If running photo manipulation apps and snapshots/continuous backups are your goal, give some serious thought to switching to a Mac. Time Machine works relatively well, especially when you're doing it to a NAS sitting on your network. Backups happen frequently without any involvement from you, and restoring to a more civilized time is painless. Virtualizing Windows or Ubuntu is easy with Parallels and VMWare and performance is fairly good, but you can go native if you need/want to. If latency is important (and it is if you're doing GUI interaction), you really don't want to use a VM for everything.
They didn't capriciously shitcan the OS X port, there isn't anyone in their community that wants to wrestle with the Mac port. That kind of thing isn't what causes a software project to fork. Forks happen when someone says "macs are for weenies" and removes support for a platform while there are still people working on that code. When nobody wants to work on it, nobody wants to work on it.
And if you were willing to buy a couple developers a Mac, they might switch. It doesn't really matter what OS the users are running, they're not being supported financially by the project and have no incentive to scratch an itch that isn't theirs. My guess is that it will languish for a while and then someone will decide to come along and update it in a while. But it won't be a forking event.
Here you go. A port-o-rotary for $200. They provide full source and schematics. You can even buy a 6000mAh battery to run the thing for weeks and you don't have to deal with any PDA functionality. Any more complaints?
Radios are expensive. The only reason phones are cheap is because they're heavily subsidized or because they're a simple little phone produced a million at a time from a small handful of highly-integrated mixed analog/digital ASICs. "Open-source" devices are small-run devices with hopelessly obsolete radio hardware because it's all they can get documentation for and manufacturers aren't looking to release their secret sauce to just anybody.
And on top of all of this, most of the open-source types are desktop or server programmers. On the desktop, you don't have to think about low-power code. Everything changes when you're running off a battery. There just isn't the expertise there (yet). Having said all this, I love my rooted T-mobile G1. I built a scratchbox environment for it and ported a few important CLI tools and it's now perfectly capable of being all the pocket Linux machine I need and it's not very difficult getting Debian running on top of the Android environment.
Police, who discriminate against smart people, should be implicitly expected to have done a proper study on exactly what the causation of laptop theft actually is. They should be at least as credible as people looking for the effects of prayer on patients' recoveries. Google would never claim those folks were wrong.
You can't forget our friend at http://www.venganza.org/ who points out that pirates cause global warming, either. It's awfully easy to get something wrong when you're trying to pinpoint a cause for some effect any my money is on there being more laptops, not wi-fi attracting thieves like moths to a larcenous flame. Of course, McDonald's is a more likely burglary target than a 7-11, so I may actually be wrong. Darn you, Nintendo. Next they'll be encouraging children not to go into piracy for a living, leading to a precipitous change in global temperature.
Pick one up for cheap and use external usb devices. Should run you $100 for the device or less and $20-$50 for the external case for a drive. You don't need it to do much, so don't hurt yourself by looking too hard.
I'm trying not to be too pedantic, but First World actually refers to the US and its allies, while the Second World is the USSR and its allies. The Third World nations are those that neither gobbled up, so now it's really a meaningless term that nobody really understands...except that Australia is First World.
For those of you not in the know, he's not just a hippie, but a bit of an icon of the cause. In fact, it was printer drivers that started the Free Software movement.
Mod the parent up. That one was more than just funny.
You missed the real power-feature here. Try using fish (or ftp or even http) while you're attaching something in kmail or editing a file with kate, or even koffice. Now try doing a drag-and-drop into a konsole...now try it with a URL. Now try it while in a ssh -X session. Or maybe man:screen or info:glibc as a URL in konqueror. One last trick is KDE's alt-f2 dialog. It does integer arithmetic and opens URLs. KDE really is cool if you use it, but nobody here in the USA ever seems to give it a chance.
And for the flamebait part, why is kde so unloved here in the USA?
The term for this is "buzz marketing" and whether or not it was on purpose, I agree that it probably didn't do anything but help them in the long term, although there are lots of internet kiddies who hold a grudge. It's hard to start a grass-roots marketing campaign and even harder to do it by accident.
At least they didn't do something cheap like make some small town change its name to pajamamedia.com like Santa and Halfway, OR.
Take a look at http://www.radios4you.com/ or http://www.kaitousa.com/ and invest in a radio that also does shortwave if you're looking for an emergency radio. For far less than the $50 you'd spend on the yuppie crud in TFA, you can pick up a solar/crank/charger model and a decent antenna reel, which would let you pick up broadcasts from europe, cuba, the USA, the caribbean (BBC news), or just about anywhere else. All you lose is _local_ broadcasts when the communication infrastructure takes a nose-dive.
Yeah, you probably are dumb. It's illegal to copy copyrighted material without permission of the owner...that means uploads and downloads. As for downloadees, I haven't ever heard that term...
Of course, if you had bothered looking at the GNU projects out there, you might have noticed some like, say, grub that are based in Japan or maybe something like, say, Linux, which is European at its core. But you didn't, so I hope you enjoyed your FSF snipe.
Part of the reason we have elected officials and, most tellingly, a president elected by the electoral college is because the public at large can't be trusted to do the right thing. Look back to the USA during the early days of school desegregation. In an interview of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the black students attending Little Rock High School in Arkansas, gave this account of the crowd:
The crowd was quiet. I guess they were waiting to see what was going to happen. When I was able to steady my knees, I
walked up to the guard who had let the white students in. He too didn't move. When I tried to squeeze past him, he raised his bayonet and then the other guards moved in and they raised their bayonets.
They glared at me with a mean look and I was very frightened and didn't know what to do. I turned around and the crowd came toward me.
They moved closer and closer. Somebody started yelling, 'Lynch her! Lynch her!'
I tried to see a friendly face somewhere in the mob - someone who maybe would help. I looked into the face of an old woman and it seemed a kind face, but when I looked at her again, she spat on me.
They came closer, shouting, 'No nigger b***** is going to get in our school. Get out of here!'
Nobody here seriously believes that a bunch of rednecks should have treated those 9 black students so badly just because "everyone thought it was OK." The copyright laws, like many others, are to protect the minority. While I don't agree with the Mickey Mouse Copyright Regime, I think the current wholesale copying that's going on over the internet probably isn't good for the useful arts. The solution won't be legislative, it will be through business practices. I'd probably give $1/episode to download a TV show over some corporate-seeded bittorrent feed. I'd also fork out some money for a source of legally sanctioned P2P music, but the licensing fees aren't in line with distribution and reasonable marketing costs. When it's users doing the uploading and browsing other people's collections that's doing the marketing, $.25 per song is more of a cut than the RIAA should get.
Things will change, but it won't and shouldn't be because Congress does what teenagers want them to when it would put a significant dent in the business model of several of the country's top-grossing businesses. I, for one, don't want to see the software industry hurt too much even though I don't use *any* closed-source software and haven't for months. Too many people's livelihoods depend on the copyright protection of software. The costs to produce it are NOT low. Even open-source software is expensive to create, but the time is donated and the features often borrowed from other programs.
I'm more a fan of Bruce Campbell, myself. Willis can take care of your standard villains, but once they go truly strange (undead or from the past), there's only one Bruce.
Try using the stderr stream sometime. Just redirect stderr to/dev/null or some file and only watch it when you suspect some Strange Magicks to be operating.
To pluralize an acronym, you simply place a lower-case 's' after the word. Let's take an example from the text: Digital versatile discs (DVD's) . ..(from the second page of the decision) Now, have we figured out what's wrong with this quote yet? If not, here's the next line: Before the release of DVD's containing motion pictures, the Content Scrambling System (CSS), a system used to encrypt motion pictures on DVD's[AGAIN], was developed. It obviously wasn't just a typo. If you look closely, you might be able to spot one more error in the first sentence.
Ok, that's enough of my rant. Please, people, when you get to be a Supreme Court Justice, take care to get your grammar rules right. You never know when your aim-spelling might come back to bite you in the arse.
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If running photo manipulation apps and snapshots/continuous backups are your goal, give some serious thought to switching to a Mac. Time Machine works relatively well, especially when you're doing it to a NAS sitting on your network. Backups happen frequently without any involvement from you, and restoring to a more civilized time is painless. Virtualizing Windows or Ubuntu is easy with Parallels and VMWare and performance is fairly good, but you can go native if you need/want to. If latency is important (and it is if you're doing GUI interaction), you really don't want to use a VM for everything.
They didn't capriciously shitcan the OS X port, there isn't anyone in their community that wants to wrestle with the Mac port. That kind of thing isn't what causes a software project to fork. Forks happen when someone says "macs are for weenies" and removes support for a platform while there are still people working on that code. When nobody wants to work on it, nobody wants to work on it.
And if you were willing to buy a couple developers a Mac, they might switch. It doesn't really matter what OS the users are running, they're not being supported financially by the project and have no incentive to scratch an itch that isn't theirs. My guess is that it will languish for a while and then someone will decide to come along and update it in a while. But it won't be a forking event.
Android scripting environment. Google is your friend.
Here you go. A port-o-rotary for $200. They provide full source and schematics. You can even buy a 6000mAh battery to run the thing for weeks and you don't have to deal with any PDA functionality. Any more complaints?
Radios are expensive. The only reason phones are cheap is because they're heavily subsidized or because they're a simple little phone produced a million at a time from a small handful of highly-integrated mixed analog/digital ASICs. "Open-source" devices are small-run devices with hopelessly obsolete radio hardware because it's all they can get documentation for and manufacturers aren't looking to release their secret sauce to just anybody.
And on top of all of this, most of the open-source types are desktop or server programmers. On the desktop, you don't have to think about low-power code. Everything changes when you're running off a battery. There just isn't the expertise there (yet). Having said all this, I love my rooted T-mobile G1. I built a scratchbox environment for it and ported a few important CLI tools and it's now perfectly capable of being all the pocket Linux machine I need and it's not very difficult getting Debian running on top of the Android environment.
Police, who discriminate against smart people, should be implicitly expected to have done a proper study on exactly what the causation of laptop theft actually is. They should be at least as credible as people looking for the effects of prayer on patients' recoveries. Google would never claim those folks were wrong. You can't forget our friend at http://www.venganza.org/ who points out that pirates cause global warming, either. It's awfully easy to get something wrong when you're trying to pinpoint a cause for some effect any my money is on there being more laptops, not wi-fi attracting thieves like moths to a larcenous flame. Of course, McDonald's is a more likely burglary target than a 7-11, so I may actually be wrong. Darn you, Nintendo. Next they'll be encouraging children not to go into piracy for a living, leading to a precipitous change in global temperature.
Pick one up for cheap and use external usb devices. Should run you $100 for the device or less and $20-$50 for the external case for a drive. You don't need it to do much, so don't hurt yourself by looking too hard.
I'm trying not to be too pedantic, but First World actually refers to the US and its allies, while the Second World is the USSR and its allies. The Third World nations are those that neither gobbled up, so now it's really a meaningless term that nobody really understands...except that Australia is First World.
For those of you not in the know, he's not just a hippie, but a bit of an icon of the cause. In fact, it was printer drivers that started the Free Software movement. Mod the parent up. That one was more than just funny.
You missed the real power-feature here. Try using fish (or ftp or even http) while you're attaching something in kmail or editing a file with kate, or even koffice. Now try doing a drag-and-drop into a konsole...now try it with a URL. Now try it while in a ssh -X session. Or maybe man:screen or info:glibc as a URL in konqueror. One last trick is KDE's alt-f2 dialog. It does integer arithmetic and opens URLs. KDE really is cool if you use it, but nobody here in the USA ever seems to give it a chance.
And for the flamebait part, why is kde so unloved here in the USA?
The term for this is "buzz marketing" and whether or not it was on purpose, I agree that it probably didn't do anything but help them in the long term, although there are lots of internet kiddies who hold a grudge. It's hard to start a grass-roots marketing campaign and even harder to do it by accident. At least they didn't do something cheap like make some small town change its name to pajamamedia.com like Santa and Halfway, OR.
But it'll also lead to atrocities rivaling the tag that netscape so callously unleashed upon the world way back in the 90s.
It might just not be worth it.
I think it would have been better to simply pretend you were making a joke on this one...
Take a look at http://www.radios4you.com/ or http://www.kaitousa.com/ and invest in a radio that also does shortwave if you're looking for an emergency radio. For far less than the $50 you'd spend on the yuppie crud in TFA, you can pick up a solar/crank/charger model and a decent antenna reel, which would let you pick up broadcasts from europe, cuba, the USA, the caribbean (BBC news), or just about anywhere else. All you lose is _local_ broadcasts when the communication infrastructure takes a nose-dive.
Yeah, you probably are dumb. It's illegal to copy copyrighted material without permission of the owner...that means uploads and downloads. As for downloadees, I haven't ever heard that term...
Of course, if you had bothered looking at the GNU projects out there, you might have noticed some like, say, grub that are based in Japan or maybe something like, say, Linux, which is European at its core. But you didn't, so I hope you enjoyed your FSF snipe.
Things will change, but it won't and shouldn't be because Congress does what teenagers want them to when it would put a significant dent in the business model of several of the country's top-grossing businesses. I, for one, don't want to see the software industry hurt too much even though I don't use *any* closed-source software and haven't for months. Too many people's livelihoods depend on the copyright protection of software. The costs to produce it are NOT low. Even open-source software is expensive to create, but the time is donated and the features often borrowed from other programs.
I'm more a fan of Bruce Campbell, myself. Willis can take care of your standard villains, but once they go truly strange (undead or from the past), there's only one Bruce.
You're not alone. I guess the more intelligent concept won out in my head
Try using the stderr stream sometime. Just redirect stderr to /dev/null or some file and only watch it when you suspect some Strange Magicks to be operating.
Ok, that's enough of my rant. Please, people, when you get to be a Supreme Court Justice, take care to get your grammar rules right. You never know when your aim-spelling might come back to bite you in the arse.