Competition would be awesome but while discussions of bandwidth and bottlenecks are too techical for the average citizen to be bothered with unsightly wires and people digging trenches through their front lawns are the end of the world. Wireless is nice but bandwidth is too limited for a significant percentage of the population to use it. Wireless is like everybody sharing one wire. One really really fast wire but still one wire and after it is split so many ways... Besides, this generation is offended by antennas. The site of them makes them cry.
Add to that a bit of money from the big few telecoms for our corrupt politicians... And you get about as much competition in the US as ice hockey in hell.
No, you pay for a high speed connection to the INTERnet and they are providing a high speed connection to their own INTRAnet with a congested gateway to the internet. Then they make money on both ends by charging content providers to get onto the intranet providing their customers with the connection they already paid for in the first place. They get away with it because the consumers are ignorant, the politicians are crooked. The end result is the consumer will be charged more plus the carrier gets greater control of what is on their networks. This decreases competition further eroding what the consumer gets in the end. Eventually maybe it won't even be possible to discuss and make others aware of what is going on. How long until Slashdot for example is inaccessible through Comcast?
No, in most areas there are these things called Franchise Agreements. Telecommunications in the US is mostly a command economy.
Besides, since when was it a businesses right to advertise one thing, take money for it and not provide it? If a restaurant fails to provide what you order do you go start a new restaurant? What a bunch of NeoCon bs!
Nah, he isn't the most powerful person in the US yet. Think about this...
Obama wants the power to turn off the internet. He will probably get it eventually but doesn't have it yet.
Neil Smit's company (Comcast) however routinely disconnects or restricts bandwidth to/from various parts of the internet.
Now with the changeover Obama will probably have a hard time getting Congress to do his bidding. Disney, Comcast and even foreign companies like Sony get that all the time!
There's a generational gap there. I have no problem believing your parents genuinely have/had it tough. Just about everyone I know my own age (late 20s to early 30s) has a tough time making the bills but also has a nice big flat screen tv, lot's of DVDs and multiple gaming systems. Cry me a river...
It's politicians with business experience that I trust the least. At the very least they are guaranteed to come with a social network already in place filled with lobbyists for whatever industry they come from. Sure, they can get more done but it won't be in MY interest. Most probably still have a financial interest in their industries.
Do I want the oil industry deciding environment regulation? How about a Comcast Exec deciding on net neutrality? Maybe a Philip Morrison VP could head the FDA?
Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Obama. I think he is a big disappointment. I'm not trying to defend him or any other politician specifically. My point is only that I think that experience in politics is a bad omen. Pushing 'experience' for politicians puts the people with the most to gain from harming the public interest in the best position to do so.
It's not an attitude, it's a definition. The OS is the kernel. It's the code that sits deep in the background where normal users would never look and runs things. The fact that Microsoft and Apple roll their OSs and GUIs together is completely irrelevant.
No consumer oriented distro I know of switches desktop environments frequently. They are all pretty much KDE or Gnome. Some don't have a default and leave it to the user to choose/install but those were never meant to be typical-user distros in the first place so who cares?
This choice Ubuntu is going to be giving users really comes down to the whole 'is the desktop still relevant' debate. If not then users can choose to make their desktop feel like a cellphone. That's all it is.
'robust vertical integration'? Wow, somebody has been reading his marketweenyspeak dictionary lately hasn't he. As another commenter pointed out. neither Desktop Environment and GUI Server choice are relevant to software development. Programs aren't usually written to them, they are written to Qt or GTK.
Are the many desktop environments Linux's problem in getting wider desktop adoption? I doubt it. Most distros default to KDE or Gnome. Both look far more like Windows than MacOS does. And yet, I've known computer users who could sit down at a Windows or a Mac machine and operate it just fine but didn't actually know enough about computers to tell you which one it was! People recognise the browser, word processor, etc... which they want to use and it's all the same in any environment.
Linux's problem on the desktop has been that the focus is elsewhere. Hardware vendors and kernel authors cannot agree on what is/is not acceptable to be a company secret so hardware vendors have skimped on drivers. Also, kernel development has been focused on embedded machines and large clusters making desktop performance suffer. Both issues have alienated desktop users. Meanwhile just about every computer comes with something else installed and already working on it.
If Wayland doesn't get the ability to display applications remotely then it's another sad step backwards for Linux. I'm not talking about a port of vnc server where the whole desktop is displayed on the remote machine, confined in it's own little window. I'm talking about the ability to display an individual application on a remote server as X does where it can then be moved around, resized, copy pasted and otherwise interacted with just the same as any locally running program.
By now, we should be seeing Unix/Linux getting the ability to remotely play sound as easily as X handles remote display, not an erosion of existing capability. It's seems like all the good development in Linux goes towards the very small embedded platforms or the very large clusters these days. What desktop development there is seems to be solely targeted at the 'I want a cheap, free, cut down version of windows with less decisions to make' crowd.
If it continues this way then what is a geek to use? Start a new distro based on a deprecated desktop? Or something more drastic. Start a new OS? I wonder if those Syllable guys would appreciate a remote display patch? I wonder how hard it would be? Sure these things are kind of fringe but wasn't GNU/Linux built by/for the geek fringe in the first place?
Why do people push the "experience" card in politics? As far as I can tell more experience for a politician means more corruption and more backsliding from whatever ideals they originally ran for. Don't get me wrong, I do understand how experience can be a good thing. Anything which is difficult can be done better with experience and I'm sure running a country isn't easy. I would take a doctor with experience over one without any day. Power is so corrupting though, I'd rather live with an inexperienced politician's blunders than one whose been indoctrinated by his lobbyists for decades.
Then again... corruption happens so fast! Perhaps it just doesn't matter.
Better approach, pay the money then charge it right back to the customers. Be apologetic and yet very specific who they can call to complain if they don't like the bill. I'd include their local representatives as well as Comcast on that list.
Umm... $10,000 fine if you chose to submit to neither, not to fly and just turn around and go home. I don't know how much you make but for most of us that is pretty @#%#@ close to forcing.
Am I the only one this page is all messed up for? Things are out of position and there is a big black area where the text matches the background and I have to highlight it to read it. I'm using Firefox.
Hey bigger retard. Less people can still be more packed when there are even fewer planes. He addressed that... they are mothballing planes and using junkier ones.
The Earth they were searching for was Cylon Earth, not our Earth. Starbuck's triple star system is Polaris? Okay... maybe if Cylon Earth and our Earth are relatively close to one another. But the gas giant is Saturn? Are both Earths in the same solar system? I guess... maybe if Cylon Earth is Venus or Mars. It seems strange that the 13th colony inhabiting a once inhabitable Venus or Mars wouldn't have colonized our Earth too. Does this actually mean that the writers meant for Cylon Earth to be our Earth but changed it at the last minute? I wonder what the original ending was then...
Umm... Go have a nice hot beverage. I'm sure you could use it after being frozen the last few years. There have been how many stories about just that taking place here in the US? I can only guess by this article that something similar is happening in Australia. Of course, here in the US wireless mic people have been broadcasting illegally for decades.
Slashdot Mirror
Competition would be awesome but while discussions of bandwidth and bottlenecks are too techical for the average citizen to be bothered with unsightly wires and people digging trenches through their front lawns are the end of the world. Wireless is nice but bandwidth is too limited for a significant percentage of the population to use it. Wireless is like everybody sharing one wire. One really really fast wire but still one wire and after it is split so many ways... Besides, this generation is offended by antennas. The site of them makes them cry.
Add to that a bit of money from the big few telecoms for our corrupt politicians... And you get about as much competition in the US as ice hockey in hell.
Support Net Neutrality!
This is an option for what % of the population? And if everyone does it then what keeps Verizon in check?
No, you pay for a high speed connection to the INTERnet and they are providing a high speed connection to their own INTRAnet with a congested gateway to the internet. Then they make money on both ends by charging content providers to get onto the intranet providing their customers with the connection they already paid for in the first place. They get away with it because the consumers are ignorant, the politicians are crooked. The end result is the consumer will be charged more plus the carrier gets greater control of what is on their networks. This decreases competition further eroding what the consumer gets in the end. Eventually maybe it won't even be possible to discuss and make others aware of what is going on. How long until Slashdot for example is inaccessible through Comcast?
No, in most areas there are these things called Franchise Agreements. Telecommunications in the US is mostly a command economy.
Besides, since when was it a businesses right to advertise one thing, take money for it and not provide it? If a restaurant fails to provide what you order do you go start a new restaurant? What a bunch of NeoCon bs!
"I wish it could be banished (along with the Insert/Delete pair) to a hard-to-fumble-upon switch on the bottom of the keyboard or laptop."
Why, so people will turn it on once and never bother to turn it off?
Nah, he isn't the most powerful person in the US yet. Think about this...
Obama wants the power to turn off the internet. He will probably get it eventually but doesn't have it yet.
Neil Smit's company (Comcast) however routinely disconnects or restricts bandwidth to/from various parts of the internet.
Now with the changeover Obama will probably have a hard time getting Congress to do his bidding. Disney, Comcast and even foreign companies like Sony get that all the time!
Stolen wifi from someone in another state via moonbounce. You pay nothing!
There's a generational gap there. I have no problem believing your parents genuinely have/had it tough. Just about everyone I know my own age (late 20s to early 30s) has a tough time making the bills but also has a nice big flat screen tv, lot's of DVDs and multiple gaming systems. Cry me a river...
It's politicians with business experience that I trust the least. At the very least they are guaranteed to come with a social network already in place filled with lobbyists for whatever industry they come from. Sure, they can get more done but it won't be in MY interest. Most probably still have a financial interest in their industries.
Do I want the oil industry deciding environment regulation? How about a Comcast Exec deciding on net neutrality? Maybe a Philip Morrison VP could head the FDA?
Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Obama. I think he is a big disappointment. I'm not trying to defend him or any other politician specifically. My point is only that I think that experience in politics is a bad omen. Pushing 'experience' for politicians puts the people with the most to gain from harming the public interest in the best position to do so.
It's not an attitude, it's a definition. The OS is the kernel. It's the code that sits deep in the background where normal users would never look and runs things. The fact that Microsoft and Apple roll their OSs and GUIs together is completely irrelevant.
No consumer oriented distro I know of switches desktop environments frequently. They are all pretty much KDE or Gnome. Some don't have a default and leave it to the user to choose/install but those were never meant to be typical-user distros in the first place so who cares?
This choice Ubuntu is going to be giving users really comes down to the whole 'is the desktop still relevant' debate. If not then users can choose to make their desktop feel like a cellphone. That's all it is.
'robust vertical integration'? Wow, somebody has been reading his marketweenyspeak dictionary lately hasn't he. As another commenter pointed out. neither Desktop Environment and GUI Server choice are relevant to software development. Programs aren't usually written to them, they are written to Qt or GTK.
Are the many desktop environments Linux's problem in getting wider desktop adoption? I doubt it. Most distros default to KDE or Gnome. Both look far more like Windows than MacOS does. And yet, I've known computer users who could sit down at a Windows or a Mac machine and operate it just fine but didn't actually know enough about computers to tell you which one it was! People recognise the browser, word processor, etc... which they want to use and it's all the same in any environment.
Linux's problem on the desktop has been that the focus is elsewhere. Hardware vendors and kernel authors cannot agree on what is/is not acceptable to be a company secret so hardware vendors have skimped on drivers. Also, kernel development has been focused on embedded machines and large clusters making desktop performance suffer. Both issues have alienated desktop users. Meanwhile just about every computer comes with something else installed and already working on it.
I'll second that!
If Wayland doesn't get the ability to display applications remotely then it's another sad step backwards for Linux. I'm not talking about a port of vnc server where the whole desktop is displayed on the remote machine, confined in it's own little window. I'm talking about the ability to display an individual application on a remote server as X does where it can then be moved around, resized, copy pasted and otherwise interacted with just the same as any locally running program.
By now, we should be seeing Unix/Linux getting the ability to remotely play sound as easily as X handles remote display, not an erosion of existing capability. It's seems like all the good development in Linux goes towards the very small embedded platforms or the very large clusters these days. What desktop development there is seems to be solely targeted at the 'I want a cheap, free, cut down version of windows with less decisions to make' crowd.
If it continues this way then what is a geek to use? Start a new distro based on a deprecated desktop? Or something more drastic. Start a new OS? I wonder if those Syllable guys would appreciate a remote display patch? I wonder how hard it would be? Sure these things are kind of fringe but wasn't GNU/Linux built by/for the geek fringe in the first place?
I'd love to vote for neither, but neither wasn't looking very good either! There weren't any good choices on the ballot!
Yes... but most adults in this country are NOT smarter than a 4th grader.
Careful... you might offend the greys. Been probed lately?
Why do people push the "experience" card in politics? As far as I can tell more experience for a politician means more corruption and more backsliding from whatever ideals they originally ran for. Don't get me wrong, I do understand how experience can be a good thing. Anything which is difficult can be done better with experience and I'm sure running a country isn't easy. I would take a doctor with experience over one without any day. Power is so corrupting though, I'd rather live with an inexperienced politician's blunders than one whose been indoctrinated by his lobbyists for decades.
Then again... corruption happens so fast! Perhaps it just doesn't matter.
Better approach, pay the money then charge it right back to the customers. Be apologetic and yet very specific who they can call to complain if they don't like the bill. I'd include their local representatives as well as Comcast on that list.
Senator Palpatine will protect us!
Umm... $10,000 fine if you chose to submit to neither, not to fly and just turn around and go home. I don't know how much you make but for most of us that is pretty @#%#@ close to forcing.
Am I the only one this page is all messed up for? Things are out of position and there is a big black area where the text matches the background and I have to highlight it to read it. I'm using Firefox.
Hey bigger retard. Less people can still be more packed when there are even fewer planes. He addressed that... they are mothballing planes and using junkier ones.
The Earth they were searching for was Cylon Earth, not our Earth. Starbuck's triple star system is Polaris? Okay... maybe if Cylon Earth and our Earth are relatively close to one another. But the gas giant is Saturn? Are both Earths in the same solar system? I guess... maybe if Cylon Earth is Venus or Mars. It seems strange that the 13th colony inhabiting a once inhabitable Venus or Mars wouldn't have colonized our Earth too. Does this actually mean that the writers meant for Cylon Earth to be our Earth but changed it at the last minute? I wonder what the original ending was then...
A typical TV 75-300 ohm balun won't take much. It wouldn't be that hard to swap it out for something a bit heavier duty though.
'take FCC Rulings'
Umm... Go have a nice hot beverage. I'm sure you could use it after being frozen the last few years. There have been how many stories about just that taking place here in the US? I can only guess by this article that something similar is happening in Australia. Of course, here in the US wireless mic people have been broadcasting illegally for decades.
Celibate huh... Well we know what filth covers things built with your hands then...