I've watched the video and the explanation doesn't really make sense to me. What am I getting with CrunchBang that I'm not getting with Debian/Openbox? More apps added? So? They're not available in the repositories?
Played Portal on Ubuntu last night - crashed on the tutorial and I needed to reboot. Maybe it was a one time thing. Left 4 Dead 2 was also released and it runs amazing. Just wish Guild Wars 2 would be released on GNU/Linux.
Not that I know, but the claim doesn't sound 100% solid. Wasn't there news last month that the feds couldn't eavesdrop on iChat converstations (not that I believe them). So, people can still set up encrypted conversations and unless the private keys are not in fact public it wouldn't matter? Then again, Clemente is saying that the traffic is recorded and stored, not necessarily on-the-spot decipherable. Given enough computing power and incentive, I suppose encryption can be broken anyhow.
Anyway, don't have private converstations anywhere anymore I guess.
I like how the biggest problem people have with Windows is its Start button. The security holes, viruses, instability - all okay, don't worry about it. It's like sitting on the deck of a sinking ship and talking about the paint job that's desperately needed. Who. Cares.
I use Ubuntu in a Windows shop and am much happier. Laptop zips along quite nicely, I have access to tons of neat software in the repository, and most apps today have a browser interface anyhow (goodbye Outlook, Lync, and MS Office installs). If I happen to need Windows, I can load it up on VMware player (doesn't come up often, though).
“Our goal is to make the world better. We’ll take the criticism along the way, but criticisms are inevitably from people who are afraid of change or who have not figured out that there will be an adaptation of society to it,”
I'm sure that's a typo or taken out of context. I'm sure he doesn't mean to say that people who were critical of the Nazi invasion of Poland were being difficult, that they couldn't see the big picture.
Also, Google's goal is to make money (like any company). I believe that they'd like to do well by doing good, but it's incredibly difficult to believe the Google+ was created to improve the world, of all things.
Last, social media's making society dumber - I hope no one believes that that Facebook or Google+ is improving mankind. I liked how Google's search engine made it so that I don't have to physically go to the library in the winter and use the Dewey Decimal system to find a book on a shelf - 70% of research time used to be wasted on tedious transit and clerical nonsense. Google should be awarded a Nobel for how it changed the world. But now, nothing on-line takes any effort or thought. Having an FB account means getting spammed with useless nonsense by every "friend" on your list. No more, "how's it going, what are you up to". Now you know EXACTLY when your friend has a hankering for PF Chang's at 2am (like I needed to know). People are forgetting how to spell. I don't know know what people mean half the time any more wen dey spel like dis, u no lol omg lmfao? If we ever had any social mechanisms to compel people to watch their grammar and spelling properly or really think about what they're saying before they say it, they're long gone.
So, if Google glass is going to be used to allow idiots to make video and chat with their friends all day, I hope someone has plans to make an open source version for those of us with some brain cells left so that we can connect them to our own servers and do something useful.
First, straight up, Dune is in my opinion the greatest book ever written. Every man, woman, and child on earth should read it. We should conquer other planets if only for the expressed purpose of forcing their inhabitants to read it (after that, we should just leave them alone in peace, you know?). We should spend decades working on technology that will teach trout and other sea creatures to read JUST SO they can bask in the glory that is Dune.
That said (and kidding aside), even though every student should read it, these kinds of mandates never really work. People won't see how great Sci Fi is unless they read it voluntarily. They might read it, but I don't know if they'd enjoy it.
1) In public, there's no expectation of privacy.
2) As long as the common citizen is able to do the same with cell phones and record anyone abusing the law-enforcement authority at any time, all of this is perfectly fine.
Cameras in public spaces have been the greatest single advancment in community security ever. Adults get caught on video abducting kids in broad daylight and the wrongly accused have been on-the-spot exhonerated of trumped up charges because of cell phone and building security cameras. They can't install enough of these, every building in America should have 50 cameras sticking out of it. It's when they put them in PRIVATE spaces that we have a problem.
Not absurd at all. Jobs was on until the end when he was working on Apple TV. This was a warm hand off, they didn't need to wait two years. And all companies have a need to create new products or improve on old ones, but it's the crafy innovators who stay at the top of the food chain. Jobs was an idea man who's time had come, and Apple needed an idea man badly. Now, the golden goose is gone. Since then, we got the iPad mini, which is basically capitalizing on an established market. Good product, but in terms of innovation it doesn't rank up there with making music and move downloads legal and easy to use.
No, I don't think so, they weren't repackaging anything. They weren't taking the crappy MP3 players of 2000 and rebranding them. They made them usable. Not earth shattering stuff, sure, but why wasn't ANYBODY doing them right. So, whatever, I don't care - the argument's stupid. There's a big difference in how the ship is being steered now that Job's is gone and anyone who doesn't see it can't really be helped. The stock price, however, is a reflection of it.
I suspect you're upset because you're an Apple fanboy - and that's fine.
1) Apple didn't issue dividends while Jobs was alive. You can read into why he didn't do it any way as you like. Now they are.
2) Job's tenure was marked with a steady stream on new products, not all of them great but the ones that were usually did very well in the market because they'd always been done poorly (music players) by everyone else (and, of course, there's also his legacy in the business of downloadable music and movies). It's not that there weren't smartphones or computers (there were), they just hadn't been done well. Since he passed away, really there haven't been any new ideas except reiterations of what's done well before.
That, OR they might want to start coming up with some new ideas. Clearly the ship's been without a captain since Jobs passed away. This is TOTALLY part of a Hail Mary. They have no idea how they're going to keep this thing going.
That doesn't make him a technical genius. Maybe YOU think he is, so maybe it's relative. This skillset is quite easy to aquire in Silicon Valley. And I don't have any feelings one way or another about what he did, but let's not make stuff up - he's not a technical genius.
Dell makes some sweet laptops for Ubuntu and this new model seems to continue that tradition. I use the small form factor Latitude E6320 for work and play (with Ubuntu's 13.04 beta) and I'm happier than a pig in mud. If you're looking to move to a fully functional GNU/Linux distribution on a laptop or desktop, I must say that Canonical seems to have their act together. Just remember to run "sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping". Nasty stuff.
As the platform it is right now, I can imagine it losing more and more ground as better alternatives come to market. Window's main problems are that it's just not a secure platform, it doesn't update or patch without reboot or disruption (so people avoid patching it altogether) and frankly it just likes to stop working whenever it feels like it. After about 15 years, it's the same list of problems. It needs to be scrapped and redisigned. Windows 8's interface is a wreck and if MS is going to create a walled garden approach, they really need to ask the end users and developers if they like the idea first. They're steering the ship on stock price, not product quality or vision.
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I've watched the video and the explanation doesn't really make sense to me. What am I getting with CrunchBang that I'm not getting with Debian/Openbox? More apps added? So? They're not available in the repositories?
"but without giving up what they expect in a PC."
So, I guess he means a Windows PC. So, it crashes every 20 minutes? Ahhhh, who could resist? I accept this troll award with open arms.
Yes, I work with Windows products as well. It's not as bad as Windows NT, but it's not difficult to improve on garbage.
Played Portal on Ubuntu last night - crashed on the tutorial and I needed to reboot. Maybe it was a one time thing. Left 4 Dead 2 was also released and it runs amazing. Just wish Guild Wars 2 would be released on GNU/Linux.
Not that I know, but the claim doesn't sound 100% solid. Wasn't there news last month that the feds couldn't eavesdrop on iChat converstations (not that I believe them). So, people can still set up encrypted conversations and unless the private keys are not in fact public it wouldn't matter? Then again, Clemente is saying that the traffic is recorded and stored, not necessarily on-the-spot decipherable. Given enough computing power and incentive, I suppose encryption can be broken anyhow.
Anyway, don't have private converstations anywhere anymore I guess.
I like how the biggest problem people have with Windows is its Start button. The security holes, viruses, instability - all okay, don't worry about it. It's like sitting on the deck of a sinking ship and talking about the paint job that's desperately needed. Who. Cares.
I use Ubuntu in a Windows shop and am much happier. Laptop zips along quite nicely, I have access to tons of neat software in the repository, and most apps today have a browser interface anyhow (goodbye Outlook, Lync, and MS Office installs). If I happen to need Windows, I can load it up on VMware player (doesn't come up often, though).
Honestly, if he wanted to impress us, he should have used social media spelling; "r u stoopid omg lmfao"
Dune is horror to you? I wonder how?
“Our goal is to make the world better. We’ll take the criticism along the way, but criticisms are inevitably from people who are afraid of change or who have not figured out that there will be an adaptation of society to it,”
I'm sure that's a typo or taken out of context. I'm sure he doesn't mean to say that people who were critical of the Nazi invasion of Poland were being difficult, that they couldn't see the big picture.
Also, Google's goal is to make money (like any company). I believe that they'd like to do well by doing good, but it's incredibly difficult to believe the Google+ was created to improve the world, of all things.
Last, social media's making society dumber - I hope no one believes that that Facebook or Google+ is improving mankind. I liked how Google's search engine made it so that I don't have to physically go to the library in the winter and use the Dewey Decimal system to find a book on a shelf - 70% of research time used to be wasted on tedious transit and clerical nonsense. Google should be awarded a Nobel for how it changed the world. But now, nothing on-line takes any effort or thought. Having an FB account means getting spammed with useless nonsense by every "friend" on your list. No more, "how's it going, what are you up to". Now you know EXACTLY when your friend has a hankering for PF Chang's at 2am (like I needed to know). People are forgetting how to spell. I don't know know what people mean half the time any more wen dey spel like dis, u no lol omg lmfao? If we ever had any social mechanisms to compel people to watch their grammar and spelling properly or really think about what they're saying before they say it, they're long gone.
So, if Google glass is going to be used to allow idiots to make video and chat with their friends all day, I hope someone has plans to make an open source version for those of us with some brain cells left so that we can connect them to our own servers and do something useful.
First, straight up, Dune is in my opinion the greatest book ever written. Every man, woman, and child on earth should read it. We should conquer other planets if only for the expressed purpose of forcing their inhabitants to read it (after that, we should just leave them alone in peace, you know?). We should spend decades working on technology that will teach trout and other sea creatures to read JUST SO they can bask in the glory that is Dune.
That said (and kidding aside), even though every student should read it, these kinds of mandates never really work. People won't see how great Sci Fi is unless they read it voluntarily. They might read it, but I don't know if they'd enjoy it.
Totally. Dashcams should be standard in every car.
This isn't a big deal, because;
1) In public, there's no expectation of privacy.
2) As long as the common citizen is able to do the same with cell phones and record anyone abusing the law-enforcement authority at any time, all of this is perfectly fine.
Cameras in public spaces have been the greatest single advancment in community security ever. Adults get caught on video abducting kids in broad daylight and the wrongly accused have been on-the-spot exhonerated of trumped up charges because of cell phone and building security cameras. They can't install enough of these, every building in America should have 50 cameras sticking out of it. It's when they put them in PRIVATE spaces that we have a problem.
So, according to your source, Apple stopped paying a dividend between 1996 and 2011 (basically, Jobs' tenure when he returned to Apple.) So, no.
They could. I'm saying they're not going to do it. We'll see.
Not absurd at all. Jobs was on until the end when he was working on Apple TV. This was a warm hand off, they didn't need to wait two years. And all companies have a need to create new products or improve on old ones, but it's the crafy innovators who stay at the top of the food chain. Jobs was an idea man who's time had come, and Apple needed an idea man badly. Now, the golden goose is gone. Since then, we got the iPad mini, which is basically capitalizing on an established market. Good product, but in terms of innovation it doesn't rank up there with making music and move downloads legal and easy to use.
No, I don't think so, they weren't repackaging anything. They weren't taking the crappy MP3 players of 2000 and rebranding them. They made them usable. Not earth shattering stuff, sure, but why wasn't ANYBODY doing them right. So, whatever, I don't care - the argument's stupid. There's a big difference in how the ship is being steered now that Job's is gone and anyone who doesn't see it can't really be helped. The stock price, however, is a reflection of it.
I suspect you're upset because you're an Apple fanboy - and that's fine.
1) Apple didn't issue dividends while Jobs was alive. You can read into why he didn't do it any way as you like. Now they are.
2) Job's tenure was marked with a steady stream on new products, not all of them great but the ones that were usually did very well in the market because they'd always been done poorly (music players) by everyone else (and, of course, there's also his legacy in the business of downloadable music and movies). It's not that there weren't smartphones or computers (there were), they just hadn't been done well. Since he passed away, really there haven't been any new ideas except reiterations of what's done well before.
You're position is puzzling.
That, OR they might want to start coming up with some new ideas. Clearly the ship's been without a captain since Jobs passed away. This is TOTALLY part of a Hail Mary. They have no idea how they're going to keep this thing going.
No, I think that would be a bad idea. BEHOLD!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t96m2ynKw0
His devotion the the Gnu is absolute . . .
Why does he not call it GNU/Linux? Stallman would be cross . . .
That doesn't make him a technical genius. Maybe YOU think he is, so maybe it's relative. This skillset is quite easy to aquire in Silicon Valley. And I don't have any feelings one way or another about what he did, but let's not make stuff up - he's not a technical genius.
Dell makes some sweet laptops for Ubuntu and this new model seems to continue that tradition. I use the small form factor Latitude E6320 for work and play (with Ubuntu's 13.04 beta) and I'm happier than a pig in mud. If you're looking to move to a fully functional GNU/Linux distribution on a laptop or desktop, I must say that Canonical seems to have their act together. Just remember to run "sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping". Nasty stuff.
Ubuntu gets frequent daily updates that don't require reboots.
As the platform it is right now, I can imagine it losing more and more ground as better alternatives come to market. Window's main problems are that it's just not a secure platform, it doesn't update or patch without reboot or disruption (so people avoid patching it altogether) and frankly it just likes to stop working whenever it feels like it. After about 15 years, it's the same list of problems. It needs to be scrapped and redisigned. Windows 8's interface is a wreck and if MS is going to create a walled garden approach, they really need to ask the end users and developers if they like the idea first. They're steering the ship on stock price, not product quality or vision.