Thanks, I'll take a look around and see if I can find any more info. What you said makes sense. As long as google isn't getting all the form data and stuff I'm sending while using the browser, it's not a huge deal to me. But it might be a good idea to not send my browsing habits to google.
What is all this talk about how Google Chrome violates your privacy? Does it send a list of everything I type and every site I go to, to Google?
Is there an option to turn it off? If there isn't a way to turn it off, I'm going back to Firefox. I don't want to use some third party hack of Chrome, thanks.
This strategy might work if Google really is serious about changing mobile computing. They have the money to fund something like this (maybe even subsidizing netbooks would work). I would certainly accept a netbook with advertising if it was free, because, hell, it's free!
Even if it was subisidized at say $50, I would be willing to buy it. Any more then that and I would have to pass.
I watched the demo of Chrome OS that was posted on youtube, and from the presentation they really think Chrome OS will change the "paradigm" of computing. If they actually fund it by giving people free netbooks with chrome os installed, well, that's going to make it a LOT easier to change how we think of computing!
Unrelated note: I really find the browser-OS model fascinating. In a way, the presenter was correct: we really do most of our computing activities online (especially when mobile), and if the internet isnt there it's kind of pointless. I think the real issue will be offline application access, which hopefully will be solved by the upcoming HTML 5 Offline capabilities. All in all this is definitely going to be interesting to watch in the next year, but I'm not going to really obsess about it until Google comes out with a final product *snicker*.
Wow, you have to look at the keyboard if you can't feel it? What happened to memorizing key positions and how far you have to move your fingers (muscle memory)?
Maybe it's easier for some people than others. I got the iPhone 1st gen the day after it released and have never had problems typing on it. After the first week or so, I didn't need to look at the keyboard either.
Why do people use the term Global Warming. It is a misleading term that does not properly identify what is happening to our planet. The fact is that the atmosphere is variable and will continue to fluctuate in terms of average temperature.
The real problem we are facing is rising sea TEMPERATURES. Here's just one technical article that studies the effects of rising sea temperatures on phytoplankton on Australia's coastline: http://www.int-res.com/articles/feature/m394p001.pdf If you search the http://www.int-res.com/ site you'll find a lot more really technical research articles that are great reads if you like this stuff:)
Rising sea temperatures mess up the sea currents and make fish search out better habitats (or die), perhaps because of the rising temperature itself, or maybe because their food supply is damaged (due to phytoplankton dieoff). If something doesn't change soon, we are in danger of losing vast populations in the ocean. This will have huge repercussions on our global food supply.
In the end, it doesn't matter if we are the ones causing it, or the sun is. Who cares. It is a complex system, and you can prove, through science, that carbon emissions directly affect sea temperatures. Maybe it's miniscule. Maybe it's not, but we have to do something or we are in severe danger of entirely losing our oceans.
Imagine if the seafood industry went belly up. It would cause a worldwide depression the likes of which we have not seen or dreamed of, especially for areas that depend heavily on the ocean for their nation's food supply.
AT THE VERY LEAST, if we are not going to reduce carbon emissions or whatever we can to reduce the effect on oceans, we need to have an actionable plan for what to do once the oceans die. Because it will happen if this trend continues. Having a plan doesn't mean it's going to be used, but we need to be able to continue functioning as a species if it does!
Wederom zijn het alleen gebruikers van een gejailbreakte iPhone of iPod Touch die risico lopen.
Translation: Again are the only users of an iPhone or iPod Touch gejailbreakte at risk.
In summary, if you jailbreak your phone, install apps to make your phone a server, and don't take steps to secure it, you are an idiot and deserve whatever happens.
This computer is less than 2 years old! Only one person in my household smokes - one 21 year old college student.
Yeah, "only" one person, the person that owns the laptop. And anyone that has been a 21 year old college student knows how much you smoke. (hint: a lot). Just because one person smokes doesn't mean their room isn't filled with smoke and tar residue.
So you expect a warranty to cover water damaged devices? When you find a company that covers water damaged equipment under warranty, please let us all know!
The smoking thing is a bit strange, and I'll have to see if they say anything more. I'd love to see pictures of the device that was submitted for repair!
Disclaimer: Yes I own Apple devices, and I seem to be in the minority in that Apple Care has been a great experience for me.
I just RTFA and I have to reply. This article is a pure shill piece for an independent warranty company. What idiot would buy an independent warranty when there's a more comprehensive plan available from the vendor?
Just goes to show you, there's a sucker born every minute, and that company takes advantage of them.
Failure rates are within 2-3 percentage points. Who cares. What really makes a difference is the SUPPORT you get from a vendor, not what percentage of the shipments fail over time.
Hardware fails. Especially portable hardware. It's a fact of life, and engineering builds that in. It's impossible to build a machine completely immune to failure without spending astronomical amounts of money. And it's also not reasonable.
What makes Apple an attractive vendor is Apple Care. You get your circuitboard replaced for $0 that normally cost a thousand dollars. Hard disk failure? $0 replacement. Optical disk drive failure? $0 replacement.
Dell and other vendors have similar programs. In the end, you cannot look at pure failure rates because failure rates are part of the design of hardware. You also need to consider support costs.
Lots of posters flying off the handle that obviously didn't read the actual thread. PackageKit added this as a "feature" without notifying the Fedora team. yum still behaves as expected. I'm assuming that PackageKit still requires root to modify shared system areas where the owner is root (e.g./usr/bin etc.), but users can install their own local packages using PackageKit.
In fact, this is exactly what Mac OS X does by default. I'm not entirely sure if this is really a problem or not. In Linux, users are already able to install local apps into their home directories, this appears to just make it integrate with the UI much easier than before. I remember I had to manage my own user apps in my home directory and it was a real pain, since I had to add that bin directory to my path, and none of those apps appeared in menus anywhere.
It seams silly to mention that it's open source without giving the license. Btw It's not copyleft, allows linking from other licenses and is GPLv3 compatible
Can you rephrase that in english please? Does that mean we can't use this in commercial products?
I'm curious why Google didn't choose the the dual MIT/GPL license like jquery uses.
Okay wow, spent some time looking over the API reference.. This thing seems awesome! I love the UI components they've opened up. Those could be pretty useful. Too bad it might mean having to rewrite all my jquery code to closure, but maybe that's not such a bad thing. There's a lot of things in there that would be very nice to use. I'm probably going to try creating some simple projects before adopting it though.
You know what'd be great? If there were more tutorials that show off a lot of the functionality you can achieve with closure. Hello world and notepad editors just don't cut it as demos. (Hint hint google:)
The main problem I've found is how web servers/web browsers tend to rewrite the html used in the page. Sometimes. So sometimes there will be no quotes around attributes for elements in IE6, but there will be double quotes around attributes for elements in Firefox. It drives me crazy when using specific html commands from jquery especially.
But largely I've found jquery to be a lifesaver as another person said above. There are quirks, but they are fairly minor and only if you are doing really complicated stuff you probably shouldn't be doing on the client side anyway (but sometimes you have to when you are forced to use a COTS product hosted on their servers.. sigh).
I currently use jquery and jtemplates with json data. How do the closure template commands compare to jtemplates? I didn't really see any ajax functionality in the tutorials but I haven't had time to delve any deeper. Has anyone spent more time with this?
I'm still going to read through it, was just wondering if anyone else has more experience with closure.
That's weird. I would think pressing the tab key once would be pretty intuitive. I always found firefox to be a lot simpler to use than remembering keywords for different search engines.
Ctrl T and then tab = new tab and my cursor in the google search box.
of course there's Option T if you're on a mac but.. meh. I figure most of you guys are on windows:P
Huh. I guess you haven't used gmail then. It has some pretty nice tagging and filtering features that make it easy for me to filter at least 20 emails a day. They're not "bayesian" but that's usually a term reserved for spam filtering, of which gmail has in large supply. And it works pretty well.
After using spamassassin and evolution on linux, gmail has been pretty easy to use and effective. It also made it a lot easier to switch to a mac but that's besides the point.
Windows and MacOS are idiot-friendly. Even the ancient AmigaOS and C=64 GEOS are idiot-friendly. That's what Linux needs to become if it wants to be a universal replacement desktop, instead of just an isolated tool for technicians.
The day that happens, a new operating system will be created so that programming geeks can have a usable operating system...
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Thanks, I'll take a look around and see if I can find any more info. What you said makes sense. As long as google isn't getting all the form data and stuff I'm sending while using the browser, it's not a huge deal to me. But it might be a good idea to not send my browsing habits to google.
What is all this talk about how Google Chrome violates your privacy? Does it send a list of everything I type and every site I go to, to Google?
Is there an option to turn it off? If there isn't a way to turn it off, I'm going back to Firefox. I don't want to use some third party hack of Chrome, thanks.
Its far from standards compliant, unless you think Word is HTML compliant when you use it as an HTML editor.
Word HTML isn't that different than normal html, just use tidy HTML and some sed rules to strip out the non-standard tags and you're golden!
This strategy might work if Google really is serious about changing mobile computing. They have the money to fund something like this (maybe even subsidizing netbooks would work). I would certainly accept a netbook with advertising if it was free, because, hell, it's free!
Even if it was subisidized at say $50, I would be willing to buy it. Any more then that and I would have to pass.
I watched the demo of Chrome OS that was posted on youtube, and from the presentation they really think Chrome OS will change the "paradigm" of computing. If they actually fund it by giving people free netbooks with chrome os installed, well, that's going to make it a LOT easier to change how we think of computing!
Unrelated note: I really find the browser-OS model fascinating. In a way, the presenter was correct: we really do most of our computing activities online (especially when mobile), and if the internet isnt there it's kind of pointless. I think the real issue will be offline application access, which hopefully will be solved by the upcoming HTML 5 Offline capabilities. All in all this is definitely going to be interesting to watch in the next year, but I'm not going to really obsess about it until Google comes out with a final product *snicker*.
Wow, you have to look at the keyboard if you can't feel it? What happened to memorizing key positions and how far you have to move your fingers (muscle memory)?
Maybe it's easier for some people than others. I got the iPhone 1st gen the day after it released and have never had problems typing on it. After the first week or so, I didn't need to look at the keyboard either.
Why do people use the term Global Warming. It is a misleading term that does not properly identify what is happening to our planet. The fact is that the atmosphere is variable and will continue to fluctuate in terms of average temperature.
:)
The real problem we are facing is rising sea TEMPERATURES. Here's just one technical article that studies the effects of rising sea temperatures on phytoplankton on Australia's coastline: http://www.int-res.com/articles/feature/m394p001.pdf If you search the http://www.int-res.com/ site you'll find a lot more really technical research articles that are great reads if you like this stuff
Rising sea temperatures mess up the sea currents and make fish search out better habitats (or die), perhaps because of the rising temperature itself, or maybe because their food supply is damaged (due to phytoplankton dieoff). If something doesn't change soon, we are in danger of losing vast populations in the ocean. This will have huge repercussions on our global food supply.
In the end, it doesn't matter if we are the ones causing it, or the sun is. Who cares. It is a complex system, and you can prove, through science, that carbon emissions directly affect sea temperatures. Maybe it's miniscule. Maybe it's not, but we have to do something or we are in severe danger of entirely losing our oceans.
Imagine if the seafood industry went belly up. It would cause a worldwide depression the likes of which we have not seen or dreamed of, especially for areas that depend heavily on the ocean for their nation's food supply.
AT THE VERY LEAST, if we are not going to reduce carbon emissions or whatever we can to reduce the effect on oceans, we need to have an actionable plan for what to do once the oceans die. Because it will happen if this trend continues. Having a plan doesn't mean it's going to be used, but we need to be able to continue functioning as a species if it does!
Wederom zijn het alleen gebruikers van een gejailbreakte iPhone of iPod Touch die risico lopen.
Translation: Again are the only users of an iPhone or iPod Touch gejailbreakte at risk.
In summary, if you jailbreak your phone, install apps to make your phone a server, and don't take steps to secure it, you are an idiot and deserve whatever happens.
This computer is less than 2 years old! Only one person in my household smokes - one 21 year old college student.
Yeah, "only" one person, the person that owns the laptop. And anyone that has been a 21 year old college student knows how much you smoke. (hint: a lot). Just because one person smokes doesn't mean their room isn't filled with smoke and tar residue.
So you expect a warranty to cover water damaged devices? When you find a company that covers water damaged equipment under warranty, please let us all know!
The smoking thing is a bit strange, and I'll have to see if they say anything more. I'd love to see pictures of the device that was submitted for repair!
Disclaimer: Yes I own Apple devices, and I seem to be in the minority in that Apple Care has been a great experience for me.
Knowing most consumers of netbooks, it probably fell in the toilet...
I just RTFA and I have to reply. This article is a pure shill piece for an independent warranty company. What idiot would buy an independent warranty when there's a more comprehensive plan available from the vendor?
Just goes to show you, there's a sucker born every minute, and that company takes advantage of them.
Failure rates are within 2-3 percentage points. Who cares. What really makes a difference is the SUPPORT you get from a vendor, not what percentage of the shipments fail over time.
Hardware fails. Especially portable hardware. It's a fact of life, and engineering builds that in. It's impossible to build a machine completely immune to failure without spending astronomical amounts of money. And it's also not reasonable.
What makes Apple an attractive vendor is Apple Care. You get your circuitboard replaced for $0 that normally cost a thousand dollars. Hard disk failure? $0 replacement. Optical disk drive failure? $0 replacement.
Dell and other vendors have similar programs. In the end, you cannot look at pure failure rates because failure rates are part of the design of hardware. You also need to consider support costs.
Lots of posters flying off the handle that obviously didn't read the actual thread. PackageKit added this as a "feature" without notifying the Fedora team. yum still behaves as expected. I'm assuming that PackageKit still requires root to modify shared system areas where the owner is root (e.g. /usr/bin etc.), but users can install their own local packages using PackageKit.
In fact, this is exactly what Mac OS X does by default. I'm not entirely sure if this is really a problem or not. In Linux, users are already able to install local apps into their home directories, this appears to just make it integrate with the UI much easier than before. I remember I had to manage my own user apps in my home directory and it was a real pain, since I had to add that bin directory to my path, and none of those apps appeared in menus anywhere.
This is probably the most succinct description of the worst problem plaguing education today.
Have you considered writing an op-ed? More people need visibility to your writing! Especially administrators and senators/representatives/etc.
Not to mention that the actual review cited numerous errors in the actual book. PASS!
Drupal is a nice idea, but executed poorly.
It seams silly to mention that it's open source without giving the license. Btw It's not copyleft, allows linking from other licenses and is GPLv3 compatible
Can you rephrase that in english please? Does that mean we can't use this in commercial products?
I'm curious why Google didn't choose the the dual MIT/GPL license like jquery uses.
Addendum: I realize their various apps use this as their language but when I say "demo" I mean demo with source code (e.g. tutorial :)
P.S. WTB edit feature on slashdot.
Okay wow, spent some time looking over the API reference.. This thing seems awesome! I love the UI components they've opened up. Those could be pretty useful. Too bad it might mean having to rewrite all my jquery code to closure, but maybe that's not such a bad thing. There's a lot of things in there that would be very nice to use. I'm probably going to try creating some simple projects before adopting it though.
:)
You know what'd be great? If there were more tutorials that show off a lot of the functionality you can achieve with closure. Hello world and notepad editors just don't cut it as demos. (Hint hint google
The main problem I've found is how web servers/web browsers tend to rewrite the html used in the page. Sometimes. So sometimes there will be no quotes around attributes for elements in IE6, but there will be double quotes around attributes for elements in Firefox. It drives me crazy when using specific html commands from jquery especially.
.. sigh).
But largely I've found jquery to be a lifesaver as another person said above. There are quirks, but they are fairly minor and only if you are doing really complicated stuff you probably shouldn't be doing on the client side anyway (but sometimes you have to when you are forced to use a COTS product hosted on their servers
I currently use jquery and jtemplates with json data. How do the closure template commands compare to jtemplates? I didn't really see any ajax functionality in the tutorials but I haven't had time to delve any deeper. Has anyone spent more time with this?
I'm still going to read through it, was just wondering if anyone else has more experience with closure.
Whoops I meant Command T. I don't really look at my keyboard anymore.
That's weird. I would think pressing the tab key once would be pretty intuitive. I always found firefox to be a lot simpler to use than remembering keywords for different search engines.
:P
Ctrl T and then tab = new tab and my cursor in the google search box.
of course there's Option T if you're on a mac but.. meh. I figure most of you guys are on windows
Huh. I guess you haven't used gmail then. It has some pretty nice tagging and filtering features that make it easy for me to filter at least 20 emails a day. They're not "bayesian" but that's usually a term reserved for spam filtering, of which gmail has in large supply. And it works pretty well.
After using spamassassin and evolution on linux, gmail has been pretty easy to use and effective. It also made it a lot easier to switch to a mac but that's besides the point.
Windows and MacOS are idiot-friendly. Even the ancient AmigaOS and C=64 GEOS are idiot-friendly. That's what Linux needs to become if it wants to be a universal replacement desktop, instead of just an isolated tool for technicians.
The day that happens, a new operating system will be created so that programming geeks can have a usable operating system...
"It's hard to remember a password when it isn't written down!"
I'll bet you hear that a lot.