I've been using it since the first minutes I tried it, it's that good. In FF3.1b1 you have to turn on the javascript speed-up (what's it called? Tracemonkey?) manually, but the whole browser is amazing. The look of the thing is fantastic too. Hats off to the graphics and font designers.
I run Ubuntu, and on my system it's totally stable. Some Windows users were having issues with 3.0x, so that may be true here too.
To make sure you don't overwrite current FF settings, establish a new profile FIRST in your old Firefox. (command (I think!) firefox -profile-manager) Install the new one, but don't start it. When you do run it, point it at the new profile (command from the directory containing your new firefox: firefox -p newprofile. You may need "-no-remote" (without quotes) too, I'm not sure. So long as you point it to a specific profile, it won't blow up the default one you've been using.
the kill switch would be under user control. You'd be able to mark unkillable apps. Then, if you downloaded punch-the-monkey by stupidity, it wouldn't be marked, and it could be remotely killed.
The bit about "at Google's discretion" is the giveaway. I'll stay with openmoko, thanks.
When the lifeboat is holed, you get to shore FIRST. Then you worry about who to blame for the hole. Or, we could have all worried three years ago, when it would have done some good. Carping right now, when the boat is sinking, is just plain stupid.
I've been a university bio prof for decades, and most of my students have been pre-meds. I've also been involved in biomedical research and known dozens of MDs during that time. Not once . . . not one single solitary time . . . did I ever see anyone, at any level, use knowledge they got only in basic O-Chem.
The chemistry that doctors actually need is learned in basic bio and biochemistry. They could do without O-Chem entirely and nobody would ever notice any difference, except that we might get better doctors because they'd have more time to study the things they need to know.
Well, it might tell you how much I think my comments on Slashdot are worth. Glad to see you noticing, though, since it means you think ownership of my comments is worth worrying about.;-)
which is why I pulled my blog off blogspot a couple of years ago when I first noticed that clause. (Via a Slashdot post, I think?) And it's also why I never started using picasaweb.
Once Flickr was engulfed by Yahoo, there was a similar change in their TOS. The usual we-can-use-whatever-we-want-when-we-want. I left Flickr.
Sure, it's a ridiculous TOS that probably wouldn't stand up in court. Sure, all these companies "don't mean it." Until they do.
Somehow, I don't think Apple's agenda is protecting users from malware. This is the same company who can't bother its beautiful mind with DNS security holes, Safari flaws, etc., etc., etc.
What they have done is bricked jailbroken iphones.
Looks like Apple has become the Big Brother they used to heave hammers at, and that the nice, friendly, easy-going Mac guy is just a front. So what else is new?
The solution is pretty obvious. Don't believe ads. Go open source.
That's all any of this is. The minute the ad for China -- aka the 2008 Olympics -- is over, it'll be right back to status quo ante.
And the public outrage won't be any more evident than it was before. It's only one billion or so PRC citizens being kept in the dark, not several hundred reporters.
Vast clouds of information used without intelligence are just garbage going nowhere. You can't even call it Garbage In Garbage Out, because it's not being processed by any kind of mind at all.
This is NOT good news folks. What it shows is the whole planet acting like a pond filling up with algae. Sure, the "algae" are doing well. For now. But our position in all this is like the trout who can't deal with it.
This is yet one more solid piece of evidence that the weather patterns our crops depend on are heading into territory that may have no place for our technological civilization.
Yeah. I know all about clear air turbulence. The tips of the wings didn't so much as quiver during the whole five hour flight. They either know there isn't any turbulence, or their instruments are a much bigger threat to my safety than any walking around I could do.
And as for the food, a) as you say, there isn't any, and b) the seat belt nonsense is supposed to be about safety. But it's really more theatre. The convenience of the attendants is the real priority, especially now that they're (unsafely!) understaffed. Just like selling more overpriced drinks is the real priority behind the 3oz rule.
(I keep wondering how hard it could possibly be to get a job in the airport MacDonalds so that you could sell your co-conspirator a nice Big Gulp of explosives.)
Airports. Airports, airports, airports. So much theatre it's hard to know where to begin. One thing that struck me on a recent trip -- nothing to do with Terror(tm) for a change -- was how long the seat belt sign stays on. That's supposedly for "safety." On a perfectly clear, calm day, at 35,000 feet, we're supposed to believe that the seat belt sign stays on for our sake? Puh-leeze.
And I couldn't agree more that it was d.u.m.b not to provide an ubuntu dual boot right out of the box. Sugar may be good for some stuff, but it sure is weird, and anybody (ie me) could have told them people were also going to want a "normal" OS. The d.u.m.b.e.s.t way of doing that is to weigh yourself down with Windoze:rollseyes:
moocapiean has had detailed instructions on how to do this for a few months now. That's what I used to put Xubuntu on my XO. He also recently walked us through a kernel upgrade (p. 17 of that thread).
Upgrading anything, however, is not automatic, i.e. effortless via an upgrade manager, and it would be great if you, freelikegnu, moocapiean, and any other geniuses out there (beleive me, to me, you're geniuses!) pooled resources so this could happen faster!
I'm looking forward to trying out your way of doing it Alex. Hardy Heron is a nice step up, and I want it on my XO.
I've been a prof (biology), and therefore obviously also a grad student. Good profs are not PHBs. That's around 0.05% at a wild guess. Tread very carefully until you're *sure* what species of prof you have. You depend totally on him or her, and there's no real appeal against anything they do. (Start appealing, and you're a troublemaker and dead meat anyway.) It's a feudal system.
If you find out you can't stand your prof, change topics somewhat, make some plausible excuse, and go work with someone whom you've vetted more carefully. As an undergrad, you're probably not going to be seeing that much of the profs anyway. Post docs and grad students are going to be your main mentors. Post docs are wildly overworked, so never ever ever waste their time. You may find yourself squashed like a bug if you do. (Did I mention that it's not a democracy?)
As for learning, techniques, and all that straightforward, non-political stuff: that's the easy part. Just do whatever works.
Sampling Chinese blog and media views on Tibet would be like sampling US blogs and media just after the Iraq War started. It was all pretty rah-rah and gung-ho then. The Chinese are no different.
That doesn't make it right to colonize a whole people with a different language, a different alphabet, different customs, and a different religion.
Interesting factoid: there's oil in Tibet and lots of valuable minerals.
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I've been using it since the first minutes I tried it, it's that good. In FF3.1b1 you have to turn on the javascript speed-up (what's it called? Tracemonkey?) manually, but the whole browser is amazing. The look of the thing is fantastic too. Hats off to the graphics and font designers.
I run Ubuntu, and on my system it's totally stable. Some Windows users were having issues with 3.0x, so that may be true here too.
To make sure you don't overwrite current FF settings, establish a new profile FIRST in your old Firefox. (command (I think!) firefox -profile-manager) Install the new one, but don't start it. When you do run it, point it at the new profile (command from the directory containing your new firefox: firefox -p newprofile. You may need "-no-remote" (without quotes) too, I'm not sure. So long as you point it to a specific profile, it won't blow up the default one you've been using.
the kill switch would be under user control. You'd be able to mark unkillable apps. Then, if you downloaded punch-the-monkey by stupidity, it wouldn't be marked, and it could be remotely killed.
The bit about "at Google's discretion" is the giveaway. I'll stay with openmoko, thanks.
I've used Linux for almost 10 years, and I want one. This is bad.
When the lifeboat is holed, you get to shore FIRST. Then you worry about who to blame for the hole. Or, we could have all worried three years ago, when it would have done some good. Carping right now, when the boat is sinking, is just plain stupid.
doesn't mean they're not after you. Just sayin.
I've been a university bio prof for decades, and most of my students have been pre-meds. I've also been involved in biomedical research and known dozens of MDs during that time. Not once . . . not one single solitary time . . . did I ever see anyone, at any level, use knowledge they got only in basic O-Chem.
The chemistry that doctors actually need is learned in basic bio and biochemistry. They could do without O-Chem entirely and nobody would ever notice any difference, except that we might get better doctors because they'd have more time to study the things they need to know.
Well, it might tell you how much I think my comments on Slashdot are worth. Glad to see you noticing, though, since it means you think ownership of my comments is worth worrying about. ;-)
which is why I pulled my blog off blogspot a couple of years ago when I first noticed that clause. (Via a Slashdot post, I think?) And it's also why I never started using picasaweb.
Once Flickr was engulfed by Yahoo, there was a similar change in their TOS. The usual we-can-use-whatever-we-want-when-we-want. I left Flickr.
Sure, it's a ridiculous TOS that probably wouldn't stand up in court. Sure, all these companies "don't mean it." Until they do.
. . . it has to be. You heard it here long ago. As well as from about fifty other sources. Blanket licensing is the only logical solution.
(Why, yes. I am a Vulcan. Why do you ask?)
I'm not even sure why. I guess I like the idea of living in an approximate, fuzzy universe. So much cozier.
Somehow, I don't think Apple's agenda is protecting users from malware. This is the same company who can't bother its beautiful mind with DNS security holes, Safari flaws, etc., etc., etc.
What they have done is bricked jailbroken iphones.
Looks like Apple has become the Big Brother they used to heave hammers at, and that the nice, friendly, easy-going Mac guy is just a front. So what else is new?
The solution is pretty obvious. Don't believe ads. Go open source.
That's all any of this is. The minute the ad for China -- aka the 2008 Olympics -- is over, it'll be right back to status quo ante.
And the public outrage won't be any more evident than it was before. It's only one billion or so PRC citizens being kept in the dark, not several hundred reporters.
Vast clouds of information used without intelligence are just garbage going nowhere. You can't even call it Garbage In Garbage Out, because it's not being processed by any kind of mind at all.
What could possibly go wrong?
Quite frankly, at this point, I wouldn't care if data was limited to Bitnet. I just want a goddamn open phone already!
(Well, no, that's not true. I would care. Just not enough to make a difference.)
Openmoko FreeRunner Why settle for anything less?
This is NOT good news folks. What it shows is the whole planet acting like a pond filling up with algae. Sure, the "algae" are doing well. For now. But our position in all this is like the trout who can't deal with it.
This is yet one more solid piece of evidence that the weather patterns our crops depend on are heading into territory that may have no place for our technological civilization.
Yeah. I know all about clear air turbulence. The tips of the wings didn't so much as quiver during the whole five hour flight. They either know there isn't any turbulence, or their instruments are a much bigger threat to my safety than any walking around I could do.
And as for the food, a) as you say, there isn't any, and b) the seat belt nonsense is supposed to be about safety. But it's really more theatre. The convenience of the attendants is the real priority, especially now that they're (unsafely!) understaffed. Just like selling more overpriced drinks is the real priority behind the 3oz rule.
(I keep wondering how hard it could possibly be to get a job in the airport MacDonalds so that you could sell your co-conspirator a nice Big Gulp of explosives.)
Airports. Airports, airports, airports. So much theatre it's hard to know where to begin. One thing that struck me on a recent trip -- nothing to do with Terror(tm) for a change -- was how long the seat belt sign stays on. That's supposedly for "safety." On a perfectly clear, calm day, at 35,000 feet, we're supposed to believe that the seat belt sign stays on for our sake? Puh-leeze.
it's an approximately infinite universe.
And I couldn't agree more that it was d.u.m.b not to provide an ubuntu dual boot right out of the box. Sugar may be good for some stuff, but it sure is weird, and anybody (ie me) could have told them people were also going to want a "normal" OS. The d.u.m.b.e.s.t way of doing that is to weigh yourself down with Windoze :rollseyes:
moocapiean has had detailed instructions on how to do this for a few months now. That's what I used to put Xubuntu on my XO. He also recently walked us through a kernel upgrade (p. 17 of that thread).
/boot.
The way to easily switch between OSes is by altering the olpc.fth file in
Upgrading anything, however, is not automatic, i.e. effortless via an upgrade manager, and it would be great if you, freelikegnu, moocapiean, and any other geniuses out there (beleive me, to me, you're geniuses!) pooled resources so this could happen faster!
I'm looking forward to trying out your way of doing it Alex. Hardy Heron is a nice step up, and I want it on my XO.
I've been a prof (biology), and therefore obviously also a grad student. Good profs are not PHBs. That's around 0.05% at a wild guess. Tread very carefully until you're *sure* what species of prof you have. You depend totally on him or her, and there's no real appeal against anything they do. (Start appealing, and you're a troublemaker and dead meat anyway.) It's a feudal system.
If you find out you can't stand your prof, change topics somewhat, make some plausible excuse, and go work with someone whom you've vetted more carefully. As an undergrad, you're probably not going to be seeing that much of the profs anyway. Post docs and grad students are going to be your main mentors. Post docs are wildly overworked, so never ever ever waste their time. You may find yourself squashed like a bug if you do. (Did I mention that it's not a democracy?)
As for learning, techniques, and all that straightforward, non-political stuff: that's the easy part. Just do whatever works.
Sampling Chinese blog and media views on Tibet would be like sampling US blogs and media just after the Iraq War started. It was all pretty rah-rah and gung-ho then. The Chinese are no different.
That doesn't make it right to colonize a whole people with a different language, a different alphabet, different customs, and a different religion.
Interesting factoid: there's oil in Tibet and lots of valuable minerals.
Ubuntu.
Yup. They've been saying it for 3,000? 4,000? years. They left out most of the math, though, which made it too easy.