Given that's included with Kubuntu, I doubt it's completely unknown... Alternatively, many programs in the KDE suite are pretty functional with well designed interfaces and not very well known...
Linux is head and shoulders above Windows in bluetooth support. When I bought the dongle I feared it wouldn't work; there was a Windows/Mac install disk, but nothing for Linux. Turns out you don't have to install anything in Linux (in kubuntu at least) to make bluetooth work, just plug the dongle in and it's functional.
I never could understand the "Windows is easier than Linux" argument; I've used Windows since 1995 (DOS before that) and Linux since 2003, and Windows frustrates the hell out of me. One or two clicks in Linux usually equals a dozen in Windows. Needing to install stuff to make a bluetooth dongle work is one example.
The thing about Linux is that everything either works beautifully out of the box, or it's a right pain to get it working. This is in contrast to Windows, where less works out of the box, but installing drivers, etc. is usually a easier due to better support.
I'm thinking would they even be allowed? The justifications for not allowing steroids are pretty much the same as those for not allowing prosthetics - it becomes less about individual ability and more about the technology.
And then we run DNS over VPN (or just a different port). Eventually, all traffic over VPN. And the arms race continues...
It's already been noted that the widespread usage of VPNs, driven by filtering and traffic shaping, has only made it harder for the police to crack down on real criminals. How long will it be until anyone can buy a small box that sits between their computer/switch and router which automagically sends all traffic through a VPN server in a free country?
Multiple cores and GPUs are only useful for parallel tasks. Since the next instruction to be processed will depend on the previous one (think if statements, loops, etc.), this is not a parallel task. It's been a decade since the Pentium 4, but three point something gigahertz is the still the highest you can reliably get out of a consumer level CPU (I'd expect the same of enterprise-level servers, but with lower power consumption and more cores).
It would be an order of magnitude cheaper to simply add a dedicated ARM board to the PC than it would to scale up the CPU to the level required.
Disadvantages: -harder (impossible?) to annotate -can't resell -DRM - probably only available in a proprietary format for a fixed period of time -more costly for students & schools (ongoing costs: hardware support + power supply)
The Commodore 64 ran at ~1 MHz. The PS2 is only 300 MHz. Modern ARM chipsets are in the GHz, and their graphics aren't that far from a desktop's. If the Android emulator doesn't require hardware accelerated graphics, they're probably doing it all in software, which would contribute to the lag.
Webpages are not PDFs. Type normally, and anyone who wants to view it in paragraphs of a certain size can just resize their browser window. Manually adding line breaks requires people who desire differently sized paragraphs to pipe the text through sed. I'm sure you can see which option makes it more easily accessible.
Furthermore, I would say the difference in moderation demonstrates the agreement of the mods with my point - people don't bother to read when it takes too much effort.
Sigh for the good ole days. Git off my lawn!
36572640 < 36599020
Also, I am not a troll - my post was not intended to cause disruption, but merely reflected my irritation at the typography.
How is this news? Name one application for 3D other than gaming. And no, video doesn't count until there's a decent number of movies available for the platform (DRM optional).
Let's give credit where it's due - KDE is the only major desktop environment to handle the tablet metaphor correctly. Unlike Gnome, who replaced the desktop metaphor with a tablet one, they retained their desktop metaphor and added a tablet one as a configurable option. They remained a good desktop environment while still adding tablet functionality. I especially like that you can switch between the two without having to logout/reboot - this is especially desirable when you have something like the Asus Transformer.
I agree that mobiles are mostly limited to toys due to their form factor, but there's no reason a tablet can't be just as powerful as a computer.
It's easy to tell someone "be sure to completely read what you sign", until the day someone sets a 45 page or otherwise excessive amount of fine print in front of you, summarizes it, and asks you to sign it.
If you sign something, you're bound by it. If you sign something without reading it, you're agreeing to be bound by whatever it says. It's that simple. If you're presented with a long contract, then it's probably for something important and you better at least read through it yourself to make sure you don't get shafted.
The exception is that if that summary differs from the contract, then it has precedence - see Curtis v Chemical Cleaning and Drying Co [1951] 1 KB 805.
Of course, there are always exceptions in law which you would need a lawyer to look for, but you could just as easily end up wasting a lot of time and money.
Please, for the love of all that is sane, do not press enter just because you've reached the edge of the textbox. Some of us actually have desktop sized screens, and reading a column of text that only occupies 1/4 of it is excruciatingly painful.
I think the reason it's US-only is a difference in how colleges/universities are designed. In Australia, they're usually general-purpose - the same university will have courses for arts, engineering, science, law, commerce, etc. There are specialised institutions that only offer courses in one area, but they're the exception rather than the rule. In contrast, the American colleges seem to be known for specific fields. e.g. MIT is known for science/technology (I'm not very familiar with the American system, so correct me if I'm wrong).
The benefit of covering many different areas is that the university offers double degrees - courses where you are awarded two degrees after doing fewer units than would be necessary to do both separately. This can be used to broaden your field (e.g. eng/sci), or to cover two completely different fields and thus gain different perspectives (eng/arts or eng/law). This eliminates the need for general education units, which sound like they add an aspect of an arts degree to all other courses. If you really want to do that, the content should be integrated into the course in such a way that is relevant to the field, rather than just throwing it out there. For example, at my university there is a first year engineering unit that discusses the impacts of engineering on the community and how the ethics of a proposal should be considered, though it is only required for students not taking a double degree.
If they had the balls to try and pull that shit on somebody like me, who comes in sporting a geek beard, holding a very fancy power supply and knowing at a glance which of their tools I need to borrow for 15 seconds...
This would encourage patent filing. It increases the value of a patent from a tool in litigation by adding some inherent value to it ($100K). What if the patent had no development costs beyond filing? Should the owner still get $100K? 0?
I agree with Xiphs comments, though other measures need to be taken in conjunction with them. The public purchase of a patent should only be allowed where it forms the basis for a standard. On top of that, it would be nice to see RAND licensing for patents - that could solve a lot of problems we have with the current system (reasonable being the general legal mechanism for, 'don't try anything funny').
even within the "walled garden", there are other browsers available which will let you spoof the user-agent string. I use the "Atomic" web browser on my iPad and iPod Touch
Why are they allowed? Isn't this 'duplicating existing functionality'?
Before they implement Print Preview, they might want to fix the actual printing first. Try printing out a slashdot or wikipedia article in Chrome and compare the results to Firefox. The amount of paper it uses is ridiculous.
I agree the placement of the extension icons is a bit ridiculous. They should really be put into their own menu.
I also attend a uni in Melbourne, albeit a somewhat larger one. Windows, Mac and Linux are supported. For example, the wifi requires authentication to connect, which requires a certificate. Instructions are provided for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS X. (There's a web form to use as an alternate, but it gets annoying very quickly.)
I'm fairly certain this is due to the diverse use of OSs on campus. We have an Apple store on campus, so about 10% of students (and most engineering lecturers) have Macs. All the engineering computers dual boot WinXP and Scientific Linux (although only the postgrads have login rights under Linux).
In short, they have to support them because that's what people use.
Is anyone else thinking of when Ubuntu implement ext4 support? Turned out there was a major bug that caused kernel lockups when emptying the trash. I can only imagine something similar will happen here...
I use Chrome everywhere, but Chrome has terrible printing in comparison to Firefox. Compare the output when printing (e.g. Wikipedia) - Chrome doesn't layout nearly as well and uses twice as much paper. And for the sibling post who asked what printing is, not everyone has a tablet. It's also the easiest way to convert to PDF.
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Given that's included with Kubuntu, I doubt it's completely unknown...
Alternatively, many programs in the KDE suite are pretty functional with well designed interfaces and not very well known...
Linux is head and shoulders above Windows in bluetooth support. When I bought the dongle I feared it wouldn't work; there was a Windows/Mac install disk, but nothing for Linux. Turns out you don't have to install anything in Linux (in kubuntu at least) to make bluetooth work, just plug the dongle in and it's functional.
I never could understand the "Windows is easier than Linux" argument; I've used Windows since 1995 (DOS before that) and Linux since 2003, and Windows frustrates the hell out of me. One or two clicks in Linux usually equals a dozen in Windows. Needing to install stuff to make a bluetooth dongle work is one example.
The thing about Linux is that everything either works beautifully out of the box, or it's a right pain to get it working. This is in contrast to Windows, where less works out of the box, but installing drivers, etc. is usually a easier due to better support.
Can you hear me now?
Funny, I've worn an analog watch my entire life (I'm in my 20s), and whenever I give the time I express it in digital form. e.g. '4:26'
I'm thinking would they even be allowed? The justifications for not allowing steroids are pretty much the same as those for not allowing prosthetics - it becomes less about individual ability and more about the technology.
And then we run DNS over VPN (or just a different port). Eventually, all traffic over VPN. And the arms race continues...
It's already been noted that the widespread usage of VPNs, driven by filtering and traffic shaping, has only made it harder for the police to crack down on real criminals. How long will it be until anyone can buy a small box that sits between their computer/switch and router which automagically sends all traffic through a VPN server in a free country?
Multiple cores and GPUs are only useful for parallel tasks. Since the next instruction to be processed will depend on the previous one (think if statements, loops, etc.), this is not a parallel task. It's been a decade since the Pentium 4, but three point something gigahertz is the still the highest you can reliably get out of a consumer level CPU (I'd expect the same of enterprise-level servers, but with lower power consumption and more cores).
It would be an order of magnitude cheaper to simply add a dedicated ARM board to the PC than it would to scale up the CPU to the level required.
I wouldn't be so eager if I were you...
Benefits:
-green
-lighter
-dynamic content
Disadvantages:
-harder (impossible?) to annotate
-can't resell
-DRM - probably only available in a proprietary format for a fixed period of time
-more costly for students & schools (ongoing costs: hardware support + power supply)
The Commodore 64 ran at ~1 MHz. The PS2 is only 300 MHz. Modern ARM chipsets are in the GHz, and their graphics aren't that far from a desktop's. If the Android emulator doesn't require hardware accelerated graphics, they're probably doing it all in software, which would contribute to the lag.
Now I'm no doctor, but it's probably a lot easier to inject a needle somewhere then it is to completely remove a section.
And even if it isn't a complete cure, isn't it worth it if it increases someone's life span by a few/several years?
There are, in some jurisdictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_laws#Romeo_and_Juliet_laws
Webpages are not PDFs. Type normally, and anyone who wants to view it in paragraphs of a certain size can just resize their browser window. Manually adding line breaks requires people who desire differently sized paragraphs to pipe the text through sed. I'm sure you can see which option makes it more easily accessible.
Furthermore, I would say the difference in moderation demonstrates the agreement of the mods with my point - people don't bother to read when it takes too much effort.
Sigh for the good ole days.
Git off my lawn!
36572640 < 36599020
Also, I am not a troll - my post was not intended to cause disruption, but merely reflected my irritation at the typography.
How is this news? Name one application for 3D other than gaming. And no, video doesn't count until there's a decent number of movies available for the platform (DRM optional).
Let's give credit where it's due - KDE is the only major desktop environment to handle the tablet metaphor correctly. Unlike Gnome, who replaced the desktop metaphor with a tablet one, they retained their desktop metaphor and added a tablet one as a configurable option. They remained a good desktop environment while still adding tablet functionality.
I especially like that you can switch between the two without having to logout/reboot - this is especially desirable when you have something like the Asus Transformer.
I agree that mobiles are mostly limited to toys due to their form factor, but there's no reason a tablet can't be just as powerful as a computer.
It's easy to tell someone "be sure to completely read what you sign", until the day someone sets a 45 page or otherwise excessive amount of fine print in front of you, summarizes it, and asks you to sign it.
If you sign something, you're bound by it. If you sign something without reading it, you're agreeing to be bound by whatever it says. It's that simple. If you're presented with a long contract, then it's probably for something important and you better at least read through it yourself to make sure you don't get shafted.
The exception is that if that summary differs from the contract, then it has precedence - see Curtis v Chemical Cleaning and Drying Co [1951] 1 KB 805.
The above is not legal advice.
This is not legal advice, but generally an ambiguous term will be interpreted against the party benefiting from it.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_proferentem
Of course, there are always exceptions in law which you would need a lawyer to look for, but you could just as easily end up wasting a lot of time and money.
Please, for the love of all that is sane, do not press enter just because you've reached the edge of the textbox. Some of us actually have desktop sized screens, and reading a column of text that only occupies 1/4 of it is excruciatingly painful.
I think the reason it's US-only is a difference in how colleges/universities are designed. In Australia, they're usually general-purpose - the same university will have courses for arts, engineering, science, law, commerce, etc. There are specialised institutions that only offer courses in one area, but they're the exception rather than the rule. In contrast, the American colleges seem to be known for specific fields. e.g. MIT is known for science/technology (I'm not very familiar with the American system, so correct me if I'm wrong).
The benefit of covering many different areas is that the university offers double degrees - courses where you are awarded two degrees after doing fewer units than would be necessary to do both separately. This can be used to broaden your field (e.g. eng/sci), or to cover two completely different fields and thus gain different perspectives (eng/arts or eng/law). This eliminates the need for general education units, which sound like they add an aspect of an arts degree to all other courses.
If you really want to do that, the content should be integrated into the course in such a way that is relevant to the field, rather than just throwing it out there. For example, at my university there is a first year engineering unit that discusses the impacts of engineering on the community and how the ethics of a proposal should be considered, though it is only required for students not taking a double degree.
If they had the balls to try and pull that shit on somebody like me, who comes in sporting a geek beard, holding a very fancy power supply and knowing at a glance which of their tools I need to borrow for 15 seconds...
What exactly is a geek beard?
This would encourage patent filing. It increases the value of a patent from a tool in litigation by adding some inherent value to it ($100K). What if the patent had no development costs beyond filing? Should the owner still get $100K? 0?
I agree with Xiphs comments, though other measures need to be taken in conjunction with them. The public purchase of a patent should only be allowed where it forms the basis for a standard. On top of that, it would be nice to see RAND licensing for patents - that could solve a lot of problems we have with the current system (reasonable being the general legal mechanism for, 'don't try anything funny').
even within the "walled garden", there are other browsers available which will let you spoof the user-agent string.
I use the "Atomic" web browser on my iPad and iPod Touch
Why are they allowed? Isn't this 'duplicating existing functionality'?
Before they implement Print Preview, they might want to fix the actual printing first. Try printing out a slashdot or wikipedia article in Chrome and compare the results to Firefox. The amount of paper it uses is ridiculous.
I agree the placement of the extension icons is a bit ridiculous. They should really be put into their own menu.
I also attend a uni in Melbourne, albeit a somewhat larger one. Windows, Mac and Linux are supported. For example, the wifi requires authentication to connect, which requires a certificate. Instructions are provided for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS X. (There's a web form to use as an alternate, but it gets annoying very quickly.)
I'm fairly certain this is due to the diverse use of OSs on campus. We have an Apple store on campus, so about 10% of students (and most engineering lecturers) have Macs. All the engineering computers dual boot WinXP and Scientific Linux (although only the postgrads have login rights under Linux).
In short, they have to support them because that's what people use.
Is anyone else thinking of when Ubuntu implement ext4 support? Turned out there was a major bug that caused kernel lockups when emptying the trash.
I can only imagine something similar will happen here...
I use Chrome everywhere, but Chrome has terrible printing in comparison to Firefox. Compare the output when printing (e.g. Wikipedia) - Chrome doesn't layout nearly as well and uses twice as much paper.
And for the sibling post who asked what printing is, not everyone has a tablet. It's also the easiest way to convert to PDF.