I'd really like to know how many non-U.S. residents here on Slashdot actually even heard about the new Kanye West album, and actually considered listening to it. And the proportion of those who actually considered buying it. And then the proportion of those who DID.
Or is Apple following the path of Nikon which refused to acknowledge the oil-on-the-censor issue on some non-insignificant portion of their D600 camera, then less than a year later released the D610 which miraculously doesn't have the issue but which is the exact same camera?
At first, I read "Nixon". And I was really wondering what the hell he had to do with cameras.
And what you're telling basically is "there might be armed criminals somewhere who might want to kill me someday, so I should be allowed to carry a gun to kill them before they do, event if killing is prohibited by law."
A gun is made for killing. There are other more effective and non-lethal tools for restraining an attacker. What you're actually defending is your right to kill someone, so please be explicit about it.
Another problem with this Mir idea is that it takes away the ability of Linux users to continue to use their fine tuned, customized X desktops which so many have invested time in tailoring to their liking, and with their own choice of window manager.
Mir is taking away the ability of Linux users who choose to stay on Ubuntu to continue to use their fine tuned, customized X desktops which so many have invested time in tailoring to their liking, and with their own choice of window manager.
This is a binary release, with most components statically-linked. Well, there are some system-level dependencies involving video drivers, and OpenGL support in X, but nothing specific to Debian. I suppose that with some tweaking you could use it on any x86-based linux distro. As I told below : it works well on Gentoo, and others have already reported it working on Arch, Mint (maybe Debian itself ?)
The client I did install from the overlay works quite well, and Team Fortress too, despite very slow disk access (don't know if anybody experienced this on other distros...). Too bad I only can play one game from my 40+ library.
No, seriously : just try it. You'll understand why many Mint users (who have tried Ubuntu before) like to point out they moved. The "classic" Mint is as accessible as Ubuntu without all the fancy crap (and better colors). It has a very slick UI, excellent configuration tools. The Debian edition of Mint (LMDE) is also rock solid and very easy to use for a newcomer (I mean, for a Debian distro).
Anything about Mint shows how serious and skillful they are at respecting their users.
IMHO, the reason you hear so much about Ubuntu is the great amount of Windows users who switched because some guy told them it was so cool and simple to install, and while that's true in many ways, they still don't know anything about linux and end up having a lot of problems using it. Or they just can't stand the colors and are getting nervous.
Note that I'm not a Mint user : I'm running Gentoo on my office laptop, and Debian on servers, so I'm not doing PR here.
"It shouldn't be hard to get some shared calendar services running on an extra box somewhere..."
This is hilarious and naive.
Believe me, setting up any kind of shared calendar in an large enterprise environment (read: hospital) today IS hard. You can't just put extra boxes "somewhere" as you need them. That's not how you build an IT infrastructure. You have to think globally. Think about maintenance, system administration, network access, monitoring, security, data backup, software upgrades, etc. And you can bet most "heads-of-something" will want to access those calendars with any device or software they prefer : "Hey I can't sync my cal with Outlook / Evolution / my iPhone / my Windows 7 phone / my Android one / etc. and I don't care why. Just get it working."
Basically, if there's anything you can do at home when toying with your computer, network or iPad, you probably can't and SHOULDN'T do it in a corporate network. And there are *many* very good reasons to that.
I for one have been having the same problem with a 2009 MBP, the one with a Core 2 and dual Nvidia cards (9400 ang 9600GT). Using any CPU/GPU intensive app while not in "Power saving" for more than 2 hours would lead to the whole left side of the case overheating seriously, and the screen eventually freezing. Remote login via SSH still works, btw, so I guess some GPU is to blame.
Not sure if this really is a "2011" issue.
I use it everyday, and most of my co-workers do. And of course it's mostly useful at work, where you don't use Facebook to communicate. Hopefully.
This sometimes leads to funny situations where the BCC'd recipient answers some mail he wasn't "supposed" to read, by the way.
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Just found out that Outlast is available on linux.
Outlast is a nice experience and quite cheap btw. You should try it while waiting for HL3 !
Strictly U.S. shit going on here.
I'd really like to know how many non-U.S. residents here on Slashdot actually even heard about the new Kanye West album, and actually considered listening to it. And the proportion of those who actually considered buying it. And then the proportion of those who DID.
Should shrink the numbers down to *very few*.
I was hooked to this real-time monitoring when the LHC was operating two years ago : http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch...
Posting this in case anyone is interested.
Or is Apple following the path of Nikon which refused to acknowledge the oil-on-the-censor issue on some non-insignificant portion of their D600 camera, then less than a year later released the D610 which miraculously doesn't have the issue but which is the exact same camera?
At first, I read "Nixon". And I was really wondering what the hell he had to do with cameras.
anything happening inside the event horizon of a black hole doesn't really matter...
Are you saying matter doesn't matter ?
And what you're telling basically is "there might be armed criminals somewhere who might want to kill me someday, so I should be allowed to carry a gun to kill them before they do, event if killing is prohibited by law."
A gun is made for killing. There are other more effective and non-lethal tools for restraining an attacker. What you're actually defending is your right to kill someone, so please be explicit about it.
Another problem with this Mir idea is that it takes away the ability of Linux users to continue to use their fine tuned, customized X desktops which so many have invested time in tailoring to their liking, and with their own choice of window manager.
Mir is taking away the ability of Linux users who choose to stay on Ubuntu to continue to use their fine tuned, customized X desktops which so many have invested time in tailoring to their liking, and with their own choice of window manager.
You mean Java ?
This is a binary release, with most components statically-linked. Well, there are some system-level dependencies involving video drivers, and OpenGL support in X, but nothing specific to Debian. I suppose that with some tweaking you could use it on any x86-based linux distro. As I told below : it works well on Gentoo, and others have already reported it working on Arch, Mint (maybe Debian itself ?)
Can't see why Suse and Fedora couldn't run this.
I was about to whine about this release being "Steam for Ubuntu" and not "Steam for Linux", but Google told me about this helpful wiki :
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam
The client I did install from the overlay works quite well, and Team Fortress too, despite very slow disk access (don't know if anybody experienced this on other distros...). Too bad I only can play one game from my 40+ library.
Mint has better colors.
No, seriously : just try it. You'll understand why many Mint users (who have tried Ubuntu before) like to point out they moved. The "classic" Mint is as accessible as Ubuntu without all the fancy crap (and better colors). It has a very slick UI, excellent configuration tools. The Debian edition of Mint (LMDE) is also rock solid and very easy to use for a newcomer (I mean, for a Debian distro).
Anything about Mint shows how serious and skillful they are at respecting their users.
IMHO, the reason you hear so much about Ubuntu is the great amount of Windows users who switched because some guy told them it was so cool and simple to install, and while that's true in many ways, they still don't know anything about linux and end up having a lot of problems using it. Or they just can't stand the colors and are getting nervous.
Note that I'm not a Mint user : I'm running Gentoo on my office laptop, and Debian on servers, so I'm not doing PR here.
You all should bow to Canonical and thank them for Ubuntu : the fact that it exists gives you the ultimate satisfaction of not using it.
Posted parent reply as AC, didn't notice I wasn't logged on. Must say I agree with myself.
They definitely view themselves as more of an ISP than anything academically-relevant, which is good.
It seems to me that in France, universities are in fact actually treated as ISPs and subject to the same legal requirements (logs retention, etc.).
Good old times, if you ask me.
In the archive, there is a post from 1981 in net.general mentionning a new hard drive with a capacity of 560MB, by DEC and selling for $38K-$48K.
Seems huge for thirty years ago.
Excellent idea you had, and a beautiful UI by the standards of 1981 ;)
Thank you for your work.
The Gnome 3 shell is not very different from Unity in this approach. Stupidest UI design ever.
Do they expect eveyone to replace their desktop PC with fancy tablets or touch-based phones, or what ?
"It shouldn't be hard to get some shared calendar services running on an extra box somewhere..."
This is hilarious and naive.
Believe me, setting up any kind of shared calendar in an large enterprise environment (read: hospital) today IS hard. You can't just put extra boxes "somewhere" as you need them. That's not how you build an IT infrastructure. You have to think globally. Think about maintenance, system administration, network access, monitoring, security, data backup, software upgrades, etc. And you can bet most "heads-of-something" will want to access those calendars with any device or software they prefer : "Hey I can't sync my cal with Outlook / Evolution / my iPhone / my Windows 7 phone / my Android one / etc. and I don't care why. Just get it working."
Basically, if there's anything you can do at home when toying with your computer, network or iPad, you probably can't and SHOULDN'T do it in a corporate network. And there are *many* very good reasons to that.
"No one would deny that 3D is more immersive, that's why people like it, particularly for gaming." So much assumptions in one sentence.
Hell, we need more words.
I for one have been having the same problem with a 2009 MBP, the one with a Core 2 and dual Nvidia cards (9400 ang 9600GT). Using any CPU/GPU intensive app while not in "Power saving" for more than 2 hours would lead to the whole left side of the case overheating seriously, and the screen eventually freezing. Remote login via SSH still works, btw, so I guess some GPU is to blame. Not sure if this really is a "2011" issue.
I use it everyday, and most of my co-workers do. And of course it's mostly useful at work, where you don't use Facebook to communicate. Hopefully. This sometimes leads to funny situations where the BCC'd recipient answers some mail he wasn't "supposed" to read, by the way.
Well you have to admit that scrolling any page with 1000+ ajaxized comments is a benchmark per se.
If they happen to own a gun, maybe.