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The FSF provides what is expected of it: Dogmatic consistency and a warning that without a certain set of freedoms you are a sharecropper.

The reason you don't see a more practical suggestion from them is the suggestion involves "none of the currently above options".

Linus wouldn't be Linus without the tantrums and smiting.

Xen was a standalone hypervisor that run under the Linux kernel. It was developed independently of Linux. Linux was a guest along for the ride.

With KVM the hypervisor is over the Linux kernel and gets to use the facilities of the host kernel. Less code, less complexity. Why wouldn't Linux kernel hackers prefer KVM over Xen? They get full control (aka the ability to get crap fixed without hounding an external party) and get to reuse code they already have to write anyway.

Preferring the KVM approach over Xen makes 100% sense to me in the long term for the Linux folks.

Blocking Facebook in Adblock is the gift that keeps on giving.

No need to resort to an additional mod when all you need to do is toss the following in Adblock:

||facebook.com/

||facebook.net/

||fbcdn.com/

||fbcdn.net/

I view this development very positively. Flash is being positioned as being the cutting edge in browser gaming. With Linux support too!

It will take years for browsers to catch up and in the meanwhile we have the capability of hosting games as complex as MMOs like World of Warcraft within a browser all with one fairly universal browser plugin.

It's time for browser games to move past sprites and tiles.

Or they could have just done what Android did. Allow browser plugins and make it Adobe's problem to put the plugin in the market.

Google isn't holding back on major OS updates because Adobe isn't ready.

I'm going to assume the parent post wasn't edited. I swore there was a dollar sign there.

You're ignoring that DropBox has access to your original copy on your computer and can just delete that one when it goes bezerk and deletes the cloud copy too. ;)

With that said once a month I copy my DropBox directory to an external hard drive and call it good enough for my data.

$15 million impresses you?

Chump change.

Firefox's minor updates were not really feature updates.

On the chart Chrome whole number releases are new feature releases. Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 are seperate because they are similar feature releases. 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 are not.

All the nitpicking people are doing on this and ignoring the point behind that graphic...

The Point: "Modern Browsers" are the browsers that actually get around to actually @#$@ing SHIPPING new features and NOT TAKING FOREVER TO DO IT. Iterate faster and get new crap to users NOW.

Nice. Very nice. Big fan of this feature of gmail.

If only Zimbra could do Doc files this well... :(

Didn't Google pay for a student to the naclssh port as part of the code of summer project?

Something tells me such limitations will be temporary...

"This allowed us to remove the expiration date and localhost security restrictions we had adopted in previous research-focused releases.

We are excited to see Native Client progressively evolve into a developer-ready technology. In the coming months we will be adding APIs for 3D graphics, local file storage, WebSockets, peer-to-peer networking, and more."

This piece is essential to Chrome OS. It is the container for legacy code and things where it'll be unrealistic for javascript to handle for years to come.

Countdown to SSH client functionality in 5... 4... 3...

Because it's not like they haven't had an official client on that platform for many months now...

As a Posterous user this makes me cringe.

This, the GoDaddy bar in the admin panel that can't be made to go away and the spammer "subscriber" I can't delete even though he's not an admin definately have cheapened the experience. And the worst part is I can't even pay to make it go away like I could with wordpress.com.

"the browser interface is planned to be more responsive"

So when does Mozilla get around to ripping Firefox wide open on an operating table and not letting the surgeons leave until each tab has it's own process?

Not switching back until I see a modern process architecture. Screw one tab being able to affect the responsiveness and stability of another or even worse... The browser's chrome. shudder

iStockPhoto background and Facebook account required?

Bawhaha. Smells like a phishing attack.

Edit: Stock Photo was removed and you no longer need a Facebook account to play.

So basically AT&T is matching what Sprint already does. Meanwhile Sprint is busy raising its effective rates to match AT&T and Verizon. I love competition.

Here is to hoping as tech marches on some decent Android phones trickle down to prepaid. I'd like off the contract bandwagon please.

Do shallow boring people think of themselves as being shallow and boring?

I'm a huge Android fan and while I would buy a laptop from Apple I wouldn't touch an iOS device due to disagreement over how the Market is handled.

However it doesn't take an Apple fanboi to know this pricing is horrid.

This isn't a laptop. People are not going to shop around on specs. $800 vs $500 for similar functionality is fscking retarded, especially when the $500 device is from the BMW of computers.

If their goal was to portray their company as something only used by shallow boring people they succeeded.

Amazon current streaming works great on Roku but I've been surprised with how few platforms they are on. Netflix totally owns them as far as availability on devices goes and it's something Amazon will have to fix if they are serious.

"safari 5 or chrome 9 on a mac"

How did you manage to make something that only works on a Mac in Chrome?

Looks messed up under Windows...

Bravo!

As someone who was suckered in Blackboard backend administration and still haven't managed to get free I decided to give this a spin.

This is my impression after 30 minutes of fumbling with it:

The look for end-users is clean and feels great. Way better than Blackboard for end-users. Canvas seems to promote a more self-service adhoc approach which would be attractive for small installs.

Unfortunately the admin interface seems non-existant.

How do I sanely create and populate thousands of courses?

User admin tools are primitive. Where is the ability for the administrator to change a users password? How can I see what classes they are enrolled in, what their roles are, etc? Can the administrator globally disable a user for non-payment without deleting?

How do faculty roll the content from one course into multiple sections and then roll that content over to a new course next semester? No anti-cheat integration?

Anyway those are the concerns I was able to find in the first 30 minutes.

It looks undeployable here which is a shame. Here is to hoping it gets better soon.

Edit: I just spotted the course copy functionality. Scratch that one off the list. Still not impressed with the central admin tools exposed in the UI. Our faculty would prefer not having to populate the user lists in their courses, etc.

Edit 2: Thought I'd be done playing with it but not yet. I can't get over how awesome the end-user UI is. As I just sent off to a co-worker: "The end-user UI is stupendously good compared to Blackboard. Stunningly good in comparison. It's like taking the best of Facebook and turning it into an LMS. Hide this from users."

Definitely has my interest.

They can both be winners and losers depending on what game they choose to play. Being disruptive is about pissing on the rules for the original game.

Actually the more I think about it the more non-sensical your original statement and this conversation becomes. ;)

Really? "Disruptive Technology" don't happen?

Google drove the cost of smartphone OSes down to as near to zero as patent law will allow.

I'd say that is a game changer.

How much does WebM cost?

It'll be one of those things where time will tell.

I have sympathy for those involved in encoding but one has to remember that disruptive technologies are called disruptive for a reason. If WebM takes off its going to cause someone pain during the process... :)

Since you edited I'll edit too:

Which of those devices will still be around and usable in 5 years? Which ones won't be replaced by shiny new hardware? Your timeframe is a bit different than Google's.

So only iOS counts? Because that is the only platform <video> matters on right now.

I'm glad to see Apple calls the shots and Google is in the wrong for making a move in its own interest. And in the interest is places that don't want to pay a software patent cartel for permission to innovate.

The dependence is already there. The only reason people even noticed <video> is because of iOS. Everyone not on iOS hasn't noticed or cared yet.

From Google's point of view getting everything switched from Adobe's proprietary platform to a platform controlled by a software cartel consisting of Microsoft and Apple isn't progress. You're just handing your nuts to be crushed by a different party.

Google's strategy seems to mitigate the harm now (Flash's security history) with an eye to getting everything on a standard not controlled by its rivals.