*sigh* your exact argument has been been debunked 10000000 times on/. already, but ok i'll bite one more time.
The only reason no one changes from MS office is due to the low pain threshold users have.
Saying something 10000000 times does not make it the truth, thought. Then again, sheer volume of people claiming how linux-distro-du-jour is about to replace Windows/OSX as a mainstream desktop OS Real Soon Now seems to show some disconnection from reality in/. crowd.
I could point out some good examples of tasks that are easy / straightforward to do in Office but horribly convoluted and cumbersome in OO, but such examples have been provided in such discussions great many times in/. before.
You can negate magnetic field rather easily with opposing polarity magnetic field, thought. No need of having shipping container sized iron bricks around.
Try looking for hardcore that is marketed to women... it tends to be better, all around. Especially if what you're wanting is something your wife/girlfriend/fling will watch with you.
Problem is that the HC market tries to make even more extreme produce in a bid to outdo the competition. Anal sex was pretty much speacialty feature in in 80s, now HC films without are a niche market! Not to speak of a2m and some even more unsavory things that have been popping up recently.
In a word, Yuck.
Especially american HC/Gonzo has gotten fairly unpleasant to watch after two decades of exposure to internet porn so there's maybe something wrong there.. Euro-HC is much more palatable.
And when you look at some of the "features" in design, it's perfectly plausible we were intelligently designed on the back of a pizza box 2am after too many beers.
Sheesh... Sorry, it's nothing personal, but why does so many people seem to think that teaching people about violence will make them more violent? I've been a CCW permit holder since 2003. To date, I have not shot anyone, haven't even pointed any of my weapons at anyone. I've put a heck of a lot of holes in paper, but that's about it. From my conversations with other people who carry weapons for self defense, it results in them being more cautious about getting into potentially violent situations, because they know just how dangerous it could be.
Guns are different as you say yourself. Point and shoot, as it may be. To make people react more effectively in a completely off-the-wall situation like one day when you're at work picking your nose the quiet guy from down the hall comes into the room with a semi-auto.. you don't have a gun on you. You don't even have lots of time to think about it and psych up to it. Whatever you do is either what you do naturally (panic, most probably) or if you have fairly rare personality you may do something sensible like the guy who stopped the virginia shooter from entering a classroom so the students could escape from windows.. But to automatically without thinking about it grabbing nearest heavy object and try to rush a guy with a gun.. That takes training and acclimatization which has nothing to do with pointing and shooting. Shooting someone is neat and tidy for the person with the gun, stabbing someone with a screwdriver is not.
We saw the ultimate failure at Viginia Tech - Students hid under desks and tried to flee - from a single assailant. Far fewer lives would have been lost if they'd done the same thing flight 93 had done - attacked back.
I think that a cultural change to one of resistance, one that venerates the 'one who stood first' would be a good thing, in many ways.
Real easy to be smart alec with perfect hindsight.
Let's put it this way. Most people are not violent by nature. They may get really angry over something and/or drunk and start a fight but generally people have fairly high treshold to physically assault someone. This does not apply to children, of course..
So generally speaking you're advocating mandatory training that will desensitize people to violence. Meaning physical bone-crunching gouging other person's eye out -violence. That's perfectly possible of course. Most self defence classes train this at least to some degree as do military branches with more than a little hand-to-hand training. Heck, it's classic terrorist training item since times immemorial.
You would promote behavior in the general populace which matches the worst 5-10% scumbags out there. Bar fights become hell of a more lethal for participants when everyone has been trained to see any sharp and/or hard object as a potential weapon and does not hesitate to apply it in most damaging way possible (eyes, throat, knees..) Domestic violence becomes bit more intense as well. Hope you have lots of riot police lined up too as people start see violent demonstration as perfectly normal and generally fight a lot harder.
Naah. They're used everywhere that analog filters are -- look at nearly any >$5 sound card, near the analog IO. There's dozens of the little buggers.
(electrolytics)
Well, I said anyone worth his/her salt, obviously! Not to mention that electrolytics are nice for bulk capacitor duties, especially for 24V devices as tantalums tend to peter off in attractiveness when the voltage goes above 10v.. Speaking of analog filters, "correct" solution is obviously to use opamp filter circuit which lets you make nice 2nd order filter with just ceramics, but obviously that opamp costs something and preferably needs -5V (or -12V or whatever) for optimal performance.
And so on. For surge suppression, you can't have decent surge suppression unless you have grounded mains! Ok, you can use something common mode choke, but..
Strange. To me it was kind of health benefit to be able to, ahem, fuck without pain. And having constant sores etc was no picnic either.
So there's one health benefit of (adult) circumcision for you. Yeah, there are alternative surgical operations but the classic is idiot-proof. Depends if you're willing to go under knife again if they get it wrong 1st try..
There are "dry" electrolytics and the tantalum/ceramic capacitors are much better intrinsically. However, anything "high reliability" tends to cost somewhat more than the cheapest possible junk.
However, even semiconductors degrade over time with higher-power semiconductors degrading faster (waste heat, transients and whatnot). So your busted PSU could be very well due to power transistor going kaput instead of electrolytes drying. Those things even interact, of course.
Usually nobody worth his salt uses electrolytes for timing-anything so it's unlikely electrolytes will degrade ADSL box network performance. Far more likely to bust is the PSU and connections to network/line due to ESD/transients.
Yeah. Just think about it. Took more than 25 years to get from there to here. I'll be disappointed if I can't buy my 4.7THz processor for my 50th birthday (in 17 years)
There's ancient bug about mozilla coming up sloooooooooow in Win32 after it's been on for a long time. We're talking about mozilla 0.8 era bug and it affects all the related products that I'm aware of (TB, FF, probably even the calendar app)
The crux of the problem is that the bug affects only win32. So the developers, one and all, refuse(d) to treat it as a codebase problem because it has to be a windows problem.
"slow" in this instance means over 1 minute and easily 2-3 minutes. I even demonstrated at the time that it's not paging issue as such as mozilla/FF sits doing absolutely nothing (from perfmon monitor tool) for long period and when it finally starts swapping pages in it happens pretty quickly (5-10sec)
It was subsequently "fixed" by making FF etc hold on to the memory they've reserved instead of releasing it back to the OS. Hence you get ridiculous 300MB memory footprint that shrinks to 50MB after restarting FF even with the same pages open. Same goes for TB and all the other apps I'm sure.
So if you've got any kind of memory leak, mozilla apps want to keep it all in ram.
Yeah. Do not think any 3rd world countries deployed analog cell phones like these guys are whining about.
Static? On a GSM? Har har har. Dropped calls? Well okay maybe in a long-distance train between towns or something but new trains have their own phone switch anyhow.. And how are you going to make landline calls on that train anyhow? Long extension cord?
In Finland about 40% of households HAVE "regular" phone these days. And for the record, I have ADSL and no, I don't have to pay for an useless phone line to get it.
I am an engineer, and share your suspicion this is groundless news sensationalism.
The IPod is NOT a transmitting device. Yes, it does have a processor. And WILL emit *some* EMI. But not that much. If it did, we would have already heard scores of complaints from radio and television owners.
I am an electronics engineer and make sure our devices are EMI-compliant by the circuit design and by casing.
To interfere with radio you need to hit specific frequency bands around ~100MHz. For TV, yes, I can easily imagine placing ipod on top of a set producing visible interference when you arrange the leads just right. That's right, the headphone is a great antenna. In fact there are many mp3 players that use the headphone set as an FM antenna! Antennas works both ways, too..
Again, thought, TV would be suspectible for specific frequency bands that would essentially be picked up and amplified by the internal circuitry.
It's the kind of thinking that makes people proclaim their product is EMI-safe because they're immune to cell phones, which emit RF in very narrow frequency bands. However, when you subject the product to a different frequency (tested band is from 80MHz to 1GHz or 2.5GHz for medical devices) it can keel over and die. Medical devices, incidentally, have this higher frequency band because of the electric surgeon's knife.
In this instance, if I understood things correctly, the device kept on functioning correctly, but the communication between the monitoring/programming device and the pacemaker malfunctioned. This is allowed behavior as long as it does not endanger the patient, the behavior is easily noticed by the user (junk output) and the device restores normal operation after the interference is removed.
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It comes preinstalled on your shiny new PC?
I don't like articles like TFA. The writer is looking at the world through a narrow straw. Where will we be technologically in 5,000 - 10,000 years?
I'd put my money on extinct.
If you consider making charts "advanced", I guess. Or actually doing anything much with excel!
*sigh* your exact argument has been been debunked 10000000 times on /. already, but ok i'll bite one more time.
/. crowd.
/. before.
The only reason no one changes from MS office is due to the low pain threshold users have.
Saying something 10000000 times does not make it the truth, thought. Then again, sheer volume of people claiming how linux-distro-du-jour is about to replace Windows/OSX as a mainstream desktop OS Real Soon Now seems to show some disconnection from reality in
I could point out some good examples of tasks that are easy / straightforward to do in Office but horribly convoluted and cumbersome in OO, but such examples have been provided in such discussions great many times in
You can negate magnetic field rather easily with opposing polarity magnetic field, thought. No need of having shipping container sized iron bricks around.
Try looking for hardcore that is marketed to women... it tends to be better, all around. Especially if what you're wanting is something your wife/girlfriend/fling will watch with you.
Problem is that the HC market tries to make even more extreme produce in a bid to outdo the competition. Anal sex was pretty much speacialty feature in in 80s, now HC films without are a niche market! Not to speak of a2m and some even more unsavory things that have been popping up recently.
In a word, Yuck.
Especially american HC/Gonzo has gotten fairly unpleasant to watch after two decades of exposure to internet porn so there's maybe something wrong there.. Euro-HC is much more palatable.
And when you look at some of the "features" in design, it's perfectly plausible we were intelligently designed on the back of a pizza box 2am after too many beers.
Sheesh... Sorry, it's nothing personal, but why does so many people seem to think that teaching people about violence will make them more violent? I've been a CCW permit holder since 2003. To date, I have not shot anyone, haven't even pointed any of my weapons at anyone. I've put a heck of a lot of holes in paper, but that's about it. From my conversations with other people who carry weapons for self defense, it results in them being more cautious about getting into potentially violent situations, because they know just how dangerous it could be.
Guns are different as you say yourself. Point and shoot, as it may be. To make people react more effectively in a completely off-the-wall situation like one day when you're at work picking your nose the quiet guy from down the hall comes into the room with a semi-auto.. you don't have a gun on you. You don't even have lots of time to think about it and psych up to it. Whatever you do is either what you do naturally (panic, most probably) or if you have fairly rare personality you may do something sensible like the guy who stopped the virginia shooter from entering a classroom so the students could escape from windows.. But to automatically without thinking about it grabbing nearest heavy object and try to rush a guy with a gun.. That takes training and acclimatization which has nothing to do with pointing and shooting. Shooting someone is neat and tidy for the person with the gun, stabbing someone with a screwdriver is not.
That's interesting blurb. Did someone print that story?
We saw the ultimate failure at Viginia Tech - Students hid under desks and tried to flee - from a single assailant. Far fewer lives would have been lost if they'd done the same thing flight 93 had done - attacked back.
I think that a cultural change to one of resistance, one that venerates the 'one who stood first' would be a good thing, in many ways.
Real easy to be smart alec with perfect hindsight.
Let's put it this way. Most people are not violent by nature. They may get really angry over something and/or drunk and start a fight but generally people have fairly high treshold to physically assault someone. This does not apply to children, of course..
So generally speaking you're advocating mandatory training that will desensitize people to violence. Meaning physical bone-crunching gouging other person's eye out -violence. That's perfectly possible of course. Most self defence classes train this at least to some degree as do military branches with more than a little hand-to-hand training. Heck, it's classic terrorist training item since times immemorial.
You would promote behavior in the general populace which matches the worst 5-10% scumbags out there. Bar fights become hell of a more lethal for participants when everyone has been trained to see any sharp and/or hard object as a potential weapon and does not hesitate to apply it in most damaging way possible (eyes, throat, knees..) Domestic violence becomes bit more intense as well. Hope you have lots of riot police lined up too as people start see violent demonstration as perfectly normal and generally fight a lot harder.
I've never seen Jericho, and I bet the series is great, (I just watch very little TV nowadays) but
It isn't. Or was not.
Shut up before they pass a new and even more draconian directive!
I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Botnets.
Naah. They're used everywhere that analog filters are -- look at nearly any >$5 sound card, near the analog IO. There's dozens of the little buggers.
(electrolytics)
Well, I said anyone worth his/her salt, obviously! Not to mention that electrolytics are nice for bulk capacitor duties, especially for 24V devices as tantalums tend to peter off in attractiveness when the voltage goes above 10v.. Speaking of analog filters, "correct" solution is obviously to use opamp filter circuit which lets you make nice 2nd order filter with just ceramics, but obviously that opamp costs something and preferably needs -5V (or -12V or whatever) for optimal performance.
And so on. For surge suppression, you can't have decent surge suppression unless you have grounded mains! Ok, you can use something common mode choke, but..
Strange. To me it was kind of health benefit to be able to, ahem, fuck without pain. And having constant sores etc was no picnic either.
So there's one health benefit of (adult) circumcision for you. Yeah, there are alternative surgical operations but the classic is idiot-proof. Depends if you're willing to go under knife again if they get it wrong 1st try..
Entropy will get anything.
There are "dry" electrolytics and the tantalum/ceramic capacitors are much better intrinsically. However, anything "high reliability" tends to cost somewhat more than the cheapest possible junk.
However, even semiconductors degrade over time with higher-power semiconductors degrading faster (waste heat, transients and whatnot). So your busted PSU could be very well due to power transistor going kaput instead of electrolytes drying. Those things even interact, of course.
Usually nobody worth his salt uses electrolytes for timing-anything so it's unlikely electrolytes will degrade ADSL box network performance. Far more likely to bust is the PSU and connections to network/line due to ESD/transients.
Yeah. Just think about it. Took more than 25 years to get from there to here. I'll be disappointed if I can't buy my 4.7THz processor for my 50th birthday (in 17 years)
Ha. I'm 100% sure you could find lawsuits due to broken ribs and/or failed CPR.
You can sue franchises for making food because you're fat.
Good thing you didn't try comparing against a scooter..
There's ancient bug about mozilla coming up sloooooooooow in Win32 after it's been on for a long time. We're talking about mozilla 0.8 era bug and it affects all the related products that I'm aware of (TB, FF, probably even the calendar app)
The crux of the problem is that the bug affects only win32. So the developers, one and all, refuse(d) to treat it as a codebase problem because it has to be a windows problem.
"slow" in this instance means over 1 minute and easily 2-3 minutes. I even demonstrated at the time that it's not paging issue as such as mozilla/FF sits doing absolutely nothing (from perfmon monitor tool) for long period and when it finally starts swapping pages in it happens pretty quickly (5-10sec)
It was subsequently "fixed" by making FF etc hold on to the memory they've reserved instead of releasing it back to the OS. Hence you get ridiculous 300MB memory footprint that shrinks to 50MB after restarting FF even with the same pages open. Same goes for TB and all the other apps I'm sure.
So if you've got any kind of memory leak, mozilla apps want to keep it all in ram.
But of course. Albania and other developing countries usually deploy GSM that doesn't have such analog problems.
Yeah. Do not think any 3rd world countries deployed analog cell phones like these guys are whining about.
Static? On a GSM? Har har har. Dropped calls? Well okay maybe in a long-distance train between towns or something but new trains have their own phone switch anyhow.. And how are you going to make landline calls on that train anyhow? Long extension cord?
Holy retrotech, batman!
Let me guess, this is stats on US?
In Finland about 40% of households HAVE "regular" phone these days. And for the record, I have ADSL and no, I don't have to pay for an useless phone line to get it.
I am an engineer, and share your suspicion this is groundless news sensationalism.
The IPod is NOT a transmitting device. Yes, it does have a processor. And WILL emit *some* EMI. But not that much. If it did, we would have already heard scores of complaints from radio and television owners.
I am an electronics engineer and make sure our devices are EMI-compliant by the circuit design and by casing.
To interfere with radio you need to hit specific frequency bands around ~100MHz. For TV, yes, I can easily imagine placing ipod on top of a set producing visible interference when you arrange the leads just right. That's right, the headphone is a great antenna. In fact there are many mp3 players that use the headphone set as an FM antenna! Antennas works both ways, too..
Again, thought, TV would be suspectible for specific frequency bands that would essentially be picked up and amplified by the internal circuitry.
It's the kind of thinking that makes people proclaim their product is EMI-safe because they're immune to cell phones, which emit RF in very narrow frequency bands. However, when you subject the product to a different frequency (tested band is from 80MHz to 1GHz or 2.5GHz for medical devices) it can keel over and die. Medical devices, incidentally, have this higher frequency band because of the electric surgeon's knife.
In this instance, if I understood things correctly, the device kept on functioning correctly, but the communication between the monitoring/programming device and the pacemaker malfunctioned. This is allowed behavior as long as it does not endanger the patient, the behavior is easily noticed by the user (junk output) and the device restores normal operation after the interference is removed.
Do what you do to tomcats.
Just put relevant legalese into the astronaut EULA pg 27.