Long story short, it once looked like it might be a free desktop alternative, that however has turned out to be false. Right now it looks like it's going to be doomed to be a niche OS.
Weird. I haven't used a Windows desktop for more than a few hours in the last three years.
Of course that was before the 'UI designers' signed a global suicide pact.
Everyone wants their own 'walled garden' to force users to buy their stuff. Sadly, we've got a whole new generation of users who weren't around in the 80s and don't remember how much that fscking sucks.
Indeed. It goes at least back to Nixon ending gold convertibility to allow him to continue to fund Kennedy's Vietnam debacle.,, after removing any limits to money-printing, the end result was inevitable.
This still doesn't give you Gnome2's drawer applet, weather applet, sensors applet, CPU scaling applet, mini commander applet, and a lot of other Gnome2 features.
Features confuse users and must be exterminated for us to enter UI Heaven.
This one is so easy to overcome. Firstly, you can right click on the instance of terminal in the favourites and select "new window". Admittedly this does double the number of required clicks from one to two.
And, unless they've changed how the Terminal window works, when you kill the first one it kills all its children too.
Had to speak up here. Games that don't focus on plot become repetitive and thin.
My three years of playing Unreal Tournament would disagree with you. In fact, I'd say quite the opposite: games which _do_ focus on plot become repetitive because _the plot is the only thing you can do_.
Or do you think that the NFL should introduce a plot into football games so the audience don't get bored of the repetitive gameplay?
One of the reasons I stopped playing many games was because they started making me spend more time in cut-scenes than gameplay, and forcing my character to do things that I would never have done in order to advance the story in the direction they wanted to force me to go. Not only that, but the three-hour-long cut-scene would be created by frustrated wannabe movie director who was a wannabe because they had no clue about how to cut a movie scene, with random cuts between shots and dialog that gives me the same information six times before it moves on to something new.
So, please God, game developers listen to him and stop trying to force a story on top of a game that would otherwise be fun. I have a lot more fun in, say, the GTA games by just driving around doing stuff than playing the tedious story missions.
You can't vote a government out, you can only vote another government in... and they would probably be doing pretty much the same as this one.
And Canada was doing OK with a minority government until the left decided to commit suicide by forcing yet another election that no-one wanted. That has to be one of the worst 'shot myself in the ass' moments in political history.
Because no matter what you do, it's never enough for a group of people with an extreme entitlement mentality and nothing to offer Sony (or any product company) in return.
As long a the tail of Sony's content business continues to wag the dog of their hardware business, they will find it difficult to deliver products people want.
Bingo. Sony's hardware serves their movie/music business, not the customers who actually buy it.
They should get out of the content business and build stuff that people actually want to buy; why would I buy a $200 Sony Blu-Ray player which is region-locked and doesn't let me skip ads when I can buy an $80 Chinese no-name brand with neither of those restrictions?
Or their online services. I thought about resubscribing to Everquest a while ago, but then I thought do I really want to give my credit card details to crackers? So I didn't.
The brand name meant something when it actually was made in Japan.
My last camcorder was a Sony made in Japan, because my previous two Sonys had lasted for many years before I replacde them (in fact I'm using the TRV900 I bought in 1999 now because it's still working). That didn't stop it from frying its main board shortly after the warranty ran out due to a design fault in the power circuitry.
Linux requires root for too many things. You shouldn't need root to mount a file/device.
So you're saying I should be able to plug in a USB stick with a setuid root shell on it, mount that without root permissions, and own your system with almost zero effort?
Why, it's easy: here's a desktop box, it can run all your crufty Win32 stuff written in 1998 like it ever did (but we gently encourage you to switch to the new apps which are oh so much more shiny). Here's a sleek tablet, now this runs Windows 8 "Tablet Edition" or whatever they'll call it, and you only install apps from the walled garden.
If I'm switching to a tablet which can't run my old Windows apps... why would I switch to a tablet that runs Windows?
It's API compatible minus features not physically available on a tablet. A quick recompile and voila, instant port.
You're not a software developer, are you? Because I wouldn't want to work with someone who thinks that they can just do a 'quick recompile' and ship a product out the door.
And, in any case, that wouldn't help the bazillions of old, unsupported Windows programs that keep people tied to Windows.
I don't see that last one panning out all that well: you probably don't want to step out from a Dragon capsule right after it touched down on Earth and breathe the fumes.
Apollo used to burn off the remaining RCS fuel shortly before landing, so it's not an unknown practice.
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Long story short, it once looked like it might be a free desktop alternative, that however has turned out to be false. Right now it looks like it's going to be doomed to be a niche OS.
Weird. I haven't used a Windows desktop for more than a few hours in the last three years.
Of course that was before the 'UI designers' signed a global suicide pact.
Everyone wants their own 'walled garden' to force users to buy their stuff. Sadly, we've got a whole new generation of users who weren't around in the 80s and don't remember how much that fscking sucks.
The truth is that the basic desktop design works and everybody is familiar with it.
That's why the 'UI designers' are so busy buggering it up. It's either that or back to the dole queue on Monday morning.
Hint: it all started a long time before 2008.
Indeed. It goes at least back to Nixon ending gold convertibility to allow him to continue to fund Kennedy's Vietnam debacle.,, after removing any limits to money-printing, the end result was inevitable.
This still doesn't give you Gnome2's drawer applet, weather applet, sensors applet, CPU scaling applet, mini commander applet, and a lot of other Gnome2 features.
Features confuse users and must be exterminated for us to enter UI Heaven.
I heard that Bob is the UI feature the Gnome team plan to copy next.
This one is so easy to overcome. Firstly, you can right click on the instance of terminal in the favourites and select "new window". Admittedly this does double the number of required clicks from one to two.
And, unless they've changed how the Terminal window works, when you kill the first one it kills all its children too.
The Linux community is ridiculously conservative.
Probably because many of us use Linux for real work, rather than Facebook and Youtube.
Had to speak up here. Games that don't focus on plot become repetitive and thin.
My three years of playing Unreal Tournament would disagree with you. In fact, I'd say quite the opposite: games which _do_ focus on plot become repetitive because _the plot is the only thing you can do_.
Or do you think that the NFL should introduce a plot into football games so the audience don't get bored of the repetitive gameplay?
The success of games like Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed (to name but a few) have shown that an immersive storyline works just fine.
Mass Effect is just a bad SyFy movie with a few interactive shooting sequences.
One of the reasons I stopped playing many games was because they started making me spend more time in cut-scenes than gameplay, and forcing my character to do things that I would never have done in order to advance the story in the direction they wanted to force me to go. Not only that, but the three-hour-long cut-scene would be created by frustrated wannabe movie director who was a wannabe because they had no clue about how to cut a movie scene, with random cuts between shots and dialog that gives me the same information six times before it moves on to something new.
So, please God, game developers listen to him and stop trying to force a story on top of a game that would otherwise be fun. I have a lot more fun in, say, the GTA games by just driving around doing stuff than playing the tedious story missions.
You can't vote a government out, you can only vote another government in... and they would probably be doing pretty much the same as this one.
And Canada was doing OK with a minority government until the left decided to commit suicide by forcing yet another election that no-one wanted. That has to be one of the worst 'shot myself in the ass' moments in political history.
I don't understand what it is with this recent(?) obsession with wanting to bypass warrants?
How can you build a police state if you need a warrant to spy on everyone?
Because no matter what you do, it's never enough for a group of people with an extreme entitlement mentality and nothing to offer Sony (or any product company) in return.
Yes. We have a name for people like that.
They're called 'customers'.
As long a the tail of Sony's content business continues to wag the dog of their hardware business, they will find it difficult to deliver products people want.
Bingo. Sony's hardware serves their movie/music business, not the customers who actually buy it.
They should get out of the content business and build stuff that people actually want to buy; why would I buy a $200 Sony Blu-Ray player which is region-locked and doesn't let me skip ads when I can buy an $80 Chinese no-name brand with neither of those restrictions?
Or their online services. I thought about resubscribing to Everquest a while ago, but then I thought do I really want to give my credit card details to crackers? So I didn't.
The brand name meant something when it actually was made in Japan.
My last camcorder was a Sony made in Japan, because my previous two Sonys had lasted for many years before I replacde them (in fact I'm using the TRV900 I bought in 1999 now because it's still working). That didn't stop it from frying its main board shortly after the warranty ran out due to a design fault in the power circuitry.
My next camcorder will not be Sony.
Politicians shouldnt be in charge of how NASA operates.
Well, that's easy. Just eliminate all NASA funding from the taxpayer and then politicians won't feel such an urge to tell them what to do.
...that is freely downloadable from Chinese web sites... :]
Which is fine until you try selling a chip or distributing the plans, then the IP Barons come to beat you with a big stick.
he'd better do an HDMI version quick as VGA seems to be on the way out as a connector :-P
Except HDMI is a closed standard and buying HDMI chips requires signing over your first-born to Satan.
THAT is one of the biggest issues preventing 'people' from migrating to Linux.
Yeah, the people who think they must have WhizzyWriter 2000 on their PC and couldn't possibly use the open source equivalent...
Of course it won't run on Windows 8 for ARM either, or in the glorious future Metosexual interface on x86.
Linux requires root for too many things. You shouldn't need root to mount a file/device.
So you're saying I should be able to plug in a USB stick with a setuid root shell on it, mount that without root permissions, and own your system with almost zero effort?
Why, it's easy: here's a desktop box, it can run all your crufty Win32 stuff written in 1998 like it ever did (but we gently encourage you to switch to the new apps which are oh so much more shiny). Here's a sleek tablet, now this runs Windows 8 "Tablet Edition" or whatever they'll call it, and you only install apps from the walled garden.
If I'm switching to a tablet which can't run my old Windows apps... why would I switch to a tablet that runs Windows?
It's API compatible minus features not physically available on a tablet. A quick recompile and voila, instant port.
You're not a software developer, are you? Because I wouldn't want to work with someone who thinks that they can just do a 'quick recompile' and ship a product out the door.
And, in any case, that wouldn't help the bazillions of old, unsupported Windows programs that keep people tied to Windows.
I don't see that last one panning out all that well: you probably don't want to step out from a Dragon capsule right after it touched down on Earth and breathe the fumes.
Apollo used to burn off the remaining RCS fuel shortly before landing, so it's not an unknown practice.