Gnome 3 is a complete mess. and it's UI is not easier to use or more intuitive, its just trendy and "different"
Trendy would imply that it's popular, which it certainly is not.
But you hit the nail on the head with the word "different." Gnome 3 doesn't appear to be trying to solve any problem or enhancing the workflow in any major way -- it's the same old "dragging and resizing square windows" model that Gnome has always had, so it's not an improvement over what Gnome was before.
And how, pray tell, would you like the software to know what you want to do with your windows? How is it supposed to know if you want a window in the top left of your screen while another window is minimized?
You're completely missing the point here. I use my computer to DO THINGS, not to move windows around. A user interface is a means, not an end. If it makes me carry out a bunch of extra tasks in order to use it then it's just getting in my way.
Manual window management. It's 2012, if computers can drive cars, why do I still have to manually move windows around, resize them, alt-tab between overlapping windows, accidentally screw things up due to keyboard focus, etc. etc?
Yes, I know nerds hate change. But it's time for GUIs to move on, precisely because manual window management is counterproductive for almost every task. Maybe Metro isn't perfect, but you can't blame MS for trying.
He's the one who split the company in half and infested it with the usual gang of MBA idiots while the company was ironically promoting "The HP Way" to its own employees.
Slashdot needs to update their text for buzzword compliance. Instead of "submitting" comments to Slashdot, it should indicate that I'm "syncing comments to the cloud."
Well the KDE part is true, because it doesn't need to be optimized (svg, muthafuckas).
Someone doesn't understand the realities of using SVG for GUIs, I see. Just because SVG graphics *can* be stretched to any size, it doesn't mean they'll look good at any size. Most of the time you end up making multiple SVG graphics for the different sizes you expect to support.
Linux doesn't exactly have a reputation for working well on brand-new hardware. The new MacBooks only came out a couple months ago, give Linux some time!
You're missing the point: it's not the platform, it's the apps.
While the Flash plugin was never great, there's a reason Flash lived for so long -- fantastic authoring tools. Drag-and-drop GUIs, full featured IDEs, etc. made it a snap to build great looking Flash apps.
Until HTML5 has equivalent authoring tools, it's not truly going to be able to replace Flash.
The problem with that is these Wall Street companies have their tentacles everywhere. Whatever pleasure we'd get watching them crumble is nothing compared to watching our retirement savings drop to zero and millions of people losing their jobs.
"Too big to fail" and free market capitalism are fundamentally at odds.
Just like SEO, this is for managers who were given an arbitrary popularity metric to follow rather than being told to create good content people actually wanted to read.
Please, this is a site dubbed "news for nerds." When you start throwing around buzzwords like "hybrid infrastructure-as-a-service clouds" it's painfully obvious that you haven't a clue what you're talking about, and the readers won't either.
If there isn't enough concrete information to even write a summary, how about skipping the story entirely?
Con is catering to those who feel they are hip, cool, edgy, and underground, many of whom feel they are outside the law. Check.
Con held in Las Vegas, also known as Sin City, "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas", America's ultimate party town. Check.
Con-goers who have poor social skills, feel elite, hyper-competitive, and desperately want to appear manly and impressive. Check.
The first two points are specific to Defcon -- but the problem is not. I've heard similar stories from women at other software hacking conferences and from visiting hackerspaces.
There's something really odd going on here; maybe it's as simple as "poor social skills"?
Maybe a better question is WHY is this harassment occurring? Is this specific to certain types of conferences?
Adopting a clear policy on the matter is completely sensible. But how does one come to believe that such creepy behavior would be tolerable in the first place?
Then, Windows 9 will come out in a year or two and suddenly have the option of booting to the old Start menu, thus perpetuating the "every other version of Windows is good" trend.
Elliot Carver: Mr. Jones, are we ready to release our new software? Jones: Yes, sir. As requested, it's full of bugs, which means people will be forced to upgrade for years. Elliot Carver: Outstanding.
That's weird... It seems obvious to me that one must first understand a function, then a function that takes a function as input, before one could be expected to understand how to write a function that takes a function as input, and then outputs yet another function (which may or may not also take a function as input, and output a function).
Sort of like how you have to have a degree in physics to drive a car, right?
The problem with that line of thinking is that there's no stop condition; it's inherently a slippery slope. Yes, knowing more of anything is good and may have unanticipated benefits. But you can't stay in school forever.
The only math course in college that I felt applied directly to software engineering was discrete math. It's all about logic, graph theory, etc. and provides the basis for computer science.
That said, most software doesn't really require calculus, geometry, or even trig. But certain fields (AI comes immediately to mind) require a significant math background.
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Isn't it time we upgraded our spacecraft to use modern GUI browsers?
I made the mistake of "upgrading" two Ubuntu 12.04 desktops to solid state drives, only to find the performance increase was trivial.
What gives? The difference between magnetic drives and SSDs on OS X is incredible. Is this a driver issue, or what?
Trendy would imply that it's popular, which it certainly is not.
But you hit the nail on the head with the word "different." Gnome 3 doesn't appear to be trying to solve any problem or enhancing the workflow in any major way -- it's the same old "dragging and resizing square windows" model that Gnome has always had, so it's not an improvement over what Gnome was before.
You're completely missing the point here. I use my computer to DO THINGS, not to move windows around. A user interface is a means, not an end. If it makes me carry out a bunch of extra tasks in order to use it then it's just getting in my way.
Manual window management. It's 2012, if computers can drive cars, why do I still have to manually move windows around, resize them, alt-tab between overlapping windows, accidentally screw things up due to keyboard focus, etc. etc?
Yes, I know nerds hate change. But it's time for GUIs to move on, precisely because manual window management is counterproductive for almost every task. Maybe Metro isn't perfect, but you can't blame MS for trying.
What, you don't think consensual sex in the missionary position is objectionable?
It would be a lot more disconcerning if they didn't care about getting it to work. We don't need another Windows ME.
True or not, you're not going to convince many sane folks if your only evidence is from a site that makes TimeCube look reasonable by comparison.
He's the one who split the company in half and infested it with the usual gang of MBA idiots while the company was ironically promoting "The HP Way" to its own employees.
This sure doesn't look like Super Mario Bros 2!
Slashdot needs to update their text for buzzword compliance. Instead of "submitting" comments to Slashdot, it should indicate that I'm "syncing comments to the cloud."
Someone doesn't understand the realities of using SVG for GUIs, I see. Just because SVG graphics *can* be stretched to any size, it doesn't mean they'll look good at any size. Most of the time you end up making multiple SVG graphics for the different sizes you expect to support.
For a concrete example, take a look at Shotwell's SVG icon -- there's three different sizes:
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell-16.svg
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell-24.svg
http://git.yorba.org/cgit.cgi/shotwell/plain/icons/shotwell.svg
Linux doesn't exactly have a reputation for working well on brand-new hardware. The new MacBooks only came out a couple months ago, give Linux some time!
Maybe "gay" means something else in Arabic? Not everyone in the world speaks English, ya know.
You're missing the point: it's not the platform, it's the apps.
While the Flash plugin was never great, there's a reason Flash lived for so long -- fantastic authoring tools. Drag-and-drop GUIs, full featured IDEs, etc. made it a snap to build great looking Flash apps.
Until HTML5 has equivalent authoring tools, it's not truly going to be able to replace Flash.
None of that helps when you're 70 years old and need to cash out to retire. Not everyone is young and looking for long-term investments.
The problem with that is these Wall Street companies have their tentacles everywhere. Whatever pleasure we'd get watching them crumble is nothing compared to watching our retirement savings drop to zero and millions of people losing their jobs.
"Too big to fail" and free market capitalism are fundamentally at odds.
Just like SEO, this is for managers who were given an arbitrary popularity metric to follow rather than being told to create good content people actually wanted to read.
Please, this is a site dubbed "news for nerds." When you start throwing around buzzwords like "hybrid infrastructure-as-a-service clouds" it's painfully obvious that you haven't a clue what you're talking about, and the readers won't either.
If there isn't enough concrete information to even write a summary, how about skipping the story entirely?
The first two points are specific to Defcon -- but the problem is not. I've heard similar stories from women at other software hacking conferences and from visiting hackerspaces.
There's something really odd going on here; maybe it's as simple as "poor social skills"?
Maybe a better question is WHY is this harassment occurring? Is this specific to certain types of conferences?
Adopting a clear policy on the matter is completely sensible. But how does one come to believe that such creepy behavior would be tolerable in the first place?
Just like in Tomorrow Never Dies:
Sort of like how you have to have a degree in physics to drive a car, right?
The problem with that line of thinking is that there's no stop condition; it's inherently a slippery slope. Yes, knowing more of anything is good and may have unanticipated benefits. But you can't stay in school forever.
At some point, we have to draw a line.
The only math course in college that I felt applied directly to software engineering was discrete math. It's all about logic, graph theory, etc. and provides the basis for computer science.
That said, most software doesn't really require calculus, geometry, or even trig. But certain fields (AI comes immediately to mind) require a significant math background.