While I agree that both Unity and Gnome3 still need a lot of improvements before usable, the article in newstechnica really do need some verification.
Tested Unity and Gnome3, and I can confirm that both dont use gigabytes of memory. Gnome3 in my machine only require less than 100Mb and so does Unity.
Btw, for now I'll be out of Ubuntu though, will wait and see how Unity will become. Switching to Gnome3-based desktops now, somehow it matches my preferences better than Unity.
Prices are high, service is poor, breakdowns are frequent - and even in Jakarta many areas don't access to cable broadband.
Not quite right.
Jakarta (and many other big cities) are well covered by good broadband services now. Ofcourse different story for suburban or rural areas which is actually a chance for great businesses as what Cellular providers have prove with their mobile broadband offering.
Prices are high if compared to other countries (like I notice Malaysia can get 10Mb FO broadband for the same price as Indonesia's 2Mb ADSL), but for within Indonesia, it has improved a lot in these 5 years, 1Mb ADSL has been quite affordable for many households. Competitions are healthily rising.
While accesses that require heavy bandwidth is still not accessible to lower-income citizens, almost everyone here can do tweets and fb updates just fine and cheaply with their mobile phones.
Looking at what's currently happening in Indonesia, the country surely has many opportunities and potentials.
The parent lives in an alternate reality where windows dominates the server, Linux is a Hipster toy OS and Apple sells a general purpose OS that ships in 90% of desktop machines.
Think of it from your mother's perspective. How would she feel if she bought a new computer and the audio didn't work all the time? Or if she couldn't always watch DVDs on it? Or if she had to do something more complicated than click on system preferences to adjust a setting... What's a terminal again? And why don't this computer recognize my *insert peripheral here*???
That is why I'm not getting my mother a Windows 7 pre-installed computer. Oh, wait.
I can't complain with that. Uhh... the thrill. Excites me just to think about it.
Programming has been so boring with scripting language nowadays. Everything is sooooooo waaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy tooo easy.
They got functions for everything, memory is well managed (actually garbage-managed), no core dumps, no crashes. No pointer bugs.
What's the fun with _that_ !
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I want one, please arief.utama at gmail.com
While I agree that both Unity and Gnome3 still need a lot of improvements before usable, the article in newstechnica really do need some verification.
Tested Unity and Gnome3, and I can confirm that both dont use gigabytes of memory. Gnome3 in my machine only require less than 100Mb and so does Unity.
Btw, for now I'll be out of Ubuntu though, will wait and see how Unity will become. Switching to Gnome3-based desktops now, somehow it matches my preferences better than Unity.
Prices are high, service is poor, breakdowns are frequent - and even in Jakarta many areas don't access to cable broadband.
Not quite right.
Jakarta (and many other big cities) are well covered by good broadband services now. Ofcourse different story for suburban or rural areas which is actually a chance for great businesses as what Cellular providers have prove with their mobile broadband offering.
Prices are high if compared to other countries (like I notice Malaysia can get 10Mb FO broadband for the same price as Indonesia's 2Mb ADSL), but for within Indonesia, it has improved a lot in these 5 years, 1Mb ADSL has been quite affordable for many households. Competitions are healthily rising.
While accesses that require heavy bandwidth is still not accessible to lower-income citizens, almost everyone here can do tweets and fb updates just fine and cheaply with their mobile phones.
Looking at what's currently happening in Indonesia, the country surely has many opportunities and potentials.
The parent lives in an alternate reality where windows dominates the server, Linux is a Hipster toy OS and Apple sells a general purpose OS that ships in 90% of desktop machines.
Sounds like my world, like 15 years ago...
Think of it from your mother's perspective. How would she feel if she bought a new computer and the audio didn't work all the time? Or if she couldn't always watch DVDs on it? Or if she had to do something more complicated than click on system preferences to adjust a setting... What's a terminal again? And why don't this computer recognize my *insert peripheral here*???
That is why I'm not getting my mother a Windows 7 pre-installed computer. Oh, wait.
Err... Grandpa, is that you ?
Have you forgotten your medicine, again?
woot! (dont really care what ie9 really is :D)
I can't complain with that. Uhh... the thrill. Excites me just to think about it. Programming has been so boring with scripting language nowadays. Everything is sooooooo waaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy tooo easy. They got functions for everything, memory is well managed (actually garbage-managed), no core dumps, no crashes. No pointer bugs. What's the fun with _that_ !