing a successful virus will vanish.
If you're an American of roughly average income, you're a slave for about five months or so out of every year, where the fruits of your labor are forcibly taken from you and given to others. Now, that's probably neccesary to some extent, but I'd say that when the government grows big enough that most of our time is "slave time" then I'd say it's revolt time. Some countries in Europe enslave their productive workers for more than half the year.
It's funny to me how the people who cry the hardest for peoples "rights" usually are the first to propose buying one right by selling a more fundamental one.
I mean this in the most helpful way, but it's possible you're just obsessive and perhaps depressed. Being an introvert doesn't neccesarily mean you obsess over a bad day for the next day or two.
I was only sort of kidding about the CD comment. I mean, once you're carrying around something too big to put in your pocket, why not make it a big bigger so that you don't have to carry around two? I'm sure they had very well researched reasons, though, like the hands of small people and so on, so I'm probably completely wrong.
First of all, the Romans could easily conceive of a bomber. They probably did. They just knew nobody would have one in their near future.
Second, it's a common relativist conceit to think that EVERYTHING is relative and nothing is truly knowable. Well, some things are provable and not subject to unknown intelligence. For example, guessing a random number. No advanced technology can ever help you guess a random number better. It will take the same number of guesses no matter how smart you are, and that's mathematically provable. Guessing random numbers is pretty much the essence of trying to hack a computer you don't know, especially when you're lightyears away from said computer.
I suspect there's no way to make their drive ever read CDs or DVDs. They are such fundamentally different optics, that it probably doesn't make sense. In fact, there may be no room for it. Unlike a regular CD reader, their holographic optical "pickup" will have to consist of an imaging chip, like the CCD chips in cameras (except my guess is that it will be CMOS). This would make it pretty impossible to cram in extra optics to read CD/DVD discs. So, perhaps they just figured it's time for a clean slate. CDs are way too small anyway! Just when the data density per unit of radius gets good, the damn things stop.
Yeah, but the difference here is that there are people (albeit not nearly enough) who are pissed as hell about all the shit you mentioned. In Canada, people would brag about it and think it a mark of their superior sophistication.
Boy are you in for a shock. Yeah, go ahead. Go to Europe and see how much of your horrendous tax burden is spent on anything having to do with you. Unless you plan to join their welfare rolls...
Of course you have the best health care system in the world: it's OURS, but with government mandated below-market prices. Canada's health care "system" (if that's what you can call a parasitic socialist bureucracy) wouldn't function for a minute without the US.
You make excellent points, and I can't really argue with any of them. While I use a Mac at home to get e-mail and surf the web, and do so because it's a pleasure to use, at work I use a linux machine (Athena) and occasionally boot it into Windows (XP) when I have no choice. I can't really get serious work done on a Mac. For one, the Mac version of things, if they exist, is often of much lower quality. For example, MATLAB is a joke on the Mac. It's quite sad.
Why is this such a fucking big deal? You talk about proprietary software like it was an addiction. This is exactly why people can't help but use the word zealot.
Do you get all freaked out when you drive a proprietary Ford to work, or unlock your proprietary Yale door lock? God forbid a bunch of poor third-world kids get a computer they can actually use. The idea of kids getting a free computer--their first ever--and it's running linux is hilarious. It's a good thing they're not handing out printers, because they'd be fucked. I've got an MSEE, and I have to occasionally read documentation to set up linux printers. Yeah, sometimes it works beautifully. Maybe even most of the time. But the Mac ALWAYS works, in my experience.
(Let's just assume the whole litany of linux folks telling me how it worked for them. In computers, working 90% of the time still sucks, because even a Mac user can figure out how many people will be calling about a problem if 10% of a million people have a problem.)
Yeah, you can read sentences. You're not so good with whole articles, though. Nothing in the article said the scientists changed their view that human activity was the underlying cause. They just refined their model for the subsequent mechanism. Unless you think water has a mind of its own, that's not shifting blame.
Let me guess, you make wild assumptions about people based on a single slashdot post at least seven times a week, right?
At least. Probably twenty. At this point, I can probably guess your verbal SAT score to within 50 points, too.
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Thanks for the comments. Is your documentation published interally or is it for publish consumption?
I essentially troll by claiming nobody has published anything professionally with OO, and not a single person comes forward with a counter-example. I think I may be more right than I actually thought I was...
Impressive. You've managed to politicize a fucking word processor thread. Such are the times we live in, huh?
Wow. How recently was that? It makes me want to take some of my ultra-left-wing profs from undergrad down there to see what racism really is. In college, we were all taught that every white person is racist, and that we can't help it. It's a subtle logic that one can only make from an ivory tower without seeing the full gamut of the world.
Also, for the record, evolution really IS a shitty theory as a scientific theory. It's about time people admit that. It can't be tested and it predicts nothing. Sure, microevolution is testable (and is intuively obvious) but that's a long way from proving all aspects of life evolved with no outside help.
My GUESS is that it's all evolution, but a truly honest person has to admit that such a position is not science, but a sort of secular faith. That's not to say we should teach ID, which is scientifically not even on the charts, but that we should teach evolution with a bit more humility and acknowledge that it's nothing more than a guess. Until we can create our own set of universes as an experiment, and actually watch life grow from nothing, evolution will always be a theory.
Let me make a humble suggestion: if the OSS community had the creativity to actually produce something BETTER than office, we might have something. So let's have a conversation about whether or not OSS is capable of real innovation on the scale of an office product, or if it's just about sticking it to the man with free software.
I think you got it backwards! You want the exaust of the vacuum (if you have access to it) to be directed in the room. The cleanroom needs to be at high pressure, not low, so that shit stays out. But I like your idea. Just add a HEPA filter to the exaust of a shopvac and you're in business.
I'm not sure it would be difficult so much as far less fun. Let's be honest, the dorks who do AV fancy themselves some sort of paramilitary guys, with their "ThreatCons" and situation rooms. It's a bit childish and poserish, but worse of all, it glamorizes the whole business. Really, writing viruses should be seen for what it is: a pasttime of pasty white kids living in their parent's basement. Let's lose the grand-scale pseudo-military fantasy. I'm certain nobody will take my advice, or even notice it, but I'm quite confident virus writing would decrease if we would tone done the rhetoric around it and give viruses the banal, mundane names they deserve.
Quit doing that! It just glorifies the writers of these things. It's pretty cool sounding to be the guy that wrote Doom or Sasser or Sober. But maybe there'd be a small drop in virus writing if we named them things like 2005 Virus #345. You say that's hard to remember and they will all sound the same? That's the damn point. It will take the fame aspect away. The only real reason for naming them is technical, so give them boring technical names that nobody can remember and much of the notoriety from writing a successful virus will vanish.
It's funny to me how the people who cry the hardest for peoples "rights" usually are the first to propose buying one right by selling a more fundamental one.
I mean this in the most helpful way, but it's possible you're just obsessive and perhaps depressed. Being an introvert doesn't neccesarily mean you obsess over a bad day for the next day or two.
I was only sort of kidding about the CD comment. I mean, once you're carrying around something too big to put in your pocket, why not make it a big bigger so that you don't have to carry around two? I'm sure they had very well researched reasons, though, like the hands of small people and so on, so I'm probably completely wrong.
Hmm. Those were very good points, especially the last one.
Second, it's a common relativist conceit to think that EVERYTHING is relative and nothing is truly knowable. Well, some things are provable and not subject to unknown intelligence. For example, guessing a random number. No advanced technology can ever help you guess a random number better. It will take the same number of guesses no matter how smart you are, and that's mathematically provable. Guessing random numbers is pretty much the essence of trying to hack a computer you don't know, especially when you're lightyears away from said computer.
I suspect there's no way to make their drive ever read CDs or DVDs. They are such fundamentally different optics, that it probably doesn't make sense. In fact, there may be no room for it. Unlike a regular CD reader, their holographic optical "pickup" will have to consist of an imaging chip, like the CCD chips in cameras (except my guess is that it will be CMOS). This would make it pretty impossible to cram in extra optics to read CD/DVD discs. So, perhaps they just figured it's time for a clean slate. CDs are way too small anyway! Just when the data density per unit of radius gets good, the damn things stop.
Yeah, the columbian stock market is up, too. What's your point?
Yeah, but the difference here is that there are people (albeit not nearly enough) who are pissed as hell about all the shit you mentioned. In Canada, people would brag about it and think it a mark of their superior sophistication.
Yup. Come on up and gain a 10% increase in pay and a 50% increase in cost of living! Whoo hoo! That's a total of almost 60%!!!
Boy are you in for a shock. Yeah, go ahead. Go to Europe and see how much of your horrendous tax burden is spent on anything having to do with you. Unless you plan to join their welfare rolls...
This is called reality, sport. Even a socialist healthcare system has to take in at least as much as it spends.
Of course you have the best health care system in the world: it's OURS, but with government mandated below-market prices. Canada's health care "system" (if that's what you can call a parasitic socialist bureucracy) wouldn't function for a minute without the US.
You're assuming confession is commutative. Heathen!
You make excellent points, and I can't really argue with any of them. While I use a Mac at home to get e-mail and surf the web, and do so because it's a pleasure to use, at work I use a linux machine (Athena) and occasionally boot it into Windows (XP) when I have no choice. I can't really get serious work done on a Mac. For one, the Mac version of things, if they exist, is often of much lower quality. For example, MATLAB is a joke on the Mac. It's quite sad.
Do you get all freaked out when you drive a proprietary Ford to work, or unlock your proprietary Yale door lock? God forbid a bunch of poor third-world kids get a computer they can actually use. The idea of kids getting a free computer--their first ever--and it's running linux is hilarious. It's a good thing they're not handing out printers, because they'd be fucked. I've got an MSEE, and I have to occasionally read documentation to set up linux printers. Yeah, sometimes it works beautifully. Maybe even most of the time. But the Mac ALWAYS works, in my experience.
(Let's just assume the whole litany of linux folks telling me how it worked for them. In computers, working 90% of the time still sucks, because even a Mac user can figure out how many people will be calling about a problem if 10% of a million people have a problem.)
Yeah, you can read sentences. You're not so good with whole articles, though. Nothing in the article said the scientists changed their view that human activity was the underlying cause. They just refined their model for the subsequent mechanism. Unless you think water has a mind of its own, that's not shifting blame.
Let me guess, you make wild assumptions about people based on a single slashdot post at least seven times a week, right?
At least. Probably twenty. At this point, I can probably guess your verbal SAT score to within 50 points, too.