What's the point of 0-60 time? How often do you accelerate from a standstill to 60mph, absolutely flat out? The end of my driveway opens onto a 60mph road, and even then I tend not to accelerate to 60mph wide open because the engine is still cold.
72mpg "combined" - or rather, "made up to sound good".
So, by adding a big heavy battery pack, complicated gearbox, and a bunch of electric motors, they've made a small petrol car that is nearly as economical as a slightly larger diesel? Uh, great, I suppose. Now, is there anywhere around here that sells petrol?
I know UK and US gallons are different, but for a small car that size I'd be expecting it to get at least 70mpg. That sort of economy is achievable with a ten year old petrol VW Polo, *without* all the heavy complex hybrid stuff. My mid-size diesel van gets 50mpg on motorway driving.
I'm pretty severely dyslexic, and I just plain cannot read his website in that font. The weird shading from top to bottom makes it look like it's been printed on a daisywheel with the platen out of alignment.
It's so hard to read I had to turn off the stylesheet to make my way through the page.
Lasermoon Linux-FT to begin with, then some experiments with Monkey Linux (which used umsdos and meant I didn't need to mess around with weird partitioning, which was more difficult back then). Then Slackware, then Debian for a bit, then Ubuntu, then Arch, then Ubuntu for the past couple of years when it became clear it was difficult to actually get real work done on source-based distros like Arch.
I've also used NetBSD pretty much from its early days.
Right, but you get pretty used to how the engine sounds in all gears. On motorways and other long straightish flattish roads you're going to be sitting in top gear pretty much constantly.
I guess if you're driving a very, very old automatic that doesn't have lockup then you'd have the engine revs change a bit.
You know, the kind that doesn't have to have a shitload of preservatives in it to make sure it's still "fresh" in 6 months.
In the UK, the Budweiser "Fresh Beer Tastes Better" adverts were banned by the Advertising Standards Agency, because "fresh" beer quite demonstrably does *not* taste better. Anyone who has made homebrew will tell you this...
I'm saying it doesn't, because I've got a machine sitting in front of me running 11.04 trying these things out. I'm writing this post on that very machine.
I can't get any of those problems to show up. What do you want me to do, pretend I see them too?
Single-tasking? So, am I somehow imagining that I have a couple of terminals open with IRC in one, a compiler going in another, an editor, a web browser and a window for the project I'm hacking on?
Maybe you're confused by the way you can't see all the windows at the same time. Now, I'm fairly sure that most animals can figure out that just because something is hidden behind another thing, it doesn't mean it's not there - most dogs can work out that if they look *behind* the box, they'll find the biscuit you hid there - but it appears that a lot of computer users cannot make this intellectual leap.
Or are you saying that Ruby coders aren't quite as intelligent as the average dog?
- everything runs full-screen. That sucks. No drag and drop between windows, without first un-maximising them.
Uhm, no it doesn't, and checking back to 11.04 it didn't even then.
- after you close an application in a not-maximised window, it will relaunch maximised. I un-maximised it not just because!
No it doesn't, and it didn't in 11.04
- the above works when the not maximised window is - the "start" menu sucks. A few "favourite" applications, the rest you have to search for. A HUGE screen area taken for each application; scrolling galore as I don't have a 25" monitor. Or you have to start typing the name of the application to narrow down your search. Big suck. A well arranged menu searches quicker, takes little space, and no need to remove my hand from the mouse.
I must admit in "old-fashioned" UIs like Gnome 2 I mostly start with alt-f2 and begin typing the name of the thing I want to run. That still works in Unity, although it works better if you just hit the <meta> key.
- crtl-tab window switching did not work. I had to dig deep first online then on my machine to get that basic switcher working
I don't think <ctrl-tab> ever switched windows - in Firefox it switches tabs though. Maybe you're thinking of <alt-tab> which switches windows but was admittedly buggy as all hell in 11.04? It works pretty well in 12.04 though.
If I want to buy stuff from Amazon (and I do, quite a bit) why should I have to bother opening up a web browser and navigating their website? Hit the search key, type in what I want and go - nice and simple.
Can you get Mint with Unity installed? I've always thought the poeple who insist on using Gnome 2-like UIs were a bit like the people who stuck to progman.exe when Windows 95 came out.
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What's the point of 0-60 time? How often do you accelerate from a standstill to 60mph, absolutely flat out? The end of my driveway opens onto a 60mph road, and even then I tend not to accelerate to 60mph wide open because the engine is still cold.
72mpg "combined" - or rather, "made up to sound good".
So, by adding a big heavy battery pack, complicated gearbox, and a bunch of electric motors, they've made a small petrol car that is nearly as economical as a slightly larger diesel? Uh, great, I suppose. Now, is there anywhere around here that sells petrol?
I know UK and US gallons are different, but for a small car that size I'd be expecting it to get at least 70mpg. That sort of economy is achievable with a ten year old petrol VW Polo, *without* all the heavy complex hybrid stuff. My mid-size diesel van gets 50mpg on motorway driving.
The Prius is a bad example to pick, because for a car that size it's almost comically thirsty.
I was going to post a longer comment about sensationalism and reality, but then I remembered this:
http://everything2.com/title/The+Projectionist%2527s+Nightmare
I'm using Firefox 15 on Linux, so it's not a Windows issue.
I'm pretty severely dyslexic, and I just plain cannot read his website in that font. The weird shading from top to bottom makes it look like it's been printed on a daisywheel with the platen out of alignment.
It's so hard to read I had to turn off the stylesheet to make my way through the page.
Grow the hell up.
Lasermoon Linux-FT to begin with, then some experiments with Monkey Linux (which used umsdos and meant I didn't need to mess around with weird partitioning, which was more difficult back then). Then Slackware, then Debian for a bit, then Ubuntu, then Arch, then Ubuntu for the past couple of years when it became clear it was difficult to actually get real work done on source-based distros like Arch.
I've also used NetBSD pretty much from its early days.
Right, but you get pretty used to how the engine sounds in all gears. On motorways and other long straightish flattish roads you're going to be sitting in top gear pretty much constantly.
I guess if you're driving a very, very old automatic that doesn't have lockup then you'd have the engine revs change a bit.
No, if I slow down on a hill the pitch of the engine changes too. Do you understand how cars work?
I don't really pay attention to the speedo when I'm driving, except the odd glance at it when I'm in an area with average speed cameras.
If the pitch of the engine changes, my speed is changing.
You know, the kind that doesn't have to have a shitload of preservatives in it to make sure it's still "fresh" in 6 months.
In the UK, the Budweiser "Fresh Beer Tastes Better" adverts were banned by the Advertising Standards Agency, because "fresh" beer quite demonstrably does *not* taste better. Anyone who has made homebrew will tell you this...
Yeah, you get that hydrogen and fuse it into helium, thus preventing us running out of helium like we're always hearing about.
... there's just stuff you haven't configured your second fast-breeder reactor to run on yet.
I know anecdotal evidence, but I've been an omnivore for 30+ years, and I didn't get colon cancer, or as much as a case of the trots.
Oooh, there's something about you can't alt-tab or alt-f2 when a taskbar indicator menu is open, like the volume control dropdown. Maybe that's it?
I'm saying it doesn't, because I've got a machine sitting in front of me running 11.04 trying these things out. I'm writing this post on that very machine.
I can't get any of those problems to show up. What do you want me to do, pretend I see them too?
I don't recall alt-tab being completely disabled at any point, unless you were trying a particularly buggy pre-release.
Anyway, a year later you could do worse than to try 12.04 LTS with Unity, in a VM if you prefer.
Single-tasking? So, am I somehow imagining that I have a couple of terminals open with IRC in one, a compiler going in another, an editor, a web browser and a window for the project I'm hacking on?
Maybe you're confused by the way you can't see all the windows at the same time. Now, I'm fairly sure that most animals can figure out that just because something is hidden behind another thing, it doesn't mean it's not there - most dogs can work out that if they look *behind* the box, they'll find the biscuit you hid there - but it appears that a lot of computer users cannot make this intellectual leap.
Or are you saying that Ruby coders aren't quite as intelligent as the average dog?
- everything runs full-screen. That sucks. No drag and drop between windows, without first un-maximising them.
Uhm, no it doesn't, and checking back to 11.04 it didn't even then.
- after you close an application in a not-maximised window, it will relaunch maximised. I un-maximised it not just because!
No it doesn't, and it didn't in 11.04
- the above works when the not maximised window is - the "start" menu sucks. A few "favourite" applications, the rest you have to search for. A HUGE screen area taken for each application; scrolling galore as I don't have a 25" monitor. Or you have to start typing the name of the application to narrow down your search. Big suck. A well arranged menu searches quicker, takes little space, and no need to remove my hand from the mouse.
I must admit in "old-fashioned" UIs like Gnome 2 I mostly start with alt-f2 and begin typing the name of the thing I want to run. That still works in Unity, although it works better if you just hit the <meta> key.
- crtl-tab window switching did not work. I had to dig deep first online then on my machine to get that basic switcher working
I don't think <ctrl-tab> ever switched windows - in Firefox it switches tabs though. Maybe you're thinking of <alt-tab> which switches windows but was admittedly buggy as all hell in 11.04? It works pretty well in 12.04 though.
after the Unity / GNOME3 rendered any concept of multi-task workflow useless
What's "useless" about it? It works just fine here...
If I want to buy stuff from Amazon (and I do, quite a bit) why should I have to bother opening up a web browser and navigating their website? Hit the search key, type in what I want and go - nice and simple.
Can you get Mint with Unity installed? I've always thought the poeple who insist on using Gnome 2-like UIs were a bit like the people who stuck to progman.exe when Windows 95 came out.
Scots, not Gaelic.