Windows users rarely buy applications in general. They use freeware and open source ones, and play games. Some will get a pirated version of Photoshop or stuff like Reason and Ableton Live.
I guess people would object less to giving up Windows XP if the plain old simple GUI was still an option. Not just "Classic" UI in Windows 7 : that one is crippled with the colour themes removed, it is absent from Windows 8.x, the task bar has to be tweaked and feels maybe not 100% the same (I want "show desktop" on the left, not the right). Most of all, if you go that way you have that ugly ass file manager. It's ugly and wastes space.
I used a 3rd party file manager, but it was not integrated (start menu, desktop icons or win+r will still open Windows's file manager)
Does it provide you with an environment that replaces the Android UI, or is it launched as an Android application? Does it run Android apps or only Ubuntu apps in Ubuntu mode? Does it work only when the phone is "docked"? What are the Android versions supported or needed, and will I be left behind when the Android part inevitably doesn't get updates? What are the system requirements..
That's too many questions and I don't think consumers want or can learn all the details. Only a small fraction of people would ever install or use this thing and that's before considering (non existing) carrier or phone vendor support.
Firstly, microsoft is making me look like a lying dick. When I heard about this IE vulnerability, I thought "awesome! now everyone that hummed hawed and complained at me for forcing upgrades will be apologizing!". So i am pretty pissed off that they now go back on their word and still support XP making me look like I didn't know what I was talking about.
That's okay. Your friends and family won't hear of that flaw and patch unless they read Slashdot or other tech websites. There's also a pretty much untold story. Google Chrome and maybe Firefox and some other stuff support XP for an additional year. Microsoft does support a version of XP for one more year too!, it's called Windows Server 2003 with final EOL on July, 14th 2015. It is not strictly XP but is rather close.
So you're the guy tailgating me:). Driving slowly (slowish) makes it easy to follow the rules. On the highway, drive at whatever the speed you wish on the right lane ; if there's traffic riding with the haul trucks might be an option. On a non-highway road, drive at whatever speed but if there's speedy traffic you might be driven to drive faster.. But either way this way of driving works if you consider the speed limit as a maximum instead of a minimum.
It might be more relevant in Europe with lots of turns on the road, whereas US roads may be straight lines with even the whole State planned as parallel and orthogonal lines. I like driving at constant speed whereas others speed in the lines and slow down in the turns.
I read about free piston engine about one year ago, and it described a single piston going back and forth. Very interesting that the concept was devised in the 50s, it makes me think that the flying car was invented in the 50s as well. Only it was uncontrollable and not worth for anything except hovering over the ground for 30 seconds or such.
That must be theoretical efficiency (I thought of that after hitting "submit"). That makes me think of audio amplifiers. Class D amps have a theoretical efficiency of 100%:), real world results are about 88% to 92%.
The synchronization would have to be between the electronic control units. So it can be implemented by running e.g. an ethernet cable between the two engines.
As for efficency I read a claim they can do 60%, which is crazy high and pretty much the max for anything. But my source is weak (finding about free-piston engines serendipitously and maybe doing some google searches)
Nobody has used them because they need some high tech. From what I've read free-piston engines need to be computer-controlled at a very high rate, else the technology is unworkable. Something like an Intel 8051 wouldn't keep up, so for that reason alone it was not invented 30 years ago. Writing the firmware must be hard, as hinted by the wikipedia article's end. Maybe that requires a lot of computer simulations, which is easier to do in the 2000s and 2010s to say the least.
I do agree a portable generator would nice, or a lightweight vehicle that doubles as a power plant. 10 kilowatts would be pretty good for audio gear, lighting and an ice machine to keep the beer cool.
10 kilowatts ought to be enough, it's like the output of 50 human beings (unless they're working really hard at pedaling), I also don't feel the need to go over 50 mph.
In fact it is a good match for the european category of heavy motorised quadricycle : up to 15 kilowatts, up to 1 ton payload (when transporting goods ; max vehicle weight at 550 kg in this case) and top speed not very high. If the engine can be scaled down in power as well as size and weight you open up the lightweight category which is max 4 kilowatts, max 200 kg payload and slow but can be driven without driver license (45kph max)
Have just enough battery range for driving out of parkings, driveways etc. and very short trips.. That drives cost, weight and charging time down and is a nice solution for when you just wanted to pick up stuff at a nearby store or in a rural area, go to the village back and forth.
For the engines themselves, free-piston and electrics, that seems elegant. The thermal engine runs at fixed rpm and is ideally suited for a vehicle where there would be no transmission, chain, crank whatever ; the electric ones give full torque. For full size vehicles it is maybe not so much a revolution (with the exception of being able to burn any fuel, including synthetic ones and ammonia)
A lot of that stuff would belong to log files. A lot of it would happen so fast you don't have time to read it, and would even be unavailable to sight because of loading pages in background tabs (alternative is to display status info to what goes on in 5 tabs or just all tabs). It would often get flooded like a status LED blinking so fast it looks always on.
I only use mate-terminal and lxterminal, they never seem to fail me. But I once had a screen years ago that refused to resize (not fun on the 80x25 text mode console), I don't remember if I found a way to scroll it or if just coughed it up. Hasn't happened since.
xterm has been a fallback for me in Unity.. I can't find the terminal emulator in Unity and don't know its name, so I launch xterm instead. (yeah I think Unity's terminal emulator showed up in the "lens" eventually, but why bother)
All my tabs are light gray, old menus still there
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I guess I was lucky, for not using Windows or Mac OS and because of luck with my GTK theme. But I'm now somehow liking the UI. I knew what was coming so I was prepared to see some new styling and loss of features. But first thing is, it kept the classic menu bar after upgrading (File, Edit, View etc.). Title bar is intact too. Same deal as I got when running Firefox >= 4 on linux. Then, perhaps because my background for menu bar was gray, the "background", inactivated tabs are on light gray as well. So I don't have high contrast between tabs at all! That's funny as it was one of the main points in screenshots and video.
All my extensions still work (a handful ones, but they're vital). My zooming buttons on toolbar (from the browser's stock featureset) were even still there. Customization is as every bit as easy as promised, within the limitations of course. Here how it was almost out of the box (bookmark buttons removed and maybe some minor things) http://i.imgur.com/kZ50vQJ.png
I then learnt you can put icons besides the classic menu bar, and they will be smaller than on the navigation bar. So I did. (zooming buttons are smaller and easier to use there.) I do have a few usability improvements (gained an icon for an extension, can zoom to 100% with one click, moved some stuff to the top bar. Current tab is somewhat easier to find with the curve)
"Sandwich menu" can't be moved or removed (I assume it's a sandwich with a slice of bread in the middle. Bread sandwich!) but can be cleaned up a little and ignored 99% of the time. I was lucky, won't go back to older versions.. I don't want to be an apologist, just wanted to share my experience of having it easy (this time?) It's still full of features not found in the Google Chrome UI. (such as middle-click scrolling and regular menus)
Before it was removed, you could turn it off and lose the way of telling where a link pointed to. So not the same thing. With all respect, it didn't really have other uses anymore, except that's historically where Netscape 4.x put some icons. Some extensions would display things there and that's about it. I do always make sure I use a file manager that has a status bar.
Maybe you remember wrong? Partial crashes is a Chrome feature. I've always had total crashes with firefox (at least it lets me know instantly that something has crashed) It was worse in old times as you would always lose the session, unless you installed an extension for that.
I actually love the lack of status bar. I can see more of the page. It has allowed me to see more of the page while still spending vertical space on a title bar, menu bar and the desktop environment's panels. When hovering hover a link, the target is still displayed on the bottom, mimicking the way it looked when it displayed in the status bar. It's perfect except in fringe cases (a javascript IRC client where the pseudo status bar pop-up thing would display over the input area, masking it)
Does Roku get software updates? If so, update it, duh, problem solved. Else buy a Roku 4 or yet another content-specific dongle. Let me guess, that "Amazon Fire" I'm learning about from your postdoesn't do iTunes/Apple TV stuff, and the Apple TV doesn't do Amazon stuff?
I don't know the answer to that question, but regarding Yahoo.. I've also just found a Yahoo app is advertised on the Apple TV, under the name of Yahoo Screen (maybe it's not an "app", it's a "channel"? or whatever the hell they call that thing) http://www.apple.com/appletv/w...
Will they show a beautiful and responsive webmail interface in some episodes? Think of the speed we'll be able to run Javascript at in the future, when some new tech replaces silicon! We'll even be able to access the notepad feature in less than five seconds!
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Windows users rarely buy applications in general. They use freeware and open source ones, and play games. Some will get a pirated version of Photoshop or stuff like Reason and Ableton Live.
I guess people would object less to giving up Windows XP if the plain old simple GUI was still an option. Not just "Classic" UI in Windows 7 : that one is crippled with the colour themes removed, it is absent from Windows 8.x, the task bar has to be tweaked and feels maybe not 100% the same (I want "show desktop" on the left, not the right). Most of all, if you go that way you have that ugly ass file manager. It's ugly and wastes space.
I used a 3rd party file manager, but it was not integrated (start menu, desktop icons or win+r will still open Windows's file manager)
Does it provide you with an environment that replaces the Android UI, or is it launched as an Android application? Does it run Android apps or only Ubuntu apps in Ubuntu mode? Does it work only when the phone is "docked"? What are the Android versions supported or needed, and will I be left behind when the Android part inevitably doesn't get updates? What are the system requirements..
That's too many questions and I don't think consumers want or can learn all the details. Only a small fraction of people would ever install or use this thing and that's before considering (non existing) carrier or phone vendor support.
Firstly, microsoft is making me look like a lying dick. When I heard about this IE vulnerability, I thought "awesome! now everyone that hummed hawed and complained at me for forcing upgrades will be apologizing!". So i am pretty pissed off that they now go back on their word and still support XP making me look like I didn't know what I was talking about.
That's okay. Your friends and family won't hear of that flaw and patch unless they read Slashdot or other tech websites.
There's also a pretty much untold story. Google Chrome and maybe Firefox and some other stuff support XP for an additional year. Microsoft does support a version of XP for one more year too!, it's called Windows Server 2003 with final EOL on July, 14th 2015. It is not strictly XP but is rather close.
How did it come down to Romney vs Obama exactly?
US people have a choice between a couple pre-screened and approved people who seem to pop out of nowhere. That doesn't happen randomly.
There is Windows 3.1 for Workgroups and Windows 3.11 not-for-Workgroups, but those versions must be extremely rare.
So you're the guy tailgating me :).
Driving slowly (slowish) makes it easy to follow the rules.
On the highway, drive at whatever the speed you wish on the right lane ; if there's traffic riding with the haul trucks might be an option. On a non-highway road, drive at whatever speed but if there's speedy traffic you might be driven to drive faster.. But either way this way of driving works if you consider the speed limit as a maximum instead of a minimum.
It might be more relevant in Europe with lots of turns on the road, whereas US roads may be straight lines with even the whole State planned as parallel and orthogonal lines. I like driving at constant speed whereas others speed in the lines and slow down in the turns.
If that's wireless ethernet, then I need a wireless cable.
I read about free piston engine about one year ago, and it described a single piston going back and forth.
Very interesting that the concept was devised in the 50s, it makes me think that the flying car was invented in the 50s as well. Only it was uncontrollable and not worth for anything except hovering over the ground for 30 seconds or such.
That must be theoretical efficiency (I thought of that after hitting "submit"). :), real world results are about 88% to 92%.
That makes me think of audio amplifiers. Class D amps have a theoretical efficiency of 100%
The synchronization would have to be between the electronic control units. So it can be implemented by running e.g. an ethernet cable between the two engines.
As for efficency I read a claim they can do 60%, which is crazy high and pretty much the max for anything. But my source is weak (finding about free-piston engines serendipitously and maybe doing some google searches)
Nobody has used them because they need some high tech. From what I've read free-piston engines need to be computer-controlled at a very high rate, else the technology is unworkable. Something like an Intel 8051 wouldn't keep up, so for that reason alone it was not invented 30 years ago.
Writing the firmware must be hard, as hinted by the wikipedia article's end. Maybe that requires a lot of computer simulations, which is easier to do in the 2000s and 2010s to say the least.
I do agree a portable generator would nice, or a lightweight vehicle that doubles as a power plant. 10 kilowatts would be pretty good for audio gear, lighting and an ice machine to keep the beer cool.
10 kilowatts ought to be enough, it's like the output of 50 human beings (unless they're working really hard at pedaling), I also don't feel the need to go over 50 mph.
In fact it is a good match for the european category of heavy motorised quadricycle : up to 15 kilowatts, up to 1 ton payload (when transporting goods ; max vehicle weight at 550 kg in this case) and top speed not very high.
If the engine can be scaled down in power as well as size and weight you open up the lightweight category which is max 4 kilowatts, max 200 kg payload and slow but can be driven without driver license (45kph max)
Have just enough battery range for driving out of parkings, driveways etc. and very short trips.. That drives cost, weight and charging time down and is a nice solution for when you just wanted to pick up stuff at a nearby store or in a rural area, go to the village back and forth.
For the engines themselves, free-piston and electrics, that seems elegant. The thermal engine runs at fixed rpm and is ideally suited for a vehicle where there would be no transmission, chain, crank whatever ; the electric ones give full torque. For full size vehicles it is maybe not so much a revolution (with the exception of being able to burn any fuel, including synthetic ones and ammonia)
Why not become a dog owner? you could do all of that with one or more.
Can the story be changed to be from the Redundancy of Derpartment Redundancy?
A lot of that stuff would belong to log files. A lot of it would happen so fast you don't have time to read it, and would even be unavailable to sight because of loading pages in background tabs (alternative is to display status info to what goes on in 5 tabs or just all tabs). It would often get flooded like a status LED blinking so fast it looks always on.
I only use mate-terminal and lxterminal, they never seem to fail me. But I once had a screen years ago that refused to resize (not fun on the 80x25 text mode console), I don't remember if I found a way to scroll it or if just coughed it up. Hasn't happened since.
xterm has been a fallback for me in Unity.. I can't find the terminal emulator in Unity and don't know its name, so I launch xterm instead. (yeah I think Unity's terminal emulator showed up in the "lens" eventually, but why bother)
I guess I was lucky, for not using Windows or Mac OS and because of luck with my GTK theme. But I'm now somehow liking the UI.
I knew what was coming so I was prepared to see some new styling and loss of features. But first thing is, it kept the classic menu bar after upgrading (File, Edit, View etc.). Title bar is intact too. Same deal as I got when running Firefox >= 4 on linux.
Then, perhaps because my background for menu bar was gray, the "background", inactivated tabs are on light gray as well. So I don't have high contrast between tabs at all! That's funny as it was one of the main points in screenshots and video.
All my extensions still work (a handful ones, but they're vital). My zooming buttons on toolbar (from the browser's stock featureset) were even still there. Customization is as every bit as easy as promised, within the limitations of course.
Here how it was almost out of the box (bookmark buttons removed and maybe some minor things)
http://i.imgur.com/kZ50vQJ.png
I then learnt you can put icons besides the classic menu bar, and they will be smaller than on the navigation bar. So I did. (zooming buttons are smaller and easier to use there.)
I do have a few usability improvements (gained an icon for an extension, can zoom to 100% with one click, moved some stuff to the top bar. Current tab is somewhat easier to find with the curve)
"Sandwich menu" can't be moved or removed (I assume it's a sandwich with a slice of bread in the middle. Bread sandwich!) but can be cleaned up a little and ignored 99% of the time. I was lucky, won't go back to older versions.. I don't want to be an apologist, just wanted to share my experience of having it easy (this time?)
It's still full of features not found in the Google Chrome UI. (such as middle-click scrolling and regular menus)
Before it was removed, you could turn it off and lose the way of telling where a link pointed to. So not the same thing. With all respect, it didn't really have other uses anymore, except that's historically where Netscape 4.x put some icons. Some extensions would display things there and that's about it.
I do always make sure I use a file manager that has a status bar.
Please use the ESR version, that'd be nicer and you wouldn't be encouraging the noobs to not update their software for fixes of security faults.
Maybe you remember wrong? Partial crashes is a Chrome feature. I've always had total crashes with firefox (at least it lets me know instantly that something has crashed)
It was worse in old times as you would always lose the session, unless you installed an extension for that.
I actually love the lack of status bar. I can see more of the page. It has allowed me to see more of the page while still spending vertical space on a title bar, menu bar and the desktop environment's panels. When hovering hover a link, the target is still displayed on the bottom, mimicking the way it looked when it displayed in the status bar. It's perfect except in fringe cases (a javascript IRC client where the pseudo status bar pop-up thing would display over the input area, masking it)
Does Roku get software updates? If so, update it, duh, problem solved. Else buy a Roku 4 or yet another content-specific dongle. Let me guess, that "Amazon Fire" I'm learning about from your postdoesn't do iTunes/Apple TV stuff, and the Apple TV doesn't do Amazon stuff?
I don't know the answer to that question, but regarding Yahoo.. I've also just found a Yahoo app is advertised on the Apple TV, under the name of Yahoo Screen (maybe it's not an "app", it's a "channel"? or whatever the hell they call that thing)
http://www.apple.com/appletv/w...
Will they show a beautiful and responsive webmail interface in some episodes? Think of the speed we'll be able to run Javascript at in the future, when some new tech replaces silicon! We'll even be able to access the notepad feature in less than five seconds!