Oh why, oh why did I blow all my mod points on the caffiene microbe article?!?
Thank you Slashdot for finally fixing the feeds and the sidebox alignment. It was getting really annoying! Now, if I could only convince work to punt IE...
Then I definitely recommend one of the three I suggested. I would also suggest if you do Lubuntu to add the Launchpad PPA - You get the newest stuff and the developers tend to make sure stuff is rock solid before publishing to it.
LXDE rocks, if you change a few of its default applications. However, it needs a graphical menu editor to be acceptable to the masses.
Agreed on both points. My changes:
Chromium -> Opera
Aqualung -> Clementine
PCManFM -> Dolphin
Abiword/Gnumeric -> LibreOffice
I'm a refugee from KDE so that's why Clementine & Dolphin are there. Opera and I go way back and haven't particularly liked Firefox or Chromium (although Chromium wins between the two). I would return to using Kopete instead of Pidgin but the indicator system doesn't work correctly on Lubuntu. The graphical menu editor is the number one priority. The menu in general has improved by leaps and bounds but it still needs love. I honestly would like to see a version similar to KDE4's menu.
What era are we talking at this point with your story? Circa 2006 I would 100% agree with you but currently LibreOffice is pretty good. The syntax in Calc is my trip up although given time I could get used to it.
Not trying to be an asshole, but what brand is your computer? My laptop can handle 1 GB sticks (although it is only outfitted with 512 MB) and it was built circa 2002.
Why not try a flavor or Ubuntu using LXDE - Lubuntu (which I use), LinuxMint or Peppermint? They are all growing in popularity - Lubuntu is ranked number 17 on Distrowatch, beating every other *buntu except Ubuntu itself. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Xubuntu was depreciated in favor or Lubuntu.
The interesting thing is that they aren't, from what I understand, trying to bypass the damaged nerves, rather they're applying a continuous current to them, which seems to boost the natural ability of the nerves to receive signals. For lack of a better description (and assuming I understand what's going on, which is assuming a lot, even the doctors don't seem too clear on the details) the applied current allows the nerve signals to "jump" the cut in his nervous system. Also for reasons I don't understand, they only use the system 2 hours or so a day
My guess would be that since it sounds like they're using a type of amplifier and that the system is so new they don't what to further injure this person's nervous system by having too much voltage too long. By the sounds of it this person's set of issues is rare, so it's doubly important they do this 'velvet glove' style.
As well, I would like to parrot the 'keep up the good work'. I have a cousin who was in gymnastics when he was younger then in his 20s had a serious traffic accident and left him paralysed from the chest down. It'd be cool to see him walk again.
This tool could be used to find your face anywhere on the net. While granted this would rock for stalkers, it could be used by employers to find you on facebook, even under a completely different name. Or the police upon seeing you doing something illegal in a photo (but not having your name). Suspicious spouses, and so on. Plus if we start to see citizen justice like over in China it could become far worse then we imagine. PLUS what happens with the really close false positives?
And they're not there with CCTV systems yet. Or at least the public does not know about it yet.
I know they already have facial recognition, however it has a lot of difficulty with matching side views with frontal views, as well as a ton of issues if the hair changes shape. I view this as the next level of facial recognition.
I'm waiting for someone to build a Facebook killer - or at least an app that will pull from facebook, messengers and a few other places where I can post photos, link, status updates and the like. Almost like a combined Messenger & Social Networking Thunderbird. I would almost kill to be able to deep six using Facebook's abhorent photo system.
Yahoo Messenger for me starting in about 1996 when I went to University, then added MSN Messenger about 2001 once I had my own computer. Now I maintain two MSN, two Facebook, Yahoo, and Skype on Pidgin. Trillian was good but it fell behind considerably to MSN and Yahoo in features I used at that time(webcam, photo sharing) then once I jumped to Linux in 2007, I started with Kopete and my habits changed anyway so I didn't really miss photo sharing or webcam. I still miss file transfer though.
You Sir, need mod points. When you sit back and look at the total cost of pulling that monitor in terms of productivity, morale, meetings about it (involving the coder & manager) and such, the return on investment is measured in hours. $30 per hour in salary & overhead (sitting on the low side) adds up quick.
100% Agreed. My parents live in a rural area and they recently (2 weeks ago) got OTA High-speed internet with the first couple months free. They *LOVE* the speed (easy to get photos of the grandkids, youtube, etc.) however I had to warn them that there is a cap and if you hit it you will pay through the nose for it. So if they want movies, music, etc to tell me (the one with high speed cable internet and no cap), they just have to ask me and I'll download it, burn it to DVD and drive it out there (they live about an hour away). Failing that a stamp and a decent mail service works wonders!
While I like the idea behind LightDM & prefer Chromium over Firefox, that wasn't why I said it would change Linux for the better.
I think there is a lot of dogma within the Linux universe which needs to be shaken up once in a while. Survival of the fittest and all of that. We've seen recently where LibreOffice forked away from OpenOffice in a move that was almost universally welcomed and which has breathed an incredablt amount of new life into the project. Ubuntu's move to Unity, while much less warmly received, caused a large amount of navel gazing within the Gnome ranks and I believe it will pay a lot of dividends in the near future especially with interoperability.
Is Wayland ready for primetime? Nobody thinks so yet. Is Chromium better than Firefox? Depends on your opinion. But with the major trend setting distro making these changes, it forces everyone to re-evaluate and that is the best thing that can happen.
Natty goes from Gnome to Unity
Oneiric goes from GDM to LightDM, Firefox to Chromium and X to Wayland.
While it's not quite on the level of OS9 to OSX and definitely not without losses, 2011's Ubuntu releases will change the landscape of Linux for the better.
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As long as it doesn't come back to earth with boots of lead, I'm good.
They know EXACTLY where it is so when we finally get to Mars we can go get it.
Oh why, oh why did I blow all my mod points on the caffiene microbe article?!?
Thank you Slashdot for finally fixing the feeds and the sidebox alignment. It was getting really annoying! Now, if I could only convince work to punt IE...
I was just thinking that biking to work today. It's after the long weekend in May! WTF?!?
Somebody needs to make a CPU or GPU codenamed 'Hot Grits'. Most awesome inside joke ever.
Then I definitely recommend one of the three I suggested. I would also suggest if you do Lubuntu to add the Launchpad PPA - You get the newest stuff and the developers tend to make sure stuff is rock solid before publishing to it.
LXDE rocks, if you change a few of its default applications. However, it needs a graphical menu editor to be acceptable to the masses.
Agreed on both points. My changes:
Chromium -> Opera
Aqualung -> Clementine
PCManFM -> Dolphin
Abiword/Gnumeric -> LibreOffice
I'm a refugee from KDE so that's why Clementine & Dolphin are there. Opera and I go way back and haven't particularly liked Firefox or Chromium (although Chromium wins between the two). I would return to using Kopete instead of Pidgin but the indicator system doesn't work correctly on Lubuntu. The graphical menu editor is the number one priority. The menu in general has improved by leaps and bounds but it still needs love. I honestly would like to see a version similar to KDE4's menu.
What era are we talking at this point with your story? Circa 2006 I would 100% agree with you but currently LibreOffice is pretty good. The syntax in Calc is my trip up although given time I could get used to it.
Not trying to be an asshole, but what brand is your computer? My laptop can handle 1 GB sticks (although it is only outfitted with 512 MB) and it was built circa 2002.
Why not try a flavor or Ubuntu using LXDE - Lubuntu (which I use), LinuxMint or Peppermint? They are all growing in popularity - Lubuntu is ranked number 17 on Distrowatch, beating every other *buntu except Ubuntu itself. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Xubuntu was depreciated in favor or Lubuntu.
The interesting thing is that they aren't, from what I understand, trying to bypass the damaged nerves, rather they're applying a continuous current to them, which seems to boost the natural ability of the nerves to receive signals. For lack of a better description (and assuming I understand what's going on, which is assuming a lot, even the doctors don't seem too clear on the details) the applied current allows the nerve signals to "jump" the cut in his nervous system. Also for reasons I don't understand, they only use the system 2 hours or so a day
My guess would be that since it sounds like they're using a type of amplifier and that the system is so new they don't what to further injure this person's nervous system by having too much voltage too long. By the sounds of it this person's set of issues is rare, so it's doubly important they do this 'velvet glove' style.
As well, I would like to parrot the 'keep up the good work'. I have a cousin who was in gymnastics when he was younger then in his 20s had a serious traffic accident and left him paralysed from the chest down. It'd be cool to see him walk again.
This tool could be used to find your face anywhere on the net. While granted this would rock for stalkers, it could be used by employers to find you on facebook, even under a completely different name. Or the police upon seeing you doing something illegal in a photo (but not having your name). Suspicious spouses, and so on. Plus if we start to see citizen justice like over in China it could become far worse then we imagine. PLUS what happens with the really close false positives?
And they're not there with CCTV systems yet. Or at least the public does not know about it yet.
I know they already have facial recognition, however it has a lot of difficulty with matching side views with frontal views, as well as a ton of issues if the hair changes shape. I view this as the next level of facial recognition.
1) Privacy - it's over.
2) When is this getting into Picasa?
What worries me is that Twitter might be it.
I'm waiting for someone to build a Facebook killer - or at least an app that will pull from facebook, messengers and a few other places where I can post photos, link, status updates and the like. Almost like a combined Messenger & Social Networking Thunderbird. I would almost kill to be able to deep six using Facebook's abhorent photo system.
Yahoo Messenger for me starting in about 1996 when I went to University, then added MSN Messenger about 2001 once I had my own computer. Now I maintain two MSN, two Facebook, Yahoo, and Skype on Pidgin. Trillian was good but it fell behind considerably to MSN and Yahoo in features I used at that time(webcam, photo sharing) then once I jumped to Linux in 2007, I started with Kopete and my habits changed anyway so I didn't really miss photo sharing or webcam. I still miss file transfer though.
Microsoft doesn't care about linux, it cares about market domination while making money.
Almost. Microsoft doesn't care about Linux. It cares about making money. Market domination is just a consequence of that goal.
Only an idiot thinks that their job is somehow the only one that matters
Or they're graphics artists
You Sir, need mod points. When you sit back and look at the total cost of pulling that monitor in terms of productivity, morale, meetings about it (involving the coder & manager) and such, the return on investment is measured in hours. $30 per hour in salary & overhead (sitting on the low side) adds up quick.
How do you know the U.S. didn't have iocaine powder?
Except for carrier pidgeons, they literally drop packets.
I don't know what you call it, but what lands on my car after being dropped by pigeons isn't called 'packets' here
Or the cost.
100% Agreed. My parents live in a rural area and they recently (2 weeks ago) got OTA High-speed internet with the first couple months free. They *LOVE* the speed (easy to get photos of the grandkids, youtube, etc.) however I had to warn them that there is a cap and if you hit it you will pay through the nose for it. So if they want movies, music, etc to tell me (the one with high speed cable internet and no cap), they just have to ask me and I'll download it, burn it to DVD and drive it out there (they live about an hour away). Failing that a stamp and a decent mail service works wonders!
Land war ... Asia ... something something
While I like the idea behind LightDM & prefer Chromium over Firefox, that wasn't why I said it would change Linux for the better.
I think there is a lot of dogma within the Linux universe which needs to be shaken up once in a while. Survival of the fittest and all of that. We've seen recently where LibreOffice forked away from OpenOffice in a move that was almost universally welcomed and which has breathed an incredablt amount of new life into the project. Ubuntu's move to Unity, while much less warmly received, caused a large amount of navel gazing within the Gnome ranks and I believe it will pay a lot of dividends in the near future especially with interoperability.
Is Wayland ready for primetime? Nobody thinks so yet. Is Chromium better than Firefox? Depends on your opinion. But with the major trend setting distro making these changes, it forces everyone to re-evaluate and that is the best thing that can happen.
Natty goes from Gnome to Unity
Oneiric goes from GDM to LightDM, Firefox to Chromium and X to Wayland.
While it's not quite on the level of OS9 to OSX and definitely not without losses, 2011's Ubuntu releases will change the landscape of Linux for the better.