God, I hate the ribbon. I'm forced to use it at work and still can't get used to it. At home, I gave up on MS Office years ago, in favor of OpenOffice -> LibreOffice...I use it on Windows 7 and Linux.
*BSD and Linux-based OSes are much better in the overall operation.
Even Gnome and Ubuntu (w/Unity) have lost their way. Fortunately, there are other distros to choose from. I've been using Ubuntu for a few years and am considering a switch to Mint because I just can't get away from the Debian packaging system.
It may be true that mobile touch-screen devices are the way of the future but, desktop/laptop systems are never going away (or at least, not for a very long time). Mobile devices are great for web browsing, short texting and reading emails but for productivity applications, you need a desktop. In other words, if you want to author Word Documents, create web pages, create PowerPoint Presentations, create and test code for applications (including mobile apps), do graphic design, etc, you need a desktop system. Also, what works for touchscreen, on-the-go devices doesn't necessarily work for a laptop/desktop. I guess Microsoft lost sight of this when they tried to create one operating system to rule them all.
It kind of perpetuates the notion that every even release of Windows sucks. I've had 98, XP, Vista and Windows7. Vista was a dog and I've heard that ME was bad, as well. Now, I'm hearing Windows8 (at least, on the desktop) is bad.
But for every-day driving, does it need to be better than you? Instead of wasting an hour or more every day with your attention on the road, wouldn't you rather be reading, talking on the phone, texting, preparing for your work presentation/speech, doing your homework, etc?
Yeah, for avid readers it makes sense to have a dedicated e-paper reader. I love my Kindle-keyboard I bought two years ago. I only need to recharge after reading 2-3 novels.
not to try to hi-jack this thread or anything but I'd really like to see a standalone amazon video app for Android and Apple phones/tablets. Kindle Fire seems to be the only tablet that does this. Google, Netflix, and Hulu have apps.
I thought Peter Jackson did a great job on the Lord Of The Rings except, the movies were too long, too drawn-out with too many endings. I imagine his reason for making one book (The Hobbit) into three movies is for box office revenue. So, its depressing to think that we probably won't actually see Smaug until the third movie.
After seeing a number of approved pro-Apple stories lately and a complete omission of any negative stories pertaining to Apple, despite THIS:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/flaw-allowing-sms-spoofing-still-present-in-latest-ios-6-beta/
I'm probably saying goodbye to this site. It's not merely because I'm an Android user who is seeing a recent trend in Apple bias here among the slashdot staff. I'm becoming disenchanted with slashdot because many of the story submissions are not really newsworthy. The lack of newsworthiness started after Cowboy Neal left but lately its gotten much worse. I could care less that this post will get downmodded or that it will elicit some "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out" comments. Such comments will be ineffectual.
I haven't read the article, as I often only have time to glance through these. Are they referring, as an example, to proponents of the waterfall process vs. Agile?
Besides A Scanner Darkly, I'd say A ClockWork Orange (the book) was very depressing. Its a good read, if you can get past the hybrid lingo of Russian/English slang.
Does competitive programming including games where you must drink a tequila after every x-minutes or x-lines of coding or like something similar to "The Social Network"?
They could base their distro off of other existing distros (ex: must as Ubuntu is based on Debian) and leverage their packaging system and installers.rather than having to create their own installers as Loki did. They could also test for just one distro instead of testing for many. They can also leverage the software update and distribution system, thus having easier access to the right video drivers, game titles, etc.
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God, I hate the ribbon. I'm forced to use it at work and still can't get used to it. At home, I gave up on MS Office years ago, in favor of OpenOffice -> LibreOffice...I use it on Windows 7 and Linux.
*BSD and Linux-based OSes are much better in the overall operation.
Even Gnome and Ubuntu (w/Unity) have lost their way. Fortunately, there are other distros to choose from. I've been using Ubuntu for a few years and am considering a switch to Mint because I just can't get away from the Debian packaging system.
Something tells me that Windows 7 is here to stay, at least for the next decade or so. I can't see a lot of people switching any time soon.
That's up to Microsoft. If they get really desperate and greedy, they can EOL support and updates for Windows 7, early.
Always skip every other iteration.
Yes. agreed. I'd mod you up if I could.
It may be true that mobile touch-screen devices are the way of the future but, desktop/laptop systems are never going away (or at least, not for a very long time). Mobile devices are great for web browsing, short texting and reading emails but for productivity applications, you need a desktop. In other words, if you want to author Word Documents, create web pages, create PowerPoint Presentations, create and test code for applications (including mobile apps), do graphic design, etc, you need a desktop system. Also, what works for touchscreen, on-the-go devices doesn't necessarily work for a laptop/desktop. I guess Microsoft lost sight of this when they tried to create one operating system to rule them all.
It kind of perpetuates the notion that every even release of Windows sucks. I've had 98, XP, Vista and Windows7. Vista was a dog and I've heard that ME was bad, as well. Now, I'm hearing Windows8 (at least, on the desktop) is bad.
I guess I should also count Android.
In order from oldest to current: Mandrake (Now Mandriva?), Suse Linux, Gentoo (briefly), Kubuntu, Ubuntu
But for every-day driving, does it need to be better than you? Instead of wasting an hour or more every day with your attention on the road, wouldn't you rather be reading, talking on the phone, texting, preparing for your work presentation/speech, doing your homework, etc?
Yeah, for avid readers it makes sense to have a dedicated e-paper reader. I love my Kindle-keyboard I bought two years ago. I only need to recharge after reading 2-3 novels.
not to try to hi-jack this thread or anything but I'd really like to see a standalone amazon video app for Android and Apple phones/tablets. Kindle Fire seems to be the only tablet that does this. Google, Netflix, and Hulu have apps.
I thought Peter Jackson did a great job on the Lord Of The Rings except, the movies were too long, too drawn-out with too many endings. I imagine his reason for making one book (The Hobbit) into three movies is for box office revenue. So, its depressing to think that we probably won't actually see Smaug until the third movie.
Apple started this war. Eventually, Apple is going to get hurt.
After seeing a number of approved pro-Apple stories lately and a complete omission of any negative stories pertaining to Apple, despite THIS: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/flaw-allowing-sms-spoofing-still-present-in-latest-ios-6-beta/ I'm probably saying goodbye to this site. It's not merely because I'm an Android user who is seeing a recent trend in Apple bias here among the slashdot staff. I'm becoming disenchanted with slashdot because many of the story submissions are not really newsworthy. The lack of newsworthiness started after Cowboy Neal left but lately its gotten much worse. I could care less that this post will get downmodded or that it will elicit some "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out" comments. Such comments will be ineffectual.
for the following objective: to find the anonymous guy who's posting phone cams that catch police in the act of police brutality?
Cool, I take that as a compliment. Mod me up :)
I haven't read the article, as I often only have time to glance through these. Are they referring, as an example, to proponents of the waterfall process vs. Agile?
The High Castle ~ Phillip K. Dick (and just about anything by him)
That's "The Man in The High Castle". I didn't find that too depressing.
Besides A Scanner Darkly, I'd say A ClockWork Orange (the book) was very depressing. Its a good read, if you can get past the hybrid lingo of Russian/English slang.
Aren't you dead yet?
That's been on my to-read list.
A Scanner Darkly depressed and saddened me.
A Scanner Darkly
Does competitive programming including games where you must drink a tequila after every x-minutes or x-lines of coding or like something similar to "The Social Network"?
They could base their distro off of other existing distros (ex: must as Ubuntu is based on Debian) and leverage their packaging system and installers.rather than having to create their own installers as Loki did. They could also test for just one distro instead of testing for many. They can also leverage the software update and distribution system, thus having easier access to the right video drivers, game titles, etc.