They were having to stand outside on a sidewalk in front of a building - not a good spot for a laptop demo. Given the circumstances, I'm sure they accomplished what they wanted - get some attention and educate some folks. Gnu was cool, although not near as hairy as RMS.
If you think the majority of tech "journalists" have the slightest clue about software freedom vs the walled garden, you are sadly mistaken. And the tech consuming public is far worse off. Any effort to educate them is a GOOD thing - especially if its well communicated by professional looking young folks like this, instead of some of the rabid "kings" of open source.
So it's the mouth-breathing retarded sports fans that keep Yahoo alive? Good to know, thx
Yup - just me and my knuckle-dragging buddies following sports on our 486-PC's in our caves. We like Yahoo because it renders well in our non-updated IE4 browsers. If not for us, Jerry Yang would no longer lead the company, and Yahoo stock would only be worth a fraction of its all-time high of $118 a share in January, 2000.
Can't beat their sports coverage, live score tracking, and their collection of sports writers. Yahoo is still the best if you are trying to track numerous college or pro football games on Saturday or Sunday. CBSsports.com is a close second. ESPN's website is too flash-heavy, and slow to load most pages.
You know, the latency may not really matter. Just train the doctors to wait three minutes to get the tactile response from Mars - so if the physician feels your throat or abdomen for abnormal swelling, the physician has a timer giving an alert as to when to look for the tactile response.
I was thinking about that. I think what would happen is you would want to drop probes every so often on the way to Mars or the asteroid belt that would act as a communication link. Don't know how frequently spaced they would have to be, or what orbit around the sun in order to keep them aligned. But, that would also help with all other communication with the ship and the mission, and allow the establishment of permanent bases.
True remote physical examinations, with the patient and physician both feeling and responding to the tactile interaction. This could be huge - especially in terms of extreme remote medicine, such as handling astronaut-patients on lengthy missions to Mars or the asteroid belt.
We can only hope that the global financial system collapses. Maybe then, it can be rebuilt into something that actually works.
Hope you enjoy starving/freezing to death. If you manage to hoard enough canned food and heating oil to survive, enjoy being beaten to death by thieves.
In the meantime, a drastically reduced worldwide population can enjoy its "new global financial system" - i.e. - a "king" or "lord" (the heartless guy with the most weapons) tells you what you are allowed to use for money, what you are allowed to buy, how much of it you can buy, etc. And of course, you can kiss industry and manufacturing goodbye since there will be no capital investment and no methods of distribution - so your shopping choices will be, shall we say, very limited. Talk to a North Korean refugee when you get a chance - they'll tell you how much fun the new "financial system" will be.
Apparently early voting has already started if you want to fire the current group. Not that that will make a big differenced for this kind of activity.
Well - that's reassuring! So, "only" 16,000 people potentially have their life savings at risk, or are about to have their lives turned upside down?
Sure is convenient that government agencies have immunity from civil liability...
The more correct question is "Are civilian deaths lower from drone strikes than from conventional military action?"
No - the more correct question is - why are 12-year-old boys being polled about American military policy? I think you would have gotten a similar 72% positive response to the question: "Should America's President be a 9th degree Ninja warrior with high-power rifle and demolition skills instead of a businessman or lawyer?"
Posting from it now. It's OK - seems just like all the others. Only difference these days is that Chrome doesn't have a drop-down list off its location bar. Not all of the FF add-ons work.
Um, isn't the "Android kernel" Linux? Maybe they just have better closed-source drivers for the graphics hardware on Android tablets.
Correct - and some others have pointed out that its really the compositing method that is the big difference between graphics on Android and graphics systems using X11 server on most desktop Linux distros.
These things are why we have two major toolkits, three sound layers, and dozens of half-finished music players. I.E. another instance of nerds wasting time reinventing a wheel that already works just fine.
In a way, this is why I think that getting Android running on the Desktop would be a better use of time than perfecting a new compositor protocol with Wayland. The Android graphics stack already works beautifully, and you've got a built-in hoard of apps and a large existing user base.
You should have access to the Droid fonts on most major distros - I much prefer them to trying to get the Microsoft core fonts rendered correctly. I think if you tried the Droid fonts with hinting and subpixel rendering you would be much more pleased.
You are right, Flash has been a complete disaster on Linux and on Windows for years in my experience. Can't really blame Steve Jobs for giving up on it altogether. However, I get nearly flawless Flash performance on the Android devices I've tried. Such a strange dichotomy - especially while Adobe is in the process of dumping Flash for Android.
Interesting - I was not aware that the revenues for Canonical were so small. Even SUSE with its quarter-billion dollars in annual revenues is an enormous project by comparison, and Red Hat is clearly the 800-pound gorilla among Linux distros. Canonical has been so effective with their PR efforts, I would have thought that Ubuntu was a much more financially viable project.
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They were having to stand outside on a sidewalk in front of a building - not a good spot for a laptop demo. Given the circumstances, I'm sure they accomplished what they wanted - get some attention and educate some folks. Gnu was cool, although not near as hairy as RMS.
If you think the majority of tech "journalists" have the slightest clue about software freedom vs the walled garden, you are sadly mistaken. And the tech consuming public is far worse off. Any effort to educate them is a GOOD thing - especially if its well communicated by professional looking young folks like this, instead of some of the rabid "kings" of open source.
So it's the mouth-breathing retarded sports fans that keep Yahoo alive? Good to know, thx
Yup - just me and my knuckle-dragging buddies following sports on our 486-PC's in our caves. We like Yahoo because it renders well in our non-updated IE4 browsers. If not for us, Jerry Yang would no longer lead the company, and Yahoo stock would only be worth a fraction of its all-time high of $118 a share in January, 2000.
...oh wait...
Can't beat their sports coverage, live score tracking, and their collection of sports writers. Yahoo is still the best if you are trying to track numerous college or pro football games on Saturday or Sunday. CBSsports.com is a close second. ESPN's website is too flash-heavy, and slow to load most pages.
You know, the latency may not really matter. Just train the doctors to wait three minutes to get the tactile response from Mars - so if the physician feels your throat or abdomen for abnormal swelling, the physician has a timer giving an alert as to when to look for the tactile response.
I was thinking about that. I think what would happen is you would want to drop probes every so often on the way to Mars or the asteroid belt that would act as a communication link. Don't know how frequently spaced they would have to be, or what orbit around the sun in order to keep them aligned. But, that would also help with all other communication with the ship and the mission, and allow the establishment of permanent bases.
Geez.. do you have a time machine??
Nope - believe it or not, there was such a thing as openSUSE three years ago. Didn't need a time machine.
True remote physical examinations, with the patient and physician both feeling and responding to the tactile interaction. This could be huge - especially in terms of extreme remote medicine, such as handling astronaut-patients on lengthy missions to Mars or the asteroid belt.
We can only hope that the global financial system collapses. Maybe then, it can be rebuilt into something that actually works.
Hope you enjoy starving/freezing to death. If you manage to hoard enough canned food and heating oil to survive, enjoy being beaten to death by thieves.
In the meantime, a drastically reduced worldwide population can enjoy its "new global financial system" - i.e. - a "king" or "lord" (the heartless guy with the most weapons) tells you what you are allowed to use for money, what you are allowed to buy, how much of it you can buy, etc. And of course, you can kiss industry and manufacturing goodbye since there will be no capital investment and no methods of distribution - so your shopping choices will be, shall we say, very limited. Talk to a North Korean refugee when you get a chance - they'll tell you how much fun the new "financial system" will be.
The bigger risk is from identity thieves, once they have your personal data, SS#, and account #. New York Times reported on a $66,000 "life savings" loss of an 81-year-old woman just one month ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/business/retirementspecial/old-trusting-and-prime-prey-for-swindlers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Can we fire the government?
Apparently early voting has already started if you want to fire the current group. Not that that will make a big differenced for this kind of activity.
Well - that's reassuring! So, "only" 16,000 people potentially have their life savings at risk, or are about to have their lives turned upside down? Sure is convenient that government agencies have immunity from civil liability...
You mean people still watch movies on DVD? Those crazy Linux nut-jobs!! Probably listening to illegal 8-track tapes, too.
Cold-start to reading Slashdot in 12 seconds flat with KDE Plasma Netbook. Because I could, that's why.
Well, of course its a great idea. Unfortunately, Chuck Norris has shown no willingness to accept the paycut or the demotion.
The more correct question is "Are civilian deaths lower from drone strikes than from conventional military action?"
No - the more correct question is - why are 12-year-old boys being polled about American military policy? I think you would have gotten a similar 72% positive response to the question: "Should America's President be a 9th degree Ninja warrior with high-power rifle and demolition skills instead of a businessman or lawyer?"
The folks from Apple are apparently down in the Canyon looking for Times Square, Mount Rushmore, and the Mississippi Delta.
...what else do they really need? Might as well be selective with the rest of the cruft.
Posting from it now. It's OK - seems just like all the others. Only difference these days is that Chrome doesn't have a drop-down list off its location bar. Not all of the FF add-ons work.
Um, isn't the "Android kernel" Linux? Maybe they just have better closed-source drivers for the graphics hardware on Android tablets.
Correct - and some others have pointed out that its really the compositing method that is the big difference between graphics on Android and graphics systems using X11 server on most desktop Linux distros.
These things are why we have two major toolkits, three sound layers, and dozens of half-finished music players. I.E. another instance of nerds wasting time reinventing a wheel that already works just fine.
In a way, this is why I think that getting Android running on the Desktop would be a better use of time than perfecting a new compositor protocol with Wayland. The Android graphics stack already works beautifully, and you've got a built-in hoard of apps and a large existing user base.
You should have access to the Droid fonts on most major distros - I much prefer them to trying to get the Microsoft core fonts rendered correctly. I think if you tried the Droid fonts with hinting and subpixel rendering you would be much more pleased.
You are right, Flash has been a complete disaster on Linux and on Windows for years in my experience. Can't really blame Steve Jobs for giving up on it altogether. However, I get nearly flawless Flash performance on the Android devices I've tried. Such a strange dichotomy - especially while Adobe is in the process of dumping Flash for Android.
Sounds like you would argue on behalf of Wayland then, in terms of getting one cohesive compositor protocol. I'd have a hard time disagreeing.
Interesting - I was not aware that the revenues for Canonical were so small. Even SUSE with its quarter-billion dollars in annual revenues is an enormous project by comparison, and Red Hat is clearly the 800-pound gorilla among Linux distros. Canonical has been so effective with their PR efforts, I would have thought that Ubuntu was a much more financially viable project.