It's not mouse-hostile, but it is keyboard friendly. Almost everything in the gui can be done without taking your hands from the keyboard. For example, getting to the activities screen is done by pressing the Super (Windows) key - much quicker than mousing to a hot corner from another monitor. The big annoyance for me in gnome 3.0 is not being able to select icons in the favouriites dock with the keyboard, but just typing the first few letters of the application name and pressing enter is sufficient to launch what you want. Hopefully this has been addressed in 3.2
For example: we've had meteors visiting our atmosphere and rained down in organic shaped forms. One event has been the wel documented 'blood rain' in India. Lab analysis showed red blood cells without DNA.
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[citation needed]
"Red blood cells without DNA". Those would be, erm, red blood cells. Mammalian erythrocytes lose their nucleus, golgi apparatus, mitochondra and ER during maturation, which makes them more efficient oxygen carriers.
Sorry, I have used it for about 2 months intensively and it has lots of issues. It just can't even save in.doc format in a correct way as files get always corrupted. As long as there isn't a big development on going, it can't compete with MS Office in at least providng basic features. I would love to see this stuff go further.
Have you filed a bug? Things won't get fixed unless people know about them.
If you are only getting 20 mpg you are either a very poor driver or drive a tractor. My 11-year old Skoda (140000 miles on the clock) gets over 40mpg in town, and over 55mpg on the open road. Given the price of fuel, a less efficient car than that is just not worth it, not to mention the environmental cost.
As an aside, I still find it funny that USAians think 30mpg is efficient.
Not just not getting paid to review articles; he was the editor of the journal, and did it for free while the publisher charged a fortune for access to the content.
I'm astonished that people have put up with this for so long. It's time for people to vote with their wallets - if university libraries (journals' biggest customers) refused to buy journal subscriptions then the journals would face a huge shortfall in income and be forced to change their business models.
However, the journals do need to be able to make money to pay their staff and meet their business expenses. Maybe the model doesn't fit modern times, but it is what it is.
Some journals don't even pay their staff or even need to meet many of their business expenses. A comment by "MrBendy" here gives this interesting perspective (emphasis mine):
I was a journal editor for several years and, like George Monbiot, was left astonished by the shamelessness with which this racket operates.
In particular, I did all, and I mean ALL, the donkeywork personally, from licking envelopes to commissioning reviews to copy-editing all contributions. Yet not a cent did I receive from the publisher, a well-known British academic publisher. In effect the considerable operating costs of every part of the journal's work up to setting, printing and distribution were carried by me personally, using my spare time, and to a limited degree by my employer (a university) in so far as I was able to use a little normal work-time on occasion and pass the journal's (substantial) postal costs through my departmental office....
The final indignity for me was, on inquiring of the trustees about succession planning, being told that it was essentially up to me to persuade someone else to become editor. In short, it was my problem and mine alone and I was expected to continue working for free to generate large profits for the publisher and a small rake-off for the trust until or unless I could find a mug to replace me....
For the publisher, of course, this extraordinary combination of unpaid and unresourced amateur production, which reduces costs to a bare minimum, and the opportunity then to maximise revenues through the lucrative exercise of legal and financial power, is immensely attractive as a business model.
The reason I don't offer Linux is because every 6 months your drivers break
No they don't.
I've been running Fedora for the last 5 years on my desktop machine, which I use for my business administration as well as personal use, so it's pretty mission critical. In five years, I've only once had my "drivers break", and that was because I was trying the ATI Catalyst drivers rather than the free drivers from my distro. Using the drivers from the distro, I've always had a functioning system. This is something that Just Works. Printer, webcam, bluetooth headsets, audio cards, all work out of the box with the default installation with no extra administration needed.
I've not used Windows since XP, but my memory of adding new hardware to that system was having to install drivers from a CD, reboot the system, plug in the new hardware, reboot the system a couple of more times, search the internet for updated drivers, download them from a website and install them by hand, reboot the system again. How is that better for Joe or Sally to manage than plugging a bit of kit and having it work first time?
"I'm interested in your product but can't be bothered to click on any links in the summary I just read. Can you please tell me something I could have found out for myself in less than a minute?"
If you read the forums on the Rasberry Pi site, you will see many threads with people asking for WiFi, and the developers saying repeatedly that they cannot add wifi without at least doubling the price. Wifi might come in a later model.
A couple of months ago, a colleague of mine was accompanying a group of 15 and 16-year olds through a US international airport in transit from Ecuador to the UK (not even leaving the airport). One girl forgot to remove her wallet (on a lanyard around her neck) before passing through the metal detector arch. The wallet was under her blouse but visible in outline. The girl was clearly part of a group, clearly a white British person, clearly a minor, and accompanied by two adults. Despite this, the TSA agents at the checkpoint wanted to take this 16 year old child into a side room unaccompanied and perform a full strip and cavity search. After a lot of very scary shouting, they TSA agents reluctantly agreed to allow the accompanying female teacher into the room while the search was carried out. Even after the girl's blouse was removed and the wallet clearly identified as such, the agents wanted to continue the search - the girl was in floods of tears by this point, absolutely terrified. Only after a lot of arguing from the teacher (who in the process herself was threatened with arrest) was the girl allowed to rejoin the group without having her orifices probed by jobsworth goons. The flight had to be held for the group, causing delay to hundreds of other passengers.
The organisation that the students were travelling with books hundreds of flights each year for groups of school students. Because of this and similar incidents they are likely to avoid US airlines in future and transit through countries such as Spain instead.
In contrast, I was in Geneva airport a couple of weeks ago. Had my wallet in my pocket when I went through the arch. I was asked "Do you have your wallet in your pocket? May I take a look? Oh, that's fine - carry on, sir." and I went on my way with goodwill all round.
Everyone in Europe who has flown to the US thinks airport security in the states is a joke that ceased to be funny a long time ago.
I don't see that introducing a compulsory national service is in any way "progressive". Maybe our definitions of progressivism differ, but in the UK, any party known as "progressive" (the Lib Dems and the Greens, mainly) would run a mile from something that smacks of old school right wing militarism.
"Because the living organisms within the EcoSphere utilize their resources without overpopulating or contaminating their environment, the EcoSphere requires virtually no maintenance.
EcoSpheres have an average life expectancy of two years. However, it is not uncommon for shrimp populations to be thriving in systems as old as 7 years."
It doesn't matter how secure the signing keys are if a CA issues certificates without checking the validity of the certificate application. Do they apply the same lack of diligence to applications for EV certificates? They should have noticed that someone was asking for a cert for *.google..com and actually spoken to Google to say "thanks for choosing to use our services, can we ask you a few questions?" rather than letting an automated process issue a cert for a major web property without doing any verification other than checking that the payment came through ok. This is why their trust has been revoked - their procedures are faulty, not their key storage systems.
In some more civilised countries than yours, health care is provided by the state, funded from general taxation. In these countries, it does cost the taxpayer more to vaccinate everybody twice.
Tor proxies DNS requests, so from behind a Tor tunnel, you appear to be the exit node. I don't see how this will change, as the exit node's Tor server is the entity making the DNS request on your behalf. All that'll happen is that you're more likely to end up with content coming from a CDN cache nearer to the exit node than before.
As to google x-referencing DNS queries with Analytics etc - if you're after anonymity, why are you allowing google analytics/adsense in the first place? Privoxy and polipo can be configured to block any requests to these domains, and you really ought to be browsing via Tor with Javascript disabled anyway, to mitigate against evil exit nodes injecting malicious scripts into pages they fetch for you.
... your speed limits are an offense to every thinking human...
Except those who have lost loved ones to motor vehicles travelling over the speed limit. Believe it or not, some regulation is actually there to preserve human life and health. Would you abolish environmental protection agencies also?
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It's not mouse-hostile, but it is keyboard friendly. Almost everything in the gui can be done without taking your hands from the keyboard. For example, getting to the activities screen is done by pressing the Super (Windows) key - much quicker than mousing to a hot corner from another monitor. The big annoyance for me in gnome 3.0 is not being able to select icons in the favouriites dock with the keyboard, but just typing the first few letters of the application name and pressing enter is sufficient to launch what you want. Hopefully this has been addressed in 3.2
For example: we've had meteors visiting our atmosphere and rained down in organic shaped forms. One event has been the wel documented 'blood rain' in India. Lab analysis showed red blood cells without DNA.
>
[citation needed]
"Red blood cells without DNA". Those would be, erm, red blood cells. Mammalian erythrocytes lose their nucleus, golgi apparatus, mitochondra and ER during maturation, which makes them more efficient oxygen carriers.
200 tabs? How is having 200 tabs open productive or reasonable in any way? Doesn't anyone know how to bookmark web pages any more?
Sorry, I have used it for about 2 months intensively and it has lots of issues. It just can't even save in .doc format in a correct way as files get always corrupted.
As long as there isn't a big development on going, it can't compete with MS Office in at least providng basic features.
I would love to see this stuff go further.
Have you filed a bug? Things won't get fixed unless people know about them.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice
There is a lot of ongoing development. LibreOffice is a big project with a very active developer community.
If you are only getting 20 mpg you are either a very poor driver or drive a tractor. My 11-year old Skoda (140000 miles on the clock) gets over 40mpg in town, and over 55mpg on the open road. Given the price of fuel, a less efficient car than that is just not worth it, not to mention the environmental cost.
As an aside, I still find it funny that USAians think 30mpg is efficient.
Not just not getting paid to review articles; he was the editor of the journal, and did it for free while the publisher charged a fortune for access to the content.
I'm astonished that people have put up with this for so long. It's time for people to vote with their wallets - if university libraries (journals' biggest customers) refused to buy journal subscriptions then the journals would face a huge shortfall in income and be forced to change their business models.
You're right - it's authoritarian (another poster mentioned communism). The authoritarian/liberal axis is orthogonal to the left/right economic one.
My conception of progressive fits with liberal/left, but others may differ.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/ is useful
However, the journals do need to be able to make money to pay their staff and meet their business expenses. Maybe the model doesn't fit modern times, but it is what it is.
Some journals don't even pay their staff or even need to meet many of their business expenses. A comment by "MrBendy" here gives this interesting perspective (emphasis mine):
I was a journal editor for several years and, like George Monbiot, was left astonished by the shamelessness with which this racket operates.
In particular, I did all, and I mean ALL, the donkeywork personally, from licking envelopes to commissioning reviews to copy-editing all contributions. Yet not a cent did I receive from the publisher, a well-known British academic publisher. In effect the considerable operating costs of every part of the journal's work up to setting, printing and distribution were carried by me personally, using my spare time, and to a limited degree by my employer (a university) in so far as I was able to use a little normal work-time on occasion and pass the journal's (substantial) postal costs through my departmental office. ... ...
The final indignity for me was, on inquiring of the trustees about succession planning, being told that it was essentially up to me to persuade someone else to become editor. In short, it was my problem and mine alone and I was expected to continue working for free to generate large profits for the publisher and a small rake-off for the trust until or unless I could find a mug to replace me.
For the publisher, of course, this extraordinary combination of unpaid and unresourced amateur production, which reduces costs to a bare minimum, and the opportunity then to maximise revenues through the lucrative exercise of legal and financial power, is immensely attractive as a business model.
The reason I don't offer Linux is because every 6 months your drivers break
No they don't.
I've been running Fedora for the last 5 years on my desktop machine, which I use for my business administration as well as personal use, so it's pretty mission critical. In five years, I've only once had my "drivers break", and that was because I was trying the ATI Catalyst drivers rather than the free drivers from my distro. Using the drivers from the distro, I've always had a functioning system. This is something that Just Works. Printer, webcam, bluetooth headsets, audio cards, all work out of the box with the default installation with no extra administration needed.
I've not used Windows since XP, but my memory of adding new hardware to that system was having to install drivers from a CD, reboot the system, plug in the new hardware, reboot the system a couple of more times, search the internet for updated drivers, download them from a website and install them by hand, reboot the system again. How is that better for Joe or Sally to manage than plugging a bit of kit and having it work first time?
^ this. Maybe Mr Upton will answer all these questions with a link to http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard or http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=8
"I'm interested in your product but can't be bothered to click on any links in the summary I just read. Can you please tell me something I could have found out for myself in less than a minute?"
If you read the forums on the Rasberry Pi site, you will see many threads with people asking for WiFi, and the developers saying repeatedly that they cannot add wifi without at least doubling the price. Wifi might come in a later model.
It has USB. Use USB Wifi and BT dongles.
I'm not at all familiar with the Broadcom BCM2835 that you've shown on your alpha boards. All my searches for it just link back to your site.
The Raspi is so far the only device known to use the BCM2835.
Let me know how that native compile of a 2.6 kernel in your brain goes...
Slowly?
A couple of months ago, a colleague of mine was accompanying a group of 15 and 16-year olds through a US international airport in transit from Ecuador to the UK (not even leaving the airport). One girl forgot to remove her wallet (on a lanyard around her neck) before passing through the metal detector arch. The wallet was under her blouse but visible in outline. The girl was clearly part of a group, clearly a white British person, clearly a minor, and accompanied by two adults. Despite this, the TSA agents at the checkpoint wanted to take this 16 year old child into a side room unaccompanied and perform a full strip and cavity search. After a lot of very scary shouting, they TSA agents reluctantly agreed to allow the accompanying female teacher into the room while the search was carried out. Even after the girl's blouse was removed and the wallet clearly identified as such, the agents wanted to continue the search - the girl was in floods of tears by this point, absolutely terrified. Only after a lot of arguing from the teacher (who in the process herself was threatened with arrest) was the girl allowed to rejoin the group without having her orifices probed by jobsworth goons. The flight had to be held for the group, causing delay to hundreds of other passengers.
The organisation that the students were travelling with books hundreds of flights each year for groups of school students. Because of this and similar incidents they are likely to avoid US airlines in future and transit through countries such as Spain instead.
In contrast, I was in Geneva airport a couple of weeks ago. Had my wallet in my pocket when I went through the arch. I was asked "Do you have your wallet in your pocket? May I take a look? Oh, that's fine - carry on, sir." and I went on my way with goodwill all round.
Everyone in Europe who has flown to the US thinks airport security in the states is a joke that ceased to be funny a long time ago.
I don't see that introducing a compulsory national service is in any way "progressive". Maybe our definitions of progressivism differ, but in the UK, any party known as "progressive" (the Lib Dems and the Greens, mainly) would run a mile from something that smacks of old school right wing militarism.
"Because the living organisms within the EcoSphere utilize their resources without overpopulating or contaminating their environment, the EcoSphere requires virtually no maintenance. EcoSpheres have an average life expectancy of two years. However, it is not uncommon for shrimp populations to be thriving in systems as old as 7 years."
That made me chuckle. Oh for mod points...
Will your used pc off ebay fit in your pocket and run off 4xAA batteries? No? Oh well. Looks like I'll be buying a few Raspis then.
PS: "analogue"? Really? Colour me modernist, but that's a rather archaic spelling even for an Englishman.
Not an archaic spelling. A correct spelling.
(are there any better/other free options?)
Yes. Go to your shell and type:
gpg --gen-key
and follow the prompts. Free and easy.
It doesn't matter how secure the signing keys are if a CA issues certificates without checking the validity of the certificate application. Do they apply the same lack of diligence to applications for EV certificates? They should have noticed that someone was asking for a cert for *.google..com and actually spoken to Google to say "thanks for choosing to use our services, can we ask you a few questions?" rather than letting an automated process issue a cert for a major web property without doing any verification other than checking that the payment came through ok. This is why their trust has been revoked - their procedures are faulty, not their key storage systems.
In some more civilised countries than yours, health care is provided by the state, funded from general taxation. In these countries, it does cost the taxpayer more to vaccinate everybody twice.
Tor proxies DNS requests, so from behind a Tor tunnel, you appear to be the exit node. I don't see how this will change, as the exit node's Tor server is the entity making the DNS request on your behalf. All that'll happen is that you're more likely to end up with content coming from a CDN cache nearer to the exit node than before.
As to google x-referencing DNS queries with Analytics etc - if you're after anonymity, why are you allowing google analytics/adsense in the first place? Privoxy and polipo can be configured to block any requests to these domains, and you really ought to be browsing via Tor with Javascript disabled anyway, to mitigate against evil exit nodes injecting malicious scripts into pages they fetch for you.
... your speed limits are an offense to every thinking human ...
Except those who have lost loved ones to motor vehicles travelling over the speed limit. Believe it or not, some regulation is actually there to preserve human life and health. Would you abolish environmental protection agencies also?
Yes, I know it's off topic.
What the heck is a "phone line"?
It's one of those pipes that the intarwebs comes through. Not heard of DSL?