Oh.. I don't know the first passed health care reform in almost 100 years. Ended Don't Ask Don't Tell. Restarted the hunt for and killed Osama bin Laden.... http://lmddgtfy.net/?q=Obama+Accomplishments
As much as I wish he had actually been more "socialist". He has pretty much done the majority of the items he promised to do on election day. Yes, I'd prefer if he created a single payer health care system, reduced mandatory prison sentencing, doubled NASA's budget, seriously cut military spending, and tackled global warming.
Maybe I'm just young, but most of my adult life has been under Bush, and now Obama. Bush seemed to mostly screw things up. Obama seems to mostly push things in a better direction.
There are World Community Grid projects for Clean Sustainable Water, Energy, and fighting lots of diseases. They previously had projects looking into improving the nutritious content in rice. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
I'm looking at you System76 and ZaReason. One of FSF requirements in this program is a free BIOS, and we have a good one in CoreBoot (and it can make boot times faster). Worried about Secure/Restricted Boot? Get a laptop with a free bios, boot what you want.
I understand that you are completely fine with Tivoization (in that you don't want a license to restrict that), but the GPLv3 does do some other important things. As a user, I really like ending Tivoization, but I understand your position.
More compatible with Apache and other licenses New ways to provide source (torrenting, the internet) Better path to compliance (if someone doesn't initially) Much stronger patent language
Standby time has gone from 300 hours (4) to 200 hours (5). While browsing on 3g has gone from 6 to 8 hours (4 to 5). Wifi has stayed the same, but diped with the 4s to 9 (from 10).
Checking the Motorola droids: And the first Droid listed talk time 385 minutes (6.4 hours)and standby time: 270 hours DROID RAZR listed at 750 minutes (12.5 hours) talk time and standby time: 205 hours DROID RAZR MAXX is listed at 21.5 hours of talk time and 380 hours of standby time.
So if we are talking about Apple, they don't seem to be getting better relative to their loss of standby time. With Motorola at least you can by a phone that get's a much longer talk time and standby time.
From the other quick searches I did, it seems like the earlier iPhones used to be leading the pack in battery life. Clearly, not the case anymore..
Well, it looks like some others followed my lead on that (it's currently rated 3)
Overrated Sometimes comments are disproportionately up-moderated—this probably means several moderators saw it at nearly the same time, and their cumulative scores exaggerated its merit. (Example: A knock-knock joke at +5, Funny.) Such a comment is Overrated. http://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml
I would think it being First Post, and moderators reading it to quickly qualifies as being disproportionately up-moderated.
Also per the same metamod page this is one of the few times I've ever moded down...
I'm commeting because I just moded you Overrated and it went up to 5... I was trying to demote your post...
You need to reread the summary. He is starting work at a small company, not starting his own business. Who knows he may have been hired to do this as part of his job. Plenty of small business's need to have people with many hats on, so they might not be experts in everything they were hired to do.
In addition, depending on the business optimizing the phone system might be essential to grow the business and in other cases completely irrelevant. Am I the only one who thinks these always need to be more specific? How many people in the organization? How much does your business depend on phones? Email? Mail? IM? Social networking? Fax machines?
Actually the Cylons had a tracking device on one or two of the ships, so it's even a bit worse. I got the impression that the Cylons were just messing with the surviving humans.
If you actually care about your security you've almost got to go with a Linux distro, use NoScript and no plugins at all. Initially, in most cases, security is a tradeoff with convenience. Anti-virus is a never ending game because it is trying to keep the convenience part (well minus the performance losses), while usually not changing user behavior at all (there are exceptions like SiteAdvisor but I've found they are worse than the viruses they are preventing).
But seriously, random slashdot poster, what's keeping you from Tux?
whereas I am quite positive about this move. It was Microsoft's choice to not port their more recent browser to XP in an attempt to kill it.
It's quite amazing how much marketshare IE has lost over the last 4 years (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-ww-monthly-200807-201209). Firefox has lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 4%, while IE has lost 30%+ mostly to Chrome.
It's moslty the US, Australia, and China holding up IE usage (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-ww-monthly-201209-201209-map)
*Note all of this is according to statcounter, while other sources give different results, still with the same trends though.
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> Perhaps the silliest thing of all about this is the belief that people can somehow be prevented from using NC or ND licenses. Nobody can prevent this. The CC organization could "deprecate" them, and this would have absolutely no effect.
The point is that, some people think any Creative Commons license is adding their work to the commons. Whereas NC and ND are not. They are called Creative *Commons*, so either they could change their name or stop promoting licenses that don't add to the commons.
Make sure you and all of your stakeholders know why open source is part of your requirement. This is essential. You need to make a business case.
If you have two accountants that can/is willing to do GnuCash, do it. GnuCash is used by real businesses to do real things:), don't let the rest of slashdot get you down on this. You want to find two, just in case.
Running Windows on PoS certainly causes a lot of pain, if I was starting a business I would want better reliability than I have seen from Windows PoS systems.
Try the latest with:
* Extensions for the stuff that really should be changed and also for some really cool enhancements https://extensions.gnome.org/
* The Activities menu. I love that the launcher is full screen. I am attempting to launch a new program. I don't care what I currently have open and certainly don't want transparency to fuzzily show it.
* Accessibility as close to a first class citizen as I've seen. I always want to increase font size, they make it easy. Button in top right.
There are negatives of course.. (pressing alt to shutdown, that's just stupid) but I really miss the launcher when I use LXDE.
Believe it or not, desktop environment doesn't matter that much for your average user. Unity or Gnome Shell is fine if the hardware supports it. (Well at least now that they are both less prone to random crashes). LXDE, XFCE and KDE all would likely work fine. Make sure it's one that you can help them with. Personally I would go with Gnome Shell, with extensions, which can give the user the feeling of actually being in control of their computer.
Make sure everything just works on their hardware (use the testing utility on Ubuntu). Oh, and I'm also assuming you already made sure they don't depend on or use any windows only stuff...
Make sure to give them some piece of software that they already know how to use. If they use Firefox give 'em firefox, If Chrome then Chrome, etc. This let's them not feel like everything is changing which is really important. If they use Microsoft Office a lot, you needed to switch them to LibreOffice while on Windows.
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At least it is right now at 9:00 pm..
Please get both of those words out of the discussion. They are neither the consumer or the product. Education is not a product to be consumed.
They are students! They are there to learn, to be curious, to ask questions, make mistakes, and get messy.
Oh.. I don't know the first passed health care reform in almost 100 years. ... http://lmddgtfy.net/?q=Obama+Accomplishments
Ended Don't Ask Don't Tell.
Restarted the hunt for and killed Osama bin Laden.
As much as I wish he had actually been more "socialist". He has pretty much done the majority of the items he promised to do on election day. Yes, I'd prefer if he created a single payer health care system, reduced mandatory prison sentencing, doubled NASA's budget, seriously cut military spending, and tackled global warming.
Maybe I'm just young, but most of my adult life has been under Bush, and now Obama. Bush seemed to mostly screw things up. Obama seems to mostly push things in a better direction.
Donate some CPU cycles to the cause:
There are World Community Grid projects for Clean Sustainable Water, Energy, and fighting lots of diseases. They previously had projects looking into improving the nutritious content in rice. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
It's powered by BOINC. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ which also let's you donate to so many other worthy projects. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
that is (or was?) in newer Linksys routers, that are much less stable than the older Linux based versions..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks#Networking_and_communication_components
I'm looking at you System76 and ZaReason. One of FSF requirements in this program is a free BIOS, and we have a good one in CoreBoot (and it can make boot times faster). Worried about Secure/Restricted Boot? Get a laptop with a free bios, boot what you want.
I understand that you are completely fine with Tivoization (in that you don't want a license to restrict that), but the GPLv3 does do some other important things. As a user, I really like ending Tivoization, but I understand your position.
More compatible with Apache and other licenses
New ways to provide source (torrenting, the internet)
Better path to compliance (if someone doesn't initially)
Much stronger patent language
More here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html
Are you sure they weren't Linux based? A lot of the TVs from Sony and are also Linux based.
Just curious as to what your last 3 TVs were...
Checking between the Apple iPhone 4, 4s, 5.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare-iphones/
Standby time has gone from 300 hours (4) to 200 hours (5).
While browsing on 3g has gone from 6 to 8 hours (4 to 5).
Wifi has stayed the same, but diped with the 4s to 9 (from 10).
Checking the Motorola droids:
And the first Droid listed talk time 385 minutes (6.4 hours)and standby time: 270 hours
DROID RAZR listed at 750 minutes (12.5 hours) talk time and standby time: 205 hours
DROID RAZR MAXX is listed at 21.5 hours of talk time and 380 hours of standby time.
So if we are talking about Apple, they don't seem to be getting better relative to their loss of standby time. With Motorola at least you can by a phone that get's a much longer talk time and standby time.
From the other quick searches I did, it seems like the earlier iPhones used to be leading the pack in battery life. Clearly, not the case anymore..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid
http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/DROID-MAXX/better-battery/96406,en_US,pd.html?selectedTab=tab-2&cgid=mobile-phones#tab
http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/DROID-RAZR-BY-MOTOROLA/78281,en_US,pd.html?selectedTab=tab-2&cgid=mobile-phones#tab
Well, it looks like some others followed my lead on that (it's currently rated 3)
Overrated
Sometimes comments are disproportionately up-moderated—this probably means several moderators saw it at nearly the same time, and their cumulative scores exaggerated its merit. (Example: A knock-knock joke at +5, Funny.) Such a comment is Overrated.
http://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml
I would think it being First Post, and moderators reading it to quickly qualifies as being disproportionately up-moderated.
Also per the same metamod page this is one of the few times I've ever moded down...
I'm commeting because I just moded you Overrated and it went up to 5... I was trying to demote your post...
You need to reread the summary. He is starting work at a small company, not starting his own business. Who knows he may have been hired to do this as part of his job. Plenty of small business's need to have people with many hats on, so they might not be experts in everything they were hired to do.
In addition, depending on the business optimizing the phone system might be essential to grow the business and in other cases completely irrelevant. Am I the only one who thinks these always need to be more specific? How many people in the organization? How much does your business depend on phones? Email? Mail? IM? Social networking? Fax machines?
**** SPOILER ***
Actually the Cylons had a tracking device on one or two of the ships, so it's even a bit worse. I got the impression that the Cylons were just messing with the surviving humans.
> Which is why this will never happen in the US.
SELinux (developed by the NSA)
GRASS GIS (developed by the US Army Core of Engineers) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS#History
VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture developed by the VA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA
You can even try out the DOD's flavor of Linux - http://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose.htm
We can of course do even better.. and we should.
If you actually care about your security you've almost got to go with a Linux distro, use NoScript and no plugins at all. Initially, in most cases, security is a tradeoff with convenience. Anti-virus is a never ending game because it is trying to keep the convenience part (well minus the performance losses), while usually not changing user behavior at all (there are exceptions like SiteAdvisor but I've found they are worse than the viruses they are preventing).
But seriously, random slashdot poster, what's keeping you from Tux?
whereas I am quite positive about this move. It was Microsoft's choice to not port their more recent browser to XP in an attempt to kill it.
It's quite amazing how much marketshare IE has lost over the last 4 years (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-ww-monthly-200807-201209). Firefox has lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 4%, while IE has lost 30%+ mostly to Chrome.
It's moslty the US, Australia, and China holding up IE usage (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-ww-monthly-201209-201209-map)
*Note all of this is according to statcounter, while other sources give different results, still with the same trends though.
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Nope, not required at all. In most cases that "magic" (multiple hosts on one IP) is handled by Apache, which trusts whichever host you say you want.
The winners are all pretty close together..
http://mapq.st/PXW7Vy
> Perhaps the silliest thing of all about this is the belief that people can somehow be prevented from using NC or ND licenses. Nobody can prevent this. The CC organization could "deprecate" them, and this would have absolutely no effect.
The point is that, some people think any Creative Commons license is adding their work to the commons. Whereas NC and ND are not. They are called Creative *Commons*, so either they could change their name or stop promoting licenses that don't add to the commons.
Make sure you and all of your stakeholders know why open source is part of your requirement. This is essential. You need to make a business case.
If you have two accountants that can/is willing to do GnuCash, do it. GnuCash is used by real businesses to do real things :), don't let the rest of slashdot get you down on this. You want to find two, just in case.
Running Windows on PoS certainly causes a lot of pain, if I was starting a business I would want better reliability than I have seen from Windows PoS systems.
The article was written by rms.. you know the guy who created GNU and the FSF. I think maybe he knows the goals...
The FSF definitely has goals going beyond the core system as they run many campaigns (https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/)
Gnome 3 rocks...
Try the latest with:
* Extensions for the stuff that really should be changed and also for some really cool enhancements https://extensions.gnome.org/
* The Activities menu. I love that the launcher is full screen. I am attempting to launch a new program. I don't care what I currently have open and certainly don't want transparency to fuzzily show it.
* Accessibility as close to a first class citizen as I've seen. I always want to increase font size, they make it easy. Button in top right.
There are negatives of course.. (pressing alt to shutdown, that's just stupid) but I really miss the launcher when I use LXDE.
Believe it or not, desktop environment doesn't matter that much for your average user. Unity or Gnome Shell is fine if the hardware supports it. (Well at least now that they are both less prone to random crashes). LXDE, XFCE and KDE all would likely work fine. Make sure it's one that you can help them with. Personally I would go with Gnome Shell, with extensions, which can give the user the feeling of actually being in control of their computer.
Make sure everything just works on their hardware (use the testing utility on Ubuntu). Oh, and I'm also assuming you already made sure they don't depend on or use any windows only stuff...
Make sure to give them some piece of software that they already know how to use. If they use Firefox give 'em firefox, If Chrome then Chrome, etc. This let's them not feel like everything is changing which is really important. If they use Microsoft Office a lot, you needed to switch them to LibreOffice while on Windows.
And that's counting me, as a comcast cable subscriber, because it was cheaper to get cable & internet then internet alone.
I don't own a tv.