Apparently they haven't even gotten around to testing it on animals yet. But they say it works great in a glass of water. The news might be a bit premature. No nice pics either.
Thin? TFA says its based on Ubuntu! That could be made light, since it's "based" on it. What cracked me up was : "with the lightweight Enlightenment window manager"
I remember how this would have been considered downright silly a few years back:)
Maybe the took that complaint I lodged 3 years ago seriously... It's about time this type of thing started happening. I thought this was heading in the right direction as well until I noticed I had missed the word "collectively". Also I was a bit disappointed at the lack of mention of thumbscrews.
That's rich, coming from one of the greatest producers of vaporware in the world.
Be that as it may, Windows Mobile is in widespread use and Android isn't yet. Apparently Windows mobile has a little more presence on phones than Linux has on the desktop. "Widespread use" doesn't seem to be a very good way of characterising it.
Granted Windows Mobile has seen the Real World (tm) and has even been through a number of iterations which made it somewhet better (hopefully). It also has the theoretical advantage of being able to communicate more easily with the dominant desktop system and to share applications with it with a recompile (and possibly a few tweakings).
Note however that with those pretty massive advantages it still remains a very marginal player on the phone market. This hints very strongly at a problem with Windows Mobile. If it's Microsoft's World it's full of dragons.
Disclaimer : Looking at that market from the outside, not a Microsoft user, my phone is dumb and the PDAs I've used were Palms.
Granted the NHL is desperate for viewers outside of Canada and the NE of the United States, but baseball is hardly pulling down serious money out side of it's top 5 markets. Apart from Japan where I believe it enjoys some popularity, baseball is completely ignored outside of the US (and apparently Canada). The NHL might be desperate for viewers but I don't think many viewers are desperate for what it has to offer.
What about the silent people who aren't on myface, Orkbook or whatever, don't even get the point of posting "mood : pouty" on the web (i.e. are above 14 yr old) ?
I've been on the web since there actually *was* a web, and on the networks as they were, the Internet and X25 and the BBSs for a number of years before that, and I *still* don't get the point of Facebook.
There are quite a number of people I know that can't look at MySpace without having their eyes watering (the googles, they do nothing !) so I presume I'm not alone in that situation.
Perhaps the operating motto should be "data leaks happen". If you want limited visibility to some event, spread the news in a limited fashion. There are two concepts here. One is getting into the public mind that "shit happens" which may or may no have gotten through (if they've gotten it maybe they're just into fucking stuff up for the money, given the amount of legal action based on "shit happens" that has taken place).
The other is that if Jane leaks her kinky pics to Joe, they could very well end up on a P2P network and from there on Usenet either because Joe can't setup his P2P software or because he's just being naughty. People, just like the media companies, have trouble coming to grips with the potential ubiquity of digital data.
(no jane, don't leak printouts, joe might have a scanner, didn't you learn anything ?)
Yes, I think it is. I use Opera which is good but has a minority share. There are few sites like banks which are IE only or IE/Firefox only because they block everything else. So I fire up Firefox or IE because I want to use something which is supported and hopefully tested when I do that stuff. It's not exactly the same thing. You can actually run either Opera or Firefox on pretty much anything that people actually use. It might not work on your ZX81 (even though I'm sure there's somebody using one on the web somewhere) but Firefox runs on Solaris, on RiscOS, on OS/2, etc. thanks to the maniacs^W dedicated users of those platforms. And Opera is available on an awful lot of embedded systems.
OTOH, it looks like getting IE to run on a Mac nowadays is getting kind of difficult. And oddly enough none of my systems, either those I run for work or my personal ones are able to run IE. If my bank wanted me to run IE I'd just switch banks. I'm not going to trash all of my data just because I happen to like the colour of their cheque books.
In Europe at least, where Firefox is nowadays geting to be very visible, IE only websites are increasingly a thing of the past. About time too.
Yeah, it went from a lot less than 1% to, less than 1%.
I still don't think that makes non Windows/MacOS support a priority for them. Do you? The number still seems to be a bit small to me... But at least not by orders of magnitude.
I have to ask, as I was very young at the time, why did the generation that could have picked up RISC and ran with it drop the ball and leave us with x86? Do you write that much assembly code that you care what CPU is inside your machine ? As long as it's affordable and it has software (preferably open) available for it, my computer could run on pixie dust for all I care.
It's been my experience that most boot delays are waiting for network startup, particularly DHCP broadcast/response. DNS requests can be killers too. Especially if there has been a network snag somewhere and you have to wait for them to fail.
Either that or a power cord. I don't think many people would want to drive an electric vehicle with a power cord as it would greatly reduce the useful range...;)
So basically they found a new expensive catalyst to turn a product (alcohol) that is energetically costly to make and that consumes quite a bit of water, back into water and energy. Presumably with some non negligible loss of both energy and water in the process.
Is this supposed to be some kind of exciting news ?
Or maybe it is of interest to chemists because it's some sort of exotic catalytic reaction ?
As for socialized medicine, When a Canadian finds out they have something serious they come to the USA to get it fixed. If they stay in Canada and wait for the socialized medicine there, they die of their ailment before their turn comes up. And the British come to France. So YMMV.
Oddly enough this is starting to happen elsewhere in Europe. Not because nobody learned from that fiasco. Rather because they learned that there was lots of money to be made.
Which is why on some continental southern neighbours of the UK people are rather attached to the concept of public service because for all of its deficiencies there are a number of areas where it works much better than the private sector.
In the same vein the Japanese experiments conducted in China during the same period have long been the basis for bioweaponry research. (yay for our nice species)
"Microsoft has denied sabotaging Mandriva's deal [CC] with the Nigerian government to supply Classmate PCs from Intel along with a customized Mandriva Linux operating system. It's puzzling though, I really would've thought they had something to do with it. But if they say it wasn't them, it must be one of those freak events we keep reading about in News of the World.
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Apparently they haven't even gotten around to testing it on animals yet. But they say it works great in a glass of water. The news might be a bit premature.
No nice pics either.
What cracked me up was :
"with the lightweight Enlightenment window manager"
I remember how this would have been considered downright silly a few years back
Also I was a bit disappointed at the lack of mention of thumbscrews.
That's rich, coming from one of the greatest producers of vaporware in the world.
Be that as it may, Windows Mobile is in widespread use and Android isn't yet. Apparently Windows mobile has a little more presence on phones than Linux has on the desktop. "Widespread use" doesn't seem to be a very good way of characterising it.
Granted Windows Mobile has seen the Real World (tm) and has even been through a number of iterations which made it somewhet better (hopefully). It also has the theoretical advantage of being able to communicate more easily with the dominant desktop system and to share applications with it with a recompile (and possibly a few tweakings).
Note however that with those pretty massive advantages it still remains a very marginal player on the phone market. This hints very strongly at a problem with Windows Mobile. If it's Microsoft's World it's full of dragons.
Disclaimer : Looking at that market from the outside, not a Microsoft user, my phone is dumb and the PDAs I've used were Palms.
What about the silent people who aren't on myface, Orkbook or whatever, don't even get the point of posting "mood : pouty" on the web (i.e. are above 14 yr old) ?
I've been on the web since there actually *was* a web, and on the networks as they were, the Internet and X25 and the BBSs for a number of years before that, and I *still* don't get the point of Facebook.
There are quite a number of people I know that can't look at MySpace without having their eyes watering (the googles, they do nothing !) so I presume I'm not alone in that situation.
The other is that if Jane leaks her kinky pics to Joe, they could very well end up on a P2P network and from there on Usenet either because Joe can't setup his P2P software or because he's just being naughty. People, just like the media companies, have trouble coming to grips with the potential ubiquity of digital data.
(no jane, don't leak printouts, joe might have a scanner, didn't you learn anything ?)
It might not work on your ZX81 (even though I'm sure there's somebody using one on the web somewhere) but Firefox runs on Solaris, on RiscOS, on OS/2, etc. thanks to the maniacs^W dedicated users of those platforms. And Opera is available on an awful lot of embedded systems.
OTOH, it looks like getting IE to run on a Mac nowadays is getting kind of difficult. And oddly enough none of my systems, either those I run for work or my personal ones are able to run IE.
If my bank wanted me to run IE I'd just switch banks. I'm not going to trash all of my data just because I happen to like the colour of their cheque books.
In Europe at least, where Firefox is nowadays geting to be very visible, IE only websites are increasingly a thing of the past. About time too.
#include libgphone
I still don't think that makes non Windows/MacOS support a priority for them. Do you? The number still seems to be a bit small to me... But at least not by orders of magnitude.
And if there isn't, you can always go work elsewhere. It's not for a lack of places that have computers with IE on their desks...
And after all it's not as if you couldn't buy Windows (tm) in any computer shop in the planet.
So it's a non issue after all.
Isn't it ?
As long as it's affordable and it has software (preferably open) available for it, my computer could run on pixie dust for all I care.
I welcome our power cord overlords... knot !
So basically they found a new expensive catalyst to turn a product (alcohol) that is energetically costly to make and that consumes quite a bit of water, back into water and energy. Presumably with some non negligible loss of both energy and water in the process.
Is this supposed to be some kind of exciting news ?
Or maybe it is of interest to chemists because it's some sort of exotic catalytic reaction ?
Oddly enough this is starting to happen elsewhere in Europe. Not because nobody learned from that fiasco. Rather because they learned that there was lots of money to be made.
Which is why on some continental southern neighbours of the UK people are rather attached to the concept of public service because for all of its deficiencies there are a number of areas where it works much better than the private sector.
Duh, because they say so on TV. What's wrong with you ?
In the same vein the Japanese experiments conducted in China during the same period have long been the basis for bioweaponry research. (yay for our nice species)
Spiritual computing ? Is that when you run your browser on a Ouija board ?
(knock twice for 404)
Has to be Beta to be Web 2.0.
OTOH since it's from Microsoft one could argue that it's by definition perpetually in Beta ("Hey, it compiles ! Ship it !" - MS dev team Mgr)
But if they say it wasn't them, it must be one of those freak events we keep reading about in News of the World.