Does not match my experience, I have 43 Linux games on Steam (mostly redeemed from Indie Bundles) and they all work fine, even on my Intel HD 4000. A quote from your "prime example",
The game runs under Linux and I bought it, but had I known it's Flash I would not have bought it...
seems to agree with my experience (not that I like flash, not that I like the status of flash on linux, but if it works, it works).
With ubuntu this has never been my experience. Instead it gets ignored and you get bothered every 5 months to a year being asked "does it work on the latest version"?
I've reported plenty of bugs to Launchpad. Sometimes bugs do get ignored, others get fixed immediately. It depends on the nature of the bug - Canonical isn't known for being a major developing force in the Linux kernel area, for example, but I reported a couple of bugs against the HUD feature a few months ago and they indeed got fixed, which involved going back to the design team and then to developers. They have a good workflow set up, but as a distribution with finite developing manpower they can't possibly fix everything. I wish Launchpad had automatic upstreaming for certain packages (especially those in Universe), but for packages in Main I can't complain.
Linux users (and that extends to most Free/Open Source software users) tend to have this annoying sense of entitlement that unnecessarily stresses relations with developers and turns everything into a flamewar. "Why doesn't MY bug get fixed?", ignoring how many OTHER bugs (likely of broader importance) get fixed, "Why don't you do this THIS way?", without bothering to consider that there might be an underlying design principle, or that your preferences represent those of a minority. My favourite is "That's it, I'm moving to Mint/back to Windows". Good riddance. Only in most cases they don't -- empty threats are a valid way of seeking attention, apparently.
True of the median, not of the mean. If you measure intelligence by IQ, which is designed so that the mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 15, it is perfectly possible that over 50% of the population scores above the mean. Or below it.
...and incorrectly applied in any case; 47 is less than twice 27.
What matters is how many places up or down you move.
...of how many total places there are - it's not the same to move down 20 positions out of 200 than 20 out of 21. Or equivalently, what % of the table you move (provided the table has not changed size due to countries being added/removed).
But this is a very subjective topic and even these more appropriate metrics conform a rather incomplete picture of the situation.
Damn, biologists get all the cool names. Dear physicists at the LHC, when you find a new particle please consider naming it "Pikachu boson", a.k.a. "Pikachon". Don't let biologists win this one.
I thought the same when I read this piece of news yesterday. Journalists like to fill their sentences with words that sound appropriate to them: "[Newton's Law of] Gravity", "8.1 magnitude [in Richter's scale]"... and often they make mistakes.
Please remember, when you see 'haven' instead of 'heaven,' that English isn't everyone's first language.
Interestingly, the expression for "tax haven" in Spanish is "paraiso fiscal" (tax heaven), which I'm pretty sure was a mistranslation in the first place. Ok, ignore the "interestingly"..
You can have it in Gnome too. Open gconf-editor, find the "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" key, and enter "close:minimize,maximize" as the value.
This is usability? KDE allows the user to drag-n-drop button layout.
"Configurability", more like. It's well known that Gnome lets you configure fewer things than KDE. They try to focus on simplicity, and they think that the fewer things to tinker with in the usual setup tools, the better. By design though, Gnome's behaviour is configurable, and if you know your way around GConf keys you can tweak quite a few things.
Whether you agree with Gnome's principles or not, that's another story. I personally don't mind either way.
the most sensible layout I encountered was in OS/2 (using an add-on in v3 or v4, I forget), which had minimize & maximize in the upper right, and the close button on the upper left
You can have it in Gnome too. Open gconf-editor, find the "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" key, and enter "close:minimize,maximize" as the value.
the money that would be invested by insurance companies in treating people with pre-existing, permanent conditions would increase the insurance prices for everyone. And that's precisely what I think is correct. The extra money you are paying is exactly proportional to the chances that the same may have happened (or may still happen!) to you. Which is fair.
2. You say
smoking 3 packs a day and washing it all down with a quart of vodka
That's why tobacco and alcoholic products are taxed extra (or at least in other countries where the extra tax goes to health services).
You are basically saying that it's their fault if people get sick. That is nonsense. I hope you are never in the situation to realize this from first-hand experience.
People typically vote for the party that offers what is good for them personally.
Some of us respect the rights of others and don't seek to help ourselves from their pockets.
I think you are replying to the second part of my comment there, not the bit you quote, else I don't see what (very indirect) connection you are trying to make between voting and helping yourself from somebody else's pocket.
The point I can see you could be trying to raise is that the money that would be invested by insurance companies in treating people with pre-existing, permanent conditions would increase the insurance prices for everyone. And that's precisely what I think is correct. The extra money you are paying is exactly proportional to the chances that the same may have happened (or may still happen!) to you. Which is fair.
A system of governance that is based upon "what is good for me personally" is simple anarchy.
Bollocks. People typically vote for the party that offers what is good for them personally. For instance, voting profiles are typically different among the rich and the poor for the socio-economic policies each party offers. The party that represents the interest of the majority wins. That is called democracy.
Forcing an insurance company to pay for a pre-existing condition is simple theft, regardless of how hard that makes your situation.
Really? Do you worry more about whether the profit margins of some corporations are huge or even huger, rather than about the economic well-being and health of individuals (who surely did not ask for nor deserve having a permanent health condition)? Of course, big, wealthy[-er] corporations are what makes a country great. Sure.
An Uninterpretable Power Supply is basically a honking big battery (or, in advanced models, a desktop fusion setup) that takes over when the normal electrical supply fails.
That's bollocks. An uninterpretable power supply is one with LEDs and LCDs everywhere which nobody knows how to read. I've seen one. Not my cup of tea.
Now, an uninterruptible one... that's a different story.
Anyway, how does your comment classify as sarcasm, even as per your definition?
You don't really think that it's smugness (although in this case it looks more like humour to me) that keeps Linux from becoming popular, do you? I would say that it's "this kind of thinking" that keeps Linux at a non-zero market share on desktops. Growing further is simply not in the hands of "Linux evangelists", smug or otherwise.
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1% of false negatives is good, but how about false positives?
Ridiculous headline title.
And a great example of Betteridge's law of headlines.
Does not match my experience, I have 43 Linux games on Steam (mostly redeemed from Indie Bundles) and they all work fine, even on my Intel HD 4000. A quote from your "prime example",
The game runs under Linux and I bought it, but had I known it's Flash I would not have bought it...
seems to agree with my experience (not that I like flash, not that I like the status of flash on linux, but if it works, it works).
With ubuntu this has never been my experience. Instead it gets ignored and you get bothered every 5 months to a year being asked "does it work on the latest version"?
I've reported plenty of bugs to Launchpad. Sometimes bugs do get ignored, others get fixed immediately. It depends on the nature of the bug - Canonical isn't known for being a major developing force in the Linux kernel area, for example, but I reported a couple of bugs against the HUD feature a few months ago and they indeed got fixed, which involved going back to the design team and then to developers. They have a good workflow set up, but as a distribution with finite developing manpower they can't possibly fix everything. I wish Launchpad had automatic upstreaming for certain packages (especially those in Universe), but for packages in Main I can't complain.
Linux users (and that extends to most Free/Open Source software users) tend to have this annoying sense of entitlement that unnecessarily stresses relations with developers and turns everything into a flamewar. "Why doesn't MY bug get fixed?", ignoring how many OTHER bugs (likely of broader importance) get fixed, "Why don't you do this THIS way?", without bothering to consider that there might be an underlying design principle, or that your preferences represent those of a minority. My favourite is "That's it, I'm moving to Mint/back to Windows". Good riddance. Only in most cases they don't -- empty threats are a valid way of seeking attention, apparently.
Does normal seeking in the scrollbar work again (middle-click) ?
It indeed does.
Whose retard disabled seeking in a bar designed essentially to seek ?!
I don't know who the owner of the retard in question is, sorry.
Doesn't anyone test any more?
Having installed Ubuntu 10.04-12.04 on about 10 different machines I've never seen the problem you mention.
And no, despite years of C/C++ programming, I have absolutely no interest in finding and fixing the problem myself.
You could report a bug though, which would likely get fixed by the time you say you'll upgrade from 10.04.
Is there an obvious "make scroll bars not retarded" option I'm missing?
If only there was a tool to, like, search for stuff...
50% of people...
...are by definition below average intelligence.
True of the median, not of the mean. If you measure intelligence by IQ, which is designed so that the mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 15, it is perfectly possible that over 50% of the population scores above the mean. Or below it.
Nothing can go faster than C. Except Fortran, of course.
Meaningless metric
...and incorrectly applied in any case; 47 is less than twice 27.
What matters is how many places up or down you move.
...of how many total places there are - it's not the same to move down 20 positions out of 200 than 20 out of 21. Or equivalently, what % of the table you move (provided the table has not changed size due to countries being added/removed).
But this is a very subjective topic and even these more appropriate metrics conform a rather incomplete picture of the situation.
Damn, biologists get all the cool names. Dear physicists at the LHC, when you find a new particle please consider naming it "Pikachu boson", a.k.a. "Pikachon". Don't let biologists win this one.
Are you aware of what is in a Core Solo processor?
I thought the same when I read this piece of news yesterday. Journalists like to fill their sentences with words that sound appropriate to them: "[Newton's Law of] Gravity", "8.1 magnitude [in Richter's scale]"... and often they make mistakes.
Please remember, when you see 'haven' instead of 'heaven,' that English isn't everyone's first language.
Interestingly, the expression for "tax haven" in Spanish is "paraiso fiscal" (tax heaven), which I'm pretty sure was a mistranslation in the first place. Ok, ignore the "interestingly"..
You forget about this: http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/01/19/2322215/Motorola-Sticks-To-Guns-On-Locking-Down-Android
You can have it in Gnome too. Open gconf-editor, find the "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" key, and enter "close:minimize,maximize" as the value.
This is usability?
KDE allows the user to drag-n-drop button layout.
"Configurability", more like. It's well known that Gnome lets you configure fewer things than KDE. They try to focus on simplicity, and they think that the fewer things to tinker with in the usual setup tools, the better. By design though, Gnome's behaviour is configurable, and if you know your way around GConf keys you can tweak quite a few things.
Whether you agree with Gnome's principles or not, that's another story. I personally don't mind either way.
the most sensible layout I encountered was in OS/2 (using an add-on in v3 or v4, I forget), which had minimize & maximize in the upper right, and the close button on the upper left
You can have it in Gnome too. Open gconf-editor, find the "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" key, and enter "close:minimize,maximize" as the value.
Two points:
1. As I replied to the earlier post,
the money that would be invested by insurance companies in treating people with pre-existing, permanent conditions would increase the insurance prices for everyone. And that's precisely what I think is correct. The extra money you are paying is exactly proportional to the chances that the same may have happened (or may still happen!) to you. Which is fair.
2. You say
smoking 3 packs a day and washing it all down with a quart of vodka
That's why tobacco and alcoholic products are taxed extra (or at least in other countries where the extra tax goes to health services).
You are basically saying that it's their fault if people get sick. That is nonsense. I hope you are never in the situation to realize this from first-hand experience.
People typically vote for the party that offers what is good for them personally.
Some of us respect the rights of others and don't seek to help ourselves from their pockets.
I think you are replying to the second part of my comment there, not the bit you quote, else I don't see what (very indirect) connection you are trying to make between voting and helping yourself from somebody else's pocket.
The point I can see you could be trying to raise is that the money that would be invested by insurance companies in treating people with pre-existing, permanent conditions would increase the insurance prices for everyone. And that's precisely what I think is correct. The extra money you are paying is exactly proportional to the chances that the same may have happened (or may still happen!) to you. Which is fair.
A system of governance that is based upon "what is good for me personally" is simple anarchy.
Bollocks. People typically vote for the party that offers what is good for them personally. For instance, voting profiles are typically different among the rich and the poor for the socio-economic policies each party offers. The party that represents the interest of the majority wins. That is called democracy.
Forcing an insurance company to pay for a pre-existing condition is simple theft, regardless of how hard that makes your situation.
Really? Do you worry more about whether the profit margins of some corporations are huge or even huger, rather than about the economic well-being and health of individuals (who surely did not ask for nor deserve having a permanent health condition)? Of course, big, wealthy[-er] corporations are what makes a country great. Sure.
I think you accidentally the joke.
I think you accidentally all your drugs.
An Uninterpretable Power Supply is basically a honking big battery (or, in advanced models, a desktop fusion setup) that takes over when the normal electrical supply fails.
That's bollocks. An uninterpretable power supply is one with LEDs and LCDs everywhere which nobody knows how to read. I've seen one. Not my cup of tea.
Now, an uninterruptible one... that's a different story.
Anyway, how does your comment classify as sarcasm, even as per your definition?
You don't really think that it's smugness (although in this case it looks more like humour to me) that keeps Linux from becoming popular, do you? I would say that it's "this kind of thinking" that keeps Linux at a non-zero market share on desktops. Growing further is simply not in the hands of "Linux evangelists", smug or otherwise.
Two typos in (what was supposed to be) 19 characters. I wish all malware writers were that sloppy.