To my understanding, Linux is even easier than windows when it comes to user/group policies. We do have it in place in our computer clusters. But not all software is available to Linux.
This is one thing that holds back many places to move to Linux. There are many others. Linux is community based and developed, here in the USA this smells like communism, which was implanted in the American minds as a bad thing since the cold war times. Others think that having a company behind a software is safer, after all you need a trusted system where you will build your company's IT 'backbone'. Indeed, this is more a marketing issue because Windows is not reliable at all, everybody knows that. Nevertherless, many companies keep trashing hundreds of thousands of dollars with it.
And the desktop enters here. When one looks for his/her own personal desktop s/he will look over the software available one needs to use at home and the OS they are used to. So, if they work in a place where only Windows is available, there is goes!
Yep, Brazil has one of the most intricate and heavy tax structure in the world. But the reason any electronic device is expensive there is because the whole technology is imported. From the basic chips to the mainboards sometimes.
I think all of them would benefit in one way or another. The corrector lens in the Maksutov-Cassegrains could be made of this special glass. Refractors and Schmidt-Cassegrains could also benefit.
I don't know the law text but I think this type of law can backfire. One could make churchs obliged "teach the controversy" of evolution and climate chnages. That would be interesting to see.
The paper relating autism and vaccination has been retracted and the authors are suspended: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4743-controversial-mmr-and-autism-study-retracted.html.
Flu vaccine is something else. It can't be called a vaccine because there is a statement that says that the coverage is up to 90% if there is a perfect match between the virus circulating and the virus of the vaccine. Some studies showed that the perfect match is about 40-50%, which lowers the effectiveness to 30-40%. Therefore washing hands is more effective.
I cracked laughing when I listened to the word "reliability" applied to MS Office. Try to open a document produced by an old version of the MS Office and you'll see what is reliability! Even among new versions there are not reliable at all.
The problem is that Brazil is 2/3 of USA population and it is still unexplored. It is a huge market never conquered because of the high license prices and now it seems to be lost. Hope other countries do the same.
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Yes! Read about the Mega Mouse project. It used 7 million mice. http://www.e-radiography.net/radsafety/rad_biology.htm
To my understanding, Linux is even easier than windows when it comes to user/group policies. We do have it in place in our computer clusters. But not all software is available to Linux. This is one thing that holds back many places to move to Linux. There are many others. Linux is community based and developed, here in the USA this smells like communism, which was implanted in the American minds as a bad thing since the cold war times. Others think that having a company behind a software is safer, after all you need a trusted system where you will build your company's IT 'backbone'. Indeed, this is more a marketing issue because Windows is not reliable at all, everybody knows that. Nevertherless, many companies keep trashing hundreds of thousands of dollars with it. And the desktop enters here. When one looks for his/her own personal desktop s/he will look over the software available one needs to use at home and the OS they are used to. So, if they work in a place where only Windows is available, there is goes!
Yep, Brazil has one of the most intricate and heavy tax structure in the world. But the reason any electronic device is expensive there is because the whole technology is imported. From the basic chips to the mainboards sometimes.
I think all of them would benefit in one way or another. The corrector lens in the Maksutov-Cassegrains could be made of this special glass. Refractors and Schmidt-Cassegrains could also benefit.
This is going to be a very long thread; I hope slashdot counters uses long long int type.
It seems to be a good glass to make lenses for telescopes.
Yes, it exists. We sitting on one piece of dark matter!
I don't know the law text but I think this type of law can backfire. One could make churchs obliged "teach the controversy" of evolution and climate chnages. That would be interesting to see.
The paper relating autism and vaccination has been retracted and the authors are suspended: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4743-controversial-mmr-and-autism-study-retracted.html. Flu vaccine is something else. It can't be called a vaccine because there is a statement that says that the coverage is up to 90% if there is a perfect match between the virus circulating and the virus of the vaccine. Some studies showed that the perfect match is about 40-50%, which lowers the effectiveness to 30-40%. Therefore washing hands is more effective.
I cracked laughing when I listened to the word "reliability" applied to MS Office. Try to open a document produced by an old version of the MS Office and you'll see what is reliability! Even among new versions there are not reliable at all.
This is the best Microsoft achievement. Keep running Windows ...
The problem is that Brazil is 2/3 of USA population and it is still unexplored. It is a huge market never conquered because of the high license prices and now it seems to be lost. Hope other countries do the same.
I hope fortran rest in peace now.