Aren't most of the paid OpenOffice developers Oracle employees? I'm talking about the Star Office guys. Does LibreOffice have the same development manpower behind it?
I would just like them to explain how data caps help them. As I understand it, the problem is that there are a couple of peak usage times every day where congestion is a problem. Throttling heavy users will only help this situation if their heavy usage coincides with the periods of congestion. If, instead, the heavy users are using the bits watching Netflix late at night, throttling them won't help.
Somebody who saturates their network connection from midnight to 6 am every day is less of a burden on the network than a user who only uses the connection during the peak usage times.
But languages are taught in their own classes usually, or sometimes the school is specialized for language learning (like many immersion schools).
I have no problem whatsoever teaching a variety of religions in a religion class. I don't even have a problem incorporating religion into other classes (even science) if the school is specialized for that (like a Catholic high school).
But no geography class anywhere should accept "the flapping wings of a giant buzzard" for the answer to "how are mountains formed?" Or worse, "I can't tell you, that's proprietary" from a child raised as a scientologist
I was clearing up a common misconception that religion and science have to be at odds. The faith in a creator is not diametrically opposed to accepting science.
While this is true, it's personal and discussion of a creator doesn't belong alongside the science of creation.
The bible's account of creation is as valid as any other creation myth. If we are going to mention creationism / intelligent design while talking about evolution, shouldn't the Scientology creation myth also be taught? When teaching geology, shouldn't the Cherokee belief that mountains and values are caused by the flapping wings of a giant buzzard?
In evaluating the school, I think you have to first judge how well it is serving the students and families. Then things like the welfare of the teachers and the quality of the facilities. The billionaire connection is rather far down the list of things that I would be concerned about.
You may want to get yourself checked out for Alzheimers. Programmers have always loved to talk and argue about their tools, or have you forgotten about the whole vi vs emacs debate that has been raging for 35 years now.
Higher resolution? I want higher dpi in small displays. The rumored iPad3 display is just about exactly what I would like on a Macbook air sized device.
It's somewhat ironic that Google is actually threatened by the new wave of web apps. The trend seems to be for the server to send a blob of javascript that then talks back to the server doing RESTy requests rather than use a template and a bunch of database calls to assemble the page on the server. Lots and lots of services no longer respond with easily-to-parse-and-index html. Google's bots are going to need to run the javascript to see what it is that the server is returning. This is much harder to scale and might be part of what is driving their work on making very fast javascript engines.
This bike has carbon fiber forks and rear triangle. Ten years ago, you couldn't touch that for $1,000.
In fact, all of the $500 Walmart bikes are pretty impressive. I bought my bike online (BikesDirect.com) and it's an unbelievably good bike for the money. If you are willing to do eBay, there are lots of full fiber frames between $400 and $1,000. If you work at it a bit, you can definitely get a killer bicycle for much less than you could even a few years ago.
I have a Thinkpad T520. It has the 1920x1080 matte screen. Other than the excellent display, it's a pretty crappy machine. It's super flexy, the model has had cracking problems with the plastic in the wrist wrest area, and the pre-loaded Lenovo software is bloated and slow. It takes forever to boot even after stripping out everything that I could. The fingerprint reader is unreliable (I don't use it anymore), the trackpad is textured rather than smooth (maybe I'm wearing my fingerprints down?) and the battery life sucks.
In a lot of ways, I prefer my 14" Dell that I had before, except for the glossy screen and it too used up the battery quickly.
If I were going to buy something today, it would be probably be the Macbook air and either dual boot Windows (can you do that?) or virtualize Windows.
You're right! I was looking at 15" screens and WUXGA is hard to find. It doesn't help that sites like Dell let you search by just about every other parameter other than display.
Is any other company even trying to make better machines than Apple? Everybody else seems to be fighting for the low end. With Microsoft doing their best to kill desktop Windows, I'm finding it harder and harder to avoid buying an Apple for my next computer.
Most food is dirt cheap. Some (like coffee) have gone up quite a bit. Clothing is either less expensive or the same price as it was 10 years ago. A lot of building products (wood, brick, etc...) rise and fall, but don't really change that much over time. Appliances and furniture are also pretty static. A $500 bicycle from 2011 is far better than a $500 bicycle from 1991.
It's still pretty crappy. Too many things are still using bitmaps instead of vector graphics and static layouts. Ideally, there would be a slider in the control panel and if you want things 12% larger, then that's what you get.
Why not? If the battery life isn't terrible I think it's a great idea. People do a lot of reading on these things and having a display with a similar DPI as early laser printers is a fantastic thing.
You're describing previous generations of reactors. The new ones are more like a giant battery. They are sealed, self contained, and walk-away safe. The big reactors you are describing produce less expensive electricity, but I'm not sure we will ever defeat the cheap / safe tradeoff.
Maybe I should have written "I can't really think of any reason I would want a Windows or Linux tablet." I was never under the impression that the iPad was good for everybody, just for lots of people. All of those things you mentioned are not things that I miss with the iPad because the iPad is not my sole computer. I don't want a Windows or Linux tablet because it really wouldn't be any more useful to me than my laptop.
I also can't do any of that stuff on my Kindle and that's just fine with me.
As for innovation needing freedom, that's nonsense. I think if the iPad were an unconstrained tablet computer it would be a worse device for most users. I think it's been wildly successful precisely because it isn't a keyboardless laptop. It isn't perfect, but I think the design choices made by Apple were very good and their market success reflects that.
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Aren't most of the paid OpenOffice developers Oracle employees? I'm talking about the Star Office guys. Does LibreOffice have the same development manpower behind it?
I would just like them to explain how data caps help them. As I understand it, the problem is that there are a couple of peak usage times every day where congestion is a problem. Throttling heavy users will only help this situation if their heavy usage coincides with the periods of congestion. If, instead, the heavy users are using the bits watching Netflix late at night, throttling them won't help.
Somebody who saturates their network connection from midnight to 6 am every day is less of a burden on the network than a user who only uses the connection during the peak usage times.
It depends on what state you are in. Some small claims courts don't even allow lawyers.
According to the Salt Lake City School District web site, teachers salaries start at around $35k and can get close to $70k.
But languages are taught in their own classes usually, or sometimes the school is specialized for language learning (like many immersion schools).
I have no problem whatsoever teaching a variety of religions in a religion class. I don't even have a problem incorporating religion into other classes (even science) if the school is specialized for that (like a Catholic high school).
But no geography class anywhere should accept "the flapping wings of a giant buzzard" for the answer to "how are mountains formed?" Or worse, "I can't tell you, that's proprietary" from a child raised as a scientologist
While this is true, it's personal and discussion of a creator doesn't belong alongside the science of creation.
The bible's account of creation is as valid as any other creation myth. If we are going to mention creationism / intelligent design while talking about evolution, shouldn't the Scientology creation myth also be taught? When teaching geology, shouldn't the Cherokee belief that mountains and values are caused by the flapping wings of a giant buzzard?
Incredibly good, I assume.
In evaluating the school, I think you have to first judge how well it is serving the students and families. Then things like the welfare of the teachers and the quality of the facilities. The billionaire connection is rather far down the list of things that I would be concerned about.
Is GnuStep still alive?
You may want to get yourself checked out for Alzheimers. Programmers have always loved to talk and argue about their tools, or have you forgotten about the whole vi vs emacs debate that has been raging for 35 years now.
Higher resolution? I want higher dpi in small displays. The rumored iPad3 display is just about exactly what I would like on a Macbook air sized device.
Adobe? Isn't this the company that loads reader_sl.exe to make reader load faster? Very funny.
It's somewhat ironic that Google is actually threatened by the new wave of web apps. The trend seems to be for the server to send a blob of javascript that then talks back to the server doing RESTy requests rather than use a template and a bunch of database calls to assemble the page on the server. Lots and lots of services no longer respond with easily-to-parse-and-index html. Google's bots are going to need to run the javascript to see what it is that the server is returning. This is much harder to scale and might be part of what is driving their work on making very fast javascript engines.
This bike has carbon fiber forks and rear triangle. Ten years ago, you couldn't touch that for $1,000.
In fact, all of the $500 Walmart bikes are pretty impressive. I bought my bike online (BikesDirect.com) and it's an unbelievably good bike for the money. If you are willing to do eBay, there are lots of full fiber frames between $400 and $1,000. If you work at it a bit, you can definitely get a killer bicycle for much less than you could even a few years ago.
I have a Thinkpad T520. It has the 1920x1080 matte screen. Other than the excellent display, it's a pretty crappy machine. It's super flexy, the model has had cracking problems with the plastic in the wrist wrest area, and the pre-loaded Lenovo software is bloated and slow. It takes forever to boot even after stripping out everything that I could. The fingerprint reader is unreliable (I don't use it anymore), the trackpad is textured rather than smooth (maybe I'm wearing my fingerprints down?) and the battery life sucks.
In a lot of ways, I prefer my 14" Dell that I had before, except for the glossy screen and it too used up the battery quickly.
If I were going to buy something today, it would be probably be the Macbook air and either dual boot Windows (can you do that?) or virtualize Windows.
You're right! I was looking at 15" screens and WUXGA is hard to find. It doesn't help that sites like Dell let you search by just about every other parameter other than display.
Is any other company even trying to make better machines than Apple? Everybody else seems to be fighting for the low end. With Microsoft doing their best to kill desktop Windows, I'm finding it harder and harder to avoid buying an Apple for my next computer.
Most food is dirt cheap. Some (like coffee) have gone up quite a bit. Clothing is either less expensive or the same price as it was 10 years ago. A lot of building products (wood, brick, etc...) rise and fall, but don't really change that much over time. Appliances and furniture are also pretty static. A $500 bicycle from 2011 is far better than a $500 bicycle from 1991.
You used to be able to buy laptops with higher resolution than that. These days, I'm not sure anybody is making even 17" 1920x1200 laptops.
Oddly, only the (unannounced) iPad 3 seems to have a high resolution display.
I believe it's the same people who insist on keeping their source code under 80 characters wide.
I'm talking about the Toshiba 4S reactors. At least one has been built, although I don't think it's been turned on yet.
It's still pretty crappy. Too many things are still using bitmaps instead of vector graphics and static layouts. Ideally, there would be a slider in the control panel and if you want things 12% larger, then that's what you get.
Why not? If the battery life isn't terrible I think it's a great idea. People do a lot of reading on these things and having a display with a similar DPI as early laser printers is a fantastic thing.
I think operating systems have some work to do as well. Higher DPI often just means smaller widgets. Hopefully this makes its way to laptops soon.
I suppose you also have rejected laser printers in favor of good ol' dot matrix. Am I right?
You're describing previous generations of reactors. The new ones are more like a giant battery. They are sealed, self contained, and walk-away safe. The big reactors you are describing produce less expensive electricity, but I'm not sure we will ever defeat the cheap / safe tradeoff.
Maybe I should have written "I can't really think of any reason I would want a Windows or Linux tablet." I was never under the impression that the iPad was good for everybody, just for lots of people. All of those things you mentioned are not things that I miss with the iPad because the iPad is not my sole computer. I don't want a Windows or Linux tablet because it really wouldn't be any more useful to me than my laptop.
I also can't do any of that stuff on my Kindle and that's just fine with me.
As for innovation needing freedom, that's nonsense. I think if the iPad were an unconstrained tablet computer it would be a worse device for most users. I think it's been wildly successful precisely because it isn't a keyboardless laptop. It isn't perfect, but I think the design choices made by Apple were very good and their market success reflects that.