It's Windows at work because it's company policy.
At home, my wife uses Windows and MS-Office because that's what she has to use at work, and being somewhat technology-hostile, she doesn't want to be bothered dealing with anything different.
I have a couple of servers at home running Linux. I tried several distros in my office/studio and ran into a number of difficulties. OO and Gimp work the same on just about anything, but Flash for Linux always seemed to lag several versions behind the Windows/Mac releases. Worse yet, I do music production and some video editing, and the last time I looked at it, the Linux audio stack was a disaster. Not that life is completely rosy with Windows--try making a continuous recording longer than about 40 minutes with Audacity and listen to the results....
As to the Mac, it's less and less interesting as it becomes an increasingly closed system from the top application level on down.
I wouldn't be so sure. We don't know what's going on behind the scenes, and Google et al don't really care what happens to we little people as long as they make a lot of money one way or another. There's a potential here for a rerun of the under-the-counter deal Mark Cuban made with the RIAA that almost killed off webcasting ten years ago.
I'd try to argue with you, but George Carlin pretty well summed it up in three minutes and fourteen seconds. For that matter, in these eight words: "The table is tilted; the game is rigged."
Go on thinking you're in control of your own destiny if you like. It's YOUR signature and YOUR credit all right, by means of which the "one percent" have you by YOUR gonads.
She was stricken in AUGUST...and the first scheduled flight is leaving next Monday? Unless her condition is visibly deteriorating, it would seem to make sense to wait another six days rather than risk both her and a flight crew's lives on a dicey flight. This is rapidly becoming a moot argument.
Actually, in countries with nationalized health care (i. e. most of the rest of the world) physicians in general are paid less than here. My daughter and her husband have spent time in Australia and New Zealand, and are presently living in Canada. The general practitioner she saw in Wellington would take her generous paid vacation and work at a group practice here in the US, adding about 50% to her total income. By the same token, she was always happy to return to New Zealand where she could spend the majority of her time actually helping sick people instead of pushing paperwork and struggling with all the bureaucratic BS.
Nope. Basically, they're making a functional duplicate of the Soyuz, using spare parts from the Saturn/Apollo and Shuttle programs.
What visionaries! The planners at NASA must be spending their time watching old episodes of "Junkin'".
Ah, yes....The Mill. I got to visit the place, when the university department I worked for was trying to decide to buy a PDP11-45 about six months before its official release. I walked in the door wearing nearly new shoes with Neolite soles, and promptly did a pratfall on the oiled floor. Everyone (including the salesman I came in with) applauded.
DEC once ran an ad in the trade rags, showing The Mill's ancient, battle-scarred, graffiti-festooned loading dock door. The caption read, "Please visit us in beautiful downtown Maynard". The story has it that whoever dreamed up the ad was fired.
First, this certainly explains Facebook's "glitch-of-the-hour" syndrome.
Second, let's all pray that these folks never get to work on anything related to avionics, life support or nuclear power plants.
Not a single one of the Commissioners has a technical background. In reality, not a single one of them would recognize a QoS label if it bit him or her on the ass.
Their decision is no doubt based on whatever voices carried the loudest over the cacaphony, and whoever has the most money buys the biggest megaphone.
When someone has this kind of wealth, it's analogous to the old proverb:
You should always keep lots of boats. Then when your wife gets mad you can get rid of some, and you'll still have lots of boats.
The gotcha here, if it's like the way Oracle's jigged things for Solaris 10 and earlier, is that they'll only support it (and license it for production) if you buy a full-bore support contract on the hardware--and they'll only write support contracts on Sun/Oracle branded iron purchased from them or an authorized reseller. You want licenses for those 25 servers you just picked up from a refurb house? Sorry...
Doing a Google lookup on the "National Legal and Policy Center" makes it pretty evident why this organization isn't fond of Google! After the first couple of references to the organization's own Web site, one finds a host of references, beginning with Wikipedia, describing them as a well-funded right-wing "think tank" that puts a great deal of its resources into harassing Democrats. I have to admit I didn't have the patience to see how far down the list I'd have to go to find an entry in "Conservapedia" or some other non-derogatory reference.
...I just have to say, fuck them to hell with extreme prejudice if they're suing anyone currently serving in the Middle East, or any veterans who have.
I'll make absolutely sure never to buy one of their vehicles and expose them to the threat of my potentially incompetent driving.
The next time (if ever) I need to buy a car, I'm sure I can find some other manufacturer willing to put up with me (and my money).
My first reaction was that it was some techie who's a grandchild of "Swede" Momsen, the inventer of a breathing device for crew members to use to escape sunken submarines.
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Considering where most of the products are manufactured, I'd think the "C" should stand for "Chinese".
It's Windows at work because it's company policy. At home, my wife uses Windows and MS-Office because that's what she has to use at work, and being somewhat technology-hostile, she doesn't want to be bothered dealing with anything different. I have a couple of servers at home running Linux. I tried several distros in my office/studio and ran into a number of difficulties. OO and Gimp work the same on just about anything, but Flash for Linux always seemed to lag several versions behind the Windows/Mac releases. Worse yet, I do music production and some video editing, and the last time I looked at it, the Linux audio stack was a disaster. Not that life is completely rosy with Windows--try making a continuous recording longer than about 40 minutes with Audacity and listen to the results.... As to the Mac, it's less and less interesting as it becomes an increasingly closed system from the top application level on down.
"By the way, do Republicans believe that vaccines cause autism?"
Primarily the ones fantasizing about boning Jenny McCarthy.
I wouldn't be so sure. We don't know what's going on behind the scenes, and Google et al don't really care what happens to we little people as long as they make a lot of money one way or another. There's a potential here for a rerun of the under-the-counter deal Mark Cuban made with the RIAA that almost killed off webcasting ten years ago.
Dear Lord, I **AM** getting old. Ah, well, maybe that model actually can run on Guinness.
I'd try to argue with you, but George Carlin pretty well summed it up in three minutes and fourteen seconds. For that matter, in these eight words: "The table is tilted; the game is rigged." Go on thinking you're in control of your own destiny if you like. It's YOUR signature and YOUR credit all right, by means of which the "one percent" have you by YOUR gonads.
She was stricken in AUGUST...and the first scheduled flight is leaving next Monday? Unless her condition is visibly deteriorating, it would seem to make sense to wait another six days rather than risk both her and a flight crew's lives on a dicey flight. This is rapidly becoming a moot argument.
Actually, in countries with nationalized health care (i. e. most of the rest of the world) physicians in general are paid less than here. My daughter and her husband have spent time in Australia and New Zealand, and are presently living in Canada. The general practitioner she saw in Wellington would take her generous paid vacation and work at a group practice here in the US, adding about 50% to her total income. By the same token, she was always happy to return to New Zealand where she could spend the majority of her time actually helping sick people instead of pushing paperwork and struggling with all the bureaucratic BS.
Microsoft is promising not to come in your mouth.
Nope. Basically, they're making a functional duplicate of the Soyuz, using spare parts from the Saturn/Apollo and Shuttle programs. What visionaries! The planners at NASA must be spending their time watching old episodes of "Junkin'".
I was very near ready to get rid of my Dad's old Polaroid cameras. Now, if someone would only start making and processing Kodachrome again...
Disappointing. From what I knew of it in the past, I'd have expected a little better of "Redneck Tech"...
Ah, yes....The Mill. I got to visit the place, when the university department I worked for was trying to decide to buy a PDP11-45 about six months before its official release. I walked in the door wearing nearly new shoes with Neolite soles, and promptly did a pratfall on the oiled floor. Everyone (including the salesman I came in with) applauded. DEC once ran an ad in the trade rags, showing The Mill's ancient, battle-scarred, graffiti-festooned loading dock door. The caption read, "Please visit us in beautiful downtown Maynard". The story has it that whoever dreamed up the ad was fired.
First, this certainly explains Facebook's "glitch-of-the-hour" syndrome. Second, let's all pray that these folks never get to work on anything related to avionics, life support or nuclear power plants.
...is there to trying to "educate" a pack of rabid hyenas?
Not a single one of the Commissioners has a technical background. In reality, not a single one of them would recognize a QoS label if it bit him or her on the ass. Their decision is no doubt based on whatever voices carried the loudest over the cacaphony, and whoever has the most money buys the biggest megaphone.
There's a really simple explanation: AT&T is now headquartered in Texas.
When someone has this kind of wealth, it's analogous to the old proverb: You should always keep lots of boats. Then when your wife gets mad you can get rid of some, and you'll still have lots of boats.
...over a couple of glasses of blood wine and a nice big bowl of gagh.
The gotcha here, if it's like the way Oracle's jigged things for Solaris 10 and earlier, is that they'll only support it (and license it for production) if you buy a full-bore support contract on the hardware--and they'll only write support contracts on Sun/Oracle branded iron purchased from them or an authorized reseller. You want licenses for those 25 servers you just picked up from a refurb house? Sorry...
Doing a Google lookup on the "National Legal and Policy Center" makes it pretty evident why this organization isn't fond of Google! After the first couple of references to the organization's own Web site, one finds a host of references, beginning with Wikipedia, describing them as a well-funded right-wing "think tank" that puts a great deal of its resources into harassing Democrats. I have to admit I didn't have the patience to see how far down the list I'd have to go to find an entry in "Conservapedia" or some other non-derogatory reference.
Let's see how long it takes before someone hacks this thing to display 3D porn right in the middle of the driver's field of vision.
...I just have to say, fuck them to hell with extreme prejudice if they're suing anyone currently serving in the Middle East, or any veterans who have.
I'll make absolutely sure never to buy one of their vehicles and expose them to the threat of my potentially incompetent driving. The next time (if ever) I need to buy a car, I'm sure I can find some other manufacturer willing to put up with me (and my money).
My first reaction was that it was some techie who's a grandchild of "Swede" Momsen, the inventer of a breathing device for crew members to use to escape sunken submarines.