let Google know all my personal details, my friends, my web searches, my YouTube views, my emails and every site I visit on the internet (via Google Analytics)
You might not have those panel applets installed. I don't think they're included by default. There definitely is a frequency monitor plugin. Under Arch, it's located in the package xfce4-cpufreq-plugin. Same thing under Debian. Or you could install the xfce4-goodies package to get a lot more panel plugins. Check out the Arch wiki on xfce, it's got a lot of good information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce
the advance was a multiple of how much the previous book made.
Aha! But was it an integer multiple?
By the way, the US national debt as recorded at 2043 GMT divided by their population was found to be 14536111334771/307006550 which equals exactly 47347.8867 dollars per person OMG IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!@1 CAUSE THEIR MULTIPLES OF EACH OTHER
There simply isn't a unified Android UI and it would annoy me to have to choose which hardware I bought based on the UI it would run. I might want a Samsung phone but with the Sense UI.
That attitude pretty sad, isn't it? You don't want to use Android because you're incapable of making choices?
Freedom of choice makes Android a much better environment than Apple's mobile products. Take dual-core phones for example: HTC Sensation, Motorola Atrix, LG Optimus 2X, Samsung Galaxy S2... I think I've missed many others too. How many dual-core options does Apple have again? What if you want a physical keyboard? Different screen size or display technology?
If you just want Apple to make all your choices for you, then it's pretty plain to see that your options are far more limited. No matter what the software is running on top, you'll get used to it before long - it's not like you have to learn a new programming language or anything. It sounds more like you're just looking for reasons (ignorant, trivial, desperate reasons) to cast the entire OS aside rather than actually trying it.
Maybe they could invest in a real economy instead. Why would other countries bother following the US's outdated and useless economic schemes at no benefit to themselves? Is there anything the US actually produces that the world couldn't live without? Sounds to me like the world is just better off leaving the US behind
No, I think you just have to take the PCI Express port and reroute its DIMM slot through the motherboard's PSU with a flux capacitor to achieve thermonuclear fusion for optimal performance
Also, it can create GUI interfaces in Visual Basic.
I remember someone had a/. sig with a link to a feature request for Android that users could simply choose which permissions they want to allow an app to have at installation. I think this was the link: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3778. It seems to have a lot of support, but apparently we need more!
After reviewing a "wide range of DRAM and NAND configurations," as well as nearly 300 industry-standard PC benchmarks, the researchers concluded that even at today's prices, a dollar's worth of NAND flash improves PC performance more than adding a dollar's worth of DRAM.
How in hell's name do they conclude this? Do they extrapolate from zero or something? I mean, if your machine starts out with say, 2-4GB of RAM, which is usually enough for running most of your applications (minus cache), what do you think is gonna make more of a difference? Adding RAM will just cause the OS to cache more, so you're just limited by HDD-DRAM speed. On the other hand, if you stick a NAND in there, you'll still be caching but at the speed of NAND-DRAM, which is considerably faster, plus stored permanently over power cycles. Of course, I'm sure the authors failed to take into consideration the long-term durability and performance issues of NAND which makes these dollar figures totally worthless.
All we're seeing is a finer segmentation of memory/storage hierarchy, but DRAM and NAND still have entirely different niches, though NAND tends to encroach on both of its sides. The take-home message is that if you have a lot of RAM, adding more ain't gonna help cause you're just throttled by your HD transfer speeds and the efficiency of your caching algorithms - so just buy a nice, reasonably speedy 8-16GB SSD and put all your system files on that.
Any fool could tell you this without needing to read this stupid report. DRAM isn't going anywhere. Of course it will devalue slightly, but there will always be an incentive for computers to have more, even if the gains are slim - NAND can't change that in any way.
I don't know what you refer to by 'industry' but the RIAA and MPAA gone way past the limit for me. Even if I could pay for it, I will on principle make sure not to give my money to them because I know that they're just going to use it to stifle our freedoms, using our money for their dirty schemes - hiring lawyers for extortion, bribing politicians for anti-freedom legislation, and so on.
I'm even reluctant to use Pandora because I know that they have to bend over for the RIAA, and that they must be making some cash on the side from it. I wish there were a non-RIAA alternative so I could find and listen to good music without supporting them. Maybe it's time to check out the Jamendo store or something else of the like. Another example: when friends give me itunes gift cards, I make sure to purchase from artists that have never had anything to do with the RIAA. I hope that's good enough and they don't have some deal on the side that still gets them a profit from non-label sales....
I don't know about this. To me, it sounds like a great way to invite an anti-trust lawsuit. If you don't use our news service, then you can't use our search service? That sounds really Microsoft to me, _IF_ they're doing it intentionally. I'm really hoping that Google only did this because the court order was poorly worded and that this matter gets sorted out. Otherwise, EU _will_ take action eventually if Google wants to get revenge like this.
The irony that the US market is supposedly most free in the world yet patents are screwing it up.
In America, freedom means 'freedom from government intervention.' What the translates to is slavery to private interests.
If I were given the choice, I'd much rather be subject to government control rather than private interests, seeing as I would have at least some voice against the government...
Surely more jobs and growth are being stifled by them than saved by them?
Both of these statements are true. Small businesses are muscled out and replaced with a cubicle in a large corporate tower. But a corporation can never do wrong in America, even if they spill oil all over the Gulf of Mexico, so people run to them anyways.
>It really needs to get really bad before people start realizing how patents are hurting economy and innovation, to a point where there vote on such matters count.
This statement is a little too general. Patents aren't necessarily the problem, what is more problematic is that they're being abused.
Patents were supposed to protect small businesses and startups with a new idea. Now they're being used for extortion (a la Microsoft forcing Samsung, HTC, etc. to pay for a WP7 license on every phone they sell) and manipulation (see here). And it's much easier for large corporations to acquire them becuase they can pay for the application fees or patent auctions.
What's obviously clear here is that patents aren't serving their original intention. What the US needs is legislation to stop patent abuse, particularly by large corporations. But there are too many lawyers in America, so it will never happen.
What about the crimes that Manning exposed? Do you think it was more important for him to cover that up?
Do you really think an honor code is worth preserving when it's abused to keep atrocities covered up? I really appreciate what Manning did. Thanks to him, I know that US military can no longer be trusted to keep the right things classified. Lamo on the other hand made it that much harder for people trying to expose the military for doing such horrible things.
Both Manning and Lamo are traitors. But I say that Manning did it for the right reasons and Lamo did not.
Does this mean I support the release of top secret information? NO. Would I have done what manning did? No, but I'm glad he did. It gave the american people a better idea of how their government is acting. I was not proud to be an american for a while.
Why not???? You can't say top secret information shouldn't be released just because it is classified as top secret. If it actually _is_ top secret, then yes, I agree that it shouldn't be released. If it's classified as top secret so our military superiors can cover up abuse, then it should be exposed immediately, and all else be damned!
And as you mentioned in the first line of your post, no harm at all has been caused, so why in hell's name was this information classified as top secret anyways? Because the military is abusing the system. The only reason these things were classified are because they were covering up lies, deception, manipulation, and obvious violations of human rights.
Finally - not proud to be an American for a while? What has changed? Has anyone been held accountable for the atrocities he's revealed? Or are you proud to be American again because the dust has settled and we've reached the point where it's easy to forget about it again and continue letting it happen in secrecy?
GP was obviously trolling, suggesting that the journalist did the honorable thing here by betraying Manning, who was blowing the whistle on an untold number of military lies and atrocities.
It's disgusting to me that people think that the military should be able to do such things and get away with it. It's even worse when they think they should be covered up afterwards for reasons like national security or confidentiality protocols, as if those were more important than making those bastards pay for what they do and making sure it doesn't happen again. When something is classified just because someone's ass would be roasted if the public were told about it, that's definitely abusing the system, and some oversight is sorely needed.
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That you, Florian?
let Google know all my personal details, my friends, my web searches, my YouTube views, my emails and every site I visit on the internet (via Google Analytics)
So install NoScript and block analytics?
Is LibreOffice vs OpenOffice even an argument to begin with? It seems pretty much like OpenOffice.org is going the way of XFree86.
You might not have those panel applets installed. I don't think they're included by default. There definitely is a frequency monitor plugin. Under Arch, it's located in the package xfce4-cpufreq-plugin. Same thing under Debian. Or you could install the xfce4-goodies package to get a lot more panel plugins. Check out the Arch wiki on xfce, it's got a lot of good information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce
Major successes are often...
That word... I do not think it means what you think it means
Only on /. can you get +5 Insightful for doing grade school algebra... but that's namely because grade schools just give A's and B's instead.
One might argue that they're still not #1
Maybe he works for a news corporation
the advance was a multiple of how much the previous book made.
Aha! But was it an integer multiple?
By the way, the US national debt as recorded at 2043 GMT divided by their population was found to be 14536111334771/307006550 which equals exactly 47347.8867 dollars per person OMG IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!@1 CAUSE THEIR MULTIPLES OF EACH OTHER
There simply isn't a unified Android UI and it would annoy me to have to choose which hardware I bought based on the UI it would run. I might want a Samsung phone but with the Sense UI.
That attitude pretty sad, isn't it? You don't want to use Android because you're incapable of making choices?
Freedom of choice makes Android a much better environment than Apple's mobile products. Take dual-core phones for example: HTC Sensation, Motorola Atrix, LG Optimus 2X, Samsung Galaxy S2... I think I've missed many others too. How many dual-core options does Apple have again? What if you want a physical keyboard? Different screen size or display technology?
If you just want Apple to make all your choices for you, then it's pretty plain to see that your options are far more limited. No matter what the software is running on top, you'll get used to it before long - it's not like you have to learn a new programming language or anything. It sounds more like you're just looking for reasons (ignorant, trivial, desperate reasons) to cast the entire OS aside rather than actually trying it.
Maybe they could invest in a real economy instead. Why would other countries bother following the US's outdated and useless economic schemes at no benefit to themselves? Is there anything the US actually produces that the world couldn't live without? Sounds to me like the world is just better off leaving the US behind
No, I think you just have to take the PCI Express port and reroute its DIMM slot through the motherboard's PSU with a flux capacitor to achieve thermonuclear fusion for optimal performance
Also, it can create GUI interfaces in Visual Basic.
I remember someone had a /. sig with a link to a feature request for Android that users could simply choose which permissions they want to allow an app to have at installation. I think this was the link: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3778. It seems to have a lot of support, but apparently we need more!
I also found this one too: http://androinica.com/2011/05/cyanogenmod-nightlies-secures-android/. I didn't read the link in much depth, but apparently it can do just what you describe if you root and install Cyanogenmod
What about those of us who want to get on Google+ but don't want to go through the effort of making friends?
FTA :
After reviewing a "wide range of DRAM and NAND configurations," as well as nearly 300 industry-standard PC benchmarks, the researchers concluded that even at today's prices, a dollar's worth of NAND flash improves PC performance more than adding a dollar's worth of DRAM.
How in hell's name do they conclude this? Do they extrapolate from zero or something? I mean, if your machine starts out with say, 2-4GB of RAM, which is usually enough for running most of your applications (minus cache), what do you think is gonna make more of a difference? Adding RAM will just cause the OS to cache more, so you're just limited by HDD-DRAM speed. On the other hand, if you stick a NAND in there, you'll still be caching but at the speed of NAND-DRAM, which is considerably faster, plus stored permanently over power cycles. Of course, I'm sure the authors failed to take into consideration the long-term durability and performance issues of NAND which makes these dollar figures totally worthless.
All we're seeing is a finer segmentation of memory/storage hierarchy, but DRAM and NAND still have entirely different niches, though NAND tends to encroach on both of its sides. The take-home message is that if you have a lot of RAM, adding more ain't gonna help cause you're just throttled by your HD transfer speeds and the efficiency of your caching algorithms - so just buy a nice, reasonably speedy 8-16GB SSD and put all your system files on that.
Any fool could tell you this without needing to read this stupid report. DRAM isn't going anywhere. Of course it will devalue slightly, but there will always be an incentive for computers to have more, even if the gains are slim - NAND can't change that in any way.
Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.
Isn't this really similar to the program where they get disgruntled ex-employees to report incidents of pirated software in the workplace?
I don't know what you refer to by 'industry' but the RIAA and MPAA gone way past the limit for me. Even if I could pay for it, I will on principle make sure not to give my money to them because I know that they're just going to use it to stifle our freedoms, using our money for their dirty schemes - hiring lawyers for extortion, bribing politicians for anti-freedom legislation, and so on.
I'm even reluctant to use Pandora because I know that they have to bend over for the RIAA, and that they must be making some cash on the side from it. I wish there were a non-RIAA alternative so I could find and listen to good music without supporting them. Maybe it's time to check out the Jamendo store or something else of the like. Another example: when friends give me itunes gift cards, I make sure to purchase from artists that have never had anything to do with the RIAA. I hope that's good enough and they don't have some deal on the side that still gets them a profit from non-label sales....
I don't know about this. To me, it sounds like a great way to invite an anti-trust lawsuit. If you don't use our news service, then you can't use our search service? That sounds really Microsoft to me, _IF_ they're doing it intentionally. I'm really hoping that Google only did this because the court order was poorly worded and that this matter gets sorted out. Otherwise, EU _will_ take action eventually if Google wants to get revenge like this.
The irony that the US market is supposedly most free in the world yet patents are screwing it up.
In America, freedom means 'freedom from government intervention.' What the translates to is slavery to private interests.
If I were given the choice, I'd much rather be subject to government control rather than private interests, seeing as I would have at least some voice against the government...
Surely more jobs and growth are being stifled by them than saved by them?
Both of these statements are true. Small businesses are muscled out and replaced with a cubicle in a large corporate tower. But a corporation can never do wrong in America, even if they spill oil all over the Gulf of Mexico, so people run to them anyways.
>It really needs to get really bad before people start realizing how patents are hurting economy and innovation, to a point where there vote on such matters count.
This statement is a little too general. Patents aren't necessarily the problem, what is more problematic is that they're being abused.
Patents were supposed to protect small businesses and startups with a new idea. Now they're being used for extortion (a la Microsoft forcing Samsung, HTC, etc. to pay for a WP7 license on every phone they sell) and manipulation (see here). And it's much easier for large corporations to acquire them becuase they can pay for the application fees or patent auctions.
What's obviously clear here is that patents aren't serving their original intention. What the US needs is legislation to stop patent abuse, particularly by large corporations. But there are too many lawyers in America, so it will never happen.
What about the crimes that Manning exposed? Do you think it was more important for him to cover that up?
Do you really think an honor code is worth preserving when it's abused to keep atrocities covered up? I really appreciate what Manning did. Thanks to him, I know that US military can no longer be trusted to keep the right things classified. Lamo on the other hand made it that much harder for people trying to expose the military for doing such horrible things.
Both Manning and Lamo are traitors. But I say that Manning did it for the right reasons and Lamo did not.
Does this mean I support the release of top secret information? NO. Would I have done what manning did? No, but I'm glad he did. It gave the american people a better idea of how their government is acting. I was not proud to be an american for a while.
Why not???? You can't say top secret information shouldn't be released just because it is classified as top secret. If it actually _is_ top secret, then yes, I agree that it shouldn't be released. If it's classified as top secret so our military superiors can cover up abuse, then it should be exposed immediately, and all else be damned!
And as you mentioned in the first line of your post, no harm at all has been caused, so why in hell's name was this information classified as top secret anyways? Because the military is abusing the system. The only reason these things were classified are because they were covering up lies, deception, manipulation, and obvious violations of human rights.
Finally - not proud to be an American for a while? What has changed? Has anyone been held accountable for the atrocities he's revealed? Or are you proud to be American again because the dust has settled and we've reached the point where it's easy to forget about it again and continue letting it happen in secrecy?
GP was obviously trolling, suggesting that the journalist did the honorable thing here by betraying Manning, who was blowing the whistle on an untold number of military lies and atrocities.
It's disgusting to me that people think that the military should be able to do such things and get away with it. It's even worse when they think they should be covered up afterwards for reasons like national security or confidentiality protocols, as if those were more important than making those bastards pay for what they do and making sure it doesn't happen again. When something is classified just because someone's ass would be roasted if the public were told about it, that's definitely abusing the system, and some oversight is sorely needed.