Long enough. The only point where they would become completely unlivable is that at which nobody could afford to pay for them; i.e. the rest of society is unlivable, or the job itself has become fully automated.
Electrician/Plumber/Roofing is definitely what I would advise kids to go into. At the very least, they get decent cash and can always save up for something else that becomes viable.
It's still buggy, but most of what I've seen is just the occasional random crash. The program seems smart enough to remember all documents/folders/project states though.
I'm a sucker for its "successor to Kate" spacing/formatting and autocomplete suggestion boxes.
Because I frequently encounter a situation where every single implementation of a given software idea thus far on Linux is horrendously dreadful, suffers from feature-creep or is over-engineered to the point of actively working against its users.
Nah. Gnome 2 (upgraded derivatives, of course), most certainly. It was great. Gnome 3 is just a pain in the ass while doing regular browsing or doing actual work.
YMMV, but I fined Gnome 3 also suffers from "Unity Syndrome".
Microsoft sort of pushed the trend forward massively; a whole slew of companies adopted it in kind. To MS' credit, they realized it was stupid. Most other business' did not.
It's significant marketshare. Imagine if Microsoft managed to expand into Asian markets more successfully than Google. If they managed to break past the Great Wall of Internet Isolationism. Their marketshare would easily threaten Google's dominance.
Anywho, I think the point is that MSN Search/MS Search/Live Search/Bing (same crap) is terrible and yet Google's blunders (because Yahoo is expected to blunder) have allowed MS to actually gain a meaningful foothold in a prime market in Google's bread and butter.
I mean, they ceded some meaningful ground to Microsoft when their whole plan was for it to go the other way around.
I call this "YouTube Syndrome", an example I'll elaborate on: For a while, we got enhancements that were more or less expected, or logical increments - going to higher resolution videos, consolidation of various video categories into more logical components, and better UIs for Favorites and for searching. And simple things, like not having to reload an entire page while on someone's channel to watch a different video of theirs.
And that was great. But alongside, there was a growing problem wherein changes were made to better suit "clients" - like the obfuscation of independent or relatively unknown (but just as relevant) videos and video sections - or for no real reason at all.
Then came the bipolar decision making; one week, there would be a search bar for favorites and for uploads and such. The next week, it would be gone. Then it would be back, but without the ability to narrow searches down with quotes. Then gone, then back again, and so on. This happened with several features.
Lastly, we arrived at a general "WTF are you doing" phase that's been steadily growing since the first major UI changes. Support tickets with massive backing from users were ignored, hostilely responded to, or even deleted and hidden in some cases. Long requested bugfixes (favorites and subscriptions being out of whack, with filters failing to do anything) never appeared and stock responses ("It works at HQ, your machine must be the culprit.") became more and more common.
I've made no attempt to divine when and where Google's purchase and influence came into this, and it may be possible that this was an underlying problem at Google all along. But I think it might be different - some form of entropic decay that seems inevitable for a company that tries to be as diverse as possible rather than barreling down a path of a unified vision; such a path seems to be what made Google Search successful in the first place, yet it seems that Google has been moving very heavily towards the "YouTube Syndrome" for their search page (+ integration, the black bar, obfuscation of features, etc.) and their devices (attempts to shove off all responsibility for the Nexus One and sweeping it under the rug) for the past couple of years.
Oddly enough, Microsoft has been like this for a while, but they had some form of directorial vision. And recently (except for a few outlier cases) they seem more like Classic Google than, well, Google. Of course, whether it's part of a more-elaborate-than-usual E.E.E. strategy remains to be seen.
They've been acting like the YouTube management for a while now.
Bring back my god damned "cached" option. No, not buried under a mobile/portrait-mode unfriendly side bar. I don't want to have to load your stupid previews. And remember my preferences for search dates, or at the very least, if I expand the option to see the dates one time, don't force me to expand every time hereafter and especially stop hiding it on your mobile version of the site.
Oh Google, you had a great thing going for so long. And then there's these "on par with Canonical" annoying-and-inconvenient-as-hell blunders.
So you're saying the US doesn't agree with the culture of the advancement of Education, Science, Justice, the Rule of Law and Human Rights?
Well, alright then.
Yes, as does Xfce and LXDE, at least to some extent.
There's tons of viable options and if an OS is trying to be Tablet-oriented on PC while its current install base is traditional desktop users, they should be including an option at install time for a 'normal' interface/DE. Even under some "Advanced" filtered set of options. Support for said environment would also be an issue.
Although if Ubuntu did have such an option, then I guess I missed it.
So?
Open Source is not the only way of going about software development, nor does it have to be the be-all end-all for absolutely everyone.
To discount something completely unrelated simply because of one member's views is quite shortsighted.
If it makes you feel any better I'm using Lubuntu, Xubuntu, CentOS and various Windows installs in VMs between work and home.
Just calling a spade, a spade.
Whether the cancer was going to end up harmless or end up killing a person, it's better that they at least know if its existence and have the choice of whether or not they want treatment.
You don't have to use Metro EXCEPT on the portables/tablets/phones, which is expected.
You can switch back to the fully supported and upgraded 7/classic explorer-style desktop in just a couple of clicks, and there will likely be a way to choose to sign into it in the first place. You don't need to download or install anything - though, of course, if you want the good old gray menu you'll have to do a bit of work, but it's the same as 7 in that regard.
What I was talking about is things like "x amount of clicks for common task Y" and "amount of switching between tasks and mental operators/operations required to do so" and "distance needed for mouse movement to do common process Q" and things like that. A lot of it is common sense and MS seems to follow it (which should be expected) but Unity is outright hostile towards the idea of making the user experience painless.
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They are actually complaining that the law doesn't let them win any case they want, with impunity.
Jesus.
Long enough. The only point where they would become completely unlivable is that at which nobody could afford to pay for them; i.e. the rest of society is unlivable, or the job itself has become fully automated.
Electrician/Plumber/Roofing is definitely what I would advise kids to go into. At the very least, they get decent cash and can always save up for something else that becomes viable.
Because College has become a REQUIREMENT rather than an option for the inclined?
It's still buggy, but most of what I've seen is just the occasional random crash. The program seems smart enough to remember all documents/folders/project states though.
I'm a sucker for its "successor to Kate" spacing/formatting and autocomplete suggestion boxes.
KDevelop is a really, really, REALLY nice IDE, IMO. .NET frameworks with the full integration into the IDE/compiler?
Or did you mean the
Because I frequently encounter a situation where every single implementation of a given software idea thus far on Linux is horrendously dreadful, suffers from feature-creep or is over-engineered to the point of actively working against its users.
A good example is comic book readers.
Nah. Gnome 2 (upgraded derivatives, of course), most certainly. It was great. Gnome 3 is just a pain in the ass while doing regular browsing or doing actual work.
YMMV, but I fined Gnome 3 also suffers from "Unity Syndrome".
Microsoft sort of pushed the trend forward massively; a whole slew of companies adopted it in kind.
To MS' credit, they realized it was stupid. Most other business' did not.
It's significant marketshare.
Imagine if Microsoft managed to expand into Asian markets more successfully than Google.
If they managed to break past the Great Wall of Internet Isolationism.
Their marketshare would easily threaten Google's dominance.
Anywho, I think the point is that MSN Search/MS Search/Live Search/Bing (same crap) is terrible and yet Google's blunders (because Yahoo is expected to blunder) have allowed MS to actually gain a meaningful foothold in a prime market in Google's bread and butter.
I mean, they ceded some meaningful ground to Microsoft when their whole plan was for it to go the other way around.
I call this "YouTube Syndrome", an example I'll elaborate on:
For a while, we got enhancements that were more or less expected, or logical increments - going to higher resolution videos, consolidation of various video categories into more logical components, and better UIs for Favorites and for searching. And simple things, like not having to reload an entire page while on someone's channel to watch a different video of theirs.
And that was great. But alongside, there was a growing problem wherein changes were made to better suit "clients" - like the obfuscation of independent or relatively unknown (but just as relevant) videos and video sections - or for no real reason at all.
Then came the bipolar decision making; one week, there would be a search bar for favorites and for uploads and such. The next week, it would be gone. Then it would be back, but without the ability to narrow searches down with quotes. Then gone, then back again, and so on. This happened with several features.
Lastly, we arrived at a general "WTF are you doing" phase that's been steadily growing since the first major UI changes.
Support tickets with massive backing from users were ignored, hostilely responded to, or even deleted and hidden in some cases. Long requested bugfixes (favorites and subscriptions being out of whack, with filters failing to do anything) never appeared and stock responses ("It works at HQ, your machine must be the culprit.") became more and more common.
I've made no attempt to divine when and where Google's purchase and influence came into this, and it may be possible that this was an underlying problem at Google all along. But I think it might be different - some form of entropic decay that seems inevitable for a company that tries to be as diverse as possible rather than barreling down a path of a unified vision; such a path seems to be what made Google Search successful in the first place, yet it seems that Google has been moving very heavily towards the "YouTube Syndrome" for their search page (+ integration, the black bar, obfuscation of features, etc.) and their devices (attempts to shove off all responsibility for the Nexus One and sweeping it under the rug) for the past couple of years.
Oddly enough, Microsoft has been like this for a while, but they had some form of directorial vision. And recently (except for a few outlier cases) they seem more like Classic Google than, well, Google. Of course, whether it's part of a more-elaborate-than-usual E.E.E. strategy remains to be seen.
They've been acting like the YouTube management for a while now. Bring back my god damned "cached" option. No, not buried under a mobile/portrait-mode unfriendly side bar. I don't want to have to load your stupid previews. And remember my preferences for search dates, or at the very least, if I expand the option to see the dates one time, don't force me to expand every time hereafter and especially stop hiding it on your mobile version of the site. Oh Google, you had a great thing going for so long. And then there's these "on par with Canonical" annoying-and-inconvenient-as-hell blunders.
Who is Italy going to press charges against for this one?
The compatibility of Religion and Evolution which actually makes Haught even more suited to the debate.
Canada also signed ACTA. We're sort of not voting or acting for or towards our own interests, ideas or ideologies up here.
So you're saying the US doesn't agree with the culture of the advancement of Education, Science, Justice, the Rule of Law and Human Rights? Well, alright then.
So vote Israel.
Yes, as does Xfce and LXDE, at least to some extent. There's tons of viable options and if an OS is trying to be Tablet-oriented on PC while its current install base is traditional desktop users, they should be including an option at install time for a 'normal' interface/DE. Even under some "Advanced" filtered set of options. Support for said environment would also be an issue. Although if Ubuntu did have such an option, then I guess I missed it.
So? Open Source is not the only way of going about software development, nor does it have to be the be-all end-all for absolutely everyone. To discount something completely unrelated simply because of one member's views is quite shortsighted.
That is to say, for passwords that shall remain static. Otherwise you can have a password to a system of passwords that you must constantly update.
Make it a part of your will. Store your passwords in a physical deposit box and have your relatives be given the key upon your death.
If it makes you feel any better I'm using Lubuntu, Xubuntu, CentOS and various Windows installs in VMs between work and home. Just calling a spade, a spade.
So it's not corrupted by the utter crap that is Gnome 3 and Unity? SIGN ME UP.
Whether the cancer was going to end up harmless or end up killing a person, it's better that they at least know if its existence and have the choice of whether or not they want treatment.
Then they should be subject to thrice as much scrutiny and thrice as many penalties.
You don't have to use Metro EXCEPT on the portables/tablets/phones, which is expected. You can switch back to the fully supported and upgraded 7/classic explorer-style desktop in just a couple of clicks, and there will likely be a way to choose to sign into it in the first place. You don't need to download or install anything - though, of course, if you want the good old gray menu you'll have to do a bit of work, but it's the same as 7 in that regard. What I was talking about is things like "x amount of clicks for common task Y" and "amount of switching between tasks and mental operators/operations required to do so" and "distance needed for mouse movement to do common process Q" and things like that. A lot of it is common sense and MS seems to follow it (which should be expected) but Unity is outright hostile towards the idea of making the user experience painless.