Outside of the professionals, I see some form of literacy mostly with those who stay away from Windows. With a few exeptions, the majority of casual Windows users is like a tourist who has learned to say "pizza", "toilet", "bed" and "thank you", but has next to no idea of the grammar or other concepts of the language.
Then again, I suppose "more people using one" equals "more literacy" to some.
You know why it's tough to get unsecured loans ? Because those are exactly what got the whole fucking world into a crisis.
The gratuitous giving out of loans created a period where too many people were able to live on more money than they had; and the consequence is that there is now a period where those same people plus quite a few casualties have to live on less money. It may not be fun, but the latter is a direct consequence of the former.
I agree with your premise, but in you last sentence you make it sound like the convenience downloaders are the majority part, and I simply don't believe that is the case. People are cheap, and have an inflated sense of entitlement; and this has been the case for several decades. A large chunk of the fans will cough up for the goods, yes, but the majority of the occasional listener will keep treating, say, music just like they treat it on the radio: something that comes out of the air, for free.
Spot on, to my great regret. Way back, I seem to recall DBase having some kind of application builder, but I'm talking DOS era.
This, desktop publishing and gaming are the three great voids on the (generic) Linux desktop, as far as I'm concerned. That being said, inways into the void are being made: Wine supports more and more games; Scribus is shaping up to be a reasonable DTP package; and OpenOffice has sprouted some kind of database frontend application builder in recent years - although I personally haven't really looked at it, yet.
Not that I did say the generic Linux desktop - of course there's always specialised areas like high-end photo editing, video stuff, music and whatnot.
So you is Windows equally incapable of playing Netflix content ? Oh, wait, no - there's the Microsoft SOFTWARE DRM solution.
Neflix chose Microsoft's DRM solution, so that *is* their doing. Maybe they never looked for a cross-platform solution, maybe they never found one, or maybe MS went "oh but silverlight is cross-platform, here, have a Miguel" - that I don't know.
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> It's happening in the EU and it's started in the US
Umm... How is it happening in the EU ? The US is the one with Comcast trying to bill both content providers and content consumers and doing prioritisation; not to mention the government being able to pressure major internet and realworld companies like Paypal, EveryDNS, Amazon and Visa into kicking Wikileaks.
As for Europe, well... The swedes charged,discharged and recharged Assange - which is probably not originally a US plot, but the recharge might have been political; the UK arrested him - but that's just following Interpol standards; and the Swiss - surprisingly - kicked his bank account, on charges of providing false information, which really is a good enough reason, just a bit very coincidental timing. None of that is related to net neutrality in and of itself, however; and note that the wikileaks domain is currently in Switzerland.
I dunno; the US seems the worse of where net neutrality is concerned, at least at this moment.
How does that work ? Does that mean Pb can vary between 207.20 and 207.29... ? How about when the weight of an element could vary between, say, 200.45 and 200.47 ?
Obviously ! The Taliban will be shitting their pants because they now grasp how utterly brilliant the American tactics are; while at the same time you've kept the grunts safely away from the horrible dangers of thinking for yourself.
Well, either that, or the Taliban will die laughing.
I don't know about you, but I find that worrisome.
> However, the key thing is [...]
Yes, that's what I hinted at; however, while there are certainly those, I'm afraid I have quite a bit less faith in the security-related intelligence of Joe Average User. I can't tell you how many times I found passwords on post-its, in support tickets without even asking, et cetera.
No, of those 20%, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there's three-quarters genuine, especially with the "to verfiy you're registered" ruse I suggested.
It's a bit like putting the cat by the milk, isn't it ? While you can bet your house that it'll have eaten it, it's not really fair to beat the poor beastie until you've actually gone and looked at the saucer.
Why would online take-out require an address ? Name, ok, easy identification of the order - assume people won't remember your uid - but if you pre-pay the order, they have no need whatsoever for your address or any other details.
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Computer literacy ? Really ?
Outside of the professionals, I see some form of literacy mostly with those who stay away from Windows. With a few exeptions, the majority of casual Windows users is like a tourist who has learned to say "pizza", "toilet", "bed" and "thank you", but has next to no idea of the grammar or other concepts of the language.
Then again, I suppose "more people using one" equals "more literacy" to some.
Oh, come on. The regulators'll never stand for it, Oracle would get way too much clout in the business that way.
You know why it's tough to get unsecured loans ? Because those are exactly what got the whole fucking world into a crisis.
The gratuitous giving out of loans created a period where too many people were able to live on more money than they had; and the consequence is that there is now a period where those same people plus quite a few casualties have to live on less money. It may not be fun, but the latter is a direct consequence of the former.
"Britannica" can reference to other things than said encyclopaedia. This gives a different picture.
I agree with your premise, but in you last sentence you make it sound like the convenience downloaders are the majority part, and I simply don't believe that is the case. People are cheap, and have an inflated sense of entitlement; and this has been the case for several decades. A large chunk of the fans will cough up for the goods, yes, but the majority of the occasional listener will keep treating, say, music just like they treat it on the radio: something that comes out of the air, for free.
CVS - Concurrent Versioning Software.
VCS - Versioning Control Software.
CSV - Comma Separated Values
Any more confusion ? :-p
I just read "A fireball is reasonable protection for most people". Time for coffee.
Where are all the people who feel it's not really necessary apply correct spelling ?
> Slashdot is 1 % advanced, 64 % intermediate and 34 % basic."
What's the missing 1%, then ? CowboyNeal ?
3 to 5 years for how many people ?
OOO split out from Oracle, but if Larry were to decide it'd be funny to give Ballmer a heart attack, I suspect progress could be made pretty rapidly.
Now to convince Larry :-)
You can perfectly provide a single closed-source library that handles that part and link it in to an otherwise open-sourced application.
It's not like nobody is using, say, the binary nVidia or Ati drivers, for instance.
Well, she *is* stretching quite a bit when she turns back, so...
Weren't there "only" 11 dimensions, or have they added some in the new catalog ?
Oh, aren't you great and wonderful.
Cite me a hundred of your passwords offhand, with appropriate sites and logins so I can verify your claims, and I'll believe you.
Spot on, to my great regret. Way back, I seem to recall DBase having some kind of application builder, but I'm talking DOS era.
This, desktop publishing and gaming are the three great voids on the (generic) Linux desktop, as far as I'm concerned. That being said, inways into the void are being made: Wine supports more and more games; Scribus is shaping up to be a reasonable DTP package; and OpenOffice has sprouted some kind of database frontend application builder in recent years - although I personally haven't really looked at it, yet.
Not that I did say the generic Linux desktop - of course there's always specialised areas like high-end photo editing, video stuff, music and whatnot.
So you is Windows equally incapable of playing Netflix content ? Oh, wait, no - there's the Microsoft SOFTWARE DRM solution.
Neflix chose Microsoft's DRM solution, so that *is* their doing. Maybe they never looked for a cross-platform solution, maybe they never found one, or maybe MS went "oh but silverlight is cross-platform, here, have a Miguel" - that I don't know.
> It's happening in the EU and it's started in the US
Umm... How is it happening in the EU ? The US is the one with Comcast trying to bill both content providers and content consumers and doing prioritisation; not to mention the government being able to pressure major internet and realworld companies like Paypal, EveryDNS, Amazon and Visa into kicking Wikileaks.
As for Europe, well... The swedes charged,discharged and recharged Assange - which is probably not originally a US plot, but the recharge might have been political; the UK arrested him - but that's just following Interpol standards; and the Swiss - surprisingly - kicked his bank account, on charges of providing false information, which really is a good enough reason, just a bit very coincidental timing. None of that is related to net neutrality in and of itself, however; and note that the wikileaks domain is currently in Switzerland.
I dunno; the US seems the worse of where net neutrality is concerned, at least at this moment.
How does that work ? Does that mean Pb can vary between 207.20 and 207.29... ? How about when the weight of an element could vary between, say, 200.45 and 200.47 ?
You mean you actually *have* an economy, these days ?
Well... to be fair, that's be at least as much use to fix a dam as a gun would be.
Well, the documents have become public knowledge now, and are as good as impossible to fully recover.
I know this is thinking waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of the box, but how about DEclassifying them ?
Obviously ! The Taliban will be shitting their pants because they now grasp how utterly brilliant the American tactics are; while at the same time you've kept the grunts safely away from the horrible dangers of thinking for yourself.
Well, either that, or the Taliban will die laughing.
> it was apparently 20%
I don't know about you, but I find that worrisome.
> However, the key thing is [...]
Yes, that's what I hinted at; however, while there are certainly those, I'm afraid I have quite a bit less faith in the security-related intelligence of Joe Average User. I can't tell you how many times I found passwords on post-its, in support tickets without even asking, et cetera.
No, of those 20%, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there's three-quarters genuine, especially with the "to verfiy you're registered" ruse I suggested.
Wellll.... technically speaking...
It's a bit like putting the cat by the milk, isn't it ? While you can bet your house that it'll have eaten it, it's not really fair to beat the poor beastie until you've actually gone and looked at the saucer.
Why would online take-out require an address ? Name, ok, easy identification of the order - assume people won't remember your uid - but if you pre-pay the order, they have no need whatsoever for your address or any other details.