You're a troll, but you're correct about LibreOffice.
Libre/Star/Open Office all suck ass for anything remotely complex. MS Office isn't going away. We've only been able to transition a small group of our users to Google Docs / etc. because their use is extremely limited and we in fact wanted to limit them more.
Peer review is a joke. Journals barely glance at shit the reviewers all engage in favoritism and favor trading.
Fuck peer review. How about peer escrow?
Submit your paper, a full and complete set of instructions for replicating the experiment, and the complete and raw data you collected during your experiment. The journal reads it and gives if it passes a basic bullshit test, puts the experiment into a queue.
Then the journal pulls different experiments from the queue and presents them to you (only the experiment, not the data or paper). You have to replicate an experiment before your paper can be published. (Different weights can be added for cost and time, and things can be categorized so you don't get biologists doing physics.)
Once you replicate an experiment and submit the complete and raw data, the journal compares both data sets and determines whether or not to publish the original paper associated with the experiment you reviewed. Likewise, once someone replicates your experiment your paper may be published. (Depending on the type of experiment, they can require more than one replication, have different levels of review and different tolerances for discrepancy.)
If a paper is published, everything is published. The paper, the experiment description, and all data from the original submitter and all the replicators.
If you're not doing repeatable experimentation, you're not doing science, so fuck off. If your data contains sensitive info, such as HIPAA, anonymize it. It's not hard, though people claim it's hard when they want to prevent you from seeing their bogus data.
It's relative. Fiorina didn't outright kill anything. Compare her to the outright con artists I mentioned that put companies into turbo death spirals. Put down the books and look at the real world.
When you put a woman in as your CEO because they're a woman, you're going to have a bad time. The same goes for race, religion, sexual identity, whatever. Of course, this also includes straight, white, Christian males, though I suspect I've already offended certain people past the point of no return.
How about you hire the best person for the job?
How many Meg Whitmans, Elizabeth Holmeses, and Marissa Mayers are we going to see trotted out to kill companies for the sake of diversity? The worst part is that we see all the awful female executives getting pats on the back, accolades, etc., but the ones that are competent like Carly Fiorina (compare her to her successor) or even great (Lisa Su) get almost no fucking recognition.
Why test? The last version was mostly fine. If something's wrong with this version we'll hem and haw, issue a placebo patch in 2 months that will trick half of the people. Half of the people who aren't fooled will get used to it or stop bitching. For the remaining people who complain, we'll just trot out the occasional lie about how we're still working on it. Then it's time for the next version, and maybe we'll fix it there, maybe we won't. Either way, we'll claim that it's been fixed and that the new version is the best ever. People will buy it.
Slashdot editors, can you please stop putting these "BetaNews" submissions on the front page?
These submissions are by far some of the worst ones that end up on the front page.
"BetaNews" is linked to from a submission almost every day! Hell, it was linked to twice on March 31, and from three submissions on March 25!
If want wanted to read "BetaNews" articles, which we don't, we would go directly to that site instead of coming to Slashdot!
Please stop putting mediocre content from "BetaNews" on the Slashdot front page, especially when it appears to be the authors of the articles who are submitting them here!
Please, no more "BetaNews" at Slashdot!
I agree, but you missed the opportunity to call out "Reader BrianFagioli".
Soda pop is poison. You don't need a study to prove that. There are only four safe drinks in this world. Water, milk, orange juice, and beer. Wait, there are only five safe drinks in this world. Water, milk, orange juice, wine and beer.
You forgot butter. There's nothing like a nice hot mug of butter to start your day.
But lots of people do live in California, including a lot of Asians, a lot of obese people, and a lot of people who follow shitty Hollywood-style "cleanse" fads.
He referred to slim people with his generalization. You referred to Asians with yours.
Of which generation? I guess it doesn't matter, because Celeron is ass regardless.
2. 4GB of RAM.
I was on 16 GB minimum 6 years ago! I understand that plebs don't need that much, but come the fuck on. If this is a "cloud" OS then it's going to involve shitty web apps gobbling up tons of RAM in a bloated browser. How could you not specify 8 GB as a minimum? It's hardly any more expensive in terms of BoM.
3. 32GB of storage (64GB for 64-bit).
Two fails here. First, why is there a 32-bit variant? If this is a locked-down "cloud" terminal, seize the opportunity to move forward. Who the fuck makes 32-bit-only hardware that will be connected to a "cloud" device such as this? Secondly, most of the 32 gigs will be eaten by Windows itself. Even on 64 gigs, Windows will slowly eat away more and more of it.
I guess the 6-month cadence of updates is their plan to fix that, as each big update on Windows 10 (and whatever the fuck they end up calling this) is a complete reinstall. They nuke your old windows directory X days later, thus curbing the cancerous growth that is WinSxS (or whatever it's called in 10) and other such shit.
64 gigs would be serviceable for people who truly live "in the cloud", but I expect people who expect to have local copies of photos, music, or shitty apps/games from the store will quickly hit the wall on the 64 GB models. I presume many of these things would have a microSDXC slot for increased capacity, of course that's' not ideal.
4. A battery larger than 40 WHr.
This is shit, but it lines up with a lot of the other shit on the market, so I can't say it's unexpected.
5. Fast eMMC or solid state drive (SSD) for storage technology.
Define fast. There are plenty of crappy SSDs. Why not just require a certain (random) read/write speed? My guess is that many of these things will have soldered-on storage chips, so fuck you if you want to upgrade or when the performance starts to degrade over time.
6. Pen and touch (optional).
You mean as an added cost. I hate the 2-in-1 concept. Just be a laptop or toy, don't try to be both. A stylus can be useful, but I doubt any of the devices sold under this shit will use a good one / good digitizer.
The report adds that Microsoft wants these laptops to offer over 10-hour of battery life, and the "cold boot" should not take longer than 20 seconds.
Well, then maybe the 40 WHr requirement should be stepped up. And what is a "cold boot" for this "cloud" OS? Is it the fake cold boot / hybrid shutdown shit? Is it the fake cold boot where UEFI skips a ton of shit and if something ever borks up you have to let it fail to boot X times in a row or force shut it down during boot to trigger a true full boot?
I just don't see what the point of these devices is. For MS, they want people locked into their ecosystem. For users? These things are the modern net top. Remember that fad? They'll suck compared to regular laptops and be too expensive compared to budget laptops. Compared to tablets, no one will pick it over the Google / Apple prisons. Hell, people would prefer a Kindle Fire over this thing.
That's an indirect observation, and doesn't tell you anything about the cause. All you can do is rule other stuff out (and often to only certain degrees of certainty).
And that's a different thing from the observer/interaction problem.
You're the moron. The vast majority of soy products and soy-containing products are NOT produced with traditional fermentation and DO have all the problems I mentioned. I fucking explained this in my post. I guess you didn't read it. If you think this is limited to certain brands you're a fool. Soy that doesn't have issues (other than the estrogens) represent a small, small segment on the market. Basically natto and miso and SOME types of soy sauce.
The vast, vast majority of the market, such as the tofu blocks and soy "milk" and just about everything else are NOT produced via traditional methods and are fucking terrible for you.
> Cloners have been available in the US for these cards for years
Prove this statement because it smells like bullshit to me.
Point me towards a cloner (or even an article that describes how to) for chip & pin cards or stfu with your hyperbolic bullshit. HINT: incorrect implementations of emv. (ie: using non-random UN's) aren't clones.
Again, we don't have chip and pin in the USA. We have chip and LOL. It's a farce. Cloners have been available for years.
Welcome to America. We don't have chip and pin, we have chip and sign, but actually, fuck signing most of the time.
The chip does NOTHING in the USA except make the whole process take longer. Cloners have been available in the US for these cards for years. And you can still run the, as mag swipe (or even phone-in/ "offline" transactions) at a whole bunch of exempted places that don't have to get their act together anytime soon.
Have you ever eaten a subway chicken sandwich? No, not the chicken "breast" sandwich (that has an appreciable chunk of (purported) chicken that you'd able to judge the texture of), but something like the "Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki"? The chicken in it is tiny little strips that gets dreeeeeeenched in the sauce. By the time I get to unwrapping it, all texture is gone.
Perhaps against the specific charge of libel, but you can still be sued and forced to pay up for telling the truth. Though no one can legally stop you from speaking, they can get after you for damages for any direct harm you cause. If you go around telling children that their dads are really some guy in prison and not the cuck that tucks them in at night, or you spend your days outing Apple users as straight, they can sue you for the distress you've caused even though it's all true.
"Processed using chemicals" does not equal "bad for you." I suppose you won't eat GMOs either? As long as your body can effectively process it into useful components that don't cause you harm, it's healthy. It's actually probably more healthy than "natural" foods because all the extra crap your body normally discards as feces or in urine isn't there.
You sound like the type of person who would unironically lobby to get dihydrogen monoxide removed from our water supply.
People are idiots and thing "processed" foods are bad, even though the exact opposite is true. Cooking food is "processing" it. Also, water is a chemical.
However, modern soy, such as in tofu, is essentially an industrial byproduct and is not only full of estrogens, but also a lot of shit beyond the soy protein that you don't want to eat. rtb61 is correct - soy is shit. (I don't know about the specifics he linked to as I'm not going to click it and read it.)
Now, if you're talking about classically prepared (almost always fermented) soy, then you're just dealing with the estrogen as the main problem. In the typical quantities you'd use soy prepared this way, you're not going to have an issue.
But the soy "milk", soy infant formula, soy fake meat, etc. being foisted on people as healthy is absolutely terrible for you, especially when you're young.
System Center Configuration Manager will support this new aligned update model
What does this mean, exactly?
SCCM has never needed to "support" an update model. Updates are published, WSUS picks them up, SCCM sees them in WSUS, and SCCM evaluates any ADRs you have set up (or you manually download updates, add them to groups, and deploy them). Later, you get a report about how compliance for a specific Patch Tuesday Software Update Group has fallen below your threshold of 99% (SCCM doesn't let you generate a report that expects 100% of your clients be up to date) because SCCM constantly forgets about a client's status for a deployment and never properly removes all the expired/superseded updates.
Will I need to update the MDT & AIK every 6 months? Will I need to update SCCM every 6 months? If so, how long will SCCM 2012 (non R2) be "supported" for whatever versions of "Windows 10"? Setting up SCCM is a nightmare and a half and I am not going to fucking upend it every 6 months. The transition to 2012 SP2 broke all custom reports and the onyl fix was manually replication the new, unnecessary, and asinine SID translation layer they added to all the standard reports.
If you can't detect them, you can't know that they're there. You can predict that they're there. But without any observation - direct or indirect - you can't know. Accordingly, by knowing something you are an observer (however indirect) and have thus influenced it.
Yup, you're no super sleuth. The last edit I made to Wikipedia involved an article about a famous bird. The edit was reverted by some assclown for some shit about "no original research" despite the fact that I was quoting an official source regarding that bird.
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Yup. BASIC.
You're a troll, but you're correct about LibreOffice.
Libre/Star/Open Office all suck ass for anything remotely complex.
MS Office isn't going away. We've only been able to transition a small group of our users to Google Docs / etc. because their use is extremely limited and we in fact wanted to limit them more.
Peer review is a joke. Journals barely glance at shit the reviewers all engage in favoritism and favor trading.
Fuck peer review. How about peer escrow?
Submit your paper, a full and complete set of instructions for replicating the experiment, and the complete and raw data you collected during your experiment.
The journal reads it and gives if it passes a basic bullshit test, puts the experiment into a queue.
Then the journal pulls different experiments from the queue and presents them to you (only the experiment, not the data or paper). You have to replicate an experiment before your paper can be published. (Different weights can be added for cost and time, and things can be categorized so you don't get biologists doing physics.)
Once you replicate an experiment and submit the complete and raw data, the journal compares both data sets and determines whether or not to publish the original paper associated with the experiment you reviewed. Likewise, once someone replicates your experiment your paper may be published. (Depending on the type of experiment, they can require more than one replication, have different levels of review and different tolerances for discrepancy.)
If a paper is published, everything is published. The paper, the experiment description, and all data from the original submitter and all the replicators.
If you're not doing repeatable experimentation, you're not doing science, so fuck off. If your data contains sensitive info, such as HIPAA, anonymize it. It's not hard, though people claim it's hard when they want to prevent you from seeing their bogus data.
It's relative. Fiorina didn't outright kill anything. Compare her to the outright con artists I mentioned that put companies into turbo death spirals.
Put down the books and look at the real world.
When you put a woman in as your CEO because they're a woman, you're going to have a bad time.
The same goes for race, religion, sexual identity, whatever. Of course, this also includes straight, white, Christian males, though I suspect I've already offended certain people past the point of no return.
How about you hire the best person for the job?
How many Meg Whitmans, Elizabeth Holmeses, and Marissa Mayers are we going to see trotted out to kill companies for the sake of diversity?
The worst part is that we see all the awful female executives getting pats on the back, accolades, etc., but the ones that are competent like Carly Fiorina (compare her to her successor) or even great (Lisa Su) get almost no fucking recognition.
Remember when HP mattered? And Yahoo?
Why test? The last version was mostly fine. If something's wrong with this version we'll hem and haw, issue a placebo patch in 2 months that will trick half of the people. Half of the people who aren't fooled will get used to it or stop bitching. For the remaining people who complain, we'll just trot out the occasional lie about how we're still working on it. Then it's time for the next version, and maybe we'll fix it there, maybe we won't. Either way, we'll claim that it's been fixed and that the new version is the best ever. People will buy it.
Slashdot editors, can you please stop putting these "BetaNews" submissions on the front page?
These submissions are by far some of the worst ones that end up on the front page.
"BetaNews" is linked to from a submission almost every day! Hell, it was linked to twice on March 31, and from three submissions on March 25!
If want wanted to read "BetaNews" articles, which we don't, we would go directly to that site instead of coming to Slashdot!
Please stop putting mediocre content from "BetaNews" on the Slashdot front page, especially when it appears to be the authors of the articles who are submitting them here!
Please, no more "BetaNews" at Slashdot!
I agree, but you missed the opportunity to call out "Reader BrianFagioli".
Soda pop is poison. You don't need a study to prove that. There are only four safe drinks in this world. Water, milk, orange juice, and beer. Wait, there are only five safe drinks in this world. Water, milk, orange juice, wine and beer.
You forgot butter. There's nothing like a nice hot mug of butter to start your day.
...you cannot "fat shame" people,
You can. My mother does it to me all the time.
However she doesn't do it to anyone else, and no one else does it to me (to my face).
See how it works?
WHY YOU SO FAT?
Have you eaten yet? Sit down and eat. Eat more. What do you mean you're not hungry? Eat! Eat!
WHY YOU SO FAT?
But lots of people do live in California, including a lot of Asians, a lot of obese people, and a lot of people who follow shitty Hollywood-style "cleanse" fads.
He referred to slim people with his generalization.
You referred to Asians with yours.
His was less inaccurate.
1. Quad-core (Celeron or better) processor.
Of which generation? I guess it doesn't matter, because Celeron is ass regardless.
2. 4GB of RAM.
I was on 16 GB minimum 6 years ago! I understand that plebs don't need that much, but come the fuck on. If this is a "cloud" OS then it's going to involve shitty web apps gobbling up tons of RAM in a bloated browser. How could you not specify 8 GB as a minimum? It's hardly any more expensive in terms of BoM.
3. 32GB of storage (64GB for 64-bit).
Two fails here. First, why is there a 32-bit variant? If this is a locked-down "cloud" terminal, seize the opportunity to move forward. Who the fuck makes 32-bit-only hardware that will be connected to a "cloud" device such as this? Secondly, most of the 32 gigs will be eaten by Windows itself. Even on 64 gigs, Windows will slowly eat away more and more of it.
I guess the 6-month cadence of updates is their plan to fix that, as each big update on Windows 10 (and whatever the fuck they end up calling this) is a complete reinstall. They nuke your old windows directory X days later, thus curbing the cancerous growth that is WinSxS (or whatever it's called in 10) and other such shit.
64 gigs would be serviceable for people who truly live "in the cloud", but I expect people who expect to have local copies of photos, music, or shitty apps/games from the store will quickly hit the wall on the 64 GB models. I presume many of these things would have a microSDXC slot for increased capacity, of course that's' not ideal.
4. A battery larger than 40 WHr.
This is shit, but it lines up with a lot of the other shit on the market, so I can't say it's unexpected.
5. Fast eMMC or solid state drive (SSD) for storage technology.
Define fast. There are plenty of crappy SSDs. Why not just require a certain (random) read/write speed? My guess is that many of these things will have soldered-on storage chips, so fuck you if you want to upgrade or when the performance starts to degrade over time.
6. Pen and touch (optional).
You mean as an added cost. I hate the 2-in-1 concept. Just be a laptop or toy, don't try to be both. A stylus can be useful, but I doubt any of the devices sold under this shit will use a good one / good digitizer.
The report adds that Microsoft wants these laptops to offer over 10-hour of battery life, and the "cold boot" should not take longer than 20 seconds.
Well, then maybe the 40 WHr requirement should be stepped up. And what is a "cold boot" for this "cloud" OS? Is it the fake cold boot / hybrid shutdown shit? Is it the fake cold boot where UEFI skips a ton of shit and if something ever borks up you have to let it fail to boot X times in a row or force shut it down during boot to trigger a true full boot?
I just don't see what the point of these devices is. For MS, they want people locked into their ecosystem. For users? These things are the modern net top. Remember that fad? They'll suck compared to regular laptops and be too expensive compared to budget laptops. Compared to tablets, no one will pick it over the Google / Apple prisons. Hell, people would prefer a Kindle Fire over this thing.
No, you weren't correct. You specifically talked about political opinions. This was about a bird.
I did cite my source.
That's an indirect observation, and doesn't tell you anything about the cause.
All you can do is rule other stuff out (and often to only certain degrees of certainty).
And that's a different thing from the observer/interaction problem.
You're the moron. The vast majority of soy products and soy-containing products are NOT produced with traditional fermentation and DO have all the problems I mentioned. I fucking explained this in my post. I guess you didn't read it. If you think this is limited to certain brands you're a fool. Soy that doesn't have issues (other than the estrogens) represent a small, small segment on the market. Basically natto and miso and SOME types of soy sauce.
The vast, vast majority of the market, such as the tofu blocks and soy "milk" and just about everything else are NOT produced via traditional methods and are fucking terrible for you.
> Cloners have been available in the US for these cards for years
Prove this statement because it smells like bullshit to me.
Point me towards a cloner (or even an article that describes how to) for chip & pin cards or stfu with your hyperbolic bullshit. HINT: incorrect implementations of emv. (ie: using non-random UN's) aren't clones.
Again, we don't have chip and pin in the USA. We have chip and LOL. It's a farce. Cloners have been available for years.
Dumb ass millennials say "oh I am investing in this glorious business"
except it's just some idiot making promises that can't be met and then the idiot runs off with whatever money was pledged
Yeah but how the fuck are you gonna say no to Waffles the Memory Foam Corgi?
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
Welcome to America. We don't have chip and pin, we have chip and sign, but actually, fuck signing most of the time.
The chip does NOTHING in the USA except make the whole process take longer. Cloners have been available in the US for these cards for years. And you can still run the, as mag swipe (or even phone-in/ "offline" transactions) at a whole bunch of exempted places that don't have to get their act together anytime soon.
Have you ever eaten a subway chicken sandwich? No, not the chicken "breast" sandwich (that has an appreciable chunk of (purported) chicken that you'd able to judge the texture of), but something like the "Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki"? The chicken in it is tiny little strips that gets dreeeeeeenched in the sauce. By the time I get to unwrapping it, all texture is gone.
Well, by how much does it improve the taste, exactly?
Perhaps against the specific charge of libel, but you can still be sued and forced to pay up for telling the truth. Though no one can legally stop you from speaking, they can get after you for damages for any direct harm you cause. If you go around telling children that their dads are really some guy in prison and not the cuck that tucks them in at night, or you spend your days outing Apple users as straight, they can sue you for the distress you've caused even though it's all true.
"Processed using chemicals" does not equal "bad for you." I suppose you won't eat GMOs either?
As long as your body can effectively process it into useful components that don't cause you harm, it's healthy. It's actually probably more healthy than "natural" foods because all the extra crap your body normally discards as feces or in urine isn't there.
You sound like the type of person who would unironically lobby to get dihydrogen monoxide removed from our water supply.
People are idiots and thing "processed" foods are bad, even though the exact opposite is true. Cooking food is "processing" it. Also, water is a chemical.
However, modern soy, such as in tofu, is essentially an industrial byproduct and is not only full of estrogens, but also a lot of shit beyond the soy protein that you don't want to eat. rtb61 is correct - soy is shit. (I don't know about the specifics he linked to as I'm not going to click it and read it.)
Now, if you're talking about classically prepared (almost always fermented) soy, then you're just dealing with the estrogen as the main problem. In the typical quantities you'd use soy prepared this way, you're not going to have an issue.
But the soy "milk", soy infant formula, soy fake meat, etc. being foisted on people as healthy is absolutely terrible for you, especially when you're young.
I see "cloud first mobile first" on a regular basis where I work. It disgusts me.
System Center Configuration Manager will support this new aligned update model
What does this mean, exactly?
SCCM has never needed to "support" an update model. Updates are published, WSUS picks them up, SCCM sees them in WSUS, and SCCM evaluates any ADRs you have set up (or you manually download updates, add them to groups, and deploy them). Later, you get a report about how compliance for a specific Patch Tuesday Software Update Group has fallen below your threshold of 99% (SCCM doesn't let you generate a report that expects 100% of your clients be up to date) because SCCM constantly forgets about a client's status for a deployment and never properly removes all the expired/superseded updates.
Will I need to update the MDT & AIK every 6 months? Will I need to update SCCM every 6 months? If so, how long will SCCM 2012 (non R2) be "supported" for whatever versions of "Windows 10"?
Setting up SCCM is a nightmare and a half and I am not going to fucking upend it every 6 months. The transition to 2012 SP2 broke all custom reports and the onyl fix was manually replication the new, unnecessary, and asinine SID translation layer they added to all the standard reports.
If you can't detect them, you can't know that they're there.
You can predict that they're there. But without any observation - direct or indirect - you can't know. Accordingly, by knowing something you are an observer (however indirect) and have thus influenced it.
This is a pretty fundamental concept.
Yup, you're no super sleuth. The last edit I made to Wikipedia involved an article about a famous bird. The edit was reverted by some assclown for some shit about "no original research" despite the fact that I was quoting an official source regarding that bird.
That was about a decade ago, I guess.
Wikipedia is shit.