The point of the "baby" interface seems obvious to me, yet no one seems to pointing this out. It's not for the desktop. Gnome has moved on. The large buttons, the removal of a taskbar and maximize/minimize buttons, these are all clearly moves designed for devices with small touch screens, ie. tablets and cell phones. What I'm wondering is why they would just give up on the desktop like this. It's all fine and good to design a spiffy phone interface, but it seems like that should be a side project in addition to your main desktop UI, or even a spin-off. But this is it. There is no full desktop interface. This is the direction they are choosing to go in. It will be interesting to see the future of desktop Linux. I see two main paths: either desktop Linux dies off, or a new DM rises up to replace the old. And I really don't think KDE has what it takes, but only time will tell.
I love how they will go to such great lengths to demonize google for not supporting h.264 but will bend over backwards to defend microsoft's decision to not support webm. Hey, nevermind the fact that one is free for anyone to implement and the other insures that only those with deep pockets can afford it.
Yeah, choice. The choice to "do it our way or the highway"
Now developers can use an open codec that microsoft refuses to support, or use a closed codec that works on any browser! (as long as that browser is running on a microsoft operating system with a microsoft plugin). Thanks for using your market share to making sure html5 will never work properly on Linux, choice-loving microsoft.
Yeah, right on, brother! And then you can start a tire fire to show those environmentalist-fags! And make sure you breathe deeply, they hate it when people inhale pollution!
Do you buy products from every company that you see advertisements for? If not, then you too are a leech. Those companies spend their hard earned money on those ads with the expectation that they'll get a return on their investment in the form of increased sales. If you aren't buying more after viewing those ads, you might as well have not viewed them in the first place.
I know, man. Life used to be pretty sweet until around the 1860. Now I have to live in a slave-free hell-hole where I have to do all my work myself. Fuck progress, I want my slaves.
It doesn't stop there. If you look at the advertisement, but don't buy the product advertised, you're stealing from the company that payed good money for that ad.
We anthropologists prefer the term "culture" rather than "Mass Delusion". But yes, the cultural filter that causes people to assume "flying lights=alien brothers" would be an an interesting phenomenon to study.
It's freeloaders like you who are ruining the advertising industry. Ad people need to work, too, and you people are sending descent, god-fearing advertisers into a death-spiral. Advertisers aren't paying Ars sweet sweet green so people like you can just unblock and then ignore those ads. If you aren't scrutinizingly reading each ad, clicking them, and making a purchase, you're no better than a common thief. Each time an ad is loaded on Ars, it costs those poor advertisers money. If people like you continue to not block but ignore them, they will go out of business, and soon we'll have to have a subscription based service for the advertisers to keep them in business. Do you really want that?
I hate to be one of those people who shout "WRONG", but your wrong, many times over. Those tools are quartz, quartz is not an uncommon raw material (although not a very good one), and any number of fine grained rocks can be used for chipped stone tools, not just the three you listed. For example, you'll find that the majority of chipped stone tools in the Aleutians are made from basalt. Northern Minnesota has a large quantity of siltstone tools (and central MN has a large percentage of quartz tools). Also, quartzite can be a great raw material. Hixton Quartzite from Wisconsin is a dream to work with, one of the best raw materials in the area. Finally, while obsidian is easy to work, it is quite brittle and unsuitable for many tasks. But given the number of artifacts recovered at this site, they most likely were using local materials, not ones they brought with them. Quartz, as shitty as it is as a raw material, might have been the best available to them.
It worked with 3.5 last time I installed (which was less than a month ago). Maybe try installing it from Mozilla's addon page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743), rather than from the customizegoogle site? Alternatively, you could try the OptimizeGoogle addon. Never used it, but it is actively developed.
If you at least know why you're not getting work, you can take that and go after someone who's got something on you up on the net. Asking politely doesn't work, you've got to have your lawyer call that guy to make something like that happen.
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Why, the Simpson's of course. See episode DBAF12 "Gump Roast" wherein the show's ridiculous number of plotlines is made fun of, as well as lack of possible future plots in the song "They'll Never Stop the Simpsons" "Have no fear, we'll have stories for years, like Marge becomes a robot Maybe Moe gets a cell phone, has Bart ever owned a bear?"
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The point of the "baby" interface seems obvious to me, yet no one seems to pointing this out. It's not for the desktop. Gnome has moved on. The large buttons, the removal of a taskbar and maximize/minimize buttons, these are all clearly moves designed for devices with small touch screens, ie. tablets and cell phones. What I'm wondering is why they would just give up on the desktop like this. It's all fine and good to design a spiffy phone interface, but it seems like that should be a side project in addition to your main desktop UI, or even a spin-off. But this is it. There is no full desktop interface. This is the direction they are choosing to go in. It will be interesting to see the future of desktop Linux. I see two main paths: either desktop Linux dies off, or a new DM rises up to replace the old. And I really don't think KDE has what it takes, but only time will tell.
I love how they will go to such great lengths to demonize google for not supporting h.264 but will bend over backwards to defend microsoft's decision to not support webm. Hey, nevermind the fact that one is free for anyone to implement and the other insures that only those with deep pockets can afford it.
Yeah, choice. The choice to "do it our way or the highway"
Now developers can use an open codec that microsoft refuses to support, or use a closed codec that works on any browser! (as long as that browser is running on a microsoft operating system with a microsoft plugin). Thanks for using your market share to making sure html5 will never work properly on Linux, choice-loving microsoft.
Ah yes, the argument from ignorance. If I've never heard about Title 26 of the United States Code, it doesn't exist!
Yeah, right on, brother! And then you can start a tire fire to show those environmentalist-fags! And make sure you breathe deeply, they hate it when people inhale pollution!
Yeah, it gives me insight into just how many frightened children there are on slashdot. "There are brown people in the world, hold me mommy!"
Do you buy products from every company that you see advertisements for? If not, then you too are a leech. Those companies spend their hard earned money on those ads with the expectation that they'll get a return on their investment in the form of increased sales. If you aren't buying more after viewing those ads, you might as well have not viewed them in the first place.
I know, man. Life used to be pretty sweet until around the 1860. Now I have to live in a slave-free hell-hole where I have to do all my work myself. Fuck progress, I want my slaves.
Yeah, explain his anecdotal medical situation that has no sources or details, mister smarty-pants!
Oh, you can't?
I guess that proves all of science is wrong!
Hence the whole freeze-distilling thing mentioned in the summary...
It doesn't stop there. If you look at the advertisement, but don't buy the product advertised, you're stealing from the company that payed good money for that ad.
We anthropologists prefer the term "culture" rather than "Mass Delusion". But yes, the cultural filter that causes people to assume "flying lights=alien brothers" would be an an interesting phenomenon to study.
Yeah, they should totally get paid to play a game!
In fact, I think the university owes me some pretty serious backpay for all those hours of Diablo II and Starcraft.
That's nature's pocket.
Then what would be the point of even having a representative democracy?
So, in other words, you agree with me. Ad blockers are a good thing.
It's freeloaders like you who are ruining the advertising industry. Ad people need to work, too, and you people are sending descent, god-fearing advertisers into a death-spiral. Advertisers aren't paying Ars sweet sweet green so people like you can just unblock and then ignore those ads. If you aren't scrutinizingly reading each ad, clicking them, and making a purchase, you're no better than a common thief. Each time an ad is loaded on Ars, it costs those poor advertisers money. If people like you continue to not block but ignore them, they will go out of business, and soon we'll have to have a subscription based service for the advertisers to keep them in business. Do you really want that?
Did you miss that part where the person you originally replied to mentioned home brewing as being untaxed?
I hate to be one of those people who shout "WRONG", but your wrong, many times over. Those tools are quartz, quartz is not an uncommon raw material (although not a very good one), and any number of fine grained rocks can be used for chipped stone tools, not just the three you listed. For example, you'll find that the majority of chipped stone tools in the Aleutians are made from basalt. Northern Minnesota has a large quantity of siltstone tools (and central MN has a large percentage of quartz tools). Also, quartzite can be a great raw material. Hixton Quartzite from Wisconsin is a dream to work with, one of the best raw materials in the area. Finally, while obsidian is easy to work, it is quite brittle and unsuitable for many tasks. But given the number of artifacts recovered at this site, they most likely were using local materials, not ones they brought with them. Quartz, as shitty as it is as a raw material, might have been the best available to them.
This distinction will be lost on millions of reactionaries.
And let me guess, anyone who doesn't share your opinions is a "reactionary".
GMail has supported IMAP and POP3 for a while now, just use an email client and you won't have to actually log in to google in your web browser.
It worked with 3.5 last time I installed (which was less than a month ago). Maybe try installing it from Mozilla's addon page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743), rather than from the customizegoogle site? Alternatively, you could try the OptimizeGoogle addon. Never used it, but it is actively developed.
If you at least know why you're not getting work, you can take that and go after someone who's got something on you up on the net. Asking politely doesn't work, you've got to have your lawyer call that guy to make something like that happen.
Or you could try to sue him yourself. I think around 2 billion dollars would be sufficient...
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Why, the Simpson's of course. See episode DBAF12 "Gump Roast" wherein the show's ridiculous number of plotlines is made fun of, as well as lack of possible future plots in the song "They'll Never Stop the Simpsons"
"Have no fear, we'll have stories for years, like
Marge becomes a robot
Maybe Moe gets a cell phone, has Bart ever owned a bear?"