I understand a need for some form of patent system
Care to share what exactly benefits do we get from one? Just like early patents, or ones in the times of Edison, they don't seem to foster innovation but are a tool to fill coffers of companies they're granted to, with plenty of revenue shared with whatever king or ruler happens to grant them.
What "protection" do you have in mind? Because for client programs I see no difference. You might be hit by a bug in the TCP/IP stack or in the stub DNS resolver, but I don't recall any serious ones there. So Windows 2K is only exactly as atrocious as Windows 7 or 8 is (there's that UAC snake oil, but it's really only mitigation of further damage after you already lose). In reality, save for low-level networking, security is all about actual network-facing programs, and if you keep them secure, you should be reasonably safe. (Ok, Windows outside a locked down VM, but I digress...).
Of course, you can't possibly have anything from Adobe secure, but that's what Flashblock is for: you enable Flash only for known-good pages.
What's exactly the problem with Win2K (outside of being Windows) if you're not directly facing a hostile network and are not suicidal to use Microsoft's client software (IE, Outlook, etc)?
Note how it made the news only because there is a visible effect. Let's just think how many other honey plantations and other crops were contaminated in ways that don't colour the produce.
Atkins has been thoroughly debunked since then. It causes rapid weight loss at the beginning but it's not sustainable, and it has many associated health risks: heart disease, muscle issues, then the usual set of "fun" associated with eating disorders. Plus, it encourages ingesting poison like aspartame.
Apache is not, that's merely an out-of-tree module advertising scumbags can install. And they're not going to heed the tag in the first place, so it doesn't matter anyway.
It's not hard to fix that. It's non-free parts that can be problematic, everything else takes a small edit here and there and a rebuild. There's no dearth of skilled packagers around.
Folks at Jolla, please stop the talk about "revealing a next chapter", and release something already. N900 still keeps beating anything Android-based when it comes to the input dev (after some tweaking), but the CPU and memory pressure is crippling.
There are three unmatched advantages: keyboard, stylus and hackability. The keyboard is obvious: an on-screen keyboard might be good enough for typing a SMS or labelling a contact, but not much more -- while N900's keyboard, after beating some sanity into the layout (PgUp, Esc, most symbols...) beats most small laptops. Stylus is something that sits in its holder 95% of the time while you use fingers or a fingernail, but once you wish to point accurately, doing that with a finger is simply impossible. And when it comes to software: in one corner, we have a full-blown UNIX system, while in the other a platform with a cut-down browser and fart apps, that might at most serve to ssh somewhere. Newsflash: in places where you can count on good networking, you already have a desktop computer. I can sit and develop on N900 without any extra machines.
If I can have a micro-laptop, why would I want a dumb phone?
Thus, Jolla guys: pretty please with a cherry on top, bring something up.
Don't worry, he won't be allowed anywhere he can damage the copyright/patent lobby. He filled in for a missing judge in one of intermediate appeal rungs, but 1. he's there no more, and 2. non-final appeals don't matter if both sides care enough.
Uhm, you're nitpicking on one of minor and made-up symptoms. What's meaningful here are the requirements: low-latency and steadiness. Whether tab-completion in bash pauses to show there's nothing to complete to -- but that was really a bout of lag, or whether you ate that rocket in a game due to a sudden lag spike, the result is same: you suffer consequences far worse than having a download last that split of second longer.
I mean upsides for the developer. A less bloated OS is easier to maintain and might be milder on the battery, but doesn't make writing software for it any easier.
I'd say Microsoft shot itself in the foot here, not by enacting the walled garden (which is bad), but by not releasing a compat layer to run WinRT executables on earlier versions of i386/amd64 Windows.
No one is really going to port stuff just for porting sake, and the API is quite different, with no obvious upsides. As for users, there are three groups: * Windows Phone 8: laughed at, and without software it's a chicken-and-egg problem * Windows 8 for business: no sane business is going to migrate for 5 or so years * Windows 8 for home users: they don't upgrade for the (non-existing) coolness factor but by getting Windows with replacement hardware
Thus, the only real way to get actual users for WinRT software in the short term would be making it possible to run it on Windows 7 (and if they really cared, even XP). With no users, there will be no serious developers.
At least the ThinkGeek site lists S up to XXXL for universal and S up to XXL for female versions, so a variety of sizes is available and I guess the failure to mention this is just an omission.
You can get these shirts on ThinkGeek as well, but there's one issue: $51 shipping (cheapest option) to Europe for a single shirt seems to be some joke.
Let's get it right: you want to emulate an emulator that emulates a Linux system? Especially now that Android changes have been merged into upstream kernels, this seems to be Ruby Goldbergesque to say the least. It's pretty trivial to get text-mode Android to run in a chroot, it might be tricky to get graphics right. I did not try that -- if you're satisfied in system-in-a-box, VirtualBox and/or KVM work well enough.
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Have you looked at the direction Gnome kept after 3.0? As TFA speaks about 3.6, Nautilus changes are a prime example. They break four things for one being fixed.
What you said used to be true, up to around 20 years ago. Since then, hard drive densities rose so far, no known technology (and very likely, any possible technology at all) can possibly recover the data.
On the other hand, some drives have remapping of sectors they consider to be failing, if that happens the data is recoverable no matter how many times you try to overwrite it (using stock controller), as the old sector won't get overwritten.
That company you're talking about should never have had rights to the name "Budweiser". They never had anything to do with the town of Budweis, being a local US company who produced counterfeit beer purporting to come from one of real Budweis breweries that was widely imported into the US those days.
There are only two Budweisers, the swill produced by Anheuser-Busch doesn't even deserve the name "beer".
And about "real" American beer being drinkable, that's bullshit. I've been there: if you enter a shop, you see shelves upon shelves of exactly the stuff people make bad jokes about. There might be something in a hidden aisle but one needs to know what to look for, and it's an extremely niche product. In other words: a vast majority of beer made in the US, and also, a vast majority of beer bought in the US is swill rather than those legendary microbrews.
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I understand a need for some form of patent system
Care to share what exactly benefits do we get from one? Just like early patents, or ones in the times of Edison, they don't seem to foster innovation but are a tool to fill coffers of companies they're granted to, with plenty of revenue shared with whatever king or ruler happens to grant them.
No civilised country has a culture of tipping waiters anymore.
Or any maker of recent phones. Seriously, how come there are no keyboards past N900 and that HTC Desire that breaks after a month.
I guess that none of Sprint, Verizon and Slashdot support Unicode.
What "protection" do you have in mind? Because for client programs I see no difference. You might be hit by a bug in the TCP/IP stack or in the stub DNS resolver, but I don't recall any serious ones there. So Windows 2K is only exactly as atrocious as Windows 7 or 8 is (there's that UAC snake oil, but it's really only mitigation of further damage after you already lose). In reality, save for low-level networking, security is all about actual network-facing programs, and if you keep them secure, you should be reasonably safe. (Ok, Windows outside a locked down VM, but I digress...).
Of course, you can't possibly have anything from Adobe secure, but that's what Flashblock is for: you enable Flash only for known-good pages.
What's exactly the problem with Win2K (outside of being Windows) if you're not directly facing a hostile network and are not suicidal to use Microsoft's client software (IE, Outlook, etc)?
Note how it made the news only because there is a visible effect. Let's just think how many other honey plantations and other crops were contaminated in ways that don't colour the produce.
Turns out maybe it wasn't the fat but the carbs
Atkins has been thoroughly debunked since then. It causes rapid weight loss at the beginning but it's not sustainable, and it has many associated health risks: heart disease, muscle issues, then the usual set of "fun" associated with eating disorders. Plus, it encourages ingesting poison like aspartame.
Apache is not, that's merely an out-of-tree module advertising scumbags can install. And they're not going to heed the tag in the first place, so it doesn't matter anyway.
They have absolutely zero credibility.
Fixed it for you.
It's not hard to fix that. It's non-free parts that can be problematic, everything else takes a small edit here and there and a rebuild. There's no dearth of skilled packagers around.
Folks at Jolla, please stop the talk about "revealing a next chapter", and release something already. N900 still keeps beating anything Android-based when it comes to the input dev (after some tweaking), but the CPU and memory pressure is crippling.
There are three unmatched advantages: keyboard, stylus and hackability. The keyboard is obvious: an on-screen keyboard might be good enough for typing a SMS or labelling a contact, but not much more -- while N900's keyboard, after beating some sanity into the layout (PgUp, Esc, most symbols...) beats most small laptops. Stylus is something that sits in its holder 95% of the time while you use fingers or a fingernail, but once you wish to point accurately, doing that with a finger is simply impossible. And when it comes to software: in one corner, we have a full-blown UNIX system, while in the other a platform with a cut-down browser and fart apps, that might at most serve to ssh somewhere. Newsflash: in places where you can count on good networking, you already have a desktop computer. I can sit and develop on N900 without any extra machines.
If I can have a micro-laptop, why would I want a dumb phone?
Thus, Jolla guys: pretty please with a cherry on top, bring something up.
Could you please post the real link next time rather than Google's clickjacking?
Don't worry, he won't be allowed anywhere he can damage the copyright/patent lobby. He filled in for a missing judge in one of intermediate appeal rungs, but 1. he's there no more, and 2. non-final appeals don't matter if both sides care enough.
Uhm, you're nitpicking on one of minor and made-up symptoms. What's meaningful here are the requirements: low-latency and steadiness. Whether tab-completion in bash pauses to show there's nothing to complete to -- but that was really a bout of lag, or whether you ate that rocket in a game due to a sudden lag spike, the result is same: you suffer consequences far worse than having a download last that split of second longer.
How is that different from about any other interactive thing you might be doing over the network?
there is only one solution that really works: more mass
To the contrary, I know a 0-mass material that's 100% sound proof.
I mean upsides for the developer. A less bloated OS is easier to maintain and might be milder on the battery, but doesn't make writing software for it any easier.
I'd say Microsoft shot itself in the foot here, not by enacting the walled garden (which is bad), but by not releasing a compat layer to run WinRT executables on earlier versions of i386/amd64 Windows.
No one is really going to port stuff just for porting sake, and the API is quite different, with no obvious upsides. As for users, there are three groups:
* Windows Phone 8: laughed at, and without software it's a chicken-and-egg problem
* Windows 8 for business: no sane business is going to migrate for 5 or so years
* Windows 8 for home users: they don't upgrade for the (non-existing) coolness factor but by getting Windows with replacement hardware
Thus, the only real way to get actual users for WinRT software in the short term would be making it possible to run it on Windows 7 (and if they really cared, even XP). With no users, there will be no serious developers.
At least the ThinkGeek site lists S up to XXXL for universal and S up to XXL for female versions, so a variety of sizes is available and I guess the failure to mention this is just an omission.
You can get these shirts on ThinkGeek as well, but there's one issue: $51 shipping (cheapest option) to Europe for a single shirt seems to be some joke.
Let's get it right: you want to emulate an emulator that emulates a Linux system? Especially now that Android changes have been merged into upstream kernels, this seems to be Ruby Goldbergesque to say the least. It's pretty trivial to get text-mode Android to run in a chroot, it might be tricky to get graphics right. I did not try that -- if you're satisfied in system-in-a-box, VirtualBox and/or KVM work well enough.
Have you looked at the direction Gnome kept after 3.0? As TFA speaks about 3.6, Nautilus changes are a prime example. They break four things for one being fixed.
What you said used to be true, up to around 20 years ago. Since then, hard drive densities rose so far, no known technology (and very likely, any possible technology at all) can possibly recover the data.
On the other hand, some drives have remapping of sectors they consider to be failing, if that happens the data is recoverable no matter how many times you try to overwrite it (using stock controller), as the old sector won't get overwritten.
That company you're talking about should never have had rights to the name "Budweiser". They never had anything to do with the town of Budweis, being a local US company who produced counterfeit beer purporting to come from one of real Budweis breweries that was widely imported into the US those days.
There are only two Budweisers, the swill produced by Anheuser-Busch doesn't even deserve the name "beer".
And about "real" American beer being drinkable, that's bullshit. I've been there: if you enter a shop, you see shelves upon shelves of exactly the stuff people make bad jokes about. There might be something in a hidden aisle but one needs to know what to look for, and it's an extremely niche product. In other words: a vast majority of beer made in the US, and also, a vast majority of beer bought in the US is swill rather than those legendary microbrews.