There's similar offers in Denmark too... However, I think they are by law restricted to a maximum of 6 months subscription... At least that's all they take...
If you do the math, keep in mind that european prices are ALWAY a lot higher then the American... I'd say between 25% and 100% higher!
Then hopefully he leaves he phone number after his name... So that you can call him at yell at him about vendor lockin, undefined specs, freedom and how incompetent you'd look if you used Word!
Once he hangup, you can go hungry to bed:) But at the very least you can sleep well, knowing that you stood up for what's right and did not accept an oppressing monopoly.
Then next morning you can start rewriting your CV in LaTeX, print it out on real physical paper an actually get a job...
4. Network manager: Anyway who has a 3G connection probably has a laptop. And laptop's need network profile. I need one for work and one for my apartment.
I think gnome's default network settings enables network profiles... But I certainly don't see a need for it... I just add the wireless networks I wan't to connect to and only one of them will be available at a time, problem solve... More complicated features would probably confuse endusers anyway...
8. Config-less x.org: Now this is nice. Hopefully it'll work well. I haven't had to use an xorg config file for a few years now beyond the default, though to support multiple monitors I've had to include a virtual screen line. Hopefully this will fix that problem.
Absolutely a nice feature... This have been scaring normal users for a long time. Now people doesn't have to touch it anymore...
I'm going to have to link to an article I read a few days ago:
http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/
In short it's about some Intel hackers makes Fedora boot in 5 secounds on an EEE PC, not exactly the best hardware.
Quote from the third article about the second, weaker magnet field:
During those periods of time, weakening of the main field reveals "virtual poles," regions of strong magnetism within the shallow core field. For example, Singer says, "If you were on Tahiti when those eruptions were taking place, your compass needle would point to not the North Pole, not the South Pole, but Australia."
Would it be possible to measure this magnet field now? e.g. the direction of this magnet field?
If so wouldn't it enable us to do predict our position on earth without stars/sun and time as in the old days, or GPS as used these days?
Just a random thought, I don't know if we can distinguish the two fields (which we probably can't apart from strength), or/and if the weak field is too weak to be measured. Does anybody have a clue?
Why's that a supprise... I can't read my own handwriting either... And I certainly can't read the handwriting written by someone else a hundred years ago... Why do you expect a program to be able to do so...
Moreover, they would take ownership of not just what they paid for, but also my changes leading up to this moment, and I wouldn't be able to continue on my original codebase in an open source manner if I sign their contract
It sounds like the company is trying to buy the copyright for the codebase... If they want to do that tell them they'll have to pay what it would cost to develop the codebase as is...
How about Norwegian -- is it particularly easy or particularly hard to translate?
I'm Danish it's mostly the same language... And they are not said to be easy...
I'd imagine that google uses some statistical analysis, but it surprises me they'd be able to find enough training data...
I don't suspend to disk because it usually sucks... NetworkManager fails, wireless complains... And somehow some videos causes X to crash beyond what restart of X fixes... Probably a really bad graphics driver... Or maybe I haven't configured it to reload the graphics driver correctly. I did that using config files in earlier versions to enable compiz after wakeup..
When I used SuSE 10.0 (Which I dumbed when their package manager broke ever more) suspend to disk worked just fine... Now I run Ubuntu and I know I ought to run something less buggy..
But suspend to ram and disk isn't the most stable feature... Sometimes it just really sucks... Nevertheless it's actually one of the most important features.
That would be my advice too... If one needs to integrate IM, etc. just tell your normal IM program to store logs in a directory under revision control...
But for communication I'd suggest a mailinglist or similar, Google Groups perhaps...
I agree software/hardware integration is needed... A wild suggestion from me would be to install linux... Not give the users root access and having the manufacturer administrate that machines remotely using SSH...
Is a tablet with SSD, touchscreen and a pretty design... Pretty much like the internet tablet techcrunch wanted to design...
But I think the keyword for a successful netbook is to have a pretty design, drop x86, and tightly integration software!
Everybody seems to be forgetting the most important thing software... Make a netbook that will be remotely administered by manufacturer... Screw customers freedom, unless they ask for it, and let the manufacture own the root account... Don't give users a root account!
A pretty design and a system supported, as in remotely administered by manufacture, promoted through capabilities not system specs, is the key to success...
Tell the user that the browser will open in 0.5 sec and the wordprocessor in 0.8 sec... And that the system will boot in 10 sec... And that they don't have to worry about updating software and installing applications, because they can't do that it will be remotely administered by the manufacturer...
Okay, I'm not sure about the "remotely administered" which means not root access for user... But for the average Joe it might be good... One might allow root access but tell users that it breaks software support warranty.
Nevertheless, the key to sucess which I think everybody is forgetting is that lowering system specs requires serious software/hardware integration in order to work good...
I'm usually not paranoid about radio radiation... But extremely high frequency from a satelite?
Also, I've got to comment this thing... I'm sorry can't hold it back...:)
If GPS and remote imaging (think Google Earth) have proven anything, it is that technology initially developed for military purposes, and extremely expensive for initial civil use, will eventually reach the point where it forms part of our daily lives without us ever being conscious of the massive investment to get to that point.
I don't think that means that the technology could not have been developed without the military... It's just because you Americans have a problem subsidizing general purpose technology if it doesn't have a military purpose...
If you deliberately keep your products closed, I think you might get problems with the competitionboard in some parts of the world at least... Perhaps even without a monopoly...
So any chip maker like VIA is not required to pay the patent licensing royalties since they just produce an 'intermediate product' which somebody else can turn into a 'consumer product'.
This works fine in an environment where VIA makes chips and provides reference driver code under NDA to a system integrator
Just pay the license and tell the system integrator that each machine comes with an MPEG2/H.264/... license. Yeah, you product will seem more expensive (to the stupid system integrator).:)
Actually where I live it's the parliament that makes the laws, and the government that brings the criminals to court... Where I live the goverment does usually not have a majority in the parliament, and I think that's a huge advantage...
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There's similar offers in Denmark too... However, I think they are by law restricted to a maximum of 6 months subscription... At least that's all they take...
If you do the math, keep in mind that european prices are ALWAY a lot higher then the American... I'd say between 25% and 100% higher!
Then hopefully he leaves he phone number after his name... So that you can call him at yell at him about vendor lockin, undefined specs, freedom and how incompetent you'd look if you used Word!
Once he hangup, you can go hungry to bed :) But at the very least you can sleep well, knowing that you stood up for what's right and did not accept an oppressing monopoly.
Then next morning you can start rewriting your CV in LaTeX, print it out on real physical paper an actually get a job...
I doubt they'll deny to receive your CV in pdf...
4. Network manager: Anyway who has a 3G connection probably has a laptop. And laptop's need network profile. I need one for work and one for my apartment.
I think gnome's default network settings enables network profiles... But I certainly don't see a need for it... I just add the wireless networks I wan't to connect to and only one of them will be available at a time, problem solve... More complicated features would probably confuse endusers anyway...
8. Config-less x.org: Now this is nice. Hopefully it'll work well. I haven't had to use an xorg config file for a few years now beyond the default, though to support multiple monitors I've had to include a virtual screen line. Hopefully this will fix that problem.
Absolutely a nice feature... This have been scaring normal users for a long time. Now people doesn't have to touch it anymore...
I'm going to have to link to an article I read a few days ago: http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/
In short it's about some Intel hackers makes Fedora boot in 5 secounds on an EEE PC, not exactly the best hardware.
So become the next American president all you have to do is to be fat...
:)
- Sorry, I just couldn't help it...
As far as I remember you can in Germany be accused and legally punished for challenging an idea, that for me to quote here would violete Godwin's law.
I'm not saying that such laws are good, but we have them almost everywhere...
That was my first thought too...
During those periods of time, weakening of the main field reveals "virtual poles," regions of strong magnetism within the shallow core field. For example, Singer says, "If you were on Tahiti when those eruptions were taking place, your compass needle would point to not the North Pole, not the South Pole, but Australia."
Would it be possible to measure this magnet field now? e.g. the direction of this magnet field?
If so wouldn't it enable us to do predict our position on earth without stars/sun and time as in the old days, or GPS as used these days?
Just a random thought, I don't know if we can distinguish the two fields (which we probably can't apart from strength), or/and if the weak field is too weak to be measured. Does anybody have a clue?
Why's that a supprise... I can't read my own handwriting either... And I certainly can't read the handwriting written by someone else a hundred years ago... Why do you expect a program to be able to do so...
Moreover, they would take ownership of not just what they paid for, but also my changes leading up to this moment, and I wouldn't be able to continue on my original codebase in an open source manner if I sign their contract
It sounds like the company is trying to buy the copyright for the codebase... If they want to do that tell them they'll have to pay what it would cost to develop the codebase as is...
How about Norwegian -- is it particularly easy or particularly hard to translate?
I'm Danish it's mostly the same language... And they are not said to be easy...
I'd imagine that google uses some statistical analysis, but it surprises me they'd be able to find enough training data...
Microsoft and lots of other proprietary software companies does that all the time... :)
I don't suspend to disk because it usually sucks... NetworkManager fails, wireless complains... And somehow some videos causes X to crash beyond what restart of X fixes... Probably a really bad graphics driver... Or maybe I haven't configured it to reload the graphics driver correctly. I did that using config files in earlier versions to enable compiz after wakeup..
When I used SuSE 10.0 (Which I dumbed when their package manager broke ever more) suspend to disk worked just fine... Now I run Ubuntu and I know I ought to run something less buggy..
But suspend to ram and disk isn't the most stable feature... Sometimes it just really sucks... Nevertheless it's actually one of the most important features.
That would be my advice too... If one needs to integrate IM, etc. just tell your normal IM program to store logs in a directory under revision control...
But for communication I'd suggest a mailinglist or similar, Google Groups perhaps...
I agree software/hardware integration is needed... A wild suggestion from me would be to install linux... Not give the users root access and having the manufacturer administrate that machines remotely using SSH...
I guess there's European prices and environmentally irresponsibly American prices... :)
(I'm sorry for being ) http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/28/1221221&from=rss#
Is a tablet with SSD, touchscreen and a pretty design... Pretty much like the internet tablet techcrunch wanted to design...
But I think the keyword for a successful netbook is to have a pretty design, drop x86, and tightly integration software!
Everybody seems to be forgetting the most important thing software... Make a netbook that will be remotely administered by manufacturer... Screw customers freedom, unless they ask for it, and let the manufacture own the root account... Don't give users a root account!
A pretty design and a system supported, as in remotely administered by manufacture, promoted through capabilities not system specs, is the key to success...
Tell the user that the browser will open in 0.5 sec and the wordprocessor in 0.8 sec... And that the system will boot in 10 sec... And that they don't have to worry about updating software and installing applications, because they can't do that it will be remotely administered by the manufacturer...
Okay, I'm not sure about the "remotely administered" which means not root access for user... But for the average Joe it might be good... One might allow root access but tell users that it breaks software support warranty.
Nevertheless, the key to sucess which I think everybody is forgetting is that lowering system specs requires serious software/hardware integration in order to work good...
Which is okay because a study confirms most users are idiots... So if user shall fail we might as well make the process short... :)
Extremely High Frequency
I'm usually not paranoid about radio radiation... But extremely high frequency from a satelite?
:)
Also, I've got to comment this thing... I'm sorry can't hold it back...
If GPS and remote imaging (think Google Earth) have proven anything, it is that technology initially developed for military purposes, and extremely expensive for initial civil use, will eventually reach the point where it forms part of our daily lives without us ever being conscious of the massive investment to get to that point.
I don't think that means that the technology could not have been developed without the military... It's just because you Americans have a problem subsidizing general purpose technology if it doesn't have a military purpose...
If you deliberately keep your products closed, I think you might get problems with the competitionboard in some parts of the world at least... Perhaps even without a monopoly...
If so, what the changes that her campaign leaked the emails?
So any chip maker like VIA is not required to pay the patent licensing royalties since they just produce an 'intermediate product' which somebody else can turn into a 'consumer product'. This works fine in an environment where VIA makes chips and provides reference driver code under NDA to a system integrator
Just pay the license and tell the system integrator that each machine comes with an MPEG2/H.264/... license. Yeah, you product will seem more expensive (to the stupid system integrator). :)
$ export AGES = '24 hours'; No try with $AGES instead...
Actually where I live it's the parliament that makes the laws, and the government that brings the criminals to court... Where I live the goverment does usually not have a majority in the parliament, and I think that's a huge advantage...