Just like the CLI, you have to *know* to type "programs." If you type applications, software, binaries, or executables, it won't work. That's not user-centric or user-discoverable at all.
Even on my Openbox desktop, I can go to "Applications" and get a list of general categories to find the program I'm looking for. That's because the applications menu (and thus it's hierarchies) are set by Debian, not each individual software developer.
That's basically what FireGPG does, at least for email. 1. It's awkward and breaks a lot of the "features" of web-apps. 2. Google will never implement it or make it easy as it would prevent them from harvesting information (their business model).
KDE? the environment where the applications menu is organized by task category? Have you noticed by default, the menu includes both the name and description by default?
Organising the start menu by software manufacturer name is user centric? Sometimes windows seems easy to use *because you have been using it for decades.* I hope they haven't, yet again, shuffled around the *user centric* control panel. Every time I get asked to help someone fix their windows computer it gets harder to find anything now.
... Remove Bash. That's right, no Bash, no Korn, no Bourne, no shells of ANY kind. Do that with a fresh install and see if it will run six months, with allowing updates, without any access to CLI.
No problem. But you will have to fix any problems the "windows way" -reboot or format/reinstall.
If true, switch to a reseller. Seriously. If you can get Bell DSL, you can likely get DSL from a reseller like Acanac or Teksavvy. They shield you from most of the Bell bullshit, have better tech support, and are cheaper than Bell. No only that, but you are supporting companies currently fighting court battles with Bell on their nasty traffic management practices.
Locking people up (and removing all their freedoms) for decades when they cause no real harm *is* a crime against humanity -just not as bad as torturing and killing them.
Follow the thread man, the officers decided to prosecute this guy, which means taking away his freedom for a substantial part of his lifetime -all for a "crime" of being an inconvenience to some people's ambitions. That's not as far from the Nuremerg trials as I would like.
Could you imagine what the computer industry would have turned out like if the DMCA and DRM were available in the 80's and 90's? Sorry, IBM decided not to authorize your word processor because it competes with their text editor.
People are going to look back at this and shake their heads.
It's infuriating to those of us in other countries as well. Here in Canada, the government is looking at re-introducing yet another "Canadian DMCA." Fortunately, this time they are doing a public consultation, but few people are speaking up:
Except that cable companies can provide their IPTV or VOIP on their own proprietary protocol (unshaped), and shape the competition's protocols -especially those non-commercial or low-budget ones that use p2p.
If you have 6 figures to lay down for advertising, you need to earn at least 6 figures before the artist gets that "tiny" profit. If an artist invests a few grand getting his music to music festivals, on on-line music stores, kick-start a tour, etc, then he doesn't have to sell a million albums to live off his music.
If you are in the U.S., drive around your average suburb. That's where the majority of your countrymen live. Also notice that almost every house has a 2-car garage. There is no question that most of these people could replace their second car with a short-range electric. Once that happens, millions of electric cars on the road will mean massive investment in battery technology and recharging stations. That's when an electric will become feasible at your condo.
Musicians, for a brief period of modern history, were able to make income beyond that they were given for their performances.
Correction, a very small number of musicians were able to make that income. The "lottery" mentality works very well when trying to manipulate young musicians into signing away ownership of their creations.
It's just sad when a mp3 of a recording using a computer sound-card, from the AUX out on some record player sounds better than a "remastered CD." How many sources of signal loss and noise are there here?
Those chips don't use public key cryptography to communicate securely with the bank over an unsecured channel, they are simply an RFID, for all practical purposes, just a number that can be read without physical contact.
That's because in Canada, almost all ATM's belong to one of the small handful of federally recognized Banks. In the U.S., owning ATM machines is often a commercial venture on it's own, and many ATM's are not owned by banks. It just doesn't make sense to call them bank machines in the U.S.
This seems like the ideal application for monetizing FOSS. They could easily charge a small fee for this, as you would be paying for CPU/bandwidth costs, and a custom product. It would be difficult for someone to do it for free without a big bankroll, and people distributing the product would not devalue the service (as the service is custom and the redistributions would be simple ISOs).
Yes. The "new user wizard" allows you to sign up for a VOIP-to-telephone account. You can also get incoming phone numbers.
The benefit to ekiga is that it uses a standard protocol (SIP) so there are literally hundreds of alternatives in various countries. I use Acanac here in Canada. I pay ~10 bucks a month for unlimited incoming/outgoing calling in North America- and that's a regular price, not a short-term bait-and-switch deal. Oh, and I use a cheap ATA box in my house so we can use a regular phone at home. Beat that Skype.
From what I understand, Skype's NAT traversal can cause security vulnerabilities for the local network and computer. Of course, that's why Skype often works when SIP based VOIP clients (etc. ekiga) have trouble.
(yes ekiga is getting very good, but it needs UPnP for naive users and those circumstances where you don't have access to the router)
And unless the CRTC grows a backbone and changes something, you will get 9Mbps to Rogers premium services, 4Mbps to external websites, and 128kbps for anything p2p. And that's if you are lucky.
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Just like the CLI, you have to *know* to type "programs." If you type applications, software, binaries, or executables, it won't work. That's not user-centric or user-discoverable at all.
Even on my Openbox desktop, I can go to "Applications" and get a list of general categories to find the program I'm looking for. That's because the applications menu (and thus it's hierarchies) are set by Debian, not each individual software developer.
That's basically what FireGPG does, at least for email.
1. It's awkward and breaks a lot of the "features" of web-apps.
2. Google will never implement it or make it easy as it would prevent them from harvesting information (their business model).
KDE? the environment where the applications menu is organized by task category? Have you noticed by default, the menu includes both the name and description by default?
"Office" > "kword (Word Processor)"
Yeah, that's confusing.
Organising the start menu by software manufacturer name is user centric? Sometimes windows seems easy to use *because you have been using it for decades.* I hope they haven't, yet again, shuffled around the *user centric* control panel. Every time I get asked to help someone fix their windows computer it gets harder to find anything now.
... Remove Bash. That's right, no Bash, no Korn, no Bourne, no shells of ANY kind. Do that with a fresh install and see if it will run six months, with allowing updates, without any access to CLI.
No problem. But you will have to fix any problems the "windows way" -reboot or format/reinstall.
If true, switch to a reseller. Seriously. If you can get Bell DSL, you can likely get DSL from a reseller like Acanac or Teksavvy. They shield you from most of the Bell bullshit, have better tech support, and are cheaper than Bell. No only that, but you are supporting companies currently fighting court battles with Bell on their nasty traffic management practices.
Locking people up (and removing all their freedoms) for decades when they cause no real harm *is* a crime against humanity -just not as bad as torturing and killing them.
Follow the thread man, the officers decided to prosecute this guy, which means taking away his freedom for a substantial part of his lifetime -all for a "crime" of being an inconvenience to some people's ambitions. That's not as far from the Nuremerg trials as I would like.
Could you imagine what the computer industry would have turned out like if the DMCA and DRM were available in the 80's and 90's? Sorry, IBM decided not to authorize your word processor because it competes with their text editor.
People are going to look back at this and shake their heads.
It's infuriating to those of us in other countries as well. Here in Canada, the government is looking at re-introducing yet another "Canadian DMCA." Fortunately, this time they are doing a public consultation, but few people are speaking up:
http://copyright.econsultation.ca/
Except that cable companies can provide their IPTV or VOIP on their own proprietary protocol (unshaped), and shape the competition's protocols -especially those non-commercial or low-budget ones that use p2p.
"But in the end, they'll meet the same fate as the dinos."
Don't be so sure: dinos didn't have corporate lawyers.
Then why are corporate lawyers so often referred to with certain reptilian species names?
If you have 6 figures to lay down for advertising, you need to earn at least 6 figures before the artist gets that "tiny" profit. If an artist invests a few grand getting his music to music festivals, on on-line music stores, kick-start a tour, etc, then he doesn't have to sell a million albums to live off his music.
If you are in the U.S., drive around your average suburb. That's where the majority of your countrymen live. Also notice that almost every house has a 2-car garage. There is no question that most of these people could replace their second car with a short-range electric. Once that happens, millions of electric cars on the road will mean massive investment in battery technology and recharging stations. That's when an electric will become feasible at your condo.
Musicians, for a brief period of modern history, were able to make income beyond that they were given for their performances.
Correction, a very small number of musicians were able to make that income. The "lottery" mentality works very well when trying to manipulate young musicians into signing away ownership of their creations.
It's just sad when a mp3 of a recording using a computer sound-card, from the AUX out on some record player sounds better than a "remastered CD." How many sources of signal loss and noise are there here?
Those chips don't use public key cryptography to communicate securely with the bank over an unsecured channel, they are simply an RFID, for all practical purposes, just a number that can be read without physical contact.
That's because in Canada, almost all ATM's belong to one of the small handful of federally recognized Banks. In the U.S., owning ATM machines is often a commercial venture on it's own, and many ATM's are not owned by banks. It just doesn't make sense to call them bank machines in the U.S.
This seems like the ideal application for monetizing FOSS. They could easily charge a small fee for this, as you would be paying for CPU/bandwidth costs, and a custom product. It would be difficult for someone to do it for free without a big bankroll, and people distributing the product would not devalue the service (as the service is custom and the redistributions would be simple ISOs).
Yes. The "new user wizard" allows you to sign up for a VOIP-to-telephone account. You can also get incoming phone numbers.
The benefit to ekiga is that it uses a standard protocol (SIP) so there are literally hundreds of alternatives in various countries. I use Acanac here in Canada. I pay ~10 bucks a month for unlimited incoming/outgoing calling in North America- and that's a regular price, not a short-term bait-and-switch deal. Oh, and I use a cheap ATA box in my house so we can use a regular phone at home. Beat that Skype.
Interesting SIP sites for phone geeks:
http://www.voxalot.com/
http://www.sipbroker.com/
http://www.voip-info.org/
From what I understand, Skype's NAT traversal can cause security vulnerabilities for the local network and computer. Of course, that's why Skype often works when SIP based VOIP clients (etc. ekiga) have trouble.
(yes ekiga is getting very good, but it needs UPnP for naive users and those circumstances where you don't have access to the router)
Consider the facts: The study focuses on the nutritional value exclusively; not overall health benefits,
Wrong. Stopped reading right there. +4 Informative??
And unless the CRTC grows a backbone and changes something, you will get 9Mbps to Rogers premium services, 4Mbps to external websites, and 128kbps for anything p2p. And that's if you are lucky.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4205/125/
Very true. Being that Torrents are easily linked on websites, they are much better for promoting a band or festival. For instance, the giant (mostly indie rock) festival South by Southwest released 1267 mp3s from bands at their 2009 festival, available via Bittorrent.
What's worse. Telling him about microwaves might *cause* him to start suffering when using the microwave.