I remember reading that Google was getting as many 75,000 job applicants in a week. And yet Google is struggling to candidates?
I have been in IT over 30 years, and in my experience, employers are always shortage shouting. They are shortage shouting while they are laying off thousands of US workers, they are shortage shouting as wages stagnate. They are shortage shouting when doing so completely defies all logic, and evidence. Asking employers if there is a shortage is like asking a ReMax agent if you should buy a house, the agenda should be obvious.
Worth nothing, objective studies never determine that there is any great shortages.
Number of applications != Number of good applicants
Also, a lot of files in.tar.gz likely need to be compiled. I haven't had as many problems compiling from source as I did 10 years ago (before Google), but it's not always common sense, and readme files often don't say what to do if you type./configure and it errors about something missing.
.tar.gz is just means a compressed archive, it doesn't mean it's in source form. While the Humble Bundle games tend to release their source code too, no one sane would distribute a game that way. To "install" a game in.tar.gz format, you untar it into a directory and run the executable (which if you're using Gnome means "right click on the file and click 'extract'"). Oh, so hard.
Or you know, you could use a package manager. I've installed all of the Humble Bundle games with 'yaourt -S [game name]' (yaourt being the package manager).
and making some small changes to the way I do things
And theat is your problem right there. Computers should work how I want it. I should not work how computers want it.
And the creators of GNOME 3 disagree. Remember, they're making it because *they want it*.
Obviously not everybody wants to work the same way and that is why there are different desktops. KDE for one and GNOME for another. I prefer XFCE and Windowmaker. Yet somebody else will want to use something else.
So if they see there is a market, why kill off something that was liked by many? Why do the thing that people dislike from Apple and Microsoft and force people to adapt the way they work? Sure, you could say that the source is available and that you could still use it. That is like saying there are girls out there and all you have to do is talk to them to get a relationship.
Easy for some, unpossible for others.
Choices: * Make something yourself * Use the stuff that's already there * Pay for something (Windows / OSX)
You do remember that this is free right? If you don't like it, it's not like you lost anything by trying it.
Ever heard of selection bias? The people saying "Gnome 3 sucks" are much more likely to leave comments (especially on Slashdot, since Gnome 3 was designed for less technical users).
It doesn't really explain why it's declining since 2010 though. Linux distros have had package managers for over 10 years. I'm not aware of any huge changes in package managers recently, but it could just be that there are more packages and people are getting better at using their package managers.
Isn't your assumption that black kids can't afford computers racist? Poor people can't afford computers- it has nothing to do with race.
If black people are more likely to be poor, then it has everything to do with race. Or should we all close our eyes and pretend that we live in a land of equal opportunity?
So where the fuck are these so-called "good UI designers"? Where is the software that they've created?
They sure as fuck aren't working on open source software. GNOME 3, Firefox, and Unity are perfect proof of this.
They sure as fuck aren't working on commercial software. This is evident through Chrome, post-Ribbon MS Office, Windows 8 and iOS.
They sure as fuck aren't working on enterprise software, either. Much of this software makes GNOME 3 pleasant to use.
So where the fuck are they? What projects or products have these "good UI designers" worked on?
Or maybe they're actually doing research instead of just going along with whatever developers want, and while you don't like the interface, normal people do.
A little off topic, but there's no such thing as a filler class. Only people who don't realize the full value of a well rounded education seem to consider breadth courses as a waste of time.
If universities took them seriously, maybe students would too. As it stands, there are plenty of courses where you sit in a gigantic room, listen to a TA talk, and then memorize things out of a book. There is such thing as filler classes, and they exist only to make universities money.
Ok... Simple task: run a calculator. Ah, and we're talking mouse-bound users.. No usage of keyboard allowed.
That's the discoverability... Right there... Calculator even is an easy example as the Unity search gets it right when typing "Calc".
Your kids and your wife? Most likely tech natives and they have a role model right there. Try doing this crap with the 50+ non-techy people (I must specify this because I know that otherwise I'll summon all the 50+ slashdot dwellers who will say they can cope... You're not the people I talk about)
Step 1: Install Kubuntu or Xubuntu Step 2: There is no step 2
Seriously, the whole point of having multiple DEs is that you can pick the one you want. If your users can't figure out GNOME3, don't use it!
I read this and thought W T F. Can you document this with a link? I can't for the life of me see what the point of sitting in a physics class is if you aren't going to look at some calculus.
Yup, it's true, and it's completely worthless. I took a calculus-free physic class, which ended up being "memorize a bunch of equations, and don't ask how they work".
Seriously, though, I can't wrap my mind around why the most clunky, disgustingly inefficient windows managers are installed BY DEFAULT!
Because not everyone is you. Despite the extremely loud GNOME 3 haters (who are apparently incapable of installing a different DE), a lot of people like it. It's actually the perfect example of how to make software: Ignore the people who aren't going to like it anyway.
[brendan@computer ~]$ pacman -Ss web browser extra/arora 0.11.0-2 [0.69 MB]
A cross platform web browser built using Qt and WebKit extra/epiphany 3.2.1-1 [3.44 MB] (gnome)
A GNOME web browser based on the WebKit rendering engine. extra/epiphany-extensions 3.2.0-1 [0.84 MB]
Various extentions for the Epiphany web browser extra/firefox 7.0.1-1 [11.45 MB]
Standalone web browser from mozilla.org... etc
This is Slashdot. It was almost certainly the Marijuana response he was complaining about. For me, I'm very sick and tired of the stoners trying to hijack every internet political forum for their pet project - they seem very tense about it, too. That's probably because they're using the Internet at work and so not sufficiently stoned.
Or it could be that non-violent people are being thrown in jail in large numbers, and some of us have a problem with that. I suppose you don't care since it's not your problem, but what is your problem is the amount of money our government spends ruining people's lives.
In fact, most people I know never use more than 30 GB total unless they have (a) an insane amount of music or (b) a reasonable amount of videos.
Or more than 2 modern AAA video games installed.
A compressed filesystem isn't going to help with your games (their data is probably in a tightly packed binary format anyway). You're right though that that would be a good reason to need a bigger hard drive.
Text files. They don't take 10TB, they take 1TB but it's growing. So Slashdot Linux users suggestion to this is to get new 10x 1TB drives instead of just compressing the data and keep using the same 10TB?
This is the reason why most sane people avoid OSS. No one listens to feature requests, but only tells you "you don't want to that anyway, do this instead" while I perfectly good know compressing them is exactly what I want to do.
Or maybe no one thinks its worth their time to make a feature that only one user has a real need for. Most people don't have 10 TB of text files. In fact, most people I know never use more than 30 GB total unless they have (a) an insane amount of music or (b) a reasonable amount of videos.
You are part of that metric then. It doesn't mean that half a billion people like the game, only that there were half a billion downloads. Likely a lot of those were bored people who played a little and then stopped.
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I remember reading that Google was getting as many 75,000 job applicants in a
week. And yet Google is struggling to candidates?
I have been in IT over 30 years, and in my experience, employers are always shortage shouting. They
are shortage shouting while they are laying off thousands of US workers, they are shortage shouting as wages stagnate. They are shortage shouting when doing so completely defies all logic, and evidence. Asking employers if there is a
shortage is like asking a ReMax agent if you should buy a house, the agenda should be obvious.
Worth nothing, objective studies never determine that there is any great shortages.
Number of applications != Number of good applicants
Linux people play games? I thought this was still the 90's!
Also, a lot of files in .tar.gz likely need to be compiled. I haven't had as many problems compiling from source as I did 10 years ago (before Google), but it's not always common sense, and readme files often don't say what to do if you type ./configure and it errors about something missing.
.tar.gz is just means a compressed archive, it doesn't mean it's in source form. While the Humble Bundle games tend to release their source code too, no one sane would distribute a game that way. To "install" a game in .tar.gz format, you untar it into a directory and run the executable (which if you're using Gnome means "right click on the file and click 'extract'"). Oh, so hard.
Or you know, you could use a package manager. I've installed all of the Humble Bundle games with 'yaourt -S [game name]' (yaourt being the package manager).
And theat is your problem right there. Computers should work how I want it. I should not work how computers want it.
And the creators of GNOME 3 disagree. Remember, they're making it because *they want it*.
Obviously not everybody wants to work the same way and that is why there are different desktops. KDE for one and GNOME for another. I prefer XFCE and Windowmaker. Yet somebody else will want to use something else.
So if they see there is a market, why kill off something that was liked by many? Why do the thing that people dislike from Apple and Microsoft and force people to adapt the way they work?
Sure, you could say that the source is available and that you could still use it. That is like saying there are girls out there and all you have to do is talk to them to get a relationship.
Easy for some, unpossible for others.
Choices:
* Make something yourself
* Use the stuff that's already there
* Pay for something (Windows / OSX)
You do remember that this is free right? If you don't like it, it's not like you lost anything by trying it.
Ever heard of selection bias? The people saying "Gnome 3 sucks" are much more likely to leave comments (especially on Slashdot, since Gnome 3 was designed for less technical users).
Except that would make JavaScript slower, which is the exact opposite of what the browser makers are going for.
It doesn't really explain why it's declining since 2010 though. Linux distros have had package managers for over 10 years. I'm not aware of any huge changes in package managers recently, but it could just be that there are more packages and people are getting better at using their package managers.
BerkeleyDB is an embedded database (doesn't run as a server on your network unless you write your own server for it), and it's not particularly fast.
Isn't your assumption that black kids can't afford computers racist? Poor people can't afford computers- it has nothing to do with race.
If black people are more likely to be poor, then it has everything to do with race. Or should we all close our eyes and pretend that we live in a land of equal opportunity?
P.S. the updates don't break chrome like they do firefox. They still have QC going in their process.
The only thing Firefox updates break is extensions. Chrome gets around this by not having any extensions worth installing.
So where the fuck are these so-called "good UI designers"? Where is the software that they've created?
They sure as fuck aren't working on open source software. GNOME 3, Firefox, and Unity are perfect proof of this.
They sure as fuck aren't working on commercial software. This is evident through Chrome, post-Ribbon MS Office, Windows 8 and iOS.
They sure as fuck aren't working on enterprise software, either. Much of this software makes GNOME 3 pleasant to use.
So where the fuck are they? What projects or products have these "good UI designers" worked on?
Or maybe they're actually doing research instead of just going along with whatever developers want, and while you don't like the interface, normal people do.
A little off topic, but there's no such thing as a filler class. Only people who don't realize the full value of a well rounded education seem to consider breadth courses as a waste of time.
If universities took them seriously, maybe students would too. As it stands, there are plenty of courses where you sit in a gigantic room, listen to a TA talk, and then memorize things out of a book. There is such thing as filler classes, and they exist only to make universities money.
Ok... Simple task: run a calculator. Ah, and we're talking mouse-bound users.. No usage of keyboard allowed.
That's the discoverability... Right there... Calculator even is an easy example as the Unity search gets it right when typing "Calc".
Your kids and your wife? Most likely tech natives and they have a role model right there. Try doing this crap with the 50+ non-techy people (I must specify this because I know that otherwise I'll summon all the 50+ slashdot dwellers who will say they can cope... You're not the people I talk about)
Step 1: Install Kubuntu or Xubuntu
Step 2: There is no step 2
Seriously, the whole point of having multiple DEs is that you can pick the one you want. If your users can't figure out GNOME3, don't use it!
Agreed. Calculus-based physics is much easier.
I read this and thought W T F. Can you document this with a link? I can't for the life of me see what the point of sitting in a physics class is if you aren't going to look at some calculus.
Yup, it's true, and it's completely worthless. I took a calculus-free physic class, which ended up being "memorize a bunch of equations, and don't ask how they work".
Seriously, though, I can't wrap my mind around why the most clunky, disgustingly inefficient windows managers are installed BY DEFAULT!
Because not everyone is you. Despite the extremely loud GNOME 3 haters (who are apparently incapable of installing a different DE), a lot of people like it. It's actually the perfect example of how to make software: Ignore the people who aren't going to like it anyway.
That's why you don't just search the name.
[brendan@computer ~]$ pacman -Ss web browser ... etc
extra/arora 0.11.0-2 [0.69 MB]
A cross platform web browser built using Qt and WebKit
extra/epiphany 3.2.1-1 [3.44 MB] (gnome)
A GNOME web browser based on the WebKit rendering engine.
extra/epiphany-extensions 3.2.0-1 [0.84 MB]
Various extentions for the Epiphany web browser
extra/firefox 7.0.1-1 [11.45 MB]
Standalone web browser from mozilla.org
4/5 of the CA's recently breached run Linux:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=StartCom.com
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=GlobalSign.com
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=Comodo.com
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=DigiCert.com
Now, why's that? I thought Linux was secure, hearing it for years here on slashdot??
Wait, there are CAs that don't use Linux?
This is Slashdot. It was almost certainly the Marijuana response he was complaining about. For me, I'm very sick and tired of the stoners trying to hijack every internet political forum for their pet project - they seem very tense about it, too. That's probably because they're using the Internet at work and so not sufficiently stoned.
Or it could be that non-violent people are being thrown in jail in large numbers, and some of us have a problem with that. I suppose you don't care since it's not your problem, but what is your problem is the amount of money our government spends ruining people's lives.
I like how you're posting anonymously and still felt the need to sign your post.
Good point (see my other comment). These will all compress they same as audio/video (ie: they won't compress at all), so it doesn't change my point.
In fact, most people I know never use more than 30 GB total unless they have (a) an insane amount of music or (b) a reasonable amount of videos.
Or more than 2 modern AAA video games installed.
A compressed filesystem isn't going to help with your games (their data is probably in a tightly packed binary format anyway). You're right though that that would be a good reason to need a bigger hard drive.
Text files. They don't take 10TB, they take 1TB but it's growing. So Slashdot Linux users suggestion to this is to get new 10x 1TB drives instead of just compressing the data and keep using the same 10TB?
This is the reason why most sane people avoid OSS. No one listens to feature requests, but only tells you "you don't want to that anyway, do this instead" while I perfectly good know compressing them is exactly what I want to do.
Or maybe no one thinks its worth their time to make a feature that only one user has a real need for. Most people don't have 10 TB of text files. In fact, most people I know never use more than 30 GB total unless they have (a) an insane amount of music or (b) a reasonable amount of videos.
You are part of that metric then. It doesn't mean that half a billion people like the game, only that there were half a billion downloads. Likely a lot of those were bored people who played a little and then stopped.
... That way you can hook it up to your friend's Mac and get all his music in addition to all of your music and your PC friends' music.
Except that both the Zune and the iPod are designed to not allow this anyway. Copying music is stealing, remember?
Also, if you want to use your MP3 player as a regular storage device for files, you may need Mac compatibility for school/work/relatives/friends.
Just get a USB drive -- they cost something like $5, don't require an adapter, are tiny, and work everywhere.