3. This is not new to Gnome 3, gnome-terminal has been that way for a long time. I don't necessarily agree with this.
Well, duh. In Gnome 2 you had the choice of opening terminal windows in a single process or opening multiple terminal windows. In Gnome 3 you're forced to open just one, which is a disaster for people who need to use the command line a lot.
If Mint fixes that too, then I guess I'll be dumping Ubuntu soon.
Why would they want to re-read the directory when they could just cache the data, then only rebuild the cache when something changes in the directory?
Probably for the same reason that gnome-zeitgeist thrashes my disk for three minutes after booting up and then they scan through 50,000 thumbnails looking for the oldest ones to delete.
Or at least, they did until I uninstalled the zeitgeist crap and pointed ~/.thumbnails to/dev/null.
When you look at TV, you also see that most programs glamorise lawyers, cops, doctors and sports stars. When was the last TV show that starred an engineer and made it look like a great thing to do? Even in Star Trek, Scotty was a secondary character.
I mean think about it, in Star Trek, engineering officers had the most demanding work keeping the ships in one piece, and none of them ever made captain.
That's because Star Trek is a communist utopia. You get promoted through connections, not competence.
I would encourage a trade that cannot be outsourced. Electrician, plumber, A/C repair, etc. Once you've worked for someone else making b.s. money for a few years it's painfully easy to start your own business in those fields and make more than most engineers.
And how long are those jobs going to remain well paid if no-one else is making good wages?
The cloud isn't really any substantial increase in risk, if you encrypt the data before it's stored on the cloud and go through the appropriate measures to ensure that the keys are protected from unauthorized use.
Let's suppose you upload personal data to 'The Cloud' and 'The Cloud' just happens to turn out to be a server in the EU. Suddenly you risking violating the EU data protection laws if you access that data.
Garbage collection. Forget everything else, garbage collection is the reason that I as a _user_ would prefer that the apps I use are developed in mono or Java.
So as a _user_ you like applications which suck up gigabytes of memory and randomly pause for several seconds?
There are a lot of good things about Java vs C++, but garbage collection is not one of them.
There have been periods where AMD chips were better than Intel chips, and yet that hasn't ever been reflected in market share.
It's kind of hard to massively ramp up market share in a short time when that requires spending billions of dollars on building new fabs to churn out those new chips. If AMD had built new fabs when the Athlon-64 proved to be significantly better than the space-heater P4s, they'd probably have finished them sometime after Intel release the Core line and blew them away.
While I agree, there's one important psychological factor this study left out, and that's the potential fear that you may not make it back. I don't know how they'd be able to successfully simulate that.
A friend spent three years working in Antarctica. Some of the people he worked with didn't make it back after they got lost in a snow storm and were never seen again. None of them started chopping people up with an axe.
GNU/Linux has plenty of free applications but not a lot of well-known non-free applications.
Probably because the commodity applications (word processing, basic image editing, etc) are already 'good enough' and there's not enough of a market for more specialised apps. I almost exclusively use the native Linux apps, but I have Wine installed to run Windows apps for screenplay and novel writing, for example; though the novel writing app is supposed to be coming out native for Linux sometime soon.
Actually, there's even a Linux version of my video compositing app but I've never sat down and figured out what I'd need to do to get the DRM working. If Avid supported Linux too I could probably get rid of Windows.
Honestly, why did linux embrace the "spread crap everywhere" windows software installation model, instead of the Apple software install model?
Because we don't want to waste vast amounts of memory loading the same libraries in different applications and don't want the security nightmare of every application having its own copy of DLLs with ancient security holes that will never be updated?
That's the problem. Google sucks and Bling sucks slightly less.
When I type a query into Google it first says 'I don't you're really searching for that, I think you're searching for this instead' and gives me results I didn't ask for. When I manage to convince it that I do know what I'm searching for it then gives me lots of results for the words I searched for with 's' on the end or synonyms of those words or pages which don't even seem to contain those words at all. Or sometimes it greys out the results and doesn't do anything. It steals the page-up/page-down keys that I normally use to scroll the page and instead moves from one search result to the next. It randomly decides to pop up a tiny image of the web page that the search found, which is useless and means my browser is presumably pulling pages from sites that I don't want to visit.
The 'smarter' they try to make the search engine, the more it sucks, because it always tries to give me fifteen million results even if they're not want I'm actually looking for.
The ridiculous point is - nobody with any sense invests long-term any more.
You can't invest long-term when government economic policy is swerving from side to side like a twelve year old who's emptied his Dad's liquor cabinet and then borrowed the Porsche.
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And if you thing the GUI sucks: Modify the JS files and get a completely different work flow with minimal work.
Yeah, because every user wants to have to learn Javascript in order to fix a broken GUI.
3. This is not new to Gnome 3, gnome-terminal has been that way for a long time. I don't necessarily agree with this.
Well, duh. In Gnome 2 you had the choice of opening terminal windows in a single process or opening multiple terminal windows. In Gnome 3 you're forced to open just one, which is a disaster for people who need to use the command line a lot.
If Mint fixes that too, then I guess I'll be dumping Ubuntu soon.
Why would they want to re-read the directory when they could just cache the data, then only rebuild the cache when something changes in the directory?
Probably for the same reason that gnome-zeitgeist thrashes my disk for three minutes after booting up and then they scan through 50,000 thumbnails looking for the oldest ones to delete.
Or at least, they did until I uninstalled the zeitgeist crap and pointed ~/.thumbnails to /dev/null.
These are my thoughts as well. I've read a few things here and there about how 3.2 is a great improvement over 3.0, but they never mention why.
Gnome 3.2 finally has the weather applet back. At this rate, somewhere around Gnome 3.72 it will be as usable and useful as Gnome 2.
At which point they'll ditch it for Gnome 4.
All I know is that Firefox has severe performance degradation issues
Weird. Because I leave Firefox running for weeks and it uses a couple of hundred megabytes on a 4GB system.
When you look at TV, you also see that most programs glamorise lawyers, cops, doctors and sports stars. When was the last TV show that starred an engineer and made it look like a great thing to do? Even in Star Trek, Scotty was a secondary character.
I mean think about it, in Star Trek, engineering officers had the most demanding work keeping the ships in one piece, and none of them ever made captain.
That's because Star Trek is a communist utopia. You get promoted through connections, not competence.
I would encourage a trade that cannot be outsourced. Electrician, plumber, A/C repair, etc. Once you've worked for someone else making b.s. money for a few years it's painfully easy to start your own business in those fields and make more than most engineers.
And how long are those jobs going to remain well paid if no-one else is making good wages?
The cloud isn't really any substantial increase in risk, if you encrypt the data before it's stored on the cloud and go through the appropriate measures to ensure that the keys are protected from unauthorized use.
Let's suppose you upload personal data to 'The Cloud' and 'The Cloud' just happens to turn out to be a server in the EU. Suddenly you risking violating the EU data protection laws if you access that data.
In other words, you trust the notaries because you trust them, not because you are required to trust them.
So how am I supposed to know who to trust?
Garbage collection. Forget everything else, garbage collection is the reason that I as a _user_ would prefer that the apps I use are developed in mono or Java.
So as a _user_ you like applications which suck up gigabytes of memory and randomly pause for several seconds?
There are a lot of good things about Java vs C++, but garbage collection is not one of them.
There have been periods where AMD chips were better than Intel chips, and yet that hasn't ever been reflected in market share.
It's kind of hard to massively ramp up market share in a short time when that requires spending billions of dollars on building new fabs to churn out those new chips. If AMD had built new fabs when the Athlon-64 proved to be significantly better than the space-heater P4s, they'd probably have finished them sometime after Intel release the Core line and blew them away.
While I agree, there's one important psychological factor this study left out, and that's the potential fear that you may not make it back. I don't know how they'd be able to successfully simulate that.
A friend spent three years working in Antarctica. Some of the people he worked with didn't make it back after they got lost in a snow storm and were never seen again. None of them started chopping people up with an axe.
Personally I'm more concerned about this tech being used to track people in Western nations.
I know! I posted my root password on my web site and some asshole hacked into it. And they told me Linux was secure! I'm switching to Windows!
Google hasn't released an innovative product since Gmail.
What was innovative about yet-another-webmail-provider?
And amazingly none of those are *native*
If Eclipse isn't native, how come it's sucking up two gigabytes of my RAM?
For example convert Open Office to a HTML5 plus local server model as a response to Google docs.
Why the fsck would I want to convert Open Office to HTML5 when it already works fine as C++?
Unity is used by one (1) distribution. If you don't like it, switch to a different one. I did; it isn't hard.
The problem is that the other distros are switching to Gnome 3, which sucks just as much but in slightly different ways.
GNU/Linux has plenty of free applications but not a lot of well-known non-free applications.
Probably because the commodity applications (word processing, basic image editing, etc) are already 'good enough' and there's not enough of a market for more specialised apps. I almost exclusively use the native Linux apps, but I have Wine installed to run Windows apps for screenplay and novel writing, for example; though the novel writing app is supposed to be coming out native for Linux sometime soon.
Actually, there's even a Linux version of my video compositing app but I've never sat down and figured out what I'd need to do to get the DRM working. If Avid supported Linux too I could probably get rid of Windows.
Honestly, why did linux embrace the "spread crap everywhere" windows software installation model, instead of the Apple software install model?
Because we don't want to waste vast amounts of memory loading the same libraries in different applications and don't want the security nightmare of every application having its own copy of DLLs with ancient security holes that will never be updated?
These users overwhelmingly use Google and switch to Bing will almost certainly alienate these users.
That would hardly register in the noise compared to the alienation caused by Mozilla's own stupid decisions over the last year.
That's the problem. Google sucks and Bling sucks slightly less.
When I type a query into Google it first says 'I don't you're really searching for that, I think you're searching for this instead' and gives me results I didn't ask for. When I manage to convince it that I do know what I'm searching for it then gives me lots of results for the words I searched for with 's' on the end or synonyms of those words or pages which don't even seem to contain those words at all. Or sometimes it greys out the results and doesn't do anything. It steals the page-up/page-down keys that I normally use to scroll the page and instead moves from one search result to the next. It randomly decides to pop up a tiny image of the web page that the search found, which is useless and means my browser is presumably pulling pages from sites that I don't want to visit.
The 'smarter' they try to make the search engine, the more it sucks, because it always tries to give me fifteen million results even if they're not want I'm actually looking for.
Does that really stop anyone from writing Linux applications?
Developers don't really like using a tablet GUI on their desktop machine.
Oh, but at least Windows 8 will level the playing field there...
The ridiculous point is - nobody with any sense invests long-term any more.
You can't invest long-term when government economic policy is swerving from side to side like a twelve year old who's emptied his Dad's liquor cabinet and then borrowed the Porsche.