Since I first tried out Microsoft Security Essentials that's what I've advised people who ask me what to run on the home machines to use. I use it on my Win7 machine & it's unobtrusive, which I like. For work I like NOD32, which equally just does its job & otherwise is not noticed. I had an issue with AVG on an XP machine years ago and one problem like that is enough for me.
"At this point, what WikiLeaks is doing seems like tattling: telling Sally what Billy said to Jane. It's sometimes possible that Sally really ought to know what Billy said to Jane, if Billy were engaged in some morally culpable deception. But in general, we frown on gossips. If there's something particularly damning in the diplomatic cables WikiLeaks has gotten a hold of, the organisation should bring together a board of experienced people with different perspectives to review the merits of releasing that particular cable. But simply grabbing as many diplomatic cables as you can get your hands on and making them public is not a socially worthy activity."
I think that releasing Secret material can be in the public interest, but if it is not revealing wrongdoing of some sort not all workings need to be fully public. The problem of course is how do we know if we can't look at everything...
Regardless of what you install there's no guaranteed way to stop your kid from stumbling upon boobs on the internet. Plus who's to say it's something to worry about at all. They certainly didn't traumatize me.
When my kids were younger, I installed filters on their machine (actually, I used ProCon on Firefox with a whitelist). It wasn't because I was afraid of them stumbling upon boobs. I wanted them to be able to access certain sites with content that I saw as edutainment - stuff they would enjoy, with some educational value. I didn't want them to spend all day watching cat videos or Fred on youtube. I wanted to have a computer in their room, and not have to worry about them seeing videos that would lead to nightmares (which has happened anyway, but at someone else's house). They complained for a while, but I'll watch cat videos with them sometimes, and if they hear of something at school that they must see I'll let them see it, and they are resigned to the fact that their computer isn't unlimited access. They are kids, and I'm the parent, and as they get older they'll get more access.
To the original question - I've tried Edubuntu, but went back to XP because so much of what the kids want to do is online and in Flash, and the Flash support in Linux always seemed to be one step behind where their favorite sites were. So I'd advise Firefox with ProCon, and a list of sites like Webkins in the whitelist. Edubuntu (actually, just Ubuntu + the education packages seems better, the Edubuntu distro seems to be really aimed towards a classroom setup) might do for a couple of years, but they quickly want to get online.
The point of DSLRs is that if you have sensors that are designed to only capture when the mirror flips up, they can be much more sensitive/less noisy than sensors which have to run all the time and produce a video stream. Now, some of the newer DSLRs which can record 1080p, obviously they can handle it and maybe they don't need the mirror, but theoretically at least you could still design a better sensor for a still-only camera.
But in a work environment (I work at a printers) on average i'd say Foxit incorrectly renders PDFs about 5% of the time, leading to support calls whereas Adobe Readers incorrect rendering is pretty non-existent. (I actually tried switching work over to Foxit a while ago, nothing but support hassle from incorrectly rendered PDFs)
Yeah, I hate Acrobat & Reader too, but my trials with Foxit in the work environment were even worse. Maybe it's better now, but a couple of years ago it didn't cut it.
I hadn't heard of this case before; with a little searching I found this page which sheds a little more light on it: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=12391 In short, a crazy "prophet" had made several threats (online and by fax) prior to the bar joke, where he talked about throwing gasoline and a match on Bush. Would he have actually done it? I don't know. But it's certainly more than just a joke in a bar, or a re-tweet.
No, I didn't miss Vista - I actually ran the 64-bit version on my main machine at home for 2 years. It was stable, and while sometimes the UAC stuff was annoying it wasn't really an issue. I didn't go to Vista until SP1, so the driver issues had been sorted out. Just because a bunch of people whined about it doesn't mean it wasn't a stable, usable OS. I've only moved to 7 because I had a hard drive crash & since I was installing anyway it seemed to be worth it in order to access recorded TV from my living room HTPC.
Mod parent up - boosters sold by others still use their towers, femtocells sold by the carriers use your internet connection. If they can outlaw the boosters, the carriers win twice.
Ubuntu typically fails at the next distribution upgrade, though. That's a pretty big problem.
I just did a dist upgrade on my EEE from 10.4 to 10.10 to check out the new interface; it was pretty painless. Took a while, because it's running from a 4GB SDHC card, but it upgraded cleanly and runs quite well. I still use XP on it most of the time, just because for web browsing it doesn't really matter what you're running.
Look, I use Linux and I like it as much as the next guy, and I hate to break it to you, but Windows hasn't sucked since XP came out. It's actually a very decent and stable platform nowadays, and has been for a very long time.
I'd even say it hasn't sucked since 2000 came out - 2000 was really very stable and usable.
Streaming Netflix has NOTHING last time I used it on my Roku box. I only found some of the worst b-rated movies and documentaries and a tiny amount of semi-new releases. No Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark...nothing.
I have over 200 items in my instant queue - admittedly there are a lot of kids' shows in there, but there are also a lot of good movies. Foreign movies, documentaries, tv series, etc. Sure, the latest movies and blockbusters aren't there, but there's always something decent (IMHO) available, and the new ones I just get them to send a disc. I really like the streaming service and watch more on there than discs these days. I've already seen Star Wars & Raiders, so I'm not too pressed about having them instantly available.
Yeah, that does sound pretty similar. Nothing new under the sun I guess, but perhaps with improved injection techniques & their electrically controlled turbo this new design might actually be a decent little engine.
"Opposing piston, opposing cylinder" is nothing new and is known for being good for improving balance and reducing vibration. See: Porsche Boxster (Flat-4?), Porsche 911 (I think most if not all 911s have a Flat-6), all Subaru engines (Flat-4 or Flat-6, called "H4 and H6" by Subaru to indicate that they are horizontally opposed engines), and nearly all modern piston aircraft engines.
You're missing half of the picture. The engines you list are all traditional four strokes. This one has an "opposing piston" above each traditional piston, where the valve head should be, moving in opposition to the standard piston (to increase compression, I guess). It's absolutely a different design.
the few words with some real content in it makes it seem like this is just a two-stroke boxer engine.
You should watch the video linked in the article, it really is not just a 2 stroke. It's an opposed piston/opposed cylinder design - think a regular flat twin, but imagine a second pair of pistons moving where the valve head usually is. You can't easily see it in the picture in the article, but it is a neat idea. If it works, it could be cool. If it works.
Maybe it'll even help with rescue efforts for those who get lost or injured when on the mountain.
The downside, of course, is the people who go places they shouldn't, without the equipment they should have, confident that if something goes wrong they can just call for help. It's not a reason for not carrying a phone, but few things are an unmitigated good.
Where are you? It's hard to believe that any district would be able to call for 10% per year increases in this economy without there being some serious reasons behind it. I live in one of the most affluent counties in the US, and our school budget is frozen. Had there been freezes that they're trying to make up, or what?
Prefab modular houses can be cheaper than stick built, and they generally have good hurricane resistance since they have to be able to be carried to their site by truck. Stick built is a known quantity, though, so people stick with it (pun intended).
If I were building a new home I'd either have it made in a modular factory or preferably, build a prefab LV - www.rocioromero.com.
My EEE came with a disc. My Revo nettop, which has no optical drive, only came with a utility which allows you to create your recovery discs. I had to install a virtual DVD drive to "burn" them; if I ever need them, then I'll have to buy or borrow an external drive.
My principle complaint of the Android devices when I had one was that a simple OS update meant reinstalling all of my apps! Why in the world would someone allow that to be shipped?
I don't have an Android or an iphone, but I do have an ipod Touch. I just had to reinstall itunes after a hard drive crash. If I want to sync my touch, I'm going to have to download all my apps and then resync them, even though it's the same account so I shouldn't have to repurchase them. The sync is going to wipe everything, which is pretty annoying. Even my Zune lets me do a guest sync...
Unless you commute via plane, you still aren't properly backed up. You really need the offsite storage to be located in a different geographic region and preferably in two different secure locations.
That's fine in theory, but if you're in a disaster big enough that both your home and place of work are simultaneously destroyed I doubt you'll be sweating your video files...
That's not strictly true, in that even if you're not producing lactase a steady, lowish level consumption of milk products can lead to enough lactose-digesting bacteria in your guts to allow some dairy consumption without the usual side effects. But the GP is totally wrong about UHT milk, as pointed out by others above.
Because the new version saves the files on a non-backwards compatible format. Suddently you start receiving.docs that your word doesn't recognize.
Just install the (free) document converter from MS, it handles.docx files just fine. I use Go-OO at home, but I still keep my old Office 2000 discs to use Publisher. I'd be just as happy using Word/Excel 2000, honestly, but Open Office meets my needs and has PDF export.
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Since I first tried out Microsoft Security Essentials that's what I've advised people who ask me what to run on the home machines to use. I use it on my Win7 machine & it's unobtrusive, which I like. For work I like NOD32, which equally just does its job & otherwise is not noticed. I had an issue with AVG on an XP machine years ago and one problem like that is enough for me.
I'm not sure why Archos and such haven't been given access yet.
I thought it was that Google doesn't allow access to the Market if the device doesn't have 3G data.
The Economist summed it up well, I thought:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/11/wikileaks
"At this point, what WikiLeaks is doing seems like tattling: telling Sally what Billy said to Jane. It's sometimes possible that Sally really ought to know what Billy said to Jane, if Billy were engaged in some morally culpable deception. But in general, we frown on gossips. If there's something particularly damning in the diplomatic cables WikiLeaks has gotten a hold of, the organisation should bring together a board of experienced people with different perspectives to review the merits of releasing that particular cable. But simply grabbing as many diplomatic cables as you can get your hands on and making them public is not a socially worthy activity."
I think that releasing Secret material can be in the public interest, but if it is not revealing wrongdoing of some sort not all workings need to be fully public. The problem of course is how do we know if we can't look at everything...
Regardless of what you install there's no guaranteed way to stop your kid from stumbling upon boobs on the internet. Plus who's to say it's something to worry about at all. They certainly didn't traumatize me.
When my kids were younger, I installed filters on their machine (actually, I used ProCon on Firefox with a whitelist). It wasn't because I was afraid of them stumbling upon boobs. I wanted them to be able to access certain sites with content that I saw as edutainment - stuff they would enjoy, with some educational value. I didn't want them to spend all day watching cat videos or Fred on youtube. I wanted to have a computer in their room, and not have to worry about them seeing videos that would lead to nightmares (which has happened anyway, but at someone else's house). They complained for a while, but I'll watch cat videos with them sometimes, and if they hear of something at school that they must see I'll let them see it, and they are resigned to the fact that their computer isn't unlimited access. They are kids, and I'm the parent, and as they get older they'll get more access.
To the original question - I've tried Edubuntu, but went back to XP because so much of what the kids want to do is online and in Flash, and the Flash support in Linux always seemed to be one step behind where their favorite sites were. So I'd advise Firefox with ProCon, and a list of sites like Webkins in the whitelist. Edubuntu (actually, just Ubuntu + the education packages seems better, the Edubuntu distro seems to be really aimed towards a classroom setup) might do for a couple of years, but they quickly want to get online.
The point of DSLRs is that if you have sensors that are designed to only capture when the mirror flips up, they can be much more sensitive/less noisy than sensors which have to run all the time and produce a video stream. Now, some of the newer DSLRs which can record 1080p, obviously they can handle it and maybe they don't need the mirror, but theoretically at least you could still design a better sensor for a still-only camera.
But in a work environment (I work at a printers) on average i'd say Foxit incorrectly renders PDFs about 5% of the time, leading to support calls whereas Adobe Readers incorrect rendering is pretty non-existent. (I actually tried switching work over to Foxit a while ago, nothing but support hassle from incorrectly rendered PDFs)
Yeah, I hate Acrobat & Reader too, but my trials with Foxit in the work environment were even worse. Maybe it's better now, but a couple of years ago it didn't cut it.
I hadn't heard of this case before; with a little searching I found this page which sheds a little more light on it:
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=12391
In short, a crazy "prophet" had made several threats (online and by fax) prior to the bar joke, where he talked about throwing gasoline and a match on Bush. Would he have actually done it? I don't know. But it's certainly more than just a joke in a bar, or a re-tweet.
No, I didn't miss Vista - I actually ran the 64-bit version on my main machine at home for 2 years. It was stable, and while sometimes the UAC stuff was annoying it wasn't really an issue. I didn't go to Vista until SP1, so the driver issues had been sorted out. Just because a bunch of people whined about it doesn't mean it wasn't a stable, usable OS. I've only moved to 7 because I had a hard drive crash & since I was installing anyway it seemed to be worth it in order to access recorded TV from my living room HTPC.
Mod parent up - boosters sold by others still use their towers, femtocells sold by the carriers use your internet connection. If they can outlaw the boosters, the carriers win twice.
Ubuntu typically fails at the next distribution upgrade, though. That's a pretty big problem.
I just did a dist upgrade on my EEE from 10.4 to 10.10 to check out the new interface; it was pretty painless. Took a while, because it's running from a 4GB SDHC card, but it upgraded cleanly and runs quite well. I still use XP on it most of the time, just because for web browsing it doesn't really matter what you're running.
Because it'll slow down everything on his system...
Look, I use Linux and I like it as much as the next guy, and I hate to break it to you, but Windows hasn't sucked since XP came out. It's actually a very decent and stable platform nowadays, and has been for a very long time.
I'd even say it hasn't sucked since 2000 came out - 2000 was really very stable and usable.
Streaming Netflix has NOTHING last time I used it on my Roku box. I only found some of the worst b-rated movies and documentaries and a tiny amount of semi-new releases. No Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark...nothing.
I have over 200 items in my instant queue - admittedly there are a lot of kids' shows in there, but there are also a lot of good movies. Foreign movies, documentaries, tv series, etc. Sure, the latest movies and blockbusters aren't there, but there's always something decent (IMHO) available, and the new ones I just get them to send a disc. I really like the streaming service and watch more on there than discs these days. I've already seen Star Wars & Raiders, so I'm not too pressed about having them instantly available.
Yeah, that does sound pretty similar. Nothing new under the sun I guess, but perhaps with improved injection techniques & their electrically controlled turbo this new design might actually be a decent little engine.
"Opposing piston, opposing cylinder" is nothing new and is known for being good for improving balance and reducing vibration. See: Porsche Boxster (Flat-4?), Porsche 911 (I think most if not all 911s have a Flat-6), all Subaru engines (Flat-4 or Flat-6, called "H4 and H6" by Subaru to indicate that they are horizontally opposed engines), and nearly all modern piston aircraft engines.
You're missing half of the picture. The engines you list are all traditional four strokes. This one has an "opposing piston" above each traditional piston, where the valve head should be, moving in opposition to the standard piston (to increase compression, I guess). It's absolutely a different design.
the few words with some real content in it makes it seem like this is just a two-stroke boxer engine.
You should watch the video linked in the article, it really is not just a 2 stroke. It's an opposed piston/opposed cylinder design - think a regular flat twin, but imagine a second pair of pistons moving where the valve head usually is. You can't easily see it in the picture in the article, but it is a neat idea. If it works, it could be cool. If it works.
Maybe it'll even help with rescue efforts for those who get lost or injured when on the mountain.
The downside, of course, is the people who go places they shouldn't, without the equipment they should have, confident that if something goes wrong they can just call for help. It's not a reason for not carrying a phone, but few things are an unmitigated good.
Where are you? It's hard to believe that any district would be able to call for 10% per year increases in this economy without there being some serious reasons behind it. I live in one of the most affluent counties in the US, and our school budget is frozen. Had there been freezes that they're trying to make up, or what?
Yeah, LRP was what came to my mind too. Ah, the good old days...
Prefab modular houses can be cheaper than stick built, and they generally have good hurricane resistance since they have to be able to be carried to their site by truck. Stick built is a known quantity, though, so people stick with it (pun intended).
If I were building a new home I'd either have it made in a modular factory or preferably, build a prefab LV - www.rocioromero.com.
My EEE came with a disc. My Revo nettop, which has no optical drive, only came with a utility which allows you to create your recovery discs. I had to install a virtual DVD drive to "burn" them; if I ever need them, then I'll have to buy or borrow an external drive.
My principle complaint of the Android devices when I had one was that a simple OS update meant reinstalling all of my apps! Why in the world would someone allow that to be shipped?
I don't have an Android or an iphone, but I do have an ipod Touch. I just had to reinstall itunes after a hard drive crash. If I want to sync my touch, I'm going to have to download all my apps and then resync them, even though it's the same account so I shouldn't have to repurchase them. The sync is going to wipe everything, which is pretty annoying. Even my Zune lets me do a guest sync...
So, nothing is perfect.
Unless you commute via plane, you still aren't properly backed up. You really need the offsite storage to be located in a different geographic region and preferably in two different secure locations.
That's fine in theory, but if you're in a disaster big enough that both your home and place of work are simultaneously destroyed I doubt you'll be sweating your video files...
No bacteria involved.
That's not strictly true, in that even if you're not producing lactase a steady, lowish level consumption of milk products can lead to enough lactose-digesting bacteria in your guts to allow some dairy consumption without the usual side effects. But the GP is totally wrong about UHT milk, as pointed out by others above.
Because the new version saves the files on a non-backwards compatible format. Suddently you start receiving .docs that your word doesn't recognize.
Just install the (free) document converter from MS, it handles .docx files just fine. I use Go-OO at home, but I still keep my old Office 2000 discs to use Publisher. I'd be just as happy using Word/Excel 2000, honestly, but Open Office meets my needs and has PDF export.