It is, when it involves them meddling in foreigners' affairs. What the USA do within their borders is largely between the government and the electorate. But this stinks a mile high.
Not to say that you may not well have experienced severe issues, but I have been running nightly versions since well before 3.6 and issues only came up a handful of times even with all experimental features enabled and a ton of extensions installed. Have you used an old profile with the beta or did you create a new one? This could be one possible (and easy to solve) cause for breakage and instability.
Certainly. But I'd rather have a not so great application now and wait for a touch-optimised version than not having the application at all. The underpinnings of GNOME and the other environments and toolkits are slowly getting reworked for touch interfaces. It takes time. The more people file bugs against touch-unfriendly applications (and participate in the development and testing;-) ) the faster it happens.
You should give the new versions a try. 9.04 and 9.10 were not exactly stellar, but 10.04 has worked quite good for me from the first nightlies. 10.10 looks promising, but I have only limited hands-on experince with it. Networking has been cleaned up extensibly, so it should work out of the box.
What is different from Maemo than Android, iOS, or WinPhone 7 (when released)?
Maemo - at least on the N900 - has a different target audience as the other ones you named. It is a full-blown Linux - apt-get and all. Many existing Linux applications can be run on it, with the hardware being the limiting factor. The downside is that the interface across applications is far from having the polish of iOS or even Android, and that there is little in terms of your 'typical' iPhone apps. The upside is that the platform is truly open and immensely powerful. You can ssh into your phone, you can run a full Apache server stack, you can run OpenOffice (or LibreOffice, for the Oracle haters) and so on. All the new libraries and technologies you see in current Linux distributions are - or will be - available on your phone, further closing the gap between your devices.
Maemo (or MeeGo, its successor) still has a long way to go until it will be as accessible to 'normal' users and as visually polished as, say, iOS. But it offers a powerful platform for more specialised needs.
At least here in Germany animals are not just property. Firefighters and other emergency services are under obligation to save animals if possible. I am not judging whether the animals could have been reasonably rescued under the circumstances, but I would want a court to look into the matter.
You may want to read the full article, not just the somewhat misleading summary. The place where the family lives does not have a fire dept. A nearby city offers a fire service for $75 pa. The guy did not pay, his house burned down, the fire dept. responded but did not put down the fire in his house. And rightly so. The only misdoing on their part that I can see is that they let animals die. That should indeed be brought before a court - not for the house owner's sake but for the animals'.
You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. Either you pay for public services - through taxes or through a voluntary insurance scheme - or you do not get them.
The NSDAP was about a socialist as the Disney corporation is today. That is not one fucking bit, in case you did not get the hint. The inner circle around Hitler did establish certain social institutions that are also found in socialism in some form, but the goal was never to create a socialist society. Read up on internal state and party doctrine. The colourful loony ramblings in Mein Kampf make for an entertaining read, but they are first and foremost PR material to be distributed amongst a poor uneducated electorate, not an authoritative account of what was really intended.
National defense serves to stabilise society by protecting from external threats. Social welfare serves to stabilise society by preventing people from losing their livelihood and going out to club some rich fucks to death over the chance in their pockets. Both are tools at the disposal of any political school and both will differ in their implementation depending on who uses them.
Besides, to counter your last sentence: Giving people things to ease artificial inequality between people is socialism. You assume the inequality has always been there, maybe for a reason, and socialism is trying to cheat those better off out of their advantage.
Summary also mentions it as being a transitional name. [...]
The OpenOffice.org trademark is owned by Oracle Corporation. Our hope is that Oracle will donate this to the Foundation, along with the other assets it holds in trust for the Community, in due course, once legal etc issues are resolved. However, we need to continue work in the meantime - hence "LibreOffice" ("free office").
I would be very cautious with such statements. We did not get rid of diseases by growing immune to them or by developing a natural defense, and we are not the only things on this planet that adopt to changes. We are dependent on our culture and way of living to keep our environment livable. Hygiene standards, medical treatment and a steady supply with fresh drinking water and food prevent widespread plagues in the industrial nations. Let that break down only for a few weeks on a national scale and we will quickly see how "unnatural" our selection really is.
Though the big panic of the 80s and 90s has calmed down, HIV is still killing scores in the First World. $deity help us all if it ever finds a way to spread over the air.
School canteens are funded through taxes (or tuition fees where charged) and the people who prepare and serve the food there receive wages. No communism there.
Communal eating places can occur in Communism but are not limited to it. Ancient Spartan society knew shared feasts where everyone contributed, but they were only accessible to a very limited demographic from the upper end of the social order and the funding for them was taken from slave labour. Many medieval communities are known to have had rudimentary "food banks" and other means of sharing food with needy members, and this tradition has carried over into modern societies, but I would not dare call this Communism. Leftist in the widest sense, yes. But not more.
No. Please read up on what constitutes Communism (and Socialism as well, for that matter, to prevent the next grave misjudgement). In a communist "restaurant", if something like this is even possible, there would not be any earnings to start with.
Tip pools would be seen as something social democrats would push here in Western Europe. Our Communists would have the restaurant burned down.
Nope. The reason is that all the easily accessible options for stupid people to unwittingly kill themselves in their every-day life are being legislated against.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
And it is still using the Flash video player. I would love to see YouPorn, all those Torrent sites and the rest of the 'evil' Internet switch to HTML 5. That would do wonders for adoption and put pressure on browser vendors.
With an open source GSM access point to go with your open source GSM stack you can create your own GSM network, both towers and handsets - if you can afford to ignore frequency spectrum regulations and and patent issues. Think developing countries that want to roll their own gear and not let foreign companies take their market. And GSM will be around for a long time. You would not believe what kinds of devices use it to communicate. Even if all handsets switched to UMTS today there should be sufficient demand to keep GSM alive, albeit not with today's coverage and probably with higher charges.
Execution cost. 64-bit applications can run slower than 32-bit applications. Pointers take twice as much space, which results in increased cache misses.
This strikes me as odd. Since I have yet to come back to platform-native programming I only have taken cursory interest in the innards of 64 bit systems. But one of the universally provided arguments in favour of switching is an increase in performance. Guess I will have to read up quite a lot before diving in again.:-)
In any case, would not the performance penalty of any 32 bit emulation or "compatibility mode" on 64 bit platforms cancel any theoretical advantage of staying with 32 bits?
Not that I think this game would hit any 32 bit architecture limitations, but why is there no 64 bit build for Windows provided? I have seen this with many projects. OpenOffice, Inkscape and Mozilla do this, Eclipse only recently began to offer all of its preassembled packages for both Windows platforms. Developers of proprietary consumer software, with the partial exception of Adobe, seem to be largely oblivious of the existance of 64 bit platforms, probably because switching will not reap them more cash. But why do OSS developers opt to ignore this platform? The Steam Hardware Survey has Windows 7 x64 at 28%, double that of its 32 bit version and following closely to the 32% of XP 32 bit. 64 bit is not any more the domain of nerds or early adopters, it is becoming the dominating platform in the Windows ecosystem.
So my question is: Why is it ignored? Would it really be hard to provide 64 bit builds? Would this require a lot of additional development work?
[...] Not that it matters, though. I could never really understand why someone wanted to make a GNU/Linux distribution as attractive to the mainstream as possible. [...]
Higher Linux market share = more incentive for hardware and software vendors to produce Linux compatible applications and release Linux drivers (or at least specs) for their devices. You do not have to use the "dumbed down" distro yourself to profit from its success.
[...] BSD makes it easier to actually write that software in the first place.
Could you please elaborate on this? The use of third-party code aside, the choice of a license does not influence the creation of a software in any way that I can see. Licenses only come into play after the software is written, when it is distributed to someone other than the creator.
Ah, I see I picked up a dedicated follower in the APK thread. Btw, it is sufficient to insult me once per each of my posts. You do not have to make those hate posts in scores to simulate widespread opposition to ramblings.
Still the money would go to the copyright holders first, who then distribute it amongst those parties they hold contracts with. When I buy an audio CD today I do not pay €.50 to the band, € 3 to the store and € 14.50 to the studio/publisher, I pay € 18 to the store which pays € X to its distributor which pays € X to the relevant collecting society which splits those € X into shares for the studio, the artist(s) and other parties. The artists do not have a contract with me.
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It is, when it involves them meddling in foreigners' affairs. What the USA do within their borders is largely between the government and the electorate. But this stinks a mile high.
Not to say that you may not well have experienced severe issues, but I have been running nightly versions since well before 3.6 and issues only came up a handful of times even with all experimental features enabled and a ton of extensions installed. Have you used an old profile with the beta or did you create a new one? This could be one possible (and easy to solve) cause for breakage and instability.
Certainly. But I'd rather have a not so great application now and wait for a touch-optimised version than not having the application at all. The underpinnings of GNOME and the other environments and toolkits are slowly getting reworked for touch interfaces. It takes time. The more people file bugs against touch-unfriendly applications (and participate in the development and testing ;-) ) the faster it happens.
You should give the new versions a try. 9.04 and 9.10 were not exactly stellar, but 10.04 has worked quite good for me from the first nightlies. 10.10 looks promising, but I have only limited hands-on experince with it. Networking has been cleaned up extensibly, so it should work out of the box.
What is different from Maemo than Android, iOS, or WinPhone 7 (when released)?
Maemo - at least on the N900 - has a different target audience as the other ones you named. It is a full-blown Linux - apt-get and all. Many existing Linux applications can be run on it, with the hardware being the limiting factor. The downside is that the interface across applications is far from having the polish of iOS or even Android, and that there is little in terms of your 'typical' iPhone apps. The upside is that the platform is truly open and immensely powerful. You can ssh into your phone, you can run a full Apache server stack, you can run OpenOffice (or LibreOffice, for the Oracle haters) and so on. All the new libraries and technologies you see in current Linux distributions are - or will be - available on your phone, further closing the gap between your devices.
Maemo (or MeeGo, its successor) still has a long way to go until it will be as accessible to 'normal' users and as visually polished as, say, iOS. But it offers a powerful platform for more specialised needs.
At least here in Germany animals are not just property. Firefighters and other emergency services are under obligation to save animals if possible. I am not judging whether the animals could have been reasonably rescued under the circumstances, but I would want a court to look into the matter.
You may want to read the full article, not just the somewhat misleading summary. The place where the family lives does not have a fire dept. A nearby city offers a fire service for $75 pa. The guy did not pay, his house burned down, the fire dept. responded but did not put down the fire in his house. And rightly so. The only misdoing on their part that I can see is that they let animals die. That should indeed be brought before a court - not for the house owner's sake but for the animals'.
You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. Either you pay for public services - through taxes or through a voluntary insurance scheme - or you do not get them.
[...] zeros and ones represents a flow of information, digital communication and modern media [...] ...signifying nothing.
Hey, it's Fox News!
The NSDAP was about a socialist as the Disney corporation is today. That is not one fucking bit, in case you did not get the hint. The inner circle around Hitler did establish certain social institutions that are also found in socialism in some form, but the goal was never to create a socialist society. Read up on internal state and party doctrine. The colourful loony ramblings in Mein Kampf make for an entertaining read, but they are first and foremost PR material to be distributed amongst a poor uneducated electorate, not an authoritative account of what was really intended.
National defense serves to stabilise society by protecting from external threats. Social welfare serves to stabilise society by preventing people from losing their livelihood and going out to club some rich fucks to death over the chance in their pockets. Both are tools at the disposal of any political school and both will differ in their implementation depending on who uses them.
Besides, to counter your last sentence: Giving people things to ease artificial inequality between people is socialism. You assume the inequality has always been there, maybe for a reason, and socialism is trying to cheat those better off out of their advantage.
Summary also mentions it as being a transitional name. [...]
The OpenOffice.org trademark is owned by Oracle Corporation. Our hope is that Oracle will donate this to the Foundation, along with the other assets it holds in trust for the Community, in due course, once legal etc issues are resolved. However, we need to continue work in the meantime - hence "LibreOffice" ("free office").
From the FAQ.
I would be very cautious with such statements. We did not get rid of diseases by growing immune to them or by developing a natural defense, and we are not the only things on this planet that adopt to changes. We are dependent on our culture and way of living to keep our environment livable. Hygiene standards, medical treatment and a steady supply with fresh drinking water and food prevent widespread plagues in the industrial nations. Let that break down only for a few weeks on a national scale and we will quickly see how "unnatural" our selection really is.
Though the big panic of the 80s and 90s has calmed down, HIV is still killing scores in the First World. $deity help us all if it ever finds a way to spread over the air.
[...] Facebook, after ~5 years, has 500 million users [...]
...of which currently 14 are relevant to me. Do not mistake size for usefulness.
School canteens are funded through taxes (or tuition fees where charged) and the people who prepare and serve the food there receive wages. No communism there.
Communal eating places can occur in Communism but are not limited to it. Ancient Spartan society knew shared feasts where everyone contributed, but they were only accessible to a very limited demographic from the upper end of the social order and the funding for them was taken from slave labour. Many medieval communities are known to have had rudimentary "food banks" and other means of sharing food with needy members, and this tradition has carried over into modern societies, but I would not dare call this Communism. Leftist in the widest sense, yes. But not more.
No. Please read up on what constitutes Communism (and Socialism as well, for that matter, to prevent the next grave misjudgement). In a communist "restaurant", if something like this is even possible, there would not be any earnings to start with.
Tip pools would be seen as something social democrats would push here in Western Europe. Our Communists would have the restaurant burned down.
Nope. The reason is that all the easily accessible options for stupid people to unwittingly kill themselves in their every-day life are being legislated against.
Damn it, you actually had me check upon that.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
And it is still using the Flash video player. I would love to see YouPorn, all those Torrent sites and the rest of the 'evil' Internet switch to HTML 5. That would do wonders for adoption and put pressure on browser vendors.
No, APK said his one is 14 MB in size.
With an open source GSM access point to go with your open source GSM stack you can create your own GSM network, both towers and handsets - if you can afford to ignore frequency spectrum regulations and and patent issues. Think developing countries that want to roll their own gear and not let foreign companies take their market. And GSM will be around for a long time. You would not believe what kinds of devices use it to communicate. Even if all handsets switched to UMTS today there should be sufficient demand to keep GSM alive, albeit not with today's coverage and probably with higher charges.
Execution cost. 64-bit applications can run slower than 32-bit applications. Pointers take twice as much space, which results in increased cache misses.
This strikes me as odd. Since I have yet to come back to platform-native programming I only have taken cursory interest in the innards of 64 bit systems. But one of the universally provided arguments in favour of switching is an increase in performance. Guess I will have to read up quite a lot before diving in again. :-)
In any case, would not the performance penalty of any 32 bit emulation or "compatibility mode" on 64 bit platforms cancel any theoretical advantage of staying with 32 bits?
Not that I think this game would hit any 32 bit architecture limitations, but why is there no 64 bit build for Windows provided? I have seen this with many projects. OpenOffice, Inkscape and Mozilla do this, Eclipse only recently began to offer all of its preassembled packages for both Windows platforms. Developers of proprietary consumer software, with the partial exception of Adobe, seem to be largely oblivious of the existance of 64 bit platforms, probably because switching will not reap them more cash. But why do OSS developers opt to ignore this platform? The Steam Hardware Survey has Windows 7 x64 at 28%, double that of its 32 bit version and following closely to the 32% of XP 32 bit. 64 bit is not any more the domain of nerds or early adopters, it is becoming the dominating platform in the Windows ecosystem.
So my question is: Why is it ignored? Would it really be hard to provide 64 bit builds? Would this require a lot of additional development work?
[...] Not that it matters, though. I could never really understand why someone wanted to make a GNU/Linux distribution as attractive to the mainstream as possible. [...]
Higher Linux market share = more incentive for hardware and software vendors to produce Linux compatible applications and release Linux drivers (or at least specs) for their devices. You do not have to use the "dumbed down" distro yourself to profit from its success.
[...] BSD makes it easier to actually write that software in the first place.
Could you please elaborate on this? The use of third-party code aside, the choice of a license does not influence the creation of a software in any way that I can see. Licenses only come into play after the software is written, when it is distributed to someone other than the creator.
Ah, I see I picked up a dedicated follower in the APK thread. Btw, it is sufficient to insult me once per each of my posts. You do not have to make those hate posts in scores to simulate widespread opposition to ramblings.
Still the money would go to the copyright holders first, who then distribute it amongst those parties they hold contracts with. When I buy an audio CD today I do not pay € .50 to the band, € 3 to the store and € 14.50 to the studio/publisher, I pay € 18 to the store which pays € X to its distributor which pays € X to the relevant collecting society which splits those € X into shares for the studio, the artist(s) and other parties. The artists do not have a contract with me.