... But your point is invalid since Canonical != Ubuntu users and Canonical != Ubuntu maintainers. Latter are all in the volunteer camp....
I disagree. In principle, you are correct, Canonical, as a company, has nothing to do with me, as a user, filing a bug report on some piece of software. However, how many of these bug reports would exist in the first place if not for Ubuntu, for which Canonical is largely (if not wholly) responsible? Something about eyeballs and shallow bugs.
For me, Canonical succeeded where most other companies did not, in marketing Linux and GNOME as user-friendly solutions, which in turn, I believe, will draw developers to produce more software for Linux.
Whilst this is, in part, due to the relative maturity of both products, for which Red Hat is largely responsible, I believe that GNOME benefits greatly from Canonical's approach towards user-friendliness as much as Canonical benefits from the infrastructure on which they base their products. Canonical has produced great software (like Upstart) which may not be obvious.
The census is correct in implying that Canonical has not as many modules in upstream GNOME repositories, however that is only half the story. The census counts all commits since the beginning of the project, so Red Hat has a 6-year head start. Not to mention that Red Hat is a much bigger company than Canonical.
Canonical provides a lot of things of value to GNOME and the free software community in general. The (recently established) Canonical Design Team produces research on software usability, the value of which is not easily quantifiable. Many pieces of GNOME software live on Launchpad and are not strictly part of GNOME upstream (Simple Scan, for instance). This might change if (or when) these modules are accepted in GNOME proper.
To claim that Canonical is freeloading on other companies' contributions is a bit of myopic, in my opinion. How many upstream bug reports came from Ubuntu users?
You could at least mention that Rob Pike had a large part in designing Plan 9, a programming language called Limbo, and oh, UTF-8, and that by "he and other Google engineers", TFA means Ken Thompson, who created B (a predecessor to C) and had a part in creating an operating system called Unix.
These two people are the closest thing to a "computer scientist" there probably is, and I'd wager they know quite a lot about programming language design. Pike is known about his feelings towards programming languages like C++.
Rob Pike made a talk about Go and programming language design and makes some interesting points. It's available on youtube.
"To be perfectly clear, we have asked Mr. Murtazin for the return of all Nokia property in his possession. As he has declined to reply, we asked the Russian authorities to assist us. We leave it to the Russian authorities to determine the most appropriate course of action."
Clean Room Technician: You know what they do with engineers when they turn forty? [to Aaron, who shakes his head] Clean Room Technician: They take them out and shoot them.
For all its sexiness (and $699, apparently) it comes with no screen, keyboard or mouse. Granted, people will probably use this with their TV, but having no bundled keyboard/mouse is a real shame. And to think that the Mini was supposed to be an entry point (price-wise) in the Apple Mac world.
Windows XP is still "good enough" for many people out there, and besides, it's still supported by software vendors, and probably will be for quite some time. The technological rift between Windows XP and Windows 7 is not overly large (the base infrastructure is in many places similar to identical), so that incentive is also missing (unlike, say, the jump from Mac OS Classic to Mac OS X, which were completely different, with Mac OS X clearly being the way forward).
As long as people can run their Offices and their Firefoxes and whatnot, XP will stay for those people who do not wish to purchase new computers (or new OS licenses, anyways).
And to think that Vista was supposed to be a quantum leap forward in terms of infrastructure (remember WinFS?). If the largest software company in the world can't get their asses into gear, something is clearly wrong with their modus operandi.
The screen does *not* have a 2450dpi resolution (which would be ridiculous). The dpi metric refers to the input sensitivity. The screen is a 8" 1024x600 panel.
The panel is obviously not e-ink...is this old school monochrome LCD, then? If the viewing angles are OK, I don't see why not.
Swearing is immoral and God forbid our children seeing any naked bodies (male or female) on the telly.
On the other hand, violence (Rambo-like caricature violence is still violence) and titilation is probably OK.
I recently read that family groups were all up in arms because the little girl in the movie Kick-Ass said the word "cunts" or something like that. They did not seem to mind the fact that she murders tens of people in the film, though.
Not feasible on a laptop. This drive, however, seems perfect for most purposes, and the price is not half-bad either ($156 for the 500GB version). Performance is better than traditional drives in almost all benchmarks, and reaches up to 2x the performance when using commonly accessed files (like, the operating system).
I'd love to see what this does for boot speeds etc.
Are you implying that our needs have changed so much during these two years?
I'm pretty sure that the Pandora is still the most powerful portable game console out there. The battery is a dog (10+ hours of gaming), the controls are said to be more than solid, and the platform (ARM Cortex-A8) is far from obsolete.
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... But your point is invalid since Canonical != Ubuntu users and Canonical != Ubuntu maintainers. Latter are all in the volunteer camp. ...
I disagree. In principle, you are correct, Canonical, as a company, has nothing to do with me, as a user, filing a bug report on some piece of software. However, how many of these bug reports would exist in the first place if not for Ubuntu, for which Canonical is largely (if not wholly) responsible? Something about eyeballs and shallow bugs.
For me, Canonical succeeded where most other companies did not, in marketing Linux and GNOME as user-friendly solutions, which in turn, I believe, will draw developers to produce more software for Linux.
Whilst this is, in part, due to the relative maturity of both products, for which Red Hat is largely responsible, I believe that GNOME benefits greatly from Canonical's approach towards user-friendliness as much as Canonical benefits from the infrastructure on which they base their products. Canonical has produced great software (like Upstart) which may not be obvious.
The census is correct in implying that Canonical has not as many modules in upstream GNOME repositories, however that is only half the story. The census counts all commits since the beginning of the project, so Red Hat has a 6-year head start. Not to mention that Red Hat is a much bigger company than Canonical.
Canonical provides a lot of things of value to GNOME and the free software community in general. The (recently established) Canonical Design Team produces research on software usability, the value of which is not easily quantifiable. Many pieces of GNOME software live on Launchpad and are not strictly part of GNOME upstream (Simple Scan, for instance). This might change if (or when) these modules are accepted in GNOME proper.
To claim that Canonical is freeloading on other companies' contributions is a bit of myopic, in my opinion. How many upstream bug reports came from Ubuntu users?
Which also means you'll need to buy batteries, which are quite expensive, and have a fairly short lifespan. Which was always the point.
You could at least mention that Rob Pike had a large part in designing Plan 9, a programming language called Limbo, and oh, UTF-8, and that by "he and other Google engineers", TFA means Ken Thompson, who created B (a predecessor to C) and had a part in creating an operating system called Unix.
These two people are the closest thing to a "computer scientist" there probably is, and I'd wager they know quite a lot about programming language design. Pike is known about his feelings towards programming languages like C++.
Rob Pike made a talk about Go and programming language design and makes some interesting points. It's available on youtube.
I think he meant to say that user options make a product too complicated.
To paraphrase Bjarne Stroustrup:
"An organisation that treats its users as morons will soon have users that are willing and able to act like morons only."
http://bash.org/?5775
or approximately 1.524.000.000 beard seconds.
Here's the relevant link on conversations.nokia.com:
http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/07/legal-action-against-eldar-murtazin-official-statement/
It pretty much boils down to this:
"To be perfectly clear, we have asked Mr. Murtazin for the return of all Nokia property in his possession. As he has declined to reply, we asked the Russian authorities to assist us. We leave it to the Russian authorities to determine the most appropriate course of action."
Apple is just trying to shift blame to AT&T for the disconnections.
Unless the phone intentionally drops calls on low signal, this will fix nothing.
*sigh*
The idea behind returning faulty equipment is the same, I think.
The patent issues covering VP8 and H.264 are unproven. It's possible that H.264 infringes on VPx patents as much as VPx infringes on H.264 patents.
They also reused code from previous VPx versions. Maybe the "infringing" code in VP8 is actually older than the patents on which it infringes?
Clean Room Technician: You know what they do with engineers when they turn forty?
[to Aaron, who shakes his head]
Clean Room Technician: They take them out and shoot them.
Shooting people makes a mess, who's going to clean that up? Not to mention the sight of a person's exploded skull.
Isn't Vimeo more art-oriented than Youtube? A very large amount of videos on Vimeo can seriously be classified as visual art.
For all its sexiness (and $699, apparently) it comes with no screen, keyboard or mouse. Granted, people will probably use this with their TV, but having no bundled keyboard/mouse is a real shame. And to think that the Mini was supposed to be an entry point (price-wise) in the Apple Mac world.
Also, no Blue-Ray option?
The Brittish would. Though the correct term is "queueing".
n/t
Windows XP is still "good enough" for many people out there, and besides, it's still supported by software vendors, and probably will be for quite some time. The technological rift between Windows XP and Windows 7 is not overly large (the base infrastructure is in many places similar to identical), so that incentive is also missing (unlike, say, the jump from Mac OS Classic to Mac OS X, which were completely different, with Mac OS X clearly being the way forward).
As long as people can run their Offices and their Firefoxes and whatnot, XP will stay for those people who do not wish to purchase new computers (or new OS licenses, anyways).
And to think that Vista was supposed to be a quantum leap forward in terms of infrastructure (remember WinFS?). If the largest software company in the world can't get their asses into gear, something is clearly wrong with their modus operandi.
The Balkans, probably.
The screen does *not* have a 2450dpi resolution (which would be ridiculous). The dpi metric refers to the input sensitivity. The screen is a 8" 1024x600 panel.
The panel is obviously not e-ink...is this old school monochrome LCD, then? If the viewing angles are OK, I don't see why not.
Obviously, it does. ;)
Related: http://www.serialata.org/technology/port_multipliers.asp
Swearing is immoral and God forbid our children seeing any naked bodies (male or female) on the telly.
On the other hand, violence (Rambo-like caricature violence is still violence) and titilation is probably OK.
I recently read that family groups were all up in arms because the little girl in the movie Kick-Ass said the word "cunts" or something like that. They did not seem to mind the fact that she murders tens of people in the film, though.
Um, here: http://search.slashdot.org/story/10/05/22/1218242/Google-Offers-Encrypted-Web-Search-Option
That was like, three days ago.
Not feasible on a laptop. This drive, however, seems perfect for most purposes, and the price is not half-bad either ($156 for the 500GB version). Performance is better than traditional drives in almost all benchmarks, and reaches up to 2x the performance when using commonly accessed files (like, the operating system).
I'd love to see what this does for boot speeds etc.
Are you implying that our needs have changed so much during these two years?
I'm pretty sure that the Pandora is still the most powerful portable game console out there. The battery is a dog (10+ hours of gaming), the controls are said to be more than solid, and the platform (ARM Cortex-A8) is far from obsolete.