Nah. Not going back. Unity is too painful a recent memory. I'm with Mint now.
Well, I tried UBUNTU 12.4 for the past days, beginning with the April 20th beta. It is hardly much better than 11.10, the previous version. If I open a window full screen, all the buttons are hidden and I cannot reduce the window size to allow me to get the pop-in-pop-out favourites bar that is on the left. I had to try with alt-tab and here too, I selected the running application I wanted, by landing on the icon, and sorry, the tendancy is to return to the current full screen running app.
It seems that fullscreen has no return (or has one I did not know about). It seems that Some software no longer recognize or receive mouse clicks. Time to wait a month for patches to be applied.
Otherwise, despite increased cockpit security and civilian awareness, we'd all die from terrorist attacks! That's why you must surrender your privacy in exchange for the all-important security theater like a good citizen would do. Otherwise, you're just a terrorist!
Do you mean surrender the private parts of a 4 year old child, frightened with what is being forced on her? I am sure a terrorist will want to blow up a 4 year old child by planting an explosive up her private parts.
You've got it right when you say "compared to normal people". Being a (good) software engineer takes a better-than-average brain. Better-than-average as in 98% of the world population won't ever be a good software engineer, no matter how much time and effort they put in it, because they simply don't have the brains for it.
Now let's assume a company with highly talented individuals. Some experienced, some novice. Why does salary need to keep going up? Simple. They should be paid more, because they're worth more. An experienced software engineer can be ten times as productive as a novice, will solve the same problems in less, more elegant, more maintainable code and have lower bug rates. They meet deadlines more consistently too. Yet, despite much better quality, lower risk and ten-fold productivity, it's rare to see more than a five-fold difference in salary. Being undervalued for their accomplishments, do you think it's strange developers switch career?
It's the experienced coders that you want. Compared to novice coders, they're an absolute bargain. *That* is why you want to keep increasing their salary. Oh and by the way. Experienced coders have no problem doing IPv6,.net, AJAX, XML, "in the cloud" and whatever newfangled crap you throw at them. They've been learning all their lives. They'll learn that new stuff faster than you can say "get off my lawn".
Gee, I agree that the younger people learn new stuff faster, but they also make costly mistakes. Experience and having been through many implementations makes the senior software engineer worth his weight in gold.
By the way, I still design software using the functional and object oriented methods. I am 71, so according to the comments, I must be very intelligent. I hope so, as I do care passionately about my challenges.
Apple studied the art of war, and in that study, they examined Microsoft and how MS reacted tp competition in the late 90s. MS attacked and destroyed the competition.
NCR Cash Register Company produced faulty machines bearing their competition's name. That is how they succeeded to gain market control.
The condensation of water is fantastic news. There are many dry areas in the world, where extracting water from the air would be used to irrigate crops. This means land that cannot be farmed can now be made fertile, produce crops, and feed the hungry.
One of the problems of extremism in religious practice is the belief that an mufti's or orthdox rabbi leader (similar religious structure), does not believe in education.
In one Jewish sect, women are only allowed to be marriage partners. They are forbidden to read library books, watch TV, or socialize with non-Jews. When the women marry, after a pre-arranged marriage, their head is shaved; they wear a wig and they are the breeding partner. Some women suffer abuse, and worse. Their schooling is not even basic. (Math, science, etc, is not important and so is not taught).
Divorce and unhappiness is reasonably high in these pre-arranged marriages (She is set to marry at age 18 or 19). If the husband has brains, and somewhere he has learned psychology, the marriage will succeed. Most of the time though, the men have no skills, (only study torah for Jews, or only study Koran for Muslims), and their view of life and values is very biased to where life is purely "sin avoidance".
The $60.00 light bulb is a first edition. It must be worth thousands, so they say. But actually, in material cost, it is probably worth $2.00
Leds are as cheap as they come. Pennies each. Just look at the LED that is used as a light for the cellphone camera. Brilliant and costs pennies. And will last years. Ditto for the mouse, dvd player, etc.
I am a compiz afficianodo with or under Gnome3. With G3, I wish I could have the ability to put a folder link as a on the favorite bar. I would put 4 different folders onto the favorite bar and then, the new G3 may have great merit. Click on the favorite link, and that folder should pop open with virtually no delay.
But until that comes, G3 is not going to be a developer's favorite.
I thought like that too, but one winter, something happened to me, and I became ill. That illness lasted 3 months, with lethargy, loss of overnight sleep, no libido. Eventually I healed, and have been OK for 7 years. Yes, what to do if you don't get better and the illness is chronic.
Never say never, but say Hope we are healthy all the days and nights of our life.
What will happen is that companies will buy disk arrays, consisting of a (terrabyte -1) bytes for tax avoidance. The electric bills will increase and the extra taxes will be avoided.
The Montreal Gazette of today, Saturday April 14th, reported that the Canadian Constitution has displaced the American one, when it comes to models of constitutions for other countries. Africa, Egypt and other countries are modelling their constitution after Canada's.
Jack was loyal to his country, not to the money hungry grubs. The truth is obvious, Infosys is Indian and has no loyalty to the USA, and does not respect the USA, even though it earns it profits from US companies
Time to wake up and bar them from offering services in the USA..
This digital currency option with cell phones has been in use for years in Africa. You go to a pharmacy, postoffice, bank, and you buy some digital money. Take a taxi, and you go cellphone to cellphone and transfer money to the driver. (In Africa, there is no fee, and no tax to make and receive payments). The fee is imposed when you purchase the digital money.
The idea for North America is that you can load up your cell with money for a days purchases at the electronics store, buy that tv or whatever, and be assured that your credit or debit card will not be hacked. It beats paying by cheque.(check).
How do they keep track or prevent counterfit funds? I am not sure, but the system works well, so I am told.
That's true. And wealth is inexorably moving from the West to the East for a variety of reasons.
But it doesn't have to be a zero-sum game, as China believes it to be.
When you are an American immigrating to China, you are welcome. You adjust to the ways of the country, and because of who you are, where you came from, and what you bring, you live many many times better than if you remained in your own state.
If you worked in the home theater department (I was in PC home/office), add high margin cabling to that.
And here is why I don't shop at Best Buy. It's not that the sales people were trying to sell me a high end cable. It is the fact that there is no HDMI cables in the entire store for less than $30. Sorry, but I will not spend $30 on any cable, for anything, ever! I don't need gold plated HDMI cables for my less than 40 inch TV.
I was asked to purchase their Monster cables at $30.00. The electrons run so much better. My son bought one, but I went to the local dollar store and paid $2.00 for the 3 foot cables. I have one for the desktop to monitor, and one at home for the cable box to TV. Total price = $6.00
Best Buy in Canada is somewhat better off than BB of the USA. They are pushy, but quickly leave you alone if you ask to be left alone
hope the protocol is secure and ecc encoded or sha1 checksum verified. Dont want your business partner to take over the car while you are driving and do you grave harm.
You grew up too far in the south of the USA, where it will take another 2 generations for the kind of experience yoy experienced, will disappear. Racism is not cultural, it is a parent to child training of intolerance.
The worst part about this is that the DA office doesn't seem to understand that "Stand Your Ground" is just an affirmative defense against a crime, not a magic spell that means someone can't be arrested.
The worst part about this is that the DA office doesn't seem to understand that "Stand Your Ground" is just an affirmative defense against a crime, not a magic spell that means someone can't be arrested.
What we learn from Florida laws is that murder is legal.
Do "Android revenues" include advertising, e.g. ads shown in apps?
Still, Apple does get to pick the cream of the crop.
My take is that Apple will find the market filled. $800.00 toys that last three years is a bit excessive. By the time you add everything together, the IPhone will average cost an individual $5.00 per day during ownership.
The Samsung or other Android will come in at $300 pretty soon, and perhaps at most $2.00 per day during ownership.
You can only slow it down as this train is being driven by the federal government with virtually unlimited power, money, and time.. All this stuff ( and more ) will eventually pass and our digital freedom goes out the door.
Just a matter of time. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Clandistinely, I suspect it has already happended CISPA needs SOPA to justify it's actions. My fear is that if they can pry, they can implant and bear false witness.
First, the project couldn't have even been done financially using any other OS/hardware combination. Second, the real reason technology doesn't improve education is we are treating it like magic and not as a productivity enhancement tool. The first computers used by government and business replaced rooms full of people by calculating stuff faster and with fewer errors. Even today, a smart phone replaces the need to have a map, newspaper and phone booth in a strange city when you want to see a movie (recent experience). In education, you don't have the incentive, or the viewpoint, to use technology to make the teacher more efficient at educating, and/or the student better at learning. For example, in the United States, teachers and other workers in education, but not educating, spend a significant amount of time on non-educational activities. Putting effort into automating and reducing the impact of those activities on the learning day, is a good use of technology. A bad use of technology, is replacing an existing working tool with a complex device that does the same thing, but adds overhead and requires more effort.
The one laptop per child was not necessarily to only improve education, but to reduce costs. Text books are very expensive. The school boards determine the numbers of books of each type, the government places the orders, and the following year, the books arrive. Costs to the publishers are high, and therefore costs per book are high. The idea of a netbook or laptop per child was to convert many of the paperbound books to e-books. The price from the publishers was about 25% of the paper book, and the intent was to cause the e-book to become unreadable after one year. Ergo, the publisher stays in business and the government saves money.
The problem is trust, or lack for ebook distribution, was or is the belief that piracy by the schools would be rampant. One firm from Montreal Canada, who was looking at this option for the province of Quebec, was also proposing a full book distribution system with appropriate controls. If you need more info, please contact the undersigned.
My advertising threshold dropped to zero pretty quickly in 2009, which is when I cut the Cable due to a negligible benefit/price ratio. I tried Hulu, which was great for about two weeks:
The first week of watching Hulu, I had to watch 15 seconds of commercial per half-hour show. I could tolerate that, so I was fairly happy. In week two, I had to watch one 30-second commercial per half-hour show; which was starting to annoy me, but which was just barely tolerable. In week three, Hulu started showing two or three 30-second commercials per half hour show.
Seeing where this was ultimately headed, I stopped watching Hulu and subscribed to Netflix instead. That hit the perfect sweet spot, so that's where I stayed. Even Netflix's recent price increases (due to greedy studios raising what they charge Netflix) are way, way better than watching even one commercial on TV/Hulu (which is run by the same TV people who flooded us with commercials to begin with).
If the time ever comes where Netflix streaming has even one commercial, I'll cancel my Netflix subscription too.
The thing that I see occurring is that You Tube and yahoo.com and other email providers are starting to give you news, but each news item has a 30 second commercial. I will therefore be leaving Yahoo.com as soon as my paid up year comes to an and. It was, for the mainpart a 10 year association.
A secondary problem could evolve, where, in-place of a monthly charge, you now have a charge of a few pennies per program. Pay for what you watch would be a great idea. Lets say, dry loop for $10/mo and 10 cents an hour per show, news cast or old old movie. And the ISPs will still earn money from advertisers.
That's sort of the point of the reviews. For the price (and that does count a lot) the Lumia 900 is a decent phone. It struggles to compete with dual core phones which are much more expensive, which is a problem for the windows brand, since the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4s are powerful flagship devices, but as a Nokia Phone that isn't going to just be sold to rich people who can afford 500+ dollar phones it's pretty good overall (where I am the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4s run 575 and 650 dollars respectively, where the Lumia 900 is about 450).
Now, overall, given the circumstances I don't think that makes it a great launch. Nokia, or one of the WP7.5 launch partners should have a quad core phone out the door nowish (but then I figured the playstation vita should be a phone as well), and the lumia 900 could be a mid range device. There's a big gap in the user experience between iphone and android in terms of software updates, and it's an area on the PC that MS does surprisingly well at in terms of how updates are delivered and what works/doesn't on them. But MS doesn't seem to have delivered very well, and that's not good for anyone, least of all nokia employees and shareholders.
My view is that for every $600.00 phone, there are 50 phones of $200 or less being sold. I know around my city, the most popular is the Samsung at between $60 - $80. Not everyone wants a phone to do much more than to have long long battery life, be reliable, last 2-3 years before replacing it or the battery.
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Nah. Not going back. Unity is too painful a recent memory. I'm with Mint now.
Well, I tried UBUNTU 12.4 for the past days, beginning with the April 20th beta. It is hardly much better than 11.10, the previous version.
If I open a window full screen, all the buttons are hidden and I cannot reduce the window size to allow me to get the pop-in-pop-out favourites bar that is on the left. I had to try with alt-tab and here too, I selected the running application I wanted, by landing on the icon, and sorry, the tendancy is to return to the current full screen running app.
It seems that fullscreen has no return (or has one I did not know about). It seems that Some software no longer recognize or receive mouse clicks. Time to wait a month for patches to be applied.
Otherwise, despite increased cockpit security and civilian awareness, we'd all die from terrorist attacks! That's why you must surrender your privacy in exchange for the all-important security theater like a good citizen would do. Otherwise, you're just a terrorist!
Do you mean surrender the private parts of a 4 year old child, frightened with what is being forced on her? I am sure a terrorist will want to blow up a 4 year old child by planting an explosive up her private parts.
You've got it right when you say "compared to normal people". Being a (good) software engineer takes a better-than-average brain. Better-than-average as in 98% of the world population won't ever be a good software engineer, no matter how much time and effort they put in it, because they simply don't have the brains for it.
Now let's assume a company with highly talented individuals. Some experienced, some novice. Why does salary need to keep going up? Simple. They should be paid more, because they're worth more. An experienced software engineer can be ten times as productive as a novice, will solve the same problems in less, more elegant, more maintainable code and have lower bug rates. They meet deadlines more consistently too. Yet, despite much better quality, lower risk and ten-fold productivity, it's rare to see more than a five-fold difference in salary. Being undervalued for their accomplishments, do you think it's strange developers switch career?
It's the experienced coders that you want. Compared to novice coders, they're an absolute bargain. *That* is why you want to keep increasing their salary. .net, AJAX, XML, "in the cloud" and whatever newfangled crap you throw at them. They've been learning all their lives. They'll learn that new stuff faster than you can say "get off my lawn".
Oh and by the way. Experienced coders have no problem doing IPv6,
Gee, I agree that the younger people learn new stuff faster, but they also make costly mistakes. Experience and having been through many implementations makes the senior software engineer worth his weight in gold.
By the way, I still design software using the functional and object oriented methods. I am 71, so according to the comments, I must be very intelligent. I hope so, as I do care passionately about my challenges.
Apple studied the art of war, and in that study, they examined Microsoft and how MS reacted tp competition in the late 90s. MS attacked and destroyed the competition.
NCR Cash Register Company produced faulty machines bearing their competition's name. That is how they succeeded to gain market control.
There is an old interpreted language that lost favor when Excel arrived on the scene.
That language had excellent statistical and matrix capabilities.
The language was invented by Dr Ken Ivorson and it is called APL.
It is truly a great answer for mixing matrix, linear algebra, and more.
The condensation of water is fantastic news. There are many dry areas in the world, where extracting water from the air would be used to irrigate crops. This means land that cannot be farmed can now be made fertile, produce crops, and feed the hungry.
One of the problems of extremism in religious practice is the belief that an mufti's or orthdox rabbi leader (similar religious structure), does not believe in education.
In one Jewish sect, women are only allowed to be marriage partners. They are forbidden to read library books, watch TV, or socialize with non-Jews.
When the women marry, after a pre-arranged marriage, their head is shaved; they wear a wig and they are the breeding partner. Some women suffer abuse, and worse. Their schooling is not even basic. (Math, science, etc, is not important and so is not taught).
Divorce and unhappiness is reasonably high in these pre-arranged marriages (She is set to marry at age 18 or 19). If the husband has brains, and somewhere he has learned psychology, the marriage will succeed. Most of the time though, the men have no skills, (only study torah for Jews, or only study Koran for Muslims), and their view of life and values is very biased to where life is purely "sin avoidance".
The $60.00 light bulb is a first edition. It must be worth thousands, so they say. But actually, in material cost, it is probably worth $2.00
Leds are as cheap as they come. Pennies each. Just look at the LED that is used as a light for the cellphone camera. Brilliant and costs pennies. And will last years.
Ditto for the mouse, dvd player, etc.
I am a compiz afficianodo with or under Gnome3. With G3, I wish I could have the ability to put a folder link as a on the favorite bar. I would put 4 different folders onto the favorite bar and then, the new G3 may have great merit.
Click on the favorite link, and that folder should pop open with virtually no delay.
But until that comes, G3 is not going to be a developer's favorite.
I thought like that too, but one winter, something happened to me, and I became ill. That illness lasted 3 months, with lethargy, loss of overnight sleep, no libido. Eventually I healed, and have been OK for 7 years. Yes, what to do if you don't get better and the illness is chronic.
Never say never, but say Hope we are healthy all the days and nights of our life.
I am grateful to tell you to always be happy.
What will happen is that companies will buy disk arrays, consisting of a (terrabyte -1) bytes for tax avoidance. The electric bills will increase and the extra taxes will be avoided.
The Montreal Gazette of today, Saturday April 14th, reported that the Canadian Constitution has displaced the American one, when it comes to models of constitutions for other countries. Africa, Egypt and other countries are modelling their constitution after Canada's.
Jack was loyal to his country, not to the money hungry grubs. The truth is obvious, Infosys is Indian and has no loyalty to the USA, and does not respect the USA, even though it earns it profits from US companies
Time to wake up and bar them from offering services in the USA..
This digital currency option with cell phones has been in use for years in Africa. You go to a pharmacy, postoffice, bank, and you buy some digital money.
Take a taxi, and you go cellphone to cellphone and transfer money to the driver. (In Africa, there is no fee, and no tax to make and receive payments). The fee is imposed when you purchase the digital money.
The idea for North America is that you can load up your cell with money for a days purchases at the electronics store, buy that tv or whatever, and be assured that your credit or debit card will not be hacked. It beats paying by cheque.(check).
How do they keep track or prevent counterfit funds? I am not sure, but the system works well, so I am told.
That's true. And wealth is inexorably moving from the West to the East for a variety of reasons.
But it doesn't have to be a zero-sum game, as China believes it to be.
When you are an American immigrating to China, you are welcome. You adjust to the ways of the country, and because of who you are, where you came from, and what you bring, you live many many times better than if you remained in your own state.
If you worked in the home theater department (I was in PC home/office), add high margin cabling to that.
And here is why I don't shop at Best Buy. It's not that the sales people were trying to sell me a high end cable. It is the fact that there is no HDMI cables in the entire store for less than $30. Sorry, but I will not spend $30 on any cable, for anything, ever! I don't need gold plated HDMI cables for my less than 40 inch TV.
I was asked to purchase their Monster cables at $30.00. The electrons run so much better. My son bought one, but I went to the local dollar store and paid $2.00 for the 3 foot cables. I have one for the desktop to monitor, and one at home for the cable box to TV. Total price = $6.00
Best Buy in Canada is somewhat better off than BB of the USA. They are pushy, but quickly leave you alone if you ask to be left alone
hope the protocol is secure and ecc encoded or sha1 checksum verified. Dont want your business partner to take over the car while you are driving and do you grave harm.
You grew up too far in the south of the USA, where it will take another 2 generations for the kind of experience yoy experienced, will disappear. Racism is not cultural, it is a parent to child training of intolerance.
The worst part about this is that the DA office doesn't seem to understand that "Stand Your Ground" is just an affirmative defense against a crime, not a magic spell that means someone can't be arrested.
The worst part about this is that the DA office doesn't seem to understand that "Stand Your Ground" is just an affirmative defense against a crime, not a magic spell that means someone can't be arrested.
What we learn from Florida laws is that murder is legal.
Do "Android revenues" include advertising, e.g. ads shown in apps?
Still, Apple does get to pick the cream of the crop.
My take is that Apple will find the market filled. $800.00 toys that last three years is a bit excessive. By the time you add everything together, the IPhone will average cost an individual $5.00 per day during ownership.
The Samsung or other Android will come in at $300 pretty soon, and perhaps at most $2.00 per day during ownership.
You can only slow it down as this train is being driven by the federal government with virtually unlimited power, money, and time.. All this stuff ( and more ) will eventually pass and our digital freedom goes out the door.
Just a matter of time. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Clandistinely, I suspect it has already happended CISPA needs SOPA to justify it's actions. My fear is that if they can pry, they can implant and bear false witness.
First, the project couldn't have even been done financially using any other OS/hardware combination. Second, the real reason technology doesn't improve education is we are treating it like magic and not as a productivity enhancement tool. The first computers used by government and business replaced rooms full of people by calculating stuff faster and with fewer errors. Even today, a smart phone replaces the need to have a map, newspaper and phone booth in a strange city when you want to see a movie (recent experience). In education, you don't have the incentive, or the viewpoint, to use technology to make the teacher more efficient at educating, and/or the student better at learning. For example, in the United States, teachers and other workers in education, but not educating, spend a significant amount of time on non-educational activities. Putting effort into automating and reducing the impact of those activities on the learning day, is a good use of technology. A bad use of technology, is replacing an existing working tool with a complex device that does the same thing, but adds overhead and requires more effort.
The one laptop per child was not necessarily to only improve education, but to reduce costs. Text books are very expensive. The school boards determine the numbers of books of each type, the government places the orders, and the following year, the books arrive. Costs to the publishers are high, and therefore costs per book are high.
The idea of a netbook or laptop per child was to convert many of the paperbound books to e-books. The price from the publishers was about 25% of the paper book, and the intent was to cause the e-book to become unreadable after one year. Ergo, the publisher stays in business and the government saves money.
The problem is trust, or lack for ebook distribution, was or is the belief that piracy by the schools would be rampant. One firm from Montreal Canada, who was looking at this option for the province of Quebec, was also proposing a full book distribution system with appropriate controls. If you need more info, please contact the undersigned.
My advertising threshold dropped to zero pretty quickly in 2009, which is when I cut the Cable due to a negligible benefit/price ratio. I tried Hulu, which was great for about two weeks:
The first week of watching Hulu, I had to watch 15 seconds of commercial per half-hour show. I could tolerate that, so I was fairly happy. In week two, I had to watch one 30-second commercial per half-hour show; which was starting to annoy me, but which was just barely tolerable. In week three, Hulu started showing two or three 30-second commercials per half hour show.
Seeing where this was ultimately headed, I stopped watching Hulu and subscribed to Netflix instead. That hit the perfect sweet spot, so that's where I stayed. Even Netflix's recent price increases (due to greedy studios raising what they charge Netflix) are way, way better than watching even one commercial on TV/Hulu (which is run by the same TV people who flooded us with commercials to begin with).
If the time ever comes where Netflix streaming has even one commercial, I'll cancel my Netflix subscription too.
The thing that I see occurring is that You Tube and yahoo.com and other email providers are starting to give you news, but each news item has a 30 second commercial. I will therefore be leaving Yahoo.com as soon as my paid up year comes to an and. It was, for the mainpart a 10 year association.
A secondary problem could evolve, where, in-place of a monthly charge, you now have a charge of a few pennies per program. Pay for what you watch would be a great idea. Lets say, dry loop for $10/mo and 10 cents an hour per show, news cast or old old movie. And the ISPs will still earn money from advertisers.
That's sort of the point of the reviews. For the price (and that does count a lot) the Lumia 900 is a decent phone. It struggles to compete with dual core phones which are much more expensive, which is a problem for the windows brand, since the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4s are powerful flagship devices, but as a Nokia Phone that isn't going to just be sold to rich people who can afford 500+ dollar phones it's pretty good overall (where I am the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4s run 575 and 650 dollars respectively, where the Lumia 900 is about 450).
Now, overall, given the circumstances I don't think that makes it a great launch. Nokia, or one of the WP7.5 launch partners should have a quad core phone out the door nowish (but then I figured the playstation vita should be a phone as well), and the lumia 900 could be a mid range device. There's a big gap in the user experience between iphone and android in terms of software updates, and it's an area on the PC that MS does surprisingly well at in terms of how updates are delivered and what works/doesn't on them. But MS doesn't seem to have delivered very well, and that's not good for anyone, least of all nokia employees and shareholders.
My view is that for every $600.00 phone, there are 50 phones of $200 or less being sold. I know around my city, the most popular is the Samsung at between $60 - $80. Not everyone wants a phone to do much more than to have long long battery life, be reliable, last 2-3 years before replacing it or the battery.