Like others here I started to lose sympathy for the pub owners when I saw they had used images from the movies in their publicity and were clearly trading on a Tolkien-based theme. However I wonder whether those suing will be asking the residents of this Essex town to change their addresses: plenty of names and places from Tolkien's Midd-earth in there (no Hobbit though);)
I have friends who live in Gandalf's Ride and whenever I visit I always think it must be cool to put one of these roads down as your address.
I wondered about that too but I guess as the statement was made by the CIO that he's talking about software licence budget rather than overall budget (including staff, equipment etc.)
In the UK it's quite common to see ATM's as free standing units in shops, pubs or inside bank lobbies. There are even ones which are converted phone boxes. Mostly the ones outside banks will charge you a flat rate for a withdrawal but people still use them.
Whilst the latter might be a little harder to cart around the former is quite plausible. You'd just need somewhere to leave it.
yes it was (although he wasn't so little in the book) but the GP was referring to the line made by the gamewarden when he is tricked by the Velociraptors while hunting them.
I think you're mixing up plugins with extensions there. This just means no embedded media players etc. I'd imagine the metro version will still permit extensions which allow you to share URLs on twitter/facebook/google+/whatever-the-next-one-will-be
I've been thinking of switching completely to Debian, but the amount of work to get that running right as a modern desktop is daunting. I can do it, I have done it, but for example, to have a modern browser you either have to manually install it bypassing the package management (bad!) or use backports to get modern compiles of iceweasel. Neither is optimal.
What I fear, is that the proposed shorter release cycles are going to make Ubuntu break too often. That will turn off users, and they cannot afford to lose even more users after the 11.04 release.
If you find the thought of Debian too daunting (personally I find it a doddle but happy to accept not everyone is the same) perhaps you should look at something like LMDE. It's a rolling distro based on Debian testing but it includes the latest point-releases-disguised-as-full-releases from Mozilla et al. I run it on the "family PC" while my own laptop(s) runs Debian testing. LMDE has yet to break unlike the Kubuntu install it replaced which did so frequently.
In the video in TFA the E-Ink guy says they can make them hundreds of metres long. Well he says they produce them that long and cut them before putting the connectors on. He also mentions advertising billboards as a potential and target market for this.
I thought this too. At my kids school they use a beebot from year 1 (5-6 yr old) and that fact really helped me when introducing my two to the concepts of programming using Kturtle. I'm not sure how available the beebot is outside the UK though.
I got an invite into Google+, was on for a very short time (around 10 minutes I would guess), in which I already had several people "pre-add" me to their lists - for a brand new account (so how exactly have these relationships been formed, or is this some Buzz "feature" where certain people are automatically just linked to my Google+ account?)
It's probably worth pointing out that somebody "adding you" in Google+ is not the same as in Facebook or Twitter. Adding somebody to one of your circles in Google+ means you can post stuff TOWARDS them but it does not mean you can see anything of theirs other than their public profile. It's one way only unless they add you to their circle too and even then something you post to a circle I am in won't appear on my default stream. It appears on my incoming stream and I can then choose whether to include things from your circle in my default stream. Also with every post you can choose who (in terms of circles or individuals) gets to see it or not.
It's not perfect and could possibly still be open to abuse by marketeers but they seem to have made a better stab at it that Facebook
KDE seems to suffer terribly from re-writer's disease. They'll write a good piece of software, possibly lacking a few features and a bit buggy in places. Rather than polish it and fill in the gaps, they nearly always decider to write something Newer and Better.
There is some irony to be found in the fact that you didn't pay attention long enough to notice this has nothing to do with KDE. Nobody has said KDE will be switching. Heck half the KDE-based distros I've seens didn't even switch to KPackageKit.
This is in no way surprising but... the statement was made on the Symbian Nokia blog. Until 31 March the posts there were made by their HEad of Open Source including one on 31 march saying the source code was available and they'll be uploading the rest in coming days.
The "oh we didn't mean that kind of open" post was made by "admin" and has no signature declaring what dept "admin" is in. So it appears that this is not a decision the Open Source team were either aware of or perhaps happy with? I'm just guessing here of course but I think the fact that this latest statement doe snot specifically come from the open source team speaks volumes.
From TFS and TFA it's just petrol cars that will be banned. Cool! I'll stick with my motorbike then (actually by 2050 I'll be 80s so a motorbike might be quite fun.)
Game design is not the only reason around for decent CAD software. A lot of real work in the real world is done with it.
Agreed. The D in CAD can stand for design or draughting/drafting. Civil, Structural and HVAC engineers for example will make heavy use of the latter for plans (what most lay-people call "Blue prints").
If we're doing slashvertisement for Dassault, we may as well mention alternatives, no?
agreed and while we're at it, there's BRL-CAD (3D modelling) and QCAD (2D Drafting) as well. QCAD has a dual licencing model and has been around for some time.
I'd not come across the Open Library before but I'm beginning to see they have as a warped definition of the word "open" as some software companies do.
From their About us page: > Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open...
From one of the DAISY protected books... > There are two types of DAISYs on Open Library: open and protected. Open DAISYs can be read by anyone in the world on many different devices. Protected DAISYs (like this one) can only be opened using a key issued by the Library of Congress NLS program.
The DAISY website is as clear as the OL one in regards to what this "protection" means but as far as I can tell it's about DRM. Something I would say is far from open.
Aside from that though we should remember that this crap appears (mostly) from the right wing press pretty much every time the clocks change. This story is just that - a story. The other key indicator is the "plan to scrap May Day" rubbish that is rolled out everytime a Tory government gets in.
I agree with the "too much whitespace" comments. It gives the whole page too much glare and - for me - makes it harder to read. This may be related to the fact that I have one of the more prevalent forms of colour-blindness (protonopia) which leads me to another issue I have with the new design: links are shown in a colour which has only subtle differences to the main text. Thus without running my mouse along the words in a summary (links in a comment have the site name next to them) I can no longer find the links. I know this is/. and nobody reads TFA anyway but this is ridiculous.
Yes i can fix this with a custom stylesheet but you wanted to know what we thought.
From what I can see (this is/. of course I've not watched it all) this just puts a line of vehicles all under "control" of a single driver. So what happens if the lead driver loses concentration or has a blowout? Do they all slam into the back of each other? Even if they can "disconnect" from each other the individual drivers may not be not get enough notice they are about to regain control of their vehicle and thus the pile-up could still happen.
Interesting point and one I agree with and I suspect we are not alone. Indeed some have recently argued that free software should not only have a "universal app store" but that it is the way forward. I'm not sure I agree with that but it certainly flies in the face of Wales' remarks.
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Like others here I started to lose sympathy for the pub owners when I saw they had used images from the movies in their publicity and were clearly trading on a Tolkien-based theme. However I wonder whether those suing will be asking the residents of this Essex town to change their addresses: plenty of names and places from Tolkien's Midd-earth in there (no Hobbit though) ;)
I have friends who live in Gandalf's Ride and whenever I visit I always think it must be cool to put one of these roads down as your address.
I wondered about that too but I guess as the statement was made by the CIO that he's talking about software licence budget rather than overall budget (including staff, equipment etc.)
In the UK it's quite common to see ATM's as free standing units in shops, pubs or inside bank lobbies. There are even ones which are converted phone boxes. Mostly the ones outside banks will charge you a flat rate for a withdrawal but people still use them. Whilst the latter might be a little harder to cart around the former is quite plausible. You'd just need somewhere to leave it.
yes it was (although he wasn't so little in the book) but the GP was referring to the line made by the gamewarden when he is tricked by the Velociraptors while hunting them.
Are you sure it shouldn't be "none of them is the missing link"? ;)
I think you're mixing up plugins with extensions there. This just means no embedded media players etc. I'd imagine the metro version will still permit extensions which allow you to share URLs on twitter/facebook/google+/whatever-the-next-one-will-be
I've been thinking of switching completely to Debian, but the amount of work to get that running right as a modern desktop is daunting. I can do it, I have done it, but for example, to have a modern browser you either have to manually install it bypassing the package management (bad!) or use backports to get modern compiles of iceweasel. Neither is optimal.
What I fear, is that the proposed shorter release cycles are going to make Ubuntu break too often. That will turn off users, and they cannot afford to lose even more users after the 11.04 release.
If you find the thought of Debian too daunting (personally I find it a doddle but happy to accept not everyone is the same) perhaps you should look at something like LMDE. It's a rolling distro based on Debian testing but it includes the latest point-releases-disguised-as-full-releases from Mozilla et al. I run it on the "family PC" while my own laptop(s) runs Debian testing. LMDE has yet to break unlike the Kubuntu install it replaced which did so frequently.
Umm you might like to take a trip outside the US every now and then. You might well find many manuals and other reference materials are printed in A4.
In the video in TFA the E-Ink guy says they can make them hundreds of metres long. Well he says they produce them that long and cut them before putting the connectors on. He also mentions advertising billboards as a potential and target market for this.
I thought this too. At my kids school they use a beebot from year 1 (5-6 yr old) and that fact really helped me when introducing my two to the concepts of programming using Kturtle. I'm not sure how available the beebot is outside the UK though.
I note the picture covers all the major demographics as you would expect. I presume that MS Poland will be able to photoshop the ones it doesn't like?
You say that like it's a bad thing ;)
I got an invite into Google+, was on for a very short time (around 10 minutes I would guess), in which I already had several people "pre-add" me to their lists - for a brand new account (so how exactly have these relationships been formed, or is this some Buzz "feature" where certain people are automatically just linked to my Google+ account?)
It's probably worth pointing out that somebody "adding you" in Google+ is not the same as in Facebook or Twitter. Adding somebody to one of your circles in Google+ means you can post stuff TOWARDS them but it does not mean you can see anything of theirs other than their public profile. It's one way only unless they add you to their circle too and even then something you post to a circle I am in won't appear on my default stream. It appears on my incoming stream and I can then choose whether to include things from your circle in my default stream. Also with every post you can choose who (in terms of circles or individuals) gets to see it or not.
It's not perfect and could possibly still be open to abuse by marketeers but they seem to have made a better stab at it that Facebook
KDE seems to suffer terribly from re-writer's disease. They'll write a good piece of software, possibly lacking a few features and a bit buggy in places. Rather than polish it and fill in the gaps, they nearly always decider to write something Newer and Better.
There is some irony to be found in the fact that you didn't pay attention long enough to notice this has nothing to do with KDE. Nobody has said KDE will be switching. Heck half the KDE-based distros I've seens didn't even switch to KPackageKit.
This is in no way surprising but... the statement was made on the Symbian Nokia blog. Until 31 March the posts there were made by their HEad of Open Source including one on 31 march saying the source code was available and they'll be uploading the rest in coming days.
The "oh we didn't mean that kind of open" post was made by "admin" and has no signature declaring what dept "admin" is in. So it appears that this is not a decision the Open Source team were either aware of or perhaps happy with? I'm just guessing here of course but I think the fact that this latest statement doe snot specifically come from the open source team speaks volumes.
From TFS and TFA it's just petrol cars that will be banned. Cool! I'll stick with my motorbike then (actually by 2050 I'll be 80s so a motorbike might be quite fun.)
Game design is not the only reason around for decent CAD software. A lot of real work in the real world is done with it.
Agreed. The D in CAD can stand for design or draughting/drafting. Civil, Structural and HVAC engineers for example will make heavy use of the latter for plans (what most lay-people call "Blue prints").
If we're doing slashvertisement for Dassault, we may as well mention alternatives, no?
agreed and while we're at it, there's BRL-CAD (3D modelling) and QCAD (2D Drafting) as well. QCAD has a dual licencing model and has been around for some time.
I'd not come across the Open Library before but I'm beginning to see they have as a warped definition of the word "open" as some software companies do.
From their About us page:
> Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open...
From one of the DAISY protected books...
> There are two types of DAISYs on Open Library: open and protected. Open DAISYs can be read by anyone in the world on many different devices. Protected DAISYs (like this one) can only be opened using a key issued by the Library of Congress NLS program.
The DAISY website is as clear as the OL one in regards to what this "protection" means but as far as I can tell it's about DRM. Something I would say is far from open.
+1 for English ppl against any such move.
Aside from that though we should remember that this crap appears (mostly) from the right wing press pretty much every time the clocks change. This story is just that - a story. The other key indicator is the "plan to scrap May Day" rubbish that is rolled out everytime a Tory government gets in.
> "For the United States, the choice is clear; on the spectrum of Internet freedom, we place ourselves on the side of openness"
Oh that's good - I'll let Julian Assange know.
I agree with the "too much whitespace" comments. It gives the whole page too much glare and - for me - makes it harder to read. This may be related to the fact that I have one of the more prevalent forms of colour-blindness (protonopia) which leads me to another issue I have with the new design: links are shown in a colour which has only subtle differences to the main text. Thus without running my mouse along the words in a summary (links in a comment have the site name next to them) I can no longer find the links. I know this is /. and nobody reads TFA anyway but this is ridiculous.
Yes i can fix this with a custom stylesheet but you wanted to know what we thought.
From what I can see (this is /. of course I've not watched it all) this just puts a line of vehicles all under "control" of a single driver. So what happens if the lead driver loses concentration or has a blowout? Do they all slam into the back of each other? Even if they can "disconnect" from each other the individual drivers may not be not get enough notice they are about to regain control of their vehicle and thus the pile-up could still happen.
Or have I missed something here?
Interesting point and one I agree with and I suspect we are not alone. Indeed some have recently argued that free software should not only have a "universal app store" but that it is the way forward. I'm not sure I agree with that but it certainly flies in the face of Wales' remarks.
whoosh