The most that can really be said is the 600 euro fine (and the non-disclosure agreement) is absurd for what the alleged crime is.
Well, I'd say that raiding someone's home in a matter that can be settled by a 600 Euro fine is patently absurd. In most civilized countries police force and actions must be commensurate and such a raid would not have been warranted. I'm surprised the search warrent got through in Sweden.
It would work if you made it a video game, like America's Arma, where brave volunteers in mom's basement would control the actual anti-missile defenses -- lasers would be a good choice. Crowd-sourcing is the key for the future of patriotic homeland defense.
As someone who knows a little bit about multi-criteria decision making, risk analysis, probability theory and their friends (plausibility, possibility, fuzzy logics, etc.), I submit that these kinds of software programs are all just hocus-pocus and based on bullshitting customers.
How can I claim that without having seen the software? Simpe answer: The number of terrorist incidents is too low to establish significent correlations. The software is probably better at recognizing Pakistani cooks than at recognizing your next Breivik.
What do the Android app developers need to do get their apps run on Jolla devices / devices based on the Sailfish OS?
Many Android(TM) applications will run on Jolla devices unchanged (Android is a trademark of Google Inc.). If you want to take advantage of all UI and other features of Sailfish OS and make your applications fast, you can port your applications to native QT/QML. There are extensive guides available on how to do that.
Okay, sorry for the other post I've made in this thread. That actually sounds pretty cool.
That's just what I was looking for! Now if I want to write a cross-platform application I not only need to develop for OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7 and Windows 8/Metro, GNU/Linux and the mobile OSes iOS, Android, and Windows RT, I also should develop my apps for ChromeOS, FirefoxOS, WebOS, and last but not least "Jolla."
Let me guess...additionally the makers of these operating systems have no particular reason to ease interoperability and also want me to put my applications on their personal app store, each with different guidelines, fees, etc., right? Hey, that really sounds like a developer's dream! So many job opportunities for making boring and tedious GUI gluecode translations!
Can I develop for it using a conventional programming language and API, without having to care about appalling things like "browsers" or "server- vs. client-side"?
If not, forget it. If yes, great news and I hope to see it soon on a phone nearby.
Like many others, I dual boot into Linux for work and Windows for gaming. Linux has automated backup and is optimized for my workflow, Windows is just as it were when I got it with 100 additional icons on the desktop and no backups. The only other reason I'd need windows besides playing games is for correcting papers in Word when a journal insists on.doc submissions and for some mysterious reasons formulas from OpenOffice never show up correctly in Microsoft's product.
I have around 100 games, mostly on Steam, but only play 2-3 titles from time to time, among them also X-Plane which already works on Linux. There is only one reason why I'd switch to Linux from Windows for playing games: speed. I'd switch to any platform for a substantial framerate gain with the same hardware. Other than that I see no reason to switch. Having to reboot also has the advantage of not allowing me to play when I should work.
My long term goal is to not play any games any longer at all, because (a) they suck more and more (or I've outgrown them?) and (b) there are so many better things to waste your time with, e.g. ad hoc programming for fun which is very similar to gaming anyway.
Talking about real innovation, perhaps it's time for Apple to buy Cyc or something similar and leave the slumbering A.I. cat out of the box?
Apple has always had an inclination towards that direction, and it would be the right company to start offering deep semantic processing to the end consumer - as a luxury gimmick, before it becomes robust enough to be always useful. The competition might be hard, an impressive number of A.I. researchers are working for Google. Anyway, processing power suffices nowadays to make some amazing A.I. products feasible and I personally would love to see them on my phone or desktop.
In Portugal, the passwords of the routers of the biggest telecom (TMN) are available and easy to find on the Net, and each router doesn't have just one but usually several admin and root accounts. I guess they think that as long as you can access it only from LAN and via "official channels" that's secure enough.
Well, the protocol could also be useful on earth, for example when there is a huge catastrophe. Besides, basically the whole Internet has been developed by government agencies at the expense of tax payer money. If the Internet had been developed by private industry, we'd all have $49.95/month AOL network access over modem that would provide about 8 network-capable applications with pay-per- use extra services.
While I respect your decision I can't help noticing that you must have done something wrong.
I switched from the Mac to Ubuntu 5 years ago and I'm definitely not going to switch back. The only problems that I have ever encountered were solely caused by my own tinkering. If you don't start hacking it, Ubuntu works perfectly fine out of the box. (And by 'hacking' I don't mean changing the window manager; I'm using Xubuntu anyway.) Are you sure you haven't just played around with your distro too much? Like when people start to learn LaTeX and write papers with too many symbols in them because they can? You can just as easily run into problems with OS X when you start messing around with the underlying Unix, you know.
Even if you agree with the general political sentiment, please don't mod up the above post. It's a crystal clear attempt of trolling, deliberately mixing up all kinds of unrelated issues.
I've watched it and it was good entertainment despite. In contrast to the last one horrible Daniel Graig even does not appear entirely like a psychopathic murderer, so it's a bit easier to empathize with him this time (though still not easy). There are worse James Bond movies but also better ones, and it's fun unless you expect more than a James Bond movie.
Wouldn't a native cross-platform app alleviate all these problems with domain names? Use a UDT based file transfer protocol with NAT traversal to connect to servers based on IP numbers that can be updated via bootstrap server or software update. Sure, at some point the user must download the app, but that would not be a big problem in this case, and afterwards the app can update itself. As a bonus you get huge perfomance benefits, at least if you do it the right way.
Just an idea. All this fuzz about domain names, really makes you wonder why people are so obsessed with web-pages.
For the tasks most people want a computer for (or think they want a computer for) an ARM-based solution could work just as well as an x86 based one.
People keep saying that, but is there actually any data to back that up? In my personal experience it's not easy to find people who only used his computer for web browsing and email. Bear in mind that what a new buyer thinks he wants a computer for is rarely what he'll actually end up using it for. It's always good advice to buy a slightly faster machine with much more RAM than appears to be needed at first glance.
I doubt that switch to ARM would be a good move. Most people care more about a snappy user interface and fast video editing than how much their computer usage enters their power bill.
Interesting. I have learned in my martial arts classes to look at the whole person and the area around, i.e. not to gaze at any particular point. This way peripheral vision is used more efficiently which detects motion particularly well. Or so, I've heard and been told. Don't know if it's true because after half a decade I changed from stupid martial arts to "e-sports" and aerobic.
Fine, I'll take it any time. Not only do I hate getting the flu, when the deadly avian flu desaster strikes some day, I'd finally like to put all the doomsday scenario survival skills I've practised in video games for years to a test.:-)
Users should get a clue? What a charming view on users - I hope you're not a developer.
As a long-term Ubuntu user I have to say that I really want a clear separation between online search and local search. The last thing I want to see when searching through my files is an advertisement by some company. Not even as an opt-in.
(Apart from that general point, it should also be mentioned that Amazon sucks for a variety of good reasons.)
Microsoft has been actively fighting for more than a decade by all means, both technically and legally, technologies such as Java in order to make multi-platform development as difficult as possible. The whole idea of.NET was to make it harder to port programs while making it easy to develop for one platform. Apple does the same by tying developers to their toolchain and making it hard to develop with anything else than Objective-C+Cocoa. (Not to speak of various lawsuits.)
Does the word "application barrier" not ring a bell at all? Of course it's intentional. Everybody knows that since the mid 90s. It is not hard at all to overcome low-level API inconsistencies, every cross-platform abstraction layer does that. The reason why all of these libraries are incomplete or create problems is economical not technological. If the big players had worked together rather than against each other, you could today write any application once and run it on every PC, every Mac, every smart phone, your browser and probably also your mom's toaster.
That's a rather bold statement. Throughout history revolutions were triggered both from the outside and inside, often a combination of both, sometimes just one of them. Often they dissolve when the dictator dies. The Franco and Salazar regimes in Europe are perfect examples. Luckily it seems that extremely despotic systems based on terror don't last long, see e.g. Cambodia during the Khmer regime or the 3rd Reich. Less oppressive regimes seem to take longer, about 2-3 generations, until they disintegrate. I'm not saying that events from the outside play no role, but they are often overrated, e.g. the Soviet Union did not collapse just because of a economic problems or pressure from the outside, a huge factor in its collapse were Gorbatchev's voluntary reforms und a certain amount of support for them in the progressive wing of the communist party.
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The most that can really be said is the 600 euro fine (and the non-disclosure agreement) is absurd for what the alleged crime is.
Well, I'd say that raiding someone's home in a matter that can be settled by a 600 Euro fine is patently absurd. In most civilized countries police force and actions must be commensurate and such a raid would not have been warranted. I'm surprised the search warrent got through in Sweden.
XFCE. I switched from Gnome this year and haven't regreted it. It's snappy and simply does what it is supposed to do.
You mean that SDI might work after all?
It would work if you made it a video game, like America's Arma, where brave volunteers in mom's basement would control the actual anti-missile defenses -- lasers would be a good choice. Crowd-sourcing is the key for the future of patriotic homeland defense.
As someone who knows a little bit about multi-criteria decision making, risk analysis, probability theory and their friends (plausibility, possibility, fuzzy logics, etc.), I submit that these kinds of software programs are all just hocus-pocus and based on bullshitting customers.
How can I claim that without having seen the software? Simpe answer: The number of terrorist incidents is too low to establish significent correlations. The software is probably better at recognizing Pakistani cooks than at recognizing your next Breivik.
What do the Android app developers need to do get their apps run on Jolla devices / devices based on the Sailfish OS?
Many Android(TM) applications will run on Jolla devices unchanged (Android is a trademark of Google Inc.). If you want to take advantage of all UI and other features of Sailfish OS and make your applications fast, you can port your applications to native QT/QML. There are extensive guides available on how to do that.
Okay, sorry for the other post I've made in this thread. That actually sounds pretty cool.
That's just what I was looking for! Now if I want to write a cross-platform application I not only need to develop for OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7 and Windows 8/Metro, GNU/Linux and the mobile OSes iOS, Android, and Windows RT, I also should develop my apps for ChromeOS, FirefoxOS, WebOS, and last but not least "Jolla."
Let me guess...additionally the makers of these operating systems have no particular reason to ease interoperability and also want me to put my applications on their personal app store, each with different guidelines, fees, etc., right? Hey, that really sounds like a developer's dream! So many job opportunities for making boring and tedious GUI gluecode translations!
Sorry for the rant, but someone had to say it...
Can I develop for it using a conventional programming language and API, without having to care about appalling things like "browsers" or "server- vs. client-side"?
If not, forget it. If yes, great news and I hope to see it soon on a phone nearby.
Like many others, I dual boot into Linux for work and Windows for gaming. Linux has automated backup and is optimized for my workflow, Windows is just as it were when I got it with 100 additional icons on the desktop and no backups. The only other reason I'd need windows besides playing games is for correcting papers in Word when a journal insists on .doc submissions and for some mysterious reasons formulas from OpenOffice never show up correctly in Microsoft's product.
I have around 100 games, mostly on Steam, but only play 2-3 titles from time to time, among them also X-Plane which already works on Linux. There is only one reason why I'd switch to Linux from Windows for playing games: speed. I'd switch to any platform for a substantial framerate gain with the same hardware. Other than that I see no reason to switch. Having to reboot also has the advantage of not allowing me to play when I should work.
My long term goal is to not play any games any longer at all, because (a) they suck more and more (or I've outgrown them?) and (b) there are so many better things to waste your time with, e.g. ad hoc programming for fun which is very similar to gaming anyway.
I normally write in LaTeX but currently use it. Unfortunately I can't confirm your assessment. In my opinion it's a pile of crap.
I guess you either leave the cat in the box or let it out of the box. Apparently I didn't get enough coffee this morning. :-/
Talking about real innovation, perhaps it's time for Apple to buy Cyc or something similar and leave the slumbering A.I. cat out of the box?
Apple has always had an inclination towards that direction, and it would be the right company to start offering deep semantic processing to the end consumer - as a luxury gimmick, before it becomes robust enough to be always useful. The competition might be hard, an impressive number of A.I. researchers are working for Google. Anyway, processing power suffices nowadays to make some amazing A.I. products feasible and I personally would love to see them on my phone or desktop.
In Portugal, the passwords of the routers of the biggest telecom (TMN) are available and easy to find on the Net, and each router doesn't have just one but usually several admin and root accounts. I guess they think that as long as you can access it only from LAN and via "official channels" that's secure enough.
Well, the protocol could also be useful on earth, for example when there is a huge catastrophe. Besides, basically the whole Internet has been developed by government agencies at the expense of tax payer money. If the Internet had been developed by private industry, we'd all have $49.95/month AOL network access over modem that would provide about 8 network-capable applications with pay-per- use extra services.
While I respect your decision I can't help noticing that you must have done something wrong.
I switched from the Mac to Ubuntu 5 years ago and I'm definitely not going to switch back. The only problems that I have ever encountered were solely caused by my own tinkering. If you don't start hacking it, Ubuntu works perfectly fine out of the box. (And by 'hacking' I don't mean changing the window manager; I'm using Xubuntu anyway.) Are you sure you haven't just played around with your distro too much? Like when people start to learn LaTeX and write papers with too many symbols in them because they can? You can just as easily run into problems with OS X when you start messing around with the underlying Unix, you know.
Even if you agree with the general political sentiment, please don't mod up the above post. It's a crystal clear attempt of trolling, deliberately mixing up all kinds of unrelated issues.
I've watched it and it was good entertainment despite. In contrast to the last one horrible Daniel Graig even does not appear entirely like a psychopathic murderer, so it's a bit easier to empathize with him this time (though still not easy). There are worse James Bond movies but also better ones, and it's fun unless you expect more than a James Bond movie.
Wouldn't a native cross-platform app alleviate all these problems with domain names? Use a UDT based file transfer protocol with NAT traversal to connect to servers based on IP numbers that can be updated via bootstrap server or software update. Sure, at some point the user must download the app, but that would not be a big problem in this case, and afterwards the app can update itself. As a bonus you get huge perfomance benefits, at least if you do it the right way.
Just an idea. All this fuzz about domain names, really makes you wonder why people are so obsessed with web-pages.
For the tasks most people want a computer for (or think they want a computer for) an ARM-based solution could work just as well as an x86 based one.
People keep saying that, but is there actually any data to back that up? In my personal experience it's not easy to find people who only used his computer for web browsing and email. Bear in mind that what a new buyer thinks he wants a computer for is rarely what he'll actually end up using it for. It's always good advice to buy a slightly faster machine with much more RAM than appears to be needed at first glance.
I doubt that switch to ARM would be a good move. Most people care more about a snappy user interface and fast video editing than how much their computer usage enters their power bill.
If Google can be taken down by accident in parts of the world, then it certainly can be taken down on purpose.
Oh my god, that would be the end of the world as we know it... I'd have to use Bing for a few minutes!
You're right, we need to get the cyber-army ready!
If I can run a browser, I can run a SSH client.
How do you run an SSH client on a kiosk?
On the other hand, it is really not advisable to trust a web-browser based kiosk with important ssh login details.
Interesting. I have learned in my martial arts classes to look at the whole person and the area around, i.e. not to gaze at any particular point. This way peripheral vision is used more efficiently which detects motion particularly well. Or so, I've heard and been told. Don't know if it's true because after half a decade I changed from stupid martial arts to "e-sports" and aerobic.
Fine, I'll take it any time. Not only do I hate getting the flu, when the deadly avian flu desaster strikes some day, I'd finally like to put all the doomsday scenario survival skills I've practised in video games for years to a test. :-)
Users should get a clue? What a charming view on users - I hope you're not a developer.
As a long-term Ubuntu user I have to say that I really want a clear separation between online search and local search. The last thing I want to see when searching through my files is an advertisement by some company. Not even as an opt-in.
(Apart from that general point, it should also be mentioned that Amazon sucks for a variety of good reasons.)
You've got to be kidding me.
Microsoft has been actively fighting for more than a decade by all means, both technically and legally, technologies such as Java in order to make multi-platform development as difficult as possible. The whole idea of .NET was to make it harder to port programs while making it easy to develop for one platform. Apple does the same by tying developers to their toolchain and making it hard to develop with anything else than Objective-C+Cocoa. (Not to speak of various lawsuits.)
Does the word "application barrier" not ring a bell at all? Of course it's intentional. Everybody knows that since the mid 90s. It is not hard at all to overcome low-level API inconsistencies, every cross-platform abstraction layer does that. The reason why all of these libraries are incomplete or create problems is economical not technological. If the big players had worked together rather than against each other, you could today write any application once and run it on every PC, every Mac, every smart phone, your browser and probably also your mom's toaster.
That's a rather bold statement. Throughout history revolutions were triggered both from the outside and inside, often a combination of both, sometimes just one of them. Often they dissolve when the dictator dies. The Franco and Salazar regimes in Europe are perfect examples. Luckily it seems that extremely despotic systems based on terror don't last long, see e.g. Cambodia during the Khmer regime or the 3rd Reich. Less oppressive regimes seem to take longer, about 2-3 generations, until they disintegrate. I'm not saying that events from the outside play no role, but they are often overrated, e.g. the Soviet Union did not collapse just because of a economic problems or pressure from the outside, a huge factor in its collapse were Gorbatchev's voluntary reforms und a certain amount of support for them in the progressive wing of the communist party.