How does one "cheat" elections using Twitter or Facebook? Could you elaborate?
This is a common procedure for democratic elections. It is not specific to Thailand. Campaigning in the media in general is forbidden on the election day, so that participants don't keep a "dirty secret" on one another, releasing it at the last minute without a chance for the other side to replay.
What is specific to Thailand, probably not for long, is that they include Social Network sites in the "Media" category and are trying hard to enforce the rule on a medium where that is hard thing to do.
If it does not free the memory when you are closing the tabs, then when? If it keeps it there for a bit longer in case it's needed later, by using a scheduled memory cleanup, that's fine, try that and see if it's the case though I doubt it. But be sure that it does not work like you imagine it should. If another application needs the memory that Firefox is not releasing, Firefox WON'T know. It will only know there's a shortage of memory when it tries to allocate more and the OS says "no can do".
FTP is the traditional method, although kind of dated, some say not so secure.
SCP is very simple, there are command line clients, fancy GUI clients, probably works with Android too.
Checkout WebDAV too, the Apache webserver probably has a module supporting it, if not, you may find dedicated servers. Probably lots of clients support it.
SVN is not a development application, it is a version control application where you can store your data versioned. So if you want to keep text data on a central repository, SVN is good for that. Problem with it is that it's not good with binary data, so, not a solution for keeping different versions of your pictures, heh.
He said he doesn't trust the cloud, so probably doesn't matter if it's owned by Canonical or someone else. He wants to own the server, he probably wants to keep it in his bedroom.
I don't think that using RAM is bad, but I do think having a chunk free is good, because it means you can use more if you need it.
I think you are besides the point here: nobody was talking about unloading data from memory to disk, as a solution. The problem is allocated memory by a program that looses control over that memory, and keeps it allocated even though it's not needed. There's also the problem of using memory efficiently, like only using two buckets to measure your water (http://www.folj.com/puzzles/easy.htm). Some people just throw in more buckets and that mindset can cause ugly memory problems.
Now, when you're running out of RAM there is a problem, [...] applications should begin to free data
You say that like there was a magic switch in all applications that did this. There is now such thing. I don't know if there is any application that does it, but I'm sure most do not. All the applications I've seen consuming large amounts of RAM keep doing so even when the free amount gets low. And that is because those large amounts of memory are used with things that the application can't free (because they lost control over them, or because the ARE using them in their inefficient way).
Is this the message of the short film? Buy our movies, they might be crap, but they also might be good, and they cost a lot because we can't be bothered to keep up with new technology. Otherwise this working woman looses her job, because, you know, we won't cut it from the salaries of people choosing to produce bad movies, and we won't cut our HUGE winnings when make a blockbuster. We like it as it is, and you the consumer must support our funny ways or we'll fire the poor women.
Whose the pirate there? "Give us your money or we cut this woman here! Aaargh!"
You don't seem to understand what Free Software means. To make a real analogy between Free Software and this situation would mean that RMS would have to give the sources of his speech to the Palestinian university (give sources to those to whom you give/sell the binaries), under condition that if the Palestinian university wants to give the speech to someone else in original form or modified, they would also have to give the sources to their speech. That's it, that's all that an analogy with Free Software would imply. Free Software doesn't impose any obligation on "to whom" you can/must distribute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art_scaling_algorithms
After the vectors are rasterized, I see no difference between the results of this method and those used by scaling algorithms like: 2xSAI, Super2xSAI, SuperEagle, HQ2x, HQ3x, etc.
The novelty might be that it generates vectors, but the algorithm must be quite similar.
Thing is, these new versions are going to replace the old ones in distributions. As far as I can see there's no KDE 3 in Debian anymore. The same will probably happen with Gnome 2, so maybe you can see the point.
I come from a country that has been under totalitarian rule for over 45 years until 1989. Our president and his wife had multiple Doctor and Doctor Honoris Causa titles from different universities, including for example the one in Nice, despite being renown for their stupidity and lack of education (I am not talking about manners, but years spent in school). The president's wife, Elena Ceausescu, was called by the newspapers and TV savant de renume mondial” (internationally renowned high scientist). She was supposed to be a chemist. Everybody was laughing at her speeches that were touching on the subject. Although they were probably written by real scientists and PR, she was not able to even read them out (they never spoke freely, always read the speeches).
So, in a totalitarian regime, the top leaders can be anything they fancy. But it doesn't mean much. At most, it means they appreciate science as something worthy.
And about the top positions in PISA tests, try to imagine the life of a child growing in a totalitarian regime, if you can. There is not much to do for a smart child, no other "distractions", no real childhood. They are treated more like sport athletes.
In our country performance in international science contests has declined since 1989, but that is only a sign that we are returning to normality, giving children a chance at a real childhood, and a bit more happiness maybe, not torturing them so maybe they will have a good position in society that will make it easier for them to get FOOD (I'm not exaggerating, my guess is that in parts of China there is a greater food problem than what we had in Roumania, and we had a fair share).
We still need lawyers that will argue in court, and ones that give support in many other ways. We can't replace them with computers, yet. If anything it removes the tedious part of looking through volumes and volumes of past cases, and laws to find relevant information pertaining to the case. That is not the smartest part of a lawyers job. And we still need lawyers that know how to create the right "queries" on the machines.
Falling Demand For Brains? No. Falling demand for repetitive, tedious jobs? Yes.
What!?! You honestly think that a country run by mafia, where journalists and protesters are arrested for writing/talking against certain members of the government gives a shit about individual freedom? You probably don't know what you are talking about.
Yes, but the prices also differ. While Pandora is about $330 NanoNote is about $99. The price difference is greater than the price of the NanoNote itself. In terms of hardware NanoNote compares more to GP2X then Pandora, although it is much better than GP2X and cheaper (GP2X was about $150 when it came out). The sad thing is that it doesn't have a network card, but on the other hand it runs the latest Linux kernel and that means you can use USB WiFi, as opposed to GP2X where you have an old kernel with limited support for such a thing (only one obsolete chip is supported, AFAIK). Thing is NanoNote seems to be the greatest and cheapest freely hackable computer (CherryPal Africa is also close to it, but it's not so developer friendly).
Freedom does not mean the absence of rules. It has different meanings, depending on the school of thought that you come from, but it doesn't mean "absence of rules" or "absence of obligations", not even to the anarchists.
More than that, there are many kinds of freedom, and freedom of software is just one of them. It is also linked to the freedom of information. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_(philosophy)
In some schools of thought freedom means: not going against the "nature" of things. Like when you refer to freedom of information. The nature of information is such that you can not contain it or block it's spreading (if you agree with Thomas Jefferson).
This is so unfair... Red Hat family: RHEL+Fedora+CentOS - 50.2% Ubuntu family: ? probably Ubuntu+XUbuntu+KUbuntu - 54.1 Debian family: Debian+Ubuntu+Mepis+Xandros+Linspire+etc - ?% Why compare "distribution families", when you can't even say exactly what that means? Why not compare distributions, plain and simple, and a lot more exact and meaningful.
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This is a common procedure for democratic elections. It is not specific to Thailand. Campaigning in the media in general is forbidden on the election day, so that participants don't keep a "dirty secret" on one another, releasing it at the last minute without a chance for the other side to replay.
What is specific to Thailand, probably not for long, is that they include Social Network sites in the "Media" category and are trying hard to enforce the rule on a medium where that is hard thing to do.
If it does not free the memory when you are closing the tabs, then when? If it keeps it there for a bit longer in case it's needed later, by using a scheduled memory cleanup, that's fine, try that and see if it's the case though I doubt it. But be sure that it does not work like you imagine it should. If another application needs the memory that Firefox is not releasing, Firefox WON'T know. It will only know there's a shortage of memory when it tries to allocate more and the OS says "no can do".
FTP is the traditional method, although kind of dated, some say not so secure. SCP is very simple, there are command line clients, fancy GUI clients, probably works with Android too. Checkout WebDAV too, the Apache webserver probably has a module supporting it, if not, you may find dedicated servers. Probably lots of clients support it.
SVN is not a development application, it is a version control application where you can store your data versioned. So if you want to keep text data on a central repository, SVN is good for that. Problem with it is that it's not good with binary data, so, not a solution for keeping different versions of your pictures, heh.
He said he doesn't trust the cloud, so probably doesn't matter if it's owned by Canonical or someone else. He wants to own the server, he probably wants to keep it in his bedroom.
I think you are besides the point here: nobody was talking about unloading data from memory to disk, as a solution. The problem is allocated memory by a program that looses control over that memory, and keeps it allocated even though it's not needed. There's also the problem of using memory efficiently, like only using two buckets to measure your water (http://www.folj.com/puzzles/easy.htm). Some people just throw in more buckets and that mindset can cause ugly memory problems.
Now, when you're running out of RAM there is a problem, [...] applications should begin to free data
You say that like there was a magic switch in all applications that did this. There is now such thing. I don't know if there is any application that does it, but I'm sure most do not. All the applications I've seen consuming large amounts of RAM keep doing so even when the free amount gets low. And that is because those large amounts of memory are used with things that the application can't free (because they lost control over them, or because the ARE using them in their inefficient way).
Is this the message of the short film? Buy our movies, they might be crap, but they also might be good, and they cost a lot because we can't be bothered to keep up with new technology. Otherwise this working woman looses her job, because, you know, we won't cut it from the salaries of people choosing to produce bad movies, and we won't cut our HUGE winnings when make a blockbuster. We like it as it is, and you the consumer must support our funny ways or we'll fire the poor women.
Whose the pirate there? "Give us your money or we cut this woman here! Aaargh!"
You don't seem to understand what Free Software means. To make a real analogy between Free Software and this situation would mean that RMS would have to give the sources of his speech to the Palestinian university (give sources to those to whom you give/sell the binaries), under condition that if the Palestinian university wants to give the speech to someone else in original form or modified, they would also have to give the sources to their speech. That's it, that's all that an analogy with Free Software would imply. Free Software doesn't impose any obligation on "to whom" you can/must distribute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art_scaling_algorithms
After the vectors are rasterized, I see no difference between the results of this method and those used by scaling algorithms like: 2xSAI, Super2xSAI, SuperEagle, HQ2x, HQ3x, etc.
The novelty might be that it generates vectors, but the algorithm must be quite similar.
I've travelled a lot in China, often with officials
Aaa, ok. You should have started with that.
Thing is, these new versions are going to replace the old ones in distributions. As far as I can see there's no KDE 3 in Debian anymore. The same will probably happen with Gnome 2, so maybe you can see the point.
I come from a country that has been under totalitarian rule for over 45 years until 1989. Our president and his wife had multiple Doctor and Doctor Honoris Causa titles from different universities, including for example the one in Nice, despite being renown for their stupidity and lack of education (I am not talking about manners, but years spent in school). The president's wife, Elena Ceausescu, was called by the newspapers and TV savant de renume mondial” (internationally renowned high scientist). She was supposed to be a chemist. Everybody was laughing at her speeches that were touching on the subject. Although they were probably written by real scientists and PR, she was not able to even read them out (they never spoke freely, always read the speeches). So, in a totalitarian regime, the top leaders can be anything they fancy. But it doesn't mean much. At most, it means they appreciate science as something worthy. And about the top positions in PISA tests, try to imagine the life of a child growing in a totalitarian regime, if you can. There is not much to do for a smart child, no other "distractions", no real childhood. They are treated more like sport athletes. In our country performance in international science contests has declined since 1989, but that is only a sign that we are returning to normality, giving children a chance at a real childhood, and a bit more happiness maybe, not torturing them so maybe they will have a good position in society that will make it easier for them to get FOOD (I'm not exaggerating, my guess is that in parts of China there is a greater food problem than what we had in Roumania, and we had a fair share).
We still need lawyers that will argue in court, and ones that give support in many other ways. We can't replace them with computers, yet. If anything it removes the tedious part of looking through volumes and volumes of past cases, and laws to find relevant information pertaining to the case. That is not the smartest part of a lawyers job. And we still need lawyers that know how to create the right "queries" on the machines. Falling Demand For Brains? No. Falling demand for repetitive, tedious jobs? Yes.
What!?! You honestly think that a country run by mafia, where journalists and protesters are arrested for writing/talking against certain members of the government gives a shit about individual freedom? You probably don't know what you are talking about.
Yes, but the prices also differ. While Pandora is about $330 NanoNote is about $99. The price difference is greater than the price of the NanoNote itself. In terms of hardware NanoNote compares more to GP2X then Pandora, although it is much better than GP2X and cheaper (GP2X was about $150 when it came out). The sad thing is that it doesn't have a network card, but on the other hand it runs the latest Linux kernel and that means you can use USB WiFi, as opposed to GP2X where you have an old kernel with limited support for such a thing (only one obsolete chip is supported, AFAIK). Thing is NanoNote seems to be the greatest and cheapest freely hackable computer (CherryPal Africa is also close to it, but it's not so developer friendly).
Freedom does not mean the absence of rules. It has different meanings, depending on the school of thought that you come from, but it doesn't mean "absence of rules" or "absence of obligations", not even to the anarchists.
More than that, there are many kinds of freedom, and freedom of software is just one of them. It is also linked to the freedom of information. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_(philosophy)
In some schools of thought freedom means: not going against the "nature" of things. Like when you refer to freedom of information. The nature of information is such that you can not contain it or block it's spreading (if you agree with Thomas Jefferson).
This is so unfair...
Red Hat family: RHEL+Fedora+CentOS - 50.2%
Ubuntu family: ? probably Ubuntu+XUbuntu+KUbuntu - 54.1
Debian family: Debian+Ubuntu+Mepis+Xandros+Linspire+etc - ?%
Why compare "distribution families", when you can't even say exactly what that means?
Why not compare distributions, plain and simple, and a lot more exact and meaningful.