GUI browsing of SMB networks is still borked out of the box. Cups fails when doing an upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 you haveto force a --reinstall of cups to fix it.
Several other things as well.
It's better, but still has some serious show stoppers for non linux guru people. My wife likes it as her only OS but only because I fixed SMB browsing and the Cups problem.
Dont get me wrong, I think it's far more stable than Windows 7, but it's not perfect and there are big enough "oopsies" that they need to fix them and release 10.04.1 right away.
Also remember a tornado is a small thing. The chances of a tornado that is within 5000 feet of your home to hit you are very very slim. Only freaks of nature have the supertornados that are nearly a mile wide, most are very narrow.
you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than getting killed by a tornado directly.
I spent 1 summer as a volunteer storm chaser dropping a sensor payload in the path of a tornado. I was several times within 1000 feet of a tornado and certain it would go towards us. It did not the damn things are random.
which honestly, the solution is for everyone to NOT have identification. Screw the cops. If the jail is bursting at the seams from their stupid law, and the cops cant do anything but find and arrest brown people... Suddenly the law will change overnight.
Bet you $100.00 they are not asking white people. There are a lot of illegal Canadians running around!
Strangely that never happens in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan... 10 feet? That's for pussies. Try 25 feet of snow. Houghton,MI went to visit a college friend there.. I had a subcompact car and I was driving through stuff that the SUV owners were afraid to. Snow was coming over the hood as I drove. It's called knowing how to drive, having the right tires and snow chains.
Only the unprepared or uneducated end up dying in a snow state when a snowstorm hits.
true, but if you will tolerate the snow, I can buy an utter mansion on the shores of Lake Michigan for the price of a crapshack in Most of california. and dealing with the snow is not that bad. All it takes is a little bit of education and you can drive through feet of the stuff with a Smartcar.
Yup; I'd rather live here than Cali any day.... Plus we dont have the Governator sucking away all my freedoms..
Which will never become popular enough to be used.
It took over 12 years to get TV station to buy HD gear, and many still dont have all their gear HD yet. It's gonna take 30 years for that one to get past the cheap bastards that run the TV and media outlets.
plus it seems to be fragile allowing the discs to degrade, This utterly delights the Media industry as the discs will slowly die giving them another money fountain.
Of course students could hold the stylus while wearing non conductive gloves which would be enormously practical I'm sure.
You know, most universities have heat. I'm guessing up there in greenland you guys must hold classes out on the ice.
Here in the USA, 98.976% of all students dont wear gloves while in class. I'm betting that most of Europe and the rest of the world the same ratio is common. Although Russian Gulag schools in the Ukrane might still not have heat.
I am unsure of Antarctica... They might always wear gloves, but last I knew they did not have a University.
"good morning class.... This morning I need everyone to give me their textbook serial number. if you dont have one you will be failed for the class for stealing my grand work of art that is the textbook... Also after this I will require everyone to buy a new version as I changed the words in 3 chapters to fix spelling errors.... failure to do this will result in a significant reduction in your grade. as My book is a WORK OF ART!"
the instructor should never be allowed to force the use of his book unless the book is given to the class for free.
Give me a 8.5" by 11" screen. Sorry but for textbooks I want a full page not something I have to scroll. Why dont these companies make one that is the size of a full printed page of text?
And honestly, with this being published... the iPad will have this ability before the kindle devs even get out of the first meeting about it.
That's the advantage of having a huge developer base for your platform. I'm betting the guys that wrote GoodReader are already on it.
Give me a graphical MatLab on the iPad and it will utterly kill all the other eReaders that exist in academia circles. Let me open and view CAD drawings and board layout and schematics and it will rule the engineering side as well.
Honestly, I was sad that the ebook reader in the iPad did not have a "scribble on the book" function. although letting me highlight a section and link notes to it would be better.
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Yes.
Cupsd will utterly fail.
you need to re-issue....
sudo apt-get install --reinstall cups
to get it working again.
Other big bugs exist.
GUI browsing of SMB networks is still borked out of the box. Cups fails when doing an upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 you haveto force a --reinstall of cups to fix it.
Several other things as well.
It's better, but still has some serious show stoppers for non linux guru people. My wife likes it as her only OS but only because I fixed SMB browsing and the Cups problem.
Dont get me wrong, I think it's far more stable than Windows 7, but it's not perfect and there are big enough "oopsies" that they need to fix them and release 10.04.1 right away.
you still have focal point problems. Been there done that. did research on information HUD's with the big guys..
It's hard to get past the change in focus. you cant have a perfectly clear hud superimposed over your vision at all times.
Nope. all my panasonic gear has NO sony components in it.
no Sony chips inside. It's one reason why I went Panasonic... they dont use ANY sony parts and are a glass maker on their own as well.
Dont know. I haven't opened the box yet.
Also remember a tornado is a small thing. The chances of a tornado that is within 5000 feet of your home to hit you are very very slim. Only freaks of nature have the supertornados that are nearly a mile wide, most are very narrow.
you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than getting killed by a tornado directly.
I spent 1 summer as a volunteer storm chaser dropping a sensor payload in the path of a tornado. I was several times within 1000 feet of a tornado and certain it would go towards us. It did not the damn things are random.
New York?
You better not be talking about California because New York kicks your guys arses hard for diversity.
Where's your big irish population? How about the big Russian section of town? Oh I bet you have a giant muslim community...
NYC on it's own is more diverse than the entire western 1/2 of the country.
which honestly, the solution is for everyone to NOT have identification. Screw the cops. If the jail is bursting at the seams from their stupid law, and the cops cant do anything but find and arrest brown people... Suddenly the law will change overnight.
Bet you $100.00 they are not asking white people. There are a lot of illegal Canadians running around!
Strangely that never happens in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan... 10 feet? That's for pussies. Try 25 feet of snow. Houghton,MI went to visit a college friend there.. I had a subcompact car and I was driving through stuff that the SUV owners were afraid to. Snow was coming over the hood as I drove. It's called knowing how to drive, having the right tires and snow chains.
Only the unprepared or uneducated end up dying in a snow state when a snowstorm hits.
Or cant drive.
true, but if you will tolerate the snow, I can buy an utter mansion on the shores of Lake Michigan for the price of a crapshack in Most of california. and dealing with the snow is not that bad. All it takes is a little bit of education and you can drive through feet of the stuff with a Smartcar.
Yup; I'd rather live here than Cali any day.... Plus we dont have the Governator sucking away all my freedoms..
Exactly..
Look I cut open a cat and inserted a wifi router... CATS CAN CONNECT TO WIFI!!!!
Can I be a scientist? It seems I meet the qualifications.
Tandy Model 12 with a box of 8" floppies. I demo the NASA solar panel calculation software on it about once a quarter to students.
And I got a Tandy Model I in the basement somewhere.. I need to get this dinosaur crap out of here....
Which will never become popular enough to be used.
It took over 12 years to get TV station to buy HD gear, and many still dont have all their gear HD yet. It's gonna take 30 years for that one to get past the cheap bastards that run the TV and media outlets.
plus it seems to be fragile allowing the discs to degrade, This utterly delights the Media industry as the discs will slowly die giving them another money fountain.
Of course students could hold the stylus while wearing non conductive gloves which would be enormously practical I'm sure.
You know, most universities have heat. I'm guessing up there in greenland you guys must hold classes out on the ice.
Here in the USA, 98.976% of all students dont wear gloves while in class. I'm betting that most of Europe and the rest of the world the same ratio is common. Although Russian Gulag schools in the Ukrane might still not have heat.
I am unsure of Antarctica... They might always wear gloves, but last I knew they did not have a University.
the etaco is a utter piece of crap. It's PDF rendering is horrible at best.
I have one here. I should have known better with the name e-TACO!
"good morning class.... This morning I need everyone to give me their textbook serial number. if you dont have one you will be failed for the class for stealing my grand work of art that is the textbook... Also after this I will require everyone to buy a new version as I changed the words in 3 chapters to fix spelling errors.... failure to do this will result in a significant reduction in your grade. as My book is a WORK OF ART!"
the instructor should never be allowed to force the use of his book unless the book is given to the class for free.
and your kid will STILL pay $300.00 for that ebook.
$595 for reader.
$1600.00 for this semesters ebooks.
$0.00 at the end because you cant sell ebooks.
It's all a plan to royally screw students. I really hope that ebook piracy becomes insanely rampant in textbooks. Those thieves utterly deserve it.
Nope.
Give me a 8.5" by 11" screen. Sorry but for textbooks I want a full page not something I have to scroll. Why dont these companies make one that is the size of a full printed page of text?
Yeah, because steve jobs will show up and kick you in the nuts if you dare to use a stylus.
You know, a pen shaped device that emulates pen like behavior on a touchscreen.
You must be a MBA!
It certainly is not in his groin or any part of his torso.. In fact all medical doctors will agree that it is in fact in his head.
"It's all in your head" is actually 100% accurate.
And honestly, with this being published... the iPad will have this ability before the kindle devs even get out of the first meeting about it.
That's the advantage of having a huge developer base for your platform. I'm betting the guys that wrote GoodReader are already on it.
Give me a graphical MatLab on the iPad and it will utterly kill all the other eReaders that exist in academia circles. Let me open and view CAD drawings and board layout and schematics and it will rule the engineering side as well.
Honestly, I was sad that the ebook reader in the iPad did not have a "scribble on the book" function. although letting me highlight a section and link notes to it would be better.
Like Tea Baggers going out and tea bagging?
"WE're gonna go out there and Tea Bag anything Obama tries to do, we'll keep tea Bagging things until they get the message!"
Did they even google "tea bagging" before they started that?
Ignoring the price of the phone line are you?