How many people miss this obvious combination is amazing. If you live in your office, I recommend getting a nice comfy chair too, maybe with an ottoman and a side table. And task lighting. And a quiet circulating fan.
I don't remember the move in. I used OS/2 until version 3.something. Then my priorities shifted and I used whatever was available as needed. When I came back to computers, I was quickly drawn to Linux. I still want my pre-Warp 4 WPS, but my next computer will probably be a Mac.
I think there's a niche for a WPS, with some UI fixes like a single menu bar, running on Linux. Given spare time and energy, of which I have less every day, I work on the design, documentation, and maybe some code for such a system. Maybe if I win the lottery . . . well, I guess I should play it first.
Sometime last year I went through every DE available from Ubuntu repositories. KDE and Kubuntu shared the feature of making me nauseated when I had to use the mouse. It seemed like everything on the screen responded to pointer crossing. For all I know they track the pointer, treat it as a light source and adjust colors, shadows, and highlights all over the desktop as it moves around. I doubt they do that, but it felt as bad as I imagine that would feel.
I had hope for XFCE, but the menu bar was broken and there were so many icons and colors that it looked like the DE had been through gangland and tagged by everyone.
GNOME3 might have been OK if they both put the menu bar in the right place (just one, top of the screen) and didn't waste so much screen space with huge title bars.
The rest weren't worth more description.
Maybe I'll get bored enough sometime to try the new offshoots like MATE or whatever, but for now Unity puts the menu bar where it belongs and mostly stays out of my way. Too bad there isn't a decent spatial file manager anymore; I suppose I could settle for Miller columns, but we don't have those either.
Oh, GNUstep might do the trick, but putting it together correctly (no WIndowMaker) is too much trouble for now.
People also prefer people like themselves. Unchecked this can turn into an unrecognized racism, a common bias. Bolstered it can become the ideological racism most people abhor.
Mac OS X Lion gets almost everything right, but there have always been little things in MacOS that annoy me to no end when I try to use it. If it was free software, I would have switched.
Windows 8 . . . I haven't noticed anything compelling. Probably fine for most people.
Unity is the only free software desktop that puts the menu bar in the right place by default. The indicators seem to be shaping up well.
Gnome 3 has the potential to be awesome, I think, because they are exploiting JavaScript for so much. That Linux Mint will be releasing extensions to make Gnome 3 like Gnome 2 is a testament to this. Show me that the menu bar can be put in the right place and I'll consider it. Put it there by default and I'll probably switch from Unity.
KDE Plasma looks like it has good widget, window, and file management, but I've only seen screenshots and may be imagining things work a certain way.
Suppose you get past the hurdles of hardware compatibility and installation, and suppose you have perfect work-alikes of any program for Windows or Mac, what then is the reason to switch? Most people still don't understand the importance of free software, so that's a non-starter. (I still have to say "free as in speech, not as in beer" or something like that, and I still get blank looks.) Forget about freedom then for most users MacOS X has everything Linux has and more. As far as I can tell, Windows is unfriendly unless you use some whizbang IDE, but even then I've been able to kluge around some problems at work with a bit of ECMAScript (ActionScript, or whatever they call it).
It seems there are now 5 major threads of desktop environment development: GNOME 2, Gnome 3, Unity, KDE 3.x, KDE 4. There are plenty of others with less momentum like E, ROX, and LXDE. Well, maybe now E has more than G2 and K3. Only one of these (AFAIK) has made the crucial step of having a single menu bar on the screen. (Yeah, I'm not going to justify that in this space.) That's Unity, which is still using Nautilus. Some "upgrades" ago, Nautilus starting dropping features, and before that the default layout went from spatial to browser. It is fast becoming unpleasantly useless, mostly because everyone is focused on the latest "shell" idea and making everything a copy of what they see on smartphones and tablets. Sorry, I need to use my computer to work and turning it into a media center is not helping me do that. Yes, I can do things the old fashioned way—well, mostly—but then why do I need Linux? I can do those things on Windows (cygwin) or MacOS X (it's Unix).
Linux desktop environments are doing nothing new, or even old, that gives people a compelling reason to switch. Even if they did, you'd have to demonstrate that value and get people over the learning curve. People are too busy with other things. It's hard enough to get them to do things a better way even when their jobs are on the line.
I really don't like Mac. Never mind the feeling dirty when I use it; there are things about the interface, which is mostly excellent, that are just wrong for me. And yet every month it seems more likely my next computer will be a Mac. The dirty wrongness of it might be more bearable than the OMGWHYWHYWHYSOBSOBSOB of Linux.
(Sleepy and getting over a cold or something. Hope I didn't accidentally summon an elder god during the microsleep.)
In 1994 there were publishers trying to get professors to order customized textbooks. It was the same type of rip-off shown here: http://www.mcafee.cc/Introecon/Horizon.pdf .
As I was reading the article, I had the most bizarre experience. I heard a machine-enhanced voice maybe 200 meters outside my window, barking orders. This is not a normal occurence; there are no drill fields, car lots, schools, or other possible sources nearby. By the time I finished reading, military style chants could be heard from all sides of the apartment complex. I ran to the window just in time to see several groups jogging away in formation down the highway. Only adding to the surrealism was that they had a police escort holding back traffic as they went by.
If more people could safely run their own servers from home, we could have the benefits of these web-based apps without entrusting our data to strangers.
I think the first barrier to this is the ISPs: I don't know of any broadband provider in my area that allows one to run a server. (The cable provider even tries to get people to pay extra to set up a router.) I'd think there must be little demand, but then I see ads on TV for remote access (to Windows machines).
I guess no one has found a way to make a profit providing some sort of secure server appliance that allows a house to be networked and provides a remote connection. It seems we've had the parts of the technology for over a decade, but noone has put them all together. Heck, it's only in the last couple of years that we've seen home entertainment center computers, and those were possible at least as early as 1992.
Read the fucking article yourself and quote for me where is says that. Try Panasonic's page too, while you're at it. Oddly, they list two other models as being spill-proof and dust-proof, but not this one.
Read it. Searched it. None of "water", "spill", or "proof" appeared in the text.
What really matters is whether fine or particulate matter can get under the keys dislogding them or breaking their stems. If you can't type normally, it's broken. Water-proofing would only protect what's inside the box.
Look at the keyboard. See the space between the keys for stuff to fall through? Like most other laptops, this is designed to break in a few years. It even looks like the return key is already popping out of place in the photos.
From what I've seen, when it comes to documentation, whether it be long or short, (most) developers do not:
have it,
know where to get it,
want it,
read it,
understand it.
Maybe this has something to do with why (most) software is so bad?
Is there the possibility of forming a lawsuit against Microsoft for all the FUD they spread? Every time I see this stuff, I can feel the blood pulsing in my veins and arteries; certainly that cannot be healthy.
One of the things to include is the "Illegal Operation" error message. I have yet to find what law has been broken, or anything that might help me to find it.
I'm not trying to be funny. I don't know what laws would apply to this or how damages could be determined, but certainly this kind of dishonesty must be illegal.
I'm further dismayed by this insofar as Microsoft is regarded as an exemplar of capitalism. I thought capitalism rewarded the ability to produce and honestly sell, not the ability to steal and defraud.
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How many people miss this obvious combination is amazing. If you live in your office, I recommend getting a nice comfy chair too, maybe with an ottoman and a side table. And task lighting. And a quiet circulating fan.
And an espresso machine.
I don't remember the move in. I used OS/2 until version 3.something. Then my priorities shifted and I used whatever was available as needed. When I came back to computers, I was quickly drawn to Linux. I still want my pre-Warp 4 WPS, but my next computer will probably be a Mac.
I think there's a niche for a WPS, with some UI fixes like a single menu bar, running on Linux. Given spare time and energy, of which I have less every day, I work on the design, documentation, and maybe some code for such a system. Maybe if I win the lottery . . . well, I guess I should play it first.
This is like watching a train wreck. I really should just go do something else.
Sometime last year I went through every DE available from Ubuntu repositories. KDE and Kubuntu shared the feature of making me nauseated when I had to use the mouse. It seemed like everything on the screen responded to pointer crossing. For all I know they track the pointer, treat it as a light source and adjust colors, shadows, and highlights all over the desktop as it moves around. I doubt they do that, but it felt as bad as I imagine that would feel.
I had hope for XFCE, but the menu bar was broken and there were so many icons and colors that it looked like the DE had been through gangland and tagged by everyone.
GNOME3 might have been OK if they both put the menu bar in the right place (just one, top of the screen) and didn't waste so much screen space with huge title bars.
The rest weren't worth more description.
Maybe I'll get bored enough sometime to try the new offshoots like MATE or whatever, but for now Unity puts the menu bar where it belongs and mostly stays out of my way. Too bad there isn't a decent spatial file manager anymore; I suppose I could settle for Miller columns, but we don't have those either.
Oh, GNUstep might do the trick, but putting it together correctly (no WIndowMaker) is too much trouble for now.
People also prefer people like themselves. Unchecked this can turn into an unrecognized racism, a common bias. Bolstered it can become the ideological racism most people abhor.
Meet George Jet-san.
. . . the sacking of Rome?
I don't know that anyone has ever held a "theory that our brain 'sounds out' words each time we see them".
From what I've seen in articles, videos, etc.:
Mac OS X Lion gets almost everything right, but there have always been little things in MacOS that annoy me to no end when I try to use it. If it was free software, I would have switched.
Windows 8 . . . I haven't noticed anything compelling. Probably fine for most people.
Unity is the only free software desktop that puts the menu bar in the right place by default. The indicators seem to be shaping up well.
Gnome 3 has the potential to be awesome, I think, because they are exploiting JavaScript for so much. That Linux Mint will be releasing extensions to make Gnome 3 like Gnome 2 is a testament to this. Show me that the menu bar can be put in the right place and I'll consider it. Put it there by default and I'll probably switch from Unity.
KDE Plasma looks like it has good widget, window, and file management, but I've only seen screenshots and may be imagining things work a certain way.
Offer compelling value?
Suppose you get past the hurdles of hardware compatibility and installation, and suppose you have perfect work-alikes of any program for Windows or Mac, what then is the reason to switch? Most people still don't understand the importance of free software, so that's a non-starter. (I still have to say "free as in speech, not as in beer" or something like that, and I still get blank looks.) Forget about freedom then for most users MacOS X has everything Linux has and more. As far as I can tell, Windows is unfriendly unless you use some whizbang IDE, but even then I've been able to kluge around some problems at work with a bit of ECMAScript (ActionScript, or whatever they call it).
It seems there are now 5 major threads of desktop environment development: GNOME 2, Gnome 3, Unity, KDE 3.x, KDE 4. There are plenty of others with less momentum like E, ROX, and LXDE. Well, maybe now E has more than G2 and K3. Only one of these (AFAIK) has made the crucial step of having a single menu bar on the screen. (Yeah, I'm not going to justify that in this space.) That's Unity, which is still using Nautilus. Some "upgrades" ago, Nautilus starting dropping features, and before that the default layout went from spatial to browser. It is fast becoming unpleasantly useless, mostly because everyone is focused on the latest "shell" idea and making everything a copy of what they see on smartphones and tablets. Sorry, I need to use my computer to work and turning it into a media center is not helping me do that. Yes, I can do things the old fashioned way—well, mostly—but then why do I need Linux? I can do those things on Windows (cygwin) or MacOS X (it's Unix).
Linux desktop environments are doing nothing new, or even old, that gives people a compelling reason to switch. Even if they did, you'd have to demonstrate that value and get people over the learning curve. People are too busy with other things. It's hard enough to get them to do things a better way even when their jobs are on the line.
I really don't like Mac. Never mind the feeling dirty when I use it; there are things about the interface, which is mostly excellent, that are just wrong for me. And yet every month it seems more likely my next computer will be a Mac. The dirty wrongness of it might be more bearable than the OMGWHYWHYWHYSOBSOBSOB of Linux.
(Sleepy and getting over a cold or something. Hope I didn't accidentally summon an elder god during the microsleep.)
This seems to me to be a grievous mistake.
Yes, it should be able to. There's a lot of stuff the graphical shell should make easy, but those we have are going in other directions.
Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger . . .
. . . unless it maims me.
The maiming sucks. I'd rather avoid it.
Yes. Especially then. It builds character.
A way to turn it off and go outside to play.
Amigans agree:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_User_Interface
In 1994 there were publishers trying to get professors to order customized textbooks. It was the same type of rip-off shown here: http://www.mcafee.cc/Introecon/Horizon.pdf .
As I was reading the article, I had the most bizarre experience. I heard a machine-enhanced voice maybe 200 meters outside my window, barking orders. This is not a normal occurence; there are no drill fields, car lots, schools, or other possible sources nearby. By the time I finished reading, military style chants could be heard from all sides of the apartment complex. I ran to the window just in time to see several groups jogging away in formation down the highway. Only adding to the surrealism was that they had a police escort holding back traffic as they went by.
If more people could safely run their own servers from home, we could have the benefits of these web-based apps without entrusting our data to strangers.
I think the first barrier to this is the ISPs: I don't know of any broadband provider in my area that allows one to run a server. (The cable provider even tries to get people to pay extra to set up a router.) I'd think there must be little demand, but then I see ads on TV for remote access (to Windows machines).
I guess no one has found a way to make a profit providing some sort of secure server appliance that allows a house to be networked and provides a remote connection. It seems we've had the parts of the technology for over a decade, but noone has put them all together. Heck, it's only in the last couple of years that we've seen home entertainment center computers, and those were possible at least as early as 1992.
Read the fucking article yourself and quote for me where is says that. Try Panasonic's page too, while you're at it. Oddly, they list two other models as being spill-proof and dust-proof, but not this one.
Read it. Searched it. None of "water", "spill", or "proof" appeared in the text.
What really matters is whether fine or particulate matter can get under the keys dislogding them or breaking their stems. If you can't type normally, it's broken. Water-proofing would only protect what's inside the box.
Look at the keyboard. See the space between the keys for stuff to fall through? Like most other laptops, this is designed to break in a few years. It even looks like the return key is already popping out of place in the photos.
From what I've seen, when it comes to documentation, whether it be long or short, (most) developers do not:
have it,
know where to get it,
want it,
read it,
understand it.
Maybe this has something to do with why (most) software is so bad?
Is there the possibility of forming a lawsuit against Microsoft for all the FUD they spread?
Every time I see this stuff, I can feel the blood pulsing in my veins and arteries; certainly that cannot be healthy.
One of the things to include is the "Illegal Operation" error message. I have yet to find what law has been broken, or anything that might help me to find it.
I'm not trying to be funny. I don't know what laws would apply to this or how damages could be
determined, but certainly this kind of dishonesty must be illegal.
I'm further dismayed by this insofar as Microsoft is regarded as an exemplar of capitalism. I thought capitalism rewarded the ability to produce and honestly sell, not the ability to steal and defraud.
Put this in your theme:
GtkScrollbar::has_backward_stepper=0
GtkScrollbar::has_secondary_forward_stepper=0
GtkScrollbar::has_secondary_backward_stepper=1
GtkScrollbar::has_forward_stepper=1
(Exactly where you put it depends on your theme.)
Application support is the only thing missing that
prevents cut/copy/paste of non-text data (or even -say- RTF text).
X itself doesn't care what kind of data you cut/copy/paste. It's only the apps that do.