Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Jun 2012 23:56 UTC, submitted by Modafinil
"The Samba Team and seven kernel hackers have come together with Software Freedom Conservancy to help efforts to ensure compliance with the GPL by those who implement Linux and other GPL software. Richard Hillesley talked to Bradley Kuhn of Software Freedom Conservancy, Jeremy Allison of Samba, and Matthew Garrett, who works in his spare time with the GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers."
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Member since:2011-01-28
Haha, yea I sometimes get that feeling when I need tech support sometimes. Although those are due to language barriers.
Speaking of which...one can use online translators for good effect.
[ Translate EN->AR->EN ]
I've been using the preview release 8 Windows where came out, almost exclusively (except to work, because I am going to rely on untested software and unfinished for obviously not). I already know you can enter Metro in my 11.6 "zinbok, but things don't look 24" desktop, pink. Here is the evidence photographer of the most pressing issues that I run to, five proposals for addressing them. Instead of just complaining, let's constructive.
All these issues can be addressed relatively easily — and when you do this, it will become hell lot of useful Metro for people who want to do actual work on their computers. People often refer to the usage data collected at Microsoft, says something like "10 per cent only Windows users have more than x number of open Windows. Crazy thing-10% of all Windows users are still around 100 million.
My list of suggestions is short, easy to implement, and is, in any way, affect design ideals behind Metro. In fact, I would say this could be implemented even before it goes Windows 8 RTM.
[ /translate ]
Wow, I'm surprised at how little this impacted Thom's writing :-)
Member since:2005-07-06
Reminded me about another thing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#Machine_translation_and_the_...
An anecdotal example was "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." Translated back and forth with Russian, it became "the vodka is good but the meat is rotten."[8] Similarly, "out of sight, out of mind" became "blind idiot."
(though I'd say those examples don't so much show problems - but are more like eerily brilliant, in context ;p )
Also, about the possibility of this ornacle thing in my language - now that I thought about it a bit more, I suspect it still would be more time-rewarding than following usual news...
Edited 2012-06-06 03:53 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 11:29 UTC
The day has finally come! Jolla has finally announced the launch device for its Sailfish operating system - and by god this is a looker. It's decidedly different from other phones out there, but it has good specifications and carries a relatively reasonably price tag - EUR 399, and it's up for pre-order today, shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:33 UTC
Why does Google get so much credit in the technology industry? Why, despite the company's many obvious failings, do many geeks and enthusiasts still hold a somewhat positive view on the all-knowing technology giant? A specific talk at Google I/O this week provides the answer.
Linked by David Adams on 05/16/13 4:23 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/02/13 15:28 UTC
Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/18/13 11:21 UTC
Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.More Features »
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Curious, I think it's more coherent to me... ;p
Makes me wonder how such "news" would work out in my first language (PL; probably not too well - complex declension, conjugation, grammar in general)
Also, reminded me about http://www.kyon.pl/img/14315,4chan,text,mindf--k,grammar,lol,.html (sometimes I wonder how many bots are there already, in forums or comments) and http://megahal.alioth.debian.org/ (some of the quotes are brilliant-scary)
Edited 2012-06-05 06:23 UTC