Not to mention the "standard" SDXC that requires the patent encumbered exFAT file system, even though FAT32 would be enough or F2FS would be better. A SDXC compliant device can automatically format your card if it detects a blank card, and if the card is formatted with an unknown file system, including FAT32, can be detected as blank. I'd like to know how much MS, sorry, M$ paid for that standard so convenient to them to be approved.
At this point, a large part of IT simply will never appreciate Microsoft, no matter what they do.
"We'd trust them if they'd only do X!" No, you wouldn't. You'd figure out some other reason to hate them.
News flash, it's 2016, and Microsoft is no longer the most evil or dangerous bigcorp out there. Apple, Google, and Facebook, have all surpassed Microsoft. Can we get back to some actual issues?
I don't think that there's anything more evil than the whole UWP (Universal Windows Platform) plan by 2016 Microsoft. Since UWP comprises W10, Xbox, Mobile and Server, it's basically everything MS is doing right now, can you be more evil than that?
Oh yeah, it doesn't include older windows versions, but perhaps you've heard about the ridiculous push to adopt W10.
Yeah because feeding deep detailed information to non-technical masses works so really well for wide spread acceptance of Linux and other more technical OSes right?
I don't know how someone could think that "Install the Get Windows 10 app" is a more technical, more obscure description than "Install this update to resolve issues in Windows". It's even shorter...
Not exactly: it was 3.12B Swiss francs, about $3.2B, for the leasing of 11 Gripen C/D, the acquisition of 22 Gripen E (to be delivered in 2018-2021), spare parts, support, training, certification and a joint venture between SAAB and RUAG (Swiss aviation company) for the production of Gripen E. The individual cost of just one F-35 aircraft without the engine (LOL) is still over $100M, and its operating cost is way higher than that of the Gripen.
This sounds like a great idea. Statistics are regularly, routinely abused to mislead people.
I beg to differ. Statistics without measure theory (and, depending on what is measured, a lot of other things) is almost useless from that point of view.
It's like teaching someone to drive a car and then pretending that he can realize that his mechanic is misleading him.
A bit of basic statistics is not enough to learn how to set apart bad statistics from good statistics. It could even be counterproductive: people are led to think they understand statistics, when, in facts, they do not.
Now it's not about capacity, but how much is being produced at any given moment?
It always was about how much is being produced, so I don't really know what you're talking about.
Do you remember all those discussions about the problems of intermittent energy sources, non-dispatchable generation, power quality etc.?
Those are about the same problem under different names, and those were discussed since the beginning.
And it's not only about how much, but also when: in 2010/2011 there were a lot of articles about wind turbines in the U.K. producing electricity when there was no need of it (and at the time the installed capacity was quite low) and so the government had to pay to halt them or had to buy energy it had no use for (and which can cause problems to the grid).
For reference: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-sco... || http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
It
Informative? If I had mod points I'd rate this troll. It looks like getthefacts 2.0, kindly hosted by slashdot.org via the usual anonymous coward (there must be a reason why it's called anonymous coward). The critics of systemd is a moot point, it's got its shortcomings but at least is the first good effort at getting rid of that cumbersome relic from the era of the decline of Unix (the '80s) that is SystemV. It may not be the best thing, but at least it's better in every conceivable way than SystemV and its script, and than Windows and its register.
GNOME 3 did get a lot of criticism and I never used it, but KDE is good and no way slow (it's actually faster and more optimized than many lightweight DEs), XFCE is surely better than a few years ago, then there are Unity, LXDE, Cinnamon etc.: you have the choice.
LibreOffice is not very good, but find me a good Office suite. LaTeX, Scribus and LyX are what you need. GIMP is getting some really useful update, Krita too, and I'd like to know what Photoshop supporters will say once GIMP 2.10 is out.
Hardware support is getting better (thanks to Android, Steam and all that stuff), software is getting better, with a lot of open source and closed source software coming to Linux: I really don't know what you are talking about, mr Getthefacts.
Long-term, fundamentalism fails. Remember how the Christian Church used to be?
There's at least one big, big, big difference: when the Christian Churches were fundamentalist, they were around the top of the human cultural development of their age, while this Islamist fundamentalism is at the bottom, at least from a western point of view.
I can't see a Thomas Aquinas or a William of Ockham coming from ISIS (or from Saudi Arabia), nor I can see ISIS employing the next Bernini and Borromini.
When you search for positive responses you get a lot of false positives. You should search what systems have no planets before searching the ones that could have one.
To my understandings, it means that trade secrets are put under federal protection during a litigation, i.e. newspapers cannot talk about them. That is,
Barnes&Nobles says that Microsoft extorts money "demanding equal to or greater fees than those it demanded for an entire operating system, Windows Phone,
even though the patents covered only trivial and non-essential design elements of the Android user interface", but media outlets cannot talk about it, because what
Microsoft requests is a "trade secret" put under a strict protection for reasons.
The problem here is that there's a low-grade civil war brewing in Crimea after Russia's invasion.
There are no civil wars in Crimea right now, this disruption happened in Ukraine, outside of Crimea. Moreover this will harm more the faltering economy of Ukraine,
that is paid for its supply of energy, than Crimea.
It is not deprecated in HTML5, it will be in HTML5.1, and deprecated does not mean removed.
outright rejected features (websql).
In fact it does not award points for it: it is listed, but its inclusion does not award any points. Firefox does not nahve it and it still gets 35/35 points in that test.
It has not. It is in the current standard (HTML5). It will be probably deprecated in HTML5.1, but that again doesn't mean that it shouldn't be supported. It will be probably removed in HTML5.2, but HTML5.2 is at least two years away from being released..
The fact that keygen is deprecated in a draft doesn't mean that it shouldn't be supported. As of now, it must be supported, while, probably, its use will be discouraged in newly written code. But that again doesn't mean that it shouldn't be supported now or tomorrow: HTML5.1 will last at least a few years from now.
OK, but Edge misses many features that are standardized in both HTML5 and the draft of HTML5.1, like the template element or the output, keygen and meter elements. It misses OGG/Vorbis/Opus support because Microsoft opposed to their inclusion in the standard. It includes non standard features like Media Source Extensions. Basically Edge has the worst of both worlds: lacking support for standards and support for non-standard features.
That is not even close to be true. The number of autopsies in the western world dwindled since the '70s. Here an article about autopsies in the Canton Ticino (Switzerland, not a poor country by any means): 304 autopsies in 1977, 144 in 2007. The same trend is present in all the other University and Cantonal hospitals of Switzerland. According to this site in the United States before 1970, autopsies were performed in 40% to 60% of all cases involving hospital deaths, while in recent years, that number has decreased to approximately 5%.
So it is very likely that cancer cases can go unnoticed and that official statistics are based on an undersampled number of cases. This is quite evident in the case of Chernobyl, where the survival rate is exceptionally high, even though Belarusian and Ukrainian health systems are in a dire state since the '90s.
Still all of that is besides the point. When autopsies are performed, any cancers are noted even when the patient dies of unrelated conditions. For example almost ALL men over age 80 and ALL men above 90 have prostate cancer, although most of them die from something else. So yes you're right in that cancer can go undetected. But you are wrong in thinking we don't know exactly what the "normal" amount of cancer is in a population.
Are you suggesting that every dead person gets a full autopsy? Because that is not even close to be true.
About cancer and tumors: you're right, but I don't think that who wrote this article knows the difference.
There are many benign forms of cancer. You could easily live for years or even decades without noticing it, and in the meantime you could die from something else.
Stalin was a communist and an atheist, yet he made a deal with the Russian Orthodox Church and suspended all publications of the league of militant atheists in 1941. It just suited his aims. The point is these guys never claimed to be christian, it is just someone like you that tries to extrapolate some phrase to support his agenda and ease his insecurities. Claiming that Mussolini or Fascism were pro-religion or pro-christianity is just nonsense.
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Uniloc too: it's actually one of the oldest software company operating in the security and product activation technology area.
Not to mention the "standard" SDXC that requires the patent encumbered exFAT file system, even though FAT32 would be enough or F2FS would be better. A SDXC compliant device can automatically format your card if it detects a blank card, and if the card is formatted with an unknown file system, including FAT32, can be detected as blank. I'd like to know how much MS, sorry, M$ paid for that standard so convenient to them to be approved.
And here I always thought that a sane market, not encumbered by extortion and bullying, would benefit _consumers_. Silly me.
At this point, a large part of IT simply will never appreciate Microsoft, no matter what they do.
"We'd trust them if they'd only do X!" No, you wouldn't. You'd figure out some other reason to hate them.
News flash, it's 2016, and Microsoft is no longer the most evil or dangerous bigcorp out there. Apple, Google, and Facebook, have all surpassed Microsoft. Can we get back to some actual issues?
I don't think that there's anything more evil than the whole UWP (Universal Windows Platform) plan by 2016 Microsoft. Since UWP comprises W10, Xbox, Mobile and Server, it's basically everything MS is doing right now, can you be more evil than that?
Oh yeah, it doesn't include older windows versions, but perhaps you've heard about the ridiculous push to adopt W10.
Yeah because feeding deep detailed information to non-technical masses works so really well for wide spread acceptance of Linux and other more technical OSes right?
I don't know how someone could think that "Install the Get Windows 10 app" is a more technical, more obscure description than "Install this update to resolve issues in Windows". It's even shorter...
Not exactly: it was 3.12B Swiss francs, about $3.2B, for the leasing of 11 Gripen C/D, the acquisition of 22 Gripen E (to be delivered in 2018-2021), spare parts, support, training, certification and a joint venture between SAAB and RUAG (Swiss aviation company) for the production of Gripen E. The individual cost of just one F-35 aircraft without the engine (LOL) is still over $100M, and its operating cost is way higher than that of the Gripen.
This sounds like a great idea. Statistics are regularly, routinely abused to mislead people.
I beg to differ. Statistics without measure theory (and, depending on what is measured, a lot of other things) is almost useless from that point of view.
It's like teaching someone to drive a car and then pretending that he can realize that his mechanic is misleading him. A bit of basic statistics is not enough to learn how to set apart bad statistics from good statistics. It could even be counterproductive: people are led to think they understand statistics, when, in facts, they do not.
Now it's not about capacity, but how much is being produced at any given moment?
It always was about how much is being produced, so I don't really know what you're talking about. Do you remember all those discussions about the problems of intermittent energy sources, non-dispatchable generation, power quality etc.? Those are about the same problem under different names, and those were discussed since the beginning.
And it's not only about how much, but also when: in 2010/2011 there were a lot of articles about wind turbines in the U.K. producing electricity when there was no need of it (and at the time the installed capacity was quite low) and so the government had to pay to halt them or had to buy energy it had no use for (and which can cause problems to the grid). For reference: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-sco... || http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... It
Informative? If I had mod points I'd rate this troll. It looks like getthefacts 2.0, kindly hosted by slashdot.org via the usual anonymous coward (there must be a reason why it's called anonymous coward). The critics of systemd is a moot point, it's got its shortcomings but at least is the first good effort at getting rid of that cumbersome relic from the era of the decline of Unix (the '80s) that is SystemV. It may not be the best thing, but at least it's better in every conceivable way than SystemV and its script, and than Windows and its register.
GNOME 3 did get a lot of criticism and I never used it, but KDE is good and no way slow (it's actually faster and more optimized than many lightweight DEs), XFCE is surely better than a few years ago, then there are Unity, LXDE, Cinnamon etc.: you have the choice.
LibreOffice is not very good, but find me a good Office suite. LaTeX, Scribus and LyX are what you need. GIMP is getting some really useful update, Krita too, and I'd like to know what Photoshop supporters will say once GIMP 2.10 is out.
Hardware support is getting better (thanks to Android, Steam and all that stuff), software is getting better, with a lot of open source and closed source software coming to Linux: I really don't know what you are talking about, mr Getthefacts.
Long-term, fundamentalism fails. Remember how the Christian Church used to be?
There's at least one big, big, big difference: when the Christian Churches were fundamentalist, they were around the top of the human cultural development of their age, while this Islamist fundamentalism is at the bottom, at least from a western point of view.
I can't see a Thomas Aquinas or a William of Ockham coming from ISIS (or from Saudi Arabia), nor I can see ISIS employing the next Bernini and Borromini.
When you search for positive responses you get a lot of false positives. You should search what systems have no planets before searching the ones that could have one.
To my understandings, it means that trade secrets are put under federal protection during a litigation, i.e. newspapers cannot talk about them. That is, Barnes&Nobles says that Microsoft extorts money "demanding equal to or greater fees than those it demanded for an entire operating system, Windows Phone, even though the patents covered only trivial and non-essential design elements of the Android user interface", but media outlets cannot talk about it, because what Microsoft requests is a "trade secret" put under a strict protection for reasons.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
The problem here is that there's a low-grade civil war brewing in Crimea after Russia's invasion.
There are no civil wars in Crimea right now, this disruption happened in Ukraine, outside of Crimea. Moreover this will harm more the faltering economy of Ukraine, that is paid for its supply of energy, than Crimea.
An test aiming to measure support for modern "html5" should not award bonus points for non-standard (speech apis)
Webaudio is a W3C standard.
deprecated (keygen)
It is not deprecated in HTML5, it will be in HTML5.1, and deprecated does not mean removed.
outright rejected features (websql).
In fact it does not award points for it: it is listed, but its inclusion does not award any points. Firefox does not nahve it and it still gets 35/35 points in that test.
The keygen feature has been deprecated.
It has not. It is in the current standard (HTML5). It will be probably deprecated in HTML5.1, but that again doesn't mean that it shouldn't be supported. It will be probably removed in HTML5.2, but HTML5.2 is at least two years away from being released..
The fact that keygen is deprecated in a draft doesn't mean that it shouldn't be supported. As of now, it must be supported, while, probably, its use will be discouraged in newly written code. But that again doesn't mean that it shouldn't be supported now or tomorrow: HTML5.1 will last at least a few years from now.
OK, but Edge misses many features that are standardized in both HTML5 and the draft of HTML5.1, like the template element or the output, keygen and meter elements. It misses OGG/Vorbis/Opus support because Microsoft opposed to their inclusion in the standard. It includes non standard features like Media Source Extensions. Basically Edge has the worst of both worlds: lacking support for standards and support for non-standard features.
What if Edge scored all its html5test points in legacy and/or experimental stuff?
That is not even close to be true. The number of autopsies in the western world dwindled since the '70s. Here an article about autopsies in the Canton Ticino (Switzerland, not a poor country by any means): 304 autopsies in 1977, 144 in 2007. The same trend is present in all the other University and Cantonal hospitals of Switzerland. According to this site in the United States before 1970, autopsies were performed in 40% to 60% of all cases involving hospital deaths, while in recent years, that number has decreased to approximately 5%.
So it is very likely that cancer cases can go unnoticed and that official statistics are based on an undersampled number of cases. This is quite evident in the case of Chernobyl, where the survival rate is exceptionally high, even though Belarusian and Ukrainian health systems are in a dire state since the '90s.
Is this sarcasm?
Still all of that is besides the point. When autopsies are performed, any cancers are noted even when the patient dies of unrelated conditions. For example almost ALL men over age 80 and ALL men above 90 have prostate cancer, although most of them die from something else. So yes you're right in that cancer can go undetected. But you are wrong in thinking we don't know exactly what the "normal" amount of cancer is in a population.
Are you suggesting that every dead person gets a full autopsy? Because that is not even close to be true.
About cancer and tumors: you're right, but I don't think that who wrote this article knows the difference.
I don't think that early diagnosed thyroid cancer is treated with chemotherapy.
There are many benign forms of cancer. You could easily live for years or even decades without noticing it, and in the meantime you could die from something else.
Stalin was a communist and an atheist, yet he made a deal with the Russian Orthodox Church and suspended all publications of the league of militant atheists in 1941. It just suited his aims. The point is these guys never claimed to be christian, it is just someone like you that tries to extrapolate some phrase to support his agenda and ease his insecurities. Claiming that Mussolini or Fascism were pro-religion or pro-christianity is just nonsense.