A trend which I see these days in Slashdot is aggressive downmodding like here is happening with VanessaE.
I don't know if "Minetest" is any good, but I thought it would be interesting to talk about how introducing an open source implementation would affect the patent situation.
And so much slower / more unstable than a physical connection.
That's not my experience. Wifi is surprisingly responsive these days, and while the theoretical speed maximum is never reached, there is plenty of bandwidth left. For a mini home LAN, it's excellent.
Aside this Babylscript, I sometimes wonder if there's already way too much redundant translations in the engineering world. For example, who needs a crappy article about mini-ITX in Finnish at Wikipedia. That is so special technical information that you oughta learn English anyway. I understand technical articles like Huuto.net (Finnish eBay-like site) that describe a local speciality. Then some game makers strive to have the menu texts in all possible languages, which again is a bit questionable. For games that have lot of text (such as adventure games), translations do make sense.
Here's my quick translation of the Päivän kasvo clip if you want to know what Jussi said there about a week ago.
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Miia Lahti: The face of today is Jussi Hurmola, CEO of Jolla.
Jussi Hurmola: Thanks for taking me to the show.
ML: Jussi Hurmola wrote to Twitter in Saturday that MeeGo is not dead. That ignited an avalanche that has kept the CEO more than busy. What this all is about, is that ex-Nokians are continuing developing the MeeGo phone, that being the exact MeeGo which Nokia abandoned from the way of Windows phone. Jussi Hurmola, you probably predicted a follow up to your tweet, but was it a surprise to what it all has lead? Phone is ringing non-stop.
JH: Well, it was a total surprise. We expected some interest to MeeGo from the world, and wanted to say that MeeGo is not dead, as MeeGo was in other news last week. But the response to all this has been amazing. At about 1PM Saturday we put out first one-liner "MeeGo is not dead" and after 15 minutes the first article about it was already written, even though we hadn't done much else with it. Since then we have pretty much followed the others' lead and during Saturday evening just had to reveal something about us. The speculation was rising and people demanded information. There was already an article about us in the Wall Street Journal and you just can't prepare for something like that. I thank about all the positive feedback we have got in Twitter and, really am surprised about this.
ML: So there is a lot of interest outside the borders of Finland?
JH: Absolutely! Almost...well...I'm starting to boast a bit here... English media, Chinese media, Russian media, our little news item has got a really wide coverage.
ML: We all are probably interested about how Nokia has reacted to this.
JH: Yep! As you mention Nokia, and many have been asking, I really have to send a thank you to them. I myself have had a 12 year career at Nokia and I have colleagues that have been 25 years on that path. Currently about half of our group is from Nokia. Nokia had this Bridge project by which we cooperated to make sure people from Nokia don't fall into oblivion but can continue working. Thanks for that! And a little thing we heard from Nokia today was that there is room for both firms. So I am pleased.
ML: Were they aware at Nokia that you were going to continue the development?
JH: Well, it was the project at Nokia to start new companies. We pulled it together and information went both ways. Yet looking forward at the timeline, we didn't expect the huge interest in Saturday and we'll see where we are going next. But we have been open to each other.
ML: So how can a small 50 person company like Jolla be bold enough to begin developing a smartphone?
JH: That's a good question. Just like the name Jolla (dinghy) says, we are navigating a little boat to the open seas. There we are among big players and we can't be small anymore. We try to build big enough base for Jolla to redeem its place within this industry. How I see Jolla's position, we are the company that makes possible in this world time, and its state, and the state of technology, to really create something new and important. That is how I see Jolla. And we are company of 50 for sure, but we have 6,000 followers in Twitter right now. Aside the market situation, the industry has changed in a way that you can buy lots of components off-shelf. Reference implementations for hardware...there's all sorts of Internet services. So you can assemble it together really quickly. Absolutely not are we starting everything from zero.
ML: You said you are about to create something new. Can you uncover any of that?
JH: If we talk about devices, I'm not ready to reveal details about them. Later this year we are going to present the line-up. We are a bit careful, as we want to deliver the things we promise. The new things we are doing here - someone knows MeeGo, some don't - but we are to deliver complet
How about Blu-Tack? Cause while I've been disassembling some laptops, many times the thermal pads have had a similar feeling (and even color) to it. According to Wikipedia, Blu-Tack has a flash point of 93C/200F, at which it releases carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, water vapour, oxides of nitrogen, and toxic fumes. So it maybe it would be just a bad idea. But its thermal properties would be a fun test.
There should be some de facto standard "how to choose a good password" guide, hosted by EFF or some other reputable organization. Then we would recommend web services to have a link to this guide during password creation process.
Why would you use tiny one-board computer when full computers aren't that expensive and, for that matter, the price probably isn't issue. You can get much better devices that way.
I think people are too often thinking Raspberry Pi as a mini-sized desktop computer, while it mainly targets simple programming and a basis for various embedded projects. R-Pi more like a really powerful Arduino. It's painful to read stories about people trying to cram some full-fledged linux distro into it.
But yes, if you really want a general-purpose mini desktop machine with lots of bang for the buck, I recommend getting a used netbook and forgetting R-Pi.
Things like ref's make editing the plain text pretty painful right now, as you simply can't read the text properly when every line is interrupted by three lines of ref hyperlinks and link descriptions.
Exactly -- this is part of what I was talking about when I pulled the example from the "SSD" article some comments above. So, even if you are a MediaWiki markup ninja, that kind of clutter just hinders you seeing the article in whole.
While I mostly like the Wikipedia as it is, one could create a printed book version of Wikipedia with hand-picked premium articles and put some extra punch and layout there.
I've always been a bit uncomfortable to "Like" a company in Facebook. Paying for the particular company's products should be enough liking for them, no more cocksucking needed.
I think it would be still nice to have a WYSIWYG interface. Actually I'm surprised that something like that is not in place already. The thing is, even if you mastered the markup (which is not even hard at all), many pages are a horrible mess to edit. For a quick example, see the source of chapter "Early SSDs using RAM and similar technology" in the "SSD" article.
The buzz around Raspberry Pi has made me several times think about raspberry pie and grabbing one from the supermarket. I'll try to remember next time, it would be great with coffee.
I was not describing what open source is about. I was talking about throwing the term around like it is some "broccoli technology" which makes everything pure and holy if sprinkled around. When TFA was talking about open source jeans and open source toilet paper, it started to sound like that. That said, I think his "year with OSS" experiment is awesome.
What I cringe about "open source" that it is used as some kind of synonym for something that makes everything automatically good. I bet that by large the biggest benefit of open source software is that it's usually free in cost.
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A trend which I see these days in Slashdot is aggressive downmodding like here is happening with VanessaE.
I don't know if "Minetest" is any good, but I thought it would be interesting to talk about how introducing an open source implementation would affect the patent situation.
I agree, it's high time to start reworking this ridiculous system.
Yes, but Apple has the power to choose the components, which makes a difference to what we see on the marketplace.
And so much slower / more unstable than a physical connection.
That's not my experience. Wifi is surprisingly responsive these days, and while the theoretical speed maximum is never reached, there is plenty of bandwidth left. For a mini home LAN, it's excellent.
Aside this Babylscript, I sometimes wonder if there's already way too much redundant translations in the engineering world. For example, who needs a crappy article about mini-ITX in Finnish at Wikipedia. That is so special technical information that you oughta learn English anyway. I understand technical articles like Huuto.net (Finnish eBay-like site) that describe a local speciality. Then some game makers strive to have the menu texts in all possible languages, which again is a bit questionable. For games that have lot of text (such as adventure games), translations do make sense.
And, usually, that's just to read shitty fucking documents that marketing or HR fucktards have drawn up.
You must love your workplace. :)
Here's my quick translation of the Päivän kasvo clip if you want to know what Jussi said there about a week ago.
---
Miia Lahti: The face of today is Jussi Hurmola, CEO of Jolla.
Jussi Hurmola: Thanks for taking me to the show.
ML: Jussi Hurmola wrote to Twitter in Saturday that MeeGo is not dead. That ignited an avalanche that has kept the CEO more than busy. What this all is about, is that ex-Nokians are continuing developing the MeeGo phone, that being the exact MeeGo which Nokia abandoned from the way of Windows phone. Jussi Hurmola, you probably predicted a follow up to your tweet, but was it a surprise to what it all has lead? Phone is ringing non-stop.
JH: Well, it was a total surprise. We expected some interest to MeeGo from the world, and wanted to say that MeeGo is not dead, as MeeGo was in other news last week. But the response to all this has been amazing. At about 1PM Saturday we put out first one-liner "MeeGo is not dead" and after 15 minutes the first article about it was already written, even though we hadn't done much else with it. Since then we have pretty much followed the others' lead and during Saturday evening just had to reveal something about us. The speculation was rising and people demanded information. There was already an article about us in the Wall Street Journal and you just can't prepare for something like that. I thank about all the positive feedback we have got in Twitter and, really am surprised about this.
ML: So there is a lot of interest outside the borders of Finland?
JH: Absolutely! Almost...well...I'm starting to boast a bit here... English media, Chinese media, Russian media, our little news item has got a really wide coverage.
ML: We all are probably interested about how Nokia has reacted to this.
JH: Yep! As you mention Nokia, and many have been asking, I really have to send a thank you to them. I myself have had a 12 year career at Nokia and I have colleagues that have been 25 years on that path. Currently about half of our group is from Nokia. Nokia had this Bridge project by which we cooperated to make sure people from Nokia don't fall into oblivion but can continue working. Thanks for that! And a little thing we heard from Nokia today was that there is room for both firms. So I am pleased.
ML: Were they aware at Nokia that you were going to continue the development?
JH: Well, it was the project at Nokia to start new companies. We pulled it together and information went both ways. Yet looking forward at the timeline, we didn't expect the huge interest in Saturday and we'll see where we are going next. But we have been open to each other.
ML: So how can a small 50 person company like Jolla be bold enough to begin developing a smartphone?
JH: That's a good question. Just like the name Jolla (dinghy) says, we are navigating a little boat to the open seas. There we are among big players and we can't be small anymore. We try to build big enough base for Jolla to redeem its place within this industry. How I see Jolla's position, we are the company that makes possible in this world time, and its state, and the state of technology, to really create something new and important. That is how I see Jolla. And we are company of 50 for sure, but we have 6,000 followers in Twitter right now. Aside the market situation, the industry has changed in a way that you can buy lots of components off-shelf. Reference implementations for hardware...there's all sorts of Internet services. So you can assemble it together really quickly. Absolutely not are we starting everything from zero.
ML: You said you are about to create something new. Can you uncover any of that?
JH: If we talk about devices, I'm not ready to reveal details about them. Later this year we are going to present the line-up. We are a bit careful, as we want to deliver the things we promise. The new things we are doing here - someone knows MeeGo, some don't - but we are to deliver complet
How about Blu-Tack? Cause while I've been disassembling some laptops, many times the thermal pads have had a similar feeling (and even color) to it. According to Wikipedia, Blu-Tack has a flash point of 93C/200F, at which it releases carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, water vapour, oxides of nitrogen, and toxic fumes. So it maybe it would be just a bad idea. But its thermal properties would be a fun test.
It seems that for typical use, both RPM and DEB are okay.
There should be some de facto standard "how to choose a good password" guide, hosted by EFF or some other reputable organization. Then we would recommend web services to have a link to this guide during password creation process.
Why would you use tiny one-board computer when full computers aren't that expensive and, for that matter, the price probably isn't issue. You can get much better devices that way.
I think people are too often thinking Raspberry Pi as a mini-sized desktop computer, while it mainly targets simple programming and a basis for various embedded projects. R-Pi more like a really powerful Arduino. It's painful to read stories about people trying to cram some full-fledged linux distro into it.
But yes, if you really want a general-purpose mini desktop machine with lots of bang for the buck, I recommend getting a used netbook and forgetting R-Pi.
I've seen deaf+mute people to establish a video call and use sign language.
I actually think that it is still an important topic to keep under discussion -- and a good reason why GOG.com should be favored instead.
It seems that users feel that Steam works so well (and it does!) that the concerns about DRM are forgotten.
Confirming that it's just you.
Things like ref's make editing the plain text pretty painful right now, as you simply can't read the text properly when every line is interrupted by three lines of ref hyperlinks and link descriptions.
Exactly -- this is part of what I was talking about when I pulled the example from the "SSD" article some comments above. So, even if you are a MediaWiki markup ninja, that kind of clutter just hinders you seeing the article in whole.
While I mostly like the Wikipedia as it is, one could create a printed book version of Wikipedia with hand-picked premium articles and put some extra punch and layout there.
I've always been a bit uncomfortable to "Like" a company in Facebook. Paying for the particular company's products should be enough liking for them, no more cocksucking needed.
It's clean, useable, and easy on the eyes. It doesn't need anything more.
An inverted color theme could be a nice addition.
I think it would be still nice to have a WYSIWYG interface. Actually I'm surprised that something like that is not in place already. The thing is, even if you mastered the markup (which is not even hard at all), many pages are a horrible mess to edit. For a quick example, see the source of chapter "Early SSDs using RAM and similar technology" in the "SSD" article.
The buzz around Raspberry Pi has made me several times think about raspberry pie and grabbing one from the supermarket. I'll try to remember next time, it would be great with coffee.
I was not describing what open source is about. I was talking about throwing the term around like it is some "broccoli technology" which makes everything pure and holy if sprinkled around. When TFA was talking about open source jeans and open source toilet paper, it started to sound like that. That said, I think his "year with OSS" experiment is awesome.
What I cringe about "open source" that it is used as some kind of synonym for something that makes everything automatically good. I bet that by large the biggest benefit of open source software is that it's usually free in cost.
Here's an image of their current prototype sapphire disk.
And when they grow up, you can suggest them joining the Autodesk Developer Network.