That'll be an England of several hundred years ago. Anyone who has been to England in the last thirty years will know that the general population is far from puritan.
Employers don't say to computer manufacturers, "We want seven PCs, but we're only going to pay you for five", so why would you let them do this with your labour?
Weekends are your free time. You never get this back. If your employer wants you to work on a weekend, tell them to pay you.
Why would anyone want a "start" button that completely changes their context and covers up what they were doing?
Windows is barely functional enough as it is for getting real work done, with its insane raise-on-focus making it almost impossible to look at two applications simultaneously (try reading from one large window while typing into another one, without two screens) - but Metro makes it fucking unusable. Nobody asked for it, and clearly, from the sales, nobody wants it.
...the Escape key is in the right position now. I avoided Thinkpads for years, simply because the Escape key was on the line/above/ the function keys. The moment they released the Thinkpad Edge series, with Esc in the correct position, I bought one.
Alternatively, it is the salary of a high-level programmer who is willing to take a pay-cut in order to avoid daily commuting, pair-programming, stand-up meetings, team-building weekends, unpaid overtime, Six Sigma, and all the other bullshit that comes with high-paying jobs in the corporate world.
It is pitiable how the editor(s) feel the need to mock the ignorant propaganda of a thoroughly subjugated people.
I don't think there's anything wrong with mocking propaganda. Propaganda deserves to be mocked, it is often the best way of dealing with it (even in Western countries).
Yes, the situation in North Korea is terrible, but remember many Asian countries like to maintain "face" (a thoroughly ridiculous concept) and embarrassing dictatorships like this can be particularly effective.
I'm using it. I couldn't stand Gnome 3, and still can't.
Both XFCE and KDE had trouble with my laptop switching between either only its own monitor, or its monitor plus an external screen, and Gnome was the only thing that worked properly, so I spent a lot of time getting fallback mode working much like Gnome 2 did.
...why it is necessary to have 3d graphics to run a desktop. It shouldn't be mandatory, and there should be a way to switch all this crap off, because I definitely have no need for it.
As it stands, it's impossible to use Gnome 3 when using NX. The only option is to fall back to classic mode, which allegedly might be removed from future releases.
...the much touted iOS anti-piracy measures are the main thing preventing the Humble Bundle model from working on iPhones and iPads. Well, unless they wanted to give a huge, unwarranted cut to Apple, of course.
Hell, I've seen some bus trips across Turkey into neighbouring countries that'll do 1600km in roughly two days or so. These would be rather short compared to what is probably required in some areas of Russia.
In Gnome Classic, the panel is still there. You have to hold down Alt when dragging menu items onto it. Dumb decision, but it does still work.
The tray is gone, but it has been replaced with the "Indicator Applet". Add one of those to your panel, and Rhythmbox will show up under the audio menu.
If you run notify-osd, all alerts go to that - they appear on my screen in a black bubble that appears in the top-right and then disappears after a few seconds. I may be running a patched version, however, I can't remember anymore.
The differences in Gnome Classic take a little while to get used to, but I'm over the hump now, and it's working every bit as well as Gnome 2 used to.
...except Canonical has gone off the rails by creating a desktop that just gets in your way. Everyone that I have shown Unity to has said the equivalent of "what the fuck?". And Gnome 3 is just as bad, unless you put it into Classic mode. It will be interesting to see what Redhat do with their desktop when RHEL Desktop 7 comes out.
...makes these services next to useless, especially now that the web isn't just a bunch of static pages anymore. I was using satellite broadband a few years ago, in rural Australia - it was barely better than the dialup line it replaced. We only took it up because the line quality on the dialup degraded to such a state that it couldn't stay online for longer than twenty minutes, and Telstra were incapable of fixing it.
Only low-orbit satellites are going to be able to make satellite-broadband useful.
Optus covers many regional areas now. Yes, it's not quite as extensive as Telstra, but for the vast majority of the population, it is more than adequate and they'd rarely ever go to those places that aren't covered.
The difference in price between the two is significant. If I ever go to one of those areas that aren't covered by Optus, I'll buy a Telstra pre-paid card and a cheap low-end phone, if I can be bothered at all.
This sounds very much like the beginning of the saga in Hugh Howie's Wool/Silo series...
(slight spoilers ahead)...humanity develops drugs that, in combination with stressful events, allow memories to be suppressed. Unpleasantness follows...
Unfortunately, a lot of these Fedora "features" end up in RHEL.
I'd be very annoyed having to take a machine down to single user (or reboot, for that matter) just to apply a non-kernel patch, especially given that out-of-band console access can be so friggen flaky (not naming any names here, Big Blue).
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Yeah, I was wondering that myself. I think they mean "preventing outside researchers from getting in to research the outbreak".
...is not middle fucking class.
That'll be an England of several hundred years ago. Anyone who has been to England in the last thirty years will know that the general population is far from puritan.
...would you work weekends without getting paid?
Employers don't say to computer manufacturers, "We want seven PCs, but we're only going to pay you for five", so why would you let them do this with your labour?
Weekends are your free time. You never get this back. If your employer wants you to work on a weekend, tell them to pay you.
Why would anyone want a "start" button that completely changes their context and covers up what they were doing?
Windows is barely functional enough as it is for getting real work done, with its insane raise-on-focus making it almost impossible to look at two applications simultaneously (try reading from one large window while typing into another one, without two screens) - but Metro makes it fucking unusable. Nobody asked for it, and clearly, from the sales, nobody wants it.
...the Escape key is in the right position now. I avoided Thinkpads for years, simply because the Escape key was on the line /above/ the function keys. The moment they released the Thinkpad Edge series, with Esc in the correct position, I bought one.
We still don't call them cookies, no matter how much American baked-goods vendors try to shove the term down our throats.
Alternatively, it is the salary of a high-level programmer who is willing to take a pay-cut in order to avoid daily commuting, pair-programming, stand-up meetings, team-building weekends, unpaid overtime, Six Sigma, and all the other bullshit that comes with high-paying jobs in the corporate world.
It is pitiable how the editor(s) feel the need to mock the ignorant propaganda of a thoroughly subjugated people.
I don't think there's anything wrong with mocking propaganda. Propaganda deserves to be mocked, it is often the best way of dealing with it (even in Western countries).
Yes, the situation in North Korea is terrible, but remember many Asian countries like to maintain "face" (a thoroughly ridiculous concept) and embarrassing dictatorships like this can be particularly effective.
Why would they do that? They don't expect tips.
No-one tips me in my day-to-day job, why are wait-staff so special?
You could just make sure that employers pay their staff properly, and get rid of the stupid custom of tipping.
I'm so glad I live in a country where I don't ever need to do that.
how do other countries quash this loud ignorant sort?
Free education.
I'm using it. I couldn't stand Gnome 3, and still can't.
Both XFCE and KDE had trouble with my laptop switching between either only its own monitor, or its monitor plus an external screen, and Gnome was the only thing that worked properly, so I spent a lot of time getting fallback mode working much like Gnome 2 did.
...why it is necessary to have 3d graphics to run a desktop. It shouldn't be mandatory, and there should be a way to switch all this crap off, because I definitely have no need for it.
As it stands, it's impossible to use Gnome 3 when using NX. The only option is to fall back to classic mode, which allegedly might be removed from future releases.
...the much touted iOS anti-piracy measures are the main thing preventing the Humble Bundle model from working on iPhones and iPads. Well, unless they wanted to give a huge, unwarranted cut to Apple, of course.
...more Cult of Management techniques being inflicted on the world.
Not really. Russia is a very, very big country.
Hell, I've seen some bus trips across Turkey into neighbouring countries that'll do 1600km in roughly two days or so. These would be rather short compared to what is probably required in some areas of Russia.
...that makes it worth $300 anyway? No screen, only 16Gb storage ... it doesn't seem like an overly complicated device.
In Gnome Classic, the panel is still there. You have to hold down Alt when dragging menu items onto it. Dumb decision, but it does still work.
The tray is gone, but it has been replaced with the "Indicator Applet". Add one of those to your panel, and Rhythmbox will show up under the audio menu.
If you run notify-osd, all alerts go to that - they appear on my screen in a black bubble that appears in the top-right and then disappears after a few seconds. I may be running a patched version, however, I can't remember anymore.
The differences in Gnome Classic take a little while to get used to, but I'm over the hump now, and it's working every bit as well as Gnome 2 used to.
...except Canonical has gone off the rails by creating a desktop that just gets in your way. Everyone that I have shown Unity to has said the equivalent of "what the fuck?". And Gnome 3 is just as bad, unless you put it into Classic mode. It will be interesting to see what Redhat do with their desktop when RHEL Desktop 7 comes out.
Well, being a poor game certainly isn't a good reason to buy it.
...makes these services next to useless, especially now that the web isn't just a bunch of static pages anymore. I was using satellite broadband a few years ago, in rural Australia - it was barely better than the dialup line it replaced. We only took it up because the line quality on the dialup degraded to such a state that it couldn't stay online for longer than twenty minutes, and Telstra were incapable of fixing it.
Only low-orbit satellites are going to be able to make satellite-broadband useful.
Optus covers many regional areas now. Yes, it's not quite as extensive as Telstra, but for the vast majority of the population, it is more than adequate and they'd rarely ever go to those places that aren't covered.
The difference in price between the two is significant. If I ever go to one of those areas that aren't covered by Optus, I'll buy a Telstra pre-paid card and a cheap low-end phone, if I can be bothered at all.
This sounds very much like the beginning of the saga in Hugh Howie's Wool/Silo series...
(slight spoilers ahead) ...humanity develops drugs that, in combination with stressful events, allow memories to be suppressed. Unpleasantness follows...
Unfortunately, a lot of these Fedora "features" end up in RHEL.
I'd be very annoyed having to take a machine down to single user (or reboot, for that matter) just to apply a non-kernel patch, especially given that out-of-band console access can be so friggen flaky (not naming any names here, Big Blue).