Neither U1 nor Dropbox are FLOSS. You can host neither yourself. I don't want pictures of my family floating around third party sites. And I don't want to pay anyone else for what is basically a backed-up hard drive. I can do that myself. I just need something my mom can use, too.
You are still giving away your photos to a third party. Plus, you are limited to 1 GB of space or you need to buy extra. I would rather invest that money into my own gear than hand it over to someone else. Especially since half a dozen people would need accounts, which adds up quickly.
Basically, I am looking for something that will not only back up my photos (and track file renaming/moving), but also offers me the option to sync photos between PCs. Think my sister automagically sharing pictures of her children with my mom, etc. Finally, it should run on Linux and Windows and either be really easy to use or just work in the background.
Also, I want a pony.
I am constantly amazed that there isn't _something_ which offers this. After all, I can not be the only one with those problems, can I?
Yes, being able to receive faxes is vital to a business. It's a pity, but that's the way it is.
But I doubt that those large companies have actual faxes. They will simply feed all faxes into a web front-end or email gateway directly. A secretary will then sort through them. And you can't even block lines as even the most ancient phone systems support multiple connections behind a single number. Higher-volume fax numbers will be load balanced, anyway.
I read about this in Scientific American in the middle of the 90ies. Way to go.
But I hear someone invented trapezoid approximation for calculating the area below curves, recently. If they patented it, we can VC the hell out of that one.
Stephen McGloughlin is a technology consultant in the Sacramento region of Northern California and a Dean of Technology at a local college. His background is in engineering, electronics and software and includes Intel, Microsoft, NEC, HP, Sandia National Labs and Olympus among his many clients. He is a published technology author for Prentice Hall and QUE, and holds a software patent with University of California Davis.
People are free to disagree with my stance, but hey...
While you are mostly correct, there will be modifications in/etc which a user will value. Especially since most *nix systems are used by one or two people, tops.
> Shift-Ctrl-C and -V usually work in X terminals, though.
So does memorizing the whole thing and typing it out again. Shift-Insert is an extremely fast & convenient way to paste.
And as someone who is always surfing on the fringes of RSI, I don't like anything that requires me to bunch together three fingers, turn the hand and then press. It's a small thing, but over time, it's noticeable.
If you look at the upper right, it's an internal Google account. If you look at the upper left, there is a link named "Loop". Googling (hrhr) does not yield anything. So, anyone got any ideas?
> If the idea of morality that you teach your kids is that anything you can get away with is OK, don't be surprised when they turn to crime or set up something like Facebook.
Nice try. Still, they should challenge rules and try to overcome barriers. Docile sheep are not useful members of society; I want my kids to be smart and inquisitive. If that makes my life harder cause I have to do more work so be it.
> Everything we currently know about genetics, biology, anatomy, geology,...... coincides with the theory of evolution. It is fact
It is the best explanation we could come up with, yet. I don't expect anything to change, but hey.
> Denying evolution at this stage simply shows that one is not educated in any of the sciences.
Again, wrong. It's fine to deny, or at the very least challenge, evolution based on some other theory. The unscientific thing is to still clutch to your new theory after it has been shown to have logical fallacies.
tl;dr: We agree, but it's simply not scientific to claim evolution has been proven beyond any doubt. It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt of today, though.
> In the same way that religion should get no special benefits (I know that religious groups do get some benefits over similar secular ones, and I'm strongly against that), it equally shouldn't be singled out as 'untouchable' by community funding.
Wrong. As soon as they use it to push their own agenda, they should not be funded.
I have to admit that I had to read your spin twice to crack it, though.:)
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Yes. How does that make it a FLOSS solution, though?
Neither U1 nor Dropbox are FLOSS. You can host neither yourself. I don't want pictures of my family floating around third party sites. And I don't want to pay anyone else for what is basically a backed-up hard drive. I can do that myself. I just need something my mom can use, too.
You are still giving away your photos to a third party. Plus, you are limited to 1 GB of space or you need to buy extra. I would rather invest that money into my own gear than hand it over to someone else. Especially since half a dozen people would need accounts, which adds up quickly.
Yes, and I am using that. Yet, it's not for my mom. Joey Hess built a file tracker on top of git. I will need to look at that again, as well.
I'll have a look, thanks :)
Basically, I am looking for something that will not only back up my photos (and track file renaming/moving), but also offers me the option to sync photos between PCs. Think my sister automagically sharing pictures of her children with my mom, etc. Finally, it should run on Linux and Windows and either be really easy to use or just work in the background.
Also, I want a pony.
I am constantly amazed that there isn't _something_ which offers this. After all, I can not be the only one with those problems, can I?
Wait... it's still funny.
> He sure doesn't show good judgement in which movies to star in though.
That makes him a bad actor.
...and it even featured Dwayne "the really sucky actor" Johnson; a sure sign of bad plots.
Yes, being able to receive faxes is vital to a business. It's a pity, but that's the way it is.
But I doubt that those large companies have actual faxes. They will simply feed all faxes into a web front-end or email gateway directly. A secretary will then sort through them. And you can't even block lines as even the most ancient phone systems support multiple connections behind a single number. Higher-volume fax numbers will be load balanced, anyway.
tl;dr: I don't get it.
It was hardware design documents, not software, that made that Russian pipeline go boom.
I read about this in Scientific American in the middle of the 90ies. Way to go.
But I hear someone invented trapezoid approximation for calculating the area below curves, recently. If they patented it, we can VC the hell out of that one.
...but I won't.
Stephen McGloughlin is a technology consultant in the Sacramento region of Northern California and a Dean of Technology at a local college. His background is in engineering, electronics and software and includes Intel, Microsoft, NEC, HP, Sandia National Labs and Olympus among his many clients. He is a published technology author for Prentice Hall and QUE, and holds a software patent with University of California Davis.
People are free to disagree with my stance, but hey...
While you are mostly correct, there will be modifications in /etc which a user will value. Especially since most *nix systems are used by one or two people, tops.
> Shift-Ctrl-C and -V usually work in X terminals, though.
So does memorizing the whole thing and typing it out again. Shift-Insert is an extremely fast & convenient way to paste.
And as someone who is always surfing on the fringes of RSI, I don't like anything that requires me to bunch together three fingers, turn the hand and then press. It's a small thing, but over time, it's noticeable.
If you look at the upper right, it's an internal Google account. If you look at the upper left, there is a link named "Loop". Googling (hrhr) does not yield anything. So, anyone got any ideas?
Just because you like to pretend that you can "steal" an idea, and one that is a few decades old at that, does not make it so.
The DMCA is about copyright. The name "Super Pac" does not violate any copyright. If OP did not copy artwork or code, he should be clean.
> If the idea of morality that you teach your kids is that anything you can get away with is OK, don't be surprised when they turn to crime or set up something like Facebook.
Nice try. Still, they should challenge rules and try to overcome barriers. Docile sheep are not useful members of society; I want my kids to be smart and inquisitive. If that makes my life harder cause I have to do more work so be it.
> So I'm all for taxing the stupidity as the only humane way to cope with it.
Ayn Rand would be proud.
The problem with taxing stupid/uneducated people into poverty is that you are ensuring the next generation will largely be the same.
> Everything we currently know about genetics, biology, anatomy, geology, ...... coincides with the theory of evolution. It is fact
It is the best explanation we could come up with, yet. I don't expect anything to change, but hey.
> Denying evolution at this stage simply shows that one is not educated in any of the sciences.
Again, wrong. It's fine to deny, or at the very least challenge, evolution based on some other theory. The unscientific thing is to still clutch to your new theory after it has been shown to have logical fallacies.
tl;dr: We agree, but it's simply not scientific to claim evolution has been proven beyond any doubt. It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt of today, though.
If only I hadn't engaged in useful discussion; I'd love to mod you Funny, instead.
> In the same way that religion should get no special benefits (I know that religious groups do get some benefits over similar secular ones, and I'm strongly against that), it equally shouldn't be singled out as 'untouchable' by community funding.
Wrong. As soon as they use it to push their own agenda, they should not be funded.
I have to admit that I had to read your spin twice to crack it, though. :)
Yeah, cause those are all using Gnome.
Honestly, I don't care. It sounds interesting either way!