Why not? WINE should be able to run virtually any windows software, right?
Not at all, where did you get the idea? Wine runs software if it happens to implement all APIs the software needs. The Windows API is huge and Wine does not implement all of it, by far. It rightly concentrates on progress in the areas that are used by most software. There are application databases if you want to know details about supported software, at http://www.winehq.org/ and http://www.codeweavers.com/ (commercial Wine variant)
That's the movie provider's fault largely, and in part unbelievably stupid: I need libdvdcss only to watch movies for which I have paid. The movie industry's attempt to prevent me from watching movies I have bought is what's broken.
I appreciate your point, but see it less gloomy. For example, the maximize button in metacity allowed to maximize in all dimensions (left click), vertically (middle click), or horizontally (right click). Now you can do similar things by drag to top (maximize), and drag to the left and right screen borders to tile. I don't see the former as more intuitive than the latter in a mouse-driven environment. In fact I think that the principle of dragging has more potential to be extended to richer interactions while keeping the basic metaphor predictable and simple, something that I think would have been difficult to achieve by the older method. The window placement keyboard shortcuts are already more varied than they ever were in metacity (http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/keyboard-shortcuts-in-unity)
Apple's touch interfaces showed that experienced users and total noobs alike can take very easily to gestures. I think that everyone has kind of given up on the traditional desktop computer, Linux will never outgrow a few percent of users there, whatever we do. Ubuntu and Gnome clearly aim for device classes of the future with less entrenched competition, and if you read the design docs by the Gnome and Ubuntu folks you would not write stuff like "there is no coherent reason", since actually is well laid out. Whether it's well executed and communicated is another matter.
Rubbish. I have a 1,920 x 1,200 pixel, 24" flat panel (Dell U2410) myself, and I too run most applications maximized. I paid for the real estate, why would I want to waste most of it?
"I run most stuff maximized" is not good argument for the requirement of a maximize button. For this use case the proper solution seems for the window manager to remember that you maximized certain applications (using a doubleclick, drag, or keyboard combo, all of which continue to be available in Gnome 3), and save this setting in the session manager. I don't know whether Gnome 3 does this (yet), but this seems to be consistent with the predictability and unobtrusiveness that the designers strive for, if you read TFAs.
Thanks. Am I correct in understanding from these links that it checks md5sums of the upstream sources, but not cryptographic signatures? Just wondering.
Intel's 3D is plenty capable of desktop effects and stuff like Google Earth. Compiz runs perfectly. When the GP wrote "cutting edge graphics" he was talking about stuff like Crysis 2 and maybe professional 3D use. Few people actually need that.
We have looked into 2007 for deployment at our company (15,000 seats) and decided it's awful. To me, 2010 seems much better, if we take the ribbon interface to be a given. In 2007, you could not even edit the ribbon to fix the most awful decisions by MS (The Insert tab in PowerPoint has Buttons for "chart", "diagram", "image", "formula", and whatever else you may want to insert, but to insert a new slide they send you hunting you finally find it on the Home tab), and at least PowerPoint was awfully buggy, especially with regards to roundtripping files between 2007 and 2003/earlier. (I don't know about the other applications because I was in charge of PowerPoint)
I agree that the File ribbon button is weird in so far as all the documentation calls this the Backstage View, a term that does not appear anywhere in the UI. But in our experience users have much better success finding it than the weird round bubble that looks like nothing you have seen before.
A kind of agreement on/. after prolonged discussion? A rare occasion:) I want to add that I don't think your point of view is totally unreasonable. Objectively the danger that the US pose for Assange may be small as you say. What I tried to express (not sure I managed) is my view that the job of Assange's lawyers is to get him out out any legal proceedings, and some recent actions of the US have made it easy for them to point to the alleged dangers. And that I can totally understand if Assange is paranoid, I would be too.
While the sibling comment is correct that there are no set meanings, it's most common (compare Wikipedia) to define beta as the phase when the software is for the first time given to end users for testing. This of course requires UI changes based on their feedback.
whatever the mental state of Assange, he's also much closer to "perceived enemy of the US" than to "average bloke", it appears reasonable to expect special attention being given to him.
Edge case? You're writing as if this was an isolated incident. Have you really never heard of the secret "war on terror" CIA prisons? The fact that the European governments (not even to speak of Middle Eastern and African ones of course) collaborated, makes it only scarier and lends credence to the claim by Assange's lawyers that a fair trial in Sweden is questionable. And my point is that the veracity of that claim is not even that important - however that may be, the US together with its allies undermined much of the trust people once had in them, and appeals to that sentiment can count on sympathy, and I for one can easily believe that Assange has a right to be paranoid.
Whether the US would want to simply disappear Assange is questionable and at least open to debate. It's one thing to do it to muslims during a so-called war and in the aftermath of the shock about the dead of 9/11, and quite another to do it to a white Australian computer nerd for posting text on the web. I don't think the Obama administration would want to deal with the questions that would arise if Assenge simply vanished. The upholding of the theater of due process is one of the remaining social adhesives that constantly grow thinner anyway.
knuckles@chronic:~$ startX No command 'startX' found, did you mean: Command 'startx' from package 'xinit' (main) Command 'start' from package 'upstart' (main) startX: command not found
Didn't use RedHat for long, and a long time ago, so I dunno what they dumped into $HOME. Anyway, I've never seen such a command on Debian and Ubuntu, both of which I used for many years. Ubuntu tells me:
knuckles@chronic:~$ startX
No command 'startX' found, did you mean:
Command 'startx' from package 'xinit' (main)
Command 'start' from package 'upstart' (main)
startX: command not found
You presented a very specific list of acts your government needs to commit before you concede that it may rightfully scare people. I will instead offer "a German citizen who was kidnapped in Former Yugoslavic Republic of Macedonia, flown to Afghanistan, interrogated and tortured by the CIA for several months as a part of the War on Terror, and then released". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_al-Masri
You're right - it'll never go through "traditional US courts" because the US has no interest in Assange. If they really wanted him out of the way, he would have choked on a peanut months ago.
The US really, really wanted Castro out of the way and launched how many assassination attempts?
You know, not so long ago we found out that the US government, being in cahoots with local governments of even EU members, abducted people, put them into black vans, flew them across the World while trying to erase flight records, and stuck them into secret prisons where they were tortured and never to be seen again. A few years earlier we learned that the US government, being in cahoots with local governments even of EC members, had founded or infiltrated terrorist groups, who killed leading politicians and company managers, and had created large secret weapons caches all over Europe, all to further civil unrest in Europe in order to justify increased oppression.
No surprise that fear levels sometimes get out of control.
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Why not? WINE should be able to run virtually any windows software, right?
Not at all, where did you get the idea? Wine runs software if it happens to implement all APIs the software needs. The Windows API is huge and Wine does not implement all of it, by far. It rightly concentrates on progress in the areas that are used by most software. There are application databases if you want to know details about supported software, at http://www.winehq.org/ and http://www.codeweavers.com/ (commercial Wine variant)
Run Codeweavers commercial Wine version if you want guarantees and little hassle. See, e.g. http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search/?name=microsoft+office
That's the movie provider's fault largely, and in part unbelievably stupid: I need libdvdcss only to watch movies for which I have paid. The movie industry's attempt to prevent me from watching movies I have bought is what's broken.
* Install NVIDIA drivers (slightly less easy; you have to shut down X and run one command line to install the drivers
Not in Ubuntu, no.
Tell AMD
I appreciate your point, but see it less gloomy. For example, the maximize button in metacity allowed to maximize in all dimensions (left click), vertically (middle click), or horizontally (right click). Now you can do similar things by drag to top (maximize), and drag to the left and right screen borders to tile. I don't see the former as more intuitive than the latter in a mouse-driven environment. In fact I think that the principle of dragging has more potential to be extended to richer interactions while keeping the basic metaphor predictable and simple, something that I think would have been difficult to achieve by the older method. The window placement keyboard shortcuts are already more varied than they ever were in metacity (http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/keyboard-shortcuts-in-unity)
Apple's touch interfaces showed that experienced users and total noobs alike can take very easily to gestures. I think that everyone has kind of given up on the traditional desktop computer, Linux will never outgrow a few percent of users there, whatever we do. Ubuntu and Gnome clearly aim for device classes of the future with less entrenched competition, and if you read the design docs by the Gnome and Ubuntu folks you would not write stuff like "there is no coherent reason", since actually is well laid out. Whether it's well executed and communicated is another matter.
Rubbish. I have a 1,920 x 1,200 pixel, 24" flat panel (Dell U2410) myself, and I too run most applications maximized. I paid for the real estate, why would I want to waste most of it?
"I run most stuff maximized" is not good argument for the requirement of a maximize button. For this use case the proper solution seems for the window manager to remember that you maximized certain applications (using a doubleclick, drag, or keyboard combo, all of which continue to be available in Gnome 3), and save this setting in the session manager. I don't know whether Gnome 3 does this (yet), but this seems to be consistent with the predictability and unobtrusiveness that the designers strive for, if you read TFAs.
Thanks. Am I correct in understanding from these links that it checks md5sums of the upstream sources, but not cryptographic signatures? Just wondering.
Intel's 3D is plenty capable of desktop effects and stuff like Google Earth. Compiz runs perfectly. When the GP wrote "cutting edge graphics" he was talking about stuff like Crysis 2 and maybe professional 3D use. Few people actually need that.
We have looked into 2007 for deployment at our company (15,000 seats) and decided it's awful. To me, 2010 seems much better, if we take the ribbon interface to be a given. In 2007, you could not even edit the ribbon to fix the most awful decisions by MS (The Insert tab in PowerPoint has Buttons for "chart", "diagram", "image", "formula", and whatever else you may want to insert, but to insert a new slide they send you hunting you finally find it on the Home tab), and at least PowerPoint was awfully buggy, especially with regards to roundtripping files between 2007 and 2003/earlier. (I don't know about the other applications because I was in charge of PowerPoint)
I agree that the File ribbon button is weird in so far as all the documentation calls this the Backstage View, a term that does not appear anywhere in the UI. But in our experience users have much better success finding it than the weird round bubble that looks like nothing you have seen before.
A kind of agreement on /. after prolonged discussion? A rare occasion :) I want to add that I don't think your point of view is totally unreasonable. Objectively the danger that the US pose for Assange may be small as you say. What I tried to express (not sure I managed) is my view that the job of Assange's lawyers is to get him out out any legal proceedings, and some recent actions of the US have made it easy for them to point to the alleged dangers. And that I can totally understand if Assange is paranoid, I would be too.
I'm not familiar with these, but seems to me that if the source package is compromised it won't help much if you build it yourself?
While the sibling comment is correct that there are no set meanings, it's most common (compare Wikipedia) to define beta as the phase when the software is for the first time given to end users for testing. This of course requires UI changes based on their feedback.
TFS sucks, and the Banshee devs did not complain. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2013052&cid=35318196
Arch also gives no semblance of security either. Unsigned packages? What year is it?
whatever the mental state of Assange, he's also much closer to "perceived enemy of the US" than to "average bloke", it appears reasonable to expect special attention being given to him.
Edge case? You're writing as if this was an isolated incident. Have you really never heard of the secret "war on terror" CIA prisons? The fact that the European governments (not even to speak of Middle Eastern and African ones of course) collaborated, makes it only scarier and lends credence to the claim by Assange's lawyers that a fair trial in Sweden is questionable. And my point is that the veracity of that claim is not even that important - however that may be, the US together with its allies undermined much of the trust people once had in them, and appeals to that sentiment can count on sympathy, and I for one can easily believe that Assange has a right to be paranoid.
Whether the US would want to simply disappear Assange is questionable and at least open to debate. It's one thing to do it to muslims during a so-called war and in the aftermath of the shock about the dead of 9/11, and quite another to do it to a white Australian computer nerd for posting text on the web. I don't think the Obama administration would want to deal with the questions that would arise if Assenge simply vanished. The upholding of the theater of due process is one of the remaining social adhesives that constantly grow thinner anyway.
Damn /. formatting options. Should have been
knuckles@chronic:~$ startX
No command 'startX' found, did you mean:
Command 'startx' from package 'xinit' (main)
Command 'start' from package 'upstart' (main)
startX: command not found
Didn't use RedHat for long, and a long time ago, so I dunno what they dumped into $HOME. Anyway, I've never seen such a command on Debian and Ubuntu, both of which I used for many years. Ubuntu tells me: knuckles@chronic:~$ startX No command 'startX' found, did you mean: Command 'startx' from package 'xinit' (main) Command 'start' from package 'upstart' (main) startX: command not found
You presented a very specific list of acts your government needs to commit before you concede that it may rightfully scare people. I will instead offer "a German citizen who was kidnapped in Former Yugoslavic Republic of Macedonia, flown to Afghanistan, interrogated and tortured by the CIA for several months as a part of the War on Terror, and then released". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_al-Masri
Thanks.
If it's your brat, you* should pay for its upkeep.
Really? Why?
That's where I stopped reading.
You're right - it'll never go through "traditional US courts" because the US has no interest in Assange. If they really wanted him out of the way, he would have choked on a peanut months ago.
The US really, really wanted Castro out of the way and launched how many assassination attempts?
You know, not so long ago we found out that the US government, being in cahoots with local governments of even EU members, abducted people, put them into black vans, flew them across the World while trying to erase flight records, and stuck them into secret prisons where they were tortured and never to be seen again. A few years earlier we learned that the US government, being in cahoots with local governments even of EC members, had founded or infiltrated terrorist groups, who killed leading politicians and company managers, and had created large secret weapons caches all over Europe, all to further civil unrest in Europe in order to justify increased oppression. No surprise that fear levels sometimes get out of control.