They haven't built it yet, but I'm sure they will as they've certainly got enough money. I thought about donating to their Kickstarter fund, but they'd already reached their funding target, so I decided to wait until it hits the market to see if I want one.
I just checked mine and I'm on 14.0.1 on Xubuntu, so it does look like Firefox auto-updates correctly. Maybe it's due to Ubuntu's update system as I do apply updates quite regularly, but then I typically leave Firefox running all the time until I get a "Your browser has been updated and needs to restart" message.
Once you've got the games to run on steam on Linux, then it's almost certain that someone will try to produce a Linux based console. It looks like there's some attempts to get an Android based console going and I think it's inevitable that there'll be a flood of devices copying/improving consoles as the hardware's cheap and getting cheaper.
At some point, TV manufacturers will probably include some simple console hardware into their TVs if they think enough people will pay for it (similar to Internet TVs).
What were Microsoft planning on calling their app-store on Windows 8? I bet some people would have called it the "Metro store" which would have led to some confusion.
We've got that in Britain too: http://www.metro.co.uk/ I think it's an off-shoot of the Daily Mail, so I always avoid reading it and use it to line my guinea pig's cage. Still, it's worth what you pay for it.
Surely it's trivial to take a piece of code and add a variable to it and then use that "modified" piece of code. Also, how can you tell if a proprietary version is the original or modified if you can't see the code?
I can see both sides of the argument, but I intrepret it as BSD prioritising the users' freedom and GPL prioritising the code's freedom. I prefer GPL as to me it means "here's some code, use it how you want but don't be a dick about it". The problem with mixing different licenses can make it more awkward to use and in that scenario is not the license to use.
It's not so much about Linux winning, it's more about open standards and choice winning. I'm a huge Linux fan, but the important thing is that I should be able to run whichever OS works best for me and not be prevented from using documents/websites etc.
It shouldn't make any difference to me if someone else wants to run a different OS as long as we can both conform to open standards. The big issue with Microsoft is their abuse of closed standards to deliberately disadvantage other OSes and poison how people share information (anyone else sick of getting word documents that just contain a picture?).
At least with Apple (and I'm no fan of them), you can be reasonably sure that a website will work properly with their browsers. The important thing is that people can use different devices and not care what's under the hood.
The real issue is why people allow companies to store data in such a way that juvenile morons can get hold of it. Whatever you think of Anonymous, at least they're not as incompetent as this ISP.
You're certainly right about Motorola not pushing the a780 (or it's siblings like the a1200). They seemed reluctant to sell it in Europe and I ended up importing mine to the UK from Spain as no-one seemed to be selling it.
I did also get hold of the previous model (the a600, IIRC) that just had the touch screen, and no GPS. They were trying to position that one as a media phone, but I think they were just confused about what strategy to take with their phone models.
Why were the linux based Razrs failures? I owned a Motorola A780 which was one of their early linux based smart phones and it was a great phone for it's time. It was one of the first phones with a GPS chip built in and had a pressure based touch screen in a clam-shell design which I really liked as it protected the screen in your pocket and had real buttons on the outside.
The main problems I had with it were the chunky size and the battery life wasn't great. It didn't have many apps, but had a full version of linux under the hood. In a lot of ways, I think it was ahead of it's time.
If you don't know what it is and can't be bothered to find out, then it's safe to say the article isn't for you. Go somewhere else and wait for the Fox News version that explains all the hard words in nice easy ones.
That brings to mind the "colour" of bits: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23. The concept of "legality" ultimately cannot be properly applied to bits and so attempts to censor based on legality are doomed to fail although I'm sure they'll manage to piss off a lot of people trying.
From this and the other replies, it (PowerShell) certainly looks quite capable and I'm impressed enough to go and learn something about it (I don't usually admin Windows, but when I do I can maybe start using PowerShell)
You're right about it being a common academic question and I've never had to do that, but I've done similar text manipulation pipelines to convert MYSQL dumps into Oracle sql statements. Real world tasks are usually more difficult to describe, so I just looked for the classic Knuth/McIlroy word count.
I did manage to get a letter from them once asking me to reduce bandwidth during the day. It was relatively polite and non-threatening, so I adjusted my bittorrent settings and have been fine ever since.
As an example, how would you do the following in PowerShell: Read a file of text, determine the n most frequently used words, and print out a sorted list of those words along with their frequencies.
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They haven't built it yet, but I'm sure they will as they've certainly got enough money. I thought about donating to their Kickstarter fund, but they'd already reached their funding target, so I decided to wait until it hits the market to see if I want one.
I just checked mine and I'm on 14.0.1 on Xubuntu, so it does look like Firefox auto-updates correctly. Maybe it's due to Ubuntu's update system as I do apply updates quite regularly, but then I typically leave Firefox running all the time until I get a "Your browser has been updated and needs to restart" message.
Where's my mod points when I need them?
Best post I've seen for a long time!
Billions of flies eat shit every day; just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good.
I'd like to move away from Firefox due to it's slowness, but NoScript and Adblock are the main reasons I stay with it.
There's a bunch of other useful plugins and some are ported to Chrome, but I've not found a NoScript replacement yet.
Once you've got the games to run on steam on Linux, then it's almost certain that someone will try to produce a Linux based console. It looks like there's some attempts to get an Android based console going and I think it's inevitable that there'll be a flood of devices copying/improving consoles as the hardware's cheap and getting cheaper.
At some point, TV manufacturers will probably include some simple console hardware into their TVs if they think enough people will pay for it (similar to Internet TVs).
The flip side of the coin would be that Metro AG would be forced to not ever sell software just because Microsoft chose to use their name.
What were Microsoft planning on calling their app-store on Windows 8? I bet some people would have called it the "Metro store" which would have led to some confusion.
We've got that in Britain too: http://www.metro.co.uk/ I think it's an off-shoot of the Daily Mail, so I always avoid reading it and use it to line my guinea pig's cage. Still, it's worth what you pay for it.
They probably do owe their continued existence to Microsoft since their 1997 deal ($150 million investment).
Probably not. Typically with BSD licensed code, the developers aren't concerned about what other people do with the code.
Surely it's trivial to take a piece of code and add a variable to it and then use that "modified" piece of code. Also, how can you tell if a proprietary version is the original or modified if you can't see the code?
I can see both sides of the argument, but I intrepret it as BSD prioritising the users' freedom and GPL prioritising the code's freedom. I prefer GPL as to me it means "here's some code, use it how you want but don't be a dick about it". The problem with mixing different licenses can make it more awkward to use and in that scenario is not the license to use.
It's not so much about Linux winning, it's more about open standards and choice winning. I'm a huge Linux fan, but the important thing is that I should be able to run whichever OS works best for me and not be prevented from using documents/websites etc.
It shouldn't make any difference to me if someone else wants to run a different OS as long as we can both conform to open standards. The big issue with Microsoft is their abuse of closed standards to deliberately disadvantage other OSes and poison how people share information (anyone else sick of getting word documents that just contain a picture?).
At least with Apple (and I'm no fan of them), you can be reasonably sure that a website will work properly with their browsers. The important thing is that people can use different devices and not care what's under the hood.
The real issue is why people allow companies to store data in such a way that juvenile morons can get hold of it. Whatever you think of Anonymous, at least they're not as incompetent as this ISP.
When I tried using it, my phone stopped working. I only went down about 10m.
Just looked and it wasn't the a600, it was called the e680/e680i.
You're certainly right about Motorola not pushing the a780 (or it's siblings like the a1200). They seemed reluctant to sell it in Europe and I ended up importing mine to the UK from Spain as no-one seemed to be selling it.
I did also get hold of the previous model (the a600, IIRC) that just had the touch screen, and no GPS. They were trying to position that one as a media phone, but I think they were just confused about what strategy to take with their phone models.
Why were the linux based Razrs failures? I owned a Motorola A780 which was one of their early linux based smart phones and it was a great phone for it's time. It was one of the first phones with a GPS chip built in and had a pressure based touch screen in a clam-shell design which I really liked as it protected the screen in your pocket and had real buttons on the outside.
The main problems I had with it were the chunky size and the battery life wasn't great. It didn't have many apps, but had a full version of linux under the hood. In a lot of ways, I think it was ahead of it's time.
If you don't know what it is and can't be bothered to find out, then it's safe to say the article isn't for you. Go somewhere else and wait for the Fox News version that explains all the hard words in nice easy ones.
That brings to mind the "colour" of bits: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23. The concept of "legality" ultimately cannot be properly applied to bits and so attempts to censor based on legality are doomed to fail although I'm sure they'll manage to piss off a lot of people trying.
It's lucky that there's no stealing happening, just copyright infringement.
From this and the other replies, it (PowerShell) certainly looks quite capable and I'm impressed enough to go and learn something about it (I don't usually admin Windows, but when I do I can maybe start using PowerShell)
You're right about it being a common academic question and I've never had to do that, but I've done similar text manipulation pipelines to convert MYSQL dumps into Oracle sql statements. Real world tasks are usually more difficult to describe, so I just looked for the classic Knuth/McIlroy word count.
Does Windows have the equivalent programs installed? Or alternatively, is there a more Windows-centric way to achieve the same result?
I did manage to get a letter from them once asking me to reduce bandwidth during the day. It was relatively polite and non-threatening, so I adjusted my bittorrent settings and have been fine ever since.
As an example, how would you do the following in PowerShell: Read a file of text, determine the n most frequently used words, and print out a sorted list of those words along with their frequencies.
Here's the classic Bash answer:
tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | sed ${1}q