Totally agree with you about the keyboard. I really wish I could use it on a PC. I have the feeling that it would be nearly impossible to replicate today, just by the nature of materials and quality that were probably involved in making them. The closest I've found that I've liked is the overly expensive Das Keyboard.
I don't think Razor qt is ready for distro based off it. I use it on Gentoo and it's mostly functional, although rough around the edges in spots. For instance there's no feedback when clicking on icons, no volume control and there isn't a theme manager hooked into the gui. Aside from click feedback I really wish there was a way to bring up a run command dialog. I'm not sure what the development pace is, but I'm sure most of this stuff will be cleaned up within the next release or two.
He's an ass, and he's a racist, but I fail to see how this is "inciting racial hatred". Doesn't "incite" refer to encouraging an action? Like a riot, or lets do bad things to some people or something like that?
I'm not sympathetic towards him either but unfortunately being a lowlife doesn't qualify for jail.
Kids restrict where you can direct your income even if you spend just as much. For instance there are a lot of regular things required to survive like food, medicine, daycare etc that you probably don't have much choice in (not marketable in a facebook way I would think). Not even addressing the possibility of saving for college, even something mundane like driving a kid to soccer practice requires both time and money. With more of both a person might be looser with income.
c) What is the point? Having thousands of "friends" to cover up I am anti-social?
Er... actually that would be exactly the reason. Part of being social for most people is about bullshit and appearances. You sound like you'd be the sort of employee who would properly do his job most of the time, and not be so concerned with "looking like a hard worker". Depending on what you're employer (or who's hiring) wants, you may or may not fit into that work environment, but if they're looking for facebook stuff it's likely you wouldn't.
The only reason that streaming services haven't completely phased out Blu-rays is the fact that a majority of the consumers don't have a fast and reliable Internet connection. Once such connections become ubiquitous, most of the titles owned by consumers would probably end up being stored in the cloud.
Aren't we already supposed to be in the time of "ubiquitous" high speed internet access? Besides which as much as they may claim that streaming is just as good, it's usually the case that most consumers don't have a good enough connection to receive bluray quality (even if they have high speed access). Assuming you care about that.
Bluray makes some things look great, but it's not that much better than DVD in many cases. Not even counting bluray releases that are crap transfers. The main reason I stick to disk for things (I like enough to purchase) is due to the fact that I can watch them whenever I want. In particular when my internet connection goes down I can at least still watch something if that's what I felt like doing. Considering my 1) router can break 2) cable modem stops working 3) comcast doesn't work 4) netflix is down, is a lot more to go wrong than player going into my TV. Not to mention that all those examples of internet related problems (comcast in particular) happen quite often, but my TV setup hasn't failed me.
"The cloud" isn't at the level of reliability I'd like, nor is it at a level of trust I believe in.
I'm guessing the cash injection from Microsoft came with the stipulation they don't support android. I haven't heard about anyone else receiving money from MS, so this is probably a situation specific to Nokia.
He's 14 and running home to mommy because a book had naughty words in it..
I didn't see that in either summary. It's quite possible the parent asked the kid what they were doing in school, the kid mentioned the teacher reading a book to them, parent had never heard of the book so checked one out, then went into a tirade over it. Sounds like a lot of work, but the parent seems anal to begin with and likely one of the types that looks for reasons to get offended.
I'm glad video is standardizing, but I'm wondering about audio (ala HTML5 audio tag). My understanding is that ogg and mp3 are supported. Are we stuck with the annoying ogg/mp3 combo, is firefox going to adopt this stance for mp3 as well (at least the patent expirations are within sight and any device that supports h264 pretty much supports mp3) or is AAC going to become an option for audio now?
This sounds a lot like the law that was put into place in Britain (or maybe they were just considering it, I can't recall), where the "presumed age" of imaginary characters didn't matter, the likeness to being a child is all that does. Considering anime/manga styles, the difference between a 40 year old woman and a 14 year old girl may only be a matter of which one is wearing a school uniform. Never mind trying to class something like a 300 year old vampire that was bitten at12 years of age when they gained immortality. A lot of people saw how trying to enforce law over fantasy was going to be a big mess, and sure enough it is. Laws are meant to deal with reality, and can't cope with imaginary scenarios. The easy way is of course to just prosecute everyone as criminals. Not surprising that's usually the course taken these days.
One of my favorite science fiction books I picked up purely by chance at a used book store: White Wing by Gordon Kendall. A friend of mine later picked it up off my shelf, read it, and also agreed that it was a surprisingly good book.
Like others have stated, I wouldn't even try to do this. That said, if I were going to do this, I'd try installing an OS on a usb drive and boot from there. I'm not sure if Windows supports that, but Linux and BSD can. That also requires you can specify the boot device in the BIOS.
I don't think anything is as bad as sendmail, but I'm assuming he's referring to some rather obtuse configuration options in httpd.conf. The first thing that comes to mind are the psudo html tag blocks, that are nothing like anything else in httpd.conf. I think another problem is that every apache install I've seen (that I didn't set up myself) was basically the default config with every module enabled and stuff tossed in or commented out in a spaghetti clusterfuck.
I was one of the people who stood up and said "Not so fast, everyone - it's mandated that it be enabled by default, but there's nothing to say you can't customise it or disable it"
I think that was one of the points to the people where crying foul. Sure you can customize it or disable it... FOR NOW. Down the road this might not be true once they have their foot in the door. We're down the road now, and lo and behold devices appear where EUFI can't be disabled. Another example for us to keep in mind when we label people/organizations like the EFF as "too paranoid".
What exactly does Marshmallow Fluff has to do with this? Is this some granular currency measurement that relates to libraries of congress? This is also based off of arbitrary pricing off Amazon. There is a LOT of stuff worth less than a Used Ethernet Cable by that measure. What's the sample size anyway? If 2 people do this, is that considered "enough"? I can get two people to sacrifice their privacy for free by sticking a pop up window in front of them saying "naked chicks if you click here". This is non news really, and you can get people to sacrifice their privacy for far less than $20, especially if you give it to them in gas rebates.
While I completely agree with you, this requires many if not most people to basically admit that they lack the skills to drive effectively, for the speeds and conditions many of them drive at. Especially in context of the capabilities of their vehicle. If we really want to decide who should get insurance reductions, I'd like to see people navigate a coned course with their car in a time event - not necessarily in the aggressive "racing" sense of a course, but just to determine how well people can break and understand where their car is in relation to the road.
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Damn, that's a great application. I've heard of it but never given it a shot before. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Yeah, non rectangular boundaries doesn't sound like an improvement. It just sounds like it's making things harder to click. You should already have a good indication if something is going to run by the icon highlighting with a mouse hover, so I'm not sure why reducing the click area is a benefit.
I've been ok with the KDE4 changes (not ecstatic but ok with them), but I haven't been happy with dolphin. For some reason I've found it very clunky. I've tried various settings, but nothing seems to work better for me either. Multi column view seemed promising but the implementation is rather bad. If you have a file with a very long name, the column can stretch all the way across your screen and you have to manually scroll back to click on the next directory. Directories aren't highlighted either, so you have no idea what directory a column is actually shown. (that seems very basic mistake that hasn't been corrected).
Considering all the different implementations and ideas floating around in file managers, I'm surprised that dolphin hasn't implemented some of the better ones... well, better.
Anybody got a car analogy or something which might put these numbers into a little better perspective for those of us who don't work on scales like this?
Space is like a car so big that you can't comprehend it.
Those are almost different issues though aren't they? Copying music and movies is already illegal. This is like giving a cop an AK47 and telling him to open fire on a crowded street every time there's a purse snatching, instead of having him do his job in a reasonable manner.
This is going to be the deal breaker for me. I'm a bit annoyed that I didn't get a PS3 with PS2 compatibility, but then again I didn't expect that to be removed either, and it was more than I wanted to spend when released. Now I've got a PS2 and a PS3 on my shelf. Aside from Valkyria Chronicles, all the other games I have for the PS3 are only ok at best. My library of games I LOVE for the PS2 is a fair size, and it seems more and more likely that it will be bigger than the list of must have games for the PS3 and PS4 combined. If I had to choose between them, I'd stick with the 2.
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True. The only way I knew that myself is due to the time stamp where I put the installer...
Totally agree with you about the keyboard. I really wish I could use it on a PC. I have the feeling that it would be nearly impossible to replicate today, just by the nature of materials and quality that were probably involved in making them. The closest I've found that I've liked is the overly expensive Das Keyboard.
Either way I think Mozilla jumped the gun a little bit, this update must have just come out.
Try late Febuary.
I don't think Razor qt is ready for distro based off it. I use it on Gentoo and it's mostly functional, although rough around the edges in spots. For instance there's no feedback when clicking on icons, no volume control and there isn't a theme manager hooked into the gui. Aside from click feedback I really wish there was a way to bring up a run command dialog. I'm not sure what the development pace is, but I'm sure most of this stuff will be cleaned up within the next release or two.
Any bets on whether a "guy around me" app would have raised any inkling of similar outcry?
If it had Bukkake in the title, then maybe.
On the bright side it may be possible for some people to actually have 5 years experience when this first comes out, just as recruiters demand.
He's an ass, and he's a racist, but I fail to see how this is "inciting racial hatred". Doesn't "incite" refer to encouraging an action? Like a riot, or lets do bad things to some people or something like that?
I'm not sympathetic towards him either but unfortunately being a lowlife doesn't qualify for jail.
Kids restrict where you can direct your income even if you spend just as much. For instance there are a lot of regular things required to survive like food, medicine, daycare etc that you probably don't have much choice in (not marketable in a facebook way I would think). Not even addressing the possibility of saving for college, even something mundane like driving a kid to soccer practice requires both time and money. With more of both a person might be looser with income.
c) What is the point? Having thousands of "friends" to cover up I am anti-social?
Er... actually that would be exactly the reason. Part of being social for most people is about bullshit and appearances. You sound like you'd be the sort of employee who would properly do his job most of the time, and not be so concerned with "looking like a hard worker". Depending on what you're employer (or who's hiring) wants, you may or may not fit into that work environment, but if they're looking for facebook stuff it's likely you wouldn't.
The only reason that streaming services haven't completely phased out Blu-rays is the fact that a majority of the consumers don't have a fast and reliable Internet connection. Once such connections become ubiquitous, most of the titles owned by consumers would probably end up being stored in the cloud.
Aren't we already supposed to be in the time of "ubiquitous" high speed internet access? Besides which as much as they may claim that streaming is just as good, it's usually the case that most consumers don't have a good enough connection to receive bluray quality (even if they have high speed access). Assuming you care about that.
Bluray makes some things look great, but it's not that much better than DVD in many cases. Not even counting bluray releases that are crap transfers. The main reason I stick to disk for things (I like enough to purchase) is due to the fact that I can watch them whenever I want. In particular when my internet connection goes down I can at least still watch something if that's what I felt like doing. Considering my 1) router can break 2) cable modem stops working 3) comcast doesn't work 4) netflix is down, is a lot more to go wrong than player going into my TV. Not to mention that all those examples of internet related problems (comcast in particular) happen quite often, but my TV setup hasn't failed me.
"The cloud" isn't at the level of reliability I'd like, nor is it at a level of trust I believe in.
I'm guessing the cash injection from Microsoft came with the stipulation they don't support android. I haven't heard about anyone else receiving money from MS, so this is probably a situation specific to Nokia.
Bet this kid is popular.
He's 14 and running home to mommy because a book had naughty words in it..
I didn't see that in either summary. It's quite possible the parent asked the kid what they were doing in school, the kid mentioned the teacher reading a book to them, parent had never heard of the book so checked one out, then went into a tirade over it. Sounds like a lot of work, but the parent seems anal to begin with and likely one of the types that looks for reasons to get offended.
I'm glad video is standardizing, but I'm wondering about audio (ala HTML5 audio tag). My understanding is that ogg and mp3 are supported. Are we stuck with the annoying ogg/mp3 combo, is firefox going to adopt this stance for mp3 as well (at least the patent expirations are within sight and any device that supports h264 pretty much supports mp3) or is AAC going to become an option for audio now?
This sounds a lot like the law that was put into place in Britain (or maybe they were just considering it, I can't recall), where the "presumed age" of imaginary characters didn't matter, the likeness to being a child is all that does. Considering anime/manga styles, the difference between a 40 year old woman and a 14 year old girl may only be a matter of which one is wearing a school uniform. Never mind trying to class something like a 300 year old vampire that was bitten at12 years of age when they gained immortality. A lot of people saw how trying to enforce law over fantasy was going to be a big mess, and sure enough it is. Laws are meant to deal with reality, and can't cope with imaginary scenarios. The easy way is of course to just prosecute everyone as criminals. Not surprising that's usually the course taken these days.
One of my favorite science fiction books I picked up purely by chance at a used book store: White Wing by Gordon Kendall. A friend of mine later picked it up off my shelf, read it, and also agreed that it was a surprisingly good book.
Like others have stated, I wouldn't even try to do this. That said, if I were going to do this, I'd try installing an OS on a usb drive and boot from there. I'm not sure if Windows supports that, but Linux and BSD can. That also requires you can specify the boot device in the BIOS.
I don't think anything is as bad as sendmail, but I'm assuming he's referring to some rather obtuse configuration options in httpd.conf. The first thing that comes to mind are the psudo html tag blocks, that are nothing like anything else in httpd.conf. I think another problem is that every apache install I've seen (that I didn't set up myself) was basically the default config with every module enabled and stuff tossed in or commented out in a spaghetti clusterfuck.
I was one of the people who stood up and said "Not so fast, everyone - it's mandated that it be enabled by default, but there's nothing to say you can't customise it or disable it"
I think that was one of the points to the people where crying foul. Sure you can customize it or disable it... FOR NOW. Down the road this might not be true once they have their foot in the door. We're down the road now, and lo and behold devices appear where EUFI can't be disabled. Another example for us to keep in mind when we label people/organizations like the EFF as "too paranoid".
What exactly does Marshmallow Fluff has to do with this? Is this some granular currency measurement that relates to libraries of congress? This is also based off of arbitrary pricing off Amazon. There is a LOT of stuff worth less than a Used Ethernet Cable by that measure. What's the sample size anyway? If 2 people do this, is that considered "enough"? I can get two people to sacrifice their privacy for free by sticking a pop up window in front of them saying "naked chicks if you click here". This is non news really, and you can get people to sacrifice their privacy for far less than $20, especially if you give it to them in gas rebates.
While I completely agree with you, this requires many if not most people to basically admit that they lack the skills to drive effectively, for the speeds and conditions many of them drive at. Especially in context of the capabilities of their vehicle. If we really want to decide who should get insurance reductions, I'd like to see people navigate a coned course with their car in a time event - not necessarily in the aggressive "racing" sense of a course, but just to determine how well people can break and understand where their car is in relation to the road.
Damn, that's a great application. I've heard of it but never given it a shot before. Thanks for the suggestion!
Yeah, non rectangular boundaries doesn't sound like an improvement. It just sounds like it's making things harder to click. You should already have a good indication if something is going to run by the icon highlighting with a mouse hover, so I'm not sure why reducing the click area is a benefit.
I've been ok with the KDE4 changes (not ecstatic but ok with them), but I haven't been happy with dolphin. For some reason I've found it very clunky. I've tried various settings, but nothing seems to work better for me either. Multi column view seemed promising but the implementation is rather bad. If you have a file with a very long name, the column can stretch all the way across your screen and you have to manually scroll back to click on the next directory. Directories aren't highlighted either, so you have no idea what directory a column is actually shown. (that seems very basic mistake that hasn't been corrected).
Considering all the different implementations and ideas floating around in file managers, I'm surprised that dolphin hasn't implemented some of the better ones... well, better.
Anybody got a car analogy or something which might put these numbers into a little better perspective for those of us who don't work on scales like this?
Space is like a car so big that you can't comprehend it.
Those are almost different issues though aren't they? Copying music and movies is already illegal. This is like giving a cop an AK47 and telling him to open fire on a crowded street every time there's a purse snatching, instead of having him do his job in a reasonable manner.
I would add to that restore PS2 compatibility.
This is going to be the deal breaker for me. I'm a bit annoyed that I didn't get a PS3 with PS2 compatibility, but then again I didn't expect that to be removed either, and it was more than I wanted to spend when released. Now I've got a PS2 and a PS3 on my shelf. Aside from Valkyria Chronicles, all the other games I have for the PS3 are only ok at best. My library of games I LOVE for the PS2 is a fair size, and it seems more and more likely that it will be bigger than the list of must have games for the PS3 and PS4 combined. If I had to choose between them, I'd stick with the 2.