1/2) Install other distros I belive they have said they want to make it open enough to potentially run Windows, so I think other distros should run fine (well, except if the distro doesn't provide enough up-to-date bits).
3) The games are protected only by Steam's own DRM and not encumbered by anything more onerous. That's all games made by Valve. Other companies can include worse DRM, but I don't think they will be able to get root. So they are stuck with always online DRM; which means I won't consider those games anyway...
4) All games use the controller. The keyboard and mouse can be an option, but it should not be the only option. I think that is Valve's vision. Have you tried Big Picture mode?
I would also consider buying one just if it's a nice small form factor PC, even if I can't upgrade anything besides the hard drive. (And it's at a comparable price point to consoles).
You mention SETI in the post, but why not pick some distibuted projects that are useful to your company to help push the research forwards? Most big companies want to find ways to improve their public image, this is a great way to do it.
If you don't already you should look into getting a special deal for power consumption at night. It should cost much less than powering on in the daytime. In fact, if you could have your system off in the daytime and only run it at night you could likely get really good deals in certain electric markets.
I feel like the blurb (at the bottom) from http://fixthedma.org/ is just not enough. This article goes further...
Let's go even further.
Anti-circumvention technologies should be ILLEGAL in general consumer devices. They are anti-competitive, restrict consumer choice, and usually have to spy on users. The LAW already protects those corporations copyright interests (and to an insane degree, but that is a slightly different rant).
It seems like we've given up on what a government for and by the people is supposed to do. We need a government that helps make markets better and more competitive. The law should protect consumers from these unethehical practices, and they are unethical.
I just sent that to my representatives, you can do the same... (http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml)
who otherwise don't have PCs. They usually use them to just browse the web and other basic tasks. Firefox is better on older hardware than Chrome in my opinion. Especially if you are memory limited or if you want to watch Flash videos. Chrome is actually laggy in those situations.
It's slow going giving them away, though. Most people think that a newer PC will work better for them, but usually because of crapware it never does. And for a novice user re-installing Windows is hugely more difficult then installing Ubuntu (or Fedora, or OpenSuse, Mint, etc). I should note, I have no direct experience with Windows 8 yet.. so maybe it's much better...
And they are still advertising Moonlight even though it is a dead project (and they admit it!). Can someone PLEASE turn off this site*! http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/
One of the biggest problem with Linux is people abandoning projects and not removing them from the net/distros. You were wrong, you've admited it, but you leave us the mess.
*In all seriousness, the few Silverlight websites redirect their Linux users to this page where it almost never works for them. This of course makes the Linux experience go from just "Unsupported" to building up the hopes of the users and then Unsupported.
Name it. I find that is the most common thing said about Ron Paul. That he has crazy ideas, yet most people can' t actually name one of them. It's not saying much, but he seems to be the most sane of the republican presidential candidates, by far..
I'll name one. Switching to the gold standard. It could have worked when he first got into congress, now there is way too much money to really make that work. It's also a bad idea, because gold is actually useful in electronics, not just as currency.
It is getting easier. I eventually reinstalled it because I got tired of not being able to play some youtube videos and wanted to edit a map on OpenStreetMap.
I normally use Click to play on everything (in Firefox), and it does have some pain points. Namely sites that can usually fallback to not using flash, still ask for flash and block it. YouTube does this sometimes even though it is going to work without flash. So does http://gs.statcounter.com/. Google actually asks for Flash the most out of sites that I use: Google Finance Stocks, Google Voice (download as MP3 instead), Gmail (not useful anyway)...
Many average sites just use Flash for Ads or "Intro Banners" in which case it really is no great loss.
Yea.. I tell them what the pros and cons are before I give them a PC (with Ubuntu or Windows). Do iPhones really still need software installed on the PC? I thought they finally got better than that?
For Netflix I would say: there is currently a way to play Netflix but it is not supported by Netflix officially and I wouldn't depend on it as your only way to play Netflix.
That is true that Microsoft does have that as their requirement for all x86 machines. ARM is not that case at all, and you can't turn secure boot off at all.
There is nothing that I could find requiring it to be easy. What if you have to contact the company and request it? I see no reason they couldn't do that. (That's a similar model to what the OLPC people did). It's not so hard to fathem that they don't bother if you have less than 100 machines...
That's why I said "depending on the manufactuer". Do you think Microsoft will revoke an x86 vendors sticker because it's very difficult to disable "secure" boot?
LibreOffice is the office suite with the momentum at this point. So I agree in part, except it it is the Apache Foundation that should stop and let the organization created specifically for this purpose, The Document Foundation, to develop the premier FLOSS office suite.
Oracle had OpenOffice frozen in place for over a year. You can't just freeze a project and expect the community will just sit there doing nothing for that long of a time.
On another note, I find the LibreOffice name much better. Although part of that might be remembering when OpenOffice was called OpenOffice.org.
I did http://www.optoutprescreen.com/ and it stopped the majority of the most annoying junk mail. The kind that might let someone start a credit card in my name if they intercept it....
I think they should (and will) eventually.. maybe start with any site that has more than 3 flash objects. Then more than 1. Then click to play on all flash. It does make sense to do flash more gradually.
"IT work" is quite vaque. It covers running a supercomputer cluster to maintaining systems for small businesses. What would you like to be doing in the IT field?
No one is talking about removing the LTSs. The rolling release would replace the non-LTS releases. So the releases would be: 14.04 Rolling Release up until 16.04 Rolling Release up until 18.04 etc
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1/2) Install other distros
I belive they have said they want to make it open enough to potentially run Windows, so I think other distros should run fine (well, except if the distro doesn't provide enough up-to-date bits).
3) The games are protected only by Steam's own DRM and not encumbered by anything more onerous.
That's all games made by Valve. Other companies can include worse DRM, but I don't think they will be able to get root. So they are stuck with always online DRM; which means I won't consider those games anyway...
4) All games use the controller. The keyboard and mouse can be an option, but it should not be the only option.
I think that is Valve's vision. Have you tried Big Picture mode?
I would also consider buying one just if it's a nice small form factor PC, even if I can't upgrade anything besides the hard drive. (And it's at a comparable price point to consoles).
You mention SETI in the post, but why not pick some distibuted projects that are useful to your company to help push the research forwards? Most big companies want to find ways to improve their public image, this is a great way to do it.
There are many options: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
If you don't already you should look into getting a special deal for power consumption at night. It should cost much less than powering on in the daytime. In fact, if you could have your system off in the daytime and only run it at night you could likely get really good deals in certain electric markets.
Please elaborate about window screens. My computer is at desk level right next to a window.. What am I doing wrong and why?
It does seem to get dusty fast...
> There was a time in this country when if a thing was not illegal, then it was legal.
How is that not still the case? In fact, in the summary it basically said 3d printed guns will be legal until something bad happens with them.
Yes... they are clearly doing this to hide their work on a iHat.
I feel like the blurb (at the bottom) from http://fixthedma.org/ is just not enough. This article goes further...
Let's go even further.
Anti-circumvention technologies should be ILLEGAL in general consumer devices. They are anti-competitive, restrict consumer choice, and usually have to spy on users. The LAW already protects those corporations copyright interests (and to an insane degree, but that is a slightly different rant).
It seems like we've given up on what a government for and by the people is supposed to do. We need a government that helps make markets better and more competitive. The law should protect consumers from these unethehical practices, and they are unethical.
I just sent that to my representatives, you can do the same... (http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml)
Now the European Union has to move to Linux and LibreOffice. :)
Although that doesn't even get us far enough seeing how Microsoft is a contributor to Linux.
who otherwise don't have PCs. They usually use them to just browse the web and other basic tasks. Firefox is better on older hardware than Chrome in my opinion. Especially if you are memory limited or if you want to watch Flash videos. Chrome is actually laggy in those situations.
It's slow going giving them away, though. Most people think that a newer PC will work better for them, but usually because of crapware it never does. And for a novice user re-installing Windows is hugely more difficult then installing Ubuntu (or Fedora, or OpenSuse, Mint, etc). I should note, I have no direct experience with Windows 8 yet.. so maybe it's much better...
I'm out of practice... was "playing" https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=de.komola.pi
Nope. In fact, I think it made it worse.
And they are still advertising Moonlight even though it is a dead project (and they admit it!). Can someone PLEASE turn off this site*! http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/
One of the biggest problem with Linux is people abandoning projects and not removing them from the net/distros. You were wrong, you've admited it, but you leave us the mess.
*In all seriousness, the few Silverlight websites redirect their Linux users to this page where it almost never works for them. This of course makes the Linux experience go from just "Unsupported" to building up the hopes of the users and then Unsupported.
if they both committed the crimes?
Was there a GPS logging that could confirm one story or the other? 54 mph vs 60 is quite a big difference on this long of a journey...
> that is utterly loony/suicidal
Name it. I find that is the most common thing said about Ron Paul. That he has crazy ideas, yet most people can' t actually name one of them. It's not saying much, but he seems to be the most sane of the republican presidential candidates, by far..
I'll name one. Switching to the gold standard. It could have worked when he first got into congress, now there is way too much money to really make that work. It's also a bad idea, because gold is actually useful in electronics, not just as currency.
It is getting easier. I eventually reinstalled it because I got tired of not being able to play some youtube videos and wanted to edit a map on OpenStreetMap.
I normally use Click to play on everything (in Firefox), and it does have some pain points. Namely sites that can usually fallback to not using flash, still ask for flash and block it. YouTube does this sometimes even though it is going to work without flash. So does http://gs.statcounter.com/.
Google actually asks for Flash the most out of sites that I use: Google Finance Stocks, Google Voice (download as MP3 instead), Gmail (not useful anyway)...
Many average sites just use Flash for Ads or "Intro Banners" in which case it really is no great loss.
Yea.. I tell them what the pros and cons are before I give them a PC (with Ubuntu or Windows). Do iPhones really still need software installed on the PC? I thought they finally got better than that?
For Netflix I would say: there is currently a way to play Netflix but it is not supported by Netflix officially and I wouldn't depend on it as your only way to play Netflix.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/how-to-use-netflix-on-ubuntu
That is true that Microsoft does have that as their requirement for all x86 machines. ARM is not that case at all, and you can't turn secure boot off at all.
There is nothing that I could find requiring it to be easy. What if you have to contact the company and request it? I see no reason they couldn't do that. (That's a similar model to what the OLPC people did). It's not so hard to fathem that they don't bother if you have less than 100 machines...
That's why I said "depending on the manufactuer". Do you think Microsoft will revoke an x86 vendors sticker because it's very difficult to disable "secure" boot?
From what I understand that will depend on the UEFI implentation of the Windows 8 machine. That may no longer work depending on the manufacturer.
If you can't disable secure boot you won't be able to even install Windows 7, much less my preferred Ubuntu.
LibreOffice is the office suite with the momentum at this point. So I agree in part, except it it is the Apache Foundation that should stop and let the organization created specifically for this purpose, The Document Foundation, to develop the premier FLOSS office suite.
Oracle had OpenOffice frozen in place for over a year. You can't just freeze a project and expect the community will just sit there doing nothing for that long of a time.
On another note, I find the LibreOffice name much better. Although part of that might be remembering when OpenOffice was called OpenOffice.org.
I did http://www.optoutprescreen.com/ and it stopped the majority of the most annoying junk mail. The kind that might let someone start a credit card in my name if they intercept it....
More options are here: http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolicited-mail-phone-calls-and-email
I have yet to try dmachoice, has anyone tried it?
Could you even do a fake DMCA take down notice somewhat anonymously? Obviously, those doing this would be commiting perjury.
DMCA take down notices can be done via email...
I think that makes the answer a "yes". Great system we have here.
really slashdot? Yay for supersition..
I guarrantee that more than three organizaions have been cracked in the last week.
It reminds me somewhat of Tim Minchin at minute 2 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET1-_PeExMs
I mean the article is about how they aren't doing a great job right now.... but you can still report it here:
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
Flash is used on an order of magnitude more sites. See: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/client_side_language/all
I think they should (and will) eventually.. maybe start with any site that has more than 3 flash objects. Then more than 1. Then click to play on all flash. It does make sense to do flash more gradually.
"IT work" is quite vaque. It covers running a supercomputer cluster to maintaining systems for small businesses. What would you like to be doing in the IT field?
No one is talking about removing the LTSs. The rolling release would replace the non-LTS releases. So the releases would be:
14.04
Rolling Release up until
16.04
Rolling Release up until
18.04
etc
If anything it migth strengthen the LTS.