For people who like their desktop to have familiar features rather than being dumbed down for touch screens?
There is no way Gnome 3 is designed for touch screens. Or at least, not for touchscreen-only computers. I use Fedora 17 on a pen-based computer (fujitsu stylistic) and I can tell you that if it were not for the fingerprint reader on it, Fedora would be *UNUSABLE*. Whenever Gnome 3 needs a password to connect to WiFi or to unlock the screen or unlock following suspend, THERE IS NO WAY TO ENTER THE PASSWORD! The password windows captures all mouse input so it is NOT possible to bring up an onscreen keyboard.
So lets stop pretending Gnome 3 shell is for tablet-type computers. It CANNOT BE USED ON A COMPUTER WITHOUT A KEYBOARD.
Oh, and when one IS able to use the on-screen keyboard, it has is no tilda (~) character. Not that you would ever need to type a tilda on a unix-like operating system.
I've filed bugs on all these complaints, but there has been no action.
I have wondered for years why game-makers haven't already started working on writing games for Linux so that they can sell games that boot directly to the game on any system.
To me it seems so obvious. Now you don't have to worry about which version of what a user has on their computer and the user doesn't need to install the game.
Tablets could be really useful in a variety of ways. They could allow students to give live feedback to questions during a lecture so a lecturer can see if most students understand the concepts presented. They could allow students to use video-curriculum at their own pace. They could replace heavy textbooks. They could be used to provide assignments and even grade them automatically in some cases. They could be used to enter lab results. They could be used to help with collaboration projects.
Some of things would require specialized software and perhaps specialized hardware (I think a pen-based tablet might make more sense than an iPad), but they certainly could improve the state of education.
What probably won't make a difference is to just to toss an iPad at each student and hope for the best.
I also think that if Microsoft manages to grab a significant chunk of the tablet market, Bill Gates will change his tune.
That's not how the loan industry works. The originating bank (or another bank) has a contract to "service" the loan owned by Sallie Mae, i.e. collect the checks every month and twist your arm if you stop paying.
The college loan industry works the same way. Your Alma Mater has a contract to service the loan. And don't expect this to get any better now that the federal government makes the loans directly rather than through a bank. They have much more effective ways to twist a university's arm than the private banks did.
I think the primay advantages are supposed to be color temperature (2700K so very similar to the light from an incandescent) and lifespan. It's also dimmable which is still quite a big issue with CFL bulbs.
All in all, it's fairly expensive but does address what are probably the three biggest complaints about CFLs for use in the home.
Please... $16.99 buys you three, dimmable, 2700k, 24W, 100W equivalent CFL bulbs. So I'm going to spend an extra $30 per bulb to save one watt?
You might be right. But we could go a long way in the US by finding a way to eliminate Gerrymandering which would at least have the effect of allowing moderates a voice in the discussion.
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Using the word "particle" indicates a particular set of characteristics familiar to physicists. Frankly, most of the short-lived particles that high-energy Physicists work with are really just states with certain characteristics. Guess what? In quantum theory what most people would call "actual particles" are "just states." It's turtles all the way down.
Linux guys like talking about LDAP because it's available as open source, not because they don't know that Active Directory uses Kerberos. I'm hardly an expert in authentication services and I know that. Tell your MSCE to set up an OpenLDAP server that authenticates against your AD server and see what the response is!
The problem I found with hiring Windows admins is that there are thousands people jumping through the hoops at so-called technical schools to get their MSCE who simply don't understand what's is going on in the system. They pass the tests, but they can't solve problems. They just don't have the "knack," as Dilbert puts it.
People often get into Linux because they are fascinated by computers and want to understand how computers and networks work on a deep level. Once you have that kind of knowledge, picking up another OS isn't very challenging.
Of course, as Linux has grown in popularity, we're starting to see the same problem!
We're looking at this differently. I'm saying that if it weren't for RedHat and all the other people working on Llinux and/or other free offerings, Microsoft and proprietary Unix would be only choices for all those servers out there. Millions of them. And I doubt Microsoft would be selling licenses at 10 for $1100 if free competion didn't exist.
Every sale RedHat and every other seller of Linux makes supports not only their paying clients, but scores of additional users who make use of the software they write without paying. I think it is quite conservative to guess that every dollar RedHat earns equates to a loss of $100 of revenue from Microsoft.
I know plenty of Windows guys that do all around IT and fewer Linux guys that know Windows....far-fewer
Really? I find that very hard to believe. I've hired lots of Windows guys and not yet had one that had a clue what to do at a Bash prompt. On the other hand, every Linux guy has been in front of a Windows machine at some point. You can't live in this world without coming across Windows somewhere.
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T-Mobile lets me tether for no additional cost. In fact, tethering came preinstalled on my phone.
For people who like their desktop to have familiar features rather than being dumbed down for touch screens?
There is no way Gnome 3 is designed for touch screens. Or at least, not for touchscreen-only computers. I use Fedora 17 on a pen-based computer (fujitsu stylistic) and I can tell you that if it were not for the fingerprint reader on it, Fedora would be *UNUSABLE*. Whenever Gnome 3 needs a password to connect to WiFi or to unlock the screen or unlock following suspend, THERE IS NO WAY TO ENTER THE PASSWORD! The password windows captures all mouse input so it is NOT possible to bring up an onscreen keyboard.
So lets stop pretending Gnome 3 shell is for tablet-type computers. It CANNOT BE USED ON A COMPUTER WITHOUT A KEYBOARD.
Oh, and when one IS able to use the on-screen keyboard, it has is no tilda (~) character. Not that you would ever need to type a tilda on a unix-like operating system.
I've filed bugs on all these complaints, but there has been no action.
Are you listening Gnome team?
It was never about the artists. Stop pretending it's about the artists.
Oddly, I've had a lot of bad ideas in my life and yet I can't recall ever feeling bad about it.
I get a good one once in a while too though.
I have wondered for years why game-makers haven't already started working on writing games for Linux so that they can sell games that boot directly to the game on any system.
To me it seems so obvious. Now you don't have to worry about which version of what a user has on their computer and the user doesn't need to install the game.
Why hasn't this already been done?
Tablets could be really useful in a variety of ways.
They could allow students to give live feedback to questions during a lecture so a lecturer can see if most students understand the concepts presented.
They could allow students to use video-curriculum at their own pace.
They could replace heavy textbooks.
They could be used to provide assignments and even grade them automatically in some cases.
They could be used to enter lab results.
They could be used to help with collaboration projects.
Some of things would require specialized software and perhaps specialized hardware (I think a pen-based tablet might make more sense than an iPad), but they certainly could improve the state of education.
What probably won't make a difference is to just to toss an iPad at each student and hope for the best.
I also think that if Microsoft manages to grab a significant chunk of the tablet market, Bill Gates will change his tune.
Like really, really, really BIG baby steps.
It's called a radioisotope thermoelectric generator and they have been in use on spacecraft since 1961.
It's not rocket science.
Well, it IS rocket science, but it's not the hard kind.
Still Illegal. (in the U.S.)
Oh man! Someone mod this guy up!
if only for brand name recognition its an invaluable advertising tool
Ubiquitous brand recognition is only useful if people don't think the brand stinks. I remember a well-known brand back in the 80s called the "Yugo".
That's not how the loan industry works. The originating bank (or another bank) has a contract to "service" the loan owned by Sallie Mae, i.e. collect the checks every month and twist your arm if you stop paying.
The college loan industry works the same way. Your Alma Mater has a contract to service the loan. And don't expect this to get any better now that the federal government makes the loans directly rather than through a bank. They have much more effective ways to twist a university's arm than the private banks did.
I think the primay advantages are supposed to be color temperature (2700K so very similar to the light from an incandescent) and lifespan. It's also dimmable which is still quite a big issue with CFL bulbs.
All in all, it's fairly expensive but does address what are probably the three biggest complaints about CFLs for use in the home.
Please... $16.99 buys you three, dimmable, 2700k, 24W, 100W equivalent CFL bulbs. So I'm going to spend an extra $30 per bulb to save one watt?
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It's not a ball. Balls are round.
You might be right. But we could go a long way in the US by finding a way to eliminate Gerrymandering which would at least have the effect of allowing moderates a voice in the discussion.
Tell that to the Syrian people.
I wish I had some mod points for you.
how can per click payment be possible? If they knew it required payment, they would have known to filter it.
Using the word "particle" indicates a particular set of characteristics familiar to physicists. Frankly, most of the short-lived particles that high-energy Physicists work with are really just states with certain characteristics. Guess what? In quantum theory what most people would call "actual particles" are "just states." It's turtles all the way down.
Did they publish the questions and answers? Because that's where one hears the stuff that's relevant to one's own research.
They didn't. MACROMEDIA did. And then Adobe swallowed Macromedia and turned flash into bloatware.
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Linux guys like talking about LDAP because it's available as open source, not because they don't know that Active Directory uses Kerberos. I'm hardly an expert in authentication services and I know that. Tell your MSCE to set up an OpenLDAP server that authenticates against your AD server and see what the response is!
The problem I found with hiring Windows admins is that there are thousands people jumping through the hoops at so-called technical schools to get their MSCE who simply don't understand what's is going on in the system. They pass the tests, but they can't solve problems. They just don't have the "knack," as Dilbert puts it.
People often get into Linux because they are fascinated by computers and want to understand how computers and networks work on a deep level. Once you have that kind of knowledge, picking up another OS isn't very challenging.
Of course, as Linux has grown in popularity, we're starting to see the same problem!
We're looking at this differently. I'm saying that if it weren't for RedHat and all the other people working on Llinux and/or other free offerings, Microsoft and proprietary Unix would be only choices for all those servers out there. Millions of them. And I doubt Microsoft would be selling licenses at 10 for $1100 if free competion didn't exist.
Every sale RedHat and every other seller of Linux makes supports not only their paying clients, but scores of additional users who make use of the software they write without paying. I think it is quite conservative to guess that every dollar RedHat earns equates to a loss of $100 of revenue from Microsoft.
I know plenty of Windows guys that do all around IT and fewer Linux guys that know Windows....far-fewer
Really? I find that very hard to believe. I've hired lots of Windows guys and not yet had one that had a clue what to do at a Bash prompt. On the other hand, every Linux guy has been in front of a Windows machine at some point. You can't live in this world without coming across Windows somewhere.