I am a consumer. And I agree with you about when and why tomatoes are picked early. But the taste is not the same as the non-genetically modified ones. It may have to do with acid content, or other. These newer tomatoes appear to have more flesh and less juice.
As for potatoes, I go with what my wife buys, and I suppose we do not buy them loose anymore. So, we buy the yams before we buy the types you mentioned.
And I stick to my comments about the corn. More flesh, and less flavour than before, even with a good coating of salty butter.
Have a wonderful Christmas, and realize, I am not the grower of this food, but the consumer.
Chalk up the misspellings to smartphone use and use of abbreviations.
I have another problem related. I work in English (born and raised), (RWS) I am in a French province and I also work and write in French, (RWS) and I write and read Spanish. Spelling words that are common to English and the second language always leads to misspellings.
English tends to double up consanents, the other languages do not.
Many of our neighbours go across the border and buy dish packages with large numbers of stations available, and with good high speed. I found that 480p was almost as good as 720p, or 1080p, particularly when it came to action movies. It costs half as much to watch good movies than the best local rates.
I have a cheap Samsung phone, my fee for unlimited 24/7 use is $28, with all taxes and funny 911 extra charges included. My phone cost me $40.00. Amortize that over 3 years, and it is just over a dollar a month for the hardware.
I am an old geezer, having started with Unix in the early 90's and migrated to Linux in 2005. We are creatures of habit, and we get accustomed to where to find things when things go wrong, and what to do to get around limitations in some commands.
If I were to create a new UI, (heaven forbid), I would not take the Gnome or Unity model. Here are my thoughts.
With wide screens, I would like to have two desktops, one on each left-right half of the screen, as if I had two monitors, with each desktop protected from the other. "Code on one, and documentation on the other", or "Emails on one and something else on the other" are two examples.
I have become accustomed to the Microsoft Ribbon concept as it applies to MS office, and am thinking how it could be applied to a GUI interface as a top, side or bottom panel. These are thoughts, nothing more. In a way, the ribbon concept is just the same old gnome2 menu, with some tweaks.
What I do like in the new incarnations of some gui interfaces is the popback facility. That is, I like to not have to thread through the top of the tree through some level of menus to choose the appropriate utility if I clicked inappropriately.
When you produce a functionally great product, you should consider moving on to something else. Unless you are obsessive compulsive about it. Obsessive compulsive means that you have to continue to make cosmetic changes because you cannot let go. And the changes are not bug fixes, which is why eventually some software is too top-heavy with unimportant junk.
I think the KISS principal should apply to everything.
Reading obituaries is not being sordid. We read with sadness about all the wonderful people who died, either peacefully or after a horrible illness. These people raised families, contributed to society, and are now being recognized for their contribution to mankind.
I am also saddened when I read about my school classmates who expire.
I am on the list too, being 71 years young. I am not sick, but only sick of greed that I see and read via the net and some business journals.
Every job should be rated. Level 6 being the top non-managerial job, and 3x level 5 salary should be top salary.
I was a boss, and with 7 different functional groups under me, it was all that I could manage, including my own time. Every leader of each group took about 15% of my time, and only one day a week, did I need overtime for myself. (Not every week).
So, if I manage 7, and these subordinates manage 7, etc. the pyramid can grow high quickly. But each of the 7 had 25 under them, with the 25 doing common tasks. About compensation. I earned 50% more than anyone of the 7 individuals. No salary was more than 3x the average, but bonuses for performance and dividends aided as an incentive. No million dollar salaries in my old organization, but great enthusiastic performers.
Stop the red light and 3 point flash picture..... Our city collects a cool million per year with the number of these cameras. I guess it is about 10k per camera per year.
This old dog worked in software security for ages. I learned back then to never give away my social security number, credit or debit card number and I NEVER USE ON LINE BANKING, not even to browse my account balance. I go to an ATM for that balance.
What is on the net is my name, and my email address. On my system (laptop and isp email accounts) I carry no confidential data about me or anyone else.
Email for me is social.
When I have a confidential document to email, the attachment is encrypted, and my recipient is able to decrypt. But no encryption keys are stored on disk. They are pulled down in an encrypted stream, and that extracted from it.
I guess you could say I have protect my confidential information.
Carpenters bring their own hammers to a worksite, Plumbers bring their toolbox, etc. Tradespeople are now also programmers, system support staff, and I guess, even bosses.
Nothing wrong with bringing in your own smartgadget.
My brother-in-law's profession was a touchup artist for negatives. He got 35cents per blemish, for red-eyes, etc. He could remove a pimple, or turn lemons into melons. Cant use photoshop, print it in high definition, use the negative and then print it high definition. So, back to negatives, and then back to scanning the prints. Kodak will be happy again.
The next generation (teenagers and those under thirty, are the new internet users. They have actually having more use with smart phones, texting and chat, than using the net.
My son lived in Riga Latvia for 3 years, and when I visited, there were no internet cafés, and those who had laptops had all the software imaginable. You could go on the streets and buy any software you wanted for a dollar a DVD.
Most students (my son was a not a student), had azerty keyboard laptops, all the software imaginable, and were studing Linux and Linux servers in the schools and in computer science clubs. Call that portion of EU, the hackers domain. University of Riga is topnotch, and not promoting this kind of copyright infringement or hacking.
What if the reverse was true, that for example, a Mexican Drug Cartel had a drone spying on the border police. Should that spying be stopped.
So, it shows that Americans do not have exclusivity on intelligence, and their worst fears, the drone and its electronics is open to diagnosis and to revealing all the security secrets. Wow, what a huge blow to the Drone program.
Is this Tit for Tat, You hurt my centrafuges, I hurt your Drone program world-wide.
Hey enemies of the USA, Here are the Drone's secrets.
Intel has a tpm application (TPM = trusted platform module) which is on the mother board (soldered in). They have an ability to burn a fuse remotely in the laptop or device the next time it goes onto the internet. It is a theft protection service for the contents. The action for the tpm can be, white list everything black list the device until an internet signon allows use for the next nnn days hard stop with no chance to again use the motherboard. The TPM contains a critical part of the bios and also the encryption/ decryption keys for the hard disk.
A three year old child was killed and the mother is in hospital after a car driven by a young lady hit them. She had received 5 text messages at the time of the incident, and was preoccupied at responding when she killed the child.
Driving and Texting should be treated as driving as DUI and subject to jail time
As a developer who uses a workbench -- SDK, the SDK and the workbench concept sort of eliminate the need for Gnome 3.
When not using Gnome 3, which is 39 hours out of 40, I have reverted to Compiz and Gnome3, giving me Gnome 2 with wobbly windows. If in the next release of Fedora, I do not have a way to continue with multiple desktops, then G3 will be permenantly replaced by xfce, which I am enjoying as well.
Here is my take. Prototype your application in the code-bloat language of your choice, then redo it, section by section in C.
And choose the heaviest overhead section last, not first. It is probably the most crucial, and needs careful dissection.
I have C skills (I have been designing and programming since 1970), both object oriented, Pascal type languages, Cobol and assembler. Both high and low level languages.
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I am a consumer. And I agree with you about when and why tomatoes are picked early. But the taste is not the same as the non-genetically modified ones. It may have to do with acid content, or other. These newer tomatoes appear to have more flesh and less juice.
As for potatoes, I go with what my wife buys, and I suppose we do not buy them loose anymore. So, we buy the yams before we buy the types you mentioned.
And I stick to my comments about the corn. More flesh, and less flavour than before, even with a good coating of salty butter.
Have a wonderful Christmas, and realize, I am not the grower of this food, but the consumer.
Chalk up the misspellings to smartphone use and use of abbreviations.
I have another problem related. I work in English (born and raised), (RWS)
I am in a French province and I also work and write in French, (RWS)
and I write and read Spanish. Spelling words that are common to English
and the second language always leads to misspellings.
English tends to double up consanents, the other languages do not.
BTW (RWS = Read Write Speak) (BTW = By the way)
My main experiences with this are with my own consumption of tomatoes, potatoes and corn.
Modifed tomatoes are much less juicy, and taste one level above cardboard.
The spuds are of a more elongated shape, great for "French Fries" when cut parallel to the long side. The round potato seems to have disappeared.
Finally, the corn kernals are now closer to being all white, dry and less tastey. We have traded genetic modification to eradication of taste.
tomatoes, potatoes, corn -- taste was sacrificed for yield.
Many of our neighbours go across the border and buy dish packages with large numbers of stations available, and with good high speed. I found that 480p was almost as good as 720p, or 1080p, particularly when it came to action movies. It costs half as much to watch good movies than the best local rates.
I have a cheap Samsung phone, my fee for unlimited 24/7 use is $28, with all taxes and funny 911 extra charges included. My phone cost me $40.00.
Amortize that over 3 years, and it is just over a dollar a month for the hardware.
I am an old geezer, having started with Unix in the early 90's and migrated to Linux in 2005. We are creatures of habit, and we get accustomed to where to find things when things go wrong, and what to do to get around limitations in some commands.
If I were to create a new UI, (heaven forbid), I would not take the Gnome or Unity model. Here are my thoughts.
With wide screens, I would like to have two desktops, one on each left-right half of the screen, as if I had two monitors, with each desktop protected from the other. "Code on one, and documentation on the other", or "Emails on one and something else on the other" are two examples.
I have become accustomed to the Microsoft Ribbon concept as it applies to MS office, and am thinking how it could be applied to a GUI interface as a top, side or bottom panel. These are thoughts, nothing more. In a way, the ribbon concept is just the same old gnome2 menu, with some tweaks.
What I do like in the new incarnations of some gui interfaces is the popback facility. That is, I like to not have to thread through the top of the tree through some level of menus to choose the appropriate utility if I clicked inappropriately.
When you produce a functionally great product, you should consider moving on to something else. Unless you are obsessive compulsive about it. Obsessive compulsive means that you have to continue to make cosmetic changes because you cannot let go. And the changes are not bug fixes, which is why eventually some software is too top-heavy with unimportant junk.
I think the KISS principal should apply to everything.
If Safari can do it, so can others who craft this type of object. Therefore it is a Windows 64 bit bug.
Reading obituaries is not being sordid. We read with sadness about all the wonderful people who died, either peacefully or after a horrible illness. These people raised families, contributed to society, and are now being recognized for their contribution to mankind.
I am also saddened when I read about my school classmates who expire.
I am on the list too, being 71 years young. I am not sick, but only sick of greed that I see and read via the net and some business journals.
Every job should be rated. Level 6 being the top non-managerial job, and 3x level 5 salary should be top salary.
I was a boss, and with 7 different functional groups under me, it was all that I could manage, including my own time. Every leader of each group took about 15% of my time, and only one day a week, did I need overtime for myself. (Not every week).
So, if I manage 7, and these subordinates manage 7, etc. the pyramid can grow high quickly. But each of the 7 had 25 under them, with the 25 doing common tasks.
About compensation. I earned 50% more than anyone of the 7 individuals. No salary was more than 3x the average, but bonuses for performance and dividends aided as an incentive. No million dollar salaries in my old organization, but great enthusiastic performers.
This is good news. And if it coupled with boss (www.boss.org), then wow, we are walking on air.
Stop the red light and 3 point flash picture..... Our city collects a cool million per year with the number of these cameras. I guess it is about 10k per camera per year.
And the author failed to protect his code from a failed (out of range) sensor signal. I would fire the bxxxxxd.
This old dog worked in software security for ages. I learned back then to never give away my social security number, credit or debit card number and I NEVER USE ON LINE BANKING, not even to browse my account balance. I go to an ATM for that balance.
What is on the net is my name, and my email address. On my system (laptop and isp email accounts) I carry no confidential data about me or anyone else.
Email for me is social.
When I have a confidential document to email, the attachment is encrypted, and my recipient is able to decrypt. But no encryption keys are stored on disk. They are pulled down in an encrypted stream, and that extracted from it.
I guess you could say I have protect my confidential information.
Carpenters bring their own hammers to a worksite, Plumbers bring their toolbox, etc.
Tradespeople are now also programmers, system support staff, and I guess, even bosses.
Nothing wrong with bringing in your own smartgadget.
Apes are mammals with brains, but we humans abused these creatures.
I hope the National Institution of Health maintains the ban on doing experiments with them and stops doing the same with Monkeys.
My brother-in-law's profession was a touchup artist for negatives. He got 35cents per blemish, for red-eyes, etc.
He could remove a pimple, or turn lemons into melons.
Cant use photoshop, print it in high definition, use the negative and then print it high definition.
So, back to negatives, and then back to scanning the prints. Kodak will be happy again.
The next generation (teenagers and those under thirty, are the new internet users. They have actually having more use with smart phones, texting and chat, than using the net.
My son lived in Riga Latvia for 3 years, and when I visited, there were no internet cafés, and those who had laptops had all the software imaginable. You could go on the streets and buy any software you wanted for a dollar a DVD.
Most students (my son was a not a student), had azerty keyboard laptops, all the software imaginable, and were studing Linux and Linux servers in the schools and in computer science clubs.
Call that portion of EU, the hackers domain. University of Riga is topnotch, and not promoting this kind of copyright infringement or hacking.
What if the reverse was true, that for example, a Mexican Drug Cartel had a drone spying on the border police. Should that spying be stopped.
So, it shows that Americans do not have exclusivity on intelligence, and their worst fears, the drone and its electronics is open to diagnosis and to revealing all the security secrets. Wow, what a huge blow to the Drone program.
Is this Tit for Tat, You hurt my centrafuges, I hurt your Drone program world-wide.
Hey enemies of the USA, Here are the Drone's secrets.
Intel has a tpm application (TPM = trusted platform module) which is on the mother board (soldered in). They have an ability to burn a fuse remotely in the laptop or device the next time it goes onto the internet. It is a theft protection service for the contents. The action for the tpm can be,
white list everything
black list the device until an internet signon allows use for the next nnn days
hard stop with no chance to again use the motherboard.
The TPM contains a critical part of the bios and also the encryption/ decryption keys for the hard disk.
A three year old child was killed and the mother is in hospital after a car driven by a young lady hit them. She had received 5 text messages at the time of the incident, and was preoccupied at responding when she killed the child.
Driving and Texting should be treated as driving as DUI and subject to jail time
Advertisers in Canada don't give a damn and until there is a financial penalty, will not comply.
Or is it that we keep watching American stations.
Gnome 3 won because it was compared to Unity. If it was compared to Compiz with 4 desktops or xfce it would win, but with reservations.
Expect to see Gnome4 with an ability to work like linux mint 12
As a developer who uses a workbench -- SDK, the SDK and the workbench concept sort of eliminate the need for Gnome 3.
When not using Gnome 3, which is 39 hours out of 40, I have reverted to Compiz and Gnome3, giving me Gnome 2 with wobbly windows. If in the next release of Fedora, I do not have a way to continue with multiple desktops, then G3 will be permenantly replaced by xfce, which I am enjoying as well.
Here is my take. Prototype your application in the code-bloat language of your choice, then redo it, section by section in C.
And choose the heaviest overhead section last, not first. It is probably the most crucial, and needs careful dissection.
I have C skills (I have been designing and programming since 1970), both object oriented, Pascal type languages, Cobol and assembler. Both high and low level languages.