Published APIs are important, nay, necessary for "cloud" applications and services to be useful to developers to build upon. Open source is necessary for community based development of the underlying applications or services.
Open source software is completely irrelevant in this instance and this appears to be a simple strawman attack from Microsoft against the open source movement.
One dude's "obsolete" is another person's "cost-effective storage medium".
Flash drives were (and still are) one of the more expensive storage mediums. At 30 bucks for a 32Gb drive today, that's like the price of DVDs 10 years ago. Today, that's 10x the cost of other media.
I think it goes beyond stubbornness. Perhaps blind faith and rabid patriotism are a better yardstick.
The great irony is George W. Bush was probably the only modern president that could have forced the change to metric. And the American people would have still voted him in for a second term.
That's a comparatively brilliant plan, if enough people take part then stock will disappear from the shelves - preventing real customers from purchasing. I wish I had mod points to give.
I recently bought a vinyl album released by Asthmatic Kitty Records, it included a download of the entire album in FLAC and MP3 already tagged for your convenience. I don't even own a turntable, I bought it for the included artwork and to support the artist.
Similar to, if I want to take a toll road, which is less congested than the rest of the highway system.
I think the cause for concern is that without Net Neutrality you will no longer have any choice in the matter. If you wish to visit certain destinations the toll road is the only way. I guess it is like Pay-Per-View for the internet.
Exactly. It shouldn't be "fastest car." It should be "lowest flying rocket." And when you think about it, what exactly is the point of building such a rocket?
Well it stays under the radar for one thing.
Though only useful for targeting sites that are situated on salt flats.
The decades of high-speed train engineering has involved reducing drag wherever possible. Infact some future concepts are looking at running maglev trains through vacuum tubes as the only possible way to reduce drag further and close the gap between train and aircraft fuel efficiency.
So no, I can't see a single benefit this gas-guzzling rocket-propelled coffin will have for Bullet trains.
I cringe every time I hear someone describe Anonymous as a 'group'. This loose collection of individuals clearly have no hierarchy, rules or membership.
Anonymous may be a gathering of sorts, but the best description I have seen is a Stand Alone Complex.
Since there exists: Kubuntu (KDE) Xubuntu (XFCE) Lubuntu (LXDE) and probably soon Gubuntu (GNOME), it is good to see that Uubuntu will finally use a desktop environment starting with 'U'.
I just wish Google would get a clue about how email threading works. GMail's threading by subject is a horrible hack that is wrong more often than it is right.
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Published APIs are important, nay, necessary for "cloud" applications and services to be useful to developers to build upon. Open source is necessary for community based development of the underlying applications or services.
Open source software is completely irrelevant in this instance and this appears to be a simple strawman attack from Microsoft against the open source movement.
I was under the impression that Steve Jobs had invented magic, hence all their revolutionary products/patents. /trollin'
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Damnit google, after The Transitioning we thought you were going to take your Apps users seriously. Google Profile is not available to Apps users.
One dude's "obsolete" is another person's "cost-effective storage medium".
Flash drives were (and still are) one of the more expensive storage mediums. At 30 bucks for a 32Gb drive today, that's like the price of DVDs 10 years ago. Today, that's 10x the cost of other media.
In a strange synergy your comment is roughly 60% the size of TFS but contains 100% more information about the topic at hand.
JPEG uses much the same technique as MPEG-1 keyframes. But it lacks an alpha channel, and it lacks Exif and ICC.
JPEG supports a plethora of metadata including Exif, IPTC, XMP and according to Wikipedia also supports ICC.
I think it goes beyond stubbornness. Perhaps blind faith and rabid patriotism are a better yardstick.
The great irony is George W. Bush was probably the only modern president that could have forced the change to metric. And the American people would have still voted him in for a second term.
That's a comparatively brilliant plan, if enough people take part then stock will disappear from the shelves - preventing real customers from purchasing. I wish I had mod points to give.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Volvo full of HDDs.
I recently bought a vinyl album released by Asthmatic Kitty Records, it included a download of the entire album in FLAC and MP3 already tagged for your convenience. I don't even own a turntable, I bought it for the included artwork and to support the artist.
Some labels are doing it right.
Similar to, if I want to take a toll road, which is less congested than the rest of the highway system.
I think the cause for concern is that without Net Neutrality you will no longer have any choice in the matter. If you wish to visit certain destinations the toll road is the only way. I guess it is like Pay-Per-View for the internet.
Exactly. It shouldn't be "fastest car." It should be "lowest flying rocket." And when you think about it, what exactly is the point of building such a rocket?
Well it stays under the radar for one thing.
Though only useful for targeting sites that are situated on salt flats.
The decades of high-speed train engineering has involved reducing drag wherever possible. Infact some future concepts are looking at running maglev trains through vacuum tubes as the only possible way to reduce drag further and close the gap between train and aircraft fuel efficiency.
So no, I can't see a single benefit this gas-guzzling rocket-propelled coffin will have for Bullet trains.
Dare I ask what happens to the other 50% of the money?
I cringe every time I hear someone describe Anonymous as a 'group'. This loose collection of individuals clearly have no hierarchy, rules or membership.
Anonymous may be a gathering of sorts, but the best description I have seen is a Stand Alone Complex.
Historically that used to work on windows. You could launch executables with the browser.
I'm pretty sure only Internet Explorer behaved badly in that way.
Since there exists:
Kubuntu (KDE)
Xubuntu (XFCE)
Lubuntu (LXDE)
and probably soon Gubuntu (GNOME),
it is good to see that Uubuntu will finally use a desktop environment starting with 'U'.
Ubuntu Desktop has a "Trash" folder on the Desktop. Has had for a long time now.
That would be extremely dangerous, as under Australian law cartoon or fictional characters could get you convicted of Child Porn if they appear underage. See the Simpsons ruling: http://www.theage.com.au/national/simpsons-cartoon-ripoff-is-child-porn-judge-20081208-6tmk.html
Summary is inaccurate (as usual):
TFS: 18-inch walls
TFA: 8-inch walls
But what of the glorious Internet Filter that was promised to save us all from the "spams or scams that come through the portal" ?
I just wish Google would get a clue about how email threading works. GMail's threading by subject is a horrible hack that is wrong more often than it is right.
As I read it the "Plays everything" slogan refers to the types: "Files, Discs and Streams".
Just a little bit further: "It comes with support for nearly all codec there is." (emphasis mine).
It's weird how people expect VLC to play every codec under the sun, including little-used codecs that the average user would never come across.
For faster start-up FireFox loads initial tabs from cache. And there is no option to tell it to fetch the pages from net instead.
This annoys me to no end.