More SIM card designs = more times you will
have to replace your SIM card = more money spent.
Really? Any time I've needed a new SIM for a phone (and even when I haven't) my carrier has always just given me one.
A friend upgraded to an iPhone 4 the other day and just popped into one of his providers stores and was simply given a new SIM.
Shuttleworth is obviously attempting to leverage Ubuntus existing popularity to somehow branch off the main Linux species.
I don't believe this for one simple reason, I do not think Canonical has the resources for (or the desire to resource) such an increasingly divergant beast.
Certainly Ubuntu isn't averse to having some *special sauce* of it's own but I think Shuttleworth's clear frustration over app indicators is evidence that he is aware of the cost of maintaining functionality in Ubuntu specific forks.
Personally I think that GNOME3 (which I have only read about) and Unity (which I have tried and been both pleasantly surprised and disappointed by) are both interesting contributions to the modern Linux desktop interface space which has otherwise been fairly boring.
However Ubuntu certainly won't get to 200 mil users without consistantly delivering a level of polish significantly higher than the 11.04 release demonstrated. The nerd in me loves that there is some experimental (even risky) things being attempted but the user in me needs a more solid experience.
It is a massive farewell to the 90's Linux tinkerer
I think a lot of "90's Linux tinkerers" (like me) actually find they quite like it when things "just work". While I seem to remember enjoying compiling the latest GNOME (or kernel etc) from source, tweaking it as necessary, I now rather enjoy not doing that!
Otherwise you should have saved $25 and gotten the i5-2500, which is identical except for the unlocked multiplier.
There are a number of differences between the K and non-K varients.
The K variants have a better GPU which is why I bought one. I have no idea how much better because no-one seems to want to benchmark K vs non-K varients but as I want to drive high res monitors (not for games) I figured I may as well go for it.
In what sense? I know that I appreciate frank disclosures of problems from our providers rather than obfuscating the issue (if nothing else it might highlight a similar problem in our procedures).
You can encrypt the data all you like but that doesn't change the fact that the very same systems typically need to be able to decrypt the data in order to do their job (ie send emails or do CC transactions) so some part of the system at least has access to the encrypted data and the means to do decryption.
At best it typically means there is one additional server that needs to be compromised before the whole lot is exposed. Encryption is of course a useful tool but it is not a magic bullet.
The distro I was using before Ubuntu had no problem with ALSA. Come to think of it, I've been wondering if it isn't time to go back to ALSA for awhile. After all...
I'd be surprised if that were true (in general, not for your specific use case). Sounds systems on Linux have always worked reasonably well until you hit some case where they simply don't. Pulse Audio furthers the art but it also has a lot of legacy and depth of testing to catch up on. Sadly the only way some of that testing gets to happen is to have people use it.
I just wish these people would GET A FUCKING LIFE outside their kids sometimes
Perhaps you could offer to babysit?
Having a little person who is entirely dependant on you is extremely time consuming. Thoughtful people like yourself who are concerned about their "FUCKING BORING" lives could help out by giving them some free time.
Please explain how an iPad makes a better text book than, say, a Kindle...
Interactivity?
I have heard great things (not specifically about iPads) about the benefits of increased of student-teacher interactivity and feedback using computer devices. Traditionally in a class a teacher asks a question and one person answers. If everyone has a wireless device then everyone can submit an answer and the teacher can get a much better idea of how well the subject matter is understood and what they need to put more work into.
An iPad might not exactly be open but there is much more room for innovative and useful education techniques to emerge than with a kindle.
I already did: Banshee's request would benefit a charity.
So in other words there is something special about this case that makes it an exception to general rules. You are of course entitled to the opinion but such arbitrary exceptions are not a recipe for a healthy environment. People must be able to trust that the licence means says otherwise it's a recipe for discord (like this!). You may consider it "worthy" but there is no reason someone else's desires (like the ones I mooted as hypotheticals) couldn't equally be considered worthy by someone of an appropriate mindframe.
I suggest that the lack of such arbitrary requests in the expansive base of Free (or open) software is a strong indicator that there is good reason to wonder if they are right or reasonable.
No, they didn't. So by today's rules, the GPLv2 has various loopholes that were not intended. Exploiting those loopholes is legal but not moral.
But the freedom to change code as you see fit is not a loophole. It is the licences very raison d'etre.
For the GPL example the changes remain consistent to the moral rights it seeks to legally enforce, ie to grant recipients and users of the covered code the four freedoms. The loophole closed is not a right accidently granted, it is a right that has
The Banshee request cannot be seen in the same light as it clearly acts counter to the intent of the licence. There is a moral inconsistency there, an attempt to take back something that has been explicitly granted. Free software must be free of such arbitrary restraints otherwise it is not free software.
I would have no problem with the Banshee developers using a non-commercial license if they wanted to, but it is not reasonable to claim to be under a free licence at the same time as seeking to add a specific restriction to the range of legitimate (if not legal) changes some can make.
In an apparently futile attempt to get you to consider the general principle. If you view those requests a whacko, can you explain how the Banshee request is different? I wonder how many lines of Free/Open code you'd have to trawl through to find a "request" not to modify like the one in the Banshee code. I reckon you'd be looking a long time because it simply does not fit with the freedoms associated with Free/Open software. It is incongruent and strange (or whacko, if you will).
A license is for legal rights, not for moral rights.
That is completely wrong. Licenses do not pop out of thin air because someone was bored. They come about because the moral rights (eg the four software freedoms) that people wish to support can only be given strength through legal protection. They are a legal expression of a moral position.
Thunderbolt is protocol agnostic, so it is more than DisplayPort and PCI-E bundled together.
Thunderbolt only supports two protocols, DisplayPort and PCI-E. Other controllers can hang off the end of the PCI-E channel and drive other protocols from there but Thunderbolt itself is certainly only DisplayPort and PCI-E.
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It's as if someone designed that "benchmark" to be criticisable in every possible way!
It means I don't live in the US. Sounds like you should be upset at your telcos, not Apple.
More SIM card designs = more times you will have to replace your SIM card = more money spent.
Really? Any time I've needed a new SIM for a phone (and even when I haven't) my carrier has always just given me one. A friend upgraded to an iPhone 4 the other day and just popped into one of his providers stores and was simply given a new SIM.
Yes, we mustn't have progress and should all be using credit card sized sims like in the good old days.
I can't imagine an Australian being the least bit offended by that.
Being reminded of an Ashes will likely rankle though.
According to this article AusCERT is independant of goverment The government version seems to be called "CERT Australia".
I don't believe this for one simple reason, I do not think Canonical has the resources for (or the desire to resource) such an increasingly divergant beast.
Certainly Ubuntu isn't averse to having some *special sauce* of it's own but I think Shuttleworth's clear frustration over app indicators is evidence that he is aware of the cost of maintaining functionality in Ubuntu specific forks.
Personally I think that GNOME3 (which I have only read about) and Unity (which I have tried and been both pleasantly surprised and disappointed by) are both interesting contributions to the modern Linux desktop interface space which has otherwise been fairly boring.
However Ubuntu certainly won't get to 200 mil users without consistantly delivering a level of polish significantly higher than the 11.04 release demonstrated. The nerd in me loves that there is some experimental (even risky) things being attempted but the user in me needs a more solid experience.
I think a lot of "90's Linux tinkerers" (like me) actually find they quite like it when things "just work". While I seem to remember enjoying compiling the latest GNOME (or kernel etc) from source, tweaking it as necessary, I now rather enjoy not doing that!
There are a number of differences between the K and non-K varients. The K variants have a better GPU which is why I bought one. I have no idea how much better because no-one seems to want to benchmark K vs non-K varients but as I want to drive high res monitors (not for games) I figured I may as well go for it.
What's that official death count from all those leaked afghan cables? Zero? One?
Well, if you do attribute the raid on Osama as a reaction to Wikileaks then the number would be "several", albeit the "bad guys"
In what sense? I know that I appreciate frank disclosures of problems from our providers rather than obfuscating the issue (if nothing else it might highlight a similar problem in our procedures).
Yeah, but what about the bacon fanatics.
Do American's ever pass up an opportunity to look like an ignorant asshat?
but with a real Lady Gaga CD?
You can encrypt the data all you like but that doesn't change the fact that the very same systems typically need to be able to decrypt the data in order to do their job (ie send emails or do CC transactions) so some part of the system at least has access to the encrypted data and the means to do decryption.
At best it typically means there is one additional server that needs to be compromised before the whole lot is exposed. Encryption is of course a useful tool but it is not a magic bullet.
A big drawer and the simple principle that the older something is the further down it is.
I'd be surprised if that were true (in general, not for your specific use case). Sounds systems on Linux have always worked reasonably well until you hit some case where they simply don't. Pulse Audio furthers the art but it also has a lot of legacy and depth of testing to catch up on. Sadly the only way some of that testing gets to happen is to have people use it.
If being a criminal is going to be that boring I thnk I will stick to my day job!
Yes, largely because they take so bloody long to start up!
With an unemployment rate pushing double figures in the USA I am not sure you can claim that redundancy is not a property of capitalism!
I don't remember any discussion of not coping with their kids, can you explain why you think your advice is appropriate (or at least relevant)?
In any case, unless your advice comes with a free time machine it seems to be of little value.
Perhaps you could offer to babysit?
Having a little person who is entirely dependant on you is extremely time consuming. Thoughtful people like yourself who are concerned about their "FUCKING BORING" lives could help out by giving them some free time.
Interactivity? I have heard great things (not specifically about iPads) about the benefits of increased of student-teacher interactivity and feedback using computer devices. Traditionally in a class a teacher asks a question and one person answers. If everyone has a wireless device then everyone can submit an answer and the teacher can get a much better idea of how well the subject matter is understood and what they need to put more work into.
An iPad might not exactly be open but there is much more room for innovative and useful education techniques to emerge than with a kindle.
So in other words there is something special about this case that makes it an exception to general rules. You are of course entitled to the opinion but such arbitrary exceptions are not a recipe for a healthy environment. People must be able to trust that the licence means says otherwise it's a recipe for discord (like this!). You may consider it "worthy" but there is no reason someone else's desires (like the ones I mooted as hypotheticals) couldn't equally be considered worthy by someone of an appropriate mindframe. I suggest that the lack of such arbitrary requests in the expansive base of Free (or open) software is a strong indicator that there is good reason to wonder if they are right or reasonable.
But the freedom to change code as you see fit is not a loophole. It is the licences very raison d'etre. For the GPL example the changes remain consistent to the moral rights it seeks to legally enforce, ie to grant recipients and users of the covered code the four freedoms. The loophole closed is not a right accidently granted, it is a right that has The Banshee request cannot be seen in the same light as it clearly acts counter to the intent of the licence. There is a moral inconsistency there, an attempt to take back something that has been explicitly granted. Free software must be free of such arbitrary restraints otherwise it is not free software.
I would have no problem with the Banshee developers using a non-commercial license if they wanted to, but it is not reasonable to claim to be under a free licence at the same time as seeking to add a specific restriction to the range of legitimate (if not legal) changes some can make.
In an apparently futile attempt to get you to consider the general principle. If you view those requests a whacko, can you explain how the Banshee request is different? I wonder how many lines of Free/Open code you'd have to trawl through to find a "request" not to modify like the one in the Banshee code. I reckon you'd be looking a long time because it simply does not fit with the freedoms associated with Free/Open software. It is incongruent and strange (or whacko, if you will).
That is completely wrong. Licenses do not pop out of thin air because someone was bored. They come about because the moral rights (eg the four software freedoms) that people wish to support can only be given strength through legal protection. They are a legal expression of a moral position.
Thunderbolt only supports two protocols, DisplayPort and PCI-E. Other controllers can hang off the end of the PCI-E channel and drive other protocols from there but Thunderbolt itself is certainly only DisplayPort and PCI-E.