This is an issue on my lap tops and desktops also, 32 & 64 bit. I disabled screen saver and power management. I have had no more lock ups. Might help you too.
I was provided with a Dell i7 on a new project, installed 11.10 on it and had frequent freezes as described (mouse pointer still moving, other virtual terminal working although the lid was never closed) about 3 times a day, completely unacceptable. Didn't happen with KDE or Gnome classic. I've tried for 4 weeks and then switched to KDE and later tried Gnome. Same thing on a Lenovo ultrabook with 12.04 when testing it, within an hour it froze.
I think it has more to do with Unity than anything else: once I switched to another DE it did not happen again. (and it might depend on screen saver/power management/compiz)
Besides the frequent freezes, Unity seems completely unusable on several levels too. I've used Ubuntu since 2005 and am not happy with the latest "innovations" at all. I'll probably switch back to Debian if anything else about it gets "improved" in the same manner as the last 2 years...
Perhaps we are seeing the first attempts at monetizing what until recently was the most practical, usable, lovable operating system?
FB doesn't have the glaringly obvious problems[...]
Terrible privacy track record?
Besides, it's not only about problems. Does FB do anything exceptionally well? I see an evolution from ICQ, MSN, Skype, Second Life, Facebook, so I expect something else will pop up in the next 2-3 years that will absorb most of the attention of the consumers.
I don't think FB will be replaced by something that does the same thing like Google+ but it just might if FB continues to blatantly disregard users privacy rights.
If only they listened to me: I recommend Micro Phone as a trademark. Goes superbly with the other generic words like Windows, Word, Excel, Access, SQL Server... MSNokia! sounds! more! like! a! Yahoo! brand.
OR instead you could point out how well Mr. Elop has done turning the ancient dinosaur Nokia into the nimble, most successful Windows phone company, making him a very deserving (of a humongous bonus that is) CEO. He can even take a nice picture of that fat check - shaking with excitement but nonetheless rock solid stabilized - and upload it to Bing (via Facebook). Oooh, the joy!
Have you been paying ANY attention the last 4 years? The last 40? Of course the executive can subvert the law with impunity.
I have. But viewing it from this side of the Atlantic pond, I think gandhi_2 is not the only one that does not understand the importance of separation of powers. I suppose a two party system is only marginally better than a one party system, people in the three powers are bound to come from one or the other background or identify with one or the other party. Freedom and democracy lose.
You do know even the Romans implemented separation of powers?
Mind you, on this side of aforementioned pond, we have our own problems besides the Euro...
I think you do not understand the separation of powers: legislative power (congress) would make a law prohibiting collecting arbitrary data about individual citizens without reason and companies to provide them that information without due process. Executive power (government) is not allowed to subvert that law.
Review the permissions of the app. It can read and write contact information and it can take pictures and video, access phone state and identity, determine your location and record audio. At any time. Anybody actually read 1984? But at least Android tells you about it.
Your point of view typically comes from the extreme left wing which is responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths. You have those like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, etc., etc. who not only have war time body counts, but much of the count comes from 'peace time' genocide of undesirables in the population.
That's a straw man argument. Killing people is bad. War is bad. Lying about motives for war (i.e. Casus belli like the threat of WMD) is evil.
Of the five you name only three are considered "left", two were prototypical for the exact opposite. Better example would be the Khmer Rouge (but then again they were supported by the UN, including the USA after the Vietnamese had driven them from power)
These conphabulations about the revered products originating from a company named after a Malus domestica, ignore the fact it is simply a contraction of "phanboy" and "goblet" from which said subjects drink the cool juice of the fruits named after their favourite religion.
I'm just pointing out they should use some versioning system instead of emulating one.
I also think network admins should feel comfortable with something else than Excel. Just some flat text, perhaps CSV, heck even an ad-hoc xml format could do the trick.
Instead of file name encoded versioning system, use a distributed version control system: Git, Mercurial, Bazaar. It solves your offline problem too and you can keep committing changes when the network is down... And you keep track of who did what.
Linux is great for systems that will be managed by folks who do Linux, and its great when those folks can set up a locked down system for someone else. But as an every day replacement for Windows, to be managed and run by average Joe? Yea, not quite yet.
Not even Windows can be adequately managed by Joe and Jane Average. You need a minimal level of understanding in order to keep any system running - not even talking about keeping it safe. I even get silly questions from the Mac users...
When you write a novel you own the copyright to the entire work. Even large portions of it can not be copied without your consent. But if you start extorting people for copying "I am", the original language construct you invented, then you, the copyright owner, are stealing. There are limits.
The site and its images randomly (appropriately enough) bobble between working and 503 at the moment. Not quite down, but taking heavy fire.
Probably the cleaning lady using the left beam of light to read the instructions on the detergent bottle, thereby generating a whole string of identical 503 numbers.
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This is an issue on my lap tops and desktops also, 32 & 64 bit. I disabled screen saver and power management. I have had no more lock ups. Might help you too.
I was provided with a Dell i7 on a new project, installed 11.10 on it and had frequent freezes as described (mouse pointer still moving, other virtual terminal working although the lid was never closed) about 3 times a day, completely unacceptable. Didn't happen with KDE or Gnome classic. I've tried for 4 weeks and then switched to KDE and later tried Gnome. Same thing on a Lenovo ultrabook with 12.04 when testing it, within an hour it froze.
I think it has more to do with Unity than anything else: once I switched to another DE it did not happen again. (and it might depend on screen saver/power management/compiz)
Besides the frequent freezes, Unity seems completely unusable on several levels too. I've used Ubuntu since 2005 and am not happy with the latest "innovations" at all. I'll probably switch back to Debian if anything else about it gets "improved" in the same manner as the last 2 years...
Perhaps we are seeing the first attempts at monetizing what until recently was the most practical, usable, lovable operating system?
Actually i think I saw a study that said it wasn't keys that scratched the screen in pockets, but sand.
I do agree that protection plans are way to expensive. Don't buy something you can't afford to replace.
Pro tip: don't put your recently purchased phone in the same pocket as your recently acquired fine concrete granulate.
[...] They're trained to treat every raid as if they were going up against hardened, experienced, and well-armed enemies.[...]
Just look at how Amish dairy farmers were raided, and Gibson Guitars were raided. Guns drawn, like the Amish or a luthier normally pack an H&K MP5.
For the Europeans amongst us: That's what you get in return for the freedom to bear arms.
For the US citizens amongst us: See your hard earned tax dollars at work.
FB doesn't have the glaringly obvious problems[...]
Terrible privacy track record?
Besides, it's not only about problems. Does FB do anything exceptionally well? I see an evolution from ICQ, MSN, Skype, Second Life, Facebook, so I expect something else will pop up in the next 2-3 years that will absorb most of the attention of the consumers.
I don't think FB will be replaced by something that does the same thing like Google+ but it just might if FB continues to blatantly disregard users privacy rights.
Misleading? This is a LIE from MSNokia!
If only they listened to me: I recommend Micro Phone as a trademark. Goes superbly with the other generic words like Windows, Word, Excel, Access, SQL Server... MSNokia! sounds! more! like! a! Yahoo! brand.
OR instead you could point out how well Mr. Elop has done turning the ancient dinosaur Nokia into the nimble, most successful Windows phone company, making him a very deserving (of a humongous bonus that is) CEO. He can even take a nice picture of that fat check - shaking with excitement but nonetheless rock solid stabilized - and upload it to Bing (via Facebook). Oooh, the joy!
Have you been paying ANY attention the last 4 years? The last 40? Of course the executive can subvert the law with impunity.
I have. But viewing it from this side of the Atlantic pond, I think gandhi_2 is not the only one that does not understand the importance of separation of powers. I suppose a two party system is only marginally better than a one party system, people in the three powers are bound to come from one or the other background or identify with one or the other party. Freedom and democracy lose.
You do know even the Romans implemented separation of powers?
Mind you, on this side of aforementioned pond, we have our own problems besides the Euro...
I think you do not understand the separation of powers: legislative power (congress) would make a law prohibiting collecting arbitrary data about individual citizens without reason and companies to provide them that information without due process. Executive power (government) is not allowed to subvert that law.
Review the permissions of the app. It can read and write contact information and it can take pictures and video, access phone state and identity, determine your location and record audio. At any time. Anybody actually read 1984? But at least Android tells you about it.
Microsoft sues for anti-trust.
After all, they have irony clad arguments to do that!
Your point of view typically comes from the extreme left wing which is responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths. You have those like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, etc., etc. who not only have war time body counts, but much of the count comes from 'peace time' genocide of undesirables in the population.
That's a straw man argument. Killing people is bad. War is bad. Lying about motives for war (i.e. Casus belli like the threat of WMD) is evil.
Of the five you name only three are considered "left", two were prototypical for the exact opposite. Better example would be the Khmer Rouge (but then again they were supported by the UN, including the USA after the Vietnamese had driven them from power)
While they may not blow, it is inevitable that they will
Well, which is it?
Schrödinger's tyres. And Heisenberg was at the wheel - although nobody is certain about that either.
You would just stand there with your dick in your hand hoping that the press registered?
If you're famous enough, the press would register that although the pictures might be censored in some ways...
These conphabulations about the revered products originating from a company named after a Malus domestica, ignore the fact it is simply a contraction of "phanboy" and "goblet" from which said subjects drink the cool juice of the fruits named after their favourite religion.
[...] If they allow "the cloud" to reach the point when vendor lockin is not possible, Microsoft will have a very worrisome future. [...]
"The Cloud" is vendor lock-in. At least when done "right"
I'm just pointing out they should use some versioning system instead of emulating one.
I also think network admins should feel comfortable with something else than Excel. Just some flat text, perhaps CSV, heck even an ad-hoc xml format could do the trick.
Instead of file name encoded versioning system, use a distributed version control system: Git, Mercurial, Bazaar. It solves your offline problem too and you can keep committing changes when the network is down... And you keep track of who did what.
[...] but it's no different than what dozens of other corps want to do or are doing with your data[...]
That does not make it right.
Linux is great for systems that will be managed by folks who do Linux, and its great when those folks can set up a locked down system for someone else. But as an every day replacement for Windows, to be managed and run by average Joe? Yea, not quite yet.
Not even Windows can be adequately managed by Joe and Jane Average. You need a minimal level of understanding in order to keep any system running - not even talking about keeping it safe. I even get silly questions from the Mac users...
Title says interview with Ryan Merkly, TFS says Gary Kovaks at TED talk. Maybe I'm just new here, but does anyone read anymore?
Merkly quotes Kovaks.
Now I can quote oodaloop quoting samzenpus quoting Merkly quoting Kovaks. You can quote me on that.
Project Glass *IS MICROSOFT'S*. Why would they develop a competitor to their own competitor to the WiiU?
Nope. They're leading innovation again - from the tail of the pack. In this case following Google's er - pre-factual imitation.
I just received a chair in the mail.
Chairpoint. You had to point out that monstrosity, didn't you?
When you write a novel you own the copyright to the entire work. Even large portions of it can not be copied without your consent. But if you start extorting people for copying "I am", the original language construct you invented, then you, the copyright owner, are stealing. There are limits.
The site and its images randomly (appropriately enough) bobble between working and 503 at the moment. Not quite down, but taking heavy fire.
Probably the cleaning lady using the left beam of light to read the instructions on the detergent bottle, thereby generating a whole string of identical 503 numbers.
because they added "...on a computer" after it? Or "...on a smartphone"?