And streaming is inefficient. You not only require a continuous throughput at a reasonably high bitrate, but after you've finished downloading your 20 megabytes of content for that 2-minute video clip, your client does you the favor of immediately deleting it. So the next time you want to watch the video, you get the joy of re-downloading it. WTF? In an age of $200 terabyte hard drives, that's ridiculous. I pull streamed videos I will want to watch again out of the/tmp/ folder.
Most desktop apps for Ubuntu do not need sudo privileges. In fact, the only ones that I have seen need it for normal use has been network analysis tools (wireshark, etherape...)
Because that's all that the Vista UAC has done, is train hundreds of thousands of users that when a box pops up, you hit accept to do what you were trying to do. It's not as much of an issue if you are not admin.
And what about Surface? I'd like to see the folks at apple come up with something as cool as that. I would bet they have something like that in the works, but don't want to tip their hand until it is complete and a market exists for it.
They strugle to provide a 3 years of support on releases made every two years (that is only a single year of overlap). This makes the MS upgrade treadmill look postively gentle. I can't seem to easilly find information about rhel or OS-X but I don't think thier support lifecycles are anywhere near as long as micorsofts either. Ubuntu's releases are much less expensive than MS's.
Since they don't care and you do, install Firefox and change the icon to look like IE's and maybe and an IE skin. (Get permission of course, maybe explain it as a security upgrade)
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Why on the PS2 and PSP? is programming for them the same as programming for the PS3?
I don't usually want to eat it again. But I have found myself watching these quite often and I don't want to waste bandwidth.
I would love it if it taught lojban.
1.7GHz Core 2 Duo, 1GB PC2-5300 RAM, SATA HDD.
Ubuntu takes ~1.75 minutes to boot on my laptop and Vista a little longer.
Most desktop apps for Ubuntu do not need sudo privileges. In fact, the only ones that I have seen need it for normal use has been network analysis tools (wireshark, etherape...)
People on this thread keep saying "extend" XP, but this is what comes to mind
I forgot to mention that if you don't like Ubuntu's short release cycle, there is Debian.
Why would you write on your bathroom wall? Won't your mother be upset?
Anybody try Lotus Symphony yet?
The difference being that the first datacenter wasn't taken down maliciously.
A bird in the hand...
Since they don't care and you do, install Firefox and change the icon to look like IE's and maybe and an IE skin. (Get permission of course, maybe explain it as a security upgrade)
The difference here seems to be making it the default browser during the install rather than bugging you with an extra pop-up at the first run.
The same way many people can bash windows and continue to use it.
No, but we like to click on the links and look at the pretty flash ads. Hence the /. effect.
TROLL? The FCC defines broadband as greater than 200 Kbps. I was simply wondering if they were using the same metric or a better one.
What speeds are they calling broadband? 200Kbps?