You're just angry that I'm pointing out that linux lacks a central repository for application and kernel settings and you have to dig through/etc 's mass of files to do the same thing. Linux is still rocking the equivalent of ".ini" files, and yeah -- it is primitive.
I hope this is the greatest troll comment ever, because this is the last thing Linux needs./etc is so mind numbingly simple and can be traversed with vim, grep and find so easily that turning it in to a shit fest of a binary repository, e.g. window's registry or even gconf's xml would be horrific
not having a repository like that is a feature as opposed to an over architected flaw
I want one, but srsly, the cost of that thing is retarded. $400 for the base option, which is essentially an extravagant usb3.0 hub and dvd rw with some bells on it.
iDocument for the mac is like iTunes but for documents. It lets you import documents (pretty much any type) and tag them and store them in virtual or real folders, it sounds like it's exactly what you're after.
You can have more than one standard, e.g SPDY and HTTP being incompatible yet doing the same thing hasn't destroyed the www as we know it.
A monopoly isn't something that's behavioural, it's when something is the only supplier of a particular commodity. In this case we are talking about the X display server standard.
There are no other display server standards in use on the Linux desktop (as far as I am aware), just different implementations of the same thing.
On what basis ? X was originally created by MIT in the early 80's since then there has a been litterally dozens of implementations,every single Unix shipped it's own (usually proprietary since the MIT license allows proprietary forks) X implementation. Even in the Linux world there are TWO X versions - XFree86 was the one of choice for distro's for a decade and a half, before a fork - x.org largely motivated by a change in the XFree86 license became the new preferred one in around 2005.
I'd call no (at least thet I'm aware of) successful competing standards (on the Linux desktop) a monopoly;) Regardless of the number of successful implementations of that standard!
Compete ? Sure, but cooperate is better. Every other "competing" item on your list cooperates with the others, gnome and KDE has agreed on a standard for dozens of things, hence we have dbus, the.desktop file standard etc. etc. etc.
The word that used to be popular to describe how we do things was coopetition - we cooperated AND compete, because we aren't trying to win, we're just trying to inspire each other to do better.
Whilst my memory is hazy, the creation of freedesktop.org and LSB was down to lack of cooperation due to competition back in the early days. I might be wrong but I vaguely remember there being issues copy and pasting between KDE and GNOME way back when.. Mir might go the way of Fresco, bring something new to light or just turn in to another implementation of X, who knows, but they are adding a compatibility layer, they're opening the spec up, it sounds like they're doing everything they can to cooperate but sometimes you need to break compatibility to go forwards.
You don't think you should verify something that important before betting on it ? I didn't either - but I'm not going to assume until I know. Canonical has done non-free stuff before after all.
Fact is - I agree with your basic precept - if Canonical wants to try this, that's their right. I think it's incredibly stupid of them but if I'm proven wrong, that's fine too. However, a valid conclusion does not mean your premisses aren't based on made up and incorrect facts - so now, you know better:D
For someone who loves choice so much you're pretty hard set on X fanaticism. In any other arena X would be described as a monopoly. Should Canonical not be allowed the freedom to compete? Or should your zealotry force their roadmap?
We have competing window managers, competing graphical toolkits, competing desktop environments, X even has competing methods of rendering, a competing display server will make things interesting and looks like it's paving the way for easier cross platform application development.
Chances are Mir will be an open source, open spec standard under a nicey nice GPLish license allowing freedom of choice to distributions, application developers and end users alike.
Linux has been a fractured splintered platform for well over a decade, this doesn't really make that much of a difference.
You can't do extensive photo editing or programming on an iPad either.
I just spent 6 weeks travelling with an iPad and the only thing it was really useful for was uploading photos I'd taken to and using it as a nice display to present the images to people I met. I did manage to edit up a video in iMovie to a reasonable degree though.
What *killed* it for me was the crappy keyboard and the limitations of IOS. I had to download an app in order to download and play freely available, legal MP3s off Soundcloud.
For my next trip I'm going to get a Mac Air I think, hardware wise the Surface looks exactly like it's what I want to be honest, but I'd miss OS X.
This really sounds like you think sitting at computer is the only thing to do in the world.
But yesterday I went out and there was lots of beautiful and cute girls and people spending time outside in the summer. Amazing, I know. But the best thing - and let me tell she was so cute - was one girl who sat down to draw what she saw when people walked past her. I smiled at her. Should had said hello. Amazing.
An equal hypothesis could be, everyone has stopped downloading files from the pirate bay and with all the free time they have now they are unable to watch movies, the are now committed WoW or D3 players, or whatever other games use Bittorrent as a patch delivery mechanism.
Currently they store the from and to addresses of all emails sent, as well as the subject line, date stamp and IP address of the machine connecting to the server (usually your router, but not always). Encryption makes no difference as you can't encrypt the headers since obviously the server needs to read them.
For web monitoring they record the domain name of every site requested by each connection. It isn't clear how it is implemented, but presumably it is some kind of DPI to intercept HTTP requests rather than simple DNS logging (although DNS is also logged). Additionally the requesting IP address and datestamp are recorded. Encryption doesn't help much because the DNS lookup won't be encrypted and the IP address of every web server connected too will still be logged.
Tor really is the only option if you value privacy. I use it a lot now because the feeling that some anonymous government agent could be watching over my shoulder the whole time is just too creepy.
ok you're going to have to back that shit up with some evidence as iir a bill for only one of those things has passed, and when it did they were like omg htf are we gonna pull this shit off?
Slashdot Mirror
worst ask slashdot ever
I hope this is the greatest troll comment ever, because this is the last thing Linux needs. /etc is so mind numbingly simple and can be traversed with vim, grep and find so easily that turning it in to a shit fest of a binary repository, e.g. window's registry or even gconf's xml would be horrific
not having a repository like that is a feature as opposed to an over architected flaw
if guns were banned, there would have been no guns to steal and kill his mother with. so gun laws would have stopped it.
I want one, but srsly, the cost of that thing is retarded. $400 for the base option, which is essentially an extravagant usb3.0 hub and dvd rw with some bells on it.
http://www.icyblaze.com/idocument/
iDocument for the mac is like iTunes but for documents. It lets you import documents (pretty much any type) and tag them and store them in virtual or real folders, it sounds like it's exactly what you're after.
shoes cant believe in god silly, they have no soul
3 hours before I need to be at work and go to the gym, and try my damned hardest not to eat the free biscuits or cakes when I get in to the office.
You can have more than one standard, e.g SPDY and HTTP being incompatible yet doing the same thing hasn't destroyed the www as we know it.
A monopoly isn't something that's behavioural, it's when something is the only supplier of a particular commodity. In this case we are talking about the X display server standard.
There are no other display server standards in use on the Linux desktop (as far as I am aware), just different implementations of the same thing.
I'd call no (at least thet I'm aware of) successful competing standards (on the Linux desktop) a monopoly ;) Regardless of the number of successful implementations of that standard!
Whilst my memory is hazy, the creation of freedesktop.org and LSB was down to lack of cooperation due to competition back in the early days. I might be wrong but I vaguely remember there being issues copy and pasting between KDE and GNOME way back when .. Mir might go the way of Fresco, bring something new to light or just turn in to another implementation of X, who knows, but they are adding a compatibility layer, they're opening the spec up, it sounds like they're doing everything they can to cooperate but sometimes you need to break compatibility to go forwards.
GPL 3, currently .. but I did make some assumptions :)
Maybe :D
It's totally awesome and completely changed my TV watching habits. Also bonus points for UK citizens, you don't need a TV license :D
Don't be a hypocritical drama queen.
Waa waa dictatorship, waa waa taking away freedom, waa waa forcing users
For someone who loves choice so much you're pretty hard set on X fanaticism. In any other arena X would be described as a monopoly. Should Canonical not be allowed the freedom to compete? Or should your zealotry force their roadmap?
We have competing window managers, competing graphical toolkits, competing desktop environments, X even has competing methods of rendering, a competing display server will make things interesting and looks like it's paving the way for easier cross platform application development.
Chances are Mir will be an open source, open spec standard under a nicey nice GPLish license allowing freedom of choice to distributions, application developers and end users alike.
Linux has been a fractured splintered platform for well over a decade, this doesn't really make that much of a difference.
do the 2 words 'grub' and 'single' mean anything to you? ;)
Which form of creationism would you like them to teach?
Young-Earth creationism
Old Earth creationism
Gap creationism
Day-Age creationism
Progressive creationism
Neo-Creationism
Intelligent design
Creation science
Theistic evolution (evolutionary creation)
Omphalos hypothesis
It was the 3rd most useful feature for me, after the actual phone/sms components of the phone!
And out of all the applications I use, it's the one I dread the most, to say it's slow and unwieldy is an understatement.
I've no idea on MS Office's performance in recent years, but I can feel Germany's frustration!
Pentium 5s then?
You can't do extensive photo editing or programming on an iPad either.
I just spent 6 weeks travelling with an iPad and the only thing it was really useful for was uploading photos I'd taken to and using it as a nice display to present the images to people I met. I did manage to edit up a video in iMovie to a reasonable degree though.
What *killed* it for me was the crappy keyboard and the limitations of IOS. I had to download an app in order to download and play freely available, legal MP3s off Soundcloud.
For my next trip I'm going to get a Mac Air I think, hardware wise the Surface looks exactly like it's what I want to be honest, but I'd miss OS X.
can i vote against this?
You're pretty asinine.
An equal hypothesis could be, everyone has stopped downloading files from the pirate bay and with all the free time they have now they are unable to watch movies, the are now committed WoW or D3 players, or whatever other games use Bittorrent as a patch delivery mechanism.
There's no girls and it's all full of fat guys with social disabilities, it fucking sucks.
How does enjoying playing a computer game cross over in to that kind of environment?
when Apple stop being Mormons and you can buy Playboy!
ok you're going to have to back that shit up with some evidence as iir a bill for only one of those things has passed, and when it did they were like omg htf are we gonna pull this shit off?
We'd better invade then, just in case.
The political cycle
10 introduce bill that screws over the people, sponsored by either the fundamental right or a corporation
20 society tries to rally and shoot it down
30 if people are down trodden enough pass bill; break, else throw out bill
40 sleep 5 years
50 goto 10 with same bill
Politics and corporations are moving at a glacial pace compared to society, it's getting stupid.