I had thought that my problems with multitouch (on my Android phone, where I avoid it as much as possible; on my laptop touchpad, where I've disabled it) had to do with my own poor physical coordination. But now it turns out that Apple is the only company that knows how to do multitouch right.
So maybe I should become an Apple person. Naw, the patriarchial user echosystems around OS X and iOS still suck too much. And I still don't understand how any sane person can live with iTunes!
You know, our conversation is pretty much a case of what I'm talking about. I'm trying to share my opinions, but you don't want to hear. Your only priority is denouncing my opinions as evil and stupid.
One-way conversations are waste of time, so I won't bother you any more..
Unity's problem is that it tries to be both a tablet and a desktop interface. Android doesn't even try to be a desktop interface, which is a good thing if you're running it on a mobile device, and bad thing if you want to sit down and do some serious work.
Unity is one of several things that make wonder if Cannonical is drinking too much roibos Hand me an Ubuntu system, and the first thing I'll do with it is change the desktop to GNOME or maybe XFCE. But if the only desktop interfaces available were Unity and Android, Unity would win hands down.
Note that Internet Brands was bought by a private equity firm a couple years ago. This stupidity is consistent with the private equity way of doing business. They always seem to have a really poor understanding of the businesses they buy. And indeed they don't need to, since their business model seems to be acquire, pillage, and abandon.
This is what I most hold against a certain private equity capitalist who's now running for President. Bain is most often criticized for costing people their jobs, but layoffs can be justified if cutting back helps save the company.
But Bain never saved anything. The acquired previously healthy companies and drove them into the ground. Inasmuch as they actually tried to run them, they did so ineptly. But mostly they just found ways to pass assets onto their own investors and pay themselves fat management fees in the process.
So of course Internet Brands is acting stupidly Stupidity has become a valid business model!
A leaker is somebody like Bradley Manning who makes government secrets public. This is about private secrets, and is a violation of the rights of an individual.
I don't care for Mitt Romney, but he has every right to keep his tax returns private. Indeed, I applaud him for this, since it's losing him the election!
Civil liberties (including privacy rights) should apply to everyone. Alas, there's a common notion that they can be ignored when somebody is "obviously" guilty of something. Of course, that's exactly when we need to be most rigorous about enforcing them. I don't have much use for Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin, but just as violation of Palin's privacy rights was unacceptable, so are violations of Mitt Romney's.
That said, I have to point out this irony; the "bad people don't have rights" fallacy is most popular on the far right, where Romney and Palin both draw most of their support.
As is often the case with Slashdot headlines, this one points you in the wrong direction. The issue is not that the Linux desktop is broken, but that not enough application developers find it worthwhile to target it.
The last time I used the Linux desktop, I was working for a company that had banned internal use of Windows for TCO issues. Employees had their choice of Macbooks or Ubuntu-based Thinkpads. Most chose Macs, but I chose Linux for its more familiar user interface. The contrast between our systems was pretty striking. In terms of features and usability. Really, a Mac has all the hacker friendly features of Linux, along with a systems that's more mature and gets better support and an active application ecosystem.
Except for circumstances like the above, I only use Linux as a server OS. I have several Linux VMs running on my system, but when I fire one of them up, I usually do most work from an SSH command line, using XMing to run any GUI apps on my Windows desktop.
If Linux desktop works for you, fine. But you're increasingly marginalized, not unlike people who won't give up their Commodore 64s (and there are a lot of them). The only difference is that you'll never have trouble keeping your hardware up to date.
Actually, it's in Paris, Australia, and this is all a car gymkhana gone wrong
Seriously, why shouldn't a French company provide DMCA-related services? It's a possible source for more stupid France-bashing jokes, but aside from that I deon't see the issue.
Gaiman and Obama had their live streams interrupted interrupted by brainless content robots. This guy was kicked off a service by his fellow carbon-based units after some content violations were flagged. Except for the fact that it's all part of the IP wars, there's no parallel at all.
Isn't the increase in heat supposed to lead to an increase of evaporation leading to humidity leading to increased heat loss, though?
That's Richard Lindzen's theory. Not accepted by other climate scientists.
Lindzen is the one climate scientist with any serious credential who's skeptical of the whole global warming thing. He gets trashed by the zealots, but having him as a contrarian is a good thing for science, because his evidence- and logic-based attacks on the global warming consensus keep other climate scientists honest. I'm reminded of Einstein's attacks on Quantum Mechanics ("God does not play dice!") which totally failed to debunk Bohr and his followers, but ended up helping the very science he was opposed to by keeping it rigorous.
Unfortunately, non-scientists who consider global warming an elaborate hoax trumpet Lindzen's theories as "proof" of their views. That's simply not the case.
The sixth extinction is overhype? It's not universally accepted, but there's a lot of evidence.
Go back and read the thread. I did not bring up the sixth extinction in response to symbolset's post. I brought it up in response to a previous claim that if something has happened before in the 4.5 billion year history of the planet, it's no big deal.
Yeah, I had the same thought after a while. So rather than being limited to reversing the effects of the fungus (which themselves must have been pretty extreme) we're able to release all that carbon that's been sequestered for the last 260 billion years. Pretty nasty.
Anyway, it's all nonsense. The articles I've been reading don't say that coal formation started when trees evolved and stopped when white rot fungus came along. Coal formation started when algae first appeared and continued (with various breaks, presumably due to extinction events) until the present day. All the WRF did was slow down (not stop) coal formation from lignan-based plants.
I wonder what climate denier blog he's parroting. Typical stuff: bad facts, bad logic, and a result that doesn't even support his thesis
I do miss the days when scientific cranks stuck with harmless stuff, like proving that Earth was settled from Mars, or that pi is a rational number.
Well great. We can assume that human beings can't affect the environment any worse than a fungus that altered that altered the ecosphere beyond all recognition. Hey, that makes me feel a lot better.
BTW, my Googling about WRF (I do thank you for telling me about it) gives me a rather more ambiguous picture than the one you offer. Most science stories describe it as "an interesting theory" but not yet universally accepted. I admit that it's a really plausible theory, but not one you can cite with such religious certainty.
Well OK, you're right the EE product as a whole. They've followed the common strategy of bundling an open source product with a bunch of proprietary tools. So you have to pay to license all those other tools. The database engine itself, however remains free.
Any, in our little mutual nitpick, we've both forgotten the point I was trying to make: that Oracle RDBMS users are probably too locked in to abandon it for a cheaper, open source DBMS.
And which cooling mechanisms are these? According to TFA, melting the polar icecap actually removes an important cooling mechanism. Other mechanisms, such as the ocean's ability to abosrb CO2, are pretty much maxed out. Do you have a planet size air conditioner nobody else knows about?
Both theories have been pretty thoroughly debunked. I'd go look it up for you, but I've already done my share of debunking-the-already-debunked for the week.
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Statement against interest, your honor!
Ooh, wait my Law and Order DVD just arrived. Let me memorize some more courtroom cliches, and I'll get back to you.
I had thought that my problems with multitouch (on my Android phone, where I avoid it as much as possible; on my laptop touchpad, where I've disabled it) had to do with my own poor physical coordination. But now it turns out that Apple is the only company that knows how to do multitouch right.
So maybe I should become an Apple person. Naw, the patriarchial user echosystems around OS X and iOS still suck too much. And I still don't understand how any sane person can live with iTunes!
You know, our conversation is pretty much a case of what I'm talking about. I'm trying to share my opinions, but you don't want to hear. Your only priority is denouncing my opinions as evil and stupid.
One-way conversations are waste of time, so I won't bother you any more..
Unity's problem is that it tries to be both a tablet and a desktop interface. Android doesn't even try to be a desktop interface, which is a good thing if you're running it on a mobile device, and bad thing if you want to sit down and do some serious work.
Unity is one of several things that make wonder if Cannonical is drinking too much roibos Hand me an Ubuntu system, and the first thing I'll do with it is change the desktop to GNOME or maybe XFCE. But if the only desktop interfaces available were Unity and Android, Unity would win hands down.
Note that Internet Brands was bought by a private equity firm a couple years ago. This stupidity is consistent with the private equity way of doing business. They always seem to have a really poor understanding of the businesses they buy. And indeed they don't need to, since their business model seems to be acquire, pillage, and abandon.
This is what I most hold against a certain private equity capitalist who's now running for President. Bain is most often criticized for costing people their jobs, but layoffs can be justified if cutting back helps save the company.
But Bain never saved anything. The acquired previously healthy companies and drove them into the ground. Inasmuch as they actually tried to run them, they did so ineptly. But mostly they just found ways to pass assets onto their own investors and pay themselves fat management fees in the process.
So of course Internet Brands is acting stupidly Stupidity has become a valid business model!
There's no theft here. All the web site content is published under a license that allows copying, provided you attribute the original.
A leaker is somebody like Bradley Manning who makes government secrets public. This is about private secrets, and is a violation of the rights of an individual.
I don't care for Mitt Romney, but he has every right to keep his tax returns private. Indeed, I applaud him for this, since it's losing him the election!
Civil liberties (including privacy rights) should apply to everyone. Alas, there's a common notion that they can be ignored when somebody is "obviously" guilty of something. Of course, that's exactly when we need to be most rigorous about enforcing them. I don't have much use for Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin, but just as violation of Palin's privacy rights was unacceptable, so are violations of Mitt Romney's.
That said, I have to point out this irony; the "bad people don't have rights" fallacy is most popular on the far right, where Romney and Palin both draw most of their support.
Tried that. All the moisture destroyed my system. I don't get why everybody keeps babbling about steam.
You've got to be kidding. Do you really want to do all GUI manipulation with your finger and only have one window open at a time?
Already been done. Recall that Geeknet, which runs Slashdot, started out as VA Research, a vendor of Linux-based computers.
As is often the case with Slashdot headlines, this one points you in the wrong direction. The issue is not that the Linux desktop is broken, but that not enough application developers find it worthwhile to target it.
The last time I used the Linux desktop, I was working for a company that had banned internal use of Windows for TCO issues. Employees had their choice of Macbooks or Ubuntu-based Thinkpads. Most chose Macs, but I chose Linux for its more familiar user interface. The contrast between our systems was pretty striking. In terms of features and usability. Really, a Mac has all the hacker friendly features of Linux, along with a systems that's more mature and gets better support and an active application ecosystem.
Except for circumstances like the above, I only use Linux as a server OS. I have several Linux VMs running on my system, but when I fire one of them up, I usually do most work from an SSH command line, using XMing to run any GUI apps on my Windows desktop.
If Linux desktop works for you, fine. But you're increasingly marginalized, not unlike people who won't give up their Commodore 64s (and there are a lot of them). The only difference is that you'll never have trouble keeping your hardware up to date.
Actually, it's in Paris, Australia, and this is all a car gymkhana gone wrong
Seriously, why shouldn't a French company provide DMCA-related services? It's a possible source for more stupid France-bashing jokes, but aside from that I deon't see the issue.
Gaiman and Obama had their live streams interrupted interrupted by brainless content robots. This guy was kicked off a service by his fellow carbon-based units after some content violations were flagged. Except for the fact that it's all part of the IP wars, there's no parallel at all.
Isn't the increase in heat supposed to lead to an increase of evaporation leading to humidity leading to increased heat loss, though?
That's Richard Lindzen's theory. Not accepted by other climate scientists.
Lindzen is the one climate scientist with any serious credential who's skeptical of the whole global warming thing. He gets trashed by the zealots, but having him as a contrarian is a good thing for science, because his evidence- and logic-based attacks on the global warming consensus keep other climate scientists honest. I'm reminded of Einstein's attacks on Quantum Mechanics ("God does not play dice!") which totally failed to debunk Bohr and his followers, but ended up helping the very science he was opposed to by keeping it rigorous.
Unfortunately, non-scientists who consider global warming an elaborate hoax trumpet Lindzen's theories as "proof" of their views. That's simply not the case.
The sixth extinction is overhype? It's not universally accepted, but there's a lot of evidence.
Go back and read the thread. I did not bring up the sixth extinction in response to symbolset's post. I brought it up in response to a previous claim that if something has happened before in the 4.5 billion year history of the planet, it's no big deal.
Good point. I only called it bargaining because I was responding to this post.
I absolutely agree that this is unfair to the end user. But unfairness doesn't mean the process is unpatentable.
Yeah, I had the same thought after a while. So rather than being limited to reversing the effects of the fungus (which themselves must have been pretty extreme) we're able to release all that carbon that's been sequestered for the last 260 billion years. Pretty nasty.
Anyway, it's all nonsense. The articles I've been reading don't say that coal formation started when trees evolved and stopped when white rot fungus came along. Coal formation started when algae first appeared and continued (with various breaks, presumably due to extinction events) until the present day. All the WRF did was slow down (not stop) coal formation from lignan-based plants.
I wonder what climate denier blog he's parroting. Typical stuff: bad facts, bad logic, and a result that doesn't even support his thesis
I do miss the days when scientific cranks stuck with harmless stuff, like proving that Earth was settled from Mars, or that pi is a rational number.
Those machines usually replicate or approximate the outcome, not the means or process with which the outcome is reached.
And software that bargains replicates the outcome of a human mental process, not the process itself.
Fun theory. Any evidence, or this just something you find convenient to believe?
Well great. We can assume that human beings can't affect the environment any worse than a fungus that altered that altered the ecosphere beyond all recognition. Hey, that makes me feel a lot better.
BTW, my Googling about WRF (I do thank you for telling me about it) gives me a rather more ambiguous picture than the one you offer. Most science stories describe it as "an interesting theory" but not yet universally accepted. I admit that it's a really plausible theory, but not one you can cite with such religious certainty.
There's no way the planet got to where it was without a cooling mechanism.
Why, because global warming has never happened before. It most assuredly has.
Well OK, you're right the EE product as a whole. They've followed the common strategy of bundling an open source product with a bunch of proprietary tools. So you have to pay to license all those other tools. The database engine itself, however remains free.
Any, in our little mutual nitpick, we've both forgotten the point I was trying to make: that Oracle RDBMS users are probably too locked in to abandon it for a cheaper, open source DBMS.
And which cooling mechanisms are these? According to TFA, melting the polar icecap actually removes an important cooling mechanism. Other mechanisms, such as the ocean's ability to abosrb CO2, are pretty much maxed out. Do you have a planet size air conditioner nobody else knows about?
Both theories have been pretty thoroughly debunked. I'd go look it up for you, but I've already done my share of debunking-the-already-debunked for the week.