Possibly. Though I recently installed Mint 13 w/ Mate for a friend who hated Unity and wanted Gnome 2 back, and personally I missed Ubuntu's polish when playing with that install. YMMV
I wonder how long until someone releases a tool to disable the ads.
Big deal. sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping. Or for the GUI, open Ubuntu Software Center, search for, e.g., "shop". Click "Show technical items" and uninstall the lens. That could be made a bit more obvious, but it's not like what you are implying.
Also on Windows, you can grab the bottom of a window and pull it down to the taskbar to get a maximize vertical state. Why can't I do that in Linux?
You can do a similar thing in Unity (and have been for a while): you grab the window's title bar and drag it up to the global menu for full-screen or to the right or left screen edge for vertical maximizing (and using half the screen horizontally). I know it's not the same you do in Windows, but I thought I'd mention it. More at http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboard-and-mouse-shortcuts
How is a video uploaded to youtube 'individual personal data"?.
It can be non-private for the uploader, but private for other people in the video. You don't always know when you are in a video, and even if do you often cannot prevent it from being uploaded.
I'm not surprised that Apple has rejected an App that has the purpose of getting people interested in the author's own political agenda.
There's a Mitt Romney app (and other politicians), apps for newspapers and TV news channels galore, and lots and lots of other apps that are about one political agenda or other. How is this one different?
FF always breaks the previous version's add-ons when it upgrades.
That's absolutely not true. Most don't break, shitty ones might. There has been a stable add-on API for ages, and Mozilla have asked add-on devs to use for nearly as long. (AC b/c I modded)
I've been practicing Tai Chi Chuan and meditation for more than 15 years in an attempt to keep myself healthy and sane. Sometimes between work and other commitments I don't practice enough. By your argument if I decide to put in some additional effort and time, this would be a sign of addiction?
It's obvious you don't know the state of public transport ticket vending machines in Berlin:) I'd be happy if they were able to print tickets at a speed that does not regularly make me miss the next subway train. Sophistication like you describe it is not around the corner....
Well, no OS can do magic and provide stuff at no cost. Stuff like hardware detection needs to be done at some point and there is no way arround it - Windows boots pretty quickly, but at the price of taking ages to shut down. Ubuntu's switch to Upstart helped boot times by parallelizing dependencies.
You must have been using some other Ubuntu than the ones I've tried. They've booted decently, but even on a high end machine I've never gotten close to 15 seconds from cold.
All of my machines did, 2 not-so-hot ThinkPads and a MacBook Pro from 2009. 12.04 seems to have become a bit slower. Lots of people have posted bootcharts for you to see - note that I'm talking grub to login prompt.
Also, "my criteria is for x to work like ancient app y" is not so workable. Sounds like Microsoft's convoluted standard's document for Office Open XML regarding backward compatibility. "You have to emulate bug x of Word 2, but we can't tell you exactly how that worked". Someone might have helped him if he had given specific requirements.
First of all, xmms seems to be really outdated, and if his distro does not include it and he cannot compile it himself for whatever reason (despit copious info for how to install dev packages and compile for any distro), I fail to see how this is a failure of the un*x docs specifically. Current documentation for WinPlay3 is also rather scarce.
It's also hard to believe that there is not a single mp3 player out there that sorts music like xmms, whatever this is. He stated he tried Rhythmbox and was not too happy, but the allegedly so deficient un*x docs readily list many more, while the Ubuntu software center lets you try them out with one click.
Anyway, the logical conclusion seems to be to use xmms2, docs for which appear in the third google hit (for me) when searching for xmms. Which in turn, as I wrote, would take him to the solution in the first hit when searching for mp3 at xmms2.org. Again, how is this evidence for generally bad docs?
Good point. It would be the least of my worries, personally, but of course it only needs to happen once, somewhere. Imagine the shitstorm if government/insurance/something mandates this, it fails in such a situation, people can't text out, and a bunch are killed.
My command of the English language was confused for a moment. OK so we are talking about he regular seats I can buy tickets for to rinde on the train. In that case I still don't understand your commnt, "Since it combines GPS motion detection, you would have to be reading that interesting book on the train/bus/car passenger seat." Yeah, so?
Regarding, "for you it might not work until after you collect your thoughts to the point where you can complete a word before becoming distracted": 1. That's certainly not for my phone to decide 2. I may be texting in a foreign language. There are endless situations imaginable where this can legitimately happen. And if it's just because of being stoned or something - then point 1 still applies.
Saying "only good mp3 player" makes no sense unless you specify your criteria. Amarok, Banshee, VLC, Rhythmbox, or smplayer are all capable mp3 players by various criteria and easily found by googling for "linux mp3 player". If you use Ubuntu, searching for mp3 player in Software Center finds a plethora of good players. Googling "list of linux audio software" easily finds other things besides just mp3 players: maybe something like Audacity satisfies your requirements better. Search for "mp3" on xmms2.org finds the answer in the first link - your xmms2 install needs have the MAD library, maybe your distro does not install that.
Massive Ubuntu installs taking 2 minutes to boot? Whatever its faults, Ubuntu was the one distro most focused on boot time for a long while, and even a standard desktop install goes from BIOS hand-off to login screen in 10 - 12 secs with a standard HD.
Since it combines GPS motion detection, you would have to be reading that interesting book on the train/bus/car passenger seat.
Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying. A train passenger seat, what's that? And I doubt the GPS can tell if I'm on the car's driver's seat or passenger's seat.
But even then, you don't read a little, text a few characters, read a little more, then type a couple characters.
Thanks for the quote, obviously I did not read TFA:) From the quote I cannot really tell if they were only comparing texting while driving to "normal" texting - though it looks like that to me -, or if they also compared writing an annoying but urgent text while in an interesting conversation, or watching the scenery, as you wrote. It's possible that the recognition is really accurate, but it would not surprise if it could not reliably distinguish me texting while driving or me texting my mom about the dinner arrangements for my visit while reading an interesting book. And no, I would not accept my phone deciding for me that I have to focus on either texting or the scenery.
Well I don't hold a monthly bus pass because I can satisfy most of my daily routines by bike and the monthly pass is too expensive for occasional use, but I still want to be able to type erratically when I ride the bus using a single-trip ticket. Also, trains - very often, the train track runs alongside the road, not sure the GPS can distinguish this reliably.
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Possibly. Though I recently installed Mint 13 w/ Mate for a friend who hated Unity and wanted Gnome 2 back, and personally I missed Ubuntu's polish when playing with that install. YMMV
I wonder how long until someone releases a tool to disable the ads.
Big deal. sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping. Or for the GUI, open Ubuntu Software Center, search for, e.g., "shop". Click "Show technical items" and uninstall the lens. That could be made a bit more obvious, but it's not like what you are implying.
Where can I download Skype with Opus support? Oh, that's right, I can't because it's not available.
The world I live in has something called future, and a notion of potential. Don't know about yours.
Short version for you: Microsoft - Skype. Can you figure it out now?
Also on Windows, you can grab the bottom of a window and pull it down to the taskbar to get a maximize vertical state. Why can't I do that in Linux?
You can do a similar thing in Unity (and have been for a while): you grab the window's title bar and drag it up to the global menu for full-screen or to the right or left screen edge for vertical maximizing (and using half the screen horizontally). I know it's not the same you do in Windows, but I thought I'd mention it. More at http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboard-and-mouse-shortcuts
Perhaps I should have, but I was only responding to the short-sighted idea that it would be intrinsically impossible for private stuff to end up on YT
How is a video uploaded to youtube 'individual personal data"?.
It can be non-private for the uploader, but private for other people in the video. You don't always know when you are in a video, and even if do you often cannot prevent it from being uploaded.
I'm not surprised that Apple has rejected an App that has the purpose of getting people interested in the author's own political agenda.
There's a Mitt Romney app (and other politicians), apps for newspapers and TV news channels galore, and lots and lots of other apps that are about one political agenda or other. How is this one different?
FF always breaks the previous version's add-ons when it upgrades.
That's absolutely not true. Most don't break, shitty ones might. There has been a stable add-on API for ages, and Mozilla have asked add-on devs to use for nearly as long. (AC b/c I modded)
I guess I missed your sarcasm. Mods, please take care of my previous post, and this one.
I've been practicing Tai Chi Chuan and meditation for more than 15 years in an attempt to keep myself healthy and sane. Sometimes between work and other commitments I don't practice enough. By your argument if I decide to put in some additional effort and time, this would be a sign of addiction?
It's obvious you don't know the state of public transport ticket vending machines in Berlin :) I'd be happy if they were able to print tickets at a speed that does not regularly make me miss the next subway train. Sophistication like you describe it is not around the corner ....
Well, no OS can do magic and provide stuff at no cost. Stuff like hardware detection needs to be done at some point and there is no way arround it - Windows boots pretty quickly, but at the price of taking ages to shut down. Ubuntu's switch to Upstart helped boot times by parallelizing dependencies.
Sure, that's why I said "even a standard desktop install". I thought it was implied that an install with unneeded services disabled would be faster :)
You must have been using some other Ubuntu than the ones I've tried. They've booted decently, but even on a high end machine I've never gotten close to 15 seconds from cold.
All of my machines did, 2 not-so-hot ThinkPads and a MacBook Pro from 2009. 12.04 seems to have become a bit slower. Lots of people have posted bootcharts for you to see - note that I'm talking grub to login prompt.
Also, "my criteria is for x to work like ancient app y" is not so workable. Sounds like Microsoft's convoluted standard's document for Office Open XML regarding backward compatibility. "You have to emulate bug x of Word 2, but we can't tell you exactly how that worked". Someone might have helped him if he had given specific requirements.
First of all, xmms seems to be really outdated, and if his distro does not include it and he cannot compile it himself for whatever reason (despit copious info for how to install dev packages and compile for any distro), I fail to see how this is a failure of the un*x docs specifically. Current documentation for WinPlay3 is also rather scarce.
It's also hard to believe that there is not a single mp3 player out there that sorts music like xmms, whatever this is. He stated he tried Rhythmbox and was not too happy, but the allegedly so deficient un*x docs readily list many more, while the Ubuntu software center lets you try them out with one click.
Anyway, the logical conclusion seems to be to use xmms2, docs for which appear in the third google hit (for me) when searching for xmms. Which in turn, as I wrote, would take him to the solution in the first hit when searching for mp3 at xmms2.org. Again, how is this evidence for generally bad docs?
Good point. It would be the least of my worries, personally, but of course it only needs to happen once, somewhere. Imagine the shitstorm if government/insurance/something mandates this, it fails in such a situation, people can't text out, and a bunch are killed.
My command of the English language was confused for a moment. OK so we are talking about he regular seats I can buy tickets for to rinde on the train. In that case I still don't understand your commnt, "Since it combines GPS motion detection, you would have to be reading that interesting book on the train/bus/car passenger seat." Yeah, so?
Regarding, "for you it might not work until after you collect your thoughts to the point where you can complete a word before becoming distracted":
1. That's certainly not for my phone to decide
2. I may be texting in a foreign language. There are endless situations imaginable where this can legitimately happen. And if it's just because of being stoned or something - then point 1 still applies.
Saying "only good mp3 player" makes no sense unless you specify your criteria. Amarok, Banshee, VLC, Rhythmbox, or smplayer are all capable mp3 players by various criteria and easily found by googling for "linux mp3 player". If you use Ubuntu, searching for mp3 player in Software Center finds a plethora of good players. Googling "list of linux audio software" easily finds other things besides just mp3 players: maybe something like Audacity satisfies your requirements better. Search for "mp3" on xmms2.org finds the answer in the first link - your xmms2 install needs have the MAD library, maybe your distro does not install that.
Does not seem like the problem is with bad docs.
Massive Ubuntu installs taking 2 minutes to boot? Whatever its faults, Ubuntu was the one distro most focused on boot time for a long while, and even a standard desktop install goes from BIOS hand-off to login screen in 10 - 12 secs with a standard HD.
And more often than "reading a little", I may blankly stare out of the window or something after a few characters.
Since it combines GPS motion detection, you would have to be reading that interesting book on the train/bus/car passenger seat.
Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying. A train passenger seat, what's that? And I doubt the GPS can tell if I'm on the car's driver's seat or passenger's seat.
But even then, you don't read a little, text a few characters, read a little more, then type a couple characters.
I most certainly do on occasion.
Thanks for the quote, obviously I did not read TFA :) From the quote I cannot really tell if they were only comparing texting while driving to "normal" texting - though it looks like that to me -, or if they also compared writing an annoying but urgent text while in an interesting conversation, or watching the scenery, as you wrote. It's possible that the recognition is really accurate, but it would not surprise if it could not reliably distinguish me texting while driving or me texting my mom about the dinner arrangements for my visit while reading an interesting book. And no, I would not accept my phone deciding for me that I have to focus on either texting or the scenery.
Well I don't hold a monthly bus pass because I can satisfy most of my daily routines by bike and the monthly pass is too expensive for occasional use, but I still want to be able to type erratically when I ride the bus using a single-trip ticket. Also, trains - very often, the train track runs alongside the road, not sure the GPS can distinguish this reliably.