I want a desktop environment that plays well with multiple monitors and several open applications (each of which having multiple windows that I will want on screen at the same time, and selectable from a central location in the fewest clicks possible, with the task of exact identification handled without needing a click on most instances).
You know, what Gnome 2 did quite well and what MS/Explorer has handled fine enough for over a decade.
I bet the two people that weren't expecting this are totally freaking out!
Seriously though, let's all hope it stays there. The idea of a "unified experience" between two fundamentally different control schemes/types of computing is silly and prone to eventually pissing one side off, and Unity has drove this point home quite perfectly.
1) A large amount of OWS protesters are people that have what you would call "useful degrees" (engineering related, CS, teaching, hard sciences, etc.) but either lost their job due to corporate malfeasance, or cannot find one because of a flurry of ridiculous scenarios.
2) The problem with the education scenario is that you have an entire population that has been telling its kids that College/University is the only way to make it and that they have to go. And at that, that career X is the way of the future. These are impressionable kids being given this advice by every influence around them.
3) You can say that people should be doing risk analysis' but the reality of the situation is that high school students are being fed more pie-in-the-sky dreams and rote facts than actual life skills. And the blame for that should fall on the system itself, not its victims.
There were probably people denying the existence of Electricity right up until they got electrocuted, and probably even then.
There is such a thing as a proper, well-informed skeptic who relies on evidence. The majority of climate-change deniers could not be quantified as such (it's the same with most things, really).
How many more lines are left on the list?
We've got past the "it's not warming at all" stage.
So next up is "it may be warming, but it's not us" then "ok, it's us, but we can't/shouldn't do anything about it" and eventually "it was us but it's too late." What comes after that?
They generally cost between 8% less and 20% MORE than their closest performance equivalents (hard to use that word since the gap is still pretty noticeable).
That's sort of part of the problem.
Well, logically, Google should optimize their services for the major players - IE, Firefox, Themselves, and then (quite further down) Safari and Opera.
Granted, they do optimize a lot of stuff specifically for Chrome (Google Maps is far faster on Chrome than any other browser) - or maybe, the other way around. But it's probably just far easier to do so internally than it is to work with a foreign development firm, rather than there being any malevolent intent behind it.
Presumably he means not necessary for a single task.
That is, there is a GUI option, hopefully easy for grandma to use, for any given part of the OS that needs to be changed.
Along with that, a CLI can't be the fallback if the windowing system or desktop environment fails/crashes.
The command interface or terminal should still be there, but for a consumer OS it has to be a third-class citizen to the first-class GUI.
Unfortunately, while you see the Ubuntu guys somewhat getting the idea, they went off the deep end with Unity. Quite sad.
Announcing it shortly after having announced the rate increases was retarded.
EITHER move would have worked out OK if they had done only one of them, and saved the other for a time several months later.
But they didn't.
Netflix was always intended to be a streaming service. The main goal of the company was outlined back in 2001; they had planned to have completely shut down the DVD service (having replaced it with streaming) by 2007 but the US missed their internet data rate predictions by a large margin.
The technology simply wasn't there.
It should be noted right away that the RT-N16 is only a single-band router, which could be make or break for many people.
I use one, the thing is designed for custom firmware. But if you have to use the stock firmware for more than an hour, submitter would go insane.
What?
I'm just saying that Nintendo basically abhors indie devs. Or rather, ones that haven't gotten in bed with them. They do have reasons for their policies, which Reggie has been kind enough to explain to reporters, but I think it's naive compared to XBLA and PSN which allow indie devs to at least reach a market on the cheap and be encouraged to stick with the platform.
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I want a desktop environment that plays well with multiple monitors and several open applications (each of which having multiple windows that I will want on screen at the same time, and selectable from a central location in the fewest clicks possible, with the task of exact identification handled without needing a click on most instances). You know, what Gnome 2 did quite well and what MS/Explorer has handled fine enough for over a decade.
Metro doesn't violate fundamental human-computer interaction concepts, though. It seems like it was used/tested by actual human beings, unlike Unity.
I bet the two people that weren't expecting this are totally freaking out! Seriously though, let's all hope it stays there. The idea of a "unified experience" between two fundamentally different control schemes/types of computing is silly and prone to eventually pissing one side off, and Unity has drove this point home quite perfectly.
1) A large amount of OWS protesters are people that have what you would call "useful degrees" (engineering related, CS, teaching, hard sciences, etc.) but either lost their job due to corporate malfeasance, or cannot find one because of a flurry of ridiculous scenarios. 2) The problem with the education scenario is that you have an entire population that has been telling its kids that College/University is the only way to make it and that they have to go. And at that, that career X is the way of the future. These are impressionable kids being given this advice by every influence around them. 3) You can say that people should be doing risk analysis' but the reality of the situation is that high school students are being fed more pie-in-the-sky dreams and rote facts than actual life skills. And the blame for that should fall on the system itself, not its victims.
There were probably people denying the existence of Electricity right up until they got electrocuted, and probably even then. There is such a thing as a proper, well-informed skeptic who relies on evidence. The majority of climate-change deniers could not be quantified as such (it's the same with most things, really).
"OK, maybe we are causing it. But are more banana thongs really a bad thing?
How many more lines are left on the list? We've got past the "it's not warming at all" stage. So next up is "it may be warming, but it's not us" then "ok, it's us, but we can't/shouldn't do anything about it" and eventually "it was us but it's too late." What comes after that?
They generally cost between 8% less and 20% MORE than their closest performance equivalents (hard to use that word since the gap is still pretty noticeable). That's sort of part of the problem.
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That is to say, not including mobile browsers. Otherwise things look quite different.
Safari, in terms of active browser user share, is lower than Chrome or Firefox or IE by a significant amount. Safari isn't quite in the same class.
"If your phone can run gingerbread, it can run ICS."
That doesn't really excuse how they were saying but a little while ago that "any phone that can get Gingerbread will be able to get ICS".
Well, logically, Google should optimize their services for the major players - IE, Firefox, Themselves, and then (quite further down) Safari and Opera. Granted, they do optimize a lot of stuff specifically for Chrome (Google Maps is far faster on Chrome than any other browser) - or maybe, the other way around. But it's probably just far easier to do so internally than it is to work with a foreign development firm, rather than there being any malevolent intent behind it.
I believe he meant, to run natively. Not through an intermediary layer like Wine.
Presumably he means not necessary for a single task. That is, there is a GUI option, hopefully easy for grandma to use, for any given part of the OS that needs to be changed. Along with that, a CLI can't be the fallback if the windowing system or desktop environment fails/crashes. The command interface or terminal should still be there, but for a consumer OS it has to be a third-class citizen to the first-class GUI. Unfortunately, while you see the Ubuntu guys somewhat getting the idea, they went off the deep end with Unity. Quite sad.
Well, with explorer and IE, you now have potential security exploits in your desktop environment itself.
The managers and CEOs really seem like they don't have a clue, and are stuck living in the "Blackberry dominated past"-mindset.
Announcing it shortly after having announced the rate increases was retarded. EITHER move would have worked out OK if they had done only one of them, and saved the other for a time several months later. But they didn't.
Netflix was always intended to be a streaming service. The main goal of the company was outlined back in 2001; they had planned to have completely shut down the DVD service (having replaced it with streaming) by 2007 but the US missed their internet data rate predictions by a large margin. The technology simply wasn't there.
Was that the reason for increased IBM training programs this year about specifically *not* talking about anything that might lead to insider trading?
Those vines happen to be the crucial irrigation lines used by society.
It should be noted right away that the RT-N16 is only a single-band router, which could be make or break for many people. I use one, the thing is designed for custom firmware. But if you have to use the stock firmware for more than an hour, submitter would go insane.
What? I'm just saying that Nintendo basically abhors indie devs. Or rather, ones that haven't gotten in bed with them. They do have reasons for their policies, which Reggie has been kind enough to explain to reporters, but I think it's naive compared to XBLA and PSN which allow indie devs to at least reach a market on the cheap and be encouraged to stick with the platform.
The perfect time for an updated radioplay of War of the Worlds.