Are there any in Australia who deny global warming and make fun of others who believe in that as well as support creationism? It seems just the American right prides in ignorance as keeping the truth and changing opinion as a form of weakness.
I do admit some on the right in Europe are clear racists that does not seem to permeate with the American right.
It was VERY expensive. In economics there is a term called opportunity cost. For example you could be working a second job instead of reading this reply or going to school for a better career.You can't really do that with raids going.
My ex guild leader is much richer and lost money as he did not want to start a business again and make gobs of money as that means no midnight runs. When things got rough his sister told him to quit playing and go get a real job or get your butt out of here. He did just that and is now making about 6 figures again. Making less costs money and when he hit his low it was easier to play wow after his part time job and ignore reality than it was to get his butt in gear and rebuild his business that required lots of work.
So that is the tradeoff.The value of the card is nothing and costs a lot more than $500 as you can earn that in 2 weeks with a 2nd part time job or earn more over a lifetime with $500 a credit hour for an advanced degree.
I would like to believe the voters in Nebraska would like to keep growing corn rather than pleasing the man in the sky by voting republican and thinking they will be blessed by voting for corrupt right wing politicians.
The midwest should be the most rapid end climate change group as all the farms are there. The deniers I can see would be in Alaska, Lousiana, and Texas where the enegery industry benefits from de-regulation.
In a story about science it has to turn to politics unfortunately as politics is the reason for the attack on science.
For the grand parent yes both parites are corrupt and it is a sad state of less evil. However, I would rather vote for someone to increase taxes who can somewhat believe and discern facts rather than ideology or listening to Rush first before making an opinion.
Subsidizing un-employment slows re-entry to the work force.
So your solution is to vote for teapartiers who ignore facts and focus on gut feelings and core ideologies instead decide the future?
Democrats do not deny that. They prefer to not see children starve and economic damage as it takes awhile to get another white collar job after a loss. I can see a conservative might feel less is better in this situation but there is no make up facts on liberal versions of rush.
Name one other country with a political party who is so hellbent on reality distortion to do such silly things with tax payer money? Name one other country who will purposedly ally themselves with corporate interests agaisn't the will of the people to do such silly things like publish these studies?
America is turning into the laughing stock of the world. It is truly embarrasing. Conservative Americans might be mad at my post or the suggestions we should all start voting for democrats, but at least they are somewhat sane and do not deny reality.
Still I loved the free tools and hackability back in the day and hated MS with a passion. I then grew up which is my point.
MS tools have improved tremendously while I grow frustrated with Linux never maturing into a solid product. Rather it is a collection of many things glued together as a distro. I lean towards FreeBSD for this reason but that is not perfect either.
Thank God for virtualization. On my host I use Windows now. I have things to do, reports to complete, and games to play. Linux is still very active in the form of TurnKey Linux appliances in VMWare 10 Workstation on my computer. Point is right tool for the job. I no longer will gravitate towards free products if I can't get the job done and get paid in time. I have responsibilities.
How about freedom to keep your job as you get the work done as quick as your win32 colleagues with the same quality?
I used to be an OSS junky and fanboy in my day. After poor results and wasting time always getting something to work it appeared I was using inferior platform and lacked competence. XP just worked. Office just worked. No spending a weekend every ubuntu release. Is mysql really a supperior product compared to sql server? No.
Not everyone is a software engineer who tinkers with source code. Employers demand too much of our time and care about results only than playing with free software. Either the author of the post completes the job for the cheapest price in the time given or I will find someone else who will
Hint hint back then there was no firefox. Netscape had too many quirks compared to the more standards compliant IE 6.
Yes, IE 6 was better than Netscape 4.7. But I remember having used Mozilla Application Suite as my primary browser since my junior year of college, which would put it sometime around the 0.9 series (and around the release of IE 6). I think I still have some of the minimal test cases that I wrote for bugzilla.mozilla.org. But I admit that my use pattern was atypical.
You are looking at this with 2013 glasses.
So as of 2013, how should a web application that needs WebGL, IndexedDB, and/or Stream API inform the user when Modernizr returns a bunch of falses? Showing "Best viewed with Firefox or Chrome" when a feature is detected as missing in IE (Windows), IE (Windows Phone), Safari (OS X), Safari (iOS), or Android Browser (Android 2.x) would bring us back to the "Best viewed with" days of 1999, wouldn't it?
Webkit is the new IE 6 in many ways as well as html5test.com which test features not implemented with w3c.
We have the opposite problem this decade. Progress too slow and corps and grannies resisting change and demanding IE 8 support or they will use a competitior who will. Even if you try to use w3c you can not tell a client you plan to say fuck off to 14% of your customers who do not like Metro and decided to stick with XP and the blue E which is what hte internet hides under.
I pray I am wrong but IE 8 is here to stay more than IE 6 because it is not as buggy and businesses dependent on crappy intranet apps were not prevaliant in 2003 like in 2013. These intranet companies on purpose make proprietary versions that do not work between versions so customers keep coming back. Accountants at these companies will want IE 8 until 2021. Webmasters will be threatened with job termination if they do anything from the previous decade. IE 8 is more standards compliant than IE 6 but is quite aged and more intranet apps than ever damn before are dependent on just that version.
This is not going to work. Most software and games are moving to online distribution and many of these titles alone are over 10GB in size.
Oh no! You mean TImeWarner and Cox will force users to use their own services instead of Netflix and can charge you $100 a month for it instead?!
That is the real purpose. It is to end Netflix and force you to pay $200/month through the nose with a crappier tier cart for shit you do not want for just 1 TV show or some ondemand service they own.
This is a tool like the Apple appstore to create a monopoly by the big boys. Infact this can be argued as what MS did to kill Netscape in the 90s and use one monopoly to corner another since the big boys own the cable that we paid for via taxes.
Where I camefrom JScript, not javascript was the defecto standard for 95% of all users in 2003. Its what everyone else is using and had the most features and least bugs.
Hint hint back then there was no firefox. Netscape had too many quirks compared to the more standards compliant IE 6.
Pick a single product at a single version that wont work with anything else.
Second, make sure its old and obsolete already.
Third tie the whole company processes for everything under the sun even outside the project. Make sure they all use it and save data to its own format. Encrypt it to a password only you know.
Last note EOL of platform and quit.
One year before EOL offer your services for $250 as a consultant.
You would not pass any computer art class today with that attitude.
Every professor out there has been teaching this is the way to go and flunking out those who do these outdated 20th century things. Unfortunately, this trend is post impressionism which once became popular because herasy to do art any other way. These new students are landing jobs at companies like Apple and Microsoft. Simple color is it.
No textures, shapes, or details other than a simple color is the wave of the future. You wont get good grades if you do not use these elements and I find no art professors saying skeuomorphism or extra details look very 20th century and dated compared to simplicity.
Dude, Wall Street traders demand software engineers get things done in minutes and hours!
There is no process as it all had to be done yesterday if you ask anyone who has worked in that environment.
They pay top dollars and change core algorithms on the fly as each millisecond costs money to a competitor who has a more efficient trading algorithm that steals from their own HTC network.
So when when skims and manipulates the prices in milliseconds they steal from those who have process engineered designs who are too slow to react.
If it messes up they get bailed out by the SEC anyway and they can just fire the programmer.
What is neglected in this article is the story how the FEC compensated them for their loss and reversed the transactions.
So nice they get the same protections that you (slashdot readers) and I get when we invest. I wonder if any if it is tax based. Better get to work to pay for someone elses mistakes then.
I just had management freak out over this at my workplace last week.... even though I am not the damn IT guy at the other company who setup Citrix!...
Anyway you need to set the default printer and then open it Citrix remote desktop. If it is not default then they call you and expect you to fix another company's system that is remote... and fix the internet while you are at it.
Citrix cost some employees their job as IE pops randomly do not go up when it gets busy and they can't read HIPPA documents to customers on the phone. It freezes up even under a light load where the cpu usage is 15% and ram only 40%.
I hate that thing with a passion and wish VMWare clients were cheaper.
I used Win2K for years after it was EOL. I had far less problems with security than I now have Windows 7.
IMO: Win2K was best OS Microsoft ever released.
LOL
I call bs on that one. I hope you did not do any online banking on that machine seriously. DOS was the best ever because I am familiar with it. To hell what imrovements have been made too right?
Windows 7 has kernel level sandboxing, DSLR (ram scrambling), DEP (data execution prevention), no real admin acount but a token broker, seperation or privledges and many many other improvements. Stack smashing, buffer overflows, and inserting data into ram addresses of.dlls are difficult on Windows 7. On XP they can just do it easily if you are admin and go through the front door rather than breaking through the back.
My guess is your Win2k did not have flash, java, or internet access which made it have less vectors. Windows 7 has more security than even Linux at this point with features making it very hard to hack. Most hackers just use flash and PDFs to get around this. However this past 1.5 Adobe now uses Windows Vista/7 kernel leveling sandboxing as well.
The ribbon is much easier to use and learn. The issue is why change and a resistence to it because the change came from MS. It is silly.
Having documents not formatted properly in later versions will make customers question the professionalism of your employer. Office 2013 makes.docx that are not compatible with office 2003 right now! Office 2014 will be out next year and the newer versions have cloud services and app stores so employees can work at home with skydrive pro as well as Salesforce app etc.
That is important in business and time has moved on. I might as well say it takes time to learn Windows since dos is what employees are familair with so why change too.
A single excel macro can take down a company after April since MS wont patch it! Can you say code red and you can bet your ass hackers and criminals are stockpilling macros and XP exploits as I type this waiting for April to come by and bring all hell out.
Pull your panties out of your ass crack. It's unusable for him. 2003 does whatever he needs and he has no reason to "upgrade" just for the ribbon.
Jeesus, people take such offense about personal preferences here. It's lame.
When he gets 0wn3d because his version no longer recieves updates afte april don't blame me.... better yet call me and I will clean it off his XP system for $75 an hour:-)
Look at OwnCloud if you want to host your own stuff "in a cloud". But the sales pitch for Office 365 is that they do all the "icky computery" stuff, like backups and upgrades.
Of course the drawbacks of cloud are well known, too: you need to be online, you need to pay them monthly, and it can be read by anyone with a warrant (or not a warrant, if they're the NSA. )
Vendor lock-in changes, too. Sure, you can download an Office 365 document to import into Open Office. Today. And just because the TOS says you can today doesn't mean those terms can't be changed tomorrow.
There's a lot to dislike about cloud solutions. But they sure meet the needs of a lot of people - at least those who don't think about it too much.
Just throw it on any server at work or on an ISP. This is FOSS like apache where a user can do whatever the hell he or she wants. Office 365 is managed by someone else. This would be managed by you and your ISP backs it up or your IT department, or yourself. This is a we cloud instead of a their cloud.
Have you tried Office 2010? Try the ribbon for a week? Afterwards you will see you can preview changes with just a mouse hovering over items. Hit the alt key and you have smart tags showing all the shortcuts with it which is nice with a laptop.
Office 2010 is much better. I saw the research back then and was exciting to learn something new as real scientist had data to show it is better and statistics back them up with real usage. It is not Metro by a longshot or pushed by marketing folks unlike Windows 8.
Office 2003 is old and it is a horrible pain in the butt to get to a custom function and will be very insecure after April of next year. I do not want to go back to that release.
Want a reason to switch? How about file compatibility? You think the.docx of 2013 is compatible and a future manager will be able to read your resume in a few years when Office 2014, 2015, come out? Think again.
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Are there any in Australia who deny global warming and make fun of others who believe in that as well as support creationism? It seems just the American right prides in ignorance as keeping the truth and changing opinion as a form of weakness.
I do admit some on the right in Europe are clear racists that does not seem to permeate with the American right.
My ex was addicted to Wow.
It was VERY expensive. In economics there is a term called opportunity cost. For example you could be working a second job instead of reading this reply or going to school for a better career.You can't really do that with raids going.
My ex guild leader is much richer and lost money as he did not want to start a business again and make gobs of money as that means no midnight runs. When things got rough his sister told him to quit playing and go get a real job or get your butt out of here. He did just that and is now making about 6 figures again. Making less costs money and when he hit his low it was easier to play wow after his part time job and ignore reality than it was to get his butt in gear and rebuild his business that required lots of work.
So that is the tradeoff.The value of the card is nothing and costs a lot more than $500 as you can earn that in 2 weeks with a 2nd part time job or earn more over a lifetime with $500 a credit hour for an advanced degree.
I would like to believe the voters in Nebraska would like to keep growing corn rather than pleasing the man in the sky by voting republican and thinking they will be blessed by voting for corrupt right wing politicians.
The midwest should be the most rapid end climate change group as all the farms are there. The deniers I can see would be in Alaska, Lousiana, and Texas where the enegery industry benefits from de-regulation.
In a story about science it has to turn to politics unfortunately as politics is the reason for the attack on science.
For the grand parent yes both parites are corrupt and it is a sad state of less evil. However, I would rather vote for someone to increase taxes who can somewhat believe and discern facts rather than ideology or listening to Rush first before making an opinion.
Blind faith can be a truly frightening thing.
Subsidizing un-employment slows re-entry to the work force.
So your solution is to vote for teapartiers who ignore facts and focus on gut feelings and core ideologies instead decide the future?
Democrats do not deny that. They prefer to not see children starve and economic damage as it takes awhile to get another white collar job after a loss. I can see a conservative might feel less is better in this situation but there is no make up facts on liberal versions of rush.
Name one other country with a political party who is so hellbent on reality distortion to do such silly things with tax payer money? Name one other country who will purposedly ally themselves with corporate interests agaisn't the will of the people to do such silly things like publish these studies?
America is turning into the laughing stock of the world. It is truly embarrasing. Conservative Americans might be mad at my post or the suggestions we should all start voting for democrats, but at least they are somewhat sane and do not deny reality.
Still I loved the free tools and hackability back in the day and hated MS with a passion. I then grew up which is my point.
MS tools have improved tremendously while I grow frustrated with Linux never maturing into a solid product. Rather it is a collection of many things glued together as a distro. I lean towards FreeBSD for this reason but that is not perfect either.
Thank God for virtualization. On my host I use Windows now. I have things to do, reports to complete, and games to play. Linux is still very active in the form of TurnKey Linux appliances in VMWare 10 Workstation on my computer. Point is right tool for the job. I no longer will gravitate towards free products if I can't get the job done and get paid in time. I have responsibilities.
How about freedom to keep your job as you get the work done as quick as your win32 colleagues with the same quality?
I used to be an OSS junky and fanboy in my day. After poor results and wasting time always getting something to work it appeared I was using inferior platform and lacked competence. XP just worked. Office just worked. No spending a weekend every ubuntu release. Is mysql really a supperior product compared to sql server? No.
Not everyone is a software engineer who tinkers with source code. Employers demand too much of our time and care about results only than playing with free software. Either the author of the post completes the job for the cheapest price in the time given or I will find someone else who will
Hint hint back then there was no firefox. Netscape had too many quirks compared to the more standards compliant IE 6.
Yes, IE 6 was better than Netscape 4.7. But I remember having used Mozilla Application Suite as my primary browser since my junior year of college, which would put it sometime around the 0.9 series (and around the release of IE 6). I think I still have some of the minimal test cases that I wrote for bugzilla.mozilla.org. But I admit that my use pattern was atypical.
You are looking at this with 2013 glasses.
So as of 2013, how should a web application that needs WebGL, IndexedDB, and/or Stream API inform the user when Modernizr returns a bunch of falses? Showing "Best viewed with Firefox or Chrome" when a feature is detected as missing in IE (Windows), IE (Windows Phone), Safari (OS X), Safari (iOS), or Android Browser (Android 2.x) would bring us back to the "Best viewed with" days of 1999, wouldn't it?
Webkit is the new IE 6 in many ways as well as html5test.com which test features not implemented with w3c.
We have the opposite problem this decade. Progress too slow and corps and grannies resisting change and demanding IE 8 support or they will use a competitior who will. Even if you try to use w3c you can not tell a client you plan to say fuck off to 14% of your customers who do not like Metro and decided to stick with XP and the blue E which is what hte internet hides under.
I pray I am wrong but IE 8 is here to stay more than IE 6 because it is not as buggy and businesses dependent on crappy intranet apps were not prevaliant in 2003 like in 2013. These intranet companies on purpose make proprietary versions that do not work between versions so customers keep coming back. Accountants at these companies will want IE 8 until 2021. Webmasters will be threatened with job termination if they do anything from the previous decade. IE 8 is more standards compliant than IE 6 but is quite aged and more intranet apps than ever damn before are dependent on just that version.
This is not going to work. Most software and games are moving to online distribution and many of these titles alone are over 10GB in size.
Oh no! You mean TImeWarner and Cox will force users to use their own services instead of Netflix and can charge you $100 a month for it instead?!
That is the real purpose. It is to end Netflix and force you to pay $200/month through the nose with a crappier tier cart for shit you do not want for just 1 TV show or some ondemand service they own.
This is a tool like the Apple appstore to create a monopoly by the big boys. Infact this can be argued as what MS did to kill Netscape in the 90s and use one monopoly to corner another since the big boys own the cable that we paid for via taxes.
Where I camefrom JScript, not javascript was the defecto standard for 95% of all users in 2003. Its what everyone else is using and had the most features and least bugs.
Hint hint back then there was no firefox. Netscape had too many quirks compared to the more standards compliant IE 6.
You are looking at this with 2013 glasses.
We cqll them Oracle here. Also intranet venders llooove IE just for this reason. They need to get money each year.
Pick a single product at a single version that wont work with anything else.
Second, make sure its old and obsolete already.
Third tie the whole company processes for everything under the sun even outside the project. Make sure they all use it and save data to its own format. Encrypt it to a password only you know.
Last note EOL of platform and quit.
One year before EOL offer your services for $250 as a consultant.
Nope as IE 8 will be used 10 years from now. Corps hate upgrading
They are coded for IE 6 and maybe up to IE 8 if it is very cutting edge with new css 2.1 glory.
In other words banks and corporate apps. The rest have moved on to flash and ajax last decade.
Webapps in java were a way to makup the shortcumings in Netscaoe 3 to imitate html 5 and ajax today. Obsolete and done
You would not pass any computer art class today with that attitude.
Every professor out there has been teaching this is the way to go and flunking out those who do these outdated 20th century things. Unfortunately, this trend is post impressionism which once became popular because herasy to do art any other way. These new students are landing jobs at companies like Apple and Microsoft. Simple color is it.
Ask any art professor or academic?
No textures, shapes, or details other than a simple color is the wave of the future. You wont get good grades if you do not use these elements and I find no art professors saying skeuomorphism or extra details look very 20th century and dated compared to simplicity.
Google is a great example of this.
Dude, Wall Street traders demand software engineers get things done in minutes and hours!
There is no process as it all had to be done yesterday if you ask anyone who has worked in that environment.
They pay top dollars and change core algorithms on the fly as each millisecond costs money to a competitor who has a more efficient trading algorithm that steals from their own HTC network.
So when when skims and manipulates the prices in milliseconds they steal from those who have process engineered designs who are too slow to react.
If it messes up they get bailed out by the SEC anyway and they can just fire the programmer.
What is neglected in this article is the story how the FEC compensated them for their loss and reversed the transactions.
So nice they get the same protections that you (slashdot readers) and I get when we invest. I wonder if any if it is tax based. Better get to work to pay for someone elses mistakes then.
I just had management freak out over this at my workplace last week. ... even though I am not the damn IT guy at the other company who setup Citrix!...
Anyway you need to set the default printer and then open it Citrix remote desktop. If it is not default then they call you and expect you to fix another company's system that is remote ... and fix the internet while you are at it.
Citrix cost some employees their job as IE pops randomly do not go up when it gets busy and they can't read HIPPA documents to customers on the phone. It freezes up even under a light load where the cpu usage is 15% and ram only 40%.
I hate that thing with a passion and wish VMWare clients were cheaper.
I used Win2K for years after it was EOL. I had far less problems with security than I now have Windows 7.
IMO: Win2K was best OS Microsoft ever released.
LOL
I call bs on that one. I hope you did not do any online banking on that machine seriously. DOS was the best ever because I am familiar with it. To hell what imrovements have been made too right?
Windows 7 has kernel level sandboxing, DSLR (ram scrambling), DEP (data execution prevention), no real admin acount but a token broker, seperation or privledges and many many other improvements. Stack smashing, buffer overflows, and inserting data into ram addresses of .dlls are difficult on Windows 7. On XP they can just do it easily if you are admin and go through the front door rather than breaking through the back.
My guess is your Win2k did not have flash, java, or internet access which made it have less vectors. Windows 7 has more security than even Linux at this point with features making it very hard to hack. Most hackers just use flash and PDFs to get around this. However this past 1.5 Adobe now uses Windows Vista/7 kernel leveling sandboxing as well.
No support is an excellent reason to change.
The ribbon is much easier to use and learn. The issue is why change and a resistence to it because the change came from MS. It is silly.
Having documents not formatted properly in later versions will make customers question the professionalism of your employer. Office 2013 makes .docx that are not compatible with office 2003 right now! Office 2014 will be out next year and the newer versions have cloud services and app stores so employees can work at home with skydrive pro as well as Salesforce app etc.
That is important in business and time has moved on. I might as well say it takes time to learn Windows since dos is what employees are familair with so why change too.
A single excel macro can take down a company after April since MS wont patch it! Can you say code red and you can bet your ass hackers and criminals are stockpilling macros and XP exploits as I type this waiting for April to come by and bring all hell out.
Pull your panties out of your ass crack. It's unusable for him. 2003 does whatever he needs and he has no reason to "upgrade" just for the ribbon.
Jeesus, people take such offense about personal preferences here. It's lame.
When he gets 0wn3d because his version no longer recieves updates afte april don't blame me. ... better yet call me and I will clean it off his XP system for $75 an hour :-)
Look at OwnCloud if you want to host your own stuff "in a cloud". But the sales pitch for Office 365 is that they do all the "icky computery" stuff, like backups and upgrades.
Of course the drawbacks of cloud are well known, too: you need to be online, you need to pay them monthly, and it can be read by anyone with a warrant (or not a warrant, if they're the NSA. )
Vendor lock-in changes, too. Sure, you can download an Office 365 document to import into Open Office. Today. And just because the TOS says you can today doesn't mean those terms can't be changed tomorrow.
There's a lot to dislike about cloud solutions. But they sure meet the needs of a lot of people - at least those who don't think about it too much.
Just throw it on any server at work or on an ISP. This is FOSS like apache where a user can do whatever the hell he or she wants. Office 365 is managed by someone else. This would be managed by you and your ISP backs it up or your IT department, or yourself. This is a we cloud instead of a their cloud.
Have you tried Office 2010? Try the ribbon for a week? Afterwards you will see you can preview changes with just a mouse hovering over items. Hit the alt key and you have smart tags showing all the shortcuts with it which is nice with a laptop.
Office 2010 is much better. I saw the research back then and was exciting to learn something new as real scientist had data to show it is better and statistics back them up with real usage. It is not Metro by a longshot or pushed by marketing folks unlike Windows 8.
Office 2003 is old and it is a horrible pain in the butt to get to a custom function and will be very insecure after April of next year. I do not want to go back to that release.
Want a reason to switch? How about file compatibility? You think the .docx of 2013 is compatible and a future manager will be able to read your resume in a few years when Office 2014, 2015, come out? Think again.