Ask Warren Buffet. He's the modern railroad baron. He owns the lines that the oil tankers run on. He has a vested business interest in supporting politicians who block the pipeline.
'the left' and 'the right' are the people the rest of everyone think of as 'fuckwits.'
Don't kid yourself. A lot of people throughout history have thought 'we really have figured it all out. now we just need to ram our rules through and the world will be better.' The flavor varies, but not much else.
Google bought QuickOffice, which has been a third party office compatable since the PalmPilot days, and reconfigured it to only load files from Google Drive. Forget about using it with the files you have on your SD card. "SD card??? What is that? You're not supposed to have an SD slot. You're just being all obsolete!"
All they can sentence him is the minimum, maximum, or something in between, for the crime he has been found guilty of. But it's the job of prosecution to press for the maximum and defense to press for the minimum.
The overall character of the person being sentenced is relevant during these proceedings. That's why there are Judges, and not just an automaton machine to behead the defendant.
Somebody should drop a note to Freescale to let them know that at the bottom of the thread Slashdot made for their new SoC, Slashdot listed the following as 'Related Links'.
Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ
Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting
Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour
How To Execute People In the 21st Century
Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage
Those just seem like rather unrelated links. Haven't I seen Freescale display ads on Slashdot in the past? Do they know how poorly Slashdot thinks of their products? Or is Slashdot just really sloppy and borderline incompetent?
That means it's not a very interesting new chip for us nerds on Slashdot. We can't get a sample tube of them and mess around and experiment.
Motorola (*cough* that's right. I meant Freescale) has always been good about evaluation hardware. Hopefully they make an easy to use EVA board with this chip.
What IoT monstrosity needs a chip with 289 pins, by the way? 289 pins of i/o is 'Ultralight'?
My new smart refrigerator is going to have 280 or so sensor nodes? (more, if it uses something more than the least Freescale chip in the product family for it's controller) That's one for each ice cube and two for each stick of butter. Don't get me started on the vegetable compartment.
I've always wondered why nobody uses a huge EMP bot at those 'battle bot' events. Build a battle bot that runs on mechanical clockwork. Release it into the arena. It scurries around for a half a minute, then stops and discharges the EMP.
Granted, every electronic anything in the vicinity would be destroyed, but the winning team just takes their vacuum tube communications device out of it's shielded case and broadcasts their victory announcement to the outside world (via 30 meters if they did a BIG pulse, maybe 2 meters FM if there are likely to Ham responders in range with non-destroyed gear to recieve the signal.)
These were Journalists. You know, the people who flunked Calculus 1, and then couldn't get into the English department because they were spending so much of their time hanging out at the lit table or at rallies that they weren't doing the readings. So they transferred into J-School.
I thought Powerpoint, and Microsoft Office as a whole, was paid for when I bought Office 4.3 (last version for Windows 3.1). Then Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP, Office godawfulturdball, and finally Shitbag Office with Ribbons.
Office 4.3 still works pretty good on decently old systems.
Word 2.0 (the version that came out prior to Office 4.3) is so compact and tight that you could carry around the Winword.exe executable file on a 1.44M floppy diskette and use it as a stand-alone Word Processor and also as a Visual Basic (VBA) runtime system. That worked up until Windows XP if I am remembering right.
(the people who customarily say 'get off my lawn' need to just get the hell outta my rock garden now, thankyouverymuch)
Whenever I install Office, I generally install Word and Excel and maybe Access. Powerpoint and Outlook are skipped. This is not for business use, of course, it's how I personally use that software.
If I want graphics, I want something like Micrografx Designer or Corel Draw, where everything is freeform and vectorized and you can lay it on the page how you like. I've used Xfig that way in the past, too, and there are new tools like Inkscape now that somewhat fill the need.
Nerd Tidbit: Micrografx Designer didn't 'die' on me until Windows went 64 bit. I continued to use the version I bought for Windows NT 4.0 for many years with very few compatability quirks. It's one of the 'deepest' and most compatible Windows apps ever created outside Microsoft. It's prececessor In-A-Vision was actually one of the first 'real' Windows applications, it was sold bundled with a Windows 1.03 runtime version. It evolved concurrently with Windows and was always 'just there' and worked. Until Corel snuffed it out awhile ago.
Hope I didn't just Godwin myself - I think the comparison is accurate.
Not to be pedantic (oh, what the hell, why not!) Godwin's Law applied to Usenet threads that went on for day after day after week after week. A Usenet thread never needs to end. Godwin's law doesn't apply in a modern-day Blog context like on Slashdot, because every thread and all discussions die out in about a day.
It's unfortunate that we don't have the kind of weeks-long discussions anymore that Usenet afforded, but those old threads sometimes turned into monsters that only Godwin's Law could terminate.
I wish more people understood the real context of Godwin's Law, because it's so often misapplied.
Word Processors do that. I have been thinking for years of how to make a good indelible writing software tool. It would permanently record whatever you typed into it on the record in a saved document. Any changes you made would be markup and it would be impossible to obliterate the first things you had typed. Kinda like a sheet of paper in a good old IBM Selectric, or even an old Royal manual typewriter. Word processors don't produce durable thoughts, they allow writers to diddle around and produce nothing at all at worst.
Doing anything engineering-wise with Microsoft Office software is difficult. It isn't as bad as it used to be, but years ago I remember an engineer who spent hour upon hour fighting with Excel because he insisted on embedding greek characters into the text in his Excel spreadsheets. He'd done it before using horrid TSRs and text-mode DOS spreadsheets, and he was gonna do it with Excel now. The tool had taken over and become his main focus.
Excel is a beancounter thing, and it can be twisted into being a scientific/engineering tool. but it can also flex itself and turn back into a beancounter tool on you and in the process distort your data.
You can't really do math with a spreadsheet, but everybody here probably knows that.
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There was probably lots of other interesting stuff in the boxes recycled. Likely things a lot more interesting and obscure than an Apple board.
Are the points redeemable for anything?
Ask Warren Buffet. He's the modern railroad baron. He owns the lines that the oil tankers run on. He has a vested business interest in supporting politicians who block the pipeline.
You don't even have a website or semi-anonymous email address linked to your anonymous identity here, 'phayes.' Cut out the hypocrisy.
Oh, I'm wrong. You have a 'website' that is a spam link to some commercial site.
The subsidies you want to pay, then, is to the frackers, and shale oil extractors. Not to some dot.bomb Paypal wiz kid who's the new Paul Allen.
I'm rather older than who you portray the Occupy crowd as, and while I found their organizing skills lacking the general message was sound.
He neglected to mention there was also a contingent of greying 'New Left' leftovers involved in OWS.
Hillary is too busy talking about whether she dyes her hair to have an opinion on the matter.
To clarify and expand:
'the left' and 'the right' are the people the rest of everyone think of as 'fuckwits.'
Don't kid yourself. A lot of people throughout history have thought 'we really have figured it all out. now we just need to ram our rules through and the world will be better.' The flavor varies, but not much else.
But there's a reason only the original piece of artwork is truly valued,
It it because by 'value' you mean the dollar value assigned by speculators/hoarders/collectors who want 'the original'?
I think a Dixieland Jazz parade would be suitable.
Talk about missing the point of an evidence cache.
Google bought QuickOffice, which has been a third party office compatable since the PalmPilot days, and reconfigured it to only load files from Google Drive. Forget about using it with the files you have on your SD card. "SD card??? What is that? You're not supposed to have an SD slot. You're just being all obsolete!"
All they can sentence him is the minimum, maximum, or something in between, for the crime he has been found guilty of. But it's the job of prosecution to press for the maximum and defense to press for the minimum.
The overall character of the person being sentenced is relevant during these proceedings. That's why there are Judges, and not just an automaton machine to behead the defendant.
Somebody should drop a note to Freescale to let them know that at the bottom of the thread Slashdot made for their new SoC, Slashdot listed the following as 'Related Links'.
Those just seem like rather unrelated links. Haven't I seen Freescale display ads on Slashdot in the past? Do they know how poorly Slashdot thinks of their products? Or is Slashdot just really sloppy and borderline incompetent?
That means it's not a very interesting new chip for us nerds on Slashdot. We can't get a sample tube of them and mess around and experiment.
Motorola (*cough* that's right. I meant Freescale) has always been good about evaluation hardware. Hopefully they make an easy to use EVA board with this chip.
What IoT monstrosity needs a chip with 289 pins, by the way? 289 pins of i/o is 'Ultralight'?
My new smart refrigerator is going to have 280 or so sensor nodes? (more, if it uses something more than the least Freescale chip in the product family for it's controller) That's one for each ice cube and two for each stick of butter. Don't get me started on the vegetable compartment.
I've always wondered why nobody uses a huge EMP bot at those 'battle bot' events. Build a battle bot that runs on mechanical clockwork. Release it into the arena. It scurries around for a half a minute, then stops and discharges the EMP.
Granted, every electronic anything in the vicinity would be destroyed, but the winning team just takes their vacuum tube communications device out of it's shielded case and broadcasts their victory announcement to the outside world (via 30 meters if they did a BIG pulse, maybe 2 meters FM if there are likely to Ham responders in range with non-destroyed gear to recieve the signal.)
That narrows the scope of the problem down to suicide bombers.
There are a lot of candidates out there for the terra-ists to recruit to be suicide bombers.
400 Hz is already an established standard for avionics power distribution, so there's no need to plough any new ground with a different frequency.
These were Journalists. You know, the people who flunked Calculus 1, and then couldn't get into the English department because they were spending so much of their time hanging out at the lit table or at rallies that they weren't doing the readings. So they transferred into J-School.
The Pope?
I thought Powerpoint, and Microsoft Office as a whole, was paid for when I bought Office 4.3 (last version for Windows 3.1). Then Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP, Office godawfulturdball, and finally Shitbag Office with Ribbons.
Office 4.3 still works pretty good on decently old systems.
Word 2.0 (the version that came out prior to Office 4.3) is so compact and tight that you could carry around the Winword.exe executable file on a 1.44M floppy diskette and use it as a stand-alone Word Processor and also as a Visual Basic (VBA) runtime system. That worked up until Windows XP if I am remembering right.
(the people who customarily say 'get off my lawn' need to just get the hell outta my rock garden now, thankyouverymuch)
Whenever I install Office, I generally install Word and Excel and maybe Access. Powerpoint and Outlook are skipped. This is not for business use, of course, it's how I personally use that software.
If I want graphics, I want something like Micrografx Designer or Corel Draw, where everything is freeform and vectorized and you can lay it on the page how you like. I've used Xfig that way in the past, too, and there are new tools like Inkscape now that somewhat fill the need.
Nerd Tidbit: Micrografx Designer didn't 'die' on me until Windows went 64 bit. I continued to use the version I bought for Windows NT 4.0 for many years with very few compatability quirks. It's one of the 'deepest' and most compatible Windows apps ever created outside Microsoft. It's prececessor In-A-Vision was actually one of the first 'real' Windows applications, it was sold bundled with a Windows 1.03 runtime version. It evolved concurrently with Windows and was always 'just there' and worked. Until Corel snuffed it out awhile ago.
Hope I didn't just Godwin myself - I think the comparison is accurate.
Not to be pedantic (oh, what the hell, why not!) Godwin's Law applied to Usenet threads that went on for day after day after week after week. A Usenet thread never needs to end. Godwin's law doesn't apply in a modern-day Blog context like on Slashdot, because every thread and all discussions die out in about a day.
It's unfortunate that we don't have the kind of weeks-long discussions anymore that Usenet afforded, but those old threads sometimes turned into monsters that only Godwin's Law could terminate.
I wish more people understood the real context of Godwin's Law, because it's so often misapplied.
Word Processors do that. I have been thinking for years of how to make a good indelible writing software tool. It would permanently record whatever you typed into it on the record in a saved document. Any changes you made would be markup and it would be impossible to obliterate the first things you had typed. Kinda like a sheet of paper in a good old IBM Selectric, or even an old Royal manual typewriter. Word processors don't produce durable thoughts, they allow writers to diddle around and produce nothing at all at worst.
Doing anything engineering-wise with Microsoft Office software is difficult. It isn't as bad as it used to be, but years ago I remember an engineer who spent hour upon hour fighting with Excel because he insisted on embedding greek characters into the text in his Excel spreadsheets. He'd done it before using horrid TSRs and text-mode DOS spreadsheets, and he was gonna do it with Excel now. The tool had taken over and become his main focus.
Excel is a beancounter thing, and it can be twisted into being a scientific/engineering tool. but it can also flex itself and turn back into a beancounter tool on you and in the process distort your data.
You can't really do math with a spreadsheet, but everybody here probably knows that.