Depends. Which driver? The wifi drivers? GPU drivers? I have a Dell Vostro that has no driver problem except for those two. And as far as I can tell, those are the two main areas where driver problems still exist (except maybe for audio). I'd guess that the GPU is Intel's, so drivers aren't a concern, and the wifi drivers shouldn't be a problem if Dell picks the right card (same for audio). So where did the extra 50 come from? And I'd gladly pay the extra 50 over the standard price, if a) Dell released a solid 15" laptop with enough ports and peripherals, not Ultrabook nonsense and b) if they released it in India, where I live.
Don't they have some deal with M$ preventing them from selling laptops with non-MS OSes installed? That was that why they had the whole n-series, with only FreeDOS on them and a CD of Ubuntu in the box. Maybe the extra 50 is perhaps an exception fee or something?
"way back" being the key phrase here. Would the GNOME devs have used that screen if Windows hadn't featured it? I know corelation doesn't imply causation, but this does stink of a me-too thing. Now that I think of it, GDM's lock screen is even less funtional than Windows 8's.
we had Andersdotters here in India. Young politicians here are 40+, most are 60+ who can't understand tech if their lives depended on it. hence the facebook-post-arrests seen recently.
Have you seen the new GDM lock screen? What is that, if not a blatant rip-off of the lock screen of 'that which was formerly known as Metro'? Back to Cinnamon + LightDM for me. I never much liked GDM and this stupid lock screen is enough to send me running to LightDM.
Not directly, since the upgrade tool packaged is for Ubuntu, and well create a horrible mix of Ubuntu Quantal and Mint 13 if used (if it even worked at all). There are alternate instructions provided at http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
In football (the association one), it's quite common to have animated GIFs of various match events, a poor man's highlights video. Often enough, these appear during the match itself, much before the videos do. So this is one case where someone might logically ask, "Has that goal been GIFed yet?"
The thing is, how can you be sure it's the artist's website and not something the MAFiAA have set up for them? A while back, on facebook, a site called GiveMeFootball went about setting up pages for various popular footballers and calling them 'official'. They are 'official', in that they are official GMF pages, but have no endorsement from the players themselves. Is something like this possible for MAFiAA with domains?
This one, I think, can be explained by a post I once saw on The Daily WTF. I'm too lazy to look it up, but the WTF involved was that an employee averaged usages from previous time periods when some data was lost by an unreliable server (or something). In that case he rounded down, and it happened on two occasions, one over a day and another over a month.This might be a more extreme case.
As recently as 2010 I had problems with my sound card (from a 2009 Dell Vostro laptop). The problems vanished with the arrival of Ubuntu 10.04, but ever since then power management has gone downhill, and fast. With 10.04, I could get as much or more time from the battery using Linux as with Windows. Not since then.
No, this Windows thing is true of Samsung as well. When I recently visited Bangalore, I saw a billboard which said 'thank you' for their popularity. The ad didn't mention Android; it did show Android phones like S3 and Note II (with blank screens) and below the humongous Samsung logo, logos for Windows Phone and bada OS. No mention of Android at all. It's obvious these vendors' hands are tied when it comes to which platform gets better advertising.
Ubuntu 9.10, then the subsequent versions before some annoyance made me move to Linux Mint, while dabbling at Arch quite recently. I still think Ubuntu (I am back to using Ubuntu, except for trying Mint for a while when a new version is out) is better in the long run compared to Mint (upgrading being the chief problem), but Mint with VLC and stuff preinstalled is better for new users. At least then they won't be disappointed that not even simple mp3/avi files will play. But installing with an internet connection, something which I couldn't do until a month or so back, removes a lot of issues like drivers and Flash, etc.
His problem is the GNOME3 team's UI, which is GNOME Shell. GNOME3, aside from UI changes did improve things a lot, but a total divorce from GNOME2's UI is not easily forgivable. And the dependence of GNOME Shell on GDM doesn't improve matters.
I'm confused. I see why if you want to write something in Java, it should be in a.java file, but the converse shouldn't hold. After all, it could be C++ and if I had a compiler which ignored the extension, it would compile as well. Oracle doesn't own the.java extension, and Google is free to use it as it pleases. Until they say it's Java, it isn't Java. You merely assume from the extension that it's Java, however unfortunate (and common) that assumption would be.
And Google calls it Java? Also, only the Dalvik bytecode part makes it incompatible, the others merely render it incomplete. If Google had promised a complete implementation, I'd see the problem. Android uses the Java syntax and part of the API. Don't call that Java (and Google doesn't, either). Using files with extension.java doesn't imply Java support.
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Depends. Which driver? The wifi drivers? GPU drivers? I have a Dell Vostro that has no driver problem except for those two. And as far as I can tell, those are the two main areas where driver problems still exist (except maybe for audio). I'd guess that the GPU is Intel's, so drivers aren't a concern, and the wifi drivers shouldn't be a problem if Dell picks the right card (same for audio). So where did the extra 50 come from? And I'd gladly pay the extra 50 over the standard price, if a) Dell released a solid 15" laptop with enough ports and peripherals, not Ultrabook nonsense and b) if they released it in India, where I live.
Don't they have some deal with M$ preventing them from selling laptops with non-MS OSes installed? That was that why they had the whole n-series, with only FreeDOS on them and a CD of Ubuntu in the box. Maybe the extra 50 is perhaps an exception fee or something?
"way back" being the key phrase here. Would the GNOME devs have used that screen if Windows hadn't featured it? I know corelation doesn't imply causation, but this does stink of a me-too thing. Now that I think of it, GDM's lock screen is even less funtional than Windows 8's.
Woosh! Or is my sarcasm detector misfiring?
we had Andersdotters here in India. Young politicians here are 40+, most are 60+ who can't understand tech if their lives depended on it. hence the facebook-post-arrests seen recently.
Have you seen the new GDM lock screen? What is that, if not a blatant rip-off of the lock screen of 'that which was formerly known as Metro'? Back to Cinnamon + LightDM for me. I never much liked GDM and this stupid lock screen is enough to send me running to LightDM.
Not directly, since the upgrade tool packaged is for Ubuntu, and well create a horrible mix of Ubuntu Quantal and Mint 13 if used (if it even worked at all). There are alternate instructions provided at http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
Intel calls it NUC, for short, which is incredibly cute.
This CPU, with the incredibly catchy name Core i3-3217U, ...
... the DC3217BY, a lovely name that could double as a software registration key ...
(Emphasis mine) Huh? Are they being sarcastic or funny?
Forgot ME?
So I should cut off my arms and legs and use prosthetics just cause I need to use pliers every now and then?
In football (the association one), it's quite common to have animated GIFs of various match events, a poor man's highlights video. Often enough, these appear during the match itself, much before the videos do. So this is one case where someone might logically ask, "Has that goal been GIFed yet?"
The thing is, how can you be sure it's the artist's website and not something the MAFiAA have set up for them? A while back, on facebook, a site called GiveMeFootball went about setting up pages for various popular footballers and calling them 'official'. They are 'official', in that they are official GMF pages, but have no endorsement from the players themselves. Is something like this possible for MAFiAA with domains?
Because the parent newspaper being linked to, the Times of India has slowly become the equivalent of toilet paper.
Indeed. It could just as well be 'day follows night.'
This one, I think, can be explained by a post I once saw on The Daily WTF. I'm too lazy to look it up, but the WTF involved was that an employee averaged usages from previous time periods when some data was lost by an unreliable server (or something). In that case he rounded down, and it happened on two occasions, one over a day and another over a month.This might be a more extreme case.
Ah..Seems inconsistent with the names of the other devices (a 7" Nexus 7, 10.something" Nexus 10).
As recently as 2010 I had problems with my sound card (from a 2009 Dell Vostro laptop). The problems vanished with the arrival of Ubuntu 10.04, but ever since then power management has gone downhill, and fast. With 10.04, I could get as much or more time from the battery using Linux as with Windows. Not since then.
I consider myself a windows power user...
Seems to me a classic case of Dunning-Kruger effect.
No, this Windows thing is true of Samsung as well. When I recently visited Bangalore, I saw a billboard which said 'thank you' for their popularity. The ad didn't mention Android; it did show Android phones like S3 and Note II (with blank screens) and below the humongous Samsung logo, logos for Windows Phone and bada OS. No mention of Android at all. It's obvious these vendors' hands are tied when it comes to which platform gets better advertising.
Ubuntu 9.10, then the subsequent versions before some annoyance made me move to Linux Mint, while dabbling at Arch quite recently. I still think Ubuntu (I am back to using Ubuntu, except for trying Mint for a while when a new version is out) is better in the long run compared to Mint (upgrading being the chief problem), but Mint with VLC and stuff preinstalled is better for new users. At least then they won't be disappointed that not even simple mp3/avi files will play. But installing with an internet connection, something which I couldn't do until a month or so back, removes a lot of issues like drivers and Flash, etc.
Sorry, my bad. Didn't see that part about GNOME3 devs dying. I concur with the points before that.
His problem is the GNOME3 team's UI, which is GNOME Shell. GNOME3, aside from UI changes did improve things a lot, but a total divorce from GNOME2's UI is not easily forgivable. And the dependence of GNOME Shell on GDM doesn't improve matters.
I'm confused. I see why if you want to write something in Java, it should be in a .java file, but the converse shouldn't hold. After all, it could be C++ and if I had a compiler which ignored the extension, it would compile as well. Oracle doesn't own the .java extension, and Google is free to use it as it pleases. Until they say it's Java, it isn't Java. You merely assume from the extension that it's Java, however unfortunate (and common) that assumption would be.
And Google calls it Java? Also, only the Dalvik bytecode part makes it incompatible, the others merely render it incomplete. If Google had promised a complete implementation, I'd see the problem. Android uses the Java syntax and part of the API. Don't call that Java (and Google doesn't, either). Using files with extension .java doesn't imply Java support.
So remind me how Google make an incompatible implementation of Java?