Might be something with the installer. The three pcs I used it in, I tried the portable version. Didn't need to edit any inis. Indigo and Juno detected Java on my Linux box fine, and on Windows using the GUI (with Ganymede, Indigo and Juno) worked fine. But then again, I have trouble getting Juno to look half-decent in my laptop even after editing CSS. Indigo worked fine, though.
I disagree that it is niche. With two (admittedly major) things, this could be the Linux distro to take over the desktop. A decent setup program and corporate backing. Seriously. If I could Google how to do X and be able to apply the solution for any distro on mine, just think about how much would that simplify things for grand mas and granddads. Corporate backing to push vendors to pre-install it and get companies to use it. I understand that it's a long way out. A unified front. That said, I wish you the best and I hope that I can get to contribute in some way in the future (too much of a n00b/scaredy-cat to venture into an open-source project now).
BIOS screen doesn't prove anything.. I dual (quad?) boot with two instances of Ubuntu, one of Win7 and one of Win8. Usually, there's only one entry for both WIndows in GRUB, WIndows 8. Sometimes after selecting Win8 from GRUB, it goes directly to Windows 8 instead of waiting for the choice on 7/8, almost as if Windows 8 had slept/hibernated/resurrected. And in such instances I am invariably logged in. Has happened about 4 times so far. But no problems before or after booting.
Not if all they care about is getting multiple cases on, damaging the reputation of the target quickly. The quality of the cases themselves doesn't matter much, except for the important few.
"Perception of risk" != "Existence of risk". Using agents to incite riots in a mass gathering (say, by pelting stones) is an extreme example of what's happening here. The harm in pelting those stones is limited to non-existant, but the people don't see it that way and the end result is much worse.
If you have to deal with only one case or one opponent, instead of a whole swarm of lawsuits and troll companies, expenses go down and things become easier to manage, plus the uncertainity involved (a key element of FUD) also goes down.
Yeah, I guess in that context, you could even argue that murder (which claims fewer than 15,000 US lives each year) is a small problem.
There is a world outside the US, and many countries in which murder is a serious problem.
If these artists and programmers spend so many hours in to creating stuff, how come they spend so little time in pricing it? Often enough, it's one-price-fits-all. I remember this dicussion on facebook over the PHD comics' movie release, where one American said that if you can't pay $10 for streaming a movie, you certainly can't afford to go watch one in a theatre. Well, guess what? I can comfortably go and watch a 3D movie in 10 USD (and that will cover travelling and food costs for me, too). I mentioned in another comment that my college doesn't throtte traffic or block sites, and I guess they realise that us students downloading and pirating stuff is cheaper than having to buy licenses for all that. You have mentioned the music and programming industry, yet you forgot one of the most bloodsucking cuntish group that thrives on copyright: the scientific publications industry. The rates they charge are exhorbitant. In a country where (I read this in an interview) the cheapest kill cost just over 1 USD, why in fuck's name should I shell out so much for what is a result of patently stupid business practices, carried out by people who live thousands of kilometers from where I live, probably a couple of continents over?
Then I guess it's BSNL. I'd guess they must be well under the DoT's thumb. My college blocks most ports, so torrenting has to go through Tor (proxy problems, nothing else seems to work). They don't block sites, irrespective of the data usage. Probably because that's cheaper than buying licenses for every POS software we have to use, and we use the LAN to share most stuff.
Irrelevant. The GGP's complaint was that it was not configurable. And I know plenty of users who don't give a damn and use it the way it is. If you try to please every one, you end up pleasing no one. (Oh, and I switched to Linux Mint to avoid the same hassles, but ended up switching back when Precise Alpha came around because I hated their "everything's green" disease more than the button placement of Ubuntu.) That said, I think the defaults are for Metacity, not Mutter, so if the distro had gnome-shell from the start, the likely button placement would be what you and I consider normal, as it is in Mint. Somebody should consider adding it as an option to the install or something, since no official Ubuntu derivative has a GNOME desktop as the default any longer. What with Xubuntu and Kubuntu and Lubuntu, I think it's a damn shame that they don't have an equivalent for GNOME. It might help them push the new applications they're developing like Documents (which might become irrelevant soon, now that Google Drive's here) and Contacts and maybe give their Office suite and other existing apps a boost.
gconftool -s -t string/apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close" Or install programs like Ubuntu tweak which can do that for you.
I think they need an a Live account or something, and your hotmail account is automatically one, but I have seen people using GMail ids for making this live account and logging in to Win8.
Sure, it was something *different* at first, but quickly became repulsive. When the violet (or whatever colour it is) came, it was quite a relief for the eyes. And sometimes small annoyances like having to change the looks drive one away to another distro. I switched to Mint simply because they package VLC and gnome-shell as part of the standard install. I hate the Mint theming, but its two less things for me to install, and I don't have to suffer Unity.
I think he's referring to the artwork there. And I must agree. Some icons look a lot better now, and programs like update manager look a lot better, and cleaner. The current LightDM login screen is way cooler than the old GDM one. Though I can't make head or tail of the Software Centre's icon,not at the size I usually see it (looks like a shopping bag or something?).
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Might be something with the installer. The three pcs I used it in, I tried the portable version. Didn't need to edit any inis. Indigo and Juno detected Java on my Linux box fine, and on Windows using the GUI (with Ganymede, Indigo and Juno) worked fine. But then again, I have trouble getting Juno to look half-decent in my laptop even after editing CSS. Indigo worked fine, though.
LOL.. what version of eclipse are you using? -0.1? I'm using a three-year-old version, and I can add a jdk through the GUI.
I disagree that it is niche. With two (admittedly major) things, this could be the Linux distro to take over the desktop. A decent setup program and corporate backing. Seriously. If I could Google how to do X and be able to apply the solution for any distro on mine, just think about how much would that simplify things for grand mas and granddads. Corporate backing to push vendors to pre-install it and get companies to use it. I understand that it's a long way out. A unified front. That said, I wish you the best and I hope that I can get to contribute in some way in the future (too much of a n00b/scaredy-cat to venture into an open-source project now).
Though, I wouldn't hold your breath.
And you most certainly shouldn't hold his breath.
BIOS screen doesn't prove anything.. I dual (quad?) boot with two instances of Ubuntu, one of Win7 and one of Win8. Usually, there's only one entry for both WIndows in GRUB, WIndows 8. Sometimes after selecting Win8 from GRUB, it goes directly to Windows 8 instead of waiting for the choice on 7/8, almost as if Windows 8 had slept/hibernated/resurrected. And in such instances I am invariably logged in. Has happened about 4 times so far. But no problems before or after booting.
There is the possibility that it's a book on the whiskey, or related to it, when it's not.
What start-up remains one for 10 fucking years?
Not if all they care about is getting multiple cases on, damaging the reputation of the target quickly. The quality of the cases themselves doesn't matter much, except for the important few.
"Perception of risk" != "Existence of risk". Using agents to incite riots in a mass gathering (say, by pelting stones) is an extreme example of what's happening here. The harm in pelting those stones is limited to non-existant, but the people don't see it that way and the end result is much worse.
If you have to deal with only one case or one opponent, instead of a whole swarm of lawsuits and troll companies, expenses go down and things become easier to manage, plus the uncertainity involved (a key element of FUD) also goes down.
In the FAQ, they have listed yet another key if you want to use Windows Media Centre.
Several years ago? MSE is that old?
Yeah, I guess in that context, you could even argue that murder (which claims fewer than 15,000 US lives each year) is a small problem.
There is a world outside the US, and many countries in which murder is a serious problem.
If these artists and programmers spend so many hours in to creating stuff, how come they spend so little time in pricing it? Often enough, it's one-price-fits-all. I remember this dicussion on facebook over the PHD comics' movie release, where one American said that if you can't pay $10 for streaming a movie, you certainly can't afford to go watch one in a theatre. Well, guess what? I can comfortably go and watch a 3D movie in 10 USD (and that will cover travelling and food costs for me, too). I mentioned in another comment that my college doesn't throtte traffic or block sites, and I guess they realise that us students downloading and pirating stuff is cheaper than having to buy licenses for all that. You have mentioned the music and programming industry, yet you forgot one of the most bloodsucking cuntish group that thrives on copyright: the scientific publications industry. The rates they charge are exhorbitant. In a country where (I read this in an interview) the cheapest kill cost just over 1 USD, why in fuck's name should I shell out so much for what is a result of patently stupid business practices, carried out by people who live thousands of kilometers from where I live, probably a couple of continents over?
Then I guess it's BSNL. I'd guess they must be well under the DoT's thumb. My college blocks most ports, so torrenting has to go through Tor (proxy problems, nothing else seems to work). They don't block sites, irrespective of the data usage. Probably because that's cheaper than buying licenses for every POS software we have to use, and we use the LAN to share most stuff.
You must be a PHP developer, probably of the team that "patched" this hole.
That was amusing. My ISP is my college itself. :)
BSNL, I'd guess. My college has lines from both BSNL and AirTel. I'm not sure which one's being used by the proxy serve I am on.
That's where I went first. It's blocked too.
Irrelevant. The GGP's complaint was that it was not configurable. And I know plenty of users who don't give a damn and use it the way it is. If you try to please every one, you end up pleasing no one. (Oh, and I switched to Linux Mint to avoid the same hassles, but ended up switching back when Precise Alpha came around because I hated their "everything's green" disease more than the button placement of Ubuntu.)
That said, I think the defaults are for Metacity, not Mutter, so if the distro had gnome-shell from the start, the likely button placement would be what you and I consider normal, as it is in Mint. Somebody should consider adding it as an option to the install or something, since no official Ubuntu derivative has a GNOME desktop as the default any longer. What with Xubuntu and Kubuntu and Lubuntu, I think it's a damn shame that they don't have an equivalent for GNOME. It might help them push the new applications they're developing like Documents (which might become irrelevant soon, now that Google Drive's here) and Contacts and maybe give their Office suite and other existing apps a boost.
gconftool -s -t string /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
Or install programs like Ubuntu tweak which can do that for you.
I think they need an a Live account or something, and your hotmail account is automatically one, but I have seen people using GMail ids for making this live account and logging in to Win8.
Sure, it was something *different* at first, but quickly became repulsive. When the violet (or whatever colour it is) came, it was quite a relief for the eyes. And sometimes small annoyances like having to change the looks drive one away to another distro. I switched to Mint simply because they package VLC and gnome-shell as part of the standard install. I hate the Mint theming, but its two less things for me to install, and I don't have to suffer Unity.
I think he's referring to the artwork there. And I must agree. Some icons look a lot better now, and programs like update manager look a lot better, and cleaner. The current LightDM login screen is way cooler than the old GDM one. Though I can't make head or tail of the Software Centre's icon ,not at the size I usually see it (looks like a shopping bag or something?).
Let's just conveniently ignore Spain, shall we, and invalidate any argument by calling in Godwin's Law?
I'd say your original wording was correct. After this companies should hesitate in screwing Google. They will fight.