When Ubuntu decided to poop on their users with Unity, there was an exodus of biblical proportions to Linux Mint. That's why Mint is now the #1 distro.
And thanks to Ubuntu's newest decisions, the Mint userbase is destined to grow even further.
In short, this is a non-issue and RMS is (as expected) over-reacting to something that doesn't fit into his perfect Socialist software society.
You know, RMS has been vindicated so many times, I am frankly surprised there still are people trying to put him down, especially with the kind of labeling ("perfect Socialist software society") that makes you look like a douche.
All the search results open an Amazon webpage with Canonical's Amazon Affiliate Code [amazon.com], which adds a tracking cookie to your session and makes Canonical get back an undisclosed percentage of all your Amazon purchases, as long as that cookie stays there.
The boneheaded decisions of Canonical, plus the existence of Mint Linux, have all but decimated the Ubuntu userbase. Yes, I know there must be some Ubuntu users out there still, but they're somewhere at the fringe of society: you know nobody in your circle of friends, colleagues, family or acquaintances who uses Ubuntu.
It's like IE: who the fuck uses Internet Explorer at this stage? Yeah, there must be people using it, according to various webstats... but nobody know those characters.
IOW, Ubuntu has become the IE of the Linux distro world: they exist somewhere out there, but nobody gives a shit about them, except malware writers.
I'm recovering with a flu so I might have missed something when reading TFA, but this CO2 release seems to be in addition to the expected massive release of methane from frozen Siberian permafrost.
If so, we're fucked^2 I see no way we can avoid the positive feedback loops of AGW. Sandy will be a pleasant memory from the past, to the citizens of NYC.
I know for sure that there have been body-implantable MEMS devices described in scientific articles dating back to the early '90s. I cannot believe Apple can get a patent on something so old and, at this pint, so obvious.
I am starting to suspect that the USPTO is biased pro-Apple
My entire team, who fix operational Unix problems for a fortune-5 company whose name rhymes with "EG", are Asberger's. If they weren't,they wouldn't have survived my job interview. I don't care what DSM-whateverthefark calls it, but, if you can't context switch many times a day and intensely follow the important shiny thing, then you are not cut out to be top-level support for a "fix the broken stuff" team. Maybe it's a talent rather than a disorder./shrug. Discuss.
I am confused by your post: people on the Autistic spectrum are known to be lousy at context switching. Being focused on one topic quite deeply, is a typical trait of people on the Autistic spectrum, more-or-less regardless of where on the spectrum they are.
"They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia.'"
I think that's somewhat close but inaccurate: when I was in Seoul, I found s. Koreans to generally be nice in their own way, without giving much of a fuck about me or others. But when I needed help or advice or anything, they would always deliver something brilliantly practical and sensible. I lived and live in various places where people are nice and friendly. S. Koreans aren't typically "friendly" at first, but they also don't judge you, and I'll take a S. Korean's help to almost anyone else's, because, in my experience, S. Koreans might be less afectuous but what they do or advise is always smart and it works (like "why don't you tape X to Y and saving enough money to buy Z").
Some random text to avoid Slashdot's "Lameness filter". I wish you all a good day and may a horde of beautiful vaginas find their way to your crotch in the nearest future.
I have a lot of sympathy for Solid Oak Software, I truly do. I don't even say that, if I were in their initial situation, I would have done anything different from what they've done.
So, said all that, it is extremely important to note, from this incident, that IP is ultimately pointless. Clinging to it will torpedo the countries' economies that depend on it. Sooner or later, countries that have enough muscle (China, and to an extent, Russia) will just say "fuck it" and not care about the hissy fits from the MAFIAA. I mean, WTF is the US going to do? Not buy Russian oil and minerals? Not have their electronics made in China? We all know that there would be much grandstanding (like, for instance, with human rights issues) but nothing more will be done. This is inevitable, like osmosis.
That's crazy! This is the worst possible person for the job in the whole fucking world! This guy isn't a global warming skeptic, he's an outright, card-carrying denier.
Microsoft sold 40 million licenses off Windows 8 already - the great success must have messed up their thinking. This success may very well be temporary - corporations will probably hold back way more this time around than even with the Win XP -> Windows 7 transition (which is far from over, XP is the second OS by usage share).
I hope a bit of bitchslapping by the corporations (who won't upgrade to Win 8 for several years) will sober MS up somewhat and make them forget about Windows Blue.
5 weeks of vacation is normal in Europe, for any job. Some get more. Why would you take this away from the OP? Rather, every US worker should have the same amount of holidays.
InTrade predictions are less gambling than the stock market. At least the predictions on InTrade are less affected by random unscrupulous manipulators. Take the predictions of the ice cover on the Arctic, for instance: if you did your homework, you knew there would be very little ice cover on the Arctic this year, and could bet accordingly.
Nothing compares with that spawn of Satan called F-Secure Antivirus. That's the most resource-hungry, incessantly computer-killing (and nerve wrecking) piece of shit ever to be created. I used to fantasize, daily, about just nuking from orbit whoever was responsible for it. Then the guy with Admin account uninstalled it from my corporate PC, and I have been happy ever since.
No, it has nothing to do with Android, which is not a company that you can sue, or a competitor that you can compete with. It is an open source software component like Apple WebKit. Samsung is totally and only responsible for the infringement that happens with Samsung devices. Apple really is after Samsung, the giant tech cloner, who is like a hardware Microsoft. Samsung held an iPhone up to the light and used that for a blueprint for their smartphone line. When you copy your #1 competitor's product, you save a ton of money on designers, but you waste it all on lawyers later. That is the way the world works.
Apple has already won. They already got what they wanted, which was to show the process by which a 2008 iPhone 3G became a 2010 Galaxy smartphone, including the paperwork. What that did was it cast suspicion over every hardware maker that created a phone post-iPhone that was in any way influenced by iPhone, which is all of them. Before the Samsung Galaxy, there was this common fiction that everyone in generic tech created that their products were not clones of Apple products, but rather, they were competing products, independently designed and produced, that just happened to be way too much like the Apple products of the previous 2â"5 years. Now, when the whole world has been shown a months-long, company-wide paper trail of an iPhone 3G going through a set process to become a Samsung Galaxy, it is like when people finally realized that pro wrestling was not sports, but rather âoesports entertainment.â
You can see that Apple won because Samsung and the rest of the generic tech industry have changed their ways. Samsung's new tablet looks like their pre-iPad tablet, even down to the flimsy construction and the stylus. Other companies are hiring designers before they make a product so that they don't have to hire lawyers later. There are generic tech manufacturers complaining that Samsung blew their whole follow-and-copy-Apple business model because now the lights are on all the time.
"Samsungâ(TM)s additions shouldnâ(TM)t come as a surprise; when a judge ruled that Apple was indeed allowed to add Android 4.2 Jelly Bean as it pertains to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, as well as the Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy S III to the proceedings, he specifically warned that in granting that alteration, Apple should be prepared for return amendments from Samsung. Specifically, he said that the iPad mini and latest iPad were likely additions."
I see what Apple is trying to do, here: they're concentrating their fire onto Samsung because it's the most successful Android company. Apple thinks that by "teaching these guys a lesson" they'll instill fear in all the rest of the Android companies, and steer them to crappier alternatives (like Windows Phone, Windows RT) that could never compete with iDevices. Like the biggest bully beating up the guy that could pose the biggest threat to his hegemony. But Apple is making a mistake, I think, for two reasons: - The guy Apple decided to bully is proving to be a tough nut to crack, and that might, instead of discouraging, actually encourage the other vendors. If for no other reason, then because Apple is being distracted by this huge war they got themselves into. - There are Android companies that won't stop making Android devices, regardless of what Apple does to Samsung. Win or lose, these companies will continue making Android devices, and enjoy their small profits. I am talking about all those nameless Chinese companies that are more than happy to make cheap Android tablets or phones for the masses. Yes, Apple probably doesn't much care about those, since they aren't even catering to the same market as the iDevices are, but moreover, these are nimble companies working in the gray areas that are mostly out of bounds to Apple's lawyers. But their combined effect may very well make Android the dominant player. - Google has enough muscle to help one Android company at a time, releasing Nexus-branded Android tablets and phones. Google takes a financial hit on each of these, but it's small enough compared to the profits Google makes. This is another source of Android devices that Apple cannot easily quench. And something tells me that Google's corporate policy is one to not give in to bullies, so there might be a bit of a personal thing going on there, especially if Apple insists being dicks.
So, I personally think that Apple needs to stop doing what they're doing.
The problem is threefold.
- These Social programs are under-funded because the taxes and contributions which were originally put aside have been stolen by Congress.
- Medicare/Medicaid is being used as a cash-cow by big business. It needs to be community operated on a non-profit basis as it is in other countries.
- Insufficient taxes are raised to pay for these essential services and the rich are allowed to opt out.
Quoted for truth. Yours is the best post in this topic/story, because it's entirely accurate and yet concise.
The good news is, the gaming industry caters to your tastes. The bad news is, well, the same:/
As mobile CPUs and GPUs improve, Android games are headed in the same direction. There already are some cheesy 3D-ized games for Android, too. Not sure about iOS.
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What another good linux distro?
When Ubuntu decided to poop on their users with Unity, there was an exodus of biblical proportions to Linux Mint. That's why Mint is now the #1 distro.
And thanks to Ubuntu's newest decisions, the Mint userbase is destined to grow even further.
In short, this is a non-issue and RMS is (as expected) over-reacting to something that doesn't fit into his perfect Socialist software society.
You know, RMS has been vindicated so many times, I am frankly surprised there still are people trying to put him down, especially with the kind of labeling ("perfect Socialist software society") that makes you look like a douche.
All the search results open an Amazon webpage with Canonical's Amazon Affiliate Code [amazon.com], which adds a tracking cookie to your session and makes Canonical get back an undisclosed percentage of all your Amazon purchases, as long as that cookie stays there.
In the Windows world, we call that "malware".
The boneheaded decisions of Canonical, plus the existence of Mint Linux, have all but decimated the Ubuntu userbase. Yes, I know there must be some Ubuntu users out there still, but they're somewhere at the fringe of society: you know nobody in your circle of friends, colleagues, family or acquaintances who uses Ubuntu.
It's like IE: who the fuck uses Internet Explorer at this stage? Yeah, there must be people using it, according to various webstats... but nobody know those characters.
IOW, Ubuntu has become the IE of the Linux distro world: they exist somewhere out there, but nobody gives a shit about them, except malware writers.
I don't think we've yet found enough carbon for the positive feedback loop to take Earth all the way to being like Venus, however....
Maybe not enough "carbon", but definitely enough water.
I'm recovering with a flu so I might have missed something when reading TFA, but this CO2 release seems to be in addition to the expected massive release of methane from frozen Siberian permafrost.
If so, we're fucked^2 I see no way we can avoid the positive feedback loops of AGW. Sandy will be a pleasant memory from the past, to the citizens of NYC.
I know for sure that there have been body-implantable MEMS devices described in scientific articles dating back to the early '90s. I cannot believe Apple can get a patent on something so old and, at this pint, so obvious.
I am starting to suspect that the USPTO is biased pro-Apple
My entire team, who fix operational Unix problems for a fortune-5 company whose name rhymes with "EG", are Asberger's. If they weren't,they wouldn't have survived my job interview. I don't care what DSM-whateverthefark calls it, but, if you can't context switch many times a day and intensely follow the important shiny thing, then you are not cut out to be top-level support for a "fix the broken stuff" team. Maybe it's a talent rather than a disorder. /shrug. Discuss.
I am confused by your post: people on the Autistic spectrum are known to be lousy at context switching. Being focused on one topic quite deeply, is a typical trait of people on the Autistic spectrum, more-or-less regardless of where on the spectrum they are.
"They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia.'"
I think that's somewhat close but inaccurate: when I was in Seoul, I found s. Koreans to generally be nice in their own way, without giving much of a fuck about me or others. But when I needed help or advice or anything, they would always deliver something brilliantly practical and sensible. I lived and live in various places where people are nice and friendly. S. Koreans aren't typically "friendly" at first, but they also don't judge you, and I'll take a S. Korean's help to almost anyone else's, because, in my experience, S. Koreans might be less afectuous but what they do or advise is always smart and it works (like "why don't you tape X to Y and saving enough money to buy Z").
...however, I disagree with the funding cut to NASA - they should get larger funding, not smaller!
What about the promised " earthshaking news" from the Mars Curiosity rover mission?!!!
Mod parent up - I admit I'm skeptical the news is truly earthshaking, but I'm still genuinely curious.
I think itâ(TM)s just pressure â" and I am not sure how valuable a tempura gauge would be.
I like Japanese food a lot, tempura especially. I think a tempura gauge would be very useful.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Some random text to avoid Slashdot's "Lameness filter". I wish you all a good day and may a horde of beautiful vaginas find their way to your crotch in the nearest future.
I have a lot of sympathy for Solid Oak Software, I truly do. I don't even say that, if I were in their initial situation, I would have done anything different from what they've done.
So, said all that, it is extremely important to note, from this incident, that IP is ultimately pointless. Clinging to it will torpedo the countries' economies that depend on it. Sooner or later, countries that have enough muscle (China, and to an extent, Russia) will just say "fuck it" and not care about the hissy fits from the MAFIAA. I mean, WTF is the US going to do? Not buy Russian oil and minerals? Not have their electronics made in China? We all know that there would be much grandstanding (like, for instance, with human rights issues) but nothing more will be done. This is inevitable, like osmosis.
That's crazy! This is the worst possible person for the job in the whole fucking world! This guy isn't a global warming skeptic, he's an outright, card-carrying denier.
Microsoft sold 40 million licenses off Windows 8 already - the great success must have messed up their thinking. This success may very well be temporary - corporations will probably hold back way more this time around than even with the Win XP -> Windows 7 transition (which is far from over, XP is the second OS by usage share).
I hope a bit of bitchslapping by the corporations (who won't upgrade to Win 8 for several years) will sober MS up somewhat and make them forget about Windows Blue.
5 weeks of vacation is normal in Europe, for any job. Some get more. Why would you take this away from the OP? Rather, every US worker should have the same amount of holidays.
InTrade predictions are less gambling than the stock market. At least the predictions on InTrade are less affected by random unscrupulous manipulators. Take the predictions of the ice cover on the Arctic, for instance: if you did your homework, you knew there would be very little ice cover on the Arctic this year, and could bet accordingly.
That's true for production cleanrooms, but not for research cleanrooms. I think we'll see even more of the latter, in the future.
I happen to work in one of the largest research cleanrooms in the world, BTW. 28000 square feet.
More like symantec/McAfee/Avira take away.
Nothing compares with that spawn of Satan called F-Secure Antivirus. That's the most resource-hungry, incessantly computer-killing (and nerve wrecking) piece of shit ever to be created. I used to fantasize, daily, about just nuking from orbit whoever was responsible for it. Then the guy with Admin account uninstalled it from my corporate PC, and I have been happy ever since.
No, it has nothing to do with Android, which is not a company that you can sue, or a competitor that you can compete with. It is an open source software component like Apple WebKit. Samsung is totally and only responsible for the infringement that happens with Samsung devices. Apple really is after Samsung, the giant tech cloner, who is like a hardware Microsoft. Samsung held an iPhone up to the light and used that for a blueprint for their smartphone line. When you copy your #1 competitor's product, you save a ton of money on designers, but you waste it all on lawyers later. That is the way the world works.
Apple has already won. They already got what they wanted, which was to show the process by which a 2008 iPhone 3G became a 2010 Galaxy smartphone, including the paperwork. What that did was it cast suspicion over every hardware maker that created a phone post-iPhone that was in any way influenced by iPhone, which is all of them. Before the Samsung Galaxy, there was this common fiction that everyone in generic tech created that their products were not clones of Apple products, but rather, they were competing products, independently designed and produced, that just happened to be way too much like the Apple products of the previous 2â"5 years. Now, when the whole world has been shown a months-long, company-wide paper trail of an iPhone 3G going through a set process to become a Samsung Galaxy, it is like when people finally realized that pro wrestling was not sports, but rather âoesports entertainment.â
You can see that Apple won because Samsung and the rest of the generic tech industry have changed their ways. Samsung's new tablet looks like their pre-iPad tablet, even down to the flimsy construction and the stylus. Other companies are hiring designers before they make a product so that they don't have to hire lawyers later. There are generic tech manufacturers complaining that Samsung blew their whole follow-and-copy-Apple business model because now the lights are on all the time.
Go home gig, you're drunk.
I doubt Apple feels any desire to go after 'Android'... that is really more of a fanboy fantasy thing then a company plan.
There's a bit more than just "fanboy fantasy".
"Samsungâ(TM)s additions shouldnâ(TM)t come as a surprise; when a judge ruled that Apple was indeed allowed to add Android 4.2 Jelly Bean as it pertains to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, as well as the Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy S III to the proceedings, he specifically warned that in granting that alteration, Apple should be prepared for return amendments from Samsung. Specifically, he said that the iPad mini and latest iPad were likely additions."
I see what Apple is trying to do, here: they're concentrating their fire onto Samsung because it's the most successful Android company. Apple thinks that by "teaching these guys a lesson" they'll instill fear in all the rest of the Android companies, and steer them to crappier alternatives (like Windows Phone, Windows RT) that could never compete with iDevices. Like the biggest bully beating up the guy that could pose the biggest threat to his hegemony. But Apple is making a mistake, I think, for two reasons:
- The guy Apple decided to bully is proving to be a tough nut to crack, and that might, instead of discouraging, actually encourage the other vendors. If for no other reason, then because Apple is being distracted by this huge war they got themselves into.
- There are Android companies that won't stop making Android devices, regardless of what Apple does to Samsung. Win or lose, these companies will continue making Android devices, and enjoy their small profits. I am talking about all those nameless Chinese companies that are more than happy to make cheap Android tablets or phones for the masses. Yes, Apple probably doesn't much care about those, since they aren't even catering to the same market as the iDevices are, but moreover, these are nimble companies working in the gray areas that are mostly out of bounds to Apple's lawyers. But their combined effect may very well make Android the dominant player.
- Google has enough muscle to help one Android company at a time, releasing Nexus-branded Android tablets and phones. Google takes a financial hit on each of these, but it's small enough compared to the profits Google makes. This is another source of Android devices that Apple cannot easily quench. And something tells me that Google's corporate policy is one to not give in to bullies, so there might be a bit of a personal thing going on there, especially if Apple insists being dicks.
So, I personally think that Apple needs to stop doing what they're doing.
The problem is threefold.
- These Social programs are under-funded because the taxes and contributions which were originally put aside have been stolen by Congress.
- Medicare/Medicaid is being used as a cash-cow by big business. It needs to be community operated on a non-profit basis as it is in other countries.
- Insufficient taxes are raised to pay for these essential services and the rich are allowed to opt out.
Quoted for truth. Yours is the best post in this topic/story, because it's entirely accurate and yet concise.
The good news is, the gaming industry caters to your tastes. The bad news is, well, the same :/
As mobile CPUs and GPUs improve, Android games are headed in the same direction. There already are some cheesy 3D-ized games for Android, too. Not sure about iOS.