Remember, *parts* of each of these things are open source, not all, due to apache license. If they were really trying to make it 100% open source they'd be looking at GPL. Meanwhile, they're doing a thousandfold better than other giant companies in their situation.
I think more accurately the point they are making is that advances in technology are showing that there is no reason for the ridiculously low usage caps we are facing.
I don't exactly love a 250GB cap with comcast, but trust me that 50MB down/9MB up for $80 (including basic cable which is pretty bullshit because it's 90$ without) - is alright. That's what I'm getting in Evanston.
Forive me here, I have more knowledge than someone who has a MCSE (and am an avid ubuntu guy), but what truly defines someone as a software engineer? I took a class on electronics engineering which involved tons of software manipulation and loved it, but what skills/knowledge of what topics pretty much define software engineer?
This is asinine. The reason a gamer won't be moving to Linux is because wine is a pitiful implementation (as good as it is right now) and doesn't support most games that are forced upon by microsoft and nvidia in collusion to be DX11, etc.
Lets leave that shit out of it, eh?
The point is, buying a couple *PC* games is cheaper than buying into MMO's.
Agreed. IT is not a glory field, it's the bastard child of customer service (in the eyes of those who don't understand it). Basically because everyone needs it, nobody understands it, and it's usually undervalued.
They're going to lock down software. I'd rather use windows GIMP than photoshop for example, and winamp over itunes. Maybe open office instead of MS office, microsoft one note over some other garbage. See where this goes? Lots of good applications that just aren't "approved".
As always, you can't legislate away or protect people from being stupid. You can however, do a good job of educating people in what to be careful of. They just don't want to do that.
the wording is "Best Buy's sales staff are not paid on commission directly". That doesn't meant there aren't other ways for it to show on their paycheck, just that management gets it instead of the sales staff. Meanwhile, reps do bribe the sales staff (I did not but I knew many who did), so even the original statement is a lie.
there was a point when I was doing rep work in a best buy that they actually asked me to help out with the computers because their staff was so much more hopelessly clueless.
maybe you might want to shop monoprice ? (direct link to HDMI). $6 for a 3 foot HDMI cable sounds decent to me. They want like $20-30 for a 25 foot cable, which is also decent.
Their CAT6 prices are super cheap too. $9 for like 50 foot of cable.
for your comment, can I please get an explanation as to why we lose from both the light efficiency and then solar (heat I assume)? also what are you suggesting wire efficiency is, as IIRC from the basic stuff I've read here and there wire efficiency goes down over distance. just curious.
I swear I replied to this but missed it. My brain skippeed a beat and I meant to say my ubuntu laptop takes the same to go from loading (post-bios) -> logging in.
yeah, nuking the bios from a cd is ridiculously easy. It's actually a feature that people can do so. Hirens boot CD comes with very simple methods for that.
I bet someone will just make an app that unlocks the laptop and wipes the firmware for them so that the laptops can have actual use.
lots of people are ridiculously stupid and easily incited to violence without cause, so how can we just let those people go nuts? It's also not fair to make those who are smarter than that (but maybe willing to protest) be the only people allowed to do so.
there are tons of modder communities within the G1. To do this is not only a: a bad call, and b: bad for publicity neglects the fact that cyanogen can easily leak the info to others (and people can easily continue with cyanogen's work thanks to the apache license).
Not really, the magic is in the wording. "Start loading the OS within 1 second" means it's just bypassing a whole lot of the network checks. The average BIOS starts loading the OS within about 1.5 seconds, so this isn't exactly a huge difference.
This isn't even a windows thing or a linux thing, as it's strictly about how fast the bios passes to loading the OS from the hard drive.
You only have one set of eyes, they can only focus on so much. With a high resolution display, we already have things like CPU/RAM monitors/etc already in a single display, maybe on a toolbar or on a status bar. So what is the difference if we put it somewhere else *away* from what you are looking at, other than inconvenience? I don't mean this as a personal attack to you, I am inquiring to you directly.
Just like how MS lets you minimize the task manager, or the windows/linux/any os system tray?
Of course it would. But people have been asking for that since *IE 6* and/or earlier, I kid you not. If they allowed extensions people could do things such as : patch vulnerabilities themselves, allow things such as noscript, enable standards compliance. We're not talking about in modified versions of IE, it should be in the standard IE8 for the average non-techie user.
you know, all the stuff that we've been asking for to be provided in Internet Explorer for years. I don't suspect that to ever happen, since they intend to stick with ActiveX.
you're one of the rarest groups of all the fish in the pond, so to speak, per-se.
Most of us like companies that patch vulnerabilities much faster/make browsers that are standards compliant, both from a legal perspective (meaning our employers are happier -not for me personally), and also from a safety/update perspective.
not that I want to encourage rebelliousness, violent, or crazy rightwing concepts, but do you think civil wars involve the police or military? I'll give you a hint: smart police stay way the hell out of it as best they can (as they like to live/have families too). Even in Iraq you should note that as examples.
if people are quite determined to riot/aggress there's no force that can stop that without causing a mass killing the likes of which would not be authorized by any force in the US, for sure.
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Remember, *parts* of each of these things are open source, not all, due to apache license. If they were really trying to make it 100% open source they'd be looking at GPL. Meanwhile, they're doing a thousandfold better than other giant companies in their situation.
I think more accurately the point they are making is that advances in technology are showing that there is no reason for the ridiculously low usage caps we are facing.
I don't exactly love a 250GB cap with comcast, but trust me that 50MB down/9MB up for $80 (including basic cable which is pretty bullshit because it's 90$ without) - is alright. That's what I'm getting in Evanston.
Forive me here, I have more knowledge than someone who has a MCSE (and am an avid ubuntu guy), but what truly defines someone as a software engineer? I took a class on electronics engineering which involved tons of software manipulation and loved it, but what skills/knowledge of what topics pretty much define software engineer?
This is asinine. The reason a gamer won't be moving to Linux is because wine is a pitiful implementation (as good as it is right now) and doesn't support most games that are forced upon by microsoft and nvidia in collusion to be DX11, etc.
Lets leave that shit out of it, eh?
The point is, buying a couple *PC* games is cheaper than buying into MMO's.
Agreed. IT is not a glory field, it's the bastard child of customer service (in the eyes of those who don't understand it). Basically because everyone needs it, nobody understands it, and it's usually undervalued.
They're going to lock down software. I'd rather use windows GIMP than photoshop for example, and winamp over itunes. Maybe open office instead of MS office, microsoft one note over some other garbage. See where this goes? Lots of good applications that just aren't "approved".
As always, you can't legislate away or protect people from being stupid. You can however, do a good job of educating people in what to be careful of. They just don't want to do that.
the wording is "Best Buy's sales staff are not paid on commission directly". That doesn't meant there aren't other ways for it to show on their paycheck, just that management gets it instead of the sales staff. Meanwhile, reps do bribe the sales staff (I did not but I knew many who did), so even the original statement is a lie.
there was a point when I was doing rep work in a best buy that they actually asked me to help out with the computers because their staff was so much more hopelessly clueless.
maybe you might want to shop monoprice ? (direct link to HDMI). $6 for a 3 foot HDMI cable sounds decent to me. They want like $20-30 for a 25 foot cable, which is also decent.
Their CAT6 prices are super cheap too. $9 for like 50 foot of cable.
for your comment, can I please get an explanation as to why we lose from both the light efficiency and then solar (heat I assume)? also what are you suggesting wire efficiency is, as IIRC from the basic stuff I've read here and there wire efficiency goes down over distance. just curious.
I swear I replied to this but missed it. My brain skippeed a beat and I meant to say my ubuntu laptop takes the same to go from loading (post-bios) -> logging in.
yeah, nuking the bios from a cd is ridiculously easy. It's actually a feature that people can do so. Hirens boot CD comes with very simple methods for that.
I bet someone will just make an app that unlocks the laptop and wipes the firmware for them so that the laptops can have actual use.
lots of people are ridiculously stupid and easily incited to violence without cause, so how can we just let those people go nuts? It's also not fair to make those who are smarter than that (but maybe willing to protest) be the only people allowed to do so.
So where's the balance?
My ubuntu 9.04 laptop (asus c90) takes about the same, actually. It's damned faster than it used to be.
there are tons of modder communities within the G1. To do this is not only a: a bad call, and b: bad for publicity neglects the fact that cyanogen can easily leak the info to others (and people can easily continue with cyanogen's work thanks to the apache license).
toolbars/searchbars are not extensions. they're malware laden spyware machines that are not as easily removed at all.
Not really, the magic is in the wording. "Start loading the OS within 1 second" means it's just bypassing a whole lot of the network checks. The average BIOS starts loading the OS within about 1.5 seconds, so this isn't exactly a huge difference.
This isn't even a windows thing or a linux thing, as it's strictly about how fast the bios passes to loading the OS from the hard drive.
its been a while but I know there's an application/plugin/something that can replicate the start button separately, widget I believe.
what about minimizing things that you don't need to see?
that's an interesting perspective. It will create quite a stir if MS finds a way to degrade the google frame performance or outright refuse it.
You only have one set of eyes, they can only focus on so much. With a high resolution display, we already have things like CPU/RAM monitors/etc already in a single display, maybe on a toolbar or on a status bar. So what is the difference if we put it somewhere else *away* from what you are looking at, other than inconvenience? I don't mean this as a personal attack to you, I am inquiring to you directly.
Just like how MS lets you minimize the task manager, or the windows/linux/any os system tray?
Of course it would. But people have been asking for that since *IE 6* and/or earlier, I kid you not. If they allowed extensions people could do things such as : patch vulnerabilities themselves, allow things such as noscript, enable standards compliance. We're not talking about in modified versions of IE, it should be in the standard IE8 for the average non-techie user.
you know, all the stuff that we've been asking for to be provided in Internet Explorer for years. I don't suspect that to ever happen, since they intend to stick with ActiveX.
somehow the idea that our brains can handle 4 independent moving objects at the same idea is what tehy are going for.
you're one of the rarest groups of all the fish in the pond, so to speak, per-se.
Most of us like companies that patch vulnerabilities much faster/make browsers that are standards compliant, both from a legal perspective (meaning our employers are happier -not for me personally), and also from a safety/update perspective.
not that I want to encourage rebelliousness, violent, or crazy rightwing concepts, but do you think civil wars involve the police or military? I'll give you a hint: smart police stay way the hell out of it as best they can (as they like to live/have families too). Even in Iraq you should note that as examples.
if people are quite determined to riot/aggress there's no force that can stop that without causing a mass killing the likes of which would not be authorized by any force in the US, for sure.