My parents have an old PC that came with windows XP that they have been running for a long time. The hardware itself is perfectly fine but windows XP has gotten cruddy and slow over the years as windows XP tends to do. I'd sure like something fresh to put on it that's free and will run decently on their hardware and runs some up to date applications.
I installed Linux recently for my mother in law, and initially she was very happy with it. A week later the touchpad stopped responding after logging in. Of course she doesn't want linux any more. As systems age, linux would have a lot more market share if these stupid littlle things could be fixed.
Right.. the price of medallions skyrocket because they're attached to something real... the capacity of the streets to bear additional cars. They reflect not only the cost of wear and tear, but the inconvenience other drivers must face due to traffic congestion. Before the medallions people couldn't even drive up to hotels because they were crowded by taxis. So because roads don't have unlimited capacity, something has to give. Personally I would rather taxi's pay exorbitant prices then have myself forced out of the roads because others are filling them.
Is this supposed to have something to do with making webmail clients better? Because with all due respect, this is just complicated and none of it helps.
So basically the city wants something like the medallion system, but one that benefits them directly instead of making it a piece of property to be traded.
So this means alt-tab to bring up firefox and then control-next page (is that a key?) in Firefox to get to email. I'd rather alt-tab to my native email client and be done.
When my internet connection matches the speed of my sata connection, and is always available with built in hardware, and browsers have native control of every pixel and event on my desktop.. Then webapps might start to make sense.
One more thing. When I want to select an entire email in my native application CTRL-A will accomplish that properly. On the other hand in gmail it selects everything in the browser which is a mess.
Also, once I set up my email in a desktop application, I click the icon and I am there. with gmail I must click on the browser icon, navigate to the page, sign in, blah blah. Gmail doesn't get as much screen space as the native application because it is only allowed the space that the browser allows. this means that screen space is wasted because the browser wants to keep showing me controls like the back button which doesn't really apply to gmail. Also, I can't alt-tab from email to a web page now, I must click on a tab in the browser to switch which is frustrating as well. Drag and drop is handled by javascript and not the native OS, which means that you get interesting quirks whereby the browser decides it wants to select text instead of dragging. If I want to create a folder in gmail, there is no right click context menu so I have to hunt for the button that does that function. That doesn't just pertain to folders, there are a bunch of places I use the context menu.
I don't really want to sit here and type through everyghing, but here are a few reasons: for one thing, attachments don't download in the background. You have to click on the link and download the attachment. Google also limits the size of the attachment, and generally speaking the size is limited by web server configuration. Also, you don't really own the emails. I know someone that lost emails from her deceased father because she had waited too long to sign in. There is a lot of lag on webmail clients. Currently gmail will show me around 20 emails and it takes almost a second for the next page to load. I'm an extremely fast reader, and it does slow me down alot when looking for an email because in a native client I can just scroll freely. Generally speaking, pagination sucks and is rampant on the web. There is no 'preview pane' in gmail which also slows me down. There is a preview pane in Zimba which is what my provider uses, but there I can only see around 7 emails on a page and don't get me started on the lag or attachment size limit.
If a company is going to profit a million dollars an hour off of doing a certain thing, I kind of expect them to be able to handle it when things go awry and certainly not affect the lives of anyone else. When did the right for a corporation to profit also absolve them of any kind of harm or damage that they do to others?
What Zuckerberg needs to do is appoint an independent board to determine who gets into this. The board should have the mandate to provide access to as much balanced and impartial information as possible, period. The only economic interest in this mandate should be to stay within the budget they are granted.
Aligning a service like tihs with the goals and agenda of any private organization is dangerous indeed. Then it is no longer altruistic and I fail to see how it can ever be good for the people.
So if someone wanted to give you free money, but the condition was that you had to suck their dick, you would take it without further fanfare? That's interesting.
The copy exists in memory.. you don't consider that making a copy? What's your definition of a copy.. that it has to be written to a hard drive? That it has to be transferred across a network? My definition is that the copy exists somewhere.
I have a T430 as my personal laptop. My laptop bag opened and it dropped on a hard tile floor once (I watched it bounce a few times on the floor with horror). There was not even a crack or a chip, laptop still works fine.
Well, if you don't think it is the same for a song to exist in a memory buffer and then be forgotten by the system (ie/dev/null), and for someone to download the song then delete it then you are really splitting hairs there.
You still don't get it. Of course it isn't illegal. So that's what the commentary is.. Why was he prosecuted for it? If PirateBay presents an illegal download to someone, and they download it and never watch it then they have gone through the motions but not actually broken the law. So by your words, not illegal. Yet they were prosecuted for it just the same.
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My parents have an old PC that came with windows XP that they have been running for a long time. The hardware itself is perfectly fine but windows XP has gotten cruddy and slow over the years as windows XP tends to do. I'd sure like something fresh to put on it that's free and will run decently on their hardware and runs some up to date applications.
I installed Linux recently for my mother in law, and initially she was very happy with it. A week later the touchpad stopped responding after logging in. Of course she doesn't want linux any more. As systems age, linux would have a lot more market share if these stupid littlle things could be fixed.
Right.. the price of medallions skyrocket because they're attached to something real... the capacity of the streets to bear additional cars. They reflect not only the cost of wear and tear, but the inconvenience other drivers must face due to traffic congestion. Before the medallions people couldn't even drive up to hotels because they were crowded by taxis. So because roads don't have unlimited capacity, something has to give. Personally I would rather taxi's pay exorbitant prices then have myself forced out of the roads because others are filling them.
Is this supposed to have something to do with making webmail clients better? Because with all due respect, this is just complicated and none of it helps.
Sure but not the wealthiest people that hate us the most. These people aren't worth our time, really.
I'm pretty sure there is more than one taxi company.
So basically the city wants something like the medallion system, but one that benefits them directly instead of making it a piece of property to be traded.
Lenovo T430. Fortunately, with the thinkpads Lenovo kept the durable design that IBM started. I can't say the same for Lenovo's consumer line.
So this means alt-tab to bring up firefox and then control-next page (is that a key?) in Firefox to get to email. I'd rather alt-tab to my native email client and be done.
When my internet connection matches the speed of my sata connection, and is always available with built in hardware, and browsers have native control of every pixel and event on my desktop.. Then webapps might start to make sense.
Lol.. I was just thinking... Qt?? I don't even use that crap for linux applications!
One more thing. When I want to select an entire email in my native application CTRL-A will accomplish that properly. On the other hand in gmail it selects everything in the browser which is a mess.
Also, once I set up my email in a desktop application, I click the icon and I am there. with gmail I must click on the browser icon, navigate to the page, sign in, blah blah. Gmail doesn't get as much screen space as the native application because it is only allowed the space that the browser allows. this means that screen space is wasted because the browser wants to keep showing me controls like the back button which doesn't really apply to gmail. Also, I can't alt-tab from email to a web page now, I must click on a tab in the browser to switch which is frustrating as well. Drag and drop is handled by javascript and not the native OS, which means that you get interesting quirks whereby the browser decides it wants to select text instead of dragging. If I want to create a folder in gmail, there is no right click context menu so I have to hunt for the button that does that function. That doesn't just pertain to folders, there are a bunch of places I use the context menu.
I don't really want to sit here and type through everyghing, but here are a few reasons: for one thing, attachments don't download in the background. You have to click on the link and download the attachment. Google also limits the size of the attachment, and generally speaking the size is limited by web server configuration. Also, you don't really own the emails. I know someone that lost emails from her deceased father because she had waited too long to sign in. There is a lot of lag on webmail clients. Currently gmail will show me around 20 emails and it takes almost a second for the next page to load. I'm an extremely fast reader, and it does slow me down alot when looking for an email because in a native client I can just scroll freely. Generally speaking, pagination sucks and is rampant on the web. There is no 'preview pane' in gmail which also slows me down. There is a preview pane in Zimba which is what my provider uses, but there I can only see around 7 emails on a page and don't get me started on the lag or attachment size limit.
You're not going to make me go on are you?
You use a web browser for email? Web email clients totally suck!
If a company is going to profit a million dollars an hour off of doing a certain thing, I kind of expect them to be able to handle it when things go awry and certainly not affect the lives of anyone else. When did the right for a corporation to profit also absolve them of any kind of harm or damage that they do to others?
Sure.. and ISIS loves to give people free room and board, along with a free education! Nothing wrong with that right??
What Zuckerberg needs to do is appoint an independent board to determine who gets into this. The board should have the mandate to provide access to as much balanced and impartial information as possible, period. The only economic interest in this mandate should be to stay within the budget they are granted.
Aligning a service like tihs with the goals and agenda of any private organization is dangerous indeed. Then it is no longer altruistic and I fail to see how it can ever be good for the people.
ISIS doesn't have a problem providing their own education to the poor unwashed masses.. Why should Facebook?
So if someone wanted to give you free money, but the condition was that you had to suck their dick, you would take it without further fanfare? That's interesting.
The copy exists in memory.. you don't consider that making a copy? What's your definition of a copy.. that it has to be written to a hard drive? That it has to be transferred across a network? My definition is that the copy exists somewhere.
I have a T430 as my personal laptop. My laptop bag opened and it dropped on a hard tile floor once (I watched it bounce a few times on the floor with horror). There was not even a crack or a chip, laptop still works fine.
Well, if you don't think it is the same for a song to exist in a memory buffer and then be forgotten by the system (ie /dev/null), and for someone to download the song then delete it then you are really splitting hairs there.
You still don't get it. Of course it isn't illegal. So that's what the commentary is.. Why was he prosecuted for it? If PirateBay presents an illegal download to someone, and they download it and never watch it then they have gone through the motions but not actually broken the law. So by your words, not illegal. Yet they were prosecuted for it just the same.
It's still going through the motions of making a copy. Just because all the bytes don't exist at the same time, the copy is still made.