This: Phones in the early 2000s didn't have a touchscreen because they were too expensive. When they became cheaper, everybody had them.
Not this: Apple's the first one to think of having a large touchscreen. Nobody else thought of that, and if anybody else makes a device with a big touchscreen and black case, they're copying Apple.
He said that you can claim $SUBJECT isn't necessary (italics yours) for any value of $SUBJECT.
You came by and said advanced math isn't necessary for your cousin.
And neither is history, nor political science, nor probably civics, or chemistry, physics, biology, English literature, English grammar (got Word for that). Anything left?
I assume how this will work is: You call up a number (your carrier, a consortium or whatever). You tell them your phone's phone number, and they look up the IMEI associated to that number, and block it.
So tell me: What prevents your neighbor (or whoever) from calling and saying "Officer, officer, my phone was stolen, the number is 555-1234." ?
Coming from a (former) Unity hater, have you tried the latest Unity (12.04)?
Yeah, the idea that you'll click an icon in the launcher and get a single instance (and only that instance) of an app, and you can't open up more even if you want to is a horror. But that's not how it works in Precise Pangolin.
The UI indicates if you have multiple windows of an app open. If you click on the icon, it gives you the most recent window of that app you worked with. Which is (90% of the time), the window that you want to open again. If not, use the various methods (mouse and keyboard) to select a different window.
Oh, and you can either right-click or middle click to open up a new instance.
MRU (most recently used) is a godsend. Most of the time, the files you work with are the ones you most recently worked with. Same for apps. I'm always running Chrome, gedit, and Thunderbird. Usually running VirtualBox, CherryTree (notes), Open/LibreOffice and Calculator. Often running Gimp, Inkscape, Netbeans, Skype, and Meld (diff). Others are few and far between.
If you want a hierarchical menu (as I usually do), install Cardapio. Click it (or hit a keyboard combo) and you get a dropdown menu.
I'm not a big fan of global menus, but you can turn those off, too.
Finally Unity is implemented as a Compiz plugin (no kidding), so you can install ccsm and reconfigure (within reason).
What are the problems that your crew has been having with Unity?
Alt+Tab and mouse: right, I agree. This should be a small fix. The developers probably think if you were going to use the mouse, you probably could have just clicked the icon in the lefthand launcher bar. But, yeah, I'd like to be able to click on an icon with the mouse.
>Switching through the Dash becomes too cramped when you have many windows, made considerably worse because windows of the same type always get grouped together.
I had thought that it would be, too, before I started using it. Actually most of my windows are always browser windows. Other than that, I only have a few others (Thunderbird, terminal, VirtualBox).
For other stuff (graphics, dev) I put those on separate virtual desktops.
>Gnome2 doesn't have a launcher. But it does have a window switcher applet in the panel, which has lots more room and doesn't group windows until it has to.
I get what you're saying: The Gnome2 grouped tasklist--click on it and up pops a list of the windows for that application. But my biggest gripe with that was finding a particular window, usually the one I was working with last. I think it would put windows in alphabetical order, which was pretty much useless for working.
Normally, I want to switch to the window I was working with last. For example, switching between a terminal window developing a website and the documentation for the framework in which that website was written. Unity automagically manages that so that when I hit the Firefox icon, I instantly go to the last browser window I had open instead of having to tediously choose it from an alphabetical list.
It makes for much easier and faster task switching for 90% of the use cases in which I actually work.
Gnome3's window mosaic: Unity has that, too. Just hit Super+W and you get reduced-sized views of all windows. You can choose with the mouse. They call this the Spread. They're going to improve it in the next version.
For me, this is the best desktop I've had (but that's a relative comparison to Gnome2).
Gripe/suggestion: More flexible handling of virtual desktops on multi-monitors. I'd like to be able to switch from one vdesktop to another on a given monitor, but stay on the previous vdesktop on the other. Also, if they're going to have a global menu, then the mouse should "stick" when it gets to the menu edge (assuming one monitor on top of the other--common if you have a laptop and a widescreen on a stand).
If you look at your response honestly, you'll see that it's a fanboyish response.
A better response would have been "You're right, there's no hierarchical menu. It would have been nice if there had been. I hope they add one in the future".
By the way, Cardapio offers a traditional hierarchical for Unity (there's PPA on Launchpad). I don't know if it's available for Gnome3.
>Pretty sure the statement: >"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
>doesn't say anything about ammunition,
Yeah, and the 1st amendment protects free speech. But you're legally barred from buying pens, paper, or whatever else it is that you need to speak.
Mommy, mommy, I'm not the coolest kid in school anymore. Some guy who transferred in and eats kimchi is wearing all-black jeans and a turtleneck. That's not fair. Black's my color! I thought of it first.
By "kill" do you mean that 1) on one day, someone was just walking down the sidewalk, happy-go-lucky, prime of life, sunny day, and the next day just died?
Or 2) It's estimated that a person who hasn't done too much excercise or is a smoker might have lived to 73 and actually died at 72.5 years?
AFAIK, these are seized *before* a suspect is proven to have been a drug vendor in a court of law, i.e., when you are arrested, not convicted. How much sense does that make?
Call me gullible, but this makes me more likely to buy Lenovo computers for my staff.
Vote with your dollars and all that.
(Note: It's not like this would be the only criterion. Lenovo offered the only/best 15" laptop with Intel VT-x and numpad and nice keyboard that I was looking for from the laptop from which this is being posted.)
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That's a very important point:
This: Phones in the early 2000s didn't have a touchscreen because they were too expensive. When they became cheaper, everybody had them.
Not this: Apple's the first one to think of having a large touchscreen. Nobody else thought of that, and if anybody else makes a device with a big touchscreen and black case, they're copying Apple.
Pray tell, what would be taught in your ideal school?
I assume that would be only stuff that kids could put to use immediately.
So, for example, they wouldn't need algebra. Just being able to count their pocket money should suffice.
James Q. Wilson (heard of him?) starts out his book on polisci with a definition of "power", namely the ability to get people to do things.
So, yeah, polisci is concerned with how to get people to do things.
In what way did you refute the first poster?
He said that you can claim $SUBJECT isn't necessary (italics yours) for any value of $SUBJECT.
You came by and said advanced math isn't necessary for your cousin.
And neither is history, nor political science, nor probably civics, or chemistry, physics, biology, English literature, English grammar (got Word for that). Anything left?
Wait, let me get this straight. All you have to do to initiate total wipedown is yell "Mugged"?
Oh, is that an iPhone you have?
"Mugged."
I assume how this will work is: You call up a number (your carrier, a consortium or whatever). You tell them your phone's phone number, and they look up the IMEI associated to that number, and block it.
So tell me: What prevents your neighbor (or whoever) from calling and saying "Officer, officer, my phone was stolen, the number is 555-1234." ?
Coming from a (former) Unity hater, have you tried the latest Unity (12.04)?
Yeah, the idea that you'll click an icon in the launcher and get a single instance (and only that instance) of an app, and you can't open up more even if you want to is a horror.
But that's not how it works in Precise Pangolin.
The UI indicates if you have multiple windows of an app open. If you click on the icon, it gives you the most recent window of that app you worked with. Which is (90% of the time), the window that you want to open again. If not, use the various methods (mouse and keyboard) to select a different window.
Oh, and you can either right-click or middle click to open up a new instance.
MRU (most recently used) is a godsend. Most of the time, the files you work with are the ones you most recently worked with. Same for apps. I'm always running Chrome, gedit, and Thunderbird. Usually running VirtualBox, CherryTree (notes), Open/LibreOffice and Calculator. Often running Gimp, Inkscape, Netbeans, Skype, and Meld (diff). Others are few and far between.
If you want a hierarchical menu (as I usually do), install Cardapio. Click it (or hit a keyboard combo) and you get a dropdown menu.
I'm not a big fan of global menus, but you can turn those off, too.
Finally Unity is implemented as a Compiz plugin (no kidding), so you can install ccsm and reconfigure (within reason).
What are the problems that your crew has been having with Unity?
(From a Unity hater before 12.04's fixes)
Alt+Tab and mouse: right, I agree. This should be a small fix. The developers probably think if you were going to use the mouse, you probably could have just clicked the icon in the lefthand launcher bar. But, yeah, I'd like to be able to click on an icon with the mouse.
>Switching through the Dash becomes too cramped when you have many windows, made considerably worse because windows of the same type always get grouped together.
I had thought that it would be, too, before I started using it. Actually most of my windows are always browser windows. Other than that, I only have a few others (Thunderbird, terminal, VirtualBox).
For other stuff (graphics, dev) I put those on separate virtual desktops.
>Gnome2 doesn't have a launcher. But it does have a window switcher applet in the panel, which has lots more room and doesn't group windows until it has to.
I get what you're saying: The Gnome2 grouped tasklist--click on it and up pops a list of the windows for that application. But my biggest gripe with that was finding a particular window, usually the one I was working with last. I think it would put windows in alphabetical order, which was pretty much useless for working.
Normally, I want to switch to the window I was working with last. For example, switching between a terminal window developing a website and the documentation for the framework in which that website was written. Unity automagically manages that so that when I hit the Firefox icon, I instantly go to the last browser window I had open instead of having to tediously choose it from an alphabetical list.
It makes for much easier and faster task switching for 90% of the use cases in which I actually work.
Gnome3's window mosaic: Unity has that, too. Just hit Super+W and you get reduced-sized views of all windows. You can choose with the mouse. They call this the Spread. They're going to improve it in the next version.
For me, this is the best desktop I've had (but that's a relative comparison to Gnome2).
Gripe/suggestion: More flexible handling of virtual desktops on multi-monitors. I'd like to be able to switch from one vdesktop to another on a given monitor, but stay on the previous vdesktop on the other. Also, if they're going to have a global menu, then the mouse should "stick" when it gets to the menu edge (assuming one monitor on top of the other--common if you have a laptop and a widescreen on a stand).
No, I'm sorry, it's not just a uncontrollable prosecutor.
"Oh, if Barrack knew, he would certainly fix this"
Yeah, right.
Obama is the one who appointed RIAA lawyers to head up the Justice Department copyright police ("Protection is Our Trademark")
>the tea party wants a government that doesn't collect taxes but somehow still functions,
Wow, hyperbole much?
The tea party simply wants the government to grow at a slower rate (a percent or so) than it is planned to grow.
That small change would balance the budget in a few years without any more taxes.
The tea party didn't said anything about eliminating all current taxes.
Wait, weren't (some of) the servers actually in the US--most dedicated servers are located in the US hosting industry.
If you look at your response honestly, you'll see that it's a fanboyish response.
A better response would have been "You're right, there's no hierarchical menu. It would have been nice if there had been. I hope they add one in the future".
By the way, Cardapio offers a traditional hierarchical for Unity (there's PPA on Launchpad). I don't know if it's available for Gnome3.
Will Twitter's use of rounded corners now become legal?
And will Appwitter start suing websites that also use them?
I had a little template-type plastic ruler thing that had various shapes, including rounded rects.
Little did I know I was violating Apple patents in primary school!
>Pretty sure the statement:
>"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
>doesn't say anything about ammunition,
Yeah, and the 1st amendment protects free speech. But you're legally barred from buying pens, paper, or whatever else it is that you need to speak.
I'd love to see the defense of the CPSC suit on a 2nd amendment basis, just for the sheer laugh factor.
That's a surprise.
Mommy, mommy, I'm not the coolest kid in school anymore. Some guy who transferred in and eats kimchi is wearing all-black jeans and a turtleneck. That's not fair. Black's my color! I thought of it first.
By "kill" do you mean that 1) on one day, someone was just walking down the sidewalk, happy-go-lucky, prime of life, sunny day, and the next day just died?
Or 2) It's estimated that a person who hasn't done too much excercise or is a smoker might have lived to 73 and actually died at 72.5 years?
>Or perhaps I'll just rely on technology improving,
So this is the /. "faith-based" consensus on nuclear power. Otherwise purported to be rational science and engineering.
Who needs a joystick or a mouse?
I steer my car with j, k, h, and l, you insensitive clod!
Also ^ for hard left, and $ for hard right turns.
AFAIK, these are seized *before* a suspect is proven to have been a drug vendor in a court of law, i.e., when you are arrested, not convicted. How much sense does that make?
The Federal government doesn't pay for your police department.
Local taxes do (usually property taxes).
Road maintenance is generally paid for with gas taxes and road tolls.
Thanks for that infusion of common sense. And also, can we see Warren Buffet's secretary's salary slips?
Call me gullible, but this makes me more likely to buy Lenovo computers for my staff.
Vote with your dollars and all that.
(Note: It's not like this would be the only criterion. Lenovo offered the only/best 15" laptop with Intel VT-x and numpad and nice keyboard that I was looking for from the laptop from which this is being posted.)
Yeah, that's what my first impression was.
When screen sizes were often small, the iPhone's large screen was heralded as a great thing.
But now that somebody else (Samsung) has a best-selling larger screen, iFans say "don't make it bigger".