Well, KDE has hidden a ton of stuff just as deeply as Windows 7 did. But, otherwise I agree, Win 7 is quite good. I actually prefer KDE 4.7 to Windows 7, even though I spend most of my day on Windows 7. Something about having multiple desktops, allowing you to leave one a cluttered mess of windows while you use a fresh one to handle some interruption.
I even ran into a tablet (Atom processor HP Slate) running windows 7 and it was eminently usable, in spite of all the ranting you read all over the web about windows 7 never being designed for touch screens. Not as cool as the Android tablet, but pretty close.
The netbook UI is half the battle. KDE is still pretty huge. There is no reason it couldn't run on an Android Kernel with a little work. But it needs to go on a diet.
1) Any of the current line of tablets will run CSipSimple, with which they instantly become a phone. Add the ubiquitous bluetooth headset and you don't even have to take the tablet out of your briefcase or back pack to answer it. My tablet has a phone number, and I pay exactly ZERO dollars for that service. No boot loader hacking involved. Install and run. Somewhere I had a How To on this, now slightly dated.
2) 7 inch tablets fit in a coat pocket or purse, 10 inch in your brief case.
Some Android tablets come with 3G and could handle voice anywhere, not just when near wifi. Cellular networks are moving to LTE, and once completed, there is no distinction between data and voice.
There is really no difference between a tablet and a smartphone other than the size of the pocket it takes.
1. Big. Bigger than a netbook. As big as a laptop. 2. Hard to write seriously on. 3. Much more expensive than ebook readers.
I summary, I agree with you and GP: KDE needs to ignore tablets.
I have no idea what tablet you are looking at, but the ones I've seen are much smaller than most netbooks, handle standard bluetooth keyboards and mice, and the price is dropping all the time.
Ebook reading is just about the last activity that comes to mind with them. They are the couch computer, the commuting computer, the brain trust, the portable desk, the shop floor, the shipping dock, and the GIS computer, as well as the doctors exam room computer. No they are not going away. Oh, and the funny rodent thingie with a wheel and two buttons is not going away either. They said that was a fad too.
KDE might do well on tablets, other than the fact that KDE is still a resource hog. All you need is a touch screen driver (perhaps such exists already - backported from Android) to make KDE viable on the more powerful Tablets.
I'm not sure printing is the bailiwick of KDE. There has been some problematic regression in CUPS of late and that may be the source of your problems.
Its critical that the the "source-incompatible" changes be held to virtually ZERO, because KDE can't stand another debacle like the release of KDE 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 only to have it finally become reasonably usable by 4.4.
The new KDE framework is all the work of the current team, they should have no problem supporting a few dual methods to handle current code in the current way while adding what ever "source incompatibilities" that are seen as necessary. I understand the break from the KDE 3 baggage forced on them, but what we have here is all their own work.
It should transition smoothly. It must, or no one will be left to use it.
4.6 and 4.7 have been wonderful releases. Please lets not regress this time.
Under Tim Cook, pinch hitting for Jobs, Apple did very very well.
Look people, this is not 1985 any more. The bean counters that had control of the company back then are no longer in control, (one has to ask who put them in control in the first place back then...).
This a different Apple, and one that does not rely on Jobs.
Its time for him to move out of the day to day control.
In spite of the rampant fanboyism Jobs is hurting Apple more than he is helping it these days. The ever tightening lock down, the clutching greed to get 30% of everything that comes on to the device, the total restructuring of the Ebook industry to serve Apple's interest and kill off the First Sale Doctrine, and the total paranoia about petty patent claims is seriously damaging Apple's brand. They have become what they sought to destroy in their Iconic Superbowl Commercial. All of that was Jobs.
Under Cook significant new features were added to IOS, long blocked by Jobs until he had to have his "hormonal imbalance" operated upon. New application models (like in-app purchases) were allowed into the App store, since shut down by Jobs.
Frankly this all things to Chairman Mao nonsense is getting a little tiresome. Cult figures are so over done. All we are missing here is the Che Guevara tee shirt of Steve. Oh, wait, too late.
The CEO of Acer sounds like he's trying to make noise because Acer isn't in the competitive tablet business.
Actually, Acer has sold tablets than any other Android tablet maker, and they had features that Xoom STILL can't get working (MicroSD card writing). Everything on the acer worked out of the box, and they had sold a million of them before the other Android Tablet guys got to market.
Sure, the year's head start that Apple had means they are still at the top of the total sales chart.
Acer also sells ChromeBooks and regular laptops, and I suggest the CEO is probably in a pretty good position to measure sales trends.
The trend isn't surprising. Every new device a huge run-up in sales when first released, and then people find out the limitations, the warts, and the unmet needs, and decide they really do need a laptop after all. Everyone who wanted one badly already has one. It was iPad users that first discovered that tablets ultimately proved to hold way less appeal than they originally believed, and they were using them less than they thought.
There will be a lot of tablets of all flavors under the Christmas tree this year.
Exactly right, selling now is silly. Buying tomorrow will be rewarded about the middle of October when iPhone 5 is near. But the day the iPhone 5 out all the stock appreciation is already baked in, so sell again.
I seriously doubt 65 Billion, or any single digit multiple of that number.
Building anything in the that part of the world is very costly. Supply in the Straights is limited to summer months only.
So lets assume the costs are closer to $650 Billion, a mere factor of 10. The US isn't in a position to afford event half that at the current time, so that means financing over decades, adding dramatically to that cost.
Then you have to consider that neither the US or Russia have any rail connections to that area. Getting rail to Wales Alaska will probably cost more than the tunnel. After all, under ground you have a couple thousand sand hogs and 4 or 6 tunnel boring machines and a pretty stable environment. Above ground its a whole different story with weather and terrain.
So add another 100 billion Each for Russia and the US to build the supporting rail infrastructure.
(e) No Cause of Action Against a Provider Disclosing Information Under This Chapter.— No cause of action shall lie in any court against any provider of wire or electronic communication service, its officers, employees, agents, or other specified persons for providing information, facilities, or assistance in accordance with the terms of a court order, warrant, subpoena, statutory authorization, or certification under this chapter.
In the present case, they had two choices, seek a warrant, or notify the subscriber in advance if they used any lesser means (court order, administrative subpoena, etc). They apparently tried tor the lesser means and got denied. You wonder why they just didn't go for the warrant, since the criteria are almost exactly the same.
This was a telemarketing fraud case apparently, because that's all that 18 U.S.C. 2703(c)(l), (d) deals with.
Good, then maybe we could get rid of the whole concept.
If it were public everyone would see what a joke this whole thing is. Fine, give them extra scrutiny. But if you pass screening, and have no weapons, then what's the risk in letting Joe Jihad fly?
Its about your wifi routers ADSL modems, cable modems, and electric toasters , and everything else that has linux embedded these days, many millions of which are attached directly to the net, serving as your first line of defense.
Not one in a hundred wifi routers get updated over their life span.
I have servers running ancient linux. (Embarrassed to say just HOW old). They do specific tasks and have no user accounts, and they reside on the Local net, but still any disgruntled employee could own them if they tried. There is no patch source for these old installations, and trying to back port security patches is simply a non-starter.
Two years is not enough. 5 years is marginal. Even then, I want nothing but security patches. If I need the next version of something I'll upgrade, but for embedded devices or single purpose servers, all I need is security fixes.
Its the LABELS that would owe taxes. The Artists already paid taxes on what they took home from these one sided contracts.
Now its time for the Lables claiming that the artists were employees to fork over all the FICA and Unemployment Insurance taxes they owe with interest accumulated over 30 year. Ouch.
It is not unusual for Intel to sell CPUs without coolers. You buy in OEM quantities and you can always get bare chips. The instructions that came in the bulk packs specifically state the need for fans or maintaining a temperature range.
Many prefer it this way, especially small computer builders. I worked for one of these small boutique computer builders, and we always got bare chips because we could find heat sinks and fans elsewhere for much cheaper.
About a week and a half after the any chip hits the market a fan magically appears in Taiwan. In the present case, even the linked story points out that the new 2011-pin CPU socket is backwards compatible with LGA 1366 cooling solutions.
So this is business as usual. If the Chip dimensions haven't changed from prior chips in the same line there is even less need for these chips to include a built on solution which would force a particular case configuration. OEMs can use their existing solutions and beef up the airflow and fans. Enthusiasts often go crazy on fans and heat sinks anyway, and toss any factory fans that come with the chip.
For the summary to to suggest Intel can't cool these is silly, when even the linked story says this is not true.
With a couple of exceptions, this doesn't seem completely distinct from using the fact that you left your WAP open to disown any illegal traffic coming to/from your IP address.
With one of those exception being it is TOTALLY and UTTERLY distinct.
Taking pay to provide service to others when you TOS from your ISP strictly prohibits this is smallest possible infraction. Taking pay to provide service to someone you know or should have known was engaged in illegal activities makes you an accomplice. Taking the time to set up a Virtual Machine to protect yourself from the illegal activities you allow to happen in the machine you rent out indicates planning and criminal intent.
Forgetting to close your wap could be passed off as carelessness as long as you are willing to admit you are a total idiot.
Assuming a Virtual machine will protect you from either your ISP or the authorities while you assist criminals makes you a certifiable idiot.
"Apple and Exxon are fighting it out to be the company with the largest market cap.
Market cap is one measure that is almost totally out of control of the company, because its essentially the value (at current market price) of all the stock issued by the company. Market cap is set by the market's estimation of the value of holding the stock, and is only indirectly a measure of the actual assets or profit potential of the underlying company.
There is almost nothing a company itself can do to directly affect Market Cap, its a measure of market opinion at best.
I suppose the GP thinks that once he threw his knife he was out of weapons, and therefore no longer represented a risk. (Neglecting to mention the other officer was injured by the knife.)
So this whole bringing a knife to a gun fight this is a pretty good recipe for suicide by cop, it would seem.
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Well, KDE has hidden a ton of stuff just as deeply as Windows 7 did.
But, otherwise I agree, Win 7 is quite good.
I actually prefer KDE 4.7 to Windows 7, even though I spend most of my day on Windows 7. Something about having multiple desktops, allowing you to leave one a cluttered mess of windows while you use a fresh one to handle some interruption.
I even ran into a tablet (Atom processor HP Slate) running windows 7 and it was eminently usable, in spite of all the ranting you read all over the web about windows 7 never being designed for touch screens. Not as cool as the Android tablet, but pretty close.
The netbook UI is half the battle. KDE is still pretty huge.
There is no reason it couldn't run on an Android Kernel with a little work. But it needs to go on a diet.
Wrong on both counts.
1) Any of the current line of tablets will run CSipSimple, with which they instantly become a phone. Add the ubiquitous bluetooth headset and you don't even have to take the tablet out of your briefcase or back pack to answer it. My tablet has a phone number, and I pay exactly ZERO dollars for that service. No boot loader hacking involved. Install and run. Somewhere I had a How To on this, now slightly dated.
2) 7 inch tablets fit in a coat pocket or purse, 10 inch in your brief case.
Some Android tablets come with 3G and could handle voice anywhere, not just when near wifi.
Cellular networks are moving to LTE, and once completed, there is no distinction between data and voice.
There is really no difference between a tablet and a smartphone other than the size of the pocket it takes.
But they are:
1. Big. Bigger than a netbook. As big as a laptop.
2. Hard to write seriously on.
3. Much more expensive than ebook readers.
I summary, I agree with you and GP: KDE needs to ignore tablets.
I have no idea what tablet you are looking at, but the ones I've seen are much smaller than most netbooks, handle standard bluetooth keyboards and mice, and the price is dropping all the time.
Ebook reading is just about the last activity that comes to mind with them.
They are the couch computer, the commuting computer, the brain trust, the portable desk, the shop floor, the shipping dock, and the GIS computer, as well as the doctors exam room computer. No they are not going away. Oh, and the funny rodent thingie with a wheel and two buttons is not going away either. They said that was a fad too.
KDE might do well on tablets, other than the fact that KDE is still a resource hog.
All you need is a touch screen driver (perhaps such exists already - backported from Android) to make
KDE viable on the more powerful Tablets.
I'm not sure printing is the bailiwick of KDE.
There has been some problematic regression in CUPS of late and that may be the source of your problems.
Its critical that the the "source-incompatible" changes be held to virtually ZERO, because KDE can't stand another
debacle like the release of KDE 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 only to have it finally become reasonably usable by 4.4.
The new KDE framework is all the work of the current team, they should have no problem supporting a few dual methods to handle current code in the current way while adding what ever "source incompatibilities" that are seen as necessary.
I understand the break from the KDE 3 baggage forced on them, but what we have here is all their own work.
It should transition smoothly. It must, or no one will be left to use it.
4.6 and 4.7 have been wonderful releases. Please lets not regress this time.
Under Tim Cook, pinch hitting for Jobs, Apple did very very well.
Look people, this is not 1985 any more. The bean counters that had control of the company back then are no longer in control, (one has to ask who put them in control in the first place back then...).
This a different Apple, and one that does not rely on Jobs.
Its time for him to move out of the day to day control.
In spite of the rampant fanboyism Jobs is hurting Apple more than he is helping it these days. The ever tightening lock down, the clutching greed to get 30% of everything that comes on to the device, the total restructuring of the Ebook industry to serve Apple's interest and kill off the First Sale Doctrine, and the total paranoia about petty patent claims is seriously damaging Apple's brand. They have become what they sought to destroy in their Iconic Superbowl Commercial. All of that was Jobs.
Under Cook significant new features were added to IOS, long blocked by Jobs until he had to have his "hormonal imbalance" operated upon. New application models (like in-app purchases) were allowed into the App store, since shut down by Jobs.
Frankly this all things to Chairman Mao nonsense is getting a little tiresome. Cult figures are so over done. All we are missing here is the Che Guevara tee shirt of Steve. Oh, wait, too late.
The CEO of Acer sounds like he's trying to make noise because Acer isn't in the competitive tablet business.
Actually, Acer has sold tablets than any other Android tablet maker, and they had features that Xoom STILL can't get working (MicroSD card writing). Everything on the acer worked out of the box, and they had sold a million of them before the other Android Tablet guys got to market.
Sure, the year's head start that Apple had means they are still at the top of the total sales chart.
Acer also sells ChromeBooks and regular laptops, and I suggest the CEO is probably in a pretty good position to measure sales trends.
The trend isn't surprising. Every new device a huge run-up in sales when first released, and then people find out the limitations, the warts, and the unmet needs, and decide they really do need a laptop after all. Everyone who wanted one badly already has one. It was iPad users that first discovered that tablets ultimately proved to hold way less appeal than they originally believed, and they were using them less than they thought.
There will be a lot of tablets of all flavors under the Christmas tree this year.
Exactly right, selling now is silly. Buying tomorrow will be rewarded about the middle of October when iPhone 5 is near.
But the day the iPhone 5 out all the stock appreciation is already baked in, so sell again.
I seriously doubt 65 Billion, or any single digit multiple of that number.
Building anything in the that part of the world is very costly. Supply in the Straights is limited to summer months only.
So lets assume the costs are closer to $650 Billion, a mere factor of 10. The US isn't in a position to afford event half that at the current time, so that means financing over decades, adding dramatically to that cost.
Then you have to consider that neither the US or Russia have any rail connections to that area. Getting rail to Wales Alaska will probably cost more than the tunnel. After all, under ground you have a couple thousand sand hogs and 4 or 6 tunnel boring machines and a pretty stable environment. Above ground its a whole different story with weather and terrain.
So add another 100 billion Each for Russia and the US to build the supporting rail infrastructure.
Suddenly container ships look dirt cheap.
Lock tight rules for suing corporations?
You are joking, right? The law provides EXACTLY the opposite:
(e) No Cause of Action Against a Provider Disclosing Information Under This Chapter.— No cause of action shall lie in any court against any provider of wire or electronic communication service, its officers, employees, agents, or other specified persons for providing information, facilities, or assistance in accordance with the terms of a court order, warrant, subpoena, statutory authorization, or certification under this chapter.
In the present case, they had two choices, seek a warrant, or notify the subscriber in advance if they used any lesser means (court order, administrative subpoena, etc). They apparently tried tor the lesser means and got denied. You wonder why they just didn't go for the warrant, since the criteria are almost exactly the same.
This was a telemarketing fraud case apparently, because that's all that 18 U.S.C. 2703(c)(l), (d) deals with.
Good, then maybe we could get rid of the whole concept.
If it were public everyone would see what a joke this whole thing is.
Fine, give them extra scrutiny. But if you pass screening, and have no weapons, then what's the risk in letting Joe Jihad fly?
Christ, I feel like such a whipersnapper...
And then put that into your embedded device....
Ya, that'll work.
When was the last time you performed a backup on your wireless router?
Embedded systems is the focus of this article.
Yay, done with maintenance for a while.
This isn't about your server or your workstation.
Its about your wifi routers ADSL modems, cable modems, and electric toasters , and everything else that has linux embedded these days, many millions of which are attached directly to the net, serving as your first line of defense.
Not one in a hundred wifi routers get updated over their life span.
I have servers running ancient linux. (Embarrassed to say just HOW old). They do specific tasks and have no user accounts, and they reside on the Local net, but still any disgruntled employee could own them if they tried. There is no patch source for these old installations, and trying to back port security patches is simply a non-starter.
Two years is not enough. 5 years is marginal. Even then, I want nothing but security patches. If I need the next version of something I'll upgrade, but for embedded devices or single purpose servers, all I need is security fixes.
Its the LABELS that would owe taxes. The Artists already paid taxes on what they took home from these one sided contracts.
Now its time for the Lables claiming that the artists were employees to fork over all the FICA and Unemployment Insurance taxes they owe with interest accumulated over 30 year. Ouch.
If they now claim these artists were employees all along can you imagine the back taxes the labels would owe for Fica, UI, etc.
Seems like an ill thought out strategy to me.
The copter was not a prop. So I stopped reading the rest of your drivel right there.
Two words: installation error.
Exactly.
It is not unusual for Intel to sell CPUs without coolers. You buy in OEM quantities and you can always get bare chips. The instructions that came in the bulk packs specifically state the need for fans or maintaining a temperature range.
Many prefer it this way, especially small computer builders. I worked for one of these small boutique computer builders, and we always got bare chips because we could find heat sinks and fans elsewhere for much cheaper.
About a week and a half after the any chip hits the market a fan magically appears in Taiwan. In the present case, even the linked story points out that the new 2011-pin CPU socket is backwards compatible with LGA 1366 cooling solutions.
So this is business as usual. If the Chip dimensions haven't changed from prior chips in the same line there is even less need for these chips to include a built on solution which would force a particular case configuration. OEMs can use their existing solutions and beef up the airflow and fans. Enthusiasts often go crazy on fans and heat sinks anyway, and toss any factory fans that come with the chip.
For the summary to to suggest Intel can't cool these is silly, when even the linked story says this is not true.
With a couple of exceptions, this doesn't seem completely distinct from using the fact that you left your WAP open to disown any illegal traffic coming to/from your IP address.
With one of those exception being it is TOTALLY and UTTERLY distinct.
Taking pay to provide service to others when you TOS from your ISP strictly prohibits this is smallest possible infraction.
Taking pay to provide service to someone you know or should have known was engaged in illegal activities makes you an accomplice. Taking the time to set up a Virtual Machine to protect yourself from the illegal activities you allow to happen in the machine you rent out indicates planning and criminal intent.
Forgetting to close your wap could be passed off as carelessness as long as you are willing to admit you are a total idiot.
Assuming a Virtual machine will protect you from either your ISP or the authorities while you assist criminals makes you a certifiable idiot.
the nature of paying more for zombies in certain areas has been known for years. This fact is not news.
Known to who?
Posting as AC here while hinting you are familiar with the market for zombies?
Priceless.
Even more unusual is the summary.
"Apple and Exxon are fighting it out to be the company with the largest market cap.
Market cap is one measure that is almost totally out of control of the company, because its essentially the value (at current market price) of all the stock issued by the company. Market cap is set by the market's estimation of the value of holding the stock, and is only indirectly a measure of the actual assets or profit potential of the underlying company.
There is almost nothing a company itself can do to directly affect Market Cap, its a measure of market opinion at best.
Mostly these names are suggested by school children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover#Naming_of_Spirit_and_Opportunity
So, no, we are not going back to naming after astronomers. We've essentially run out of those.
But hey, carry on with YOUR major contribution to society, posting here on Slashdot.
Unarmed you say? Do some research.
I suppose the GP thinks that once he threw his knife he was out of weapons, and therefore no longer represented a risk. (Neglecting to mention the other officer was injured by the knife.)
So this whole bringing a knife to a gun fight this is a pretty good recipe for suicide by cop, it would seem.