We are currently dealing with the Chicago Public School's paperless invoicing, which uses an Oracle web interface to an Oracle back end. It would be a godsend to go back to paperful invoicing.
10,000 pages a year is about 5 pages an hour. I might print 0 pages most hours, but if I print just one larger document a day, on average, I could easily see myself hitting 10,000 pages a year. Though if I had to guess, I would guess I print well below half of that.
No, AC had it right. It's possible for me to review a.pdf containing 50 scanned 42"x36" drawings against CAD files of revised drawings on screen, while referencing calculations in a speadsheet and manufacturer's data in a web browser - but it's extremely slow & painful to do so without printing out at least a couple of those things (especially large.pdfs)
The issue is that SS is required by law to invest its' trust fund In Treasury bonds, and that transfer has not been accounted for as part of the official "deficits".
The last glaciation covered all of Northern Europe, Britain, parts of Germany, parts of Poland in massive, greenland-like glaciers and changed the climate massively all the way down to Africa
FTFY </pedantry >
We are currently in an ice age, which global warming threatens to end for the first time in a couple of million years.
As a ridiculously coarse analogy, it's like saying the standard C library has the code for a chess game because if you take a tic-tac-toe game and then re-arrange a bunch of the code that controls how the stdlib functions are called you get chess instead.
Actually more like saying the standard C library has the code for a chess game in it because if you take a tic-tac-toe game and repeat it several times, a chess game appears (and loses in four moves)
No, and I mean NO! because central wealth distribution has been shown time and again to disincentivise people from actually doing something useful with their lives
I would say, rather, that the typical job is what prevents most people from doing something useful with their lives today.
being 18x the distance from Earth that the moon is doesn't really register to me as an "OMG WE WERE ALMOST HIT" event.
Being 1/2 the distance to the moon does, though, especially as it (the smaller asteroid) wasn't even discovered until a day or so beforehand. TFA was about two asteroids in close proximity to the Earth at nearly the same time.
There are some advantages to leasing rather than owning, though. Owning is not free, and can be more expensive than leasing Leasing can give more agility, you can (usually) grow and shrink more easily, being saddled wit a 5-year lease or so, rather than a 30-year mortgaqge. Leasing avoids some risk if you sign a favorable lease, you don't have to worry about cost fluctuations, paying for unexpected repairs, or whether the lease pays for the cost of operating. You don't have to become an expert in constructing and operating buildings, you don't need staff for all that. If you're actually profitable, you can make money doing what your company does, and hopefully make a better return on investment than you can running the building. It's classic capitalism, do what you do efficiently and trade (using money) for what others are good at. Though, none of that means it is necessarily wise in this case, when Nokia already has the building, and seems to only be using the money to invest in losing more money.
The level of the Lake Michigan, at least, (since I'm from the Chicago area) is largely under control of the locks and canals that connect the lake to the Chicago River to the Mississippi. This is often disputed in court, since ships using the rivers want to let more water out when the rivers are low and less when the rivers are high, but property owners along the lake want to divert more water when the lake is high and less when it is low. The amount of precipitation generally defines the starting points for the arguments, though.
The US starts the clock one a breath is made by the child.
Actually, most actuarial tables, e.g. those used by Social Security, include life expectancy at various ages, and most developed countries still have longer life expectancies than the US at most ages.
The idea of "Privacy as a right" is one that comes from the courts and jurisprudence and does not come from any actual legislation for the most part and for sure does not come from the Constitution
It is not a matter of just the fourth amendment
The ninth amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The declaration of independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
MS can do all the lock-down they want on the hardware they make and sell. But for them to be in charge of locking down 3rd party hardware and software that I buy from other vendors is just nuts. Especially as the 800 lb gorilla in the room means that I will have almost no choice of vendors that don't restrict my use. I want my computer to be mine, not Microsoft's and not Apple's.
There is a difference between discordance and dissonance, musically. The way you, and TFS, and TFA, and most people (not necessarily the paper, haven't read it) use the word dissonance would be more appropriately be called discordance, according to my harmony prof. Dissonance is an important part of harmony, without it, music would have no tension, no resolution, and would be more just a series of sounds, than music. A lot of that is learned, IMO. The perception of diiscordance, however, I believe is innate - the ear is wired to hear harmonics as being related to the fundamental frequency; e.g., two tones an octave apart (a factor of 2) are almost always recognized as the same "note". YMMV, IANAM, etc.
The lower harmonics, like the interval of a fifth (1/2 of the 3rd harmonic), or a third (1/4 of the fifth harmonic) are actually quite close to the equal tempered scale approximations - closer than most can hear, and definitely closer than most can sing. In fact, vibrato may change the pitch more than it would be off. The higher harmonics are definitely off, though, e.g. The 11th harmonic is about halfway between two notes on the piano.
As you probably know, the Well Tempered Clavier is not equal tempered, and much music in the past was in scales with no real tempering. That makes the different keys have very different feelings, which has carried into the present as to what kind of music is in flat keys, sharp keys etc., even it's almost exclusively played in equal tempered scales nowadays.
BTW, how did you get 256/242? 12 perfect fiths would be about 3^12 / 2^19, wouldn't it?
I can't afford to waste a day relearning an interface that has no advantages over the old interface. . . At least, I haven't read or heard of anything in the new OS that would require it to be completely changed.
Graphical scalability, all vector graphics. Improved multi-monitor (i.e. individual taskbars, individual wallpaper..). Windows-to-go (i.e. boot from storage devices). Hypervisor integration. Should I keep going?
FYI, they are not "blaming" global warming for the reported cooling of the uppermost layers of the atmosphere, they are demonstrating that the increased CO2 measured at those levels has a cooling effect that causes that layer to contract.
HCFCs have more or less global warming potentials than CFCs, depending on chemistry, half-life, etc. Furthermore, HCFCs are being phased out; e.g. you can't buy new commercial equipment with R-22 anymore.
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We are currently dealing with the Chicago Public School's paperless invoicing, which uses an Oracle web interface to an Oracle back end. It would be a godsend to go back to paperful invoicing.
10,000 pages a year is about 5 pages an hour. I might print 0 pages most hours, but if I print just one larger document a day, on average, I could easily see myself hitting 10,000 pages a year. Though if I had to guess, I would guess I print well below half of that.
No, AC had it right. It's possible for me to review a .pdf containing 50 scanned 42"x36" drawings against CAD files of revised drawings on screen, while referencing calculations in a speadsheet and manufacturer's data in a web browser - but it's extremely slow & painful to do so without printing out at least a couple of those things (especially large .pdfs)
I use caps lock all the time, when I'm doing CAD.
Pretty sure I wouldn't be doing any CAD work on a Chromebook, though.
The issue is that SS is required by law to invest its' trust fund In Treasury bonds, and that transfer has not been accounted for as part of the official "deficits".
That's OK, my eyes cannot deal with retina displays well, either.
FTFY < /pedantry >
We are currently in an ice age, which global warming threatens to end for the first time in a couple of million years.
Actually more like saying the standard C library has the code for a chess game in it because if you take a tic-tac-toe game and repeat it several times, a chess game appears (and loses in four moves)
Hate is an emotion, that is, it causes you to move, causes your hateful behaviour. For that reason, people should care about hate.
I would say, rather, that the typical job is what prevents most people from doing something useful with their lives today.
Being 1/2 the distance to the moon does, though, especially as it (the smaller asteroid) wasn't even discovered until a day or so beforehand. TFA was about two asteroids in close proximity to the Earth at nearly the same time.
A Galaxy III is stuck on a desk?
There are some advantages to leasing rather than owning, though. Owning is not free, and can be more expensive than leasing Leasing can give more agility, you can (usually) grow and shrink more easily, being saddled wit a 5-year lease or so, rather than a 30-year mortgaqge. Leasing avoids some risk if you sign a favorable lease, you don't have to worry about cost fluctuations, paying for unexpected repairs, or whether the lease pays for the cost of operating. You don't have to become an expert in constructing and operating buildings, you don't need staff for all that. If you're actually profitable, you can make money doing what your company does, and hopefully make a better return on investment than you can running the building. It's classic capitalism, do what you do efficiently and trade (using money) for what others are good at. Though, none of that means it is necessarily wise in this case, when Nokia already has the building, and seems to only be using the money to invest in losing more money.
Well, the maker of Wonder bread, Hostess, just went belly up, so I'm not so sure how popular that brand of bread really could be.
The level of the Lake Michigan, at least, (since I'm from the Chicago area) is largely under control of the locks and canals that connect the lake to the Chicago River to the Mississippi. This is often disputed in court, since ships using the rivers want to let more water out when the rivers are low and less when the rivers are high, but property owners along the lake want to divert more water when the lake is high and less when it is low. The amount of precipitation generally defines the starting points for the arguments, though.
Actually, most actuarial tables, e.g. those used by Social Security, include life expectancy at various ages, and most developed countries still have longer life expectancies than the US at most ages.
A business does not have sovereignty.
It is not a matter of just the fourth amendment
The ninth amendment:
The declaration of independence:
MS can do all the lock-down they want on the hardware they make and sell. But for them to be in charge of locking down 3rd party hardware and software that I buy from other vendors is just nuts. Especially as the 800 lb gorilla in the room means that I will have almost no choice of vendors that don't restrict my use. I want my computer to be mine, not Microsoft's and not Apple's.
There is a difference between discordance and dissonance, musically. The way you, and TFS, and TFA, and most people (not necessarily the paper, haven't read it) use the word dissonance would be more appropriately be called discordance, according to my harmony prof. Dissonance is an important part of harmony, without it, music would have no tension, no resolution, and would be more just a series of sounds, than music. A lot of that is learned, IMO. The perception of diiscordance, however, I believe is innate - the ear is wired to hear harmonics as being related to the fundamental frequency; e.g., two tones an octave apart (a factor of 2) are almost always recognized as the same "note". YMMV, IANAM, etc.
The lower harmonics, like the interval of a fifth (1/2 of the 3rd harmonic), or a third (1/4 of the fifth harmonic) are actually quite close to the equal tempered scale approximations - closer than most can hear, and definitely closer than most can sing. In fact, vibrato may change the pitch more than it would be off. The higher harmonics are definitely off, though, e.g. The 11th harmonic is about halfway between two notes on the piano.
As you probably know, the Well Tempered Clavier is not equal tempered, and much music in the past was in scales with no real tempering. That makes the different keys have very different feelings, which has carried into the present as to what kind of music is in flat keys, sharp keys etc., even it's almost exclusively played in equal tempered scales nowadays.
BTW, how did you get 256/242? 12 perfect fiths would be about 3^12 / 2^19, wouldn't it?
Graphical scalability, all vector graphics. Improved multi-monitor (i.e. individual taskbars, individual wallpaper..). Windows-to-go (i.e. boot from storage devices). Hypervisor integration. Should I keep going?
How would those things require the GUI to change?
Only if they sign a nuclear non-proliferation treaty first, and allow international inspectors in!
FYI, they are not "blaming" global warming for the reported cooling of the uppermost layers of the atmosphere, they are demonstrating that the increased CO2 measured at those levels has a cooling effect that causes that layer to contract.
HCFCs have more or less global warming potentials than CFCs, depending on chemistry, half-life, etc. Furthermore, HCFCs are being phased out; e.g. you can't buy new commercial equipment with R-22 anymore.