I'm not in the US so I don't know age ranges, but hopefully by the time they are in middle school using these tablets they are past basic arithmetic such as 2/4
I seriously doubt it. WinRT is a horrible mobile OS, maybe with WinRT +1, but it's current incarnation has enough loose ends to make Gnome 3 look polished.
Seriously? I think DirectX had a much longer running exploitable lifetime than the current Java debacle, and was much wider exploited. And don't talk to me about all those C viruses that we used to have to deal with. Blaming a language because of a plug in makes you look foolish.
Super isn't a click. Slashdot also swallowed my enter, and someone else pointed out you can also get a terminal with just T-E-R. So:
Super (Usually has a Windows logo on it) > T-E-R [enter] > in terminal
That is normally known as 5 key presses, and no mouse, much faster than using some crappy mouse movements + 3 clicks.
Linux pretty much lives in the console. To do anything of any gravity, you will invariably have it open at some point. Being such an essential tool, obfuscating behind mouse clicks like XFCE and Gnome 2 makes no sense.
Though to be honest, I don't use the terminal these days half as much as I used to have to with Gnome 2. But I think that is probably a limitation of the 90's style UI that forces you to use a console, rather than a UI that provides shortcuts to the activities that you want to perform, and that for the past few years Ubuntu comes with mostly sane configurations so I don't need to edit text files to get it to do anything.
Even my home server has a web UI, to make it quicker to change the options that I want to. Why would I use a text file that leave room for human errors such as typos. Typos in a config file can be painful.
What's odd is I never said click on launcher. I think epy invented a step.
One thing, you missed long press super for help, which compared to any other system is vastly better. I remember accidentally removing my Gnome 2 panels, oh how much fun did I have trying to figure out how to create a new one.
keyboard/mouse context switches are time consuming.. GUIs should do what needs doing with the minimum of clicks, leaving the keyboard stuff to the keyboard.
You mean like pinning it to the dock? One click launch? Middle click opens new instance, if right-click > new window is one too many clicks for you?
They should offer hotkeys as well. Having to type stuff out in some stupid search box is a crutch for a shitty ui design.
Now you're taking the piss. Press and hold the super key, not only does it show that I can launch dock items from the keyboard, but by long pressing super it even has a help system????
what unnecessary steps are there to get to a console?
Super > T-E-R-M > in terminal.
It may be less characters to get terminal selected, but force of habit means I'll never know. How many steps does it take in your DE of choice? Bearing in mind that if you are going to say "put it on the desktop, one click" then you can always pin the shortcut to the dock for one click that is never hidden.
Have they fixed the power sockets yet on any non-Mac lap/note/ultrabook? The first thing that goes on all my laptops have been the power socket where the weight of the plug pulls the socket away from the board and needs to be resoldered.
Why would I buy a Windows laptop for the same price when I know the damn thing won't be able to charge after a couple of years?
I think he is referring to a hinge. This allow the screen to be angled and not be on a flat surface, like your lap which is currently the biggest concern with the Windows Surface tablet that I've seen. Although that isn't the only concern, you have to have some weight behind the base otherwise it will be top heavy and tip over.
So yes, there is a difference and that Kensington looks like a terrible solution for the problem.
Package managers are not a silver bullet, because it still requires a diligent maintainer. There are plenty of software packages for the various distros, which are older versions. Running the update mechanism won't fix that.
OSX still sucks at swapping. Inactive memory sounds like a good idea, but you should never swap it, hence why my late 2009 macbook has 2Gb ram but can end up being slow even after closing Firefox to reclaim some memory.
Personally, I think the worst thing it not that it was worse than other systems 10 years ago, but they were still trying to sell it 2 years ago. I hated that keyboard that even with a stylus was too small.
I like unity too. But then I'm one of the minority who doesn't see what all the fuss over Gnome 2 was. I used it, but I knew it was ugly and did everything in a piss poor manner and spent time trying to find an alternative. I personally find the autohide on the dock works great, pulling icons off works easily enough and don't really care that it sticks to the left side. I guess I'm not power user enough to demand that the dock goes on the bottom.
Seriously, I doubt I am the only one just seeing people saying "Waa waa, I don't like change", and a couple of people saying their hardware doesn't work with it. I run it on several laptops and desktops and haven't come across any issues, so I wouldn't be surprised if the devs hadn't seen any of these issues people talk about because I know I haven't. And yes I am using old hardware in the mix, single core Sempron 140 with an onboard geforce chip and it works fine.
Separate+ is the plug-in package that provides some useful color-management functions for the GIMP. separate
RGB to CMYK conversion / Softproofing plug-in (improved version of Alastair M. Robinson's "Separate" plug-in) icc_colorspace
RGB to RGB conversion / Profile management plug-in IccButton
Color profile selector widget for Gtk+ (experimental)
The real decision will be made at the commission, which is lead by an ex-communist. So what do you think he'll prefer ? More control (ie. longer copyright term) or less... So the sad fact is that the term will be extended, regardless of what the parliament is going to decide.
That doesn't make sense, if he is a communist then wouldn't there be an option to nationalise the music industry? No? Then he may not be as much of a "communist", I think you meant to say he was a wannabe American.
Or perhaps it was a varient on dry whit. Running in Safari, or running from a shortcut to a webpage (which would run run in Safari) would be no different than running an app.
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I'm not in the US so I don't know age ranges, but hopefully by the time they are in middle school using these tablets they are past basic arithmetic such as 2/4
I think you are both saying the same thing.
Balmer == Manchild.
Woosh.
then there's a tradeoff between lower quality at higher resolution or higher resolution and lower quality.
There is probably less difference than you think.
I seriously doubt it. WinRT is a horrible mobile OS, maybe with WinRT +1, but it's current incarnation has enough loose ends to make Gnome 3 look polished.
You mean like the Android humble bundles?
Seriously? I think DirectX had a much longer running exploitable lifetime than the current Java debacle, and was much wider exploited.
And don't talk to me about all those C viruses that we used to have to deal with. Blaming a language because of a plug in makes you look foolish.
Of those, IBM have around 439,999 project managers.
Super isn't a click. Slashdot also swallowed my enter, and someone else pointed out you can also get a terminal with just T-E-R. So:
Super (Usually has a Windows logo on it) > T-E-R [enter] > in terminal
That is normally known as 5 key presses, and no mouse, much faster than using some crappy mouse movements + 3 clicks.
Linux pretty much lives in the console. To do anything of any gravity, you will invariably have it open at some point. Being such an essential tool, obfuscating behind mouse clicks like XFCE and Gnome 2 makes no sense.
Though to be honest, I don't use the terminal these days half as much as I used to have to with Gnome 2. But I think that is probably a limitation of the 90's style UI that forces you to use a console, rather than a UI that provides shortcuts to the activities that you want to perform, and that for the past few years Ubuntu comes with mostly sane configurations so I don't need to edit text files to get it to do anything.
Even my home server has a web UI, to make it quicker to change the options that I want to. Why would I use a text file that leave room for human errors such as typos. Typos in a config file can be painful.
Assuming Terminal is already open:
a) Do Ctrl+Alt+T. Another terminal opens.
b) Hit Super and type "ter". Hit Enter. Another terminal opens.
c) Middle click to launch a new instance.
Sorry slash dot swallowed my [ enter ], it should read:
Super > T-E-R-M [ enter ] > in terminal.
No mouse clicks.
What's odd is I never said click on launcher. I think epy invented a step.
One thing, you missed long press super for help, which compared to any other system is vastly better. I remember accidentally removing my Gnome 2 panels, oh how much fun did I have trying to figure out how to create a new one.
keyboard/mouse context switches are time consuming.. GUIs should do what needs doing with the minimum of clicks, leaving the keyboard stuff to the keyboard.
You mean like pinning it to the dock? One click launch? Middle click opens new instance, if right-click > new window is one too many clicks for you?
They should offer hotkeys as well. Having to type stuff out in some stupid search box is a crutch for a shitty ui design.
Now you're taking the piss. Press and hold the super key, not only does it show that I can launch dock items from the keyboard, but by long pressing super it even has a help system????
what unnecessary steps are there to get to a console?
Super > T-E-R-M > in terminal.
It may be less characters to get terminal selected, but force of habit means I'll never know. How many steps does it take in your DE of choice?
Bearing in mind that if you are going to say "put it on the desktop, one click" then you can always pin the shortcut to the dock for one click that is never hidden.
Have they fixed the power sockets yet on any non-Mac lap/note/ultrabook? The first thing that goes on all my laptops have been the power socket where the weight of the plug pulls the socket away from the board and needs to be resoldered.
Why would I buy a Windows laptop for the same price when I know the damn thing won't be able to charge after a couple of years?
I think he is referring to a hinge. This allow the screen to be angled and not be on a flat surface, like your lap which is currently the biggest concern with the Windows Surface tablet that I've seen. Although that isn't the only concern, you have to have some weight behind the base otherwise it will be top heavy and tip over.
So yes, there is a difference and that Kensington looks like a terrible solution for the problem.
Package managers are not a silver bullet, because it still requires a diligent maintainer. There are plenty of software packages for the various distros, which are older versions. Running the update mechanism won't fix that.
OSX still sucks at swapping. Inactive memory sounds like a good idea, but you should never swap it, hence why my late 2009 macbook has 2Gb ram but can end up being slow even after closing Firefox to reclaim some memory.
Personally, I think the worst thing it not that it was worse than other systems 10 years ago, but they were still trying to sell it 2 years ago. I hated that keyboard that even with a stylus was too small.
I like unity too. But then I'm one of the minority who doesn't see what all the fuss over Gnome 2 was. I used it, but I knew it was ugly and did everything in a piss poor manner and spent time trying to find an alternative. I personally find the autohide on the dock works great, pulling icons off works easily enough and don't really care that it sticks to the left side. I guess I'm not power user enough to demand that the dock goes on the bottom.
Seriously, I doubt I am the only one just seeing people saying "Waa waa, I don't like change", and a couple of people saying their hardware doesn't work with it. I run it on several laptops and desktops and haven't come across any issues, so I wouldn't be surprised if the devs hadn't seen any of these issues people talk about because I know I haven't. And yes I am using old hardware in the mix, single core Sempron 140 with an onboard geforce chip and it works fine.
Where can I get Office for Solaris?
Why not? Chromes original reasons for existing was to make web browsing better, and they offered it open source for Firefox and Safari to adopt.
http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate-plus/index.html
Separate+ is the plug-in package that provides some useful color-management functions for the GIMP.
separate
RGB to CMYK conversion / Softproofing plug-in (improved version of Alastair M. Robinson's "Separate" plug-in)
icc_colorspace
RGB to RGB conversion / Profile management plug-in
IccButton
Color profile selector widget for Gtk+ (experimental)
The real decision will be made at the commission, which is lead by an ex-communist. So what do you think he'll prefer ? More control (ie. longer copyright term) or less ... So the sad fact is that the term will be extended, regardless of what the parliament is going to decide.
That doesn't make sense, if he is a communist then wouldn't there be an option to nationalise the music industry? No? Then he may not be as much of a "communist", I think you meant to say he was a wannabe American.
Or perhaps it was a varient on dry whit. Running in Safari, or running from a shortcut to a webpage (which would run run in Safari) would be no different than running an app.