I'll give Okular another look, but last time I looked, Okular didn't save the annotations to the pdf so I could send it back to someone using a different reader.
mod parent up. It's insane to me that I can't annotate a.pdf on Linux. In-freaking-sane. It's really a deal breaker for me when using Linux for work stuff.
Sure, there's not not revenue in ads to cover the massive overhead of a normal newspaper. But I'd be curious what percentage of that overhead is the salaries of the kind of long-form, investigative journalists you're talking about, compared to how much is their outdated production and distribution models (and the facilities those demand), plus the kind of normal business overhead demanded by such large enterprise (accounting, HR, etc).
Reduce a newspaper to ONLY its investigative journalists, 2 or 3 editors and 2 IT staff, one of whom manages the website where the content is published and distributed, downsize to an office big enough to hold the 5 employees who are actually there during the day, outsource accounting and HR, liscense/syndicate the rest of the daily 'news' from the rest of the internet and then look at the numbers.
I don't know whether or not that's realistic b/c I don't have any ideas what those salaries are like nor what the ad revenues are like. But it seems like a reasonable, albeit difficult, business model. Of course, with the exception of the small town local paper, I don't think anybody has ever accused the newspaper market of being anything but tough. It's on a lot smaller scale than the newspapers we see now (which means profits will be smaller), but I'm hard pressed to see how that's my problem (particularly if your other choice is to fold altogether).
I think there's a place for investigative journalism, and I think it's short-sighted to say that just b/c national newspapers are folding that it'll disappear. It's valuable--the people that want to see it just need to imagine a new way to support it.
That's why I always grab the torrent and do a fresh install. A regular/in-place upgrade has always failed for me.
That and I'm always curious about what's configured and how by default.
This is scientific reporting in the (relatively) mainstream media.
More than likely, there's some really interesting, albeit impossible-to-explain-in-less-than-20-paragraphs-unless-you-know-a-lot-about-ancient-Europe, evidence that the article's author chose to leave out so that he could quote the attention-getting "I'm sure that they had sex".
The only scientific conclusions you can draw from this kind of reporting is that a scientist is investigating a subject that has something to do with Neanderthals and humans.
I'd ask the same questions. But in my day job in marketing, I know the OP is right--the marketing guy is trying to keep the conversation focused on the message for the AVERAGE consumer, not the nonaverage consumers like you and me. He's trying to communicate the product's core benefits to the customer, not features or specs, or what you're asking for: fringe benefits that may or may not be...er...beneficial.
His job is to brand this thing as a lets-you-do-cool-stuff-and-makes-you-feel-good box or whatever, not to convince the fringe audience (ie. me and you) that we could hack the thing. Anything that distracts from that feel-good message (including Linux) takes up too much of his valuable 3 minutes on the radio. He's just trying to keep his CEO on track, not trying to dodge/cover up Linux.
I wouldn't call it "useless." I'd go with something more like "a poor trade, exchanging privacy and control for interoperability and ubiquitous access".
To me, the advantage of the cloud is that my inbox looks the same at work (on an XP desktop) as it does at home (linux laptop). Gmail's good like that. I could see the advantage of doing things similarlly for word processing, etc. If I was willing to trade control of my data and privacy and speed for that sort of interoperability and access.
Have you spent much time w/ Linux recently? There might be a lot niggling problems w/ Linux (particularly wrt proprietary drivers and UI usability), but I'll say this--this OS is born live on the network. X forwarding is a great example--by its very nature, the graphical interface is designed to be usuable over a network. It may or may not be great to use (I can't really comment on that--my main experience with it involves programs running on an over-worked 800MHz server via an overcrowded T1 line) but architecturally, it's built with network in mind.
The majority of the time I spend 'fixing' my wife's computer is hardware/OS agnostic. It's stuff like telling her to plug the printer cable in, making sure her documents are where she thinks they are, etc.
Will spending $1000 really make her looking to see if the printer's plugged in before she tried to print?
I'd love to use Linux for more audio production. But any time I try to do anything besides use Audacity, sound starts to get screwy.
Then I have wade through a mess of acronymns I don't completley understand. OSS? ALSA? JACK? PulseAudio?
Can somebody point me to a newbie's guide to Linux audio? Anything I've ever read (including tfa) is over my head, but I'd like to understand it.
What's the easiest way to try 4.3?
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What's the easiest way to try 4.3? Kubuntu-desktop has been a train wreck every time I've installed it on my normal Ubuntu install, and I don't mind downloading a live cd or some such.
Is there a OpenSUSE live cd with 4.3 ready to go out of the gate or some such?
Isn't that part of the reason it's open source? So that you (or somebody you pay) can build a native client for it?
I tend to agree--I don't particularly care to have my email/IM/collaboration software all tied up into my browser (particularly in FF or IE). I want something that does one thing and does it well. But if the protocol is open, as far as I can tell (note: IANAD(eveloper)) there's nothing stopping anybody from building a nice lean, writing-focused Wave client.
Agreed. That (nonsensical) line pretty much ruined the article for me.
Explain to me again how competing for OS and browser share is against Google's interests...because the fact that people use them to look at the internet seems like a pretty poor reason.
I had a (city) friend on a camping trip basically call me a liar when I told him that white/gray strip of glowing in the middle of the night sky was the Milky Way.
Despite the fact that he couldn't begin to suggest what else it might be.
Poor kids didn't grow up seeing it every night--don't even knwo what it is.
As I promised earlier, if you donate to the site and are unhappy about the rolls, let me know and I will pull a die out of the machine, melt it flat and mail it to you, as an object lesson to the other dice. Tangible revenge.
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Deal breaker.
mod parent up. It's insane to me that I can't annotate a .pdf on Linux. In-freaking-sane. It's really a deal breaker for me when using Linux for work stuff.
Reduce a newspaper to ONLY its investigative journalists, 2 or 3 editors and 2 IT staff, one of whom manages the website where the content is published and distributed, downsize to an office big enough to hold the 5 employees who are actually there during the day, outsource accounting and HR, liscense/syndicate the rest of the daily 'news' from the rest of the internet and then look at the numbers.
I don't know whether or not that's realistic b/c I don't have any ideas what those salaries are like nor what the ad revenues are like. But it seems like a reasonable, albeit difficult, business model. Of course, with the exception of the small town local paper, I don't think anybody has ever accused the newspaper market of being anything but tough. It's on a lot smaller scale than the newspapers we see now (which means profits will be smaller), but I'm hard pressed to see how that's my problem (particularly if your other choice is to fold altogether).
I think there's a place for investigative journalism, and I think it's short-sighted to say that just b/c national newspapers are folding that it'll disappear. It's valuable--the people that want to see it just need to imagine a new way to support it.
It's just you. I'll stick w/ running days-long, outlandishly esoteric processes that no one really cares about on my 4,096 cores.
That's why I always grab the torrent and do a fresh install. A regular/in-place upgrade has always failed for me. That and I'm always curious about what's configured and how by default.
ooooo...now THAT'D be awesome. I concur.
More than likely, there's some really interesting, albeit impossible-to-explain-in-less-than-20-paragraphs-unless-you-know-a-lot-about-ancient-Europe, evidence that the article's author chose to leave out so that he could quote the attention-getting "I'm sure that they had sex".
The only scientific conclusions you can draw from this kind of reporting is that a scientist is investigating a subject that has something to do with Neanderthals and humans.
His job is to brand this thing as a lets-you-do-cool-stuff-and-makes-you-feel-good box or whatever, not to convince the fringe audience (ie. me and you) that we could hack the thing. Anything that distracts from that feel-good message (including Linux) takes up too much of his valuable 3 minutes on the radio. He's just trying to keep his CEO on track, not trying to dodge/cover up Linux.
Who are the big players?
To me, the advantage of the cloud is that my inbox looks the same at work (on an XP desktop) as it does at home (linux laptop). Gmail's good like that. I could see the advantage of doing things similarlly for word processing, etc. If I was willing to trade control of my data and privacy and speed for that sort of interoperability and access.
I'm not.
Summary fail.
Have you spent much time w/ Linux recently? There might be a lot niggling problems w/ Linux (particularly wrt proprietary drivers and UI usability), but I'll say this--this OS is born live on the network. X forwarding is a great example--by its very nature, the graphical interface is designed to be usuable over a network. It may or may not be great to use (I can't really comment on that--my main experience with it involves programs running on an over-worked 800MHz server via an overcrowded T1 line) but architecturally, it's built with network in mind.
Will spending $1000 really make her looking to see if the printer's plugged in before she tried to print?
Then I have wade through a mess of acronymns I don't completley understand. OSS? ALSA? JACK? PulseAudio?
Can somebody point me to a newbie's guide to Linux audio? Anything I've ever read (including tfa) is over my head, but I'd like to understand it.
Is there a OpenSUSE live cd with 4.3 ready to go out of the gate or some such?
I tend to agree--I don't particularly care to have my email/IM/collaboration software all tied up into my browser (particularly in FF or IE). I want something that does one thing and does it well. But if the protocol is open, as far as I can tell (note: IANAD(eveloper)) there's nothing stopping anybody from building a nice lean, writing-focused Wave client.
Explain to me again how competing for OS and browser share is against Google's interests...because the fact that people use them to look at the internet seems like a pretty poor reason.
I've only ever used it to manually transfer files.
Seriously.
You spelled "Nintendo Wii" wrong in that sentence.
Despite the fact that he couldn't begin to suggest what else it might be.
Poor kids didn't grow up seeing it every night--don't even knwo what it is.
When VMware performance fails, try BSD jails
Fwiw, I don't know if a full buffer-o-meter means the whole show's been downloaded or not.
An object lesson to the other dice. Bahahah.
Oh, and a way to bind "find in page" to something usable like / instead of having to push the clunky ctrl+f.