So tell me, how's that unelected, undemocratic, unaccountable House of Lords doing for you?
And did you vote for an MEP at the last European election? The commissioners (the UK has two) are appointed by the democratically elected Prime Minister, btw...
Reputation and Trust take years to build up, and it can all be destroyed in minutes by the wrong decisions. Back in the day, SF used to be the go-to place, but not anymore. I avoid it like the plague, like many, many others.
Good luck trying to build it again, but remember what I posted about reputation and trust...
My other half still has her Dell laptop I bought her over 10 years ago to do her phd with, and she still uses it (In fact, she's using it right now)
In terms of replacements it's had:
A new operating system...the vista preinstall lasted an hour or so before she asked me to replace with Kubuntu, which it's had ever since)
A new hard drive (daughterling pushed it off the end of a coffee table)
New hinges
New charger
Two new fans (I cleaned up the cpu and gpu and applied arctic silver before reseating the fan and heatsink)
3rd keyboard (said daughterling pulled off a number of the keys, 2nd got coffee spilled over it)
New powerboard
The screen will need to be replaced since there's a bunch of dead pixels in the middle of the screen, and the mouse buttons could do with being replaced since one of them is soft and doesn't click anymore
Indeed. We got a laser quite some years ago and never looked back. It's off for several months, we switch it on to print a chapter from a journal, and it prints like it was used yesterday. We still have the old inkjet because it has the flatbed scanner that we use.
Inkjets are expensive, high maintenance machines, and life is too short.
VPN's won't help either. If you have to pay via a credit card, they know which country you're from and they they can deny the service based on this. You'd have to get a credit card in the issuing country, with a corresponding address in that country
They have this same implementation for restricting the sale of mp3's; you can't for example buy mp3's from amazon.co.uk if you live in Canada and have a Canadian credit card.
I find it horrible too, basically because the interface is so fucking ugly, with three pale, bland colour schemes to choose from (blinding white, light grey and a slightly darker light grey). PLUS THE MENU ITEMS SHOUT AT YOU
If they made it nicer to look at and not so flat looking, I might be tempted to use it
It would be really nice if they took a leaf out of the *nix book and made it possible to keep programs on top. It's constantly annoying having things like notepad etc disappearing when you make the program behind it active, and you have to keep clicking on the taskbar to bring it back.
Um, this craft is NOT a drone, not by a long chalk. A drone is an autonomous vehicle, capable of taking off, flying a pre-programmed route and landing. This is always under human copntrol at all times so it's just a radio controlled aircraft.
I think he's referring to that ice cream sandwich (That's what I call it) icon that is the settings...the three horizontal lines thing that the UX retards have replaced the wrench or gear icon with.
"Microsoft deserves full credit for keeping their system size and complexity down over the past few revs" Um, have you seen the size of a win8 install? It weighs in at around 17Gb
By contrast I can still fit a newly released version of a Linux Distro onto a single CD, DVD or memory stick
More stealthy? Nah, using WWII era radar, these so-called stealth planes light up like a Christmas tree. Plus they cannot fly in rain, because the radar absorbing paint, er, washes off...
Ah, but the difference is, they introduce new features, and remove the existing options. Under KDE, they introduced the same gimped start menu that win7 ships with. I hate it. BUT....KDE give users a choice to use the standard kde 'start' menu, if they wanted to. Why is a massive company like microsoft seemingly incabable of realising that users need and want choice and customisation in how they want to do things? seriously, how hard is it to leave the start menu alone, but give users the choice to enable/disable it? Why can't I resize the start screen tiles to exactly whaetver size I want? or colour them anyway I like, or theme them, or give them some depth, or change the shitty boring icons to something more skeuomorphic, and pleasing to the eye, so that I actually know what they mean?
For win7, I have to install a 3rd party tool like classic shell in order use the normal start menu.
For a long time, there was this thing in software design, where users could customise to their hearts content and make things look the way they wanted to; now it's all about removing choice and options, and 'It's this way or nothing' mentaility. It's really poor thinking. Office 2013...there are 3, yes 3 colour schemes...blinding white, light grey, slightly darker grey. It looks fucking awful!!! It looks like a rough and ready beta version, where they couldn't be arsed to make it look decent.
Big reason why we switched to linux and never looked back. I'm grateful to the developers for giving us the choice in how we want to make things look.
Slashdot Mirror
Hopefully where?
What, like this?
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/u...
So tell me, how's that unelected, undemocratic, unaccountable House of Lords doing for you?
And did you vote for an MEP at the last European election? The commissioners (the UK has two) are appointed by the democratically elected Prime Minister, btw...
Flashblock on Firefox seems to have gone to shit recently. Is there a version that works?
The big clue was that they're giving it away for free, and the user is the product...
Reputation and Trust take years to build up, and it can all be destroyed in minutes by the wrong decisions. Back in the day, SF used to be the go-to place, but not anymore. I avoid it like the plague, like many, many others.
Good luck trying to build it again, but remember what I posted about reputation and trust...
A new operating system...the vista preinstall lasted an hour or so before she asked me to replace with Kubuntu, which it's had ever since)
A new hard drive (daughterling pushed it off the end of a coffee table)
New hinges
New charger
Two new fans (I cleaned up the cpu and gpu and applied arctic silver before reseating the fan and heatsink)
3rd keyboard (said daughterling pulled off a number of the keys, 2nd got coffee spilled over it)
New powerboard
The screen will need to be replaced since there's a bunch of dead pixels in the middle of the screen, and the mouse buttons could do with being replaced since one of them is soft and doesn't click anymore
Other than that, it's running well.
Online ads? They have online ads? Seriously? Where?
Indeed. We got a laser quite some years ago and never looked back. It's off for several months, we switch it on to print a chapter from a journal, and it prints like it was used yesterday. We still have the old inkjet because it has the flatbed scanner that we use.
Inkjets are expensive, high maintenance machines, and life is too short.
VPN's won't help either. If you have to pay via a credit card, they know which country you're from and they they can deny the service based on this. You'd have to get a credit card in the issuing country, with a corresponding address in that country
They have this same implementation for restricting the sale of mp3's; you can't for example buy mp3's from amazon.co.uk if you live in Canada and have a Canadian credit card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Don't want them, don't watch them.
Buy an espresso machine, instead of this pod garbage. coffee is much nicer and you can make whatever you want.
I find it horrible too, basically because the interface is so fucking ugly, with three pale, bland colour schemes to choose from (blinding white, light grey and a slightly darker light grey). PLUS THE MENU ITEMS SHOUT AT YOU
If they made it nicer to look at and not so flat looking, I might be tempted to use it
It would be really nice if they took a leaf out of the *nix book and made it possible to keep programs on top. It's constantly annoying having things like notepad etc disappearing when you make the program behind it active, and you have to keep clicking on the taskbar to bring it back.
Um, this craft is NOT a drone, not by a long chalk. A drone is an autonomous vehicle, capable of taking off, flying a pre-programmed route and landing. This is always under human copntrol at all times so it's just a radio controlled aircraft.
Sigh.
Kinda where linux was 10 years ago. Glad to hear they're finally playing catchup.
Ah, but can they be configured to just disappear the fuck away and never come back? Because that's what we all want. :-)
I think he's referring to that ice cream sandwich (That's what I call it) icon that is the settings...the three horizontal lines thing that the UX retards have replaced the wrench or gear icon with.
"Microsoft deserves full credit for keeping their system size and complexity down over the past few revs"
Um, have you seen the size of a win8 install? It weighs in at around 17Gb
By contrast I can still fit a newly released version of a Linux Distro onto a single CD, DVD or memory stick
The very first thing I did to win2012 R2 was install classic shell and turn off all the metro BS...no mess no fuss, everyone's happy.
It's been going to shit ever since around the time it was taken over by microsoft
I still want to know why a clean install of winders 8 eats 17Gb of hard drive space...
I mean, what the hell is in it that takes up that amount of space? It's obscene. And yet I can fit a fully working linux distro on a CD.
More stealthy? Nah, using WWII era radar, these so-called stealth planes light up like a Christmas tree. Plus they cannot fly in rain, because the radar absorbing paint, er, washes off...
Ah, but the difference is, they introduce new features, and remove the existing options. Under KDE, they introduced the same gimped start menu that win7 ships with. I hate it. BUT....KDE give users a choice to use the standard kde 'start' menu, if they wanted to. Why is a massive company like microsoft seemingly incabable of realising that users need and want choice and customisation in how they want to do things? seriously, how hard is it to leave the start menu alone, but give users the choice to enable/disable it? Why can't I resize the start screen tiles to exactly whaetver size I want? or colour them anyway I like, or theme them, or give them some depth, or change the shitty boring icons to something more skeuomorphic, and pleasing to the eye, so that I actually know what they mean?
For win7, I have to install a 3rd party tool like classic shell in order use the normal start menu.
For a long time, there was this thing in software design, where users could customise to their hearts content and make things look the way they wanted to; now it's all about removing choice and options, and 'It's this way or nothing' mentaility. It's really poor thinking. Office 2013...there are 3, yes 3 colour schemes...blinding white, light grey, slightly darker grey. It looks fucking awful!!! It looks like a rough and ready beta version, where they couldn't be arsed to make it look decent.
Big reason why we switched to linux and never looked back. I'm grateful to the developers for giving us the choice in how we want to make things look.