Dude you are so off the deep end it is scary. 1. I have been on Slashdot much longer than you. I am far from a fool. 2. Facebook does not have my address it has the town of 200,000+ people I live in. 3. I only post to Facebook what I want to post. If anyone bothered to look at my facebook page you would think I am pretty boring.
1. The Scout SV is not a tank. 2. The size of a tank is not measured by volume but by weight. 3. The article is just flat out terrible as far as accuracy.
Since the two item are no where near a cube in shape going for L,W,H is just not a good plan.
The International Business Times should be ashamed. This is not a Tank it is an Armored Fighting Vehicle. They even start off calling it that and then just start calling it a tank. This is actually more of a scouting vehicle and would have a pretty short life span if it had to fight a tank in the open. This is a tank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... Notice the much larger main gun. As you can see it is also much larger aka heavier than the Scout SV. I mean really do they not check any facts at all? Do they not bother to ask an expert in the subject before the publish?
"Now the pendulum is swinging back again because the cost/value equation in favor of corporate networks makes less sense (specifically, we didn't realize the consequences of selling ourselves and our data for 'free' services until it was too late.)." Nope. The vast majority of people really do not care. For all the outrage over privacy you hear about in the tech press the vast majority of people just do not care. They do not even mind the ads. Why pay for a social network when facebook is free? Facebook is the path of least resistance and cost for the masses and they will keep going that route.
actually I have to disagree. It is so much easier to stay connected to friends that have long moved away and to reconnect with friends that move back. Of course I am older than most people on Slashdot so yes I have friends that moved away 15 years ago and then move back to town that I want to reconnect with. It is makes me feel more connected with my brother that lives 3 hours away to see his posts daily on facebook. I do call and talk with him a couple of times a month but with facebook it is daily. Of course I used to do the same thing with email but email is less popular than it once was.
Maybe women need to adapt to tech culture instead of tech culture adapting to women. BTW it is not all women it is some individuals that are discouraged and those are both male and female. So now equality is just not good enough?
Maybe the just don't want to. They are under no obligation to do that. The entire idea behind FOSS is that the users would put in the "effort" to improve and maintain it. That can be money to pay for someone to work on it or working on it themselves. Just because you have worked on a FOSS project does not mean you are a slave for life to it.
"If you listen to the NPR segment, they have a couple of women who were former compsci majors give accounts of how the men in their classes denigrated them and mocked them for missing some knowledge. " That is not sexism. Guess what? They did the exact same thing to males in the class. I have read studies that show that women do better in all women schools because men tend to compete and display while women tend to co-operate.
Office is a different strategy. On CP/M you had Wordstar, Dase II, and often SuperCalc or PerfectCalc. On a lot of other machines like the Apple II, TRS-80, and the Pet you had Visicalc. When the PC came out Wordstar and Visicalc thrived for a short time then cam Lotus 123 and WordPerfect. WordStar died as did VisiCalc. Dase hung on for a good while fighting off Paradox. Then you had Windows and Office took over most of the market. Microsoft is desperate to not have Office go the way of Wordstar, Visicalc, Wordperfect, and Lotus123. When you change platforms new software has a great opportunity. Olders systems are left trying to not tick off their customer base by being too different but at the same time fit with the new platform.
" Refreshing, no question, and in direct contrast to Google and Apple as you point out." Actually no it isn't in direct contrast. When Apple first entered the mobile market they only had to worry about Blackberry, Wince, and Palm. In the smartphone market there was no real dominate player. It was in many ways a lot like the early days of micros with Atari, Apple, Commodore, Radioshack, Ti, and the CP/M machines fighting it out. Apple and Google where friends and Google got Maps, search, and youtube on the iPhone. When Android came out IOS was pretty much king. so Google kept putting their products on IOS to keep market share. Apple having the marketshare did not feel the need to put any services on Android. They used their services to keep market share. Now Microsoft to get market share supports Android and IOS. Android and IOS see no reason to help Microsoft gain marketshare. It is the exact same pattern.
So do you feel better about yourself for being so offended by the sexism of 50 years ago? Guess what racism and sexism where both more mainstream 50 years ago. The fact that they even where willing to test a woman was very progressive for the time.
Actually it is the opposite. You benefit preaching doom and gloom. If your advice is taken what ever the worry can not happen because you stopped it. If good things that could have happened didn't no one will really notice. If your advice is not taken you just take the "it is only a matter of time" and keep your true believers scared. Any failure no matter how small is a victory for you. If your advice is not taken and something bad happens you where right all along.
"this is what I went through when I bought a retina macbookpro day one. There was a rough transition. I had to hack Word's internal settings to make Word usable. Firefox was unusable for close to a year." Did you have to hack Safari to work on the retina? what about Apples office products? You are talking about an issue where older software from a different vendor had issues vs the OS having issues on older hardware. This is a very different issue. "It is. You can change that stuff easily." So it would have been simple to default to the best font for each device. If DPI is x use this font. Not a tragedy to be sure but it is lazy.
So customer that buys a brand new Air should just be happy that they get a bad experience for the next three years? You didn't really answer the question of why not pick the font based on the DPI of the display? One of the bit selling points of the Mac was that they where resolution independant. What the comes down to is laziness or arrogance. I am sure that someone will make a utility to change the default font on the Mac if it is not already available in settings.
"You're so full of FUD that I can only wonder which energy conglomerate you're shilling for. Care to tell us?" He is not he is a green. You see the truth is that there are a good number of "activists" that make a living telling people that "you never know". The will spout off about solar and ignore the problems like storage and the fact that solar peak is not the same as usage peak. They will just use buzzwords like "smart grid" and then complain about the cost of nuclear being greater than natural gas but ignore the cost of solar and wind being higher than natural gas. It has become a religion and if you dare to be pro-nuclear your friends and the other people you self identify with will shun you.
It is simple. If you know you are guilty they will offer you a chance to take a deal, save the courts a lot of time and effort, and rewards the guilty party for choosing to be honest. Yes it is honest for a reward but still being honest. If you are caught and you know that you are actually guilty of breaking the law but try to get out of it they will make you an example.
In the US criminal records are public records the exception is for juveniles. Once you are an adult you are expected to follow rules. What I do not get is this statement. "i spent 22.5 months in Florida prison's, all because I got caught with some MDMA and weed at a rave in Orlando, FL in 2001." If it was that guys first conviction and he did not have "a lot" of MDMA and weed aka amounts that make it look like you are dealing. Up to 20 grams is only a misdemeanor. MDMA is another story but unless he refused a plea deal or resisted arrest he should not have gotten anything but some community service and probation.
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Dude you are so off the deep end it is scary.
1. I have been on Slashdot much longer than you. I am far from a fool.
2. Facebook does not have my address it has the town of 200,000+ people I live in.
3. I only post to Facebook what I want to post. If anyone bothered to look at my facebook page you would think I am pretty boring.
1. The Scout SV is not a tank.
2. The size of a tank is not measured by volume but by weight.
3. The article is just flat out terrible as far as accuracy.
Since the two item are no where near a cube in shape going for L,W,H is just not a good plan.
The International Business Times should be ashamed. This is not a Tank it is an Armored Fighting Vehicle. They even start off calling it that and then just start calling it a tank.
This is actually more of a scouting vehicle and would have a pretty short life span if it had to fight a tank in the open.
This is a tank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Notice the much larger main gun.
As you can see it is also much larger aka heavier than the Scout SV.
I mean really do they not check any facts at all? Do they not bother to ask an expert in the subject before the publish?
Ahh no. Because I control my privacy. I control what I post so I only put out information that I want to be public.
"Now the pendulum is swinging back again because the cost/value equation in favor of corporate networks makes less sense (specifically, we didn't realize the consequences of selling ourselves and our data for 'free' services until it was too late.)."
Nope. The vast majority of people really do not care. For all the outrage over privacy you hear about in the tech press the vast majority of people just do not care.
They do not even mind the ads.
Why pay for a social network when facebook is free?
Facebook is the path of least resistance and cost for the masses and they will keep going that route.
actually I have to disagree. It is so much easier to stay connected to friends that have long moved away and to reconnect with friends that move back. Of course I am older than most people on Slashdot so yes I have friends that moved away 15 years ago and then move back to town that I want to reconnect with.
It is makes me feel more connected with my brother that lives 3 hours away to see his posts daily on facebook. I do call and talk with him a couple of times a month but with facebook it is daily.
Of course I used to do the same thing with email but email is less popular than it once was.
How dare they refuse to work for free on a project that benefits me.
Maybe women need to adapt to tech culture instead of tech culture adapting to women.
BTW it is not all women it is some individuals that are discouraged and those are both male and female.
So now equality is just not good enough?
Maybe the just don't want to. They are under no obligation to do that. The entire idea behind FOSS is that the users would put in the "effort" to improve and maintain it.
That can be money to pay for someone to work on it or working on it themselves.
Just because you have worked on a FOSS project does not mean you are a slave for life to it.
"If you listen to the NPR segment, they have a couple of women who were former compsci majors give accounts of how the men in their classes denigrated them and mocked them for missing some knowledge. "
That is not sexism. Guess what? They did the exact same thing to males in the class.
I have read studies that show that women do better in all women schools because men tend to compete and display while women tend to co-operate.
I would love to see that law. When will I be seeing the drives for ReactOS and Minix 3?
Really? It can run on an IBM PC?
It is called radio.
Office is a different strategy.
On CP/M you had Wordstar, Dase II, and often SuperCalc or PerfectCalc. On a lot of other machines like the Apple II, TRS-80, and the Pet you had Visicalc.
When the PC came out Wordstar and Visicalc thrived for a short time then cam Lotus 123 and WordPerfect. WordStar died as did VisiCalc. Dase hung on for a good while fighting off Paradox.
Then you had Windows and Office took over most of the market.
Microsoft is desperate to not have Office go the way of Wordstar, Visicalc, Wordperfect, and Lotus123. When you change platforms new software has a great opportunity. Olders systems are left trying to not tick off their customer base by being too different but at the same time fit with the new platform.
" Refreshing, no question, and in direct contrast to Google and Apple as you point out."
Actually no it isn't in direct contrast.
When Apple first entered the mobile market they only had to worry about Blackberry, Wince, and Palm. In the smartphone market there was no real dominate player. It was in many ways a lot like the early days of micros with Atari, Apple, Commodore, Radioshack, Ti, and the CP/M machines fighting it out.
Apple and Google where friends and Google got Maps, search, and youtube on the iPhone.
When Android came out IOS was pretty much king. so Google kept putting their products on IOS to keep market share. Apple having the marketshare did not feel the need to put any services on Android. They used their services to keep market share.
Now Microsoft to get market share supports Android and IOS. Android and IOS see no reason to help Microsoft gain marketshare. It is the exact same pattern.
So do you feel better about yourself for being so offended by the sexism of 50 years ago?
Guess what racism and sexism where both more mainstream 50 years ago. The fact that they even where willing to test a woman was very progressive for the time.
Microsoft supports Outlook on Android and IOS. OneDrive works on IOS, Android, Windows and OS/X
Skype works on just about all platforms.
I guess Microsoft being number 3 in the mobile space makes them support more platforms.
Actually it is the opposite. You benefit preaching doom and gloom.
If your advice is taken what ever the worry can not happen because you stopped it. If good things that could have happened didn't no one will really notice.
If your advice is not taken you just take the "it is only a matter of time" and keep your true believers scared. Any failure no matter how small is a victory for you.
If your advice is not taken and something bad happens you where right all along.
You can not really fail being an anti.
"this is what I went through when I bought a retina macbookpro day one. There was a rough transition. I had to hack Word's internal settings to make Word usable. Firefox was unusable for close to a year."
Did you have to hack Safari to work on the retina? what about Apples office products?
You are talking about an issue where older software from a different vendor had issues vs the OS having issues on older hardware. This is a very different issue.
"It is. You can change that stuff easily."
So it would have been simple to default to the best font for each device. If DPI is x use this font.
Not a tragedy to be sure but it is lazy.
So customer that buys a brand new Air should just be happy that they get a bad experience for the next three years?
You didn't really answer the question of why not pick the font based on the DPI of the display? One of the bit selling points of the Mac was that they where resolution independant. What the comes down to is laziness or arrogance. I am sure that someone will make a utility to change the default font on the Mac if it is not already available in settings.
"You're so full of FUD that I can only wonder which energy conglomerate you're shilling for. Care to tell us?"
He is not he is a green.
You see the truth is that there are a good number of "activists" that make a living telling people that "you never know".
The will spout off about solar and ignore the problems like storage and the fact that solar peak is not the same as usage peak. They will just use buzzwords like "smart grid" and then complain about the cost of nuclear being greater than natural gas but ignore the cost of solar and wind being higher than natural gas.
It has become a religion and if you dare to be pro-nuclear your friends and the other people you self identify with will shun you.
It is simple.
If you know you are guilty they will offer you a chance to take a deal, save the courts a lot of time and effort, and rewards the guilty party for choosing to be honest. Yes it is honest for a reward but still being honest.
If you are caught and you know that you are actually guilty of breaking the law but try to get out of it they will make you an example.
Orlando is not in south Florida it is in central Florida.
In the US criminal records are public records the exception is for juveniles. Once you are an adult you are expected to follow rules.
What I do not get is this statement. "i spent 22.5 months in Florida prison's, all because I got caught with some MDMA and weed at a rave in Orlando, FL in 2001."
If it was that guys first conviction and he did not have "a lot" of MDMA and weed aka amounts that make it look like you are dealing. Up to 20 grams is only a misdemeanor. MDMA is another story but unless he refused a plea deal or resisted arrest he should not have gotten anything but some community service and probation.