Microsoft stuff is hard to beat, but the Free Software solutions these days are damn close. And a little more adoption will refine the polish even better.
I've complained before that Open Office Calc (Excel equivalent) cannot print zoom ("Fit to page", etc.) at least on Windows.
The *REAL* problem is that Microsoft has paid sales people to influence and whisper in ears. Open Source? Nope, no paid minders to spread the word and take decision makers to lunch.
Advanced countries *REALLY* should have government spending to open source freedom advocates because this is in the public good. But we aren't there yet.
Linux is GPL 2.0. General Public License 2.0 does not have the "2.0 or any greater version clause" so Linux can't have a viral open source lock-down like GPL 3.0 and Linus Torvalds doesn't seem interested or able (the contributions to GPL 2.0 *cannot be relicensed to GPL 2.1 or GPL 3.0*
So things like Android and Steam OS aren't going to bring Linux style "freedom".
You can still do TIVOization and use the operating system itself but also have proprietary stuff (think NVIDIA Linux video card drivers.
So in some ways these Linux "forks" that are gaming solution, and these are important, aren't necessarily "open source" or "freedom" wins. Still, there are very few good reasons why gaming needs to be on Windows --- and I am thankful for Linux gaming stepping forward.
But I'm a realist and I understand that due to the above, don't think Linux solutions are the absence of evil in these scenarios.
There are and WILL be strings, unlike the operating system itself. Correct me if I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure I am correct --- and please only people that know what they are talking about (so thank you in advance!).
" He was instructing people (undercover agents) who he knew would be committing all kinds of illegal acts including statutory rape and drug smuggling."
This raises a bigger question --- if these undercover agents are known to be going out and statutory raping people, why aren't the Feds arresting them?
I am rather disappointed and concerned that these drug smuggling, statutory raping, undercover agents are getting off scot free --- when the Feds should be arresting these undercover scoundrels who are trying to beat these polygraph tests.
The article is from August. It's old and crusty and from a "Washington's insider website" --- translation = sensationalize the role of government including exaggerate and glamorify the role of government agencies to larger than life proportions to preach to the demographic choir = sell up the significance of all the departments including the law enforcement and homeland security ones.
So, uh, what is the significance and recentness of this? Or this is a tinfoil hat link or what?
It's a beltway, freebie, gets stuffed in your Congressional mailbox flyer to pump up the Washington-centrism in Washington DC.
The PCjr was my favorite computer ever as a kid. 16 colors in days where the IBM PC had 4 colors, 3 channels of sound in a day when the IBM PC had 1 channel for sound, and support for cartridges.
It wouldn't be until about 1991 before the IBM PC and compatibles series had 16 colors and 3 or more sound channels --- except for the Tandy.
I was never aware it was a market failure at the time --- I was just a kid playing games like Ultima III, Dambusters, Ghostbusters, Castle Wolfenstein, Marble Madness, Pinball Construction Set, Crossfire, King's Quest and such. But the PCjr was utter obsolete and unsupported in about 3-4 years time --- which seemed like an eternity back in the day so I guess time goes slow when you are a kid.
I had no idea China landed a rover on the moon. Google for pics and I'm glad to see this, especially another country with a lot of resources doing space exploration.
The US media sucks and spends all their time talking about Justin Bieber and the NFL player Sherman and such --- enough I mostly avoid the "so called" news --- which largely pumps pop culture crap as news.
All education is about older technology. This is a discussion about nothing, which I suppose is ok and will generate a lot of discussion about "my favorite old time memory" --- but I don't see a "news" angle here.
Plus, by strict definition, the question is redundant because all education has to be about the past (even if the near past).
I prefer Free Software, Excel has been able to do that since 1994 on Windows 3.1. I should haven't to switch to a Mac or Linux to be able to print "Fit to page" or "Fit to width". Besides, I can't --- this is at work and most of the software is Windows only.
And please don't say something like "I should switch employers" or something unhelpful like that.
"We have Mercury and Venus as counter-examples. Why aren't they teeming with even more life."
Liquids only exist with the right pressure and temperature (CO2 never goes liquid but sublimates with our atmospheric pressure) --- and liquids will likely be discovered to be the "key". Asteroids, gas giants and --- say --- the moon don't have liquids.
Liquids are a special case of matter interactivity.
So I guess what the author is implying: liquids + energy tend to lead to more efficient molecules that dissipate heat which cycles and eventually leads to life. It is intriguing thought, but needs more evidence.
There always has been the issue of how much orbiting space junk will finally start causing serious problems for space flight and the flight paths of other satellites, I think this issue has been a concern for so long that Carl Sagan was worrying about it (and it'll be 20 years since his death this year).
Maybe Verizon signed up 1.7 million new subscribers in the USA in the 4th quarter of 2013, but certainly Verizon has more than 1.7 million wireless customers. The market of wireless customers is in excess of 100 million in the USA and there are a very small pool of wireless providers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile).
Jokingly, every blackhole could be composed solely of antimatter and the universe would be no different. Except, well, actually this statement is true --- every blackhole could be exclusively made of antimatter, because beyond the event horizon the contents of a blackhole cannot interact with the rest of the universe except gravitationally.
>Editors: not being able to proofread a few sentences is telling people "I want my job taken over by a computer program".
No, this is quite intentional. Now there will be quite a few comments to the bad grammars -- which everyone can participate in [i.e. you don't need to know physics or electrical engineering] which generates activity, participation and ad impressions on the cheap.
Oldest trick in journalism to foster activity, sadly.
Network Solutions has to operate within their role as a bleeding legacy domain name provider.
To anyone reading this who doesn't know, they used to be the sole provider of domain names in the world.
Most of their remaining clients are very large businesses who don't care if their domain renewal is $6 bucks or $35 bucks or $500 bucks.
They have to fight to survive in a way compatible with their mainstream client base --- big inept companies that didn't switch to a cheaper provider a decade ago like Godaddy or [insert your favorite low cost provider here].
Network Solutions has a client base similar to a company running COBOL or with mostly government agencies as clients. Sure their business practices suck, but they are little different than other legacy service providers --- you might ask why the blogger of the article has been overpaying for domain names for 15 years? He probably has flushed $700+ dollars down the toilet compared to what he could have saved with another domain registrar ages ago. But he didn't, he's been volunteering overpaying for quite a while now and that is your average "still with Network Solutions" customer. Network Solutions has been doing this for a decade now through inertia and now for survival. This doesn't make Network Solutions innocent -- they aren't --- but their customer base does consist of people largely willing to overpay, which is largely big faceless corporations --- I bet Blackberry prices gouges captive legacy clients and I bet so does IBM, EDS and Accenture and even Microsoft. It is just what happens to legacy service provider's customers.
This fellow should have switch a dozen years back if he was price shopping the market.
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Microsoft stuff is hard to beat, but the Free Software solutions these days are damn close. And a little more adoption will refine the polish even better.
I've complained before that Open Office Calc (Excel equivalent) cannot print zoom ("Fit to page", etc.) at least on Windows.
The *REAL* problem is that Microsoft has paid sales people to influence and whisper in ears. Open Source? Nope, no paid minders to spread the word and take decision makers to lunch.
Advanced countries *REALLY* should have government spending to open source freedom advocates because this is in the public good. But we aren't there yet.
Linux is GPL 2.0. General Public License 2.0 does not have the "2.0 or any greater version clause" so Linux can't have a viral open source lock-down like GPL 3.0 and Linus Torvalds doesn't seem interested or able (the contributions to GPL 2.0 *cannot be relicensed to GPL 2.1 or GPL 3.0*
So things like Android and Steam OS aren't going to bring Linux style "freedom".
You can still do TIVOization and use the operating system itself but also have proprietary stuff (think NVIDIA Linux video card drivers.
So in some ways these Linux "forks" that are gaming solution, and these are important, aren't necessarily "open source" or "freedom" wins. Still, there are very few good reasons why gaming needs to be on Windows --- and I am thankful for Linux gaming stepping forward.
But I'm a realist and I understand that due to the above, don't think Linux solutions are the absence of evil in these scenarios.
There are and WILL be strings, unlike the operating system itself. Correct me if I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure I am correct --- and please only people that know what they are talking about (so thank you in advance!).
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[Old Oracle joke --- probably before your time
" He was instructing people (undercover agents) who he knew would be committing all kinds of illegal acts including statutory rape and drug smuggling."
This raises a bigger question --- if these undercover agents are known to be going out and statutory raping people, why aren't the Feds arresting them?
I am rather disappointed and concerned that these drug smuggling, statutory raping, undercover agents are getting off scot free --- when the Feds should be arresting these undercover scoundrels who are trying to beat these polygraph tests.
The article is from August. It's old and crusty and from a "Washington's insider website" --- translation = sensationalize the role of government including exaggerate and glamorify the role of government agencies to larger than life proportions to preach to the demographic choir = sell up the significance of all the departments including the law enforcement and homeland security ones.
So, uh, what is the significance and recentness of this? Or this is a tinfoil hat link or what?
It's a beltway, freebie, gets stuffed in your Congressional mailbox flyer to pump up the Washington-centrism in Washington DC.
The PCjr was my favorite computer ever as a kid. 16 colors in days where the IBM PC had 4 colors, 3 channels of sound in a day when the IBM PC had 1 channel for sound, and support for cartridges.
It wouldn't be until about 1991 before the IBM PC and compatibles series had 16 colors and 3 or more sound channels --- except for the Tandy.
I was never aware it was a market failure at the time --- I was just a kid playing games like Ultima III, Dambusters, Ghostbusters, Castle Wolfenstein, Marble Madness, Pinball Construction Set, Crossfire, King's Quest and such. But the PCjr was utter obsolete and unsupported in about 3-4 years time --- which seemed like an eternity back in the day so I guess time goes slow when you are a kid.
I had no idea China landed a rover on the moon. Google for pics and I'm glad to see this, especially another country with a lot of resources doing space exploration.
The US media sucks and spends all their time talking about Justin Bieber and the NFL player Sherman and such --- enough I mostly avoid the "so called" news --- which largely pumps pop culture crap as news.
Clarity: Education has to be about something that has already happened or was already discovered.
Seriously.
All education is about older technology. This is a discussion about nothing, which I suppose is ok and will generate a lot of discussion about "my favorite old time memory" --- but I don't see a "news" angle here.
Plus, by strict definition, the question is redundant because all education has to be about the past (even if the near past).
I prefer Free Software, Excel has been able to do that since 1994 on Windows 3.1. I should haven't to switch to a Mac or Linux to be able to print "Fit to page" or "Fit to width". Besides, I can't --- this is at work and most of the software is Windows only.
And please don't say something like "I should switch employers" or something unhelpful like that.
Open Office and Libre Office *really* need the Excel equivalent (Calc) to be able to print better (like zooming, fit to page, select a range).
"We have Mercury and Venus as counter-examples. Why aren't they teeming with even more life."
Liquids only exist with the right pressure and temperature (CO2 never goes liquid but sublimates with our atmospheric pressure) --- and liquids will likely be discovered to be the "key". Asteroids, gas giants and --- say --- the moon don't have liquids.
Liquids are a special case of matter interactivity.
So I guess what the author is implying: liquids + energy tend to lead to more efficient molecules that dissipate heat which cycles and eventually leads to life. It is intriguing thought, but needs more evidence.
There are about 5600 active satellites orbiting out there, and far more debris.
... One example: http://www.universetoday.com/2...
And satellites do collide
There always has been the issue of how much orbiting space junk will finally start causing serious problems for space flight and the flight paths of other satellites, I think this issue has been a concern for so long that Carl Sagan was worrying about it (and it'll be 20 years since his death this year).
Good point!
Q: Why did Debian development stop?
A: The entire development team was given dozens of free video games.
Funny thing is though, the total surface area of Mars is only a little over 3 times the land area of Asia.
Mars is quite small, so excavating at maybe under 40 sites on the entire planet should be statistically a good search.
The actual stupidity isn't CAPTCHAs. It is the use of a single method with very slight deviation.
"Here is our ONE single WAY we have thought of to secure this!" --- this is the fail.
Added: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money... Chart.
What forms of communication could they be using that isn't telecom or internet?
Curious minds want to know.
Maybe Verizon signed up 1.7 million new subscribers in the USA in the 4th quarter of 2013, but certainly Verizon has more than 1.7 million wireless customers. The market of wireless customers is in excess of 100 million in the USA and there are a very small pool of wireless providers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile).
You can transfer domains to a different registrar.
Jokingly, every blackhole could be composed solely of antimatter and the universe would be no different. Except, well, actually this statement is true --- every blackhole could be exclusively made of antimatter, because beyond the event horizon the contents of a blackhole cannot interact with the rest of the universe except gravitationally.
>Editors: not being able to proofread a few sentences is telling people "I want my job taken over by a computer program".
No, this is quite intentional. Now there will be quite a few comments to the bad grammars -- which everyone can participate in [i.e. you don't need to know physics or electrical engineering] which generates activity, participation and ad impressions on the cheap.
Oldest trick in journalism to foster activity, sadly.
Seconded.
Network Solutions has to operate within their role as a bleeding legacy domain name provider.
To anyone reading this who doesn't know, they used to be the sole provider of domain names in the world.
Most of their remaining clients are very large businesses who don't care if their domain renewal is $6 bucks or $35 bucks or $500 bucks.
They have to fight to survive in a way compatible with their mainstream client base --- big inept companies that didn't switch to a cheaper provider a decade ago like Godaddy or [insert your favorite low cost provider here].
Network Solutions has a client base similar to a company running COBOL or with mostly government agencies as clients. Sure their business practices suck, but they are little different than other legacy service providers --- you might ask why the blogger of the article has been overpaying for domain names for 15 years? He probably has flushed $700+ dollars down the toilet compared to what he could have saved with another domain registrar ages ago. But he didn't, he's been volunteering overpaying for quite a while now and that is your average "still with Network Solutions" customer. Network Solutions has been doing this for a decade now through inertia and now for survival. This doesn't make Network Solutions innocent -- they aren't --- but their customer base does consist of people largely willing to overpay, which is largely big faceless corporations --- I bet Blackberry prices gouges captive legacy clients and I bet so does IBM, EDS and Accenture and even Microsoft. It is just what happens to legacy service provider's customers.
This fellow should have switch a dozen years back if he was price shopping the market.