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Aren't they also in a fight with Brazil over the top level domain ".amazon"? It would make sense that Brazil would want it and have a better claim to it than Amazon since they have the Amazon River and Amazon rainforest.
https://xkcd.com/1165/
Advantage: Amazon.
Have you seen the proposed specs on the PS4 and next Xbox? They seem pretty powerful to just be targeting "soccer moms".
Have you seen a soccer mom?..
I'm about as left as it gets, but I oppose the H1B status on the fact that it puts a large portion of workers at a major negotiation disadvantage. The problem isn't that there are foreigners taking these jobs, its that the foreigners are not able to negotiate on a level playing field, which drives down the wages for everyone.
That's the first intelligent thing I have read in this thread. The H1B program has two flaws: first, it is too expensive, slow, and restrictive for getting a Visa. At our startup, If we find someone really good we want to hire from europe (which is not so seldom, since we know a lot of people there) we have to wait for next year's quota, so (s)he can't get started until october next year. That can be over a year of waiting time! We're talking people we know, with a PhD and a strong track record.
Second, as the parent poster mentioned, it puts employees at a negotiation disadvantage because they cannot be unemployed while on the H1B. Also, if they are in the middle of a green card application and they change employers, they have to start from scratch. Solution would be to de-couple immigration H1B status and green card applications from employers. E.g., if an H1B holder could be unemployed for up to 12 months before he loses his visa, his negotiating position would be about as strong as a citizens', so he could ask for a fairer wage.
And before anyone starts the xenophobic rant that we should be hiring americans, nobody in the team that started this company was born in america. Now we are bringing money and jobs here. If the rules had been only a little bit more restrictive, this company likely wouldn't exist.
Whichever country can attract the best qualified people will have the strongest economy... this is what the US has excelled at so far. Now already the US doesn't allow people who study here and get degrees from top universities to transition to a job and eventually a green card. That is one of the dumbest economic policies currently in effect in this country.
Hatred has nothing to do with it and your misuse of the term is dishonest. It's actually called personal preference.
Fair enough. That was a response to the "lamest name ever" thread topic.
because honestly it is a better client than the desktop alternatives (thunderbird/evolution/kmail)
Honestly, gmain is a worse email client because it is polluted with a lot of advertising which significantly devalues the overall experience.
Keep forgetting about ads... ever heard of ad block pro?
Not to mention all the data mining they're not paying full value for.
That is a real and valid concern. But for everyone who has a gmail account, using the gmail web app or an imap client changes nothing in terms of privacy.
WebApps — treats online services as if they are desktop apps (Gmail, Twitter, Facebook)
Do. Not. Want.
Well maybe you don't. But millions of people use gmail, and some of them use ubungu. I know several people who have made the jump of forwarding all of their email accounts to gmail and using that exclusively as a mail client, because honestly it is a better client than the desktop alternatives (thunderbird/evolution/kmail). Making gmail a full-fledged citizen on ubuntu means it can behave just like a desktop app, with a gmail icon in the launcher, notifications arriving together with those from other applications in the system, etc. I for one am looking forward to this feature.
Dash Preview — right click any icon, get a detailed preview of what it is
Why? Should this not be the job of the file manager? Doesn't it already do this?
Well, maybe you're not searching through your file system. Maybe you search for an application to install, and can see a screenshot before clicking. Maybe you are searching for a song in your music collection, you get a preview of the album art, and a button to enqueue it or start playing it. And so on, with many third-party extensions likely to be coming. Is this useless eye-candy? maybe, but it is a lot more than the file previews in your file system browser, and I bet that after a bit of experimenting and tweaking some cool stuff will come out of this.
Dumb genius isn't an oxymoron, it's just a genius who's unable to speak. Moron genius - that's an oxymoron.
It appears you have out-pedenticed me...
The scripts are irrelevant if not ran on the real environment,
Well, that's an oxymoron
It does not mean what you think it means.
Cold fire is an oxymoron, or dry water, or dumb genius. An oxymoron is an inherently contradictory combination of terms.
I should've saw that one coming.
I studied international economics at George Washington, and have a law degree.
Didn't see that one coming...
The US wasted millions of tons of grain making ethanol in a misguided attempt to not burn fossil fuel.
It's misguided because the farmland used to produce that grain could have produced food for human consumption, correct?
It's misguided because about 40% of the corn produced by the world's biggest corn producer, the USA, fills 10% of US car's gas tanks. Do the math. It just does not work. 40% of US corn production is enough to give a noticable upwards push to fuel prices worldwide, while the corresponding ethanol production is barely a blimp in the radar of world energy sources.
Much of the "green revolution" occurred because of extra energy input in the form of oil. Cheap oil allowed for the expansion of nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides and mechanical harvesting. While the last two don't use an enormous amount of oil, the first does. As fossil fuels become more expensive, so does nitrogen based fertilizer.
So there is likely a limit to the ability of said revolution to feed the planet. And I'm ignoring other potential limiters such as water, salinization of croplands and many others.
According to a recent report on "feeding the world" on the economist, thanks to cheap fertilizer the limiting factor to crop productivity is no longer nitrogen, as it was for most of human history, nor so much land, but mainly water.
Look at how many of the world's great rivers hardly reach the ocean anymore because they are used so intensively, worry about how river flow becomes more seasonal when there is less perennial snow, and worry about the potential for conflict between countries that are upriver and those dowriver ( as an example).
We shouldn't be arguing about mass starvation and malthusian catastrophes. Nor is that what TFA is predicting: you don't need to get nearly that far for a tightening of food supply to have dangerous consequences. I don't think anyone seriously contests that the spike in food prices was a big factor in the recent unrest in the arab world...
And in all this the US, the world's largest corn producer, is currently burning 40% of it's corn production by putting 10% etanol in gas. Stopping this senseless waste would be a concrete step to ease the upward pressure on food prices, and the unpredictable consequences it can bring.
With a learning curve like that, why would anyone want to run Windows?
Because most users don't install Windows themselves?
And here we have it: the simple answer.
The way to have more people using the Linux desktop is to HAVE IT PREINSTALLED by vendors, because most people are unwilling to install an OS themselves from scratch, no matter how incredible it is. Of course, this is much easier said than done, but I think that blaming GNOME/KDE/Unity for Linux's 1% market share is missing the point by a mile.
Buying pre-installed linux is possible already, especially in the US. I just bought one of these: https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/lemu4. Everything pretty much just works, and they support future releases of ubuntu as well. Another old laptop I have is a dell inspiron 1501. It didn't come with linux pre-installed in the market I bought it in, but I knew the hardware was supported because the same model was sold with linux on it in some markets. A linux install is actually quite painless nowadays if all the hardware is supported. If you like an ultrabook you can try the Dell XPS 13: does not come with linux preinstalled yet, but they will in the future so everything should be well supported.
But who knows, maybe the next generation will require their leaders to have lived their entire lives squeaky clean.
i suspect that the existing ruling elite will learn to teach their kids how to avoid leaving "incriminating stuff" online, teach to avoid facebook etc. after all their kids will be brought up to know that they are likely to be the ruling elite and will understand the need.
Or, they will hire a professional "Face" to be the public face of their offspring, while protecting the real offspring with jamming devices against recording... said offspring will meanwhile indulge in building pyramids for their afterlife until the whole egypt fad fades off... at least according to Kelly Link http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/summer_2011/valley_of_the_girls_by_kelly_link
The WebApps can be platform-independent but something has to sit on linux to handle the api calls.
I understand that - my point is that you're tainting code that was platform-independent with code that only works on one platform.
That's a good point. The APIs are open and standard, so the hope is that different platforms can have their own native implementation.
THAT part (unless it is also written in something platform independent) must be platform-dependent.
Why does that part need to be written at all? Why does a WebApp need access to anything at the OS level? I'm not trying to be a Luddite, but I do not understand why you wouldn't write the entire program in a native language and provide better integration into the supported platform if you depend on such low-level access to the OS.(...)
You don't necessarily need so much low level access or very tight integration: you just want to be neatly integrated into the GUI, so that a user barely needs to know that this is a web app rather than a real application. Gmail, for instance, is probably already in many ways the best email client available, but to use it i would want notifications arriving in the notification indicator together with those from other programs, and I would like to be able to access its menus just like a real application with whatever functionality the os provides (global menu and HUD included, if you are in ubuntu). Google hangout will never fully replace skype until I can receive "calls" without having a browser tab open on google+, etc.
Passwords are implemented as a result of insecurity.