I assume that the backtick on US keyboard layout is on a place so that Alt-backtick is easy to type, right? But there are people in the world which do not use US keyboard layout.
These people can use CompizConfig to bind it to whatever they want.
Contrary to popular slashdot believe, Unity/Compiz is very customizable in its keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, etc.
1) The launch bar permanently docked on the left is a complete fail. If you find yourself moving your mouse to the left side of the screen often, you WILL get annoyed by the launch bar popping out. The result will be you clicking on something you had no intention of clicking on.
You can change the mouse gesture to summon that bar.
2) While we're on the subject of the slide out. Sometimes it doesn't unless you minimize EVERYTHING. Fail.
In Ubuntu 11.04 I found weird behavior on that bar. In 11.10 it behaves as expected, granted I changed the mouse gesture to bottom-left corner.
3) The File menu being at the top of the screen is cool until you tile a window and suddenly it seems alien that your window is in the middle of the screen, but your menu options are at the top.
That's "getting used to it". You can also see it as: the menu is always in the same spot. Doesn't work with sloppy focus though, but you can get the menu in the window with some changes.
4) Speaking of the File menu at the top, sometimes if you close your active window, the new File menu that appears at the top is not the actual active program that is now on your screen. It's some window hidden underneath.
Haven't seen that.
5) Alt+Tab is now completely and hopelessly broken. Got multiple windows open of the same program? It's so full of fail on that task I can't even quite explain it. You'll just have to experience that misery for yourself.
Tab between multiple windows of same program with Alt-` (that's a backtick).
There's lots more to hate about the latest Ubuntu incarnation. This is just the Unity fail list.
I'd put it in the box: not the defaults you are used to.
Mark Shuttleworth, you have a severely broken product. If you don't fix it, I promise your user base will shrink even more quickly than it grew.
The product isn't broken. It is a different paradigm with different defaults. You don't *have* to use it. Getting Gnome3 or XFCE on it is ridiculously easy and you can choose per session/user. I am amazed by the comments here; the rigidity of all the so-called geeks that do not take the time to configure their desktop to their likes with either different settings on Unity or installing another DE.
Have you actually used it longer than just looking at it after install?
I didn't like it in the beginning either, but now, I have my shortcut keys configured, my mouse gestures in place, and it is pretty usable (granted, finding all that out was *not* intuitive, compizconfig isn't very logical). The big buttons you are talking about are not always on the screen, only when there is room. There is actually *no* screen clutter *at all* when running a program fullscreen (which you are doing most of the time anyway).
Only problems I have is that it is pretty resource hungry, so I don't use it on my older laptop. And, I don't really get the Alt-Tab order. Sometimes it drops me into a program I haven't used for hours.... And sloppy focus doesn't work, because of the menu on top, but there is a work-around for that.
Conclusion: Unity is not that bad, it is just that the defaults do not match what I am used to.
I didn't say the statistics were incorrect, just "dumb". Meaning they are meaningless in my opinion. I do not think you can say something millions of people are using is negligible and then just ignore it. It is fine for a certain person (you) to ignore it, but for one of the most innovating browser companies out there (to get on topic again), ignoring it, would not be very smart.
Besides, you yourself are saying that "very very few people" care about Twitter, yet there are "countless" idiots (whether or not Twitter is idiotic or useful is outside the question). So, what is it? "Very very few" or "countless" people?
Let's not design anything for Desktop Linux anymore then. It's even less than 3%.
Your statistics are dumb. 90% is not everything, hell, 99% is not even everything. Certainly in the case of a huge market such as computing, 1% is not negligible, because it still stands for millions of users. There are 2 billion people online, some 40 million have an active Twitter account. According to your statistics, Twitter use is negligible.
I'm with you. I stopped caring. Deleted my account today. Also my Google+ account. For me the whole social networking thing was taking too much time with almost nothing in return.
Next week I'll meet a friend IRL for dinner and beers. I called him to make the meeting.
It amazes me that books like these are censored while the Qur'an and Hadith, which tell Muslims to subdue or kill non-Muslims to enter paradise, is allowed.
It amazes me that books like these are censored while the Bible, which tell Christians to kill non-believers, is allowed.
My point stays. It is not the speed of the link that is slowing sites down, it's all the extra stuff that needs to be generated, checked, crosschecked, analysed, etc.
Dynamic generated pages written by incompetent programmers is (slashdot?). Too many pages have too many dynamically generated content. All those database hits, JSON calls and data *processing* is slowing down the web, not the speed of the connections.
My company uses the S7 PLCs a lot, and they are known to be 'vulnerable' when you have access to them over the network. That is by design, that is how you program them. It is like saying a Linux machine is vulnerable, because port 22 is open. Difference is that, because of limited resources, a PLC doesn't need username and password to log on to.
Which is the reason, PLCs are in a industrial ethernet, with extensive firewall and only accessible through VPN. But once you can connect to them over port 102, you can do anything you like with them: reprogram, start, stop, etc. So, how to fix this? Don't use the 102 port and program/debug/control them using the MPI port. Problem is, you need physical access and that can be problematic in some cases.
When I read the subject, I thought you were going to suggest to change the tech behind authentication. Unfortunately, you only focused on passwords. I'd say we have to find a better way for authentication (which is what passwords are used for), that fits a normal human better.
As someone already said, humans are not built to remember string of random characters. Because of this simple fact, passwords will *always* be a weak method of authentication. So, to build better auth, we should let people use a method that is actually easy to use. Patterns perhaps, let them upload a photo. Use the builtin cam to auth using face recognition software, voice, fingerprints, a game. There has to be a better way to authenticate a human being than using an unrememberable sequence of random characters. It is just too authenticator-centric. Auth should be authentee-centric (that's why you use very long random keys for machine-machine auth).
Most digital clocks use a quartz oscillator as their frequency source. The mains power is not directly used for timing.
The only mains-powered clocks I've seen that use the power frequency as their frequency source tend to be older ones. Perhaps there's some modern ones that use it, but I've not seen any.
In 2001 (is that an "older one"?) I bought a 110V 60Hz clock in the US. When I came back in the Netherlands, I replaced the transformator from an old clock I had lying around. The Netherlands has 220V 50Hz and guess what? The clock ran minutes behind every night.
There's a lot of developers out there still afraid to use anything other than C++ for a basic desktop application because, "those other languages are slow".
Euhm. JavaScript *is* slow. In this case, it runs a technology of 13 years ago in a platform-on-a-platform. On hardware that is a zillion times faster than a handheld game computer. I have the feeling computers get more and more sluggish the last years, just because of all this eye candy and layer-upon-layer.
Remember C64 boot times? It was subsecond. Granted, it loaded almost nothing, but it is also 30 years ago. But even the iPad (dedicated hardware, relatively small OS footprint) needs several tens of seconds to boot.
When we install S7's (with our own SCADA/visualisation solution) we insist that we have VPN access from our offices, to ensure the SLA and reaction time guarantees.
So, yes separate networks, but certainly not completely off the internet. The separation of networks is mostly a performance and reliability measure (you don't want NETBIOS, ERP and webbrowsing trafic on the industrial LAN), not about security.
No, up to 52% goes to taxes via income tax (the more you make, the more you pay relatively) and of the money you have left, 20% goes also to taxes through sales tax. Then we have dog taxes, car (double) taxes, mandatory health insurance, profit taxes, parking fees, etc.
But the "lets crank the price til it hurts!" model frankly encourages piracy [...].
Not to mention the fact that, when you do buy that expensive movie or game, you are still treated like a criminal with all the unskippable "do not pirate this movie" clips in the beginning.
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I assume that the backtick on US keyboard layout is on a place so that Alt-backtick is easy to type, right?
But there are people in the world which do not use US keyboard layout.
These people can use CompizConfig to bind it to whatever they want.
Contrary to popular slashdot believe, Unity/Compiz is very customizable in its keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, etc.
1) The launch bar permanently docked on the left is a complete fail. If you find yourself moving your mouse to the left side of the screen often, you WILL get annoyed by the launch bar popping out. The result will be you clicking on something you had no intention of clicking on.
You can change the mouse gesture to summon that bar.
2) While we're on the subject of the slide out. Sometimes it doesn't unless you minimize EVERYTHING. Fail.
In Ubuntu 11.04 I found weird behavior on that bar. In 11.10 it behaves as expected, granted I changed the mouse gesture to bottom-left corner.
3) The File menu being at the top of the screen is cool until you tile a window and suddenly it seems alien that your window is in the middle of the screen, but your menu options are at the top.
That's "getting used to it". You can also see it as: the menu is always in the same spot. Doesn't work with sloppy focus though, but you can get the menu in the window with some changes.
4) Speaking of the File menu at the top, sometimes if you close your active window, the new File menu that appears at the top is not the actual active program that is now on your screen. It's some window hidden underneath.
Haven't seen that.
5) Alt+Tab is now completely and hopelessly broken. Got multiple windows open of the same program? It's so full of fail on that task I can't even quite explain it. You'll just have to experience that misery for yourself.
Tab between multiple windows of same program with Alt-` (that's a backtick).
There's lots more to hate about the latest Ubuntu incarnation. This is just the Unity fail list.
I'd put it in the box: not the defaults you are used to.
Mark Shuttleworth, you have a severely broken product. If you don't fix it, I promise your user base will shrink even more quickly than it grew.
The product isn't broken. It is a different paradigm with different defaults. You don't *have* to use it. Getting Gnome3 or XFCE on it is ridiculously easy and you can choose per session/user. I am amazed by the comments here; the rigidity of all the so-called geeks that do not take the time to configure their desktop to their likes with either different settings on Unity or installing another DE.
Have you actually used it longer than just looking at it after install?
I didn't like it in the beginning either, but now, I have my shortcut keys configured, my mouse gestures in place, and it is pretty usable (granted, finding all that out was *not* intuitive, compizconfig isn't very logical). The big buttons you are talking about are not always on the screen, only when there is room. There is actually *no* screen clutter *at all* when running a program fullscreen (which you are doing most of the time anyway).
Only problems I have is that it is pretty resource hungry, so I don't use it on my older laptop. And, I don't really get the Alt-Tab order. Sometimes it drops me into a program I haven't used for hours .... And sloppy focus doesn't work, because of the menu on top, but there is a work-around for that.
Conclusion: Unity is not that bad, it is just that the defaults do not match what I am used to.
I didn't say the statistics were incorrect, just "dumb". Meaning they are meaningless in my opinion. I do not think you can say something millions of people are using is negligible and then just ignore it. It is fine for a certain person (you) to ignore it, but for one of the most innovating browser companies out there (to get on topic again), ignoring it, would not be very smart.
Besides, you yourself are saying that "very very few people" care about Twitter, yet there are "countless" idiots (whether or not Twitter is idiotic or useful is outside the question). So, what is it? "Very very few" or "countless" people?
Great! My Firefox on Linux is actually benefiting from the Windows OS:
Does the browser benefit from Windows Operating System features that protect against arbitrary data execution? yes
This is one big marketing website, with actual, provable lies.
3% is negligible.
Let's not design anything for Desktop Linux anymore then. It's even less than 3%.
Your statistics are dumb. 90% is not everything, hell, 99% is not even everything. Certainly in the case of a huge market such as computing, 1% is not negligible, because it still stands for millions of users. There are 2 billion people online, some 40 million have an active Twitter account. According to your statistics, Twitter use is negligible.
1.21 gigawatts don't get you there. 1.21 jigawatts do.
I'm with you. I stopped caring. Deleted my account today. Also my Google+ account. For me the whole social networking thing was taking too much time with almost nothing in return.
Next week I'll meet a friend IRL for dinner and beers. I called him to make the meeting.
It amazes me that books like these are censored while the Qur'an and Hadith, which tell Muslims to subdue or kill non-Muslims to enter paradise, is allowed.
It amazes me that books like these are censored while the Bible, which tell Christians to kill non-believers, is allowed.
There you go, I fixed that
for you.
The point still stands.
I guess this shows you how clear and consistent Steve Jobs' vision has been on this topic?
Being able to change your views and business focus makes you survive the next crisis or get rich on the next boom.
Stick to your ideas, views and principles and your business will fail or stay niche at best.
The purpose of language is communication. If the idea is clear the grammar ain't important.
But, more often than not, making mistakes muddles the idea. Especially grammar and subtle spelling mistakes. Just learn to write decent and proofread.
What's going on with all the attempts to make an open/decentralized service?
It died together with Usenet.
My point stays. It is not the speed of the link that is slowing sites down, it's all the extra stuff that needs to be generated, checked, crosschecked, analysed, etc.
Dynamic generated pages written by incompetent programmers is (slashdot?). Too many pages have too many dynamically generated content. All those database hits, JSON calls and data *processing* is slowing down the web, not the speed of the connections.
My company uses the S7 PLCs a lot, and they are known to be 'vulnerable' when you have access to them over the network. That is by design, that is how you program them. It is like saying a Linux machine is vulnerable, because port 22 is open. Difference is that, because of limited resources, a PLC doesn't need username and password to log on to.
Which is the reason, PLCs are in a industrial ethernet, with extensive firewall and only accessible through VPN. But once you can connect to them over port 102, you can do anything you like with them: reprogram, start, stop, etc. So, how to fix this? Don't use the 102 port and program/debug/control them using the MPI port. Problem is, you need physical access and that can be problematic in some cases.
And why not sue Nokia, as my N900 also has "slide to unlock".
When I read the subject, I thought you were going to suggest to change the tech behind authentication. Unfortunately, you only focused on passwords. I'd say we have to find a better way for authentication (which is what passwords are used for), that fits a normal human better.
As someone already said, humans are not built to remember string of random characters. Because of this simple fact, passwords will *always* be a weak method of authentication. So, to build better auth, we should let people use a method that is actually easy to use. Patterns perhaps, let them upload a photo. Use the builtin cam to auth using face recognition software, voice, fingerprints, a game. There has to be a better way to authenticate a human being than using an unrememberable sequence of random characters. It is just too authenticator-centric. Auth should be authentee-centric (that's why you use very long random keys for machine-machine auth).
Thank you Adobe, and all the other companies that support Linux versions of their software.
You're right! It didn't kill me. I completely agree with you.
I like "if it ain't broke, pry it open and find out why" a lot more.
Most digital clocks use a quartz oscillator as their frequency source. The mains power is not directly used for timing.
The only mains-powered clocks I've seen that use the power frequency as their frequency source tend to be older ones. Perhaps there's some modern ones that use it, but I've not seen any.
In 2001 (is that an "older one"?) I bought a 110V 60Hz clock in the US. When I came back in the Netherlands, I replaced the transformator from an old clock I had lying around. The Netherlands has 220V 50Hz and guess what? The clock ran minutes behind every night.
I only found that out though after I got late.
There's a lot of developers out there still afraid to use anything other than C++ for a basic desktop application because, "those other languages are slow".
Euhm. JavaScript *is* slow. In this case, it runs a technology of 13 years ago in a platform-on-a-platform. On hardware that is a zillion times faster than a handheld game computer. I have the feeling computers get more and more sluggish the last years, just because of all this eye candy and layer-upon-layer.
Remember C64 boot times? It was subsecond. Granted, it loaded almost nothing, but it is also 30 years ago. But even the iPad (dedicated hardware, relatively small OS footprint) needs several tens of seconds to boot.
When we install S7's (with our own SCADA/visualisation solution) we insist that we have VPN access from our offices, to ensure the SLA and reaction time guarantees.
So, yes separate networks, but certainly not completely off the internet. The separation of networks is mostly a performance and reliability measure (you don't want NETBIOS, ERP and webbrowsing trafic on the industrial LAN), not about security.
No, up to 52% goes to taxes via income tax (the more you make, the more you pay relatively) and of the money you have left, 20% goes also to taxes through sales tax. Then we have dog taxes, car (double) taxes, mandatory health insurance, profit taxes, parking fees, etc.
I guess it's the price to pay for civilisation.
I do not like that Arpanet thingy. It doesn't run on my iPad ...
But the "lets crank the price til it hurts!" model frankly encourages piracy [...].
Not to mention the fact that, when you do buy that expensive movie or game, you are still treated like a criminal with all the unskippable "do not pirate this movie" clips in the beginning.