Now you've done it! We'll need to task Navy now to complete an environmental impact assessment on the potential damaging emotional effects from exposure to physics equations on the polarized minds of the indigenous SOCAL environut.
Excellent point. I always thought it rather odd that the Communist associated Greens and their fellow travelers only seem fret over the environment where capitalist economies and military capability suffer, while the Communist themselves ravage the environment wherever they actually rule (e.g., old USSR, PRC, etc.). I say go for it Tin Cans, CZ/ODT up the butt!
The very good point that you make is that comparisons should be made apples-against-apples. Form, fit, function and context should be considered when judging effectiveness and suitability for purpose. I still use plain the old hex/text editor for certain things, and it's perfectly fit for that specific purpose. I then use Oo.org and MS Office (when compelled by a low threshold intolerance to interoperability degradation) for other tasks. That said, I find Oo.org 3.0 such an excellent product that even if were not FOSS, I'd still prefer it and would pay a competitive price over the latest MS Office. Out of shear curiosity, does anyone know what advantages Star Offices brings over Oo.org?
I tried it. I installed it on my spare laptop (IBM T-41, ~4 years old). Pros include excellent speed, and easy install. Cons, especially when compared with consumer grade Linux distributions like Ubuntu, include extremely sparse OSS application repository to draw from, and wireless support that I just never could get to work. Having been there and done that, with a tee-shirt, I kept it for a week and reloaded Linux. Not ready yet.
Oh? See "National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM)," see http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/nispom.htm. Classified information = not yours. If your contract requires access to it, you need to abide by government rules in applying measures to protect it. Of course another problem is that not all government information is classified, and is not covered under NISPOM but still merits protection. For example using the aggregation principle, lots of otherwise unclassified information might through clever analysis reveal classified information. Also, unclassified, albeit sensitive, technical information (also protected, but under under separate directives) may not be initially identified as such until it, or the systems engineering process, reaches a certain level of maturity (e.g., back-of-napkin engineering rendered to memorandum or charts). The fact that an awful lot of unclassified information needing better control resides on networks of wildly varying quality and hardness is, or hould be, a national security concern.
Well I can say with certainty that it's not 0%, since I, at least, downloaded 3.0 for my MAC laptop. I would also tend to support the idea that many using Linux distros would rather wait for the next version upgrade, as I am doing now for my Linux desktop using Ubuntu. I shy away from screwing with the well integrated distro provided with the Ubuntu, because I don't reckon that the marginal improvements are worth the risk of potentially breaking something, especially given the relatively short time to wait for the upcoming 8.10 release.
The left hate guns? Nonsense. They've traditionally loved AK-47's, at least until culmination of a "successful" revolution, after which said weapons are rounded up along with all "rights" inconvenient to the peoples' paradise.
Tragedy -- "...a beautiful hypothesis, slain by an ugly fact..." - Huxley
Just as a data point, I loaded Open Solaris on an IBM laptop purely for giggles. On the surface it looked and smelled like Linux with the default Gnome desktop and application preload (openoffice.org, Firefox, etc). Very fast. Had issues with wireless that took some research. As a linux user, my main difficulties were at the command line, understandably, since several Gnu tools (e.g., iwconfig!) were not there and it took some work finding the Solaris equivalents. Since that was the idea, no problem. Learning opportunity, but a comprehensive xref would have been nice. Otherwise, performance just excellent. After having frolicked for a couple of weeks, however, I retrograded to Ubuntu 8.04 mainly for comfort and lack of a few OS apps that I couldn't get to port properly.
Actually, Epiphany is an excellent browser, and would make an acceptable default. Then Ubuntu could offer Firefox in its repository for users to download as they please. Now it's reversed with Firefox as the default and Epiphany as a choice. That way, Ubuntu maintains its concept of "purity" while users can decide for themselves if clicking through a EULA is worth the price. I actually use both browsers.
Re: "I have no problem with students being shown the difference between science and creationism...How can the average student be expected to argue against this nonsense if they don't understand what it is and why it is not science?".........
Yes(!),and while we're at it, isn't anyone else just a wee bit uncomfortable with the contradiction of a scientific organizations viciously campaigning to have an otherwise esteemed scientist fired for expressing an idea? Anyone remember Galileo? How about countering argument with argument, rather than intimidation?
I am not defending the merits of inappropriately teaching religion in science classes. If the professor was failing to teach science and substituting religion, I would fire him or her for not doing their job. However, broaching religious (or for that matter, superstitious) counterpoint to a scientific tenet may or may not be inappropriate, depending upon the context.
I can remember on many occasions being preached long Marxist diatribes in various classes, science and others equally unrelated. I either rolled my eyes and took it, or used the opportunity to go over my notes. I don't recall anyone trying to get these a-holes fired for wasting my time, and yes, money; and, if anyone did oppose these professors the faculty would have rallied to their "free speech" rights. Fair enough. But, where is the defense of Professor Reiss' freedom of speech, or is such speech conditional these days? So, where is the "approved discussion" list, just so that we all know.
For what it's worth, I use both. I have a hefty System 76 Pangolin laptop for my home office, and a Macbook Air for the road. I keep thinking that I wish I could switch to a Gnome desk-top on my Macbook Air. Although, I'm sure somebody will tell me that I can by doing something or the other, I really don't feel too inclined towards adventure for such an expensive and otherwise well behaved asset like my Macbook Air...Adventure is for Linux, not Mac.
Wow...that's a stretch. You mean I should have kept Windows? Look, if Lenovo wants to sell their boxes with only the choice of Windows or Windows, it's not within my ability to stop them. Were I to buy their machines, however, I would dump Windows post-haste and load Linux. Which is exactly what I did with my pre-Lenovo IBM. The motivator, by the way, was that my albeit pre-Lenovo IBM was shipped directly from the PRC factory loaded with malware. Even after cleaning it to my best ability I still couldn't stop the damn thing from randomly calling home no matter what I tried until I got fed up and wiped the hard disk and installed Linux. At least Linux, I feel with an acceptable level of confidence (not perfect, of course), is within my ability to control.
I love my IBM Thinkpad T-71. Of course it came pre-infected with Windows when I bought it, but has run Linux exclusively since 2006. I really don't see the problem. Just open the CD Drive, insert Ubuntu install disk (or your favorite flavor be it whatever), and reboot. No problem. The Thinkpad is just completely compatible with Linux (or was -- not sure whether my experience is dated). That said, I'm not inclined to buy any new Lenovo since it was bought by the Peoples Liberation Army. IBM, you screwed up.
There is no such thing as a Tier System. It's a construct, a journalistic machination really, used by magazines, such as "U.S. News and World Report" to refer to their idea of desirability based on name recognition, tradition (a la "Ivy Legue"), and an amorphous set of criteria that exists in the minds of those who write about such things. As an employer, I can say that it's crap, and not a criteria at all in my hiring. Maybe if you're a Harvard Law graduate, the idea has some merit of you're vying for a job in a NY law firm. I'm guessing. In other fields, such as engineering and technology, a few schools, such as Purdue and MIT have relatively better reputations in the field. That helps you get maybe a better first job. After that, it's your personal CV and reputation that counts.
Wow. I started to say something, but how does one answer mindless prejudice? ---
"The great tragedy of science, a beautiful hypothesis, slain by an ugly fact!" -- Huxley
Yup. Lots of people who grew up in the 50's and 60's were infected by largely, I'd contend, culturally born racial prejudiced. Some were Democrats, and some were Republicans. I'd ask carriers of the contemporary cultural infection of rabid partisanship to do some research on how the Yea and Nay votes on the 1964 Voting Rights Act actually returned by party. Hint. The Act would not have carried without the heavy percentage of positive Republican votes. (Dems. 153-91 (63%-37%), Repubs. 136-35 (80%-20%), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964. Partisan vitriol and slavish repetition of propaganda used to annoy me. Now it bores me.
I agree with your point regarding duties of the government. However, I would agree less (or maybe I don't understand) with the emphasis of your third point. In the U. S. legal system, criminal as well as civil jurisdiction for protections of "life, liberty, and property" is vested first and foremost in the States, and by exception, the Federal courts. Murder, burglary, fraud, etc. are all state crimes in the individual states, with a few exceptions (e.g., murder of a federal LE agent, larceny on a federal reservation, etc.). The Federal courts gain jurisdiction mainly in cases involving interstate commerce, etc., and affairs or other specific federal laws designed to account for interstate effects, for example some environmental laws.
Just keep explaining how morally superior Democrats are...and how they need to soak those rich who make over $60K... and how evil those corporations are, and how their obscene profits need to be taxed more...and how much we need union bosses and hip Democrats to make our spending decisions for us...and how they need to redistribute wealth...and how smart Democrats need to tell dumb hicks who cling to their guns and religion how to live and what to drive to keep their carbon foot-prints low...FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITIES AND TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS!!! Si! Se puede! That's the ticket. Get it out in the open.
I am an avid user of Linux and free software, and I say "good for Microsoft." Stealing is immoral -- period. They have a right to protect their products. That said, whenever I find excellent Open Source that suits my needs, I use it, and usually make a donation if and when I decide to keep it. However, when an excellent quality proprietary product provides what I need, and can't find a satisfactory enough free aternative, then I gladly pay for it. I would never steal it. My main gripes against MS are asinine EULAS, unwanted or unneeded "upgrades" (especially those that degrade usability, and file formats that provide little added value, are prone to frequent corruption, and are intended only to force vendor lock-in), covert "calling-home," and sometimes poor performance. That said, some of their products really do, in my opinion, provide the best value in their fields.
It all started with that damned OSHA*. In the olden days, even the marginally stupid would tend to fall down man-holes, topple off of ledges, lick their paint brushes, and become Marxists. Now that more and more knuckleheads are surviving, they tend to find each other, make babies, move to places like Frisco (...yes, I know, San...) and SOCAL, get high, and vote, recursively. Oh for the happy days when Darwin's principles reigned free. (*OSHA - "Occupational Safety and Health Administration")
Good on Firefox! I want to be informed of any certificate anomalies so that I can make my own informed decision. If an e-business (and that's whet we're talking about with SSL certs) wants my business, they need to establish --- and maintain --- my trust in their due diligence to ensure that my transactions will be secure. Sloppy cert management should make me nervous.
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Now you've done it! We'll need to task Navy now to complete an environmental impact assessment on the potential damaging emotional effects from exposure to physics equations on the polarized minds of the indigenous SOCAL environut.
Excellent point. I always thought it rather odd that the Communist associated Greens and their fellow travelers only seem fret over the environment where capitalist economies and military capability suffer, while the Communist themselves ravage the environment wherever they actually rule (e.g., old USSR, PRC, etc.). I say go for it Tin Cans, CZ/ODT up the butt!
The very good point that you make is that comparisons should be made apples-against-apples. Form, fit, function and context should be considered when judging effectiveness and suitability for purpose. I still use plain the old hex/text editor for certain things, and it's perfectly fit for that specific purpose. I then use Oo.org and MS Office (when compelled by a low threshold intolerance to interoperability degradation) for other tasks. That said, I find Oo.org 3.0 such an excellent product that even if were not FOSS, I'd still prefer it and would pay a competitive price over the latest MS Office. Out of shear curiosity, does anyone know what advantages Star Offices brings over Oo.org?
I tried it. I installed it on my spare laptop (IBM T-41, ~4 years old). Pros include excellent speed, and easy install. Cons, especially when compared with consumer grade Linux distributions like Ubuntu, include extremely sparse OSS application repository to draw from, and wireless support that I just never could get to work. Having been there and done that, with a tee-shirt, I kept it for a week and reloaded Linux. Not ready yet.
Oh? See "National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM)," see http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/nispom.htm. Classified information = not yours. If your contract requires access to it, you need to abide by government rules in applying measures to protect it. Of course another problem is that not all government information is classified, and is not covered under NISPOM but still merits protection. For example using the aggregation principle, lots of otherwise unclassified information might through clever analysis reveal classified information. Also, unclassified, albeit sensitive, technical information (also protected, but under under separate directives) may not be initially identified as such until it, or the systems engineering process, reaches a certain level of maturity (e.g., back-of-napkin engineering rendered to memorandum or charts). The fact that an awful lot of unclassified information needing better control resides on networks of wildly varying quality and hardness is, or hould be, a national security concern.
Well I can say with certainty that it's not 0%, since I, at least, downloaded 3.0 for my MAC laptop. I would also tend to support the idea that many using Linux distros would rather wait for the next version upgrade, as I am doing now for my Linux desktop using Ubuntu. I shy away from screwing with the well integrated distro provided with the Ubuntu, because I don't reckon that the marginal improvements are worth the risk of potentially breaking something, especially given the relatively short time to wait for the upcoming 8.10 release.
The left hate guns? Nonsense. They've traditionally loved AK-47's, at least until culmination of a "successful" revolution, after which said weapons are rounded up along with all "rights" inconvenient to the peoples' paradise. Tragedy -- "...a beautiful hypothesis, slain by an ugly fact..." - Huxley
If by "rigged" the Google meant, "rigorous field testing in an operational environment under stressing conditions," I'd have to respond, good job FCC.
Just as a data point, I loaded Open Solaris on an IBM laptop purely for giggles. On the surface it looked and smelled like Linux with the default Gnome desktop and application preload (openoffice.org, Firefox, etc). Very fast. Had issues with wireless that took some research. As a linux user, my main difficulties were at the command line, understandably, since several Gnu tools (e.g., iwconfig!) were not there and it took some work finding the Solaris equivalents. Since that was the idea, no problem. Learning opportunity, but a comprehensive xref would have been nice. Otherwise, performance just excellent. After having frolicked for a couple of weeks, however, I retrograded to Ubuntu 8.04 mainly for comfort and lack of a few OS apps that I couldn't get to port properly.
Actually, Epiphany is an excellent browser, and would make an acceptable default. Then Ubuntu could offer Firefox in its repository for users to download as they please. Now it's reversed with Firefox as the default and Epiphany as a choice. That way, Ubuntu maintains its concept of "purity" while users can decide for themselves if clicking through a EULA is worth the price. I actually use both browsers.
Re: "I have no problem with students being shown the difference between science and creationism...How can the average student be expected to argue against this nonsense if they don't understand what it is and why it is not science?"......... Yes(!),and while we're at it, isn't anyone else just a wee bit uncomfortable with the contradiction of a scientific organizations viciously campaigning to have an otherwise esteemed scientist fired for expressing an idea? Anyone remember Galileo? How about countering argument with argument, rather than intimidation? I am not defending the merits of inappropriately teaching religion in science classes. If the professor was failing to teach science and substituting religion, I would fire him or her for not doing their job. However, broaching religious (or for that matter, superstitious) counterpoint to a scientific tenet may or may not be inappropriate, depending upon the context. I can remember on many occasions being preached long Marxist diatribes in various classes, science and others equally unrelated. I either rolled my eyes and took it, or used the opportunity to go over my notes. I don't recall anyone trying to get these a-holes fired for wasting my time, and yes, money; and, if anyone did oppose these professors the faculty would have rallied to their "free speech" rights. Fair enough. But, where is the defense of Professor Reiss' freedom of speech, or is such speech conditional these days? So, where is the "approved discussion" list, just so that we all know.
For what it's worth, I use both. I have a hefty System 76 Pangolin laptop for my home office, and a Macbook Air for the road. I keep thinking that I wish I could switch to a Gnome desk-top on my Macbook Air. Although, I'm sure somebody will tell me that I can by doing something or the other, I really don't feel too inclined towards adventure for such an expensive and otherwise well behaved asset like my Macbook Air...Adventure is for Linux, not Mac.
Sometimes common sense, uncommon thought it may be, just has to prevail...
Wow...that's a stretch. You mean I should have kept Windows? Look, if Lenovo wants to sell their boxes with only the choice of Windows or Windows, it's not within my ability to stop them. Were I to buy their machines, however, I would dump Windows post-haste and load Linux. Which is exactly what I did with my pre-Lenovo IBM. The motivator, by the way, was that my albeit pre-Lenovo IBM was shipped directly from the PRC factory loaded with malware. Even after cleaning it to my best ability I still couldn't stop the damn thing from randomly calling home no matter what I tried until I got fed up and wiped the hard disk and installed Linux. At least Linux, I feel with an acceptable level of confidence (not perfect, of course), is within my ability to control.
I love my IBM Thinkpad T-71. Of course it came pre-infected with Windows when I bought it, but has run Linux exclusively since 2006. I really don't see the problem. Just open the CD Drive, insert Ubuntu install disk (or your favorite flavor be it whatever), and reboot. No problem. The Thinkpad is just completely compatible with Linux (or was -- not sure whether my experience is dated). That said, I'm not inclined to buy any new Lenovo since it was bought by the Peoples Liberation Army. IBM, you screwed up.
There is no such thing as a Tier System. It's a construct, a journalistic machination really, used by magazines, such as "U.S. News and World Report" to refer to their idea of desirability based on name recognition, tradition (a la "Ivy Legue"), and an amorphous set of criteria that exists in the minds of those who write about such things. As an employer, I can say that it's crap, and not a criteria at all in my hiring. Maybe if you're a Harvard Law graduate, the idea has some merit of you're vying for a job in a NY law firm. I'm guessing. In other fields, such as engineering and technology, a few schools, such as Purdue and MIT have relatively better reputations in the field. That helps you get maybe a better first job. After that, it's your personal CV and reputation that counts.
Wow. I started to say something, but how does one answer mindless prejudice? --- "The great tragedy of science, a beautiful hypothesis, slain by an ugly fact!" -- Huxley
Yup. Lots of people who grew up in the 50's and 60's were infected by largely, I'd contend, culturally born racial prejudiced. Some were Democrats, and some were Republicans. I'd ask carriers of the contemporary cultural infection of rabid partisanship to do some research on how the Yea and Nay votes on the 1964 Voting Rights Act actually returned by party. Hint. The Act would not have carried without the heavy percentage of positive Republican votes. (Dems. 153-91 (63%-37%), Repubs. 136-35 (80%-20%), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964. Partisan vitriol and slavish repetition of propaganda used to annoy me. Now it bores me.
Independent? You lying SOB (you started it!). All of your one-liners are leftist talking points. Blow a kiss to Chairman Dean for me, asshole.
I agree with your point regarding duties of the government. However, I would agree less (or maybe I don't understand) with the emphasis of your third point. In the U. S. legal system, criminal as well as civil jurisdiction for protections of "life, liberty, and property" is vested first and foremost in the States, and by exception, the Federal courts. Murder, burglary, fraud, etc. are all state crimes in the individual states, with a few exceptions (e.g., murder of a federal LE agent, larceny on a federal reservation, etc.). The Federal courts gain jurisdiction mainly in cases involving interstate commerce, etc., and affairs or other specific federal laws designed to account for interstate effects, for example some environmental laws.
Just keep explaining how morally superior Democrats are...and how they need to soak those rich who make over $60K... and how evil those corporations are, and how their obscene profits need to be taxed more...and how much we need union bosses and hip Democrats to make our spending decisions for us...and how they need to redistribute wealth...and how smart Democrats need to tell dumb hicks who cling to their guns and religion how to live and what to drive to keep their carbon foot-prints low...FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITIES AND TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS!!! Si! Se puede! That's the ticket. Get it out in the open.
I am an avid user of Linux and free software, and I say "good for Microsoft." Stealing is immoral -- period. They have a right to protect their products. That said, whenever I find excellent Open Source that suits my needs, I use it, and usually make a donation if and when I decide to keep it. However, when an excellent quality proprietary product provides what I need, and can't find a satisfactory enough free aternative, then I gladly pay for it. I would never steal it. My main gripes against MS are asinine EULAS, unwanted or unneeded "upgrades" (especially those that degrade usability, and file formats that provide little added value, are prone to frequent corruption, and are intended only to force vendor lock-in), covert "calling-home," and sometimes poor performance. That said, some of their products really do, in my opinion, provide the best value in their fields.
It all started with that damned OSHA*. In the olden days, even the marginally stupid would tend to fall down man-holes, topple off of ledges, lick their paint brushes, and become Marxists. Now that more and more knuckleheads are surviving, they tend to find each other, make babies, move to places like Frisco (...yes, I know, San...) and SOCAL, get high, and vote, recursively. Oh for the happy days when Darwin's principles reigned free. (*OSHA - "Occupational Safety and Health Administration")
Good on Firefox! I want to be informed of any certificate anomalies so that I can make my own informed decision. If an e-business (and that's whet we're talking about with SSL certs) wants my business, they need to establish --- and maintain --- my trust in their due diligence to ensure that my transactions will be secure. Sloppy cert management should make me nervous.
Global Warming! Call Algore!