The thing that pisses me off is companies which require that I send a.doc or.docx formatted résumé. Where able, I politely request to send my résumé in pdf format, but it's not always an option. So therefore, I have a résumé in those formats, but the visual differences between the two are striking. Word looks frankly like shit.
Well, the way I see it - if a company only accepts.docs, then that's a company I shouldn't be working at in the first place.
Hey, I gotta question, man, and it's a stupid one. I've answered a lot of dumb, lazy questions here and now it's my turn to be dumb and lazy. How do I make those accent marks and other oddball characters here?
They minimized the damage that the biggest issue, user, can cause to the system, hardened the system itself significantly, slapped a properly functional firewall into a default installation and so on.
Except real security comes from a well-designed system, the Firewall is just a mitigation factor. I agree with you that the biggest issue is the user. Still, if you consider that Android (which is Linux based) runs in a virtual machine which was target of many FORMAL security studies and that the Kernel (Linux), OS and VM are open and available for anyone to dissect and see; then you will be more sympathetic with my argument.
The problem with you and everyone else that modded me down is that they only consider Windows 8 alone and ignore the alternatives..
through to the addition of NFC 'wallet' payments and BitLocker encryption (...) It will also have the same network stack, security, and multimedia support as Windows 8.
That movie might make a good sliding scale test to see how far along in the movie you can watch before getting completely weirded out, figure out your tolerance level.
It is worth reading indeed! As a European which owned several Nokia phones, I found this article very interesting. It is written by the former Nokia executive Tomi Ahonen, most of the given reasons are based in the fact that WP7 is a major departure from Nokia's philosophy and vision (which was reflected in their products). Here are some insightful quotes:
REASON 1 MESSAGING MADNESS: Nokia has a natural strength in messaging-oriented smartphones (the most used feature of all mobile phone owners from Africa to the USA is messaging, including smartphone owners). It is abandoned with the first 3 Lumia phones. (...) The world's first person-to-person SMS text message was sent in Finland in 1993 on the Radiolinja GSM network from one Nokia phone to another, by a Nokia employee Riku Pihkonen. (...) Even the inventor of SMS, Matti Makkonen finished his career at Nokia (he was my last mentor). (...) And what has been a major feature of Nokia smartphones always - a high proportion of them have had physical QWERTY keyboards in several formats (...) Did Nokia bother to put a QWERTY keyboard onto its first three Lumia phones? No! Note, this is a Nokia competitive advantage. Note, 90% of American smartphone owners wish this more than anything else (...) Nokia voluntarily abandons nearly half of the addressable market and instead - forces, FORCES all Lumias to be compared to iPhones (rather than compared to Blackberries).
REASON 2 - CAMERA CATASTROPHY Nokia mobile phones have always been known for good cameras, its flagship phones tend to have had the best cameras in the world. The camera is the second most used feature. The Lumia series is a downgrade of Nokia camera capability and will severely disappoint past Nokia owners and not stand up to rivals today.
REASON 6 - INPUT FAILURE. The Nokia strength has been exceptional QWERTY keyboards. On the N9 using MeeGo Nokia was able to innovate with touch screen inputs. But Lumia has neither. It is a cheap copycat of the iPhone style touch screen input and Lumia abandons natural Nokia strengths while showing no competitive advantages.
REASON 7 - Fails in variety of models. Nokia has traditionally been able to hold to the world's largest smartphone market share - a year ago Nokia was literally not just bigger than the iPhone, it was bigger than the iPhone and all Samsung smartphones - combined. Now Samsung is 'doing the Nokia' with its expanding Galaxy portfolio while the three Lumia devices are near clones of each other. Nokia is again voluntarily abandoning a competitive advantage, which means Lumia will perform less well than Nokia was able to do in the past.
REASON 10 - REGRESSING on features and services. (...) The joke was, that to see what will be on the next iPhone model, just look at a 3 year old Nokia flagship. The Lumia is the first time ever, that Nokia has regressed in its features, severely. Not just pruning unnecessary tech 'bloat' but literally going back in tech, to specs that were normal on Nokia phones a year, two, even three years ago.
REASON 12 - POISONED CARRIER RELATIONSHIPS with Nokia. The handset industry is different from the PC industry or home electronics, in that the carriers/operators decide which phone succeeds and which fails (witness the short-lived Microsoft Kin). Nokia used to have the platinum-standard carrier relationships a year ago. Those were burned by the CEO last year. Today Nokia's carrier relationships are the worst they have ever been.
Don't waste your mod points here... use them in registered users instead to affect their karma.
Trolls have been using this trick for years: 1) post random garbage as Anon; 2) wait until moderators waste their mod points with it 3) post flamebait thread; 4) if your flamebait thread is getting modded down, start from 1) ??? 5) get paid by internet reputation agencies, $$$$ profit?
This particular use of OSS has been in the program of political parties quite some time ago in Portugal. I am Portuguese and can't tell how happy I am about this. Not only it will cut budget costs but will also shape better students who are not limited by the operating system's lock in. I just hope people charged with the school infrastructure collaborate with the transition and don't start whining because of extra work (and knowledge) it will require.
You know Google sync supports the Exchange protocol and is freely available for all phones
Yes but it sucks. I have my HTC Wizard syncing with Google's exchange servers and let me tell you, the Exchange protocol is utter crap. Or at least the Google's exchange implementation + WinMobile 6.5 exchange implementation combination is crap. Why? Because I can't simply create contacts in the phone or most probably the Active Sync software (the sync utility on WinMob) will prompt me with a "there was an error with the exchange server, all your contacts in the phone need to be deleted and re-synced again from the server." This is annoying! If wasn't for my phone having a qwerty keyboard and me only caring about, you know, sending messages and making phone calls, this phone would be in the garbage for a long long time..
The problem, of course, is that while these different versions of the model might all match the historical data, they would in general generate different predictions going forward
If these morons knew a little more about data mining techniques and in special, if they weren't so greedy, maybe we all wouldn't be facing this global economic mess right now..
Personally I just browse regular brands (Asus, Acer, HP, Toshiba, etc..) for a good deal and then I lookup in a Linux driver database for the drivers of the chipset and important peripherals.. If all looks good, that's the laptop I buy.
Even if something is not supported yet by Linux, changes are high that I find myself the motivation to implement a new driver for it, like this http://www.arrifano.com/index.php?t=dv6k and this http://www.arrifano.com/index.php?t=quickstart (go ahead, it is my private server running with limited bandwidth but behind cloudflare, lets see how good cloudflare is:P).
The problem with this method is that you still end up paying the "Microsoft tax". You could try to get a refund but I was never successful with that.
Just wondering, why was parent modded down as troll?
Like many others in here, I'm the tech guy in the neighborhood. If I could quickly draw a quick conclusion on my experiences when going to neighbors houses (all of the persons are family heads with all kinds of jobs) to repair the computers or making them faster, it would be something like: All of them run windows, this is a fact. Most of them don't know what is the latest version of windows and they don't care. When I suggest an update (from XP or Vista), most of them ask if the computer will work "the same". It is pointless to explain them what is new in Windows 7 because they don't really care. They just care if they have the same software they have been using for the printer/scanner for years, or if the computer will run faster or with less viruses. Before modding down, NO, I'm NOT implying they get viruses because of being running windows. They usually get viruses because they run whatever crap they find on the internet or because they plug their USB key everywhere. It is also funny to see that their antivirus never seem to detect anything, I was never told about some random popup warning about virus - for example. When I suggest I could update the windows for them so they could "experiment it", they accept it. Some (the minority) will call me after two weeks asking for the old windows back, that the new windows is "too different". Some computers won't even install latest windows easily (I don't really have the time to spend a entire day looking for hacked drivers or whatever for other people), while other computers are simply too slow to run it. Granted I could fine tune the windows install but I don't really have the time or the patience. Most of the times is pointless to suggest an upgrade because that would require a new motherboard, etc.. etc.. To be honest, they don't even need a upgrade, because everything they needed (web browser, spreadsheet, word) was already working in the old version of windows. I also suggested a Mac (with OSX) to the most savy of the neighbors and they ended up very interested but fact is, not a single person had the "courage" (as in being ready for a change) to buy one.
I just pointed out some facts, now I'll leave the conclusion for you to make.
At expense of being modded down, I suggest Gentoo Linux.
Gentoo Linux is actually a meta-distribution, which means that you can use Gentoo to create your personalized Gentoo-based distribution. The package manager (portage), which builds packages from source, can compile the package to the same (as the host/running arch) or any other architecture transparently, while tracking dependencies and anything else you would expect from a modern package manager. We can argue that it provides more or less the same features as bitbake (openembedded) or buildroot (debian), but really the big benefit of Gentoo is that the cross-development tool is actually the same as the system's package manager. This means that your new embedded system can benefit from all the available packages in the Gentoo repository, given that they build for the target architecture - of course. For more information have a look at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ If you are not familiar with Gentoo but you are already know how to create a GNU/Linux system from scratch, learning how to use Gentoo utilities is straightforward. However, if you are both new to embedded Linux development and Gentoo Linux, it might take some time to get used to it. But once you get your development system setup and your team used to it, trust me, Gentoo makes it really easy because you can automate most of the process. An example is the Gentoo LiveCD (which is still Gentoo) which is automatically built in a regular basis.
I've seen some interesting use cases in the Gentoo embedded mailing list but probably the most important one is Google. Google is using Gentoo to build it's Chrome-OS, for more information look here - http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-guide There was a extensive discussion at Chrome-OS on what to use for their development system, and they ended up choosing Gentoo. Look up at their archives for the relevant thread since, if I remember correctly, the discussion provides a lot of pros and cons for some Linux-based embedded development solutions out there.
'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
There was also a TED talk about it. If you haven't seen it yet, you should, it is very inspiring and futuristic.
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The thing that pisses me off is companies which require that I send a .doc or .docx formatted résumé. Where able, I politely request to send my résumé in pdf format, but it's not always an option. So therefore, I have a résumé in those formats, but the visual differences between the two are striking. Word looks frankly like shit.
Well, the way I see it - if a company only accepts .docs, then that's a company I shouldn't be working at in the first place.
Hey, I gotta question, man, and it's a stupid one. I've answered a lot of dumb, lazy questions here and now it's my turn to be dumb and lazy. How do I make those accent marks and other oddball characters here?
I'm using the Portuguese keyboard layout, I just press the ' and e keys consecutively.
https://www.forlanglab.lsu.edu/exams/KeyboardLayout/images/Keyboards/Portuguese.png
As for the key mapping, I think chromium is outputting ISO-8859-1 (latin 1) characters. I'm sure slashdot doesn't support UTF-8.
Damn, this wasn't supposed to come up AC.
But enough of that - I will offer you the real-world challenge: Write your resume' with Office
I write my résumé in LaTeX you insensitive clod!
They minimized the damage that the biggest issue, user, can cause to the system, hardened the system itself significantly, slapped a properly functional firewall into a default installation and so on.
Except real security comes from a well-designed system, the Firewall is just a mitigation factor. I agree with you that the biggest issue is the user.
Still, if you consider that Android (which is Linux based) runs in a virtual machine which was target of many FORMAL security studies and that the Kernel (Linux), OS and VM are open and available for anyone to dissect and see; then you will be more sympathetic with my argument.
The problem with you and everyone else that modded me down is that they only consider Windows 8 alone and ignore the alternatives..
From TFA:
through to the addition of NFC 'wallet' payments and BitLocker encryption (...) It will also have the same network stack, security, and multimedia support as Windows 8.
emphasis mine
I second that. It was him that included my first kernel driver ( http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-driver-devel/2010/8/5/6885969 ). He is also a Gentoo developer belonging to the kernel team: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kernel/
That movie might make a good sliding scale test to see how far along in the movie you can watch before getting completely weirded out, figure out your tolerance level.
Really? Even better than Happiness (1998) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/ ?
(...)
The real Top 13 reasons why Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone will fail, not just in USA but across planet
It's worth reading.
It is worth reading indeed! As a European which owned several Nokia phones, I found this article very interesting. It is written by the former Nokia executive Tomi Ahonen, most of the given reasons are based in the fact that WP7 is a major departure from Nokia's philosophy and vision (which was reflected in their products). Here are some insightful quotes:
REASON 1 MESSAGING MADNESS: Nokia has a natural strength in messaging-oriented smartphones (the most used feature of all mobile phone owners from Africa to the USA is messaging, including smartphone owners). It is abandoned with the first 3 Lumia phones. (...) The world's first person-to-person SMS text message was sent in Finland in 1993 on the Radiolinja GSM network from one Nokia phone to another, by a Nokia employee Riku Pihkonen. (...) Even the inventor of SMS, Matti Makkonen finished his career at Nokia (he was my last mentor). (...) And what has been a major feature of Nokia smartphones always - a high proportion of them have had physical QWERTY keyboards in several formats (...) Did Nokia bother to put a QWERTY keyboard onto its first three Lumia phones? No! Note, this is a Nokia competitive advantage. Note, 90% of American smartphone owners wish this more than anything else (...) Nokia voluntarily abandons nearly half of the addressable market and instead - forces, FORCES all Lumias to be compared to iPhones (rather than compared to Blackberries).
REASON 2 - CAMERA CATASTROPHY
Nokia mobile phones have always been known for good cameras, its flagship phones tend to have had the best cameras in the world. The camera is the second most used feature. The Lumia series is a downgrade of Nokia camera capability and will severely disappoint past Nokia owners and not stand up to rivals today.
REASON 6 - INPUT FAILURE. The Nokia strength has been exceptional QWERTY keyboards. On the N9 using MeeGo Nokia was able to innovate with touch screen inputs. But Lumia has neither. It is a cheap copycat of the iPhone style touch screen input and Lumia abandons natural Nokia strengths while showing no competitive advantages.
REASON 7 - Fails in variety of models. Nokia has traditionally been able to hold to the world's largest smartphone market share - a year ago Nokia was literally not just bigger than the iPhone, it was bigger than the iPhone and all Samsung smartphones - combined. Now Samsung is 'doing the Nokia' with its expanding Galaxy portfolio while the three Lumia devices are near clones of each other. Nokia is again voluntarily abandoning a competitive advantage, which means Lumia will perform less well than Nokia was able to do in the past.
REASON 10 - REGRESSING on features and services. (...) The joke was, that to see what will be on the next iPhone model, just look at a 3 year old Nokia flagship. The Lumia is the first time ever, that Nokia has regressed in its features, severely. Not just pruning unnecessary tech 'bloat' but literally going back in tech, to specs that were normal on Nokia phones a year, two, even three years ago.
REASON 12 - POISONED CARRIER RELATIONSHIPS with Nokia. The handset industry is different from the PC industry or home electronics, in that the carriers/operators decide which phone succeeds and which fails (witness the short-lived Microsoft Kin). Nokia used to have the platinum-standard carrier relationships a year ago. Those were burned by the CEO last year. Today Nokia's carrier relationships are the worst they have ever been.
Read TFA for missing reasons and references.
I always wondered why Linux posts seem to have so many ac flames in the first few comments. Hmmm...
My thoughts exactly..
But we already have a way to type in commands, it's call the shell.
All hail the new fuzzy-bash (shell) overlord!
Don't waste your mod points here... use them in registered users instead to affect their karma.
Trolls have been using this trick for years:
1) post random garbage as Anon;
2) wait until moderators waste their mod points with it
3) post flamebait thread;
4) if your flamebait thread is getting modded down, start from 1)
???
5) get paid by internet reputation agencies, $$$$ profit?
Congratulations, you just ruined my day!
This particular use of OSS has been in the program of political parties quite some time ago in Portugal. I am Portuguese and can't tell how happy I am about this. Not only it will cut budget costs but will also shape better students who are not limited by the operating system's lock in.
I just hope people charged with the school infrastructure collaborate with the transition and don't start whining because of extra work (and knowledge) it will require.
You know Google sync supports the Exchange protocol and is freely available for all phones
Yes but it sucks. I have my HTC Wizard syncing with Google's exchange servers and let me tell you, the Exchange protocol is utter crap. Or at least the Google's exchange implementation + WinMobile 6.5 exchange implementation combination is crap. Why? Because I can't simply create contacts in the phone or most probably the Active Sync software (the sync utility on WinMob) will prompt me with a
"there was an error with the exchange server, all your contacts in the phone need to be deleted and re-synced again from the server."
This is annoying! If wasn't for my phone having a qwerty keyboard and me only caring about, you know, sending messages and making phone calls, this phone would be in the garbage for a long long time..
The problem, of course, is that while these different versions of the model might all match the historical data, they would in general generate different predictions going forward
If these morons knew a little more about data mining techniques and in special, if they weren't so greedy, maybe we all wouldn't be facing this global economic mess right now..
D. Gabor and Denisuk would be sad about this incorrect usage of "holography" in the summary..
Personally I just browse regular brands (Asus, Acer, HP, Toshiba, etc..) for a good deal and then I lookup in a Linux driver database for the drivers of the chipset and important peripherals.. If all looks good, that's the laptop I buy.
Even if something is not supported yet by Linux, changes are high that I find myself the motivation to implement a new driver for it, like this :P).
http://www.arrifano.com/index.php?t=dv6k
and this
http://www.arrifano.com/index.php?t=quickstart
(go ahead, it is my private server running with limited bandwidth but behind cloudflare, lets see how good cloudflare is
The problem with this method is that you still end up paying the "Microsoft tax". You could try to get a refund but I was never successful with that.
Just wondering, why was parent modded down as troll?
Like many others in here, I'm the tech guy in the neighborhood. If I could quickly draw a quick conclusion on my experiences when going to neighbors houses (all of the persons are family heads with all kinds of jobs) to repair the computers or making them faster, it would be something like:
All of them run windows, this is a fact. Most of them don't know what is the latest version of windows and they don't care. When I suggest an update (from XP or Vista), most of them ask if the computer will work "the same". It is pointless to explain them what is new in Windows 7 because they don't really care. They just care if they have the same software they have been using for the printer/scanner for years, or if the computer will run faster or with less viruses. Before modding down, NO, I'm NOT implying they get viruses because of being running windows. They usually get viruses because they run whatever crap they find on the internet or because they plug their USB key everywhere. It is also funny to see that their antivirus never seem to detect anything, I was never told about some random popup warning about virus - for example.
When I suggest I could update the windows for them so they could "experiment it", they accept it. Some (the minority) will call me after two weeks asking for the old windows back, that the new windows is "too different". Some computers won't even install latest windows easily (I don't really have the time to spend a entire day looking for hacked drivers or whatever for other people), while other computers are simply too slow to run it. Granted I could fine tune the windows install but I don't really have the time or the patience. Most of the times is pointless to suggest an upgrade because that would require a new motherboard, etc.. etc.. To be honest, they don't even need a upgrade, because everything they needed (web browser, spreadsheet, word) was already working in the old version of windows.
I also suggested a Mac (with OSX) to the most savy of the neighbors and they ended up very interested but fact is, not a single person had the "courage" (as in being ready for a change) to buy one.
I just pointed out some facts, now I'll leave the conclusion for you to make.
At expense of being modded down, I suggest Gentoo Linux.
Gentoo Linux is actually a meta-distribution, which means that you can use Gentoo to create your personalized Gentoo-based distribution. The package manager (portage), which builds packages from source, can compile the package to the same (as the host/running arch) or any other architecture transparently, while tracking dependencies and anything else you would expect from a modern package manager. We can argue that it provides more or less the same features as bitbake (openembedded) or buildroot (debian), but really the big benefit of Gentoo is that the cross-development tool is actually the same as the system's package manager. This means that your new embedded system can benefit from all the available packages in the Gentoo repository, given that they build for the target architecture - of course.
For more information have a look at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/
If you are not familiar with Gentoo but you are already know how to create a GNU/Linux system from scratch, learning how to use Gentoo utilities is straightforward. However, if you are both new to embedded Linux development and Gentoo Linux, it might take some time to get used to it. But once you get your development system setup and your team used to it, trust me, Gentoo makes it really easy because you can automate most of the process. An example is the Gentoo LiveCD (which is still Gentoo) which is automatically built in a regular basis.
I've seen some interesting use cases in the Gentoo embedded mailing list but probably the most important one is Google. Google is using Gentoo to build it's Chrome-OS, for more information look here - http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-guide
There was a extensive discussion at Chrome-OS on what to use for their development system, and they ended up choosing Gentoo. Look up at their archives for the relevant thread since, if I remember correctly, the discussion provides a lot of pros and cons for some Linux-based embedded development solutions out there.
Just my two cents.
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
There was also a TED talk about it. If you haven't seen it yet, you should, it is very inspiring and futuristic.
So yeah, another slow news day?
you sir, just wrote the most insightful comment I saw today
14:49:45 up 9 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.20, 0.22
What if I don't want to find any service packs? If I search for libre office, should I expect unbiased results from Bing? I don't think so!
By the way, what happened to http://www.google.com/linux ??
and you will be my last for today, enjoy :)
enjoy