Chromebooks (I have one) run one browser (three guesses which one). It doesn't run Thunderbird, NetBeans or anything else that's not a browser extension. I have a Nexus 7 Android pad-form device that runs a TBird-like email client and a few other things that aren't browser-based, And I have a Win-7 laptop (that'll boot Linux Mint) that does about everything I need on either platform, albeit with reduced screen real estate compared to my (Win-7) desktop.
Chromebooks are being issued to my grandchildren in 7th and 9th grades to do homework via a website, and that's a reasonable thing.
Comparing Chromebooks to Android tablets in this way seems to demonstrate that the OP has never tried to do Real Work on a Chromebook. It's like trying to do fluid dynamics on a TRS-80.
I just finished Nancy MacLean's "Democracy in Chains". (https://history.duke.edu/book/democracy-chains) I recommend it highly to anyone who thinks the "free market" is the be-all and end-all of economics and economic politics. It is a heavily researched and footnoted, yet very readable account of how the "economic freedom" crowd is incrementally taking over the USA using diabolical strategies hatched over the past 70 years or so. My reading staple lies in the genre of mysteries, horror and the like, but I will say that MacLean's book is the scariest thing I have ever seen.
IANAL but perhaps someone who is versed in such matters can explain why, in light of their behavior, writings and speech, Americal neo-nazis and other groups bonded by hatred are not subject to this law (Link to Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute - https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... ).
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so
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It certainly seems to me that the frenzied acts and utterances by these thugs is as much a threat to the nation as yelling "Fire" in a theater, which I think is not covered by the First Amendment right of free speech.
Supposed to be more configurable, except for getting rid of the all-new cruft. No way to see double-columns (twice the info density). No more 2-3 line summaries under headlines. Defaults to show "extended" information when you click a headline, and always shows the extended pane on the top headline no matter what. If you choose auto-refresh, and the top headline that you just closed hasn't changed, it's reopened.
User friendly? Nope, user contemptible, maybe, or user vicious. I guess the A-team was busy elsewhere. They certainly had nothing to do with this piece of crap.
I don't think these surveys are worth crap. The companies that rely on them to rate employees have HR policies that suck. I usually just ignore the pleas from "anonymous data collectors" about my visit to see my doctor, or the pizza order (really!). When an employee implores me to rate my visit (for which she is being held responsible) highly, in what might be a personalized way, I just rate the "experience" at 10's from start to finish unless they performed some egregious bit of malpractice on me or my car. It's like tossing a fiver into the hat of a street musician. He needs it and it costs nothing to help him out. I'm hoping that after seeing a few of these the companies will stop asking for my meaningless "feedback". Otherwise, I will continue (with little enthusiasm or optimism) to try to improve the quality of life for those who depend on 10's.
It's not insanity, it's baked-in corporate DNA. Anyone who attributes human values like "fairness", "honesty", "decency" and "evil" to corporations is delusional. Corporations have only one value: maximize profits. Any actions that maximize profits will be taken. If the action is deemed in human terms to be "wrong", or even "illegal", the only question is "if we do this, will it make us more money, even if there are consequences like fines?" If the answer is affirmative, it is, to the corporation, a "moral", if not compulsory act.
We humans, with our quaint and bothersome notions of "right" and "wrong", serve the corporations by giving them money. They will do whatever it takes to maximize the money we give them. Get over it.
If you think the US elections are fair, you might read this article: http://www.salon.com/2016/04/0...
We may have heard of gerrymandering, but what's happening in the USA, state by state, goes well beyond simple map-redrawing. I thought I was fairly politically literate, but was really shocked when I read this. And it's all apparently legitimate. That is to say it gives the appearance of being legal and it hasn't been challenged on court, that I know of, but it certainly belies the principle of "one person, one vote."
The second amendment to the US Constitution begins:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,...
This portion of the amendment seems always to be forgotten when the Learned Justices consider gun control laws - even the watered-down pap that gets passed by the NRA-fearing politicians in Washington and all the state capitols and municipal governments. The only portion of the amendment that seems to arise in court cases brought by NRA minions is the last half:
...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I propose an action that could probably pass muster in the courts, one that could probably be done by the President without congressional approval, and one that would certainly bring armed America under control.
Consider what could be if the US Department of Defense and Worldwide Domination, which currently has four branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) added a fifth branch: Militia, and populated it with every firearms-owning individual in the country, along with their beloved firearms, through the Selective Service System (also called the Draft).
The Militia would certainly be well-regulated, as are the other branches. And its firearms security and control measures seem to be adequate: We rarely hear of an active-duty Marine emptying his H&K MP5 submachine gun into an elementary school classroom or an Air Force F-18 pilot strafing a shopping mall (at least not in the US of A!).
Of course the new draftees would require basic and refresher training, and would be subject to military law, and would also be available and subject to deployment to areas of the world in need of cannon fodder and firepower.
This idea has mind-boggling potential to solve the gun control issue and to dramatically increase our presence of force beyond the paltry 169 nations of the world in which we have a permanent military presence. It would also get the crazies off the streets and onto reservations, say, one in the Louisiana swamps, another in Death Valley, California, and one more on one of the outlying Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Think of the possibilities!
Actually a majority voted for Gore (50,999,897), not Bush (50,456,002), (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) but more than half the Supremes voted for Bush. Coincidence?
More than half of Americans can't find their hindquarters with both bands.
If you become dependent on "the cloud", many, many entities have to vote - unanimously - to allow you to get your work done at any given time. And your vote doesn't count.
Back in the day (when I was actually PAID for buying supercomputers) I devised Jim's First Law of Supercomputing: For every computer architecture there is a problem that will solve on that particular architecture "better" than on any other architecture. And conversely, for every problem there is an architecture that will solve this problem "better" than any other architecture. (You get to define "better".) You didn't have to talk to too many computer sales-people to accept this as fact. I believe the point of the OP is exactly this.
Regrettably, "critical thinking" in many parts of the world means "just turn on the TV/telly/tube/media-dispenser and let hours of commercials burrow into your subconscious mind, and don't worry because you really never pay attention to ads". Got news for you: ads work. If they didn't, nobody would be spending bazillions of dollars/euros paying for them to be aired and cleverly inserted into all that nice "content" you eat up so uncritically. Ads work in the US. Political ads cause people to be elected, and that's why corporate America pours billions into our bought-and-paid-for congress and White House.
Potentially of interest if there was a shred of setup/implementation information, after an hour of looking, following false trails and futzing I gave up.
I thought I'd seen that somewhere. Here's a source:
http://marketingland.com/googl...
I won't be installing one of those nifty little gadgets anytime soon. It isn't enough that the cost of a Nest Protect is exorbitant, they need to make still more money by selling ads to display on it? Evil, or just a corporation doing what it does?
I guess you didn't hear the mantra in Washington: these cuts will result from, or result in, an overall reduction in the federal budget. We don't reapply "saved" money any more. We just provide a reduced tax rate to the "overtaxed job-creating" 0.1%
I doubt that includes the many light aircraft being produced overseas and imported. But even most of those have a starting price in the low six figures.
I am a United States [Senator | Representative]. I have far, far too much integrity to be at all influenced by the [countless | untold | several] millions of dollars contributed to my campaign by that [lobbyist | special interest | one percenter | lying pond scum]!
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Chromebooks (I have one) run one browser (three guesses which one). It doesn't run Thunderbird, NetBeans or anything else that's not a browser extension. I have a Nexus 7 Android pad-form device that runs a TBird-like email client and a few other things that aren't browser-based, And I have a Win-7 laptop (that'll boot Linux Mint) that does about everything I need on either platform, albeit with reduced screen real estate compared to my (Win-7) desktop.
Chromebooks are being issued to my grandchildren in 7th and 9th grades to do homework via a website, and that's a reasonable thing.
Comparing Chromebooks to Android tablets in this way seems to demonstrate that the OP has never tried to do Real Work on a Chromebook. It's like trying to do fluid dynamics on a TRS-80.
I just finished Nancy MacLean's "Democracy in Chains". (https://history.duke.edu/book/democracy-chains) I recommend it highly to anyone who thinks the "free market" is the be-all and end-all of economics and economic politics. It is a heavily researched and footnoted, yet very readable account of how the "economic freedom" crowd is incrementally taking over the USA using diabolical strategies hatched over the past 70 years or so. My reading staple lies in the genre of mysteries, horror and the like, but I will say that MacLean's book is the scariest thing I have ever seen.
Hey y'all frogs: enjoy the warm bath!
IANAL but perhaps someone who is versed in such matters can explain why, in light of their behavior, writings and speech, Americal neo-nazis and other groups bonded by hatred are not subject to this law (Link to Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute - https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... ).
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so
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It certainly seems to me that the frenzied acts and utterances by these thugs is as much a threat to the nation as yelling "Fire" in a theater, which I think is not covered by the First Amendment right of free speech.
Supposed to be more configurable, except for getting rid of the all-new cruft. No way to see double-columns (twice the info density). No more 2-3 line summaries under headlines. Defaults to show "extended" information when you click a headline, and always shows the extended pane on the top headline no matter what. If you choose auto-refresh, and the top headline that you just closed hasn't changed, it's reopened.
User friendly? Nope, user contemptible, maybe, or user vicious. I guess the A-team was busy elsewhere. They certainly had nothing to do with this piece of crap.
I don't think these surveys are worth crap. The companies that rely on them to rate employees have HR policies that suck. I usually just ignore the pleas from "anonymous data collectors" about my visit to see my doctor, or the pizza order (really!). When an employee implores me to rate my visit (for which she is being held responsible) highly, in what might be a personalized way, I just rate the "experience" at 10's from start to finish unless they performed some egregious bit of malpractice on me or my car. It's like tossing a fiver into the hat of a street musician. He needs it and it costs nothing to help him out. I'm hoping that after seeing a few of these the companies will stop asking for my meaningless "feedback". Otherwise, I will continue (with little enthusiasm or optimism) to try to improve the quality of life for those who depend on 10's.
How about another Win 10 nagger KB3150513 ?
It's not insanity, it's baked-in corporate DNA. Anyone who attributes human values like "fairness", "honesty", "decency" and "evil" to corporations is delusional. Corporations have only one value: maximize profits. Any actions that maximize profits will be taken. If the action is deemed in human terms to be "wrong", or even "illegal", the only question is "if we do this, will it make us more money, even if there are consequences like fines?" If the answer is affirmative, it is, to the corporation, a "moral", if not compulsory act.
We humans, with our quaint and bothersome notions of "right" and "wrong", serve the corporations by giving them money. They will do whatever it takes to maximize the money we give them. Get over it.
If you think the US elections are fair, you might read this article: http://www.salon.com/2016/04/0... We may have heard of gerrymandering, but what's happening in the USA, state by state, goes well beyond simple map-redrawing. I thought I was fairly politically literate, but was really shocked when I read this. And it's all apparently legitimate. That is to say it gives the appearance of being legal and it hasn't been challenged on court, that I know of, but it certainly belies the principle of "one person, one vote."
The second amendment to the US Constitution begins:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,...
This portion of the amendment seems always to be forgotten when the Learned Justices consider gun control laws - even the watered-down pap that gets passed by the NRA-fearing politicians in Washington and all the state capitols and municipal governments. The only portion of the amendment that seems to arise in court cases brought by NRA minions is the last half:
I propose an action that could probably pass muster in the courts, one that could probably be done by the President without congressional approval, and one that would certainly bring armed America under control.
Consider what could be if the US Department of Defense and Worldwide Domination, which currently has four branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) added a fifth branch: Militia, and populated it with every firearms-owning individual in the country, along with their beloved firearms, through the Selective Service System (also called the Draft).
The Militia would certainly be well-regulated, as are the other branches. And its firearms security and control measures seem to be adequate: We rarely hear of an active-duty Marine emptying his H&K MP5 submachine gun into an elementary school classroom or an Air Force F-18 pilot strafing a shopping mall (at least not in the US of A!).
Of course the new draftees would require basic and refresher training, and would be subject to military law, and would also be available and subject to deployment to areas of the world in need of cannon fodder and firepower.
This idea has mind-boggling potential to solve the gun control issue and to dramatically increase our presence of force beyond the paltry 169 nations of the world in which we have a permanent military presence. It would also get the crazies off the streets and onto reservations, say, one in the Louisiana swamps, another in Death Valley, California, and one more on one of the outlying Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Think of the possibilities!
"OTA is the only way to accomplish secure management of all of a connected car's software in a seamless, comprehensive, and fully integrated manner,"
I win Bullshit Bingo! More meaningless buzzwords per sentence than I've seen in a while.
And clearly anyone who confuses "secure" and "OTA" doesn't understand either concept.
The $100 is ideal for gifts to grandkids (I have 7). Impressively rare to them, crisp, clean. Two $50s just wouldn't be the same!
Get off my lawn, Summers!
Actually a majority voted for Gore (50,999,897), not Bush (50,456,002), (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) but more than half the Supremes voted for Bush. Coincidence?
More than half of Americans can't find their hindquarters with both bands.
If you become dependent on "the cloud", many, many entities have to vote - unanimously - to allow you to get your work done at any given time. And your vote doesn't count.
...a developer working on something that will stop the engines of a drone in flight and I'll invest in it in a heartbeat!
Wow! Great article! Thanks.
Any Republican subjects in the new study?
Back in the day (when I was actually PAID for buying supercomputers) I devised Jim's First Law of Supercomputing: For every computer architecture there is a problem that will solve on that particular architecture "better" than on any other architecture. And conversely, for every problem there is an architecture that will solve this problem "better" than any other architecture. (You get to define "better".) You didn't have to talk to too many computer sales-people to accept this as fact. I believe the point of the OP is exactly this.
Regrettably, "critical thinking" in many parts of the world means "just turn on the TV/telly/tube/media-dispenser and let hours of commercials burrow into your subconscious mind, and don't worry because you really never pay attention to ads". Got news for you: ads work. If they didn't, nobody would be spending bazillions of dollars/euros paying for them to be aired and cleverly inserted into all that nice "content" you eat up so uncritically. Ads work in the US. Political ads cause people to be elected, and that's why corporate America pours billions into our bought-and-paid-for congress and White House.
Potentially of interest if there was a shred of setup/implementation information, after an hour of looking, following false trails and futzing I gave up.
I thought I'd seen that somewhere. Here's a source: http://marketingland.com/googl... I won't be installing one of those nifty little gadgets anytime soon. It isn't enough that the cost of a Nest Protect is exorbitant, they need to make still more money by selling ads to display on it? Evil, or just a corporation doing what it does?
I guess you didn't hear the mantra in Washington: these cuts will result from, or result in, an overall reduction in the federal budget. We don't reapply "saved" money any more. We just provide a reduced tax rate to the "overtaxed job-creating" 0.1%
I doubt that includes the many light aircraft being produced overseas and imported. But even most of those have a starting price in the low six figures.
I am a United States [Senator | Representative]. I have far, far too much integrity to be at all influenced by the [countless | untold | several] millions of dollars contributed to my campaign by that [lobbyist | special interest | one percenter | lying pond scum]!
...in Nuremberg, and lost.
A child of the V-22 Osprey with horrible birth defects.