Adobe Reader is very slow to start up.
But once started, it is much faster than evince, especially on large.pdfs, which evince can't always handle usably (at least on my Fedora laptop). Still, I don't have Reader installed on Fedora anymore.
On my Windows box at work, I have both Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 7 Pro (writer) installed. Although I don't particularly like Reader 9, Acrobat 7 is very useful for work. I often need to respond to submitted.pdfs with mark ups, comments, added pages, etc. and it's great to do that without printing and scanning. Especially useful is it's OCR functions which can turn a scanned-image document into a text searchable document.
It is not clear that government employees are paid more than the public, even though they do often have better benefits such as pensions and holidays. For one thing, you would need to compare within similar job categories, not just the overall averages. Private and government jobs are not always directly comparable. My understanding is that lower wage workers often fare better working for the government, while at the upper levels most government workers make significantly less than their private counterparts.
for one analysis:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers put average federal wages at $68,740, while private-sector wages averaged out at $42,270. The disparity is still there, in part because the nation's overall work force skews more toward blue-collar jobs than does the federal government. But $68,000 sounds less "lavish" than "respectable." Whether a worker makes more or less in the public sphere depends a lot on what job he or she is doing: Nurses make more, and petroleum engineers make less. Cashiers in government jobs make a lot more, $34,000, than the $18,000 of their private-sector counterparts.
But where can anyone easily live on $18,000 a year? It's below the federal poverty line for a family of three, and even a two-wage-earner household, with both adults making that salary, would be struggling well below the national median household income of $50,000.
What's that you say? The PTO is not a private company, but rather a branch of our omnipotent benevolent government, . . . Well, in that case they can't possibly be concerned with revenue...
What's going to stop them ramming a truck into the train if they really want to?
As the SAT would say:
Train is to Truck as Truck is to
a. Automobile
b. Bicycle
c. Garbage can
d. Beer can
In my experience, the answer is d.
When my commuter train hit a traffic jam the day before Thanksgiving five years ago, about 12 vehicles, including a couple of light trucks, were involved. There was a lot of noise but the only thing I felt was the brakes being applied. I never felt any impact, and we went several blocks beyond the accident site before the train came to a complete stop.
The Christian Science Monitor is a well respected newspaper, no matter what people think of the Christian Science religion.
And Christian Science has nothing to do with "e-meters" or Scientology.
You need some practice in reading comprehension (as do most news reporters and slashdot submitters).
It's easy:
The rate at which we added CO2 to the atmosphere went down.
The rate at which nature removes CO2 from the atmosphere went up.
Those two changes combined were not enough to lower the rate of pumping CO2 into the air below the rate that nature can remove it, so the actual amount of CO2 in the air went up.
Science, it's already being used here.
Not trying to defend China's abysmal environmental record, but on a per capita basis, those in the US send far more CO2 into the air than those in China. (Similarly for other developed vs developing nations.)
On a per country basis, the US is second to China's lead.
They passed a regulation that made it illegal to deny a mortgage application even if the citizen was too poor to pay it back. Hence a run-away boom.
Bullshit.
The Community Reinvestment Act (originally passed in 1977, long before Clinton though revised numerous times since then) made it harder to avoid making loans for housing in the same neighborhoods that the banks were getting savings from, but it never required mortgages to people who could not afford them. Most of the "sub-prime" loans were made outside of the CRA. On average, "sub-prime" loans made under the CRA fared better than loans made outside of the CRA. The CRA did not cause the investment bankers to slice and dice bad loan portfolios and package them up as "safe" investments. The CRA did not give stupidly high ratings to those bad loan packages. The CRA did not sell credit default swaps back and forth on those companies with bad loan portfolios until there was a recursive dependency with no chance of paying off in case of default.
The solid rocket boosters have only failed once, and that was when they were operated out of spec: It was too cold to launch that fateful day, yet they launched anyway.
You are missing the issue being discussed.
The shuttle has already been end-of-lifed. The solid rockets intended for the system that will eventually replace the shuttle have failed miserably in testing.
Read it again.
The comment to which your parent referred referred to "Secure" as an acronym for "DRM"
As another poster pointed out, the poster was probably looking for the word "euphemism".
a) I agree, it's trivially easy to convert pdf to other formats. Heck, I even have the ability to convert to and from DXF at work.
b) In my experience, Adobe Acrobat actually renders the pdf documents faster than the lightweight readers, at least for large, complex documents. The issue is that Acrobat takes a long time to start up compared to most of the alternatives.
c) Though I understand that pdfs are mostly meant for read-only, the ability to edit them comes in handy at work, especially the ability to add pages, but also commenting, and mark-ups.
d) My recommendation would be to save as PDF/A, which is the pdf archive standard, and so more likely to still be readable well into the future. This also avoids the embedded multimedia and scripting that seems so unnecessary for a portable document format.
Speed limit is 55 MPH on the interstate highways that I would use, if I didn't ride the train. Still, traffic permitting, few drivers go less than 70 MPH on those roads.
I've worked in various indoor and outdoor environments, picking up dog droppings, surveying leaky plumbing systems, cleaning up after broken sanitary drain pipes. Anyone considering work not involving fecal matter "shit labor" has a severe reality deficit disorder.
You don't sue people who underbid contracts. You make them do the work for the price they quoted. The hard part is making sure that you bought everything you think you paid for, that's why contracts and specifications are so long.
Somewhat off-topic, but my boss yesterday was telling me about the time the local public housing authority tried to get him to do something that was against his better engineering judgement, and he refused. They terminated his contract (they write the ability to do that without penalty into their contracts) and hired someone else to finish the job. A year and a half later, they sued him for the very thing he refused to do. They dropped that quickly, since he had the ill-advised direction from them and his refusal both in writing.
Because subsidies have no costs?
If you include the cost of the software the subsidiizing companies are promoting, like the cost of running a current anti-virus, then the Linux box may well come out cheaper.
Face it : most language use decisions in companies are made by clueless bosses once the salesman from a few proprietary companies have met him. . . . ("they said it is better than Java and they just drag and drop to do GUI, it HAS to be a powerful language")
As far as I can see, there's only one way to interpret it, and that's that the poster was quoting the legendary clueless boss, not stating his own opinion.
In politics, it is impossible to vote for the lesser of two evils. There is no such thing as "lesser evil" in politics.
I tend to vote for the lesser evil - it's not impossible, it's easy. Just vote for the loser. They have less power and are therefore less able to maintain their evilness.
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Adobe Reader is very slow to start up. .pdfs, which evince can't always handle usably (at least on my Fedora laptop). Still, I don't have Reader installed on Fedora anymore. .pdfs with mark ups, comments, added pages, etc. and it's great to do that without printing and scanning. Especially useful is it's OCR functions which can turn a scanned-image document into a text searchable document.
But once started, it is much faster than evince, especially on large
On my Windows box at work, I have both Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 7 Pro (writer) installed. Although I don't particularly like Reader 9, Acrobat 7 is very useful for work. I often need to respond to submitted
for one analysis:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers put average federal wages at $68,740, while private-sector wages averaged out at $42,270. The disparity is still there, in part because the nation's overall work force skews more toward blue-collar jobs than does the federal government. But $68,000 sounds less "lavish" than "respectable." Whether a worker makes more or less in the public sphere depends a lot on what job he or she is doing: Nurses make more, and petroleum engineers make less. Cashiers in government jobs make a lot more, $34,000, than the $18,000 of their private-sector counterparts.
But where can anyone easily live on $18,000 a year? It's below the federal poverty line for a family of three, and even a two-wage-earner household, with both adults making that salary, would be struggling well below the national median household income of $50,000.
What's that you say? The PTO is not a private company, but rather a branch of our omnipotent benevolent government, . . . Well, in that case they can't possibly be concerned with revenue...
I believe that the USPTO is set up to pay for itself. budget
They certainly are concerned with revenue.
The USPTO’s earned revenue is derived from the fees collected for patent and trademark products and services. Fee collections are recognized as earned revenue when the activities to complete the work associated with the fee are completed.
What's going to stop them ramming a truck into the train if they really want to?
As the SAT would say:
Train is to Truck as Truck is to
a. Automobile
b. Bicycle
c. Garbage can
d. Beer can
In my experience, the answer is d.
When my commuter train hit a traffic jam the day before Thanksgiving five years ago, about 12 vehicles, including a couple of light trucks, were involved. There was a lot of noise but the only thing I felt was the brakes being applied. I never felt any impact, and we went several blocks beyond the accident site before the train came to a complete stop.
The Christian Science Monitor is a well respected newspaper, no matter what people think of the Christian Science religion.
And Christian Science has nothing to do with "e-meters" or Scientology.
You need some practice in reading comprehension (as do most news reporters and slashdot submitters).
It's easy:
The rate at which we added CO2 to the atmosphere went down.
The rate at which nature removes CO2 from the atmosphere went up.
Those two changes combined were not enough to lower the rate of pumping CO2 into the air below the rate that nature can remove it, so the actual amount of CO2 in the air went up.
Science, it's already being used here.
Not trying to defend China's abysmal environmental record, but on a per capita basis, those in the US send far more CO2 into the air than those in China. (Similarly for other developed vs developing nations.)
On a per country basis, the US is second to China's lead.
They passed a regulation that made it illegal to deny a mortgage application even if the citizen was too poor to pay it back. Hence a run-away boom.
Bullshit.
The Community Reinvestment Act (originally passed in 1977, long before Clinton though revised numerous times since then) made it harder to avoid making loans for housing in the same neighborhoods that the banks were getting savings from, but it never required mortgages to people who could not afford them. Most of the "sub-prime" loans were made outside of the CRA. On average, "sub-prime" loans made under the CRA fared better than loans made outside of the CRA. The CRA did not cause the investment bankers to slice and dice bad loan portfolios and package them up as "safe" investments. The CRA did not give stupidly high ratings to those bad loan packages. The CRA did not sell credit default swaps back and forth on those companies with bad loan portfolios until there was a recursive dependency with no chance of paying off in case of default.
But they didn't table the bill.
<pedant>Tabling a bill means delaying it in committee, usually with an intent to keep it there until it dies. </pedant>
The solid rocket boosters have only failed once, and that was when they were operated out of spec: It was too cold to launch that fateful day, yet they launched anyway.
You are missing the issue being discussed.
The shuttle has already been end-of-lifed. The solid rockets intended for the system that will eventually replace the shuttle have failed miserably in testing.
Read it again.
The comment to which your parent referred referred to "Secure" as an acronym for "DRM"
As another poster pointed out, the poster was probably looking for the word "euphemism".
a) I agree, it's trivially easy to convert pdf to other formats. Heck, I even have the ability to convert to and from DXF at work.
b) In my experience, Adobe Acrobat actually renders the pdf documents faster than the lightweight readers, at least for large, complex documents. The issue is that Acrobat takes a long time to start up compared to most of the alternatives.
c) Though I understand that pdfs are mostly meant for read-only, the ability to edit them comes in handy at work, especially the ability to add pages, but also commenting, and mark-ups.
d) My recommendation would be to save as PDF/A, which is the pdf archive standard, and so more likely to still be readable well into the future. This also avoids the embedded multimedia and scripting that seems so unnecessary for a portable document format.
Speed limit is 55 MPH on the interstate highways that I would use, if I didn't ride the train. Still, traffic permitting, few drivers go less than 70 MPH on those roads.
I've worked in various indoor and outdoor environments, picking up dog droppings, surveying leaky plumbing systems, cleaning up after broken sanitary drain pipes. Anyone considering work not involving fecal matter "shit labor" has a severe reality deficit disorder.
You don't sue people who underbid contracts. You make them do the work for the price they quoted. The hard part is making sure that you bought everything you think you paid for, that's why contracts and specifications are so long.
Somewhat off-topic, but my boss yesterday was telling me about the time the local public housing authority tried to get him to do something that was against his better engineering judgement, and he refused. They terminated his contract (they write the ability to do that without penalty into their contracts) and hired someone else to finish the job. A year and a half later, they sued him for the very thing he refused to do. They dropped that quickly, since he had the ill-advised direction from them and his refusal both in writing.
Yes, but you probably wouldn't want to say all of that at the same time in front of the same jury.
Because subsidies have no costs?
If you include the cost of the software the subsidiizing companies are promoting, like the cost of running a current anti-virus, then the Linux box may well come out cheaper.
He said "compete".
Your mind tacked on the words "for market share", but I do not think that is what he meant.
More like stolen from Xerox, . . .
Actually, IIRC, Apple paid (un-necessarily, as it turns out) for the use of Xerox Parc ideas.
No one who used this first version was likely to have predicted that Windows would completely dominate the PC market 25 years later...
It wasn't that far-fetched to predict that a MicroSoft product would dominate, since, as you say:
Microsoft just rode the wave of open IBM hardware specifications for the business PC
Face it : most language use decisions in companies are made by clueless bosses once the salesman from a few proprietary companies have met him. . . . ("they said it is better than Java and they just drag and drop to do GUI, it HAS to be a powerful language")
As far as I can see, there's only one way to interpret it, and that's that the poster was quoting the legendary clueless boss, not stating his own opinion.
The propeller is tacking even if the cart is moving strictly downwind.
Make all the "welfare" programs into "workfare" -- there's always some public work somewhere we can throw people at,
Sounds good at first glance, but, you know, most of the people on welfare are children.
In politics, it is impossible to vote for the lesser of two evils. There is no such thing as "lesser evil" in politics.
I tend to vote for the lesser evil - it's not impossible, it's easy. Just vote for the loser. They have less power and are therefore less able to maintain their evilness.
"Budget Deficit" does not have the same meaning as "Current Debt".