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Comment 50 employee company (Score 1) 243

I am the IT department. I have the org chart right here. It looks like this:

          Owner
            |
           VP------Me
            |
       _Managers___
      |  |    |    |
   Peon  Peon Peon Peon

It works out great, although the VP is cluefull.

Comment Re:Their own bible condems them (Score 3, Informative) 286

I couldn't find a Jerusalem Bible online fast enough.

Here it is:
1 The Spirit has explicitly said that during the last times some will desert the faith and pay attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines that come from devils,
2 seduced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are branded as though with a red-hot iron:
3 they forbid marriage and prohibit foods which God created to be accepted with thanksgiving by all who believe and who know the truth.
4 Everything God has created is good, and no food is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving:
5 the word of God and prayer make it holy.

Here is the New American:
1 Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions
2 through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences.
3 They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected when received with thanksgiving,
5 for it is made holy by the invocation of God in prayer.

Here is the Douay:
1 Now the Spirit manifestly saith, that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error, and doctrines of devils,
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their conscience seared,
3 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and by them that have known the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Anything else you care to complain about?

Comment Their own bible condems them (Score 2, Interesting) 286

1 Timothy 4:1-5:
1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, 3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; 5 for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.

Note how it says forbidding to marry is a teaching inspired my demons. I mean, wow, don't they read their own book?

Comment What I do (Score 1) 349

I use Kubuntu for my workstations. I load them from a PXE boot server, which installs using a combo of a kickstart file and preseeding. The kickstart/preseed config looks to a local mirror to install from. That local mirror is run by apt-cacher-ng so it's always up to date. If you're trying to get maximum performance, don't bother trying to use a VM for Windows. I do that as well, but it's only to run legacy apps we don't have Linux versions of yet. I've gotten to around 95% Linux only use, so it's not a big deal for me. The Windows world has tools to help you with that problem, notably sysprep. There are others I'm sure, but that's not my area of expertise. Let me know if you want more details.

Comment Re:Firefox not playing h264 is a political decisio (Score 4, Interesting) 473

You don't get it. If Firefox had h.264 support, it could not be redistributed. Period. Everyone would have to download the 'offical' version from Mozilla. No Linux distro could include it. No one could change the code and distribute it. It would cripple Firefox. Why the hell doesn't anyone understand this?

Comment Re:H.264 (Score 1) 473

That is a solution that would allow Mozilla to continue to keep Firefox open while supporting h.264. However, anyone who uses an unlicensed h.264 decoder are still technically breaking the law (at least in the U.S.). I'd rather not have to break the law to watch a video online, but I suppose that would make enough people happy.

Comment Re:H.264 (Score 1) 473

If they really felt this way then they would allow players and transmission without patent royalties. They would make it official and permanent. They have not. "I don't think", "99% of websites", and
"It would be stupid of them" doesn't cut it. If you want to put faith in them, go ahead. I'd like to think we know better then that.

Comment Re:H.264 (Score 4, Interesting) 473

Flash is an optional addon. There is no optional addon to play h.264. The support for the video is built into the browser, and once it's built in the browser cannot be redistributed due to patents. This is why Firefox can't play H.264, and the reason Theora doesn't have support from some key players. Without the patents, there is no control.

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