Due to massive reduction programs, most of the world keeps CO2 at most slightly increasing, and in some cases lowering. Except for China who's doubling their pollution every ten years.
That's KDE, and what's with Gnome? Gnome3 consists nearly solely of regressions, there's barely any functionality left. The primary mode, "gnome-shell" is beyond words, acting as everyone has fat fingers on a 3'' touchscreen, combining worst ideas of iPhone and Windows Phone ("you can't run a program more than once", etc). The secondary mode, "gnome-fallback" is a bad joke too -- no usable panel, no desktop, no messing with the menu (try right clicking... try dragging...). Individual programs are no better: for example, someone had the brilliant idea of taking away the tray mode from RhythmBox. Oh, and network-manager (AKA "no network more complex than single DHCP") is a hard dependency.
There is a fork attempt called "Mate" but it doesn't look that promising yet. I wonder whether it's a matter of time, or if it's time to migrate to XFCE or something. As Linus and ESR said, XFCE feels like a big step back.
You can do sandboxing a whole lot faster than that 5-6 orders of magnitude slower than native. In fact, with a JIT compiler like Flash claims to have, you're supposed to do that at no speed loss.
More often, they use languages which are not merely slow but outright retarded, though. Yesterday, I played a fun retro game stylized on NES-era stuff. It worked well on my desktop, but on the phone, even after overclocking to 900Mhz, it is unplayably slow. That's Adobe Flash for you.
A waste factor of an order of magnitude could be blamed on preferring ease of development, but being 5-6 freaking orders of magnitude less efficient than the platform it tries to fake is kind of ridiculous.
Debian's new default is GNOME3, which is worse than Unity could ever hope to be. GNOME2 is dropped. XFCE requires you to dig around to do things even as simple as taking a screenshot or setting the compose key.
I agree about the stylus as well. Have you compared N900's touchscreen to those much-vaunted multitouch ones on iPhone/droids? If you want to point precisely, you can use a fingernail, but it's nowhere as precise as the stylus.
But sadly, designers follow some "usability studies" which have as much common with usability as Department of X with X (for most values of X).
New ARMs do have a FPU. Efficiently making use of it, though, requires an ABI change. Ubuntu still uses armel rather than armhf. It's not yet in the official Debian archive yet, too -- but you can already try the candidate in a chroot. Not surprisingly, floating point benchmarks get a massive improvement.
You don't do that by hand anymore, there's -flto for that. But the biggest case I've heard of so far is Firefox which fails to compile with -flto within 32-bit address space. Android here dethrones it by a factor of four...
Don't forget that facts and the general population don't mix. In popular opinion, "nukes = evil", and no amount of explanation will stop them from voting against you.
I do, depending on whether I have my hands on the keyboard or the mouse. Still, Ctrl-Shift-Tab is so uncomfortable I mispress it like half of the time. I guess it might be good to look into eLinks-like keybindings.
Also, I press Ctrl-W far more often than clicking the "close tab" button, but if, like me, you always click links with the middle rather than left button, there's a lot of tab closing being done, so even being the less-used way, "close tab" button is probably the button with most use.
Generally, the less you have to move the mouse, the better. If the tabs are between the text and URL bar, you save 60ish pixels of movement compared to Chrome's arrangement every time you touch a tab, which tends to be a lot. On the other hand, you type into the URL bar at least an order of magnitude less often.
There are other misfeatures that Firefox copied from Chrome, but fortunately all of them can be reverted as an option. Chrome lacks that configurability.
For example: * when I close the only tab, the browser shouldn't crash. I did not ask for the window to close, nor did I select "Quit" from the menu, I merely closed a tab. No other MDI program works that way. * special-cased hiding of "http://". What's the point of that? It doesn't do so to "https://", "ftp://" or "gopher://" URLs...
Because there is no difference between the government and the mafia. Both rob you with taxes, both use force when you fail to pay or obey their rules, both provide some services[1], both aggressively, fiercely try to stamp out any competition. And both seek to expand their influence.
If there is some money and power that can be taken by force, you can count someone will want to take it.
[1]. Depends on mafia in question. Where they're just gangs mostly suppressed by the government, they provide almost nothing. When in a place where the population at large is oppressed -- like Sicily in the 19th century, they provide organization and self-defense. During the Prohibition in the US, they provided a single service people were denied. Elsewhere they're purely or nearly purely negative.
If he can access the computer remotely, can install what he wants. His only problem is that he doesn't know how to access the camera without the GUI, which is not a problem for many of us.
The computer being a Mac means my Linux answer won't be helpful, but I bet there is something of the kind on Mac as well. Like, let's say, installing Prey.
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I assume you know how to use accented characters; this isn't the 1980s.
Yet Slashdot doesn't know. You see, Unicode is pure black magic, switching to it would require rocket surgery.
For example, in the linked article.
Actually, a carbon tax might work, if it applies to imported goods as well. Of course, China would scream bloody murder.
Due to massive reduction programs, most of the world keeps CO2 at most slightly increasing, and in some cases lowering. Except for China who's doubling their pollution every ten years.
That's KDE, and what's with Gnome? Gnome3 consists nearly solely of regressions, there's barely any functionality left. The primary mode, "gnome-shell" is beyond words, acting as everyone has fat fingers on a 3'' touchscreen, combining worst ideas of iPhone and Windows Phone ("you can't run a program more than once", etc). The secondary mode, "gnome-fallback" is a bad joke too -- no usable panel, no desktop, no messing with the menu (try right clicking... try dragging...). Individual programs are no better: for example, someone had the brilliant idea of taking away the tray mode from RhythmBox. Oh, and network-manager (AKA "no network more complex than single DHCP") is a hard dependency.
There is a fork attempt called "Mate" but it doesn't look that promising yet. I wonder whether it's a matter of time, or if it's time to migrate to XFCE or something. As Linus and ESR said, XFCE feels like a big step back.
They have a whole slew of domains, blocking these two hosts is not enough. The other big fat one is fbcdn.net, but that's just a start.
You really want to block whole domains rather than just @ and www.@, too.
You can do sandboxing a whole lot faster than that 5-6 orders of magnitude slower than native. In fact, with a JIT compiler like Flash claims to have, you're supposed to do that at no speed loss.
More often, they use languages which are not merely slow but outright retarded, though. Yesterday, I played a fun retro game stylized on NES-era stuff. It worked well on my desktop, but on the phone, even after overclocking to 900Mhz, it is unplayably slow. That's Adobe Flash for you.
A waste factor of an order of magnitude could be blamed on preferring ease of development, but being 5-6 freaking orders of magnitude less efficient than the platform it tries to fake is kind of ridiculous.
The extremely one-side view on ACTA the video provides sickens me.
What sickens me is that this view is accurate.
Debian's new default is GNOME3, which is worse than Unity could ever hope to be. GNOME2 is dropped. XFCE requires you to dig around to do things even as simple as taking a screenshot or setting the compose key.
I agree about the stylus as well. Have you compared N900's touchscreen to those much-vaunted multitouch ones on iPhone/droids? If you want to point precisely, you can use a fingernail, but it's nowhere as precise as the stylus.
But sadly, designers follow some "usability studies" which have as much common with usability as Department of X with X (for most values of X).
Core-to-core performance? Obviously, Xeon beats ARM lower than dirt. Watt-to-watt performance? Xeon gets thrashed.
New ARMs do have a FPU. Efficiently making use of it, though, requires an ABI change. Ubuntu still uses armel rather than armhf. It's not yet in the official Debian archive yet, too -- but you can already try the candidate in a chroot. Not surprisingly, floating point benchmarks get a massive improvement.
You don't do that by hand anymore, there's -flto for that. But the biggest case I've heard of so far is Firefox which fails to compile with -flto within 32-bit address space. Android here dethrones it by a factor of four...
Modern-day Yezhovs already tremble in fear. With this technology, Syria, China (or soon the US) will be able to disappear people by millions! :p
Sorry, Debian no longer has Gnome2, but 3 which is worse than Unity could ever hope to be.
US military spending: $685bln. Chinese military spending: $91bln. It can safely handle halving and more.
Don't forget that facts and the general population don't mix. In popular opinion, "nukes = evil", and no amount of explanation will stop them from voting against you.
Would be great if it worked. "Note: On Linux and Mac, the following functionalities aren’t supported: [almost everything]".
Bug trackers on two different projects, Wikipedia, Google, etc. Plus, I use HttpsEverywhere.
Heck, the only non-SSL websites I visit regularly are Slashdot, CNN and some comics.
I do, depending on whether I have my hands on the keyboard or the mouse. Still, Ctrl-Shift-Tab is so uncomfortable I mispress it like half of the time. I guess it might be good to look into eLinks-like keybindings.
Also, I press Ctrl-W far more often than clicking the "close tab" button, but if, like me, you always click links with the middle rather than left button, there's a lot of tab closing being done, so even being the less-used way, "close tab" button is probably the button with most use.
Why on earth anyone would buy a 16:9 monitor I'll never understand.
In my recent browsing history, 80% URLs are https.
Generally, the less you have to move the mouse, the better. If the tabs are between the text and URL bar, you save 60ish pixels of movement compared to Chrome's arrangement every time you touch a tab, which tends to be a lot. On the other hand, you type into the URL bar at least an order of magnitude less often.
There are other misfeatures that Firefox copied from Chrome, but fortunately all of them can be reverted as an option. Chrome lacks that configurability.
For example:
* when I close the only tab, the browser shouldn't crash. I did not ask for the window to close, nor did I select "Quit" from the menu, I merely closed a tab. No other MDI program works that way.
* special-cased hiding of "http://". What's the point of that? It doesn't do so to "https://", "ftp://" or "gopher://" URLs...
Because there is no difference between the government and the mafia. Both rob you with taxes, both use force when you fail to pay or obey their rules, both provide some services[1], both aggressively, fiercely try to stamp out any competition. And both seek to expand their influence.
If there is some money and power that can be taken by force, you can count someone will want to take it.
[1]. Depends on mafia in question. Where they're just gangs mostly suppressed by the government, they provide almost nothing. When in a place where the population at large is oppressed -- like Sicily in the 19th century, they provide organization and self-defense. During the Prohibition in the US, they provided a single service people were denied. Elsewhere they're purely or nearly purely negative.
If he can access the computer remotely, can install what he wants. His only problem is that he doesn't know how to access the camera without the GUI, which is not a problem for many of us.
The computer being a Mac means my Linux answer won't be helpful, but I bet there is something of the kind on Mac as well. Like, let's say, installing Prey.