Ubuntu has tended to "just work" "out of the box" for the past several years, for me. As a matter of fact, when I became frustrated with Unity and began looking for another distro that suited my needs, I ended up reinstalling 10.04 (the Long Term Support release) because it didn't have Unity, but detected and interacted with my hardware setup with no issues, out of the box.
Other distributions' LiveCDs have failed to work on my system, or didn't feel right. I tried many of them over the course of about 10 days before giving up and going back to Ubuntu LTS.
Fedora 15 didn't like my dmraid, nor my audio card. It also felt weird, because it has Gnome3, which doesn't suit my workflow. Among other things, my brain visualizes multiple workspaces in a horizontal row, rather than a vertical column. I also don't particularly care for the new applications menu.
Plain Debian also had issues with my dmraid, and it just felt... well... clumsy and slow. Some of the slow was due to running from a LiveCD, I'm sure, but there's no way all of it was due solely to that.
Admittedly, Gnome3 is probably a lot of my issue with most of the current distros. I don't feel very friendly towards KDE, though, and XFCE isn't "shiny" enough for my tastes - it feels like stepping back in time about a decade.
Ubuntu 10.04 "feels" good - partially because I'm used to it. I'm used to the way the desktop environment is laid out. I'm used to having the system monitor in the center of my top panel, so I can see at a glance whether to expect my next operation to be a little laggy, or if I can expect the blazing speed I've become accustomed to receiving from my system. I'm used to the "eyecandy", with its wobbly windows and sliding desktop helping me not break my concentration when I'm in the middle of something. Having a window subtly react visually when I grab hold of it and drag it around; having the desktop visually slide across my screen when I switch workspaces; these things gives me the feeling I'm working with sheets of acetate on a horizontal line of projectors, rather than working with windows on a stack of workspaces. It's like the subtle background flow of information in a good novel or movie; it helps keep me from losing my suspension of disbelief, so I can perform the tasks I bought the computer for in the first place instead of wasting intellectual processing time fighting the system to get it to do what I want it to.
Ubuntu appears to "just work" with my hardware, and the current LTS version has a desktop layout I'm familiar with. Admittedly, I had to uninstall totem to get nautilus to allow vlc to be my default media player, but I haven't really had any major software snafus other than that and the buttons being moved to the "wrong" side of the application windows. Speaking of which, gconf-editor: apps/metacity/general/button_layout="menu:minimize,maximize,close" puts the buttons back where they're supposed to be.
I know I appear to be contradicting myself in the previous paragraph by showing how to "fix" things in the default Ubuntu LTS while saying that it "just works" with the default install, but moving the buttons doesn't "break" the system, whereas the changes inherent in Unity makes the system unusable to those who are only familiar with the previous versions. Ubuntu was stealing Windows users in droves when it looked and acted very similarly to Windows XP. This new change appears to be an attempt to snag the hordes of OSX users... which, in my opinion, is the wrong userbase in which to be looking for new converts. Canonical should have realized that their immense growth has been due to the fickleness of the users - continuing to build a solid base of users would have been smarter than alienating all the users they managed to steal from Windows when Microsoft decided to drastically change the UI.
To sum up, the majority of Ubuntu's users are stolen from the Windows camp, which is not surprising considering that they make up the overwhelming majority of desktop users. Many of them switche
Perhaps, but I (personally) had trouble using apt on the command line. What are the equivalents of rpm -qs package or rpm -qf file? The first lists the files in package package, and the seconds returns the package that contains file.
This was not an "upgrade" of any kind. This was one of the systems "off the rack", so to speak. The comparison was actually made after the build, "just to see".
The extra money I spent went towards things like big a honkin' video card and a BluRay burner... things like a pair of SSDs for a RAID1 array to boot from. None of these items were "high margin upgrades". None of these would have been cheaper later, when the massive amount of power and the flexibility to perform any and all tasks a system could be asked to was what we were building for in the first place. We did, actually spend about $120 we didn't need to on "pretty" (lights, windowkit, some paint).
What I was discussing was the inherently large price difference between "Comes that way from the manufacturer" and "Built it using a carefully selected list of parts purchased online". I have found, in my two examples, that Alienware is overpriced, and that you're a sad sack of a man who can't, apparently, save any money building it yourself versus "purchasing the one off the rack".
I'm sorry you got stuck at a price point just below where there is a serious difference between "really nice" and "Oh wow".
Rather inconvenient platform since most such girls are likely to spend a lot of time chatting away. Not exactly the most convenient thing to do on an 3-4 inch device.
Yeah, I've never seen someone "chatting away" on a phone...
It turned out that Alienware was only about $150 higher than my total bill of materials on a like-for-like box, included a year of on-site warranty service, and a wide array of choices for color and lighting, and was done.
That's horrible, and you don't deserve to call yourself a system builder.
I was able to duplicate, for all intents and purposes, a $6,000.00 Alienware rig for $2150.00 a couple years ago. With a pretty case, and extra lights. That price included the Windows7 Ultimate license.
Built it for a friend, and the only warranty he decided he needed was the one to three year manufacturers' warranties on the individual components. Then again, it didn't sound like he'd get much better of a warranty from Alienware, despite paying nearly 3 times as much for their rig.
his is probably more common among non-native speakers, who get confused by the nearly identical pronunciation.
Firstly: I fixed your spelling. You might want to consider a browser that implements in-line spell-check, it makes errors like that one much less frequent.
Secondly: Non-native speakers put in the extra effort to be correct, because it's embarrassing to be wrong. Non-native speakers/writers actually tend to speak (and write) better English than their native counterparts.
I am a firm believer in the theory that spelling/grammar skills of readers are more strongly influenced by such casually read texts than one would think.
I agree. I tried to ignore the grammatical errors of those around me, and ended up sharing them. There is nothing more infuriating to a grammar nazi than misusing a word and then realizing that it's probably because of training the brain to accept incorrect words in day-to-day writings. I liken it to the use of an aimbot in a first-person shooter; the brain becomes trained to be lazy, and merely come close to the intended target.
The worst part of it, to me, is that programmers should be the worst grammar nazis of all, as a spelling, grammar, capitalization, or punctuation error will cause code to either fail, or (arguably worse) produce an incorrect result. That is rarely the case, unfortunately.
Look at the report to the President on Ensuring American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-advanced-manufacturing-june2011.pdf) Laptops, semiconductor memory device, flat panel displays, and lithium-ion batteries are all technologies that America has lost the capability to manufacture. Apple could not manufacture their products in the US anymore.
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But people line up for days for these products when marginally incremental versions come out. Truly this is a sign of credit and access to money being way, way too easy.
Actually, it's my opinion that this is a sign of the late Steve Jobs being one helluva salesman.
On the other hand, every time Steve Jobs has left Apple, they've tanked until he came back... and this time, they can beg and plead all they want and he won't be able to take the helm again.
On the other hand, it is also completely appropriate to request the block on The Pirate Bay. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this site facilitates the distribution of materials against the rights holders wishes. Which is kinda illegal.
So is a denial of service attack, which is unarguably what the court is ordering them to implement against thepiratebay.org.
I may be implying my support for the illicit activities that TPB is allegedly facilitating, but I am also strongly disagreeing with the methodology that the courts are implementing. In essence, the courts are agreeing that there is no legal basis for attacking TPB explicitly, so they are going to attempt to remove them from the "map" of the internet as an end-run around the judicial process that would be required to shut down TPB itself. Of course, the fact that the judicial system has already been used in a failed attempt to shut them down shows that this outrageous behavior is either not illegal, or can't be stopped.
Is it any wonder so-called "darknets" are flourishing?
Your argument that theology is irrelevant, or even fraudulent... does it extend to paleontology? How about sociology? Psychology? All of these are studies of human behavior (some of them in roundabout ways, but still true). Are all scholars fraudulent, or just the ones who study humans?
I was using the wiki to give you a definition for the word, which I thought you lacked. I see now that a definition was not what you are lacking.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
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Ubuntu has tended to "just work" "out of the box" for the past several years, for me. As a matter of fact, when I became frustrated with Unity and began looking for another distro that suited my needs, I ended up reinstalling 10.04 (the Long Term Support release) because it didn't have Unity, but detected and interacted with my hardware setup with no issues, out of the box.
Other distributions' LiveCDs have failed to work on my system, or didn't feel right. I tried many of them over the course of about 10 days before giving up and going back to Ubuntu LTS.
Fedora 15 didn't like my dmraid, nor my audio card. It also felt weird, because it has Gnome3, which doesn't suit my workflow. Among other things, my brain visualizes multiple workspaces in a horizontal row, rather than a vertical column. I also don't particularly care for the new applications menu.
Plain Debian also had issues with my dmraid, and it just felt... well... clumsy and slow. Some of the slow was due to running from a LiveCD, I'm sure, but there's no way all of it was due solely to that.
Admittedly, Gnome3 is probably a lot of my issue with most of the current distros. I don't feel very friendly towards KDE, though, and XFCE isn't "shiny" enough for my tastes - it feels like stepping back in time about a decade.
Ubuntu 10.04 "feels" good - partially because I'm used to it. I'm used to the way the desktop environment is laid out. I'm used to having the system monitor in the center of my top panel, so I can see at a glance whether to expect my next operation to be a little laggy, or if I can expect the blazing speed I've become accustomed to receiving from my system. I'm used to the "eyecandy", with its wobbly windows and sliding desktop helping me not break my concentration when I'm in the middle of something. Having a window subtly react visually when I grab hold of it and drag it around; having the desktop visually slide across my screen when I switch workspaces; these things gives me the feeling I'm working with sheets of acetate on a horizontal line of projectors, rather than working with windows on a stack of workspaces. It's like the subtle background flow of information in a good novel or movie; it helps keep me from losing my suspension of disbelief, so I can perform the tasks I bought the computer for in the first place instead of wasting intellectual processing time fighting the system to get it to do what I want it to.
Ubuntu appears to "just work" with my hardware, and the current LTS version has a desktop layout I'm familiar with. Admittedly, I had to uninstall totem to get nautilus to allow vlc to be my default media player, but I haven't really had any major software snafus other than that and the buttons being moved to the "wrong" side of the application windows. Speaking of which, gconf-editor: apps/metacity/general/button_layout="menu:minimize,maximize,close" puts the buttons back where they're supposed to be.
I know I appear to be contradicting myself in the previous paragraph by showing how to "fix" things in the default Ubuntu LTS while saying that it "just works" with the default install, but moving the buttons doesn't "break" the system, whereas the changes inherent in Unity makes the system unusable to those who are only familiar with the previous versions. Ubuntu was stealing Windows users in droves when it looked and acted very similarly to Windows XP. This new change appears to be an attempt to snag the hordes of OSX users... which, in my opinion, is the wrong userbase in which to be looking for new converts. Canonical should have realized that their immense growth has been due to the fickleness of the users - continuing to build a solid base of users would have been smarter than alienating all the users they managed to steal from Windows when Microsoft decided to drastically change the UI.
To sum up, the majority of Ubuntu's users are stolen from the Windows camp, which is not surprising considering that they make up the overwhelming majority of desktop users. Many of them switche
Perhaps, but I (personally) had trouble using apt on the command line. What are the equivalents of rpm -qs package or rpm -qf file? The first lists the files in package package, and the seconds returns the package that contains file.
apt-cache
This link goes to goatse.
Goatse.
Goatse. You have been warned.
Yet more goatse. Woo. Hoo.
Goatse. Do not click.
Hey, it was Apple who came up with the "Think different" slogan. Why shouldn't Androidites use "Think smart" as their own? ;)
How about "think more"?
This was not an "upgrade" of any kind. This was one of the systems "off the rack", so to speak. The comparison was actually made after the build, "just to see".
The extra money I spent went towards things like big a honkin' video card and a BluRay burner... things like a pair of SSDs for a RAID1 array to boot from. None of these items were "high margin upgrades". None of these would have been cheaper later, when the massive amount of power and the flexibility to perform any and all tasks a system could be asked to was what we were building for in the first place. We did, actually spend about $120 we didn't need to on "pretty" (lights, windowkit, some paint).
What I was discussing was the inherently large price difference between "Comes that way from the manufacturer" and "Built it using a carefully selected list of parts purchased online". I have found, in my two examples, that Alienware is overpriced, and that you're a sad sack of a man who can't, apparently, save any money building it yourself versus "purchasing the one off the rack".
I'm sorry you got stuck at a price point just below where there is a serious difference between "really nice" and "Oh wow".
Why would they risk that when other operating systems have such a tiny market share anyways?
... because the "other operating systems" are gaining ground?
Rather inconvenient platform since most such girls are likely to spend a lot of time chatting away. Not exactly the most convenient thing to do on an 3-4 inch device.
Yeah, I've never seen someone "chatting away" on a phone...
It turned out that Alienware was only about $150 higher than my total bill of materials on a like-for-like box, included a year of on-site warranty service, and a wide array of choices for color and lighting, and was done.
That's horrible, and you don't deserve to call yourself a system builder.
I was able to duplicate, for all intents and purposes, a $6,000.00 Alienware rig for $2150.00 a couple years ago. With a pretty case, and extra lights. That price included the Windows7 Ultimate license.
Built it for a friend, and the only warranty he decided he needed was the one to three year manufacturers' warranties on the individual components. Then again, it didn't sound like he'd get much better of a warranty from Alienware, despite paying nearly 3 times as much for their rig.
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The above sentence is complete, and grammatically accurate; If you can't parse it, blame your teachers.
Sadly that site gets it very wrong.
Perhaps you should contact the webmaster, and inform them of their error(s)?
Help stamp out this mindless mindlessness!
his is probably more common among non-native speakers, who get confused by the nearly identical pronunciation.
Firstly: I fixed your spelling. You might want to consider a browser that implements in-line spell-check, it makes errors like that one much less frequent.
Secondly: Non-native speakers put in the extra effort to be correct, because it's embarrassing to be wrong. Non-native speakers/writers actually tend to speak (and write) better English than their native counterparts.
I am a firm believer in the theory that spelling/grammar skills of readers are more strongly influenced by such casually read texts than one would think.
I agree. I tried to ignore the grammatical errors of those around me, and ended up sharing them. There is nothing more infuriating to a grammar nazi than misusing a word and then realizing that it's probably because of training the brain to accept incorrect words in day-to-day writings. I liken it to the use of an aimbot in a first-person shooter; the brain becomes trained to be lazy, and merely come close to the intended target.
The worst part of it, to me, is that programmers should be the worst grammar nazis of all, as a spelling, grammar, capitalization, or punctuation error will cause code to either fail, or (arguably worse) produce an incorrect result. That is rarely the case, unfortunately.
Look at the report to the President on Ensuring American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-advanced-manufacturing-june2011.pdf)
Laptops, semiconductor memory device, flat panel displays, and lithium-ion batteries are all technologies that America has lost the capability to manufacture. Apple could not manufacture their products in the US anymore.
Reposted to help get this AC's point out where people who ignore ACs will see it, and also to add an anchor tag to the "linked" document, so those of us who hate seeing URLs without links can just click the darn thing.
But people line up for days for these products when marginally incremental versions come out. Truly this is a sign of credit and access to money being way, way too easy.
Actually, it's my opinion that this is a sign of the late Steve Jobs being one helluva salesman.
On the other hand, every time Steve Jobs has left Apple, they've tanked until he came back... and this time, they can beg and plead all they want and he won't be able to take the helm again.
As a native speaker, I also find the inappropriate usage of its/it's painful.
They're/their/there and your/you're are also sources of unreasoning rage.
The affect vs effect issue was apparently enough to make someone make an entire domain about it.
Language is a funny thing. "Funny" as in, you have to laugh, or it'll make you cry.
On the other hand, it is also completely appropriate to request the block on The Pirate Bay. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this site facilitates the distribution of materials against the rights holders wishes. Which is kinda illegal.
So is a denial of service attack, which is unarguably what the court is ordering them to implement against thepiratebay.org.
I may be implying my support for the illicit activities that TPB is allegedly facilitating, but I am also strongly disagreeing with the methodology that the courts are implementing. In essence, the courts are agreeing that there is no legal basis for attacking TPB explicitly, so they are going to attempt to remove them from the "map" of the internet as an end-run around the judicial process that would be required to shut down TPB itself. Of course, the fact that the judicial system has already been used in a failed attempt to shut them down shows that this outrageous behavior is either not illegal, or can't be stopped.
Is it any wonder so-called "darknets" are flourishing?
Your argument that theology is irrelevant, or even fraudulent... does it extend to paleontology? How about sociology? Psychology? All of these are studies of human behavior (some of them in roundabout ways, but still true). Are all scholars fraudulent, or just the ones who study humans?
I was using the wiki to give you a definition for the word, which I thought you lacked.
I see now that a definition was not what you are lacking.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
God made me an atheist. Who are you to judge Him?
Why do we even tolerate the profession of "Theologian" in the 21st century? Somehow he's committing fraud if he can make a living off being one.
"Theologian" is based on "theology" - that is, the study of religion.
Next time you don't actually understand a word, look it up before telling everyone you're a fool.