I prefer reading e-books. I haven't read a paper book in years. That said I've given serious thought to moving away from ebooks simply because of the prices and DRM. I can loan a book once to my wife via kindle or I can just buy the paper book and give it to her or anyone else when done.
What I've been doing lately is stripping the DRM via Calibre and giving the books I buy away to my mom, wife and mother in-law. I have no moral issue with this since I could do it with a paper book too. But if DRM changes and prices keep going up like they have, then I'm going to say fuck it and go back to paper books.
It's just liberal hypocrisy as usual. Whenever a liberal accuses you of something you can be 99% sure it is what they themselves are guilty of. Man-bear-pig is a disgrace to this nation and a criminal in every sense of the word. It's telling he believes Current TV has more in common with a network like Al Jazeera than a red blooded American patriot like Glenn Beck. And yes, my karma is excellent, I don't care if the liberal fascists here at Slashdot down mod me. I stopped caring about being popular a long time ago.
The answer is private school. I don't even have to read the article. None of this shit was ever an issue until the feminists got their hands on public schools. Private schools dont see these issues.
I'll work 4 jobs before my kid goes to a public school.
Indeed, you're incapable of it. You're such a worthless liberal hack that you're incapable of seeing anything but the DailyKOS talking point. Go fuck yourself.
Fuck you man. I swear to god, people like you are worthless and a perpetual drain on this country. You're too fucking stupid to even see the problem let alone actually fix it. You're going to get exactly what you deserve.
You are one dumb fuck you know that? Congress was democrat controlled for 6 years until 2010. The Senate has been Dem controlled for almost as long. Obama has been in Office for 4 years. Republicans don't have control over anything. YOUR SIDE OWNS THIS MOTHER FUCKER. How about some fucking leadership from the empty chair? Where is he? Oh yeah he's on his 23rd vacation in 4 years.The sack of shit played more gold in 3 years than Bush did in 8.
I don't give a shit if the have a D or an R behind their names. If they are this incompetent they deserve to be tarred and feathered on the white house lawn.
Fuck you blaming everyone but the mother fuckers in control right now. I hate people like you.
Fuck you they have. You're just making shit up now. THEY HAVE NOT HAD A MEETING INT HE WHITE HOUSE FOR 7 WEEKS. Period. End of discussion. Your precious democrats have done absolutely nothing since the elections thinking they had a mandate and could get whatever they wanted without discussing with the R's. Now the ship is about to sink and all you wanna do is blame the R's for not bending over and taking it up the ass for Obama. THEY ARE THE OPPOSITION PARTY. It is their JOB to oppose shit. Both need to bend and make concessions which Boehner did by adopting the Pelosi plan and then having Pelosi, Reid and Obama spit in his face. He's now about to lose his speakership because he bent so far over it pissed his own side off.
So fuck you very much. Take your lies and bullshit and shove them up your ass. I'm tired of you friggin leftwing jackwds lying every time you open your fucking mouths. Just because you say something doesn't make it true asshole.
The Senate has done everything that it can to resolve the upcoming sequestration. The problem is that some Republicans in the House of Representatives are deliberately trying to prevent a deal from happening. The Speaker of the House cannot even marshall enough votes from his own party to pass a piece of legislation that he introduced.
That's because Boehner didn't introduce it. He took Nancy Pelosi's plan and said "fine we'll go with this one" to which Nancy Pelosi and Obama then called "Not a serious offer". Your buddy Obama hasn't held talks with Republicans on the fiscal cliff in 7 weeks and only met with them today for a little grand standing.
It takes two to tango asshole. If you'd quit pointing fingers and blaming the fucking minority party long enough to take your head out of your ass you'd realize that.
> Indeed. Harry Reid and gang can pass crap like this but not a single budget in going on 5 years.
That is because both parties support domestic spying, but the Republicans have been actively obstructing any economic legislation that the Democrats have introduced.
Um no. Harry Reid has never even put a budget up for a vote. He's never even created one for discussion. How can the Republicans obstruct something that doesn't even exist? Quit pointing fingers and start laying the blame on the majority holders that are running the show. You're not doing yourself or this country any favors giving assholes like Reid a free fucking pass.
Or is Google software getting worse instead of better? I tried so hard to like Google Docs and Drive but it's been so buggy for me (in their browser no less) that I simply can not stand to use it. Worse still is the unfinished nature of EVERYTHING Google puts out these days. There is absolutely no polish to anything they have besides gmail. Gmail is fantastic but everything else from them is just terrible. The nail int he coffin for me on the Google side was the Google Drive sync client on OS X, it crashed constantly, failed to sync files all the time and used a crap ton of CPU time draining the battery of my MacBook Air. Not to mention the lack of a Linux client (still!)
Add to the above the fact Google likes to just close shit down whenever they feel like it and I can never let myself get too deep into their ecosystem without worrying whether they'll just cut it off one day (Wave, iGoogle etc.) Google just can't seem to follow through on anything to completion.
I'm neither a Google fan or an Apple fan, I own products from both (Nexus 7 and an MBA) so I don't think I'm biased. I have to say, the two companies have the opposite failings. Apple lacks features but has polish while Google lacks polish while has features. In the end I find myself more inclined to use Apple these days just because I have real work to do and can't dick around with all of Googles BS.
That said, I don't see why anyone would use Google Docs. I guess for simple text files its ok and I hear the collaboration is good so maybe it has uses for a small subset of folks out there but I just don't find it useful. I combine Scrivener, LaTeX and Word for my writing and find my needs met quite well.
Google is run by engineers, which is cool, I actually like that, but as a result, suffers from a lack of real world usability, polish and commitment. Google lacks focus in the right areas (they can sure focus on selling you to advertisers though). I just don't see Google as anything but a search + email provider. Everything else I've tried of theirs has been lackluster and easily met by other options out there at a decent price without the privacy issues.
There are more shoes in this country than guns. Yet people just last weekend were robbed and murdered for their retro Air Jordans. I'm pretty sure those same types would happily kill for an AR-15 in someones safe to show off for their gang banger friends.
Sorry but I work in an enormous office complex where international folks are in and out all day long spreading their germs and diseases. I'm sick 3-4 months out of the year as a result and I only get 8 paid sick days a year, the rest is my precious vacation time. If I dont come to work, I don't get paid. I'm not staying home when I can come to work and spread the love.
Who says we don't? I rebuilt my 1978 Camaro myself. A buddy of mine builds motorcyles for fun and sells them. I have another friend that converted his car to electric. I also put a computer in my Camaro so I have some overlap there.
If you want to get an English degree and be a writer, great - but be prepared to kiss every professor's ass to make connections, and brace yourself for 20-30 years of bitterness and disappointment.
Or be smart and self publish on Amazon. I was an English major and I am working on a novel. I have no intention of kissing the asses of my uptight professors and their Ph.D club.
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I have an English degree. I had 10 years of IT experience under my belt before I got it however. Strangely enough, my boss made the comment that she picked me over the other folks because I had an English degree. It was kooky enough to make her take a look and take notice of me.
Most people I know don't work in the field they have their degree in. I know physics majors that work in HR. I know math majors who work as executives. I can probably count on one hand the number of people I know who work in the field they got their degrees in when set aside Engineers and Doctors where a specialized education is required.
Hell, these days even law grads go into other fields (mostly politics it seems).
You're wrong on every single level. HIPPA applies to all records regardless of source. Just ask any HR department of any company anywhere in the US. I'm routinely dealing with HIPPA requirements in my IT department and we do nothing with the medical industry. Sorry but tossing out this type of nonsense is irresponsible.
So now that Khan Academy has gone political (I guess it always somewhat was but is now overtly political) I can scratch it off my list for good.
Seriously, I would like one fucking place to go that doesn't involve fucking politicians telling me what to fucking do. Just ONE place.
If Khan would like to go over these issues, do it in a political science course, do it in a history course but do it in the past tense as a learning resource. Don't sell the fuck out to political parties and destroy your credibility.
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I prefer reading e-books. I haven't read a paper book in years. That said I've given serious thought to moving away from ebooks simply because of the prices and DRM. I can loan a book once to my wife via kindle or I can just buy the paper book and give it to her or anyone else when done.
What I've been doing lately is stripping the DRM via Calibre and giving the books I buy away to my mom, wife and mother in-law. I have no moral issue with this since I could do it with a paper book too. But if DRM changes and prices keep going up like they have, then I'm going to say fuck it and go back to paper books.
And you're a useful idiot
It's just liberal hypocrisy as usual. Whenever a liberal accuses you of something you can be 99% sure it is what they themselves are guilty of. Man-bear-pig is a disgrace to this nation and a criminal in every sense of the word. It's telling he believes Current TV has more in common with a network like Al Jazeera than a red blooded American patriot like Glenn Beck. And yes, my karma is excellent, I don't care if the liberal fascists here at Slashdot down mod me. I stopped caring about being popular a long time ago.
Arch defaults to systemd now also. So if you don't like systems Arch is out.
The answer is private school. I don't even have to read the article. None of this shit was ever an issue until the feminists got their hands on public schools. Private schools dont see these issues.
I'll work 4 jobs before my kid goes to a public school.
Indeed, you're incapable of it. You're such a worthless liberal hack that you're incapable of seeing anything but the DailyKOS talking point. Go fuck yourself.
Fuck you man. I swear to god, people like you are worthless and a perpetual drain on this country. You're too fucking stupid to even see the problem let alone actually fix it. You're going to get exactly what you deserve.
You are one dumb fuck you know that? Congress was democrat controlled for 6 years until 2010. The Senate has been Dem controlled for almost as long. Obama has been in Office for 4 years. Republicans don't have control over anything. YOUR SIDE OWNS THIS MOTHER FUCKER. How about some fucking leadership from the empty chair? Where is he? Oh yeah he's on his 23rd vacation in 4 years.The sack of shit played more gold in 3 years than Bush did in 8.
I don't give a shit if the have a D or an R behind their names. If they are this incompetent they deserve to be tarred and feathered on the white house lawn.
Fuck you blaming everyone but the mother fuckers in control right now. I hate people like you.
Fuck you they have. You're just making shit up now. THEY HAVE NOT HAD A MEETING INT HE WHITE HOUSE FOR 7 WEEKS. Period. End of discussion. Your precious democrats have done absolutely nothing since the elections thinking they had a mandate and could get whatever they wanted without discussing with the R's. Now the ship is about to sink and all you wanna do is blame the R's for not bending over and taking it up the ass for Obama. THEY ARE THE OPPOSITION PARTY. It is their JOB to oppose shit. Both need to bend and make concessions which Boehner did by adopting the Pelosi plan and then having Pelosi, Reid and Obama spit in his face. He's now about to lose his speakership because he bent so far over it pissed his own side off.
So fuck you very much. Take your lies and bullshit and shove them up your ass. I'm tired of you friggin leftwing jackwds lying every time you open your fucking mouths. Just because you say something doesn't make it true asshole.
The Senate has done everything that it can to resolve the upcoming sequestration. The problem is that some Republicans in the House of Representatives are deliberately trying to prevent a deal from happening. The Speaker of the House cannot even marshall enough votes from his own party to pass a piece of legislation that he introduced.
That's because Boehner didn't introduce it. He took Nancy Pelosi's plan and said "fine we'll go with this one" to which Nancy Pelosi and Obama then called "Not a serious offer". Your buddy Obama hasn't held talks with Republicans on the fiscal cliff in 7 weeks and only met with them today for a little grand standing.
It takes two to tango asshole. If you'd quit pointing fingers and blaming the fucking minority party long enough to take your head out of your ass you'd realize that.
> Indeed. Harry Reid and gang can pass crap like this but not a single budget in going on 5 years.
That is because both parties support domestic spying, but the Republicans have been actively obstructing any economic legislation that the Democrats have introduced.
Um no. Harry Reid has never even put a budget up for a vote. He's never even created one for discussion. How can the Republicans obstruct something that doesn't even exist? Quit pointing fingers and start laying the blame on the majority holders that are running the show. You're not doing yourself or this country any favors giving assholes like Reid a free fucking pass.
Indeed. Harry Reid and gang can pass crap like this but not a single budget in going on 5 years. Our Congress and executive branches are treasonous.
Or you could head over to Skydrive.com and have all ten use it for free just like google docs. Just sayin.
Or is Google software getting worse instead of better? I tried so hard to like Google Docs and Drive but it's been so buggy for me (in their browser no less) that I simply can not stand to use it. Worse still is the unfinished nature of EVERYTHING Google puts out these days. There is absolutely no polish to anything they have besides gmail. Gmail is fantastic but everything else from them is just terrible. The nail int he coffin for me on the Google side was the Google Drive sync client on OS X, it crashed constantly, failed to sync files all the time and used a crap ton of CPU time draining the battery of my MacBook Air. Not to mention the lack of a Linux client (still!)
Add to the above the fact Google likes to just close shit down whenever they feel like it and I can never let myself get too deep into their ecosystem without worrying whether they'll just cut it off one day (Wave, iGoogle etc.) Google just can't seem to follow through on anything to completion.
I'm neither a Google fan or an Apple fan, I own products from both (Nexus 7 and an MBA) so I don't think I'm biased. I have to say, the two companies have the opposite failings. Apple lacks features but has polish while Google lacks polish while has features. In the end I find myself more inclined to use Apple these days just because I have real work to do and can't dick around with all of Googles BS.
That said, I don't see why anyone would use Google Docs. I guess for simple text files its ok and I hear the collaboration is good so maybe it has uses for a small subset of folks out there but I just don't find it useful. I combine Scrivener, LaTeX and Word for my writing and find my needs met quite well.
Google is run by engineers, which is cool, I actually like that, but as a result, suffers from a lack of real world usability, polish and commitment. Google lacks focus in the right areas (they can sure focus on selling you to advertisers though). I just don't see Google as anything but a search + email provider. Everything else I've tried of theirs has been lackluster and easily met by other options out there at a decent price without the privacy issues.
There are more shoes in this country than guns. Yet people just last weekend were robbed and murdered for their retro Air Jordans. I'm pretty sure those same types would happily kill for an AR-15 in someones safe to show off for their gang banger friends.
Interesting. Thanks. My wife does a lot of photo work as a hobby, going to explore these and see if she likes it.
What did you move to may I ask?
This is one of the best posts on RMS I have ever seen. Nearly as good as the one below that shows RMS's defense of pedophilia. http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3301707&cid=42216619
Sorry but I work in an enormous office complex where international folks are in and out all day long spreading their germs and diseases. I'm sick 3-4 months out of the year as a result and I only get 8 paid sick days a year, the rest is my precious vacation time. If I dont come to work, I don't get paid. I'm not staying home when I can come to work and spread the love.
Second, they're not as challenging to assemble.
Until Jon Ive whips out his glue gun and decides to make them "thin"
I think Ive has lost his touch.
Who says we don't? I rebuilt my 1978 Camaro myself. A buddy of mine builds motorcyles for fun and sells them. I have another friend that converted his car to electric. I also put a computer in my Camaro so I have some overlap there.
If you want to get an English degree and be a writer, great - but be prepared to kiss every professor's ass to make connections, and brace yourself for 20-30 years of bitterness and disappointment.
Or be smart and self publish on Amazon. I was an English major and I am working on a novel. I have no intention of kissing the asses of my uptight professors and their Ph.D club.
I have an English degree. I had 10 years of IT experience under my belt before I got it however. Strangely enough, my boss made the comment that she picked me over the other folks because I had an English degree. It was kooky enough to make her take a look and take notice of me.
Most people I know don't work in the field they have their degree in. I know physics majors that work in HR. I know math majors who work as executives. I can probably count on one hand the number of people I know who work in the field they got their degrees in when set aside Engineers and Doctors where a specialized education is required.
Hell, these days even law grads go into other fields (mostly politics it seems).
You're wrong on every single level. HIPPA applies to all records regardless of source. Just ask any HR department of any company anywhere in the US. I'm routinely dealing with HIPPA requirements in my IT department and we do nothing with the medical industry. Sorry but tossing out this type of nonsense is irresponsible.
So now that Khan Academy has gone political (I guess it always somewhat was but is now overtly political) I can scratch it off my list for good.
Seriously, I would like one fucking place to go that doesn't involve fucking politicians telling me what to fucking do. Just ONE place.
If Khan would like to go over these issues, do it in a political science course, do it in a history course but do it in the past tense as a learning resource. Don't sell the fuck out to political parties and destroy your credibility.