It would be handy if people could share their experiences with encryption.
Good, bad, ugly.
E.g., is it better to encrypt your home directory (as Ubuntu gives you an option for), or the whole disk?
Has anyone had a problem where you were unable to access your encrypted home directory or drive?
Does encryption increase the possibility that a small problem on a single sector of a disk will render the whole volume unreadable?
What about using encryption along with various levels of RAID?
In some circumstances, I'll connect a harddrive via USB. If you disconnect it, sometimes Ubuntu won't let you access the encrypted volume again until you physically turn on and off the drive (or, sometimes, reboot). Stuff like that makes me fearful.
Although I'm skeptical of software patents, if there are going to be software patents, then this would be one that deserves it.
I mean, this actually took some work and innovation. It's not a simple DrawRect (or whatever) with a rounded corner radius set, which any high schooler in a programming class could do.
Even granting the fairy tale that Apple invented smartphones, isn't it enough for Apple to be the largest company in the world, with a hundred billion in cash, far better than the position of the US government?
Or do they also need to ban all other players in whatever category they happen to sell products in?
I think one of the reasons it was able to target general consumers is because it gets free marketing from the press, who fawn over every new Apple release.
Well, then you could just avoid the ethical issues.
Just talk about stuff like: app market (if applicable to where you live), choice of carrier, USB connection, ability to copy files, need/lack of need for iTunes to do basic stuff, battery change, screen size, memory/storage expansion, etc.
I believe that one of the reasons for the lopsided Apple/Samsung verdict was the RDF surrounding St. Steven Jobs. People think of him as an inspirational figure, and they're likely to believe his company's claims.
I just wanted to state that Cher Wang is just as much an inspiration as Jobs, even though she hasn't sought the limelight or appeared in black turtlenecks at worldwide developer conferences.
"Indeed, she rarely makes headlines at all, although she started her own multibillion-dollar company and made her own fortune.
"Ms. Wang is one of the most powerful female executives in technology whom you have never heard of. The company she founded, the HTC Corporation, makes one out of every six smartphones sold in the United States, most of which are marketed under brands like Palm and Verizon."
One of the worrying things about using CC material is: What is a derivative work?
This matters for the viral/copyleft CC-SA (CC Share and Share Alike) license.
For example, if you have a web page, and you either excerpt or publish a full Wikipedia article, along with your other content, have you just given permission to people to use your content from that webpage?
Is the virality of the CC-SA limited just to the part which you excerpt, or the whole webpage, or your whole website?
I.e., you include some CC-SA material, and now your entire website is considered a "work", and it's a derivative. What if you also have GPL and GFDL stuff in the mix? Which license wins?
If you include CC-SA stuff on a CD, does the entire CD become CC-SA?
Coming: 1. Then end of general purpose computing. 2. "Secure" computing (Palladium-style) 3. Only approved programs via "app stores"
Apple has been too successful. They've got $100bil in the bank, and growing. All the other computer makers are in the doldrums, and are could come to the verge of bankruptcy just by making some more bad decisions.
It just won a billion dollar settlement which is the beginning of their campaign to obliterate choice in tech.
"Normal" people have been completely brainwashed, and it's doubtful we could explain anything in a way that would make them desire tech freedom. When there was just a chance that Saint Apple's holy iDevices might have to pay for the use of some Google patents, US Senators actually held hearings for poor old Apple.
Buy a couple extra laptops. You'll look on them like you do your C64 now.
>As a physicist, I would like to read a book on why people outside the field consistently refer to large things as quantum
Probably because the word basically just meant "quantity" before physicists decided they wanted to used it to mean "smallest possible amount". Sort of like "force", "power", and "work" were words in English before physicists decided to use them, too.
16% of Chinese are in poverty, 33% of Indians, which is hundreds of millions of people. (Measured by the international poverty line, $1.25/day).
Just because a country has hundreds of millions of middle class or huge cities doesn't mean it doesn't also have huge numbers of poor (not just a few under the bridge).
Take Africa. The most expensive city in the world in 2011 was Luanda, Angola. Yet Africa has a poverty rate of 47%.
I wasn't even talking about the substantive portion of the Pauls' assertions. Just that platforms are just that: basically a list of stuff a party believes in, with some flowery language thrown in.
A platform isn't a whitepaper. Wiki says:
"A party platform or platform is a list of the actions which a political party, individual candidate, or other organization supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said peoples' candidates voted into political office or the professed opinion(s) proposed as part of law(s) or otherwise made into social policies." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_platform
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It would be handy if people could share their experiences with encryption.
Good, bad, ugly.
E.g., is it better to encrypt your home directory (as Ubuntu gives you an option for), or the whole disk?
Has anyone had a problem where you were unable to access your encrypted home directory or drive?
Does encryption increase the possibility that a small problem on a single sector of a disk will render the whole volume unreadable?
What about using encryption along with various levels of RAID?
In some circumstances, I'll connect a harddrive via USB. If you disconnect it, sometimes Ubuntu won't let you access the encrypted volume again until you physically turn on and off the drive (or, sometimes, reboot). Stuff like that makes me fearful.
Although I'm skeptical of software patents, if there are going to be software patents, then this would be one that deserves it.
I mean, this actually took some work and innovation. It's not a simple DrawRect (or whatever) with a rounded corner radius set, which any high schooler in a programming class could do.
Even granting the fairy tale that Apple invented smartphones, isn't it enough for Apple to be the largest company in the world, with a hundred billion in cash, far better than the position of the US government?
Or do they also need to ban all other players in whatever category they happen to sell products in?
I think one of the reasons it was able to target general consumers is because it gets free marketing from the press, who fawn over every new Apple release.
Well, then you could just avoid the ethical issues.
Just talk about stuff like: app market (if applicable to where you live), choice of carrier, USB connection, ability to copy files, need/lack of need for iTunes to do basic stuff, battery change, screen size, memory/storage expansion, etc.
Don't FOSS developers have wives, grandmothers, and kids?
Secondly, what's wrong with charity?
Even the profession most detested according to many surveys (lawyers) spend a certain amount of time every month doing charity work.
Why do you think it is so crazy for software developers to donate some of their time for the rest of their fellow humans?
Before Apple 'invents' it!
Are you referring to the fact that you can't call into the GUI libs when you're handling events?
Other GUIs work like that, too.
I think Samsung needs some edgy ads.
I think Samsung has a "huge Korean conglomerate that basically runs Korea" vibe while Apple has a hipster vibe (which actually being pure evil).
To overcome that, Samsung runs basically generic ads (like the one introducing their S3) with happy moms taking pictures of kids.
But it needs something more, something game-changing. Make buying Samsung be like standing up to the man.
I think the problem is the ridiculously low interest rates available in the US because of the Fed's printing of money.
If interest rates weren't so low, carriers could not afford to finance phones for users.
Financed plans would be a lot more expensive, and buy your own phone would seem a lot better financially.
I think Samsung should take out ads saying "Our phone's so good, Apple's has to use lawyers (show a picture of lizards) to stop you from buying it."
Well, I think it was because of the whining that Ubuntu made some sorely needed changes in Unity which have now made it into a desktop worth using.
I believe that one of the reasons for the lopsided Apple/Samsung verdict was the RDF surrounding St. Steven Jobs. People think of him as an inspirational figure, and they're likely to believe his company's claims.
I just wanted to state that Cher Wang is just as much an inspiration as Jobs, even though she hasn't sought the limelight or appeared in black turtlenecks at worldwide developer conferences.
"Indeed, she rarely makes headlines at all, although she started her own multibillion-dollar company and made her own fortune.
"Ms. Wang is one of the most powerful female executives in technology whom you have never heard of. The company she founded, the HTC Corporation, makes one out of every six smartphones sold in the United States, most of which are marketed under brands like Palm and Verizon."
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She also founded VIA in 1987.
I don't know. My vision is a little weak.
I'm trying to find my magnifying glasses so I can find the magnifying glass icon so I can search for the floppy disk icon.
And what happens when inconvenient organic material, like, say a deer, comes in front of the lead car?
Instead of a 2s buffer between cars, you've got 5 feet. So you've got 2 miles of cars crashing into each other.
Well, for one thing, most power plants are a ways out of the city.
So the pollution, even if it were the exactly the same, would be mixing in the country air and getting dissipated.
By contrast, tailpipe emissions contribute to city smog.
Well, the thing is most Japanese cars have gotten fat the more time they've spent in the US.
Remember the old Honda Accord? Toyota Camry?
Compare the 1977 1.6L Accord vs. the current 2.4 and 3.5L.
Toyota Camry 1.8L 1982 vs current 2.4 V4 upto 3.3L V6.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Accord
Of course there are such court cases.
The problem for users of CC content is: Do I have to be a lawyer to use this content?
That's a huge barrier for people to simply grab some paragraphs or pictures from Wikipedia and putting it in their (report/webpage/whatever).
One of the worrying things about using CC material is: What is a derivative work?
This matters for the viral/copyleft CC-SA (CC Share and Share Alike) license.
For example, if you have a web page, and you either excerpt or publish a full Wikipedia article, along with your other content, have you just given permission to people to use your content from that webpage?
Is the virality of the CC-SA limited just to the part which you excerpt, or the whole webpage, or your whole website?
I.e., you include some CC-SA material, and now your entire website is considered a "work", and it's a derivative. What if you also have GPL and GFDL stuff in the mix? Which license wins?
If you include CC-SA stuff on a CD, does the entire CD become CC-SA?
Face it, folks, the gig's up:
Coming: 1. Then end of general purpose computing. 2. "Secure" computing (Palladium-style) 3. Only approved programs via "app stores"
Apple has been too successful. They've got $100bil in the bank, and growing. All the other computer makers are in the doldrums, and are could come to the verge of bankruptcy just by making some more bad decisions.
It just won a billion dollar settlement which is the beginning of their campaign to obliterate choice in tech.
"Normal" people have been completely brainwashed, and it's doubtful we could explain anything in a way that would make them desire tech freedom. When there was just a chance that Saint Apple's holy iDevices might have to pay for the use of some Google patents, US Senators actually held hearings for poor old Apple.
Buy a couple extra laptops. You'll look on them like you do your C64 now.
>As a physicist, I would like to read a book on why people outside the field consistently refer to large things as quantum
Probably because the word basically just meant "quantity" before physicists decided they wanted to used it to mean "smallest possible amount". Sort of like "force", "power", and "work" were words in English before physicists decided to use them, too.
Yeah, Detroit is disintegrating, but Wiki says:
16% of Chinese are in poverty, 33% of Indians, which is hundreds of millions of people. (Measured by the international poverty line, $1.25/day).
Just because a country has hundreds of millions of middle class or huge cities doesn't mean it doesn't also have huge numbers of poor (not just a few under the bridge).
Take Africa. The most expensive city in the world in 2011 was Luanda, Angola. Yet Africa has a poverty rate of 47%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/capitalism-will-eliminate-poverty-africa
http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-worlds-50-most-expensive-cities-20120612-207lr.html
I don't understand.
I wasn't even talking about the substantive portion of the Pauls' assertions. Just that platforms are just that: basically a list of stuff a party believes in, with some flowery language thrown in.
A platform isn't a whitepaper. Wiki says:
"A party platform or platform is a list of the actions which a political party, individual candidate, or other organization supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said peoples' candidates voted into political office or the professed opinion(s) proposed as part of law(s) or otherwise made into social policies."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_platform
Could the reason be that the GOP convention is right around the corner?
How many gallows do they allow you?