I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying this -- there's ~30 minutes of ads before the movie even starts. Not coming attractions, not "go buy some popcorn," but television-style ads for products.
I remember having a Mac guy go on and on for hours about how the x86 couldn't do the things a PPC could do. Then, the x86 Macs come out and suddenly all those "deficiencies" are no big deal.
...because of course, it's not like x86 technology improved during the ~10 year period that Macs were on PowerPC. Intel would never spend money improving their products.
When I want to shoot zombies I don't want to have to restart my sound system or HID system and re-enter pin codes and set defaults again, nor do I want to spend weeks configuring and scripting auto-configuration setup for such a thing.
Come on, don't you miss the good ol' days of DOS gaming?
I was there for the talk. He didn't really say that "Linux is better for gaming." Given the current user base, state of drivers and various flux in the stack, nobody in their right mind would say such a thing.
What he did say is that Ubuntu is an "open platform." Not really the same thing as "better," unless you're a writer at an Ubuntu fanboy site.
Out of curiosity, why do you prefer tabs? Seems like unless everyone has the same tab size set, it can make the code more difficult to read than spaces.
Further, most IDEs and text editors have "smart tabs", allowing the simplicity of working with tabs even though you're using spaces.
Sadly, ATI decided to stop support in its closed-source driver for the FirePro M7740 chip, which Dell sold me in a "workstation-class" laptop less than three years ago.
As someone who's been in the same boat, I don't think it's fair to blame the manufacturer here. Your hardware didn't change -- your software did.
Blame whoever broke binary compatibility with the existing driver.
Call it a "bubble" if you want, it's still a popup box. I didn't ask for it, I didn't expect it, and I shouldn't have to click the "go away" button every time I visit a website.
Now I do realize I can remove the extension that enables this, but that's just one more "tweak" I have to do every time I install Ubuntu.
Ubuntu used to be a lot more pleasant out of the box. Lately they seem to have lost sight of that.
Obviously you didn't even see the feature in action, it does not behave that way AT ALL
Obviously I do, since I've been running Quantal for months. It's easily the most irritating thing I've seen in Ubuntu, and at this point that's really saying something.
Would you rather go with the GNOME foundation, a democraticly organized organization with multiple corporate and non-profit sponsers who welcome contributions or Canonical, who developed Launchpad for a year in private and who's solution to potential long-term issues is to blog about it then release some code and who's policy and procedure is a verbatim copy of Debian's policy just for the sake of having a referal document, and isn't even followed. At all.
Your misconceptions of the reality of Gnome aside, there's room for both (or any) model here. You don't have to agree with everyone's philosophy to agree on a standard.
Now that both Unity and Gnome have their own completely separate APIs for online accounts, it's time to start thinking about making life easier for application developers (instead of harder.)
Why haven't we created a single, standard shell API? Is it that so much to ask? Us app developers shouldn't have to spend extra time customizing our applications so they work under each shell.
Users shouldn't have to worry about whether or not their app's features will work with their shell. Why should they be forced to care?
No, it's time to put standard APIs in place and stick with them. Linux is supposed to be about choice for the user, not about preventing interoperability.
Did they say anywhere that the group had a single unified voice?
WTF? Did you even read the first paragraph? They use two verbs that imply a single voice:
The computer hacker collective Anonymous has distanced itself from WikiLeaks, claiming the whistleblowers' site has become too focused on the personal tribulations of its founder, Julian Assange.
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In that case you'll be happy to know that Musk didn't really start PayPal. He started another company called X.com that eventually took over PayPal.
But Musk being Musk, he likes to take credit for things he didn't actually do.
Again, I don't want to post any spoilers here, but the ads are most certainly attached to the film.
You'll see. Or if not, you could google it.
I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying this -- there's ~30 minutes of ads before the movie even starts. Not coming attractions, not "go buy some popcorn," but television-style ads for products.
Seems MI6 has been hit hard by austerity!
I think you misspelled "Pulse."
Two companies competing with another don't see eye to eye on one another's products? What a surprise!
Last I checked you could buy an Android phone from Google (i.e. the Nexus phones) or from a 3rd party company.
How is this any different?
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Come on, don't you miss the good ol' days of DOS gaming?
I was there for the talk. He didn't really say that "Linux is better for gaming." Given the current user base, state of drivers and various flux in the stack, nobody in their right mind would say such a thing.
What he did say is that Ubuntu is an "open platform." Not really the same thing as "better," unless you're a writer at an Ubuntu fanboy site.
Out of curiosity, why do you prefer tabs? Seems like unless everyone has the same tab size set, it can make the code more difficult to read than spaces.
Further, most IDEs and text editors have "smart tabs", allowing the simplicity of working with tabs even though you're using spaces.
For some reason in Europe, you tend to see a lot of stores advertising "-50% off!" sales and such.
Apparently double negative percentages have the opposite meaning in parts of the world.
As someone who's been in the same boat, I don't think it's fair to blame the manufacturer here. Your hardware didn't change -- your software did.
Blame whoever broke binary compatibility with the existing driver.
Call it a "bubble" if you want, it's still a popup box. I didn't ask for it, I didn't expect it, and I shouldn't have to click the "go away" button every time I visit a website.
Now I do realize I can remove the extension that enables this, but that's just one more "tweak" I have to do every time I install Ubuntu.
Ubuntu used to be a lot more pleasant out of the box. Lately they seem to have lost sight of that.
You can. People have been practicing lucid dreaming for centuries.
These days you can even purchase devices to make lucid dreaming easier.
Are you using a proprietary video driver? I've had much better luck using the open source drivers with dual monitors on Ubuntu.
(And yes, that goes for both Unity and Gnome 3.)
Obviously I do, since I've been running Quantal for months. It's easily the most irritating thing I've seen in Ubuntu, and at this point that's really saying something.
Yes, but unfortunately you first have to fly to Palo Alto, where you'll have to use this service on a Xerox Alto.
No, it's now free. Hell, Thunderbird will even set it up for you automatically.
Your misconceptions of the reality of Gnome aside, there's room for both (or any) model here. You don't have to agree with everyone's philosophy to agree on a standard.
Now that both Unity and Gnome have their own completely separate APIs for online accounts, it's time to start thinking about making life easier for application developers (instead of harder.)
Why haven't we created a single, standard shell API? Is it that so much to ask? Us app developers shouldn't have to spend extra time customizing our applications so they work under each shell.
Users shouldn't have to worry about whether or not their app's features will work with their shell. Why should they be forced to care?
No, it's time to put standard APIs in place and stick with them. Linux is supposed to be about choice for the user, not about preventing interoperability.
You mean you don't like getting a popup window every time you visit a website? What's wrong with you!
As we've seen time and time again, people are simply willing to pay more for Microsoft products than Apple products.
And that's where you lost me. Running a new product on a painfully outdated stack? No thanks.
WTF? Did you even read the first paragraph? They use two verbs that imply a single voice: