I'm not sure whether I understand this hack. Does this mean that I have to restrict myself to using the command line when launching programs for this to have any effect? The way I understand it only processes launched from a terminal session are affected by this. E.g. if I launch a program by clicking on a desktop icon it will not become part of a process group.
In the beginning anti-matter and matter fused to create energy which resulted in human life. The process of physicists using energy to separate matter and anti-matter is just the same process occurring in negative time. If we see more and more of this, it will be proof that the universe is coming to an end.
The camera actually was developed by 3DV Systems. They announced a low-cost USB depth camera called the ZCam but then they made an exclusive deal with Microsoft.
This assumes the user WANTS to learn about anything computer related. Anyone believing this is a benefit to the user is at disconnect with general userland. Here is exactly what the majority of computer users want to learn: "The absolute bare minimum required to do the tasks I want to do".
Well, this freedom 1 of the four essential freedoms for software users. Of course freedom 0 and 2 matter more to casual users of software (i.e. running and distributing the software as you wish).
It's like UNIX with proper multi-user management and a mature security architecture.
Ask 100 people off the street if this sentence makes ANY sense whatsoever to them. These people work AROUND spyware infections until they are no longer able to do so. These people are the ones that I saw at a fair who gave their name, street address, and their home phone number in exchange for a free ice cream cone.
Well, claiming that there is a silver bullet for security would be factually incorrect. However given the same user, a GNU/Linux system is much safer than a Windows system. But if people are unwilling to educate themselves, they will have to learn from experience. Just think about identity theft in the context of online banking.
It almost never crashes.
Getting warmer. Most people would agree that this is a desirable attribute, and definitely the strongest on the list.
Proper file system meaning no need to defrag your drive.
While most people would again consider this desirable, too many treat this like backing up - something they should do, they know is a good idea to do, but simply don't.
Well, I think it makes quite a difference. Recent Windows versions by default run defragmentation once a week. I.e. when you switch on a Windows machine it will be very unresponsive for the first 30 minutes.
To them, Windows is free because the cost of an OEM license is baked into the sticker price of their laptop.
Vista users who want to update their software would disagree.
Caveats: -The Sims doesn't work, nor do any Valve/Steam games.
-iTunes won't work. The comparable program (Amarok) will sync music, but doesn't access the iTunes Media Store, doesn't back up your iPhone (or activate it), and doesn't sync apps.
I consider the lack of iTunes presence an advantage!
-Many digital camcorders won't work (No AVCHD editing).
I don't know AVHCD. Most camcorders use DV1394 and you can use dvgrab (or a GUI frontend) to capture the stuff. Then one can use MEncoder which supports multi-pass encoding to compress the video. Admittedly video editing for casual users was a problem last time I checked.
-Printers could possibly work out of the box, could work with a bit of configuration, could work with a lot of configuration, or might not work at all. The same is true for some more obscure wireless chipsets, and some specialty hardware.
IMHO the Linux printing software which uses the Postscript standard gives you much better control when trying to bring something to paper.
Get a group of 100 people, present them your list, and then present them mine. Let me know if you need to start counting on more than one hand how many you can sell with your list.
Of course it's always seems easier to argue for the status-quo.
Opensuse 11.3 KDE is really, REALLY nice. I like it a lot. It worked with most of my hardware out of th
I saw some Linux netbooks in stores (no laptops though) and they were using Linpus which is a Taiwanese Linux distribution. But at least back then it looked rather ugly and didn't have compositing:(
I worked in a building where they had a glas elevator with an emergency power off switch in the cabin. The elevator would halt immediately and as a side effect would forget all requests. I would switch on the power again, choose my destination, and then wave and smile at the people while zipping past in the elevator.
Superman is kinda bored so he just starts flying around looking for something to do. He's flying over Wonder Woman's house and sees her bedroom window is open. He stops for a glimpse and sees her lying on her bed naked. She's lying there and squirming around looking real hot.
Superman gets turned on looking at her so he decides what the hell, I can just fly in real quick, give her the ole' in-out and be out of there before she even knows what hit her. After all he is Superman. So, in he goes, wham-bam and he's out of there.
Wonder Woman knew something happened and says, "What was that?" The invisible man says, "I don't know but, damn, is my ass sore."
How is this not an example of DRM being evil? A system so full of trip switches and self-destruct buttons that not even the producer is able to avoid triggering them. When did it become acceptable that a big company can dictate what retailers and end-users can do with their computers which they have paid for and which are rightfully theirs? A few years down the line these devices will become e-waste because people don't have the freedom to repurpose them for some other task. This way artificial scarcity is maintained and the world stays nice and simple the way our invisible rulers like it.
I couldn't agree more. There was an interesting PBS documentary about the financial crisis. This guys are extreme. They take everything to the edge. They make competitive risk estimates by grouping financial debt obligations with seemingly uncorrelated risk. And then they "realized" that the risk goes down with the amount of trading you can do in a second.
The system rewards players who figure out how to accumulate ownership of resources. There seems to be little reward for long-term developments which require prolonged periods of financial trust.
Well, why am I even writing this? No reward in that either;)
Being FOSS is a strong reason in itself to prefer that software. Especially when the whole company plans to depend on it for internal communication. Relying on proprietary software means giving up control on your business.
Today's modern criminal needs protection, just as a legitimate franchise like... Without such protection, all the crook's best ideas would simply be stolen, the entire business would be replicated as a cheaper alternative, and the original business would be destroyed.
As for the webmail part, that could be actually doable it the decryption is actually done on the client side : - the webmail servers stores and transmits email in encrypted form - the javascript running on the reciever's Firefox does the decryptions - as such no un-encrypted copy exists anywhere on the web - the key remains locally stored and accessed only by the locally running Javascript. Not uploaded.
Interesting idea. But it won't work easily the way browser security currently is implemented (same-origin policy). As far as I know one can get trust certificates for Java archives. But I'm not so sure about Javascript.
The problem is that both sides need to care. The receiver needs to offer encryption and the sender needs to use it (and the other way around for electronic signatures). And I don't think offering GPG with Webmail is acceptable. If you have to let GMail handle your GPG keys it defeats the whole purpose.
I agree that most people don't care. Sometimes it helps to send e-mails with faked From-headers to GMail users to make them aware how much they trust e-mail communication.
I mean it's only CPUs (not food for poor people) but still. Artificial scarcity slows down the development of civilisation. You could also see it as vendor lock-in or bundling. Because you don't have a choice when you decide to buy the upgrade.
IMHO one of the best games in terms of artwork is Broken Sword 1. The scenes are handpainted and the character animations are very detailed. In the meantime ScummVM was developed which is a free software game engine which is able to play the data files of Broken Sword as well. ScummVM is not recommended for developing new games though. Maybe somebody nows a more modern engine with similar capabilities?
I mean, the complaint being aired is that Canonical contributes very little to any open source project. So, it goes to follow that, as a "software developer," your job at Canonical would be to either: 1. Develop Launchpad. 2. Repackage Debian packages.
I'm aware of the complaints being aired, thank you very much.
I don't think many people understand what makes a software distributor effective. Debian has about 30000 free software packages. Canonical has about 300 employees. So you can see the scale of the integration job. When Debian or Canonical members package my software, I don't expect them to come back to me and contribute. Quite the contrary. As a developer it is my job to make it as easy for them as possible. When people from Debian or Canonical need to contact me about my software, it usually means that I have screwed up as a developer.
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I'm not sure whether I understand this hack. Does this mean that I have to restrict myself to using the command line when launching programs for this to have any effect? The way I understand it only processes launched from a terminal session are affected by this. E.g. if I launch a program by clicking on a desktop icon it will not become part of a process group.
In the beginning anti-matter and matter fused to create energy which resulted in human life.
The process of physicists using energy to separate matter and anti-matter is just the same process occurring in negative time.
If we see more and more of this, it will be proof that the universe is coming to an end.
It's easy to look established in this economy.
It is already amazing what can be done with an optical camera.
However using depth images Andrew Johnson did some impressive work on recognising objects in 3D depth maps. And Dan Munoz recently worked on applying this kind of algorithms to Willowgarage's PR2 robot. With your Kinect driver, depth sensors are getting within reach of hobby developers.
The camera actually was developed by 3DV Systems. They announced a low-cost USB depth camera called the ZCam but then they made an exclusive deal with Microsoft.
Freedom to learn about anything
This assumes the user WANTS to learn about anything computer related. Anyone believing this is a benefit to the user is at disconnect with general userland. Here is exactly what the majority of computer users want to learn: "The absolute bare minimum required to do the tasks I want to do".
Well, this freedom 1 of the four essential freedoms for software users. Of course freedom 0 and 2 matter more to casual users of software (i.e. running and distributing the software as you wish).
It's like UNIX with proper multi-user management and a mature security architecture.
Ask 100 people off the street if this sentence makes ANY sense whatsoever to them. These people work AROUND spyware infections until they are no longer able to do so. These people are the ones that I saw at a fair who gave their name, street address, and their home phone number in exchange for a free ice cream cone.
Well, claiming that there is a silver bullet for security would be factually incorrect. However given the same user, a GNU/Linux system is much safer than a Windows system. But if people are unwilling to educate themselves, they will have to learn from experience. Just think about identity theft in the context of online banking.
It almost never crashes.
Getting warmer. Most people would agree that this is a desirable attribute, and definitely the strongest on the list.
Proper file system meaning no need to defrag your drive.
While most people would again consider this desirable, too many treat this like backing up - something they should do, they know is a good idea to do, but simply don't.
Well, I think it makes quite a difference. Recent Windows versions by default run defragmentation once a week. I.e. when you switch on a Windows machine it will be very unresponsive for the first 30 minutes.
To them, Windows is free because the cost of an OEM license is baked into the sticker price of their laptop.
Vista users who want to update their software would disagree.
Caveats:
-The Sims doesn't work, nor do any Valve/Steam games.
That caveat is included on the website.
-iTunes won't work. The comparable program (Amarok) will sync music, but doesn't access the iTunes Media Store, doesn't back up your iPhone (or activate it), and doesn't sync apps.
I consider the lack of iTunes presence an advantage!
-Many digital camcorders won't work (No AVCHD editing).
I don't know AVHCD. Most camcorders use DV1394 and you can use dvgrab (or a GUI frontend) to capture the stuff. Then one can use MEncoder which supports multi-pass encoding to compress the video. Admittedly video editing for casual users was a problem last time I checked.
-Printers could possibly work out of the box, could work with a bit of configuration, could work with a lot of configuration, or might not work at all. The same is true for some more obscure wireless chipsets, and some specialty hardware.
IMHO the Linux printing software which uses the Postscript standard gives you much better control when trying to bring something to paper.
Get a group of 100 people, present them your list, and then present them mine. Let me know if you need to start counting on more than one hand how many you can sell with your list.
Of course it's always seems easier to argue for the status-quo.
Opensuse 11.3 KDE is really, REALLY nice. I like it a lot. It worked with most of my hardware out of th
I saw some Linux netbooks in stores (no laptops though) and they were using Linpus which is a Taiwanese Linux distribution. But at least back then it looked rather ugly and didn't have compositing :(
There's a website listing the benefits of GNU/Linux. IMHO the main things are:
I worked in a building where they had a glas elevator with an emergency power off switch in the cabin. The elevator would halt immediately and as a side effect would forget all requests. I would switch on the power again, choose my destination, and then wave and smile at the people while zipping past in the elevator.
Well, Google did just that and it's called Dalvik. Who cares? Oracle does!
Superman is kinda bored so he just starts flying around looking for something to do. He's flying over Wonder Woman's house and sees her bedroom window is open. He stops for a glimpse and sees her lying on her bed naked. She's lying there and squirming around looking real hot.
Superman gets turned on looking at her so he decides what the hell, I can just fly in real quick, give her the ole' in-out and be out of there before she even knows what hit her. After all he is Superman. So, in he goes, wham-bam and he's out of there.
Wonder Woman knew something happened and says, "What was that?" The invisible man says, "I don't know but, damn, is my ass sore."
How is this not an example of DRM being evil? A system so full of trip switches and self-destruct buttons that not even the producer is able to avoid triggering them. When did it become acceptable that a big company can dictate what retailers and end-users can do with their computers which they have paid for and which are rightfully theirs?
A few years down the line these devices will become e-waste because people don't have the freedom to repurpose them for some other task. This way artificial scarcity is maintained and the world stays nice and simple the way our invisible rulers like it.
LOL. That must be the database for storing those IPs.
I couldn't agree more. There was an interesting PBS documentary about the financial crisis. This guys are extreme. They take everything to the edge. They make competitive risk estimates by grouping financial debt obligations with seemingly uncorrelated risk. And then they "realized" that the risk goes down with the amount of trading you can do in a second.
The system rewards players who figure out how to accumulate ownership of resources. There seems to be little reward for long-term developments which require prolonged periods of financial trust.
Well, why am I even writing this? No reward in that either ;)
Being FOSS is a strong reason in itself to prefer that software. Especially when the whole company plans to depend on it for internal communication. Relying on proprietary software means giving up control on your business.
I second that. One should also be careful that people don't just use it as a farm for word documents. That defeats the whole purpose of a Wiki.
Today's modern criminal needs protection, just as a legitimate franchise like ... Without such protection, all the crook's best ideas would simply be stolen, the entire business would be replicated as a cheaper alternative, and the original business would be destroyed.
Am I hearing Rupert Murdoch's voice here?
As for the webmail part, that could be actually doable it the decryption is actually done on the client side :
- the webmail servers stores and transmits email in encrypted form
- the javascript running on the reciever's Firefox does the decryptions
- as such no un-encrypted copy exists anywhere on the web
- the key remains locally stored and accessed only by the locally running Javascript. Not uploaded.
Interesting idea. But it won't work easily the way browser security currently is implemented (same-origin policy). As far as I know one can get trust certificates for Java archives. But I'm not so sure about Javascript.
The problem is that both sides need to care. The receiver needs to offer encryption and the sender needs to use it (and the other way around for electronic signatures). And I don't think offering GPG with Webmail is acceptable. If you have to let GMail handle your GPG keys it defeats the whole purpose.
I agree that most people don't care. Sometimes it helps to send e-mails with faked From-headers to GMail users to make them aware how much they trust e-mail communication.
There are GPG plugins for most e-mail clients. E.g. there's Enigmail for Thunderbird. People just need to use them.
I mean it's only CPUs (not food for poor people) but still. Artificial scarcity slows down the development of civilisation.
You could also see it as vendor lock-in or bundling. Because you don't have a choice when you decide to buy the upgrade.
IMHO one of the best games in terms of artwork is Broken Sword 1. The scenes are handpainted and the character animations are very detailed. In the meantime ScummVM was developed which is a free software game engine which is able to play the data files of Broken Sword as well. ScummVM is not recommended for developing new games though. Maybe somebody nows a more modern engine with similar capabilities?
I think she married him already but he barely even noticed it.
Canonical hires software developers?
Yes, they do.
I'm aware of the complaints being aired, thank you very much.
I don't think many people understand what makes a software distributor effective. Debian has about 30000 free software packages. Canonical has about 300 employees. So you can see the scale of the integration job. When Debian or Canonical members package my software, I don't expect them to come back to me and contribute. Quite the contrary. As a developer it is my job to make it as easy for them as possible. When people from Debian or Canonical need to contact me about my software, it usually means that I have screwed up as a developer.