Which is actually a huge money savings that they aren't even counting. It is far easier to code those sort of custom inhouse solutions for Linux than Windows.
" But a city ought to have a policy regarding formatting"
Indeed and my experience when working with government entities (here in the US) is that they impose their standards on 3rd parties not the other way around. Generally, it is you who needs to interact with the city. The city couldn't care less if you don't get your permits, licenses, whatever. They'll just fine or penalize you if you haven't managed to get the right paperwork submitted in the format they've dictated.
First you have to find the cups interface. I mean I realize that calling a printing system cups is really intuitive to some people but for the rest something that includes the word "print" might be more appropriate and easy to remember. You actually might pick say "Network Print" out of a list without anyone telling you about it and if they did tell you about it, you'd likely remember that "Network Print" was for network printing the next time you needed it.
Even the driver naming is ugly and unintuitive. For many printers there are multiple drivers with no indication of which is the one you should pick. In other places it actually wants you to use these funky path things.
A simple interface is one where it scans the network, presents a human readable list of printers and you select the one you want and it detects and loads the driver for you. There is nothing about that interface that precludes having advanced and/or more options buttons each step of the way. I have seen this sort of interface on some linux distros but sadly they generally don't actually work worth a damn.
I don't know about the troll but I'm pretty sure the reason Munich felt BOTH upgrades were appropriate is because they are likely running up-to-date versions of Linux and OpenOffice.org so a fair comparison is against the costs associated with running the latest versions of Windows and Office.
1. Not really relevant. The city isn't going to spend a few hours assessing the individual off the record learning of each staff member. They have to work from the assumption that their staff is first exposed to a new version of software when they adopt it (and in most cases this will be true, office workers don't generally run betas).
2. Highly debatable. UAC and forced driver signing alone would have required substantial user support. It also ignores the licensing costs.
"So basically if their report claims that switching to Win7 requires buying new Office licenses then they are simply inflating the costs to make LiMux look better."
Not so. They are comparing EQUIVALENT costs. They likely are running the latest version of OpenOffice, apples to apples compares the cost against running the latest version of MS Office. But they also have a comparison vs windows with openoffice which would not include new office licenses.
It is fair to say that bulk of government workers in Munich aren't likely to be typical members of the Slashdot audience or use betas. Also, Linux and OpenOffice were available to use long before the beta.
It really doesn't matter if its theoretically possible to have been proficient in a platform at some date, the only date that matters would be the one that the city adopts the software since the bulk of the staff wouldn't begin using the software until that point.
Yes. And a few gallons of it, not a few ounces I should have been clearer. I was referring to using a turkey fryer for browning as the turkey will already be cooked at that stage. The bacon adds flavor to the peanut which is a carrier oil in this case. Bacon grease added to the oil was the secret of the traditional turkey drumstick at fairs and carnivals.
Because the turkey is already hot at this point it will brown extremely quickly. The oil will deliver the high temp in a uniform way much like the water bath delivered the cooking temp for the rest of the turkey. There should be little splatter, again because the turkey is already hot.
Of course, you could skip this and just scrap the cooked but soggy skin off and have a much healthier meal. The turkey will still taste great. Personally I think nothing beats a bacon infused and crispy skinned turkey.
I think you missed the part about the peanut oil. The bacon is to add flavor the carrier peanut oil, traditional carnival turkey drum stick style. You completely submerge the turkey in the oil.
Since the turkey is already hot it only needs a few minutes in the oil to brown but that is all that is needed to take on some of the bacon flavor and you will have far less splatter than adding a cold turkey to hot oil.
"Or are you looking for an advanced culinary technique that few people use"
I'd guess this. Food geekery is a valid form of geekery in itself. But you are right, it's a damn turkey.
I guess if I were really going to geek out I'd have to start with a brine Alton Brown style. Then I'd have to Sous Vide the turkey. Most people think you need a machine to do this but you can use a large pot and a candy thermometer to Sous Vide. Sous Vide is just a water bath and will get the entire turkey, dark and white, thin and thick, to exactly the correct and uniform temperature. For those not familiar you actually vac seal the food in Sous Vide so there is no exchange between the food and water, just heat.
Shortly before serving I'd heat peanut oil and cook three pounds of bacon pieces. Then I'd put the still hot turkey into the hot oil for a short time, not to cook it further but merely to brown and crisp up the skin.
"When I see the text "advertisement" next to a grey box with the text "missing plugin", I think it's safe to assume the missing content is an ad."
That would indicate that said imaginary specific and isolated piece of content is likely is an ad, not that there is no other content you aren't seeing.
"What are you talking about?! "
Video, games, interactive content. Pretty much everything on the modern internet.
Exactly, seems we (professionals who know what a GIF actually is and isn't) are the wrong crowd for this one.
These are the kinds of things teens are doing: http://www.gifbin.com/ They can set up 4chan threads with 4000 inefficient GIF video clips loading on the fly when you open them. Some phones will even automatically display animated GIF sent in text messages so they get a video text for the price of a picture txt.
It is an aweful abuse of the GIF. Anyone who remembers that these things load a separate image for each frame and remembers having to trash their overly cool animated GIFs in dial-up days knows that high speed links are just hiding a hog. But w/e, it does seem there is a crowd who has resurrected the GIF.
I stand corrected. Animated GIFs are apparently making a comeback. They used to be a PITA because they really are bandwidth hogs and there was no standardized tool for making them. Someone mentioned not needing Adobe but Photoshop didn't used to have the ability to make animated GIFs or maybe it did but the tools sucked I can't remember (haven't done web graphics in a while) and that was the problem because everyone used Photoshop usually in pirated form. Now there are dozens of web-based animated GIF creators.
Even if they are aware of what GIFs are how many of them are using the word on a daily basis let alone using GIF as a verb. I'd imagine JPEG and PNG are going to be used far more. Yup, just looking over the Reddit front page, I see two PNG's (and neither was made by the poster) and a gallary full of JPEG's. There is nothing about grabbing images off the net and linking to them or posting them elsewhere that requires knowing what a GIF is. Maybe knowing that some pictures end in.gif but you aren't going to start using the word GIF with any regularly due to that.
About the only thing GIF is good for these days is animations and GIF animations load slow and are highly inefficient relative to something like flash. Still people do use them for forum avatars and sigs. PNG took a long time to catch on due to IE refusing to support PNG transparency but these days it has pretty much supplanted every other use of GIF.
Maybe common usage isn't required to be 'word of the year'.
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Which is actually a huge money savings that they aren't even counting. It is far easier to code those sort of custom inhouse solutions for Linux than Windows.
" But a city ought to have a policy regarding formatting"
Indeed and my experience when working with government entities (here in the US) is that they impose their standards on 3rd parties not the other way around. Generally, it is you who needs to interact with the city. The city couldn't care less if you don't get your permits, licenses, whatever. They'll just fine or penalize you if you haven't managed to get the right paperwork submitted in the format they've dictated.
First you have to find the cups interface. I mean I realize that calling a printing system cups is really intuitive to some people but for the rest something that includes the word "print" might be more appropriate and easy to remember. You actually might pick say "Network Print" out of a list without anyone telling you about it and if they did tell you about it, you'd likely remember that "Network Print" was for network printing the next time you needed it.
Even the driver naming is ugly and unintuitive. For many printers there are multiple drivers with no indication of which is the one you should pick. In other places it actually wants you to use these funky path things.
A simple interface is one where it scans the network, presents a human readable list of printers and you select the one you want and it detects and loads the driver for you. There is nothing about that interface that precludes having advanced and/or more options buttons each step of the way. I have seen this sort of interface on some linux distros but sadly they generally don't actually work worth a damn.
I don't know about the troll but I'm pretty sure the reason Munich felt BOTH upgrades were appropriate is because they are likely running up-to-date versions of Linux and OpenOffice.org so a fair comparison is against the costs associated with running the latest versions of Windows and Office.
1. Not really relevant. The city isn't going to spend a few hours assessing the individual off the record learning of each staff member. They have to work from the assumption that their staff is first exposed to a new version of software when they adopt it (and in most cases this will be true, office workers don't generally run betas).
2. Highly debatable. UAC and forced driver signing alone would have required substantial user support. It also ignores the licensing costs.
"So basically if their report claims that switching to Win7 requires buying new Office licenses then they are simply inflating the costs to make LiMux look better."
Not so. They are comparing EQUIVALENT costs. They likely are running the latest version of OpenOffice, apples to apples compares the cost against running the latest version of MS Office. But they also have a comparison vs windows with openoffice which would not include new office licenses.
It is fair to say that bulk of government workers in Munich aren't likely to be typical members of the Slashdot audience or use betas. Also, Linux and OpenOffice were available to use long before the beta.
It really doesn't matter if its theoretically possible to have been proficient in a platform at some date, the only date that matters would be the one that the city adopts the software since the bulk of the staff wouldn't begin using the software until that point.
"Teabaggers"
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Teabagging is first and foremost not a political reference but rather a reference to a sex act.
WOAH are you telling me there are stories here? Is that where the links in the summary go? You just blew my mind.
I've never known anyone who has followed those links before. At least not anyone who has come back.
Yes. And a few gallons of it, not a few ounces I should have been clearer. I was referring to using a turkey fryer for browning as the turkey will already be cooked at that stage. The bacon adds flavor to the peanut which is a carrier oil in this case. Bacon grease added to the oil was the secret of the traditional turkey drumstick at fairs and carnivals.
Because the turkey is already hot at this point it will brown extremely quickly. The oil will deliver the high temp in a uniform way much like the water bath delivered the cooking temp for the rest of the turkey. There should be little splatter, again because the turkey is already hot.
Of course, you could skip this and just scrap the cooked but soggy skin off and have a much healthier meal. The turkey will still taste great. Personally I think nothing beats a bacon infused and crispy skinned turkey.
I think you missed the part about the peanut oil. The bacon is to add flavor the carrier peanut oil, traditional carnival turkey drum stick style. You completely submerge the turkey in the oil.
Since the turkey is already hot it only needs a few minutes in the oil to brown but that is all that is needed to take on some of the bacon flavor and you will have far less splatter than adding a cold turkey to hot oil.
"Or are you looking for an advanced culinary technique that few people use"
I'd guess this. Food geekery is a valid form of geekery in itself. But you are right, it's a damn turkey.
I guess if I were really going to geek out I'd have to start with a brine Alton Brown style. Then I'd have to Sous Vide the turkey. Most people think you need a machine to do this but you can use a large pot and a candy thermometer to Sous Vide. Sous Vide is just a water bath and will get the entire turkey, dark and white, thin and thick, to exactly the correct and uniform temperature. For those not familiar you actually vac seal the food in Sous Vide so there is no exchange between the food and water, just heat.
Shortly before serving I'd heat peanut oil and cook three pounds of bacon pieces. Then I'd put the still hot turkey into the hot oil for a short time, not to cook it further but merely to brown and crisp up the skin.
The science of cooking would be chemistry and food chemistry is every bit as geeky as electronics hacking these days.
"When I see the text "advertisement" next to a grey box with the text "missing plugin", I think it's safe to assume the missing content is an ad."
That would indicate that said imaginary specific and isolated piece of content is likely is an ad, not that there is no other content you aren't seeing.
"What are you talking about?! "
Video, games, interactive content. Pretty much everything on the modern internet.
How would you know?
Since it is a plugin required to view most of the web these days it is fair to assume they won't have to install it to view your content.
Outside of MMORPGs like WOW and GW gaming on the PC is out of style. Serious gamers are all about the console and their XBOX 360 these days.
Exactly, seems we (professionals who know what a GIF actually is and isn't) are the wrong crowd for this one.
These are the kinds of things teens are doing: http://www.gifbin.com/ They can set up 4chan threads with 4000 inefficient GIF video clips loading on the fly when you open them. Some phones will even automatically display animated GIF sent in text messages so they get a video text for the price of a picture txt.
It is an aweful abuse of the GIF. Anyone who remembers that these things load a separate image for each frame and remembers having to trash their overly cool animated GIFs in dial-up days knows that high speed links are just hiding a hog. But w/e, it does seem there is a crowd who has resurrected the GIF.
P.S. There is no way using animated gifs for videos is good for the internet. ;)
I stand corrected. Animated GIFs are apparently making a comeback. They used to be a PITA because they really are bandwidth hogs and there was no standardized tool for making them. Someone mentioned not needing Adobe but Photoshop didn't used to have the ability to make animated GIFs or maybe it did but the tools sucked I can't remember (haven't done web graphics in a while) and that was the problem because everyone used Photoshop usually in pirated form. Now there are dozens of web-based animated GIF creators.
I said all the options suck, not that there isn't an option that works.
Even if they are aware of what GIFs are how many of them are using the word on a daily basis let alone using GIF as a verb. I'd imagine JPEG and PNG are going to be used far more. Yup, just looking over the Reddit front page, I see two PNG's (and neither was made by the poster) and a gallary full of JPEG's. There is nothing about grabbing images off the net and linking to them or posting them elsewhere that requires knowing what a GIF is. Maybe knowing that some pictures end in .gif but you aren't going to start using the word GIF with any regularly due to that.
About the only thing GIF is good for these days is animations and GIF animations load slow and are highly inefficient relative to something like flash. Still people do use them for forum avatars and sigs. PNG took a long time to catch on due to IE refusing to support PNG transparency but these days it has pretty much supplanted every other use of GIF.
Maybe common usage isn't required to be 'word of the year'.
Yeah but who uses them? I mean you see them in forum sigs and avatars but everywhere else you see flash used for video clips.
Animated gifs are slow and not especially easy to make.
True but in the AV world, all the options suck.
I assume you are joking. McAfee is shit, but it is still a highly popular app that rakes in millions.
Not often... that is what flash is for.