But whenever they release a good windows like XP or 7, people stay on it for 10 years until MS forces them off of it. There's no money in it for MS when people hold onto software that long....
I think the solution is quite simple, and it gives them yearly revenue. Just make it a service to receive updates. If they changed me $20 or $30 a year to get security updates and bug fixes for Windows 7, I'd be on that and I believe a LOT of others would too. That way, I get stability and an up to date OS, and they get revenue -- a win-win.
Once upon a time, the vast majority of the people did the right because it was the right thing. Someone had something, it stayed put, and no one was bothered. That meant you could leave your house, with your front door unlocked, and return later to find that nothing had been stolen -- ever.
Now, we have locks on our front doors because we have to to keep people from stealing things. Now, the police have to encrypt their radio systems otherwise some [negative word of your choice] people will not only use scanners, but will also use their radios on the police networks and create nuisances of themselves at best, or prevent the police from using the systems (in sort of a DoS way). The systems have a way to "inhibit" those radios to get them off, but the more determined people have bought/stole/whatever a factory kit to unbrick the radios and then come back and do it some more. Therefore, encrypting the radios and system is the way to combat that.
Disclaimer: I work in this industry but not for Motorola.
Disclaimer: I work in this industry but not for Motorola.
Nice sentiment, but completely unrealistic. There is a lot of work to be done to create systems like this and the market is pretty small, compared to many things in tech. These are multi-million dollar systems and don't get changed just because someone feels like it. That creates incredible vendor lock-in. Also the expertise to create these systems can be hard to find. "Public safety" systems are not easy to do and really take a company to stand behind them.
The best you could do would be for the federal government to fund creating open systems like this. However, I don't expect that to ever happen either.
Why would they do this? Motorola is free to set whatever price they wish to set. Winnipeg could just move to another vendor if the pricing is objectionable.
No they can't. There is incredible vendor lock-in with systems like this. At best, they find a local dealer who will cut them a deal to make it cheaper, but moving to another vendor is a multi-million dollar deal, and city governments don't do this lightly.
Disclaimer: I work in this industry but not for Motorola. Also, Motorola is known for shennigans like this, but they can generally get away with it because they are in the #1 position, sort like in the 80's where "you can't get fired for recommending IBM".
A lot of government sites currently publish data that can be easily downloaded, but the average user has trouble making sense of it....
I am building an analytic tool that makes it really easy to create relational tables from CSV or Json files and do all kinds of analytics using it.... In this instance, trying to load the 6.5 million row table into Excel is not very practical.
You're contradicting yourself if I take you literally, and considering your project I think I should.
You state your goal is to create relational tables for data analysis/analytics. Taking data in the form of CSV to load into a *database tables* with relations is pretty normal, I do it all the time as do a lot of others. Then you complain about not being able to load a huge amount of data from a CSV file into Excel. How in the heck do you have relational tables in Excel?
If you plan to do analysis with large data sets, you don't want Excel anyway, you need a database. The only reason I can see for Excel is because you have a small sample and want to see if your formulas do what you think they do. Even then, I wouldn't bother with Excel and I'd just write the real program and load a small data set that I can easily prove works as I intend.
Suggestion: Drop Excel, it's the wrong tool for this job. Either that or move into management where they seem to think Excel is the answer for everything.:)
I wonder what would happen if Amazon did a study and found that complying would lose more money then they make in that country and just didn't sell to India. Would the citizens there care and scream at their govn't for doing this, or would it just allow Indian companies who are something like Amazon to flourish? (this is a serious question)
I do agree with the person above who guessed this is really to be selectively used and a "legal way" for govn't workers to obtain graft.
Flood myths are not planet wide, they're typically localized to cultures that are near bodies of water
You need to read more; @angel'o'shere has it right, there are a lot of "flood stories" from cultures all around the world, even from cultures that live in the mountains.
There's also a lot of evidence for a global flood. I live at over 700 feet above sea level and over 300 miles from a large body of water. Yet, there are all kinds of fossils of sea-dwelling animals around where I live. A perfectly reasonable explanation is the land masses used to be flatter, until something (like maybe a big asteroid hitting the earth?) caused the land masses to move in a significant way. If the land masses were flatter (little to no mountains), then a global flood is quite easy to imagine. If the continents are shoved around, it's easy for mountain ranges to pop up after. The concepts are easy if you have an open mind to consider.
Dallas is this way too. East to west lines are non-existent, so if you're at a station in the northwest of the city and want to get to a station in the northeast, expect to take 2 hours to go downtown first. Unless you're going downtown or somewhere on the leg you're already on, it's better to drive even if traffic is slow.
z nice antenna and an OTA compatible DVR. Some new content, and better resolution than cable companies provide.
It's a one time purchase of a couple hundred bucks. Some OTA DVR services have a monthly charge for things like television guides or cloud services, I'm surprised that a whole lot of little companies haven't popped up to install stuff like this.
It's called Tivo.:) I purchased the lifetime subscription so I have no reoccurring payment from them but I get the channel guides and everything else, including interfaces to Amazon, Netflix, Youtube, etc. I haven't seen a cable bill in 20 years.
Of course, I also don't watch all that much TV, there are plenty of other forms of entertainment, but there are a few shows I like and special big events that make it nice to have a TV. Tivo also gives me commercial skip on prime time shows, or I just hit the "30s skip" button a few times so I almost never see commercials unless I see something that really interests me.
There are still some real issues Wayland has yet to fix and until they do, there is a large enough fraction of users who won't use it. For me, the killer missing feature is remote usage, which X11 does a good job of. I've heard XWayland is supposed to be the answer for that, but it's apparently not fully baked yet. I won't give Wayland the time of day until it can do this feature... I don't use it every day, but I use it multiple times a week so it's a very real use case for me and others.
This is a problem because everybody knows X11 ain't no good anymore but nobody is fixing it because Wayland (nee "x12") is the fix.
I'm going to disagree. X11 has its problems, but it's still plenty good and many of rely on it daily (using it right now in fact). It does everything I need so I don't see a big need to change. I'm sure others care more because they have different needs.
That being said, I'm trying to keep an open mind about Wayland to see what it's really like when it finally becomes mature enough; but I don't believe I truly need it so I'm not anticipating it and it can come when it's good and ready.
Yeah, I went on a search for the "winamp of linux" years ago. The original xmms was the answer for some years, but it was eventually replaced by xmms2 and I didn't like it. I found and still use qmmp, which I really like because it's simple, has an EQ, does everything I want, and works well with my dir structure of music, plus it has playlists. It has visualizations too, though I only ever use the default "analyzer" because I don't care about that. It will also take the winamp theme files.
the runaway warming does not continue indefinitely like it did last time.
Your logic here contradicts itself. If the runaway warming continued indefinitely last time, then it wouldn't have come down (see last ice age) and be going back up again.
However, my problem with the topic as a whole is people expecting our planet to maintain the same temperature. It hasn't over time (without industrialization) so why would now and into the future?
I was watching a program (Nova maybe?) not long ago that was going on about how storms are getting worse, the temps are rising, and we're all doomed if we don't change things. However, they were at least honest enough to point out that the temps have changed greatly up and down over time. They pointed out the oceans were like 5-10m higher in the past than we have now. The reason they're lower now was the ice age artificially removing a lot of the water from the oceans and making large glaciers and polar ice (at both poles). Antarctica used to have living vegetation because it was warmer all over the earth. Again, all before industrialization and mankind didn't do a thing to change it.
Also, please remember that the surface of the Earth is not a closed system, so why should we expect it to stay the same over a long period of time? What's the #1 thing that warms the planet? If a scientist doesn't tell me "the sun", then I'm not going to believe him about anything else he has to say about the climate warming because he's not being honest about things from outside our habitable band around the earth's surface affecting us. Or how about things from below? Go look up the "year without summer" (in 1816). Industrialization was barely getting off the ground and so wasn't a potential reason for climate change yet. And some of the air bubbles they're retrieving from deep Greenland ice (from before the 1800's they think) contain like 5 times the amount of CO2 in them than we have in our atmosphere now -- meaning we were a big greenhouse many many years ago.
In simple terms, the earth's climate changes with or without mankind doing things.
Now, can man speed up some of the change? Probably so, the debate is just how much.:)
I believe we should be good stewards of what we have (I happen to like to breath clean air), but I also believe some change is going to happen anyway and there's not a thing we can do about it. For example, how do we even know that the planet has stopped changing from the last ice age 4000-8000 years ago? I don't think we can know and so perhaps some of the change we see is just the planet returning to "normal" (meaning what we've been living in for the last few hundred years plus that we have man recorded temp measurements hasn't been normal as in before the ice age).
If the earth warms up a few degrees C, are we going to wish it hadn't? Probably so because we were stupid as a species and didn't look at history (or really geology) enough and built major cities too close to the ocean on land that will easily be covered if the ocean rises a single meter, creating some very real issues for us all over the world. Hopefully, we learn from this and rebuild in better places.
So don’t update. What “must have” feature has Microsoft added to Office since ~ 2000 anyway... the Ribbon?
I'll criticize the ribbon with everyone else, but OneNote came out in the 2003 edition and is a program I use daily. In fact, I'll go so far as to say it's the only good thing Microsoft has ever done. I've tried finding a good replacement for Onenote so I can become Microsoft-free, but I've yet to find anything that's good enough yet...sigh.
The problems you are listing are Windows problems and not Linux problems. It's like you are complaining that your Ford parts don't fit on your new GM.
They aren't windows problems. Windows doesn't have problems. They are problems of people suggesting that users switch to Linux.
Guess it depends on how you look at it; I can see it both ways.
That being said, the device problems are because of MS-Windows. By that I mean devices that work only on MS-Windows because of some proprietary driver issue.
I used to have trouble with this, since the wife's computer was XP then Win7 so the inkjet printer had to go on her computer and my Linux computer had a tough time using it. I finally got tired of it and tossed the inkjet and bought a "network laser printer" that also understands postscript. Sure it was twice the price of the inkjet (which I had to replace every couple of years because it broke or a Windows upgrade came along and there was no driver for the new Windows), but now every computer in the house can use the printer and all documents look good no matter what computer they came from.
It's a MS-Windows problem because the device sellers entice you to buy MS-Windows only devices. Stop falling for it and you open up a new world where every OS will work.
I don't agree that replacing sysIV init is a good idea. All the arguments for that boil down to "not invented here".
Why is it that so many tech people cannot let things that work well the fuck alone?
+1 Wish I had mod points for that. It seems like so many people think mature software is bad or something. Sure, Sys-init/Upstart/whatever had its issues at times (and usually in very small ways), but there were solutions to those warts; it's just that no one really put all the parts together, or so it seems to me.
I've had Systemd fail me in mysterious ways where the system refused to come up (1 I never figured out and solved by backing Systemd out), but I've never had Sys-init/Upstart/whatever fail to boot far enough I couldn't do something with it (and it fails me even in tiny ways so infrequently it's been years since that happened).
To me as a *user*, Systemd feels like a solution in search of a problem. I know the distro/package maintainers like it because it creates less work for them, but I think this is a case where the distro/package maintainers have forgotten at least 1 of their goals: to make it easier on the user.
I'm just not understanding the push for everything to be encrypted when it doesn't need to be.
Err, because some people see that it helps 80% of the sites and don't care that they're screwing the people on the other 20%? (If you want a 90/10 rule instead go for it.)
We have a web-app that runs on heavily firewalled *internal* networks (as in 10.x.x.x or with a domain of.local) so we don't need https. However, because of this push, we now have to deal with this mess of browsers throwing up warnings while we can't get certs for.local domains.
I truly dislike these browser companies forcing it without a way to turn the requirement off for those of us who it creates troubles for! Perhaps they'll find some common sense and change the code to realize they're going to a non-public site and silently not force the https check, but I won't hold my breath for that.
Superhero movies can be fun, but I've become "superhero'd out". It has to be REALLY good before I'll go to the theaters to see 1 now (and I'm having trouble remembering the last 1 I saw in the theater, but I think it might have been Avengers/Ultron 2 years ago). This is especially true when I can wait 6 months and see it on DVD, whether rented or bought, and I'll have saved money either way. Waiting the time doesn't bother me.
Another thing that I don't care for is the creators making storylines where the superheroes fight each over. I realize they're trying to create drama, but I don't like superhero (SH) stories for that. I want the SH to fight the bad guys and overcome, usually in a spectacular fashion. Yeah, that's simple but SH stories lend themselves to simple and entertaining. So if they make more of those where SH fight amongst themselves, they can expect me to continue to ignore them.
I'll second BioShock and it's sequel. I have but have yet to play #3 so I can't comment on that. On Steam, you can get the predecessors System Shock 1 & 2. Others have mentioned Portal 1 & 2 and I'll agree.
In additions to Steam, head over to GOG.com and see what they have. For example I lost Myst during some move and I bought it for $5 when it was on sale and enjoyed some old memories.
I wished I had more time to play as there are some good ones out there, even for us mumble>40mumble players.
I worked at a dot-com company back around 2000 that had an open floor plan and everyone from the VP's down had the same type of desk. It was one of those with a pole in the middle and you got 1/3 or 120deg of it. Only the CEO and CFO and VP of HR had an office since they had a lot of private conversations.
I didn't like the open plan at all, very noisy especially with the concrete floors and other hard surfaces, but I appreciate the higher-ups being willing to be like the rest of us.
If you assume Office 365 === Office 2010 then you might have a point about basic math. Office 365 comes with many features and services that you do not get with an one-time license to Office 2010.
Please list some of these features the average person can't live without. To me, 2013 was a step backwards in functionality and I've yet to find any new feature in 2013 that is worth the upgrade cost. I've looked at the new feature list for 2016 and again I can't find anything worth upgrading for.
I can say that 2013 introduced the "borderless window frames" that make it hard to resize the window. It also gave me changed options that make the various Office apps harder to use without having to track down how to turn them off in the options. Making the Outlook panes look like they did in 2010 is truly hard. Search seems to not be able to find things now (that are there). The All/Unread views randomly (yet frequently) decide they have nothing to show me until I click on the other and then go back (where they now have something to show me). I could go on with the regressions, but I think the horse is sufficiently dead.
Hmm, none of the things you listed are important to me or anyone I've talked to about office software... possibly ever. If those things help you, great, but don't use those features as arguments as to why online office is better than the 20xx versions because I believe they aren't useful to the masses.
Personally, 2010 was the best version for me and I plan to continue to use that as I've not found any new feature in 2013 or 2016 version that make me want to upgrade; in fact, I've found several new features in 2013 that make me dislike parts of Office quite a bit.
Office is a mature product and doesn't need anything new -- just bug fixes. So "rental" will always be the more expensive solution.
What really needs to happen is that countries need to begin extracting carbon from the atmosphere and not just with trees but rather chemical machinery that actually generates piles of soot.
Don't go to soot, compress that down to artificial diamonds, which have a lot of uses in industry and it means the carbon won't easily go back into the atmosphere. Or use the diamonds to help lower the artificially high prices DeBeers charges because they try to make people think diamonds are scarce (they're not).
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But whenever they release a good windows like XP or 7, people stay on it for 10 years until MS forces them off of it. There's no money in it for MS when people hold onto software that long. ...
I think the solution is quite simple, and it gives them yearly revenue. Just make it a service to receive updates. If they changed me $20 or $30 a year to get security updates and bug fixes for Windows 7, I'd be on that and I believe a LOT of others would too. That way, I get stability and an up to date OS, and they get revenue -- a win-win.
Once upon a time, the vast majority of the people did the right because it was the right thing. Someone had something, it stayed put, and no one was bothered. That meant you could leave your house, with your front door unlocked, and return later to find that nothing had been stolen -- ever.
Now, we have locks on our front doors because we have to to keep people from stealing things. Now, the police have to encrypt their radio systems otherwise some [negative word of your choice] people will not only use scanners, but will also use their radios on the police networks and create nuisances of themselves at best, or prevent the police from using the systems (in sort of a DoS way). The systems have a way to "inhibit" those radios to get them off, but the more determined people have bought/stole/whatever a factory kit to unbrick the radios and then come back and do it some more. Therefore, encrypting the radios and system is the way to combat that.
Disclaimer: I work in this industry but not for Motorola.
Disclaimer: I work in this industry but not for Motorola.
Nice sentiment, but completely unrealistic. There is a lot of work to be done to create systems like this and the market is pretty small, compared to many things in tech. These are multi-million dollar systems and don't get changed just because someone feels like it. That creates incredible vendor lock-in. Also the expertise to create these systems can be hard to find. "Public safety" systems are not easy to do and really take a company to stand behind them.
The best you could do would be for the federal government to fund creating open systems like this. However, I don't expect that to ever happen either.
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K.
Why would they do this? Motorola is free to set whatever price they wish to set. Winnipeg could just move to another vendor if the pricing is objectionable.
No they can't. There is incredible vendor lock-in with systems like this. At best, they find a local dealer who will cut them a deal to make it cheaper, but moving to another vendor is a multi-million dollar deal, and city governments don't do this lightly.
Disclaimer: I work in this industry but not for Motorola. Also, Motorola is known for shennigans like this, but they can generally get away with it because they are in the #1 position, sort like in the 80's where "you can't get fired for recommending IBM".
China (and countries influenced by it) and Japan consider 4 unlucky.
A lot of government sites currently publish data that can be easily downloaded, but the average user has trouble making sense of it. ...
I am building an analytic tool that makes it really easy to create relational tables from CSV or Json files and do all kinds of analytics using it. ... In this instance, trying to load the 6.5 million row table into Excel is not very practical.
You're contradicting yourself if I take you literally, and considering your project I think I should.
:)
You state your goal is to create relational tables for data analysis/analytics. Taking data in the form of CSV to load into a *database tables* with relations is pretty normal, I do it all the time as do a lot of others. Then you complain about not being able to load a huge amount of data from a CSV file into Excel. How in the heck do you have relational tables in Excel?
If you plan to do analysis with large data sets, you don't want Excel anyway, you need a database. The only reason I can see for Excel is because you have a small sample and want to see if your formulas do what you think they do. Even then, I wouldn't bother with Excel and I'd just write the real program and load a small data set that I can easily prove works as I intend.
Suggestion: Drop Excel, it's the wrong tool for this job. Either that or move into management where they seem to think Excel is the answer for everything.
I wonder what would happen if Amazon did a study and found that complying would lose more money then they make in that country and just didn't sell to India. Would the citizens there care and scream at their govn't for doing this, or would it just allow Indian companies who are something like Amazon to flourish? (this is a serious question)
I do agree with the person above who guessed this is really to be selectively used and a "legal way" for govn't workers to obtain graft.
This is bad news for Firefox users. Both of them.
Ugh! Two people have already replied, so this must not be Firefox I'm using.
Flood myths are not planet wide, they're typically localized to cultures that are near bodies of water
You need to read more; @angel'o'shere has it right, there are a lot of "flood stories" from cultures all around the world, even from cultures that live in the mountains.
There's also a lot of evidence for a global flood. I live at over 700 feet above sea level and over 300 miles from a large body of water. Yet, there are all kinds of fossils of sea-dwelling animals around where I live. A perfectly reasonable explanation is the land masses used to be flatter, until something (like maybe a big asteroid hitting the earth?) caused the land masses to move in a significant way. If the land masses were flatter (little to no mountains), then a global flood is quite easy to imagine. If the continents are shoved around, it's easy for mountain ranges to pop up after. The concepts are easy if you have an open mind to consider.
Dallas is this way too. East to west lines are non-existent, so if you're at a station in the northwest of the city and want to get to a station in the northeast, expect to take 2 hours to go downtown first. Unless you're going downtown or somewhere on the leg you're already on, it's better to drive even if traffic is slow.
z nice antenna and an OTA compatible DVR. Some new content, and better resolution than cable companies provide.
It's a one time purchase of a couple hundred bucks. Some OTA DVR services have a monthly charge for things like television guides or cloud services, I'm surprised that a whole lot of little companies haven't popped up to install stuff like this.
It's called Tivo. :) I purchased the lifetime subscription so I have no reoccurring payment from them but I get the channel guides and everything else, including interfaces to Amazon, Netflix, Youtube, etc. I haven't seen a cable bill in 20 years.
Of course, I also don't watch all that much TV, there are plenty of other forms of entertainment, but there are a few shows I like and special big events that make it nice to have a TV. Tivo also gives me commercial skip on prime time shows, or I just hit the "30s skip" button a few times so I almost never see commercials unless I see something that really interests me.
This is a problem because everybody knows X11 ain't no good anymore but nobody is fixing it because Wayland (nee "x12") is the fix.
I'm going to disagree. X11 has its problems, but it's still plenty good and many of rely on it daily (using it right now in fact). It does everything I need so I don't see a big need to change. I'm sure others care more because they have different needs.
That being said, I'm trying to keep an open mind about Wayland to see what it's really like when it finally becomes mature enough; but I don't believe I truly need it so I'm not anticipating it and it can come when it's good and ready.
Yeah, I went on a search for the "winamp of linux" years ago. The original xmms was the answer for some years, but it was eventually replaced by xmms2 and I didn't like it. I found and still use qmmp, which I really like because it's simple, has an EQ, does everything I want, and works well with my dir structure of music, plus it has playlists. It has visualizations too, though I only ever use the default "analyzer" because I don't care about that. It will also take the winamp theme files.
Try qmmp; it's pretty much (old) winamp for linux. Simple, light, just works.
the runaway warming does not continue indefinitely like it did last time.
Your logic here contradicts itself. If the runaway warming continued indefinitely last time, then it wouldn't have come down (see last ice age) and be going back up again.
:)
However, my problem with the topic as a whole is people expecting our planet to maintain the same temperature. It hasn't over time (without industrialization) so why would now and into the future?
I was watching a program (Nova maybe?) not long ago that was going on about how storms are getting worse, the temps are rising, and we're all doomed if we don't change things. However, they were at least honest enough to point out that the temps have changed greatly up and down over time. They pointed out the oceans were like 5-10m higher in the past than we have now. The reason they're lower now was the ice age artificially removing a lot of the water from the oceans and making large glaciers and polar ice (at both poles). Antarctica used to have living vegetation because it was warmer all over the earth. Again, all before industrialization and mankind didn't do a thing to change it.
Also, please remember that the surface of the Earth is not a closed system, so why should we expect it to stay the same over a long period of time? What's the #1 thing that warms the planet? If a scientist doesn't tell me "the sun", then I'm not going to believe him about anything else he has to say about the climate warming because he's not being honest about things from outside our habitable band around the earth's surface affecting us. Or how about things from below? Go look up the "year without summer" (in 1816). Industrialization was barely getting off the ground and so wasn't a potential reason for climate change yet. And some of the air bubbles they're retrieving from deep Greenland ice (from before the 1800's they think) contain like 5 times the amount of CO2 in them than we have in our atmosphere now -- meaning we were a big greenhouse many many years ago.
In simple terms, the earth's climate changes with or without mankind doing things.
Now, can man speed up some of the change? Probably so, the debate is just how much.
I believe we should be good stewards of what we have (I happen to like to breath clean air), but I also believe some change is going to happen anyway and there's not a thing we can do about it. For example, how do we even know that the planet has stopped changing from the last ice age 4000-8000 years ago? I don't think we can know and so perhaps some of the change we see is just the planet returning to "normal" (meaning what we've been living in for the last few hundred years plus that we have man recorded temp measurements hasn't been normal as in before the ice age).
If the earth warms up a few degrees C, are we going to wish it hadn't? Probably so because we were stupid as a species and didn't look at history (or really geology) enough and built major cities too close to the ocean on land that will easily be covered if the ocean rises a single meter, creating some very real issues for us all over the world. Hopefully, we learn from this and rebuild in better places.
So don’t update. What “must have” feature has Microsoft added to Office since ~ 2000 anyway... the Ribbon?
I'll criticize the ribbon with everyone else, but OneNote came out in the 2003 edition and is a program I use daily. In fact, I'll go so far as to say it's the only good thing Microsoft has ever done. I've tried finding a good replacement for Onenote so I can become Microsoft-free, but I've yet to find anything that's good enough yet...sigh.
The problems you are listing are Windows problems and not Linux problems. It's like you are complaining that your Ford parts don't fit on your new GM.
They aren't windows problems. Windows doesn't have problems. They are problems of people suggesting that users switch to Linux.
Guess it depends on how you look at it; I can see it both ways.
That being said, the device problems are because of MS-Windows. By that I mean devices that work only on MS-Windows because of some proprietary driver issue.
I used to have trouble with this, since the wife's computer was XP then Win7 so the inkjet printer had to go on her computer and my Linux computer had a tough time using it. I finally got tired of it and tossed the inkjet and bought a "network laser printer" that also understands postscript. Sure it was twice the price of the inkjet (which I had to replace every couple of years because it broke or a Windows upgrade came along and there was no driver for the new Windows), but now every computer in the house can use the printer and all documents look good no matter what computer they came from.
It's a MS-Windows problem because the device sellers entice you to buy MS-Windows only devices. Stop falling for it and you open up a new world where every OS will work.
I don't agree that replacing sysIV init is a good idea. All the arguments for that boil down to "not invented here".
Why is it that so many tech people cannot let things that work well the fuck alone?
+1 Wish I had mod points for that. It seems like so many people think mature software is bad or something. Sure, Sys-init/Upstart/whatever had its issues at times (and usually in very small ways), but there were solutions to those warts; it's just that no one really put all the parts together, or so it seems to me.
I've had Systemd fail me in mysterious ways where the system refused to come up (1 I never figured out and solved by backing Systemd out), but I've never had Sys-init/Upstart/whatever fail to boot far enough I couldn't do something with it (and it fails me even in tiny ways so infrequently it's been years since that happened).
To me as a *user*, Systemd feels like a solution in search of a problem. I know the distro/package maintainers like it because it creates less work for them, but I think this is a case where the distro/package maintainers have forgotten at least 1 of their goals: to make it easier on the user.
I'm just not understanding the push for everything to be encrypted when it doesn't need to be.
Err, because some people see that it helps 80% of the sites and don't care that they're screwing the people on the other 20%? (If you want a 90/10 rule instead go for it.)
.local) so we don't need https. However, because of this push, we now have to deal with this mess of browsers throwing up warnings while we can't get certs for .local domains.
We have a web-app that runs on heavily firewalled *internal* networks (as in 10.x.x.x or with a domain of
I truly dislike these browser companies forcing it without a way to turn the requirement off for those of us who it creates troubles for! Perhaps they'll find some common sense and change the code to realize they're going to a non-public site and silently not force the https check, but I won't hold my breath for that.
Superhero movies can be fun, but I've become "superhero'd out". It has to be REALLY good before I'll go to the theaters to see 1 now (and I'm having trouble remembering the last 1 I saw in the theater, but I think it might have been Avengers/Ultron 2 years ago). This is especially true when I can wait 6 months and see it on DVD, whether rented or bought, and I'll have saved money either way. Waiting the time doesn't bother me.
Another thing that I don't care for is the creators making storylines where the superheroes fight each over. I realize they're trying to create drama, but I don't like superhero (SH) stories for that. I want the SH to fight the bad guys and overcome, usually in a spectacular fashion. Yeah, that's simple but SH stories lend themselves to simple and entertaining. So if they make more of those where SH fight amongst themselves, they can expect me to continue to ignore them.
I'll second BioShock and it's sequel. I have but have yet to play #3 so I can't comment on that. On Steam, you can get the predecessors System Shock 1 & 2. Others have mentioned Portal 1 & 2 and I'll agree.
In additions to Steam, head over to GOG.com and see what they have. For example I lost Myst during some move and I bought it for $5 when it was on sale and enjoyed some old memories.
I wished I had more time to play as there are some good ones out there, even for us mumble>40mumble players.
I worked at a dot-com company back around 2000 that had an open floor plan and everyone from the VP's down had the same type of desk. It was one of those with a pole in the middle and you got 1/3 or 120deg of it. Only the CEO and CFO and VP of HR had an office since they had a lot of private conversations.
I didn't like the open plan at all, very noisy especially with the concrete floors and other hard surfaces, but I appreciate the higher-ups being willing to be like the rest of us.
If you assume Office 365 === Office 2010 then you might have a point about basic math. Office 365 comes with many features and services that you do not get with an one-time license to Office 2010.
Please list some of these features the average person can't live without. To me, 2013 was a step backwards in functionality and I've yet to find any new feature in 2013 that is worth the upgrade cost. I've looked at the new feature list for 2016 and again I can't find anything worth upgrading for.
I can say that 2013 introduced the "borderless window frames" that make it hard to resize the window. It also gave me changed options that make the various Office apps harder to use without having to track down how to turn them off in the options. Making the Outlook panes look like they did in 2010 is truly hard. Search seems to not be able to find things now (that are there). The All/Unread views randomly (yet frequently) decide they have nothing to show me until I click on the other and then go back (where they now have something to show me). I could go on with the regressions, but I think the horse is sufficiently dead.
Hmm, none of the things you listed are important to me or anyone I've talked to about office software ... possibly ever. If those things help you, great, but don't use those features as arguments as to why online office is better than the 20xx versions because I believe they aren't useful to the masses.
Personally, 2010 was the best version for me and I plan to continue to use that as I've not found any new feature in 2013 or 2016 version that make me want to upgrade; in fact, I've found several new features in 2013 that make me dislike parts of Office quite a bit.
Office is a mature product and doesn't need anything new -- just bug fixes. So "rental" will always be the more expensive solution.
What really needs to happen is that countries need to begin extracting carbon from the atmosphere and not just with trees but rather chemical machinery that actually generates piles of soot.
Don't go to soot, compress that down to artificial diamonds, which have a lot of uses in industry and it means the carbon won't easily go back into the atmosphere. Or use the diamonds to help lower the artificially high prices DeBeers charges because they try to make people think diamonds are scarce (they're not).