I agree. I've been wondering why they just don't come up with a different design (like gnome3 or unity or a billion other possibilities). People would still buy it, maybe even more people would buy it. It really does seem like they have gone out of their way to make it look and work like an Ipad.
AND not plainly obvious is where it tends to fall down.
Thank you. But isn't that true of all of these stupid patents that are getting issued. Most of them also fall apart on previous usage "prior art". IIRC, one of the patents Google is getting sued for is the practice of marking items for clean up (garbage collection) as they are traversing lists looking for something else and noticing that some items in that list are no longer needed. We were doing that in 1983. It's just common sense.
It's the closed-source gatekeeper of the internet, and Google places its services above others on the search results page regardless of their actual algorithmic placement.
Okay, I'll bite... Google (as in the search engine) doesn't do anything that prevents someone else from doing it better. I could switch to another search engine today if there were a better one. I've tried Bing and it just doesn't get the results that google does. Google has been successful by having better products. It's what this country was built on.
... when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.
It's not the Social Networking Services which are plotting these riots, it's the people misusing them. Just like they could do the same via other means.
So, if I send a letter to you and you are on vacation, knowing that you probably didn't get someone to empty your mail every now and then, is that a criminal offense? Seems odd.
Are there any tablets running Gnome3 or Ubuntu Unity? Wouldn't this be a way to get something out the door albeit with Apps which are not explicitly designed for the tablet format.
I thought one of the advantages of Wayland over X is that it is easier to program. I tried coding an Xt app once and it was surprisingly low level and time consuming. Of course, it was very quick, but that's not really a criteria now (you wouldn't notice the difference on today's hardware).
The net effect of the easier programming model should be more features in the long run.
If the user is willing to do anything the app or websites tells them to, well, you can't protect them.
True, but the fact remains that Windows backward compatibility with older Windows Apps makes it more open to attacks. Windows was a single user system essentially forced to me multi-tasking. Even WNT tried to remain compatible with drivers and software which followed this model. There has been some great end-user software for this. But, as a operating system. it is just plain less secure than a system which started out as a multi-user, protected OS and was adapted for a PC.
Windows has its advantages but security is not one of them.
I've thought about Debian but wondered about the installation. I checked out their site and it looked like you had to download a slew of DVD's just to get it installed. Is this true? One of the things I really like about Ubuntu is it's easy installation. How is the installation of a Debian system?
Also, what about the Linux Mint Debian edition? Would that be a good solution?
OMG, this guy was arrested as a teen for building a nuclear device and now they found him stealing smoke detectors at age 31. His face is all pock-marked with sores that look like he was exposed to too much radiation. Some people never learn.
In the business, we built all our new software on Linux, our server is Linux and I only user Libre Office here at home. The laptop I purchased has Windows (dual boot) on it. That's the only piece of "purchased" Windows software I have. I removed Windows from my netbook and my cell runs Android.
We just ran into a problem importing CSV files using MS Office since there are a couple of die-hards in the company. We had to use Open Office to accomplish the task.
In short, there's not a lot of non-OSS software in our operation and it's getting less and less each day and it's precisely stories like this that made us go this way. Linux has been rock solid for the last 11 years and we are so glad we went in that direction.
We've seen what the auto industry does left on it's own. They build Hummers. Big Cars mean Big Profits and they are then in an arms race. This regulation simply defines different, reachable, rules by which we all benefit.
My car (Honda Jazz in Germany, Fit in the US) with a 1.4 liter engine, averages 38 mpg in the real world, including around town driving and Autobahn at 150 kmh. Remember that the MPG that they are talking about is higher than you'll really get ("Your mileage may vary") so mine would probably already be in the mid 40's using the EPA measurement model. And, if I'm driving on country roads at around 100 kmh, I do get 45 mpg. This is today's technology.
The small airplane industry went through excessive legislation and lawsuits. The result was that people who wanted to fly an affordable small plane had to build their own.
It's not illegal to build your own car yet (most places). So people who want to drive a genuinely fun car with actual power and only 15 MPG will order a truckload of parts delivered. Several weekends with an air wrench and they'll have whatever they want.
To my understanding, the biggest cost, by far, on small planes, is the liability insurance the manufacturers have to carry as they are sued on a constant basis. That is also why the engine technology remains a design from the 50's.
Also, while it's not illegal to build your own car, IIRC you have to submit a series of crash tests to some regulatory agency before you can register it, which might be cost prohibitive.
Maybe you could, you know, let people buy the vehicles they want to buy and then if gas is expensive most won't buy gas guzzlers?
In this case I'm guessing the auto makers are salivating at the prospect of being 'forced' to load up cars with hybrid crap that will allow them to push up prices and make more profit.
I think that the addiction to big cars is going to be hard to break without some kind of legislation. I personally agree with you but I don't think it would work with most people. They'll take their kids out of school before they give up their V8.
In the 80's and 80's, 10% of the resumes were from women and in the late 70's I don't remember a woman in my comp sci classes. There might have been one or two out of the 30 or so total, but I can't remember seeing a woman in the lab at all.
Sounds like people are inventing statistics again for some other gain.
I went to a boarding school for High School (as a day student) and some of these kids had amazing stereos (this was '72 to '76) that, IMHO, sounded clearer and had better base than today's. I have an earlier 5.1 surround sound from Panasonic that costs about 700 € (I now live in Germany), so it wasn't one of the cheap ones, but it just doesn't have the clarity and the quality that the older stereos did. The sub-woofer gives it a a lot of base, but it sounds overdone somehow.
Actually, exit polling has always been accurate to within less than 1 percent in the US and in Europe since the 1960's. Only after the installation of electronic voting machines in 2004 did that change, and interestingly, always in GWB's direction. Your information doesn't agree with anything I've read or heard and, in fact, is completely contradicted by election results since the 1960's when reliable exit polling started.
The amount of information pointing to huge election irregularities is pretty overwhelming.
Does it matter if it's less revealing if the radiation is just as dangerous? Does it matter if it's ineffective now and continues to be ineffective?
I think we could better spend the money on monitoring the TSA screeners who keep stealing our stuff.
Is the radiation really that dangerous? My understanding was that it was radio waves which should be safe, especially in the relatively brief time they need.
Okay terrorists - new strategy: Change your name to something at the tail end of the alphabet.
Damn, now they are going to suspect you as a terrorist if you have a name that begins with a letter in the last part of the alphabet and you will be mistaken as one if you have similar facial characteristics such as two eyes, a nose and a mouth.
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Sounds interesting. I may give it a try.
I agree. I've been wondering why they just don't come up with a different design (like gnome3 or unity or a billion other possibilities). People would still buy it, maybe even more people would buy it. It really does seem like they have gone out of their way to make it look and work like an Ipad.
AND not plainly obvious is where it tends to fall down.
Thank you. But isn't that true of all of these stupid patents that are getting issued. Most of them also fall apart on previous usage "prior art". IIRC, one of the patents Google is getting sued for is the practice of marking items for clean up (garbage collection) as they are traversing lists looking for something else and noticing that some items in that list are no longer needed. We were doing that in 1983. It's just common sense.
The difference is that google doesn't use these patents to prevent others from competing.
It's the closed-source gatekeeper of the internet, and Google places its services above others on the search results page regardless of their actual algorithmic placement.
Okay, I'll bite...
Google (as in the search engine) doesn't do anything that prevents someone else from doing it better. I could switch to another search engine today if there were a better one. I've tried Bing and it just doesn't get the results that google does. Google has been successful by having better products. It's what this country was built on.
Chill. It's Google doing this, so it must be okay.
These are not the absurdly obvious patents you are looking for.
Do they have any other choice? They are being sued out of existence for similar ridiculous patents.
From the header ...
... when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.
It's not the Social Networking Services which are plotting these riots, it's the people misusing them. Just like they could do the same via other means.
So, if I send a letter to you and you are on vacation, knowing that you probably didn't get someone to empty your mail every now and then, is that a criminal offense? Seems odd.
Are there any tablets running Gnome3 or Ubuntu Unity? Wouldn't this be a way to get something out the door albeit with Apps which are not explicitly designed for the tablet format.
Thanks for the Link. Very interesting.
So somebody that has not even heard of the root window is trying to tell us all what X can or can't do and getting it wrong?
I'm pretty sure Keith Packard, as a lead of X.org, has heard of the root window.
Here is the video I was referring to: X and the future of Linux Graphics.
I thought one of the advantages of Wayland over X is that it is easier to program. I tried coding an Xt app once and it was surprisingly low level and time consuming. Of course, it was very quick, but that's not really a criteria now (you wouldn't notice the difference on today's hardware).
The net effect of the easier programming model should be more features in the long run.
If the user is willing to do anything the app or websites tells them to, well, you can't protect them.
True, but the fact remains that Windows backward compatibility with older Windows Apps makes it more open to attacks. Windows was a single user system essentially forced to me multi-tasking. Even WNT tried to remain compatible with drivers and software which followed this model. There has been some great end-user software for this. But, as a operating system. it is just plain less secure than a system which started out as a multi-user, protected OS and was adapted for a PC.
Windows has its advantages but security is not one of them.
From the article: " when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app"
Eh, the way I see it, Apple didn't bring a new subscriber, the app brought a new subscriber, which Apple had nothing to do with.
Apple thinks it owns you and your phone which is why I use android!
I've thought about Debian but wondered about the installation. I checked out their site and it looked like you had to download a slew of DVD's just to get it installed. Is this true? One of the things I really like about Ubuntu is it's easy installation. How is the installation of a Debian system?
Also, what about the Linux Mint Debian edition? Would that be a good solution?
OMG, this guy was arrested as a teen for building a nuclear device and now they found him stealing smoke detectors at age 31. His face is all pock-marked with sores that look like he was exposed to too much radiation. Some people never learn.
In the business, we built all our new software on Linux, our server is Linux and I only user Libre Office here at home. The laptop I purchased has Windows (dual boot) on it. That's the only piece of "purchased" Windows software I have. I removed Windows from my netbook and my cell runs Android.
We just ran into a problem importing CSV files using MS Office since there are a couple of die-hards in the company. We had to use Open Office to accomplish the task.
In short, there's not a lot of non-OSS software in our operation and it's getting less and less each day and it's precisely stories like this that made us go this way. Linux has been rock solid for the last 11 years and we are so glad we went in that direction.
We've seen what the auto industry does left on it's own. They build Hummers. Big Cars mean Big Profits and they are then in an arms race. This regulation simply defines different, reachable, rules by which we all benefit.
My car (Honda Jazz in Germany, Fit in the US) with a 1.4 liter engine, averages 38 mpg in the real world, including around town driving and Autobahn at 150 kmh. Remember that the MPG that they are talking about is higher than you'll really get ("Your mileage may vary") so mine would probably already be in the mid 40's using the EPA measurement model. And, if I'm driving on country roads at around 100 kmh, I do get 45 mpg. This is today's technology.
The small airplane industry went through excessive legislation and lawsuits. The result was that people who wanted to fly an affordable small plane had to build their own.
It's not illegal to build your own car yet (most places). So people who want to drive a genuinely fun car with actual power and only 15 MPG will order a truckload of parts delivered. Several weekends with an air wrench and they'll have whatever they want.
To my understanding, the biggest cost, by far, on small planes, is the liability insurance the manufacturers have to carry as they are sued on a constant basis. That is also why the engine technology remains a design from the 50's.
Also, while it's not illegal to build your own car, IIRC you have to submit a series of crash tests to some regulatory agency before you can register it, which might be cost prohibitive.
Maybe you could, you know, let people buy the vehicles they want to buy and then if gas is expensive most won't buy gas guzzlers?
In this case I'm guessing the auto makers are salivating at the prospect of being 'forced' to load up cars with hybrid crap that will allow them to push up prices and make more profit.
I think that the addiction to big cars is going to be hard to break without some kind of legislation. I personally agree with you but I don't think it would work with most people. They'll take their kids out of school before they give up their V8.
In the 80's and 80's, 10% of the resumes were from women and in the late 70's I don't remember a woman in my comp sci classes. There might have been one or two out of the 30 or so total, but I can't remember seeing a woman in the lab at all.
Sounds like people are inventing statistics again for some other gain.
I went to a boarding school for High School (as a day student) and some of these kids had amazing stereos (this was '72 to '76) that, IMHO, sounded clearer and had better base than today's. I have an earlier 5.1 surround sound from Panasonic that costs about 700 € (I now live in Germany), so it wasn't one of the cheap ones, but it just doesn't have the clarity and the quality that the older stereos did. The sub-woofer gives it a a lot of base, but it sounds overdone somehow.
Actually, exit polling has always been accurate to within less than 1 percent in the US and in Europe since the 1960's. Only after the installation of electronic voting machines in 2004 did that change, and interestingly, always in GWB's direction. Your information doesn't agree with anything I've read or heard and, in fact, is completely contradicted by election results since the 1960's when reliable exit polling started.
The amount of information pointing to huge election irregularities is pretty overwhelming.
Does it matter if it's less revealing if the radiation is just as dangerous?
Does it matter if it's ineffective now and continues to be ineffective?
I think we could better spend the money on monitoring the TSA screeners who keep stealing our stuff.
Is the radiation really that dangerous? My understanding was that it was radio waves which should be safe, especially in the relatively brief time they need.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/2214257/Jury-Acquits-Citizens-of-Illegally-Filming-Police?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email
Okay terrorists - new strategy: Change your name to something at the tail end of the alphabet.
Damn, now they are going to suspect you as a terrorist if you have a name that begins with a letter in the last part of the alphabet and you will be mistaken as one if you have similar facial characteristics such as two eyes, a nose and a mouth.