We have the same issues in my company. An IT guy called the people in the lab "to talk about their lab computers" and upgrading to Win7. He was promptly told to forget about it and crawl back under his stone!
I suspect the old machines will be air-gapped, which is something that will impede productivity somewhat, especially when it comes to apparatuses that produce large volumes of data.
This is rather the norm in many journals (even those of the much-hated Elsevier). You don't even have to leave the peer review corrections out! "Publisher-prepared version" means the formatted version with all the graphs, logos, layout etc. that will be found verbatim in the published version. The text of the "preprint" is still owned by the author.
Not only was this website paid for, it was obviously part of the deceased's last wishes. If Yahoo has no respect for the law or its customers, it should at least show some respect to a dude's last wish.
There definitely are thousands of perfectionist workaholic managers that absolutely HAVE to take a look at the presentation that you will be holding tomorrow, although they are on vacation, camping trip or whatever and they don't have a laptop with a umts stick. They will be using said office package to natively open the document you'll send them so that absolutely no formatting is distorted.
Does this guy even know what he's talking about? Nihilists don't care. According to nihilism, there is no government. In fact, there is no country either.
They introduces proteins (insecticides, herbicide resistance, etc) into our food supply that our bodies don't know how to deal with
Your body is not "dealing with" these proteins. Instead, they are used as energy so that your cells can produce their own proteins, according to your DNA. In fact, the proteins in your, say, cooked egg are not the proteins of the fresh egg, but something quite different. You can eat the egg boiled or raw, your stomach won't care a bit (as long as salmonella is not involved).
That said, we do need to keep an eye on the stuff we eat. Insecticides/herbicides that can be absorbed by our systems "as is" are much more dangerous (in the spirit of DDT). I will take a GMO with built-in protein-based immunity against a "natural" vegetable sprayed with poison any day of the week.
You're right, but why on earth do school essays have to be argumentative? It seems that our educators decided that having an adamant opinion on a given subject and supporting it by all means is more important than being able to see things clearly and from a neutral point of view.
No wonder the world is full of assholes with opinions different than mine.:-)
This. I think what is lacking in the tablet world is hardware diversity. What about a tablet that can act as a second monitor while charging (per above), or has cores that are idle when used as a tablet but activate when plugged in so that it can act as the main CPU source and work with a larger 2nd monitor? Or that will act as a stylus-input device and a monitor when plugged in to a desktop?
Maybe some tablet have one of the above features or the other, but what about all of them?
Actually the court decision is in Microsoft's best interest. They were loosing customers due to the name ambiguity.
Just the other day I got a Win8 laptop and when I saw the SkyDrive I thought: I ain't uploading to no SkyDrive and have those pesky Brits broadcast my stuff all over the place! Get your own goddamn data!
What does the sensor size have to do with the depth of field? The DOF is controlled by the aperture, not the sensor's dimensions. Unless you meant "field of view" instead of "depth of field", which is a different story.
there are geeks that are hipsters, foodies and that just love the hedonistic pleasures of life.
No, there aren't. Geeks just love to write fast, stupefiyingly complicated code. Besides, the taste buds of real geeks can only sense (and tell the difference between various brands of) caffeinated drinks and beer. And candy.
We all converge in this site at some point and share things that matter to all of us
No, we don't. Some come out of impulse, since you can't teach an old dog new facebook tricks. Others come, only to be chased off the lawns of the first group. Hipsters come to talk about their smartphones and be laughed at.
Don't fall in the "us" and "them" rhetoric
Seriously? In the geek-world, it has always been about us and them. Us the vi users and them the emacs users, us the linux users and them the windows users, and so on (you get the point).
learn to respect people that care about different things.
I think that "patent troll exterminator" under my "other interests and qualifications" would look good on my resume: "I believe that I could be an important asset of your legal department".
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YMMV. A truly amazing cow would shoot herself in the head so that you can eat her.
We have the same issues in my company. An IT guy called the people in the lab "to talk about their lab computers" and upgrading to Win7. He was promptly told to forget about it and crawl back under his stone!
I suspect the old machines will be air-gapped, which is something that will impede productivity somewhat, especially when it comes to apparatuses that produce large volumes of data.
people get tablets that are like their smartphone and work well with it, not one that works well with and like their PC.
And that is the brilliant idea that brought us Win8, because MS thought they could unite this ecosystem and offer interoperability for... profit?
Duh! A surface has zero thickness. A stack of surfaces would have a height of exactly 0.
Oh, wait...
Lignite is used in many european countries for electricity. If that's what you can dig out of your ground, that's what you burn.
This is rather the norm in many journals (even those of the much-hated Elsevier). You don't even have to leave the peer review corrections out! "Publisher-prepared version" means the formatted version with all the graphs, logos, layout etc. that will be found verbatim in the published version. The text of the "preprint" is still owned by the author.
When submitting bugs, I would write example code and name my functions "foo", only so that I sound like Mr. T while coding!
Not only was this website paid for, it was obviously part of the deceased's last wishes. If Yahoo has no respect for the law or its customers, it should at least show some respect to a dude's last wish.
There definitely are thousands of perfectionist workaholic managers that absolutely HAVE to take a look at the presentation that you will be holding tomorrow, although they are on vacation, camping trip or whatever and they don't have a laptop with a umts stick. They will be using said office package to natively open the document you'll send them so that absolutely no formatting is distorted.
Yes, I know of people that think this way. Sadly.
Does this guy even know what he's talking about? Nihilists don't care. According to nihilism, there is no government. In fact, there is no country either.
I know, it must be exhausting...
Point taken! In any case, you made me laugh :-)
I seriously doubt that.
See the irony?
The brains allowed them to stand in long lines waiting for their genitals to be groped, and then subject to horrible service and food?
No, you're thinking McDonald's.
They introduces proteins (insecticides, herbicide resistance, etc) into our food supply that our bodies don't know how to deal with
Your body is not "dealing with" these proteins. Instead, they are used as energy so that your cells can produce their own proteins, according to your DNA. In fact, the proteins in your, say, cooked egg are not the proteins of the fresh egg, but something quite different. You can eat the egg boiled or raw, your stomach won't care a bit (as long as salmonella is not involved).
That said, we do need to keep an eye on the stuff we eat. Insecticides/herbicides that can be absorbed by our systems "as is" are much more dangerous (in the spirit of DDT). I will take a GMO with built-in protein-based immunity against a "natural" vegetable sprayed with poison any day of the week.
You're right, but why on earth do school essays have to be argumentative? It seems that our educators decided that having an adamant opinion on a given subject and supporting it by all means is more important than being able to see things clearly and from a neutral point of view.
No wonder the world is full of assholes with opinions different than mine. :-)
This. I think what is lacking in the tablet world is hardware diversity. What about a tablet that can act as a second monitor while charging (per above), or has cores that are idle when used as a tablet but activate when plugged in so that it can act as the main CPU source and work with a larger 2nd monitor? Or that will act as a stylus-input device and a monitor when plugged in to a desktop?
Maybe some tablet have one of the above features or the other, but what about all of them?
Thanks for the info!
I would vote for such a development with my wallet.
Actually the court decision is in Microsoft's best interest. They were loosing customers due to the name ambiguity.
Just the other day I got a Win8 laptop and when I saw the SkyDrive I thought: I ain't uploading to no SkyDrive and have those pesky Brits broadcast my stuff all over the place! Get your own goddamn data!
In my time, running a liberal-minded website would get you 1000 lashes, 36 hours in the the iron maiden without supper and the electric chair.
Kids these days...
What does the sensor size have to do with the depth of field? The DOF is controlled by the aperture, not the sensor's dimensions. Unless you meant "field of view" instead of "depth of field", which is a different story.
there are geeks that are hipsters, foodies and that just love the hedonistic pleasures of life.
No, there aren't. Geeks just love to write fast, stupefiyingly complicated code. Besides, the taste buds of real geeks can only sense (and tell the difference between various brands of) caffeinated drinks and beer. And candy.
We all converge in this site at some point and share things that matter to all of us
No, we don't. Some come out of impulse, since you can't teach an old dog new facebook tricks. Others come, only to be chased off the lawns of the first group. Hipsters come to talk about their smartphones and be laughed at.
Don't fall in the "us" and "them" rhetoric
Seriously? In the geek-world, it has always been about us and them. Us the vi users and them the emacs users, us the linux users and them the windows users, and so on (you get the point).
learn to respect people that care about different things.
Heh, that's a good one!
I think that "patent troll exterminator" under my "other interests and qualifications" would look good on my resume: "I believe that I could be an important asset of your legal department".
Right. Because nobody really wants to use Windows and Office in a corporate environment.
Alas, all this is done to cure our own concience, since humans played a major role in bringing the rhinos close to extinction in the first place...