After recently finishing a GCSE in all three of the basic sciences (physics, chemistry, biology) I have to say I was shocked and appalled at the questions on the test. The physics paper in particular was only 17.78% physics; the rest was ethics - "What are pros and cons of CCTV" - and the environment. Science should be made, in search of a better word, more difficult.
An examiner cannot decide what is hard or difficult, science is about accurate or false. Yes, some of the concepts are harder to grasp than others but they are hard because they are hard, not because an examiner chooses them to be.
No one should have to edit xorg.conf to get anything working. Fortunately, the next release of X windows is supposed to finally do away with this by adding dynamic configuration with xrandr. Also, it will be nice when CompizFusion is more robust. Lots of people really like the eye-candy, and I find some of the features useful.
On my current install I haven't touched xorg.con, I just ran
hwd -x
and it sorted it all out for me.
It should be easier to keep applications up-to-date. I love Ubuntu, but it drives me nuts seeing bug fixes or major enhancements to applications that I can't easily obtain because either the OS updates don't include application upgrades, or the OS repositories are simply not adequately maintained. I don't want to have to
litter my package manager with repositories, or manually install packages just to keep my apps updated
That depends on the distro you use. All my apps on Arch are up to date, Ubuntu and virtually all Debian based distros have become a dumping ground for old software.
OS X is not FreeBSD. It is a BSD, as in it was designed in Berkeley. The underlying system is vastly different, and thus FreeBSD drivers do not work on OS X.
Surely having an application in a web browser adds yet another layer of unnecessary abstraction to computing?
It should go: mouse click etc -> application -> kernel -> hardware
But instead it will go: mouse click -> web browser -> server -> application -> browser -> kernel -> hardware
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1984 isn't a fucking instruction manual.
After recently finishing a GCSE in all three of the basic sciences (physics, chemistry, biology) I have to say I was shocked and appalled at the questions on the test. The physics paper in particular was only 17.78% physics; the rest was ethics - "What are pros and cons of CCTV" - and the environment. Science should be made, in search of a better word, more difficult. An examiner cannot decide what is hard or difficult, science is about accurate or false. Yes, some of the concepts are harder to grasp than others but they are hard because they are hard, not because an examiner chooses them to be.
Two infrared pixels == built-in Wiimote sensor bar!
OS X is not FreeBSD. It is a BSD, as in it was designed in Berkeley. The underlying system is vastly different, and thus FreeBSD drivers do not work on OS X.
2035 GMT you tool. As in twenty-five to nine.
Surely having an application in a web browser adds yet another layer of unnecessary abstraction to computing? It should go: mouse click etc -> application -> kernel -> hardware But instead it will go: mouse click -> web browser -> server -> application -> browser -> kernel -> hardware