Since the Firefox developers seem to be tripping over themselves trying to copy chrome, there's really no reason to use anything else.
If they just focused on better performance and a smaller memory footprint, I'd switch back in a second.
Some kind of review of browser add-ons would be a compelling reason to go back also.
Now, in true slashdot fashion I have not RTFA, so I don't know what benchmarks they're running. But in my mind, I question whether even a dual core processor is useful on a tablet. I mean really... how much intense computation is required by a tablet? How many threads are ever going to be run? It's not like you'll be running a simulation in the background while you watch a netflix movie on a tablet.
Will anyone ever see the performance advantage of a 4-core ARM chip outside of benchmarks?
Ordinary people with ordinary jobs do not have the time to go to court.
The system works if you run your forum on a commercial basis and free speech is releveant to the forums function.
In all other cases having to go to court is a pretty big disruption to your normal life.
Agreed. I spend too much time reading slashdot to be bothered with going to court.
so... the DNS addresses were seized, or frozen, or censored (use your own term). Can these guys just register a new one tomorrow and be back in business the next time google does an indexing?
Can't you still reach these places if you know the IP address? What's to stop them from posting something saying what their IP address is so people can reach them directly without using DNS?
There is no bitching about not allowing the sale of counterfeit clothing or pirated software. The point is that the US government is, without any form of due process, taking down web sites.
And some of these web sites are located in other countries, where the US government has no direct jurisdiction.
There. Now you're not confused anymore.
I guess the impact of this hinges on which titles are referred to by penguin books' "latest titles".
I always thought of penguin as a reprinter of Dickens and the like. Are there any new and relevant authors with Penguin now?
this incident had been previously documented by the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions...
The article seems to say that the wikileaks document just brought these allegations back into everyone's mind.
So again, embarrassing, but not a smoking gun proving that this was true or revealing something unknown.
I can't see anything good that came out of Manning's action. Given that he just dumped everything he could onto wikileaks, rather than just documents that revealed something in particular that he was concerned about, I wonder what motivated him to do this at all.
sorry, but what information was that exactly?
I still don't get what wrongdoing he was trying to expose. All the thousands of documents, and yeah, there was some embarrassing stuff there, but nothing that shouted "My God! The public needs to know about this!"
The I think are most useful for windows users would be
7-zip
libre office
exact audio copy / lame
And maybe VLC too.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned EAC before. It's incredibly useful for those of us who still have some old, scratched CDs around.
I just watched the news conference.
I'm wondering what the anonymous coward is smoking? The mayor explicitly said that reporters were kept out of the park "for their own protection". Isn't that interruption of news coverage? How is preventing reporters from filming the various arrests that went on not interruption of news coverage?
How is taking people's tents and destroying them in any way legal?
And they mayor said that there "may be" some kind of court order from some judge somewhere-- no details at all were provided (maybe they're still shopping around for a judge who can be bought?) -- that might prevent people from returning to the park.
I see.
I've heard that wireless drivers can be a problem, but I never had any issues with open suse. Maybe I just got lucky, or it could be that different distributions handle these semi-proprietary drivers differently
Google TV sounded really revolutionary-- but content providers seem to have killed it off.
Maybe Apple or Sony will succeed where Google apparently failed.
Radeon drivers under linux suck. That's a legitimate gripe in my experience. Lots of games especially seem to have bugs with the 11.x driver series, and desktop compositing (if you like that sort of thing) is a mess. It's a shame really.
Nvidia is an entirely different story, however. I don't have any graphics problems since switching. To me, Gaming means Starcraft II. My son plays guild wars and a few other games. They all work well under wine -- though some of the steam games he runs took a bit of elbow grease to get working.
What exactly is there to set-up, patch, or configure?
I've been running OpenSuse since 2000 or maybe '01 and the only time I do any configuration is when I do a major hardware upgrade.
The only time one would tinker with things 2-3 times a week is if one liked to tinker.
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Since the Firefox developers seem to be tripping over themselves trying to copy chrome, there's really no reason to use anything else. If they just focused on better performance and a smaller memory footprint, I'd switch back in a second. Some kind of review of browser add-ons would be a compelling reason to go back also.
Very cool. Would you actually be running more than one instance of this app at the same time?
Now, in true slashdot fashion I have not RTFA, so I don't know what benchmarks they're running. But in my mind, I question whether even a dual core processor is useful on a tablet. I mean really... how much intense computation is required by a tablet? How many threads are ever going to be run? It's not like you'll be running a simulation in the background while you watch a netflix movie on a tablet. Will anyone ever see the performance advantage of a 4-core ARM chip outside of benchmarks?
Ordinary people with ordinary jobs do not have the time to go to court. The system works if you run your forum on a commercial basis and free speech is releveant to the forums function. In all other cases having to go to court is a pretty big disruption to your normal life.
Agreed. I spend too much time reading slashdot to be bothered with going to court.
so... the DNS addresses were seized, or frozen, or censored (use your own term). Can these guys just register a new one tomorrow and be back in business the next time google does an indexing? Can't you still reach these places if you know the IP address? What's to stop them from posting something saying what their IP address is so people can reach them directly without using DNS?
There is no bitching about not allowing the sale of counterfeit clothing or pirated software. The point is that the US government is, without any form of due process, taking down web sites. And some of these web sites are located in other countries, where the US government has no direct jurisdiction. There. Now you're not confused anymore.
I guess the impact of this hinges on which titles are referred to by penguin books' "latest titles". I always thought of penguin as a reprinter of Dickens and the like. Are there any new and relevant authors with Penguin now?
this incident had been previously documented by the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions...
The article seems to say that the wikileaks document just brought these allegations back into everyone's mind. So again, embarrassing, but not a smoking gun proving that this was true or revealing something unknown. I can't see anything good that came out of Manning's action. Given that he just dumped everything he could onto wikileaks, rather than just documents that revealed something in particular that he was concerned about, I wonder what motivated him to do this at all.
sorry, but what information was that exactly? I still don't get what wrongdoing he was trying to expose. All the thousands of documents, and yeah, there was some embarrassing stuff there, but nothing that shouted "My God! The public needs to know about this!"
tagline kinda says it all, doesn't it?
The I think are most useful for windows users would be 7-zip libre office exact audio copy / lame And maybe VLC too. I'm surprised nobody's mentioned EAC before. It's incredibly useful for those of us who still have some old, scratched CDs around.
This would have been solved sooner if Modern Warfare 3 hadn't been released last week...
But they're not allowed to have backpacks or tents. I'm wondering if Bloomberg and the police are trying to provoke violence by all of this.
How is squating on private property legal?
When you do it in a public park, it's called freedom of assembly, not squatting.
how are ANY of these ideas novel enough to be awarded patents?
I just watched the news conference. I'm wondering what the anonymous coward is smoking? The mayor explicitly said that reporters were kept out of the park "for their own protection". Isn't that interruption of news coverage? How is preventing reporters from filming the various arrests that went on not interruption of news coverage? How is taking people's tents and destroying them in any way legal? And they mayor said that there "may be" some kind of court order from some judge somewhere-- no details at all were provided (maybe they're still shopping around for a judge who can be bought?) -- that might prevent people from returning to the park.
Is it me, or do these limitations just seem like basic, common sense?
I see. I've heard that wireless drivers can be a problem, but I never had any issues with open suse. Maybe I just got lucky, or it could be that different distributions handle these semi-proprietary drivers differently
Took the words right out of my mouth. I haven't tried Netflix on my nook color, but page turns and web browsing are pretty snappy.
Google TV sounded really revolutionary-- but content providers seem to have killed it off. Maybe Apple or Sony will succeed where Google apparently failed.
Radeon drivers under linux suck. That's a legitimate gripe in my experience. Lots of games especially seem to have bugs with the 11.x driver series, and desktop compositing (if you like that sort of thing) is a mess. It's a shame really. Nvidia is an entirely different story, however. I don't have any graphics problems since switching. To me, Gaming means Starcraft II. My son plays guild wars and a few other games. They all work well under wine -- though some of the steam games he runs took a bit of elbow grease to get working.
What exactly is there to set-up, patch, or configure? I've been running OpenSuse since 2000 or maybe '01 and the only time I do any configuration is when I do a major hardware upgrade. The only time one would tinker with things 2-3 times a week is if one liked to tinker.