And thats all I want out of a newbie distro. To take wideley supported, most default software, package it together, with support, make the best sane configs. Find the best GUI config tools, and make a coherent OS family like windows and mac do, for everyone who is non-technical, so they can enjoy what we do, and I have something to recommend to non-techies.
The press release also says "The Pono desktop media management application allows customers to download, manage and sync their music to their PonoPlayer and other high-resolution digital music devices."
"other devices" sounds like they won't have proprietary lock in either, though how this will work in practice remains to be seen. Can you output, say, a FLAC at full quality, or only a lower quality file for non-Pono players?
A former cowboy became President of the United States. Oh, that was in 1901. And the U.S. overthrew the government of Guatemala to help out a fruit company. Oh, that was in 1954.
"Would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take OUR MERCATOR PROJECTION!"
There could be significant issues with biomedical data, too. For example, the policy gives the example of 'next-generation sequence reads' (raw genomic sequence data), but it's hard to make this truly anonymous (as legally and ethically it may have to be). For example, some researchers have identified named individuals from public sequence data with associated metadata: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
Mine (not quite that early) had a bug that gave the wrong colours with our (Hitachi?) TV. According to Sir Clive, this was the fault of the TV manufacturer for 'not following standards'. Expecting Sinclair to test the Spectrum hardware with a range of commonly used televisions before release was, of course, completely out of the question...
I originally had the 16k model, partly funded by the refund from a ZX81 (actually two in succession) that had conveniently died - QC was not Sinclair's strong point. Increasing this to a (massive!) 48k was my first experience of an internal hardware upgrade, with chips bought from some mail order supplier that advertised in the back of Sinclair User. They were buggers to insert (an uncle with electronics experience was enlisted to help force them into place without trashing anything).
A cynic might suggest that the UK Government doesn't care about file formats any more than MS does, and the whole whole "we're seriously considering alternatives" thing is just a ploy to get a better deal on Office...
If you think this is harmless stupidity, think again. IIRC there is at least one case of an HIV positive mother who refused to test her child. The child later died in an illness with symptoms like those of someone who has AIDS. The mother also died, naturally.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. In South Africa, HIV denialists advised by the Duesberg cult were in charge of public health policy for several years, leading to a tragedy of genocidal proportions:
...but the Canonical shills were trying to push Upstart even though it's a buggy piece of shit that is inferior to systemd in every way.
So wait, you're saying that narrow corporate interests were trying to push their own inferior solution in place of a technically superior system strongly preferred by the userbase? There seems to be something vaguely familiar about this scenario, but I can't quite put my finger on it...
Believe me, there's no confusion about the immensity of the community's contribution to the site.
Join us! Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. And we have cooler spaceships and better dialogue.
In an earlier Snowden story, it was revealed that:
"British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) reportedly used spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to compromise the computers of network engineers working for global roaming exchange providers based in Europe."
Is it possible that all of us, right now, are logged into a spoofed page that has replaced the real Slashdot for reasons known only to GCHQ and the NSA? 'Beta' is probably the final stage in whatever sinister plot they have planned for us. Incredible, I know, but is it any less likely than the alternative, that a job search site none of us had ever heard of would buy Geeknet for $20 million, and then proceed to trash its properties by a series of bizarre decisions like setting up SlashBI (beware the tumbleweed!) and inflicting Beta on its loyal readers? Just how far does this conspiracy go?
The machine at Bletchley Park is a working replica, not the original.
Yes, but it's a lovingly crafted completely functional working system that preserves both the spirit and the full capabilities of the original, and the project team has worked very hard to avoid unnecessary deviations from its (highly successful) 20th Century specification. Pretty much the opposite, then, of Slashdot Beta.
Slashdot Mirror
Now even the interviews are dupes?
Well, my Associates will be pleased that they have their answer, but we still need a reply to the Vorlon question!
Who are you?
What do you want?
...couldn't they use it to build UT4? Please? After 6 years, I'm getting just a little bored of UT3.
So are they going after Amazon?: http://www.amazon.com/Supco-DM...
Few things are as unsavory as English cuisine.
In England it's 'unsavoury', you insensitive clod.
Her corgis could probably do a better job than the last few governments.
And thats all I want out of a newbie distro. To take wideley supported, most default software, package it together, with support, make the best sane configs. Find the best GUI config tools, and make a coherent OS family like windows and mac do, for everyone who is non-technical, so they can enjoy what we do, and I have something to recommend to non-techies.
Welcome to Mint!
It probably helps that (a) nobody wants to shoot him and (b) Gibraltar is small enough to drive the Tesla while it's still plugged into the mains.
Apparently DRM was part of the plan originally, but has now (reportedly) been dropped:
http://www.computeraudiophile....
The press release also says "The Pono desktop media management application allows customers to download, manage and sync their music to their PonoPlayer and other high-resolution digital music devices."
"other devices" sounds like they won't have proprietary lock in either, though how this will work in practice remains to be seen. Can you output, say, a FLAC at full quality, or only a lower quality file for non-Pono players?
A former cowboy became President of the United States. Oh, that was in 1901. And the U.S. overthrew the government of Guatemala to help out a fruit company. Oh, that was in 1954.
...and in 1979: https://xkcd.com/204/
"Would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take OUR MERCATOR PROJECTION!"
Some evils are just more evil than others.
http://whatstheharm.net/homeop...
There could be significant issues with biomedical data, too. For example, the policy gives the example of 'next-generation sequence reads' (raw genomic sequence data), but it's hard to make this truly anonymous (as legally and ethically it may have to be). For example, some researchers have identified named individuals from public sequence data with associated metadata: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
Mine (not quite that early) had a bug that gave the wrong colours with our (Hitachi?) TV. According to Sir Clive, this was the fault of the TV manufacturer for 'not following standards'. Expecting Sinclair to test the Spectrum hardware with a range of commonly used televisions before release was, of course, completely out of the question...
I originally had the 16k model, partly funded by the refund from a ZX81 (actually two in succession) that had conveniently died - QC was not Sinclair's strong point. Increasing this to a (massive!) 48k was my first experience of an internal hardware upgrade, with chips bought from some mail order supplier that advertised in the back of Sinclair User. They were buggers to insert (an uncle with electronics experience was enlisted to help force them into place without trashing anything).
The article also doesn't mention the controversy about Elite Systems and their apparent failure to pay the developers they are making money off:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/a...
Firefox wil be copying this behaviour within a week. That's why we have SeaMonkey.
A cynic might suggest that the UK Government doesn't care about file formats any more than MS does, and the whole whole "we're seriously considering alternatives" thing is just a ploy to get a better deal on Office...
Sorry, but that's just Double Dutch to me.
If you think this is harmless stupidity, think again. IIRC there is at least one case of an HIV positive mother who refused to test her child. The child later died in an illness with symptoms like those of someone who has AIDS. The mother also died, naturally.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. In South Africa, HIV denialists advised by the Duesberg cult were in charge of public health policy for several years, leading to a tragedy of genocidal proportions:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
...but the Canonical shills were trying to push Upstart even though it's a buggy piece of shit that is inferior to systemd in every way.
So wait, you're saying that narrow corporate interests were trying to push their own inferior solution in place of a technically superior system strongly preferred by the userbase? There seems to be something vaguely familiar about this scenario, but I can't quite put my finger on it...
Believe me, there's no confusion about the immensity of the community's contribution to the site.
Join us! Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. And we have cooler spaceships and better dialogue.
The FBI's top 10 malware packages in full:
10. Conficker
9. Zeus
8. Melissa
7. LOVEYOU
6. Ask toolbar
5. Windows 8
4. Stoned
3. Stuxnet
2. Cryptolocker
1. Slashdot Beta
In an earlier Snowden story, it was revealed that:
"British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) reportedly used spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to compromise the computers of network engineers working for global roaming exchange providers based in Europe."
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?...
Is it possible that all of us, right now, are logged into a spoofed page that has replaced the real Slashdot for reasons known only to GCHQ and the NSA? 'Beta' is probably the final stage in whatever sinister plot they have planned for us. Incredible, I know, but is it any less likely than the alternative, that a job search site none of us had ever heard of would buy Geeknet for $20 million, and then proceed to trash its properties by a series of bizarre decisions like setting up SlashBI (beware the tumbleweed!) and inflicting Beta on its loyal readers? Just how far does this conspiracy go?
So -- tell us. Are you this quick witted or did you have to think a moment to come up with this perfect reply.
No, I just chuck this stuff out there without too much thought - much like the Slashdot Beta development process.
The machine at Bletchley Park is a working replica, not the original.
Yes, but it's a lovingly crafted completely functional working system that preserves both the spirit and the full capabilities of the original, and the project team has worked very hard to avoid unnecessary deviations from its (highly successful) 20th Century specification. Pretty much the opposite, then, of Slashdot Beta.