The RAZR MAXX is actually a really nice popular phone with phenomenal battery life. I'd hardly call it's manufacturer irrelevant. Not only that but Motorola is owned by the developer of Android the smartphone OS with by far the largest install base. I'm not sure what you're mad about but your post comes off as sour grapes sounding.
You know what else would be nice, Motorola? With your unlocking tool, how about updated drivers for the latest version of Android for at least 3 years into the life of each phone. Having an unlocked boot loader is great but actually being able to install Android version++ and having everything work would be even better.
It's great PR for Google. Nobody likes a bully and they love the underdog fighting back. Especially when it looks like it's happening in the ninth inning.
I'm fairly new to the whole bitcoin concept though I do like the idea a lot. In the scenario where someone follows the transaction chain, how would you go about intimidating any particular wallet holder? It seems like in order to do that, you'd need their identities which is about as feasible as getting a tor using AC poster's identity on Slashdot from geek.net brass, e.g., pretty much impossible. If I'm off base, I'd really like to know.
While, yes, Bitcoin transactions by necessity have to be verifiable to stop double spending, etc., any user can have as many pseudonymous wallets as they want so there is no way to know if any particular entity has 1 1Billion dollar wallet or 1Billion one dollar wallets. The only thing tying an individual to a particular pseudonym is the account credentials so tying money to any particular individual withing the system itself so far hasn't been possible. Of course if somebody does something stupid offline to tie themselves to their wallets then that's their mistake and has nothing to do with how secure bitcoin itself is.
What's wrong with Slashdot in Elinks? I browse this site and many others in Elinks everyday (right now actually) and haven't had any problems at all. Maybe it's because I'm on the old comment system.
I'm a Linux and Amarok user, but do I really need a slashdot article about a primarily bugfix and stability point-release of a media player?
Yes for one simple reason. Many Linux users fondly recall Amarok 1.4 and have been waiting on the edge of our seats for years waiting for the 2.x series to live up to the former glory*. It hasn't happened yet so new releases are always something to pay attention to if only for the inevitable let down.
*Clementine and friends while good are not Amarok 1.4.
Google is supposedly expanding the Nexus line to at least 5 simultaneous devices in a few months. Maybe Moto will have something in there.
My understanding was that Google was going to operate Motorola almost as an independent company so as to not step on the toes of their other OEMs. I would expect Motorola to have to go through the same selection process of Asus, Samsung and everybody else.
Has your ass healed from that blistering I put on it yesterday?
You have no clue what you're talking about.
It doesn't bother me that a natural born troll such as yourself would devolve into the ad hominem defense mechanism. I wouldn't expect anything else after a good ego-bashing. I just hope nobody stumbles along and actually believes your shit.
Pro tip: You don't have to write down everything you say in the mirror.
One license works fine for a $10 mil company.
Yeah, and one toilet "works fine" too. You also could probably get by on one phone if you tended the queue in an orderly fashion. I mean if you really want to go deep off into douche-dude fantasy land, you only really need one computer! Imagine how much money your 10 million dollar company will save if you only have one of everything. Of course, you lose more in labor as people are twiddling their thumbs waiting for their turn but, fuck it, you used an extreme absurd so contrived you could practically smell the glue never to be seen in real life scenario to...wait for it...score points on the internet! You can run a 10 million dollar business on one copy of quickbooks. Just make sure to kiss any potential productivity gains that would have been realized by using the software in the first place as it was intended by a business of that size goodbye.
Of course, yes, you can do it the dogdude way and dick around with Quickbooks on one computer wasting time and money as your employees that need to use it jockey for position. Or you can use Quickbooks correctly with a server and multiple terminals so people can do their jobs simultaneously and without having to waste time on waiting for someone else to finish. Just the workflow improvements of less unnecessary mental context switching is worth doing this right. Of course there's still the licensing costs to consider which will be dear but at least you're running an efficient operation. So, if you are a dumbass, you do the former and just use one installation of Quickbooks (that would be you). If you're truly sold on Quickbooks and have any common sense you do the latter in a typical ten million dollar operation.
As far as where PostBooks fits into this story and to further illustrate the absurdity of the "$300" to run Quickbooks at this scale lie, note the fact that PostBooks being cross-platform doesn't require Windows licenses nor does it require the license to run Windows on the Quickbooks server. Since the OP said he wanted to use open source software, he probably wants to be able to actually, you know, use open source software. Maybe you just aren't a "details person" though and missed that part.
If you need more than one license, you're doing it wrong.
If you're only using one license in a 10 mil business then you either need to fire yourself for being penny wise and ton foolish or you need to call somebody in who actually knows the correct efficient way to set up the software.
If you're using Quickbooks for inventory control
Have you never heard of Saddle Oak Softw...
You know what? Fuck this. You are a fucking fool and I'm not going to get sucked into consulting for a jackass like you in a slashdot post.
I don't know how close the current state of the project is to this scenario but I'd want it because my netbook slows to a crawl everytime eclipse recompiles a module I'm working on and I don't want to turn off the auto-compile due to preference for not losing some other features that come along with it. And my netbook sits beside the couch always ready to go when I'm lounging with whatever recreational project I happen to be working on sitting in Dropbox. Nothing better in a quiet house on a Saturday morning than a big bowl of fruit loops and a fresh set of ideas to work on.
Damn, Slashdot, I almost had a freaking heart attack when I moused over (you don't think I actually clicked do you? New here?) the link in the summary and it was to the actual github page rather than some crappy 10 page blog post based on something pulled off the reuters wire from last week.
Guess it's a bit like their close partner Nokia, with the famous Burning Platform memo
Maybe I'm just not boardroom savvy enough to comprehend the subtle inticracies of an executive master plan but what the hell was Elop thinking? They could have done any number of things to slowly build up excitement for their Windows Phones without taking the excruciatingly and so obviously disastrous step of Osbourning their still profitable at the time Symbian business. He had to know they were going to still support the Symbian handsets for years down the road. There was the PureView that was in the labs and the Asha and Belle phones still to come. But he comes out and drives a stake directly in the heart of consumer desire for the platform by essentially telling them "don't bother, Symbian sucks" yet with no replacement product anywhere near ready and several unreleased Symbian products in the pipeline. And of course as expected, the stock price took a dump and Symbian sales fell off a cliff. I mean, what the fuck was the point of that?
I know you were trying to smarmy, but you know that QB only costs $300, right?
What are you running, a lemonade stand, skippy? Let's talk money. Which version do you want? How many seats? Which support package? Do you have a bookkeeper in-house? Seat. Use it for inventory control and management? Seat. And on and on. Payroll? Seat. A very small business gets into the thousands real quick. Oh, and don't forget to renew those licenses on a regular basis, bucko. Of course every so often that'll also run you a little extra (inflation you understand). Oh, and when you're done with that let's talk plug-ins.
Spending hours calling accountants to try to save $300 is quite frankly, really fucking stupid.
Your "$300" figure has been debunked. Your "hours" figure was addressed by the post you replied to had you actually read it instead of launching into immediate anti-FOSS kneejerk troll-rage (like you always do, checked your history) but here allow me to quote it so maybe you can take the time to read it a little slower:
Of course finding that kind of thing out would require a good 20 minutes
If your lips were silently moving while you read that, you need to do it again.
That's how long it took me in My City, USA on the phone to find more accountants than I had days of the week to talk to that assured me that they would be happy to support PostBooks. PostBooks should I remind you is the FOSS product from xTuple a commercial company headquartered in Norfolk, VA with years of experience and multiple profitable products.
As an addendum, not only did I find a great accountant that would work with PostBooks but she was a techie that I had a very easy time building rapport with due to our shared interest in open source business solutions.
Now, this was my experience. I don't know what yours is peddling your dog food but it's pretty obvious that it never even occurred to you to test the efficacy of any other accounting software. Probably because you are a) an arrogant obnoxious closed-minded jackass and/or b) you probably don't have sense enough to see 2 feet in front of your nose to embrace business tools that your competitors might be missing out on and leveraging those.
Now get busy running your dick-beaters over your keyboard on another uninformed ignorant rant so you can get told. Again.
P.S. To be such an anti-Linux and anti open source douchebag, what the fuck is your site doing running Apache on Linux? Hypocrite.
You may be successful! congrats! you can now hire an accountant, they'll want QuickBooks.
Have you ever really put this theory to the test? I called around my city and was able to compile a decent list of accountants who were familiar with and openly supported PostBooks. PostBooks is cross platform and is released under an OSI approved license.
Of course finding that kind of thing out would require a good 20 minutes of a busy professional's precious time so I'm sure you'd be much better off just going ahead and buying Quickbooks without a second thought based on advice from a web forum rather than actual interactions with real accountants.
As crazy as it sounds when I really get "in the zone" on a project I'm working on at the computer, my physical sensitivity drops through the floor. I didn't realize how dangerous that could be until a little while back I sat with my forearm flat on the desk for so long I lost circulation in my pinky and didn't notice for about 6 hours when the tingling sensation finally broke through. For about a week, the tip of that finger was purple and you could see little blood splotches at the end of the fingernail. Now I set an alarm every hour to get up and move around.
Pointer style input devices can be divided into two main categories, e.g., absolute and relative. A touch screen uses absolute coordinates whereas trackpads and mice use relative movements so I would suspect trackpads will have many of the same issues mice do.
Whether you think it's beside the point or not is irrelevant. You brought up Start8 as a workaround for issues raised in the summary making it fair game for discussion. If you don't like it you're free not to respond.
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The RAZR MAXX is actually a really nice popular phone with phenomenal battery life. I'd hardly call it's manufacturer irrelevant. Not only that but Motorola is owned by the developer of Android the smartphone OS with by far the largest install base. I'm not sure what you're mad about but your post comes off as sour grapes sounding.
You know what else would be nice, Motorola? With your unlocking tool, how about updated drivers for the latest version of Android for at least 3 years into the life of each phone. Having an unlocked boot loader is great but actually being able to install Android version++ and having everything work would be even better.
It's great PR for Google. Nobody likes a bully and they love the underdog fighting back. Especially when it looks like it's happening in the ninth inning.
Somebody needs to tell these guys then. So much for credibility CNET.
I'm fairly new to the whole bitcoin concept though I do like the idea a lot. In the scenario where someone follows the transaction chain, how would you go about intimidating any particular wallet holder? It seems like in order to do that, you'd need their identities which is about as feasible as getting a tor using AC poster's identity on Slashdot from geek.net brass, e.g., pretty much impossible. If I'm off base, I'd really like to know.
Or "start" depending on your perspective.
While, yes, Bitcoin transactions by necessity have to be verifiable to stop double spending, etc., any user can have as many pseudonymous wallets as they want so there is no way to know if any particular entity has 1 1Billion dollar wallet or 1Billion one dollar wallets. The only thing tying an individual to a particular pseudonym is the account credentials so tying money to any particular individual withing the system itself so far hasn't been possible. Of course if somebody does something stupid offline to tie themselves to their wallets then that's their mistake and has nothing to do with how secure bitcoin itself is.
Maybe troll Slashdot with your user account instead of as an AC behind some jinky proxy and you won't have that problem next time. Just a thought.
What's wrong with Slashdot in Elinks? I browse this site and many others in Elinks everyday (right now actually) and haven't had any problems at all. Maybe it's because I'm on the old comment system.
How the hell does vacuous shit like this get posted on Slashdot? One of the dozens of enthusiast blogs I understand but here? Geez.
I'm a Linux and Amarok user, but do I really need a slashdot article about a primarily bugfix and stability point-release of a media player?
Yes for one simple reason. Many Linux users fondly recall Amarok 1.4 and have been waiting on the edge of our seats for years waiting for the 2.x series to live up to the former glory*. It hasn't happened yet so new releases are always something to pay attention to if only for the inevitable let down.
*Clementine and friends while good are not Amarok 1.4.
Make it impossible to accidentally[...]place a call (eg. to 911)
Yeah, especially if you're trying to buy some dope.
Make it happen, Motorola!
Google is supposedly expanding the Nexus line to at least 5 simultaneous devices in a few months. Maybe Moto will have something in there.
My understanding was that Google was going to operate Motorola almost as an independent company so as to not step on the toes of their other OEMs. I would expect Motorola to have to go through the same selection process of Asus, Samsung and everybody else.
You have no clue what you're talking about.
It doesn't bother me that a natural born troll such as yourself would devolve into the ad hominem defense mechanism. I wouldn't expect anything else after a good ego-bashing. I just hope nobody stumbles along and actually believes your shit.
You are fucking clueless.
Pro tip: You don't have to write down everything you say in the mirror.
One license works fine for a $10 mil company.
Yeah, and one toilet "works fine" too. You also could probably get by on one phone if you tended the queue in an orderly fashion. I mean if you really want to go deep off into douche-dude fantasy land, you only really need one computer! Imagine how much money your 10 million dollar company will save if you only have one of everything. Of course, you lose more in labor as people are twiddling their thumbs waiting for their turn but, fuck it, you used an extreme absurd so contrived you could practically smell the glue never to be seen in real life scenario to...wait for it...score points on the internet! You can run a 10 million dollar business on one copy of quickbooks. Just make sure to kiss any potential productivity gains that would have been realized by using the software in the first place as it was intended by a business of that size goodbye.
Of course, yes, you can do it the dogdude way and dick around with Quickbooks on one computer wasting time and money as your employees that need to use it jockey for position. Or you can use Quickbooks correctly with a server and multiple terminals so people can do their jobs simultaneously and without having to waste time on waiting for someone else to finish. Just the workflow improvements of less unnecessary mental context switching is worth doing this right. Of course there's still the licensing costs to consider which will be dear but at least you're running an efficient operation. So, if you are a dumbass, you do the former and just use one installation of Quickbooks (that would be you). If you're truly sold on Quickbooks and have any common sense you do the latter in a typical ten million dollar operation.
As far as where PostBooks fits into this story and to further illustrate the absurdity of the "$300" to run Quickbooks at this scale lie, note the fact that PostBooks being cross-platform doesn't require Windows licenses nor does it require the license to run Windows on the Quickbooks server. Since the OP said he wanted to use open source software, he probably wants to be able to actually, you know, use open source software. Maybe you just aren't a "details person" though and missed that part.
If you need more than one license, you're doing it wrong.
If you're only using one license in a 10 mil business then you either need to fire yourself for being penny wise and ton foolish or you need to call somebody in who actually knows the correct efficient way to set up the software.
If you're using Quickbooks for inventory control
Have you never heard of Saddle Oak Softw...
You know what? Fuck this. You are a fucking fool and I'm not going to get sucked into consulting for a jackass like you in a slashdot post.
There are no bad students, only bad teachers.
Incorrect! Here, let me FTFY:
There are no bad students, just children who have not been provided the proper frequency and dosage of amphetamines yet.
Dope: it's what's for breakfast!
Why?
I don't know how close the current state of the project is to this scenario but I'd want it because my netbook slows to a crawl everytime eclipse recompiles a module I'm working on and I don't want to turn off the auto-compile due to preference for not losing some other features that come along with it. And my netbook sits beside the couch always ready to go when I'm lounging with whatever recreational project I happen to be working on sitting in Dropbox. Nothing better in a quiet house on a Saturday morning than a big bowl of fruit loops and a fresh set of ideas to work on.
released as open source on github
Damn, Slashdot, I almost had a freaking heart attack when I moused over (you don't think I actually clicked do you? New here?) the link in the summary and it was to the actual github page rather than some crappy 10 page blog post based on something pulled off the reuters wire from last week.
I'm impressed!
Guess it's a bit like their close partner Nokia, with the famous Burning Platform memo
Maybe I'm just not boardroom savvy enough to comprehend the subtle inticracies of an executive master plan but what the hell was Elop thinking? They could have done any number of things to slowly build up excitement for their Windows Phones without taking the excruciatingly and so obviously disastrous step of Osbourning their still profitable at the time Symbian business. He had to know they were going to still support the Symbian handsets for years down the road. There was the PureView that was in the labs and the Asha and Belle phones still to come. But he comes out and drives a stake directly in the heart of consumer desire for the platform by essentially telling them "don't bother, Symbian sucks" yet with no replacement product anywhere near ready and several unreleased Symbian products in the pipeline. And of course as expected, the stock price took a dump and Symbian sales fell off a cliff. I mean, what the fuck was the point of that?
I know you were trying to smarmy, but you know that QB only costs $300, right?
What are you running, a lemonade stand, skippy? Let's talk money. Which version do you want? How many seats? Which support package? Do you have a bookkeeper in-house? Seat. Use it for inventory control and management? Seat. And on and on. Payroll? Seat. A very small business gets into the thousands real quick. Oh, and don't forget to renew those licenses on a regular basis, bucko. Of course every so often that'll also run you a little extra (inflation you understand). Oh, and when you're done with that let's talk plug-ins.
Spending hours calling accountants to try to save $300 is quite frankly, really fucking stupid.
Your "$300" figure has been debunked. Your "hours" figure was addressed by the post you replied to had you actually read it instead of launching into immediate anti-FOSS kneejerk troll-rage (like you always do, checked your history) but here allow me to quote it so maybe you can take the time to read it a little slower:
Of course finding that kind of thing out would require a good 20 minutes
If your lips were silently moving while you read that, you need to do it again.
That's how long it took me in My City, USA on the phone to find more accountants than I had days of the week to talk to that assured me that they would be happy to support PostBooks. PostBooks should I remind you is the FOSS product from xTuple a commercial company headquartered in Norfolk, VA with years of experience and multiple profitable products.
As an addendum, not only did I find a great accountant that would work with PostBooks but she was a techie that I had a very easy time building rapport with due to our shared interest in open source business solutions.
Now, this was my experience. I don't know what yours is peddling your dog food but it's pretty obvious that it never even occurred to you to test the efficacy of any other accounting software. Probably because you are a) an arrogant obnoxious closed-minded jackass and/or b) you probably don't have sense enough to see 2 feet in front of your nose to embrace business tools that your competitors might be missing out on and leveraging those.
Now get busy running your dick-beaters over your keyboard on another uninformed ignorant rant so you can get told. Again.
P.S. To be such an anti-Linux and anti open source douchebag, what the fuck is your site doing running Apache on Linux? Hypocrite.
You may be successful! congrats! you can now hire an accountant, they'll want QuickBooks.
Have you ever really put this theory to the test? I called around my city and was able to compile a decent list of accountants who were familiar with and openly supported PostBooks. PostBooks is cross platform and is released under an OSI approved license.
Of course finding that kind of thing out would require a good 20 minutes of a busy professional's precious time so I'm sure you'd be much better off just going ahead and buying Quickbooks without a second thought based on advice from a web forum rather than actual interactions with real accountants.
Yep. Happens all the time.
As crazy as it sounds when I really get "in the zone" on a project I'm working on at the computer, my physical sensitivity drops through the floor. I didn't realize how dangerous that could be until a little while back I sat with my forearm flat on the desk for so long I lost circulation in my pinky and didn't notice for about 6 hours when the tingling sensation finally broke through. For about a week, the tip of that finger was purple and you could see little blood splotches at the end of the fingernail. Now I set an alarm every hour to get up and move around.
Pointer style input devices can be divided into two main categories, e.g., absolute and relative. A touch screen uses absolute coordinates whereas trackpads and mice use relative movements so I would suspect trackpads will have many of the same issues mice do.
But that's beside the point
Whether you think it's beside the point or not is irrelevant. You brought up Start8 as a workaround for issues raised in the summary making it fair game for discussion. If you don't like it you're free not to respond.