I am pretty sure that Putin don't care about the freedom part of free software
I am pretty sure that I would not be so sure making such statements. The Putin's order in the document states (in Russian language) that they want to create a central repository for everyone, keep all the data in the open formats, create support, deploy that stuff in schools etc. So long story short: they're actually interested to contribute to FSF. I suspect, all that joy will travel to ALT Linux guys (http://www.altlinux.com) that did great job for a long years.
Just for the record: while I am not russian, still I speak Russian natively.:-P
Dude, MySQL is probably considered dead to us. It is the same Oracle now (from business point of view), and just different label to hook customers.
Instead, we dumped Oracle and moved to PostgreSQL, despite of many MySQL promising forks around. Those, who needs professional and official support for PostgreSQL, might look around for variety of companies doing this. For example, http://www.enterprisedb.com/ etc.
I was at a Toshiba media event earlier this year and they were very clear that this generation of glassless screens have horrible fields of view and are only good for advertising in public places like airports where, by walking by them, you'll get the 3D effect. It's almost analogous to the old 3D baseball cards where you'd move them and get the illusion of depth
Actually, we already have glasses-free 3D monitors here in Tokyo. Quality is that awful: it looks worse than old tube analog screen, while connected to a digital TV channel! You can not watch this for long, after you experienced 2D high vision digital TV. Moreover, this is all we know is still not a real 3D like you would get with a holography where object can be actually viewed from the various angles. But just a *flat* layers in depth.
OMG, that's bad news, actually. In Japan there is no noise pollution law. Apart from other annoying activities, they already doing it now for years in many vehicles, when some car supposed to turn left in order not to harm a bike drivers that silently coming on the left side. A tiny manga-anime-like high-pitch voice repeatedly tells you something like: "Careful, I am turning left. Careful, I am turning left. Careful, I am turning left..." (unless turned off). But now it will also probably say forever all the time (imagine in Engrish, as usual): "Calefur, I am coming. Calefur, I am coming. Calefur, I am coming!".
"I told you I am coming, you idiot. I told you I am coming, you idiot. I told you I am coming, you idiot."....:-)
In a Russia they already have these. Pentagon now can go and accuse russkies on a Red Square in front of Kremlin, and also do some "proactive action" in order to stop that. Yeah, go ahead...
*me grabs a popcorn watchin that*:-)
Yes. Chernobyl haven't exploded in that meaning. It sort of "puffed", where all the radioactive stuff from the reactor has been molten and stays till now in the basement (well, not only there). So the mechanical ruins are minimal, however radiation is way stronger than it could be if just like a "regular" nuke exploded and will persists for more good 20 years.
iPad expensive? You must be kidding. Some also thinks that Nokia N900 is also very cheap device, because all these stupid Apple fanboys admire S.Jobs and devote their stupid heads to iPhone, believing in their religion, hence iPhone must be very expensive and mac users are morons, right?...
Just take a look yourself, counting *everything*, not just a blunt hardware and the device. Take for the same price a decent netbook. You will get a difference about ~$50, which is not a money at all if we talk about reliable device for years.
Moreover, if you get a 10 single purpose cheap devices, so in a sum it will be much more expensive than have 1 multi-purpose device that has a bigger price. And also ugly to live with them: you get one device with yourself, instead of a sack of gadgets.
Now, take an Eee netbook. In particular, look for Asus Eee PC 1008HA Sea Shell. Look at its price. When you will compare all the issues together (including real life events, ecosystem, infrastructure behind, app store if such (in Linux you have package manager, but still lack of store where to get good music, movies etc), then you will find that netbook is clearly a piece of junk, if you want my opinion. An expensive piece of junk, because just throwing away ~$500 to the trash bin, well I don't have such money, unfortunately.
Finally, I was repairing these things a lot myself for my friends and putting Linux there to make their life easier. But even you put Linux in it, it is still remains a junk: bad and slow Intel Atom processor, gets hot, clunky, wacky, wires around, sh!tty keyboard, battery life and just overall ugly and slow. This is a junk, dude, that you are unable to normally enjoy it or make any real work on it. You can not seriously work with iPad too, but at least other functions done with iPad is way better (gaming, book reading for example) than the same in a typical netbook.
I hope that touch devices, Android powered, will bring some more sense. However, they will still suffer from a nubmer of things, including absence of something like iTunes Store with all the goods inside, etc.
And that means that Java won't work on Macs (thus Apple in a total trouble, because lots of useful stuff just will gone). Or iOS users in a trouble, where Java will start working -- it will just kill these little devices because of shitty overuse.
I think, it is pretty much Game Over for dedicated readers.
You want that or not, but iPad won, even so far it is sold less in units in total. But still it will kill Kindle, I think. And devices that will be built on top of Android will replace Kindle and stuff like that. Simply because they can do more than just reading a book.
Especially last update from Apple to iPad on reading PDFs is really a killer feature. To be fair, Kindle is very nice gadget, but unfortunately, not enough good anymore.
A Mac Mini sized Dell Zino [dell.com] with HDMI starts at $249.99.
...and ends up $200 cheaper, when you spec it out according to the Mac Mini, but still has AMD Dual Core Athlon Neo X2 6850e (1MB L2, 1.8GHz) vs. 2.4 Core Duo. Even you put Linux on it, experience is still worse than on Mac Mini, especially when it comes to just the purpose of the Mac mini: to be a nice cheap machine for your grandpa or home theater etc.
Please admit it: OSX is much better for an average Joe than Windows or Linux.
Yes, it is. Apple stuff is all about software. And if you think you can build some Linux-based stuff better than this for your wife/grandpa including all the nice experience OSX offers, then you're clearly not an Apple target audience anyway.
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I am pretty sure that Putin don't care about the freedom part of free software
I am pretty sure that I would not be so sure making such statements. The Putin's order in the document states (in Russian language) that they want to create a central repository for everyone, keep all the data in the open formats, create support, deploy that stuff in schools etc. So long story short: they're actually interested to contribute to FSF. I suspect, all that joy will travel to ALT Linux guys (http://www.altlinux.com) that did great job for a long years.
Just for the record: while I am not russian, still I speak Russian natively. :-P
Not surprisingly, same experience here. Totally agree.
Dude, MySQL is probably considered dead to us. It is the same Oracle now (from business point of view), and just different label to hook customers.
Instead, we dumped Oracle and moved to PostgreSQL, despite of many MySQL promising forks around. Those, who needs professional and official support for PostgreSQL, might look around for variety of companies doing this. For example, http://www.enterprisedb.com/ etc.
Java runs piss poor performance
Not at all. The only poor performance if you want to do such animations as in iOS. If you need that crap, of course...
I guess, metamatic won't answer you anymore. :-)
I mean, seriously... These are so annoying!
...and as well as Adobe Illustrator, whe M$ will acquire Adobe.
Me.
We have these monitors already. Quality is very bad yet. Like you would watch 320x200 analog TV on 21 inch screen. :-)
I was at a Toshiba media event earlier this year and they were very clear that this generation of glassless screens have horrible fields of view and are only good for advertising in public places like airports where, by walking by them, you'll get the 3D effect. It's almost analogous to the old 3D baseball cards where you'd move them and get the illusion of depth
Actually, we already have glasses-free 3D monitors here in Tokyo. Quality is that awful: it looks worse than old tube analog screen, while connected to a digital TV channel! You can not watch this for long, after you experienced 2D high vision digital TV. Moreover, this is all we know is still not a real 3D like you would get with a holography where object can be actually viewed from the various angles. But just a *flat* layers in depth.
Summarizing it, 3D is not near future.
OMG, that's bad news, actually. In Japan there is no noise pollution law. Apart from other annoying activities, they already doing it now for years in many vehicles, when some car supposed to turn left in order not to harm a bike drivers that silently coming on the left side. A tiny manga-anime-like high-pitch voice repeatedly tells you something like: "Careful, I am turning left. Careful, I am turning left. Careful, I am turning left..." (unless turned off). But now it will also probably say forever all the time (imagine in Engrish, as usual): "Calefur, I am coming. Calefur, I am coming. Calefur, I am coming!". "I told you I am coming, you idiot. I told you I am coming, you idiot. I told you I am coming, you idiot.".... :-)
Go to the Canada or mid Africa and they are totally unable to crack your iPhone, using "tracking heat trails" technique. :-)
In a Russia they already have these. Pentagon now can go and accuse russkies on a Red Square in front of Kremlin, and also do some "proactive action" in order to stop that. Yeah, go ahead... *me grabs a popcorn watchin that* :-)
Those who needed these documents already downloaded them. Now, go get and catch a wind in the field!
Yes. Chernobyl haven't exploded in that meaning. It sort of "puffed", where all the radioactive stuff from the reactor has been molten and stays till now in the basement (well, not only there). So the mechanical ruins are minimal, however radiation is way stronger than it could be if just like a "regular" nuke exploded and will persists for more good 20 years.
Economics is a science to explaining you today why your predictions about tomorrow was not succeed yesterday.
Java is not owned by Oracle.
If you are surrounded by an idiots, then probably you are the central one?... :)
Yes. While having smaller brain (according to the Ali G)
iPad expensive? You must be kidding. Some also thinks that Nokia N900 is also very cheap device, because all these stupid Apple fanboys admire S.Jobs and devote their stupid heads to iPhone, believing in their religion, hence iPhone must be very expensive and mac users are morons, right?...
Just take a look yourself, counting *everything*, not just a blunt hardware and the device. Take for the same price a decent netbook. You will get a difference about ~$50, which is not a money at all if we talk about reliable device for years.
Moreover, if you get a 10 single purpose cheap devices, so in a sum it will be much more expensive than have 1 multi-purpose device that has a bigger price. And also ugly to live with them: you get one device with yourself, instead of a sack of gadgets.
Now, take an Eee netbook. In particular, look for Asus Eee PC 1008HA Sea Shell. Look at its price. When you will compare all the issues together (including real life events, ecosystem, infrastructure behind, app store if such (in Linux you have package manager, but still lack of store where to get good music, movies etc), then you will find that netbook is clearly a piece of junk, if you want my opinion. An expensive piece of junk, because just throwing away ~$500 to the trash bin, well I don't have such money, unfortunately.
Finally, I was repairing these things a lot myself for my friends and putting Linux there to make their life easier. But even you put Linux in it, it is still remains a junk: bad and slow Intel Atom processor, gets hot, clunky, wacky, wires around, sh!tty keyboard, battery life and just overall ugly and slow. This is a junk, dude, that you are unable to normally enjoy it or make any real work on it. You can not seriously work with iPad too, but at least other functions done with iPad is way better (gaming, book reading for example) than the same in a typical netbook.
I hope that touch devices, Android powered, will bring some more sense. However, they will still suffer from a nubmer of things, including absence of something like iTunes Store with all the goods inside, etc.
And that means that Java won't work on Macs (thus Apple in a total trouble, because lots of useful stuff just will gone). Or iOS users in a trouble, where Java will start working -- it will just kill these little devices because of shitty overuse.
Just a though.
I think, it is pretty much Game Over for dedicated readers.
You want that or not, but iPad won, even so far it is sold less in units in total. But still it will kill Kindle, I think. And devices that will be built on top of Android will replace Kindle and stuff like that. Simply because they can do more than just reading a book.
Especially last update from Apple to iPad on reading PDFs is really a killer feature. To be fair, Kindle is very nice gadget, but unfortunately, not enough good anymore.
A Mac Mini sized Dell Zino [dell.com] with HDMI starts at $249.99.
...and ends up $200 cheaper, when you spec it out according to the Mac Mini, but still has AMD Dual Core Athlon Neo X2 6850e (1MB L2, 1.8GHz) vs. 2.4 Core Duo. Even you put Linux on it, experience is still worse than on Mac Mini, especially when it comes to just the purpose of the Mac mini: to be a nice cheap machine for your grandpa or home theater etc.
Please admit it: OSX is much better for an average Joe than Windows or Linux.
The mac mini is not a "luxury good".
Yes, it is. Apple stuff is all about software. And if you think you can build some Linux-based stuff better than this for your wife/grandpa including all the nice experience OSX offers, then you're clearly not an Apple target audience anyway.
Compaq has a machine that only costs $300 (at staples) with 1/3 faster processor, 1/3 more RAM, and 1/3 bigger hard drive
...and shitty OS with a horrible experience for your granpa.