As someone who didn't read books like Neuromancer or Snow Crash until the early 2000's I don't know about this. The books were originally done in a time when the internet and virtual reality were something people thought they were more than they really are, ideas that lead to such nonsense as the latest Tron movie where a virtual world somehow creates it's own life form and can then come to...our life...Besides a lot of updating would need to take place, remember Johnny Mnemonic could only hold 160GB in his head and that was AFTER a "doubler" was applied...
I would chuckle if they had Keanu do some type of a cameo as Johnny in the movie though his character isn't in that book, I think Molly is the only one who is in all the stories IIRC...
So with that if Gnome wanted to make their own GnomeOS and then Fedora/CentOS/Ubuntu/whoever would have to do their own ports of the Gnome GUI who does it bother? No one. Sure at some point I'd have to reinstall my machine with GnomeXYZ instead of Fedora, but I have no invested interest in Fedora over CentOS or whoever. I use Fedora simply because I used to use RH and I prefer typing yum instead of apt-get, that's it. I don't really care about the various differences between flavors as all I use on my system is VI and BlueFish to edit various file types, Firefox, Chrome and Opera for Browser testing. My day job is managing Drupal/Wordpress sites so I'm rarely ever needing anything more than Firefox, Filezilla and my console to work in. If you broke into my home and swapped my Fedora OS with a CentOS one I probably wouldn't notice or care.
I've been very impressed with Gnome3 on my Fedora box as it's somewhat similar to my Apple machine with it's expose features, which is my favored environment. KDE has always just looked like a linux version of WIndows to me and sure you can configure it a gazilion different ways, but I don't enjoy fiddling with my computer. (Apple guy remember, I plug shit in and it works.) But more so Gnome3 has had my wife (a non techie person) feeling very comfortable using the machine as she bounces between my Apple and the Fedora laptop I bring with us on trips. That to me is a win - having my wife embrace an "alternative desktop".
So all that to say, if Gnome made their own distro, those who like Gnome would probably continue to use it, those who don't like Gnome probably won't. The end result is life moves on and causing all this internet ruckus just makes all you nerds look silly:P
I often have either the SyFy or Discovery channels always on in the background as I'm on my computer, lately the Discovery channel has taken over...While I admit I chuckle at the Mutant versus Monster and psuedo-remake of current movies (like 2012, but not the real 2012 that was released in theaters) I can't imagine actually having to pay for this channel. It's a collection of not very good things.
IMO the shows mentioned in the blurb here were terribad. Caprica (no thanks), SG:U (puke), SG:A (space vampires weee), SG (was good for the first few seasons then went downhill). Eureka - campy, but alright, it is a good fit on a free nerdy network. Sanctuary - meh, it's not a great show, not really good, but it's cheap and easy to make so it's not going anywhere. Warehouse 13 - similar to Eureka (and set in the same world as they do cross-overs) but it's not like an "omg this show is great".
Occasionally the SyFy channel will get a decent show, like BSG, but it doesn't market it well and ultimately it does little to actually benefit the network, because they don't know what to do with good shows. Hell if they knew what to do with a good show, they would have played Firefly in order and it'd done well.
Let's just be honest, SyFy is the place for misfit toys that nobody wants and to think it'd actually be able to get people to pay for it is wishful thinking at best.
Seriously. With the exception of certain legal documents (which should be converted to a secure digital format of some kind) why do we *need* to try and save/rely on paper mail? What possible benefit is there?
I check my mail every day, not because I actually get mail every day, but because every local store and service provider in the area send me crap that fills up my box. I immediately toss all of this into the garbage (not the recycling because the garbage is what is next to our mailboxes at my complex and I don't want to carry all this crap back to my flat).
I get maybe one or two pieces of mail a week that is actually for me, they are all bills for services that for whatever reason won't go completely paperless, even though I pay them online.
I don't see the value in this, it basically means they'd be taxing the people who have to commute to work. I myself have a 30 to 45 minute commute each day. My car is very fuel efficient though (32MPG on average), but why should I pay more than say someone who buys a gas guzzler (10MPG) but doesn't have to commute to work? And the commute thing isn't so much by choice than by it's better than any other offer I've had in my direct area by far.
I think gas tax is currently "fair", but if they just want to keep putting more taxes on the middle and lower class people then I guess this idea makes sense...
Dropbox is ideal for transferring large amounts of things like photos, pdfs, artwork and in general non-sensitive information that just needs to get from person A to person B without having to rely/setup/use FTP or email.
At my last job we mostly used it to transfer/archive press releases in Word and PDF format as well as some design files so that our other departments (not always in the same building or city) could grab them easily. Nothing with sensitive information was ever stored on it.
I don't really see why libraries are holding onto actual books these days anyway. Seems like the best thing to do would be get rid of the paper, make more room for public readings and other events that happen at libraries and then have the entire book library all digital in PDF and ePub formats for each book. That way you could read whatever you want on whatever device you have.
I'm all in favor of Google standardizing Android hardware. As it is right now it's a nightmare when doing UI Design compared to doing UI design for the iPhone. With the iPhone it's nice because every phone using the same screen size. On the droid not only are the screen sizes different, but the aspect ratio is not consistent either, so it's not a simple choice of designing one interface that can scale, you're stuck creating multiple interfaces. I think standardizing the hardware, at least screen sizes, would actually encourage app development (or at least more iPhone app ports to droid).
It's a cool app, but doesn't do what I need. I actually need RSS support in the sense of...I need to see feed urls like every other browser. For example, one of the things I do at work is include submitted feeds to our website. Many people send in direct links to RSS feeds, which is fine, but equally as many people send over just their site url, which means i need to visit their site and look at their feed, grab the url and include it on our end. On IE and FF and Opera it's easy enough to go to www.theirsite.com, click the rss icon, copy+paste the feedburner or xml link and enter it on my end. I can't do that on chrome and that's just silly to me.
Ever since the last 3.6 update I've had a ridiculous amount of crashes with FF when viewing any site that has some flash ad or element on it. As a result I've almost completely stopped using it with exception to check browser compatibility issues. Now that I know it's going to be requesting updates every quarter this year I'm having a hard time trying to figure out why any user would really want to stick with this browser.
Hell, IE8 seems to run more stable, and chrome has become my default browser of choice. The only thing I don't like about chrome is it's lack of good RSS support, but these days I'm finding myself using that feature less and less in my browsers, instead I just use RSS on my phone for "quick reading" on the light rail to work.
Just because the Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt and Tesla are being made doesn't mean that me and the rest of the country are going to spend, or even have the means, of buying a $35k, $50k or $100k car that doesn't perform as well in mileage, safety and environmental impact as say my Subara Forester which only cost me $20k.
For example, I actually got to go to a Nissan Leaf event and test drive one http://www.michaelghurston.com/2010/10/test-drive-the-nissan-leaf/ - the car had some cool features, but it has some serious impractical features that would cause my life to revolve around my car instead of my car being something to get me from point a to point b.
How is it that these test prove the existence of ghost anyway? Or rather...How does an area dropping in temperature drastically in one area equate to the presence of ghost activity?
I suppose it's all in how you're defining paranormal (either ghost or just dark matter), but in either case here is why I think Ghost Hunters is retarded in general. They say that if an orb or light appears and the temperature drops around it and voices are recorded that this evidence of a ghost. I say, it's clearly evidence of a man in an invisible suit. Or proof of an alien or proof of god, or some other mythical creature.
The bottom line is that there are unexplained phenomenon in the world, but this doesn't mean ghosts. Not that there couldn't be ghosts, just saying these fringe scientists need to work on these practices a bit better.
I actually agree with the AC...I'm not seeing the correlation between someone using pirated Photoshop to create artwork for profit is being a hypocrite...I mean if someone stole some paintbrushes and a canvas from an art store and sold the painting, how is that a hypocrite?
They could only be a hypocrite if the painting or artwork was stolen and they complained about that.
The music analogy makes more sense at least, especially with how most musicians today are just covering or sampling old songs with pirated software and complaining about making a million bucks instead of several million bucks for what took them a month while being stoned to create.
Seriously, did anyone actually read the article before this got posted? Huns, Romans, Star Trek and not one actual fact, just gross speculation that somehow $1 iPhone games is going to make Adobe Creative Suite and World of Warcraft cost $2...um...no.
I have a feeling most sites I frequent are going to fall into the "intermediate" category, though from a SEO perspective you typically want to keep your site content basic and easy to understand. Obviously a site dedicated to molecular physics would require pages that should probably be classified as "advanced" but not every page on the site would, so unless Google is planning on adding more site links to each domain they show in search results, I don't see how this will result in accurate listings or ultimately even add any benefit to search in general. But kudo's to thinking outside the box and testing it on the masses.
My laptop runs Fedora right now which is what I use for work, writing and web browsing. I have a partition set aside for Windows because I like to play some PC games, primarily WoW, LOTRO, DDO and STO (mostly WoW, though I write about MMO's in general so I kind of have to check in with them...anyway...)
With my current setup I fail to see why I would consider ChromeOS as a possible third boot, or for anything really.
Now, if ChromeOS came out of the box and ran things like OpenOffice, GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus or alternatively Office, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I'd probably replace Fedora, if it could run WoW, I'd probably replace Windows. unfortunately, Chrome offers me nothing. Hell, even my Apple desktop runs almost everything my Windows side does.
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As someone who didn't read books like Neuromancer or Snow Crash until the early 2000's I don't know about this. The books were originally done in a time when the internet and virtual reality were something people thought they were more than they really are, ideas that lead to such nonsense as the latest Tron movie where a virtual world somehow creates it's own life form and can then come to...our life...Besides a lot of updating would need to take place, remember Johnny Mnemonic could only hold 160GB in his head and that was AFTER a "doubler" was applied...
I would chuckle if they had Keanu do some type of a cameo as Johnny in the movie though his character isn't in that book, I think Molly is the only one who is in all the stories IIRC...
Actually, for real I do. Let me explain...
So with that if Gnome wanted to make their own GnomeOS and then Fedora/CentOS/Ubuntu/whoever would have to do their own ports of the Gnome GUI who does it bother? No one. Sure at some point I'd have to reinstall my machine with GnomeXYZ instead of Fedora, but I have no invested interest in Fedora over CentOS or whoever. I use Fedora simply because I used to use RH and I prefer typing yum instead of apt-get, that's it. I don't really care about the various differences between flavors as all I use on my system is VI and BlueFish to edit various file types, Firefox, Chrome and Opera for Browser testing. My day job is managing Drupal/Wordpress sites so I'm rarely ever needing anything more than Firefox, Filezilla and my console to work in. If you broke into my home and swapped my Fedora OS with a CentOS one I probably wouldn't notice or care.
I've been very impressed with Gnome3 on my Fedora box as it's somewhat similar to my Apple machine with it's expose features, which is my favored environment. KDE has always just looked like a linux version of WIndows to me and sure you can configure it a gazilion different ways, but I don't enjoy fiddling with my computer. (Apple guy remember, I plug shit in and it works.) But more so Gnome3 has had my wife (a non techie person) feeling very comfortable using the machine as she bounces between my Apple and the Fedora laptop I bring with us on trips. That to me is a win - having my wife embrace an "alternative desktop".
So all that to say, if Gnome made their own distro, those who like Gnome would probably continue to use it, those who don't like Gnome probably won't. The end result is life moves on and causing all this internet ruckus just makes all you nerds look silly :P
But it does make things a lot easier for testing the display of your work in a maximized view without having to switch between windows.
People watch people play Starcraft? Oh this is just a Korean thing...they have weird fascinations with games that other cultures don't.
They can pay the balance of the trade in of my PS3 for my Xbox :P
I often have either the SyFy or Discovery channels always on in the background as I'm on my computer, lately the Discovery channel has taken over...While I admit I chuckle at the Mutant versus Monster and psuedo-remake of current movies (like 2012, but not the real 2012 that was released in theaters) I can't imagine actually having to pay for this channel. It's a collection of not very good things.
IMO the shows mentioned in the blurb here were terribad. Caprica (no thanks), SG:U (puke), SG:A (space vampires weee), SG (was good for the first few seasons then went downhill). Eureka - campy, but alright, it is a good fit on a free nerdy network. Sanctuary - meh, it's not a great show, not really good, but it's cheap and easy to make so it's not going anywhere. Warehouse 13 - similar to Eureka (and set in the same world as they do cross-overs) but it's not like an "omg this show is great".
Occasionally the SyFy channel will get a decent show, like BSG, but it doesn't market it well and ultimately it does little to actually benefit the network, because they don't know what to do with good shows. Hell if they knew what to do with a good show, they would have played Firefly in order and it'd done well.
Let's just be honest, SyFy is the place for misfit toys that nobody wants and to think it'd actually be able to get people to pay for it is wishful thinking at best.
Seriously. With the exception of certain legal documents (which should be converted to a secure digital format of some kind) why do we *need* to try and save/rely on paper mail? What possible benefit is there?
I check my mail every day, not because I actually get mail every day, but because every local store and service provider in the area send me crap that fills up my box. I immediately toss all of this into the garbage (not the recycling because the garbage is what is next to our mailboxes at my complex and I don't want to carry all this crap back to my flat).
I get maybe one or two pieces of mail a week that is actually for me, they are all bills for services that for whatever reason won't go completely paperless, even though I pay them online.
I don't see the value in this, it basically means they'd be taxing the people who have to commute to work. I myself have a 30 to 45 minute commute each day. My car is very fuel efficient though (32MPG on average), but why should I pay more than say someone who buys a gas guzzler (10MPG) but doesn't have to commute to work? And the commute thing isn't so much by choice than by it's better than any other offer I've had in my direct area by far.
I think gas tax is currently "fair", but if they just want to keep putting more taxes on the middle and lower class people then I guess this idea makes sense...
There firewall is fully operational!
Was convicted of Fraud before and tried to do this same thing in 2003. I have serious doubts to any validity of this.
Dropbox is ideal for transferring large amounts of things like photos, pdfs, artwork and in general non-sensitive information that just needs to get from person A to person B without having to rely/setup/use FTP or email.
At my last job we mostly used it to transfer/archive press releases in Word and PDF format as well as some design files so that our other departments (not always in the same building or city) could grab them easily. Nothing with sensitive information was ever stored on it.
I don't really see why libraries are holding onto actual books these days anyway. Seems like the best thing to do would be get rid of the paper, make more room for public readings and other events that happen at libraries and then have the entire book library all digital in PDF and ePub formats for each book. That way you could read whatever you want on whatever device you have.
I'm all in favor of Google standardizing Android hardware. As it is right now it's a nightmare when doing UI Design compared to doing UI design for the iPhone. With the iPhone it's nice because every phone using the same screen size. On the droid not only are the screen sizes different, but the aspect ratio is not consistent either, so it's not a simple choice of designing one interface that can scale, you're stuck creating multiple interfaces. I think standardizing the hardware, at least screen sizes, would actually encourage app development (or at least more iPhone app ports to droid).
It's a cool app, but doesn't do what I need. I actually need RSS support in the sense of...I need to see feed urls like every other browser. For example, one of the things I do at work is include submitted feeds to our website. Many people send in direct links to RSS feeds, which is fine, but equally as many people send over just their site url, which means i need to visit their site and look at their feed, grab the url and include it on our end. On IE and FF and Opera it's easy enough to go to www.theirsite.com, click the rss icon, copy+paste the feedburner or xml link and enter it on my end. I can't do that on chrome and that's just silly to me.
"As long as I don't notice it and it's not malicious I don't care."
- Most End Users.
Ever since the last 3.6 update I've had a ridiculous amount of crashes with FF when viewing any site that has some flash ad or element on it. As a result I've almost completely stopped using it with exception to check browser compatibility issues. Now that I know it's going to be requesting updates every quarter this year I'm having a hard time trying to figure out why any user would really want to stick with this browser.
Hell, IE8 seems to run more stable, and chrome has become my default browser of choice. The only thing I don't like about chrome is it's lack of good RSS support, but these days I'm finding myself using that feature less and less in my browsers, instead I just use RSS on my phone for "quick reading" on the light rail to work.
I think things are evil if I find them attractive, easy to work with and provide me with enjoyment too.
OMG Women are iPhone!
Just because the Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt and Tesla are being made doesn't mean that me and the rest of the country are going to spend, or even have the means, of buying a $35k, $50k or $100k car that doesn't perform as well in mileage, safety and environmental impact as say my Subara Forester which only cost me $20k.
For example, I actually got to go to a Nissan Leaf event and test drive one http://www.michaelghurston.com/2010/10/test-drive-the-nissan-leaf/ - the car had some cool features, but it has some serious impractical features that would cause my life to revolve around my car instead of my car being something to get me from point a to point b.
How is it that these test prove the existence of ghost anyway? Or rather...How does an area dropping in temperature drastically in one area equate to the presence of ghost activity?
I suppose it's all in how you're defining paranormal (either ghost or just dark matter), but in either case here is why I think Ghost Hunters is retarded in general. They say that if an orb or light appears and the temperature drops around it and voices are recorded that this evidence of a ghost. I say, it's clearly evidence of a man in an invisible suit. Or proof of an alien or proof of god, or some other mythical creature.
The bottom line is that there are unexplained phenomenon in the world, but this doesn't mean ghosts. Not that there couldn't be ghosts, just saying these fringe scientists need to work on these practices a bit better.
I wanted to insert an ascii pic of my mind being blown, but instead you'll just have to settle for me telling you I was going to do that.
I actually agree with the AC...I'm not seeing the correlation between someone using pirated Photoshop to create artwork for profit is being a hypocrite...I mean if someone stole some paintbrushes and a canvas from an art store and sold the painting, how is that a hypocrite?
They could only be a hypocrite if the painting or artwork was stolen and they complained about that.
The music analogy makes more sense at least, especially with how most musicians today are just covering or sampling old songs with pirated software and complaining about making a million bucks instead of several million bucks for what took them a month while being stoned to create.
Seriously, did anyone actually read the article before this got posted? Huns, Romans, Star Trek and not one actual fact, just gross speculation that somehow $1 iPhone games is going to make Adobe Creative Suite and World of Warcraft cost $2...um...no.
The Stargate series started off great, but it should have ended long before Atlantis even kicked off, let alone Universe.
I have a feeling most sites I frequent are going to fall into the "intermediate" category, though from a SEO perspective you typically want to keep your site content basic and easy to understand. Obviously a site dedicated to molecular physics would require pages that should probably be classified as "advanced" but not every page on the site would, so unless Google is planning on adding more site links to each domain they show in search results, I don't see how this will result in accurate listings or ultimately even add any benefit to search in general. But kudo's to thinking outside the box and testing it on the masses.
I completely agree.
My laptop runs Fedora right now which is what I use for work, writing and web browsing. I have a partition set aside for Windows because I like to play some PC games, primarily WoW, LOTRO, DDO and STO (mostly WoW, though I write about MMO's in general so I kind of have to check in with them...anyway...)
With my current setup I fail to see why I would consider ChromeOS as a possible third boot, or for anything really.
Now, if ChromeOS came out of the box and ran things like OpenOffice, GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus or alternatively Office, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I'd probably replace Fedora, if it could run WoW, I'd probably replace Windows. unfortunately, Chrome offers me nothing. Hell, even my Apple desktop runs almost everything my Windows side does.