Because with a program like 1Password or KeyPass or whatever you can generate say a password 30 characters long with numbers and all kinds of weird characters and you don't have to give a shit about trying to remember it and can have unique such passwords everywhere.
Site is hacked into? No problem for all your other accounts. Something which isn't true if you just use the same password everywhere.
It's less likely that someone would brute force crack your password I suppose but if they tried.. Then good luck.
And you can still use your lazy short one password for everything-password.
The stuff Pirate bay / Piratpartiet / Wikileaks / same or similar people is running/supporting like https://ipredator.se/ likely can be trust as far as the highest management goes at least. Not much to do against things like raids though. Though I could THINK of a scenario where say Bahnhof had disks with user data encrypted and log files removed and flat out resisted to help (what if they was judged to? I don't know.)
Anyway for me personally that's one great reason to use them as my ISP / give my money to them rather than someone else (I currently don't use them but I've got full opportunity to and likely should switch. I user Bredbandsbolaget now but since the last few months they have resisted giving me a discount and as such I don't really have no reason to stay with them.)
It's too bad I don't have much of the knowledge and I assume it's easy that any system one come up with become infiltrated sooner or later.
But for instance I would had been interested in some separated network ran over peoples wifi routers and with routing through the Internet when needed.
One not idiotsafe approach but at least something would be to build a LAN with your neighbours for say unlimited file sharing at least.
I don't find it all too different if I whisper you one thing or send you a personal letter or mention it over chat or even post it on your facebook wall even if said post happened to be shared with no privacy at all. Too me that may have been personal communication and I kinda wish I could speak to people without feeling spied upon the whole time.
If people visit say North Korea and are followed by someone who track and arrange what they will be doing and are allowed to say that would likely feel uncomfortable and not be something you expect over here. Why do we have to take the same shit on the Internet?
Sure bad things happen. They have always done. And they will likely find a way even in the future. And not all too uncommon the bad shit comes from the people above you anyway.
Freedom isn't all too bad. Most of us actually know how to behave.
Linux itself is a very non-critical part of Android. It's just the kernel. It can be replaced fairly easy. Users never interact with it directly. The user interface elements are much more important. Linux is just a comodity. A very good comodity, but still a comodity.
Everything is non-critical and can be replaced by something else. Easily proven by the multiple phone and tablet oses out there. Doesn't mean all that much though.
As for the user interfaces they are also easily replaced.
Yes, a better question is, is that still the benchmark that Linus uses for determining success? Something tells me....no.
It's pretty unnecessary to ask the question today anyway.
So is 2013 the year of the Linux desktop? Rather irrelevant. Many good desktops out there, not everyone agree on which one to use though, some "adequate" or good software to pick from, decent drivers more so if you pick Nvidia or Intel.
But what really matters is that tablets are supposed to sell more than desktops soon and that more of those likely run Android than Windows. That most smart phones use Android and there's a whole freaking bunch of those sold.
So yeah. Maybe Linux didn't took over the desktop. But it's sure taken over smartphones and tablets for now.
And as for the desktop we've had a good UNIX (trademark or not) based desktop for long. So it could be done. The problem with that specifical one is that it's got other limits which make it less than perfect.
It's more like saying that a car's particular engine isn't important, and you can just replace a Ferrari's V12 engine with a Chevette engine and the driver will barely notice the difference.
It should be this easy on ALL linux distros. Here's a screencap of me installing the latest NVidia drivers on Lubuntu the other day: http://youtu.be/49iq5A8d0e4
Yeah. That was like super-easy and I'm sure many Windows or OS X users would be impressed..
Also what's up with the lack of usage of the tab key, the multiple clears and I guess it would had helped if you had made sure the commands actually gave the results you where after in the first place + the warning at the beginning about a distribution specific pre-installation script failing.
Isn't the PS4 shipping with ATI graphics/an AMD CPU?
I don't know what your point was really.
Could had been "So there is AMD drivers for it!" but as others has pointed out it's not really the same / not just because of that usable by FreeBSD right now at least.
It could also be "Isn't it ATI graphics?" but then what need to be pointed out is that AMD bought ATI a long time ago so ATI graphics really is AMD graphics.
And finally I suppose it could also mean that you think there's a ATI (AMD really) GPU somewhere on the board and then an AMD CPU somewhere else but for both PS4 and Xbox360 they are using an AMD APU so no discrete graphics.
I think the tablet is very cool and they have done similar things with GBA connected to the Gamecube for Zelda Four Swords for instance to.
You could do things like FPS games and not use the big screen. You could show inventory / map there in a multi player game and be allowed to watch it without interupting the others. It can also be used for continuing game play even though someone need the big screen for something else. It can handle touch. I guess it can replace a portable console (locally / for games where that is fitting) while at the same time having more powerful hardware.
You can likely do a lot of cool stuff IF YOU START THINKING IN NEW WAYS AND ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES instead of "how do this affect what I already have?"
I've played Battlestar Galactica the boardgame quite a few times and it's got traitor rolls within it. Some people enjoy a game called Werewolf which also do these things. You could likely do such games using those controllers to where you show some information for SOME players but not everyone.
Say you had a bomber man clone or mario kart and you pick up items. Now you can hide what items you have instead of showing them for everyone.
If something like Kirby Canvas course was played on the big screen you could still use the controlled for the touch input.
How many actually need or want WYSIWYG then? Wouldn't most people who use Office be better of with WYGIMBTWYCD (What You Get Is Much Better Than What You Could Design)?
It's a normal price for a premium phone yes. Or well, at least the $600 is.
But not everyone buy the most premium phones and even though I'm from Sweden now when you mention it maybe the person was from say the US and still think it's much to pay up front. Also if you're going to compare phones in reality you could look it as paying that much + be without a phone for 3/4 of a year. Because that's the reality of it. If you buy another phone now you get a phone now. If you buy this one well you won't get a phone now.
Sure it will have better specs but so will other phones by then. And you could buy them just when you want them.
Or they could just not had done those damn early bird offers.
I totally hate them even if I sign up early just to hold a spot. So useless. It's crowdfoundting for fucks sake. Everyone is in it to help realise a product, why do some get a better deal than others?
Sure I do understand it help make the project seem popular early but really so what? I'm a consumer not the person running the project.
Some with silly low goals or an extra high level with "free" stretch goals..
Also on indiegogo it's much worse because the old categories seem to be removed (maybe they do it themself manually) once people have used up them so the fact that some people got the phone for 600, 625 and so on are hidden away from the people who visit it now. "Oh, there's still a cheaper option around!"... or rather: "Yeah, you missed out a lot of cheaper ones."
I totally don't want it to succeed. Drop price to $600 for everyone and watch it do succeed.
Also full-hd would be nice if nothing else because other premium phones will be using it.
On the other hand. What if instead of "Yeah, you've got two choices of Linux on phones. Ours and Android. Our will run on the N900 and Android will run on phones from multiple companies" they had skiped Maemo5 and used Android?
If nothing else Nokia was way above 50% of the market in that time so they could had supported all of Maemo5/MeeGo, Android and Windows Phone. Or Symbian, Maemo5 and Android, or whatever. Samsung uses all of Android, Windows Phone, Bada and.. is it Tizen or another name? those not really players I have a hard time to remember.
Imho they have always tried (well, for a while, bought Symbian, Navteq, OVIstore, Nokia Ngage, their music thing whatever that was called (Xpress music?) and later something different music related) to get into services, I guess because they wanted to find more growth somewhere and they already dominated hardware. But they have also always screwed up services and they have wasted a hell of a lot of money on things which haven't lead anywhere or to very little return.
They could possibly had remained commited to MeeGo or at least not worded it as OMG THE PLATFORM IS BURNING JUMP SHIP AND SEE WHAT WE CAN FIND TO HOLD US AFLOAT! but I'm not all that confident in that considering the snail speed they crawled with. But even then rather than "Oh we'll release one test device with MeeGo" they could had said "fuck it, we'll ditch our own oses over time and release phones using android and windows phone instead."
I guess stubborness / poor management and possible Elop coming from Microsoft played part of it. Whatever it was the correct choice we'll never know but at least we'll see how it turned out.
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Not really.
Because with a program like 1Password or KeyPass or whatever you can generate say a password 30 characters long with numbers and all kinds of weird characters and you don't have to give a shit about trying to remember it and can have unique such passwords everywhere.
Site is hacked into? No problem for all your other accounts. Something which isn't true if you just use the same password everywhere.
It's less likely that someone would brute force crack your password I suppose but if they tried.. Then good luck.
And you can still use your lazy short one password for everything-password.
They whitelist?
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True.
As for
Customers will act rationally, and providers will miss out on a great opportunity.
no, they likely won't. Just as with encryption. People are to ignorant and lazy.
As for what to use instead there's some companies which have hold their noses high and don't bend over easily.
http://www.bahnhof.se/ for instance.
The stuff Pirate bay / Piratpartiet / Wikileaks / same or similar people is running/supporting like https://ipredator.se/ likely can be trust as far as the highest management goes at least. Not much to do against things like raids though. Though I could THINK of a scenario where say Bahnhof had disks with user data encrypted and log files removed and flat out resisted to help (what if they was judged to? I don't know.)
Anyway for me personally that's one great reason to use them as my ISP / give my money to them rather than someone else (I currently don't use them but I've got full opportunity to and likely should switch. I user Bredbandsbolaget now but since the last few months they have resisted giving me a discount and as such I don't really have no reason to stay with them.)
It's too bad I don't have much of the knowledge and I assume it's easy that any system one come up with become infiltrated sooner or later.
But for instance I would had been interested in some separated network ran over peoples wifi routers and with routing through the Internet when needed.
One not idiotsafe approach but at least something would be to build a LAN with your neighbours for say unlimited file sharing at least.
I don't find it all too different if I whisper you one thing or send you a personal letter or mention it over chat or even post it on your facebook wall even if said post happened to be shared with no privacy at all. Too me that may have been personal communication and I kinda wish I could speak to people without feeling spied upon the whole time.
If people visit say North Korea and are followed by someone who track and arrange what they will be doing and are allowed to say that would likely feel uncomfortable and not be something you expect over here. Why do we have to take the same shit on the Internet?
Sure bad things happen. They have always done. And they will likely find a way even in the future. And not all too uncommon the bad shit comes from the people above you anyway.
Freedom isn't all too bad. Most of us actually know how to behave.
... and then log into your gmail account, twitter, facebook, ebay, paypal and so on through said desktop environment and tor.. Because like.. secure!
Linux itself is a very non-critical part of Android. It's just the kernel. It can be replaced fairly easy. Users never interact with it directly. The user interface elements are much more important. Linux is just a comodity. A very good comodity, but still a comodity.
Everything is non-critical and can be replaced by something else. Easily proven by the multiple phone and tablet oses out there. Doesn't mean all that much though.
As for the user interfaces they are also easily replaced.
Yes, a better question is, is that still the benchmark that Linus uses for determining success? Something tells me....no.
It's pretty unnecessary to ask the question today anyway.
So is 2013 the year of the Linux desktop? Rather irrelevant. Many good desktops out there, not everyone agree on which one to use though, some "adequate" or good software to pick from, decent drivers more so if you pick Nvidia or Intel.
But what really matters is that tablets are supposed to sell more than desktops soon and that more of those likely run Android than Windows. That most smart phones use Android and there's a whole freaking bunch of those sold.
So yeah. Maybe Linux didn't took over the desktop. But it's sure taken over smartphones and tablets for now.
And as for the desktop we've had a good UNIX (trademark or not) based desktop for long. So it could be done. The problem with that specifical one is that it's got other limits which make it less than perfect.
It's more like saying that a car's particular engine isn't important, and you can just replace a Ferrari's V12 engine with a Chevette engine and the driver will barely notice the difference.
Regardless we're talking OSes, not cars.
It should be this easy on ALL linux distros. Here's a screencap of me installing the latest NVidia drivers on Lubuntu the other day:
http://youtu.be/49iq5A8d0e4
Yeah. That was like super-easy and I'm sure many Windows or OS X users would be impressed..
Also what's up with the lack of usage of the tab key, the multiple clears and I guess it would had helped if you had made sure the commands actually gave the results you where after in the first place + the warning at the beginning about a distribution specific pre-installation script failing.
As for FreeBSD:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html
Or openSUSE:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers#Easy_way_to_get_NVIDIA_drivers
Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
Fedora don't seem to be all that user friendly in this regard:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2013/fedora-18-nvidia-guide/
http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#GeForce_8_and_newer
Archlinux guide is a little longer.. But also cover much more:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
Like I remember a recent thread on Slashdot where this likely would had been helpful:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Base_mosaic
Isn't the PS4 shipping with ATI graphics/an AMD CPU?
I don't know what your point was really.
Could had been "So there is AMD drivers for it!" but as others has pointed out it's not really the same / not just because of that usable by FreeBSD right now at least.
It could also be "Isn't it ATI graphics?" but then what need to be pointed out is that AMD bought ATI a long time ago so ATI graphics really is AMD graphics.
And finally I suppose it could also mean that you think there's a ATI (AMD really) GPU somewhere on the board and then an AMD CPU somewhere else but for both PS4 and Xbox360 they are using an AMD APU so no discrete graphics.
as devices with 512MB+ of RAM really don't have to worry about the extra 1-2MB that locale support in libc adds...
It's thoughts like that times thousands ...
So I started to think of how the military was in the more tolerant countres and that got me thinking about the thai military :D
Imho it's pretty retarded if being gay affect your chances in the military at all.
I thought one switched over to ', or vice-versa.
I wonder if the people of the US are ever going to rise up, or if it just gets much worse before it gets better.
If they do the government will know for sure they are terrorists and act (and call/name) accordingly.
All that practice and devices really helped! Have fun.
All I wanted was more Mario Kart Wii, not a giant controller with a screen on it.
Face it.
What you really wanted is this:
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/07/31/omg-look-at-this-epic-gem-i-bought-at-a-yard-sale-pic/
I think the tablet is very cool and they have done similar things with GBA connected to the Gamecube for Zelda Four Swords for instance to.
You could do things like FPS games and not use the big screen. You could show inventory / map there in a multi player game and be allowed to watch it without interupting the others. It can also be used for continuing game play even though someone need the big screen for something else. It can handle touch. I guess it can replace a portable console (locally / for games where that is fitting) while at the same time having more powerful hardware.
You can likely do a lot of cool stuff IF YOU START THINKING IN NEW WAYS AND ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES instead of "how do this affect what I already have?"
I've played Battlestar Galactica the boardgame quite a few times and it's got traitor rolls within it. Some people enjoy a game called Werewolf which also do these things. You could likely do such games using those controllers to where you show some information for SOME players but not everyone.
Say you had a bomber man clone or mario kart and you pick up items. Now you can hide what items you have instead of showing them for everyone.
If something like Kirby Canvas course was played on the big screen you could still use the controlled for the touch input.
So on so on.
And I already had a Gamecube which the new Paper mario was originally designed for and which would also run the new Zelda. ..
How many actually need or want WYSIWYG then? Wouldn't most people who use Office be better of with WYGIMBTWYCD (What You Get Is Much Better Than What You Could Design)?
Nintendo?
And I.
I can't say I care much about the Wii though. I don't own one and I wouldn't be getting one running PAL when I know the Wii U do HD.
For the court I think it's all about the bad things, as in did either person commit a crime. Good things doesn't count much.
It's a normal price for a premium phone yes. Or well, at least the $600 is.
But not everyone buy the most premium phones and even though I'm from Sweden now when you mention it maybe the person was from say the US and still think it's much to pay up front. Also if you're going to compare phones in reality you could look it as paying that much + be without a phone for 3/4 of a year. Because that's the reality of it. If you buy another phone now you get a phone now. If you buy this one well you won't get a phone now.
Sure it will have better specs but so will other phones by then. And you could buy them just when you want them.
We didn't bought it. This is Slashdot.
People are buying the phone in the crowdsourcing. It's 600 to 830 USD depending on when you bought.
Or they could just not had done those damn early bird offers.
I totally hate them even if I sign up early just to hold a spot. So useless. It's crowdfoundting for fucks sake. Everyone is in it to help realise a product, why do some get a better deal than others?
Sure I do understand it help make the project seem popular early but really so what? I'm a consumer not the person running the project.
Some with silly low goals or an extra high level with "free" stretch goals ..
Also on indiegogo it's much worse because the old categories seem to be removed (maybe they do it themself manually) once people have used up them so the fact that some people got the phone for 600, 625 and so on are hidden away from the people who visit it now. "Oh, there's still a cheaper option around!" ... or rather: "Yeah, you missed out a lot of cheaper ones."
I totally don't want it to succeed. Drop price to $600 for everyone and watch it do succeed.
Also full-hd would be nice if nothing else because other premium phones will be using it.
On the other hand. What if instead of "Yeah, you've got two choices of Linux on phones. Ours and Android. Our will run on the N900 and Android will run on phones from multiple companies" they had skiped Maemo5 and used Android?
If nothing else Nokia was way above 50% of the market in that time so they could had supported all of Maemo5/MeeGo, Android and Windows Phone. Or Symbian, Maemo5 and Android, or whatever. Samsung uses all of Android, Windows Phone, Bada and .. is it Tizen or another name? those not really players I have a hard time to remember.
Imho they have always tried (well, for a while, bought Symbian, Navteq, OVIstore, Nokia Ngage, their music thing whatever that was called (Xpress music?) and later something different music related) to get into services, I guess because they wanted to find more growth somewhere and they already dominated hardware. But they have also always screwed up services and they have wasted a hell of a lot of money on things which haven't lead anywhere or to very little return.
They could possibly had remained commited to MeeGo or at least not worded it as OMG THE PLATFORM IS BURNING JUMP SHIP AND SEE WHAT WE CAN FIND TO HOLD US AFLOAT! but I'm not all that confident in that considering the snail speed they crawled with. But even then rather than "Oh we'll release one test device with MeeGo" they could had said "fuck it, we'll ditch our own oses over time and release phones using android and windows phone instead."
I guess stubborness / poor management and possible Elop coming from Microsoft played part of it. Whatever it was the correct choice we'll never know but at least we'll see how it turned out.