So now facebook is the new google, extremely minor changes are finding place on tech news sites.
Is facebook really technology? From what i can figure out, its a place where people spend 700 billion minutes a month playing farville and mafia wars.
I'd rather have all the facebook employees working on something significant, like i dunno, developing software for the space missions, or heck, even search engines. Search engines are awefully complicated - facebook is just a photo album with lots of cookies to track you.
At what point do we realize that people wasting time on such sites is as big a danger as say, drugs? When's the war on facebook ?
I'm sorry- but that's the worst buying advice on this page. Android doesn't even support http proxyies - and hence is utterly useless in most offices and universities.
Maybe apple just doesnt care. The PC division is clearly not the main focus of their new strategy, all they want is handheld dominance.
It would have been every fanbois dream if apple used their growing power with iphone/ipad to defeat M$ with their OSX sales but i doubt if Jobs wants that.
Identity theft is only a real problem in civilized places.
More seriously, i wonder how many of the prison inmates here in india are able to speak english. If people who went to english schools and have had 'accent-training' programs and what not speak so horribly, how can petty prisoners be expected to be fluent?
Stopping the shipping of free CDs is a long overdue but unfortunate move.
CDs were absolutely the only way to obtain a linux distro for me, and canonical's generous free shipping saved me(and countless others in 3rd world countries) by providing the discs.
However i have seen enough rampant abuse of this, so much so that i would rather see a few thousand people unable to use linux because they cannot obtain CDs than canonical shutting down because of the greedy unscrupulous jerks.
Its not just about real-time monitoring but also collecting data. Knowing the complete medical history will enable far diagnosis. Everybody is different and this data will stop doctors from generalizations and treat patients based on their past data and actual deviations from/your/ average.
Yes why dont we all stop using hospitals as well. If its your day to die its your day to die. Asking for some-one's help to save your life is for sissies.
I can monitor my laptop's fan speed all day long, but cant do so for my heart, which is/much/ more important than a replaceable gadget.
Can someone please tell me where exactly free speech ends and defamation begins? Is sarcasm defamation? Is questioning the reasons for the existance of a political organization(like in this case) defamation?
Coming to this case.. the comments were made in a forum which was intended for this very purpose. What next are they going to do, jail everyone who was a member because they are associated with someone posting a nasty message?
You know what the irony is? I live in india and have had my SIM card blocked _every_ time i have got one, the phone company citing 'lack of documentary proof of identity' every time inspite of me submitting whatever proof i had.
The government has mandated all these proofs but this case proves it doesnt make a difference in the end. I really dont know which is better : getting a working phone connection with no documents or this 'secure' method. I mean how hard is it for someone to fake a photocopy of a grubby drivers license?
What about all the waste you generate? You think getting a new computer every 6 months and dumping it in a landfill is worth the 100$ you save per decade?
And the effort going into buying something at the sweet-spot every 6 months?
The ODF toolkit project isnt new. [http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/]
Ive been using the ODFDOM code for a couple months now, and i wonder what this announcement will bring for the development prospects.
One key change so far has been the shift to Apache 2.0 license from the LGPL v3.
Its ironical that an open format like ODF doesnt have a fully functional toolkit and is inferior to Apache POI which is the toolkit for MS binary formats.
hay i bin usin ze intarnuts all my life! It shows!
Seriously, if i could draw a graph of _my_ internet usage vs IQ, there'd be a strong correlation between lowering of IQ as the internet usage increased.
Google has destroyed my memory and interest in trivia and other 'small' interesting things in life. When someone mentions something, instead of asking them more about it, all i think is "how fast can i get on the internet to google this stuff up? "
I have even lost appetite for non-intellectual stuff. My patience is so low (thanks to 0.002 second answers to queries) , i cant sit through a movie i find interesting without reading its wiki page and then abandoning the movie.
Rather than preventing a legislation from passing, why not attack the problem at the source: programmers and their corporations who file software patents?
How do you convince a programmer that software patents are bad, when he stands to gain substantial reward for a patent from the organization he works for, or negative consequences because of refusing to file a patent?
Why are _new_ software patents being filed in the first place?
Bad example OSX is the biggest disk-hog ever. On my new MB with nothing but the OS installed it took about 20G. Software packages for it are humungus. Base ubuntu install takes 2G and it comes with all that OSX ships with. (including a _real_ office suite).
Anybody else feel OSX uses up too much disk space?
FTFA: "Nonetheless, Torvalds said the patching process in Linux was more about human interaction than a quantifiable set of steps, such as those listed in official international standards processes."
Summarizes the interview pretty much. Most of the rest is there in the kernel Documentation folder anyways.
I cant stop being amazed by Linus's software 'management' skills.
Duct tape saved the day during Apollo 13 too, when they were having CO2 problems. Those guys jury-rigged the Lithium Hydroxide canister of the command-module (which were square), into the LEM(which had round canisters). Saved the day. Without it, the astronauts would have died of CO2 poisoning. Apparently, the design was so good, it became a standard emergency procedure in future missions.
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Wow market forces have never ever been wrong, have they?
So now facebook is the new google, extremely minor changes are finding place on tech news sites.
Is facebook really technology? From what i can figure out, its a place where people spend 700 billion minutes a month playing farville and mafia wars.
I'd rather have all the facebook employees working on something significant, like i dunno, developing software for the space missions, or heck, even search engines. Search engines are awefully complicated - facebook is just a photo album with lots of cookies to track you.
At what point do we realize that people wasting time on such sites is as big a danger as say, drugs?
When's the war on facebook ?
I'm sorry- but that's the worst buying advice on this page. Android doesn't even support http proxyies - and hence is utterly useless in most offices and universities.
Maybe apple just doesnt care.
The PC division is clearly not the main focus of their new strategy, all they want is handheld dominance.
It would have been every fanbois dream if apple used their growing power with iphone/ipad to defeat M$ with their OSX sales but i doubt if Jobs wants that.
Identity theft is only a real problem in civilized places.
More seriously, i wonder how many of the prison inmates here in india are able to speak english. If people who went to english schools and have had 'accent-training' programs and what not speak so horribly, how can petty prisoners be expected to be fluent?
Happy birthday Linus!
Stopping the shipping of free CDs is a long overdue but unfortunate move.
CDs were absolutely the only way to obtain a linux distro for me, and canonical's generous free shipping saved me(and countless others in 3rd world countries) by providing the discs.
However i have seen enough rampant abuse of this, so much so that i would rather see a few thousand people unable to use linux because they cannot obtain CDs than canonical shutting down because of the greedy unscrupulous jerks.
Its not just about real-time monitoring but also collecting data. /your/ average.
Knowing the complete medical history will enable far diagnosis.
Everybody is different and this data will stop doctors from generalizations and treat patients based on their past data and actual deviations from
Yes why dont we all stop using hospitals as well.
If its your day to die its your day to die.
Asking for some-one's help to save your life is for sissies.
I can monitor my laptop's fan speed all day long, but cant do so for my heart, which is /much/ more important than a replaceable gadget.
Can someone please tell me where exactly free speech ends and defamation begins?
Is sarcasm defamation? Is questioning the reasons for the existance of a political organization(like in this case) defamation?
Coming to this case.. the comments were made in a forum which was intended for this very purpose. What next are they going to do, jail everyone who was a member because they are associated with someone posting a nasty message?
You know what the irony is?
I live in india and have had my SIM card blocked _every_ time i have got one, the phone company citing 'lack of documentary proof of identity' every time inspite of me submitting whatever proof i had.
The government has mandated all these proofs but this case proves it doesnt make a difference in the end.
I really dont know which is better : getting a working phone connection with no documents or this 'secure' method. I mean how hard is it for someone to fake a photocopy of a grubby drivers license?
Huh?
This is classic consumerism at work.
What about all the waste you generate? You think getting a new computer every 6 months and dumping it in a landfill is worth the 100$ you save per decade?
And the effort going into buying something at the sweet-spot every 6 months?
i _am_ a native hindi speaker you insensitive clod!
OK here goes:
The chand is like chand in chandler.
ra is pronounced "raa"
yaan is with the soft a. think of it as "yarn" but soften out the 'r'
Hope this helps.
First Orbit!!!
The ODF toolkit project isnt new. [http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/]
Ive been using the ODFDOM code for a couple months now, and i wonder what this announcement will bring for the development prospects.
One key change so far has been the shift to Apache 2.0 license from the LGPL v3.
Its ironical that an open format like ODF doesnt have a fully functional toolkit and is inferior to Apache POI which is the toolkit for MS binary formats.
hay i bin usin ze intarnuts all my life!
It shows!
Seriously, if i could draw a graph of _my_ internet usage vs IQ, there'd be a strong correlation between lowering of IQ as the internet usage increased.
Google has destroyed my memory and interest in trivia and other 'small' interesting things in life.
When someone mentions something, instead of asking them more about it, all i think is "how fast can i get on the internet to google this stuff up? "
I have even lost appetite for non-intellectual stuff. My patience is so low (thanks to 0.002 second answers to queries) , i cant sit through a movie i find interesting without reading its wiki page and then abandoning the movie.
Damn you internet!
Isnt that called creativity or something?
Can they really get a patent on that? Really? Wont this start an infinite cascade of similar statements?
Rather than preventing a legislation from passing, why not attack the problem at the source: programmers and their corporations who file software patents?
How do you convince a programmer that software patents are bad, when he stands to gain substantial reward for a patent from the organization he works for, or negative consequences because of refusing to file a patent?
Why are _new_ software patents being filed in the first place?
Bad example
OSX is the biggest disk-hog ever.
On my new MB with nothing but the OS installed it took about 20G. Software packages for it are humungus.
Base ubuntu install takes 2G and it comes with all that OSX ships with. (including a _real_ office suite).
Anybody else feel OSX uses up too much disk space?
FTFA: "Nonetheless, Torvalds said the patching process in Linux was more about human interaction than a quantifiable set of steps, such as those listed in official international standards processes."
Summarizes the interview pretty much. Most of the rest is there in the kernel Documentation folder anyways.
I cant stop being amazed by Linus's software 'management' skills.
Either this is going to be modded up or its going to be modded down.
Isnt Leopard 64 bit already??
And if not, apple is making a 64bit OS this late?
(btw i run leopard.. how do i check if its 64 bit? (core 2duo proc)
I have a Jail-broken iphone and i run Linux fine on it!!! Infact^!T#P*!T* NO CARRIER
Duct tape saved the day during Apollo 13 too, when they were having CO2 problems. Those guys jury-rigged the Lithium Hydroxide canister of the command-module (which were square), into the LEM(which had round canisters).
Saved the day. Without it, the astronauts would have died of CO2 poisoning. Apparently, the design was so good, it became a standard emergency procedure in future missions.