At least somebody is thinking creatively about the music situation, instead of just whining and wishing for the "old days" to come back.
Of course, those wedded to the erstwhile status quo (major labels) will crap themselves. Or try to sabotage and/or badmouth the idea.
I don't think the name is one bit of a problem on the other side of the pond; the only place I consistently hear complaints about its name seems to be Slashdot.
It's more of a storm in a teacup, which might give some people a stick to beat the GIMP with. As you say, it appears to be a Slashdot-only sort of thing.
The first page or two of Google results for gimp all point to sites for the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Also, the entry in wiktionary for gimp suggests GIMP as an alternative, then lists some arcane meanings for the term, before noting its use in US slang from 1925, and then listing more arcane definitions. Despite living more than a decade in the US and Canada as an adult, I only heard people there use the term to refer to the image editor. Expletives and pejorative expressions were common enough, in many contexts, but never did I hear "gimp" used in that way.
Actually, it says that Google is better than Microsoft or Facebook at protecting user's data from government requests, and much better than Apple or Amazon (to pick a few). Trust is not implied; companies are scored on items on which they should be distrusted. Google scores nearer the better end of that scale than Microsoft or Facebook, and companies like Apple (unsurprisingly) are among the worst.
I hear you. I use Ubuntu and it has no ads, only a powerful *feature* where stuff I search for also links to Amazon. So convenient!
I use Xubuntu, which lacks this particular "feature".
Anyway, I suspect the Ubuntu in Finland would have to exchange shit with amazon.de or amazon.co.uk or similar, as shoveling it to amazon.com would be fairly useless. They certainly would not dump their load on amazon.fi (which predates the Bezos organization by a few decades and is unrelated to it commercially).
Anyone want to bet that Microsoft will price themselves right out of the $200 atom market? I'm betting that $200 will be right about the price point for just the OS, so unless Intel wants to give away their atom touchscreen lappies, they'll remain android, or possibly get a linux option.
Depends how much crapware they can shovel onto the Windows laptop. The crapware vendors donate a buck or so for each installation, in the expectation that some of them will result in fifty or so bucks back, and maybe annual fees or future upgrades. It's one of the reasons there is little difference between the price of a PC with Windows and a PC with no OS (sometimes the Windows PC is even cheaper). Our strategy has been to just wipe the disk and install Xubuntu; no problems, and no crapware.
the 787 can fly again, but it won't be allowed to fly the major international routes. only the ones where the flight path is always within an hour of a major airport
TFA and the press release did not mention any ETOPS restriction, and the plane was previously certified for 180 minutes ETOPS (Boeing planned on increasing it further). Do you have a source for this?
I think this is a reasonable description of 'most everyone's productivity cycles. Granted I'm just another more-or-less Asperger's engineer/physicist with a strong love of music, but take a look at writers, artists, or almost any field of endeavor. You'll find people's output varies significantly over time. Vacations help too.:-) . The ability to take on side-projects without feeling guilty is probably a very handy thing in one's life.
Paid vacations (or similar) and adequate non-work time are a key in maintaining long-term productivity. The occasional side-project on the job is essential in maintaining your intellectual capital. Alas, if you are unfortunate enough to work for a major corporation in a fungible role (i.e. one where you can be easily replaced), then your long-term productivity and intellectual development are mere costs to be eliminated. This results in significant differences:
1) Focused effort toward a goal, This is good, provided the goal came from Marketing, was approved by numerous committees, and was not one you dreamed up yourself
2) structured self-education, Unnecessary, as you should know everything required for your job already
3) side-projects to sharpen skills, Time-wasting, especially because you should know everything required for your job already
4) burnout and rest. Burnout happens, then you're discarded and can rest without remuneration
And seek publicity for the walled garden (but remember: don't ever call it a jail, or even an internment camp!).
According to TFA, their app got re-approved with a few tweaks. The whole thing reeks of being just another crapple crapvertisement from/.
Perhaps they mean one billion web pages rather than web sites. It seems unlikely that the UK could host a billion web sites (even the American billion of 10^9 rather than the British billion of 10^12).
Car analogy: these guests borrowed your nice shiny car, and brought it back with dents, scratches, and a busted headlamp. But they were sober and assured you that they'd kept within the speed limits, so no harm done. Do you lend them your repaired car the next time they ask?
It's better to endure those "funny looks" than have to clean up a diseased Windows box. Give them the Linux live CD, and don't tell them the passwords for your Windows box, lest they molest it again. Who knows, they might even get to like Linux...
Automated incremental backup of the headless servers at home, every two days (and I check the backup logs regularly). The backup disks are cycled every 4 weeks: the existing set goes to an insulated box in the garage (a separate heated building), while the previous disks come in and start with a full backup. Our 4 workstations at home all get backed up to local USB disks, but these are merely for convenience - important files are always kept on the servers, where they belong.
You don't belong on this planet.
Well, maybe just on this tiny little fragment of the planet. Among other wierdnesses, we're linux-only at home - servers, laptops, desktops - which helps a lot with automating stuff. BTW, the kids picked up Linux quite easily, and are now proficient in using xfce as much as in using Windows XP or 7 (their schools endure both).
Seriously, I run RAID, cross-machine mirroring, then do daily backups, with the logs emailed to me each morning. Periodic external media copies to DVD and USB devices. In my case, I have incentive, though. I used to work for a big-name backup software company and knew of design flaws that meant that a certain percentage of backups would write out defective data. And got burned in later years when I was compelled to use the product for my later employer. Because the RAID arrays would blow a disk the minute I'd leave on vacation, then blow a second one before I got back to replace it. And the restore would fail.
I dread the day I'll have to restore from backups; this is a major motivation for being ready for it. The instant I'm unready, Murphy will surely smite us...
Restoring should go easily on replacement servers, and I had a dry-run of restoring a backup when we added the second server, since it was pretty much empty at the time. All of our media are on the backup schedule, because I figured that it would just take too long to re-rip all the CDs and DVDs. Similarly, although all our photos have raw files dumped to DVD-R, I don't test those DVD-R disks for error-free readability often enough (a handful are tested maybe once per year, and so far, no issues), so all of the photo directories are backed up. Also, regenerating the jpegs from raw files would take a huge amount of time and DVD-R swapping. And then there are the home movies, most of which exist only on the media server, with a few duplicated on the web server. It really is remarkable how much we've shifted to digital formats, which could all get wiped out in a single incident.
Automated incremental backup of the headless servers at home, every two days (and I check the backup logs regularly). The backup disks are cycled every 4 weeks: the existing set goes to an insulated box in the garage (a separate heated building), while the previous disks come in and start with a full backup. Our 4 workstations at home all get backed up to local USB disks, but these are merely for convenience - important files are always kept on the servers, where they belong.
No. The existing Gnome 2 userbase on existing hardware was not really the intended audience for Gnome 3. It was possible a bad naming decision in taking the product in a direction likely to alienate existing customers rather than release a new product name.
You're right there, they should have called it Gnumb. Or something like Gnumb Gnuts would be even more descriptive, and delineate their intended user base fairly precisely.
LTS is intended for business and people who want things to stay the same.
But they fully encourage and expect the average user to track the fast release cycle. Its not just for early adopters and enthusiasts -- its what they want regular people using.
Some "regular people" prefer stability. Our home PCs have been on Ubuntu since Breezy, and on Ubuntu LTS versions since Hardy. Before Breezy, we tried Caldera OpenLinux (around 1998 I think), and SUSE (maybe around 2003), but stuck with neither.
In fact, we still use the 2004 laptop which got a beta of Breezy in 2005 - even its wireless worked without any configuration effort. Due to the vagaries of the bleeding edge, we switched to LTS versions with Hardy, and due to the vagaries of Unity, we switched from Ubuntu to Xubuntu before upgrading to Precise. Two desktops and two laptops on 12.04 LTS; the headless servers run Synology's linux.
And, as pointed out in the Firehose: if you crashed an OS (be it Windows or OSX or Linux or BSD or anything) by moving some files around, then either (i) they were not unimportant files and you must have been running with privilege escalated, or (ii) you have some kind of hardware problem, which could be intermittent.
Slashdot Mirror
and is likely to result in my pulling the plug.
So pull the plug already... Some of us never even got into that squalid bathtub (social diseases, ugh).
At least somebody is thinking creatively about the music situation, instead of just whining and wishing for the "old days" to come back.
Of course, those wedded to the erstwhile status quo (major labels) will crap themselves. Or try to sabotage and/or badmouth the idea.
They look more like solifluctations, or possibly something related to palsas or pingos.
Presumably, the authors will now allege common ancestry with languages of Oceania and Eastasia.
Then the real wars will begin.
I don't think the name is one bit of a problem on the other side of the pond; the only place I consistently hear complaints about its name seems to be Slashdot.
It's more of a storm in a teacup, which might give some people a stick to beat the GIMP with. As you say, it appears to be a Slashdot-only sort of thing.
The first page or two of Google results for gimp all point to sites for the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Also, the entry in wiktionary for gimp suggests GIMP as an alternative, then lists some arcane meanings for the term, before noting its use in US slang from 1925, and then listing more arcane definitions. Despite living more than a decade in the US and Canada as an adult, I only heard people there use the term to refer to the image editor. Expletives and pejorative expressions were common enough, in many contexts, but never did I hear "gimp" used in that way.
Those masks would make anyone look ugly. You'd expect something better from so-called artists...
This says I should trust google with all my data
Actually, it says that Google is better than Microsoft or Facebook at protecting user's data from government requests, and much better than Apple or Amazon (to pick a few). Trust is not implied; companies are scored on items on which they should be distrusted. Google scores nearer the better end of that scale than Microsoft or Facebook, and companies like Apple (unsurprisingly) are among the worst.
I hear you. I use Ubuntu and it has no ads, only a powerful *feature* where stuff I search for also links to Amazon. So convenient!
I use Xubuntu, which lacks this particular "feature".
Anyway, I suspect the Ubuntu in Finland would have to exchange shit with amazon.de or amazon.co.uk or similar, as shoveling it to amazon.com would be fairly useless. They certainly would not dump their load on amazon.fi (which predates the Bezos organization by a few decades and is unrelated to it commercially).
Anyone want to bet that Microsoft will price themselves right out of the $200 atom market? I'm betting that $200 will be right about the price point for just the OS, so unless Intel wants to give away their atom touchscreen lappies, they'll remain android, or possibly get a linux option.
Depends how much crapware they can shovel onto the Windows laptop. The crapware vendors donate a buck or so for each installation, in the expectation that some of them will result in fifty or so bucks back, and maybe annual fees or future upgrades. It's one of the reasons there is little difference between the price of a PC with Windows and a PC with no OS (sometimes the Windows PC is even cheaper). Our strategy has been to just wipe the disk and install Xubuntu; no problems, and no crapware.
So, in what language would you write a compiler?
COBOL.
APL
And it's already been done (check paper P09 by Alfonseca in 1998.
And then we'll have the Great Firewall of Blighty...
Please. It will be the Great Fire Moat. And it will resemble a trough, in critical ways.
the 787 can fly again, but it won't be allowed to fly the major international routes. only the ones where the flight path is always within an hour of a major airport
TFA and the press release did not mention any ETOPS restriction, and the plane was previously certified for 180 minutes ETOPS (Boeing planned on increasing it further). Do you have a source for this?
Elections?
We have many many elections in Kolea. Have them plactically evely night!
I think this is a reasonable description of 'most everyone's productivity cycles. Granted I'm just another more-or-less Asperger's engineer/physicist with a strong love of music, but take a look at writers, artists, or almost any field of endeavor. You'll find people's output varies significantly over time. Vacations help too. :-) . The ability to take on side-projects without feeling guilty is probably a very handy thing in one's life.
Paid vacations (or similar) and adequate non-work time are a key in maintaining long-term productivity. The occasional side-project on the job is essential in maintaining your intellectual capital. Alas, if you are unfortunate enough to work for a major corporation in a fungible role (i.e. one where you can be easily replaced), then your long-term productivity and intellectual development are mere costs to be eliminated. This results in significant differences:
1) Focused effort toward a goal, This is good, provided the goal came from Marketing, was approved by numerous committees, and was not one you dreamed up yourself
2) structured self-education, Unnecessary, as you should know everything required for your job already
3) side-projects to sharpen skills, Time-wasting, especially because you should know everything required for your job already
4) burnout and rest. Burnout happens, then you're discarded and can rest without remuneration
Yep. Yet another slashvertisement, this time for a rumor/vapor service.
Die by the walled garden.
And seek publicity for the walled garden (but remember: don't ever call it a jail, or even an internment camp!). /.
According to TFA, their app got re-approved with a few tweaks. The whole thing reeks of being just another crapple crapvertisement from
Perhaps they mean one billion web pages rather than web sites. It seems unlikely that the UK could host a billion web sites (even the American billion of 10^9 rather than the British billion of 10^12).
Car analogy: these guests borrowed your nice shiny car, and brought it back with dents, scratches, and a busted headlamp. But they were sober and assured you that they'd kept within the speed limits, so no harm done. Do you lend them your repaired car the next time they ask?
It's better to endure those "funny looks" than have to clean up a diseased Windows box. Give them the Linux live CD, and don't tell them the passwords for your Windows box, lest they molest it again. Who knows, they might even get to like Linux...
Automated incremental backup of the headless servers at home, every two days (and I check the backup logs regularly). The backup disks are cycled every 4 weeks: the existing set goes to an insulated box in the garage (a separate heated building), while the previous disks come in and start with a full backup. Our 4 workstations at home all get backed up to local USB disks, but these are merely for convenience - important files are always kept on the servers, where they belong.
You don't belong on this planet.
Well, maybe just on this tiny little fragment of the planet. Among other wierdnesses, we're linux-only at home - servers, laptops, desktops - which helps a lot with automating stuff. BTW, the kids picked up Linux quite easily, and are now proficient in using xfce as much as in using Windows XP or 7 (their schools endure both).
Seriously, I run RAID, cross-machine mirroring, then do daily backups, with the logs emailed to me each morning. Periodic external media copies to DVD and USB devices. In my case, I have incentive, though. I used to work for a big-name backup software company and knew of design flaws that meant that a certain percentage of backups would write out defective data. And got burned in later years when I was compelled to use the product for my later employer. Because the RAID arrays would blow a disk the minute I'd leave on vacation, then blow a second one before I got back to replace it. And the restore would fail.
I dread the day I'll have to restore from backups; this is a major motivation for being ready for it. The instant I'm unready, Murphy will surely smite us...
Restoring should go easily on replacement servers, and I had a dry-run of restoring a backup when we added the second server, since it was pretty much empty at the time. All of our media are on the backup schedule, because I figured that it would just take too long to re-rip all the CDs and DVDs. Similarly, although all our photos have raw files dumped to DVD-R, I don't test those DVD-R disks for error-free readability often enough (a handful are tested maybe once per year, and so far, no issues), so all of the photo directories are backed up. Also, regenerating the jpegs from raw files would take a huge amount of time and DVD-R swapping. And then there are the home movies, most of which exist only on the media server, with a few duplicated on the web server. It really is remarkable how much we've shifted to digital formats, which could all get wiped out in a single incident.
Automated incremental backup of the headless servers at home, every two days (and I check the backup logs regularly). The backup disks are cycled every 4 weeks: the existing set goes to an insulated box in the garage (a separate heated building), while the previous disks come in and start with a full backup. Our 4 workstations at home all get backed up to local USB disks, but these are merely for convenience - important files are always kept on the servers, where they belong.
No. The existing Gnome 2 userbase on existing hardware was not really the intended audience for Gnome 3. It was possible a bad naming decision in taking the product in a direction likely to alienate existing customers rather than release a new product name.
You're right there, they should have called it Gnumb. Or something like Gnumb Gnuts would be even more descriptive, and delineate their intended user base fairly precisely.
The copper will be worth a few farthings per furlong, but that's likely to be it for value.
Some farthings are worth quite a lot. Offer me a few of the several-thousand-sterling each types, and I'll gladly deliver a furlong of cable.
LTS is intended for business and people who want things to stay the same.
But they fully encourage and expect the average user to track the fast release cycle. Its not just for early adopters and enthusiasts -- its what they want regular people using.
Some "regular people" prefer stability. Our home PCs have been on Ubuntu since Breezy, and on Ubuntu LTS versions since Hardy. Before Breezy, we tried Caldera OpenLinux (around 1998 I think), and SUSE (maybe around 2003), but stuck with neither.
In fact, we still use the 2004 laptop which got a beta of Breezy in 2005 - even its wireless worked without any configuration effort. Due to the vagaries of the bleeding edge, we switched to LTS versions with Hardy, and due to the vagaries of Unity, we switched from Ubuntu to Xubuntu before upgrading to Precise. Two desktops and two laptops on 12.04 LTS; the headless servers run Synology's linux.
And, as pointed out in the Firehose: if you crashed an OS (be it Windows or OSX or Linux or BSD or anything) by moving some files around, then either (i) they were not unimportant files and you must have been running with privilege escalated, or (ii) you have some kind of hardware problem, which could be intermittent.
They say odt format is not available yet (with a typo missing the "not" on the store no less)
According to Google Play, it's the exact opposite: "only OpenDocument Text documents (ODT) are supported".