Most BSOD problems I get happen in conjunction with the user-switching. If the switch-user feature is used, about 1/3 of the time it BSODs on shutdown. I've looked into it, and Microsoft is "aware" of the problem, and has issued a hotfix that doesn't seem to work for me. The box is otherwise fully patched.
Of course, your questions assume evolution contains a system or values, which it does not. Evolution (as a theory) is descriptive science. Evolution doesn't "want" anything. Beings like us like to have sex. Modern contraception aside, that tends to lead to children. Genes which promote frequent and successful reproduction become more prevalent.
Having said all that, it would be odd for an "evolutionist" to decide that unbounded reproduction was a particulary valuable thing. Why should the descriptive trend of evolution be an imperative?
There was a movie about Attila the Hun ("Attila"?) depicting a young, recently-orphaned Attila drinking the blood of the horse he was riding while wandering about aimlessly.
We need to slap down the/. eds for posting this crap. The reviewer had little use for Calc, Impress, or Base. Well guess what - Impress and Base suck balls. Calc is ok. I'll cut Base some slack for being a new component, but Impress is a piece of garbage, and the graphing/charts in Calc aren't all that great.
All in all, OOo pre2.0 is close to Office 97, but still not there. The Word Proc is pretty good now - much better than the 1.1 days. The pre2.0 word processor managed to import, edit, and export my Office97 resume, which to me is the gold standard since it uses a bunch of stupid formatting hacks to get it to look decent.
Exactly. If you melt the ice you won't have lakes, you'll have water vapor slipping into space. At least ice can be harvested by any future human colonists.
My cheapo Dell laptop (less than 4 months old) has recently developed an intermittent short in the power cord between the machine and the AC adapter. Of course, that section of the power cord is permanently attached to the AC adapter, meaning that Dell wants be to buy a new one...
Incidentally, the three-prong section of the power cord (between the AC adapter and the wall socket) is cheap as hell, but is so sturdy that it has little chance of a similar failure.
It WAS on another night. (Wednesday?) They moved it to Friday in order to kill it. This is the unfortunate reason that the saveenterprise movement was doomed from the get-go. It didn't matter how much money they might have raised, or even numbers of donations, Paramount wanted it dead long ago.
I've thought about getting a USB Floppy drive, but I haven't needed it yet. I have a new desktop and laptop w/o floppies, and an older desktop that has a floppy. I've needed the old machine just once for its floppy drive.
A USB Floppy drive would allow me to keep one drive pretty much for the rest of my life and not need to worry about "frankensteining" drives.
Tenured teachers *can*be fired for being ineffectual. The law simply requires proper documentation. In effect, it has the same effect on our profession as the threat of a "wrongful termination" suit has on the business world.
But they often *aren't* fired. Because the adminstrator was tired. Because the "in class review" is a joke. Because they union will have a shit fit.
It's just easier for the adminstrator to let a marginal teacher stay in his/her position rather than go through the trouble of firing him/her and hiring somebody new who might not be any better.
Inertia occurs outside of teaching, but tenure compounds the problem in the teacher labor market.
But also consider that teachers do not really have sick days or vacations during the school year. They are also often required (or compelled) to work longer than 40 hour weeks. Additionally, schools are often so underfunded that teachers dip into their own pockets to pay for supplies for poor children. Add to that being under-appreciated by the very people you are serving (kids can be so cruel!) and that $46,752 doesn't sound so hot to many would-be educators.
Gee, this sounds a lot like my job, except I'm not a teacher and I don't make anywhere near $46k, and I have a BA from a top tier university.
The problem with the teachers' unions (along with many trade & labor unions) is that they have become self-serving monsters. They don't serve the students, and they barely serve the union members. The good teachers are not well-served by all the dead weight idiots who managed to get tenure. The dead weight brings the average value of a teacher down. Hiring a teacher is a "lemon" market. There's a good chance your new hire will be a lemon that you'll have a hard time getting rid of, and that has a bad effect on teacher salary.
...As opposed to kids who not only can't think for themselves, but can't read, write, or perform simple math either. I've seen it happen, and I think you probably have seen it too.
Second, stop treating them like helpless, esteem-craving babies.
Amen
School is where you get an education, not job training.
Yes and no. I think it's important for some classes (electives mostly) to teach skills
to kids who probably won't go to college. Having a 'business software use' class isn't the worst thing you can do to a kid.
get computers out of schools completely
As tools to teach an unrelated subject, this is correct. However, there need to be elective classes that are computer-centric. Namely, Business Software, and Intro Programming. Probably wouldn't kill the art class to have a few computers around either. Internet should be in the library only.
They need to read more and write more, and be able to construct cogent arguments and analyses in both written and oral form. They need classes in rhetoric and philosophy.
Ditto. Actually, I would argue for swapping out at least one year of English Lit for a Philosophy class. Plato is more important than Bronte anyway, and more interesting. The skills you mentioned are more easily developed in a Philosophy class than in English Lit where they attempt to teach them.
The evolutionary reason behind why they form hives and colonies is kind of counter-intuitive - why would a worker give up its reproductive potential?
You're approaching this the wrong way. I think Matt Ridley said it best - "the gene's eye view". The genome of the ant/bee species continues. In this view, the genes "use" the workers and the reproductive individuals in much the same way. With evolution, the question is "what best promotes the genes?" Or, more bluntly (and perhaps more accurately), "what works?"
Don't confuse strong flavor with "nasty crap". Yuengling is yummy. So much in demand that they've had to expand their production facilities, and in certain markets it sells as a "premium" along with Heineken, Sam Adams, and Beck's.
or Right-Click+"Run As" on any application (including the command prompt shortcut).
Yes, Windows is a bit backwards on a lot of things, but you really can do a lot of "admin" stuff from a limited account without logging out.
You can run an instance of IE for Windows Update as Admin w/o logging out, or just turn on automatic updates. (This isn't that much different from su... aptitude update... atitude upgrade)
It's still better than what TFA suggests is being done, which is the complete opposite. That is, running as admin all the time and running certain tasks as LU. That is totally backwards.
People have used Powerpoint to inflict great suffering, but the process of making a presentation is pretty slick. OOo's "Impress" is a crime against humanity though. I don't even care about page transitions or templates or anything. I just want to make presentations slightly more complicated than bullet points and it is such a PITA to use I gave up. Powerpoint 97 has a better interface and doesn't crash as much. (Yes, I submitted OOo crash reports.)
1 - You are always your own grandfather. At some point in the past, a dude appears from nowhere and impregnates your grandmother. Later, you discover time travel, and go back and become the man who impregnates your grandmother... This possibility appears to be the most internally consistent.
2 - You exist in a timeline wherein you are NOT ("already") your own grandfather. You discover time travel, and go back and impregnate your grandmother thus preventing "you" (in the precise genetic sense) from existing by changing your lineage. If this situation is not considered paradoxical (ie, impossible), it must then be either "iterative" or an alternate timeline/universe.
You seem to imply that switching to Intel implies that the whole line is going commodity. I seriously doubt that. Apple will control the hardware w/ an iron fist, as they always have. They're "just" switching cpu's... though any cpu switch should be of some concern.
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Most BSOD problems I get happen in conjunction with the user-switching. If the switch-user feature is used, about 1/3 of the time it BSODs on shutdown. I've looked into it, and Microsoft is "aware" of the problem, and has issued a hotfix that doesn't seem to work for me. The box is otherwise fully patched.
Of course, your questions assume evolution contains a system or values, which it does not. Evolution (as a theory) is descriptive science. Evolution doesn't "want" anything. Beings like us like to have sex. Modern contraception aside, that tends to lead to children. Genes which promote frequent and successful reproduction become more prevalent.
Having said all that, it would be odd for an "evolutionist" to decide that unbounded reproduction was a particulary valuable thing. Why should the descriptive trend of evolution be an imperative?
There was a movie about Attila the Hun ("Attila"?) depicting a young, recently-orphaned Attila drinking the blood of the horse he was riding while wandering about aimlessly.
All in all, OOo pre2.0 is close to Office 97, but still not there. The Word Proc is pretty good now - much better than the 1.1 days. The pre2.0 word processor managed to import, edit, and export my Office97 resume, which to me is the gold standard since it uses a bunch of stupid formatting hacks to get it to look decent.
Exactly. If you melt the ice you won't have lakes, you'll have water vapor slipping into space. At least ice can be harvested by any future human colonists.
My cheapo Dell laptop (less than 4 months old) has recently developed an intermittent short in the power cord between the machine and the AC adapter. Of course, that section of the power cord is permanently attached to the AC adapter, meaning that Dell wants be to buy a new one... Incidentally, the three-prong section of the power cord (between the AC adapter and the wall socket) is cheap as hell, but is so sturdy that it has little chance of a similar failure.
"Febtober!" (Done in best 'Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery' voice)
That is problematic, of course, but life-or-death computers probably should be using GMT anyway (without daylight adjustments).
"There ain't no vista, there ain't no view, and there sure as hell ain't no vista of no view!"
or something very similar to that.
It WAS on another night. (Wednesday?) They moved it to Friday in order to kill it. This is the unfortunate reason that the saveenterprise movement was doomed from the get-go. It didn't matter how much money they might have raised, or even numbers of donations, Paramount wanted it dead long ago.
A USB Floppy drive would allow me to keep one drive pretty much for the rest of my life and not need to worry about "frankensteining" drives.
But they often *aren't* fired. Because the adminstrator was tired. Because the "in class review" is a joke. Because they union will have a shit fit.
It's just easier for the adminstrator to let a marginal teacher stay in his/her position rather than go through the trouble of firing him/her and hiring somebody new who might not be any better.
Inertia occurs outside of teaching, but tenure compounds the problem in the teacher labor market.
Gee, this sounds a lot like my job, except I'm not a teacher and I don't make anywhere near $46k, and I have a BA from a top tier university.
The problem with the teachers' unions (along with many trade & labor unions) is that they have become self-serving monsters. They don't serve the students, and they barely serve the union members. The good teachers are not well-served by all the dead weight idiots who managed to get tenure. The dead weight brings the average value of a teacher down. Hiring a teacher is a "lemon" market. There's a good chance your new hire will be a lemon that you'll have a hard time getting rid of, and that has a bad effect on teacher salary.
...As opposed to kids who not only can't think for themselves, but can't read, write, or perform simple math either. I've seen it happen, and I think you probably have seen it too.
Amen
School is where you get an education, not job training.
Yes and no. I think it's important for some classes (electives mostly) to teach skills to kids who probably won't go to college. Having a 'business software use' class isn't the worst thing you can do to a kid.
get computers out of schools completely
As tools to teach an unrelated subject, this is correct. However, there need to be elective classes that are computer-centric. Namely, Business Software, and Intro Programming. Probably wouldn't kill the art class to have a few computers around either. Internet should be in the library only.
They need to read more and write more, and be able to construct cogent arguments and analyses in both written and oral form. They need classes in rhetoric and philosophy.
Ditto. Actually, I would argue for swapping out at least one year of English Lit for a Philosophy class. Plato is more important than Bronte anyway, and more interesting. The skills you mentioned are more easily developed in a Philosophy class than in English Lit where they attempt to teach them.
He writes for a popular/mass audience, but Matt Ridley's books are really insightful, and a quick read despite their length.
You're approaching this the wrong way. I think Matt Ridley said it best - "the gene's eye view". The genome of the ant/bee species continues. In this view, the genes "use" the workers and the reproductive individuals in much the same way. With evolution, the question is "what best promotes the genes?" Or, more bluntly (and perhaps more accurately), "what works?"
Don't confuse strong flavor with "nasty crap". Yuengling is yummy. So much in demand that they've had to expand their production facilities, and in certain markets it sells as a "premium" along with Heineken, Sam Adams, and Beck's.
Yes, Windows is a bit backwards on a lot of things, but you really can do a lot of "admin" stuff from a limited account without logging out.
You can run an instance of IE for Windows Update as Admin w/o logging out, or just turn on automatic updates. (This isn't that much different from su... aptitude update... atitude upgrade)
It's still better than what TFA suggests is being done, which is the complete opposite. That is, running as admin all the time and running certain tasks as LU. That is totally backwards.
People have used Powerpoint to inflict great suffering, but the process of making a presentation is pretty slick. OOo's "Impress" is a crime against humanity though. I don't even care about page transitions or templates or anything. I just want to make presentations slightly more complicated than bullet points and it is such a PITA to use I gave up. Powerpoint 97 has a better interface and doesn't crash as much. (Yes, I submitted OOo crash reports.)
Not sure if it's still that way, but WordPerfect in the not-so-distant past worked that way too. (Whatever version was current circa 2002.)
1 - You are always your own grandfather. At some point in the past, a dude appears from nowhere and impregnates your grandmother. Later, you discover time travel, and go back and become the man who impregnates your grandmother... This possibility appears to be the most internally consistent.
2 - You exist in a timeline wherein you are NOT ("already") your own grandfather. You discover time travel, and go back and impregnate your grandmother thus preventing "you" (in the precise genetic sense) from existing by changing your lineage. If this situation is not considered paradoxical (ie, impossible), it must then be either "iterative" or an alternate timeline/universe.
You seem to imply that switching to Intel implies that the whole line is going commodity. I seriously doubt that. Apple will control the hardware w/ an iron fist, as they always have. They're "just" switching cpu's... though any cpu switch should be of some concern.
Or, wait for somebody else to figure it out and d/l it off p2p.