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Comment Him ain't complex! (Score 1) 989

Two arguments against that: 1. He/She does not live. If your soul went to heaven - an unlikely proposition, I know - eternal bliss would not be a part of your life, but rather of your afterlife. If this is the place where you can meet your maker, and a place, where you don't live, your maker won't live either, I guess. 2. God has always been envisioned in the Christian theological tradition as a simple being. The same goes for souls and angels, btw. So there is no way of thinking Him as "complex" - because complex things by definition may degenerate, and a degenerating God is inconceivable. Conclusion: Always know your enemy. ;)
Wikipedia

Wikipedia Is Not Amused By Entry For xkcd-Coined Word 553

ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "Today's xkcd comic introduced an unusual word — malamanteau — by giving its supposed definition on Wikipedia. The only trouble is that the word (as well as its supposed wiki page) did not in fact exist. Naturally, much ado ensued at the supposed wiki page, which was swiftly created in response to the comic. This article has more on how the comic and the confusion it caused have put the Net in a tizzy. It turns out that a malamanteau is a portmanteau of portmanteau and malapropism, but also a malapropism of portmanteau. All this puts Wikipedia in the confusing position of not allowing a page for an undefined word whose meaning is defined via the Wikipedia page for that word — and now I have to lie down for a moment."

Comment Standard compliance (Score 2, Interesting) 260

The decisive advantage of open formats should be that you can work around any limitations posed by an application. Moreover, every OO-user can send you a pdf preserving all essential properties of the document. I'm curious why none of these options seems to help you. And, by the way, what is an "epub-company"? A company publishing ebooks in epub format, or rather a company pursuing electronic publishing?

Comment Re:Potentially disastrous to science fiction write (Score 1) 650

All you need then is an anti-information machine. So SF-writers would have to dream up a machine capable of annihilating information gathered in centuries before in order to compensate for gravitational effects. Oh... wait.. the internet exists... we just have to wait for its effects to get big enough: Buying an amnesia of, say, two years will buy you a journey to alpha centauri in the near future. ;)

Comment Re:Unexpected results (Score 1) 582

1: The /. demographic is probably surprisingly old.
2: That doesn't mean we weren't once 20-30
3: I live in the "boonies/flyover country etc", or Indiana if you've ever heard of it, my house was like 50K, while not a palace it ain't a dump either. my mortgage is only $4something a month. I'm relatively cheap, but groceries for two around a hundred something a week, this puts me more or less in the 1:1 category.
Linux

Submission + - Linux indemnification from Microsoft - sort of? (desktoplinux.com)

clemenstimpler writes: It may just be an intelligent business idea. Or it is a novel approach to the task of embracing, extending and extinguishing. You now can buy CentOS support — not from Red Hat, but from a startup called OpenLogic. However, a trip to OpenLogic's website proves to be disconcerting.

1. They offer a special Open Source Indemnification Offer. Quote: "There are many benefits to using open source software, but in some cases there are lingering legal concerns around deploying open source in the enterprise. In order for enterprises to fully embrace a broad range of open source software, they need to be able to deploy, manage and control open source while limiting the associated legal and compliance risks. For the first time, enterprises can now access indemnification coverage for a broad range of open source products from a single vendor. By mitigating the intellectual property risks associated with open source software, OpenLogic enables enterprises to safely and securely use open source software and maximize cost savings." Anyone else smelling SCOSource?

2. Their CEO is a former Microsoft employee.

3. To call this company "OpenLinux" can only be a sign of very subtle humor, because Open Linux was the name for the "enterprise linux solution" distributed by former Caldera, now SCO.

 

Comment The future of KDE bug reports: Some sample replies (Score 4, Funny) 364

Step 1: "The KDE software compilation team happily acknowledges the bug report you have filed. Why we are happy? This bug report in fact concerns the KDE workspaces team. Or so we believe. Please be so kind as to file your bug report again at the appropriate place. If the KDE workplaces team should be able to prove that this is none of their matter, please be so kind as to reopen this bug. After reopening the bug here, please be aware that it will be triaged for at least nine months as a matter of policy. If you should be obnoxious, we may decide at our own will to extend the period to at least eleven months. Thank you very much for your assistance in making the K Desktop/Compilation/Workspace/Application Experience even better. Salvatory Clause: The expression "K Desktop experience" is only preserved for the purpose of backward compatibility."

Step 2: "Thanks a lot for filing a bug report. We certainly appreciate your willingness to enhance the K Workspaces Experience (formerly known as the K Desktop Experience, an expression preserved only in order to preserve backward compatibility). However, we have noticed in your bug report that Amarok 1.1.4 has been opened while encountering your bug. Since Amarok 1.1.4 certainly cannot be regarded as part of the K Software Compilation experience, you should consider updating. If this does not remove the bug you have encountered, please be so kind as to file a bug first against the respective K Software Compilation. If this should not prove to be sucessful in the next two years, please reconsider opening the bug here. Before that, it will be futile anyway."

Comment Re:Hamburg = Texas (Score 1) 145

At the present time, it is the district attorney (Staatsanwaltschaft) conducting an investigation (Ermittlungsverfahren). Whether this will ever go to court, remains to be seen. And if this should happen, it will be dealt with by the criminal division of the court. The judgments quoted by you concerned civil cases.

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