I found it to be as slow as running Windows with malware, and only marginally less annoying. Hell, I have now loaded KDE and XFCE as well as gnome-shell, and choose according to my mood.
Shuttleworth should poor some money into XFCE95 - that is where the majority of users want to go!
Floopy disks! The smoke of choice for all true nerds.
Win 3.51 was a lot better than DOS4! On a good day, you could probably read a file and network (using add-ons), although not necessarily in the same hour.
What is exactly the difference with the middle ages?
In the middle ages, they had not heard of Marie Antoinette, and Madame La Guillotine. Of course, in the USA, no one knows about history anyway, so perhaps there is no difference.
Well, you can always use Cyanogenmod or Leedroid, or many other alternatives. Your existing apps would continue to work, and you can use your SD card to expand the space for apps.
Just try that with a Winphone!
TRWTF is that fragmentation is the best defense against malware! Fragmentation guarantees one malware won't fit all!
Or maybe Ford should only make the model T because anything else would confuse the market? (Beat that, bad-analogy-guy!)
The jury might want to study the effects of solar radiation and flashlights on people.
Interesting questions are: What percentage of 1GHz penetrates more than 0.5 mm into the skin? how is it going to affect you if you don't feel any heat? If it doesn't make your eyeballs frost over, just how strong is the evil effect ?
Hes saying that windows is built with users in mind
while the truth is that Windows was built with MS in mind.
While, in the olden days PT Barnum was right "There's one born every minute", the youth of today has access to the Internet (qv) and is aware that MS is not the only game in town They can Google and find out that almost anything is better than MS products, and someone will even find out how to install OpenBSD with FVWM95 on a Samsung Note 2 (please let me know if you do manage this!)
It may take a while to die, but the MS monster will eventually die for sure.
Dont ignore the fact that most CEOs are manic depressives with a one month event horizon.
Mark My Words (official introduction to doom laden prophesy)
In 18 months, every family will have a tablet per member, plus a surface that has crashed, and will go back to using the laptop/desktop for school/work/email and will only use the tablet for videos (porn).
Apple's model is to target fanbois and the follow-fashion monkeys. There is no shortage of them, so they are good for a few more years to come.
I also predict BB will survive if they go back to having keyboards. Round here, all the schoolgirls use them for texting. (Business men need a bigger screen for porn) However, BBs problem is that three year old BBs work fine, so, at the end of a two year contract, they get a Samsung as well. When that contract runs out, they will probably replace their now five year old BB if the new model has a keyboard else it will be a new <random Android manufacturer's product>.
You do not infringe a patent for wifi by making and seling the gear that is needed for it, not by using it. Netgear/Cisco might be infringing, you cannot be (unless you wrote the code for Netgear). Just having Netgear kit in your house is not an infringement no matter what the patent says or however infringing Netgear's equipment is.
Disclaimer: I live in Europe, and consequently believe all Amercans aire inherently batshit crazy.
I have invented loads of things, and sat on them because I cannot afford to patent them. When I worked for Xerox corp, they had a scheme for telling them about your inventions, and I told them about several. At first they paid me, but later they ripped me off. One of the inventions I told them about was something I invented while at college in 1974. Xerox said they were not interested in it. It was reinvented by others in 2008, and is now known as the MAGFET.
Several other things I have invented have gone into commercial production decades after I invented them. Here in the UK, no one wants to know about new inventions. That Includes the UK offices of Ford and General Motors. I still have plenty of inventions worth millions - no one wants them. If you know someone who does,, and is willing to pay for it let me know.
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Just wait til you are over 40!
You are obviously speaking from experience here!
I always suspected Unity caused sexual deviance - now we know it is true!
Shuttleworth should poor some money into XFCE95 - that is where the majority of users want to go!
Damn, I think that coffee was caffiene free.
Someone has obviously not been to "websites that suck.com": Rule No. 1 is: DONT HIDE THE NAVIGATION TOOLS
Floopy disks! The smoke of choice for all true nerds.
Win 3.51 was a lot better than DOS4! On a good day, you could probably read a file and network (using add-ons), although not necessarily in the same hour.
So what are you doing here then? Picture or it didn't happen!
Obviously you are not a thirteen year old school-girl with no friends. That is the target audience for FB. Nerds come here instead.
In the middle ages, they had not heard of Marie Antoinette, and Madame La Guillotine. Of course, in the USA, no one knows about history anyway, so perhaps there is no difference.
Eating Horseburgers?
If you are going to store the results in a database, why not pick pick?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system Then you wont have to!
Maybe then, though I doubt it - OpenBSD is your best bet now, unless you know Slowaris really well.
It is there to tax people for being clever, like the lottery is there to tax people for being foolish. What is Google for? (RTFM)
Plus the US sunlight was measured in US gallons, while the German sunlight was measured in Litres!
Disclaimer: my Fiat is definitely clapped out, and cant even be activated adequately by the ignition key!
Mod parent up: This is the only sensible comment in this entire tread. It is way more sensible than my previous three posts.
Just try that with a Winphone!
TRWTF is that fragmentation is the best defense against malware! Fragmentation guarantees one malware won't fit all!
Or maybe Ford should only make the model T because anything else would confuse the market? (Beat that, bad-analogy-guy!)
Interesting questions are: What percentage of 1GHz penetrates more than 0.5 mm into the skin? how is it going to affect you if you don't feel any heat? If it doesn't make your eyeballs frost over, just how strong is the evil effect ?
while the truth is that Windows was built with MS in mind.
While, in the olden days PT Barnum was right "There's one born every minute", the youth of today has access to the Internet (qv) and is aware that MS is not the only game in town They can Google and find out that almost anything is better than MS products, and someone will even find out how to install OpenBSD with FVWM95 on a Samsung Note 2 (please let me know if you do manage this!)
It may take a while to die, but the MS monster will eventually die for sure.
Mark My Words (official introduction to doom laden prophesy)
In 18 months, every family will have a tablet per member, plus a surface that has crashed, and will go back to using the laptop/desktop for school/work/email and will only use the tablet for videos (porn).
Apple's model is to target fanbois and the follow-fashion monkeys. There is no shortage of them, so they are good for a few more years to come.
I also predict BB will survive if they go back to having keyboards. Round here, all the schoolgirls use them for texting. (Business men need a bigger screen for porn) However, BBs problem is that three year old BBs work fine, so, at the end of a two year contract, they get a Samsung as well. When that contract runs out, they will probably replace their now five year old BB if the new model has a keyboard else it will be a new <random Android manufacturer's product>.
Moral: Short MS, Hold BB and buy APPL
FFY
Disclaimer: I live in Europe, and consequently believe all Amercans aire inherently batshit crazy.
Never underestimate the attraction of a suggestively leering gnome to the truely gullible!
Mod parent +1:???
Several other things I have invented have gone into commercial production decades after I invented them. Here in the UK, no one wants to know about new inventions. That Includes the UK offices of Ford and General Motors. I still have plenty of inventions worth millions - no one wants them. If you know someone who does,, and is willing to pay for it let me know.