1. There is no singular "Linux Desktop" as posted by many others already, there are multiple competing desktop environments, package managers and distributions.
2. Desktop computers have now been surpassed by mobile devices in usage for things like Facebook (http://allthingsd.com/20120508/average-facebook-mobile-use-beats-desktop-access/) and email (http://www.returnpath.net/blog/intheknow/2012/05/email-in-motion-how-mobile-is-leading-the-email-revolution/). You know, those things that most people use the Internet for.
3. Android is the successful Linux Desktop with nearly 40% market share on mobile devices - almost twice its nearest competitor (http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/android-market-share-surpass-40-percent-year-122857).
4. Supporting Windows and Android apps natively in Linux distributions is an important way for distro projects to remain relevant for those who prefer to use Linux, but who need to interact with the rest of the world or share experiences with them.
5. This whole conversation is beginning to sound like a greybeard echo chamber. I must be one of the greybeards, because I'm posting from a Linux desktop...
Actually, the WoW server emulators are near flawless at this point for the 3.x series. 4.x support is shaky due to better obfuscation of opcodes on Blizzard's part, but you can play on an emulated Wrath server at this point and not know it's not legit. Diablo III presumably will follow WoW 4.x lead in making this less easy for the emu crowd.
Fortunately, the odds are that you'll still be able to play single-player without a net connection, by applying a 25K patch made by some kid in Brazil the day after the game comes out.
Or, you could check out the excellent Torchlight series instead for much the same gameplay and no always-connected requirement.
I can confirm that Namecoin is highly relevant to both this thread, and to the interests of Slashdotters in general. Anyone who is serious about decentralization of DNS should familiarize themselves with the project.
As an added bonus, it's a generalized namespace - so domains are just one possible application.
Actually, they only ban account holders from posting on the forums, for cases of forum rule infractions. Account bans do carry through to the forums, but it's perfectly possible to be banned from the WoW forums while playing the game.
Hell, we've got footage of a pipe under the sea pumping out gallons of oil, but you think they're doing something else that's not only worse, but also visible only up close?
As one example, there have been numerousstories of additional large oil/gas plumes forming underwater near the ruptured well. However, it seems that getting near enough to these plumes to figure out what's going on will be difficult when there is an Exclusion Zone set up for a large distance around them.
The cynic in me notes that proper estimates of the leakage into these plumes could increase the official tally of the amount of oil/gas escaping into the Gulf and thereby increase BP's financial liability.
broken for me where it worked in 9.10(stupid random versioning).
The versioning is anything but random. It corresponds directly to the year (2009) and the month (October, the 10th month). Every single Ubuntu release follows this convention. Releases are on a six month cycle. Thus 10.04 is the April 2010 release.
It's easier than that, just select the brown theme in Appearance. Don't have to download any extras.
On the topic of default themes: I find it highly interesting to see what people choose in terms of leaving the default, or perhaps going to an earlier appearance (this was common when WinXP came out).
The desire to change the window decor is not correlated directly to technical ability; rather, it's something about certain people being distracted/displeased by certain window decorations, and feeling the need to change them, period. What is that in people? Why can't we leave well enough alone?
I've been using win7 fairly heavily for half a year with zero crash problems. At this point, any fatal crashes are unacceptable for a primary desktop machine. The bar is much, much higher than it was back in the bad old days of Win98 and MacOS 9.
I feel obliged to add that the best way to have a stable experience with Ubuntu (or Linux in general) is to match the hardware to it, and ensure proper support before buying/building your system. A little homework goes a long way.
Criticism on the KDE message boards is, for the most part, deleted by admins, so we have to go to other websites to vent and discuss why we don't like what the batty KDE devs are doing.
If true, this puts a Very Bad Taste in my mouth. I expected better from KDE (and open source in general).
However, considering the 2nd amendment and all, with half the population packing heat, Americans must be pretty stupid bunch of nancies not to revolt.
We're not hungry enough yet, and most of us still have roofs over our heads. Give it a few years, when the benefits are finally exhausted you'll see things get interesting in a hurry.
Agreed. But stupid, gullible people are generally the only ones who will make it past jury selection. It's to the favor of the prosecutor and the defender both. Think about it.
Or, just talk to any smart person you know that's ever actually made it to jury selection stage when called for duty. They don't get picked. The purpose of the selection process is to weed out the critical thinkers...
Leftists, anarchists and so forth tend to end up quarreling about the proper way to fix things by creating new structures and procedures, until the point where everyone goes home and joins the establishment.
This happens time and time again, and usually Left movements don't even build enough steam to get national press as a result (media blackouts on left-organized war protests notwithstanding). The Democrats exist as a pressure valve to allow these groups to feel like they're able to "work within the system."
The old school conservatives tend to agree on the way to fix things (generally by simplifying), and have just got fed up enough with both major parties that they decided to start their own movement.
The Republicans have merely sunk their fangs into this movement in order to salvage what votes they can, after eviscerating both the Bill of Rights and the Middle East. They deserve no credit for the Tea Party - at least, the current crop of neocons doesn't. "Old school Republicans" like Barry Goldwater are still Tea Party heroes by most accounts.
Mostly because he was running against the Republican Party candidate, and the Republicans had just had a disastrous 8 year run.
He also promised to only add one minor front on the mideast wars; and so far has kept that promise (in Pakistan). McCain wanted to hit Iran. Some of our politicians still do (in both parties).
Yes, it's ugly "lesser evil" territory. But it does make a difference in the scale of this ongoing colossal fuckup.
Heck, if the census-takers had all been DNA screened against the criminal database, I'd worry a bit less about the possibility of my family letting them into the house.
Mistrustful alarmists like you are part of the problem. You should be much more worried about the Wall Street schmucks bilking you out of your wealth.
And what reason, pray tell, has our government given him to trust them? Why should we not be concerned about *both* scenarios (among many)?
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"Kindle Fire HD" returns no hits when searching the KDE 4.9 Menu in my Quantal Kubuntu.
1. There is no singular "Linux Desktop" as posted by many others already, there are multiple competing desktop environments, package managers and distributions.
2. Desktop computers have now been surpassed by mobile devices in usage for things like Facebook (http://allthingsd.com/20120508/average-facebook-mobile-use-beats-desktop-access/) and email (http://www.returnpath.net/blog/intheknow/2012/05/email-in-motion-how-mobile-is-leading-the-email-revolution/). You know, those things that most people use the Internet for.
3. Android is the successful Linux Desktop with nearly 40% market share on mobile devices - almost twice its nearest competitor (http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/android-market-share-surpass-40-percent-year-122857).
4. Supporting Windows and Android apps natively in Linux distributions is an important way for distro projects to remain relevant for those who prefer to use Linux, but who need to interact with the rest of the world or share experiences with them.
5. This whole conversation is beginning to sound like a greybeard echo chamber. I must be one of the greybeards, because I'm posting from a Linux desktop...
Mod parent up. There is more to life than games. Blizzard is doing a favor to the world by making their latest crack less accessible.
Actually, the WoW server emulators are near flawless at this point for the 3.x series. 4.x support is shaky due to better obfuscation of opcodes on Blizzard's part, but you can play on an emulated Wrath server at this point and not know it's not legit. Diablo III presumably will follow WoW 4.x lead in making this less easy for the emu crowd.
Fortunately, the odds are that you'll still be able to play single-player without a net connection, by applying a 25K patch made by some kid in Brazil the day after the game comes out.
Or, you could check out the excellent Torchlight series instead for much the same gameplay and no always-connected requirement.
e.g. they do have customer service, for their customers: their advertisers.
you're the product, you can be serviced by robots.
I can confirm that Namecoin is highly relevant to both this thread, and to the interests of Slashdotters in general. Anyone who is serious about decentralization of DNS should familiarize themselves with the project.
As an added bonus, it's a generalized namespace - so domains are just one possible application.
Actually, they only ban account holders from posting on the forums, for cases of forum rule infractions. Account bans do carry through to the forums, but it's perfectly possible to be banned from the WoW forums while playing the game.
Hell, we've got footage of a pipe under the sea pumping out gallons of oil, but you think they're doing something else that's not only worse, but also visible only up close?
As one example, there have been numerous stories of additional large oil/gas plumes forming underwater near the ruptured well. However, it seems that getting near enough to these plumes to figure out what's going on will be difficult when there is an Exclusion Zone set up for a large distance around them.
The cynic in me notes that proper estimates of the leakage into these plumes could increase the official tally of the amount of oil/gas escaping into the Gulf and thereby increase BP's financial liability.
mod parent funny
Prison labor is already huge in the USA and elsewhere, I think we have workhouses by another name.
broken for me where it worked in 9.10(stupid random versioning).
The versioning is anything but random. It corresponds directly to the year (2009) and the month (October, the 10th month). Every single Ubuntu release follows this convention. Releases are on a six month cycle. Thus 10.04 is the April 2010 release.
It's easier than that, just select the brown theme in Appearance. Don't have to download any extras.
On the topic of default themes: I find it highly interesting to see what people choose in terms of leaving the default, or perhaps going to an earlier appearance (this was common when WinXP came out).
The desire to change the window decor is not correlated directly to technical ability; rather, it's something about certain people being distracted/displeased by certain window decorations, and feeling the need to change them, period. What is that in people? Why can't we leave well enough alone?
I've been using win7 fairly heavily for half a year with zero crash problems. At this point, any fatal crashes are unacceptable for a primary desktop machine. The bar is much, much higher than it was back in the bad old days of Win98 and MacOS 9.
I feel obliged to add that the best way to have a stable experience with Ubuntu (or Linux in general) is to match the hardware to it, and ensure proper support before buying/building your system. A little homework goes a long way.
Criticism on the KDE message boards is, for the most part, deleted by admins, so we have to go to other websites to vent and discuss why we don't like what the batty KDE devs are doing.
If true, this puts a Very Bad Taste in my mouth. I expected better from KDE (and open source in general).
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Bet you $100.00 they are not asking white people. There are a lot of illegal Canadians running around!
Plus Europeans and other Mediterranean types who can pass for US native.
You weren't allowed to wait in the house for an extra 30 minutes?
Indeed - I can see Bond entering, say, Devil's Point in pursuit of his nemesis... and perhaps staying for a pint of New Belgium and some fire dancing.
mod parent funny
However, considering the 2nd amendment and all, with half the population packing heat, Americans must be pretty stupid bunch of nancies not to revolt.
We're not hungry enough yet, and most of us still have roofs over our heads. Give it a few years, when the benefits are finally exhausted you'll see things get interesting in a hurry.
Now why would the US government, who just injected themselves into my healthcare
You have healthcare? Lucky S.O.B. :)
Agreed. But stupid, gullible people are generally the only ones who will make it past jury selection. It's to the favor of the prosecutor and the defender both. Think about it.
Or, just talk to any smart person you know that's ever actually made it to jury selection stage when called for duty. They don't get picked. The purpose of the selection process is to weed out the critical thinkers...
Leftists, anarchists and so forth tend to end up quarreling about the proper way to fix things by creating new structures and procedures, until the point where everyone goes home and joins the establishment.
This happens time and time again, and usually Left movements don't even build enough steam to get national press as a result (media blackouts on left-organized war protests notwithstanding). The Democrats exist as a pressure valve to allow these groups to feel like they're able to "work within the system."
The old school conservatives tend to agree on the way to fix things (generally by simplifying), and have just got fed up enough with both major parties that they decided to start their own movement.
The Republicans have merely sunk their fangs into this movement in order to salvage what votes they can, after eviscerating both the Bill of Rights and the Middle East. They deserve no credit for the Tea Party - at least, the current crop of neocons doesn't. "Old school Republicans" like Barry Goldwater are still Tea Party heroes by most accounts.
Mostly because he was running against the Republican Party candidate, and the Republicans had just had a disastrous 8 year run.
He also promised to only add one minor front on the mideast wars; and so far has kept that promise (in Pakistan). McCain wanted to hit Iran. Some of our politicians still do (in both parties).
Yes, it's ugly "lesser evil" territory. But it does make a difference in the scale of this ongoing colossal fuckup.
Mistrustful alarmists like you are part of the problem. You should be much more worried about the Wall Street schmucks bilking you out of your wealth.
And what reason, pray tell, has our government given him to trust them? Why should we not be concerned about *both* scenarios (among many)?