For this kind of device, in my opinion, multi-tasking is almost meaningless. The iphone's notification system could use some improvement, but real multitasking?
It would be nice for it to be able to do little things you normally take for granted, like playing music while web browsing etc.
(You ever tried booting a Linux PC with an empty menu.lst file and no kernel? Not as easy as you probably think)
If you installed from the live CD (the most common method) you can just boot from that.
Having said that, I think putting the grub2 bootloader in 9.10/Karmic Koala (not 9.04 as per your post)was premature and a big mistake (sounds like it would have been the cause of the problem you described).
That decision caused a lot of grief to a significant number of people.
I'm sticking to legacy grub for another couple of Ubuntu releases at least.
No, you've misunderstood the table. E.g. Look at the entry for "Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3". The "support ended date" says "Not Applicable, see note". The note says "Support ends 24 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first." What this means in effect is that IE6 support ends in *2014* when XP support ends. MS has also stated this explicitly on a number of occasions.
In that case, the GPL is illegal in the US. I'm pretty sure law trumps licensing.
Yes, criminal law trumps license provisions.
No, that does not mean the GPL is 'illegal', it just means that this particular clause of the GPL is unenforceable in this particular case.
This is similar to what has happened in various EULA cases where particular clauses being struck out (e.g. by consumer law) does not invalidate the EULA as a whole (although some EULAs are probably entirely uneforceable in some countries, but that's another matter).
The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.
This could just be clumsy and ambigous wording, with intended meaning being that the image may not be manipulated in any way that suggests approval or endorsement...
I.e. That you *can* manipulate the image any way you like unless you do it in order to make it appear like an endorsement. This would certainly make more sense in the context.
But Ubuntu Netbook Edition is irrelevant in any case. Who uses such things? They offer nothing of value. All these "netbook editions" were dreamed up in the brief days of 7" screens and tiny SSDs. Modern netbooks with 10" screens and hard disks can run the regular version of the OS very happily.
Wrong. My eeePC 1000 with 10" screen has a resolution of 1024x600. UNR adjusts dialog boxes etc. which assume 1024x768 so they are fully onscreen.
or start en masse rounding up and deporting the Muslims who go to those mosques, deport them
Errm... The majority of them will probably be British born with full non-revokable UK citizenship. Even if you 'revoked' their citizenship in some way (illegal under international law, but that's not a show stopper), they would then be stateless and have no other citizenship. So where do you think they would be deported to? Why do you think that the country you deported them to would accept them or even allow such deportation flights to land at all?
and go back to having to compile closed source kernel modules just to get it to work after kernel updates?
At least in some distros, the nvidia closed driver is handled in a completely transparent manner (e.g. in Ubuntu once you've checked the 'activate' box you never have to perform any manual operations, unless you need a newer version of the drivers than the packaged one).
Try writing to a USB drive or transfering data between drives.
Not that this makes it acceptable, but this problem is *not* universal (presumably hardware specific). I've tested USB 2.0 transfer rates on 9.04 and 9.10 and both give pretty much the maximum speed.
There's a new convinience store here in Springfiled (Google streetview shows the building from when it was a laundromat) that has an otherwise professionally produced-looking sign that reads "Grocery's, cigerets..."
We had a "Nail Solon" open recently nearby. The sign did get corrected after about six months though.
English is becoming simpler in spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.
I don't agree. A lot of the changes are not from 'complex form' to 'simple form' but from 'standard form' to 'random form'. People don't just dispense with punctuation marks which they don't understand and which *may* be redundant in context - they sprinkle them around "like Parmesan cheese", to quote TFA.
It doesn't simplify things when you start adding random apostrophes to some plurals and not others.
It doesn't simplify things when you use words like "loose" and "lose" or "your" and "you're" in a random interchangable way.
Because these changes are random, they don't lead anywhere, in particular they don't lead to a new 'accepted form', just to confusion and the impression that the writer doesn't care if they are understood correctly.
Of course, it's not just photos which will benefit. Video, web, and pretty much anything you will see on the screen will benefit.
Which is why it's particularly bizarre that they left out the USB and/or Firewire ports which would be particularly useful for loading photos and videos into the iPad. And yes, I know you can get around this using USB/Bluetooth adapters etc. but that's not really very consumer friendly, is it? Two micro-USB ports with a micro->normal USB adaptor would have made a lot of difference.
The point about the Iceweasel case is that Debian was representing a version of Firefox with code *modfied by them* as Firefox. Trademark law clearly covers this as a case of 'passing off', which is what Trademarks are all about. In this case Canonical are not modfiying the Firefox code, they are representing Firefox as Firefox. There is *no* trademark case. You can't use your trademarks to stop another company doing "something random you don't like which has nothing to do with Trademarks".
This means 5,768,000 users will have to change their setting, meaning nearly TWO MONTHS (66.8 days) of lost time overall.
You're making the invalid assumption that all those users actually use the 'search box' at all. Many people just have google set as their home page, and click on 'home' on the current or a new tab when they want to search; they will be totally unaffected by this.
Sounds plausible, but any evidence/references? Is Red Flag following the GPL? Is there evidence that the source doesn't correspond to the distributed binaries? Anything dodgy found in the source?
Who the hell has a CD player these days? I haven't seen a music CD in at least 7-10 years.
Just a couple of points: Virtually all DVD players are CD players. Eg I use the DVD player in my bedroom to play CDs sometimes (and I have a couple of dedicated CD players as well, although they don't get used much these days).
Amazon (in the UK anyhow) often sell music CDs for significantly less than the equivalent download (e.g. £5 vs £7), and ripping those CDs to flac gives you better quality** than the mp3 downloads, and an optical disc copy as well as your hard drive copy and backups. This is totally bizarre and stupid, but as long as this continues to be the case I'll carry on buying physical CDs.
** You get a losslessly compressed file which can then be converted to a lossy mp3 or aac or whatever at any quality you like, taking into account the capacity and sound quality of the target device. This is quite important to me. But even if you don't care, why pay *more* for lower quality?
By calling Obama centrist, you are either being deceptive and obtuse
By averge democratic country standards, President Obama is a moderate centrist/right-winger.
In the US, I suppose political terms must all mean different things to what they mean in Europe. 'Liberal' is a term of abuse used by right-wingers against left-wingers in the US, but in Europe many right-wingers would describe themselves as 'true liberals'.
(I'm assuming you think he's a 'socialist'; if that's not what you meant I'm sorry I misunderstood.)
and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries.
Rechargeable is the way to go IMHO.
www.omax.co.uk I have no relationship with this company apart from as a *very* satisfied customer. Highly recommended for singles *and* couples, male and female. I expect there are other similar products, particularly for sale in those US states where you can't sell a vibrator but can sell a 'sports massager'!
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For this kind of device, in my opinion, multi-tasking is almost meaningless. The iphone's notification system could use some improvement, but real multitasking?
It would be nice for it to be able to do little things you normally take for granted, like playing music while web browsing etc.
(You ever tried booting a Linux PC with an empty menu.lst file and no kernel? Not as easy as you probably think)
If you installed from the live CD (the most common method) you can just boot from that.
Having said that, I think putting the grub2 bootloader in 9.10/Karmic Koala (not 9.04 as per your post)was premature and a big mistake (sounds like it would have been the cause of the problem you described).
That decision caused a lot of grief to a significant number of people.
I'm sticking to legacy grub for another couple of Ubuntu releases at least.
I never suggested OO.org was not bloated too - its written in Java after all
This is a popular misconception. Most of OO is not Java, and 95%+ users do not need Java installed to run OO.
To quote from
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Java_and_OpenOffice.org
"If you do not require database tables or accessibility integration or some wizards, then you do not need to download and install Java."
I believe *very* few people use the OO 'base' database.
The official EOL for IE 6 is July of this year.
No, you've misunderstood the table.
E.g. Look at the entry for "Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3".
The "support ended date" says "Not Applicable, see note".
The note says "Support ends 24 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first."
What this means in effect is that IE6 support ends in *2014* when XP support ends.
MS has also stated this explicitly on a number of occasions.
Linux has done just fine without,
Huh? For about 95% of non-business Linux users, the one of the first things they do is install the flash plugin.
In that case, the GPL is illegal in the US. I'm pretty sure law trumps licensing.
Yes, criminal law trumps license provisions.
No, that does not mean the GPL is 'illegal', it just means that this particular clause of the GPL is unenforceable in this particular case.
This is similar to what has happened in various EULA cases where particular clauses being struck out (e.g. by consumer law) does not invalidate the EULA as a whole (although some EULAs are probably entirely uneforceable in some countries, but that's another matter).
The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.
This could just be clumsy and ambigous wording, with intended meaning being that the image may not be manipulated in any way that suggests approval or endorsement...
I.e. That you *can* manipulate the image any way you like unless you do it in order to make it appear like an endorsement. This would certainly make more sense in the context.
or as I'm sure 60+ years ago it became strange to not have a phone in your house.
Don't know about the US, but in the UK it was more like 30-40 years ago (1970's-->1980's) when it became strange not to have a landline.
But Ubuntu Netbook Edition is irrelevant in any case. Who uses such things? They offer nothing of value. All these "netbook editions" were dreamed up in the brief days of 7" screens and tiny SSDs. Modern netbooks with 10" screens and hard disks can run the regular version of the OS very happily.
Wrong. My eeePC 1000 with 10" screen has a resolution of 1024x600. UNR adjusts dialog boxes etc. which assume 1024x768 so they are fully onscreen.
If it doesn't have a decent offline word-processor then you can pretty much kiss goodbye to anybody using it except smart PDA users.
It only takes a couple of clicks and a password to install openoffice if it's not installed by default.
And google docs etc. work fine offline and then sync when reconnected.
What's the problem?
or start en masse rounding up and deporting the Muslims who go to those mosques, deport them
Errm... The majority of them will probably be British born with full non-revokable UK citizenship. Even if you 'revoked' their citizenship in some way (illegal under international law, but that's not a show stopper), they would then be stateless and have no other citizenship. So where do you think they would be deported to? Why do you think that the country you deported them to would accept them or even allow such deportation flights to land at all?
and go back to having to compile closed source kernel modules just to get it to work after kernel updates?
At least in some distros, the nvidia closed driver is handled in a completely transparent manner (e.g. in Ubuntu once you've checked the 'activate' box you never have to perform any manual operations, unless you need a newer version of the drivers than the packaged one).
Try writing to a USB drive or transfering data between drives.
Not that this makes it acceptable, but this problem is *not* universal (presumably hardware specific). I've tested USB 2.0 transfer rates on 9.04 and 9.10 and both give pretty much the maximum speed.
So, I say do whatever needs to be done to make us all even the slightest bit safer.
Really? So you'd be happy to fly in a paper jumpsuit, strapped to your seat and heavily sedated?
To submit to a full cavity search every time you fly?
You're the model obediant citizen for the forthcoming police state!
There's a new convinience store here in Springfiled (Google streetview shows the building from when it was a laundromat) that has an otherwise professionally produced-looking sign that reads "Grocery's, cigerets..."
We had a "Nail Solon" open recently nearby. The sign did get corrected after about six months though.
English is becoming simpler in spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.
I don't agree. A lot of the changes are not from 'complex form' to 'simple form' but from 'standard form' to 'random form'. People don't just dispense with punctuation marks which they don't understand and which *may* be redundant in context - they sprinkle them around "like Parmesan cheese", to quote TFA.
It doesn't simplify things when you start adding random apostrophes to some plurals and not others.
It doesn't simplify things when you use words like "loose" and "lose" or "your" and "you're" in a random interchangable way.
Because these changes are random, they don't lead anywhere, in particular they don't lead to a new 'accepted form', just to confusion and the impression that the writer doesn't care if they are understood correctly.
You know that premuim versions of Win7 include 'XP mode'? This solves the license and hardware issues.
Of course, it's not just photos which will benefit. Video, web, and pretty much anything you will see on the screen will benefit.
Which is why it's particularly bizarre that they left out the USB and/or Firewire ports which would be particularly useful for loading photos and videos into the iPad. And yes, I know you can get around this using USB/Bluetooth adapters etc. but that's not really very consumer friendly, is it? Two micro-USB ports with a micro->normal USB adaptor would have made a lot of difference.
The point about the Iceweasel case is that Debian was representing a version of Firefox with code *modfied by them* as Firefox. Trademark law clearly covers this as a case of 'passing off', which is what Trademarks are all about.
In this case Canonical are not modfiying the Firefox code, they are representing Firefox as Firefox. There is *no* trademark case. You can't use your trademarks to stop another company doing "something random you don't like which has nothing to do with Trademarks".
This means 5,768,000 users will have to change their setting, meaning nearly TWO MONTHS (66.8 days) of lost time overall.
You're making the invalid assumption that all those users actually use the 'search box' at all. Many people just have google set as their home page, and click on 'home' on the current or a new tab when they want to search; they will be totally unaffected by this.
and they have backdoors in Red Flag
Sounds plausible, but any evidence/references? Is Red Flag following the GPL? Is there evidence that the source doesn't correspond to the distributed binaries? Anything dodgy found in the source?
Who the hell has a CD player these days? I haven't seen a music CD in at least 7-10 years.
Just a couple of points:
Virtually all DVD players are CD players. Eg I use the DVD player in my bedroom to play CDs sometimes (and I have a couple of dedicated CD players as well, although they don't get used much these days).
Amazon (in the UK anyhow) often sell music CDs for significantly less than the equivalent download (e.g. £5 vs £7), and ripping those CDs to flac gives you better quality** than the mp3 downloads, and an optical disc copy as well as your hard drive copy and backups. This is totally bizarre and stupid, but as long as this continues to be the case I'll carry on buying physical CDs.
** You get a losslessly compressed file which can then be converted to a lossy mp3 or aac or whatever at any quality you like, taking into account the capacity and sound quality of the target device. This is quite important to me. But even if you don't care, why pay *more* for lower quality?
You know you don't have to use Grub2? I'm sticking with legacy Grub until Grub2 is more mature.
By calling Obama centrist, you are either being deceptive and obtuse
By averge democratic country standards, President Obama is a moderate centrist/right-winger.
In the US, I suppose political terms must all mean different things to what they mean in Europe. 'Liberal' is a term of abuse used by right-wingers against left-wingers in the US, but in Europe many right-wingers would describe themselves as 'true liberals'.
(I'm assuming you think he's a 'socialist'; if that's not what you meant I'm sorry I misunderstood.)
and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries.
Rechargeable is the way to go IMHO.
www.omax.co.uk
I have no relationship with this company apart from as a *very* satisfied customer. Highly recommended for singles *and* couples, male and female.
I expect there are other similar products, particularly for sale in those US states where you can't sell a vibrator but can sell a 'sports massager'!