...if they ever got around to fixing google apps so it worked with google+. Instead, all we ( us google apps users ) get are false promises...when we get anything at all.
You do not want Google+ if you have paid-for Google Apps. According to their ToS, if they think you might have posted something objectionable, they'll shitcan your account, and maybe you can complain to a Google customer service robot about it.
I have only a free Google account, but I've stopped posting to Google+. I have a free Gmail I don't depend on, but use occasionally, news prefs, android data sync, saved maps, youtube, google docs, etc. etc., and I don't need to chance losing that by posting something public that will get some ninny's britches in a bunch and complaining to Google. This isn't academic, they've done this to people for posting things I don't see a problem with.
Facebook doesn't behave that way and even if they did, I've got nothing else depending on Facebook. I made my last Google+ post in the beginning of August explaining this. If they change their ToS I might go back. And if they get a read/write API going.
The only computers I have run either linux or FreeBSD, so there are no options for netflix for me at the moment.
I take it you don't own a television then, right? Because a Roku is dirt cheap and simple to operate (and linux based ftw). Plus with all the private channels it's really handy.
If the Linux-owning crowd is small, the linux-owning crowd that doesn't have a TV has to be even smaller. That's not to say it's invalid, just that here might be more Amiga users still around.
Pre-iPod, Apple were just a computer company too, like Microsoft.
Microsoft hasn't ever been a computer company, that I recall. Apple always has, so the iPod wasn't a big deal for them. Microsoft has re-branded some mice and keyboards but to the best of my knowledge has always been a software company. Both iPods and Zunes are computers, just small ones. It's a different skillset - one that Apple had 25 years of experience with at the time.
Apple also makes operating systems and office software, but Sony makes computers and also makes cameras, lab equipment, and movies. This doesn't mean Microsoft or Apple should start a movie studio or start making lab equipment.
There could be - Netflix works fine on my Android tablet.
That said, I use Amazon Prime streaming more and more every day. Meanwhile I was running a packet capture on my router last night to try to figure out why Netflix streaming isn't working on my Roku anymore (shock: it's their servers). Oh, Roku is a linux device too - I've had that for a couple years now.
Now that I'm thinking about it, Netflix insists my e-mail address is invalid, so I never get e-mail updates anymore. And their prices just went up. I think I'm seeing a trend here.
C'mon, like we don't know what's going to happen when you offer up frequency bandwidth for public consumption? Please. I guarantee you the Ciscos, Microsofts, and Googles of the world have an answer...or probably 4,723 of them.
You better cool your guns if you don't want to get downmodded around here - you're implying that the government's artificial restriction on frequency use has prevented the kind of economic development activity you're talking about, and that just can't be happening in our environment. It's good for a handful of 'overrated's around here - rarely a substantive reply, though.
to make it harder for rookies to shoot themselves or others in the foot.
It's amazing how few geeks understand why this makes Java so successful. So many languages are written for the right tail of the programmer-quality bell curve, while Java aims for the large area in the middle. That, and it works reliably - one time I ported a network analyzer to Linux using JNI and the damn thing just worked.
Plug-ins are a hack to get around an issue that doesn't exist anymore.
We won't need additional functionality in the browser that nobody's thought of yet? That kind of innovation ought to be restricted to browser development teams?
most businesses dont have a T3 but instead have a T1 that most DSL can equate or beat.
And, ironically, most T1's are provisioned over DSL these days. Businesses think they're getting a better SLA with a T1. I usually convince them to get DSL and Cable and setup failover between them and they're quite happy.
And I still can't quite figure out how exactly VMWare is a threat to MS
They're doing something in the computer field and it's popular and not Microsoft. Look at the Zune - why did Microsoft need to be in the music player business? Only because Apple was and succeeding and they were jealous. How much time and energy did they waste on that?
Granted, they seem to be less viscous without Gates around to throw fits about stuff like this.
and nobody wanted end users to have to open the case and move a jumper
That's just more cost-cutting. An A/B switch would have worked fine, but added 20 cents to the cost of a PC.
I like how ASUS (and others, no doubt) have BIOS's that know how to read VFAT and can pull a flash image off a USB drive directly. The user just needs to know how to copy a file to a flash drive.
How about if only the ability to toggle 'boot into BIOS' was exposed to the OS? A Windows utility could then copy the file to the flash drive, and set the PC to boot into BIOS and issue a reboot sequence. A smart BIOS could take it from there.
"This procedure will permanently reprogram your computer with updated or changed functionality. If you did not intend to do this, click NO now." or something would be a reasonable warning screen. If the BIOS validated signatures by default, even better.
MSI seems to be writing their new BIOS in EFI instead of straight x86 assembly so we should see some of this soon. There's OpenBoot too, if you have a lucky match of mobos.
because a lot of prep work and specialized electrodes (platinum!) are needed to run some of these analyses
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I'm always on the lookout for a cheap melamine detector, but it looks like I still need to save up for a mass spectrometer.
Marvell is the only ARM manufacturer who is still under the impression that a chip with no FPU is competitive. Deluded people keep buying computers with their chips and wondering why they're so slow...
How much cheaper are they?
I was looking yesterday to see whether my Nook Color (A8-based, IIRC) has a SIMD unit (supposedly called NEON according to the scarce docs I found online) and I was pleased to find that it probably does. The OMAP part is available without the SIMD unit, but it looks like B&N was forward-looking or the cost difference wasn't significant. I want to use it for AES crunching for encrypted storage, but it looks like that's still an available project.
This is a pleasant surprise. I had understood that Nokia had become entirely dependent on Windows Phone and was setting itself up to be acquired as Microsoft's mobile unit, but then why would they need Qt when MFC/.NET is readily available?
It sounds like somebody decided that they need to keep their options open, which is smart:
At the end of June 2011, Marco Argenti, SVP, Nokia Developer Experience, confirmed that Nokia will âoemake Qt core to bringing applications to the next billion,â and he reassured developers that investments made in Qt today will live on in the future with Nokia. Adding the information about the 9M+ downloads per day on the Ovi Store, already today, provides a hint about the opportunity developers have with Nokia.
To mince the fine points with the submitter:
foundation whose only purpose is to host the infrastructure for the Qt project
There seems to be at least two things going on. The above statement is true:
I want to make it very clear that the foundation will not steer the project in any way. The foundation is in place only to cover the costs of hosting and run the infrastructure.
But this is also different:
All technical decisions, as well as decisions about the project direction, will be taken by the community of Contributors, Approvers and Maintainers. For example this means that people in Nokia working on Qt will start working with Qt as an upstream project. Everyone will be using the same infrastructure, including mailing lists and IRC... but it may surprise you that that around 15% of the initial Maintainers do not work for Nokia. We also have quite a few Approvers from companies and the community....
The Qt governance, roadmap and releases will be driven openly by the Qt Project â" open to all the stakeholders willing to contribute. It will have an open governance model based on equal access to all discussions and tools, an open contribution process and meritocratic assignment of roles. We want Qt to excel by all measurements as a transparent, merit-based and participative open source community project. We believe this is the key to speeding up development and increasing the adoption of Qt.
Yet, they recognize the elephant in the room and are open about it:
As a last point I wanted to talk about one thing that is fixed for the project and not going to go away. To contribute to Qt, you will have to sign a Contribution License Agreement with Nokia. We have put a lot of effort keeping the Qt codebase legally clear and clean, and this attention to detail will continue under the Qt Project. We have been over the last months reviewed the CLA extensively with many stakeholders and believe we have a solution that is as inclusive as possible for all companies and individuals that want to contribute to Qt. The CLA also enables the commercial ecosystem around Qt to continue to thrive and contribute to the project. Further, there are a number of legal obligations from Trolltech and Nokia that have to be taken into account.
This license has a few problems any contributing entity is going to feel leery about. Just a few that jump out:
For the avoidance of doubt, Nokia has the right and no obligation whatsoever to utilize any Contribution and Nokia shall have the right, at its exclusive discretion, to include, suspend and/or exclude any Contribution from any release of Nokia Software Products.
I can see why Nokia wants to not imply they'll maintain a useless patchset forever, but they also have a potential strategic weapon against competitors here.
The seat, or legal place, of arbitration shall be Helsinki, Finland.
The old admin knew which GPU's he wanted; unfortunately we haven't found his research anywhere
Did he wipe his browser history on a regular basis?
If not, you'll probably find him having looked at a large number of products, then as time approaches current, lots of page views on the details of operating one particular product.
Landing on a ship might be doable in the very far future but right now the technology is nowhere near that
The Navy has been automatically landing F/A 18's on air craft carriers automatically for at least a decade. You can find declassified reports from the Navy online about them.
IIRC, the systems are designed for 30' waves and full cruising speed.
Please, Wall Street and companies like Goldman Sachs are far greater National Security Risks than any conglomeration of people in their basements DDoSing websites.
How do you figure? I don't see Anonymous on the list of big campaign donors.
Anything the government can't understand or control is a security threat.
Right. If there's a chance it could undermine the continuance of government, even if it's totally within constitutional an legal bounds, it will be prosecuted and found valid in the US Supreme Court. There's precedent case law from the early 20th century. The court has decided, roughly, "the defendant is correct on the merits, but his actions threaten the continuance of government, so he'll rot in jail 'till he dies."
Yeah, all these 'steps' are very expensive. If you want A, you're forced to buy B. I do OK building custom 'whitebox' machines for clients. If they worry about depot service, I point out that they can buy two of mine for less than one of theirs, configured in a hot/hot or hot/cold setup. My boxes do better on energy consumption too.
Or maybe the United States of America, where states rights are a major issue and people from Texas (for example) will claim that they're Texan rather than American.
Before the Civil War, the common parlance was "The United States are" - now it's "The United States is". The original design was to factor out redundant effort among the States as a convenience, not to be a centrally-controlled nation with several provinces. They even called the federal government 'the general government' to describe its genericness.
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...if they ever got around to fixing google apps so it worked with google+. Instead, all we ( us google apps users ) get are false promises...when we get anything at all.
You do not want Google+ if you have paid-for Google Apps. According to their ToS, if they think you might have posted something objectionable, they'll shitcan your account, and maybe you can complain to a Google customer service robot about it.
I have only a free Google account, but I've stopped posting to Google+. I have a free Gmail I don't depend on, but use occasionally, news prefs, android data sync, saved maps, youtube, google docs, etc. etc., and I don't need to chance losing that by posting something public that will get some ninny's britches in a bunch and complaining to Google. This isn't academic, they've done this to people for posting things I don't see a problem with.
Facebook doesn't behave that way and even if they did, I've got nothing else depending on Facebook. I made my last Google+ post in the beginning of August explaining this. If they change their ToS I might go back. And if they get a read/write API going.
The only computers I have run either linux or FreeBSD, so there are no options for netflix for me at the moment.
I take it you don't own a television then, right? Because a Roku is dirt cheap and simple to operate (and linux based ftw). Plus with all the private channels it's really handy.
If the Linux-owning crowd is small, the linux-owning crowd that doesn't have a TV has to be even smaller. That's not to say it's invalid, just that here might be more Amiga users still around.
Pre-iPod, Apple were just a computer company too, like Microsoft.
Microsoft hasn't ever been a computer company, that I recall. Apple always has, so the iPod wasn't a big deal for them. Microsoft has re-branded some mice and keyboards but to the best of my knowledge has always been a software company. Both iPods and Zunes are computers, just small ones. It's a different skillset - one that Apple had 25 years of experience with at the time.
Apple also makes operating systems and office software, but Sony makes computers and also makes cameras, lab equipment, and movies. This doesn't mean Microsoft or Apple should start a movie studio or start making lab equipment.
As a result, there is no Linux support.
There could be - Netflix works fine on my Android tablet.
That said, I use Amazon Prime streaming more and more every day. Meanwhile I was running a packet capture on my router last night to try to figure out why Netflix streaming isn't working on my Roku anymore (shock: it's their servers). Oh, Roku is a linux device too - I've had that for a couple years now.
Now that I'm thinking about it, Netflix insists my e-mail address is invalid, so I never get e-mail updates anymore. And their prices just went up. I think I'm seeing a trend here.
Reality: "... Metro interface web browser in Windows 8 will not support plug-ins ..."
Where would you project Windows 9 will go re: Metro vs. old browser?
Not all chess games are played one move at a time.
when there were no free web browsers
Imagine how different the past 20 years would have been if NCSA Mosaic had been released as an open source project.
C'mon, like we don't know what's going to happen when you offer up frequency bandwidth for public consumption? Please. I guarantee you the Ciscos, Microsofts, and Googles of the world have an answer...or probably 4,723 of them.
You better cool your guns if you don't want to get downmodded around here - you're implying that the government's artificial restriction on frequency use has prevented the kind of economic development activity you're talking about, and that just can't be happening in our environment. It's good for a handful of 'overrated's around here - rarely a substantive reply, though.
to make it harder for rookies to shoot themselves or others in the foot.
It's amazing how few geeks understand why this makes Java so successful. So many languages are written for the right tail of the programmer-quality bell curve, while Java aims for the large area in the middle. That, and it works reliably - one time I ported a network analyzer to Linux using JNI and the damn thing just worked.
Sheeple is the new normal?
The current US president was elected running on a Bob the Builder's motto.
then the chicks would be taught to use language just as Alex did?
I understand Alex had years of instruction. Do African grey chicks stick around with the family unit?
Plug-ins are a hack to get around an issue that doesn't exist anymore.
We won't need additional functionality in the browser that nobody's thought of yet? That kind of innovation ought to be restricted to browser development teams?
most businesses dont have a T3 but instead have a T1 that most DSL can equate or beat.
And, ironically, most T1's are provisioned over DSL these days. Businesses think they're getting a better SLA with a T1. I usually convince them to get DSL and Cable and setup failover between them and they're quite happy.
And I still can't quite figure out how exactly VMWare is a threat to MS
They're doing something in the computer field and it's popular and not Microsoft. Look at the Zune - why did Microsoft need to be in the music player business? Only because Apple was and succeeding and they were jealous. How much time and energy did they waste on that?
Granted, they seem to be less viscous without Gates around to throw fits about stuff like this.
and nobody wanted end users to have to open the case and move a jumper
That's just more cost-cutting. An A/B switch would have worked fine, but added 20 cents to the cost of a PC.
I like how ASUS (and others, no doubt) have BIOS's that know how to read VFAT and can pull a flash image off a USB drive directly. The user just needs to know how to copy a file to a flash drive.
How about if only the ability to toggle 'boot into BIOS' was exposed to the OS? A Windows utility could then copy the file to the flash drive, and set the PC to boot into BIOS and issue a reboot sequence. A smart BIOS could take it from there.
"This procedure will permanently reprogram your computer with updated or changed functionality. If you did not intend to do this, click NO now." or something would be a reasonable warning screen. If the BIOS validated signatures by default, even better.
MSI seems to be writing their new BIOS in EFI instead of straight x86 assembly so we should see some of this soon. There's OpenBoot too, if you have a lucky match of mobos.
because a lot of prep work and specialized electrodes (platinum!) are needed to run some of these analyses
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I'm always on the lookout for a cheap melamine detector, but it looks like I still need to save up for a mass spectrometer.
Marvell is the only ARM manufacturer who is still under the impression that a chip with no FPU is competitive. Deluded people keep buying computers with their chips and wondering why they're so slow...
How much cheaper are they?
I was looking yesterday to see whether my Nook Color (A8-based, IIRC) has a SIMD unit (supposedly called NEON according to the scarce docs I found online) and I was pleased to find that it probably does. The OMAP part is available without the SIMD unit, but it looks like B&N was forward-looking or the cost difference wasn't significant. I want to use it for AES crunching for encrypted storage, but it looks like that's still an available project.
This is a pleasant surprise. I had understood that Nokia had become entirely dependent on Windows Phone and was setting itself up to be acquired as Microsoft's mobile unit, but then why would they need Qt when MFC/.NET is readily available?
It sounds like somebody decided that they need to keep their options open, which is smart:
To mince the fine points with the submitter:
foundation whose only purpose is to host the infrastructure for the Qt project
There seems to be at least two things going on. The above statement is true:
But this is also different:
Yet, they recognize the elephant in the room and are open about it:
This license has a few problems any contributing entity is going to feel leery about. Just a few that jump out:
I can see why Nokia wants to not imply they'll maintain a useless patchset forever, but they also have a potential strategic weapon against competitors here.
The old admin knew which GPU's he wanted; unfortunately we haven't found his research anywhere
Did he wipe his browser history on a regular basis?
If not, you'll probably find him having looked at a large number of products, then as time approaches current, lots of page views on the details of operating one particular product.
Steve Jobs gave you how much funding?!
And then hired their sysadmin out from under them? No.
Landing on a ship might be doable in the very far future but right now the technology is nowhere near that
The Navy has been automatically landing F/A 18's on air craft carriers automatically for at least a decade. You can find declassified reports from the Navy online about them.
IIRC, the systems are designed for 30' waves and full cruising speed.
Please, Wall Street and companies like Goldman Sachs are far greater National Security Risks than any conglomeration of people in their basements DDoSing websites.
How do you figure? I don't see Anonymous on the list of big campaign donors.
Anything the government can't understand or control is a security threat.
Right. If there's a chance it could undermine the continuance of government, even if it's totally within constitutional an legal bounds, it will be prosecuted and found valid in the US Supreme Court. There's precedent case law from the early 20th century. The court has decided, roughly, "the defendant is correct on the merits, but his actions threaten the continuance of government, so he'll rot in jail 'till he dies."
It seems like a bit of fresh blood around here is working out OK.
Yeah, all these 'steps' are very expensive. If you want A, you're forced to buy B. I do OK building custom 'whitebox' machines for clients. If they worry about depot service, I point out that they can buy two of mine for less than one of theirs, configured in a hot/hot or hot/cold setup. My boxes do better on energy consumption too.
Or maybe the United States of America, where states rights are a major issue and people from Texas (for example) will claim that they're Texan rather than American.
Before the Civil War, the common parlance was "The United States are" - now it's "The United States is". The original design was to factor out redundant effort among the States as a convenience, not to be a centrally-controlled nation with several provinces. They even called the federal government 'the general government' to describe its genericness.