From TFA: "Windows 8, the platform natively supports vector graphics. Any images exported as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) or XAML art will scale without getting blurry. Additionally, Windows 8 introduces automatic resource loading so developers can save three versions of images with a naming convention; images that correspond to each of the current scale percentages (100%, 140%, and 180%) load automatically to keep images crisp on high DPI. Developers can also use the CSS3 resolution media query or the system events to reload images at different scales. Windows 8 scaling to pixel density allows developers to achieve a baseline level of quality with little effort, and then tailor their images to look polished and crisp on high pixel density screens."
The resulting WEC7 driver for Radeon GPUs is proprietary, but that's allowed per the MIT license that the ATI-AMD Linux driver code is provided under."
I wonder what the source of the article is, that the driver will be proprietary.
I wonder if taking the code written by the community, port it to windows embedded and add some proprietary sauce to it was also part of the original plan. So maybe AMD sees Linux community as a form of cheap labor?
Nope. This is a fairly recent project, conceived and started years after we got back into supporting open source graphics drivers, and the request was for a driver that could be released in source code form.
If schools would be a little bit more fun, if you actually learn something or maybe even learn something you're interested in the pupils might consider coming to school by choice.
I don't have any problems with Kubuntu or Fedora's KDE spin. I use xrandr to get the setup the way I want, but doing that under gnome locks the whole system up tight. I suppose it could be a hardware issue but then I would think that would also impact KDE as well.
The sad thing is, I actually find the Gnome 3 interface appealing in a lot of ways, even though it's pretty different from what I'm used to. It's really innovative and I think it could do interesting things with my workflow. But that I can't get it working right with an external monitor is really frustrating.
Its seems I've got a similar setup to yours and no such problems and wondering why. Changing display configuration with xrandr works fine for me too. But anyway, did you try using the gui from gnome? The preview there shows where the panel will be and if its on the wrong monitor you can just drag it to the right one.
I wonder how it works with a laptop whose lid is closed an external monitor is attached?
I read this one quite often and no it does not suspend if an external monitor is attached. 3.0 didn't either.
With both Fedora and Ubuntu, I find the most recent version still uses the laptop's monitor to show all the controls and panels. I can mirror the display but then my 24 in monitor is running in 1024 x 768. Trying to disable the built-in monitor just locks everything up.
I'd use an older "stable" version, but they don't support the built-in video card of the Intel i7 very well (software render only).
You know, you can just select which one is the primary display in the settings. Not sure what's wrong with your setup but all you describe works fine fore me. (using: Fedora 14, sandy bridge cpu/gpu 24" external monitor with desktop spawning both displays or built-in one deactivated; suspend on lid close - if no external monitor attached as well)
I'd much rather they focus on working with my hardware than working with my chat programs.
It's not like the intel driver developers are writing chat programs instead of doing there work or is it? If you like to complain, complain at the right topic, I don't see how any of your described problems is related to GNOME.
Better example: Disruptive app that allows me to be standing in a store and view items on the shelf through my phone with competing prices from nearby stores or online displayed in the air next to them.
Think about it. In theoretical economy transparency is a condition for the market to function. So this is how it is supposed be, right?
The bot you talked to online is not working on the same "level" as the one used on the Turring test. RTFA
Obligatory: you must be new here.
For the lazy rest of us: The online version seems to be a different one for performance reasons. Here the relevant quote from TFA:
While the online Cleverbot searches its banks 3 times before providing an answer, the test version searched 42 times, so it probably has a little different feel.
I don't know what they paid for the hearing aid, but it seems to me like something funny is going on.
I don't have a clue about hearing aid but I live in Europe and walk regularly past a shop selling them. There is a sign outside saying you don't have to pay anything as they are covered for by the basic healthcare insurance. Maybe you got to pay some fee to get the high-tech ones - again I've got no clue.
I pay 10 € for my mobile contract (free calls to land line and same provider included) and additional 10 € for my data plan (250 mb, after that its slowed down till start of the next month). That is ~ 27 USD in total. Got no unlimited SMS though - costs ~ 0.12 USD per SMS... but I don't care as xmpp is way better anyway.
So it's a benchmark on different hardware that happen to use the same nvidia card (but different motherboard and CPU), and different versions of the compiler, which are known to have performance differences. Way to go.
Looking at the posted specs its looks like the same cpu (AMD Phenom II X3 710) for all tests - on a different motherboard though - wonder why...
Extra Credit is a great show about games and their development. I'm into game development myself and please, everyone who is too do as I - watch their shows. Think about what they have to say.
They also got a video about microtransactions and one about the skinner box. They don't talk about moral though. So here for those interested in the topic but to lazy to RTFA. Its a video, just lean back and watch. Kinda entertaining as well.
Its a materialistic, foss editor with python focus from python programmers for python programmers. You have to spend a little time getting used to it but wont regret it.
Probably the most important implication of AGPL is that it requires you to provide a way for your users to download the sources of the application. In fact Opa facilitates that by automatically enriching the server (in release mode) to serve the source code of the application at a special/_internal_/src_code URL.
But this is not the end of the story. We believe in free software (hence the AGPL license) but we also understand that it may not be very suitable for commercial users of Opa. Such users will be able to obtain a private license (paid). This will allow them to keep their sources closed if they wish to do so and will provide us with funds to further develop and improve Opa — win-win situation:). If you are interested in more details about obtaining such a license, do not hesitate to contact sales@mlstate.com, where we will try to answer all your questions (including pricing).
(3) The requirement for governments to terminate contracts with any businesses involved in breaches more than n number of times (actually, I'd prefer no public-private partnerships on IT work whatever, but simply requiring competent contractors would go a great way toward this).
Just make it n=0 and I agree with you.
n=0 might just mean they are unable to notice breaches.
After all that happened lately to Sony they might learn from it and soon be the ones with the most secure network... Maybe not.
Then they would had released the thing finished, not in an early beta. Especially so if they still are thinking of adding major features to get users to move from Facebook.
I've used google+ and it doesn't feel like a beta at all. Everything just worked as expected, the UI is great. And its the only out of the box working group video chat for Linux I know of. Plus some extra gimmicks like watching YouTube "together." It is correct that there isn't much you can do on google+ but does it need more "major features"? I've got no idea what they plan to do but what features could it need? Maybe some gardening game? Think of twitter, featurewise its near to nothing and still people spend hours on this site.
Google Talk was supposed to be replace existing IM networks.. That didn't really work out. The software was extremely limited. I don't know how it is now, but why should I or anyone else care.
To me - and luckily some of my friends - Google Talk is the best IM for *mobiles* out there. And so at least I do care.
There are some automated tools like skipfish . They help finding possible problems but can't replace the eyes of someone with security expertise looking over the code and setup.
Google Talk has a Voice & Video plugin for the three major platforms. It works right in the browser. You can even do video chat from an android tablet.
Also it works with non google clients like pidgin too.
I'm more interested in a -1 rating. It sucks when my search results are filled with useless crap, copies of the same question without an answer, malware sites, etc. I'd love to rate those down.
I would like a -1 as well. The number of +1 is not as meaningful as the ratio of negative/positive votes. They should have just reused the known thumbs used on youtube. For complains about useless crap there are other channels though:
For maleware and spam pages there is google's spam reporting page and if you're using chrome there is a plugin by google that adds a "report as spam" shortcut to any search result. As the plugin is trivial I am positive something similar exists for other brothers.
Crack In Fukushima Structure May Be Leaking Radiation
I skimmed TFA and it seems the "may" was introduced by/. editors and not the evil "mainstream media". There is a leak and it is radioactive water that it is leaking. No maybe. Actually they already planned how to fix it , tried to do so and failed at it.
I believe that PSX4DROID hasn't respect all the rules [no GPL, no protected names or logo, no promotion of piracy] we respect, and the worst is the integrated link to ROM from their software... which is purely illegal.
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From TFA: "Windows 8, the platform natively supports vector graphics. Any images exported as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) or XAML art will scale without getting blurry. Additionally, Windows 8 introduces automatic resource loading so developers can save three versions of images with a naming convention; images that correspond to each of the current scale percentages (100%, 140%, and 180%) load automatically to keep images crisp on high DPI. Developers can also use the CSS3 resolution media query or the system events to reload images at different scales. Windows 8 scaling to pixel density allows developers to achieve a baseline level of quality with little effort, and then tailor their images to look polished and crisp on high pixel density screens."
The resulting WEC7 driver for Radeon GPUs is proprietary, but that's allowed per the MIT license that the ATI-AMD Linux driver code is provided under."
I wonder what the source of the article is, that the driver will be proprietary.
I wonder if taking the code written by the community, port it to windows embedded and add some proprietary sauce to it was also part of the original plan. So maybe AMD sees Linux community as a form of cheap labor?
Nope. This is a fairly recent project, conceived and started years after we got back into supporting open source graphics drivers, and the request was for a driver that could be released in source code form.
Source
If schools would be a little bit more fun, if you actually learn something or maybe even learn something you're interested in the pupils might consider coming to school by choice.
I don't have any problems with Kubuntu or Fedora's KDE spin. I use xrandr to get the setup the way I want, but doing that under gnome locks the whole system up tight. I suppose it could be a hardware issue but then I would think that would also impact KDE as well.
The sad thing is, I actually find the Gnome 3 interface appealing in a lot of ways, even though it's pretty different from what I'm used to. It's really innovative and I think it could do interesting things with my workflow. But that I can't get it working right with an external monitor is really frustrating.
Its seems I've got a similar setup to yours and no such problems and wondering why. Changing display configuration with xrandr works fine for me too. But anyway, did you try using the gui from gnome? The preview there shows where the panel will be and if its on the wrong monitor you can just drag it to the right one.
I wonder how it works with a laptop whose lid is closed an external monitor is attached?
I read this one quite often and no it does not suspend if an external monitor is attached. 3.0 didn't either.
With both Fedora and Ubuntu, I find the most recent version still uses the laptop's monitor to show all the controls and panels. I can mirror the display but then my 24 in monitor is running in 1024 x 768. Trying to disable the built-in monitor just locks everything up.
I'd use an older "stable" version, but they don't support the built-in video card of the Intel i7 very well (software render only).
You know, you can just select which one is the primary display in the settings. Not sure what's wrong with your setup but all you describe works fine fore me. (using: Fedora 14, sandy bridge cpu/gpu 24" external monitor with desktop spawning both displays or built-in one deactivated; suspend on lid close - if no external monitor attached as well)
I'd much rather they focus on working with my hardware than working with my chat programs.
It's not like the intel driver developers are writing chat programs instead of doing there work or is it? If you like to complain, complain at the right topic, I don't see how any of your described problems is related to GNOME.
Better example: Disruptive app that allows me to be standing in a store and view items on the shelf through my phone with competing prices from nearby stores or online displayed in the air next to them.
Think about it. In theoretical economy transparency is a condition for the market to function. So this is how it is supposed be, right?
obligatory
But there is: Y93D1 - Activity, knitting and crocheting
The bot you talked to online is not working on the same "level" as the one used on the Turring test. RTFA
Obligatory: you must be new here.
For the lazy rest of us: The online version seems to be a different one for performance reasons. Here the relevant quote from TFA:
While the online Cleverbot searches its banks 3 times before providing an answer, the test version searched 42 times, so it probably has a little different feel.
I don't know what they paid for the hearing aid, but it seems to me like something funny is going on.
I don't have a clue about hearing aid but I live in Europe and walk regularly past a shop selling them. There is a sign outside saying you don't have to pay anything as they are covered for by the basic healthcare insurance. Maybe you got to pay some fee to get the high-tech ones - again I've got no clue.
Is a data plan that expensive in the states?
I pay 10 € for my mobile contract (free calls to land line and same provider included) and additional 10 € for my data plan (250 mb, after that its slowed down till start of the next month). That is ~ 27 USD in total. Got no unlimited SMS though - costs ~ 0.12 USD per SMS ... but I don't care as xmpp is way better anyway.
So it's a benchmark on different hardware that happen to use the same nvidia card (but different motherboard and CPU), and different versions of the compiler, which are known to have performance differences. Way to go.
Looking at the posted specs its looks like the same cpu (AMD Phenom II X3 710) for all tests - on a different motherboard though - wonder why...
Extra Credit is a great show about games and their development. I'm into game development myself and please, everyone who is too do as I - watch their shows. Think about what they have to say.
They also got a video about microtransactions and one about the skinner box. They don't talk about moral though. So here for those interested in the topic but to lazy to RTFA. Its a video, just lean back and watch. Kinda entertaining as well.
Their video's are currently hard to find because they got apart from their old home "the escapist" and the videos there all just 404.
Try snaked!
Its a materialistic, foss editor with python focus from python programmers for python programmers. You have to spend a little time getting used to it but wont regret it.
And yes, it does run on linux.
Probably the most important implication of AGPL is that it requires you to provide a way for your users to download the sources of the application. In fact Opa facilitates that by automatically enriching the server (in release mode) to serve the source code of the application at a special /_internal_/src_code URL.
But this is not the end of the story. We believe in free software (hence the AGPL license) but we also understand that it may not be very suitable for commercial users of Opa. Such users will be able to obtain a private license (paid). This will allow them to keep their sources closed if they wish to do so and will provide us with funds to further develop and improve Opa — win-win situation :). If you are interested in more details about obtaining such a license, do not hesitate to contact sales@mlstate.com, where we will try to answer all your questions (including pricing).
http://blog.opalang.org/2011/08/opa-license-contributions.html
Darn. :(
RIP
(3) The requirement for governments to terminate contracts with any businesses involved in breaches more than n number of times (actually, I'd prefer no public-private partnerships on IT work whatever, but simply requiring competent contractors would go a great way toward this).
Just make it n=0 and I agree with you.
n=0 might just mean they are unable to notice breaches.
After all that happened lately to Sony they might learn from it and soon be the ones with the most secure network... Maybe not.
Then they would had released the thing finished, not in an early beta. Especially so if they still are thinking of adding major features to get users to move from Facebook.
I've used google+ and it doesn't feel like a beta at all. Everything just worked as expected, the UI is great. And its the only out of the box working group video chat for Linux I know of. Plus some extra gimmicks like watching YouTube "together." It is correct that there isn't much you can do on google+ but does it need more "major features"? I've got no idea what they plan to do but what features could it need? Maybe some gardening game? Think of twitter, featurewise its near to nothing and still people spend hours on this site.
Google Talk was supposed to be replace existing IM networks.. That didn't really work out. The software was extremely limited. I don't know how it is now, but why should I or anyone else care.
To me - and luckily some of my friends - Google Talk is the best IM for *mobiles* out there. And so at least I do care.
Video here. Pretty amazing I agree.
its a trap.
There are some automated tools like skipfish . They help finding possible problems but can't replace the eyes of someone with security expertise looking over the code and setup.
Google Talk has a Voice & Video plugin for the three major platforms. It works right in the browser. You can even do video chat from an android tablet.
Also it works with non google clients like pidgin too.
I'm more interested in a -1 rating. It sucks when my search results are filled with useless crap, copies of the same question without an answer, malware sites, etc. I'd love to rate those down.
I would like a -1 as well. The number of +1 is not as meaningful as the ratio of negative/positive votes. They should have just reused the known thumbs used on youtube. For complains about useless crap there are other channels though:
For maleware and spam pages there is google's spam reporting page and if you're using chrome there is a plugin by google that adds a "report as spam" shortcut to any search result. As the plugin is trivial I am positive something similar exists for other brothers.
Also there is the feedback link on every search page and the option to hide domains that bug you most (see here).
Crack In Fukushima Structure May Be Leaking Radiation
I skimmed TFA and it seems the "may" was introduced by /. editors and not the evil "mainstream media". There is a leak and it is radioactive water that it is leaking. No maybe. Actually they already planned how to fix it , tried to do so and failed at it.
I believe that PSX4DROID hasn't respect all the rules [no GPL, no protected names or logo, no promotion of piracy] we respect, and the worst is the integrated link to ROM from their software... which is purely illegal.
source
Firefox 4 might not work, but generally yes: http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/03/16/yo-dawg/
Yes.
I played 100 rounds against the "veteran". End Score: 38 (wins) 35 (ties) 27 (computer). So can anyone get some statistically meaning out of that?