PDF cannot be edited, so is not as useful for collaboration.
I understand that, but most of the collaborative work is going to be done inside an organization, so it doesn't matter what you use as much as just using the same thing.
PDF is also not as versatile (cannot embed most interactive or multimedia content, for instance)
Actually, I believe you can, but only with Adobe, because everyone else realized that it's an awful idea. If you need to do that for some reason, a web page is probably the appropriate path to take.
PDF is not as good for slide shows.
The problem is that you are making slideshows in the first place. Powerpoints are downright awful.
Yeah, I wonder what world these other people are living in. Office compatibiilty has always been abysmal. It's a crapshoot if you are using moderately complex features and any difference between machines exists. If something needs to be read by others, export it to PDF.
The bar thing is mostly an issue of the groups of cops in charge of law enforcement being super strict about carding.from time to time. They'll bust some establishment, make them pay ridiculous fees, and then everyone in town will card everyone for a while. When things are calm and you've hit a bar enough times, they'll stop carding you, maybe ask you once in a while to make sure you have it on you. I have a few friends that don't have ID, and they seem to make it by okay.
Except it was your point. If your point that FOSS had high rates of failures, you wouldn't have used OS X and BeOS as points of comparison. You were and continue to try and make relative statements, not absolute ones.
So, you bring up a single wireless card that had a proprietary driver as a problem with FOSS? The problem you mention plagued the XP>Vista upgrade across many different devices, and ASUS code often isn't the greatest (the translations are also a bit spotty as well). I've had to deal with some of the ass-backwards things they've implemented lately, with a wireless device for Windows, no less.
A fix can come about by anybody who knows how to fix the problem. If for example, the problem was that a certain button had a icon that had poor visibility, a user that can use image editing software could submit a fix. If someone who knows what the software is doing, knows what it should do instead, and conveys that to someone who could change the code, then it could be fixed.
Yes, there are some gems, but they are hidden amongst many many times more garbage.
You say that as if it doesn't apply to proprietary software as well. Your metric is stupid and if you think it's a good way of measuring, you are stupid. Make no doubt about it: Sturgeon's Law applies to most everything, including proprietary software and FOSS. And it's amazing what kind of garbage people will pay lots of money for in niche usage.
There are also tons of low quality proprietary solutions, many of them being largely pet projects. There are many different metrics you can use, but at the veyr least, try to apply the same metric to both. That some proprietary software is better than some FOSS doesn't mean anything more than some FOSS being better than some proprietary software. Yes, there are tons of abandoned or otherwise low quality FOSS projects, but you could spend you whole life finding proprietary shovelware as well.
If they want to improve the technology, the change to make would be to update the standard, ideally in a manner that is as backwards compatible as possible. You know, like we did with USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 and USB 3.0. You have a consortium that comes up with updates and improvements, and after such approval, the standard is updated. This is actually a situation where the demands are pretty simple. There are two things that you want out of a charger. It works with your phone and charges it. The mandate greatly increased number one. It does a decent job at number two, but there is room for improvement. So, you create a spec for higher powered phone chargers, where phones must accept charges from x to y, chargers must deliver charges from x to y, and when that range is outside of the range of the normal USB spec, they must be clearly marked as such, with something like a red lightning bolt to indicate high power and the number of the revision of the high power spec, possibly changing the color with different revisions. So, all the old chargers will work with all the new phones. Old phones might not work with new chargers, but we've got a big mandated warning sign to avoid frying them. Everyone (except perhaps Apple) wins.
Encryption sounds like what he wants, most likely the public-private key type. It has the flaw of being uncontrollable once it's reached the recipient, and his solution proposes to solve it, but that's not how data works, so they are going to be equally efficient.
However, artificial diamonds can be created of far superior color, clarity, cut, and carat than natural diamonds for far less than the value of an equivalent natural diamond.
It's also useful in electronics because it's a not-awful conductor and incredibly resistant to corrosion. That's why you'll see gold-tipped electronics.
You can do that with HTML5 video because bits don't care about copyright, and you can't do that with EME. There's nothing set in the spec that says the format has to be anything in particular, and saying it's not a plugin doesn't make it not a plugin.
Sexual division of labor does occur quite regularly in other mammals, although it doesn't necessarily fall into the same division across species. The primary factor behind it was likely the result of the differing economics of risk and a few other factors. Humans are omnivores, so meat and plants make for useful food sources, meaning that there are reasons to both hunt and to gather. Hunting is dangerous and has a high chance of failure, but men can survive at lower body fat percentages because they don't have a baby factory to maintain, and one male can impregnate several females, so a male dying is less of a blow to the population. After these roles were established, traits that were useful for these divided roles were selected for if not already present, as they would be a more desirable mate.
The relative finger sizes is probably referring to the digit ratio, which is determined mostly by prenatal testosterone levels, and thus not going to change much with age. However, it's not unthinkable that various differences, such as a different diet could offset the norm for the ratio.
IIRC, tolerance scales pretty much linearly with the threat of OD for opiates. That's why certain forms of Vicodin exist with a much higher ratio of Hydrocodone to Acetaminophen. Over time, the user builds up a very high tolerance to Hydrocodone, but not a tolerance Acetaminophen. If they took normal Vicodin of the equivalent dosage, it would destroy their liver, but they are fine on the more potent medicine. If someone without that tolerance were to take those drugs, they would quite easily OD.
Terrorism is not a real threat, at least not in and of itself. The terrorists we concern ourselves with and that our intelligence agencies are often outwitted by are mostly complete morons who can't even blow things up. Even if we had a 9/11 scale event every year, it wouldn't even register as a top cause of lives lost.
If I recall correctly, the claims that alcohol consumption went down were actually statements that the reported usage of alcohol fell sharply. No shit! Making something illegal means it's less visible. Give someone a Nobel prize for that discovery.
Yes, people will still smuggle drugs, but that market will be much smaller and less lucrative than the current drug trade. The question is whether we are better of with drugs illegal or legal, and the answer is pretty overwhelmingly for legal.
Because we've got pretty good evidence murder and rape law actually reduce murder and rape, while we've seen no indication of the same for drugs. Furthermore, rape and murder are not victimless crimes like drug usage is. Yes, they have ill effects on society, but so do fat and stupid people, and we don't throw them in jail. The only real effects that prohibition has on recreational are shifting money to violent criminals and resulting in more dangerous drugs because of increased potency (because potent drugs are more easily smuggled) and dangerous adulterants in drugs.
And no, needle exchange programs are not enablement any more than free condoms are enablement of sex. The same amount is going to happen either way, but it's safer with these programs.
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I understand that, but most of the collaborative work is going to be done inside an organization, so it doesn't matter what you use as much as just using the same thing.
Actually, I believe you can, but only with Adobe, because everyone else realized that it's an awful idea. If you need to do that for some reason, a web page is probably the appropriate path to take.
The problem is that you are making slideshows in the first place. Powerpoints are downright awful.
Yeah, I wonder what world these other people are living in. Office compatibiilty has always been abysmal. It's a crapshoot if you are using moderately complex features and any difference between machines exists. If something needs to be read by others, export it to PDF.
That's probably true, but is that functionality used by most people? If bells and whistles nobody cares about are disabled, then it's not a problem.
Did the 3d image include those climbing the mountain at that time as well?
The bar thing is mostly an issue of the groups of cops in charge of law enforcement being super strict about carding.from time to time. They'll bust some establishment, make them pay ridiculous fees, and then everyone in town will card everyone for a while. When things are calm and you've hit a bar enough times, they'll stop carding you, maybe ask you once in a while to make sure you have it on you. I have a few friends that don't have ID, and they seem to make it by okay.
Except it was your point. If your point that FOSS had high rates of failures, you wouldn't have used OS X and BeOS as points of comparison. You were and continue to try and make relative statements, not absolute ones.
So, you bring up a single wireless card that had a proprietary driver as a problem with FOSS? The problem you mention plagued the XP>Vista upgrade across many different devices, and ASUS code often isn't the greatest (the translations are also a bit spotty as well). I've had to deal with some of the ass-backwards things they've implemented lately, with a wireless device for Windows, no less.
A fix can come about by anybody who knows how to fix the problem. If for example, the problem was that a certain button had a icon that had poor visibility, a user that can use image editing software could submit a fix. If someone who knows what the software is doing, knows what it should do instead, and conveys that to someone who could change the code, then it could be fixed.
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That was an easy one.
That's a funny way to spell lawyers
You say that as if it doesn't apply to proprietary software as well. Your metric is stupid and if you think it's a good way of measuring, you are stupid. Make no doubt about it: Sturgeon's Law applies to most everything, including proprietary software and FOSS. And it's amazing what kind of garbage people will pay lots of money for in niche usage.
There are also tons of low quality proprietary solutions, many of them being largely pet projects. There are many different metrics you can use, but at the veyr least, try to apply the same metric to both. That some proprietary software is better than some FOSS doesn't mean anything more than some FOSS being better than some proprietary software. Yes, there are tons of abandoned or otherwise low quality FOSS projects, but you could spend you whole life finding proprietary shovelware as well.
chatroulette is the closest thing that comes to mind.
If they want to improve the technology, the change to make would be to update the standard, ideally in a manner that is as backwards compatible as possible. You know, like we did with USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 and USB 3.0. You have a consortium that comes up with updates and improvements, and after such approval, the standard is updated. This is actually a situation where the demands are pretty simple. There are two things that you want out of a charger. It works with your phone and charges it. The mandate greatly increased number one. It does a decent job at number two, but there is room for improvement. So, you create a spec for higher powered phone chargers, where phones must accept charges from x to y, chargers must deliver charges from x to y, and when that range is outside of the range of the normal USB spec, they must be clearly marked as such, with something like a red lightning bolt to indicate high power and the number of the revision of the high power spec, possibly changing the color with different revisions. So, all the old chargers will work with all the new phones. Old phones might not work with new chargers, but we've got a big mandated warning sign to avoid frying them. Everyone (except perhaps Apple) wins.
But you can't refuse to have other people buy such platforms, and hedging your bets is typically a good idea.
Encryption sounds like what he wants, most likely the public-private key type. It has the flaw of being uncontrollable once it's reached the recipient, and his solution proposes to solve it, but that's not how data works, so they are going to be equally efficient.
However, artificial diamonds can be created of far superior color, clarity, cut, and carat than natural diamonds for far less than the value of an equivalent natural diamond.
It's also useful in electronics because it's a not-awful conductor and incredibly resistant to corrosion. That's why you'll see gold-tipped electronics.
You can do that with HTML5 video because bits don't care about copyright, and you can't do that with EME. There's nothing set in the spec that says the format has to be anything in particular, and saying it's not a plugin doesn't make it not a plugin.
Sexual division of labor does occur quite regularly in other mammals, although it doesn't necessarily fall into the same division across species. The primary factor behind it was likely the result of the differing economics of risk and a few other factors. Humans are omnivores, so meat and plants make for useful food sources, meaning that there are reasons to both hunt and to gather. Hunting is dangerous and has a high chance of failure, but men can survive at lower body fat percentages because they don't have a baby factory to maintain, and one male can impregnate several females, so a male dying is less of a blow to the population. After these roles were established, traits that were useful for these divided roles were selected for if not already present, as they would be a more desirable mate.
The relative finger sizes is probably referring to the digit ratio, which is determined mostly by prenatal testosterone levels, and thus not going to change much with age. However, it's not unthinkable that various differences, such as a different diet could offset the norm for the ratio.
IIRC, tolerance scales pretty much linearly with the threat of OD for opiates. That's why certain forms of Vicodin exist with a much higher ratio of Hydrocodone to Acetaminophen. Over time, the user builds up a very high tolerance to Hydrocodone, but not a tolerance Acetaminophen. If they took normal Vicodin of the equivalent dosage, it would destroy their liver, but they are fine on the more potent medicine. If someone without that tolerance were to take those drugs, they would quite easily OD.
Terrorism is not a real threat, at least not in and of itself. The terrorists we concern ourselves with and that our intelligence agencies are often outwitted by are mostly complete morons who can't even blow things up. Even if we had a 9/11 scale event every year, it wouldn't even register as a top cause of lives lost.
If I recall correctly, the claims that alcohol consumption went down were actually statements that the reported usage of alcohol fell sharply. No shit! Making something illegal means it's less visible. Give someone a Nobel prize for that discovery.
Yes, people will still smuggle drugs, but that market will be much smaller and less lucrative than the current drug trade. The question is whether we are better of with drugs illegal or legal, and the answer is pretty overwhelmingly for legal.
Because we've got pretty good evidence murder and rape law actually reduce murder and rape, while we've seen no indication of the same for drugs. Furthermore, rape and murder are not victimless crimes like drug usage is. Yes, they have ill effects on society, but so do fat and stupid people, and we don't throw them in jail. The only real effects that prohibition has on recreational are shifting money to violent criminals and resulting in more dangerous drugs because of increased potency (because potent drugs are more easily smuggled) and dangerous adulterants in drugs.
And no, needle exchange programs are not enablement any more than free condoms are enablement of sex. The same amount is going to happen either way, but it's safer with these programs.