After getting rid of X, I' running a Torrent (transmission), DLNA (miniDLNA), SSH and NAS (just a plain 3TB USB drive) server in 50-70MB on a similar ARM platform, so 256, even 128, should be plenty for a lot of things.
then, the judge help up to 21" monitors, and asked the lawyers to identify them and then, 2 washing machines and then, 2 cars and then, 2 keyboards and then, 2 cameras and then, 2 non-smart phones and then....
Somewhere in the process, a point has been proven. Not the intended one, though ?
Are you implying the mass-produced education is done by people who know nothing teaching ? This does sound like an idiot premise to me because, on the contrary, since mass-produced education will be used, and paid for, more widely, in make sense to have it designed by the best, of the best, of the best, sir.
OTOH, how many teachers do we know would have been fired if it were at all possible ?
Nice. But the way I'm set up, the big, beautiful, $350, "right" one is actually more in front than the small, ugly, $150 "left" one, and I can't really change them around, nor do I want to make the sucky one my main screen.
they sucked. I k7ow, I had one, but thank god eventually CM7 came out for it, ridding me of the ridiculous desktop ui that did'nt work at all on a small touscreen.
Not so much vending machines as mass-produced. Which says a lot about the state of hand-crafted education. Way back when mass-production started, it actually was a way to get goods of better specifications and quality, at a lower price. It seems it's now education's turn, partly because mass-production is more efficient, and partly because hand-crafted education is controlled by cartel that has nothing but its members' interest at heart. Not its customers'.
That's true, but still. Lowly voice dialing has been around for ages, and nobody uses it. My guess is, having to memorize "call X" as the right format to... call X... is not the reason why it's disused. We'll know in a couple of months, once the "ohhh shiny !" effect has worn off, if people actually use Siri. My bet: they won't.
I've watched the video, and I've been impressed by the contextualization that Siri does intelligently, and the perfect voice recognition. I'm not sure that'll be enough to make it a success though, nor that it will work as well IRL. And Apple as a long history of hyping random stuff that's neither very innovative nor useful (FaceTime ?), so I'll wait and see if I actually observe Siri being used in the wild.
Also, there is something fishy about letting an advertiser control search results (and Siri is, mostly, a search engine). Does Apple have an Google-like ethics policy, with paid results well segregated from non-paid ones ?.
PCs have had it for ages too, I tried it 10 years ago... Felt like a dork (and that was all on my lonesome in my room, not in a crowded street), was slower than typing (on a keyboard though, not a touchscreen), and misunderstood me enough to make it a pain.
It's indeed also on my Android phone, never cared until Siri, tried it out when it seemed to be the next magical thing... dropped it as fast as the first time around.
From what I've read, Siri might be more accurate and more intelligent, but my guess is, not enough to override the basic dorkiness and inaccuracy of a speech interface.
I have a dual-screen setup with my main monitor on the right, so the left-handed, fixed menu really is a pain: either I make it collapse, and then have to target a very slim pixel-wide bar to un-collapse it, or I have to leave it there and waste screen space. They could at least allow us to switch left and right, and if make it as flexible as (gasp !) Windows, that lets us put the start bar on any border.
Also, grub2 has issues: couldn't handle handle a... blank HD for whole-disk installation ? I got a blinking cursor and hard reset on that one. And on my netbook, grub2 listed more than 1 entry per partition (!?), many of which non-bootable or system restore, with no way to clean, re-order... that monstrosity.
And finally, the way that start works is a pain, especially trying to put several folders on there.
To me, this sounds that developer arrogance: unfriendly stuff nobody wants (except the devs for bragging rights), that doesn't even work right. Ar users consulted at all, or is the Ubuntu dev process a giant nerd wank-fest ? In the end, this is making me lose confidence in Ubuntu in the long term. Long-term being, to them, 3yrs (LTS desktop), which also worries me.
I reboot at most once a week, more likely once a month. The rest of the time is deep sleep, or whatever windows calls writing its state to state and powering down.
Indeed. But, the churches are more concerned with recruiting, and pandering to, customers and employees, than to make sure their very allegorical and flexible teachings and power structure are not used and abused.
Religions might be sometimes OK as philosophies, but churches are almost universally corrupt in various ways, and few religions do not use churches.
I semi-agree with that. It's OK for 95% of what I need (revisions printing is a lot less nice than MS Office). What kills it for me is the Office import/export issues, which prevent using it when I know docs will travel around. MS must be happy, that's what they always wanted.
Indeed. I would add reliability (it seems every browser releases a shitty version from time to time, last culprit was firefox before they started turbo-numbering), bfore that I had issues with Opera 10.x or a long time. All fixed now, I guess it's Chrome's turn ?
You do realize that in the process, the US have lost the moral high ground, all pretenses of being a constitutional democracy, billions of dollars, thousands of lives (more than 9/11), and let a couple of economic crashes through ?
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After getting rid of X, I' running a Torrent (transmission), DLNA (miniDLNA), SSH and NAS (just a plain 3TB USB drive) server in 50-70MB on a similar ARM platform, so 256, even 128, should be plenty for a lot of things.
then, the judge help up to 21" monitors, and asked the lawyers to identify them
and then, 2 washing machines
and then, 2 cars
and then, 2 keyboards
and then, 2 cameras
and then, 2 non-smart phones
and then....
Somewhere in the process, a point has been proven. Not the intended one, though ?
Are you implying the mass-produced education is done by people who know nothing teaching ? This does sound like an idiot premise to me because, on the contrary, since mass-produced education will be used, and paid for, more widely, in make sense to have it designed by the best, of the best, of the best, sir.
OTOH, how many teachers do we know would have been fired if it were at all possible ?
Nice. But the way I'm set up, the big, beautiful, $350, "right" one is actually more in front than the small, ugly, $150 "left" one, and I can't really change them around, nor do I want to make the sucky one my main screen.
not to untoot your own horn, but that stuff has been in scifi for ages. 2000 ? Alien ?
which actually is another way to say that merging computers and their displays is dumb.
they sucked. I k7ow, I had one, but thank god eventually CM7 came out for it, ridding me of the ridiculous desktop ui that did'nt work at all on a small touscreen.
Not so much vending machines as mass-produced. Which says a lot about the state of hand-crafted education. Way back when mass-production started, it actually was a way to get goods of better specifications and quality, at a lower price. It seems it's now education's turn, partly because mass-production is more efficient, and partly because hand-crafted education is controlled by cartel that has nothing but its members' interest at heart. Not its customers'.
That's true, but still. Lowly voice dialing has been around for ages, and nobody uses it. My guess is, having to memorize "call X" as the right format to ... call X... is not the reason why it's disused. We'll know in a couple of months, once the "ohhh shiny !" effect has worn off, if people actually use Siri. My bet: they won't.
I've watched the video, and I've been impressed by the contextualization that Siri does intelligently, and the perfect voice recognition. I'm not sure that'll be enough to make it a success though, nor that it will work as well IRL. And Apple as a long history of hyping random stuff that's neither very innovative nor useful (FaceTime ?), so I'll wait and see if I actually observe Siri being used in the wild.
Also, there is something fishy about letting an advertiser control search results (and Siri is, mostly, a search engine). Does Apple have an Google-like ethics policy, with paid results well segregated from non-paid ones ?.
PCs have had it for ages too, I tried it 10 years ago... Felt like a dork (and that was all on my lonesome in my room, not in a crowded street), was slower than typing (on a keyboard though, not a touchscreen), and misunderstood me enough to make it a pain.
It's indeed also on my Android phone, never cared until Siri, tried it out when it seemed to be the next magical thing... dropped it as fast as the first time around.
From what I've read, Siri might be more accurate and more intelligent, but my guess is, not enough to override the basic dorkiness and inaccuracy of a speech interface.
I have a dual-screen setup with my main monitor on the right, so the left-handed, fixed menu really is a pain: either I make it collapse, and then have to target a very slim pixel-wide bar to un-collapse it, or I have to leave it there and waste screen space. They could at least allow us to switch left and right, and if make it as flexible as (gasp !) Windows, that lets us put the start bar on any border.
Also, grub2 has issues: couldn't handle handle a... blank HD for whole-disk installation ? I got a blinking cursor and hard reset on that one. And on my netbook, grub2 listed more than 1 entry per partition (!?), many of which non-bootable or system restore, with no way to clean, re-order... that monstrosity.
And finally, the way that start works is a pain, especially trying to put several folders on there.
To me, this sounds that developer arrogance: unfriendly stuff nobody wants (except the devs for bragging rights), that doesn't even work right. Ar users consulted at all, or is the Ubuntu dev process a giant nerd wank-fest ? In the end, this is making me lose confidence in Ubuntu in the long term. Long-term being, to them, 3yrs (LTS desktop), which also worries me.
the French have tried to tackle that issue too, but, oh, well, we surrendered.
OK, you've defined the "child" part. Now about the "pornography" part ?
Filsy little sieves ?
I reboot at most once a week, more likely once a month. The rest of the time is deep sleep, or whatever windows calls writing its state to state and powering down.
Thank god you're here to save us !
But.. I'm positive it's charged, so it's "positively charged" !
And you should stop being so negative, mister...
Indeed. But, the churches are more concerned with recruiting, and pandering to, customers and employees, than to make sure their very allegorical and flexible teachings and power structure are not used and abused.
Religions might be sometimes OK as philosophies, but churches are almost universally corrupt in various ways, and few religions do not use churches.
I semi-agree with that. It's OK for 95% of what I need (revisions printing is a lot less nice than MS Office). What kills it for me is the Office import/export issues, which prevent using it when I know docs will travel around. MS must be happy, that's what they always wanted.
The don't have much of a choice. It's either pay up you r lobbyists and campaign contributions, or be trampled. Politics has become a racket.
Indeed. I would add reliability (it seems every browser releases a shitty version from time to time, last culprit was firefox before they started turbo-numbering), bfore that I had issues with Opera 10.x or a long time. All fixed now, I guess it's Chrome's turn ?
Yep, but available bandwidth is directly proportional to spectrum, and the amount of data you can transfer is directly proportional to bandwidth.
The reasoning is: we consume exponentially more data, so we need more bandwidth to move that data, so we need more spectrum to unlock that bandwidth.
in data consumed/transfered.
You do realize that in the process, the US have lost the moral high ground, all pretenses of being a constitutional democracy, billions of dollars, thousands of lives (more than 9/11), and let a couple of economic crashes through ?
How is that not Al Qaeda winning ?