I would think that Twitter going away because they can't pay their bills anymore...
That might be nice, but unlikely. I prefer to simply regard Twitter as irrelevant. I never, ever go there, and I ignore any exhortations from others to do so. If they started hosting any worthwhile content, I could be pursuaded to change my position, but the whole process of digesting all content into a 140-byte premasticated turd does not bespeak a site worthy of attention.
Given that the OP apparently has no interest in changing his filesystems, it seems to me that the obvious solution is a neat little rsync script run as a cron job. Why complicate life?
...or any linux distro on a tablet, is that it would provide a less restrictive platform than the iPad.
That's exactly what I'm after. The iPad is just an appliance for consumption of whatever media Apple sees fit to let me see. Since I like having access to a zsh shell on a machine capable of multitasking, Apple's offering doesn't have much value to me.
That is where IMO Apple has dropped the ball. Whatever else we might think about litigative business models or turtle-necks, Apple's OS X is (with the exception of the GUI) pretty much a bog-standard *nix box, with all the usual BSD tools under the bonnet. For that reason their MacBook is a very useful platform for my purposes. If they had thought so far as to put OS X on their tablets, I would give the iPad some serious consideration.
But a tablet with Linux on it (though I prefer Arch to Ubuntu) would be just fine.
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I am always somewhat mystified by these companies that cite "training" issues when it comes to preparation for upgrading. Sure, some people are a bit thick, but it really isn't that hard to fumble your way around a Windows machine, especially if all you're doing is using a browser and MSOffice.
If one's staff can't cope with such minor changes, they're umemployable in the first place.
Though 12 seems a bit ridiculous (and awesome), I've always wanted to put four together with a little more convenience.
I used to run two screens on my home Linux desktop box (via xinerama), but those were CRT devices. In an attempt to cut down on power usage, I have now replaced them with a single, large LCD display. I still have the multiple nVidia cards linked together in the computer housing, but I believe that's probably drawing far more power than is actually useful.
I used to do a lot of graphics-intensive molecular modelling and rendering, but now that I've digressed into other fields, I can afford to be a little less "cool".
The net teaches us to be very good at discerning bullshit from true facts...
Only some of us. Most of the major media outlets recycle and regurgitate the same drivel from the same non-authoritatative shock-jocks, with the only discernment being based on the political viewpoint of the editor of the moment.
The net does nothing to teach us critical skills. All it does is provide more opportunities to use them. Whether or not we do so is another matter.
The show was set "20 minutes into the future" because it was 20 years ahead of its time.
You might be interested to know that the complete series of Max is soon to be available on DVD. I've had bootlegs from a Kansas TV station for over 10 years (which I paid good money for, since they weren't available any other way), but I am very tempted to put up my dollars for a better quality version.
I have a deep-seated suspicion of all "authority" figures, but I have been repeatedly (and pleasantly) surprised at the attitude of cops here in Australia. They mostly (in my experience) just get on with their jobs without going out of their way to make assholes of themselves. I'm quite sure there must be the "total prick" quotient (as with any job), but from what I've seen over the last 23 years I've been here, I've been (to my surprise) impressed with how fairly and impersonally these guys perform their jobs.
and that's assuming the reading and writing in blogs, etc, is using real words...
Despite the comments I made in my previous posts, I should make it clear that I'm not averse to other media that give us cromulent new words that embiggen a language whose richness comes from the fact that it is fun. Shakespeare did it, so why not the Simpsons?
Maybe I'm not making my point clear enough. I'm talking about sustained, active reading, not about sitting like a sponge in front of media flitting across a screen, absorbing content by osmosis, transpiration or whatever. I'm not saying that the internet is an invalid medium for literary content (it clearly is not), but by far the majority of media thus presented encourage a lazy approach to reading that requires a minimum of emotional or critical involvement.
Sure your text messaging, Facebook, blogs, Wikipedia, etc might add up to a large total number of words, but if you're honest, you will admit that most of them are just fluff, not exactly quality reading.
The Sun (commonly known as the Stun, largely referring to the cognitive capacity of its readers) is one of the most notoriously right-wing media to blight Britain's otherwise green and pleasant land. They will publish any old rubbish that sells papers most of the time, but when it comes down to elections, their support is firmly and unwaveringly on the side of the Tories.
It astounds me that people are willing to work every day on learning words when they will only use 20-30 thousand of them on a normal basis.
You don't have to work on it every day, but interesting words enrich your communication, and indeed, your life. I hope I can interest you in this: The Superior Person's Book of Words.
It would make sense that they gravitate towards trivia contests.
I never entered a spelling competition, but when I was a kid, we were routinely tested. I never had any difficulty with it (even though I am not Indian), but I put this down to the fact that I read a lot of books, not because I ever spent any time systematically learning how to spell. Reading was something we did for fun when we were being lazy, not because it was expected of us.
This was in the days when there was no internet to distract my attention with predigested snippets of text interspersed with other media, so I wonder if I would have turned out the same if I had to do my time all over again. Fortunately, I'll never have to find out, but given how much books have enriched my own life, I find it a bit sad to see how many kids have virtually no dedicated time spent reading.
For most practical purposes (i.e. against all but the most sophisticated of crackers) I doubt if there's much to choose between OS X (which I gather is largely based on BSD) and Linux. Login facility depends entirely on the level of authentication you set. (Obviously this latter applies to Windows too.) If you leave everything set to auto-login, then you are asking for trouble. Amazingly, many still seem to do this, even though they are often young enough to have never been brought up to the bad habits people acquired with DOS.
Apparently, these two companies are making so much money that they can just do whatever they want now without repercussion.
Well, one thing I suppose: neither will make a cent out of me. I'm in the market for a tablet computer (emphasis on "computer"). The iPad doesn't qualify, so Apple is out of the game. Simple.
I can see why the developers might get pissed off about this treatment, but after all, Apple does have form for capricious decisions as to what apps are permitted. The only way developers are going to get equitable treatment from Apple is to cut off their air-supply by telling them to stick it.
If I were in the business, I would be focusing my attention on the Android market. Rather than (as the submission suggests) whining that the platform is "immature" and that Android app stores are a "wild west" (though I don't really see what's wrong with the latter), it might be worth making an attempt to improve them.
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I would think that Twitter going away because they can't pay their bills anymore...
That might be nice, but unlikely. I prefer to simply regard Twitter as irrelevant. I never, ever go there, and I ignore any exhortations from others to do so. If they started hosting any worthwhile content, I could be pursuaded to change my position, but the whole process of digesting all content into a 140-byte premasticated turd does not bespeak a site worthy of attention.
Given that the OP apparently has no interest in changing his filesystems, it seems to me that the obvious solution is a neat little rsync script run as a cron job. Why complicate life?
Could you just provide us your GPS co-ordinates? Thanks!
No, I only give those to "soliders".
If you jailbreak it, you can restore the unix userland tools which apple removed.
Fair enough, I didn't know that. Does it multitask then? What is stripped out of it? (Curious, not flaming.)
...or any linux distro on a tablet, is that it would provide a less restrictive platform than the iPad.
That's exactly what I'm after. The iPad is just an appliance for consumption of whatever media Apple sees fit to let me see. Since I like having access to a zsh shell on a machine capable of multitasking, Apple's offering doesn't have much value to me.
That is where IMO Apple has dropped the ball. Whatever else we might think about litigative business models or turtle-necks, Apple's OS X is (with the exception of the GUI) pretty much a bog-standard *nix box, with all the usual BSD tools under the bonnet. For that reason their MacBook is a very useful platform for my purposes. If they had thought so far as to put OS X on their tablets, I would give the iPad some serious consideration.
But a tablet with Linux on it (though I prefer Arch to Ubuntu) would be just fine.
I am always somewhat mystified by these companies that cite "training" issues when it comes to preparation for upgrading. Sure, some people are a bit thick, but it really isn't that hard to fumble your way around a Windows machine, especially if all you're doing is using a browser and MSOffice.
If one's staff can't cope with such minor changes, they're umemployable in the first place.
More likely, Dihydrogen Monoxide (or possibly even Hydronium Hydroxide or Hydrogen Hydroxide).
Though 12 seems a bit ridiculous (and awesome), I've always wanted to put four together with a little more convenience.
I used to run two screens on my home Linux desktop box (via xinerama), but those were CRT devices. In an attempt to cut down on power usage, I have now replaced them with a single, large LCD display. I still have the multiple nVidia cards linked together in the computer housing, but I believe that's probably drawing far more power than is actually useful.
I used to do a lot of graphics-intensive molecular modelling and rendering, but now that I've digressed into other fields, I can afford to be a little less "cool".
Heh Apple even do silly stuff like: http://www.fuzzydice.net/?tag=macintosh-osx-linux-telnet-auto-login
:) But there again, I haven't allowed telnet to run on any server of mine in nearly 15 years...
Never noticed that.
The net teaches us to be very good at discerning bullshit from true facts...
Only some of us. Most of the major media outlets recycle and regurgitate the same drivel from the same non-authoritatative shock-jocks, with the only discernment being based on the political viewpoint of the editor of the moment.
The net does nothing to teach us critical skills. All it does is provide more opportunities to use them. Whether or not we do so is another matter.
Are there even any cases where it would -really- matter between your and you're?
Yes. "You're tasty soup" would mean something much less congenial than "your tasty soup".
The show was set "20 minutes into the future" because it was 20 years ahead of its time.
You might be interested to know that the complete series of Max is soon to be available on DVD. I've had bootlegs from a Kansas TV station for over 10 years (which I paid good money for, since they weren't available any other way), but I am very tempted to put up my dollars for a better quality version.
I have a deep-seated suspicion of all "authority" figures, but I have been repeatedly (and pleasantly) surprised at the attitude of cops here in Australia. They mostly (in my experience) just get on with their jobs without going out of their way to make assholes of themselves. I'm quite sure there must be the "total prick" quotient (as with any job), but from what I've seen over the last 23 years I've been here, I've been (to my surprise) impressed with how fairly and impersonally these guys perform their jobs.
and that's assuming the reading and writing in blogs, etc, is using real words ...
Despite the comments I made in my previous posts, I should make it clear that I'm not averse to other media that give us cromulent new words that embiggen a language whose richness comes from the fact that it is fun. Shakespeare did it, so why not the Simpsons?
Maybe I'm not making my point clear enough. I'm talking about sustained, active reading, not about sitting like a sponge in front of media flitting across a screen, absorbing content by osmosis, transpiration or whatever. I'm not saying that the internet is an invalid medium for literary content (it clearly is not), but by far the majority of media thus presented encourage a lazy approach to reading that requires a minimum of emotional or critical involvement.
Sure your text messaging, Facebook, blogs, Wikipedia, etc might add up to a large total number of words, but if you're honest, you will admit that most of them are just fluff, not exactly quality reading.
The Sun (commonly known as the Stun, largely referring to the cognitive capacity of its readers) is one of the most notoriously right-wing media to blight Britain's otherwise green and pleasant land. They will publish any old rubbish that sells papers most of the time, but when it comes down to elections, their support is firmly and unwaveringly on the side of the Tories.
It astounds me that people are willing to work every day on learning words when they will only use 20-30 thousand of them on a normal basis.
You don't have to work on it every day, but interesting words enrich your communication, and indeed, your life. I hope I can interest you in this: The Superior Person's Book of Words.
Don't worry, it's a short book, and it's funny.
It would make sense that they gravitate towards trivia contests.
I never entered a spelling competition, but when I was a kid, we were routinely tested. I never had any difficulty with it (even though I am not Indian), but I put this down to the fact that I read a lot of books, not because I ever spent any time systematically learning how to spell. Reading was something we did for fun when we were being lazy, not because it was expected of us.
This was in the days when there was no internet to distract my attention with predigested snippets of text interspersed with other media, so I wonder if I would have turned out the same if I had to do my time all over again. Fortunately, I'll never have to find out, but given how much books have enriched my own life, I find it a bit sad to see how many kids have virtually no dedicated time spent reading.
For most practical purposes (i.e. against all but the most sophisticated of crackers) I doubt if there's much to choose between OS X (which I gather is largely based on BSD) and Linux. Login facility depends entirely on the level of authentication you set. (Obviously this latter applies to Windows too.) If you leave everything set to auto-login, then you are asking for trouble. Amazingly, many still seem to do this, even though they are often young enough to have never been brought up to the bad habits people acquired with DOS.
Right. And if you freeze-distill wine for long enough, it'll be brandy, right? Bullshit.
Oh dear. Slashdot for the humour-impaired. OK, I was being facetious - but I thought that was obvious.
Beer at 50% ABV is called whisky.
Apparently, these two companies are making so much money that they can just do whatever they want now without repercussion.
Well, one thing I suppose: neither will make a cent out of me. I'm in the market for a tablet computer (emphasis on "computer"). The iPad doesn't qualify, so Apple is out of the game. Simple.
Anyone succeeded in jailbreaking an iPad yet? I'm guewssing the new SIM arrangement might be a showstopper...
Oh well, I guess the iPad is no use to me without a real OS on it anyway...
What would be fair would be to ask why in the hell they're sticking with AT&T in the first place
Maybe Apple likes to keep its customers lubed up for the next time it wants to pound them in the ass.
I can see why the developers might get pissed off about this treatment, but after all, Apple does have form for capricious decisions as to what apps are permitted. The only way developers are going to get equitable treatment from Apple is to cut off their air-supply by telling them to stick it.
If I were in the business, I would be focusing my attention on the Android market. Rather than (as the submission suggests) whining that the platform is "immature" and that Android app stores are a "wild west" (though I don't really see what's wrong with the latter), it might be worth making an attempt to improve them.