There should at the very least be an option to remount a drive as full control by the active user. With an internal disk it makes some sense, but with a thumb drive the bar is just too low to get it plugged into a computer one has root on, so the permission enforcement becomes a real pain.
maybe m dense though, as don't see the harm n users being able to do arbitrary mounts ether.
Interesting, I knew it shared amongst itself, but did not realize it shared with the distro (or how to make it do that).
This should address all the complaints of wah, too many copies.
As I said, I used it on Windows (and last night tried to use it to install ROX, but failed in getting a successful ROX session, and the programs didn't appear to run consistently).
I really like that it doesn't use admin, and installs conveniently and neatly. For every application not integrated into the OS/Desktop environment it would be my preferred method of distribution, and the fact that it can bundle dependencies (I suppose as other packages) makes it a good way to distribute closed source binaries across distributions (my Loki games suffered from issues with the new glibc not too long after release for example, if the old one was bundled, perhaps as an auto compile, I wouldn't even of known).
I really want this to be the recommended way to distribute things that don't integrate into the desktop environment (and based on the list of included feeds, think it could become that).
It actually makes me feel the need to try and get it going for UFO:AI.
At least for single/few user desktops I can't see it as too much of an issue. I mean, how much memory is really wasted on a newish desktop?
My total size thus far is 229MB (about half of that is eclipse), even if the wasted memory is 20-50MB an application it's not going to make too big of an impact on a single user system. And if one wants, it can even rely on LSB I believe, eliminating a lot of the need to include copies of base libraries, and a decent starting point (though I can't tell if 0Install allows that, I think ROX application directories do, and this looks like a way to replace them though.
If you have.NET and Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package, I don't think you need admin for the initial set-up. The software list includes some very useful software (FileZilla, Notepad++, AviDemux, Audacity, UltraVNC (though I imagine if I need the server it is best to install as admin), VLC, and 7-zip (though I doubt it has the shell integration)) and I am likely to use it for some of those going forward (needing admin to update notepad++ is a nuisance). I just wish I could make a quicklaunch for it.
If it gets anything resembling wide support I am likely to use it on Linux for newer versions of stand-alone type software, and it looks like a great way to distribute commercial games. Essentially a more convenient getdeb.net, or ppa, depending on the type of software.
For now anyway, interactive services are low bandwidth, for example, a typical skype call is 400kbps / 400kbps (high-quality), or 1.2mbps/1.2mbps (HD).
Torrenting a popular 24hour+ old file uses significantly more (I get at least 2.4mbps on comcast, peaking at 3.6, I throttle the upstream to between 400 and 800 mbps, I peak at 1.2mbps otherwise). I download news articles at 16mbps, putting me about 6 times the maximum a skype call will use (highest bandwidth interactive connection I can think of).
An FPS is 10mb/hour (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081020175309AA7IHCa), again very low usage, but can be worthless if an extra 50ms of ping.
You're download on the other-hand is only lessened (on a saturated pipe) by however much bandwidth drops due to the prioritization (theoretically, not at all it will just come a quarter second later with the increased latency). If the pipe is saturated either way, it's the same total bandwidth, the skype call would still be sending out the same amount of packets (it's UDP I think), but they would show up late and degrade the video quality (still slowing down your download), but you would get that extra 1/8th to 1/4 second due to your reduced latency on a bulk transfer protocol.
This is needed because TCP/IP is "fair", but not all traffic is equal, and the ability to smooth out some traffic over a quarter second while keeping other traffic up front is good for everyone, especially since the bulk of traffic is not latency sensitive (Netflix).
If the saturation is so bad you cannot download bulk at a decent rate, or stream your movie/TV, then more bandwidth is needed, but as long as you can keep you4 3.4mbps average (highest netflix rate) over a couple seconds (the buffer), then there is no reason not to keep the neighbor with 1.2mbps (or 2.4 for up and down) average speed over 50ms.
Web browsing is another case where prioritizing makes sense in bursts (like the tokens mentioned in the article). When browsing much of the time is spent with no traffic, taking 5mpbs out of your download for 10 seconds is functionally the same as taking 2.5mbps over 20 seconds, but it makes the other users experience much better. Shaping such as this can allow for better use of a shared resource (and keep in mind if you skype and torrent, or browse and torrent, you see the benefits even without neighbors) making everyone happier (again, the same amount of traffic goes through either way).
He's a contractor getting paid contractor rates. If one wants to get paid in equity they need to give up pay in money.
He wasn't risking anything, and wasn't investing either. The employees the toil in sub-standard conditions deserve equity perhaps, but not a contractor getting paid good rates.
Having said that, a renegotiation that involves equity (say x% for the next y hours of work) us fair, but happily taking money until a company is successful, and then asking for a piece is greedy.
I think the point is that filenames are simply a collection of bytes, and the shell can interpret them as needed, this takes care of multi-lingual support.
Btrfs can use any byte except NULL in a file name, and it is the binary representation that the FS uses for a name, not the interpreted ASCII, or Unicode, or whatever encoding the shell choses to use.
I'm seeing a lot of Parallels and Boot Camp in the Litigation Support field.
The Apple machines look slicker (image counts for something when billing cheap clients (lawyers always are) significantly money), and are easier to pack two into a single case (key when flying). I use T-series Think Pads myself, as they are small enough and sturdy enough, and the fingerprint reader (best $18 add on ever) impresses even on older hardware.
A couple (litigation support) firms I've worked with use Keynote for all opening and closing slide shows (primarily because the table editor is better I hear), and shift to Windows for all of the industry specific software.
In the field Apple appears to have 33% penetration of new laptops.
Though in general things lean the way you've said it, there is definitely space to do it either way with a "polysyllabic word ending in a sibilant" (generally based on intention of how it is to be said).
And "some contemporary writers omit the extra s in all cases"
I don't see the issue with the "new" way of adding an apostrophe only for words ending in "s" and an "'s" for words that don't, and in 15 years, I bet that's how it goes.
Maybe, but my issue is primarily with phones (where it is plugged a few times a day and moved all around).
From what I can tell there are two shapes for the nubs on Micro USB, some are shaped like this _|\_, and others more like this _/\_
The ones without the flat back are much looser, and on a phone with a year of use become almost impossible (but it may simply be that the crappy connectors correlate to crappy wire).
They just fall out too, while the good ones can lift the phone.
know with micro usb connector quality varies a lot, with some not being faculty to make work at all, and others holding up a hard drive without dsconnectng.
WD sells good 18 inch ones for 9.99, HTC ones are good too, and longer, but not cheap.
i imagine the typical HDMi cable moves a lot less too though.
I should add though, a netbook with free wireless (even if it was only the 100MB a month with daily passes available my free chrome book has) would be enticing. It has access to the internet anywhere, is light, and had at least double the battery life of an R60 when it was new. If it were two year contracts there'd be no hesitation, and even if they were three year contracts it'd be tempting.
As the article points out, to get the 3G on a regular device is going to be more than the $20/month of the Google laptop. I'd rather see tablet sold that way, even if it were as bulky as a netbook, but that doesn't look like it's happening yet (are touch screens so expensive?).
I don't know, I see written all the time about how decreased costs won't effect price at all, blah blah blah.
The evilest of corporation (according to many) appears to be evidence that this is not the case.
I doubt it's Walmart that makes a farmer's margins go down, as i would bet pretty big money that Kraft (and many others) is a larger consumer of produce. Selling a commodity with essentially limitless supply (in the US there is more than enough food) that requires toil to produce is hard work with very little profit.
I personally don't like Walmart, I find the stores too large, the clothing crappy, and the ambiance dreary, but they do use the economy of scale, crappy product, and cheaply lit stores as a way to charge less to consumers who are more than willing to take the savings in exchange for the crummy products in a dreary store.
Driving down profit margins is good for the economy, and the consumer, as it increases the money to be spent on other things.
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I suspect you missed the purpose of reversing the list.
this has been bothering me lately.
why does linux make external drives such a pain?
There should at the very least be an option to remount a drive as full control by the active user. With an internal disk it makes some sense, but with a thumb drive the bar is just too low to get it plugged into a computer one has root on, so the permission enforcement becomes a real pain.
maybe m dense though, as don't see the harm n users being able to do arbitrary mounts ether.
Interesting, I knew it shared amongst itself, but did not realize it shared with the distro (or how to make it do that).
This should address all the complaints of wah, too many copies.
As I said, I used it on Windows (and last night tried to use it to install ROX, but failed in getting a successful ROX session, and the programs didn't appear to run consistently).
I really like that it doesn't use admin, and installs conveniently and neatly. For every application not integrated into the OS/Desktop environment it would be my preferred method of distribution, and the fact that it can bundle dependencies (I suppose as other packages) makes it a good way to distribute closed source binaries across distributions (my Loki games suffered from issues with the new glibc not too long after release for example, if the old one was bundled, perhaps as an auto compile, I wouldn't even of known).
I really want this to be the recommended way to distribute things that don't integrate into the desktop environment (and based on the list of included feeds, think it could become that).
It actually makes me feel the need to try and get it going for UFO:AI.
I think the alpha channel keeps png relevant (loss less 24 bit color too)
This is as if png was slightly smaller gif, and less abilities.
Even still, how much of a burden is it?
At least for single/few user desktops I can't see it as too much of an issue. I mean, how much memory is really wasted on a newish desktop?
My total size thus far is 229MB (about half of that is eclipse), even if the wasted memory is 20-50MB an application it's not going to make too big of an impact on a single user system. And if one wants, it can even rely on LSB I believe, eliminating a lot of the need to include copies of base libraries, and a decent starting point (though I can't tell if 0Install allows that, I think ROX application directories do, and this looks like a way to replace them though.
If you have .NET and Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package, I don't think you need admin for the initial set-up. The software list includes some very useful software (FileZilla, Notepad++, AviDemux, Audacity, UltraVNC (though I imagine if I need the server it is best to install as admin), VLC, and 7-zip (though I doubt it has the shell integration)) and I am likely to use it for some of those going forward (needing admin to update notepad++ is a nuisance). I just wish I could make a quicklaunch for it.
If it gets anything resembling wide support I am likely to use it on Linux for newer versions of stand-alone type software, and it looks like a great way to distribute commercial games. Essentially a more convenient getdeb.net, or ppa, depending on the type of software.
The current unlimited do the same thing (technically it says they reserve the right to drop you to slower speeds, once you pass 5GB).
Essentially, the $25/month plan for 5GB is not $30/month, but there is not a $20/month for 2GB.
Not too bad.
For now anyway, interactive services are low bandwidth, for example, a typical skype call is 400kbps / 400kbps (high-quality), or 1.2mbps/1.2mbps (HD).
Torrenting a popular 24hour+ old file uses significantly more (I get at least 2.4mbps on comcast, peaking at 3.6, I throttle the upstream to between 400 and 800 mbps, I peak at 1.2mbps otherwise). I download news articles at 16mbps, putting me about 6 times the maximum a skype call will use (highest bandwidth interactive connection I can think of).
An FPS is 10mb/hour (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081020175309AA7IHCa), again very low usage, but can be worthless if an extra 50ms of ping.
You're download on the other-hand is only lessened (on a saturated pipe) by however much bandwidth drops due to the prioritization (theoretically, not at all it will just come a quarter second later with the increased latency). If the pipe is saturated either way, it's the same total bandwidth, the skype call would still be sending out the same amount of packets (it's UDP I think), but they would show up late and degrade the video quality (still slowing down your download), but you would get that extra 1/8th to 1/4 second due to your reduced latency on a bulk transfer protocol.
This is needed because TCP/IP is "fair", but not all traffic is equal, and the ability to smooth out some traffic over a quarter second while keeping other traffic up front is good for everyone, especially since the bulk of traffic is not latency sensitive (Netflix).
If the saturation is so bad you cannot download bulk at a decent rate, or stream your movie/TV, then more bandwidth is needed, but as long as you can keep you4 3.4mbps average (highest netflix rate) over a couple seconds (the buffer), then there is no reason not to keep the neighbor with 1.2mbps (or 2.4 for up and down) average speed over 50ms.
Web browsing is another case where prioritizing makes sense in bursts (like the tokens mentioned in the article). When browsing much of the time is spent with no traffic, taking 5mpbs out of your download for 10 seconds is functionally the same as taking 2.5mbps over 20 seconds, but it makes the other users experience much better. Shaping such as this can allow for better use of a shared resource (and keep in mind if you skype and torrent, or browse and torrent, you see the benefits even without neighbors) making everyone happier (again, the same amount of traffic goes through either way).
He's a contractor getting paid contractor rates. If one wants to get paid in equity they need to give up pay in money.
He wasn't risking anything, and wasn't investing either. The employees the toil in sub-standard conditions deserve equity perhaps, but not a contractor getting paid good rates.
Having said that, a renegotiation that involves equity (say x% for the next y hours of work) us fair, but happily taking money until a company is successful, and then asking for a piece is greedy.
The two are kind of the same, aren't they?
I think the point is that filenames are simply a collection of bytes, and the shell can interpret them as needed, this takes care of multi-lingual support.
Btrfs can use any byte except NULL in a file name, and it is the binary representation that the FS uses for a name, not the interpreted ASCII, or Unicode, or whatever encoding the shell choses to use.
I'm seeing a lot of Parallels and Boot Camp in the Litigation Support field.
The Apple machines look slicker (image counts for something when billing cheap clients (lawyers always are) significantly money), and are easier to pack two into a single case (key when flying). I use T-series Think Pads myself, as they are small enough and sturdy enough, and the fingerprint reader (best $18 add on ever) impresses even on older hardware.
A couple (litigation support) firms I've worked with use Keynote for all opening and closing slide shows (primarily because the table editor is better I hear), and shift to Windows for all of the industry specific software.
In the field Apple appears to have 33% penetration of new laptops.
PowerBook that was.
For the price of Apple Care on a PowerMAC (this was a while ago), I could get a warranty on a Think Pad that covered accidental damage.
It was quicker (less time on the phone) to get the empty box shipped on the Think Pad too.
Thank you.
Not just screen real estate, but also clear separation of tasks/tools.
Two monitors with less pixels and less height than a single large monitor for sure.
I'd definitely take a 17inch and 15inch combo over a 1600 by 1200
Well, I had one teacher recommend it, but you're right.
I expect it to be divided like the oxford comma.
It's definitely moving towards the simple rule in think though.
Too bad English is a living language.
Though in general things lean the way you've said it, there is definitely space to do it either way with a "polysyllabic word ending in a sibilant" (generally based on intention of how it is to be said).
And "some contemporary writers omit the extra s in all cases"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Standardisation
I don't see the issue with the "new" way of adding an apostrophe only for words ending in "s" and an "'s" for words that don't, and in 15 years, I bet that's how it goes.
Maybe, but my issue is primarily with phones (where it is plugged a few times a day and moved all around).
From what I can tell there are two shapes for the nubs on Micro USB, some are shaped like this _|\_, and others more like this _/\_
The ones without the flat back are much looser, and on a phone with a year of use become almost impossible (but it may simply be that the crappy connectors correlate to crappy wire).
They just fall out too, while the good ones can lift the phone.
know with micro usb connector quality varies a lot, with some not being faculty to make work at all, and others holding up a hard drive without dsconnectng.
WD sells good 18 inch ones for 9.99, HTC ones are good too, and longer, but not cheap.
i imagine the typical HDMi cable moves a lot less too though.
I should add though, a netbook with free wireless (even if it was only the 100MB a month with daily passes available my free chrome book has) would be enticing. It has access to the internet anywhere, is light, and had at least double the battery life of an R60 when it was new. If it were two year contracts there'd be no hesitation, and even if they were three year contracts it'd be tempting.
As the article points out, to get the 3G on a regular device is going to be more than the $20/month of the Google laptop. I'd rather see tablet sold that way, even if it were as bulky as a netbook, but that doesn't look like it's happening yet (are touch screens so expensive?).
They can run google apps, much like the Chrome book.
Can they really sell a novel I write in Google Docs as their own?
I don't know, I see written all the time about how decreased costs won't effect price at all, blah blah blah.
The evilest of corporation (according to many) appears to be evidence that this is not the case.
I doubt it's Walmart that makes a farmer's margins go down, as i would bet pretty big money that Kraft (and many others) is a larger consumer of produce. Selling a commodity with essentially limitless supply (in the US there is more than enough food) that requires toil to produce is hard work with very little profit.
I personally don't like Walmart, I find the stores too large, the clothing crappy, and the ambiance dreary, but they do use the economy of scale, crappy product, and cheaply lit stores as a way to charge less to consumers who are more than willing to take the savings in exchange for the crummy products in a dreary store.
Driving down profit margins is good for the economy, and the consumer, as it increases the money to be spent on other things.
Doesn't Walmart, more than pretty much any company, pass the savings to customers?
It has a mere 4% profit margin, compared to many companies they're a saint.