I'm not "an environmentalist" but I do have increased interest in the environment these days... maybe because of the increased media coverage (undoubtedly so) or maybe my worry over how my kids will live... whatever.
Since you say you do have an increased interest in the environment, I guess you'd be also interested in knowing that there are so many dead zones in the world...the majority along the US coasts - sadly.
I know Toronto Hydro is not the first entity to use electricity lines and WIFI as a means of acessing the internet.
What I am saying is that poor nations of the world, with old school telephone lines that are non existent or so bad, could use their electricity lines to provide internet access. The number of electricity users in these countries is always greater than landline users.
These folks can count on "friendly" Canada and Toronto Hydro for lessons in setup.
What's different about the 'ubuntu' GNOME file selector? Or are you just meaning that the GNOME file selector on the whole is bad?
I guess I mean both. You sound to be a Linux user, so I will ask you this:
In your opinion, is that default [GNOME] file selector the best there could be? Is the the utmost best the could be created? I guess you'd answer "no" and that's what I am talking about.
While the whole world seems to be very impressed with Ubuntu and its derivatives, I am still to be impressed after having tried it for about three weeks. I will however give credit where it is due. For one, package management seems to be very much improved.
What still bothers me is the fact that in Ubuntu's GNOME file selector interface, I cannot simply paste a URL and have the program open the referenced document. It is also incredibly ugly for me...why? In KDE, this is possible but the fonts and general look are very ugly and are already starting to look ancient.
Multimedia on the web is still a big hassle. Even for sites that offer RealPlayer streams, GNOME's RealPlayer, even if installed cannot grab the stream by default!
The help system is still very wanting. Some have even told me it does not exist. Assumptions are made that everyone can go online and get the neccessary help. But what happens when you are on the road with no internet connection? Windows beat Linux on this.
Before I get modded down for what some will call trolls, I will stop here but I agree that Ubuntu and Linux still have a long long way to impress folks like me.
When it comes to electronics, I have been one of the people holding SONY in very hight esteem. But the behavior of the company with its music, and problems with quality in its devices, have dented my approval. What is going on at SONY? Now there is this battery thing...I think it's time to look at other players in the business. SAMSUNG to me, looks very promising. No wonder SONY's market share has been diminishing since the early 90s.
I did not see anything about LSB in the official announcement! Is LSB dead? Debian should have mentioned something about LSB. Could somebody please breif a slashdotter on what is happenning on the LSB front? I'll appreciate, thanx.
Should we begin digging Kaffe's and GNU ClassPath's graves? I hope not. By the way, we shuld not be suprised if we hear OSS zealots saying that this action should have come earlier. Some will even say it is too little too late.
Well for me, this heat wave has been an eye opener. Like most Americans, I thought all of Africa is hotter than anything to be found in the USA. But I was wrong. Capitals of countries like Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda that I visited last year never have temperatures beyond 80 degrees Fahrenheit though they are on the equator! I was shocked.
One needs a sweater at night. I was informed that it's because of these countries' high altitute. I believe this because even when temperatures are so high in the USA, it's freezing at higher altitudes. One thing also; When [president] Bush visited Africa 2 years ago, re did not remove his jacket even though it was noon in Uganda! This tells me something. I was not "educated!"
In fact, I was told by my guide that he's never needed an A/C. When I told my relatives about what I discovered, they just could not believe it. To them like most Americans, Africa is hotter than anything found in the USA. I know they are not alone.
While the idea is great, I will not bite in this case because my ISP places a limit on how much traffic can be allowed through my network interface with my current plan. Even though I can "upgrade", the costs are just prohibitive. Sorry, I will not bite.
With the [mis]management at NASA and the enormous challenges we as a nation face overseas (read IRAQ and Afghanistan), not forgetting all that needs fixing back home, one wonders whether the moon should even feature as a priority at this moment.
To me, and I admit I am a small individual, I see a waste of resources by this admnistration. It is even worse that if it (the moon idea) has managed to get this far, so many in administration do not see the waste that we are about to encounter.
...Wow, at long last, something innovative, good and useful from Canada. One wonders why this member of the G8 has no "name brand" product associated with it. All othe G8 members have something. Will it be this insulin stuff? Hope so.
...Well, "keep on worrying about stuff that does not matter anymore..." I should say. I can see one of those boxes featured here http://www.google.com/enterprise/ powering online office apps like Writely and the Google Spread sheet from an interna network usually called an intranet. Then at that moment you as Microsoft will see how Google really "eats" your lunch. In the meantime keep on whining.
...Yes, if I were Microsoft, I'd simply have a so called "news leak" to the press suggeting that we, as Microsoft, are considering withdrawing our offending products from the European Union market. This would allow us "test" the waters and make EU officials think twice about their actions.
The `beef' is not whether Vista will use NTFS. The concern is that even if it uses NTFS, there will be an update to this NTFS that will "force" Linux into catch-up position. Guys, this develpoment is not in Microsoft's interest. Remember what happenning to Samba with CIFS/SMB? The underlying protocol remained basically intact but Microsoft kept updating the CIFS/SMB protocol.
Result? We were and are still playing catch up depending on who you speak to.
> This is one less barrier for linux interoperabillity taken away.
> Maybe the fact that winfs was canceled is a good thing.
Not so fast dude! I can almost guarantee that there will be an update to NTFS in the Windows environment that will introduce incompatibilities. We in the Linux environment will be playing catch up once again. Are we 100% sure that Windows Vista will use NTFS? I doubt.
I wonder why any issue surrounding NASA and the space shuttle gets a lot of buzz in the US news media. Why? Similar accomplishments by the Russians do not get as much attention, yet they are equally daunting if not more. Is it an American `thing' or what?
I am an American but have no answer to this. Can a slashdotter enlighten an ignorant fellow?
> "Sorry, we don't talk about our infrastructure." Yet, Google engineers crack the door open wider when addressing computer science audiences, such as rooms full of graduate students whom it is interested in recruiting.'"
So the question to ask is: Who is `we'? I could provide an answer. `We' here, is Google's official answer to such questions from the ever inquisitive press men. Those who speak on behalf of Google have been asked to memorize that answer if they do not wish to talk about a topic. It works well. This approach reminds me of the government's `We can neither confirm nor deny...' mantra.
What follows next could be interpreted as a Google engineer's answer to a question, which answer may simply represent one of many possible implementations and NOT one you could find supporting Googles infrastructure.
Guys, this is all about semantics and context. Good night!
> Termed the "self-healing minefield", the individual mines are capable of detecting an enemy breach and then moving to seal the gap.
I hope our army, the US army which is dubbed the "strongest" and "best equiped in the world", will not buy into this nonsense. Right now, we are being whipped in Iraq by an army supposed to have been defeated years ago.
Our casuality count has not improved at all despite my commander in chief's "major combat" speech 3 years ago! Our military chiefs have resorted to calling this an insurgency. Casualties are high according to http://www.icasualties.org/.
Why don't they concentrate on finding a solution to these IED's? Guys I'm sorry to say, but I think we as a nation are sinking fast. The American people should demand results.
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Since you say you do have an increased interest in the environment, I guess you'd be also interested in knowing that there are so many dead zones in the world...the majority along the US coasts - sadly.
This http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/ content/investigations/es2206/es2206page04.cfm would be an interesting read.
Let's wait for the environmentalists to make noise. I will not take this as a serious development untill I hear from those zealots.
I know Toronto Hydro is not the first entity to use electricity lines and WIFI as a means of acessing the internet.
What I am saying is that poor nations of the world, with old school telephone lines that are non existent or so bad, could use their electricity lines to provide internet access. The number of electricity users in these countries is always greater than landline users.
These folks can count on "friendly" Canada and Toronto Hydro for lessons in setup.
It technically could run or to be more precise, it could run with minor changes. My question though is:
Is it as easy to learn as [Microsoft's] Visual Basic?
Can it be used to create GUIs, add [business] logic to these GUIs as easily as VB?
...Well...
"We are already ahead in this effort...it will not help Google that much...!"
"This is not an end in itself, it's a process..."
"We continue to innovate for our customers..."
"This is not what our customers need..."
Folks, that is Microsoft. MEanwhile, I wish Google all the success.
When I try some popular site using your method, this is what I get:
"error accessing 'file:///home/judy/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com': Invalid URI"
Even with a "supported" PDF reader installed, a PDF document [on the web] will not be opened by default! Now, do you get it? Hope so.
Nope! It has consistently failed me when it comes to PDF documents. All GNOME software meant to handle PDFs can only open them locally!
I guess I mean both. You sound to be a Linux user, so I will ask you this:
In your opinion, is that default [GNOME] file selector the best there could be? Is the the utmost best the could be created? I guess you'd answer "no" and that's what I am talking about.
While the whole world seems to be very impressed with Ubuntu and its derivatives, I am still to be impressed after having tried it for about three weeks. I will however give credit where it is due. For one, package management seems to be very much improved.
What still bothers me is the fact that in Ubuntu's GNOME file selector interface, I cannot simply paste a URL and have the program open the referenced document. It is also incredibly ugly for me...why? In KDE, this is possible but the fonts and general look are very ugly and are already starting to look ancient.
Multimedia on the web is still a big hassle. Even for sites that offer RealPlayer streams, GNOME's RealPlayer, even if installed cannot grab the stream by default!
The help system is still very wanting. Some have even told me it does not exist. Assumptions are made that everyone can go online and get the neccessary help. But what happens when you are on the road with no internet connection? Windows beat Linux on this.
Before I get modded down for what some will call trolls, I will stop here but I agree that Ubuntu and Linux still have a long long way to impress folks like me.
When it comes to electronics, I have been one of the people holding SONY in very hight esteem. But the behavior of the company with its music, and problems with quality in its devices, have dented my approval. What is going on at SONY? Now there is this battery thing...I think it's time to look at other players in the business. SAMSUNG to me, looks very promising. No wonder SONY's market share has been diminishing since the early 90s.
I did not see anything about LSB in the official announcement! Is LSB dead? Debian should have mentioned something about LSB. Could somebody please breif a slashdotter on what is happenning on the LSB front? I'll appreciate, thanx.
Should we begin digging Kaffe's and GNU ClassPath's graves? I hope not. By the way, we shuld not be suprised if we hear OSS zealots saying that this action should have come earlier. Some will even say it is too little too late.
But I could be wrong...though I firmly believe all the above points are correct.
One needs a sweater at night. I was informed that it's because of these countries' high altitute. I believe this because even when temperatures are so high in the USA, it's freezing at higher altitudes. One thing also; When [president] Bush visited Africa 2 years ago, re did not remove his jacket even though it was noon in Uganda! This tells me something. I was not "educated!"
In fact, I was told by my guide that he's never needed an A/C. When I told my relatives about what I discovered, they just could not believe it. To them like most Americans, Africa is hotter than anything found in the USA. I know they are not alone.
While the idea is great, I will not bite in this case because my ISP places a limit on how much traffic can be allowed through my network interface with my current plan. Even though I can "upgrade", the costs are just prohibitive. Sorry, I will not bite.
To me, and I admit I am a small individual, I see a waste of resources by this admnistration. It is even worse that if it (the moon idea) has managed to get this far, so many in administration do not see the waste that we are about to encounter.
...Wow, at long last, something innovative, good and useful from Canada. One wonders why this member of the G8 has no "name brand" product associated with it. All othe G8 members have something. Will it be this insulin stuff? Hope so.
...Well, "keep on worrying about stuff that does not matter anymore..." I should say. I can see one of those boxes featured here http://www.google.com/enterprise/ powering online office apps like Writely and the Google Spread sheet from an interna network usually called an intranet. Then at that moment you as Microsoft will see how Google really "eats" your lunch. In the meantime keep on whining.
How about that?
Result? We were and are still playing catch up depending on who you speak to.
> Maybe the fact that winfs was canceled is a good thing.
Not so fast dude! I can almost guarantee that there will be an update to NTFS in the Windows environment that will introduce incompatibilities. We in the Linux environment will be playing catch up once again. Are we 100% sure that Windows Vista will use NTFS? I doubt.
This is good news though.
I am an American but have no answer to this. Can a slashdotter enlighten an ignorant fellow?
I hope the buzz will be generated when Russia begins to produce rare-earth metals on the moon. Have a look at http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/06/raremetalsm oon.shtml. For now, a slahdotter begs for some answers. Thanx.
So the question to ask is: Who is `we'? I could provide an answer. `We' here, is Google's official answer to such questions from the ever inquisitive press men. Those who speak on behalf of Google have been asked to memorize that answer if they do not wish to talk about a topic. It works well. This approach reminds me of the government's `We can neither confirm nor deny...' mantra.
What follows next could be interpreted as a Google engineer's answer to a question, which answer may simply represent one of many possible implementations and NOT one you could find supporting Googles infrastructure.
Guys, this is all about semantics and context. Good night!
I hope our army, the US army which is dubbed the "strongest" and "best equiped in the world", will not buy into this nonsense. Right now, we are being whipped in Iraq by an army supposed to have been defeated years ago.
Our casuality count has not improved at all despite my commander in chief's "major combat" speech 3 years ago! Our military chiefs have resorted to calling this an insurgency. Casualties are high according to http://www.icasualties.org/.
Why don't they concentrate on finding a solution to these IED's? Guys I'm sorry to say, but I think we as a nation are sinking fast. The American people should demand results.