I think "works right out of the box" is the main goal of Linux Mint. Definitely recommended for newbies, and for those of us who care enough to want Linux but don't really care enough to set up all of our own custom configs. Not that Mint isn't customizable.
So, unless you're willing either to pay me or put out, kindly stop trying to tell me what to do.
Just fork your own version of GNOME then. Given the number of complainers about the direction GNOME is going, I'm surprised no slashdot stories covering GNOME forks have surfaced.
Ah, so it's okay to read to children so long they don't actually understand what it means?
Quite frankly, yes. This is quite the norm in our society; lots of "kid movies" make references to sex that children won't catch but adults will. I was just watching Free Willie with my little brother yesterday, and the Native American guy explained to Jesse how his tribe, in the days of plenty, used to spend all day carving totems, telling stories, and making babies. There was no need for flashbacks illustrating these actions, and if images of Indians having sex were displayed in front of my little brother, I would be very mad. Representing it graphically makes a huge difference, if not to you, then at least to most of today's society.
Parents pick up what appears to be a children's book, later discover it uses legos to illustrate sex in a few of the images. Sam's gets numerous complaints, pulls the book off the shelves, and tells the author the book sells well, but they won't stock more unless he removes the few sexual images. He does, and his books continue to sell rather well. Honestly, the whole "Bible" detail of this story is simply a confounding factor to make slashdotters say OMG religion so dumb! Censorship! etc. Does the KJV speak in plain terms about sex? Sure, if you speak English euphemisms from the 1600s. This is why parents are a lot more comfortable reading the KJV to their kids, rather than showing them lego people having sex. Let's all go back to our caves now; nothing to see here.
Well if you just *count* the disasters, it makes us look bad. (Reminds me of a book I've never read: How to Lie with Statistics). If you look at disasters per nuclear plant managed, the statistics are undefined (0/0) for all other species.
But what happens to all that code once it's written? Do you just ship it and move on? Do your metrics take into account time spent refactoring or documenting existing code? Is it even possible to devise metrics for these activities? Are developers who take time to train and mentor other teams about the latest code changes considered less productive than ones who stay heads-down at their desks and never reach out to their peers? How about teams that take time at the beginning of a project to coordinate with other teams for code reuse, versus those who charge ahead blindly? Can any automated tool measure these kinds of best practices?
It bitrots. Yes. No. Maybe. Probably. Definitely. Possibly.
I find it rather creepy that the "simulating a real world thing on a computer"-style patent has expanded to "simulating a desktop computer thing on a mobile device"
Tech company that has been targeting individual users since basically the beginning (Apple) does *not* produce software which is well-suited to all your business needs.
Also surprising, however, was that this little gem of a quote first appeared on infoworld:
The tools you provide should encourage user-driven innovation. Often, "it just works" does the exact opposite.
99% of the time the reason is simply: because that's how the developers did it. Just because there are reasons doesn't mean the reasons are good. "Leave things be" is quite possibly the worst advice, ever, when it comes to advances in computing.
It's an app store, idiot. When they describe a "gamble", smart developers will typically not work for shares, they will work for wages. So developers aren't really gambling anything: if you are the one who is dumping money on developers so that they can turn your dumb idea into an app, it is you who is taking the foolish gamble. If you are a lone developer making an app on your own time, then hopefully the time spent making your own app is valuable to you (learning experience, etc), whether or not that app is actually successful. What, you actually thought your one-off app was going to make you filthy rich?
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I think "works right out of the box" is the main goal of Linux Mint. Definitely recommended for newbies, and for those of us who care enough to want Linux but don't really care enough to set up all of our own custom configs. Not that Mint isn't customizable.
So, unless you're willing either to pay me or put out, kindly stop trying to tell me what to do.
Just fork your own version of GNOME then. Given the number of complainers about the direction GNOME is going, I'm surprised no slashdot stories covering GNOME forks have surfaced.
Sounds exactly the same as what TFA suggests...except perhaps docking at the rear instead of at the side.
Ah, so it's okay to read to children so long they don't actually understand what it means?
Quite frankly, yes. This is quite the norm in our society; lots of "kid movies" make references to sex that children won't catch but adults will. I was just watching Free Willie with my little brother yesterday, and the Native American guy explained to Jesse how his tribe, in the days of plenty, used to spend all day carving totems, telling stories, and making babies. There was no need for flashbacks illustrating these actions, and if images of Indians having sex were displayed in front of my little brother, I would be very mad. Representing it graphically makes a huge difference, if not to you, then at least to most of today's society.
Parents pick up what appears to be a children's book, later discover it uses legos to illustrate sex in a few of the images. Sam's gets numerous complaints, pulls the book off the shelves, and tells the author the book sells well, but they won't stock more unless he removes the few sexual images. He does, and his books continue to sell rather well. Honestly, the whole "Bible" detail of this story is simply a confounding factor to make slashdotters say OMG religion so dumb! Censorship! etc. Does the KJV speak in plain terms about sex? Sure, if you speak English euphemisms from the 1600s. This is why parents are a lot more comfortable reading the KJV to their kids, rather than showing them lego people having sex. Let's all go back to our caves now; nothing to see here.
What is this doing on Slashdot? Let's see...
Has all the hallmarks of a Slashdot story.
Well if you just *count* the disasters, it makes us look bad. (Reminds me of a book I've never read: How to Lie with Statistics). If you look at disasters per nuclear plant managed, the statistics are undefined (0/0) for all other species.
If I know anything about the Human Race, it's that we can grossly mismanage things.
Well, in our defense, we're better at managing nuclear power than any other species in the known animal kingdom.
Slashdot is in desperate need of the "sad, and yet funny, and yet so disturbingly true" moderation vote, if only for this comment.
Insert scathing comment against old-schooler here, cleverly including "off your lawn".
Assuming their idea is actually worth anything, just pull a Zuckerberg on them.
But what happens to all that code once it's written? Do you just ship it and move on? Do your metrics take into account time spent refactoring or documenting existing code? Is it even possible to devise metrics for these activities? Are developers who take time to train and mentor other teams about the latest code changes considered less productive than ones who stay heads-down at their desks and never reach out to their peers? How about teams that take time at the beginning of a project to coordinate with other teams for code reuse, versus those who charge ahead blindly? Can any automated tool measure these kinds of best practices?
It bitrots. Yes. No. Maybe. Probably. Definitely. Possibly.
Miracle Day was still better than the first two seasons of Torchwood. WTF was that?!?
I have a small army of fanboys that disagree.
I find it rather creepy that the "simulating a real world thing on a computer"-style patent has expanded to "simulating a desktop computer thing on a mobile device"
Please tell me this is a bad dream.
Yes, this world is the dream. The freezing-star Tardis is reality. Better wake up and deal with that.
It should be PITA. Going after a Mario game, really?
...if his iPhone was broken, how did he make the call?
Joining an open source project in your spare time sounds like the perfect cure. Build your resume, and have fun coding whatever you want.
Can someone figure out why they need to actually build their own place? I just don't see how it fits with their strengths...
I think that's just it. It expands their strengths.
Tech company that has been targeting individual users since basically the beginning (Apple) does *not* produce software which is well-suited to all your business needs.
Also surprising, however, was that this little gem of a quote first appeared on infoworld:
The tools you provide should encourage user-driven innovation. Often, "it just works" does the exact opposite.
There are reasons things are as they are
99% of the time the reason is simply: because that's how the developers did it. Just because there are reasons doesn't mean the reasons are good. "Leave things be" is quite possibly the worst advice, ever, when it comes to advances in computing.
It's an app store, idiot. When they describe a "gamble", smart developers will typically not work for shares, they will work for wages. So developers aren't really gambling anything: if you are the one who is dumping money on developers so that they can turn your dumb idea into an app, it is you who is taking the foolish gamble. If you are a lone developer making an app on your own time, then hopefully the time spent making your own app is valuable to you (learning experience, etc), whether or not that app is actually successful. What, you actually thought your one-off app was going to make you filthy rich?
I've never known a single person who uses it.
So...you don't get out much?
Wrong meme; I believe you meant to say "correlation != causation". GP was clearly referring to Foxconn, etc.
[insert rant here about the road to somewhere being "uphill both ways"]