You may be right, but that doesn't diminish the fact that this should have been a feature from the very beginning and that its removal is not a step in the right direction from the user perspective.
Oh, and yes, I don't use this OS (or any other smartphone for that matter) for precisely this reason, I can't properly contain and manage the installed software on a very privacy sensitive device.
* A fancy audio analyzer visualization applet * Smooth fade-out when pausing music * Many UI improvements and visual tweaks including better support for alternate color themes
With priorities like this, we can expect a decent application in about two decades I guess.
You're supposed to use the backup utility to save your data and package choices, then do a clean reinstall and re-run the backup utility to restore everything.
Yes, that's what the Mint team tells you and that's because according to them, dist-upgrade is not reliable. I find this rather strange because it worked reliably on Debian and Ubuntu for me for a long time and I guess it's because the Mint team broke something. That's rather unfortunate because I like the system very much.
The other big flaw is the lack of lvm encryption in the installer. Workarounds exist, but this is basic stuff and should have been implemented a long time ago.
I think this has a lot to do with FUD no longer working so well for Microsoft. There was a time when they just had to annouce that they were planning to develop something along the lines of XY and everybody in the market for XY got scared shitless. Competitors stopped actual development on their version of XY (because if MS was developing it, they had no chance) and customers would wait for MSs version of XY because it would become the standard. This worked well for a very long time.
No longer. It seems that the market as a whole has eventually come to realize that Microsoft rarely succeeds at anything they say they are targeting. Too often they have failed to deliver anything worth mentioning and in some very important (ie. visual) markets they are not even considered to be players.
Apple don't even have to play the FUD game because there are no competitors in their core markets. Not one player has the same marketing position and worship of their eternally ignorant customers.
It sometimes appears that designers don't get this at all. Some of the least usable sites I have seen in the past couple of years were the desginers' own.
...and Peter Drucker observed or rather stated the obvious years ago: One can't really compare models in physics with models in economics, though it's tempting. The problem is, the model or a theory that tries to explain the real world beaviour will be applied in the real world which will in turn influence the real world system, which will eventually adapt, rendering the initial observations (that led to the theory in the first place) irrelevant for future explanations. For example: Every theroy we build on which parameters influence inflation will eventually influence economic behaviour by tuning monetary and fiscal policies according to theory. Market participants will eventually accomodate and alter their inflation expectations and in turn economic activity. Compare that to a model in physics: No matter what the explanation we find for the real world system, that theory will not influence the system. It doesn't matter to the system whether we think Newtonian physics or relativity is correct.
So, every economic model or theory will eventually become wrong. Econophysics, statistical mechanics and complex network theory may be the key to unlocking economic science and taking it a step further (from crystal ball gazing)....let me dream....
Not to mention that his final "outrage" was a dude's tie. Seriously? It's a fucking tie. It's fucking cosmetic. If someone wears a tie that wouldn't have been your choice, shut the fuck up and dislike their tie in quiet. Considering that the author previously (and correctly) picked on the immaturity of Congress members, the immature action of calling someone's tie an "outrage" is highly ironic.
I have seen them. And no, they didn't do a lot more than retouches. There's no "unwatchable" scene because of "distracting" CGI. It fits nicely into the background, like it should. The reason you get distracted is because you're looking for reasons to hate, not because they are actually distracting.
Excuse me, but what were you watching? The new CGI stuff not only messes with the scene composition, it also fucks up the story. Tatooine used to be a boring desert planet where nothing interesting ever happened, so it was quite understandable that Luke wanted to leave it. Now watch the Special Edition with a Mos Eisley that is suddenly a happening place with loads of activity and Luke's motivation is not that obvíous anymore. The CGI stuff in Episode IV also doesn't blend in with the whole look of the film, it's too clean.
And no, I for one am not looking for reasons to hate the new versions. It's far less noticable, and therefore less distracting in Episode VI where I don't mind the added CGI at all.
Apart from that, Greedo shooting first was plain stupid and the added Jabba scene was unnecessary.
Is it just me or have they removed the ability to search articles? So far, it appears to show me the main page by default and I can't freely choose an article. I don't see any adds and links to Amazon content only seem to work with ISBNs. As is, it's pretty useless.
If we on Slashdot start calling cookies "malware" then it's no different than when ordinary computer users don't know the difference between a virus and a trojan.
I know this one: Trojans prevent me from getting viruses. So one is good and the other is bad, right?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: anybody who says that a business can just hire someone to work on open source software if it becomes unsupported does not understand the first thing about the nature of business.
For some strange reason, Lucas is still trying to milk this cow and very likely pissing off the sagas fans in the process. Though I have to admit, there is still hope as long as he doesn't decide to write or direct.
You will be chatting with another engineer, then take a call and realize they are 10 years younger than you.
Errrm, you must be really young. IMNO it's been like this for quite some time now. Of course, being a real thirtysomething dinosaur probably gives me a different perspective...;-)
"to beleive that the human race has the power or even the potential to destroy the earth is absolute arogance"
This or a similar claim was made by German writer Hoimar von Ditfurth in his book "So laßt uns denn ein Apfelbäumchen pflanzen" (So let us plant an apple tree). What he meant was that we cannot destroy the earth as a planet, but rather that it will get rid of us well before we can do it, ie. it will have become uninhabitable through our actions as well as through shifts in geological, meteorological and whatnot conditions that are well beyond our control and mostly our understanding. IIRC he identifies our ignorance as one of the basic problems for the environmental problems we are facing. Your comments are exemplary in this context.
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This is how Internet Explorer would look if you move the tabs to the top like in other browsers.
I have yet to understand the reason for the UI change in the other browsers.
You may be right, but that doesn't diminish the fact that this should have been a feature from the very beginning and that its removal is not a step in the right direction from the user perspective.
Oh, and yes, I don't use this OS (or any other smartphone for that matter) for precisely this reason, I can't properly contain and manage the installed software on a very privacy sensitive device.
You mean like something RAR? ;-)
Grammar not strong the morning in...
If only there was some kind of error-correcting software that divided files into chunks for transfer; a way to download torrents of bits, if you will.
You mean like something RAR? ;-)
* A fancy audio analyzer visualization applet
* Smooth fade-out when pausing music
* Many UI improvements and visual tweaks including better support for alternate color themes
With priorities like this, we can expect a decent application in about two decades I guess.
Yes, that's what the Mint team tells you and that's because according to them, dist-upgrade is not reliable. I find this rather strange because it worked reliably on Debian and Ubuntu for me for a long time and I guess it's because the Mint team broke something. That's rather unfortunate because I like the system very much.
The other big flaw is the lack of lvm encryption in the installer. Workarounds exist, but this is basic stuff and should have been implemented a long time ago.
Do you have a link to the reports that suggest that the howto hack is broken? Alternatively do you know whether it's still possible to do it manually as described here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=49162&start=0?
I think this has a lot to do with FUD no longer working so well for Microsoft. There was a time when they just had to annouce that they were planning to develop something along the lines of XY and everybody in the market for XY got scared shitless. Competitors stopped actual development on their version of XY (because if MS was developing it, they had no chance) and customers would wait for MSs version of XY because it would become the standard. This worked well for a very long time.
No longer. It seems that the market as a whole has eventually come to realize that Microsoft rarely succeeds at anything they say they are targeting. Too often they have failed to deliver anything worth mentioning and in some very important (ie. visual) markets they are not even considered to be players.
Apple don't even have to play the FUD game because there are no competitors in their core markets. Not one player has the same marketing position and worship of their eternally ignorant customers.
Interesting times indeed...
One could argue that this encyclopedia wants to be one...or maybe I just misinterpret the gender gap discussion. :-)
It sometimes appears that designers don't get this at all. Some of the least usable sites I have seen in the past couple of years were the desginers' own.
...and Peter Drucker observed or rather stated the obvious years ago: One can't really compare models in physics with models in economics, though it's tempting. The problem is, the model or a theory that tries to explain the real world beaviour will be applied in the real world which will in turn influence the real world system, which will eventually adapt, rendering the initial observations (that led to the theory in the first place) irrelevant for future explanations. For example: Every theroy we build on which parameters influence inflation will eventually influence economic behaviour by tuning monetary and fiscal policies according to theory. Market participants will eventually accomodate and alter their inflation expectations and in turn economic activity. Compare that to a model in physics: No matter what the explanation we find for the real world system, that theory will not influence the system. It doesn't matter to the system whether we think Newtonian physics or relativity is correct.
So, every economic model or theory will eventually become wrong. Econophysics, statistical mechanics and complex network theory may be the key to unlocking economic science and taking it a step further (from crystal ball gazing)....let me dream....
Here's the data from politician Malte Spitz: http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention
Guys, what are you smoking? This isn't even funny.
Not to mention that his final "outrage" was a dude's tie. Seriously? It's a fucking tie. It's fucking cosmetic. If someone wears a tie that wouldn't have been your choice, shut the fuck up and dislike their tie in quiet. Considering that the author previously (and correctly) picked on the immaturity of Congress members, the immature action of calling someone's tie an "outrage" is highly ironic.
Dude! The tie was pink...
I have seen them. And no, they didn't do a lot more than retouches. There's no "unwatchable" scene because of "distracting" CGI. It fits nicely into the background, like it should. The reason you get distracted is because you're looking for reasons to hate, not because they are actually distracting.
Excuse me, but what were you watching? The new CGI stuff not only messes with the scene composition, it also fucks up the story. Tatooine used to be a boring desert planet where nothing interesting ever happened, so it was quite understandable that Luke wanted to leave it. Now watch the Special Edition with a Mos Eisley that is suddenly a happening place with loads of activity and Luke's motivation is not that obvíous anymore. The CGI stuff in Episode IV also doesn't blend in with the whole look of the film, it's too clean.
And no, I for one am not looking for reasons to hate the new versions. It's far less noticable, and therefore less distracting in Episode VI where I don't mind the added CGI at all.
Apart from that, Greedo shooting first was plain stupid and the added Jabba scene was unnecessary.
Ah, so when the Taliban do read them and the US forces don't, it will put the Americans at an advantage?
Can they therefore now claim plausible deniability?
Is it just me or have they removed the ability to search articles? So far, it appears to show me the main page by default and I can't freely choose an article. I don't see any adds and links to Amazon content only seem to work with ISBNs. As is, it's pretty useless.
If we on Slashdot start calling cookies "malware" then it's no different than when ordinary computer users don't know the difference between a virus and a trojan.
I know this one: Trojans prevent me from getting viruses. So one is good and the other is bad, right?
And how much does this cost?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: anybody who says that a business can just hire someone to work on open source software if it becomes unsupported does not understand the first thing about the nature of business.
...or software development.
For some strange reason, Lucas is still trying to milk this cow and very likely pissing off the sagas fans in the process. Though I have to admit, there is still hope as long as he doesn't decide to write or direct.
You will be chatting with another engineer, then take a call and realize they are 10 years younger than you.
Errrm, you must be really young. IMNO it's been like this for quite some time now. Of course, being a real thirtysomething dinosaur probably gives me a different perspective... ;-)
Unfortunately, consumers' response is most likely "duck and cover" rather than public outcry (except maybe for the couple of nerds on /.).
This or a similar claim was made by German writer Hoimar von Ditfurth in his book "So laßt uns denn ein Apfelbäumchen pflanzen" (So let us plant an apple tree). What he meant was that we cannot destroy the earth as a planet, but rather that it will get rid of us well before we can do it, ie. it will have become uninhabitable through our actions as well as through shifts in geological, meteorological and whatnot conditions that are well beyond our control and mostly our understanding. IIRC he identifies our ignorance as one of the basic problems for the environmental problems we are facing. Your comments are exemplary in this context.
Literally? Yikes!
With this kind of attitude, Linux will never be ready for the desktop. Shame on you!