There's nothing I could say about unity that hasn't already been said by the haters on/. - in summation: It has some potential, some nice ideas, but it's mostly ghastly.
Unless of course I misread TFA and they intend to lose 200 million users in four years. Then they are off to a great start but are somewhat overstating their userbase.
Yes off to a bad start. I have three wildly different spec systems that have similar graphical glitches and stablity problems with 11.04, these are rigs that were rock solid with 10.10. The OS has fundamental problems this time around, that don't seem to be driver specific.
Could the supermassive black holes that likely exist in the centre of galaxies be these mutli-universe spanning black holes? If they survivied one big crunch, perhaps not allowing enough time for hawking evaporation, have they survived many universes?
Facebook is like a reverse Wikileaks, leaking the general public's personal information back to shady corporations and government organisations. They really do have a detailed map of your digital life, and they keep all of it - the record goes all the way back to when you joined.
A database of the lives 640 million people worldwide... the fact this information is so poorly protected is deeply concerning.
Once you put information up there you don't get it back.
I've said it before:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1946656&cid=34845420
I'm a Kiwi. In spain they were made aware by Wikileaks, of the equivelent diplomatic cables BEFORE the legislation was passed, naturally the 3-strikes law was thrown out.
Could have let us known sooner, thank you. It would have been terrifically useful in getting this thing stopped.
No surprises the 3-strikes law seems to be popping up in many countries with open diplomatic channels to the US. In some cases (ie the British equivelent) the language in the law is word-for-word identical.
Someone should be able to *give* you another stick of 512mb DDR or even a 1GB, you can drop it in and you have instant speed boost.
I have a box of these kind of parts that I almost have to pay people to take. Shouldn't be too hard to beg or borrow a stick of ram to bring that old P4 back to life.
We're talking about something that doesn't run Windows or Mac OS, so it has apps/programs/whatever that 99.9% of consumers aren't going to be familiar with. Meaning, if there's no easy way to add functionality, you're dead on arrival.
Consumers who buy the iPad more than likely already are iPhone or iPod Touch owners. They're already familiar with iOS and how to get stuff done on it.
Android owners would see the benefit of an Android tablet. I logged into a Samsung Galaxy with my Gmail account and lo and behold it started downloading all my apps including my paid ones. I'm holding out to buy one though, it's still early days.
There's at least 50 Android tablets on the market and a good selection available Viewsonic, Acer Iconia, Dreambook ePad, Archos, Dell, Navitel, and others.
But why aren't they selling? Simple, epicly poor availability, near-zero advertising, and a gazillion made in china knock-off pads. Retail stores doesn't seem to bother stocking anything other than the Galaxy Tab, despite the Acer Iconia and Viewsonic tablets being rather respectable.
This all smacks of the situation 2008/2009 when there were only a few good Android handset choices and we could have said the same thing about Android phones.
From the little play I've had with Android Honeycomb 3.0 on a Xoom I have to say frankly it's a better tablet operating system, lord knows Android already has a superior notification system, cloud integration etc. Already it should be a sign that Apple is having to quietly introduce features to iOS that Android users have been introducing for some time. I really don't see how Apple can maintain it's dominance, it never has done in the past.
Actually.. the longer it takes to develop the technology the cheaper the price/performance ratio and the less expenditure required. That's just how technology does it's thing. Getting stuff to orbit becomes ever cheaper and it becomes ever more efficient space propulsion with higher specific impulse, means it'll eventually be affordable to go hunting artefacts of early space exploration.
Means eventually the Voyagers will be stumbled upon by the interstellar equivalent of a Tuk Tuk and sold on the black market in some Kupier belt slum.
An individual could under stand a software program in it's entirety and perhaps even an entire computer system. Try that with 300 mlilion lines of code in a Linux distribution (A small one).
(Just to be more blunt about a couple of your points)
Does every conversation on slashdot have to turn into a tirade about how stupid and frustrating and awful and shoddy and worthless and disappointing and shitty and aggravating and horrible windows is? We know already! It's also despicable and unreliable and saddening and ugly and untrustworthy and pernicious and inadequate and etc etc etc...
Take your blinkers off. It's not just Windows.
Yes he's obviously missed Apple and Gnome bashing amongst other things.
Congratulations to the engineers working on the original project all those years ago. I couldn't fathom designing something like this with the toolset they had 30+ years ago. Props to them for creating a set of probes that are still relevant 30 years after their launch.
Yes because if it was built in 2011 it wouldn't last so long. I actually shed a little tear that engineering of this calibre is increasingly rare these days in a world that's built by the lowest bidder.
1) Submit code under a fake identity to an open-source project that pays a bounty on security vulnerabilities. (Are any OSS contributors vetted?)
2) "Discover" the flaw(s) in your code and report it.
3) ???
4) Profit
Lawmakers who use the term "Cyberspace" won't get it anyway, this is perhaps why opposition to this kind of rubbish doesn't seem to get very far. Explain to them that the very design of the Internet means it just cannot ever be controlled or censored. Its been designed to withstand nuclear war FFS.
Whenever I update my Android phone to a newer version it only seems to get faster, slicker and more features. There's also a plethora of aftermarket ROMs which in some cases beat out stock carrier stuff on performance, stability and features.
Every update to my old iPhone had gotten slower, and features were introduced that Android already had.
Of course we know Apple does this deliberately, there's no incentive for them when they have billions to make, and they will quietly introduce features they see doing well on Android..
You pay a premimum for ccess to Apple walled garden in more ways than one. That's just how it is.
1) Detailed logs - be ready to prove how you didn't download that CP. You'll need to route their connection through a decent transparent proxy.
2) Get IP blocklists and block a whole lot of IPs. If you use a Windows as a platform for proxy software at any step PeerBlock is a great point and shoot solution with massive lists of IPs (P2P snooping, Spyware, etc) included. Numerous parental filtering software could work here too.
3) For plausible deniability, perhaps force anyones connection through Tor?
Is "App" widely understood by the public to mean an iOS Application specifically?
No.
Is tacking Store on to the end of anything enough to create an original trademark?
Never.
Do people identify the term "App Store" as being specifically Apple?
No.
This fails any reasonable test from a member of the publics point of view, that counts for a lot I'm sure. Amazon has a good chance of winning and they are right to seem confidient.
Please, anything but pokey text drop down menus that you have to click through several steps deep to get to launch a dialog then have to navigate that,
Drop down menus were a fine solution when screen real estate was precious in the days of 640x480 and 800x600. The ribbon, despite a few quirks was something different and it is superior once you get used to it. Its a few less clicks to do many things, thats real time saved when your doing hundreds or thousands of actions to perform a task.
Pixels are not in short supply anymore, nor is the cpu cycles to drive them. There's no reason why when you maximise an newly opened application on a 24" monitor you should be staring at a big patch of unused grey with narrow a menu bar at the top.
The ribbon ultimately does what it's supposed to, just saves steps to do the same thing. A few clicks saved here and there doesn't sound like much but over time it adds up.
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Do not under estimate the bandwidth and low cost of physically moving any kind of storage media.
Except for carrier pidgeons, they literally drop packets.
I'll build it later, too busy posting on slashdot.
The real lows for slashdot occur in the comments.
There's nothing I could say about unity that hasn't already been said by the haters on /. - in summation: It has some potential, some nice ideas, but it's mostly ghastly.
Unless of course I misread TFA and they intend to lose 200 million users in four years. Then they are off to a great start but are somewhat overstating their userbase.
Yes off to a bad start. I have three wildly different spec systems that have similar graphical glitches and stablity problems with 11.04, these are rigs that were rock solid with 10.10. The OS has fundamental problems this time around, that don't seem to be driver specific.
Even Galileo knew, science and relgion not actually in contradiction, except where one oversteps it's bounds.
What to learn: Learn networking fundamentals very well before touching anything.
What to buy: The cheapest thing that does the job and meets the requirements. Ignore anyone in sales or any geeks with axes to grind.
Caveat: Be very very carefull in gathering requirements.
Could the supermassive black holes that likely exist in the centre of galaxies be these mutli-universe spanning black holes? If they survivied one big crunch, perhaps not allowing enough time for hawking evaporation, have they survived many universes?
Facebook is like a reverse Wikileaks, leaking the general public's personal information back to shady corporations and government organisations. They really do have a detailed map of your digital life, and they keep all of it - the record goes all the way back to when you joined. A database of the lives 640 million people worldwide... the fact this information is so poorly protected is deeply concerning. Once you put information up there you don't get it back. I've said it before: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1946656&cid=34845420
... and for linux: sudo apt-get install updates
I'm a Kiwi. In spain they were made aware by Wikileaks, of the equivelent diplomatic cables BEFORE the legislation was passed, naturally the 3-strikes law was thrown out.
Could have let us known sooner, thank you. It would have been terrifically useful in getting this thing stopped.
No surprises the 3-strikes law seems to be popping up in many countries with open diplomatic channels to the US. In some cases (ie the British equivelent) the language in the law is word-for-word identical.
This makes me very concerned.
Someone should be able to *give* you another stick of 512mb DDR or even a 1GB, you can drop it in and you have instant speed boost.
I have a box of these kind of parts that I almost have to pay people to take. Shouldn't be too hard to beg or borrow a stick of ram to bring that old P4 back to life.
We're talking about something that doesn't run Windows or Mac OS, so it has apps/programs/whatever that 99.9% of consumers aren't going to be familiar with. Meaning, if there's no easy way to add functionality, you're dead on arrival.
Consumers who buy the iPad more than likely already are iPhone or iPod Touch owners. They're already familiar with iOS and how to get stuff done on it.
Android owners would see the benefit of an Android tablet. I logged into a Samsung Galaxy with my Gmail account and lo and behold it started downloading all my apps including my paid ones. I'm holding out to buy one though, it's still early days.
There's at least 50 Android tablets on the market and a good selection available Viewsonic, Acer Iconia, Dreambook ePad, Archos, Dell, Navitel, and others.
But why aren't they selling? Simple, epicly poor availability, near-zero advertising, and a gazillion made in china knock-off pads. Retail stores doesn't seem to bother stocking anything other than the Galaxy Tab, despite the Acer Iconia and Viewsonic tablets being rather respectable.
This all smacks of the situation 2008/2009 when there were only a few good Android handset choices and we could have said the same thing about Android phones.
From the little play I've had with Android Honeycomb 3.0 on a Xoom I have to say frankly it's a better tablet operating system, lord knows Android already has a superior notification system, cloud integration etc. Already it should be a sign that Apple is having to quietly introduce features to iOS that Android users have been introducing for some time. I really don't see how Apple can maintain it's dominance, it never has done in the past.
Actually.. the longer it takes to develop the technology the cheaper the price/performance ratio and the less expenditure required. That's just how technology does it's thing. Getting stuff to orbit becomes ever cheaper and it becomes ever more efficient space propulsion with higher specific impulse, means it'll eventually be affordable to go hunting artefacts of early space exploration.
Means eventually the Voyagers will be stumbled upon by the interstellar equivalent of a Tuk Tuk and sold on the black market in some Kupier belt slum.
Universities weren't degree factories.
An individual could under stand a software program in it's entirety and perhaps even an entire computer system. Try that with 300 mlilion lines of code in a Linux distribution (A small one).
(Just to be more blunt about a couple of your points)
Does every conversation on slashdot have to turn into a tirade about how stupid and frustrating and awful and shoddy and worthless and disappointing and shitty and aggravating and horrible windows is? We know already! It's also despicable and unreliable and saddening and ugly and untrustworthy and pernicious and inadequate and etc etc etc...
Take your blinkers off. It's not just Windows.
Yes he's obviously missed Apple and Gnome bashing amongst other things.
Congratulations to the engineers working on the original project all those years ago. I couldn't fathom designing something like this with the toolset they had 30+ years ago. Props to them for creating a set of probes that are still relevant 30 years after their launch.
Yes because if it was built in 2011 it wouldn't last so long. I actually shed a little tear that engineering of this calibre is increasingly rare these days in a world that's built by the lowest bidder.
1) Submit code under a fake identity to an open-source project that pays a bounty on security vulnerabilities. (Are any OSS contributors vetted?)
2) "Discover" the flaw(s) in your code and report it.
3) ???
4) Profit
Lawmakers who use the term "Cyberspace" won't get it anyway, this is perhaps why opposition to this kind of rubbish doesn't seem to get very far. Explain to them that the very design of the Internet means it just cannot ever be controlled or censored. Its been designed to withstand nuclear war FFS.
Whenever I update my Android phone to a newer version it only seems to get faster, slicker and more features. There's also a plethora of aftermarket ROMs which in some cases beat out stock carrier stuff on performance, stability and features.
.
Every update to my old iPhone had gotten slower, and features were introduced that Android already had.
Of course we know Apple does this deliberately, there's no incentive for them when they have billions to make, and they will quietly introduce features they see doing well on Android.
You pay a premimum for ccess to Apple walled garden in more ways than one. That's just how it is.
1) Detailed logs - be ready to prove how you didn't download that CP. You'll need to route their connection through a decent transparent proxy.
2) Get IP blocklists and block a whole lot of IPs. If you use a Windows as a platform for proxy software at any step PeerBlock is a great point and shoot solution with massive lists of IPs (P2P snooping, Spyware, etc) included. Numerous parental filtering software could work here too.
3) For plausible deniability, perhaps force anyones connection through Tor?
4) DD-WRT
More importantly it's a boost to PC gaming. It's a platform that's always had so much more potential than consoles.
Is "App" widely understood by the public to mean an iOS Application specifically?
No.
Is tacking Store on to the end of anything enough to create an original trademark?
Never.
Do people identify the term "App Store" as being specifically Apple?
No.
This fails any reasonable test from a member of the publics point of view, that counts for a lot I'm sure. Amazon has a good chance of winning and they are right to seem confidient.
Please, anything but pokey text drop down menus that you have to click through several steps deep to get to launch a dialog then have to navigate that,
Drop down menus were a fine solution when screen real estate was precious in the days of 640x480 and 800x600. The ribbon, despite a few quirks was something different and it is superior once you get used to it. Its a few less clicks to do many things, thats real time saved when your doing hundreds or thousands of actions to perform a task.
Pixels are not in short supply anymore, nor is the cpu cycles to drive them. There's no reason why when you maximise an newly opened application on a 24" monitor you should be staring at a big patch of unused grey with narrow a menu bar at the top.
The ribbon ultimately does what it's supposed to, just saves steps to do the same thing. A few clicks saved here and there doesn't sound like much but over time it adds up.