Does Linux have a LiveMesh equivalent that is easy (as in Create Account, Download Program, Install, and you're done) to do and has a reliable web presence? Not that I know of...
I also know that Ubuntu has a "cloud" service called Ubuntu One as well that comes pre-setup and all you have to do is create an account and you already have a folder that automatically synchronizes your files (application installation is already drop dead simple), but this Dropbox listed in the URL above seems to work on all platforms.
As far as the OSX/iTunes stuff, I don't know. I did a search. (As noted by the "one can find articles..." in my previous post) I don't use Apple products myself, but the Outlook Web Client I've had tons of issues in the past using it with Firefox and other browsers from Linux. I haven't logged into it recently, but they could have improved it when IE started losing ground in order to save face.
But you are missing a point here... Google embraced the web, developed apps for it and promote web development. You could call the Web their operating system, but they've managed to make it work with the others much better than Microsoft by embracing the standards instead of creating some offshoot that is completely incompatible with everyone else. Chrome is really meaningless except to get browsers competing for javascript performance which will help Google, and it still uses open standards without resorting to special functionality. (eg: ActiveX,.NET plugins) I assume it only has a short lifespan until the other browsers "catch up." I fully see ChromeOS as a pet project to also push web presence in current OSes. It really doesn't matter that they don't have any "non-web applications" IMHO.
especially not a publicly traded, for-profit corporation.
You say that like the "not-for-profit" companies are any better. Most of them are pushing agendas of their own. Just because they don't profit share with stockholders doesn't make them any more trustworthy.
Sure, those Microsoft products work fine... if you are using them with Microsoft products. Try to use them with the anything else and they don't work so well. One can find a ton of articles describing problems with Sync and the iPhone, LiveMesh and OSX, Outlook and anything but IE...
Compare that with Google. How many different systems do the Google products work with again?
I got a Motion Table some time ago (1Ghz Celeron.) It came with One-Note, etc... but I think I might still be using it if it had touch capability and didn't weight a ton and a half. I think Tablets (as Microsoft designed them) are ahead of their time, and a bit too clunky. Too much reliance on the XP OS model. Mainly the pen only interface killed it for me because all they did was map it to a mouse pointer. Taking notes in One-Note and having it recognize your handwriting was an exercise in learning how to write all over again "the Microsoft friendly" way. I hated every minute of it. At least there's one person who likes One-Note, I guess. I even tried fiddling with it in Corel Draw because it interpreted differing pressures, but it was mainly just the length of the press that I could see.
It had a built in microphone that I tested once in a meeting, but it didn't recognize voices well enough to convert it to text. The fact that it was built in made it detect all the times I'd write or tap on the screen causing terrible noise on playback... I would have been better off with a pen recorder sitting on the desk. Having a separate microphone just means bringing more junk in the room with you... defeats the purpose of a lightweight tablet, IMHO.
Overall, I wasn't happy with XP Tablet Edition on my tablet.
After reading this post, I imagine four monitors arranged in a square all facing out and on each monitor a face of the "compiz/beryl cube" where one person working on one desktop could pass their paper to another desktop and have someone else look at it. This would all be running from one PC...
You could even have someone remote in with a single monitor and rotate the cube to see what each person is doing.
I don't know how it would be done, but I like the idea!
Following the "yellow brick"/gold road to to the glorious Emerald City is a safe route. Venture from that road and you find all kinds of strange creatures who were "broke" or you lose track of your goals in a field of sleep inducing flowers were you will be dependent on someone else to save you. The wicked witch of the east (aka, King of England from the East?) had to be "cut off" from the little people who were just trying to make it at a the origin of the yellow road (founding of the country and the gold standard?)
I may be reaching on the witch aspect, but I never thought of it like that before. I guess it works.
Rights have been squashed for many years now, quietly and silently by a lawyer-istic clause hunt. I'm sure someone decided that it was a matter of National Security, so freedom of speech to certain countries should be denied. Although, you are still free to say whatever you want. It's not like they are telling you that you can't work on the project here.
In effect, what you are saying is that we should all be able to buy and kind of radio transmitter and flood the airwaves with whatever we want to talk about on any band. The FCC regulations are a restriction on your freedom of speech in that manner. True speech freedom hasn't been acceptable for years.
It's not about dictating power. If you read it as that, you read too much. All I'm saying is that we are placing the President in a position to absorb all the good and bad of an administration when we should really be focusing our efforts on the Congress and keeping information flowing from there. It's almost as if we want the President to be CEO of the US... for only 4-8 years. We know how that'll work out.
I think people look to the wrong person for answers. They should be contacting their District Representative to get things done, not the President. We should be in better contact with the ones we vote in. Most people don't even remember their name or vote. The government was designed to be a slow and lumbering beast. Putting the President in a position to change the course of this country every 4 years (or 8 years if he keeps a lot of fans on Facebook) is asking to be totally confused and ignorant about what is law this year and who is to blame.
I may be overreacting just a little bit on this, but:
Is it really the responsibility of the President to be reacting to social media site fans for the decision making process? I mean, the President has a very defined and strict role to carry out and execute the laws placed by us upon our government. (Executive branch...) This means making sure Congress doesn't pass a law granting them uncontrolled power over everything as well as making sure Government is doing what it should. The President's not tasked with creating policy and running the country like a king. The President has a very small, but important role and somehow over the years the Presidential seat has become more of a "strong mayor" position. The grab for power/influence is frightening, to say the least.
Giving the President a direct link to the social media is probably the worst thing we could be doing. Social media can change it's mind two or three times a day based on what news channels report upon and it quite literally has no bearing on running the country. It's sole purpose is catering to the loudest squeak and getting re-elected so you can continue to entrench your role as the "leader" of the free world. The President is NOT a leader. It's a position of self control, not a position for expansion of control.
Considering the name (it's not BackslashDot) and the fact that you can find literally hundreds of "Microsoft friendly" websites out there... I don't see a problem with that.
I don't know about you, but I don't want all those unemployed former MS-programmers to get down to Linux.
It's alright. There's no possible way that will happen as Visual Studio still doesn't run in Linux, even under Wine. They'd all be too confused by the lack of magic code generating wizards, play buttons and twiddly knobs.
That really depends on a few things... I mean, a dark prison and a dark bedroom are two totally different comfort zones. Not to mention your relationship to the "provider" has a little bit of relevance.
Slashdot Mirror
Does anything work with Moonlight yet? (Honest question... because I haven't found anything.)
While I myself care a lot about standards...
I'm not even sure if any browser engine including Webkit can draw on DirectX surface anyway.
I can't be the only one to laugh at that...
Shh.... I like being able to use Firefox portable at work to get around silly restrictions!
(actually, my work has a fairly secured proxy and firewall that doesn't depend on browser based limits...)
Does Linux have a LiveMesh equivalent that is easy (as in Create Account, Download Program, Install, and you're done) to do and has a reliable web presence? Not that I know of...
http://alternativeto.net/desktop/live-mesh/?platform=linux
I also know that Ubuntu has a "cloud" service called Ubuntu One as well that comes pre-setup and all you have to do is create an account and you already have a folder that automatically synchronizes your files (application installation is already drop dead simple), but this Dropbox listed in the URL above seems to work on all platforms.
As far as the OSX/iTunes stuff, I don't know. I did a search. (As noted by the "one can find articles..." in my previous post) I don't use Apple products myself, but the Outlook Web Client I've had tons of issues in the past using it with Firefox and other browsers from Linux. I haven't logged into it recently, but they could have improved it when IE started losing ground in order to save face.
But you are missing a point here... Google embraced the web, developed apps for it and promote web development. You could call the Web their operating system, but they've managed to make it work with the others much better than Microsoft by embracing the standards instead of creating some offshoot that is completely incompatible with everyone else. Chrome is really meaningless except to get browsers competing for javascript performance which will help Google, and it still uses open standards without resorting to special functionality. (eg: ActiveX, .NET plugins) I assume it only has a short lifespan until the other browsers "catch up." I fully see ChromeOS as a pet project to also push web presence in current OSes. It really doesn't matter that they don't have any "non-web applications" IMHO.
especially not a publicly traded, for-profit corporation.
You say that like the "not-for-profit" companies are any better. Most of them are pushing agendas of their own. Just because they don't profit share with stockholders doesn't make them any more trustworthy.
Sure, those Microsoft products work fine... if you are using them with Microsoft products. Try to use them with the anything else and they don't work so well. One can find a ton of articles describing problems with Sync and the iPhone, LiveMesh and OSX, Outlook and anything but IE...
Compare that with Google. How many different systems do the Google products work with again?
I got a Motion Table some time ago (1Ghz Celeron.) It came with One-Note, etc... but I think I might still be using it if it had touch capability and didn't weight a ton and a half. I think Tablets (as Microsoft designed them) are ahead of their time, and a bit too clunky. Too much reliance on the XP OS model. Mainly the pen only interface killed it for me because all they did was map it to a mouse pointer. Taking notes in One-Note and having it recognize your handwriting was an exercise in learning how to write all over again "the Microsoft friendly" way. I hated every minute of it. At least there's one person who likes One-Note, I guess. I even tried fiddling with it in Corel Draw because it interpreted differing pressures, but it was mainly just the length of the press that I could see.
It had a built in microphone that I tested once in a meeting, but it didn't recognize voices well enough to convert it to text. The fact that it was built in made it detect all the times I'd write or tap on the screen causing terrible noise on playback... I would have been better off with a pen recorder sitting on the desk. Having a separate microphone just means bringing more junk in the room with you... defeats the purpose of a lightweight tablet, IMHO.
Overall, I wasn't happy with XP Tablet Edition on my tablet.
After reading this post, I imagine four monitors arranged in a square all facing out and on each monitor a face of the "compiz/beryl cube" where one person working on one desktop could pass their paper to another desktop and have someone else look at it. This would all be running from one PC...
You could even have someone remote in with a single monitor and rotate the cube to see what each person is doing.
I don't know how it would be done, but I like the idea!
If you stopped reading, how did you get here?
When you opened up the box, did you level up? If so, what did you put your stat points in?
Only to some. There are those that would rather have other people take care of them forsaking some of that freedom.
Following the "yellow brick"/gold road to to the glorious Emerald City is a safe route. Venture from that road and you find all kinds of strange creatures who were "broke" or you lose track of your goals in a field of sleep inducing flowers were you will be dependent on someone else to save you. The wicked witch of the east (aka, King of England from the East?) had to be "cut off" from the little people who were just trying to make it at a the origin of the yellow road (founding of the country and the gold standard?)
I may be reaching on the witch aspect, but I never thought of it like that before. I guess it works.
Rights have been squashed for many years now, quietly and silently by a lawyer-istic clause hunt. I'm sure someone decided that it was a matter of National Security, so freedom of speech to certain countries should be denied. Although, you are still free to say whatever you want. It's not like they are telling you that you can't work on the project here.
In effect, what you are saying is that we should all be able to buy and kind of radio transmitter and flood the airwaves with whatever we want to talk about on any band. The FCC regulations are a restriction on your freedom of speech in that manner. True speech freedom hasn't been acceptable for years.
The GP is in China I assume:
I'd feel more secure in China. If I'd get arrested there...
I don't know how he thinks the rest of China will defy the country since Tiananmen, but whatever.
It may be old, but it's not outdated. There's a reason that centralized "power" is corrupted.
It's not about dictating power. If you read it as that, you read too much. All I'm saying is that we are placing the President in a position to absorb all the good and bad of an administration when we should really be focusing our efforts on the Congress and keeping information flowing from there. It's almost as if we want the President to be CEO of the US... for only 4-8 years. We know how that'll work out.
I think people look to the wrong person for answers. They should be contacting their District Representative to get things done, not the President. We should be in better contact with the ones we vote in. Most people don't even remember their name or vote. The government was designed to be a slow and lumbering beast. Putting the President in a position to change the course of this country every 4 years (or 8 years if he keeps a lot of fans on Facebook) is asking to be totally confused and ignorant about what is law this year and who is to blame.
I may be overreacting just a little bit on this, but:
Is it really the responsibility of the President to be reacting to social media site fans for the decision making process? I mean, the President has a very defined and strict role to carry out and execute the laws placed by us upon our government. (Executive branch...) This means making sure Congress doesn't pass a law granting them uncontrolled power over everything as well as making sure Government is doing what it should. The President's not tasked with creating policy and running the country like a king. The President has a very small, but important role and somehow over the years the Presidential seat has become more of a "strong mayor" position. The grab for power/influence is frightening, to say the least.
Giving the President a direct link to the social media is probably the worst thing we could be doing. Social media can change it's mind two or three times a day based on what news channels report upon and it quite literally has no bearing on running the country. It's sole purpose is catering to the loudest squeak and getting re-elected so you can continue to entrench your role as the "leader" of the free world. The President is NOT a leader. It's a position of self control, not a position for expansion of control.
I sometimes tell my boss I had to rewrite code so I can keep up on Slashdot. /joke
They get you into the Gibson.
Considering the name (it's not BackslashDot) and the fact that you can find literally hundreds of "Microsoft friendly" websites out there... I don't see a problem with that.
To get dates?
I don't know about you, but I don't want all those unemployed former MS-programmers to get down to Linux.
It's alright. There's no possible way that will happen as Visual Studio still doesn't run in Linux, even under Wine. They'd all be too confused by the lack of magic code generating wizards, play buttons and twiddly knobs.
You should see his office. There's a certain ambiance that appeals to some people, like Steampunk. We'll call it Webpunk.
I was too busy clicking "Next" to read the title of that Window. How can I tell if I installed it?
That really depends on a few things... I mean, a dark prison and a dark bedroom are two totally different comfort zones. Not to mention your relationship to the "provider" has a little bit of relevance.