Let me put it this way: when the Gnome team introduced marketing videos for the new Unity interface, the speakers wore black sweaters and talked with their hands while standing in front of stark white backgrounds. I am not making this up.
...except for the bit about the Gnome team doing marketing videos for Canonical's Unity project? Perhaps they were doing vids for Gnome 3, or perhaps the Canonical team were doing vids for Unity?
Gnome 3 and Unity are different projects, albeit with similar goals and some design features in common.
Why did this get marked insightful? It's not saying anything a) new or b) accurate. Fedora is upstream for RHEL, but that's about as far as your comment is true. You might as well say that Debian Sid is public beta for Ubuntu, or that Linus's tree is public beta for Android.
Yes! I too keep hitting the windows key on windows desktops and getting annoyed that I can't see all my windows like I wanted. I've got the Gnome 3 key shortcuts solidly embedded in my muscle memory over the last 6 months, and trying to do things in other desktops just seems really clunky and inefficient now.
For my use, Gnome 3 is faster and easier than any other DE I've seriously used. An investment of five minutes spent reading the Gnome 3 cheat sheet pays off handsomely.
And on my wee netbook (AA1 ZG5), Gnome 3 (Fedora 16) is faster and smoother than Gnome 2 (Fedora 14) was. Honest, it is. How much of that is due to Fedora getting better, and how much to Gnome 3, I don't know.
Why not have one hand on the mouse, the other on the keyboard? Mouse hand does pointy stuff, keyboard hand presses to get to the overview, Alt-Tab to switch apps, or Alt-` to switch windows. You can even type the first few letters of an application's name with one hand without too much bother. It's not hard. Saves having to shift your mouse all over the place.
Of course, if you can only use one hand, then keeping it on the keyboard is probably the most efficient option.
I seem to remember scientists coming up with a complicated formula for humour. Which would let you divide by zero. Now that was funny!
I suspect, rather than actual scientists, it was more likely some rent-a-lecturer who accepts money from PR firms for putting their name to their latest "scientists have found a formula for something related to our clients product" wheeze.
I suspect the understanding of pregnancy through insemination occurred a very short time after the evolution of a brain capable of such understanding. A culture predating that would be non-tool making, so no huts to throw the teenagers into.
Taxation does not provide for a comprehensive health care system, this is the biggest misunderstanding that people have. By even utilizing a government funded health care system you are depriving someone else of health care as their are finite resources.
So the comprehensive government-run tax-funded health care system that I have enjoyed since birth, free at the point of delivery, does not exist? My grandmother's cancer treatment, my dad's cataract surgery, my uncle's home care, my childhood glasses and contact lenses, my partner's very life (she was born with a duodenal atresia which had to be operated on immediately post-partum) - taxation did not provide for them? Who in this system was deprived of health care because of the health care provision of others?
Unless you believe that made-up bullshit nonsense about "death panels" that some fuckwit swivel-eyed corporate PR came up with.
Chiropractor is synonymous with quack. In the UK, the British Chiropractic Society got involved in some very expensive (and ultimately futile) litigation against Simon Singh, a science writer who dared to suggest that cracking people's spines might not actually cure everything it is claimed to.
Real doctors can provide evidence that their interventions are effective. Quacks resort to legal action to shut critics up.
Fascism is and always will be at heart a progressive/liberal creature, since they are the ones at heart with the drive and desire to control what other people do.
Eh? "Liberal"? " The drive and desire to control what other people do"? That word - it does not mean what you think it means.
Liberals do not want to control who you can or cannot marry Liberals do not want to control what you can do with your own body Liberals do not want to control the books your children's school library carries Liberals do not want to control your religious beliefs
From dictionary.com:
liberal
liberal pronunciation[lib-er-uhl, lib-ruhl] adjective 1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. 2. (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform. 3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism. 4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, especially as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties. 5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, especially with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
No, artor3 means that there is a significant overlap between the set of Tea Party supporters and the set of those who think that police who use batons and chemical weapons (tear gas, pepper spray) on non-violent protestors are justified in their actions.
Protip: The human imune system is FAR more capable than any lab coat or government incentive scheme. They sure as hell do a good job of making you forget that the human race has survived several billion years of bacterial and viral evolution already..
Protip: Human-pathogenic viruses and bacteria have survived hundreds of millions of generations of human immune systems (viral/bacterial generations, not human). That's why we still have transmissible disease, and why it is possible to, on first exposure, catch and die of mumps, measles, rubella, polio, smallpox (before vaccination wiped it out), TB, and many other diseases that are routinely vaccinated against. Vaccines give your immune system a head start in the War on Infectious Disease.
But hey, since nobody dies of smallpox anymore, all vaccines are complete bullshit that the gubberment use to get more tax dollars from you to give to their Big Pharma cronies, right? And Andrew Wakefield is a saint who cures babies of autism out of the goodness of his heart, rather than a money-grabbing fraud who performed unnecessary invasive procedures on children and faked data, in the process stirring up a storm in the press that has directly led to the deaths of children from preventable disease.
"I think the problem is completely one of public commitment to public transportation."
They problem is you don't want to pay your fucking taxes!
This. Large infrastructure projects such as new high speed rail lines need the kind of big, long-term investment that only governments can provide. People keep voting for tax cuts and then complain when all the roads are gridlocked and the trains are slow, crowded and ancient.
For those in the UK who suffer from throttled connections, there are some alternatives. I am a very happy customer of Be (part of the Telefonica group) who provide an uncapped unthrottled service with a static IP for less than £20/month. I get 18Mb/s down. On the same line with BT I got 12Mb/s, capped and throttled for the same price.
This is a good resource if you've not found it already.
You would need to install the Facebook app and allow it to sync your contacts. You can link contacts from different accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc) in a similar way to Sense, once you have the apps install that access the accounts.
CM7 has flashlight (with super-powerful boost mode), camera (it doesn't have touch-to-focus but otherwise works well), calculator, clock and alarm. These are mostly stock android ones. If you want a clock/alarm/weather widget like the Sense one, you'll have to install an app like Fancy Widgets from the market. The default dialer can't do smart dialing (type a name on the numpad) but apps like Dialer One are available in the market.
I can't tell you if Facebook events show in the calendar, as that's not a feature I ever used anyway. I'd recommend replacing the stock calendar app with Touch Calendar (much easier to see your events than either the stock calendar or the Sense one). You can add an Exchange account for mail and contacts through the Accounts & Sync settings.
The lack of space issue was the main driver for me to root the phone. Once I had played with CyanogenMod for a few days, I could think of no reason to switch back to the stock ROM. Being able to make nandroid backups of your phone is an incredibly useful feature, as is the functionality provided by apps like Titanium Backup.
Why does video conferencing need to be a web app? It's not as if there aren't hundreds of clients available on any mobile platform for exactly this purpose. I'm not sure direct hardware access (to cameras, microphones etc) from the browser is such a good idea anyway, without some very strict security enforcement, which will no doubt vary wildly in implementation from browser to browser.
If you want it to be your device, root your phone using Revolutionary. Install Titanium Backup. Use it to move updates to system apps into the ROM so you get more space for user apps.
Or go the whole hog and put CyanogenMod 7 on there. With S2E you can use a partition on your SD card as an extension of the/system filesystem and never run out of space for apps again. Other advantages of CM7 on Desire are increased battery life and control over how apps communicate ("Phone goggles"). The main disadvantage is the lack of HTC Sense and the integration between Sense apps, although for me that wasn't a particularly painful thing to lose. Other custom ROMs are available.
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Got to love those sales guys:
http://thewebsiteisdown.com/excel_hell.html
Let me put it this way: when the Gnome team introduced marketing videos for the new Unity interface, the speakers wore black sweaters and talked with their hands while standing in front of stark white backgrounds. I am not making this up.
...except for the bit about the Gnome team doing marketing videos for Canonical's Unity project? Perhaps they were doing vids for Gnome 3, or perhaps the Canonical team were doing vids for Unity?
Gnome 3 and Unity are different projects, albeit with similar goals and some design features in common.
You don't even need to reboot to patch your kernel if you use ksplice.
Why did this get marked insightful? It's not saying anything a) new or b) accurate. Fedora is upstream for RHEL, but that's about as far as your comment is true. You might as well say that Debian Sid is public beta for Ubuntu, or that Linus's tree is public beta for Android.
Yes! I too keep hitting the windows key on windows desktops and getting annoyed that I can't see all my windows like I wanted. I've got the Gnome 3 key shortcuts solidly embedded in my muscle memory over the last 6 months, and trying to do things in other desktops just seems really clunky and inefficient now.
For my use, Gnome 3 is faster and easier than any other DE I've seriously used. An investment of five minutes spent reading the Gnome 3 cheat sheet pays off handsomely.
And on my wee netbook (AA1 ZG5), Gnome 3 (Fedora 16) is faster and smoother than Gnome 2 (Fedora 14) was. Honest, it is. How much of that is due to Fedora getting better, and how much to Gnome 3, I don't know.
Why not have one hand on the mouse, the other on the keyboard? Mouse hand does pointy stuff, keyboard hand presses to get to the overview, Alt-Tab to switch apps, or Alt-` to switch windows. You can even type the first few letters of an application's name with one hand without too much bother. It's not hard. Saves having to shift your mouse all over the place.
Of course, if you can only use one hand, then keeping it on the keyboard is probably the most efficient option.
I seem to remember scientists coming up with a complicated formula for humour. Which would let you divide by zero. Now that was funny!
I suspect, rather than actual scientists, it was more likely some rent-a-lecturer who accepts money from PR firms for putting their name to their latest "scientists have found a formula for something related to our clients product" wheeze.
Dr Cliff Arnall, I'm looking at you.
The difference between comedy and tragedy:
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
For example, I offer the double-entendre.
An attractive young women goes into a bar and asks for a double-entendre. So the barman gives her one.
Wooosh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World
And heaven forbid someone cut-and-paste it into Google Translate.
I tried that just in case a Google Translate had an easter egg for this, but no joy :(
I suspect the understanding of pregnancy through insemination occurred a very short time after the evolution of a brain capable of such understanding. A culture predating that would be non-tool making, so no huts to throw the teenagers into.
Or it could be the government's attempt to offset the costs associated with outbreaks of mumps amongst non-immunized children.
+1 insightful
The problem with statistics they have and always will be complete bull shit.
The mind is not strong with this one.
Here's a starter for improvement of your mental faculty:
http://www.statisticshowto.com/
Taxation does not provide for a comprehensive health care system, this is the biggest misunderstanding that people have. By even utilizing a government funded health care system you are depriving someone else of health care as their are finite resources.
So the comprehensive government-run tax-funded health care system that I have enjoyed since birth, free at the point of delivery, does not exist? My grandmother's cancer treatment, my dad's cataract surgery, my uncle's home care, my childhood glasses and contact lenses, my partner's very life (she was born with a duodenal atresia which had to be operated on immediately post-partum) - taxation did not provide for them? Who in this system was deprived of health care because of the health care provision of others?
Unless you believe that made-up bullshit nonsense about "death panels" that some fuckwit swivel-eyed corporate PR came up with.
Chiropractor is synonymous with quack. In the UK, the British Chiropractic Society got involved in some very expensive (and ultimately futile) litigation against Simon Singh, a science writer who dared to suggest that cracking people's spines might not actually cure everything it is claimed to.
Real doctors can provide evidence that their interventions are effective. Quacks resort to legal action to shut critics up.
Fascism is and always will be at heart a progressive/liberal creature, since they are the ones at heart with the drive and desire to control what other people do.
Eh? "Liberal"? " The drive and desire to control what other people do"? That word - it does not mean what you think it means.
Liberals do not want to control who you can or cannot marry
Liberals do not want to control what you can do with your own body
Liberals do not want to control the books your children's school library carries
Liberals do not want to control your religious beliefs
From dictionary.com:
liberal
liberal pronunciation[lib-er-uhl, lib-ruhl]
adjective
1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
2. (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform.
3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism.
4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, especially as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, especially with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
Yep, all about control.
No, artor3 means that there is a significant overlap between the set of Tea Party supporters and the set of those who think that police who use batons and chemical weapons (tear gas, pepper spray) on non-violent protestors are justified in their actions.
Protip: The human imune system is FAR more capable than any lab coat or government incentive scheme. They sure as hell do a good job of making you forget that the human race has survived several billion years of bacterial and viral evolution already..
Protip: Human-pathogenic viruses and bacteria have survived hundreds of millions of generations of human immune systems (viral/bacterial generations, not human). That's why we still have transmissible disease, and why it is possible to, on first exposure, catch and die of mumps, measles, rubella, polio, smallpox (before vaccination wiped it out), TB, and many other diseases that are routinely vaccinated against. Vaccines give your immune system a head start in the War on Infectious Disease.
But hey, since nobody dies of smallpox anymore, all vaccines are complete bullshit that the gubberment use to get more tax dollars from you to give to their Big Pharma cronies, right? And Andrew Wakefield is a saint who cures babies of autism out of the goodness of his heart, rather than a money-grabbing fraud who performed unnecessary invasive procedures on children and faked data, in the process stirring up a storm in the press that has directly led to the deaths of children from preventable disease.
Vaccines save lives.
"I think the problem is completely one of public commitment to public transportation."
They problem is you don't want to pay your fucking taxes!
This. Large infrastructure projects such as new high speed rail lines need the kind of big, long-term investment that only governments can provide. People keep voting for tax cuts and then complain when all the roads are gridlocked and the trains are slow, crowded and ancient.
For those in the UK who suffer from throttled connections, there are some alternatives. I am a very happy customer of Be (part of the Telefonica group) who provide an uncapped unthrottled service with a static IP for less than £20/month. I get 18Mb/s down. On the same line with BT I got 12Mb/s, capped and throttled for the same price.
This is a good resource if you've not found it already.
You would need to install the Facebook app and allow it to sync your contacts. You can link contacts from different accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc) in a similar way to Sense, once you have the apps install that access the accounts.
CM7 has flashlight (with super-powerful boost mode), camera (it doesn't have touch-to-focus but otherwise works well), calculator, clock and alarm. These are mostly stock android ones. If you want a clock/alarm/weather widget like the Sense one, you'll have to install an app like Fancy Widgets from the market. The default dialer can't do smart dialing (type a name on the numpad) but apps like Dialer One are available in the market.
I can't tell you if Facebook events show in the calendar, as that's not a feature I ever used anyway. I'd recommend replacing the stock calendar app with Touch Calendar (much easier to see your events than either the stock calendar or the Sense one). You can add an Exchange account for mail and contacts through the Accounts & Sync settings.
The lack of space issue was the main driver for me to root the phone. Once I had played with CyanogenMod for a few days, I could think of no reason to switch back to the stock ROM. Being able to make nandroid backups of your phone is an incredibly useful feature, as is the functionality provided by apps like Titanium Backup.
Yes, who would eat that? I'd much rather eat the swollen reproductive organs of plants, or the dissected muscle tissue of animals.
Why does video conferencing need to be a web app? It's not as if there aren't hundreds of clients available on any mobile platform for exactly this purpose. I'm not sure direct hardware access (to cameras, microphones etc) from the browser is such a good idea anyway, without some very strict security enforcement, which will no doubt vary wildly in implementation from browser to browser.
If you want it to be your device, root your phone using Revolutionary. Install Titanium Backup. Use it to move updates to system apps into the ROM so you get more space for user apps.
Or go the whole hog and put CyanogenMod 7 on there. With S2E you can use a partition on your SD card as an extension of the /system filesystem and never run out of space for apps again. Other advantages of CM7 on Desire are increased battery life and control over how apps communicate ("Phone goggles"). The main disadvantage is the lack of HTC Sense and the integration between Sense apps, although for me that wasn't a particularly painful thing to lose. Other custom ROMs are available.