The Maximum sentence he can receive on those charges is a 6 month sentence, and or a moderate fine. He is hardly likely to get the maximum, but it is likely he will not be tried and convicted for several months. which will give him some time to think and perhaps try and do something positive with his life which might at least demonstrate that he regrets his actions.
He may even be conditionally discharged although he would have to make a remarkable turn around in his life to achieve that. He would have to be demonstrating that he can be an asset to his community as opposed to the arrogant piece of faecal matter that he currently appears to be.
If he shows remorse then it will be taken in to consideration and he does have that opportunity. In a civilised society there is such a thing as appropriate behaviour and courteousness something that you should learn from a young age. It makes the world a nicer place.
At a younger age I was what you might call your typical hairy arsed biker and for some people that meant I looked a bit scary. I actually got a kick out of being polite and helpful and not swearing in front of my elders it really messes with peoples preconceptions of what they think you will be like.
It really costs nothing to just be a nice guy, don't be a complete and utter tool and people will like you for that. Just have some respect for your fellow men and women. Sure you can repeat that so called joke to your so called friends, they will probably not say a word about it but you will have gone down in their estimation, unless they are as bad as yourself. I have never figured out why some people seem to want to be seen as loathsome and vile.
We all do shitty things from time to time probably unintentionally for the most part, these are parts of your life you tend to regret for a long time. You can't change what you have done already so just try to do better next time...
maybe they were overwhelmed with reports, I guess at apple it must be worse, google does get better they were missing a road i lived on at the time but after about a year they had found it.
Google maps and navigation can be wrong, yesterday i was directed to turn right at a junction where it isn't permitted.
The solution is to report the error, for me I went to maps.google.com found the junction and clicked on the report a problem button on the bottom right corner of the map. On Street view , the no right turn sign is clearly visible. So it shouldn't be hard to verify.
If your ignoring mapping errors then you are not helping yourself by ignoring them. You might say but i know about that error, but how many people don't? By reporting the error I found it doesn't help me directly but it will help others and the errors they find will improve the navigation for me. It's impossible to be fully up to date with any map since things keep changing everyday.
Does Google have a map with red flags where it's users have reported problems? the idea kind of appeals. It must be easier to fix with street view, to take a look around and see the problem.
I noticed just this week, that new installations of adblock+ now come with a whitelist of "approved" advertisers. You can turn it off in the configuration. Oh and I just checked my own install had it allowed by default.
Wonder how many users know that they are allowing some ads through.
While the use of cannabis is mostly harmless, when used responsibly, ignoring what the state will do to you if you are caught in possession. Most others do have pretty negative effects in the long to medium term.
Just about every weekend here. There are reports of single vehicle collisions, generally fatal, in the early hours of saturday and sunday mornings. You can probably read that as someone out of their face on something decided to drive somewhere. They tend to be teens to mid twenties, it is a sad waste of life.
There are probably a good number of people here who quit drug use, due to the realisation that it would mess up their lives if caught and maybe mess up their lives if they just over indulge. The present situation at least encourages people to be a little discrete, would open legal use of drugs result in more deaths?
Then again the current situation currently funnels money to some pretty ruthless individuals, and who wouldn't want to see them out of business.
Don't both situations come down to don't take the piss, keep your head down and you'll be able to get what you want. Draw attention to yourself and you will be in trouble. Maybe the 'industry' is coming to the realisation that some tolerance is required or it will resort in damage to the bottom line. Still think it will not be long before greed sets in again.
I'm not so sure you can call it mental illness, there are people with a genuine hatred of jews and blacks asians Muslims even plain old Americans.
I have a friend who seems your typical republican nut job , loves jesus, dogs and a pathological loathing of Obama is it because he is a democrat or because he is black i suspect the latter to be honest.
Is it mental illness that caused the recent American deaths in Libya ?
Having extremest views tends to be misguided, but are they mentally ill? When the westbourough baptists picket the funerals of American servicemen are they mentally ill?
Now if you are a believer in the zionist conspiracy does that make you mentally ill or misguided? You have to bare in mind the victim is jewish which is extremely rare in Ireland. I don't know any jews in ireland so chances are this kid only knew of this one family and possibly only leo is jewish. Almost certainly that will be why he was targeted.
On the positive side it maybe that the kid will no longer see leo as that Jew but as a regular human being like the rest of us. That's the thing with labels people see the label and not the people that are being labelled.
How much labelling goes on here for instance, is that by mentally ill people or misguided ones?
How about the 1% maybe some of them should be executed, interestingly that is a hard target since you only really know the companies not the leadership. I really can't see how you can equate extremism with mental illness without coming to the conclusion we are already in the asylum and there are more of them than us.
No you can't know the IP of a random twitter account, but he moved off twitter on to his own system probably hosting his own blog at his own domain.
This gives server logs which hold an ip for each visitor and comment. While it is unlikely that you would be able to know much more than ISP. Googling the IP might indicate the use of an internet cafe, the identifying one probably came about because some messages from that IP were from the friend and others from the troll.
A smarter troll would have used a proxy.
Also if you have a google adwords account you can identify your site visitors to a geographic location usually to the nearest city. Your ad's can be tailored to specific areas. No point in paying for clicks when you are advertising a product or service which will require a customer to visit your business address. Geolocation isn't perfect, i use a mobile broadband provider and my traffic is on the isp's network to Dublin so you might think i was in Dublin. There is a browser add on for firefox called geolocator which can set a location to give to certain websites.
From the sounds of it somebody got lucky, If the ip hadn't have been identifiable as a friends address then the only alternative would have been to get the guards to investigate who would contact the ISP and locate the address of the account using the IP at the time. This course of action would have almost certainly led to a criminal prosecution. As it was a friends son, it would have been socially awkward to have taken the same action.
Guess knowing this stuff makes me an IT genius! or perhaps !genius on this site.
use a curved photo frame myself wrapped in tinfoil and taped, just enough to make my 3g usable. would be interesting to see your trailing lamp design. Sounds like it could be very useful.
Kde isn't the worst, but i have an old dislike for it, going back to suse. That was 6 or 7 years ago but there are very nice kde apps. If mint becomes annoying i may well switch again.
Ubuntu was pretty good but they seem to have lost their way which is a pity since it was great, the unity interface just doesn't work for me or my systems.
I would have agreed 2 years ago the 10.04 netbook release was near perfect for non technical users. Unfortunately it got abandoned and they concentrated on unity.
Just what is wrong with providing a list of programs logically grouped. Just type the name, you jest. I've used Linux for years and i am still not 100% on the names of the programs I use.
The 12.04 gnome classic is a joke. I just had to explain alternative ways to close programs since firefox for example when maximised loses the close X from the window. No easy way to get desktop icons for drives ect. not even the good old trash can. Pathetic obvious that it was decided to offer gnome classic in as poor a configuration as possible in order to make unity look like an improvement.
Ubuntu has jumped the shark, Mint seems pretty good in comparison. maybe debian too.
A lot depends on where the goods produced are going to be sold especially when fuel costs are rising and they going to keep rising.
The cost of production is made up of a lot of different things but if we assume that the only variables between a Chinese and American factories is the cost of labour and the cost of shipping.
if you can replace 80% of the workforce with robots as compared with china then you might be able to pay your remaining workers 5x what the chinese worker gets paid. The other and perhaps more crucial overhead is the cost of shipping from china. That shipping cost is what will make the chinese factory uncompetitive.
Is it a win for American jobs very much so, since if 20 Americans + robots replace 100 chinese workers that is 20 less unemployed Americans. Even if the chinese factory does the same you can't get away from the fact the goods are in china and must be shipped to be sold and you don't have that overhead when producing locally.
Thats just to pour fuel on the flames Slashdot seems to be degenerating to flamebait, remember when stories were generally interesting and not just to annoy various factions. Hearing the same comments repeated gets boring after a while.
Any way good on apple at bringing a more powerful iPhone to market. So how good are the next generation android phones going to have to be, to compete against this latest generation iPhone.
See this is where the battle for market share should be fought not in the court room.
The difference between a Windows User and a Linux User is that while the windows user also wants everything for free too, as demonstrated by "massive piracy" The Linux user rejects pirating commercial software and chooses the honourable choice of open source instead.
People buy software for android, maybe pirate some and will use the ad supported versions too. Personally i've never had a problem paying for commercial software on android especially since it is licensed to me and I can install on any of my android devices, that may change with jellybean and licensing per device.
Maybe it is possible to do a reverse android. Android essentially uses java source to compile for android why not compile for Java? isn't the source for android available which could make it possible to target Linux and X11
Might be a fun project for oracle if they haven't driven off all the good Java guys from Sun.
Anyway regardless of that if you want to make a commercial software project for Linux pick something which isn't already available for free in a repository and that people actually want. Maybe the Ad supported model is workable too.
your solution is tax it more and raise the prices and do away with income tax.
Does it need spelling out that a wealthy person would make a net gain and a poor one a net loss.
I seriously doubt it will be the wealthy who will be rioting because they can't afford to eat rather the more numerous poor.
Maybe it might pay to read a little about the French revolution, and its causes./libertarian hasn't the meaning of that word become just a little corrupted over the years.
There are interesting possibilities with Android, with a archos tablet i can remote control it with my samsung phone (with wifi). There are a number of options for a full remote option but most require rooted devices. It all depends what needs controlling bluetooth controls are possible its not like distance would be a problem in a helicopter.
There are loads of dlna player and controller programs around for android too. your phone is the controller the other android device source and player.
Breivik believes himself to be a patriot and his actions were in defence of his country. It seems he hasn't managed to qualify as a madman either.
You see that is part of the problem. If we take the case of an earlier poster talking about the Muslim population in being a threat to England. Arguably that same poster might just see it as his patriotic duty to defend his country against the Muslim threat. Maybe he could become Englands Breivik. How do we know? Chances are someone liable to take action will listen to argument post argument and have the ego to believe that they should be the one to do something about it. The smart ones may not comment at all but just read, The really smart ones will ignore this topic completely.
So really if you believe watching everybody will give advance warning of an attack then that pretty much is what you are going to do. What is the alternative?
There are adapters available already which allow usb ports to charge iPhones. Hard to imagine that a new connector will be much different in that respect.
What a new port may achieve is stimulate sales of new accessories which can take the new connector and probably ensure Apple gets a royalty from these new accessories. An adapter may work with some existing accessories but it will not be as aesthetically pleasing and may increase the chance of breaking the port or physical restrictions may also apply.
For Apple it is a good plan in a maturing market. If you look at the downfall of Commodore and the Amiga they had a similar problem Once you had an Amiga you pretty much didn't buy anything from Commodore again. people loved their product but when the installed base was huge, sales declined.
I think Apple may be hitting the peak with the iPhone. Unless I am mistaken most people who have an iPhone are pretty happy with what they have. What is there left to drive current users to upgrade again? What is going to be the next Cool killer must have feature?
Apple has been pretty good at upgrading it's older phones to a later version of IOS. However hasn't it always been the case that the upgrade has actually made the phone just a little less responsive and the solution is upgrade to the latest model.
Apples current tactics in fighting competing products in the court room instead of making a better phone sure makes it look like they are running out of idea's.
In the world of computing we have gone from 8 bit, 16bit, 32 bit and 64bit processors from single core's to multi cores. Recent years have been slow the 32 bit systems still sell along side the 64 bit alternatives. One laptop is pretty much the same as another with minor differences at similar price points and it's hard to justify buying the more expensive models not for most use cases that's for sure. The Smart phone market may be maturing too.
One thing which could be a killer feature is "throwing" the display you could have a movie stored on your phone and be able to switch it too your large screen tv with 5.1 wirelessly. I think Sony do this with dlna. One things for certain even with the Hdmi out on my android tablet it is still a pain to have to hook up the cable to do it.
On the other hand using my phone to control my Tablet which is smart enough to feed my TV with the content I have stored on my nas seems like a cool thing to do. It's not going to drain the battery on my phone to do this either.
Sorry I wandered a bit, I have a few idea's I would like to try out now. My android devices are probably up to the job.
Piracy numbers don't really count for much any way it makes no difference to the bottom line if there is 1 or a 100 million pirate copies (although if people do not want the game for free then realistically it is never going to be a commercial success). If you consider zynga many people playing their games do not pay but they do encourage other people to play and some of those will pay even if it's just to catch up with their friends.
The real figure that counts is the user base.
If Drm is having a negative impact on purchases then it needs to be removed. Arguably everybody has the choice to pirate or not to pirate regardless of drm. Pirate copies are available to anybody that cares to look. So you really have 3 groups of people: those that would pirate, those that will buy with the restrictions of drm and then the third group who will choose not to buy with drm or pirate and instead will buy something else.
Logically since Piracy is an option for everybody those that buy with drm will buy without. the pirates will pirate with perhaps a number choosing to buy because the drm has been removed and a number of people will buy since they do not have to deal with DRM any more. You are logically increasing your customer base.
What about those that pirate to try before they buy if the game isn't great won't they fail to buy? The fact is they had the option of pirating regardless of DRM so no you don't lose them any more than you did before by putting out lousy games.
You might find a healthy pirate buzz around a particular title will be an indicator of it's eventual commercial success. Maybe it is even a good tactic to leak a game on to the internet anonymously of course otherwise the people who would buy might think you are ok with them playing for free and be discouraged from buying.
In the long term you have a reputation if your titles stink then your reputation goes down if you market a title hard enough even thou it stinks you might salvage something, however your user base is less likely to trust you about your next release and will go for the pirate copy and not buy because you conned them the time before. with a bad game you can refine it or if it is beyond rescue release it straight to the bargain bin, if its not worth $50 don't charge $50 for it .
Ubisoft is in trouble with its customer base people don't like them so much these days maybe drm removal will make them popular again or is it too little too late?
maybe stood is the right word, for a person without a suit they would be standing, she has been stood up by the suit. a brush might be stood against the wall. Wouldn't standing be a verb at the bar and stood be an adjective, (something describing an aspect of a noun).
For northern folk being stood (adjective) at the bar and drinking (verb) is quite normal behaviour , for southerners they might be sat around a table sipping their wine in between tales of how uncouth the northern chaps are.
Essentially it's Ctrl+ Increase font size or image size or both of the underlying Div. Not much more than incrementing values in the pages css and re rendering the page with the Div being the focus of the viewport.
Ok that is just a web page but even so you can modify the methods according to the object that is being tapped.
There is nothing new about zooming content or rendering a desktop that is larger than the physical screen.
With cinnamon if I mouse to the top left i get an overview of my desktops side by side if there are 2 it renders them to fit 2 acrosss the screen and if there are 3 then it renders all 3, when I mouse over 1 of them the open windows are displayed and which ever window I click on is brought to the front and that screen is displayed.
The display of the screens is a little flawed to be honest if I have 4 Desktops the rendering is smaller, It would be better to increase the size of the screen i am focusing on so I can see the contents easier.
There is nothing revolutionary about thinking, It gets hard to make stuff out when it's small on the screen. Ok make it bigger. but we can't make it bigger the window is as big as the screen already. Well just show them the part of the window which has the bits they want to see.
It's not even a new problem the guy with impaired vision and the huge screen had two windows one that rendered all the content and another which gave a magnified view of what was under the pointer that was in windows 95/98 Clunky but it worked. Maybe you don't remember moving the outline of a window to position it on the screen, full window rendering was an option but with the limitations of Ram and processing speed meant that you needed a powerful, for the time system to be able to do it smoothly. It's not much of a problem with the current generation of computers.
If anything now we are held back by the existing windowing systems as they were designed for older systems which couldn't do what we can today. That Smart phones can have impressive GUI's shouldn't be a surprise there is no legacy hardware holding the devs back.
Your method of implementation will probably vary from mine but they would both be achieving the same thing.
compositing views dynamic views e.g coverflow all possible in realtime as we have the processor power to do it now in the past we had preset animations because it just wasn't practical to render the images dynamically.
The idea's are not really new, programmers have wanted to be able to do more since forever. About the first game I played on the zx81 was called bomber you had a blocky aircraft made of a pre-rendered block moving across the screen a cityscape more blocks piled on each other and a button to drop bombs which on contact with the city block replaced the top black block with a white block if you removed all the city blocks before you ran into one you won. These days it would be 3d and ray traced... Doom was an early example of the 3d shoot em up, using some neat tricks to get round the problem it wasn't really 3d. We had to get over the problem that there wasn't any detail if we got close to things. The only thing which is new is the capability of the hardware to do the stuff programmers wanted to do but couldn't due to the limitations of the existing hardware.
Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741 [O.S. January 3, 1740] â" June 14, 1801) was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army. While a general on the American side, he obtained command of the fort at West Point, New York, and plotted to surrender it to the British forces. After the plot was exposed in September 1780, he was commissioned into the British Army as a brigadier general.
Because of the way he changed sides, his name quickly became a byword in the United States for treason or betrayal. His conflicting legacy is recalled in the ambiguous nature of some of the memorials that have been placed in his honor.
I know it is a bit off topic, but I can't be the only non-American who said who? Excellent choice he would have been viewed as an American hero if he hadn't defected to the other-side after becoming disillusioned with the American cause and had to flee before he caused any major damage.
I really don't care who else uses Linux it works for me and a good number of other people too.
There seems to be a lot of confusion between big numbers and small numbers the article goes on about an increase for Apple from 5% of the market to 7.5% a 2.5% increase (that's really small) no actually it's a 50% increase in it's users quite dramatic growth! Kudos apple and that's from someone who despises the direction apples board seems to be taking, but I'll give them credit for what was achieved under Steve Jobs direction.
Unfortunately for Apple making great stuff seems to be scary for them now, I think they no longer have the courage to be great and are adapting a strategy of competing via law suit. It's sad because if they don't produce great things and they stomp on everyone else trying to produce great stuff, we don't get any of it.
Incidentally just why is this posted under apple a discussion about desktop Linux? I digress (further)...
There is primarily a single reason to care about market share for Desktop Linux and that is hardware compatibility. Without enough people wanting to use a particular piece of hardware under Linux the motivation for the Hardware Companies to provide drivers or the specifications to make drivers is derailed. However currently most hardware is supported and the hardware that isn't usually has an alternative that is.
That may actually be a community effect since Linux types tend to be knowledgeable and asked for buying advice. We all said don't buy a Lexmark inkjet, and look how popular they are today. Actually with Cups being a mac thing as well as a linux bsd thing the Mac users probably helped get us more printer support.
As for the disparity of Desktops on Linux everyone has their preference, I was gnome2 didn't like gnome3 initially but do like cinnamon which is a useful version:) Unity at its current stage of development I really do not care for at all, but it might still achieve greatness.
Now if there was only one Desktop and it was Unity as is. I'd seriously look at buying a Mac but because of the choices available I don't have too. It's with some regret I left the ubuntu fold and moved on to Mint because Ubuntu made me love Linux, when suse was causing me premature hair-loss. I gather Suse is a lot better these days. The point is Linux is flexible enough to move in several directions at once and that's a good thing because if you take the wrong path there is always an alternative. I feel sure there are enough diverse opinions that make the term wrong, a personal choice.
Desktop Linux is a success, there are enough users to influence manufacturers to take our needs into account, of course we want more, but we are way into the millions of daily users and that is still a sizeable piece of pie.
Primarily the Desktop is just a means to an end no matter how pretty or ugly you make it it's all about the software and provided the software is there the desktop doesn't stop you from doing what you want. Even if it is a bit clunky in places. Two of the biggest options are gnome and kde but it really doesn't matter with which desktop a piece of software is written for, as it works on both maybe all.
In actual fact that is a lie, Android changed that, there is no Dalvik for the Linux Desktop and that is something that needs to be addressed. As there are some terrific programs for Android which don't exist on Desktop Linux.
If Dalvik was ported to Desktop Linux there would be greater commercial support and a greater diversity of software. That's the biggest weakness of Desktop Linux today not the window manager being used. I know not all Android Apps would work on an x86 processor but even on android hardware this is the case some apps require minimum versions of Android, others require specific processor and gpu support but it doesn't matter too much, Since even with the hardware and version restrictions you still get a great menu of choices.
Linux doesn't just copy it innovates too For Exampl
What do you think the verdict should have been in this case under the current law?
If you could change the law, what would you change?
You have had a long and interesting career and are responsible for some pretty amazing technology, do you think what you achieved would have been possible with the current state of patent law?
Unlike me and most of us reading Slashdot the parent does know his stuff and millions have used hardware he designed that was way ahead of the competition. I have the utmost respect for anything he cares to say on the matter because he is one of the greats. Sorry if thats embarrassing Dave but you are one of my all time hero's
I have run the Gimp on an Iomega IConnect (its a small Nas which takes USB drives). Ok So I have it booting Debian instead of the junk that Iomega put on it.
I would say my Iconnect was a specialised box , designed to perform specific tasks. However since it now runs Debian it isn't any longer. Actually If I pull the flash drive holding debian it would revert back to running Iomega's firmware.
Is it specialised or not? It was when I bought it:) it was an appliance manufactured and sold for a specific set of roles. I guess it's really how you think about it.
I don't think you should be able to claim a patent where its do x but on this type of computer and have that be a different patent to do x on another type of computer.
I'm with the opinion that software is maths and shouldn't be patentable. Software is built of individual instructions kind of like bricks, If you were to patent putting one brick on top of another brick you pretty much have ip rights over everything constructed of bricks and that is ludicrous you might as well say that this post is plagiarised since all these words can be found in the dictionary.
What really frustrates me is eventually there are going to be some really great pieces of software written and terrific gadgets made and I'm not going to get the chance to play with them because I'll be dead before they get made because of the existence of some stupid software patent.
I'm not that old but I was taught to use a slide rule (maybe one of the last) I remember basic led calculators appearing. The Microchip caused a revolution transforming our lives the pace of change has been amazing my first Hard drive was 42 Meg and held workbench and all the other software I used and got me on the Internet without using Windows (Thanks Hazy Dave ) and now it's nothing my digital camera could fill that drive with less than 30 photographs.
The revolution has been amazing and it should continue to be amazing but the big technology Companies are now blocking innovation left right and centre. If Apple is threatened ( ? most valuable company in the world isn't it) then they should innovate and create something better. It's not like they do not have the resources to do something really special.
Sadly I think the revolution is coming to a close and technology is going to be forced to stagnate and that really is indefensible.
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The Maximum sentence he can receive on those charges is a 6 month sentence, and or a moderate fine.
He is hardly likely to get the maximum, but it is likely he will not be tried and convicted for several months.
which will give him some time to think and perhaps try and do something positive with his life which might at least demonstrate that he regrets his actions.
He may even be conditionally discharged although he would have to make a remarkable turn around in his life to achieve that. He would have to be demonstrating that he can be an asset to his community as opposed to the arrogant piece of faecal matter that he currently appears to be.
If he shows remorse then it will be taken in to consideration and he does have that opportunity. In a civilised society there is such a thing as appropriate behaviour and courteousness something that you should learn from a young age. It makes the world a nicer place.
At a younger age I was what you might call your typical hairy arsed biker and for some people that meant I looked a bit scary. I actually got a kick out of being polite and helpful and not swearing in front of my elders it really messes with peoples preconceptions of what they think you will be like.
It really costs nothing to just be a nice guy, don't be a complete and utter tool and people will like you for that. Just have some respect for your fellow men and women. Sure you can repeat that so called joke to your so called friends, they will probably not say a word about it but you will have gone down in their estimation, unless they are as bad as yourself. I have never figured out why some people seem to want to be seen as loathsome and vile.
We all do shitty things from time to time probably unintentionally for the most part, these are parts of your life you tend to regret for a long time. You can't change what you have done already so just try to do better next time...
maybe they were overwhelmed with reports, I guess at apple it must be worse, google does get better they were missing a road i lived on at the time but after about a year they had found it.
Google maps and navigation can be wrong, yesterday i was directed to turn right at a junction where it isn't permitted.
The solution is to report the error, for me I went to maps.google.com found the junction and clicked on the report a problem button on the bottom right corner of the map. On Street view , the no right turn sign is clearly visible.
So it shouldn't be hard to verify.
If your ignoring mapping errors then you are not helping yourself by ignoring them. You might say but i know about that error, but how many people don't? By reporting the error I found it doesn't help me directly but it will help others and the errors they find will improve the navigation for me. It's impossible to be fully up to date with any map since things keep changing everyday.
Does Google have a map with red flags where it's users have reported problems? the idea kind of appeals. It must be easier to fix with street view, to take a look around and see the problem.
I noticed just this week, that new installations of adblock+ now come with a whitelist of "approved" advertisers. You can turn it off in the configuration. Oh and I just checked my own install had it allowed by default.
Wonder how many users know that they are allowing some ads through.
times rich list she has around $52 million , her ex husband $1.2 billion. Maybe he is paying the bill.
Is it a pointless war on drugs?
While the use of cannabis is mostly harmless, when used responsibly, ignoring what the state will do to you if you are caught in possession. Most others do have pretty negative effects in the long to medium term.
Just about every weekend here. There are reports of single vehicle collisions, generally fatal, in the early hours of saturday and sunday mornings. You can probably read that as someone out of their face on something decided to drive somewhere. They tend to be teens to mid twenties, it is a sad waste of life.
There are probably a good number of people here who quit drug use, due to the realisation that it would mess up their lives if caught and maybe mess up their lives if they just over indulge. The present situation at least encourages people to be a little discrete, would open legal use of drugs result in more deaths?
Then again the current situation currently funnels money to some pretty ruthless individuals, and who wouldn't want to see them out of business.
Don't both situations come down to don't take the piss, keep your head down and you'll be able to get what you want. Draw attention to yourself and you will be in trouble. Maybe the 'industry' is coming to the realisation that some tolerance is required or it will resort in damage to the bottom line. Still think it will not be long before greed sets in again.
I'm not so sure you can call it mental illness, there are people with a genuine hatred of jews and blacks asians Muslims even plain old Americans.
I have a friend who seems your typical republican nut job , loves jesus, dogs and a pathological loathing of Obama is it because he is a democrat or because he is black i suspect the latter to be honest.
Is it mental illness that caused the recent American deaths in Libya ?
Having extremest views tends to be misguided, but are they mentally ill? When the westbourough baptists picket the funerals of American servicemen are they mentally ill?
Now if you are a believer in the zionist conspiracy does that make you mentally ill or misguided? You have to bare in mind the victim is jewish which is extremely rare in Ireland. I don't know any jews in ireland so chances are this kid only knew of this one family and possibly only leo is jewish. Almost certainly that will be why he was targeted.
On the positive side it maybe that the kid will no longer see leo as that Jew but as a regular human being like the rest of us. That's the thing with labels people see the label and not the people that are being labelled.
How much labelling goes on here for instance, is that by mentally ill people or misguided ones?
How about the 1% maybe some of them should be executed, interestingly that is a hard target since you only really know the companies not the leadership. I really can't see how you can equate extremism with mental illness without coming to the conclusion we are already in the asylum and there are more of them than us.
No you can't know the IP of a random twitter account, but he moved off twitter on to his own system probably hosting his own blog at his own domain.
This gives server logs which hold an ip for each visitor and comment. While it is unlikely that you would be able to know much more than ISP. Googling the IP might indicate the use of an internet cafe, the identifying one probably came about because some messages from that IP were from the friend and others from the troll.
A smarter troll would have used a proxy.
Also if you have a google adwords account you can identify your site visitors to a geographic location usually to the nearest city. Your ad's can be tailored to specific areas. No point in paying for clicks when you are advertising a product or service which will require a customer to visit your business address. Geolocation isn't perfect, i use a mobile broadband provider and my traffic is on the isp's network to Dublin so you might think i was in Dublin. There is a browser add on for firefox called geolocator which can set a location to give to certain websites.
From the sounds of it somebody got lucky, If the ip hadn't have been identifiable as a friends address then the only alternative would have been to get the guards to investigate who would contact the ISP and locate the address of the account using the IP at the time. This course of action would have almost certainly led to a criminal prosecution. As it was a friends son, it would have been socially awkward to have taken the same action.
Guess knowing this stuff makes me an IT genius! or perhaps !genius on this site.
use a curved photo frame myself wrapped in tinfoil and taped, just enough to make my 3g usable. would be interesting to see your trailing lamp design. Sounds like it could be very useful.
Kde isn't the worst, but i have an old dislike for it, going back to suse. That was 6 or 7 years ago but there are very nice kde apps. If mint becomes annoying i may well switch again.
Ubuntu was pretty good but they seem to have lost their way which is a pity since it was great, the unity interface just doesn't work for me or my systems.
I would have agreed 2 years ago the 10.04 netbook release was near perfect for non technical users. Unfortunately it got abandoned and they concentrated on unity.
Just what is wrong with providing a list of programs logically grouped. Just type the name, you jest.
I've used Linux for years and i am still not 100% on the names of the programs I use.
The 12.04 gnome classic is a joke. I just had to explain alternative ways to close programs since firefox for example when maximised loses the close X from the window. No easy way to get desktop icons for drives ect. not even the good old trash can. Pathetic obvious that it was decided to offer gnome classic in as poor a configuration as possible in order to make unity look like an improvement.
Ubuntu has jumped the shark, Mint seems pretty good in comparison. maybe debian too.
A lot depends on where the goods produced are going to be sold especially when fuel costs are rising and they going to keep rising.
The cost of production is made up of a lot of different things but if we assume that the only variables between a Chinese and American factories is the cost of labour and the cost of shipping.
if you can replace 80% of the workforce with robots as compared with china then you might be able to pay your remaining workers 5x what the chinese worker gets paid. The other and perhaps more crucial overhead is the cost of shipping from china. That shipping cost is what will make the chinese factory uncompetitive.
Is it a win for American jobs very much so, since if 20 Americans + robots replace 100 chinese workers that is 20 less unemployed Americans. Even if the chinese factory does the same you can't get away from the fact the goods are in china and must be shipped to be sold and you don't have that overhead when producing locally.
Thats just to pour fuel on the flames Slashdot seems to be degenerating to flamebait, remember when stories were generally interesting and not just to annoy various factions. Hearing the same comments repeated gets boring after a while.
Any way good on apple at bringing a more powerful iPhone to market. So how good are the next generation android phones going to have to be, to compete against this latest generation iPhone.
See this is where the battle for market share should be fought not in the court room.
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The difference between a Windows User and a Linux User is that while the windows user also wants everything for free too, as demonstrated by "massive piracy" The Linux user rejects pirating commercial software and chooses the honourable choice of open source instead.
People buy software for android, maybe pirate some and will use the ad supported versions too. Personally i've never had a problem paying for commercial software on android especially since it is licensed to me and I can install on any of my android devices, that may change with jellybean and licensing per device.
Maybe it is possible to do a reverse android. Android essentially uses java source to compile for android why not compile for Java? isn't the source for android available which could make it possible to target Linux and X11
Might be a fun project for oracle if they haven't driven off all the good Java guys from Sun.
Anyway regardless of that if you want to make a commercial software project for Linux pick something which isn't already available for free in a repository and that people actually want. Maybe the Ad supported model is workable too.
Lack of cheap food is a problem
your solution is tax it more and raise the prices and do away with income tax.
Does it need spelling out that a wealthy person would make a net gain and a poor one a net loss.
I seriously doubt it will be the wealthy who will be rioting because they can't afford to eat rather the more numerous poor.
Maybe it might pay to read a little about the French revolution, and its causes. /libertarian hasn't the meaning of that word become just a little corrupted over the years.
There are interesting possibilities with Android, with a archos tablet i can remote control it with my samsung phone (with wifi). There are a number of options for a full remote option but most require rooted devices. It all depends what needs controlling bluetooth controls are possible its not like distance would be a problem in a helicopter.
There are loads of dlna player and controller programs around for android too. your phone is the controller the other android device source and player.
Breivik believes himself to be a patriot and his actions were in defence of his country.
It seems he hasn't managed to qualify as a madman either.
You see that is part of the problem. If we take the case of an earlier poster talking about the Muslim population in being a threat to England. Arguably that same poster might just see it as his patriotic duty to defend his country against the Muslim threat. Maybe he could become Englands Breivik. How do we know? Chances are someone liable to take action will listen to argument post argument and have the ego to believe that they should be the one to do something about it. The smart ones may not comment at all but just read, The really smart ones will ignore this topic completely.
So really if you believe watching everybody will give advance warning of an attack then that pretty much is what you are going to do. What is the alternative?
There are adapters available already which allow usb ports to charge iPhones. Hard to imagine that a new connector will be much different in that respect.
What a new port may achieve is stimulate sales of new accessories which can take the new connector and probably ensure Apple gets a royalty from these new accessories. An adapter may work with some existing accessories but it will not be as aesthetically pleasing and may increase the chance of breaking the port or physical restrictions may also apply.
For Apple it is a good plan in a maturing market. If you look at the downfall of Commodore and the Amiga they had a similar problem Once you had an Amiga you pretty much didn't buy anything from Commodore again.
people loved their product but when the installed base was huge, sales declined.
I think Apple may be hitting the peak with the iPhone. Unless I am mistaken most people who have an iPhone are pretty happy with what they have. What is there left to drive current users to upgrade again? What is going to be the next Cool killer must have feature?
Apple has been pretty good at upgrading it's older phones to a later version of IOS. However hasn't it always been the case that the upgrade has actually made the phone just a little less responsive and the solution is upgrade to the latest model.
Apples current tactics in fighting competing products in the court room instead of making a better phone sure makes it look like they are running out of idea's.
In the world of computing we have gone from 8 bit, 16bit, 32 bit and 64bit processors from single core's to multi cores. Recent years have been slow the 32 bit systems still sell along side the 64 bit alternatives. One laptop is pretty much the same as another with minor differences at similar price points and it's hard to justify buying the more expensive models not for most use cases that's for sure. The Smart phone market may be maturing too.
One thing which could be a killer feature is "throwing" the display you could have a movie stored on your phone and be able to switch it too your large screen tv with 5.1 wirelessly. I think Sony do this with dlna. One things for certain even with the Hdmi out on my android tablet it is still a pain to have to hook up the cable to do it.
On the other hand using my phone to control my Tablet which is smart enough to feed my TV with the content I have stored on my nas seems like a cool thing to do. It's not going to drain the battery on my phone to do this either.
Sorry I wandered a bit, I have a few idea's I would like to try out now. My android devices are probably up to the job.
Piracy numbers don't really count for much any way it makes no difference to the bottom line if there is 1 or a 100 million pirate copies (although if people do not want the game for free then realistically it is never going to be a commercial success). If you consider zynga many people playing their games do not pay but they do encourage other people to play and some of those will pay even if it's just to catch up with their friends.
The real figure that counts is the user base.
If Drm is having a negative impact on purchases then it needs to be removed. Arguably everybody has the choice to pirate or not to pirate regardless of drm. Pirate copies are available to anybody that cares to look.
So you really have 3 groups of people: those that would pirate, those that will buy with the restrictions of drm and then the third group who will choose not to buy with drm or pirate and instead will buy something else.
Logically since Piracy is an option for everybody those that buy with drm will buy without. the pirates will pirate with perhaps a number choosing to buy because the drm has been removed and a number of people will buy since they do not have to deal with DRM any more. You are logically increasing your customer base.
What about those that pirate to try before they buy if the game isn't great won't they fail to buy? The fact is they had the option of pirating regardless of DRM so no you don't lose them any more than you did before by putting out lousy games.
You might find a healthy pirate buzz around a particular title will be an indicator of it's eventual commercial success. Maybe it is even a good tactic to leak a game on to the internet anonymously of course otherwise the people who would buy might think you are ok with them playing for free and be discouraged from buying.
In the long term you have a reputation if your titles stink then your reputation goes down if you market a title hard enough even thou it stinks you might salvage something, however your user base is less likely to trust you about your next release and will go for the pirate copy and not buy because you conned them the time before. with a bad game you can refine it or if it is beyond rescue release it straight to the bargain bin, if its not worth $50 don't charge $50 for it .
Ubisoft is in trouble with its customer base people don't like them so much these days maybe drm removal will make them popular again or is it too little too late?
maybe stood is the right word, for a person without a suit they would be standing, she has been stood up by the suit. a brush might be stood against the wall. Wouldn't standing be a verb at the bar and stood be an adjective, (something describing an aspect of a noun).
For northern folk being stood (adjective) at the bar and drinking (verb) is quite normal behaviour , for southerners they might be sat around a table sipping their wine in between tales of how uncouth the northern chaps are.
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Essentially it's Ctrl+ Increase font size or image size or both of the underlying Div. Not much more than incrementing values in the pages css and re rendering the page with the Div being the focus of the viewport.
Ok that is just a web page but even so you can modify the methods according to the object that is being tapped.
There is nothing new about zooming content or rendering a desktop that is larger than the physical screen.
With cinnamon if I mouse to the top left i get an overview of my desktops side by side if there are 2 it renders them to fit 2 acrosss the screen and if there are 3 then it renders all 3, when I mouse over 1 of them the open windows are displayed and which ever window I click on is brought to the front and that screen is displayed.
The display of the screens is a little flawed to be honest if I have 4 Desktops the rendering is smaller, It would be better to increase the size of the screen i am focusing on so I can see the contents easier.
There is nothing revolutionary about thinking, It gets hard to make stuff out when it's small on the screen. Ok make it bigger. but we can't make it bigger the window is as big as the screen already. Well just show them the part of the window which has the bits they want to see.
It's not even a new problem the guy with impaired vision and the huge screen had two windows one that rendered all the content and another which gave a magnified view of what was under the pointer that was in windows 95/98 Clunky but it worked. Maybe you don't remember moving the outline of a window to position it on the screen, full window rendering was an option but with the limitations of Ram and processing speed meant that you needed a powerful, for the time system to be able to do it smoothly. It's not much of a problem with the current generation of computers.
If anything now we are held back by the existing windowing systems as they were designed for older systems which couldn't do what we can today. That Smart phones can have impressive GUI's shouldn't be a surprise there is no legacy hardware holding the devs back.
Your method of implementation will probably vary from mine but they would both be achieving the same thing.
compositing views dynamic views e.g coverflow all possible in realtime as we have the processor power to do it now in the past we had preset animations because it just wasn't practical to render the images dynamically.
The idea's are not really new, programmers have wanted to be able to do more since forever. About the first game I played on the zx81 was called bomber you had a blocky aircraft made of a pre-rendered block moving across the screen a cityscape more blocks piled on each other and a button to drop bombs which on contact with the city block replaced the top black block with a white block if you removed all the city blocks before you ran into one you won. These days it would be 3d and ray traced... Doom was an early example of the 3d shoot em up, using some neat tricks to get round the problem it wasn't really 3d. We had to get over the problem that there wasn't any detail if we got close to things. The only thing which is new is the capability of the hardware to do the stuff programmers wanted to do but couldn't due to the limitations of the existing hardware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold
Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741 [O.S. January 3, 1740] â" June 14, 1801) was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army. While a general on the American side, he obtained command of the fort at West Point, New York, and plotted to surrender it to the British forces. After the plot was exposed in September 1780, he was commissioned into the British Army as a brigadier general.
Because of the way he changed sides, his name quickly became a byword in the United States for treason or betrayal. His conflicting legacy is recalled in the ambiguous nature of some of the memorials that have been placed in his honor.
I know it is a bit off topic, but I can't be the only non-American who said who? Excellent choice he would have been viewed as an American hero if he hadn't defected to the other-side after becoming disillusioned with the American cause and had to flee before he caused any major damage.
I really don't care who else uses Linux it works for me and a good number of other people too.
There seems to be a lot of confusion between big numbers and small numbers the article goes on about an increase for Apple from 5% of the market to 7.5% a 2.5% increase (that's really small) no actually it's a 50% increase in it's users quite dramatic growth! Kudos apple and that's from someone who despises the direction apples board seems to be taking, but I'll give them credit for what was achieved under Steve Jobs direction.
Unfortunately for Apple making great stuff seems to be scary for them now, I think they no longer have the courage to be great and are adapting a strategy of competing via law suit. It's sad because if they don't produce great things and they stomp on everyone else trying to produce great stuff, we don't get any of it.
Incidentally just why is this posted under apple a discussion about desktop Linux? I digress (further)...
There is primarily a single reason to care about market share for Desktop Linux and that is hardware compatibility. Without enough people wanting to use a particular piece of hardware under Linux the motivation for the Hardware Companies to provide drivers or the specifications to make drivers is derailed. However currently most hardware is supported and the hardware that isn't usually has an alternative that is.
That may actually be a community effect since Linux types tend to be knowledgeable and asked for buying advice. We all said don't buy a Lexmark inkjet, and look how popular they are today. Actually with Cups being a mac thing as well as a linux bsd thing the Mac users probably helped get us more printer support.
As for the disparity of Desktops on Linux everyone has their preference, I was gnome2 didn't like gnome3 initially but do like cinnamon which is a useful version :) Unity at its current stage of development I really do not care for at all, but it might still achieve greatness.
Now if there was only one Desktop and it was Unity as is. I'd seriously look at buying a Mac but because of the choices available I don't have too. It's with some regret I left the ubuntu fold and moved on to Mint because Ubuntu made me love Linux, when suse was causing me premature hair-loss. I gather Suse is a lot better these days. The point is Linux is flexible enough to move in several directions at once and that's a good thing because if you take the wrong path there is always an alternative. I feel sure there are enough diverse opinions that make the term wrong, a personal choice.
Desktop Linux is a success, there are enough users to influence manufacturers to take our needs into account, of course we want more, but we are way into the millions of daily users and that is still a sizeable piece of pie.
Primarily the Desktop is just a means to an end no matter how pretty or ugly you make it it's all about the software and provided the software is there the desktop doesn't stop you from doing what you want. Even if it is a bit clunky in places. Two of the biggest options are gnome and kde but it really doesn't matter with which desktop a piece of software is written for, as it works on both maybe all.
In actual fact that is a lie, Android changed that, there is no Dalvik for the Linux Desktop and that is something that needs to be addressed. As there are some terrific programs for Android which don't exist on Desktop Linux.
If Dalvik was ported to Desktop Linux there would be greater commercial support and a greater diversity of software. That's the biggest weakness of Desktop Linux today not the window manager being used.
I know not all Android Apps would work on an x86 processor but even on android hardware this is the case some apps require minimum versions of Android, others require specific processor and gpu support but it doesn't matter too much, Since even with the hardware and version restrictions you still get a great menu of choices.
Linux doesn't just copy it innovates too For Exampl
What do you think the verdict should have been in this case under the current law?
If you could change the law, what would you change?
You have had a long and interesting career and are responsible for some pretty amazing technology, do you think what you achieved would have been possible with the current state of patent law?
Unlike me and most of us reading Slashdot the parent does know his stuff and millions have used hardware he designed that was way ahead of the competition. I have the utmost respect for anything he cares to say on the matter because he is one of the greats. Sorry if thats embarrassing Dave but you are one of my all time hero's
I have run the Gimp on an Iomega IConnect (its a small Nas which takes USB drives). Ok So I have it booting Debian instead of the junk that Iomega put on it.
I would say my Iconnect was a specialised box , designed to perform specific tasks. However since it now runs Debian it isn't any longer. Actually If I pull the flash drive holding debian it would revert back to running Iomega's firmware.
Is it specialised or not? It was when I bought it :) it was an appliance manufactured and sold for a specific set of roles. I guess it's really how you think about it.
I don't think you should be able to claim a patent where its do x but on this type of computer and have that be a different patent to do x on another type of computer.
I'm with the opinion that software is maths and shouldn't be patentable. Software is built of individual instructions kind of like bricks, If you were to patent putting one brick on top of another brick you pretty much have ip rights over everything constructed of bricks and that is ludicrous you might as well say that this post is plagiarised since all these words can be found in the dictionary.
What really frustrates me is eventually there are going to be some really great pieces of software written and terrific gadgets made and I'm not going to get the chance to play with them because I'll be dead before they get made because of the existence of some stupid software patent.
I'm not that old but I was taught to use a slide rule (maybe one of the last) I remember basic led calculators appearing. The Microchip caused a revolution transforming our lives the pace of change has been amazing my first Hard drive was 42 Meg and held workbench and all the other software I used and got me on the Internet without using Windows (Thanks Hazy Dave ) and now it's nothing my digital camera could fill that drive with less than 30 photographs.
The revolution has been amazing and it should continue to be amazing but the big technology Companies are now blocking innovation left right and centre. If Apple is threatened ( ? most valuable company in the world isn't it) then they should innovate and create something better. It's not like they do not have the resources to do something really special.
Sadly I think the revolution is coming to a close and technology is going to be forced to stagnate and that really is indefensible.