I would say the volume control's true benefit is being able to lower/mute the volume while locked. Handy situations? -You want to play mp3s while reading a book / cooking / whatever, but having to type your password to adjust the volume is a chore.
Why did you lock your computer if you're going to stand right next to it?
-your alarm clock is an mp3 played by cron (I solve this by turning off my speakers, not really an option for laptops).
Again, do you need to lock your computer to do this? If someone's going to use it while you're sleeping, they might just steal it too.
-you are in a lecture, the lock screen has come on, and that web page with randomly cycling ads has just started playing a loud flash ad (current solution: pull battery).
(a) you could have just not-installed flash, or at least used flashblock, (b) what sort of website loads flash ads while the computer is locked?
-a metal/rock/etc song somehow made it into your "nature sounds for sleeping" mp3 list, somewhere around two hours into the list. You need to lower the volume to avoid pissing off neighbors. The act of entering your 16+character passphrase with requisite numbers and special characters is enough to bring you back to "fully awake".
All these scenarios involve you sitting infront of your locked computer. Why did you lock it if you're siting infront of it in a lecture!?
Ok, so, where do I disable titlebars, borders, and the taskbar? I don't need/use them, so I'd rather not have them cluttering up space. Also, could you remind me of the hex mask I need to calculate and set in the registry to disable click-to-focus?
Actually, having a menu-bar per windows comes from *nix, since traditionally, focus-follows-mouse was used, so having a single menubar on top made it imposible to access the menubar of a window at the bottom of the screen.
Wrong. If I get my own domain, the email protocol allows me to move to different providers without anyone else noticing (changing MX records). XMPP also allows the same (with SRV records). That's what can't happen with diaspora.
Due to how diaspora was designed, you're still locked in onto a provider. Supose I have an account an serverA, and want to move to serverB. Sure, I can export my data, and import it into serverB, but there's no way to delete force serverA. to redirect my profile to serverB, or even delete it. My profile's URL is still valid, so people might not know/be sure I moved.
The obvious fix for this is to use my own domain on some free provider (maybe delegating the same way one would delegate e-mail). However, this feature was deemed too complex and won't be implemented.
My only choice is to set up my own pod. Of course, I can't be bothered since it's not at all an easy task (and this comes from someone who runs his own XMPP/email servers).
While this does sound great, the downside is that these kids (and their parents) can't go on vacation. Ever. Unless you take one of the 4-day weekeds you'd have on one of the mentioned holidays, but no chance to go away for a week or two which is rather common nowadays.
The early-2009 N900 had 32GiB, and supported microSD cards. Three and a half years later, I think storage capacity should hve increased, especially if they remove the card slot.
Why should they have to move out, if it's their own house? If I want three bedrooms all to myself, there's nothing wrong with that. There's millons of square kilometres you can use to build your own house, you know.
I know applicaiton I use have access to my network, just in the same way that physical products have access to the enviroment around me. It's still my responsability to use the right tools in the right way.
I hate to tell you this, but the BSD community has found a better alternative to certification, and it's been around for about 30 years: let others review the code (regardless of if it is or isn't free-software).
Even basic input, the keyboard and mouse, haven’t really changed in any meaningful way over the years
Maybe the reason for this is the basic form works. The design of the wheel hasn't changed much in a 5 thousand years either. I wonder why.
Actually, the design has changed. We don't make them out of stone anymore, we pay special attention to friction, and plenty of other attributes. It's the the overall idea that hasn't changes; "being round".
So maybe we should surround all roads with foam as well, instead of expecting people to drive cars properly. Humans will make mistakes, and it isn't something you can eliminate.
Why? It was an undocumented API that people used, but they had never published it? This isn't a change in an external interface, but rather a change in an internal interface that people just felt they could access. They can't inform people of every page they change if they didn't document it for people to use in the first place.
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Or it would be nice to start developing technologies for more pressing matters, like all the thousands that die of hunger/thirst daily, etc, etc.
It's an optional feature, just don't enable it.
I would say the volume control's true benefit is being able to lower/mute the volume while locked. Handy situations?
-You want to play mp3s while reading a book / cooking / whatever, but having to type your password to adjust the volume is a chore.
Why did you lock your computer if you're going to stand right next to it?
-your alarm clock is an mp3 played by cron (I solve this by turning off my speakers, not really an option for laptops).
Again, do you need to lock your computer to do this? If someone's going to use it while you're sleeping, they might just steal it too.
-you are in a lecture, the lock screen has come on, and that web page with randomly cycling ads has just started playing a loud flash ad (current solution: pull battery).
(a) you could have just not-installed flash, or at least used flashblock, (b) what sort of website loads flash ads while the computer is locked?
-a metal/rock/etc song somehow made it into your "nature sounds for sleeping" mp3 list, somewhere around two hours into the list. You need to lower the volume to avoid pissing off neighbors. The act of entering your 16+character passphrase with requisite numbers and special characters is enough to bring you back to "fully awake".
All these scenarios involve you sitting infront of your locked computer. Why did you lock it if you're siting infront of it in a lecture!?
Ok, so, where do I disable titlebars, borders, and the taskbar? I don't need/use them, so I'd rather not have them cluttering up space.
Also, could you remind me of the hex mask I need to calculate and set in the registry to disable click-to-focus?
Compiz seems to be missing, and it's really a major WM.
2x2 is better if you use expo or something else that lets you preview all four. You can still scrollwheel though them with compiz.
Actually, having a menu-bar per windows comes from *nix, since traditionally, focus-follows-mouse was used, so having a single menubar on top made it imposible to access the menubar of a window at the bottom of the screen.
This feature makes menus unusable when you don't enable click-to-focus, something rather common on *nix.
In order too keep a consistent user interface, they've decided not to add an option to configure this feature either.
Wrong.
If I get my own domain, the email protocol allows me to move to different providers without anyone else noticing (changing MX records). XMPP also allows the same (with SRV records). That's what can't happen with diaspora.
Due to how diaspora was designed, you're still locked in onto a provider.
Supose I have an account an serverA, and want to move to serverB. Sure, I can export my data, and import it into serverB, but there's no way to delete force serverA. to redirect my profile to serverB, or even delete it. My profile's URL is still valid, so people might not know/be sure I moved.
The obvious fix for this is to use my own domain on some free provider (maybe delegating the same way one would delegate e-mail). However, this feature was deemed too complex and won't be implemented.
My only choice is to set up my own pod. Of course, I can't be bothered since it's not at all an easy task (and this comes from someone who runs his own XMPP/email servers).
While this does sound great, the downside is that these kids (and their parents) can't go on vacation. Ever. Unless you take one of the 4-day weekeds you'd have on one of the mentioned holidays, but no chance to go away for a week or two which is rather common nowadays.
How would a kid learn social skills without going to school (which is the only place I can think of one socialices as a kid).
The early-2009 N900 had 32GiB, and supported microSD cards. Three and a half years later, I think storage capacity should hve increased, especially if they remove the card slot.
The N9 sold like hot chocolate AFAIK.
The N900 is pretty awesome, but not so atractive for non-geeks.
Why should they have to move out, if it's their own house? If I want three bedrooms all to myself, there's nothing wrong with that.
There's millons of square kilometres you can use to build your own house, you know.
No, they actually meant the the injuries resulting from the falls were unintentional.
Does your girlfriend have a face? Maybe that's why she can't log in.
Indeed, yet legitimate users will now have a better product.
It's POSIX-complaint? :|
I've no idea what "AD" exactly is, but the rest is. Apple also opensources much of their server software.
I know applicaiton I use have access to my network, just in the same way that physical products have access to the enviroment around me. It's still my responsability to use the right tools in the right way.
I hate to tell you this, but the BSD community has found a better alternative to certification, and it's been around for about 30 years: let others review the code (regardless of if it is or isn't free-software).
Even basic input, the keyboard and mouse, haven’t really changed in any meaningful way over the years
Maybe the reason for this is the basic form works. The design of the wheel hasn't changed much in a 5 thousand years either. I wonder why.
Actually, the design has changed. We don't make them out of stone anymore, we pay special attention to friction, and plenty of other attributes. It's the the overall idea that hasn't changes; "being round".
So maybe we should surround all roads with foam as well, instead of expecting people to drive cars properly. Humans will make mistakes, and it isn't something you can eliminate.
Why? It was an undocumented API that people used, but they had never published it? This isn't a change in an external interface, but rather a change in an internal interface that people just felt they could access. They can't inform people of every page they change if they didn't document it for people to use in the first place.