Actually there are about 10 graphical report generators for Linux.
Nobody uses these for giving reports to their boss because openoffice can already do graphs, read databases, make calculations, and generate PDFs. There is even a way to publish to the web very easily. I think you just haven't really looked into. Sort of like a guy I knew who used to say "I won't switch to linux because it doesn't have drag&drop".
No, there is Wine... And XPde or whatever to assume the look and feel of XP. Even so, users will not switch because they have been programmed/brainwashed. Sort of like people who drink Coke or Pepsi rather than a cheaper generic alternative that tastes exactly the same.
Well the only reason any of the apps on Windows are popular is due to marketing; therefore, windows fans are largely just a collection of mindless robots.
You can slim Ubuntu too. Xubuntu comes slimmed out of the box. If you really want to do a comparison, recompile your Ubuntu kernel and remove all the bloat and then turn on all your hardware-specific optimizations. I'm sure it will leave your slimmed XP in the dust.
Well you're right if you don't take into account the last 10 years of development. Maybe landers are nothing special but landers that go to Mars, land, survey the planet, and return high quality data are special.
My low view of Indian experts is supported by concrete evidence. I would agree that there are a few Indians who made it, but the majority are just fakes posing as "technological gurus". You might as well use the MIT fake dissertation generator and you'd get the same results. It doesn't matter though because the truth is that Indian fag-programmers now get paid more than American professionals with superior skills and experience. You guys won. We give up. Have the jobs, they're all yours.
No hard feelings guy. As we say in hockey, "Game on!". I just hope, for your sake, that your Asp.Net site isn't vulnerable to an SQL injection attack because that would make you look very bad. It would also make you look bad if you had code which was vulnerable to a buffer overflow.
I suppose if by "tech" you mean asp.net then yes the US isn't special, but how about robotic Mars landers? Google Earth? Teflon? Velcro? Kevlar?
I think the rest of the world is so far behind that they think winblows vista on a laptop is cutting edge technology...People in India probably think they're "experts" when they can set up a SAMBA file share and "programmers" when they can write a vbscript that reads from a database and displays it on a web page.
If, by modern chips, you mean superconducting circuits, then yes! It's almost completely all made in the USA. The majority of new technologies that come out for the consumer market are usually developed in the US first(Japan too now).
I wouldn't exactly call the iPhone new technology and Linux didn't overtake Winblows until US companies started backing it and making it a viable system for enterprises(Redhat, Sun, etc.). The predominant majority of work in Linux was done by Universities(in the early days).
Actually it's their policy of embrace, extend, and extinguish. I wrote an article about it The Truth About Microsoft. It explains how they abuse their power and this latest tactic is due to them being fined in the EU for anti-competitive actions.
These DoD proposals are all fake. They have friends that have already done the research and now they're publishing a fake solicitation because they're required to, by law. After a fake bidding process, the money will be awarded to their buddies who have already completed the research and they'll use the money to do their next research project, which will be funded retroactively with another fake solicitation like this one.
I've seen thousands of these over the years and the truth is that any proposal you submit will either be swept under the rug or stolen and repackaged. Period!
Yes, any NP-Complete problem can be solved on a quantum computer by Grover's algorithm with a quadratic speed-up. I dunno why they're asking for help when they could just go get a list NP systems and start solving those...
This is true. The quantum computer at Stanford can factor large numbers into primes many times faster than any other computer. They're just trying to find other uses. One that came out recently is the quantum light switch, possibly making optical communication faster.
They do have one. My buddy at Stanford has been working on it(with dozens of others) and it's all finished. They basically need an OS(a bunch of compiled algorithms) and a list of problems they can solve in order to compare it to a 64-bit AMD 16-core, etc.
It's not a big secret, I think the Japanese have one as well that's nearing mass-production.
Every year these articles come out and every year people find "issues" with the tests and every year it's discovered the testers work for Microsoft. Get over it. Ubuntu has stellar performance on all my systems and with every release I add more programs and features. I have not noticed any performance issues whatsoever, only performance gains. Well, except for that pesky Intel graphics card...
Nope, it will just result in more Americans losing their right to vote, own guns, etc. Soon they'll be making up crimes and locking people up the way the Soviets did in the Gulags. Nobody will resist, they'll just cry and whine.
What do you suppose they should do then? Just say nothing when immigration sets up checkpoints 100 miles from the border and searches everyone that goes through it?
Having lived in Russia, Indonesia, and Thailand, I can attest to having more personal liberty in these countries than in the US. About the only thing that can land you in jail in those countries is murder and if you actually do break a silly law and get caught, it's a small fine on the spot.
Sure they have checkpoints and drug dogs. Sure they have a corrupt gov't. I guess the main difference is that they don't have the resources to track down and harass every person driving without a license or insurance. Oh and hey, the crime is lower than the US too and health care is inexpensive yet the same quality...
No that's a myth. The price of oil is like the price of diamonds. Certain people monopolize the supply and drive the prices higher. I'm guessing but the real price of oil is probably $30/bbl. If the currency was backed by energy, nobody would use oil unless it was cheaper than ethanol, lpg, etc.
No I think low interest rates cause booms and high interest rates cause busts. There is a direct correlation. There is also a random element of crop failures, oil crises, etc but they're not correlated to anything. So the Greeks may have had a boom after they open a new trade route and a bust after invaders pillage a city. In Greenspanomics, the policy was to quell the booms and soften the busts by using interest rates. This appeared to work until speculators figured out how to take advantage of the artificial rates, leveraging mortgages, selling CDS's, etc.
It's really simple people. Energy! Just use a currency backed by energy in kW*hrs. Food would be valued based on it's caloric content and energy to produce, labour would take energy based on calorie consumption... For skilled labour, add in the energy required to train and study, etc. Each note could be redeemed by energy reserves that the power plants have. Once the energy runs out or becomes scarce, so do the rest of the resources...
Maybe if people invested their money in small companies which employ people and create wealth rather than housing bubbles and MegaCorporations which offshore jobs and destroy the middle class, this wouldn't really be a problem now would it?
As for all you rich people dumping your stocks and buying TIPS, I hope you get burned when the treasury lies about inflation. How does the price of a house go up 50% in 2 years without 25% inflation? IT DOESN'T!!!
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Actually there are about 10 graphical report generators for Linux.
Nobody uses these for giving reports to their boss because openoffice can already do graphs, read databases, make calculations, and generate PDFs. There is even a way to publish to the web very easily. I think you just haven't really looked into. Sort of like a guy I knew who used to say "I won't switch to linux because it doesn't have drag&drop".
Well Openoffice is about as native as you can get!!! GIMP is Photoshop and native. I guess you probably never tried Linux.
Shhh, don't tell them that.
Hence the popularity of Macs.
No, there is Wine... And XPde or whatever to assume the look and feel of XP.
Even so, users will not switch because they have been programmed/brainwashed. Sort of like people who drink Coke or Pepsi rather than a cheaper generic alternative that tastes exactly the same.
Well the only reason any of the apps on Windows are popular is due to marketing; therefore, windows fans are largely just a collection of mindless robots.
You can slim Ubuntu too. Xubuntu comes slimmed out of the box. If you really want to do a comparison, recompile your Ubuntu kernel and remove all the bloat and then turn on all your hardware-specific optimizations. I'm sure it will leave your slimmed XP in the dust.
Oh BTW I never saw an Indian PhD at my university. We consider a PhD from India the same as a Bachelor's degree due to obvious reasons.
Well you're right if you don't take into account the last 10 years of development. Maybe landers are nothing special but landers that go to Mars, land, survey the planet, and return high quality data are special.
My low view of Indian experts is supported by concrete evidence. I would agree that there are a few Indians who made it, but the majority are just fakes posing as "technological gurus". You might as well use the MIT fake dissertation generator and you'd get the same results. It doesn't matter though because the truth is that Indian fag-programmers now get paid more than American professionals with superior skills and experience. You guys won. We give up. Have the jobs, they're all yours.
No hard feelings guy. As we say in hockey, "Game on!". I just hope, for your sake, that your Asp.Net site isn't vulnerable to an SQL injection attack because that would make you look very bad. It would also make you look bad if you had code which was vulnerable to a buffer overflow.
I suppose if by "tech" you mean asp.net then yes the US isn't special, but how about robotic Mars landers? Google Earth? Teflon? Velcro? Kevlar?
I think the rest of the world is so far behind that they think winblows vista on a laptop is cutting edge technology...People in India probably think they're "experts" when they can set up a SAMBA file share and "programmers" when they can write a vbscript that reads from a database and displays it on a web page.
If, by modern chips, you mean superconducting circuits, then yes! It's almost completely all made in the USA. The majority of new technologies that come out for the consumer market are usually developed in the US first(Japan too now).
I wouldn't exactly call the iPhone new technology and Linux didn't overtake Winblows until US companies started backing it and making it a viable system for enterprises(Redhat, Sun, etc.). The predominant majority of work in Linux was done by Universities(in the early days).
Actually it's their policy of embrace, extend, and extinguish. I wrote an article about it The Truth About Microsoft. It explains how they abuse their power and this latest tactic is due to them being fined in the EU for anti-competitive actions.
These DoD proposals are all fake. They have friends that have already done the research and now they're publishing a fake solicitation because they're required to, by law. After a fake bidding process, the money will be awarded to their buddies who have already completed the research and they'll use the money to do their next research project, which will be funded retroactively with another fake solicitation like this one.
I've seen thousands of these over the years and the truth is that any proposal you submit will either be swept under the rug or stolen and repackaged. Period!
Yes, any NP-Complete problem can be solved on a quantum computer by Grover's algorithm with a quadratic speed-up. I dunno why they're asking for help when they could just go get a list NP systems and start solving those...
This is true. The quantum computer at Stanford can factor large numbers into primes many times faster than any other computer. They're just trying to find other uses. One that came out recently is the quantum light switch, possibly making optical communication faster.
They do have one. My buddy at Stanford has been working on it(with dozens of others) and it's all finished. They basically need an OS(a bunch of compiled algorithms) and a list of problems they can solve in order to compare it to a 64-bit AMD 16-core, etc.
It's not a big secret, I think the Japanese have one as well that's nearing mass-production.
Every year these articles come out and every year people find "issues" with the tests and every year it's discovered the testers work for Microsoft. Get over it. Ubuntu has stellar performance on all my systems and with every release I add more programs and features. I have not noticed any performance issues whatsoever, only performance gains. Well, except for that pesky Intel graphics card...
Nope, it will just result in more Americans losing their right to vote, own guns, etc. Soon they'll be making up crimes and locking people up the way the Soviets did in the Gulags. Nobody will resist, they'll just cry and whine.
What do you suppose they should do then? Just say nothing when immigration sets up checkpoints 100 miles from the border and searches everyone that goes through it?
Having lived in Russia, Indonesia, and Thailand, I can attest to having more personal liberty in these countries than in the US. About the only thing that can land you in jail in those countries is murder and if you actually do break a silly law and get caught, it's a small fine on the spot.
Sure they have checkpoints and drug dogs. Sure they have a corrupt gov't. I guess the main difference is that they don't have the resources to track down and harass every person driving without a license or insurance. Oh and hey, the crime is lower than the US too and health care is inexpensive yet the same quality...
No that's a myth. The price of oil is like the price of diamonds. Certain people monopolize the supply and drive the prices higher. I'm guessing but the real price of oil is probably $30/bbl. If the currency was backed by energy, nobody would use oil unless it was cheaper than ethanol, lpg, etc.
No I think low interest rates cause booms and high interest rates cause busts. There is a direct correlation. There is also a random element of crop failures, oil crises, etc but they're not correlated to anything. So the Greeks may have had a boom after they open a new trade route and a bust after invaders pillage a city. In Greenspanomics, the policy was to quell the booms and soften the busts by using interest rates. This appeared to work until speculators figured out how to take advantage of the artificial rates, leveraging mortgages, selling CDS's, etc.
Actually, you can add lead and make more gold bars...
It's really simple people. Energy! Just use a currency backed by energy in kW*hrs. Food would be valued based on it's caloric content and energy to produce, labour would take energy based on calorie consumption... For skilled labour, add in the energy required to train and study, etc. Each note could be redeemed by energy reserves that the power plants have. Once the energy runs out or becomes scarce, so do the rest of the resources...
Maybe if people invested their money in small companies which employ people and create wealth rather than housing bubbles and MegaCorporations which offshore jobs and destroy the middle class, this wouldn't really be a problem now would it?
As for all you rich people dumping your stocks and buying TIPS, I hope you get burned when the treasury lies about inflation. How does the price of a house go up 50% in 2 years without 25% inflation? IT DOESN'T!!!