Now if only Pidgin could provide solid video chat functionality in their client..."
Forget (just) video chat! How about file & photo sharing (Yahoo I'm looking at you!), better social media integration and a stock appearance that wasn't fugly?
Frankly, if Kopete wasn't such a POS in *buntu-land for the past year, I would have ditched Pidgin a long time ago.
How do you steal data if you copied it? Goes back to the whole MPAA thing with music.
I think it's all about what you can use in the future. If I do a number of excel sheets which are used for layout optimization, and take copies for reference later, is that wrong? How about my outlook contacts which might come in handy later? I think if it's purely business between you and the company, then keep it clean (with the exceptions I used above). If it's ugly, still keep it clean as possible, but don't do them any favors.
It could, but the bad PR from this thing could be plenty bad. I would rather do what the parent post stated than go after a priest for trademark infringement on something which isn't making him a penny.
Good point, but I would add that none of those companies had some of the advantages that Apple enjoys: Existing solid fan base BEFORE the Ipad came out and enough cash/market cap to make MS choke.
I would like to offer up Toyota as an example of it still being possible. With the safety issues surrounding them and the insane amount of money and fan base they have lost. Yes, it took a huge misstep/miscalculation on Toyota's part to make it possible, but it is possible.
I also think that the recent antenna issue Apple had has shown that there can be issues with the company and one problem covered up or ignored will sink them.
You say it like it's a bad thing. It is called the 'fast follower' strategy. Have someone else do the legwork, jump in while the market is still hot (and the margins are great) and get out when the market has matured and it's a race to the bottom (lowest price).
The worst is that I am an enthusiastic KDE user and I follow development closely, trying betas and reporting bugs. I don't feel "betrayed" or anything like that, but some things are too annoying/habit breaking/RAM eating
I wholeheartedly agree with the Akonadi & Nepomuk rant, and feel similar to you. I feel 4.5 has become waaaaaay too power hungry for not a lot in return. Frankly, aside from the few killer apps & such KDE has (K3B, Dolphin, slideshow background) I have left for LXDE (I currently run Ubuntu 10.04 minimal + LXDE testing). LXDE is lightweight, doesn't have a lot of cruft running around and is familiar - It reminds me of KDE3 & Windows Classic interfaces which I still think are probably the best done ever.
Not to say LXDE doesn't have areas which need to be addressed:
1) Lack of a solid feature complete media player. Aqualung & Deadbeef, beyond just playing MP3s, having nothing. No playlist management, no scrobbling, nothing. I use Pana for this. It's a rebadged Amarok 1.4.x which is still being updated.
2) File Management & Network Navigation. Much respect to PCManFM, but it's not ready for primetime. Fuse doesn't work properly with PCManFM, and using pyNeighborhood is just scary bad. I bit the bullet and installed Dolphin. Works with everything, plus has the split pane function which for me is a killer feature.
3) Menu Management. In LXDE, it doesn't exist. Period. To edit anything you have to break out leafpad and edit config files. And when the menu doesn't put things in the correct place or even put things on there at all, that's a problem.
I still think KDE could win me back quite easily if & when they get their act together and really start cleaning up their stuff from a resource point of view. I still think their package is top notch, but takes too much system to run it.
I would love to see a court battle over me telling a program (which uses Facebook's APIs) to download my own stuff (which I put up there in the first place) onto my hard drive.
I honestly think I could work pretty well. Basically a distributed client side setup with the big things that facebook does and (for the most part) does well: Share stuff with people you know - statuses, comments, messages, photos. Build something like a Pidgin/Yahoo messenger client which can pull status & wall feeds from friends who are online and from common friends who have updated information on friends who are not online. For photo sharing, have an interface with one of the big photo sites (or all of them) for photos.
That's not just in the southern states. Up here the top 100 stolen vehicles must be equiped with an anti-theft device prior to it being licensed and on that list was a 1979 Ford F150.
My guess is that he's thinking of a Polyspherical 318 (A-series) engine, however it could have been a 315 Hemi. although that would have required an engine swap.
The real grate of it all is that I didn't catch the 318 Hemi on the first read. I guess I'm slipping.
Nope - Opera hasn't had ads since 6 or 7. I think their desktop product (other than Opera mail which I disliked immensely) is very good, and certainly better than IE, Firefox & Chrome. I haven't tried Safari so I won't comment on that.
OSX & iOS users are not it. Frankly, pushed ads on those platforms would be suicidal - remember that Opera STILL has the millstone of ads around it's neck years after they went away. (Aside: I prefer Opera to every other browser - I still think it's faster then Chrome to boot). I think there is no way it would happen on their core cash cow machines.
That being said, as another poster put it above, TV & Video is where the next market is, and that's where these will come into play. That's why there's the fights over Flash & H264. I would put some good money on Apple building a 'custom' TV package for everyone. It would run under the iTunes banner and would basically be you pony up X dollars a month and get unlimited streaming video and audio. Meanwhile there will be ads before movies and TV shows begin, which have been targetted to you based on your show and movie preferences. Welcome to the world of "iTV: TV for me".
I have not studied computer science, firmware trojans nor antivirus. Could someone explain to me:
1) How do firmware trojans work?
2) Are they OS independent?
3) What information can they send and/or damage can they do to a system?
Have you tried watching Matrix: Dezionized? It's a fan edit with most of the Zion stuff edited out and the 2nd and 3rd movies combined. Pretty awesome.
I understand fully. I have a number of transgendered friends and it is very frustrating for them to have their gender assigned based on things other than their displayed gender.
1) TG (Transgendered - using as umbrella term for Transsexual, Transvestite, Crossdresser, etc) is presenting in chosen gender and is identified as their genetic gender. Annoyance at first, then anger over a contant reminder of their genetic gender.
2) TG is closeted. Targetted adds begin to cause doubt among TG's companions regarding their identity eventually outing them.
Really, the next issue with facial recognition is the killer - Ads for dresses or heels naming you and talking about how you have bought similar styles previously. All in all, this is a lawsuit waiting to happen IMHO.
I thought this was the exact issue the U.S. miltary had when they had soldiers posting geotagged pictures to facebook which identified where they were in Afghanistan. Same idea - people, given a few small details, can very easily find out about you by the use of Google.
Back when I was in first year university (1996) it was still pretty wild west on the internet. I was talking to a friend who I had never given any of my real details (name, address, etc) when she popped up and asked if I went to AMHS (my high school). After picking my jaw off the floor I found out that I had mistakenly forwarded them an E-mail which I had originally forwarded from my school account to my hotmail account. They found the e-mail address, and googled it. It was all laid out there on the Universities' website.
I 100% agree and would love nothing more for my SN account to have 'multiple personalities' and aggregate it into one place instead of having to maintain multiple profiles. I can obviously see issues arising involving posting to an incorrect profile and so forth, but that's unavoidable no matter the multiple SN profile set-up.
Actually, I think these will be important features in a future 'facebook killer', although I suspect that facebook cannot be killed and it will take years for someone to catch up to it - A good analogy would be Hotmail & Gmail. Hotmail was first, was number one for a long time and even if it is #2 behind gmail, it is STILL huge.
I understand that this means that the different linux kernel families all have updates released, but I don't understand why you need fixe or six concurrent kernel branches. Not to be a troll, I just don't know why. It seems like a lot of work for not a lot of return.
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Wait, this got modded INTERESTING?!?
How old are you people?!?
Now if only Pidgin could provide solid video chat functionality in their client..."
Forget (just) video chat! How about file & photo sharing (Yahoo I'm looking at you!), better social media integration and a stock appearance that wasn't fugly?
Frankly, if Kopete wasn't such a POS in *buntu-land for the past year, I would have ditched Pidgin a long time ago.
How do you steal data if you copied it? Goes back to the whole MPAA thing with music.
I think it's all about what you can use in the future. If I do a number of excel sheets which are used for layout optimization, and take copies for reference later, is that wrong? How about my outlook contacts which might come in handy later? I think if it's purely business between you and the company, then keep it clean (with the exceptions I used above). If it's ugly, still keep it clean as possible, but don't do them any favors.
It could, but the bad PR from this thing could be plenty bad. I would rather do what the parent post stated than go after a priest for trademark infringement on something which isn't making him a penny.
It's pretty sad when i read the title and went "But Hurd isn't even out yet!"
I think on a fresh install or upgrade to FF4, make the silent updating an opt-in. If you want it, you got it. Otherwise you stay traditional.
Myself, I would like to stay traditional on updates, but that's me.
So Grant, Tori & Kari... wait... wasn't there topless scenes in that movie?
Good point, but I would add that none of those companies had some of the advantages that Apple enjoys: Existing solid fan base BEFORE the Ipad came out and enough cash/market cap to make MS choke.
I would like to offer up Toyota as an example of it still being possible. With the safety issues surrounding them and the insane amount of money and fan base they have lost. Yes, it took a huge misstep/miscalculation on Toyota's part to make it possible, but it is possible.
I also think that the recent antenna issue Apple had has shown that there can be issues with the company and one problem covered up or ignored will sink them.
You say it like it's a bad thing. It is called the 'fast follower' strategy. Have someone else do the legwork, jump in while the market is still hot (and the margins are great) and get out when the market has matured and it's a race to the bottom (lowest price).
The worst is that I am an enthusiastic KDE user and I follow development closely, trying betas and reporting bugs. I don't feel "betrayed" or anything like that, but some things are too annoying/habit breaking/RAM eating
I wholeheartedly agree with the Akonadi & Nepomuk rant, and feel similar to you. I feel 4.5 has become waaaaaay too power hungry for not a lot in return. Frankly, aside from the few killer apps & such KDE has (K3B, Dolphin, slideshow background) I have left for LXDE (I currently run Ubuntu 10.04 minimal + LXDE testing). LXDE is lightweight, doesn't have a lot of cruft running around and is familiar - It reminds me of KDE3 & Windows Classic interfaces which I still think are probably the best done ever.
Not to say LXDE doesn't have areas which need to be addressed:
1) Lack of a solid feature complete media player. Aqualung & Deadbeef, beyond just playing MP3s, having nothing. No playlist management, no scrobbling, nothing. I use Pana for this. It's a rebadged Amarok 1.4.x which is still being updated.
2) File Management & Network Navigation. Much respect to PCManFM, but it's not ready for primetime. Fuse doesn't work properly with PCManFM, and using pyNeighborhood is just scary bad. I bit the bullet and installed Dolphin. Works with everything, plus has the split pane function which for me is a killer feature.
3) Menu Management. In LXDE, it doesn't exist. Period. To edit anything you have to break out leafpad and edit config files. And when the menu doesn't put things in the correct place or even put things on there at all, that's a problem.
I still think KDE could win me back quite easily if & when they get their act together and really start cleaning up their stuff from a resource point of view. I still think their package is top notch, but takes too much system to run it.
I would love to see a court battle over me telling a program (which uses Facebook's APIs) to download my own stuff (which I put up there in the first place) onto my hard drive.
I honestly think I could work pretty well. Basically a distributed client side setup with the big things that facebook does and (for the most part) does well: Share stuff with people you know - statuses, comments, messages, photos. Build something like a Pidgin/Yahoo messenger client which can pull status & wall feeds from friends who are online and from common friends who have updated information on friends who are not online. For photo sharing, have an interface with one of the big photo sites (or all of them) for photos.
That's not just in the southern states. Up here the top 100 stolen vehicles must be equiped with an anti-theft device prior to it being licensed and on that list was a 1979 Ford F150.
My guess is that he's thinking of a Polyspherical 318 (A-series) engine, however it could have been a 315 Hemi. although that would have required an engine swap.
The real grate of it all is that I didn't catch the 318 Hemi on the first read. I guess I'm slipping.
Why not? Review, test, check, etc. How would it be different from code from Columbia, North Korea, or Russia?
Nope - Opera hasn't had ads since 6 or 7. I think their desktop product (other than Opera mail which I disliked immensely) is very good, and certainly better than IE, Firefox & Chrome. I haven't tried Safari so I won't comment on that.
OSX & iOS users are not it. Frankly, pushed ads on those platforms would be suicidal - remember that Opera STILL has the millstone of ads around it's neck years after they went away. (Aside: I prefer Opera to every other browser - I still think it's faster then Chrome to boot). I think there is no way it would happen on their core cash cow machines.
That being said, as another poster put it above, TV & Video is where the next market is, and that's where these will come into play. That's why there's the fights over Flash & H264. I would put some good money on Apple building a 'custom' TV package for everyone. It would run under the iTunes banner and would basically be you pony up X dollars a month and get unlimited streaming video and audio. Meanwhile there will be ads before movies and TV shows begin, which have been targetted to you based on your show and movie preferences. Welcome to the world of "iTV: TV for me".
I have not studied computer science, firmware trojans nor antivirus. Could someone explain to me:
1) How do firmware trojans work?
2) Are they OS independent?
3) What information can they send and/or damage can they do to a system?
Have you tried watching Matrix: Dezionized? It's a fan edit with most of the Zion stuff edited out and the 2nd and 3rd movies combined. Pretty awesome.
I understand fully. I have a number of transgendered friends and it is very frustrating for them to have their gender assigned based on things other than their displayed gender.
I can see a couple scenarios:
1) TG (Transgendered - using as umbrella term for Transsexual, Transvestite, Crossdresser, etc) is presenting in chosen gender and is identified as their genetic gender. Annoyance at first, then anger over a contant reminder of their genetic gender.
2) TG is closeted. Targetted adds begin to cause doubt among TG's companions regarding their identity eventually outing them.
Really, the next issue with facial recognition is the killer - Ads for dresses or heels naming you and talking about how you have bought similar styles previously. All in all, this is a lawsuit waiting to happen IMHO.
I thought this was the exact issue the U.S. miltary had when they had soldiers posting geotagged pictures to facebook which identified where they were in Afghanistan. Same idea - people, given a few small details, can very easily find out about you by the use of Google.
Back when I was in first year university (1996) it was still pretty wild west on the internet. I was talking to a friend who I had never given any of my real details (name, address, etc) when she popped up and asked if I went to AMHS (my high school). After picking my jaw off the floor I found out that I had mistakenly forwarded them an E-mail which I had originally forwarded from my school account to my hotmail account. They found the e-mail address, and googled it. It was all laid out there on the Universities' website.
A mouse without the mouse? Why not build an oversized laptop touch pad about 5" x 4"? Or a trackball with a thumb scroll wheel?
I 100% agree and would love nothing more for my SN account to have 'multiple personalities' and aggregate it into one place instead of having to maintain multiple profiles. I can obviously see issues arising involving posting to an incorrect profile and so forth, but that's unavoidable no matter the multiple SN profile set-up.
Actually, I think these will be important features in a future 'facebook killer', although I suspect that facebook cannot be killed and it will take years for someone to catch up to it - A good analogy would be Hotmail & Gmail. Hotmail was first, was number one for a long time and even if it is #2 behind gmail, it is STILL huge.
I understand that this means that the different linux kernel families all have updates released, but I don't understand why you need fixe or six concurrent kernel branches. Not to be a troll, I just don't know why. It seems like a lot of work for not a lot of return.