There's always Xfce for those of you who still want a traditional, stable environment. Uses the same Gtk+ themes that Gnome used, and the panel is flexible enough to emulate Gnome 2.x, KDE/Windows, or CDE.
I know, they turned their back on the *BSD's with Xfce 4.8, but it's still the only desktop environment worth using anymore.
Oh yeah, and they plan on sticking with Gtk+ 2.2 for the next couple of years.
When you use the word "obsessed," I was expecting a story about people losing sleep and productivity over Facebook. Or statistics showing the amount of time spent by people using Facebook. Instead, we get an article from CNN that compares Facebook to having a bellybutton, a story from CNBC that doesn't load, and some guy's personal blog. Where is the story?
"The new alliance brings together Nokia's hardware capabilities and Windows Phone's differentiated platform. We expect the first devices to launch in 2012. By 2015, IDC expects Windows Phone to be number 2 operating system worldwide behind Android."
Not so fast...the author seems to base WP7's success on the success of Nokia, which is uncertain at best.
Yes, Nokia sells more cellphones than most other cellphone manufacturers COMBINED...however, a large majority of those sales are S40 devices, simple dumbphones that can't do much more than call and receive texts, but have a week plus battery life.
Nokia has, since mid-February, doubled-back on their future strategy. First, it was WP7 ONLY...then they were going to continue to release Symbian and Meego, now, Symbian is dead as of 2010.
It sounds to me like Nokia has no clue what they are going to do. At best, their explanation for the smartphone market has been murky; at worst, they still haven't addressed how they are going to make up the marketshare currently held by 600 million S40 dumbphones. Mostly people who do not want a dataplan or a smartphone. WP7 will not sweep into the low-end and take that market share. It's like Ford giving up making Fords, and deciding that they will only make high-end Lincolns to suit everyone.
I said it before, Samsung seems to have figured this out. They will use Bada on the low end, and Android on the high end. In this case, I would take a lot away from WP7's percentage, and bump up the "Others" category significantly.
"You are a stupid square idiot bald git aren't you? eh? I'm pointing at you, I'm pointing at you, but I'm not actually addressing you, I'm addressing the one prat in the country who has bothered to get a hold of this recording, turn it round and actually work out the rubbish that I'm saying. What a poor sad life he's got! Frankly your acts crap, anyway anybody could've done it, I hate the lot of you, bollocks to you!"
"Zack Whittaker, of business technology news website ZDNet, has commented that he "would be surprised if MySpace survives the year".
Really, I'm surprised it survived this long.
It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook started to decline as well in the next few years. Most of my friends who were using the network back five or six years ago have left. It has become worse than Myspace ever was.
The laptop in the article is a Thinkpad X30. For those of you who don't know, those are Pentium III systems with USB 1.1 support only, a PATA hard drive, a max of about a gig of RAM, and no external drive. Years ago, I found one on eBay for $75, and just recently installed Fedora and gave it to my dad instead of goodwill.
For $200, the author could have landed a much more recent dual-core X60 (max 3GB RAM) or X61 (max 8GB of RAM) which would put the iPad to shame. Much lighter than the X30 series (not much bigger than a netbook), up to 8 hours battery life (with the extended battery), and Windows 7 Aero support. I got the X60s for Christmas and always receive comments about how badass it is to have something so compact and powerful. It has an awesome keyboard, and probably 5 hours of battery life (I never carry the AC adapter around).
"They, of course, blame me becaue T-Mobile can do no wrong."
That's because my initial thought as a T-Mobile user is: Call drops? Are you fucking serious?
Call drops haven't been a problem in YEARS. Maybe once last summer when I was living in a concrete fallout shelter in the Mojave desert, but other services couldn't even get SIGNAL there.
Render the site the way it's meant to be rendered and I'll zoom in and scroll. If I want to look at the graphics I can zoom them trivially too. Different strokes I guess
Weird, my antiquated S40 based phone running Opera Mini does exactly this. And it is running an older 4.x version of the browser. I have not seen a browser run the way the GP stated since 2003.
I don't think it's unreasonable to question their ability to think of how their actions affect other people. Note: I'm not BLAMING soldiers for going to Iraq. I'm just observing that they did not demonstrate an ability to think of others, especially not foreign civilians, at a time when this was badly needed.
These were also the first-responders to the 2004 Tsunami, the 2010 Haitian earthquake, and now the Japanese disaster. US Naval subs provided electricity and hospitals where there were none. What have YOU done to help?
WiMax was there first, and has been in practical use by over a million subscribers for at least three years. Summary was making it out like nothing existed before Verizon rolled in.
"Verizon's LTE is the only technology which comes close to real 4G."
Kiss my ass Verizon Fanboy, I've been using WiMax for THREE YEARS now. This is the same network that Sprint uses for 4G, and I get around 12Mbit/s down. It may not be everywhere, but it's a lot more pervasive than Verizon's LaTE.
And how many Google search results are by devices/apps that Google has forced? Do you even get a choice with Android?
Seriously, this works both ways. For me, Bing is better. Google had fallen subject to link-spamming the past year, although they are now starting to rectify the problem. I also don't like what Google has done with its interface (both search results and Image search).
Posting this from Opera 11 running on Fedora with Bing as the default search.
Yeah, I remember Xoom, along with Tripod, Angelfire, and Geocities, probably more that I'm missing, but they made up the bulk of personal webpages in the late 90's. If you got your site listed in the Yahoo Web Directory, everything was GOLDEN. There was a redirect service, w3.to, which provided short links to your pages. I ran an abandonware site at xoom, called Softcity or something like that, which provided zip files of Prince of Persia, Wolfenstein, Line Wars 2, Turbo Pascal, WFW 3.11, etc. Good times; unfortunately, I can't look it up on the web archive because robots.txt was blocked =/
I have been an Earthlink subscriber for 11 years, and a TWC customer since Earthlink started offering broadband through TWC. Next month is my last month paying for either service. The threat of bandwidth caps here in Greensboro finalized it, and their practices in Raleigh have put the nail in the coffin. When I move to my new townhouse in June, I will get a 6.0Mbps down pipe from AT&T for $10 more/month than my 768 connection through Earthlink is costing me. Their shady business practices combined with their poor customer service does not need my money.
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Some guy on the FreeBSD board created a CDE clone that runs on Motif in all its early 90's glory.
OpenCDE
How many of Mr. Foy's female graduate assistants were tested for the disease?
For all we know, there could be an outbreak going on right now at the CSU campus.
There's always Xfce for those of you who still want a traditional, stable environment. Uses the same Gtk+ themes that Gnome used, and the panel is flexible enough to emulate Gnome 2.x, KDE/Windows, or CDE.
I know, they turned their back on the *BSD's with Xfce 4.8, but it's still the only desktop environment worth using anymore.
Oh yeah, and they plan on sticking with Gtk+ 2.2 for the next couple of years.
When you use the word "obsessed," I was expecting a story about people losing sleep and productivity over Facebook. Or statistics showing the amount of time spent by people using Facebook. Instead, we get an article from CNN that compares Facebook to having a bellybutton, a story from CNBC that doesn't load, and some guy's personal blog. Where is the story?
Okay. Now pay with the credit card that lists your name and zip code.
Symbian is dead as of 2010.
Typo, should have read 2012, although I'm sure some would agree with the original statement.
"The new alliance brings together Nokia's hardware capabilities and Windows Phone's differentiated platform. We expect the first devices to launch in 2012. By 2015, IDC expects Windows Phone to be number 2 operating system worldwide behind Android."
Not so fast...the author seems to base WP7's success on the success of Nokia, which is uncertain at best.
Yes, Nokia sells more cellphones than most other cellphone manufacturers COMBINED...however, a large majority of those sales are S40 devices, simple dumbphones that can't do much more than call and receive texts, but have a week plus battery life.
Nokia has, since mid-February, doubled-back on their future strategy. First, it was WP7 ONLY...then they were going to continue to release Symbian and Meego, now, Symbian is dead as of 2010.
It sounds to me like Nokia has no clue what they are going to do. At best, their explanation for the smartphone market has been murky; at worst, they still haven't addressed how they are going to make up the marketshare currently held by 600 million S40 dumbphones. Mostly people who do not want a dataplan or a smartphone. WP7 will not sweep into the low-end and take that market share. It's like Ford giving up making Fords, and deciding that they will only make high-end Lincolns to suit everyone.
I said it before, Samsung seems to have figured this out. They will use Bada on the low end, and Android on the high end. In this case, I would take a lot away from WP7's percentage, and bump up the "Others" category significantly.
Here is a link to the notes:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/march/cryptanalysis_032911/image/gallery
Of course, what I got out of it was:
"You are a stupid square idiot bald git aren't you? eh? I'm pointing at you, I'm pointing at you, but I'm not actually addressing you, I'm addressing the one prat in the country who has bothered to get a hold of this recording, turn it round and actually work out the rubbish that I'm saying. What a poor sad life he's got! Frankly your acts crap, anyway anybody could've done it, I hate the lot of you, bollocks to you!"
"Zack Whittaker, of business technology news website ZDNet, has commented that he "would be surprised if MySpace survives the year".
Really, I'm surprised it survived this long.
It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook started to decline as well in the next few years. Most of my friends who were using the network back five or six years ago have left. It has become worse than Myspace ever was.
This reminds me of how Half-Life started.
Thinkpads have spill-resistant keyboards. A cup of water can be poured onto the keyboard while running and it will drain out the bottom.
Video.
The laptop in the article is a Thinkpad X30. For those of you who don't know, those are Pentium III systems with USB 1.1 support only, a PATA hard drive, a max of about a gig of RAM, and no external drive. Years ago, I found one on eBay for $75, and just recently installed Fedora and gave it to my dad instead of goodwill.
For $200, the author could have landed a much more recent dual-core X60 (max 3GB RAM) or X61 (max 8GB of RAM) which would put the iPad to shame. Much lighter than the X30 series (not much bigger than a netbook), up to 8 hours battery life (with the extended battery), and Windows 7 Aero support. I got the X60s for Christmas and always receive comments about how badass it is to have something so compact and powerful. It has an awesome keyboard, and probably 5 hours of battery life (I never carry the AC adapter around).
I spent $225 + shipping for the X60s on eBay.
"They, of course, blame me becaue T-Mobile can do no wrong."
That's because my initial thought as a T-Mobile user is: Call drops? Are you fucking serious?
Call drops haven't been a problem in YEARS. Maybe once last summer when I was living in a concrete fallout shelter in the Mojave desert, but other services couldn't even get SIGNAL there.
Render the site the way it's meant to be rendered and I'll zoom in and scroll. If I want to look at the graphics I can zoom them trivially too. Different strokes I guess
Weird, my antiquated S40 based phone running Opera Mini does exactly this. And it is running an older 4.x version of the browser. I have not seen a browser run the way the GP stated since 2003.
I don't think it's unreasonable to question their ability to think of how their actions affect other people. Note: I'm not BLAMING soldiers for going to Iraq. I'm just observing that they did not demonstrate an ability to think of others, especially not foreign civilians, at a time when this was badly needed.
These were also the first-responders to the 2004 Tsunami, the 2010 Haitian earthquake, and now the Japanese disaster. US Naval subs provided electricity and hospitals where there were none. What have YOU done to help?
WiMax was there first, and has been in practical use by over a million subscribers for at least three years. Summary was making it out like nothing existed before Verizon rolled in.
"Verizon's LTE is the only technology which comes close to real 4G."
Kiss my ass Verizon Fanboy, I've been using WiMax for THREE YEARS now. This is the same network that Sprint uses for 4G, and I get around 12Mbit/s down. It may not be everywhere, but it's a lot more pervasive than Verizon's LaTE.
FreeBSD or Solaris would probably have the longest binary compatibility, and easiest upgrade path from the first to most recent version.
And how many Google search results are by devices/apps that Google has forced? Do you even get a choice with Android?
Seriously, this works both ways. For me, Bing is better. Google had fallen subject to link-spamming the past year, although they are now starting to rectify the problem. I also don't like what Google has done with its interface (both search results and Image search).
Posting this from Opera 11 running on Fedora with Bing as the default search.
I have to admit however that this is an issue of virtually all linux distros.
They confuse system software with user software
Ideally the system software should be fixed for a period to serve as a platform for developers, while user software would be constantly upgraded.
But alas, until this confusion is cleared you have to choose between having a stable platform or updated user software.
This confusion was cleared a long time ago in BSD land: /usr for system software, /usr/local for everything added on.
Here http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/05/navy_videogame_bootcamp_052610w/
"Think of the Children" meets "Fighting Terrorism." Which one wins? News at 11.
Yeah, I remember Xoom, along with Tripod, Angelfire, and Geocities, probably more that I'm missing, but they made up the bulk of personal webpages in the late 90's. If you got your site listed in the Yahoo Web Directory, everything was GOLDEN. There was a redirect service, w3.to, which provided short links to your pages. I ran an abandonware site at xoom, called Softcity or something like that, which provided zip files of Prince of Persia, Wolfenstein, Line Wars 2, Turbo Pascal, WFW 3.11, etc. Good times; unfortunately, I can't look it up on the web archive because robots.txt was blocked =/
I have been an Earthlink subscriber for 11 years, and a TWC customer since Earthlink started offering broadband through TWC. Next month is my last month paying for either service. The threat of bandwidth caps here in Greensboro finalized it, and their practices in Raleigh have put the nail in the coffin. When I move to my new townhouse in June, I will get a 6.0Mbps down pipe from AT&T for $10 more/month than my 768 connection through Earthlink is costing me. Their shady business practices combined with their poor customer service does not need my money.
Would this thing go through Texas as well?