Windows 7 definitely has the best UI I've seen out of MS pretty much ever. At least as far as GUIs go. Things are well designed and seem to work well, I can pin commonly used apps to the taskbar, but still have access to a useful startmenu.
More or less. You can take an interface for a desktop and scale it to large screens and multiple screens without too much trouble. You can take a phone UI and scale it up into a netbook. What you can't do though is take a UI for a phone or tablet and expect for it to scale well to a desktop with multiple large monitors. In the same way that you can't expect a CLI to work well on a device that doesn't have a keyboard.
Allowing people to use a minimal set of UIs is good for efficiency, but you can't collapse them down to one interface unless you deal with the other side of things namely the screen size and input methods.
I definitely notice myself getting things done more quickly from the command line. There are tasks where a GUI does make more sense, but most of the time it's because I don't use the application often enough to justify learning all the commands.
What's brilliant about the *NIX CLI is that you can throw together random combinations of utilities to do some pretty mindblowing stuff. Even just sed, grep and awk can do some pretty astonishing things if you take the time to learn them.
I mostly agree. There are a few niche uses where having instant print out is useful, but I doubt very much that there's enough of a market for this to make it worthwhile. And most of those uses are ones where having a separate printer would be adequately satisfactory.
I'm surprised that anybody's trying this. I remember Kodak trying something similar a decade or so back with a dual digital film camera. Arguably that makes more sense as film does have some advantages over purely digital.
This OTOH brings very little to the party that an eyeFi and wireless printer doesn't.
They still exist, they just don't have the kind of access to lab equipment that would permit them to achieve much of anything until they're adults. You'll always have a few children that are ready for highschool or college physics while still in elementary school, but you're not necessarily always going to have an intersection between them and the population of physicists with access to lab equipment and the means of getting published.
Yes and no, one of the challenging things about doing ground breaking work is that it isn't necessarily the case that understanding the past will help. Most times it does, most times it's a matter of continuing what others were studying and put a new twist on it.
But, not always, it's relatively easy to fall into the theoretical trap and forget that the real world doesn't necessarily behave the way that one would expect. Reminds me of a while back when a group of physicists figured out that they could get a slightly more accurate estimation of both the speed and position of an electron if they permitted more uncertainty in both dimensions.
Not to mention all the statisticians that insist that the odds of winning a game don't depend upon the period of time at the table, completely ignoring the fact that there's a cumulative affect on the participants from things like fatigue and perception of possible future outcomes which aren't included in the typical figures.
Not just hard, but the experiments themselves these days are a lot more elaborate than they were a hundred or more years ago. If you need a super accurate sphere for an experiment, that can take years to develop in and of itself if you need more accuracy than what was previously available. Not to mention all those physicists that were in their early 20s when the LHC was first conceived of that are only in recent times getting to actually test those hypotheses that required more power than fermilab could put to the task.
The sites where you have to have Flash tend to use it as a navigation element without an alternative. The sites that are using it for video mostly work with gnash. So, incompetence seems to be the most reasonable explanation for it. Even on Windows where Flash is "well" supported, it still sucks.
For anybody living in a city, 10 miles is a really long distance, and most people live in cities at this point. As of 2000, nearly 3/4 of Americans lived in urban areas of more than 50k people. With nearly 60% of all Americans living in cities of 200k or more.
If you're in an urban area, driving much more than 10 miles either way is absolutely nuts. I could drive pretty much all the way to the other side of town for that. Traffic alone would be enough to deter me from such foolishness.
The reason why people aren't focusing on long range hybrids is because we can already do that, there's little challenge in producing those vehicles and they've been on the market for like a decade. The first vehicles of that type are something like 80 years old at this point.
As for EVs, the reality is that most people don't drive more than 10 miles each way to work, hauling around an ICE for the occasional trip out of town is incredibly wasteful when you could just rent a car for the day if you needed to.
If you read the friendly link they're pretending to be official. But official or not either way they aren't authorized resellers of the devices and the only place where you can buy them new is directly from the project. Claiming to be resellers of any sort to get people's money is definitely fraudulent.
You don't need a trademark to get a site taken down for fraud. If they haven't been in contact with the project and are claiming to be official resellers, then they are committing fraud whether or not they ultimately deliver the goods.
I'm betting that when all is said and done that none of the units are sent out.
Yes, it's an unimportant feature. The most common use of Flash is those annoying ads, and for things like YouTube, you have the option of gnash. YouTube itself is getting out of Flash and migrating to HTML5.
I'm sure there are still some incompetently designed sites that require Flash, but it's not like it used to be several years back, I rarely encounter sites where a lack of Flash is a deal breaker.
You get certainty by eliminating any possibility of getting good governance. If things were working it might be understandable, but they aren't. That right there is why we have a dysfunctional government. All the people deliberately voting for people that don't believe the government has a legitimate purpose.
Of course it's not working well, when you have voters deliberately voting for jackasses like Cantor and Boehner.
I'd mark you troll if I hadn't already posted in this particular thread. It's been 10 years, there has been substantial work on SMP in the interim. I did take a quick look to see if there were any comparisons of the two and couldn't find any that were even remotely recent. The most recent being FreeBSD 5 and 6 against a Linux kernel 2.6+, which is hardly recent enough to consider current.
They've had it for years, there's at least two different ways of doing it. The easiest way is just using Wine and the Windows version of Firefox. The other way is to just use the Linux version of Flash. And really, it's only necessary because of incompetent web developers anyways.
These sorts of FUD posts about a largely unimportant feature that isn't native, is really not conducive to a decent discussion.
You must not have been very good if you had that much trouble. I started using FreeBSD over a decade ago and I never had that much trouble getting my graphics cards to work. Some of them weren't supported at all, so I just used the VESA, but once I started buying with FreeBSD in mind I never had that kind of trouble either.
If you're taking that much time and effort to tune a video card you're never going to get the time back, and it doesn't matter what OS you use, in my experience FreeBSD doesn't take any more time in that respect that Linux does.
Where you do save a crapload of time is things like the integrated revision system, so when you edit a system file you can simply check it out and check it back in when you're finished. Or compiling everything with appropriate use of processor extensions. Not to mention the much easier process of eliminating unneeded modules from the kernel.
No, the whole point of it is that there's a Black Democrat in the Oval Office and there's a lot of folks out there that don't want that.
It's not just controversial things that are being subjected to the gridlock, it's other things like nominees and even things like the healthcare overhaul bill that were based extensively upon proposals by the GOP.
Or, you know more data came in to give more accurate models. People like you spouting off about this is hardly going to help find a solution, it just gives cover to the nutters out there that deny climate change.
Except that they failed to see that in the future some really fucking stupid people would vote for even fucking stupider people to purposefully create gridlock and ignore the needs of the people.
But, there isn't really anyway around that as Democracy is the worst form of government except all the other ones.
And precisely why are you replying without reading my post? The answer to your question is shrewdly hidden within the plain English of my post. LMDE is probably going to be the way of the future if Canonical makes it increasingly hard to work with.
Sure it does, there's plenty of times when I could have sued, but lacked the financial resources and time to do so.
It's fairly common for lawsuits to drag on for years during which time you'd have to be paying attorney's fees hoping to get the money back after winning the case.
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Windows 7 definitely has the best UI I've seen out of MS pretty much ever. At least as far as GUIs go. Things are well designed and seem to work well, I can pin commonly used apps to the taskbar, but still have access to a useful startmenu.
More or less. You can take an interface for a desktop and scale it to large screens and multiple screens without too much trouble. You can take a phone UI and scale it up into a netbook. What you can't do though is take a UI for a phone or tablet and expect for it to scale well to a desktop with multiple large monitors. In the same way that you can't expect a CLI to work well on a device that doesn't have a keyboard.
Allowing people to use a minimal set of UIs is good for efficiency, but you can't collapse them down to one interface unless you deal with the other side of things namely the screen size and input methods.
I definitely notice myself getting things done more quickly from the command line. There are tasks where a GUI does make more sense, but most of the time it's because I don't use the application often enough to justify learning all the commands.
What's brilliant about the *NIX CLI is that you can throw together random combinations of utilities to do some pretty mindblowing stuff. Even just sed, grep and awk can do some pretty astonishing things if you take the time to learn them.
I mostly agree. There are a few niche uses where having instant print out is useful, but I doubt very much that there's enough of a market for this to make it worthwhile. And most of those uses are ones where having a separate printer would be adequately satisfactory.
I'm surprised that anybody's trying this. I remember Kodak trying something similar a decade or so back with a dual digital film camera. Arguably that makes more sense as film does have some advantages over purely digital.
This OTOH brings very little to the party that an eyeFi and wireless printer doesn't.
They still exist, they just don't have the kind of access to lab equipment that would permit them to achieve much of anything until they're adults. You'll always have a few children that are ready for highschool or college physics while still in elementary school, but you're not necessarily always going to have an intersection between them and the population of physicists with access to lab equipment and the means of getting published.
Yes and no, one of the challenging things about doing ground breaking work is that it isn't necessarily the case that understanding the past will help. Most times it does, most times it's a matter of continuing what others were studying and put a new twist on it.
But, not always, it's relatively easy to fall into the theoretical trap and forget that the real world doesn't necessarily behave the way that one would expect. Reminds me of a while back when a group of physicists figured out that they could get a slightly more accurate estimation of both the speed and position of an electron if they permitted more uncertainty in both dimensions.
Not to mention all the statisticians that insist that the odds of winning a game don't depend upon the period of time at the table, completely ignoring the fact that there's a cumulative affect on the participants from things like fatigue and perception of possible future outcomes which aren't included in the typical figures.
Not just hard, but the experiments themselves these days are a lot more elaborate than they were a hundred or more years ago. If you need a super accurate sphere for an experiment, that can take years to develop in and of itself if you need more accuracy than what was previously available. Not to mention all those physicists that were in their early 20s when the LHC was first conceived of that are only in recent times getting to actually test those hypotheses that required more power than fermilab could put to the task.
The sites where you have to have Flash tend to use it as a navigation element without an alternative. The sites that are using it for video mostly work with gnash. So, incompetence seems to be the most reasonable explanation for it. Even on Windows where Flash is "well" supported, it still sucks.
For anybody living in a city, 10 miles is a really long distance, and most people live in cities at this point. As of 2000, nearly 3/4 of Americans lived in urban areas of more than 50k people. With nearly 60% of all Americans living in cities of 200k or more.
If you're in an urban area, driving much more than 10 miles either way is absolutely nuts. I could drive pretty much all the way to the other side of town for that. Traffic alone would be enough to deter me from such foolishness.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census_issues/metropolitan_planning/cps2k.cfm
If you bothered to read the post here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/312 It's abundantly clear that they aren't a reseller of any sort.
And no, my definition isn't loose, it's within the standard definition of fraud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
Wait, what?
The reason why people aren't focusing on long range hybrids is because we can already do that, there's little challenge in producing those vehicles and they've been on the market for like a decade. The first vehicles of that type are something like 80 years old at this point.
As for EVs, the reality is that most people don't drive more than 10 miles each way to work, hauling around an ICE for the occasional trip out of town is incredibly wasteful when you could just rent a car for the day if you needed to.
If you read the friendly link they're pretending to be official. But official or not either way they aren't authorized resellers of the devices and the only place where you can buy them new is directly from the project. Claiming to be resellers of any sort to get people's money is definitely fraudulent.
You don't need a trademark to get a site taken down for fraud. If they haven't been in contact with the project and are claiming to be official resellers, then they are committing fraud whether or not they ultimately deliver the goods.
I'm betting that when all is said and done that none of the units are sent out.
Yes, it's an unimportant feature. The most common use of Flash is those annoying ads, and for things like YouTube, you have the option of gnash. YouTube itself is getting out of Flash and migrating to HTML5.
I'm sure there are still some incompetently designed sites that require Flash, but it's not like it used to be several years back, I rarely encounter sites where a lack of Flash is a deal breaker.
You get certainty by eliminating any possibility of getting good governance. If things were working it might be understandable, but they aren't. That right there is why we have a dysfunctional government. All the people deliberately voting for people that don't believe the government has a legitimate purpose.
Of course it's not working well, when you have voters deliberately voting for jackasses like Cantor and Boehner.
I'd mark you troll if I hadn't already posted in this particular thread. It's been 10 years, there has been substantial work on SMP in the interim. I did take a quick look to see if there were any comparisons of the two and couldn't find any that were even remotely recent. The most recent being FreeBSD 5 and 6 against a Linux kernel 2.6+, which is hardly recent enough to consider current.
They've had it for years, there's at least two different ways of doing it. The easiest way is just using Wine and the Windows version of Firefox. The other way is to just use the Linux version of Flash. And really, it's only necessary because of incompetent web developers anyways.
These sorts of FUD posts about a largely unimportant feature that isn't native, is really not conducive to a decent discussion.
You must not have been very good if you had that much trouble. I started using FreeBSD over a decade ago and I never had that much trouble getting my graphics cards to work. Some of them weren't supported at all, so I just used the VESA, but once I started buying with FreeBSD in mind I never had that kind of trouble either.
If you're taking that much time and effort to tune a video card you're never going to get the time back, and it doesn't matter what OS you use, in my experience FreeBSD doesn't take any more time in that respect that Linux does.
Where you do save a crapload of time is things like the integrated revision system, so when you edit a system file you can simply check it out and check it back in when you're finished. Or compiling everything with appropriate use of processor extensions. Not to mention the much easier process of eliminating unneeded modules from the kernel.
If you're concerned with being up to date, you use ports which are rarely much out of date. Except maybe for some of the less popular ones.
And really, you should be rolling your own as you can optimize them for use with more modern processors.
No, the whole point of it is that there's a Black Democrat in the Oval Office and there's a lot of folks out there that don't want that.
It's not just controversial things that are being subjected to the gridlock, it's other things like nominees and even things like the healthcare overhaul bill that were based extensively upon proposals by the GOP.
Or, you know more data came in to give more accurate models. People like you spouting off about this is hardly going to help find a solution, it just gives cover to the nutters out there that deny climate change.
Except that they failed to see that in the future some really fucking stupid people would vote for even fucking stupider people to purposefully create gridlock and ignore the needs of the people.
But, there isn't really anyway around that as Democracy is the worst form of government except all the other ones.
And precisely why are you replying without reading my post? The answer to your question is shrewdly hidden within the plain English of my post. LMDE is probably going to be the way of the future if Canonical makes it increasingly hard to work with.
Sure it does, there's plenty of times when I could have sued, but lacked the financial resources and time to do so.
It's fairly common for lawsuits to drag on for years during which time you'd have to be paying attorney's fees hoping to get the money back after winning the case.