Perhaps most if not all can be corrupted, but there are varying degrees of corruption, and your resignation to defeatist pragmatism is a waste of existence. Do something more productive. Study. Vote. Tell others.
Actually, I'm not a defeatist or a pragmatist; I actually believe that there is a solution. It's just not a political one. In my mind, if there is nothing that is more of a waste of time than trying change the political situation.
I just installed this extension ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3497/ ) and restarted FF. The spelling thing just shows up as a red underline on misspells in a text box as you're typing. It doesn't, to my knowledge, offer any spelling alternatives.
Also, it does not show Firefox as an error. It shows firefox as an error.
Actually on mine it shows both "Firefox" and "firefox" as errors. But if it were to be correct, it would only show "firefox" as an error, since it is a proper noun and *should* be capitalized. For instance, FF shows "venice" as a misspelling and "Venice" as correct.
The way I see it, there will be a whole lot of people losing their data.
Most idiotic home users that I have the misfortune to deal with bring their computer to me when the hard drive is making horrible noises, Windows is broken or there some hardware problem.
Then, and only then, do they worry about how they're going to recover the five years worth of digital photos and financial information that they have never backed up. Since half of them don't even remember their email passwords, I highly doubt that they're going to remember this encryption password. That or they will tape it to the front of their laptop rendering the point of encryption moot.
Okay, mea culpa. After further review, I guess that I was talking out of my ass.
The only real problem I see with what you're saying is that it uses average incomes, which is probably heavily affected by outliers. After all, one Warren Buffet offsets a whole lot of $17,000/year people. I wonder what the median would be.
Another thing is the average cost of college. Mine was $50,000, but I got a free ride for a bunch of it. Looks like 50K for four years would be right for public universities, but private college is about $27K/year. I guess one might expect to get a better future income out of private colleges though.
I'm not bashing college, but I still think that not all degrees are a good investment. Take my sister-in-law the social worker for example.
Maybe MythTV can also remove the BS filler that is in programming too. As an example take any HGTV half hour TV show:
Step 1(Minutes 0-2). Useless introduction and program intro Step 2(Minutes 3-5). Explain the situation Step 3(Minutes 6-8). Commercials Step 4(Minutes 9-10). Re-explain the situation Step 5(Minutes 11-14). Try to create some drama out of thin air Step 6(Minutes 15-17). Commercials Step 7(Minutes 18-19). Re-explain the situation Step 8(Minutes 20-23). Try to create some more drama out of thin air Step 9(Minutes 24-26). Commercials Step 10(Minutes 27-29). Restate what happened Step 11(Minutes 29-30). Cue the music and intro the next program
As you can see, there's not too much real show in there.
They just don't wield the kind of power that control over vast amounts of campaign dollars provides.
But that's the point really. When organizations or people give to a politician's campaign, they *do* expect to get a return on their investment. And they usually get it. By the time that they get to any real position of power, most politicians are bought and paid for many times over. People who cannot be bought will not be given money, and will not get a great deal of power.
If greed could be eliminated, democracy would work. However, unlike many pie-in-the-sky humanist theorists believe, greed is part of the human condition and will not be eliminated through education. Having them more educated just makes them more effective greedy people.
In my mind the biggest problem is how people who produce programming are going to be paid. Don't get me wrong, I almost always record anything that I watch and skip the ads. But, aside from paid product placements--which I've noticed are becoming ubiquitous--I can't see how revenue will be generated to produce programming.
Personally, I'm willing to pay for whatever I watch, like I do with HBO. I just don't want it interrupted all the time. Maybe some sort of a la carte system??
Sorry, I have lots of questions but not a lot of answers.
Amen. I can't tell you how many times I have read a glowing review only to go into Amazon user reviews and find out that the product has some glaringly obvious flaw that makes it unsuitable for it's intended purpose. Even though I haven't always agreed with Consumer Reports' assessments, at least the Consumer's Union purchases the items themselves.
Right. What slays me is the regular folk who are so partisan in favor of one political party or the other. Give me a break! The party in power always grabs more power and the opposition tries to stop them. Why? Duh...to stay in power. When the winds of political change come, all they do they switch places.
People may originally get into politics for noble reasons but, eventually, it becomes about "doing business." And whether they are Republicans or Democrats it makes no difference. Eventually the media-government-business complex will select from among the candidates that they can "do business" with (sorry for ending my sentence with a preposition). What, you thought that you actually had a choice? Get real.
Like the old saw goes, power corrupts. But what gets me is these self-righteous A-holes who honestly think they they wouldn't be corrupted by it.
College works like this, you pay and go into debt now, so you can have quality of life later. It all solves itself in the end.
This is definitely not necessarily true. College is often a very poor *financial* investment. My education cost me $50,000. If you compounded interest at 10% (which is the historical yield of the stock market since WWII), at the end of my working life (45 years), the amount would have grown to over $3,500,000. That's an extra $80,000 per year.
There are many career fields where that would make sense, but there are many where it wouldn't. Perfect example: my brother-in-law has a high-school education and makes around $85,000/year with a company car, great health insurance and 401K matching. His wife has an MA in social work and earns $31,000, has to use her own car, has crappy insurance and no retirement vehicle at all.
I think that the same thing goes for global warming. Their are probably good investments to be made and not so good ones.
so you understand all the parts, but refuse to connect the dots?
What dots? Seriously, I'm not sure what you mean.
but you're suggesting what he's saying hardly happens at all, which is where you and he disagree, seemingly.
If you mean that I'm suggesting that what "hardly happens at all" is Christians giving people with different world-views the sin beat-down, you've got the wrong guy. I think that it happens all too frequently. What happens too *infrequently* is Christians respectfully & non-judgmentally sharing their faith out of a genuine concern for other people.
These days it seems that every churchgoer is The Messiah and is eager to tell you exactly how to fix all the problems you didn't know you had.
Churchgoing people (if by churchgoing, you mean Christian) by definition cannot logically believe that they are the Messiah. If they do, by definition, they are not Christians.
As far as telling you "how to fix all the problems you didn't know you had," what exactly are you talking about? If they're trying to tell you about Christian beliefs--like salvation--that would benefit you if they were true, how could you hold that against them. They might be wrong, but at least they cared enough about you to tell you. I would assume the same is true about any prostyletizing religion.
Now if they're just trying to beat you down with what they view as your sinfulness, that's a different matter all together. But I guess that if your world-view or behavior threatens their beliefs, they weren't really secure in their faith and are probably compensating.
Hells Bells, you know that the guy can't win with this crowd. Interestingly enough, GWB is simultaneously the stupidest president ever and is engineering a most Machiavellian evil plan to take over the world.
I will admit that he certainly seems to have been fairly ineffective--but I wonder how history will judge him. I personally just think that he's ineffectual because he speaks *as if* he's an idiot, which keeps him from being able to clearly communicate what he's trying to do. I wouldn't be surprised if he just had some sort of undiagnosed dyslexia or reading disorder.
Either way, I will probably be relieved when Hillary's president--heaven knows that the Clinton cabal has never tried anything shifty.
I've never been an Oracle customer myself, but I know some people who heave been - and how content, or rather, how NOT content - they were with the service of the company. Red Hat, on the other hand, was awarded with the first place in some customer-contentment-survey recently cited by German IT-newsmag c't (where Oracle came in at around place 40 or so). So I suppose that Red Hat offers much better service, and will do so even more on a product THEY actually make themselves, compared with something Oracle basically just relables.
I know that this is anecdotal, but my experience with Red Hat has been the opposite.
For years I actually purchased Red Hat disks instead of just downloading the free one. I did this just so I could get the support. This was back when I first decided that I liked the ideals of FOSS and wanted to make Linux my desktop machine. The last one I bought was Red Hat 8.
Unfortunately, the one time that I called Red Hat for support they were unable to help me. I just needed to get RH8 to print to any one of my three printers. The woman who "helped" me spoke in a very heavy accent, was *extremely* testy and gave up after twenty minutes. She claimed that RH didn't work with all printers. A quick call to a friend got me printing in a couple of minutes.
Needless to say, that was the last time I paid for RH support. It's Centos for me now.
All in all, an investment in a diamond mine or even in a diamond ring may be a very bad investment.
I can't speak to the investment-worthiness of a diamond mine, but a diamond ring seems to me to always be a bad "investment." I had this conversation with my brother-in-law. He went out and bought a huge engagement ring for his fiance, saying that it would be a good "investment."
Paying an extra $65/month for a rider on their homeowner's policy, the ring would essentially be worthless in 15-20 years. After that, it would cost him money. Some investment!
Once again, please try not to be rational, reasonable or unbiased. Here on slashdot, we are not interested in getting to the truth--only in being right, the facts be damned.
thanks to the Dutch love of tailgating (especially when it's wet), there are regularly huge traffic jams on the major highways.
This is the most bizarre thing that I have ever seen. I'm not sure why, but it seems that the more polite the people in a particular culture are, the more impolitely they drive. As an example, the Mexican people are probably the most polite people on the planet, but they *immediately* lay on the horn when a light changes, tailgate, drive aggressively, etc. Ditto the Lebanese. Ditto the Dutch.
You must be new here. On Slashdot, even-handed reasonableness is discouraged. Now please, get on one side of the argument or the other. Either Americans are the spawns of Stan (formerly Satan) or they are the holy angels of God Almighty--there can be no middle ground. Duh...
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Apparently that is true. But it also doesn't flag "pron," which really is not a word.
Perhaps most if not all can be corrupted, but there are varying degrees of corruption, and your resignation to defeatist pragmatism is a waste of existence. Do something more productive. Study. Vote. Tell others.
Actually, I'm not a defeatist or a pragmatist; I actually believe that there is a solution. It's just not a political one. In my mind, if there is nothing that is more of a waste of time than trying change the political situation.
I just installed this extension ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3497/ ) and restarted FF. The spelling thing just shows up as a red underline on misspells in a text box as you're typing. It doesn't, to my knowledge, offer any spelling alternatives.
FYI, also "pron" is not a misspelling, but "prOn" is. Other than the obvious colloquialism, there is no word "pron" in the dictionary that I can find.
Thanks for the info on the numbers thing.
Also, it does not show Firefox as an error. It shows firefox as an error.
Actually on mine it shows both "Firefox" and "firefox" as errors. But if it were to be correct, it would only show "firefox" as an error, since it is a proper noun and *should* be capitalized. For instance, FF shows "venice" as a misspelling and "Venice" as correct.
Somebody pulled that stat out of their rectum. That is simply not possible.
90% of web content being pr0n would be more believable.
I can't flippin' believe it--Firefox 2.0 did not show "pr0n" as being a misspelling, even though it did show "Firefox" as an error. Unbelievable!
The way I see it, there will be a whole lot of people losing their data.
Most idiotic home users that I have the misfortune to deal with bring their computer to me when the hard drive is making horrible noises, Windows is broken or there some hardware problem.
Then, and only then, do they worry about how they're going to recover the five years worth of digital photos and financial information that they have never backed up. Since half of them don't even remember their email passwords, I highly doubt that they're going to remember this encryption password. That or they will tape it to the front of their laptop rendering the point of encryption moot.
Okay, mea culpa. After further review, I guess that I was talking out of my ass.
The only real problem I see with what you're saying is that it uses average incomes, which is probably heavily affected by outliers. After all, one Warren Buffet offsets a whole lot of $17,000/year people. I wonder what the median would be.
Another thing is the average cost of college. Mine was $50,000, but I got a free ride for a bunch of it. Looks like 50K for four years would be right for public universities, but private college is about $27K/year. I guess one might expect to get a better future income out of private colleges though.
I'm not bashing college, but I still think that not all degrees are a good investment. Take my sister-in-law the social worker for example.
Maybe MythTV can also remove the BS filler that is in programming too. As an example take any HGTV half hour TV show:
Step 1(Minutes 0-2). Useless introduction and program intro
Step 2(Minutes 3-5). Explain the situation
Step 3(Minutes 6-8). Commercials
Step 4(Minutes 9-10). Re-explain the situation
Step 5(Minutes 11-14). Try to create some drama out of thin air
Step 6(Minutes 15-17). Commercials
Step 7(Minutes 18-19). Re-explain the situation
Step 8(Minutes 20-23). Try to create some more drama out of thin air
Step 9(Minutes 24-26). Commercials
Step 10(Minutes 27-29). Restate what happened
Step 11(Minutes 29-30). Cue the music and intro the next program
As you can see, there's not too much real show in there.
------------>Whoosh---------->
They just don't wield the kind of power that control over vast amounts of campaign dollars provides.
But that's the point really. When organizations or people give to a politician's campaign, they *do* expect to get a return on their investment. And they usually get it. By the time that they get to any real position of power, most politicians are bought and paid for many times over. People who cannot be bought will not be given money, and will not get a great deal of power.
If greed could be eliminated, democracy would work. However, unlike many pie-in-the-sky humanist theorists believe, greed is part of the human condition and will not be eliminated through education. Having them more educated just makes them more effective greedy people.
In my mind the biggest problem is how people who produce programming are going to be paid. Don't get me wrong, I almost always record anything that I watch and skip the ads. But, aside from paid product placements--which I've noticed are becoming ubiquitous--I can't see how revenue will be generated to produce programming.
Personally, I'm willing to pay for whatever I watch, like I do with HBO. I just don't want it interrupted all the time. Maybe some sort of a la carte system??
Sorry, I have lots of questions but not a lot of answers.
Amen. I can't tell you how many times I have read a glowing review only to go into Amazon user reviews and find out that the product has some glaringly obvious flaw that makes it unsuitable for it's intended purpose. Even though I haven't always agreed with Consumer Reports' assessments, at least the Consumer's Union purchases the items themselves.
Right. What slays me is the regular folk who are so partisan in favor of one political party or the other. Give me a break! The party in power always grabs more power and the opposition tries to stop them. Why? Duh...to stay in power. When the winds of political change come, all they do they switch places.
People may originally get into politics for noble reasons but, eventually, it becomes about "doing business." And whether they are Republicans or Democrats it makes no difference. Eventually the media-government-business complex will select from among the candidates that they can "do business" with (sorry for ending my sentence with a preposition). What, you thought that you actually had a choice? Get real.
Like the old saw goes, power corrupts. But what gets me is these self-righteous A-holes who honestly think they they wouldn't be corrupted by it.
College works like this, you pay and go into debt now, so you can have quality of life later. It all solves itself in the end.
This is definitely not necessarily true. College is often a very poor *financial* investment. My education cost me $50,000. If you compounded interest at 10% (which is the historical yield of the stock market since WWII), at the end of my working life (45 years), the amount would have grown to over $3,500,000. That's an extra $80,000 per year.
There are many career fields where that would make sense, but there are many where it wouldn't. Perfect example: my brother-in-law has a high-school education and makes around $85,000/year with a company car, great health insurance and 401K matching. His wife has an MA in social work and earns $31,000, has to use her own car, has crappy insurance and no retirement vehicle at all.
I think that the same thing goes for global warming. Their are probably good investments to be made and not so good ones.
Good points. I couldn't agree more.
so you understand all the parts, but refuse to connect the dots?
What dots? Seriously, I'm not sure what you mean.
but you're suggesting what he's saying hardly happens at all, which is where you and he disagree, seemingly.
If you mean that I'm suggesting that what "hardly happens at all" is Christians giving people with different world-views the sin beat-down, you've got the wrong guy. I think that it happens all too frequently. What happens too *infrequently* is Christians respectfully & non-judgmentally sharing their faith out of a genuine concern for other people.
These days it seems that every churchgoer is The Messiah and is eager to tell you exactly how to fix all the problems you didn't know you had.
Churchgoing people (if by churchgoing, you mean Christian) by definition cannot logically believe that they are the Messiah. If they do, by definition, they are not Christians.
As far as telling you "how to fix all the problems you didn't know you had," what exactly are you talking about? If they're trying to tell you about Christian beliefs--like salvation--that would benefit you if they were true, how could you hold that against them. They might be wrong, but at least they cared enough about you to tell you. I would assume the same is true about any prostyletizing religion.
Now if they're just trying to beat you down with what they view as your sinfulness, that's a different matter all together. But I guess that if your world-view or behavior threatens their beliefs, they weren't really secure in their faith and are probably compensating.
Hells Bells, you know that the guy can't win with this crowd. Interestingly enough, GWB is simultaneously the stupidest president ever and is engineering a most Machiavellian evil plan to take over the world.
I will admit that he certainly seems to have been fairly ineffective--but I wonder how history will judge him. I personally just think that he's ineffectual because he speaks *as if* he's an idiot, which keeps him from being able to clearly communicate what he's trying to do. I wouldn't be surprised if he just had some sort of undiagnosed dyslexia or reading disorder.
Either way, I will probably be relieved when Hillary's president--heaven knows that the Clinton cabal has never tried anything shifty.
I've never been an Oracle customer myself, but I know some people who heave been - and how content, or rather, how NOT content - they were with the service of the company. Red Hat, on the other hand, was awarded with the first place in some customer-contentment-survey recently cited by German IT-newsmag c't (where Oracle came in at around place 40 or so). So I suppose that Red Hat offers much better service, and will do so even more on a product THEY actually make themselves, compared with something Oracle basically just relables.
I know that this is anecdotal, but my experience with Red Hat has been the opposite.
For years I actually purchased Red Hat disks instead of just downloading the free one. I did this just so I could get the support. This was back when I first decided that I liked the ideals of FOSS and wanted to make Linux my desktop machine. The last one I bought was Red Hat 8.
Unfortunately, the one time that I called Red Hat for support they were unable to help me. I just needed to get RH8 to print to any one of my three printers. The woman who "helped" me spoke in a very heavy accent, was *extremely* testy and gave up after twenty minutes. She claimed that RH didn't work with all printers. A quick call to a friend got me printing in a couple of minutes.
Needless to say, that was the last time I paid for RH support. It's Centos for me now.
That depends on what your definition of "is" is. Heh...just kidding.
All in all, an investment in a diamond mine or even in a diamond ring may be a very bad investment.
I can't speak to the investment-worthiness of a diamond mine, but a diamond ring seems to me to always be a bad "investment." I had this conversation with my brother-in-law. He went out and bought a huge engagement ring for his fiance, saying that it would be a good "investment."
Paying an extra $65/month for a rider on their homeowner's policy, the ring would essentially be worthless in 15-20 years. After that, it would cost him money. Some investment!
You must be new here.
Once again, please try not to be rational, reasonable or unbiased. Here on slashdot, we are not interested in getting to the truth--only in being right, the facts be damned.
thanks to the Dutch love of tailgating (especially when it's wet), there are regularly huge traffic jams on the major highways.
This is the most bizarre thing that I have ever seen. I'm not sure why, but it seems that the more polite the people in a particular culture are, the more impolitely they drive. As an example, the Mexican people are probably the most polite people on the planet, but they *immediately* lay on the horn when a light changes, tailgate, drive aggressively, etc. Ditto the Lebanese. Ditto the Dutch.
You must be new here. On Slashdot, even-handed reasonableness is discouraged. Now please, get on one side of the argument or the other. Either Americans are the spawns of Stan (formerly Satan) or they are the holy angels of God Almighty--there can be no middle ground. Duh...