Yeah, it's fun to tinker with each new Ubuntu release using a live CD or VM, but a pain in the ass to need to upgrade the OS on a production computer every six months. Something inevitably gets altered, broken, removed or replaced. You can never fully get used to everything. Canonical likes to adopt new technologies before they're ready and then drop perfectly functional ones on a whim, and that's fine for people who like to have the latest and (arguably) greatest.
So, I stuck Xubuntu 12.04 on my laptop, got it configured just the way I like it, and will happily not waste time with installation and configuration for another four years.
Back in the pre-YouTube days, Rooster Teeth distributed their videos using Bit Torrent to relieve their own HTTP load. I think they gave BT users the incentive of downloading earlier to encourage its use.
they might bring the website into the "early" 21st century
I don't understand what it means when people say that. It's a website with organized, searchable content that can deliver varying forms of multimedia. What is not "21st century" about it?
I really hope that 8.1 or another future update simplifies the process of adding installed application icons to the start screen. For now it has to be done individually and it can be tedious if you're trying to add a lot of them. If I set up a brand new machine and install, say, the MS Office suite, it automatically creates icons in my personal start screen and that's great. However, the next person to sign on with their own profile will only have the bare minimum default start screen. Office is there, but it's not even straightforward to get into the 'All Apps' screen to find it. Even if I could just ctrl+click multiple application tiles and add them to the start screen en masse, it would really simplify the whole process.
They're on the right track, but their implementation is still too blurry. Right at the first boot (or during the installation) of Windows 8 the question should be asked before the user can do anything else: "Do you want to use this as a desktop or as a tablet?"
Choose "Desktop" and you are presented with the same familiar UI you would expect in Windows, and no full-screen Metro. If you want to use the built-in Metro apps, launch them from the Start menu they just appear in their own self-contained, manageable windows.
Choose "Tablet" and it'll default to its current behavior, with the full-screen touch-friendly interface and Desktop mode accessible as its own tile.
Stick an option in the control panel where people can change this setting if needed later on down the road. One OS to develop, both usage cases covered.
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Just the thing to pour into my space mug and drink with my space breakfast while I read my space newspaper.
No true astronaut puts sugar in his coffee.
In Rodney Dangerfield's voice:
I've heard of coffee with a citrus overtone, but this is ridiculous!
What do the residents of the planet have to say about this?
I have no idea.
I like how that got modded insightful. Only on Slashdot does one earn praise for arguing Star Wars on a science news post. =)
Maybe if you wrote the image of a btrfs volume to a tape?
And make sure those backups aren't also on a btrfs volume.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."
Therefore, Obi Wan is a Sith.
Yeah, it's fun to tinker with each new Ubuntu release using a live CD or VM, but a pain in the ass to need to upgrade the OS on a production computer every six months. Something inevitably gets altered, broken, removed or replaced. You can never fully get used to everything. Canonical likes to adopt new technologies before they're ready and then drop perfectly functional ones on a whim, and that's fine for people who like to have the latest and (arguably) greatest.
So, I stuck Xubuntu 12.04 on my laptop, got it configured just the way I like it, and will happily not waste time with installation and configuration for another four years.
But MySQL was always the "Use it for your website!" DB package.
Hell, it's one quarter of the popular LAMP combo.
just breathtaking
I see what you did there.
Back in the pre-YouTube days, Rooster Teeth distributed their videos using Bit Torrent to relieve their own HTTP load. I think they gave BT users the incentive of downloading earlier to encourage its use.
Not by default, though. You have to use a flag.
they might bring the website into the "early" 21st century
I don't understand what it means when people say that. It's a website with organized, searchable content that can deliver varying forms of multimedia. What is not "21st century" about it?
The effort put into this transition is probably not as drastic as you make it sound.
Only if it's a fat binary, but thankfully these never needed to catch on with the x86 to x86-64 transition.
You'd think a billion dollar company wouldn't have to resort to cheap tricks like this.
* Looks pointedly at Adobe *
I'm confused on what the focus was before :S
Sure as hell wasn't security.
And cowardly enough to try to inflict harm on other human beings from under the veil of anonymity.
Windows 8 decreases my productivity.
I don't believe that. Windows 8 does all of those things you just described.
I really hope that 8.1 or another future update simplifies the process of adding installed application icons to the start screen. For now it has to be done individually and it can be tedious if you're trying to add a lot of them. If I set up a brand new machine and install, say, the MS Office suite, it automatically creates icons in my personal start screen and that's great. However, the next person to sign on with their own profile will only have the bare minimum default start screen. Office is there, but it's not even straightforward to get into the 'All Apps' screen to find it. Even if I could just ctrl+click multiple application tiles and add them to the start screen en masse, it would really simplify the whole process.
You can give +1's to AC's. The purpose of modpoints is to promote constructive posts, not to reward registered users.
In fact, Windows 8 was a thing before Metro was. Even the early builds still had the start menu and Aero.
They're on the right track, but their implementation is still too blurry. Right at the first boot (or during the installation) of Windows 8 the question should be asked before the user can do anything else: "Do you want to use this as a desktop or as a tablet?"
Choose "Desktop" and you are presented with the same familiar UI you would expect in Windows, and no full-screen Metro. If you want to use the built-in Metro apps, launch them from the Start menu they just appear in their own self-contained, manageable windows.
Choose "Tablet" and it'll default to its current behavior, with the full-screen touch-friendly interface and Desktop mode accessible as its own tile.
Stick an option in the control panel where people can change this setting if needed later on down the road. One OS to develop, both usage cases covered.