If you're tired of listening to idiots, why not start a company. Then you're in charge. There are many downsides to this but it solves your immediate problem.
You could also get into mobile app development. That can be done as a solo gig.
Most of the posts talk about copies and burning discs. This might not be possible. For example, what if they bought videos on iTunes or Amazon? You might not think that's a lot of money but some people have significant collections. I have 783GB of content from iTunes. In my case, my wife and I figured out that we needed different iTunes accounts about 6 months in. Still, it's not like splitting a DVD or Blu-ray collection.
I think the first step is talking with the content provider and see if they'll do anything for you. I'd guess not. If you can't split it, do as others suggest and talk about it with a lawyer.
I think the timeframe of 10 years is quite wrong for some of these. The idea of a dock goes back at least to 1990 with NeXTSTEP. I'm not sure when CDE had it, but that's been like forever too.
Dashboard/gadget crap came out with Microsoft Active Desktop circa IE4 beta 2 for Windows 95. Again 90s tech. Apple made it better, but it's not new.
Time machine is not even a UI advancement. It's a backup program. Several other things you list aren't really UI items either.
Some of these items are techniques to improve the UI but are not the UI itself. Most of those could have been used in GNOME 2.x.
At best, your list shows that GNOME 3 is trying to catch up to what Mac OS X and Windows already have. That doesn't impress me. I already have a Mac and a Windows box. I reiterate that when people use Linux or BSD they want to get real work done.
You've made a compelling argument for them to redo the architecture for GNOME. I don't think anyone can disagree with that. This is quite similar to the refactoring of QT. However, changing the user interface while ignoring your user base was a fail. You keep mentioning 2002 in your posts.. but what has really come out of desktop user interfaces since then? I can't think of much for desktop users. All the innovation has been for tablets and portal devices with touch screens. If I walk into best buy today and buy a computer, most of them will not have a touch screen. Thus, the GNOME changes are at best preparing for the possible future. It is totally useless right now for the people who have stood behind them for all these years.
I've used GNOME 3 on a debian installation and it seems stable. I think they did a good job from an architecture perspective, but I don't like the user interface. It gets in the way. It's clear to me that they want the iPad users and don't care about people that have stood by them for years, you know power users. That's fine, but it should be advertised as such. Put on the website that they've ended support for power users and want iPad types. Send open letters to the distros telling them their target demographic has changed and they might not be the right fit anymore. People need to know that GNOME is no longer GNOME. In fact, a name change might be a good idea.
What the linux and bsd community needs is a desktop environment for everyone. We don't want one targeted at idiots or power users. We need something to appeal to the masses, but still has power. Microsoft used to have a fairly decent one.. Apple did too. It can be done. It doesn't mean it has to look like current environments. Let's face it, if you believe the hype pads are taking over and only people that have to get real work done need a full computer. So for linux desktops and laptops, we need a desktop environment to get real work done.
I don't see a problem here. Do Not Track requires websites to implement it and users to turn it on. Even if it becomes default in browsers, every website on the Internet has to be changed to use it. I don't see that happening overnight. Sure, browser vendors could block sites not using it, but I don't think that can happen either. It just takes a few big holdouts like Facebook or google to keep it from becoming a reality.
I don't even like the implementation right now. I want to be able to turn it on, but exclude some sites that I'm ok with tracking data or that I don't want to have to login to constantly.
It's a good idea, but I don't think it's going to take down the Internet. We don't even have sites using SSL standard yet and that's been suggested for years.
Sony is just too conservative and unwilling to invest to be successful in the software business. 90% of their time will be spent locking down systems and adding DRM. They won't build what the customer wants.
It's scary that you have to get drivers through the windows store. That means you could never get some new arm hardware running with windows as a hobbyist or try some third party driver when the default crashes. It also means that it might be harder to upgrade windows on some devices as microsoft could block you from getting drivers for the current windows release.
The ARM port is truly a hardware lock-in. I hope it fails.
This guy is leaving for a good cause and all, but I've noticed a pattern of Google employees leaving lately. Even newer recruits don't seem to stay long. I wonder if they've taken the fun out of working there? Obviously, something has changed. It can't be the computing problems, because they still have huge challenges.
For example, there is a movie called "So I Married a Witch". it's actually a cute little movie but it was never released on DVD or Blu-Ray and I haven't found it online to date except for sale on VHS!
It's a very old black and white movie and no one has bothered to move it to modern formats.
You are completely correct. My wife is a computer programmer and she has to deal with this crap all the time. Yes, we need more women in computing but we also need people to get jobs based on their skill set. I've met a lot of female programmers that can hold their own. Gender should not matter.
Maybe a refund for Sync since you don't use the radio... hey wait that's Microsoft software too!
Seriously, I think it's part of the cost of getting a PC. It sucks but it's not like apple sells MacBook Pros without OS X. When I bought my last toshiba laptop, there were sticks all over it saying i had to accept windows and no refunds. I don't care because when i put it up on ebay later i can sell it with windows and actually get something out of it just like I did with my last one.
Until then, my laptop dual boots midnightbsd and debian.
When pipelining first came out, there were many buggy implementations. As a result, many browsers and web servers disabled the feature. Maybe it's time to turn it on for everything.
It's crap in short. I run MidnightBSD. AMD doesn't care about *BSD at all. I love their CPUs, but I had to switch to nvidia cards in recent systems because the X driver is easier to get working and FreeBSD even has binary blobs for recent cards if you're into that.
It's usually easier to get an intel or nvidia card to work in FreeBSD. As far as sandy bridge or newer intel stuff, there is a very slow project to get KMS working and some other things to natively support them with acceleration. However, there are no plans to support AMD GPUs.
You might be stuck with VESA mode if you buy a newer AMD GPU. I've had that problem with my laptop running an AMD A6.
Not only that but Google does the exact same thing on YouTube. You can post a video and get paid for advertising shown with the video. They have a ton of things you have to agree to that it's not pirated content and you own the copyright, but still...
Worse yet, many providers still charge the same price even if you have a phone already you want to use on their network. If you don't take the contract phone, you're out even more money. That system doesn't make sense to me. I should get a discount because I didn't get a phone.
My only complaint about BIND 9 is setting up DNSSEC. They're working on it, and 9.8 made it a bit easier, but it's still a hassle. DNS has always been a set it up and forget it service until now.
FreeBSD does have a port with a dhcp6 client, but it's not built into the OS (base system) as far as I know. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wide-dhcpv6/ is in ports/net/dhcp6 i believe.
This actually brings up a good point and I should add a dhcp6 client to MidnightBSD. Not sure which one to use though.
Is it dual stack? FreeBSD developers have actually set it up in recent releases so you can compile with ONLY IPV6 (INET6), IPV4 (INET), or SCTP only. Then they came up with a bunch of tests to see how IPV6 only would work on the Internet and then they checked for compliance. It's rather amazing what they've accomplished so far and most of it within days of last year's world IPV6 day.
I expect a recent linux kernel to do well with IPV6. I'm not questioning that. Just wondered if it's still dual stack dependent and how much testing has happened with userland bits. Since it's a distro problem more than just the kernel. In FreeBSD, they have to make sure all the userland parts work too. The biggest missing piece is DHCPv6 in FreeBSD that I know of.
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If you're tired of listening to idiots, why not start a company. Then you're in charge. There are many downsides to this but it solves your immediate problem.
You could also get into mobile app development. That can be done as a solo gig.
Most of the posts talk about copies and burning discs. This might not be possible. For example, what if they bought videos on iTunes or Amazon? You might not think that's a lot of money but some people have significant collections. I have 783GB of content from iTunes. In my case, my wife and I figured out that we needed different iTunes accounts about 6 months in. Still, it's not like splitting a DVD or Blu-ray collection.
I think the first step is talking with the content provider and see if they'll do anything for you. I'd guess not. If you can't split it, do as others suggest and talk about it with a lawyer.
I think the timeframe of 10 years is quite wrong for some of these. The idea of a dock goes back at least to 1990 with NeXTSTEP. I'm not sure when CDE had it, but that's been like forever too.
Dashboard/gadget crap came out with Microsoft Active Desktop circa IE4 beta 2 for Windows 95. Again 90s tech. Apple made it better, but it's not new.
Time machine is not even a UI advancement. It's a backup program. Several other things you list aren't really UI items either.
Some of these items are techniques to improve the UI but are not the UI itself. Most of those could have been used in GNOME 2.x.
At best, your list shows that GNOME 3 is trying to catch up to what Mac OS X and Windows already have. That doesn't impress me. I already have a Mac and a Windows box. I reiterate that when people use Linux or BSD they want to get real work done.
Why do you think Microsoft should eat the cost of distributing patches?
Is this inclusive of a fee for bandwidth costs? What is the reason for the fee to be so large?
Microsoft is pushing cloud computing now right.. why not charge based on how many users download patches?
You've made a compelling argument for them to redo the architecture for GNOME. I don't think anyone can disagree with that. This is quite similar to the refactoring of QT. However, changing the user interface while ignoring your user base was a fail. You keep mentioning 2002 in your posts.. but what has really come out of desktop user interfaces since then? I can't think of much for desktop users. All the innovation has been for tablets and portal devices with touch screens. If I walk into best buy today and buy a computer, most of them will not have a touch screen. Thus, the GNOME changes are at best preparing for the possible future. It is totally useless right now for the people who have stood behind them for all these years.
I've used GNOME 3 on a debian installation and it seems stable. I think they did a good job from an architecture perspective, but I don't like the user interface. It gets in the way. It's clear to me that they want the iPad users and don't care about people that have stood by them for years, you know power users. That's fine, but it should be advertised as such. Put on the website that they've ended support for power users and want iPad types. Send open letters to the distros telling them their target demographic has changed and they might not be the right fit anymore. People need to know that GNOME is no longer GNOME. In fact, a name change might be a good idea.
What the linux and bsd community needs is a desktop environment for everyone. We don't want one targeted at idiots or power users. We need something to appeal to the masses, but still has power. Microsoft used to have a fairly decent one.. Apple did too. It can be done. It doesn't mean it has to look like current environments. Let's face it, if you believe the hype pads are taking over and only people that have to get real work done need a full computer. So for linux desktops and laptops, we need a desktop environment to get real work done.
I don't see a problem here. Do Not Track requires websites to implement it and users to turn it on. Even if it becomes default in browsers, every website on the Internet has to be changed to use it. I don't see that happening overnight. Sure, browser vendors could block sites not using it, but I don't think that can happen either. It just takes a few big holdouts like Facebook or google to keep it from becoming a reality.
I don't even like the implementation right now. I want to be able to turn it on, but exclude some sites that I'm ok with tracking data or that I don't want to have to login to constantly.
It's a good idea, but I don't think it's going to take down the Internet. We don't even have sites using SSL standard yet and that's been suggested for years.
Sony is just too conservative and unwilling to invest to be successful in the software business. 90% of their time will be spent locking down systems and adding DRM. They won't build what the customer wants.
It's scary that you have to get drivers through the windows store. That means you could never get some new arm hardware running with windows as a hobbyist or try some third party driver when the default crashes. It also means that it might be harder to upgrade windows on some devices as microsoft could block you from getting drivers for the current windows release.
The ARM port is truly a hardware lock-in. I hope it fails.
This guy is leaving for a good cause and all, but I've noticed a pattern of Google employees leaving lately. Even newer recruits don't seem to stay long. I wonder if they've taken the fun out of working there? Obviously, something has changed. It can't be the computing problems, because they still have huge challenges.
Hack the Planet!
The tapes are but not the players. My dad about killed me for tripping and dropping orange juice on a VCR.
For example, there is a movie called "So I Married a Witch". it's actually a cute little movie but it was never released on DVD or Blu-Ray and I haven't found it online to date except for sale on VHS!
It's a very old black and white movie and no one has bothered to move it to modern formats.
You are completely correct. My wife is a computer programmer and she has to deal with this crap all the time. Yes, we need more women in computing but we also need people to get jobs based on their skill set. I've met a lot of female programmers that can hold their own. Gender should not matter.
Some people get all the cool gigs.
Maybe a refund for Sync since you don't use the radio... hey wait that's Microsoft software too!
Seriously, I think it's part of the cost of getting a PC. It sucks but it's not like apple sells MacBook Pros without OS X. When I bought my last toshiba laptop, there were sticks all over it saying i had to accept windows and no refunds. I don't care because when i put it up on ebay later i can sell it with windows and actually get something out of it just like I did with my last one.
Until then, my laptop dual boots midnightbsd and debian.
Seriously, the guy who introduced the bill is in the GOP. Give me a break slashdot.
http://lamarsmith.house.gov/
When pipelining first came out, there were many buggy implementations. As a result, many browsers and web servers disabled the feature. Maybe it's time to turn it on for everything.
It's crap in short. I run MidnightBSD. AMD doesn't care about *BSD at all. I love their CPUs, but I had to switch to nvidia cards in recent systems because the X driver is easier to get working and FreeBSD even has binary blobs for recent cards if you're into that.
It's usually easier to get an intel or nvidia card to work in FreeBSD. As far as sandy bridge or newer intel stuff, there is a very slow project to get KMS working and some other things to natively support them with acceleration. However, there are no plans to support AMD GPUs.
You might be stuck with VESA mode if you buy a newer AMD GPU. I've had that problem with my laptop running an AMD A6.
Not only that but Google does the exact same thing on YouTube. You can post a video and get paid for advertising shown with the video. They have a ton of things you have to agree to that it's not pirated content and you own the copyright, but still...
Worse yet, many providers still charge the same price even if you have a phone already you want to use on their network. If you don't take the contract phone, you're out even more money. That system doesn't make sense to me. I should get a discount because I didn't get a phone.
I guess I need to get out the marketing more.
My only complaint about BIND 9 is setting up DNSSEC. They're working on it, and 9.8 made it a bit easier, but it's still a hassle. DNS has always been a set it up and forget it service until now.
FreeBSD does have a port with a dhcp6 client, but it's not built into the OS (base system) as far as I know. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wide-dhcpv6/ is in ports/net/dhcp6 i believe.
This actually brings up a good point and I should add a dhcp6 client to MidnightBSD. Not sure which one to use though.
Is it dual stack? FreeBSD developers have actually set it up in recent releases so you can compile with ONLY IPV6 (INET6), IPV4 (INET), or SCTP only. Then they came up with a bunch of tests to see how IPV6 only would work on the Internet and then they checked for compliance. It's rather amazing what they've accomplished so far and most of it within days of last year's world IPV6 day.
I expect a recent linux kernel to do well with IPV6. I'm not questioning that. Just wondered if it's still dual stack dependent and how much testing has happened with userland bits. Since it's a distro problem more than just the kernel. In FreeBSD, they have to make sure all the userland parts work too. The biggest missing piece is DHCPv6 in FreeBSD that I know of.