Tell me about it. When we were in school, my brother was suspended for passing out candy canes in December. Of course all his candy canes were confiscated and were never returned.
I'm sorry, but that is the dumbest cop-out response I have ever got in my life. Linux is lacking in wireless adapter support. This article is about what needs fixing in Linux and wireless support needs fixing.
People use Linux because they want a UNIX like system on their desktop or laptop!
The other reason people use Linux is because it free software!
Poor hardware support is a symptom of many different people wanting to run a free UNIX like system. It is not intrinsically part of Linux! Oddly enough it is its own solution, because with more demand for hardware support, it's more likely that hardware support will be worked on.
For one, it wasn't a laptop, my comment specifically says "desktop".
For two, the wireless router and the DSL modem are in a different room than my desk, monitor, keyboard etc. I don't have an ethernet cable that long and I wasn't about to move my desk around.
For three, as with our case, making a physical connection isn't always possible.
I disagree. Wireless not working out of the box is a huge issue. I recently helped install openSUSE (I didn't have a choice in distro selection) on my girlfriend's desktop and we ran into this problem. How do you get online to figure out how to make the wireless card work on linux? You can't.
All the things you mentioned are easy problems to fix if you care about them and can get online to google them. Your video won't play, just search the net for solutions. Not so if you have a nonfunctioning wireless card.
Without a means of connecting to the internet an getting help Linux is worthless out of the box. This needs to be improved! Period.
We finally solved this problem buy switching back and forth between my computer and hers on my KVM switch. We eventually found out the specific USB Wireless adapter didn't work with Linux or at least was more complicated that it should have been to get functioning. We looked up which adapters would work out of the box and picked one up at Best Buy.
Most people are not going to buy new hardware to get an OS working. Her and I are nerd exception not the rule.
My concern isn't whether the tech can be exported, but if the tech will help solve the immediately and important problem of power plants in China, India and other developing countries.
I'd much rather have the that problem funded and directly worked on than to fund a private company that isn't working on the problem at hand at all.
Indeed the car is an improvement over current combustion engine cars, but better cleaner power plants have a lot more value. I'd prefer our tax money went to power plant research only. Tesla should be privately funded.
Will this R&D make these cars affordable to people in China or India? No. Will R&D make zero emission power plants affordable to China and India? No. Will the cars if, made better and mass produced, have any impact on global emissions? No.
So what exactly is the point of giving money to a company that markets and sells guiltlessness to rich people in rich countries?
Tesla does not produce ANY zero emission cars. If I were to buy a Tesla car here in Flagstaff I'd be driving a coal powered car. That's fucking retarded.
If you want zero emissions make better power plants. Give universities grants to come up with zero emission power plants. 15 cars a week will have a 0% decrease in global emissions.
The Tesla is a feel good technology marketed and sold to rich people who feel guilty about the environment. Tesla is going to make some money that's true, but not enough to keep themselves in business and develop new technology. I predict the cars will flop just like the Delorean.
Even if they somehow managed to stay in business and started producing more and better cars it would still provide a 0% net decrease in global emissions. Electric cars don't solve the energy problem, not for the United States, and certainly not for China and India.
Stop making yourself feel good about the environment and do something about the environment that matters. Produce cheap clean coal plants that China and India can build. Build more nuclear power plants and allow developing economies to build nuclear plants and technology.
It's arrogant to think that individuals can buy their way out of responsibility for changes in the global climate. It's arrogant to think a car company can do anything about it too. Your individual behavior has no impact on the environment. Stop being arrogant and start solving real problems.
I use Safari because it's well integrated with OS X.
Besides being a nicely built Cocoa application, how exactly is Safari integrated into OS X?
Don't get me wrong I use and love Safari, but I'm not aware of and integration. You might argue that WebKit is integrated into OS X, but it's merely a framework and a UI control, not unlike a text view, a window, or a button.
Sorry, I just think that misrepresents Safari and we don't want people screaming that Safari is tied to the OS like IE was tied to the Windows OS. It's just not the case for Safari.
You obviously haven't discovered the wonders of WebKit. Maybe this is very subjective but WebKit: looks better, renders faster, runs JavaScript faster, performs better all around, has better developer support (if you're running the nightly builds), and is lighter weight on all fronts.
There is one thing it doesn't do however. That is, it doesn't work with the "online" quizzes my university insists on using. That's why I have Firefox and that's why a browser that switches engines is a pretty good idea in and of itself.
But a double engine browser for Mac and Linux wouldn't be too bad. I can't run IE as it is and don't need to. But I do have both Safari and Firefox on my system. I'd sure like to have a browser were I could switch the engine on the fly.
Then this browser isn't for you! This browser solves an interesting problem that I've wanted for a long time. That is most people browse with one browser they really like, but sometimes they need to visit a site for school or work that doesn't quite work with their browser of choice. As it was, you'd have to launch another browser for certain special cases. Now with this Triple-Engine browser you just switch the engine when you need a different browser. That's pretty cool. If you don't appreciate that, oh well.
On the other hand, why would you block ads at the browser level still? There are much better techniques now, like a system wide http proxy. Guess what it works with all browsers on your system and doesn't require a plugin. Get with the times.
I think you mean "preventing it from being bundled with other Open Source software." Free software is pretty much GPL'd software. Or have I been drinking too much Stallman Kool-Aid?
Whoever modded you down is a jackass tool and their moderator access should be revoked!
FYI: the world did end. I hope this doesn't interfere with any plans you may have made. I wouldn't count on/. posting a story though. Truth be told, no one seems to have noticed except me. Very strange.
You must have missed the memo. Sun has been open sourcing projects left and right: OpenSolaris, Java and VirtualBox to name a few high profile examples. Sure OpenSolaris isn't GPL'd, but Java and VirtualBox are.
That's incorrect. It's true for Windows or at least it's the explanation usually given.
But on a Mac the window server works in a fundamentally different way. Every window is drawn through the window server and as a result anything and everything is just another piece of a large graphic that makes up the screen image.
This has many advantages that some key Mac OS features rely on: the screen grabber, spaces, expose, window dragging, window resizing and window minimization. What I mean is, if you have a DVD window (or any other window) playing a movie and you invoke one of the window server features the movie keeps playing, be it through dragging, resizing, warping or expose and spaces. You can even hold the shift key down and watch the window server work in slow motion, the movie continues its playback without a hitch.
Basically DVD output is not treated differently and there is no intrinsic reason you can't take a screenshot of a DVD. Apple has deliberately made the system disallow screen grabs during DVD playback.
I have talked about this on/. before and there are always people who give the reasoning you just did. But the reason only applies to Windows. I looked into it and it's just not the case on a Mac. Apparently on a Mac you can use the command line grab program to take screenshots during DVD playback and that the dialog box only appears if you use the GUI grab program or the keyboard shortcut.
The fact that Mac OS X does this really sucks, because you can't take screenshots of other windows, which means you can't watch a movie while you work on something that requires you to take screenshots.
I'll bite. With Facebook you have the option, I believe it's the default, to only share information (private data) with people you have accepted as friends. Therefore, the data you allow Facebook to share with your friends is still private data. If Facebook allows someone besides a friend to view the data, they are violating the architecture of the site and their own terms of service. Oh and you can't change Facebook's color scheme, you're thinking of MySpace.
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Tell me about it. When we were in school, my brother was suspended for passing out candy canes in December. Of course all his candy canes were confiscated and were never returned.
It is absolutely perplexing to me that /. would link to an engadget article instead of the university's website. Thanks for the real link!
If you had read the replies or if you had stopped to think you'd know I didn't have a FUCKING 30 ft cat5 cable.
Even if I did it wouldn't have solved the problem. Because just like at my house, my girlfriend only has a wireless network.
I'm sorry, but that is the dumbest cop-out response I have ever got in my life. Linux is lacking in wireless adapter support. This article is about what needs fixing in Linux and wireless support needs fixing.
People use Linux because they want a UNIX like system on their desktop or laptop!
The other reason people use Linux is because it free software!
Poor hardware support is a symptom of many different people wanting to run a free UNIX like system. It is not intrinsically part of Linux! Oddly enough it is its own solution, because with more demand for hardware support, it's more likely that hardware support will be worked on.
Hehe, try a Dell desktop. It had an ethernet plug of course, but that wasn't a practical option in our case.
For one, it wasn't a laptop, my comment specifically says "desktop".
For two, the wireless router and the DSL modem are in a different room than my desk, monitor, keyboard etc. I don't have an ethernet cable that long and I wasn't about to move my desk around.
For three, as with our case, making a physical connection isn't always possible.
I disagree. Wireless not working out of the box is a huge issue. I recently helped install openSUSE (I didn't have a choice in distro selection) on my girlfriend's desktop and we ran into this problem. How do you get online to figure out how to make the wireless card work on linux? You can't.
All the things you mentioned are easy problems to fix if you care about them and can get online to google them. Your video won't play, just search the net for solutions. Not so if you have a nonfunctioning wireless card.
Without a means of connecting to the internet an getting help Linux is worthless out of the box. This needs to be improved! Period.
We finally solved this problem buy switching back and forth between my computer and hers on my KVM switch. We eventually found out the specific USB Wireless adapter didn't work with Linux or at least was more complicated that it should have been to get functioning. We looked up which adapters would work out of the box and picked one up at Best Buy.
Most people are not going to buy new hardware to get an OS working. Her and I are nerd exception not the rule.
My concern isn't whether the tech can be exported, but if the tech will help solve the immediately and important problem of power plants in China, India and other developing countries.
I'd much rather have the that problem funded and directly worked on than to fund a private company that isn't working on the problem at hand at all.
Indeed the car is an improvement over current combustion engine cars, but better cleaner power plants have a lot more value. I'd prefer our tax money went to power plant research only. Tesla should be privately funded.
Will this R&D make these cars affordable to people in China or India? No. Will R&D make zero emission power plants affordable to China and India? No. Will the cars if, made better and mass produced, have any impact on global emissions? No.
So what exactly is the point of giving money to a company that markets and sells guiltlessness to rich people in rich countries?
Tesla does not produce ANY zero emission cars. If I were to buy a Tesla car here in Flagstaff I'd be driving a coal powered car. That's fucking retarded.
If you want zero emissions make better power plants. Give universities grants to come up with zero emission power plants. 15 cars a week will have a 0% decrease in global emissions.
The Tesla is a feel good technology marketed and sold to rich people who feel guilty about the environment. Tesla is going to make some money that's true, but not enough to keep themselves in business and develop new technology. I predict the cars will flop just like the Delorean.
Even if they somehow managed to stay in business and started producing more and better cars it would still provide a 0% net decrease in global emissions. Electric cars don't solve the energy problem, not for the United States, and certainly not for China and India.
Stop making yourself feel good about the environment and do something about the environment that matters. Produce cheap clean coal plants that China and India can build. Build more nuclear power plants and allow developing economies to build nuclear plants and technology.
It's arrogant to think that individuals can buy their way out of responsibility for changes in the global climate. It's arrogant to think a car company can do anything about it too. Your individual behavior has no impact on the environment. Stop being arrogant and start solving real problems.
There are GUIs for ad blocking http proxies.
You're right. I enjoy all those aspects of Safari as well.
I thought maybe you meant _integrated_ like IE is to Windows and I wanted to clarify. Thanks.
I use Safari because it's well integrated with OS X.
Besides being a nicely built Cocoa application, how exactly is Safari integrated into OS X?
Don't get me wrong I use and love Safari, but I'm not aware of and integration. You might argue that WebKit is integrated into OS X, but it's merely a framework and a UI control, not unlike a text view, a window, or a button.
Sorry, I just think that misrepresents Safari and we don't want people screaming that Safari is tied to the OS like IE was tied to the Windows OS. It's just not the case for Safari.
You obviously haven't discovered the wonders of WebKit. Maybe this is very subjective but WebKit: looks better, renders faster, runs JavaScript faster, performs better all around, has better developer support (if you're running the nightly builds), and is lighter weight on all fronts.
There is one thing it doesn't do however. That is, it doesn't work with the "online" quizzes my university insists on using. That's why I have Firefox and that's why a browser that switches engines is a pretty good idea in and of itself.
But a double engine browser for Mac and Linux wouldn't be too bad. I can't run IE as it is and don't need to. But I do have both Safari and Firefox on my system. I'd sure like to have a browser were I could switch the engine on the fly.
Then this browser isn't for you! This browser solves an interesting problem that I've wanted for a long time. That is most people browse with one browser they really like, but sometimes they need to visit a site for school or work that doesn't quite work with their browser of choice. As it was, you'd have to launch another browser for certain special cases. Now with this Triple-Engine browser you just switch the engine when you need a different browser. That's pretty cool. If you don't appreciate that, oh well.
On the other hand, why would you block ads at the browser level still? There are much better techniques now, like a system wide http proxy. Guess what it works with all browsers on your system and doesn't require a plugin. Get with the times.
Perhaps you are just jaded.
I think you mean "preventing it from being bundled with other Open Source software." Free software is pretty much GPL'd software. Or have I been drinking too much Stallman Kool-Aid?
Whoever modded you down is a jackass tool and their moderator access should be revoked!
Too bad they caught fire on atmospheric entry. But yeah.
I, for one, welcome our new burnt-to-a-crisp-exploded-on-impact-mutant-space-arachnid-overlords.
FYI: the world did end. I hope this doesn't interfere with any plans you may have made. I wouldn't count on /. posting a story though. Truth be told, no one seems to have noticed except me. Very strange.
You must have missed the memo. Sun has been open sourcing projects left and right: OpenSolaris, Java and VirtualBox to name a few high profile examples. Sure OpenSolaris isn't GPL'd, but Java and VirtualBox are.
That's incorrect. It's true for Windows or at least it's the explanation usually given.
But on a Mac the window server works in a fundamentally different way. Every window is drawn through the window server and as a result anything and everything is just another piece of a large graphic that makes up the screen image.
This has many advantages that some key Mac OS features rely on: the screen grabber, spaces, expose, window dragging, window resizing and window minimization. What I mean is, if you have a DVD window (or any other window) playing a movie and you invoke one of the window server features the movie keeps playing, be it through dragging, resizing, warping or expose and spaces. You can even hold the shift key down and watch the window server work in slow motion, the movie continues its playback without a hitch.
Basically DVD output is not treated differently and there is no intrinsic reason you can't take a screenshot of a DVD. Apple has deliberately made the system disallow screen grabs during DVD playback.
I have talked about this on /. before and there are always people who give the reasoning you just did. But the reason only applies to Windows. I looked into it and it's just not the case on a Mac. Apparently on a Mac you can use the command line grab program to take screenshots during DVD playback and that the dialog box only appears if you use the GUI grab program or the keyboard shortcut.
The fact that Mac OS X does this really sucks, because you can't take screenshots of other windows, which means you can't watch a movie while you work on something that requires you to take screenshots.
Can I get a shout out for drugs (alcohol included, it's just as much a drug as anything else)?
Facebook may not share private data to the CIA
There's private data on Facebook?
I'll bite. With Facebook you have the option, I believe it's the default, to only share information (private data) with people you have accepted as friends. Therefore, the data you allow Facebook to share with your friends is still private data. If Facebook allows someone besides a friend to view the data, they are violating the architecture of the site and their own terms of service. Oh and you can't change Facebook's color scheme, you're thinking of MySpace.