Progressives? Since when did the USA have "progressives" in power? Except for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the whole american political spectrum is far right, corporatist, and corrupt.
And it's going to continue that way: it's going to be Billary, Fiorina or Jeb Bush for president - a corporate sockpuppet once again.
....on all my computers. In fact, I did that quite some time ago, when the first rumors of MS installing malware started circulating. I did that encouraged by one of my laptops on which the Windows 7 had updates disabled for years, and I got no viruses, malware, or other unwanted software. It seems that your computer's safety is almost entirely a question of common sense and not falling for social engineering tricks.
I should add that I have ClamWin Antivirus running on all my machines, including the one that didn't have updates for years. It's the most lightweight, least intrusive AV I've ever seen, and I highly recommend it.
Sounds like a lot of incompetence where you work. We have 100 deployed and the only issue is users not understanding the space constraints. Get a real IT team.
The thing is the poster knows his way around SolidWorks, and he reckons he is fairly efficient working with that tool.
Bullseye! And there's also this, extremely important, question: say I invest the necessary time to be as proficient with FreeCAD as I am with SW (let's ignore the fact that SolidWorks can do a whole lot more than FreeCAD). Is it sure that one can be as fast working with FreeCAD as he/she can be with SW, once achieved parity of skill? You know that some 3D cad packages just don't allow for the same speed of work.
In other words, I am not going to go through the same amount of training I did with SW, just to find out that FreeCAD doesn't allow for such fast work as does SW.
Word is, sadly, unavoidable - there's plenty of journals that only accept Word docs.
Is the OpenOffice/LibreOffice compatibility so poor that it can't be used in place of Word?
OpenOffice's compatibility isn't really bad (LibreOffice does seem to have some huge bugs, though . it's why I switched back to OpenOffice). In fact, it's pretty good, all things considered. The problem is that some editors will reject your manuscript for a formatting pet-peeve of theirs, and you never know which one. If you have too many formatting problems in your manuscript, you're playing with fire. Also, I use Zotero, and OpenOffice's integration with Zotero _is_ indeed poor.
And regarding SolidWorks: yes, I know there are other 3D CAD packages that can do similar things, but I am so proficient with SW that I am not going to switch to something else. There's a lot of time and money invested in my rapidity with SW.
I could do pretty much all my research on Linux, if it weren't for SolidWorks and the damned Word. Regarding Word: I like LaTex a lot, and use it whenever I can, but I research in a multidisciplinary environment and am first author for articles submitted in such a multitude of journals, that Word is, sadly, unavoidable - there's plenty of journals that only accept Word docs.
And regarding SolidWorks: yes, I know there are other 3D CAD packages that can do similar things, but I am so proficient with SW that I am not going to switch to something else. There's a lot of time and money invested in my rapidity with SW.
They are using their installed base of Windows computers as an advertising base now. Free always means the ad-filled version, and the version that tracks you and sells information about your surfing habits and preferences.
The version that sends keyboard logs and microphone captures to Microsoft, you mean? That's ALL Windows 10 versions - none is unaffected.
The whole operation of Ashley Madison - at least what is described of them in wikipedia - is crooked. I have no respect for such an operation that is built on lies and deceit. However, hacking them and dumping their data publicly is illegal regardless of what they are doing (and to the best of my understanding while Ashley Madison did immoral things, they were not illegal things).
If the hackers want to shut down Ashley Madison they might accomplish that, but they have also shown in so doing that there is a market demand for the services they provided, which will just cause someone else - presumably with better network security practices - to launch an identical service.
So fucking what? Slavery used to be illegal, yet we all agree that it wasn't right. And believe me, there definitely was a "market demand" for slaves, at one time. The older I get, the fewer shits I give about what is "legal". I see law as an instrument of power of the rich and connected. Some of the law is right, some of it isn't. I follow the law so I don't get into trouble, but I sure as hell cheer of this hack.
actually the costs of planes go up as they get older. there are no new replacement parts for the A10. all 'new' parts come from mothballed birds in the boneyard at Davis-Motham. the cost of restarting or retooling a line for the A10 is nearly as much as for a new jet.
I was about to disagree with you, but then I thought.... The cost of restarting or retooling a line for the A10 is probably just about exactly the amount it would cost to build a single new F-35.
The F-35 may have impressive tech, stealth, electronics and advanced missiles, but the Thunderbolt II is literally a flying tank that is able to take a lot of abuse and still keep flying. It also delivers an incredible amount of damage and its operating history is stellar. It's a great morale booster for ground troops, but the US air force wants to get rid of it.
The "fair" part of FairPhone isn't of too much concern for me. What is of much interest is the fact that it is extremely easily repairable and expandable (down to the level of replacing ports, sockets, the microphone etc.) with nothing more than a screwdriver! This phone, if it gets funded, will have a number of different, easily replaceable, batteries.
Let me also mention Gmail: some half a year ago I upgraded Gmail on my Samsung Galaxy S3, and was so thoroughly disgusted by the bugs and the useless UI changes that I promptly proceeded to downgrade it. At least Android allows me to keep the version of the app I prefer.
Knowing Google, they will usually abort failed projects. They tried really hard with Google+ but it has failed almost as bad as windows phone so it's about time to abandon it.
Worldwide, Google+ is far from a failure. In fact, it has more users than Twitter. I think a lot of Slashdot readers' comments are biased by an amerocentric point of view.
My Miele combo washing machine from our apartment days just broke down. Good thing we have 5 years off warranty mandated by law in Norway. They tried to fix it twice, now they have to replace it and they are actually replacing it (on our request) with a separate washer and a dryer.
But 4 years is a far cry from the "20 years of operation" promised in the commercial.
That's quite disappointing for a Miele product. For what it's worth, none of my colleagues who have Miele appliances, had them break (yet).
I am sad to see that my comment was modded "Funny" when I was in fact quite serious about my statement. There are such pieces of shit that are disruptive to society, like corrupt politicians and self-serving CEOs and bankers, and yet we most people somehow attribute to "whore" a worse meaning than the professions I mentioned above.
Yes, but we ain't living in a perfect world and politicians as well as officials who should work for taxes deliberately choose to be whores and sell themselves to the highest bidder. So ok, I can't change the game so I want in. How much? How much is the whore? How much for a law? How much to actually get it executed? How much to get a law bent and turned inside out to use it against its intent?
Apparently these hoes are for sale, so what's left to be determined is the price.
I don't disagree with the tone of your post, but think that using the word "whore" in this way is very offensive towards prostitutes, who work honestly and provide a useful service.
Also up the warranty requirements to substantially reduce energy used to produce goods that fail shortly after the 90 fucking day warranty. How about mandated 10 YEAR warranties, a decade of product reliability, it will certainly cost more but the energy used to replace a product 40 fucking times versus one product that lasts a decade will be substantially reduced.
That's why we buy Miele appliances - made in Germany, decades of reliable work, great technology. It costs more, but it is worth it for never having to repair them, alone. For example, I'd hate to have our washing machine break. But it hasn't happened in the last 7 years, and I trust it won't happen till after I have retired. For those used to Chinese-made appliances, this must sound ludicrously impossible.
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I see EVERY comment, even remotely critical of Windows 10, being moderated down.
Microsoft sockpuppet accounts are legion!
Progressives? Since when did the USA have "progressives" in power? Except for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the whole american political spectrum is far right, corporatist, and corrupt.
And it's going to continue that way: it's going to be Billary, Fiorina or Jeb Bush for president - a corporate sockpuppet once again.
....on all my computers. In fact, I did that quite some time ago, when the first rumors of MS installing malware started circulating. I did that encouraged by one of my laptops on which the Windows 7 had updates disabled for years, and I got no viruses, malware, or other unwanted software. It seems that your computer's safety is almost entirely a question of common sense and not falling for social engineering tricks.
I should add that I have ClamWin Antivirus running on all my machines, including the one that didn't have updates for years. It's the most lightweight, least intrusive AV I've ever seen, and I highly recommend it.
Sounds like a lot of incompetence where you work. We have 100 deployed and the only issue is users not understanding the space constraints. Get a real IT team.
Microsoft sockpuppet alert!
There's no other closed source CAD system that's as good either.
Sure there is - CATIA for one.
How does that CrossOver-ed Word work with Zotero?
After having a second, and third look at that CAD package, I am.... I am kind of totally sold on it!
To be honest, I am intrigued by BricsCAD. Thank you for pointing it out.
SW works under Wine? You know that's bullshit, don't you?
See SolidWorks 2012 (the one that has GOLD compatibility with Wine):
https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...
Let me quote:
What works
Installer (partially), see notes
What does not
Creating a new file (File -> New.
So there you have it - the most Wine-compatible version of SW can't even be used to start working.
The thing is the poster knows his way around SolidWorks, and he reckons he is fairly efficient working with that tool.
Bullseye! And there's also this, extremely important, question: say I invest the necessary time to be as proficient with FreeCAD as I am with SW (let's ignore the fact that SolidWorks can do a whole lot more than FreeCAD). Is it sure that one can be as fast working with FreeCAD as he/she can be with SW, once achieved parity of skill? You know that some 3D cad packages just don't allow for the same speed of work.
In other words, I am not going to go through the same amount of training I did with SW, just to find out that FreeCAD doesn't allow for such fast work as does SW.
Word is, sadly, unavoidable - there's plenty of journals that only accept Word docs.
Is the OpenOffice/LibreOffice compatibility so poor that it can't be used in place of Word?
OpenOffice's compatibility isn't really bad (LibreOffice does seem to have some huge bugs, though . it's why I switched back to OpenOffice). In fact, it's pretty good, all things considered. The problem is that some editors will reject your manuscript for a formatting pet-peeve of theirs, and you never know which one. If you have too many formatting problems in your manuscript, you're playing with fire.
Also, I use Zotero, and OpenOffice's integration with Zotero _is_ indeed poor.
Have a look at the recent versions of FreeCAD.
Quoting my original post:
And regarding SolidWorks: yes, I know there are other 3D CAD packages that can do similar things, but I am so proficient with SW that I am not going to switch to something else. There's a lot of time and money invested in my rapidity with SW.
I could do pretty much all my research on Linux, if it weren't for SolidWorks and the damned Word.
Regarding Word: I like LaTex a lot, and use it whenever I can, but I research in a multidisciplinary environment and am first author for articles submitted in such a multitude of journals, that Word is, sadly, unavoidable - there's plenty of journals that only accept Word docs.
And regarding SolidWorks: yes, I know there are other 3D CAD packages that can do similar things, but I am so proficient with SW that I am not going to switch to something else. There's a lot of time and money invested in my rapidity with SW.
They are using their installed base of Windows computers as an advertising base now. Free always means the ad-filled version, and the version that tracks you and sells information about your surfing habits and preferences.
The version that sends keyboard logs and microphone captures to Microsoft, you mean? That's ALL Windows 10 versions - none is unaffected.
The whole operation of Ashley Madison - at least what is described of them in wikipedia - is crooked. I have no respect for such an operation that is built on lies and deceit. However, hacking them and dumping their data publicly is illegal regardless of what they are doing (and to the best of my understanding while Ashley Madison did immoral things, they were not illegal things).
If the hackers want to shut down Ashley Madison they might accomplish that, but they have also shown in so doing that there is a market demand for the services they provided, which will just cause someone else - presumably with better network security practices - to launch an identical service.
So fucking what? Slavery used to be illegal, yet we all agree that it wasn't right. And believe me, there definitely was a "market demand" for slaves, at one time.
The older I get, the fewer shits I give about what is "legal". I see law as an instrument of power of the rich and connected. Some of the law is right, some of it isn't. I follow the law so I don't get into trouble, but I sure as hell cheer of this hack.
actually the costs of planes go up as they get older.
there are no new replacement parts for the A10.
all 'new' parts come from mothballed birds in the boneyard at Davis-Motham.
the cost of restarting or retooling a line for the A10 is nearly as much as for a new jet.
I was about to disagree with you, but then I thought.... The cost of restarting or retooling a line for the A10 is probably just about exactly the amount it would cost to build a single new F-35.
This post deserves more upvotes. Brilliant.
The F-35 may have impressive tech, stealth, electronics and advanced missiles, but the Thunderbolt II is literally a flying tank that is able to take a lot of abuse and still keep flying. It also delivers an incredible amount of damage and its operating history is stellar. It's a great morale booster for ground troops, but the US air force wants to get rid of it.
The "fair" part of FairPhone isn't of too much concern for me. What is of much interest is the fact that it is extremely easily repairable and expandable (down to the level of replacing ports, sockets, the microphone etc.) with nothing more than a screwdriver!
This phone, if it gets funded, will have a number of different, easily replaceable, batteries.
Let me also mention Gmail: some half a year ago I upgraded Gmail on my Samsung Galaxy S3, and was so thoroughly disgusted by the bugs and the useless UI changes that I promptly proceeded to downgrade it. At least Android allows me to keep the version of the app I prefer.
Yes, I also use a relatively old version of Maps.
Just in case, I want to go on record saying that I agree with all you wrote, 100%.
Knowing Google, they will usually abort failed projects. They tried really hard with Google+ but it has failed almost as bad as windows phone so it's about time to abandon it.
Worldwide, Google+ is far from a failure. In fact, it has more users than Twitter.
I think a lot of Slashdot readers' comments are biased by an amerocentric point of view.
My Miele combo washing machine from our apartment days just broke down.
Good thing we have 5 years off warranty mandated by law in Norway.
They tried to fix it twice, now they have to replace it and they are actually replacing it (on our request) with a separate washer and a dryer.
But 4 years is a far cry from the "20 years of operation" promised in the commercial.
That's quite disappointing for a Miele product. For what it's worth, none of my colleagues who have Miele appliances, had them break (yet).
I am sad to see that my comment was modded "Funny" when I was in fact quite serious about my statement. There are such pieces of shit that are disruptive to society, like corrupt politicians and self-serving CEOs and bankers, and yet we most people somehow attribute to "whore" a worse meaning than the professions I mentioned above.
Yes, but we ain't living in a perfect world and politicians as well as officials who should work for taxes deliberately choose to be whores and sell themselves to the highest bidder. So ok, I can't change the game so I want in. How much? How much is the whore? How much for a law? How much to actually get it executed? How much to get a law bent and turned inside out to use it against its intent?
Apparently these hoes are for sale, so what's left to be determined is the price.
I don't disagree with the tone of your post, but think that using the word "whore" in this way is very offensive towards prostitutes, who work honestly and provide a useful service.
Also up the warranty requirements to substantially reduce energy used to produce goods that fail shortly after the 90 fucking day warranty. How about mandated 10 YEAR warranties, a decade of product reliability, it will certainly cost more but the energy used to replace a product 40 fucking times versus one product that lasts a decade will be substantially reduced.
That's why we buy Miele appliances - made in Germany, decades of reliable work, great technology. It costs more, but it is worth it for never having to repair them, alone. For example, I'd hate to have our washing machine break. But it hasn't happened in the last 7 years, and I trust it won't happen till after I have retired. For those used to Chinese-made appliances, this must sound ludicrously impossible.