Its becoming more and more obvious that Ubuntu's reign as the king of distros is slowly ending. From the new non-disableable notifications, to the annoying new default behavior for the update notifier, to the elimination of an often used shortcut (CTRL+ALT+Backspace, on the default install), I can't see Ubuntu keeping its spot at number one. I'm not sure which distro will take over, but my guess would either be Mint or Fedora.
The reason why Apple is so lax is because of their past in the homebrew computer club. They realize that "unauthorized" modifications end up with a better system, they can use it as a test.
Wait for the Chinese clones to come out with what you want. As soon as e-ink displays become cheaper and e-books become more popular, you can expect to see exactly what you are looking for at a dodgy mall booth or wholesaler website.
I think the rumored Apple tablet would be great for e-books but there are a few problems with the books. For one, its not perfect. Apple strives for perfection, for example, the iPod wasn't the first MP3 player but it was the first small one with a decent capacity hard drive. And it also doesn't have the simplicity in prices that Apple wants, Apple only wants a few main price points, and books open up a huge gap, while I would easily pay 99 cents for a 4 minute song as I would an 8 minute song, I'm not going to pay the same amount for a 200 page book as a 400 page book. Not to mention that a lot of books are in the public domain. Plus, there is the issue of rights. While a well-known song might only have 1-2 licensed distributors, other books may have many more.
We are geeks, we generally aren't swayed by marketing. We want the specs. If you saw a $600 computer with a Core i7 CPU, 6 gigs of RAM, a 3 TB HD, in an ugly beige box, most of us would buy it. While a lot of other people would see it and look at the box and think it was trash. We are, in general information driven, we want specs then compare it from price/performance. Other people see it differently.
There is little to no revenue being lost though. Most people who have a decent browser with adblock won't click ads, most ads are paid by click, not by impression. So there is no profit lost.
Because that usually has to be done with an up-to-date/etc/hosts file, and while it is possible, in general they don't block all ad servers and it is difficult to find an up-to-date one, I personally use an/etc/hosts file for most of my Linux systems because it is adblock for all services, but ad-block-plus blocks a lot more ads than my reasonably up to date/etc/hosts.
In general, the people who have an up-to-date browser and have an ad-blocker don't click on ads. And in general most ads are paid per click rather than per impression, meaning that they are losing no money when someone has ad-block plus installed because they wouldn't have clicked on the ads.
But you and me funded them. Yes, they did too, but there comes a time where you should have access to the things your tax dollars have supported. Would you be in favor of public libraries being restricted to students and retirees? Even though they are the two groups who have the most time to read?
How about releasing the info to -all- US citizens who paid their tax money for it? Because in the end this will end up benefiting major government contractors (Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, etc) who more or less already have the tech for spaceflight, rather then helping get space tourism, or other commercial spaceflight off the ground.
In the first page, not the first result. On Bing exactly 1 result was relevant. On Google, there is something about HDTV mounts and Macs, the rest are about Windows (though, one of them is about vinyl windows) that gives you 70% of results as relevant. On the other hand, lets assume Bing shows 10 results from the page too, that would be 10% of the results that were relevant. See the difference?
Except for the fact that RFID is embedded in most recent passports and stuff should be common knowledge to the average citizen, let alone someone working for the government. Similarly, it should be common knowledge that they can track them and extract info from them.
But the problem isn't really the hardware, even a G3 is a decent enough CPU, it is the fact that OS X won't work on some hardware, eventually because of the unstable API programs will quit working, leading to a system that can't do much. And due to the fact that most software that is used on Macs come from Apple or Adobe, there is little incentive to re-make programs for older systems or keep existing systems up to date.
You can use it, but you can't actually -do- anything with it. Pretty soon Apple will stop releasing iTunes for it, and require newer iPods to have a newer version of iTunes, then eventually due to the unstable API, soon you won't have a usable browser, etc
Did you try a different distro? openSUSE is kinda outdated (last stable release was 7 months ago), and as such might not have as recent of drivers.
And eventually people will stop running boxed software. Outside of game consoles I can't remember the last boxed software I bought, I honestly think it was a sealed copy of Windows 3.1 I got at a garage sale for about fifty cents. And that was like 2 years ago. Most everyone I know has the same experience as they either download freeware, pirate it, or download it as trial-ware and re-download it when it expires.
Exactly, I feel sorry for the person who used the awful distro that is Xandros and thought that was all Linux was. Asus while the original EEE PCs were good and seemed to be seamless, some of the later ones were strange. Mix in the fact that the hardware was questionable, and no real "advantage" to use Linux and the drop in price on some full laptops (I'm typing this on a $300 new Toshiba with a 15 inch screen, 2 gigs of RAM and an Intel Celeron 900 at 2.2 Ghz) lead to the death of Linux on netbooks. However, it did do a major thing, and that is showing people that Windows is not the only way and showing people the the major big-box stores that people will buy non-windows platforms.
I can't say for his problem, but I used to use SSH and mplayer to control a computer connected to large speakers, randomly one day the sound wouldn't work, I tried almost everything then just backed up the music and reinstalled the distro.
Who knows, anything is possible. Maybe if Microsoft can't beat Linux they will join them? Imagine if Microsoft started to write commercial software for Linux like MS-Office, MS-Money, Visual Studio, etc? What would that mean?
Victory. In all honesty, it would end up being a victory for Linux, you could then choose the OS you really wanted. Either take a free OS with a few proprietary components, a pay-OS that is familiar, and a pay-OS that is tied to a brand of computers. All running the same software.
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Hey! Thats one feature that would make it easier for all tech support people! Can it be remotely activated?
I actually use that often in Firefox, if I want to save my tabs (usually I don't) I simply killalll firefox-bin.
Its becoming more and more obvious that Ubuntu's reign as the king of distros is slowly ending. From the new non-disableable notifications, to the annoying new default behavior for the update notifier, to the elimination of an often used shortcut (CTRL+ALT+Backspace, on the default install), I can't see Ubuntu keeping its spot at number one. I'm not sure which distro will take over, but my guess would either be Mint or Fedora.
The reason why Apple is so lax is because of their past in the homebrew computer club. They realize that "unauthorized" modifications end up with a better system, they can use it as a test.
Wait for the Chinese clones to come out with what you want. As soon as e-ink displays become cheaper and e-books become more popular, you can expect to see exactly what you are looking for at a dodgy mall booth or wholesaler website.
I think the rumored Apple tablet would be great for e-books but there are a few problems with the books. For one, its not perfect. Apple strives for perfection, for example, the iPod wasn't the first MP3 player but it was the first small one with a decent capacity hard drive. And it also doesn't have the simplicity in prices that Apple wants, Apple only wants a few main price points, and books open up a huge gap, while I would easily pay 99 cents for a 4 minute song as I would an 8 minute song, I'm not going to pay the same amount for a 200 page book as a 400 page book. Not to mention that a lot of books are in the public domain. Plus, there is the issue of rights. While a well-known song might only have 1-2 licensed distributors, other books may have many more.
Another poster recommended AutoPager ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925 ) I can't really say if it works or not because I run Firefox development builds.
We are geeks, we generally aren't swayed by marketing. We want the specs. If you saw a $600 computer with a Core i7 CPU, 6 gigs of RAM, a 3 TB HD, in an ugly beige box, most of us would buy it. While a lot of other people would see it and look at the box and think it was trash. We are, in general information driven, we want specs then compare it from price/performance. Other people see it differently.
There is little to no revenue being lost though. Most people who have a decent browser with adblock won't click ads, most ads are paid by click, not by impression. So there is no profit lost.
Because that usually has to be done with an up-to-date /etc/hosts file, and while it is possible, in general they don't block all ad servers and it is difficult to find an up-to-date one, I personally use an /etc/hosts file for most of my Linux systems because it is adblock for all services, but ad-block-plus blocks a lot more ads than my reasonably up to date /etc/hosts.
In general, the people who have an up-to-date browser and have an ad-blocker don't click on ads. And in general most ads are paid per click rather than per impression, meaning that they are losing no money when someone has ad-block plus installed because they wouldn't have clicked on the ads.
But you and me funded them. Yes, they did too, but there comes a time where you should have access to the things your tax dollars have supported. Would you be in favor of public libraries being restricted to students and retirees? Even though they are the two groups who have the most time to read?
How about releasing the info to -all- US citizens who paid their tax money for it? Because in the end this will end up benefiting major government contractors (Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, etc) who more or less already have the tech for spaceflight, rather then helping get space tourism, or other commercial spaceflight off the ground.
In the first page, not the first result. On Bing exactly 1 result was relevant. On Google, there is something about HDTV mounts and Macs, the rest are about Windows (though, one of them is about vinyl windows) that gives you 70% of results as relevant. On the other hand, lets assume Bing shows 10 results from the page too, that would be 10% of the results that were relevant. See the difference?
Except for the fact that RFID is embedded in most recent passports and stuff should be common knowledge to the average citizen, let alone someone working for the government. Similarly, it should be common knowledge that they can track them and extract info from them.
But the problem isn't really the hardware, even a G3 is a decent enough CPU, it is the fact that OS X won't work on some hardware, eventually because of the unstable API programs will quit working, leading to a system that can't do much. And due to the fact that most software that is used on Macs come from Apple or Adobe, there is little incentive to re-make programs for older systems or keep existing systems up to date.
As opposed to the lack of spending in the current administration? Bush wasn't great, but Obama isn't good either.
You can use it, but you can't actually -do- anything with it. Pretty soon Apple will stop releasing iTunes for it, and require newer iPods to have a newer version of iTunes, then eventually due to the unstable API, soon you won't have a usable browser, etc
But Apple has been known to release updates simply to kill older hardware (look at OS 8.5).
I honestly always found that a bit strange myself. I -wanted- to keep IE 6 on my box simply to test code (and the fact that IE 7 is/was awful).
...That is assuming you are running an Intel CPU. A lot of people are running PPC systems and they run Leopard pretty well with enough RAM.
Did you try a different distro? openSUSE is kinda outdated (last stable release was 7 months ago), and as such might not have as recent of drivers.
And eventually people will stop running boxed software. Outside of game consoles I can't remember the last boxed software I bought, I honestly think it was a sealed copy of Windows 3.1 I got at a garage sale for about fifty cents. And that was like 2 years ago. Most everyone I know has the same experience as they either download freeware, pirate it, or download it as trial-ware and re-download it when it expires.
Exactly, I feel sorry for the person who used the awful distro that is Xandros and thought that was all Linux was. Asus while the original EEE PCs were good and seemed to be seamless, some of the later ones were strange. Mix in the fact that the hardware was questionable, and no real "advantage" to use Linux and the drop in price on some full laptops (I'm typing this on a $300 new Toshiba with a 15 inch screen, 2 gigs of RAM and an Intel Celeron 900 at 2.2 Ghz) lead to the death of Linux on netbooks. However, it did do a major thing, and that is showing people that Windows is not the only way and showing people the the major big-box stores that people will buy non-windows platforms.
I can't say for his problem, but I used to use SSH and mplayer to control a computer connected to large speakers, randomly one day the sound wouldn't work, I tried almost everything then just backed up the music and reinstalled the distro.
Who knows, anything is possible. Maybe if Microsoft can't beat Linux they will join them? Imagine if Microsoft started to write commercial software for Linux like MS-Office, MS-Money, Visual Studio, etc? What would that mean?
Victory. In all honesty, it would end up being a victory for Linux, you could then choose the OS you really wanted. Either take a free OS with a few proprietary components, a pay-OS that is familiar, and a pay-OS that is tied to a brand of computers. All running the same software.