We're not French and the percentage of the population that understands what Libre means is nil.
No, but if you're talking about the United States, the percentage of the population that understands Spanish (sometimes exclusively) is quite high. If you're talking about the world, the percentage of people that understand French and/or Spanish high enough too. Also, it's quite close to libere, which is Latin (and Italian).
If you end up having trouble explaining what Libre means to an American, just say "like in Nacho Libre" If they didn't understand libre, they'll be excited to use software associated with a Black Jack movie.
More importantly, by choosing a name that lots of English speakers won't even know how to pronounce, they've isolated themselves even more. They'd have done better if they'd chosen an abstract name like "Firefox" or "Apache."
Lee Bray Office? Sounds like an evangelical preacher's fundraising department.
Make the mascot a Zebra, and the English speakers will suddenly pick up on it.
"I have to finish my book report by tomorrow, but I've only got the files, no Microsoft Word."
"Here, I know where to get a cracked copy."
"Stop right there, children!"
(together)"Wow! It's the Libre Zebra!"
"That's right, and I'm here to tell you about LibreOffice, a free office suite that promotes the gnu values of liberty, justice, and apple pie!"
(together)"Thanks, Libre Zebra!"
"a police officer on a traffic stop", or "a non-uniformed police officer on a traffic stop using a non-labeled vehicle, not identifying himself as police before pointing a gun like a crazy man"?
I asked this question in another thread a while back and got modded a troll, but what the hell, I'm a sucker for punishment and I'll ask it again.
What about voting?
Why does the conservative right in the USA pander to evangelicals who think stem cells are people, Fred Flintstone lived alongside T-Rex and that it's just coincidental that chimps and humans share DNA? Because those evangelicals VOTE and vote strongly in numbers... Does campaign financing count for a lot? Sure - But ultimately it comes down to voters, and your representatives pander to those people who go out and put an "X" in the box next to their name.
Why does the liberal left in the USA pander to environmentalists who think sea-kittens are people, nuclear power is evil, and that it's just coincidental that humans have canine teeth? Because those environmentalists VOTE and vote strongly in numbers... Oh wait, they don't really. They're fringe-wackos. That means either the liberal left really believes that bologna, or there's something to gain from ever-restrictive rules that use the enviro-movement as a cover. So they're either crazy or evil.
If a representative goes with something silly because a lot of people want it, that's actually normal operating procedure. If they go with something only a small number of people want, it should be carefully inspected, because it's there's probably grift involved.
Technically, Hollywood's actions were totally illegal, and were banned before they even started filming without paying license fees. They were just out on the west coast, so enforcement was too hard.
Tell that to the people manslaughtered by the Ford Corporation when their Pinto cars blew-up. And yes accidents happen but the Corporation knew the fuel tanks were flawed and decided (as a whole), it was cheaper to just pay the dead people's families.
When you're dealing with evil intent, it's either a murder conspiracy by actual actors (real people), or negligence. A fictitious person can not have evil intent, just like a lot of other things it can't do.
I have this almost certain conviction that many things attributed to Obama are not really fairly attributed to him, or portray his intentions fairly. I'm guessing a great deal of this is written for idiots.
Next you'll be saying that G.W.Bush doesn't really have an IQ below 80, and desire nuclear holocaust.
There aren't that many terrorists, unless they plan on going back to the 60s and raiding all the anti war movement hippy types and Alex Jones listeners who happen to know what encryption is.
Obama used to hang with that crowd, so presumably he knows how violent and radical they can be from first hand experience.
It's the same strategy used by police and councils, sending out fines with threats of prosecution for minor motoring offences. Realistically the case is unlikely to go to court, but people pay up anyway because: (1) they want to avoid the months of worry, waiting to find out if they are taken to court or not; (2) often the case would be heard hundred of miles from their home and, even if they win, they can't recover their travel / accommodation expenses; and (3) the court system is notoriously biased against the motorist and appeals are expensive and complicated.
(4) they know they're guilty, so they look at the fine as a "cost of doing business"
Seriously. I wanted to be offended when I read her list of questions girls can ask geeky guys. But then I realized I had had conversations at work regarding all three within just the past week.
There wasn't an option back ~2004. It was kind of like Firefox's Awesome bar is now (a nuisance that the devs wouldn't fix). I suppose I'll have another look at it now. It's just an apt-get or yum command away.
I live in an appartment with 3 roommates who are not close friends, who often bring over people, and I don't lock my bedroom dor at all, even when I'm not at home (which is usually 4 days a week). I've been living that way for 5 years now, with changing roommates, and never missed anything. (Granted, I haven't anything of value in my room)
The classic home-user response regarding computer security: "I don't have data a hacker would want! LOL"
Well, they can't use your room as a bot-net to send SPAM out, but they might have sex in your bed.
it's so damn hard to build them right.
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Turn-based strategy is an underrepresented genre of video games. Perhaps it's because they aren't as flashy, or aren't as embedded in the public consciousness as the more popular types of games. Or maybe because it's so damn hard to build them right.
I was so set to love freeciv when I heard about it, then I found out the hard way that it wasn't turn based. People attacked me on _my_ turns. WTF? Apparently the concept of turn-based games was too hard for freeciv devs.
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... but that rhymes with Libre ;)
And that stands for Pool!
High taxes does not correlate with unhappy people.
Look, if it's still that way in CivV, then it's true.
We're not French and the percentage of the population that understands what Libre means is nil.
No, but if you're talking about the United States, the percentage of the population that understands Spanish (sometimes exclusively) is quite high. If you're talking about the world, the percentage of people that understand French and/or Spanish high enough too. Also, it's quite close to libere, which is Latin (and Italian).
If you end up having trouble explaining what Libre means to an American, just say "like in Nacho Libre" If they didn't understand libre, they'll be excited to use software associated with a Black Jack movie.
More importantly, by choosing a name that lots of English speakers won't even know how to pronounce, they've isolated themselves even more. They'd have done better if they'd chosen an abstract name like "Firefox" or "Apache."
Lee Bray Office? Sounds like an evangelical preacher's fundraising department.
Make the mascot a Zebra, and the English speakers will suddenly pick up on it.
"I have to finish my book report by tomorrow, but I've only got the files, no Microsoft Word."
"Here, I know where to get a cracked copy."
"Stop right there, children!"
(together)"Wow! It's the Libre Zebra!"
"That's right, and I'm here to tell you about LibreOffice, a free office suite that promotes the gnu values of liberty, justice, and apple pie!"
(together)"Thanks, Libre Zebra!"
There is a good chance Oracle owns the OpenOffice.org name.
Good. They can have it. Who ever heard of a piece of software being named after its website?
"a police officer on a traffic stop", or "a non-uniformed police officer on a traffic stop using a non-labeled vehicle, not identifying himself as police before pointing a gun like a crazy man"?
I asked this question in another thread a while back and got modded a troll, but what the hell, I'm a sucker for punishment and I'll ask it again.
What about voting?
Why does the conservative right in the USA pander to evangelicals who think stem cells are people, Fred Flintstone lived alongside T-Rex and that it's just coincidental that chimps and humans share DNA? Because those evangelicals VOTE and vote strongly in numbers... Does campaign financing count for a lot? Sure - But ultimately it comes down to voters, and your representatives pander to those people who go out and put an "X" in the box next to their name.
Why does the liberal left in the USA pander to environmentalists who think sea-kittens are people, nuclear power is evil, and that it's just coincidental that humans have canine teeth? Because those environmentalists VOTE and vote strongly in numbers... Oh wait, they don't really. They're fringe-wackos. That means either the liberal left really believes that bologna, or there's something to gain from ever-restrictive rules that use the enviro-movement as a cover. So they're either crazy or evil.
If a representative goes with something silly because a lot of people want it, that's actually normal operating procedure. If they go with something only a small number of people want, it should be carefully inspected, because it's there's probably grift involved.
Technically, Hollywood's actions were totally illegal, and were banned before they even started filming without paying license fees. They were just out on the west coast, so enforcement was too hard.
But if those unemployed had jobs they'd be paying more taxes...
Only if they earned more than $200,000/year.
Tell that to the people manslaughtered by the Ford Corporation when their Pinto cars blew-up. And yes accidents happen but the Corporation knew the fuel tanks were flawed and decided (as a whole), it was cheaper to just pay the dead people's families.
When you're dealing with evil intent, it's either a murder conspiracy by actual actors (real people), or negligence. A fictitious person can not have evil intent, just like a lot of other things it can't do.
Could you change your bit.ly link in your sig to a tinyurl link please? kthxby
We just have to hope the aliens aren't spherical
We demand bouncing, followed by rolling, followed by rolling of the third type.
For small outdoor cat/dog houses, incandescent lighting has always been an inexpensive heating solution (bonus for on/off state being quite visible).
I have this almost certain conviction that many things attributed to Obama are not really fairly attributed to him, or portray his intentions fairly. I'm guessing a great deal of this is written for idiots.
Next you'll be saying that G.W.Bush doesn't really have an IQ below 80, and desire nuclear holocaust.
There aren't that many terrorists, unless they plan on going back to the 60s and raiding all the anti war movement hippy types and Alex Jones listeners who happen to know what encryption is.
Obama used to hang with that crowd, so presumably he knows how violent and radical they can be from first hand experience.
This boss is worse than the old boss. The old boss beat us to get us to work faster. This boss beats us to get his jollies.
They went after Podium? /usr/share/dict/words
grep -i pod
Hmm, I bet they'd sue over "chiropodist" too.
We already have a reasonably good Hobbit movie. Sure, it's animated, but it will do.
It's the same strategy used by police and councils, sending out fines with threats of prosecution for minor motoring offences. Realistically the case is unlikely to go to court, but people pay up anyway because: (1) they want to avoid the months of worry, waiting to find out if they are taken to court or not; (2) often the case would be heard hundred of miles from their home and, even if they win, they can't recover their travel / accommodation expenses; and (3) the court system is notoriously biased against the motorist and appeals are expensive and complicated.
(4) they know they're guilty, so they look at the fine as a "cost of doing business"
Seriously. I wanted to be offended when I read her list of questions girls can ask geeky guys. But then I realized I had had conversations at work regarding all three within just the past week.
With the opposite sex?
There wasn't an option back ~2004. It was kind of like Firefox's Awesome bar is now (a nuisance that the devs wouldn't fix). I suppose I'll have another look at it now. It's just an apt-get or yum command away.
I live in an appartment with 3 roommates who are not close friends, who often bring over people, and I don't lock my bedroom dor at all, even when I'm not at home (which is usually 4 days a week). I've been living that way for 5 years now, with changing roommates, and never missed anything. (Granted, I haven't anything of value in my room)
The classic home-user response regarding computer security: "I don't have data a hacker would want! LOL"
Well, they can't use your room as a bot-net to send SPAM out, but they might have sex in your bed.
Turn-based strategy is an underrepresented genre of video games. Perhaps it's because they aren't as flashy, or aren't as embedded in the public consciousness as the more popular types of games. Or maybe because it's so damn hard to build them right.
I was so set to love freeciv when I heard about it, then I found out the hard way that it wasn't turn based. People attacked me on _my_ turns. WTF? Apparently the concept of turn-based games was too hard for freeciv devs.
Or maybe as a reverse-lobotomy? Giving emotions to the soulless evil that dwells among humankind?
he read an article on slashdot about how once you have a network firewalled, you don't have to worry about the computers themselves.
Pity he ready only the summary and article and didn't read any of the comments from knowledgeable geeks refuting it.