Alibaba's main business is to try to connect no-name chinese manufacturers with distributors elsewhere. The site is garbage. If you thoughtYahoo was bad before... *shudder*
Seriously, who cares that the Zune is no longer produced? It's an MP3 player. Few people would get them serviced so warranty work is pointless. Heck, I always loved the Rio and if the capacity was tiny compared to relatively newer models, I'd still get one.
As of Wednesday, Chrome's global average user share for September was 23.6%, while Firefox's stood at 26.8%. IE, meanwhile, was at 41.7%.
Maybe it's not as dreamt of as the year of linux on the desktop (mine was 2007 FWIW) but this is what we wanted. We wanted there to be options. Remember when IE controlled 80 - 90% of the browser market? Remember how much IE6 sucked? Firefox and Chrome (two open source browsers to boot) now have a bigger market share then IE. MUCH bigger. Throw in Opera & Safari and we have five capable, world-class browsers which to choose from.
Look at what Apple & Samsung fought over in Europe with the Galaxy Tab. Samsung LOST when it was pretty clear it was obvious and had a ton of prior art. Who's to say Microsoft doesn't hold something like that? It could be a multi-input touch screen or could be tied in with something from the Zune. Who knows?
Honestly, I'm sure the cost/benefit analysis is why it happen this way. Assuming Samsung's lawyers evaluated Microsoft's patents and think they are bunk, it's still cheaper to pay microsoft X amount over Y period of years than to spend W amount in lawyers fees over Z years fighting in court and then risk losing, where you have to pay X*Y anyway plus whatever additional damages the court gives. As well, we're talking millions, if not billions of dollars here. Even if there is only a 10% chance of the courts siding with Microsoft who wants to risk that kind of cash? Any CEO who would gamble like that would (and should) be fired.
“The first thing is thinking that you can throw things out there and ask people to help,” when it comes to open-source software development, he says. “That's not how it works. You make it public, and then you assume that you'll have to do all the work, and ask people to come up with suggestions of what you should do, not what they should do. Maybe they'll start helping eventually, but you should start off with the assumption that you're going to be the one maintaining it and ready to do all the work.”
That is probably the most true statement I have ever read with regards to crowd-sourcing. You have to be willing to do it all yourself with input from others.
I read that as five spouses and thought: Fuck, what is it doing? Making a harem?!? Then I realized two things: We're talking about a mobo and second, I need more caffeine.
Only try 11.04 anything if you don't run an older nvidia card. I was forced to migrate to 11.10 due Canonical not releasing an update to the nvidia-96 driver for 11.04. Oneiric is OK, but still kind of twitchy.
Personally, I'm excited for the fact Lubuntu is an offical member of the clan for this go around. It's been a really solid distro the past two releases, the improvements over that time have been awesome and for my money is probably the best of Ubuntu and it's variants - including Linux Mint. My plan is to upgrade to the 12.04 LTS somewhere about May or June then leave it except for the LXDE PPA. That will probably EOL my machine.
I am probably in the minority here but I still use a number of yahoo products.
Messenger - I have had my account since probably 1997 and it is still my #1. I have MSN, Facebook, Skype & GTalk as well however if they all went dark tomorrow I would still be OK. Without Yahoo I'd lose 95% of the people I regularly converse with.
Flickr - A really good place to post pictures and really has taken over for Yahoo groups. There isn't much spam and the groups are still regularly updated and have a good interface. Plus is the best place on the web for porn - bar none.
Sports - I prefer Yahoo Sports to everyone else I have ever found - including TSN, ESPN & CBC (I am Canadian BTW). Their hockey coverage and analysis is top notch and they have one of the few professional blogs which cover the Canadian Football League (55 Yard Line). Also their fantasy leagues are pretty darn good.
I'm with you - really, these little suckers could open up a potential solar system of possibilities. A form factor small enough to have an entire computer mounted into a 2.5" external hard drive case complete with SSD drive, USB & Ethernet plugs with a mobile power appetite and a price tag around $35 or $40? Where do I sign?
says, 'Some of [the U.S.'s] best engineers are not doing engineering, and some of its best potential engineers are not even studying engineering, leaving us short-changed in solving the important problems of the day.'
I know many engineers who took years getting into an engineering position - 2/3rds of my graduating class did not find engineering jobs right out of university. So that's problem #1. Secondly, many engineers excel in a management role - problem solving, critical analysis, and cool under pressure - plus the opportunities that moving into a management role provides is enticing. Finally, 'potential' is not really quantifiable. If he is a brilliant student but has no interpersonal skills, and she is a C+ student but works great within a group, who the better potential engineer? What about someone who can almost instantly understand concepts such as thermodynamic closed systems and who is a deity in a machine shop, but enjoys creating art? What is their potential?
We know where the sun is -- the prospecting costs are zero!
Yet solar still can't compete without enormous subsidies.
So what you are saying is that solar is a failure because it can't compete economically yet against a product which has had orders of magniture more research money and time spent on it, is easier to store and is produced in such large quantities much of the world's economy is effected if there is even a slight percentage change in production?
I wish I could still run Windows 2K - I would never had upgraded to XP if my computer had been able to run it. Although XP SP2 is a pretty good OS - even now.
Come to think of it, My work computer has XP but with the classic 2K interface and the Lubuntu on my laptop at home has a grey task bar and 2K-style start menu. I guess I'm just old school.
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Alibaba's main business is to try to connect no-name chinese manufacturers with distributors elsewhere. The site is garbage. If you thoughtYahoo was bad before... *shudder*
Excellent - now they'll be super cheap on eBay!
Seriously, who cares that the Zune is no longer produced? It's an MP3 player. Few people would get them serviced so warranty work is pointless. Heck, I always loved the Rio and if the capacity was tiny compared to relatively newer models, I'd still get one.
And fuck everyone - I liked the brown model.
As of Wednesday, Chrome's global average user share for September was 23.6%, while Firefox's stood at 26.8%. IE, meanwhile, was at 41.7%.
Maybe it's not as dreamt of as the year of linux on the desktop (mine was 2007 FWIW) but this is what we wanted. We wanted there to be options. Remember when IE controlled 80 - 90% of the browser market? Remember how much IE6 sucked? Firefox and Chrome (two open source browsers to boot) now have a bigger market share then IE. MUCH bigger. Throw in Opera & Safari and we have five capable, world-class browsers which to choose from.
We fucking won
*looks at the Carribean Red Habenero powder*
*look at kidlet's strawberry yogurt*
Excellent...
Where's my mod points?
Look at what Apple & Samsung fought over in Europe with the Galaxy Tab. Samsung LOST when it was pretty clear it was obvious and had a ton of prior art. Who's to say Microsoft doesn't hold something like that? It could be a multi-input touch screen or could be tied in with something from the Zune. Who knows?
Honestly, I'm sure the cost/benefit analysis is why it happen this way. Assuming Samsung's lawyers evaluated Microsoft's patents and think they are bunk, it's still cheaper to pay microsoft X amount over Y period of years than to spend W amount in lawyers fees over Z years fighting in court and then risk losing, where you have to pay X*Y anyway plus whatever additional damages the court gives. As well, we're talking millions, if not billions of dollars here. Even if there is only a 10% chance of the courts siding with Microsoft who wants to risk that kind of cash? Any CEO who would gamble like that would (and should) be fired.
“The first thing is thinking that you can throw things out there and ask people to help,” when it comes to open-source software development, he says. “That's not how it works. You make it public, and then you assume that you'll have to do all the work, and ask people to come up with suggestions of what you should do, not what they should do. Maybe they'll start helping eventually, but you should start off with the assumption that you're going to be the one maintaining it and ready to do all the work.”
That is probably the most true statement I have ever read with regards to crowd-sourcing. You have to be willing to do it all yourself with input from others.
They say open source, but do they mean BSD, GPLv2, GPLv3, Apache or something else entirely. Not trying to be an ass, just want to know.
And Linux starts to look that much better.
five SPI buses
I read that as five spouses and thought: Fuck, what is it doing? Making a harem?!? Then I realized two things: We're talking about a mobo and second, I need more caffeine.
I was refering to the cartoon show (2008), although I actually enjoyed Episodes II and III. Episode I sucked terribly though.
I wish I had mod points. Now insightful, informative or funny - I'll let you decide!
Actually, I find Clone Wars some of the best Star Wars work ever done.
After Ribbons, it has become extremely difficult to think up ways to make MS Office worse.
Sell it to Oracle?
As for tablets - no one has noticed that this is all about vendor lock-in?
We noticed. It's about tablets, so we assume lock-in comes standard, so why state the obvious?
Essentially, they are following what Opera, Chrome, Unity, Android, and iOS have been doing for how long? And this is big news?
Personally, I'm excited for the fact Lubuntu is an offical member of the clan for this go around. It's been a really solid distro the past two releases, the improvements over that time have been awesome and for my money is probably the best of Ubuntu and it's variants - including Linux Mint. My plan is to upgrade to the 12.04 LTS somewhere about May or June then leave it except for the LXDE PPA. That will probably EOL my machine.
I am probably in the minority here but I still use a number of yahoo products.
Messenger - I have had my account since probably 1997 and it is still my #1. I have MSN, Facebook, Skype & GTalk as well however if they all went dark tomorrow I would still be OK. Without Yahoo I'd lose 95% of the people I regularly converse with.
Flickr - A really good place to post pictures and really has taken over for Yahoo groups. There isn't much spam and the groups are still regularly updated and have a good interface. Plus is the best place on the web for porn - bar none.
Sports - I prefer Yahoo Sports to everyone else I have ever found - including TSN, ESPN & CBC (I am Canadian BTW). Their hockey coverage and analysis is top notch and they have one of the few professional blogs which cover the Canadian Football League (55 Yard Line). Also their fantasy leagues are pretty darn good.
I'm with you - really, these little suckers could open up a potential solar system of possibilities. A form factor small enough to have an entire computer mounted into a 2.5" external hard drive case complete with SSD drive, USB & Ethernet plugs with a mobile power appetite and a price tag around $35 or $40? Where do I sign?
P.S. Mine thrived for years until a heavy book obliterated it. Perhaps NASA should be looking out for giant books headed our way.
Was I the only one thinking that would have worked as a subplot for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Or Monty Python. One of the two.
At the time (2002) we were ranked fourth in the country - there just weren't any engineering jobs out there.
says, 'Some of [the U.S.'s] best engineers are not doing engineering, and some of its best potential engineers are not even studying engineering, leaving us short-changed in solving the important problems of the day.'
I know many engineers who took years getting into an engineering position - 2/3rds of my graduating class did not find engineering jobs right out of university. So that's problem #1. Secondly, many engineers excel in a management role - problem solving, critical analysis, and cool under pressure - plus the opportunities that moving into a management role provides is enticing. Finally, 'potential' is not really quantifiable. If he is a brilliant student but has no interpersonal skills, and she is a C+ student but works great within a group, who the better potential engineer? What about someone who can almost instantly understand concepts such as thermodynamic closed systems and who is a deity in a machine shop, but enjoys creating art? What is their potential?
It's a silly argument.
sudo engineer you a sandwich.
Noob.
We know where the sun is -- the prospecting costs are zero! Yet solar still can't compete without enormous subsidies.
So what you are saying is that solar is a failure because it can't compete economically yet against a product which has had orders of magniture more research money and time spent on it, is easier to store and is produced in such large quantities much of the world's economy is effected if there is even a slight percentage change in production?
I wish I could still run Windows 2K - I would never had upgraded to XP if my computer had been able to run it. Although XP SP2 is a pretty good OS - even now.
Come to think of it, My work computer has XP but with the classic 2K interface and the Lubuntu on my laptop at home has a grey task bar and 2K-style start menu. I guess I'm just old school.