The herd mentality among college students will probably make them conservative in this regard. But take a look at the conventional MS mainstay of office workers. They are moving away from Exchange/Outlook hell and the ridiculously overpriced thin-clients/Windows server solution. Google Apps does the collaboration much better, Chromebooks/boxes are the mobile thin-clients of the future. Other mobiles work just as well, as a bonus.
What do you mean "small amount". He's installing Linux (I assume) not Windows. A full install with LibreOffice, 3 browsers, Gimp and stuff is less than 6GB.
I would think a car with built-in instability could use some aid in keeping it stable. These things do not preclude each other.
Eg. the F16 fighter plane, one of the most agile around, is also completely instable, comparable to an airplane flying backward. There is no way even the best pilot could fly one without computers. In fact, the pilot doesn't even have direct access to the actuators, it's all through an electronic stick that tells the machine what the pilot wants.
Is was temporarily confused because of the word 'canary' also meaning a 'singing bird' in mobster circles. I assume the miners' version is meant (the one that faints of mine gasses).
A music workstation should be nothing more than a set of drivers and a windowmanager. Less is more.
If that is the case I could understand why anyone would prefer a clean-lean-and-mean Linux-based solution over a W8 install where the OS alone has a footprint of several GB's and overshadows the actual editors by a factor 100. I mean, sometimes the most used tool just doesn't feel right.
It's not as "highly unusual" as suggested. Lately numerous high officers in the US chain of command have been suspended or fired because of some 'scandal'. These scandals all suddenly became public after a a large series of interviews conducted by the CIA and DHS that were rumoured to revolve around the dilemma of being available for attacks against the US population. If this is one of those I think it's worriesome.
The fence that will soon surround the US needed another layer. This is probably it.
This, crossrelated with the limitless collection of metadata in the NSA vaults will make it possible to build patterns of 'normal' behaviour and use those to automatically spot anomalies as soon as they happen.
In a few years, if you even try to prepapre organizing an Occupy-Whatever movement you will be stopped before anyone has heard about you.
Once this is in place NO one will be able to switch it off.
I recently did my yearly tryout of KDE (Kubuntu) but was struggling with the same issues as last times. These are old problems:
- multimonitor setting do not stick. You have to compose a shellscript with xrandr commands yourself and autostart it.
- panels on multimonitor do not stick. I could get it to work but is was complicated and forgot how I did it.
- font rendering in Firefox is ugly as hell. This too is an old problem, might be Firefox' fault but only KDE has this problem.
If we'd be able to make a hole and then point a nuke into that hole we'd also be able to have it 'land' on the surface an explode/push the asteroid to a different track. Maybe 2 or 3 in a row.
Even if you could destroy an asteroid of significant magnitude with a nuke, it would be just as dangerous and less predictable afterwards.
I find it hard to believe that this is all a scientist can come up with.
Since when is a demand by a mere member of Congress a reason to withold information from the taxpayers? Shouldn't this be put into law or at least made official somehow?
Google will have to leave the US if it wants to keep hold of the rest of the world. The fact that they are obliged to comply with PATRIOT in the US means it's services are not legally acceptible in many countries, notably the EU.
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Why would Mom/Dad/kids/salespeople want to use Word? You don't give them Photoshop to make the occasional doodle do you?
The herd mentality among college students will probably make them conservative in this regard. But take a look at the conventional MS mainstay of office workers. They are moving away from Exchange/Outlook hell and the ridiculously overpriced thin-clients/Windows server solution. Google Apps does the collaboration much better, Chromebooks/boxes are the mobile thin-clients of the future. Other mobiles work just as well, as a bonus.
What do you mean "small amount". He's installing Linux (I assume) not Windows. A full install with LibreOffice, 3 browsers, Gimp and stuff is less than 6GB.
Nice metaphor, regards.
I would think a car with built-in instability could use some aid in keeping it stable. These things do not preclude each other.
Eg. the F16 fighter plane, one of the most agile around, is also completely instable, comparable to an airplane flying backward. There is no way even the best pilot could fly one without computers. In fact, the pilot doesn't even have direct access to the actuators, it's all through an electronic stick that tells the machine what the pilot wants.
It's about time for a law regulating that the earth is flat.
Is was temporarily confused because of the word 'canary' also meaning a 'singing bird' in mobster circles. I assume the miners' version is meant (the one that faints of mine gasses).
Thanks for that link, almost 10 years old and even more apt then ever. Damn it.
This makes my hair stand on end: And those with the darkest fears became the most powerful.
Google could have prevented this by moving out of the US and disconnect all ties with its government spooks.
You know it is per day?
A music workstation should be nothing more than a set of drivers and a windowmanager. Less is more.
If that is the case I could understand why anyone would prefer a clean-lean-and-mean Linux-based solution over a W8 install where the OS alone has a footprint of several GB's and overshadows the actual editors by a factor 100. I mean, sometimes the most used tool just doesn't feel right.
Follow the money. The US governmnet is corporation owned.
+1 this. Very good viewpoints. Good luck with your doctoral.
It's not as "highly unusual" as suggested.
Lately numerous high officers in the US chain of command have been suspended or fired because of some 'scandal'. These scandals all suddenly became public after a a large series of interviews conducted by the CIA and DHS that were rumoured to revolve around the dilemma of being available for attacks against the US population. If this is one of those I think it's worriesome.
The fence that will soon surround the US needed another layer. This is probably it.
This, crossrelated with the limitless collection of metadata in the NSA vaults will make it possible to build patterns of 'normal' behaviour and use those to automatically spot anomalies as soon as they happen.
In a few years, if you even try to prepapre organizing an Occupy-Whatever movement you will be stopped before anyone has heard about you.
Once this is in place NO one will be able to switch it off.
Then who did Mj Casey work for? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Casey_(Chuck)
I recently did my yearly tryout of KDE (Kubuntu) but was struggling with the same issues as last times. These are old problems:
- multimonitor setting do not stick. You have to compose a shellscript with xrandr commands yourself and autostart it.
- panels on multimonitor do not stick. I could get it to work but is was complicated and forgot how I did it.
- font rendering in Firefox is ugly as hell. This too is an old problem, might be Firefox' fault but only KDE has this problem.
Now on XFCE
Isn't Gates' belittling if Google's balloon plans the best compliment possible. Based on his previous prediction record they will be huge succes.
If we'd be able to make a hole and then point a nuke into that hole we'd also be able to have it 'land' on the surface an explode/push the asteroid to a different track. Maybe 2 or 3 in a row.
Even if you could destroy an asteroid of significant magnitude with a nuke, it would be just as dangerous and less predictable afterwards.
I find it hard to believe that this is all a scientist can come up with.
Since when is a demand by a mere member of Congress a reason to withold information from the taxpayers? Shouldn't this be put into law or at least made official somehow?
So an iPad is telling me it knows the way and is able to guide me through Oxford traffic safeley? Erm, not thank you.
I was just thinking lately, the only thing missing in the similarities between the US and 1935 Germany is a nice big Zeppelin.
The tax problem is a red herring.
Google will have to leave the US if it wants to keep hold of the rest of the world. The fact that they are obliged to comply with PATRIOT in the US means it's services are not legally acceptible in many countries, notably the EU.
We'd better start using the Renminbi as an international currency and dump the US$
I think the 200B$ they currently spend already is worth more in local economic units than the 400B$ is in the USA.