I don't use calc extensively, but I've tried to create a couple charts in it while I was in unbuntu (just because I was there). Their chart making interface is just simply atrocious. I needed error bars, lines of fit, legends... I just couldn't find anything. It's all hidden in right click context menus and drop downs. In excel you click on the chart and it's all right there in front of you. Also I hate how when you hit backspace on a cell it always brings of a list of ways to delete the cell. I know the delete key will just clear the contents, but in Excel when you hit backspace you can then type in the cell. I find this very convenient.
Although I will say one thing open office in general is very good at is crashing and not being able to recover my work. Office has crashed on me rarely, but it's always been able to recover my work when I re-open.
My favorite are the "Mom finds strange simple trick for perfect white teeth! Dentists do not want you to know!" or the variations thereof. Those ads are so obviously some sort of scam it's insulting. I refuse to visit sites that serve those ads because they obviously think their readerbase is retarded by extension.
I told you; I use a stylus. I write things. I draw things. There's a lot of work to be done on pen and paper that I can do with stylus and tablet. Touch support isn't the greatest in windows 7 but it's certainly not awful. Jump lists are very touch friendly, so is the the new jumbo sized start menu. Menus can be maximized and maximized and docked without touching the controls in the top left. Flick shortcuts to copy/paste and navigate the browser are something that I miss on my iPad. My model even has multitouch support, so I can pinch to zoom websites, use two fingers to scroll, one finger to highlight, press and hold to right click. Wasn't a bad experience at all in my opinion.
I do lots of serious work on my Windows 7 tablet PC... albeit with a stylus and not my finger. Windows 8 will have support for a stylus so I anticipate being able to get a lot done on it.
Now, this apparently only works for higher resolution monitors (although a simple registry hack removes this restriction), so maybe that was why you couldn't do it.
However, this is beside the point that any user can go on the desktop and run any number of apps side by side (PDF, browser, VS, VLC, or otherwise).
People are happy to trust scientists because for the most part, they have no idea what the scientists are saying. This is true up until the point the scientist says something the person disagrees with. "What do you mean human's evolved from apes!? You're a lunatic!" At this point the scientist is no longer an authority but a crackpot.
Actually according to Wikipedia it could come from the word fancy: "Paul Dickson, in his Dickson Baseball Dictionary, cites William Henry Nugent's work that claims it comes from fancy, a 19th century term from England that referred mainly to followers of boxing." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_(person)
I'm a steelers fan, but I certainly wouldn't get into any arguments or flamewars about them. Does that mean I'm also a Steelers fanatic?
I know Microsoft was apprehensive at first about hacking the Kinect, but since then they have pretty much fully embraced it. Why would they go through all the trouble of officially supporting the Kinect on PC, and then not build on that with the 2.0 release?
At the end of that article is a link to another article about how Microsoft has a dozen billion dollar businesses within it. They are not like Google, where 99% of their revenue is derived from a single product. Microsoft is pretty diversified, and as the link you posted shows, pretty much all of those business units have to fail at the same time in order for Microsoft to die. Not likely to happen. The more likely scenario is that if any single division is compromised beyond repair, Microsoft will simply cut off the dead limb and continue lumbering on.
This project in particular was funded by the NSF and the Wyss Institute, which looks like some sort of incubator funded by Harvard. The gist of the NSF policty is that the grantee retains all rights to the invention/patents/copyrights of the research. This makes sense given the NSF's mission statement: "To promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense...."
As a roboticist, I can assure you we are nowhere near the point where humanoid robots will replace actual humans. For the foreseeable future, the domain for robots will be in factoriesand assembly lines.
Your post is a little misleading... What is at 19.5% unemployment is "clinical" psychology. The psychology most people go into has an unemployment rate of only 6.1%. Further the "Fine Arts" is actually at 7.4%. What you posted is actually "Miscellaneous Fine Arts."
If you notice, these majors topping the list have very low popularity, which probably means there are very few of these majors out there. Therefore, any one person who is unemployed will cause the unemployment percentage to jump. If you compare unemployment with popularity, you see the most popular majors have the lowest unemployment. Of the top 50 majors, the only one to breach 10% is Architecture.
Among these are pretty much all the majors Slashdotters routinely deride as unemployable, including:
You know how many people the sports industry employs? Stadium personnel, travel, merchandise, retail, television, radio, newspapers, food, beverages.... it touches virtually everything in this country. I can't think of anything else as pervasive.
Why not? You seem to be operating from some premise that there's something more out there and there's some grand scheme and a design to everything. Maybe that works for you. That's great. For me there is nothing like that, and there doesn't have to be. I'm internally happy knowing that all ends when I die. Therefore, as I see it, the purpose of my life (it's meaning) is to maintain that happiness. There's nothing more to it than that. Is there anything puzzling about this? It seems so straightforward to me.
dropping out of college to create a company is an even bigger pointer to success than not being an MBA.
That's only because you're looking at already successful companies and then looking at how they got started. What about all the kids who dropped out of college to start a company that failed?
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink (John 6:53-55).
I believe that's in the Bible all Christians read. Or is that in the special Catholic only Bible?
Personally, I do not understand how someone who is an atheist lives believing that nothing has any meaning and will inevitably end in the heat death of the universe.
Maybe because atheists find meaning in their own. lives and live fully knowing this is all there is and it's best to make use of what we're given.I don't need the promise of an after life to make this life worth living.
You put their claims to the test. Is the universe eternal? Nope... there goes most Eastern religions.
Is the Earth 7000 years old? Nope... there goes Christianity. Oh but it was metaphorical, or perhaps God days are longer than human days, or perhaps we can pick and choose facts from the Bible to believe while other religions we have to take as a whole. I find it amusing how easily you dismiss other religions while glossing over the absurdities of your own.
re: #1 - OK, for example, explain consciousness within the atheistic worldview
So if you were alive before 1700, I suppose you would be asking us to explain lightening within the atheistic worldview? Just because we can't explain it doesn't mean it is therefore God.
The particular program I'm thinking of offers a B.S. in Computer Science with your choice of two tracks: software development or information technology. For both tracks, the only required math is probability and statistics. So on your resume you put "B.S. Computer Science" but really what you have is "B.S. Software Development" or "B.S. Information Technology"
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I don't use calc extensively, but I've tried to create a couple charts in it while I was in unbuntu (just because I was there). Their chart making interface is just simply atrocious. I needed error bars, lines of fit, legends... I just couldn't find anything. It's all hidden in right click context menus and drop downs. In excel you click on the chart and it's all right there in front of you. Also I hate how when you hit backspace on a cell it always brings of a list of ways to delete the cell. I know the delete key will just clear the contents, but in Excel when you hit backspace you can then type in the cell. I find this very convenient.
Although I will say one thing open office in general is very good at is crashing and not being able to recover my work. Office has crashed on me rarely, but it's always been able to recover my work when I re-open.
My favorite are the "Mom finds strange simple trick for perfect white teeth! Dentists do not want you to know!" or the variations thereof. Those ads are so obviously some sort of scam it's insulting. I refuse to visit sites that serve those ads because they obviously think their readerbase is retarded by extension.
I told you; I use a stylus. I write things. I draw things. There's a lot of work to be done on pen and paper that I can do with stylus and tablet. Touch support isn't the greatest in windows 7 but it's certainly not awful. Jump lists are very touch friendly, so is the the new jumbo sized start menu. Menus can be maximized and maximized and docked without touching the controls in the top left. Flick shortcuts to copy/paste and navigate the browser are something that I miss on my iPad. My model even has multitouch support, so I can pinch to zoom websites, use two fingers to scroll, one finger to highlight, press and hold to right click. Wasn't a bad experience at all in my opinion.
I do lots of serious work on my Windows 7 tablet PC... albeit with a stylus and not my finger. Windows 8 will have support for a stylus so I anticipate being able to get a lot done on it.
This does a pretty good job explaining it: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/all-about-windows-8-filename-collisions-and-copy-move-dialog-box/
In the metro interface you can have windows side by side: http://youtu.be/p92QfWOw88I?t=2m04s
Now, this apparently only works for higher resolution monitors (although a simple registry hack removes this restriction), so maybe that was why you couldn't do it.
However, this is beside the point that any user can go on the desktop and run any number of apps side by side (PDF, browser, VS, VLC, or otherwise).
other than Southwest which notoriously treats their customers better.
I don't think that's the word you were looking for...
People are happy to trust scientists because for the most part, they have no idea what the scientists are saying. This is true up until the point the scientist says something the person disagrees with. "What do you mean human's evolved from apes!? You're a lunatic!" At this point the scientist is no longer an authority but a crackpot.
It's just you. The chrysler 300 is widely regarded to be a bentley lookalike. There are even logo conversion kits out there people put on ther 300s.
You know that "fan" comes from "fanatic", yes?
Actually according to Wikipedia it could come from the word fancy: "Paul Dickson, in his Dickson Baseball Dictionary, cites William Henry Nugent's work that claims it comes from fancy, a 19th century term from England that referred mainly to followers of boxing." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_(person)
I'm a steelers fan, but I certainly wouldn't get into any arguments or flamewars about them. Does that mean I'm also a Steelers fanatic?
I know Microsoft was apprehensive at first about hacking the Kinect, but since then they have pretty much fully embraced it. Why would they go through all the trouble of officially supporting the Kinect on PC, and then not build on that with the 2.0 release?
I believe the shovel predates the spoon.
At the end of that article is a link to another article about how Microsoft has a dozen billion dollar businesses within it. They are not like Google, where 99% of their revenue is derived from a single product. Microsoft is pretty diversified, and as the link you posted shows, pretty much all of those business units have to fail at the same time in order for Microsoft to die. Not likely to happen. The more likely scenario is that if any single division is compromised beyond repair, Microsoft will simply cut off the dead limb and continue lumbering on.
Here is the IP policiy of the NSF: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/manuals/gpm05_131/gpm7.jsp#730
This project in particular was funded by the NSF and the Wyss Institute, which looks like some sort of incubator funded by Harvard. The gist of the NSF policty is that the grantee retains all rights to the invention/patents/copyrights of the research. This makes sense given the NSF's mission statement: "To promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense...."
As a roboticist, I can assure you we are nowhere near the point where humanoid robots will replace actual humans. For the foreseeable future, the domain for robots will be in factoriesand assembly lines.
Your post is a little misleading... What is at 19.5% unemployment is "clinical" psychology. The psychology most people go into has an unemployment rate of only 6.1%. Further the "Fine Arts" is actually at 7.4%. What you posted is actually "Miscellaneous Fine Arts."
If you notice, these majors topping the list have very low popularity, which probably means there are very few of these majors out there. Therefore, any one person who is unemployed will cause the unemployment percentage to jump. If you compare unemployment with popularity, you see the most popular majors have the lowest unemployment. Of the top 50 majors, the only one to breach 10% is Architecture.
Among these are pretty much all the majors Slashdotters routinely deride as unemployable, including:
You know how many people the sports industry employs? Stadium personnel, travel, merchandise, retail, television, radio, newspapers, food, beverages.... it touches virtually everything in this country. I can't think of anything else as pervasive.
Why not? You seem to be operating from some premise that there's something more out there and there's some grand scheme and a design to everything. Maybe that works for you. That's great. For me there is nothing like that, and there doesn't have to be. I'm internally happy knowing that all ends when I die. Therefore, as I see it, the purpose of my life (it's meaning) is to maintain that happiness. There's nothing more to it than that. Is there anything puzzling about this? It seems so straightforward to me.
dropping out of college to create a company is an even bigger pointer to success than not being an MBA.
That's only because you're looking at already successful companies and then looking at how they got started. What about all the kids who dropped out of college to start a company that failed?
The meaning of my life is to pursue my happiness I gave it to myself.
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink (John 6:53-55).
I believe that's in the Bible all Christians read. Or is that in the special Catholic only Bible?
Personally, I do not understand how someone who is an atheist lives believing that nothing has any meaning and will inevitably end in the heat death of the universe.
Maybe because atheists find meaning in their own. lives and live fully knowing this is all there is and it's best to make use of what we're given.I don't need the promise of an after life to make this life worth living.
You put their claims to the test. Is the universe eternal? Nope... there goes most Eastern religions.
Is the Earth 7000 years old? Nope... there goes Christianity. Oh but it was metaphorical, or perhaps God days are longer than human days, or perhaps we can pick and choose facts from the Bible to believe while other religions we have to take as a whole. I find it amusing how easily you dismiss other religions while glossing over the absurdities of your own.
re: #1 - OK, for example, explain consciousness within the atheistic worldview
So if you were alive before 1700, I suppose you would be asking us to explain lightening within the atheistic worldview? Just because we can't explain it doesn't mean it is therefore God.
The particular program I'm thinking of offers a B.S. in Computer Science with your choice of two tracks: software development or information technology. For both tracks, the only required math is probability and statistics. So on your resume you put "B.S. Computer Science" but really what you have is "B.S. Software Development" or "B.S. Information Technology"