I have a couple friends who mentioned that they have issues with the 1 TB cap. Both said they tend to stream video all the time when home, sometimes just as a sort of background noise. I'm wondering if this is common behavior among others who have issue with the 1 TB caps?
I've been wanting to have synchornized bookmarks for a while, but didn't have an FTP account, so this is a nice fix to that problem.
I did have two things I wanted to bring up. First I noticed that there are no custom icons. I guess if custom icons have to be stored to the computer then maybe there's not much you can do about this, but they're nice if you can. The second is that's there's no way for me to control the order in which my bookmarks are displayed. Everything seemed to be in alphabetical order except for one folder and there was no way to arrange or sort it.
Other than those two things I'd have to say this is a really cool extension.
I like your analogy between Operating Systems and cars. This past week I've been putting SuSE on my system as a multiboot with XP and 98SE. I'm fairly new to Linux and I really love SuSE. But going back to the car idea, Windows is my daily driver. It's simple and I know I can get to where I need to go with it. SuSE on the other hand is my project car. I can tinker around with it and have fun just trying to get it working. And once it's working you want to show it off because it's so cool. But even if it's not working perfectly (which it often doesn't), that's okay because I can always fall back on Windows. Now if Windows isn't working then I have a problem.
Now granted if I had more experience I could probably have my Linux side running perfectly in little time, but right now I probably know more about Linux than the average user would know if everyone switched from Windows and I'm still running into roadblocks.
So what I'm trying to say in all my rambling is, I agree. Linux is not simple enough yet for the average user who just wants to be able use their computer without having to go through forums and documentation to figure out how to set it up.
Most employers definitely would not go for this in the work place. And as the article indicates he's not already enrolled in college (I'm a student at UNO and he's not in the directory and Creighton doesn't show him as a student either. I won't even bother checking the CC's.) So even if he does put your logo on his forehead, then what? He sits at home playing Xbox where no one can laugh at him?
A full-body haptic cockpit would be something like a sphere 8' in diameter, implying a mecha 30 foot tall! This video shows a design that would reduce that 30 feet to about 10.
But that's not really the car reporting itself is it? Doesn't that still involve some sort of external radar device measuring your speed and then turning you in, sort of like a camera catching the license plate numbers of people who run red lights? That sort of enforcement is different than what I meant.
I'm saying I can't see, or rather I feel there is a better alternative, to having a car read its own speedometer and comparing it to the speed limit of the road it's on and then reporting its driver for speeding.
I've never bought the idea that someday our cars are going to turn us in for speeding. If whoever is going to go to the trouble to monitor our speed and the speed limit for wherever we are, why not just have the car keep itself within the limit?
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I have a couple friends who mentioned that they have issues with the 1 TB cap. Both said they tend to stream video all the time when home, sometimes just as a sort of background noise. I'm wondering if this is common behavior among others who have issue with the 1 TB caps?
If you're shopping for an Ubuntu capable laptop at a retail store with displays, bring a Live CD with you.
Etch-A-Sketch! Nothing like shaking the shit out of a $1900 tablet PC until the screen goes blank.
I've been wanting to have synchornized bookmarks for a while, but didn't have an FTP account, so this is a nice fix to that problem.
I did have two things I wanted to bring up. First I noticed that there are no custom icons. I guess if custom icons have to be stored to the computer then maybe there's not much you can do about this, but they're nice if you can. The second is that's there's no way for me to control the order in which my bookmarks are displayed. Everything seemed to be in alphabetical order except for one folder and there was no way to arrange or sort it.
Other than those two things I'd have to say this is a really cool extension.
I like your analogy between Operating Systems and cars. This past week I've been putting SuSE on my system as a multiboot with XP and 98SE. I'm fairly new to Linux and I really love SuSE. But going back to the car idea, Windows is my daily driver. It's simple and I know I can get to where I need to go with it. SuSE on the other hand is my project car. I can tinker around with it and have fun just trying to get it working. And once it's working you want to show it off because it's so cool. But even if it's not working perfectly (which it often doesn't), that's okay because I can always fall back on Windows. Now if Windows isn't working then I have a problem. Now granted if I had more experience I could probably have my Linux side running perfectly in little time, but right now I probably know more about Linux than the average user would know if everyone switched from Windows and I'm still running into roadblocks. So what I'm trying to say in all my rambling is, I agree. Linux is not simple enough yet for the average user who just wants to be able use their computer without having to go through forums and documentation to figure out how to set it up.
Most employers definitely would not go for this in the work place. And as the article indicates he's not already enrolled in college (I'm a student at UNO and he's not in the directory and Creighton doesn't show him as a student either. I won't even bother checking the CC's.) So even if he does put your logo on his forehead, then what? He sits at home playing Xbox where no one can laugh at him?
A full-body haptic cockpit would be something like a sphere 8' in diameter, implying a mecha 30 foot tall!
This video shows a design that would reduce that 30 feet to about 10.
he's gonna try the modded Xbox and Steel Battalion controller. Wish him luck.
But that's not really the car reporting itself is it? Doesn't that still involve some sort of external radar device measuring your speed and then turning you in, sort of like a camera catching the license plate numbers of people who run red lights? That sort of enforcement is different than what I meant. I'm saying I can't see, or rather I feel there is a better alternative, to having a car read its own speedometer and comparing it to the speed limit of the road it's on and then reporting its driver for speeding.
I've never bought the idea that someday our cars are going to turn us in for speeding. If whoever is going to go to the trouble to monitor our speed and the speed limit for wherever we are, why not just have the car keep itself within the limit?