I really wish that Chrome, Firefox, and Opera would get together and agree on a way to put social stuff into the browser that is agnostic and federated. If they got the identity part into HTML5, Facebook and other walled gardens would open or die a relatively quick death. See my sig for some ignorant thing I wrote about this a year ago.
I guess you've never tried to edit pictures or create complex documents using an HTML5 site. Browser speed isn't anywhere near where it needs to be for stuff like that.
Really? My little GNet text-n-talk phone has space for two SIMs and a micro SD card and it's about as small as phones are made. My four-year-old camera has a full-size SD slot and it's so small it's difficult to take good shots with.
The bugs I mentioned were only on 64-bit, but they should have been release stoppers. The F-Spot bug got fixed in time for the.1 release. It was then that I said Ubuntu became a "wait for SP1" distro. The Pulse problem never really resolved itself in 8.04.
Stay with 10.04 until 2013. Or just log into classic mode. The menu is there. Workspaces are in the same place. All the old underpinnings are the same. No need to worry. If you really want a special workflow, start with minimal, add a window manager and a dock or panel, script it as a preseed file, mirror the repo in house, and keep your workflow virtually forever.
I know everyone hated Pulse being added so quickly during the cycle, but there were two real travesties in that release: the Flash/Pulse compatibility layer was pulled last minute, causing all those hangs, crashes, and other problems; and F-Spot had a crasher bug on second launch, which meant that the app was unusable.
Ubuntu should have pushed off the release date a couple of months, just like they did for 6.06LTS and just like they should do this time around. Heck, this release matters less, since it's not even an LTS. Maybe they should just leave it in perpetual beta and release 11.10 as a finished product.
I remember back when MS had NT4 certified for gov't deployment by completely disconnecting every cable and locking down every service, then using that certification evidence for every deployment, whether the deployment was networked and locked-down or not, for not only NT4, but 2000 and XP.
I'm not saying that Google is right here and MS is wrong: I simply don't know enough about the system and gaming it. What Google's doing doesn't seem any different, though, and that was good enough for the government at the time. It's at least disingenuous on MS's part to claim foul.
I used to agree with you 100%. After this released memo, though, I have a new theory: the aliens came to take videos for sale back home. The anal probes? Pr0n. The commander's name is !@$%^#&%, which roughly translates to "Cap'n Stabbin'.";)
Google is withholding H because it wants it to work on phones. G and H are to be merged in I. Finally, the Chrome OS and I are to be merged, probably for J. In short, you're entirely wrong, from start to finish. You talk a good game, but you haven't read anything about Android since before Honeycomb was released, I guess.
They gave Motorola the source code. It's open source there (only customers who receive binaries are required to receive the source under OSS rules). Did Motorola give it to you? Since the Apache 2.0 license is permissive, Motorola can choose to close it or not. Apparently, they did. Welcome to permissive licenses. This is why I prefer GPL, but many people disagree with me and I respect their opinions.
Honeycomb isn't ready for phones. It's ready for tablets. Google said that it doesn't believe that H on phone will be a good idea or that phone makers will listen to Google's advice. Based on modders already trying to put H on phones, I'd guess that Google is right. They say they'll release when phones work.
You're conflating an argument about the openness of a product with one for the openness of a market. The US market is sick and needs to be healed. I don't really know what the solution is, but I suspect that both the mobile phone industry and the ISP industry can be fixed the same way: consider the pipes to be infrastructure handled by the government, and allow free access at wholesale prices to every company that wishes. That would take away the carriers' de facto lock-in by putting out a single platform.
I'm not an economist, though. My opinion isn't worth shit.
I'm with you on this one (look at my sociopaths comment farther up), but in this case, I was pointing out that Allen wasn't a douche and that Gates wasn't a great man as was posited.
What about Google's test where they created false search results for random strings of words, then saw the same first results come up in Bing? There's no algorithm there.
"Guilt" is what I call it, but it's really a form of egotism, just as you say, They realize their mortality and want to continue to live on through foundations and buildings, changing their image in the process.
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I really wish that Chrome, Firefox, and Opera would get together and agree on a way to put social stuff into the browser that is agnostic and federated. If they got the identity part into HTML5, Facebook and other walled gardens would open or die a relatively quick death. See my sig for some ignorant thing I wrote about this a year ago.
I guess you've never tried to edit pictures or create complex documents using an HTML5 site. Browser speed isn't anywhere near where it needs to be for stuff like that.
Really? My little GNet text-n-talk phone has space for two SIMs and a micro SD card and it's about as small as phones are made. My four-year-old camera has a full-size SD slot and it's so small it's difficult to take good shots with.
Oh brother. Am I *really* being that unclear?
Yes, you are. Phrasing it as a trade-off shows that you think there's some relationship between them.
Pulse works well now. 8.04 was an awful release, though, and should have been delayed.
The bugs I mentioned were only on 64-bit, but they should have been release stoppers. The F-Spot bug got fixed in time for the .1 release. It was then that I said Ubuntu became a "wait for SP1" distro. The Pulse problem never really resolved itself in 8.04.
Stay with 10.04 until 2013. Or just log into classic mode. The menu is there. Workspaces are in the same place. All the old underpinnings are the same. No need to worry. If you really want a special workflow, start with minimal, add a window manager and a dock or panel, script it as a preseed file, mirror the repo in house, and keep your workflow virtually forever.
I know everyone hated Pulse being added so quickly during the cycle, but there were two real travesties in that release: the Flash/Pulse compatibility layer was pulled last minute, causing all those hangs, crashes, and other problems; and F-Spot had a crasher bug on second launch, which meant that the app was unusable.
Ubuntu should have pushed off the release date a couple of months, just like they did for 6.06LTS and just like they should do this time around. Heck, this release matters less, since it's not even an LTS. Maybe they should just leave it in perpetual beta and release 11.10 as a finished product.
I remember back when MS had NT4 certified for gov't deployment by completely disconnecting every cable and locking down every service, then using that certification evidence for every deployment, whether the deployment was networked and locked-down or not, for not only NT4, but 2000 and XP.
I'm not saying that Google is right here and MS is wrong: I simply don't know enough about the system and gaming it. What Google's doing doesn't seem any different, though, and that was good enough for the government at the time. It's at least disingenuous on MS's part to claim foul.
I used to agree with you 100%. After this released memo, though, I have a new theory: the aliens came to take videos for sale back home. The anal probes? Pr0n. The commander's name is !@$%^#&%, which roughly translates to "Cap'n Stabbin'." ;)
I remember when I was taking my military classified information class: it went something like --
My point was exactly the opposite: it happens in every forum.
"Videogames in general are irrelevant," ... to the PC market.
You don't visit computer forums very often, do you? -_^
"Divergent" means having a tendency to develop in different directions. G and H aren't doing that: in fact, they're convergent.
Google is withholding H because it wants it to work on phones. G and H are to be merged in I. Finally, the Chrome OS and I are to be merged, probably for J. In short, you're entirely wrong, from start to finish. You talk a good game, but you haven't read anything about Android since before Honeycomb was released, I guess.
They gave Motorola the source code. It's open source there (only customers who receive binaries are required to receive the source under OSS rules). Did Motorola give it to you? Since the Apache 2.0 license is permissive, Motorola can choose to close it or not. Apparently, they did. Welcome to permissive licenses. This is why I prefer GPL, but many people disagree with me and I respect their opinions.
Honeycomb isn't ready for phones. It's ready for tablets. Google said that it doesn't believe that H on phone will be a good idea or that phone makers will listen to Google's advice. Based on modders already trying to put H on phones, I'd guess that Google is right. They say they'll release when phones work.
You're conflating an argument about the openness of a product with one for the openness of a market. The US market is sick and needs to be healed. I don't really know what the solution is, but I suspect that both the mobile phone industry and the ISP industry can be fixed the same way: consider the pipes to be infrastructure handled by the government, and allow free access at wholesale prices to every company that wishes. That would take away the carriers' de facto lock-in by putting out a single platform.
I'm not an economist, though. My opinion isn't worth shit.
I'm willing to bet it's a trademark issue, which is why the other emulator stays untouched. I'm happy Google responds to takedown notices.
+1 doesn't appear in a stream of any kind: it's just reflected in search results.
I'm with you on this one (look at my sociopaths comment farther up), but in this case, I was pointing out that Allen wasn't a douche and that Gates wasn't a great man as was posited.
What about Google's test where they created false search results for random strings of words, then saw the same first results come up in Bing? There's no algorithm there.
Sociopaths are really good at mimicking normal emotions. In this case, it looks like guilt, but it's really just as self-serving as ever.
"Guilt" is what I call it, but it's really a form of egotism, just as you say, They realize their mortality and want to continue to live on through foundations and buildings, changing their image in the process.