I can't stand it under Ubuntu. Netbeans does not use Ubuntu's Xorg fonts and it looks ugly and way out of place. Not only are the same fonts not used but they are not LCD friendly sub pixeled rendered in the same way. My guess is a hinting bug is in there as well. I reported this bug 2 years ago and they still have not fixed it claiming it was Sun's problem with their JDK.
It looks fantastic on Fedora.
Netbeans has got a bad rap because of this bug from Ubuntu users as it looked very Swingish style.
With America's bond rating about to hit the shitter and rising deficits due to outsourcing and corporations moving money in tax heavens why should they switch?
What cost savings would it save? Companies already invested in systems that do the conversion so there is no cost savings anymore to change the status quo. Infact, many systems would have to be rewritten and it would actually cost money to change.
America has more important problems like paying health care and reducing the deficit then to make a few nerds happy.
Argue all you want about the metric being somehow superior, it is not. It is only a set of measurements. Nothing less and nothing more. It is not really that big of a deal regardless of what the universities say. Numbers are numbers.
It is not Chernobyl, but still a level 7 disaster with 1/8 the amount of radiation leaked (very very large). Chernobyl is so radioactive that it can't be inhabited for at least a few centuries.
If the core and its steal containment structure is melted with radioactive material with water leaking through cracked concrete from it, then indeed the situation is much more serious. Radiation is going up in the sea outside the plant right after a 5.9 aftershock. This was after it fell when the leak was plugged. This points to a crack through the foundation where this is leaking into the groundwater and sea.
Either way, it is very rational to view this as a catastrophy and these robots will be needed to find out what is going on and how to fix the plant. If the worst fears are true and that the metal reactors themselves have melted then I do not know how it can be fixed. It took 20 years before people could enter the reactor after 3 mile island shutdown to actually see the partial meltdown to confirm it.
Not something to laugh about and forget by any sense of the means
If we put punitive tariffs then Americans lose jobs doing business in thee countries as they will retaliate back. Many grandmas and people about to retire own stock and their life savings in these companies that pay their dividends with Chinese money.
Doing that would cause more harm than good. My guess is many companies like John Deere and Nike would simply leave the US for good and become Chinese. I read that Pepsi makes less than 15% of their revenue in the US! Why would they even bother to market here?
Well banning technology is not going to help nor will protectionism.
Fact of the matter is in 1960 Americans did not even have access to storage rentals. They were for businesses. Americans overbought for decades paid for by cheap credit while employers looked for cheaper was to produce.
I think people will not buy products again for a long time until they pay off their debt. The GOP is right and the government needs to pay off it's own debt so the bankers can do things like give cheaper loans for small businesses to hire.
People do not need to keep consuming and need to produce instead
A year ago a leaked Microsoft memo mentioned that IE would no longer have version numbers and would be tied to Windows was mentioned on slashdot. That way webmasters would just say use Windows X for this site. It would also raise FUD for MacOSX and Linux clients as people would assume Windows would be required to browse a website.
That plan was scrapped, but I sense the same managers are doing the same thing with this release.
Sadly, this will make many I.T. departments want to stick with IE 6 since too many browsers coming in so quick with different standards make them nervous. Sharepoint needs to stop requiring IE 6 and use features of these new browsers if Microsoft expects the corporate world to upgrade. Either way does anyone even use IE 9? Those who don't need activeX corporate cr*p have switched to Firefox or Chrome.
Well Windows was never the best technically either but 90% of people use it. It's because it is what everyone else also uses.
When I look for jobs for webmasters I almost always see flash experience or dreamweaver with half of them out there. It is FAR from dead.
With fragmentation of Firefox, IE, and Chrome with html 5 between their new generation and last generation browsers it becomes a horrible headache to support. Making a flash video for animation rather than javascript or html 5 works with all of them. So developers will stick with flash.
Worse Adobe stomped out all the compeition for a graphical ide for web development. Frontpage is gone and sharepoint is really for intranet sites that still use IE 6. So flash is will stay for a long time.
I pray a free tool comes out or at least more competition. Flash is like Microsoft's.doc file format that forces everyone else to keep using MS Office. Technology improvements are not developers need the tools. A gui is needed as you can't make a cool game or flashy objects in vi and firebug. Come on...
Flash is the key to their expensive creativity software monopoly.
If I can do HTML5 then why should I pay $$$ for all these expensive adobe packages? As long as flash is the defacto standard then I have to pirate or pay $800 to create ads or movies on youtube.
Notice Flash is still required for their solution. It just converts it back to html 5.
At least if I were an executive at Adobe I would be patenting anything under the sun related to video to force people to use flash instead of html 5 and of course do everything to prevent adoption. Adobe didn't inherit shockwave. They bought it to control it because they viewed it as a threat to their movie editing products.
Not to sound trollish but Ubuntu 11.04 is about to be released. This is very troubling that will give Linux a bad name. I used to laugh at Microsoft for such releases but I find them to be much more stable than Linux in the past decade. Windows 7 was far past beta and RC status and was stable for 98% of users with zero months before it came out. Not... gee lets skip an RC to have it out in 2 weeks.
Come on Canical seriously? A disclaimer, I am an anti Ubuntu user with likes Fedora and has totally switched back to Windows thanks to Gnome 3 and KDE 4.
If I were Shuttleworth I would keep gnome 2.8 as default and put Unity as a technology preview until 11.10. Many Linux users will not like this and are not ready to switch. I hope gnome 3 or Unity in the case of Ubuntu evolves to something useful. In my opinion it is not ready and may not ever be.
I switched back to Windows. Before I get modded as a troll I have to say I still like Linux on the server and I am serious and not troll baiting. I love all the scripts, apis, and programs that Linux has.
I saw the writing on the wall with Fedora 15 after I left Ubuntu due to the lack of stability and quality software. I left Windows because of beta quality products that were terrible. Linux is less stable in my experience on the desktop with the exception of Gnome 2.8. I saw the writting on the wall again with hardware based html 5 of all the new browsers... with the exception of a lack of Linux support.
My 3 year old laptop running Fedora 13 can not even handle some sites under Linux. Chrome is getting much better but most hardware rendering is still only available on Windows.
Gnome 3 and KDE 4 are terrible. Sun donated millions of dollars of R&D into Gnome and Opendesktop and it is stupid to throw it all away. Why? Menu's work. You may want to reduce the amount of mouse clicks to find things. For some reason Gnome decided to increase the mouse clicks for the same task?? Lets now look at the hassle to simply switch a workspace. Why is that hidden? Infact in Unity why do I have to keep clicking around to see all apps?? Ugh
Compiz with newer widgets with more functionality is where Gnome should have went.
I have virtualbox handy for Windows 7 and will look forward to using it to run Postgresql and some Lamp. For me I now use Windows and I feel like garbage for turning back 10 years of my life but I do not care what people think of as stable 10 years ago or cool. I want something that works. Seriously Firefox4, IE 9, and Chrome scream and you can run all the Unix apps with Virtualbox or a win32 version.
Lets hope gnome 3.2 fixes this and I may just come back but there is no shame of switching to MacOSX or Windows. Today's gui's remind me of poor Netscape's demise of 4.
Not the ones I have seen. In Linux, Chrome wipes the floor off of FF as FF is not hardware enabled and uses direct2d and directx for acceleration. I use Chrome over Firefox 4 on my 3.5 year old laptop because sites like msnbc.com have lots of javascripts which make FF 4 unresponsive in comparison.
This demo here is much faster with Chrome. IE 9 wont run it however. Micorosft has their own 3d demo showing IE 9 ahead in their fishtank tool.
IE 9 seems to render html sites with javascript and html the fastest while chrome loads them quicker on my system. Firefox 4 is still quite an improvement over Firefox 3.6 but it is no longer in the lead from what I see. Scrolling on slashdot is the chopiest with it.
Not that agree with China monitoring its own citizens. Everyone else does it and his shareholders demand that he market his product to 1 out of 5 citizens. Think people would you say no if you were him? Not to sound evil, but if I was a banker I would fire you in a heartbeat if you stood up to China. Yes or no would make it look like RIM are the bad guys and people would forget everyone else.
However, it is sleazy of the BBC to put him in that kind of situation. It like testifying against yourself and makes you look guilty.
I was more of thinking China simply said "Either you let us spy or No China for you!" It is not a bribe to make more money, but rather the shareholders would fire him and have a fit, while Google and Microsoft would take over the marketshare and use that money to stomp your company into the ground. 1 and 5 people are Chinese and you can't say no to this market.
Google tried to not do evil in China so the CHinese prevented them from entering and marketing and Baidu took over. How many Chinese will bother switching now that they are used to Baidu? If Blackberry is banned from the market you can bet Chinese will use Android or Microsoft products instead as they are what everyone they know uses.
In political debates or being invited to the WhiteHouse you will need to have your questions screened before hand. Even the President does it. The best way to win the debate is to control it is debate 101 in highschool.
Interviews are canceled often but are not on the air.
I am not a hacker in this area but the word.doc format is specifically designed as an executable. The reason why is to make it harder for people to leave the MS ecosystem and switch to competing products. Also it is there to give Visual Basic an edge.
Virus makers love this as their code can hide in a perfect container. OpenXML which is now used is far superior because nothing is hidden but it also supports legacy binary blobs of executable code.
HTML 5 is still unsupported for the majority of current web users so we have to wait for it to die. Sure, we on slashdot probably have upgraded to IE 9, Chrome 10/11, and Firefox 4, but Joe Six pack probably still uses IE 7 or maybe had a geek friend show him how to use Firefox 3.5.
Until 90% of internet users upgrade and the tools that convert mpegs to flash no longer exist can we switch to HTML 5 and leave flash behind. Corporate users still use IE 6.5 so this makes web developers want to stick with Flash to make up for the lack of support of modern browsers. Is there any tool to make a video into an html 5 thing? That is a problem right there.
It will take years if ever to get away from Flash. I do not have the time but maybe someone reading this comment can make such a free tool.
Also, I have left Linux as a desktop thanks to crappy Flash support and hardware based HTML that is only available on Windows. The software we have to use sucks with Adobe having a monopoly on the market. Another problem right there as they want you to use Flash.
Both the Iphone and Andriod support it via webkit. THe IPhone already uses html 5 so it would make sense that Google could use that too.... unless they are prohibited by a contract with Apple.
WindowsCE was a joke. MaximumPC called it a "Hey we have all this old Windows 3.11 code we do not know what to do with since NT/Windows 95 came along... hmm I know...".
My guess is since Andriod and Ios are much more powerful and related to their native bases of Gnu/Linux and MacOSX that Microsoft is going to base Windows 8 mobile on Windows 8 desktop.
Since directX, DNA, and other cool technologies are only available on the desktop make Windows mobile 7 and 6.5 very very far behind.
Obviously Microsoft is not going to release their desktop version of Windows 8 on an arm. BestBuy and Joe Six packs trying to get office to work would have a fit.
Well when you are hungry or 23 living at home with your parents up to eye balls in debt because you chose to be englightned rather than learn a job to move out then your opinion rapidly changes on what is important.
In a perfect world we would live in this utopia but greed and money always comes first and shit walks.
We are also in a serve recession still and employers can simply be assholes about these requirements because they can. Someone is always more experienced than you who will do the job cheaper here or overseas for less. What I find funny is many companies a year ago who got flooded with resumes now can not find qualified workers. HR requires degree + experience and not experience or skill. So if you do not have 7 years supporting Office 2010 and Windows 7 then its hard to find a job that technical support job (being sarcastic on that but some HR people will filter and whine about finding qualified people.)
I hope this changes as in my father's generation you could train someone and my my father surely could not have his own job without a science degree. Lets hope it does not convince them to outsource some more. Many who are in their 20s and 30s now will teach their kids to go to school to learn a trade too and not do what they like. That will be the ultimate travesty, but may not be such a bad thing in today's economy.
I was a substitute teacher and we taught that math part in middle school. With no child left behind binomials are taught in 7th/8th grade. Reducing fractions??
The Greek and Latin parts were silly and only used for translating the bible and other philosphical works. But I was under the assumption an engineer would be taking calculus where factoring binomials were done to reduce your answer that is on a much higher level.
If a.deb installation fails it leaves files all over your volume. If you uninstall a deb package it wont restore the original config files in/etc either. RPM deals with all of that and is very scriptible too and great for unattended upgrades.
Hospitals are anal and hypocritical because they want to make sure everything is ready in case of an emergency where a doctor can quickly type a vital or update a record and walk away without interruption.
I finished a contract with a hospital a few months ago. They still use service pack 2 of XP! I asked why wont they use service pack 3 at least. The staff mentioned it is because of testing and they do not want to inconvenience any doctors. Meanwhile they are so anal with hippa that they encrypt all the drives and restrict USB to protect records. What is troubling is someone can install a keylogger with the holes in the network and steal the data that way or install a worm.
I do not want to know how many vulnerabilities are on these pcs that service pack 3 fixes. I feel they are so focused putting metal gates and locks on all the windows that they leave the front door right open.
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I can't stand it under Ubuntu. Netbeans does not use Ubuntu's Xorg fonts and it looks ugly and way out of place. Not only are the same fonts not used but they are not LCD friendly sub pixeled rendered in the same way. My guess is a hinting bug is in there as well. I reported this bug 2 years ago and they still have not fixed it claiming it was Sun's problem with their JDK.
It looks fantastic on Fedora.
Netbeans has got a bad rap because of this bug from Ubuntu users as it looked very Swingish style.
With America's bond rating about to hit the shitter and rising deficits due to outsourcing and corporations moving money in tax heavens why should they switch?
What cost savings would it save? Companies already invested in systems that do the conversion so there is no cost savings anymore to change the status quo. Infact, many systems would have to be rewritten and it would actually cost money to change.
America has more important problems like paying health care and reducing the deficit then to make a few nerds happy.
Argue all you want about the metric being somehow superior, it is not. It is only a set of measurements. Nothing less and nothing more. It is not really that big of a deal regardless of what the universities say. Numbers are numbers.
It is not Chernobyl, but still a level 7 disaster with 1/8 the amount of radiation leaked (very very large). Chernobyl is so radioactive that it can't be inhabited for at least a few centuries.
If the core and its steal containment structure is melted with radioactive material with water leaking through cracked concrete from it, then indeed the situation is much more serious. Radiation is going up in the sea outside the plant right after a 5.9 aftershock. This was after it fell when the leak was plugged. This points to a crack through the foundation where this is leaking into the groundwater and sea.
Either way, it is very rational to view this as a catastrophy and these robots will be needed to find out what is going on and how to fix the plant. If the worst fears are true and that the metal reactors themselves have melted then I do not know how it can be fixed. It took 20 years before people could enter the reactor after 3 mile island shutdown to actually see the partial meltdown to confirm it.
Not something to laugh about and forget by any sense of the means
If we put punitive tariffs then Americans lose jobs doing business in thee countries as they will retaliate back. Many grandmas and people about to retire own stock and their life savings in these companies that pay their dividends with Chinese money.
Doing that would cause more harm than good. My guess is many companies like John Deere and Nike would simply leave the US for good and become Chinese. I read that Pepsi makes less than 15% of their revenue in the US! Why would they even bother to market here?
Be careful what you wish for.
Well banning technology is not going to help nor will protectionism.
Fact of the matter is in 1960 Americans did not even have access to storage rentals. They were for businesses. Americans overbought for decades paid for by cheap credit while employers looked for cheaper was to produce.
I think people will not buy products again for a long time until they pay off their debt. The GOP is right and the government needs to pay off it's own debt so the bankers can do things like give cheaper loans for small businesses to hire.
People do not need to keep consuming and need to produce instead
Lets not forget about the horse breeders and ranchers too.
Cars suck as they steal many American jobs and pollute the environment.
A year ago a leaked Microsoft memo mentioned that IE would no longer have version numbers and would be tied to Windows was mentioned on slashdot. That way webmasters would just say use Windows X for this site. It would also raise FUD for MacOSX and Linux clients as people would assume Windows would be required to browse a website.
That plan was scrapped, but I sense the same managers are doing the same thing with this release.
Sadly, this will make many I.T. departments want to stick with IE 6 since too many browsers coming in so quick with different standards make them nervous. Sharepoint needs to stop requiring IE 6 and use features of these new browsers if Microsoft expects the corporate world to upgrade. Either way does anyone even use IE 9? Those who don't need activeX corporate cr*p have switched to Firefox or Chrome.
Well Windows was never the best technically either but 90% of people use it. It's because it is what everyone else also uses.
When I look for jobs for webmasters I almost always see flash experience or dreamweaver with half of them out there. It is FAR from dead.
With fragmentation of Firefox, IE, and Chrome with html 5 between their new generation and last generation browsers it becomes a horrible headache to support. Making a flash video for animation rather than javascript or html 5 works with all of them. So developers will stick with flash.
Worse Adobe stomped out all the compeition for a graphical ide for web development. Frontpage is gone and sharepoint is really for intranet sites that still use IE 6. So flash is will stay for a long time.
I pray a free tool comes out or at least more competition. Flash is like Microsoft's .doc file format that forces everyone else to keep using MS Office. Technology improvements are not developers need the tools. A gui is needed as you can't make a cool game or flashy objects in vi and firebug. Come on ...
Flash is the key to their expensive creativity software monopoly.
If I can do HTML5 then why should I pay $$$ for all these expensive adobe packages? As long as flash is the defacto standard then I have to pirate or pay $800 to create ads or movies on youtube.
Notice Flash is still required for their solution. It just converts it back to html 5.
At least if I were an executive at Adobe I would be patenting anything under the sun related to video to force people to use flash instead of html 5 and of course do everything to prevent adoption. Adobe didn't inherit shockwave. They bought it to control it because they viewed it as a threat to their movie editing products.
Not to sound trollish but Ubuntu 11.04 is about to be released. This is very troubling that will give Linux a bad name. I used to laugh at Microsoft for such releases but I find them to be much more stable than Linux in the past decade. Windows 7 was far past beta and RC status and was stable for 98% of users with zero months before it came out. Not ... gee lets skip an RC to have it out in 2 weeks.
Come on Canical seriously? A disclaimer, I am an anti Ubuntu user with likes Fedora and has totally switched back to Windows thanks to Gnome 3 and KDE 4.
If I were Shuttleworth I would keep gnome 2.8 as default and put Unity as a technology preview until 11.10. Many Linux users will not like this and are not ready to switch. I hope gnome 3 or Unity in the case of Ubuntu evolves to something useful. In my opinion it is not ready and may not ever be.
True with that.
I switched back to Windows. Before I get modded as a troll I have to say I still like Linux on the server and I am serious and not troll baiting. I love all the scripts, apis, and programs that Linux has.
I saw the writing on the wall with Fedora 15 after I left Ubuntu due to the lack of stability and quality software. I left Windows because of beta quality products that were terrible. Linux is less stable in my experience on the desktop with the exception of Gnome 2.8. I saw the writting on the wall again with hardware based html 5 of all the new browsers ... with the exception of a lack of Linux support.
My 3 year old laptop running Fedora 13 can not even handle some sites under Linux. Chrome is getting much better but most hardware rendering is still only available on Windows.
Gnome 3 and KDE 4 are terrible. Sun donated millions of dollars of R&D into Gnome and Opendesktop and it is stupid to throw it all away. Why? Menu's work. You may want to reduce the amount of mouse clicks to find things. For some reason Gnome decided to increase the mouse clicks for the same task?? Lets now look at the hassle to simply switch a workspace. Why is that hidden? Infact in Unity why do I have to keep clicking around to see all apps?? Ugh
Compiz with newer widgets with more functionality is where Gnome should have went.
I have virtualbox handy for Windows 7 and will look forward to using it to run Postgresql and some Lamp. For me I now use Windows and I feel like garbage for turning back 10 years of my life but I do not care what people think of as stable 10 years ago or cool. I want something that works. Seriously Firefox4, IE 9, and Chrome scream and you can run all the Unix apps with Virtualbox or a win32 version.
Lets hope gnome 3.2 fixes this and I may just come back but there is no shame of switching to MacOSX or Windows. Today's gui's remind me of poor Netscape's demise of 4.
It is good old fashioned goatse.cx.
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Not the ones I have seen. In Linux, Chrome wipes the floor off of FF as FF is not hardware enabled and uses direct2d and directx for acceleration. I use Chrome over Firefox 4 on my 3.5 year old laptop because sites like msnbc.com have lots of javascripts which make FF 4 unresponsive in comparison.
This demo here is much faster with Chrome. IE 9 wont run it however. Micorosft has their own 3d demo showing IE 9 ahead in their fishtank tool.
IE 9 seems to render html sites with javascript and html the fastest while chrome loads them quicker on my system. Firefox 4 is still quite an improvement over Firefox 3.6 but it is no longer in the lead from what I see. Scrolling on slashdot is the chopiest with it.
I have Chrome 10!!!
I would mod up up if I could.
Not that agree with China monitoring its own citizens. Everyone else does it and his shareholders demand that he market his product to 1 out of 5 citizens. Think people would you say no if you were him? Not to sound evil, but if I was a banker I would fire you in a heartbeat if you stood up to China. Yes or no would make it look like RIM are the bad guys and people would forget everyone else.
However, it is sleazy of the BBC to put him in that kind of situation. It like testifying against yourself and makes you look guilty.
I was more of thinking China simply said "Either you let us spy or No China for you!" It is not a bribe to make more money, but rather the shareholders would fire him and have a fit, while Google and Microsoft would take over the marketshare and use that money to stomp your company into the ground. 1 and 5 people are Chinese and you can't say no to this market.
Google tried to not do evil in China so the CHinese prevented them from entering and marketing and Baidu took over. How many Chinese will bother switching now that they are used to Baidu? If Blackberry is banned from the market you can bet Chinese will use Android or Microsoft products instead as they are what everyone they know uses.
In political debates or being invited to the WhiteHouse you will need to have your questions screened before hand. Even the President does it. The best way to win the debate is to control it is debate 101 in highschool.
Interviews are canceled often but are not on the air.
I am not a hacker in this area but the word .doc format is specifically designed as an executable. The reason why is to make it harder for people to leave the MS ecosystem and switch to competing products. Also it is there to give Visual Basic an edge.
Virus makers love this as their code can hide in a perfect container. OpenXML which is now used is far superior because nothing is hidden but it also supports legacy binary blobs of executable code.
HTML 5 is still unsupported for the majority of current web users so we have to wait for it to die. Sure, we on slashdot probably have upgraded to IE 9, Chrome 10/11, and Firefox 4, but Joe Six pack probably still uses IE 7 or maybe had a geek friend show him how to use Firefox 3.5.
Until 90% of internet users upgrade and the tools that convert mpegs to flash no longer exist can we switch to HTML 5 and leave flash behind. Corporate users still use IE 6.5 so this makes web developers want to stick with Flash to make up for the lack of support of modern browsers. Is there any tool to make a video into an html 5 thing? That is a problem right there.
It will take years if ever to get away from Flash. I do not have the time but maybe someone reading this comment can make such a free tool.
Also, I have left Linux as a desktop thanks to crappy Flash support and hardware based HTML that is only available on Windows. The software we have to use sucks with Adobe having a monopoly on the market. Another problem right there as they want you to use Flash.
Both the Iphone and Andriod support it via webkit. THe IPhone already uses html 5 so it would make sense that Google could use that too. ... unless they are prohibited by a contract with Apple.
What does this mean for Windows 8 mobile?
WindowsCE was a joke. MaximumPC called it a "Hey we have all this old Windows 3.11 code we do not know what to do with since NT/Windows 95 came along ... hmm I know ...".
My guess is since Andriod and Ios are much more powerful and related to their native bases of Gnu/Linux and MacOSX that Microsoft is going to base Windows 8 mobile on Windows 8 desktop.
Since directX, DNA, and other cool technologies are only available on the desktop make Windows mobile 7 and 6.5 very very far behind.
Obviously Microsoft is not going to release their desktop version of Windows 8 on an arm. BestBuy and Joe Six packs trying to get office to work would have a fit.
Well when you are hungry or 23 living at home with your parents up to eye balls in debt because you chose to be englightned rather than learn a job to move out then your opinion rapidly changes on what is important.
In a perfect world we would live in this utopia but greed and money always comes first and shit walks.
We are also in a serve recession still and employers can simply be assholes about these requirements because they can. Someone is always more experienced than you who will do the job cheaper here or overseas for less. What I find funny is many companies a year ago who got flooded with resumes now can not find qualified workers. HR requires degree + experience and not experience or skill. So if you do not have 7 years supporting Office 2010 and Windows 7 then its hard to find a job that technical support job (being sarcastic on that but some HR people will filter and whine about finding qualified people.)
I hope this changes as in my father's generation you could train someone and my my father surely could not have his own job without a science degree. Lets hope it does not convince them to outsource some more. Many who are in their 20s and 30s now will teach their kids to go to school to learn a trade too and not do what they like. That will be the ultimate travesty, but may not be such a bad thing in today's economy.
I was a substitute teacher and we taught that math part in middle school. With no child left behind binomials are taught in 7th/8th grade. Reducing fractions??
The Greek and Latin parts were silly and only used for translating the bible and other philosphical works. But I was under the assumption an engineer would be taking calculus where factoring binomials were done to reduce your answer that is on a much higher level.
If a .deb installation fails it leaves files all over your volume. If you uninstall a deb package it wont restore the original config files in /etc either. RPM deals with all of that and is very scriptible too and great for unattended upgrades.
Hospitals are anal and hypocritical because they want to make sure everything is ready in case of an emergency where a doctor can quickly type a vital or update a record and walk away without interruption.
I finished a contract with a hospital a few months ago. They still use service pack 2 of XP! I asked why wont they use service pack 3 at least. The staff mentioned it is because of testing and they do not want to inconvenience any doctors. Meanwhile they are so anal with hippa that they encrypt all the drives and restrict USB to protect records. What is troubling is someone can install a keylogger with the holes in the network and steal the data that way or install a worm.
I do not want to know how many vulnerabilities are on these pcs that service pack 3 fixes. I feel they are so focused putting metal gates and locks on all the windows that they leave the front door right open.