Actually 7 does update both notepad and paint. Notepad can use paint to draw with and save the whole thing as a.docx. It is no Notepad++, but it has new functionality.
So why did Sourceforge let Linux.com go essentially dead at the turn of the year?
All I ask for is the clear, thorough (mostly), and timely writing that was the hallmark of the articles that were on the front page of the old Linux.com.
As my botany prof said, you cannot define a species until all its members are gone. Mankind has been the single best creator of species since the asteroid killed off the dinosaurs.
Isn't this the great Slashdot disconnect? Everyone moans that musicians should give away their music and "earn a living like the rest of us" by performing. Yet, here we are griping that the performance of a work of text should not be protected either. So authors only get money from the sale of text and musicians only get money from performing? Or is it that the book is the performance? If that is so, should we outlaw libraries? I have to admit I come down on the author's side of this.
My brother was a cop. A rural SD Sheriff. He wrote poetry. He always wanted to be an officer, since he was 5 or so. He was thrilled to help people. He put drunks in jail for the night and made sure they had breakfast in the morning before sending them home. He did education classes at the local schools and put the nose of his pistol to the head of meth makers while they slept to wake them. He had a "You can go to jail or throw your pot and give me your bong for my wall collection" drug policy. His hero was Serpico They aren't all bad. They treat you like you treat them.
Are you commenting about the tax repeal that they just past? I believe that all but 3 Republicans voted against it. Stop being a partisan, try being an American.
Pathetic. "God knows" is a colloquialism. I promise that Jebus won't bite you if you use it. Take a lesson from all the others whose blind hate made them alter their language. Not to 'Universe'win this thread but Untermensch much?
I am the OSS IT person at our 100% MS small college. I know for a fact what we pay for MS licenses. The poster doesn't have a prayer in hell. Not knowing all the specifics my bet is that his college pays all of 10k a year or less for all of their MS licenses - Desktop, server, DB, etc. 10k is chump change. I will go further to add that I bet they shell out more to Adobe for software in a year then to MS. He not only has to get them to write off MS but get every IT person to replace their skill set. THAT is where the real cost is. "Switch to F/OSS it is cheaper!" "It will cost 10 years worth of MS money to retrain even our server guys - no thanks" Yeah, yeah, I know REAL IT guys can turn on a dime to any technology. A college is a ship though, and they don't turn on a dime.
Got a full install DVD/CD or just a hard drive partition?
Change hardware much?
Want to install your OS on a new machine you built and scrap the old one?
Had to replace your hard drive because it failed?
Do you (and you can't make this shit up) have your STICKERS in the right places?
Are you actually able to use that license for that product? You aren't using a demo for production are you? Or any other of the 101 ways for this to apply.
There are many many ways to fall afoul of MS product activation. Heck I am not even trying and I came up with six. It is most certainly NOT a troll.
I have an uncapped full 1G to my desk at work. What can I run from work to home to 'max out' my connection every month? I cannot torrent from work. I suppose I could just ftp files up and down but I was looking for something more elegant.
I think it is Unreasonable Search for both. That it is easy to do is half of the problem. If anyone walked up to you and said 'Let me examine your hand with this magnifying glass and these chemicals' you would think them insane. My fingerprints and my DNA are my own thank you. They are part of what makes me ME. You have no right to part of me upon accusation. Conviction maybe, but not upon accusation.
Strawman much? The counter to all of your 'Everything's are worse than what you rail against. You have an opinion and feel the public should share it. You make a strawman that everyone that doesn't agree with you agrees with Oprah or Paris Hilton. The sorry state of science education that you bemoan starts with your post. You cherry pick topics (ricin) that are absurd to make your point.
Everything that's "natural" is good. (Umm... what about ricin? Perfectly respectable "natural" product...)
Yeah, we get it, ricin is poison. Want this Alar sprayed Apple? No? But the Natural people are crazy right? Go ahead take a bite - they are silly, I mean the company that makes it says it is OK. I mean they are scientists right? All one big brotherhood. The guys at Phillip Morris didn't lie did they? They were scientists right?
Everything "nuclear" is bad. (The parent is potentially a good counterexample).
Yep the public hates them. With good reason whether you want to see it or not. If the wind towers blow over and the solar panels fry and the coal plant blows up - the worst they got is no electricity. A nuke plant goes (and it has happened twice) and you get what? We spent 20+ years making sure the public was scared of nukes, now you deride them because they are scared of them. Nice. Go do a bit of work about how Chernobyl went down and what happened to the citizens of it during the meltdown. If people are skittish they have good reason to be. ALL of them were built to "never fail", yet two have. Want to convince the public? Walk over to a holding tank of waste and lick the containers. In other words you are going to have to put up or shut up. And show it on TV.
Everything "renewable" is good. (Using corn-based ethanol as a fuel source is a really bad idea... there are better sources that have less environmental and economic impact).
Again, this is what they were taught, and so you call them ignorant. Five years ago corn was the gift of God to power. Now it is realized that this isn't so true, give them a bit, they are coming around on this one. At the same time they are being sold on switchgrass as the same thing. So is it renewable? Is it a bad thing?
Again I fault your science education for lacking the ability to realize what are baseless generalizations and what are statistics and what are facts. If there are nitwits out there, part of the problem are people like yourself that call them that and walk away. Try helping instead of bitching.
And FYI - (one of) My Degree is in Botany, my undergrad work was in Plant Systemics (fungi mostly), and I spent years growing (and evolving!) germs for a living.
As an Admin at a college, what you are told and what the Network guys are giving you are very separate things. Plus with 101 bottle necks between you and every other router, yeah, you ain't getting that speed, ever. Plus damn near no one provides that level of upload, so you are doubly FUBARed.
With a few wire switches (and I am talking laid cable/glass - literally plug in/plug out) I could pull GigE to my desk... and I still wouldn't get anything because no one is pushing that hard. With *only* GigE to our campus, we have *never* even hit 10% of capacity, ever. At the same time I have pulled 16M/s from Sun and the U of MN. much better than your 12M (theoretical) home service. In short: Bandwidth != Throughput. You labs are wired GigE, and you see 800M service (async) seems about right to me.
Salesman: Now, I can sell you this command line only version of Buntu, but of course you want more than that don't you? You are a Man who knows his Linux. Am I right?
The Mark: Um, yeah.
Salesman: Good, I can also sell you this full version of Ubuntu, all the Gnome goodness one could ask for.
The Mark: What about Amarok? Does it come with...
Salesman: OOOoooh, you want Kubuntu then? Not a problem, we can sell you that too.
The Mark: But, I like the partition editor in Gn....
Salesman: Buntu Pen-Ultimate...gotcha, just a little more cash for a Gnome/KDE love fest.
The Mark: That sounds great.. but 'Pen-Ultimate?'?...
Salesman: Oh, you want the goodies, like an SSH server, and extra packages?
The Mark: Yeah, I um..
Salesman: Not an issue my good man, we even have financing!
The Mark: Does that include things like databases and Apache?
Salesman: Oh, no. That is just a bit more, sorry. Tell you what though, you have pluck, I like that. I'll cut you a deal.
The Mark: Really!?
Salesman: Sure, Lets see....2000 add 98 carry the 7 and ME oh my! Lets go talk to our finance department, do you prefer a 5 or 7 year loan? Things are rather tight these days I hope you have colateral like a house?
===
Epilogue
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Friend: So the price was... bandwidth, you have to share the release till you have handed out 4 full copies?
The Mark: Yeah, go figure.
Friend: For 7 years?
The Mark: Releases, but they come out twice a year, so 3 and a half.
Friend: Harsh, I am just going to spend my $300 plus software costs on 7.
I can see why someone could read that as flamebait, it isn't however. I run linux where ever I can though I am a.NET dev. In fact I irritate my boss on a regular basis for showing my running c# code in Mono. If It were not for iTunes I would even get my parents to switch.:/
The other side of that coin is why do you need notes for a High School economics class? High school teaches generalities and overview. To put it in compsci terms, do you really need notes on what a for...next loop is?
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Actually 7 does update both notepad and paint. Notepad can use paint to draw with and save the whole thing as a .docx. It is no Notepad++, but it has new functionality.
So why did Sourceforge let Linux.com go essentially dead at the turn of the year?
All I ask for is the clear, thorough (mostly), and timely writing that was the hallmark of the articles that were on the front page of the old Linux.com.
As my botany prof said, you cannot define a species until all its members are gone. Mankind has been the single best creator of species since the asteroid killed off the dinosaurs.
A bit OT but I 3 Likewise open - they rock in a windows only world.
Isn't this the great Slashdot disconnect? Everyone moans that musicians should give away their music and "earn a living like the rest of us" by performing. Yet, here we are griping that the performance of a work of text should not be protected either. So authors only get money from the sale of text and musicians only get money from performing? Or is it that the book is the performance? If that is so, should we outlaw libraries? I have to admit I come down on the author's side of this.
Why are you saying this here? Submit the story. I mean if you know the next expansion is Guild Wars Barber sing it out! ;)
Which is the philosophical equivalent to "Sorry you are pregnant with my spawn, here is $100k"
My brother was a cop. A rural SD Sheriff. He wrote poetry. He always wanted to be an officer, since he was 5 or so. He was thrilled to help people. He put drunks in jail for the night and made sure they had breakfast in the morning before sending them home. He did education classes at the local schools and put the nose of his pistol to the head of meth makers while they slept to wake them. He had a "You can go to jail or throw your pot and give me your bong for my wall collection" drug policy. His hero was Serpico They aren't all bad. They treat you like you treat them.
Sera
Are you commenting about the tax repeal that they just past? I believe that all but 3 Republicans voted against it. Stop being a partisan, try being an American.
I first thought Tabasco pool - yum. Then I thought about opening my eyes under water, then my fingernails crawled back into my body OW!
I lol'ed
Pathetic. "God knows" is a colloquialism. I promise that Jebus won't bite you if you use it. Take a lesson from all the others whose blind hate made them alter their language. Not to 'Universe'win this thread but Untermensch much?
Seraphim
I am the OSS IT person at our 100% MS small college. I know for a fact what we pay for MS licenses. The poster doesn't have a prayer in hell. Not knowing all the specifics my bet is that his college pays all of 10k a year or less for all of their MS licenses - Desktop, server, DB, etc. 10k is chump change. I will go further to add that I bet they shell out more to Adobe for software in a year then to MS. He not only has to get them to write off MS but get every IT person to replace their skill set. THAT is where the real cost is. "Switch to F/OSS it is cheaper!" "It will cost 10 years worth of MS money to retrain even our server guys - no thanks" Yeah, yeah, I know REAL IT guys can turn on a dime to any technology. A college is a ship though, and they don't turn on a dime.
Sera
It is saddening to have to have this "leaked". It should reside at something like www.Government.us/research/ :(
or a "-1 hit with a cluebat".
Got a full install DVD/CD or just a hard drive partition?
Change hardware much?
Want to install your OS on a new machine you built and scrap the old one?
Had to replace your hard drive because it failed?
Do you (and you can't make this shit up) have your STICKERS in the right places?
Are you actually able to use that license for that product? You aren't using a demo for production are you? Or any other of the 101 ways for this to apply.
There are many many ways to fall afoul of MS product activation. Heck I am not even trying and I came up with six. It is most certainly NOT a troll.
**THWAP** There is your cluebat hit for the day.
Sera
And your post is the perfect place to ask this.
I have an uncapped full 1G to my desk at work. What can I run from work to home to 'max out' my connection every month? I cannot torrent from work. I suppose I could just ftp files up and down but I was looking for something more elegant.
I think it is Unreasonable Search for both. That it is easy to do is half of the problem. If anyone walked up to you and said 'Let me examine your hand with this magnifying glass and these chemicals' you would think them insane. My fingerprints and my DNA are my own thank you. They are part of what makes me ME. You have no right to part of me upon accusation. Conviction maybe, but not upon accusation.
Yeah, we get it, ricin is poison. Want this Alar sprayed Apple? No? But the Natural people are crazy right? Go ahead take a bite - they are silly, I mean the company that makes it says it is OK. I mean they are scientists right? All one big brotherhood. The guys at Phillip Morris didn't lie did they? They were scientists right?
Yep the public hates them. With good reason whether you want to see it or not. If the wind towers blow over and the solar panels fry and the coal plant blows up - the worst they got is no electricity. A nuke plant goes (and it has happened twice) and you get what? We spent 20+ years making sure the public was scared of nukes, now you deride them because they are scared of them. Nice. Go do a bit of work about how Chernobyl went down and what happened to the citizens of it during the meltdown. If people are skittish they have good reason to be. ALL of them were built to "never fail", yet two have. Want to convince the public? Walk over to a holding tank of waste and lick the containers. In other words you are going to have to put up or shut up. And show it on TV.
Again, this is what they were taught, and so you call them ignorant. Five years ago corn was the gift of God to power. Now it is realized that this isn't so true, give them a bit, they are coming around on this one. At the same time they are being sold on switchgrass as the same thing. So is it renewable? Is it a bad thing?
Again I fault your science education for lacking the ability to realize what are baseless generalizations and what are statistics and what are facts. If there are nitwits out there, part of the problem are people like yourself that call them that and walk away. Try helping instead of bitching.
And FYI - (one of) My Degree is in Botany, my undergrad work was in Plant Systemics (fungi mostly), and I spent years growing (and evolving!) germs for a living.
Seraphim
As an Admin at a college, what you are told and what the Network guys are giving you are very separate things. Plus with 101 bottle necks between you and every other router, yeah, you ain't getting that speed, ever. Plus damn near no one provides that level of upload, so you are doubly FUBARed.
... and I still wouldn't get anything because no one is pushing that hard. With *only* GigE to our campus, we have *never* even hit 10% of capacity, ever. At the same time I have pulled 16M/s from Sun and the U of MN. much better than your 12M (theoretical) home service. In short: Bandwidth != Throughput. You labs are wired GigE, and you see 800M service (async) seems about right to me.
With a few wire switches (and I am talking laid cable/glass - literally plug in/plug out) I could pull GigE to my desk
They do in my area ... thank goodness they leave port 22 alone.
Salesman: Now, I can sell you this command line only version of Buntu, but of course you want more than that don't you? You are a Man who knows his Linux. Am I right?
...
.. but 'Pen-Ultimate?'?...
... bandwidth, you have to share the release till you have handed out 4 full copies?
The Mark: Um, yeah.
Salesman: Good, I can also sell you this full version of Ubuntu, all the Gnome goodness one could ask for.
The Mark: What about Amarok? Does it come with
Salesman: OOOoooh, you want Kubuntu then? Not a problem, we can sell you that too.
The Mark: But, I like the partition editor in Gn....
Salesman: Buntu Pen-Ultimate...gotcha, just a little more cash for a Gnome/KDE love fest.
The Mark: That sounds great
Salesman: Oh, you want the goodies, like an SSH server, and extra packages?
The Mark: Yeah, I um..
Salesman: Not an issue my good man, we even have financing!
The Mark: Does that include things like databases and Apache?
Salesman: Oh, no. That is just a bit more, sorry. Tell you what though, you have pluck, I like that. I'll cut you a deal.
The Mark: Really!?
Salesman: Sure, Lets see....2000 add 98 carry the 7 and ME oh my! Lets go talk to our finance department, do you prefer a 5 or 7 year loan? Things are rather tight these days I hope you have colateral like a house?
===
Epilogue
===
Friend: So the price was
The Mark: Yeah, go figure.
Friend: For 7 years?
The Mark: Releases, but they come out twice a year, so 3 and a half.
Friend: Harsh, I am just going to spend my $300 plus software costs on 7.
The Mark: You do that man.
Sera
I can see why someone could read that as flamebait, it isn't however. I run linux where ever I can though I am a .NET dev. In fact I irritate my boss on a regular basis for showing my running c# code in Mono. If It were not for iTunes I would even get my parents to switch. :/
For something that is so stable I am surprised that he reformats that often. I have no real insight here I just find it odd.
Sera
Awesome?
He was in detention, still breaking rules that he knew were in place and then committed assault. I think the 'A' word you are looking for is Asshole.
Candy is *never* worth hitting some for. Get a little perspective and get over high school yeesh.
The other side of that coin is why do you need notes for a High School economics class? High school teaches generalities and overview. To put it in compsci terms, do you really need notes on what a for...next loop is?