On a side note, it's generally safe to just ask what they're expecting. If it's a federal or bank job or something of that sort, for instance, you'd be far safer risking a quick pre-interview question to their HR department than showing up in a track suit.
Ubuntu is still basically just a snazzied up Debian. You can choose which WM to run just like you would anywhere else.
You've got to keep in mind, though, that the resolution of the screens are 800x480 for the 7 inchers and 1024x600 for the 9 inch model. At such a very low resolution it seems to run Compiz, GNOME, XFCE, and KDE without any major problems. There are plenty of videos on Youtube demonstrating as much.
Who's to say he hasn't? The subby definitely didn't in his submission. It's a damned good question, too - It would be nice to be able to do something like this at the router level in a home environment rather than having to have the fellow adopt new practices, and would allow everyone in the house a great deal more leeway to use bandwidth-hogging protocols without having to go out of their way to customize the settings of every single application. The question was more than valid.
I find B&W eInk a touch less usable than a PDA. I use an N800 with a high contrast green on black when I read in the dark, and black on white to read in the light. When color eInk devices w/backlights ship, I'll all but certainly purchase one. Until then, I'd find it useless except for daytime reading - ie, those lost hours at work in which I cannot read. Likewise, I certainly hope they'll trim the size of those things down a touch. The Sony devices that you mention waste a ton of white space on the margins and are considerably larger than my current Nokia Internet Tablets and my previous Sharp Zaurii, both of which are considerably smaller than a paperback. The appeal of a device that can be read in direct sunlight is not inconsiderable, but the other devices made effective MP3 players when walking or biking, negating the need for a second device. A color Libre would only completely fill that niche if its battery amperage were increased considerably and its size honed down a touch.
Would that mean that unless my business is profitable, I don't have to pay property taxes on the warehouse, factory, or store?
I've heard worse ideas - Tax breaks like this are already offered when trying to attract entrepreneurs to a specific market, they just often lack the clear automatic cutoff.
Unfortunately the Horde doesn't require intervention at in the code repo to be compromised. One of my clients has a Horde:IMP install has been compromised three different times this year with three different versions.
I've been using Vista for two months now, and I haven't run into problem one - Largely because I use only major OSS apps like OpenOffice and Firefox that could care less what platform you run them on, and because all of my media files are DRM free. Power management seems to be considerably improved over previous versions of Windows and seems to have a considerable leg up on Ubuntu at the moment, too. (Disclaimer: The only Windows I've owned since Win2k, although I've had to use XP extensively at work.)
Further, those crappy tech support are crappy not because they are in India, but because Corporate American Enterprises owning them want them that way, simply its cheap. hires Bachelor of History graduates to do tech support after a couple of weeks crash course in English accent, support and tech. Hence your get what you get when you call them.
Quite. Any non-techy performing technical support off a script, whether they have annoying New Yorker accents or arguably more understandable South Asian ones, are going to suck.
I never took a position on the matter, just pointed out that the subject was well within the purview of the site - aka, news for nerds and stuff that matters.
Electronic surveillance, the topic at hand, is every bit as much "news for nerds, news that matters." That field, like any other has to change dramatically because of the same technological developments you seem to want the site to focus on. Coverage of science fiction written about the same topic is doubly on-topic.
I'm not going to argue that Doctor Who is somehow insignificant or unworthy of attention, but last year was a wonderful year for science fiction on television. I cannot begin to understand how Doctor Who took the award for best episode even when its fanbase was split between two nominated episodes. It seems remarkably hard to fathom that the 4,000 year old series, infinitely rehashed, is still considered original enough to warrant the award. Give lifetime achievement awards for those that stuck with the project(s) longest, but don't try to tell me that the Doctor Who from last year was in any way shape or form superior to, say, Eureka, Heroes, or Jericho, each of which was more original and compelling than the remarkably hard to kill Doctor Who series, and somehow managed not to get a single nomination. Are the World Science Fiction Society members completely unwilling to watch a show that isn't 40 seasons old a remake? There was nothing fresh or original in the nominations. Even if you disregard the originality complaint, Battlestar Galactica was still infinitely more deserving.
What's Citrix's track record like with the open source community? I don't think I've ever stumbled across their name outside of pre-OpenSolaris Sun systems and Windows-only environments.
I can't believe this ridiculously poorly written article ever hit the presses. I've never owned a chipped system, but I'd have bought a chipped XBOX over an iTV or whatever in a heartbeat if it weren't for the risk of this sort of petty nonsense and the fact that the open sourced Neuros OSD hit the market and my living room at the same time I last considered such a purchase. Submitted the following to the Associated Press:
I'd like to submit a correction for the article reprinted here, written by one "Federal Agents Go After Gaming Pirates Discussion at PhysOrgForum": http://www.physorg.com/news105194834.html
Your author not only prominently quotes Myers saying that modchips have only "one purpose," facilitating piracy, but implicitly states the same fallacy the paragraph before. The Wikipedia article and every vendor go to great lengths to point out numerous uses that would have been perfectly legitimate and perfectly legal prior to the 1996 DMCA, and still perfectly moral and ethical and permissible in many other countries.
Modchips enable open source developers with every right under their license to Linux to port that operating system to the XBOX, to create full-fledged media players that beat the iTV to market by YEARS, ala the XMBC. Additionally, these modchips have allowed hobby game developers to do just that for decades. Other modchips do NOTHING aside from disable region code lockouts on consoles and DVD players.
This article is a joke. The incredible disregard shown by the facts of the situation shown by your reporter should have serious consequences - Would it have killed the lazy fellow to Google this term that was so apparently new and foreign to him?
Like the blogger says, there's basically no way to file a bug report with Microsoft short of using snail mail or paying for support. I've never been anything but impressed with the people I've met at Microsoft, but their customer service and QA staff must be completely out of their little minds. I went through the same hoops described in the blog post above when pointing out that Always On Top windows behaved in a glitchy manner when running a full-screen RDP session on multiple monitors - Got my bug report bounced back to me no less than 5 times through 5 different forms before I gave up and started using radmin.
There are multiple surviving threads about the lack of 64-bit support that predate this Slashdot post went live. If your's was deleted, might it not have simply been a dupe?
The other two increasingly mainstream OSes both implement this. Mac OS X and current versions of both GNOME and KDE versions of Ubuntu ship with desktop search-like applications. In purely practical terms, it seems unreasonable to suggest that Microsoft can't do the same just because a third party happens to be selling similar software for their OS. That said, I'm not familiar with the language of the antitrust ruling, and I am a bit alarmed by the partiality shown by the Department of Justice.
Barring the stats filled preamble, which likewise never really defines "dangers", here is the entire text of the resolution:
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) designates June 2007 as `National Internet Safety Month';
(2) recognizes that National Internet Safety Month provides the citizens of the United States with an opportunity to learn more about--
(A) the dangers of the Internet; and
(B) the importance of being safe and responsible online;
(3) commends and recognizes national and community organizations for--
(A) promoting awareness of the dangers of the Internet; and
(B) providing information and training that develops critical thinking and decision-making skills that are needed to use the Internet safely; and
(4) calls on Internet safety organizations, law enforcement, educators, community leaders, parents, and volunteers to increase their efforts to raise the level of awareness for the need for online safety in the United States.
Yes, it's rather pointless, but it's not a "Da intertubez strangled my granddaughter" resolution, either. There's nothing terribly alarming going on this time.
Anyone have an alternative link? Apparently Ubuntu 6.06 LTS's Firefox w/Flash 7 isn't "a JavaScript enabled modern browser with Flash" in the minds of some people.
Slashdot Mirror
On a side note, it's generally safe to just ask what they're expecting. If it's a federal or bank job or something of that sort, for instance, you'd be far safer risking a quick pre-interview question to their HR department than showing up in a track suit.
Don't forget that you probably have twice the number of pixels on your desktop that you do on your Eee.
Ubuntu is still basically just a snazzied up Debian. You can choose which WM to run just like you would anywhere else.
You've got to keep in mind, though, that the resolution of the screens are 800x480 for the 7 inchers and 1024x600 for the 9 inch model. At such a very low resolution it seems to run Compiz, GNOME, XFCE, and KDE without any major problems. There are plenty of videos on Youtube demonstrating as much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0oN5G3WVf0
Check out the last minute of the above to see their mock-ups.
Who's to say he hasn't? The subby definitely didn't in his submission. It's a damned good question, too - It would be nice to be able to do something like this at the router level in a home environment rather than having to have the fellow adopt new practices, and would allow everyone in the house a great deal more leeway to use bandwidth-hogging protocols without having to go out of their way to customize the settings of every single application. The question was more than valid.
http://www.amazon.com/Ill-Wind-Kevin-J-Anderson/dp/0312857608
Did you mean this, where a bacteria created to eat oil spills ate the world's petrochemical supply? The book with the mountain-mounted railgun?
I find B&W eInk a touch less usable than a PDA. I use an N800 with a high contrast green on black when I read in the dark, and black on white to read in the light. When color eInk devices w/backlights ship, I'll all but certainly purchase one. Until then, I'd find it useless except for daytime reading - ie, those lost hours at work in which I cannot read. Likewise, I certainly hope they'll trim the size of those things down a touch. The Sony devices that you mention waste a ton of white space on the margins and are considerably larger than my current Nokia Internet Tablets and my previous Sharp Zaurii, both of which are considerably smaller than a paperback. The appeal of a device that can be read in direct sunlight is not inconsiderable, but the other devices made effective MP3 players when walking or biking, negating the need for a second device. A color Libre would only completely fill that niche if its battery amperage were increased considerably and its size honed down a touch.
Would that mean that unless my business is profitable, I don't have to pay property taxes on the warehouse, factory, or store?
I've heard worse ideas - Tax breaks like this are already offered when trying to attract entrepreneurs to a specific market, they just often lack the clear automatic cutoff.
Unfortunately the Horde doesn't require intervention at in the code repo to be compromised. One of my clients has a Horde:IMP install has been compromised three different times this year with three different versions.
Quite.
I've been using Vista for two months now, and I haven't run into problem one - Largely because I use only major OSS apps like OpenOffice and Firefox that could care less what platform you run them on, and because all of my media files are DRM free. Power management seems to be considerably improved over previous versions of Windows and seems to have a considerable leg up on Ubuntu at the moment, too. (Disclaimer: The only Windows I've owned since Win2k, although I've had to use XP extensively at work.)
Further, those crappy tech support are crappy not because they are in India, but because Corporate American Enterprises owning them want them that way, simply its cheap. hires Bachelor of History graduates to do tech support after a couple of weeks crash course in English accent, support and tech. Hence your get what you get when you call them.
Quite. Any non-techy performing technical support off a script, whether they have annoying New Yorker accents or arguably more understandable South Asian ones, are going to suck.
Shame I'm out of mod points. (Hint: Overrated)
How did "never made it out of the seventies" and "probably outsourced... to india" make it into the same post? Might I recommend you read and/or watch The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commanding_Heights:_The_Battle_for_the_World_Economy
I never took a position on the matter, just pointed out that the subject was well within the purview of the site - aka, news for nerds and stuff that matters.
Electronic surveillance, the topic at hand, is every bit as much "news for nerds, news that matters." That field, like any other has to change dramatically because of the same technological developments you seem to want the site to focus on. Coverage of science fiction written about the same topic is doubly on-topic.
I'm not going to argue that Doctor Who is somehow insignificant or unworthy of attention, but last year was a wonderful year for science fiction on television. I cannot begin to understand how Doctor Who took the award for best episode even when its fanbase was split between two nominated episodes. It seems remarkably hard to fathom that the 4,000 year old series, infinitely rehashed, is still considered original enough to warrant the award. Give lifetime achievement awards for those that stuck with the project(s) longest, but don't try to tell me that the Doctor Who from last year was in any way shape or form superior to, say, Eureka, Heroes, or Jericho, each of which was more original and compelling than the remarkably hard to kill Doctor Who series, and somehow managed not to get a single nomination. Are the World Science Fiction Society members completely unwilling to watch a show that isn't 40 seasons old a remake? There was nothing fresh or original in the nominations. Even if you disregard the originality complaint, Battlestar Galactica was still infinitely more deserving.
#3=#4
No API for the hardware, no port of their magicalicious special mapping software.
What's Citrix's track record like with the open source community? I don't think I've ever stumbled across their name outside of pre-OpenSolaris Sun systems and Windows-only environments.
I can't believe this ridiculously poorly written article ever hit the presses. I've never owned a chipped system, but I'd have bought a chipped XBOX over an iTV or whatever in a heartbeat if it weren't for the risk of this sort of petty nonsense and the fact that the open sourced Neuros OSD hit the market and my living room at the same time I last considered such a purchase. Submitted the following to the Associated Press:
I'd like to submit a correction for the article reprinted here, written by one "Federal Agents Go After Gaming Pirates Discussion at PhysOrgForum": http://www.physorg.com/news105194834.html
Your author not only prominently quotes Myers saying that modchips have only "one purpose," facilitating piracy, but implicitly states the same fallacy the paragraph before. The Wikipedia article and every vendor go to great lengths to point out numerous uses that would have been perfectly legitimate and perfectly legal prior to the 1996 DMCA, and still perfectly moral and ethical and permissible in many other countries.
Modchips enable open source developers with every right under their license to Linux to port that operating system to the XBOX, to create full-fledged media players that beat the iTV to market by YEARS, ala the XMBC. Additionally, these modchips have allowed hobby game developers to do just that for decades. Other modchips do NOTHING aside from disable region code lockouts on consoles and DVD players.
This article is a joke. The incredible disregard shown by the facts of the situation shown by your reporter should have serious consequences - Would it have killed the lazy fellow to Google this term that was so apparently new and foreign to him?
http://weblog.timaltman.com/node/834
Like the blogger says, there's basically no way to file a bug report with Microsoft short of using snail mail or paying for support. I've never been anything but impressed with the people I've met at Microsoft, but their customer service and QA staff must be completely out of their little minds. I went through the same hoops described in the blog post above when pointing out that Always On Top windows behaved in a glitchy manner when running a full-screen RDP session on multiple monitors - Got my bug report bounced back to me no less than 5 times through 5 different forms before I gave up and started using radmin.
Lord forbid they, like every sane and reasonable company out there, set up a real bug reporting page.
Stop the presses, stop the presses! We've got to go with a new lead story: "People gain experience, get old, assume managerial positions!"
Wow.
There are multiple surviving threads about the lack of 64-bit support that predate this Slashdot post went live. If your's was deleted, might it not have simply been a dupe?
= &q=64-bit&objID=c201&dateRange=last90days&userID=& numResults=15&rankBy=10001
http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?threadID
The other two increasingly mainstream OSes both implement this. Mac OS X and current versions of both GNOME and KDE versions of Ubuntu ship with desktop search-like applications. In purely practical terms, it seems unreasonable to suggest that Microsoft can't do the same just because a third party happens to be selling similar software for their OS. That said, I'm not familiar with the language of the antitrust ruling, and I am a bit alarmed by the partiality shown by the Department of Justice.
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) designates June 2007 as `National Internet Safety Month';
(2) recognizes that National Internet Safety Month provides the citizens of the United States with an opportunity to learn more about--
(A) the dangers of the Internet; and
(B) the importance of being safe and responsible online;
(3) commends and recognizes national and community organizations for--
(A) promoting awareness of the dangers of the Internet; and
(B) providing information and training that develops critical thinking and decision-making skills that are needed to use the Internet safely; and
(4) calls on Internet safety organizations, law enforcement, educators, community leaders, parents, and volunteers to increase their efforts to raise the level of awareness for the need for online safety in the United States.
Yes, it's rather pointless, but it's not a "Da intertubez strangled my granddaughter" resolution, either. There's nothing terribly alarming going on this time.
What happens to the LGPL content? Does it suffer from the same restrictions?
Anyone have an alternative link? Apparently Ubuntu 6.06 LTS's Firefox w/Flash 7 isn't "a JavaScript enabled modern browser with Flash" in the minds of some people.