I hope Google wins this one. Not because I wish any harm to Apple, but because Apple will be forced to respond by licensing and, where appropriate, cross-licensing their patents where the currently refuse to do so.
I don't like this line of thought. This massive cross-licensing nonsense is what keeps the little guys and potential entrepreneurs from entering markets. Why is the solution to obvious and likely invalid patents to create some mega-consortium of tech giants who all have a patent cross-licence agreement? So unless a company has a huge battlechest of obvious and likely invalid patents they can't even consider competing with these guys. Sounds kind of like an oligarchy to me.
Personally, I see one benefit of Google winning this case: It might wake people up to the fact that these ridiculous patent spats affect them as consumers as well. It might bring some bureaucrats to the realization that rubber-stamping any patent a tech giant submits is a bad idea. Most importantly, hopefully it becomes a political issue that politicians have to take action on.
We should be rooting for the outcome that will most likely lead to patent reform. That's probably Google/Motorola, as a ban on Apple products would certainly get a bunch of yuppies' panties in a bunch. But if all their victory would lead to is a cross-license agreement (which it probably would) then I find it hard to care one way or the other. I don't care who sues who - what I have a problem with is the legal system that allows them to do it. It doesn't matter if Company X has too much integrity to file frivolous lawsuits when Companies Y and Z will. Companies Y and Z will just end up more successful. Integrity is something that must be forced upon a corporation by way of the rule of law (can't wait for the Randians to read that one).
Nothing is going to happen during the election campaigns and until the political climate has stabilized. And then nothing either. Lobbyists will insure that the public gets screwed. Algorithms are not items to be patented, and that includes cryptography, graphics, databases, -- everything.
Patent hardware functionality. Copyright designs, but stop the blockage of innovation. There are countries where progress is being made in technology, and it is not happening in the USA or Europe
Communism is bad, because he needed to pay for his own medical needs. Of wait that's capitalism. Disregard.
Whats the difference between Communism and Democracy? In each, the 1% have the wealth and power and the 99% are the "want to haves" or "need to haves".
Which is more fair? That I cannot answer, as I have never lived under communism.
My son worked in Latvia after the communists left, and the majority of the people wanted it back. -- Always have a job, good medicare, good vacations, and only a few shortages or high prices for luxury goods. And communists do not want dissent, but neither do the capitalists.
Legislators want ACT to make a Kentucky-specific ACT test
Sorry, hillbillies. We're not making a separate test for you just because you're a bunch of bible-thumping idiots. We're also not making a separate test for Muslims which women are forbidden to take, or a separate Scientology test with science questions involving Thetan levels, or a separate test for North Koreans where the correct answer to every question is A. Our Supreme Leader, Praised Be His Name!
Everyone gets the same test (well, okay, we can do braille and language translations, but THAT'S IT). And studying for it is going to involve reading more than the Bible, or Koran, or Talmud, or whatever the fuck holy text you happen to be thumping.
Besides, you need real science in Kentucky. That meth isn't going to cook itself, you know.
Sorry to enlighten you, but most Jews believe in and study evolution, and state that God directs man to discover and improve. That is why we have wonderful discoveries in Science, medicine, mathematics. We still study religion, but it is a philosophical study, to understand the why of the many religious laws. We do also learn to respect other religions as long as they believe in the one God, and the first 3 commandments.
Evolution does not subtract from our belief, it re-enforces it, because we believe God is making us aware of his greatness by our (man's) research and discoveries.
Is there a race to the bottom in the sense that if all handset makers abandon the low-end market to focus on higher-margin smartphones, competition will increasingly erode those margins?
FWIW if I were making smartphones, the overriding lesson I would take from the iPhone is "make just one model". It's high risk, but selling phones seems to be about marketing first and technology second, so putting all your marketing muscle behind one model doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Your comment reminds me of Henry Ford and the Model T. -- We have no competition.
No, it's worse than insurance. The company pays, so it's taxable to the recipient.
For most beneficiaries, it is a great deal. I am on pension, and I would LOVE to have half my salary that I had before retirement. If the beneficiary has no income, the taxes to be paid are not really painful to bear.
I wonder what percentage of that 54% have ever flown on an airline and more specifically since the TSA took over security?
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That's been my impression for quite a while now. If you fly with any regularity, the TSA looks like nothing more than security theater that just applies patch after patch every time someone is noticed to be trying to do something nefarious through one of their gaping security holes. I flew a lot both before and after sept 11, and have been either mid-trip or within a few days of a trip during a lot of the policy changes (e.g. only passengers past the security checkpoints, the 3 oz of fluid thing, underpants man, and more). They slap a patch on in reaction to an event, and while it looks like they're doing something, it really has no effect other than to increase cost and time involved, with no improvement in safety or security.
A while ago I came to the conclusion that all of this stuff is some sort of weird proxy for people's fear of flying. If we were really concerned about terrorists then public places would look a whole lot different than they do. The reason we don't have more terrorist attacks has nothing to do with all the TSA stuff and everything to do with there just not being very many terrorists.
I believe you are absolutely right. TSA is window dressing and nothing more. The true security work is done by other security groups via their means such as monitoring, undercover agents, stoolies (informants), security exchanges with other countries, agent infiltration, email and telephone (unauthorized ) surveillance and other means.
The Israelis rely on body language and surveillance before the person enters the airport.
A bomb exploding inside an airport will do tremendous human and material damage. If the terrorist (if there is one) is captured outside before she/he enters the building, the damage would be very restricted. If an inspector knew he could be killed by a patdown, would he actually do it?
What do you mean, move your mouse to opposite ends of the screen?
Ctrl+Alt+[up|down] - swap virtual desktops. Because it's faster than tap top left, hit page down... or top left, roll mouse wheel over desktops on the right.. or, really, I tap top left and use Ctrl+Alt+[up|down] to move between desktops.
Tap top-left, start typing - search. Yes there's a search box... you don't have to use it.
And why are you whining about touch pads? I'm using a 24 inch wide screen monitor here and a mouse can go top left to bottom right in a short motion. Touch pads never gave me trouble: use two fingers. Index in the top left, ring on the bottom right, lift index, repeat. A few quick taps and the mouse races to the bottom right in a quarter second flat (two thirds of a second if you're new). This probably doesn't work on multi-touch, but afaik that's just for touch screens.
I touch type, and by touch typing I rest my wrists on the front of the keys. Unfortunately it often grazes the touch pad, and whoops, I just submitted an incomplete email or blog post. I tried as much as I could to desensitize the touchpad, but in the end elected to use an external mouse. I much prefer the joystick that Lenova provides. No touch pad for me please.
You could always press the Super/"windows" key or whatever itls labelled on your keyboard. Gets you to the overview without needing to lift your hands off the keyboard - pretty much everything in gnome-shell can be done with keyboard shortcuts, often the same shortcuts that worked in Gnome 2 (ctrl-alt-up/down arrow to switch workspaces for example).
To launch an application, I press Super, type the first few letters of the program name (or what it does, like "mail", which gets me Thunderbird), hit Enter and go. Much quicker than the Gnome 2/Windows way of clicking Applications, mousing down to the correct submenu, and selecting from there.
With Gnome2 the panel was my favorites bar. I pasted thunderbird, firefox, Qt and some other frequently used applications to the panel. I achieved in one mouse click, what I needed, And with the desktop switching. I used compiz (love the wiggly windows) and the cube. With compiz, I agree, the keyboard was great desktop switcher, and very functional. I think G2 with many compiz features is the way to go. (I use this config with Centos6.3)
There's a "default desktop" in Debian? I thought everyone just installed the netinst and used apt-get to install whatever desktop they wanted.
They do, when internet activity is low cost, or high reliability. I do use netinstall, but I download the debian iso with wget so that I can do a restart. I also dl using torrent. I use a protocol that checksums the download blocks and initiates a retransmit for faulty blocks. In some countries, Internet is still by dial-up. CD images are important. We who live in the Americas or European zones are lucky to have good stable high speed access.
It was God punishing people for practicing science so boldly in the open, no doubt.
In other words, Believing in GW Bush, who put his head in the ground and flatly stated, "Global Warming, what's that? It is a myth! Go petroleum companies go!".
The predictions that I read are than within 25 years Arizona will be inhabitable in the summer, Texas shortly thereafter or even before, and the american desert will expand significantly in size. Its not all the USA's fault. Big contributors are China, India, Russia, and Pakistan. But the USA stopped burning coal for electricity, and used more solar and wind for energy, it would make a very small but important dent in global warming.
As for agriculture, my recommendation is for cultivators (can't say farmers as farmers have disappeared, to be replaced by large corporations), to visit Israel. Israel has same weather almost all year round as Arizona, but Israel is drier. Israel has a water shortage, but they use drip irrigation to raise crops. They also have a very large tree planting program, to reclaim desert and actually moderate high temperatures..
Because of all my linux versions (I do software development), I use FF everywhere. I also do development on W7 so I have it there too.
My add-ons are the USA spell checker (you will not find it under spell checker, or language,) You must use the keyword United. I also have French and Spanish spell checkers (I work in 3 languages). I also use xmarks Until 14.x Xmarks worked well with FF, but now it wont work do sync the toolbar. Xmarks people were not helpful. So I have uninstalled xmarks, and am using a FF option to backup the folders, I email the backup to myself, and when I go to the other FF, I restore that file. I discovered I no longer need xmarks for FF, but I will continue to use it for explorer on W7.
Internet explorer is fast, and surprisingly good, Xmarks works well with it. So, Xmarks, check out FF 14.0.1 (linux or w7 versions). Something is broken.
Being a former banker, having worked in security and secure file transfer, and cyberfraud, a) I do not have a credit card number on line b) I do no on-line banking. c) I do not use pay-pal. If I need to purchase via the web, I do it via another special credit card account that allows no more than $50.00 balance. I preload it with money in order to make the purchase. The account header stipulates to refuse all requests to up the credit limit. Absolutely all. d) I physically walk to the bank branch to do most transactions (atm cash retrieval). e) No pay by debit or credit card, except for big box chains such as supermarket, MacDonalds, Burger King, and no small store. f) Don't want on-line banking. g) I do not let credit card out of my hands at any store. (No walking away to swipe it at a terminal). h) Some places (government) only allow payment by cheque or Credit card. Wow-- I tried to pay a bill to government with cash and it was refused. Something to do with germs... etc. etc.
It seems more-likely that Scripps contracted with Youtube to automatically have any content removed that has an "audio signature" which matches Scripps own uploaded videos. In other words, no people involved.
I've heard radio host Alex Jones complain about this. Some corporation (CBS Radio if I recall correctly) has contracted a DJ for their national news starting in 2011. However they claim ownership of ALL recordings by that DJ, both present and past. So youtube is automatically removing all videos of said DJ, including interviews on Jones' show from ten years ago. There's no person involved... just a computer doing automatic filtering & automatic takedowns.
How can you say no human is involved, just a program. Who wrote the program. Should you sue the programmer or the program architect for mischief, or stupidity in not putting in adequate checks and conditions
This is what happens when you automate things and accept all claims as true. Sad thing is, "the industry" will say this is a small price to pay, and NASA being a government agency will not pursue it. This needs to be a wakeup call before we allow ISP's to monitor and police everything - there needs to be a human in the loop to fix these issues - and timely, not is days or weeks, but with the same SLA as the automated system. Right now, it is almost like the recording industry is calling the shots and everyone is guilty unless they prove they are not infringing. In the US, shouldn't the system be the other way around?
So, some organization has copyrighted NASA's one video. ONLY IN AMERICA:
If it was my task, I would first make certain that I had a copy of all the source and that if at all possible, using a test system, recreate the production executables. You may have to do this while "maintaining" some of the known critical code via bug fixes". Until you have a working test system that matches the production system, you will never know if the code you have to maintain matches the production, is used, or was never deleted because it was a "Just in case... copy".
Thereafter, were I doing it, I would implement some change management procedures. Any change request has to be in form of a request, with a justification. This cm process will help you get a handle on the business priorities. I can email a cm form.
If you can get a college student or intern to help you out, go for it. Your job is going to need help, and a project of this size is just right for a one semester project.
As you put source code together that are related into separate directories, (you are organizing the sources), your task may suddenly not appear as bad as you thought. Do not think of the coding, but concentrate on the business processes, and most certainly, visit the end-users to find out when their subsystem was implemented. Try to match that with source dates or comments within the sources. Organize your directory names for the business processes,
Please note, you cannot do it all in a day. It will take about 16-20 weeks of dedicated work to complete the cataloging and getting a proper handle on the business application.
So, they are being tested by the security watchdog in the U.K. Big deal, they load up a specially prepped software image (like they do for all their customers) and pass the test. Next step is to have all operators buy their heavily discounted gear for almost nothing, implement it and have them install a critical software update to avoid exploits. Have that image backdoored and they are one step closer to total world domination.
If they do what you suggest they may do, and they are found out, their market will become negative, with customers leaving like flies
Good point! When you outlaw something you make everybody who uses that something an outlaw. I believe history has proven that making popular things illegal simply does not work in the long run. The US, being focused solely on quarterly profits and all, will probably never recognize this fact.
In this category is Booz. Drugs are coming soon. News at 7pm.
My daughter and son-in-law chose to put their kids into a school which had a bilingual program (French immersion until grade 4, and then English with French). The result has been fantastic. They read/write/speak these two languages beautifully. Are they bright kids? They are! I would say they are more creative than being genius bright. I attribute that to multi-culturism.
In their classes are Whites, Blacks from Africa and from Latin America, Asians, Chinese, Latinos (Chile, Argentina, Mexico), and Russians. We are only missing autochtones to round it up. A true melting pot. The school holds a food day every 6 weeks, where the specialties from around the world. are laid out for sampling. They have science projects and music projects where songs from each country are learned.
What is great is that there is no racism. We see this because my grandkids have sleep-over guests (overnight classmates) from the mentioned groups.
Our actual experience is that childen who are multi-lingual do better than uni-lingual childen at all subjects, math included. And no, 14 languages is an exaggeration. Two languages is the norm, with the occasional third spoken between parents and grandparents, and thus understood by the grandchildren.
Examples in Quebec. English and French in public and high schools, and Italian or Spanish at home as a third language. I watch TV stations that broadcast in English, French and Spanish.
Love the trilingualism. I can joke in three languages. Some thing I am very proud of.
Places like Africa, India, and Papua New Guinea have a lot of spoken languages, but there is _ONE_ big problem - that's all they have, spoken words, no written word, no way to jot down what they say on paper, et cetera
Total, utter poppycock.
How can you educate children using a second language? Educators found generations ago that teaching in a language other than the child's first language simply does not work for young children. So, to teach the child, books and other material written in their native language, which requires a written form - an orthography - has to have been developed.
Here in Australia, two generations of linguist graduate students (from the 1950's onwards) were employed creating written forms of the various Aboriginal languages. They recorded words (dictionaries) and grammar. They wrote down the local tribes children's stories. They translated the standard primary school texts into the local language. All of this is essential to run a primary-level education system. Similar programs have run in PNG, Canada, Central America and Africa over the last fifty years.
I guess the last 40 years of bilingualism in Quebec Canada has failed. Tell that to my kids and grandkids who can read/write/speak in both English and French. My family can get by in Spanish, though Spanish is not taught in the schools. Perhaps bilingualism is successful in that conversation is done in either language. If I meet a French speaking person, I switch to French, and he meets an English speaking person he switches to English. In the end we converse in beautiful friendly ways.
In Montreal, some English words are displaced by French ones and vice versa. Computer terms in French generally use the English or literal translation of English words. byte for octet. disk dure for disque rigide. megabyte for megaoctet. email for courriel. Depanneur for the local convenience shop. Both local English and French are evolving
I beg to differ. with the utter popycock statement. Bilingualism works
Indeed, I would like to get hands on a wide reaching comparative study involving more languages than two. My guess is that finding people speaking more than 2 languages are not common... and you sir are a real exception.
Depends on what part of the world you're from. Papua New Guinea has over 1000 living spoken languages, the Solomon Islands has hundreds. Even Vanuatu, where I live, has over 100 spoken languages. It's perfectly commonplace for a child to be fluent in either English or French (depending on which school they attend), both of their parents' native tongues, and Bislama, the lingua franca here. In the course of any given day, I find myself speaking English and Bislama at the office, French with people of French extraction, and sharing greetings and pleasantries in about fifteen (yes: 15) other languages.
Nobody blinks an eye, except for those who observe that a lot of unilingual expats never learn even one other language. I suspect the difference is that I grew up in a mixed English/French-speaking community, and picked up my first 'second' language at a very early age.
I expect that people's facility with multiple languages is what leads to Bislama - a variety of pidgin English - being used so inventively, in spite of being particularly impoverished in terms of grammar and vocabulary.
Come to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Bilingualism English/French is a requirement in public / highschools. Parochial schools or private schools offer three languages. My own self, I am fluent in English, began to learn french at age 40, and I picked up Spanish from my wife's conversations with her family. I read/write French and read/speak a smattering of Spanish. I can hold a conversation.
I have three adults, two sons and a daughter and three grandchildren.
One of my sons has as languages, Music, English, French, Spanish, Portugese, and Russian. He read-writes them all. He (MBA) knows various Spanish accents, having lived 10 years in Florida. Knowing English, French, and Spanish, and a great personality due to multilingualism and from multiculturalism allowed him to be top salesrep in Florida. My other son is trilingual as well, with English, French and some Polish (from girlfriend). He has a bachelor degree in finance. My daughter teaches Autistic children, is a psychologist, and is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
My grandkids (ages 9,8,6) are better in French than English, (They started kindergarten with full French immersion until grade 4, after which they get half days in each language). Science, gym, and spelling is given in both.) High school will be predominantly in English.
They also understand Spanish.
Yes, in Quebec, we believe in multi-culturism, with a concentration in French.
Are we brighter? I do not think we are, but our minds are conditioned or trained to think creatively. Our vocabularies are richer than most uni-lingual peoples. We think in two or three languages at a time.
By the way, Music is a language. My son at age 4 was able to identify cords and play piano. Today his hobby is composing songs and lyrics.
As for me, I have a degree in mathematics and physics. I did have very high marks in university.
WHAT?!? Secure Boot will do nothing to impede enterprise Windows users. You'll either use Windows8/2012 and have a signed boot loader or use 2008R2/7 and disable secure boot. Btw it would also do nothing to impede enterprise Linux users either, they'd either use a commercial signed distribution or build their own and have the build process install their keys into the TPM chip (trust me, enterprises already deal with crypto from internal PKI to external SSL to drive encryption).
Under UEFI, what does a VM machine need to do? Does it also need the UEFI keys? One problem noted by IBM with tpms was that the VM machine needed a VM emulation of a TPM
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I hope Google wins this one. Not because I wish any harm to Apple, but because Apple will be forced to respond by licensing and, where appropriate, cross-licensing their patents where the currently refuse to do so.
I don't like this line of thought. This massive cross-licensing nonsense is what keeps the little guys and potential entrepreneurs from entering markets. Why is the solution to obvious and likely invalid patents to create some mega-consortium of tech giants who all have a patent cross-licence agreement? So unless a company has a huge battlechest of obvious and likely invalid patents they can't even consider competing with these guys. Sounds kind of like an oligarchy to me.
Personally, I see one benefit of Google winning this case: It might wake people up to the fact that these ridiculous patent spats affect them as consumers as well. It might bring some bureaucrats to the realization that rubber-stamping any patent a tech giant submits is a bad idea. Most importantly, hopefully it becomes a political issue that politicians have to take action on.
We should be rooting for the outcome that will most likely lead to patent reform. That's probably Google/Motorola, as a ban on Apple products would certainly get a bunch of yuppies' panties in a bunch. But if all their victory would lead to is a cross-license agreement (which it probably would) then I find it hard to care one way or the other. I don't care who sues who - what I have a problem with is the legal system that allows them to do it. It doesn't matter if Company X has too much integrity to file frivolous lawsuits when Companies Y and Z will. Companies Y and Z will just end up more successful. Integrity is something that must be forced upon a corporation by way of the rule of law (can't wait for the Randians to read that one).
Nothing is going to happen during the election campaigns and until the political climate has stabilized. And then nothing either. Lobbyists will insure that the public gets screwed. Algorithms are not items to be patented, and that includes cryptography, graphics, databases, -- everything.
Patent hardware functionality. Copyright designs, but stop the blockage of innovation. There are countries where progress is being made in technology, and it is not happening in the USA or Europe
Communism is bad, because he needed to pay for his own medical needs. Of wait that's capitalism. Disregard.
Whats the difference between Communism and Democracy? In each, the 1% have the wealth and power and the 99% are the "want to haves" or "need to haves".
Which is more fair? That I cannot answer, as I have never lived under communism.
My son worked in Latvia after the communists left, and the majority of the people wanted it back. -- Always have a job, good medicare, good vacations, and only a few shortages or high prices for luxury goods. And communists do not want dissent, but neither do the capitalists.
Legislators want ACT to make a Kentucky-specific ACT test
Sorry, hillbillies. We're not making a separate test for you just because you're a bunch of bible-thumping idiots. We're also not making a separate test for Muslims which women are forbidden to take, or a separate Scientology test with science questions involving Thetan levels, or a separate test for North Koreans where the correct answer to every question is A. Our Supreme Leader, Praised Be His Name!
Everyone gets the same test (well, okay, we can do braille and language translations, but THAT'S IT). And studying for it is going to involve reading more than the Bible, or Koran, or Talmud, or whatever the fuck holy text you happen to be thumping.
Besides, you need real science in Kentucky. That meth isn't going to cook itself, you know.
Sorry to enlighten you, but most Jews believe in and study evolution, and state that God directs man to discover and improve. That is why we have wonderful discoveries in Science, medicine, mathematics. We still study religion, but it is a philosophical study, to understand the why of the many religious laws. We do also learn to respect other religions as long as they believe in the one God, and the first 3 commandments.
Evolution does not subtract from our belief, it re-enforces it, because we believe God is making us aware of his greatness by our (man's) research and discoveries.
Is there a race to the bottom in the sense that if all handset makers abandon the low-end market to focus on higher-margin smartphones, competition will increasingly erode those margins?
FWIW if I were making smartphones, the overriding lesson I would take from the iPhone is "make just one model". It's high risk, but selling phones seems to be about marketing first and technology second, so putting all your marketing muscle behind one model doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Your comment reminds me of Henry Ford and the Model T. -- We have no competition.
No, it's worse than insurance. The company pays, so it's taxable to the recipient.
For most beneficiaries, it is a great deal. I am on pension, and I would LOVE to have half my salary that I had before retirement.
If the beneficiary has no income, the taxes to be paid are not really painful to bear.
I wonder what percentage of that 54% have ever flown on an airline and more specifically since the TSA took over security?
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That's been my impression for quite a while now. If you fly with any regularity, the TSA looks like nothing more than security theater that just applies patch after patch every time someone is noticed to be trying to do something nefarious through one of their gaping security holes. I flew a lot both before and after sept 11, and have been either mid-trip or within a few days of a trip during a lot of the policy changes (e.g. only passengers past the security checkpoints, the 3 oz of fluid thing, underpants man, and more). They slap a patch on in reaction to an event, and while it looks like they're doing something, it really has no effect other than to increase cost and time involved, with no improvement in safety or security.
A while ago I came to the conclusion that all of this stuff is some sort of weird proxy for people's fear of flying. If we were really concerned about terrorists then public places would look a whole lot different than they do. The reason we don't have more terrorist attacks has nothing to do with all the TSA stuff and everything to do with there just not being very many terrorists.
I believe you are absolutely right. TSA is window dressing and nothing more. The true security work is done by other security groups via their means such as monitoring, undercover agents, stoolies (informants), security exchanges with other countries, agent infiltration, email and telephone (unauthorized ) surveillance and other means.
The Israelis rely on body language and surveillance before the person enters the airport.
A bomb exploding inside an airport will do tremendous human and material damage. If the terrorist (if there is one) is captured outside before she/he enters the building, the damage would be very restricted. If an inspector knew he could be killed by a patdown, would he actually do it?
What do you mean, move your mouse to opposite ends of the screen?
Ctrl+Alt+[up|down] - swap virtual desktops. Because it's faster than tap top left, hit page down... or top left, roll mouse wheel over desktops on the right.. or, really, I tap top left and use Ctrl+Alt+[up|down] to move between desktops.
Tap top-left, start typing - search. Yes there's a search box... you don't have to use it.
And why are you whining about touch pads? I'm using a 24 inch wide screen monitor here and a mouse can go top left to bottom right in a short motion. Touch pads never gave me trouble: use two fingers. Index in the top left, ring on the bottom right, lift index, repeat. A few quick taps and the mouse races to the bottom right in a quarter second flat (two thirds of a second if you're new). This probably doesn't work on multi-touch, but afaik that's just for touch screens.
I touch type, and by touch typing I rest my wrists on the front of the keys. Unfortunately it often grazes the touch pad, and whoops, I just submitted an incomplete email or blog post. I tried as much as I could to desensitize the touchpad, but in the end elected to use an external mouse. I much prefer the joystick that Lenova provides. No touch pad for me please.
You could always press the Super/"windows" key or whatever itls labelled on your keyboard. Gets you to the overview without needing to lift your hands off the keyboard - pretty much everything in gnome-shell can be done with keyboard shortcuts, often the same shortcuts that worked in Gnome 2 (ctrl-alt-up/down arrow to switch workspaces for example).
To launch an application, I press Super, type the first few letters of the program name (or what it does, like "mail", which gets me Thunderbird), hit Enter and go. Much quicker than the Gnome 2/Windows way of clicking Applications, mousing down to the correct submenu, and selecting from there.
With Gnome2 the panel was my favorites bar. I pasted thunderbird, firefox, Qt and some other frequently used applications to the panel. I achieved in one mouse click, what I needed, And with the desktop switching. I used compiz (love the wiggly windows) and the cube. With compiz, I agree, the keyboard was great desktop switcher, and very functional. I think G2 with many compiz features is the way to go. (I use this config with Centos6.3)
There's a "default desktop" in Debian? I thought everyone just installed the netinst and used apt-get to install whatever desktop they wanted.
They do, when internet activity is low cost, or high reliability. I do use netinstall, but I download the debian iso with wget so that I can do a restart. I also dl using torrent. I use a protocol that checksums the download blocks and initiates a retransmit for faulty blocks.
In some countries, Internet is still by dial-up. CD images are important. We who live in the Americas or European zones are lucky to have good stable high speed access.
It was God punishing people for practicing science so boldly in the open, no doubt.
In other words, Believing in GW Bush, who put his head in the ground and flatly stated, "Global Warming, what's that? It is a myth! Go petroleum companies go!".
The predictions that I read are than within 25 years Arizona will be inhabitable in the summer, Texas shortly thereafter or even before, and the american desert will expand significantly in size.
Its not all the USA's fault. Big contributors are China, India, Russia, and Pakistan. But the USA stopped burning coal for electricity, and used more solar and wind for energy, it would make a very small but important dent in global warming.
As for agriculture, my recommendation is for cultivators (can't say farmers as farmers have disappeared, to be replaced by large corporations), to visit Israel. Israel has same weather almost all year round as Arizona, but Israel is drier. Israel has a water shortage, but they use drip irrigation to raise crops. They also have a very large tree planting program, to reclaim desert and actually moderate high temperatures..
Because of all my linux versions (I do software development), I use FF everywhere. I also do development on W7 so I have it there too.
My add-ons are the USA spell checker (you will not find it under spell checker, or language,) You must use the keyword United.
I also have French and Spanish spell checkers (I work in 3 languages).
I also use xmarks
Until 14.x Xmarks worked well with FF, but now it wont work do sync the toolbar. Xmarks people were not helpful. So I have uninstalled xmarks, and am using a FF option to backup the folders, I email the backup to myself, and when I go to the other FF, I restore that file.
I discovered I no longer need xmarks for FF, but I will continue to use it for explorer on W7.
Internet explorer is fast, and surprisingly good, Xmarks works well with it. So, Xmarks, check out FF 14.0.1 (linux or w7 versions). Something is broken.
Being a former banker, having worked in security and secure file transfer, and cyberfraud,
a) I do not have a credit card number on line
b) I do no on-line banking.
c) I do not use pay-pal. If I need to purchase via the web, I do it via another special credit card account that allows no more than $50.00 balance. I preload it with money in order to make the purchase.
The account header stipulates to refuse all requests to up the credit limit. Absolutely all.
d) I physically walk to the bank branch to do most transactions (atm cash retrieval).
e) No pay by debit or credit card, except for big box chains such as supermarket, MacDonalds, Burger King, and no small store.
f) Don't want on-line banking.
g) I do not let credit card out of my hands at any store. (No walking away to swipe it at a terminal).
h) Some places (government) only allow payment by cheque or Credit card. Wow-- I tried to pay a bill to government with cash and it was refused. Something to do with germs...
etc. etc.
If we could read Russian...
The Russians and Chinese have great search engines. Unfortunately they are filtered for sensitive political retrieval.
"He still draws a check, sure but that's different than being a functional member of the organization."
I bet he isn't a true Scotsman either.
Is it a dividend cheque?
It seems more-likely that Scripps contracted with Youtube to automatically have any content removed that has an "audio signature" which matches Scripps own uploaded videos. In other words, no people involved.
I've heard radio host Alex Jones complain about this. Some corporation (CBS Radio if I recall correctly) has contracted a DJ for their national news starting in 2011. However they claim ownership of ALL recordings by that DJ, both present and past. So youtube is automatically removing all videos of said DJ, including interviews on Jones' show from ten years ago. There's no person involved... just a computer doing automatic filtering & automatic takedowns.
How can you say no human is involved, just a program. Who wrote the program. Should you sue the programmer or the program architect for mischief, or stupidity in not putting in adequate checks and conditions
This is what happens when you automate things and accept all claims as true. Sad thing is, "the industry" will say this is a small price to pay, and NASA being a government agency will not pursue it. This needs to be a wakeup call before we allow ISP's to monitor and police everything - there needs to be a human in the loop to fix these issues - and timely, not is days or weeks, but with the same SLA as the automated system. Right now, it is almost like the recording industry is calling the shots and everyone is guilty unless they prove they are not infringing. In the US, shouldn't the system be the other way around?
So, some organization has copyrighted NASA's one video. ONLY IN AMERICA:
If it was my task, I would first make certain that I had a copy of all the source and that if at all possible, using a test system, recreate the production executables.
You may have to do this while "maintaining" some of the known critical code via bug fixes". Until you have a working test system that matches the production system, you will never know if the code you have to maintain matches the production, is used, or was never deleted because it was a "Just in case... copy".
Thereafter, were I doing it, I would implement some change management procedures. Any change request has to be in form of a request, with a justification. This cm process will help you get a handle on the business priorities. I can email a cm form.
If you can get a college student or intern to help you out, go for it. Your job is going to need help, and a project of this size is just right for a one semester project.
As you put source code together that are related into separate directories, (you are organizing the sources), your task may suddenly not appear as bad as you thought. Do not think of the coding, but concentrate on the business processes, and most certainly, visit the end-users to find out when their subsystem was implemented. Try to match that with source dates or comments within the sources. Organize your directory names for the business processes,
Please note, you cannot do it all in a day. It will take about 16-20 weeks of dedicated work to complete the cataloging and getting a proper handle on the business application.
Best of luck.
So, they are being tested by the security watchdog in the U.K. Big deal, they load up a specially prepped software image (like they do for all their customers) and pass the test. Next step is to have all operators buy their heavily discounted gear for almost nothing, implement it and have them install a critical software update to avoid exploits. Have that image backdoored and they are one step closer to total world domination.
If they do what you suggest they may do, and they are found out, their market will become negative, with customers leaving like flies
Good point! When you outlaw something you make everybody who uses that something an outlaw. I believe history has proven that making popular things illegal simply does not work in the long run. The US, being focused solely on quarterly profits and all, will probably never recognize this fact.
In this category is Booz. Drugs are coming soon. News at 7pm.
My daughter and son-in-law chose to put their kids into a school which had a bilingual program (French immersion until grade 4, and then English with French). The result has been fantastic. They read/write/speak these two languages beautifully. Are they bright kids? They are! I would say they are more creative than being genius bright. I attribute that to multi-culturism.
In their classes are Whites, Blacks from Africa and from Latin America, Asians, Chinese, Latinos (Chile, Argentina, Mexico), and Russians. We are only missing autochtones to round it up. A true melting pot. The school holds a food day every 6 weeks, where the specialties from around the world. are laid out for sampling.
They have science projects and music projects where songs from each country are learned.
What is great is that there is no racism. We see this because my grandkids have sleep-over guests (overnight classmates) from the mentioned groups.
Our actual experience is that childen who are multi-lingual do better than uni-lingual childen at all subjects, math included.
And no, 14 languages is an exaggeration. Two languages is the norm, with the occasional third spoken between parents and grandparents, and thus understood by the grandchildren.
Examples in Quebec. English and French in public and high schools, and Italian or Spanish at home as a third language.
I watch TV stations that broadcast in English, French and Spanish.
Love the trilingualism. I can joke in three languages. Some thing I am very proud of.
Places like Africa, India, and Papua New Guinea have a lot of spoken languages, but there is _ONE_ big problem - that's all they have, spoken words, no written word, no way to jot down what they say on paper, et cetera
Total, utter poppycock.
How can you educate children using a second language? Educators found generations ago that teaching in a language other than the child's first language simply does not work for young children. So, to teach the child, books and other material written in their native language, which requires a written form - an orthography - has to have been developed.
Here in Australia, two generations of linguist graduate students (from the 1950's onwards) were employed creating written forms of the various Aboriginal languages. They recorded words (dictionaries) and grammar. They wrote down the local tribes children's stories. They translated the standard primary school texts into the local language. All of this is essential to run a primary-level education system. Similar programs have run in PNG, Canada, Central America and Africa over the last fifty years.
I guess the last 40 years of bilingualism in Quebec Canada has failed. Tell that to my kids and grandkids who can read/write/speak in both English and French. My family can get by in Spanish, though Spanish is not taught in the schools. Perhaps bilingualism is successful in that conversation is done in either language. If I meet a French speaking person, I switch to French, and he meets an English speaking person he switches to English. In the end we converse in beautiful friendly ways.
In Montreal, some English words are displaced by French ones and vice versa. Computer terms in French generally use the English or literal translation of English words.
byte for octet. disk dure for disque rigide. megabyte for megaoctet. email for courriel. Depanneur for the local convenience shop. Both local English and French are evolving
I beg to differ. with the utter popycock statement. Bilingualism works
Indeed, I would like to get hands on a wide reaching comparative study involving more languages than two. My guess is that finding people speaking more than 2 languages are not common... and you sir are a real exception.
Depends on what part of the world you're from. Papua New Guinea has over 1000 living spoken languages, the Solomon Islands has hundreds. Even Vanuatu, where I live, has over 100 spoken languages. It's perfectly commonplace for a child to be fluent in either English or French (depending on which school they attend), both of their parents' native tongues, and Bislama, the lingua franca here. In the course of any given day, I find myself speaking English and Bislama at the office, French with people of French extraction, and sharing greetings and pleasantries in about fifteen (yes: 15) other languages.
Nobody blinks an eye, except for those who observe that a lot of unilingual expats never learn even one other language. I suspect the difference is that I grew up in a mixed English/French-speaking community, and picked up my first 'second' language at a very early age.
I expect that people's facility with multiple languages is what leads to Bislama - a variety of pidgin English - being used so inventively, in spite of being particularly impoverished in terms of grammar and vocabulary.
Come to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Bilingualism English/French is a requirement in public / highschools. Parochial schools or private schools offer three languages.
My own self, I am fluent in English, began to learn french at age 40, and I picked up Spanish from my wife's conversations with her family. I read/write French and read/speak a smattering of Spanish. I can hold a conversation.
I have three adults, two sons and a daughter and three grandchildren.
One of my sons has as languages, Music, English, French, Spanish, Portugese, and Russian. He read-writes them all. He (MBA) knows various Spanish accents, having lived 10 years in Florida. Knowing English, French, and Spanish, and a great personality due to multilingualism and from multiculturalism allowed him to be top salesrep in Florida.
My other son is trilingual as well, with English, French and some Polish (from girlfriend). He has a bachelor degree in finance.
My daughter teaches Autistic children, is a psychologist, and is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
My grandkids (ages 9,8,6) are better in French than English, (They started kindergarten with full French immersion until grade 4, after which they get half days in each language). Science, gym, and spelling is given in both.) High school will be predominantly in English.
They also understand Spanish.
Yes, in Quebec, we believe in multi-culturism, with a concentration in French.
Are we brighter? I do not think we are, but our minds are conditioned or trained to think creatively. Our vocabularies are richer than most uni-lingual peoples. We think in two or three languages at a time.
By the way, Music is a language. My son at age 4 was able to identify cords and play piano. Today his hobby is composing songs and lyrics.
As for me, I have a degree in mathematics and physics. I did have very high marks in university.
WHAT?!? Secure Boot will do nothing to impede enterprise Windows users. You'll either use Windows8/2012 and have a signed boot loader or use 2008R2/7 and disable secure boot. Btw it would also do nothing to impede enterprise Linux users either, they'd either use a commercial signed distribution or build their own and have the build process install their keys into the TPM chip (trust me, enterprises already deal with crypto from internal PKI to external SSL to drive encryption).
Under UEFI, what does a VM machine need to do? Does it also need the UEFI keys? One problem noted by IBM with tpms was that the VM machine needed a VM emulation of a TPM
He is applying Fourier analysis to plotted wave forms, and that is how he gets to make his prediction. (Thats how I would do it)