I'm just waiting for the day (in about 20 years) when Africa has become the new China and China has become like Britain - they know what they're doing, but it's too darn expensive.
The phone runs Android 2.1 on a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650 chipset along with a helpful 1GB of built-in memory and 512MB of RAM, which is assisted by a MicroSD slot supporting up to 32GB cards.
OK, so this phone has more jam then my wife's and I's two celeron laptops, and is just about as powerful as my Sempron desktop. Why have a computer?
and it goes and fetches all your social networking data from all the social networking applications, closing all your accounts. It backs itself up in an encrypted way to your friends' plugs, so that everybody is secure in the way that would be best for them, by having their friends holding the secure version of their data.
I flashed to stories about the German tanks in WWII which were amazingly advanced compared to their comtemporaries. However if anything happened to them in the field they couldn't fix them and they could not be mass produced anywhere near the levels of the U.S. inferior tanks.
Agreed. I went and saw Avatar in 3D in February, and while the 3D effects were cool, they were only cool for the first 5 minutes. After that the story took over. The only time I noticed the 3D after that was when it was done badly - fuzzy objects close by when the focus is further back.
As an aside, I felt Avatar was an OK popcorn movie, although the joke/point that "we saw it back in the 90s and was called Fern Gully" was accurate. I was happy Hurt Locker won Best Picture over it, although I feel Hurt Locker's script wasn't all that great strictly due to the non-ending.
I think that's a non issue. First off, without RTFA or the previous discussion, I'm pretty sure there are telltale visual signs if it's fake or not. Second, the only way you would know is by plugging the sucker in and why bother disassembling half your computer, repacking the CPU and sending it back for ANOTHER i7. I fail to see the logic in it.
With respect to new drugs: why fight your body? Seriously. I've also found that as an *alert* night type person you can easily make a killing.
I will second that. I used to work for a western canadian gas station chain and by far the hardest part of my managerial duties was finding competent employees to fill the midnight shift. We looked the other way on a LOT of stuff (Drugs, poor service, etc) because finding somene who would consistently show up for work and wouldn't rob you blind was extremely difficult.
Honestly, I wouldn't worry about Price & Performance yet. For all the talk we're still in the early adopter phase and it's only a matter of time before these things hit critical mass. Like the summary said: Western Digital has seen the writing on the wall; the only question is when the other players in the hard drive market will as well
I know it's bad form to reply to my own post, but the last paragraph SHOULD have read:
Have you any idea what's going on in Kubuntu with Operation Timelord? That's as close as you can get to saying 'We're tired of Ubuntu fucking us over. We're blowing this pop stand and doing it right.'
I blame a severe lack of sleep and a severe lack of good coffee.
I was disappointed with his response to the questions regarding Gnome & KDE. What I read in his response was 'We have Kubuntu. Please keep using it!'.
Ubuntu and KDE and GNOME
by Enderandrew (866215)
"I loathe Gnome personally but don't begrudge people the freedom of choice. However, with Ubuntu becoming almost synonymous with Linux, do they have a responsibility to try and put out a quality KDE desktop along with a quality Gnome desktop?"
Matt: I'm new to the Ubuntu party, but I believe we already do this with Kubuntu. No?
Have you any idea what's going on in Kubuntu with Operation Timelord? That's as close as you can get to saying 'We're tired of Ubuntu is fucking us, so we're blowing this popstand and doing it right.'
Agreed. I used Metacrawler for the better part of a decade before finally giving up on them and moving to Google. Their search results often gave shopping results or glorified warez sites at the end, so google just was better. If metacrawler came back or somebody did it better, I'd jump in a heartbeat.
I was that way, except in reverse. I begrudgingly took on a pay as you go cell phone and it did OK for about a year. However it very quickly got to the point where it was a bigger pain in the butt to keep putting minutes on so I wouldn't lose the minutes I had plus the cost itself and I owned the phone itself. I switched to a plan when they put out a $10/month plan. In the end it was a 3 year contract, I got a nice new phone and it ended up about $3/month then pay as you go. Easily worth the $3 for the lack of headaches.
This has become crystal clear to me during the past week. My Nokia 6085 died last week and I've been limping along on a Motorola V551 since. Yes, it makes calls but does nothing else remotely well. My Nokia did browsing, IM, text and photos for me as well as calls.
And for those who are interested:
1) My contract ends in November and I don't want to pay my carrier $50 for a new phone and be locked in for another three years when I can pay $40 on eBay for a 6 month old unlocked phone which is twice as good as the new one.
2) Last bill was 23 mins of talk time, 23 GB of data and about 2000 messages.
1) Do you feel Kubuntu's 'Operation Timelord' is a step in the right direction for the distribution? If so, why do you feel it was allowed to slip far enough to warrant a complete overhaul?
2) Do you see Kubuntu & Xubuntu becoming purely community-supported distros with Canonical focusing solely on Ubuntu desktop & server?
3) With Xubuntu's memory & CPU requirements being on par with Ubuntu's and Mark Shuttleworth's invite 'to become a self-maintained project in the Ubuntu community' (according to lxde.org), does this signal an end to Xubuntu as a whole or at the very least the 'lightweight' *buntu distribution?
How casual would users have to be? More like clueless. Regardless, this decision means nothing. Stopping torrent sites is whack-a-mole on an infinite sized board.
I use Kubuntu, but it's really Ubuntu minimal + KDE4 Repos. It does amazing things.
I've been running the beta for a bit and it's solid (Kopete and plasma crashes though - nothing showstopper). I also have the latest Amarok and really like it. It's finally were it needs to be. Now, if they could actually come up with something similar to Amarok 1.4's Music brains tagger, then officially there's nothing left over 1.4
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I'm just waiting for the day (in about 20 years) when Africa has become the new China and China has become like Britain - they know what they're doing, but it's too darn expensive.
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And if I refuse?
The phone runs Android 2.1 on a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650 chipset along with a helpful 1GB of built-in memory and 512MB of RAM, which is assisted by a MicroSD slot supporting up to 32GB cards.
OK, so this phone has more jam then my wife's and I's two celeron laptops, and is just about as powerful as my Sempron desktop. Why have a computer?
1)
Free Software To Save Us From Social Networks
Who said we WANT to be saved?!?
2)
and it goes and fetches all your social networking data from all the social networking applications, closing all your accounts. It backs itself up in an encrypted way to your friends' plugs, so that everybody is secure in the way that would be best for them, by having their friends holding the secure version of their data.
So basically you want facebook, but torrented?
I flashed to stories about the German tanks in WWII which were amazingly advanced compared to their comtemporaries. However if anything happened to them in the field they couldn't fix them and they could not be mass produced anywhere near the levels of the U.S. inferior tanks.
Agreed. I went and saw Avatar in 3D in February, and while the 3D effects were cool, they were only cool for the first 5 minutes. After that the story took over. The only time I noticed the 3D after that was when it was done badly - fuzzy objects close by when the focus is further back.
As an aside, I felt Avatar was an OK popcorn movie, although the joke/point that "we saw it back in the 90s and was called Fern Gully" was accurate. I was happy Hurt Locker won Best Picture over it, although I feel Hurt Locker's script wasn't all that great strictly due to the non-ending.
Surely the Linux world learned its lesson from the desktop wars, hasn't it?
Um, let's see: Gnome, KDE, XCFE, Enlightenment, LXDE, Flux/Openbox... and those are just the ones that have had a "buntu" suffix.
The Linux world hasn't learned a damn thing.
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I think that's a non issue. First off, without RTFA or the previous discussion, I'm pretty sure there are telltale visual signs if it's fake or not. Second, the only way you would know is by plugging the sucker in and why bother disassembling half your computer, repacking the CPU and sending it back for ANOTHER i7. I fail to see the logic in it.
Ho ho ho...Ho ho...ho ho!...Ho ho...ho ho ho...Ho ho!...Ho ho ho...Ho ho!
Who are you? Santa?!?
With respect to new drugs: why fight your body? Seriously. I've also found that as an *alert* night type person you can easily make a killing.
I will second that. I used to work for a western canadian gas station chain and by far the hardest part of my managerial duties was finding competent employees to fill the midnight shift. We looked the other way on a LOT of stuff (Drugs, poor service, etc) because finding somene who would consistently show up for work and wouldn't rob you blind was extremely difficult.
How can we get the Westboro Baptist Church to do it?
Actually, Hendrix covering 'Bad Romance' could be cool. I'd rather hear Lady Gaga do a lounge singer version of 'Sympathy for the Devil' though.
And no, I'm no kidding.
Honestly, I wouldn't worry about Price & Performance yet. For all the talk we're still in the early adopter phase and it's only a matter of time before these things hit critical mass. Like the summary said: Western Digital has seen the writing on the wall; the only question is when the other players in the hard drive market will as well
I know it's bad form to reply to my own post, but the last paragraph SHOULD have read:
Have you any idea what's going on in Kubuntu with Operation Timelord? That's as close as you can get to saying 'We're tired of Ubuntu fucking us over. We're blowing this pop stand and doing it right.'
I blame a severe lack of sleep and a severe lack of good coffee.
I was disappointed with his response to the questions regarding Gnome & KDE. What I read in his response was 'We have Kubuntu. Please keep using it!'.
Ubuntu and KDE and GNOME by Enderandrew (866215) "I loathe Gnome personally but don't begrudge people the freedom of choice. However, with Ubuntu becoming almost synonymous with Linux, do they have a responsibility to try and put out a quality KDE desktop along with a quality Gnome desktop?" Matt: I'm new to the Ubuntu party, but I believe we already do this with Kubuntu. No?
Have you any idea what's going on in Kubuntu with Operation Timelord? That's as close as you can get to saying 'We're tired of Ubuntu is fucking us, so we're blowing this popstand and doing it right.'
Agreed. I used Metacrawler for the better part of a decade before finally giving up on them and moving to Google. Their search results often gave shopping results or glorified warez sites at the end, so google just was better. If metacrawler came back or somebody did it better, I'd jump in a heartbeat.
Just because it began in science fiction doesn't make it a bad idea. Asimov's three laws of robotics comes to mind.
I was that way, except in reverse. I begrudgingly took on a pay as you go cell phone and it did OK for about a year. However it very quickly got to the point where it was a bigger pain in the butt to keep putting minutes on so I wouldn't lose the minutes I had plus the cost itself and I owned the phone itself. I switched to a plan when they put out a $10/month plan. In the end it was a 3 year contract, I got a nice new phone and it ended up about $3/month then pay as you go. Easily worth the $3 for the lack of headaches.
For Wikileaks to offer to host Cryptome - especially with thei recent troubles.
Really, what we need here is a torrent feed with all the latest stuff.
And Canada is.
I guess we won't ever see The Last Saskatchewan Pirate.
If I had mod points, you would get them.
This has become crystal clear to me during the past week. My Nokia 6085 died last week and I've been limping along on a Motorola V551 since. Yes, it makes calls but does nothing else remotely well. My Nokia did browsing, IM, text and photos for me as well as calls.
And for those who are interested:
1) My contract ends in November and I don't want to pay my carrier $50 for a new phone and be locked in for another three years when I can pay $40 on eBay for a 6 month old unlocked phone which is twice as good as the new one.
2) Last bill was 23 mins of talk time, 23 GB of data and about 2000 messages.
I have a few questions as a loyal *buntu user:
1) Do you feel Kubuntu's 'Operation Timelord' is a step in the right direction for the distribution? If so, why do you feel it was allowed to slip far enough to warrant a complete overhaul?
2) Do you see Kubuntu & Xubuntu becoming purely community-supported distros with Canonical focusing solely on Ubuntu desktop & server?
3) With Xubuntu's memory & CPU requirements being on par with Ubuntu's and Mark Shuttleworth's invite 'to become a self-maintained project in the Ubuntu community' (according to lxde.org), does this signal an end to Xubuntu as a whole or at the very least the 'lightweight' *buntu distribution?
On one hand, this will deter casual users.
How casual would users have to be? More like clueless. Regardless, this decision means nothing. Stopping torrent sites is whack-a-mole on an infinite sized board.
I use Kubuntu, but it's really Ubuntu minimal + KDE4 Repos. It does amazing things. I've been running the beta for a bit and it's solid (Kopete and plasma crashes though - nothing showstopper). I also have the latest Amarok and really like it. It's finally were it needs to be. Now, if they could actually come up with something similar to Amarok 1.4's Music brains tagger, then officially there's nothing left over 1.4