well, they did V8 (and they did it brilliantly, not that it wasn't always apparent that it should have been done that way since the beginning). Webkit they didn't do nor did they do SQLite or any of the other libraries chrome uses. Anyway, my intention isn't that much on criticizing Google on putting their label on a collection of libs, after all they did do a good job at putting them together. I just want to stress that Google is getting praise for putting together some tech (and who wouldn't do a good job with that many resources) and doesn't attribute that praise to all the people who are actually brilliant (aka the devs of the FOSS tech chromium uses).
Google does search. Google does search very well. Google can develop whatever tech (and webapps) they want to help consumers reach their adds (and they do it with android, chrome, google docs, etc). All the individuals on the Internet should understand that referring to any of their tech as Google zxyzxy just makes them part of the google advertising campaign and terminally ends in the googlification of everything. I bet You like that prospect very much?
I don't like chrome very much. I like chromium even though it's kind of a bitch to compile if you go that route. I have to say though that I'm kind of offended. It isn't really "Google Chrome" its chromium with google branding.
This hideous self promotion (and misinformed peer promotion) of the search giant has to stop!
what I hate even more about this is that with so many choices an OSS geek has nowadays none of the existing mobile device OSs will never get enough momentum to progress and get the attention of manufacturers.
The mobile FOSS OS landscape is filled with almost complete products that have no following (at least not big enough to make a statement). It is idiotic to try and pursue either MeeGo, MaeMo, Moblin, Titzen, webOS or whatever the next failed competitor to iOS is untill serious development effort completes it and makes one or two HW manufacturers release devices that can accommodate it. There will never be a thing such as a free and open source mobile OS untill the FOSS OS developer community: 1) puts it's egos aside, 2) takes a step back, 3) decides which project has the most merit to follow (without half the devs leaving because their favorite project was the chosen one) 4) actually finish the project (without producing 2^64 forks every hour like it happened when the gnome community thought about maintaining 2.6) 5) stop every one idiot who decides he can build a full fledged OS on his own (so that no devs leave for less mature and less moving projects). This btw includes Corporate idiots, I don't just mean shed kids.
FOSS is supposed to give devs the ability to respin stuff and that is all good and well but the cold hard truth is that finnishing a good OS for mobile devices requires much much more than one person or small group can achieve. If the freedom to deviate brought by the GNU licenses leads to fragmentation this severe that no one actually produces something then it is no freedom at all.
Also, never forget that unlike PCs atm it is "illegal" to install a different OS on a mobile device.
You could do a fairly advanced mod and operate with a sim card , a very rudimentary chipset and gsm antenna only. You just have to find a good way to hook it up with electricity and you are good to go. System usually works on a call in basis, the user pings the device (via its sim) and the device returns a readout of the radio landscape. you can use that to geolocate the device. You can feed that data to the java google maps app for dumbphones and get a visualization of where the device actually is (in city centers you should get very good results).
a game's value is judged with the amounts of fun (yes, you can measure that in mol*kg/parsec^3 ) it provides to the person who plays it and occasionaly to the peers watching. this has nothing to do with ff13 like graphics. or elder scrolls / warcraft like lore
Darwinia! Was the only game of the last pack that I thought I would like. still I didn't buy it because a) I'm still having tons of fun with all the games from the pack I have bought (and some games I haven't even touched jet, not much free time) b) if it comes down to just one game I probably would prefer to go directly to the dev, shake his hand, give them some money and buy it there.
I think that humble bundle inc should slow down a bit.. 2 bundles in a month?
I don't know if it's the games or just me but the last one I skipped because the games didn't intrigue me that much and this one seems about the same to me. It might also be that I'm just disenchanted because of the constant presence of some humble bundle to the point where it isn't something special anymore.
Am I being a fart or do others think less frequency more quality would be nice?
That. Even though what I can't get is why we have to fight to be able to load arbitrary OSs on our hardware. Isn't it obvious that it is an offense for any company to remotely dictate what software you run on a device you own?
This is a much bigger issue than advertised. This means that "any" hardware manufacturer now could be legally allowed to force OSs on their customers through their devices. Suddenly Win8 only hardware doesn't seem that far fetched.
If *I* buy house and want to remodel it, then I might get someone to do it, who will - shock, horror - be paid for it and they might then spend that money on something.
You suggest that people do things for money?!??!?!?!?!?
Working with designers is brilliant. You just have to pick the right designer.
Nowadays UI design is pretty much the new hotness around design circles and bars and many an adobe Photoshop monkey fancies himself one. No matter they havent ever 'actually' thought about UI design, no matter they think human factorsis something about blind people, no matter they can't be bothered to test the work flows they create or don't create because they cannot program, no matter their cognitive capacity can only accommodate as much as one state change, no matter they don't know what a state change is.
If you pick a guy for the job of UI design that even remotely resembles above rant you pretty much asked for it...
with you 100% been using gnome for ages and on any version I always hotkeyed most of the things I do. Sure it takes some getting used to and if you (like me) customize functionality to your needs you also might have a lot of setting up to do, even though usually you can directly move your keymaps, aliases, ENVs between releases.
In fact when working I rarely use the mouse at all, mostly only when looking up something on the net (requires clicking links)
Intellectually I don't have a problem with the proposition of aliasing commands to deobfuscate their functionality. What I do have a problem with is a) people trying to convert people regardless of their actual potential or intent "cmon, I'll show you teh cmd line and thn U'll b 1337 lkie me" b) people impeding themselves (and occasionally others) to help some outsiders get to a place they don't belong.
Those two things do not lead to expansion or domination (except in the twisted managerial tongue). The only thing they contribute to is fragmentation, lowering of standards, miss information and quarter knowledgeable toons that go out and sell themselves as linux gurus while they couldn't awk theirselves out of a bowl if their life depended on it.
Now let me clarify, I do not promote elite cultism. I promote dialogue and sharing. Just don't go put everybody out of their way to make some random guy something he is not. Not everybody has to live in virtual teletypes, not every dev needs to run linux desktops. For all I know that makes the ones that do know their cli much more valuable and distinct.
I can remember the fist time I landed on a bash shell and typed help... Apparently me being a total noob the first thing I wanted to learn was how to program loops into bash commands, not how to find information....
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well, they did V8 (and they did it brilliantly, not that it wasn't always apparent that it should have been done that way since the beginning). Webkit they didn't do nor did they do SQLite or any of the other libraries chrome uses.
Anyway, my intention isn't that much on criticizing Google on putting their label on a collection of libs, after all they did do a good job at putting them together. I just want to stress that Google is getting praise for putting together some tech (and who wouldn't do a good job with that many resources) and doesn't attribute that praise to all the people who are actually brilliant (aka the devs of the FOSS tech chromium uses).
Google does search. Google does search very well. Google can develop whatever tech (and webapps) they want to help consumers reach their adds (and they do it with android, chrome, google docs, etc). All the individuals on the Internet should understand that referring to any of their tech as Google zxyzxy just makes them part of the google advertising campaign and terminally ends in the googlification of everything. I bet You like that prospect very much?
I don't like chrome very much. I like chromium even though it's kind of a bitch to compile if you go that route.
I have to say though that I'm kind of offended. It isn't really "Google Chrome" its chromium with google branding.
This hideous self promotion (and misinformed peer promotion) of the search giant has to stop!
what I hate even more about this is that with so many choices an OSS geek has nowadays none of the existing mobile device OSs will never get enough momentum to progress and get the attention of manufacturers.
The mobile FOSS OS landscape is filled with almost complete products that have no following (at least not big enough to make a statement). It is idiotic to try and pursue either MeeGo, MaeMo, Moblin, Titzen, webOS or whatever the next failed competitor to iOS is untill serious development effort completes it and makes one or two HW manufacturers release devices that can accommodate it.
There will never be a thing such as a free and open source mobile OS untill the FOSS OS developer community:
1) puts it's egos aside,
2) takes a step back,
3) decides which project has the most merit to follow (without half the devs leaving because their favorite project was the chosen one)
4) actually finish the project (without producing 2^64 forks every hour like it happened when the gnome community thought about maintaining 2.6)
5) stop every one idiot who decides he can build a full fledged OS on his own (so that no devs leave for less mature and less moving projects). This btw includes Corporate idiots, I don't just mean shed kids.
FOSS is supposed to give devs the ability to respin stuff and that is all good and well but the cold hard truth is that finnishing a good OS for mobile devices requires much much more than one person or small group can achieve. If the freedom to deviate brought by the GNU licenses leads to fragmentation this severe that no one actually produces something then it is no freedom at all.
Also, never forget that unlike PCs atm it is "illegal" to install a different OS on a mobile device.
that's why the only safe way for the continuation of the free speech Internet is to use:
You could do a fairly advanced mod and operate with a sim card , a very rudimentary chipset and gsm antenna only. You just have to find a good way to hook it up with electricity and you are good to go. System usually works on a call in basis, the user pings the device (via its sim) and the device returns a readout of the radio landscape. you can use that to geolocate the device. You can feed that data to the java google maps app for dumbphones and get a visualization of where the device actually is (in city centers you should get very good results).
yep, make the placeholder site scary, like:
this is what the Internet will be when SOPA passes
image
spread the fear! spread it now!!!! </troll>
a game's value is judged with the amounts of fun (yes, you can measure that in mol*kg/parsec^3 ) it provides to the person who plays it and occasionaly to the peers watching. this has nothing to do with ff13 like graphics. or elder scrolls / warcraft like lore
Darwinia! Was the only game of the last pack that I thought I would like. still I didn't buy it because
a) I'm still having tons of fun with all the games from the pack I have bought (and some games I haven't even touched jet, not much free time)
b) if it comes down to just one game I probably would prefer to go directly to the dev, shake his hand, give them some money and buy it there.
I think that humble bundle inc should slow down a bit..
2 bundles in a month?
I don't know if it's the games or just me but the last one I skipped because the games didn't intrigue me that much and this one seems about the same to me. It might also be that I'm just disenchanted because of the constant presence of some humble bundle to the point where it isn't something special anymore.
Am I being a fart or do others think less frequency more quality would be nice?
That. Even though what I can't get is why we have to fight to be able to load arbitrary OSs on our hardware. Isn't it obvious that it is an offense for any company to remotely dictate what software you run on a device you own?
This is a much bigger issue than advertised. This means that "any" hardware manufacturer now could be legally allowed to force OSs on their customers through their devices. Suddenly Win8 only hardware doesn't seem that far fetched.
IIRC it is in facebook's TOS as well and if I can guess correctly it is in the
TOS of pretty much anything on the Internet that has a TOS document
that article is drawing to conclusions way to fast.
I want to be cremated by the very atmosphere that sustained me!
Nah, from what I have read the conv went something like this:
RC : "... well there's two in my office, one in yours, the Synchrocyclotron requires fifteen and the LEP guys requested four dozen."
TBL : "so, what do you say? 4 or 8 per network?"
RC : "No no no, they all are to have a common address pool, weren't you listening?"
TBL : "common address pool, listen to yourself and who is going to build that then?"
RC : "no, that is the idea. I was thinking of two bytes of address space in the packet header, that is 65k addresses"
TBL : "weeeell, this experiment isn't going to work anyway...."
RC : "..."
TBL : "..."
RC : "Hey, lets give them 4bytes and brag that the address space in infinite!"
If *I* buy house and want to remodel it, then I might get someone to do it, who will - shock, horror - be paid for it and they might then spend that money on something.
You suggest that people do things for money ?!??!?!?!?!?
Working with designers is brilliant. You just have to pick the right designer.
Nowadays UI design is pretty much the new hotness around design circles and bars and many an adobe Photoshop monkey fancies himself one. No matter they havent ever 'actually' thought about UI design, no matter they think human factorsis something about blind people, no matter they can't be bothered to test the work flows they create or don't create because they cannot program, no matter their cognitive capacity can only accommodate as much as one state change, no matter they don't know what a state change is.
If you pick a guy for the job of UI design that even remotely resembles above rant you pretty much asked for it...
with you 100% been using gnome for ages and on any version I always hotkeyed most of the things I do. Sure it takes some getting used to and if you (like me) customize functionality to your needs you also might have a lot of setting up to do, even though usually you can directly move your keymaps, aliases, ENVs between releases.
In fact when working I rarely use the mouse at all, mostly only when looking up something on the net (requires clicking links)
Did redhat move away from gnome for the next rhel?
-1.7183 people?
Wish I hadn't posted already.
Joey 2-pack will always find something to complain about.
you dirty little pixie you!
Intellectually I don't have a problem with the proposition of aliasing commands to deobfuscate their functionality. What I do have a problem with is
a) people trying to convert people regardless of their actual potential or intent "cmon, I'll show you teh cmd line and thn U'll b 1337 lkie me"
b) people impeding themselves (and occasionally others) to help some outsiders get to a place they don't belong.
Those two things do not lead to expansion or domination (except in the twisted managerial tongue). The only thing they contribute to is fragmentation, lowering of standards, miss information and quarter knowledgeable toons that go out and sell themselves as linux gurus while they couldn't awk theirselves out of a bowl if their life depended on it.
Now let me clarify, I do not promote elite cultism. I promote dialogue and sharing. Just don't go put everybody out of their way to make some random guy something he is not. Not everybody has to live in virtual teletypes, not every dev needs to run linux desktops. For all I know that makes the ones that do know their cli much more valuable and distinct.
I can remember the fist time I landed on a bash shell and typed help...
Apparently me being a total noob the first thing I wanted to learn was how to program loops into bash commands, not how to find information....
because whitespace made my eyes bleed
so there will be another Jobs now?
Noooooooo... sadface