The graphics artists hate JPEG (commented on Slashdot). The scientific imagers hate JPEG (personal experience). The photographers hate JPEG (commented on Slashdot).
The users don't know any better and couldn't care less as long as they can see what they want to.
So who the fuck decided to put JPEG on every thing that produces anything visual ?
It's a bad thing because it is what people want. It is what the older generation of bosses is used to. I am promoting the merits of Powerpoint. I am underscoring its immense popularity and bemoaning the lack of a worthy alternative.
Yes, but part of the problem is staff that requires 'training' to figure out off the shelf consumer level programs. An average school kid will usually figure out a word processor on their own. And if they have used Office before, the already (hopefully) understand the concept of a document, spreadsheet etc. So moving to another program that uses the same concepts shouldn't be difficult.
The second more specific problem for a huge number of business people is that there is really NO alternative to Powerpoint. There really isn't...Impress is probably the weakest component in Libreoffice.
Does DragonBox magically allow you to access Netflix and Hulu without paying for them ? Or is it simply the equivalent of a torrent client. This is the most stupid nonsense I've seen. And I am sad to see Netflix go the route of major channels and studios.
The cost of memory efficiency during development at this time beats the cost of memory itself by far at this time point.
An average software developer charges what at least 30$ an hour ? An how much time does it take to improve efficiency in large complex programs ? 1 working day at least ?
For those 300$ I can have 16 GB of DDR4 RAM delivered tomorrow. Sorry, I want to care, but I just can't.
Being 14 yeard old does not make your infringements invalid. It simply means that the consequences are somewhat milder. I don't know what the defense is here exactly. May be they are making her child a scapegoat. So what? Her entire defense is 'oh, why me? they are doing it too!' which is essentially a 5 yrs old's defense tactic used for a 14 yr old infringer.
I think this is well beyond the point of defending any wrongdoing on the 14 year old's part. Now its just a pathetic attempt by a desperate Mom to defend her kid. Actually, challenging the validity of a 14 yr old's agreement of any contract/terms of service would be a more valid legal argument.
Exactly my point. There is no reason my particular choice should apply to you. And it doesn't make either of us stupid or dishonest to make disparate choices.
It is astounding to see the number of controversy theorists in the comments talking about lobbying and bribed officials. Does it really hurt your ego to accept that for a particular organization of a particular scale and type, Linux might not be the best option ?
I am a research scientist. I spend my time analyzing large amounts of microscopy data in Python, R etc. on very capable hardware. But you know what I found ? Windows 10 does fine. Everything works. I have no reason to use Linux. I went from Linux all the time, to dual-booting Linux just in case I needed it, to Windows all the time in 10 years.
Of course, I have an Android phone and a Chromebook....so I do use Linux (technically). The tremendous success of Android and Chromebooks (or MacOS) should be an obvious indication that there is nothing wrong with the Linux kernel or the Unix/BSD/POSIX standard. What is wrong with Linux distros is that they don't simply work reliably. And Windows 10 does. It isn't 98 or Vista. MS might be evil but with Windows 10 they delivered a good product. They delivered exactly what people wanted. They even included a Linux VM now. Google took the Linux kernel and delivered good products that were reliable and easy to use and did what everyone expected them to do.
So please, there IS something lacking in Linux desktop distros. Drivers, apps, reliabilty etc. depending on whatever flavor you are using. The world is not full of fools and charlatans who like to give away money to MS. People see tangible value in Windows 10. Better that the distro makers learn what they can from Windows 10. Don't be like Mozilla. Make the Linux equivalent of FF Quantum if you want to stay competitive.
If the extensions you use are also available for Chrome, expect them to be officially ported in the next few weeks. In my experience, most Chrome extensions run in Firefox Quantum, but currently have to be side-loaded since no official channel exists.
Lets put it this way. In terms of 'number of installs' , Internet Explorer and Edge win because of being bundled with Windows. The only other browser that comes relevantly close is Chrome.
Between Chrome, Edge and Internet Explorer, you have covered about 95% of the world's consumer computers. It is obvious that their criteria is only volume...which seems to be why they have also neglected Safari.
The FBI would like to have the keycodes to open every car in America. It stands to reason that terrorists are using cars to get around their bombing/gunfight missions. To screen for potential terrorists, the FBI will now use the All Writs Act to force all car manufacturers to give the FBI the key to every car sold.
No, your expectation that crowd-sourcing is an accurate source of information is flawed. Crowd-sourcing is a way to get high quantity information, not necessarily high-quality information.
"These results are discussed in the context of cosmic habitability, the Copernican principle and the prospects of searches for extraterrestrial intelligence at cosmological distances."
It just means that our kind of solar-energy driven carbon-chemistry in water based life is likely to occur only once. It is possible to have life based on other energy sources, chemistry, and solvent media.
I am quite sure that since we do not know all the other possible ways "life"..i.e self-replicating information manifested in physical entities maintained at the edge of chaos can occur, this simulation did not test these possibilities.
Please point me to the place where the information where Microsoft provides the detailed information about what telemetry data is collected. I don't think you can because I've checked and such a document does not exist. It is not 'out there' and while I only present a hypothesis, you are simply factually wrong (aka full of shit).
>Also a thought for you: Your OS, by definition, has access to anything any program on the system is doing. What would stop it from looking in at any 3rd party SSH server you ran, if you think it does that?
Exactly. The point is that it shouldn't be doing anything remotely close to that. And with Windows, I have no way of knowing if it is. You just supported my point.
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What features do you feel are missing from Gmail ? Which other email service (not client) provides these services ?
The graphics artists hate JPEG (commented on Slashdot).
The scientific imagers hate JPEG (personal experience).
The photographers hate JPEG (commented on Slashdot).
The users don't know any better and couldn't care less as long as they can see what they want to.
So who the fuck decided to put JPEG on every thing that produces anything visual ?
I am guessing you are on Linux, because until Firefox 58, Chrome actually blew Firefox away pretty easily on Windows.
It's a bad thing because it is what people want. It is what the older generation of bosses is used to. I am promoting the merits of Powerpoint. I am underscoring its immense popularity and bemoaning the lack of a worthy alternative.
Yes, but part of the problem is staff that requires 'training' to figure out off the shelf consumer level programs. An average school kid will usually figure out a word processor on their own. And if they have used Office before, the already (hopefully) understand the concept of a document, spreadsheet etc. So moving to another program that uses the same concepts shouldn't be difficult.
The second more specific problem for a huge number of business people is that there is really NO alternative to Powerpoint. There really isn't...Impress is probably the weakest component in Libreoffice.
Does DragonBox magically allow you to access Netflix and Hulu without paying for them ? Or is it simply the equivalent of a torrent client. This is the most stupid nonsense I've seen. And I am sad to see Netflix go the route of major channels and studios.
I use Chrome on a Chromebook with 4GB RAM , and at the same time a 32 GB Dell XPS 15 too. Never ran into a memory issue.
The cost of memory efficiency during development at this time beats the cost of memory itself by far at this time point.
An average software developer charges what at least 30$ an hour ? An how much time does it take to improve efficiency in large complex programs ? 1 working day at least ?
For those 300$ I can have 16 GB of DDR4 RAM delivered tomorrow. Sorry, I want to care, but I just can't.
...legal. Not ethical.
Being 14 yeard old does not make your infringements invalid. It simply means that the consequences are somewhat milder. I don't know what the defense is here exactly. May be they are making her child a scapegoat. So what? Her entire defense is 'oh, why me? they are doing it too!' which is essentially a 5 yrs old's defense tactic used for a 14 yr old infringer.
I think this is well beyond the point of defending any wrongdoing on the 14 year old's part. Now its just a pathetic attempt by a desperate Mom to defend her kid. Actually, challenging the validity of a 14 yr old's agreement of any contract/terms of service would be a more valid legal argument.
The kid needs to wisen up.
Exactly my point. There is no reason my particular choice should apply to you. And it doesn't make either of us stupid or dishonest to make disparate choices.
It is astounding to see the number of controversy theorists in the comments talking about lobbying and bribed officials. Does it really hurt your ego to accept that for a particular organization of a particular scale and type, Linux might not be the best option ?
I am a research scientist. I spend my time analyzing large amounts of microscopy data in Python, R etc. on very capable hardware. But you know what I found ? Windows 10 does fine. Everything works. I have no reason to use Linux. I went from Linux all the time, to dual-booting Linux just in case I needed it, to Windows all the time in 10 years.
Of course, I have an Android phone and a Chromebook....so I do use Linux (technically). The tremendous success of Android and Chromebooks (or MacOS) should be an obvious indication that there is nothing wrong with the Linux kernel or the Unix/BSD/POSIX standard. What is wrong with Linux distros is that they don't simply work reliably. And Windows 10 does. It isn't 98 or Vista. MS might be evil but with Windows 10 they delivered a good product. They delivered exactly what people wanted. They even included a Linux VM now. Google took the Linux kernel and delivered good products that were reliable and easy to use and did what everyone expected them to do.
So please, there IS something lacking in Linux desktop distros. Drivers, apps, reliabilty etc. depending on whatever flavor you are using. The world is not full of fools and charlatans who like to give away money to MS. People see tangible value in Windows 10. Better that the distro makers learn what they can from Windows 10. Don't be like Mozilla. Make the Linux equivalent of FF Quantum if you want to stay competitive.
If the extensions you use are also available for Chrome, expect them to be officially ported in the next few weeks. In my experience, most Chrome extensions run in Firefox Quantum, but currently have to be side-loaded since no official channel exists.
Nothing is wrong with the internet. But I've long held the belief that something is wrong with people.
Lets put it this way. In terms of 'number of installs' , Internet Explorer and Edge win because of being bundled with Windows. The only other browser that comes relevantly close is Chrome.
Between Chrome, Edge and Internet Explorer, you have covered about 95% of the world's consumer computers. It is obvious that their criteria is only volume...which seems to be why they have also neglected Safari.
The masses are not enabling Windows Subsystems for Linux either. If someone is, they are supposed to know what they are doing.
They lost the browser wars. They can't figure out why. It's because their software is outdated tech. They don't want to admit it.
'Zero F*cks Given. kthxbye.' - Alexandra
Domain names are not blocked here in Germany.
Because Allo and Duo are mobile only, Hangouts is the only solution that works on Desktop a.l.a Skype.
The FBI would like to have the keycodes to open every car in America. It stands to reason that terrorists are using cars to get around their bombing/gunfight missions. To screen for potential terrorists, the FBI will now use the All Writs Act to force all car manufacturers to give the FBI the key to every car sold.
Apparently, Anonymous has never heard of the Streisand effect.
No, your expectation that crowd-sourcing is an accurate source of information is flawed. Crowd-sourcing is a way to get high quantity information, not necessarily high-quality information.
The Israeli soldiers used the app incorrectly.
The original PDF discusses this.
From the abstract:
"These results are
discussed in the context of cosmic habitability, the Copernican principle and the prospects of searches
for extraterrestrial intelligence at cosmological distances."
It just means that our kind of solar-energy driven carbon-chemistry in water based life is likely to occur only once. It is possible to have life based on other energy sources, chemistry, and solvent media.
I am quite sure that since we do not know all the other possible ways "life" ..i.e self-replicating information manifested in physical entities maintained at the edge of chaos can occur, this simulation did not test these possibilities.
You do know that you can hide the ribbon, don't you? You can get back your screen space that way.
Please point me to the place where the information where Microsoft provides the detailed information about what telemetry data is collected. I don't think you can because I've checked and such a document does not exist. It is not 'out there' and while I only present a hypothesis, you are simply factually wrong (aka full of shit).
>Also a thought for you: Your OS, by definition, has access to anything any program on the system is doing. What would stop it from looking in at any 3rd party SSH server you ran, if you think it does that?
Exactly. The point is that it shouldn't be doing anything remotely close to that. And with Windows, I have no way of knowing if it is. You just supported my point.