And there's no reason why the current tablet environments can't use a mouse and keyboard,
You mean other than the pure inconvenience of doing so? How many people outside of nerds on slashdot have you heard go "well I'd buy a tablet if only it came with a mouse and keyboard!"?
Please read what I wrote. I didn't say "tablets", but "tablet environments" - like when you run a tablet environment on a desktop or laptop.
Also, look at how many people buy an external mouse and/or keyboard for their laptops, along with secondary displays.
Who cares about "the desktop?" My kids sure don't. The desktop is dying. It doesn't matter if linux never wins the desktop wars (though I think it will, sometime before the end of the century). The desktop is already the minority computing platform in terms of sales - both laptops and smartphones already outsell desktops. Within 2 years tablets will be outselling desktops as well. Most people are probably going to want a desktop or laptop that emulates what they're using on their tablets and smart phones, not the other way around (Microsoft tried to sell PC-OS-based tablets for almost 2 decades - nobody wanted them).
As for the rest, again, I have to disagree.
They need export configuration, edit configuration, import configuration
Just copy the appropriate files from/etc/$WHATEVER. That's a lot simpler in the long run than having to teach someone how to use a different GUI for each service... and having to maintain them... and having to keep them in sync between/etc/WHATEVER versions. If you can't do a simple file copy you shouldn't be touching it.
instead of merely syslogd, they need real performance metric reporting - work/latency. Then, remote instrumentation of all the above
Not really. Just run it in a vm and see how loaded-down your vm is, if you're into performance tuning. When you've got 12-16 cores on a single chip on desktop machines (~ 2014), you'll be giving important services their own vm simply because using processor affinity is a good way to get the best performance.
On a side note - I decided to test the latest opensuse on my old single-core desktop. KDE, Gnome, Gnome3 - all broken video. So I'm using Enlightenment - and that old desktop is now FAST again, and no video problems at all. So I don't have icons in my program launcher. So what? Everything works faster than it does on my much newer, multi-core laptop, just because there's less bloat. I don't care about "the desktop" - I just want to run my programs:-) I think most people are like that.
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth unveiled a new lightweight user interface shell called Unity. The new shell is designed to use screen space more efficiently and consume fewer system resources than a conventional desktop environment. It will be a key component of the Ubuntu Netbook Edition and a new instant-on computing platform called Ubuntu Light.
In other words, it's designed for a dying market - netbooks, squeezed out on both sides by tablets and cheap laptops.
And there's no reason why the current tablet environments can't use a mouse and keyboard, same as the current desktop environments can use a touchscreen.
Thank you thank you thank you - someone who understands that we see things because that's how we see them, and not necessarily because that's how they are. We filter everything we experience through our pre-existing concepts.
It's like programmers who forget that the "objects" they're dealing with aren't really objects - just a level of abstraction, and a convenient way to organize the underlying bits so we don't have to deal with the complexity.
The wall-street and bank bail-outs are the biggest heist of all time. It's the first time that someone has managed to pull off a global-scale heist - and get paid for continuing to steal.
None of those scandals sent the world into the deepest recession since the great depression. None of them threaten to bankrupt 46 of 50 states. None of them created derivatives that are worth multiples of the total global economy, that we have to back out of slowly, all the time guaranteeing any defaults for fear the whole house of cards will collapse. None of them threatened to turn the greenback into the American Peso.
How many banksters went to jail? None. THAT is the true measure of corruption - when the government is too afraid to even put ONE of them on trial.
It's one reason I keep a thesaurus handy when writing code. If the function/object/variable name isn't right, it makes the code less manageable in the long run.
GNOME has a long history of "NIH" (not invented here), and Canonical has developed a reputation for trying to boss developers around (like when they wanted all the major projects to sync their release schedule with Ubuntu).
In the end, they're both going to be irrelevant. GNOME shell is too late, and doing it their own way, going further away from what most people want in a desktop, and Unity is already outdated when you compare it to what's happening in the tablet world.
So a pox on both their houses. They sort of deserve each other.
There's no real value to the [select * political_party where political_party='p0wned by corporations' or elected >=1960].. That hasn't stopped people voting for them.
So essentially you're saying there is no value to any political party whatsoever as 100% of them fit your query. Voting is our right and our duty therefore we must vote for someone. Whom would you possibly vote for using your theory that *all* political parties have no value?
I'm sure you can find at least one political party that has never been in power (never mind the "since 1960" part), and hasn't had a chance to get its nose into the trough...
This is a stupid article. Read through TFA and you'll see they didn't do this at all. They tightened up the regulations with regard to tweet semantics to protect the core Twitter experience across multiple third-party apps.
I call shenanigans. If the "core Twitter experience" is so great, they wouldn't have to protect it - anything that broke it would die a painful, lonely, ugly death, since people wouldn't use it.
It's the same as Canonical changing the amazon affiliate id in the Banshee music player - another money-loser getting ready to "monetize".the end user.
There's no real value to the [select * political_party where political_party='p0wned by corporations' or elected >=1960].. That hasn't stopped people voting for them.
Mathematics are, by nature, human constructs. The entire "mathematical universe", including all mathematical operations, simply doesn't exist outside of our minds. We can add 2 apples + 2 apples, but this is something WE do - it isn't part of the natural universe - we would see it as 4 apples, but the apples don't suddenly become an entity of "4 apples", they are still individual apples. Of course, if we make apple sauce, we have changed the properties of the apples - they are no longer apples, they're apple sauce.
Example - when you say:
However, if we both had 42 apples and 13 oranges, then the difference between our possessions would be NONE.
You are totally wrong. Our possessions are completely different. If I take and eat one of my apples, you still have 42 apples. YOUR 42 apples are not MY 42 apples - each one is completely different. The point is that the "quantity" is a human concept, it is not something that the universe, or the apple, is "aware of". If you really believe there is no difference, then you shouldn't mind us starting with the same AMOUNT of money, movie, going to the movies and paying both tickets with YOUR money - after all, there is no difference between our money, so paying my ticket with your money should be identical to paying my ticket with my own money.
Line up 4 apples. You can point out apple #1, 2, 3, and 4. You can't point out apple #0. You can't tell me what it's color is, how much it weights, how it tastes, or even whether it's a golden delicious, a crabapple, or a macintosh. You can point to the space before the first apple, but that's not an apple, is it?
Similarly, while you can divide them into 1, 2, 3, 4 portions (you'll need a knife for 3 portions, obviously), you can't divide them into zero portions.
And while you can compare 1 apple and one orange, and say "these are not the same", try doing that with no apples and no oranges. All of a sudden, do apples compare equal to oranges? After all, the number of calories in zero apples is the same as the number of calories in zero oranges, they don't taste any different, or weigh any different, or even look any different. Or are they still unequal?
Zero is purely a mathematical construct, with no physical analogue. Even nature abhors a vacuum.
theorizes that shifts in biologic rhythms could trigger harmful inflammatory or metabolic changes at the cellular level, to which these individuals may be more susceptible."
...OR "Shit shit shit shit I'm late for work I'm gonna be fired again!" gets to you...
Everytime I read one of these "studies" that "shows" stuff, I can't help but think that the researcher is a press whore or is just trying to get more funding by throwing out a ridiculously convoluted "theory" to explain a simple observation. After all, the "people get stressed out when they're late for work" hypothesis doesn't get you as many grants.
One fall Saturday night, I jokingly "reminded" my friend to turn his clock forward because of the time change - I said "Remember, fall forward, spring back". I figured his wife would catch the joke and correct him, and move the clock back an hour. Instead, he showed up for the 6AM restaurant opening time at 4 in the morning - which meant he must have gotten up at 2:30 AM...
So he's sitting in the mall parking lot all by himself, wondering where everyone is, when the police pull up to find out why some black guy is just sitting there in his car in the middle of the night.
Maybe I can apply for a grant for stress caused by being early for work? I could get an ig-nobel.
lose his job because of a new requirement that his current position now needed a degree
That makes no sense. If they already had employees who they knew were doing a good job, then what is the point of such a requirement (or at least firing existing workers who they know know what they are doing)?
Same story as usual - office politics. His boss wanted to get rid of him to free up the slot so he could hire one of his buddies from outside the company.
Forget advanced math - too many people lack basic language skills. This is supposed to be a tech site, and yet we still see people whose first language is english continuously confusing they're, their, and there, or rein, rain, and reign.
We need some grammar nazis in the admissions offices.
Or, we need to realize that people arn't(sic) perfect, and that peopel(sic) like you could benefit from etiquete(sic) lessons and probably a dose of Paxil to help take the edge of(sic) the OCD.
Let me guess - you were trying for the first anti-grammar-nazi-nazi-spelling-nazi-troll-post of the day?
I guess we should add a spelling nazi to the list of requirements. Maybe if we had had one back in the day, we wouldn't be stuck with HTTP-REFERER instead of HTTP-REFERRER.
I'd like to emphasize that both mathematics and language are used to communicate. Numbers don't "exist" by themselves. We're the ones who add multiple meanings to the number 42, for example.
Look at the way we invented the number zero. There's no ready analog in the natural world. We can point out the first, second, third,... apples in a row, but not the zeroeth one, and say "that is apple number zero".
It's one reason we don't use roman numerals for math - no zero (they wrote nullus instead) - and why it was replaced with hindu-arabic numbers.
Even back when we were learning to count on our fingers, we used numbers (or digits) to communicate more than just an abstract concept - we instinctively associate numbers with the objects they represent when we communicate with math. X dollars @ YY.ZZ per hour for an hourly wage, for example. We expect to be paid in dollars, not the abstract number behind it (though fiat currency and the fed are doing their best to change that:-)
While a space elevator to the ground probably isn't doable, one that doesn't reach down to the troposphere could be. At which point asteroid colonies begin to look a bit more feasible.
A space elevator for the moon would only require the same tensile strength as kevlar, and one for Mars would be doable at the limits of current technology if it weren't for Phobos getting in the way every 8 hours..
So the best way to get an Earth space elevator (or anything else) is to get your materials from the moon, from the lunar space elevator, rather than boosting them up Earth's gravity well.
Do like one of my friends did - phonied up a university diploma for another friend who was going to lose his job because of a new requirement that his current position now needed a degree, who took it to the university (hint - the university name begins with the letter "M"), they checked their record - "No, we have no record of you here", he told them he "knew damn well that he had attended", and that "the records were lost because of a computer failure" - after lots of argument, they finally gave in and "re-issued" the bogus diploma.
Forget advanced math - too many people lack basic language skills. This is supposed to be a tech site, and yet we still see people whose first language is english continuously confusing they're, their, and there, or rein, rain, and reign.
We need some grammar nazis in the admissions offices.
No. Everyone knows the three species most likely to survive an all-out nuclear exchange are cockroaches, rats, and a few humans. Lawyers are covered by the first 2. You and I, on the other hand, get to draw for the short straw.
So what? Most of the essential data is already duplicated on individual users' computers around the world.
People would still be able to do both ad-hoc networks, wireless meshes, and sneakernet, and many locations would still have enough infrastructure left to provide lots of hosting for survivors.
One of the things that seems to be happening here is that USA Federal case law is beginning to define the difference between privacy, with its constitutional protections, and anonymity, which for all practical purposes only came into existence with the rise of the Internet. That is, before the Internet, there really was no effective way to publish anything to a large audience without leaving a trail that would expose the author's identity to anyone who cared to do the leg work.
I'm sorry, but that is a total falsehood. Amonymous publishing was part and parcel of political movements for centuries. Pamphleteers didn't always sign their names, as noted here
One other feature of 18th C. pamphleteering deserves mention, one that may have a lot of relevance in other countries today where the Web is used for purposes of political insurrection. That is, the pamphlet was preferred by the rebels because it did not provide any target for retaliation by the crown. It was a guerilla form of publishing in which an individual or small revolutionary group could make a point, then disappear. This was in contrast to the more established printers. Typically, the printer owned his shop, his press, his tools and all his stock. If he antagonized the Crown, they knew just where to find him, and the king's agents could easily shut him down. The hit-and-run, anonymous pamphleteer, on the other hand, was almost impossible to find and, thus, to stop.
Anonymous pamphleteering was part of the American Revolution. The same way that samizdat was part of the fall of Soviet Russia.
Second, it is included as part of the session information as a security measure. If someone attempts to connect to my site using a session (which entails not having to type his or her username and password to log in every time), the site matches the session ID against the IP address also to make sure the user is connecting via that session from the same address. If it is a different address, that is an indication that someone may be trying to hijack someone else's session and it redirects back to the login page.
You should drop the IP check. Laptop users who suspend or hibernate will hate you for that, as will anyone who goes through a round-robin set of IP addresses.
Use https if you're that worried about it.
Since you're redirecting if the IP doesn't match, if someone wanted to steal the user credentials, they'd just serve them up a copy of your login page at some random point, then redirect to your real login page. No need to steal a session when you've already trained people to have to log in at random times because their IP has changed.
I just like how computers in general seem to be packed with either explosives or 5 megawatts of power in pretty much every sci-fi movie. Star Trek is one of the worst offenders for this. "Oh no, the computer is overloaded! *bzzzt, boom*" If I blew up a PC everytime it got stuck in a logic loop I'd be typing with hooks by now.
Maybe they had an even more advanced version of those Sony inflammable laptop batteries?
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And there's no reason why the current tablet environments can't use a mouse and keyboard,
You mean other than the pure inconvenience of doing so? How many people outside of nerds on slashdot have you heard go "well I'd buy a tablet if only it came with a mouse and keyboard!"?
Please read what I wrote. I didn't say "tablets", but "tablet environments" - like when you run a tablet environment on a desktop or laptop.
Also, look at how many people buy an external mouse and/or keyboard for their laptops, along with secondary displays.
Just copy the appropriate files from /etc/$WHATEVER. That's a lot simpler in the long run than having to teach someone how to use a different GUI for each service ... and having to maintain them ... and having to keep them in sync between /etc/WHATEVER versions. If you can't do a simple file copy you shouldn't be touching it.
Not really. Just run it in a vm and see how loaded-down your vm is, if you're into performance tuning. When you've got 12-16 cores on a single chip on desktop machines (~ 2014), you'll be giving important services their own vm simply because using processor affinity is a good way to get the best performance.
On a side note - I decided to test the latest opensuse on my old single-core desktop. KDE, Gnome, Gnome3 - all broken video. So I'm using Enlightenment - and that old desktop is now FAST again, and no video problems at all. So I don't have icons in my program launcher. So what? Everything works faster than it does on my much newer, multi-core laptop, just because there's less bloat. I don't care about "the desktop" - I just want to run my programs :-) I think most people are like that.
As for Canonical, expect to see layoffs and cost-cutting like crazy within the next 2 to 3 years.
Unity is not, primarily, a tablet environment, it's designed to work with very different hardware -- medium to (multiple) extremely large displays
It was originally designed for netbooks.
In other words, it's designed for a dying market - netbooks, squeezed out on both sides by tablets and cheap laptops.
And there's no reason why the current tablet environments can't use a mouse and keyboard, same as the current desktop environments can use a touchscreen.
It's like programmers who forget that the "objects" they're dealing with aren't really objects - just a level of abstraction, and a convenient way to organize the underlying bits so we don't have to deal with the complexity.
None of those scandals sent the world into the deepest recession since the great depression. None of them threaten to bankrupt 46 of 50 states. None of them created derivatives that are worth multiples of the total global economy, that we have to back out of slowly, all the time guaranteeing any defaults for fear the whole house of cards will collapse. None of them threatened to turn the greenback into the American Peso.
How many banksters went to jail? None. THAT is the true measure of corruption - when the government is too afraid to even put ONE of them on trial.
It's one reason I keep a thesaurus handy when writing code. If the function/object/variable name isn't right, it makes the code less manageable in the long run.
In the end, they're both going to be irrelevant. GNOME shell is too late, and doing it their own way, going further away from what most people want in a desktop, and Unity is already outdated when you compare it to what's happening in the tablet world.
So a pox on both their houses. They sort of deserve each other.
There's no real value to the [select * political_party where political_party='p0wned by corporations' or elected >=1960].. That hasn't stopped people voting for them.
So essentially you're saying there is no value to any political party whatsoever as 100% of them fit your query. Voting is our right and our duty therefore we must vote for someone. Whom would you possibly vote for using your theory that *all* political parties have no value?
I'm sure you can find at least one political party that has never been in power (never mind the "since 1960" part), and hasn't had a chance to get its nose into the trough ...
This is a stupid article. Read through TFA and you'll see they didn't do this at all. They tightened up the regulations with regard to tweet semantics to protect the core Twitter experience across multiple third-party apps.
I call shenanigans. If the "core Twitter experience" is so great, they wouldn't have to protect it - anything that broke it would die a painful, lonely, ugly death, since people wouldn't use it.
It's the same as Canonical changing the amazon affiliate id in the Banshee music player - another money-loser getting ready to "monetize".the end user.
There's no real value to the [select * political_party where political_party='p0wned by corporations' or elected >=1960].. That hasn't stopped people voting for them.
Example - when you say:
However, if we both had 42 apples and 13 oranges, then the difference between our possessions would be NONE.
You are totally wrong. Our possessions are completely different. If I take and eat one of my apples, you still have 42 apples. YOUR 42 apples are not MY 42 apples - each one is completely different. The point is that the "quantity" is a human concept, it is not something that the universe, or the apple, is "aware of". If you really believe there is no difference, then you shouldn't mind us starting with the same AMOUNT of money, movie, going to the movies and paying both tickets with YOUR money - after all, there is no difference between our money, so paying my ticket with your money should be identical to paying my ticket with my own money.
The universe doesn't "do math".
Similarly, while you can divide them into 1, 2, 3, 4 portions (you'll need a knife for 3 portions, obviously), you can't divide them into zero portions.
And while you can compare 1 apple and one orange, and say "these are not the same", try doing that with no apples and no oranges. All of a sudden, do apples compare equal to oranges? After all, the number of calories in zero apples is the same as the number of calories in zero oranges, they don't taste any different, or weigh any different, or even look any different. Or are they still unequal?
Zero is purely a mathematical construct, with no physical analogue. Even nature abhors a vacuum.
theorizes that shifts in biologic rhythms could trigger harmful inflammatory or metabolic changes at the cellular level, to which these individuals may be more susceptible."
...OR "Shit shit shit shit I'm late for work I'm gonna be fired again!" gets to you ...
Everytime I read one of these "studies" that "shows" stuff, I can't help but think that the researcher is a press whore or is just trying to get more funding by throwing out a ridiculously convoluted "theory" to explain a simple observation. After all, the "people get stressed out when they're late for work" hypothesis doesn't get you as many grants.
One fall Saturday night, I jokingly "reminded" my friend to turn his clock forward because of the time change - I said "Remember, fall forward, spring back". I figured his wife would catch the joke and correct him, and move the clock back an hour. Instead, he showed up for the 6AM restaurant opening time at 4 in the morning - which meant he must have gotten up at 2:30 AM ...
So he's sitting in the mall parking lot all by himself, wondering where everyone is, when the police pull up to find out why some black guy is just sitting there in his car in the middle of the night.
Maybe I can apply for a grant for stress caused by being early for work? I could get an ig-nobel.
lose his job because of a new requirement that his current position now needed a degree
That makes no sense. If they already had employees who they knew were doing a good job, then what is the point of such a requirement (or at least firing existing workers who they know know what they are doing)?
Same story as usual - office politics. His boss wanted to get rid of him to free up the slot so he could hire one of his buddies from outside the company.
Let me guess - you were trying for the first anti-grammar-nazi-nazi-spelling-nazi-troll-post of the day?
I guess we should add a spelling nazi to the list of requirements. Maybe if we had had one back in the day, we wouldn't be stuck with HTTP-REFERER instead of HTTP-REFERRER.
Look at the way we invented the number zero. There's no ready analog in the natural world. We can point out the first, second, third, ... apples in a row, but not the zeroeth one, and say "that is apple number zero".
It's one reason we don't use roman numerals for math - no zero (they wrote nullus instead) - and why it was replaced with hindu-arabic numbers.
Even back when we were learning to count on our fingers, we used numbers (or digits) to communicate more than just an abstract concept - we instinctively associate numbers with the objects they represent when we communicate with math. X dollars @ YY.ZZ per hour for an hourly wage, for example. We expect to be paid in dollars, not the abstract number behind it (though fiat currency and the fed are doing their best to change that :-)
A space elevator for the moon would only require the same tensile strength as kevlar, and one for Mars would be doable at the limits of current technology if it weren't for Phobos getting in the way every 8 hours..
So the best way to get an Earth space elevator (or anything else) is to get your materials from the moon, from the lunar space elevator, rather than boosting them up Earth's gravity well.
A fine piece of social engineering.
We need some grammar nazis in the admissions offices.
But is it lawyer proof?
No. Everyone knows the three species most likely to survive an all-out nuclear exchange are cockroaches, rats, and a few humans. Lawyers are covered by the first 2. You and I, on the other hand, get to draw for the short straw.
People would still be able to do both ad-hoc networks, wireless meshes, and sneakernet, and many locations would still have enough infrastructure left to provide lots of hosting for survivors.
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One of the things that seems to be happening here is that USA Federal case law is beginning to define the difference between privacy, with its constitutional protections, and anonymity, which for all practical purposes only came into existence with the rise of the Internet. That is, before the Internet, there really was no effective way to publish anything to a large audience without leaving a trail that would expose the author's identity to anyone who cared to do the leg work.
I'm sorry, but that is a total falsehood. Amonymous publishing was part and parcel of political movements for centuries. Pamphleteers didn't always sign their names, as noted here
Anonymous pamphleteering was part of the American Revolution. The same way that samizdat was part of the fall of Soviet Russia.
Second, it is included as part of the session information as a security measure. If someone attempts to connect to my site using a session (which entails not having to type his or her username and password to log in every time), the site matches the session ID against the IP address also to make sure the user is connecting via that session from the same address. If it is a different address, that is an indication that someone may be trying to hijack someone else's session and it redirects back to the login page.
You should drop the IP check. Laptop users who suspend or hibernate will hate you for that, as will anyone who goes through a round-robin set of IP addresses.
Use https if you're that worried about it.
Since you're redirecting if the IP doesn't match, if someone wanted to steal the user credentials, they'd just serve them up a copy of your login page at some random point, then redirect to your real login page. No need to steal a session when you've already trained people to have to log in at random times because their IP has changed.
I just like how computers in general seem to be packed with either explosives or 5 megawatts of power in pretty much every sci-fi movie. Star Trek is one of the worst offenders for this. "Oh no, the computer is overloaded! *bzzzt, boom*" If I blew up a PC everytime it got stuck in a logic loop I'd be typing with hooks by now.
Maybe they had an even more advanced version of those Sony inflammable laptop batteries?