LTS is the version Ubuntu release every two years that promises long-lasting support, and is more geared towards entreprise. You loose some bells and whistles, but gain a lot of reliability and documentation.
Ubuntu "regular" value their users' time too little. I'm typing this from a brand-spanking new 11.04 install, and I'm already semi-pissed at it: Ubuntu is the only OS I know arrogant enough to force you to have your OS launch bar on the left side of the screen.No moving it to the bottom, top, or even right side, 'coz Ubuntu sez left is where it should be. Even when, like me, you have a secondary monitor on the left, that idiot bar just HAS to go in the middle. "Classical" Ubuntu can have its bar moved to the right (but does not rotate the writing, which makes for a very unprofessional look). Other gripes: 11.04 MP3 player keeps playing even after you close it; grub2 is a major mess, the launchpad has no provision for sticking a folder nor network share to it... It feels both under-featured, primitive, and haughty.
So, let the kid developers play god in their basements, stick with a less pot-induced, ego-crazed creation. LTS will do less, but won't prevent you from doing stuff all other OSes do, and will be closer to working right.
Actually, even though it is basically a whine, I found TFA very informative and insightful. The pitfalls he encounters are not evident at first glance (contrary to most "I deserve more $$$ !" rants), his tone is reasonable... if I were Amazon, I'd take notice and try to fix his issues.
Would you prefer - Browser: IE, FFox, Safari, Opera - Mobile: iOS, Symbian, Windows - Search: Altavista - Local: Groupon - Social: Fbook - Entreprise: Office
? I know I wouldn't.
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The interesting thing is that is almost all cases, Google are invading, not defending. They are one the few companies to have the skills, the vision and the money to try and shake up markets. I wish them well, and with others would be as active/aggressive. Also, because they are active on so many fronts, they can fail at one without catastrophic consequences - except Search !
Looking at the list of the biggest tech companies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_global_technology_companies): There's a lot of heavily hardware-oriented companies. Some of them are kinda trying, but that's rather outside of their purview. MS: I'm assuming they lack vision more than skills or money. Sony: lack all of the above SAP and Oracle are purely "entreprise" Apple are trying, and rather successful
I think the dual Consumer / Entreprise personnality can't work: the reliability, compatibility, steadfastness that entreprise clients want is mostly incompatible with the glitter, constant change, and nimbleness to the lastest buzz that consumers want. MS clung to Windows' desktop UI way to long on their smartphones, certainly in the name of synergy... What synergy does a 1% marketshare bring ?
Also, MS seems to lack courage. The recent successes (kinect, xbox...) all were in brand new fields where no feathers were being ruffled, and no entrenched interests threatened. I feel that, for all his chair-throwing, Ballmer never manages to force any change. So while MS is doing mostly OK (OK products, strong lock-in thanks to Sharepoint, Office formats, user skills, and nice dev tools) there hasn't been any "Wow" software / hardware/service, except again for Kinect (which I think is not even their own tech), in a long while.
I'm not sure it's all that much about technical vision per se. Any kind of vision would be good, especially a more customer-centric one: design / ease of use a la Apple, standards compliance and interoperability even at the cost of less lock-in....
The 65W versions are not out yet, haven't even seen a single test anywhere, and I've been looking.
FYI, I couldn't wait and built a mini-ITX rig with Asus' E-350 board, and I'm fairly happy with it: dual screen, SD video on one, office stuff on the other, no real slowdowns, very quiet, no games later than 4+ years old though. The challenge was finding a nice vesa-mountable mini-itx case. Logicsupply.com has plenty (M-350 or T3410 caught my eye, bought both for funsies), or the elementQ is OK if you want a shoe box, I took that for a second small NAS/HTPC. My passive E-360 runs at 60C, so even Llano 65W will need some cooling for sure. The M-350 accepts up to 3 4cm fans, with the $4 extra fan support.
Intel pre-emptively released an i3 with their top-of-the-line HD3000 graphics GPU a short while ago, so the i3 is on a par with the best Intel can offer, iGPU-wise. 2105 I think.
Me too ! It's funny, 'coz I'm bitching about Opera focusing too much on benchmarks, and not enough on features.
Especially they are in the best place to allow us to really synch browsers across OSes, formats... : open tabs,cookies, position in page... Why on earth are they waiting for someone else to beat them to the punch ?
I think it's really Flash's fault. I've put "disable plugins" right in my adress bar, and disable them most of the time. I usually have about 20 open tabs, on an E-350. No more slowdowns. They should do an "enable plugins for 5 mins" options, so I wouldn't have to go back and re-disable them, though.
I like them a lot, and I've been using them for ages. but with that new numbering scheme, it looks like FFox should overtake them in no time, and then I'll just have to switch ?
Plus, Opera are clearly pussies:.39 upgrades ? really ?
1- I love pets, and if i didn't live in a city, I'd definitely have at least a dog. OTOH because I live in a city, I don't allow myself to torture a poor dog by keeping it locked up so much, and with pitiful sidewalk walks instead of wide open field runs. OTOOH, some city pets do seem reasonably happy.
2- I'm sure I don't want pets to cost anything to non-pet owners. So if pets currently cost more to the community (poop clean up, rescues, attacks...) than they bring in in taxes, something must be done.
3- there may be more important stuff for lawmakers to busy themselves with right now. basically, anything regarding humans ?
4- Most pet shops I know are horrible, horrible places for pets. Not to mention the pet shop boys.
Yep. 'coz it's well known - everyone has the same definition of "best". BTW, I just had the best sex ever, and I'm a gay pedophile necrophiliac. Maybe not having to upgrade their 100.000's of PCs every 6.1 months, and fix all their Web apps, fits some people's definition of "best" ? - There may be value in not going for "best" (whatever that is) at a specific point in time. If 95% of my browsers are IE, I might stck with it even if FF becomes "best"
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Coincidentally, he just announced he is soon launching a brand new paper: Wews of the Norld. Appearances are everything.
We also have a much more logical big-endian way to write dates: 31/1/2000, as opposed to that ridiculous random-endian from the US !
LTS is the version Ubuntu release every two years that promises long-lasting support, and is more geared towards entreprise. You loose some bells and whistles, but gain a lot of reliability and documentation.
Ubuntu "regular" value their users' time too little. I'm typing this from a brand-spanking new 11.04 install, and I'm already semi-pissed at it: Ubuntu is the only OS I know arrogant enough to force you to have your OS launch bar on the left side of the screen.No moving it to the bottom, top, or even right side, 'coz Ubuntu sez left is where it should be. Even when, like me, you have a secondary monitor on the left, that idiot bar just HAS to go in the middle. "Classical" Ubuntu can have its bar moved to the right (but does not rotate the writing, which makes for a very unprofessional look). Other gripes: 11.04 MP3 player keeps playing even after you close it; grub2 is a major mess, the launchpad has no provision for sticking a folder nor network share to it... It feels both under-featured, primitive, and haughty.
So, let the kid developers play god in their basements, stick with a less pot-induced, ego-crazed creation. LTS will do less, but won't prevent you from doing stuff all other OSes do, and will be closer to working right.
Actually, even though it is basically a whine, I found TFA very informative and insightful. The pitfalls he encounters are not evident at first glance (contrary to most "I deserve more $$$ !" rants), his tone is reasonable... if I were Amazon, I'd take notice and try to fix his issues.
Would you prefer
- Browser: IE, FFox, Safari, Opera
- Mobile: iOS, Symbian, Windows
- Search: Altavista
- Local: Groupon
- Social: Fbook
- Entreprise: Office
? I know I wouldn't.
The interesting thing is that is almost all cases, Google are invading, not defending. They are one the few companies to have the skills, the vision and the money to try and shake up markets. I wish them well, and with others would be as active/aggressive. Also, because they are active on so many fronts, they can fail at one without catastrophic consequences - except Search !
Looking at the list of the biggest tech companies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_global_technology_companies):
There's a lot of heavily hardware-oriented companies. Some of them are kinda trying, but that's rather outside of their purview.
MS: I'm assuming they lack vision more than skills or money.
Sony: lack all of the above
SAP and Oracle are purely "entreprise"
Apple are trying, and rather successful
I think the dual Consumer / Entreprise personnality can't work: the reliability, compatibility, steadfastness that entreprise clients want is mostly incompatible with the glitter, constant change, and nimbleness to the lastest buzz that consumers want. MS clung to Windows' desktop UI way to long on their smartphones, certainly in the name of synergy... What synergy does a 1% marketshare bring ?
Also, MS seems to lack courage. The recent successes (kinect, xbox...) all were in brand new fields where no feathers were being ruffled, and no entrenched interests threatened. I feel that, for all his chair-throwing, Ballmer never manages to force any change. So while MS is doing mostly OK (OK products, strong lock-in thanks to Sharepoint, Office formats, user skills, and nice dev tools) there hasn't been any "Wow" software / hardware /service, except again for Kinect (which I think is not even their own tech), in a long while.
I'm not sure it's all that much about technical vision per se. Any kind of vision would be good, especially a more customer-centric one: design / ease of use a la Apple, standards compliance and interoperability even at the cost of less lock-in....
You mean, like all search and rescue dogs first eat you, then report finding you ?
Pizza analogy guy and the ladyboy afficianado are on break ?
Agreed
The 65W versions are not out yet, haven't even seen a single test anywhere, and I've been looking.
FYI, I couldn't wait and built a mini-ITX rig with Asus' E-350 board, and I'm fairly happy with it: dual screen, SD video on one, office stuff on the other, no real slowdowns, very quiet, no games later than 4+ years old though. The challenge was finding a nice vesa-mountable mini-itx case. Logicsupply.com has plenty (M-350 or T3410 caught my eye, bought both for funsies), or the elementQ is OK if you want a shoe box, I took that for a second small NAS/HTPC. My passive E-360 runs at 60C, so even Llano 65W will need some cooling for sure. The M-350 accepts up to 3 4cm fans, with the $4 extra fan support.
Intel pre-emptively released an i3 with their top-of-the-line HD3000 graphics GPU a short while ago, so the i3 is on a par with the best Intel can offer, iGPU-wise. 2105 I think.
globally, twice as fast. extremely memory constrained though, so shell out at least for 1600MHz DDR3, 1833 is best.
Me too ! It's funny, 'coz I'm bitching about Opera focusing too much on benchmarks, and not enough on features.
Especially they are in the best place to allow us to really synch browsers across OSes, formats... : open tabs ,cookies, position in page... Why on earth are they waiting for someone else to beat them to the punch ?
I think it's really Flash's fault. I've put "disable plugins" right in my adress bar, and disable them most of the time. I usually have about 20 open tabs, on an E-350. No more slowdowns. They should do an "enable plugins for 5 mins" options, so I wouldn't have to go back and re-disable them, though.
I like them a lot, and I've been using them for ages. but with that new numbering scheme, it looks like FFox should overtake them in no time, and then I'll just have to switch ?
Plus, Opera are clearly pussies: .39 upgrades ? really ?
I don' know what to think of this:
1- I love pets, and if i didn't live in a city, I'd definitely have at least a dog. OTOH because I live in a city, I don't allow myself to torture a poor dog by keeping it locked up so much, and with pitiful sidewalk walks instead of wide open field runs. OTOOH, some city pets do seem reasonably happy.
2- I'm sure I don't want pets to cost anything to non-pet owners. So if pets currently cost more to the community (poop clean up, rescues, attacks...) than they bring in in taxes, something must be done.
3- there may be more important stuff for lawmakers to busy themselves with right now. basically, anything regarding humans ?
4- Most pet shops I know are horrible, horrible places for pets. Not to mention the pet shop boys.
there's one thing very much worth having in your phone: an easy way to dial toll numbers.
yep, but, if it can be interpreted and made to say things that seem so counter-intuitive, it becomes useless.
Now, what other big text is in the same situation ... ^^
it appears the law says that a blow job isn't sex, dropping bombs on someone isn't war, and detaining someone doesn't make him a prisoner.
i wouldn't trust "The Law" further than my biggest check.
Opera works very fine on linux, thank you.
Yep. 'coz it's well known
- everyone has the same definition of "best". BTW, I just had the best sex ever, and I'm a gay pedophile necrophiliac. Maybe not having to upgrade their 100.000's of PCs every 6.1 months, and fix all their Web apps, fits some people's definition of "best" ?
- There may be value in not going for "best" (whatever that is) at a specific point in time. If 95% of my browsers are IE, I might stck with it even if FF becomes "best"
both, mainly the ACE, who modified the use of the dams+levees system, in a way that is incompatible with its design.
I fail to see the link between floods and growth+population. Care to elaborate ?
there still people who care about speed ? the same ones that care about dick size ?
Mine are both are "good enough, now go do something interesting with it"