1. It is not yet released 2. Every browser these days leaks your search terms if you type them into the URL bar (not the "search" box". I did not see an outcry.
And although slight, it might slow down the system. Maybe 4% will not result in a noticable change, but could it slow the system down enough to give someone an advantage? (..) Yeah I know, that's pure speculation.
That's exactly what I read in some article might be the point:
“My guess is that the algo was testing the market, as high-frequency frequently does,” says Jon Najarian, co-founder of TradeMonster.com. “As soon as they add bandwidth, the HFT crowd sees how quickly they can top out to create latency.” (Read More: Unclear What Caused Kraft Spike: Nanex Founder.)
Translation: The ultimate goal of many of these programs is to gum up the system so it slows down the quote feed to others and allows the computer traders (with their co-located servers at the exchanges) to gain a money-making arbitrage opportunity.
I'm sure you don't mind the laws prohibiting airline pilots from imbibing before they report to work. Wait. That's ok to limit pilots off-hours activities? Which is it then? Do you want the govt to limit off-hours activities or not?
1. Their jobs require that. 2. They should be fairly compensated for this additional responsibility.
And that's cleary morally wrong, and economically stupid. I am thankful to live in Europe, where the ability to make 10 minute break every 2 hours or so is legally mandated in many professions. Obviously it's not implemented in lots of places, but it's still a good thing to have, at least as a weapon to prevent terminations because of that shit.
It's actually a good thing to have a break of 5-10 minutes every hour or two in many professions, if you so desire. Back pain due to problems in the spine from bad posture at desks or bodily work is *the* most costly disease for society at least in Germany, next to mental issues liek depression. Getting up now and then and moving about would help tremendously with this - so much so that it's a legal right in Germany.
Instead of chaining smokers to a desk for hours on end, the better approach would be the other way around: making sure that non-smokers make breaks as well.
However, your smoking does has an effect on me - if nothing but for financial reasons if you truly do smoke in a vacuum. Your statistically more likely to get sick, and to die early.
Would have to be calculated, and I am aware of official studies in Europe at least saying that overall a smoker is cheaper because they die earlier and are less likely to need years of care due to dementia et al. In addition, cigarettes are highly taxed in Europe to make up for whatever additional costs smokers might create. In practice it is so high that beyond additional health costs it also pays for a good deal of public infrastructure.
The sickness raises insurance premiums for everyone. When you die, it's statistically a large ordeal leading up to the death- multiple cardiac events, strokes, etc. Eventually you will die, but your insurance company will spend a lot of money keeping you alive, and the hospital will spend a lot of time caring for you.
They will do the same when I live healthy and suffer from Alzheimer's for two decades at the end. Again, a question of economics and statistics. And of course I have retaliation weapons: I practice Tai Chi Chuan a whole lot, out of my own budget and out of my own time. It may just mean that I won't fall in my old age and need a femur reconstruction, or new knee and hip joints due to bad posture. Do I get a refund for that? Can I demand that other people must practice Tai Chi Chuan as well? Can or should I be able to demand that people who do dangerous stuff at home - e.g., when renovating their house, or something - shoud not get health insurance benefits when they need them? No, and it's the right thing this way.
If you are old enough for socialized medicine, then you really do cost me more.
This does indeed effect me. The most I am gaining is some extra tax funds to the state...but those are short term gains. Long term, I am getting swindled.
And once more, present the numbers. I paid for my health insurance my whole life and will do so when old. If it is noth high enough, I hope that insurance maths and state regulation together will adapt it to a sustainable level.
It's terribly sad to see how the concept of solidarity was erased from several consecutive generations mostly in the US but in Europe as well.
Slackware on floppies, and had to immediately procure help from a linux user in the local BB (thanks A.T.!) to install a development kernel to support a piece of hardware I had. 1.3.78 from March 25, 1996. SuSE (since then Linux distros have been the only desktop OS used in my house) RedHat (a few months) Debian Gentoo (for a week or two) Debian Ubuntu (since nearly from the start and liking Unity more and more)
Glad I could help. Actually I made a typo, it's "unity-lens-shopping", which makes more sense anyway. In addition, configuration options will be added, see today's blog post about the Amazon feature by Shuttleworth: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182
It's a bit of a PR disaster that this blog post comes after the feature landed in the Beta. If Shuttleworth had published this in advance, many of the misunderstandings which fueled this Slashdot discussion could have been avoided.
Oh sorry, I've had that for so long I've started to think it's in the defaults. Install Ubuntu Tweak, it's there under the Windows options. And there are many other things you can customize there without mucking about in compizconfig-settings-manager. If you are on a release prior to 12.10 (Quantal), you may want to install MyUnity as well (needs a PPA IIRC). In Quantal, the interesting MyUnity features have been merged into Ubuntu Tweak
If one can only single-task, then any adware shown cannot be ignored. It might be dismissed, but not hidden. In a multi-windowed world with minimization, shading (rollups) these ads might be skipped easily.
Canonical is learning.
The wrong thing.
Disclosure: I have never installed any flavor of Ubuntu, but I have used Mepis, Mint, Ultimate and Bodhi, all based on Ubuntu.
Except of course that multitasking is just fine in Unity including minimize and roll-up, and arguably better in places than it ever was before, like the improved Alt+Tab and Alt+`
LMAO at the people talking about "blocking". How about simply uninstalling the shopping lens (and investigating a situation before using big words? Oh well, Slashdot...)
And it doesn't in the Unity version with the supposed "ads" either. People are overreacting, this aren't ads, but search suggestions. Personally I don't see the harm of getting additional Amazon results when searching for music on my machine. From the very start of Unity, Ubuntu promised that they will build a system the closely integrates the local desktop with the Internet. One does not have to like it, but acting surprised is ricidulous.
Big deal? You'd be shitting up a hate storm if this were a discussion about ads on Kindles. Fucking fanbois. Amazing.
I can assure you that ads on Kindle leave me entirely cold. As for the size of the deal, what I said what that the OP (you?) wrote as if Canonical had gone to any lengths to prevent removal, when OP wrote that someone would have to develop a tool for that. Which is plainly wrong and possibly flamebait.
That's fine if you don't want it, other people might. I can see your complaint about notification and easy removal, but of course searching Google for ubuntu and ads of course already finds you the info. Anyway, there was no final release yet, who's to say whether they planned an option anyway.
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1. It is not yet released
2. Every browser these days leaks your search terms if you type them into the URL bar (not the "search" box". I did not see an outcry.
It's not released yet, you know.
No need to, you can turn it off anyway, in Privacy settings.
And although slight, it might slow down the system. Maybe 4% will not result in a noticable change, but could it slow the system down enough to give someone an advantage? (..) Yeah I know, that's pure speculation.
That's exactly what I read in some article might be the point:
“My guess is that the algo was testing the market, as high-frequency frequently does,” says Jon Najarian, co-founder of TradeMonster.com. “As soon as they add bandwidth, the HFT crowd sees how quickly they can top out to create latency.” (Read More: Unclear What Caused Kraft Spike: Nanex Founder.)
Translation: The ultimate goal of many of these programs is to gum up the system so it slows down the quote feed to others and allows the computer traders (with their co-located servers at the exchanges) to gain a money-making arbitrage opportunity.
Talking about society as a whole has nothing to do with you as an individual.
And you want to lecture me about believing bullshit?
I'm sure you don't mind the laws prohibiting airline pilots from imbibing before they report to work. Wait. That's ok to limit pilots off-hours activities? Which is it then? Do you want the govt to limit off-hours activities or not?
1. Their jobs require that.
2. They should be fairly compensated for this additional responsibility.
And that's cleary morally wrong, and economically stupid. I am thankful to live in Europe, where the ability to make 10 minute break every 2 hours or so is legally mandated in many professions. Obviously it's not implemented in lots of places, but it's still a good thing to have, at least as a weapon to prevent terminations because of that shit.
Your co-workers suck, this has little to do with them being smokers.
It's actually a good thing to have a break of 5-10 minutes every hour or two in many professions, if you so desire. Back pain due to problems in the spine from bad posture at desks or bodily work is *the* most costly disease for society at least in Germany, next to mental issues liek depression. Getting up now and then and moving about would help tremendously with this - so much so that it's a legal right in Germany.
Instead of chaining smokers to a desk for hours on end, the better approach would be the other way around: making sure that non-smokers make breaks as well.
I totally agree with you to an extent.
However, your smoking does has an effect on me - if nothing but for financial reasons if you truly do smoke in a vacuum. Your statistically more likely to get sick, and to die early.
Would have to be calculated, and I am aware of official studies in Europe at least saying that overall a smoker is cheaper because they die earlier and are less likely to need years of care due to dementia et al. In addition, cigarettes are highly taxed in Europe to make up for whatever additional costs smokers might create. In practice it is so high that beyond additional health costs it also pays for a good deal of public infrastructure.
The sickness raises insurance premiums for everyone. When you die, it's statistically a large ordeal leading up to the death- multiple cardiac events, strokes, etc. Eventually you will die, but your insurance company will spend a lot of money keeping you alive, and the hospital will spend a lot of time caring for you.
They will do the same when I live healthy and suffer from Alzheimer's for two decades at the end. Again, a question of economics and statistics. And of course I have retaliation weapons: I practice Tai Chi Chuan a whole lot, out of my own budget and out of my own time. It may just mean that I won't fall in my old age and need a femur reconstruction, or new knee and hip joints due to bad posture. Do I get a refund for that? Can I demand that other people must practice Tai Chi Chuan as well? Can or should I be able to demand that people who do dangerous stuff at home - e.g., when renovating their house, or something - shoud not get health insurance benefits when they need them? No, and it's the right thing this way.
If you are old enough for socialized medicine, then you really do cost me more.
This does indeed effect me. The most I am gaining is some extra tax funds to the state...but those are short term gains. Long term, I am getting swindled.
And once more, present the numbers. I paid for my health insurance my whole life and will do so when old. If it is noth high enough, I hope that insurance maths and state regulation together will adapt it to a sustainable level.
It's terribly sad to see how the concept of solidarity was erased from several consecutive generations mostly in the US but in Europe as well.
Slackware on floppies, and had to immediately procure help from a linux user in the local BB (thanks A.T.!) to install a development kernel to support a piece of hardware I had. 1.3.78 from March 25, 1996.
SuSE (since then Linux distros have been the only desktop OS used in my house)
RedHat (a few months)
Debian
Gentoo (for a week or two)
Debian
Ubuntu (since nearly from the start and liking Unity more and more)
Glad I could help. Actually I made a typo, it's "unity-lens-shopping", which makes more sense anyway. In addition, configuration options will be added, see today's blog post about the Amazon feature by Shuttleworth: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182
It's a bit of a PR disaster that this blog post comes after the feature landed in the Beta. If Shuttleworth had published this in advance, many of the misunderstandings which fueled this Slashdot discussion could have been avoided.
Oh sorry, I've had that for so long I've started to think it's in the defaults. Install Ubuntu Tweak, it's there under the Windows options. And there are many other things you can customize there without mucking about in compizconfig-settings-manager. If you are on a release prior to 12.10 (Quantal), you may want to install MyUnity as well (needs a PPA IIRC). In Quantal, the interesting MyUnity features have been merged into Ubuntu Tweak
Point remains that just because you can do something does not make it right.
It all comes clear now.
If one can only single-task, then any adware shown cannot be ignored. It might be dismissed, but not hidden. In a multi-windowed world with minimization, shading (rollups) these ads might be skipped easily.
Canonical is learning.
The wrong thing.
Disclosure: I have never installed any flavor of Ubuntu, but I have used Mepis, Mint, Ultimate and Bodhi, all based on Ubuntu.
Except of course that multitasking is just fine in Unity including minimize and roll-up, and arguably better in places than it ever was before, like the improved Alt+Tab and Alt+`
apt-get remove unity-shopping-lense
apt-get remove unity-shopping-lens, done.
You can kill people without being caught as well.
LMAO at the people talking about "blocking". How about simply uninstalling the shopping lens (and investigating a situation before using big words? Oh well, Slashdot ...)
Um, no, it uninstalls the package.
And it doesn't in the Unity version with the supposed "ads" either. People are overreacting, this aren't ads, but search suggestions. Personally I don't see the harm of getting additional Amazon results when searching for music on my machine. From the very start of Unity, Ubuntu promised that they will build a system the closely integrates the local desktop with the Internet. One does not have to like it, but acting surprised is ricidulous.
Big deal? You'd be shitting up a hate storm if this were a discussion about ads on Kindles. Fucking fanbois. Amazing.
I can assure you that ads on Kindle leave me entirely cold. As for the size of the deal, what I said what that the OP (you?) wrote as if Canonical had gone to any lengths to prevent removal, when OP wrote that someone would have to develop a tool for that. Which is plainly wrong and possibly flamebait.
Sorry. "search for Ubuntu and Amazon and ads" I meant.
That's fine if you don't want it, other people might. I can see your complaint about notification and easy removal, but of course searching Google for ubuntu and ads of course already finds you the info. Anyway, there was no final release yet, who's to say whether they planned an option anyway.