HTC's mistakes were [...] not including microSD card slots or replaceable batteries in the One line
This is why I replaced my much-loved HTC Desire with a Samsung GSIII instead of a One X. Sorry HTC, Samsung had the features I needed for the same price.
Samsung, like all android phones, just plugs in and acts as a USB drive..
All your other points are correct, but USB mass storage was removed in Ice Cream Sandwich and replaced by MTP, which is a pig to deal with on pretty much any OS - especially linux-based ones - and is a source of immense frustration. I shouldn't have to run a FTP server on my phone in order to access the files that previously I could get to just by plugging in a USB cable. Major fail for what is an otherwise great smartphone platform.
The "fact" was made up by a wikipedia user as a joke, then used by a lazy journalist on the Mirror. The Mirror article was then cited on WP as a source, verifying the "fact".
This is not the only time a similar thing has happened.
Interesting that you attempt to make this (easily refuted) argument on a science and technology site. The same processes of inquiry, hypothesis formation, testing, refutation, evidence gathering etc etc that led to the invention of semiconductor transistors, laser diodes, optic fibres, LCD displays and such other technologies as you are using to read and post on this site, when applied to biology, have led to the acceptance of speciation by evolution and provided evidence for this from every scale from the geological to the molecular.
If you don't accept evolution as a fact, then you shouldn't believe in the Internet either.
Go on, have a read of George Dyson. Evolutionary processes are as evident in information technology as they are in biology. It's just that the mutation and selection mechanisms are different.
This is clearly false as many effective vaccines have no heavy metal adjuncts. Remember Edward Jenner? The cowpox virus he inoculated his subject with had no metals in, yet provoked an immune reaction nonetheless.
Got to love the demonisation of the poor. It's much cooler than being racist. SImply change the word "black" for "welfare recipient" in all of your rants and no-one will bat an eyelid.
It's not like we're in the middle of the worst economic crisis for decades, with many people being laid off and needing society to help them get by while they try to be the one person out of the two thousand who applied to actually get the menial, low-paid job that is all that's on offer in the ex-industrial town they had the misfortune to be born in. Heaven forbid anyone would aspire to owning a consumer good which the constant saturation of advertising states is the only way to validate yourself as a person.
Right. So that Intenet thing you're using to communicate with other individuals, that was created by a meaningless organisational structure? That government which your parents paid taxes to to do things like educate you and keep you safe from criminals, that is a meaningless organisational structure? The extended family and community which you grew up in and kept you nurtured to the point where you could read Ayn Rand and regurgitate nonsense such as you posted, that's just a meaningless organisational structure?
You are alive today because of the collective endeavours of millions of humans who worked to increase our knowledge about the world, invented medicines and medical procedures, even invented world-wide telecommunications networks to share their knowledge for the good of all of our species. If that isn't society, I don't know what is.
Humans are a social species. Get over it, put down the narcissistic libertarian bullshit books, and join in the fun.
"They need educated" is a perfectly correct construction in many forms of English. It's used extensively in west central Scotland, for instance - "those dishes need washed", "my fence needs mended", "those football clubs need investigated for tax dodging" etc. Are you suggesting that the University of Glasgow (founded in 1451, the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world) is not somewhere that provides a good education, simply because many of its graduates use a particular verbal construction?
They are stupid this is why, and they need more education.
This, however, is not a typically accepted construction.
Why does having a vaccination "stress [your] son's immune system out" more than his routine everyday exposure to hundreds of potential pathogens, such as those on your skin or in his crib?
There's a good review here of the development of the human immune system both pre- and post-natal. It's entirely possible that the difference in immune function between young children and adults is an adaptive trait, given that most classes of pathogen will be encountered in the first few months of life. Your baby might look fragile, but he's had T-cells since he was a 12-week old fetus.
What "upgrade now" window? Firefox gets updated with the other packages on my system, by PackageKit or yum upgrade. Do you have to manually update each of your applications individually? That must get really annoying. Is there something wrong with your OS that it forces you to do that?;-)
Hopefully, I'll get them to work with me to show them HOW to do that.
"Hi Valve, it's me. You know, Anonymous Coward. I'd like you to pay me money to tell you what you're doing wrong... hello? Hello?"
Now that the day-job's slowing down, I'll be getting back in touch with them on the subject...
... "Hi Valve, Anonymous Coward again. We got cut off - are your phones working ok? Hello? That's odd, it's happened again."
On the subject of dependencies, from what I understand, because Bedrock essentially has pretty much full distro installs in chroots, each distro uses its own libraries, so it's possible to have different library versions coexisting as applications will only load the libraries they are linked against - the particular chroot/$PATH/bind mount magic that Bedrock does takes care of it. As packages are installed using individual "client" distros package management tools, they will pull in whatever dependencies they need and install them in that "client" distro's chroot.
It seems quite elegant to me, although I haven't the patience to set it up myself as I'd effectively be administering 5 distros instead of one. It might be quite nice for a combined CentOS/Rawhide system though, kind of super-stable but with easily added bleeding edge bling.
...or Paul McCartney. He really needs to stop dying his hair and embrace the character of his face. He should also stop trying to pretend he has the vocal range he did in his 20s.
These might help - I think they override the setttings in gconf:
gsettings set org.gnome.metacity new-windows-always-on-top false gsettings set org.gnome.metacity no-focus-windows
The whole gconf/dconf thing is a mess right now, but it seems more and more applications are switching to dconf only. dconf-editor isn't quite as useful as gconf-editor though - there's no "Find" function yet, for example. I'd still rather see all these options exposed in a decent UI somewhere - gnome-tweak-tool would be a good place for the Gnome devs to put all this, but it needs to be part of the standard collection, and visible in System Settings rather than being undiscoverable.
There's always been shitty music about. The beauty of the internet is that you don't have to get all your information about interesting music purely from the radio (although BBC 6 Music and the evening music shows on BBC Radio Scotland have been the driver behind most of my recent music purchases). Pandora, Spotify, last.fm etc are all there to act as crap filters.
I'm too young to have seen Debbie Harry in her glory days, but I did see her play with Blondie at Glastonbury about 12 years ago - good, but not quite as great as they would have been 20 years earlier... she was dancing a bit like someone's pissed auntie at a wedding reception. Still had the voice though.
Gnome 3 is built for touch screens but you need a keyboard shortcut for everything does that not mean that said touchscreen useless?
So, touch the button that does the same thing as the key shortcut. You're not forced to use the shortcut - it's there if you find it more convenient (ie you don't want to spin the mouse across two monitors to hit the hot corner, you press Super instead. It doesn't mean you can't use the mouse/touch interface if you prefer that. Key shortcuts are just that- shortcuts, not replacements. It's not like if you press Ctrl-S to save a document, you can never use the File->Save menu again.
and if you are telling all of the linux users to use a keyboard shortcut for everything why not use a terminal instead or a window manager like awesome where it is all keyboard driven anyway? desktops are primarily controlled by mice with the data entered by keyboard. not the other way around.
One hand for mouse, one hand for keyboard. Mouse does most of the work, keyboard hand occasionally stops picking nose and presses a few keys to save mouse hand some work.
Gnome 3's been the default in Fedora for three releases now. I don't see that changing, regardless of what downstream distributions may choose for themselves..
I don't know what Red Hat's plans for the default DE in RHEL7 are, but it's not like they're bound to choose the same defaults as Fedora. If MATE works reliably in F18 then RH may well choose it for RHEL, but that doesn't affect Fedora's choice of default, given that part of Fedora's remit is to get bleeding edge software onto a large number of machines precisely to iron out these kinds of issues.
Besides, if you're deploying RHEL across hundreds of machines, you're probably not going with the defaults anyway. You're free to choose whatever DE you like as long as it's supported - LXDE, KDE, XFCE, MATE, Gnome 3 should all be available.
There's no need to actually consult the cheat sheet. It's actually signposted in the UI: when dragging, if the pointer approaches a window edge, blue shading appears indicating the shape the window will snap to - I'm fairly sure this is the way Windows does it as well.
I have two monitors (of differing resolutions). I like to place windows near the edge sometimes. The tiling and maximising features only activate if the pointer goes within about 20 pixels of the screen edge, which is easily avoided if your intention is to push a window to the edge rather than tile it. You can also send windows to the back by middle-clicking on the titlebar, which I find useful with focus-follows-mouse and no click-to-raise. Both Alt-Tab/button-above-tab or the expose view work for switching windows quickly as well.
If you like having maximise/minimise buttons on the titlebar, they are easy to restore with gnome-tweak-tool. I don't actually find them necessary.
No, TFS doesn't tell you the full story as usual. He issued a series of messages, not all directed at Tom Daley that were threatening and abusive, and included death threats : "i dont give a shit bruv i'm gonna drown him and i'm gonna shoot you he failed why you suporting him you cunt " "shut your dirty little mouth you cunt i'm going to kill you when your back trust me " and so on. I would say these were grossly offensive, and also indecent and menacing, though not obscene.
Little boys spraying in public need a slap on the wrist, which is all he's getting.
Eh? No one's removing Gnome 3 from Fedora. MATE is being added as an extra desktop environment. Gnome 3 will still be the default. This is an additional feature, not a replacement.
Slashdot Mirror
HTC's mistakes were [...] not including microSD card slots or replaceable batteries in the One line
This is why I replaced my much-loved HTC Desire with a Samsung GSIII instead of a One X. Sorry HTC, Samsung had the features I needed for the same price.
Samsung, like all android phones, just plugs in and acts as a USB drive. .
All your other points are correct, but USB mass storage was removed in Ice Cream Sandwich and replaced by MTP, which is a pig to deal with on pretty much any OS - especially linux-based ones - and is a source of immense frustration. I shouldn't have to run a FTP server on my phone in order to access the files that previously I could get to just by plugging in a USB cable. Major fail for what is an otherwise great smartphone platform.
The "fact" was made up by a wikipedia user as a joke, then used by a lazy journalist on the Mirror. The Mirror article was then cited on WP as a source, verifying the "fact".
This is not the only time a similar thing has happened.
Interesting that you attempt to make this (easily refuted) argument on a science and technology site. The same processes of inquiry, hypothesis formation, testing, refutation, evidence gathering etc etc that led to the invention of semiconductor transistors, laser diodes, optic fibres, LCD displays and such other technologies as you are using to read and post on this site, when applied to biology, have led to the acceptance of speciation by evolution and provided evidence for this from every scale from the geological to the molecular.
If you don't accept evolution as a fact, then you shouldn't believe in the Internet either.
Go on, have a read of George Dyson. Evolutionary processes are as evident in information technology as they are in biology. It's just that the mutation and selection mechanisms are different.
This is clearly false as many effective vaccines have no heavy metal adjuncts. Remember Edward Jenner? The cowpox virus he inoculated his subject with had no metals in, yet provoked an immune reaction nonetheless.
Got to love the demonisation of the poor. It's much cooler than being racist. SImply change the word "black" for "welfare recipient" in all of your rants and no-one will bat an eyelid.
It's not like we're in the middle of the worst economic crisis for decades, with many people being laid off and needing society to help them get by while they try to be the one person out of the two thousand who applied to actually get the menial, low-paid job that is all that's on offer in the ex-industrial town they had the misfortune to be born in. Heaven forbid anyone would aspire to owning a consumer good which the constant saturation of advertising states is the only way to validate yourself as a person.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chavs-Demonization-Working-Owen-Jones/dp/184467696X might open your eyes (UK context but applicable to many western countries)
Aye, it is at that, so it is by the way.
You're clearly reading the wrong books. Try Christopher Brookmyre.
I bet some of those Ohioans have Scottish ancestry too.
Right. So that Intenet thing you're using to communicate with other individuals, that was created by a meaningless organisational structure? That government which your parents paid taxes to to do things like educate you and keep you safe from criminals, that is a meaningless organisational structure? The extended family and community which you grew up in and kept you nurtured to the point where you could read Ayn Rand and regurgitate nonsense such as you posted, that's just a meaningless organisational structure?
You are alive today because of the collective endeavours of millions of humans who worked to increase our knowledge about the world, invented medicines and medical procedures, even invented world-wide telecommunications networks to share their knowledge for the good of all of our species. If that isn't society, I don't know what is.
Humans are a social species. Get over it, put down the narcissistic libertarian bullshit books, and join in the fun.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3068759&cid=41108347
"They need educated" is a perfectly correct construction in many forms of English. It's used extensively in west central Scotland, for instance - "those dishes need washed", "my fence needs mended", "those football clubs need investigated for tax dodging" etc. Are you suggesting that the University of Glasgow (founded in 1451, the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world) is not somewhere that provides a good education, simply because many of its graduates use a particular verbal construction?
They are stupid this is why, and they need more education.
This, however, is not a typically accepted construction.
Glass houses, man. Glass houses.
Why does having a vaccination "stress [your] son's immune system out" more than his routine everyday exposure to hundreds of potential pathogens, such as those on your skin or in his crib?
There's a good review here of the development of the human immune system both pre- and post-natal. It's entirely possible that the difference in immune function between young children and adults is an adaptive trait, given that most classes of pathogen will be encountered in the first few months of life. Your baby might look fragile, but he's had T-cells since he was a 12-week old fetus.
What "upgrade now" window? Firefox gets updated with the other packages on my system, by PackageKit or yum upgrade. Do you have to manually update each of your applications individually? That must get really annoying. Is there something wrong with your OS that it forces you to do that? ;-)
No-one does that any more. We just boot up a simulated world full of imaged human minds and overclock the substrate until they've rewritten the code for us. After that we wipe the simulation before they can develop an exploit that lets them jump out of the VM. Much simpler than hand-coding AIs.
Hopefully, I'll get them to work with me to show them HOW to do that.
"Hi Valve, it's me. You know, Anonymous Coward. I'd like you to pay me money to tell you what you're doing wrong... hello? Hello?"
Now that the day-job's slowing down, I'll be getting back in touch with them on the subject...
... "Hi Valve, Anonymous Coward again. We got cut off - are your phones working ok? Hello? That's odd, it's happened again."
On the subject of dependencies, from what I understand, because Bedrock essentially has pretty much full distro installs in chroots, each distro uses its own libraries, so it's possible to have different library versions coexisting as applications will only load the libraries they are linked against - the particular chroot/$PATH/bind mount magic that Bedrock does takes care of it. As packages are installed using individual "client" distros package management tools, they will pull in whatever dependencies they need and install them in that "client" distro's chroot.
It seems quite elegant to me, although I haven't the patience to set it up myself as I'd effectively be administering 5 distros instead of one. It might be quite nice for a combined CentOS/Rawhide system though, kind of super-stable but with easily added bleeding edge bling.
...or Paul McCartney. He really needs to stop dying his hair and embrace the character of his face. He should also stop trying to pretend he has the vocal range he did in his 20s.
These might help - I think they override the setttings in gconf:
gsettings set org.gnome.metacity new-windows-always-on-top false
gsettings set org.gnome.metacity no-focus-windows
The whole gconf/dconf thing is a mess right now, but it seems more and more applications are switching to dconf only. dconf-editor isn't quite as useful as gconf-editor though - there's no "Find" function yet, for example. I'd still rather see all these options exposed in a decent UI somewhere - gnome-tweak-tool would be a good place for the Gnome devs to put all this, but it needs to be part of the standard collection, and visible in System Settings rather than being undiscoverable.
There's always been shitty music about. The beauty of the internet is that you don't have to get all your information about interesting music purely from the radio (although BBC 6 Music and the evening music shows on BBC Radio Scotland have been the driver behind most of my recent music purchases). Pandora, Spotify, last.fm etc are all there to act as crap filters.
I'm too young to have seen Debbie Harry in her glory days, but I did see her play with Blondie at Glastonbury about 12 years ago - good, but not quite as great as they would have been 20 years earlier... she was dancing a bit like someone's pissed auntie at a wedding reception. Still had the voice though.
Gnome 3 is built for touch screens but you need a keyboard shortcut for everything does that not mean that said touchscreen useless?
So, touch the button that does the same thing as the key shortcut. You're not forced to use the shortcut - it's there if you find it more convenient (ie you don't want to spin the mouse across two monitors to hit the hot corner, you press Super instead. It doesn't mean you can't use the mouse/touch interface if you prefer that. Key shortcuts are just that- shortcuts, not replacements. It's not like if you press Ctrl-S to save a document, you can never use the File->Save menu again.
and if you are telling all of the linux users to use a keyboard shortcut for everything why not use a terminal instead or a window manager like awesome where it is all keyboard driven anyway? desktops are primarily controlled by mice with the data entered by keyboard. not the other way around.
One hand for mouse, one hand for keyboard. Mouse does most of the work, keyboard hand occasionally stops picking nose and presses a few keys to save mouse hand some work.
Modal dialogs in Gnome 3 are fixed to the parent window by default. If it bugs you, change it:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides attach-modal-dialogs false
or use dconf-editor to do the same thing
Gnome 3's been the default in Fedora for three releases now. I don't see that changing, regardless of what downstream distributions may choose for themselves..
I don't know what Red Hat's plans for the default DE in RHEL7 are, but it's not like they're bound to choose the same defaults as Fedora. If MATE works reliably in F18 then RH may well choose it for RHEL, but that doesn't affect Fedora's choice of default, given that part of Fedora's remit is to get bleeding edge software onto a large number of machines precisely to iron out these kinds of issues.
Besides, if you're deploying RHEL across hundreds of machines, you're probably not going with the defaults anyway. You're free to choose whatever DE you like as long as it's supported - LXDE, KDE, XFCE, MATE, Gnome 3 should all be available.
There's no need to actually consult the cheat sheet. It's actually signposted in the UI: when dragging, if the pointer approaches a window edge, blue shading appears indicating the shape the window will snap to - I'm fairly sure this is the way Windows does it as well.
I have two monitors (of differing resolutions). I like to place windows near the edge sometimes. The tiling and maximising features only activate if the pointer goes within about 20 pixels of the screen edge, which is easily avoided if your intention is to push a window to the edge rather than tile it. You can also send windows to the back by middle-clicking on the titlebar, which I find useful with focus-follows-mouse and no click-to-raise. Both Alt-Tab/button-above-tab or the expose view work for switching windows quickly as well.
If you like having maximise/minimise buttons on the titlebar, they are easy to restore with gnome-tweak-tool. I don't actually find them necessary.
In the US, the public have guns and are allowed to shoot you (in "self-defense", apparently).
No, TFS doesn't tell you the full story as usual. He issued a series of messages, not all directed at Tom Daley that were threatening and abusive, and included death threats : "i dont give a shit bruv i'm gonna drown him and i'm gonna shoot you he failed why you suporting him you cunt " "shut your dirty little mouth you cunt i'm going to kill you when your back trust me " and so on. I would say these were grossly offensive, and also indecent and menacing, though not obscene.
Little boys spraying in public need a slap on the wrist, which is all he's getting.
Eh? No one's removing Gnome 3 from Fedora. MATE is being added as an extra desktop environment. Gnome 3 will still be the default. This is an additional feature, not a replacement.