Yes you're right. To be more precise:
Vendor neutral, DRM free method of legally downloading media. Streaming also, is not good enough. The crux of my argument is that pirates offer this already, yet content providers seem to be opposed to the idea of giving consumers high quality DRM free downloads, which is exactly what people want. When I buy a DVD I'm confident it will work on any player for many years. Why not give consumers the same level of assurance with Internet delivered content?
Until content producers provide a quick, easy and legal means to download content as soon as soon as it becomes available consumers will keep getting their media from "alternative" sources.
For the last couple of decades SETI has been searching the sky methodically looking for any interesting signals around the 1.420 gigahertz range which is the "precession frequency of neutral hydrogen". SETI will now be able to point their radio telescopes at places we already know are interesting and check them on a much wider range of frequencies. I may be hopeful but I can't help feeling it's an exciting time to be alive.
Nokia shot themselves in the foot by having a hundred different phone models available at any one time and not many of them very good. My friend had a high end Nokia,which was buggy and glitchy. I told him it was no problem, I would go to the Nokia website and download a firmware update for him. Well, after a year still no firmware update. He then went and bought an iPhone which he loves. If Nokia focused on making a few really good phones instead of a hundred average ones they might have retained some customer loyalty.
With Pakistan shuffling their nukes around in un-armoured minimally guarded vans, North Korea continuing to develop its nuclear facilities and Iran apparently hell bent on getting the bomb I'm more surprised they didn't move the needle sooner.
> how did anyone ever think a "start" button an eighth of an inch wide was a good idea??
I suspect this is what happens when sales staff make design decisions. I can imagine Balmer at the meeting now: "Familiarity, familiarity, FAMILIARITY, FAMILIARITY..."
Until content publishers offer a simple, affordable, hardware neutral method of legally obtaining and owning every TV show, film and song ever created, over the Internet, pirates will have the advantage.
Claiming that Facebook caused your divorce is like claiming the telephone caused your divorce when you heard your wife using it to cheat on you. People need to take more time to fully understand the communications medium they have chosen. Not that it's particularly easy with a closed, privately held system such as Facebook.
"We know that many companies find the GPL so unacceptable that they won't use Linux for that reason. In this regard we might become a small BSD-licensed Linux replacement."
BSD programmers around the world proudly proclaiming: Macintosh was me, it really was, promise....
Freedom to build a wall around other people's work. Freedom?
For the younger ones with an interest in computers how about some simple hacking tools? Kids would think that was cool. "DOS your little sisters netbook of the wifi with this bad boy". Hehehe,
Gabe only said the passwords were hashed and salted. Apparently the credit card number database was only encrypted? Although they've been relatively open about this hack I'm sure people with credit card numbers stored there would be comfortable with more information.
Microsoft's IE does this on a regional basis. If you want Google to appear in the IE Gallery try changing your Windows region to the USA. You'll then have to click the "Search" tab in Gallery as the default page shows only the newest search providers (clever, Microsoft). You can change your region back once the search provider is installed. In Australia we only get the Google "Search Accelerator" as a Gallery option which doesn't actually add Google as a search provider. Very frustrating, and sneaky.
Software updates from the dedicated commercial Red Hat Network servers rather than relying on the public mirror system (which is superb but for a corporate network RHN may be more reliable in times of crisis?).
Frequent e-mail notifications of bugs and security holes. I guess this falls under the support category and the information is available elsewhere on the web if you know where to look, but it's handy having notifications which are specifically relevant to your registered systems come directly to your inbox in a timely manner.
System management: Monitor your system update status from a central control panel on RHN.
As an Aussie this is the way I've always seen Qantas: Layer upon layer of management looking for ways to move up the chain by squeezing every penny out of their budget. As always it's the workers at the bottom, the ones actually doing the work of keeping planes in the air and getting passengers and luggage on board that get the shaft. Qantas would like the Australian public to sympathise with them, as if they had no choice but to take this action. I think now for the first time every Australian is getting an opportunity to feel first hand what it's like to be on the receiving end of one of managements decisions.
$8.5 billion for the technology? I don't think Microsoft would have a hard time throwing together a video conferencing app of their own. The user base? Does MS seriously think that users are that loyal to Skype? MS has used it's market share to ram new products up consumers before. I wonder what Skype's patent portfolio looks like.
According to relativity It's only impossible to go faster than the speed of light through space-time. Mass and space-time are fundamentally linked. What we consider gravity is space-time which has been warped by an object with mass (e.g. the earth). If an object were to have truly no mass it wouldn't be bound by the same speed limits as normal matter. Considering the Standard Model of physics assumes the neutrino has no mass, and considering how much we've yet to learn about the physics governing sub-atomic particles, it's not impossible that we're seeing something new which doesn't necessarily have to violate Einstein's laws.
Applications will improve when available infrastructure makes them viable. To not upgrade networks when the technology becomes feasible is like saying "what we're doing now with the Internet is all we'll ever need to do and all anyone will ever need". Many of the applications we use today such as streaming HD video, video conferencing and content rich online gaming were made possible by the standardisation of multi-megabit broadband connections. I remember a ridiculous argument made in an Australian computer magazine in the early days of ADSL roll-out that dial-up would never go away because it was a "standard" and our applications had been designed for it. Skype video call over dial-up anyone?
Exactly. One would think the laws of conservation of energy would apply. I wonder if the panels are powered at least partially by the waste heat from the tank.
A couple of great "dumbed-down" books I've read:
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking does an excellent job of explaining the basic concepts of relativity
Amazon.
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene also does a good job of explaining relativity for the layman as well as Quantum Mechanics and String Theory
Amazon.
One method the article didn't mention is to use your own caching DNS server. Bind is available for Windows, OSX and obviously Linux. The default installation is for a caching name server which does not rely on any external servers except the root servers.
You can enable traditional Alt+Tab functionality by using the Configuration Editor (gconf-editor) or by installing gnome-shell-extensions-alternate-tab. Switching to other windows with the alternate-tab extension installed does not require any more clicks than Gnome 2. You simply move the mouse pointer to the left of the screen and your open windows will be displayed for you. You then click the window you want. Or use ALT+TAB the old fashioned way.
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Yes you're right. To be more precise: Vendor neutral, DRM free method of legally downloading media. Streaming also, is not good enough. The crux of my argument is that pirates offer this already, yet content providers seem to be opposed to the idea of giving consumers high quality DRM free downloads, which is exactly what people want. When I buy a DVD I'm confident it will work on any player for many years. Why not give consumers the same level of assurance with Internet delivered content?
Until content producers provide a quick, easy and legal means to download content as soon as soon as it becomes available consumers will keep getting their media from "alternative" sources.
For the last couple of decades SETI has been searching the sky methodically looking for any interesting signals around the 1.420 gigahertz range which is the "precession frequency of neutral hydrogen". SETI will now be able to point their radio telescopes at places we already know are interesting and check them on a much wider range of frequencies. I may be hopeful but I can't help feeling it's an exciting time to be alive.
Nokia shot themselves in the foot by having a hundred different phone models available at any one time and not many of them very good. My friend had a high end Nokia,which was buggy and glitchy. I told him it was no problem, I would go to the Nokia website and download a firmware update for him. Well, after a year still no firmware update. He then went and bought an iPhone which he loves. If Nokia focused on making a few really good phones instead of a hundred average ones they might have retained some customer loyalty.
With Pakistan shuffling their nukes around in un-armoured minimally guarded vans, North Korea continuing to develop its nuclear facilities and Iran apparently hell bent on getting the bomb I'm more surprised they didn't move the needle sooner.
> how did anyone ever think a "start" button an eighth of an inch wide was a good idea??
I suspect this is what happens when sales staff make design decisions. I can imagine Balmer at the meeting now: "Familiarity, familiarity, FAMILIARITY, FAMILIARITY..."
Until content publishers offer a simple, affordable, hardware neutral method of legally obtaining and owning every TV show, film and song ever created, over the Internet, pirates will have the advantage.
Claiming that Facebook caused your divorce is like claiming the telephone caused your divorce when you heard your wife using it to cheat on you. People need to take more time to fully understand the communications medium they have chosen. Not that it's particularly easy with a closed, privately held system such as Facebook.
"We know that many companies find the GPL so unacceptable that they won't use Linux for that reason. In this regard we might become a small BSD-licensed Linux replacement."
BSD programmers around the world proudly proclaiming: Macintosh was me, it really was, promise....
Freedom to build a wall around other people's work. Freedom?
For the younger ones with an interest in computers how about some simple hacking tools? Kids would think that was cool. "DOS your little sisters netbook of the wifi with this bad boy". Hehehe,
Gabe only said the passwords were hashed and salted. Apparently the credit card number database was only encrypted? Although they've been relatively open about this hack I'm sure people with credit card numbers stored there would be comfortable with more information.
Microsoft's IE does this on a regional basis. If you want Google to appear in the IE Gallery try changing your Windows region to the USA. You'll then have to click the "Search" tab in Gallery as the default page shows only the newest search providers (clever, Microsoft). You can change your region back once the search provider is installed. In Australia we only get the Google "Search Accelerator" as a Gallery option which doesn't actually add Google as a search provider. Very frustrating, and sneaky.
Would matter not be created at the flash point due to the amount of energy they're concentrating? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1997/09/970918045841.htm
Software updates from the dedicated commercial Red Hat Network servers rather than relying on the public mirror system (which is superb but for a corporate network RHN may be more reliable in times of crisis?). Frequent e-mail notifications of bugs and security holes. I guess this falls under the support category and the information is available elsewhere on the web if you know where to look, but it's handy having notifications which are specifically relevant to your registered systems come directly to your inbox in a timely manner. System management: Monitor your system update status from a central control panel on RHN.
As an Aussie this is the way I've always seen Qantas: Layer upon layer of management looking for ways to move up the chain by squeezing every penny out of their budget. As always it's the workers at the bottom, the ones actually doing the work of keeping planes in the air and getting passengers and luggage on board that get the shaft. Qantas would like the Australian public to sympathise with them, as if they had no choice but to take this action. I think now for the first time every Australian is getting an opportunity to feel first hand what it's like to be on the receiving end of one of managements decisions.
Nokia: Changing the way we bring RSI to kids.
$8.5 billion for the technology? I don't think Microsoft would have a hard time throwing together a video conferencing app of their own. The user base? Does MS seriously think that users are that loyal to Skype? MS has used it's market share to ram new products up consumers before. I wonder what Skype's patent portfolio looks like.
According to relativity It's only impossible to go faster than the speed of light through space-time. Mass and space-time are fundamentally linked. What we consider gravity is space-time which has been warped by an object with mass (e.g. the earth). If an object were to have truly no mass it wouldn't be bound by the same speed limits as normal matter. Considering the Standard Model of physics assumes the neutrino has no mass, and considering how much we've yet to learn about the physics governing sub-atomic particles, it's not impossible that we're seeing something new which doesn't necessarily have to violate Einstein's laws.
Applications will improve when available infrastructure makes them viable. To not upgrade networks when the technology becomes feasible is like saying "what we're doing now with the Internet is all we'll ever need to do and all anyone will ever need". Many of the applications we use today such as streaming HD video, video conferencing and content rich online gaming were made possible by the standardisation of multi-megabit broadband connections. I remember a ridiculous argument made in an Australian computer magazine in the early days of ADSL roll-out that dial-up would never go away because it was a "standard" and our applications had been designed for it. Skype video call over dial-up anyone?
Exactly. One would think the laws of conservation of energy would apply. I wonder if the panels are powered at least partially by the waste heat from the tank.
A couple of great "dumbed-down" books I've read: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking does an excellent job of explaining the basic concepts of relativity Amazon. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene also does a good job of explaining relativity for the layman as well as Quantum Mechanics and String Theory Amazon.
Merge it with the Doom source and play online with your friends and strangers!
One method the article didn't mention is to use your own caching DNS server. Bind is available for Windows, OSX and obviously Linux. The default installation is for a caching name server which does not rely on any external servers except the root servers.
Fair enough. You can try Tint2 - apparently adds a task bar to Gnome 3. http://gregcor.com/2011/04/12/get-a-taskbar-in-gnome-3gnome-shell/
You can enable traditional Alt+Tab functionality by using the Configuration Editor (gconf-editor) or by installing gnome-shell-extensions-alternate-tab. Switching to other windows with the alternate-tab extension installed does not require any more clicks than Gnome 2. You simply move the mouse pointer to the left of the screen and your open windows will be displayed for you. You then click the window you want. Or use ALT+TAB the old fashioned way.