Even if Microsoft produces a DRM-encumbered operating system for the XO-1, what makes you think a country will choose it over the freely-available Sugar-on-Fedora that the XO currently runs?
Customers have, on occasion, inexplicably chosen Windows over Linux at a seemingly late stage in deployment, so it should be a genuine source of worry for anyone supplying Linux machines in large quantities.
I totally agree with this, the Wii remote is versatile, wireless, and inexpensive for what it is. I wish it had one or two extra buttons where the A button is though, because it doesn't have enough buttons for the right hand to map onto other console controllers very well. The classic controller has enough buttons, but no analog shoulder pads, which might be a problem one day for certain consoles.
Your comprehension fails - some farmers don't sign any contract, because the seeds come from plants that have spread out from other fields. So a farmer that hasn't entered into a contract is now unable to use seeds from plants on his own land for fear of being bullied by a huge corporation, because the seed might have come from a neighboring farm that uses their product.
If you're just planning on putting the info into a spreadsheet, try GnuCash, it has features that help you verify that all of your numbers match with reality, and some banks let you export your transaction data into formats that it can import, which gives you easy access to all of that data as well.
I'm really not qualified to talk about this, but I would guess that HR is usually full of non-technical people that try to solve this problem with only a "big picture" sort of perspective, when really what is needed is an aggressive, targeted push to reward and keep the talented people. However, perhaps this isn't even enough for people who may be bothered by mediocre colleagues, and it's much easier to reduce the average competence of your employees than it is to raise it up again. How are you supposed to hire better people when not-so-talented people are doing the hiring?
Connectivity should be treated like a public service. We don't expect private companies to compete at building our water infrastructure, so what sense is there in having them compete to upgrade our (wired) connectivity infrastructure? Both are analogous in that upgrades involve lots of digging where per capita costs are inversely proportional to population density. The ISP industry is a natural monopoly, and should be handled accordingly. If the government is hell bent on privatising things, surely they can figure something out, i.e. lease out the publicly owned infrastructure to private ISPs, which is what Bell is forced to do by regulation in Canada right now.
The above links are from a posting on http://freegamer.blogspot.com/ - I'm not sure if there are any decent split screen games in those lists, apart from running commercial console games in emulators, but there should be a decent amount of entertainment there if you count everything else.
As for the GP2X, if you place a higher priority on commercial games than on owning an open platform, by all means buy a DS or a PSP, since I would assume that the GP2X's useful software is mostly free ports of games from other platforms, as well as independently produced games for the GP2X and similar devices. I don't have one myself, I got a Nokia N800 instead, which isn't good for gaming, but is good for reading, listening to music, and browsing the web over 802.11g.
Given your signature, I would have assumed that you already had an answer for the first question ( get a PC and hook it up to the TV). If you don't have a problem with using an emulator to play copyrighted ROMs, then such a machine is capable of replacing most consoles except for the current and previous generations. Even if you do have a problem with this, there are still a variety of free games, though PC games are (of course) far less organized compared to console games, which either have a physical presence, or are organized in some common interface for playing with downloaded games.
As for the GP2X, which was recommended in a previous reply, the situation is more like PC than console gaming, in that there are plenty of free games, some emulators, and a smaller selection of commercial games than for the locked down consoles.
It's not even a question of legality. I think the phrase you are looking for is "well-behaved customer", where good behaviour is defined by Apple. This case shows that apparently even well-behaved developers, who are worth more than customers, are still prone to getting screwed. The moral of the story, in my opinion, is stay away from locked down hardware.
While waving your hands around trying to sound knowledgeable, you've shown that you aren't properly following the conversation. The N800 and N810 run Linux on an ARM core that runs at 400Mhz, and the OS they run comes with a working port of Flash, which is fast enough to watch flash videos, albeit with stutter sometimes.
Regardless, the iPhone has a significantly faster ARM core than the N800 and N810, 50% faster at 624MHz. I think this is more of a strategic decision than a performance issue, Jobs is basically saying that "Apple knows best" about flash because he doesn't want to give business and market share to Adobe. I have no objection to this, let them duke it out, flash is a scourge to web standards _and_ browser usability, and I don't have any Apple products to worry about anyway.
Without the redundancies, there is less need to be able to customize toolbars to suit one's needs - everything is 2-3 clicks away, minus one click if the needed widget is in the currently selected tab.
People who customize their toolbars are less likely to need to be told where a certain feature is, since they had to think about that to move it around. One exception would be large deployments with modified defaults, but in that case, the presence of support personnel who are able to deal with that is expected.
I think the ribbon has been unfairly criticised since it became public. It
eliminates the redundancy of having both menus and toolbars with the same
commands in them, and makes better use of the space on the screen.
To be clear, I'm generally a critic of Microsoft, since they can be trusted
to act in their own interest no matter how much they try to make it seem
otherwise, and I've never used Office 2007 before. Despite that, I disagree
with the ribbon bashing bandwagon people seem to want to jump on - there's
plenty of legitimate things to criticise about Microsoft, no need to latch onto
something that is actually a good idea. Also, this isn't directed at the post
I'm replying to specifically, it's more of a generic rant about ribbon bashing.
You're confused, GNOME is a suite of applications that provide a usable desktop environment, not a window manager. The window manager used in GNOME is called metacity, and it certainly is not becoming a VNC client.
I don't think the sourceforge page is used by anyone, kopete.sf.net redirects to kopete.kde.org. If you want a response of some kind, I suggest submitting it to their mailing list, see https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
I recently wrote a patch to fix a particularly egregious bug in Kopete 3.5 (the history search feature being totally and unnecessarily slow), and the response I got when I submitted the patch to the mailing list was that it would be pointless to apply it, they're not making any more releases of that branch. So there are people around to maintain stuff, but apparently nobody around to release it.
Indeed, I didn't get a Nokia 770 to read things on, but it turns out that the PDF viewer and FBReader are very good for reading stuff, and that's mostly what I use it for now. I have since gotten an N800, which has two SD card slots. 8GB cards can be had for $50 now, meaning you can have 16GB of music, movies and books in your pocket! I highly recommend an N800 or N810 - they're pocket sized, they can do much more than show books, and you'll avoid supporting industry usage of DRM.
This does have to do with the president. It disappoints me how many commenters have forgotten the steady stream of headlines about NASA tragically abandoning scientifically useful project X in the past few years. Why would NASA be abandoning such things? Maybe it has to do with the president thinking that it would be cooler to put a man on Mars than to properly maintain all of NASA's existing science research.
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Customers have, on occasion, inexplicably chosen Windows over Linux at a seemingly late stage in deployment, so it should be a genuine source of worry for anyone supplying Linux machines in large quantities.
Yes, I did - this is a pleasant surprise.
I totally agree with this, the Wii remote is versatile, wireless, and inexpensive for what it is. I wish it had one or two extra buttons where the A button is though, because it doesn't have enough buttons for the right hand to map onto other console controllers very well. The classic controller has enough buttons, but no analog shoulder pads, which might be a problem one day for certain consoles.
Your comprehension fails - some farmers don't sign any contract, because the seeds come from plants that have spread out from other fields. So a farmer that hasn't entered into a contract is now unable to use seeds from plants on his own land for fear of being bullied by a huge corporation, because the seed might have come from a neighboring farm that uses their product.
If you're just planning on putting the info into a spreadsheet, try GnuCash, it has features that help you verify that all of your numbers match with reality, and some banks let you export your transaction data into formats that it can import, which gives you easy access to all of that data as well.
I'm really not qualified to talk about this, but I would guess that HR is usually full of non-technical people that try to solve this problem with only a "big picture" sort of perspective, when really what is needed is an aggressive, targeted push to reward and keep the talented people. However, perhaps this isn't even enough for people who may be bothered by mediocre colleagues, and it's much easier to reduce the average competence of your employees than it is to raise it up again. How are you supposed to hire better people when not-so-talented people are doing the hiring?
Connectivity should be treated like a public service. We don't expect private companies to compete at building our water infrastructure, so what sense is there in having them compete to upgrade our (wired) connectivity infrastructure? Both are analogous in that upgrades involve lots of digging where per capita costs are inversely proportional to population density. The ISP industry is a natural monopoly, and should be handled accordingly. If the government is hell bent on privatising things, surely they can figure something out, i.e. lease out the publicly owned infrastructure to private ISPs, which is what Bell is forced to do by regulation in Canada right now.
The above links are from a posting on http://freegamer.blogspot.com/ - I'm not sure if there are any decent split screen games in those lists, apart from running commercial console games in emulators, but there should be a decent amount of entertainment there if you count everything else.
As for the GP2X, if you place a higher priority on commercial games than on owning an open platform, by all means buy a DS or a PSP, since I would assume that the GP2X's useful software is mostly free ports of games from other platforms, as well as independently produced games for the GP2X and similar devices. I don't have one myself, I got a Nokia N800 instead, which isn't good for gaming, but is good for reading, listening to music, and browsing the web over 802.11g.
Given your signature, I would have assumed that you already had an answer for the first question ( get a PC and hook it up to the TV). If you don't have a problem with using an emulator to play copyrighted ROMs, then such a machine is capable of replacing most consoles except for the current and previous generations. Even if you do have a problem with this, there are still a variety of free games, though PC games are (of course) far less organized compared to console games, which either have a physical presence, or are organized in some common interface for playing with downloaded games.
As for the GP2X, which was recommended in a previous reply, the situation is more like PC than console gaming, in that there are plenty of free games, some emulators, and a smaller selection of commercial games than for the locked down consoles.
It's not even a question of legality. I think the phrase you are looking for is "well-behaved customer", where good behaviour is defined by Apple. This case shows that apparently even well-behaved developers, who are worth more than customers, are still prone to getting screwed. The moral of the story, in my opinion, is stay away from locked down hardware.
This isn't a technical problem, it's because you've given Windows permission to connect to networks you don't actually want it to connect to.
While waving your hands around trying to sound knowledgeable, you've shown that you aren't properly following the conversation. The N800 and N810 run Linux on an ARM core that runs at 400Mhz, and the OS they run comes with a working port of Flash, which is fast enough to watch flash videos, albeit with stutter sometimes.
Regardless, the iPhone has a significantly faster ARM core than the N800 and N810, 50% faster at 624MHz. I think this is more of a strategic decision than a performance issue, Jobs is basically saying that "Apple knows best" about flash because he doesn't want to give business and market share to Adobe. I have no objection to this, let them duke it out, flash is a scourge to web standards _and_ browser usability, and I don't have any Apple products to worry about anyway.
Two things:
I think the ribbon has been unfairly criticised since it became public. It eliminates the redundancy of having both menus and toolbars with the same commands in them, and makes better use of the space on the screen.
To be clear, I'm generally a critic of Microsoft, since they can be trusted to act in their own interest no matter how much they try to make it seem otherwise, and I've never used Office 2007 before. Despite that, I disagree with the ribbon bashing bandwagon people seem to want to jump on - there's plenty of legitimate things to criticise about Microsoft, no need to latch onto something that is actually a good idea. Also, this isn't directed at the post I'm replying to specifically, it's more of a generic rant about ribbon bashing.
Flash memory cards are more rugged than you think.
You're confused, GNOME is a suite of applications that provide a usable desktop environment, not a window manager. The window manager used in GNOME is called metacity, and it certainly is not becoming a VNC client.
I don't think the sourceforge page is used by anyone, kopete.sf.net redirects to kopete.kde.org. If you want a response of some kind, I suggest submitting it to their mailing list, see https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
I've made a bug at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458419, debdiff included!
I recently wrote a patch to fix a particularly egregious bug in Kopete 3.5 (the history search feature being totally and unnecessarily slow), and the response I got when I submitted the patch to the mailing list was that it would be pointless to apply it, they're not making any more releases of that branch. So there are people around to maintain stuff, but apparently nobody around to release it.
Indeed, I didn't get a Nokia 770 to read things on, but it turns out that the PDF viewer and FBReader are very good for reading stuff, and that's mostly what I use it for now. I have since gotten an N800, which has two SD card slots. 8GB cards can be had for $50 now, meaning you can have 16GB of music, movies and books in your pocket! I highly recommend an N800 or N810 - they're pocket sized, they can do much more than show books, and you'll avoid supporting industry usage of DRM.
I heard they would spend it on DS ads instead though, which seems plausible..
It's still useful for people to know about it separately. Octave is in Debian and other distributions, SAGE is not.
This does have to do with the president. It disappoints me how many commenters have forgotten the steady stream of headlines about NASA tragically abandoning scientifically useful project X in the past few years. Why would NASA be abandoning such things? Maybe it has to do with the president thinking that it would be cooler to put a man on Mars than to properly maintain all of NASA's existing science research.
Why do I feel like I'm reading an advertisement?