Some of us are social animals. Others are hermits. While others, considering the cost to commute, will rather work from home. If we work from home, we then require heating, A/C and electricity to pay, so the trade off is time savings.
Also, for help desk, one cannot slack off. Tallies are kept. For software development, one is driven by the need to achieve.
I am in Montreal Quebec, so, a) Electricity is super cheap, gasoline is super expensive (taxes), and traffic horrid, ergo, working from home 4 days per week. With one day at the office, I am revitalized. I see people, I share a lunch, a coffee, and discuss technical stuff. Both kinds of in/outs are great.
The level of the taxes is not really important. What is at stake is what you get for the taxes. If taxes pay for education and healthcare, businesses get educated and healthy workers. If it pays a war in Iraq, it just benefits businesses linked to defense (well.. I should say war instead of defense).
=== We in Quebec have a very high personal tax rate. But, in those taxes are access to cheap university (beyond college level) education at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Relatively low cost good coverage vehicle insurance, protecting pedestrian and vehicle owner alike, hospital and drug insurance, and pension plan. Since the plan is provincial, the number of successful startups is extremely high in proportion to other countries and states. So, yes, if the government provides, you get portability across the nation. If the company provides, you have to be concerned that as you change states, your company is allowed to do business in that state. As a result, I think that we Canadians may earn less dollars, but our net-net is higher, and our lifestyle not lower than the level that most Americans want.
We can live without technology, particularly if it is too expensive to replace.
However, food or refreshment is a consumable, within the reach of everyone's means. Therefore, as Idevice sales taper off, Apples shares will drop like a lead ballon. Apple will have to divest itself, perhaps by buying shares in Coke.
Coke will be around in 100 years. No so my prediction for Apple.
The GNOME people have managed to invade several core projects such as udev and have been busy working to integrate them with GNOME. In addition, they are trying to push the GNOME-centric Wayland to replace X.
Removing middle click paste is just the latest example of their arrogance. The GNOME developers generally adopt the attitude that the user is an idiot who can't wipe their own ass without one of them to help. Anytime you complain about a removed feature you are either "using it wrong" or GNOME was "not designed for users who wish to do X". If they kept to their own little corner, I would not have as much of a problem but they are doing their damnedest to turn the entire Linux ecosystem into one giant mess without any regards for the UNIX philosophy or even compatibility with other *nix systems such as the BSDs.
why the fuck, does every american citizen say, that surveilance is okay, when its sure, that no american citizens are targeted? Are you really that hostile to foreigners? Here in germany, everyone against surveilance, is against surveilance everywhere. We hate your oppressive laws as much as ours.
Do you know the saying, "Do as I say, not as I do"? Well, I, the government am surveilling, and I say I am against it.
I hate to be pedantic, but, the past tense of fish is fush, and I am quite certain that your worms were dead too and the past tense of worm is spice.
There are is a fish (singular), there are fish (plural of the variety) and there are fishes (many varieties), I grew up using fisherman or fisherwoman, but now the word seems to be sexless as a "Fisher" The Fisher is catching fish. The past tense of fish is fished. Not, as it was shown earlier, fushed,
Now to fix up moose and mouse. moose moose moose mouse, mice, mice
to change to moose mooses, mooses mouse, mice, mices
There is a growing left wing in South America but there is also a deeply established and quite violent right wing. For example many Priests and Nuns as well as other Christian workers have been murdered in South America as Christianity is considered a radical, left wing doctrine there. The rich and powerful seek to maintain their positions and any movement that is felt to be a threat to the power of the right wing tends to let lose the butchers. If they see open source as some sort of socialist or communist tainted notion then violent conflicts will surely follow. Even the idea of sharing with others may offend some of the old, stuffed shirt, aristocrats. I can not bring myself to scream kill a right winger for Jesus but I do come close to it.
Open source is taking hold in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and other countries, not because it is open, but due to cost. MS licenses are expensive, and the governments there can't afford to pay to acquire MS software. We should see a lot of great Linux software emanating out of Latin America in the coming months and years.
In short, the music recording industry may be taking a hit, but the music culture is going through a renaissance.
Yep, why does Ireland have so many popular musicians and singers for such a small country? Go to a good Irish pub and you will find out. All UK pubs were like that at one time, no need to hire entertainment since the pub is full of talented locals who are more interested in entertaining each other than getting paid..
Ahh yes, there is still room for symphonic orchestras and operas.
I'm TAing a "flipped" course like this starting next week; it's an intro to CS course for people with no CS background. Our lecture slots are purely homework help and Q there's little or no attempt at lecturing except in the first week. We also allocate tutorial sessions (an additional 2 hours per week) which are mandatory for the first couple of weeks and then optional; the point of them is to give students more opportunity to get help with homework.
With this material, most students don't need huge swaths of time to do the assignments if supervision is available. It's not appropriate for all levels of instruction or all subject matter, but when there are a lot of fundamental concepts that need to be grasped, the fact that you're no longer doing the work in isolation at home is the real source of the improvement. There's still a final assignment where the students have to prove themselves, in case you're worried of overdependent students.
I used to teach, and the method I used was "Here is what I told you I talked about from last weeks lecture, and here is today's lecture. And this is what I am going to talk about for the next lecture", ". Not always in that order, but it works. Three repetitions and the material is understood and learned. Home flipping is applying a similar principal.
For many many years, I followed in great detail, the news casts produced by ABC, CBS, NBC, and even PBS and the BBC. I truly believed that what I was fed was fair and honest. But then with NSA, and the idiot woman from Yahoo stating that it would be treason to report to the NSA, I realize, that no USA broadcaster, email provider, messenger provider or any other service could be trusted with confidential (even non treasonous data). Then by chance I caught Al Jazeera America, a news agency that actually has employees in the conflict zones, and in the reporters galleries around the world. I was skeptical at first, but as time went on, more precision about news took place. Today, if I want unbiased news reporting, I tune to Al Jazeera, because they do present both sides of debates and conflicts.
But if one can't trust CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX' PBS, BBC etc, then we can't trust Google, Yahoo.com Hotmail, etc. etc. etc.
Yahoo's users are international. We want our emails to remain in our countries, and in an International environment, if Yahoo or another organization is asked by NSA for information, and the owner of the email is Chilian, or Canadian, or Chinese, the country of origin of the email must give permission. Otherwise, what I see it coming in the next five years, is a parallel internet, not run by the USA.
NSA breaks the law, and we say nothing. Boy, are we not all couch potatoes. Al Jazeera tells it as it is -- Shameful. And by the way, We should just encrypt our emails to business partners with different keys, based on the day of the year, and with a different algorithm, also based on the day of the year, and relabel AES files as Bluefish, 3des, or whatever. AES is the encryption algorithm that the USA government has stipulated, is not suitable for use within the Government.
I guess I meandered, but the President of Yahoo is an example of being brainwashed.
The old plastic floppies (360's, 720's, etc which were wrapped in paper sleeves) where about 1 mm thick substrate. So, Seagate may be using even thinner substrate (plastic sheet) in my view, and very flat read/write heads.
Too late, American interests have been hurt severely. America is now a land/country/people who we cannot trust. We measure the trustworthiness of the people by their government. And that expression, "Do as I say, not as I do" is demeaning to Mr. Average USA. We see the NSA saying don't cheat to the population
My grandchildren have been following this, and perhaps in 20 years when they are adults, they will reconsider trusting any product that is Made in USA. Why product. Trust is earned by extension, lack of trust likewise.
How would you carry that around? How the hell would you hold it?
At that point it might as well be on a stand, and we call those monitors.
My wife says that size matters. A fifteen inch one (tablet) is too big. With seven inch one she is comfortable. She can open it in the bus, and read a book or even play freecell. The Lenova seven inch one is about the right size.
On netbooks, I was doing this for years. (since 2009 in fact). So the only change is how the non-password software program is initiated.
With the netbook, it was simple. No initial password. Use the unprotected apps as you wish, When you need access to the protected ones, its just one access/password to enter. Thereafter, all code is free, subject to Linux rules.
La de da to Apple. See the lawsuits fly. Time to buy made in New Zealand products before the trade barriers go up.
I buy my hdmi cables at the Dollar store At $2.00 for a three footer and $3.00 for a 6 footer, Who can go wrong with those standard prices. And these cables are used with 1080p tvs and monitors and I experience zero loss of signal or resolution. Its the same stuff you pay $40.00, except the jack comes plated with gold with the latter.
If you have a funny name, you are suspected of being linked to a terrorist. Pretty soon, if you are Christian, Jesus will be off limits too. The saying, loose lips sink ships transplanted, means that security has more to lose from talkative (unable to keep a secret) people, than suspected infiltrators.
Its time to do like New Zealand. Software in NZ can't' be patented, only their product that is a commercial software (eg. Word processor) can have a patent. Algorithms cannot be patented.
You really can't outsmart them, even if you are an American citizen. After 48 he's in a holding area, you will be charged with obstruct ion of justice plus +++
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Some of us are social animals. Others are hermits. While others, considering the cost to commute, will rather work from home. If we work from home, we then require heating, A/C and electricity to pay, so the trade off is time savings.
Also, for help desk, one cannot slack off. Tallies are kept. For software development, one is driven by the need to achieve.
I am in Montreal Quebec, so, a) Electricity is super cheap, gasoline is super expensive (taxes), and traffic horrid, ergo, working from home 4 days per week. With one day at the office, I am revitalized. I see people, I share a lunch, a coffee, and discuss technical stuff. Both kinds of in/outs are great.
So we are to read the headlines as "The USA consumes the most oil/gas compared to it's suppliers.
Actually, the USA produces these products, and imports more, for consumption. This signals waste to me.
Time to reconsider global polution, never mind global warming.
The level of the taxes is not really important. What is at stake is what you get for the taxes. If taxes pay for education and healthcare, businesses get educated and healthy workers. If it pays a war in Iraq, it just benefits businesses linked to defense (well.. I should say war instead of defense).
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We in Quebec have a very high personal tax rate. But, in those taxes are access to cheap university (beyond college level) education at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Relatively low cost good coverage vehicle insurance, protecting pedestrian and vehicle owner alike, hospital and drug insurance, and pension plan. Since the plan is provincial, the number of successful startups is extremely high in proportion to other countries and states. So, yes, if the government provides, you get portability across the nation. If the company provides, you have to be concerned that as you change states, your company is allowed to do business in that state.
As a result, I think that we Canadians may earn less dollars, but our net-net is higher, and our lifestyle not lower than the level that most Americans want.
NSA will simply setup shop in a consulate in that country, and it will be business as usual.
It is SPY vs SPY game as depicted in Mad Magazine of the 1960's
We can live without technology, particularly if it is too expensive to replace.
However, food or refreshment is a consumable, within the reach of everyone's means. Therefore, as Idevice sales taper off, Apples shares will drop like a lead ballon. Apple will have to divest itself, perhaps by buying shares in Coke.
Coke will be around in 100 years. No so my prediction for Apple.
My genitals are always HUGE when I'm driving my car.
Are you a male?
My view, if you are using the cellphone as a GPS and you are not holding it in your hand, and if you are not texting, the police (cop) is FOS.
And he should be reprimanded to the graveyard shift where he should stop dui drivers.
I use my smartphone as a GPS because I need to, particularly when I go into communities with stage road layouts.
One more reason to try LXDE, MATE or Cinnamon.
Actually KDE is the model that Cinnamon is emulating. KDE is getting better at great functionality and lowering of previous KDE overheads.
No, they are breaking Linux.
The GNOME people have managed to invade several core projects such as udev and have been busy working to integrate them with GNOME. In addition, they are trying to push the GNOME-centric Wayland to replace X.
Removing middle click paste is just the latest example of their arrogance. The GNOME developers generally adopt the attitude that the user is an idiot who can't wipe their own ass without one of them to help. Anytime you complain about a removed feature you are either "using it wrong" or GNOME was "not designed for users who wish to do X". If they kept to their own little corner, I would not have as much of a problem but they are doing their damnedest to turn the entire Linux ecosystem into one giant mess without any regards for the UNIX philosophy or even compatibility with other *nix systems such as the BSDs.
And who is the major financer of Gnome? Is it RH?
why the fuck, does every american citizen say, that surveilance is okay, when its sure, that no american citizens are targeted? Are you really that hostile to foreigners? Here in germany, everyone against surveilance, is against surveilance everywhere. We hate your oppressive laws as much as ours.
Do you know the saying, "Do as I say, not as I do"? Well, I, the government am surveilling, and I say I am against it.
I hate to be pedantic, but, the past tense of fish is fush, and I am quite certain that your worms were dead too and the past tense of worm is spice.
There are is a fish (singular), there are fish (plural of the variety) and there are fishes (many varieties),
I grew up using fisherman or fisherwoman, but now the word seems to be sexless as a "Fisher"
The Fisher is catching fish.
The past tense of fish is fished. Not, as it was shown earlier, fushed,
Now to fix up moose and mouse.
moose moose moose
mouse, mice, mice
to change to
moose mooses, mooses
mouse, mice, mices
There is a growing left wing in South America but there is also a deeply established and quite violent right wing. For example many Priests and Nuns as well as other Christian workers have been murdered in South America as Christianity is considered a radical, left wing doctrine there. The rich and powerful seek to maintain their positions and any movement that is felt to be a threat to the power of the right wing tends to let lose the butchers. If they see open source as some sort of socialist or communist tainted notion then violent conflicts will surely follow. Even the idea of sharing with others may offend some of the old, stuffed shirt, aristocrats. I can not bring myself to scream kill a right winger for Jesus but I do come close to it.
Open source is taking hold in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and other countries, not because it is open, but due to cost. MS licenses are expensive, and the governments there can't afford to pay to acquire MS software. We should see a lot of great Linux software emanating out of Latin America in the coming months and years.
Its called "unauthorized access of a computer" which is a federal offense.
What the FBI is saying is that they planted the PORN, and all the other crap, since they had taken over his servers.
In short, the music recording industry may be taking a hit, but the music culture is going through a renaissance.
Yep, why does Ireland have so many popular musicians and singers for such a small country? Go to a good Irish pub and you will find out. All UK pubs were like that at one time, no need to hire entertainment since the pub is full of talented locals who are more interested in entertaining each other than getting paid..
Ahh yes, there is still room for symphonic orchestras and operas.
That happened 4 years ago in 2009, with the recession. And the USA and the world has not yet recovered
I'm TAing a "flipped" course like this starting next week; it's an intro to CS course for people with no CS background. Our lecture slots are purely homework help and Q there's little or no attempt at lecturing except in the first week. We also allocate tutorial sessions (an additional 2 hours per week) which are mandatory for the first couple of weeks and then optional; the point of them is to give students more opportunity to get help with homework.
With this material, most students don't need huge swaths of time to do the assignments if supervision is available. It's not appropriate for all levels of instruction or all subject matter, but when there are a lot of fundamental concepts that need to be grasped, the fact that you're no longer doing the work in isolation at home is the real source of the improvement. There's still a final assignment where the students have to prove themselves, in case you're worried of overdependent students.
I used to teach, and the method I used was "Here is what I told you I talked about from last weeks lecture, and here is today's lecture. And this is what I am going to talk about for the next lecture", ". Not always in that order, but it works. Three repetitions and the material is understood and learned. Home flipping is applying a similar principal.
For many many years, I followed in great detail, the news casts produced by ABC, CBS, NBC, and even PBS and the BBC. I truly believed that what I was fed was fair and honest. But then with NSA, and the idiot woman from Yahoo stating that it would be treason to report to the NSA, I realize, that no USA broadcaster, email provider, messenger provider or any other service could be trusted with confidential (even non treasonous data). Then by chance I caught Al Jazeera America, a news agency that actually has employees in the conflict zones, and in the reporters galleries around the world. I was skeptical at first, but as time went on, more precision about news took place. Today, if I want unbiased news reporting, I tune to Al Jazeera, because they do present both sides of debates and conflicts.
But if one can't trust CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX' PBS, BBC etc, then we can't trust Google, Yahoo.com Hotmail, etc. etc. etc.
Yahoo's users are international. We want our emails to remain in our countries, and in an International environment, if Yahoo or another organization is asked by NSA for information, and the owner of the email is Chilian, or Canadian, or Chinese, the country of origin of the email must give permission. Otherwise, what I see it coming in the next five years, is a parallel internet, not run by the USA.
NSA breaks the law, and we say nothing. Boy, are we not all couch potatoes. Al Jazeera tells it as it is -- Shameful. And by the way,
We should just encrypt our emails to business partners with different keys, based on the day of the year, and with a different algorithm, also based on the day of the year, and relabel AES files as Bluefish, 3des, or whatever. AES is the encryption algorithm that the USA government has stipulated, is not suitable for use within the Government.
I guess I meandered, but the President of Yahoo is an example of being brainwashed.
The old plastic floppies (360's, 720's, etc which were wrapped in paper sleeves) where about 1 mm thick substrate. So, Seagate may be using even thinner substrate (plastic sheet) in my view, and very flat read/write heads.
Too late, American interests have been hurt severely. America is now a land/country/people who we cannot trust. We measure the trustworthiness of the people by their government. And that expression, "Do as I say, not as I do" is demeaning to Mr. Average USA. We see the NSA saying don't cheat to the population
My grandchildren have been following this, and perhaps in 20 years when they are adults, they will reconsider trusting any product that is Made in USA. Why product. Trust is earned by extension, lack of trust likewise.
How would you carry that around?
How the hell would you hold it?
At that point it might as well be on a stand, and we call those monitors.
My wife says that size matters. A fifteen inch one (tablet) is too big. With seven inch one she is comfortable. She can open it in the bus, and read a book or even play freecell. The Lenova seven inch one is about the right size.
On netbooks, I was doing this for years. (since 2009 in fact). So the only change is how the non-password software program is initiated.
With the netbook, it was simple. No initial password. Use the unprotected apps as you wish, When you need access to the protected ones, its just one access/password to enter. Thereafter, all code is free, subject to Linux rules.
La de da to Apple. See the lawsuits fly. Time to buy made in New Zealand products before the trade barriers go up.
I buy my hdmi cables at the Dollar store At $2.00 for a three footer and $3.00 for a 6 footer, Who can go wrong with those standard prices. And these cables are used with 1080p tvs and monitors and I experience zero loss of signal or resolution. Its the same stuff you pay $40.00, except the jack comes plated with gold with the latter.
If you have a funny name, you are suspected of being linked to a terrorist. Pretty soon, if you are Christian, Jesus will be off limits too. The saying, loose lips sink ships transplanted, means that security has more to lose from talkative (unable to keep a secret) people, than suspected infiltrators.
Its time to do like New Zealand. Software in NZ can't' be patented, only their product that is a commercial software (eg. Word processor) can have a patent. Algorithms cannot be patented.
You really can't outsmart them, even if you are an American citizen. After 48 he's in a holding area, you will be charged with obstruct ion of justice plus +++