I'm sorry - I didn't know you were in Bill Gates's head. It's incredible that you know that for sure. Obviously you do, otherwise you wouldn't phrase it as fact.
Imagine having authors kindly willing to give you 400,000 PDFs of their books, and you'll imagine how ridiculous your assertion sounds:) Even more ridiculous when they get 1,000,000 PDFs rolling by the summer. Printing to demand is not the killer point here - it's the choice you get. Your uni's print shop, as great as I'm sure it is, doesn't even come close.
No, actually, it doesn't happen in Windows. I've not had to turn off Aero because any application wasn't rendering properly. Please stop trying to spread this nonsense - it's not helping anyone, least of all anyone with the ability to actually help Linux get coherency, who has their desire to help placated by constant reassurance from people like yourself saying everything's fine and they don't need to bother. They do need to bother. Badly.
Because UIs are something people actually study and perform a lot of research on, finding interfaces more in tune with how humans operate internally, thereby improving ease of use and productivity. Not taking advantage of that is clearly not helping anyone. Equating not taking up progress in this field with pop music, shoddy architecture, and Wall Street is nigh-on retarded. By your logic we should all be using Pentium IIs and dial-up. Nice.
Jesus Christ - calm the fuck down, OK? You're not really helping the cause by rabidly blathering this shite where it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
No, we're clearly talking about two different things. Yes, it's speedy, but it looks like a mix of old and new fighting to the death. Two. Different. Things.
And the effects are mostly great (on their own), but it still lacks coherency in its design. The UI elements still look ratty, old-fashioned, and ugly, and the visual effects (while fluid) are all over the place. Don't hate me for this, but at least Windows 7's design is much more coherent, from the UI controls to the visual effects - they look like they work together. What I've seen of 9.04 is quite the opposite - it looks like everything is engaged in a mortal struggle against everything else. A fluid, nifty effect generates a window that's full of 90s-esque design elements. It's rather jarring. Like taking a swanky elevator to a penthouse, and the doors open to reveal a highly-functional chicken coop.
Don't visit sites with adverts, and you're set. But I guess you think it's fine to visit sites that you want to visit, and not have to see adverts which pay for the content you clearly want. Lovely.
I think you've got it wrong - stealing isn't getting something you don't deserve, it's depriving someone of something they *do* deserve. Both of your examples seem to agree with my point.
It's the first step. No-one's going to build a US equivalent of the S-Bahn or Regiobahn if it's just to connect towns. Throw in a high-speed rail station in the area, and they'll jump at the chance. As I said - it's just the first step. It most definitely is not pork, though it could be mistaken for it. It's actually rather clever.
They already do that on the Eurostar under the English Channel. Drive on to a train, drink a beer, drive off in a different country. There's one in Denmark (?) that goes one step further - drive on to a train, train drives on to a boat, the boat crosses the sea, train drives off, car drives off. Cool:)
You should check out the S-Bahn in Germany. It's a tram that travels on the streets, connects towns to their nearest city, and from that city you can get high-speed travel anywhere in western Europe. You can leave your house, travel several hundreds of miles in hours, and reach your destination - all without walking more than a block or two.
Stop trying to impart knowledge - this jackass simply wants to rail against Obama. No pun intended. And on the subject of German trains, the food is excellent, and the beer is fantastic. I look forward to long-distance train journeys on the ICE because of that. The TGVs are no slouch, either, in the comfort department - I travelled from Paris to Karlsruhe on one in first class (only ticket left, holiday season), and the fuckin' thing was intensely sweet.
You'd probably like something like this: Karlsruhe Germany's tram system. It runs on the streets (with stations at street level, resembling bus stops), and connects many towns and villages in an area with frequent, modern, clean, fast transportation to larger cities, such as Karlsruhe. From Karlsruhe you can catch the TGV and ICE trains, which can get up to a shade under 200MPH, all over western Europe.
Unlike Facebook, you don't have to be logged in to the parent service to get the Digg bar, hence people getting pissed off about SEO. You have to be logged in to Facebook to get the Facebook shortened URL. Crawlers are not in the habit of signing up for Facebook. It's not a double standard, it's very different.
It seems to be more about the software that represents the data in a visual/audio form than the displays, which as you note - are not fantastically exotic.
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I'm sorry - I didn't know you were in Bill Gates's head. It's incredible that you know that for sure. Obviously you do, otherwise you wouldn't phrase it as fact.
Ass.
Why not just count them by hand if you are going to do that anyway? What's with this need to put electronics in the mix anyway?
Score: 5, Retarded
You can already share to your consoles via WMP11. Nice try on the troll, though. 2/10 for effort.
Imagine having authors kindly willing to give you 400,000 PDFs of their books, and you'll imagine how ridiculous your assertion sounds :) Even more ridiculous when they get 1,000,000 PDFs rolling by the summer. Printing to demand is not the killer point here - it's the choice you get. Your uni's print shop, as great as I'm sure it is, doesn't even come close.
Yes, ratty. I'm sure it looks great compared to earlier Ubuntu releases, but definitely not when compared to OS X or Windows 7.
No, actually, it doesn't happen in Windows. I've not had to turn off Aero because any application wasn't rendering properly. Please stop trying to spread this nonsense - it's not helping anyone, least of all anyone with the ability to actually help Linux get coherency, who has their desire to help placated by constant reassurance from people like yourself saying everything's fine and they don't need to bother. They do need to bother. Badly.
Because UIs are something people actually study and perform a lot of research on, finding interfaces more in tune with how humans operate internally, thereby improving ease of use and productivity. Not taking advantage of that is clearly not helping anyone. Equating not taking up progress in this field with pop music, shoddy architecture, and Wall Street is nigh-on retarded. By your logic we should all be using Pentium IIs and dial-up. Nice.
It is very quick. Your point?
Jesus Christ - calm the fuck down, OK? You're not really helping the cause by rabidly blathering this shite where it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
No, we're clearly talking about two different things. Yes, it's speedy, but it looks like a mix of old and new fighting to the death. Two. Different. Things.
And the effects are mostly great (on their own), but it still lacks coherency in its design. The UI elements still look ratty, old-fashioned, and ugly, and the visual effects (while fluid) are all over the place. Don't hate me for this, but at least Windows 7's design is much more coherent, from the UI controls to the visual effects - they look like they work together. What I've seen of 9.04 is quite the opposite - it looks like everything is engaged in a mortal struggle against everything else. A fluid, nifty effect generates a window that's full of 90s-esque design elements. It's rather jarring. Like taking a swanky elevator to a penthouse, and the doors open to reveal a highly-functional chicken coop.
But it means any virtual machine running on your system gets root privilege on the host running the VMs.
Jesus Christ now I've seen it all. Token ring. Hahahaha! You're funny.
"A neighboring country" would have to be Italy. Seeing as that's the only country it's next to :)
Neil Burnside would like to disagree with you. Season 1 if you are into that kind of thing.
Don't visit sites with adverts, and you're set. But I guess you think it's fine to visit sites that you want to visit, and not have to see adverts which pay for the content you clearly want. Lovely.
I think you've got it wrong - stealing isn't getting something you don't deserve, it's depriving someone of something they *do* deserve. Both of your examples seem to agree with my point.
It's the first step. No-one's going to build a US equivalent of the S-Bahn or Regiobahn if it's just to connect towns. Throw in a high-speed rail station in the area, and they'll jump at the chance. As I said - it's just the first step. It most definitely is not pork, though it could be mistaken for it. It's actually rather clever.
They already do that on the Eurostar under the English Channel. Drive on to a train, drink a beer, drive off in a different country. There's one in Denmark (?) that goes one step further - drive on to a train, train drives on to a boat, the boat crosses the sea, train drives off, car drives off. Cool :)
You should check out the S-Bahn in Germany. It's a tram that travels on the streets, connects towns to their nearest city, and from that city you can get high-speed travel anywhere in western Europe. You can leave your house, travel several hundreds of miles in hours, and reach your destination - all without walking more than a block or two.
Stop trying to impart knowledge - this jackass simply wants to rail against Obama. No pun intended. And on the subject of German trains, the food is excellent, and the beer is fantastic. I look forward to long-distance train journeys on the ICE because of that. The TGVs are no slouch, either, in the comfort department - I travelled from Paris to Karlsruhe on one in first class (only ticket left, holiday season), and the fuckin' thing was intensely sweet.
You'd probably like something like this: Karlsruhe Germany's tram system. It runs on the streets (with stations at street level, resembling bus stops), and connects many towns and villages in an area with frequent, modern, clean, fast transportation to larger cities, such as Karlsruhe. From Karlsruhe you can catch the TGV and ICE trains, which can get up to a shade under 200MPH, all over western Europe.
Unlike Facebook, you don't have to be logged in to the parent service to get the Digg bar, hence people getting pissed off about SEO. You have to be logged in to Facebook to get the Facebook shortened URL. Crawlers are not in the habit of signing up for Facebook. It's not a double standard, it's very different.
It seems to be more about the software that represents the data in a visual/audio form than the displays, which as you note - are not fantastically exotic.
But they don't design anything - they take an existing design and turn it into HTML/CSS. Front-end developer would be a much more accurate term.