that's foolish, to do surgical damage to the body when so many near 100% effective alternative to either ligation or vasectomy exist (which themselves are not 100% effective either).
there are some indications Mint might have new user adoption bigger than Ubuntu now (if distrowatch could be used for anything regarding usage), the Mint 12 UI indeed needs some work but has "classic" mode
oh no, those are computer geek friends who went to the Arch and FreeBSD, not the relatives. The relatives like Mint, it's what Ubuntu should have been doing.
But GNOME3 is not inventiveness. It has brittle unchangeable configuration, wastes screen real estate, has useless effects, adds extra steps to formerly simple tasks, and worst of all tries to copy bad UI decisions from at least two other sources. It is thus steps backward, a retreat from progress. The GNOME team has destroyed something once useful.
it certainly can't be claimed from fucking *facebook* fans, as your linked article tries to do. I have many friends and some relatives (yeah, those are converts of mine) that used to use Ubuntu until this year, we're all bailing out into Mint, Arch, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuSE, MacOSX and FreeBSD. ubuntu is toast, yesterday.
Clem and the rest of the Linux Mint team are trying to take the badness out of the half baked and brittle GNOME 3, but I think their time would have been better spent polishing another desktop manager, like adding more administrative features to LXDE or more customisation and flexibility to XFCE. Really I'm wondering if the Linux Desktop is being killed, by ivory tower types developing UI in a vacuum who wish users to work their way, taking away user control, releasing by decree without feedback and without regard for real world work flow. There is now opportunity for a distribution to take leadership and make user-centric UI the focus of their refining and integration, but we are losing that in all major distros.
getting all the prerequisites and configuration options correct for a desktop manager compile is always a good time, if you have the time. Yes, I've done it, but in the words of a certain sci-fi tv show "bad guy", "oh, the pain........ the pain."
the main desktops will have investment of time by the distribution makers to polish and smooth things. Alternative desktops will often have rough edges
I'd rather have reactors that can't possibly melt down. we invented those over 25 years ago, but still use gen I and generation II designs which are inherently dangerous, need constant cooling for months even after shut down.
it's gone to the next level, day after halloween the stores started pimping Christmas crap in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Brings to mind the Tom Lehrer medley of Christmas song beginnings: ,br/>
"God rest ye merry merchants may ye make the yuletime PAY!"
"Angels we have heard on high, tell us to go out and BUY!"
"Hark the Herald Tribune sings, advertising wonderous things...."
the fact is that most businesses that have followed that model have failed, over 95%. The very few that survive, like google and facebook, make marketers and advertisers their customers, not the users.
not 1%, more like 14% of what can be extracted. But yes, the point is most of our "spent fuel" is a gold mine of energy. And we have thorium sufficient for centuries while we figure out fusion or just massive solar harvesting coupled with biotech so we grow what we need instead of refining and smelting.
I have vast business experience. There is a realm outside of milk, young man, where for example vendors of computers and softwares and other durable goods have loss leaders for a time. None of those continue indefinitely, in my three plus decades experience.
So what, let people bear the responsibility for their own actions. Let them fry their brains and destroy their bodies, they have the right. The cost of letting "goody googies" like you creating a police state to keep us safe is too high and takes away our liberty.
Your logic is bad. It is totally irrelevant how his product has been used by customers. Any chemical, any device whatsoever can be used to make Bad Things. Any organic compound presently near you, including you, can be used to make explosives. Most plastic or glass can be reformed to be vessels for making narcotics. Metals can be used to make weapons. It is wrong to even bother the maker of a Good Thing just because someone else can make it a Bad Thing, because any and all things can be made a Bad Thing. But people like you somehow think that justifies becoming a police state and creating agencies to harass people.
It matters that the constitution is in the language of the people, because government exists with the consent of the governed. If the people reject the government, it has no legitimacy.
In the United States, the Founding Fathers even went so far as to ensure the people had the implicit right of violent revolution should the government ever become too evil. That's what the Second Amendment is about. Over a hundred years ago, everyone would nod and agree and say that was good patriotic American talk. Now, more than half of politicians would say that was terrorist talk, because they themselves are evil and unamerican.
Wrong, we already license and regulate the production and sale of narcotics. You then get bootlegging and gangsters, and of course its important to note our own U.S. government also is one of the illegal drug producers and sellers to get billions of dollars for operations Congress won't fund. What would have to happen instead is total deregulation, if people drop dead or get maimed or sick because of bad mixes, too bad, that's their own responsibility and their own fault. Getting the government completely out of the picture would be the only solution.
sure I have heard of the loss leader, and there comes a time when giving the leader away ceases. Some customers cry and whine they no longer get a free gift.
Get real, trial balloons have been floated by Apple and failed. Facebook has lost massive amounts of users from bad feature additions. Having worked at places that make software, I bring you the bad news it's normal for most software projects to fail. So some developers wasted their life on a failed project's API, you think that situation is new or only applicable to google? No worries, plenty more where those came from.
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because sex-obsessed people have the lowest birth rates of all?.....
that's foolish, to do surgical damage to the body when so many near 100% effective alternative to either ligation or vasectomy exist (which themselves are not 100% effective either).
there are some indications Mint might have new user adoption bigger than Ubuntu now (if distrowatch could be used for anything regarding usage), the Mint 12 UI indeed needs some work but has "classic" mode
oh no, those are computer geek friends who went to the Arch and FreeBSD, not the relatives. The relatives like Mint, it's what Ubuntu should have been doing.
But GNOME3 is not inventiveness. It has brittle unchangeable configuration, wastes screen real estate, has useless effects, adds extra steps to formerly simple tasks, and worst of all tries to copy bad UI decisions from at least two other sources. It is thus steps backward, a retreat from progress. The GNOME team has destroyed something once useful.
no, because those analogies you give are each have two separate parties, whereas Fedora users are Red Hat's guinea pigs.
it certainly can't be claimed from fucking *facebook* fans, as your linked article tries to do. I have many friends and some relatives (yeah, those are converts of mine) that used to use Ubuntu until this year, we're all bailing out into Mint, Arch, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuSE, MacOSX and FreeBSD. ubuntu is toast, yesterday.
Clem and the rest of the Linux Mint team are trying to take the badness out of the half baked and brittle GNOME 3, but I think their time would have been better spent polishing another desktop manager, like adding more administrative features to LXDE or more customisation and flexibility to XFCE. Really I'm wondering if the Linux Desktop is being killed, by ivory tower types developing UI in a vacuum who wish users to work their way, taking away user control, releasing by decree without feedback and without regard for real world work flow. There is now opportunity for a distribution to take leadership and make user-centric UI the focus of their refining and integration, but we are losing that in all major distros.
I agree, and also hope over 50% stuck in it think it's a bunch of bullshit as I do despite my upbringing.
getting all the prerequisites and configuration options correct for a desktop manager compile is always a good time, if you have the time. Yes, I've done it, but in the words of a certain sci-fi tv show "bad guy", "oh, the pain........ the pain."
the main desktops will have investment of time by the distribution makers to polish and smooth things. Alternative desktops will often have rough edges
I'd rather have reactors that can't possibly melt down. we invented those over 25 years ago, but still use gen I and generation II designs which are inherently dangerous, need constant cooling for months even after shut down.
"only"? That's a massive chunk of the populace! and by far the largest of any religion.
it's gone to the next level, day after halloween the stores started pimping Christmas crap in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Brings to mind the Tom Lehrer medley of Christmas song beginnings:
,br/> "God rest ye merry merchants may ye make the yuletime PAY!"
"Angels we have heard on high, tell us to go out and BUY!"
"Hark the Herald Tribune sings, advertising wonderous things...."
the fact is that most businesses that have followed that model have failed, over 95%. The very few that survive, like google and facebook, make marketers and advertisers their customers, not the users.
not 1%, more like 14% of what can be extracted. But yes, the point is most of our "spent fuel" is a gold mine of energy. And we have thorium sufficient for centuries while we figure out fusion or just massive solar harvesting coupled with biotech so we grow what we need instead of refining and smelting.
I have vast business experience. There is a realm outside of milk, young man, where for example vendors of computers and softwares and other durable goods have loss leaders for a time. None of those continue indefinitely, in my three plus decades experience.
So what, let people bear the responsibility for their own actions. Let them fry their brains and destroy their bodies, they have the right. The cost of letting "goody googies" like you creating a police state to keep us safe is too high and takes away our liberty.
Your logic is bad. It is totally irrelevant how his product has been used by customers. Any chemical, any device whatsoever can be used to make Bad Things. Any organic compound presently near you, including you, can be used to make explosives. Most plastic or glass can be reformed to be vessels for making narcotics. Metals can be used to make weapons. It is wrong to even bother the maker of a Good Thing just because someone else can make it a Bad Thing, because any and all things can be made a Bad Thing. But people like you somehow think that justifies becoming a police state and creating agencies to harass people.
It matters that the constitution is in the language of the people, because government exists with the consent of the governed. If the people reject the government, it has no legitimacy. In the United States, the Founding Fathers even went so far as to ensure the people had the implicit right of violent revolution should the government ever become too evil. That's what the Second Amendment is about. Over a hundred years ago, everyone would nod and agree and say that was good patriotic American talk. Now, more than half of politicians would say that was terrorist talk, because they themselves are evil and unamerican.
Wrong, we already license and regulate the production and sale of narcotics. You then get bootlegging and gangsters, and of course its important to note our own U.S. government also is one of the illegal drug producers and sellers to get billions of dollars for operations Congress won't fund. What would have to happen instead is total deregulation, if people drop dead or get maimed or sick because of bad mixes, too bad, that's their own responsibility and their own fault. Getting the government completely out of the picture would be the only solution.
Things don't work that way in the real world, kid. Have a lollipop.
sure I have heard of the loss leader, and there comes a time when giving the leader away ceases. Some customers cry and whine they no longer get a free gift.
Get real, trial balloons have been floated by Apple and failed. Facebook has lost massive amounts of users from bad feature additions. Having worked at places that make software, I bring you the bad news it's normal for most software projects to fail. So some developers wasted their life on a failed project's API, you think that situation is new or only applicable to google? No worries, plenty more where those came from.
nothing. I hate marketing and marketers. just making an observation about reality, is all