No "yet" about it. Its TOTALLY un-necessary. If big brother wants to know where you are, its easy enough with some shitty $10 dumb phone, by simply using triangulation from the nearest available cell towers.
If you're that paranoid about getting tracked, get rid of your cell phone and use CB radio or something.
Except you're incompatible with the rest of the world. Metric also gives you easy conversions between say, cubic metres and litres. Rather than cubic feet to gallons.
1 cubic meter = 1000 litres. 1 cubic foot = 7.4805 US gallons or 6.2288 Imperial gallons. I know what I'd much prefer to work in.
The "real world" includes every other person outside of the US. Most metric users have an understanding of feet and inches too, but as far as scientific stuff goes, trying to make imperial work is the old square peg/round hole situation.
I'm not sure if you've experienced having friends in real life, but unfortunately the masses put everything on facebook. Everything is organised on facebook. If you're not on facebook in some way, you are excluded from social gatherings. Now to your typical slashdot nerd that may not matter, but to those of us who have non-nerd friends, not being on facebook means you never find out what they're up to any more, don't get invited to stuff ("I put it on facebook!"), etc.
Window management features (when you can just as easily use alt+tab or change virtual desktops - on any half modern platform) are more "cherry picking" than mentioning something like proper colour management, which is ESSENTIAL to getting professional quality work done.
No, this discussion was about how far behind open source desktop environments are slipping and how they're reinventing the look/feel wheel, when other DEs on other platforms are actually providing improved workflows.
Autohk is more configurable being primarily script based whereas automator caters more to the click 'n' drool crowd
You can integrate applescript (or other scripting) into automator. If required. If not required, its a lot faster than writing shell. So basically yes, you're agreeing that they're not equivalent and that automator is superior? Automator makes simple things easy. Much more complex things are still possible though.
If you've not actually used it, i'd suggest watching some podcasts on what you can do with it. There is nothing equivalent i have seen on any platform, yet.
Unfortunately most people simply won't get it, and consider that perhaps North Korea has been pissed off with the US being in their country for the past 60 years. But if its someone invading the US, oh its all good.
Yes, you can pay the existing debts out with dollars inflated to worthlessness. However, one day china / rest of world is just going to say no more.
Forget existing debts, the USA makes very little of the actual items you guys need to sustain your current lifestyles. If the music stops, so to speak, you're going to be pretty fucked until/unless you re-start production of the things you need to maintain your lives.
You know the definition of the word "equivalent", right? Linux has no easy way to script interaction between GUI apps. It has no services equivalent. The composting window managers are about 10 years behind Mac. The audio subsystem is about 8+ yrs behind freebsd. Point being, those working on the Linux desktop appear to be focusing on fluff (Making it look like Windows or Aqua) rather than core operating system/user interface deficiencies.
Etoile is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't get a lot of press.
os x's native windowing system doesn't have built in X11 forwarding either, but i can still quite happily run the X server and display remote X applications in OS X.
Where's the mac OS X "automator" equivalent? And don't say bash some other command line shell. Yes the command line is powerful if you can be bothered spending the time writing and debugging a script. But its not integrated into desktop apps, and 90% of desktop users are not command line junkies.
Yup, I've seen etoile. I'm keeping a fairly close eye on it. Unfortunately its still some way off being really relevant, because the unwashed masses are flocking to KDE / Gnome and no distro I've seen even includes it, let alone as a default or install time choice.
I'm definitely extremely keen to see Etoile succeed though. People look at GNUstep, OS X, etc and just see the interface. The impressive bit are the objective C frameworks running in the back end.
I'm waiting for the dust to be blown off windowmaker, and more people to realise that they can write cross platform stuff for GNUstep/OS X.
Windowmaker plus a decent file manager / dock would give Linux a powerful, usable desktop. Unfortunately the past few years I've seen of linux desktop "development" is madly rushing to re-implement whatever useless crap Microsoft has tacked onto the latest version of Windows, or trying to look like Aqua.
The Free NIX desktop used to be BETTER because of innovation that was happening in the free software world. Lately it's just playing catchup, and poorly.
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No "yet" about it. Its TOTALLY un-necessary. If big brother wants to know where you are, its easy enough with some shitty $10 dumb phone, by simply using triangulation from the nearest available cell towers.
If you're that paranoid about getting tracked, get rid of your cell phone and use CB radio or something.
Thats it. Except christianity is plenty prone to violence, just from remote control. If you want non-violent, check out the buddhists.
Lol. You funny. Oh whats that? You're serious?
So what religion in the us is to blame for the mass murder of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea and elsewhere?
They're not just base 10, they are also easily converted between say volume, area and distance.
Except you're incompatible with the rest of the world. Metric also gives you easy conversions between say, cubic metres and litres. Rather than cubic feet to gallons.
1 cubic meter = 1000 litres. 1 cubic foot = 7.4805 US gallons or 6.2288 Imperial gallons. I know what I'd much prefer to work in.
The "real world" includes every other person outside of the US. Most metric users have an understanding of feet and inches too, but as far as scientific stuff goes, trying to make imperial work is the old square peg/round hole situation.
Bet again. I'll bet that most of them end up as ESX/ESXi or Windows.
Yeah - there's an available release with the bug actually fixed.
this is google we're talking about. in the slashdot groupthink they can do no evil yet.
I'm not sure if you've experienced having friends in real life, but unfortunately the masses put everything on facebook. Everything is organised on facebook. If you're not on facebook in some way, you are excluded from social gatherings. Now to your typical slashdot nerd that may not matter, but to those of us who have non-nerd friends, not being on facebook means you never find out what they're up to any more, don't get invited to stuff ("I put it on facebook!"), etc.
Window management features (when you can just as easily use alt+tab or change virtual desktops - on any half modern platform) are more "cherry picking" than mentioning something like proper colour management, which is ESSENTIAL to getting professional quality work done.
No, this discussion was about how far behind open source desktop environments are slipping and how they're reinventing the look/feel wheel, when other DEs on other platforms are actually providing improved workflows.
You can integrate applescript (or other scripting) into automator. If required. If not required, its a lot faster than writing shell. So basically yes, you're agreeing that they're not equivalent and that automator is superior? Automator makes simple things easy. Much more complex things are still possible though.
If you've not actually used it, i'd suggest watching some podcasts on what you can do with it. There is nothing equivalent i have seen on any platform, yet.
Answer: because that would interfere with our business model.
You think those actions were in the interests of US citizens? Haha, cute.
Unfortunately most people simply won't get it, and consider that perhaps North Korea has been pissed off with the US being in their country for the past 60 years. But if its someone invading the US, oh its all good.
Yes, you can pay the existing debts out with dollars inflated to worthlessness. However, one day china / rest of world is just going to say no more.
Forget existing debts, the USA makes very little of the actual items you guys need to sustain your current lifestyles. If the music stops, so to speak, you're going to be pretty fucked until/unless you re-start production of the things you need to maintain your lives.
You know the definition of the word "equivalent", right? Linux has no easy way to script interaction between GUI apps. It has no services equivalent. The composting window managers are about 10 years behind Mac. The audio subsystem is about 8+ yrs behind freebsd. Point being, those working on the Linux desktop appear to be focusing on fluff (Making it look like Windows or Aqua) rather than core operating system/user interface deficiencies.
Etoile is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't get a lot of press.
Someone should tell microsoft then, because they've got accelerated 3d working over terminal services as of well over a year ago.
os x's native windowing system doesn't have built in X11 forwarding either, but i can still quite happily run the X server and display remote X applications in OS X.
Where's the mac OS X "automator" equivalent? And don't say bash some other command line shell. Yes the command line is powerful if you can be bothered spending the time writing and debugging a script. But its not integrated into desktop apps, and 90% of desktop users are not command line junkies.
I'm definitely extremely keen to see Etoile succeed though. People look at GNUstep, OS X, etc and just see the interface. The impressive bit are the objective C frameworks running in the back end.
I'm waiting for the dust to be blown off windowmaker, and more people to realise that they can write cross platform stuff for GNUstep/OS X.
Windowmaker plus a decent file manager / dock would give Linux a powerful, usable desktop. Unfortunately the past few years I've seen of linux desktop "development" is madly rushing to re-implement whatever useless crap Microsoft has tacked onto the latest version of Windows, or trying to look like Aqua.
The Free NIX desktop used to be BETTER because of innovation that was happening in the free software world. Lately it's just playing catchup, and poorly.
... am i the only one who parsed the headline as "why google should BURY the music industry"?