Um, photoshop runs fine on a core 2 duo. And why not use Gimp instead? It's free, does nearly everything photoshop does, and is also much less resource intensive. Adobe is like the Real of this decade. We're all going to be so glad when they're gone like Real is now.
Go Anonymous!!! Now if only you were all armed and we could find out who REALLY shot JFK (from the front, and not through a tree from behind with an antiquated rifle).
This is democracy in action. I hope we can someday eliminate the corporate slavery our corrupt politicians and media have inflicted on this country.
I don't think his agenda is anti-US. It's just that since ww2 the US has been the bad guy in every major conflict. I doubt he has any racism or some other predisposition against the US.
I think hooking up free p2p encrypted internet for every citizen would cost less, and help more with telecommuting and other such ways of cutting costs. Then sure, maybe I'll take your fast train on vacation. Maybe.
Start saving money now and plan on moving into a completely different market.
Open Source has you beat on every product.
Windows Linux particularly Linux Mint 10. IE Firefox AND Chrome for that matter Office Libre AND Google Docs
If there weren't entrenched apps built on windows like Dentrix for dentists, MS would have lost it's hegemony some time ago. With apps moving to the cloud: The writing is on the wall. You guys need to switch strategies altogether. YOU CANNOT compete against FOSS long term. Millions of coders are always better than thousands, eventually.
Are you guys making money on the Xbox? That seems to be doing well, despite heavy competition from both Nintendo AND Sony. Maybe get into electric cars or something.
Other than games, software is all going to be FOSS in the next 10 years. It's inevitable.
Video is always in widescreen now anyway. How pointless. You want to stand out in the Android market? Release a good phone for $100. A USED mytouch 3g (the old one) is still worth $150!!! Ridiculous!
For that much I could get a top of the line computer and put multiple OSes on it. And get a big fat screen. Seriously, unless there are some $100 tablets, I don't really see the point. I can just use my phone and an actual pad of paper.
Microsoft has the world's most popular OS, and bundles a browser, making it still the most popular browser.
They're both buggy, crash a lot, and not open, so Firefox makes an open source competing browser.
That browser sees explosive and sustained growth, until by some metrics it is approaching the MS browser popularity.
This touches off a bit of a freedom rally, and open source codecs and standards and even OSes gain popularity, mind share, and quality code.
Enter mega corp B (Google), releasing yet another browser, which is faster than either of the old ones, but lacking in open licensing and extensions (compared to Firefox). Then hey presto they buy YouTube the single most popular online video source, and also release an open source codec and announce that soon YouTube will be all de facto on that open source codec.
Immediately almost everybody besides Microsoft and Apple get behind that codec.
Meanwhile Apple and Adobe have a spat, and Apple unincludes flash from it's ipad.
Apple announces that they are sticking with the closed source h264. Shunning Adobe AND open source.
Then Microsoft releases a plugin for both Firefox AND Chrome (teh Goog) that allows h264 playback in the "open" browsers.
I'm reminded once again by the large commercial projects vs. open source of Princess Leia's famous line:
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers!"
I for one cannot WAIT for Apple and MS to be relics of a bygone era, when the world is using almost universally open source products, hardware, and infrastructure. If only there was a way to speed this process up.
They don't exist because of the entrenched military industrial complex, and the sales those contractors make on the current reactor technology for submarines, aircraft carriers, and from what I've read top secret giant nuclear powered zeppelins.
Your comment is a little vitriolic. Solar could in fact satisfy all our energy needs, if we were willing to invest. That being said, The molten salt reactor is a better design than existent reactors, and could power space colonies beyond the reach of a star. So I think a combination of solar and molten salt reactors would be best.
I think liberals and conservatives of every stripe would rather spend money on stuff like this than on another war in the middle east for oil. Very few people alive right now see that as anything more than a silly, inevitably futile agenda as the oil WILL run out at some point regardless of who's standing at the nozzle.
I see a lot of comments stating something negative about environmentalists because we don't have molten salt reactor technology in development. This has not been the fault of environmentalists at all. This is almost purely the fault of the money making machine that is the military industrial complex, wanting to sell the technology they spent so much precious time developing, despite the factor a superior technology was readily available.
We could have electric cars too, but the patents on many batteries are owned by petroleum industry corporations.
I never saw an environmentalist with a shirt that said, "Down with molten salt reactors!!!" I'm sure given the choice and scientific evidence, most environmentalists would much more readily opt for that rather than the currently in use nuclear power paradigm.
Only a few reactionary environmentalists are anti technology. The vast majority of modern environmentalists just want less chemical waste and incidents of cancer. And to save the polar bears, though it's their own hides they should really be defending.
is why we need real time reconfiguring p2p mesh wifi networks NOW. We should nip this in the bud with technological prowess. Anybody with a cell phone, router, or laptop that has wifi should be able to carry internet service to and from any other two wifi points. Eliminate the ISPs. Eliminate the hardware infrastructure. Eliminate the possibility for government control.
One in 300 people will have an electric car in 4 years. Way to set really admirable goals. LOL Seriously, we should have electric cars NOW, and they should be CHEAP. End retarded copyright and patent laws. I'll build you a cheap reliable and FAST electric car tomorrow.
It certainly matters. Having a real OS and real tools will make it a real computer. Having some weird experimental toy software (Sugar) that even *I* can't figure out (>20 years professional IT) makes it a toy. If this was a Linux Mint laptop, kids, adults, anybody could get online, surf the web, write some apps, whatever they wanted to do.
This is flatly untrue. Some governments are corporate run or run by one insane person. The result then is hugely amplified. Stalin is a good case study here. He killed more people than anyone in history, possibly including Genghis Khan, who conquered pretty much the entire known world of his day.
Well, maybe he's just an American? I mean, that's clearly the case here in America, where the Federal Reserve runs the entire country, and is not an elected part of our democracy. Just because it's not the case in China doesn't necessarily make someone a deluded fool. They could still be wrong though.
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Mod up. All the drain on most android phones I've used/seen/fixed/rooted/cyanogenmodded was from the display.
Um, photoshop runs fine on a core 2 duo. And why not use Gimp instead? It's free, does nearly everything photoshop does, and is also much less resource intensive. Adobe is like the Real of this decade. We're all going to be so glad when they're gone like Real is now.
Go Anonymous!!! Now if only you were all armed and we could find out who REALLY shot JFK (from the front, and not through a tree from behind with an antiquated rifle).
This is democracy in action. I hope we can someday eliminate the corporate slavery our corrupt politicians and media have inflicted on this country.
Reporting ANYTHING Fox does or says is not news. It's just rehyping what should have died a long time ago.
I don't think his agenda is anti-US. It's just that since ww2 the US has been the bad guy in every major conflict. I doubt he has any racism or some other predisposition against the US.
I think hooking up free p2p encrypted internet for every citizen would cost less, and help more with telecommuting and other such ways of cutting costs. Then sure, maybe I'll take your fast train on vacation. Maybe.
rhY
Start saving money now and plan on moving into a completely different market.
Open Source has you beat on every product.
Windows Linux particularly Linux Mint 10.
IE Firefox AND Chrome for that matter
Office Libre AND Google Docs
If there weren't entrenched apps built on windows like Dentrix for dentists, MS would have lost it's hegemony some time ago. With apps moving to the cloud: The writing is on the wall. You guys need to switch strategies altogether. YOU CANNOT compete against FOSS long term. Millions of coders are always better than thousands, eventually.
Are you guys making money on the Xbox? That seems to be doing well, despite heavy competition from both Nintendo AND Sony. Maybe get into electric cars or something.
Other than games, software is all going to be FOSS in the next 10 years. It's inevitable.
Video is always in widescreen now anyway. How pointless. You want to stand out in the Android market? Release a good phone for $100. A USED mytouch 3g (the old one) is still worth $150!!! Ridiculous!
For that much I could get a top of the line computer and put multiple OSes on it. And get a big fat screen. Seriously, unless there are some $100 tablets, I don't really see the point. I can just use my phone and an actual pad of paper.
You mean, our government could OVERRIDE Obama's internet kill switch? That would be sweet?
This needs a higher score than 5. This single post means we need to change the entire slashdot model.
Let's sum up:
Microsoft has the world's most popular OS, and bundles a browser, making it still the most popular browser.
They're both buggy, crash a lot, and not open, so Firefox makes an open source competing browser.
That browser sees explosive and sustained growth, until by some metrics it is approaching the MS browser popularity.
This touches off a bit of a freedom rally, and open source codecs and standards and even OSes gain popularity, mind share, and quality code.
Enter mega corp B (Google), releasing yet another browser, which is faster than either of the old ones, but lacking in open licensing and extensions (compared to Firefox). Then hey presto they buy YouTube the single most popular online video source, and also release an open source codec and announce that soon YouTube will be all de facto on that open source codec.
Immediately almost everybody besides Microsoft and Apple get behind that codec.
Meanwhile Apple and Adobe have a spat, and Apple unincludes flash from it's ipad.
Apple announces that they are sticking with the closed source h264. Shunning Adobe AND open source.
Then Microsoft releases a plugin for both Firefox AND Chrome (teh Goog) that allows h264 playback in the "open" browsers.
I'm reminded once again by the large commercial projects vs. open source of Princess Leia's famous line:
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers!"
I for one cannot WAIT for Apple and MS to be relics of a bygone era, when the world is using almost universally open source products, hardware, and infrastructure. If only there was a way to speed this process up.
They don't exist because of the entrenched military industrial complex, and the sales those contractors make on the current reactor technology for submarines, aircraft carriers, and from what I've read top secret giant nuclear powered zeppelins.
Your comment is a little vitriolic. Solar could in fact satisfy all our energy needs, if we were willing to invest. That being said, The molten salt reactor is a better design than existent reactors, and could power space colonies beyond the reach of a star. So I think a combination of solar and molten salt reactors would be best.
Preserving biodiversity is exactly what I meant. I should have been more specific. Well said.
I think liberals and conservatives of every stripe would rather spend money on stuff like this than on another war in the middle east for oil. Very few people alive right now see that as anything more than a silly, inevitably futile agenda as the oil WILL run out at some point regardless of who's standing at the nozzle.
I see a lot of comments stating something negative about environmentalists because we don't have molten salt reactor technology in development. This has not been the fault of environmentalists at all. This is almost purely the fault of the money making machine that is the military industrial complex, wanting to sell the technology they spent so much precious time developing, despite the factor a superior technology was readily available.
We could have electric cars too, but the patents on many batteries are owned by petroleum industry corporations.
I never saw an environmentalist with a shirt that said, "Down with molten salt reactors!!!" I'm sure given the choice and scientific evidence, most environmentalists would much more readily opt for that rather than the currently in use nuclear power paradigm.
Only a few reactionary environmentalists are anti technology. The vast majority of modern environmentalists just want less chemical waste and incidents of cancer. And to save the polar bears, though it's their own hides they should really be defending.
Same as the original Windows vs Mac battle. Windows won with Lotus Notes. Who knows what Android will win with.
is why we need real time reconfiguring p2p mesh wifi networks NOW. We should nip this in the bud with technological prowess. Anybody with a cell phone, router, or laptop that has wifi should be able to carry internet service to and from any other two wifi points. Eliminate the ISPs. Eliminate the hardware infrastructure. Eliminate the possibility for government control.
One in 300 people will have an electric car in 4 years. Way to set really admirable goals. LOL Seriously, we should have electric cars NOW, and they should be CHEAP. End retarded copyright and patent laws. I'll build you a cheap reliable and FAST electric car tomorrow.
It certainly matters. Having a real OS and real tools will make it a real computer. Having some weird experimental toy software (Sugar) that even *I* can't figure out (>20 years professional IT) makes it a toy. If this was a Linux Mint laptop, kids, adults, anybody could get online, surf the web, write some apps, whatever they wanted to do.
Which sounds like we need a technical solution. Anybody got wikitweet?
rhY
You mean besides shooting JFK in the face?
This is flatly untrue. Some governments are corporate run or run by one insane person. The result then is hugely amplified. Stalin is a good case study here. He killed more people than anyone in history, possibly including Genghis Khan, who conquered pretty much the entire known world of his day.
Well, maybe he's just an American? I mean, that's clearly the case here in America, where the Federal Reserve runs the entire country, and is not an elected part of our democracy. Just because it's not the case in China doesn't necessarily make someone a deluded fool. They could still be wrong though.