I studied physics. The best mathemeticians in our classes were the girls. Why? No idea. They seemed to enjoy the pure abstract math and did their homework regularly. Most of the guys (myself included) had difficulty when the math got too abstract. Our bad homework skills showed too. On the other hand, our best mathemetician had a hell of a time figuring out how to apply the math to the physics. Fortunate for her, she was a mathemetician who was only taking physics courses as electives.
Everyone was mature and professional. We recognized our differences and figured the gender line was just a coincidence. Physics enrollment wasn't very high so the sample size was too small to be meaningful.
Hypothetically, a person might have "friends", who make their own choices about hardware and software. "Friends" might want to share content, usb keys being a handy way to do it.
MS had some awesome projects on the way when Bill left the helm.
WinCE was picking up steam and they were on the cusp of the smartphone era. Tablets were being flirted with on and off again. Netbook-like solid-state machines in the Jupiter-class notebooks were coming out. They were also looking towards advanced filesystems in new versions of Windows. They had the Terraserver project for a Google-maps, before Google had a name. They also acquired Hotmail and were developing the MSN portal before Google existed.
A lot can be said that Microsoft's success was in part due to acquisitions and slimy business tactics, and it's true. But Ballmer SHIT on Microsoft, wiped his ass with the stock and, flushed every edge they had down the toilet.
The best innovations of the last decade at MS are of dubious value. Sharepoint? the ribbon? Vista? Metro? Kinect? Zune?
Windows 8 and Windows phone are possibly okay, but they should have been released in 2002, not 2012.
Ballmer's an idiot who doesn't deserve to work in a shoestore.
It very specifically says that you MAY NOT charge for the software.
You mean where it says in section 4: "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee."
"I hear people all the time talk about a "living wage" on here, but nobody puts a dollar figure on it. Give me something concrete. What should the high-school drop-out ditch digger (or whatever) who has learned no marketable skills make?"
Depends where you live.
A "living wage" is to maintiain the minimum standards of decency at roughly 40 hours per week. Food, clothes, shelter and a little to get you over a few sick days or manditory holidays.
The wage for a ditch-digger in Manhattan should be higher than a ditch-digger in Detroit. Yes, you make sacrifices to live in Manhattan, but your employer shouldn't expect you to go to food banks, dig toothbrushes out of the garbage or wear shoes with holes in them. They're paying a premium to dig holes in Manhattan. Labour is more expensive.
If you smoke, drink, have a chronic illness or even just have children, it's more complex.
But more guns will help kill people who kill people.
So we need to legislate fewer games where people use guns to kill people who kill people! Also those games where people don't kill people, because they're gatway games. We also need to allow people to carry guns to kill the bad guys!
But movies are okay. It's a different kind of violence. As long as they don't show a woman's nipple.
My point was that more children die accidentally from mishandling of firearms than could have been saved by the unlikely event of a Rambo being a teacher in this school. Serial killer stories and mass shootings are one hell of a lot more common than action heros.
Why accidental deaths dropped, anyone can speculate. Gun control? better education and awareness? Who knows.
Those are the number for accidental deaths of children. You know, children going into the gun cabinets of responsible gun owners and killing themselves or eachother? Or people who watched too many action films trying to save somebody's life?
Accidental deaths for adults are ten times higher.
And none of these 27 who died today are part of any of these numbers, they're in the "homocide" category.
Or is Teksavvy the only one actually complying with the law?
The damages for the ISPs non-compliance seems to be capped at $10k. Given they're using the new law to get info on subscribers to sue them under the old law, the window for this kind of abuse is small. It might be cheaper and less trouble to drag things out, let the judge find the ISP non-compliant, let the logs expire then pay the $10k.
A 2011 study of B.C. students who entered kindergarten in 1995 found that compared to those born in January, kids with December birthdays were 12 to 15 per cent less likely to meet reading and numeracy standards in the elementary grades and 12 per cent less likely to graduate.
In Britain, the school cutoff date is Aug. 31, which means kids learn with classmates born in September of the previous year. In a 2011 study, researchers at Britain’s Institute for Fiscal Studies reported that kids born in August have less confidence in their academic abilities and are less likely to attend top universities.
I have never seen this happen. If people are passing data around, I typically receive Excel files, not tables within HTML.
To counter your anecdote, I've been using inline tables in corporate email since 1997. Just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it's not daily practice in other offices.
If you're not tryign them, you're not really looking.
OpenGroupware is a nonstarter.
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I don't mind paying, but I don't want to pay the same for a work-alike drop in replacement from a small company when Microsoft's *hosted* solution is price-competitive.
Citadel is okay. But IMHO, not comperable to Exchange.
Kolab is on my list of things to try out, but I'm not optimistic. It seems that stable Outlook connectors are proprietary and cost $13.95/seat or $60/year depending on who you buy them from. Otherwise lots of alpha and beta clients http://www.kolab.org/clients
Dollar for dollar, none of these have any advantages over Exchange. Kolab has promise, it doesn't pretend to be an Exchange drop-in replacement, but a FOSS stack alternative. Are you using it in production?
Separating Asperger's from Autism is strange to me.
The most severe cases of Asperger's I've encountered are much like you describe. I have a friend who's had to learn to observe and respond to social behaviours and to not let himself get frustrated or emotional when things get difficult. Being around people who are open, accepting, understand and willing to point out these quirks helps.
The most severe case of Autism I've encountered involved a man who terrorized his loving and patient family, smashed every door in his family home, rarely gave anyone a moment of peace, and after his short 22-year life, despite 24 hour attention and the best of professional care, swallowed a glass decoration and died. The greatest tragedy was his younger sister who grew up in that broken home and never had a normal childhood.
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I studied physics. The best mathemeticians in our classes were the girls. Why? No idea. They seemed to enjoy the pure abstract math and did their homework regularly. Most of the guys (myself included) had difficulty when the math got too abstract. Our bad homework skills showed too. On the other hand, our best mathemetician had a hell of a time figuring out how to apply the math to the physics. Fortunate for her, she was a mathemetician who was only taking physics courses as electives.
Everyone was mature and professional. We recognized our differences and figured the gender line was just a coincidence. Physics enrollment wasn't very high so the sample size was too small to be meaningful.
Cyclists pay for the bike paths through municipal taxes.
Cities can't tax gas and bicycles aren't allowed on non-municipal roads (at least where I live)
Bicycles reduce pollution, traffic congestion and parking issues. Cities are wise to encourage them.
Note that cyclists also contribute to gas taxes because it's hidden in the price of all food and services.
Hypothetically, a person might have "friends", who make their own choices about hardware and software. "Friends" might want to share content, usb keys being a handy way to do it.
Compared to PalmOS, BBOS, Psion, Symbian and Newton?
A lot more potential in WinCE.
MS had some awesome projects on the way when Bill left the helm.
WinCE was picking up steam and they were on the cusp of the smartphone era. Tablets were being flirted with on and off again. Netbook-like solid-state machines in the Jupiter-class notebooks were coming out. They were also looking towards advanced filesystems in new versions of Windows. They had the Terraserver project for a Google-maps, before Google had a name. They also acquired Hotmail and were developing the MSN portal before Google existed.
A lot can be said that Microsoft's success was in part due to acquisitions and slimy business tactics, and it's true. But Ballmer SHIT on Microsoft, wiped his ass with the stock and, flushed every edge they had down the toilet.
The best innovations of the last decade at MS are of dubious value. Sharepoint? the ribbon? Vista? Metro? Kinect? Zune?
Windows 8 and Windows phone are possibly okay, but they should have been released in 2002, not 2012.
Ballmer's an idiot who doesn't deserve to work in a shoestore.
You mean where it says in section 4: "You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee."
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
*woosh*
"I hear people all the time talk about a "living wage" on here, but nobody puts a dollar figure on it. Give me something concrete. What should the high-school drop-out ditch digger (or whatever) who has learned no marketable skills make?"
Depends where you live.
A "living wage" is to maintiain the minimum standards of decency at roughly 40 hours per week. Food, clothes, shelter and a little to get you over a few sick days or manditory holidays.
The wage for a ditch-digger in Manhattan should be higher than a ditch-digger in Detroit. Yes, you make sacrifices to live in Manhattan, but your employer shouldn't expect you to go to food banks, dig toothbrushes out of the garbage or wear shoes with holes in them. They're paying a premium to dig holes in Manhattan. Labour is more expensive.
If you smoke, drink, have a chronic illness or even just have children, it's more complex.
So you support invading nation states, imprisoning cities, and domestic apartheid?
The latest prison shakedown a.k.a. "Operation Cast Lead", really soured people's perceptions of Israel.
BTW, Turkey and Russia are no measure of good government. Not the worst in the world, but Israel can and should do better than that.
Guns don't kill people!.
But more guns will help kill people who kill people.
So we need to legislate fewer games where people use guns to kill people who kill people! Also those games where people don't kill people, because they're gatway games. We also need to allow people to carry guns to kill the bad guys!
But movies are okay. It's a different kind of violence. As long as they don't show a woman's nipple.
I think I understand the position now.
...when they castrated Turing.
Evidently not all gun owners are responsible.
For accidental deaths of children?
Looks like the U.S. is down to 62
http://johnrlott.blogspot.ca/2012/09/accidental-firearm-deaths-for-those.html
My point was that more children die accidentally from mishandling of firearms than could have been saved by the unlikely event of a Rambo being a teacher in this school. Serial killer stories and mass shootings are one hell of a lot more common than action heros.
Why accidental deaths dropped, anyone can speculate. Gun control? better education and awareness? Who knows.
Those are the number for accidental deaths of children. You know, children going into the gun cabinets of responsible gun owners and killing themselves or eachother? Or people who watched too many action films trying to save somebody's life?
Accidental deaths for adults are ten times higher.
And none of these 27 who died today are part of any of these numbers, they're in the "homocide" category.
Combined homocides are 100 times higher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg
Accidental injury rates are *much* *much* higher.
Apparently in 1998, there were 121 accidental firearm deaths in children 15 and under.
http://johnrlott.tripod.com/whitney.pdf
Much better than 20+ dead.
I heard about 27 people killed by guns in a state where there's barely enough wildlife to feed 27 people.
Or is Teksavvy the only one actually complying with the law?
The damages for the ISPs non-compliance seems to be capped at $10k. Given they're using the new law to get info on subscribers to sue them under the old law, the window for this kind of abuse is small. It might be cheaper and less trouble to drag things out, let the judge find the ISP non-compliant, let the logs expire then pay the $10k.
Twins or multiple births aren't even analagous. Birds hatch independently, mammals don't birth independently.
The topic drifted.
Months of difference make a difference in sports and the classroom. Why shouldn't years of difference make a difference among siblings?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/03/05/f-birth-month-sports-learning-health.html
To counter your anecdote, I've been using inline tables in corporate email since 1997. Just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it's not daily practice in other offices.
Hopefully they'll think twice about price fixing LCDs, SSDs or other components.
I read through the iTunes EULA and gave it a good think. Then when I returned to my computer to press "I agree" it told me my session timed out.
I could start again, but how can I be sure that the EULA didn't change?
I wrote Steve Jobs (when he was alive), asking how it could be legally binding if it was impossible to read and click on?
No response.
If you're not tryign them, you're not really looking.
OpenGroupware is a nonstarter.
Zimbra is pay-for-premium features, with prices similar to hosted Exchange. http://www.zimbra.com/products/pricing.html. Zafara has a similar model. http://www.zarafa.com/zarafa-calculator/en
I don't mind paying, but I don't want to pay the same for a work-alike drop in replacement from a small company when Microsoft's *hosted* solution is price-competitive.
Citadel is okay. But IMHO, not comperable to Exchange.
Kolab is on my list of things to try out, but I'm not optimistic. It seems that stable Outlook connectors are proprietary and cost $13.95/seat or $60/year depending on who you buy them from. Otherwise lots of alpha and beta clients http://www.kolab.org/clients
Dollar for dollar, none of these have any advantages over Exchange. Kolab has promise, it doesn't pretend to be an Exchange drop-in replacement, but a FOSS stack alternative. Are you using it in production?
he said "better"
Separating Asperger's from Autism is strange to me.
The most severe cases of Asperger's I've encountered are much like you describe. I have a friend who's had to learn to observe and respond to social behaviours and to not let himself get frustrated or emotional when things get difficult. Being around people who are open, accepting, understand and willing to point out these quirks helps.
The most severe case of Autism I've encountered involved a man who terrorized his loving and patient family, smashed every door in his family home, rarely gave anyone a moment of peace, and after his short 22-year life, despite 24 hour attention and the best of professional care, swallowed a glass decoration and died. The greatest tragedy was his younger sister who grew up in that broken home and never had a normal childhood.
I have trouble connecting the diseases.