I remember a discussion a year or two ago here on Slashdot how X was badly in need of replacing. Sounds to me like Canonical have the right idea, and the impetus to make it happen.
Are you being serious? Have you never secured credit before in your life?
Yes I am, and no I have not.
ANY lending institution is going to require a credit check prior to lending you any money
Sure, they can refuse a loan, but how is changing the interest rate going to help make things better, unless they actually lower it for people who usually struggle to make payments?
Well, I'm not in a family home, but on Saturday alone I watched 2/3rds of The Big Bang Theory season 3, which is the equivalent of 3 movies:p I watch a lot of movies and TV series (on DVD/blu-ray, I don't ever watch broadcast TV), and I have a cinema card so that I get unlimited cinema for £13 a month. I make pretty good use of it, usually at least one movie per week. I definitely don't watch 20 movies every month, but I must get close sometimes. Tonight I was out doing Parkour for 3.5 hours, and if I hadn't started browsing YouTube and Slashdot when I got back, I would have started on Season 5 of Bleach by now:p
So far I've just avoided getting any loans besides my student loan, which is a fixed thing in Scotland, the rates are the same for everyone.. so I really wouldn't know.
I don't think there is necessarily any correlation between the number of years someone's been capable of taking out loans, and the browser they use.. though someone who uses a niche browser is probably someone that spends more time researching their options in everything they do.
For 1080p HD movies with 7.1 surround you could be looking at 25GB per movie, which only gives you 20 movies a month. In a family home there could easiy be 20 movies watched per month, even with some members of the household being out at work/school all day, or out getting fresh air in the evenings.
I exercise at least 3 times a week, but I still enjoy watching DVDs and blu-rays on my rest days, or after training..
Why should the interest rate depend on a credit check..? If I was advertised a certain rate on the website and then they turned around and said "actually, the real interest rate is 5%", I'd tell them where to go.
I don't think iOS counts as a "niche" player really. The iPad is a bit of a niche market, but the iPhone is very, very big. Yes, iOS not an option for non Apple manufacturers, but it is an option for end users, and that's all that really matters.
I wouldn't get an iPhone myself, but more and more of our employees are getting iPhones instead of Blackberrys, Windows or Nokia etc phones.
at the moment, the serious choices are Linux and Windows for OS.
I thought that the serious choices were Windows or OSX. At least many games and professional apps are being ported to OSX these days. There are a few geeky engineering type apps that run on Linux sure, but the "serious choices" for your average person are only Windows or OSX.
(I use Ubuntu at both work and home btw - my work is mostly web development, and I currently do all my gaming on consoles)
While it does mention it in the story, they seem to be getting the order of things backwards. I suspect there are far, far more owls being sacrificed than there are ones being given as pets.
The summary says they are being gifted by parents.
Of course this tells a whole different story. I think it's far more likely these birds are being slaughtered for Diwali than being gifted as Harry Potter toys o_0
Yes. In some keyboards, control and alt are right next to each other. Control-backspace is a nice shortcut for deleting a word at a time, so I can see some people hitting control-alt-backspace by mistake.
You think that phones are going to be stuck at 64GB max forever? Besides, people rarely watch a whole series of a TV program in one showing, and the majority of series at the moment are still in SD format. Currently I have one series on blu-ray, and maybe 50 on DVD.
Even with no actual storage available, they could be used to stream media from iTunes/whatever in the same way that AppleTV and its competitors do. The market for streaming media is only going to continue growing to the detriment of physical media. It's not yet at the stage where I'm going to give up my MP3 collection and subscribe to Spotify because they still are missing a few of my favourite artists, but eventually things will get there.
You didn't understand his point then. This is not playing Flash videos on the iPhone. This is converting the flash to another format on an external server which then is sent to the iPhone. No actual Flash is being run on the iPhone.
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I remember a discussion a year or two ago here on Slashdot how X was badly in need of replacing. Sounds to me like Canonical have the right idea, and the impetus to make it happen.
I still know a LOT of people who forward X over SSH
I don't think that's relevant. They'll still be able to use encrypted VNC, or some other solution of their choice.
That's hilarious, that is. I don't think I have ever in my life seen code start bloated and move towards tight efficiency.
That's not an answer to his question. He asked why not start with tight and efficient code?
Actually, I've either bought my cars outright (used, of course), or I can use company cars if I wish :p
Are you being serious? Have you never secured credit before in your life?
Yes I am, and no I have not.
ANY lending institution is going to require a credit check prior to lending you any money
Sure, they can refuse a loan, but how is changing the interest rate going to help make things better, unless they actually lower it for people who usually struggle to make payments?
Well, I'm not in a family home, but on Saturday alone I watched 2/3rds of The Big Bang Theory season 3, which is the equivalent of 3 movies :p I watch a lot of movies and TV series (on DVD/blu-ray, I don't ever watch broadcast TV), and I have a cinema card so that I get unlimited cinema for £13 a month. I make pretty good use of it, usually at least one movie per week. I definitely don't watch 20 movies every month, but I must get close sometimes. Tonight I was out doing Parkour for 3.5 hours, and if I hadn't started browsing YouTube and Slashdot when I got back, I would have started on Season 5 of Bleach by now :p
So far I've just avoided getting any loans besides my student loan, which is a fixed thing in Scotland, the rates are the same for everyone.. so I really wouldn't know.
I don't think there is necessarily any correlation between the number of years someone's been capable of taking out loans, and the browser they use.. though someone who uses a niche browser is probably someone that spends more time researching their options in everything they do.
For 1080p HD movies with 7.1 surround you could be looking at 25GB per movie, which only gives you 20 movies a month. In a family home there could easiy be 20 movies watched per month, even with some members of the household being out at work/school all day, or out getting fresh air in the evenings.
I exercise at least 3 times a week, but I still enjoy watching DVDs and blu-rays on my rest days, or after training..
Why should the interest rate depend on a credit check..? If I was advertised a certain rate on the website and then they turned around and said "actually, the real interest rate is 5%", I'd tell them where to go.
I did say "apparently", which means "appearing as such but not necessarily so".
I don't think iOS counts as a "niche" player really. The iPad is a bit of a niche market, but the iPhone is very, very big. Yes, iOS not an option for non Apple manufacturers, but it is an option for end users, and that's all that really matters.
I wouldn't get an iPhone myself, but more and more of our employees are getting iPhones instead of Blackberrys, Windows or Nokia etc phones.
at the moment, the serious choices are Linux and Windows for OS.
I thought that the serious choices were Windows or OSX. At least many games and professional apps are being ported to OSX these days. There are a few geeky engineering type apps that run on Linux sure, but the "serious choices" for your average person are only Windows or OSX.
(I use Ubuntu at both work and home btw - my work is mostly web development, and I currently do all my gaming on consoles)
All the other groups who run botnets, apparently.
Have you seen how rabid Harry Potter fans can be?
Can't say I have. Certainly not as crazy as the Dr Who fans anyway.
Now I wish I'd set up my car insurance on my own machine rather than while at my mum's house.
Who's saying it is? Correlation is really all insurance rates need to be based on.
How could you not even make it to reading the whole of the summary?
While it does mention it in the story, they seem to be getting the order of things backwards. I suspect there are far, far more owls being sacrificed than there are ones being given as pets.
The summary says they are being gifted by parents.
Of course this tells a whole different story. I think it's far more likely these birds are being slaughtered for Diwali than being gifted as Harry Potter toys o_0
This should be in the summary :/ +1,000,000 insightful.
This idea is stupid,
That's because I was making a joke.
Hitting that key combo accidentally? seriously?
Yes. In some keyboards, control and alt are right next to each other. Control-backspace is a nice shortcut for deleting a word at a time, so I can see some people hitting control-alt-backspace by mistake.
Do you also want all your page layout done with pointless blank images that increase download time rather than using the relevant HTML and CSS code..?
You think that phones are going to be stuck at 64GB max forever? Besides, people rarely watch a whole series of a TV program in one showing, and the majority of series at the moment are still in SD format. Currently I have one series on blu-ray, and maybe 50 on DVD.
Even with no actual storage available, they could be used to stream media from iTunes/whatever in the same way that AppleTV and its competitors do. The market for streaming media is only going to continue growing to the detriment of physical media. It's not yet at the stage where I'm going to give up my MP3 collection and subscribe to Spotify because they still are missing a few of my favourite artists, but eventually things will get there.
You didn't understand his point then. This is not playing Flash videos on the iPhone. This is converting the flash to another format on an external server which then is sent to the iPhone. No actual Flash is being run on the iPhone.