I tend to have like 15 terms open at a time. Represented by one icon? WTF. I have the same problem with OSX. Others just use one terminal window with many tabs, but that sucks for all sorts of reasons (tailing logs? debugging w/ line numbers? etc). I'm constantly popping open a new terminal for a quick command or whatever; having to open an existing one and use CTRL-Shift-N is just awful.
Ditto, and same problem with OSX. I'm actually liking Win7 in comparison. (And yes, I feel dirty saying it but dammit it's true...)
I'm not saying it's right; but I think the truth is that *they don't care*.
If you estimate the Ubuntu install base 20 million and they are aiming for 200 million in four years; that means for every one existing user you have, you need to add 9 more. It's far more important to appeal to the 9 who are new users than worry about alienating the existing 1.
Converting 10% of their fans into enemies who will badmouth them in the press will not help grow the user base.
I haven't seen this level of hatred at something that can easily be changed by the user, since Coke released New Coke... OMG! I know I can still buy Coke Classic, but I ****ing hate the whole company because they released this other product that isn't what I'm used to. What do you mean it's still early in development? I don't care! I don't like change!
Penny just dropped. Those of us who do not like the direction that Canonical seems to be going in and are speaking up about it are probably those who are great fans of what Ubuntu has been in the past and now feel a little betrayed. I think we all hoped that Ubuntu could really be mainstream and we're now watching the baby being flushed away with the bathwater.
Mr. Shuttlesworth had better not expect for Ubuntu users to stick through thick and thin, Linux users are a fickle bunch. We'll switch distributions at the drop of a header file. (I'd be moving to Fedora but RPM is a known ingredient in software of mass destruction...)
What do you mean it's still early in development? I don't care! I don't like change!
Well yes, but my reaction to it (and I've been using Linux since it was a single floppy boot disk...) was that it simply wasn't ready for prime time. So why ship a major distribution with this as the default?
Pakistan's military didn't notice Bin Laden living in his giant compound a quarter mile from their elite military training school.
Somehow I think we could've flown a bunch of bi-planes trailing a banner with "We're coming for you Bin Laden" in giant letters, with wing walkers and dropping tootsie rolls onto the onlooking public and the military still wouldn't have noticed.
You're probably right. I'm sure that the use of stealth or noise suppressed helicopters was more to avoid tipping off the compound; they wanted to get the job done inside the compound, not have to deal with the rabbit bolting into a quasi-urban landscape and run the risk of collateral damage or bumping into a trigger happy cop or soldier.
How did they fit 24 commandos, 4 pilots, a dog, a body, and retrieved materials into the remaining stealth Blackhawk? Did the military developed stealth midget commandos for this mission?
is the only thing I really miss about WP. I only switched over to OO and then LO with my switch to Linux, but back in the day, I couldn't write without reveal codes.
Literally every person I've ever talked to about it says the same thing, including my 65 year old mother. It was a killer feature and anybody who used it misses it.
...where Judges are applying an understanding of the technical issues, common sense, and considering the situation of ordinary citizens?
The same world where bin Ladin is dead, democracy is sweeping the middle east like a sandstorm, Duke Nukem Forever will ship in June and the NDP are the official opposition in Canada.
My guess is it's from Tagalog (Filipino), where "maliit" means small.
The Tagalog pronunciation is three syllables ma - lee - eet, with the final 't' barely pronounced - the syllable is ended by touching the roof of your mouth, just behind your teeth, with your tongue, and your tongue stays there so there's no final puff of air.
And who says you can't learn useful things reading slashdot... I'm gonna go around saying maliit all day now.
No kidding. Just this morning I was sending an email to my boss, and sure enough it couldn't find "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in the dictionary. What a piece of junk!
That's because the sound of it is something quite atrocious.
Our family has a cottage in the middle of nowhere and all the neighbours are nice, but that doesn't stop my urban dwelling brother from obsessively locking his car. I keep asking him if he's worried about the raccoons taking midnight joyrides.
The problem is that most of the stable orbits for a planet in a binary system result in very hot temperatures for part of it's orbit and freezing for the rest of the orbit.
So a lot like Canada then?
When does Canada have very hot weather.
Summer, last year we had it on a Tuesday if I recall.
The problem is that most of the stable orbits for a planet in a binary system result in very hot temperatures for part of it's orbit and freezing for the rest of the orbit.
Is that Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific? Standard time? I need to know if I have time for a nice dinner, or if I should just order in.
Best solution is to have an early dinner at the most expensive restaurant in town on your credit card then drop by the jewelry store to stock up on gold before heading for the hills.
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(I'd be moving to Fedora but RPM is a known ingredient in software of mass destruction...)
The 1990s called. They'd like their preconceptions about RPM back.
It has been a long time, perhaps when the latest Beta ships I'll gird my loins and sacrifice my Ubuntu laptop in the name of Linus.
I tend to have like 15 terms open at a time. Represented by one icon? WTF. I have the same problem with OSX. Others just use one terminal window with many tabs, but that sucks for all sorts of reasons (tailing logs? debugging w/ line numbers? etc). I'm constantly popping open a new terminal for a quick command or whatever; having to open an existing one and use CTRL-Shift-N is just awful.
Ditto, and same problem with OSX. I'm actually liking Win7 in comparison. (And yes, I feel dirty saying it but dammit it's true...)
I'm not saying it's right; but I think the truth is that *they don't care*.
If you estimate the Ubuntu install base 20 million and they are aiming for 200 million in four years; that means for every one existing user you have, you need to add 9 more. It's far more important to appeal to the 9 who are new users than worry about alienating the existing 1.
Converting 10% of their fans into enemies who will badmouth them in the press will not help grow the user base.
I haven't seen this level of hatred at something that can easily be changed by the user, since Coke released New Coke... OMG! I know I can still buy Coke Classic, but I ****ing hate the whole company because they released this other product that isn't what I'm used to. What do you mean it's still early in development? I don't care! I don't like change!
Penny just dropped. Those of us who do not like the direction that Canonical seems to be going in and are speaking up about it are probably those who are great fans of what Ubuntu has been in the past and now feel a little betrayed. I think we all hoped that Ubuntu could really be mainstream and we're now watching the baby being flushed away with the bathwater.
Mr. Shuttlesworth had better not expect for Ubuntu users to stick through thick and thin, Linux users are a fickle bunch. We'll switch distributions at the drop of a header file. (I'd be moving to Fedora but RPM is a known ingredient in software of mass destruction...)
What do you mean it's still early in development? I don't care! I don't like change!
Well yes, but my reaction to it (and I've been using Linux since it was a single floppy boot disk...) was that it simply wasn't ready for prime time. So why ship a major distribution with this as the default?
aint gonna be drinking that koolaid.
gonna look for an alternative.
I'm yet to find anybody who like Unity outside of Ubuntu development. Anyone? Anyone at all?
Since this guy and his friends could hear the whole thing from several kilometers away, I doubt it was stealth at all... If it was, it sucked.
He probably heard the Chinooks not the modified Blackhawks
Pakistan's military didn't notice Bin Laden living in his giant compound a quarter mile from their elite military training school.
Somehow I think we could've flown a bunch of bi-planes trailing a banner with "We're coming for you Bin Laden" in giant letters, with wing walkers and dropping tootsie rolls onto the onlooking public and the military still wouldn't have noticed.
You're probably right. I'm sure that the use of stealth or noise suppressed helicopters was more to avoid tipping off the compound; they wanted to get the job done inside the compound, not have to deal with the rabbit bolting into a quasi-urban landscape and run the risk of collateral damage or bumping into a trigger happy cop or soldier.
How did they fit 24 commandos, 4 pilots, a dog, a body, and retrieved materials into the remaining stealth Blackhawk? Did the military developed stealth midget commandos for this mission?
See comment 36048786
is the only thing I really miss about WP. I only switched over to OO and then LO with my switch to Linux, but back in the day, I couldn't write without reveal codes.
Literally every person I've ever talked to about it says the same thing, including my 65 year old mother. It was a killer feature and anybody who used it misses it.
... for operating my touchscreen while holding my phone one-handed: it's called my thumb.
Species-ist.... you great ape descendants and your opposable thumbs are so closed minded.
Won't somebody think of the DOLPHINS?
Canada has a government?!
More like student council.
...where Judges are applying an understanding of the technical issues, common sense, and considering the situation of ordinary citizens?
The same world where bin Ladin is dead, democracy is sweeping the middle east like a sandstorm, Duke Nukem Forever will ship in June and the NDP are the official opposition in Canada.
2011 is pretty interesting so far.
Maybe you shouldn't have been a fuck-tard asshat?
Irony?
My guess is it's from Tagalog (Filipino), where "maliit" means small.
The Tagalog pronunciation is three syllables ma - lee - eet, with the final 't' barely pronounced - the syllable is ended by touching the roof of your mouth, just behind your teeth, with your tongue, and your tongue stays there so there's no final puff of air.
And who says you can't learn useful things reading slashdot... I'm gonna go around saying maliit all day now.
No kidding. Just this morning I was sending an email to my boss, and sure enough it couldn't find "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in the dictionary. What a piece of junk!
That's because the sound of it is something quite atrocious.
"Could there have been any sort of sabotage?"
Mischievous squids?
I smiled.
Our family has a cottage in the middle of nowhere and all the neighbours are nice, but that doesn't stop my urban dwelling brother from obsessively locking his car. I keep asking him if he's worried about the raccoons taking midnight joyrides.
That would indeed a make an awesome desktop background to set for one's pointy haired boss...
Breaking news, 99% of the Internet is circle-jerking, film at 11.
Note to self; log out at 10:55 and finish that book.
nerds furiously typing away virtual beatdowns over who got who's virtual girlfriend knocked up.
There was no need to bring the G word into the conversation, that's just uncalled for.
Irony?
The problem is that most of the stable orbits for a planet in a binary system result in very hot temperatures for part of it's orbit and freezing for the rest of the orbit.
So a lot like Canada then?
When does Canada have very hot weather.
Summer, last year we had it on a Tuesday if I recall.
The problem is that most of the stable orbits for a planet in a binary system result in very hot temperatures for part of it's orbit and freezing for the rest of the orbit.
So a lot like Canada then?
Is that Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific? Standard time? I need to know if I have time for a nice dinner, or if I should just order in.
Best solution is to have an early dinner at the most expensive restaurant in town on your credit card then drop by the jewelry store to stock up on gold before heading for the hills.
In the linux world there is the interesting TangoGPS and it's fork FoxtrotGPS