afaict ubuntu don't fix any bugs that require coding skills. they just wait for debian to fix stuff and implement the fixed package in the next release.
i'm merely pointing out that there is no free world anymore. bush jr has taken care of it. it may have started in the US but the trend is spreading quickly. you'd have to move to a place like Mongolia and cut yourself off the interwebs to live truly freely.
which idiot modded this informative? there are computers in this world that aren't just used for mp3 encoding. i need to run hundreds of (usually idle) processes on my servers and therefore prefer 16 core opterons to Intel's xeons. responsiveness of our opteron systems is much higher than that of our xeon ones.
what is this free world you speak of? the land where TSA feels up your children every time you travel? where CCTV monitors your every move, government agancies have warrantless access to all your communication logs and can listen in whenever they want? where all that's needed to keep you in prison without due process is label you as a terrorist? where people don't get tortured, only waterboarded? That country is morally already in stone age!
How can you have such a completely different experience from my own? I tried Gaikai at work during lunch breaks. Our offices are on top of a datacentre and we have a few 10Gbps direct links to LINX (london internet exchange). I don't think gaming connectivity gets any better than what I have there. Yet Gaikai SUCKED donkey balls every single time I tried it. I absolutely hated the latency and never played for more than 15 minutes before I got annoyed with it.
does ChromeOS have some kind of remote management software and vpn? i am considering chromebook for my mother, but i do need to be able to log in remotely to help her. she struggles even with simple stuff like file management at the moment.
that was a real WTF comment. how is a polite plea showing up once in a blue moon more annoying than autoplaying videos, flashing banners and "you can skip this ad in 5 4 3 2 1" welcome pages?
"They know what they are getting when they buy it"? Surely there are lawsuits and marketing twists that prove it can't be true.
Are these the same people who can't discriminate between Galaxy Tab and iPad? Same people who play with a GNU/Linux based netbook in the shop, buy it and then return it (allegedly) because they did not realise it wasn't running Windows?
somebody please correct me if i'm wrong; it was on slashdot i read that standardised ODF format lags so far behind what open/libreoffice are using at the moment that the only way to create fully compatible documents is to read their source code and implement that. (which is why calligra, word, abiword suck at odf) i'm not sure if that was a microsoft shill's FUD campaign or reality and i would like to know.
You simply assumed the worst (you insensitive clod). I don't feel like writing irrelevant background information with every relevant response. But since you're 'sort of asking', we use sip video calls (h263 on asterisk) so that I can watch my baby play when I'm at work.
I love naive reponses from people with no kids. There are 2 reasons for using electronic devices like a tablet with a baby: 1. When I watch my wife entertaining/stimulating/educating/feeding/exercising and walking with our baby for 12 hours a day, I cannot but feel sorry for her. Being able to put the baby in front of a screen for half an hour a day gives her a way to avoid going insane. 2. A tablet/TV/computer screen/phone is not a way to avoid responsible parenting. It's simply yet another stimulant in the endless search for things to do with a baby that gets fed up with an activity after 15 minutes. (That's 30-40 different activities a day, every day (some activities like eating, singing, etc. can be repeated)
So my baby's recommendation is "my baby piano" on android.
in windows you can have high(er) power and low fan (if the processing unit is cool enough). with what you're suggesting, you lower noise by throwing performance out of the window (speaking from experience). on low setting, i can't even scroll webpages smoothly. amd's drivers are just sad.
In this day and age we should be able to eliminate at least 50% of all travel. Why do I need to commute 50km to work where I just sit in front of computer screens for 8 hours? I'd much rather stay at home and have a 3d camera pointed at me. Commuting is bad for the environment and costs me time I could spend with my family. Most jobs in 1st world could be done without physical presence. All that's needed is a change in employers' perception of what "being at work" means and an HD/3D version of something like Google Hangout.
I'm just waiting for the time when prioritisation gets implemented into this. e.g.: a politician in car A and a housewife in car B both heading in the same direction, at the same speed and next to each other. Something suddenly happens in front of them and there is only room for one car to avoid the obstacle safely. Big Brother decides who gets to live.
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and you've just degraded it to the second most useless.
and for those who haven't read Tolkien; the three levels of hobbitism:
hobby - hobbier - hobbiest
afaict ubuntu don't fix any bugs that require coding skills. they just wait for debian to fix stuff and implement the fixed package in the next release.
i'm merely pointing out that there is no free world anymore. bush jr has taken care of it. it may have started in the US but the trend is spreading quickly. you'd have to move to a place like Mongolia and cut yourself off the interwebs to live truly freely.
which idiot modded this informative?
there are computers in this world that aren't just used for mp3 encoding. i need to run hundreds of (usually idle) processes on my servers and therefore prefer 16 core opterons to Intel's xeons. responsiveness of our opteron systems is much higher than that of our xeon ones.
what is this free world you speak of? the land where TSA feels up your children every time you travel? where CCTV monitors your every move, government agancies have warrantless access to all your communication logs and can listen in whenever they want? where all that's needed to keep you in prison without due process is label you as a terrorist? where people don't get tortured, only waterboarded? That country is morally already in stone age!
How can you have such a completely different experience from my own? I tried Gaikai at work during lunch breaks. Our offices are on top of a datacentre and we have a few 10Gbps direct links to LINX (london internet exchange). I don't think gaming connectivity gets any better than what I have there. Yet Gaikai SUCKED donkey balls every single time I tried it. I absolutely hated the latency and never played for more than 15 minutes before I got annoyed with it.
does ChromeOS have some kind of remote management software and vpn? i am considering chromebook for my mother, but i do need to be able to log in remotely to help her. she struggles even with simple stuff like file management at the moment.
i guess "absolute" can also be relative
some people still claim that film is a comedy. i just find it scary.
that was a real WTF comment. how is a polite plea showing up once in a blue moon more annoying than autoplaying videos, flashing banners and "you can skip this ad in 5 4 3 2 1" welcome pages?
"They know what they are getting when they buy it"? Surely there are lawsuits and marketing twists that prove it can't be true.
Are these the same people who can't discriminate between Galaxy Tab and iPad? Same people who play with a GNU/Linux based netbook in the shop, buy it and then return it (allegedly) because they did not realise it wasn't running Windows?
somebody please correct me if i'm wrong; it was on slashdot i read that standardised ODF format lags so far behind what open/libreoffice are using at the moment that the only way to create fully compatible documents is to read their source code and implement that. (which is why calligra, word, abiword suck at odf) i'm not sure if that was a microsoft shill's FUD campaign or reality and i would like to know.
calligra's odf compatibility page: https://community.kde.org/Calligra/ODF_Problems
You simply assumed the worst (you insensitive clod). I don't feel like writing irrelevant background information with every relevant response. But since you're 'sort of asking', we use sip video calls (h263 on asterisk) so that I can watch my baby play when I'm at work.
Obviously, your first choice is to assume I am an insensitive clod. You Sir, have spent far too much time on Slashdot.
I love naive reponses from people with no kids. There are 2 reasons for using electronic devices like a tablet with a baby:
1. When I watch my wife entertaining/stimulating/educating/feeding/exercising and walking with our baby for 12 hours a day, I cannot but feel sorry for her. Being able to put the baby in front of a screen for half an hour a day gives her a way to avoid going insane.
2. A tablet/TV/computer screen/phone is not a way to avoid responsible parenting. It's simply yet another stimulant in the endless search for things to do with a baby that gets fed up with an activity after 15 minutes. (That's 30-40 different activities a day, every day (some activities like eating, singing, etc. can be repeated)
So my baby's recommendation is "my baby piano" on android.
I'm assuming your comment is about Great Britain - the world's capital of crooked teeth and non-american obesity.
It is amusing that for most Americans Britain==Europe while most Europeans see it as the 51st state.
It is a sin to say "debian-multimedia" and Stefano Zacchiroli will come and strangle your children if you do it again. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2012-May/thread.html#26678
in windows you can have high(er) power and low fan (if the processing unit is cool enough). with what you're suggesting, you lower noise by throwing performance out of the window (speaking from experience). on low setting, i can't even scroll webpages smoothly. amd's drivers are just sad.
In this day and age we should be able to eliminate at least 50% of all travel. Why do I need to commute 50km to work where I just sit in front of computer screens for 8 hours? I'd much rather stay at home and have a 3d camera pointed at me. Commuting is bad for the environment and costs me time I could spend with my family. Most jobs in 1st world could be done without physical presence. All that's needed is a change in employers' perception of what "being at work" means and an HD/3D version of something like Google Hangout.
How do you know? A friend of mine's colleague has a sister who's done it and from what I hear she wasn't too impressed.
I'm just waiting for the time when prioritisation gets implemented into this. e.g.: a politician in car A and a housewife in car B both heading in the same direction, at the same speed and next to each other. Something suddenly happens in front of them and there is only room for one car to avoid the obstacle safely. Big Brother decides who gets to live.
www.dhs.gov/cctv/live
i use tinyproxy to watch hulu.com. the configuration is trivial, you just need to make sure you
comment out these:
AddHeader "X-My-Header" "Powered by Tinyproxy"
ViaProxyName "tinyproxy"
uncomment and set this:
DisableViaHeader Yes
the rest of my config is almost unchanged.
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