I am likely your parent's age; I tried Unity and completely hated it. Gnome3 is also horrible. I'll be looking for another distribution in the next 5 months.
yeah, but the next release there won't be a non-sucky alternative. best take the next 5.5 months to pick your next distro.
Plus, other major things are broken with 11.04, if you have certain routers or NAT devices, the ssh/sshd/ssl combination they put out will bite you in the ass. Spend a couple hours compiling a proper replacement from source and putting in the upstart and/etc/init.d - rc.d files and you might get cranky.
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that "minimum of time" is only until the next poor SOB has to modify some code. Then it's time to go a-wadin' through the whale guts.....
I see dead languages, languishing in the default installs of OS mostly as wrappers for menial tasks, taking command line arguments and making output in some cron and admin jobs, and they don't even know that they're dead! 8o
people were flopping over dead by age 30 for that glorious stretch of time for which you yearn. I'll take this part of the industrial age any day of the week
The ghost of Douglas Adams wailed: "Unity is sucky. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly sucky it is. I mean, you may think a vacuum truck with a 6 inch suction line draining a septic tank full of diarrhea is sucky, but that's peanuts to Unity"
Actually, its the decades of atmospheric nuclear testing that put the plutonium in the world's soil, that's disgusting as are the observed increase in thyroid tumor and cancer rates in the lifetimes (from iodine 131 release) of those over 40. Our government did those above ground testings knowing full well the contamination released and estimated health problems and deaths, you can read 1960s reports of its measurement. We truly are ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths in the pockets of mega-corporations run by more of the same.
What is the full cost of nuclear, with the 100,000+ year storage requirements on the current uranium oxide based spent fuel? These concrete casks we're mostly NOT using (but using fuel pools instead) won't last that long, lucky if we got a few centuries out of them with the assumption our civilization doesn't rise and fall so people remember the risk and avoid them. Since we're far too dumb to use it as fuel source here in the USA, I'd say the long term storage costs and risks blow any solar argument out of the water.
Your robotic hands have self contained power supplies and can walk and climb? they have radiation hardened electronics? This isn't a job for a roomba....
Oil has been heavily subsidized too, some chunk of the defense budget of the U.S. even factors into that.
I agree biotech is the future of everything. Growing our houses, computers, transportation, appliances, tools - once over a threshold and then poverty goes away
There are plenty of natural coal seam fires too, some have been burning for centuries. So it's not fair to say they're all a consequence of mining. Just because it's cool I'll add that In the past there were at least 16 natural fission reactors on earth too, with average 100KW output each. Funny they were partly caused by the concentration of u-235 in natural uranium way back when being about civilian reactor levels, ~3%.
There can be other damage from earthquake than coolant loss, what about weakening of fuel assemblies or cracking of containment or in pressure vessel or condenser or turbine enclosures that doesn't cause immediate leak? There is good reason the reactors shut down, having later sudden loss of coolant on running reactor is a disaster.
There are plenty of people looking for work who would do it, just as there are people who contract in Iraq even though a few contractors were beheaded, just as there are people who work in war zones.
but then you'll want to gouge out your eyes with a grapefruit spoon, open your skull with the can opener of a swiss army knife, remove your brain, and scrub it with steel wool.
To say nothing of the economic effects of using a thousand or more nukes, really cuts into profit margins and raises cost of living and cost of doing business!
or as gilbert godfrey would say, "the worst thing about global nuclear warfare.....you think it's hard to get taxi *now*.....
do you take care of your gear? I've three working Macs in the house the youngest of which is six years old. I've re-soldered the stupidly designed power connector twice but the drive is fine.
Microsoft Office has huge problems inter-operating with various versions of itself, and the web view has many bugs to give differing presentations. And that ribbon is the biggest UI abomination I've ever had to work with for the last six months at my company. That's why I mostly use OpenOffice and only use the Microsoft shit when absolutely necessary for a client. The sooner the world gets off that overpriced garbage the better. Many entire countries are throwing Microsoft OS and Office Productivity Impediment Suite in the crapper, and of course the Internet Exploder and Outhouse mail client have cost businesses billions of dollars in damages by spreading malware.
I prefer BSD for servers over GNU/Linux when I'm able to make the choice. BSD teams work on the distribution as an integrated whole, less of the patchwork quilt / Frankenstein that is typical Linux distro.
“BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix developers port a Unix system to the PC. A Linux distro is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write and cobble together a Unix system for the PC.” -- unknown
It's great that Fedora is back on the path of turning out very stable releases. The differences from Ubuntu would be that Fedora
1. more work to find and get proprietary drivers installed (for those of us who buy used gear this is concern, but sure if you specify and buy new things then you can act on Linux-friendliness and open drivers)
2. Ubuntu has bigger repository (thanks to Debian. only a consideration if you want something that isn't there,then again more work to compile yourself)
3. Ubuntu has richer non-English language support
4. Ubuntu doesn't have the SE Linux annoyance factor, AppArmor is much less a PITA
Have you actually TRIED Mint Debian? It only proves the point that a herculian polishing effort is needed to make Debian useful for the common person, because Debian Mint lacks it. Ubuntu put Debian on the desktop map. There's a reason Mint has to start with Ubuntu and not Debian to make something ordinary people can use.
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I am likely your parent's age; I tried Unity and completely hated it. Gnome3 is also horrible. I'll be looking for another distribution in the next 5 months.
Yup, that's Ubuntu before the suckage added.
Or Unbuntu with the suck massaged out: http://www.linuxmint.com/
Too light to contain suck: http://www.archlinux.org/
Too tiny to hold suck: http://puppylinux.com/
Got their suck fixed a few releases ago, it's all good now: http://www.fedoraproject.org/
fixed their suck a while ago too, lookin' good: http://www.freebsd.org/
supports all kinds of desktops that don't suck: http://www.mandriva.com/
roll your own without the suck: http://www.gentoo.org/
yeah, but the next release there won't be a non-sucky alternative. best take the next 5.5 months to pick your next distro.
Plus, other major things are broken with 11.04, if you have certain routers or NAT devices, the ssh/sshd/ssl combination they put out will bite you in the ass. Spend a couple hours compiling a proper replacement from source and putting in the upstart and /etc/init.d - rc.d files and you might get cranky.
that "minimum of time" is only until the next poor SOB has to modify some code. Then it's time to go a-wadin' through the whale guts.....
I see dead languages, languishing in the default installs of OS mostly as wrappers for menial tasks, taking command line arguments and making output in some cron and admin jobs, and they don't even know that they're dead! 8o
people were flopping over dead by age 30 for that glorious stretch of time for which you yearn. I'll take this part of the industrial age any day of the week
The ghost of Douglas Adams wailed: "Unity is sucky. You just won't believe how vastly,
hugely, mind-bogglingly sucky it is. I mean, you may think a vacuum truck
with a 6 inch suction line draining a septic tank full of diarrhea is sucky, but that's peanuts
to Unity"
Indeed, this very near plumbs the depths at which Al Gore's dumb-assed absurdities dwell, but not quite.
Actually, its the decades of atmospheric nuclear testing that put the plutonium in the world's soil, that's disgusting as are the observed increase in thyroid tumor and cancer rates in the lifetimes (from iodine 131 release) of those over 40. Our government did those above ground testings knowing full well the contamination released and estimated health problems and deaths, you can read 1960s reports of its measurement. We truly are ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths in the pockets of mega-corporations run by more of the same.
What is the full cost of nuclear, with the 100,000+ year storage requirements on the current uranium oxide based spent fuel? These concrete casks we're mostly NOT using (but using fuel pools instead) won't last that long, lucky if we got a few centuries out of them with the assumption our civilization doesn't rise and fall so people remember the risk and avoid them. Since we're far too dumb to use it as fuel source here in the USA, I'd say the long term storage costs and risks blow any solar argument out of the water.
more importantly, the IAEA hasn't corroborated this at all. If it isn't here it didn't happen: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
Your robotic hands have self contained power supplies and can walk and climb? they have radiation hardened electronics? This isn't a job for a roomba....
Oil has been heavily subsidized too, some chunk of the defense budget of the U.S. even factors into that.
I agree biotech is the future of everything. Growing our houses, computers, transportation, appliances, tools - once over a threshold and then poverty goes away
There are plenty of natural coal seam fires too, some have been burning for centuries. So it's not fair to say they're all a consequence of mining. Just because it's cool I'll add that In the past there were at least 16 natural fission reactors on earth too, with average 100KW output each. Funny they were partly caused by the concentration of u-235 in natural uranium way back when being about civilian reactor levels, ~3%.
There can be other damage from earthquake than coolant loss, what about weakening of fuel assemblies or cracking of containment or in pressure vessel or condenser or turbine enclosures that doesn't cause immediate leak? There is good reason the reactors shut down, having later sudden loss of coolant on running reactor is a disaster.
There are plenty of people looking for work who would do it, just as there are people who contract in Iraq even though a few contractors were beheaded, just as there are people who work in war zones.
you left out the x86-64 servers and blades that rule your online world
instead of knitting needle, you could just listen to this with the volume turned up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FukYIJhc_C8
but then you'll want to gouge out your eyes with a grapefruit spoon, open your skull with the can opener of a swiss army knife, remove your brain, and scrub it with steel wool.
To say nothing of the economic effects of using a thousand or more nukes, really cuts into profit margins and raises cost of living and cost of doing business!
or as gilbert godfrey would say, "the worst thing about global nuclear warfare.....you think it's hard to get taxi *now*.....
said a former muslim I know, "I wouldn't want 72 virgins, I want 72 total sluts!"
My theory is that paradise has used up all the virgins long ago, now they have "refurbished virgins", kind of like a re-tread on a tire
do you take care of your gear? I've three working Macs in the house the youngest of which is six years old. I've re-soldered the stupidly designed power connector twice but the drive is fine.
Microsoft Office has huge problems inter-operating with various versions of itself, and the web view has many bugs to give differing presentations. And that ribbon is the biggest UI abomination I've ever had to work with for the last six months at my company. That's why I mostly use OpenOffice and only use the Microsoft shit when absolutely necessary for a client. The sooner the world gets off that overpriced garbage the better. Many entire countries are throwing Microsoft OS and Office Productivity Impediment Suite in the crapper, and of course the Internet Exploder and Outhouse mail client have cost businesses billions of dollars in damages by spreading malware.
I prefer BSD for servers over GNU/Linux when I'm able to make the choice. BSD teams work on the distribution as an integrated whole, less of the patchwork quilt / Frankenstein that is typical Linux distro.
“BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix developers port a Unix system to the PC. A Linux distro is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write and cobble together a Unix system for the PC.” -- unknown
It's great that Fedora is back on the path of turning out very stable releases. The differences from Ubuntu would be that Fedora
1. more work to find and get proprietary drivers installed (for those of us who buy used gear this is concern, but sure if you specify and buy new things then you can act on Linux-friendliness and open drivers)
2. Ubuntu has bigger repository (thanks to Debian. only a consideration if you want something that isn't there,then again more work to compile yourself)
3. Ubuntu has richer non-English language support
4. Ubuntu doesn't have the SE Linux annoyance factor, AppArmor is much less a PITA
Have you actually TRIED Mint Debian? It only proves the point that a herculian polishing effort is needed to make Debian useful for the common person, because Debian Mint lacks it. Ubuntu put Debian on the desktop map. There's a reason Mint has to start with Ubuntu and not Debian to make something ordinary people can use.