Yeah, I heard somewhere that many schools avoid subjects like that now in order to meet grading standards. But when I was going to middle school in the late 90s I had this awesome computer class tought by a guy named Mr. Wilson. The iMac and iBook had just come out, and the class upgraded over the break so I applied to come back to it the next year. I had my first introduction to 3d graphics on the desktop the very last day of that year. I don't remember the name of it but it was something simple like Truespace.
It left a huge impression on me. Kids these days... man I fear for them.
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Here's Autodesk's Mac Compatibility page. It's kinda stretched with filler like a bad essay, full of apps that need virtual machines to run, and multiple versions of the same app. But... for what it's worth they at least bothered to make a list.
Depending on what you get, that "CAD" software it can cost even more (~6k for Synchro, which is a 4D BIM/VDC application). What's left unmentioned are the DCC programs used to create content for games. The big companies behind these are slow to port their software to Linux.
That said, I work at a small-medium sized construction company. I know a couple coworkers who have been given Surface Pros (I bought one for myself the day it came out). These tablets are faster than their old computer, and when they get used to using them, just might replace it entirely. As for me, I use CAD/BIM/VDC software on a daily basis, so I work with a Xeon powered Dell Precision T5600. The Surface Pro doesn't replace my computer yet, but maybe one day something like it (but with a docking station) will.
At home I use whatever I use at work. Until Autodesk-and-friends port the software (especially Revit and Navisworks), it will probably continue to be Windows. If it's Windows being used at work, it'll be Windows being used at home for many of us, and Windows at school for students studying ahead of entering the work force. That's just my opinion though. Things can change. I don't really care so long as it doesn't stink.
I can't help but remain skeptical. So far, the frothing at the mouth against Windows 8 is pretty much just a computer-enthusiast thing and of that group not all are united.
Throwing out ideals such as good and evil, open-source and closed, and good or bad design - it all comes down to: 1) Which OS comes with Average Joe's PC. 2) Which OS runs the apps Average Joe has already. 3)Which interface is less of a pain in the butt to learn for Average Joe.
In that order.
That said, if PC usage continues to decline, the fate of whatever remains of the desktop could be left entirely up to the enthusiast.
Rather than griping about something that doesn't harm you on any way, you can fulfill your needs by designing your own hardware and platform for exclusive open-source enthusiasts such as yourself.
Look up projects on home brew computers made with the ARM, 6501, and/or discrete components. It can be done, your needs aren't satisfied by this product, so by all means go and make your own.
This is a big point. We have the largest prison system in the world, both in total numbers and per-capita.
We have a two tiered system of law. There's a slap on the wrist for the elite, and zero tolerance for the rest of us. That means if you simply get caught with drugs more than once or twice, you may well end up with life in prison.
Our prison systems rely heavily on isolation. Anyone can end up in isolation for any reason, including for "their own protection". This almost always breaks the prisoner mentally and sometimes physically. They are never the same after that.
Once out, they lead a meager existence as a ex-convict. An untouchable under-class with fewer rights and destined to be passed over for all but the worst jobs.
Sometimes when I read about history I'm surprised. For instance, both Hitler and Chavez failed at their first attempt at leading a revolution to overthrow the government. They were thrown in prison for a little while and released. Do that today and the President himself will order your assassination. What an honor that must be.
I use a lot of highly complex 3d and graphical software for a living and for fun. Software that has a depth to it so deep there are people who specialize in using it and nothing else. There's so much to remember, that keeping notes available to me everywhere has been a must. First it was a Wordpad document in a USB stick, then later Google Notebook, then later a Wordpad document in Dropbox, then finally Evernote. I wouldn't want to go back to the USB stick.
I imagine Google intends to use your Keep data to help target their advertising. The only thing that Evernote has ads on is their free edition, the privacy policy explicitly states that data collection for the purpose of advertising is limited to your username and email, and the ad in the free version of the app doesn't appear targeted to what I've given it.
I'm getting beside the point - the "cloud" is great. Just be mindeful of your chosen service. Especially if it's free. Read the privacy policy.
Evernote is just straight HTML. Your exports will look exactly like your notes in the program - which is extremely good in case we get word that they plan to shut down soon.
Eager to put me in the teabagger box are ya? Did I specifically say that I hate the government, especially one with no jurisdiction over me personally? I'm just reacting to the bullshit posted above me. The idea of arbritrary law being placed above all else is infuriating. That's essentially saying "whatever they say goes, now pay up."
That said, I didn't recognize this was a response to a court order that they had agreed to. Then it becomes a contractural obligation. In that case, agreeing to it might have appeared to be the most expediant way to move forward, though in all honesty I don't care either way. Maybe this is irrational, but I'd rather see MS fight the EU on this and not give an inch (more than they already have), even it it means having to vacate the entirety of Europe and leave you guys with Linux, Unix, and Apple products.
Fuck the law. They don't write this stuff for your benifit you know. I hope Microsoft never sends a red cent. As someone else has mentioned already, Internet Explorer is a minority browser. More people use Safari than Internet Explorer. Being forced by the government to provide alternatives to a failing product that you're desperately trying to improve is like having salt rubbed in the wound.
Here's a song for you. Remember it and sing it loud when the bureaucrats zero in on you and demand payment for breaking a bullshit law.
Nineteen Eighty-Four was fully implemented in North Korea, 1948.
Thankfully, what we've learned is that such a society cannot sustain itself without powerful allies constantly coming to its aid. A more sustainable dystopia can be seen in modern day China. A corporatist society where you can start a middle class career and buy an iPod, but watch your mouth. The US is fast approaching that, but I seriously doubt any country will try the North Korean/1984 route.
I now think that the RIAA won't be satisfied until they are given a government-backed monopoly on search engines. I imagine it'll look like an old AOL portal. Want to be listed? Pay out the nose just like on TV.
I should mention that it wouldn't charge either. Once the battery was gone, it is gone. And as far as I knew, it could only happen with XDAndroid. I stopped using it after that, and soon got another phone.
Even XDAndroid was unstable, and generally unfinished, so really there was no escape. It once completely drained my battery, and that's not something you wanted to happen on that phone. Windows looked out for it and would shut you down in advance. The reason being... if you let the battery drain completely, it would not power up even under outlet power. I had to use the battery from my older HTC Dash, tear off a small tab, and hold it in the battery compartment of the TP2 just long enough to power up and switch to the outlet. Them I could insert the real battery again and let it charge.
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Yeah, I heard somewhere that many schools avoid subjects like that now in order to meet grading standards. But when I was going to middle school in the late 90s I had this awesome computer class tought by a guy named Mr. Wilson. The iMac and iBook had just come out, and the class upgraded over the break so I applied to come back to it the next year. I had my first introduction to 3d graphics on the desktop the very last day of that year. I don't remember the name of it but it was something simple like Truespace.
It left a huge impression on me. Kids these days... man I fear for them.
Here's Autodesk's Mac Compatibility page. It's kinda stretched with filler like a bad essay, full of apps that need virtual machines to run, and multiple versions of the same app. But... for what it's worth they at least bothered to make a list.
http://usa.autodesk.com/products/mac-compatible-products
Depending on what you get, that "CAD" software it can cost even more (~6k for Synchro, which is a 4D BIM/VDC application). What's left unmentioned are the DCC programs used to create content for games. The big companies behind these are slow to port their software to Linux.
That said, I work at a small-medium sized construction company. I know a couple coworkers who have been given Surface Pros (I bought one for myself the day it came out). These tablets are faster than their old computer, and when they get used to using them, just might replace it entirely. As for me, I use CAD/BIM/VDC software on a daily basis, so I work with a Xeon powered Dell Precision T5600. The Surface Pro doesn't replace my computer yet, but maybe one day something like it (but with a docking station) will.
At home I use whatever I use at work. Until Autodesk-and-friends port the software (especially Revit and Navisworks), it will probably continue to be Windows. If it's Windows being used at work, it'll be Windows being used at home for many of us, and Windows at school for students studying ahead of entering the work force. That's just my opinion though. Things can change. I don't really care so long as it doesn't stink.
I can't help but remain skeptical. So far, the frothing at the mouth against Windows 8 is pretty much just a computer-enthusiast thing and of that group not all are united.
Throwing out ideals such as good and evil, open-source and closed, and good or bad design - it all comes down to: 1) Which OS comes with Average Joe's PC. 2) Which OS runs the apps Average Joe has already. 3)Which interface is less of a pain in the butt to learn for Average Joe.
In that order.
That said, if PC usage continues to decline, the fate of whatever remains of the desktop could be left entirely up to the enthusiast.
OT but I think WW2 is better served as an example of how well appeasement works.
We are responding properly. NK barely has nukes and they are starting the brinksmanship game already. Not responding to that would be a mistake.
You can probably make your own body armor...
Competing? We've long since won the Prison Race. It is so easy to get locked up here if you don't have connections or influence.
Rather than griping about something that doesn't harm you on any way, you can fulfill your needs by designing your own hardware and platform for exclusive open-source enthusiasts such as yourself.
Look up projects on home brew computers made with the ARM, 6501, and/or discrete components. It can be done, your needs aren't satisfied by this product, so by all means go and make your own.
Joke aside, Duke 3D was awesome. Even its map editor was awesome. Some one should try and run it on the Pi and report back.
This is a big point. We have the largest prison system in the world, both in total numbers and per-capita.
We have a two tiered system of law. There's a slap on the wrist for the elite, and zero tolerance for the rest of us. That means if you simply get caught with drugs more than once or twice, you may well end up with life in prison.
Our prison systems rely heavily on isolation. Anyone can end up in isolation for any reason, including for "their own protection". This almost always breaks the prisoner mentally and sometimes physically. They are never the same after that.
Once out, they lead a meager existence as a ex-convict. An untouchable under-class with fewer rights and destined to be passed over for all but the worst jobs.
With that in mind, and considering some of the other things going on, we are already trapped and controlled.
Sometimes when I read about history I'm surprised. For instance, both Hitler and Chavez failed at their first attempt at leading a revolution to overthrow the government. They were thrown in prison for a little while and released. Do that today and the President himself will order your assassination. What an honor that must be.
This isn't Reddit.
There is so much to fix, that we ignore it all in the hopes that it goes away - but only if we are liberal or conservative enough in our ideology...
I use a lot of highly complex 3d and graphical software for a living and for fun. Software that has a depth to it so deep there are people who specialize in using it and nothing else. There's so much to remember, that keeping notes available to me everywhere has been a must. First it was a Wordpad document in a USB stick, then later Google Notebook, then later a Wordpad document in Dropbox, then finally Evernote. I wouldn't want to go back to the USB stick.
I imagine Google intends to use your Keep data to help target their advertising. The only thing that Evernote has ads on is their free edition, the privacy policy explicitly states that data collection for the purpose of advertising is limited to your username and email, and the ad in the free version of the app doesn't appear targeted to what I've given it.
I'm getting beside the point - the "cloud" is great. Just be mindeful of your chosen service. Especially if it's free. Read the privacy policy.
There better be an export option.
Evernote is just straight HTML. Your exports will look exactly like your notes in the program - which is extremely good in case we get word that they plan to shut down soon.
The law be damned. I'd rather see Microsoft leave Europe than to cow-tow to these basterds.
Also, the comparison is incomplete. Here's the rest of the story: This is like convicting a murderer and then proceeding with the death penalty even though he already had blown half of his brains out resulting in mental retardation.
Eager to put me in the teabagger box are ya? Did I specifically say that I hate the government, especially one with no jurisdiction over me personally? I'm just reacting to the bullshit posted above me. The idea of arbritrary law being placed above all else is infuriating. That's essentially saying "whatever they say goes, now pay up."
That said, I didn't recognize this was a response to a court order that they had agreed to. Then it becomes a contractural obligation. In that case, agreeing to it might have appeared to be the most expediant way to move forward, though in all honesty I don't care either way. Maybe this is irrational, but I'd rather see MS fight the EU on this and not give an inch (more than they already have), even it it means having to vacate the entirety of Europe and leave you guys with Linux, Unix, and Apple products.
Fuck the law. They don't write this stuff for your benifit you know. I hope Microsoft never sends a red cent. As someone else has mentioned already, Internet Explorer is a minority browser. More people use Safari than Internet Explorer. Being forced by the government to provide alternatives to a failing product that you're desperately trying to improve is like having salt rubbed in the wound.
Here's a song for you. Remember it and sing it loud when the bureaucrats zero in on you and demand payment for breaking a bullshit law.
An estimated 70,000 people die every day as a result of being locked into IE6.
40 years? Those are the same people!
Us or them.
Not that I agree with the reasoning, but that's the prevailing model of public discourse in the United States today.
Nineteen Eighty-Four was fully implemented in North Korea, 1948.
Thankfully, what we've learned is that such a society cannot sustain itself without powerful allies constantly coming to its aid. A more sustainable dystopia can be seen in modern day China. A corporatist society where you can start a middle class career and buy an iPod, but watch your mouth. The US is fast approaching that, but I seriously doubt any country will try the North Korean/1984 route.
I now think that the RIAA won't be satisfied until they are given a government-backed monopoly on search engines. I imagine it'll look like an old AOL portal. Want to be listed? Pay out the nose just like on TV.
Exclusive titles.
I should mention that it wouldn't charge either. Once the battery was gone, it is gone. And as far as I knew, it could only happen with XDAndroid. I stopped using it after that, and soon got another phone.
Yeah, he's right. I remember lots of crashes.
Even XDAndroid was unstable, and generally unfinished, so really there was no escape. It once completely drained my battery, and that's not something you wanted to happen on that phone. Windows looked out for it and would shut you down in advance. The reason being... if you let the battery drain completely, it would not power up even under outlet power. I had to use the battery from my older HTC Dash, tear off a small tab, and hold it in the battery compartment of the TP2 just long enough to power up and switch to the outlet. Them I could insert the real battery again and let it charge.
Very scary.