Apologies for not adding this link to my previous post: Daily Mail article about UK "Death Panels", which is made all the more amusing because in the first picture it looks like President Obama is trying to strangle Stephen Hawking!
I think the whole "Death Panel" thing was just a Republican thing to scare people about Obamacare, as opposed to the sensible policy of only providing good health care to those who can afford it.
Also, just for the record, there are no Death Panels in the UK. No, it's called the Ministry of Death!;)
So anybody can adopt the non-de-plume "Anonymous" and tar themselves and any other "Anonymous" pretender with the same brush. Doesn't this in effect make "Anonymous" synonymous with the worst behavior any "Anonymous" adopts? And therefore "Anonymous" is ultimately doomed to total failure by being "Anonymous". What a pointless wank!
The worst bit about this is that their "good name" could easily be sullied by their enemies. I mean, I
can see the logic in wanting to protest anonymously, but actually attacking anything using the name "anonymous" was always going to end in disaster as there's obviously no accountability (which they probably think is a virtue), and therefore a very very large chance* the name will be subverted.
* By very very large, I actually mean absolute certainty.
So, mere hours after slating F18 and switching to Ubuntu, he's decided to quit Linux development? I mean, it *could* just be a coincidence... but... hmmmmmm, I wonder....
Anyone else wondered when "K-pop" became... a thing? I mean surely we should wait until a few Korean pop songs have gone global before giving the whole genre a name?!
I'm using the full Google Chrome rather than Chromium, which it turns out, doesn't have a --temp-profile option so I think I'll have to install Chromium too!
I''m running 12.04LTS and I do not have these options... but you intrigue me sir! Is this a 12.10 thing, or have you got "special" unity launcher options?
There's scope for improvement over Chrome; with Chrome, if I open one incognito window, log in to something or other and then open a completely fresh incognito window, it'll still have the same cookies as the other one.... I'd like to have new windows be completely separate incognito sessions. So I hope Firefox does this right!!
I actually like that Canonical are trying to do something different, and overall, I don't completely hate Unity. But I am having a tough time dealing with the fact that in the years I've been running Ubuntu (since 6.06 I think?), 12.04LTS is the first version where I get the ocassional hard-crash (absolutely no way to even clean-ishly restart, e.g alt/sysreq/REISUB) and where the UI frequently suffers from annoying bugs, e.g. Super-W sometimes causing windows to kind of flash and completely disappear if I leave it too long.
So I guess my question is: will there be a greater focus on quality in future releases, especially LTS releases?
Re the memory upgrade... if you ordered a 256MB unit and get a 256MB unit, what's the problem? I mean, I understand why it's kind of frustrating... but, really, it's not that big a deal is it? I mean, it's cheap to start off with, and if that really much a problem you could just order the new 512MB one and eBay the old one... demand is still sufficiently high that you should get a good price for it.
Whilst I completely agree that quite a number of things that have happened have been frustrating/irritating/disappointing.... the foundation have at least _tried_ to be transparent with everything, and at the end of the day, they have achieved the goal of producing a cheap computer.
"The firm is also embroiled in a dispute with ArtistShare - another crowd-funding site - about the rights to a patent describing how database software can be used to raise cash for creative works."
I think there's more to this than just asserting rights over a 3D printing patent.....
While I don't approve of the patent litigation, it's not fair to characterize 3D Systems as a patent troll. They do spend plenty of time and energy (and money) creating better products, as they did to create their existing products.
I'd half agree except that they're totally going for the jugular rather than merely asserting their rights.
And then I totally don't agree after reading the BBC article about this which mentions (at the bottom) that they're also involved in another dispute about a patent describing how database software can be used to raise cash for creative works. That probably explains why they're attacking Kickstarter too.
An international team went on a vast hunt for the planets using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and came up with just one candidate.
"This object was discovered during a scan that covered the equivalent of 1,000 times the [area] of the full moon," said study co-author Etienne Artigau of the University of Montreal.
"We observed hundreds of millions of stars and planets, but we only found one homeless planet in our neighbourhood."
They seemed surprised there was just the one... but there's always one isn't there?!
Ahhh... the Lenslok
It seemed to work better with some software than others. I had one for Art Studio on the Spectrum and it worked okay, but I recall loads of people complaining about them.
I think the cleverest thing about it was that they made it to fit inside a regular compact cassette box.
Naah... I'm running this hardware with Ubuntu 10.10 (and WinXP for games) and it's fine. I'm testing 12.04LTS with an external drive, but even with fairly limited use, it crashes and when I look in the Xorg log, it'll be an nvidia driver that caused it.
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Apologies for not adding this link to my previous post: Daily Mail article about UK "Death Panels", which is made all the more amusing because in the first picture it looks like President Obama is trying to strangle Stephen Hawking!
Just a few related links here... not sure how credible these news outlets are however!
one "news source"
another
and another
I think the whole "Death Panel" thing was just a Republican thing to scare people about Obamacare, as opposed to the sensible policy of only providing good health care to those who can afford it.
;)
Also, just for the record, there are no Death Panels in the UK. No, it's called the Ministry of Death!
Skype works for me without UPnP being enabled. I also play the odd online game and haven't noticed any issues.
There's an interesting article about Lotus 1-2-3 with Mitch Kapor on The Register.
So anybody can adopt the non-de-plume "Anonymous" and tar themselves and any other "Anonymous" pretender with the same brush. Doesn't this in effect make "Anonymous" synonymous with the worst behavior any "Anonymous" adopts? And therefore "Anonymous" is ultimately doomed to total failure by being "Anonymous". What a pointless wank!
The worst bit about this is that their "good name" could easily be sullied by their enemies. I mean, I can see the logic in wanting to protest anonymously, but actually attacking anything using the name "anonymous" was always going to end in disaster as there's obviously no accountability (which they probably think is a virtue), and therefore a very very large chance* the name will be subverted.
* By very very large, I actually mean absolute certainty.
Firmware updates = downtime. Required downtime rather than optional... not good.
On the up-side, you can definitely do this remotely! :D
So, mere hours after slating F18 and switching to Ubuntu, he's decided to quit Linux development? I mean, it *could* just be a coincidence... but... hmmmmmm, I wonder....
Korean pop has been called K-pop (and Japanese pop called J-pop) long before Gangnam Style was a twinkle in PSY's sunglasses.
I'd missed all that... probably down to my age. I also can't hear the words! :D
Anyone else wondered when "K-pop" became... a thing? I mean surely we should wait until a few Korean pop songs have gone global before giving the whole genre a name?!
Simple: A cool turban logo with the words "I hack you!"
Duuuurrrrrr...... 'cos the ones with the turbans are the musilimsms riiight?! durrr..
Cheers!
I'm using the full Google Chrome rather than Chromium, which it turns out, doesn't have a --temp-profile option so I think I'll have to install Chromium too!
I''m running 12.04LTS and I do not have these options... but you intrigue me sir! Is this a 12.10 thing, or have you got "special" unity launcher options?
There's scope for improvement over Chrome; with Chrome, if I open one incognito window, log in to something or other and then open a completely fresh incognito window, it'll still have the same cookies as the other one.... I'd like to have new windows be completely separate incognito sessions. So I hope Firefox does this right!!
Since it's made of gluons, it's probably very sticky.
Oooohhh... you scientists with your technical mumbo-jumbo. Tell us what we really want to know - what does it taste like?
I actually like that Canonical are trying to do something different, and overall, I don't completely hate Unity. But I am having a tough time dealing with the fact that in the years I've been running Ubuntu (since 6.06 I think?), 12.04LTS is the first version where I get the ocassional hard-crash (absolutely no way to even clean-ishly restart, e.g alt/sysreq/REISUB) and where the UI frequently suffers from annoying bugs, e.g. Super-W sometimes causing windows to kind of flash and completely disappear if I leave it too long.
So I guess my question is: will there be a greater focus on quality in future releases, especially LTS releases?
Early adopters get screwed around
That's pretty much the industry standard.
Re the memory upgrade... if you ordered a 256MB unit and get a 256MB unit, what's the problem? I mean, I understand why it's kind of frustrating... but, really, it's not that big a deal is it? I mean, it's cheap to start off with, and if that really much a problem you could just order the new 512MB one and eBay the old one... demand is still sufficiently high that you should get a good price for it.
Whilst I completely agree that quite a number of things that have happened have been frustrating/irritating/disappointing.... the foundation have at least _tried_ to be transparent with everything, and at the end of the day, they have achieved the goal of producing a cheap computer.
XBox 360-RT. That'll clear up any confusion!
Also worth reading the last paragraph of that BBC article.
"The firm is also embroiled in a dispute with ArtistShare - another crowd-funding site - about the rights to a patent describing how database software can be used to raise cash for creative works."
I think there's more to this than just asserting rights over a 3D printing patent.....
While I don't approve of the patent litigation, it's not fair to characterize 3D Systems as a patent troll. They do spend plenty of time and energy (and money) creating better products, as they did to create their existing products.
I'd half agree except that they're totally going for the jugular rather than merely asserting their rights.
And then I totally don't agree after reading the BBC article about this which mentions (at the bottom) that they're also involved in another dispute about a patent describing how database software can be used to raise cash for creative works. That probably explains why they're attacking Kickstarter too.
Yeah, I blame the editors too -- quite frankly, standards here have slipped!
Anyway, thanks for all the replies. For the common good, WAF in this article = Web Application Firewall
What's a WAF? I found Wife Acceptance Factor but it seems doubtful this is the correct answer given the context!
It's a rogue planet!
Indeed. From TFA:
An international team went on a vast hunt for the planets using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and came up with just one candidate.
"This object was discovered during a scan that covered the equivalent of 1,000 times the [area] of the full moon," said study co-author Etienne Artigau of the University of Montreal.
"We observed hundreds of millions of stars and planets, but we only found one homeless planet in our neighbourhood."
They seemed surprised there was just the one... but there's always one isn't there?!
Ahhh... the Lenslok It seemed to work better with some software than others. I had one for Art Studio on the Spectrum and it worked okay, but I recall loads of people complaining about them. I think the cleverest thing about it was that they made it to fit inside a regular compact cassette box.
Naah... I'm running this hardware with Ubuntu 10.10 (and WinXP for games) and it's fine. I'm testing 12.04LTS with an external drive, but even with fairly limited use, it crashes and when I look in the Xorg log, it'll be an nvidia driver that caused it.