Having driven in both Canada and the great US of A, I have to say that on the whole I'd rather drive in Canada than deal with the raging retards on the US roads.
Yea because you know, websites don't currently load up on inane bullshit that bogs down your browser.
Look, they are just giving us a new easier to use and more efficient way of doing things. First it was random flash garbage, now it will be HTML5 garbage. You can't blame the spec because of what people choose to do with it. For every site that loads up with so much crap that it destroys your browser there will be several that are beautifully done.
So wait, you are claiming one tiny little webapp on the Google homepage was killing your machine?
You might want to consider upgrading your machine... I had no issues when the danging balls were on the homepage and my machine is 3 years old. I quite liked it actually.
That is true, but looking through their github repo the issues don't appear to be significant enough to require a major redesign. I think they got pretty damn close to what they needed. All they have to do now is do a little spit shine and polish things up, correct security flaws, etc. I mean one of the more significant issues listed in the article was that you can inject HTML into comments. As big of a security hole as that is, its not terribly difficult to fix either.
I wanted to make your second point, because its clowns like you who drive the Linux community nuts. If you aren't willing to put in any effort at all, and then spew random garbage that simply isn't true, you should expect to be met with hostility.
As for your first point, if you can't handle typing a command onto the command line, you are NOT a geek, let alone a "good" one. I also mentioned, which you chose to ignore, that there is a GUI you can use that has the exact same functionality as the command I used.
I'm sorry but if you think Ubuntu has poor documentation you should really try, well reading.
Using the built in software tools to install software is so mind numbingly easy it almost made me completely forget RPM dependency hell. Seriously, all you have to do is type "sudo apt-get install Program". How much easier do you want it? The GUI utilities are the same. Type program name into search box. Click Install. I mean, I don't think its possible to get any easier than that. It is easier to install programs on Linux than it is in Windows. At least in Linux I don't have to go digging all over the net to find my applications. I've installed maybe 2 apps from the web on my Linux box, the rest were in the amazingly easy to use package manager.
The difference between KDE and Gnome is the look and feel of the GUI. Plain and simple. Then again, a 5 second google search could have told you that.
You sound like a good candidate for a fisher price computer, A.K.A Mac OS/X. Bottom line: You aren't a "good geek" if you can't figure out how to use a simple Linux distro like Ubuntu. Hand in your obviously faked geek card and get the hell out.
No, prices have not dropped. Speed has increased, but prices have not dropped. When I first purchased my first internet connection (28.8k mofos!) it was costing me $60 a month. I pay $60 a month now for my cable connection. Its faster, but I'm still paying the same thing I was paying 10+ years ago.
As soon as I read the headline this is exactly what popped into my mind. Flash is horribly bad in general, I don't see why Android is being singled out.
Generally because a Linux or Windows OS is compatible with a far wider range of hardware than OS X. Plus, the hardware is cheaper, so you get to save money instead of giving it all away to Mr. Jobs.
The last 4 laptops I've owned have been fully and completely compatible with Linux. The first two I didn't even do research on, I just got lucky.
Or do 15 minutes of research to pick the right laptop...
Expecting every distro to support every piece of hardware under the sun is simply unrealistic. Educate yourself and make informed decisions:)
DVD editors for Linux are easy to find. Hell, Ubuntu comes with one pre-installed IIRC. Same goes for your office suite and image editing software.
A 2 second google search found several Braille translators for Linux.
So I guess to answer your question "Pretty well". Of course if you are really picky there is always Wine, but I shy away from that myself. I'd rather support free, open alternatives to the trash software MS/Adobe/etc have been jamming down our throats for years.
If that were true, which it isn't, it still wouldn't matter. Ignorance of the subject matter is your own fault. If you want to buy a Mac and spend 50% more for the same hardware, that is your call. Or you can take a couple hours to educate yourself and save your hard earned cash. Look, with the internet at our fingertips these days, even Joe Average has no excuse for not taking some time to educate themselves before making purchases. If you don't, you really have no one to blame but yourself.
Someone at my office went out and bought a laptop and installed Ubuntu on it herself. The only reason I even know is because I walked past her desk and she had it setup. This is an average office worker who knows about as much about computers as your average user. The reason she used Ubuntu? She didn't want to dish out 400+ dollars for an office suite. I didn't have the heart to tell her OOo works on Windows since she went to all that trouble. I'd rather she get the better computing experience of Linux.
If you buy Apple, you are paying for your hardware and paying to get raped up the butt and apparently you love every minute of it.
And aside from that, a PC running Windows plus a bunch of YourPCNameHere bloatware plus all the requisite security software might have better specs, but it may or may not run any faster.
Thankfully you can just hit the format button and get rid of all that junk.
Here's my two step process on how to make a machine run better than anything OS X has to offer:
1) Buy Laptop.
2) Install Linux.
When you are evaluating buying a computer, the ONLY thing you should be evaluating is the hardware, since computer hardware comes with the innate ability to install whatever the fuck software you want on it. If you throw in the software on top of it, you are just allowing yourself to get played. Enjoy your assrape though:).
Agreed 100%. The poster you replied to has a screw loose. How can the ratios possibly be different in the first place. Today's "young crowd" is tomorrows occupants of the old folks home. If all of the young crowd "get it", how can it be possible that none of the old people "get it", since the old people were once the young people who "get it"?
The entire idea is ridiculous.
Network delays under heavy traffic can be simulated in a development environment. Actually I've had to do that before to test some weird scraping code that wasn't working correctly in production but worked fine on the dev server.
I can understand some niche situations where it will be easier and faster to test on production, but I still don't believe its every truly required in this day and age. Anything can be simulated, you just need to know how, and have the time to do it properly.
Of course these are under ideal conditions. I have worked for places that wouldn't allow us the time or properly tools to test proper and we had to do it in production. Sometimes it went just fine. Other times... it likely cost us more in lost sales than it would have to buy the test server to begin with.
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No one said anything about a lawsuit, but you decided to take it out of context. As usual.
It doesn't take much to get yourself fired, and if a man had written that blog post there's a pretty good chance he would be out of a job.
Having driven in both Canada and the great US of A, I have to say that on the whole I'd rather drive in Canada than deal with the raging retards on the US roads.
So you spew random crap and expect others to use Google to prove your point?
Then again, the link that I found using Google says you are full of shit
Why is this modded Insightful? It's complete hogwash. The courts have ruled that seeding using P2P is not classified as distribution.
A monkey slamming his face onto the keyboard could do a better job modding than most of the people who get mod points around here.
Yea because you know, websites don't currently load up on inane bullshit that bogs down your browser.
Look, they are just giving us a new easier to use and more efficient way of doing things. First it was random flash garbage, now it will be HTML5 garbage. You can't blame the spec because of what people choose to do with it. For every site that loads up with so much crap that it destroys your browser there will be several that are beautifully done.
Well Slash... oh, you said news site... Pahaha, good luck finding one of those!
So wait, you are claiming one tiny little webapp on the Google homepage was killing your machine?
You might want to consider upgrading your machine... I had no issues when the danging balls were on the homepage and my machine is 3 years old. I quite liked it actually.
That is true, but looking through their github repo the issues don't appear to be significant enough to require a major redesign. I think they got pretty damn close to what they needed. All they have to do now is do a little spit shine and polish things up, correct security flaws, etc. I mean one of the more significant issues listed in the article was that you can inject HTML into comments. As big of a security hole as that is, its not terribly difficult to fix either.
What is identi.ca?
I think that should answer your question.
Irrelevant. A bug is a bug, and can be fixed. So long as they actually fix the bugs instead of pushing out a release, they should do fine.
I wanted to make your second point, because its clowns like you who drive the Linux community nuts. If you aren't willing to put in any effort at all, and then spew random garbage that simply isn't true, you should expect to be met with hostility.
As for your first point, if you can't handle typing a command onto the command line, you are NOT a geek, let alone a "good" one. I also mentioned, which you chose to ignore, that there is a GUI you can use that has the exact same functionality as the command I used.
Obvious troll is obvious. GTFO.
You might want to note that your post is roughly an hour after his...
SO MUCH FAIL!
I'm sorry but if you think Ubuntu has poor documentation you should really try, well reading.
Using the built in software tools to install software is so mind numbingly easy it almost made me completely forget RPM dependency hell. Seriously, all you have to do is type "sudo apt-get install Program". How much easier do you want it? The GUI utilities are the same. Type program name into search box. Click Install. I mean, I don't think its possible to get any easier than that. It is easier to install programs on Linux than it is in Windows. At least in Linux I don't have to go digging all over the net to find my applications. I've installed maybe 2 apps from the web on my Linux box, the rest were in the amazingly easy to use package manager.
The difference between KDE and Gnome is the look and feel of the GUI. Plain and simple. Then again, a 5 second google search could have told you that.
You sound like a good candidate for a fisher price computer, A.K.A Mac OS/X. Bottom line: You aren't a "good geek" if you can't figure out how to use a simple Linux distro like Ubuntu. Hand in your obviously faked geek card and get the hell out.
No, prices have not dropped. Speed has increased, but prices have not dropped. When I first purchased my first internet connection (28.8k mofos!) it was costing me $60 a month. I pay $60 a month now for my cable connection. Its faster, but I'm still paying the same thing I was paying 10+ years ago.
Yea because you know, security systems designed to protect a business are the exact same thing as using Google Analytics to track people.
Moron.
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta gum.
In seriousness I wonder if this will actually see release? I'd buy it simply because its Duke Nukem. He's badass personified.
As soon as I read the headline this is exactly what popped into my mind. Flash is horribly bad in general, I don't see why Android is being singled out.
Generally because a Linux or Windows OS is compatible with a far wider range of hardware than OS X. Plus, the hardware is cheaper, so you get to save money instead of giving it all away to Mr. Jobs.
The last 4 laptops I've owned have been fully and completely compatible with Linux. The first two I didn't even do research on, I just got lucky.
Or do 15 minutes of research to pick the right laptop... Expecting every distro to support every piece of hardware under the sun is simply unrealistic. Educate yourself and make informed decisions :)
DVD editors for Linux are easy to find. Hell, Ubuntu comes with one pre-installed IIRC. Same goes for your office suite and image editing software. A 2 second google search found several Braille translators for Linux. So I guess to answer your question "Pretty well". Of course if you are really picky there is always Wine, but I shy away from that myself. I'd rather support free, open alternatives to the trash software MS/Adobe/etc have been jamming down our throats for years.
If that were true, which it isn't, it still wouldn't matter. Ignorance of the subject matter is your own fault. If you want to buy a Mac and spend 50% more for the same hardware, that is your call. Or you can take a couple hours to educate yourself and save your hard earned cash. Look, with the internet at our fingertips these days, even Joe Average has no excuse for not taking some time to educate themselves before making purchases. If you don't, you really have no one to blame but yourself.
Someone at my office went out and bought a laptop and installed Ubuntu on it herself. The only reason I even know is because I walked past her desk and she had it setup. This is an average office worker who knows about as much about computers as your average user. The reason she used Ubuntu? She didn't want to dish out 400+ dollars for an office suite. I didn't have the heart to tell her OOo works on Windows since she went to all that trouble. I'd rather she get the better computing experience of Linux.
And aside from that, a PC running Windows plus a bunch of YourPCNameHere bloatware plus all the requisite security software might have better specs, but it may or may not run any faster.
Thankfully you can just hit the format button and get rid of all that junk.
:).
Here's my two step process on how to make a machine run better than anything OS X has to offer:
1) Buy Laptop.
2) Install Linux.
When you are evaluating buying a computer, the ONLY thing you should be evaluating is the hardware, since computer hardware comes with the innate ability to install whatever the fuck software you want on it. If you throw in the software on top of it, you are just allowing yourself to get played. Enjoy your assrape though
You hit the nail on the head sir! +1.
If your boss knows more about technology than you do, what the hell does he need you for?
Agreed 100%. The poster you replied to has a screw loose. How can the ratios possibly be different in the first place. Today's "young crowd" is tomorrows occupants of the old folks home. If all of the young crowd "get it", how can it be possible that none of the old people "get it", since the old people were once the young people who "get it"? The entire idea is ridiculous.
Network delays under heavy traffic can be simulated in a development environment. Actually I've had to do that before to test some weird scraping code that wasn't working correctly in production but worked fine on the dev server.
I can understand some niche situations where it will be easier and faster to test on production, but I still don't believe its every truly required in this day and age. Anything can be simulated, you just need to know how, and have the time to do it properly.
Of course these are under ideal conditions. I have worked for places that wouldn't allow us the time or properly tools to test proper and we had to do it in production. Sometimes it went just fine. Other times... it likely cost us more in lost sales than it would have to buy the test server to begin with.