However, I have to disagree with you on one point:
The fact that single instances of Mac malware get so blown out of proportion, STILL, is ridiculous.
I don't think it's blown out of proportion, and, rather than being ridiculous, I think it's essential. Mac users generally share a believe that their computer "just works" and that they don't have to be concerned with-- or even aware of-- security. For the good of the community, that should be corrected.
Yeah, energy policy in the U.S. is amazingly fucked.
In truth the US has no real energy policy. That's why it's fucked. Calling our stance on various sources of energy "an energy policy" is like calling our stance on healthcare "a system"-- It just gives us WAY too much credit.
Exactly. The article purposely turns a blind eye to this fact, which renders is completely crap.
Not that this renders the Obama Administration immune to criticism on this matter, but nevertheless TFA is breathtakingly simpleminded.
Although no action has been taken yet, I presume that the Supreme Court will now vacate and remand the pending Myriad case with instructions to the Federal Circuit to reconsider its holding that isolated human DNA is patentable. Following Mayo, the court could logically find that the information in the DNA represents a law of nature, that the DNA itself is a natural phenomenon,...
Apparently there's a case about this issue in litigation.
Now if you want to get people to switch you should show them what it does better...
That's a good point. I'm glad you like the ribbon bar. I hate it. A year or so on now, I'm used to it. I still hate it.
Oh, and the reason I use the word "almost"...
I'm an electrical engineer. I don't, as a rule, do "Bare minimum" spreadsheets-- though I've learned to steer clear of adding serious visual basic scripts. Also, everything I edit needs to be readable by office users-- I don't put together documents, spreadsheets, or presentations for my own viewing pleasure-- no problems yet. The documents I edit have to be automatically importable into other software that my company uses. Haven't run into a problem there yet either.
However, OpenOffice (or whatever it is called today) is IMHO superior to Microsoft Office.
That's fine for your opinion. Unfortunately, your opinion is solidly in the minority and you need to do more than just scream "IMHO THIS IS SUPERIOR" to get people to switch. WHY is it superior? WHAT makes it a better, more user-friendly program? WHAT can it do that MS Office can't?
It doesn't have THE FREAKIN' ANNOYING RIBBON BAR!!!
This makes it superior for me. And to counter your argument, I'm still looking for the feature or features that Office has that Libre Office lacks. I do a lot of documentation at work, where office is the rule, and I frequently work on them at home using Libre Office on Linux without any issues.
LOVED master of five magics!
Like the other responder, I've also read the sequel-- well worth checking out. I must be the only person who likes fantasy but hates Tad Williams. The novels sort of meandered,and while the twist at the end was interesting, for me it sort of fell flat.
With respect, Brust should come first on this list, not last. His books are written in the first person, which gives them a more immediate, gripping feel when compared to much of the rest of the genre. Loved the Amber books, but they sort of lost steam after the first few for me.
Voters get conned into voting for higher school budgets because they want better schools and higher property values, but the truth is much of the money is wasted. I voted against several school budgets that had over $1mil set aside for landscaping.
I remember when I first stared using email and newsgroups there were several email signatures -- I think they were automatically and randomly generated, with a bunch of terrorist-style keywords and phrases followed by the words "Greetings to my friends at the NSA".
Seems like rapidshare is doing some CYA here. If you want better speeds, all you have to do is supply them with some cantact info-- fake will likely do-- and some information about the files being shared-- again fake will likely do. This way if they get raided, they can say "I didn't know that was a TV episode, they told me it was home videos".
However, I disagree on one substantial point. I believe that you have to distinguish between abortion opponents, global warming deniers, and "all kinds of whackos". Consider this: is BjÃrn Lomborg a whacko? I read The Skeptical Environmentalist, and while I'm a bit skeptical of some of it's claims I found most of his arguments lucid and thought provoking. Similarly, there are those who argue that we should balance the right of unborn to live against the right of a mother to make her own choices. You or I may not agree with these arguments, but when they are intelligently made it's wrong to call those who make them "Whackos".
So bring on an intelligent discussion of copyright issues. By all means send me links to them. I hold two patents, and someday when I get around to writing that book I've been thinking of I'll have a copyright too. I'd enjoy a good read about new ways to enforce or monetize them. Send that link. I'll click it twice.
But don't send me a link to Cary Sherman. He's a whacko.
Here's the thing. Now IANAB (I am not a biologist) but I do know that biologists are scared that one day this virus could mutate on its own into something that spreads rapidly through humans. And I'm guessing--- just taking a wild guess here-- that if a researcher wanted to take a stab at creating a vaccine to prevent that kind of global pandemic then the first step would be to look at what form the mutated virus might take.
Extremely dangerous? Sure sounds like it to me.
This kind of research should never have been carried out? If the virus mutates on its own it will likely be too late to come up with a vaccine.
When I try to explain how bad these laws are, I describe what the internet would be like if these laws had been passed circa 1996.
No google. No youtube. Go on from there. Thus, the laws are bad because they make our life suck.
For economy-minded types I point out that the music and movie industries would not have hired more people had these laws been on the books, but the laws would have squashed thousands of highly paying tech jobs from being created. Thus, the laws are bad because they are anti-job.
Did this person read their own data? Engineers have about the same unemployment rate as business majors. Computer programmers have a higher rate of unemployment, and education much lower. The data just doesn't support the conclusions. At all.
The two articles linked have a lot of verbiage without REALLY explaining what MAKE / the maker movement is. It seems to be some kind of digital design? Is this manufacturing using 3d printers or something? Can anybody enlighten the rest of us?
That was precisely my first thought! But I disagree with your conclusion. Some kids used to go to trade schools and become plumbers or carpenters and go out to make a decent wage. Others would start their own plumbing business or become developers and create jobs for the economy (and grow wealthy in the process)
In the same way, I think a school like this will produce a lot of code monkeys who make a decent wage for some heartless corporation that will someday be ripped apart by Bain Capitol, but others might create the next microsoft and make america a little bit better than it was. I don't think you need a college degree to learn to code. And I think high schools could teach one how to "think and process information" using a curriculum that featured programming as readily as it could using one that features math, english, and science.
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Hey... he had nothing to hide. Do you?
However, I have to disagree with you on one point:
The fact that single instances of Mac malware get so blown out of proportion, STILL, is ridiculous.
I don't think it's blown out of proportion, and, rather than being ridiculous, I think it's essential. Mac users generally share a believe that their computer "just works" and that they don't have to be concerned with-- or even aware of-- security. For the good of the community, that should be corrected.
Yeah, energy policy in the U.S. is amazingly fucked.
In truth the US has no real energy policy. That's why it's fucked. Calling our stance on various sources of energy "an energy policy" is like calling our stance on healthcare "a system"-- It just gives us WAY too much credit.
Exactly. The article purposely turns a blind eye to this fact, which renders is completely crap.
Not that this renders the Obama Administration immune to criticism on this matter, but nevertheless TFA is breathtakingly simpleminded.
Although no action has been taken yet, I presume that the Supreme Court will now vacate and remand the pending Myriad case with instructions to the Federal Circuit to reconsider its holding that isolated human DNA is patentable. Following Mayo, the court could logically find that the information in the DNA represents a law of nature, that the DNA itself is a natural phenomenon, ...
Apparently there's a case about this issue in litigation.
Now if you want to get people to switch you should show them what it does better...
That's a good point. I'm glad you like the ribbon bar. I hate it. A year or so on now, I'm used to it. I still hate it.
Oh, and the reason I use the word "almost"...
I'm an electrical engineer. I don't, as a rule, do "Bare minimum" spreadsheets-- though I've learned to steer clear of adding serious visual basic scripts. Also, everything I edit needs to be readable by office users-- I don't put together documents, spreadsheets, or presentations for my own viewing pleasure-- no problems yet. The documents I edit have to be automatically importable into other software that my company uses. Haven't run into a problem there yet either.
However, OpenOffice (or whatever it is called today) is IMHO superior to Microsoft Office. That's fine for your opinion. Unfortunately, your opinion is solidly in the minority and you need to do more than just scream "IMHO THIS IS SUPERIOR" to get people to switch. WHY is it superior? WHAT makes it a better, more user-friendly program? WHAT can it do that MS Office can't?
It doesn't have THE FREAKIN' ANNOYING RIBBON BAR!!!
This makes it superior for me. And to counter your argument, I'm still looking for the feature or features that Office has that Libre Office lacks. I do a lot of documentation at work, where office is the rule, and I frequently work on them at home using Libre Office on Linux without any issues.
Yet Another Vote for Lord of Light.
That book was awesome.
Can one truly claim that the books coining the term "cyberspace" have been forgotten?
LOVED master of five magics! Like the other responder, I've also read the sequel-- well worth checking out. I must be the only person who likes fantasy but hates Tad Williams. The novels sort of meandered,and while the twist at the end was interesting, for me it sort of fell flat.
With respect, Brust should come first on this list, not last. His books are written in the first person, which gives them a more immediate, gripping feel when compared to much of the rest of the genre.
Loved the Amber books, but they sort of lost steam after the first few for me.
for a small school district with four schools, there is a bit of wiggle room between students mowing the lawns and paying seven figures for it.
Voters get conned into voting for higher school budgets because they want better schools and higher property values, but the truth is much of the money is wasted. I voted against several school budgets that had over $1mil set aside for landscaping.
I remember when I first stared using email and newsgroups there were several email signatures -- I think they were automatically and randomly generated, with a bunch of terrorist-style keywords and phrases followed by the words "Greetings to my friends at the NSA".
Seems like rapidshare is doing some CYA here. If you want better speeds, all you have to do is supply them with some cantact info-- fake will likely do-- and some information about the files being shared-- again fake will likely do. This way if they get raided, they can say "I didn't know that was a TV episode, they told me it was home videos".
Eeww. Just... Eeew.
Because some people never really intend to play the game and just want to try it out?
Counter example: why does the humble bundle make it's developers so much money?
well spoken.
However, I disagree on one substantial point. I believe that you have to distinguish between abortion opponents, global warming deniers, and "all kinds of whackos". Consider this: is BjÃrn Lomborg a whacko? I read The Skeptical Environmentalist, and while I'm a bit skeptical of some of it's claims I found most of his arguments lucid and thought provoking. Similarly, there are those who argue that we should balance the right of unborn to live against the right of a mother to make her own choices. You or I may not agree with these arguments, but when they are intelligently made it's wrong to call those who make them "Whackos".
So bring on an intelligent discussion of copyright issues. By all means send me links to them. I hold two patents, and someday when I get around to writing that book I've been thinking of I'll have a copyright too. I'd enjoy a good read about new ways to enforce or monetize them. Send that link. I'll click it twice.
But don't send me a link to Cary Sherman. He's a whacko.
I won't click the link. I just don't want to in any way encourage the Times to print this stuff.
Is there really a difference between Megaupload hosting infringing content and Carpathis hosting Megaupload?
Here's the thing. Now IANAB (I am not a biologist) but I do know that biologists are scared that one day this virus could mutate on its own into something that spreads rapidly through humans. And I'm guessing--- just taking a wild guess here-- that if a researcher wanted to take a stab at creating a vaccine to prevent that kind of global pandemic then the first step would be to look at what form the mutated virus might take.
Extremely dangerous? Sure sounds like it to me.
This kind of research should never have been carried out? If the virus mutates on its own it will likely be too late to come up with a vaccine.
Call it dangerous. But don't call it useless.
When I try to explain how bad these laws are, I describe what the internet would be like if these laws had been passed circa 1996. No google. No youtube. Go on from there. Thus, the laws are bad because they make our life suck. For economy-minded types I point out that the music and movie industries would not have hired more people had these laws been on the books, but the laws would have squashed thousands of highly paying tech jobs from being created. Thus, the laws are bad because they are anti-job.
Did this person read their own data? Engineers have about the same unemployment rate as business majors. Computer programmers have a higher rate of unemployment, and education much lower. The data just doesn't support the conclusions. At all.
Like not even a little.
The two articles linked have a lot of verbiage without REALLY explaining what MAKE / the maker movement is. It seems to be some kind of digital design? Is this manufacturing using 3d printers or something? Can anybody enlighten the rest of us?
This sounds like a trade school.
That was precisely my first thought! But I disagree with your conclusion. Some kids used to go to trade schools and become plumbers or carpenters and go out to make a decent wage. Others would start their own plumbing business or become developers and create jobs for the economy (and grow wealthy in the process)
In the same way, I think a school like this will produce a lot of code monkeys who make a decent wage for some heartless corporation that will someday be ripped apart by Bain Capitol, but others might create the next microsoft and make america a little bit better than it was. I don't think you need a college degree to learn to code. And I think high schools could teach one how to "think and process information" using a curriculum that featured programming as readily as it could using one that features math, english, and science.