Alternatively, if you want simplicity, you could just backup your home directories (making sure you keep your.directories as well), format, and then install Ubunto Studio.
You should also use that opportunity to put/home on a seperate partition so you don't have to bother with backing it up for future reinstalls.
AFAIK Scribus has excelent PDF export. I also wonder why every time professional graphics editing is discussed everyone jumps on the CMYK gun as if web, games and TV don't have graphics.
I, for one, like living in a society ruled by laws rather than the whims of men.
As am I, but when the laws become so broad that millions are breakering the law as part of their daily routine, often wihout realizing, you are in fact ruled by them whims of men who can shoose when to enforce these laws.
And that's why 2.6 is the way it is, most people just don't seem to want a stable as in "Debian stable" kernel, they want a "stable as in runs well, but gets new drivers and features" kernel.
Since you asked in cm 33.3 should be precise enough for your needs. Will you give a 7th of a yard with a precision of 9 places after the dot? Will you be asking what the third of a radian is next?
I guess I still just don't get how someone else can make profit from something that I created just because X years have gone by.
But you don't seem to have trouble gasping why you should be able to control what two third parties do just because something you made the first copy of less then X years ago is somehow involved.
We need to accept that we are all products of our society.
I don't think the majority are even capable of understanding their nature as deterministic (if unpredictable due to the huge number of variables) machines, ironicly it's because they are deterministic machines.
Use them BOTH, then you might understand the differences.
So the 'intelligent' behaviour is impossible to explain in plain english, at least somwhat I see. Nonetheless Blenders interface is contextual, as I'm quite sure are many other graphical interfaces.
It is hard to show a palette of graphical options in a MENU.
Not every Office function is a graphical option.
It is obvious you haven't even used Office 2007, but are quick to reply, the Ribbon has an option to completely hide when not being used [..]
I however can read and did indeed know that such an option exists. I however reject the idea of a toolbar replacement (ribbon is a menu/toolbar replacement right?) needs autohide because it's too big. I'd be glad to told that I'm wrong and the ribbon can work vertically as well as horizontaly.
So even if it isn't the final grand UI, it is at least a step ahead of lists of TERMS that Novice Users have NO IDEA WTF they do.
Was I unclear when I specificly stated why well made menus are better for novice users? Handwaving about how text has no place in GUIs is not an argument and showing more icons into the face of novice users isn't a solution for applications that have too many functionsto be placed in menus. The ribbon retains all the far-too-many-functions for daily use and far-too-many-cryptic-pictures features, everyone who is comfortable with their current version of MS Office should adjust without too much trouble. Those of us who would like to see a better, not just different interface will have to look elsewhere.
And instead replaced by actual pictures of what the functions do with a palette of options demonstrating the feature.
Which is a good option for functions that have clear grapical representations and perform actions that can be graphicly summarized in palletes. It isn't incompatible with the WIMP paradigm and is mostly used in graphics software for obvious reasons. However when users start systematicly checking one tooltip after another to find a function they need it is pretty clear that icons aren't magic bullets.
I get tired of geeks that want to hold on to the hold days so hard they end up killing innovative moves by anyone.
Good old days of MS Office interface? I haven't expirienced such a thing. The menus have allways been long and the toolbars too many and too cryptic.
Shall I reference Linguistic studies so you can understand this better?
Human-computer interaction would be more on-topic.
The point stands that Google has made a credible effort to distinguish its references to its own products and services from the core search results.
Maybe so, but I maintain that they still made the distinction smaller. Before this Google had it's own tools up on the top (Images, News, etc.) and some on the adwords network (presumably in a fair competition for the top spot). Now however some of them, sometimes get the spot just above the top result. I wonder how long it will take "optimizers" to bring results like "Tip want to X? Try Y service" into the top spot to further muddy the waters.
If Google were giving its own products an artifically high page rank, yes, they'd probably lose the trust of the users. But they're not.
Yes, as far as we know they aren't doing it.
They're putting their own products in the #1 slot of the "these don't have enough page rank to get listed, but somebody's willing to pay us to put them here anyway" list.
No they aren't, there is no line dividing it from the results like with the ads on the right, and no differently colored background like with the ads on the top. Neither does it have "Sponsored link" in grey letters like the other two sections. It also isn't on the top like the rest of links to other Google tools. But at least it doesn't look like a search result--it is in a category of it's own, a 'tip'. It also has the distinction of having an image unlike virtualy anything else on the page. Now whether giving tips that are grouped more to the results then anything else on the page steps over the line is a decision each user has to make on it's own (I have no hard opinion yet for example) and at least the blogger in question has decided that it does.
The Office 2007 Ribbon is contextual and offers intelligent options based on what the user is doing [..]
Blenders interface cetainly is contextual. As for 'intelligent', to me that sounds either like marketing speak for contextual or a clippy-like system second guessing the user.
[..] add in realtime formatting options from a ribbon drop down concept [..]
As opposed to the non-real time drop down formating options of previvous versions?
[..] and remove menus completely [..]
And this is a good idea why? Good menus enable exploring available options through a textual interface (having to browse tooltips is not a good alternative), save screen space (think 16:9 on a laptop) and keep less used options out the way. Bad menus on the other hand have far too many entries, nested menus and hide entries...
In related news: Ton Roosendaal under investigation for illegaly altering the timeline. The director of TBI was terse: "The fact that Blender 3D contains a ribbon type interface predating MS Office 2007 made us suspicious, the fact that PC World named the ribbon interface in MS Office 2007 the top innovation of 2006 confirmed our worst fears."
About 15 minutes later it was cool enough to drink.. if still uncomfortable.
This brings up the question of how coffee bought in a drive through is normaly consumed--right away or at the final destination. You would need to have different coffee (with different cups so that they don't get confused) to statisfy both behaviours.
I think most people that drink McDonalds coffee regularly will be familar with the sensation of burning your tounge when you don't wait long enough... it takes a day or two to go away - but dosen't cause real harm if you sip only a little bit and don't let it sit on your tounge... which reflex action handles for you.
You are in fact saying that, yes, McDonalds clients do have a reasonable expectation of coffee beeing that hot (through expierience if nothing else) and yes, it isn't all that dangerous for normal consumption.
If this is reasonably acurate 150F isn't much safer. As far as juries go--innocent people have been sentenced to death with "shadow of doubt" burden of proof, it may be a good system overall, but it's not anywhere near perfect.
What happened to the nice little rant about overheated water used in coffee preperation that is somehow creating superhot coffee?
McDonalds corporate HQ mandated that coffee be served at 180-190F, that is 50-60 degrees hotter than the industry average.
Why should I believe you when other sources say that industry organizations recomend the same or similar temperture?
Records of buisiness at that time showed that McDonalds made over 1.3 Million dollars per day from coffee sales alone.
So how man of the hundreds of thousands of poeple daily are injured of this product that couldn't be safely used as expected?
If you want a sampling, go down to McDonalds, get a fresh cup of coffee, and stick your finger in (just the tip). You can do that with starbucks for a few seconds without getting burned.
Siping it will cause lips to fill with puss immediately (as you stated previvously), yet you suggest I put my fingertip in it? How about using a thermomether that not only prevents burning ones skin but also provides greater accuracy? Other sources claim that Starbucks coffee is just as hot, as I don't have either around I can't verify. How one could drink significant quantities of a liquid that burns as badly as you describe (you have done the test yourself right?) is a mystery to me.
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It's no coincidence I mentioned those two side by side. Rendering effects for HD can get really slow.
Windows Movie Maker and iMovie do clusters & HD video? Cinelerra does...
AFAIK Scribus has excelent PDF export. I also wonder why every time professional graphics editing is discussed everyone jumps on the CMYK gun as if web, games and TV don't have graphics.
And that's why 2.6 is the way it is, most people just don't seem to want a stable as in "Debian stable" kernel, they want a "stable as in runs well, but gets new drivers and features" kernel.
Since you asked in cm 33.3 should be precise enough for your needs. Will you give a 7th of a yard with a precision of 9 places after the dot? Will you be asking what the third of a radian is next?
So they are making a 100% crap-free system by redefining everything not authorized by Microsoft as crap?
What about the assorted crap Microsoft puts into a new install of Vista, wouldn't that affect users' opinions as well?
Curse your double ROT13-breaking meta-piracy tools!
So the 'intelligent' behaviour is impossible to explain in plain english, at least somwhat I see. Nonetheless Blenders interface is contextual, as I'm quite sure are many other graphical interfaces.
Not every Office function is a graphical option.
I however can read and did indeed know that such an option exists. I however reject the idea of a toolbar replacement (ribbon is a menu/toolbar replacement right?) needs autohide because it's too big. I'd be glad to told that I'm wrong and the ribbon can work vertically as well as horizontaly.
Was I unclear when I specificly stated why well made menus are better for novice users? Handwaving about how text has no place in GUIs is not an argument and showing more icons into the face of novice users isn't a solution for applications that have too many functionsto be placed in menus. The ribbon retains all the far-too-many-functions for daily use and far-too-many-cryptic-pictures features, everyone who is comfortable with their current version of MS Office should adjust without too much trouble. Those of us who would like to see a better, not just different interface will have to look elsewhere.
Which is a good option for functions that have clear grapical representations and perform actions that can be graphicly summarized in palletes. It isn't incompatible with the WIMP paradigm and is mostly used in graphics software for obvious reasons. However when users start systematicly checking one tooltip after another to find a function they need it is pretty clear that icons aren't magic bullets.
Good old days of MS Office interface? I haven't expirienced such a thing. The menus have allways been long and the toolbars too many and too cryptic.
Human-computer interaction would be more on-topic.
Yes, as far as we know they aren't doing it.
No they aren't, there is no line dividing it from the results like with the ads on the right, and no differently colored background like with the ads on the top. Neither does it have "Sponsored link" in grey letters like the other two sections. It also isn't on the top like the rest of links to other Google tools. But at least it doesn't look like a search result--it is in a category of it's own, a 'tip'. It also has the distinction of having an image unlike virtualy anything else on the page. Now whether giving tips that are grouped more to the results then anything else on the page steps over the line is a decision each user has to make on it's own (I have no hard opinion yet for example) and at least the blogger in question has decided that it does.
Because it compromises their perceived objectivity as a search engine.
In related news: Ton Roosendaal under investigation for illegaly altering the timeline. The director of TBI was terse: "The fact that Blender 3D contains a ribbon type interface predating MS Office 2007 made us suspicious, the fact that PC World named the ribbon interface in MS Office 2007 the top innovation of 2006 confirmed our worst fears."
About 15 minutes later it was cool enough to drink.. if still uncomfortable.
This brings up the question of how coffee bought in a drive through is normaly consumed--right away or at the final destination. You would need to have different coffee (with different cups so that they don't get confused) to statisfy both behaviours. You are in fact saying that, yes, McDonalds clients do have a reasonable expectation of coffee beeing that hot (through expierience if nothing else) and yes, it isn't all that dangerous for normal consumption.If this is reasonably acurate 150F isn't much safer. As far as juries go--innocent people have been sentenced to death with "shadow of doubt" burden of proof, it may be a good system overall, but it's not anywhere near perfect.