Ohh Dear Lord! No Degree at All? How do they know how to function without being taught in over priced schools by teachers that barely understood the technology that was already outdated by the time they realized it should be taught?
(Sorry, it just bugs me when people imply that not having a degree means a person is stupid, lazy, or incompetent)
The video codecs are the least of my problems with linux support from both NVidia and AMD. Neither of them off any kind of support for switchable graphics under linux. I have laptops with modern graphics cards from each of these guys, and in both cases it has been a long up hill battle getting the graphics cards to work correctly.
This very same problem befell me about 1 year ago. I complained very loudly, including on a consumer review website. Within 24 hours of posting my detailed (and scathing) review I received a call from a newegg customer care representative, who assured me they would make it right. They did in fact allow me to exchange the laptop for a new one, and actually gave me a $100 gift card to make up for the trouble.
While I clearly can't say everyone will get that response, I personally feel that it is important that those of us who run Linux stand up and make it known that we cannot be ignored just because we are not giving our money to either Microsoft or Apple.
Peter: "Well, lets see, we're catholic."
Sales clerk: "Ohh, then you want: 'You're a naughty child, and that's concentrated evil comming out the back of you'".
Peter: "That's the one."
Excellent question.
Personally I never buy desktop's pre-made speicifically because I don't want to be forced to pay for a windows license I don't want, and am not going to use. Sadly, however, I don't get that luxury when it comes to a laptop. When I buy a laptop I am forced to pay for a windows license, even though the very first thing I do with the laptop is install linux on it. It makes me sad to know that no matter how much I dislike Windows (and Microsoft), my hard earned money still ends up in their pockets everytime I by a laptop. Add to that what they've done to makers of android phones, it becomes very difficult to use technology without forking over money to Microsoft.
Really the only way to get on the internet or carry a smart phone without giving money to Microsoft is to use all Apple products, and frankly that is not high on my list of things to do either.
I personally find the "All in One" computer there the most intersting. It reminds me a bit of Sixth Sense wearable gesture interface from ted talks a few years back.
You ALSO said you wanted good terminal software. As mentioned, the iPad has a TON of SSH and VNC choices. It also has good keyboard support, with a number of third party keyboard cases...
That is only an arguement for iPad, if the same is not true of android. Android also has tons of ssh and VNC clients (though I don't care about VNC, and never implied that I did).
Jailbreak it and you have just as much freedom. More really, since it's easier to hack than Android.
Really? Have you ever hacked an android device? Did you find it hard to do? I have hacked every android device I've ever owned, its not really hard if you know what you are doing, and I do.
You don't even need to use iTunes to manage it now with the release of iOS 5.0.
I'm not sure how true that is. My sister got an iPad 2 for x-mass, and it took her hours on the phone with apple tech support, and ultimately a trip to the apple store to get the thing to work without having connected it to a computer with iTunes.
Second, I'm not sure that this qulaifies as being a "platform snob". I don't want an iPad because I don't like iOS. As I said, I have an iPhone and I don't like it. That is not because I am against apple, as I also stated, I recomend Apple products to friends and family, it is just not for me. I think it is short sited of you to assume that because I don't like apple products (which the majority of the world does like) that the only explanation is that I am prejudice.
Do you see me calling myself.NETSith,.NETJedi or JEDI.NET? No. If you lost your job at slashdot right now and you came looking for work at my employer, they would not hire you. First of all, PERL is a dying language and second of all, we don't tolerate platform or language zealots. I use the tools at work that I have at my disposal and we use the languages that are the best for the job. Sometimes we have to use Java or Python to integrate with off the shelf software
If I lost my job at slashdot, I'd get another job. There are lots of shops that use perl. Barracuda, Arbor Networks, Amazon, ePrize, and TicketMaster to name a few off the top of my head.
you have linux then I assume that you also have a windows partition since linux also has few "commercial" apps available for it.
You are incorrect in that assumption. I do not have any hardware in my possession running windows. The only thing that I cannot do with linux that I might want to is playing video games, and I have a cell phone, and a wii (and soon an android tablet) for playing games on.
Frankly I am disappointed that so many people recomend I get and iPad when the OP specified that I want an ANDROID tablet. Just because the iPad is popular, doesn't mean that it is right for everyone. I also have an iPhone that my company bought me, but I don't use it because I like my android phone much much better. I also have a Macbook pro that my company provided, but I am typing this from my personal laptop running Fedora 15 because I like it more than the Mac.
Bottom Line: Apple makes some good products, and I recomend them to everyone that is content using the product in exactly the way the manufacturer intended, and do not need to customize things. But for me, a hacker/maker/tinkerer, I will much rather use android because it gives me the freedom to do all of the things I want to do with my hardware.
Let me preface this by saying: "I am not a physicist." (If I am completely off base, or even just mis-informed or misunderstand, please explain, I like to learn).
It seems obvious to me that given the laws of thermodynamics as I understand them, that solar power is ultimately the only source of power that we know we will not exhaust. The amount of energy on earth is finite. We are constantly losing energy to space (mostly via heat and light), while simultaneously taking in energy in the form of radiation from stars (the vast majority of it coming from the sun). That all tells me that regardless of how we are getting the energy, it has to come from the sun. In fact even the energy we get from burning of fossil fuels, in a way came from the sun, just a really really long time ago (therefore making the burning of fossil fuels incredibly inefficient in the grand scheme.
I don't know who posted this, but I will point out that who ever it was has no official relationship with Slashdot. No company or external entity has been granted any special authority to moderate discussions on Slashdot.
I must say: I'm surprised to hear you say that I am "no one". I run linux as my primary OS, and have for years. I most certainly do not think that I am representative of the average computer user, nor are my friends, but I have more friends running Linux on their personal computers than those running windows.
I'm with you on that. I was disappointed when I went there and they didn't list all the linux distro's I'm constantly seeding.
I do find it funny though, they do list Pioneer One. That's right, shame on me for sharing a TV show that was made to be shared.
lol.
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Ohh Dear Lord! No Degree at All? How do they know how to function without being taught in over priced schools by teachers that barely understood the technology that was already outdated by the time they realized it should be taught? (Sorry, it just bugs me when people imply that not having a degree means a person is stupid, lazy, or incompetent)
The video codecs are the least of my problems with linux support from both NVidia and AMD. Neither of them off any kind of support for switchable graphics under linux. I have laptops with modern graphics cards from each of these guys, and in both cases it has been a long up hill battle getting the graphics cards to work correctly.
This very same problem befell me about 1 year ago. I complained very loudly, including on a consumer review website. Within 24 hours of posting my detailed (and scathing) review I received a call from a newegg customer care representative, who assured me they would make it right. They did in fact allow me to exchange the laptop for a new one, and actually gave me a $100 gift card to make up for the trouble.
While I clearly can't say everyone will get that response, I personally feel that it is important that those of us who run Linux stand up and make it known that we cannot be ignored just because we are not giving our money to either Microsoft or Apple.
Peter: "Well, lets see, we're catholic."
Sales clerk: "Ohh, then you want: 'You're a naughty child, and that's concentrated evil comming out the back of you'".
Peter: "That's the one."
I don't think that word means what you think it means. :-)
Cool, thanks for the tip.
Excellent question.
Personally I never buy desktop's pre-made speicifically because I don't want to be forced to pay for a windows license I don't want, and am not going to use. Sadly, however, I don't get that luxury when it comes to a laptop. When I buy a laptop I am forced to pay for a windows license, even though the very first thing I do with the laptop is install linux on it. It makes me sad to know that no matter how much I dislike Windows (and Microsoft), my hard earned money still ends up in their pockets everytime I by a laptop. Add to that what they've done to makers of android phones, it becomes very difficult to use technology without forking over money to Microsoft.
Really the only way to get on the internet or carry a smart phone without giving money to Microsoft is to use all Apple products, and frankly that is not high on my list of things to do either.
Sorry. You're link is better, I just grabbed the first link I saw after googling for "Printcrime Corey Doctorow".
This calls to mind Corey Doctorow's short story "Printcrime".
The original V1 Thing-o-Matic costs around $1,100, but I'm guessing V2 will be more expensive than that, among other reasons, because of the dual-extruder.
Actually, forget the guess, here are some links: http://store.makerbot.com/thing-o-matic-kit-mk7.html
http://store.makerbot.com/makerbot-pva-1kg-spool.html
http://store.makerbot.com/replicator-404.html
If that is just too much, I would recomend finding a local area maker space (as many of them have these, and cost of joining is similar to that of a gym. Here is the one in Michigan I belong to:
Maker-Works
I personally find the "All in One" computer there the most intersting. It reminds me a bit of Sixth Sense wearable gesture interface from ted talks a few years back.
I agree, and I like your signature line.
I thought I'd provide a reference:
When good men do nothing
You ALSO said you wanted good terminal software. As mentioned, the iPad has a TON of SSH and VNC choices. It also has good keyboard support, with a number of third party keyboard cases...
That is only an arguement for iPad, if the same is not true of android. Android also has tons of ssh and VNC clients (though I don't care about VNC, and never implied that I did).
Jailbreak it and you have just as much freedom. More really, since it's easier to hack than Android.
Really? Have you ever hacked an android device? Did you find it hard to do? I have hacked every android device I've ever owned, its not really hard if you know what you are doing, and I do.
You don't even need to use iTunes to manage it now with the release of iOS 5.0.
I'm not sure how true that is. My sister got an iPad 2 for x-mass, and it took her hours on the phone with apple tech support, and ultimately a trip to the apple store to get the thing to work without having connected it to a computer with iTunes.
Second, I'm not sure that this qulaifies as being a "platform snob". I don't want an iPad because I don't like iOS. As I said, I have an iPhone and I don't like it. That is not because I am against apple, as I also stated, I recomend Apple products to friends and family, it is just not for me. I think it is short sited of you to assume that because I don't like apple products (which the majority of the world does like) that the only explanation is that I am prejudice.
Do you see me calling myself .NETSith, .NETJedi or JEDI.NET? No. If you lost your job at slashdot right now and you came looking for work at my employer, they would not hire you. First of all, PERL is a dying language and second of all, we don't tolerate platform or language zealots. I use the tools at work that I have at my disposal and we use the languages that are the best for the job. Sometimes we have to use Java or Python to integrate with off the shelf software
If I lost my job at slashdot, I'd get another job. There are lots of shops that use perl. Barracuda, Arbor Networks, Amazon, ePrize, and TicketMaster to name a few off the top of my head.
you have linux then I assume that you also have a windows partition since linux also has few "commercial" apps available for it.
You are incorrect in that assumption. I do not have any hardware in my possession running windows. The only thing that I cannot do with linux that I might want to is playing video games, and I have a cell phone, and a wii (and soon an android tablet) for playing games on.
Frankly I am disappointed that so many people recomend I get and iPad when the OP specified that I want an ANDROID tablet. Just because the iPad is popular, doesn't mean that it is right for everyone. I also have an iPhone that my company bought me, but I don't use it because I like my android phone much much better. I also have a Macbook pro that my company provided, but I am typing this from my personal laptop running Fedora 15 because I like it more than the Mac.
Bottom Line: Apple makes some good products, and I recomend them to everyone that is content using the product in exactly the way the manufacturer intended, and do not need to customize things. But for me, a hacker/maker/tinkerer, I will much rather use android because it gives me the freedom to do all of the things I want to do with my hardware.
Let me preface this by saying: "I am not a physicist." (If I am completely off base, or even just mis-informed or misunderstand, please explain, I like to learn).
It seems obvious to me that given the laws of thermodynamics as I understand them, that solar power is ultimately the only source of power that we know we will not exhaust. The amount of energy on earth is finite. We are constantly losing energy to space (mostly via heat and light), while simultaneously taking in energy in the form of radiation from stars (the vast majority of it coming from the sun). That all tells me that regardless of how we are getting the energy, it has to come from the sun. In fact even the energy we get from burning of fossil fuels, in a way came from the sun, just a really really long time ago (therefore making the burning of fossil fuels incredibly inefficient in the grand scheme.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but if you could give a reason, and (hopefully) some supporting data/references?
I don't know who posted this, but I will point out that who ever it was has no official relationship with Slashdot. No company or external entity has been granted any special authority to moderate discussions on Slashdot.
no one actually uses Linux on desktop
I must say: I'm surprised to hear you say that I am "no one". I run linux as my primary OS, and have for years. I most certainly do not think that I am representative of the average computer user, nor are my friends, but I have more friends running Linux on their personal computers than those running windows.
I'm with you on that. I was disappointed when I went there and they didn't list all the linux distro's I'm constantly seeding.
I do find it funny though, they do list Pioneer One. That's right, shame on me for sharing a TV show that was made to be shared.
lol.
I also found this story here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111211134002.htm
That would be a bug, not a conspiracy. I'll see to it gets fixed.
For what its worth, I personally agree with you.
If I can get Wil Wheaton to come back, I will.
Perhaps if I tweet at him loudly
The actual badge will likely be something like the slashdot icon that appears with my user name (though it will clearly be the sponsor's logo, not slashdot's. As that by itself would be easily overlooked, we will also have a different color for the header above their comments.