Compare how a linux desktop was 10 years ago and how it is today. Like it or not, Ubuntu has driven most of the chages/controversies.
I like to use it. Has it's issues, but overal, I realy enjoy it.Â
I have much more complains from Gnome, for dumbing down too much, than from the Unity interface.Â
I think most Slashdot users are too conservative to accept some changes and are allways complaining and acepting WORSE alternatives because they look "like it used to be".
This is the problem with Slashdot. No forward thinking anymore.
Skype has a completely difference UI for windows desktop, metro, Mac OS, iOS on iPad, iOS on iPhone, Android (last time I checked) and Linux. All different!!! And probably none is good.
Why would they care about universal apps?
You are a bit of a fanboy yourself. You should have compared Visual Studio with IntelliJ Idea instead of Eclipse. I have the upmost respect for Eclipse, by the way.
I don't know very little about the subject, but I have a question and a speculation.
The question is what would happen in an encounter of 2 objects with symmetrical masses?
The speculation is about negative mass and antimatter... What if, somehow, negative mass was more attracted to antimatter? Could that explain why there is so little antimatter around?
Any system can be hacked if you have physical access to it.
My reasoning was other. You can limit permissions, app by app. Don't want to give location to facebook? you don't have to.
My nexus S was getting slow and I needed another phone.
For some time I was seeing google changing open applications for closed ones.
I already knew that the permissions on android were broken. I never installed LinkedIn because of the calendar permission... No reason for that!
And then I see this Facebook update and an older one asking to authorize the keyboard to access the internet... Why??
I talked with some Friends with iPhones and I got convinced that iOS protects me better.
I bought a second hand iPhone 5.
JBoss started as a Java application server (AS). At some point it got much bigger and now is more like the Apache community. Lots of projects like Hibernate and Infinispan are part of it.
In the AS side of things, there were already 2 kinds of releases. Like Fedora, you have the 6 months(?) releases supported by the community and then, from time to time, you get the stable Red Hat EL to be used by clients with support contracts. WildFly will be much like fedora in this sense. Jboss AS will continue for the ones with support contract.
Until now, if you used JBoss in a serious task, there was almost no difference in the quality between paid and unpaid versions, from now on, I think it will be a different story.
This is obvious. Like in England the "CS" curricula in Portugal (where I am) teach how to use Windows or Word and not the science behind computers. Piking in a analogy used in the manifesto. Teaching specific this commercial software is like teaching how to listen songs of Lady Gaga in a music class.
As a long time reader of slashdot I must say i'll miss your posts because they were well above average.
Only the best for you and I hope slashdot will honour your legacy.
I shutdown my laptops a lot.
Hibernate takes forever to recover (I don't run only firefox...), so I don't use it.
Slep is Ok but for 2 or 3 times I forgot a laptop for several days and the battery got completely dead. Needless to say that its charge capacity is now around +-20%. Li-ion batteries should no be completely discharged.
Now I think twice before using sleep.
(I use Ubuntu)
And what about Albedo?... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo
The point of being white is because of the reflected energy vs. absorbed. Only the absorbed component needs to be emitted.
24bit is irrelevant if you use a lossy format like MP3 or AAC. If you use raw PCM (WAV, AIF...) or lossless FLAC you may feel the difference in a very good sound system.
I have an entry level audiophile system and I can assure that a lot of the records hold a shitty sound the will not benefit with 24bits/192KHz.
Moreover, in my town there are almost no hi-fi sellers because everybody listens music in portable devices with dubious quality.
The way records are being made has changed since the beginning of the dominance of MP3. One of the consequences is that producers focus in strong bass and light high because in a compressed MP3 those are the most hitted freqs...
In a low end system if you reduce the sample rate to 32KHz (from 44KHz) you will not feel the difference and they talk of 24bits... This is pure BS.
In the 80's even with analog systems sound quality was almost the same as today.
It's a phone and this folks can point your position everywhere in the face of the earth but are unable to properly send a bloody sms!?! (Nokia is doing it well for more then a decade). This is "I live in my BMW because I can't pay the rent" stuff.
Parabolic antennas have high gain but a very small beamwidth, hence you need to be pointed precisely in the direction of the transmitter. With an array, the beamwidth is wider.
see beamwidth: http://www.kyes.com/antenna/navy/basics/antennas.htm
If it works well under Firefox it will be good. Office is the one thing I miss on linux... Open Office creates a mess in a workplace were everyone uses MS office.
At least for me... I first read something about him, in my freshman year in college, in the book Caos, by James Gleick http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140092501/jamesgleick.
To this day I remember him with the utmost consideration.
I hope he had a happy life. I'll never forget his work... He was one of the great scientists of our time.
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Compare how a linux desktop was 10 years ago and how it is today. Like it or not, Ubuntu has driven most of the chages/controversies. I like to use it. Has it's issues, but overal, I realy enjoy it. I have much more complains from Gnome, for dumbing down too much, than from the Unity interface. I think most Slashdot users are too conservative to accept some changes and are allways complaining and acepting WORSE alternatives because they look "like it used to be". This is the problem with Slashdot. No forward thinking anymore.
Skype has a completely difference UI for windows desktop, metro, Mac OS, iOS on iPad, iOS on iPhone, Android (last time I checked) and Linux. All different!!! And probably none is good. Why would they care about universal apps?
You are a bit of a fanboy yourself. You should have compared Visual Studio with IntelliJ Idea instead of Eclipse. I have the upmost respect for Eclipse, by the way.
I don't know very little about the subject, but I have a question and a speculation.
The question is what would happen in an encounter of 2 objects with symmetrical masses?
The speculation is about negative mass and antimatter... What if, somehow, negative mass was more attracted to antimatter? Could that explain why there is so little antimatter around?
Any system can be hacked if you have physical access to it. My reasoning was other. You can limit permissions, app by app. Don't want to give location to facebook? you don't have to.
My nexus S was getting slow and I needed another phone. For some time I was seeing google changing open applications for closed ones. I already knew that the permissions on android were broken. I never installed LinkedIn because of the calendar permission... No reason for that! And then I see this Facebook update and an older one asking to authorize the keyboard to access the internet... Why?? I talked with some Friends with iPhones and I got convinced that iOS protects me better. I bought a second hand iPhone 5.
JBoss started as a Java application server (AS). At some point it got much bigger and now is more like the Apache community. Lots of projects like Hibernate and Infinispan are part of it.
In the AS side of things, there were already 2 kinds of releases. Like Fedora, you have the 6 months(?) releases supported by the community and then, from time to time, you get the stable Red Hat EL to be used by clients with support contracts. WildFly will be much like fedora in this sense. Jboss AS will continue for the ones with support contract. Until now, if you used JBoss in a serious task, there was almost no difference in the quality between paid and unpaid versions, from now on, I think it will be a different story.
The change from some Bang & Olufsen speakers to the earbuds was a real winner... Most of his choices revolve arround the adoption of Apple products.
I usualy block users who post a lot of lame images with text. I noticed a reduction in my Facebook usage since this fenomenon started...
This is obvious. Like in England the "CS" curricula in Portugal (where I am) teach how to use Windows or Word and not the science behind computers. Piking in a analogy used in the manifesto. Teaching specific this commercial software is like teaching how to listen songs of Lady Gaga in a music class.
Are some of these available in Europe?
As a long time reader of slashdot I must say i'll miss your posts because they were well above average.
Only the best for you and I hope slashdot will honour your legacy.
I shutdown my laptops a lot.
Hibernate takes forever to recover (I don't run only firefox...), so I don't use it.
Slep is Ok but for 2 or 3 times I forgot a laptop for several days and the battery got completely dead. Needless to say that its charge capacity is now around +-20%. Li-ion batteries should no be completely discharged.
Now I think twice before using sleep.
(I use Ubuntu)
And what about Albedo?... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo The point of being white is because of the reflected energy vs. absorbed. Only the absorbed component needs to be emitted.
The same way as a Linux laptop.
24bit is irrelevant if you use a lossy format like MP3 or AAC. If you use raw PCM (WAV, AIF...) or lossless FLAC you may feel the difference in a very good sound system.
I have an entry level audiophile system and I can assure that a lot of the records hold a shitty sound the will not benefit with 24bits/192KHz.
Moreover, in my town there are almost no hi-fi sellers because everybody listens music in portable devices with dubious quality.
The way records are being made has changed since the beginning of the dominance of MP3. One of the consequences is that producers focus in strong bass and light high because in a compressed MP3 those are the most hitted freqs...
In a low end system if you reduce the sample rate to 32KHz (from 44KHz) you will not feel the difference and they talk of 24bits... This is pure BS.
In the 80's even with analog systems sound quality was almost the same as today.
And the bug has more then a year...
It's a phone and this folks can point your position everywhere in the face of the earth but are unable to properly send a bloody sms!?! (Nokia is doing it well for more then a decade). This is "I live in my BMW because I can't pay the rent" stuff.
Lately, movies seem like an excuse to show special effects with no regard for plot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9ljTW3GEQ
I have high hopes on them. The best of luck!
Parabolic antennas have high gain but a very small beamwidth, hence you need to be pointed precisely in the direction of the transmitter. With an array, the beamwidth is wider.
see beamwidth: http://www.kyes.com/antenna/navy/basics/antennas.htm
If it works well under Firefox it will be good. Office is the one thing I miss on linux... Open Office creates a mess in a workplace were everyone uses MS office.
At least for me... I first read something about him, in my freshman year in college, in the book Caos, by James Gleick http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140092501/jamesgleick. To this day I remember him with the utmost consideration. I hope he had a happy life. I'll never forget his work... He was one of the great scientists of our time.