Nope. I hated it at first, and held off really using it until 12.04. But it has steady improved and as I've got used to it I've come to like (most of) it.
I'm not emotionally invested in it though - every now and again I'll think I need to switch to something else and I'll go back to Debian with some other desktop, but the others just seem less polished and I end up back on Unity again.
It's not just me either - recent Ubuntu releases have meant the small software company I work for have gone from 5% Linux and 95% Windows to 80% Linux and 20% Windows over the last couple of years. Of the Linux desktops, they are all *buntu and about 80% Unity, 10% KDE, and 10% Gnome3.
Not only that, but contrary to the impression given by popular map projections if you move some optimal band towards the poles you will lose more area than you gain.
And as for the southern hemisphere, there's no new land in that direction anyway. Well not until Antarctica thaws out at least.
For example, how well would an automotive engine deal with being upside down for a while?
I'm not completely sure about this but from something I (mis)heard, wasn't that already a factor in the Battle of Britain with the Spitfire (carbs) vs the 109 (fuel injectors)? ie the Spitfire couldn't fly inverted for very long while the 109 could?
But yeah, an automotive engine might exacerbate that problem even further.
Put differently, rather than creating a model from all of the old data (which, as you said, is trivial and not really that impressive), you put yourself in the shoes of a 1970s scientist and try to use the data from only up to that point to create a model that will work for the next 40 years. You then get to fast forward 40 years and see how you did. If you didn't get it right, you go back and try again.
Yeah. Creating a projection of the future involves both the model itself and a bunch of assumptions about the future state of the input variables. A projection will then have a range of certainty based on running it with different sets of likely inputs.
eg a future climate projection has to make a bunch of assumptions around variable things like big volcanic eruptions, the amounts of greenhouse gasses entering the atmosphere, what the sun actually output, what the southern oscillation index is going to do (ie swings between el ninos and la ninas which is a big factor) etc etc.
And to test the usefulness of an old model you keep it around and run it again in the future using actual data instead of assumed data to test whether discrepancies between it and reality are down to the model or the input assumptions or both. And then using these comparisons and new research on the physical processes to fine tune newer models.
So you're saying that readers of this writing should take account of the time and the cultural context of the writer(s) and not take it literally.
As a somewhat naive (of these kinds of arguments) observer, it seems to me that you are actually agreeing with those you are apparently disagreeing with.
The US hasn't formally declared a war since 1945. Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq, Afganistan are all either police actions or joint military operations with active combat theaters. They are not wars.
The only surprise was the 82% in 2002... those IE 6-only sites back then didn't seem to designed with any open standards in mind.
I don't find that surprising at all. From the release of IE4 until sometime after 2002, IE was one of the best and most standards compliant browsers (Only Opera springs to mind as better). Back then being able to drop support for Netscape 4.x was a huge relief. Netscape 4s complete and utter suckiness along with the very long time it took to fix that handed everything to IE.
But as Mozilla 1.x's many bugs got fixed and as Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox crept towards 1.0 things slowly changed. By 2003-2004 IE 6 was completely outclassed, and it was Microsoft's turn to suffocate progress.
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Nope. I hated it at first, and held off really using it until 12.04. But it has steady improved and as I've got used to it I've come to like (most of) it.
I'm not emotionally invested in it though - every now and again I'll think I need to switch to something else and I'll go back to Debian with some other desktop, but the others just seem less polished and I end up back on Unity again.
It's not just me either - recent Ubuntu releases have meant the small software company I work for have gone from 5% Linux and 95% Windows to 80% Linux and 20% Windows over the last couple of years. Of the Linux desktops, they are all *buntu and about 80% Unity, 10% KDE, and 10% Gnome3.
Or as with most bikes these days...
Back Pedal = flail about pointlessly.
Kinda apt I think.
He doesn't need to. There's already been a relatively recent crappy Beowulf movie made.
I beg to differ. Personally I thought Braindead was better than Meet the Feebles.
Maybe because it won't matter. If the NSA wants it, they will just compromise your network and the desktops of your sysadmins and managers to get it.
I think I'd rather them just grab the data from the source without installing rootkits in my network ;)
(Yes I know they'd do both either way)
Hehe well done.
Unless of course you're both Lumpy and dgatwood. Then it's just cheating :)
I appreciated the joke, but on a more serious note...
The media don't get closure, they get amnesia.
Not only that, but contrary to the impression given by popular map projections if you move some optimal band towards the poles you will lose more area than you gain.
And as for the southern hemisphere, there's no new land in that direction anyway. Well not until Antarctica thaws out at least.
I'm just waiting for its new socket library to be called NetHack.
There was a time when Slashdot seemed full of articles about Enlightenment and new levels of graphic eye candy with much fawning over Rasterman.
What do you make of this?
I was going to complain that seven is a prime number, but then I realised that the number in question was actually eight. Doh - carry on...
Time periods? Polar Bears? Smoke Monsters?
I disagree. The plane is hidden on a deserted volcanic island that's part of the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
The planes occupants (including Mik Kanrokitoff) are currently aboard a flying saucer. Most will reappear in due course suffering from amnesia.
Did you mean OpenSSH? I'm pretty sure OpenSSL isn't from the OpenBSD team.
Nice. I was expecting something like this though...
I'm not completely sure about this but from something I (mis)heard, wasn't that already a factor in the Battle of Britain with the Spitfire (carbs) vs the 109 (fuel injectors)? ie the Spitfire couldn't fly inverted for very long while the 109 could?
But yeah, an automotive engine might exacerbate that problem even further.
You mean on average right? Because it sure as hell is going to be a lot colder HERE in 4 months time.
Yeah. Creating a projection of the future involves both the model itself and a bunch of assumptions about the future state of the input variables. A projection will then have a range of certainty based on running it with different sets of likely inputs.
eg a future climate projection has to make a bunch of assumptions around variable things like big volcanic eruptions, the amounts of greenhouse gasses entering the atmosphere, what the sun actually output, what the southern oscillation index is going to do (ie swings between el ninos and la ninas which is a big factor) etc etc.
And to test the usefulness of an old model you keep it around and run it again in the future using actual data instead of assumed data to test whether discrepancies between it and reality are down to the model or the input assumptions or both. And then using these comparisons and new research on the physical processes to fine tune newer models.
Didn't Debian try that already? Then they got a woody.
So you're saying that readers of this writing should take account of the time and the cultural context of the writer(s) and not take it literally.
As a somewhat naive (of these kinds of arguments) observer, it seems to me that you are actually agreeing with those you are apparently disagreeing with.
Are you forgetting naked AND petrified. You five digit old timers are getting senile :)
No kidding - I don't thnk anyone else has posted anywhere near as much as you have.
Yeah, but you also post a hell of a lot of crap too.
Hehe. Try googling that line....
And we didn't lose Vietnam. It was a tie!
I don't find that surprising at all. From the release of IE4 until sometime after 2002, IE was one of the best and most standards compliant browsers (Only Opera springs to mind as better). Back then being able to drop support for Netscape 4.x was a huge relief. Netscape 4s complete and utter suckiness along with the very long time it took to fix that handed everything to IE.
But as Mozilla 1.x's many bugs got fixed and as Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox crept towards 1.0 things slowly changed. By 2003-2004 IE 6 was completely outclassed, and it was Microsoft's turn to suffocate progress.