Yep, they started becoming tablet-centric when Ubuntu announced their switch to Wayland. That central decision borked the best DE on Linux (IMO) and the GNOME team has been too thick-headed to look back.
I guess they figured nobody knew there were other options besides GNOME. Hah. Hahahahahah.
Thanks for the reply. I also use character counts pretty often, though:-/ In any case, yeah... sticking with AOO (almost typed OOo out of habit) until it irks me. It's good to have alternatives generally, though I think AOO would benefit from having some of OOo's core team immigrate over from LO. La vie.
Is it reliable about updating for your selection? Whole-document word counts are rarely useful to me, and LO's word count didn't work for selections when I uninstalled it. It always said my selection was 0 words long... or at least that was the case when I'd quadruple-click a paragraph to select it quickly.
There are interface bugs (fonts occasionally not appearing in drop down menus). It is crashy with big documents and heavy formatting. They make usability changes based on niche interests (making word counts non-modal, for example) which disrupt power users and can't be turned off.
I quit using OpenOffice on principle when Oracle started FUD'ing commercial users with ad campaigns to sell enterprise editions, but regretted it instantly. I was losing a lot of time to the slow performance, crashes, unreliability and disruption to my workflow. So I guess my only objective measurement is that my job was taking longer at almost every step, and the frustrations were growing with each release.
Now if I need to know what my word count is, Alt-T-W-(glance)-Spacebar is back in effect, which takes about 1 second. Since the non-modal word count was also (surprise!) as buggy as an old corpse, the LibreOffice alternative was Alt-T-W-(glance)-spacebar, crap I just accidentally deleted a paragraph, Ctrl-Z, triple-click paragraph, Shift-Left-Right (in case that would force the word count to update after the triple-click; it usually didn't), close word count, Alt-T-W, move mouse to the Close button, click. Time, about 7 seconds.
I forget most of the outright interface bugs. I do recall LibreOffice-Calc's font on tabs for sheets, is too small to read, and didn't respond to UI scaling.
The crashing was a big thing. TeX was before my time... if I were to use something other than a word processor for heavily formatted documents, I'd use HTML and CSS, which I've considered, except I don't know of a tool as convenient as File -> Export as PDF for making PDFs, from HTML.
That's the list I'm unable to purge from my memory, because of the many wasted hours I can't have back.
Ant, OpenOffice, HTTPD - all of which are best-in-class for serious use. Of course, there are other options for people who like playing with toys that resemble tools adults use.
Saw sensationalist title, with non-news summary following it, in email. Clicked expecting to see that it was posted by timothy. Oh look. Another pile of crap Slashdot has published for some reason...
But does time travel belong in a space opera? Not in my opinion. Adding time travel to Star Wars, so late into the game, makes no narrative sense anyway.
The title of this article immediately proves itself to be false. This is a problem.
A person is in prison, in solitary confinement, and your title claims he has been released.
Your title: "Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement" The implied meaning of these words: So and so HAS ALREADY BEEN released.
Immediately following those words, comes these: "...is set to be released from solitary confinement..." Meaning, HAS NOT BEEN released.
This is a person who is sitting in a solitary confinement cell right now. Slashdot's usual piss-poor editorial standards have resulted in your site claiming he is out. Perhaps he will be released on schedule, perhaps not. I hope nobody made the mistake of believing this headline since it is not true and falsely represents that a political prisoner has been freed from solitary.
If it's true, then he's harmful to people, anyone with a brain will damn him as such, and all parties will move on. If it's false, I hope the charges are thrown out swiftly. But if he actually did this, he is too dumb for the spokesperson job.
Teachers (IMO correctly) see themselves as the last line of defense, protecting an ancient tradition of simply having people in your community who are dedicated to the structured improvement and guidance of children. Of course their paycheck factors in, and can be the only factor for some teachers or certain issues. But teachers have always borne the weight of the next generation. People become teachers mostly because they want to improve the next generation. They want a say in how people turn out.
It's possible we'll eventually find out that the one-to-many classroom model is far inferior to self-guided study for the bare mechanical act of learning; but without a social context, intellectual context, or just confirmation that learning activities don't exist in a vacuum, quality of humanness degenerates. Both guidance (on what to learn) and context (on what it all means) become clannish affairs. Society becomes ingrown. The student is the only person he or she sees improving him- or herself. Humility, regard for others, the expectation that others can contribute, any training in the exchanges that add to the learning (or other growth) processes... wholly self-guided (or automaton-guided) students lack all this, and their brains physically model around this lack of support, lack of regard, and lack of context.
In short, I'm a non-parent / non-teacher and a college dropout, but you can pry my community's teachers from my cold dead hands.
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I was only an Ubuntu user out of lazy convenience. I got out before they stopped packaging Xorg and started packaging adware.
I think it's hilarious that anyone still uses Ubuntu. Might as well just use Windows at that point.
Besides, Ubuntu is an enemy of the open source movement.
Yep, they started becoming tablet-centric when Ubuntu announced their switch to Wayland. That central decision borked the best DE on Linux (IMO) and the GNOME team has been too thick-headed to look back.
I guess they figured nobody knew there were other options besides GNOME. Hah. Hahahahahah.
Right, not because of simple infringement, but _knowing_ infringement, which triples the damages.
Crap, misclicked you as troll. The parent is not troll. Actually meant to hit +1 Informative. Undoing, guess there went my mods for the thread.
So NOW is anybody working on a software framework for a 5-senses UI to go with the coming datajacks?
Oh, look, Timothy is wasting everybody's time again.
Thanks for the reply. I also use character counts pretty often, though :-/ In any case, yeah... sticking with AOO (almost typed OOo out of habit) until it irks me. It's good to have alternatives generally, though I think AOO would benefit from having some of OOo's core team immigrate over from LO. La vie.
Is it reliable about updating for your selection? Whole-document word counts are rarely useful to me, and LO's word count didn't work for selections when I uninstalled it. It always said my selection was 0 words long... or at least that was the case when I'd quadruple-click a paragraph to select it quickly.
The hilarity of your comment could only be realized if you looked at my history of flinging hate at Oracle :)
http://thenthdoctor.wordpress.com/?s=oracle
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2928985&cid=40396955
Based on a quick eye-sweep at your recent comments, we seem to agree on some things.
Funny pun, though :)
See above reply to someone else who asked the same question :)
There are interface bugs (fonts occasionally not appearing in drop down menus). It is crashy with big documents and heavy formatting. They make usability changes based on niche interests (making word counts non-modal, for example) which disrupt power users and can't be turned off.
I quit using OpenOffice on principle when Oracle started FUD'ing commercial users with ad campaigns to sell enterprise editions, but regretted it instantly. I was losing a lot of time to the slow performance, crashes, unreliability and disruption to my workflow. So I guess my only objective measurement is that my job was taking longer at almost every step, and the frustrations were growing with each release.
Now if I need to know what my word count is, Alt-T-W-(glance)-Spacebar is back in effect, which takes about 1 second. Since the non-modal word count was also (surprise!) as buggy as an old corpse, the LibreOffice alternative was Alt-T-W-(glance)-spacebar, crap I just accidentally deleted a paragraph, Ctrl-Z, triple-click paragraph, Shift-Left-Right (in case that would force the word count to update after the triple-click; it usually didn't), close word count, Alt-T-W, move mouse to the Close button, click. Time, about 7 seconds.
I forget most of the outright interface bugs. I do recall LibreOffice-Calc's font on tabs for sheets, is too small to read, and didn't respond to UI scaling.
The crashing was a big thing. TeX was before my time... if I were to use something other than a word processor for heavily formatted documents, I'd use HTML and CSS, which I've considered, except I don't know of a tool as convenient as File -> Export as PDF for making PDFs, from HTML.
That's the list I'm unable to purge from my memory, because of the many wasted hours I can't have back.
Ant, OpenOffice, HTTPD - all of which are best-in-class for serious use. Of course, there are other options for people who like playing with toys that resemble tools adults use.
I know, right?
Slashdotters: as easily manipulated by their own water supply as any other human.
As a user, who finds OpenOffice to be a far superior app, I shudder that your hope might come true. LibreOffice is [expletive soup] crippleware.
LibreOffice team: please quit and join Apache OpenOffice.
All hail the Seattle-Tacoma metroplex!
(Oh wait... I'm in the Native American Nations way out here in Fall City...)
Just let Star Trek die. Not that it has any dignity left.
-Signed, a life-long Trek fan who refuses to watch the current piles of shit they've slapped the label on.
And it gets worse when you realize this is Slashdot, saying it's a bad thing when people rise to the middle class via their brain investments.
Fuck whoever decided this was Slashdot news and to cover it this way.
I wonder if "all nerds secretly hate themselves, right?" is the new motto now that \. is corporate.
...a browser so ad-averse, the IAB is panicking? I MUST HAVE THIS BROWSER!
-Every internet user ever
Oh, look! It was posted by Timothy!
Is it Groundhog Day? Nope, that's pretty much just every day on Slashdot.
Saw sensationalist title, with non-news summary following it, in email.
Clicked expecting to see that it was posted by timothy. Oh look.
Another pile of crap Slashdot has published for some reason...
Saw the article was by timothy
Stopped reading.
But does time travel belong in a space opera? Not in my opinion. Adding time travel to Star Wars, so late into the game, makes no narrative sense anyway.
Hear, hear.
The title of this article immediately proves itself to be false. This is a problem.
A person is in prison, in solitary confinement, and your title claims he has been released.
Your title: "Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement"
The implied meaning of these words: So and so HAS ALREADY BEEN released.
Immediately following those words, comes these: "...is set to be released from solitary confinement..."
Meaning, HAS NOT BEEN released.
This is a person who is sitting in a solitary confinement cell right now. Slashdot's usual piss-poor editorial standards have resulted in your site claiming he is out. Perhaps he will be released on schedule, perhaps not. I hope nobody made the mistake of believing this headline since it is not true and falsely represents that a political prisoner has been freed from solitary.
FIX YOUR EDITORIAL STANDARDS GODDAMNIT.
If it's true, then he's harmful to people, anyone with a brain will damn him as such, and all parties will move on. If it's false, I hope the charges are thrown out swiftly. But if he actually did this, he is too dumb for the spokesperson job.
Teachers (IMO correctly) see themselves as the last line of defense, protecting an ancient tradition of simply having people in your community who are dedicated to the structured improvement and guidance of children. Of course their paycheck factors in, and can be the only factor for some teachers or certain issues. But teachers have always borne the weight of the next generation. People become teachers mostly because they want to improve the next generation. They want a say in how people turn out.
It's possible we'll eventually find out that the one-to-many classroom model is far inferior to self-guided study for the bare mechanical act of learning; but without a social context, intellectual context, or just confirmation that learning activities don't exist in a vacuum, quality of humanness degenerates. Both guidance (on what to learn) and context (on what it all means) become clannish affairs. Society becomes ingrown. The student is the only person he or she sees improving him- or herself. Humility, regard for others, the expectation that others can contribute, any training in the exchanges that add to the learning (or other growth) processes ... wholly self-guided (or automaton-guided) students lack all this, and their brains physically model around this lack of support, lack of regard, and lack of context.
In short, I'm a non-parent / non-teacher and a college dropout, but you can pry my community's teachers from my cold dead hands.