Miranda him sort of implies he's not a goober in a hospital and capable of understanding anything you are saying. Last we heard, he was in serious condition.
Thrown to the red wolves? What kind of shades are you wearing. The Soviet Union had the most powerful army in Europe after the war. The U.S. still had a dangerous enemy in the Pacific. The Western Euros were neutered. There was no throwing E. Europe to the red wolves, Stalin took it by planning just as soon as they won at Stalingrad. In fact, he had his generals swing south and suck up most of E. Europe before he took out Hitler.
Microsoft succeeded in part by tying all their products together. This is how they kept the competition out of their business. So for them to concentrate on one thing would be anathema to them. Once those tie-ups get broken, they have tough row to hoe since nothing they do in any of their individual markets is very good.
Copying to/fro terminal windows to/fro other apps appears DOA using the keyboard commands....although it sometimes seems to work, but not reliably. Using the right click pull down menus seems to work...most of the time.
This is true, however, I think it would be great field testing for improving missile defense. And, just as a comedic afterthought, the U.S. should rate Nork missile launches, but not with numbers. Think categories: Rick Perry material, Loonie-Toon material, Wile E. Coyote grade, meh, rock star, Bingo!!! The last being an ancient Catholic word meaning "hot damn".
If Lil' Kimmy had a shotgun aimed at a S. Korean maiden and behaved like this in L.A., they'd call in the negotiators. Now if he did it serially and kept getting out of jail and every time used a bigger more lethal weapon and threatened more people at one time, then I think they'd be tempted whack him.
Copy/paste between apps doesn't work consistently in Ubuntu Unity 12.04 which I must use constantly. Maybe they've fixed it, maybe there is a different UI skin I could use. Maybe I could spend the next two weeks sifting through them to find out. Maybe I have too much else to do...
The reason they didn't is because even if they did, mobile and cloud computing will still eat their lunch.
Also, Microsoft defines itself by screwing others out of the others profit stream. It isn't enough to have an entire market for themselves, they feel they must be on a new domination jihad at all times or someone will do to them what they did to others. I guess if you knife enough of companies in the back, it tough to stop lest the ones left standing sneak up and knife you.
Not only that, but as more computing functions get nebulized into the cloud of obscurity, there'll be even less of a need for businesses to need full blown desktops. And that wave hasn't really begun yet to ramp up to what it probably will become even if it only a way for IT to run internal clouds and centralize their security headaches.
Part of your problem is using Latex in Linux, I've never found a good editor/display combo for Linux. On a Mac, TexLive2012 and TeXShop makes a lot of your problems go away. And do try to learn the difference between TeX and LaTeX, it would make a lot of your confusion go away.
You do know that in Texshop you can double click on a brace and it will hilite all the way to the matching brace. Also, when you type an closing brace, it hilites all the way up to the previous brace. Maybe you are using an old copy of TeXShop, my version is 2.47.
Depends on the pictures. I tend to use pgf with Latex, I might have to fight a bit to get the picture to come out correctly, but for what I need, it beats using a draw program.
I just gave a talk for management. One fellow remarked on the quality of my slides and didn't think they were done using PP. Yep, I said, they are Latex (Beamer), and I can cut and paste from my papers. Using PP for math will make you go blind.
You are not being forced to pay for your retirement, you are being forced to pay for the current crop of seniors. Not to worry though, Grandma can come and live with you, right?
You forget thermo-nuclear weapons, they're big, they're nasty and yes indeed air-bursting them doesn't suddenly make the radiation go away. Underground penetration doesn't really help kill the Nork army, and it does still release radiation unless you can drill down a mile and make sure your yields are low. You have some magical notions about nukes.
You cannot withdraw immediately because of all the equipment. That's a logistics problem. The other problem is not handing the country to the Taliban. So the U.S. continues to support (yep, the U.S. is still fighting) the Afghanis. If reports are true, some of the provinces are revolting against the Taliban. They aren't expressing any support for the government, they are just pissed at the Taliban for stealing their sons and turning them into human bombs, taking their girls for marriage before they get a chance to sell them to their great-uncles, etc. Islam values women and getting proper payment for them is important in their culture.
And if the U.S. did nuke N. Korea, the U.S. would kill most S. Koreans and Japanese and a whole lot of Chinese. It would be a stupid option and no American president or Congress would ever agree to such a thing. And the U.S. Military would strenuously object as well, not to mention most S. Koreans and Japanese and whole lot of Chinese.
Look at Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Saipan, etc. if you want to see the effect "carpet bombing" would have on the Norks' entrenched positions. The U.S. isn't going to carpet bomb anything.
You forget the MS ecosystem. Companies are up to their asses in MS-only software. That isn't going away anytime soon. I presume Ma and Pa Kettle aren't any different. They like familiarity. MS will sooner or later give it to them.
And after having to manage that Windows 7 machine down the hall, I cannot figure out why anyone would want that mind-numbing interface.
In MS's defense, they had cell phone OSes, and they had tablet computers. Their problem was they have no sense of what would make a customer want something and they never have. They threw some crap out there and expected people to use it. Other companies observed what customers didn't like about MS products and produced things that would turn customers on. It had nothing to do with MS putting all their beans into XBox, which they didn't do.
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Miranda him sort of implies he's not a goober in a hospital and capable of understanding anything you are saying. Last we heard, he was in serious condition.
Thrown to the red wolves? What kind of shades are you wearing. The Soviet Union had the most powerful army in Europe after the war. The U.S. still had a dangerous enemy in the Pacific. The Western Euros were neutered. There was no throwing E. Europe to the red wolves, Stalin took it by planning just as soon as they won at Stalingrad. In fact, he had his generals swing south and suck up most of E. Europe before he took out Hitler.
Yes but manure has a consistency and purity all its own. Actually, if you grow up in farm country, manure smells a lot better than a city.
MS Watch: (in an electronic voice) Hi there, I see you are trying to tell the time. How can I help you?
1. Would you like me to display the time?
2. Is there a time you prefer?
3. Why don't you tell me the time?
Microsoft succeeded in part by tying all their products together. This is how they kept the competition out of their business. So for them to concentrate on one thing would be anathema to them. Once those tie-ups get broken, they have tough row to hoe since nothing they do in any of their individual markets is very good.
Copying to/fro terminal windows to/fro other apps appears DOA using the keyboard commands....although it sometimes seems to work, but not reliably. Using the right click pull down menus seems to work...most of the time.
This is true, however, I think it would be great field testing for improving missile defense. And, just as a comedic afterthought, the U.S. should rate Nork missile launches, but not with numbers. Think categories: Rick Perry material, Loonie-Toon material, Wile E. Coyote grade, meh, rock star, Bingo!!! The last being an ancient Catholic word meaning "hot damn".
If Lil' Kimmy had a shotgun aimed at a S. Korean maiden and behaved like this in L.A., they'd call in the negotiators. Now if he did it serially and kept getting out of jail and every time used a bigger more lethal weapon and threatened more people at one time, then I think they'd be tempted whack him.
Copy/paste between apps doesn't work consistently in Ubuntu Unity 12.04 which I must use constantly. Maybe they've fixed it, maybe there is a different UI skin I could use. Maybe I could spend the next two weeks sifting through them to find out. Maybe I have too much else to do...
The reason they didn't is because even if they did, mobile and cloud computing will still eat their lunch.
Also, Microsoft defines itself by screwing others out of the others profit stream. It isn't enough to have an entire market for themselves, they feel they must be on a new domination jihad at all times or someone will do to them what they did to others. I guess if you knife enough of companies in the back, it tough to stop lest the ones left standing sneak up and knife you.
Not only that, but as more computing functions get nebulized into the cloud of obscurity, there'll be even less of a need for businesses to need full blown desktops. And that wave hasn't really begun yet to ramp up to what it probably will become even if it only a way for IT to run internal clouds and centralize their security headaches.
Part of your problem is using Latex in Linux, I've never found a good editor/display combo for Linux. On a Mac, TexLive2012 and TeXShop makes a lot of your problems go away. And do try to learn the difference between TeX and LaTeX, it would make a lot of your confusion go away.
You do know that in Texshop you can double click on a brace and it will hilite all the way to the matching brace. Also, when you type an closing brace, it hilites all the way up to the previous brace. Maybe you are using an old copy of TeXShop, my version is 2.47.
Depends on the pictures. I tend to use pgf with Latex, I might have to fight a bit to get the picture to come out correctly, but for what I need, it beats using a draw program.
I just gave a talk for management. One fellow remarked on the quality of my slides and didn't think they were done using PP. Yep, I said, they are Latex (Beamer), and I can cut and paste from my papers. Using PP for math will make you go blind.
You are not being forced to pay for your retirement, you are being forced to pay for the current crop of seniors. Not to worry though, Grandma can come and live with you, right?
You forget thermo-nuclear weapons, they're big, they're nasty and yes indeed air-bursting them doesn't suddenly make the radiation go away. Underground penetration doesn't really help kill the Nork army, and it does still release radiation unless you can drill down a mile and make sure your yields are low. You have some magical notions about nukes.
You cannot withdraw immediately because of all the equipment. That's a logistics problem. The other problem is not handing the country to the Taliban. So the U.S. continues to support (yep, the U.S. is still fighting) the Afghanis. If reports are true, some of the provinces are revolting against the Taliban. They aren't expressing any support for the government, they are just pissed at the Taliban for stealing their sons and turning them into human bombs, taking their girls for marriage before they get a chance to sell them to their great-uncles, etc. Islam values women and getting proper payment for them is important in their culture.
Actually, the missile part of DoD is the cheap part, the real money is in pensions, health care, active duty military, etc.
The U.S. has nothing much left in Iraq except a few State Dept. employees and contractors for securing them. Do try to keep up.
And if the U.S. did nuke N. Korea, the U.S. would kill most S. Koreans and Japanese and a whole lot of Chinese. It would be a stupid option and no American president or Congress would ever agree to such a thing. And the U.S. Military would strenuously object as well, not to mention most S. Koreans and Japanese and whole lot of Chinese.
Look at Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Saipan, etc. if you want to see the effect "carpet bombing" would have on the Norks' entrenched positions. The U.S. isn't going to carpet bomb anything.
No one is going to lug around a 5lb brick just so some geeks can look at it drool.
You forget the MS ecosystem. Companies are up to their asses in MS-only software. That isn't going away anytime soon. I presume Ma and Pa Kettle aren't any different. They like familiarity. MS will sooner or later give it to them.
And after having to manage that Windows 7 machine down the hall, I cannot figure out why anyone would want that mind-numbing interface.
In MS's defense, they had cell phone OSes, and they had tablet computers. Their problem was they have no sense of what would make a customer want something and they never have. They threw some crap out there and expected people to use it. Other companies observed what customers didn't like about MS products and produced things that would turn customers on. It had nothing to do with MS putting all their beans into XBox, which they didn't do.