There are a number of recent efforts in the exploratory spatial data analysis real that attempt to deliver on the "end user" side of things, for example:
I had the classic facist typing teacher in hs (long time ago). At the time I absolutely hated that experience.
Now, many years later, I can honestly say that course comes into play everyday - learning how to touch-type w/o looking at the keyboard or leaving the home row was something that I didn't appreciate way back when. Now it pains me to watch "finger-pokers".
I've often thought of sending that nasty teacher a thank you note, but she was simply too nasty.
sure they OP was off the mark on the orignal product in question, but it is the same company (blackboard inc) that is pushing the lawyers.
while the security issues for the commerce system probably are larger than those for the collaborative system, the company (and its lame attitude) is the same.
If you live about 20 miles from your job and have good roads with bike lanes along the route, you may be interested in getting a power assist.
20 miles of good roads with bike lanes would be a dream for most roadies. not to mention that mopeds are not allowed in bike lanes in many/most states.
I live only about 15 miles from my job (near Denver), but have to climb roughly 1000 ft. to get home, not an easy feat at the end of a long day if you're travelling by bicycle.
that's a pretty good gradient you got there, but again, i think most cyclists would be able to think of few better ways to end a long day at the office.
i think there would be more folks moving to linux because of this. personally, about 4 yrs ago i was using LaTeX, cygwin stuff on windows and it was a royal pita to get things set up cleanly. after a while i thought, "why don't i try these things under linux". since then i haven't looked back.
so, i think this is a good thing, one for bringing more folks to linux and two, for those poor folks who are forced (i.e., jobs) to work in windows. even with the hassles of getting cygwin and co setup on windows, it was still way better than using windows without it.
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There are a number of recent efforts in the exploratory spatial data analysis real that attempt to deliver on the "end user" side of things, for example:
Geoda http://sal.agecon.uiuc.edu/geoda_main.php
STARS http://stars-py.sf.net
Choro http://choroware.sourceforge.net/
I had the classic facist typing teacher in hs (long time ago). At the time I absolutely hated that experience.
Now, many years later, I can honestly say that course comes into play everyday - learning how to touch-type w/o looking at the keyboard or leaving the home row was something that I didn't appreciate way back when. Now it pains me to watch "finger-pokers".
I've often thought of sending that nasty teacher a thank you note, but she was simply too nasty.
sure they OP was off the mark on the orignal product in question, but it is the same company (blackboard inc) that is pushing the lawyers.
while the security issues for the commerce system probably are larger than those for the collaborative system, the company (and its lame attitude) is the same.
If you live about 20 miles from your job and have good roads with bike lanes along the route, you may be interested in getting a power assist.
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20 miles of good roads with bike lanes would be a dream for most roadies. not to mention that mopeds are not allowed in bike lanes in many/most states.
I live only about 15 miles from my job (near Denver), but have to climb roughly 1000 ft. to get home, not an easy feat at the end of a long day if you're travelling by bicycle.
that's a pretty good gradient you got there, but again, i think most cyclists would be able to think of few better ways to end a long day at the office.
nice to see some cyclists on
i think there would be more folks moving to linux because of this. personally, about 4 yrs ago i was using LaTeX, cygwin stuff on windows and it was a royal pita to get things set up cleanly. after a while i thought, "why don't i try these things under linux". since then i haven't looked back.
so, i think this is a good thing, one for bringing more folks to linux and two, for those poor folks who are forced (i.e., jobs) to work in windows. even with the hassles of getting cygwin and co setup on windows, it was still way better than using windows without it.
"Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse". Larry Wall
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(Creator of Perl), 14 Oct 1998
source:
http://www.mindview.net/Books/Python/ThinkingIn
remember we are talking about lawyers, for whom semantics trump logic and common sense.