Eh? What functionality of your computer can you not access because of Gnome Shell? It's not like the filesystem's hidden from you (like iOS). You can write, run or install any software you like.
How exactly is a GPL-licensed free desktop environment making "everyone more dependent on the nascent multivendor closed garden takover of the internet."?
This is Slashdot. Expressing an opinion that somebody with mod points disagrees with is obviously trolling. Expressing an opinion that they agree with is +1 Insightful.
Personally, when I have mod points, I mod up anything that is well-argued and cogently written, even if I do not agree with the opinion expressed therein. I also mod down rude, ill-informed and immature posts even if they fundamentally agree with me.
More people need to metamod, and the metamod system needs to be improved.
I like Gnome Shell. I find it simple, fast and intuitive. I just don't shout as loudly about it as the haters, because I have better things to get upset about.
Sorry, but there have been many studies now trying to find a link between vaccination and autism. No well-conducted studies have found any such association. Thiomersal has not been used in the UK for some years, but there has been no reduction in autism rates. Japan dropped the Thiomersal-containing MMR vaccine back in the 90s, and the increase in autism diagnoses there has continued. There is no causal or correlatative link between Thiomersal and autism, or indeed between vaccination rates and autism. Even if there were, which there isn't, a slight increase in autism incidence would be more than outweighed by the huge reduction in disablement and mortality conferred by vaccination.
And what do celebrities have to do with anything? Many celebrities are Scientologists - it doesn't make Mr Hubbard's money making empire any more founded in fact.
Are you trying to suggest that Susan Greenfield makes her claims about Internet use and autism, not because she is misguided and attention-seeking, but because she is paid to do so by people whose products actually cause autism and want the world to look the other way? Maybe you should take off the tinfoil hat.
I find myself more productive with Gnome 3 than 2 (less clutter, fewer distracting applets telling me things that aren't actually too important). There are some frustrations, like having to use gsettings/dconf-editor/gconf-editor for a lot of configuration options - but the only default I've actually changed is from click-to-focus to focus-follows-mouse now that it's fixed in 3.2. That and adding the alternative-status-menu extension.
Unity and Gnome 3 do seem to have a lot of similar thinking going into their design, but IMO Gnome 3 has handled the implementation of those design choices better.
Each to their own! That's the great thing about Linux/GNU as a platform - noone's forcing you to use one DE or another, you can pick an choose to suit your preference. "Power users" whining about Ubuntu using Unity as a default clearly aren't "powerful" enough to type apt-get install xfce-desktop (or whatever the package is called).
Sounds like Gnome 3 (on Fedora) would fit your needs. One mouse movement or keyboard tap gives you an overview of all your windows, (like OS X Expose). Click on the one you want. You get thumbnails of all your workspaces. Multiple monitors are handled smoothly (including hot-plugging just fine) Notifications are handled well without interrupting your workflow. Gnome-shell gets out of your way and just lets you get on with what you want, without dislocating menus from their windows. I found the lack of customisability hard to deal with at first, coming from Gnome 2, but after a week or so I realised that it doesn't need to be customised. It just works the way it is. (Bar needing to install one extension so I don't have to hold down Alt just to turn off my computer). Gnome 3.2 (Fedora 16) is even nicer, with many of the wrinkles ironed out.
I've been using it now for 6 months and find going to a Windows-like desktop clunkier each time. Gnome 3 is everything Unity should have been but isn't.
There's nothing like actually reading the friendly article is there?
NASA Plans Cloud Marketplace For Scientists Cloud services suite to expand with platform as a service, data as a service, and a new cloud computing storefront likened to Apple's AppStore and Google's Android Market.
By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek November 03, 2011 02:55 PM
NASA, already among the government leaders in cloud computing, plans to offer a cloud storefront where scientists will be able to determine their computing needs and access cloud services from a central location.
This story has nothing to do with iOS apps or any Apple platform. It is about NASA's Nebula cloud services and making them easily available internally through a single "cloud storefront". The PR folk knew if they put the magic words "app store" in the story then it would get read. TFA also mentions the Android Market just two words after App Store, right there in the standfirst at the top of the page.
Anyway, it won't be $25, it'll be £15 (so you'd better hope the pound tanks before December), and for the first batch they might make it mandatory to donate the cost of a unit to buy one (ie give one get one). This probably won't be a requirement for subsequent batches.
Rage much, AC? Get out of the basement and go for a walk. Look at the trees, the sky. Smile at people you pass. Breathe. Realise that there is more to life than someone on the internet making a simple error (which they have realised, apologised for, and corrected). Did anyone die because of that mistake? Is the world still turning?
Now go back and apologise to the person you spewed internet hate fluid at. It will make you a better person, and less likely to be patronised by others who find your actions similar to those of a 4-year old who has learned some naughty words.
K9 Mail is a good, free/libre mail client for android that can use ActiveSync. By default, it does not load remote elements in HTML mail. It's in the Android market, cost free.
Publicly-funded healthcare keeps more people alive for less money than the US system.
This study shows that the UK NHS achieves a greater reduction in mortality rates than the US healthcare system despite costing significantly less per capita: http://shortreports.rsmjournals.com/content/2/7/60.abstract They fully describe their methods.
The government? Drug R&D funded from taxes on drug sales. Might lead to more honest reporting of drug research, rather than inconvenient trial data being buried, as happens in the current system.
Point understood. My mental classification of malware kits includes worms and other attack methods, as well as their payloads - I'm sure the crims aren't purely interested in owning desktops when there's plenty of poorly configured, unpatched servers out there. Not to mention 0-day exploits discovered by bad guys and sold to other bad guys in the form of kits.
But yes, it's mostly Windows systems with flash, acrobat reader &c that are the low hanging fruit for the kinds of people who would buy kits rather than writing their own.
B), the linux marketshare is so absolutely insignificant that you wont be seeing professionally packaged, commercially available (black market) malware kits for linux for a long long time.
I would have thought being able to pwn the majority of web and database servers out there would be a decent incentive to write malware kits for linux. Anyway, why pay black market rates when metasploit is free?
I'm a professional outdoors-person, although I prefer to be referred to as an outdoor instructor, or mountain leader. I work freelance for a number of organisations (mostly residential outdoor education centres) as well as running a business teaching navigation and guiding hillwalks.
Thatcher increased welfare spending during her time as Prime Minister;
She had to, as many of her other policies resulted in huge job losses, and significantly cutting unemployment benefit when several million people were reliant on it would have led to even more civil unrest. She wasn't a welfare statist at all.
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But, just like geckos' feet, and unlike sellotape, you can shake the dust and dirt off, or rinse it under water.
This is the same stuff that the recently-featured wall-climbing robot uses.
After 9/11 the bed wetters gave up their freedom for the illusion of security, and took everyone along for the ride.
FTFY.
Eh? What functionality of your computer can you not access because of Gnome Shell? It's not like the filesystem's hidden from you (like iOS). You can write, run or install any software you like.
How exactly is a GPL-licensed free desktop environment making "everyone more dependent on the nascent multivendor closed garden takover of the internet."?
This is Slashdot. Expressing an opinion that somebody with mod points disagrees with is obviously trolling. Expressing an opinion that they agree with is +1 Insightful.
Personally, when I have mod points, I mod up anything that is well-argued and cogently written, even if I do not agree with the opinion expressed therein. I also mod down rude, ill-informed and immature posts even if they fundamentally agree with me.
More people need to metamod, and the metamod system needs to be improved.
I like Gnome Shell. I find it simple, fast and intuitive. I just don't shout as loudly about it as the haters, because I have better things to get upset about.
I think you mean sociopaths.
Sorry, but there have been many studies now trying to find a link between vaccination and autism. No well-conducted studies have found any such association. Thiomersal has not been used in the UK for some years, but there has been no reduction in autism rates. Japan dropped the Thiomersal-containing MMR vaccine back in the 90s, and the increase in autism diagnoses there has continued. There is no causal or correlatative link between Thiomersal and autism, or indeed between vaccination rates and autism. Even if there were, which there isn't, a slight increase in autism incidence would be more than outweighed by the huge reduction in disablement and mortality conferred by vaccination.
And what do celebrities have to do with anything? Many celebrities are Scientologists - it doesn't make Mr Hubbard's money making empire any more founded in fact.
Are you trying to suggest that Susan Greenfield makes her claims about Internet use and autism, not because she is misguided and attention-seeking, but because she is paid to do so by people whose products actually cause autism and want the world to look the other way? Maybe you should take off the tinfoil hat.
I find myself more productive with Gnome 3 than 2 (less clutter, fewer distracting applets telling me things that aren't actually too important). There are some frustrations, like having to use gsettings/dconf-editor/gconf-editor for a lot of configuration options - but the only default I've actually changed is from click-to-focus to focus-follows-mouse now that it's fixed in 3.2. That and adding the alternative-status-menu extension.
Unity and Gnome 3 do seem to have a lot of similar thinking going into their design, but IMO Gnome 3 has handled the implementation of those design choices better.
Each to their own! That's the great thing about Linux/GNU as a platform - noone's forcing you to use one DE or another, you can pick an choose to suit your preference. "Power users" whining about Ubuntu using Unity as a default clearly aren't "powerful" enough to type apt-get install xfce-desktop (or whatever the package is called).
Yup, sorry. Should have replied to them, not you.
Sounds like Gnome 3 (on Fedora) would fit your needs. One mouse movement or keyboard tap gives you an overview of all your windows, (like OS X Expose). Click on the one you want. You get thumbnails of all your workspaces. Multiple monitors are handled smoothly (including hot-plugging just fine) Notifications are handled well without interrupting your workflow. Gnome-shell gets out of your way and just lets you get on with what you want, without dislocating menus from their windows. I found the lack of customisability hard to deal with at first, coming from Gnome 2, but after a week or so I realised that it doesn't need to be customised. It just works the way it is. (Bar needing to install one extension so I don't have to hold down Alt just to turn off my computer). Gnome 3.2 (Fedora 16) is even nicer, with many of the wrinkles ironed out.
I've been using it now for 6 months and find going to a Windows-like desktop clunkier each time. Gnome 3 is everything Unity should have been but isn't.
There's nothing like actually reading the friendly article is there?
NASA Plans Cloud Marketplace For Scientists
Cloud services suite to expand with platform as a service, data as a service, and a new cloud computing storefront likened to Apple's AppStore and Google's Android Market.
By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek
November 03, 2011 02:55 PM
NASA, already among the government leaders in cloud computing, plans to offer a cloud storefront where scientists will be able to determine their computing needs and access cloud services from a central location.
So no, they're not running an app store.
This story has nothing to do with iOS apps or any Apple platform. It is about NASA's Nebula cloud services and making them easily available internally through a single "cloud storefront". The PR folk knew if they put the magic words "app store" in the story then it would get read. TFA also mentions the Android Market just two words after App Store, right there in the standfirst at the top of the page.
Um, $25*2 = $50
Anyway, it won't be $25, it'll be £15 (so you'd better hope the pound tanks before December), and for the first batch they might make it mandatory to donate the cost of a unit to buy one (ie give one get one). This probably won't be a requirement for subsequent batches.
/etc = Extended Text Configuration
Schizophrenia =/= "split personality"
You're thinking of Multiple Personality Disorder.
There's a great example of engineered multiple personalities in Peter Watts' awesome novel Blindsight.
Rage much, AC? Get out of the basement and go for a walk. Look at the trees, the sky. Smile at people you pass. Breathe. Realise that there is more to life than someone on the internet making a simple error (which they have realised, apologised for, and corrected). Did anyone die because of that mistake? Is the world still turning?
Now go back and apologise to the person you spewed internet hate fluid at. It will make you a better person, and less likely to be patronised by others who find your actions similar to those of a 4-year old who has learned some naughty words.
K9 Mail is a good, free/libre mail client for android that can use ActiveSync. By default, it does not load remote elements in HTML mail. It's in the Android market, cost free.
Thank you AC!
Here's the numbers (Ireland wins, US is 17 out of 19 countries studied when ranked by mortality reduction per dollar spend):
Country and rank Average 15–74 reduced deaths (rpm) Average GDPHE: death ratio 55–74 Deaths reduced (rpm) 55–74 Deaths: GDPHE ratio
1 Ireland 4941 1:696 12,903 1:1817
2 UK 3951 1:557 10,5760 1:1490
3 New Zealand 4076 1:566 10,449 1:1451
4 Austria 4460 1:551 11,194 1:1382
5 Australia 4328 1:521 10,903 1:1314
6 Italy 3579 1:436 9290 1:1133
7 Finland 2255 1:318 7183 1:1012
8 Japan 2600 1:380 6500 1:929
9 Spain 1586 1:233 6316 1:929
10 Sweden 3123 1:355 7919 1:900
11 Canada 2822 1:324 7321 1:841
12 Netherlands 2570 1:306 6633 1:790
13 France 2779 1:316 6849 1:778
14 Norway 2407 1:294 6230 1:766
15 Greece 2230 1:265 6423 1:765
16 Germany 2395 1:247 5916 1:610
17 USA 2498 1:205 6286 1:515
18 Portugal 1304 1:169 3344 1:434
19 Switzerland 1298 1:140 3229 1:347
rpm = rates per million
Publicly-funded healthcare keeps more people alive for less money than the US system.
This study shows that the UK NHS achieves a greater reduction in mortality rates than the US healthcare system despite costing significantly less per capita:
http://shortreports.rsmjournals.com/content/2/7/60.abstract
They fully describe their methods.
The government? Drug R&D funded from taxes on drug sales. Might lead to more honest reporting of drug research, rather than inconvenient trial data being buried, as happens in the current system.
Point understood. My mental classification of malware kits includes worms and other attack methods, as well as their payloads - I'm sure the crims aren't purely interested in owning desktops when there's plenty of poorly configured, unpatched servers out there. Not to mention 0-day exploits discovered by bad guys and sold to other bad guys in the form of kits.
But yes, it's mostly Windows systems with flash, acrobat reader &c that are the low hanging fruit for the kinds of people who would buy kits rather than writing their own.
B), the linux marketshare is so absolutely insignificant that you wont be seeing professionally packaged, commercially available (black market) malware kits for linux for a long long time.
I would have thought being able to pwn the majority of web and database servers out there would be a decent incentive to write malware kits for linux. Anyway, why pay black market rates when metasploit is free?
I'm a professional outdoors-person, although I prefer to be referred to as an outdoor instructor, or mountain leader. I work freelance for a number of organisations (mostly residential outdoor education centres) as well as running a business teaching navigation and guiding hillwalks.
Thatcher increased welfare spending during her time as Prime Minister;
She had to, as many of her other policies resulted in huge job losses, and significantly cutting unemployment benefit when several million people were reliant on it would have led to even more civil unrest. She wasn't a welfare statist at all.