This is an outstanding comment, and it's worded very well. I'm bookmarking this so I can reference it later. I'd mod +1 insightful if I had mod points, but this reply will have to do. Thanks for articulating so precisely how I feel about freedom and the 2nd amendment.
With the el-cheapo carriers heavily advertising their cut-rate plans, how long can AT&T and Verizon keep it up? Why would anyone pay $80/month when they can get the same service from another carrier for less than $50
Because that $50 plan from T-mobile or Sprint is next to useless with their shit coverage. I ran T-mobile for 2 years, I had above 2 bars maybe once.
Nice try, verizon rep. I'm a sprint customer, and my coverage is excellent. My experience as a whole is much better than when I was on verizon and at&t before that.
See how using personal anecdotes as actual evidence is silly?
Not that I'm a huge Meg fan, but what the hell does her being female have anything to do with it? Honestly, why the gender attack? Would hiring another male for the job have elicited the same "let's find another failed male politician" remark from you? No, didn't think so.
I'd actually prefer to use Kubuntu for 11.04, but it turns out that the nvidia drivers are broken for both. Until they fix the nvidia drivers, there's no point in upgrading to either flavor.
What's shocking to me, more so than the new Unity interface, is the fact that so many nvidia cards aren't working. I know that this isn't an LTS release, but it's still really bad that such a huge bug went into the release version of 11.04. The issue spans across several generations of NVIDIA cards, on both desktop and laptop systems, and is confirmed in Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Shoddy testing doesn't begin to describe it. Bottom line, stick to 10.10 for another month or two, or just wait for 11.10.
... most apps are merely a recompile (plus some minor tweaking) away from being native Wayland apps.
(emphasis mine)
Ahh.. spoken like a true project manager! The "minor tweaking" might as well be measured in magical units of time that expand and contract at will. Until you actually look at each individual app on a code level, it's almost impossible to say how much work is involved. But management sure does love to hear about how quick and easy it will be! That's generally a "minor" amount of time before they can your ass for blowing your deadlines.
Sigh, we're not talking about running X and rendering on a Wayland desktop, we're talking about running Wayland apps and rendering on a remote desktop, the way you currently can with X. The biggest single advantage of X over Windows, which the Wayland developers seem quite happy to throw away in the quest for 'The Shiny'.
Given a choice between fancier compositing effects and being able to run any program on any machine while rendering on any other machine, I'll take the latter any day.
Right, _you_ may take the latter any day, but I think Ubuntu's point is that most people will take the former. Certainly more so when you consider their target demographic and the direction they're taking the platform (tablets, netbooks, etc). It seems to me that they're aware that they're trading in some geek cred in exchange for more ubiquity and appeal to greater masses. Some of the more tech-centric, niche features of Ubuntu will certainly drop-off in exchange for visual appeal and ease-of-use to attract a greater audience.
I welcome the direction, especially considering that we geeks we still be able to easily switch to a more traditional desktop environment if we so choose.
Exactly. The whole time I'm watching the news coverage and reading the article (crazy, I know...), I'm thinking "Ok, so where did this thing END UP, exactly?"
It seems to me that finding out where it went -- and what happened when it got where it was going -- are just as important as knowing where it came from. Why is no one asking about that?
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I'm a huge n++ fan as well. But one thing about it drives me absolutely nuts: The constant UPDATES. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for free software that automatically updates itself. But it seems like every other time I open n++, it wants to update itself (which takes about 30 seconds start to finish). When I'm trying to do a quick edit to a file, the delay can be maddening.
I wish they would queue the updates to roll out once a week or something along those lines.
If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. Why people do that is beyond me. If it's so offensive, stop reading and skip to the next article!
As COO, what are you going to do to improve the products you highlighted above? I'm not looking for a soft answer like "I'm going to promote Ubuntu on netbooks" but more so an itemized list of measurable goals, with milestones, dates and areas of focus (for instance, power minded ARM distributions). Is there anything about their vision you intend to change or influence the most?
Or, to put that first part in non-douche: "Do you have any specific, tangible ideas about how to improve the products highlighted above?"
You raise a good question, but dude, come on. The way you worded it made it sound like a condescending PHB preparing for a departmental meeting.
And the fact that it won't look at what's on the clipboard, and use those dimensions when I go to file->new
This USED to work, didn't it? I thought that as recently as a year or two back, GIMP would create new images using the dimensions of the image in your clipboard. Or am I making this up?
Did anyone else think that this was going to be a scientific explanation about why your batteries last a bit longer when you take them out and rotate them and put them back in?
Actually, no. Incompetent IT people exhibit very similar behavior to the lawyer example that you used. The most incompetent IT people are those who know enough to be dangerous but not enough to do it right. They're the ones who are slowly and inadvertently causing damage. If a critical server "fails spectacularly", then it's easy to know that there's a problem and you can address it accordingly. It's the failures and errors that come about as a result of slow, gradual incompetence that are the most difficult -- and often the most costly -- to diagnose and fix.
For example, your system can be running fine for months or even years at a time, and your IT person appears to be doing everything right. At some point, you need to re-load your data from the backups and you get bad results because the data has been slowly corrupting over time. It's then that you realize that your IT person is incompetent and the damage is worse than is significant.
Ah, I see another one has been duped by the "save yourself for the one that matters" propaganda. Let me clear this up:
When and if "the one that matters" comes along and you step up to the plate (her bedroom), you'll immediately start wishing that you took a couple of practice swings first. Chances are -- regardless of how much pr0n you've managed to download -- you'll screw it up so badly with "the one that matters" that she will laugh you right out of the game.
So step in to the batting cage (local bar), make contact with a few pitches (bitches), THEN swing for the fences at the big game. Practice makes perfect, my man.
You claiming that "I'm glad they search everyone instead of just certain people" logically ends up as "nuclear powered giant robots" is such a non sequitur it's comical. I'm glad that you have an idea of the complexity of the issue -- I really am. I even think you might even see my point since you basically rephrased my point as part of your retort:
Even then, if the airports are checking for explosives like they're supposed to be doing in the first place (instead of making us take off our shoes and toss out our water) there's a good chance that the kid and/or the wacky adult accompanying him wouldn't make it through security anyways.
Exactly. Both the adult and the kid go through the same process. Glad we agree.
Perhaps you should have saved your little diatribe for a more relevant parent post.
There are plenty of other things that the TSA could do to restrict their search parameters in a way that wouldn't be racist - such as restricting their searches to people who look like they're between the ages of 16-70. Leave the infants and the elderly alone - they're not going to blow up your plane, much less hijack it!
You're assuming that the children and elderly wouldn't choose -- under their own volition -- to blow up / hijack a plane. And that may very well be true.
But what about the insane people who might tell the kid that something is wrong with the kid's stomach, put the kid under general anesthesia, put some C4 in the kid's belly, and then sit them on a plane? Are you still so certain that little kids aren't a threat?
Plausible? Maybe. Likely? Probably not. But maybe and probably not aren't even close to being certain enough to assuage my skepticism in people. I'm still glad they search everyone, regardless of the demographic.
I hope that these new PIC Chips fare a bit better than the last ones. They must be like the tech version of the Black Knight who Always Triumphs! Slashdot effortlessly cut the limbs off of the old PIC Chips, but the PICs are not done! Those smoldering, dead servers were just flesh wounds!
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This is an outstanding comment, and it's worded very well. I'm bookmarking this so I can reference it later. I'd mod +1 insightful if I had mod points, but this reply will have to do. Thanks for articulating so precisely how I feel about freedom and the 2nd amendment.
With the el-cheapo carriers heavily advertising their cut-rate plans, how long can AT&T and Verizon keep it up? Why would anyone pay $80/month when they can get the same service from another carrier for less than $50
Because that $50 plan from T-mobile or Sprint is next to useless with their shit coverage. I ran T-mobile for 2 years, I had above 2 bars maybe once.
Nice try, verizon rep. I'm a sprint customer, and my coverage is excellent. My experience as a whole is much better than when I was on verizon and at&t before that.
See how using personal anecdotes as actual evidence is silly?
Mod parent up, please! This is perhaps the most maddening aspect of the whole ordeal, and the parent nailed it.
Not that I'm a huge Meg fan, but what the hell does her being female have anything to do with it? Honestly, why the gender attack? Would hiring another male for the job have elicited the same "let's find another failed male politician" remark from you? No, didn't think so.
Obligatory "Researcher Translation" xkcd.
I'd actually prefer to use Kubuntu for 11.04, but it turns out that the nvidia drivers are broken for both. Until they fix the nvidia drivers, there's no point in upgrading to either flavor.
What's shocking to me, more so than the new Unity interface, is the fact that so many nvidia cards aren't working. I know that this isn't an LTS release, but it's still really bad that such a huge bug went into the release version of 11.04. The issue spans across several generations of NVIDIA cards, on both desktop and laptop systems, and is confirmed in Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Shoddy testing doesn't begin to describe it. Bottom line, stick to 10.10 for another month or two, or just wait for 11.10.
... most apps are merely a recompile (plus some minor tweaking) away from being native Wayland apps.
(emphasis mine)
Ahh.. spoken like a true project manager! The "minor tweaking" might as well be measured in magical units of time that expand and contract at will. Until you actually look at each individual app on a code level, it's almost impossible to say how much work is involved. But management sure does love to hear about how quick and easy it will be! That's generally a "minor" amount of time before they can your ass for blowing your deadlines.
Sigh, we're not talking about running X and rendering on a Wayland desktop, we're talking about running Wayland apps and rendering on a remote desktop, the way you currently can with X. The biggest single advantage of X over Windows, which the Wayland developers seem quite happy to throw away in the quest for 'The Shiny'.
Given a choice between fancier compositing effects and being able to run any program on any machine while rendering on any other machine, I'll take the latter any day.
Right, _you_ may take the latter any day, but I think Ubuntu's point is that most people will take the former. Certainly more so when you consider their target demographic and the direction they're taking the platform (tablets, netbooks, etc). It seems to me that they're aware that they're trading in some geek cred in exchange for more ubiquity and appeal to greater masses. Some of the more tech-centric, niche features of Ubuntu will certainly drop-off in exchange for visual appeal and ease-of-use to attract a greater audience.
I welcome the direction, especially considering that we geeks we still be able to easily switch to a more traditional desktop environment if we so choose.
Exactly. The whole time I'm watching the news coverage and reading the article (crazy, I know...), I'm thinking "Ok, so where did this thing END UP, exactly?"
It seems to me that finding out where it went -- and what happened when it got where it was going -- are just as important as knowing where it came from. Why is no one asking about that?
Funny, I noticed the same thing!
I'm a huge n++ fan as well. But one thing about it drives me absolutely nuts: The constant UPDATES. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for free software that automatically updates itself. But it seems like every other time I open n++, it wants to update itself (which takes about 30 seconds start to finish). When I'm trying to do a quick edit to a file, the delay can be maddening.
I wish they would queue the updates to roll out once a week or something along those lines.
If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. Why people do that is beyond me. If it's so offensive, stop reading and skip to the next article!
As COO, what are you going to do to improve the products you highlighted above? I'm not looking for a soft answer like "I'm going to promote Ubuntu on netbooks" but more so an itemized list of measurable goals, with milestones, dates and areas of focus (for instance, power minded ARM distributions). Is there anything about their vision you intend to change or influence the most?
Or, to put that first part in non-douche: "Do you have any specific, tangible ideas about how to improve the products highlighted above?"
You raise a good question, but dude, come on. The way you worded it made it sound like a condescending PHB preparing for a departmental meeting.
And the fact that it won't look at what's on the clipboard, and use those dimensions when I go to file->new
This USED to work, didn't it? I thought that as recently as a year or two back, GIMP would create new images using the dimensions of the image in your clipboard. Or am I making this up?
Did anyone else think that this was going to be a scientific explanation about why your batteries last a bit longer when you take them out and rotate them and put them back in?
Cue dildo jokes in 3... 2... 1...
Actually, no. Incompetent IT people exhibit very similar behavior to the lawyer example that you used. The most incompetent IT people are those who know enough to be dangerous but not enough to do it right. They're the ones who are slowly and inadvertently causing damage. If a critical server "fails spectacularly", then it's easy to know that there's a problem and you can address it accordingly. It's the failures and errors that come about as a result of slow, gradual incompetence that are the most difficult -- and often the most costly -- to diagnose and fix.
For example, your system can be running fine for months or even years at a time, and your IT person appears to be doing everything right. At some point, you need to re-load your data from the backups and you get bad results because the data has been slowly corrupting over time. It's then that you realize that your IT person is incompetent and the damage is worse than is significant.
That's going to be a nasty backlash; two of the five remaining AOL users will cancel their subscriptions in protest! The horror!
If you plug it in to the Internet right out of the box... about 8 seconds.
Ah, I see another one has been duped by the "save yourself for the one that matters" propaganda. Let me clear this up:
When and if "the one that matters" comes along and you step up to the plate (her bedroom), you'll immediately start wishing that you took a couple of practice swings first. Chances are -- regardless of how much pr0n you've managed to download -- you'll screw it up so badly with "the one that matters" that she will laugh you right out of the game.
So step in to the batting cage (local bar), make contact with a few pitches (bitches), THEN swing for the fences at the big game. Practice makes perfect, my man.
Exactly. Both the adult and the kid go through the same process. Glad we agree.
Perhaps you should have saved your little diatribe for a more relevant parent post.
You're assuming that the children and elderly wouldn't choose -- under their own volition -- to blow up / hijack a plane. And that may very well be true.
But what about the insane people who might tell the kid that something is wrong with the kid's stomach, put the kid under general anesthesia, put some C4 in the kid's belly, and then sit them on a plane? Are you still so certain that little kids aren't a threat?
Plausible? Maybe. Likely? Probably not. But maybe and probably not aren't even close to being certain enough to assuage my skepticism in people. I'm still glad they search everyone, regardless of the demographic.
I hope that these new PIC Chips fare a bit better than the last ones. They must be like the tech version of the Black Knight who Always Triumphs! Slashdot effortlessly cut the limbs off of the old PIC Chips, but the PICs are not done! Those smoldering, dead servers were just flesh wounds!
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(no way I can miss with this one)
You sometimes close her browser?! Easy there big fella. That's pretty ballsy.
I'm betting you don't, either. Does she occasioanlly let you take your balls out of the jar on the mantle so that you can remember what it was like?