As I can't find it worth while to keep transferring my contacts, calendar and everything else between cell phones every time I upgrade, I opted to use the same compatible device that I've been using since 1997.. It's hard to beat a Palm Pilot when there was (and still is to a degree) such a HUGE community of developers. I even bought a licensed copy of DateBk6 about a year ago, those guys are still going strong.
Oh puulease. I still use a Palm Tungsten C (yes, a Palm PDA - not even a phone!) every day. If someone ridicules you for it, they're a fucking hippster. Who the hell cares what other people think? This crowd should be used to that kind of stuff, anyway.
It's a way for entrepreneurs to get funding for their creative ideas and projects. Usually you'd have to find an investor. To answer your question as to why it's appealing to invest in a project that may or may not succeed, just ask a professional investor. It's the thrill of being a part of a great idea and helping it get off the ground.
Nobody is frightened to pay money for something if it's not made by a benevolent dictator. If it's good enough to warrant paying for, it *really* doesn't matter what platform it's on.
Like many have echoed in here, nobody that isn't alrady passionate about stuff like this is going to really give a hoot about decentralization. You have to "beat" Facebook at their interface. Then people will like it. Here's my take - K.I.S.S. Facebook's interface is already very simple. We have to almost think of the old-school BBSes (the original decentralized social networks) and see how clean some of those interfaces were. I personally would love to see an ANSi re-implementation in HTML5. People *do* have the capacity to use the keyboard to navigate, and once they learn it, as long as it's efficient, people will start flocking. There's nothing wrong with a menu system - UI simplicity is Facebook's whole goal, after all. It's just that they have so much sh*t going on that it's almost impossible to do. That's everyone's problem with design. Not that I'm a designer, but I did make my own ANSi menus for Renegade back in the day. And they rocked.
That will fix the problem. What are you gonna do if someone hijacks a train? Make it go slower? You can't really steer it into anything.
I'm sick of this whole airplane thing. It's a joke. It's way too expensive to fly, you have to go through shit like this, and it's just not worth it anymore.
I've been using UVNC SC for years, and it works fantastically. Just throw your custom executable on your website/blog/DropBox/whatever and e-mail the URL to the supported. It doesn't get much easier than this (although I admit, even with this it's difficult sometimes to get people to click on a link correctly).
I recently moved to ChunkVNC ( www.chunkvnc.com ) and it works great as well.
Benefits of UVNC SC/ChunkVNC: + It's free (No subscription, no one-time-charge) + It only runs when the user runs it (and removes itself when the session ends) + No end-user port forwarding required (as the user is creating an outgoing connection, not allowing one in - a la "reverse server connection") + Customizable
Seriously. 9 years of facepalming is enough. Let's forget the SCO morons and focus on the future, which is celebrating and embracing open source in all ways imaginable.
Fluorisis isn't the only danger to fluoride in the blood (and not used as a topical treatment) - The penial gland in the brain is the organ that fluoride collects the most in. It basically calcifies and prevents it from functioning. The penial gland is pivotal to the secretion of melatonin (and DMT when you sleep for those extra-real dream sequences) which affects sleeping patterns, the onset of puberty and seeing majesty (i.e. Trogdor). It's pretty important to our individual process of creativity and feeling good. Which I could see why so many conspiracies were formed in the way of 'poisioning the cities' water supplies'.
You're talking about fairly advanced topics when it comes to normal peoples' level of computer knowledge. E-mail would be the best method of content delivery, and it might work, but it would incur costs (at least at first). Schools move at the pace of their funding, and the U.S. educational system is horribly ridden with red tape as well as 'certain vendors' that wouldn't want that due to loss of money somewhere along the line. Also, schools have so many regulations to follow, so many student/teacher privacy issues, blah blah blah...ugh.
I've worked with California schools as a technical consultant/engineer in the past, and let me tell you... for the most part, the people on the ground (teachers, other staff) are respectable and well open to doing things like this (though they won't understand it one bit)... but the system itself is a total bitch. It ends up imploding upon itself very often, in my experience. Kinda sucks.
For an open-source centered site such as Slashdot, I am very surprised that you're using Adobe Flash for video delivery.
Please support HTML5 video. Or anything other than Flash. I've been "working" with Flash for the past 10 years on the Linux desktop, including standalone installs of all varieties, LTSP networks,... and Flash has always been the bane of my existence. To have my favorite site since 2000 use Flash is...blah.
Sorry, IMHO that's a cop-out. The U.S. military is a branch of the U.S. government. That's like saying the guy who kicked your ass isn't at fault for kicking your ass, because some other guy told him to. Lame scapegoat tactic, shallow as all hell.
If there is intelligent enough life on Kepler-22b to see that our U.S. military, who can't seem to figure peace out on our OWN planet, is the first to probe theirs...they could see it as a potentially hostile first impression. Just sayin'.
I dunno. I've been using different WMs/DEs since 1995. I think Gnome3 has really struck a balance with usability and intuition.
- First off, it seems like they ripped off OSX with their configuration GUI. I always loved that config. It's missing (some obvious) advanced settings, but hey. I'll file my feture requests/bug reports, be an active part of improving open source software, and I'll watch it get better.
- Gnome3 seems pretty feng shui with window placement, mouse movement for options, etc. Again, it's missing some advanced functionality (keyboard shortcuts, Gnome-DO typing-command function could, in addition to xdg menu entries it could search local path, maybe even detect if something needs to be run in a terminal?)
- The new Nautilus has a LOT to be desired. Right now on Debian Testing, (I mean, I'm excited it's even in Testing, I'm not complaining!) you can't CTRL+V to paste. I'm sure it's just a small oversight, and I'm not about to get my panties in a bunch because of it. Again, I'm going to be an active part of OSS and file my bug reports, maybe go on IRC or a mailing list, and help it get figured out respectably. There's a lot of missing stuff, but it's definitely elegant enough. It looks beautiful, the start of something really big I think.
- I dunno, I just really love the idea of *NOT* having to aim your mouse cursor over a small rectangular label to bring up windows you're working with. One of my favorite things about X in general is that you can ALT+drag windows from any point, not just the titlebar. It's just faster. It feels more natural. Remembering this and building other parts of the UI to reflect it is a very smart choice IMHO. I don't think that idea is popular just because they might want to target tablets/touch screens.
- I can't wait until the notifications are worked out.
- I can't wait until there are more extensions so I can have my weather/system monitor/xeyes back:)
- I can't wait until it works better under LTSP (not fat-clients, just good old traditional remote X). I'm typing this on my thin client downstairs, and it's using XFCE. I really think Gnome3 would look slick on my flat screen.
Take it or leave it. I think it's a good sign that people are bitching about it. Change is difficult, and it shows the motivation to want to help improve and fine-tune it to a long-lasting result. Just don't insult it, that's not respectable to the hard working devs. And you don't have to use it. It *is* your choice, after all.
It gets really annoying. 'I presume he wants working wifi, too'... ok, how about a working video chipset? If you're presuming, and you live in a 3rd world country, maybe you'd presume he wanted a modem.
If this is dude's submission, don't mess with it, it just doesn't help the guy get the answers he needs. Besides, most wifi chipsets I've used recently have been pretty damn good.
More-so I am aggravated at the editorial nature of these footer comments in general. Nerds don't like editorials, they like facts. Maybe that's my assumption, but I've been reading Slashdot for 11 years now. It. Gets. flippin'. Old.
I probably should have ranted on some other, more deserving article footer comment...oh well. I love you guys
Why not just use Debian Testing? It uses 2 week minimum cycles to put software in there from unstable, doesn't it? I use it at home, and it STILL breaks way less than any Ubuntu release I've used.
having a police officer escort each teacher around school to make sure they don't talk to students about anything but homework? If they as much as MENTION that they're having a good/bad/etc. day, they can just be arrested on the spot for having a personal conversation with a student. Cuz we all know teachers aren't people, and if the students found that out, jeez....what would happen next? I can see a huge playground orgy involving teachers and students right now.
Preventing all teachers from being able to talk to kids online is like priests being forbid to marry. It just magnifies and mutates the problem until the ones who actually ARE pedophiles (I'm optimistically guessing this is a minority of teachers) find a way around it to satisfy their urges.
I'm a current T-Mobile customer with 2 cell phones on a single plan (one for me and one for my wife). After years of horrible customer service experiences, sub-par network service and, of course, after being psychologically sick of giving a company money that was involved with wholesale illegal wiretapping, we canceled our 2 cell phones, DSL service, and home landline (all AT&T).
We went to T-Mobile because they were one of the only other companies left. They were "new" to us, a fresh company with young motivated employees that actually sounded genuinely glad to help you. We were so happy with them.
When we heard about the pending merger with AT&T, we immediately started looking around. We haven't switched yet, but as soon as the merger was complete we would have broken our contract (we were pretty sure there would be something we could say about not paying an early cancellation fee since a merger wasn't in our contract). Over the past few months, we noticed little things start happening with our account (which may or may not be related to the merger, yet we never experienced it before the word was out). Extra bill charges, randomly having our account turn on Internet access on my wife's cell phone without us asking for it (and them charging us $30/month for it), and even when we called them, the vibrance in their voices were completely gone. I might be sounding wishy-washy about the customer service enthusiasm, but seriously. It was a DRAMATIC change. It already seemed like the call centers were moved to AT&T.
I really hope this thing is blocked. I want to stick with T-Mobile. I want to give my money to a company that isn't involved with an enormous constitutional rights violation. I want to be able to choose. I don't want another Ma Bell.
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As I can't find it worth while to keep transferring my contacts, calendar and everything else between cell phones every time I upgrade, I opted to use the same compatible device that I've been using since 1997.. It's hard to beat a Palm Pilot when there was (and still is to a degree) such a HUGE community of developers. I even bought a licensed copy of DateBk6 about a year ago, those guys are still going strong.
Wrote a full article a while back about it here.
Oh puulease. I still use a Palm Tungsten C (yes, a Palm PDA - not even a phone!) every day. If someone ridicules you for it, they're a fucking hippster. Who the hell cares what other people think? This crowd should be used to that kind of stuff, anyway.
Can your apps run in Wine under Linux? This might be a very feasable "workaround". I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet.
How is this any different than allowing police to break into homes and install covert cameras? Do they already allow this?
Can you leave your editorial comments to the comments section please?
It's a way for entrepreneurs to get funding for their creative ideas and projects. Usually you'd have to find an investor. To answer your question as to why it's appealing to invest in a project that may or may not succeed, just ask a professional investor. It's the thrill of being a part of a great idea and helping it get off the ground.
Nobody is frightened to pay money for something if it's not made by a benevolent dictator. If it's good enough to warrant paying for, it *really* doesn't matter what platform it's on.
Like many have echoed in here, nobody that isn't alrady passionate about stuff like this is going to really give a hoot about decentralization. You have to "beat" Facebook at their interface. Then people will like it. Here's my take - K.I.S.S. Facebook's interface is already very simple. We have to almost think of the old-school BBSes (the original decentralized social networks) and see how clean some of those interfaces were. I personally would love to see an ANSi re-implementation in HTML5. People *do* have the capacity to use the keyboard to navigate, and once they learn it, as long as it's efficient, people will start flocking. There's nothing wrong with a menu system - UI simplicity is Facebook's whole goal, after all. It's just that they have so much sh*t going on that it's almost impossible to do. That's everyone's problem with design. Not that I'm a designer, but I did make my own ANSi menus for Renegade back in the day. And they rocked.
That will fix the problem. What are you gonna do if someone hijacks a train? Make it go slower? You can't really steer it into anything.
I'm sick of this whole airplane thing. It's a joke. It's way too expensive to fly, you have to go through shit like this, and it's just not worth it anymore.
I've been using UVNC SC for years, and it works fantastically. Just throw your custom executable on your website/blog/DropBox/whatever and e-mail the URL to the supported. It doesn't get much easier than this (although I admit, even with this it's difficult sometimes to get people to click on a link correctly).
I recently moved to ChunkVNC ( www.chunkvnc.com ) and it works great as well.
Benefits of UVNC SC/ChunkVNC:
+ It's free (No subscription, no one-time-charge)
+ It only runs when the user runs it (and removes itself when the session ends)
+ No end-user port forwarding required (as the user is creating an outgoing connection, not allowing one in - a la "reverse server connection")
+ Customizable
I highly recommend it.
Seriously. 9 years of facepalming is enough. Let's forget the SCO morons and focus on the future, which is celebrating and embracing open source in all ways imaginable.
Fluorisis isn't the only danger to fluoride in the blood (and not used as a topical treatment) - The penial gland in the brain is the organ that fluoride collects the most in. It basically calcifies and prevents it from functioning. The penial gland is pivotal to the secretion of melatonin (and DMT when you sleep for those extra-real dream sequences) which affects sleeping patterns, the onset of puberty and seeing majesty (i.e. Trogdor). It's pretty important to our individual process of creativity and feeling good. Which I could see why so many conspiracies were formed in the way of 'poisioning the cities' water supplies'.
I personally wouldn't have bitched one bit if MS took a stand against Flash. In fact, I would applaud them.
You're talking about fairly advanced topics when it comes to normal peoples' level of computer knowledge. E-mail would be the best method of content delivery, and it might work, but it would incur costs (at least at first). Schools move at the pace of their funding, and the U.S. educational system is horribly ridden with red tape as well as 'certain vendors' that wouldn't want that due to loss of money somewhere along the line. Also, schools have so many regulations to follow, so many student/teacher privacy issues, blah blah blah...ugh.
I've worked with California schools as a technical consultant/engineer in the past, and let me tell you... for the most part, the people on the ground (teachers, other staff) are respectable and well open to doing things like this (though they won't understand it one bit)... but the system itself is a total bitch. It ends up imploding upon itself very often, in my experience. Kinda sucks.
Funny how Redhat, with 1/72 revenue of Microsoft, still manages to make a better product... *smirk*
For an open-source centered site such as Slashdot, I am very surprised that you're using Adobe Flash for video delivery.
Please support HTML5 video. Or anything other than Flash. I've been "working" with Flash for the past 10 years on the Linux desktop, including standalone installs of all varieties, LTSP networks, ... and Flash has always been the bane of my existence. To have my favorite site since 2000 use Flash is...blah.
'Several individuals questioned Mr. Bush's honesty stating that Mr. Bush will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals,'
Heh...
Sorry, IMHO that's a cop-out. The U.S. military is a branch of the U.S. government. That's like saying the guy who kicked your ass isn't at fault for kicking your ass, because some other guy told him to. Lame scapegoat tactic, shallow as all hell.
If there is intelligent enough life on Kepler-22b to see that our U.S. military, who can't seem to figure peace out on our OWN planet, is the first to probe theirs...they could see it as a potentially hostile first impression. Just sayin'.
I dunno. I've been using different WMs/DEs since 1995. I think Gnome3 has really struck a balance with usability and intuition.
- First off, it seems like they ripped off OSX with their configuration GUI. I always loved that config. It's missing (some obvious) advanced settings, but hey. I'll file my feture requests/bug reports, be an active part of improving open source software, and I'll watch it get better.
- Gnome3 seems pretty feng shui with window placement, mouse movement for options, etc. Again, it's missing some advanced functionality (keyboard shortcuts, Gnome-DO typing-command function could, in addition to xdg menu entries it could search local path, maybe even detect if something needs to be run in a terminal?)
- The new Nautilus has a LOT to be desired. Right now on Debian Testing, (I mean, I'm excited it's even in Testing, I'm not complaining!) you can't CTRL+V to paste. I'm sure it's just a small oversight, and I'm not about to get my panties in a bunch because of it. Again, I'm going to be an active part of OSS and file my bug reports, maybe go on IRC or a mailing list, and help it get figured out respectably. There's a lot of missing stuff, but it's definitely elegant enough. It looks beautiful, the start of something really big I think.
- I dunno, I just really love the idea of *NOT* having to aim your mouse cursor over a small rectangular label to bring up windows you're working with. One of my favorite things about X in general is that you can ALT+drag windows from any point, not just the titlebar. It's just faster. It feels more natural. Remembering this and building other parts of the UI to reflect it is a very smart choice IMHO. I don't think that idea is popular just because they might want to target tablets/touch screens.
- I can't wait until the notifications are worked out.
- I can't wait until there are more extensions so I can have my weather/system monitor/xeyes back :)
- I can't wait until it works better under LTSP (not fat-clients, just good old traditional remote X). I'm typing this on my thin client downstairs, and it's using XFCE. I really think Gnome3 would look slick on my flat screen.
Take it or leave it. I think it's a good sign that people are bitching about it. Change is difficult, and it shows the motivation to want to help improve and fine-tune it to a long-lasting result. Just don't insult it, that's not respectable to the hard working devs. And you don't have to use it. It *is* your choice, after all.
It gets really annoying. 'I presume he wants working wifi, too'... ok, how about a working video chipset? If you're presuming, and you live in a 3rd world country, maybe you'd presume he wanted a modem.
If this is dude's submission, don't mess with it, it just doesn't help the guy get the answers he needs. Besides, most wifi chipsets I've used recently have been pretty damn good.
More-so I am aggravated at the editorial nature of these footer comments in general. Nerds don't like editorials, they like facts. Maybe that's my assumption, but I've been reading Slashdot for 11 years now. It. Gets. flippin'. Old.
I probably should have ranted on some other, more deserving article footer comment...oh well. I love you guys
I know what I'm posting, damn it, if I fucked up, it's my fault. I can always reply to myself and look like a jackass. =p
Why not just use Debian Testing? It uses 2 week minimum cycles to put software in there from unstable, doesn't it? I use it at home, and it STILL breaks way less than any Ubuntu release I've used.
having a police officer escort each teacher around school to make sure they don't talk to students about anything but homework? If they as much as MENTION that they're having a good/bad/etc. day, they can just be arrested on the spot for having a personal conversation with a student. Cuz we all know teachers aren't people, and if the students found that out, jeez....what would happen next? I can see a huge playground orgy involving teachers and students right now.
Preventing all teachers from being able to talk to kids online is like priests being forbid to marry. It just magnifies and mutates the problem until the ones who actually ARE pedophiles (I'm optimistically guessing this is a minority of teachers) find a way around it to satisfy their urges.
I'm a current T-Mobile customer with 2 cell phones on a single plan (one for me and one for my wife). After years of horrible customer service experiences, sub-par network service and, of course, after being psychologically sick of giving a company money that was involved with wholesale illegal wiretapping, we canceled our 2 cell phones, DSL service, and home landline (all AT&T).
We went to T-Mobile because they were one of the only other companies left. They were "new" to us, a fresh company with young motivated employees that actually sounded genuinely glad to help you. We were so happy with them.
When we heard about the pending merger with AT&T, we immediately started looking around. We haven't switched yet, but as soon as the merger was complete we would have broken our contract (we were pretty sure there would be something we could say about not paying an early cancellation fee since a merger wasn't in our contract). Over the past few months, we noticed little things start happening with our account (which may or may not be related to the merger, yet we never experienced it before the word was out). Extra bill charges, randomly having our account turn on Internet access on my wife's cell phone without us asking for it (and them charging us $30/month for it), and even when we called them, the vibrance in their voices were completely gone. I might be sounding wishy-washy about the customer service enthusiasm, but seriously. It was a DRAMATIC change. It already seemed like the call centers were moved to AT&T.
I really hope this thing is blocked. I want to stick with T-Mobile. I want to give my money to a company that isn't involved with an enormous constitutional rights violation. I want to be able to choose. I don't want another Ma Bell.