I'm not a kernel maintainer, but I built android cyanogenmod kernels/images recently(poorly documented/poorly supported TEGRA2!#$%#). Stating it was frustratingly wasteful of time would be an understatement. All this to say I can relate to the waste of time a broken build is.
I support Linus! If you can't take Linus' heat, stay out of the kitchen! f@#$ There should be zero tolerance for this kind of thing especially when there are mailing lists for discusson/clarification/peer-reviewing with other contributors, kernel maintenance guidelines and howtos.
I agree the right action to do is voting for a political party clearly stating it will pardon Snowden. Since I am Canadian, this doesn't apply for me, but perhaps the political parties in Canada can clearly position themselves in the defence of Digital Freedoms and Digital Privacy and state exactly what they will implement and in what timeframe before the election. It is time to take out this hypocrisy/discrepancy between government constitution and government action. Canadians can also apply pressure and influence to the Canadian government to encourage a pardon for Snowden. Other countries' citizens could also do the same. It's the same principle as AMNESTY International asking everyone to write a letter to free those that are imprisoned. The only difference is if I understand it correctly we are all "kind of imprisoned" with this global surveillance umbrella. I think this is an understatement, but I'll leave that up to the readers to figure it out.
If I were an American, I would have voted for Ron Paul because he clearly states being NON-INTERVENTIONIST. Ron Paul quoted Victor Hugo "You can stop an invasion of an army, but you cannot stop an invasion of ideas." It's from Victor Hugo's book "Histoire d'un crime". Ron Paul also recently stated Not only should RMS(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman) and RON PAUL should run a political party together, they should help Canadians with their BIG BROTHER problems too because CANADIANS ACTUALLY ARE GIVEN "MADE IN USA" equipment to do surveillance. I remember something of this mentioned in this book: Frost, Mike with Michel Gratton. Spyworld: Inside the Canadian and American Intelligence Establishments. Toronto: Doubleday, 1994.
There are people who care, historically nice guys finish last. I saw something of this mentioned recently with respect to how good kings were replaced by absolute kings which were replaced by other mechanisms to KEEP THE FAT COWS FAT. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUSctVPCCU) (http://mises.org/daily/4068) The message is clear. Don't trust government for the better good. You have to be among those being vigilant toward government. Sure I'm a late bloomer, but my eyes are opening and I am now lucid toward all the bullshit happening in Canada and abroad. I do hope/.'ers all do the same and enlighten others about this also. I didn't realize Abraham Lincoln signed off on taking away privacy and sanctioning interception of telegrams. It kind of makes the constitution feel like a piece of toilet paper, not just in the U.S. but also for the Canadian Constitution feels like a piece of toilet paper. That sounds like "KEEP THE FAT COWS FAT" just like Hans-Hermann Hoppe was implying "nice guys always finish last" and mechanisms like these guarantee it.
Bitcoin, the first world digital currency exists. Bitcoin will be the best match for getting things bought and sold anywhere on the internet and in the real world while preserving our digital freedoms and digital privacy. Bitcoin is decentralized. No single government may control it. There are service fees like traditional banks, but the manner in which these fees are distributed is very different and fairly distributed. It has every reason to succeed over the traditional currency exchange scheme.
MASTERCARD and VISA want to help the current super powers take away our digital freedoms and digital privacy by refusing to do business with VPN providers.
Boycott Mastercard and Visa. Stop doing business with VISA and MASTERCARD. Learn to use Bitcoin instead of VISA and MASTERCARD.
"Ideas and Discoveries" magazine brings up the idea "The Internet will become the new world SUPERPOWER" and "operates more effectively than America or China". Since no single government may control Bitcoin, Bitcoin is a good match with the new INTERNET SUPERPOWER because both do well at preserving digital freedoms and digital privacy especially because both are decentralized.
Firefox provides a consistent user experience on all hardware targets which ubuntu loves to emphasize. The best analogy I could give is this decision is like Canonical deciding to remove vi/emacs from the repository and announcing it will be using microsoft notepad as the default programmer's editor. Firefox has matured a great deal while chromium is still a little one in terms of age. Replacing X.org with wayland when X-Window has been around for 30 years and evolving/maturing is nonsensical. Wayland will be breaking all the time causing confusing and frustration for users. X is slow on tablets for the time being because ARM tablet hardware is still mind-blowingly slow.
Ubuntu screwing up their roadmap. DEBIAN's roadmap is stable. Debian Wheezy version rocks. I recommend Debian Wheezy to other consumers looking for a new PC/Laptop.
Simply having X and Firefox in the repository is not enough. By having the Linux userbase switch away to Android/Mir/Touch/ChromeOS, Canonical/Google are fragmenting the Linux User base even more and making it easier for takeover again by Apple/Microsoft/RIM. By using the same browser across all Linux flavors on all hardware targets, it would bring strength in numbers to convince others to give Linux a try because they are already familiar with Firefox on Windows. Any web browser segmentation provides more leverage to Microsoft and Apple which negatively impacts on the Linux/OSS appeal.
I think Canonical is doing this bold move is because they want to retaliate against Mozilla creating their own OS fork "FirefoxOs" for mobile targets which is a huge failure also by the way for the same fragmentation reasons. It also hints Canonical getting closer to Google's bed. Unless Canonical can easily provide binaries for all hardware targets like Cyanogen, FirefoxOS will fail. Ubuntu on mobile hardware is interesting because of their unofficial under-the-hood dependency to Cyanogenmod. It's funny however that Lildebi on Android compiles/runs Debian Linux on mobile ARM hardware. Full-blown native Debian on mobile hardware shouldn't be too far around the corner thanks to the Guardian project. Canonical isn't the only player on the mobile space and that's a good thing. It means if Canonical/Google make bad decisions and we don't like their direction mobile/desktop targets, we won't be locked into their systems. We already suffered enough vendor lock-in with Apple and Microsoft products throughout the American/Canadian Governments, I would hate to see another occurrence of that with the Canonical/Google brandname. Decisions need to be made as LINUX-flavor neutral on all hardware platforms in order to prevent this vendor lock-in from ever happening again.
Keep X/GNOME/KDE/Firefox/Thunderbird and don't mess with it. That's the current user base that made UBUNTU popular in the first place. Mess with that and people will move more quickly to the other Linux flavors if they haven't already. I like Ubuntu Firefox/Gnome/emacs, but I like Debian Wheezy even more now because at least they seem to be more consistent with their roadmap and don't impose changes on their userbase the way Canonical/Google do now.
A previous comment I made was marked down so low that it's hidden from view and worthless. Are forums here just a google/canonical propaganda machine when it's to their interest? I'm starting to understand slashdot/reddit are a hidden form of marketing spin and slashdot/reddit highlight opinions that promote a certain angle. If you don't agree with that point of view, you get marked down to obscurity and disappear. It does take away the concept of community if opinions are not viewed as equal and considered equally. I don't mind being marked down point-wise, but to be hidden into obscurity destroys the value of contributing an opinion to slashdot/reddit. Oddly enough Conde-Nast(HUGE MEDIA COMPANY) owns both reddit and slashdot which does solidify the idea that perhaps reddit and slashdot are just marketing spin instruments after all and that they negate/hide any consumer opinion
while you're at it, install the f-droid and lildebi android apps. This will permit to install full debian onto your cyanogen. After that you can install golang into your debian.
Touch apis provide more accessibility for: 1)for the younger kids who don't know how to type and 2)for the disabled
For that reason touch apis are definitely a value-add. I welcome that aspect.
Do be vigilant towards these new devices however. Don't simply buy them. Make sure they support installing Desktop Linux on them up front before buying them. Hound the manufacturers with the question: "Do you support installing other operating systems such as Linux Desktop OS on this device?"
Manufacturers have been diverting the general public's attention away from the fact that they are locking down the hardware preventing owners from completely controlling their device by changing it to run different operating system. RIM, APPLE, SONY are well-known culprits.
Running Linux on Android is not the answer for everyone to preserve their digital freedoms. Running the genuine GNU/Linux natively on all of these devices is the answer.
Don't be fooled by this Device lockdown. I don't care if you like Windows RT or iPhone OS or Playbook OS? Run them to your hearts content, but the manufacturers should allow device owners to install/multiboot to different os' of their liking along with the digital freedom to install software from unofficial repositories regardless of the OS. RIM(Playbook), APPLE(ipod/iphones), SONY(PS3), MS' XBOX are well-known culprits.
The buyers are in control and should be demanding their digital freedoms or taking their money elsewhere to regain their digital freedoms again. Just make sure you don't sacrifice your digital freedoms when you buy your trendy new touch device.
Google App Engine rocks and supports many languages. You highlighted Java and I do believe Java was one of their first supported languages for App Engine. Google is open-source with their api and infrastructure. I'm not sure where you feel they are proprietary, but they are the most open-source company I have experienced. In fact, I have recently examined the Google App Engine docs and found them enjoyable and easy-to-use and especially with Google's new Go language support api. Everything about golang is free and open-source. It compiles on your ubuntu box if you have one and then you develop the app locally on the ubuntu box. How much more open-source do you need?
The scaleability is the fact that when you push the app to the google infrastructure all the scalability is handled transparently by Google. It keeps you focused on the problem rather than tripping your feet like you are still deciding what tools to use and what companies to collaborate with.
Cool circumvention technique! Hats off to you. Another way is to bring up terminal in the dash. Fire up "sudo bash" and "synaptic" and click its search button all you apps to install this way.
Typing stuff in dash could be a way for us to have ubuntu notice what we really want.
i.e. "Ubuntu desktop on the phone NOT Ubuntu Phone" "Ubuntu Desktop on Advent Vega NOT on Android" "Ubuntu Desktop on All ARM Devices" "I prefer Ubuntu Desktop on intel/amd devices. Ubuntu Desktop on ARM still sucks and isn't widely available." "I will never buy an Ubuntu Phone." "I would definitely buy a phone with just Ubuntu Desktop on it." "I don't want to buy another device simply to get Ubuntu running on it." "I already have crappy android on two mobile devices at home and I want Ubuntu desktop on them NOT Ubuntu on Android because it is too slow." "Stop invading my privacy!"
I'm sure others have thought of taking a look at the dash source code and find the api that makes the sending of the keystrokes and "#define" it as a null/nop function or send political requests repeatedly, but that's unproductive. I'm going to resort to the sudo bash/synaptic option. By doing so, it means I don't abandon Ubuntu because I like everything else about Ubuntu except this DASH thingy. It's not such a big deal for me, but it is as annoying as flash's firefox plugin history being saved elsewhere and not being erased when you clear your firefox history.
Many programmers who can code SLOCs very quickly, but the code is unmaintainable. Code maturity happens when a piece of code no longer gets change requests. When that piece of code however is buggy and built too quickly, it may seem to work at first glance to managers and makes the managers look good, but that same undeliberate piece of code will come back to nip them in the butt for 2 reasons: not properly documented leaving unmaintainable if there is turnover(which there will be inevitably) and secondly the guy who wrote it the first time is going to waste a great deal of time looking for a bug/scenario he didn't plan for in the first place.
Code maturity demonstrates itself over time. If over the years that pass by, a piece of code doesn't get changed and the system is still running then you can confidently label that piece as mature.
A great programmer is a programmer who can write mature code the first time. The problem is managers in this era don't give a fuck because they have their heads focused on short-term gain so will probably fire mature-minded coders who aren't to keen to produce and checkin code often and quickly.
All this is to say that I don't believe in measuring a programmer by the SLOCs and time to complete a REAL-WORLD piece of code. Start your own consulting company, if you have the confidence that your skills are good enough and that you can prove it with practical REAL-WORLD solutions that nobody else has thought of creating. If you haven't yet, then at least have confidence in yourself and keep the dream alive and still start your own consulting company while doing another sideline job that doesn't eat up your whole daytime schedule.
For those of you focused solely on hiring SLOC-gods, go SLOC-off you dinosaurs.
Do you remember the wikileak video of the reporters that were killed by soldiers? The two court systems military and civil could not provide justice for those killed reporters. In my humble opinion, not unveiling this video is betrayal and treason. Any professional soldier would agree a gun doesn't get pointed/unlocked/fired unless an unknown actually fires and that particular unknown is tagged as hostile from then on, but not before. Without the unveiling of that video, it was both military and the civil court committing treason towards those killed reporters by remaining silent about the event displaying clearly unprofessional conduct unbecoming of a soldier representing his country in a foreign land. It goes without saying a professional soldier has the burden of unlimited liability on himself which is most honourable, but in the heat of the moment when an entire team is on duty there needs to be at least one lucid and observant head screaming for evidence of hostile behaviour before calling for fire. It goes without saying soldiers are humans too and they need their rest just like the rest of us otherwise they make bad decisions like other humans. That video demonstrates evidence that everyone in that particular team hadn't gotten much rest and were running on auto-pilot and the auto-pilot was somehow stuck in kill-mode when they saw unknowns on that day.
It's all easy for me to say this because I'm not a soldier, but I have great deal of respect for the professional soldier from any country because they all abide by the same international convention with respect to code of conduct. The flip-side of the coin is accountability and transparency aren't around because anyone who stands on this argument seems to get shot or thrown away to shame. Government and soldiers seem to value secrecy more because it gives them carte-blanche to spend money on anything whenever they want claiming it's for the better good of the country.
Spending everywhere should be tightly monitored and everything should be tightly justified from an ensemble of people and not just a few easily corruptible individuals anymore. Everyone has a part to play to try to understand how corruption works and to find new and creative ways to mitigate corruption. "Government secrecy for the public good" needs to be replaced with more transparency coming from different sources and not just an official government sources. TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD should be the new motto. TAX FAIRNESS should be the new motto everywhere, no more TAX-FREE LOOPHOLES, no more TAX-HAVENS. Wikileaks is a crystallisation of a catalyst concept towards this new "TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD" whose positive impact aims for nothing less than a better future for everyone on the planet and not just the (obscenely wealthy)1%.
We all owe a great deal for all the efforts Bradley Manning and Julian Assange and all the anonymous players for everything they have done.
I beg to differ. It's not up to just beancounters and lawyers to find loopholes, they're on the inside of this. THAT's part the of problem because they make the tax laws.
It's up to everyone to be vigilant and recommend mechanisms to identify and discourage loopholes. These tax haven users should pay the same taxes. To make the tax system even more fair, for every transaction where revenue is made, that revenue should be taxed and paid to the government where the selling company resides right away. Usage-based taxing, just like they do for their clients using cash/interac/paypal/mastercard. There should be no exceptions/waivers/grandfather clauses for any individual or corporation or other kind of business entity. If the lawyers in the parliament/congress don't expedite quickly enough the public's request for tax fairness, then we should question whether these tax lawyers have the better good of the majority of the public at heart. We should then probably appoint other kinds of individuals to create/enforce laws for tax fairness in every country. WCIT could help with this considering all international communication is internet-based.
It's a coincidence that I just heard about a book called "Treasure Islands" by Nicholas Shaxson recently about tax havens. From what I understand, the book discusses tax havens impacting heavily on world politics and economies and have much to do with world's current economic problems. Here's a quote: "A fundamental building block of modern economic theory is transparency: Markets work best when two sides to a contract have access to equal information. Treasure Islands explores a system that works directly and aggressively against transparency. Offshore secrecy shifts control over information and the power that flows from it toward the insiders, helping them take the cream and use the system to shift the costs and risks onto the rest of society."
I have nothing but praise for AMD. The SABERTOOTH990FX motherboard 8GB RAM with the AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core CPU and the HIS 7970 graphics card rocks with UBUNTU 12.04/12.10. AMD also supports opencl very well with the AMDAPPSDK.
There are others here saying ARM is a competitor, but they are competing more in the GFLOPS/Watt market rather than pure GFLOPS. Nobody here mentioned the Loongson Godson 3A/3B cpu competing in the GFLOPS/Watt market, but they haven't arrived in North America yet mainly because of Intellectual Property reasons. Eventually they will arrive in North America.
From my standpoint, AMD does still have its loyal fanbase for desktops and servers which want respectable performance at a competitive price without caring about GFLOPS/watt. I got more bang for my buck when I bought the above configuration. I have confidence in AMD and will be buying other AMD-based motherboards/CPUS/Graphics in the future. I hope whatever AMD internal bickerings they have stay internal and that AMD keep on churning out great product as they have been. Keep in mind AMD, Intel and ARM all have their niche markets and that's why all of them will continue to thrive. AMD's R&D headaches are no surprise, all companies have headaches like these.
There are other reasons consumers/small business owners would also buy non-Intel architecture based systems. For example having different hardware helps to have a better security because if there is an Intel-based virus flying around and it hits a Loongson/MIPS/ARM cpu for example, it will have less probability to propagate. Keeping that perspective there is more of a COOPETITION going on because we need the varieties of CPUs in order to provide better security. The complexity of hardware helps elevate the level of security. There is effort involved with learning all these different hardware chipsets and their intricacies. Security is everyone's concern and every consumer should be aware of this and buy accordingly. I look forward to seeing Loongson in the North American market simply because it will make things very interesting for all consumers and small businesses across the planet, but I'm still a loyal AMD consumer because I have been satisfied with their product for over 12+ years and that's nothing to sneeze at. Hats off to AMD.
My wife and I recently moved in with supportive older and less tech-knowledgeable couple helping us in our difficult unemployment situation. As part of the move we encountered the same problem of "the actual bandwidth profile wasn't close to the paid and expected Bandwidth profile" because the homeowners didn't know much about computers. The house has been for years actually performing at roughly 1.4Mbps download speed and.2~0.4Mbps upload speed when they paid for 2Mbps dl and.512Mbps upload.
Step 1)We checked with dslreports.com and speedtest.net, then called the ISP to rectify the problem. They reluctantly replied to the homeowners that they live in a legacy home area and that there was nothing they could do and then hung up. So the next time we called them with us present to discuss and further complain to improve the quality of service(QOS) considering all the years that they have been paying and not getting the expected QOS. They brought in a techie and discovered it was a squirrel that chewed through the lines and had the outside phone line replaced at no cost.
Also related ----------------- Step 2)It was obvious they were living with 1997-style Internet profiles so we suggested them to upgrade considering the number of people in the home using the internet. We are testing a 25Mbps download and 7 Mbps upload now. It was installed and wired to a new VDSL modem. There is only one VDSL line in the entire house which meant only one computer was directly wired to the new VDSL modem and getting the full 25Mbps. The other 3 devices were using wifi, but the bandwidth was trickling to the other devices because the new encryption defaults from the new VDSL modem make it so. The 3 wifi devices were getting 2Mbps download ~ 5Mbps download which is definitely lower than the QOS 25Mbps download as advertised. We called the ISP to mention that and their answer was that's how it works.
Step 3)Lowering the encryption standard to up the wifi speed is an option but it makes the wifi more vulnerable to wardriving. Tried it but the QOS was still below the threshold. I decided to download new drivers for the the wifi dongles I had. It helped but it was still performing below the QOS.
Step 4)Considering buying a better quality router which does better-performing wifi encryption, but not at the expense of the expected QOS. We haven't done this yet because haven't read any comparison on VDSL routers discussing wifi encryption performance yet.
Step 5)Wired the devices physically where I could using "Fishing Line" to pass it through the hard to reach places. Masking tape and some 30feet thin rope was used to place the ethernet cable in the house. The "Fishing Line" cost 20$. NOW there are 2 devices in the house running at the full QOS 25Mbps dl / 7Mbps ul profile. The other devices have to make do until we find better wifi encryption hardware.
No matter kind of comment this FORMER google exec says, google's search engine will always be my first place to search. These other sites have their complementary values when associated with search engines to get there in the first place, but these facebook, twitter, tumblr sites serve entirely different purposes. Google's search engine is broader in search than simply going to facebook for example. If you simply use facebook, you won't find anything outside of the facebook's walled-garden because that's the way they market it. When you're looking under every rock for something, you don't want to limit yourself to just facebook or just twitter or just tumblr. Facebook/twitter/tumblr impose people to login before viewing any of the public content which is inconvenient. These sites are selfish as they are walled-gardens forcing people to register accounts with them before content is released through the internet. Slashdot on the other hand has a different approach. Everyone may view slashdot content that they found from google's search engine without logging into slashdot. Which makes it available to all on the internet and not just slashdotters. Slashdot is a pseudo-walled garden because you need to register an account to post comments. Privacy and anonymity are account options. Paying money to slashdot as a premium subscriber does ensure access to the most recent update articles which don't go public for something like 24 hours. It's an edge if you're desperate to have that edge. That edge means google's search engine doesn't see premium stuff for last 24 hours if I understood correctly. Information found on facebook/twitter/tumblr cannot be worth more than information found on any other web sites to the extent that it's worth BILLIONS$$$. Google itself is priceless and almost universally accessible because it has links to every website bringing value to every website in a sense of coopetition.
In response to Mr. Masie: "Those things have a better result because the penetration, the personalization associated with it, and the constant freshness of the content. So I believe that Google's search volume – the business Google is in on the search side – that business is shrinking. "
IMHO I believe he is wrong. Google's business will not shrink. It will ever expand due to the nature of web search engines infinitely finding web pages wherever they may be, on public web sites, pseudo-walled-gardens and all-out walled-garden web sites. The bottom-line is walled-gardens(facebook, twitter, tumblr) will never replace traditional search engines, but the traditional search engines will get smarter in terms of how they pass-thru the walled-gardens in order to deliver on their promise: indexing the entire web and making it available on as many devices as possible.
I went to Mr. Geist's web site, but I didn't find any "Don't extend copyright" template letter .
I would recommend to find a copy of the Kopimi document and send it to consultations@international.gc.ca as a template response and in support to not extend copyright.
It has the tegra 2 chipset with 3D capability. If a high-resolution webcam isn't your priority, then give the Advent Vega a try with the latest VEGACOMB ROM. Doing this certainly emphasizes the tegra's 3D capability. Here is a clear walkthru as to update the rom for it to Honeycomb 3.2 on the Advent Vega(AKA P10AN01) == VEGACOMB: http://www.tabletroms.com/forums/vega-rom-development/3544-walkthru-latest-vegacomb.html You need a USB Type A Male to Type A Male cable in order to install the ModdedStockRom V2. To save time, you need Windows XP with the Advent Vega usb drivers. Following this recipe if done correctly will bring you to VEGACOMB 3.2 update 3 in around 30 minutes to 45 minutes.
I also recommend you get the Advent Vega Docking station while you're at. I regret not getting it at first because it saves time connecting the tablet to the dock instead of to all sorts of cables for tv and usb.
We rely on the fact that CarrierIQ staff are reliable, trustworthy, vigilant and proactive. In that manner the CarrierIQ System will benefit everyone, not just the government.
Recently a man I knew passed away from a heart attack while attempting to make a 911 emergency call. He managed to dial "9" and "1", but not the final "1". The CarrierIQ system could have detected this and proactively alerted the relevant authorities. The CarrierIQ system is passively relaying data to the overseeing security/police authorities anyways so it is reasonable to request they modify the CarrierIQ system to proactively identify probable emergency scenarioes and help bring aid as soon as possible. Phones could have built-in sensors to activate and confirm the emergency scenario in order to prevent wasted resources from mobilizing.
Of course CarrierIQ has a lot of room for corruption and abuse. That's why these systems need transparency and accountability and other checks and balances. One thing is certain: the general public should pay more attention to CarrierIQ because it is so highly intrusive into our private lives.
Ubuntu is Linux just as much as any flavor. I've been installing and running with Ubuntu since roughly 2004.(dapper or breezy). Sure I've had issues at times with certain things, but there hasn't been an instance where I couldn't find something someone else actually resolved before I could get my hands dirty. The Launchpad and associated Ubuntu knowledge base have always come through for me. I love Debian too. But give credit where credit is due. Ubuntu has gotten snappier over time when using the same hardware. NOTICEABLY SNAPPIER. HATS OFF TO UBUNTU.
To those other guys trolling here and bad-talking ubuntu, you should be grateful the Ubuntu flavor exists as an OS alternative to try and run with. It certainly doesn't stop you from installing and running other Linux flavors.
When I purchase a new box, the first thing I'm going to do is to install the latest version of Ubuntu, and give unity a whirl. If I don't like it, I'll resort to the GNOME GUI. But if they removed my GNOME choice of gui, I'll have to resort to Debian which is fine too. I'm grateful for all these alternatives that are not MS-WINDOWS because the world needs them. All of you should be grateful for this Linux variety too.
Android has its place for Mobile Internet Device Tablets and that is Android's niche market. Full-capability Linux is the best place to be for everything at home and the office. Having Android x86 for x86-based MID's is ok, but GFLOPS/WATT rankings are yet to be seen on x86 and ARM MID's. If that happens, people will want full-capability Linux and not some restrained version of it such as Android. I find the full-screen touch menus on 5 inch display ok, but on 10 inch Android devices it seems cumbersome and immature because of the pure fact that they take up the entire touch screen real estate when they appear. That isn't necessary. People don't have 10 inch thumbs or at least not yet. The display screens are large enough, but the menus seem targeted for the smaller PIM devices. Work needs to be done to simply bring touch to full-capability Linux and make the menu/button sizes scale proportionally to bigger and smaller touch displays similar to the JAVA's GridBagLayout container and XWindow/X.org/GTK's container xoptions/yoptions to stretch different widgets proportionally to the size of the window. Window managers can work on bigger touch displays. It would be nice that Android could give the option to run the gnome/kde/unity window managers once the bigger displays are detected. If Android integrates gnome/kde/unity, odds are Android will also dominate the desktop for every supported architecture eventually. Android could simply be the consolidated (FEDORA/DEBIAN/UBUNTU) name-brand for the different Linux flavors. It would be easier to keep the Android Devices updated if they were using the repository update tools that already existed. Why it's not already in place is political I'm certain, but common-sense dictates this capability will happen whether the telecom companies like it or not. DIGITAL FREEDOM to the user. These devices currently have enough RAM and storage to be able to handle these capabilities.
Multi-core mobile tablets will continue grow with more cores. I don't believe it will simply replace the desktop though. Desktops with all their accessories and hardware upgradability are KING for the Do-it-yourself crowd.
Ditto for MEEGO...they should scale up and include window managers if they envision Meego/touch/scalable window managers on every device.
One must always be vigilant when the media-tainment industry is concerned. I won't be buying any of these integrated tv's with set-top boxes and dvr's anytime soon. The media-tainment industry is doing there best to remove our digital freedoms to record stuff and to prevent consumers to transfer their media easily to other devices that they don't manufacture or have no control over.
I won't be purchasing any "integrated TV" and I wouldn't recommend anyone to purchase them either if the media consumer is concerned about their digital freedoms.
Perhaps they make a few decisions some of us users may not like, but you have choices to make. You can change the source code yourself. You can report bugs to the development team telling them what you don't like. You can change distros. You can remain grateful for all that is in Ubuntu Linux and criticize constructively.
Apple product are slick, I admit, but at a price many of us can't afford and with digital restrictions included. Windows products well....I constantly hear about people nagging about viruses on their Windows boxes and wasting all their time. One thing is certain. I don't waste my time fixing their computers because it's a lost cause. Their computers will successfully get infected again.
I prefer to simply say: "I use Ubuntu Linux on my computer and it certainly helps me to prevent getting viruses on my computer. If you would ever want to try it or take a look at it, let me know."
Besides these days, I don't perceive myself as using Ubuntu, but living the way of Ubuntu. It's a choice of lifestyle, but it's not forced upon anybody else. When people are ready to listen, they'll ask for advice. I've learned to avoid giving advice unless it is asked for and especially when concerning lifestyle choices. People will ask for advice when they are ready for it, but not sooner.
I can understand Slashdot mentioning this hack attack on Canadian Government. Mentioning it pays respect and shows appreciation for the Chinese l33t hacker skills required to pull something like this off.
But having others in this troll bad mouthing Chinese people and spreading "anti-CN spin" is not appropriate. Try living in China as a programmer with all their culture and their social status situation for a year. From what I understand, the average monthly salary for a java programmer ranges from 2000RMB to 4000RMB. Now roughly divide that by 6 to see that in US or Canadian dollars(they are almost at par these days). 333.33$ to 666.67$ A MONTH. So as a moonlighting job or a day job, if someone offered you some bonus money for doing something "cool" for individual profit-motivated reasons and not nationalistic reasons, there is a definite temptation if you want to be able to afford a house(>300,000RMB) or a car(>150,000RMB) especially when you are a single programmer still living at home with your family because that is the tradition unless you are migrant worker coming in from extreme poverty which fires up the temptation these kinds of jobs even more.
I'm not justifying the hacking, but I can certainly appreciate the Chinese l33t's level of desperation to raise their social status and to raise they quality of life.
Essentially, like all other humans on this planet, they just want a job that provides them with dignity and with an acceptable level social status.
This is a tangent but it is related because of human dignity and acceptable level social status in Canada: Here in Canada we have unemployment insurance and social welfare, but many people would agree that it fails to provide citizens with dignity and certainly fails to provide citizens with an acceptable level of social status. Do you think people on welfare feel good about it? No, they would rather be given a real job opportunity that is good fit for them. The government's current action plan fails because the gov. treats people like numbers and sends them off generic template responses with no human feelings or empathy involved. The accountability isn't there either because the emails come from a generic "GOV CANADA" email and not from "Mrs. Smith from Action Plan Canada Downtown Toronto Office, with phone number 123.234.1234" to reach a real human to resolve an individual's job crisis at-hand. I find all of this Action Plan stuff false advertising and I would like my money back because it is tax payer money and I don't think I'm getting bang for my buck for UI/WELFARE/ACTION PLAN to be honest. As a result I would predict more of these events will occur not only from China but from within Canada as well.
If the court follows the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law, there's something wrong. The spirit of the law has to do with protecting the Canadian Consumer. The spirit of the law has less to do with protecting the existing old boys' market share.
Taken from the article: "Globalive, which is backed financially by Egyptian communications giant Orascom Telecom, was denied a licence in 2009 to operate by the federal telecommunications regulator(CRTC) on the grounds that it did not meet Canadian ownership requirements for phone companies. " I believe the Canadian citizens don't benefit from the increased competition when CRTC puts sticks in Globalive/Wind Mobile's wheels.
Again taken from the article: "Weeks later, the Harper government vetoed that decision, permitting Globalive to launch under the Wind Mobile brand. In about 14 months of operation, it has acquired more than 200,000 customers. " I believe the Harper government did the right thing when they gave Globalive/Wind Mobile the green light to go ahead. Hats off.
I believe the Federal Court’s move to overturn this decision recently seems to confirm the fact that CRTC and the Federal Court don't represent the Canadian Citizens interest at heart. I also believe the CRTC and the Federal Court are being overtly protective and keeping the lion's share of the telco/isp/mobile market for the existing old boys' club.
I also feel the CRTC should be ashamed with the recent performance record in failing to protect Canadian consumers against rising INTERNET/TELCO costs. I'm disappointed with the Federal Court siding with the CRTC decisions. Perhaps others might agree with me that it would be in Canada's best interests to dissolve the CRTC considering all the recent data with respect to usage-based billing and thwarting off foreign competitors. Both of these actions certainly don't prevent telco/isp/mobile fees from rising through the roof. China's consumers pay 80RMB(13$CAN)/month for GB 3G mobile 2GB(Usage-Based Billing) usage. 13$CAN may seem inexpensive it but is because you reach that cap easily before the end of one week if you use google maps with satellite view turned on. It's still very expensive. This proves UBB doesn't work elsewhere. China's consumers pay 166.67RMB(27.78$CA)/month for domestic internet ADSL unlimited usage 6Mbps download/1Mbps upload. It's excellent service and the price is much more competitive than in Canada. The average Chinese netizen is increasingly interested in QQ, baidu, sina, youku, blogs, p2p, and net games. All of which would be grounded to a halt if it weren't for China's wise flatrate/uncapped usage internet billing policy. It works well for everyone in general.
In Canada, we need more competition. In Canada, we need lower uncapped flatrate telco/internet/mobile rates not only to keep the Canadian tech community strong, but also to encourage more worldwide collaborative synergy, world interdependence, and ultimately world peace. Recent throttling/cutting of internet across borders certainly doesn't help us to get there either.
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I'm not a kernel maintainer, but I built android cyanogenmod kernels/images recently(poorly documented/poorly supported TEGRA2!#$%#). Stating it was frustratingly wasteful of time would be an understatement. All this to say I can relate to the waste of time a broken build is.
I support Linus! If you can't take Linus' heat, stay out of the kitchen! f@#$ There should be zero tolerance for this kind of thing especially when there are mailing lists for discusson/clarification/peer-reviewing with other contributors, kernel maintenance guidelines and howtos.
I agree the right action to do is voting for a political party clearly stating it will pardon Snowden. Since I am Canadian, this doesn't apply for me, but perhaps the political parties in Canada can clearly position themselves in the defence of Digital Freedoms and Digital Privacy and state exactly what they will implement and in what timeframe before the election. It is time to take out this hypocrisy/discrepancy between government constitution and government action. Canadians can also apply pressure and influence to the Canadian government to encourage a pardon for Snowden. Other countries' citizens could also do the same. It's the same principle as AMNESTY International asking everyone to write a letter to free those that are imprisoned. The only difference is if I understand it correctly we are all "kind of imprisoned" with this global surveillance umbrella. I think this is an understatement, but I'll leave that up to the readers to figure it out.
If I were an American, I would have voted for Ron Paul because he clearly states being NON-INTERVENTIONIST. Ron Paul quoted Victor Hugo "You can stop an invasion of an army, but you cannot stop an invasion of ideas." It's from Victor Hugo's book "Histoire d'un crime". Ron Paul also recently stated Not only should RMS(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman) and RON PAUL should run a political party together, they should help Canadians with their BIG BROTHER problems too because CANADIANS ACTUALLY ARE GIVEN "MADE IN USA" equipment to do surveillance. I remember something of this mentioned in this book: Frost, Mike with Michel Gratton. Spyworld: Inside the Canadian and American Intelligence Establishments. Toronto: Doubleday, 1994.
There are people who care, historically nice guys finish last. I saw something of this mentioned recently with respect to how good kings were replaced by absolute kings which were replaced by other mechanisms to KEEP THE FAT COWS FAT. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUSctVPCCU) (http://mises.org/daily/4068) The message is clear. Don't trust government for the better good. You have to be among those being vigilant toward government. Sure I'm a late bloomer, but my eyes are opening and I am now lucid toward all the bullshit happening in Canada and abroad. I do hope /.'ers all do the same and enlighten others about this also. I didn't realize Abraham Lincoln signed off on taking away privacy and sanctioning interception of telegrams. It kind of makes the constitution feel like a piece of toilet paper, not just in the U.S. but also for the Canadian Constitution feels like a piece of toilet paper. That sounds like "KEEP THE FAT COWS FAT" just like Hans-Hermann Hoppe was implying "nice guys always finish last" and mechanisms like these guarantee it.
Bitcoin, the first world digital currency exists. Bitcoin will be the best match for getting things bought and sold anywhere on the internet and in the real world while preserving our digital freedoms and digital privacy. Bitcoin is decentralized. No single government may control it. There are service fees like traditional banks, but the manner in which these fees are distributed is very different and fairly distributed. It has every reason to succeed over the traditional currency exchange scheme.
MASTERCARD and VISA want to help the current super powers take away our digital freedoms and digital privacy by refusing to do business with VPN providers.
Boycott Mastercard and Visa. Stop doing business with VISA and MASTERCARD.
Learn to use Bitcoin instead of VISA and MASTERCARD.
"Ideas and Discoveries" magazine brings up the idea "The Internet will become the new world SUPERPOWER" and "operates more effectively than America or China". Since no single government may control Bitcoin, Bitcoin is a good match with the new INTERNET SUPERPOWER because both do well at preserving digital freedoms and digital privacy especially because both are decentralized.
Where can I buy one of those "Organic copper threaded wool hats"?
Firefox provides a consistent user experience on all hardware targets which ubuntu loves to emphasize. The best analogy I could give is this decision is like Canonical deciding to remove vi/emacs from the repository and announcing it will be using microsoft notepad as the default programmer's editor. Firefox has matured a great deal while chromium is still a little one in terms of age. Replacing X.org with wayland when X-Window has been around for 30 years and evolving/maturing is nonsensical. Wayland will be breaking all the time causing confusing and frustration for users. X is slow on tablets for the time being because ARM tablet hardware is still mind-blowingly slow.
Ubuntu screwing up their roadmap. DEBIAN's roadmap is stable. Debian Wheezy version rocks. I recommend Debian Wheezy to other consumers looking for a new PC/Laptop.
Simply having X and Firefox in the repository is not enough. By having the Linux userbase switch away to Android/Mir/Touch/ChromeOS, Canonical/Google are fragmenting the Linux User base even more and making it easier for takeover again by Apple/Microsoft/RIM. By using the same browser across all Linux flavors on all hardware targets, it would bring strength in numbers to convince others to give Linux a try because they are already familiar with Firefox on Windows. Any web browser segmentation provides more leverage to Microsoft and Apple which negatively impacts on the Linux/OSS appeal.
I think Canonical is doing this bold move is because they want to retaliate against Mozilla creating their own OS fork "FirefoxOs" for mobile targets which is a huge failure also by the way for the same fragmentation reasons. It also hints Canonical getting closer to Google's bed. Unless Canonical can easily provide binaries for all hardware targets like Cyanogen, FirefoxOS will fail. Ubuntu on mobile hardware is interesting because of their unofficial under-the-hood dependency to Cyanogenmod. It's funny however that Lildebi on Android compiles/runs Debian Linux on mobile ARM hardware. Full-blown native Debian on mobile hardware shouldn't be too far around the corner thanks to the Guardian project. Canonical isn't the only player on the mobile space and that's a good thing. It means if Canonical/Google make bad decisions and we don't like their direction mobile/desktop targets, we won't be locked into their systems. We already suffered enough vendor lock-in with Apple and Microsoft products throughout the American/Canadian Governments, I would hate to see another occurrence of that with the Canonical/Google brandname. Decisions need to be made as LINUX-flavor neutral on all hardware platforms in order to prevent this vendor lock-in from ever happening again.
Keep X/GNOME/KDE/Firefox/Thunderbird and don't mess with it. That's the current user base that made UBUNTU popular in the first place. Mess with that and people will move more quickly to the other Linux flavors if they haven't already. I like Ubuntu Firefox/Gnome/emacs, but I like Debian Wheezy even more now because at least they seem to be more consistent with their roadmap and don't impose changes on their userbase the way Canonical/Google do now.
A previous comment I made was marked down so low that it's hidden from view and worthless. Are forums here just a google/canonical propaganda machine when it's to their interest? I'm starting to understand slashdot/reddit are a hidden form of marketing spin and slashdot/reddit highlight opinions that promote a certain angle. If you don't agree with that point of view, you get marked down to obscurity and disappear. It does take away the concept of community if opinions are not viewed as equal and considered equally. I don't mind being marked down point-wise, but to be hidden into obscurity destroys the value of contributing an opinion to slashdot/reddit. Oddly enough Conde-Nast(HUGE MEDIA COMPANY) owns both reddit and slashdot which does solidify the idea that perhaps reddit and slashdot are just marketing spin instruments after all and that they negate/hide any consumer opinion
while you're at it, install the f-droid and lildebi android apps. This will permit to install full debian onto your cyanogen. After that you can install golang into your debian.
Touch apis provide more accessibility for:
1)for the younger kids who don't know how to type and
2)for the disabled
For that reason touch apis are definitely a value-add. I welcome that aspect.
Do be vigilant towards these new devices however. Don't simply buy them. Make sure they support installing Desktop Linux on them up front before buying them. Hound the manufacturers with the question: "Do you support installing other operating systems such as Linux Desktop OS on this device?"
Manufacturers have been diverting the general public's attention away from the fact that they are locking down the hardware preventing owners from completely controlling their device by changing it to run different operating system. RIM, APPLE, SONY are well-known culprits.
Running Linux on Android is not the answer for everyone to preserve their digital freedoms.
Running the genuine GNU/Linux natively on all of these devices is the answer.
Don't be fooled by this Device lockdown. I don't care if you like Windows RT or iPhone OS or Playbook OS? Run them to your hearts content, but the manufacturers should allow device owners to install/multiboot to different os' of their liking along with the digital freedom to install software from unofficial repositories regardless of the OS. RIM(Playbook), APPLE(ipod/iphones), SONY(PS3), MS' XBOX are well-known culprits.
The buyers are in control and should be demanding their digital freedoms or taking their money elsewhere to regain their digital freedoms again.
Just make sure you don't sacrifice your digital freedoms when you buy your trendy new touch device.
Google App Engine rocks and supports many languages. You highlighted Java and I do believe Java was one of their first supported languages for App Engine.
Google is open-source with their api and infrastructure. I'm not sure where you feel they are proprietary, but they are the most open-source company I have experienced. In fact, I have recently examined the Google App Engine docs and found them enjoyable and easy-to-use and especially with Google's new Go language support api. Everything about golang is free and open-source. It compiles on your ubuntu box if you have one and then you develop the app locally on the ubuntu box. How much more open-source do you need?
The scaleability is the fact that when you push the app to the google infrastructure all the scalability is handled transparently by Google. It keeps you focused on the problem rather than tripping your feet like you are still deciding what tools to use and what companies to collaborate with.
Cool circumvention technique! Hats off to you. Another way is to bring up terminal in the dash. Fire up "sudo bash" and "synaptic" and click its search button all you apps to install this way.
Typing stuff in dash could be a way for us to have ubuntu notice what we really want.
i.e.
"Ubuntu desktop on the phone NOT Ubuntu Phone"
"Ubuntu Desktop on Advent Vega NOT on Android"
"Ubuntu Desktop on All ARM Devices"
"I prefer Ubuntu Desktop on intel/amd devices. Ubuntu Desktop on ARM still sucks and isn't widely available."
"I will never buy an Ubuntu Phone."
"I would definitely buy a phone with just Ubuntu Desktop on it."
"I don't want to buy another device simply to get Ubuntu running on it."
"I already have crappy android on two mobile devices at home and I want Ubuntu desktop on them NOT Ubuntu on Android because it is too slow."
"Stop invading my privacy!"
I'm sure others have thought of taking a look at the dash source code and find the api that makes the sending of the keystrokes and "#define" it as a null/nop function or send political requests repeatedly, but that's unproductive. I'm going to resort to the sudo bash/synaptic option. By doing so, it means I don't abandon Ubuntu because I like everything else about Ubuntu except this DASH thingy. It's not such a big deal for me, but it is as annoying as flash's firefox plugin history being saved elsewhere and not being erased when you clear your firefox history.
Many programmers who can code SLOCs very quickly, but the code is unmaintainable. Code maturity happens when a piece of code no longer gets change requests. When that piece of code however is buggy and built too quickly, it may seem to work at first glance to managers and makes the managers look good, but that same undeliberate piece of code will come back to nip them in the butt for 2 reasons: not properly documented leaving unmaintainable if there is turnover(which there will be inevitably) and secondly the guy who wrote it the first time is going to waste a great deal of time looking for a bug/scenario he didn't plan for in the first place.
Code maturity demonstrates itself over time. If over the years that pass by, a piece of code doesn't get changed and the system is still running then you can confidently label that piece as mature.
A great programmer is a programmer who can write mature code the first time. The problem is managers in this era don't give a fuck because they have their heads focused on short-term gain so will probably fire mature-minded coders who aren't to keen to produce and checkin code often and quickly.
All this is to say that I don't believe in measuring a programmer by the SLOCs and time to complete a REAL-WORLD piece of code. Start your own consulting company, if you have the confidence that your skills are good enough and that you can prove it with practical REAL-WORLD solutions that nobody else has thought of creating. If you haven't yet, then at least have confidence in yourself and keep the dream alive and still start your own consulting company while doing another sideline job that doesn't eat up your whole daytime schedule.
For those of you focused solely on hiring SLOC-gods, go SLOC-off you dinosaurs.
Do you remember the wikileak video of the reporters that were killed by soldiers? The two court systems military and civil could not provide justice for those killed reporters. In my humble opinion, not unveiling this video is betrayal and treason. Any professional soldier would agree a gun doesn't get pointed/unlocked/fired unless an unknown actually fires and that particular unknown is tagged as hostile from then on, but not before. Without the unveiling of that video, it was both military and the civil court committing treason towards those killed reporters by remaining silent about the event displaying clearly unprofessional conduct unbecoming of a soldier representing his country in a foreign land. It goes without saying a professional soldier has the burden of unlimited liability on himself which is most honourable, but in the heat of the moment when an entire team is on duty there needs to be at least one lucid and observant head screaming for evidence of hostile behaviour before calling for fire. It goes without saying soldiers are humans too and they need their rest just like the rest of us otherwise they make bad decisions like other humans. That video demonstrates evidence that everyone in that particular team hadn't gotten much rest and were running on auto-pilot and the auto-pilot was somehow stuck in kill-mode when they saw unknowns on that day.
It's all easy for me to say this because I'm not a soldier, but I have great deal of respect for the professional soldier from any country because they all abide by the same international convention with respect to code of conduct. The flip-side of the coin is accountability and transparency aren't around because anyone who stands on this argument seems to get shot or thrown away to shame. Government and soldiers seem to value secrecy more because it gives them carte-blanche to spend money on anything whenever they want claiming it's for the better good of the country.
Spending everywhere should be tightly monitored and everything should be tightly justified from an ensemble of people and not just a few easily corruptible individuals anymore. Everyone has a part to play to try to understand how corruption works and to find new and creative ways to mitigate corruption. "Government secrecy for the public good" needs to be replaced with more transparency coming from different sources and not just an official government sources. TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD should be the new motto. TAX FAIRNESS should be the new motto everywhere, no more TAX-FREE LOOPHOLES, no more TAX-HAVENS. Wikileaks is a crystallisation of a catalyst concept towards this new "TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD" whose positive impact aims for nothing less than a better future for everyone on the planet and not just the (obscenely wealthy)1%.
We all owe a great deal for all the efforts Bradley Manning and Julian Assange and all the anonymous players for everything they have done.
I beg to differ. It's not up to just beancounters and lawyers to find loopholes, they're on the inside of this. THAT's part the of problem because they make the tax laws.
It's up to everyone to be vigilant and recommend mechanisms to identify and discourage loopholes. These tax haven users should pay the same taxes. To make the tax system even more fair, for every transaction where revenue is made, that revenue should be taxed and paid to the government where the selling company resides right away. Usage-based taxing, just like they do for their clients using cash/interac/paypal/mastercard. There should be no exceptions/waivers/grandfather clauses for any individual or corporation or other kind of business entity. If the lawyers in the parliament/congress don't expedite quickly enough the public's request for tax fairness, then we should question whether these tax lawyers have the better good of the majority of the public at heart. We should then probably appoint other kinds of individuals to create/enforce laws for tax fairness in every country. WCIT could help with this considering all international communication is internet-based.
It's a coincidence that I just heard about a book called "Treasure Islands" by Nicholas Shaxson recently about tax havens. From what I understand, the book discusses tax havens impacting heavily on world politics and economies and have much to do with world's current economic problems. Here's a quote: "A fundamental building block of modern economic theory is transparency: Markets work best when two sides to a contract have access to equal information. Treasure Islands explores a system that works directly and aggressively against transparency. Offshore secrecy shifts control over information and the power that flows from it toward the insiders, helping them take the cream and use the system to shift the costs and risks onto the rest of society."
I have nothing but praise for AMD.
The SABERTOOTH990FX motherboard 8GB RAM with the AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core CPU and the HIS 7970 graphics card rocks with UBUNTU 12.04/12.10.
AMD also supports opencl very well with the AMDAPPSDK.
There are others here saying ARM is a competitor, but they are competing more in the GFLOPS/Watt market rather than pure GFLOPS. Nobody here mentioned the Loongson Godson 3A/3B cpu competing in the GFLOPS/Watt market, but they haven't arrived in North America yet mainly because of Intellectual Property reasons. Eventually they will arrive in North America.
From my standpoint, AMD does still have its loyal fanbase for desktops and servers which want respectable performance at a competitive price without caring about GFLOPS/watt. I got more bang for my buck when I bought the above configuration. I have confidence in AMD and will be buying other AMD-based motherboards/CPUS/Graphics in the future. I hope whatever AMD internal bickerings they have stay internal and that AMD keep on churning out great product as they have been. Keep in mind AMD, Intel and ARM all have their niche markets and that's why all of them will continue to thrive. AMD's R&D headaches are no surprise, all companies have headaches like these.
There are other reasons consumers/small business owners would also buy non-Intel architecture based systems. For example having different hardware helps to have a better security because if there is an Intel-based virus flying around and it hits a Loongson/MIPS/ARM cpu for example, it will have less probability to propagate. Keeping that perspective there is more of a COOPETITION going on because we need the varieties of CPUs in order to provide better security.
The complexity of hardware helps elevate the level of security. There is effort involved with learning all these different hardware chipsets and their intricacies.
Security is everyone's concern and every consumer should be aware of this and buy accordingly. I look forward to seeing Loongson in the North American market simply because it will make things very interesting for all consumers and small businesses across the planet, but I'm still a loyal AMD consumer because I have been satisfied with their product for over 12+ years and that's nothing to sneeze at. Hats off to AMD.
My wife and I recently moved in with supportive older and less tech-knowledgeable couple helping us in our difficult unemployment situation. As part of the move we encountered the same problem of "the actual bandwidth profile wasn't close to the paid and expected Bandwidth profile" because the homeowners didn't know much about computers. The house has been for years actually performing at roughly 1.4Mbps download speed and .2~0.4Mbps upload speed when they paid for 2Mbps dl and .512Mbps upload.
Step 1)We checked with dslreports.com and speedtest.net, then called the ISP to rectify the problem. They reluctantly replied to the homeowners that they live in a legacy home area and that there was nothing they could do and then hung up. So the next time we called them with us present to discuss and further complain to improve the quality of service(QOS) considering all the years that they have been paying and not getting the expected QOS. They brought in a techie and discovered it was a squirrel that chewed through the lines and had the outside phone line replaced at no cost.
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Step 2)It was obvious they were living with 1997-style Internet profiles so we suggested them to upgrade considering the number of people in the home using the internet. We are testing a 25Mbps download and 7 Mbps upload now. It was installed and wired to a new VDSL modem. There is only one VDSL line in the entire house which meant only one computer was directly wired to the new VDSL modem and getting the full 25Mbps. The other 3 devices were using wifi, but the bandwidth was trickling to the other devices because the new encryption defaults from the new VDSL modem make it so. The 3 wifi devices were getting 2Mbps download ~ 5Mbps download which is definitely lower than the QOS 25Mbps download as advertised. We called the ISP to mention that and their answer was that's how it works.
Step 3)Lowering the encryption standard to up the wifi speed is an option but it makes the wifi more vulnerable to wardriving. Tried it but the QOS was still below the threshold. I decided to download new drivers for the the wifi dongles I had. It helped but it was still performing below the QOS.
Step 4)Considering buying a better quality router which does better-performing wifi encryption, but not at the expense of the expected QOS. We haven't done this yet because haven't read any comparison on VDSL routers discussing wifi encryption performance yet.
Step 5)Wired the devices physically where I could using "Fishing Line" to pass it through the hard to reach places. Masking tape and some 30feet thin rope was used to place the ethernet cable in the house. The "Fishing Line" cost 20$. NOW there are 2 devices in the house running at the full QOS 25Mbps dl / 7Mbps ul profile. The other devices have to make do until we find better wifi encryption hardware.
No matter kind of comment this FORMER google exec says, google's search engine will always be my first place to search. These other sites have their complementary values when associated with search engines to get there in the first place, but these facebook, twitter, tumblr sites serve entirely different purposes. Google's search engine is broader in search than simply going to facebook for example. If you simply use facebook, you won't find anything outside of the facebook's walled-garden because that's the way they market it. When you're looking under every rock for something, you don't want to limit yourself to just facebook or just twitter or just tumblr. Facebook/twitter/tumblr impose people to login before viewing any of the public content which is inconvenient. These sites are selfish as they are walled-gardens forcing people to register accounts with them before content is released through the internet. Slashdot on the other hand has a different approach. Everyone may view slashdot content that they found from google's search engine without logging into slashdot. Which makes it available to all on the internet and not just slashdotters. Slashdot is a pseudo-walled garden because you need to register an account to post comments. Privacy and anonymity are account options. Paying money to slashdot as a premium subscriber does ensure access to the most recent update articles which don't go public for something like 24 hours. It's an edge if you're desperate to have that edge. That edge means google's search engine doesn't see premium stuff for last 24 hours if I understood correctly. Information found on facebook/twitter/tumblr cannot be worth more than information found on any other web sites to the extent that it's worth BILLIONS$$$. Google itself is priceless and almost universally accessible because it has links to every website bringing value to every website in a sense of coopetition.
In response to Mr. Masie: "Those things have a better result because the penetration, the personalization associated with it, and the constant freshness of the content. So I believe that Google's search volume – the business Google is in on the search side – that business is shrinking. "
IMHO I believe he is wrong. Google's business will not shrink. It will ever expand due to the nature of web search engines infinitely finding web pages wherever they may be, on public web sites, pseudo-walled-gardens and all-out walled-garden web sites. The bottom-line is walled-gardens(facebook, twitter, tumblr) will never replace traditional search engines, but the traditional search engines will get smarter in terms of how they pass-thru the walled-gardens in order to deliver on their promise: indexing the entire web and making it available on as many devices as possible.
I went to Mr. Geist's web site, but I didn't find any "Don't extend copyright" template letter .
I would recommend to find a copy of the Kopimi document and send it to consultations@international.gc.ca as a template response and in support to not extend copyright.
It has the tegra 2 chipset with 3D capability. If a high-resolution webcam isn't your priority, then give the Advent Vega a try with the latest VEGACOMB ROM. Doing this certainly emphasizes the tegra's 3D capability. Here is a clear walkthru as to update the rom for it to Honeycomb 3.2 on the Advent Vega(AKA P10AN01) == VEGACOMB:
http://www.tabletroms.com/forums/vega-rom-development/3544-walkthru-latest-vegacomb.html
You need a USB Type A Male to Type A Male cable in order to install the ModdedStockRom V2. To save time, you need Windows XP with the Advent Vega usb drivers. Following this recipe if done correctly will bring you to VEGACOMB 3.2 update 3 in around 30 minutes to 45 minutes.
I also recommend you get the Advent Vega Docking station while you're at. I regret not getting it at first because it saves time connecting the tablet to the dock instead of to all sorts of cables for tv and usb.
We rely on the fact that CarrierIQ staff are reliable, trustworthy, vigilant and proactive. In that manner the CarrierIQ System will benefit everyone, not just the government.
Recently a man I knew passed away from a heart attack while attempting to make a 911 emergency call. He managed to dial "9" and "1", but not the final "1". The CarrierIQ system could have detected this and proactively alerted the relevant authorities. The CarrierIQ system is passively relaying data to the overseeing security/police authorities anyways so it is reasonable to request they modify the CarrierIQ system to proactively identify probable emergency scenarioes and help bring aid as soon as possible. Phones could have built-in sensors to activate and confirm the emergency scenario in order to prevent wasted resources from mobilizing.
Of course CarrierIQ has a lot of room for corruption and abuse. That's why these systems need transparency and accountability and other checks and balances. One thing is certain: the general public should pay more attention to CarrierIQ because it is so highly intrusive into our private lives.
Hats off to Trevor Eckhart for being so vigilant.
Ubuntu is Linux just as much as any flavor. I've been installing and running with Ubuntu since roughly 2004.(dapper or breezy). Sure I've had issues at times with certain things, but there hasn't been an instance where I couldn't find something someone else actually resolved before I could get my hands dirty. The Launchpad and associated Ubuntu knowledge base have always come through for me. I love Debian too. But give credit where credit is due. Ubuntu has gotten snappier over time when using the same hardware. NOTICEABLY SNAPPIER. HATS OFF TO UBUNTU.
To those other guys trolling here and bad-talking ubuntu, you should be grateful the Ubuntu flavor exists as an OS alternative to try and run with. It certainly doesn't stop you from installing and running other Linux flavors.
When I purchase a new box, the first thing I'm going to do is to install the latest version of Ubuntu, and give unity a whirl. If I don't like it, I'll resort to the GNOME GUI. But if they removed my GNOME choice of gui, I'll have to resort to Debian which is fine too. I'm grateful for all these alternatives that are not MS-WINDOWS because the world needs them. All of you should be grateful for this Linux variety too.
Android has its place for Mobile Internet Device Tablets and that is Android's niche market. Full-capability Linux is the best place to be for everything at home and the office. Having Android x86 for x86-based MID's is ok, but GFLOPS/WATT rankings are yet to be seen on x86 and ARM MID's. If that happens, people will want full-capability Linux and not some restrained version of it such as Android. I find the full-screen touch menus on 5 inch display ok, but on 10 inch Android devices it seems cumbersome and immature because of the pure fact that they take up the entire touch screen real estate when they appear. That isn't necessary. People don't have 10 inch thumbs or at least not yet. The display screens are large enough, but the menus seem targeted for the smaller PIM devices. Work needs to be done to simply bring touch to full-capability Linux and make the menu/button sizes scale proportionally to bigger and smaller touch displays similar to the JAVA's GridBagLayout container and XWindow/X.org/GTK's container xoptions/yoptions to stretch different widgets proportionally to the size of the window. Window managers can work on bigger touch displays. It would be nice that Android could give the option to run the gnome/kde/unity window managers once the bigger displays are detected. If Android integrates gnome/kde/unity, odds are Android will also dominate the desktop for every supported architecture eventually. Android could simply be the consolidated (FEDORA/DEBIAN/UBUNTU) name-brand for the different Linux flavors. It would be easier to keep the Android Devices updated if they were using the repository update tools that already existed. Why it's not already in place is political I'm certain, but common-sense dictates this capability will happen whether the telecom companies like it or not. DIGITAL FREEDOM to the user. These devices currently have enough RAM and storage to be able to handle these capabilities.
Multi-core mobile tablets will continue grow with more cores. I don't believe it will simply replace the desktop though. Desktops with all their accessories and hardware upgradability are KING for the Do-it-yourself crowd.
Ditto for MEEGO...they should scale up and include window managers if they envision Meego/touch/scalable window managers on every device.
Cheers
One must always be vigilant when the media-tainment industry is concerned. I won't be buying any of these integrated tv's with set-top boxes and dvr's anytime soon. The media-tainment industry is doing there best to remove our digital freedoms to record stuff and to prevent consumers to transfer their media easily to other devices that they don't manufacture or have no control over.
I won't be purchasing any "integrated TV" and I wouldn't recommend anyone to purchase them either if the media consumer is concerned about their digital freedoms.
And I'm certain Debian still rocks too!
Perhaps they make a few decisions some of us users may not like, but you have choices to make. You can change the source code yourself. You can report bugs to the development team telling them what you don't like. You can change distros. You can remain grateful for all that is in Ubuntu Linux and criticize constructively.
Apple product are slick, I admit, but at a price many of us can't afford and with digital restrictions included.
Windows products well....I constantly hear about people nagging about viruses on their Windows boxes and wasting all their time. One thing is certain. I don't waste my time fixing their computers because it's a lost cause. Their computers will successfully get infected again.
I prefer to simply say:
"I use Ubuntu Linux on my computer and it certainly helps me to prevent getting viruses on my computer. If you would ever want to try it or take a look at it, let me know."
Besides these days, I don't perceive myself as using Ubuntu, but living the way of Ubuntu. It's a choice of lifestyle, but it's not forced upon anybody else. When people are ready to listen, they'll ask for advice. I've learned to avoid giving advice unless it is asked for and especially when concerning lifestyle choices.
People will ask for advice when they are ready for it, but not sooner.
Welcome back to the Dark Ages. LOL! April Fool's is just around the corner. Maybe this is a prank.
I can understand Slashdot mentioning this hack attack on Canadian Government.
Mentioning it pays respect and shows appreciation for the Chinese l33t hacker skills required to pull something like this off.
But having others in this troll bad mouthing Chinese people and spreading "anti-CN spin" is not appropriate.
Try living in China as a programmer with all their culture and their social status situation for a year. From what I understand, the average monthly salary for a java programmer ranges from 2000RMB to 4000RMB. Now roughly divide that by 6 to see that in US or Canadian dollars(they are almost at par these days).
333.33$ to 666.67$ A MONTH. So as a moonlighting job or a day job, if someone offered you some bonus money for doing something "cool" for individual profit-motivated reasons and not nationalistic reasons, there is a definite temptation if you want to be able to afford a house(>300,000RMB) or a car(>150,000RMB) especially when you are a single programmer still living at home with your family because that is the tradition unless you are migrant worker coming in from extreme poverty which fires up the temptation these kinds of jobs even more.
I'm not justifying the hacking, but I can certainly appreciate the Chinese l33t's level of desperation to raise their social status and to raise they quality of life.
Essentially, like all other humans on this planet, they just want a job that provides them with dignity and with an acceptable level social status.
This is a tangent but it is related because of human dignity and acceptable level social status in Canada: Here in Canada we have unemployment insurance and social welfare, but many people would agree that it fails to provide citizens with dignity and certainly fails to provide citizens with an acceptable level of social status. Do you think people on welfare feel good about it? No, they would rather be given a real job opportunity that is good fit for them. The government's current action plan fails because the gov. treats people like numbers and sends them off generic template responses with no human feelings or empathy involved. The accountability isn't there either because the emails come from a generic "GOV CANADA" email and not from "Mrs. Smith from Action Plan Canada Downtown Toronto Office, with phone number 123.234.1234" to reach a real human to resolve an individual's job crisis at-hand. I find all of this Action Plan stuff false advertising and I would like my money back because it is tax payer money and I don't think I'm getting bang for my buck for UI/WELFARE/ACTION PLAN to be honest. As a result I would predict more of these events will occur not only from China but from within Canada as well.
If the court follows the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law, there's something wrong. The spirit of the law has to do with protecting the Canadian Consumer. The spirit of the law has less to do with protecting the existing old boys' market share.
Taken from the article: "Globalive, which is backed financially by Egyptian communications giant Orascom Telecom, was denied a licence in 2009 to operate by
the federal telecommunications regulator(CRTC) on the grounds that it did not meet Canadian ownership requirements for phone companies. "
I believe the Canadian citizens don't benefit from the increased competition when CRTC puts sticks in Globalive/Wind Mobile's wheels.
Again taken from the article: "Weeks later, the Harper government vetoed that decision, permitting Globalive to launch under the Wind Mobile brand. In about 14 months of operation, it has acquired more than 200,000 customers. "
I believe the Harper government did the right thing when they gave Globalive/Wind Mobile the green light to go ahead. Hats off.
I believe the Federal Court’s move to overturn this decision recently seems to confirm the fact that CRTC and the Federal Court don't represent the Canadian Citizens interest at heart. I also believe the CRTC and the Federal Court are being overtly protective and keeping the lion's share of the telco/isp/mobile market for the existing old boys' club.
I also feel the CRTC should be ashamed with the recent performance record in failing to protect Canadian consumers against rising INTERNET/TELCO costs. I'm disappointed with the Federal Court siding with the CRTC decisions. Perhaps others might agree with me that it would be in Canada's best interests to dissolve the CRTC considering all the recent data with respect to usage-based billing and thwarting off foreign competitors. Both of these actions certainly don't prevent telco/isp/mobile fees from rising through the roof.
China's consumers pay 80RMB(13$CAN)/month for GB 3G mobile 2GB(Usage-Based Billing) usage. 13$CAN may seem inexpensive it but is because you reach that cap easily before the end of one week if you use google maps with satellite view turned on. It's still very expensive. This proves UBB doesn't work elsewhere.
China's consumers pay 166.67RMB(27.78$CA)/month for domestic internet ADSL unlimited usage 6Mbps download/1Mbps upload. It's excellent service and the price is much more competitive than in Canada. The average Chinese netizen is increasingly interested in QQ, baidu, sina, youku, blogs, p2p, and net games. All of which would be grounded to a halt if it weren't for China's wise flatrate/uncapped usage internet billing policy. It works well for everyone in general.
In Canada, we need more competition. In Canada, we need lower uncapped flatrate telco/internet/mobile rates not only to keep the Canadian tech community strong, but also to encourage more worldwide collaborative synergy, world interdependence, and ultimately world peace. Recent throttling/cutting of internet across borders certainly doesn't help us to get there either.