I still use a 701 4G daily that I got in Nov. 2007. Sturdy as hell. I move that thing around, open/close the lid, whatever, for good portions of the day with no problem. Three years after purchase.
I can't say that about my last HP laptop purchase. Died after 2 years.
I'm not sure why you reference Microsoft in this discussion. The reason I think the buttons are supposed to go top right is because GEOS on the Commodore 64 has them (well, 'it') there.
Not everything in this universe is stolen and subsequently claimed to be invented by Microsoft, you know.
No, some things are also stolen, then "invented" by Apple too.
Seriously, when 10.04 came out with the buttons in the upper left, I thought it was misguided too. But for kicks, I decided to leave them that way to see if it was actually usable for me. Guess what? After a day or two, I liked it. I haven't changed them.
You know, I really think it just comes down to spatial memory. After having used 10.04 with the buttons in the upper left, whenever I go and use a windows machine, my eyes automatically go there looking for the buttons.
Truthfully, I know nothing about the exact mailbox format, but I know they're sqlite 3 databases. In any other app I've used that utilizes sqlite (2/3) databases, I've never found them to be slow.
That said, my evolution's mailboxes aren't too terribly large (about 15K messages each in two different mail accounts).
Nowhere. But right now it's the most widely adopted and implemented
For what? Actual video content? I don't think so. Would some of us like to see it more popular than, say, Flash to serve up video? Sure. But that's not the way it is now.
To suggest it's the most adopted is wishful thinking.
I've been wanting to update my N800 with newer hardware for a while now, and if I were to go by that list, there's really only one option: the Archos 5. The Augen may also take second, but it's not 5 inches.
When I first installed v3 I disabled indexing too, with only two IMAP accounts, because it was dog slow.
And it actually crashed quite a bit for me under Lucid Lynx. I finally gave up on TB and switched to Evolution. That is also quite slow, at least to start up, but things like calendars (Google, tasks (RTM - read only, unfortunately) and memos (Tomboy sync) are much better integrated.
- I can't make Flash work on Ubuntu, even though I've tried numerous times. It keeps saying something about, "Not enough permission."
Having used Ubuntu for some time now, this one lie makes the rest of your list look suspect.
Again, having used Ubuntu for some time now, the rest of your list is, in fact, a lie as well. There are workalike programs for all of them, as well as the ability to run the original programs in Wine.
From the size of their contributions, Canonical isn't serving anyone but themselves.
They're serving me as a user just fine. Judging by the numbers at distrowatch, I'm not the only one either. Not by a long shot.
To have that much of a lead, they're doing something that other distributions aren't. Whether it's contributed upstream to Gnome or through Launchpad... well frankly, as a user I don't care.
The comments following the blog post are more informative than the blog post itself.
Redhat and Canonical serve two entirely different groups of people, so it's pretty pointless to bitch about what each have or haven't done for their respective groups.
But do you mean it's built using open source tools, or can I actually download the Facebook server code, and then set up a separate website that works just like Facebook?
Obviously you can't download it, then run the same code elsewhere. This is no different than many, many other open source projects out on the web.
My point really was that calling Facebook closed source is not really accurate.
Imagine that I had never used Windows. Where would I go to look for documentation? Microsoft doesn't provide documentation any longer, aside from the context help system. And that's just as bad as any other context help system, be it on a Linux box or on a Mac. Really.
I think you're confusing widespread knowledge from friends or co-workers (or maybe even your own) as documentation.
Sometimes an internet search is exactly what's needed.
Sailing out of San Francisco Bay isn't all that impressive.
When I lived in the bay area, I used to take a 17 ft Bayliner up the delta on weekends. After finishing a 12 pack a beer with a friend, we decided that, instead of heading up to Sacramento, we would just take the boat out on the bay.
It happened to be a very windy day, albeit warm.
I thought we were gonna die. By the time we got back to the marina in Suisun, the boat had well over a foot of water inside.
History has shown us time and again that the whackjobs don't get elected by being whackjobs. They generally become whackjobs after they get a taste of power.
* Not just looking around at the US-elected whackjobs, either. I'm looking equally at Europe and South America.
Ordinary Americans have allowed themselves to become loathsome. They think religion is science, they crave circuses instead of information, they are lazy, and they let their pandering media pundits of choice think for them.
Except they're not the ordinary Americans. They get all the soundbytes (and as such, appear to be the norm) because they're nutjobs, but really, they're not the ordinary ones.
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I can't say that about my last HP laptop purchase. Died after 2 years.
Or s/he could just read the flippin' search page. It's right there at the top of the page.
Duluth, MN. It's a nice big one too.
Or course, you can't actually use it for more than a couple weeks out of the year.
No, some things are also stolen, then "invented" by Apple too.
Seriously, when 10.04 came out with the buttons in the upper left, I thought it was misguided too. But for kicks, I decided to leave them that way to see if it was actually usable for me. Guess what? After a day or two, I liked it. I haven't changed them.
You know, I really think it just comes down to spatial memory. After having used 10.04 with the buttons in the upper left, whenever I go and use a windows machine, my eyes automatically go there looking for the buttons.
That said, my evolution's mailboxes aren't too terribly large (about 15K messages each in two different mail accounts).
It really is faster. And more stable too (although I had never experienced the crashes some had with 2.28).
They've also changed up the interface a bit with updated icons - it no longer looks like something out of 1998.
I imagine you don't have many non-developer friends using Macs then. Unix has nothing at all to do with most users' Mac desktops in their minds.
Just as people around here are prone to believing that HTML5 is a video format.
For what? Actual video content? I don't think so. Would some of us like to see it more popular than, say, Flash to serve up video? Sure. But that's not the way it is now.
To suggest it's the most adopted is wishful thinking.
I already am seeing more cellphones with headphones used on CTA in Chicago.
I've been wanting to update my N800 with newer hardware for a while now, and if I were to go by that list, there's really only one option: the Archos 5. The Augen may also take second, but it's not 5 inches.
That, to me, is sad.
And it actually crashed quite a bit for me under Lucid Lynx. I finally gave up on TB and switched to Evolution. That is also quite slow, at least to start up, but things like calendars (Google, tasks (RTM - read only, unfortunately) and memos (Tomboy sync) are much better integrated.
Having used Ubuntu for some time now, this one lie makes the rest of your list look suspect.
Again, having used Ubuntu for some time now, the rest of your list is, in fact, a lie as well. There are workalike programs for all of them, as well as the ability to run the original programs in Wine.
Maybe if the handout is an exact copy of everything the lecturer says.
If you're going to a lecture just for the handouts/notes, you're going for the wrong reasons.
And if all the lecture consists of is an exact copy of the handouts, the lecturer is teaching for the wrong reasons.
They're serving me as a user just fine. Judging by the numbers at distrowatch, I'm not the only one either. Not by a long shot.
To have that much of a lead, they're doing something that other distributions aren't. Whether it's contributed upstream to Gnome or through Launchpad... well frankly, as a user I don't care.
Redhat and Canonical serve two entirely different groups of people, so it's pretty pointless to bitch about what each have or haven't done for their respective groups.
Fair enough.
But then you don't get to call yourself an engineer because you completed a 6 month course in programming, OK?
Obviously you can't download it, then run the same code elsewhere. This is no different than many, many other open source projects out on the web.
My point really was that calling Facebook closed source is not really accurate.
Why not?
Imagine that I had never used Windows. Where would I go to look for documentation? Microsoft doesn't provide documentation any longer, aside from the context help system. And that's just as bad as any other context help system, be it on a Linux box or on a Mac. Really.
I think you're confusing widespread knowledge from friends or co-workers (or maybe even your own) as documentation.
Sometimes an internet search is exactly what's needed.
Comparisons aside...
I thought I read not too long ago that Facebook is, in fact, built on open source (LAMP, among other things).
True, all the stupid games are Flash-based, but that's not really Facebook.
What is closed source at Facebook? I'm honestly interested.
When I lived in the bay area, I used to take a 17 ft Bayliner up the delta on weekends. After finishing a 12 pack a beer with a friend, we decided that, instead of heading up to Sacramento, we would just take the boat out on the bay.
It happened to be a very windy day, albeit warm.
I thought we were gonna die. By the time we got back to the marina in Suisun, the boat had well over a foot of water inside.
History has shown us time and again that the whackjobs don't get elected by being whackjobs. They generally become whackjobs after they get a taste of power.
* Not just looking around at the US-elected whackjobs, either. I'm looking equally at Europe and South America.
Or, you know, you could just laugh at it because it was so overused in other iProduct discussions.
It's not a troll. It's a pun.
Except they're not the ordinary Americans. They get all the soundbytes (and as such, appear to be the norm) because they're nutjobs, but really, they're not the ordinary ones.
Don't know what your set up is, but mine can and does easily handle thousands of bookmarks.
I have XMarks installed and make heavy use of tagging. What really makes it useful though is Gnome-do. Searches are really quite quick.
In fact, Gnome-do has become indispensable to me for many programs, not just Firefox.