Sure they do. It's a fundamental part of the human condition to make fun of things and joke around. Only on the internet when the jest is directed at $SOMEBODIES_FAVORITE_CORPORATION does this reality ever seem to come into contention.
They are just corporate cheerleaders for companies they don't work for, compete against, or know anybody who falls into those camps.
I think poking fun at Microsoft Google Apple and the whole lot is for the most part almost always funny. Ever considered removing the giant stick from your ass?
Nice apology, dude. From my perspective if Microsoft doesn't have sense enough not to flag the number one web site on the net, why would I want to run their software?
Come to think of it, Slashdot is also a web app in a way, and it used to be pretty much all server-side. Now there's some client-side, but it works fairly well.
Now stop for a second and imagine Slashdot as a full blown well coded native application. Think of all of the things you could do that you can't do in the browser and how much faster and more fluid it could be doing those things. BTW, this is just an example, please don't take it out of context.
Slashdot: where the truth and common sense is as welcome as the Ebola virus. You can think groups like this for thoroughly destroying a once halfway decent website.
I gather you either haven't done much coding in a professional capacity or you haven't done anything much more complex than making sure your jquery fade in works most of the time. In the real world you have bosses that have no real clue what it takes to code an application, think anything can be do e in at most twice the time it takes to say it and thinks it should be done yesterday. It is laughable that you believe you have the time to think through every possible code path and permutation and code the edge cases away. Laughable. Come back in 10 years and we'll laugh at your ignorance.
Um, you are aware there are full featured coupon "apps" for Windows, right? Remember class, do your research before insulting someone else only to expose your own ignorance of the subject at hand.
My strategy on this is pretty simple. I refuse to put any try catches in a function (obviously not talking about Java here) until it is written and does roughly what it is supposed to do. Then I test is as well as I can and when it crashes unexpectedly I FIX THE CODE. Then when I've done that as much as I can stand, I might throw (get it?) In a try at a critical point to keep the program from crashing but I only do that if I feel there is a reasonable chance the application might fall over due to something that I completely can't anticipate.
Apparently Google, Facebook, Amazon, and a plethora of other large internet companies have found a compelling reason to use Linux. It can't just be the price as those companies make more than enough money to buy Windows licenses yet they choose not to. Furthermore, what's wrong with people using something different than you? Do you feel threatened in some way by choice?
But-but-but millenials and digital-natives and blah blah blah... Listen up people, just because you can update your twitface status at 4 years old doesn't make you special. Best selling books blowing rainbows up your ass notwithstanding.
I installed this from the ppa in Ubuntu 12.04 earlier and have been using it off and on all day. Even in this very early version of it, I find it quite useful. The old menus are still there but when I want to access something, I just tap the alt key and start typing. In FIrefox and want to see your history really fast but can't remember the shift+ctrl+h keyboard shortcut? Just tap alt and start typing "hist..." and see your history pop up. Easy and done. Works on every other program and every menu on my machine so far. Really good for Gimp that has rows and rows of menus to dig through for something. This is a very nice feature and I really don't see any downside at all as again, the menus have not been removed you just have this augmented functionality.
You are correct (at least I assume so as other commenters have made this point). I blame my inexperience with OSX for this one. I still think it's good that Canonical is adding this functionality to Ubuntu.
You can easily turn the indexing off it just makes the search take longer as it happens in real time. All that this search really adds is access to the menu commands in whatever application you have currently focused. You wouldn't need to index that at all as the menu commands are loaded in memory and you could, again, pull them up in real time. You're gonna have to try a little harder to make this out to be a bad thing.
how do you know the command to start a web browser?
Er, you start typing "web bro..." in the search box and Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Elinks/Konqueror all just start appearing. Have you used Linux in the last 5 years?
No, they are not replacing the Windows 7 start menu. If you are in Chrome on windows and you want to view the "page source", can you start typing that in to the windows 7 search box and the menu entry for it come to the front? Thought not. This is different. Accept it.
So if you are using GIMP in Kubuntu, you can just type "Undo His..." in the desktop's search box and the menu entry for Undo History will come to the forefront? I just tried it for shits and giggles and it don't work. This is very smart on Canonical's part but don't let the Ubuntu-hate grind to a halt on my account.
This is not existing tech at all. Just to test I am in Chrome on Linux right now with Gnome3. I just typed the word "help" in the search box and the only help that came up was for the entire system. What this will do is if you type "help" while Chrome is focused, you will be presented with the help that is in the actual Chrome menu. It is giving the search box the ability to look in your program menus and fish out results. IMHO it is brilliant to put this on the OS level as a general tool that will work for any application.
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Except that people don't rationally poke fun.
Sure they do. It's a fundamental part of the human condition to make fun of things and joke around. Only on the internet when the jest is directed at $SOMEBODIES_FAVORITE_CORPORATION does this reality ever seem to come into contention.
They are just corporate cheerleaders for companies they don't work for, compete against, or know anybody who falls into those camps.
Maybe loosen the tin foil, man.
I think poking fun at Microsoft Google Apple and the whole lot is for the most part almost always funny. Ever considered removing the giant stick from your ass?
Nice apology, dude. From my perspective if Microsoft doesn't have sense enough not to flag the number one web site on the net, why would I want to run their software?
Come to think of it, Slashdot is also a web app in a way, and it used to be pretty much all server-side. Now there's some client-side, but it works fairly well.
Now stop for a second and imagine Slashdot as a full blown well coded native application. Think of all of the things you could do that you can't do in the browser and how much faster and more fluid it could be doing those things. BTW, this is just an example, please don't take it out of context.
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Care to talk out of your ass some more?
Put a little camera on it and an arm that I can control from my Xoom and watch out!
Slashdot: where the truth and common sense is as welcome as the Ebola virus. You can think groups like this for thoroughly destroying a once halfway decent website.
that's ampersand, l, t, then semicolon.
I gather you either haven't done much coding in a professional capacity or you haven't done anything much more complex than making sure your jquery fade in works most of the time. In the real world you have bosses that have no real clue what it takes to code an application, think anything can be do e in at most twice the time it takes to say it and thinks it should be done yesterday. It is laughable that you believe you have the time to think through every possible code path and permutation and code the edge cases away. Laughable. Come back in 10 years and we'll laugh at your ignorance.
Um, you are aware there are full featured coupon "apps" for Windows, right? Remember class, do your research before insulting someone else only to expose your own ignorance of the subject at hand.
My strategy on this is pretty simple. I refuse to put any try catches in a function (obviously not talking about Java here) until it is written and does roughly what it is supposed to do. Then I test is as well as I can and when it crashes unexpectedly I FIX THE CODE. Then when I've done that as much as I can stand, I might throw (get it?) In a try at a critical point to keep the program from crashing but I only do that if I feel there is a reasonable chance the application might fall over due to something that I completely can't anticipate.
Apparently Google, Facebook, Amazon, and a plethora of other large internet companies have found a compelling reason to use Linux. It can't just be the price as those companies make more than enough money to buy Windows licenses yet they choose not to. Furthermore, what's wrong with people using something different than you? Do you feel threatened in some way by choice?
And the funny little cartoons are great too. They should make a book of just those.
But-but-but millenials and digital-natives and blah blah blah... Listen up people, just because you can update your twitface status at 4 years old doesn't make you special. Best selling books blowing rainbows up your ass notwithstanding.
When drivel like this gets modded up, I know why Taco left. Joke-dot? Slash-gadget? Take your pick.
I know amazing right? Why would they just stand there and ask "how high?" when Symantec says jump when they should just start jumping, right? We all know how infallible Symantec is after all.
I installed this from the ppa in Ubuntu 12.04 earlier and have been using it off and on all day. Even in this very early version of it, I find it quite useful. The old menus are still there but when I want to access something, I just tap the alt key and start typing. In FIrefox and want to see your history really fast but can't remember the shift+ctrl+h keyboard shortcut? Just tap alt and start typing "hist..." and see your history pop up. Easy and done. Works on every other program and every menu on my machine so far. Really good for Gimp that has rows and rows of menus to dig through for something. This is a very nice feature and I really don't see any downside at all as again, the menus have not been removed you just have this augmented functionality.
Or if you have something to say you could just own up to it.
You are correct (at least I assume so as other commenters have made this point). I blame my inexperience with OSX for this one. I still think it's good that Canonical is adding this functionality to Ubuntu.
You can easily turn the indexing off it just makes the search take longer as it happens in real time. All that this search really adds is access to the menu commands in whatever application you have currently focused. You wouldn't need to index that at all as the menu commands are loaded in memory and you could, again, pull them up in real time. You're gonna have to try a little harder to make this out to be a bad thing.
I missed the part where they said they were "getting rid of the menus". Maybe you just made that bit up.
how do you know the command to start a web browser?
Er, you start typing "web bro..." in the search box and Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Elinks/Konqueror all just start appearing. Have you used Linux in the last 5 years?
No, they are not replacing the Windows 7 start menu. If you are in Chrome on windows and you want to view the "page source", can you start typing that in to the windows 7 search box and the menu entry for it come to the front? Thought not. This is different. Accept it.
I can already do that with kubuntu
So if you are using GIMP in Kubuntu, you can just type "Undo His..." in the desktop's search box and the menu entry for Undo History will come to the forefront? I just tried it for shits and giggles and it don't work. This is very smart on Canonical's part but don't let the Ubuntu-hate grind to a halt on my account.
This is not existing tech at all. Just to test I am in Chrome on Linux right now with Gnome3. I just typed the word "help" in the search box and the only help that came up was for the entire system. What this will do is if you type "help" while Chrome is focused, you will be presented with the help that is in the actual Chrome menu. It is giving the search box the ability to look in your program menus and fish out results. IMHO it is brilliant to put this on the OS level as a general tool that will work for any application.