i couldn't grok unity within a few minutes (beyond a few basics), it didn't offer anything new, and there was neither "cueing" nor a tutorial => back to gnome. i'm not going to bash the keyboard to learn a UI.
is there an intro / transition guide for gnome users somewhere?
well, to start with, they probably won't have kindles and anyway someone could start a market tailored for their region (presumably, spammers won't target the dirt-poor and/or there would be other signals of quality that could be used).
the developed world can mostly afford to have a $10 cap as a "first-step" signal of quality/commitment, and the amazon store is for the developed world.
a homeless man could scrounge together an extra $10 in a day or two. if $10 is a problem for you, here's a hint: it's not the marketplace screwing you. you're just an idiot.
i can't imagine any book i'd care to read where a $10 listing fee broke its publication. it's an almost-perfect filter, actually: "i only want to see books in which the author has invested so much time that $X is irrelevant to him."
X=10 is on the very permissive side... hell, it's recouped within 15 sales.:-/
apart from the learning curve (but a third-party utility restores the original menu configuration), the office 2007 ribbon is the best productivity interface i've ever used. it absolutely kills openoffice, abiword and libreoffice, sad to say.
i base this on natural grouping; efficient use of space; quick accessibility of commonly-used features; and not requiring fucking SQL.
hmm, you may be right. okay, i take back the SQL thing, but something made amarok really slow and buggy when it came to keeping track of my music (all of which was just in ~/Music!)... i just chalked it up to SQL since it seemed so strange to me.
i like earth tones in general and i really dig the brown! however i won't buy an mp3 player that doesn't mount as usb storage (as i understand the zune and latest ipods don't?), and i don't carry much music. i'm using an 8gb sansa fuze & it works great.
i can see how amarok's power could be useful if you have audio on network shares or something. i don't and amarok was slow, buggy and ugly to me. i chalked this up to mySQL, maybe i was wrong.
everything stores data somehow. i just think mySQL is a heavy dependency for a freaking music player.
it looks like our desiderata in music players are orthogonal, fair enough. if you haven't tried it, though, i suggest banshee. it seemed to me to be rhythmbox "done right".
apart from not recognizing non-ipods (but a third-party utility adds MSC support), itunes is the best music software i've ever used. it absolutely kills rhythmbox, banshee and amarok, sad to say. i base this on not crashing; fast search/limiting and playlist creation; actually editing track information on the mp3 and not storing it in a parallel database in a ~/.directory (rhythmbox); and not requiring fucking SQL (amarok).
in many cases (esp. academia; this is being developed @ princeton) the point of a server is sharable resources; vm for each user would be annoying, and a vm for the researcher would be limiting.
the use case is apparently for when you want someone to be able to do, say, limited packet analysis but not read the whole disk. i doubt it would stand up to determined assault but it might keep a sysadmin honest.
a ridiculous godwin is a good godwin. and it was kind of meant as a joke on the heated trolling/discussion below regarding "seatbelts: useless, or nanny state murder device?"
or since MS is pushing total restructuring, they're trying to streamline and minimize the effect of layoffs. step one: sync people to the same version of the software to allow a cut in support staff.
corporations aren't as clever as you think. they're on the level of alligators, maybe hyenas.
in an indirect way he's right. if they manage to corner the market, they become a magnet for public outcry and possibly lawsuits which is about as good as accountability gets in the US.
or: a known target is easier to manage than an unknown target.
i don't think that's what the coo meant, but maybe it was... nowadays reaching a size enough to be "regulated" is probably the best way to achieve security for a company. at least in the short-term.
well, just take the blue pill and believe that removing enough regulations will magically cause the former after some vague idealistic threshold is crossed.
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WoW and Morrowind have similar hardware demands which could today be called "casual". Skyrim looks stunning but I won't be playing it for a while.
summer vacation. june is slashdot's september.
i couldn't grok unity within a few minutes (beyond a few basics), it didn't offer anything new, and there was neither "cueing" nor a tutorial => back to gnome. i'm not going to bash the keyboard to learn a UI.
is there an intro / transition guide for gnome users somewhere?
well, to start with, they probably won't have kindles and anyway someone could start a market tailored for their region (presumably, spammers won't target the dirt-poor and/or there would be other signals of quality that could be used).
the developed world can mostly afford to have a $10 cap as a "first-step" signal of quality/commitment, and the amazon store is for the developed world.
what's your point here, exactly?
a homeless man could scrounge together an extra $10 in a day or two. if $10 is a problem for you, here's a hint: it's not the marketplace screwing you. you're just an idiot.
i can't imagine any book i'd care to read where a $10 listing fee broke its publication. it's an almost-perfect filter, actually: "i only want to see books in which the author has invested so much time that $X is irrelevant to him."
X=10 is on the very permissive side... hell, it's recouped within 15 sales. :-/
apart from the learning curve (but a third-party utility restores the original menu configuration), the office 2007 ribbon is the best productivity interface i've ever used. it absolutely kills openoffice, abiword and libreoffice, sad to say.
i base this on natural grouping; efficient use of space; quick accessibility of commonly-used features; and not requiring fucking SQL.
haven't noticed itunes writing anything in my tags. what is it changing exactly?
i used banshee and rhythmbox for years. banshee was pretty good. it's definitely what i would pick if i were on linux again.
having no problem yet with 10694 tracks.
hmm, you may be right. okay, i take back the SQL thing, but something made amarok really slow and buggy when it came to keeping track of my music (all of which was just in ~/Music!)... i just chalked it up to SQL since it seemed so strange to me.
i like earth tones in general and i really dig the brown! however i won't buy an mp3 player that doesn't mount as usb storage (as i understand the zune and latest ipods don't?), and i don't carry much music. i'm using an 8gb sansa fuze & it works great.
yeah, the latest pre-thunderbolt MBP (Snow Leopard).
in my experience, it pulled in mySQL as a dependency. this link seems to suggest that they took out the built-in SQLite (which would have been fine by me): http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/812-MySQL-in-Amarok-2-The-Reality.html
i can see how amarok's power could be useful if you have audio on network shares or something. i don't and amarok was slow, buggy and ugly to me. i chalked this up to mySQL, maybe i was wrong.
everything stores data somehow. i just think mySQL is a heavy dependency for a freaking music player.
it looks like our desiderata in music players are orthogonal, fair enough. if you haven't tried it, though, i suggest banshee. it seemed to me to be rhythmbox "done right".
apart from not recognizing non-ipods (but a third-party utility adds MSC support), itunes is the best music software i've ever used. it absolutely kills rhythmbox, banshee and amarok, sad to say. i base this on not crashing; fast search/limiting and playlist creation; actually editing track information on the mp3 and not storing it in a parallel database in a ~/.directory (rhythmbox); and not requiring fucking SQL (amarok).
in many cases (esp. academia; this is being developed @ princeton) the point of a server is sharable resources; vm for each user would be annoying, and a vm for the researcher would be limiting.
the use case is apparently for when you want someone to be able to do, say, limited packet analysis but not read the whole disk. i doubt it would stand up to determined assault but it might keep a sysadmin honest.
yes. also, he's an extortionist or a rapist-murderer.
uh, yeah, that's kind of the point... vsys (ideally) won't do "more". it's not intended for users who own/admin their system.
a ridiculous godwin is a good godwin. and it was kind of meant as a joke on the heated trolling/discussion below regarding "seatbelts: useless, or nanny state murder device?"
Analog designer Bob Pease, 71, killed by ADOLF HITLER.
or since MS is pushing total restructuring, they're trying to streamline and minimize the effect of layoffs. step one: sync people to the same version of the software to allow a cut in support staff.
corporations aren't as clever as you think. they're on the level of alligators, maybe hyenas.
that's for violent felonies. the context of "three strikes" above was for three strikes copyright laws as in france.
although afaic any law based on a sports analogy should be shitcanned immediately.
"the major problem is the psychological barrier"
well, no shit!
in an indirect way he's right. if they manage to corner the market, they become a magnet for public outcry and possibly lawsuits which is about as good as accountability gets in the US.
or: a known target is easier to manage than an unknown target.
i don't think that's what the coo meant, but maybe it was... nowadays reaching a size enough to be "regulated" is probably the best way to achieve security for a company. at least in the short-term.
well, just take the blue pill and believe that removing enough regulations will magically cause the former after some vague idealistic threshold is crossed.