Agreed. I don't have a smartphone (and it will quite possibly be hell freezes over before I get one willingly) but as soon as I get home it's tossed onto the kitchen counter and generally ignored until the nxt morning. There is a landline beside my bed and if it's *THAT* f'ing important you can call me on it. Otherwise you wait until morning.
During the Android Fireside Chat this afternoon, Google’s Dan Morill explained a bit more about the situation. As the bits and pieces that make up Android 3.1 get added into the next version, and the brand new bits that will come together and make this unifying UI get implemented, it will be appropriate to release Android Source.
So, quite definitively, Android for tablets will not be open sourced until it’s been fixed to Google’s standards. There’s little information as to whether or not these, in combination with the new fragmentation initiative, will ensure that current Android 3.0 devices will be brought into the open source times or not. More and more it’s beginning to feel like the Android 3.0 concept was little more than a knee-jerk reaction to have something, even if it’s not a great something, to stay within reach of the competition, with Ice Cream Sandwich being the resolving fix to the mistake.
I have actually started deleting people who post a lot of stuff in a short amount of time. If you have to post every thought that passes through you're head I have no interest in knowing you.
Partially agreed. I'm not happy with it due to the issues with Nvidia cards and Xorg server. Not their fault but that's a showstopper IMO. Unity (2D especially) needs work but it's not nearly as bad as the KDE4 fiasco. I think Unity will really be together in 12.04. Personally I use Lubuntu on my ancient laptop and either Lubuntu or Kubuntu on my desktop. I Have Unity 2D installed on my laptop as well just to play with it as it progresses.
My question is if they define 'Ubuntu' as the main Desktop + Server or if all the extra mainline flavors (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu) count as well. And then what about LinuxMint?
*Disclaimer: Proud Canadian* You, Sir, deserve mod points. As someone whose brother-in-law is in the Canadian Forces I will attest the most important thing is the job is done and they all made it home.
Seriously, KDE developers needs to throw some time into the plugin selection or just say 'Screw it - we're porting Empathy'. Kopete still has a lot to offer over Pidgin & Empathy including video, mutliple identities and a clean, nice looking interface! The issue I see (beyond the Akonadi / Nepomuk fiasco) is that there are only a few plugins for Kopete when there are literally hundreds of plugins for Pidgin. Plugins like Bot Sentry and the ability to sort contact by the chat log size. These are indispensible and the only way Kopete has a hope in hell of surviving.
+1 on the LXDE, although Lubuntu has a *REALLY* nice set-up and even Ubuntu is setting up to pitch Firefox for Chromium in 11.10. Minimal Ubuntu + lubuntu-core would be about perfect for a low-end server.
It isn't just Apple doing this - Microsoft is rolling out an app store of their own, BlackBerry has an app store, Google's got an Android app store...
And Ubuntu has an app store, Red Hat has an app store, OpenSuse has an app store, Debian has an app store... It's called the repositories. And around here those are thought of as a good thing too.
Seriously, when was the last time you talked to anyone who excited to go get a new blackberry?
My wife. She's had it for 3 years next month and it's been very dependable. I would prefer her jump to a 'droid, but all her friends have Blackberries and it's the BBM she loves.
But why would they take the body, promptly bury it at sea, then tell the world? I understand that they would want to minimize the impact in the islamic world by not defiling his body in any way which was recorded, but it seems like this would be something you show on television, that it's REALLY him. Who knows, maybe they made a deal with him and he's now in South America to live out his days in (even more) luxury. But that's the George Noory in me.
And I'm also quite mystified why so many people are celebrating this. It took almost 10 years, trillions of dollars, the invasion of two countries (neither of which he was found in), and an untold number of lives lost to find a 6 foot 6 inch multi-millionaire (with diabetes!) living in a private luxury compound (in a well populated city) which was at least eight times larger then anything nearby. I don't think there is too much to celebrate here.
If Ubuntu takes off, will it make Canonical the next Apple?
We can only hope. Unity is GPL, as is the vast majority of the Linux ecosphere. If Ubuntu becomes as big as (i)OSX and Win7 everybody in the linux community will gain a tremendous amount. Drivers, support, money - it will all get exponentially better for us.
Well, I don't quite have a list of cards that will or won't work, and they might have it fixed by now - I'm at work and the Ubuntu servers will be nuclear until Monday or so. BUT, here's what I dug out:
Package has broken dependencies that cannot be met.
xorg-video-abi-8.0
xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.8.99.905-1ubuntu3)
Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Natty beta & do sudo apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade
2. Try sudo apt-get install nvidia-96 to get the error.
(confirmed to still occur in beta 1).
Just as a heads up, if you are running an NVidia card that is not handled by either Nouveau or the nvidia-current, do not upgrade. There is a major bug where the wrong dependancies are called. I imagine now that Natty is out it will get fixed fairly quickly but just an FYI.
They discuss how smartphones will become the primary means of in-car entertainment, how satnavs will be integrated into fighter-jet style heads-up displays, and how cars will create wireless mesh networks that warn each other of upcoming delays and collisions.
I think smartphones will be a stop-gap entertainment-wise. Really, if the new cars will have wifi anyway they will just talk to your home network (when parked) and just download the entertainment to the onboard HDD. The heads-up satnav will be pretty cool, although I suspect that the mesh networking will require multiple driver inputs of a collision and the like instead of relying on sensors alone.
is one of the reasons I will not be voting Conservative while I firmly believe in Conservative values - small government and low taxes (as possible). (I also believe in pro-choice and GBLT equality. Call me a Social Liberal / Fiscal Conservative.) Stephen Harper's government has been doing everything they can to stay in power while acting almost New Democrat in spending - two things I cannot accept. I also will not be voting Liberal (I don't think Michael Ignatieff will be any better in his role as PM), the NDP think you can spend yourself out of debt and I can't vote Bloc Quebecois (although I think their leader Gilles Duceppe is by far the most competent).
In this election I will vote Green Party. Granted, they are quite out there with some policies however I think they are the best choice.
100% Agreed. Although I suspect if this person is reading Slashdot he would have talked to the IT Dept about it and gotten their blessing for doing this set-up. Of course, one would think that the port/rights thing would have come up in discussions prior to now and been agreed upon before anything was done.
In my opinion I would let them in. There's little to no upside to denying them. Starting a pissing match means you waste a lot of energy on a project that may not be allowed (which means your staff do not get what they need), you have a hostile IT dept (which is never what you want) and you are the only person who can work on the thing if need be. Playing nice on the other hand, gives this project a much higher probability of succeeding and may score brownie points with IT.
This would actually be pretty useful for total noobs (to Bash) like me. I haven't played with programming since 1997 and Fortran. Before that it was C64 Basic. I find that lots of the resources online about Bash scripts are not very good at explaining what the heck is what, syntax and how it all goes together. I can muddle my way through it, but not at the level I like.
would it really hurt -- would you really lose so much integrity -- to slap this thing with a flashier moniker than "G.I.M.P."?
Considering the splash for GIMP 2.7 is the mascot locked in a cage with a dominatrix standing beside it I'm thinking that they decided to embrace the (bad) name and run with it.
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Agreed. I don't have a smartphone (and it will quite possibly be hell freezes over before I get one willingly) but as soon as I get home it's tossed onto the kitchen counter and generally ignored until the nxt morning. There is a landline beside my bed and if it's *THAT* f'ing important you can call me on it. Otherwise you wait until morning.
It's a legit pwn, but if it requires Flash, it's not a Chrome pwn.
If the dike fails and the land gets flooded, who cares if the dike was earth or stone? The point is that the place is flooded.
And that analogy is apropos considering what's going down here.
'nuff said
During the Android Fireside Chat this afternoon, Google’s Dan Morill explained a bit more about the situation. As the bits and pieces that make up Android 3.1 get added into the next version, and the brand new bits that will come together and make this unifying UI get implemented, it will be appropriate to release Android Source. So, quite definitively, Android for tablets will not be open sourced until it’s been fixed to Google’s standards. There’s little information as to whether or not these, in combination with the new fragmentation initiative, will ensure that current Android 3.0 devices will be brought into the open source times or not. More and more it’s beginning to feel like the Android 3.0 concept was little more than a knee-jerk reaction to have something, even if it’s not a great something, to stay within reach of the competition, with Ice Cream Sandwich being the resolving fix to the mistake.
Where are my mod points?!?
I have actually started deleting people who post a lot of stuff in a short amount of time. If you have to post every thought that passes through you're head I have no interest in knowing you.
FFS, I just installed it last week! *facepalm*
Partially agreed. I'm not happy with it due to the issues with Nvidia cards and Xorg server. Not their fault but that's a showstopper IMO. Unity (2D especially) needs work but it's not nearly as bad as the KDE4 fiasco. I think Unity will really be together in 12.04. Personally I use Lubuntu on my ancient laptop and either Lubuntu or Kubuntu on my desktop. I Have Unity 2D installed on my laptop as well just to play with it as it progresses.
My question is if they define 'Ubuntu' as the main Desktop + Server or if all the extra mainline flavors (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu) count as well. And then what about LinuxMint?
*Disclaimer: Proud Canadian* You, Sir, deserve mod points. As someone whose brother-in-law is in the Canadian Forces I will attest the most important thing is the job is done and they all made it home.
Seriously, KDE developers needs to throw some time into the plugin selection or just say 'Screw it - we're porting Empathy'. Kopete still has a lot to offer over Pidgin & Empathy including video, mutliple identities and a clean, nice looking interface! The issue I see (beyond the Akonadi / Nepomuk fiasco) is that there are only a few plugins for Kopete when there are literally hundreds of plugins for Pidgin. Plugins like Bot Sentry and the ability to sort contact by the chat log size. These are indispensible and the only way Kopete has a hope in hell of surviving.
If there ever was a post that needed to go above +5, that is it.
+1 on the LXDE, although Lubuntu has a *REALLY* nice set-up and even Ubuntu is setting up to pitch Firefox for Chromium in 11.10. Minimal Ubuntu + lubuntu-core would be about perfect for a low-end server.
It isn't just Apple doing this - Microsoft is rolling out an app store of their own, BlackBerry has an app store, Google's got an Android app store...
And Ubuntu has an app store, Red Hat has an app store, OpenSuse has an app store, Debian has an app store... It's called the repositories. And around here those are thought of as a good thing too.
Seriously, when was the last time you talked to anyone who excited to go get a new blackberry?
My wife. She's had it for 3 years next month and it's been very dependable. I would prefer her jump to a 'droid, but all her friends have Blackberries and it's the BBM she loves.
But why would they take the body, promptly bury it at sea, then tell the world? I understand that they would want to minimize the impact in the islamic world by not defiling his body in any way which was recorded, but it seems like this would be something you show on television, that it's REALLY him. Who knows, maybe they made a deal with him and he's now in South America to live out his days in (even more) luxury. But that's the George Noory in me.
And I'm also quite mystified why so many people are celebrating this. It took almost 10 years, trillions of dollars, the invasion of two countries (neither of which he was found in), and an untold number of lives lost to find a 6 foot 6 inch multi-millionaire (with diabetes!) living in a private luxury compound (in a well populated city) which was at least eight times larger then anything nearby. I don't think there is too much to celebrate here.
If Ubuntu takes off, will it make Canonical the next Apple?
We can only hope. Unity is GPL, as is the vast majority of the Linux ecosphere. If Ubuntu becomes as big as (i)OSX and Win7 everybody in the linux community will gain a tremendous amount. Drivers, support, money - it will all get exponentially better for us.
Well, I don't quite have a list of cards that will or won't work, and they might have it fixed by now - I'm at work and the Ubuntu servers will be nuclear until Monday or so. BUT, here's what I dug out:
From Launchpad:
Package has broken dependencies that cannot be met.
xorg-video-abi-8.0
xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.8.99.905-1ubuntu3)
Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Natty beta & do sudo apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade
2. Try sudo apt-get install nvidia-96 to get the error. (confirmed to still occur in beta 1).
Just as a heads up, if you are running an NVidia card that is not handled by either Nouveau or the nvidia-current, do not upgrade. There is a major bug where the wrong dependancies are called. I imagine now that Natty is out it will get fixed fairly quickly but just an FYI.
They discuss how smartphones will become the primary means of in-car entertainment, how satnavs will be integrated into fighter-jet style heads-up displays, and how cars will create wireless mesh networks that warn each other of upcoming delays and collisions.
I think smartphones will be a stop-gap entertainment-wise. Really, if the new cars will have wifi anyway they will just talk to your home network (when parked) and just download the entertainment to the onboard HDD. The heads-up satnav will be pretty cool, although I suspect that the mesh networking will require multiple driver inputs of a collision and the like instead of relying on sensors alone.
is one of the reasons I will not be voting Conservative while I firmly believe in Conservative values - small government and low taxes (as possible). (I also believe in pro-choice and GBLT equality. Call me a Social Liberal / Fiscal Conservative.) Stephen Harper's government has been doing everything they can to stay in power while acting almost New Democrat in spending - two things I cannot accept. I also will not be voting Liberal (I don't think Michael Ignatieff will be any better in his role as PM), the NDP think you can spend yourself out of debt and I can't vote Bloc Quebecois (although I think their leader Gilles Duceppe is by far the most competent).
In this election I will vote Green Party. Granted, they are quite out there with some policies however I think they are the best choice.
Nobody expects the Canadian Inquisition!
Nah, doesn't have the same ring.
100% Agreed. Although I suspect if this person is reading Slashdot he would have talked to the IT Dept about it and gotten their blessing for doing this set-up. Of course, one would think that the port/rights thing would have come up in discussions prior to now and been agreed upon before anything was done.
In my opinion I would let them in. There's little to no upside to denying them. Starting a pissing match means you waste a lot of energy on a project that may not be allowed (which means your staff do not get what they need), you have a hostile IT dept (which is never what you want) and you are the only person who can work on the thing if need be. Playing nice on the other hand, gives this project a much higher probability of succeeding and may score brownie points with IT.
You Sir, I owe a coke.
This would actually be pretty useful for total noobs (to Bash) like me. I haven't played with programming since 1997 and Fortran. Before that it was C64 Basic. I find that lots of the resources online about Bash scripts are not very good at explaining what the heck is what, syntax and how it all goes together. I can muddle my way through it, but not at the level I like.
would it really hurt -- would you really lose so much integrity -- to slap this thing with a flashier moniker than "G.I.M.P."?
Considering the splash for GIMP 2.7 is the mascot locked in a cage with a dominatrix standing beside it I'm thinking that they decided to embrace the (bad) name and run with it.