And I am not sure that finding out you have high blood pressure, really does much in the long run except maybe prevent you from dying of a heart attack earlier.
Clearly that's something nobody should care about, I mean what... death? Peh! Hardly an inconvenience.
I know all this, but I realize not everyone reading these comments does.
My core point is that when you go to Ubuntu's website and download it, the interface you see on the live CD and receive on installation (by default anyway) is Unity (or that gnome3 fallback thing) and not something else.
Try it again without a third-party UI and watch what happens... If you're using a third-party UI your experiences with it are no longer valid. If you're happy with it that's great, and wanting others to know about it so they can be as well is awesome, but you're enabling Microsoft to pull this kind of shit.
The only Ubuntu announcement that I would be interested in is if they decide to use MATE, Cinnamon, XFCE, or KDE for their desktop, and throw vanilla GNOME 3 and Unity in the trash.
Do you really think that's OK? It is not acceptable that such a thing is required to get basic functionality from your OS.
Imagine the uproar if Canonical removed everything except Unity from their repositories. Would you think that was OK? Sure, you could easily add a third-party repository (eg, getdeb) and get your goodies back, but you should not have to do that and that is the problem.
No, they have been telling the truth. They store a picture until the recipient opens it. They have to, how else could they send the picture to the recipient?
You joke, but the first place I saw that happen was in GNOME. Personally I would prefer the application name to be central with the description subdued (basically reverse of how they have it in MATE, which is the limit of my current GNOME experience).
Whichever way it's done, I will say it's better than just the application name. Even better though, the files that govern what is displayed are easily (and very often are) internationalized. Eg, when you have your language set in English VLC might say "Media Player" but if you select Esperanto it might say "amaskomunikiloj ludanto" or whatever (google translate, there) - meanwhile "VLC" means nothing to someone who doesn't already know what it does.
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And I am not sure that finding out you have high blood pressure, really does much in the long run except maybe prevent you from dying of a heart attack earlier.
Clearly that's something nobody should care about, I mean what... death? Peh! Hardly an inconvenience.
I'll let Brian Boyko explain it, he does a much better job of it than I could. The entire UX is fucked.
Hey, I thought I'd fit in better! You're just further proving my point.
We're talking about Ubuntu - the official Ubuntu from Canonical. Not what you linked, but what Canonical puts on UBUNTU.COM
Kubuntu isn't the Ubuntu you get from Ubuntu's website.
I know all this, but I realize not everyone reading these comments does.
My core point is that when you go to Ubuntu's website and download it, the interface you see on the live CD and receive on installation (by default anyway) is Unity (or that gnome3 fallback thing) and not something else.
No. xUbuntu does. Ubuntu ships with Unity.
Unless things have changed and when you go to ubuntu.com and click download, it actually forwards you to xubuntu instead?
Eh, just install cygwin or whatever and you can do it locally without rebooting.
FIrewall time...
There's more broken with than just integration. The whole UX is fucked.
Try it again without a third-party UI and watch what happens... If you're using a third-party UI your experiences with it are no longer valid. If you're happy with it that's great, and wanting others to know about it so they can be as well is awesome, but you're enabling Microsoft to pull this kind of shit.
The only Ubuntu announcement that I would be interested in is if they decide to use MATE, Cinnamon, XFCE, or KDE for their desktop, and throw vanilla GNOME 3 and Unity in the trash.
Unlikely to happen.
Do you really think that's OK? It is not acceptable that such a thing is required to get basic functionality from your OS.
Imagine the uproar if Canonical removed everything except Unity from their repositories. Would you think that was OK? Sure, you could easily add a third-party repository (eg, getdeb) and get your goodies back, but you should not have to do that and that is the problem.
GCC: GNU Cupcake Cooker?
Imagine this. That is Windows 8. Now, imagine this. That is Windows 8.1.
Sure, it's a pretty ball and all, but it's broken and changing the paint job isn't going to fix it.
When you posted that, was the reference not already in the summary? Because it is now, and it makes you look incredibly lame :P
I wasn't talking about moderations.
No, they have been telling the truth. They store a picture until the recipient opens it. They have to, how else could they send the picture to the recipient?
Gee, maybe they could encrypt it and just fucking send it?
Oh, right. Even something "simple" like PGP is beyond users at large. Shameful.
Who the fuck is Emmanual Assange?
You joke, but the first place I saw that happen was in GNOME. Personally I would prefer the application name to be central with the description subdued (basically reverse of how they have it in MATE, which is the limit of my current GNOME experience).
Whichever way it's done, I will say it's better than just the application name. Even better though, the files that govern what is displayed are easily (and very often are) internationalized. Eg, when you have your language set in English VLC might say "Media Player" but if you select Esperanto it might say "amaskomunikiloj ludanto" or whatever (google translate, there) - meanwhile "VLC" means nothing to someone who doesn't already know what it does.
Sorry, "used to be a big fan" implied to me that you were opposed to it's continuance.
Although I used to be a big fan of the work, I'm pretty sure I'll never see a commercial reactor born of the ITER project in my lifetime.
That's no reason to abandon it.
Blame the politicians, not the scientists and engineers.
Have you been under a rock for the last 30 years? The only place it seems funding hasn't been slashed is pork and Defense.
Don't you have anything useful to say, ever? Your comment history suggests otherwise.