Theoretically, the only real difference between a DSLR and a MILC (or whatever you want to call them) is that a DSLR has a mirror box and the MILC doesn't.
Just based that, the man does not know almost anything about photography and physics of light.
There are totally different visual results what is the size of the camera body, distance between focal point and sensor, sensor size, pixel size... etc. Below is the navigator for this thread, you can use this to view other messages in this thread. You can use the previous and next buttons to scroll through the messages in this thread. Or the 'Next New' button to jump to the next newly posted message.
Smaller cameras P'nP, Compacts and especially phones will never achieve the same technical possibilities for potraits, landscapes, macros and many many other situations than what DSLR's to Medium and Architecture cameras offers.
- Trademark law requires that the trademark owner police the use of the trademark (unlike, for example, copyright law, where the copyright owner is the copyright owner, always is, and always will be unless he willingly relinquishes ownership, and even THEN he ends up having rights).
And it isn't just about trademark, it is about design rights and others what you need to defend as well so others would not abuse your rights in the first place. But some points it is enough.
Personally I would even make it so that if the patent holder does not try to negotiate in 2 weeks when the product have come to same market, and if they dont get agreement in 1 week, they have only 5 days time to sue abuser. If you are too big company with too many patents, then you are already fucking the whole world and customers rights. Big corporations and competition isn't good to anyone.
When you give pen and paper to kid, they do draw things on it even when taking notes and so on. They play tick-tack-toe games and send notes to each other.
When you give a computer to kid, they search its functions and exploits them, they play games or send messages to each other.
The computer like iPad can be very powerfull tool, but it demands that teachers and especially school IT admins knows how to limit the access to it. Instead with paper and pen, you really can limit what applications can be installed to device and what can be ran. You can set every message to be sended trough school servers. You can even have a remote control to them so you can turn them off or just turn the screens off, or even see what every kid is doing with their computers.
My college has made school E-learning systems using Linux. And one of the features is that every file is stored to school servers and systems anyways use remote logins, and teachers has full remote control capabilities if needed. One of the most important features is to turn students screens off until teacher release access again. It is really a important thing as it really moves kids attention to teacher much better way.
Teachers can as well see who is doing and what on their computers. They are not allowed to run any programs what IT-admins have not admitted, every URL/IP is whitelisted and teachers can give specific timelines when students can have a access to other sites than what is already given.
Teachers work is to guide and rule kids, slow down their access to information and teach how to use it to get full potential from it. Computer does never replace parenthood, neither does TV.
The iPads what schools gets, should have whitelistings, remote control and controlled lists of installed applications. If not, then school has made first mistake in the beginning.
I have accentuated so many times that competition is not good for anyone. Every competitor, customer and whole world suffers from competition.
Alternatives and teamwork is the only real way to go.
Example now with Google and Mozilla, both support standards together, both develops standards together, they help each other and they share best ideas and results to everyone so they get taken in use. But still all the time, both offers alternative for other product. Customer can choose what works best for them, still having best possible results and without vendor lock-in.
In competition, Google would have cut payroll to Mozilla when they release Chromium, both would have developed totally new own technologies and ideas instead existing standard, they would have extended the standard to work in such way it is incompatible with everyone else, they would do all what is possible to win the competitor. Prices would go down, but same time there is less jobs, payment are smaller related to work times what are longer. Compability to earlier version could be non-existing as standard and backward compability would be meaningless, no reasons to support or give any ideas to anyone else if it does not give first hand something to itself and allow to push competitors off later (license fees, vendor lock-in etc).
Without competition, there are more jobs, smaller worktimes related to payment (you are paid better and you work less), everyone would have really a change to try out a own idea and present it to others if it would be a better, everyone could share the best ideas and then those are implemented together and everything is made sure that they work together.
Competition is same thing as the war is. There are rules but everyone is ready to blend them. Everyone are scared and every greed and psychopath are welcomed to lead others because they are so good to manipulate others and they don't care if they hurt anyone in the process. Even the Cold war was pure competition. At some point someone must blow to whistle and stop the competition as it comes to situation where every competitor is ready to do anything to win and protect their own profit and own future. Just like in war civilians, in a competition customers are those who suffers most. They get cheap and bad quality products, less jobs, smaller payment and you need to do anything to keep your job and serve your company.
In alternatives, there are moral and ethics what rules that no single company or not even a single country can come and attack against other. It is about whole world, not just those or just human race, but all. It is about world where we live, a single ecosystem. There ain't multiple ecosystems, but just one. If someone disturbs it so it gets unbalanced, there can be a eco-catastrophy what affects everyone less or more in a bad way. And even a small one can set a chain reaction what can show results only in long run. We have limited resources to build things, from metals to coal and oil and so on. Those are resources what belongs to all, not to single corporation or single country.
Every single person who says competition is good, means same time that war, creed, ignorance, abuse and lying (or leaving truth untold) is better thing than teamwork, alternatives, honor, moral, ethics, caring and truth and those should be avoided.
Even in science, everything need to be tested and validated by thirdparty as well. There is always a demand to do everything together but there always are demand to have multiple alternative researches and developments same time where best long term results are together used and re-tested.
Microsoft competes, Mozilla and Google offers alternativities. Open Source (as GPL and similar) can never block knowledge or single/specific party to gain grip over others. It does not allow anyone to be a creedy and abuse their position.
I have netbook with 512MB RAM and 1.6Ghz (not 1.66) and KDE is perfect on it. Only thing what slows down is that I replaced the 8GB SSD with 5200RPM 120GB drive what I had in closet so starting applications first time is slow.
And no, I am not trying to use this netbook (aspire one) as full blown laptop. It only has chromium, dolphin, kget, VLC, amarok (latest if you must know), konversation, kde-telepathy, kmail, digiKam and k3b (I do ISO's from photos and other media to be moved other computers via usb stick).
I have only two virtual desktops and I rarely run more than three of those applications same time. I have usually over 100-150MB free RAM to spare after those three so I dont see a problem.
I as well have a another netbook, Asus 1000HE what has 2GB RAM and 1.66Ghz CPU. With its original 160GB HDD it is great for 5-7 applications same time.
But when I want to edit videos or photos, I really want to power on my desktop computer. Even my old 15" 1.7Ghz laptop with 512MB RAM and 60GB HDD is very well usable with KWin compositing enabled (all computers has so, as it speeds up a lot!)
And no, I don't use bloated Ubuntu (or any of its family).
You won't get security patches, you won't get any new functionality, new apps that use GTK3 won't work right with it, the underpinnings will change and Gnome2 itself will no longer work right.
When did last time GNOME get new amazing functionality? Really? Last few years GNOME has been same. Even KDE SC 4.8 has now more features than KDE 3.5 had and when compared to amount of those, GNOME has almost none.
GNOME 2.x users are going to be fine as long as just their needed applications can be ran on it.
A) Software code quality and software design B) Software popularity among people.... matter when it comes to bad security?
As you are saying that security is great if there are few users. So if a few banks use software A, it is safe because it is just few users. But if millions of users use software A, it is unsafe because it is lots of users....
You are saying that code quality and software design does not matter at all.
You are not talking about risks what crackers need to think as well.
Example, a even typical simple minded criminal knows that he has lower risk when robbing people on parks and pick pocketing people on streets to get a few hundred bucks a day/week, than robbing a bank and gain hundreds of thousands or even millions.
You dont want to go rob a bank, because their security is much tigehter. They have been designed to protect money better. But you want to rob people on streets and parks because normal people are not as well protected. Even that you gain less and you need to do multiple times it, it is much safer thing than to go after target with better security.
A robber does not want to go rob a know martial arts person on street with a knive, you use a gun then and even then it is even more riskier to get caught.
Which one you would want to rob, a bank or a millitary base? School or Police station? Private house or a corporation HQ? Private house or a bank?
Private house with top of the class security system (armored doors and windows, strengten walls and cameras, walls, dogs and alarms) or a privat house with just the lock?
The software popularity means nothing. It is about code quality and design what matters. You can write almost perfect code or design software so well that there is just a 0.001% change it gets cracked. And that does change even if you distribute it just to 100 person or to 50 million person.
The user is usually problem. If you can get user to skip security measurements, you are in.
. . . which is why I bought a Nokia N9 with Meego Linux.
N9 comes with Harmattan aka Maemo 6.0. MeeGo is Maemo 5.0 + Moblin 1.1
Harmattan is not 100% compatible with MeeGo and almost only way is to use pure Qt in your applications and even then repackage your software to RPM and DEB to deliver both.
Even Nokia developers needed to explain that Harmattan != MeeGo but it is just a marketing....
There are many phones what are easily rootable. Depending the country where you live.
Example all Android phones in my country are unlocked to carrier and SIM. So you can do what every you want with them. Rooting phone is just installing root application and pushing button.
And user does not even void varranty because that unless problem is caused by software. (if your MicroUSB plug brokes so you dont get good connection, it does not matter if you have third party ROM installed. But if your CPU burns and they find out you have third party ROM with custom CPU scheduler and overlock... you dont get anything).
If leaving out the rooting part... (what is app install from market + single click to root/unroot) the iptables is easy to use in Android
1. Install droidwall (or any other iptables firewall) 2. Start application and check/uncheck applications rights to have connection when in 2G/3G or WiFi mode.
I hope it would be as easy with Linux distributions....
It is sad when project need to do huge recode, fans of earlier version jumps off and then never turn back to even look how much the software has evolved in 4 years and still many continues to talk about project like it would have staid in its state 4 years ago and they dont want to even try out the current version. Even that trying out is just 1 minute task as:
It is not creepy if they are neutral and not depressive like in SO2001.... Sometimes in horry you want that computer would be as well. So when next time speech recognition is evolved, it will answer with same attitude as you are (expect when you are drunk... you just get mad when you can not understand what phone is saying)
I cladly take computer as the scripted name to be used when needed to ask from Android something.
"Computer, how long it takes to drive to home?" "Computer, how many pounds is 5 kilogram?" "Computer, locate five nearest cafeteria around me?"
It really sounds much better than "Siri". And it is much better to be a technological as people know that it is a computer afterwards what is doing everything, and not somekind "magical" being with "superior A.I".
I have used Siri kind technology on Android about 6 months ago, way before Siri was presented officially in iOS5. And I hated to use any other name like "Hey Vlingo" or "Hey Tom"
You very rarely, if ever, say a loud "Computer" and wait to it give a beep to inform that it is listening. Instead you might yell "Siri" or "Bob" or any other name in house or street. And you really do not wish your computer to answer for that.
Hell I'd argue that's why Linux is stuck dead last and going nowhere, its because there is ZERO competition!
It is nice when you quote yourself talking bullshit.
Clearly you have not heard about Linux.... Not the Linux 0.02 but Linux 2.6.x series...?
What is Linux marketshare on: A) Supercomputers? B) Smartphones? C) Internet / Intranet servers? D) Embedded systems (ADSL/Cable modems, DVB devices etc)
60% 90% 50% 80%
Can you connect those correctly?
As you only draw a marketshare on desktops.... you failt to see that Microsoft got that monopoly and has abused its dominant market position only because they are competing. There have not been alternatives (standards, teamwork, greater good) and not until now when EU and US DOJ has slapped more requirements and demands to give alternatives a change.
And check out the W3C... what Mozilla and Google has got done by following standards and working together to bring different alternativies. Opera in other hand has staid down because they want to compete. Microsoft has being competing and loosing badly, not long time ago when Microsoft was trying to force own technologies. What happened to web when Adobe got monopoly for interactive web designing because it won competition with Adobe Flash? Everyone suffered. But now everything is going better when people are working together to push standards and especially developing HTML5. Thanks to Apple, Google and Mozilla about that.
All great things has come from alternativies, not from competition. All suffering and bad things comes from competition, not from alternativies.
Why did PC come success and not any other personal computer? As PC were not first personal computer, it was just IBM's first personal computer and they made open standards, open architecture.... They licensed it to every other personal computer manufacturer and software manufacturer to make a PC-compatible pheriaphels and software. They made standards and ideas that PC and PC-compatible personal computers would work together well. Then Microsoft captured markets, thanks to Compaq who reverse engineered the PC BIOS because competition and IBM mind not to share and develop BIOS together as team. After that Microsoft got all, monopolizied market, abused their dominant market position and everyone suffered. Until now when again teamwork from Open Source side has pushed everything in better direction.
If there would be only competition, you would be using that Windows 3.33 with DOS 10.5 and setting IRQ's manually to get those DOS games working.
Haven't you seen what as well competition has done to software and computer hardware? A Apple LISA is faster to boot and start applications and even print than todays 6 core, 8GB RAM computer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLwntYxW4rU
If at those times companies and people would have worked together, searching and developing new techonlogies and together making standards and choosing best available option, we would have gained much better software optimization to that and even todays hardware than we have now (today we have bloated software).
Teamwork is not competition Standards are not competition Development and research is not competition
You always need to work together to get better results, by competition only one wins and it usually is bad one and everyone suffers from wasted time and resources:
Were it about beta vs VHS, HD DVD vs Blu-ray or anything else. Competition is bad for humans change to actually develop better technologies and avoid short and long term problems at once by working together. But some people really love competition becuse they want to stay on top or have at least change to be top dog and ripping all from people lower them. So it is better to defend competition beucase otherwise they will loose the change to abuse their possible position and gain lots because it.
I hope millitaries would take same trend, everyone would bring their own weapons.
Yeah sure.... it adds some security problems, but reduces a huge budjet with lower gear maintenance, storing and teaching weapons.
(Okay, I don't know how many does have fighter-interceptoprs or even battle tanks in reserve, but at least almost every person in US has some kind weapon and transport vehicle).
Neither does KDE force to run akonadi and nepomuk. You can disable them if wanted. Only some KDE applications demand those like now kdepim applications. But KDE Plasma, KWin and other KDE applications do not force you to run them.
Which one you prefer, competition or alternativies?
As competition means there are no standards, no compability, no teamwork, no quality in products and less jobs While alternatives means there are standards, compability, teamwork, better quality in products and more jobs
Competition always means that there can only be one winner. And every competitor does everything what they can to win other(s).
You know the phrase "It isn't personal, just business"? Well... You know the government demands to ask price offers from competitors and give job for one who is cheapest? You only end up having crap in your hands. How about projects where your timeframe is shorter and shorter all the times and budjet is smaller and smaller? Thank competition. Or co-determination in corporations, where corporation lays off people because expensives... thank competition again.
Next time someones kid does not win, parent should just say "Shut the fuck up and next time you crush your fuckin enemies without any reasoning, my kid does not live as a loser but as a winner so learn to cheat and use violance to solve problems if needed!" instead saying "It does not matter who wins, but that it is a fair play"?
Software patents are all about competition. Propietary is all about competition. Monopolies are results of competition. Abusive of dominant market position is all about competition. Bigger corporations are free to crush smaller ones how they like. Richer corporation has much better situation than a start up company because they can pull multiple different market share products where start up can only focus to one or smaller market.
In other hand. Open Source (GPl not the BSD) is about teamwork and possibilities to offer a alternativies if wanted. With Open Source (GPL license in this case, not the BSD) licensed software no one can build a monopoly or abuse a dominant market position (unless abusing the license). Bigger corporation can not own the products or customers. There is always a change that someone get better idea and implements it and this way product developes better one.
When you replace "Competition is good" to real meaning what it is... you get "War is good". And thats is it. How many thinks war is good for anyone? Customers are civilians and they are those who suffer most. Bad products, limited choices, less jobs, smaller payrates... Everything bad comes from competition.
There ain't KDE vs GNOME vs XFCE vs LXDE vs XYZ... There are just KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and XYZ's.
Those are not competiting projects, they are alternatives. Competition is hostile by nature. While alternatives are about teamwork and goal to find out best result what to use and same time research and develop a alternativies with new ideas what to choose again together what is best to be used. Standards are great thing and they are all about teamwork, not about competition.
If we would have free markets, everything would be ruined.... If we would have free markets, we would have fucked up situation on economy... good thing is that we don't have fr..... Oh wait... what is situation on world economy? US Dollar and EUR situation is pretty bad... What is situation on computer markets? Software patents, market positions abuse, all legal fights, poor quality on software and their support and.... And people are rised from child to prise the competition as "there is nothing wrong on competition".
Razor-Qt is good thing, because it brings one new choice for users. It use existing technology, it follows FDO standards and it is Open Source (GPL/LGPL). It is new choice, not a new coalition for war.
I have Asus 1000HE laptop what batterylife with Asus own measurements were 7 hours. I got 5.5-6 with full brightness, WLAN on and surfing web or watching videos. I have never liked idea to dim display down if it just ain't too bright (low light environments, usually none as I have always kept lights on). I use Linux as OS and I chose Arch Linux distribution for that because speed and lightness. Of course KDE 4.8 beta2 is on it by same reasons (GNOME 2.x and 3.2 and especially Unity has been slow as hell) with every window effect on.
Now, after ~30 months, the battery has started to show signs of weakening. I have used every day it empty and charged up on night. Now I get only a 4 hour time for battery. But it is still enough. I have been planning to buy a new model from Asus, those slim ones, but 10" netbook with a 1280x800 resolution (I want bigger resolution) what could give the 8-10h battery with full brightness.
If some people want to use their laptops to keep batterylife up, they can stop enjoying their laptops. I want better quality and I would very cladly take a ARM netbook with 20h+ battery. Size does matter, weight does not. Even a 1.5kg netbook 10" screen and slim is fine.
Yes, not all reasons are to look brettier in eyes of mens.... but they take as well advantage over mens when competiting with other womans with their look.
When it comes cosmetics, womens wants attention with it. Same way as does young kids by using trend cloths.
My strong opinion is, that every schoold kid should wear a school uniform. There is less teasing and bullying about cloths and who has enough money to buy most new cloths or other toys. If you can not be you, but you pretend to be you, it is just bad for everyone. Womens try to compete with each other. They want to be good looking. Same thing is with some of the mens who as well use cosmetics and stylish cloths.
Many has dressing code for work, why not kids have same thing? We have dressing code for different situations, were they weddings, funerals, sport.... They are there for a reasons.
And faking something to sell it, is just lying to customers. Was it cosmetics or even technology (like operating systems), corporations are just trying to sell own crap over others. If people would really understand what they really are bying (I am not talking about mens and womens here!), it would make whole world better blace.
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Theoretically, the only real difference between a DSLR and a MILC (or whatever you want to call them) is that a DSLR has a mirror box and the MILC doesn't.
Just based that, the man does not know almost anything about photography and physics of light.
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Smaller cameras P'nP, Compacts and especially phones will never achieve the same technical possibilities for potraits, landscapes, macros and many many other situations than what DSLR's to Medium and Architecture cameras offers.
Example: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/digital-camera-sensor-size.htm
More from same site: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm
Please, show even 1-2 of those where LINUX operating system was compromised, instead service or system because wrong settings?
Apple isn't always suing because they want to do so, but because they are forced by the law to sue others.
Even Linus Torvalds has gaved his opinion and explenation about the subject:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/00/01/19/0828245/linus-explains-linux-trademark-issues
- Trademark law requires that the trademark owner police the use of the
trademark (unlike, for example, copyright law, where the copyright
owner is the copyright owner, always is, and always will be unless he
willingly relinquishes ownership, and even THEN he ends up having
rights).
And it isn't just about trademark, it is about design rights and others what you need to defend as well so others would not abuse your rights in the first place.
But some points it is enough.
Personally I would even make it so that if the patent holder does not try to negotiate in 2 weeks when the product have come to same market, and if they dont get agreement in 1 week, they have only 5 days time to sue abuser. If you are too big company with too many patents, then you are already fucking the whole world and customers rights. Big corporations and competition isn't good to anyone.
When you give pen and paper to kid, they do draw things on it even when taking notes and so on. They play tick-tack-toe games and send notes to each other.
When you give a computer to kid, they search its functions and exploits them, they play games or send messages to each other.
The computer like iPad can be very powerfull tool, but it demands that teachers and especially school IT admins knows how to limit the access to it.
Instead with paper and pen, you really can limit what applications can be installed to device and what can be ran. You can set every message to be sended trough school servers. You can even have a remote control to them so you can turn them off or just turn the screens off, or even see what every kid is doing with their computers.
My college has made school E-learning systems using Linux. And one of the features is that every file is stored to school servers and systems anyways use remote logins, and teachers has full remote control capabilities if needed. One of the most important features is to turn students screens off until teacher release access again. It is really a important thing as it really moves kids attention to teacher much better way.
Teachers can as well see who is doing and what on their computers. They are not allowed to run any programs what IT-admins have not admitted, every URL/IP is whitelisted and teachers can give specific timelines when students can have a access to other sites than what is already given.
Teachers work is to guide and rule kids, slow down their access to information and teach how to use it to get full potential from it.
Computer does never replace parenthood, neither does TV.
The iPads what schools gets, should have whitelistings, remote control and controlled lists of installed applications. If not, then school has made first mistake in the beginning.
I have accentuated so many times that competition is not good for anyone. Every competitor, customer and whole world suffers from competition.
Alternatives and teamwork is the only real way to go.
Example now with Google and Mozilla, both support standards together, both develops standards together, they help each other and they share best ideas and results to everyone so they get taken in use. But still all the time, both offers alternative for other product. Customer can choose what works best for them, still having best possible results and without vendor lock-in.
In competition, Google would have cut payroll to Mozilla when they release Chromium, both would have developed totally new own technologies and ideas instead existing standard, they would have extended the standard to work in such way it is incompatible with everyone else, they would do all what is possible to win the competitor.
Prices would go down, but same time there is less jobs, payment are smaller related to work times what are longer. Compability to earlier version could be non-existing as standard and backward compability would be meaningless, no reasons to support or give any ideas to anyone else if it does not give first hand something to itself and allow to push competitors off later (license fees, vendor lock-in etc).
Without competition, there are more jobs, smaller worktimes related to payment (you are paid better and you work less), everyone would have really a change to try out a own idea and present it to others if it would be a better, everyone could share the best ideas and then those are implemented together and everything is made sure that they work together.
Competition is same thing as the war is. There are rules but everyone is ready to blend them. Everyone are scared and every greed and psychopath are welcomed to lead others because they are so good to manipulate others and they don't care if they hurt anyone in the process. Even the Cold war was pure competition. At some point someone must blow to whistle and stop the competition as it comes to situation where every competitor is ready to do anything to win and protect their own profit and own future. Just like in war civilians, in a competition customers are those who suffers most. They get cheap and bad quality products, less jobs, smaller payment and you need to do anything to keep your job and serve your company.
In alternatives, there are moral and ethics what rules that no single company or not even a single country can come and attack against other. It is about whole world, not just those or just human race, but all. It is about world where we live, a single ecosystem. There ain't multiple ecosystems, but just one. If someone disturbs it so it gets unbalanced, there can be a eco-catastrophy what affects everyone less or more in a bad way. And even a small one can set a chain reaction what can show results only in long run.
We have limited resources to build things, from metals to coal and oil and so on. Those are resources what belongs to all, not to single corporation or single country.
Every single person who says competition is good, means same time that war, creed, ignorance, abuse and lying (or leaving truth untold) is better thing than teamwork, alternatives, honor, moral, ethics, caring and truth and those should be avoided.
Even in science, everything need to be tested and validated by thirdparty as well. There is always a demand to do everything together but there always are demand to have multiple alternative researches and developments same time where best long term results are together used and re-tested.
Microsoft competes, Mozilla and Google offers alternativities. Open Source (as GPL and similar) can never block knowledge or single/specific party to gain grip over others. It does not allow anyone to be a creedy and abuse their position.
I have netbook with 512MB RAM and 1.6Ghz (not 1.66) and KDE is perfect on it. Only thing what slows down is that I replaced the 8GB SSD with 5200RPM 120GB drive what I had in closet so starting applications first time is slow.
And no, I am not trying to use this netbook (aspire one) as full blown laptop. It only has chromium, dolphin, kget, VLC, amarok (latest if you must know), konversation, kde-telepathy, kmail, digiKam and k3b (I do ISO's from photos and other media to be moved other computers via usb stick).
I have only two virtual desktops and I rarely run more than three of those applications same time. I have usually over 100-150MB free RAM to spare after those three so I dont see a problem.
I as well have a another netbook, Asus 1000HE what has 2GB RAM and 1.66Ghz CPU. With its original 160GB HDD it is great for 5-7 applications same time.
But when I want to edit videos or photos, I really want to power on my desktop computer.
Even my old 15" 1.7Ghz laptop with 512MB RAM and 60GB HDD is very well usable with KWin compositing enabled (all computers has so, as it speeds up a lot!)
And no, I don't use bloated Ubuntu (or any of its family).
You won't get security patches, you won't get any new functionality, new apps that use GTK3 won't work right with it, the underpinnings will change and Gnome2 itself will no longer work right.
When did last time GNOME get new amazing functionality? Really?
Last few years GNOME has been same. Even KDE SC 4.8 has now more features than KDE 3.5 had and when compared to amount of those, GNOME has almost none.
GNOME 2.x users are going to be fine as long as just their needed applications can be ran on it.
Tell which does:
A) Software code quality and software design .... matter when it comes to bad security?
B) Software popularity among people
As you are saying that security is great if there are few users.
So if a few banks use software A, it is safe because it is just few users.
But if millions of users use software A, it is unsafe because it is lots of users....
You are saying that code quality and software design does not matter at all.
You are not talking about risks what crackers need to think as well.
Example, a even typical simple minded criminal knows that he has lower risk when robbing people on parks and pick pocketing people on streets to get a few hundred bucks a day/week, than robbing a bank and gain hundreds of thousands or even millions.
You dont want to go rob a bank, because their security is much tigehter. They have been designed to protect money better.
But you want to rob people on streets and parks because normal people are not as well protected. Even that you gain less and you need to do multiple times it, it is much safer thing than to go after target with better security.
A robber does not want to go rob a know martial arts person on street with a knive, you use a gun then and even then it is even more riskier to get caught.
Which one you would want to rob, a bank or a millitary base? School or Police station?
Private house or a corporation HQ?
Private house or a bank?
Private house with top of the class security system (armored doors and windows, strengten walls and cameras, walls, dogs and alarms) or a privat house with just the lock?
The software popularity means nothing. It is about code quality and design what matters.
You can write almost perfect code or design software so well that there is just a 0.001% change it gets cracked. And that does change even if you distribute it just to 100 person or to 50 million person.
The user is usually problem. If you can get user to skip security measurements, you are in.
. . . which is why I bought a Nokia N9 with Meego Linux.
N9 comes with Harmattan aka Maemo 6.0.
MeeGo is Maemo 5.0 + Moblin 1.1
Harmattan is not 100% compatible with MeeGo and almost only way is to use pure Qt in your applications and even then repackage your software to RPM and DEB to deliver both.
Even Nokia developers needed to explain that Harmattan != MeeGo but it is just a marketing....
There are many phones what are easily rootable. Depending the country where you live.
Example all Android phones in my country are unlocked to carrier and SIM. So you can do what every you want with them. Rooting phone is just installing root application and pushing button.
And user does not even void varranty because that unless problem is caused by software. (if your MicroUSB plug brokes so you dont get good connection, it does not matter if you have third party ROM installed. But if your CPU burns and they find out you have third party ROM with custom CPU scheduler and overlock... you dont get anything).
If leaving out the rooting part... (what is app install from market + single click to root/unroot) the iptables is easy to use in Android
1. Install droidwall (or any other iptables firewall)
2. Start application and check/uncheck applications rights to have connection when in 2G/3G or WiFi mode.
I hope it would be as easy with Linux distributions....
Or how about these?
http://i.imgur.com/nlH6O.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/k9Gvb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/y02dd.jpg
If last one is still too complex for you, then you need to turn to CLI....
http://i.imgur.com/TjvDV.jpg
Is that too complex?
my only wish is to have bottom blue areas converted back to non-colored ones... they made that change few small versions ago.
Long time ago....
It is sad when project need to do huge recode, fans of earlier version jumps off and then never turn back to even look how much the software has evolved in 4 years and still many continues to talk about project like it would have staid in its state 4 years ago and they dont want to even try out the current version.
Even that trying out is just 1 minute task as:
pacman -S amarok
urpmi amarok
yum install amarok
apt-get install amarok
gives so quick installation that there is no reason to after that spend 30 seconds to check and try out what has done.
And you have not planned to try again after.... 4 years?
Amarok 2.5 is totally different than what 2.0 were.
Even most fanatic Amarok 2.x haters have taken it back after added features but some use Clemence.
But you are free to trash it how much you want.... But 2.x series has brought much needed easiness and features what 1.4.x lacked.
It is not creepy if they are neutral and not depressive like in SO2001....
Sometimes in horry you want that computer would be as well. So when next time speech recognition is evolved, it will answer with same attitude as you are (expect when you are drunk... you just get mad when you can not understand what phone is saying)
I cladly take computer as the scripted name to be used when needed to ask from Android something.
"Computer, how long it takes to drive to home?"
"Computer, how many pounds is 5 kilogram?"
"Computer, locate five nearest cafeteria around me?"
It really sounds much better than "Siri". And it is much better to be a technological as people know that it is a computer afterwards what is doing everything, and not somekind "magical" being with "superior A.I".
I have used Siri kind technology on Android about 6 months ago, way before Siri was presented officially in iOS5.
And I hated to use any other name like "Hey Vlingo" or "Hey Tom"
You very rarely, if ever, say a loud "Computer" and wait to it give a beep to inform that it is listening. Instead you might yell "Siri" or "Bob" or any other name in house or street. And you really do not wish your computer to answer for that.
Hell I'd argue that's why Linux is stuck dead last and going nowhere, its because there is ZERO competition!
It is nice when you quote yourself talking bullshit.
Clearly you have not heard about Linux.... Not the Linux 0.02 but Linux 2.6.x series...?
What is Linux marketshare on:
A) Supercomputers?
B) Smartphones?
C) Internet / Intranet servers?
D) Embedded systems (ADSL/Cable modems, DVB devices etc)
60%
90%
50%
80%
Can you connect those correctly?
As you only draw a marketshare on desktops.... you failt to see that Microsoft got that monopoly and has abused its dominant market position only because they are competing. There have not been alternatives (standards, teamwork, greater good) and not until now when EU and US DOJ has slapped more requirements and demands to give alternatives a change.
And check out the W3C... what Mozilla and Google has got done by following standards and working together to bring different alternativies. Opera in other hand has staid down because they want to compete. Microsoft has being competing and loosing badly, not long time ago when Microsoft was trying to force own technologies.
What happened to web when Adobe got monopoly for interactive web designing because it won competition with Adobe Flash? Everyone suffered. But now everything is going better when people are working together to push standards and especially developing HTML5.
Thanks to Apple, Google and Mozilla about that.
All great things has come from alternativies, not from competition.
All suffering and bad things comes from competition, not from alternativies.
Why did PC come success and not any other personal computer? As PC were not first personal computer, it was just IBM's first personal computer and they made open standards, open architecture.... They licensed it to every other personal computer manufacturer and software manufacturer to make a PC-compatible pheriaphels and software. They made standards and ideas that PC and PC-compatible personal computers would work together well.
Then Microsoft captured markets, thanks to Compaq who reverse engineered the PC BIOS because competition and IBM mind not to share and develop BIOS together as team. After that Microsoft got all, monopolizied market, abused their dominant market position and everyone suffered. Until now when again teamwork from Open Source side has pushed everything in better direction.
If there would be only competition, you would be using that Windows 3.33 with DOS 10.5 and setting IRQ's manually to get those DOS games working.
Haven't you seen what as well competition has done to software and computer hardware? A Apple LISA is faster to boot and start applications and even print than todays 6 core, 8GB RAM computer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLwntYxW4rU
If at those times companies and people would have worked together, searching and developing new techonlogies and together making standards and choosing best available option, we would have gained much better software optimization to that and even todays hardware than we have now (today we have bloated software).
Teamwork is not competition
Standards are not competition
Development and research is not competition
You always need to work together to get better results, by competition only one wins and it usually is bad one and everyone suffers from wasted time and resources:
Were it about beta vs VHS, HD DVD vs Blu-ray or anything else. Competition is bad for humans change to actually develop better technologies and avoid short and long term problems at once by working together. But some people really love competition becuse they want to stay on top or have at least change to be top dog and ripping all from people lower them. So it is better to defend competition beucase otherwise they will loose the change to abuse their possible position and gain lots because it.
I hope millitaries would take same trend, everyone would bring their own weapons.
Yeah sure.... it adds some security problems, but reduces a huge budjet with lower gear maintenance, storing and teaching weapons.
(Okay, I don't know how many does have fighter-interceptoprs or even battle tanks in reserve, but at least almost every person in US has some kind weapon and transport vehicle).
Neither does KDE force to run akonadi and nepomuk. You can disable them if wanted. Only some KDE applications demand those like now kdepim applications.
But KDE Plasma, KWin and other KDE applications do not force you to run them.
Razor-Qt is just another Windows look-alike
Yeah... looks so a like: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/windows-8-metro-apps1.jpg
But not even Glib is part of the operating system. What is just a good thing.
Which one you prefer, competition or alternativies?
As competition means there are no standards, no compability, no teamwork, no quality in products and less jobs
While alternatives means there are standards, compability, teamwork, better quality in products and more jobs
What competition means? http://xkcd.com/927/
Competition always means that there can only be one winner. And every competitor does everything what they can to win other(s).
You know the phrase "It isn't personal, just business"? Well...
You know the government demands to ask price offers from competitors and give job for one who is cheapest? You only end up having crap in your hands.
How about projects where your timeframe is shorter and shorter all the times and budjet is smaller and smaller? Thank competition.
Or co-determination in corporations, where corporation lays off people because expensives... thank competition again.
Next time someones kid does not win, parent should just say "Shut the fuck up and next time you crush your fuckin enemies without any reasoning, my kid does not live as a loser but as a winner so learn to cheat and use violance to solve problems if needed!" instead saying "It does not matter who wins, but that it is a fair play"?
Software patents are all about competition. Propietary is all about competition. Monopolies are results of competition. Abusive of dominant market position is all about competition. Bigger corporations are free to crush smaller ones how they like. Richer corporation has much better situation than a start up company because they can pull multiple different market share products where start up can only focus to one or smaller market.
In other hand. Open Source (GPl not the BSD) is about teamwork and possibilities to offer a alternativies if wanted. With Open Source (GPL license in this case, not the BSD) licensed software no one can build a monopoly or abuse a dominant market position (unless abusing the license). Bigger corporation can not own the products or customers. There is always a change that someone get better idea and implements it and this way product developes better one.
When you replace "Competition is good" to real meaning what it is... you get "War is good". And thats is it. How many thinks war is good for anyone? Customers are civilians and they are those who suffer most. Bad products, limited choices, less jobs, smaller payrates... Everything bad comes from competition.
There ain't KDE vs GNOME vs XFCE vs LXDE vs XYZ...
There are just KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and XYZ's.
Those are not competiting projects, they are alternatives.
Competition is hostile by nature. While alternatives are about teamwork and goal to find out best result what to use and same time research and develop a alternativies with new ideas what to choose again together what is best to be used.
Standards are great thing and they are all about teamwork, not about competition.
If we would have free markets, everything would be ruined.... If we would have free markets, we would have fucked up situation on economy... good thing is that we don't have fr..... Oh wait... what is situation on world economy? US Dollar and EUR situation is pretty bad...
What is situation on computer markets? Software patents, market positions abuse, all legal fights, poor quality on software and their support and.... And people are rised from child to prise the competition as "there is nothing wrong on competition".
Razor-Qt is good thing, because it brings one new choice for users. It use existing technology, it follows FDO standards and it is Open Source (GPL/LGPL).
It is new choice, not a new coalition for war.
I have Asus 1000HE laptop what batterylife with Asus own measurements were 7 hours. I got 5.5-6 with full brightness, WLAN on and surfing web or watching videos.
I have never liked idea to dim display down if it just ain't too bright (low light environments, usually none as I have always kept lights on).
I use Linux as OS and I chose Arch Linux distribution for that because speed and lightness. Of course KDE 4.8 beta2 is on it by same reasons (GNOME 2.x and 3.2 and especially Unity has been slow as hell) with every window effect on.
Now, after ~30 months, the battery has started to show signs of weakening. I have used every day it empty and charged up on night. Now I get only a 4 hour time for battery. But it is still enough. I have been planning to buy a new model from Asus, those slim ones, but 10" netbook with a 1280x800 resolution (I want bigger resolution) what could give the 8-10h battery with full brightness.
If some people want to use their laptops to keep batterylife up, they can stop enjoying their laptops. I want better quality and I would very cladly take a ARM netbook with 20h+ battery. Size does matter, weight does not. Even a 1.5kg netbook 10" screen and slim is fine.
Yes, not all reasons are to look brettier in eyes of mens.... but they take as well advantage over mens when competiting with other womans with their look.
When it comes cosmetics, womens wants attention with it. Same way as does young kids by using trend cloths.
My strong opinion is, that every schoold kid should wear a school uniform. There is less teasing and bullying about cloths and who has enough money to buy most new cloths or other toys. If you can not be you, but you pretend to be you, it is just bad for everyone.
Womens try to compete with each other. They want to be good looking. Same thing is with some of the mens who as well use cosmetics and stylish cloths.
Many has dressing code for work, why not kids have same thing? We have dressing code for different situations, were they weddings, funerals, sport.... They are there for a reasons.
And faking something to sell it, is just lying to customers. Was it cosmetics or even technology (like operating systems), corporations are just trying to sell own crap over others. If people would really understand what they really are bying (I am not talking about mens and womens here!), it would make whole world better blace.