So, I recall one of the main e-ink perks being the "print-like" sharpness. Is this something OLED (or LED, for that matter) can achieve? That for me would be the deal-breaker.
I don't know if it's that this took a year+ to break or if it's just that no one actually sat down to try it until a year or so. I'm not sure how great the overlap of e-book users and coding types is compared to, say, dvd viewers or itunes users and coders. Also could take a guess based on torrent activities - presumably there are lots more torrents of movies, tv series, music, etc. than e-books.
Definitely the way to go - using l33t substitutes in some pattern you've decided also tends to very easily give you the non-alpha uc/lc numeric requirements of most passwords.
Though this doesn't help for when you have reset policies - as you'd have to remember to change all the passwords at once so you don't get horribly confused.
I'm assuming people are using bugmenot/mailinator for non-personally-necessary logins. The only unique accounts and passwords for me are ones for work/school or loans/banking. For online purchases I'd rather not set up an account as it's just one more place that has my stored financial information...
I find that cycling keeps me much more occupied than jogging etc. while still being useful and exercise-y. First, I'm moving pretty fast and seeing new scenery (and cars that I need to watch out for) which helps keep my mind occupied, and second, I can justify it as something with purpose (visiting a friend, getting groceries, etc.). I used to jog up to the bank/drug store about a mile away, but it was too annoying to carry anything but the most lightweight stuff home jogging.
Those people are also the ones that are intimidating to those who aren't ripped. I wish there were periods of time like for beginners at gyms...or some such. Swimming is another good option, but for those who are embarrassed to be seen in a suit...
I, personally, don't believe health care is a right - it's something you need to earn. And if you don't earn it, then you shouldn't have it.
What criteria are you thinking about re: earning? Being employed? Being healthy? Being educated? Having money to pay for it?
Because now, as it stands, you generally have to have some combination of the above - a decent non-manual labor or service job and possibly the education to get it, or roll your own insurance plan where you have to pay - a quick check on an insurance quote site says a family plan for four with no smoking history is 300-600 USD a month.
When you get down to it, I think people who work "earn" their right to health care. And right now we're violating their rights.
While the.org site is nice and enticing, the footnote re: "May need add'l software" plus Okular's site being less than transparent about how to actually go about using it on Windows is a major barrier for, well, just about anyone who's non-techincal. Does anyone know of instructions somewhere re: how to set it up with Windows?
Hence the basic remark:) I believe about a year back I was getting regular crashes, but this later version has appeared to stay more stable.
And yep, not too much experience in design/print media. Mostly as-needed, which does limit my experience. On the other hand, moving tangentially to one of the previous stories about service and volunteerism, for small non-profits with little money to spend on $800-ish packages (though perhaps there's a nonprofit discount) things like scribus have been usable.
Hmm. It does tend to be nicer if the data source is nice and usable in the first place rather than having to massage it into a better/easier format. Especially if you grab data regularly from a secondary source. Perhaps in that case the SQL-based filtering makes more sense. Can you do that with filters in something like calc, though? Or just in databases?
And while I can setup regexes and filter queries, can the average user? And you have to admit, in the end, I'm not the type that would be doing the data entry if I can write the queries...
I know it's hoping against hope, but I still hope someday some spreadsheet program will do sorting that will actually ignore the "A, an, the" that can begin lines, along with extra blank spaces. Most suggestions in this area tell you to put those words in a separate column then do the sort, which isn't particularly elegant.
As tablet support is still primarily Windows-based for note-taking, this does kind of lack. For basic work Jarnal does work, and there are a couple other note-like takers out there. Most of them don't have the nice integration with audio that OneNote has, though, which is killer for lectures.
There are extensions out there for converting (relatively painlessly) docx to odt and you could use scribus as a basic replacement for indesign (and it works with windows, too).
Seriously, between scribus, gimp, and inkscape (equivalents for indesign, photoshop, and illustrator respectively) I don't use any adobe products anymore except digital editions for library e-books.
Aren't sales taxes inherently regressive? As in, they hurt those with lower income the most as it increases the proportion of their income spent on taxes compared to those with higher incomes.
Most states at this point do not tax "necessary for life" stuff, such as basic food and medicines, though I believe clothes, etc continue to be taxed. Does this proposal mean taxation across the board on all things, or only "nonessential" things, or what?
It doesn't seem just to tax sales on essential to life items, which leaves most of the burden on luxury items, which doesn't sound like it would be enough income generated to do much.
Some of us like to commute:P And continuing the analogy, people choose the bus for saving money (implying you're using your money on other things), or helping the environment, or it's more convenient so you don't have to find parking, etc. I'd say most of those reasons with a bit of adaption could be applied to why people use OO too.
On the other hand, bus systems can be frustrating and slow, and they may not drop you off exactly where you want to be...which also could apply to OO.
And haven't messed with it much, but it seems like Calc can do most things Excel does, albeit using some very useful statistical plugins (can't find the link at the moment) it exceeds some of Excel's capabilities.
For a while, I used OO mostly to assuage my guilt at using Office illicitly.
Then I found out that OO has a major advantage: internationalization for countries that just aren't within Microsoft's marketing strategy. As a (foreign) person working in Mongolia, the relatively basic addition of international spelling packs, particularly for Mongolian, has been a lifesaver - and though I haven't used it, there's a Mongolian localization for the entire suite that I think would remove a significant utilization barrier here. It's hard enough teaching someone how to click versus double-click; throw in a menu system in an incomprehensible language and you might as well give up at anything but the most basic data entry.
For this alone I'll use OO over Office.
And from a helping standpoint, I haven't done much beyond web-based DB-driven apps for a while, but with Ubuntu's relatively painless localization process, I'm trying to help out by doing Mongolian localization for the OS myself.
There are places for everyone to help - it may not be exciting but I figure you should pay it back in somehow.
I dunno. Personally, I think it's unethical to have unpaid internships, if not de facto discriminatory. There are a lot of college students who can't afford the unpaid internship (on financial aid already for school, plus working to pay for living expenses) and you then present people with the choice of not eating so as to eat more in the future, or eating now and maybe having a slightly smaller buffet later. It's true the internships provide valuable networking, but only to those who can afford to not get paid for a good chunk of time. Really, are these the people who need that "extra edge" and networking to get the plum job later?
I volunteered at a non-profit and we wrestled with this quite a bit - we're short on money, we're working with inner-city kids, and they need that money. I only could volunteer myself because I had finally gotten a job, and I never took an unpaid internship during undergrad. How could we ask them to do that?
Given the person who was asking the Q, it sounds like they're not quite staying anyway - so the assumption for being in it for the money may not hold in this case. Some people stay in the IT stuff cuz they like helping people with their geeky ways, too, so there is some intersection there.
And, dorky as it may sound, it's not like you don't get anything out of it - most times IT folk don't get a chance to eat sheep's eyeballs or live in desert environments. It could be an adventure in and of itself.
Also for disclosure, I jumped the IT ship early - I'm departing for Mongolia in about 3 weeks to do work that will count towards me getting a MPH in international health.
It may be sort of new but enough to keep you interested for a few years, too. Peace Corps is having more and more IT-related needs, and it may be neat to do that kinda work in more resource-constrained or creative environments, plus learning a new language and new place for a couple of years.
They also have other areas of work, but unless you try to hide your background, they may really want to put you in the IT box...
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what if you open the door? Will internet leak out of the room?
I suppose a double door or, more entertainingly, a revolving door, could help with this...
So, I recall one of the main e-ink perks being the "print-like" sharpness. Is this something OLED (or LED, for that matter) can achieve? That for me would be the deal-breaker.
I don't know if it's that this took a year+ to break or if it's just that no one actually sat down to try it until a year or so. I'm not sure how great the overlap of e-book users and coding types is compared to, say, dvd viewers or itunes users and coders. Also could take a guess based on torrent activities - presumably there are lots more torrents of movies, tv series, music, etc. than e-books.
Definitely the way to go - using l33t substitutes in some pattern you've decided also tends to very easily give you the non-alpha uc/lc numeric requirements of most passwords.
Though this doesn't help for when you have reset policies - as you'd have to remember to change all the passwords at once so you don't get horribly confused.
I'm assuming people are using bugmenot/mailinator for non-personally-necessary logins. The only unique accounts and passwords for me are ones for work/school or loans/banking. For online purchases I'd rather not set up an account as it's just one more place that has my stored financial information...
I find that cycling keeps me much more occupied than jogging etc. while still being useful and exercise-y. First, I'm moving pretty fast and seeing new scenery (and cars that I need to watch out for) which helps keep my mind occupied, and second, I can justify it as something with purpose (visiting a friend, getting groceries, etc.). I used to jog up to the bank/drug store about a mile away, but it was too annoying to carry anything but the most lightweight stuff home jogging.
Those people are also the ones that are intimidating to those who aren't ripped. I wish there were periods of time like for beginners at gyms...or some such. Swimming is another good option, but for those who are embarrassed to be seen in a suit...
Course, this may be more of a girl thing.
get in line :P
I did it for the nookie...and you can take that cookie.
I, personally, don't believe health care is a right - it's something you need to earn. And if you don't earn it, then you shouldn't have it.
What criteria are you thinking about re: earning? Being employed? Being healthy? Being educated? Having money to pay for it?
Because now, as it stands, you generally have to have some combination of the above - a decent non-manual labor or service job and possibly the education to get it, or roll your own insurance plan where you have to pay - a quick check on an insurance quote site says a family plan for four with no smoking history is 300-600 USD a month.
When you get down to it, I think people who work "earn" their right to health care. And right now we're violating their rights.
While the .org site is nice and enticing, the footnote re: "May need add'l software" plus Okular's site being less than transparent about how to actually go about using it on Windows is a major barrier for, well, just about anyone who's non-techincal. Does anyone know of instructions somewhere re: how to set it up with Windows?
and for a moment was wondering how a confused botnet master could be a security professional...
Hence the basic remark :)
I believe about a year back I was getting regular crashes, but this later version has appeared to stay more stable.
And yep, not too much experience in design/print media. Mostly as-needed, which does limit my experience. On the other hand, moving tangentially to one of the previous stories about service and volunteerism, for small non-profits with little money to spend on $800-ish packages (though perhaps there's a nonprofit discount) things like scribus have been usable.
Hmm. It does tend to be nicer if the data source is nice and usable in the first place rather than having to massage it into a better/easier format. Especially if you grab data regularly from a secondary source. Perhaps in that case the SQL-based filtering makes more sense. Can you do that with filters in something like calc, though? Or just in databases?
And while I can setup regexes and filter queries, can the average user? And you have to admit, in the end, I'm not the type that would be doing the data entry if I can write the queries...
I know it's hoping against hope, but I still hope someday some spreadsheet program will do sorting that will actually ignore the "A, an, the" that can begin lines, along with extra blank spaces. Most suggestions in this area tell you to put those words in a separate column then do the sort, which isn't particularly elegant.
As tablet support is still primarily Windows-based for note-taking, this does kind of lack. For basic work Jarnal does work, and there are a couple other note-like takers out there. Most of them don't have the nice integration with audio that OneNote has, though, which is killer for lectures.
There are extensions out there for converting (relatively painlessly) docx to odt and you could use scribus as a basic replacement for indesign (and it works with windows, too).
Seriously, between scribus, gimp, and inkscape (equivalents for indesign, photoshop, and illustrator respectively) I don't use any adobe products anymore except digital editions for library e-books.
Aren't sales taxes inherently regressive? As in, they hurt those with lower income the most as it increases the proportion of their income spent on taxes compared to those with higher incomes.
Most states at this point do not tax "necessary for life" stuff, such as basic food and medicines, though I believe clothes, etc continue to be taxed. Does this proposal mean taxation across the board on all things, or only "nonessential" things, or what?
It doesn't seem just to tax sales on essential to life items, which leaves most of the burden on luxury items, which doesn't sound like it would be enough income generated to do much.
Some of us like to commute :P And continuing the analogy, people choose the bus for saving money (implying you're using your money on other things), or helping the environment, or it's more convenient so you don't have to find parking, etc. I'd say most of those reasons with a bit of adaption could be applied to why people use OO too.
On the other hand, bus systems can be frustrating and slow, and they may not drop you off exactly where you want to be...which also could apply to OO.
And haven't messed with it much, but it seems like Calc can do most things Excel does, albeit using some very useful statistical plugins (can't find the link at the moment) it exceeds some of Excel's capabilities.
If OO ever implements this (wiki last update mid-2007): http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Statistical_Data_Analysis_Tool then it'll be way past Excel and halfway to statistical software like SPSS. Wish I knew how to implement, as I'd love to have that built in...
For a while, I used OO mostly to assuage my guilt at using Office illicitly.
Then I found out that OO has a major advantage: internationalization for countries that just aren't within Microsoft's marketing strategy. As a (foreign) person working in Mongolia, the relatively basic addition of international spelling packs, particularly for Mongolian, has been a lifesaver - and though I haven't used it, there's a Mongolian localization for the entire suite that I think would remove a significant utilization barrier here. It's hard enough teaching someone how to click versus double-click; throw in a menu system in an incomprehensible language and you might as well give up at anything but the most basic data entry.
For this alone I'll use OO over Office.
And from a helping standpoint, I haven't done much beyond web-based DB-driven apps for a while, but with Ubuntu's relatively painless localization process, I'm trying to help out by doing Mongolian localization for the OS myself.
There are places for everyone to help - it may not be exciting but I figure you should pay it back in somehow.
I dunno. Personally, I think it's unethical to have unpaid internships, if not de facto discriminatory. There are a lot of college students who can't afford the unpaid internship (on financial aid already for school, plus working to pay for living expenses) and you then present people with the choice of not eating so as to eat more in the future, or eating now and maybe having a slightly smaller buffet later. It's true the internships provide valuable networking, but only to those who can afford to not get paid for a good chunk of time. Really, are these the people who need that "extra edge" and networking to get the plum job later?
I volunteered at a non-profit and we wrestled with this quite a bit - we're short on money, we're working with inner-city kids, and they need that money. I only could volunteer myself because I had finally gotten a job, and I never took an unpaid internship during undergrad. How could we ask them to do that?
Given the person who was asking the Q, it sounds like they're not quite staying anyway - so the assumption for being in it for the money may not hold in this case. Some people stay in the IT stuff cuz they like helping people with their geeky ways, too, so there is some intersection there.
And, dorky as it may sound, it's not like you don't get anything out of it - most times IT folk don't get a chance to eat sheep's eyeballs or live in desert environments. It could be an adventure in and of itself.
Also for disclosure, I jumped the IT ship early - I'm departing for Mongolia in about 3 weeks to do work that will count towards me getting a MPH in international health.
It may be sort of new but enough to keep you interested for a few years, too. Peace Corps is having more and more IT-related needs, and it may be neat to do that kinda work in more resource-constrained or creative environments, plus learning a new language and new place for a couple of years. They also have other areas of work, but unless you try to hide your background, they may really want to put you in the IT box...