well, of course the earth has been warming. it got out of the last ice age about 150 years ago. nothing we did caused the ice age to begin (early 14th century) and nothing we did caused it to end (mid 19th century). just as nothing we are doing to day casued the earth to warm, nor anything we can do will cause it to cool. it is beyond our control. for me, nukes can rid us of our addiction to oil, and i see it as a national security issue.
I wouldn't. But, what if you deployed something like that on a campus wide server? Or what about countries that have older computers and want to use them in schools. Or perhaps use them in a thin client mode?
I see some really good uses for it actually. I simply used the thesis example not to say I'd trust doing it, but that as for the stylistic needs, it could be done.
its competition is Wordpad... and Wordpad is winning. This article is just reaffirming what was so plain to see when looking at the app for 5 minutes.
I went to the site and played with it for 5 minutes. Nothing special. But what realy is a word procesor anyways. We confuse page layout with word processing. You want tables, graphs, pictures, mail merge, fine, but is theally a WP? For the features presented, I found them rather impressive. Okay, I use vim for most my coding. I have been using Pages for about a year now, and it is really slick. I of course use 1/10th of what it does. I like it's simplicity and apple's print to pdf more than anything. I think you're missig the point.
Could I do my fly fishing club's newsletter on it? No. Could I have done my Master's thesis on it? Yes. That's the difference.
never thought about your first point. if we could alter it, should we. as for the political aspect, yes, it is pure politics. science, as in many areas has been thrown to the wind. and it isn't just religious conservatives who do so either.
we cannot affect the earth's climate. we can pollute it, clean it up, do what we please, and we havent' the power to alter it. an ice began in the early 14th century and lasted until the 19th. it wasn't started because of man, it didn't end because of man. the earth is warming (or so some claim) on its own, and in time, will cool, again on its own. nothing we can do will stop it, slow it down, or reverse it.
well, spring break is around the corner, and I might give it a shot. I can always bubble gum and paper clip something together for the next few days!! Actually, I have a linux box under the desk that I can bring in. Hopefully you're right, as there's some slight screwdriver gouging in a few spots.
Why do people even buy first generation products anymore?
I bought a shiny new G4 iBook when they first were announced. Thankfully I bought the extended care, because the trackpad has gone out a few times on me. It finally crapped out for good, and while the warranty still has a few months left, I had to pop the shell to swap hard drives (long story) and I figure that f***s the warranty. So, I drag a usb mouse along with me, which is actually no problem, as I really don't like any trackpads. I'd kill for an iBook with the IBM nipple. Anyways, the 2nd gen G4 iBooks seem to be fine. Part of the problem getting it fixed is of course, I use it daily in my class, and since our schools is all windows, I can't be without it for more than a weekend. Oh well, I feel for the MBP suckers owners.
Simple, everyone wants their 15 minutes. A cell phone camera means that anywhere you are, you can snap a shot of something crazy and send it in. Or film a teacher yelling in class. (I'm a teacher by the way.)
we're supposed to feel sorry for companies that hooked their wagon to an unsecure ship? their buisness model is dependent upon MS writing bad software. well, not that that's a bad gamble, but...
maybe it's about time MS writes more secure software. besides, given the hardware req's for vista, there'll be millions who sill still run xp/me/98 for the forseeable future.
ah yes, money. there is nothing to be gained from filing suit against mozilla. of course that's why my school district gets sued, but the teachers themselves rarely do.
this highlights a real problem with our IP laws and patents. while patents are good for things, for ideas they are horrible.
yes my ubuntu experience has been limited to two installs, however they were much better than fedora or mandriva on the same hardware. that's all i can go on. i guess no distro is perfect, the only way to achieve that is a gentoo-like approach, compile everything from scratch. some things work beter for some people. thankfully linux offers us that choice.
ubuntu is also debian. It installs cleanly, recognizes all the hardware, and has a great initial setup. Afterwards, use synaptic to install anything missing. I don't know how deb compares to ubuntu, but I have dumped RH/Fedora for good. You'd think that all linux distros would be created equal, but they're not. Not by a long shot.
silly question, but I'd like to know what kernel version, hardware support, etc. is included. perhaps a link would have been nice. but, i dumped fedora a while ago for ubuntu.
all apple has to do is speak german to them. they'll surrender in a moment!! then they'll work with apple to impose iPods on everyone, round up anyone who doesn't use one, and turn them over to apple. and, they'll make a cozy place for apple reps to visit. of course a few will resist, and they'll far more credit than they deserve.
I was a dedicated drake user for years. And yes, I bought their product. I bought 7.0, 7.2, and 9.2. It always recognized all my hardware, was easy to upgrade, and had all the necessary tools, etc. Then 10.x kinda sucked, and the latest incarnations were poor. Hardware recognition slacked, it didn't install on the same system that 9.x installed on, and now, they have subscriber support only for some wifi cards.
I installed ubuntu and never looked back. it recognized all my hardware (even the USB wifi), and apt-get is far superior. It's a sad day for sure, but they only have themselves to blame. They made poor financial decisions and it hurt their product. Now, I do confess to having been an iBook user for a few years and haven't used linux nearly as much. Most of my development is LAMP, java, python, etc., and it's all the same on OS X or linux. OO.org runs great, and so does GIMP, and with fink/darwinports, I don't "need" linux. So, I haven't used a "PC" in quite some time, but that doesn't diminsh the fact that my one remianing PC at homeruns ubuntu not mandriva.
that governmental power is bi-partisan affair. both parties are equally bad. in fact, things like this transcend party affiliation. what pisses me off is that government intrudes too much into our lives, from taxation, spending, regulation, etc. somehow we've come to the conclusion that unless the government provides health care, whatever, people are going to die. a government powerful enough to give you everything is also powerful enough to take it away. party affiliation notwithstanding.
a) at least they're not being partisan, blocking rush limbaugh and al franken.
b) my school filters tons of stuff. I can't read most blogs and even parts of/. (i.e games.slashdot.org) are blocked. look, if you don't own the computer, or the bandwidth, and are on the clock, it's not censorship. if firms don't filter web content into their networks, there's security and legal issues.
Cue libertarian anti-environmentalist ranting and argumentative stupidity. Ooh maybe we'll see my favorite, "because there was climate change prior to man, man cannot cause climate change, as any occurrence can have one and only one cause".
no, it's not stupidity, it's skepticism. the earth changes. the climate changes. thirty years ago, it was global cooling, a new ice age. now it's global warming. we don't know how much, if any, we've contributed to it, and, if we do can do anything about it. we might be able to alter it a few percent over the next fifty years, but at what price. and if we aren't the cause, then we're not the solution. there is lots of room for debate, it's not an absolute certainty. and truthfully, i'm not willing to risk our economic growth and security on a guess. and what about China, Russia, Africa, Latin America, et al. are they going to play by the rules established in "the west"? are they going to sacrifice economic prosperity so a few wealthy nations can once again dictate to the world how to live? hardly.
the major polluters are exempt from kyoto. and even then, we'll make only modest impact if that. i for one would prefer to see technology and the free markets provide the answers. in some post modern fantasy world, man has become the creator of all things, the omnipotent force, when history has proven completely otherwise. man is subjhect to the whims of the earth, not the other way around. every day the earth is bombarded by the universes biggest nuclear reactor. (that's the sun by the way.) perhaps all the radiation has had an effect? maybe we should build a big canopy and just hide in the shade.
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please don't try to confuse people with the facts.
well, of course the earth has been warming. it got out of the last ice age about 150 years ago. nothing we did caused the ice age to begin (early 14th century) and nothing we did caused it to end (mid 19th century). just as nothing we are doing to day casued the earth to warm, nor anything we can do will cause it to cool. it is beyond our control. for me, nukes can rid us of our addiction to oil, and i see it as a national security issue.
I wouldn't. But, what if you deployed something like that on a campus wide server? Or what about countries that have older computers and want to use them in schools. Or perhaps use them in a thin client mode?
I see some really good uses for it actually. I simply used the thesis example not to say I'd trust doing it, but that as for the stylistic needs, it could be done.
OMG, I need a spell checker. Holy crap.
its competition is Wordpad... and Wordpad is winning. This article is just reaffirming what was so plain to see when looking at the app for 5 minutes.
I went to the site and played with it for 5 minutes. Nothing special. But what realy is a word procesor anyways. We confuse page layout with word processing. You want tables, graphs, pictures, mail merge, fine, but is theally a WP? For the features presented, I found them rather impressive. Okay, I use vim for most my coding. I have been using Pages for about a year now, and it is really slick. I of course use 1/10th of what it does. I like it's simplicity and apple's print to pdf more than anything. I think you're missig the point.
Could I do my fly fishing club's newsletter on it? No. Could I have done my Master's thesis on it? Yes. That's the difference.
never thought about your first point. if we could alter it, should we. as for the political aspect, yes, it is pure politics. science, as in many areas has been thrown to the wind. and it isn't just religious conservatives who do so either.
we cannot affect the earth's climate. we can pollute it, clean it up, do what we please, and we havent' the power to alter it. an ice began in the early 14th century and lasted until the 19th. it wasn't started because of man, it didn't end because of man. the earth is warming (or so some claim) on its own, and in time, will cool, again on its own. nothing we can do will stop it, slow it down, or reverse it.
well, spring break is around the corner, and I might give it a shot. I can always bubble gum and paper clip something together for the next few days!! Actually, I have a linux box under the desk that I can bring in. Hopefully you're right, as there's some slight screwdriver gouging in a few spots.
Why do people even buy first generation products anymore?
I bought a shiny new G4 iBook when they first were announced. Thankfully I bought the extended care, because the trackpad has gone out a few times on me. It finally crapped out for good, and while the warranty still has a few months left, I had to pop the shell to swap hard drives (long story) and I figure that f***s the warranty. So, I drag a usb mouse along with me, which is actually no problem, as I really don't like any trackpads. I'd kill for an iBook with the IBM nipple. Anyways, the 2nd gen G4 iBooks seem to be fine. Part of the problem getting it fixed is of course, I use it daily in my class, and since our schools is all windows, I can't be without it for more than a weekend. Oh well, I feel for the MBP suckers owners.
Why there are camera phones?
Simple, everyone wants their 15 minutes. A cell phone camera means that anywhere you are, you can snap a shot of something crazy and send it in. Or film a teacher yelling in class. (I'm a teacher by the way.)
we're supposed to feel sorry for companies that hooked their wagon to an unsecure ship? their buisness model is dependent upon MS writing bad software. well, not that that's a bad gamble, but...
maybe it's about time MS writes more secure software. besides, given the hardware req's for vista, there'll be millions who sill still run xp/me/98 for the forseeable future.
ah yes, money. there is nothing to be gained from filing suit against mozilla. of course that's why my school district gets sued, but the teachers themselves rarely do.
this highlights a real problem with our IP laws and patents. while patents are good for things, for ideas they are horrible.
in 50 years it really won't matter. the union jack will be replaced by the crescent moon.
yes my ubuntu experience has been limited to two installs, however they were much better than fedora or mandriva on the same hardware. that's all i can go on. i guess no distro is perfect, the only way to achieve that is a gentoo-like approach, compile everything from scratch. some things work beter for some people. thankfully linux offers us that choice.
ubuntu is also debian. It installs cleanly, recognizes all the hardware, and has a great initial setup. Afterwards, use synaptic to install anything missing. I don't know how deb compares to ubuntu, but I have dumped RH/Fedora for good. You'd think that all linux distros would be created equal, but they're not. Not by a long shot.
silly question, but I'd like to know what kernel version, hardware support, etc. is included. perhaps a link would have been nice. but, i dumped fedora a while ago for ubuntu.
all apple has to do is speak german to them. they'll surrender in a moment!! then they'll work with apple to impose iPods on everyone, round up anyone who doesn't use one, and turn them over to apple. and, they'll make a cozy place for apple reps to visit. of course a few will resist, and they'll far more credit than they deserve.
I was a dedicated drake user for years. And yes, I bought their product. I bought 7.0, 7.2, and 9.2. It always recognized all my hardware, was easy to upgrade, and had all the necessary tools, etc. Then 10.x kinda sucked, and the latest incarnations were poor. Hardware recognition slacked, it didn't install on the same system that 9.x installed on, and now, they have subscriber support only for some wifi cards.
I installed ubuntu and never looked back. it recognized all my hardware (even the USB wifi), and apt-get is far superior. It's a sad day for sure, but they only have themselves to blame. They made poor financial decisions and it hurt their product. Now, I do confess to having been an iBook user for a few years and haven't used linux nearly as much. Most of my development is LAMP, java, python, etc., and it's all the same on OS X or linux. OO.org runs great, and so does GIMP, and with fink/darwinports, I don't "need" linux. So, I haven't used a "PC" in quite some time, but that doesn't diminsh the fact that my one remianing PC at homeruns ubuntu not mandriva.
that governmental power is bi-partisan affair. both parties are equally bad. in fact, things like this transcend party affiliation. what pisses me off is that government intrudes too much into our lives, from taxation, spending, regulation, etc. somehow we've come to the conclusion that unless the government provides health care, whatever, people are going to die. a government powerful enough to give you everything is also powerful enough to take it away. party affiliation notwithstanding.
two things:
/. (i.e games.slashdot.org) are blocked. look, if you don't own the computer, or the bandwidth, and are on the clock, it's not censorship. if firms don't filter web content into their networks, there's security and legal issues.
a) at least they're not being partisan, blocking rush limbaugh and al franken.
b) my school filters tons of stuff. I can't read most blogs and even parts of
seems much ado about nothing.
Maybe you and the laser should go get a freakin room.
okay, is it at least fairly large? it is certainly by far the largest one 93 million miles away.
i hope!!!
you're right. but as far as our solar system goes, it is. maybe I should have said the milky way?
Cue libertarian anti-environmentalist ranting and argumentative stupidity. Ooh maybe we'll see my favorite, "because there was climate change prior to man, man cannot cause climate change, as any occurrence can have one and only one cause".
no, it's not stupidity, it's skepticism. the earth changes. the climate changes. thirty years ago, it was global cooling, a new ice age. now it's global warming. we don't know how much, if any, we've contributed to it, and, if we do can do anything about it. we might be able to alter it a few percent over the next fifty years, but at what price. and if we aren't the cause, then we're not the solution. there is lots of room for debate, it's not an absolute certainty. and truthfully, i'm not willing to risk our economic growth and security on a guess. and what about China, Russia, Africa, Latin America, et al. are they going to play by the rules established in "the west"? are they going to sacrifice economic prosperity so a few wealthy nations can once again dictate to the world how to live? hardly.
the major polluters are exempt from kyoto. and even then, we'll make only modest impact if that. i for one would prefer to see technology and the free markets provide the answers. in some post modern fantasy world, man has become the creator of all things, the omnipotent force, when history has proven completely otherwise. man is subjhect to the whims of the earth, not the other way around. every day the earth is bombarded by the universes biggest nuclear reactor. (that's the sun by the way.) perhaps all the radiation has had an effect? maybe we should build a big canopy and just hide in the shade.