You don't just launch a raft and hope to get somewhere. Aiming for an island, even a big island, if you're off by a couple degrees you could miss by a hundred miles.
Except the Polynesians have a whole culture based on practically nothing but that and a set of taboos. The Hawaiian chain is thousands of kilometers from anything else. How did the firth Hawaiians get there? By aiming in a direction and going until they hit something.
It's also worth noting that right from the beginning, ancient cultures spend a lot of time staring at the stars and memorizing them. It's a very short step to using them for some navigation.
Mint is based on Ubuntu, but comes with all the post-install crap already done for you. It has the bottom panel with menu button (not bar). It's nice and green, not brown.
My recommendation for older machines is LXDE on Ubuntu or Mint. It can run nicely in 128-256MB RAM.
There's a difference between implementing proposed components of yet-to-be-gold standards or specifications and implementing whatever the hell you feel like and expecting everyone else to conform. You can see that, can't you?
When you sell your car, does the recipient need to buy a new core? Is that you, BadAnalogyGuy?
Sony is claiming that these are separate products, that owning the game doesn't give you online play. I want unbundling. There are cases where this kind of logic has been upheld.
A long, painful death would be "cruel and unusual." Death by hanging or firing squad, however, is quick, and was quite common ("usual") during the period the Constitution was written.
Why are you arguing with me? I never said 8GB was too much or that the article was well-founded. 8GB is about four times what the average computer is being sold with now, though.
Unless you are using Egacs (Eight gigs and continuously swapping, a.k.a. Eclipse), it's going to be hard to max that thing out. Sure, the OS should use as much as is available for paging. No one is saying otherwise. Swapping to disk is different, though.
If fast_turtle had said "Hey, I have an average setup with 2GB and it never hits swap," then that would have been something useful to add to the conversation.
Jesus. How far we've come. My firs car was a 1972 Ford LTD with a 400 in^3 (6.5l) engine, and I got almost the same fuel efficiency that you do now. You would think that modern engines with computer-controlled fuel injection would do better than something produced 40 years ago with 60-year-old tech.
Creating and then enforcing standards and policies with respect to source code and development process is not going to help if the whole thing is broken as designed.
I was thinking of the irony of an MS project manager lecturing the Linux kernel devs on "bugginess."
it doesn't really integrate anything. It's more like what Adium does for your IM mess.
We need a social media standard with federation. Look at the Social (XMPP) mailing list. They're trying hard.
Someone with a real spec and a real product just came out of the woodwork, too. http://onesocialweb.org/ is set to be released under an Apache 2 license.
The swivel camera is an amazingly obvious (in hindsight) fix to complaints about front or rear-facing cameras, and (as pointed out in the video) you could position the camera in the middle to record while taking notes.
I also like the trackpad on the back. I think it would take some getting used to, but once you figured it out, there would be no need to move your hands from front to back all the time.
Honestly, the number of true "cross-platform" Java apps written out there has to be easily countable. Almost all of them have some platform-specific code or library in there, completely wrecking "write once: run anywhere."
Except that telcos routinely get money from municipalities for "modernization." The telcos then complain about increased costs while milking the customers for as much money as can be gotten away with.
Maybe Google is trying to "force the hand" of monopolies so that the customer doesn't have to suffer.
If by "man in the middle," you mean "common carrier, then yeah, that's what they're doing. They're going to provide access to this fiber to competitors in order to increase competition.
Google's long-term goal is to make high-speed Internet access ubiquitous so that Google can make more money on ads. As far as I can tell, Google doesn't want to own any market except Internet advertising.
Jesus. The average speed in the Bangkok suburbs is now up to 1.5Mb (Your page won't show this unless you're in my area), and I've got 12Mb to my condo. I can't believe that Seatlle, being IT business-centered and all, can't do better than what you've described.
Seriously. The university chose the food management company, the cleaning contractors, and the security guard service. They also chose the e-mail contractors.
Like the undergrads care about e-mail privacy while they're simultaneously posting their frat party pictures to FB.
The OpenSocial mailing list was notified today about a project that was announced at FOSDEM 10: OneSocialWeb. It extends XMPP to handle stuff like activity streams and third-party apps. It's set to be released under an Apache license and will provide a completely federated social network. I'm very excited.
Screencast with working client and server. The project is requesting developer help.
Gmail is based on an open protocol. Gtalk is, too. I can only hope that Google includes StatusNet support in Buzz and helps push people to a model that can be federated (though I'm sure Google will make it extremely easy to just "Go Google" with the whole mess).
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You don't just launch a raft and hope to get somewhere. Aiming for an island, even a big island, if you're off by a couple degrees you could miss by a hundred miles.
Except the Polynesians have a whole culture based on practically nothing but that and a set of taboos. The Hawaiian chain is thousands of kilometers from anything else. How did the firth Hawaiians get there? By aiming in a direction and going until they hit something.
It's also worth noting that right from the beginning, ancient cultures spend a lot of time staring at the stars and memorizing them. It's a very short step to using them for some navigation.
Two things:
Mint is based on Ubuntu, but comes with all the post-install crap already done for you. It has the bottom panel with menu button (not bar). It's nice and green, not brown.
My recommendation for older machines is LXDE on Ubuntu or Mint. It can run nicely in 128-256MB RAM.
Loki didn't pay its employees for months, and on top of that, it used the employees' credit cards before folding shop.
There's a difference between implementing proposed components of yet-to-be-gold standards or specifications and implementing whatever the hell you feel like and expecting everyone else to conform. You can see that, can't you?
When you sell your car, does the recipient need to buy a new core? Is that you, BadAnalogyGuy?
Sony is claiming that these are separate products, that owning the game doesn't give you online play. I want unbundling. There are cases where this kind of logic has been upheld.
I think you've just described the MMORPG model popular in the west.
If I don't want to play online, am I allowed to return the code to Sony for a $20 refund? I should be.
Like Joe Rogan says after every UFC "don't copy that floppy" announcement, "You can't fight the Internet, baby!"
"When people start going to jail, people will stop doing it." -- http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/1/5/1234649/quote-of-the-day-dana-white-on
It worked for Polanski. Oh, wait ....
A long, painful death would be "cruel and unusual." Death by hanging or firing squad, however, is quick, and was quite common ("usual") during the period the Constitution was written.
Why are you arguing with me? I never said 8GB was too much or that the article was well-founded. 8GB is about four times what the average computer is being sold with now, though.
Unless you are using Egacs (Eight gigs and continuously swapping, a.k.a. Eclipse), it's going to be hard to max that thing out. Sure, the OS should use as much as is available for paging. No one is saying otherwise. Swapping to disk is different, though.
If fast_turtle had said "Hey, I have an average setup with 2GB and it never hits swap," then that would have been something useful to add to the conversation.
You mean your machine with 8GB RAM never hits swap? Wow. Shock. Color me surprised! O_o
actually you can get copies of every MS product right back to DOS 3 via technet. so you'll need use a better example.
Try to get that DOS version to run on a modern SATA setup. No drivers? Really?
Jesus. How far we've come. My firs car was a 1972 Ford LTD with a 400 in^3 (6.5l) engine, and I got almost the same fuel efficiency that you do now. You would think that modern engines with computer-controlled fuel injection would do better than something produced 40 years ago with 60-year-old tech.
BTW, it was a sweet first car.
I was under the strange impression that Riddick was already a trilogy. Sure, one of the films was animated, but that doesn't stop it from existing.
Creating and then enforcing standards and policies with respect
to source code and development process is not going to help if the whole thing is broken as
designed.
I was thinking of the irony of an MS project manager lecturing the Linux kernel devs on "bugginess."
I appreciate your setup, but
We need a social media standard with federation. Look at the Social (XMPP) mailing list. They're trying hard.
Someone with a real spec and a real product just came out of the woodwork, too. http://onesocialweb.org/ is set to be released under an Apache 2 license.
The swivel camera is an amazingly obvious (in hindsight) fix to complaints about front or rear-facing cameras, and (as pointed out in the video) you could position the camera in the middle to record while taking notes.
I also like the trackpad on the back. I think it would take some getting used to, but once you figured it out, there would be no need to move your hands from front to back all the time.
Honestly, the number of true "cross-platform" Java apps written out there has to be easily countable. Almost all of them have some platform-specific code or library in there, completely wrecking "write once: run anywhere."
Except that telcos routinely get money from municipalities for "modernization." The telcos then complain about increased costs while milking the customers for as much money as can be gotten away with.
Maybe Google is trying to "force the hand" of monopolies so that the customer doesn't have to suffer.
If by "man in the middle," you mean "common carrier, then yeah, that's what they're doing. They're going to provide access to this fiber to competitors in order to increase competition.
Google's long-term goal is to make high-speed Internet access ubiquitous so that Google can make more money on ads. As far as I can tell, Google doesn't want to own any market except Internet advertising.
Jesus. The average speed in the Bangkok suburbs is now up to 1.5Mb (Your page won't show this unless you're in my area), and I've got 12Mb to my condo. I can't believe that Seatlle, being IT business-centered and all, can't do better than what you've described.
1) GMail. 2) n.a.
3) Chose another university.
Seriously. The university chose the food management company, the cleaning contractors, and the security guard service. They also chose the e-mail contractors.
Like the undergrads care about e-mail privacy while they're simultaneously posting their frat party pictures to FB.
The OpenSocial mailing list was notified today about a project that was announced at FOSDEM 10: OneSocialWeb. It extends XMPP to handle stuff like activity streams and third-party apps. It's set to be released under an Apache license and will provide a completely federated social network. I'm very excited.
Screencast with working client and server. The project is requesting developer help.
Gmail is based on an open protocol. Gtalk is, too. I can only hope that Google includes StatusNet support in Buzz and helps push people to a model that can be federated (though I'm sure Google will make it extremely easy to just "Go Google" with the whole mess).