...or some other SAAS solution. Really, there is almost no reason to do this on-prem anymore. If you are idealogically open source, then sure, you are legitimate exception. Just be sure the "you" in that case is "your organization", not "you personally".
The problem with 'go elsewhere' is that there may well be nowhere else to go with anything close to the same functionality or community. If it's a 'free' service, then it most likely means that the business model relies on building profiles of the users as the basis for targeted marketing, which means strongly inhibiting anonymity. If it's a paid-for service, you need to pay, which pretty much kills anonymity (no, payment via bitcoin only is NOT a viable mass-market business strategy).
I suppose a paid-for, non-advertising driven service could support pseudonymity unless required to divulge real identities by law enforcement, but I can't see such services becoming more than niche players.
Some chemical weapons have significant commercial uses -- chlorine, phosgene, even nerve agents as pesticides (sarin is an organophosphate, just like common insecticides). Any nation with a reasonably competent chemical industry can turn the stuff out in lots.
Unlike fissionables, biological weapons, or even sophisticated conventional arms, pretty much any nation with a university and few bucks can produce and weaponize chemicals. Doing it on a massive scale and producing weapons that are useful on a battlefield against prepared soldiers is much harder, enough so that most nations consider it not worth the bother.
If it were a matter of brainpower, there wouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand, if they use a few billion dollars to buy off every politician that opposes effective regulation and taxing of carbon, they might actually make a difference.
You jest, but I know that my user base is more interested in and engaged with mobile apps than web apps. I see far more tablet+bluetooth keyboard cover combinations out and about than I do people lugging laptops. The one exception being coffeeshops where you can camp all day by an outlet.
Also, a native mobile app can deliver a better experience in many cases. How many people use the gmail web interface instead of the app on their phone or tablet?
Content-creation heavy jobs (and I include serious writing here), are still generally done with native applications. I don't see that changing any time soon.
I suppose that lots of data-entry and retrieval line-of-business apps will be web apps by default, but let's face it: those apps sucked on a terminal, sucked as client-server apps, suck as web-apps, and suck as mobile apps. It's not the toolkit that's the problem.
I always get a bit of a kick over how much better the picture quality I get for free OTA is than the cable my friends pay for. Of course, they get far more channels, so there is a trade-off.
I remember way too many hours logged into IDS and Off Broadway BBS and, yeah, actually meeting up with the community IRL. That and Commodore Users' Group meetings in Hoxie Four Corners.
Oh dear God, I haven't laughed that hard in a while now. I think I still have an original audiosheet that I have no way to play. If anyone actually has a rip of this, please send to jhodge@biglizard.net. Don't worry about copyright, I already own two originals.
Joe
...was the first PC-market, full programmable graphics chip, as far as I know. Any website proclaiming full programmability as new or revolutionaly is simply demonstrating a lack of historical knowledge. 34010/34020 based boards competed with the first-gen fixed function graphics accelerators for Win 3.x, but couldn't compete on price/performance with the fixed function BitBLT engines from S3 et al, and the flexibility of being fully programmable meant nothing to PC users who were accustomed to dumb EGA/VGA cards.
If nothing else, even domestic users who need to work with Asian-language materials should assure that. Adobe's main products are high-end, and in the case of programs like InDesign, are sold into markets where international audiences are common. I can only imagine that removing Asian language support would hand back any marketshare they have managed to take from Quark, despite the convenience of a basically all-Adobe publishing workflow.
Terminal Services / Metaframe and winterms (Wise, etc.) are probably the way to go. Put a (donated) big-ass SMP server on the backend, and a bunch of (donated) software on there, and off you go. If you want to offer more diversity, add in a second big-ass Sun server and use the winterm that are also XTerms. Opensource is great, but I'm guessing that the folks coming to these classes would prefer to learn mainstream skills that they can use at home and work.
Well, on Solaris, this would be pretty pointless. The kernel is modularized to hell and back, and pretty easy to configure. Actually recompiling probably wouldn't buy you much, if anything.
...doesn't everyone build a custom kernel? I've been using Linux for years, and I always assumed that the prebuilt, "Christmas Tree" kernels were just to make installation easier. People actually run with those things? Heh..
In particular, it seems whenever I pay for something on line, I have to
Hand over lots of personal information.
Use a credit card.
"opt out" of sixteen different offerings.
Agree to Terms of Service that basically say I an not gauranteed anything for my money
Agree the said Terms of Service may be changed unilaterally at any time with out notice.
remember yet another username and password.
Whereas, when I buy a newspaper, magazine, CD, movie, or anything else offline, all I have to do is:
Select an item by browsing (previewing).
hand some cash to the nice clerk.
enjoy my {whatever} in peace
And of course, if the product I buy offline is defective, I can return it and get my money back. How many subscription web sites have a clear refund policy?
Leaving the question of quality aside (since most people's comments, including mine, aren't worth $.02 most of the time), paying for online content is inconvenient, invasive, and doesn't even provide a reasonable gaurantee that I'll get what I'm paying for.
I wonder if these are sophisticated enough to track your eyeball so that the image can slew properly if you move your eyeballs without moving you head (which would defeat head tracking). I know I've ready about eyeball tracking systems uses for targeting, mouse replacement, etc; combined with hi resolution retinal scanning, truly immersive VR might be only a few (10 - 15) years off.
I'd say sooner, but I imagine it will be a while before your average consumer can afford to own a few pair.
I'd like to see a version distributed that allowed cutting/pasting of graphic elements, but not necessarily text. My reasoning is:
1. For text, if the section is too long for me to re-type comfortably, it is probably too long to qualify as fair use ( by my personal standards, I realize the law is more complex).
2. On the other hand, a lot of manufacturers documentation is distributed as PDF these days, and I --need-- to be able to cut and paste graphic elements (mostly diagrams and screenshots) to produce user-level documentation. Having to re-create the graphics (or screenshot the Acrobat Reader screen and cut the graphic out of the screenshot) is a pain in the ass.
Now, I suppose (2) would let someone grab all the graphics out of an electronic book or magazine, but that still wouldn't destroy the value of the book/magazine.
Of course, I'd settle for
3. Authors/companies not setting copy-protection bits on documents that I've paid for...
OK - you're wrong.
The 80486 was the first x86 from Intel to integrate a math coprocessor. The "original" 80486 did not have a suffix, ran at 25Mhz, and produced enough heat to brew a decent cup of tea. Later, the 80486SX was introduced, being a 80486 without an FPU, and the original 80486 was renamed the 80486DX.
The 80386 did not have an integrated FPU, but could work with the 80387 or 80287 running at an equal or greater speed. The 80386 was introduced at 16Mhz. The 80386SX, introduced later was an 80386 with the external interface necked down to 16 bit to allow for cheaper system designs.
There was an 80386 variant from Intel with an integrated FPU: the FastCad386. The FastCad chipset (yes, chipSET) replaced both an 80386 and an 80387 with an integrated chip and a 'dummy' chip for the 80387 socket, and provided a modest performancd boost over the stock 80386/80387 combination.
There was also an 80386SL variant, which had advanced (for the time) power managemet features and was intended for mobile applications.
80386 chips were produced by other manufactures, including IBM and AMD, under license from Intel, since multiple-sourcing of CPUs was common at that time. Eventually, some of there other companies produce yet more "386" chips, including the IBM BlueLightning, and AMD's AM386-40, which was the fastest commercial 80386 ever produced to my knowledge.
Enough?
So quit smoking; that knocks you down by two. Then, eliminate the phone because talking to people is usually a waste of time anyway, and you're on your way to a reasonable loadd
Cut-n-paste, distasteful, or whatever you think about George W's answers, I'd say he (and any other candidate) deserves some credit for being willing to answer.
In recent years, more and more or our public buildings, museums, monuments and spaces have been placed behind barriers, fences, guards and even metal detectors in the name of security. Some examples I am familiar with are: barriers and metal detectors around the Washington Monument, the closing of Pennslyvania Avenue in front of the White House, and the closing of much of the upper tier of the Capitol itself.
In my opinion, for the leaders and symbols of a free nation to cower behind these barriers is pathetic, and makes our nation appear weak and frightened rather than the confident people I believe us to be. Further, to be denied access to my own Capitol and monuments is a serious infringment of my liberty.
What is your opinion of the recently imposed security restrictions, and what specific actions will you take regarding these restrictions will you take should you be elected?
Politicians of all stripes make campaign promises, including tax cuts or entitlement increases to influence voters to vote for them, which could be construed as logically equivalent to buying votes, but I don't really think it is. Selling a vote would entail voting for a politician for direct personal gain, but voting in favor of a politician who promises a tax cut is a statement on public policy; I doubt many voters calculate out "If I vote for X, I will get 1/280,000th of a 10,000,000 tax cut over 7 years, whereas a vote for Y only gets me 1/280,000 of 5,000,000 over 3 years", and then votes for the politician who is offering to "pay" more.
I live in Washington, DC, and have watched Congress at work many times. I really believe that most Congressmen are honorable and doing their best at a staggeringly hard job.
I'm starting to wonder about some of the citizens, though.
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...or some other SAAS solution. Really, there is almost no reason to do this on-prem anymore. If you are idealogically open source, then sure, you are legitimate exception. Just be sure the "you" in that case is "your organization", not "you personally".
The problem with 'go elsewhere' is that there may well be nowhere else to go with anything close to the same functionality or community. If it's a 'free' service, then it most likely means that the business model relies on building profiles of the users as the basis for targeted marketing, which means strongly inhibiting anonymity. If it's a paid-for service, you need to pay, which pretty much kills anonymity (no, payment via bitcoin only is NOT a viable mass-market business strategy).
I suppose a paid-for, non-advertising driven service could support pseudonymity unless required to divulge real identities by law enforcement, but I can't see such services becoming more than niche players.
Some chemical weapons have significant commercial uses -- chlorine, phosgene, even nerve agents as pesticides (sarin is an organophosphate, just like common insecticides). Any nation with a reasonably competent chemical industry can turn the stuff out in lots.
References:
http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/phosgene-market.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organophosphate_compound
Unlike fissionables, biological weapons, or even sophisticated conventional arms, pretty much any nation with a university and few bucks can produce and weaponize chemicals. Doing it on a massive scale and producing weapons that are useful on a battlefield against prepared soldiers is much harder, enough so that most nations consider it not worth the bother.
If it were a matter of brainpower, there wouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand, if they use a few billion dollars to buy off every politician that opposes effective regulation and taxing of carbon, they might actually make a difference.
You jest, but I know that my user base is more interested in and engaged with mobile apps than web apps. I see far more tablet+bluetooth keyboard cover combinations out and about than I do people lugging laptops. The one exception being coffeeshops where you can camp all day by an outlet.
Also, a native mobile app can deliver a better experience in many cases. How many people use the gmail web interface instead of the app on their phone or tablet?
Content-creation heavy jobs (and I include serious writing here), are still generally done with native applications. I don't see that changing any time soon.
I suppose that lots of data-entry and retrieval line-of-business apps will be web apps by default, but let's face it: those apps sucked on a terminal, sucked as client-server apps, suck as web-apps, and suck as mobile apps. It's not the toolkit that's the problem.
Yep -- OKI dot matrix printers. They're not going anywhere and are essentially bulletproof.
I always get a bit of a kick over how much better the picture quality I get for free OTA is than the cable my friends pay for. Of course, they get far more channels, so there is a trade-off.
Former RI resident here.
I remember way too many hours logged into IDS and Off Broadway BBS and, yeah, actually meeting up with the community IRL. That and Commodore Users' Group meetings in Hoxie Four Corners.
OK, now THAT is funny. Bravo!
Groupwise has had this for a while now. I'm pretty sure Notes does too. And Mozilla. And Mutt.
Oh dear God, I haven't laughed that hard in a while now. I think I still have an original audiosheet that I have no way to play. If anyone actually has a rip of this, please send to jhodge@biglizard.net. Don't worry about copyright, I already own two originals. Joe
...was the first PC-market, full programmable graphics chip, as far as I know.
Any website proclaiming full programmability as new or revolutionaly is simply demonstrating a lack of historical knowledge. 34010/34020 based boards competed with the first-gen fixed function graphics accelerators for Win 3.x, but couldn't compete on price/performance with the fixed function BitBLT engines from S3 et al, and the flexibility of being fully programmable meant nothing to PC users who were accustomed to dumb EGA/VGA cards.
If nothing else, even domestic users who need to work with Asian-language materials should assure that. Adobe's main products are high-end, and in the case of programs like InDesign, are sold into markets where international audiences are common. I can only imagine that removing Asian language support would hand back any marketshare they have managed to take from Quark, despite the convenience of a basically all-Adobe publishing workflow.
Terminal Services / Metaframe and winterms (Wise, etc.) are probably the way to go. Put a (donated) big-ass SMP server on the backend, and a bunch of (donated) software on there, and off you go. If you want to offer more diversity, add in a second big-ass Sun server and use the winterm that are also XTerms. Opensource is great, but I'm guessing that the folks coming to these classes would prefer to learn mainstream skills that they can use at home and work.
Well, on Solaris, this would be pretty pointless. The kernel is modularized to hell and back, and pretty easy to configure. Actually recompiling probably wouldn't buy you much, if anything.
...doesn't everyone build a custom kernel? I've been using Linux for years, and I always assumed that the prebuilt, "Christmas Tree" kernels were just to make installation easier. People actually run with those things? Heh..
In particular, it seems whenever I pay for something on line, I have to
Whereas, when I buy a newspaper, magazine, CD, movie, or anything else offline, all I have to do is:
And of course, if the product I buy offline is defective, I can return it and get my money back. How many subscription web sites have a clear refund policy?
Leaving the question of quality aside (since most people's comments, including mine, aren't worth $.02 most of the time), paying for online content is inconvenient, invasive, and doesn't even provide a reasonable gaurantee that I'll get what I'm paying for.
I think that about covers it for me.
I'd say sooner, but I imagine it will be a while before your average consumer can afford to own a few pair.
1. For text, if the section is too long for me to re-type comfortably, it is probably too long to qualify as fair use ( by my personal standards, I realize the law is more complex).
2. On the other hand, a lot of manufacturers documentation is distributed as PDF these days, and I --need-- to be able to cut and paste graphic elements (mostly diagrams and screenshots) to produce user-level documentation. Having to re-create the graphics (or screenshot the Acrobat Reader screen and cut the graphic out of the screenshot) is a pain in the ass.
Now, I suppose (2) would let someone grab all the graphics out of an electronic book or magazine, but that still wouldn't destroy the value of the book/magazine.
Of course, I'd settle for
3. Authors/companies not setting copy-protection bits on documents that I've paid for...
OK - you're wrong. The 80486 was the first x86 from Intel to integrate a math coprocessor. The "original" 80486 did not have a suffix, ran at 25Mhz, and produced enough heat to brew a decent cup of tea. Later, the 80486SX was introduced, being a 80486 without an FPU, and the original 80486 was renamed the 80486DX. The 80386 did not have an integrated FPU, but could work with the 80387 or 80287 running at an equal or greater speed. The 80386 was introduced at 16Mhz. The 80386SX, introduced later was an 80386 with the external interface necked down to 16 bit to allow for cheaper system designs. There was an 80386 variant from Intel with an integrated FPU: the FastCad386. The FastCad chipset (yes, chipSET) replaced both an 80386 and an 80387 with an integrated chip and a 'dummy' chip for the 80387 socket, and provided a modest performancd boost over the stock 80386/80387 combination. There was also an 80386SL variant, which had advanced (for the time) power managemet features and was intended for mobile applications. 80386 chips were produced by other manufactures, including IBM and AMD, under license from Intel, since multiple-sourcing of CPUs was common at that time. Eventually, some of there other companies produce yet more "386" chips, including the IBM BlueLightning, and AMD's AM386-40, which was the fastest commercial 80386 ever produced to my knowledge. Enough?
So quit smoking; that knocks you down by two. Then, eliminate the phone because talking to people is usually a waste of time anyway, and you're on your way to a reasonable loadd
Cut-n-paste, distasteful, or whatever you think about George W's answers, I'd say he (and any other candidate) deserves some credit for being willing to answer.
In my opinion, for the leaders and symbols of a free nation to cower behind these barriers is pathetic, and makes our nation appear weak and frightened rather than the confident people I believe us to be. Further, to be denied access to my own Capitol and monuments is a serious infringment of my liberty.
What is your opinion of the recently imposed security restrictions, and what specific actions will you take regarding these restrictions will you take should you be elected?
Politicians of all stripes make campaign promises, including tax cuts or entitlement increases to influence voters to vote for them, which could be construed as logically equivalent to buying votes, but I don't really think it is. Selling a vote would entail voting for a politician for direct personal gain, but voting in favor of a politician who promises a tax cut is a statement on public policy; I doubt many voters calculate out "If I vote for X, I will get 1/280,000th of a 10,000,000 tax cut over 7 years, whereas a vote for Y only gets me 1/280,000 of 5,000,000 over 3 years", and then votes for the politician who is offering to "pay" more.
I live in Washington, DC, and have watched Congress at work many times. I really believe that most Congressmen are honorable and doing their best at a staggeringly hard job.
I'm starting to wonder about some of the citizens, though.
How about a writing Perl-obfuscator in obfucsated perl? Then, just crank your code through enough times that even you can't recognize it, and submit!