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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft Word seems the most stupid thing
« on: December 29, 2015, 01:35 AM »
Don't even try to work with PDFs if you can avoid it. You will have nothing but pain. PDF is a one-way thing.
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Yeah. I think the term for that is "speechless with rage."
-40hz (December 28, 2015, 06:01 PM)
A news reporter able to speak the truth? Shock horror.
Rather clever Jonathan Pie satire.
Reporter gets angry and tells us the REAL news - YouTube-IainB (December 27, 2015, 08:17 AM)
If you take the argument that "stories are just text" to the next level... then text is nothing but words...and words are nothing but letters...and letters nothing but geometric shapes and lines...and as such, have no meaning, or value.
On a certain level, everything becomes meaningless - if you allow yourself to fall for that deconstructionist nonsense. It might make you sound clever in certain faux-intellectual academic circles. But it leaves you with nothing if you embrace it without realizing the intellectual and spiritual cop-out it is.-40hz (December 27, 2015, 02:19 PM)
There is nothing like a White Christmas (tm)
Have a fun holiday season everyone.
[ Invalid Attachment ]-MilesAhead (December 25, 2015, 06:21 AM)
McAfee will run as Libertarian Party candidate for president
Imagine if the government went after corruption as hard as it goes after guys who run filesharing sites. Priorities.
Consumer groups, repair shops want open book on electronics
BOSTON -- Makers of electronic devices, from smart phones to coffeemakers, are keeping repair plans secret and limiting access to parts, a veil that forces many small repair shops out of business, consumer advocates say.
Electronics repair business and consumer groups now want lawmakers to intervene, forcing manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard, Samsung and Apple to openly sell parts and provide diagnostic manuals to independent repair shops.
Limiting access to plans and parts gives manufacturers reign over the secondary repair market, said Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of the Digital Right to Repair Coalition, based in New Jersey.
"Repair is a big profit for a lot of companies, and sometimes it's more profitable than selling hardware," he said.
Manufacturers are pushing back against the right-to-repair proposal, arguing that controlling repairs keeps their products working safely. In addition, they note, copyright law lets them protect their intellectual property against unscrupulous operators who might pirate it.
"This is the kind of thing that stifles innovation in the tech sector," said Matt Mincieli, Northeast region executive director for TechNet, which advocates for technology companies. "When you take away the ability of a high-technology company to control their products, you open up trade secrets and intellectual properties to potential infringement."
Mincieli said requiring device-makers to hand over sensitive diagnostic information would hurt Massachusetts' competitiveness at a time when it's compared to Silicon Valley as a hub for high-tech research and development.
"This is being driven by mostly people who want to get into the secondary repair market but don't want to pay the money to become a certified dealer - not consumers who are clamoring to get their devices fixed," he said.
To get certified to work on Apple computers, for example, technicians need to take college-level training courses online, pass several exams and pay a licensing fee of about $150, according to the company's website.
Hillary Clinton wants “Manhattan-like project” to break encryption
US should be able to bypass encryption—but only for terrorists, candidate says.
"I would hope that, given the extraordinary capacities that the tech community has and the legitimate needs and questions from law enforcement, that there could be a Manhattan-like project, something that would bring the government and the tech communities together to see they're not adversaries, they've got to be partners," Clinton continued. "It doesn't do anybody any good if terrorists can move toward encrypted communication that no law enforcement agency can break into before or after. There must be some way. I don't know enough about the technology, Martha, to be able to say what it is, but I have a lot of confidence in our tech experts."
And thus an ode to electricityode? or oh'd...-Renegade (December 16, 2015, 11:52 AM)
"In charge" and "shock" ??? I have to cast my volt against that.-MilesAhead (December 19, 2015, 07:16 AM)
Meh. To each their own. Some people get really amped up about it.-Renegade (December 19, 2015, 10:03 PM)
But we all know resistance is futile.-MilesAhead (December 20, 2015, 04:35 PM)
But capacitance has potential!-Edvard (December 20, 2015, 06:49 PM)
I just hope the discussion doesn't get too polarized. Mouser will ban us to the basement.-MilesAhead (December 20, 2015, 07:43 PM)
An ode will then be required.-4wd (December 20, 2015, 11:27 PM)?
-barney (December 20, 2015, 11:41 PM)
