I wouldn't bring any of them back. The only services from Google that I really use are Gmail, Maps and the search engine (includes image search).
The thing is: Google is a bit too large imho. Them killing off a product that lots of people used just creates more room on that market, or perhaps it creates a new one altogether. Now, Google Reader competitors don't have to compete with Google Reader anymore, only among each other. Now, other people may be succesful. This idea sounds good to me.
I don't hope that Google ditches all these projects so much, don't get me wrong. I just think there's a nice upside to all of this.:)
If it is, imagine being the developer responsible for it. That's gonna be awkward, when your boss tells you that your screwup cost over half a billion.
I can't imagine this being a bug, either. It would mean they didn't test it at all, which I don't think Microsoft would do. But if it was intentional, somebody in Microsoft decided to do this and THEY are responsible.
Here, in the Netherlands, they do the same thing. It's not always called high fructose corn sirup (most commonly it's glucose/fructose sirup) so you want to know the various labels for this if you prefer actual sugar.
That said, I rely on import to get any Mt. Dew at all; I wish Pepsi would do something about that. It's not quite rare, thankfully, but still -- Pepsi isn't uncommon here. I've also seen Mt. Dew that didn't have HFCS for a sweetener, but those are made in Europe somewhere, I believe. Maybe Spain, I'm really not sure about this. I haven't had a bloody Mt. Dew in a while so I'm not quite too sharp.
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Ah, I agree so much. I had my fair share of legos when I was a child and the building blocks were nice and generic. Nowadays, all the pieces are molded to shape whatever you're supposed to make much better, resulting in a nicer looking whatever-it-is-you-were-making, but taking it apart, I wonder if there's much of a point in trying to make something else out of it, even beside the alternatives listed on the back of the box. I'm glad I kept most of my legos for when my son's old enough for them. Other than that it looks like I'm stuck remembering the old days fondly.
It's grammatically incorrect, which is why you can't translate it. If it were spelled correctly ("onbekommerd"), something like Google translate can actually translate it.
It means "unconcerned".
I'm not sure if "If you read Dutch well, you're now [...] annoyed" refers to the grammar mistake, or the meaning of the saying.;)
If lots of people buy games from GoG, it might be a great message to these publishers: games will sell without DRM, DRM is not a necessity. The more sales the better.:)
But the "we" you're talking about should understand it or you would likely be the person that runs Ubuntu or something, but not Slackware (or a BSD, or Debian). The target audience of Slackware is the kind to understand man pages so well, I'd think...
I'm fairly happy 14 is almost out. I've been wanting to run it in a vm in Virtualbox, but the installer of 13.37 won't boot due to a kernel panic. I'm hoping that this changes when 14 comes out.:)
I sure did. The source I copied the name from uses it like so: http://tweakers.net/meuktracker/28971/warow-10.html I pasted that, with the replacement for the S like there, and Slashdot then stripped it which I missed. Thanks for clearing it up.:)
Sure OS developers can gain something from it, even if it's outdated. Just recently, Warow 1.0 was released. This project was built around the Quake 2 engine. It was modernized some to look quite nice.:) It's a good base to expand on. If you want to, of course.
I do have a love/hate relationship with Firefox. It was only recently that it became too much for me, and I switched to Chrome (well, that is a pilot). See, I like using Firefox. I like many many things about Firefox.
Alas, after reaching a certain amount of MB's of RAM (or GB's, rather), it becomes unusable. It'll hang for maybe 3 seconds on each tab no matter where I click. If I'm especially unlucky that day, it'll actually crash. Usually though, it doesn't, because I feel myself forced to restart it. The reason I abandoned it that day is because it completely forgot my app tabs AGAIN for absolutely not reason at all and that was after I had to kill the process because the whole thing wouldn't respond anymore. That pissed me off enough to say my goodbyes.
I wouldn't have stuck with Chrome as long as I have (a few weeks now) were it not for the fact that it is always snappy, it loads the exact same pages much faster than Firefox does and... well it just never really seems to slow down. Not just loading pages, but switching tabs and such: the interface is MUCH MUCH faster. It's by no means perfect: I think the options "page" is a usability nightmare (come on, everything on ONE page?) and I do have to get used to it but it's not the biggest transition in the world. I'm also not sure if I trust Google so maybe I should install SRWare Iron instead.
Anyway, I'll probably try it again in a few releases.
The first link in the article above should point to a different version of this emulator, which actually did include gcc and a small hello world program. I remember playing with that shortly and being hugely impressed by the fact that works really, really well.:) This whole emulator is massively impressive imo.:)
You don't really have to. I disabled RDP-access for Administrator on our servers. Change the policy that allows the Administrators group RDP-access so that only the Remote Desktop Users group can use RDP, then don't add Administrator to that group. I do the same with SSH.
I'm sure you really dislike Windows, even though you don't specify why.
I like Windows. I run Windows 7 on my work laptop. It doesn't really get in my way, other than those ridiculous Windows updates that force a reboot if you don't notice the window that says it's going to reboot after 15 minutes (like when you're trying to frag your coworkers in UT).
But I like many Linux-based operating systems more. I'm a huge fan of Slackware and a bit of a fan of Ubuntu (I liked Ubuntu much better years ago than I do now, after too many problems with fresh installs of the latest version of the OS). It's fine to prefer a Linux or BSD OS, or MacOS X, and not hate Windows at the same time. It's actually fine! Really!:)
I think we should be mature enough to have no issues with Windows just because you like something else better. This world doesn't have to be so black and white. Enjoy the colors!
So basically the surgeons, after taking out most of my inner ear due to a nasty inner ear infection, turned me into a jerk seeing as how I have hardly any hearing left in my right ear. Thanks for this article, now I can sue them, seeing as how it's their fault I have no friends.
If the average user is, say, one of my parents, the answer is probably "no, they are not waiting for innovation". They'll likely appreciate it, but if they are left with a working desktop that doesn't limit them in doing what they want to do, they are happy. Windows XP still suffices for most people, that pretty much sums that up I'd say. The bigger problem is, I think, that those innovations distract from improving existing features to stability, and oftentimes new features are shipped before being mature. Ubuntu, for example, has been pretty bad at this, shipping PulseAudio before it was complete enough to be included in an operating system. The result is that my sound didn't work well at all in the first release PA was included in so I'm left with a desktop that has advanced features and nice innovations... on paper. In reality I have to fiddle around with it to make it work - if I can get it to work at all. Hooking up a monitor to my laptop also doesn't work quite as smoothly as it should (although with Ubuntu 9.04 it does actually work for the first time).
It takes time to get your software stable, mature. Innovating is nice but if you focus on one, you're probably going to spend no time on the other. Besides, the target audience for innovations isn't quite as large as the target audience that want a stable, working desktop.
Other than ironic, it's a particularly dumb move imo: Brein - the organisation that hunts down anything P2P as much as they can - have managed to take down sites similar to TPB before. Quite a few times before, in fact. It is only a matter of time before they find out, and they'll manage to take it down, unfortunately.
I don't see why they would move it to the Netherlands because of the above, instead, they should move it to a country where these organisations such as Brain aren't prevalent or otherwise succesful. As much as I hate to admit, Brein has proved to be a real menace.
Somehow it makes me both sad and happy at the same time. Happy this woman is actually doing her job, yet sad that it's news... but she sets a fine example in this if you ask me.
If that's ruled to be no longer a core OS function to the extent that Microsoft are legally obliged to offer alternatives to it with the OS, you have to wonder what's next... Well... it's not so much just finding the files, it's a little bit more complicated. What Microsoft's software does is index everything to make it quicker to search through files. That hasn't been a core OS function until now suddenly, obviously. Google's search also indexes files so you have a LOT of HD activity going of which only half is actually desired.
Furthermore the complaint wasn't so much Microsoft making the function available in a stock install, but Microsoft closing the door for alternatives, so that you'd end up being stuck with 2 hard drive munching indexers if you don't choose to use Microsoft's. And that be unreasonable, seeing as how Microsoft has this monopoly thing going. (and yeah possibly Microsoft is treated unfairly here and there but they got that monopoly using very unfair methods and to this day they are not a very fair company so I personally don't feel too sorry for them)
I personally have 2 favorite distro's. First there's Slackware. Its tremendous transparancy has always made it easy to configure, mess around with, and it's versatile. What's more: it makes me feel at home. Yes, lots of things take time to set up, but everything will be just about the way you want them to be.
Then there's Ubuntu. It has impressed me with features that make life on the computer easier. At the same time, I don't know my way around it much and I do not want to HAVE to know my way around it. Behind Ubuntu, I have a completely different mindset than when I'm behind Slackware. When something refuses to work in Ubuntu, I cuss it out: why haven't the developers fixed this yet?! When something refuses to work in Slackware, I seek the configuration files out and edit them as needed. It's what it was made for, as opposed to Ubuntu (in my eyes).
Perhaps you find it odd for a person to completely think differently using 2 different distributions of Linux, but that's how it works in my head. Maybe others share this oddity. Either way: if you want a versatile distribution that you want to get to know and that you want working with you, I'd go for something like Slackware, or Debian or maybe Gentoo. If you want something that works out of the box and starts you off with a set-up desktop, go for Ubuntu or Suse, or maybe Fedora. Of course if it comes down to it you can configure Ubuntu to be exactly as you want it, but then I'd start right at the beginning with Slackware/Debian and build your own system. You learn more that way.
Hopefully the rough edges will be shaved off Ubuntu as it is an impressive distro with many a feature that Windows simply doesn't have, or less polished. It also has a large userbase, is supported widely by developers (package-management is good). Of course, the same applies to Fedora and Suse. Try and see for yourself what you like. They can all be installed great with VMWare Server. And speaking of which, Windows runs good in VMWare as well so you won't have to abandon your trusty Windows.;)
So altogether you have to either spend a fortune on batteries, or keep recharging your rechargable ones... in your battery-charged battery charger.
I really prefer a nice balance between battery-charged peripherals and peripherals with cords. I don't care that my mouse has a tail, it's in the same spot always (or at least within a couple centimeters of it), batteries only add weight and go dead. And cost more. But my PDA, I'm glad it has batteries or I'd spend a fortune on wiring. Same for the cellphone. Balance it out I say. And give us the choice ultimately.
I can't wait until all my electrical devices can be powered via wireless electricity. It'll just suck if you accidentally get in the way of the electricity. The TV will go black, and you'll get electrocuted. Possibly the rest of your household will find the latter more entertaining, and it also works great against burglars if your setup is any strategical (TV by one window, stereo by another, and so on). There, the drawbacks already negated.
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I wouldn't bring any of them back. The only services from Google that I really use are Gmail, Maps and the search engine (includes image search).
The thing is: Google is a bit too large imho. Them killing off a product that lots of people used just creates more room on that market, or perhaps it creates a new one altogether. Now, Google Reader competitors don't have to compete with Google Reader anymore, only among each other. Now, other people may be succesful. This idea sounds good to me.
I don't hope that Google ditches all these projects so much, don't get me wrong. I just think there's a nice upside to all of this. :)
If it is, imagine being the developer responsible for it. That's gonna be awkward, when your boss tells you that your screwup cost over half a billion.
I can't imagine this being a bug, either. It would mean they didn't test it at all, which I don't think Microsoft would do. But if it was intentional, somebody in Microsoft decided to do this and THEY are responsible.
Here, in the Netherlands, they do the same thing. It's not always called high fructose corn sirup (most commonly it's glucose/fructose sirup) so you want to know the various labels for this if you prefer actual sugar.
That said, I rely on import to get any Mt. Dew at all; I wish Pepsi would do something about that. It's not quite rare, thankfully, but still -- Pepsi isn't uncommon here.
I've also seen Mt. Dew that didn't have HFCS for a sweetener, but those are made in Europe somewhere, I believe. Maybe Spain, I'm really not sure about this. I haven't had a bloody Mt. Dew in a while so I'm not quite too sharp.
Ah, I agree so much. I had my fair share of legos when I was a child and the building blocks were nice and generic. Nowadays, all the pieces are molded to shape whatever you're supposed to make much better, resulting in a nicer looking whatever-it-is-you-were-making, but taking it apart, I wonder if there's much of a point in trying to make something else out of it, even beside the alternatives listed on the back of the box.
I'm glad I kept most of my legos for when my son's old enough for them. Other than that it looks like I'm stuck remembering the old days fondly.
It's grammatically incorrect, which is why you can't translate it. If it were spelled correctly ("onbekommerd"), something like Google translate can actually translate it.
It means "unconcerned".
I'm not sure if "If you read Dutch well, you're now [...] annoyed" refers to the grammar mistake, or the meaning of the saying. ;)
If lots of people buy games from GoG, it might be a great message to these publishers: games will sell without DRM, DRM is not a necessity. The more sales the better. :)
But the "we" you're talking about should understand it or you would likely be the person that runs Ubuntu or something, but not Slackware (or a BSD, or Debian). The target audience of Slackware is the kind to understand man pages so well, I'd think...
I'm fairly happy 14 is almost out. I've been wanting to run it in a vm in Virtualbox, but the installer of 13.37 won't boot due to a kernel panic. I'm hoping that this changes when 14 comes out. :)
I sure did. The source I copied the name from uses it like so: http://tweakers.net/meuktracker/28971/warow-10.html :)
I pasted that, with the replacement for the S like there, and Slashdot then stripped it which I missed. Thanks for clearing it up.
Sure OS developers can gain something from it, even if it's outdated. Just recently, Warow 1.0 was released. This project was built around the Quake 2 engine. It was modernized some to look quite nice. :)
It's a good base to expand on. If you want to, of course.
I do have a love/hate relationship with Firefox. It was only recently that it became too much for me, and I switched to Chrome (well, that is a pilot). See, I like using Firefox. I like many many things about Firefox.
Alas, after reaching a certain amount of MB's of RAM (or GB's, rather), it becomes unusable. It'll hang for maybe 3 seconds on each tab no matter where I click. If I'm especially unlucky that day, it'll actually crash. Usually though, it doesn't, because I feel myself forced to restart it. The reason I abandoned it that day is because it completely forgot my app tabs AGAIN for absolutely not reason at all and that was after I had to kill the process because the whole thing wouldn't respond anymore. That pissed me off enough to say my goodbyes.
I wouldn't have stuck with Chrome as long as I have (a few weeks now) were it not for the fact that it is always snappy, it loads the exact same pages much faster than Firefox does and... well it just never really seems to slow down. Not just loading pages, but switching tabs and such: the interface is MUCH MUCH faster. It's by no means perfect: I think the options "page" is a usability nightmare (come on, everything on ONE page?) and I do have to get used to it but it's not the biggest transition in the world. I'm also not sure if I trust Google so maybe I should install SRWare Iron instead.
Anyway, I'll probably try it again in a few releases.
The first link in the article above should point to a different version of this emulator, which actually did include gcc and a small hello world program. I remember playing with that shortly and being hugely impressed by the fact that works really, really well. :) :)
This whole emulator is massively impressive imo.
In RDP, END takes over from Delete. :)
You don't really have to. I disabled RDP-access for Administrator on our servers. Change the policy that allows the Administrators group RDP-access so that only the Remote Desktop Users group can use RDP, then don't add Administrator to that group. I do the same with SSH.
I'm sure you really dislike Windows, even though you don't specify why.
I like Windows. I run Windows 7 on my work laptop. It doesn't really get in my way, other than those ridiculous Windows updates that force a reboot if you don't notice the window that says it's going to reboot after 15 minutes (like when you're trying to frag your coworkers in UT).
But I like many Linux-based operating systems more. I'm a huge fan of Slackware and a bit of a fan of Ubuntu (I liked Ubuntu much better years ago than I do now, after too many problems with fresh installs of the latest version of the OS). It's fine to prefer a Linux or BSD OS, or MacOS X, and not hate Windows at the same time. It's actually fine! Really! :)
I think we should be mature enough to have no issues with Windows just because you like something else better. This world doesn't have to be so black and white. Enjoy the colors!
So basically the surgeons, after taking out most of my inner ear due to a nasty inner ear infection, turned me into a jerk seeing as how I have hardly any hearing left in my right ear. Thanks for this article, now I can sue them, seeing as how it's their fault I have no friends.
If the average user is, say, one of my parents, the answer is probably "no, they are not waiting for innovation". They'll likely appreciate it, but if they are left with a working desktop that doesn't limit them in doing what they want to do, they are happy. Windows XP still suffices for most people, that pretty much sums that up I'd say. The bigger problem is, I think, that those innovations distract from improving existing features to stability, and oftentimes new features are shipped before being mature. Ubuntu, for example, has been pretty bad at this, shipping PulseAudio before it was complete enough to be included in an operating system. The result is that my sound didn't work well at all in the first release PA was included in so I'm left with a desktop that has advanced features and nice innovations... on paper. In reality I have to fiddle around with it to make it work - if I can get it to work at all. Hooking up a monitor to my laptop also doesn't work quite as smoothly as it should (although with Ubuntu 9.04 it does actually work for the first time).
It takes time to get your software stable, mature. Innovating is nice but if you focus on one, you're probably going to spend no time on the other. Besides, the target audience for innovations isn't quite as large as the target audience that want a stable, working desktop.
Other than ironic, it's a particularly dumb move imo: Brein - the organisation that hunts down anything P2P as much as they can - have managed to take down sites similar to TPB before. Quite a few times before, in fact. It is only a matter of time before they find out, and they'll manage to take it down, unfortunately.
I don't see why they would move it to the Netherlands because of the above, instead, they should move it to a country where these organisations such as Brain aren't prevalent or otherwise succesful. As much as I hate to admit, Brein has proved to be a real menace.
Somehow it makes me both sad and happy at the same time. Happy this woman is actually doing her job, yet sad that it's news... but she sets a fine example in this if you ask me.
Furthermore the complaint wasn't so much Microsoft making the function available in a stock install, but Microsoft closing the door for alternatives, so that you'd end up being stuck with 2 hard drive munching indexers if you don't choose to use Microsoft's.
And that be unreasonable, seeing as how Microsoft has this monopoly thing going.
(and yeah possibly Microsoft is treated unfairly here and there but they got that monopoly using very unfair methods and to this day they are not a very fair company so I personally don't feel too sorry for them)
I personally have 2 favorite distro's. First there's Slackware. Its tremendous transparancy has always made it easy to configure, mess around with, and it's versatile. What's more: it makes me feel at home. Yes, lots of things take time to set up, but everything will be just about the way you want them to be.
;)
Then there's Ubuntu. It has impressed me with features that make life on the computer easier. At the same time, I don't know my way around it much and I do not want to HAVE to know my way around it. Behind Ubuntu, I have a completely different mindset than when I'm behind Slackware. When something refuses to work in Ubuntu, I cuss it out: why haven't the developers fixed this yet?! When something refuses to work in Slackware, I seek the configuration files out and edit them as needed. It's what it was made for, as opposed to Ubuntu (in my eyes).
Perhaps you find it odd for a person to completely think differently using 2 different distributions of Linux, but that's how it works in my head. Maybe others share this oddity. Either way: if you want a versatile distribution that you want to get to know and that you want working with you, I'd go for something like Slackware, or Debian or maybe Gentoo. If you want something that works out of the box and starts you off with a set-up desktop, go for Ubuntu or Suse, or maybe Fedora. Of course if it comes down to it you can configure Ubuntu to be exactly as you want it, but then I'd start right at the beginning with Slackware/Debian and build your own system. You learn more that way.
Hopefully the rough edges will be shaved off Ubuntu as it is an impressive distro with many a feature that Windows simply doesn't have, or less polished. It also has a large userbase, is supported widely by developers (package-management is good). Of course, the same applies to Fedora and Suse. Try and see for yourself what you like. They can all be installed great with VMWare Server. And speaking of which, Windows runs good in VMWare as well so you won't have to abandon your trusty Windows.
So altogether you have to either spend a fortune on batteries, or keep recharging your rechargable ones... in your battery-charged battery charger.
I really prefer a nice balance between battery-charged peripherals and peripherals with cords. I don't care that my mouse has a tail, it's in the same spot always (or at least within a couple centimeters of it), batteries only add weight and go dead. And cost more. But my PDA, I'm glad it has batteries or I'd spend a fortune on wiring. Same for the cellphone. Balance it out I say. And give us the choice ultimately.
I can't wait until all my electrical devices can be powered via wireless electricity. It'll just suck if you accidentally get in the way of the electricity. The TV will go black, and you'll get electrocuted. Possibly the rest of your household will find the latter more entertaining, and it also works great against burglars if your setup is any strategical (TV by one window, stereo by another, and so on). There, the drawbacks already negated.