The Dream was the reason that Google contracted the Nexus -- The Dream was underpowered even when it was released. Are you surprised that it can't handle an upgrade?
Whether your hardware is supported by software or not has nothing to do with fragmentation of Linux. In fact, there is only one display / window system in serious use on desktop Linux (X.org). The display manager handles your monitor. Nothing else in the stack really matters.
I really suspect that Google's frantic pace on Android -- what the article says in increasing the rate of obsolescence (Yeah, I RTFA: bad slashdotter!) -- will push phone makers to deploy more generic Android images, meaning the carriers can update faster. Let's be honest: the carriers probably want that new version out more than the phone manufacturer, who is already developing new phones to sell.
I see it as the same kind of pressure that FOSS puts on OEMs to contribute patches back. Who wants to try to keep your own patch set?
From the A3P website (in your sig) under Program > Immigration:
If current demographic trends persist, European-Americans will become a minority in America in only a few decades time. The American Third Position will not allow this to happen.
Wow. Just wow. What, are they scared of the non-whites? I like the school voucher concept they support and illegal immigration should be dealt with somehow, but "not allowing" non-Europeans to become a majority? You've got to be kidding, right? How can you support a party like that?
I don't get how Canada can be in the top three while Thailand isn't Thailand basically has the same views on copyright as China and Russia do, but Canadians pay a "copyright tax" on all blank media, which goes to the media industries. The media industries are being paid. What's the problem. (I'm not Canadian.)
Maybe he was trying to make a point that "Windows" is a general word and not able to be trademarked, whereas "Microsoft Windows" is trademarked. Either that or he needs better reading comprehension. Not really sure.
I'd argue that Windows 3.0 wasn't nearly as important as 3.11.
I like to remind remind the "Linux desktop sucks!" folks that Windows 3.0 is 20 year old, NextStep 2.0 (That's OS X to you) is the same age, but the 1.0 releases of GNOME and KDE were but 11 and 12 years ago, respectively. Although Linux (the kernel) is almost 20 years old, the Free desktop isn't even a teenager yet.
I understand people getting upset: I don't get the governments accusing Google. Governments around the world have repeatedly argued in court that people communicating via cordless phone, e-mail, and even cell phone have no expectation of privacy so no warrant is required. How is an unsecured network or a broadcast SSID any different? It's kind of shitty to turn around and declare the opposite of what you just argued when you don't like what's going on.
You're right: it isn't the same thing. VP8 i9s a video codec, while WebM is a video codec (VP8) plus audio codec (Vorbis) plus container (modified Matroska). If IE is going to support VP8 if the codec is installed, I would assume that it will also support the container if it's installed and the audio codec if it's there. Why else would IE devs go to the trouble?
I watched the video introduction, and do you know what I thought about Powerpoint files? She e-mailed a file to herself so that she could work at home?!? What? Really?
Come on. This isn't the 90s anymore. MS should at least have promoted SkyDrive, or if they wanted to promote in-email editing, said that she was working with a frie... never mind. That second one would be stupid, too. There's no reason to attach a file so you or someone else can edit it at home. In short, I think the new Office-for-attachments-in-Hotmail feature should have been rethought.
I liked the photo gallery instead of attachments, though. I liked it even better when Naver / Daum were doing it years ago in Korea. Why is it taking everyone else so long to get that idea implemented? 90% of attachments should just be hosted somewhere.
I don't use Hotmail -- I use GMail, and I can't figure out why Google won't let me "attach" (insert a link to) a Picasaweb photo or album from within the GMail compose window, why I can't do something similar with Docs, or why all my GMail attachments don't automatically appear in those services instead of me having to download the attachments and immediately upload them again or import them. If you're going to be a company going all hosted and "cloudy," then go all the way. Don't keep one foot in the past when it just makes stuff more difficult.
The IB program generally operates fairly autonomously inside another school. Exams are graded in Switzerland to their standards. I went 25 years ago, though, so I can't give you too many current details contact the schools near you for details.
The easy way? IB schools. They are headquartered in Switzerland. Mission statement:
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
My last two years of HS, my teachers were all college professors, many were Ph.D. candidates in their subjects, and the curriculum stressed primary sources and thought. We even had a class called the Theory of Knowledge to teach logic and critical thinking.
Most of the founding fathers were properly called "deists," meaning that they believed in a god, but that he didn't interfere in any way in normal life. Although they believed in a god, the deists were functionally no different than agnostics.
The answer? School vouchers, which righties use to send their kids to right-leaning schools and lefties use to send their kids to left-leaning schools. The poor stay home and homeschool to get the cash.
If you were governor, that might work, but I don't favor government-commissioned textbooks. That's basically what's going on in Texas right now in an indirect way.
That's why my HS history teacher used primary sources wherever possible, taught us to identify and understand the bias in them, and never marked us down for unpopular opinions we could back up with sources. I propose more schools follow that model. International Baccalaureate in the 80s, by the way.
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The Dream was the reason that Google contracted the Nexus -- The Dream was underpowered even when it was released. Are you surprised that it can't handle an upgrade?
Whether your hardware is supported by software or not has nothing to do with fragmentation of Linux. In fact, there is only one display / window system in serious use on desktop Linux (X.org). The display manager handles your monitor. Nothing else in the stack really matters.
I really suspect that Google's frantic pace on Android -- what the article says in increasing the rate of obsolescence (Yeah, I RTFA: bad slashdotter!) -- will push phone makers to deploy more generic Android images, meaning the carriers can update faster. Let's be honest: the carriers probably want that new version out more than the phone manufacturer, who is already developing new phones to sell.
I see it as the same kind of pressure that FOSS puts on OEMs to contribute patches back. Who wants to try to keep your own patch set?
From the A3P website (in your sig) under Program > Immigration:
If current demographic trends persist, European-Americans will become a minority in America in only a few decades time. The American Third Position will not allow this to happen.
Wow. Just wow. What, are they scared of the non-whites? I like the school voucher concept they support and illegal immigration should be dealt with somehow, but "not allowing" non-Europeans to become a majority? You've got to be kidding, right? How can you support a party like that?
Tens of millions Thais are online. They're just writing in Thai on Thai sites.
I don't get how Canada can be in the top three while Thailand isn't Thailand basically has the same views on copyright as China and Russia do, but Canadians pay a "copyright tax" on all blank media, which goes to the media industries. The media industries are being paid. What's the problem. (I'm not Canadian.)
I didn't say that it was a good point.
Maybe he was trying to make a point that "Windows" is a general word and not able to be trademarked, whereas "Microsoft Windows" is trademarked. Either that or he needs better reading comprehension. Not really sure.
Don't forget multitasking, at the time, was seen as a "power user" option only.
Funny how the phone business is repeating history.
I'd argue that Windows 3.0 wasn't nearly as important as 3.11.
I like to remind remind the "Linux desktop sucks!" folks that Windows 3.0 is 20 year old, NextStep 2.0 (That's OS X to you) is the same age, but the 1.0 releases of GNOME and KDE were but 11 and 12 years ago, respectively. Although Linux (the kernel) is almost 20 years old, the Free desktop isn't even a teenager yet.
I understand people getting upset: I don't get the governments accusing Google. Governments around the world have repeatedly argued in court that people communicating via cordless phone, e-mail, and even cell phone have no expectation of privacy so no warrant is required. How is an unsecured network or a broadcast SSID any different? It's kind of shitty to turn around and declare the opposite of what you just argued when you don't like what's going on.
You're right: it isn't the same thing. VP8 i9s a video codec, while WebM is a video codec (VP8) plus audio codec (Vorbis) plus container (modified Matroska). If IE is going to support VP8 if the codec is installed, I would assume that it will also support the container if it's installed and the audio codec if it's there. Why else would IE devs go to the trouble?
Flash will support WebM.
Honestly, you've got On2 on the side supporting VP8 and X264 on the of h.264. Neither side seems to be free of conflict of interest.
There are now multiple implementations of the federated server protocol, and Google is releasing client APIs so that anyone could write a client.
Umm. I just imported an OOWriter doc. Are you using the incomplete, new interface or something?
Win and Mac, yes. Linux, no.
I watched the video introduction, and do you know what I thought about Powerpoint files? She e-mailed a file to herself so that she could work at home?!? What? Really?
Come on. This isn't the 90s anymore. MS should at least have promoted SkyDrive, or if they wanted to promote in-email editing, said that she was working with a frie ... never mind. That second one would be stupid, too. There's no reason to attach a file so you or someone else can edit it at home. In short, I think the new Office-for-attachments-in-Hotmail feature should have been rethought.
I liked the photo gallery instead of attachments, though. I liked it even better when Naver / Daum were doing it years ago in Korea. Why is it taking everyone else so long to get that idea implemented? 90% of attachments should just be hosted somewhere.
I don't use Hotmail -- I use GMail, and I can't figure out why Google won't let me "attach" (insert a link to) a Picasaweb photo or album from within the GMail compose window, why I can't do something similar with Docs, or why all my GMail attachments don't automatically appear in those services instead of me having to download the attachments and immediately upload them again or import them. If you're going to be a company going all hosted and "cloudy," then go all the way. Don't keep one foot in the past when it just makes stuff more difficult.
The IB program generally operates fairly autonomously inside another school. Exams are graded in Switzerland to their standards. I went 25 years ago, though, so I can't give you too many current details contact the schools near you for details.
The easy way? IB schools. They are headquartered in Switzerland. Mission statement:
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
My last two years of HS, my teachers were all college professors, many were Ph.D. candidates in their subjects, and the curriculum stressed primary sources and thought. We even had a class called the Theory of Knowledge to teach logic and critical thinking.
Terrifying.
Most of the founding fathers were properly called "deists," meaning that they believed in a god, but that he didn't interfere in any way in normal life. Although they believed in a god, the deists were functionally no different than agnostics.
The answer? School vouchers, which righties use to send their kids to right-leaning schools and lefties use to send their kids to left-leaning schools. The poor stay home and homeschool to get the cash.
Signed,
Ayn Rand
If you were governor, that might work, but I don't favor government-commissioned textbooks. That's basically what's going on in Texas right now in an indirect way.
That's why my HS history teacher used primary sources wherever possible, taught us to identify and understand the bias in them, and never marked us down for unpopular opinions we could back up with sources. I propose more schools follow that model. International Baccalaureate in the 80s, by the way.