I like URL bars. They're quick and easy to type into, they let me see exactly where I'm browsing at (in theory), and when it comes time to copy and paste a link it's simple.
I do, too, and that's why my fingers automatically press ^L or cmd-L whenever I want to interact with it. I can't really think of a reason why I need it there all the time, though. Like right now. I'm on Slashdot. I don't care what the exact URL is (and can see it with a single set of keypresses or presumably a mouse click if Mozilla has their way) and that line is a waste of screen space. I don't think they're advocating getting rid of it completely, but I'd be perfectly happy for them to hide it for the 99.9% of the time when I'm not directly working with it.
I'm by no means an image expert, so read this as a question and not a suggestion: why isn't this implemented as a compression format for TIFFs? My understanding is that a TIFF is basically a bunch of metadata wrapped around a chunk of image data. I mean, look at the output of tiffinfo sometimes. I have a hard time believing WebP could require metadata than TIFF already supports, but you could add new private fields if it does. Given that you already have a (to my eyes) perfectly usable container, it seems like a waste not to use it.
Neuromancer was never about technology; it was about the effects technology has on society. It could be set in the Wild West without changing the underlying themes of disenfranchisement and alienation.
I went through the trouble of setting up one-time passwords on a couple of my hosts. I carry a little printout in my wallet and scratch off passwords as I use them. More commonly, I use an SSH client on my iPhone that gets me into my home server, then branch out from there.
Key authentication is ideal like others have mentioned but sometimes a hassle.
When is key authentication ever a hassle, once you've learned it? My standard system-building procedure is to SSH to a new machine once, cd ~me; mkdir.ssh; chmod 700.ssh; cd.ssh; cat > authorized_keys; [paste my pubkey into the xterm window]; chmod 400 authorized_keys, edit sshd_config to disable password logins, and restart sshd. That whole process takes about two minutes, and then it's finished for the lifetime of the machine.
Are you, like, 12? Or one of those people who explains to everyone at parties that they don't own a TV? I couldn't turn the thing on without seeing that commercial a few years ago.
Ironically, Apple seems (to me) to be better about incorporating good software from other sources, from FreeBSD to LLVM to KHTML, etc. And the stuff they do reinvent is infinitely better (IMHO) than the Gnome equivalents.
Because it's claimed that systemd will provide "better user experience" as espoused here.
Ah, it all makes sense now. From that link:
With systemd we can replace some core functionality such as ConsoleKit which would allow for a smoother multi user experience.
In other words, it's standard Gnome NIH posturing. Some dev wrote something shiny that's 95% similar to what everyone else is using, but with half the configurable options, and now Gnome wants to inflict it on everyone ASAP.
Whatevs. I said I was getting a Mac, and FedEx says the one I just bought has made it to Alaska on its way home to me. From now on it's OS X for my main desktop and awesome wm for when I'm using Linux or FreeBSD. I feel bad about giving up on KDE, but Gnome can die in a fire for all I care.
You've never lived in a quake zone, have you. (Note the lack of question mark.) When I lived in California, the typical reaction was "did you feel that, too? Anyway, as I was saying...."
I moved away from my hometown, as did many of my friends*. "Face-to-face" now means coordinating travel and family schedules for a once-a-year-or-less evening at a hometown brewpub. Know what's even better than face-to-face? Being able to communicate with people I care about on a regular basis without waiting for those rare events to roll around. Facebook offers that because literally everyone I'd want to talk to uses it. That's not an exaggeration or a self-selecting pool, either. Every single time I've wanted to find old roommates or the people I used to hang out with all the time, they've been on Facebook.
*Real-life, "call at 2AM and tell them to bring a shovel and a blanket, and they'll be there" friends. I have some local friends like that but don't see the need to abandon my older friends, especially since it's so easy to stay in touch with them now.
LOL. Are you kidding around, or did you really mean that? Ubuntu isn't Red Hat, sure, but neither are they Debian. There's a real, paying corporation behind Ubuntu.
Would it be too tough to simply ask during installation what UI is desired? Those that like Unity can pick that, and those of us who don't, can stay with Gnome.
In fairness, they ask that at login time. Enter your username, then change your session to "Classic Desktop" (I think that's what they call it). Now you have a Gnome desktop.
[citation needed] That may very well be true, but the Ubuntu download page goes into detail explaining how to convert the ISO into a bootable USB stick. Side note: following the OS X instructions to the letter didn't work. I don't remember the details, but it had something to do with the PPC version of the disk utils not using a compatible partition format, or something else seemingly unlikely like that. I just remember having a severe bout of "you've got to be kidding me" when it failed.
It might, but it isn't mentioned on the Ubuntu download page. I'm sure there are other ways, too, but I'm surprised that Ubuntu hasn't spent 5 minutes addressing the problem so that their would-be users don't have to.
Ditto to this. Ubuntu really got my attention originally by making it dead easy to set up a USB stick with a live image.
Only if you already have Ubuntu up and running. Otherwise it's a complete bitch that makes me want to throw things. Fun situation: you have an Ubuntu netbook with no optical drive, an old PPC Mac desktop, and a FreeBSD server. The netbook hard drive dies and you replace it. Pop quiz; think quick! How do you use OS X or FreeBSD to copy the downloadable USB image to a flash drive to boot the netbook? Ha-ha! Trick question! There is no downloadable USB image! You have to create one yourself using the Linux or Windows usb-creator GUI, which happens to operate directly on a flash drive (meaning that you can't SSH into your Ubuntu desktop at work and run the X program there to create an image file you can scp back to the house).
And that's how I ended up driving to work to make a bootable USB stick and cussing myself hoarse.
Seriously, Ubuntu: forget the damned cutesy usb-creator tool and just put a downloadable image up on your website. Almost no one ever wants a custom boot image with a writable partition, or at least to the point that you have to make it configurable at image creation time. Pick an easy-to-manage small size (say, 2GB), use usb-creator to make a bootable drive that size, use dd to copy the image back off the USB stick, and put the damn thing up on your website. I guarantee that everyone who owns a computer without an optical drive and who wants to install Ubuntu will thank you for it.
I read "Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files" as "Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files", not "...unless they really want to."
That's very true, and I respect that he fessed up and admitted it. No hemming and hawing - he flat-out said that he was wrong. But for four years, by his own admission he cheerfully accepted SCO's claims at face value and repeated them to his audience. Because of that, I don't give him any credibility in any other venue. That may change if his track record stays better than it had been, but that won't happen for me any time soon.
Microsoft is really good at making consumers want it's products, thus it gives people what they want, and people buy it. Let's look at your examples.
LOL. I can only think of one Microsoft product people actual want: an Xbox. Consumers don't want Windows; they want a computer (and Windows happens to come with it). They don't want Office, by and large; they want a word processor (and will use whatever comes with their computer 99% of the time). No one wanted Zunes. No one wants Windows phones. Even in the corporate arena, very few companies actually care about having Office so much as they care about being compatible with their customers, and Office is the most common means to that end.
No, I'd have to disagree completely: Microsoft is terrible at making consumers want its products. Outside its gaming division, people put up with their stuff, but almost no one actually wants it.
The reporter "confirming" the story is Mr. Dan "Linux stole from SCO!" Lyons. A stopped clock twice a day and all that, but I wouldn't trust Lyons to report that water is wet and the sky is blue. I'd wait for confirmation from reputable sources before getting on opinion on this.
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Haven't you learned your lesson with Sony stuff?
I like URL bars. They're quick and easy to type into, they let me see exactly where I'm browsing at (in theory), and when it comes time to copy and paste a link it's simple.
I do, too, and that's why my fingers automatically press ^L or cmd-L whenever I want to interact with it. I can't really think of a reason why I need it there all the time, though. Like right now. I'm on Slashdot. I don't care what the exact URL is (and can see it with a single set of keypresses or presumably a mouse click if Mozilla has their way) and that line is a waste of screen space. I don't think they're advocating getting rid of it completely, but I'd be perfectly happy for them to hide it for the 99.9% of the time when I'm not directly working with it.
I'm by no means an image expert, so read this as a question and not a suggestion: why isn't this implemented as a compression format for TIFFs? My understanding is that a TIFF is basically a bunch of metadata wrapped around a chunk of image data. I mean, look at the output of tiffinfo sometimes. I have a hard time believing WebP could require metadata than TIFF already supports, but you could add new private fields if it does. Given that you already have a (to my eyes) perfectly usable container, it seems like a waste not to use it.
I see no reason to believe Best Buy will be unstaffed.
Neuromancer was never about technology; it was about the effects technology has on society. It could be set in the Wild West without changing the underlying themes of disenfranchisement and alienation.
I went through the trouble of setting up one-time passwords on a couple of my hosts. I carry a little printout in my wallet and scratch off passwords as I use them. More commonly, I use an SSH client on my iPhone that gets me into my home server, then branch out from there.
Key authentication is ideal like others have mentioned but sometimes a hassle.
When is key authentication ever a hassle, once you've learned it? My standard system-building procedure is to SSH to a new machine once, cd ~me; mkdir .ssh; chmod 700 .ssh; cd .ssh; cat > authorized_keys; [paste my pubkey into the xterm window]; chmod 400 authorized_keys, edit sshd_config to disable password logins, and restart sshd. That whole process takes about two minutes, and then it's finished for the lifetime of the machine.
Are you, like, 12? Or one of those people who explains to everyone at parties that they don't own a TV? I couldn't turn the thing on without seeing that commercial a few years ago.
Ironically, Apple seems (to me) to be better about incorporating good software from other sources, from FreeBSD to LLVM to KHTML, etc. And the stuff they do reinvent is infinitely better (IMHO) than the Gnome equivalents.
Because it's claimed that systemd will provide "better user experience" as espoused here.
Ah, it all makes sense now. From that link:
In other words, it's standard Gnome NIH posturing. Some dev wrote something shiny that's 95% similar to what everyone else is using, but with half the configurable options, and now Gnome wants to inflict it on everyone ASAP.
Whatevs. I said I was getting a Mac, and FedEx says the one I just bought has made it to Alaska on its way home to me. From now on it's OS X for my main desktop and awesome wm for when I'm using Linux or FreeBSD. I feel bad about giving up on KDE, but Gnome can die in a fire for all I care.
You've never lived in a quake zone, have you. (Note the lack of question mark.) When I lived in California, the typical reaction was "did you feel that, too? Anyway, as I was saying...."
I moved away from my hometown, as did many of my friends*. "Face-to-face" now means coordinating travel and family schedules for a once-a-year-or-less evening at a hometown brewpub. Know what's even better than face-to-face? Being able to communicate with people I care about on a regular basis without waiting for those rare events to roll around. Facebook offers that because literally everyone I'd want to talk to uses it. That's not an exaggeration or a self-selecting pool, either. Every single time I've wanted to find old roommates or the people I used to hang out with all the time, they've been on Facebook.
*Real-life, "call at 2AM and tell them to bring a shovel and a blanket, and they'll be there" friends. I have some local friends like that but don't see the need to abandon my older friends, especially since it's so easy to stay in touch with them now.
Why haven't you? They're all unpaid volunteers.
LOL. Are you kidding around, or did you really mean that? Ubuntu isn't Red Hat, sure, but neither are they Debian. There's a real, paying corporation behind Ubuntu.
Well, how else do you explain Linux' obsession with having a filesystem that nobody else can use?
Multiple developers with non-overlapping needs. Next question?
Would it be too tough to simply ask during installation what UI is desired? Those that like Unity can pick that, and those of us who don't, can stay with Gnome.
In fairness, they ask that at login time. Enter your username, then change your session to "Classic Desktop" (I think that's what they call it). Now you have a Gnome desktop.
[citation needed] That may very well be true, but the Ubuntu download page goes into detail explaining how to convert the ISO into a bootable USB stick. Side note: following the OS X instructions to the letter didn't work. I don't remember the details, but it had something to do with the PPC version of the disk utils not using a compatible partition format, or something else seemingly unlikely like that. I just remember having a severe bout of "you've got to be kidding me" when it failed.
It might, but it isn't mentioned on the Ubuntu download page. I'm sure there are other ways, too, but I'm surprised that Ubuntu hasn't spent 5 minutes addressing the problem so that their would-be users don't have to.
Ditto to this. Ubuntu really got my attention originally by making it dead easy to set up a USB stick with a live image.
Only if you already have Ubuntu up and running. Otherwise it's a complete bitch that makes me want to throw things. Fun situation: you have an Ubuntu netbook with no optical drive, an old PPC Mac desktop, and a FreeBSD server. The netbook hard drive dies and you replace it. Pop quiz; think quick! How do you use OS X or FreeBSD to copy the downloadable USB image to a flash drive to boot the netbook? Ha-ha! Trick question! There is no downloadable USB image! You have to create one yourself using the Linux or Windows usb-creator GUI, which happens to operate directly on a flash drive (meaning that you can't SSH into your Ubuntu desktop at work and run the X program there to create an image file you can scp back to the house).
And that's how I ended up driving to work to make a bootable USB stick and cussing myself hoarse.
Seriously, Ubuntu: forget the damned cutesy usb-creator tool and just put a downloadable image up on your website. Almost no one ever wants a custom boot image with a writable partition, or at least to the point that you have to make it configurable at image creation time. Pick an easy-to-manage small size (say, 2GB), use usb-creator to make a bootable drive that size, use dd to copy the image back off the USB stick, and put the damn thing up on your website. I guarantee that everyone who owns a computer without an optical drive and who wants to install Ubuntu will thank you for it.
Going from 29999$ to $30001 means you would only be taxed the higher rate on $1 of income
Are you sneaking a $1 deduction in there somewhere?
The point of view of the ideologues is that they want it to remain legal for you to get things done. What assholes.
Winter on Mars (-87C is no colder than winter on Antarctica (-80 to -90), it gets up to -5C in the summer, and equatorial regions get an average of 12 hours of direct sunlight each day (compared to 6 months of shallow sunlight followed by 6 months of darkness). The lack of water and atmosphere are serious problems, but the climate isn't all that bad.
I read "Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files" as "Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files", not "...unless they really want to."
That's very true, and I respect that he fessed up and admitted it. No hemming and hawing - he flat-out said that he was wrong. But for four years, by his own admission he cheerfully accepted SCO's claims at face value and repeated them to his audience. Because of that, I don't give him any credibility in any other venue. That may change if his track record stays better than it had been, but that won't happen for me any time soon.
Microsoft is really good at making consumers want it's products, thus it gives people what they want, and people buy it. Let's look at your examples.
LOL. I can only think of one Microsoft product people actual want: an Xbox. Consumers don't want Windows; they want a computer (and Windows happens to come with it). They don't want Office, by and large; they want a word processor (and will use whatever comes with their computer 99% of the time). No one wanted Zunes. No one wants Windows phones. Even in the corporate arena, very few companies actually care about having Office so much as they care about being compatible with their customers, and Office is the most common means to that end.
No, I'd have to disagree completely: Microsoft is terrible at making consumers want its products. Outside its gaming division, people put up with their stuff, but almost no one actually wants it.
The reporter "confirming" the story is Mr. Dan "Linux stole from SCO!" Lyons. A stopped clock twice a day and all that, but I wouldn't trust Lyons to report that water is wet and the sky is blue. I'd wait for confirmation from reputable sources before getting on opinion on this.