People that cry over the Republicans last two losses need to get their head out of their ass. The party may have good financial ideas (which is certainly debatable) but most of us can't get past their 20th century social policies long enough to even have that discussion.
Stop bringing your little book of fairy tales into every discussion and then maybe we'll talk. Until then I think I'll keep voting for the adults that aren't afraid of brown people or the big bad gays.
My thoughts exactly. The entire bug bounty they paid for one of their flagship products is a fraction what my small business spends on Microsoft licencing per year. If I was any of the above people I'd just sell my findings to the malware companies.
This is the beauty of this platform. It gives you choice. If you're someone that doesn't want to pay for Windows licensing, or build a custom gaming computer you can also install Steam OS, or buy their pre-built machine, or buy a pre-built machine from a third party.
Valve is creating a open gaming platform around their Steam service. It's a good thing for gamers.
DRM is not a bad thing when used properly, and Steam is an example of it being used properly. Developers need a way to advertise their products, and also make sure they get paid for them. To this end, Steam has been wonderfully supportive of the indy communities and large game studios alike.
This is an open standard. I'll be able to install Steam OS on my gaming computer, or I can buy the valve hardware, or I can buy third party Steam-boxes. I can also upgrade my "steam-boxes" at will, and continue to use the Steam software on any platform of my choice should I not like the platform they create. I'll also be able to smartly stream my game to any display device in the house and use an open architecture style of controller that finally breaks the 10 year old original xbox/keyboard mouse paradigm. This compared to what we have now (x-box, playstation, nintendo, windows gaming) is certainly more of an open standard, and quite frankly a welcome revolution.
Is it perfect from a pure fossie standpoint? Probably not.. but the pure Stallman view is never going to be 100% compatible with industry. Still, companies like Google and Valve are figuring out how to create real, profitable business models around open standards. Puritan ideals aside, this is what's best for the end user and should be applauded.
To answer your questiong in lieu of judging you, giving you parenting advice, and prying into your personal life (as everyone else seems to be doing) I would suggest this. LG Migo VX1000 is very robust, can dial 4 pre-programmed numbers, and also 911.
Smart phone and video chat is probably out of the question for a few years. At 4 years old I would be concerned he's too young to even handle a device like a Migo. Be prepared for lots of accidental calls to 911:)
This is another company using open platforms, and standards, to sell their services. We've already seen this work extraordinarily well with Android, and being that Steam is already the largest online repository for games, I see this working out well for Valve.
This is a fantastic leap forward for gaming and open standards. Unfortunately Microsoft is just barely figuring out how to poorly copy the declining success of the Apple model... looks like they'll have to play catch up again.
All this Ubuntu hate is silly. While most distributions are networks of collaborating volunteers, Canonical is a company. Company's need to pay employees and have revenue.
Ubuntu is simply following the Google approach: create an open platform through which you can sell your services. Just like if you don't like Google apps you can use CyanogenMod, if you don't like unity or the software center or Mir, don't use them. Ubuntu is open source... You have the freedom to do what you want. We should be praising this model as its infinitely better than the Apple/Microsoft way of doing things. With Google and Canonical we finally have real companies making real products on open platforms that give the customer their choice and freedom back.
So stop listening to all these silly fossies everyone. We all can't live in our mom's basement clinging to silly ideals.
An ARM version of Windows is a good idea.
A touch version of Windows is a good idea.
An x86 tablet running Windows is a good idea.
Microsoft trying to sell their own hardware and software through their own distribution chains is the bad idea.
Hardware, and IT partnerships are what made Microsoft successful. Balmer's big mistake is he's a sales guy. His visions for the company are shallow, short term, and narrow, as is his strategy to just plagiarize the Apple playbook. Apple has a niche consumer market. Microsoft is a corporate titan, with a near monopoly in business. Balmer needs to stop letting go of the bird in hand because he's sees two in the bush.
It's a law enforcement's responsibility, at all levels, to use their good judgement. Robotically following the law to the letter is silly and impractical.
I'll use a simple example. Let's say you're on your way driving somewhere and your asthmatic wife starts having an episode and doesn't have her medication. Your most logical resource, to save her life, is to drive as fast as possible to the hospital. While you're speeding to the hospital an officer on a motorcycle pulls you over. Your ideal robocop would hold them up for 20 minutes slowly writing out a ticket, and then send them back on their way... at the speed limit... to the hospital. Your wife is now dead.
A real human being cop, using the judgement that he's entitled and obliged to use would let you on your way, and probably allow you follow him down the highway with his lights on given that every second counts in this scenario.
Officers, at all levels are required to use their good judgement. Parking at a red light and ticketing people for texting while completely stopped is a waste of everyone's time... and quite frankly, a dickish thing to do.
How are you modded insightful? To answer your rhetorical question: yes. Yes, a very big part of the law is the requirement of law enforcement to exercise their own rational judgement. The law can never be applied in black and white terms, and therefore justice will never be served if you go around robotically enforcing it without rational judgement.
This man clearly can not handle the small amount of power being a traffic cop gives him. His superiors should recognize his lack of reason as a dangerous quality for any law enforcement officer to have, and show him the door.
I don't know. If i can install SteamOS on my gaming hardware (that currently runs windows), stream that to my TV, and sit on the couch with a wireless controller.. I think I'd be pretty happy. Steam is by far the largest repository for games in the world so they would potentially have the developer backing to move a lot of future titles to linux.
What's more, if they release this OS in conjunction with a hardware release, that makes the entire process I described above easy for someone with little to no technical knowledge. Developing their own hardware also should alleviate a lot of the notorious driver issues with any *nix distribution.
I think this could work. And more importantly I want this to work. The less money I'm forced to give Microsoft, the better.
Although I'd agree with you, it's important to note that this only applies to Samsung phones (and maybe HTC, I've never had one). Stock android (ie. google) phones have a back button, but no menu. They rely on "in-app" onscreen menus.
You must have been living under a rock since the 1970's. Video games are actually a bigger industry than film, with (adult) pro-gamers getting paid millions. Welcome to the future... don't worry... we'll stay off your lawn.
I'm actually a senior sysadmin for a publicly traded oil and gas company. I administer many Linux vms currently, and have administered many more over my career. In fact, my entire environment runs on vmware hypervisor. I've also stated that I've been trying to transition my gaming computer to Linux for over 6 years, so spare me your fanboy cliches, I'm no spring chicken.
Few things bother me more than paying for Microsoft licencing, so I would love to transition to Linux. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that it's just not feasible. Especially for the average person.
I took on a project of trying to convert my gaming machine to Ubuntu this summer. No wine, only native games that would run on 12.04LTS. The result: Summer is over, and I'm back on Windows.
At first it was nice to see more games running on Linux, and even Steam available for Ubuntu. However, the vast majority of title's I owned on Steam weren't available, and the ones that were were buggy. Take for example the Valve title DOTA2. It works on Ubuntu through steam, natively, but it's slower, and has several annoying bugs when typing in chat and minimizing the fullscreen to the desktop.
Skype works, but was buggy. My headset worked, but had more static, etc, etc.
What's more is I had two random crashes. One due to a kernel update that rendered my machine unbootable, and the other (after a fresh reinstall) due to a nvidia proprietary driver update that continuously crashed X server on boot. I'm not sure what the underlying issue is with Linux. I'm not sure why it's so difficult to get anything that's a binary (not open source from the repositories) working properly. But this seems to be my experience every year since about 2006 when I attempt to transition everything to Ubuntu.
I still love my docking station. Clicking the laptop into place is much more convenient than even plugging in a single cord, let alone 3, and for me it would probably be closer to 5-7. Mine plugs into dual monitors (or triple if you want to use the laptop screen as well), a serial input, eSATA, usb 3.0 hub, and an LPT1 printer port.
It actually ticks me off that dockable laptops are so hard to find these days. You have to go with the business line and pay a premium. All the cool, slim, lightweight, cheap, new laptops don't even consider including a docking port... c'est la vie....
I can't help but see this as an ARMsrace, and I think it's a mistake for Intel.
Like or hate Ubuntu they recognize the consumer trend moving to low power SBCs. ARM is already dominating in this market and, according to wiki:
these parts [of mir] include Android’s input stack and Google’s Protocol Buffers. An implementation detail in memory management shared with Android is the use of server-allocated buffers which Canonical employee Christopher Halse Rogers claims to be a requirement for “the ARM world and Android graphics stack”.
So to me, it seems like the push towards Mir for Ubuntu is compatible with their vision of handheld, low power, devices completely replacing the desktop. This may well be the future of personal computing, and if I was Intel I'd want a seat at that table.
I'm not advocating anything, I'm not an idealist. And I'll apologize for appearing hostile. It wasn't my intent.
To elaborate, I'm not claiming your only choices are anarchy or despotism, I'm just stating that you can either have real freedom, or you can have governance... you can't have both. Sure, you can try to fumble around with a complicated system of trusts and balances but it will eventually, and always, gradually atrophy into abuse by those in power and apathy by the complacent public.
If you give the governing powers any control over our medium of trade, any what-so-ever, the best you can hope for is a false sense of security that they are trustworthy. That's what we've had in the past, that's what we have now, and that's what we'd have in the future.
It's nice to think you can have the best of both worlds, but when it comes to a governing body of humans controlling a product or system that is necessary for civilization, you never can. That's just a simple and unfortunate truth that I feel should be evident to everyone. No insult intended.
So you want to have your cake and eat it too? Welcome to the general mentality of our generation.
The simple truth is that social freedom is not free. It comes with a price. And the opposite of freedom, control, comes with consequences. You either need to be willing to pay the price of freedom, or live with the consequences of control. You can't have both. I wish more people understood that.
None of that is provided for you by the federal government. All of that is paid for by the state, property taxes, etc. I'd like to reiterate the question and see if you can answer it: What are we paying [the federal government] for?
If you can come up with anything outside of the Military, and interest to private banks, I'll be impressed.
I'd say what we need is more Android. Windows, Blackberry, and Apple are all selling closed, proprietary, walled gardens. Google is distributing an open platform with the option to use its software suite and android trademark if you choose to do so. The simple fact is that the world has never had a business viable open operating system platform until now (yes that was a direct stab at GPL).
Android is clearly the only choice. If you don't like Google's services, don't use them. It's the only platform that will even allow that.
For a guy so concerned about his time, you seem rather eager to waste it:).
Your link to a pedantic article on "how to ask a question" was not help. At best, it was an immature attempt at condescension. You are angry. Someone needs to give you a hug.
Regardless, I did discover the source of the confusion. Not being a programmer I didn't realize that the decimal simply separated major and minor versions. Like all normal human beings would, I assumed it had some sort of correlation to fractions of real numbers. Therefore version 3.5 = 3.50 > 3.11 . To avoid this ambuiguity I would suggest they start versioning with proper placeholders. Ie. 3.05 instead of 3.5.
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People that cry over the Republicans last two losses need to get their head out of their ass. The party may have good financial ideas (which is certainly debatable) but most of us can't get past their 20th century social policies long enough to even have that discussion.
Stop bringing your little book of fairy tales into every discussion and then maybe we'll talk. Until then I think I'll keep voting for the adults that aren't afraid of brown people or the big bad gays.
My thoughts exactly. The entire bug bounty they paid for one of their flagship products is a fraction what my small business spends on Microsoft licencing per year. If I was any of the above people I'd just sell my findings to the malware companies.
Nothing.
This is the beauty of this platform. It gives you choice. If you're someone that doesn't want to pay for Windows licensing, or build a custom gaming computer you can also install Steam OS, or buy their pre-built machine, or buy a pre-built machine from a third party.
Valve is creating a open gaming platform around their Steam service. It's a good thing for gamers.
DRM is not a bad thing when used properly, and Steam is an example of it being used properly. Developers need a way to advertise their products, and also make sure they get paid for them. To this end, Steam has been wonderfully supportive of the indy communities and large game studios alike.
This is an open standard. I'll be able to install Steam OS on my gaming computer, or I can buy the valve hardware, or I can buy third party Steam-boxes. I can also upgrade my "steam-boxes" at will, and continue to use the Steam software on any platform of my choice should I not like the platform they create. I'll also be able to smartly stream my game to any display device in the house and use an open architecture style of controller that finally breaks the 10 year old original xbox/keyboard mouse paradigm. This compared to what we have now (x-box, playstation, nintendo, windows gaming) is certainly more of an open standard, and quite frankly a welcome revolution.
Is it perfect from a pure fossie standpoint? Probably not.. but the pure Stallman view is never going to be 100% compatible with industry. Still, companies like Google and Valve are figuring out how to create real, profitable business models around open standards. Puritan ideals aside, this is what's best for the end user and should be applauded.
To answer your questiong in lieu of judging you, giving you parenting advice, and prying into your personal life (as everyone else seems to be doing) I would suggest this. LG Migo VX1000 is very robust, can dial 4 pre-programmed numbers, and also 911.
:)
Smart phone and video chat is probably out of the question for a few years. At 4 years old I would be concerned he's too young to even handle a device like a Migo. Be prepared for lots of accidental calls to 911
Best of luck with everything!
This is another company using open platforms, and standards, to sell their services. We've already seen this work extraordinarily well with Android, and being that Steam is already the largest online repository for games, I see this working out well for Valve.
This is a fantastic leap forward for gaming and open standards. Unfortunately Microsoft is just barely figuring out how to poorly copy the declining success of the Apple model... looks like they'll have to play catch up again.
All this Ubuntu hate is silly. While most distributions are networks of collaborating volunteers, Canonical is a company. Company's need to pay employees and have revenue.
Ubuntu is simply following the Google approach: create an open platform through which you can sell your services. Just like if you don't like Google apps you can use CyanogenMod, if you don't like unity or the software center or Mir, don't use them. Ubuntu is open source... You have the freedom to do what you want. We should be praising this model as its infinitely better than the Apple/Microsoft way of doing things. With Google and Canonical we finally have real companies making real products on open platforms that give the customer their choice and freedom back.
So stop listening to all these silly fossies everyone. We all can't live in our mom's basement clinging to silly ideals.
An ARM version of Windows is a good idea.
A touch version of Windows is a good idea.
An x86 tablet running Windows is a good idea.
Microsoft trying to sell their own hardware and software through their own distribution chains is the bad idea.
Hardware, and IT partnerships are what made Microsoft successful. Balmer's big mistake is he's a sales guy. His visions for the company are shallow, short term, and narrow, as is his strategy to just plagiarize the Apple playbook. Apple has a niche consumer market. Microsoft is a corporate titan, with a near monopoly in business. Balmer needs to stop letting go of the bird in hand because he's sees two in the bush.
It's a law enforcement's responsibility, at all levels, to use their good judgement. Robotically following the law to the letter is silly and impractical.
I'll use a simple example. Let's say you're on your way driving somewhere and your asthmatic wife starts having an episode and doesn't have her medication. Your most logical resource, to save her life, is to drive as fast as possible to the hospital. While you're speeding to the hospital an officer on a motorcycle pulls you over. Your ideal robocop would hold them up for 20 minutes slowly writing out a ticket, and then send them back on their way... at the speed limit... to the hospital. Your wife is now dead.
A real human being cop, using the judgement that he's entitled and obliged to use would let you on your way, and probably allow you follow him down the highway with his lights on given that every second counts in this scenario.
Officers, at all levels are required to use their good judgement. Parking at a red light and ticketing people for texting while completely stopped is a waste of everyone's time... and quite frankly, a dickish thing to do.
How are you modded insightful? To answer your rhetorical question: yes. Yes, a very big part of the law is the requirement of law enforcement to exercise their own rational judgement. The law can never be applied in black and white terms, and therefore justice will never be served if you go around robotically enforcing it without rational judgement.
This man clearly can not handle the small amount of power being a traffic cop gives him. His superiors should recognize his lack of reason as a dangerous quality for any law enforcement officer to have, and show him the door.
I don't know. If i can install SteamOS on my gaming hardware (that currently runs windows), stream that to my TV, and sit on the couch with a wireless controller.. I think I'd be pretty happy. Steam is by far the largest repository for games in the world so they would potentially have the developer backing to move a lot of future titles to linux.
What's more, if they release this OS in conjunction with a hardware release, that makes the entire process I described above easy for someone with little to no technical knowledge. Developing their own hardware also should alleviate a lot of the notorious driver issues with any *nix distribution.
I think this could work. And more importantly I want this to work. The less money I'm forced to give Microsoft, the better.
Although I'd agree with you, it's important to note that this only applies to Samsung phones (and maybe HTC, I've never had one). Stock android (ie. google) phones have a back button, but no menu. They rely on "in-app" onscreen menus.
You must have been living under a rock since the 1970's. Video games are actually a bigger industry than film, with (adult) pro-gamers getting paid millions. Welcome to the future... don't worry... we'll stay off your lawn.
I'm actually a senior sysadmin for a publicly traded oil and gas company. I administer many Linux vms currently, and have administered many more over my career. In fact, my entire environment runs on vmware hypervisor. I've also stated that I've been trying to transition my gaming computer to Linux for over 6 years, so spare me your fanboy cliches, I'm no spring chicken.
Few things bother me more than paying for Microsoft licencing, so I would love to transition to Linux. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that it's just not feasible. Especially for the average person.
I took on a project of trying to convert my gaming machine to Ubuntu this summer. No wine, only native games that would run on 12.04LTS. The result: Summer is over, and I'm back on Windows.
At first it was nice to see more games running on Linux, and even Steam available for Ubuntu. However, the vast majority of title's I owned on Steam weren't available, and the ones that were were buggy. Take for example the Valve title DOTA2. It works on Ubuntu through steam, natively, but it's slower, and has several annoying bugs when typing in chat and minimizing the fullscreen to the desktop.
Skype works, but was buggy. My headset worked, but had more static, etc, etc.
What's more is I had two random crashes. One due to a kernel update that rendered my machine unbootable, and the other (after a fresh reinstall) due to a nvidia proprietary driver update that continuously crashed X server on boot. I'm not sure what the underlying issue is with Linux. I'm not sure why it's so difficult to get anything that's a binary (not open source from the repositories) working properly. But this seems to be my experience every year since about 2006 when I attempt to transition everything to Ubuntu.
I still love my docking station. Clicking the laptop into place is much more convenient than even plugging in a single cord, let alone 3, and for me it would probably be closer to 5-7. Mine plugs into dual monitors (or triple if you want to use the laptop screen as well), a serial input, eSATA, usb 3.0 hub, and an LPT1 printer port.
It actually ticks me off that dockable laptops are so hard to find these days. You have to go with the business line and pay a premium. All the cool, slim, lightweight, cheap, new laptops don't even consider including a docking port... c'est la vie....
Like or hate Ubuntu they recognize the consumer trend moving to low power SBCs. ARM is already dominating in this market and, according to wiki:
these parts [of mir] include Android’s input stack and Google’s Protocol Buffers. An implementation detail in memory management shared with Android is the use of server-allocated buffers which Canonical employee Christopher Halse Rogers claims to be a requirement for “the ARM world and Android graphics stack”.
So to me, it seems like the push towards Mir for Ubuntu is compatible with their vision of handheld, low power, devices completely replacing the desktop. This may well be the future of personal computing, and if I was Intel I'd want a seat at that table.
I'm not advocating anything, I'm not an idealist. And I'll apologize for appearing hostile. It wasn't my intent.
To elaborate, I'm not claiming your only choices are anarchy or despotism, I'm just stating that you can either have real freedom, or you can have governance... you can't have both. Sure, you can try to fumble around with a complicated system of trusts and balances but it will eventually, and always, gradually atrophy into abuse by those in power and apathy by the complacent public.
If you give the governing powers any control over our medium of trade, any what-so-ever, the best you can hope for is a false sense of security that they are trustworthy. That's what we've had in the past, that's what we have now, and that's what we'd have in the future.
It's nice to think you can have the best of both worlds, but when it comes to a governing body of humans controlling a product or system that is necessary for civilization, you never can. That's just a simple and unfortunate truth that I feel should be evident to everyone. No insult intended.
So you want to have your cake and eat it too? Welcome to the general mentality of our generation.
The simple truth is that social freedom is not free. It comes with a price. And the opposite of freedom, control, comes with consequences. You either need to be willing to pay the price of freedom, or live with the consequences of control. You can't have both. I wish more people understood that.
None of that is provided for you by the federal government. All of that is paid for by the state, property taxes, etc. I'd like to reiterate the question and see if you can answer it: What are we paying [the federal government] for?
If you can come up with anything outside of the Military, and interest to private banks, I'll be impressed.
I'd say what we need is more Android. Windows, Blackberry, and Apple are all selling closed, proprietary, walled gardens. Google is distributing an open platform with the option to use its software suite and android trademark if you choose to do so. The simple fact is that the world has never had a business viable open operating system platform until now (yes that was a direct stab at GPL).
Android is clearly the only choice. If you don't like Google's services, don't use them. It's the only platform that will even allow that.
For a guy so concerned about his time, you seem rather eager to waste it :).
Your link to a pedantic article on "how to ask a question" was not help. At best, it was an immature attempt at condescension. You are angry. Someone needs to give you a hug.
Regardless, I did discover the source of the confusion. Not being a programmer I didn't realize that the decimal simply separated major and minor versions. Like all normal human beings would, I assumed it had some sort of correlation to fractions of real numbers. Therefore version 3.5 = 3.50 > 3.11 . To avoid this ambuiguity I would suggest they start versioning with proper placeholders. Ie. 3.05 instead of 3.5.
Come on Zero__Kelvin, don't be another angry guy. The world has enough of those.
When I type uname -r on my Ubuntu install here it says kernel version 3.5.... what gives?