When you can turn a grass roots political party into a pejorative, you have succeeded. Well done American media and the powers that be.
I never thought that desire for fiscal responsibility, constitutional rule, and limited concentration of power would be masked over with such a contrived caricature.
Constitutional rule implies that you win elections, pass legislation, and accept judicial review. You do not threaten a global economic meltdown to extort concessions from the President.
"Concentration of power?"
Where has there ever been a greater concentration of money and power than in the radical Republican right? You march to the tune of the talk shows, the think tanks and the money men or else.
it was put in there so the work could could go out into the wild after a brief period of time and be built upon.
During the American Civil War, the law of the Confederate States on copyright was broadly the same as that of the existing Copyright Act of 1831; twenty-eight years with an extension for fourteen, with mandatory registration.
I want legislation limiting their healthcare and other benefits to those which are available to the general public.
To what purpose?
In January, the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics' website unveiled a database detailing the minimum, average and maximum net worth of nearly every member of the current Congress.
The research shows many of them are rich. Very rich. The median estimated net worth of Congress is $966,000, according to the center. By contrast, the median net worth of the typical American household is slightly more than $66,000. Ten members had a net worth greater than $100 million on one or both sites.
The congressman represents a district of about 710,000 people.
Not a trivial responsibility ---
and to do the job effectively requires staffing and money, quite a lot money when you get down to the truth of it.
You can of course outsource the expense to candidates, lobbyists and campaign contributors with pockets as deep as the Koch brothers --- the Tea Party solution --- but you get what you pay for.
If it's a choice between you getting a shot that will kill you and 100 people around you dying, it's rather less clear cut... a generous enough person might accept and be the sacrifice, but while it is rather selfish it's not entirely unreasonable to refuse, and being forced to get the shot would be wrong.
Typhoid Mary.
The only humane solution was commitment for life to a secure psychiatric hospital.
And yet here we are, explaining why MS Office is the popular choice because it only does the most basic stuff that 9-to-5 clerical workers need.
MS Office does more than the basics ---
which is why you will see MS Office skills advertised as a prerequisite for jobs paying six figure salaries.
But, more importantly, MS Office is sold as part of an integrated office system that scales to an enterprise of any size. LibreOffice is the stand-alone office suite of the nineties.
It's great they have these contests and architects stroke each other with awards, but they never seem turn up in any actual neighborhoods.
To keep the peace --- secure a mortgage and the resale value of your home --- you have to fit in with your neighbors. The concept home with one bedroom and a half-bath works only for singles and seniors no matter how attractive its exterior.
I don't see anything that looks like a kitchen, anything that looks like a bedroom, or anything that looks like a bathroom.
It has a kitchen that looks more like a wet bar and a single bathroom and bedroom in its "compact dark service core." Minimalist even by European standards. floor plan
It is not in the least surprising that most photographs show only the bright, colorful exterior, garden-like. views.
There is space here for entertaining but none to raise a family.
Based on polls of focus groups, technology companies scored highest among consumers, with a median score of 8 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 as the highest level of trust.
The geek builds his statistical arguments on sand.
The poll of focus groups was conducted June 10 to 27 and included three diverse consumer groups that included 32 people from Los Angeles, Chicago and Iselin, N.J. One-third of those surveyed were premium vehicle owners who were more interested in autonomous vehicles and self-driving technology.
KPMG conceded that the small number of people participating in the focus groups, while valuable for the qualitative and directional insights, was ''not statistically valid.''
Iselin rang no bells whatever and I had to look it up:
Iselin is a census-designated place and unincorporated community within Woodbridge Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP population was 18,695.
The racial makeup of the CDP was 41.47% (7,753) White, 6.72% (1,257) Black or African American, 0.33% (62) Native American, 46.12% (8,623) Asian, 0.00% (0) Pacific Islander, 2.26% (423) from other races, and 3.09% (577) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.12% (1,332) of the population.
An area known as Metropark, consisting primarily of office parks and large office buildings, lies in the southwestern corner of Iselin and spills over into neighboring Edison. The New Jersey Transit and Amtrak Metropark Station is named for this area.
In addition to a Hilton Hotel and the train station, Metropark also features the headquarters of Ansell Limited, Engelhard Corporation (acquired by BASF in 2006) and Eaton Corporation's Filtration Division. Other corporate residents in the area include Siemens AG, Tata Consultancy Services, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Accenture, Level 3, BT (British Telecom), UBS AG and TIAA-CREF.
I use LaTeX. I maintain the manuals for my company's software products and we have a great workflow for building the manuals.
In other words, you've found a niche within your company where your LaTex skills are needed and appreciated. But how much of the routine clerical work that keeps your business afloat is routed through MS Office?
MS Office is designed for use by the 9-to-5 clerical worker --- not the outside studio or in-house team that designs your four color catalogs, print adds, brochures and annual reports.
It seems there is a statute I recall from grade school called "Finders keepers, losers weepers".
I find this perfectly typical of what passes for legal reasoning on Slashdot.
I suppose it's worth adding that the expiration of copyright does not give you ownership or access to primary sources. It does not fund conservation or your digital restoration project. It does not fund distribution.
There are thirty million Netflix subscribers in the states or about ten percent of the adult population.
The web user is middle class --- someone with the disposable income needed to support the purchase of broadband and mobile data services, computers, smartphones, tablets, video game consoles and so on.
Protected content, retail sales and subscription services are not a burden to him --- quite the contrary --- if they are not available through the browser he will go elsewhere and he won't be looking back. The success of the "walled gardens" of Apple and iTunes, the Kindle and Amazon Prime makes that perfectly clear.
W3C doesn't exist to pacify the geek.
It exists to insure the continued relevance of the general purpose web browser,
Hosted e-mail. 25 GB/user. Web conferencing, supports HD video, etc. 3,000 SharePoint team sites. Active directory integration 24/7 phone support Anti-spam and anti-malware Office Web Apps MS Office "Pro" Suite for 5 PCs or Macs/user Advanced e-mail, advanced voice mail.
May include "MS Office Anywhere" --- stream full Office apps to any PC.
So what are your monthly costs per user for an equivalent bundle of applications and services? How well does Libre Office integrate with third party applications and resources?
It's important you 225,000 let the elected officials know your displeasure at this at the next election. Especially the ones who throw up their hands and say, "I had nothing to do with this!"
The population of New York is 8.3 million. Quite a few I suspect who have no interest whatever in seeing their apartment building being transformed into a cut-price hotel --- without hotel security, fire protection and so on.
It will let people survive to rebuild in an area unsuitable for human occupation again and again.
New York City began a North Atlantic port with connections to the Great Lakes and the Midwest. The Mohawk Valley providing a pass through the Appalachian mountains. New Orleans as a Gulf port with access to the whole of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio River valleys.
If you are looking for gainful employment and a place to live, you tend to be drawn to places that have fertile land, fresh water, good communications, the potential for trade, agricultural and industrial development.
The geography and climate that makes these places interesting and viable also tends to make them dangerous.
John Bohannon is a biologist, science journalist, and dancer based at Harvard University. He writes for Science Magazine, Discover Magazine, and Wired Magazine, and frequently reports on the intersections of science and war. After embedding in southern Afghanistan in 2010, he was the first journalist to convince the US military to voluntarily release civilian casualty data. He received a Reuters environmental journalism award in 2006 for his reporting on collaborative research in Gaza. He was also involved in some controversy over an article he wrote critiquing the Lancet survey of Iraq War Casualties.
At Science Magazine, Bohannon also adopts the ''Gonzo Scientist'' persona, where he ''takes a look at the intersections among science, culture, and art -- and, in true gonzo style, doesn't shrink from making himself a part of the story. The stories include original art and accompanying multimedia features.'' As the Gonzo Scientist, Bohannon's research on whether humans can tell the difference between pate and dog food led to Stephen Colbert eating cat food on the Colbert Report.
Bohannon is probably best known for creating the Dance Your PhD competition, in which scientists from all around the world interpret their doctoral dissertations in dance form. Slate Magazine ran a profile on Bohannon and the competition in 2011. He performed with the Black Label Movement dance troupe at TEDx Brussels in November 2011, where he satirized Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal by modestly proposing that Powerpoint software be replaced by live dancers. Bohannon then went on to perform with Black Label Movement at TED 2012 in Long Beach.
While visiting the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health, he is working on two areas of research: 1) torture --- in particular the complicity of scientific and medical workers in torture, and 2) ethical problems involved with obtaining global health data, stemming from his journalistic coverage of the controversial attempts to estimate the health and mortality of the Iraqi population since the US-led invasion.
After completing a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Oxford in 2002, John focused on bioethics as a Fulbright fellow (2003 --- 2004) in Berlin.
So the Microsoft has finally got all their systems working properly with the government requested backdoors and decryption methodologies.
The certification means that the Azure platform can be used by the DoD, Homeland Security and the GSA. If those agencies are compromised to the point where a backdoor can be unlocked, you have bigger problems than Azure.
Nobody requires absolute certainty in science. In fact, even the court system, sad as it is, needs it -- it requires "beyond reasonable doubt", whereas science is similarily situated at "best model that fits the facts".
"Proven beyond any reasonable doubt" is the standard for conviction in a US criminal court, where the jury is expected to come to a decision based on the weight of the evidence, not their opinion of the defendant. You can never be certain, you can only go with what you have.
The charge did at one point instruct that to convict, guilt must be found beyond a reasonable doubt; but it then equated a reasonable doubt with a ''grave uncertainty'' and an ''actual substantial doubt,'' and stated that what was required was a ''moral certainty' 'that the defendant was guilty. It is plain to us that the words ''substantial'' and ''grave,'' as they are commonly understood, suggest a higher degree of doubt than is required for acquittal under the reasonable doubt standard. When those statements are then considered with the reference to ''moral certainty,'' rather than evidentiary certainty, it becomes clear that a reasonable juror could have interpreted the instruction to allow a finding of guilt based on a degree of proof below that required by the Due Process Clause.
I'd much rather see the headline "pro-gamers get their hands on the steam controller and approve" than anything else.
If the Steam OS is PC gaming for the living room, then the controller needs to be designed for the gamers who inhabit the living room. Lots of families playing there. Lots of casual and social gamers playing there. The prod not so much.
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers. - John D. Rockefeller.
Standard Oil was defined by petroleum products that were affordable, precisely formulated, accurately labeled, safe to use, and sold in honest weights and measures. Rockefeller could be quite ruthless in business, but what he built was a recognizably modern, high tech, high skilled, industry.
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.
Attributed by Jim Marrs in the William Lewis film One Nation Under Siege (2008); no published occurrence of this has been located prior to The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy : How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America (2010) by Jim Marrs
Yea a quote like this "My agenda is to build the coolest game possible." is nice in theory, but deadlines with budget constraints have an effect of pushing products to market. I'm assuming the Duke Nukem Forever team had similar goals.
There is a need for someone who can look at your game objectively ---
particularly when "coolness" is defined by a character or genre that has been dormant for ten to fifteen years or more.
Slashdot Mirror
When you can turn a grass roots political party into a pejorative, you have succeeded. Well done American media and the powers that be.
I never thought that desire for fiscal responsibility, constitutional rule, and limited concentration of power would be masked over with such a contrived caricature.
Constitutional rule implies that you win elections, pass legislation, and accept judicial review. You do not threaten a global economic meltdown to extort concessions from the President.
"Concentration of power?"
Where has there ever been a greater concentration of money and power than in the radical Republican right? You march to the tune of the talk shows, the think tanks and the money men or else.
When has with holding information 'ever' been the right move?
In a perfect world there would be no need for keeping secrets.
In a perfect world a software patch would fix everything when all hell breaks loose.
But it is not a perfect world --- and the geek doesn't have a real solution for every problem, all he has is a meme.
it was put in there so the work could could go out into the wild after a brief period of time and be built upon.
During the American Civil War, the law of the Confederate States on copyright was broadly the same as that of the existing Copyright Act of 1831; twenty-eight years with an extension for fourteen, with mandatory registration.
Copyright law of the United States
That is for all practical purposes copyright for the life an author born in 1800-1860.
The purpose of a patent or copyright is both to reward the creator and force his successors to aim higher. To show some originality.
This is quite typical for kickstarter. "Maybe we'll do Linux, you know, if the Windows users give us a lot of money." It's awkward.
But honest.
You only have to glance at the pie sales charts posted with every Humble Bundle to see that much.
"Stop being such a drama queen about it, because privacy is so 20th century"
The geek has been saying this for years and now he complains because it has come back to bite him in the ass.
I want legislation limiting their healthcare and other benefits to those which are available to the general public.
To what purpose?
In January, the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics' website unveiled a database detailing the minimum, average and maximum net worth of nearly every member of the current Congress.
The research shows many of them are rich. Very rich. The median estimated net worth of Congress is $966,000, according to the center. By contrast, the median net worth of the typical American household is slightly more than $66,000. Ten members had a net worth greater than $100 million on one or both sites.
Is Congress a millionaires club?
The congressman represents a district of about 710,000 people.
Not a trivial responsibility ---
and to do the job effectively requires staffing and money, quite a lot money when you get down to the truth of it.
You can of course outsource the expense to candidates, lobbyists and campaign contributors with pockets as deep as the Koch brothers --- the Tea Party solution --- but you get what you pay for.
If it's a choice between you getting a shot that will kill you and 100 people around you dying, it's rather less clear cut... a generous enough person might accept and be the sacrifice, but while it is rather selfish it's not entirely unreasonable to refuse, and being forced to get the shot would be wrong.
Typhoid Mary.
The only humane solution was commitment for life to a secure psychiatric hospital.
And yet here we are, explaining why MS Office is the popular choice because it only does the most basic stuff that 9-to-5 clerical workers need.
MS Office does more than the basics ---
which is why you will see MS Office skills advertised as a prerequisite for jobs paying six figure salaries.
But, more importantly, MS Office is sold as part of an integrated office system that scales to an enterprise of any size. LibreOffice is the stand-alone office suite of the nineties.
It's great they have these contests and architects stroke each other with awards, but they never seem turn up in any actual neighborhoods.
To keep the peace --- secure a mortgage and the resale value of your home --- you have to fit in with your neighbors. The concept home with one bedroom and a half-bath works only for singles and seniors no matter how attractive its exterior.
I don't see anything that looks like a kitchen, anything that looks like a bedroom, or anything that looks like a bathroom.
It has a kitchen that looks more like a wet bar and a single bathroom and bedroom in its "compact dark service core." Minimalist even by European standards. floor plan
It is not in the least surprising that most photographs show only the bright, colorful exterior, garden-like. views.
There is space here for entertaining but none to raise a family.
Based on polls of focus groups, technology companies scored highest among consumers, with a median score of 8 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 as the highest level of trust.
The geek builds his statistical arguments on sand.
The poll of focus groups was conducted June 10 to 27 and included three diverse consumer groups that included 32 people from Los Angeles, Chicago and Iselin, N.J. One-third of those surveyed were premium vehicle owners who were more interested in autonomous vehicles and self-driving technology.
KPMG conceded that the small number of people participating in the focus groups, while valuable for the qualitative and directional insights, was ''not statistically valid.''
Consumers would prefer to buy a self-driving car from Google over Ford
Iselin rang no bells whatever and I had to look it up:
Iselin is a census-designated place and unincorporated community within Woodbridge Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP population was 18,695.
The racial makeup of the CDP was 41.47% (7,753) White, 6.72% (1,257) Black or African American, 0.33% (62) Native American, 46.12% (8,623) Asian, 0.00% (0) Pacific Islander, 2.26% (423) from other races, and 3.09% (577) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.12% (1,332) of the population.
An area known as Metropark, consisting primarily of office parks and large office buildings, lies in the southwestern corner of Iselin and spills over into neighboring Edison. The New Jersey Transit and Amtrak Metropark Station is named for this area.
In addition to a Hilton Hotel and the train station, Metropark also features the headquarters of Ansell Limited, Engelhard Corporation (acquired by BASF in 2006) and Eaton Corporation's Filtration Division. Other corporate residents in the area include Siemens AG, Tata Consultancy Services, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Accenture, Level 3, BT (British Telecom), UBS AG and TIAA-CREF.
Iselin, New Jersey
Iselin's Asian population is Indian.
Iselin lies just west of Staten Island and is for all practical purposes just another corporate suburb of midtown Manhattan.
I use LaTeX. I maintain the manuals for my company's software products and we have a great workflow for building the manuals.
In other words, you've found a niche within your company where your LaTex skills are needed and appreciated. But how much of the routine clerical work that keeps your business afloat is routed through MS Office?
enough said!
MS Office is designed for use by the 9-to-5 clerical worker --- not the outside studio or in-house team that designs your four color catalogs, print adds, brochures and annual reports.
if a biological structure, the work is done by nature
Nature makes mistakes.
It cannot foresee every complication.
Prosthetics have to be both aesthetically and functionally part of your patient's body, meeting its unique requirements.
Damaged organs affect the performance of other organs --- you need to look at the system as a whole and find solutions that nature doesn't provide.
It seems there is a statute I recall from grade school called "Finders keepers, losers weepers".
I find this perfectly typical of what passes for legal reasoning on Slashdot.
I suppose it's worth adding that the expiration of copyright does not give you ownership or access to primary sources. It does not fund conservation or your digital restoration project. It does not fund distribution.
There are thirty million Netflix subscribers in the states or about ten percent of the adult population.
The web user is middle class --- someone with the disposable income needed to support the purchase of broadband and mobile data services, computers, smartphones, tablets, video game consoles and so on.
Protected content, retail sales and subscription services are not a burden to him --- quite the contrary --- if they are not available through the browser he will go elsewhere and he won't be looking back. The success of the "walled gardens" of Apple and iTunes, the Kindle and Amazon Prime makes that perfectly clear.
W3C doesn't exist to pacify the geek.
It exists to insure the continued relevance of the general purpose web browser,
If my $10 mil company can't afford Office 2013 and is switching to Libre, how the hell can an African school system afford it?
Office 365 plans and pricing for education [South Africa]
Plan A3
Students:
R 23,30 user/month
Faculty and staff:
R 42,00 user/month
1 South African Rand = 10 cents US.
Includes:
Hosted e-mail. 25 GB/user.
Web conferencing, supports HD video, etc.
3,000 SharePoint team sites.
Active directory integration
24/7 phone support
Anti-spam and anti-malware
Office Web Apps
MS Office "Pro" Suite for 5 PCs or Macs/user
Advanced e-mail, advanced voice mail.
May include "MS Office Anywhere" --- stream full Office apps to any PC.
So what are your monthly costs per user for an equivalent bundle of applications and services? How well does Libre Office integrate with third party applications and resources?
It's important you 225,000 let the elected officials know your displeasure at this at the next election. Especially the ones who throw up their hands and say, "I had nothing to do with this!"
The population of New York is 8.3 million. Quite a few I suspect who have no interest whatever in seeing their apartment building being transformed into a cut-price hotel --- without hotel security, fire protection and so on.
It will let people survive to rebuild in an area unsuitable for human occupation again and again.
New York City began a North Atlantic port with connections to the Great Lakes and the Midwest. The Mohawk Valley providing a pass through the Appalachian mountains. New Orleans as a Gulf port with access to the whole of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio River valleys.
If you are looking for gainful employment and a place to live, you tend to be drawn to places that have fertile land, fresh water, good communications, the potential for trade, agricultural and industrial development.
The geography and climate that makes these places interesting and viable also tends to make them dangerous.
I've never heard of this person John Bohannon.
John Bohannon is a biologist, science journalist, and dancer based at Harvard University. He writes for Science Magazine, Discover Magazine, and Wired Magazine, and frequently reports on the intersections of science and war. After embedding in southern Afghanistan in 2010, he was the first journalist to convince the US military to voluntarily release civilian casualty data. He received a Reuters environmental journalism award in 2006 for his reporting on collaborative research in Gaza. He was also involved in some controversy over an article he wrote critiquing the Lancet survey of Iraq War Casualties.
At Science Magazine, Bohannon also adopts the ''Gonzo Scientist'' persona, where he ''takes a look at the intersections among science, culture, and art -- and, in true gonzo style, doesn't shrink from making himself a part of the story. The stories include original art and accompanying multimedia features.'' As the Gonzo Scientist, Bohannon's research on whether humans can tell the difference between pate and dog food led to Stephen Colbert eating cat food on the Colbert Report.
Bohannon is probably best known for creating the Dance Your PhD competition, in which scientists from all around the world interpret their doctoral dissertations in dance form. Slate Magazine ran a profile on Bohannon and the competition in 2011. He performed with the Black Label Movement dance troupe at TEDx Brussels in November 2011, where he satirized Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal by modestly proposing that Powerpoint software be replaced by live dancers. Bohannon then went on to perform with Black Label Movement at TED 2012 in Long Beach.
Advisory Board - John Bohannon
While visiting the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health, he is working on two areas of research: 1) torture --- in particular the complicity of scientific and medical workers in torture, and 2) ethical problems involved with obtaining global health data, stemming from his journalistic coverage of the controversial attempts to estimate the health and mortality of the Iraqi population since the US-led invasion.
After completing a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Oxford in 2002, John focused on bioethics as a Fulbright fellow (2003 --- 2004) in Berlin.
So the Microsoft has finally got all their systems working properly with the government requested backdoors and decryption methodologies.
The certification means that the Azure platform can be used by the DoD, Homeland Security and the GSA. If those agencies are compromised to the point where a backdoor can be unlocked, you have bigger problems than Azure.
Nobody requires absolute certainty in science. In fact, even the court system, sad as it is, needs it -- it requires "beyond reasonable doubt", whereas science is similarily situated at "best model that fits the facts".
"Proven beyond any reasonable doubt" is the standard for conviction in a US criminal court, where the jury is expected to come to a decision based on the weight of the evidence, not their opinion of the defendant. You can never be certain, you can only go with what you have.
The charge did at one point instruct that to convict, guilt must be found beyond a reasonable doubt; but it then equated a reasonable doubt with a ''grave uncertainty'' and an ''actual substantial doubt,'' and stated that what was required was a ''moral certainty' 'that the defendant was guilty. It is plain to us that the words ''substantial'' and ''grave,'' as they are commonly understood, suggest a higher degree of doubt than is required for acquittal under the reasonable doubt standard. When those statements are then considered with the reference to ''moral certainty,'' rather than evidentiary certainty, it becomes clear that a reasonable juror could have interpreted the instruction to allow a finding of guilt based on a degree of proof below that required by the Due Process Clause.
Tommy CAGE v. LOUISIANA.
I'd much rather see the headline "pro-gamers get their hands on the steam controller and approve" than anything else.
If the Steam OS is PC gaming for the living room, then the controller needs to be designed for the gamers who inhabit the living room. Lots of families playing there. Lots of casual and social gamers playing there. The prod not so much.
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers. - John D. Rockefeller.
Standard Oil was defined by petroleum products that were affordable, precisely formulated, accurately labeled, safe to use, and sold in honest weights and measures. Rockefeller could be quite ruthless in business, but what he built was a recognizably modern, high tech, high skilled, industry.
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.
Attributed by Jim Marrs in the William Lewis film One Nation Under Siege (2008); no published occurrence of this has been located prior to The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy : How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America (2010) by Jim Marrs
John D. Rockefeller
Yea a quote like this "My agenda is to build the coolest game possible." is nice in theory, but deadlines with budget constraints have an effect of pushing products to market. I'm assuming the Duke Nukem Forever team had similar goals.
There is a need for someone who can look at your game objectively ---
particularly when "coolness" is defined by a character or genre that has been dormant for ten to fifteen years or more.