Given Google's internal use of Ubuntu, and the Linux underpinnings of Android and ChromeOS, what will Canonical do to leverage that relationship re: improving ChromeOS/Android/Ubuntu integration?
Any plans to merge ChromeOS and an Ubuntu variant to make "ChromeBuntu" suitable for pre-installs on consumer PC's at retail?
Is there anything Canonical can do to increase the ease and likelihood of a normal consumer getting a refund on unwanted Windows licenses tied to notebooks, netbooks and desktop PC's when the buyer just wants to install Ubuntu/Linux?
Could Canonical's relationship with Google be leveraged to approach the problem legislatively, i.e. anti-competitive or anti-consumer related laws that could improve the consumer's position in the general purpose PC OS choice?
The single biggest impediment to Linux adoption in the mass market is the lack of choices of netbooks, notebooks and desktop PC's with Ubuntu or any Linux distro preinstalled, at least in the United States.
What will Canonical do to increase and develop OEM relationships to drive the option of Ubuntu peinstalls in the US market? Other markets?
It is trivially easy and fast to make your own open, standard.pdf eBook.
It takes only 1 min per 20 pages (or less) to scan a book open face on a scanner. Or use a 8MP+ digital camera on a tripod shooting a well lit open face book, turning the pages as fast as the camera is ready for the next shot.
Use gscan2pdf to do minimal post processing (rotate, crop batch operations) then Save As.pdf.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf/
For most books, this means only 20-30 minutes total, much less than people believe. For most people earning less than $50/hr, the effort is minimal, assuming your PC is doing other things at the same time.
Why is this not a Good Thing?
Yes, current ISP bandwidth issues are an issue, but moving forward, bandwidth will increase.
Assuming Adobe doesn't do something stupid like use Silverlight or other proprietary Web technologies that might lock into one vendor's browser (IE), this move would make all the Big Apps Linux would-be-users complain about not having available to any platform....And web-based app technologies will only improve with time, as developers figure out how to optimize caching of code and other asynchronous application coding techniques.
I've never seen this site referenced here, so I'll post:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/
If even a small percentage of the most credible accounts here are true, then the Earth has been regularly visited by unknown entities for a long time.
Yes, there are a LOT of mistaken observations, hoaxes, etc. But it is also true that the HUGE number of highly credible reports (Pilots, police, first responders, educated, articulate people, etc) in databases like these indicates that something beyond the capabilities of human tech is going on....and just because Coelacanths were unknown to official science until the mid 20th century, does not mean they didn't exist.
Detroit (SE Michigan) bashing seems to be the cool, fashionable thing to do from time to time, SulliedTech.
Oh well, we can enjoy our 2000-3500ft^2 homes on 1/2 acre lots, plus second homes on a secluded lake in Northern Michigan you can drink from, while the holier-than-thou "cultured" West Coast types shoe horn themselves into their shoe boxes for a night's sleep, with no disposable income leftover;).
As a life long Detroiter, I am motivated to respond to the spate of anti_detroit sentiment in this thread.
First off- SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN IS NOT DETROIT!
Detroit ends at Detroit's borders.
Novi is not Detroit.
Dearborn is not Detroit.
Ann Arbor is not Detroit. Get it?
Driving from DTW to Novi has NOTHING to do with Detroit (except for the name and county of the airport)!
A lot of Linux/ IT/ open source types tend to be drawn to artsy-fartsy/academic cities like Ann Arbor/ Royal Oak (Michigan) or places like San Fransico or Seattle.
But some of us live comfortable lives in nice homes on large lots in all the cities surrounding Detroit, even cities directly bordering Detroit. We have real, regular jobs paying well in either IT or automotive related companies. Someone has to do the work, rather than sit around making petty judgments on city reputations.
If you were born in a northern climate, you actually LIKE short periods of snow and cold, taking advantage of long dark days to do indoor projects, or snowmobile or ice fish, etc.
Someone else in this thread mentions the ludicrous prices paid for paltry living spaces on the West Coast. Well, anyone is free to pay social/cultural status premiums all they like, however unreasonable.
Funny thing is, "Detroit" (i.e. Southeast Michigan) has some of the wealthiest neighborhoods and homes in the nation, closer to "Detroit" proper than Novi, in the Bloomfields or Grosse Pointes.
While I won't disagree that Detroit decayed from its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, the developments of the past 10-15 years in the downtown area proper have made significant strides. The Fox, Comerica Park, Ford Field, new Science Center, African American Museum (excellent), the DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts), the casinos (though I don't gamble), and more developments have improved the downtown a LOT. There is a LOT more to do, but things are better than they've ever been in my lifetime (30 something).
And singling out Detoits worst grafitti and decay ridden areas as an example of SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is like taking the WORST areas of New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago to characterize those cities. Yes, the proportion of bad areas to good is higher in Detroit, but that's not the only point....And when all of you are dying of thirst and withering away, YOU CAN'T HAVE OUR FRESH WATER (no comments on GRrat Lakes pollution, please...)
I have used many of Pi's products since 1999 with no problems.
I too have found that the cheapie Ps/2->USB adapters don't work.
Try http://www.piengineering.com/ymouse/whym08.php
The site lists where to buy it. Buy from a place that allows returns in case it doesn't work for you (although it probably will).
AFAIK, I've never seen this argument used as a legal basis to end TM: the simple premise that my telephone service is a paid, private service. Commercial solicitation over a private service I pay for should not be legal. I've never heard of a class action suit against TM's on this principle.
I expect some degree of spam and advertising from web-based mail like yahoo- I don't pay for my Yahoo mail account. But if I *did* upgrade to the paid premium level- then I expect not to receive unsolicited emails (if I never posted my email address to any forum, newsgroup or website) nor see any advertising anywhere on the web client.
Similarly, my paid private voice service shouldn't be a conduit for unsolicited commercial interests.
The only legal way TM makes sense is if I choose to appear on a "Commercial Solicitation OK" list. Then, I need to be compensated for every phone ring by a commercial interest calling me- whether I answer or not! TM's are abusing my time in distraction and using a paid resource in my home- the phone ringer and the single phone line, which another personal contact may be trying to use to reach me during the TM's attempt to call. The remuneration from each TM call ought to appear as a credit on my phone statement- again, only if I volunteer to be on a "OK to call" list.
Telemarketing has *nothing* to do with freedom of speech, or the rights of commercial interests in any way shape or form. It is about exploiting (current) holes in the interpretation of personal privacy rights and abusing private communication services.
Another post in this thread mentioned placing an indicator in current phone books next to personal name listings, a flag that means "no solicitors". Why this hasn't been available yet is dumb-founding, as it is no different than the ability to put a "NO Solicitors" sign on your front door (of your physical home).
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When will Ubuntu for ARM be preinstalled on consumer ARM netbooks/smartbooks/ultrabooks like the Chromebook: https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ What market(s)? We don't want to rely on hacks and technical installs like https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ forever ;)
Given Google's internal use of Ubuntu, and the Linux underpinnings of Android and ChromeOS, what will Canonical do to leverage that relationship re: improving ChromeOS/Android/Ubuntu integration? Any plans to merge ChromeOS and an Ubuntu variant to make "ChromeBuntu" suitable for pre-installs on consumer PC's at retail?
Is there anything Canonical can do to increase the ease and likelihood of a normal consumer getting a refund on unwanted Windows licenses tied to notebooks, netbooks and desktop PC's when the buyer just wants to install Ubuntu/Linux? Could Canonical's relationship with Google be leveraged to approach the problem legislatively, i.e. anti-competitive or anti-consumer related laws that could improve the consumer's position in the general purpose PC OS choice?
The single biggest impediment to Linux adoption in the mass market is the lack of choices of netbooks, notebooks and desktop PC's with Ubuntu or any Linux distro preinstalled, at least in the United States. What will Canonical do to increase and develop OEM relationships to drive the option of Ubuntu peinstalls in the US market? Other markets?
The data appears to indicate Linux desktop usage is higher than indicated by stats like netmarketshare.com http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustomb=0 as the Humble Bundle data appears to show that Linux users are closer to Mac users in numbers http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/281031-prior-bundle-statistics How can Canonical and Linux desktop users in general do better with demonstrating their OS preference and real world usage to vendors?
It is trivially easy and fast to make your own open, standard .pdf eBook.
It takes only 1 min per 20 pages (or less) to scan a book open face on a scanner. Or use a 8MP+ digital camera on a tripod shooting a well lit open face book, turning the pages as fast as the camera is ready for the next shot.
Use gscan2pdf to do minimal post processing (rotate, crop batch operations) then Save As .pdf.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf/
For most books, this means only 20-30 minutes total, much less than people believe. For most people earning less than $50/hr, the effort is minimal, assuming your PC is doing other things at the same time.
Why is this not a Good Thing? Yes, current ISP bandwidth issues are an issue, but moving forward, bandwidth will increase. Assuming Adobe doesn't do something stupid like use Silverlight or other proprietary Web technologies that might lock into one vendor's browser (IE), this move would make all the Big Apps Linux would-be-users complain about not having available to any platform. ...And web-based app technologies will only improve with time, as developers figure out how to optimize caching of code and other asynchronous application coding techniques.
1) Train Yourself in Pakour. Become proficient.
1 14_050114_tv_spider.html
c le=UPI-1-20070416-18110300-bc-britain-hoodie.xml
...err save humanity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEbYtOEftc0
2) Get a hold of artificial spider silk + convenient dispenser
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0
3) Fashion a pair of Gecko setae gloves, boots and other convenient body areas
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3726
4) Fabricate a Kevlar Spidey suit
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=Quirks&arti
5) Obtain DARPA Spidey sense
6) Profit!
I've never seen this site referenced here, so I'll post: http://www.ufoevidence.org/ If even a small percentage of the most credible accounts here are true, then the Earth has been regularly visited by unknown entities for a long time. Yes, there are a LOT of mistaken observations, hoaxes, etc. But it is also true that the HUGE number of highly credible reports (Pilots, police, first responders, educated, articulate people, etc) in databases like these indicates that something beyond the capabilities of human tech is going on. ...and just because Coelacanths were unknown to official science until the mid 20th century, does not mean they didn't exist.
Err, umm, been theere, done that: http://www.tvi-web.com/products/digisette.html Google "cassette MP3" for other make/models.
Family Entertainment Copyright Act legislation (needed the "L") ;)
Detroit (SE Michigan) bashing seems to be the cool, fashionable thing to do from time to time, SulliedTech. Oh well, we can enjoy our 2000-3500ft^2 homes on 1/2 acre lots, plus second homes on a secluded lake in Northern Michigan you can drink from, while the holier-than-thou "cultured" West Coast types shoe horn themselves into their shoe boxes for a night's sleep, with no disposable income leftover ;).
As a life long Detroiter, I am motivated to respond to the spate of anti_detroit sentiment in this thread. First off- SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN IS NOT DETROIT! Detroit ends at Detroit's borders. Novi is not Detroit. Dearborn is not Detroit. Ann Arbor is not Detroit. Get it? Driving from DTW to Novi has NOTHING to do with Detroit (except for the name and county of the airport)! A lot of Linux/ IT/ open source types tend to be drawn to artsy-fartsy/academic cities like Ann Arbor/ Royal Oak (Michigan) or places like San Fransico or Seattle. But some of us live comfortable lives in nice homes on large lots in all the cities surrounding Detroit, even cities directly bordering Detroit. We have real, regular jobs paying well in either IT or automotive related companies. Someone has to do the work, rather than sit around making petty judgments on city reputations. If you were born in a northern climate, you actually LIKE short periods of snow and cold, taking advantage of long dark days to do indoor projects, or snowmobile or ice fish, etc. Someone else in this thread mentions the ludicrous prices paid for paltry living spaces on the West Coast. Well, anyone is free to pay social/cultural status premiums all they like, however unreasonable. Funny thing is, "Detroit" (i.e. Southeast Michigan) has some of the wealthiest neighborhoods and homes in the nation, closer to "Detroit" proper than Novi, in the Bloomfields or Grosse Pointes. While I won't disagree that Detroit decayed from its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, the developments of the past 10-15 years in the downtown area proper have made significant strides. The Fox, Comerica Park, Ford Field, new Science Center, African American Museum (excellent), the DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts), the casinos (though I don't gamble), and more developments have improved the downtown a LOT. There is a LOT more to do, but things are better than they've ever been in my lifetime (30 something). And singling out Detoits worst grafitti and decay ridden areas as an example of SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is like taking the WORST areas of New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago to characterize those cities. Yes, the proportion of bad areas to good is higher in Detroit, but that's not the only point. ...And when all of you are dying of thirst and withering away, YOU CAN'T HAVE OUR FRESH WATER (no comments on GRrat Lakes pollution, please...)
I have used many of Pi's products since 1999 with no problems. I too have found that the cheapie Ps/2->USB adapters don't work. Try http://www.piengineering.com/ymouse/whym08.php The site lists where to buy it. Buy from a place that allows returns in case it doesn't work for you (although it probably will).
AFAIK, I've never seen this argument used as a legal basis to end TM: the simple premise that my telephone service is a paid, private service. Commercial solicitation over a private service I pay for should not be legal. I've never heard of a class action suit against TM's on this principle.
I expect some degree of spam and advertising from web-based mail like yahoo- I don't pay for my Yahoo mail account. But if I *did* upgrade to the paid premium level- then I expect not to receive unsolicited emails (if I never posted my email address to any forum, newsgroup or website) nor see any advertising anywhere on the web client.
Similarly, my paid private voice service shouldn't be a conduit for unsolicited commercial interests.
The only legal way TM makes sense is if I choose to appear on a "Commercial Solicitation OK" list. Then, I need to be compensated for every phone ring by a commercial interest calling me- whether I answer or not! TM's are abusing my time in distraction and using a paid resource in my home- the phone ringer and the single phone line, which another personal contact may be trying to use to reach me during the TM's attempt to call. The remuneration from each TM call ought to appear as a credit on my phone statement- again, only if I volunteer to be on a "OK to call" list.
Telemarketing has *nothing* to do with freedom of speech, or the rights of commercial interests in any way shape or form. It is about exploiting (current) holes in the interpretation of personal privacy rights and abusing private communication services.
Another post in this thread mentioned placing an indicator in current phone books next to personal name listings, a flag that means "no solicitors". Why this hasn't been available yet is dumb-founding, as it is no different than the ability to put a "NO Solicitors" sign on your front door (of your physical home).