iOS is great as long as you stay within what Apple anticipated you wanted it for. However, if you need to go outside the boundaries of Apple, then you are shit out of luck. Then your options are: stay in the fence, or switch to the slightly more open Android.
This lockdown will only serve to harm Apple long-term. But whatever.:)
You are making the assumption people will vote for Hillary because they like Hillary.
If it's Hillary vs Trump, many many people will vote Hillary just to spite Trump. Like, most mexicans, most blacks, most women.
Hillary has this one in the bag already, of the three remaining Kasich is the only one that will give her even remotely any trouble whatsoever. The only thing stopping Hillary would be a major health problem like leukemia.
The US military is all but in shambles. By every conceivable measurement the US military is the strongest, meanest military on the planet. In monetary wealth alone, the US military has as much funding as the entire rest of the world. The US military tech is top notch and compared to any other country outscales that country by atleast a factor 10 if not more in sheer numbers, and often they have a much better technology (compare for instance tanks - chinese have 500, The US has over 6 000 - and the US tanks are vastly superior to boot).
It is not merely the preemptive conciliation that afflicts politicians who are ready to subordinate Christian civilization to Islam;
Which tells me that:
a) This person is suffering of islamophobia b) This person is furthermore suffering of delusions of paranoia, more specifically that there is a conspiracy to turn western democracies into theocraticly run islamic states. If anything, we're much more likely to become theocraticly christian states - but I wouldn't really worry about that either. The chances of either happening is less than the chance of you specificly dying in a terrorist attack (which, coincidentally, is less than the chance of getting hit by lightning).
Both notions means that anything this delusional person says is to be taken with a few kilograms of salt, and thus your information is unreliable at best and pure lies at worst.
Then GTFO from the US. Move to like, Europe where work-to-live is the norm. (Where I live everyone has a right to 5 weeks of vacation each year, for instance)
Or simply make some cuts in your spendings and work less. It's quite possible but do require some time and effort.
Or go to your employer and start demanding some stuff. If they truly value you, they will agree to most reasonable requests.
Would you say Skype is an industry standard when it comes to IM?
No? Why not?
And then the second question; if Skype with its millions of users is not a standard, then why is XMPP with one quarter of Skypes userbase considered a standard? An open protocol, sure, but an actual standard?
It only becomes a standard if most people are already using it (de-facto) or if a body with big enough authority blesses it and push for it's implementation (de-jure). XMPP is not de-facto, neither de-jure. Sorry.
Actually it *is* a great example, because you still have four isolated islands (+ a bunch of smaller ones) of Facebook, Skype, Google, rest of XMPP network not talking to each other (Google refuse to implement S2S encryption on their servers, making it incompatible with rest of XMPP network). So yes it is indeed a non-standard mess, even though open standards exist.
a) There are NO standard format in that particular field, only a bunch of competing (open/closed) formats (see for example the current mess of IM). b) Such a standard exists, but didn't for a very long time which created a non-standard legacy mess that needs to be cleaned up by someone.
It has had that for years yet not a single client has managed to give a easy-to-use alternative for all these years. Not one.
If Jingle require STUN/TURN then there must be an easy way to discover these services. I've been waiting patiently for a decent client/server combo, but none has materialized, and by now it's too late. (And yes, Prosody kicks ass and takes names, but clients are still lacking, big time).
It's really sad that XMPP went the way it did, the protocol deserved more than it got.
The biggest showstopper was the lack of NAT-piercing Voice/Video/Filetransfers, and even though self-hosting has never been easier with Prosody... XMPP has never had worse prospects. Unfortunately.:(
Complete, total freedom means everyone always have freedom to do whatever they want e.g. anarchy. So yes, you can go too far on the freedom front. Freedom in moderation is great, too much or too little will lead to bad things though.
You are aware that any attempt to change the mandatory part of the IPv4 header would result in an incompatible header in any case, yes? So what does that mean?
It means that no matter which way you twist and turn the problem, you cannot escape the fact that in order to increase the address space of IPv4 you *must*, per *definition*, create an incompatible protocol. Which makes sense, of course. If you change a fundamental part of the protocol well, then it's not really the same protocol anymore, is it?
So instead of putting yet another band-aid on a protocol the engineers stepped back, took a long, good look at the problem and said "hey, IPv4 just can't do all the things we want it to, and since we will break compatibility anyway, let's create a new protocol that actually handles all of these edge cases we didn't see last time we designed a protocol, while we're at it!"
The problem with online voting is not a problem of technical merits. PGP already solved the digital signing bit ages ago.
The problem, instead, is how do we ensure that the vote cast was not in any way coerced?
In the current system with anonymous votes, it is very hard to force or coerce a voter to vote as one wish. Furthermore, it's more or less impossible to know which vote a certain person cast since the act of voting itself is done in secrecy. This is not so in the case of online voting.
To take an extreme example - let's say your best friend partakes in the election. How do you know that your best friend didn't vote for a particular candidate with a gun pointed at his or her face?
Not to nitpick, but OOo/LO spreadsheet is named Calc, not Gnumeric. Gnumeric is part of the Gnome project, but yeah.
File loading speed is a fair point. Since LO use ODF which is a text-based format, it will always be slower than the binary formats of MSO. This is usually not a huge issue (a few seconds more) for all but the more obnoxious data formats. And if you have a 400MB+ spreadsheet, you really *should* consider moving that data to a *real* database, but yeah...
Other than that it seems that for the three important programs (Wordprocessing, Spreadsheets, Presentation) we get:
Wordprocessing: Just about neck to neck, you need anything better go LaTeX. Spreadsheets: MSO has a slight edge over LO. Presentation: MSO beats LO hands down in features, but LO covers the basic premises.
Thank you, that was the kind of answer I'm looking for.
I keep hearing this "LibreOffice is great for basic tasks" thing, but whenever I ask for concrete examples people tend to avoid the subject. It covers all my basic needs, but maybe there is something I'm missing? Maybe Office got a better templating system or something I dunno...
For word processing though, I vastly prefer the OO/LO paradigm of creating an actual document structure instead of the Office way of having to mark the text and apply styling to it.
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Install a webbrowser that actually supports modern webapp technologies for instance? That got one friend to finally abandon iOS.
http://nolanlawson.com/2015/06...
And that's just one example of many:
http://www.greenbot.com/articl...
iOS is great as long as you stay within what Apple anticipated you wanted it for. However, if you need to go outside the boundaries of Apple, then you are shit out of luck. Then your options are: stay in the fence, or switch to the slightly more open Android.
This lockdown will only serve to harm Apple long-term. But whatever. :)
Your TCO will probably skyrocket once you find out you need to do something Apple in their infinite wisdom protect you from doing. :)
That's what happened to most Apple loyalists I know of, anyhow.
You are making the assumption people will vote for Hillary because they like Hillary.
If it's Hillary vs Trump, many many people will vote Hillary just to spite Trump. Like, most mexicans, most blacks, most women.
Hillary has this one in the bag already, of the three remaining Kasich is the only one that will give her even remotely any trouble whatsoever. The only thing stopping Hillary would be a major health problem like leukemia.
The US military is all but in shambles. By every conceivable measurement the US military is the strongest, meanest military on the planet. In monetary wealth alone, the US military has as much funding as the entire rest of the world. The US military tech is top notch and compared to any other country outscales that country by atleast a factor 10 if not more in sheer numbers, and often they have a much better technology (compare for instance tanks - chinese have 500, The US has over 6 000 - and the US tanks are vastly superior to boot).
See https://www.military1.com/all/... for more info.
... But only 85 legal positions, with many being mirroring positions.
Placing two stones of the same color over the diagonal of this board leads to an absorbing state.
Any other state can be reset by either black or white to a single stone.
This is assuming the players are not playing with the rule of no repetition (but with the rule of no suicide).
For clarity, see the rulebook.
No stupid you got it all wrong, it's C3PO that dies!
I loved the scene, too!
The first paragraph in your link says this:
It is not merely the preemptive conciliation that afflicts politicians who are ready to subordinate Christian civilization to Islam;
Which tells me that:
a) This person is suffering of islamophobia
b) This person is furthermore suffering of delusions of paranoia, more specifically that there is a conspiracy to turn western democracies into theocraticly run islamic states. If anything, we're much more likely to become theocraticly christian states - but I wouldn't really worry about that either. The chances of either happening is less than the chance of you specificly dying in a terrorist attack (which, coincidentally, is less than the chance of getting hit by lightning).
Both notions means that anything this delusional person says is to be taken with a few kilograms of salt, and thus your information is unreliable at best and pure lies at worst.
MPAA: Why is Netflix and all other streaming sites no longer a top link at Google?
Google: Ooooops! Hehe...
Then GTFO from the US. Move to like, Europe where work-to-live is the norm. (Where I live everyone has a right to 5 weeks of vacation each year, for instance)
Or simply make some cuts in your spendings and work less. It's quite possible but do require some time and effort.
Or go to your employer and start demanding some stuff. If they truly value you, they will agree to most reasonable requests.
That depends on what you call a standard then.
Would you say Skype is an industry standard when it comes to IM?
No? Why not?
And then the second question; if Skype with its millions of users is not a standard, then why is XMPP with one quarter of Skypes userbase considered a standard? An open protocol, sure, but an actual standard?
It only becomes a standard if most people are already using it (de-facto) or if a body with big enough authority blesses it and push for it's implementation (de-jure). XMPP is not de-facto, neither de-jure. Sorry.
Actually it *is* a great example, because you still have four isolated islands (+ a bunch of smaller ones) of Facebook, Skype, Google, rest of XMPP network not talking to each other (Google refuse to implement S2S encryption on their servers, making it incompatible with rest of XMPP network). So yes it is indeed a non-standard mess, even though open standards exist.
Yes, but in most of those cases it's because:
a) There are NO standard format in that particular field, only a bunch of competing (open/closed) formats (see for example the current mess of IM).
b) Such a standard exists, but didn't for a very long time which created a non-standard legacy mess that needs to be cleaned up by someone.
It has had that for years yet not a single client has managed to give a easy-to-use alternative for all these years. Not one.
If Jingle require STUN/TURN then there must be an easy way to discover these services. I've been waiting patiently for a decent client/server combo, but none has materialized, and by now it's too late. (And yes, Prosody kicks ass and takes names, but clients are still lacking, big time).
It's really sad that XMPP went the way it did, the protocol deserved more than it got.
The biggest showstopper was the lack of NAT-piercing Voice/Video/Filetransfers, and even though self-hosting has never been easier with Prosody... XMPP has never had worse prospects. Unfortunately. :(
You miss the point.
Complete, total freedom means everyone always have freedom to do whatever they want e.g. anarchy. So yes, you can go too far on the freedom front. Freedom in moderation is great, too much or too little will lead to bad things though.
So in your opinion we should abolish jails alltogether then? Because jails hinders the freedom of some individuals though not all of them.
You are aware that any attempt to change the mandatory part of the IPv4 header would result in an incompatible header in any case, yes? So what does that mean?
It means that no matter which way you twist and turn the problem, you cannot escape the fact that in order to increase the address space of IPv4 you *must*, per *definition*, create an incompatible protocol. Which makes sense, of course. If you change a fundamental part of the protocol well, then it's not really the same protocol anymore, is it?
So instead of putting yet another band-aid on a protocol the engineers stepped back, took a long, good look at the problem and said "hey, IPv4 just can't do all the things we want it to, and since we will break compatibility anyway, let's create a new protocol that actually handles all of these edge cases we didn't see last time we designed a protocol, while we're at it!"
Nope. I'm talking mostly P2P, VoIP that kinda stuff...
Actually, the only reason http has become as "important" as it has, is because of the widespread adoption of NAT.
Without NAT and the IPv4 shortage, chances are quite a few more services would've caught on.
The problem with online voting is not a problem of technical merits. PGP already solved the digital signing bit ages ago.
The problem, instead, is how do we ensure that the vote cast was not in any way coerced?
In the current system with anonymous votes, it is very hard to force or coerce a voter to vote as one wish. Furthermore, it's more or less impossible to know which vote a certain person cast since the act of voting itself is done in secrecy. This is not so in the case of online voting.
To take an extreme example - let's say your best friend partakes in the election. How do you know that your best friend didn't vote for a particular candidate with a gun pointed at his or her face?
Of course it is!
How else do you expect us $100/hour consultants to get any job opportunities?
*Walks off to buy his third solid gold Humvee*
Seems like we're in 95% agreement then. Thanks for a good discussion. :)
You do realise you can add your own repositories on e.g. Ubuntu, right?
https://help.ubuntu.com/commun...
Not to nitpick, but OOo/LO spreadsheet is named Calc, not Gnumeric. Gnumeric is part of the Gnome project, but yeah.
File loading speed is a fair point. Since LO use ODF which is a text-based format, it will always be slower than the binary formats of MSO. This is usually not a huge issue (a few seconds more) for all but the more obnoxious data formats. And if you have a 400MB+ spreadsheet, you really *should* consider moving that data to a *real* database, but yeah...
Other than that it seems that for the three important programs (Wordprocessing, Spreadsheets, Presentation) we get:
Wordprocessing: Just about neck to neck, you need anything better go LaTeX.
Spreadsheets: MSO has a slight edge over LO.
Presentation: MSO beats LO hands down in features, but LO covers the basic premises.
Thank you, that was the kind of answer I'm looking for.
I keep hearing this "LibreOffice is great for basic tasks" thing, but whenever I ask for concrete examples people tend to avoid the subject. It covers all my basic needs, but maybe there is something I'm missing? Maybe Office got a better templating system or something I dunno...
For word processing though, I vastly prefer the OO/LO paradigm of creating an actual document structure instead of the Office way of having to mark the text and apply styling to it.