I wrote an article in April on Gnome's relative stability and lack of any real change. The road map for 2.26 looks even less Earth-shattering. The stuff that was actually really pretty new in 2.24 didn't make it into Intrepid, though. Empathy isn't the default IM client. Ekiga is at 2.0 instead of 3.0.
I think it's safe to say that we won't see anything really new until 3.0, and the developers are talking about making even that just about changes in the APIs.
The guest account, though, is pretty neat since it doesn't write anything to disk, unlike the guest accounts you and I have used for years. Log off, and it's gone. I don't even need to write a post-session script.
OK "Little Monkey" (LingNoi in Thai),
That's not an effective argument technique. Just because everyone else is main-lining heroin, does that mean you need to?
That's why they make the server install disk. You can have a nice, text installer and come out with whatever level of system you want. The live CD is for desktop installs.
Ubuntu has a serious problem with bugs (i.e. they don't fix very many). In my experience (quite a few bugs over several years), they just wait for upstream to fix the problem.
For example, hubackup has been broken and completely unusable for about two years. Istanbul (screencasting) suffers from bad video flickering and has since Feisty. Several bad strings in Gutsy never got fixed. Even when patches are provided, bugs often remain unfixed for months until they are closed due to inactivity or marked "invalid" for no apparent reason during one of Ubuntu's famous "five-a-day" drives.
WRT the article, I can't believe that MaximumPC is claiming Ekiga as a new feature. It's been in Ubuntu for as long as I can remember. Heck, Gnome 2.24 got Ekiga 3.0, but Intrepid is still shipping 2.0 (which is the same version that's in Gutsy and Hardy).
Interesting. I didn't actually get the info from the article in Gizmodo. I think it may have been Engadget, but I used a supporting link from Google in my post here.
I remember that the original story gave specific numbers (e.g. the original one million units that they planned to manufacture were sold and reserve production was brought in for an additional 500K units, which also sold out). That doesn't seem to jibe with the way the second Gizmodo story represents the way the numbers were arrived at.
An exciting new technology for distributing certified applications for your mobile phone? WOW! That's new, I stand corre...Oh, here's Mr. iPhone and his friend the iTunes App Store.
Gmail on your phone? Every other smartphone does that, including my Jesusphone and a bazillion blackberries.
Google Ma...yes, there too.
Push/pull e-ma...yeah, everyone does that.
Yout...oops, the iPhone has that too!
A spiffy touch-sensitive-glass surface? No, it's a stylus interface. Hi, Palm called, said 2000 called and wants its smartphone back.
Open source operating system, WOO HOO! Oh wait, 2001 called and said Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion would like Symbian back.
Just about everything on your list was available here in Asia (specifically Taiwan, Korea, and Japan) on phones for years before the iPhone "revolutionized" the phone industry. People here still wonder what all the iPhone hype is about.
While I don't own a G1, the reviews seem to be hot on the fact that setup is super simple and all these functions "just work" after you put in your GMail address. There have been 1.5 million G1 pre-orders, so I don't think you can say "there's no compelling reason to buy a Google phone" for anyone but yourself.
No, the relevant part is the whole sentence. Pystar could definitely make the argument that owners have the right to install the software on any machine that they like without regards to who built and sold the machine.
He certainly means any architecture, but the right for a customer to install is not the same as an obligation for the software manufacturer to supply. The poster means that he has the right to run his legal copy of the PS2 version of Soul Calibur II on his Wii if he can figure out how to do it.
Oh. The reading comprehension level is probably closer to seventh grade.
You need to be marked troll. Nobody asked Apple to write anything for any architecture. They just asked to be able to install the OS they purchased anywhere they can get it to work.
Do you have geographically diverse employees? I'm really interested in your experience because I've proposed moving to Google Apps for a certain set of contractors in my area which work at a couple hundred different locations.
Please read the full background in my journal. I need opinions and hurdles I'm likely to hit.
Firstly, there were 445 comments on this story. There were three people who misunderstood and commented on my statement. I think you're misrepresenting the situation when you say "That clearly (to me and all the other that responded to you) implies...."
Secondly, you resurrected a three-day-old thread, which is about forty-eight hours past the life expectancy of a normal thread on Slashdot. You don't even have the excuse that I was responding to you: you simply came back over an old story. I have no idea why you would do that unless you were looking for some fun. I could be wrong, though.
Thirdly, this is a discussion forum, and there is certain etiquette. If I had wanted to show a double meaning or sarcasm to my post, I would have used an emoticon, just the way I did with my last response to you. That's the standard way to do it so that there's no doubt in anyone's mind. I guess you missed that class.
Finally, while I generally "understand logic flows and equations," I am actually a liberal arts major, which means that I've probably read more Shakespeare than you have. You don't know shit about me. Don't pretend that you do.
You can continue to beat this dead horse, but I didn't say what you accused me of in your comment to me, and you have been backpedaling and trying to find an out for yourself ever since then.
MPEG-4 contains patented technologies that require licensing in countries that acknowledge software patents. Patents covering MPEG-4 are claimed by over two dozen companies. The MPEG Licensing Authority[1] licenses patents required for MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual from a wide range of companies (audio is licensed separately) and lists all of its licensors and licensees on the site. New licenses for MPEG-4 System patents are under development[2] and no new licenses are being offered while holders of its old MPEG-4 Systems license are still covered under the terms of that license for the patents listed (MPEG LA â" Patent List).
AT&T is trying to sue companies such as Apple Inc. over alleged MPEG-4 patent infringement.[3] The terms of Apple's Quicktime 7 license for users[4] describes in paragraph 14 the terms under Apple's existing MPEG-4 System Patent Portfolio license from MPEGLA.[1]
I wasn't ambiguous. If you read my comment in context, you'll see that exactly what I said is both logically (as previously stated) and reasonably clear. I wouldn't have bothered to comment that AmberBlackCat's position seemed perfectly reasonable against this comment
I bet you buy your LEGO preassembled too.
I bet he bought his TV and refrigerator preassembled too.
unless I was bringing something to the table.
For the sake of argument, I'll divide the world into rich and non-rich. I'll say that rich people prefer to have maids and butlers. It implies nothing about whether the non-rich would prefer to have maids and butlers or not.
People jump the gun and assume lots of things that aren't there. That's why the powers that be have tests for reading comprehension.;)
Yes, that was an insult. You don't have to try to read into it.
Saying a geek shouldn't want computers to work as appliances is like saying...
I didn't say that, though. I said that it makes sense if he's not a geek: non-geeks probably only want an appliance-like machine. It doesn't say anything about what geeks should or shouldn't want.
In other words, everyone made a logical error when reading my OP and assumed I meant something that I didn't say.
Not trying to make anyone believe that I'm up on anything current. I think I was up front on the fact that I've been out for a while and that what I know should be out of date enough for me not to get into shit over it.
Heck, when I was in, the satellites were good, but we couldn't even officially admit that we had any. That was only about a decade ago, by the way.
You can get pissed at me for whatever you want. Unless you are with the U.S. government, I don't really care.
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Hehe. Indeed.
I wrote an article in April on Gnome's relative stability and lack of any real change. The road map for 2.26 looks even less Earth-shattering. The stuff that was actually really pretty new in 2.24 didn't make it into Intrepid, though. Empathy isn't the default IM client. Ekiga is at 2.0 instead of 3.0.
I think it's safe to say that we won't see anything really new until 3.0, and the developers are talking about making even that just about changes in the APIs.
The guest account, though, is pretty neat since it doesn't write anything to disk, unlike the guest accounts you and I have used for years. Log off, and it's gone. I don't even need to write a post-session script.
For the real grammar Nazis: s/Nazi's/Nazis
OK "Little Monkey" (LingNoi in Thai),
That's not an effective argument technique. Just because everyone else is main-lining heroin, does that mean you need to?
That's why they make the server install disk. You can have a nice, text installer and come out with whatever level of system you want. The live CD is for desktop installs.
Ubuntu has a serious problem with bugs (i.e. they don't fix very many). In my experience (quite a few bugs over several years), they just wait for upstream to fix the problem.
For example, hubackup has been broken and completely unusable for about two years. Istanbul (screencasting) suffers from bad video flickering and has since Feisty. Several bad strings in Gutsy never got fixed. Even when patches are provided, bugs often remain unfixed for months until they are closed due to inactivity or marked "invalid" for no apparent reason during one of Ubuntu's famous "five-a-day" drives.
WRT the article, I can't believe that MaximumPC is claiming Ekiga as a new feature. It's been in Ubuntu for as long as I can remember. Heck, Gnome 2.24 got Ekiga 3.0, but Intrepid is still shipping 2.0 (which is the same version that's in Gutsy and Hardy).
Interesting. I didn't actually get the info from the article in Gizmodo. I think it may have been Engadget, but I used a supporting link from Google in my post here.
... interesting. Thanks.
I remember that the original story gave specific numbers (e.g. the original one million units that they planned to manufacture were sold and reserve production was brought in for an additional 500K units, which also sold out). That doesn't seem to jibe with the way the second Gizmodo story represents the way the numbers were arrived at.
As I said
Seriously, what's unique about it?
Just about everything on your list was available here in Asia (specifically Taiwan, Korea, and Japan) on phones for years before the iPhone "revolutionized" the phone industry. People here still wonder what all the iPhone hype is about.
While I don't own a G1, the reviews seem to be hot on the fact that setup is super simple and all these functions "just work" after you put in your GMail address. There have been 1.5 million G1 pre-orders, so I don't think you can say "there's no compelling reason to buy a Google phone" for anyone but yourself.
Yes. They sold all 1.5 million pre-orders. I don't doubt that there are no lines. Anyone who really wanted one already ordered it.
No, the relevant part is the whole sentence. Pystar could definitely make the argument that owners have the right to install the software on any machine that they like without regards to who built and sold the machine.
He certainly means any architecture, but the right for a customer to install is not the same as an obligation for the software manufacturer to supply. The poster means that he has the right to run his legal copy of the PS2 version of Soul Calibur II on his Wii if he can figure out how to do it.
Oh. The reading comprehension level is probably closer to seventh grade.
You need to be marked troll. Nobody asked Apple to write anything for any architecture. They just asked to be able to install the OS they purchased anywhere they can get it to work.
Welcome to strawman world, everyone.
Do you have geographically diverse employees? I'm really interested in your experience because I've proposed moving to Google Apps for a certain set of contractors in my area which work at a couple hundred different locations. Please read the full background in my journal. I need opinions and hurdles I'm likely to hit.
That's my advice about Ubuntu, oddly ....
Firstly, there were 445 comments on this story. There were three people who misunderstood and commented on my statement. I think you're misrepresenting the situation when you say "That clearly (to me and all the other that responded to you) implies...."
Secondly, you resurrected a three-day-old thread, which is about forty-eight hours past the life expectancy of a normal thread on Slashdot. You don't even have the excuse that I was responding to you: you simply came back over an old story. I have no idea why you would do that unless you were looking for some fun. I could be wrong, though.
Thirdly, this is a discussion forum, and there is certain etiquette. If I had wanted to show a double meaning or sarcasm to my post, I would have used an emoticon, just the way I did with my last response to you. That's the standard way to do it so that there's no doubt in anyone's mind. I guess you missed that class.
Finally, while I generally "understand logic flows and equations," I am actually a liberal arts major, which means that I've probably read more Shakespeare than you have. You don't know shit about me. Don't pretend that you do.
You can continue to beat this dead horse, but I didn't say what you accused me of in your comment to me, and you have been backpedaling and trying to find an out for yourself ever since then.
Good luck with that reading comprehension.
How is this problem not solved by a playlist in the video tag?
MPEG-4 contains patented technologies that require licensing in countries that acknowledge software patents. Patents covering MPEG-4 are claimed by over two dozen companies. The MPEG Licensing Authority[1] licenses patents required for MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual from a wide range of companies (audio is licensed separately) and lists all of its licensors and licensees on the site. New licenses for MPEG-4 System patents are under development[2] and no new licenses are being offered while holders of its old MPEG-4 Systems license are still covered under the terms of that license for the patents listed (MPEG LA â" Patent List). AT&T is trying to sue companies such as Apple Inc. over alleged MPEG-4 patent infringement.[3] The terms of Apple's Quicktime 7 license for users[4] describes in paragraph 14 the terms under Apple's existing MPEG-4 System Patent Portfolio license from MPEGLA.[1]
No, it's not.
I'd like to see Google switch over to the video tag and a free codec. That would make everything perfect.
unless I was bringing something to the table.
;)
For the sake of argument, I'll divide the world into rich and non-rich. I'll say that rich people prefer to have maids and butlers. It implies nothing about whether the non-rich would prefer to have maids and butlers or not.
People jump the gun and assume lots of things that aren't there. That's why the powers that be have tests for reading comprehension.
Yes, that was an insult. You don't have to try to read into it.
Saying a geek shouldn't want computers to work as appliances is like saying...
I didn't say that, though. I said that it makes sense if he's not a geek: non-geeks probably only want an appliance-like machine. It doesn't say anything about what geeks should or shouldn't want.
In other words, everyone made a logical error when reading my OP and assumed I meant something that I didn't say.
Everyone seems to have misunderstood my statement. I support this. I think the long-term move is toward appliancizing.
So he treats his computer like an appliance? That makes sense if he's not a geek.
Sorry you got no love for that. Slashdot sure has gotten less geeky the last couple of years.
It all sounded fine up until the intolerance part.
I don't know anything about stuff now and any numbers I did know are about ten years old and long gone into /brain/archive. Probably not useful to you.
My point was that the shit was good back then and has likely only gotten better,
Not trying to make anyone believe that I'm up on anything current. I think I was up front on the fact that I've been out for a while and that what I know should be out of date enough for me not to get into shit over it.
Heck, when I was in, the satellites were good, but we couldn't even officially admit that we had any. That was only about a decade ago, by the way.
You can get pissed at me for whatever you want. Unless you are with the U.S. government, I don't really care.