There is no way Gnome 3 is designed for touch screens. Or at least, not for touchscreen-only computers. I use Fedora 17 on a pen-based computer (fujitsu stylistic) and I can tell you that if it were not for the fingerprint reader on it, Fedora would be *UNUSABLE*. Whenever Gnome 3 needs a password to connect to WiFi or to unlock the screen or unlock following suspend, THERE IS NO WAY TO ENTER THE PASSWORD! The password windows captures all mouse input so it is NOT possible to bring up an onscreen keyboard.
So lets stop pretending Gnome 3 shell is for tablet-type computers. It CANNOT BE USED ON A COMPUTER WITHOUT A KEYBOARD.
Oh, and when one IS able to use the on-screen keyboard, it has is no tilda (~) character. Not that you would ever need to type a tilda on a unix-like operating system.
I've filed bugs on all these complaints, but there has been no action.
Are you listening Gnome team?
If they have corporate sponsorship, and aren't just building a funhouse in the air, surely their company can spring for a tablet PC.
There were a shitload of these last year, I don't have a handy collection of URLs to hand, but lotsa people with odd names got put through multiple jeopardy. Perhaps G+ has its shit back together now.
The real takeaway is that he didn't even notice for a month.
(And secondarily, that the only way to get customer service at Google is to be a tech journalist. I would say "the users are not the customers but the product", but even Google's customers famously don't get service.)
G+ is the greatest thing its fans have ever used. They love it to bits. They spend their whole day on it, doing good stuff with it. Just like they did with Buzz.
Most software is akin to industrial machinery, to make your universal machine (a computer) work like a particular machine.
Games, however, are much closer to culture - like books or novels. Raise your hand if you put a priority on making sure your cultural consumption meets the free cultural works definition. Anyone?...
So if you want most games to be free software, you have to shift that cultural attitude. Good luck! Let me know how that works out!
You guys said “If you don’t like GNOME 3, don’t use it.”
So we took you at your word.
The CADT development model remains predominant in GNOME: throwing everything away and writing something new is always much more fun (and better for the resume) than just fixing the remaining bugs in something that basically works.
I'm a Unix sysadmin for a living. I just reinstalled my work box with Xubuntu 12.04. It's amazingly responsive and the interface doesn't make me want to set it on fucking fire. I can GET SHIT DONE AT WORK.
Wine works usably well for this, enough that there's a subculture of WoW players who use Linux specifically so that people they piss off can't haxx0r their b0x0r. The support is helped by the guys at Codeweavers being gamers.
... when they recommend the US government move desktops off Windows.
Until they do that, they're not taking it seriously either. It's just a boondoggle to transfer money from the taxpayer to the military-industrial complex.
BORG CUBE, RedMonk, Tuesday (NNGadget) — I have seen the future: Windows $NEXT_VERSION Milestone $MOCKUP.
I tried it on a low-end laptop with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.
WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like "FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! — the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved Ribbon user interface from Office $HATED_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!
The controversial Digital Rights Management system in $CURRENT_VERSION has been worked over, with user-downloadable "tilt bits," which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.
A public beta should be released by the end of this year. There's just no way that Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on $CURRENT_VERSION release day — the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets — in the shade.
I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.
Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.
Huh, didn't know the Franken one. That's from 2008 - perhaps he read Cryptonomicon too and mistaken fiction for fact. (And here I was thinking Franken was smart.)
This is a common myth in the geek world: that corporations are not merely incentivised, but actually required, to fuck over whoever they can in the pursuit of whatever arbitrary short-term buck someone on the internet is discussing at any given monent.
This claim is popular but incorrect - under the business judgment rule, directors' decisions cannot be judicially challenged unless they are grossly self-aggrandising or actually provably insane. The second standard is never met unless there is no deliberative process whatsoever.
The original source of this claim appears to be Cryptonomicon, where a shareholder doing this to a startup is a plot point. They can bring a suit for this, but only in the trivial sense that someone can bring a suit for anything. But as for being required by law to fuck people over in the short term no matter the long-term sensible consequences? It turns out reality isn't fiction, and that's why fiction is called "fiction".
So no, judgement on how much to interact with an open source project is entirely within the company's remit to decide. As would be sanely expected.
Slashdot Mirror
But ... the evidence is that there are literally no GNOME developers who actually have touchscreen hardware:
There is no way Gnome 3 is designed for touch screens. Or at least,
not for touchscreen-only computers. I use Fedora 17 on a pen-based
computer (fujitsu stylistic) and I can tell you that if it were not
for the fingerprint reader on it, Fedora would be *UNUSABLE*. Whenever
Gnome 3 needs a password to connect to WiFi or to unlock the screen or
unlock following suspend, THERE IS NO WAY TO ENTER THE PASSWORD! The
password windows captures all mouse input so it is NOT possible to
bring up an onscreen keyboard.
So lets stop pretending Gnome 3 shell is for tablet-type computers. It
CANNOT BE USED ON A COMPUTER WITHOUT A KEYBOARD.
Oh, and when one IS able to use the on-screen keyboard, it has is no
tilda (~) character. Not that you would ever need to type a tilda on a
unix-like operating system.
I've filed bugs on all these complaints, but there has been no action.
Are you listening Gnome team?
If they have corporate sponsorship, and aren't just building a funhouse in the air, surely their company can spring for a tablet PC.
You are, of course, quite correct :-)
Watching Nyan Cat on YouTube is S*T*E*A*L*I*N*G from the band of live musicians you should be paying money to perform every time you play a video.
Artists and companies both share a toddler's idea of ownership: "if I thought about it, it's mine."
The syllogism goes something like:
1. Someone, somewhere, is making money from something I am tangentially involved in.
2. Therefore, THEY STOLE IT FROM ME!!!!!!
The economic notion that you can't capture all the value you create if you want to maximise your take appears a bit complicated for them.
No, I was talking about people's names being flagged and validated and flagged again repeatedly. That did happen.
There were a shitload of these last year, I don't have a handy collection of URLs to hand, but lotsa people with odd names got put through multiple jeopardy. Perhaps G+ has its shit back together now.
Don't worry! Google fucks around its paying customers too.
Once you'd proved your pseudonym's status (or not), then your account wouldn't be at risk of that again.
See, you might think that, but it turns out that's not the case.
The real takeaway is that he didn't even notice for a month.
(And secondarily, that the only way to get customer service at Google is to be a tech journalist. I would say "the users are not the customers but the product", but even Google's customers famously don't get service.)
G+ is the greatest thing its fans have ever used. They love it to bits. They spend their whole day on it, doing good stuff with it. Just like they did with Buzz.
MICROSOFT. Rebrand Hotmail as Outlook.com to fill users with warm happy thoughts of Monday morning 9am at the office.
Most software is akin to industrial machinery, to make your universal machine (a computer) work like a particular machine.
Games, however, are much closer to culture - like books or novels. Raise your hand if you put a priority on making sure your cultural consumption meets the free cultural works definition. Anyone? ...
So if you want most games to be free software, you have to shift that cultural attitude. Good luck! Let me know how that works out!
Yeah, and the rest just left without saying a word, and TFA is about the GNOME devs finally noticing.
Dear remaining GNOME devs,
You guys said “If you don’t like GNOME 3, don’t use it.”
So we took you at your word.
The CADT development model remains predominant in GNOME: throwing everything away and writing something new is always much more fun (and better for the resume) than just fixing the remaining bugs in something that basically works.
I'm a Unix sysadmin for a living. I just reinstalled my work box with Xubuntu 12.04. It's amazingly responsive and the interface doesn't make me want to set it on fucking fire. I can GET SHIT DONE AT WORK.
I didn’t leave GNOME, it left me.
Wine works usably well for this, enough that there's a subculture of WoW players who use Linux specifically so that people they piss off can't haxx0r their b0x0r. The support is helped by the guys at Codeweavers being gamers.
APANA part two?
... when they recommend the US government move desktops off Windows.
Until they do that, they're not taking it seriously either. It's just a boondoggle to transfer money from the taxpayer to the military-industrial complex.
See, it's this sort of thing that makes me wonder if Microsoft was worth it after all.
Learning what the weather is today is only for LIBERAL PANTYWAISTS and SOCIALIST MUSLIMS. Your TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT doesn't look at the WEATHER!
Protect America. DO NOT WATCH WEATHER REPORTS!
The GNUphone!
I would like to see REAL reasons!
Guest post by Mary-Jo Enderle
BORG CUBE, RedMonk, Tuesday (NNGadget) — I have seen the future: Windows $NEXT_VERSION Milestone $MOCKUP.
I tried it on a low-end laptop with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.
WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like "FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! — the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved Ribbon user interface from Office $HATED_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!
The controversial Digital Rights Management system in $CURRENT_VERSION has been worked over, with user-downloadable "tilt bits," which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.
A public beta should be released by the end of this year. There's just no way that Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on $CURRENT_VERSION release day — the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets — in the shade.
I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.
Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.
IT departments are only just shifting to Windows 7. And they're only doing that because PCs are coming with more than 3GB of memory.
Urgh. Yeah, it coulda been worse.
Huh, didn't know the Franken one. That's from 2008 - perhaps he read Cryptonomicon too and mistaken fiction for fact. (And here I was thinking Franken was smart.)
This is a common myth in the geek world: that corporations are not merely incentivised, but actually required, to fuck over whoever they can in the pursuit of whatever arbitrary short-term buck someone on the internet is discussing at any given monent.
This claim is popular but incorrect - under the business judgment rule, directors' decisions cannot be judicially challenged unless they are grossly self-aggrandising or actually provably insane. The second standard is never met unless there is no deliberative process whatsoever.
The original source of this claim appears to be Cryptonomicon, where a shareholder doing this to a startup is a plot point. They can bring a suit for this, but only in the trivial sense that someone can bring a suit for anything. But as for being required by law to fuck people over in the short term no matter the long-term sensible consequences? It turns out reality isn't fiction, and that's why fiction is called "fiction".
So no, judgement on how much to interact with an open source project is entirely within the company's remit to decide. As would be sanely expected.
Yeah, 'cos that's just the sort of thing you want to do as absolutely fast as possible.