Ah, losing market share. What I find funny is that Windows 7 caught up to Windows XP's user share (according to StatCounter) in just six months more than the iPad used to catch up with Linux's (both happening pretty much at the same time, around these days). That's with Microsoft supposedly losing and the iPad supposedly heralding the post-PC era. I'd love to be losing like Microsoft.
Incorrect. The claim that denying users a choice in adequate keyboards makes a system easier to use is quite simply fraudulent. You call it fact, I call you a fucking cunt.
Declaring yourself a power user won't make it so, and surely the window manager is relatively unimportant compared to the actual work environment, which is typically a terminal and a text editor.
Unusual. Most Slackware users I've come across on the net haven't been nearly that helpful. They'll tell you how Slackware is so hard to use that it will teach you how to do everything, but they'll never tell you what they can do. It seems to make nerd elitism grow in people. I'm actually surprised that he had a friend./prejudiced
No, I'm not. I'm saying that's what the GP and the GGP do. A sceptic is someone who demands better evidence, a denialist is someone who changes the terms after evidence was provided. You can look at Muller's actual claims back then:
Last month's article by McIntyre and McKitrick raised pertinent questions. They had been given access (by Mann) to details of the work that were not publicly available. Independent analysis and (when possible) independent data sets are ultimately the arbiter of truth. This is precisely the way that science should, and usually does, proceed. That's why Nobel Prizes are often awarded one to three decades after the work was completed—to avoid mistakes. Truth is not easy to find, but a slow process is the only one that works reliably.
It was unfortunate that many scientists endorsed the hockey stick before it could be subjected to the tedious review of time. Ironically, it appears that these scientists skipped the vetting precisely because the results were so important.
Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate. I would love to believe that the results of Mann et al. are correct, and that the last few years have been the warmest in a millennium.
Love to believe? My own words make me shudder. They trigger my scientist's instinct for caution. When a conclusion is attractive, I am tempted to lower my standards, to do shoddy work. But that is not the way to truth. When the conclusions are attractive, we must be extra cautious.
That's actual scientific scepticism. Being biased against the consensus is something entirely different. Selecting to believe only what people who share your biases tell you is not scepticism. Attacking someone for lying due to which label the media has chosen to stick onto them is not scepticism, it's libel.
Just note that I didn't label my opponent, whereas that was exactly the crux of your argument: "oh no he wasn't a real sceptic, I have been lied to!" Wherein you demand that others adhere to your layman definition of scepticism, and you consider the lack of bias equal to your own to be bias. You make up half-truths in order to label others as liars. Well done for someone who dares calling himself my intellectual opponent.
I thought it was just a half-assed imitation of OS X with the dock moved over to the left side and inconsistent application menus. Unlike Gnome3, it doesn't seem like something that would work on a tablet (nor anywhere else). I'd like a Gnome3 version of the Asus Eeee Pad Transformer.
Perhaps you simply confuse the term 'sceptic' with 'denialist'. Being sceptical of the measurement of global temperatures does not mean he also needs to deny that CO2 is a greenhouse gas.
Sure, but was Steve Jobs all that more important for the home computer revolution than whoever forgotten person was in charge of Commodore in the 1980s? After all, people bought $595 C64s and $699 Amigas for home use, not less capable Macs (compared to the Amiga) for several times the amount of money. Steve Jobs is remembered for his contributions to early home computing because of the success of the iPod and the number of fawning fanboys like yourself.
Like the other guy said, the Galaxy S2 can be operated with one hand. However, writing on a qwerty keyboard with one hand is far more painful than on a T9, and qwerty on a touch screen is even worse. Try doing it while walking. With actual keys you can rely on tactile feedback in addition to your eyes, with a capacitive touch screen you enter text on the mere touch of the screen. Typing on a modern touch screen demands far more attention and is far more error prone than a T9 (and no, your beloved autocorrect doesn't improve things).
Sure, you can do it. But for some things, the touch screen is a giant leap backwards in usability.
I'm sure Apple will maintain its market share in the portable music player segment, but that market is dying as mobile phones have made the mp3 player superfluous. My phone can play FLAC files, but probably not ALAC.
Wrong. 1) Linux does not come with Firefox. 2) Firefox can be uninstalled under Linux. 3) Linux does not depend on Firefox for anything, not even for downloading your favourite browser. Hell, you wouldn't even want to use a browser to download and install another browser under Linux, you'd just use your package manager to install it.
What I'm saying is that Apple likes to keep their phones annoyingly obsolete in important areas. No 3G on the first. Fanbois pretended GPRS actually was faster, and made up numbers to prove it, then promptly lined up for the next generation, as GPRS in reality was ridiculously slow. Now there's no LTE, which you'll buy next year. The iPhone4's camera was a major selling point but it was in fact rather shit. Now you get the one used in Sony Ericsson's phones, so it's competitive, although some miles off the better Nokias. You also want Siri, but there's no reason why the iPhone4 shouldn't have it: it's already been ported.
All the while, it's the most expensive phone on the market. Good, but with major niggles and crippled software to make sure you always buy, buy, buy.
Outside of the RDF, people get upset when they get crippled software updates. You, on the other hand, think Apple deserves your money.
I see no reason to hold a calm, rational discussion with someone whose sole reason for discussing is to do Apple's marketing work. You come here to advertise, I come here to flame people like you.
The option to install a third party keyboard (second post to this thread) doesn't add much complexity. The API is already in place; after all, Apple already uses it for its own keyboard, with its own "charming" Autocorrect that lets people get what they're doing "DONE" so they can get on with life and apologise for what they seemingly just wrote.
Their minimalism is about hiding complexity under a layer of gloss. Although it "just works" it often "just breaks", usually for quite unfathomable reasons (I've had the login screen hang with no error message due to the file system eating some wifi library: that's not minimalist design). Hell, I've seen more people asking for help with stuff that broke in OS X than with Windows, and the most often suggested remedy, "repair permissions" NEVER EVER works. Simplicity? No. Minimalism? No. Just works? No. People just never learn how their system works, so it all seems "magical" to them. However, that's just lack of knowledge. Meanwhile, people like you will market the snot out of it at any given opportunity, fawning over imaginary features of its design.
Sure they want to "sell" you things. That's why, when you already bought one of their products, they make sure you need to buy a new one now and then, through forced obsolescence. You think Siri is nifty? It's only a software update, and would work perfectly on your iPhone4 if Apple didn't want your money so bad. When you buy from Apple, you buy an expensive subscription to new hardware.
In 2001, most mp3 players were crap. I've got a Creative Zen as an example: the UI is really hideous. I mean, which other music player has been controlled by letting the manufacturer take a shit on the consumer's face? And where's the logic in this? Still, to skip to the next track, you need to let Creative shit. That's just how it works. Not quite logical, not quite intuitive, but it worked. Yes, it was unpleasant!
Now, I wouldn't claim that Apple was the first corporation with the idea that Hey, instead of shitting all over our customers, we should just let them select the goddamn track they want to listen to. Sony, of course, had the Walkman line of products. High quality. Easy to use. Classy. Would not play mp3 files. Would in fact not play any format you would realistically want to listen to. So Apple took Sony's market due to Sony's attempt at satisfying their own music industry branch instead of their customers.
And you know what? Fuck Sony. There's a lot to be said about Apple, but at the time they simply did what needed to be done, from a consumer perspective, and they did it properly. Their success was simply a matter of supply and demand.
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Ah, losing market share. What I find funny is that Windows 7 caught up to Windows XP's user share (according to StatCounter) in just six months more than the iPad used to catch up with Linux's (both happening pretty much at the same time, around these days). That's with Microsoft supposedly losing and the iPad supposedly heralding the post-PC era. I'd love to be losing like Microsoft.
Incorrect. The claim that denying users a choice in adequate keyboards makes a system easier to use is quite simply fraudulent. You call it fact, I call you a fucking cunt.
Sure. Except it's not nearly the same.
As for TFA, it's a load of marketing bullshit.
Declaring yourself a power user won't make it so, and surely the window manager is relatively unimportant compared to the actual work environment, which is typically a terminal and a text editor.
A power user isn't going to spend hours configuring a fucking window manager.
dpkg -L packagename | grep bin
Knowing a tiny bit about package management is all it takes.
s/people/Israel lobby/g
Unusual. Most Slackware users I've come across on the net haven't been nearly that helpful. They'll tell you how Slackware is so hard to use that it will teach you how to do everything, but they'll never tell you what they can do. It seems to make nerd elitism grow in people. I'm actually surprised that he had a friend. /prejudiced
No, I'm not. I'm saying that's what the GP and the GGP do. A sceptic is someone who demands better evidence, a denialist is someone who changes the terms after evidence was provided. You can look at Muller's actual claims back then:
That's actual scientific scepticism. Being biased against the consensus is something entirely different. Selecting to believe only what people who share your biases tell you is not scepticism. Attacking someone for lying due to which label the media has chosen to stick onto them is not scepticism, it's libel.
Just note that I didn't label my opponent, whereas that was exactly the crux of your argument: "oh no he wasn't a real sceptic, I have been lied to!" Wherein you demand that others adhere to your layman definition of scepticism, and you consider the lack of bias equal to your own to be bias. You make up half-truths in order to label others as liars. Well done for someone who dares calling himself my intellectual opponent.
I thought it was just a half-assed imitation of OS X with the dock moved over to the left side and inconsistent application menus. Unlike Gnome3, it doesn't seem like something that would work on a tablet (nor anywhere else). I'd like a Gnome3 version of the Asus Eeee Pad Transformer.
Perhaps you simply confuse the term 'sceptic' with 'denialist'. Being sceptical of the measurement of global temperatures does not mean he also needs to deny that CO2 is a greenhouse gas.
So you seriously think people would give a shit when Steve Jobs died if he didn't come back to Apple and release the iPod?
Sure, but was Steve Jobs all that more important for the home computer revolution than whoever forgotten person was in charge of Commodore in the 1980s? After all, people bought $595 C64s and $699 Amigas for home use, not less capable Macs (compared to the Amiga) for several times the amount of money. Steve Jobs is remembered for his contributions to early home computing because of the success of the iPod and the number of fawning fanboys like yourself.
Like the other guy said, the Galaxy S2 can be operated with one hand. However, writing on a qwerty keyboard with one hand is far more painful than on a T9, and qwerty on a touch screen is even worse. Try doing it while walking. With actual keys you can rely on tactile feedback in addition to your eyes, with a capacitive touch screen you enter text on the mere touch of the screen. Typing on a modern touch screen demands far more attention and is far more error prone than a T9 (and no, your beloved autocorrect doesn't improve things).
Sure, you can do it. But for some things, the touch screen is a giant leap backwards in usability.
Nokia has being doing that kind of innovation since long before Microsoft started eyeing the smartphone.
I'm sure Apple will maintain its market share in the portable music player segment, but that market is dying as mobile phones have made the mp3 player superfluous. My phone can play FLAC files, but probably not ALAC.
Sounds like something only an Emacs hater would say.
Why do you want FLAC to die?
Wrong. 1) Linux does not come with Firefox. 2) Firefox can be uninstalled under Linux. 3) Linux does not depend on Firefox for anything, not even for downloading your favourite browser. Hell, you wouldn't even want to use a browser to download and install another browser under Linux, you'd just use your package manager to install it.
Why were you talking again?
What I'm saying is that Apple likes to keep their phones annoyingly obsolete in important areas. No 3G on the first. Fanbois pretended GPRS actually was faster, and made up numbers to prove it, then promptly lined up for the next generation, as GPRS in reality was ridiculously slow. Now there's no LTE, which you'll buy next year. The iPhone4's camera was a major selling point but it was in fact rather shit. Now you get the one used in Sony Ericsson's phones, so it's competitive, although some miles off the better Nokias. You also want Siri, but there's no reason why the iPhone4 shouldn't have it: it's already been ported.
All the while, it's the most expensive phone on the market. Good, but with major niggles and crippled software to make sure you always buy, buy, buy.
Outside of the RDF, people get upset when they get crippled software updates. You, on the other hand, think Apple deserves your money.
I see no reason to hold a calm, rational discussion with someone whose sole reason for discussing is to do Apple's marketing work. You come here to advertise, I come here to flame people like you.
The option to install a third party keyboard (second post to this thread) doesn't add much complexity. The API is already in place; after all, Apple already uses it for its own keyboard, with its own "charming" Autocorrect that lets people get what they're doing "DONE" so they can get on with life and apologise for what they seemingly just wrote.
Their minimalism is about hiding complexity under a layer of gloss. Although it "just works" it often "just breaks", usually for quite unfathomable reasons (I've had the login screen hang with no error message due to the file system eating some wifi library: that's not minimalist design). Hell, I've seen more people asking for help with stuff that broke in OS X than with Windows, and the most often suggested remedy, "repair permissions" NEVER EVER works. Simplicity? No. Minimalism? No. Just works? No. People just never learn how their system works, so it all seems "magical" to them. However, that's just lack of knowledge. Meanwhile, people like you will market the snot out of it at any given opportunity, fawning over imaginary features of its design.
Like the AC said, you're a shill.
Sure they want to "sell" you things. That's why, when you already bought one of their products, they make sure you need to buy a new one now and then, through forced obsolescence. You think Siri is nifty? It's only a software update, and would work perfectly on your iPhone4 if Apple didn't want your money so bad. When you buy from Apple, you buy an expensive subscription to new hardware.
In 2001, most mp3 players were crap. I've got a Creative Zen as an example: the UI is really hideous. I mean, which other music player has been controlled by letting the manufacturer take a shit on the consumer's face? And where's the logic in this? Still, to skip to the next track, you need to let Creative shit. That's just how it works. Not quite logical, not quite intuitive, but it worked. Yes, it was unpleasant!
Now, I wouldn't claim that Apple was the first corporation with the idea that Hey, instead of shitting all over our customers, we should just let them select the goddamn track they want to listen to. Sony, of course, had the Walkman line of products. High quality. Easy to use. Classy. Would not play mp3 files. Would in fact not play any format you would realistically want to listen to. So Apple took Sony's market due to Sony's attempt at satisfying their own music industry branch instead of their customers.
And you know what? Fuck Sony. There's a lot to be said about Apple, but at the time they simply did what needed to be done, from a consumer perspective, and they did it properly. Their success was simply a matter of supply and demand.