Agreed, but easy to break a finger even with a haymaker to the hard skull behind the soft face. Anyway, maybe hoofs would be a better evolutionary adaptation to punching.
See the other posts in this thread, where I already wrote that I know that, and made my point that many martial arts go out of their way to *avoid* punching with the fists, such as the Chinese peasants who codified Tai Chi Chuan in the 18th century, who we can assume to not have lacked knuckle callous.
Yeah, "doing it wrong" in the sense of doing it at all. Sure, calluses and all, not stretching the skin over the knuckles, etc., I know. But fists still are so not good for punching that, as I said, many martial arts don't use it at all (e.g., in Tai Chi Chuan punches are performed only with the back of the (fisted) hand). One would think that if the fists evolved for punching, as the study seems to claim, they would be built for punching, which they aren't really - notwithstanding the fact that with lots of conditioning, practice, and thinking about it you can kind of use them for punching
Absolutely. Also, study author should watch less movies and punch someone for real. He will realize that human hands are really bad for punching, you get open bleeding knuckles in no time, and injuries if your fists and arms are misaligned. It's not an accident that martial arts that use punches spend a lot of practice to getting it right, and many don't use closed-fist punches with exposed first phalanges at all.
"Informative" mod is utterly wrong. If you had bothered to research what you are posting about (which would have been easy, as a Google query for "ubuntu phone" brings you right here), you would have known that Canonical is aiming for precisely the opposite of what MS tried. MS forces the phone interface on PC users, with the traditional Desktop being forced into Metro). Canonical wants to make it so that if you plug an external monitor/keyboard/mouse into your phone, your phone runs the appropriate PC UI for these devices (while continuing to run the phone UI on the phone in parallel)
Thunderbird and any other FOSS email client I used since 1996 had email threading. I am stunned that some people were not aware of email threading until Gmail.
I think part of the problem is that F1 cars are really, really fragile. No one takes risks because often just touching another car puts both cars out of the race.
The fact that they have open wheels comes into play before the fragility. Because of that, cars easily launch into the air, and we have seen it happen quite regularly. That's always been a part of F1 and open-wheel racing in general, and it's what makes the driving about finding clean lines around the car in front of you, while leaving a centimeter of space, instead of just bumping it out of the way like in touring cars. And it's what F1 fans generally appreciate.
Except the situation in any country with decent public health care is the opposite: people don't go to the ER with trivial stuff because they can afford to go to a general practitioner in the first place.
FYI, there was a recent federal study (machine translated German article) critizising that waiting times for fracture operations can be longer than 48 hours in some German hospitals, which is deemed unacceptable. And while the study is not yet published in full, the structure of the German health care system suggests what we are talking about people insured by public health care (which is the vast majority).
Seems to me that submissions are becoming increasingly of the sort the poster could have figured out himself if he had thought about it for 5 minutes. This one might be fun if submitted to xkcd's What If.
"A core goal for Ubuntu 13.04 is to get Ubuntu running on a Nexus 7 tablet. To be clear, this is not going to be a tablet Unity interface running on the 8/16GB Nexus 7, but instead will focus on getting the current Ubuntu Desktop running on the Nexus so that we can ensure pieces such as the kernel, power management and other related areas are working effectively on a tablet device.
Topics such as battery life, memory footprint, and support for sensors are all areas in which needs and expectations vary widely between a PC and a mobile devices. The 13.04 cycle will very much be focused on this exploration and learning and this is why we want to focus our efforts on getting the existing Ubuntu Desktop running on the Nexus 7. This will mean that some user-facing parts of the experience won’t make a lot of sense on the tablet, but we want to get the foundations optimized before we focus on these higher level challenges."
You called it a "popup window", which it is not. Anyway it's not different to the password bubble, you didn't ask for that either. And you don't have to 'click the "go away" button every time I visit a website', there are like 20 supported sites, which I doubt you use all of, and you click it once and only once for each. Stop exaggerating.
This is what it looks like when you go to a site that supports it: http://i.imgur.com/8lz1V.png You know, like the "want to save the password?" bubbles Firefox has had forever. Is that what you call a popup window? And why don't you say "no" and be done with it? It does not appear "every time you visit a web site" either.
Usually I don't complain about/. because it and its users are still rather amazing overall. But every time there is an Ubuntu story you people are just being idiots mostly, and this particular story is the worst. It's like my grandpa complaining about progress in general whenever something remotely new happens. Nerds came up with progress in computing, and now you want it to stop in 2005? Well not going to happen. The genie is out of the bottle, you released it and forced everyone to deal with it whether they like it or not. Only fair that you have to as well. If you don't like Ubuntu, don't use it and stop whining. Sheesh.
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Agreed, but easy to break a finger even with a haymaker to the hard skull behind the soft face. Anyway, maybe hoofs would be a better evolutionary adaptation to punching.
Also, it's not just about callouses, but about breaking bones as well.
See the other posts in this thread, where I already wrote that I know that, and made my point that many martial arts go out of their way to *avoid* punching with the fists, such as the Chinese peasants who codified Tai Chi Chuan in the 18th century, who we can assume to not have lacked knuckle callous.
Yeah, "doing it wrong" in the sense of doing it at all. Sure, calluses and all, not stretching the skin over the knuckles, etc., I know. But fists still are so not good for punching that, as I said, many martial arts don't use it at all (e.g., in Tai Chi Chuan punches are performed only with the back of the (fisted) hand). One would think that if the fists evolved for punching, as the study seems to claim, they would be built for punching, which they aren't really - notwithstanding the fact that with lots of conditioning, practice, and thinking about it you can kind of use them for punching
Absolutely. Also, study author should watch less movies and punch someone for real. He will realize that human hands are really bad for punching, you get open bleeding knuckles in no time, and injuries if your fists and arms are misaligned. It's not an accident that martial arts that use punches spend a lot of practice to getting it right, and many don't use closed-fist punches with exposed first phalanges at all.
Ok, I guess we must have different definitions of what it means for a company to take the linux desktop serious.
"serious"?
Actually Unity would be very poorly suited to a touch interface. See Shuttleworth's answers for some of the reasons.
So he really is the truly arrogant asshole that I figured he must be.
So which other alive Linux company cares for the desktop?
"Informative" mod is utterly wrong. If you had bothered to research what you are posting about (which would have been easy, as a Google query for "ubuntu phone" brings you right here), you would have known that Canonical is aiming for precisely the opposite of what MS tried. MS forces the phone interface on PC users, with the traditional Desktop being forced into Metro). Canonical wants to make it so that if you plug an external monitor/keyboard/mouse into your phone, your phone runs the appropriate PC UI for these devices (while continuing to run the phone UI on the phone in parallel)
It absolutey does for me. I just checked to make sure.
Thunderbird and any other FOSS email client I used since 1996 had email threading. I am stunned that some people were not aware of email threading until Gmail.
I think part of the problem is that F1 cars are really, really fragile. No one takes risks because often just touching another car puts both cars out of the race.
The fact that they have open wheels comes into play before the fragility. Because of that, cars easily launch into the air, and we have seen it happen quite regularly. That's always been a part of F1 and open-wheel racing in general, and it's what makes the driving about finding clean lines around the car in front of you, while leaving a centimeter of space, instead of just bumping it out of the way like in touring cars. And it's what F1 fans generally appreciate.
Except the situation in any country with decent public health care is the opposite: people don't go to the ER with trivial stuff because they can afford to go to a general practitioner in the first place.
FYI, there was a recent federal study (machine translated German article) critizising that waiting times for fracture operations can be longer than 48 hours in some German hospitals, which is deemed unacceptable. And while the study is not yet published in full, the structure of the German health care system suggests what we are talking about people insured by public health care (which is the vast majority).
Find a better geek. This was unnecessary even in 12.04
Seems to me that submissions are becoming increasingly of the sort the poster could have figured out himself if he had thought about it for 5 minutes. This one might be fun if submitted to xkcd's What If.
They are not caring for Unity right now, it's not a touch UI. They ported it to work on fundamentals first, like power consumption. Touch interface is a topic for later. http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/10/26/ubuntu-core-on-the-nexus-7/
"A core goal for Ubuntu 13.04 is to get Ubuntu running on a Nexus 7 tablet. To be clear, this is not going to be a tablet Unity interface running on the 8/16GB Nexus 7, but instead will focus on getting the current Ubuntu Desktop running on the Nexus so that we can ensure pieces such as the kernel, power management and other related areas are working effectively on a tablet device.
Topics such as battery life, memory footprint, and support for sensors are all areas in which needs and expectations vary widely between a PC and a mobile devices. The 13.04 cycle will very much be focused on this exploration and learning and this is why we want to focus our efforts on getting the existing Ubuntu Desktop running on the Nexus 7. This will mean that some user-facing parts of the experience won’t make a lot of sense on the tablet, but we want to get the foundations optimized before we focus on these higher level challenges."
http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/10/26/ubuntu-core-on-the-nexus-7/
You called it a "popup window", which it is not. Anyway it's not different to the password bubble, you didn't ask for that either. And you don't have to 'click the "go away" button every time I visit a website', there are like 20 supported sites, which I doubt you use all of, and you click it once and only once for each. Stop exaggerating.
Gifted programmes as they have been developed over the last 30 years are in fact probably the worst thing for someone with exceptional ability. ......
I'd mod you +1 interesting if I had points
This is what it looks like when you go to a site that supports it: http://i.imgur.com/8lz1V.png
You know, like the "want to save the password?" bubbles Firefox has had forever. Is that what you call a popup window? And why don't you say "no" and be done with it? It does not appear "every time you visit a web site" either.
E: Unable to locate package unity-lens-shopping
Executed right now with up-to-date repos:
aptitude search unity-lens-shopping
i unity-lens-shopping - Shopping lens for unity
Dunno what you are doing wrong
Usually I don't complain about /. because it and its users are still rather amazing overall. But every time there is an Ubuntu story you people are just being idiots mostly, and this particular story is the worst. It's like my grandpa complaining about progress in general whenever something remotely new happens. Nerds came up with progress in computing, and now you want it to stop in 2005? Well not going to happen. The genie is out of the bottle, you released it and forced everyone to deal with it whether they like it or not. Only fair that you have to as well. If you don't like Ubuntu, don't use it and stop whining. Sheesh.
You mean you don't like getting a popup window every time you visit a website? What's wrong with you!
Obviously you didn't even see the feature in action, it does not behave that way AT ALL