I especially love it when the story a summary links to is a story on Slashdot's business blog. Do they really expect people to have the same conversation twice, back-to-back? Apparently. And what's with the dual identity anyway? Losing your way much these days Slashdot? Are you under some kind of pressure from Dice?
Since opening day people have complained about they way Slashdot does some things, while predicting its demise based on those things. It's always been campy, but lately I actually worry.
Upon further consideration, shit is so fucked up perhaps the government did instigate 9/11, and going even further actually made sure Al Gore lost the electoral vote despite winning the popular vote.
I was thinking back a bit further, back in the early 80's when we either did or didn't train Bin-laden depending on who you ask. We did train our future enemies though. I don't think any particular act of terrorism was deliberate on behalf of our government. Rather, that things were carefully molded, set into motion, and strategically guided. Any one of many terror scenario possibilities could have led to what we have now - not just 9/11 - it was just a matter of ensuring that something sufficient eventually happened. It could be an example of something that started out as a reaction to the cold war, but went out of control and was never stopped - perhaps it seemed too tempting to not continue pursuing after the cold war ended. Who knows though, I am wildly speculating.
The source of many great quotes can only be taken with a grain of salt. Regardless, someone originally said it and it sounds good in respect to the topic. : p
The idea that the United States clumsily, but accidentally, brought the terrorism situation and surveillance state that followed on itself can be approached from enough angles that it represents an undeniable truth... or does it fully? We all now know that the tin foil hat crowd was not only right all along, the didn't take it far enough. Perhaps we are still not taking it far enough. With extreme paranoia over our governments conspiracy to subvert its people now wholly justified, perhaps creating the terrorist situation was intentional and represents a broader and more sinister plan that has been in play longer than we know with goals more far reaching than we are prepared to entertain.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -
James Madison
As vague as I'm being, I know that I am still presenting a level of paranoia that is completely insane... or am I? It sounds crazy now, and I hope it is.
I am awfully surprised to see this modded troll to the point I feel kind of bad for you. If I had a point I would be giving it too you as insightful instead of commenting. Of course kids break shit. I saw this coming when this was first announced. With the exception of the melting adapters this whole story is redundant because... of course kids break shit. I'm even willing to bet those cases fit before those kids got there hands on them. Torsion anyone? Given the whole year I'll also bet over half of those screens would have been broken Gorilla Glass or not.
Someone have the good sense to mod girlintraining up!
Remember back when there was all kinds of competition in the video chipset\card market? 3DFX, Rendition, S3, Matrox, etc... Now we are down to two choices and they are both screwing us over... I guess that's what happens when competition is limited. What to do?
If you could share all data between the two OSs without any extra work: pictures, movies, contacts, calendar, etc... If all of that synced between the two that might be interesting. If that is not possible, then I don't see how the proposition makes the slightest bit of sense for an end user. Assuming both would be used on occasion, it would be a confusing mess.
It might be interesting, but not for me. A friend of mine works for a carrier so I get to demo and thoroughly play with all the phones and I can confirm - mostly unbiased that Windows phone offers an inferior experience, but that's another post for another article.
I remember in middle school there was a special 'gifted talent' class for the bright kids and a special ed class for the slow kids. I mentally kept track of who was who and as the years went by many of the slow kids went on to excel academically simply because the extra time they needed on the basics was taken and the class was always small so they received a lot individual attention. Many went on to graduate with honors and most went on to college. A lot of the so called gifted kids went on to become academically mediocre and most did not go to college and in some cases dropped out. I assure you it was not a matter of 'they were so smart they were board' - it was a mystery how some of those kids made it into the gifted class in the first place. In fact I later found out that the gifted class was self-learning with no structure at all so they basically learned nothing. Personally, I started college at 16 (didn't finish like an idiot) but was considered by the public school system to be mediocre in all subjects but science.
No opinion here, I'm just saying is all. Make of it what you will.
The TOS for Google Fiber says NO SERVERS... at all. Kind of lame when you consider they initially called Google Fiber an experiment to see what people would do with all that bandwidth. This sounds ideal. Google Fiber will be available to me very soon, but I may just have to pass it up. I don't like that they have already drastically changed the game by excluding servers.
I specifically refer to the general population in my post. I say nothing in support of Linux as an enterprise desktop. I specifically refer to Linux for the masses. I say nothing in support of Linux as an enterprise desktop. I specifically refer to consumer distros. I say nothing in support of Linux as an enterprise desktop. I repeatedly refer to Linux for common people. I say nothing in support of Linux as an enterprise desktop. Two words: reading comprehension.
Why do people keep replying saying how wrong I am about desktop Linux in the corporate environment? I completely agree with those comments. I used to administrate Active Directory so I really do get it. I was talking about Linux as a simple home computer operating system. I never said anything about it being suitable for the corporate desktop... at all. Geeze people, either read a whole post before replying, or stop replying to OP based on another reply to without having read the original yourself. Of course Linux is not suitable for the enterprise!!! Classic Slashdot stupidity.
Most often it's: His god fights your god while his god protects his nation. Your god and and his god will fight until annihilation.
Of course their are purely political ideological matters too. I'm taking about removing the genes that cause the extreme aggression towards one another. We have created a modern world while managing to remain primitive creatures. it's unsustainable if we don't stop killing each other whether it be on small or mass scales. We are natural predators bound by evolution to be instinctively inclined to constantly face off against the worlds ultimate predator... each other.
I agree about the mindset hurting adoption. It's a side effect of the decade and half we spent trying to get end users to use it when it wasn't ready. I will say that Kingsoft Office for Linux has absolute and total perfect MS Office compatibility across everything in the suite and even has the ribbon interface, but it is both closed source and from China - I don't trust it. My best suggestion regarding your friend is to issue a challenge. Wait for Ubuntu GNOME to come out of beta in a couple of weeks and then challenge him to run it for a week - if he's not sold on it being a good solid system, his Windows blinders are surgically attached to his face. As a side note, Ubuntu GNOME even though it's still (barely) in beta it's rock solid, but best to not take any chances on making a good impression.
I suppose it was around the release of the 2.0 kernel that every year was heralded as the year of Linux on the desktop. Of course it was never really practical and eventually became something of a joke. But as the years have rolled on, Linux and the software that runs on it has steadily advanced. For various reasons, I think it's finally ready and I believe this is a demonstration of that. One thing that always held Linux back was the need to work with complex configuration files and work voodoo magic in a terminal (or console if you couldn't startx) to get things working right, and then continue to have to work like that to keep the system doing what you want. This was completely impractical for the general population. With modern Linux distributions you don't have to ever touch a terminal anymore than you do on a Mac - which for me is a lot because I'm a nerd but you catch my drift. Systems "just work" and installing software is no more difficult than looking for what you need in an "app store" just like on a phone. Also, graphical user interfaces have advanced forward leaps and bounds. I am currently running GNOME 3.10 and it's remarkably intuitive. Then we have software such as LibreOffice that are finally advanced and feature complete enough to be taken seriously. Even Wine works well these days. The only problem is the extreme choice we have in the form of fragmentation - this is very confusing for the general population. When I talk about Linux being ready for the masses, I am only speaking of a few distros that I won't name for fear of starting a war except to say the Ubuntu GNOME Saucy with 3.10 (almost out of beta) and elementary OS lead the pack. elementary OS would be the ultimate consumer distro if it wasn't problem ridden largely due to being stuck on being based on Ubuntu 12.04 - My own preferences erase all of that by being a Slackware, and for that matter FreeBSD fan - but again, I'm a nerd.
Just wait until a genomics company literally owns your baby's genome configuration. Almost no one takes the time to read terms of service. Imagine being under the pressure of signing such an agreement after your water breaks.
The very last part of that being unlikely - the patent part may not be. Imagine choosing from a selection of perfect but generic templates, then adding and remove traits as you see fit. We could end up with a large population of near twin sets.
Setting absolutely all of that aside, if the technology this evolves into could build a better human (post-human?) species, I'm all for it regardless of how strange a future it might produce. Can you imagine a future version of the human race absent of our desire to break up into factions and murder each other in as large of numbers as possible? This could result in the survival of our species, or at least a future iteration of our species, which is something that I otherwise think will prove unlikely over the next century if we don't find a way to evolve past being bent on self-annihilation.
If this does what it says it does, the cost they cite is negligible. Although I wonder if fluoride ions take longer than six-seconds to work their magic. i'm still waiting for ultra-sonic tooth re-growing technology to be approved here in my United States.
I understand where they think Wayland falls short, but rather than going off and trying to create there own display server, they could have instead contributed the functionality they wanted to the Wayland project. And if Wayland wouldn't want it, fork a version of Wayland that is compatible but has what they felt was missing.
While I agree XFCE is is pretty wonderful, I have been using Gnome 3.10 for awhile and it really is pretty incredible and very stable. I think it would make for a more appealing modern desktop experience. Past that, TWM would be an improvement over unity.
For people who spend a tremendous amount of time listening to music on the their phone, the power those little speakers draw starts to add up. If these use any less power without sacrificing quality, it could be a big deal. Of course the article does not actually mention anything like that so if it's not the case, then yeah your right - it's kinda pointless. They talk about increased durability, but I have eight year old earbuds that sound as good as new and most people lose a set more than once a year anyway. And yeah, there's the cord problem you cite. Past all of that, bone conduction is probably the future anyway.
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The difference is...
Blackberry thought they knew and were wrong.
Jobs thought he knew and was right.
Now Apple is at the height of their mobile success, a place BB once was. Only now they don't have Jobs...
Say what your want of him, the mind of Steve Jobs was the difference between the two companies. Regardless of the success of their latest release, in five-years we maybe be posting about an entry titled "How Apple Blew It".
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I especially love it when the story a summary links to is a story on Slashdot's business blog. Do they really expect people to have the same conversation twice, back-to-back? Apparently. And what's with the dual identity anyway? Losing your way much these days Slashdot? Are you under some kind of pressure from Dice?
Since opening day people have complained about they way Slashdot does some things, while predicting its demise based on those things. It's always been campy, but lately I actually worry.
Upon further consideration, shit is so fucked up perhaps the government did instigate 9/11, and going even further actually made sure Al Gore lost the electoral vote despite winning the popular vote.
I was thinking back a bit further, back in the early 80's when we either did or didn't train Bin-laden depending on who you ask. We did train our future enemies though. I don't think any particular act of terrorism was deliberate on behalf of our government. Rather, that things were carefully molded, set into motion, and strategically guided. Any one of many terror scenario possibilities could have led to what we have now - not just 9/11 - it was just a matter of ensuring that something sufficient eventually happened. It could be an example of something that started out as a reaction to the cold war, but went out of control and was never stopped - perhaps it seemed too tempting to not continue pursuing after the cold war ended. Who knows though, I am wildly speculating.
The source of many great quotes can only be taken with a grain of salt. Regardless, someone originally said it and it sounds good in respect to the topic. : p
The idea that the United States clumsily, but accidentally, brought the terrorism situation and surveillance state that followed on itself can be approached from enough angles that it represents an undeniable truth... or does it fully? We all now know that the tin foil hat crowd was not only right all along, the didn't take it far enough. Perhaps we are still not taking it far enough. With extreme paranoia over our governments conspiracy to subvert its people now wholly justified, perhaps creating the terrorist situation was intentional and represents a broader and more sinister plan that has been in play longer than we know with goals more far reaching than we are prepared to entertain.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
As vague as I'm being, I know that I am still presenting a level of paranoia that is completely insane... or am I? It sounds crazy now, and I hope it is.
I prefer seemingly random auto playing video ads with nice clear audio on Slashdot's front page to anything...
So I would have to use a 3rd party cloud server with this product. What happens to my fancy and expensive smoke detector if the company folds?
I am awfully surprised to see this modded troll to the point I feel kind of bad for you. If I had a point I would be giving it too you as insightful instead of commenting. Of course kids break shit. I saw this coming when this was first announced. With the exception of the melting adapters this whole story is redundant because... of course kids break shit. I'm even willing to bet those cases fit before those kids got there hands on them. Torsion anyone? Given the whole year I'll also bet over half of those screens would have been broken Gorilla Glass or not.
Someone have the good sense to mod girlintraining up!
Remember back when there was all kinds of competition in the video chipset\card market? 3DFX, Rendition, S3, Matrox, etc... Now we are down to two choices and they are both screwing us over... I guess that's what happens when competition is limited. What to do?
If you could share all data between the two OSs without any extra work: pictures, movies, contacts, calendar, etc... If all of that synced between the two that might be interesting. If that is not possible, then I don't see how the proposition makes the slightest bit of sense for an end user. Assuming both would be used on occasion, it would be a confusing mess.
It might be interesting, but not for me. A friend of mine works for a carrier so I get to demo and thoroughly play with all the phones and I can confirm - mostly unbiased that Windows phone offers an inferior experience, but that's another post for another article.
I remember in middle school there was a special 'gifted talent' class for the bright kids and a special ed class for the slow kids. I mentally kept track of who was who and as the years went by many of the slow kids went on to excel academically simply because the extra time they needed on the basics was taken and the class was always small so they received a lot individual attention. Many went on to graduate with honors and most went on to college. A lot of the so called gifted kids went on to become academically mediocre and most did not go to college and in some cases dropped out. I assure you it was not a matter of 'they were so smart they were board' - it was a mystery how some of those kids made it into the gifted class in the first place. In fact I later found out that the gifted class was self-learning with no structure at all so they basically learned nothing. Personally, I started college at 16 (didn't finish like an idiot) but was considered by the public school system to be mediocre in all subjects but science.
No opinion here, I'm just saying is all. Make of it what you will.
The TOS for Google Fiber says NO SERVERS... at all. Kind of lame when you consider they initially called Google Fiber an experiment to see what people would do with all that bandwidth. This sounds ideal. Google Fiber will be available to me very soon, but I may just have to pass it up. I don't like that they have already drastically changed the game by excluding servers.
I specifically refer to the general population in my post. I say nothing in support of Linux as an enterprise desktop. I specifically refer to Linux for the masses. I say nothing in support of Linux as an enterprise desktop. I specifically refer to consumer distros. I say nothing in support of Linux as an enterprise desktop. I repeatedly refer to Linux for common people. I say nothing in support of Linux as an enterprise desktop. Two words: reading comprehension.
Why do people keep replying saying how wrong I am about desktop Linux in the corporate environment? I completely agree with those comments. I used to administrate Active Directory so I really do get it. I was talking about Linux as a simple home computer operating system. I never said anything about it being suitable for the corporate desktop... at all. Geeze people, either read a whole post before replying, or stop replying to OP based on another reply to without having read the original yourself. Of course Linux is not suitable for the enterprise!!! Classic Slashdot stupidity.
Most often it's: His god fights your god while his god protects his nation. Your god and and his god will fight until annihilation.
Of course their are purely political ideological matters too. I'm taking about removing the genes that cause the extreme aggression towards one another. We have created a modern world while managing to remain primitive creatures. it's unsustainable if we don't stop killing each other whether it be on small or mass scales. We are natural predators bound by evolution to be instinctively inclined to constantly face off against the worlds ultimate predator... each other.
I agree about the mindset hurting adoption. It's a side effect of the decade and half we spent trying to get end users to use it when it wasn't ready. I will say that Kingsoft Office for Linux has absolute and total perfect MS Office compatibility across everything in the suite and even has the ribbon interface, but it is both closed source and from China - I don't trust it. My best suggestion regarding your friend is to issue a challenge. Wait for Ubuntu GNOME to come out of beta in a couple of weeks and then challenge him to run it for a week - if he's not sold on it being a good solid system, his Windows blinders are surgically attached to his face. As a side note, Ubuntu GNOME even though it's still (barely) in beta it's rock solid, but best to not take any chances on making a good impression.
I suppose it was around the release of the 2.0 kernel that every year was heralded as the year of Linux on the desktop. Of course it was never really practical and eventually became something of a joke. But as the years have rolled on, Linux and the software that runs on it has steadily advanced. For various reasons, I think it's finally ready and I believe this is a demonstration of that. One thing that always held Linux back was the need to work with complex configuration files and work voodoo magic in a terminal (or console if you couldn't startx) to get things working right, and then continue to have to work like that to keep the system doing what you want. This was completely impractical for the general population. With modern Linux distributions you don't have to ever touch a terminal anymore than you do on a Mac - which for me is a lot because I'm a nerd but you catch my drift. Systems "just work" and installing software is no more difficult than looking for what you need in an "app store" just like on a phone. Also, graphical user interfaces have advanced forward leaps and bounds. I am currently running GNOME 3.10 and it's remarkably intuitive. Then we have software such as LibreOffice that are finally advanced and feature complete enough to be taken seriously. Even Wine works well these days. The only problem is the extreme choice we have in the form of fragmentation - this is very confusing for the general population. When I talk about Linux being ready for the masses, I am only speaking of a few distros that I won't name for fear of starting a war except to say the Ubuntu GNOME Saucy with 3.10 (almost out of beta) and elementary OS lead the pack. elementary OS would be the ultimate consumer distro if it wasn't problem ridden largely due to being stuck on being based on Ubuntu 12.04 - My own preferences erase all of that by being a Slackware, and for that matter FreeBSD fan - but again, I'm a nerd.
Just wait until a genomics company literally owns your baby's genome configuration. Almost no one takes the time to read terms of service. Imagine being under the pressure of signing such an agreement after your water breaks.
The very last part of that being unlikely - the patent part may not be. Imagine choosing from a selection of perfect but generic templates, then adding and remove traits as you see fit. We could end up with a large population of near twin sets.
Setting absolutely all of that aside, if the technology this evolves into could build a better human (post-human?) species, I'm all for it regardless of how strange a future it might produce. Can you imagine a future version of the human race absent of our desire to break up into factions and murder each other in as large of numbers as possible? This could result in the survival of our species, or at least a future iteration of our species, which is something that I otherwise think will prove unlikely over the next century if we don't find a way to evolve past being bent on self-annihilation.
Time to dig up that old monochrome sparc station.
If this does what it says it does, the cost they cite is negligible. Although I wonder if fluoride ions take longer than six-seconds to work their magic. i'm still waiting for ultra-sonic tooth re-growing technology to be approved here in my United States.
Exactly. I remember when this place was completely free of nerdy gamers. Oh wait...
I understand where they think Wayland falls short, but rather than going off and trying to create there own display server, they could have instead contributed the functionality they wanted to the Wayland project. And if Wayland wouldn't want it, fork a version of Wayland that is compatible but has what they felt was missing.
While I agree XFCE is is pretty wonderful, I have been using Gnome 3.10 for awhile and it really is pretty incredible and very stable. I think it would make for a more appealing modern desktop experience. Past that, TWM would be an improvement over unity.
For people who spend a tremendous amount of time listening to music on the their phone, the power those little speakers draw starts to add up. If these use any less power without sacrificing quality, it could be a big deal. Of course the article does not actually mention anything like that so if it's not the case, then yeah your right - it's kinda pointless. They talk about increased durability, but I have eight year old earbuds that sound as good as new and most people lose a set more than once a year anyway. And yeah, there's the cord problem you cite. Past all of that, bone conduction is probably the future anyway.
The difference is...
Blackberry thought they knew and were wrong.
Jobs thought he knew and was right.
Now Apple is at the height of their mobile success, a place BB once was. Only now they don't have Jobs...
Say what your want of him, the mind of Steve Jobs was the difference between the two companies. Regardless of the success of their latest release, in five-years we maybe be posting about an entry titled "How Apple Blew It".