true, vim will run anywhere, unfortunately my company view vim as a security risk because they believe any user can open a root shell so they only allow vi..
Any discussion about this topic should NOT talk about organ "Harvesting". It is NOT harvesting, it's recycling and reusing something that you no longer have any need of.
Say whatever you like about Tesla,I would FUCKING love one. If only I had 3X my salary sitting around doing nothing in my bank account so I could buy one!
Well duh, of course you're an easy target Apple is one of the most profitable companies on the planet (if not THE most profitable) They earn millions or even billions of Euro revenue each year and pay less tax than a jar of Marmite. So yeah, it was pretty obvious Apple was doing a massive (moral, if not also legal) tax dodge.
I'm quite conflicted by this: On the one hand, if it works as advertised, this is incredibly cool and insanely clever. Yet, on the other hand, I ask myself, what on earth is the point? In reality, how often would you ever have a phone (or video) call with someone who doesn't speak your language, nor your speak theirs? I mean, maybe if you have that burning need to talk to your young Russian/Thai/Vietnamese etc.bride you bought on the Internet who doesn't speak a word of . Just to ensure she's still patiently waiting to get her green card in the mail, then sure, I can see that being a thing. But I can't think of another reason.
To be a real alternative to Windows 10 I would say any OS needs:
Seemless integration with Active Directory Ability to be remotely managed easily: Software push/update Some kind of user restriction for permissions (possibly) something equivalent to AD's roaming profiles Easy management of remote drives and folders (both from a sys-admin and user perspective) Seemless integration with groupware email/calendar services (e.g. Microsoft Exchange)
In all honesty, I haven't checked if Zorin has all these, if it does. Amazing. However, in my experience Linux (sadly) doesn't yet provide the same ease of use/manageability in a networked office environment that windows does.
Not necessary Euro; It's a global standard that has (almost) literally been adopted by every country in the world.
Futhermore it's a standard that was created by the (then) 3 major players in the card payment process Eurocard Mastercard Visa The last 2 being American by the way.
So the fact that America hasn't adopted a global standard that was essentially created by Americans is, I think you'll agree, somewhat ironic?
The time it takes to get authorisation from the bank is actually the same amount of time for chip+pin as mag stripe. The authorisation message is pretty much exactly the same. With Chip and Pin the PIN verification is done by the terminal. In Europe, if you enter your pin 3 times it writes a block to the chip and you can't then use your card again without going to an ATM (and using the correct pin) [this then DOES send a pin verification message to the card issue who sends back a PIN UNBLOCK message to the card) The bank doesn't (in a POS redemption transaction) authenticate the card PIN. (It does with a withdrawal at an ATM or for transactions done over web authentication (typically)) but even in a web authentication message the authorisation should take the same amount of time.
It "may" take a little longer to insert your card and enter a pin than swiping and signing (although I personally think that's somewhat debatable). The reading of the chip by the POS takes fractionally longer but there is also potentially a huge amount more information that a chip can store.
This all becomes a non-issue of course when you start to use contactless payments, which (as far as I'm aware can only occur with chip/pin or virtual card PANs from NFC phone payments e.g. Apple/Android pay). The authorisation still takes the same amount of time but the contactless part of that is almost instant.
The EMV chip and Pin standard has been adopted globally to significantly reduce fraud, which it has. I've really no idea why the USA went for chip and signature as the signature part had been shown to be insecure for years. Like the parent poster said, if the USA does a half-arsed adoption of a global standard that has been proven to work pretty well (it's not perfect, but was a huge step up from mag-stripe) then it really only has itself to blame if it doesn't work out.
When I did my Degree in HCI 20 years ago, this was the touted as the way to get the best results when building usable, user-centric systems.
Sadly in the two decades since, I don't think I've ever come across a system - hardware, software, app, or anything else for that matter, that actually develops this way. Which is a shame because if they had, my elderly mother could have probably been able to use a PC by now, intead of "What you mean I have to move that little arrow thing All the way over there and press what?"
I've always wondered why, if we can send balloons to the upper reaches of our atmosphere why we don't use ballooning as a 1st stage launch platform for reaching space?
Granted, you'll need big balloons to life satellites or people, but surely getting stuff even 1/3rd or half way there by gentle gas lift balloon would be cheaper, easier, safer and more environmentally friendly way of launching into space. For launching people it's got to be a far less physically stressful way than strapping them to a giant firework as it pulls x number of Gees to reach high altitude and hoping it doesn't explode on the way.And far less risky for satellite launches, it a rocket fails it's a fireball, it a balloon sprouts a leak it's a slow and gentle drop with a parachute)
Obviously you'll still need some form of propulsion to reach space, but until we get a space elevator it's surely a going to require far less fuel than the massive amount currently needed to get off the ground in the first place?
Having recently ditched our fuel eating Saab 95 estate (automatic) that averaged 22-25mpg, we've now got a Saab 93 Sportwagon diesel (dreadful name, but nice car)
We've been testing it's mpg a lot recently. Town driving it gets 35-40mpg depending on conditions and traffic. This at speed averaging around 30mph.
On Motorways at 70mph, consumption is about 40-42mpg.. at 60mph we easily get 51-53mpg.
The economy savings between 70 and 60mph are quite considerable.
At £1.20 a litre (for diesel) that makes quite a difference on a long journey.
I always believed that cars optimum fuel economy had gotten better at higher speeds, but that's clearly not the case in my Saab.
it might be a Vauxhall/Opel Vectra underneath, but it's still a nice car to drive!
Want to use your favourite software (photoshop, dreamweaver, GTA 4 etc: nope, that's for windows and/or mac only.
Want to buy new hardware... well you can if you scour the internet for days finding out if it's compatible; you can't just pop down pcworld one saturday afternoon and pick something up and know it'll work.
Want to use Ubuntu without broadband... nah it's not really designed that way, you'll be waiting days to install anything..
Want to install some software... sure... if you broadband no problem... oh, but it might install the software anywhere on your system... good luck learning to grep it. Fat chance if your friend has just given you a cdrom with software on it!
want to play games.... err... well... no.. not really, but hey we've got solitaire!!!
What about installing applications from magazine's cover disc (like what you can do with windows and osx)... err no, you probably can't do that either... as you'll have to compile something or other and you probably haven't got all the right library headers or something.
want to do anything other than surf the web and run openoffice... get used to using the terminal (still)
KDE and Gnome have come on in leaps and bounds, linux itself has come on enormously in recent years.. but it's still so so far away from being a user friendly OS for regular joes. (just looka the filesystem, it's still a throwback to the 1970s and is virtually unintelligible to non linux folk
WE might all think linux it's the dog's bollocks but we read./ so by definition we're GEEKS and already technicaly minded... the rest of the world doesn't think like us!
actually i *prefer* the arcade version (in mame) but I play on flash app games on my google home page and on my phone (nokia n95)
currently I'm being driven insane by *I want to be the guy* the hardest game I've ever seen in my life. Graphically, it's very very 8-bit retro 80s/early 90s. but there is something in it that just makes me play it again and again and again and again.
but sure. you're right... graphics can take a good game and make it be magnificent.
actually I disagree. My wife plays tetris every single day. One game before whilst having her coffee and one before bed. I have clients who play have tetris all the time (ok, as a therapist I do see a lot of people with OCD, but that aside, I do come across a lot of people who play nothing but tetris)
I play pacman perhaps more than any other game bar Tremulous (which takes up a LOT of my gaming)
I play it on Mame (original, ms pacman and pacmania too) I play it in a flash app on my google home page I play it on my phone (Nokia n95) and before that on my nokia 3200 and before that on my Sony Ericsson k700i and before that... well you get the idea!
I STILL play starcraft a lot- and that's what... 10 years old?
maybe when you're talking about console games, the demographic is different... but again, I come across a lot of people (oddly mostly women) with DS-Lite's who have 3 "games" that they play all the time: Brain Training/ More Braining and sight training...
I think you're right in a way, lots of hard core gamers want hard core games. But a good simple, pick up and play, game is still a great game every time.
Paradoxically, at a moment when technology allows designers to create ever more complex and realistic single-player fantasies, the growth in the now $18 billion gaming market is in simple, user-friendly experiences that families and friends can enjoy together.'
Finally maybe the games industry will realise that great graphis does not equal a great game. It's always been about the gameplay. It's that certain something something that means you can pick it up and get hooked and just keep on playing.
Where are the great graphics in Tetris, in Pac Man, and others. Games that are constantly played all over the world all the time. They're simple, easy to play, hard to master fun games.
It seems like none of the people who design ebook systems have ever been in a used book store or a library, or have ever lent a favorite book to a friend.
of course they have. and the first thing they thought was "this bookshop is stealing revenue from us, STop them!"
perhaps the reason that people still need to buy CDs.
1 - Internet is not unbiquitous
2 - Broadband is NOT uiniversal
3 - BRoadband in many places comes with usage caps. listening to internet radio therefore becomes expensive (not just for extra bandwidth that might be needed, but the "cost" to your overall usage allowance..
4 - CD players are still in cars
5 - Buying Cds mean you can rip to your own device (mp3 player, backup for car/home, put on your PVR etc)
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"The [entry level] 21.5-inch iMac will start at $1099" :
Entry level for $1110
LMFAO
true, vim will run anywhere, unfortunately my company view vim as a security risk because they believe any user can open a root shell so they only allow vi..
vi !=vim :(
Any discussion about this topic should NOT talk about organ "Harvesting". It is NOT harvesting, it's recycling and reusing something that you no longer have any need of.
Say whatever you like about Tesla,I would FUCKING love one. If only I had 3X my salary sitting around doing nothing in my bank account so I could buy one!
Well duh, of course you're an easy target
Apple is one of the most profitable companies on the planet (if not THE most profitable)
They earn millions or even billions of Euro revenue each year and pay less tax than a jar of Marmite. So yeah, it was pretty obvious Apple was doing a massive (moral, if not also legal) tax dodge.
I'm quite conflicted by this:
On the one hand, if it works as advertised, this is incredibly cool and insanely clever.
Yet, on the other hand, I ask myself, what on earth is the point?
In reality, how often would you ever have a phone (or video) call with someone who doesn't speak your language, nor your speak theirs? I mean, maybe if you have that burning need to talk to your young Russian/Thai/Vietnamese etc.bride you bought on the Internet who doesn't speak a word of . Just to ensure she's still patiently waiting to get her green card in the mail, then sure, I can see that being a thing. But I can't think of another reason.
To be a real alternative to Windows 10 I would say any OS needs:
Seemless integration with Active Directory
Ability to be remotely managed easily:
Software push/update
Some kind of user restriction for permissions
(possibly) something equivalent to AD's roaming profiles
Easy management of remote drives and folders (both from a sys-admin and user perspective)
Seemless integration with groupware email/calendar services (e.g. Microsoft Exchange)
In all honesty, I haven't checked if Zorin has all these, if it does. Amazing. However, in my experience Linux (sadly) doesn't yet provide the same ease of use/manageability in a networked office environment that windows does.
Not necessary Euro; It's a global standard that has (almost) literally been adopted by every country in the world.
Futhermore it's a standard that was created by the (then) 3 major players in the card payment process
Eurocard
Mastercard
Visa
The last 2 being American by the way.
So the fact that America hasn't adopted a global standard that was essentially created by Americans is, I think you'll agree, somewhat ironic?
The time it takes to get authorisation from the bank is actually the same amount of time for chip+pin as mag stripe. The authorisation message is pretty much exactly the same. With Chip and Pin the PIN verification is done by the terminal. In Europe, if you enter your pin 3 times it writes a block to the chip and you can't then use your card again without going to an ATM (and using the correct pin) [this then DOES send a pin verification message to the card issue who sends back a PIN UNBLOCK message to the card) The bank doesn't (in a POS redemption transaction) authenticate the card PIN. (It does with a withdrawal at an ATM or for transactions done over web authentication (typically)) but even in a web authentication message the authorisation should take the same amount of time.
It "may" take a little longer to insert your card and enter a pin than swiping and signing (although I personally think that's somewhat debatable). The reading of the chip by the POS takes fractionally longer but there is also potentially a huge amount more information that a chip can store.
This all becomes a non-issue of course when you start to use contactless payments, which (as far as I'm aware can only occur with chip/pin or virtual card PANs from NFC phone payments e.g. Apple/Android pay). The authorisation still takes the same amount of time but the contactless part of that is almost instant.
The EMV chip and Pin standard has been adopted globally to significantly reduce fraud, which it has. I've really no idea why the USA went for chip and signature as the signature part had been shown to be insecure for years. Like the parent poster said, if the USA does a half-arsed adoption of a global standard that has been proven to work pretty well (it's not perfect, but was a huge step up from mag-stripe) then it really only has itself to blame if it doesn't work out.
Now that we've shown what a bunch of moronic, racist twats we Brits are, I'm desperate to leave the UK for Europe (or Canada).
Count me in.
So does that mean I can take off the loathsome Windows 8.1 and put on Linux and KDE?
When I did my Degree in HCI 20 years ago, this was the touted as the way to get the best results when building usable, user-centric systems. Sadly in the two decades since, I don't think I've ever come across a system - hardware, software, app, or anything else for that matter, that actually develops this way. Which is a shame because if they had, my elderly mother could have probably been able to use a PC by now, intead of "What you mean I have to move that little arrow thing All the way over there and press what?"
thanks for the link. I actually had done some research about it, but hadn't come across the Rockoon before.
I've always wondered why, if we can send balloons to the upper reaches of our atmosphere why we don't use ballooning as a 1st stage launch platform for reaching space? Granted, you'll need big balloons to life satellites or people, but surely getting stuff even 1/3rd or half way there by gentle gas lift balloon would be cheaper, easier, safer and more environmentally friendly way of launching into space. For launching people it's got to be a far less physically stressful way than strapping them to a giant firework as it pulls x number of Gees to reach high altitude and hoping it doesn't explode on the way.And far less risky for satellite launches, it a rocket fails it's a fireball, it a balloon sprouts a leak it's a slow and gentle drop with a parachute) Obviously you'll still need some form of propulsion to reach space, but until we get a space elevator it's surely a going to require far less fuel than the massive amount currently needed to get off the ground in the first place?
what do you mean cut off the UK. I'm in the UK and use last.fm all the time - at home, in internet cafe's etc. last.fm works just fine in the uk.
good grief!
Having recently ditched our fuel eating Saab 95 estate (automatic) that averaged 22-25mpg, we've now got a Saab 93 Sportwagon diesel (dreadful name, but nice car)
We've been testing it's mpg a lot recently. Town driving it gets 35-40mpg depending on conditions and traffic. This at speed averaging around 30mph. On Motorways at 70mph, consumption is about 40-42mpg.. at 60mph we easily get 51-53mpg.
The economy savings between 70 and 60mph are quite considerable. At £1.20 a litre (for diesel) that makes quite a difference on a long journey.
I always believed that cars optimum fuel economy had gotten better at higher speeds, but that's clearly not the case in my Saab.
it might be a Vauxhall/Opel Vectra underneath, but it's still a nice car to drive!
what a great idea. Create a web based OS... So what happens when I reach my broadband usage cap.... err no computer!
sorry but that's no and no.
./ so by definition we're GEEKS and already technicaly minded... the rest of the world doesn't think like us!
Want to use your favourite software (photoshop, dreamweaver, GTA 4 etc: nope, that's for windows and/or mac only.
Want to buy new hardware... well you can if you scour the internet for days finding out if it's compatible; you can't just pop down pcworld one saturday afternoon and pick something up and know it'll work.
Want to use Ubuntu without broadband... nah it's not really designed that way, you'll be waiting days to install anything..
Want to install some software... sure... if you broadband no problem... oh, but it might install the software anywhere on your system... good luck learning to grep it. Fat chance if your friend has just given you a cdrom with software on it!
want to play games.... err... well... no.. not really, but hey we've got solitaire!!!
What about installing applications from magazine's cover disc (like what you can do with windows and osx)... err no, you probably can't do that either... as you'll have to compile something or other and you probably haven't got all the right library headers or something.
want to do anything other than surf the web and run openoffice... get used to using the terminal (still)
KDE and Gnome have come on in leaps and bounds, linux itself has come on enormously in recent years.. but it's still so so far away from being a user friendly OS for regular joes. (just looka the filesystem, it's still a throwback to the 1970s and is virtually unintelligible to non linux folk
WE might all think linux it's the dog's bollocks but we read
actually i *prefer* the arcade version (in mame)
but I play on flash app games on my google home page and on my phone (nokia n95)
currently I'm being driven insane by *I want to be the guy* the hardest game I've ever seen in my life. Graphically, it's very very 8-bit retro 80s/early 90s. but there is something in it that just makes me play it again and again and again and again.
but sure. you're right... graphics can take a good game and make it be magnificent.
actually I disagree. My wife plays tetris every single day. One game before whilst having her coffee and one before bed. I have clients who play have tetris all the time (ok, as a therapist I do see a lot of people with OCD, but that aside, I do come across a lot of people who play nothing but tetris)
I play pacman perhaps more than any other game bar Tremulous (which takes up a LOT of my gaming)
I play it on Mame (original, ms pacman and pacmania too)
I play it in a flash app on my google home page
I play it on my phone (Nokia n95) and before that on my nokia 3200 and before that on my Sony Ericsson k700i and before that... well you get the idea!
I STILL play starcraft a lot- and that's what... 10 years old?
maybe when you're talking about console games, the demographic is different... but again, I come across a lot of people (oddly mostly women) with DS-Lite's who have 3 "games" that they play all the time: Brain Training/ More Braining and sight training...
I think you're right in a way, lots of hard core gamers want hard core games. But a good simple, pick up and play, game is still a great game every time.
Finally maybe the games industry will realise that great graphis does not equal a great game. It's always been about the gameplay. It's that certain something something that means you can pick it up and get hooked and just keep on playing.
Where are the great graphics in Tetris, in Pac Man, and others. Games that are constantly played all over the world all the time. They're simple, easy to play, hard to master fun games.
This is what the Wii does best. Gameplay.
£55 bill.. wow you're lucky, I fill up 2-3 times a month. Last fill up was £75.
Bloody Saab!!!
It seems like none of the people who design ebook systems have ever been in a used book store or a library, or have ever lent a favorite book to a friend. of course they have. and the first thing they thought was "this bookshop is stealing revenue from us, STop them!"
perhaps the reason that people still need to buy CDs. 1 - Internet is not unbiquitous 2 - Broadband is NOT uiniversal 3 - BRoadband in many places comes with usage caps. listening to internet radio therefore becomes expensive (not just for extra bandwidth that might be needed, but the "cost" to your overall usage allowance.. 4 - CD players are still in cars 5 - Buying Cds mean you can rip to your own device (mp3 player, backup for car/home, put on your PVR etc)