Do you really use a laptop to just type" nowadays?
You're more likely to have a copy online (GMail?), to keep it in a safe place, and/or share it with certain people. So, the wifi comes in handy. Having a general purpose tool is better than a restricted one, especially when they come at the same price.
Then again, you might have issues with the keyboard.
I saw this the first time on Yahoo! mail. Their login pge was a normal HTTP page, and submitted the code off to an HTTPS script. I sniffed my own traffic and everything was encrypted. What happens at the lower layers is that an encrypted connection is initiated, THEN your form is submitted over SSL.
Why should ANYONE release a patch for Microsoft (regardless of their application)? You ARE a paying user, and you SHOULD get the "quality" service you deserve. Isn't why the OS costs money?
I applaud those who have taken action & even more released the code as open source; it only shows the good hearts of the open source community, but as others mentioned, you may break something, in this very unstable OS, and you'll be the ones to blame, rather being thanked for saving the users' money, identity & privacy.
Am I missing something here?! What designers are you talking about that are trying to do simple pages for their users????
From what I'm seeing so far, everybody's going for Flash-based websites, with no text to search around a page, and un-indexable pages, because of the embedded crap of Flash! And if it's not Flash, it's ActiveX From Hell. And on top of that mess, they still code for IE6, breaking almost every web-standard, and knocking on the gates of Hell!
All you seem to be focusing on is linking, and that's not how indexing gets done; Meta tags, content, image titles, ALT text.
Who ever wrote that page is clearly an idiot & has no clue how to design a website with a simple look & have ANY Search Engine Bot get it indexed.
I connect my external USB 2.0 HDD (VFAT formatted) and I achieve a max stable speed of 50 MB/s, sometimes up to 60 MB/s. While on Winblows, I don't get speeds as fast, because if I copy the same files to the disk, it takes more time.
As SATA2 disks give a throughput of 70 MB/s, the 4.8Gbps throughput is kind of useless, unless the USB connection was used to connect multiple computers, forming a LAN.
"The music will all be free, and the revenue for artists will come from concerts and merchandising." That's a very optimistic & wrong!
Music "can" be free, but I don't think it will. The artists barely get their share as the recording company swallows the lump sum of the profits. The problem with the music industry is that, as you said, can no longer fight the "distribution" of music; but they're wrong, since they can do so by selling music CDs at cheaper prices (and they can afford that). If the media is sold at a reasonable and cheap prices, people WILL buy it. Where I live, Virgin sells an original CD for $15-$18, and I'm not willing to pay all that! One reason because it's a bit too much and another being that I'm not sure whether the contents of this CD/album are worth buying or not. Blank CDs are very cheap, and since I'm going to buy it, I have the right to make a backup copy of it, so they should save their money and not invest in anti-copy techniques, If a CD is sold at $3-$5, everyone can afford them (teens), and there wouldn't be a reason to NOT. They might download the tracks off the Internet, to listen to the album and see if it's worth it or not, but they will buy the CD.
There was an article earlier "The "Loudness War" and the Future of Music" and it clearly stated the problem with the "music" industry, which it no longer produces music, but a sum of loud sounds & faint voices. A clear example would be Evanescence's latest album "The Open Door" vs. their older albums. The background musicis just too loud and the vocals just don't "pop" like they used to.
Crappy clowns who jiggle around and dance with crummy voices, don;t deserve to be called singers, just because they can dance and they look good! It seems like EVERYONE is a singer, just as long as they have the looks!
Another problem is the lyrics; Seriously, it just boggles me whenever a song like "This is why I'm Hot", or "Chicken Noodle Soup" reaches the top 10 chart!!!! Forget all about the off-beat rhythm, forget about the foul & obscene video clips, forget about the nasty vocals, just tell me what the hell do these word mean?!! NOTHING! Go back 10 years and compare the quality of lyrics, then go back 10 more years and compare again.
What confuses me is that, there are people (teens?) who actually listen to that sort of crap!
YES! I'm willing to put my trust in a company that had the guts to endorse Linux as its OS & has made all its changes available to the public.
New hardware? PLEASE! Neo uses an ARM based processor, which is the same as the iPhones and there are a few Linux kernel mods to work on ARM based processors. If you go to their wiki page, the links state: "kernel - The Linux kernel we use, including documentation for our modifications" Which means, that they're using a kernel that is meant to run on that specific hardware, with a few mods.
My 9500 crashes when I open the cover. The external speaker software crashes while I'm using it. The internal LCD takes 10 seconds to realize that I had opened the cover. The SD memory doesn't get read. I have to remove it & stick it back many times, before it works. The phone reboots if I receive a phone call. The phone shows full reception from a base-station, even though there is NO coverage. I'll stop here, because my blood pressure is rising.
OpenMoko has been working on this for a reasonable time, and they have released the developer & hacker versions to allow for even further debugging of abusive usage, so that when the final platform is out, it's ready for the mass-production users.
I'll gladly pay $300 and hop on their wagon, I'll report every single bug to them, to help the company produce even more stable (assuming unstability) software & OS. This is NOT what I'm willing to do for Nokia, because Nokia has moved away from its users, and got closer to the user's pockets.
The only mobile phones that I ever owned were the Nokia Communicator series (9110i, 9250 & 9500), and I am SICK of Symbian. Yes, the keyboard is very nice, but the crappy OS which crashes on very inconvenient times is just too much. When I pay $900 for a phone, I expect it to work for at least 3 years before crapping on me.
Nokia has moved away from reliability long time ago and got on the fancy-wagon. Their new E90 phone (new communicator) is very sexy, especially with the built-in GPS chip, but I guess I'll make a sacrifice for a phone that is willing to give what I had paid for.
I've been waiting for a very long time for a Linux phone, 3 more months won't make much of a difference.
Doesn't the same apply for Windows Updates? A hijacked DNS can return a false address of a windows pdate server and have the user download vulns. instead of patches.
The virus compiles a list of all multimedia files available in the iPod and whenever connected to a PC, it sends the list along with your serial number to Apple.
This leaves an opening to 2 things, that come to my mind:
1) Targeted marketing 2) Law suites by the RIAA, after they check your name vs. the songs that you actually bought.
First of all, VMware Server was never intended to be used as a dedicated server, even when put over Linux! That's plain dumb! VMware made it available so that customers can demo the product before buying it.
If anyone wanted to run a dedicated virtual server, then they should use VMware ESX Server. To obtain semi-realistic statistics on how virtualization is improving, then such statistics should be taken from test on ESX, an environment set up for actual server use; If possible, test the VM on different versions of ESX.
And how is that a load balancing test?? Using one machine only!?? A load balancing occurs when you have multiple machines and distribute the workload on all of them.
The real question is "Why?" Why make another desktop environment, and yet another struggle for users to decide which GUI to use?
It would be much better if they donate their developer's time to successful GUI projects, like KDE & GNOME. Unless, they have in mind a lot of features that are worth implementing & can't be implemented in current GUIs, they shouldn't venture in that field, in my opinion.
I checked the versus (in Arabic) and verified with your translation; Your translation is correct.
BUT
None of the mentioned verses have anything to do with killing non-believers. Allow me to explain the meaning of the verses:
1) "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his messenger" You can be a non-believer, but a peaceful one. You won't be killed. But for example, if a non-believer mocked God or prophet Mohammad, then those should be FOUGHT. (not killed)
2) "then we destroy them utterly" By "we" God means himself, not by God's followers.
3) This means that God helps his followers & believers during their wars and assign Angels to aid them.
"all of those quotes are in the Old Testament. The New Testament does not contain any commands to kill" So someone changed the Bible to make sound less cruel???
Shame on us, the Linux community, for stealing things like graphical interfaces and claiming it's ours. Shame on us for stealing enhanced search ideas and claiming it's ours.
So, now that they can't catch the pirates from the Internet, they're accusing a whole country of being responsible of cheap cam-rips? PLEASE!
In Kuwait, there's a known street in a known area, full of shops selling pirated movies: ALL DVD rips. And if I wanted a movie, I would never download a cam-rip! It's an insult to my bandwidth!! I'd wait for the DVD to come out and then one week later, a decent DVDrip is released.
Now don't get me wrong, we do have rules & regulations regarding copyrighted material, it's just that nobody cares...
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Your question is redundant, as someone already pointed that out.
Do you really use a laptop to just type" nowadays?
You're more likely to have a copy online (GMail?), to keep it in a safe place, and/or share it with certain people. So, the wifi comes in handy.
Having a general purpose tool is better than a restricted one, especially when they come at the same price.
Then again, you might have issues with the keyboard.
I'm sorry, but you are mistaken, somewhat.
This laptop is for non-IT students, since compiling on the Solid State Disk (SSD) will kill it with-in a few months.
You are mistaken.
I saw this the first time on Yahoo! mail. Their login pge was a normal HTTP page, and submitted the code off to an HTTPS script. I sniffed my own traffic and everything was encrypted.
What happens at the lower layers is that an encrypted connection is initiated, THEN your form is submitted over SSL.
Don't make claims of which you are not sure of.
Why should ANYONE release a patch for Microsoft (regardless of their application)?
You ARE a paying user, and you SHOULD get the "quality" service you deserve. Isn't why the OS costs money?
I applaud those who have taken action & even more released the code as open source; it only shows the good hearts of the open source community, but as others mentioned, you may break something, in this very unstable OS, and you'll be the ones to blame, rather being thanked for saving the users' money, identity & privacy.
Am I missing something here?!
What designers are you talking about that are trying to do simple pages for their users????
From what I'm seeing so far, everybody's going for Flash-based websites, with no text to search around a page, and un-indexable pages, because of the embedded crap of Flash! And if it's not Flash, it's ActiveX From Hell. And on top of that mess, they still code for IE6, breaking almost every web-standard, and knocking on the gates of Hell!
All you seem to be focusing on is linking, and that's not how indexing gets done; Meta tags, content, image titles, ALT text.
Who ever wrote that page is clearly an idiot & has no clue how to design a website with a simple look & have ANY Search Engine Bot get it indexed.
YOU FAIL!
Because everyone must suffer.
BULL!
I connect my external USB 2.0 HDD (VFAT formatted) and I achieve a max stable speed of 50 MB/s, sometimes up to 60 MB/s.
While on Winblows, I don't get speeds as fast, because if I copy the same files to the disk, it takes more time.
As SATA2 disks give a throughput of 70 MB/s, the 4.8Gbps throughput is kind of useless, unless the USB connection was used to connect multiple computers, forming a LAN.
"The music will all be free, and the revenue for artists will come from concerts and merchandising."
That's a very optimistic & wrong!
Music "can" be free, but I don't think it will. The artists barely get their share as the recording company swallows the lump sum of the profits. The problem with the music industry is that, as you said, can no longer fight the "distribution" of music; but they're wrong, since they can do so by selling music CDs at cheaper prices (and they can afford that). If the media is sold at a reasonable and cheap prices, people WILL buy it.
Where I live, Virgin sells an original CD for $15-$18, and I'm not willing to pay all that! One reason because it's a bit too much and another being that I'm not sure whether the contents of this CD/album are worth buying or not.
Blank CDs are very cheap, and since I'm going to buy it, I have the right to make a backup copy of it, so they should save their money and not invest in anti-copy techniques, If a CD is sold at $3-$5, everyone can afford them (teens), and there wouldn't be a reason to NOT. They might download the tracks off the Internet, to listen to the album and see if it's worth it or not, but they will buy the CD.
There was an article earlier "The "Loudness War" and the Future of Music" and it clearly stated the problem with the "music" industry, which it no longer produces music, but a sum of loud sounds & faint voices. A clear example would be Evanescence's latest album "The Open Door" vs. their older albums. The background musicis just too loud and the vocals just don't "pop" like they used to.
Crappy clowns who jiggle around and dance with crummy voices, don;t deserve to be called singers, just because they can dance and they look good! It seems like EVERYONE is a singer, just as long as they have the looks!
Another problem is the lyrics; Seriously, it just boggles me whenever a song like "This is why I'm Hot", or "Chicken Noodle Soup" reaches the top 10 chart!!!! Forget all about the off-beat rhythm, forget about the foul & obscene video clips, forget about the nasty vocals, just tell me what the hell do these word mean?!! NOTHING! Go back 10 years and compare the quality of lyrics, then go back 10 more years and compare again.
What confuses me is that, there are people (teens?) who actually listen to that sort of crap!YES! I'm willing to put my trust in a company that had the guts to endorse Linux as its OS & has made all its changes available to the public.
New hardware? PLEASE! Neo uses an ARM based processor, which is the same as the iPhones and there are a few Linux kernel mods to work on ARM based processors.
If you go to their wiki page, the links state: "kernel - The Linux kernel we use, including documentation for our modifications"
Which means, that they're using a kernel that is meant to run on that specific hardware, with a few mods.
My 9500 crashes when I open the cover. The external speaker software crashes while I'm using it. The internal LCD takes 10 seconds to realize that I had opened the cover. The SD memory doesn't get read. I have to remove it & stick it back many times, before it works. The phone reboots if I receive a phone call. The phone shows full reception from a base-station, even though there is NO coverage. I'll stop here, because my blood pressure is rising.
OpenMoko has been working on this for a reasonable time, and they have released the developer & hacker versions to allow for even further debugging of abusive usage, so that when the final platform is out, it's ready for the mass-production users.
I'll gladly pay $300 and hop on their wagon, I'll report every single bug to them, to help the company produce even more stable (assuming unstability) software & OS. This is NOT what I'm willing to do for Nokia, because Nokia has moved away from its users, and got closer to the user's pockets.
The only mobile phones that I ever owned were the Nokia Communicator series (9110i, 9250 & 9500), and I am SICK of Symbian. Yes, the keyboard is very nice, but the crappy OS which crashes on very inconvenient times is just too much. When I pay $900 for a phone, I expect it to work for at least 3 years before crapping on me.
Nokia has moved away from reliability long time ago and got on the fancy-wagon. Their new E90 phone (new communicator) is very sexy, especially with the built-in GPS chip, but I guess I'll make a sacrifice for a phone that is willing to give what I had paid for.
I've been waiting for a very long time for a Linux phone, 3 more months won't make much of a difference.
Nokia: UP YOURS!
How is this related to FireFox only?
Doesn't the same apply for Windows Updates? A hijacked DNS can return a false address of a windows pdate server and have the user download vulns. instead of patches.
Google Documents, anyone?
Consider this option:
The virus compiles a list of all multimedia files available in the iPod and whenever connected to a PC, it sends the list along with your serial number to Apple.
This leaves an opening to 2 things, that come to my mind:
1) Targeted marketing
2) Law suites by the RIAA, after they check your name vs. the songs that you actually bought.
This is stupid!
First of all, VMware Server was never intended to be used as a dedicated server, even when put over Linux! That's plain dumb! VMware made it available so that customers can demo the product before buying it.
If anyone wanted to run a dedicated virtual server, then they should use VMware ESX Server.
To obtain semi-realistic statistics on how virtualization is improving, then such statistics should be taken from test on ESX, an environment set up for actual server use; If possible, test the VM on different versions of ESX.
And how is that a load balancing test?? Using one machine only!?? A load balancing occurs when you have multiple machines and distribute the workload on all of them.
Silly test.
The real question is "Why?"
Why make another desktop environment, and yet another struggle for users to decide which GUI to use?
It would be much better if they donate their developer's time to successful GUI projects, like KDE & GNOME. Unless, they have in mind a lot of features that are worth implementing & can't be implemented in current GUIs, they shouldn't venture in that field, in my opinion.
I don't throw myself forward/backward to walk o_0;
I checked the versus (in Arabic) and verified with your translation; Your translation is correct.
BUT
None of the mentioned verses have anything to do with killing non-believers. Allow me to explain the meaning of the verses:
1) "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his messenger"
You can be a non-believer, but a peaceful one. You won't be killed.
But for example, if a non-believer mocked God or prophet Mohammad, then those should be FOUGHT. (not killed)
2) "then we destroy them utterly"
By "we" God means himself, not by God's followers.
3) This means that God helps his followers & believers during their wars and assign Angels to aid them.
"all of those quotes are in the Old Testament. The New Testament does not contain any commands to kill"
So someone changed the Bible to make sound less cruel???
Shame on us, the Linux community, for stealing things like graphical interfaces and claiming it's ours.
Shame on us for stealing enhanced search ideas and claiming it's ours.
Oh, wait...
This is even worse than the war on Iraq, which we're still waiting for the US gov to provide the evidence of WMD -- the reason why the war started...
Will evidence be provided (forged?) when there's an attack by a Botnet? Or a "response" will be launched immediately?
So, now that they can't catch the pirates from the Internet, they're accusing a whole country of being responsible of cheap cam-rips? PLEASE!
In Kuwait, there's a known street in a known area, full of shops selling pirated movies: ALL DVD rips. And if I wanted a movie, I would never download a cam-rip! It's an insult to my bandwidth!! I'd wait for the DVD to come out and then one week later, a decent DVDrip is released.
Now don't get me wrong, we do have rules & regulations regarding copyrighted material, it's just that nobody cares...
I'd like to see a documentary showing how these scientists discovered that cod intestines can cure bird flue...
*imagining the following: Scientists beating patients silly, with cod fish, shouting: "HEAL! HEEAAALL!"*
*Raising a finger*
Can we please see pictures of both the patient(s) & the fish? Yes, before AND after... Thank You!
That's absurd!!!
Why don't they buy their own islands from the United Arab Emirates for about $3 million?!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7051051/
It's even better than buying that Sealand, which has a lot of controversy all around it...