For a while there I was thinking it wasn't diverse enough.
Linux is an infinitely versatile tool, that's one of its greatest strengths. A distro is just s version of Linux tuned and configured for a specific purpose, often by people who have a good understanding of their business or social need. It's the fact that they have the freedom to make it work for their purpose instead of accepting someone else's compromises that creates so many distros. Needs are being met.
Proprietary vendors are desperate to spread FUD on this topic to stop people realising they could have a computer that does what they want, instead of what the vendors grudgingly allow them.
CromeOS is on laptops that ordinary people can walk in, pick up from store shelves, buy and use right now. Of course it should be compared to Windows and OSX - it's competing with them. And those ordinary people want to know if it's a better choice for their purposes.
It *is* platform agnostic, it also doesn't lock you in to specific codecs like W3C WebRTC attempts to do.
The point of having a standard codec is so two different systems always have a common codec to communicate through. Microsoft's intent is to be able to have platform-specific, patent-protected codecs so they can block interoperability with other platforms. VP8 was an excuse. Now that it's gone, they'll "discover" another one.
but that doesn't matter either because microsoft is evil.
Well spotted.
As a participant in WebRTC, Microsoft had the opportunity to improve that standard. As the developer of the protocol, they had the opportunity to make CU-RTC-Web genuinely platform agnostic. Instead they chose to preserve their ability to Balkanise VOIP communications, and ensure their platform(s) could be advantaged for the foreseeable future.
Their decision to be evil is what makes it dangerous to adopt their suggestion as a standard.
Christianity The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
On the other hand, there is simply no choice. Nuclear power will be increasingly used because there is simply no alternative.
Not if you're a company that wants to charge a lot of money for power...
Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland all point the finger at Germany for what they claim are uncontrolled surges in renewables, which are destabilizing their grids. In addition they contend that Germany’s behaviour is also reducing the profitability of conventional power firms.
The Institute recently published “Impacts of Germany’s nuclear phase-out on electricity imports and exports” (PDF), a 99-page study that discusses not only German power flows with its eastern neighbors, but also with its neighbors to the west.
This study comes at a time when Poland and the Czech Republic are both openly complaining about Germany using their grids to transport renewable power from northern Germany to southern Germany – because the German grid is allegedly overloaded.
Meanwhile, Switzerland recently argued that it’s conventional power firms were not able to generate as much power as they should because the Swiss grid is also sometimes filled up with German renewable power.
The study also examines why the Netherland has been less vocal, despite the Dutch grid being flooded with inexpensive renewable power, which has offset electricity production from natural gas turbines in the country.
Android is becoming the defacto phone/tablet OS because it is open and supports a huge array of form factors and use-cases.
MS Dos/Windows gained early advantage by the same means - it could be installed on a variety of commodity hardware, and be adapted to a almost any computing task. MS later chose to become predatory and restrictive to enforce and protect its monopoly, but they got their start because they were more open than their competition.
"he searched for a string in the files of his Windows system, it sent a packet to some server, which was detected by his firewall"
"Our telemetry data shows that 67% of all searches in Windows 7 are used to find and launch programs. Searching for files accounts for 22% of all Windows 7 Start menu searches, and searching for Control Panel items about 9%. Searching for email messages via Start Menu is very rare (less than 0.05%). The remaining 2% are searches executing the “Run” functionality."
Proprietary vendors keep spreading this FUD, as "fragmentation" is core to Linux/FOSS adoption. Freedom and opportunity for choice in the Linux world means anyone can start their own distro, or fork an existing one to meet their own needs. To many of us, this is one of the truly great benefits of the open source world.
OS vendors like Microsoft and Apple have a sales/distribution model that's antithetical to this sort of freedom, so it's in their best interest to portray one of Linux's great advantages as a negative. Hence the more than a decade's worth of FUD.
"When Microsoft receives a Bing search query, we collect a number of pieces of information, including the search query provided, IP address, unique identifiers contained in cookies, browser configuration and the time and date of the search,"
“Microsoft may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the software; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public,”
“Information collected by or sent to Microsoft by Windows 7 may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Microsoft or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers maintain facilities. Microsoft abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union, the European Economic Area, and Switzerland.”
These are the Windows 7 modules that Microsoft acknowledge phone home
1. Activation: 2. Device Information Retrieval: 3. Device Manager: 4. Dynamic Update: 5. Event Viewer: 6. Gadgets: 7. Games Folder: 8. Error Reporting for Handwriting Recognition: 9. Personalization Training: 10. IME Word Registration (available in Japanese IME only): 11. Installation Improvement Program: 12. Microsoft Error Reporting Service: 13. Plug and Play: 14. Program Compatibility Assistant: 15. Program Properties Compatibility Tab: 16. Rights Management Services (RMS) Client: 17. Teredo Technology: 18. Update Root Certificates: 19. Windows Anytime Upgrade: 20. Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP): 21. Windows Defender: 22. Windows File Association: 23. Windows Help: 25. Windows Speech Recognition: 26. Windows Time Service: 27. Windows Troubleshooting: 28. Windows Internet Explorer 8: 29. Update Services: 30. Microsoft Genuine Advantage: 31. Windows Media Center: 32. Microsoft Windows Media Player 12:
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At least it's better than a Ballmer squirt.
Wait 'till you see the indoor mapping...
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/03/google-launches-indoor-maps-in-australia/
Whatever you do, don't confuse a brown noise mp3 with a brown note mp3.
They do.
http://www.kogan.com/au/buy/samsung-galaxy-s3-mini-white-android-phone/?gclid=CPmNxKPF_bUCFegWMgodA2gA3g
I'm sure there'll be an S4 version soon enough.
For a while there I was thinking it wasn't diverse enough.
Linux is an infinitely versatile tool, that's one of its greatest strengths. A distro is just s version of Linux tuned and configured for a specific purpose, often by people who have a good understanding of their business or social need. It's the fact that they have the freedom to make it work for their purpose instead of accepting someone else's compromises that creates so many distros. Needs are being met.
Proprietary vendors are desperate to spread FUD on this topic to stop people realising they could have a computer that does what they want, instead of what the vendors grudgingly allow them.
It's my current desktop and it works extremely well.
but you still need wires to transfer the power to devices
Wires or bicycles:
"A 60-watt solar panel charges a battery that is taken to the village on the back of a bicycle."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729075.500-send-a-text-message-to-charge-your-cellphone.html
In most of Africa, phone network costs are about 1/10th of US prices.
Also, the top "features" for a phone in Africa are Torch and Radio, neither of which are top on the list of smartphone features.
Not for US vendors. Other phone manufacturing nations are ready to step into the breach.
http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?shipCountry=us&shipCompanies=&SearchText=android+phones+light&exception=&CatId=5090301&pvId=217-350436&manual=y&jump=kwref&needQuery=y
you should know *exactly* what that magneto does.
Good advice for drivers in the 1930's...
do they include other thin clients?
Such as?
CromeOS is on laptops that ordinary people can walk in, pick up from store shelves, buy and use right now. Of course it should be compared to Windows and OSX - it's competing with them. And those ordinary people want to know if it's a better choice for their purposes.
in theory I don't think there's any reason you couldn't use that codec combination with microsoft's cu-web-rtc.
Then why in practice did Microsoft not specify it as a default fall-back codec in CU-Web-RTC?
They chose not to, and chose to preserve the ability to Balkanise instead of creating the opportunity for a genuinely interoperative standard.
I don't think you understand how this is supposed to work.
It *is* platform agnostic, it also doesn't lock you in to specific codecs like W3C WebRTC attempts to do.
The point of having a standard codec is so two different systems always have a common codec to communicate through. Microsoft's intent is to be able to have platform-specific, patent-protected codecs so they can block interoperability with other platforms. VP8 was an excuse. Now that it's gone, they'll "discover" another one.
but that doesn't matter either because microsoft is evil.
Well spotted.
As a participant in WebRTC, Microsoft had the opportunity to improve that standard. As the developer of the protocol, they had the opportunity to make CU-RTC-Web genuinely platform agnostic. Instead they chose to preserve their ability to Balkanise VOIP communications, and ensure their platform(s) could be advantaged for the foreseeable future.
Their decision to be evil is what makes it dangerous to adopt their suggestion as a standard.
From Urban Dictionary:
Christianity
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Yeah, christianity makes sense.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=christianity&page=2
On the other hand, there is simply no choice. Nuclear power will be increasingly used because there is simply no alternative.
Not if you're a company that wants to charge a lot of money for power...
Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland all point the finger at Germany for what they claim are uncontrolled surges in renewables, which are destabilizing their grids. In addition they contend that Germany’s behaviour is also reducing the profitability of conventional power firms.
The Institute recently published “Impacts of Germany’s nuclear phase-out on electricity imports and exports” (PDF), a 99-page study that discusses not only German power flows with its eastern neighbors, but also with its neighbors to the west.
This study comes at a time when Poland and the Czech Republic are both openly complaining about Germany using their grids to transport renewable power from northern Germany to southern Germany – because the German grid is allegedly overloaded.
Meanwhile, Switzerland recently argued that it’s conventional power firms were not able to generate as much power as they should because the Swiss grid is also sometimes filled up with German renewable power.
The study also examines why the Netherland has been less vocal, despite the Dutch grid being flooded with inexpensive renewable power, which has offset electricity production from natural gas turbines in the country.
http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2013/02/Study-assesses-Germanys-energy-policy-impact-on-angry-neighbours.html
Driverless cars, Street View, Person Finder, Sky Maps et al, Fusion Tables/Trends etc, Goggles, Glass etc.
Given the evidence of history, it's simple common sense.
you can't boot whatever you like on ARM Chromebooks),
Yes you can.
using your logic Windows is *THE* desktop OS
Was, not is.
Android is becoming the defacto phone/tablet OS because it is open and supports a huge array of form factors and use-cases.
MS Dos/Windows gained early advantage by the same means - it could be installed on a variety of commodity hardware, and be adapted to a almost any computing task. MS later chose to become predatory and restrictive to enforce and protect its monopoly, but they got their start because they were more open than their competition.
"he searched for a string in the files of his Windows system, it sent a packet to some server, which was detected by his firewall"
"Our telemetry data shows that 67% of all searches in Windows 7 are used to find and launch programs. Searching for files accounts for 22% of all Windows 7 Start menu searches, and searching for Control Panel items about 9%. Searching for email messages via Start Menu is very rare (less than 0.05%). The remaining 2% are searches executing the “Run” functionality."
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/18/designing-search-for-the-start-screen.aspx
In 1997?
Proprietary vendors keep spreading this FUD, as "fragmentation" is core to Linux/FOSS adoption. Freedom and opportunity for choice in the Linux world means anyone can start their own distro, or fork an existing one to meet their own needs. To many of us, this is one of the truly great benefits of the open source world.
OS vendors like Microsoft and Apple have a sales/distribution model that's antithetical to this sort of freedom, so it's in their best interest to portray one of Linux's great advantages as a negative. Hence the more than a decade's worth of FUD.
From Microsoft:
"When Microsoft receives a Bing search query, we collect a number of pieces of information, including the search query provided, IP address, unique identifiers contained in cookies, browser configuration and the time and date of the search,"
“Microsoft may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the software; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public,”
“Information collected by or sent to Microsoft by Windows 7 may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Microsoft or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers maintain facilities. Microsoft abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union, the European Economic Area, and Switzerland.”
These are the Windows 7 modules that Microsoft acknowledge phone home
1. Activation:
2. Device Information Retrieval:
3. Device Manager:
4. Dynamic Update:
5. Event Viewer:
6. Gadgets:
7. Games Folder:
8. Error Reporting for Handwriting Recognition:
9. Personalization Training:
10. IME Word Registration (available in Japanese IME only):
11. Installation Improvement Program:
12. Microsoft Error Reporting Service:
13. Plug and Play:
14. Program Compatibility Assistant:
15. Program Properties Compatibility Tab:
16. Rights Management Services (RMS) Client:
17. Teredo Technology: 18. Update Root Certificates:
19. Windows Anytime Upgrade:
20. Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP):
21. Windows Defender:
22. Windows File Association:
23. Windows Help:
25. Windows Speech Recognition:
26. Windows Time Service:
27. Windows Troubleshooting:
28. Windows Internet Explorer 8:
29. Update Services:
30. Microsoft Genuine Advantage:
31. Windows Media Center:
32. Microsoft Windows Media Player 12:
claimed that the video and photos of the impact area showed just a perfect ice hole
I've heard rumours that John C Dvorak has been described as "just a perfect ice hole" himself on occasion.
Coincidence? You decide.