Yes, but apparently unable to procreate. That didn't happen until after. I guess someone already knew that kids where going to spoil all the fun after all.
Meh, the F-4 was Vietnam era.. most of it was fought over 40 yrs ago. Tech is much more solid than it was back then. There haven't been a lot of dogfights since then. Jamming frequency hoppers is nearly impossible/unrealistic (you would need to pump a massive amount of power into the air). Modern fighters rely on more than just gps satalites for navigation, and most of those defense electronics are either made here, or by in England at BAE systems. Old tech by some standards, but purpose built and solid.
The US opted to go to the fight with bigger longer range gun (weapons systems) than the enemy. It seems to be much more determinant than hoping your dog fight training is better than the enemy's. The F5 was designed as a dogfighter, the f-1x's were designed as weapons platforms. Dog fighting from this perspective is the ability to maneuver with speed and agility outside of your enemy's radius of combat. Like shooting fish in a barrel so to speak. Whether or not this works in real life depends largely on you countries ability to out spend and out develop any potential combatant state. It doesn't matter in the end how many fighters you send to the fight, if none of them ever reach it.
The claim that the south fought the civil war over slavery is not made because President Lincoln viewed the war that way. It was because in almost every southern secession speech "preserving the institution of slavery" was given as a main reason for secession.
People only claim that Steve Jobs stole technology because he said so himself
Actually seems like the opposite situation to me. If you are introducing such a far reaching goal you probably want as much time to work on it as possible and an LTS would give you that time.
The thing that really astounds me here is the fact that the feature is application specific. That means that every application will have this feature implemented downstream, at Canonical. That seams like an awfully large piece of beef jerky to bite off right there.
Just a thought, but how long would it take before discounted windows 8 phones and tablets started getting snapped up and re-purposed as android devices once they inevitably don't sell as well as MS wants them to.
I am one of those dual booting geeks that you speak of. I can tell you that I spend a very, very limited amount of time on windows. Usually to play a game or to set up some device with windows only device setup. The reality is that for me, and a lot of people (not everyone) windows is an environment that forces it's users to follow a paradigm that may or may not fit anyone's personal needs. My wife is still not sure about moving to windows 7 because the library file system thing is confusing to her, and she doesn't want to deal with it. Our home server and home security, media centre and desktop systems are all Linux. She uses all of them and has no problem understanding how they work. She has remote access to all that from her laptop or her cell phone. If something doesn't make sense to her, I change it until she likes it. That's Linux.
Now after having said all of that, I want to say. I don't work in software, or IT. I can code in bash, python, javascript, (html, css.. is that really coding?). I have met quite a few teenage kids that can do much of that. People like me are not really that much of an exception any more. People who can install and customise Linux, whether it be Ubuntu or Android are even less of an exception. Apple and MS pander to people who don't want to, or cannot understand the system they use beyond the interface. Those people are getting fewer and fewer.
MS has a reason be afraid. Android is creating a whole new segment of super users, that (even if they don't know it) are learning Linux.
For god's sake people take a soundbite and make of it what they will.. Google only said "we will do no weavil".. not "do no evil" peoples expectations are just waay to high.
Those installers all need root privileges, so sudo is there one way or the other. The thing about android isn't the privileges issue. In order to install something off the web you need to allow it in the settings. No the issue is that people trust android market place. Hell if you can't trust it what is the point of using it. Google needs to do a better job of vetting apps. That coming from me.. a loyal googlite.. all praise be to the mystic goog who knows all and is all...
You are assuming that the tablet market will grow. Just a few short years ago we were talking about the growing netbook market. Personally I couldn't help but think that a tablet would be a better solution to the hole filled by netbooks, I still think that. However the overall market for either netbooks or tablets (after the newness wears off) is still finite. Until tablets get below $100 or something extremely affordable. Its just not that necessary for most people. One day there will be printed circuits that they will use to make magazines with. You'll buy them and then recycle it before the circuits degrade. People will then wonder why anyone would ever have paid $600 for an Ipad.
I was around in the eighties when having a link from one computer to another meant that you had to pay usage fees. By the minute actually. Making large transfers of data were simply cost prohibitive, your average youtube video would have cost you hundreds if not thousands of dollars at those old rates.
When people began to talk about having a world wide internet connection they got absolutely no response from the telcoms on the issue simply because, the idea of changing their service fees from a "by the minute" to a flat rate was unreasonable. They simply refused. Then after it had been shown that data could be sent in different (beyond hearing) frequencies, without affecting their normal voice business, they still balked. Opting instead to offer their lines at the same rate for whatever usage.
In the end it literally took an act of congress to force the telcoms to lease their lines out for internet use. Not by the megabyte or by the minute.. but the whole lines. Believe me there was more than just a little resistance. Since then the telcoms have been fighting to regain the ground they lost when the internet was created, and to be able to charge you ten or a hundred times more for the same service they provide now.
In fact you are right.. there are no established laws on the books that protect the "internet" as we know it.. from being chopped up and charged for by the website. But the it wouldn't be the "internet" , and the telcoms would have no incentive at all to upgrade the available infrastructure when they could simply charge you more and more for the ever expanding pieces that they can chop off.
You remind me of my dad. I remember how he used to get angry at my mother for "spending all of his money".. and she did.. she paid the mortgage, the electrical bill the water bill. He could never seem to reconcile that.
I am just so glad someone finally came out and said it. We are smarter, more knowledgeable, (and probably better looking) than the average consumer. The real problem here is that none of these so called "UI" designers even bothered to to ask us what we thought before creating the new interfaces. We could have saved them time, money, their company's bottom line.. probably even the world. If they had just come here and asked us.
For instance, the logout button.. what a joke!
All you really need is a simple keyboard shortcut perhaps something like;q! simple and to the point none of this searching around for some stupid icon.. now then let's take a look at window placement... again simple, just allow us to use css and javascript as the basis for the windowing system. Problem solved.. I'm sure many of you also have some great ideas so I'm going to let everyone else chime in here so I don't come up with all the great ideas by myself.
My wife had breast cancer. They saw something then had an MRI the next day. She was in surgery less than a week after they first suspected something. It was stage 1. They removed it before it was able to spread, and she didn't have to do radiation or chemotherapy. If we had waited long enough to get second opinions, or research it, that may not have been the case. Steve's cancer may well have been a stage 1 when he started.. and a stage 4 (incurable) when he finally opted for the surgery. Mind you, my wife is big into homoeopathic medicine, but she didn't want to take the chance. The thought of surgery was frightening and maybe that is part of what Steve had to deal with... but you have to make those decisions, and with cancer very often you won't have time to be truly informed or get second, and third opinions. If you want to live that is.
I know it sounds like I'm maybe making this up but I'm not. I remember having a beer at Molly McGuire's in Ballard (Seattle) 2005 and talking to a Motorola phone developer. I held up my Razr and explained to him exactly what was needed. A touch screen so we could have buttons and and see web sites and applications better. I spent some time trying to sell the idea just based on the fact that it's what I (and a lot of people) wanted.
It's no mistake that Jobs came up with what he did. There were a lot of people who understood where phones were going to eventually go. Its just that none of those people made decisions for major companies. Jobs did.
If your curious what happened in the conversation.. the dev told me that they had lot's of research showing that people wanted keys that they could press. That people didn't want them on a screen. I replied back to him that if that made any sense, we would all be driving cars with two leather straps... but then look at phones now..
It comes with Amazon's app market. Most of the apps all of us use on android market are there already. This is a platform to help sell products. Much the same way that the Xbox and the PS3 sell at low margins for the purpose of selling product. If you use Amazon regularly (especially amazon prime, with product shipping discounts) this is actually a great product in itself. If you don't, then it is still a nice (very basic) tablet. I would have hoped that it were thinner though.
This argument would make sense if Samsung was the only phone make that was sued by Apple. They are not. I don't know how similar the galaxy S is to the Iphone I've never personally compared them (HTC, and Motorola phones are nothing like the Iphone) However I have compared the galaxy tab 10.1 to the Ipad, and I can guarantee you that if you use an Ipad already you will have a difficult time for a few minutes trying to figure out how everything on the galaxy tab works. This is Apple trying to lock down the market place.
Civil here and civil there... His entire life is wrecked, which it wouldn't be if he were a rapist. Putting the label civil on it doesn't change this simple fact.
What?
Seriously, a rapist who must spend the rest of his life on a sex offender list, and in some states cannot even find a place to live, cannot get a job, and faces the public humiliation of his crime for the rest of his/her life. That is after spending prison time............... Is better off than a guy who after losing a law suit over illegal file sharing will probably just file bankruptcy and go on with his life... seriously?
According to the itunes market page, LCars was released and copyrighted july, 11, 2011. The android app has been around for at least two years, and as noted in an earlier post CBS does not hold the rights to TNG which is the only bit of copyright that would be applicable in this case. You can't just create something similar to an existing product and then claim copyright infringement. This is just bullying by CBS.
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Yes, but apparently unable to procreate. That didn't happen until after. I guess someone already knew that kids where going to spoil all the fun after all.
Meh, the F-4 was Vietnam era.. most of it was fought over 40 yrs ago. Tech is much more solid than it was back then. There haven't been a lot of dogfights since then. Jamming frequency hoppers is nearly impossible/unrealistic (you would need to pump a massive amount of power into the air). Modern fighters rely on more than just gps satalites for navigation, and most of those defense electronics are either made here, or by in England at BAE systems. Old tech by some standards, but purpose built and solid.
The US opted to go to the fight with bigger longer range gun (weapons systems) than the enemy. It seems to be much more determinant than hoping your dog fight training is better than the enemy's. The F5 was designed as a dogfighter, the f-1x's were designed as weapons platforms. Dog fighting from this perspective is the ability to maneuver with speed and agility outside of your enemy's radius of combat. Like shooting fish in a barrel so to speak. Whether or not this works in real life depends largely on you countries ability to out spend and out develop any potential combatant state. It doesn't matter in the end how many fighters you send to the fight, if none of them ever reach it.
Sadly that might just be the last great use for the public libraries :( makes me want to read a book this weekend.
The claim that the south fought the civil war over slavery is not made because President Lincoln viewed the war that way. It was because in almost every southern secession speech "preserving the institution of slavery" was given as a main reason for secession.
People only claim that Steve Jobs stole technology because he said so himself
Actually seems like the opposite situation to me. If you are introducing such a far reaching goal you probably want as much time to work on it as possible and an LTS would give you that time.
The thing that really astounds me here is the fact that the feature is application specific. That means that every application will have this feature implemented downstream, at Canonical. That seams like an awfully large piece of beef jerky to bite off right there.
Just a thought, but how long would it take before discounted windows 8 phones and tablets started getting snapped up and re-purposed as android devices once they inevitably don't sell as well as MS wants them to.
I am one of those dual booting geeks that you speak of. I can tell you that I spend a very, very limited amount of time on windows. Usually to play a game or to set up some device with windows only device setup. The reality is that for me, and a lot of people (not everyone) windows is an environment that forces it's users to follow a paradigm that may or may not fit anyone's personal needs. My wife is still not sure about moving to windows 7 because the library file system thing is confusing to her, and she doesn't want to deal with it. Our home server and home security, media centre and desktop systems are all Linux. She uses all of them and has no problem understanding how they work. She has remote access to all that from her laptop or her cell phone. If something doesn't make sense to her, I change it until she likes it. That's Linux.
Now after having said all of that, I want to say. I don't work in software, or IT. I can code in bash, python, javascript, (html, css.. is that really coding?). I have met quite a few teenage kids that can do much of that. People like me are not really that much of an exception any more. People who can install and customise Linux, whether it be Ubuntu or Android are even less of an exception. Apple and MS pander to people who don't want to, or cannot understand the system they use beyond the interface. Those people are getting fewer and fewer.
MS has a reason be afraid. Android is creating a whole new segment of super users, that (even if they don't know it) are learning Linux.
For god's sake people take a soundbite and make of it what they will.. Google only said "we will do no weavil".. not "do no evil" peoples expectations are just waay to high.
I try as a rule never to enter clock rats, regardless of whether they are the right ones or the wrong ones..
Those installers all need root privileges, so sudo is there one way or the other. The thing about android isn't the privileges issue. In order to install something off the web you need to allow it in the settings. No the issue is that people trust android market place. Hell if you can't trust it what is the point of using it. Google needs to do a better job of vetting apps. That coming from me.. a loyal googlite.. all praise be to the mystic goog who knows all and is all...
You are assuming that the tablet market will grow. Just a few short years ago we were talking about the growing netbook market. Personally I couldn't help but think that a tablet would be a better solution to the hole filled by netbooks, I still think that. However the overall market for either netbooks or tablets (after the newness wears off) is still finite. Until tablets get below $100 or something extremely affordable. Its just not that necessary for most people. One day there will be printed circuits that they will use to make magazines with. You'll buy them and then recycle it before the circuits degrade. People will then wonder why anyone would ever have paid $600 for an Ipad.
I was around in the eighties when having a link from one computer to another meant that you had to pay usage fees. By the minute actually. Making large transfers of data were simply cost prohibitive, your average youtube video would have cost you hundreds if not thousands of dollars at those old rates.
When people began to talk about having a world wide internet connection they got absolutely no response from the telcoms on the issue simply because, the idea of changing their service fees from a "by the minute" to a flat rate was unreasonable. They simply refused. Then after it had been shown that data could be sent in different (beyond hearing) frequencies, without affecting their normal voice business, they still balked. Opting instead to offer their lines at the same rate for whatever usage.
In the end it literally took an act of congress to force the telcoms to lease their lines out for internet use. Not by the megabyte or by the minute.. but the whole lines. Believe me there was more than just a little resistance. Since then the telcoms have been fighting to regain the ground they lost when the internet was created, and to be able to charge you ten or a hundred times more for the same service they provide now.
In fact you are right.. there are no established laws on the books that protect the "internet" as we know it.. from being chopped up and charged for by the website. But the it wouldn't be the "internet" , and the telcoms would have no incentive at all to upgrade the available infrastructure when they could simply charge you more and more for the ever expanding pieces that they can chop off.
You remind me of my dad. I remember how he used to get angry at my mother for "spending all of his money".. and she did.. she paid the mortgage, the electrical bill the water bill. He could never seem to reconcile that.
But communities are deciding to spend less based on those primitive beliefs that the government is just driving down the street throwing cash out the window.. http://www.npr.org/2011/11/08/142021646/in-indiana-some-buses-stop-shuttling-kids-for-free
Net Neutrality is about stopping companies from being able to regulate Internet traffic. Thus many would contend that in effect NN is de-regulation.
I am just so glad someone finally came out and said it. We are smarter, more knowledgeable, (and probably better looking) than the average consumer. The real problem here is that none of these so called "UI" designers even bothered to to ask us what we thought before creating the new interfaces. We could have saved them time, money, their company's bottom line.. probably even the world. If they had just come here and asked us.
For instance, the logout button.. what a joke! ;q! simple and to the point none of this searching around for some stupid icon.. now then let's take a look at window placement... again simple, just allow us to use css and javascript as the basis for the windowing system. Problem solved.. I'm sure many of you also have some great ideas so I'm going to let everyone else chime in here so I don't come up with all the great ideas by myself.
All you really need is a simple keyboard shortcut perhaps something like
He said talking to your phone makes you look stupid. Not talking into your phone makes you look stupid. Though it would depend on the situation.
.. or an LG prada.. (I still have mine in my computer desk drawer below where I'm typing, though I havn't used it in years.
My wife had breast cancer. They saw something then had an MRI the next day. She was in surgery less than a week after they first suspected something. It was stage 1. They removed it before it was able to spread, and she didn't have to do radiation or chemotherapy. If we had waited long enough to get second opinions, or research it, that may not have been the case. Steve's cancer may well have been a stage 1 when he started.. and a stage 4 (incurable) when he finally opted for the surgery. Mind you, my wife is big into homoeopathic medicine, but she didn't want to take the chance. The thought of surgery was frightening and maybe that is part of what Steve had to deal with... but you have to make those decisions, and with cancer very often you won't have time to be truly informed or get second, and third opinions. If you want to live that is.
I know it sounds like I'm maybe making this up but I'm not. I remember having a beer at Molly McGuire's in Ballard (Seattle) 2005 and talking to a Motorola phone developer. I held up my Razr and explained to him exactly what was needed. A touch screen so we could have buttons and and see web sites and applications better. I spent some time trying to sell the idea just based on the fact that it's what I (and a lot of people) wanted.
It's no mistake that Jobs came up with what he did. There were a lot of people who understood where phones were going to eventually go. Its just that none of those people made decisions for major companies. Jobs did.
If your curious what happened in the conversation.. the dev told me that they had lot's of research showing that people wanted keys that they could press. That people didn't want them on a screen. I replied back to him that if that made any sense, we would all be driving cars with two leather straps... but then look at phones now..
It comes with Amazon's app market. Most of the apps all of us use on android market are there already. This is a platform to help sell products. Much the same way that the Xbox and the PS3 sell at low margins for the purpose of selling product. If you use Amazon regularly (especially amazon prime, with product shipping discounts) this is actually a great product in itself. If you don't, then it is still a nice (very basic) tablet. I would have hoped that it were thinner though.
This argument would make sense if Samsung was the only phone make that was sued by Apple. They are not. I don't know how similar the galaxy S is to the Iphone I've never personally compared them (HTC, and Motorola phones are nothing like the Iphone) However I have compared the galaxy tab 10.1 to the Ipad, and I can guarantee you that if you use an Ipad already you will have a difficult time for a few minutes trying to figure out how everything on the galaxy tab works. This is Apple trying to lock down the market place.
Why? Bytecode isn't what they're being sued for. It's not even clear that a Python runtime wouldn't infringe on the patents in question.
True, but wouldn't it be nice to force some of those idiots out there to write human readable code?
Civil here and civil there... His entire life is wrecked, which it wouldn't be if he were a rapist. Putting the label civil on it doesn't change this simple fact.
What?
Seriously, a rapist who must spend the rest of his life on a sex offender list, and in some states cannot even find a place to live, cannot get a job, and faces the public humiliation of his crime for the rest of his/her life. That is after spending prison time............... Is better off than a guy who after losing a law suit over illegal file sharing will probably just file bankruptcy and go on with his life... seriously?
According to the itunes market page, LCars was released and copyrighted july, 11, 2011. The android app has been around for at least two years, and as noted in an earlier post CBS does not hold the rights to TNG which is the only bit of copyright that would be applicable in this case. You can't just create something similar to an existing product and then claim copyright infringement. This is just bullying by CBS.