same here. i watched the thing at a friend's place because everyone said it was great. but i found it cliched, dumb, and plain boring. i'm happy the fraudsters who tried to hype up this piece of shit did not get any money from me.
A lot of changes happen for a reason. It takes about an hour to get used to this one.
the blog entry you link to says:
We’ve carefully placed all the panel indicators on the right, and we’ve carefully put the window controls and window title on the left. So now we have all this space on the right. As a pattern, it would fit to put the window indicators there.
can you point out to me that part which tells the reason why they moved the window controls to the left. as far as i understand it they just did it because they want useless, irrational change for the sake of change. they could have let the window controls stay where they are and place the new fangled (imo, unnecessary) panel icons at the left. why make the users change their habit? also, it might have taken an hour for you, but i simply can't get used to it. every time i try to use it, it irritates me to rage.
This is wrong. That's "indicator-applet". If you remove it from the panel, nothing else goes missing.
are you a moron? try and remove the indicator applet. volume, bluetooth, and power are also gone. please try it before sounding off on someone who knows more about the topic.
Right. You call a system which offers several layers of customization (from top to bottom: GUI menus -> configuration files -> interpreted scripts -> recompilable source) less customizable than monolithic windows. Your world seems to be a strange but simple one.
i don't care. i can remove individual icons from the taskbar in any version of windows without changing anything else. i cannot do it in 10.04 ubuntu with the envelope icon. that makes it less customizable. from your quoted shuttleworth:
The new system on a major "4 letters" Microsoft OEM partner that I work for will work only on IE 6 or 7, and have (third party) developer support only for XP machines. So yes, I could go as far as IE7, but let's be real, all the current systems already works better on IE6.
Having both versions would be great indeed, but I don't think this will ever be an option.
i read about this a long time ago so i checked. it works. you can record the stereo mix that your computer is playing, even with the highly limited in-built recorder. seems to me all the crap about vista being laden with resource sucking drm was just a huge load of fud.
um no. i googled about it but it seems there is no wubi equivalent in mint. my earlier comment was not very clear. wubi is a separate windows program that installs ubuntu inside a virtual hdd stored under ntfs as a huge file. so it is not exactly a feature of ubuntu.
i recall reading an interview of bill gates in which he said that his ambition/goal was to have each desk in the world have a computer running microsoft software. then he later realized that this goal was impossible because so many people were unable to get even basic amenities like drinking water, let alone a computer. so essentially, charity is only a part of selling more software, in the long run.
9.10 and 10.04 both work flawlessly with my intel integrated graphics. actually, ubuntu has always played well with intel as far back as i can remember.
don't raise your hopes. sound worked on my laptop flawlessly in 9.10 but in 10.04 there are stutters and error notifications all the time. i can't understand how they could break a perfectly working thing in a newer version. if i upgrade my program, i would not touch the parts that already work.
sound is actually broken for me where it worked in 9.10(stupid random versioning). now there's stutters and if you play a song it never finishes. and then you can't even logout or shutdown, you have to open up a terminal and sudo halt. and what's up with the uac like thing that pops up randomly and asks for the password and DOES NOT TELL YOU WHICH PROGRAM YOU ARE GRANTING ACCESS TO!! and there is no way to get rid of the stupid envelope icon without also removing volume, bluetooth, battery and stuff. my anecdote is worth the same as your anecdote.(hint:zero)
Dont get me wrong, I think it's far more stable than Windows 7
well then you are wrong. they haven't been able to do sound properly which is perhaps the simplest thing to do. my sound card works without any driver in win7. but it does not in ubuntu. i would even say that windows 7 has a higher uptime than ubuntu now. there are so many crashes and nothing can come back after a crash. you HAVE to reboot forcefully. win7 otoh recovers itself even from a graphic card crash.
i have stopped using ubuntu because of irrational, stupid changes like this.there is also the envelope icon that takes up space on the top bar that you can't remove without also removing volume and bluetooth etc. yes you can have a separate applet for volume but then that icon does not match with the theme. even fucking windows is more customizable than this. gnome needs to die.kde is going in a much better direction with their plasmoid stuff. and shuttleworth and co have shown tremendous disregard for the community that has supported them. they did not bother to give a single reason for this fucking change. also, the windows in ubuntu look very ugly now, it appears that there is some sort of formatting error, with everything left justified. also the notification system is utter crap. for example if you lose your wlan signal it says disconnected. but if you move the cursor over the thing it becomes transparent! wtf! you should be able to click the notification and it should give you the networking options. on the other hand kubuntu and opensuse are amazing.
Eyeballing it, a 60 cent dual-blade bic razor comfortably lasts me 6 shaves. That's a dime a shave, though I could probably stretch it longer if I felt like it
In order for a 3 dollar Mach-3 cartridge to approach that cost effectiveness, it would have to last 30 shaves. I shave 3 times a week, and I've never had a mach-3 last two and a half months - a month in, it's like shaving with sandpaper.
And that doesn't take the cost of the damned handle into account.
I'm not debating that mach-3 blades are better. I just don't think they're worth 3 times the consumer cost, and I'm not especially interested in paying a 1200% markup for, after a month and a fresh blade, just as crappy a shave as I'd get with a 3 week old 60 cent razor that I can replace without feeling like I'm wasting money by not using it until it rusts.
Spend your money where you like, of course, but the math doesn't add up for me.
but earlier you said:
The blades are as sharp as the expensive one at 1/10 the cost.
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same here. i watched the thing at a friend's place because everyone said it was great. but i found it cliched, dumb, and plain boring. i'm happy the fraudsters who tried to hype up this piece of shit did not get any money from me.
A lot of changes happen for a reason. It takes about an hour to get used to this one.
the blog entry you link to says:
We’ve carefully placed all the panel indicators on the right, and we’ve carefully put the window controls and window title on the left. So now we have all this space on the right. As a pattern, it would fit to put the window indicators there.
can you point out to me that part which tells the reason why they moved the window controls to the left. as far as i understand it they just did it because they want useless, irrational change for the sake of change. they could have let the window controls stay where they are and place the new fangled (imo, unnecessary) panel icons at the left. why make the users change their habit?
also, it might have taken an hour for you, but i simply can't get used to it. every time i try to use it, it irritates me to rage.
This is wrong. That's "indicator-applet". If you remove it from the panel, nothing else goes missing.
are you a moron? try and remove the indicator applet. volume, bluetooth, and power are also gone. please try it before sounding off on someone who knows more about the topic.
Right. You call a system which offers several layers of customization (from top to bottom: GUI menus -> configuration files -> interpreted scripts -> recompilable source) less customizable than monolithic windows. Your world seems to be a strange but simple one.
i don't care. i can remove individual icons from the taskbar in any version of windows without changing anything else. i cannot do it in 10.04 ubuntu with the envelope icon. that makes it less customizable.
from your quoted shuttleworth:
There aren't any good reasons for that
enough said.
The new system on a major "4 letters" Microsoft OEM partner that I work for will work only on IE 6 or 7, and have (third party) developer support only for XP machines. So yes, I could go as far as IE7, but let's be real, all the current systems already works better on IE6. Having both versions would be great indeed, but I don't think this will ever be an option.
dell
amirite?
i read about this a long time ago so i checked. it works. you can record the stereo mix that your computer is playing, even with the highly limited in-built recorder.
seems to me all the crap about vista being laden with resource sucking drm was just a huge load of fud.
Yes, but because Microsoft is doing it ... it will be *cool*
hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahzahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
amazing! thanks!
um no. i googled about it but it seems there is no wubi equivalent in mint. my earlier comment was not very clear. wubi is a separate windows program that installs ubuntu inside a virtual hdd stored under ntfs as a huge file. so it is not exactly a feature of ubuntu.
but i don't think there would be ads after you pay. so 32500 readers, if they pay a fee, won't need ads.
i recall reading an interview of bill gates in which he said that his ambition/goal was to have each desk in the world have a computer running microsoft software. then he later realized that this goal was impossible because so many people were unable to get even basic amenities like drinking water, let alone a computer. so essentially, charity is only a part of selling more software, in the long run.
but then you would have the unpaid support calls again. so what's the benefit of ipad again?
9.10 and 10.04 both work flawlessly with my intel integrated graphics. actually, ubuntu has always played well with intel as far back as i can remember.
don't raise your hopes. sound worked on my laptop flawlessly in 9.10 but in 10.04 there are stutters and error notifications all the time. i can't understand how they could break a perfectly working thing in a newer version. if i upgrade my program, i would not touch the parts that already work.
can linux mint be installed like wubi? it is one of the greatest features of ubuntu, imo.
though I then manually uninstalled all the social-media crap than comes with Lucid
please, please tell me how to remove the stupid useless envelope icon without removing all the useful ones like battery, bluetooth, and volume.
sound is actually broken for me where it worked in 9.10(stupid random versioning). now there's stutters and if you play a song it never finishes. and then you can't even logout or shutdown, you have to open up a terminal and sudo halt. and what's up with the uac like thing that pops up randomly and asks for the password and DOES NOT TELL YOU WHICH PROGRAM YOU ARE GRANTING ACCESS TO!!
and there is no way to get rid of the stupid envelope icon without also removing volume, bluetooth, battery and stuff.
my anecdote is worth the same as your anecdote.(hint:zero)
Dont get me wrong, I think it's far more stable than Windows 7
well then you are wrong. they haven't been able to do sound properly which is perhaps the simplest thing to do. my sound card works without any driver in win7. but it does not in ubuntu. i would even say that windows 7 has a higher uptime than ubuntu now. there are so many crashes and nothing can come back after a crash. you HAVE to reboot forcefully. win7 otoh recovers itself even from a graphic card crash.
i have stopped using ubuntu because of irrational, stupid changes like this.there is also the envelope icon that takes up space on the top bar that you can't remove without also removing volume and bluetooth etc. yes you can have a separate applet for volume but then that icon does not match with the theme.
even fucking windows is more customizable than this. gnome needs to die.kde is going in a much better direction with their plasmoid stuff.
and shuttleworth and co have shown tremendous disregard for the community that has supported them. they did not bother to give a single reason for this fucking change.
also, the windows in ubuntu look very ugly now, it appears that there is some sort of formatting error, with everything left justified.
also the notification system is utter crap. for example if you lose your wlan signal it says disconnected. but if you move the cursor over the thing it becomes transparent! wtf! you should be able to click the notification and it should give you the networking options.
on the other hand kubuntu and opensuse are amazing.
you can, but you'd have to intercept and modify the signals thru the optic nerve. there are very few impossibles in this world.
its not a waste if it is so cheap that you can put it on disposable cans.
i'm almost sure that panasonic does not make flash memory. maybe they source it from sony?
your usb drive can run windows?
I don't think so.
Eyeballing it, a 60 cent dual-blade bic razor comfortably lasts me 6 shaves. That's a dime a shave, though I could probably stretch it longer if I felt like it
In order for a 3 dollar Mach-3 cartridge to approach that cost effectiveness, it would have to last 30 shaves. I shave 3 times a week, and I've never had a mach-3 last two and a half months - a month in, it's like shaving with sandpaper.
And that doesn't take the cost of the damned handle into account.
I'm not debating that mach-3 blades are better. I just don't think they're worth 3 times the consumer cost, and I'm not especially interested in paying a 1200% markup for, after a month and a fresh blade, just as crappy a shave as I'd get with a 3 week old 60 cent razor that I can replace without feeling like I'm wasting money by not using it until it rusts.
Spend your money where you like, of course, but the math doesn't add up for me.
but earlier you said:
The blades are as sharp as the expensive one at 1/10 the cost.
i guess you get to see something new on youtube everyday.
that first line was my unsuccessful attempt at sarcasm.
dmca=digital millenium copyright act
you can have a copyright on ink?