Realistically, this isn't for word processing. This is for all the other tasks and school/library/home computers can provide the rest of the functionality. In a pinch you can pickup a USB keyboard/mouse for $5 and hook it up.
I wanted to reply to the CorelDraw thing separately as that's a conversation worth having. In my opinion GIMP's interface is nearly as good as Photoshop's in many respects. I was able to pick it up, coming from the latter, and understood 90% of it right away. What I found difficult was a lot of the refinements in things like line detection, box manipulation, and many of the filters... they just didn't have the same level of refinement, would jitter frequently between objects, wouldn't allow for certain actions to be performed easily (though there was often a more complicated method available via the menu). The tools seemed very much what you'd expect from a programmer. They do the job, they do it accurately, but they don't understand the user and what the user wants to do most often. Photoshop does have the opposite problem, in compromising for the "most often" they do make some actions more tedious to do accurately with objects snapping to when you simply want to place them nearby forcing you to zoom in/out.
It's difficult to say whether open source can make those types of choices without creating conflict/forks for people who don't want to compromise to truly improve the user experience.
I can't access the redhat link without an account - MS KB is public. Satellite/Puppet/Chef aren't exactly what I mean, I mean something akin to Mr FixIt scripts that can fix specific problems.
OS to be easy to recover, not the apps. And by easy I do not mean a re-install.
So you do realize that every distribution has that kind of thing already, no?
For Ubuntu as an example, I know there's a wiki and a bug tracker but nothing that compares to the MS KB pages that detail problems, error codes, version application, fixes, etc. What I know of Ubuntu's solutions is more MS Answers quality than MS KB.
Well, the first part here is remote access. For Linux users that means adding a new user account and enabling SSH for a third-party to be able to access it. True, you could install TeamViewer, LogMeIn, or similar third-party services, but you have to first and foremost solve the remote-access issue.
I don't need to know what it involves, I just need to know it works for stupid people. My aunt-in-law has a problem with her computer, I send her a link to a fix and it fixes the problem without me having to go to her house or have a working remote login for myself on her system. I spend enough time fixing peoples computers, I want to be done with it as quickly and with as little inconvenience to myself as possible. Like it or not, those "Mr FixIt" scripts save a LOT of time.
So now you're projecting issues from Windows onto Linux. Even then, there are tools - like the venerable Open Source ClamAV - which can do the job; but you typically don't need them to start with.
It's a reality, the more popular an OS is the more likely it'll be a target for malware. Right now there's no need but I guarantee there are thousands of security issues waiting to be found in Linux code that are getting by because of security through obscurity. Apple has seen it, Android has seen it, and Linux will too if it gains any real marketshare. Even if security was perfect there's no stopping stupid user syndrome. When that happens I want a cloud based tool that can fix the damage caused by malware. Win8/10 don't have it yet and it really bothers me because I haven't run active anti-X software in a decade and don't want to return to that particular nightmare.
Apps aren't the blocking element for the switch to Linux. I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's the ability to recover relatively painlessly that is lacking in Linux. As for apps, there are hundreds of business specific ones (TimeMatters for the legal profession, Photoshop for graphic artists, Final Cut Studio for film makers, and so on) the open source alternatives for these are woefully lacking - most don't exist and if they do they are pale imitations of the originals (GIMP vs Photoshop... there's just no comparison). First and foremost, something like the MS KB system for errors with the OS rather than 3rd hand forum jockeying. Remote & trusted diagnostics/fixes that do not reset personal settings. Online anti-virus/malware/etc akin to Panda Software's old 'Active Scan' so that when stupid user syndrome hits it can be dealt with *without* having to lock my system down with every anti-whatever under the sun.
Once it's easy to recover, people like me will make sure the people around us switch and with userbase come the app developers.
They had beasts of burden, they knew how to roll stones on logs. It would not have taken hundreds of years. These are not the 9m/50 ton stones found in Stonehenge, these are MAXIMUM 4.5m & ~15 tons. A dog can pull 5 tons on rollers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - these rocks would have been nothing for a couple 1 ton bulls rolling them over logs.
Safe makers will open safes for the police, with a court order. Assuming the owner is not present to do so. This is different from a safe though, there's no master key, there's no mechanical vulnerability. There's just brute force decryption. Apple could just say "Sure, we'll provide you with the contents. We'll require X number of days per message at $Y/day to operate a dedicated server farm for the task"
Doing a little research I learned, they have found neolithic floors inside the circle and they believe it to have been a village though much of it was destroyed by later farming and road construction. If it was filled there may have been as many as 1000 structures inside but that sounds a bit high to me.
I would venture a guess and say that it was the home of Neolithic long house(s). The orientation would put the single doorway away from the prevailing winds and facing the opening near the water. These were, generally, not made of stone. That might also suggest that Stonehenge was a megalithic tomb.
Physics 101: 200lbs man vs large rock: large rock wins. 200lbs man vs pile of small rocks: man wins.
Not according to every stone wall built throughout human history. There's a reason they're made out of smaller (albeit still heavy) rocks: it's far, far more practical.
a) Not a wall b) Small stone walls, if piled, would need to be nearly as wide as it is tall to have the same effect. These rocks are up to 4.5m tall which means you'd need ~5,000 1x1x1 stones vs ~200 large stones. Since 1x1x1 stones aren't that common you'd probably be looking at closer to 20,000 stones. c) Every stone wall built throughout human history that was narrow, tall, and unsupported was easy to knock over because: physics.
There's no reason why a person would go through the effort to haul such massive stones when they could build an equivalent wall out of smaller ones.
Physics 101: 200lbs man vs large rock: large rock wins. 200lbs man vs pile of small rocks: man wins.
Besides the obvious, this wasn't a wall. Think of it like primitive hedgehogs (not the animals). The goal isn't to wall yourself in but put obstacles in the way.
Those types of defenses would have similar effects for both horse and infantry attacks so it could be it's just meant for the latter. Stones cut the attack area in half/funnel attackers between them causing "log jams", ditches have two effects, first sudden drop offs in terrain force attackers to either slow down or risk injury by jumping down and second cause a slowdown as they try to climb up the far side and sets them off balance for defending forces to more easily dispatch them. Horses or not it suggests a permanent military encampment of some sort.
Map link didn't work with AdBlock/Privacy Badger... oh well, there's a good enough video & map in the first link.
It's funny they call this a monument/ritual area. To me it looks like a defensive structure - large stones to break up horse attacks, quick drop offs to either fill with oil/water or just to break legs/slow attacks of infantry/horses as they charge in. Opening is closest to the stream for easy access to water. Pretty standard looking military fort/permanent settlement to me.
Yes, they are working with some of the bigger developers but they are removing the core functionality that made FF powerful. New addons won't be able to "work with mozilla" only those who already have influence get that treatment.
I really wish I could find that analysis of imdb data. Yes every year has it's good and it's bad, but there was significantly more *CHOICE* in the 90s. It was posted as a story here on Slashdot a few years back and the graph clearly shows a massive spike in the number of scifi available from the late 80s to early 2000s. If any one knows what I'm talking about, I'd love to have the link.
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Realistically, this isn't for word processing. This is for all the other tasks and school/library/home computers can provide the rest of the functionality. In a pinch you can pickup a USB keyboard/mouse for $5 and hook it up.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/... - $50-$55, come in a variety of case colours, and has the basic cables included.
I wanted to reply to the CorelDraw thing separately as that's a conversation worth having. In my opinion GIMP's interface is nearly as good as Photoshop's in many respects. I was able to pick it up, coming from the latter, and understood 90% of it right away. What I found difficult was a lot of the refinements in things like line detection, box manipulation, and many of the filters... they just didn't have the same level of refinement, would jitter frequently between objects, wouldn't allow for certain actions to be performed easily (though there was often a more complicated method available via the menu). The tools seemed very much what you'd expect from a programmer. They do the job, they do it accurately, but they don't understand the user and what the user wants to do most often. Photoshop does have the opposite problem, in compromising for the "most often" they do make some actions more tedious to do accurately with objects snapping to when you simply want to place them nearby forcing you to zoom in/out.
It's difficult to say whether open source can make those types of choices without creating conflict/forks for people who don't want to compromise to truly improve the user experience.
I can't access the redhat link without an account - MS KB is public. Satellite/Puppet/Chef aren't exactly what I mean, I mean something akin to Mr FixIt scripts that can fix specific problems.
Recover from what?...
OS to be easy to recover, not the apps. And by easy I do not mean a re-install.
So you do realize that every distribution has that kind of thing already, no?
For Ubuntu as an example, I know there's a wiki and a bug tracker but nothing that compares to the MS KB pages that detail problems, error codes, version application, fixes, etc. What I know of Ubuntu's solutions is more MS Answers quality than MS KB.
Well, the first part here is remote access. For Linux users that means adding a new user account and enabling SSH for a third-party to be able to access it. True, you could install TeamViewer, LogMeIn, or similar third-party services, but you have to first and foremost solve the remote-access issue.
I don't need to know what it involves, I just need to know it works for stupid people. My aunt-in-law has a problem with her computer, I send her a link to a fix and it fixes the problem without me having to go to her house or have a working remote login for myself on her system. I spend enough time fixing peoples computers, I want to be done with it as quickly and with as little inconvenience to myself as possible. Like it or not, those "Mr FixIt" scripts save a LOT of time.
So now you're projecting issues from Windows onto Linux. Even then, there are tools - like the venerable Open Source ClamAV - which can do the job; but you typically don't need them to start with.
It's a reality, the more popular an OS is the more likely it'll be a target for malware. Right now there's no need but I guarantee there are thousands of security issues waiting to be found in Linux code that are getting by because of security through obscurity. Apple has seen it, Android has seen it, and Linux will too if it gains any real marketshare. Even if security was perfect there's no stopping stupid user syndrome. When that happens I want a cloud based tool that can fix the damage caused by malware. Win8/10 don't have it yet and it really bothers me because I haven't run active anti-X software in a decade and don't want to return to that particular nightmare.
Apps aren't the blocking element for the switch to Linux. I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's the ability to recover relatively painlessly that is lacking in Linux. As for apps, there are hundreds of business specific ones (TimeMatters for the legal profession, Photoshop for graphic artists, Final Cut Studio for film makers, and so on) the open source alternatives for these are woefully lacking - most don't exist and if they do they are pale imitations of the originals (GIMP vs Photoshop... there's just no comparison). First and foremost, something like the MS KB system for errors with the OS rather than 3rd hand forum jockeying. Remote & trusted diagnostics/fixes that do not reset personal settings. Online anti-virus/malware/etc akin to Panda Software's old 'Active Scan' so that when stupid user syndrome hits it can be dealt with *without* having to lock my system down with every anti-whatever under the sun.
Once it's easy to recover, people like me will make sure the people around us switch and with userbase come the app developers.
That was the infinity symbol to the right of the =... apparently Slashdot doesn't like geeky symbols.
So X = . As long as the government keeps paying Y, Apple shouldn't care ;)
They had beasts of burden, they knew how to roll stones on logs. It would not have taken hundreds of years. These are not the 9m/50 ton stones found in Stonehenge, these are MAXIMUM 4.5m & ~15 tons. A dog can pull 5 tons on rollers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - these rocks would have been nothing for a couple 1 ton bulls rolling them over logs.
Safe makers will open safes for the police, with a court order. Assuming the owner is not present to do so. This is different from a safe though, there's no master key, there's no mechanical vulnerability. There's just brute force decryption. Apple could just say "Sure, we'll provide you with the contents. We'll require X number of days per message at $Y/day to operate a dedicated server farm for the task"
Doing a little research I learned, they have found neolithic floors inside the circle and they believe it to have been a village though much of it was destroyed by later farming and road construction. If it was filled there may have been as many as 1000 structures inside but that sounds a bit high to me.
I would venture a guess and say that it was the home of Neolithic long house(s). The orientation would put the single doorway away from the prevailing winds and facing the opening near the water. These were, generally, not made of stone. That might also suggest that Stonehenge was a megalithic tomb.
Here's a video demonstrating the concept of what I'm talking about in my other reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not according to every stone wall built throughout human history. There's a reason they're made out of smaller (albeit still heavy) rocks: it's far, far more practical.
a) Not a wall
b) Small stone walls, if piled, would need to be nearly as wide as it is tall to have the same effect. These rocks are up to 4.5m tall which means you'd need ~5,000 1x1x1 stones vs ~200 large stones. Since 1x1x1 stones aren't that common you'd probably be looking at closer to 20,000 stones.
c) Every stone wall built throughout human history that was narrow, tall, and unsupported was easy to knock over because: physics.
There's no reason why a person would go through the effort to haul such massive stones when they could build an equivalent wall out of smaller ones.
Physics 101: 200lbs man vs large rock: large rock wins. 200lbs man vs pile of small rocks: man wins.
Besides the obvious, this wasn't a wall. Think of it like primitive hedgehogs (not the animals). The goal isn't to wall yourself in but put obstacles in the way.
Göbekli Tepe is 300m diameter, this one is ~475m diameter
Those types of defenses would have similar effects for both horse and infantry attacks so it could be it's just meant for the latter. Stones cut the attack area in half/funnel attackers between them causing "log jams", ditches have two effects, first sudden drop offs in terrain force attackers to either slow down or risk injury by jumping down and second cause a slowdown as they try to climb up the far side and sets them off balance for defending forces to more easily dispatch them. Horses or not it suggests a permanent military encampment of some sort.
Map link didn't work with AdBlock/Privacy Badger... oh well, there's a good enough video & map in the first link.
It's funny they call this a monument/ritual area. To me it looks like a defensive structure - large stones to break up horse attacks, quick drop offs to either fill with oil/water or just to break legs/slow attacks of infantry/horses as they charge in. Opening is closest to the stream for easy access to water. Pretty standard looking military fort/permanent settlement to me.
Not according to the developer of NoScript. In fact, he says they are involving him to make sure extensions which alter native behavior remain possible.
Yes, they are working with some of the bigger developers but they are removing the core functionality that made FF powerful. New addons won't be able to "work with mozilla" only those who already have influence get that treatment.
Firefox is removing that capability like sheep to the Chrome teet.
555-555-5555
I really wish I could find that analysis of imdb data. Yes every year has it's good and it's bad, but there was significantly more *CHOICE* in the 90s. It was posted as a story here on Slashdot a few years back and the graph clearly shows a massive spike in the number of scifi available from the late 80s to early 2000s. If any one knows what I'm talking about, I'd love to have the link.
Warehouse 13. Not Xfiles, but passes time
Good show, but also cancelled. :( Now my favourite character is on one of the more idiotic shows of the past decade... "Stitchers"... ugh.
No Supernatural on your list? It's fantasy/horror.
Ooo good call. Forgot it was still on. Awesome show.
Ya? It seemed more spy thrilleresque than scifi...