you are correct, LaTeX is really the only choice here
While that sounds nice, and it may be true sometimes, it isn't true when the place you're sending your "whatever" to asks for it in MS Word format.
When people send me documents, they are either in PDF or DOCX format. When I send documents out, they are usually in DOCX format, sometimes in PDF depending on what I'm sending (sometimes password protected PDF).
I can't recall the last time someone had a problem with either format.
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I've tried OpenOffice, it butchers some documents, makes minor changes in others. Only very simple documents remain the same.
But try this... Create a 10 page Word document with some detail and formatting to it, save it to DOCX format, then open it in OpenOffice, make some editing changes, move things around, add a page between page 3 and 4, resave it in ODT format. Then open that ODT file in LibraOffice, make some more changes, save it in DOCX format, then open THAT file in MS Word.
Let me know if you get something useful out of it. I wouldn't expect it, at the very least...
Apple have stated in the past that one of the features of iMessage is that they can't decrypt them and the fact that this court case exists seems to suggest they weren't just saying that (also, if they're caught in that lie, assuming it is one, the PR fallout would be enormous).
Right, so at the end of the day, the only thing you have to go on is how much you trust Apple.
That being said, I actually didn't know that is how it worked on the iPhone (bloody too many things to keep up with these days), so this was all news to me.
But then I don't care that much, nothing I'm sending via message on my phone is actually private, if the FBI or NSA was reading them, they'd be bored.
If I cared, I'd learn more about it and probably not trust Apple anyway, finding something else.
There is the download page for the desktop version of Amazon Music, a wonderful free app that lets you listen to both your own music (either downloaded or streaming), as well as a large collection of Prime Music, either specific songs or "stations" similar to Pandora.
They have a Windows version and a Mac version, but no Linux version.
It is a small example of the problem with Linux. Even if you find a replacement for MS Office (hard to do for a business, it really isn't the same), Quickbooks (fine if you're not invested in it already and don't have a CPA that you have to send the files to), etc.
There are many small programs that really only have a Windows version, and sometimes a Mac version. Yes, you can play your music in a web browser, but it isn't the same.
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Linux is a nice idea, and on a techie site like this people love to talk about it, but it isn't really an option for most people because of the above.
Just because the FBI says they cannot crack it . . . doesn't mean that our feathered friends in the NSA can't crack it.
They can crack it, if Apple has a master backdoor key. But Apple would be pretty stupid to do that, if it exists, someone will find it sooner or later.
Private things tend not to stay private forever and Apple is a business that needs a product to sell.
This exactly, if there is a warrant hand over the information you have. I don't believe safe makers have to open safes subject to a warrant. So why is this any different? (The FBI could always contract Apple to attempt to crack the message, similar to a safe company being hired to attempt to break into a safe, but that's different than the "real time" access asked for)
They don't have to, but for a fee, they will.
This is the problem with encryption, unlike safes, which can all be broken into, encryption cannot.
Safe makers will open safes for the police, with a court order. Assuming the owner is not present to do so. This is different from a safe though, there's no master key, there's no mechanical vulnerability. There's just brute force decryption. Apple could just say "Sure, we'll provide you with the contents. We'll require X number of days per message at $Y/day to operate a dedicated server farm for the task"
Yes, and safe makers (or more realistic, locksmiths) will open safes using brute force... for a fee...
The problem with the latter suggestion is there is no way to decrypt heavily encrypted information, short of a flaw in the encryption system...
No amount of servers or days would ever matter, it is not possible in the remaining life of the universe to try even half the encryption keys in a 256-bit encrypted message.
Why would you need to kill everything on cutlery used by one person. Any bacteria on their came from their own mouth and they already have those bacteria.
Because they grow and support more over time. What was small and harmless over 24-48 hours can become not so small and not so harmless.
clean energy costs more, if you don't count the externalized costs of dirty energy. it's like saying crapping on my neighbor's lawn is cheaper than using my toilet and paying the water and sewer bills. if you count the costs of pollution simply on human health and agricultural production, the costs of coal in particular would make it prohibitive.
That is a fair point, one that I don't actually have a big problem with.
What doesn't work is the "carbon credits" or "cap and trade" nonsense that just allows people to go on polluting and creating a marketplace for "carbon".
What DOES make sense is a straight carbon tax. You can burn all the gas, coal, and oil you want, but there is a cost to that, paid to the government in the form of taxes. This compensates everyone for the mess you're making.
That is how you instantly make clean energy make sense, without trying to pick a winner (solar, wind, nuclear, etc.). What you're doing is picking the losers.
We only need to look to Mozilla and Firefox to see what happens when users are treated like dirt. Firefox was once a very popular web browser, with well over 30% of the browser market.
The problem with using that as an example is that Linux doesn't have 30% of the desktop PC market, it barely has more than 1%.
There is no way you can effectively centrally plan for a country of 300M people. People keep saying we should be more like Europe and I agree. There are very few decisions made by the EU. Most of the decisions are made by the member States. Let's try that. One state could be very capitalistic but with a big welfare state like the Nordic countries. Others could be more socialist like the French. Some can be crazy libertarian gun and gold nuts like the Swiss.
This was tried, it led to the Civil War. The south, more than anything else, wanted strong states rights and weak federal government. The north disagreed and it ended up in war.
Slavery and other issues were just the hot button topics that got the average person engaged, that isn't really what it was about.
That is why the US has a strong federal government today, the north won the war, reconstruction happened, and you have what we have today.
What most people don't know is that the US Government that we have in 2015 is not actually the same government we had in 1776. It is close, it follows the same piece of paper, but really it has been changed over the years. This is glossed over in civics class of course.
I had expected him to run as an independent and then resign and trigger fresh elections once his platform was passed.
That isn't how it works...
If the President resigns, then the Vice President becomes President. We don't have new elections until the 4 years are up, even if 15 people in a row resign. There is a long list of people in line to be President.
That is true to a point... Some of the better dishwashers do have a third water spinner, they have an extra heating element and can steam or sanitize the dishes (don't put plastic in!), etc.
And yes, they have much better sound insulation.
We have one of the better ones, and you wouldn't know it is running unless you looked at the amber light on the front, it is so quiet.
That may well be a reasonable solution for a single person, assuming you make sure to get the water hot enough.
Generally the water coming out of the hot tap is often not hot enough to kill everything on the plate, a dishwasher is because it heats the water further.
Get a wife/husband, 2 to 4 kids, and the dishwasher becomes a "must have" thing.:)
You don't own OS X, you licence it under an agreement. To install it requires that you accept that agreement.
This is very well established legal doctrine. You're welcome to install Linux on that Dell machine, but you have no rights to install an OS that you don't own, and you don't own OS X.
I recommend you try the experiment. It might not work with your dishwasher (especially if you are an American and have a rental property, as landlords in the US put in the cheapest shit they can). But it might!!! Think of the hours of your life you'll get back....
^ This is the truth...
I've used the $250 dishwashers, and yes, they generally are... cheap...
Get a $1,000 dishwasher and it'll clean almost anything. Much quieter to boot, and it comes with more wash settings.
But of course, most people buy on price, rather than quality these days.
Why would anyone who already has a laptop want to own a TV at all?
Because for watching TV, a TV is generally the best device for that...
Nothing like sitting on the couch, chilling out, watching a 70" TV with your family together. Everyone sitting huddled around a laptop? That doesn't sound very social.
Since energy is probably the single largest input into most products, businesses already have a strong incentive to reduce energy usage, and have had that incentive since long before carbon taxes and government subsidies for "clean energy".
Sure, but that usage isn't zero...
The trick is, clean energy costs more than dirty energy... that is what he was talking about...
I can get clean power for my business, but it costs about 3 cents more per kWh than dirty energy.
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He has access to virtually all information by virtue of his Constitutional office.
You'd think so, but there have been times when the President was removed from "need to know" on various bits of information.
The cracking of the Japanese code in WWII was withheld from FDR for a time, and other information has been withheld from time to time.
That being said, your statement is generally true.
you are correct, LaTeX is really the only choice here
While that sounds nice, and it may be true sometimes, it isn't true when the place you're sending your "whatever" to asks for it in MS Word format.
When people send me documents, they are either in PDF or DOCX format. When I send documents out, they are usually in DOCX format, sometimes in PDF depending on what I'm sending (sometimes password protected PDF).
I can't recall the last time someone had a problem with either format.
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I've tried OpenOffice, it butchers some documents, makes minor changes in others. Only very simple documents remain the same.
But try this... Create a 10 page Word document with some detail and formatting to it, save it to DOCX format, then open it in OpenOffice, make some editing changes, move things around, add a page between page 3 and 4, resave it in ODT format. Then open that ODT file in LibraOffice, make some more changes, save it in DOCX format, then open THAT file in MS Word.
Let me know if you get something useful out of it. I wouldn't expect it, at the very least...
Apple have stated in the past that one of the features of iMessage is that they can't decrypt them and the fact that this court case exists seems to suggest they weren't just saying that (also, if they're caught in that lie, assuming it is one, the PR fallout would be enormous).
Right, so at the end of the day, the only thing you have to go on is how much you trust Apple.
That being said, I actually didn't know that is how it worked on the iPhone (bloody too many things to keep up with these days), so this was all news to me.
But then I don't care that much, nothing I'm sending via message on my phone is actually private, if the FBI or NSA was reading them, they'd be bored.
If I cared, I'd learn more about it and probably not trust Apple anyway, finding something else.
What other software would you want to transplant to Linux, if any?
You mean besides MS Office?
Well, I use Quickbooks for accounting, I use TurboTax for my taxes, I use AmazonMusic to listen to music, etc.
Actually, let me focus on that last one for a minute...
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There is the download page for the desktop version of Amazon Music, a wonderful free app that lets you listen to both your own music (either downloaded or streaming), as well as a large collection of Prime Music, either specific songs or "stations" similar to Pandora.
They have a Windows version and a Mac version, but no Linux version.
It is a small example of the problem with Linux. Even if you find a replacement for MS Office (hard to do for a business, it really isn't the same), Quickbooks (fine if you're not invested in it already and don't have a CPA that you have to send the files to), etc.
There are many small programs that really only have a Windows version, and sometimes a Mac version. Yes, you can play your music in a web browser, but it isn't the same.
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Linux is a nice idea, and on a techie site like this people love to talk about it, but it isn't really an option for most people because of the above.
Is the OpenOffice/LibreOffice compatibility so poor that it can't be used in place of Word?
Yes, it is...
Don't misunderstand, it is close, but close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear weapons...
When it comes to professional submissions to journals and other business uses, close isn't good enough...
I've seen an NSL, it is a piece of paper... nothing more or less.
First response is to nicely tell the FBI agent that I'm happy to comply once I speak to my lawyer and he shows up with a warrant from a judge.
Said, "very nicely" since you never want to piss off a government agent. But at the end of the day, it is just paper.
Just because the FBI says they cannot crack it . . . doesn't mean that our feathered friends in the NSA can't crack it.
They can crack it, if Apple has a master backdoor key. But Apple would be pretty stupid to do that, if it exists, someone will find it sooner or later.
Private things tend not to stay private forever and Apple is a business that needs a product to sell.
This exactly, if there is a warrant hand over the information you have. I don't believe safe makers have to open safes subject to a warrant. So why is this any different? (The FBI could always contract Apple to attempt to crack the message, similar to a safe company being hired to attempt to break into a safe, but that's different than the "real time" access asked for)
They don't have to, but for a fee, they will.
This is the problem with encryption, unlike safes, which can all be broken into, encryption cannot.
Safe makers will open safes for the police, with a court order. Assuming the owner is not present to do so. This is different from a safe though, there's no master key, there's no mechanical vulnerability. There's just brute force decryption. Apple could just say "Sure, we'll provide you with the contents. We'll require X number of days per message at $Y/day to operate a dedicated server farm for the task"
Yes, and safe makers (or more realistic, locksmiths) will open safes using brute force... for a fee...
The problem with the latter suggestion is there is no way to decrypt heavily encrypted information, short of a flaw in the encryption system...
No amount of servers or days would ever matter, it is not possible in the remaining life of the universe to try even half the encryption keys in a 256-bit encrypted message.
Apple will end up doing that I imagine, but they also want the publicity of "not handing over iMessage data to the FBI" before they do it.
Why would you need to kill everything on cutlery used by one person. Any bacteria on their came from their own mouth and they already have those bacteria.
Because they grow and support more over time. What was small and harmless over 24-48 hours can become not so small and not so harmless.
You do want to properly clean the dishes.
Winner: me. The crowd goes wild.
Try it in a court of law... you won't be the winner...
clean energy costs more, if you don't count the externalized costs of dirty energy. it's like saying crapping on my neighbor's lawn is cheaper than using my toilet and paying the water and sewer bills. if you count the costs of pollution simply on human health and agricultural production, the costs of coal in particular would make it prohibitive.
That is a fair point, one that I don't actually have a big problem with.
What doesn't work is the "carbon credits" or "cap and trade" nonsense that just allows people to go on polluting and creating a marketplace for "carbon".
What DOES make sense is a straight carbon tax. You can burn all the gas, coal, and oil you want, but there is a cost to that, paid to the government in the form of taxes. This compensates everyone for the mess you're making.
That is how you instantly make clean energy make sense, without trying to pick a winner (solar, wind, nuclear, etc.). What you're doing is picking the losers.
We only need to look to Mozilla and Firefox to see what happens when users are treated like dirt. Firefox was once a very popular web browser, with well over 30% of the browser market.
The problem with using that as an example is that Linux doesn't have 30% of the desktop PC market, it barely has more than 1%.
It never was popular to begin with.
There is no way you can effectively centrally plan for a country of 300M people. People keep saying we should be more like Europe and I agree. There are very few decisions made by the EU. Most of the decisions are made by the member States. Let's try that. One state could be very capitalistic but with a big welfare state like the Nordic countries. Others could be more socialist like the French. Some can be crazy libertarian gun and gold nuts like the Swiss.
This was tried, it led to the Civil War. The south, more than anything else, wanted strong states rights and weak federal government. The north disagreed and it ended up in war.
Slavery and other issues were just the hot button topics that got the average person engaged, that isn't really what it was about.
That is why the US has a strong federal government today, the north won the war, reconstruction happened, and you have what we have today.
What most people don't know is that the US Government that we have in 2015 is not actually the same government we had in 1776. It is close, it follows the same piece of paper, but really it has been changed over the years. This is glossed over in civics class of course.
I had expected him to run as an independent and then resign and trigger fresh elections once his platform was passed.
That isn't how it works...
If the President resigns, then the Vice President becomes President. We don't have new elections until the 4 years are up, even if 15 people in a row resign. There is a long list of people in line to be President.
if you sell a car to someone, can you then dictate what the new owner can do with that car? NO.
With the physical car? No. With the software installed on the car? Actually yes.
If you sell a computer to someone can you then dictate to them what software they can and cannot install on it? NO.
You're right, you can install any software you want on it... if you have a valid licence for that software...
I assure you that you don't have a valid licence to install OS X on a Dell computer. So no, you can't legally install OS X on a Dell.
That would be true, if a sale was involved. There isn't a sale involved with the OS.
You can argue all you like, but you're just being difficult and you'd lose the argument where it really counts, in court.
That is true to a point... Some of the better dishwashers do have a third water spinner, they have an extra heating element and can steam or sanitize the dishes (don't put plastic in!), etc.
And yes, they have much better sound insulation.
We have one of the better ones, and you wouldn't know it is running unless you looked at the amber light on the front, it is so quiet.
That may well be a reasonable solution for a single person, assuming you make sure to get the water hot enough.
Generally the water coming out of the hot tap is often not hot enough to kill everything on the plate, a dishwasher is because it heats the water further.
Get a wife/husband, 2 to 4 kids, and the dishwasher becomes a "must have" thing. :)
You don't own OS X, you licence it under an agreement. To install it requires that you accept that agreement.
This is very well established legal doctrine. You're welcome to install Linux on that Dell machine, but you have no rights to install an OS that you don't own, and you don't own OS X.
I recommend you try the experiment. It might not work with your dishwasher (especially if you are an American and have a rental property, as landlords in the US put in the cheapest shit they can). But it might!!! Think of the hours of your life you'll get back....
^ This is the truth...
I've used the $250 dishwashers, and yes, they generally are... cheap...
Get a $1,000 dishwasher and it'll clean almost anything. Much quieter to boot, and it comes with more wash settings.
But of course, most people buy on price, rather than quality these days.
Why would anyone who already has a laptop want to own a TV at all?
Because for watching TV, a TV is generally the best device for that...
Nothing like sitting on the couch, chilling out, watching a 70" TV with your family together. Everyone sitting huddled around a laptop? That doesn't sound very social.
OSX isn't licensed to be installed on non Mac hardware. You don't own a legal licence for that software to use on a Dell, so you can't legally do it.
Since energy is probably the single largest input into most products, businesses already have a strong incentive to reduce energy usage, and have had that incentive since long before carbon taxes and government subsidies for "clean energy".
Sure, but that usage isn't zero...
The trick is, clean energy costs more than dirty energy... that is what he was talking about...
I can get clean power for my business, but it costs about 3 cents more per kWh than dirty energy.