Because you need to have knowledge of the terminal before you enter it or you wont know what to do. You cant just dive into it, where as with GUIs you can see what your options are.
Assuming the 'options' were written into the interface.
And you sure can dive into the terminal if you're just copying and pasting commands, you can't copy and paste GUI actions and it's probably better you can't.
I'm wearing an Ubuntu hoodie (Easy marketing studying and working at a college with 800 computers), and now I suddenly feel very dirty and I'm not even getting dollar bills thrown on my used, worthless body.
If one more person asks me why they can't use their birthday or username as their password I'm going to ignite in an exothermic reaction.
I have seen at least ten people get broadband specifically for downloading. Six of those paid extra for more bandwidth to facilitate downloading HD movies and FLACs, two of them justified their extra bandwidth for work, but both of them wouldn't need the extra bandwidth for work if they hadn't already maxed out their bandwidth on downloading music, games, and movies.
With users like this who will keep paying no matter how much the ISP's ramp up the costs, what possible incentive would the ISP's have for losing someone who makes them at least 800 dollars a year and will probably never cancel as long as they have the freedom to do what they want?
The ISP's might get a few extra bucks on selling out some users, but the vast majority of their interests is in helping downloaders. It's just kind of sort of their business, after all.
I think they thought if they combined Space Cadet and Gay Cowboy it made a Space Cowboy.
This is going to be fantastic! It's like the polar opposite of Spike playing as spike!
He'll be a retarded, gay, time traveling bounty hunter who's the soul salvation of humanity with AIDS on trial who smuggles information in a partition of his brain while doing everything he can to stop a bus from going 55 miles an hour while fending off demons... and... I think I need a beer.
In unrelated news, Ubuntu popularity has skyrocketed during 2008.
Also, this just in, a Minnesota man claims to have found a way for computers from 2007 to keep up with computers from 2008. Microsoft has commented, "This claim is outrageous! Clearly this man is a lunatic, he keeps calling Windows 'Ubuntu'!
Oh, god, I can't read Slashdot commentary and drink fluids at the same time, I never know when something is really going to be funny and I just found out what happens when I stumble across something hilarious while chugging a bottle of water.
The Onion really shells out to get a laugh, that must have cost at least thousands to put together.
The mockups were remarkable though, a wheel instead of a keyboard really is just ridiculous, but maybe if they put one beside the keyboard it could do something interesting and useful. Apple has always impressed me with the way they used capacitive sensing, they could do quite a bit more.
That just gave me an idea for a keyboard with 'normal' keys to give you the tactile feedback, but as you touch each key it lights up or something, or applications make some use of it... to... uhh... something cool, God damnit!
I survive on hand-me-downs, and just because I don't generally buy my own hardware, I still buy a game now and then, particularly things like Darwinia where they don't fuck with you if you 'pirate' the game first.
I know I'm not getting a PS3 until it's been broken (same with the PSP slim), I'm not getting a 360 because it's Microsoft, and I'm not getting a Wii because my friend lets me borrow his because I chipped it.
I'll be damned if I'll ever buy a game again without knowing if it's worth it first.
It looks like the RIAA really are letting go of their epic battlez against the (probably more average than most people admit) consumer, but everyone knew they would have to give up on the litigation eventually. The fact is the RIAA succeeded in getting what they wanted; they made more people aware of the significance in copyright.
They might also have engineered the destruction for themselves, the MPAA and the BSA and SPA and all the other copyright alliances and associations. Now that people are aware of the threat of getting caught, they've improved on encryption, decentralization, legal disclaimers, and just good old fighting back.
This will be another lesson of history, the Trojan invasion taught us to not trust 30 foot horses (just 30 meg software), World War II taught us that it only takes a couple of nuclear explosions to end a war (that was already decided), and this has taught us that you shouldn't underestimate the enemy even when it doesn't involves swords and guns.
Just look at what shoving as much graphic power in the 360 did for the price it was. You tend to get more when you pay more, and many people want more.
The 'Gaming PC' was never meant to be a massive market, it's supposed to be expensive, it's supposed to be uncommon. You don't buy a fucking Mercedes just to have a better car, you buy a Mercedes to say you have a Mercedes.
I'm sure it's possible to cut off clean ends and put a replacement between, possible install a repeater in between. The beam already has to be extremely powerful to cross hundreds of miles, another cut shouldn't cause too much attenuation.
I just hate to think what happens if this happens too many times, they'll have to lay a whole new cable.
I think what SABDFL said is just about perfect. While I can appreciate being able to click a notification to go to the instant message I receive, I'll be far more likely to alt-tab to it instead.
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Or just the Windows users.
Where in the Hell did you get that '90%'?
Because you need to have knowledge of the terminal before you enter it or you wont know what to do. You cant just dive into it, where as with GUIs you can see what your options are.
Assuming the 'options' were written into the interface.
And you sure can dive into the terminal if you're just copying and pasting commands, you can't copy and paste GUI actions and it's probably better you can't.
I'm wearing an Ubuntu hoodie (Easy marketing studying and working at a college with 800 computers), and now I suddenly feel very dirty and I'm not even getting dollar bills thrown on my used, worthless body.
If one more person asks me why they can't use their birthday or username as their password I'm going to ignite in an exothermic reaction.
I have seen at least ten people get broadband specifically for downloading. Six of those paid extra for more bandwidth to facilitate downloading HD movies and FLACs, two of them justified their extra bandwidth for work, but both of them wouldn't need the extra bandwidth for work if they hadn't already maxed out their bandwidth on downloading music, games, and movies.
With users like this who will keep paying no matter how much the ISP's ramp up the costs, what possible incentive would the ISP's have for losing someone who makes them at least 800 dollars a year and will probably never cancel as long as they have the freedom to do what they want?
The ISP's might get a few extra bucks on selling out some users, but the vast majority of their interests is in helping downloaders. It's just kind of sort of their business, after all.
I think they thought if they combined Space Cadet and Gay Cowboy it made a Space Cowboy.
This is going to be fantastic! It's like the polar opposite of Spike playing as spike!
He'll be a retarded, gay, time traveling bounty hunter who's the soul salvation of humanity with AIDS on trial who smuggles information in a partition of his brain while doing everything he can to stop a bus from going 55 miles an hour while fending off demons... and... I think I need a beer.
Your view is incorrect, the truth is clearly whichever alternative might piss you off the least is the one we shouldn't even consider.
In unrelated news, Ubuntu popularity has skyrocketed during 2008.
Also, this just in, a Minnesota man claims to have found a way for computers from 2007 to keep up with computers from 2008. Microsoft has commented, "This claim is outrageous! Clearly this man is a lunatic, he keeps calling Windows 'Ubuntu'!
Which one? The head or the tail?
I never learn better, I just coughed on my soda in front of a room full of strangers. God, I'm such a loser.
It was funny to me
Oh, god, I can't read Slashdot commentary and drink fluids at the same time, I never know when something is really going to be funny and I just found out what happens when I stumble across something hilarious while chugging a bottle of water.
Oh, damn thing posting anonymously when I don't tell it to. I'm having that problem a lot lately.
The Onion really shells out to get a laugh, that must have cost at least thousands to put together.
The mockups were remarkable though, a wheel instead of a keyboard really is just ridiculous, but maybe if they put one beside the keyboard it could do something interesting and useful. Apple has always impressed me with the way they used capacitive sensing, they could do quite a bit more.
That just gave me an idea for a keyboard with 'normal' keys to give you the tactile feedback, but as you touch each key it lights up or something, or applications make some use of it... to... uhh... something cool, God damnit!
All this talk kind of reminds me of something I saw... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-fD78zyvI&feature=related
On the upside: A dead Microsoft, or at least a much smaller one, is good for civilisation. :-)))
Is it like how water is good for fish to breath but bad for people to breath?
I survive on hand-me-downs, and just because I don't generally buy my own hardware, I still buy a game now and then, particularly things like Darwinia where they don't fuck with you if you 'pirate' the game first.
I know I'm not getting a PS3 until it's been broken (same with the PSP slim), I'm not getting a 360 because it's Microsoft, and I'm not getting a Wii because my friend lets me borrow his because I chipped it.
I'll be damned if I'll ever buy a game again without knowing if it's worth it first.
I'm judging already, he so, so, so doesn't have it. David Tennant is a tough act to follow.
It looks like the RIAA really are letting go of their epic battlez against the (probably more average than most people admit) consumer, but everyone knew they would have to give up on the litigation eventually. The fact is the RIAA succeeded in getting what they wanted; they made more people aware of the significance in copyright.
They might also have engineered the destruction for themselves, the MPAA and the BSA and SPA and all the other copyright alliances and associations. Now that people are aware of the threat of getting caught, they've improved on encryption, decentralization, legal disclaimers, and just good old fighting back.
This will be another lesson of history, the Trojan invasion taught us to not trust 30 foot horses (just 30 meg software), World War II taught us that it only takes a couple of nuclear explosions to end a war (that was already decided), and this has taught us that you shouldn't underestimate the enemy even when it doesn't involves swords and guns.
Just look at what shoving as much graphic power in the 360 did for the price it was. You tend to get more when you pay more, and many people want more.
The 'Gaming PC' was never meant to be a massive market, it's supposed to be expensive, it's supposed to be uncommon. You don't buy a fucking Mercedes just to have a better car, you buy a Mercedes to say you have a Mercedes.
I'm sure it's possible to cut off clean ends and put a replacement between, possible install a repeater in between. The beam already has to be extremely powerful to cross hundreds of miles, another cut shouldn't cause too much attenuation.
I just hate to think what happens if this happens too many times, they'll have to lay a whole new cable.
I think what SABDFL said is just about perfect. While I can appreciate being able to click a notification to go to the instant message I receive, I'll be far more likely to alt-tab to it instead.
I would like themes, though. I'm spoiled on Growl, check out my brainstorm idea... http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/15447/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/15447/
I agree completely, and I think you're cool, but you wouldn't happen to be demented would you?