No, it's just that (in the case of H-D) if you tried, everybody would kill themselves laughing. Sorry, but by the time you're old enough to ride a motorcycle, you shouldn't need a pram.
Heh. My Samsung Galaxy Nexus got dumped by my telco just a month after I took out the contract (despite the fact that the phone by then wasn't that old). So, needless to say, I became weary of the Waiting for Godot thing of hanging out for updates. Fortunately, a Nexus device is pretty easy to flash with a stock Jelly Bean ROM (I haven't found a use for Cyanogenmod at this point) which is enough for my needs.
But what has made the biggest difference to the user experience is having rooted the device in order to (a) get rid of useless cruft like Google+ and YouTube apps, and (b) set up proper hosts-based adblocking so that my monthly traffic allowance doesn't get swallowed up with crap that I don't want.
The take-home message (at least for my future reference) is to stay away from non-Nexus devices if you have any inclination to use your hardware in any way that your telco doesn't decree.
Well, maybe you should start. It might keep you awake enough to stay current with fairly major aspects of this technology, given that you are obviously interested enough to pursue this thread thus far.;P
Indeed. It seems there's lately been something of a rash of these complaints about terms not being spelt out. This one should be pretty much common knowledge in this forum, but if not, a search brings up a comprehensive result at the very top of the page. I'm getting a bit weary of such abject slothfulness.
As a matter of interest, one cross-platform app is in fact Skype, which (at least last time I looked) was built with Qt for the Linux implementation. Does anyone know if this is the case for the OS X or Windows binaries?
Disk space is indeed cheap, but RAM still is not. If you happen to have multiple versions of the same library kicking around in memory, then performance is going to take a hit.
Declaring libraries that are only used by a small number of applications as "system libraries" just makes it massively more difficult to do OS upgrades.
Well, that's probably true for most distros, but I heard that Ubuntu is adopting a rolling-release model for future upgrades. Now, if they do that right (which I suspect they won't, because the whole thing seems to be an afterthought) then upgrading should just be a one-liner.
A fair example of a (usually) successful rolling-release platform is Arch Linux, where on the whole, pacman does a good job of keeping all packages up to date. A downside of this is that occasionally things will break (which is candidly admitted on the Arch wiki). I won't go into why I dumped Arch here, since that's another story, but the point I am making is that if Ubuntu somehow manages to pull a rabbit out of the hat and implement what's good about rolling releases but without the speed-bumps, then good luck to them
I've got a better idea. Or rather, Pat Volkerding does. Never mind dependency checking, just let the user sort them out for himself. Slackware's package system is beautiful: a simple *.tgz or.txz file, with a note saying "and BTW, you'll need foo and bar as well". No need for separate directories full of statically linked packages, and it just works.
Of course, I have to admit that Debian packages work too, but if that nice Mr Shuttleworth thinks otherwise, then (sadly) there's another reason not to use Ubuntu.
While I can admire Shuttleworth's passion, he isn't doing anyone any favours by pursuing this "Not Invented Here" ideology. Everyone would benefit if he would just act like a part of the community, instead of trying to railroad it.
If you want to use if for a couple of months at $20/month you'll have to steal it.
Or else just use the GIMP, which does pretty nearly everything that Photoshop does. And it's free.
[And before the Photoshop shills burst into flames over this, I'll just quickly mention that yes, GIMP does indeed do CMYK, and if you don't like the default UI, you can easily change it to look like the other one if you want.]
Hmmm. Not if you're an Australian citizen. Here, it's compulsory to vote - if you don't, then you get fined. But the (major) political parties have indistinguishable policies, and their representatives are liars or creeps (or, in the case of the current opposition leader, both).
If you can't trust people with a gun how in hell can you trust them to vote?
WTF? If that's how you reason, then you are incapable of reasoning at all. However, I guess it might just be appropriate to deal with all of our politicians, one bullet at a time.
EFF never said "Trust Twitter â" Not Apple Or Verizon â" To Protect Your Privacy"
Just as well. If you value your privacy, there's only one way to protect it, and that is to simply keep your private stuff private. As soon as you put it into someone else's hands, you're fucked.
As Benjamin Franklin said, "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead".
I'm a pretty good chemist, but have never heard of this "xyz" chemical. Would you care to enlighten us?
In any case, Apple would have to be well up there in any list of over-packagers. And as an exhibition of the triumph of form over substance, it works brilliantly.
You could test the safety of some bird brain trying to drive his cars with his knees while woking on a rubik's cube, too, but that would be STUPID.
True, but entertaining if you aren't in his path. I once saw a guy playing a trumpet while driving with his knees. And I'll never forget the chick in the open-top sports car weaving across a four-lane highway to the rhythm of Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldiers" while applying makeup using her car mirror.
It's easy for Apple to say "you're doing it wrong" by manually proofreading whatever Siri thinks you've said. But sometimes it's bad enough to deal with to deal with the kind of idiocies that text-mode autocorrecters come up with. The risk of a voice-recognition app interpreting "Pick up Mike Hunt" as "Dick up my cunt" is just too high.
Either way, it can be pretty scary when someone is driving right at you, and you can see that he isn't paying attention. IMO, texting is far worse even than yakking on the phone, even without hands-free. You can always drop the phone in an emergency, but if your eyes are on the screen, chances are you'll never know there was an emergency.
It would be drawing a long bow to insist that all students read sci-fi, but there is an alternative. At Murdoch University, in Perth (WA, Australia) all first-year students are required to take a foundation unit in first-year to get their study skills up to scratch. One of these (by far the most popular) is called "Life and the Universe" and explores a range of science-related themes with a pretty good selection of sci-fi texts.
By comparison with the rest of my undergrad degree (BSc Biotechnology) it was pretty fluffy, but it served its purpose well, and the reading list was broad and fun.
It was a very long time ago when I did this, but the course is still running. Now, obviously I'm not saying everybody should migrate to Western Australia (I, myself have migrated away) but a course of this nature provides both a taste of sci-fi from a range of authors and also a useful underpinning for later studies.
I would do likewise. The whole point of a password is that it should satisfy the criterion of "something you know".
If you have so many passwords that you have to either write them down or store them in a password management system, then that criterion fails, because it's no longer something you know at all.
Whereas if you use good passwords to start with, and keep layers of trust between different systems (i.e. don't use the same password for your bank as you do for Twatter), then you will not be 100% secure, but at least you have a hope of keeping some control to yourself.
Seems to me this should be possible if you're willing to take the trouble to use a pre-paid credit card and a throwaway email address. Microsoft surely can't insist that you supply SSN, passport or birth certificate details.
So long as they get your money, there's no reason for them to care if you prefer to be known as Pope Ratzo. The only problem I can see is if they insist on a valid physical address to send the key on a 5 1/2" floppy. Otherwise, just tell them you live in Vatican City.
And I'm sure it won't concern anyone that you have had enough of being a pope, and would rather devote your remaining years to playing Pacman.
Seems to me the metrics are simple: 5 years since the last revision, nothing replaced its function, and it was irreplaceable.
Well, to an extent that's true (except hopefully for the irreplaceable part). What I don't see is any functional difference between open-source and commercial software. I have seen plenty of abandoned closed-source projects, and these might be even more frustrating if the user has actually paid money to use them.
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Until now, there is no way to safeguard our secret stored in i-Device from the prying eyes of Apple Inc
If you want something kept secret, you're a fool if you put it on your phone.
No, it's just that (in the case of H-D) if you tried, everybody would kill themselves laughing. Sorry, but by the time you're old enough to ride a motorcycle, you shouldn't need a pram.
Heh. My Samsung Galaxy Nexus got dumped by my telco just a month after I took out the contract (despite the fact that the phone by then wasn't that old). So, needless to say, I became weary of the Waiting for Godot thing of hanging out for updates. Fortunately, a Nexus device is pretty easy to flash with a stock Jelly Bean ROM (I haven't found a use for Cyanogenmod at this point) which is enough for my needs.
But what has made the biggest difference to the user experience is having rooted the device in order to (a) get rid of useless cruft like Google+ and YouTube apps, and (b) set up proper hosts-based adblocking so that my monthly traffic allowance doesn't get swallowed up with crap that I don't want.
The take-home message (at least for my future reference) is to stay away from non-Nexus devices if you have any inclination to use your hardware in any way that your telco doesn't decree.
I don't drink coffee
Well, maybe you should start. It might keep you awake enough to stay current with fairly major aspects of this technology, given that you are obviously interested enough to pursue this thread thus far. ;P
Indeed. It seems there's lately been something of a rash of these complaints about terms not being spelt out. This one should be pretty much common knowledge in this forum, but if not, a search brings up a comprehensive result at the very top of the page. I'm getting a bit weary of such abject slothfulness.
As a matter of interest, one cross-platform app is in fact Skype, which (at least last time I looked) was built with Qt for the Linux implementation. Does anyone know if this is the case for the OS X or Windows binaries?
Disk space is indeed cheap, but RAM still is not. If you happen to have multiple versions of the same library kicking around in memory, then performance is going to take a hit.
Declaring libraries that are only used by a small number of applications as "system libraries" just makes it massively more difficult to do OS upgrades.
Well, that's probably true for most distros, but I heard that Ubuntu is adopting a rolling-release model for future upgrades. Now, if they do that right (which I suspect they won't, because the whole thing seems to be an afterthought) then upgrading should just be a one-liner.
A fair example of a (usually) successful rolling-release platform is Arch Linux, where on the whole, pacman does a good job of keeping all packages up to date. A downside of this is that occasionally things will break (which is candidly admitted on the Arch wiki). I won't go into why I dumped Arch here, since that's another story, but the point I am making is that if Ubuntu somehow manages to pull a rabbit out of the hat and implement what's good about rolling releases but without the speed-bumps, then good luck to them
I've got a better idea. Or rather, Pat Volkerding does. Never mind dependency checking, just let the user sort them out for himself. Slackware's package system is beautiful: a simple *.tgz or .txz file, with a note saying "and BTW, you'll need foo and bar as well". No need for separate directories full of statically linked packages, and it just works.
Of course, I have to admit that Debian packages work too, but if that nice Mr Shuttleworth thinks otherwise, then (sadly) there's another reason not to use Ubuntu.
While I can admire Shuttleworth's passion, he isn't doing anyone any favours by pursuing this "Not Invented Here" ideology. Everyone would benefit if he would just act like a part of the community, instead of trying to railroad it.
By all means show us an example from /Library/ if you have one...
Don't bother. Whatever Apple does is entirely irrelevant to this discussion.
If you want to use if for a couple of months at $20/month you'll have to steal it.
Or else just use the GIMP, which does pretty nearly everything that Photoshop does. And it's free.
[And before the Photoshop shills burst into flames over this, I'll just quickly mention that yes, GIMP does indeed do CMYK, and if you don't like the default UI, you can easily change it to look like the other one if you want.]
For those of us who aren't quantum physics mega loser nerds, mind telling us at least -one- advantage in the summary? jeez.
Err. OK. Quantum computers are incredibly secure because they are so small, no-one can find their ethernet ports. That do?
Especially for the old, weak, or handicapped? When they show up in the house? When they are a gang?
You're right. I'm going to have to watch out for those gangs of old, handicapped burglars showing up in my house.
However, it would be nice if copy/paste would reproduce mdash and other entities properly. It shouldn't be that hard.
Our greatest right is the right to vote.
Hmmm. Not if you're an Australian citizen. Here, it's compulsory to vote - if you don't, then you get fined. But the (major) political parties have indistinguishable policies, and their representatives are liars or creeps (or, in the case of the current opposition leader, both).
If you can't trust people with a gun how in hell can you trust them to vote?
WTF? If that's how you reason, then you are incapable of reasoning at all. However, I guess it might just be appropriate to deal with all of our politicians, one bullet at a time.
and judging by the US crime rate, they're still there.
:P
Yes, but maybe nobody has told you that DODGE stands for "Doing Overhauls Daily Gets Expensive".
I was under the impression that the standard unit for fuel consumption in the US is furlongs per hogshead.
EFF never said "Trust Twitter â" Not Apple Or Verizon â" To Protect Your Privacy"
Just as well. If you value your privacy, there's only one way to protect it, and that is to simply keep your private stuff private. As soon as you put it into someone else's hands, you're fucked.
As Benjamin Franklin said, "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead".
I'm a pretty good chemist, but have never heard of this "xyz" chemical. Would you care to enlighten us?
In any case, Apple would have to be well up there in any list of over-packagers. And as an exhibition of the triumph of form over substance, it works brilliantly.
You could test the safety of some bird brain trying to drive his cars with his knees while woking on a rubik's cube, too, but that would be STUPID.
True, but entertaining if you aren't in his path. I once saw a guy playing a trumpet while driving with his knees. And I'll never forget the chick in the open-top sports car weaving across a four-lane highway to the rhythm of Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldiers" while applying makeup using her car mirror.
It's easy for Apple to say "you're doing it wrong" by manually proofreading whatever Siri thinks you've said. But sometimes it's bad enough to deal with to deal with the kind of idiocies that text-mode autocorrecters come up with. The risk of a voice-recognition app interpreting "Pick up Mike Hunt" as "Dick up my cunt" is just too high.
Either way, it can be pretty scary when someone is driving right at you, and you can see that he isn't paying attention. IMO, texting is far worse even than yakking on the phone, even without hands-free. You can always drop the phone in an emergency, but if your eyes are on the screen, chances are you'll never know there was an emergency.
It would be drawing a long bow to insist that all students read sci-fi, but there is an alternative. At Murdoch University, in Perth (WA, Australia) all first-year students are required to take a foundation unit in first-year to get their study skills up to scratch. One of these (by far the most popular) is called "Life and the Universe" and explores a range of science-related themes with a pretty good selection of sci-fi texts.
By comparison with the rest of my undergrad degree (BSc Biotechnology) it was pretty fluffy, but it served its purpose well, and the reading list was broad and fun.
It was a very long time ago when I did this, but the course is still running. Now, obviously I'm not saying everybody should migrate to Western Australia (I, myself have migrated away) but a course of this nature provides both a taste of sci-fi from a range of authors and also a useful underpinning for later studies.
I would do likewise. The whole point of a password is that it should satisfy the criterion of "something you know".
If you have so many passwords that you have to either write them down or store them in a password management system, then that criterion fails, because it's no longer something you know at all.
Whereas if you use good passwords to start with, and keep layers of trust between different systems (i.e. don't use the same password for your bank as you do for Twatter), then you will not be 100% secure, but at least you have a hope of keeping some control to yourself.
Seems to me this should be possible if you're willing to take the trouble to use a pre-paid credit card and a throwaway email address. Microsoft surely can't insist that you supply SSN, passport or birth certificate details.
So long as they get your money, there's no reason for them to care if you prefer to be known as Pope Ratzo. The only problem I can see is if they insist on a valid physical address to send the key on a 5 1/2" floppy. Otherwise, just tell them you live in Vatican City.
And I'm sure it won't concern anyone that you have had enough of being a pope, and would rather devote your remaining years to playing Pacman.
Seems to me the metrics are simple: 5 years since the last revision, nothing replaced its function, and it was irreplaceable.
Well, to an extent that's true (except hopefully for the irreplaceable part). What I don't see is any functional difference between open-source and commercial software. I have seen plenty of abandoned closed-source projects, and these might be even more frustrating if the user has actually paid money to use them.