The quality hasn't changed because it's the same machine.
Crikey, I have been using IBM Thinkpads for over a decade, and I can tell you the quality has changed, and not for the better. These days, a Thinkpad is no more desirable than an Acer machine, I'll tell you that. They were making *business* machines, now I can't get one that *hasn't* got a glossy, widescreen display on it.
I don't see how *anyone* could get a positive of someone who's trying to fight anti-spam and anti-spyware. Sure, the majority of the population is probably more than a little hazy on spyware, but spam? That one they know, and can't possibly like.
Let them talk, and just keep asking "so basically, you're fighting to *allow* spam and spyware? You must really not have the common good in mind, eh?"
The game, technically, is simple enough for almost any video card to handle (better ones don't add/that/ much extra). In the same way as checkers, it's quite easy to operate (mouse plus 4 keys or so) but takes a while to master.
The simplistic graphics and simplistic controls focuses the game on something else: gameplay. That's why it's what I spend 90% of my gaming time on it.
Reportedly sidekicks are thin clients, other than making phone calls, everything on the phone is saved on the server side. Which is a special kind of retarded
Isn't that also how Android works?
I mean sure, the apps and such are on internal flash, but it's a different story for your "important" data such as email or contacts list. Heck, as I've learned, one can't even read one's existing ("synced") email without a working web connection. How they can call that "syncing", and what it's doing besides simple header indexing, is beyond me.
This is another reason I am loath to trust "the cloud" -- if I know I can be self-sufficient (in a data accessibility context), that's going to be much better than storing things on a corporate server and hope that said corporation is not going to, um, fall from the sky.
...and yet, one of the pioneers, most active and certainly most visible IBM'ers is using an avatar which is a 2.5m tall Predator. Nobody's told him off (maybe because they know what a shoulder gun can do).
Those IBM'ers who are already hopeless "penguins" do of course have Suit avatars. Natch.
Me, I dress in my fave tee, jeans, converses, and five o'clock shadow.
Since the government is already reading my mail, who cares about google?
If you are using Fastmail.FM with secure login, the government most likely is not reading your mail.
What's the use of you using secure Fastmail if your peers don't? So they'll just read your email through your peers' mailboxes... same difference. (It's why I ended up caving in and signing up for GMail; it's no use if you're the only party that cares about encryption.)
Sigh. I do wish there was a big crisis (not Y2K, a real one) so we had to do a "proper" Web 2.0 with end-to-end encryption and all that other "basic" stuff obligatory, instead of a theoretical add-on for those who can deal with the (non-trivial) extra hassle.
First of all, IMAP allows you to keep mail on the server; a COPY operation instead of a READ-and-DELETE if you will. Most email clients worth their salt are able to make a local copy of IMAP accounts, which makes it feel very much like POP3.
Second, with GMail, use the "Offline" feature of the Lab. I haven't tried yanking out my cable yet, but in theory it, too, makes a local copy and syncs with the online account.
Ed: Hey you guys, we think we found water! Real, useful, drinkable water (ice...)! Joe: Quick, let's go contaminate it with rocket wreckage! Crowd: Yaaaay!
If you don't want Microsoft Windows then do not buy a computer that comes with Microsoft Windows pre-installed, it is as simple as that.
I understand your point, but you often don't have a choice when you're buying a laptop.
For example, when I bought my laptop, I chose some specs, and then looked at various manufacturers to find the cheapest price. No manufacturer sold a model with those specs without Windows preinstalled.
This is basically the exact thinking behind phk's actions, from before the purchase and up to the law suit. You can't get a high-powered computer without also paying for a Windows license, and in his case, being a FreeBSD developer, that amounts to a forced purchase from the main competitor.
Further, the Windows EULA is odd in that *Microsoft* is setting up an agreement between two *other* parties. One party has the right to decline the EULA, and the other party is legally bound to accept that.
Disregarding the 1887 thing, which is amply discussed above, what amazes me is this:
If these luminous clouds are caused by shuttle launches, why has it taken, 32 years and 128 launches for someone to discover this relation? Or, has something else happened to the atmosphere not-so-long ago which, together with the launches, have been causing these clouds only recently?
See, the thing is, 'we' don't care if 'you' don't want to use the cloud. No matter how much you try to protect it, your privacy will be eroded for you.
I'm not on Facebook, and I wasn't on GMail for the longest time. But do you really think they don't have my data anyway, from all my friends who think differently ("if at all")?
Privacy is dead, killed by your friends who sold it for nothing to the big corporations. (Whoa, that sounded way more dramatic than I intended.) If you want privacy, you'll need personal computers, encrypted networking, and friends who are on the same technological level.
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Now that you bring up the smart phone perspective, let me just say that's different than cloud services. The reason is that, comparing, say, a Facebook app with an iPhone app, while the environment is pretty fixed in both cases, in the latter case you have the additional element of needing to have hardware in the hands of the users.
The OpenMoko project is trying to address that, but its struggles show the great difference between open source software and ditto hardware. Software is just so much easier to multiply and get out there.
I guess that's one reason why people aren't up in arms so much because they realise that they need someone to provide the hardware, and are willing to 'pay' for that by living in a walled garden.
Personally, I'm leaning (at least, since PalmOS died) towards Android for its superior openness compared to the iPhone -- but it's still very, very closely knit with the huge storm cloud that is Google, and it does not provide (nor promise) true freedom.
But as OpenMoko is the free but still very experimental counterpiece to the big-brand smartphones, so is the Appleseed Project a free yet incomparably tiny counterpiece to Facebook. After all, what is all that freedom really worth if you can enjoy it only with the other six other users?...but what do I know.:D
The problem here, though, is that they aren't in the dog breeding business, they're in the drug enforcement business. They would have no reason (in the box-thinking sense, not the holistic one) to breed other kinds of dogs than the ones they can use.
It would be nice if one could achieve, say, a 0.5 ratio of useful sniffer dog puppies to regular puppies, but if one could achieve a 1.0 ratio at double the price, you don't need to bother with all those customers wanting to buy the, um, byproduct. And, really, puppy mills are handled by a different agency altogether.
3 games for a fiver? For Linux even? In this quality? I just can't *not* buy this game, which will be my first game purchase since I fished a copy of Half-Life (1) out of a bargain bin, back when I still had Windows at home.
But My God, this game is too creepy for me! The game is so dark and moody, it's no use trying to play it in any sort of daylight. Thanks for that, yer bastards.;-) I cherish the opportunity to run a proper 3d game, in fullscreen resolution, I do appreciate the very nice motion blur effects, and it is kind of fun to learn the somewhat different control method (which, for some reason, reminds me of Alone in the Dark).
But it's just sneak sneak sneak BOOH! and I don't think my nerves can take this. I mean, that one place within the crawling tunnels of Space Quest was quite enough for me, thank you very much. I'd much rather play something like Day of Defeat (v1.3-ish), ported to Linux.
Still: if a smallish game company can pull this off, there is just *NO BLOODY EXCUSE* for EA and the rest of 'em to not do the same. True, one might argue that Friction "needs" to do something like this because they need to make a name for themselves, they need an "edge" that the big studios just don't need to bother with, but it does not alter the fact that Linux *can* support great games. Most likely, we will see an influx soon (which is about bloody time, really).
Kudos to Friction and a friendly nod to my brothers across the strait. I wasn't aware the Copenhagen Post went back that far;-) (hi San!).
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Yeah well good luck getting IBM internal IT to deal that kind of sense unto their employees.
The quality hasn't changed because it's the same machine.
Crikey, I have been using IBM Thinkpads for over a decade, and I can tell you the quality has changed, and not for the better. These days, a Thinkpad is no more desirable than an Acer machine, I'll tell you that. They were making *business* machines, now I can't get one that *hasn't* got a glossy, widescreen display on it.
By the way: when will people start using computer analogies to explain cars?
Soon. As soon as it's the *other* kind of driver that's to blame for the *other* kind of crashes (quite possibly followed by the regular kind).
True, that.
I don't see how *anyone* could get a positive of someone who's trying to fight anti-spam and anti-spyware. Sure, the majority of the population is probably more than a little hazy on spyware, but spam? That one they know, and can't possibly like.
Let them talk, and just keep asking "so basically, you're fighting to *allow* spam and spyware? You must really not have the common good in mind, eh?"
The game, technically, is simple enough for almost any video card to handle (better ones don't add /that/ much extra). In the same way as checkers, it's quite easy to operate (mouse plus 4 keys or so) but takes a while to master.
The simplistic graphics and simplistic controls focuses the game on something else: gameplay. That's why it's what I spend 90% of my gaming time on it.
Ew, nasty wording. But yes, that game (series) is way too scary for me, too. Yikes.
That's odd. My Galaxy won't let me view anything except my inbox without fetching data, and Google Maps is right out.
I guess it must be a country/telco thing...
Reportedly sidekicks are thin clients, other than making phone calls, everything on the phone is saved on the server side. Which is a special kind of retarded
Isn't that also how Android works?
I mean sure, the apps and such are on internal flash, but it's a different story for your "important" data such as email or contacts list. Heck, as I've learned, one can't even read one's existing ("synced") email without a working web connection. How they can call that "syncing", and what it's doing besides simple header indexing, is beyond me.
This is another reason I am loath to trust "the cloud" -- if I know I can be self-sufficient (in a data accessibility context), that's going to be much better than storing things on a corporate server and hope that said corporation is not going to, um, fall from the sky.
...and yet, one of the pioneers, most active and certainly most visible IBM'ers is using an avatar which is a 2.5m tall Predator. Nobody's told him off (maybe because they know what a shoulder gun can do).
Those IBM'ers who are already hopeless "penguins" do of course have Suit avatars. Natch.
Me, I dress in my fave tee, jeans, converses, and five o'clock shadow.
If you are using Fastmail.FM with secure login, the government most likely is not reading your mail.
What's the use of you using secure Fastmail if your peers don't? So they'll just read your email through your peers' mailboxes ... same difference. (It's why I ended up caving in and signing up for GMail; it's no use if you're the only party that cares about encryption.)
Sigh. I do wish there was a big crisis (not Y2K, a real one) so we had to do a "proper" Web 2.0 with end-to-end encryption and all that other "basic" stuff obligatory, instead of a theoretical add-on for those who can deal with the (non-trivial) extra hassle.
The question is not whether it's legal, the question is whether the small guy can afford to raise that concern...
First of all, IMAP allows you to keep mail on the server; a COPY operation instead of a READ-and-DELETE if you will. Most email clients worth their salt are able to make a local copy of IMAP accounts, which makes it feel very much like POP3.
Second, with GMail, use the "Offline" feature of the Lab. I haven't tried yanking out my cable yet, but in theory it, too, makes a local copy and syncs with the online account.
Exactly.
Ed: Hey you guys, we think we found water! Real, useful, drinkable water (ice...)!
Joe: Quick, let's go contaminate it with rocket wreckage!
Crowd: Yaaaay!
Come to think of it, it's actually very much like IP address space!
All they need is a DNS service...
If you don't want Microsoft Windows then do not buy a computer that comes with Microsoft Windows pre-installed, it is as simple as that.
I understand your point, but you often don't have a choice when you're buying a laptop.
For example, when I bought my laptop, I chose some specs, and then looked at various manufacturers to find the cheapest price. No manufacturer sold a model with those specs without Windows preinstalled.
This is basically the exact thinking behind phk's actions, from before the purchase and up to the law suit. You can't get a high-powered computer without also paying for a Windows license, and in his case, being a FreeBSD developer, that amounts to a forced purchase from the main competitor.
Further, the Windows EULA is odd in that *Microsoft* is setting up an agreement between two *other* parties. One party has the right to decline the EULA, and the other party is legally bound to accept that.
Oh, you mean the politicians should have paid more attention to that 0,17% of the population? They have a job to do, it's called democracy.
For the record, anything that limits, tracks, or controls public access to information and the Internet is Bad in my book.
If anything, I would lament that only a mere fraction of a percent give enough of a damn to sign their name against it.
I think you vastly overestimate the degree of weather observation that actually gets done, and our understanding of the weather system.
Very likely, yes. Thanks for the insight.
Oh and by the way, I'm not reading any global warming (dis)proof into this -- that's one thing I *know* I'm not qualified for. :D
Disregarding the 1887 thing, which is amply discussed above, what amazes me is this:
If these luminous clouds are caused by shuttle launches, why has it taken, 32 years and 128 launches for someone to discover this relation?
Or, has something else happened to the atmosphere not-so-long ago which, together with the launches, have been causing these clouds only recently?
That's not off topic. It's the last post in that thread.
Err ... crap.
Hey! New meme:
"Last post."
See, the thing is, 'we' don't care if 'you' don't want to use the cloud. No matter how much you try to protect it, your privacy will be eroded for you.
I'm not on Facebook, and I wasn't on GMail for the longest time. But do you really think they don't have my data anyway, from all my friends who think differently ("if at all")?
Privacy is dead, killed by your friends who sold it for nothing to the big corporations. (Whoa, that sounded way more dramatic than I intended.) If you want privacy, you'll need personal computers, encrypted networking, and friends who are on the same technological level.
Now that you bring up the smart phone perspective, let me just say that's different than cloud services. The reason is that, comparing, say, a Facebook app with an iPhone app, while the environment is pretty fixed in both cases, in the latter case you have the additional element of needing to have hardware in the hands of the users.
The OpenMoko project is trying to address that, but its struggles show the great difference between open source software and ditto hardware. Software is just so much easier to multiply and get out there.
I guess that's one reason why people aren't up in arms so much because they realise that they need someone to provide the hardware, and are willing to 'pay' for that by living in a walled garden.
Personally, I'm leaning (at least, since PalmOS died) towards Android for its superior openness compared to the iPhone -- but it's still very, very closely knit with the huge storm cloud that is Google, and it does not provide (nor promise) true freedom.
But as OpenMoko is the free but still very experimental counterpiece to the big-brand smartphones, so is the Appleseed Project a free yet incomparably tiny counterpiece to Facebook. After all, what is all that freedom really worth if you can enjoy it only with the other six other users? ...but what do I know. :D
The problem here, though, is that they aren't in the dog breeding business, they're in the drug enforcement business. They would have no reason (in the box-thinking sense, not the holistic one) to breed other kinds of dogs than the ones they can use.
It would be nice if one could achieve, say, a 0.5 ratio of useful sniffer dog puppies to regular puppies, but if one could achieve a 1.0 ratio at double the price, you don't need to bother with all those customers wanting to buy the, um, byproduct. And, really, puppy mills are handled by a different agency altogether.
Sad but true.
Until they can improve them in lab retrievers, it'll just be a scientific exercise.
3 games for a fiver?
For Linux even?
In this quality?
I just can't *not* buy this game, which will be my first game purchase since I fished a copy of Half-Life (1) out of a bargain bin, back when I still had Windows at home.
But My God, this game is too creepy for me! The game is so dark and moody, it's no use trying to play it in any sort of daylight. Thanks for that, yer bastards. ;-) I cherish the opportunity to run a proper 3d game, in fullscreen resolution, I do appreciate the very nice motion blur effects, and it is kind of fun to learn the somewhat different control method (which, for some reason, reminds me of Alone in the Dark).
But it's just sneak sneak sneak BOOH! and I don't think my nerves can take this. I mean, that one place within the crawling tunnels of Space Quest was quite enough for me, thank you very much. I'd much rather play something like Day of Defeat (v1.3-ish), ported to Linux.
Still: if a smallish game company can pull this off, there is just *NO BLOODY EXCUSE* for EA and the rest of 'em to not do the same. True, one might argue that Friction "needs" to do something like this because they need to make a name for themselves, they need an "edge" that the big studios just don't need to bother with, but it does not alter the fact that Linux *can* support great games. Most likely, we will see an influx soon (which is about bloody time, really).
Kudos to Friction and a friendly nod to my brothers across the strait. I wasn't aware the Copenhagen Post went back that far ;-) (hi San!).