Identity would be nice, but "opt-in" isn't the same as "required." South Korea has a similar system, requiring all websites with over 100.000 (IIRC) visitors to require registration with using the national ID number. This was in response to the suicide of an actress after some possible slander was aired anonymously in a forum.
I was a little disappointed that SK took the low road, requiring identified posting instead of educating the average person that slander isn't a good reason to off yourself.
Google is going to save money on the device by using ARM, not Atom. It doesn't need to worry about compatibility.
Google will probably sell directly to the customer at cost.
I agree that the SSD seems excessively big, but the OS is self-healing and needs space for local cache of mail, documents, etc. It might not be too out of line, and Google may just be erring on the safe side, planning for the future. The original Android phone had that "can't update Android due to lack of space" issue, right?
But, for the average person walking into a store and buying a computer off the shelf, replacing the pre-installed Windows OS with one based on Linux is not cheaper since they've already paid for the more expensive one. Linux becomes the more expensive (in time) option. This is why MS fought so hard to keep BeOS out of pre-installs.
Cooking and recipes are terrible analogies to make your point. The best chefs will happily describe in detail how to make their dishes, cockily knowing that you would never be able to duplicate their combination of talent and skill. Then there's the atmosphere of the restaurant. You can't get that at home, either.
You, sir, have reached level seven. Here are your beads.;) j/k
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They aren't telling other people to open stuff. This is an internal memo to Google devs. Google is telling its own devs to consider opening code whenever possible.
Ten years ago this memo would have been groundbreaking in its radical support of FOSS. Slashdot's pro-FOSS group would have praised Google (just like they fawned over IBM's limited support of Linux). Now people seem to want all or nothing.
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Never forget: Slashdot is just Malda's personal blog on steroids. Don't expect journalism.
Google's memo makes it pretty clear that The Goog want a fast and competitive marketplace, and that Google thinks it is agile enough to stay in the lead in that kind of world. I'd argue that Google will probably actually buy any startups that outpace it, but the result is the same.
They charge you for ad space (just like every other ad vendor in the world)? They charge you for handling your sales transactions (induced by those ads and just like Visa, MC, AE, and Paypal)? And again, they charge you a yearly fee for an additional twenty-five gigs of storage, or whatever it is now (just like every other e-mail hosting service in existence)? Call me shocked!
J.F.C.!!! How petty can you be? The issue (for those that don't want to read the link) is that Chrome uses the system proxy settings and doesn't have a configuration dialog for its own proxy settings. The bug report states that Google will be implementing a dialog when Chrome gets its own HTTP stack. Also, you can fix the problem right now by launching
chrome.exe --proxy-server=foo:8080
Quit peppering a discussion with such a disgusting display of ignorance.
p.s. I think locking you into the corporate settings at work is a good thing, and most network admins would agree. You shouldn't be able to access the outside without going through the proper proxy, anyway.
But it doesn't come with a hard drive or SSD in the default config ($99). It has expansion capability if you want that. There's no assembly required to PXE boot. You just attach this to the network and go.
In other words, it's a thin client out of the box. It fits the submitter's requirements. I think you misunderstood something about the Gecko Surfboard.
I don't understand your point about this. It doesn't have local storage. You can network boot or install some minimal thin-client OS on compact flash. It would be dead simple to hook 30 of these up to an LTSP server. Also, why would having a keyboard disqualify it from being a thin client? In fact, according to the referenced article it
is said to make a "great thin client," and to be "ideal for bank tellers, reservation clerks, POS, home, schools, or hospitals."
People are looking in the wrong place. Move outside Intel and AMD.
$99 for a computer in a keyboard from Norhtec. (In fact, the prototype is still linked in my sig, but I have no connection to the company.) Video is available at Linux For Devices, but the Gecko Surfboard doesn't appear to be listed on tNorhtec's site yet.
Seconded. 1.6 is a complete solution. Time-tracking. Tickets. Knowledge base. Document management. All this is constructed around the project management function. eGW can hook into existing e-mail systems. All locally installable as a web app.
When my gf first started watching The Daily Show, she was shocked and proclaimed "Wow! You can say anything on TV." Her country (a democracy) has strong TV censorship.
The GNOME servers are down right now so I can't copy the posting guidelines for you, but I have read them before. Take a look at the Ubuntu Planet guidelines, which are likely very similar.
As a rule of thumb, English should be considered the "lingua franca" of Planet Ubuntu....posts to be of a non-advertising nature. Planet should only be subscribed to a subset of blog entries where a conscious decision is made to put the blog post on Ubuntu Planet. For example, tagging entries with an "ubuntuplanet" tag, and subscribing planet to a feed of blog posts with that tag, would be acceptable.
Most Planets have long posting guidelines with rules on how to join and when you should ask to be removed. The guidelines likely stipulate that you need to syndicate the full feed, which some people don't do. There's more to it than "insight into the lives of members of the $PLANET community, what they're working on and what makes them tick," which is the standard blurb atop every Planet.
People read Planets to find out what's going on in the community. A little noise in the signal is fine. You want to talk about your Christmas plans? No problem. You want to use your Planet blog as a time management application (I'd find the blog I'm talking about, but he's been quiet for a week or so)? No thanks. Spending _all_ your time on political messages? Also no.
Oh, and devs who are no longer working on a projects aren't part of the project's community. I'm talking about Miguel, but there are others. The Mono issue is not a reason to ban him from the Planet, but no longer working on GNOME at all is.
The issue is one that I wish more Planets would take seriously. Why are former GNOME devs which now work and post primarily about non-GNOME, proprietary software still being syndicated on the GNOME Planet? Why are some Ubuntu Planet members constantly posting about their Mac and Win desktops 9since they apparently don't eat their own dogfood)?
If you're on a Planet, do us all a favor: create a tag for posts that should be on the Planet and don't syndicate the other stuff. We don't want to know what you bought at the grocery store. If the Planet's ToS says the language is English, post in English (substitute appropriate language for other Planets).
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Identity would be nice, but "opt-in" isn't the same as "required." South Korea has a similar system, requiring all websites with over 100.000 (IIRC) visitors to require registration with using the national ID number. This was in response to the suicide of an actress after some possible slander was aired anonymously in a forum.
I was a little disappointed that SK took the low road, requiring identified posting instead of educating the average person that slander isn't a good reason to off yourself.
Now that the Skype client for Linux is going open source, there's not much left to scuttle a "cloudy" netbook based on ARM.
I agree that the SSD seems excessively big, but the OS is self-healing and needs space for local cache of mail, documents, etc. It might not be too out of line, and Google may just be erring on the safe side, planning for the future. The original Android phone had that "can't update Android due to lack of space" issue, right?
But, for the average person walking into a store and buying a computer off the shelf, replacing the pre-installed Windows OS with one based on Linux is not cheaper since they've already paid for the more expensive one. Linux becomes the more expensive (in time) option. This is why MS fought so hard to keep BeOS out of pre-installs.
Cooking and recipes are terrible analogies to make your point. The best chefs will happily describe in detail how to make their dishes, cockily knowing that you would never be able to duplicate their combination of talent and skill. Then there's the atmosphere of the restaurant. You can't get that at home, either.
You, sir, have reached level seven. Here are your beads. ;) j/k
They aren't telling other people to open stuff. This is an internal memo to Google devs. Google is telling its own devs to consider opening code whenever possible.
Ten years ago this memo would have been groundbreaking in its radical support of FOSS. Slashdot's pro-FOSS group would have praised Google (just like they fawned over IBM's limited support of Linux). Now people seem to want all or nothing.
Never forget: Slashdot is just Malda's personal blog on steroids. Don't expect journalism.
Google's memo makes it pretty clear that The Goog want a fast and competitive marketplace, and that Google thinks it is agile enough to stay in the lead in that kind of world. I'd argue that Google will probably actually buy any startups that outpace it, but the result is the same.
They charge you for ad space (just like every other ad vendor in the world)? They charge you for handling your sales transactions (induced by those ads and just like Visa, MC, AE, and Paypal)? And again, they charge you a yearly fee for an additional twenty-five gigs of storage, or whatever it is now (just like every other e-mail hosting service in existence)? Call me shocked!
J.F.C.!!! How petty can you be? The issue (for those that don't want to read the link) is that Chrome uses the system proxy settings and doesn't have a configuration dialog for its own proxy settings. The bug report states that Google will be implementing a dialog when Chrome gets its own HTTP stack. Also, you can fix the problem right now by launching
chrome.exe --proxy-server=foo:8080
Quit peppering a discussion with such a disgusting display of ignorance.
p.s. I think locking you into the corporate settings at work is a good thing, and most network admins would agree. You shouldn't be able to access the outside without going through the proper proxy, anyway.
It should be pretty easy to create a udev rule for that which automatically changes permissions when the camera is plugged in.
If you want known hardware (but no LCD) for $99, take a look at my sig and find Norhtec's Gecko Surfboard booth at CES in LV.
But it doesn't come with a hard drive or SSD in the default config ($99). It has expansion capability if you want that. There's no assembly required to PXE boot. You just attach this to the network and go.
In other words, it's a thin client out of the box. It fits the submitter's requirements. I think you misunderstood something about the Gecko Surfboard.
I don't understand your point about this. It doesn't have local storage. You can network boot or install some minimal thin-client OS on compact flash. It would be dead simple to hook 30 of these up to an LTSP server. Also, why would having a keyboard disqualify it from being a thin client? In fact, according to the referenced article it
is said to make a "great thin client," and to be "ideal for bank tellers, reservation clerks, POS, home, schools, or hospitals."
People are looking in the wrong place. Move outside Intel and AMD.
$99 for a computer in a keyboard from Norhtec. (In fact, the prototype is still linked in my sig, but I have no connection to the company.) Video is available at Linux For Devices, but the Gecko Surfboard doesn't appear to be listed on tNorhtec's site yet.
it is the stuff of hetrosexual male nightmares.
Not for all of us.
When Intel uses its compiler to benchmark the competition, it becomes sabotage.
The ZDNet article on this claims that ICC inserted null loops for non-Intel processors.
Seconded. 1.6 is a complete solution. Time-tracking. Tickets. Knowledge base. Document management. All this is constructed around the project management function. eGW can hook into existing e-mail systems. All locally installable as a web app.
Thailand. There's still a censorship board which has to approve everything.
When my gf first started watching The Daily Show, she was shocked and proclaimed "Wow! You can say anything on TV." Her country (a democracy) has strong TV censorship.
The GNOME servers are down right now so I can't copy the posting guidelines for you, but I have read them before. Take a look at the Ubuntu Planet guidelines, which are likely very similar.
As a rule of thumb, English should be considered the "lingua franca" of Planet Ubuntu. ...posts to be of a non-advertising nature. Planet should only be subscribed to a subset of blog entries where a conscious decision is made to put the blog post on Ubuntu Planet. For example, tagging entries with an "ubuntuplanet" tag, and subscribing planet to a feed of blog posts with that tag, would be acceptable.
Most Planets have long posting guidelines with rules on how to join and when you should ask to be removed. The guidelines likely stipulate that you need to syndicate the full feed, which some people don't do. There's more to it than "insight into the lives of members of the $PLANET community, what they're working on and what makes them tick," which is the standard blurb atop every Planet.
People read Planets to find out what's going on in the community. A little noise in the signal is fine. You want to talk about your Christmas plans? No problem. You want to use your Planet blog as a time management application (I'd find the blog I'm talking about, but he's been quiet for a week or so)? No thanks. Spending _all_ your time on political messages? Also no.
Oh, and devs who are no longer working on a projects aren't part of the project's community. I'm talking about Miguel, but there are others. The Mono issue is not a reason to ban him from the Planet, but no longer working on GNOME at all is.
The issue is one that I wish more Planets would take seriously. Why are former GNOME devs which now work and post primarily about non-GNOME, proprietary software still being syndicated on the GNOME Planet? Why are some Ubuntu Planet members constantly posting about their Mac and Win desktops 9since they apparently don't eat their own dogfood)?
If you're on a Planet, do us all a favor: create a tag for posts that should be on the Planet and don't syndicate the other stuff. We don't want to know what you bought at the grocery store. If the Planet's ToS says the language is English, post in English (substitute appropriate language for other Planets).
Glad I got that off of my chest.
We've got a Windows 7 tool at work. He's unbelievably annoying.