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I'm not entirely sure I even understand what kind of war would require the F-35.
One that would end in a nuke exchange if the conventional fighting wouldn't end in a draw.
Re:Only "troubled" if you're not Lockheed Martin
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Nothing has changed. Humans still tend to look into the past with rose colored glasses and wonder how it all went wrong even (particularly?) when nothing has changed or, god forbid, has improved.
Of course you can make bombs, it's just harder. But it does show that nuclear isn't considered a wise investment by the private industry and wasn't 50 years ago either. Nuclear doesn't work without subsidies, despite claims to the contrary.
Depends on what you consider Siri-like. Seems like they were quite a few things that would do things based on what you tell them. At the very least all the components were in place, 8 hours would mean it's mostly glue code.
Apparently some guys had a similar idea. I don't think they had access to the voice search source code, so it took them 8 whole hours to produce a working version of Iris. Ouch.
And Gnome 2 was nothing but regressions on Gnome 1, which in turn was only an ideologically inspired copy of KDE, which in turn was nothing but a crappy copy of Windows, which in turn was nothing but a crash-happy Mac clone on top of DOS, and so forth...
Does this "whole fuel chain" include trying to stash the waste in Germany? Plants on the boarders, spent fuel out of the boarders. Spread the nuclear love, why keep it in your backyard?
Regardless of your fanboism, fact is, she doesn't like despite using it for months, and the only solution that I can see is downgrading her machine to what she *did* use and liked very much.
Make sure to call her a fangirl before you do then.
She finds gnome-shell pops up stuff that can't be dismissed that confuses her "I have to make a decision on how to open the iphone?
On the other hand preferences are drastically simplified, turning off all auto-actions on inserting is a snap. But you can't have that as a default because nothing happening is more confusing. It seems that the popup can be dismissed by clicking on it outside of the buttons, I did this instinctively never having used an interface like that before.
Can't I just close this - oh no close button" or, after she's browsed to the DCIM dir, which she and my mom both prefer over photo managers, she found putting two shell windows side by side for drag and drop photo sorting to be much more complicated than in gnome2.
I honestly can't imagine why, on either. Shotwell is IMHO an improvement over manual management in any conceivable way and "just works". Photos automagically imported and sorted into very hand time-based groups, tagging can be used like folders, etc. Furthermore, I don't see how using the shell has any impact on two nautilus windows, besides maybe the handy ability to drag them to the sides of the screen for easy tiling. That just doesn't make sense at all.
And getting to her favourite apps is not as handy. She was familiar with doing it just w/ 1 click to open the app menu, a bit of mouse wiggling and another to open the app.
This one's less than obvious, but not that hard to discover. Right clicking on the respective icon in the left hand side panel in overlay mode apps can be added to it permanently. Instead of an app menu where she has to pick her favourites out of a list of whatever is installed it becomes a "bring cursor into top left corner, then swing down to the app you need", it will either be opened or, if running, focused on. For a core set off apps this is much more streamlined.
Eh. It really is a big shift from the desktop metaphor.
The desktop part hasn't changed. App menus are not a desktop metaphor, app switching via panel buttons isn't a dektop metaphor. The pure desktop metaphor went out with Windows 3.11, it has been a desktop+HUD ever since, the HUD has changed, not the desktop. The dreaded car analogy: the steering wheel, accelerator and brakes are still there, but its an auto, not a manual, the console buttons have moved and the radio has buttons instead of knobs. Gnome 2 used a spatial file management paradigm for most of its life and had a simplified approach to customisation, it might not have thrown you for a loop, but there was a huge number of complaints just like most of the ones directed at Unity/Shell now.
If you were trying to make a point about switching to Unity with the screen turned off then I concede that I'm too conservative for that. Not to mention that it doesn't do anything to fix the real problems with keyboards (outside of tests by the inventor, Dvorak hasn't been shown to be significantly faster).
I'll adopt to any keyboard with decent layout, as long keys arranged in damn columns instead of a typewriter pattern. But I can hardly just download one and try it at no risk, now can I?
And my brother loves Unity while I'm happy that there is finally a Ubuntu release with the Gnome Shell and extensions are appearing much faster than Gnome 2 panel applets did. Data on the other hand we don't have. On the other hand the reactions from the self selected sample posting about it are just about the same as when Gnome 2 was released. Most people voicing an opinion were highly critical, it was dumbed down, everyone they know hates it and is switching to X, Y or Z, etc.
One really nice thing about Gnome 2 was that everyone bitched about it when it was released and swore up and down that it was the end of Gnome, that surely someone would fork Gnome 1 and that they certainly would use something else. Not that any of that bears any similarity to what is happening now.
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One that would end in a nuke exchange if the conventional fighting wouldn't end in a draw.
Nothing has changed. Humans still tend to look into the past with rose colored glasses and wonder how it all went wrong even (particularly?) when nothing has changed or, god forbid, has improved.
Yes, all the Android handset manufacturers sued Microsoft first and forced them to start collecting license fees from them!
Of course you can make bombs, it's just harder. But it does show that nuclear isn't considered a wise investment by the private industry and wasn't 50 years ago either. Nuclear doesn't work without subsidies, despite claims to the contrary.
Depends on what you consider Siri-like. Seems like they were quite a few things that would do things based on what you tell them. At the very least all the components were in place, 8 hours would mean it's mostly glue code.
Apparently some guys had a similar idea. I don't think they had access to the voice search source code, so it took them 8 whole hours to produce a working version of Iris. Ouch.
And Gnome 2 was nothing but regressions on Gnome 1, which in turn was only an ideologically inspired copy of KDE, which in turn was nothing but a crappy copy of Windows, which in turn was nothing but a crash-happy Mac clone on top of DOS, and so forth...
Sure does, doesn't it. Good thing that Apple keeps a close eye on such things.
Aaaand we are back to the article in question that says that your $99 is very likely to not result in any revenue.
And export whatever is left out of your backyard then, just like they French! NIMBY is always a great solution to problems with nuclear.
Neither has the decommissioning problem.
What's the stuff they ship to Germany then? Nuclear aid?
Only $50 for crappy build quality? Why, that's just as easy as trying Unity or Gnome Shell!
Does this "whole fuel chain" include trying to stash the waste in Germany? Plants on the boarders, spent fuel out of the boarders. Spread the nuclear love, why keep it in your backyard?
Make sure to call her a fangirl before you do then.
On the other hand preferences are drastically simplified, turning off all auto-actions on inserting is a snap. But you can't have that as a default because nothing happening is more confusing. It seems that the popup can be dismissed by clicking on it outside of the buttons, I did this instinctively never having used an interface like that before.
I honestly can't imagine why, on either. Shotwell is IMHO an improvement over manual management in any conceivable way and "just works". Photos automagically imported and sorted into very hand time-based groups, tagging can be used like folders, etc. Furthermore, I don't see how using the shell has any impact on two nautilus windows, besides maybe the handy ability to drag them to the sides of the screen for easy tiling. That just doesn't make sense at all.
This one's less than obvious, but not that hard to discover. Right clicking on the respective icon in the left hand side panel in overlay mode apps can be added to it permanently. Instead of an app menu where she has to pick her favourites out of a list of whatever is installed it becomes a "bring cursor into top left corner, then swing down to the app you need", it will either be opened or, if running, focused on. For a core set off apps this is much more streamlined.
The desktop part hasn't changed. App menus are not a desktop metaphor, app switching via panel buttons isn't a dektop metaphor. The pure desktop metaphor went out with Windows 3.11, it has been a desktop+HUD ever since, the HUD has changed, not the desktop. The dreaded car analogy: the steering wheel, accelerator and brakes are still there, but its an auto, not a manual, the console buttons have moved and the radio has buttons instead of knobs. Gnome 2 used a spatial file management paradigm for most of its life and had a simplified approach to customisation, it might not have thrown you for a loop, but there was a huge number of complaints just like most of the ones directed at Unity/Shell now.
If you were trying to make a point about switching to Unity with the screen turned off then I concede that I'm too conservative for that. Not to mention that it doesn't do anything to fix the real problems with keyboards (outside of tests by the inventor, Dvorak hasn't been shown to be significantly faster).
"Run the app, right click on the icon" is hardly a page.
Define streamlined.
I'll adopt to any keyboard with decent layout, as long keys arranged in damn columns instead of a typewriter pattern. But I can hardly just download one and try it at no risk, now can I?
And my brother loves Unity while I'm happy that there is finally a Ubuntu release with the Gnome Shell and extensions are appearing much faster than Gnome 2 panel applets did. Data on the other hand we don't have. On the other hand the reactions from the self selected sample posting about it are just about the same as when Gnome 2 was released. Most people voicing an opinion were highly critical, it was dumbed down, everyone they know hates it and is switching to X, Y or Z, etc.
You either weren't on /. when Gnome 2 was released, or have a short memory.
You can use your system any way you want, including installing KDE 2, they can't have all of the options as defaults though for some strange reason.
One really nice thing about Gnome 2 was that everyone bitched about it when it was released and swore up and down that it was the end of Gnome, that surely someone would fork Gnome 1 and that they certainly would use something else. Not that any of that bears any similarity to what is happening now.
...this is like the release of Gnome 2 all over again. How many of you switched away then?