I have memories of our teacher trying to explain to the class how moses split the sea (if I remember correctly the conclusion was that the red sea wasn't an actual sea but a "lot of reeds" . So I think we analysed most of the bible in a metaphorical manner.
I think the main point of it was suggesting that the bible was to be taken mostly metaphorically and we should just see the message underneath and live it. Which is pretty much what I think religion is meant to be.
When I had religion in primary school they had basically told us that the Genesis was to be taken metaphorically and not literally, in secondary school we had a light analysis of certain Jewish cultural things in that story (like 7 days, and a garden being paradise for a tribe which lived in the desert...)
I didn't think people still believed it LITERALLY, this is news to me.
I trust Google+ with my privacy more than FB for a simple reason.
FB outsources advertising. Google is an advertising company.
What I basically mean is, that Google already has all the info it needs, and uses it itself. It doesn't need to 'leak' the information by changing polcies so advertisers get more data. FB on the other hand has to.
Now Google saw that FB privacy was a problem, and built it privacy-up - with its permissions circles and all that. So right, while there could be a technical glitch, I don't see Google doing it accidentally on purpose.
Its still 'owned' by the celebrity in a way. So that's fine.
Contrast it to me creating my own account, naming myself after a celebrity and making claims to ruin the person's rep.
I can already work out how this sort of 'attack' would be done. You create a fake profile, get a large amount of people to add you to your circles and appear above the real celebrity in the results. Someone with enough bots/followers might pull it off. I wonder why anon hasn't tried something like that yet.
I'm pretty sure that unless you're a celebrity of some sort (who needs is real name to identify him), using a believable name is enough to get around Google I think.
Then again its a social network. Also if you have stalkers, then simply use the privacy tools properly. You can show your stalking family members very little information about you, and show posts to the right people in the right circles.
Currently there is nothing to stop me from making an account called "Larry Page", putting up a few images of him and then making outrageous claims about how Google plans to sacrifice puppies to Cthulhu.
This verfication thing is for celebrities and famous people- so if you find your favourite celebrity's page, you can be sure its really that celeb and not an 'unofficial fan page' or someone faking the name or whatever. Its a useful feature. Enough of the FUD.
Having used both LO and Office, the only difference there is to choose between them in terms of the features they support - there's not much to choose between them. Yes there are very important features which won't work in LO (similarly there are features which won't work in MO such as very large tables).
But come on, its a Hospital. I'm sure they don't need uber-fancy designs or whatever it is. If you own a printing shop by all means.
That said its not going to make much of a difference if you're pressed for time because the universe is going to die of death-heat before you finished.
We have 'arguments' for who gets to come with the system. Why is this a bad thing?
Whenever your position is shaky, you are driven to do more. When IE locked down the market, it stagnated. Now there are so much different competitors, you need to innovate.
This is a GOOD THING. If I'm developing something and I want to get default, I need to be better than the current one. So I innovate.
Plus you can still get the other choices, so there's no loss.
I'm not that old (graduated form uni this year), and the only software we had that was 'needed' was avaliable in linux (with some exceptions such as Visual Studio).
We had people who came to uni with macbooks, and they did ok.
I don't know how common it is for young children to REQUIRE certain software - which isn't a webapp. Even many of the companion cds/websites came with stuff which opened with everything.
Similarly, I hardly expect the teacher to expect homework to be done using some particular software.If the pdf/doc comes from LO or MO it makes no difference.
So when they said "Educational software" I thought he meant "Stuff your kiddies use to teach themselves". What I mean is, if you want software to teach kids something, you'll find one on linux. If you need a PARTICULAR piece of software, that's different. I admit that.
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$300 is less than a days pay for any professional programmer.
I'm living in the wrong country.
I'm trying to remember...
I have memories of our teacher trying to explain to the class how moses split the sea (if I remember correctly the conclusion was that the red sea wasn't an actual sea but a "lot of reeds" . So I think we analysed most of the bible in a metaphorical manner.
I think the main point of it was suggesting that the bible was to be taken mostly metaphorically and we should just see the message underneath and live it. Which is pretty much what I think religion is meant to be.
When I had religion in primary school they had basically told us that the Genesis was to be taken metaphorically and not literally, in secondary school we had a light analysis of certain Jewish cultural things in that story (like 7 days, and a garden being paradise for a tribe which lived in the desert...)
I didn't think people still believed it LITERALLY, this is news to me.
I know its a spambot but "Their gigabits were running slower as ever" just cracked me up.
Atarisucks.com is already taken :(
It redirects to their website.
Now now...
You think the lawyers' private jets are going to pay for themselves?
I'll start a company called "www." and then sue every website in the world which has my name in its entirety in its website address.
Profits!
I trust Google+ with my privacy more than FB for a simple reason.
FB outsources advertising.
Google is an advertising company.
What I basically mean is, that Google already has all the info it needs, and uses it itself. It doesn't need to 'leak' the information by changing polcies so advertisers get more data. FB on the other hand has to.
Now Google saw that FB privacy was a problem, and built it privacy-up - with its permissions circles and all that. So right, while there could be a technical glitch, I don't see Google doing it accidentally on purpose.
Its still 'owned' by the celebrity in a way. So that's fine.
Contrast it to me creating my own account, naming myself after a celebrity and making claims to ruin the person's rep.
I can already work out how this sort of 'attack' would be done. You create a fake profile, get a large amount of people to add you to your circles and appear above the real celebrity in the results. Someone with enough bots/followers might pull it off. I wonder why anon hasn't tried something like that yet.
I'm pretty sure that unless you're a celebrity of some sort (who needs is real name to identify him), using a believable name is enough to get around Google I think.
Then again its a social network. Also if you have stalkers, then simply use the privacy tools properly. You can show your stalking family members very little information about you, and show posts to the right people in the right circles.
Currently there is nothing to stop me from making an account called "Larry Page", putting up a few images of him and then making outrageous claims about how Google plans to sacrifice puppies to Cthulhu.
This verfication thing is for celebrities and famous people- so if you find your favourite celebrity's page, you can be sure its really that celeb and not an 'unofficial fan page' or someone faking the name or whatever. Its a useful feature. Enough of the FUD.
Having used both LO and Office, the only difference there is to choose between them in terms of the features they support - there's not much to choose between them. Yes there are very important features which won't work in LO (similarly there are features which won't work in MO such as very large tables).
But come on, its a Hospital. I'm sure they don't need uber-fancy designs or whatever it is. If you own a printing shop by all means.
Capslock key of course.
Pulling out the finger will only cause more problems.
The missus does that, and it annoys me no end.
Anyone know how to wean them off it aside from pulling it out?
Ctrl+w closes tabs (or windows in certain linux applications)
Ctrl+g is the "Next" after you open a find
Ctrl+Alt+L locks the screen
Cool never knew about this one.
While we're here - Ctrl+ G (find next)
I have a method to crack them 10 times faster.
Its called using 10 machines.
That said its not going to make much of a difference if you're pressed for time because the universe is going to die of death-heat before you finished.
In before "Its the pirates' fault"
If we comment too much on this post we might be hacking /.
"Democratizing app building, empowering kids, women, and underrepresented group"
How dramatic. If it could do my bed and wash my dishes it'd be perfect.
We have 'arguments' for who gets to come with the system. Why is this a bad thing?
Whenever your position is shaky, you are driven to do more. When IE locked down the market, it stagnated. Now there are so much different competitors, you need to innovate.
This is a GOOD THING. If I'm developing something and I want to get default, I need to be better than the current one. So I innovate.
Plus you can still get the other choices, so there's no loss.
I'm not that old (graduated form uni this year), and the only software we had that was 'needed' was avaliable in linux (with some exceptions such as Visual Studio).
We had people who came to uni with macbooks, and they did ok.
I don't know how common it is for young children to REQUIRE certain software - which isn't a webapp. Even many of the companion cds/websites came with stuff which opened with everything.
Similarly, I hardly expect the teacher to expect homework to be done using some particular software.If the pdf/doc comes from LO or MO it makes no difference.
So when they said "Educational software" I thought he meant "Stuff your kiddies use to teach themselves". What I mean is, if you want software to teach kids something, you'll find one on linux. If you need a PARTICULAR piece of software, that's different. I admit that.
I'd suggest Edubuntu
https://edubuntu.org/about
I never used it myself although there's a 'try it now' which lets you run it over the internet and get a look at it.
Most of games and educational software is Windows only.
Then I wonder what exactly is installed in Edubuntu - which is a linux distro specifically designed for education
Nope, not going to feed the troll.