I know it can be confusing but, Jew actually references two separate things. There's "Jew" as in the Judah religion which is something you can adopt or leave as most other religions. When you hear "former Jew", this is always what they are referring to. The second is ethnic "Jew" which refers to family lineages dating back to ancient Sumer and is not something you can leave. Most religious Jews and ex-Jews are also ethnic Jews but, there are exceptions. This is why Christian Jew or Muslim Jew are not oxymorons. Neo-nazi Jews have got to be some of the most self-loathing people on the planet.
Only the desktop versions. If you're a company, you have to deal with Windows Server licences, Exchange, MS SQL server, MS Office, etc. The last major refresh we did cost over $700,000 to Microsoft in licenses, with the cost of hardware ($2.4 million) and labor ($??,???) counted separately. A linux update would have saved us over a million dollars between licences and hardware costs as the linux software equivalents had much lower hardware requirements to get the same performance. Exchange was the real hardware hog of the group as the system requirements for a 20,000+ user Exchange server was completely nuts.
Given the fact that the worst case scenario of climate change is the extinction of the human race, I tend to take that option extremely seriously! Even if this is a 2% or less possibility, virtually no amount of curtailing of human activity should be off the table. Coal miners losing their jobs? It sucks but, we set up a safety net for the workers so that they can get back on their feet or retire (depending on age and health) and eliminate the industry for the good of everyone. A "wait and see" approach to countering the possible threat of our self-made extinction is not an option... period. If we discover we were wrong about the extent of the threat later, yea it'll look bad but, we didn't take a chance on all of us dying whereas, if they're right and we do nothing until we can prove it beyond any doubt, it's too late as we may all be dead.
I've seen the speed problem with buses in my city. Especially during heavy traffic times, they are trapped in the same traffic lanes that everyone else is backed up on. I've seen it take nearly 20 minutes to get a few blocks before. That has got to be hell on their schedule. They could have more frequent stops and get you to your destination faster if they had dedicated bus/taxi lanes.
I know this is in jest but, the reality is that if it is not connected to the internet and it still runs, whatever. Leave it as it is unless you have another reason to upgrade. If you want it on the internet, then it needs to be up to date to deal with all the craploads of malware out there.
If you want to run that dinosaur, more power to you. Just keep it the hell off the internet! Just like you don't want to drive a Model-T down a modern freeway, you don't want to run these dinosaurs on the information superhighway.
Yes, but you can upgrade to the next/current version free of charge. That makes a major difference between having to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on licensing to upgrade your systems versus just the time involved for the update. Having to spend the time to upgrade a server once every 6 years is really damn good, especially since you get to do it for free.
I've been amazed, and not in a good way, since Mozilla has started their code cleanup project. People had been complaining for years that Mozilla was throwing every bell and whistle into Firefox adding bloat and bugs. Now that they have found out the users are right and start removing the bloat and bugs, all the users can [still] do is bitch. Extensions are being added that allow the smaller pools of users to continue using those features and the bloat is gone for everyone else. It's a win all the way around. Do this for enough features and everyone gets a slimmer, faster browser that has the features you use but, without all the bloat for the ones you don't. The one person that exists that uses every feature removed might lose out but, all of the rest of us gain.
I'm one of those few people that having my real name on the internet is far less useful than having my screen name as my real name is so damn common and has multiple famous people/characters associated with it.
Umm... Hunter S. Thompson is a deceased writer. He was primarily a sports writer but was famous for articles that called out the government. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based of him. A really colorful individual.
I agree, anyone can learn given time and/or create solutions to learning (like learning something related first). It just a question of whether we want to force college students to do four years of advanced math for fields that don't use it. Everyone should have basic algebra and geometry but, for non-technical, non-math fields that should be it and maybe basic statistics.
That starts several years even before head start so unless you have the money for a preschool that teaches 1-3 year olds a second language, it's not going to be very valuable.
The problem is that our current system of evaluating knowledge learned is utter crap. The hard-on for standardized testing is because it fits neatly into a spreadsheet, not because they're good measures of success. They're all but worthless for their stated goal. The problem is that if you ask 4 educators the best way to evaluate learning, you'll get 5-8 different and mutually exclusive answers.
I think the problem that they are referring to is that Algebra 2 and Calculus are being required for most non-STEM degrees, such as an English or philosophy major and the average person seems to be wired for one or the other, few can do both well.
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I know it can be confusing but, Jew actually references two separate things. There's "Jew" as in the Judah religion which is something you can adopt or leave as most other religions. When you hear "former Jew", this is always what they are referring to. The second is ethnic "Jew" which refers to family lineages dating back to ancient Sumer and is not something you can leave. Most religious Jews and ex-Jews are also ethnic Jews but, there are exceptions. This is why Christian Jew or Muslim Jew are not oxymorons. Neo-nazi Jews have got to be some of the most self-loathing people on the planet.
You don't feel safe or is it more likely that your karma isn't safe?
Only the desktop versions. If you're a company, you have to deal with Windows Server licences, Exchange, MS SQL server, MS Office, etc. The last major refresh we did cost over $700,000 to Microsoft in licenses, with the cost of hardware ($2.4 million) and labor ($??,???) counted separately. A linux update would have saved us over a million dollars between licences and hardware costs as the linux software equivalents had much lower hardware requirements to get the same performance. Exchange was the real hardware hog of the group as the system requirements for a 20,000+ user Exchange server was completely nuts.
Given the fact that the worst case scenario of climate change is the extinction of the human race, I tend to take that option extremely seriously! Even if this is a 2% or less possibility, virtually no amount of curtailing of human activity should be off the table. Coal miners losing their jobs? It sucks but, we set up a safety net for the workers so that they can get back on their feet or retire (depending on age and health) and eliminate the industry for the good of everyone. A "wait and see" approach to countering the possible threat of our self-made extinction is not an option... period. If we discover we were wrong about the extent of the threat later, yea it'll look bad but, we didn't take a chance on all of us dying whereas, if they're right and we do nothing until we can prove it beyond any doubt, it's too late as we may all be dead.
The monetize it by selling it to the NSA.
I think his is lead and he's been chewing on it for far too long.
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If your bus routes are changing frequently and drastically that's bad management.
Welcome to the Sacramento Regional Transit system.
I've seen the speed problem with buses in my city. Especially during heavy traffic times, they are trapped in the same traffic lanes that everyone else is backed up on. I've seen it take nearly 20 minutes to get a few blocks before. That has got to be hell on their schedule. They could have more frequent stops and get you to your destination faster if they had dedicated bus/taxi lanes.
I know this is in jest but, the reality is that if it is not connected to the internet and it still runs, whatever. Leave it as it is unless you have another reason to upgrade. If you want it on the internet, then it needs to be up to date to deal with all the craploads of malware out there.
If you want to run that dinosaur, more power to you. Just keep it the hell off the internet! Just like you don't want to drive a Model-T down a modern freeway, you don't want to run these dinosaurs on the information superhighway.
Yes, but you can upgrade to the next/current version free of charge. That makes a major difference between having to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on licensing to upgrade your systems versus just the time involved for the update. Having to spend the time to upgrade a server once every 6 years is really damn good, especially since you get to do it for free.
Looks like it was released on December 2nd 2009.
Firefox deserves to go the way of IE6.
Well, Mozilla's symbol is a dinosaur after all.
I've been amazed, and not in a good way, since Mozilla has started their code cleanup project. People had been complaining for years that Mozilla was throwing every bell and whistle into Firefox adding bloat and bugs. Now that they have found out the users are right and start removing the bloat and bugs, all the users can [still] do is bitch. Extensions are being added that allow the smaller pools of users to continue using those features and the bloat is gone for everyone else. It's a win all the way around. Do this for enough features and everyone gets a slimmer, faster browser that has the features you use but, without all the bloat for the ones you don't. The one person that exists that uses every feature removed might lose out but, all of the rest of us gain.
No, it doesn't and they're starting to unlink it from their other services.
I'm one of those few people that having my real name on the internet is far less useful than having my screen name as my real name is so damn common and has multiple famous people/characters associated with it.
Umm... Hunter S. Thompson is a deceased writer. He was primarily a sports writer but was famous for articles that called out the government. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based of him. A really colorful individual.
Being well rounded includes basic math and algebra, maybe geometry. Calculus is on a whole other level and is not useful for non-STEM fields.
I agree, anyone can learn given time and/or create solutions to learning (like learning something related first). It just a question of whether we want to force college students to do four years of advanced math for fields that don't use it. Everyone should have basic algebra and geometry but, for non-technical, non-math fields that should be it and maybe basic statistics.
That starts several years even before head start so unless you have the money for a preschool that teaches 1-3 year olds a second language, it's not going to be very valuable.
The problem is that our current system of evaluating knowledge learned is utter crap. The hard-on for standardized testing is because it fits neatly into a spreadsheet, not because they're good measures of success. They're all but worthless for their stated goal. The problem is that if you ask 4 educators the best way to evaluate learning, you'll get 5-8 different and mutually exclusive answers.
You can, but few people do. It's a question of efficient time and resource use for education.
I don't know. Several more Hunter S. Thompsons could be fun.
I think the problem that they are referring to is that Algebra 2 and Calculus are being required for most non-STEM degrees, such as an English or philosophy major and the average person seems to be wired for one or the other, few can do both well.