Yeah, I've always found this move to 16:9 for computers odd.
Marketing and profit. A "19" WIDESCREEN!" sounds so much cooler/better than a 19" 4:3. Sounds like you're getting something 'extra'. In reality, a 19" 16:9 is less square inches than a 19" 4:3. Consequently, fewer pixels and cheaper build price.
but I wish they would give users the option of collapsing the ribbon back in to proper menu's for consistency with every other app not made by Microsoft
Right-click on the ribbon|Minimize the Ribbon Done.
It's the same reason the American shuttle has a crew and the Russian shuttle didn't.
They Buran flew unmanned, because it wasn't quite finished. No software for the cockpit displays, and life support only partially complete. "Screw it...fly it anyway."
IIRC, the only consideration on the Shuttle is the landing gear. It is a one shot deal, which can only be done after reentry, and its slowed down to below ~300 mph. Anywhere else, and you have broken gear and a crashed Shuttle. Everything else can be done remotely, but a 'deploy' signal to the gear anytime before it slows down enough is a crash.
This was a deliberate design decision, not a case of 'we don't know how'.
Since STS-121 in 2006, there is now a remote cable to allow ground control of the normally manual functions. Obviously, only in an emergency.
If I were a government (or a head of government), I would NEVER allow my military or important offices use proprietary software! I want the source code in my hand, period.
What would you have done 10-15 yrs ago? Linux was in its wildly unusable infancy. OpenOffice? Not even a wet dream yet. Apache? Ha.
10 yrs ago, there was no enterprise level, non proprietary suite and supporting OS. Thin, green screen clients, or Windows. They made the decision to push functionality out to the desktop.
Fast forward to 2009. MS is entrenched. Switching to something else would be a HUGE effort. At least a decade, just for one DoD component. You cannot, no matter how much you wish it were so, jump the tracks to another platform that easily.
She does have an iPod (older nano). Far too cheap/poor to actually 'buy' stuff from the ITMS, she gets music in other ways, and ports it into the iPod as regular mp3s.
Seriously though, if the government purchased software from companies other than Microsoft
From where? If other companies produced software that did as much as the stuff out of Redmond, they might. The combination/interoperability (on an enterprise level) of Windows|Exchange|Office|SharePoint|ActiveDirectory|SQLServer is pretty hard to beat. Even with all the MS holes.
Show us another OS as the base where I can build all of that. Now convince me to rebuild the thousands of the tiny office level apps (Excel/Access/PowerPoint) that people actually use every day. Now blow some smoke up my ass and tell me it won't take years to move just one DoD component.
For better or worse, the Fed and DoD bought a ticket on the MS train long before there was a real alternative. Switching now would be a decade long, very expensive journey, for not that much gain.
I considered Ubuntu as an experiment, but then I decided against it, because I didn't want to have to deal with the headaches
Last year, my daughter and a friend were staying with us for about 6 months. I gave them an old Sony (Celeron 800) laptop to use. Ubuntu installed. Didn't tell them, or guide them in any way.
After a couple of months, I asked how the laptop was working with that different operating system. "Huh...what do you mean?" Of course, she had been conditioned to FireFox on windows beforehand, but they never knew/realized/cared that it wasn't 'Windows'.
, neither of which had attacked a US military base nor committed any other hostile action.
You can continue to be deluded, but throughout the '90s, there were dozens and dozens of times the Iraqi military targeted and/or fired on coalition aircraft (British, French, US, and Turkish) with SAMs or AAA.
So what's preventing advertising companies to have global or localized ads, depending where the user lives?
Its technically feasible. But as an advertiser, are you going to pay for 18 localized versions of ads to locales that have very little money to buy your wares? And all the corporate infrastructure needed for that?
True. But, for instance, translation to their local language, for thier population, still gains you nothing back in financial terms. Yes, you've gotten the value of work from them, but in real terms...nothing has flowed back to your pocket. The service they have performed is mostly useless to those who CAN and do pay.
Like advertising to dedicated music 'pirates'. They're not going to (or can't) buy from you anyway, so any resources devoted to them is money down the drain.
Unfortunately, none of your proposals provide a way for money (however small an amount it may be) to flow from the users to the advertisers/corporations/web site operators.
Which is the main problem outlined.
It's one thing to be nervous when a plane flies by. It's entirely another thing to evacuate multiple buildings when a plane flies by.
It's not merely an airplane flying by. That happens all the time, especially in NYC. This was markedly different from the usual jets into and out of the 3 major airports there.
On a very unusual flight path At a very low altitude (unusual) Circling around a couple of times (unusual) Being followed by at least one fighter jet. In a city where 2 airliners were flown into buildings, in the same neighborhood.
What would you think? Business as usual...just another aircraft flying by. I think not.
And 20 hours per week? Even on poor, minimum wage salary (seven dollars an hour?) thats 140 dollars per week, 560 dollars a month.
He's 68, retired. Apparently doesn't need nor want the money. No, they're not really 'connected' to the company, but rather, as you said, 'give advice on a forum'.
Tell me no one reading this has given free advice in a RedHat forum.
Cox here in RI is a bit more sensitive to the fact that Verizon has cabled up the entire city with FiOS. Competition is good.
Same here in Virginia. Cox's 'Preferred' package is 40Gb/15, at speeds of 12/2, and the 'Premier' is 60/15, at speeds of 20/3.
I routinely go over the 40Gb dl limit, and have never heard anything from them.
So far.
So does every block in NYC have fiber, with cheap unlimited 100/100MBit connection? If not, why?
Frequently, the biggest bang for the buck is in the suburbs. More disposable money per household (on average), and easier installation because you don't have a 200 year old infrastructure to deal with.
Even if we allow that some cargo ships are chased for hours...a fighter jet is not the tool to use against a 20' speedboat in the open ocean, very close to the ship you're trying to protect.
200mph(min) vs 20mph. And the only tools they have is a burst of 20MM, or a 500lb Mk-82. Jets are very, very good for what they are designed for. This is not it.
And "a couple of" carriers is 20% of the fleet. Seeing as 2 of active decks those are presently in dock in Norfolk, and probably another one in dock on the west coast, 1 for training somewhere...2 carriers is a significant chunk of what's available.
1. The US Navy, large as it is, does not have an unlimited number of carriers. 2. Even at F-18 speeds...time from detection to launch to being overhead may be 30 minutes. By then, the pirates are already onboard. 3. What do you expect a fighter jet to do? About all they can do is hose the now captured ship with the 20MM cannon, or drop a bomb on it. Not very precise.
It does when your two statements are factually false. Do you really think Sunni vs Shia violence will magically stop when all foreign military is out of Iraq? Fat chance. Likely, it will escalate. As far as 'no need for such tools'...it is an information sharing and continuity system. Useful in all sorts of (military) ways. For instance, a peacekeeping force in Africa somewhere. Or UN peacekeepers in Timor or Georgia.
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Because you have the bill of sale and/or title from the seller/dealer. The others do not.
Yeah, I've always found this move to 16:9 for computers odd.
Marketing and profit. A "19" WIDESCREEN!" sounds so much cooler/better than a 19" 4:3. Sounds like you're getting something 'extra'.
In reality, a 19" 16:9 is less square inches than a 19" 4:3. Consequently, fewer pixels and cheaper build price.
but I wish they would give users the option of collapsing the ribbon back in to proper menu's for consistency with every other app not made by Microsoft
Right-click on the ribbon|Minimize the Ribbon
Done.
It's the same reason the American shuttle has a crew and the Russian shuttle didn't.
They Buran flew unmanned, because it wasn't quite finished. No software for the cockpit displays, and life support only partially complete.
"Screw it...fly it anyway."
IIRC, the only consideration on the Shuttle is the landing gear. It is a one shot deal, which can only be done after reentry, and its slowed down to below ~300 mph. Anywhere else, and you have broken gear and a crashed Shuttle. Everything else can be done remotely, but a 'deploy' signal to the gear anytime before it slows down enough is a crash.
This was a deliberate design decision, not a case of 'we don't know how'.
Since STS-121 in 2006, there is now a remote cable to allow ground control of the normally manual functions. Obviously, only in an emergency.
His solution for long trips -- hitch a little cart on the back with a generator.
That's merely a garage-built Prius/Insight/Volt. Only far more cumbersome.
someone trying to figure out how to use some of the stimulus billions for yet another social pet cause
Bingo.
You will see more of this soon.
If I were a government (or a head of government), I would NEVER allow my military or important offices use proprietary software! I want the source code in my hand, period.
What would you have done 10-15 yrs ago? Linux was in its wildly unusable infancy. OpenOffice? Not even a wet dream yet. Apache? Ha.
10 yrs ago, there was no enterprise level, non proprietary suite and supporting OS. Thin, green screen clients, or Windows. They made the decision to push functionality out to the desktop.
Fast forward to 2009. MS is entrenched. Switching to something else would be a HUGE effort. At least a decade, just for one DoD component.
You cannot, no matter how much you wish it were so, jump the tracks to another platform that easily.
The FDCC configuration grew out of the Air Force's SDC configuration (warning, MS Word doc link).
She does have an iPod (older nano). Far too cheap/poor to actually 'buy' stuff from the ITMS, she gets music in other ways, and ports it into the iPod as regular mp3s.
Seriously though, if the government purchased software from companies other than Microsoft
From where? If other companies produced software that did as much as the stuff out of Redmond, they might.
The combination/interoperability (on an enterprise level) of Windows|Exchange|Office|SharePoint|ActiveDirectory|SQLServer is pretty hard to beat. Even with all the MS holes.
Show us another OS as the base where I can build all of that. Now convince me to rebuild the thousands of the tiny office level apps (Excel/Access/PowerPoint) that people actually use every day.
Now blow some smoke up my ass and tell me it won't take years to move just one DoD component.
For better or worse, the Fed and DoD bought a ticket on the MS train long before there was a real alternative. Switching now would be a decade long, very expensive journey, for not that much gain.
I considered Ubuntu as an experiment, but then I decided against it, because I didn't want to have to deal with the headaches
Last year, my daughter and a friend were staying with us for about 6 months. I gave them an old Sony (Celeron 800) laptop to use. Ubuntu installed.
Didn't tell them, or guide them in any way.
After a couple of months, I asked how the laptop was working with that different operating system.
"Huh...what do you mean?" Of course, she had been conditioned to FireFox on windows beforehand, but they never knew/realized/cared that it wasn't 'Windows'.
, neither of which had attacked a US military base nor committed any other hostile action.
You can continue to be deluded, but throughout the '90s, there were dozens and dozens of times the Iraqi military targeted and/or fired on coalition aircraft (British, French, US, and Turkish) with SAMs or AAA.
So what's preventing advertising companies to have global or localized ads, depending where the user lives?
Its technically feasible. But as an advertiser, are you going to pay for 18 localized versions of ads to locales that have very little money to buy your wares? And all the corporate infrastructure needed for that?
True. But, for instance, translation to their local language, for thier population, still gains you nothing back in financial terms.
Yes, you've gotten the value of work from them, but in real terms...nothing has flowed back to your pocket. The service they have performed is mostly useless to those who CAN and do pay.
Like advertising to dedicated music 'pirates'. They're not going to (or can't) buy from you anyway, so any resources devoted to them is money down the drain.
At some point, it has to be Money = money.
Unfortunately, none of your proposals provide a way for money (however small an amount it may be) to flow from the users to the advertisers/corporations/web site operators.
Which is the main problem outlined.
It's one thing to be nervous when a plane flies by. It's entirely another thing to evacuate multiple buildings when a plane flies by.
It's not merely an airplane flying by. That happens all the time, especially in NYC. This was markedly different from the usual jets into and out of the 3 major airports there.
On a very unusual flight path
At a very low altitude (unusual)
Circling around a couple of times (unusual)
Being followed by at least one fighter jet.
In a city where 2 airliners were flown into buildings, in the same neighborhood.
What would you think? Business as usual...just another aircraft flying by. I think not.
And 20 hours per week? Even on poor, minimum wage salary (seven dollars an hour?) thats 140 dollars per week, 560 dollars a month.
He's 68, retired. Apparently doesn't need nor want the money.
No, they're not really 'connected' to the company, but rather, as you said, 'give advice on a forum'.
Tell me no one reading this has given free advice in a RedHat forum.
I have the scan cards for every place I shop. Of course none of them have my real name or phone number on them.
Until you pay with something other than cash.
I have not had a utility bill, phone bill or cable bill in my name for over 9 years now. They are always under a fake name
Do you own or rent?
My drivers license is always two places or more behind my actual address, same with vehicle registration.
Generally, speaking, you are probably breaking a local/state law.
Cox here in RI is a bit more sensitive to the fact that Verizon has cabled up the entire city with FiOS. Competition is good.
Same here in Virginia. Cox's 'Preferred' package is 40Gb/15, at speeds of 12/2, and the 'Premier' is 60/15, at speeds of 20/3.
I routinely go over the 40Gb dl limit, and have never heard anything from them.
So far.
So does every block in NYC have fiber, with cheap unlimited 100/100MBit connection? If not, why?
Frequently, the biggest bang for the buck is in the suburbs. More disposable money per household (on average), and easier installation because you don't have a 200 year old infrastructure to deal with.
Even if we allow that some cargo ships are chased for hours...a fighter jet is not the tool to use against a 20' speedboat in the open ocean, very close to the ship you're trying to protect.
200mph(min) vs 20mph. And the only tools they have is a burst of 20MM, or a 500lb Mk-82.
Jets are very, very good for what they are designed for. This is not it.
And "a couple of" carriers is 20% of the fleet. Seeing as 2 of active decks those are presently in dock in Norfolk, and probably another one in dock on the west coast, 1 for training somewhere...2 carriers is a significant chunk of what's available.
1. The US Navy, large as it is, does not have an unlimited number of carriers.
2. Even at F-18 speeds...time from detection to launch to being overhead may be 30 minutes. By then, the pirates are already onboard.
3. What do you expect a fighter jet to do? About all they can do is hose the now captured ship with the 20MM cannon, or drop a bomb on it. Not very precise.
didn't know anti-war position equals flamebait...
It does when your two statements are factually false. Do you really think Sunni vs Shia violence will magically stop when all foreign military is out of Iraq? Fat chance. Likely, it will escalate.
As far as 'no need for such tools'...it is an information sharing and continuity system. Useful in all sorts of (military) ways. For instance, a peacekeeping force in Africa somewhere. Or UN peacekeepers in Timor or Georgia.
The whole financial system
.mil domain.
*.gov
*.edu (and all the associated research tentacles)
Unless you (mistakenly) think that "national security" only means the
Bring down a significant part of the 'net, and it IS "national security". For multiple values of "national".