Actually, I've never seen any kind of god-based religious extremist try anything of the sort.
-Lifers -evangelicals who destroyed the worldwide economy by putting a potted plant..a shrub if you will.. in charge of the world's largest consumer market. -the mormon church (prop 8 anyone?)
that's just a small, short list off the top of my head, and my mind and body are severely addled by illness atm.
With modern spell check integration you can do word processing on a text pad.
You can buy specialized software for statistical analysis or expense tracking rather than generalized spreadsheets, but if you DO need generalized spreadsheets you can get that as a separate app.
Pure apps tailored to one single purpose rather than bloated suites are the way to go, and pretty much every market with competition is dominated by them.
Pretty much all text editing can be done in textedit (mac) and its analogous programs on linux (windows is another story, where they intentionally leave basic text editors lacking to compel MS office purchases).
The biggest plague in office suite compatibility is the damn MS macros used in excel. Many companies are locked into them, with the exception of those who use dedicated analysis suites like stata.
So far as linux is concerned, it's fully desktop ready. The trouble is the market has been moving quickly toward laptops for the past couple years, and laptops have less support (more proprietary hardware, among other things)
I still think its support is excellent, and I put my mother on ubuntu a year ago with no complaints (this is the same person who cried me a river when I handed her a pre-configured mac).
It's quite apparent sun has been too slow in adoption of new code (and from other responses has been outright rejecting a great deal of community submitted patches)
Thus, several forks have developed which act more quickly and are more inclusive.
Yet another gloom and doom story about how "oss isn't working" by someone who doesn't get it.
you're absolutely right that there's something wrong with healthcare costs larger than salary costs, and yet it's true.
I have crohn's disease (it's NOT a lifestyle disease), and a 30 day supply of the necessary medication costs about 2300 dollars (and I can't get insured because of "pre-existing condition")
Given the average person my age makes about 2500 a month, this means I either:
a - do without and endure horrible agony and bleeding b - pass the hat around my entire extended family
That's pretty sad.
The need for universal healthcare and collective bargaining for medications is very pressing here in the US.
The quote and context are actually completely unclear as to whether the first party is verizon or the webmail provider.
You would think your email provider, say gmail, would be the first party in the context of email services, with the verizon access page being the third party.
Or you could consider verizon to be the first party, and the email providers to be the third party.
If the first is the case, then verizon should be very quick about issuing a clarification.
If the second is the case, then they better hand their lawyers entrenchment shovels because they'll have FCC filings and various lawsuits through other avenues bearing down on them like an armored division.
Let's say there's a hefty case, and it garners a lot of media attention.
Being the "original" organizations they are, various multi-letter tv organizations broadcast the trial far and wide.
Well, guess what, there's a mistrial!
Now they have to convene a new jury, and with the national trial pretty much the entire pool is contaminated.
Definitely not a good thing.
Transparency is good, but it also brings up questions of fair due process if what I stated above occurs while abc or fox (depending on the political implications of the case) are spewing continuous implications of guilt.
oh, current and future benefits eh? Under that definition pretty much ANY job, union or not, which has benefits packages will give people at least 70 bucks an hour. And the kicker is as health care expenses go up, it will continue to rise because health care is a benefit.
BTW, my post telling it like it is about the heritage foundation is not an "ad hominem", "ad hominem" applies there is a person being attacked instead of the points of the argument.
Telling it like it is about bias in your "sources" is not an ad hominem.
> So what exactly are you to do to those who preach persecution of others. In this case, you direct the same persecution toward them to marginalize them
Since you're preaching persecution of others, it's okay if we do that to you, right? Or is this one of those things that's only bad when other people do it?
When a foreign army is invading YOUR town, "thou shalt not kill" goes out the window.
Religious extremists work diligently to persecute others. Persecution of them is the rightful response.
The real problem which has come to bite the big 3 in the ass is their lobbyists successfully managed to get SUV's classified as "light trucks" in those standards, basically exempting them.
This is why they now make commercials cheering, hemming, and hawing about how their SUV's make an "amazing" 20 miles per gallon.
how about you read more from others in this response column who have noted that, at triple the wage union workers have right now, the cost of labor would still only be about 2k per car.
for an economy car, that leaves about 8k left... now let's get down to reality, in which labor is only about 600, and even if they used slaves the difference in costs would be.. *fanfare*.. 600 bucks less!
Do keep blaming the unions though for corporate's incompetence at engineering small, light, fuel efficient cars. No, that doesn't mean sacrificing that american tradition of visceral driving either. Japanese sports cars run on in-line 4's and 6's, and go faster on half the gas through competent engineering.
I do have to chuckle at the backlash against the UAW. The UAW is evil because they "bent the big three over the table during the fat years" by demanding profit sharing, and reaping fat bonuses for their workers. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart is evil because they don't provide benefits, make employees work unpaid overtime, and their management gets fat bonuses.... - I think that you will find that the people who bash WalMart are not the same people who bash UAW. For example I am always anti-union, so I was only cheering for WalMart when they closed a store here in Canada because they did want to allow a union in the doors. So this is the exception I take with your comment, everything else there seems to be fair.
So whose business did you inherit? Or whose fortune?
I know you got a big fat F on your history courses, or you would know why unions exist, and why their decline has resulted in the collapse we have today. (pro-tip: stagnant wages, thanks to the decline of unions, plus inflating prices = foreclosures).
This is basic logic. Incorporation allows centralization of bargaining power on the producer side of the labor equation. Not allowing labor to organize into equally powerful organizations is a fundamental inequality and oppression.
If you are anti-union, you should also be anti-corporate and demanding the removal of limited liability laws.
Don't think the gains unions made in getting workers out of 3x5 shacks and 18 hour shifts won't disappear when they do. Just look at wal-mart.
Nope. England is getting nearly as bad. I'm thinking Antarctica. Time to build a new civilization based on 21st century evolved values, not 16th century ones.
canada.
Throttling, but not censorship. Liberal copyright laws, and a heavy weight copyright reform lobbyist with the ear of the newspapers and MSM.
Actually the US was founded by religious extremists which the british rightfully tried to get rid of.
The descendents of those extremists, still equally extreme, continue to gain power and dismantle any progress we make as a nation toward social equality
e whirlwind of recycled paper was a sight to see. It was like computer graphics. That I don't support Technicolor parfaits and snobby petit bourgeois is common knowledge in Oceania! Now is the time to return home to the blue sky! The confetti will dance around the shrine gates. The mailbox and the refrigerator will lead the way! Anyone who cares about expiration dates will not get in the way of the glory train! They need to fully realize the liver of the triangle rulers! Now, this festival was decided by the third grade class with the telephoto camera! Move forward! Come together! I am the ultimate governor!
...that peer reviewed journals (at least in computer science) are crap. 1) peer review is an old boys network, 2) people don't look at substance, they look for fancy buzzwords of the month and equations that look hard (you're rewarded for the more convoluted your paper is!), and 3) the way the system is setup, 99% of what is published is crap...people at universities and labs are forced to produce as many publications as possible to get promoted. It would be unfair of me to say that all of it is useless, but it's definitely inefficient. Look at where the great ideas in computer science and software development come today...they come from the community through things like open source (e.g. Linux, BitTorrent, etc). The academic community just rides on their coattails...
So this computer is an "old boy".
clearly you know something the rest of us don't about the robotic overlords who rule us all from the shadows!
My father had a succession of Windows boxes. Hopeless: he's not naive, having used systems back to Wordstar on CP/M in the late seventies, but they kept on getting screwed up. My mother got fed up with the email breaking, so I slung Linux (Redhat 7 or something) on an old laptop: she loved it, and nothing seemed to break. But she wanted Office to interwork with newsletters she was helping on. So, although at the time I had little to no Mac experience, I got her to buy an iBook G4. It just worked. Dad bought one. It just worked. I switched my house over later, building on their good experience. A lot of their friends are making the same switch. Windows just doesn't work unattended, or at least the effort required to make it run unattended is beyond most people.
Seconded if there's a local apple store.
If things do become a problem, the genius gets the call, NOT YOU!
Basic program and computer architecture will dispel these myths about computers being magic boxes.
-This should include the basic roles of the cpu, memory, and hard drive. -How an operating system operates, including the different levels (user, kernel, etc) -Why drivers are needed and how they interact with the operating system. -How a program works, is loaded into the system, and is represented in memory.
My goal if I were designing such a literary program would be for a student to be able to tell the difference between a lockup and a crash.
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Actually, I've never seen any kind of god-based religious extremist try anything of the sort.
-Lifers
-evangelicals who destroyed the worldwide economy by putting a potted plant..a shrub if you will.. in charge of the world's largest consumer market.
-the mormon church (prop 8 anyone?)
that's just a small, short list off the top of my head, and my mind and body are severely addled by illness atm.
This is unbelievably true.
I haven't touched an office suite in years.
With modern spell check integration you can do word processing on a text pad.
You can buy specialized software for statistical analysis or expense tracking rather than generalized spreadsheets, but if you DO need generalized spreadsheets you can get that as a separate app.
Pure apps tailored to one single purpose rather than bloated suites are the way to go, and pretty much every market with competition is dominated by them.
uhm, there is no spreadsheet in iwork.
Pretty much all text editing can be done in textedit (mac) and its analogous programs on linux (windows is another story, where they intentionally leave basic text editors lacking to compel MS office purchases).
The biggest plague in office suite compatibility is the damn MS macros used in excel. Many companies are locked into them, with the exception of those who use dedicated analysis suites like stata.
So far as linux is concerned, it's fully desktop ready. The trouble is the market has been moving quickly toward laptops for the past couple years, and laptops have less support (more proprietary hardware, among other things)
I still think its support is excellent, and I put my mother on ubuntu a year ago with no complaints (this is the same person who cried me a river when I handed her a pre-configured mac).
This needs a mod-up.
It's quite apparent sun has been too slow in adoption of new code (and from other responses has been outright rejecting a great deal of community submitted patches)
Thus, several forks have developed which act more quickly and are more inclusive.
Yet another gloom and doom story about how "oss isn't working" by someone who doesn't get it.
you're absolutely right that there's something wrong with healthcare costs larger than salary costs, and yet it's true.
I have crohn's disease (it's NOT a lifestyle disease), and a 30 day supply of the necessary medication costs about 2300 dollars (and I can't get insured because of "pre-existing condition")
Given the average person my age makes about 2500 a month, this means I either:
a - do without and endure horrible agony and bleeding
b - pass the hat around my entire extended family
That's pretty sad.
The need for universal healthcare and collective bargaining for medications is very pressing here in the US.
The quote and context are actually completely unclear as to whether the first party is verizon or the webmail provider.
You would think your email provider, say gmail, would be the first party in the context of email services, with the verizon access page being the third party.
Or you could consider verizon to be the first party, and the email providers to be the third party.
If the first is the case, then verizon should be very quick about issuing a clarification.
If the second is the case, then they better hand their lawyers entrenchment shovels because they'll have FCC filings and various lawsuits through other avenues bearing down on them like an armored division.
Put it on truTV / court TV
They still depend on copyright, still conflict of interest.
Put it on cspan.
Let's say there's a hefty case, and it garners a lot of media attention.
Being the "original" organizations they are, various multi-letter tv organizations broadcast the trial far and wide.
Well, guess what, there's a mistrial!
Now they have to convene a new jury, and with the national trial pretty much the entire pool is contaminated.
Definitely not a good thing.
Transparency is good, but it also brings up questions of fair due process if what I stated above occurs while abc or fox (depending on the political implications of the case) are spewing continuous implications of guilt.
oh, current and future benefits eh? Under that definition pretty much ANY job, union or not, which has benefits packages will give people at least 70 bucks an hour. And the kicker is as health care expenses go up, it will continue to rise because health care is a benefit.
BTW, my post telling it like it is about the heritage foundation is not an "ad hominem", "ad hominem" applies there is a person being attacked instead of the points of the argument.
Telling it like it is about bias in your "sources" is not an ad hominem.
blame that on the lack of universal health care, which every other industrialized nation which produces cars guarantees.
This means toyota, mercedes, bmw, volkswagon, they're all subsidized.
> So what exactly are you to do to those who preach persecution of others. In this case, you direct the same persecution toward them to marginalize them
Since you're preaching persecution of others, it's okay if we do that to you, right? Or is this one of those things that's only bad when other people do it?
When a foreign army is invading YOUR town, "thou shalt not kill" goes out the window.
Religious extremists work diligently to persecute others. Persecution of them is the rightful response.
The real problem which has come to bite the big 3 in the ass is their lobbyists successfully managed to get SUV's classified as "light trucks" in those standards, basically exempting them.
This is why they now make commercials cheering, hemming, and hawing about how their SUV's make an "amazing" 20 miles per gallon.
Whoopteedoo.
Yay, more "blame the unions".
how about you read more from others in this response column who have noted that, at triple the wage union workers have right now, the cost of labor would still only be about 2k per car.
for an economy car, that leaves about 8k left. .. now let's get down to reality, in which labor is only about 600, and even if they used slaves the difference in costs would be.. *fanfare*.. 600 bucks less!
Do keep blaming the unions though for corporate's incompetence at engineering small, light, fuel efficient cars. No, that doesn't mean sacrificing that american tradition of visceral driving either. Japanese sports cars run on in-line 4's and 6's, and go faster on half the gas through competent engineering.
Stop blaming the unions.
I do have to chuckle at the backlash against the UAW. The UAW is evil because they "bent the big three over the table during the fat years" by demanding profit sharing, and reaping fat bonuses for their workers. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart is evil because they don't provide benefits, make employees work unpaid overtime, and their management gets fat bonuses.... - I think that you will find that the people who bash WalMart are not the same people who bash UAW. For example I am always anti-union, so I was only cheering for WalMart when they closed a store here in Canada because they did want to allow a union in the doors. So this is the exception I take with your comment, everything else there seems to be fair.
So whose business did you inherit? Or whose fortune?
I know you got a big fat F on your history courses, or you would know why unions exist, and why their decline has resulted in the collapse we have today. (pro-tip: stagnant wages, thanks to the decline of unions, plus inflating prices = foreclosures).
This is basic logic. Incorporation allows centralization of bargaining power on the producer side of the labor equation. Not allowing labor to organize into equally powerful organizations is a fundamental inequality and oppression.
If you are anti-union, you should also be anti-corporate and demanding the removal of limited liability laws.
Don't think the gains unions made in getting workers out of 3x5 shacks and 18 hour shifts won't disappear when they do. Just look at wal-mart.
republican pundits: "unions are barnacles preventing the auto industry ship from working properly"
colbert:
"Because everyone knows: when the ship runs aground, it's the barnacles' fault"
Spare me the tired old "pay the rich only" right-wing lie about unions being the problem
As colbert says, "when the ship runs aground, we all know the barnacles are responsible"
The heritage foundation is a right-wing think tank, you may as well link to the RNC or to anti-union activist sites.
here is the reality.
So what exactly are you to do to those who preach persecution of others.
In this case, you direct the same persecution toward them to marginalize them
this works like the military phalanx system, you send equal force in the opposite direction and nullify it.
Sometimes two wrongs do make a right, or is it really wrong to marginalize the intolerant?
Nope. England is getting nearly as bad. I'm thinking Antarctica. Time to build a new civilization based on 21st century evolved values, not 16th century ones.
canada.
Throttling, but not censorship. Liberal copyright laws, and a heavy weight copyright reform lobbyist with the ear of the newspapers and MSM.
Actually the US was founded by religious extremists which the british rightfully tried to get rid of.
The descendents of those extremists, still equally extreme, continue to gain power and dismantle any progress we make as a nation toward social equality
read the abstract, it's a failure of people to understand basic technical jargon.
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e whirlwind of recycled paper was a sight to see. It was like computer graphics. That I don't support Technicolor parfaits and snobby petit bourgeois is common knowledge in Oceania! Now is the time to return home to the blue sky! The confetti will dance around the shrine gates. The mailbox and the refrigerator will lead the way! Anyone who cares about expiration dates will not get in the way of the glory train! They need to fully realize the liver of the triangle rulers! Now, this festival was decided by the third grade class with the telephoto camera! Move forward! Come together! I am the ultimate governor!
...that peer reviewed journals (at least in computer science) are crap. 1) peer review is an old boys network, 2) people don't look at substance, they look for fancy buzzwords of the month and equations that look hard (you're rewarded for the more convoluted your paper is!), and 3) the way the system is setup, 99% of what is published is crap...people at universities and labs are forced to produce as many publications as possible to get promoted. It would be unfair of me to say that all of it is useless, but it's definitely inefficient. Look at where the great ideas in computer science and software development come today...they come from the community through things like open source (e.g. Linux, BitTorrent, etc). The academic community just rides on their coattails...
So this computer is an "old boy".
clearly you know something the rest of us don't about the robotic overlords who rule us all from the shadows!
GET HIM GANG!
My father had a succession of Windows boxes. Hopeless: he's not naive, having used systems back to Wordstar on CP/M in the late seventies, but they kept on getting screwed up. My mother got fed up with the email breaking, so I slung Linux (Redhat 7 or something) on an old laptop: she loved it, and nothing seemed to break. But she wanted Office to interwork with newsletters she was helping on. So, although at the time I had little to no Mac experience, I got her to buy an iBook G4. It just worked. Dad bought one. It just worked. I switched my house over later, building on their good experience. A lot of their friends are making the same switch. Windows just doesn't work unattended, or at least the effort required to make it run unattended is beyond most people.
Seconded if there's a local apple store.
If things do become a problem, the genius gets the call, NOT YOU!
I think we should go slightly deeper than that.
Basic program and computer architecture will dispel these myths about computers being magic boxes.
-This should include the basic roles of the cpu, memory, and hard drive.
-How an operating system operates, including the different levels (user, kernel, etc)
-Why drivers are needed and how they interact with the operating system.
-How a program works, is loaded into the system, and is represented in memory.
My goal if I were designing such a literary program would be for a student to be able to tell the difference between a lockup and a crash.