DUMB families, that is. When you have Dropbox, SpiderOak, Microsoft's whatever-it's-called storage service, why in the name of the Unholy would you stick to Facebook? Yes, my sister shrugged when I had her go to a Dropbox link to download my kid's pictures, but I basically told her that's how I function and she either can go there or wait until she sees him directly. Or I could send the pictures to her through Yahoo Messenger Send File option. Bot NOT Facebook. No, thanks.
Even Saint Mary was riding an ass in the Bible, and a fine one that was, because she was riding it for hours at times. Saint Mary's ass was a fine ass to ride.
I honestly think people are overreacting when mentioning the damn Start Menu over and over again. What I really, REALLY miss is a fully fledged Taskbar, which allows me to quickly and precisely switch between the multitude of applications I have active at the same time. When you have at least 5 Excel spreadsheets, a couple PPTs, one-two Word Documents, Outlook, three browsers with God-knows-how-many tabs open in each, a taskbar spread on three rows is golden.
Ref: tablets versus laptops. I tried to find one (ONE) acquaintance of mine who has a tablet but does NOT have a laptop. I found none. Everyone I know who has a tablet bought it as a supplement to a laptop; for in-car use, for doing shallow stuff while commuting, to watch a movie before sleep, for kids, etc. Even writing a lengthier post on Slashdot takes less time on a laptop than on a tablet. Sure, you can write 5 words and say "see, that works perfectly" but try writing a 1000-word post on a tablet, then on a laptop, you'll see the difference.
Also, we're talking mostly about hardware here. I think most Linux flavors have touch possibility. Therefore, laptops with touchscreens can (and will) be used with Linux. Objecting to a laptop with touchscreen is like objecting to a laptop with, say, e-SATA port. by the way, I found the e-SATA port on my laptop VERY useful just last week when I got a 4 TB external HDD which has an e-SATA port. 120 MB/s transfer rate FTW.
What does this have to do with anything? As long as there'll be a market for laptops with keyboards, keyboards will exist. Adding a touchscreen option is something I welcome. Sometimes it's easier to just touch the screen, sometimes it's preferable to type. Right now, Windows 8 makes little to no sense on my laptop. Had it a touchscreen, it would make a lot more sense.
I saw a gas station and one of the pumps there was in "maintenance mode" or something. Anyway, it wasn't working and on a little LCD display on its body there was an IP address. It wasn't a private IP so I noted it down and when I got to work I tried accessing it through HTTP. Well, what do you think? A nice web-based username+password interface popped up.
Now I ain't a hacker and I really didn't try anything, but I'm sure a skilled security professional would have hacked right through that interface. It's really amazing how many poorly secured interesting devices are out there.
I'd say the target for Adobe isn't the regular user, and never was. The target is comprised of companies which are involved in graphical design, artists and the like. It's pretty easy to cross-check an artist's name (publicly displayed) with whether they have bought an Adobe license and then engage them to see how can they go legal in case they are using Adobe products. My gut feeling is that Adobe messed up. It wasn't intentional.
Yes friend, I'm a fucking Romanian and this word was not in my vocabulary. The world is a bit larger that the USA alone, FYI. Also, if human body temperature was a good pick back then, it's NOT a good pick now. You're not living in the 19th century anymore. About base 60 (lol), clearly you haven't read TFA I linked to, or if you did, you didn't understand it. It's okay. This is Slashdot.
I had to look up "brine" to find out what that is. What did I find? "In different contexts, brine may refer to salt solutions ranging from about 3.5% (a typical concentration of seawater, or the lower end of solutions used for brining foods) up to about 26% (a typical saturated solution, depending on temperature)." So which one freezes at 0 degrees Fahrenheit? An arbitrary chosen one. Also, temperature of human body. Scientifically, the differences between normal body temperatures for different people are significantly large, up to 2 degrees Celsius. So it's an arbitrary chosen one as well.
Moving on to your "60 seconds" question, you can expand that to 60 minutes. The answer is the same and readily available if you look it up on this wonderful thing called "The Internet". http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_there_60_minutes_in_an_hour
Base-10 is strictly linked to the number of fingers you have at your both hands. Dude, you're asking ridiculous questions.
You work in Support and can't explain the difference between Slash and Backslash to a customer? Free explanation from me to pass on to them when they ask.
Imagine you're a lion and wand to hit your prey with your right paw. If you want hit it with your claws, the move you make is a slash. If you want to hit it with the back of the paw, it's a backslash.
Informally though, if a colleague asks, tell them that a slash is the move you make when you want to slap someone with your right arm, and the backslash is when you want to bitchslap them.
I read TFS. I understood nothing. My nerd days must be over. Looks like nowadays nerds are those who have deep insight into financial dirt. Forget computers, gadgetry, coding and Science Fiction. Welcome corporatism, financial stuff, sales and so on. I'm a sad puppy now.
You're saying it like it's a bad thing. We knew so much about computers because we had to. One couldn't do squat on a computer without knowing much of what we knew. Those were the times. Now there's an app for everything, you don't have to build your own anymore, and I don't think it's a bad thing. People simply moved on, the IT world did what was expected of it: fulfilled a need. Young people nowadays are skilled in other things. Some are social media afficionados, for example, which we frown upon, but after all my father used to frown upon "youths nowadays" who couldn't code a punch card at all.
I wouldn't expect my children to know all about BIOS settings if it becomes an anachronism, or how to install an Operating System if all that's going to become automatic, self-configurable and self-repairing. My father and his friends all had good to excellent electronics know-how. For my generation though, it was merely a hobby of past times.
And nerds were always a minority, no matter the generation. So your phrase should be:
Don't worry. You knew more about computers than your parents. You knew more about computers than most of your generation. You'll also know more about computers than your children.
Put another way, if Shuttleworth wants totally open phones, he's going to have to get really, REALLY friendly with companies like Rockchip. Otherwise, he's going to have to settle for Ubuntu running on phones that are no more open than most Android phones are today (ie, not necessarily locked down per se, but often are more de-facto black boxes than even Windows Mobile phones used to be back when XDA got started).
I'll go with the bold part any day, thank you very much, it's all I need as an end-user. Remember, we're talking about phones here, and my expectation (as an end-user) is pre-built binaries, verified by an app store I at least partially trust (or yell at in case they missed some malware). Anything more than that and we're talking about something else, such as a tablet, a nettop, etc.
I'm afraid we are talking about different things. let me rephrase in a simpler way. Canonical can just contact one of the Chinese hardware manufacturers and say "we have this OS, you have the hardware, let's talk". They find common ground and release devices. It is indeed as simple as that. If Androind just works on most of those devices, but Canonical's Ubuntu Mobile OS doesn't, then sorry, Android is more resilient and Canonical needs to go back to the drawing board. It's just the way it is in today's mobile world. The times when hardware configurations had to abide certain rules to fit the OS are long gone.
Private trackers that I have access to offer full-frame blu-rays which are between 15 and 45 GB in size (or close to that). Using metropolitan P2P connections, I can download those monsters in 1-2 hours, depending on size. Movies which I download and manage to watch entirely deserve me buying a cinema ticket which I don't use. I buy the cinema ticket online, I don't go, everyone's happy. Rare are the movies I watch more than once, and those I usually buy as a hard-copy anyway.
Now it's called "The Chinese". They offer you any combination of software and hardware you would like, from what's freely available, for a small price. There are zounds of companies selling cheap, branded devices which are simply customized generic devices onto which some generic Android version has been installed. All it takes for Ubuntu for Mobiles is to be flexible enough to allow itself to be slammed onto those generic devices. Screen Resolution from X*Y pixels to Z*T pixels, accelerometer support, 3G Support, USB Dongle Support, etc. and you're done.
here in Romania we have Allview which offers cheap phones and tablets, with Android 4.0.4 and above. A dual-SIM (both SIMs working at the same time) device costs about 160 USD retail price, no strings attached. Of course, you don't get an exquisite hardware quality but at this price you can't ask for it, really. Those devices work, they do their stuff well enough.
Heh heh, you're seeing this from an American perspective.
Trust me, you don't "rent-a-thug" who will bruise someone's cheek. The thugs you rent mean serious business. For a couple grands, they will act professionally. 1. They will contact him politely through a representative, on the street, while he goes about his business (metro station, bus station, hypermarket). The representative will give him a verbal "cease-and-desist" letter then walk away. No threats, nothing. 2. A week or month goes by, his car will probably suffer badly. Set on fire or injured in some way. 3. Next up, pets. Does he have any? Well, not anymore. Poison is cheap. Cars are fast. 4. If he's still resisting (and I assume he won't go THAT far but who knows), then personal injury is now upcoming. We're talking about something a bit more hurtful than a bruised cheek. Say, broken legs. Those back alleys are dangerous, man... An alternative to that is a few very quick stabbings, no more than half an inch deep, takes one second and I've seen people able to accomplish that while going past you at walking pace without even twitching. Very impressive. these usually generate plenty of pain, bleeding and don't affect any organs, just painful and slow to heal flesh wounds.
These steps can be intertwined with quick calls from stolen cheap phones telling him "remember the supermarket message!", which he can freely record, who cares.
Shady problems can sometimes only be resolved by using shady solutions.
Literally, reality bites. Where does the ex-husband live and how much are you willing to pay? There's always a bunch of burly men ready to knock at, um, knock his door down and "convince" him to give away all those websites or turn them off.
Yeah, I think it's a matter of taste in the end. I remember I used to create such buttons and GUI items for the lulz in Turbo Pascal about 20 years ago, when I was in high school. Oh and they worked, too. Of course, there's a difference between ad-hoc graphical items and such a skin, but from a visual perspective, these are very, very simple to create. To me, "an Ode to Skulpture" means "an Ode to something that a teenage could create in Turbo Pascal 20 years ago". Hardly something to brag about.
Smart. Very smart. But unhelpful. Have you even looked at those links? Have you checked to see if they're still applicable? No, you just entered a search string and snarkily posted a crafted lmgtfy link to look smart. Cute.
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Don't add them to Facebook, or put them in the appropriate group, with the appropriate privacy settings. Geez.
DUMB families, that is. When you have Dropbox, SpiderOak, Microsoft's whatever-it's-called storage service, why in the name of the Unholy would you stick to Facebook?
Yes, my sister shrugged when I had her go to a Dropbox link to download my kid's pictures, but I basically told her that's how I function and she either can go there or wait until she sees him directly. Or I could send the pictures to her through Yahoo Messenger Send File option.
Bot NOT Facebook. No, thanks.
Even Saint Mary was riding an ass in the Bible, and a fine one that was, because she was riding it for hours at times.
Saint Mary's ass was a fine ass to ride.
Could you find a more retarded analogy? Don' t tell me Linux in no way supports touchscreen. Please...
I honestly think people are overreacting when mentioning the damn Start Menu over and over again. What I really, REALLY miss is a fully fledged Taskbar, which allows me to quickly and precisely switch between the multitude of applications I have active at the same time. When you have at least 5 Excel spreadsheets, a couple PPTs, one-two Word Documents, Outlook, three browsers with God-knows-how-many tabs open in each, a taskbar spread on three rows is golden.
Ref: tablets versus laptops. I tried to find one (ONE) acquaintance of mine who has a tablet but does NOT have a laptop. I found none. Everyone I know who has a tablet bought it as a supplement to a laptop; for in-car use, for doing shallow stuff while commuting, to watch a movie before sleep, for kids, etc. Even writing a lengthier post on Slashdot takes less time on a laptop than on a tablet. Sure, you can write 5 words and say "see, that works perfectly" but try writing a 1000-word post on a tablet, then on a laptop, you'll see the difference.
Also, we're talking mostly about hardware here. I think most Linux flavors have touch possibility. Therefore, laptops with touchscreens can (and will) be used with Linux. Objecting to a laptop with touchscreen is like objecting to a laptop with, say, e-SATA port. by the way, I found the e-SATA port on my laptop VERY useful just last week when I got a 4 TB external HDD which has an e-SATA port. 120 MB/s transfer rate FTW.
What does this have to do with anything? As long as there'll be a market for laptops with keyboards, keyboards will exist. Adding a touchscreen option is something I welcome. Sometimes it's easier to just touch the screen, sometimes it's preferable to type.
Right now, Windows 8 makes little to no sense on my laptop. Had it a touchscreen, it would make a lot more sense.
I saw a gas station and one of the pumps there was in "maintenance mode" or something. Anyway, it wasn't working and on a little LCD display on its body there was an IP address. It wasn't a private IP so I noted it down and when I got to work I tried accessing it through HTTP. Well, what do you think? A nice web-based username+password interface popped up.
Now I ain't a hacker and I really didn't try anything, but I'm sure a skilled security professional would have hacked right through that interface. It's really amazing how many poorly secured interesting devices are out there.
I don't know, I haven't asked them. Can you tell me?
Right...so, Adobe is going to track down all digital artwork
No, just the more important ones. My crappy lolcat pics don't qualify.
Stop making dumb assumptions, please.
So adobe asks the artist who points out to whoever can answer the question. Doh.
I'd say the target for Adobe isn't the regular user, and never was. The target is comprised of companies which are involved in graphical design, artists and the like. It's pretty easy to cross-check an artist's name (publicly displayed) with whether they have bought an Adobe license and then engage them to see how can they go legal in case they are using Adobe products.
My gut feeling is that Adobe messed up. It wasn't intentional.
Yes friend, I'm a fucking Romanian and this word was not in my vocabulary. The world is a bit larger that the USA alone, FYI.
Also, if human body temperature was a good pick back then, it's NOT a good pick now. You're not living in the 19th century anymore.
About base 60 (lol), clearly you haven't read TFA I linked to, or if you did, you didn't understand it. It's okay. This is Slashdot.
I had to look up "brine" to find out what that is. What did I find? "In different contexts, brine may refer to salt solutions ranging from about 3.5% (a typical concentration of seawater, or the lower end of solutions used for brining foods) up to about 26% (a typical saturated solution, depending on temperature)." So which one freezes at 0 degrees Fahrenheit? An arbitrary chosen one.
Also, temperature of human body. Scientifically, the differences between normal body temperatures for different people are significantly large, up to 2 degrees Celsius. So it's an arbitrary chosen one as well.
Moving on to your "60 seconds" question, you can expand that to 60 minutes. The answer is the same and readily available if you look it up on this wonderful thing called "The Internet". http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_there_60_minutes_in_an_hour
Base-10 is strictly linked to the number of fingers you have at your both hands. Dude, you're asking ridiculous questions.
You work in Support and can't explain the difference between Slash and Backslash to a customer?
Free explanation from me to pass on to them when they ask.
Imagine you're a lion and wand to hit your prey with your right paw. If you want hit it with your claws, the move you make is a slash. If you want to hit it with the back of the paw, it's a backslash.
Informally though, if a colleague asks, tell them that a slash is the move you make when you want to slap someone with your right arm, and the backslash is when you want to bitchslap them.
Neither do they venture into financial filth.
I read TFS. I understood nothing. My nerd days must be over.
Looks like nowadays nerds are those who have deep insight into financial dirt. Forget computers, gadgetry, coding and Science Fiction. Welcome corporatism, financial stuff, sales and so on.
I'm a sad puppy now.
You're saying it like it's a bad thing.
We knew so much about computers because we had to. One couldn't do squat on a computer without knowing much of what we knew. Those were the times. Now there's an app for everything, you don't have to build your own anymore, and I don't think it's a bad thing. People simply moved on, the IT world did what was expected of it: fulfilled a need. Young people nowadays are skilled in other things. Some are social media afficionados, for example, which we frown upon, but after all my father used to frown upon "youths nowadays" who couldn't code a punch card at all.
I wouldn't expect my children to know all about BIOS settings if it becomes an anachronism, or how to install an Operating System if all that's going to become automatic, self-configurable and self-repairing. My father and his friends all had good to excellent electronics know-how. For my generation though, it was merely a hobby of past times.
And nerds were always a minority, no matter the generation. So your phrase should be:
Don't worry. You knew more about computers than your parents. You knew more about computers than most of your generation. You'll also know more about computers than your children.
Put another way, if Shuttleworth wants totally open phones, he's going to have to get really, REALLY friendly with companies like Rockchip. Otherwise, he's going to have to settle for Ubuntu running on phones that are no more open than most Android phones are today (ie, not necessarily locked down per se, but often are more de-facto black boxes than even Windows Mobile phones used to be back when XDA got started).
I'll go with the bold part any day, thank you very much, it's all I need as an end-user. Remember, we're talking about phones here, and my expectation (as an end-user) is pre-built binaries, verified by an app store I at least partially trust (or yell at in case they missed some malware). Anything more than that and we're talking about something else, such as a tablet, a nettop, etc.
I'm afraid we are talking about different things. let me rephrase in a simpler way.
Canonical can just contact one of the Chinese hardware manufacturers and say "we have this OS, you have the hardware, let's talk". They find common ground and release devices. It is indeed as simple as that.
If Androind just works on most of those devices, but Canonical's Ubuntu Mobile OS doesn't, then sorry, Android is more resilient and Canonical needs to go back to the drawing board. It's just the way it is in today's mobile world. The times when hardware configurations had to abide certain rules to fit the OS are long gone.
Private trackers that I have access to offer full-frame blu-rays which are between 15 and 45 GB in size (or close to that). Using metropolitan P2P connections, I can download those monsters in 1-2 hours, depending on size. Movies which I download and manage to watch entirely deserve me buying a cinema ticket which I don't use. I buy the cinema ticket online, I don't go, everyone's happy. Rare are the movies I watch more than once, and those I usually buy as a hard-copy anyway.
Now it's called "The Chinese".
They offer you any combination of software and hardware you would like, from what's freely available, for a small price. There are zounds of companies selling cheap, branded devices which are simply customized generic devices onto which some generic Android version has been installed. All it takes for Ubuntu for Mobiles is to be flexible enough to allow itself to be slammed onto those generic devices. Screen Resolution from X*Y pixels to Z*T pixels, accelerometer support, 3G Support, USB Dongle Support, etc. and you're done.
here in Romania we have Allview which offers cheap phones and tablets, with Android 4.0.4 and above. A dual-SIM (both SIMs working at the same time) device costs about 160 USD retail price, no strings attached. Of course, you don't get an exquisite hardware quality but at this price you can't ask for it, really. Those devices work, they do their stuff well enough.
Heh heh, you're seeing this from an American perspective.
Trust me, you don't "rent-a-thug" who will bruise someone's cheek. The thugs you rent mean serious business. For a couple grands, they will act professionally.
1. They will contact him politely through a representative, on the street, while he goes about his business (metro station, bus station, hypermarket). The representative will give him a verbal "cease-and-desist" letter then walk away. No threats, nothing.
2. A week or month goes by, his car will probably suffer badly. Set on fire or injured in some way.
3. Next up, pets. Does he have any? Well, not anymore. Poison is cheap. Cars are fast.
4. If he's still resisting (and I assume he won't go THAT far but who knows), then personal injury is now upcoming. We're talking about something a bit more hurtful than a bruised cheek. Say, broken legs. Those back alleys are dangerous, man... An alternative to that is a few very quick stabbings, no more than half an inch deep, takes one second and I've seen people able to accomplish that while going past you at walking pace without even twitching. Very impressive. these usually generate plenty of pain, bleeding and don't affect any organs, just painful and slow to heal flesh wounds.
These steps can be intertwined with quick calls from stolen cheap phones telling him "remember the supermarket message!", which he can freely record, who cares.
Shady problems can sometimes only be resolved by using shady solutions.
Literally, reality bites. Where does the ex-husband live and how much are you willing to pay? There's always a bunch of burly men ready to knock at, um, knock his door down and "convince" him to give away all those websites or turn them off.
Yeah, I think it's a matter of taste in the end. I remember I used to create such buttons and GUI items for the lulz in Turbo Pascal about 20 years ago, when I was in high school. Oh and they worked, too. Of course, there's a difference between ad-hoc graphical items and such a skin, but from a visual perspective, these are very, very simple to create. To me, "an Ode to Skulpture" means "an Ode to something that a teenage could create in Turbo Pascal 20 years ago". Hardly something to brag about.
Smart. Very smart. But unhelpful.
Have you even looked at those links? Have you checked to see if they're still applicable? No, you just entered a search string and snarkily posted a crafted lmgtfy link to look smart.
Cute.