As soon as computers can reliably and safely drive cars, anyone who *dares* drive the car themselves will be considered negligent; they'll probably pass a law against it.
I think it'll be more like a manual transmission - you need a different license to drive one (at least you do in Vic, Aus) and if you get in an accident, you're liable since you were in control.
There are enough issues with ATMs being modified to include skimmers - an internet transaction booth would have the same issues, except that there wouldn't be any need for the 'skimmer' to be on a visible surface.
I agree - Mac support for IPv6 is about as relevant as Desktop Linux support for IPv6 - it's not a major OS so it won't be a major barrier. If WinXP had issues with IPv6 (e.g. IIRC it's supported but not installed by default) then *that* would be a major problem.
If you're going to use a 3rd party app, for God's sake keep a copy of the app as well. I used Norton Ghost once, and when I finally needed to restore the image I realised that the new version couldn't read the old format. Getting an old version was a pain. These days my preferred backup solution involves dd|tar, which works perfectly on dual boot systems (although it works just as well from a LiveCD).
Beat you to it. Where I live (Vic, Australia) cable is a rarity - most people are fine with the OTA channels. I suspect this is partly due to availability - earlier generations didn't have the infrastructure for cable (those who really wanted it got satellite), and even though we could have it now the demand isn't great enough for it to be profitable in most areas (the few areas which do have it seem to use it mostly for internet). Although I will concede that lately I've been foregoing even OTA almost completely in favour of torrents and the like.
If you're going to have a Flash-based site, at least have a plain HTML version for those of us who won't or can't use Flash. Apart from technological (e.g. iPhone) or political reasons, it's worth noting that Flash is terrible for users with certain disabilities. Going a little out of your way to make it easier for the disabled to access your site will give you an edge over the competition, and it's also good PR.
I highly doubt that. If there's one thing I'm certain of, it's that human desire will always exceed our resources. Give us faster connections and bigger hard drives, we're going to be looking at true 3D 100 gigapixel video with lossless audio in surround sound. There's always going to be a need for compression, as long as we're pushing the limits of technology. We'll probably still be using it for efficiency as well - after all, we could be using wav and raw right now, but we still have mp3/flac and jpg/png.
Yeah, but I'm sure you'd be violating the DMCA in the process. I have a strong suspicion that when such devices are finally economically feasible they will be illegal for civilians to own.
This is actually very dangerous for Linux's marketshare in the netbook segment. If MS starts porting Windows to ARM, then it won't be long before they have desktop and netbook editions of it ported as well, which could neutralize Linux's killer feature (on netbooks) of supporting ARM. I know the argument is that there are other x86 apps that won't run, but on a netbook I doubt most people will need much more than Windows+Office+IE. Best counter strategy would be to try and increase the Linux+ARM netbook marketshare right now, to get a head start. On another note, does anyone know of any ARM netbooks with 512+ MB of RAM? So far the only one I've found is this one.
If you want Flash working out of the box try a distro like Linux Mint - it's basically a polished version of Ubuntu. Their version of 10.04 will be out next month.
At least that can be fixed. My pet peeve is that they removed the button from Nautilus that let you switch between the breadcrumb and text views for the path. I doubt that most users knew about Ctrl+L until today (I certainly didn't), though even if you use that the path is automatically reset to '/', which is a pain if you only wanted to modify the original path. The behaviour from 9.10 shouldn't have been touched, IMO. Moves like this make Ubuntu *harder* for new users to learn.
Launchpad link is here for anyone else who agrees me (or just wants to see if we can slashdot the site).
I own an N900, and I had no idea there even was an app store. Every program I could possibly want is available free of charge, with only one exception (which I wrote and uploaded). Maemo/Meego is great for demonstrating the benefits of FOSS to end users, because it has a thriving FOSS community that actively works on adding functionality to the device.
Somebody should put together a webpage of ISPs like A&A and iiNet - ones that offer good customer service and actively defend them against these kind of laws. Alternatively, we could just keep posting them on slashdot like this...
Slashdot Mirror
As soon as computers can reliably and safely drive cars, anyone who *dares* drive the car themselves will be considered negligent; they'll probably pass a law against it.
I think it'll be more like a manual transmission - you need a different license to drive one (at least you do in Vic, Aus) and if you get in an accident, you're liable since you were in control.
There are still a few good ones out there, like this one: www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook
I'n going to go out on a limb and guess that that's a x86 netbook.
There are enough issues with ATMs being modified to include skimmers - an internet transaction booth would have the same issues, except that there wouldn't be any need for the 'skimmer' to be on a visible surface.
I agree - Mac support for IPv6 is about as relevant as Desktop Linux support for IPv6 - it's not a major OS so it won't be a major barrier.
If WinXP had issues with IPv6 (e.g. IIRC it's supported but not installed by default) then *that* would be a major problem.
What we really want is CPUs that are lightning-fast
You're never going to get them though. The more resources available, the more bloated software gets.
From the package description:
It's still under heavy development so it should not be used for critical data.
Thanks, but if I need more flexibility I'll just use 'tar cpzf Backup.tgz /'
Outside the US there are no software patents, therefore h.264 can't have any patent over it, therefore MPEG-LA can't threaten anybody for anything.
Wrong. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents. Japan, Australia and South Korea all allow software patents.
If you're going to use a 3rd party app, for God's sake keep a copy of the app as well. I used Norton Ghost once, and when I finally needed to restore the image I realised that the new version couldn't read the old format. Getting an old version was a pain.
These days my preferred backup solution involves dd|tar, which works perfectly on dual boot systems (although it works just as well from a LiveCD).
Beat you to it. Where I live (Vic, Australia) cable is a rarity - most people are fine with the OTA channels. I suspect this is partly due to availability - earlier generations didn't have the infrastructure for cable (those who really wanted it got satellite), and even though we could have it now the demand isn't great enough for it to be profitable in most areas (the few areas which do have it seem to use it mostly for internet).
Although I will concede that lately I've been foregoing even OTA almost completely in favour of torrents and the like.
If you're going to have a Flash-based site, at least have a plain HTML version for those of us who won't or can't use Flash. Apart from technological (e.g. iPhone) or political reasons, it's worth noting that Flash is terrible for users with certain disabilities. Going a little out of your way to make it easier for the disabled to access your site will give you an edge over the competition, and it's also good PR.
Would Google agree to shield all users of VP8 from any legal attacks by patent holders?
I wouldn't be surprised if they did - they have a good record of not being evil*.
*Evil is a trademark of Apple and is available under license to Microsoft
I highly doubt that. If there's one thing I'm certain of, it's that human desire will always exceed our resources. Give us faster connections and bigger hard drives, we're going to be looking at true 3D 100 gigapixel video with lossless audio in surround sound.
There's always going to be a need for compression, as long as we're pushing the limits of technology.
We'll probably still be using it for efficiency as well - after all, we could be using wav and raw right now, but we still have mp3/flac and jpg/png.
fuck steve jobs
The Apple fanboys just wet themselves with excitement
Yeah, but I'm sure you'd be violating the DMCA in the process. I have a strong suspicion that when such devices are finally economically feasible they will be illegal for civilians to own.
This is actually very dangerous for Linux's marketshare in the netbook segment. If MS starts porting Windows to ARM, then it won't be long before they have desktop and netbook editions of it ported as well, which could neutralize Linux's killer feature (on netbooks) of supporting ARM. I know the argument is that there are other x86 apps that won't run, but on a netbook I doubt most people will need much more than Windows+Office+IE.
Best counter strategy would be to try and increase the Linux+ARM netbook marketshare right now, to get a head start.
On another note, does anyone know of any ARM netbooks with 512+ MB of RAM? So far the only one I've found is this one.
I agree, but I don't read it just for the funny. I read it for the occasional insightful and sad.
If you want Flash working out of the box try a distro like Linux Mint - it's basically a polished version of Ubuntu. Their version of 10.04 will be out next month.
At least that can be fixed. My pet peeve is that they removed the button from Nautilus that let you switch between the breadcrumb and text views for the path. I doubt that most users knew about Ctrl+L until today (I certainly didn't), though even if you use that the path is automatically reset to '/', which is a pain if you only wanted to modify the original path.
The behaviour from 9.10 shouldn't have been touched, IMO. Moves like this make Ubuntu *harder* for new users to learn.
Launchpad link is here for anyone else who agrees me (or just wants to see if we can slashdot the site).
I own an N900, and I had no idea there even was an app store. Every program I could possibly want is available free of charge, with only one exception (which I wrote and uploaded).
Maemo/Meego is great for demonstrating the benefits of FOSS to end users, because it has a thriving FOSS community that actively works on adding functionality to the device.
Try porting rdesktop to OS/X (it might have even been done already)
I tried it, thought it was a little slow. How many slashdot pages/windows/tabs can you have running before the browsing becomes sluggish?
Somebody should put together a webpage of ISPs like A&A and iiNet - ones that offer good customer service and actively defend them against these kind of laws.
Alternatively, we could just keep posting them on slashdot like this...
Given (what I've heard about) the state of the American education system, probably Australia (the one with the kangaroos).
If the TSA's word isn't sufficiently reassuring, we could always stencil "No nukes here, we're saving them for Ivan" on all conventional ordnance...
Who is this Ivan? Is he a terrorist? Why does he need so many nukes?