Can't you just see it now? Robot helicopters intelligently lifting flood victims from rooftops, rescuing kittens from treetops, spraying killer bee swarms with sleep inducing chemicals. They'll come to the aid of lost hikers, climbers and avalanche victims. They will patrol for lost boaters and surveil and protect tagged endangered species from predators- human or other. Their eye in the sky will alert emergency services of serious auto accidents, fires, or weather conditions. They will survey bridge structures and other critical infrastructure for damage, weakness and risk of failure. Their sensors will give us early warning of radiation leaks, chemical spills, dangerous pollutants, and excess allergens.
I can see it. So can you.
How else could you have come up with so so many plausible scenarios within the space of a single paragraph?
You can ship the screen in the code, but if you never show it to users what good is it then?
How long did it take the EU bureacracy to discover that the browser choice screen was missing on some systems? A year? Two years? Did anyone outside the bureacracy give a damn one way or the other?
They have no understanding of constitutional law. The constitution does now lay out our rights... we have our rights with or without the constitution.
The decisions of an American judge are rooted in his understanding of constutions and statutes.
Natural law makes for superb political rhetoric ("all men are created equal') but it also gives the courts, the legislature and the executive to move in any direction they want to go.
And not just "code to learn basics of what JavaScript can do," but "write code that will be used in production."
If you are asking me to write commercial grade, production-ready code, I expect to be paid the going rate for commercial grade, production-ready code --- over and above what I am currently being paid for my day job in accounting, marketing, etc.
People buy office because they think they have to. Little trolls like you feed the fear. People don't buy it because they actually like it.
The geek plays this card whenever the numbers are against him.
It is so much easier then trying to really understand the success of the "walled garden" of the iOS. The failure of Linux on the desktop.
MS Office is defined by the needs and values of the 9-to-5 clerical worker --- who seem more than willing to shell out their own hard-earned money for the product.
So you get software no one likes in hardware no one would pay for. That sounds like a recipe for success.
MS Office outsells any other retail software product you can name.
It is the tail that wags the dog. Currently holding 11 out of the top 25 slots at Amazon.com alone. Home and Student for the PC will typically rank 1 or 2 anywhere you look.
Trialware is great and all, but I'd hardly call it a feature if you have to pay for the 'upgrade'
From the MS "Office Next" blog:
Getting Office Home & Student 2013 RT
Office Home & Student 2013 RT is only available on Windows RT devices and is not sold standalone. The Windows RT devices available at Windows RT General Availability will include preview editions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. After the final edition of Office Home & Student 2013 RT is released in a customer's language, their Windows RT device will be automatically updated with the final edition for free via Windows Update (Wi-Fi connection required). Customers can expect to get these updates starting in early November through January depending on their language. We'll publish the specific update schedule on October 26 on the Office blog.
Is the judge allowed to tell the jury about jury nullification? If he is, then his/her hands are never tied.
Historically, jury nullification freed the Klansman and hanged the black man.
It freed the good old boys and not the outsiders. Three guesses as to whether the geek will be found on the side of the angels. Three juries cheerfully took turns hammering Jamie Thomas and her pro bono attorneys into the marble flooring.
Yes, all improvements to the web are thanks to the ad companies, it has nothing to do with technological progress.
Technological progress costs money.
You have to give people a reason to buy the hardware and services it requires.
Broadcast radio began as little more than a high tech hobby. With programming like Amos and Andy and The Grand Old Opry, broadcast radio became a national obsession.
They have to do their homework, find suspects, and then get THEM to provide a DNA sample. Taking shortcuts and asking everybody to provide one "voluntarily" is not acceptable, because at some point it won't be voluntary any more.
This is the "slippery slope" argument.
The problem is that it doesn't carry as much force from 6,000 km distant as a local plea to help capture this rapist and killer.
The command line is powerful, I'll give you that. But it's also cryptic as all-get-out to the average person. "ps -eo pid,user,args --sort user". Really? Try explaining that one to Aunt Mildred who just wants to check her pictures on facebook.
Try convincing Aunt Mildred that see can type a line like that correctly. That she can recover from a typo after she hits "Enter."
For the average user, not the technical wizz-kid: the average user, Linux was never an option. It didn't come on their store-bought PC. If didn't "just work" (ever!)...
For the average user who took a liking to a FOSS app, there has always been the port to Windows or the Mac, easy to find and easy to install --- which strips away any compelling reason to migrate to Linux.
Open the Ubuntu store.
Then the Windows selection from Download.com. Finally, open the software pages at Amazon.com or even Walmart. Think like an average user and not a geek and then ask yourself where you want to spend your time and money.
Wow, way to misinterpret something and bring up a straw man. Nowhere does he state that "nerds must not be allowed to exist." He's stating that the device demographic has changed. These things used to be by nerds for nerds. Now they're by business managers/bean counters/nerds for decidedly non-nerds.
For a generation, the geek has been dependent on commodity hardware designed for the MSDOS and Windows PC eco-system. That world is changing --- and the geek is beginning to look like a bit like a dinosaur foraging desperately for food after the asteroid hit.
A) Stupid or indifferent people want a computer (car) that just works and they don't have to/nor want to fuck with the innards.
Calling the tens or hundreds of millions of people who side with the Apple, Microsoft or Amazon product "stupid" simply takes the geek out the game. You've given them no reason to care if the OEM hardware manufactuer writes the geek off as a profitless niche market.
Guy goes crazy in a public place, and a dozen other guys with military training fill him full of bullets. 3 people are killed or injured, and live goes on...
Imagine a movie theater.
Dimly lit.
Multichannel sound effects at full volume.
There is a very good chance the killer will be moving up from behind you. He'll be the one wearing body armor and maybe a pack of explosives with a dead man switch. You don't have an aisle seat and your movement is restricted.
Hundreds of people. Some costumed as characters in the film.
It will be something like a miracle if you can correctly identify your target and have a clear shot.
Pull out a gun and everyone around you will panic and you become a target yourself.
Remember you are not acting as part of a team here. Your buddies are elsewhere. No one knows you. No one trusts you.
They occasionally cuff people, throw 'em in a cage, and abandon them for days at a time. They occasionally cuff people and then beat the poor helpless bastard silly, claiming "resistance"...
and once you break free of your handcuffs the cops are going to turn all sweetness and light?
remember those old S.W.A.T games where you were taught to restrain everyone caught up in a raid, suspects, hostages and innocent bystanders alike --- or risk losing control of the situation?
you should have the ability to defend yourself and earn the extra charges
assume you survive being tasered, clubbed, choked, or shot by a cop whose entire training is focused on bringing you down quickly.
So you are telling us that a judge who specializes in patent law has over thirty years experience in patent law?
Not to mention:
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 13, 1935, Judge Lourie received his Bachelorâ(TM)s degree from Harvard University (1956), his Masterâ(TM)s degree in organic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin (1958), and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania (1965). He received his J.D. degree from Temple University in 1970.
If you nothing more to say then "Don't Filter A Thing," you waste his time and ours. It is not his decision to make.
The small non-profit school won't have the money to hire extra staff simply to monitor whatever passes for a computer lab. The geek may not like the idea, but a filter will have to carry part of the load.
The old way was to just write a big check to some charity and trust that they spend the money efficiently and in the way you want it spent.
The old way was shaped by philantrophists like Andrew Carnegie (libraries) and Julius Rosewald (the Rosenwald Schools for the "colored' in the segrgated American south).
The beneficiaries had to make a serious, long-term, commitment of their own money, time and labor to receive funding.
The closest Linux has come to far-reaching popular acceptance is in Android --- and the one thing Android clearly is not is traditional community oriented Linux distribution.
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Can't you just see it now? Robot helicopters intelligently lifting flood victims from rooftops, rescuing kittens from treetops, spraying killer bee swarms with sleep inducing chemicals. They'll come to the aid of lost hikers, climbers and avalanche victims. They will patrol for lost boaters and surveil and protect tagged endangered species from predators- human or other. Their eye in the sky will alert emergency services of serious auto accidents, fires, or weather conditions. They will survey bridge structures and other critical infrastructure for damage, weakness and risk of failure. Their sensors will give us early warning of radiation leaks, chemical spills, dangerous pollutants, and excess allergens.
I can see it. So can you.
How else could you have come up with so so many plausible scenarios within the space of a single paragraph?
Sorry, I am not a native English speaker, and a quick web search does not yield anything on the word "Inquity". Can somebody explain the word?
It is called a typo --- and it happens because submissions can't be spell-checked by the browser or the software that drives Slashdot.
You can ship the screen in the code, but if you never show it to users what good is it then?
How long did it take the EU bureacracy to discover that the browser choice screen was missing on some systems? A year? Two years? Did anyone outside the bureacracy give a damn one way or the other?
They have no understanding of constitutional law. The constitution does now lay out our rights... we have our rights with or without the constitution.
The decisions of an American judge are rooted in his understanding of constutions and statutes.
Natural law makes for superb political rhetoric ("all men are created equal') but it also gives the courts, the legislature and the executive to move in any direction they want to go.
And not just "code to learn basics of what JavaScript can do," but "write code that will be used in production."
If you are asking me to write commercial grade, production-ready code, I expect to be paid the going rate for commercial grade, production-ready code --- over and above what I am currently being paid for my day job in accounting, marketing, etc.
People buy office because they think they have to. Little trolls like you feed the fear. People don't buy it because they actually like it.
The geek plays this card whenever the numbers are against him.
It is so much easier then trying to really understand the success of the "walled garden" of the iOS. The failure of Linux on the desktop.
MS Office is defined by the needs and values of the 9-to-5 clerical worker --- who seem more than willing to shell out their own hard-earned money for the product.
So you get software no one likes in hardware no one would pay for. That sounds like a recipe for success.
MS Office outsells any other retail software product you can name.
It is the tail that wags the dog. Currently holding 11 out of the top 25 slots at Amazon.com alone. Home and Student for the PC will typically rank 1 or 2 anywhere you look.
Trialware is great and all, but I'd hardly call it a feature if you have to pay for the 'upgrade'
From the MS "Office Next" blog:
Getting Office Home & Student 2013 RT
Office Home & Student 2013 RT is only available on Windows RT devices and is not sold standalone. The Windows RT devices available at Windows RT General Availability will include preview editions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. After the final edition of Office Home & Student 2013 RT is released in a customer's language, their Windows RT device will be automatically updated with the final edition for free via Windows Update (Wi-Fi connection required). Customers can expect to get these updates starting in early November through January depending on their language. We'll publish the specific update schedule on October 26 on the Office blog.
Office Next
Canonical being behind it may cause lag in adoption, since people are fleeing Canonical's UI ideas like creatures from a forest fire
I am tempted to say that the geek takes flight whenever a UI is designed for other users --- a far greater user base.
That closed source model was a fluke anyway, the preceding 40 years were open source.
Because software was written almost exclusively for the UNIX profesional --- not a gllobal population of perhaps 2 billion PC users.
Is the judge allowed to tell the jury about jury nullification? If he is, then his/her hands are never tied.
Historically, jury nullification freed the Klansman and hanged the black man.
It freed the good old boys and not the outsiders. Three guesses as to whether the geek will be found on the side of the angels. Three juries cheerfully took turns hammering Jamie Thomas and her pro bono attorneys into the marble flooring.
Yes, all improvements to the web are thanks to the ad companies, it has nothing to do with technological progress.
Technological progress costs money.
You have to give people a reason to buy the hardware and services it requires.
Broadcast radio began as little more than a high tech hobby. With programming like Amos and Andy and The Grand Old Opry, broadcast radio became a national obsession.
They have to do their homework, find suspects, and then get THEM to provide a DNA sample. Taking shortcuts and asking everybody to provide one "voluntarily" is not acceptable, because at some point it won't be voluntary any more.
This is the "slippery slope" argument.
The problem is that it doesn't carry as much force from 6,000 km distant as a local plea to help capture this rapist and killer.
The command line is powerful, I'll give you that. But it's also cryptic as all-get-out to the average person. "ps -eo pid,user,args --sort user". Really? Try explaining that one to Aunt Mildred who just wants to check her pictures on facebook.
Try convincing Aunt Mildred that see can type a line like that correctly. That she can recover from a typo after she hits "Enter."
For the average user, not the technical wizz-kid: the average user, Linux was never an option. It didn't come on their store-bought PC. If didn't "just work" (ever!)...
For the average user who took a liking to a FOSS app, there has always been the port to Windows or the Mac, easy to find and easy to install --- which strips away any compelling reason to migrate to Linux.
Open the Ubuntu store.
Then the Windows selection from Download.com. Finally, open the software pages at Amazon.com or even Walmart. Think like an average user and not a geek and then ask yourself where you want to spend your time and money.
Wow, way to misinterpret something and bring up a straw man. Nowhere does he state that "nerds must not be allowed to exist." He's stating that the device demographic has changed. These things used to be by nerds for nerds. Now they're by business managers/bean counters/nerds for decidedly non-nerds.
For a generation, the geek has been dependent on commodity hardware designed for the MSDOS and Windows PC eco-system. That world is changing --- and the geek is beginning to look like a bit like a dinosaur foraging desperately for food after the asteroid hit.
A) Stupid or indifferent people want a computer (car) that just works and they don't have to/nor want to fuck with the innards.
Calling the tens or hundreds of millions of people who side with the Apple, Microsoft or Amazon product "stupid" simply takes the geek out the game. You've given them no reason to care if the OEM hardware manufactuer writes the geek off as a profitless niche market.
Guy goes crazy in a public place, and a dozen other guys with military training fill him full of bullets. 3 people are killed or injured, and live goes on...
Imagine a movie theater.
Dimly lit.
Multichannel sound effects at full volume.
There is a very good chance the killer will be moving up from behind you. He'll be the one wearing body armor and maybe a pack of explosives with a dead man switch. You don't have an aisle seat and your movement is restricted.
Hundreds of people. Some costumed as characters in the film.
It will be something like a miracle if you can correctly identify your target and have a clear shot.
Pull out a gun and everyone around you will panic and you become a target yourself.
Remember you are not acting as part of a team here. Your buddies are elsewhere. No one knows you. No one trusts you.
You've lost the initiative.
You are alone and you are vulnerable.
Criminals are usually no bright enough to figure out which threats are real or imagined
Would anyone here know which high or low threats are real or imagined?
What happens when you disrupt the pattern, break the beam -- infrared or visible light? Is there a gun? Is there a dog?
Make my day. Prove me wrong.
An emergency that takes out cell phone towers / antennas, but leaves the electrical power infrastructure intact to power said routers
Not to mention cable and copper. The land lines.
They occasionally cuff people, throw 'em in a cage, and abandon them for days at a time. They occasionally cuff people and then beat the poor helpless bastard silly, claiming "resistance" ...
and once you break free of your handcuffs the cops are going to turn all sweetness and light?
remember those old S.W.A.T games where you were taught to restrain everyone caught up in a raid, suspects, hostages and innocent bystanders alike --- or risk losing control of the situation?
you should have the ability to defend yourself and earn the extra charges
assume you survive being tasered, clubbed, choked, or shot by a cop whose entire training is focused on bringing you down quickly.
Not to mention:
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 13, 1935, Judge Lourie received his Bachelorâ(TM)s degree from Harvard University (1956), his Masterâ(TM)s degree in organic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin (1958), and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania (1965). He received his J.D. degree from Temple University in 1970.
If you nothing more to say then "Don't Filter A Thing," you waste his time and ours. It is not his decision to make.
The small non-profit school won't have the money to hire extra staff simply to monitor whatever passes for a computer lab. The geek may not like the idea, but a filter will have to carry part of the load.
The old way was to just write a big check to some charity and trust that they spend the money efficiently and in the way you want it spent.
The old way was shaped by philantrophists like Andrew Carnegie (libraries) and Julius Rosewald (the Rosenwald Schools for the "colored' in the segrgated American south).
The beneficiaries had to make a serious, long-term, commitment of their own money, time and labor to receive funding.
Not a problem.
Top 5 Operating Systems From Jul 2011 - Jul 2012
Worldwide
Asia
Africa
South America
The closest Linux has come to far-reaching popular acceptance is in Android --- and the one thing Android clearly is not is traditional community oriented Linux distribution.