Who's talking about static image?
When you minimize/maximize you get tearing around the title bar - in my case that is.
Here's a description of the issue from Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxMTM
Hasn't been fixed still.
If you can wait awhile longer before buying, Intel's upcoming Haswell processor is reported to have significantly improvied graphics performance, and Intel GPUs are well-supported with free drivers in Linux and Xorg. They're less-powerful than NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, but should be fine unless you need to play high-end games on high quality settings.
Yes, and than wait another year or so until they get the drivers to work properly, which they still didn't with Sandy Bridge.
The "Sandy Bridge" and "Ivy Bridge" stuff is nice.
I have an Ivy Bridge laptop. What's so nice about it? How much time has passed since the hardware release? I still have tearing artifacts around every title bar on KDE, all because of bugs in drivers - both with Ubuntu's default driver and the one from PPA.
It's all great that their drivers are open and free, but quality-wise they have always been a mess.
At this point, if you want a great out-of-the-box support, all you can do is wait. Either when Intel will improve their quality, or when nvidia fixes their optimus stuff. Don't know much about the AMD side of things.
I installed Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.10 through a PPA and I'm liking it a lot. Is there any reason why I would want to switch from this setup over to the actual Mint?
You already can run your own web server free of any corporate oversight. Guess how many people do.
You can already run your own mail server free of any corporate monitoring. Guess how many people do.
Diaspora failed because they thought people cared about these things. Guess how many people do.
People use Facebook/G+/Twitter and whatnot because:
1. Everyone else is.
2. They don't have to run it.
You can already choose between gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc., and your own personal mail server, and they all can exchange data with each other. Guess how many people do it?
Simple. Adobe sells content authoring tools. Everyone who writes in flash, has already bought the tools, and the market is saturated. Now is the time to milk all those who are rewriting their flash content into HTML5.
From this, I would draw the opposite conclusion: we should oppose proposals for a financial transaction tax at all costs! If high-frequency trading is the disease, then a tax on transactions is not the cure. It would make government addicted to the new revenue and therefore dependent on the high-frequency traders, thus ensuring that those leaches will never go away.
A better solution, I think, would be to require stock exchanges to operate on a once-per-second clock. Any trade orders that arrive within each timeslice would be executed in a random order, so as to defeat any advantage the high-frequency traders would get by being fast.
And what exactly stops an algorithm from trading on behalf of several institutions? A hundred of trades on behalf of a hundred of institutions per second? Your proposal would not work.
Whereas having a transaction tax would make most of the HFT schemes not profitable, and a lot of them would go away.
That would also make market manipulation through robot ping-pong (i.e. robots selling small amounts of securites to each other at increasing prices), etc. less feasible.
Wasn't that the CDMA Nexus S though? For anybody that doesn't know, not only do you need to have a Nexus device to be assured of updates, that Nexus device needs to not be CDMA. Even the Galaxy Nexus from Verizon is unsupported by AOSP.
Does it also need to be a Galaxy Nexus that was not sold in Canada?
Actually the article is more about Gates Foundation investing into profitable enterprises (such as Monsanto and various large pharmaceuticals) and than lobbying local governmental groups into buying their products.
Yeah, but how about some features that don't require server connection? E.g. The camera detects your face position and screen rotation doesn't change when you lay down. I don't see how these things become selling features of a hardware piece...
In terms of CPU this phone is not that much faster than the previous ones. I wonder if it would be any way to install some of it's apps like the S Voice on the older phones - like S2 or Galaxy Nexus.
In America, a student who is good at math, science and CS is called a nerd. In Russia, such a kid is called smart.
Seriously, Russia has always kicked ass in science and math education. We should copy their schools.
I have news for you. In a typical Russian school, a kid with a higher than average GPA would be called a Botanist (which is somehow considered stereotypically the most boring subject ever).
Also notice that 2 out of 3 types of crimes mentioned in the article are crimes against banks - bank robbery and robbery of secured transport, which makes it clear who are the most interested parties.
Oddly enough I never heard of the original story or any of the fabricated details, yet news that it was a fake is all over the web. Apple fans too eager to believe that it may all be a hoax?
Yes, Apple fans, including the 206 hedge funds (and various other institutions, including even governments of some countries now) that own Apple stock. Considering that Apple now is bigger than the entire US retail sector, it can not be allowed to lose. Or at least not yet.
Some studies in the 1950s that used LSD to treat alcoholism professed a 50% success rate,[29] five times higher than estimates near 10% for Alcoholics Anonymous.[30] A 1998 review was inconclusive.[31]
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Who's talking about static image? When you minimize/maximize you get tearing around the title bar - in my case that is. Here's a description of the issue from Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxMTM Hasn't been fixed still.
If you can wait awhile longer before buying, Intel's upcoming Haswell processor is reported to have significantly improvied graphics performance, and Intel GPUs are well-supported with free drivers in Linux and Xorg. They're less-powerful than NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, but should be fine unless you need to play high-end games on high quality settings.
Yes, and than wait another year or so until they get the drivers to work properly, which they still didn't with Sandy Bridge.
The "Sandy Bridge" and "Ivy Bridge" stuff is nice.
I have an Ivy Bridge laptop. What's so nice about it? How much time has passed since the hardware release? I still have tearing artifacts around every title bar on KDE, all because of bugs in drivers - both with Ubuntu's default driver and the one from PPA.
It's all great that their drivers are open and free, but quality-wise they have always been a mess.
At this point, if you want a great out-of-the-box support, all you can do is wait. Either when Intel will improve their quality, or when nvidia fixes their optimus stuff. Don't know much about the AMD side of things.
firefox+adblock plus+flashblock+noscript+ghostery
Nemo actually is in the Ubuntu PPA...
I installed Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.10 through a PPA and I'm liking it a lot. Is there any reason why I would want to switch from this setup over to the actual Mint?
You already can run your own web server free of any corporate oversight. Guess how many people do. You can already run your own mail server free of any corporate monitoring. Guess how many people do. Diaspora failed because they thought people cared about these things. Guess how many people do. People use Facebook/G+/Twitter and whatnot because: 1. Everyone else is. 2. They don't have to run it.
You can already choose between gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc., and your own personal mail server, and they all can exchange data with each other. Guess how many people do it?
What I want to see is Google itself to stop using flash. In things like Google Finance for example
Simple. Adobe sells content authoring tools. Everyone who writes in flash, has already bought the tools, and the market is saturated. Now is the time to milk all those who are rewriting their flash content into HTML5.
From this, I would draw the opposite conclusion: we should oppose proposals for a financial transaction tax at all costs! If high-frequency trading is the disease, then a tax on transactions is not the cure. It would make government addicted to the new revenue and therefore dependent on the high-frequency traders, thus ensuring that those leaches will never go away.
A better solution, I think, would be to require stock exchanges to operate on a once-per-second clock. Any trade orders that arrive within each timeslice would be executed in a random order, so as to defeat any advantage the high-frequency traders would get by being fast.
And what exactly stops an algorithm from trading on behalf of several institutions? A hundred of trades on behalf of a hundred of institutions per second? Your proposal would not work.
Whereas having a transaction tax would make most of the HFT schemes not profitable, and a lot of them would go away.
That would also make market manipulation through robot ping-pong (i.e. robots selling small amounts of securites to each other at increasing prices), etc. less feasible.
Has anyone dared to install it through a backports PPA on Ubuntu?
Is it something worth doing?
Wasn't that the CDMA Nexus S though? For anybody that doesn't know, not only do you need to have a Nexus device to be assured of updates, that Nexus device needs to not be CDMA. Even the Galaxy Nexus from Verizon is unsupported by AOSP.
Does it also need to be a Galaxy Nexus that was not sold in Canada?
Actually the article is more about Gates Foundation investing into profitable enterprises (such as Monsanto and various large pharmaceuticals) and than lobbying local governmental groups into buying their products.
Yeah, but how about some features that don't require server connection? E.g. The camera detects your face position and screen rotation doesn't change when you lay down. I don't see how these things become selling features of a hardware piece...
In terms of CPU this phone is not that much faster than the previous ones. I wonder if it would be any way to install some of it's apps like the S Voice on the older phones - like S2 or Galaxy Nexus.
Or here, even better:
What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe
except when government gets involved...
You mean this government???
In America, a student who is good at math, science and CS is called a nerd. In Russia, such a kid is called smart. Seriously, Russia has always kicked ass in science and math education. We should copy their schools.
I have news for you. In a typical Russian school, a kid with a higher than average GPA would be called a Botanist (which is somehow considered stereotypically the most boring subject ever).
http://www.xabber.com/
XMPP (Jabber) client with multi-account support.
Why would people contribute to a commercial product made by a for-profit corporation instead of a community effort like openstreetmap.org?
Also notice that 2 out of 3 types of crimes mentioned in the article are crimes against banks - bank robbery and robbery of secured transport, which makes it clear who are the most interested parties.
Oddly enough I never heard of the original story or any of the fabricated details, yet news that it was a fake is all over the web. Apple fans too eager to believe that it may all be a hoax?
Yes, Apple fans, including the 206 hedge funds (and various other institutions, including even governments of some countries now) that own Apple stock. Considering that Apple now is bigger than the entire US retail sector, it can not be allowed to lose. Or at least not yet.
That could be a boon for HFT. No need for buying properties in New Jersey. Trading from any location at yocto-second frequency.
Link to the English version that actually works:
http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/eng/
Some studies in the 1950s that used LSD to treat alcoholism professed a 50% success rate,[29] five times higher than estimates near 10% for Alcoholics Anonymous.[30] A 1998 review was inconclusive.[31]
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Alcoholism