They're going to publish the log data which should prove interesting, but apparently he didn't charge the car completely. For a range test. If the log shows he didn't charge it all the way, then I'd call that quite a valid reason. It's borderline libel.
You can pay for a subscription with Pandora and get it ad free as a matter of fact. It cost me US$36.00 to do just that for one year. I can listen as much as I like without ads during that time. Not a bad deal really.
Incidentally, I do still buy MP3's of music I like that I hear on Pandora to put on an inexpensive MP3 player so I can listen while in places that taking a higher tech device is a very bad idea due to environmental concerns (sauna, steam room).
No you wouldn't, you think you would, but you wouldn't.
1. If you lose your phone, then all your work is gone.
False. Ubuntu has cloud storage built into it if you choose to use it.
2. If your program is going to run an anything but your phone you will need to move it off to another system anyways.
LOLWUT? You can compile for target architectures that are different from your own. This has been built into compilers for a very long time now.
Unless you are aware of this and meant that if the target architecture is anything other than your phone, you will have to move it off anyway. Still -- why would that matter? By the way, why would someone need to do this anyway? Canonical is shooting for a complete solution -- i.e. your phone IS your desktop when you need it to be.
3. Oddly enough you will not be happy with mainframe only features you are going to use the extra features your phone has and slow it right back to mainframe speed. At least the mainframe is designed for many people using the system anyways.
The latest phone architectures have quite a bit of computing power built into them. With smaller process manufacturing on the horizon, I'd say we'll see that power go up quite a bit soon.
4. Why the hell is your university still teaching software development on a mainframe, That was so out of date 20 years ago!
Not exactly. Mainframes still exist today. But just because programming work is being done on a mainframe doesn't mean much (see my reply to #2). But even still -- especially with intro classes, this is a very good thing because it puts all students on the same platform with the same guaranteed experience when they go to compile.
As many have mentioned, it depends on your requirements. My past experience with Samba leads me to believe that it will probably take some bug fixing after the point release to make the edges smooth.
I also wouldn't encourage forklift upgrading Active Directory with this unless you have a compelling reason to do so such as licensing issues with no budget to fix.
With the integrators that will put mindless GUIs on top of it in the coming years, I would guess it could be very good replacement for AD in many scenarios. There will always be some that won't such as third party apps that require AD and do not provide support for a Samba environment.
Personally, I got my start as an "IT Manager" for a small company and often needed to solve problems where I had hardware, but no software with zero budget. This was web servers (Apache) and a file server (Samba). From there, I used it for personal projects by renting an unmanaged server and doing everything on the CLI.
I got a bit lucky in that a short term contract at a major company involving both Windows and Linux servers got my foot in the door there and now I'm on the project team for rolling out new Linux servers. It was a mix of prior experience that got me the contract position that led to the Linux only one.
If you're looking to get your feet wet, rent an inexpensive VPS to run websites, FTP and other servers so you can point to real experience. Volunteer with your church or some other group that has IT needs but can't afford it. You can probably use someone at the organization as a reference.
By the way, in addition to learning to configure the software, you're going to want to learn how to bond interfaces and probably some FC storage stuff. It's still widely used in enterprises.
Why travel to another country? You can do that without going outside the USA. There's some shockingly poor areas of the country that if someone were to simply show you some photos, you'd swear it was from a third world country.
Sounds like this problem which seem like it's fixed in the latest patches that will likely get rolled into 12.10. Not sure if they'll get back-ported to 12.04:
The reason those companies failed had nothing to do with the GPL and everything to do with the state of the market at the time.
You also are missing something about Canonical. They don't charge a dime for their OS products. Not one penny. It's the support services, cloud storage and now a new app store where they make money. With their mobile moves on the horizon, they may yet make some hay where others failed. I wouldn't be so quick to lump them into the failed pile just yet.
If you go into about:config and look for browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo, you can reduce the number of closed tabs it keeps in resident memory. This is in case you accidentally close a tab and want to restore it (right-click on the tab bar and choose Undo Close Tab).
I think this should fix your problem of not releasing memory when closing tabs.
It's just an illustration, but just like it can be hard for humans to decipher a captcha, it could be hard to understand the logic -- Intel, AMD and NVIDIA are all companies where ATI was actually purchased by AMD and would thus make it superfluous.
If it were easy to answer, it would be easy for automation to crack it.
If you have a small-ish site that caters to a niche community where your target audience will share some knowledge that non-target folks don't have, a riddler where you can set the questions can work great. Just structure your questions in such a way that the answer is non-obvious in an automated way to all but the best AI engines.
For example, Phoronix could use a question like this --
Which of these is superfluous? Intel, ATI, NVIDIA, AMD
It's not a solution looking for a problem. The problem already exists -- TV makers integrating smart components serving up non-standard content (i.e. movies on demand, Pandora, Netflix, etc.).
The problem specifically is that all of the software I've seen pretty much sucks. They're TV companies and they should stick to what they do. Which leads us to other vendors. Google TV might be great, I don't know. Apple has their own hardware and always will. I'm not sure how many other integrators there are, but the emerging market is NOT saturated with software and content providers.
Couple the mobile/tablet moves Ubuntu is making and it's not really a big mystery where they WANT to go -- for lack of a better analogy, they want to be the Apple of the Linux world but focusing on the software and not the hardware.
This shouldn't really come as a surprise. For many people a mobile device and/or a tablet can serve as their only computing devices with their television being the other major visual outlet they spend their time using. If you're looking to expand your footprint and gain marketshare, it only follows you would want to move into the TV space. It's why Apple and Google are doing it.
Actually, you can legally have up to 1 watt (30 dBm) output into an antenna such that the gain doesn't cause your EIRP to exceed 4 watts (36 dBm). If you're output is lower, your gain on your antenna can be higher (i.e. high powered directional).
Now, if you want to operate illegally and say pump 1 watt into a 26 dBm gain directional antenna, you certainly can and will only face an issue if and only if the FCC is called to investigate strange interference issues or if you get real stupid and do something that would cause physical harm to someone. Odds of the FCC being called? Pretty small.
You can get a high output radio and put it into a high gain antenna and achieve impressive distance on P2P links. Try 25+ miles provided the right conditions -- i.e. if the two ends of the link are up high enough in the air. Heck, if one end of your link is high enough in the air (like on a mountain top) you could go 50 or 100 miles provided that the Fresnel zone was clear enough.
The closed drivers have serious quality issues with major regressions seemingly every other release.
The open drivers are making great strides, but the performance isn't there yet for newer cards. If you are using a pre-HD series card, you'll find pretty decent performance that often beats the closed driver.
Based on the progress I've seen over the last year, I would expect the performance for this new series of cards to be acceptable in a year or so for the simple fact that as they finish the code for older cards, much of the code base will help improve performance for newer ones.
1) The launch bar permanently docked on the left is a complete fail. If you find yourself moving your mouse to the left side of the screen often, you WILL get annoyed by the launch bar popping out. The result will be you clicking on something you had no intention of clicking on.
2) While we're on the subject of the slide out. Sometimes it doesn't unless you minimize EVERYTHING. Fail.
3) The File menu being at the top of the screen is cool until you tile a window and suddenly it seems alien that your window is in the middle of the screen, but your menu options are at the top.
4) Speaking of the File menu at the top, sometimes if you close your active window, the new File menu that appears at the top is not the actual active program that is now on your screen. It's some window hidden underneath.
5) Alt+Tab is now completely and hopelessly broken. Got multiple windows open of the same program? It's so full of fail on that task I can't even quite explain it. You'll just have to experience that misery for yourself.
There's lots more to hate about the latest Ubuntu incarnation. This is just the Unity fail list.
Mark Shuttleworth, you have a severely broken product. If you don't fix it, I promise your user base will shrink even more quickly than it grew.
Can't see a cost anywhere on that page, but if it isn't less than 75K, it's a waste of time. I can buy a Tesla Model S for about that that gets over 200 miles per charge. His gets 140. And if there are issues, he has to fix it (no warranty).
Building electric cars is not exceptionally difficult. Building one that doesn't suck that gets good range for a reasonable price is.
You seem to have an extreme misunderstanding of what freedom WRT the GPL actually means. It means freedom FROM the software for end users and freedom of the code FROM those who would subvert it for their own uses.
That seems to be where people get confused. The freedom is for the source code itself and the end users consuming it and NOT companies that seek to profit from it. Note this doesn't mean a company can't profit from code falling under the GPL, it just means you can't take code and pretend it's yours.
Nobody ever said the freedom meant "take the code and use it for whatever proprietary purposes you have in mind".
I've have my cell decide not to update for periods of many minutes. I've had emails waiting in queue and I think even FB posts waiting to go through. Looking at the data transmit bar, NOTHING was happening and then suddenly it started transmitting after a few minutes.
What I'm suggesting is that data usage logs could indeed show her FB post was happening while driving when in reality it could have been her phone in some kind of limbo waiting to update while sitting in her purse.
I think it makes great logical sense that heavily targeted advertising would be more successful than generalized advertising.
Have you ever been on a heavily populated beach resort area and seen one of the planes go by pulling an advertisement? Which do you think would be more effective for one of those planes in the dead of summer in a hot place -- an advertisement for tanning lotion or one for heavy winter coats?
I see targeted advertisement based on demographic data as an attempt to be smart in similar ways to target people. If done exactly right, I think it makes lots of sense it SHOULD work.
I guess we'll see if anybody has qualitative data to prove it does.
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Oh the lying liars and the lies they tell:
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive
They're going to publish the log data which should prove interesting, but apparently he didn't charge the car completely. For a range test. If the log shows he didn't charge it all the way, then I'd call that quite a valid reason. It's borderline libel.
Really? is that what you think? So you could take a binary from XP and run on CE? How about from Windows 8 and RT?
Let me help you out -- no and no.
That's exactly like what Ubuntu is striving for except that it's exactly the opposite.
You can pay for a subscription with Pandora and get it ad free as a matter of fact. It cost me US$36.00 to do just that for one year. I can listen as much as I like without ads during that time. Not a bad deal really.
Incidentally, I do still buy MP3's of music I like that I hear on Pandora to put on an inexpensive MP3 player so I can listen while in places that taking a higher tech device is a very bad idea due to environmental concerns (sauna, steam room).
No you wouldn't, you think you would, but you wouldn't.
1. If you lose your phone, then all your work is gone.
False. Ubuntu has cloud storage built into it if you choose to use it.
2. If your program is going to run an anything but your phone you will need to move it off to another system anyways.
LOLWUT? You can compile for target architectures that are different from your own. This has been built into compilers for a very long time now.
Unless you are aware of this and meant that if the target architecture is anything other than your phone, you will have to move it off anyway. Still -- why would that matter? By the way, why would someone need to do this anyway? Canonical is shooting for a complete solution -- i.e. your phone IS your desktop when you need it to be.
3. Oddly enough you will not be happy with mainframe only features you are going to use the extra features your phone has and slow it right back to mainframe speed. At least the mainframe is designed for many people using the system anyways.
The latest phone architectures have quite a bit of computing power built into them. With smaller process manufacturing on the horizon, I'd say we'll see that power go up quite a bit soon.
4. Why the hell is your university still teaching software development on a mainframe, That was so out of date 20 years ago!
Not exactly. Mainframes still exist today. But just because programming work is being done on a mainframe doesn't mean much (see my reply to #2). But even still -- especially with intro classes, this is a very good thing because it puts all students on the same platform with the same guaranteed experience when they go to compile.
I think folks using WINE/Crossover would disagree with the veracity of that list.
As many have mentioned, it depends on your requirements. My past experience with Samba leads me to believe that it will probably take some bug fixing after the point release to make the edges smooth.
I also wouldn't encourage forklift upgrading Active Directory with this unless you have a compelling reason to do so such as licensing issues with no budget to fix.
With the integrators that will put mindless GUIs on top of it in the coming years, I would guess it could be very good replacement for AD in many scenarios. There will always be some that won't such as third party apps that require AD and do not provide support for a Samba environment.
I used to recommend people to buy their computers. I actually specifically tell people "just about anything but Apple" now.
Congratulations Apple. You might have won this battle (for now, appeal pending) but I assure you that you've lost the war.
Personally, I got my start as an "IT Manager" for a small company and often needed to solve problems where I had hardware, but no software with zero budget. This was web servers (Apache) and a file server (Samba). From there, I used it for personal projects by renting an unmanaged server and doing everything on the CLI.
I got a bit lucky in that a short term contract at a major company involving both Windows and Linux servers got my foot in the door there and now I'm on the project team for rolling out new Linux servers. It was a mix of prior experience that got me the contract position that led to the Linux only one.
If you're looking to get your feet wet, rent an inexpensive VPS to run websites, FTP and other servers so you can point to real experience. Volunteer with your church or some other group that has IT needs but can't afford it. You can probably use someone at the organization as a reference.
By the way, in addition to learning to configure the software, you're going to want to learn how to bond interfaces and probably some FC storage stuff. It's still widely used in enterprises.
Why travel to another country? You can do that without going outside the USA. There's some shockingly poor areas of the country that if someone were to simply show you some photos, you'd swear it was from a third world country.
Who says you need to grow algae on land?
Sounds like this problem which seem like it's fixed in the latest patches that will likely get rolled into 12.10. Not sure if they'll get back-ported to 12.04:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/933289
The reason those companies failed had nothing to do with the GPL and everything to do with the state of the market at the time.
You also are missing something about Canonical. They don't charge a dime for their OS products. Not one penny. It's the support services, cloud storage and now a new app store where they make money. With their mobile moves on the horizon, they may yet make some hay where others failed. I wouldn't be so quick to lump them into the failed pile just yet.
If you go into about:config and look for browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo, you can reduce the number of closed tabs it keeps in resident memory. This is in case you accidentally close a tab and want to restore it (right-click on the tab bar and choose Undo Close Tab).
I think this should fix your problem of not releasing memory when closing tabs.
It's just an illustration, but just like it can be hard for humans to decipher a captcha, it could be hard to understand the logic -- Intel, AMD and NVIDIA are all companies where ATI was actually purchased by AMD and would thus make it superfluous.
If it were easy to answer, it would be easy for automation to crack it.
If you have a small-ish site that caters to a niche community where your target audience will share some knowledge that non-target folks don't have, a riddler where you can set the questions can work great. Just structure your questions in such a way that the answer is non-obvious in an automated way to all but the best AI engines.
For example, Phoronix could use a question like this --
Which of these is superfluous? Intel, ATI, NVIDIA, AMD
It's not a solution looking for a problem. The problem already exists -- TV makers integrating smart components serving up non-standard content (i.e. movies on demand, Pandora, Netflix, etc.).
The problem specifically is that all of the software I've seen pretty much sucks. They're TV companies and they should stick to what they do. Which leads us to other vendors. Google TV might be great, I don't know. Apple has their own hardware and always will. I'm not sure how many other integrators there are, but the emerging market is NOT saturated with software and content providers.
Couple the mobile/tablet moves Ubuntu is making and it's not really a big mystery where they WANT to go -- for lack of a better analogy, they want to be the Apple of the Linux world but focusing on the software and not the hardware.
This shouldn't really come as a surprise. For many people a mobile device and/or a tablet can serve as their only computing devices with their television being the other major visual outlet they spend their time using. If you're looking to expand your footprint and gain marketshare, it only follows you would want to move into the TV space. It's why Apple and Google are doing it.
Actually, you can legally have up to 1 watt (30 dBm) output into an antenna such that the gain doesn't cause your EIRP to exceed 4 watts (36 dBm). If you're output is lower, your gain on your antenna can be higher (i.e. high powered directional).
Now, if you want to operate illegally and say pump 1 watt into a 26 dBm gain directional antenna, you certainly can and will only face an issue if and only if the FCC is called to investigate strange interference issues or if you get real stupid and do something that would cause physical harm to someone. Odds of the FCC being called? Pretty small.
You can get a high output radio and put it into a high gain antenna and achieve impressive distance on P2P links. Try 25+ miles provided the right conditions -- i.e. if the two ends of the link are up high enough in the air. Heck, if one end of your link is high enough in the air (like on a mountain top) you could go 50 or 100 miles provided that the Fresnel zone was clear enough.
The closed drivers have serious quality issues with major regressions seemingly every other release.
The open drivers are making great strides, but the performance isn't there yet for newer cards. If you are using a pre-HD series card, you'll find pretty decent performance that often beats the closed driver.
Based on the progress I've seen over the last year, I would expect the performance for this new series of cards to be acceptable in a year or so for the simple fact that as they finish the code for older cards, much of the code base will help improve performance for newer ones.
http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
1) The launch bar permanently docked on the left is a complete fail. If you find yourself moving your mouse to the left side of the screen often, you WILL get annoyed by the launch bar popping out. The result will be you clicking on something you had no intention of clicking on.
2) While we're on the subject of the slide out. Sometimes it doesn't unless you minimize EVERYTHING. Fail.
3) The File menu being at the top of the screen is cool until you tile a window and suddenly it seems alien that your window is in the middle of the screen, but your menu options are at the top.
4) Speaking of the File menu at the top, sometimes if you close your active window, the new File menu that appears at the top is not the actual active program that is now on your screen. It's some window hidden underneath.
5) Alt+Tab is now completely and hopelessly broken. Got multiple windows open of the same program? It's so full of fail on that task I can't even quite explain it. You'll just have to experience that misery for yourself.
There's lots more to hate about the latest Ubuntu incarnation. This is just the Unity fail list.
Mark Shuttleworth, you have a severely broken product. If you don't fix it, I promise your user base will shrink even more quickly than it grew.
Can't see a cost anywhere on that page, but if it isn't less than 75K, it's a waste of time. I can buy a Tesla Model S for about that that gets over 200 miles per charge. His gets 140. And if there are issues, he has to fix it (no warranty).
Building electric cars is not exceptionally difficult. Building one that doesn't suck that gets good range for a reasonable price is.
You seem to have an extreme misunderstanding of what freedom WRT the GPL actually means. It means freedom FROM the software for end users and freedom of the code FROM those who would subvert it for their own uses.
That seems to be where people get confused. The freedom is for the source code itself and the end users consuming it and NOT companies that seek to profit from it. Note this doesn't mean a company can't profit from code falling under the GPL, it just means you can't take code and pretend it's yours.
Nobody ever said the freedom meant "take the code and use it for whatever proprietary purposes you have in mind".
You say that as if it's a trivial thing to do.
I've have my cell decide not to update for periods of many minutes. I've had emails waiting in queue and I think even FB posts waiting to go through. Looking at the data transmit bar, NOTHING was happening and then suddenly it started transmitting after a few minutes.
What I'm suggesting is that data usage logs could indeed show her FB post was happening while driving when in reality it could have been her phone in some kind of limbo waiting to update while sitting in her purse.
I think it makes great logical sense that heavily targeted advertising would be more successful than generalized advertising.
Have you ever been on a heavily populated beach resort area and seen one of the planes go by pulling an advertisement? Which do you think would be more effective for one of those planes in the dead of summer in a hot place -- an advertisement for tanning lotion or one for heavy winter coats?
I see targeted advertisement based on demographic data as an attempt to be smart in similar ways to target people. If done exactly right, I think it makes lots of sense it SHOULD work.
I guess we'll see if anybody has qualitative data to prove it does.