This happens in science too. New "evidence" = new criticism and testing those new findings. That's one of the great things about science: it's possible to test everything like this.
Politics, on the other hand, doesn't work that way. You don't know how well something will work for certain until you try it and even then there are so many other variables that you don't even know if anything you changed did any good or bad, and then everybody praises/criticizes you for it either way.
And Religion is WAY different. Religion is about keeping tradition: "new evidence" (for what?) almost never exists, and when it does it has to be proven accurate somehow, which is really complicated. Out of all of the three things, this one doesn't even belong. It doesn't function like science at all.
They have been in the console market for ten years now and they still think they can buy/bribe/threaten their way to beating Sony and Nintendo.
Sony has some 21 first party studios. Nintendo has about 10.
Microsoft has only 3 or so first party studios.
Woah, wait a second. Where the crap did you get that? Wikipedia says that Sony has sixteen first-party studios, Nintendo has eighteen, and Microsoft has eleven. Some of the games that are made by studios like Level-5, Next Level Games or Insomniac are actually second-party studios that are not directly owned by the companies they collaborate with (especially Level-5, who releases games pretty much everywhere).
I don't know where you did your research, but that's REALLY misleading (and a little biased towards Sony, there). Microsoft publishes quite a bit of first-party content, even though it's not as much as Sony or Nintendo (especially Nintendo, even more so if you count their HUGE list of second-party studios).
Yeah, Windows has gotten better. I just like the comic because it used to be so true though. I use GNOME all the time as my preferred OS, and Windows 7/Vista have been pretty tolerable as a gaming OS for me thus far.
^ This. I saw this article and, before I even thought about it, I shared the comic. I only checked TFA afterwards and realized I was beaten to the punch.
It's an alpha release. Expect it to not be stable and still have some kinks that need to be worked out before release. Just report everything you find (if it's not reported already) and hopefully they'll get fixed.
You must be new here. It doesn't just end with Mozilla:
* Chrome * IE * GNOME * KDE * iThings * Nintendo 3DS/Wii (to be fair, everybody does this everywhere) * Google+ * Facebook
What's hilarious though is that almost everything that the majority of Slashdot bashes over and over becomes successful (look at Firefox and Chrome usage numbers months after everyone started saying "people are jumping ship left and right"). This is all just "No Wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame" all over again.
Every single person that dislikes this, READ THE ABOVE COMMENT! This is not required for everyone! It's just to prevent people from following fake accounts. Is this so wrong?
Woah woah woah. Evolution VS Creationism is way, way different than a debate about Birth Control and Condoms. Also, we are sticking to our guns by believing these things about birth control/condoms/evolution.
I said, if you read my comment, "many popular Protestant groups". I never said that all Protestants, even most Protestants, believe in Creationism. And "a few nutjobs" is a bit of an understatement considering how many people are Creationists in the United States alone.
By "much more friendly", I meant that they certainly don't believe that Genesis should be interpreted literally and that good, accurate science is the way to go. That's pretty anti-Creationism right there.
Hold Alt and right-click the panels. You can still adjust things there. Exactly what kinds of "configuration" can't you do in this that you could do before that you want to do? Maybe I could help with that.
We all know it was created just a few thousand years ago on day 4.
NASA could have saved the trip if they'd just asked the local priest!
Pastor, not "priest". The Roman Catholic Church is much more friendly to the idea of a non-literal creation (from a Biblical perspective) than many popular Protestant groups.
If you don't have to use a file manager to do something that a program can automatically do for you, how in the world is that a bad thing by any means? File management will still be there of course, but most normal users shouldn't need to use it for everyday tasks.
The proof that Gnome 3 sucks? They had to kill off gnome 2. If they are so convinced 3 was going to be the hottest thing ever, then they could just have let gnome 2 running in low maintenance mode and given the people a choice. You only have to pull a new coke if you know people don't WANT your new crap so you are not giving them an option and hope the rage dies out before you do.
System Settings -> System -> Graphics -> Forced Fallback Mode. You're welcome;)
Removing the file system is what it seems they want to do.
They want to give up on the idea of organizing your files as trees. Put all your files of one type into one "application" and then use a search engine or the "recent documents" feature whenever you want to open it again.
Lately, web browsers have been trying to replace the URL bar by a search engine. This was utterly stupid. But what they want to go? It is way beyond that. It makes absolutely no sense. UNIX was built on the idea that the filesystem is the centre of the operating system. Clearly, they have forgotten that.
RTFA:
The file manager won't go away by any means. But it's a pretty advanced interface, that's something if you want to really mess around with your file system, if you want to do complex file organization. Also it really only works with stuff that is local - or at least pretends to be local, as we do with network file systems today.
Where in the world did you get that idea? He specifically says that file managers definitely won't go away. He's basically saying that they're not appropriate for some usages (like organizing cloud-based media) and that you shouldn't have to use one unless you'd really like to for most common use cases.
I still find it utterly unreasonable to just scrap the Gnome 2 desktop. It was the most stable, "just works" DE for *nix, and they just threw all that work out for eye candy. I tried to like Gnome 3 but it feels more like a toy than KDE4 did when it came out. It makes me wonder how many thousands of development hours were just flushed down the toilet for this. I could understand it if they used Gnome2 as the foundation, and added to it, but they didn't.
RTFA:
Some of the feedback is certainly valid and we are going to use that to make informed decisions in the GNOME3 cycle - remember we've only had one release so far. In couple of the talks we pointed out that it took us eight, nine years to get to where GNOME2 ended up and we've had like four months of GNOME3. So there are plenty of things we still have to do. There are a lot of holes in our story. People will look at some things and say "Why is this there? Does this really make sense?". And in many cases that's because we didn't get to really finish that off. And that will start to fill in, the story will become a little bit more complete as we go through this cycle. I'm not saying that all this people will be completely convinced and that's unfortunate but I think over time people will realize what we are doing has been at least thought through.
Also, every single person that has a complaint, please try to read the interview instead of just trolling about GNOME 3 not being exactly what you want. John McCann is a very respectable man and he certainly knows what they're trying to do. Even if you don't like GNOME 3 as it is right now, their direction seems to make a lot of sense for the long term (pro tip: don't forget that you can use extensions to modify it to behave exactly how you'd like it to).
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This happens in science too. New "evidence" = new criticism and testing those new findings. That's one of the great things about science: it's possible to test everything like this.
Politics, on the other hand, doesn't work that way. You don't know how well something will work for certain until you try it and even then there are so many other variables that you don't even know if anything you changed did any good or bad, and then everybody praises/criticizes you for it either way.
And Religion is WAY different. Religion is about keeping tradition: "new evidence" (for what?) almost never exists, and when it does it has to be proven accurate somehow, which is really complicated. Out of all of the three things, this one doesn't even belong. It doesn't function like science at all.
I would love to see the other statistics you reference.
They have been in the console market for ten years now and they still think they can buy/bribe/threaten their way to beating Sony and Nintendo.
Sony has some 21 first party studios.
Nintendo has about 10.
Microsoft has only 3 or so first party studios.
Woah, wait a second. Where the crap did you get that? Wikipedia says that Sony has sixteen first-party studios, Nintendo has eighteen, and Microsoft has eleven. Some of the games that are made by studios like Level-5, Next Level Games or Insomniac are actually second-party studios that are not directly owned by the companies they collaborate with (especially Level-5, who releases games pretty much everywhere).
I don't know where you did your research, but that's REALLY misleading (and a little biased towards Sony, there). Microsoft publishes quite a bit of first-party content, even though it's not as much as Sony or Nintendo (especially Nintendo, even more so if you count their HUGE list of second-party studios).
According to TorrentFreak, the top 10 file-sharing sites are almost entirely "legit" sites like this. What does that tell you?
Tell me when they AREN'T doing shady practices like this and then that will be news to me...
Yeah, Windows has gotten better. I just like the comic because it used to be so true though. I use GNOME all the time as my preferred OS, and Windows 7/Vista have been pretty tolerable as a gaming OS for me thus far.
^ This. I saw this article and, before I even thought about it, I shared the comic. I only checked TFA afterwards and realized I was beaten to the punch.
You all knew it was coming ;)
It's an alpha release. Expect it to not be stable and still have some kinks that need to be worked out before release. Just report everything you find (if it's not reported already) and hopefully they'll get fixed.
You must be new here. It doesn't just end with Mozilla:
* Chrome
* IE
* GNOME
* KDE
* iThings
* Nintendo 3DS/Wii (to be fair, everybody does this everywhere)
* Google+
* Facebook
What's hilarious though is that almost everything that the majority of Slashdot bashes over and over becomes successful (look at Firefox and Chrome usage numbers months after everyone started saying "people are jumping ship left and right"). This is all just "No Wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame" all over again.
Every single person that dislikes this, READ THE ABOVE COMMENT! This is not required for everyone! It's just to prevent people from following fake accounts. Is this so wrong?
They're not being hidden, they're just making other programs easier to use without one.
Vocal minorities != "majority of GNOME users". GNOME users like me really enjoy it, and many of the developers and designers like it too.
Ah... good point. I almost forgot that. Thanks for correcting me!
Woah woah woah. Evolution VS Creationism is way, way different than a debate about Birth Control and Condoms. Also, we are sticking to our guns by believing these things about birth control/condoms/evolution.
And, since you wanted citations, here's citations from the Church Fathers themselves:
http://www.catholic.com/library/Creation_and_Genesis.asp
http://www.catholic.com/library/Contraception_and_Sterilization.asp
If you want Catholics to "stick to their guns", then they would be doing exactly what they've been doing for the past 2000 years (doctrine-wise)
I said, if you read my comment, "many popular Protestant groups". I never said that all Protestants, even most Protestants, believe in Creationism. And "a few nutjobs" is a bit of an understatement considering how many people are Creationists in the United States alone.
By "much more friendly", I meant that they certainly don't believe that Genesis should be interpreted literally and that good, accurate science is the way to go. That's pretty anti-Creationism right there.
Hold Alt and right-click the panels. You can still adjust things there. Exactly what kinds of "configuration" can't you do in this that you could do before that you want to do? Maybe I could help with that.
We all know it was created just a few thousand years ago on day 4.
NASA could have saved the trip if they'd just asked the local priest!
Pastor, not "priest". The Roman Catholic Church is much more friendly to the idea of a non-literal creation (from a Biblical perspective) than many popular Protestant groups.
If you don't have to use a file manager to do something that a program can automatically do for you, how in the world is that a bad thing by any means? File management will still be there of course, but most normal users shouldn't need to use it for everyday tasks.
Jon McCann
Fixed that for myself...
I'm sure you don't use any Firefox or Chrome Add-ons, then...
The proof that Gnome 3 sucks? They had to kill off gnome 2. If they are so convinced 3 was going to be the hottest thing ever, then they could just have let gnome 2 running in low maintenance mode and given the people a choice. You only have to pull a new coke if you know people don't WANT your new crap so you are not giving them an option and hope the rage dies out before you do.
System Settings -> System -> Graphics -> Forced Fallback Mode. You're welcome ;)
Removing the file system is what it seems they want to do.
They want to give up on the idea of organizing your files as trees. Put all your files of one type into one "application" and then use a search engine or the "recent documents" feature whenever you want to open it again.
Lately, web browsers have been trying to replace the URL bar by a search engine. This was utterly stupid.
But what they want to go? It is way beyond that. It makes absolutely no sense. UNIX was built on the idea that the filesystem is the centre of the operating system. Clearly, they have forgotten that.
RTFA:
The file manager won't go away by any means. But it's a pretty advanced interface, that's something if you want to really mess around with your file system, if you want to do complex file organization. Also it really only works with stuff that is local - or at least pretends to be local, as we do with network file systems today.
Where in the world did you get that idea? He specifically says that file managers definitely won't go away. He's basically saying that they're not appropriate for some usages (like organizing cloud-based media) and that you shouldn't have to use one unless you'd really like to for most common use cases.
I still find it utterly unreasonable to just scrap the Gnome 2 desktop. It was the most stable, "just works" DE for *nix, and they just threw all that work out for eye candy. I tried to like Gnome 3 but it feels more like a toy than KDE4 did when it came out. It makes me wonder how many thousands of development hours were just flushed down the toilet for this. I could understand it if they used Gnome2 as the foundation, and added to it, but they didn't.
RTFA:
Some of the feedback is certainly valid and we are going to use that to make informed decisions in the GNOME3 cycle - remember we've only had one release so far. In couple of the talks we pointed out that it took us eight, nine years to get to where GNOME2 ended up and we've had like four months of GNOME3. So there are plenty of things we still have to do. There are a lot of holes in our story. People will look at some things and say "Why is this there? Does this really make sense?". And in many cases that's because we didn't get to really finish that off. And that will start to fill in, the story will become a little bit more complete as we go through this cycle. I'm not saying that all this people will be completely convinced and that's unfortunate but I think over time people will realize what we are doing has been at least thought through.
Also, every single person that has a complaint, please try to read the interview instead of just trolling about GNOME 3 not being exactly what you want. John McCann is a very respectable man and he certainly knows what they're trying to do. Even if you don't like GNOME 3 as it is right now, their direction seems to make a lot of sense for the long term (pro tip: don't forget that you can use extensions to modify it to behave exactly how you'd like it to).