Not quite so. FTFA:
"This does not replace Android. This also gives you access to the full plethora of programs available in Debian and let's you continue using your phone as it was intended to be: as an Android device with all the capabilities thereof."
That's a very valid concern (and an astute observation) you raise. Still, I look forward to seeing how much of this dark web can be freely illuminated. I wish them the best of the luck in their "DeepDyve" project.
But at the moment, I confess my mind is slightly more focused on getting some "DeepFryde". Mmmm, grease.
He was defeated in the 1932 election, but a lot of people did vote for him. If "not much of anyone" had voted for him, we'd probably have never heard of him. It was his broad base of popular support that made him a threat and allowed him to finally seize power.
People who use actually have used Ubuntu have long been aware that it outperforms XP. Not sure why we have the non-story about it outperforming Vista though...
Yes, but the pattern is that Apple steals the idea and claims it for their own first, then Microsoft steals it from Apple.
So Apple maintains a slightly more effective illusion of innovation.
These products will not suffer from the same problems that Windows has suffered from. So until you have a better solution for maintaining the cellphone network by keeping malware and rogue application from controlling or deteriorating the network than please stop whining.
Yeah, because we all remember that time when Windows security issues brought down the entire internet! Oh wait, that didn't happen at all, did it? I'm all for pointing out the negative examples Redmond has kindly provided for our continuing education and entertainment, but yours is imaginary. Malware on phones won't kill the cell networks any more than malware on computers will kill the internet. And if some evil genius creates malware for Android which attaches itself via an app store download, I'd expect the first task it would want to undertake would be the killing of the kill switch.
2) I saw the black and white TV as color! Meaning, I had no idea that it was black and white until my parents told me many years later.
Interesting. We had only a B&W until I was 11, but I was always sure I could tell when things on the screen were actually red or brown. No other colors, just red and brown.
You know, if this study had also investigated those who worked for years with green monochrome monitors and found a significant percentage of them dreamed in green monochrome, it'd be a lot more credible.
Here's how CopyRouter would work, according to the company's slide show:
A law enforcement agency would make available a list of files known to contain child pornography. Such files are commonly discovered in law enforcement raids, in undercover operations and in Internet searches that start with certain keywords (such as "pre-teens hard core"). Police officers have looked at those files, making a judgment that the children are clearly under age and that the files are illegal in their jurisdiction, before adding them to the list. Each digital file has a unique digital signature, called a hash value, that can be recognized no matter what the file is named, and without having to open the file again. The company calls this list of hash values its Global File Registry.
Whenever an Internet user searched the Web, attached a file to an e-mail or examined a menu of files using file-sharing software on a peer-to-peer network, the software would compare the hash values of those files against the file registry. It wouldn't be "reading" the content of the files -- it couldn't tell a love note from a recipe -- but it would determine whether a file is digitally identical to one on the child-porn list.
If there were no match, the file would be provided to the user who requested it. But if there were a match, transmission of the file would be blocked. The users would instead receive another image or movie or document, containing only a warning screen.
The makers of CopyRouter claim that it can even be used to defeat encryption and compression of files in the Internet's Wild West: the peer-to-peer file-sharing tools such as Gnutella and BitTorrent.
This will cause huge latency issues and cost beaucoup bandwidth.
ISPs would be shooting themselves in the foot if they did this with all traffic.
OTOH, I could see laws requiring such tools for P2P traffic -- in fact that may well be inevitable, with the **AA's "ruling class" status these days.
The key to our CO2-to-Fuel approach lies in a proprietary
multi-step biocatalytic process.
Searching the company's website, there is no mention whatsoever of even a single
gallon of usable fuel being susccessfully produced using their method.
There is, of course, mention of "investment opportunities".
What about shielding, dust, noise, safety from beverages, pets, flying insects?
I predict the aesthetic charm will wear thin quickly for those who purchase this
-- if anyone does.
Who? Only a few thousand sysadmins, researchers, and other conscientious geeks. There's so much more going on in the real world than you'll hear about in the media...
The problem with applying math that way is that today, more than one in eight US citizens lives below the poverty line, jobs are vanishing at an alarming rate, and the number of parasitic, wealthy corporations and individuals has grown while the middle class has become a much smaller group. And that leaves a much smaller pool of available resources to tap in addressing today's vastly larger debt. Thus, the per capita comparison is ultimately meaningless. Neither the very poor nor the very rich are going to pay.
For those of us who use mutt with gmail:
Just install twenty or so different editors and then set up a script so mutt will chose a random editor each time you start it.
Leave ee, ed, nano, and pico plus your usual editor out of the script. That might work, if you really need this service. At least for a few days, at which point you've learned every editor. Then I guess you're back to square one.
While he lacks eloquence and tact, he tells the truth. In fact, I just spent two days helping a neighbor prepare her soon-to-be-published manuscript in OO.org, after her windows machine died. Initially I loaned her a laptop with Ubuntu on it, showed her how to start OO.org, and told her to call me if she had any trouble. This poor woman ( a typical non-tech user) was nearly in tears over not being able to find how to change text fonts and autoformat settings. And in OO.org, those settings are RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE. They're not labeled in Hindi or anything...
Now, this neighbor is actually quite an intelligent and insightful person, but as I've witnessed before, give her a computer and she transforms into a complete moron. Yet she uses one daily!
I suspect the great majority of users are like that; they learned once, long ago, how to do something on windows and now they are done learning. If they can't see the same icons and menus in the same places they simply give up, complaining bitterly that it's the computer's fault. They may be perfectly reasonable and intelligent people away from the computer, but while using one they are, for all intents and purposes, completely fucking stupid. It's frustrating.
So no, I'm not a bit surprised that lots of people return Linux netbooks. I see how they are.
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Not quite so. FTFA: "This does not replace Android. This also gives you access to the full plethora of programs available in Debian and let's you continue using your phone as it was intended to be: as an Android device with all the capabilities thereof."
That's a very valid concern (and an astute observation) you raise. Still, I look forward to seeing how much of this dark web can be freely illuminated. I wish them the best of the luck in their "DeepDyve" project. But at the moment, I confess my mind is slightly more focused on getting some "DeepFryde". Mmmm, grease.
I'd say more than that, NYCL is a bona-fide Freedom Fighter. Thanks, NYCL -- you're my kind of hero!
He was defeated in the 1932 election, but a lot of people did vote for him. If "not much of anyone" had voted for him, we'd probably have never heard of him. It was his broad base of popular support that made him a threat and allowed him to finally seize power.
Disingenuous crap like what you're spouting is pretty ugly. And BTW I'm sure not a lot of Jews voted for Hitler, either, genius.
That subject line applies to you, not to me. Plenty of poor white people go for bling... So who has jumped to (racist) conclusions?
:)
The iPhone is comming to be widely regarded as "bling". You always see more bling among low-income people.
The name "windows" was stolen from x-windows & "aero" from the GTK theme. MS does not care about that sort of thing one bit.
Wine
Is
Not an
Emulator!
It is *quite* possible, and it wouldn't be the first report of better performance in WINE than in Windows.
People who use actually have used Ubuntu have long been aware that it outperforms XP. Not sure why we have the non-story about it outperforming Vista though...
Yes, but the pattern is that Apple steals the idea and claims it for their own first, then Microsoft steals it from Apple. So Apple maintains a slightly more effective illusion of innovation.
Wow, it's just a regular cavalcade of innovation over there in Redmond. First Bob, then Clippy, UAC, aero, and now this -- Woooot!
Yeah, because we all remember that time when Windows security issues brought down the entire internet! Oh wait, that didn't happen at all, did it? I'm all for pointing out the negative examples Redmond has kindly provided for our continuing education and entertainment, but yours is imaginary. Malware on phones won't kill the cell networks any more than malware on computers will kill the internet. And if some evil genius creates malware for Android which attaches itself via an app store download, I'd expect the first task it would want to undertake would be the killing of the kill switch.
More to the point: who says they were ever the real thing in the first place? The government? Puh-leeeeze.
Interesting. We had only a B&W until I was 11, but I was always sure I could tell when things on the screen were actually red or brown. No other colors, just red and brown.
You know, if this study had also investigated those who worked for years with green monochrome monitors and found a significant percentage of them dreamed in green monochrome, it'd be a lot more credible.
This will cause huge latency issues and cost beaucoup bandwidth. ISPs would be shooting themselves in the foot if they did this with all traffic. OTOH, I could see laws requiring such tools for P2P traffic -- in fact that may well be inevitable, with the **AA's "ruling class" status these days.
What, you mean qnx or inferno?
No, it's "I is the enemy".
Searching the company's website, there is no mention whatsoever of even a single gallon of usable fuel being susccessfully produced using their method. There is, of course, mention of "investment opportunities".
What about shielding, dust, noise, safety from beverages, pets, flying insects? I predict the aesthetic charm will wear thin quickly for those who purchase this -- if anyone does.
Who? Only a few thousand sysadmins, researchers, and other conscientious geeks. There's so much more going on in the real world than you'll hear about in the media...
The problem with applying math that way is that today, more than one in eight US citizens lives below the poverty line, jobs are vanishing at an alarming rate, and the number of parasitic, wealthy corporations and individuals has grown while the middle class has become a much smaller group. And that leaves a much smaller pool of available resources to tap in addressing today's vastly larger debt. Thus, the per capita comparison is ultimately meaningless. Neither the very poor nor the very rich are going to pay.
For those of us who use mutt with gmail: Just install twenty or so different editors and then set up a script so mutt will chose a random editor each time you start it. Leave ee, ed, nano, and pico plus your usual editor out of the script. That might work, if you really need this service. At least for a few days, at which point you've learned every editor. Then I guess you're back to square one.
While he lacks eloquence and tact, he tells the truth. In fact, I just spent two days helping a neighbor prepare her soon-to-be-published manuscript in OO.org, after her windows machine died. Initially I loaned her a laptop with Ubuntu on it, showed her how to start OO.org, and told her to call me if she had any trouble. This poor woman ( a typical non-tech user) was nearly in tears over not being able to find how to change text fonts and autoformat settings. And in OO.org, those settings are RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE. They're not labeled in Hindi or anything...
Now, this neighbor is actually quite an intelligent and insightful person, but as I've witnessed before, give her a computer and she transforms into a complete moron. Yet she uses one daily! I suspect the great majority of users are like that; they learned once, long ago, how to do something on windows and now they are done learning. If they can't see the same icons and menus in the same places they simply give up, complaining bitterly that it's the computer's fault. They may be perfectly reasonable and intelligent people away from the computer, but while using one they are, for all intents and purposes, completely fucking stupid. It's frustrating.
So no, I'm not a bit surprised that lots of people return Linux netbooks. I see how they are.