So what you're telling me is that Office 7 is a must-upgrade because they made the menus not-suck? Are you being serious? A student license of Office is $130, last time I checked; maybe you're rolling in piles of dough, but I need a bit more motivation to plunk down that kind of money for a program I only use reluctantly.
For any other employer, I would agree with you. But you seem to be forgetting that his employer is the U.S. government, not George, or Cooney, or any other person in the White House. Who pays his salary? We do. His duty is to serve the people of this country, and not some interloper's political agenda. I can understand (sort of) suppression of information in the interests of national security (if it is, in fact, necessary, though I honestly can't imagine when it would be), but I really don't see global warming as being something that the NSA (or CIA or FBI or ) needs to concern itself with.
But the patent system is screwed up. The folks that decide whether or not an application is granted or not have quotas. If you drop behind, they get on your ass and tell you to pick up the pace or get out. This seems very wrong, and actually explains a lot about how patents actually work here: getting a patent is easy, but validation of it (in addition to enforcement) is left to the judicial system (c.f. RIM).
Leaving your keys in the car is stupid, but that doesn't mean it's ok to steal the car.
While we shouldn't ignore SWK's own role in this, it does not in any way detract from the role the other kids played in it. Namely, once obtained, the video didn't need to be placed on the internet -- that was their decision. And now they're reaping the consequences of it. The real lesson here is "Don't bully litigious nerds".
Besides, I'm sure that if everyone that enjoyed the film sent the sueees $1 (you couldn't have enjoyed it if they hadn't uploaded it, after all), I figure they'd have enough to cover the settlement with enough left over for college too.
I have only ever lived in urban areas (LA, Seattle, Honolulu), and in each of those places there was only one DSL provider and one cable provider. I've never really checked out the alternatives, though, so I can't comment on those. I would guess that wireless broadband would work substantially better in the boonies, where there isn't as much interference, which might explain why I hadn't heard of it until today.
I was under the impression that Nintendo rarely, if ever took a loss on their hardware. I was under the impression that it was why they're still in the game, pun not intended (that and their utter dominance in the handheld market).
If the studios allowed mastering engineers to actually do their job and master the damn albums instead of making them sound like shit (not that I'm terribly impressed with popular music of late), then we wouldn't need any more bits. It's next to impossible to tell the difference between a properly mastered redbook CD and the equivalent (DVD-A|SACD); in that case, the big difference between formats (aside from multichannel in DVD-A) is that redbook CDs are rippable. Just because the typical Billboard Top 40 averages within -3 dB of full scale doesn't mean that the format is meant to be used that way.
The way it used to work (in 18th century America, anyway), walls were really expensive: a total PITA to have in a log cabin. Now couple this with the fact that back then, sex was a very important part of the puritan family (you don't have a family without sex, after all). For example, a man was once thrown out of his town because he had not had sex with his wife for 2 years. I'm fairly certain that under these circumstances, children grew up to be very knowledgable about male/female relations.
Well, if you can do without the more useful features of Office, more power to you; I'm glad that you've been able to save yourself some money. For the rest of us, OpenOffice is simply a travesty; if you really want me to go into what it's lacking, I will, but I don't think either of us really cares that much. The biggy for me is that the more advanced features (where advanced is something as rudimentary as an equation editor) are either completely absent or incompatible with Microsoft's implementation.
As for WYSIWYG interfaces, I think you're throwing out the baby with the bath water, but if you insist there's (if you can stand using X11, which evidently you have problems with) LyX and TeXmacs. I must be a freak, since I actually find it less intuitive to use either of those programs than it is to just write LaTeX in a decent text editor, despite the fact that I was introduced to TeX via LyX (I like Kile best, but iTeXmac is the best I've seen on OSX).
annus horribilis? That sounds like the rear view of my aunt Edna.
That would be "anus": one "n". At risk of being pedantic and condescending, "annus" (note, two "n"s) is year, as in annual. Yeah, I get the joke, I'm just trying to point out that spelling counts.
A lot of Windows users simply DO NOT LIKE the Mac. And rather than figure out why, the Mac elitists claim the fault must lie with the user. "Find Open Office hard to use? You must be a moron."
Mac fanboys don't use OpenOffice; they can get MS Office the same way Windows users get it. I don't know a single mac user that uses OOorg. In fact, I don't actually know anyone that can actually stand using it (you know, someone that I've seen and talked to). Not because it's "tough to use", as you imply, but because it is completely and utterly insufficient as an Office replacement. That is to say, it's features are sorely lacking and compatibility with MS (it's raison d'etre, as far as I'm concerned) is shoddy at best. I know this because I have to use it every time some shmuck sends me something in.doc format, seeing as how MS doesn't support linux (yes, I know about crossover office). Oh yeah, so I suppose that makes me a linux zealot now.
I used to agree with you, when I was a freshman in college, but I've since changed my mind. Education, even up to the graduate level (and, indeed, beyond that), is all about learning how to learn. In elementary and high school, it's ok to just hand-feed students, but once you're an adult you have to understand that information doesn't always come the way you want it to.
Suffice it to say that it's her classroom, and she gets to teach in it however she damn well pleases. If the students don't like it, they'd better show up for course evals. It's not like she's even going out of her way to not-teach (which a non-trivial number of professors do); I really don't understand what the problem is.
any time there's an overlap in article content, you're mostly going to have more than one person's opinions, and however objective their intentions, there are going to be difference in approach, knowledge, background, etc.
You don't even need overlap to get problems. I've noticed self-contradicting articles, and articles that mention the same thing multiple times in the same section, etc. Wikipedia is good for some things, bad for others, but you always have to read a little more carefully than you would a normal encyclopedia.
I fix things when I can't stand the way it is, but I never know when some idiot is going to come around and fuck it up... or maybe I was the idiot. That's the other thing that's kind of disturbing about wikipedia.
That's what the/etc/portage/packages.use file is for. As for compilation errors, I've had as much trouble with broken debs as I've had with compilation (that is, compilation that fails only on my system, for no good reason; if it happens to other people, then there's a good chance you can fix it).
I had heard that "testing" isn't very safe, since it's the last branch to get security patches. I have nothing to back up this claim, it's just something I'd read somewhere, but if it's true I'd stay away from it (and I did, while I ran debian).
I was merely pointing out that you weren't addressing the comments in question, merely reiterating what the parent was himself replying to. The fact of the matter is that neither you nor I nor anyone else can say that Christians are any better or worse than any one else, as has been stated by you and others, simply for a lack of sufficient data. In that sense, it's a pointless argument, filled only with anecdotal evidence of the embittered sides, and I'm sorry to have stoked the fires.
Speaking of anecdotes, I fail to see the relevance of this Danish priest fella. Isn't the appropriate analogy to say that Christians (Danish or otherwise) would not riot if someone like, say, David Horsey published a cartoon of Jesus with a bomb? I'm fairly certain that most wouldn't but that gets back to the original point: Does socio-economic status matter? Since I haven't yet heard of Western Muslims rioting or firebombing (doesn't mean that they aren't but I haven't seen it in the news yet), I infer that it does, but you're welcome to disagree. My impression is that the recent disturbances have less to do with religion than they do with politics (aside from the fact that they're all fighting, in both the literal and figurative sense, a holy war).
If they're not organized and perpetuating acts of mass destruction now, it's because most feel they have a voice in government, and thus only a few of the most extreme actually go out and kill people.
Supposing that I agree completely with what you've said, that still doesn't explain why it's in any way a good idea to use flash as a navigational tool on a website (like, for instance, on a movie's or video game's website). I don't think they're complaining about fine art or even things like strongbad, but I agree that flash makes for a pretty unusable user interface.
You are arguing semantics. Within physics, it is only well defined within the field of statistical mechanics. Elsewhere it tends to be somewhat corrupted. People are always talking about the so-called "temperature" of particles in the interplanetary medium, even though they aren't even thermalized. Heat is thermal energy. If a group of particles isn't thermalized, they don't rightly have a temperature. If the temperature isn't well-defined (i.e. a non-equilibrium system, [i.e. a dynamic system]), then "heat" isn't well-defined either.
In this case, I am almost certain (without reading more than the first 5 paragraphs of the article) that the particles are not thermalized, are not, in fact, in equilibrium, and therefore do not have a temperature. In that case, you should assume right off the bat that if someone mentions words like "temperature", "heat", "hot", that they are referring to the kinetic energy of the particles, as that is the custom (at least within physics), and indeed, only interpretation that makes sense.
Furthermore, you miss the obvious point that there weren't even trying to make fusion. This should have been clear from the fact that when they said "room temperature" they meant that it was relatively hot and not cold (that is to say, not at cryogenic temperatures). The article is simply bad reporting by people that don't understand what they're talking about (unfortunately, not so uncommon).
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So what you're telling me is that Office 7 is a must-upgrade because they made the menus not-suck? Are you being serious? A student license of Office is $130, last time I checked; maybe you're rolling in piles of dough, but I need a bit more motivation to plunk down that kind of money for a program I only use reluctantly.
For any other employer, I would agree with you. But you seem to be forgetting that his employer is the U.S. government, not George, or Cooney, or any other person in the White House. Who pays his salary? We do. His duty is to serve the people of this country, and not some interloper's political agenda. I can understand (sort of) suppression of information in the interests of national security (if it is, in fact, necessary, though I honestly can't imagine when it would be), but I really don't see global warming as being something that the NSA (or CIA or FBI or ) needs to concern itself with.
But the patent system is screwed up. The folks that decide whether or not an application is granted or not have quotas. If you drop behind, they get on your ass and tell you to pick up the pace or get out. This seems very wrong, and actually explains a lot about how patents actually work here: getting a patent is easy, but validation of it (in addition to enforcement) is left to the judicial system (c.f. RIM).
Leaving your keys in the car is stupid, but that doesn't mean it's ok to steal the car.
While we shouldn't ignore SWK's own role in this, it does not in any way detract from the role the other kids played in it. Namely, once obtained, the video didn't need to be placed on the internet -- that was their decision. And now they're reaping the consequences of it. The real lesson here is "Don't bully litigious nerds".
Besides, I'm sure that if everyone that enjoyed the film sent the sueees $1 (you couldn't have enjoyed it if they hadn't uploaded it, after all), I figure they'd have enough to cover the settlement with enough left over for college too.
Actually, after reading more of the comments I figured I was misinformed, but thanks for the info anyway.
I haven't inspected it myself, but I had been told that it was filled with concrete to prevent subsequent theft after Mudd stole it.
I have only ever lived in urban areas (LA, Seattle, Honolulu), and in each of those places there was only one DSL provider and one cable provider. I've never really checked out the alternatives, though, so I can't comment on those. I would guess that wireless broadband would work substantially better in the boonies, where there isn't as much interference, which might explain why I hadn't heard of it until today.
I was under the impression that Nintendo rarely, if ever took a loss on their hardware. I was under the impression that it was why they're still in the game, pun not intended (that and their utter dominance in the handheld market).
If the studios allowed mastering engineers to actually do their job and master the damn albums instead of making them sound like shit (not that I'm terribly impressed with popular music of late), then we wouldn't need any more bits. It's next to impossible to tell the difference between a properly mastered redbook CD and the equivalent (DVD-A|SACD); in that case, the big difference between formats (aside from multichannel in DVD-A) is that redbook CDs are rippable. Just because the typical Billboard Top 40 averages within -3 dB of full scale doesn't mean that the format is meant to be used that way.
The way it used to work (in 18th century America, anyway), walls were really expensive: a total PITA to have in a log cabin. Now couple this with the fact that back then, sex was a very important part of the puritan family (you don't have a family without sex, after all). For example, a man was once thrown out of his town because he had not had sex with his wife for 2 years. I'm fairly certain that under these circumstances, children grew up to be very knowledgable about male/female relations.
Well, if you can do without the more useful features of Office, more power to you; I'm glad that you've been able to save yourself some money. For the rest of us, OpenOffice is simply a travesty; if you really want me to go into what it's lacking, I will, but I don't think either of us really cares that much. The biggy for me is that the more advanced features (where advanced is something as rudimentary as an equation editor) are either completely absent or incompatible with Microsoft's implementation. As for WYSIWYG interfaces, I think you're throwing out the baby with the bath water, but if you insist there's (if you can stand using X11, which evidently you have problems with) LyX and TeXmacs. I must be a freak, since I actually find it less intuitive to use either of those programs than it is to just write LaTeX in a decent text editor, despite the fact that I was introduced to TeX via LyX (I like Kile best, but iTeXmac is the best I've seen on OSX).
Mac fanboys don't use OpenOffice; they can get MS Office the same way Windows users get it. I don't know a single mac user that uses OOorg. In fact, I don't actually know anyone that can actually stand using it (you know, someone that I've seen and talked to). Not because it's "tough to use", as you imply, but because it is completely and utterly insufficient as an Office replacement. That is to say, it's features are sorely lacking and compatibility with MS (it's raison d'etre, as far as I'm concerned) is shoddy at best. I know this because I have to use it every time some shmuck sends me something in
You get one big and one small copy. The small one is meant for portable video viewers (ipod, I suppose).
Not that odd; it uses XUL, which is Mozilla-only (boo!).
I used to agree with you, when I was a freshman in college, but I've since changed my mind. Education, even up to the graduate level (and, indeed, beyond that), is all about learning how to learn. In elementary and high school, it's ok to just hand-feed students, but once you're an adult you have to understand that information doesn't always come the way you want it to.
Suffice it to say that it's her classroom, and she gets to teach in it however she damn well pleases. If the students don't like it, they'd better show up for course evals. It's not like she's even going out of her way to not-teach (which a non-trivial number of professors do); I really don't understand what the problem is.
You don't even need overlap to get problems. I've noticed self-contradicting articles, and articles that mention the same thing multiple times in the same section, etc. Wikipedia is good for some things, bad for others, but you always have to read a little more carefully than you would a normal encyclopedia.
I fix things when I can't stand the way it is, but I never know when some idiot is going to come around and fuck it up
That's what the /etc/portage/packages.use file is for. As for compilation errors, I've had as much trouble with broken debs as I've had with compilation (that is, compilation that fails only on my system, for no good reason; if it happens to other people, then there's a good chance you can fix it).
I had heard that "testing" isn't very safe, since it's the last branch to get security patches. I have nothing to back up this claim, it's just something I'd read somewhere, but if it's true I'd stay away from it (and I did, while I ran debian).
the point is that it doesn't roll off one's tongue as easily as the other examples.
I was merely pointing out that you weren't addressing the comments in question, merely reiterating what the parent was himself replying to. The fact of the matter is that neither you nor I nor anyone else can say that Christians are any better or worse than any one else, as has been stated by you and others, simply for a lack of sufficient data. In that sense, it's a pointless argument, filled only with anecdotal evidence of the embittered sides, and I'm sorry to have stoked the fires.
Speaking of anecdotes, I fail to see the relevance of this Danish priest fella. Isn't the appropriate analogy to say that Christians (Danish or otherwise) would not riot if someone like, say, David Horsey published a cartoon of Jesus with a bomb? I'm fairly certain that most wouldn't but that gets back to the original point: Does socio-economic status matter? Since I haven't yet heard of Western Muslims rioting or firebombing (doesn't mean that they aren't but I haven't seen it in the news yet), I infer that it does, but you're welcome to disagree. My impression is that the recent disturbances have less to do with religion than they do with politics (aside from the fact that they're all fighting, in both the literal and figurative sense, a holy war).
You seem to have missed the part where s/he said:
Supposing that I agree completely with what you've said, that still doesn't explain why it's in any way a good idea to use flash as a navigational tool on a website (like, for instance, on a movie's or video game's website). I don't think they're complaining about fine art or even things like strongbad, but I agree that flash makes for a pretty unusable user interface.
He's not saying that progress is bad. Just that we don't want 62000 progress reports. Would it be too much to ask for real news?
You are arguing semantics. Within physics, it is only well defined within the field of statistical mechanics. Elsewhere it tends to be somewhat corrupted. People are always talking about the so-called "temperature" of particles in the interplanetary medium, even though they aren't even thermalized. Heat is thermal energy. If a group of particles isn't thermalized, they don't rightly have a temperature. If the temperature isn't well-defined (i.e. a non-equilibrium system, [i.e. a dynamic system]), then "heat" isn't well-defined either.
In this case, I am almost certain (without reading more than the first 5 paragraphs of the article) that the particles are not thermalized, are not, in fact, in equilibrium, and therefore do not have a temperature. In that case, you should assume right off the bat that if someone mentions words like "temperature", "heat", "hot", that they are referring to the kinetic energy of the particles, as that is the custom (at least within physics), and indeed, only interpretation that makes sense.
Furthermore, you miss the obvious point that there weren't even trying to make fusion. This should have been clear from the fact that when they said "room temperature" they meant that it was relatively hot and not cold (that is to say, not at cryogenic temperatures). The article is simply bad reporting by people that don't understand what they're talking about (unfortunately, not so uncommon).