I thought you couldn't discuss a NSL, so how would we know that hundreds of thousands of them have been issued?
Are they tracked somewhere publicly, and wouldn't that defeat the whole point of being secret about them?
And given that these are clear-cut violations of free speech, how is it that the entire NSL program still exists? The first time one of these was challenged, I thought any judge worth their salt would declare the NSL anti-constitutional.
You're saying we need to design a slower and worse interface around the lowest common denominator?
Little kids learn how to use a keyboard with no problem. Just because older folks are scared of technology doesn't mean we should cater exclusively to them.
I couldn't explain the concept of a mouse to my grandmother, because she didn't get why you would need to point on a computer. Should we cater everything to her?
I'm a little skeptical at this point that a multitouch display will be faster than a keyboard and mouse for most tasks. I've used touch screens, and they are faster than a mouse for certain tasks, but they are also frustrating and often cumbersome.
I type around 80 wpm, and I bounce back and forth between keyboard and mouse, depending on which is faster for a given task. I've even become really accustom to hitting Win+R or Alt+F2 and then typing a program name, as opposed to using a Start or KDE Menu, and often this is faster.
The keyboard isn't "natural" but often it is the fastest tool available to me, even though the mouse seems more like a natural means of pointing, selecting, moving, marking, etc. I do use a mouse for selecting, but only when shift+direction isn't faster.
There are a few multi-touch specific gestures, such as pinching with two fingers to close a window, but throwing my mouse to the right corner and clicking X, or hitting Alt-F4 is just as fast. Pinching might seem fun, but I have yet to see a full interface designed around a multi-touch display to take advantage of it, and really make it a faster system to work with.
Furthermore, I touch Surface was not designed for a single user, but rather multi-touch for multiple users.
I don't want to sound like a hater here, but what are the benefits other than saying it looks nifty? A table that is a giant touchscreen is nice in that anyone can interact, but does it have to be multi-touch? Do multiple people need to navigate on the same screen at once?
To an extent, I'd suggest it would be better to use a Webex session, and allow each user their own interface allowed a shared session. MUCH cheaper and easier to pull off. Heck, the people don't have to be in the same room unless you want them to.
Last time I checked, Verizon's FIOS was offering 20 Mbps for $125-$150 a month in the cities where it is offering it. That isn't cheap in my book.
I have Cox giving me 9 Mbps for $50 a month, and for $65 you can get 14 Mbps. They keep increasing their rate with basically no competition in town which is nice, but it still doesn't compare to what you can get in Europe.
Every coffee shop I go to has free wifi. So does McDonalds, truck stops, and a variety of odd places. I can't imagine paying for wifi hot-spot access at Starbucks.
Google a year or two back ran an April Fool's joke about dropping network lines into your toilet and someone would connect them all via sewers. It wasn't entirely a joke. Some universities are starting to run network lines in sewers because they are easily accessed, cheaply installed, cheap to maintain, and don't interfere with existing infrastructure.
RTFA and you'll see that countries with less money have upgraded their infrastructure considerably more than we have. The telcos in those countries also charge less for access, and every single year, we drop in the broadband rankings. Given that we actually give tax dollars to the telcos to support infrastructure (which I assume most countries don't, but I could be corrected) I'm curious how higher rates + tax dollars = worse service than the rest of the world provides.
How many countries subsidize telcos with tax dollars to create their infrastructure? I'm curious.
I know we are a spread-out nation here in the US, but there is no reason why cities with people living on top of each other (LA, Boston, New York, etc) can't easily have the infrastructure that the rest of the world has.
I'd buy the spread-out excuse, except our big cities had poor broadband, and our rural areas are still on dial-up. In that regard, we are very much behind other nations.
Yes, they count total carbon footprint in their prize. It isn't just 100 MPG, but under a certain emissions (counting emissions from producing electricity for an electric car) AND the fastest to win the race.
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I thought you couldn't discuss a NSL, so how would we know that hundreds of thousands of them have been issued?
Are they tracked somewhere publicly, and wouldn't that defeat the whole point of being secret about them?
And given that these are clear-cut violations of free speech, how is it that the entire NSL program still exists? The first time one of these was challenged, I thought any judge worth their salt would declare the NSL anti-constitutional.
I'm sure you could write a patch to get it in the kernel without FUSE, you just couldn't distribute it.
How many home users go with RAID in their home box, and want to expand it as well?
Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, etc. don't have a default. SUSE, and Fedora have been advertising KDE 4 pretty heavily.
Ubuntu is the only one on your list that defaults to Gnome.
And even with Ubuntu's soaring popularity, many Ubuntu users are switching to KDE, and surveys consistently show the majority of Linux users use KDE.
Sun may prefer Gnome, but you shouldn't generalize that every major distro defaults to it, because that just isn't true.
How is ZFS performance in BSD?
Is DSL indistinguishable from Ubuntu? What about CentOS? Or Sabayon? Or Gentoo? Or Arch?
I for the record do love Coca-Cola, and while I don't completely loathe Pepsi, I would never willingly purchase Pepsi. I really don't care for it.
Next are you going to suggest that all red wines are the same?
That's what Mint is as well, Ubuntu plus common stuff like MP3 support.
I loathe Ubuntu however and would recommend openSUSE, Sabayon, or something like that.
I loved Prodigy. I do remember the Mad Maze specifically.
Surface is much, much more expensive than a tablet. You're saying you want the benefits of a Cintiq tablet, but much larger, and cheaper.
Wait 10 years.
You're saying we need to design a slower and worse interface around the lowest common denominator?
Little kids learn how to use a keyboard with no problem. Just because older folks are scared of technology doesn't mean we should cater exclusively to them.
I couldn't explain the concept of a mouse to my grandmother, because she didn't get why you would need to point on a computer. Should we cater everything to her?
I'm a little skeptical at this point that a multitouch display will be faster than a keyboard and mouse for most tasks. I've used touch screens, and they are faster than a mouse for certain tasks, but they are also frustrating and often cumbersome.
I type around 80 wpm, and I bounce back and forth between keyboard and mouse, depending on which is faster for a given task. I've even become really accustom to hitting Win+R or Alt+F2 and then typing a program name, as opposed to using a Start or KDE Menu, and often this is faster.
The keyboard isn't "natural" but often it is the fastest tool available to me, even though the mouse seems more like a natural means of pointing, selecting, moving, marking, etc. I do use a mouse for selecting, but only when shift+direction isn't faster.
There are a few multi-touch specific gestures, such as pinching with two fingers to close a window, but throwing my mouse to the right corner and clicking X, or hitting Alt-F4 is just as fast. Pinching might seem fun, but I have yet to see a full interface designed around a multi-touch display to take advantage of it, and really make it a faster system to work with.
Furthermore, I touch Surface was not designed for a single user, but rather multi-touch for multiple users.
Am I mistaken?
I don't want to sound like a hater here, but what are the benefits other than saying it looks nifty? A table that is a giant touchscreen is nice in that anyone can interact, but does it have to be multi-touch? Do multiple people need to navigate on the same screen at once?
To an extent, I'd suggest it would be better to use a Webex session, and allow each user their own interface allowed a shared session. MUCH cheaper and easier to pull off. Heck, the people don't have to be in the same room unless you want them to.
Last time I checked, Verizon's FIOS was offering 20 Mbps for $125-$150 a month in the cities where it is offering it. That isn't cheap in my book.
I have Cox giving me 9 Mbps for $50 a month, and for $65 you can get 14 Mbps. They keep increasing their rate with basically no competition in town which is nice, but it still doesn't compare to what you can get in Europe.
Verily, you speak the truth.
Every coffee shop I go to has free wifi. So does McDonalds, truck stops, and a variety of odd places. I can't imagine paying for wifi hot-spot access at Starbucks.
Google a year or two back ran an April Fool's joke about dropping network lines into your toilet and someone would connect them all via sewers. It wasn't entirely a joke. Some universities are starting to run network lines in sewers because they are easily accessed, cheaply installed, cheap to maintain, and don't interfere with existing infrastructure.
RTFA and you'll see that countries with less money have upgraded their infrastructure considerably more than we have. The telcos in those countries also charge less for access, and every single year, we drop in the broadband rankings. Given that we actually give tax dollars to the telcos to support infrastructure (which I assume most countries don't, but I could be corrected) I'm curious how higher rates + tax dollars = worse service than the rest of the world provides.
How many countries subsidize telcos with tax dollars to create their infrastructure? I'm curious.
I know we are a spread-out nation here in the US, but there is no reason why cities with people living on top of each other (LA, Boston, New York, etc) can't easily have the infrastructure that the rest of the world has.
I'd buy the spread-out excuse, except our big cities had poor broadband, and our rural areas are still on dial-up. In that regard, we are very much behind other nations.
That's your tax dollars at work!
Yes, they count total carbon footprint in their prize. It isn't just 100 MPG, but under a certain emissions (counting emissions from producing electricity for an electric car) AND the fastest to win the race.
Wired had a really great article on some of the entrants a few months back.
http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-01/ff_100mpg
No, you're wrong and you're an idiot.
You're saying hiding evidence makes you guilty of first-degree murder beyond any reasonable doubt.
Wait, I take that back. You're wrong, and you're willfully ignorant.
I started with BASIC, and unlearned most of what I learned. Beginning to learn programming concepts is fine and dandy, but BASIC isn't the way to go.
Just because it still alive, doesn't mean it should be.
Please mod parent up.
Hillary Clinton has sided with Jack Thompson on a variety of occasions, and she may be our next president.