Well, you're lucky the U.S. doesn't have one official textbook per subject per grade for all schools, approved by the government. You should see the Republic of Korea's history textbook. Wow.
I'm going to start teaching in Texas in August. Luckily, it's math, and there's not much political in that subject. I'm glad I'm not teaching science.
If you like following Blender Open Movies, then you should know about The Morevna Project, a traditional animation project which uses Synfig in addition to Blender. It's a sci-fi (or is that SyFy?) version of a Russian fairy tale. It's much longer than the Blender movies, and is intended to be a real story, not a tech demo. Download preview video. YouTube version
Call me when Diaspora has released something. They claim to have code, but they've forgotten that open source means "release early, release often" in Romulan. Skip that, even if they release code, still don't call me if it's P2P (as I understand is their plan) since
No normal person wants to set up a node on his computer; and
Social networks need to have access to information even when your computer is off.
I asked the devs over at OneSocialWeb (which have an actual, working product) if they had tried to contact Diaspora, but it appears the Diaspora devs want to do their own thing based on P2P and GPG, not specifications like ActivityStrea.ms, SocialNet, or PortableContacts. [1]
The free, personal accounts serve ads -- it's how they support the service -- but the paid-for version (and the free, education and non-profit ones) don't serve ads, though you could turn ads on if you wanted to. Why a business would do that, I have no idea, but I guess Google figures someone will, and that's another penny in the coffer.
Why would Google mine the data when it doesn't serve ads on Premier Apps (that's the kind businesses use, FYI) unless the customer specifically requests it? I've read the ToS, and it doesn't mention mining data AFAICT.
7.1 Obligations. Each party will: (a) protect the other party’s Confidential Information with the same standard of care it uses to protect its own Confidential Information; and (b) not disclose the Confidential Information, except to affiliates, employees and agents who need to know it and who have agreed in writing to keep it confidential. Each party (and any affiliates, employees and agents to whom it has disclosed Confidential Information) may use Confidential Information only to exercise rights and fulfill obligations under this Agreement, while using reasonable care to protect it. Each party is responsible for any actions of its affiliates, employees and agents in violation of this Section. ...
8.1 Intellectual Property Rights. Except as expressly set forth herein, this Agreement does not grant either party any rights, implied or otherwise, to the other’s content or any of the other’s intellectual property. As between the parties, Customer owns all Intellectual Property Rights in Customer Data, and Google owns all Intellectual Property Rights in the Services.
Your second point is very good, but Ubuntu has always been about opinionated choices. When 4.10 came out, it was decided to forgo the normal Linux 5 CD installation's 10 text editors, four word processors, and three browsers (practically required in the early 2000s because some apps worked for some things and not for others) and instead install just one type of each application on one CD. In short, having no default totally goes against their mission.
The installer always gives you the option to go advanced and choose your own partition setup and file systems.
That is the bait-and-switch that upsets me. Patents are granted because they are narrow, but are immediately enforced by businesses and courts as broadly as possible. HTC is claiming Apple violates 7 of 14 claims on one patent, for instance. The patent can be narrow overall, but the claims broad, and infringement is based on the claims, not the overall patent, right? Can someone who has a good number of patents tell me why that is?
Start with TinyCore Linux, add only the parts you want (by default, it comes only with a WM, a dock, and a control panel), and have exactly the OS you desire. It's trivially easy to modify, boots in about 3 seconds on my Intel Classmate off an SD card, runs entirely in memory, and starts at 10MB.
Agreed. How is adding one more project helping? Sit down with the other projects and agree to follow the same specifications: XMPP for chat; OpenID and OAuth for identification, ActivityStrea.ms for status and posts; etc. They don't have to be exactly these, but whatever they are, at least all get on the same page. Oh, and allow federation between servers on different projects.
I believe this is why the "new Facebook" needs to go beyond where FB is now and have identity integrated into browsers (of course with multiple profiles available and an anonymous mode). If average people were able to use one account to connect to and comment on any webstie (OpenAuth powered) without needing to create an account or enter OpenID URLs, there would be incentive to switch. If Moz and Goog put this in their browsers, you would have 30% coverage out of the gate.
Someone pointed out to me that creating a Facebook app to export photos, blogs, friends, and the rest to a new social network might be a possibility. I don't know if Facebook's policies allow them to deny such an app, but I would guess that doing so would fall pretty clearly into anti-competitive territory. If all the competing services exposed the same API, the app would only need to be written once.
P2P is a unnecessary. Federated servers would be good enough. Right now, you can set up your own Jabber server and talk to GTalk users, so people who want independence can have it, but the people who aren't familiar with computers can just get a Google account.
Federation (S2S) is a win for everyone. P2P is much more difficult to create and has few benefits.
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Well, you're lucky the U.S. doesn't have one official textbook per subject per grade for all schools, approved by the government. You should see the Republic of Korea's history textbook. Wow.
I'm going to start teaching in Texas in August. Luckily, it's math, and there's not much political in that subject. I'm glad I'm not teaching science.
So ... Diaspora is opposed to S2S and going to be P2P, but they offer hosting. Hmm. I don't get it. Good luck to them, though.
If you like following Blender Open Movies, then you should know about The Morevna Project, a traditional animation project which uses Synfig in addition to Blender. It's a sci-fi (or is that SyFy?) version of a Russian fairy tale. It's much longer than the Blender movies, and is intended to be a real story, not a tech demo. Download preview video. YouTube version
Unless you start eating a ripe one -- then it tastes and smells like rotten meat.
Apparently, Zuck ended up paying $65M, so I don't think getting laughed out of court is accurate.
Call me when Diaspora has released something. They claim to have code, but they've forgotten that open source means "release early, release often" in Romulan. Skip that, even if they release code, still don't call me if it's P2P (as I understand is their plan) since
I asked the devs over at OneSocialWeb (which have an actual, working product) if they had tried to contact Diaspora, but it appears the Diaspora devs want to do their own thing based on P2P and GPG, not specifications like ActivityStrea.ms, SocialNet, or PortableContacts. [1]
The free, personal accounts serve ads -- it's how they support the service -- but the paid-for version (and the free, education and non-profit ones) don't serve ads, though you could turn ads on if you wanted to. Why a business would do that, I have no idea, but I guess Google figures someone will, and that's another penny in the coffer.
Why would Google mine the data when it doesn't serve ads on Premier Apps (that's the kind businesses use, FYI) unless the customer specifically requests it? I've read the ToS, and it doesn't mention mining data AFAICT.
7.1 Obligations. Each party will: (a) protect the other party’s Confidential Information with the same standard of care it uses to protect its own Confidential Information; and (b) not disclose the Confidential Information, except to affiliates, employees and agents who need to know it and who have agreed in writing to keep it confidential. Each party (and any affiliates, employees and agents to whom it has disclosed Confidential Information) may use Confidential Information only to exercise rights and fulfill obligations under this Agreement, while using reasonable care to protect it. Each party is responsible for any actions of its affiliates, employees and agents in violation of this Section.
...
8.1 Intellectual Property Rights. Except as expressly set forth herein, this Agreement does not grant either party any rights, implied or otherwise, to the other’s content or any of the other’s intellectual property. As between the parties, Customer owns all Intellectual Property Rights in Customer Data, and Google owns all Intellectual Property Rights in the Services.
Where are you getting this information of yours?
Your second point is very good, but Ubuntu has always been about opinionated choices. When 4.10 came out, it was decided to forgo the normal Linux 5 CD installation's 10 text editors, four word processors, and three browsers (practically required in the early 2000s because some apps worked for some things and not for others) and instead install just one type of each application on one CD. In short, having no default totally goes against their mission.
The installer always gives you the option to go advanced and choose your own partition setup and file systems.
Try using Kismet some time. You'll realize that either you or your UK laws are wrong.
I don't see any that aren't Win7 or WinXP. Link?
You've never seen Princess Bride, eh?
My understanding was that Apple refused to license multitouch and that it was off the table in cross-licensing discussions.
That is the bait-and-switch that upsets me. Patents are granted because they are narrow, but are immediately enforced by businesses and courts as broadly as possible. HTC is claiming Apple violates 7 of 14 claims on one patent, for instance. The patent can be narrow overall, but the claims broad, and infringement is based on the claims, not the overall patent, right? Can someone who has a good number of patents tell me why that is?
I've got a MuVo T200 from 2006 that still works well despite having been run through the washing machine.
Umm. It's here. The website is a little amateurish, but it works. Maybe it's a PEBKAC problem?
It answers questions. Try "How tall is Gengis Khan?" You'll get "Genghis Khan — Height: 5 FT 8 in (1.73 M)
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhabar_Askerov."
Run everything in memory, and you'll have incredibly fast app startup. Some distros allow you to do that. TinyCore Linux does it by default.
Do you realize that Chrome has integrated developer tools and even has a timeline for page loading to identify slow areas?
Start with TinyCore Linux, add only the parts you want (by default, it comes only with a WM, a dock, and a control panel), and have exactly the OS you desire. It's trivially easy to modify, boots in about 3 seconds on my Intel Classmate off an SD card, runs entirely in memory, and starts at 10MB.
Agreed. How is adding one more project helping? Sit down with the other projects and agree to follow the same specifications: XMPP for chat; OpenID and OAuth for identification, ActivityStrea.ms for status and posts; etc. They don't have to be exactly these, but whatever they are, at least all get on the same page. Oh, and allow federation between servers on different projects.
I believe this is why the "new Facebook" needs to go beyond where FB is now and have identity integrated into browsers (of course with multiple profiles available and an anonymous mode). If average people were able to use one account to connect to and comment on any webstie (OpenAuth powered) without needing to create an account or enter OpenID URLs, there would be incentive to switch. If Moz and Goog put this in their browsers, you would have 30% coverage out of the gate.
Someone pointed out to me that creating a Facebook app to export photos, blogs, friends, and the rest to a new social network might be a possibility. I don't know if Facebook's policies allow them to deny such an app, but I would guess that doing so would fall pretty clearly into anti-competitive territory. If all the competing services exposed the same API, the app would only need to be written once.
Google's the new Google. You don't see them becoming Stereotypical Mega-Corp yet, do you?
P2P is a unnecessary. Federated servers would be good enough. Right now, you can set up your own Jabber server and talk to GTalk users, so people who want independence can have it, but the people who aren't familiar with computers can just get a Google account.
Federation (S2S) is a win for everyone. P2P is much more difficult to create and has few benefits.