And its still quicker to type than to get the camera all lined up to QR code something you pass on a bus
Actually no, it's not quicker.just typing "tinyurl.com" takes more time than to acquire a QR code.Unless you use a catastrophically inefficient app/UI for the QR.
If AOL is still around and kicking today, it's pretty hard to believe that Yahoo will just up and die. It's important to note that Yahoo still has 10s of millions of active email users, the best fantasy sports platform on the internet, a pretty solid website in Flickr, and a bunch of other random shit. AOL has much less, yet somehow stays alive.
Agreed. Compare, however, with FB who is essentially a one-trick pony. It's a pretty amazing trick, I'll grant you that, but still...
I know you Google fans are enjoying beating your chest, but this 68% number doesn't seem to bear any resemblance to actual usage. Ride the train in any major U.S. city and look around. Apple dominates the scene.
I don't live in a major US city, so I'll take your word for it. However, one thing people in the US frequently forget, is that the US is not the whole world.
Note, their terms and conditions specifically calls for a 30 days heads up for you to save your stuff, this is nice and all, except you don't get 30 days warning
Sorry, I could not understand this statement. I am not a Steam user (never have been), so maybe there's some context that makes this seemingly nonsensical sentence... sensible.
All three Manifold books are depressing, but top-notch hard Sci-Fi. If you are into hard Sci-Fi you definitely should check out Baxter.
The three Manifold books are depressing in different ways. I don't want to spoil them, but I'll just say that they are depressing in a "Childhood's end"-kind of way; that is, you can also be exalted in a Zen-like realization.
All three books super-highly recommended. My favorite is "Manifold: Space".
I used it, as "early" as 2003, on HP-UX. Not sure what happened to HP-UX after that, our projects switched mostly to Solaris, which also had CDE but soon switched to Gnome.
Whatever happens, I can predict one thing: the world tomorrow will be uglier, more crowded and less educated that the world today.
That's true, and one doesn't even have to touch upon the more controversial (not for me) things such as AGW.
For intance, there was a time when eating salmon and other large fish was unambiguously healthy. Not anymore: the concentration of mercury in the oceans (because of coal-fired plants) has been steadily increasing, and with it, mercury in the fish. Now you have to weight the pros and the cons of eating it.
Population has been steadily increasing as well.
And there is a clear trend of unethical business practices, quarter-to-quarter, short term thinking and screwing the customer.
Many more trends like these. Yes, it's getting worse.
marijuana, alcohol, lsd, mushrooms, etc., should be legal because they do not easily addict (although you shouldn't use drugs that produce strong hallucinations without a babysitter, and the irresponsible assholes that do will mean these drugs will stay illegal)
Alcohol creates an extremely strong physical addiction. Nutt et al. classified drugs by several metrics, and alcohol was up there, among the most addictive drugs. Cannabis is practically physically not addictive.
The trillion tiny little fuck-ups by Microsoft are fully evident in this new service: I am not allowed to enter my mobile phone number because apparently "it is not suitable in my region". Right.
And I got immediately an alert that someone tried to use my account without authorization so I have to immediately change my password.
Some other localization issues and forcing me to use a language I don't want to use... oh well, thanks for reminding me of what piece of crap Microsoft products are (still).
Also, unrelated, but I feel like the GNOME 3 hate is really blown out of proportion. Sure, some users were driven away, but the exact same thing happened with GNOME 2 and people called it trash and crap and whatever else. By the time that GNOME 3 is mature and more stable, it will have a large userbase again. I can guarantee it. I, personally, really love it as it is, especially how easily extensible it is. I don't know another desktop that allows so many customization options through extensions like that. You can really change near everything with a little tweak and you can write one yourself in minutes.
That's bullshit - I was there when Gnome 2 was born. There were some critics, but nowhere near the backlash that accompanies Gnome 3.
Your post reminds me exactly of the Windows Vista apologists: they would say things like "When Windows XP came out, there were just as many people who hated it. like the ones who hate Vista. In the end, it will be a success like XP." Turns out, all those apologists were full of shit, and Vista really is the turd that everybody thought it was.
I was disheartened with the shipwreck that Gnome 3 decided to become, so MATE was a very positive development. And while I'm not a Fedora user (just not my cup of tea), it's a very popular distro, and seeing them adopt MATE added a huge momentum to the project (a bit like when IBM adopted Java - it boosted it enormously).
Actually, they have a strong incentive: staying in business. My wife runs her own business, and I help her with advertising. We track the source of every click through to a sale. Then we calculate the ratio of (ad expense)/(profit generated). For Google ads, this is about 1.6. For Facebook ads, it is about 0.2. Guess where we no longer buy ads?
You no longer buy ads from Google?
Sorry, are you trying to prove that one doesn't need any math skills to run a successful business?
I am sure I'm overlooking something, but to me, it seems that all you need to do to "create" this prototype, is burn the ROM file (available around the web) onto the EPROMs, place them into a garden variety copy of Legend of Zelda, and that's it. One could even easily make a funky-colored case for the cart, with a 3D printer. A $50-100 expense for a 3 orders of magnitude higher profit.
I would like to visit the US for a scientific conference later this year. On social media, I have piled a lot of criticism on the TSA, on Apple and the lack of universal healthcare in the US.
With very little stretch, the conclusion that an overzealous NSA employee, or user of the NSA database, could draw is that I am some sort of commie.
I wonder if I'll be detained when I enter the US. That would be extremely inconvenient.
KDE is very polished now, no show-stopping or other annoying bugs. Personally - I use Arch, but thats not viable for someone who is not a power user. You should search for a distro that has KDE by default (as the main DE), because offshoots like kubuntu have pretty poor integration and many features are broken. Taking this into consideration I think that OpenSuse would be a good choice.
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm glad I wasn't the only one to mention OpenSuSE in this discussion.
Whatever you choose, I suggest you keep them away from Unity and whatever happened to Gnome as of late.
IMHO, KDE is the closest, in its current incarnation, to a Windows experience. So, maybe Kubuntu will do. Another nice KDE-centric distro could be OpenSuSE, and they have also an awesome (and very underrated) control panel.
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And its still quicker to type than to get the camera all lined up to QR code something you pass on a bus
Actually no, it's not quicker.just typing "tinyurl.com" takes more time than to acquire a QR code.Unless you use a catastrophically inefficient app/UI for the QR.
If AOL is still around and kicking today, it's pretty hard to believe that Yahoo will just up and die. It's important to note that Yahoo still has 10s of millions of active email users, the best fantasy sports platform on the internet, a pretty solid website in Flickr, and a bunch of other random shit. AOL has much less, yet somehow stays alive.
Agreed. Compare, however, with FB who is essentially a one-trick pony. It's a pretty amazing trick, I'll grant you that, but still...
I know you Google fans are enjoying beating your chest, but this 68% number doesn't seem to bear any resemblance to actual usage. Ride the train in any major U.S. city and look around. Apple dominates the scene.
I don't live in a major US city, so I'll take your word for it. However, one thing people in the US frequently forget, is that the US is not the whole world.
Note, their terms and conditions specifically calls for a 30 days heads up for you to save your stuff, this is nice and all, except you don't get 30 days warning
Sorry, I could not understand this statement. I am not a Steam user (never have been), so maybe there's some context that makes this seemingly nonsensical sentence... sensible.
All three Manifold books are depressing, but top-notch hard Sci-Fi. If you are into hard Sci-Fi you definitely should check out Baxter.
The three Manifold books are depressing in different ways. I don't want to spoil them, but I'll just say that they are depressing in a "Childhood's end"-kind of way; that is, you can also be exalted in a Zen-like realization.
All three books super-highly recommended. My favorite is "Manifold: Space".
Exactly. And they'll make sure the country is perfect in many other terms, too.
Paradise on Earth, it will be.
Better censorship and surveillance.
Remember, this is the country "in which there are no gay people".
I used it, as "early" as 2003, on HP-UX. Not sure what happened to HP-UX after that, our projects switched mostly to Solaris, which also had CDE but soon switched to Gnome.
Whatever happens, I can predict one thing: the world tomorrow will be uglier, more crowded and less educated that the world today.
That's true, and one doesn't even have to touch upon the more controversial (not for me) things such as AGW.
For intance, there was a time when eating salmon and other large fish was unambiguously healthy. Not anymore: the concentration of mercury in the oceans (because of coal-fired plants) has been steadily increasing, and with it, mercury in the fish. Now you have to weight the pros and the cons of eating it.
Population has been steadily increasing as well.
And there is a clear trend of unethical business practices, quarter-to-quarter, short term thinking and screwing the customer.
Many more trends like these. Yes, it's getting worse.
marijuana, alcohol, lsd, mushrooms, etc., should be legal because they do not easily addict (although you shouldn't use drugs that produce strong hallucinations without a babysitter, and the irresponsible assholes that do will mean these drugs will stay illegal)
Alcohol creates an extremely strong physical addiction. Nutt et al. classified drugs by several metrics, and alcohol was up there, among the most addictive drugs. Cannabis is practically physically not addictive.
I can see it now: Oracle does a quick and dirty (read: half-assed) job of porting their RDBMS to Itanium, and assigns an intern for bug fixing.
What could possibly go wrong (for HP).
I was able to convert a few from Unity
Must have been hard...
The trillion tiny little fuck-ups by Microsoft are fully evident in this new service: I am not allowed to enter my mobile phone number because apparently "it is not suitable in my region". Right.
And I got immediately an alert that someone tried to use my account without authorization so I have to immediately change my password.
Some other localization issues and forcing me to use a language I don't want to use... oh well, thanks for reminding me of what piece of crap Microsoft products are (still).
Also, unrelated, but I feel like the GNOME 3 hate is really blown out of proportion. Sure, some users were driven away, but the exact same thing happened with GNOME 2 and people called it trash and crap and whatever else. By the time that GNOME 3 is mature and more stable, it will have a large userbase again. I can guarantee it. I, personally, really love it as it is, especially how easily extensible it is. I don't know another desktop that allows so many customization options through extensions like that. You can really change near everything with a little tweak and you can write one yourself in minutes.
That's bullshit - I was there when Gnome 2 was born. There were some critics, but nowhere near the backlash that accompanies Gnome 3.
Your post reminds me exactly of the Windows Vista apologists: they would say things like "When Windows XP came out, there were just as many people who hated it. like the ones who hate Vista. In the end, it will be a success like XP." Turns out, all those apologists were full of shit, and Vista really is the turd that everybody thought it was.
I was disheartened with the shipwreck that Gnome 3 decided to become, so MATE was a very positive development. And while I'm not a Fedora user (just not my cup of tea), it's a very popular distro, and seeing them adopt MATE added a huge momentum to the project (a bit like when IBM adopted Java - it boosted it enormously).
Actually, they have a strong incentive: staying in business. My wife runs her own business, and I help her with advertising. We track the source of every click through to a sale. Then we calculate the ratio of (ad expense)/(profit generated). For Google ads, this is about 1.6. For Facebook ads, it is about 0.2. Guess where we no longer buy ads?
You no longer buy ads from Google?
Sorry, are you trying to prove that one doesn't need any math skills to run a successful business?
After reading all that, I'm more worried than I was a few hours ago.
Thanks. You are right, and you also provided me with some interesting info.
And I also agree about the prediction of practically indistinguishable knock-offs of rare games from China. Unless they do some TIXE-kind of fuckup.
I am sure I'm overlooking something, but to me, it seems that all you need to do to "create" this prototype, is burn the ROM file (available around the web) onto the EPROMs, place them into a garden variety copy of Legend of Zelda, and that's it. One could even easily make a funky-colored case for the cart, with a 3D printer. A $50-100 expense for a 3 orders of magnitude higher profit.
Indeed, USA is nowadays characterized by the lowest social mobility among western countries. The only other country that comes close is the UK.
I would like to visit the US for a scientific conference later this year. On social media, I have piled a lot of criticism on the TSA, on Apple and the lack of universal healthcare in the US.
With very little stretch, the conclusion that an overzealous NSA employee, or user of the NSA database, could draw is that I am some sort of commie.
I wonder if I'll be detained when I enter the US. That would be extremely inconvenient.
KDE is very polished now, no show-stopping or other annoying bugs. Personally - I use Arch, but thats not viable for someone who is not a power user.
You should search for a distro that has KDE by default (as the main DE), because offshoots like kubuntu have pretty poor integration and many features are broken. Taking this into consideration I think that OpenSuse would be a good choice.
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm glad I wasn't the only one to mention OpenSuSE in this discussion.
Whatever you choose, I suggest you keep them away from Unity and whatever happened to Gnome as of late.
IMHO, KDE is the closest, in its current incarnation, to a Windows experience. So, maybe Kubuntu will do. Another nice KDE-centric distro could be OpenSuSE, and they have also an awesome (and very underrated) control panel.
You don't need a license from microsoft. The end user can disable secure boot. The end user can install their own keys.
Until that day when the user can't. Even Canonical admitted that this is not just a possibility in the future, but quite likely.
Why would Microsoft develop anything Linux-based?