There's nothing more obscure sounding than dumping the standard GNOME desktop and X along with it.
Almost no distro uses the "standard" GNOME desktop. Almost all distros have it tweaked and modified from what comes from upstream. Secondly, Canonical is not dumping X.
Yes, on your part not mine. I was talking about what an average person is using their tablet for and wondering why any of those situations would require GPS. Care to point to any data showing that any significant group of people would use or are using tablets as their GPS devices?
If you are buying a 600 dollar tablet, and you can buy a 620 dollar tablet to avoid buying a separate 100 dollar device, why not get the slightly more expensive tablet. Of course, this is based on what such an upgrade might cost in a rational world.
Because most people don't want to lug around a 10" tablet as opposed to a smaller 3 inch sized GPS device?
First, you quoted but ignored reality overlay.
Boohoo. I'm not required to respond to every single phrase in what I quote.
Second, you ignored again my central point, which is that if I'm going to carry the device anyway then I would like it to take pictures with the camera that I want anyway for reality overlay, which you cannot do well without a camera.
That's great. But you were trying to make it seem as if what YOU want to do is somehow a common thing that OTHERS are wanting to do. I was asking you to back this up. You are trying to conflate your preferences as if these are common complaints for average users and that is highly doubtful.
You need GPS while sitting on the couch watching a movie? Or while playing a game? If you need GPS why are you buying a 600 dollar tablet rather than a 100 dollar GPS device or cheap smart phone?
Rear facing camera is for reality overlay and for just good old picture-taking.
You would be carrying around a 10.1" tablet to take pictures instead of a camera or smaller smart phone? Is this really something that people are routinely doing?
Yes really. If you don't believe me, turn off "file paging" (control panel-system props-performance-virtual memory), and try to watch youtube using nothing but RAM. It won't work. In fact you probably won't be able to load Firefox.
Just did that. Works perfectly fine on my 3 year old laptop and my 6 year old desktop.
Light Speed has nothing to do with your internet connection or networking. It has to do with having bandwidth enough to support USB, video output, etc all through one cable.
True but since most computers don't have enough RAM, it gets buffered to the hard drive (virtual ram).
Really? Since when do most computers not have about 50 megs of RAM? The average youtube video combined audio/video rate is around 350kbit/sec and even if the clip were 20 minutes long would only need 46 Megs of RAM to buffer the entire thing. Even if you went up to the 720p level you can buffer almost the entireity of a 10 minute clip in just over 100 megs. Considering that 2-4 gigs of RAM in new computers has been standard for the better part of a decade, who the fuck doesn't have enough RAM to buffer Youtube clips?
Okay, they must have changed it without my noticing. Fine, use LGPLv2 and be happy.
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and we should have gotten rid of this one-class-def-per-class-file non-sense.
Why? Doing this is almost always a sign of poor design and is usually equivalent to the god code C/C++ source files that are a major pain in the ass to work with. Sure, sometimes the line can be a bit blurry, but is it really THAT hard to split things into distinct pieces? To not be able to do so reeks of either laziness or someone poorly designing their software.
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I write something in Java, I know it's gonna work in 5 years without me needing to keep some legacy version of the JVM around.
There are plenty of examples of apps written in Java to break in forth coming versions without any need for the underlying JVM to change. So basically what you claim you don't need to do, many people DO have to do.
"O noes mah onlien gaeman is filled wit CHEETARZ" is a short-term problem that won't be around for too much longer.
Do you live in the real world? Microsoft is STILL fighting about cheats. Not to mention people like Valve have to continually update their anti-cheating software. There is no way that cheating is a "short-term problem"
Those *are* facts. The new system is better in every metric. The old system failed several times. Once it crashed and stayed down for the better part of the day.
And yet you cite not a single source with your supposed metrics or stories showing it failed "several times". There is a single downtime that one can find any mention of. Care to provide actually evidence of your claims now instead of just asserting they are facts?
Did you even bother to actually read what they banned? They were going to ban apps under the GPLv3 or licenses similar to it. Qt is under GPLv2 and LGPLv2, neither of which contain the same clauses that caused GPLv3 to be blocked. Stop spreading FUD.
I assume the phone call was made AFTER the wreck. If she updated at the same time as the 911 call, wouldn't the update also be AFTER the wreck?
*facepalm* Maybe you need to actually re-read the sentence?
As proof, she points to the fact that Beas' Facebook page showed an update posted at 7:54 AM on December 7, 2010, which is the same time that Veloz's cell phone records showed a call being made to 911."
Notice how it says that Bea's Facebook page was updated at the same time Veloz's cellphone called 911. Veloz is the person that Bea killed. You have worse reading comprehension than a 2nd grader.
Yes. I do. Which is why I said if you were using Java more than 15 years ago you would have had to be using the pre-release alpha. Your post is not insightful.
It was shown because it was matching the source material. And secondly, it was just a dick. Why do you people get so bothered by it? You aren't going to turn gay by seeing someone else's penis.
I've been working with Java in large enterprise settings for over 15 years,
Really? Large enterprise settings were using Java before the official release? The only way you could have been using it in large enterprise settings for over 15 years ago is if you were using the pre-release alpha from '94. J2EE is only 12 years old.
The point isn't about his preferences. It's about his completely over-the-top, bothered reaction to seeing a dong. I'm not attracted to nude males either, but I didn't get all worked up over seeing the dong in the movie and neither did anyone else I know.
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There's nothing more obscure sounding than dumping the standard GNOME desktop and X along with it.
Almost no distro uses the "standard" GNOME desktop. Almost all distros have it tweaked and modified from what comes from upstream. Secondly, Canonical is not dumping X.
How dare you question drinkypoo!! His word is gospel!!! Look forward to being told that you are committing "logical fallacies" by question his logic.
Logical fallacy: false assumption.
Yes, on your part not mine. I was talking about what an average person is using their tablet for and wondering why any of those situations would require GPS. Care to point to any data showing that any significant group of people would use or are using tablets as their GPS devices?
If you are buying a 600 dollar tablet, and you can buy a 620 dollar tablet to avoid buying a separate 100 dollar device, why not get the slightly more expensive tablet. Of course, this is based on what such an upgrade might cost in a rational world.
Because most people don't want to lug around a 10" tablet as opposed to a smaller 3 inch sized GPS device?
First, you quoted but ignored reality overlay.
Boohoo. I'm not required to respond to every single phrase in what I quote.
Second, you ignored again my central point, which is that if I'm going to carry the device anyway then I would like it to take pictures with the camera that I want anyway for reality overlay, which you cannot do well without a camera.
That's great. But you were trying to make it seem as if what YOU want to do is somehow a common thing that OTHERS are wanting to do. I was asking you to back this up. You are trying to conflate your preferences as if these are common complaints for average users and that is highly doubtful.
GPS should be painfully obvious.
You need GPS while sitting on the couch watching a movie? Or while playing a game? If you need GPS why are you buying a 600 dollar tablet rather than a 100 dollar GPS device or cheap smart phone?
Rear facing camera is for reality overlay and for just good old picture-taking.
You would be carrying around a 10.1" tablet to take pictures instead of a camera or smaller smart phone? Is this really something that people are routinely doing?
Yes really. If you don't believe me, turn off "file paging" (control panel-system props-performance-virtual memory), and try to watch youtube using nothing but RAM. It won't work. In fact you probably won't be able to load Firefox.
Just did that. Works perfectly fine on my 3 year old laptop and my 6 year old desktop.
Light Speed has nothing to do with your internet connection or networking. It has to do with having bandwidth enough to support USB, video output, etc all through one cable.
What are you talking about? Phones and tablets use the youtube app to stream video. There is no flash required at all.
Those 60% running 2.2 HAVE Flash.
But that's good right? Isn't Flash an inefficient battery drainer like we are constantly told? If so, why is this bad news?
True but since most computers don't have enough RAM, it gets buffered to the hard drive (virtual ram).
Really? Since when do most computers not have about 50 megs of RAM? The average youtube video combined audio/video rate is around 350kbit/sec and even if the clip were 20 minutes long would only need 46 Megs of RAM to buffer the entire thing. Even if you went up to the 720p level you can buffer almost the entireity of a 10 minute clip in just over 100 megs. Considering that 2-4 gigs of RAM in new computers has been standard for the better part of a decade, who the fuck doesn't have enough RAM to buffer Youtube clips?
Okay, they must have changed it without my noticing. Fine, use LGPLv2 and be happy.
and we should have gotten rid of this one-class-def-per-class-file non-sense.
Why? Doing this is almost always a sign of poor design and is usually equivalent to the god code C/C++ source files that are a major pain in the ass to work with. Sure, sometimes the line can be a bit blurry, but is it really THAT hard to split things into distinct pieces? To not be able to do so reeks of either laziness or someone poorly designing their software.
I write something in Java, I know it's gonna work in 5 years without me needing to keep some legacy version of the JVM around.
There are plenty of examples of apps written in Java to break in forth coming versions without any need for the underlying JVM to change. So basically what you claim you don't need to do, many people DO have to do.
it had gotten a huge following, with a movie aswell... this plainly shows there is a HUGE demand for it,
If you ignore the fact that the movie bombed...
"O noes mah onlien gaeman is filled wit CHEETARZ" is a short-term problem that won't be around for too much longer.
Do you live in the real world? Microsoft is STILL fighting about cheats. Not to mention people like Valve have to continually update their anti-cheating software. There is no way that cheating is a "short-term problem"
Those *are* facts. The new system is better in every metric. The old system failed several times. Once it crashed and stayed down for the better part of the day.
And yet you cite not a single source with your supposed metrics or stories showing it failed "several times". There is a single downtime that one can find any mention of. Care to provide actually evidence of your claims now instead of just asserting they are facts?
Did you even bother to actually read what they banned? They were going to ban apps under the GPLv3 or licenses similar to it. Qt is under GPLv2 and LGPLv2, neither of which contain the same clauses that caused GPLv3 to be blocked. Stop spreading FUD.
Android apps have no DRM
O Rly?
I assume the phone call was made AFTER the wreck. If she updated at the same time as the 911 call, wouldn't the update also be AFTER the wreck?
*facepalm* Maybe you need to actually re-read the sentence?
As proof, she points to the fact that Beas' Facebook page showed an update posted at 7:54 AM on December 7, 2010, which is the same time that Veloz's cell phone records showed a call being made to 911."
Notice how it says that Bea's Facebook page was updated at the same time Veloz's cellphone called 911. Veloz is the person that Bea killed. You have worse reading comprehension than a 2nd grader.
You do realize 1994 was 17 years ago ... right?
Yes. I do. Which is why I said if you were using Java more than 15 years ago you would have had to be using the pre-release alpha. Your post is not insightful.
It was shown because it was matching the source material. And secondly, it was just a dick. Why do you people get so bothered by it? You aren't going to turn gay by seeing someone else's penis.
He probably also has 20+ years of experience in C# as well.
No, but comments such as:
I understand that some people (you among them probably) want more penis.
are. He's flailing around trying to make excuses for why the penis bothered him so much whereas a normal, secure male would have just shrugged it off.
I've been working with Java in large enterprise settings for over 15 years,
Really? Large enterprise settings were using Java before the official release? The only way you could have been using it in large enterprise settings for over 15 years ago is if you were using the pre-release alpha from '94. J2EE is only 12 years old.
The point isn't about his preferences. It's about his completely over-the-top, bothered reaction to seeing a dong. I'm not attracted to nude males either, but I didn't get all worked up over seeing the dong in the movie and neither did anyone else I know.