I don't give a flying fuck WHO it is, be it Torvalds or Ballmer or Cook or Ellison if someone acts like a total fucking douchebag they should be called out for it and I'm calling him out, Linus Torvalds you sir are a douchebag. you could have solved the whole fucking thing in under 30 seconds by simply explaining why "it must be thus" but instead just acted like a giant flaming prick, it was completely uncalled for, the other guy was acting complete civil and politely, therefor the asshole of the week award should be given to Torvalds for flying so completely off the handle when there was zero point in it.
Actually, the other guy, while being incompetent, was very manipulative, and it worked - with people like you. To be manipulative like that you have to have a lot of social intelligence, and that helps you to navigate situations in which your incompetence surfaces. Some people have little patience with such manipulations and fakery.
My wife likes her Nexus 7, but she'd rather have an iPad mini. Yes this is anecdotal, but its pretty common outside the fanboy arena.
Apart from the fact that this is laughably irrelevant, there is also the problem that the "fanboy" community is centered around Apple, not Android. People using Android devices couldn't care less, there is no cult following as there is no status symbol in them.
Exactly, I wanted the GNU/Linux toolset which has only been ported to Android in chunks by people that want certain tools, it was easier to run Debian in chroot and apt-get install whatever I needed than it was to track down the combination of ports needed to get what I wanted (or port them myself). This is in no way an indictment of Android, just that my particular use case was kind of atypical and so the software I wanted hadn't been ported in one package and I was lazy.
Indeed. One could argue that it's actually a strength of the OS to allow you to run Debian that way.
Anyway, Android is opensource, so anyone can make anything they want with it - and some do, like Amazon. That means the OS isn't crippled at all in any way or form.
That you run Debian in a chroot to get at its power is evidence enough of Android's inherently crippled nature.
Not so fast. The poster you replied to uses chroot to run Debian so he can use the GNU userland. This is necessary because Android uses a different userland. That does not mean Android is crippled - it is just a different open source OS than Linux.
It's quite trivial for this to happen. Suppose someone writes a Word document (with the latest version of Word), then sends it to another person who has Word 97, who maybe opens and edits it, then passes it along to someone with another version of Word again. Somewhere along the line the document will get corrupted,
It was corrupted right at the start, when the first person saved it as.docx - the colleague with Word 97 won't be able to open it.
Oh, I hear you say "Word 97 is old, they should buy the new one." Yes, and pay MS their extortion money only because they made the new format incompatible with the previous version for reasons that 99.9999999% of users won't appreciate.
Contrast with OpenOffice, that is backwards compatible since forever.
Lots of things. Say you have an app built using the LAMP stack; and want to tun it on the tablet. You can't do that on Android since the APM stack is still not good enough in Android. So you either rewrite your app in Android-Java, or run it in a browser, hosted elsewhere on a proper Intel server. But Ubuntu on a tablet would be a better fit in more than 90% use cases.
It's not like tablets are full-fledged PCs
Why not? Like a PC, a tablet has a CPU, RAM, enough storage, and more options for 100% always-on networking than the PC's LAN or WiFi. Many tablets support full USB so keyboards and mice can be connected when required.
Android is just the Linux kernel without GNU; a full fledged GNU/Linux would be a very useful gadget.
Ubuntu is doomed. If tablets are Ubuntu's goal, they fucked up already: first off, Unity, which is drek on the desktop is also drek on tablets - so they alienated a large part of the desktop users in favor of nothing (add the local search beamed to Amazon thing for extra bonus points of alienation).
And in the meantime, KDE waltzes in, almost effortlessly creates Plasma and already now there is a distribution, Plasma Active, running on the Nexus 7, and it's actually usable and easy on the eyes.
I should also mention that the tablet marketplace is cutthroat-competitive, and even Microsoft has its work cut out to get in.
Ubuntu should step back from the precipice right fucking now.
Well, if it's a toy, it has to be just about my favorite toy. I'd rather have a tablet than a laptop myself - for "real" mouse/typing work I want a desktop with a keyboard that isn't little mushed things that I have to reach over a fat "sand bar" to get at while broadcasting false mouse events as my hands pass over the touchpad.
I hate touchpads/trackpads with a passion. It's why for me only laptops with trackpoints ("nipple") will do. And exactly for the reason you cite: it's hard to type while trying to hover the thumbs over the trackpad. If you do touch it, the cursor will jump somewhere random, and your text will continue to be typed there:( Fuck that.
Funny - we know this to be true, yet American continues to export jobs and technology to China. Idiots in CEO suits, idiots in Board of Director suits, idiots in Consultant suits - the whole lot of them have read time and time again about the Chinese stealing IP. But, they decide amongst themselves that it's best to take advantage of all that slave labor in China. All that IP given away, in the quest for free or almost free labor.
They're not idiots, just psychopaths - they don't give a fuck about American intellectual property or jobs, or any countries interests, for that matter. In fact, they don't even give a shit about the publicly traded company they're heading. That company can crash and burn in the long term, but by that time they'll have their money and be heading another company into the abyss.
Corporate psychopaths/sociopaths have no allegiance to country, company or institution. Hell, sometimes it seems they quite enjoy the trail of destruction they leave behind them.
I've been a KDE fan for a long time (sans the brief periods of horror, but the KDE guys at least can learn from their mistakes). The thing is, the user experience on the Nexus 7 is already downright decadent out of the box. If I install Plasma (which I have seen earlier), my Nexus 7 will be brain-meltingly awesome.
Trenching crews reporting dry soil 4 ft down (over a meter), that can't cling to the trenching blade at all due to its dryness should be important to you, if you like to at food, and live in the US.
I tried to google for this, but I don't speak English well enough to find all the sysnonyms (trenching, for instance) and variations to find a source about what you are talking about. I am not disputing any of what you are saying, I am just looking for a source, a research report or something like that. Could you help me?
No because in the preceding decades to that: -New york city's subway is flooded a third of the time -Tornadoes cause ten billion damages per season -Tropical diseases kill hundreds in those region -Northern Europe gets new England climate -Let's be honest they will have been fighting for decades already.
Just to be clear: you're not denying the events, you're arguing that they will be gradual enough for people not to connect the dots?
We're trained to notice disaster, not statistical drift. There will never be the "event" from global warming, which means denial will continue as the costs keep ramping up.
On some level I agree with you. I know that you're mostly right but I still have hope in humankind. I think humanity will have its collective "Oh, shit!" moment when - New York City subway is flooded half the time - Tornadoes cause tens of billions in damages per season - Tropical diseases start killing thousands in North America and Western Europe - Northern Europe gets Siberian climate due to the disruption of the North Atlantic conveyor belt. - and finally, once a few hundred million Bangladeshis are forced to move into India, triggering a nice nuclear conflict with Pakistan.
The "good" thing about FOX compared to CNN is that there is some level of chaos in FOX, and reports that are decidedly pro-science and sometimes liberal and even left-leaning somehow get through - I've seen a couple of very positive reports about the Occupy movement, on the FOX News website. I can only conclude that the censoring process on FOX is somewhat porous and random.
Not so with CNN: those guys are systematic to the core, and always, immutably and constantly right-leaning.
I got used to the new start screen - it's not _that_ bad, no worse than hunting through menus to find what you're looking for, and actually better in that you can just start typing the name of a program and it comes up in the search. Or you can type the name of a control panel applet or setting, and that works too.
What if you don't remember the name of that control panel applet? What if you don't know the application's name, but would otherwise find it if you could browse through menus?
"Just typing the name" of some computer program or appet can be horribly inconvenient.
It's called a public corporation. As long as the money keeps coming in at a pace they're happy with, they don't change behavior, no matter what that behavior might be. Sometimes it produces simply a shitty calculator, as in this case. Sometimes people die in great numbers, e.g. Union Carbide in Bhopal. Sometimes the repercussions last for decades, e.g. BP in the Gulf.
I agree 100%, but TI might regret their dickishness fairly soon: I have Mathlab on my Nexus 7, and I have to say, this gives the most gorgeous, powerful and decadent experience of a "calculator" I've ever had. Graphs at HD resolution, awesome interface... only the "keyboard" is somewhat shittier - but to be honest, TI's calculator keyboards aren't top-notch anymore, either.
There is simply no justification for such low resolution screen. I know the argument about TI calculators being on approved list - but a higher screen resoltion won't make them "un-approved". Fuck, in this day an age such a low resolution screen is probably exactly as expensive as a 800x480.
I can't shake off the impression that TI are just being dicks because they can.
What remains the same though is the offense. If you steal $1 from my wallet, I'll have $1 less than I would without your interference. If you copy one of my books rather than buy it, I'll have (let's say) $1 less than I would without your interference.
No, because I wouldn't have bought your crummy book anyway. You didn't lose anything on me.
The real confirmed loser here is the rest of the Android makers. In small mobile shop, 3/4 of the shelves are filled with Samsung models, I don't remember having seen a brand so dominating the shelve space before. IMO that is not good for Android to have only Samsung and Amazon as steward, but I have been told that's ok because the Galaxy S3 is a great phone:-/
That's not at all the case in Asia (namely, China, Thailand and India) - there the small and non-name brands are selling a ton of Android gear. What you describe is the situation in the USA and some European countries, but China, India and Thailand are gigantic markets.
Besides, the single most popular Android tablet, the Nexus 7, is made by Asus. And the Nexus 4 (LG) is selling like hotcakes laced with cannabis.
For much the same reason, Apple is clearly moving towards eliminating Samsung components in their hardware.
Ask Macbook users how they feel about those laptops that came with a non-Samsung screen (LG, if I am recalling correctly). The difference in quality is staggering, and everyone who got a Macbook with something else than a Samsung screen is pissed.
If Apple phases out Samsung screens from the iPhone, that will make Apple's product even more of a 2nd class gadget, compared to the Samsung Galaxys.
Well, I feel the same way about this as I do about McCarthyism. The people who rant about proprietary software are basically insecure about their own beliefs, and it's that fear that makes them so nastily critical.
So, who's being nastily critical? Comparing free software advocates to Joseph McCarthy? Great way to keep it classy, to rise above the fray.
I lost all my respect for Mark over that statement. Fuck him.
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I don't give a flying fuck WHO it is, be it Torvalds or Ballmer or Cook or Ellison if someone acts like a total fucking douchebag they should be called out for it and I'm calling him out, Linus Torvalds you sir are a douchebag. you could have solved the whole fucking thing in under 30 seconds by simply explaining why "it must be thus" but instead just acted like a giant flaming prick, it was completely uncalled for, the other guy was acting complete civil and politely, therefor the asshole of the week award should be given to Torvalds for flying so completely off the handle when there was zero point in it.
Actually, the other guy, while being incompetent, was very manipulative, and it worked - with people like you. To be manipulative like that you have to have a lot of social intelligence, and that helps you to navigate situations in which your incompetence surfaces. Some people have little patience with such manipulations and fakery.
My wife likes her Nexus 7, but she'd rather have an iPad mini. Yes this is anecdotal, but its pretty common outside the fanboy arena.
Apart from the fact that this is laughably irrelevant, there is also the problem that the "fanboy" community is centered around Apple, not Android. People using Android devices couldn't care less, there is no cult following as there is no status symbol in them.
Exactly, I wanted the GNU/Linux toolset which has only been ported to Android in chunks by people that want certain tools, it was easier to run Debian in chroot and apt-get install whatever I needed than it was to track down the combination of ports needed to get what I wanted (or port them myself). This is in no way an indictment of Android, just that my particular use case was kind of atypical and so the software I wanted hadn't been ported in one package and I was lazy.
Indeed. One could argue that it's actually a strength of the OS to allow you to run Debian that way.
Anyway, Android is opensource, so anyone can make anything they want with it - and some do, like Amazon. That means the OS isn't crippled at all in any way or form.
That you run Debian in a chroot to get at its power is evidence enough of Android's inherently crippled nature.
Not so fast. The poster you replied to uses chroot to run Debian so he can use the GNU userland. This is necessary because Android uses a different userland. That does not mean Android is crippled - it is just a different open source OS than Linux.
It's quite trivial for this to happen. Suppose someone writes a Word document (with the latest version of Word), then sends it to another person who has Word 97, who maybe opens and edits it, then passes it along to someone with another version of Word again. Somewhere along the line the document will get corrupted,
It was corrupted right at the start, when the first person saved it as .docx - the colleague with Word 97 won't be able to open it.
Oh, I hear you say "Word 97 is old, they should buy the new one." Yes, and pay MS their extortion money only because they made the new format incompatible with the previous version for reasons that 99.9999999% of users won't appreciate.
Contrast with OpenOffice, that is backwards compatible since forever.
Lots of things. Say you have an app built using the LAMP stack; and want to tun it on the tablet. You can't do that on Android since the APM stack is still not good enough in Android. So you either rewrite your app in Android-Java, or run it in a browser, hosted elsewhere on a proper Intel server. But Ubuntu on a tablet would be a better fit in more than 90% use cases.
It's not like tablets are full-fledged PCs
Why not? Like a PC, a tablet has a CPU, RAM, enough storage, and more options for 100% always-on networking than the PC's LAN or WiFi. Many tablets support full USB so keyboards and mice can be connected when required.
Android is just the Linux kernel without GNU; a full fledged GNU/Linux would be a very useful gadget.
Ditch the conditional: now there is a distro (based off the MeeGo work) that you can install on tablets
The KDE developers don't think they work for Apple and seem to listen to what users want.
Or Microsoft, for that matter - thanks go to Miguel, for his contribution in derailing Gnome.
Ubuntu is doomed. If tablets are Ubuntu's goal, they fucked up already: first off, Unity, which is drek on the desktop is also drek on tablets - so they alienated a large part of the desktop users in favor of nothing (add the local search beamed to Amazon thing for extra bonus points of alienation).
And in the meantime, KDE waltzes in, almost effortlessly creates Plasma and already now there is a distribution, Plasma Active, running on the Nexus 7, and it's actually usable and easy on the eyes.
I should also mention that the tablet marketplace is cutthroat-competitive, and even Microsoft has its work cut out to get in.
Ubuntu should step back from the precipice right fucking now.
Well, if it's a toy, it has to be just about my favorite toy. I'd rather have a tablet than a laptop myself - for "real" mouse/typing work I want a desktop with a keyboard that isn't little mushed things that I have to reach over a fat "sand bar" to get at while broadcasting false mouse events as my hands pass over the touchpad.
I hate touchpads/trackpads with a passion. It's why for me only laptops with trackpoints ("nipple") will do. And exactly for the reason you cite: it's hard to type while trying to hover the thumbs over the trackpad. If you do touch it, the cursor will jump somewhere random, and your text will continue to be typed there :( Fuck that.
Funny - we know this to be true, yet American continues to export jobs and technology to China. Idiots in CEO suits, idiots in Board of Director suits, idiots in Consultant suits - the whole lot of them have read time and time again about the Chinese stealing IP. But, they decide amongst themselves that it's best to take advantage of all that slave labor in China. All that IP given away, in the quest for free or almost free labor.
They're not idiots, just psychopaths - they don't give a fuck about American intellectual property or jobs, or any countries interests, for that matter. In fact, they don't even give a shit about the publicly traded company they're heading. That company can crash and burn in the long term, but by that time they'll have their money and be heading another company into the abyss.
Corporate psychopaths/sociopaths have no allegiance to country, company or institution. Hell, sometimes it seems they quite enjoy the trail of destruction they leave behind them.
In any case, they're not idiots.
I've been a KDE fan for a long time (sans the brief periods of horror, but the KDE guys at least can learn from their mistakes). The thing is, the user experience on the Nexus 7 is already downright decadent out of the box. If I install Plasma (which I have seen earlier), my Nexus 7 will be brain-meltingly awesome.
Trenching crews reporting dry soil 4 ft down (over a meter), that can't cling to the trenching blade at all due to its dryness should be important to you, if you like to at food, and live in the US.
I tried to google for this, but I don't speak English well enough to find all the sysnonyms (trenching, for instance) and variations to find a source about what you are talking about. I am not disputing any of what you are saying, I am just looking for a source, a research report or something like that. Could you help me?
By killing the UN workers, they are potentially killing thousands of children.
No because in the preceding decades to that:
-New york city's subway is flooded a third of the time
-Tornadoes cause ten billion damages per season
-Tropical diseases kill hundreds in those region
-Northern Europe gets new England climate
-Let's be honest they will have been fighting for decades already.
Just to be clear: you're not denying the events, you're arguing that they will be gradual enough for people not to connect the dots?
We're trained to notice disaster, not statistical drift. There will never be the "event" from global warming, which means denial will continue as the costs keep ramping up.
On some level I agree with you. I know that you're mostly right but I still have hope in humankind. I think humanity will have its collective "Oh, shit!" moment when
- New York City subway is flooded half the time
- Tornadoes cause tens of billions in damages per season
- Tropical diseases start killing thousands in North America and Western Europe
- Northern Europe gets Siberian climate due to the disruption of the North Atlantic conveyor belt.
- and finally, once a few hundred million Bangladeshis are forced to move into India, triggering a nice nuclear conflict with Pakistan.
there has to be a better source
The "good" thing about FOX compared to CNN is that there is some level of chaos in FOX, and reports that are decidedly pro-science and sometimes liberal and even left-leaning somehow get through - I've seen a couple of very positive reports about the Occupy movement, on the FOX News website. I can only conclude that the censoring process on FOX is somewhat porous and random.
Not so with CNN: those guys are systematic to the core, and always, immutably and constantly right-leaning.
I got used to the new start screen - it's not _that_ bad, no worse than hunting through menus to find what you're looking for, and actually better in that you can just start typing the name of a program and it comes up in the search. Or you can type the name of a control panel applet or setting, and that works too.
What if you don't remember the name of that control panel applet? What if you don't know the application's name, but would otherwise find it if you could browse through menus?
"Just typing the name" of some computer program or appet can be horribly inconvenient.
It's called a public corporation. As long as the money keeps coming in at a pace they're happy with, they don't change behavior, no matter what that behavior might be. Sometimes it produces simply a shitty calculator, as in this case. Sometimes people die in great numbers, e.g. Union Carbide in Bhopal. Sometimes the repercussions last for decades, e.g. BP in the Gulf.
I agree 100%, but TI might regret their dickishness fairly soon: I have Mathlab on my Nexus 7, and I have to say, this gives the most gorgeous, powerful and decadent experience of a "calculator" I've ever had. Graphs at HD resolution, awesome interface... only the "keyboard" is somewhat shittier - but to be honest, TI's calculator keyboards aren't top-notch anymore, either.
There is simply no justification for such low resolution screen. I know the argument about TI calculators being on approved list - but a higher screen resoltion won't make them "un-approved". Fuck, in this day an age such a low resolution screen is probably exactly as expensive as a 800x480.
I can't shake off the impression that TI are just being dicks because they can.
What remains the same though is the offense. If you steal $1 from my wallet, I'll have $1 less than I would without your interference. If you copy one of my books rather than buy it, I'll have (let's say) $1 less than I would without your interference.
No, because I wouldn't have bought your crummy book anyway. You didn't lose anything on me.
The real confirmed loser here is the rest of the Android makers. In small mobile shop, 3/4 of the shelves are filled with Samsung models, I don't remember having seen a brand so dominating the shelve space before. IMO that is not good for Android to have only Samsung and Amazon as steward, but I have been told that's ok because the Galaxy S3 is a great phone :-/
That's not at all the case in Asia (namely, China, Thailand and India) - there the small and non-name brands are selling a ton of Android gear. What you describe is the situation in the USA and some European countries, but China, India and Thailand are gigantic markets.
Besides, the single most popular Android tablet, the Nexus 7, is made by Asus. And the Nexus 4 (LG) is selling like hotcakes laced with cannabis.
For much the same reason, Apple is clearly moving towards eliminating Samsung components in their hardware.
Ask Macbook users how they feel about those laptops that came with a non-Samsung screen (LG, if I am recalling correctly). The difference in quality is staggering, and everyone who got a Macbook with something else than a Samsung screen is pissed.
If Apple phases out Samsung screens from the iPhone, that will make Apple's product even more of a 2nd class gadget, compared to the Samsung Galaxys.
You mean, it doesn't involve decades-long trekking in the desert? ;P
Well, I feel the same way about this as I do about McCarthyism. The people who rant about proprietary software are basically insecure about their own beliefs, and it's that fear that makes them so nastily critical.
So, who's being nastily critical? Comparing free software advocates to Joseph McCarthy? Great way to keep it classy, to rise above the fray.
I lost all my respect for Mark over that statement. Fuck him.
I don't disagree, but that's just because I'm a big fan of KDE.
Why did you put "exodus" in quotes? I didn't misspell it, did I?