ban the spending of millions on films, tv, sports, music, entertainment, vacations, celebrations, art, fancy food and alcohol
I think most people would trade the first 5 (the fruits of copyright) for zero gravity, space walks, more technical advancement which makes us use less resources than we did before, Ex: many now would rather watch a 3D nature show than take a vacation there.
life would be dull & Joyless
Or actually find life (social situations, teaching children). We wouldn't gain anything from banning alcohol or from banning the others either.
The OS (Windows Audio, Pulse Audio for Linux) publishes when a process connects to it, and allows per-process OS-side volume. Remembering an embedded process' PID to automate that interaction seems reasonable.
Steel has gotten very expensive as China industrializes, which hurts many industries. Titanium is highly plentiful and if it could compete with steel on even a fraction of its markets then it would help reduce the world's demand. Fun unintended consequences may include a resurgence in building construction.
1. I can seamlessly go between Desktop & Android Google Talk sessions. On the phone, it does a catch-up when I open it showing me recent messages quickly 2. Google Voice SMS is awful, but Android lets you point SMSs to another client. Doesn't Voice have a setting to disable handling SMS? 3. I just use Google Maps. If I need Satellite view, then it's available. Google Earth is a toy.
Actually I was thinking about what happens if there was a "Cloud Dogfighting Service". If it was good enough, everyone would use it, eventually it would just decide which of the 2 sides should win.
That's an interesting term here. Guesses: - Light-duty (email, read-heavy web): Best served by Chromebook & tablets:
They're cheaper & easier to maintain.
- Upgraders wanting things like before: Likely to defect to the above group.
- Businesses: Bound to their software, & likely can hold-out until next version
May try moving to HTML5 cloud software for less administration, but gain OS choices.
The biggest problem with getting copyright law reformed is "How do you get a few million more Americans to care?". Thanks CAS for solving that problem & guaranteeing this will be a political topic soon enough.
Nice perspective about Linux Userland being just behind Dalvik & ready to take-over if this wins.
An Oracle win would make things confusing: Can apps still use Java without Oracle's blessing?
This could threaten emulators & simulators, but all that will do is send people running to standards bodies again & end this "DeFacto Standard" API you could be denied from using at any time.
If you have an Android phone: remoteDroid.org otherwise LIRC is the standard IR remote. I just use a wireless keyboard & mouse. That problem is much easier than purchasing & installing an OS.
How about a database.. of all the OS projects, their goals, their toolsets (source control, language, interaction, etc), their similar projects, their disagreements between each those projects? If there are few disagreements, the possibility of a merge.
I think the FOSS community could use the appearance of a community. Something like IMDB with wiki-editable sections. Some of the data can be gathered by spiders (language, license, git-files (or similar).
A flat tax without a Wealth tax simply takes all the money out of the economy. Nothing is "fair" with a flat tax unless everyone makes exactly the same income, because costs-of-living take a far higher percentage of a lower income.
Active-sync from 1996 so you can interface with your other MS devices? There are many options, collectively called "Groupware".
Cheaper: Take Zimbra: Android client means no active-sync. It does email, webmail, calendaring & scheduling. It has a desktop application for the 3 big OS families.
Better-support: Lotus Notes & Domino. It's more expandable, the server is faster than Exchange, multiple clients are available (though only web mobile).
True? None tie as deeply to Active Directory, Windows policies, etc. But it's still trivial to unify & manage. If you want a native part of Microsoft's ecosystem, it's Microsoft only. With the other options above, you also can use other OSes, devices, etc which may be more valuable than "true-ness"
That's the mindset, but it doesn't work that way. The rest of the tablet ecosystem makes documents that work together, outsells Windows laptops, and is growing fast while another failed MS tablet adds a reason to avoid MS Office on Windows desktops. De-Facto standards aren't guarantees, see: DBase & Lotus products.
Be a programmer, not a Sheet enthusiast. I needed UI but simpler processing, so the ~LAMP stack worked for me (Linux, Cherokee, MariaDB, Python) . Python fits everywhere here from heavy data analysis to being web front-end. Often a one-line SQL statement did more than I needed.
My Favorite "progress indicator" is the one on GParted. Some "steps" can be 100-1000x as long as others and often there is no possible way to know (like chkdsk). So, it lists all the steps & their micro-steps (with timers?), shows you their command-line equivalent (educational), and gives you the most sensible progress possible within each micro-step (sometimes none). The aggregate is logical: In step 1 of 4? 25%, within there if you are on micro-step 2 of 5: 35%.
It helps because you aren't concerned when the progress is halted at an annoyingly long step. It tells you what to fix if you want better progress here. And it becomes easier to guess if something's halted vs if it's simply taking a while: If writing to MBR is the first step & takes minutes, something's wrong.
This is similar to the kernel boot process & some video compression software. When in doubt, give us more data.
The sources of stagnation are market control (via monopoly actions) & patents. Neither apply with Open Source, therefore an open source monoculture shouldn't see the problem.
Counter Example: For years, Apache was 90%+ of the webservers in the world, but stagnation didn't occur because it was open-source and improved upon, compared-against (for other solutions), enhanced by many, and educated others on the uninteresting pieces so they could build their own. We now have SPDY, safer servers, better parallel processing, and better cgi interfaces all from different organizations.
With the PowerPoint clone, I know that pictures & words worked well. The Excel clone (Calc) focuses on number work. You have Pivot Tables and Excel sheet formulas work for the (fairly-advanced) stuff I've tried. VisualBasic scripts & Add-ins were weak. Charts in Excel were a little clunky the last time I used them (editing margins by guessing what to change the "Margin: 0.235" blank to), but for simple charts you could get what you needed.
The only one dickering over file formats is Microsoft. That lock-in is lock-out below some %. Imagine a business world of 2 groups (each 50%) that can exchange files nicely within their group. Joining one group costs a terrible premium (cost & redesign) every 2 years. Which will grow?
This information has value in how you use it. It's no justification to price them at $150. This is the level of tax that governments and companies place on the world when they demand MS formats. Or conversely, the level of value the world places on free document editing.
Open Spectrum is required for the dream of unencumbered global networking. The Internet (in the US) doesn't work this way & is primarily a monopoly or oligopoly with all players wanting great controls, user access limits, etc. Mesh networking would overstep the costs & regulations required in laying fiber that currently ensure this monopoly. Spectrum that can travel for miles reduces latency. And everyone would want involvement: If you want mesh network access, you'd need to buy a repeater-type device (or no one would peer with you). Even if a high-powered repeater could increase your electric bill by $50 a month, it's a better deal than the Internet monopoly.
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ban the spending of millions on films, tv, sports, music, entertainment, vacations, celebrations, art, fancy food and alcohol
I think most people would trade the first 5 (the fruits of copyright) for zero gravity, space walks, more technical advancement which makes us use less resources than we did before, Ex: many now would rather watch a 3D nature show than take a vacation there.
life would be dull & Joyless
Or actually find life (social situations, teaching children).
We wouldn't gain anything from banning alcohol or from banning the others either.
Rt-click the blue top space, task manager.
The OS (Windows Audio, Pulse Audio for Linux) publishes when a process connects to it, and allows per-process OS-side volume. Remembering an embedded process' PID to automate that interaction seems reasonable.
Steel has gotten very expensive as China industrializes, which hurts many industries. Titanium is highly plentiful and if it could compete with steel on even a fraction of its markets then it would help reduce the world's demand. Fun unintended consequences may include a resurgence in building construction.
1. I can seamlessly go between Desktop & Android Google Talk sessions. On the phone, it does a catch-up when I open it showing me recent messages quickly
2. Google Voice SMS is awful, but Android lets you point SMSs to another client. Doesn't Voice have a setting to disable handling SMS?
3. I just use Google Maps. If I need Satellite view, then it's available. Google Earth is a toy.
Actually I was thinking about what happens if there was a "Cloud Dogfighting Service". If it was good enough, everyone would use it, eventually it would just decide which of the 2 sides should win.
when they were good
....and moved to California because that made the copyright laws easier to avoid?
That's an interesting term here. Guesses:
- Light-duty (email, read-heavy web): Best served by Chromebook & tablets:
They're cheaper & easier to maintain.
- Upgraders wanting things like before: Likely to defect to the above group.
- Businesses: Bound to their software, & likely can hold-out until next version
May try moving to HTML5 cloud software for less administration, but gain OS choices.
The biggest problem with getting copyright law reformed is "How do you get a few million more Americans to care?". Thanks CAS for solving that problem & guaranteeing this will be a political topic soon enough.
Nice perspective about Linux Userland being just behind Dalvik & ready to take-over if this wins.
An Oracle win would make things confusing: Can apps still use Java without Oracle's blessing?
This could threaten emulators & simulators, but all that will do is send people running to standards bodies again & end this "DeFacto Standard" API you could be denied from using at any time.
If you have an Android phone: remoteDroid.org otherwise LIRC is the standard IR remote. I just use a wireless keyboard & mouse. That problem is much easier than purchasing & installing an OS.
Eww creepy
How about a database .. of all the OS projects, their goals, their toolsets (source control, language, interaction, etc), their similar projects, their disagreements between each those projects? If there are few disagreements, the possibility of a merge.
I think the FOSS community could use the appearance of a community. Something like IMDB with wiki-editable sections. Some of the data can be gathered by spiders (language, license, git-files (or similar).
A flat tax without a Wealth tax simply takes all the money out of the economy. Nothing is "fair" with a flat tax unless everyone makes exactly the same income, because costs-of-living take a far higher percentage of a lower income.
Active-sync from 1996 so you can interface with your other MS devices? There are many options, collectively called "Groupware".
Cheaper:
Take Zimbra: Android client means no active-sync. It does email, webmail, calendaring & scheduling. It has a desktop application for the 3 big OS families.
Better-support:
Lotus Notes & Domino. It's more expandable, the server is faster than Exchange, multiple clients are available (though only web mobile).
True?
None tie as deeply to Active Directory, Windows policies, etc. But it's still trivial to unify & manage. If you want a native part of Microsoft's ecosystem, it's Microsoft only. With the other options above, you also can use other OSes, devices, etc which may be more valuable than "true-ness"
That's the mindset, but it doesn't work that way. The rest of the tablet ecosystem makes documents that work together, outsells Windows laptops, and is growing fast while another failed MS tablet adds a reason to avoid MS Office on Windows desktops. De-Facto standards aren't guarantees, see: DBase & Lotus products.
Seconding this! How can we fix America?
Be a programmer, not a Sheet enthusiast. I needed UI but simpler processing, so the ~LAMP stack worked for me (Linux, Cherokee, MariaDB, Python) . Python fits everywhere here from heavy data analysis to being web front-end. Often a one-line SQL statement did more than I needed.
My Favorite "progress indicator" is the one on GParted. Some "steps" can be 100-1000x as long as others and often there is no possible way to know (like chkdsk). So, it lists all the steps & their micro-steps (with timers?), shows you their command-line equivalent (educational), and gives you the most sensible progress possible within each micro-step (sometimes none). The aggregate is logical: In step 1 of 4? 25%, within there if you are on micro-step 2 of 5: 35%.
It helps because you aren't concerned when the progress is halted at an annoyingly long step. It tells you what to fix if you want better progress here. And it becomes easier to guess if something's halted vs if it's simply taking a while: If writing to MBR is the first step & takes minutes, something's wrong.
This is similar to the kernel boot process & some video compression software. When in doubt, give us more data.
The sources of stagnation are market control (via monopoly actions) & patents. Neither apply with Open Source, therefore an open source monoculture shouldn't see the problem.
Counter Example: For years, Apache was 90%+ of the webservers in the world, but stagnation didn't occur because it was open-source and improved upon, compared-against (for other solutions), enhanced by many, and educated others on the uninteresting pieces so they could build their own. We now have SPDY, safer servers, better parallel processing, and better cgi interfaces all from different organizations.
With the PowerPoint clone, I know that pictures & words worked well. The Excel clone (Calc) focuses on number work. You have Pivot Tables and Excel sheet formulas work for the (fairly-advanced) stuff I've tried. VisualBasic scripts & Add-ins were weak. Charts in Excel were a little clunky the last time I used them (editing margins by guessing what to change the "Margin: 0.235" blank to), but for simple charts you could get what you needed.
The only one dickering over file formats is Microsoft. That lock-in is lock-out below some %.
Imagine a business world of 2 groups (each 50%) that can exchange files nicely within their group. Joining one group costs a terrible premium (cost & redesign) every 2 years. Which will grow?
This information has value in how you use it. It's no justification to price them at $150. This is the level of tax that governments and companies place on the world when they demand MS formats. Or conversely, the level of value the world places on free document editing.
Subsidies are socialism when they don't encourage something else useful. Lets remove the corn requirement to the subsidy.
Open Spectrum is required for the dream of unencumbered global networking. The Internet (in the US) doesn't work this way & is primarily a monopoly or oligopoly with all players wanting great controls, user access limits, etc. Mesh networking would overstep the costs & regulations required in laying fiber that currently ensure this monopoly. Spectrum that can travel for miles reduces latency. And everyone would want involvement: If you want mesh network access, you'd need to buy a repeater-type device (or no one would peer with you). Even if a high-powered repeater could increase your electric bill by $50 a month, it's a better deal than the Internet monopoly.