"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
Warren Bennis
Here are my suggested requirements for libinput with trackpads:
* during install, scan hardware and if supported
- enable two finger scrolling
- enable two finger clicking (right button)
- enable three finger clicking (middle button)
- if tracpad supports a distinction between taping and clicking then:
- require click to click
- if tracpad supports two finger swipe, use it for scrolling
(and test that scrolling is smooth even when disable click while typing is on)
- if tracpad supports three finger swipe, use it for switching desktops
* (forgot the exact name here) disable click while typing
* enable palm-detection by default
* provide a gui control panel with an 'advanced' section which can edit all this and more.
settings->battery. Scroll to bottom for a report of how much battery each app has used. View it as last 24 hours, or as last 7 days.
and FYI, (for me) Apple Mail, when connected to a corporate exchange server, sucks battery in the background. 30% overnight
iphone 6s
IOS 10.3
Call me slow.. it took me a day to notice that their stock charts are scrollable and seem to be implemented on AJAX (like google maps). I was slow to notice becuase of how dramatically this exceeded my expectations.
So assuming that google can get their news feeds up to snuff, then this interactive stock chart will beat yahoo finance the same way that google maps beat mapquest/mapblast. It is way less irritating to use.
Why worry about (and spend on) an missle defence system when adversaries are more likely to use the Federal Express package delivery system to send a bad-bomb?
Thats only one step better than www.dictionary.com which sometimes give pop-under adds. Anyway, neither of them have learned the google lesson. Pops are evil. I don't user their site.
Apart from regulating banks into assumming responsibility for fraud losses, is there a bank somewhere in the market place currently offering this deal? I'd sure like to consider switching.
Why do I get depressed every time I hear that technology is making my life more convienient.
I'm not really worried about a "terminator future". I think it has more to do with a sence that I keep getting further away from my neighbors.
I take it that you intend the innuendo that Linux and Apple are immune from viruses. The methodology used to create this virus seems to have been: 1) wait for OS vendor to announce a vulnerability and patch 2) create a virus 3) distribute virus before most users have updated the patch.
This methodology would also be successful against Apple and Linux but for their lack of popularity.
The number of historical incidence per OS is related to both population density quality of the OS. But the pace of spread is related to population density only - not to OS quality. Certian versions of windows are the only OS'es with sufficient population density to attract the attention of virus writters.
So do remember that using an unpopular OS is a very good virus defence. But also do try to keep the secret;-)
Here is a small data point, for what it is worth...
Until last weekend I was running my 533 Mhz G4 tower on osx 10.2 with 128 MB ram. NeoOffice/J was entirely unusable due to slowness (and I can be a pretty patient guy).
I upgraded to osx 10.4 and 384 MB ram. Now NeoOffice is very usable and only a peg or two short of 'zippy'.
Both the ram upgrade and the os upgrade contribute to improved perfomance. I'm not sure which is the larger contributing factor. But I would guess it is the Jaguar to Tiger move (Notice how I skipped Panther (10.3) which was well reguarded for improved performance).
Xcode. Ksource. Eclipse. Every unix tool. And now its all (err... will be soon) cross platform. The apple compliers are already load distributing across multiple macs on the network. The only glaring hole to fill would be a mips based mac. The embedded development industry won't change rapidly, but there is no denying that apple has a stunning tool set offer to embedded devlopers. It can even come with all the microsoft office products your IT department and managers force you to use.
OK, the DRM world is small potatoes compared to Wars on Terror, revamping social retirement and health care systems, and stacking the World Bank.
But this is about property. That is what governments do... they define, and then protect property. This is meager, but still legitimate business for congress.
I think that most folks agree that authors should have the right of distribution and owner should have the right of making personal copies. Until the recent digital age, technology agreed with these divisions. But now in the digital age owners have the trivially available technological capacity to either make infinite perfect copies or instantly publish world wide. Our current technological capacities violate the principles our society learned (over centuries) to deal with back when copying and publishing were hard.
DRM is the foolish technological attempt to make the new world look like the old world (foolish because it will be technologically defeated every time).
What will change is our society. We will all either begin to believe that authors do not have the right to sole distribution, or that consumers are not owners and criminalize them for copying/publishing. I don't like either of those propositions... but one of them must inevitably succeed to commonly held cultural value status.
And congress will probably ratify several variations along the way.
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"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." Warren Bennis
* during install, scan hardware and if supported
- enable two finger scrolling
- enable two finger clicking (right button)
- enable three finger clicking (middle button)
- if tracpad supports a distinction between taping and clicking then:
- require click to click
- if tracpad supports two finger swipe, use it for scrolling
(and test that scrolling is smooth even when disable click while typing is on)
- if tracpad supports three finger swipe, use it for switching desktops
* (forgot the exact name here) disable click while typing
* enable palm-detection by default
* provide a gui control panel with an 'advanced' section which can edit all this and more.
settings->battery. Scroll to bottom for a report of how much battery each app has used. View it as last 24 hours, or as last 7 days. and FYI, (for me) Apple Mail, when connected to a corporate exchange server, sucks battery in the background. 30% overnight iphone 6s IOS 10.3
Does this mean that when I am forced to view an ad, I can now tell philips to go sue the perpertatiors? If only...
Their satalite data is newer than google's. Specifically, their arial photos of New Orleans show the debries of Katrina
g %3D-90.1094287634%7Cal%3D-1%7Ccx%3D-16797615%7Ccy% 3D-5870704%7Czm%3D1%7Cvt%3D1~lt%3D29.95444%7Clg%3D -90.075%7Cad%3DNew%20Orleans%2C%20LA%7Csd%3D0%7Cdm %3D0~#1
http://maps.ask.com/maps?l=lt%3D30.0173074407%7Cl
Call me slow.. it took me a day to notice that their stock charts are scrollable and seem to be implemented on AJAX (like google maps). I was slow to notice becuase of how dramatically this exceeded my expectations.
So assuming that google can get their news feeds up to snuff, then this interactive stock chart will beat yahoo finance the same way that google maps beat mapquest/mapblast. It is way less irritating to use.
Too true. Let Stalman move hurd to GPL 3.0 and leave Linux licnesing alone.
Why worry about (and spend on) an missle defence system when adversaries are more likely to use the Federal Express package delivery system to send a bad-bomb?
May be the chimps would eliminate that as a usless setp.
Thats only one step better than www.dictionary.com which sometimes give pop-under adds. Anyway, neither of them have learned the google lesson. Pops are evil. I don't user their site.
You know, I always did hope that Brandy made someone a good wife and that Looking Glass singer/songwriter guy shipwrecked somewhere lonely.
Any conclusion you reach from a seven deep 'if' chain is just plain wrong.
Apart from regulating banks into assumming responsibility for fraud losses, is there a bank somewhere in the market place currently offering this deal? I'd sure like to consider switching.
Why do I get depressed every time I hear that technology is making my life more convienient. I'm not really worried about a "terminator future". I think it has more to do with a sence that I keep getting further away from my neighbors.
I take it that you intend the innuendo that Linux and Apple are immune from viruses. The methodology used to create this virus seems to have been:
;-)
1) wait for OS vendor to announce a vulnerability and patch
2) create a virus
3) distribute virus before most users have updated the patch.
This methodology would also be successful against Apple and Linux but for their lack of popularity.
The number of historical incidence per OS is related to both population density quality of the OS. But the pace of spread is related to population density only - not to OS quality. Certian versions of windows are the only OS'es with sufficient population density to attract the attention of virus writters.
So do remember that using an unpopular OS is a very good virus defence. But also do try to keep the secret
enough said.
Here is a small data point, for what it is worth...
Until last weekend I was running my 533 Mhz G4 tower on osx 10.2 with 128 MB ram. NeoOffice/J was entirely unusable due to slowness (and I can be a pretty patient guy).
I upgraded to osx 10.4 and 384 MB ram. Now NeoOffice is very usable and only a peg or two short of 'zippy'.
Both the ram upgrade and the os upgrade contribute to improved perfomance. I'm not sure which is the larger contributing factor. But I would guess it is the Jaguar to Tiger move (Notice how I skipped Panther (10.3) which was well reguarded for improved performance).
a dual processor mac with 1 PPC and 1 P4? That way I won't have to run anything in emulation. And If I get fat binaries, they can use both.
Xcode. Ksource. Eclipse. Every unix tool. And now its all (err... will be soon) cross platform. The apple compliers are already load distributing across multiple macs on the network. The only glaring hole to fill would be a mips based mac. The embedded development industry won't change rapidly, but there is no denying that apple has a stunning tool set offer to embedded devlopers. It can even come with all the microsoft office products your IT department and managers force you to use.
OK, the DRM world is small potatoes compared to Wars on Terror, revamping social retirement and health care systems, and stacking the World Bank.
But this is about property. That is what governments do... they define, and then protect property. This is meager, but still legitimate business for congress.
I think that most folks agree that authors should have the right of distribution and owner should have the right of making personal copies. Until the recent digital age, technology agreed with these divisions. But now in the digital age owners have the trivially available technological capacity to either make infinite perfect copies or instantly publish world wide. Our current technological capacities violate the principles our society learned (over centuries) to deal with back when copying and publishing were hard.
DRM is the foolish technological attempt to make the new world look like the old world (foolish because it will be technologically defeated every time).
What will change is our society. We will all either begin to believe that authors do not have the right to sole distribution, or that consumers are not owners and criminalize them for copying/publishing. I don't like either of those propositions... but one of them must inevitably succeed to commonly held cultural value status.
And congress will probably ratify several variations along the way.