The very first commercial nuclear reactor in the world (a British one, I forget the name) was also designed to be inherently safe. This was in 1952. It was decommissioned very recently. No incident.
Well, chkopsuwm is in alphabetical order, as is chrkmpvwxyz. I suggest they simply had finished encoding what they wanted to do and just took letters as they came after that.
It remains fairly trivial after your substitutions. vivit -> visit, then the last line but one is "to let us know of". After those chars, the whole thing falls into place. The final translation table is tr '[abcdefghijklmnoqstvwyz]' '[fideltybravngchkopsuwm]'. You're supposed to visit this trite URL, which congratulates you. Maybe they really did mix it up with the kids' challenge.
If he wins a prize or something, sure. That's why the US has so many Nobel prizes, for instance -- it's typically not home-educated talent but imported stuff given expensive equipment and grants.
But we're discussing (computer science) education. von Neumann was educated in Hungary, so in this instance the US claim is unfounded.
Google Docs is much slower for me than a local office suite. Not to mention it's really just a glorified rich text editor, not really a word processor. Google spreadsheet I haven't used more than once: it was just too slow for me. I guess if you use Chrome it might be faster, but even so you don't have the documents locally, not to mention they are just functionally not there at even a basic level.
The one feature I miss in AbiWord is exporting to PDF, but I do that with a shell script (that invokes OO.o) anyway. I also have a batch file written in case I need to do the same on Windows, and carry around the applications on a USB stick.
Personally, I use AbiWord and Gnumeric when I need a word processor or a spreadsheet. I don't use them for anything fancy (for something fancy, I would use HTML or LaTeX), just word processing or spreadsheeting in the traditional sense. They're heaps faster than MS Office or OpenOffice, and they do all I want quite cleanly. As I said, for anything advanced, neither "Office" package is enough for me, so if you are that niche user, the advanced Office user, consider at least HTML as an alternative. There are many good and rich editors for it.
Typically though, I just use a plain-text editor for keeping actual information, as opposed to formatted content like letters. For that, I use vim, although there are millions of great plain-text editors.
Almost any modern Linux has such capabilities. Arch is not special in this respect. OTOH, I once had pacman break completely on a system... I gave up Arch then.
I concur with you though, stupid admin for not at least glancing at the changelogs for an upgrade. Package upgrades never cause such problems, but a full upgrade, you should see what the hell you are doing. Debian is a great OS but it is a true UNIX, you can bugger it up if you are a careless admin.
Americans. (I'm not, and I still use the word in the old sense. I would guess you fellows allowed some special interest group to change the meaning for you. Did you also notice that its connotation changed from universally positive to a politically-charged term?)
Are you off your head? This is pretty much how Windows does it, except Windows doesn't let you choose rotation. No other solution would meet users' needs either -- they must be able to choose the relative orientation and dimensions of the monitors. How on earth otherwise do you propose doing it -- magical incantations, or a valet standing next to you?
What's that they say about not feeding the trolls? Oh well, I'll bite.
Here's an alternative script: Groceries. First, PC guy walks into a Walmart, checks out with a huge stack of purchases (all shrinkwrapped), leaving behind wads of dollars on the counter. Cut to home, where three days later he's surrounded by shrinkwrap, packaging, instruction manuals, and is poring over the manual for his carrots. Next, Mac guy walks into something more trendy, maybe Trader Joe's, still leaves wads of dollars on the counter, but real produce. Cut to home, he's happily cooking dinner. Third, the Linux guy is sitting on his couch at home. Suddenly, he thinks of dinner (it appears over his head like a cartoon thought-bulb). In a flash, hey presto, a three-course meal is spread out in front of his couch, and he tucks in immediately.
For those who have not had the pleasure of using a modern Linux system, the metaphor is package management.
If I choose to view politics one-dimensionally, then libertarians most definitely belong to the right wing. This division is traditionally on economic lines. Sure, you can introduce multiple dimensions, but according to the traditional divisions, libertarians fall on the right wing (or are mapped down to that wing, if you like).
It's not so archaic in the UK. Plenty of anarchists call themselves libertarian communists. Have you read many anarchist magazines from there recently? Political scientists are hardly the ones to know about the speech of the streets, after all.
That has some odd things. For instance, MGS is counted as a success. Also, Beagle is not mentioned anywhere. I don't think that "score-card" can be considered very accurate.
In America, libertarian is a type of right wing. In Europe, libertarian is used differently and can refer to left or right wing anarchist groups, or just social liberals, etc. Several political terms mean quite different things in America.
Not exactly a new thing. Sanford and Son, Three's Company / Three's a Crowd, and quite a few others come to mind. But sometimes these can be quite successful too.
I completely opposed the Bank of England move. I think it's irresponsible not to have control over a central bank. Of course, the government still has a lot of control over the Bank, but as you quite rightly point out, it's a nice bit of blame management.
Thanks for the good post. Are the radical-anti-government trolls on the rise again? I was replying to one just yesterday -- an AC no less. I think they weren't so frequent just half a year ago.
Because that's what examples have shown happens to free nationwide health services, right? Oh, couldn't be that you're merely engaging in some good old right-wing scaremongering? (At least you're not an AC like I responded to yesterday.)
I would suggest that you, especially as an American, don't loudly proclaim opinions on things of which you have no direct experience and probably little more historical research than what you read in your daily newspaper.
The British NHS is probably the example closest to the straw man you are trying to put up -- it is a
"nationwide health service", "free" at the point of care. Its administration costs are astronomically low, less than ten percent last I checked. You can compare this to the private model in the US, where administration costs are 35-45%, or nearly half of the cost of the service. The NHS delivers better care on a fifth of the per-capita budget that is poured into the US health system, i.e. on even less than the United States Government spends on its health service. Why? At a guess because it's mostly state run. Most expenditure rises have been due to dabblings with interaction with the private sector. But Spain is a good example of how to integrate well with the private sector, if that's your fancy. And before you ask, I do have first-hand experience of national and private health systems: it's an easy choice for me.
Not that the main point you're setting up can't be just as easily shot down with examples. Sweden, for instance, although I have no first-hand experience of it.
Please try spending the time you invest being cynical about government being unfixable on an internet forum in doing something constructive to address its real shortcomings, such as grassroots efforst, campaigns, activism, etc.
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The very first commercial nuclear reactor in the world (a British one, I forget the name) was also designed to be inherently safe. This was in 1952. It was decommissioned very recently. No incident.
Ah yes, I'd guG'd the whole thing in vim first.
Well, chkopsuwm is in alphabetical order, as is chrkmpvwxyz. I suggest they simply had finished encoding what they wanted to do and just took letters as they came after that.
As one UNIX lover to another...
tr '[abcdefghijklmnoqstvwyz]' '[fideltybravngchkopsuwm]'
Happy man reading!
It remains fairly trivial after your substitutions. vivit -> visit, then the last line but one is "to let us know of". After those chars, the whole thing falls into place. The final translation table is tr '[abcdefghijklmnoqstvwyz]' '[fideltybravngchkopsuwm]'. You're supposed to visit this trite URL, which congratulates you. Maybe they really did mix it up with the kids' challenge.
Ah, splendid. User is an idiot, as usual. Thanks! :)
If he wins a prize or something, sure. That's why the US has so many Nobel prizes, for instance -- it's typically not home-educated talent but imported stuff given expensive equipment and grants.
But we're discussing (computer science) education. von Neumann was educated in Hungary, so in this instance the US claim is unfounded.
Google Docs is much slower for me than a local office suite. Not to mention it's really just a glorified rich text editor, not really a word processor. Google spreadsheet I haven't used more than once: it was just too slow for me. I guess if you use Chrome it might be faster, but even so you don't have the documents locally, not to mention they are just functionally not there at even a basic level.
The one feature I miss in AbiWord is exporting to PDF, but I do that with a shell script (that invokes OO.o) anyway. I also have a batch file written in case I need to do the same on Windows, and carry around the applications on a USB stick.
von Neumann was Hungarian. I should know, as I'm Hungarian. Want proof? I spelled his name right. ;)
Personally, I use AbiWord and Gnumeric when I need a word processor or a spreadsheet. I don't use them for anything fancy (for something fancy, I would use HTML or LaTeX), just word processing or spreadsheeting in the traditional sense. They're heaps faster than MS Office or OpenOffice, and they do all I want quite cleanly. As I said, for anything advanced, neither "Office" package is enough for me, so if you are that niche user, the advanced Office user, consider at least HTML as an alternative. There are many good and rich editors for it.
Typically though, I just use a plain-text editor for keeping actual information, as opposed to formatted content like letters. For that, I use vim, although there are millions of great plain-text editors.
Almost any modern Linux has such capabilities. Arch is not special in this respect. OTOH, I once had pacman break completely on a system... I gave up Arch then.
I concur with you though, stupid admin for not at least glancing at the changelogs for an upgrade. Package upgrades never cause such problems, but a full upgrade, you should see what the hell you are doing. Debian is a great OS but it is a true UNIX, you can bugger it up if you are a careless admin.
Americans. (I'm not, and I still use the word in the old sense. I would guess you fellows allowed some special interest group to change the meaning for you. Did you also notice that its connotation changed from universally positive to a politically-charged term?)
By population, it's only second, after California.
I apologise, the new Ajax shit confused me, I thought you were replying to comment #26213261. Let me retract what I said. :)
Are you off your head? This is pretty much how Windows does it, except Windows doesn't let you choose rotation. No other solution would meet users' needs either -- they must be able to choose the relative orientation and dimensions of the monitors. How on earth otherwise do you propose doing it -- magical incantations, or a valet standing next to you?
As I said, those who have not used a modern Linux system shouldn't comment.
What's that they say about not feeding the trolls? Oh well, I'll bite.
Here's an alternative script: Groceries. First, PC guy walks into a Walmart, checks out with a huge stack of purchases (all shrinkwrapped), leaving behind wads of dollars on the counter. Cut to home, where three days later he's surrounded by shrinkwrap, packaging, instruction manuals, and is poring over the manual for his carrots. Next, Mac guy walks into something more trendy, maybe Trader Joe's, still leaves wads of dollars on the counter, but real produce. Cut to home, he's happily cooking dinner. Third, the Linux guy is sitting on his couch at home. Suddenly, he thinks of dinner (it appears over his head like a cartoon thought-bulb). In a flash, hey presto, a three-course meal is spread out in front of his couch, and he tucks in immediately.
For those who have not had the pleasure of using a modern Linux system, the metaphor is package management.
If I choose to view politics one-dimensionally, then libertarians most definitely belong to the right wing. This division is traditionally on economic lines. Sure, you can introduce multiple dimensions, but according to the traditional divisions, libertarians fall on the right wing (or are mapped down to that wing, if you like).
It's not so archaic in the UK. Plenty of anarchists call themselves libertarian communists. Have you read many anarchist magazines from there recently? Political scientists are hardly the ones to know about the speech of the streets, after all.
That has some odd things. For instance, MGS is counted as a success. Also, Beagle is not mentioned anywhere. I don't think that "score-card" can be considered very accurate.
In America, libertarian is a type of right wing. In Europe, libertarian is used differently and can refer to left or right wing anarchist groups, or just social liberals, etc. Several political terms mean quite different things in America.
Not exactly a new thing. Sanford and Son, Three's Company / Three's a Crowd, and quite a few others come to mind. But sometimes these can be quite successful too.
I completely opposed the Bank of England move. I think it's irresponsible not to have control over a central bank. Of course, the government still has a lot of control over the Bank, but as you quite rightly point out, it's a nice bit of blame management.
Thanks for the good post. Are the radical-anti-government trolls on the rise again? I was replying to one just yesterday -- an AC no less. I think they weren't so frequent just half a year ago.
Because that's what examples have shown happens to free nationwide health services, right? Oh, couldn't be that you're merely engaging in some good old right-wing scaremongering? (At least you're not an AC like I responded to yesterday.)
I would suggest that you, especially as an American, don't loudly proclaim opinions on things of which you have no direct experience and probably little more historical research than what you read in your daily newspaper.
The British NHS is probably the example closest to the straw man you are trying to put up -- it is a "nationwide health service", "free" at the point of care. Its administration costs are astronomically low, less than ten percent last I checked. You can compare this to the private model in the US, where administration costs are 35-45%, or nearly half of the cost of the service. The NHS delivers better care on a fifth of the per-capita budget that is poured into the US health system, i.e. on even less than the United States Government spends on its health service. Why? At a guess because it's mostly state run. Most expenditure rises have been due to dabblings with interaction with the private sector. But Spain is a good example of how to integrate well with the private sector, if that's your fancy. And before you ask, I do have first-hand experience of national and private health systems: it's an easy choice for me.
Not that the main point you're setting up can't be just as easily shot down with examples. Sweden, for instance, although I have no first-hand experience of it.
Please try spending the time you invest being cynical about government being unfixable on an internet forum in doing something constructive to address its real shortcomings, such as grassroots efforst, campaigns, activism, etc.
A) Not quite yet, thank goodness.
B) What is? I didn't try to rouse fear of any sort, though I have a left-wing stance, sure.