The icons are ugly and the styles never seem to get there. The layout does though.
KDE has the same issue. So many things done right, but missing the polish.
The two should really merge and create a desktop that doesn't suck. KDE 4.x is buggy, and mediocre at best. Gnome 3 is, from what I have experienced, trying to hard. Both rip off OSX instead of ripping off KDE 3.5 and Gnome 2x.
If you have the contract on your computer, assuming you have written it yourself or someone in your company has, I doubt you'll exceed the 10-20 MB of max attachment size on the most email servers. You just export it to PDF or something that is readable.
As for snooping I think it's easier to get data from an attack on a phone line (don't know about encryption on them?), than it is on an SSL encrypted e-mail server.
The thing that really allowed me to get some typing speed was a blank keyboard. A few years back I painted my keyboard black and got used to not having any labels to look at.
Later I bought the Das Keyboard ultimate, which improved my speed even more.
My typing is not 100% correct, but is quite fast. To answer the question in TFA, should you learn it? Probably yes, since everything is done on a computer these days, and you might as well do it efficiently.
Let's assume Google was trying to lock down Android (I assume the FUD comes partly from the delayed 3.0 source code releases), it still doesn't change the fact that bootloaders differ from device to device. Google virtually has no power over what kind of protection if any HTC should choose to use.
You could recharge the car battery and then start the car.
This isn't an all-bad idea, but the good thing about USB is that it is UNIVERSAL. Apple products have a tendency to be picky with that ports you use, but I am sure other manufacturers have done similar.
Bringing 100W to the spec would certainly allow for some cool one-cable-only devices, but it would also cripple the upcoming notebooks. I have a fairly expensive ThinkPad and the power supply generates 90W I think, and thats max. To provide that kind of power would require ~250W just to be safe.
Given that most laptops would increase significantly in price should they include a powerbrick that huge (the Xbox 360 brick only delivers ~200W, check the size on that), not to mention the loss in portability when one has to carry one of those. It is not a bad idea in itself, but given the limitations I don't think it will become widespread.
Nokia has made some fundamental errors in their business strategy the last couple of years. Around 01/02 (correct me if I'm wrong) they were the largest manufacturer of mobile phones, they had the largest market share on the mobile phone market, AND they had the largest global market share on the GSM technology market. The GSM department is still thriving, but their focus on the mobile devices market is somewhat shaky.
They had a good run with Symbian, but they got "too comfortable" in the leading position. The iPhone came in 2007 along with Android in 2008 and the market showed that the following years. Their crisis they face now is economically comparable to the one the whole industry was facing in 1995/6 when there was a shortage of semiconductors.
The failing of their strategy is seen in a few places: 1) The high entry barrier for developing for Symbian: license fees, tools, lack of freely available frameworks 2) The rather rough UI compared to iPhone/Android: the menus are not intuitive, the applications are inconsistent in UI, the whole thing runs rather slow 3) Failure to adopt higher-end technology: They had only resistive screens until 2010 afaik even though their phones cost the same as competitors with capacitive. 4) Failure to address the lacking application support: They should have reacted WAAY faster and more aggressive. They should have brought more innovation to the platform, made the tools freely available including the certificates (or for a nominal fee), implemented an appstore AND made the developing environment attractive.
They lost the developers, therefore they lost the applications. With the applications the content soon followed, and without the ability to consume content your smartphone is not a smartphone; it's a paper-weight that happens to have the ability to call people.
While their rant on Facebook certainly has some valid points to it, and it is indeed hard to delete such an account. One should look at Facebooks business model before the ddosing starts: They sell ads. You have agreed to the craziness that is the missing privacy, the undeleteable accounts and the lack of choice.
IANAL but I think the agreement isn't breaking any laws, and since every user agrees about it they really should stop the bitching.
Is it me or do Anonymous sound more and more like a support group for men that are pissed off? Here are my two tips for Anomymous: 1) Don't be cunts. 2) Get laid.
Well I would argue that the iPhone doesn't "just work". There are plenty of apps that have weird bugs out there, just as in any other environment.
People state the "just works" property because they have no interest in the fancy features a smartphone gives you. As they stand from production Android and iPhones can be categorized as being feature phones. It's not until you start tinkering that the "smart" part comes out.
I love tinkering with my phone, and "jailbreaking" is not so much the word for getting root on Android. Hell on some phones it's a one-click unlock.
Two semesters ago I wrote a final exam assignment with a critical standpoint questioning the theorist learned about in the course (the course was about human communication). I got an E.
The next semester I had another assignment and licked so much ass, that my mouth is still brown three months later. The grade was a B.
The verdict? University is not about thinking for yourself, that's what you earn the right to do after you are finished.
In Denmark all the ISPs block The Pirate Bay. I've tried to get around it, turns out it's implemented using DNS, which a retarded chimpanse could circumvent.
The problem is it sounds good on paper. Blocking access to the sites like that gets most of the n00b people away to alternatives, but if you have any technical skill you can get around it. The alternative is some form of deep packet inspection, and no ISP wants that.
I can't see how the blocking makes any sense. It is not impacting piracy whatsoever. Every blocked site has alternatives, and they too will need to be blocked. At some point they will be, but only to give birth to even more alternatives. One buys an internet connection, and that should come without restrictions. It's like selling a car and trying to prevent the driver visiting some foobar number of places.
I think it's a reaction to a series of bad 4.0 - 4.5/6 releases. KDE 3.5 was the pinnacle of a very long development, and at the time it was, at least for me, vastly more compelling than the alternatives. KDE4x runs faster indeed, and the looks are a welcome change, but then again I do enjoy the occasional 3.5 session.
What ever happened to crazy? Maybe the clues in the manifesto are gibberish.
If I killed a bunch of politically engaged young people my blogs, interests and probably even the code I write would be analysed. And they would probably link my nazi-like code-style and warnings template to sociopathic behavior and end up stating that everyone who read whatever I wrote should have seen it coming.
Come on people, he's crazy and we are wasting valuable resources on looking at his work. Let the people do their moarning in peace.
The infections are not always holes in the OS per se, they are often EXE files run with administrator priviliges. Give me root on a linux machine and I bet you I could install some malware on it.
What about making it affordable to not pirate? In Denmark an average movie ticket costs $17 US, if you want the 3D version it can cost you up to $25. It's too expensive to buy a movie if you are only going to see it once, but rentals are a pain too. They cost ~$7 for a not-old movie, they cost time and they are usually on DVD with stupid unskippable commercials before the movie starts.
That raises the question: Why would I want to pay that much for a much worse product? Any downloaded move has, as dictated by scene rules, no anti-piracy propaganda/commercials before the movie. They are more readily available, and I can download a DVD movie in about 20 minutes and spare the trip to the video store.
Content should be more easily available, then I wouldn't pirate it. I stopped pirating games after I got steam, maybe their model is a good solution?
Bittorrent will not die easily, and if it does a replacement is inevitable as long as it is such a pain to get content.
"The app works by taking a photo of your computer's screen, and, using pattern recognition algorithms, it ascertains what program you are currently running and the document you have open."
Why don't they actually do something innovative, like creating a cross platform VM that uses shared memory across multiple devices, so that apps and memory can move seamlessly across the?
A cross platform VM that shares memory sounds like a hell of a lot to implement compared to screenshots. A VM is not trivial to implement, and to make every app that could easily be supported by the screenshot process actually compatible with the VM would almost certain require a lot of code changes.
Android already runs the apps in a VM so why not just share that? Because it's a) a bad idea to give someone else permission to read/write directly to memory, 2) it would affect performance and 3) it would be a point of entry for potential malicious code.
TFA is quite biased based on some weird facts. The clicky keyboard is very much alive, see Das Keyboard, Filco, Cherry and so on.
He clearly isn't aware of what software exists today, or even how people are using it. To his defense there is a clear tendency away from keyboard shortcuts, clicky keyboard etc. Mostly it's because rubber dome simply are cheap as hell and a decent mechanical keyboard easily costs $100+.
Apple, Microsoft and many other companies drive the development of mouse-centric user interfaces, but that's mostly because the broad appeal of the brands. If you use tools for development you will find they are still keyboard-centric.
As for quitting applications, every window manager/decorator does this. If you want feature X, find one that has feature X. Simple as that;)
I do like the clicky keyboards though, my Das Keyboard is wonderfully comfortable to write on, but it does irritate some people. As for shortcuts: get over it. Where they are very useful such as in text editors etc, they are present. Even GMail has them, so TFA is just some premature ranting.
(Wild guess: China is somewhat short on paleontologists because China's per-capita wealth is fairly recent and paleontologists are a long lead-time item. Dr Hone's presence was in part to train the new wave of Chinese scientists. Also, he got lucky.)
Basically no, they are just all afraid of Godzilla.
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Just play the game.
Choose a class you find appealing, try to level it, complete quests etc.
I am not a beta tester, but have tested betas before, and you're supposed to just play the game.
One might view the testing and breaking of security as a valuable contribution. How else will companies like RIM learn?
The icons are ugly and the styles never seem to get there. The layout does though.
KDE has the same issue. So many things done right, but missing the polish.
The two should really merge and create a desktop that doesn't suck. KDE 4.x is buggy, and mediocre at best. Gnome 3 is, from what I have experienced, trying to hard. Both rip off OSX instead of ripping off KDE 3.5 and Gnome 2x.
If you have the contract on your computer, assuming you have written it yourself or someone in your company has, I doubt you'll exceed the 10-20 MB of max attachment size on the most email servers. You just export it to PDF or something that is readable.
As for snooping I think it's easier to get data from an attack on a phone line (don't know about encryption on them?), than it is on an SSL encrypted e-mail server.
Exactly. Introduction to Algorithms is a great book for learning algorithms, but it's useless if you don't know a programming language.
The thing that really allowed me to get some typing speed was a blank keyboard. A few years back I painted my keyboard black and got used to not having any labels to look at.
Later I bought the Das Keyboard ultimate, which improved my speed even more.
My typing is not 100% correct, but is quite fast. To answer the question in TFA, should you learn it? Probably yes, since everything is done on a computer these days, and you might as well do it efficiently.
Let's assume Google was trying to lock down Android (I assume the FUD comes partly from the delayed 3.0 source code releases), it still doesn't change the fact that bootloaders differ from device to device. Google virtually has no power over what kind of protection if any HTC should choose to use.
TFA is misleading at best.
You could recharge the car battery and then start the car.
This isn't an all-bad idea, but the good thing about USB is that it is UNIVERSAL. Apple products have a tendency to be picky with that ports you use, but I am sure other manufacturers have done similar.
Bringing 100W to the spec would certainly allow for some cool one-cable-only devices, but it would also cripple the upcoming notebooks. I have a fairly expensive ThinkPad and the power supply generates 90W I think, and thats max. To provide that kind of power would require ~250W just to be safe.
Given that most laptops would increase significantly in price should they include a powerbrick that huge (the Xbox 360 brick only delivers ~200W, check the size on that), not to mention the loss in portability when one has to carry one of those. It is not a bad idea in itself, but given the limitations I don't think it will become widespread.
Nokia has made some fundamental errors in their business strategy the last couple of years. Around 01/02 (correct me if I'm wrong) they were the largest manufacturer of mobile phones, they had the largest market share on the mobile phone market, AND they had the largest global market share on the GSM technology market. The GSM department is still thriving, but their focus on the mobile devices market is somewhat shaky.
They had a good run with Symbian, but they got "too comfortable" in the leading position. The iPhone came in 2007 along with Android in 2008 and the market showed that the following years. Their crisis they face now is economically comparable to the one the whole industry was facing in 1995/6 when there was a shortage of semiconductors.
The failing of their strategy is seen in a few places:
1) The high entry barrier for developing for Symbian: license fees, tools, lack of freely available frameworks
2) The rather rough UI compared to iPhone/Android: the menus are not intuitive, the applications are inconsistent in UI, the whole thing runs rather slow
3) Failure to adopt higher-end technology: They had only resistive screens until 2010 afaik even though their phones cost the same as competitors with capacitive.
4) Failure to address the lacking application support: They should have reacted WAAY faster and more aggressive. They should have brought more innovation to the platform, made the tools freely available including the certificates (or for a nominal fee), implemented an appstore AND made the developing environment attractive.
They lost the developers, therefore they lost the applications. With the applications the content soon followed, and without the ability to consume content your smartphone is not a smartphone; it's a paper-weight that happens to have the ability to call people.
While their rant on Facebook certainly has some valid points to it, and it is indeed hard to delete such an account. One should look at Facebooks business model before the ddosing starts: They sell ads. You have agreed to the craziness that is the missing privacy, the undeleteable accounts and the lack of choice.
IANAL but I think the agreement isn't breaking any laws, and since every user agrees about it they really should stop the bitching.
Is it me or do Anonymous sound more and more like a support group for men that are pissed off? Here are my two tips for Anomymous:
1) Don't be cunts.
2) Get laid.
Well I would argue that the iPhone doesn't "just work". There are plenty of apps that have weird bugs out there, just as in any other environment.
People state the "just works" property because they have no interest in the fancy features a smartphone gives you. As they stand from production Android and iPhones can be categorized as being feature phones. It's not until you start tinkering that the "smart" part comes out.
I love tinkering with my phone, and "jailbreaking" is not so much the word for getting root on Android. Hell on some phones it's a one-click unlock.
Two semesters ago I wrote a final exam assignment with a critical standpoint questioning the theorist learned about in the course (the course was about human communication). I got an E.
The next semester I had another assignment and licked so much ass, that my mouth is still brown three months later. The grade was a B.
The verdict? University is not about thinking for yourself, that's what you earn the right to do after you are finished.
In Denmark all the ISPs block The Pirate Bay. I've tried to get around it, turns out it's implemented using DNS, which a retarded chimpanse could circumvent.
The problem is it sounds good on paper. Blocking access to the sites like that gets most of the n00b people away to alternatives, but if you have any technical skill you can get around it. The alternative is some form of deep packet inspection, and no ISP wants that.
I can't see how the blocking makes any sense. It is not impacting piracy whatsoever. Every blocked site has alternatives, and they too will need to be blocked. At some point they will be, but only to give birth to even more alternatives. One buys an internet connection, and that should come without restrictions. It's like selling a car and trying to prevent the driver visiting some foobar number of places.
I think it's a reaction to a series of bad 4.0 - 4.5/6 releases. KDE 3.5 was the pinnacle of a very long development, and at the time it was, at least for me, vastly more compelling than the alternatives. KDE4x runs faster indeed, and the looks are a welcome change, but then again I do enjoy the occasional 3.5 session.
What ever happened to crazy? Maybe the clues in the manifesto are gibberish.
If I killed a bunch of politically engaged young people my blogs, interests and probably even the code I write would be analysed. And they would probably link my nazi-like code-style and warnings template to sociopathic behavior and end up stating that everyone who read whatever I wrote should have seen it coming.
Come on people, he's crazy and we are wasting valuable resources on looking at his work. Let the people do their moarning in peace.
I did not know that, thank you my good man! I've been almost linux-less since KDE4
I thought it was obvious that the better games got downloaded more.
If someone linked the number of downloads with number of purchases I wouldn't be surprised if they were following the same curve.
I pity the fool who touches my mohawk!
They should strive make the tech small enough to fit in a keychain, cellphone and wallet.
If the code written was direct modification of existing GPL code, would this not mean that the GPL dictates it to also be GPL?
The infections are not always holes in the OS per se, they are often EXE files run with administrator priviliges. Give me root on a linux machine and I bet you I could install some malware on it.
What about making it affordable to not pirate? In Denmark an average movie ticket costs $17 US, if you want the 3D version it can cost you up to $25. It's too expensive to buy a movie if you are only going to see it once, but rentals are a pain too. They cost ~$7 for a not-old movie, they cost time and they are usually on DVD with stupid unskippable commercials before the movie starts.
That raises the question: Why would I want to pay that much for a much worse product? Any downloaded move has, as dictated by scene rules, no anti-piracy propaganda/commercials before the movie. They are more readily available, and I can download a DVD movie in about 20 minutes and spare the trip to the video store.
Content should be more easily available, then I wouldn't pirate it. I stopped pirating games after I got steam, maybe their model is a good solution?
Bittorrent will not die easily, and if it does a replacement is inevitable as long as it is such a pain to get content.
Why don't they actually do something innovative, like creating a cross platform VM that uses shared memory across multiple devices, so that apps and memory can move seamlessly across the?
A cross platform VM that shares memory sounds like a hell of a lot to implement compared to screenshots. A VM is not trivial to implement, and to make every app that could easily be supported by the screenshot process actually compatible with the VM would almost certain require a lot of code changes.
Android already runs the apps in a VM so why not just share that? Because it's a) a bad idea to give someone else permission to read/write directly to memory, 2) it would affect performance and 3) it would be a point of entry for potential malicious code.
TFA is quite biased based on some weird facts. The clicky keyboard is very much alive, see Das Keyboard, Filco, Cherry and so on.
He clearly isn't aware of what software exists today, or even how people are using it. To his defense there is a clear tendency away from keyboard shortcuts, clicky keyboard etc. Mostly it's because rubber dome simply are cheap as hell and a decent mechanical keyboard easily costs $100+.
Apple, Microsoft and many other companies drive the development of mouse-centric user interfaces, but that's mostly because the broad appeal of the brands. If you use tools for development you will find they are still keyboard-centric.
As for quitting applications, every window manager/decorator does this. If you want feature X, find one that has feature X. Simple as that ;)
I do like the clicky keyboards though, my Das Keyboard is wonderfully comfortable to write on, but it does irritate some people. As for shortcuts: get over it. Where they are very useful such as in text editors etc, they are present. Even GMail has them, so TFA is just some premature ranting.
(Wild guess: China is somewhat short on paleontologists because China's per-capita wealth is fairly recent and paleontologists are a long lead-time item. Dr Hone's presence was in part to train the new wave of Chinese scientists. Also, he got lucky.)
Basically no, they are just all afraid of Godzilla.