I did this too and ended up with a Google page full of search results. I then tried another example: "amazon kumquat", and was again taken to a Google page with search results. So basically, what you did was enter a search term into the location bar which then ran your default search engine as opposed to running against the site you're actually trying to access.
However, the purpose of Ubiquity isn't strictly to run search queries. If you look at the mock-up image in the article you'll see an example using Twitter. Instead of going to Twitter or using an app to update your status you simply enter your configured command and the update is sent directly from the location bar.
I'm guessing you only glanced over the part where it mentioned doing things in one step which would otherwise take several. For instance:
1 fire up browser
2 nav to Twitter
3 Enter update
Or
1 fire up Twitter client next to browser
2 enter update
If you already have the browser running you neither have to fire up a client nor do you have to navigate to Twitter itself. Simply open another tab, run the command and bang-o: your status is updated. I guess technically what you'd be doing is combining a simple, update-only client with your browser.
On top of it all, similar to the way so-called Awesome bar provides a list of URLs which match a substring entered into the location bar, the Ubiquity code can get immediate results of a search query if that is indeed what you are doing. Come on, do some reading and figure this shit out for yourself.
"This Slashdot story was posted by a Slashdot editor who calls himself "Souls kill"."The story was suggested to Slashdot by someone who calls himself "Head Dunce". A dunce is "a person regarded as stupid". (Please note, I'm not suggesting that the Slashdot editor "kills souls", he is suggesting that. I'm not calling the person who wrote the story a dunce, he is calling himself that.)
Well I'm not suggesting anything because I have the balls to just come out and say it: You aren't too bright if you cannot figure out that Soulskill can be phonetically mapped to sole skill . If you cannot figure out that Head Dunce is a tongue in cheek reference to the idea that Slashdot is a kingdom of Dunces in which he is king, then that makes it all the more hilarious to read your absurd rant. That big lump in your mouth is your foot.
Indeed. And apparently some other idiots agreed with him. Someone needs to mod Parent down.
I don't know if it is is necessarily adding all the features that has caused the bloat. Although, you are probably right that it is the horsepower that modern systems bring to the table that is the root of the problem. With each iteration of Moore's Law developers (née, business managers) are less concerned about clean, efficient code. After all, they don't have only having 64k to work within anymore. A single program can be larger and less elegant and have less impact on system performance than in days gone by. However, multiply that by all the apps running on your system and it quickly gets out of hand.
Agreed. OLPC wasn't meant to be a market-changing piece of hardware. It was designed to provide inexpensive options to countries with limited resources so that students could get a relatively modern education. Initially, that it ran Linux is why it was able to be made so small. They were able to keep it small when XP was introduced on it by using a scaled down version. The eeePC is what became the market changer because it was more consumer focused.
I suppose calling them abhorrent was probably premature on my part. I do use them and have found them to come in handy. However, I've also been the type to be asked by numerous people in my life "How do you spell $WORD" because I've just always been a good speller. Although, I'm also the type to read, re-read and re-re-read anything I write just to ensure that my grammar makes sense and the spelling is as close to perfect as I can make it.
While I don't disagree with your assessment of what it was like back then, I would argue that we call them the Dark Ages more because of the stifling nature of the Church which prevented any significant and beneficial progress.
I would rather let a few bad guys get away, and make the ones that we catch compensate society for their loss (by paying back what they stole, not by taking away their freedom... unless we're talking about violent offenders of course) than give big brother the ability, potential and incentive to control us.
What do you do when the means to make repayment aren't there? In the case of Madoff, even if (hopefully when) they seize all the assets under his wife's name it won't be near enough to pay back everything lost by those who trusted him. Taking away his freedom is the only other logical compensation.
You seem to be under the delusion that that constitutes a problem somehow. There are plenty of opinions that are dead wrong, and plenty of people repeatedly spouting them off anyhow.
In general, what you described is a good thing. It's called calling a liar a liar. It's only a bad thing if the opinion in question even has any merit in the first place, which I note you haven't even bothered attempting to demonstrate, instead choosing to whine that everyone doesn't treat reality as if it were a Fox news segment.
You seem to be confused about opinions being right or wrong. Read up on it and then try to offer something beneficial to the conversation.
Having an opinion that differs from yours doesn't make someone a liar. Nor does having a misguided opinion based on incorrect information. Blatantly making false statements, however, might. If anything, your thoughts on the matter are more Fox News (in the bogus Fair and Balanced view) than anything I've said.
It has nothing to do with being on a high horse. A user makes a simple statement which isn't offensive nor does it attack anyone. It is simply not in line with the mob mentality I find on here far too often. As a result, he's labeled as a troll.
It's one thing to need to regulate the people that make ridiculous statements repeatedly. However, this isn't the first time someone has decided that their opinion is the "right" one and someone else's is wrong and should be labeled as such.
It's possible to make generic statements in English: "Heck, there might be some good free apps she could download and use too for the library?" could easily become "There might be some good, free apps that can be downloaded for use in a library." Sometimes I hate English because it is more often lazier than it should be.
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No, it does not support replication and, if the DB I worked with is correct by what he says, it never will. That according to the Postgres developers.
Even better more convenient. :)
I did this too and ended up with a Google page full of search results. I then tried another example: "amazon kumquat", and was again taken to a Google page with search results. So basically, what you did was enter a search term into the location bar which then ran your default search engine as opposed to running against the site you're actually trying to access.
However, the purpose of Ubiquity isn't strictly to run search queries. If you look at the mock-up image in the article you'll see an example using Twitter. Instead of going to Twitter or using an app to update your status you simply enter your configured command and the update is sent directly from the location bar.
I'm guessing you only glanced over the part where it mentioned doing things in one step which would otherwise take several. For instance:
1 fire up browser
2 nav to Twitter
3 Enter update
Or
1 fire up Twitter client next to browser
2 enter update
If you already have the browser running you neither have to fire up a client nor do you have to navigate to Twitter itself. Simply open another tab, run the command and bang-o: your status is updated. I guess technically what you'd be doing is combining a simple, update-only client with your browser.
On top of it all, similar to the way so-called Awesome bar provides a list of URLs which match a substring entered into the location bar, the Ubiquity code can get immediate results of a search query if that is indeed what you are doing. Come on, do some reading and figure this shit out for yourself.
Well I'm not suggesting anything because I have the balls to just come out and say it: You aren't too bright if you cannot figure out that Soulskill can be phonetically mapped to sole skill . If you cannot figure out that Head Dunce is a tongue in cheek reference to the idea that Slashdot is a kingdom of Dunces in which he is king, then that makes it all the more hilarious to read your absurd rant. That big lump in your mouth is your foot.
Indeed. And apparently some other idiots agreed with him. Someone needs to mod Parent down.
I don't know but the notion of anti-gravity devices makes me giddy.
I don't know if it is is necessarily adding all the features that has caused the bloat. Although, you are probably right that it is the horsepower that modern systems bring to the table that is the root of the problem. With each iteration of Moore's Law developers (née, business managers) are less concerned about clean, efficient code. After all, they don't have only having 64k to work within anymore. A single program can be larger and less elegant and have less impact on system performance than in days gone by. However, multiply that by all the apps running on your system and it quickly gets out of hand.
Agreed. OLPC wasn't meant to be a market-changing piece of hardware. It was designed to provide inexpensive options to countries with limited resources so that students could get a relatively modern education. Initially, that it ran Linux is why it was able to be made so small. They were able to keep it small when XP was introduced on it by using a scaled down version. The eeePC is what became the market changer because it was more consumer focused.
I suppose calling them abhorrent was probably premature on my part. I do use them and have found them to come in handy. However, I've also been the type to be asked by numerous people in my life "How do you spell $WORD" because I've just always been a good speller. Although, I'm also the type to read, re-read and re-re-read anything I write just to ensure that my grammar makes sense and the spelling is as close to perfect as I can make it.
One more abhorrent device created by Microsoft. Or at least made popular by them. I don't know where it started.
Makes me think of http://xkcd.com/224/. Although, it doesn't directly follow the thread.
And I bet they're the only political appointees to ever do that.~
While I don't disagree with your assessment of what it was like back then, I would argue that we call them the Dark Ages more because of the stifling nature of the Church which prevented any significant and beneficial progress.
Point being?
I would rather let a few bad guys get away, and make the ones that we catch compensate society for their loss (by paying back what they stole, not by taking away their freedom ... unless we're talking about violent offenders of course) than give big brother the ability, potential and incentive to control us.
What do you do when the means to make repayment aren't there? In the case of Madoff, even if (hopefully when) they seize all the assets under his wife's name it won't be near enough to pay back everything lost by those who trusted him. Taking away his freedom is the only other logical compensation.
AHAHAHAHA!!!!
I have to actually post my laughing because I don't have mod points to give you.
You seem to be under the delusion that that constitutes a problem somehow. There are plenty of opinions that are dead wrong, and plenty of people repeatedly spouting them off anyhow.
In general, what you described is a good thing. It's called calling a liar a liar. It's only a bad thing if the opinion in question even has any merit in the first place, which I note you haven't even bothered attempting to demonstrate, instead choosing to whine that everyone doesn't treat reality as if it were a Fox news segment.
You seem to be confused about opinions being right or wrong. Read up on it and then try to offer something beneficial to the conversation.
Having an opinion that differs from yours doesn't make someone a liar. Nor does having a misguided opinion based on incorrect information. Blatantly making false statements, however, might. If anything, your thoughts on the matter are more Fox News (in the bogus Fair and Balanced view) than anything I've said.
It has nothing to do with being on a high horse. A user makes a simple statement which isn't offensive nor does it attack anyone. It is simply not in line with the mob mentality I find on here far too often. As a result, he's labeled as a troll. It's one thing to need to regulate the people that make ridiculous statements repeatedly. However, this isn't the first time someone has decided that their opinion is the "right" one and someone else's is wrong and should be labeled as such.
Again, I see someone with a dissenting opinion from most /.-ers the post is modded down for being a troll.
Ironically, Anderson's metaphor glances over the fact that his entire proposal is yelling "Fire![2]".
The people that touch monitor screens with their fingers are obviously in league with the terrorists.
Them and the nail salons that glue three-inch long plastic spikes to the fingers of gum-chomping, nasally-voiced secretaries
...meant "why would I be..."
...but, in the case of consumer electronics, would I be concerned about rapid discharge? If anything, I'd *not* want that.
It's possible to make generic statements in English: "Heck, there might be some good free apps she could download and use too for the library?" could easily become "There might be some good, free apps that can be downloaded for use in a library." Sometimes I hate English because it is more often lazier than it should be.
Why do you assume the librarian is a she?
I'm often amazed at how something the size of a corn flake can hold that much data.