GNOME 3 does both of those features. Also, it works the way you want it to work. Personally, I prefer the way GNOME 3 is designed. Tomato, toe-mah-toe I guess.
The 3DS does have a built-in music player already, if you didn't notice. It support MP3 as well as M4A and it lets you share the names of your most-listened-to songs via streetpass. It's not exactly full-featured and it's mostly meant as a toy, but it's still there.
As for the other things you suggested... Yeah... I wish the 3DS could have user-developed applications as well.
If I had mod points I would give them all to you. GNOME 3 is, honestly, the most easily customizable desktop yet. People ask for customization, GNOME 3 gets extensions. People see extensions and say "my OS should work out of the box"... Well no OS does that. People will never be satisfied and just want something to complain about, I guess.
That's a bad analogy because it implies that these extensions are required to use GNOME 3. They are not. GNOME 3 is functional without any of these extensions. In fact, I only use one. Your analogy implies that, to do anything with the OS, you have to install an extension. This is completely false. It might make it easier or more comfortable for some people, yes, but it is absolutely not required.
I'm pretty sure that EVERY OS requires some sort of customization after installing to get it to work the way you want. Have fun looking for an OS that suits every single person's needs immediately!
No, they don't. This is complete and utter bullshit. That business owner is still COMPLETELY FREE to not take birth control. They just don't have the "right" (which isn't a right, but rather a desire to oppress others) to force their views on others.
Actually both of you have the problem completely wrong. The problem is exactly what you're saying. I am a Catholic and, as such, I do not believe that birth control should be used. If I were in that position you said, where I have to provide someone else with birth control, I'd be violating my conscience by supporting something that I'm religiously obligated to not support. If they acquired the birth control through some other method then that would be fine. However, as a Catholic, I simply would never give someone something like that. That's their problem, not mine. That's why it violates the freedom of religion. By forcing me and other Catholics to give someone an object that I feel is immoral, it's forcing me to compromise my religious values. That should never happen in any reasonably free society.
Roman Catholicism has a very large history with that, actually. Many saints were great thinkers and wrote several books and papers about philosophy and many other types of study. I'm no expert on the subject, but you'd be very surprised if you took a look at what Catholics have done in a scholarly sense.
In fact, believe it or not, Catholics are encouraged to question their own faith. I know, that sounds crazy, right? Well we are, as we believe that, through constant research and questioning, we'd end up back at Catholicism again anyway (many have tried and failed to escape our religion's dogma through logic). You can say that many things that Catholics believe are illogical, and you'd have a right in saying that, but every single one of our beliefs is only there for a logical reason. We don't have a single belief that's there "because God told us so". We believe that God has a reason for every single thing he said and, unlike many other religious Christian groups, we actively question it.
Vista wasn't crap, though. For me it was perfectly usable. It had a few quirks here and there but doesn't every OS? Not only that but what's so bad about liking GNOME 3?
Oh, and could you please use more profanity? You're coming off as too mature for me to handle.
This is being blown way out of proportion. We're all acting like this means that Fedora is dropping GNOME 3 for MATE or something crazy like that. From what I can tell they're simply just porting the packages to Fedora, nothing more. Maybe they'll offer a version with MATE as the default configuration, but this doesn't show any signs of replacing GNOME 3 in the future. Lets be realistic and read the articles, folks.
Also, unrelated, but I feel like the GNOME 3 hate is really blown out of proportion. Sure, some users were driven away, but the exact same thing happened with GNOME 2 and people called it trash and crap and whatever else. By the time that GNOME 3 is mature and more stable, it will have a large userbase again. I can guarantee it. I, personally, really love it as it is, especially how easily extensible it is. I don't know another desktop that allows so many customization options through extensions like that. You can really change near everything with a little tweak and you can write one yourself in minutes.
I'm waiting for DDR MAX 2 and DDR Extreme. The difficulty level in the early ones is just-... Ohhh we're talking about memory here. Carry on, folks. Ignore me.
That movie... So much was wrong with it. It's pretty hilarious to watch with friends MST3K style. Some of the many things I noticed wrong with it:
* In a scene a man is walking past the windows on the Titanic II's exterior. In them, you can see reflections of buildings... This is at sea.
* In the scene where the ice starts to break and people are running away, it looks like they did it with MS Paint. Seriously, they didn't even animate the ice breaking. They just pasted a "cracked" texture over it.
* In that same scene a man falls down into a crack, but with no acceleration whatsoever. He just falls down instantly at a constant speed. It's like they put him on a bluescreen and, in the video editor, took that frame and just made it go straight down within the space of half a second. It's really, really pathetic.
* The ship is nowhere near icebergs, but that doesn't stop the plotline! Apparently global warming causes an ice shelf to fall or something like that, which then causes a tsunami that pushes an iceberg towards the ship... Yep... Totally plausible!
* Just the idea of naming a ship after one that sank so depressingly is a joke.
I could go on and on about how hilariously bad this movie was, but since it's an Asylum movie, I don't have to. Thanks for posting this before I did! Also, man, they have some real "gems". Princess and the Pony is probably the worst film I've ever seen. It's really that bad.
I see a lot of anti-science and distrust on the liberal side as well
Allow me to add my own example to this. Everybody out there has an opinion on abortion laws. I hear people from every side of the spectrum blasting the other parts for being anti-science for one reason or another, and to different extents, they're both right. However, it amazes me how uneducated most liberal people I know are on the issue. If I asked them whether or not a fetus was a living thing, I might get a response that goes something like, "not until the second trimester" or something like that. What in the world? It's a well-known scientific fact that zygotes/fetuses are living things, whether or not you consider them to be human (why wouldn't they be, anyway? They're just very, very, very young humans with little physical and mental capacity). They're not some random bag of cells as some people say they are. Heck, even if they were, they'd still be alive.
(Disclaimer: I'm pro-life for scientific reasons. That isn't the topic of this comment, though, and I'd rather not debate it).
The Judaeo-Christian worldview is by-and-large anti-science.
What? Their worldview is very pro-science. You're thinking of the people that follow sacred texts word-for-word, as if they're 100% accurate historical documents. Religion contains a lot of metaphysical poetry, similes and metaphors, and was generally written in a pre-scientific age. The Catholic Church today, for example, is very pro-science. Pope Pius XII, the first pope to make an official statement on Evolution, fully accepted it (so long as we believe that our souls are God-made, of course). There is nothing contradictory at all about religion and science in general; it all depends on what you believe.
The difference between this and that is that these TVs and the laptops are physically capable of spying but not made to do that. The schools themselves installed software which spied on the kids. These TVs are perfectly fine. However... That doesn't mean they can't be made to be otherwise.
I get how everybody goes crazy whenever anything has the potential to spy on you, but relax. It's nothing that hasn't been done before. If you're so afraid about TVs becoming more advanced, then why not be so scared about cell phones, game consoles, iPods and the like? They all have cameras, microphones, and internet connectivity, but they're used for entertainment and functionality, not for spying. Sure, these things can have a government-mandated backdoor of sorts, but worrying about every piece of advanced technology will get us nowhere.
Besides it's not like these companies have all of the staff and resources necessary to watch and monitor the thousands to millions of TV users all at once. This is mostly meant for facial recognition technology, Skype, and the like. Chill, people.
Actually, EA said themselves that the DLC is not on the game disc as many fans claim. It was developed separately by a different team and it's completely unnecessary to finish the game. They only released it on launch day to help boost sales of it (as in, so people wouldn't sell their game while waiting for DLC and they could just buy it immediately).
What "magic keystrokes"? All I ever mentioned was Alt+Tab and the Windows key; hardly complicated. Almost everybody I know of knows these keys and what they do. Also GNOME 2 did not have chat integration nearly as well as GNOME 3 does. GNOME 3 has notifications that you can use to respond to chat messages without switching to the chat window and your availability status is a part of the shell itself; GNOME 2 did not have this. Also I don't think that removing the need to minimize should be considered a bad thing. If I don't have to minimize anymore for any reason whatsoever, why should I need that function? I can still minimize windows, but it's just hidden due to how unnecessary it is.
I agree with you but GNOME is taking a different approach than what you suggest. Instead of cloning Mac and moving everything to the top of the screen, it only moves application-centric functions there. For example, if you wanted to access your program's preferences dialog, you'd use the standardized "application menu" (no more hunting in "Edit" or "Tools" anymore!). If you wanted to zoom-in on your document, however, you'd use the "view" menu on the window itself because it only affects that window. From a glance this might sound like it makes searching for options even more confusing, but once this becomes standard it should be even easier than the current method.
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GNOME 3 does both of those features. Also, it works the way you want it to work. Personally, I prefer the way GNOME 3 is designed. Tomato, toe-mah-toe I guess.
The 3DS does have a built-in music player already, if you didn't notice. It support MP3 as well as M4A and it lets you share the names of your most-listened-to songs via streetpass. It's not exactly full-featured and it's mostly meant as a toy, but it's still there.
As for the other things you suggested... Yeah... I wish the 3DS could have user-developed applications as well.
If I had mod points I would give them all to you. GNOME 3 is, honestly, the most easily customizable desktop yet. People ask for customization, GNOME 3 gets extensions. People see extensions and say "my OS should work out of the box"... Well no OS does that. People will never be satisfied and just want something to complain about, I guess.
That's a bad analogy because it implies that these extensions are required to use GNOME 3. They are not. GNOME 3 is functional without any of these extensions. In fact, I only use one. Your analogy implies that, to do anything with the OS, you have to install an extension. This is completely false. It might make it easier or more comfortable for some people, yes, but it is absolutely not required.
I'm pretty sure that EVERY OS requires some sort of customization after installing to get it to work the way you want. Have fun looking for an OS that suits every single person's needs immediately!
Scratch that, not "both of you". Only the person I'm replying to.
No, they don't. This is complete and utter bullshit. That business owner is still COMPLETELY FREE to not take birth control. They just don't have the "right" (which isn't a right, but rather a desire to oppress others) to force their views on others.
Actually both of you have the problem completely wrong. The problem is exactly what you're saying. I am a Catholic and, as such, I do not believe that birth control should be used. If I were in that position you said, where I have to provide someone else with birth control, I'd be violating my conscience by supporting something that I'm religiously obligated to not support. If they acquired the birth control through some other method then that would be fine. However, as a Catholic, I simply would never give someone something like that. That's their problem, not mine. That's why it violates the freedom of religion. By forcing me and other Catholics to give someone an object that I feel is immoral, it's forcing me to compromise my religious values. That should never happen in any reasonably free society.
Roman Catholicism has a very large history with that, actually. Many saints were great thinkers and wrote several books and papers about philosophy and many other types of study. I'm no expert on the subject, but you'd be very surprised if you took a look at what Catholics have done in a scholarly sense.
In fact, believe it or not, Catholics are encouraged to question their own faith. I know, that sounds crazy, right? Well we are, as we believe that, through constant research and questioning, we'd end up back at Catholicism again anyway (many have tried and failed to escape our religion's dogma through logic). You can say that many things that Catholics believe are illogical, and you'd have a right in saying that, but every single one of our beliefs is only there for a logical reason. We don't have a single belief that's there "because God told us so". We believe that God has a reason for every single thing he said and, unlike many other religious Christian groups, we actively question it.
You mean people who don't know that you can get malware from ads like this?
I use an adblocker not because I don't like supporting websites but because there's no way I'm risking the chance of an infection like that.
Vista wasn't crap, though. For me it was perfectly usable. It had a few quirks here and there but doesn't every OS? Not only that but what's so bad about liking GNOME 3?
Oh, and could you please use more profanity? You're coming off as too mature for me to handle.
This is being blown way out of proportion. We're all acting like this means that Fedora is dropping GNOME 3 for MATE or something crazy like that. From what I can tell they're simply just porting the packages to Fedora, nothing more. Maybe they'll offer a version with MATE as the default configuration, but this doesn't show any signs of replacing GNOME 3 in the future. Lets be realistic and read the articles, folks.
Also, unrelated, but I feel like the GNOME 3 hate is really blown out of proportion. Sure, some users were driven away, but the exact same thing happened with GNOME 2 and people called it trash and crap and whatever else. By the time that GNOME 3 is mature and more stable, it will have a large userbase again. I can guarantee it. I, personally, really love it as it is, especially how easily extensible it is. I don't know another desktop that allows so many customization options through extensions like that. You can really change near everything with a little tweak and you can write one yourself in minutes.
...Then you realize how easy it would be to simply copy or steal someone else's identity...
I'm waiting for DDR MAX 2 and DDR Extreme. The difficulty level in the early ones is just- ... Ohhh we're talking about memory here. Carry on, folks. Ignore me.
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You're still here! Oh my goodness, I was so worried! I thought you had gone for good! :'D
That movie... So much was wrong with it. It's pretty hilarious to watch with friends MST3K style. Some of the many things I noticed wrong with it:
* In a scene a man is walking past the windows on the Titanic II's exterior. In them, you can see reflections of buildings... This is at sea.
* In the scene where the ice starts to break and people are running away, it looks like they did it with MS Paint. Seriously, they didn't even animate the ice breaking. They just pasted a "cracked" texture over it.
* In that same scene a man falls down into a crack, but with no acceleration whatsoever. He just falls down instantly at a constant speed. It's like they put him on a bluescreen and, in the video editor, took that frame and just made it go straight down within the space of half a second. It's really, really pathetic.
* The ship is nowhere near icebergs, but that doesn't stop the plotline! Apparently global warming causes an ice shelf to fall or something like that, which then causes a tsunami that pushes an iceberg towards the ship... Yep... Totally plausible!
* Just the idea of naming a ship after one that sank so depressingly is a joke.
I could go on and on about how hilariously bad this movie was, but since it's an Asylum movie, I don't have to. Thanks for posting this before I did! Also, man, they have some real "gems". Princess and the Pony is probably the worst film I've ever seen. It's really that bad.
I see a lot of anti-science and distrust on the liberal side as well
Allow me to add my own example to this. Everybody out there has an opinion on abortion laws. I hear people from every side of the spectrum blasting the other parts for being anti-science for one reason or another, and to different extents, they're both right. However, it amazes me how uneducated most liberal people I know are on the issue. If I asked them whether or not a fetus was a living thing, I might get a response that goes something like, "not until the second trimester" or something like that. What in the world? It's a well-known scientific fact that zygotes/fetuses are living things, whether or not you consider them to be human (why wouldn't they be, anyway? They're just very, very, very young humans with little physical and mental capacity). They're not some random bag of cells as some people say they are. Heck, even if they were, they'd still be alive.
(Disclaimer: I'm pro-life for scientific reasons. That isn't the topic of this comment, though, and I'd rather not debate it).
The Judaeo-Christian worldview is by-and-large anti-science.
What? Their worldview is very pro-science. You're thinking of the people that follow sacred texts word-for-word, as if they're 100% accurate historical documents. Religion contains a lot of metaphysical poetry, similes and metaphors, and was generally written in a pre-scientific age. The Catholic Church today, for example, is very pro-science. Pope Pius XII, the first pope to make an official statement on Evolution, fully accepted it (so long as we believe that our souls are God-made, of course). There is nothing contradictory at all about religion and science in general; it all depends on what you believe.
Somebody mod this man up. I would but I wasted my mod points on the GNOME article earlier today.
The difference between this and that is that these TVs and the laptops are physically capable of spying but not made to do that. The schools themselves installed software which spied on the kids. These TVs are perfectly fine. However... That doesn't mean they can't be made to be otherwise.
I get how everybody goes crazy whenever anything has the potential to spy on you, but relax. It's nothing that hasn't been done before. If you're so afraid about TVs becoming more advanced, then why not be so scared about cell phones, game consoles, iPods and the like? They all have cameras, microphones, and internet connectivity, but they're used for entertainment and functionality, not for spying. Sure, these things can have a government-mandated backdoor of sorts, but worrying about every piece of advanced technology will get us nowhere.
Besides it's not like these companies have all of the staff and resources necessary to watch and monitor the thousands to millions of TV users all at once. This is mostly meant for facial recognition technology, Skype, and the like. Chill, people.
Actually, EA said themselves that the DLC is not on the game disc as many fans claim. It was developed separately by a different team and it's completely unnecessary to finish the game. They only released it on launch day to help boost sales of it (as in, so people wouldn't sell their game while waiting for DLC and they could just buy it immediately).
I read a quote somewhere (Google says it's of Navajo origin) that changed the way I thought about daylight savings time. It went something like this:
"Daylight Savings Time is the equivalent of cutting off the bottom of a blanket and sewing it on to the top because your blanket is too short."
What "magic keystrokes"? All I ever mentioned was Alt+Tab and the Windows key; hardly complicated. Almost everybody I know of knows these keys and what they do. Also GNOME 2 did not have chat integration nearly as well as GNOME 3 does. GNOME 3 has notifications that you can use to respond to chat messages without switching to the chat window and your availability status is a part of the shell itself; GNOME 2 did not have this. Also I don't think that removing the need to minimize should be considered a bad thing. If I don't have to minimize anymore for any reason whatsoever, why should I need that function? I can still minimize windows, but it's just hidden due to how unnecessary it is.
It was never there to begin with. That was Compiz, a third-party project that was never really official. Metacity never had wobbly windows.
I agree with you but GNOME is taking a different approach than what you suggest. Instead of cloning Mac and moving everything to the top of the screen, it only moves application-centric functions there. For example, if you wanted to access your program's preferences dialog, you'd use the standardized "application menu" (no more hunting in "Edit" or "Tools" anymore!). If you wanted to zoom-in on your document, however, you'd use the "view" menu on the window itself because it only affects that window. From a glance this might sound like it makes searching for options even more confusing, but once this becomes standard it should be even easier than the current method.