Cue up the replay of the "oldbar is not a fix" flameware.
Hell, it's open source, if you don't like teh awesomebar, rewrite it and recompile it. We're on slashdot, after all.
I don't know about you, but I can barely fit XP SP3 + Apps + reasonable amount of user profile data into 20-30GB these days. Office, Creative Suite, and Visual Studio each eat up a considerable amount of disk.
Really, for a long time it's been acknowledged that few non-geeks know that Linux exists, what it is, what an Operating System is, or that there are alternatives to Windows (other than Mac).
Probably most people who use Windows do get annoyed with how slow it is to boot, and especially how unresponsive the interface is for the first few minutes upon logging in. But I don't know that many would see this as THE reason to switch to Linux.
People care about using their apps and being able to open their files. They want it to be completely seamless. They want their computer to just work, not to have errors, and not to need to be told how to work in some arcane shell language. Being slow is not good, but on the whole most people have learned to live with and accept it.
Being fast (lean + efficient) without sacrificing usability and interoperability should always be an important goal whenever a system is designed, though.
As long as Linux can offer that to people, people will love it, even if they don't even realize what they're running.
I read that, but wasn't impressed. That ability isn't so all-powerful, and it need not be wedded to the browser.
I can do the same copy operation in Firefox and paste it into my text editor of choice, and either paste it as html (with all the source markup intact) or paste it as plain text, into whatever editor I want.
I won't use a 'browser' that doesn't have an integrated WYSIWYG html composer. It's in the tradition of Netscape for browsers to also be composers. In the early days of the WWW, the vision was that people would be creators and communicators, not just 'browsers' in the spirit of cows on a feedlot. Blogs have replaced 'personal home pages' (PHP anybody???) but not completely. And the integrated Editor isn't just for creating sites. With Seamonkey, you can cut and paste off web pages to your local system in a fashion far more powerful than anything from Microsoft. Firefox is a gelded browser.
These days, web sites often allow content contributions from its community of users without anyone ever having to open up a html editor. Content management through an interface comprised of web forms easily accomplishes this task in a way that's much easier for the average person to use.
If you're going to write your own web site or web application today, you're better off using your favorite text editor or IDE than trying to weld the same thing onto a browser. From what I experienced in trying to use Netscape Composer back in the 4.x days, there's no reason for the two to be that tightly integrated, and no advantage to be gained from doing so that I can see... but I haven't tried Seamonkey. What makes Seamonkey so powerful, that you can't do with Eclipse/Visual Studio/EMACS/vi/notepad++?
Good info, thanks; I guess I should have said "I don't know what my energy demand requirements are" rather than peak load.:)
I'm looking forward to generating power on-site in the near-term future, though.
I'm not sure what my peak load is at home, but at $1/Watt I imagine I could generate all my own electricity for less than $10,000. Assuming my roof has sufficient room for it, that's really awesome.
My current electric bill is around $65/mo. which means that in 153 months this would be paying for itself, or about 12 years. Of course, figuring in things like maintenance, repairs, and so forth makes this harder to gauge, but that's pretty good. Now the consumer electronics industry just needs to convert everything over to run on DC and I'm all set.
How soon can I put in an order?
Now everyone stop complaining about Chrome having no extension! If Chrome is really that good for everything else except has no add-ons, and if you really so sick of getting that noscript/adblock add-on, why not develop one yourself and contribute back to the project?
Am I missing something? The source code of Chromium is available freely under BSD right? I thought open source is all about the freedom to take any source code and modify until it suites you?
Chrome is open source, but google paid their developers to work on it. If I contribute to it, I'd like to get paid for my time, too. If google or anyone else wants to fund me, I'll be happy to put my time in and contribute to the project.
If I want a feature as a user, maybe I'll code it for myself and ask them to include it in the project, but most likely I have things I need to do in order to maintain my life that will keep me from contributing as much time to this as I otherwise might like to.
If we are practicing unsustainable living, then life will not be sustained. The resources will dry up, or we'll choke on our waste, whichever happens first will result in large scale die-offs, after which point those who remain alive will at that point be practicing "sustainable" living until their population grows too large or their consumption grows too great, at which point there will be another great die-off.
The good ole' 5-year technology promise. Close enough to be exciting and get attention, but far enough away that you'll forget about their claim before they miss their deadline.
I just updated the "desktop" image on my OLED t-shirt to read "PowerVegetable is right on!"
It seems to me that Apple has made a decision to favor battery life over color fidelity. This seems reasonable given that the vast majority of Mac users are not working in the color industry.
A lot of graphic artists and photographers are mobile, and need a mobile computer to do work in the field, though. Serious color work should be done on a pro-quality external monitor.
Apple might want to consider a "color pro" edition with a screen that is more geared to these specialists, so they don't have to lug around an external screen, but I doubt it's likely to happen.
But if there's serious interest for serious pros who are used to dropping serious dollars for pro equipment, maybe it could happen. I've supported photographers who've spend more on cameras than I would on a house if I won the lottery, so getting them to spend a ridiculous amount on a special laptop, say 5-figures, seems not totally unreasonable to me. Realistically, though, my guess is they could build something acceptable for quite a bit less.
Given that the RIAA/MPAA create music and movies, and that telecoms are bundling TV channels as well as internet services, and the people producing the content for the TV channels are pretty much all members of the RIAA/MPAA or share their interests in protecting their copyrighted works, it's hardly a surprise that ISPs are willing to cooperate. In fact, I'm surprised more ISPs aren't.
Those ISPs that are purely providing connectivity and don't also have cable/satellite TV services among their offered products may hold out against the RIAA/MPAA a bit longer, but I don't expect that it'll last. The major players will bundle with content producers, and will comply with assisting in copyright enforcement in order to secure the revenue that their TV packages provide.
Slashdot Mirror
Cue up the replay of the "oldbar is not a fix" flameware. Hell, it's open source, if you don't like teh awesomebar, rewrite it and recompile it. We're on slashdot, after all.
I don't know about you, but I can barely fit XP SP3 + Apps + reasonable amount of user profile data into 20-30GB these days. Office, Creative Suite, and Visual Studio each eat up a considerable amount of disk.
Really, for a long time it's been acknowledged that few non-geeks know that Linux exists, what it is, what an Operating System is, or that there are alternatives to Windows (other than Mac). Probably most people who use Windows do get annoyed with how slow it is to boot, and especially how unresponsive the interface is for the first few minutes upon logging in. But I don't know that many would see this as THE reason to switch to Linux. People care about using their apps and being able to open their files. They want it to be completely seamless. They want their computer to just work, not to have errors, and not to need to be told how to work in some arcane shell language. Being slow is not good, but on the whole most people have learned to live with and accept it. Being fast (lean + efficient) without sacrificing usability and interoperability should always be an important goal whenever a system is designed, though. As long as Linux can offer that to people, people will love it, even if they don't even realize what they're running.
All your base are belong to Gauss?
I read that, but wasn't impressed. That ability isn't so all-powerful, and it need not be wedded to the browser. I can do the same copy operation in Firefox and paste it into my text editor of choice, and either paste it as html (with all the source markup intact) or paste it as plain text, into whatever editor I want.
How could they miss Seamonkey?
I won't use a 'browser' that doesn't have an integrated WYSIWYG html composer. It's in the tradition of Netscape for browsers to also be composers. In the early days of the WWW, the vision was that people would be creators and communicators, not just 'browsers' in the spirit of cows on a feedlot. Blogs have replaced 'personal home pages' (PHP anybody???) but not completely. And the integrated Editor isn't just for creating sites. With Seamonkey, you can cut and paste off web pages to your local system in a fashion far more powerful than anything from Microsoft. Firefox is a gelded browser.
These days, web sites often allow content contributions from its community of users without anyone ever having to open up a html editor. Content management through an interface comprised of web forms easily accomplishes this task in a way that's much easier for the average person to use. If you're going to write your own web site or web application today, you're better off using your favorite text editor or IDE than trying to weld the same thing onto a browser. From what I experienced in trying to use Netscape Composer back in the 4.x days, there's no reason for the two to be that tightly integrated, and no advantage to be gained from doing so that I can see... but I haven't tried Seamonkey. What makes Seamonkey so powerful, that you can't do with Eclipse/Visual Studio/EMACS/vi/notepad++?
I want Khan musk.
Wise choice.
I never understood why they would choose YouTube over other Internet "channels". It is not exactly a "neutral choice".
If the president would like to speak to the American people, why not choose something not affiliated with any company.
But, as a non-American, what do I know.
Because youtube's a trendy, high-traffic site with a lot of hip factor and buzz?
Good info, thanks; I guess I should have said "I don't know what my energy demand requirements are" rather than peak load. :)
I'm looking forward to generating power on-site in the near-term future, though.
I'm not sure what my peak load is at home, but at $1/Watt I imagine I could generate all my own electricity for less than $10,000. Assuming my roof has sufficient room for it, that's really awesome. My current electric bill is around $65/mo. which means that in 153 months this would be paying for itself, or about 12 years. Of course, figuring in things like maintenance, repairs, and so forth makes this harder to gauge, but that's pretty good. Now the consumer electronics industry just needs to convert everything over to run on DC and I'm all set. How soon can I put in an order?
Why Slashdot Hates Journalistic Standards
We also heard you like pointing devices, so this baby has three of them with two sets of buttons!
+1 WTF were they thinking?!
"When Steve Jobs hears about this, his head's going to explode."
Now everyone stop complaining about Chrome having no extension! If Chrome is really that good for everything else except has no add-ons, and if you really so sick of getting that noscript/adblock add-on, why not develop one yourself and contribute back to the project?
Am I missing something? The source code of Chromium is available freely under BSD right? I thought open source is all about the freedom to take any source code and modify until it suites you?
Chrome is open source, but google paid their developers to work on it. If I contribute to it, I'd like to get paid for my time, too. If google or anyone else wants to fund me, I'll be happy to put my time in and contribute to the project. If I want a feature as a user, maybe I'll code it for myself and ask them to include it in the project, but most likely I have things I need to do in order to maintain my life that will keep me from contributing as much time to this as I otherwise might like to.
http://gsaauctions.gov/
are you looking for shopt -s histappend ?
I can't be the only one who read that as
are you looking for shopt -s histappend ?
I can't be the only who read that as
shopt -shit happened ...can I?
TRUE poetic justice would see them incarcerated in the juvenile detention facilities themselves, surrounded by the very kids they sent there.
... who then would educate the judge about their evil ways through rhyming couplets, rapped to them hip-hop style.
IE7 is a steaming pile of crap, but it is better then IE6's steaming pile of crap and vomit.
IE 8... crap, vomit, and jizz.
Sounds like the piece should be called "Ohm's Law".
I must *resist* the urge to make stupid jokes about Ohm.
If we are practicing unsustainable living, then life will not be sustained. The resources will dry up, or we'll choke on our waste, whichever happens first will result in large scale die-offs, after which point those who remain alive will at that point be practicing "sustainable" living until their population grows too large or their consumption grows too great, at which point there will be another great die-off.
Where is Brock Samson when you need him?
[JoinCommunity]*
*DOD CAC or ECA Certificate Required
How easy is it to get one of these certificates?
The good ole' 5-year technology promise. Close enough to be exciting and get attention, but far enough away that you'll forget about their claim before they miss their deadline.
I just updated the "desktop" image on my OLED t-shirt to read "PowerVegetable is right on!"
It seems to me that Apple has made a decision to favor battery life over color fidelity. This seems reasonable given that the vast majority of Mac users are not working in the color industry.
A lot of graphic artists and photographers are mobile, and need a mobile computer to do work in the field, though. Serious color work should be done on a pro-quality external monitor.
Apple might want to consider a "color pro" edition with a screen that is more geared to these specialists, so they don't have to lug around an external screen, but I doubt it's likely to happen.
But if there's serious interest for serious pros who are used to dropping serious dollars for pro equipment, maybe it could happen. I've supported photographers who've spend more on cameras than I would on a house if I won the lottery, so getting them to spend a ridiculous amount on a special laptop, say 5-figures, seems not totally unreasonable to me. Realistically, though, my guess is they could build something acceptable for quite a bit less.
Given that the RIAA/MPAA create music and movies, and that telecoms are bundling TV channels as well as internet services, and the people producing the content for the TV channels are pretty much all members of the RIAA/MPAA or share their interests in protecting their copyrighted works, it's hardly a surprise that ISPs are willing to cooperate. In fact, I'm surprised more ISPs aren't.
Those ISPs that are purely providing connectivity and don't also have cable/satellite TV services among their offered products may hold out against the RIAA/MPAA a bit longer, but I don't expect that it'll last. The major players will bundle with content producers, and will comply with assisting in copyright enforcement in order to secure the revenue that their TV packages provide.