It's advantageous for Apple to keep consumers thinking that all non-Apple machines can be bunched up into the same category (ie, "PC's"). If you are not 100% happy with your machine - and it's not a Mac - you should probably get a Mac. It's simple and avoids a lot of potential confusion ("Do I have a Microsoft or Dell?"). It also helps ensure a potential customer does not realize there are other non-Microsoft options out there.
You need X forwarding to compile \latex documents?
No, but I need X forwarding to view LaTeX documents compiled on another machine without scp'ing each time. Not much use in compiling them if I can't see them. You can't pull out an easy-to-read math formula from a compiled LaTeX document.
I can't really see how that would be the case for anything you would have the time to type up during a class session.:\
After a quarter's worth of notes, the LaTeX document can get quite heafty.
I compile more than just the day's worth of notes - I compile all the notes since the class began. It's not unusual at all for me to have to go back to previous things we were taught earlier in the quarter. My first-generation eeepc can easily take over 10 minutes to compile such documents, while my C2D desktop computer can do it in a much more manageable amount of time. I could scp the compiled document back over, but it's an unnecessary pain. It's just soooo much easier to do everything over ssh - I practically forget I'm not working only on my eeepc at the moment. Additionally, there's plenty of non-LaTeX related reasons to use my desktop computer at home. I have to be stingy with what I put on my ~4GB of space on my eeepc, where as I don't have to care at all on my ~1TB of space on my desktop. It's nice to be able to X forward any and all of that along.
For me to view documents on my blackberry that are sitting on my computer through ssh, I have to rip the text out on the cli - I can't just view a straight.doc or.odf or.pdf file, and I end up with quite a few of those. Again, it's possible to get most of the information across without a gui but it's a pain that I'd like to avoid.
Actually, I was far more excited to hear that X was ported than any given desktop because this is exactly where X shines.
I $ssh -x quite often from my eeepc in class. It's nice to be able to use my desktop computer's far superior processing power for things like compiling LaTeX documents (it's the format I take all my notes - lots of math stuff). Additionally it's nice to be able to take advantage of my computer's superior disk space for all sorts of things. The problem is, this is highly dependent on getting a wifi signal.
I ssh from my blackberry quite a bit as well. It'd be great if I could ssh some X stuff over it, for all the same reasons it works wonderfully on my eeepc - but when I don't have the eeepc or are lacking wifi. I can manage without it (my command-line-fu is not weak), but it'd be great if I did not have to do things like rip out the text from a PDF before reading it remotely, etc.
Hopefully I can keep from breaking my blackberry until a viable option for $ssh -x'ing from a new phone will be available.
One very large difference which at least in part justifies the outrage is that this is being done directly after firing these people. I doubt it was done purposefully, but it's a dick move to kick someone when they're down like that. It'd still be on/. if it was a substantial number of government jobs fired/asked-for-money-back or Google jobs or what not, just less crappy Vista jokes.
Right now it's Windows-only. A Mac version is planned/on-the-way.
No love for Linux - hopefully it's just not yet. No luck with WINE yet, either.
When it's eventually 'released' it's supposed to be free isn't it? Paid for by ads?
Yes, it will be free; ad-based. The ads themselves aren't up yet but the locations were they will be are visible. They are well placed throughout and for the most part they don't really get in the way. In the rare cases that they are in the way, they are transparent - I've shot people through them.
The biggest question though is, is it going to cut in to my Desktop Tower Defence time?!!!
It's cut into my go (the board game) and Smash Bros time, and it's still in beta with a relatively low number of people playing. Expect a decrease in productivity when it is officially out:D
While MFoG is certainly respectable, there are go AIs that work native under Linux you may want to look into, such as the open-source gnugo and the incredibly strong mogo.
The technique used to make MFoG 12 so strong (Monte Carlo Tree Search) was first popularized for go AI by Mogo, and last I checked Mogo was still stronger than MFoG. Check it out.
I'm tired of so many people spouting this nonsense. Did you chose to use Windows? When you see a Windows Vista box on the shelve did you consciously chose to gape at the come-hither curve on one corner of the box? Didn't think so.
Seriously, let us Linux users marry. It doesn't lessen the value of your marriage at all.
While it is a smaller audience, it's a much more valuable one.
When Joe Sixpack needs computer advice, he comes to us. Getting on our good side with things like this can garner far more benefit than just our direct increase in audience.
Firefox already has support for launching a user-friendly way of adding plugins/addons/whathaveyou when it reaches a site that requires such things. MS could have easily approached Mozilla about adding this functionality for "clickonce."
Jeeze, how times have changed. I never thought I would see the day that someone, fearing non-user-friendly things like messing with a registery, would be better off with a major Linux distro than Windows.
To answer your question, go to the main menu bar on Firefox (File, Edit, etc) and look through it for "addons" I think it's under "options" or "tools"... I can't check myself but it's not hard to find.
See if you find anything mentioning Microsoft or "ClickOnce."
Hell one of the plugins listed in my copy of firefox is Windows Genuine Advantage.
Whenever I've seen that one, you had to go out of your way to install it. That one gives you the option to use Firefox instead of IE for cases where WGA is required - the OPTION. With notice. You have to download and run an executable.
That is nothing like updating.NET3.5SP1 and finding it was toying with other, non-MS applications without any heads up.
My parents pointed out that, as I approached college age, they started seeing and hearing things about college everywhere.
People are wired to notice things more relevant to their situation. For what it's worth I haven't noticed any change in the number of English-related articles. Monty Python and the English Police State both get plenty of time 'round here.
The EU has woken up to late. When MS was bundling IE in and abused it's monopoly to destroy Netscape, that was the time for something to be done. Today the idea of a browser-less OS isn't acceptable to people who want their computer to "just work." Firefox and other free browsers aren't going to sink because MS is bundling IE free of charge. It's a different market now which needs other things - such as open standards and standards compliance.
The problem with bundling IE isn't an issue with computer-savvy folk like us, but rather with Joe Sixpack who isn't going to go out of his way to get a new browser when he's already got one bundled with his computer.
For the time being it remains more profitable for Windows to purposefully limit their platform (by ensuring it isn't as flexible as you describe, limiting it's compatibility with other platforms, etc) and have to deal with the EU then to just make a damn good product for the end user.
I felt lazy and wanted some free credit, so I took an intro to Linux class. I thought it would be a breeze considering I've been using Linux for so long. I had no idea how many things [according to the school] I apparently do wrong. Rather than an obnoxiously long list, here's my absolute favorite:
"I want you to get into the habit of logging in as root"
Despite such obvious bugs, many people loved the Fallout 3 and would gladly pay for more.
This is like Linux or DRM-free games or non-Internet Explorer browsers, etc - enough people don't care that many companies can go on just fine ignoring those markets.
As much as I've tried, I can't get used to mc's rather emacs-like excessive use of modifier keys. Does anyone know of a similar program - or even better a modification of mc - which is more vi-like and uses 'modes' instead of Ctrl et al?
Nevermind that, you could open up the phone and cut the wire to the speaker!
Never mind that, there are much easier ways if you know to look for them. Many phones - such as my Blackberry curve - already make noise when taking a photograph. There is, officially, no way to disable this. One way - on my phone at least - to get around it is to take a picture while in a call (such as checking my voicemail). It's not anywhat difficult to hold "1" for a second before selecting the camera.
I'm a regular at a local go (ie, the board game) club. I was one of many crowded around a game. It was our best guy against someone new from out of town. I saw something interesting, but both players were very focused and clearly did not want any kibitzing, so rather than disturbing them I decided to take a picture of the current state of the game to ask about later. Knowing my phone makes noise when I take a picture I muted it first - didn't matter, it still clicked. The noise clearly broke the concentration of our best guy who was pretty peeved at me the rest of the day.
There are completely legitimate, sex-free reasons to want to take quiet pictures.
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Then the authors who complained to the Guild would stick to their guns and withdraw some works from Kindle entirely. Would you want such an outcome?
Yes, I would.
It's advantageous for Apple to keep consumers thinking that all non-Apple machines can be bunched up into the same category (ie, "PC's"). If you are not 100% happy with your machine - and it's not a Mac - you should probably get a Mac. It's simple and avoids a lot of potential confusion ("Do I have a Microsoft or Dell?"). It also helps ensure a potential customer does not realize there are other non-Microsoft options out there.
You need X forwarding to compile \latex documents?
No, but I need X forwarding to view LaTeX documents compiled on another machine without scp'ing each time. Not much use in compiling them if I can't see them. You can't pull out an easy-to-read math formula from a compiled LaTeX document.
I can't really see how that would be the case for anything you would have the time to type up during a class session. :\
After a quarter's worth of notes, the LaTeX document can get quite heafty.
.doc or .odf or .pdf file, and I end up with quite a few of those. Again, it's possible to get most of the information across without a gui but it's a pain that I'd like to avoid.
I compile more than just the day's worth of notes - I compile all the notes since the class began. It's not unusual at all for me to have to go back to previous things we were taught earlier in the quarter. My first-generation eeepc can easily take over 10 minutes to compile such documents, while my C2D desktop computer can do it in a much more manageable amount of time. I could scp the compiled document back over, but it's an unnecessary pain. It's just soooo much easier to do everything over ssh - I practically forget I'm not working only on my eeepc at the moment. Additionally, there's plenty of non-LaTeX related reasons to use my desktop computer at home. I have to be stingy with what I put on my ~4GB of space on my eeepc, where as I don't have to care at all on my ~1TB of space on my desktop. It's nice to be able to X forward any and all of that along.
For me to view documents on my blackberry that are sitting on my computer through ssh, I have to rip the text out on the cli - I can't just view a straight
Actually, I was far more excited to hear that X was ported than any given desktop because this is exactly where X shines.
I $ssh -x quite often from my eeepc in class. It's nice to be able to use my desktop computer's far superior processing power for things like compiling LaTeX documents (it's the format I take all my notes - lots of math stuff). Additionally it's nice to be able to take advantage of my computer's superior disk space for all sorts of things. The problem is, this is highly dependent on getting a wifi signal.
I ssh from my blackberry quite a bit as well. It'd be great if I could ssh some X stuff over it, for all the same reasons it works wonderfully on my eeepc - but when I don't have the eeepc or are lacking wifi. I can manage without it (my command-line-fu is not weak), but it'd be great if I did not have to do things like rip out the text from a PDF before reading it remotely, etc.
Hopefully I can keep from breaking my blackberry until a viable option for $ssh -x'ing from a new phone will be available.
One very large difference which at least in part justifies the outrage is that this is being done directly after firing these people. I doubt it was done purposefully, but it's a dick move to kick someone when they're down like that. It'd still be on /. if it was a substantial number of government jobs fired/asked-for-money-back or Google jobs or what not, just less crappy Vista jokes.
I wonder if it's cross platform?
Right now it's Windows-only. A Mac version is planned/on-the-way.
No love for Linux - hopefully it's just not yet. No luck with WINE yet, either.
When it's eventually 'released' it's supposed to be free isn't it? Paid for by ads?
Yes, it will be free; ad-based. The ads themselves aren't up yet but the locations were they will be are visible. They are well placed throughout and for the most part they don't really get in the way. In the rare cases that they are in the way, they are transparent - I've shot people through them.
The biggest question though is, is it going to cut in to my Desktop Tower Defence time?!!!
It's cut into my go (the board game) and Smash Bros time, and it's still in beta with a relatively low number of people playing. Expect a decrease in productivity when it is officially out :D
While MFoG is certainly respectable, there are go AIs that work native under Linux you may want to look into, such as the open-source gnugo and the incredibly strong mogo.
The technique used to make MFoG 12 so strong (Monte Carlo Tree Search) was first popularized for go AI by Mogo, and last I checked Mogo was still stronger than MFoG. Check it out.
Linux is a choice
I'm tired of so many people spouting this nonsense. Did you chose to use Windows? When you see a Windows Vista box on the shelve did you consciously chose to gape at the come-hither curve on one corner of the box? Didn't think so.
Seriously, let us Linux users marry. It doesn't lessen the value of your marriage at all.
Wait, what?
While it is a smaller audience, it's a much more valuable one.
When Joe Sixpack needs computer advice, he comes to us. Getting on our good side with things like this can garner far more benefit than just our direct increase in audience.
If you're married with children and still getting some, a temporary decrease in fertility is a feature not a bug.
Trust me on this.
An even more elegant solution:
Firefox already has support for launching a user-friendly way of adding plugins/addons/whathaveyou when it reaches a site that requires such things. MS could have easily approached Mozilla about adding this functionality for "clickonce."
Jeeze, how times have changed. I never thought I would see the day that someone, fearing non-user-friendly things like messing with a registery, would be better off with a major Linux distro than Windows.
To answer your question, go to the main menu bar on Firefox (File, Edit, etc) and look through it for "addons" I think it's under "options" or "tools"... I can't check myself but it's not hard to find. See if you find anything mentioning Microsoft or "ClickOnce."
Hell one of the plugins listed in my copy of firefox is Windows Genuine Advantage.
Whenever I've seen that one, you had to go out of your way to install it. That one gives you the option to use Firefox instead of IE for cases where WGA is required - the OPTION. With notice. You have to download and run an executable.
.NET3.5SP1 and finding it was toying with other, non-MS applications without any heads up.
That is nothing like updating
It comes with an update to .NET 3.5SP1.
My parents pointed out that, as I approached college age, they started seeing and hearing things about college everywhere.
People are wired to notice things more relevant to their situation. For what it's worth I haven't noticed any change in the number of English-related articles. Monty Python and the English Police State both get plenty of time 'round here.
The EU has woken up to late. When MS was bundling IE in and abused it's monopoly to destroy Netscape, that was the time for something to be done. Today the idea of a browser-less OS isn't acceptable to people who want their computer to "just work." Firefox and other free browsers aren't going to sink because MS is bundling IE free of charge. It's a different market now which needs other things - such as open standards and standards compliance.
The problem with bundling IE isn't an issue with computer-savvy folk like us, but rather with Joe Sixpack who isn't going to go out of his way to get a new browser when he's already got one bundled with his computer.
You'll be hard pressed to successfully make the argument that OS's on workstations and OS's on netbooks are sufficiently different markets.
For the time being it remains more profitable for Windows to purposefully limit their platform (by ensuring it isn't as flexible as you describe, limiting it's compatibility with other platforms, etc) and have to deal with the EU then to just make a damn good product for the end user.
I felt lazy and wanted some free credit, so I took an intro to Linux class. I thought it would be a breeze considering I've been using Linux for so long. I had no idea how many things [according to the school] I apparently do wrong. Rather than an obnoxiously long list, here's my absolute favorite:
"I want you to get into the habit of logging in as root"
):
Despite such obvious bugs, many people loved the Fallout 3 and would gladly pay for more.
This is like Linux or DRM-free games or non-Internet Explorer browsers, etc - enough people don't care that many companies can go on just fine ignoring those markets.
As much as I've tried, I can't get used to mc's rather emacs-like excessive use of modifier keys. Does anyone know of a similar program - or even better a modification of mc - which is more vi-like and uses 'modes' instead of Ctrl et al?
Nevermind that, you could open up the phone and cut the wire to the speaker!
Never mind that, there are much easier ways if you know to look for them. Many phones - such as my Blackberry curve - already make noise when taking a photograph. There is, officially, no way to disable this. One way - on my phone at least - to get around it is to take a picture while in a call (such as checking my voicemail). It's not anywhat difficult to hold "1" for a second before selecting the camera.
I'm a regular at a local go (ie, the board game) club. I was one of many crowded around a game. It was our best guy against someone new from out of town. I saw something interesting, but both players were very focused and clearly did not want any kibitzing, so rather than disturbing them I decided to take a picture of the current state of the game to ask about later. Knowing my phone makes noise when I take a picture I muted it first - didn't matter, it still clicked. The noise clearly broke the concentration of our best guy who was pretty peeved at me the rest of the day.
There are completely legitimate, sex-free reasons to want to take quiet pictures.
If you want a not-so-mainstream computer that'll be guaranteed to work with Ubuntu, take a look at system 76
I can't personally vouch for them, but the few things I've heard have all been good.
And for the rest of you out of the US, there's youtube.com