Local schools can be utter crap. School boards aren't accountable, or the superintendent isn't held in check, the funding goes to unimportant stuff like funding the football team trip rather than sports as a whole, and so on. Standards are a good thing and local governments in many cases just have awful standards. Next up is teaching abstinence only in the schools and intelligent design.
This is a good point. Cafeteria food for the most part is for students from low income families. The school lunch may be the healthiest meal they get all day. In many poor neighborhoods you can't even get fresh fruit and vegetables at the local stores. If someone doesn't like the food at school then there is the option for the parents to supply something better if they can afford it. If the parents can't afford anything other than the discounted school lunch then they should be glad their kids get something nutritious.
We do have states that are just so backwards that do we really want them to treat their kids that way and still be a part of the country? We're not forcing Khazakstan to improve standards but as a first world country why should we leave some of our states to have substandard quality in the schools?
Of course, people pushing the relaxation of regulations do not have their own children in public schools; they assume the public schools are for the poor kids whose health doesn't matter, and they're rich enough that their kids get good nutrition at home.
Oh sure, diplomats and envoys and negotiators for years have been trying to make changes here, but The Donald makes a single tweet and one of the largest companies in the world change directions. Genius! Amazing! Why did no one think of this approach before? Clearly this the best of all possible times.
But those walled gardens are not lockedup tight. The OSX store is most certainly optional, and that is the competition. Android and iOS are for phones, whereas Widnows 10 is for computers. If Microsoft can't see the difference and can't figure out why it's losing market share, then it deserves to fade away. Android at least allows you to break open the walled garden as well.
I agree that Microsoft's goal is to get a piece of the pie that they see other companies getting, but those other companies were smarter or more agile which are not Microsoft's strong points. It's also good evidence that Microsoft is now just a follower and not a tech leader.
Microsoft went into a closed room, cut off all outside communication, then developed a new strategy. And thus unburdened by any insight into what customers really wanted or needed the result was a flop.
The problem wasn't so much that it was ARM, but that it was restricted to only store apps (almost all of which at the time didn't care what the processor was). Windows 10 S is the same, you can only use the lame ass store apps. The sole purpose of locking customers into this is that Microsoft gets a piece of each purpose plus advertising revenue. Even Apple, who is clearly being copied here, does not mandate the use of their store for their computers.
No government interference? Government is already providing oil subsidies. Energy stability is a primary concern of governments around the world. There's no way to make this a free market utopia, pure free market solutions have historically failed and this will not be the one time when it miraculously works.
The reason we're looking at difficult solutions like getting oil from tar sands (to sell to China) is because of scarcities. The reason we are moving to renewable energy sources more and more often is because of market forces. You won't ever divorce politics from this because the markets depend upon customers and consumers are driven by politics, and the politics are telling the consumers to use less oil. Consumers are not basing decisions upon detailed analysis but instead on random and illogical gut feelings, which continuall vex economists. The electricity utilities are the ones also moving to renewable energy, because the customers are pissed when they open a new polluting coal fired peaker plant in their neighborhoods. I have friends and family, of the Trump voting and hippy hating variety, who have put up solar panels for their ranches because it did make business sense to them.
True. But I doubt that suddenly everyone who loves linux and OSX switched over. Everyone has formed their opinions in the prior years already, and this addition does not wipe away all flaws and makes Windows perfect.
Does bash actually work well? Is it _integrated_ with Windows?? That is, at the command line, can I use forward slashes "/" for all Windows command line tools and it treats them as paths, or can you only use linux subsystem commands with it? Remember, Windows NT had the POSIX subsystem and it was utterly useless for any purpose except as a checkbox for DoD requirements.
Yup. It feels very workable for development. In Windows developers are almost all on an IDE exclusively, it's just too painful to use in other ways (cygwin is great but it adds a performance hit as Windows just isn't designed to work efficiently with the standard Unix API). Quick and dirty scripting is just so much easier with bash and unix utils and pipes; not impossible on Windows just harder to do. The Unix style is to compose commands together to do something more complex; the Windows style is to hope your application supports what you want to do or do hope the DLLs export and document the necessary functions so you can use VB or.net. The same script that automates testing on OSX may likely work on Raspberry Pi with no changes; the scripting on Windows won't work anywhere but on Windows.
The operating system. Windows is awful in so many ways. OSX is awful but in far fewer ways. Windows 10 is just a disaster, Microsoft is copying mistakes from Apple and running with them to the extreme. I fnd that there's a lot less mouse clicking involved with OSX (with a few braindead exceptions). Windows catches up in some ways, it *finally* added in multiple switchable desktops even though OSX had this since 2007 and unix systems for even longer. And there's a decent command line instead of the DOS oriented CMD crap (though they did add bash recently but I don't know how well it's integrated).
Granted using Linux instead is viable. But some people want the ball and chain of MS Office possibly. That's the one thing that OSX felt like to me; familiar enough for real developers but with enough enterprise BS to use for office work. Prior to using OSX I would swivel in my chair at work between the serious linux machine and the corporate windows machine.
Also civil vs criminal. You don't go to jail for breaking an EULA for your own personal use. The worst case scenario is a lawsuit, and that's not even going to happen unless you insult the CEO's mom.
First, this is 2000. That's ancient in this context. The situation today is very different. Windows 98 was just crappy for a serious computer even at that time. A professional organization would have done better with NT all around (or 2000 as Microsoft would probably have recommended at the time). That was really an awful time though, professional organizations very often used high end workstations (at least in engineering) because the PC world was still transitioning away from home/toy computing, things didn't really improve until Windows XP.
Today, you could fix the servers only and still have Macbook pro laptops as the desktop, as they do very well. Even in 2000 I would suggest 95% of the problem was with the servers anyway.
It's how I get slashdot and BBC. Is there another way? It was there by default when I got Firefox for OSX so I just kept using it. Scan the headlines and get the articles you care about. I didn't know RSS could do more than that.
There are significant problems with fossil fuel based energy as well. It's a finite resource, distribution tends to be over further distances, pollution is high, extraction is becoming increasingly more difficult. Now balance out the pros and cons of each.
And 5 million who need leadership. Trump administration is behind in filling the key positions that always change when the power structure changes, and this is further behind than other modern administrations. Chris Christie was supposed to be leading this transition team before he got dumped, and after that it hasn't gathered much steam. The result is that a lot of people that the work should be delegated aren't there. The high level governing via daily press-report disguised as executive order isn't getting things done.
Oil was not an affordable energy source when it was new. It has a very expensive infrastructure that has been built up over time. Coal was cheaper but it also came with very expensive side effects. Cheap as they are, people still complain about the high costs because they're still paying for them, we still have people who die every year because they could not afford the heating oil or coal for their house in the winter, and the power companies keep building new coal or oil based plants to meet the demad.
It's like after the zombie apocalypse. Sure, scavanging and eating food from cans leftover in grocery stores is cheap and affordable, though dangerous. But at some point you're going to have to start growing your own food, reforming societies to allow for more efficient growing and distribution of food, and so on.
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On the other hand, you can more easily streamline your future college choices by weeding out schools that have a varsity esports program.
Local schools can be utter crap. School boards aren't accountable, or the superintendent isn't held in check, the funding goes to unimportant stuff like funding the football team trip rather than sports as a whole, and so on. Standards are a good thing and local governments in many cases just have awful standards. Next up is teaching abstinence only in the schools and intelligent design.
This is a good point. Cafeteria food for the most part is for students from low income families. The school lunch may be the healthiest meal they get all day. In many poor neighborhoods you can't even get fresh fruit and vegetables at the local stores. If someone doesn't like the food at school then there is the option for the parents to supply something better if they can afford it. If the parents can't afford anything other than the discounted school lunch then they should be glad their kids get something nutritious.
We do have states that are just so backwards that do we really want them to treat their kids that way and still be a part of the country? We're not forcing Khazakstan to improve standards but as a first world country why should we leave some of our states to have substandard quality in the schools?
Of course, people pushing the relaxation of regulations do not have their own children in public schools; they assume the public schools are for the poor kids whose health doesn't matter, and they're rich enough that their kids get good nutrition at home.
Oh sure, diplomats and envoys and negotiators for years have been trying to make changes here, but The Donald makes a single tweet and one of the largest companies in the world change directions. Genius! Amazing! Why did no one think of this approach before? Clearly this the best of all possible times.
Windows WEE.
But those walled gardens are not lockedup tight. The OSX store is most certainly optional, and that is the competition. Android and iOS are for phones, whereas Widnows 10 is for computers. If Microsoft can't see the difference and can't figure out why it's losing market share, then it deserves to fade away. Android at least allows you to break open the walled garden as well.
I agree that Microsoft's goal is to get a piece of the pie that they see other companies getting, but those other companies were smarter or more agile which are not Microsoft's strong points. It's also good evidence that Microsoft is now just a follower and not a tech leader.
But Microsoft doesn't want that, what they want is a percentage of profits from every application sold.
Microsoft went into a closed room, cut off all outside communication, then developed a new strategy. And thus unburdened by any insight into what customers really wanted or needed the result was a flop.
The problem wasn't so much that it was ARM, but that it was restricted to only store apps (almost all of which at the time didn't care what the processor was). Windows 10 S is the same, you can only use the lame ass store apps. The sole purpose of locking customers into this is that Microsoft gets a piece of each purpose plus advertising revenue. Even Apple, who is clearly being copied here, does not mandate the use of their store for their computers.
This is another cry for help from Microsoft. That cry is "Please, please, please use our store!"
Even the under 18 crowd knows instinctively that the new kid in school is not cool and should not be invited to parties.
No government interference? Government is already providing oil subsidies. Energy stability is a primary concern of governments around the world. There's no way to make this a free market utopia, pure free market solutions have historically failed and this will not be the one time when it miraculously works.
The reason we're looking at difficult solutions like getting oil from tar sands (to sell to China) is because of scarcities. The reason we are moving to renewable energy sources more and more often is because of market forces. You won't ever divorce politics from this because the markets depend upon customers and consumers are driven by politics, and the politics are telling the consumers to use less oil. Consumers are not basing decisions upon detailed analysis but instead on random and illogical gut feelings, which continuall vex economists. The electricity utilities are the ones also moving to renewable energy, because the customers are pissed when they open a new polluting coal fired peaker plant in their neighborhoods. I have friends and family, of the Trump voting and hippy hating variety, who have put up solar panels for their ranches because it did make business sense to them.
True. But I doubt that suddenly everyone who loves linux and OSX switched over. Everyone has formed their opinions in the prior years already, and this addition does not wipe away all flaws and makes Windows perfect.
Does bash actually work well? Is it _integrated_ with Windows?? That is, at the command line, can I use forward slashes "/" for all Windows command line tools and it treats them as paths, or can you only use linux subsystem commands with it? Remember, Windows NT had the POSIX subsystem and it was utterly useless for any purpose except as a checkbox for DoD requirements.
Yup. It feels very workable for development. In Windows developers are almost all on an IDE exclusively, it's just too painful to use in other ways (cygwin is great but it adds a performance hit as Windows just isn't designed to work efficiently with the standard Unix API). Quick and dirty scripting is just so much easier with bash and unix utils and pipes; not impossible on Windows just harder to do. The Unix style is to compose commands together to do something more complex; the Windows style is to hope your application supports what you want to do or do hope the DLLs export and document the necessary functions so you can use VB or .net. The same script that automates testing on OSX may likely work on Raspberry Pi with no changes; the scripting on Windows won't work anywhere but on Windows.
The operating system. Windows is awful in so many ways. OSX is awful but in far fewer ways. Windows 10 is just a disaster, Microsoft is copying mistakes from Apple and running with them to the extreme. I fnd that there's a lot less mouse clicking involved with OSX (with a few braindead exceptions). Windows catches up in some ways, it *finally* added in multiple switchable desktops even though OSX had this since 2007 and unix systems for even longer. And there's a decent command line instead of the DOS oriented CMD crap (though they did add bash recently but I don't know how well it's integrated).
Granted using Linux instead is viable. But some people want the ball and chain of MS Office possibly. That's the one thing that OSX felt like to me; familiar enough for real developers but with enough enterprise BS to use for office work. Prior to using OSX I would swivel in my chair at work between the serious linux machine and the corporate windows machine.
Also civil vs criminal. You don't go to jail for breaking an EULA for your own personal use. The worst case scenario is a lawsuit, and that's not even going to happen unless you insult the CEO's mom.
First, this is 2000. That's ancient in this context. The situation today is very different. Windows 98 was just crappy for a serious computer even at that time. A professional organization would have done better with NT all around (or 2000 as Microsoft would probably have recommended at the time). That was really an awful time though, professional organizations very often used high end workstations (at least in engineering) because the PC world was still transitioning away from home/toy computing, things didn't really improve until Windows XP.
Today, you could fix the servers only and still have Macbook pro laptops as the desktop, as they do very well. Even in 2000 I would suggest 95% of the problem was with the servers anyway.
It's how I get slashdot and BBC. Is there another way? It was there by default when I got Firefox for OSX so I just kept using it. Scan the headlines and get the articles you care about. I didn't know RSS could do more than that.
There are significant problems with fossil fuel based energy as well. It's a finite resource, distribution tends to be over further distances, pollution is high, extraction is becoming increasingly more difficult.
Now balance out the pros and cons of each.
And 5 million who need leadership. Trump administration is behind in filling the key positions that always change when the power structure changes, and this is further behind than other modern administrations. Chris Christie was supposed to be leading this transition team before he got dumped, and after that it hasn't gathered much steam. The result is that a lot of people that the work should be delegated aren't there. The high level governing via daily press-report disguised as executive order isn't getting things done.
And then the Trump Tweet claiming "Oracle sold me the best deal ever for routers!"
Oil was not an affordable energy source when it was new. It has a very expensive infrastructure that has been built up over time. Coal was cheaper but it also came with very expensive side effects. Cheap as they are, people still complain about the high costs because they're still paying for them, we still have people who die every year because they could not afford the heating oil or coal for their house in the winter, and the power companies keep building new coal or oil based plants to meet the demad.
It's like after the zombie apocalypse. Sure, scavanging and eating food from cans leftover in grocery stores is cheap and affordable, though dangerous. But at some point you're going to have to start growing your own food, reforming societies to allow for more efficient growing and distribution of food, and so on.
XML is a good example too of a misguided idea developing into a full blown drug resistant life form.
The article author is trying to sell his books about Python.