It's for ChromeOS, which doesn't allow app (or driver) installs, so the driver will be included in the digitally-signed OS image. (The clue was that the story was on the ChromeOS blog.)
Since this is for Chrome and everything is going to be in a web browser, anyway, I think it'll just be a one-way trip from the GOOG servers to the printer.
Printing sucks. Always has, always will. Just don't do it.
It's for this reason that I was a little disappointed about GDocs new "more paper-like" interface. I always figured people would do 95% of the work collaboratively and without real interest in formatting, and have on guy download and do final formatting only if the product needed it.
It seems that this new interface is going to encourage more time-wasting formatting debates and more useless printing.
Unfortunately, the Red Shirts really are mostly uneducated people. Thaksin's support comes from the rural areas, where 6-9th grade education is the norm. The schools aren't very good (even by Thai standards) for those nine years, either.
Thaksin took corruption to new levels. He was the richest man in Thailand before he got elected (basically buying the election -- not too difficult when a vote costs two beers), but then pretty much doubled his wealth while in office due to corruption. That's a lot of corruption.
The king of Thailand shouldn't even be in this discussion at all, really. He's just a figurehead with no real power over anything in the constitutional monarchy. Unfortunately, he's being used as a talking point by both sides.
Thailand's in some deep shit right now. These kinds of wounds don't heal easily.
11 of the dead have been determined to have died from rubber bullets. Some of the others were police, shot with real bullets. Yeah, the Thais generally hate the police, and not without good reason.
If morality is consensus, then society decides morality, and there isn't any over-riding morality laid down from on high. You can't say "Yeah, no, whether it's considered morally right or wrong in your society is dependent on your society, not whether it actually is" the way the GGP said it.
Thaksin has called for the removal of the Thai king (whom Thaksin refers to as "Amart" to be obtuse) by whatever means necessary. That means the end of the constitutional monarchy. Is that close enough to revolt for you?
The situation there is not as it's represented in the summary. I lived through Thaksin's rise and fall, and I just moved from Bangkok (where most of the protests are) a week or so ago.
Thaksin was probably the most corrupt PM in Thailand's history (that was a difficult record to break). The only reason he has the support of 90% of the geographic area of Thailand is because of all the pork barrel projects he shoved there -- free money, special programs, whatever. Imagine the President of the U.S. buying popularity by artificially propping up the economy in the midwest and south.
When he was ousted in a bloodless coup four years ago, the instigators (the army) immediately started making movements toward giving up power and restoring democracy. Coups aren't rare in Thailand. They happen about every ten years. The straw that broke the camel's bank was when Thaksin started claiming himself to be equal to the king, which upset a lot of people.
During elections, Thaksin's old party, Thai Rak Thai (Thais for Thais??) was disbanded, but a puppet party was created, and his brother-in-law won the election. Thaksin asked to return to Thailand and agreed never to seek re-election. Except he has been doing that ever since. He also calls for the removal of the King by whatever means necessary (He uses the phrase "Amart" in order to be obtuse and not name names, but everyone knows who he's talking about). It's like Tony Blair calling for the removal of the Queen. She's got no power. She's just a figurehead. What's the point?
The summary also mentions lese-majeste, and claims that it's being (ab)used often. It's not. The king is a pretty apolitical figure, and the law is rarely used. Let's see how the monarchy distances itself: Once the anti-Thaksin crowd seized on the royal color, yellow, for their "gang colors'" the royal color was promptly switched to pink. A year later, and the yellow-shirts started wearing pink. The royal color changed again.
The monarchy in Thailand really is a moderating force in a sea of corruption in Thailand. The red Shirts are using cell phone bombs and the like. The army is pushing back. It's guaranteed to end up like Sri Lanka if it doesn't let up soon.
It's really got nothing to do with the King or lese-majeste, other than crap politicians using him as talking points.
p.s. Frank Anderson doesn't even understand enough to know that people switching from Thai to Chinese in front of him isn't about the Thai government being "beholden to China": it's about keeping him out of the conversation by switching to a language he doesn't understand. His characterization of the Yellow Shirts as "pro-democracy" is equally laughable and is probably the result of spending all his time in Korat, deep in Thaksin country.
I'm neither pro-Thaksin nor pro coup. I find all this shit disastrous for Thailand, the Thai people, and the economy.
All we need now is for browsers to move video playback out of the browser and into the platform's standard video framework (e.g. WMP, GStreamer, or Quicktime) and just let the framework handle it.
Recent versions do allow the use of styles, yes, but it's not encouraged, and the legacy of the word processor is that people continue the bad habits they formed with it ten years ago and manually format every line.
That was not my main point, though. dpbsmith may just have carried those habits forward. He would have been better doing only basic formatting and emphasizing collaboration, saving the heavy formatting for a DTP application at the end.
The Korean high schoolers near my apartment would be in school from 8am to 12am pretty much straight. There were a couple of breaks where they would run out and watch StarCraft on TV, but that was about it.
The revision history will show you who made what changes, when, but I get your point -- you want different colors for each contributor or something similar that can all be viewed simultaneously. I believe that should be arriving with this new code drop, since something very similar was shown in the video.
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It's for ChromeOS, which doesn't allow app (or driver) installs, so the driver will be included in the digitally-signed OS image. (The clue was that the story was on the ChromeOS blog.)
Since this is for Chrome and everything is going to be in a web browser, anyway, I think it'll just be a one-way trip from the GOOG servers to the printer.
Printing sucks. Always has, always will. Just don't do it.
It's for this reason that I was a little disappointed about GDocs new "more paper-like" interface. I always figured people would do 95% of the work collaboratively and without real interest in formatting, and have on guy download and do final formatting only if the product needed it.
It seems that this new interface is going to encourage more time-wasting formatting debates and more useless printing.
Exactly. This strategy just screams "Our game isn't innovative or interesting enough to make you want to pay to play more than an hour of it.
If they wanted to charge something silly, like $1-2 for a demo, I could see paying that.
He was talking about movie trailers, I think.
You should watch this video of Schmidt at Atmosphere. It's really a great insight into the mind of Google. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBaVyCcw47M
Unfortunately, the Red Shirts really are mostly uneducated people. Thaksin's support comes from the rural areas, where 6-9th grade education is the norm. The schools aren't very good (even by Thai standards) for those nine years, either.
Thaksin took corruption to new levels. He was the richest man in Thailand before he got elected (basically buying the election -- not too difficult when a vote costs two beers), but then pretty much doubled his wealth while in office due to corruption. That's a lot of corruption.
The king of Thailand shouldn't even be in this discussion at all, really. He's just a figurehead with no real power over anything in the constitutional monarchy. Unfortunately, he's being used as a talking point by both sides.
Thailand's in some deep shit right now. These kinds of wounds don't heal easily.
11 of the dead have been determined to have died from rubber bullets. Some of the others were police, shot with real bullets. Yeah, the Thais generally hate the police, and not without good reason.
If morality is consensus, then society decides morality, and there isn't any over-riding morality laid down from on high. You can't say "Yeah, no, whether it's considered morally right or wrong in your society is dependent on your society, not whether it actually is" the way the GGP said it.
You could just move to Costa Rica, get permanent citizenship (I thin you need about $30K), and live hte rest of your life there on that kind of money.
You have no idea how much money $250K is in the rest of the world.
Thaksin has called for the removal of the Thai king (whom Thaksin refers to as "Amart" to be obtuse) by whatever means necessary. That means the end of the constitutional monarchy. Is that close enough to revolt for you?
"Self-determination" in Thailand means selling your vote for two beers.
Porn? That's the only kind of site I've seen like that. I used to get the warnings in Korea, too. Fuck morality laws.
The situation there is not as it's represented in the summary. I lived through Thaksin's rise and fall, and I just moved from Bangkok (where most of the protests are) a week or so ago.
Thaksin was probably the most corrupt PM in Thailand's history (that was a difficult record to break). The only reason he has the support of 90% of the geographic area of Thailand is because of all the pork barrel projects he shoved there -- free money, special programs, whatever. Imagine the President of the U.S. buying popularity by artificially propping up the economy in the midwest and south.
When he was ousted in a bloodless coup four years ago, the instigators (the army) immediately started making movements toward giving up power and restoring democracy. Coups aren't rare in Thailand. They happen about every ten years. The straw that broke the camel's bank was when Thaksin started claiming himself to be equal to the king, which upset a lot of people.
During elections, Thaksin's old party, Thai Rak Thai (Thais for Thais??) was disbanded, but a puppet party was created, and his brother-in-law won the election. Thaksin asked to return to Thailand and agreed never to seek re-election. Except he has been doing that ever since. He also calls for the removal of the King by whatever means necessary (He uses the phrase "Amart" in order to be obtuse and not name names, but everyone knows who he's talking about). It's like Tony Blair calling for the removal of the Queen. She's got no power. She's just a figurehead. What's the point?
The summary also mentions lese-majeste, and claims that it's being (ab)used often. It's not. The king is a pretty apolitical figure, and the law is rarely used. Let's see how the monarchy distances itself: Once the anti-Thaksin crowd seized on the royal color, yellow, for their "gang colors'" the royal color was promptly switched to pink. A year later, and the yellow-shirts started wearing pink. The royal color changed again.
The monarchy in Thailand really is a moderating force in a sea of corruption in Thailand. The red Shirts are using cell phone bombs and the like. The army is pushing back. It's guaranteed to end up like Sri Lanka if it doesn't let up soon.
It's really got nothing to do with the King or lese-majeste, other than crap politicians using him as talking points.
p.s. Frank Anderson doesn't even understand enough to know that people switching from Thai to Chinese in front of him isn't about the Thai government being "beholden to China": it's about keeping him out of the conversation by switching to a language he doesn't understand. His characterization of the Yellow Shirts as "pro-democracy" is equally laughable and is probably the result of spending all his time in Korat, deep in Thaksin country.
I'm neither pro-Thaksin nor pro coup. I find all this shit disastrous for Thailand, the Thai people, and the economy.
... in the U.S.
All we need now is for browsers to move video playback out of the browser and into the platform's standard video framework (e.g. WMP, GStreamer, or Quicktime) and just let the framework handle it.
Recent versions do allow the use of styles, yes, but it's not encouraged, and the legacy of the word processor is that people continue the bad habits they formed with it ten years ago and manually format every line.
That was not my main point, though. dpbsmith may just have carried those habits forward. He would have been better doing only basic formatting and emphasizing collaboration, saving the heavy formatting for a DTP application at the end.
Not bytecode, but Native Client
But alcohol is available 24/7 in Korea.
All the expats I knew spent the weekends at bars until 8am the next morning. I'd guess that qualifies as something to do at night.
The Korean high schoolers near my apartment would be in school from 8am to 12am pretty much straight. There were a couple of breaks where they would run out and watch StarCraft on TV, but that was about it.
That was pretty much the reason I left Korea. Massive nanny state. Internet filter. AND I was unable to join or post on many sites.
Korea has an online ID law, so I don't think that would work. Real identities with real national ID numbers are used.
The revision history will show you who made what changes, when, but I get your point -- you want different colors for each contributor or something similar that can all be viewed simultaneously. I believe that should be arriving with this new code drop, since something very similar was shown in the video.