I'm guessing that it's not that much different. The main reason I suggest that is that there's a tendency for MS to try to revolutionize Windows with each release, whereas with the OSS alternatives the changes tend to be more gradual.
In other words, there's a lot of cost associated with training and keeping people current, having to relearn an OS each time there's a new release is really a bad way to keep the cost of ownership down.
In my experience, interoperability is spotty, I had to retype my resume a while back when the previous version, which I'd done in word, wouldn't properly import into Openoffice. These days I use ODF for everything that I can, but until it becomes common place for other people to handle, that's not much of an option either.
Officials said the state did not seek bids, or requests for proposals, for a cloud computing system as Microsoft hosted suite was already a standard part of the earlier large licensing contract signed to consolidate the messaging systems.
Indeed, what the summary failed to point out is that they were already stuck with MS services as they had already agreed to consolidate with MS services. This was a move pretty much just to deal with the hardware requirements.
Indeed, most people don't use things which really require Windows or even OSX to work. Email and web browsing really don't require Windows, and tend to work better when you're not.
It's pretty much just the people that are stuck for one reason or another using a proprietary program which only supports Windows that are stuck. Although, not as much as in the past, given virtualization and Wine.
Google's business model over the years has been focused on things which are quite disruptive to the way things have been done, and so it's not surprising that at times they'd be doing something like this.
However, Google has made use of the same corruption as everybody else. There's no way that they could've bought doubclick had the DoJ under Bush been enforcing antitrust regulations, it's just not something that would've been allowable.
Wow, either trolling or you're a complete moron. It's pretty well established that the dams are harming the salmon and preventing them from going back to the way they used to be.
Yeah, that sounds like something I want my government doing. At least with the dams, there's scientific research to back the idea that the dams are harming our fishing industry. All so that we can sell the power that we don't use or need to the Californians that don't care about the effects it has on our economy.
I thought it was the Illuminati. I mean serious, if the legislators can't be arsed to even read legislation at all prior to voting on it, I think it stands to reason that they weren't the ones writing it. Wouldn't surprise me that it's not just the Patriot act that was done in that fashion.
Not feasible, that would require a lot of pressure which would have to come from somewhere. The exhaust system of a car is designed to keep pressure down as much as possible for efficiency reasons.
You don't need to prevent it from getting back into the atmosphere permanently, you just have to fix things so that it's getting sequestered as fast or faster than it's being produced. So if a tree breaks down over the years, that doesn't cause much trouble, it's counting it as permanently sequestered and acting on it that's the problem.
Indeed, technological measures could theoretically come along and make things OK, but we definitely can alter our behavior patterns. Realistically we'll end up with a solution that's a combination of the two, but assuming that we can fix things technologically is an excellent way to ensure that bad things happen.
If that were the case we'd be in a much better position. What happens is that they clear the trees to grow things, then a few years later when the land is no longer productive they move onto a new plot of land, leaving the old land to turn into a dust bowl.
If we were using that land effectively it wouldn't be anywhere near as big a problem as it is now.
A catastrophic meltdown benefits nobody. It wouldn't be sufficient to wipe out all of Iran's military capabilities and it would likely cause them to reflexively strike Israel. Not good.
Not really, it would be better than what we currently have, but prints are barely better than nothing. You can't reproduce with pixels what was created with pigments, it just doesn't work. You cannot currently create an image on a monitor that uses brown. No combination of RBG values will give you brown. You're also not going to be able to appreciate the effect of translucent glazing or the brushwork. Not to mention the monitor calibration and control of the lighting conditions.
For somebody with no or little knowledge of art, it would be sufficient, but it's really a pale shade of the real thing.
10Mpix is enough for anybody that is wanting to make an 8x10 print, and by enough, I mean way more than you need, even if you throw away quite a few of the pixels.
You only need more pixels when you need a larger image and you need to be closer than what the current number allows. A 6mp camera is more than enough for a billboard, where you're expecting to be a hundred feet away or more. Whereas a 20mp camera wouldn't be anywhere near enough if you were expecting to stand 10 feet away.
But, then again, I know you're making a lame joke based upon something that was originally a misquote, carry on.
If you stored it digitally, yes. But the Library of Congress tends to focus on physical books, which really aren't the same as the digital representations. As much as I believe that ebooks and such are the future, for the purposes of history, there's nothing quite like a physical object to study.
That mirrors my experience, I suspect that it has something to do with heat, UV and physical damage being the most prevalent ways that data is lost on discs. I've never had any trouble with WORM media. But OTOH, CDRW has always caused me great headaches to the point where I won't even touch RW optical media any longer without being extremely careful.
The key thing though is that you need an easy way of verifying that the media is still good and preferably reconstruct the portions which aren't good.
In the modern era with large disks, it makes a lot of sense to keep backups in the cloud, with a second copy that you personally maintain. I'm using this article as an excuse to make backups of all my important discs. And to verify that the backups I do have are properly maintained. So far I have yet to find a bad disc, and most of them are at least 7 years old on no name discs. I'm going to be keeping a spare disc and storing the disc image on a local filesystem which gets backed up to the cloud. Backblaze at the present.
The advantage to doing it that way is that when a new storage medium comes out it's relatively easy to migrate up. And in the meantime, I can use something like PAR or dvdisaster to veryify that the discs haven't gone bad and recover them as needed.
But those things were also made of a more durable material and for the most part didn't require a second piece to be usable. For instance you might have a copy of some CD, but without a working CD player or CDROM drive it's useless. And if it's a CDROM, you then need a computer and the bits that make up one for it to work, or at least detailed information on the specs.
Whereas in previous times you might not have the Rosetta stone available, but with enough samples of the language in various places you could make some use of it. But even failing that you at least had what you could infer based upon the type of item you were dealing with.
When you live in a democratic republic, that's how it works. You don't seriously think that allowing the people to vote on that would've resulted in a different conclusion, do you? I live in a state where we have both initiatives (Both to the legislature and to the people) and referendums which allow residents to overturn legislative action.
And it tends to be pretty asinine lately. We've got quite a few initiatives on the ballot for the next election, and for the most part the actual contributions by the citizens in terms of funding is averaging less than a thousand dollars each. With some positions actually managing to get $0 in contributions from citizens.
Perhaps at the federal level it would be different, but I doubt it. The voters here in WA tend to be a lot more savvy than the voters at large in the rest of the country, and even we probably shouldn't be allowed to vote directly on most of these issues.
Ultimately I agree with you. It's just a real shame that there hasn't been any voice of reason here to actually take a more appropriate action.
But the way things have been going for a while, the likelihood of an insurrection has been increasing in recent years. While this isn't really that scale, if the authorities aren't mindful all the anger by various groups could very easily solidify into some form of rebellion.
Ultimately, it would primarily be the fault of the politicians that stir up fear and anger for political gain, ie., primarily conservative politicians.
Where did you hear that? They don't "fire" people per se, but they do have these things called court martials, dishonerable discharge and if I'm not mistaken one can be discharged if one fails to get promoted. I'm sure the details vary somewhat depending upon the branch, but they definitely can get rid of people that aren't living up to their duties. And that's before you get to lesser things like being transferred somewhere miserable.
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Which version? The only version I've seen on netbook is Windows 7 starter, which is limited to say the least.
I'm guessing that it's not that much different. The main reason I suggest that is that there's a tendency for MS to try to revolutionize Windows with each release, whereas with the OSS alternatives the changes tend to be more gradual.
In other words, there's a lot of cost associated with training and keeping people current, having to relearn an OS each time there's a new release is really a bad way to keep the cost of ownership down.
True, but open document formats do, and MS has a reputation for being a pain in the ass to access with software they didn't develop recently.
Sort of like how it's not pork if it goes straight to your home district?
In my experience, interoperability is spotty, I had to retype my resume a while back when the previous version, which I'd done in word, wouldn't properly import into Openoffice. These days I use ODF for everything that I can, but until it becomes common place for other people to handle, that's not much of an option either.
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Officials said the state did not seek bids, or requests for proposals, for a cloud computing system as Microsoft hosted suite was already a standard part of the earlier large licensing contract signed to consolidate the messaging systems.
Indeed, what the summary failed to point out is that they were already stuck with MS services as they had already agreed to consolidate with MS services. This was a move pretty much just to deal with the hardware requirements.
Indeed, most people don't use things which really require Windows or even OSX to work. Email and web browsing really don't require Windows, and tend to work better when you're not.
It's pretty much just the people that are stuck for one reason or another using a proprietary program which only supports Windows that are stuck. Although, not as much as in the past, given virtualization and Wine.
Google's business model over the years has been focused on things which are quite disruptive to the way things have been done, and so it's not surprising that at times they'd be doing something like this.
However, Google has made use of the same corruption as everybody else. There's no way that they could've bought doubclick had the DoJ under Bush been enforcing antitrust regulations, it's just not something that would've been allowable.
Wow, either trolling or you're a complete moron. It's pretty well established that the dams are harming the salmon and preventing them from going back to the way they used to be.
The Chinese government doesn't deserve any admiration for that. They've chose to put people's lives at risk over a poorly considered project. China: cracks in the Three Gorges Dam, so 300,000 people can wave goodbye to their homes
Yeah, that sounds like something I want my government doing. At least with the dams, there's scientific research to back the idea that the dams are harming our fishing industry. All so that we can sell the power that we don't use or need to the Californians that don't care about the effects it has on our economy.
I thought it was the Illuminati. I mean serious, if the legislators can't be arsed to even read legislation at all prior to voting on it, I think it stands to reason that they weren't the ones writing it. Wouldn't surprise me that it's not just the Patriot act that was done in that fashion.
Not feasible, that would require a lot of pressure which would have to come from somewhere. The exhaust system of a car is designed to keep pressure down as much as possible for efficiency reasons.
You don't need to prevent it from getting back into the atmosphere permanently, you just have to fix things so that it's getting sequestered as fast or faster than it's being produced. So if a tree breaks down over the years, that doesn't cause much trouble, it's counting it as permanently sequestered and acting on it that's the problem.
Indeed, technological measures could theoretically come along and make things OK, but we definitely can alter our behavior patterns. Realistically we'll end up with a solution that's a combination of the two, but assuming that we can fix things technologically is an excellent way to ensure that bad things happen.
If that were the case we'd be in a much better position. What happens is that they clear the trees to grow things, then a few years later when the land is no longer productive they move onto a new plot of land, leaving the old land to turn into a dust bowl.
If we were using that land effectively it wouldn't be anywhere near as big a problem as it is now.
A catastrophic meltdown benefits nobody. It wouldn't be sufficient to wipe out all of Iran's military capabilities and it would likely cause them to reflexively strike Israel. Not good.
Not really, it would be better than what we currently have, but prints are barely better than nothing. You can't reproduce with pixels what was created with pigments, it just doesn't work. You cannot currently create an image on a monitor that uses brown. No combination of RBG values will give you brown. You're also not going to be able to appreciate the effect of translucent glazing or the brushwork. Not to mention the monitor calibration and control of the lighting conditions.
For somebody with no or little knowledge of art, it would be sufficient, but it's really a pale shade of the real thing.
10Mpix is enough for anybody that is wanting to make an 8x10 print, and by enough, I mean way more than you need, even if you throw away quite a few of the pixels.
You only need more pixels when you need a larger image and you need to be closer than what the current number allows. A 6mp camera is more than enough for a billboard, where you're expecting to be a hundred feet away or more. Whereas a 20mp camera wouldn't be anywhere near enough if you were expecting to stand 10 feet away.
But, then again, I know you're making a lame joke based upon something that was originally a misquote, carry on.
If you stored it digitally, yes. But the Library of Congress tends to focus on physical books, which really aren't the same as the digital representations. As much as I believe that ebooks and such are the future, for the purposes of history, there's nothing quite like a physical object to study.
That mirrors my experience, I suspect that it has something to do with heat, UV and physical damage being the most prevalent ways that data is lost on discs. I've never had any trouble with WORM media. But OTOH, CDRW has always caused me great headaches to the point where I won't even touch RW optical media any longer without being extremely careful.
The key thing though is that you need an easy way of verifying that the media is still good and preferably reconstruct the portions which aren't good.
In the modern era with large disks, it makes a lot of sense to keep backups in the cloud, with a second copy that you personally maintain. I'm using this article as an excuse to make backups of all my important discs. And to verify that the backups I do have are properly maintained. So far I have yet to find a bad disc, and most of them are at least 7 years old on no name discs. I'm going to be keeping a spare disc and storing the disc image on a local filesystem which gets backed up to the cloud. Backblaze at the present.
The advantage to doing it that way is that when a new storage medium comes out it's relatively easy to migrate up. And in the meantime, I can use something like PAR or dvdisaster to veryify that the discs haven't gone bad and recover them as needed.
But those things were also made of a more durable material and for the most part didn't require a second piece to be usable. For instance you might have a copy of some CD, but without a working CD player or CDROM drive it's useless. And if it's a CDROM, you then need a computer and the bits that make up one for it to work, or at least detailed information on the specs.
Whereas in previous times you might not have the Rosetta stone available, but with enough samples of the language in various places you could make some use of it. But even failing that you at least had what you could infer based upon the type of item you were dealing with.
When you live in a democratic republic, that's how it works. You don't seriously think that allowing the people to vote on that would've resulted in a different conclusion, do you? I live in a state where we have both initiatives (Both to the legislature and to the people) and referendums which allow residents to overturn legislative action.
And it tends to be pretty asinine lately. We've got quite a few initiatives on the ballot for the next election, and for the most part the actual contributions by the citizens in terms of funding is averaging less than a thousand dollars each. With some positions actually managing to get $0 in contributions from citizens.
Perhaps at the federal level it would be different, but I doubt it. The voters here in WA tend to be a lot more savvy than the voters at large in the rest of the country, and even we probably shouldn't be allowed to vote directly on most of these issues.
Ultimately I agree with you. It's just a real shame that there hasn't been any voice of reason here to actually take a more appropriate action.
But the way things have been going for a while, the likelihood of an insurrection has been increasing in recent years. While this isn't really that scale, if the authorities aren't mindful all the anger by various groups could very easily solidify into some form of rebellion.
Ultimately, it would primarily be the fault of the politicians that stir up fear and anger for political gain, ie., primarily conservative politicians.
Where did you hear that? They don't "fire" people per se, but they do have these things called court martials, dishonerable discharge and if I'm not mistaken one can be discharged if one fails to get promoted. I'm sure the details vary somewhat depending upon the branch, but they definitely can get rid of people that aren't living up to their duties. And that's before you get to lesser things like being transferred somewhere miserable.