I'd say this is definitely an epic lulz for Ubuntu. I think once they fix the bugs you're referring to, it should be fine, but at this point it's only marginally usable and damned confusing. We should be able to move the bar from the left to the right, and having the bar at the top the same color as the titlebars makes it tough to see where the application's bar ends and that top bar begins.
I do think that there's plenty of potential with the new system, I just think they rushed it way too soon and need to do quite a bit of QA before it's ready for release. I didn't think that I was upgrading to a development release when the option appeared in the update manager.
You can find that under the start menu thingy in the upper left. Just type uni and it'll pop up the correct item.
But the random window movements and the unity bar thing randomly staying open at times and closing others has been a serious annoyance. It's pretty clear that this was rushed and that they didn't get around to doing any QA on it, as I can't imagine that my set up is really that strange.
I think that it has potential, but that they tried to remove too many settings, we ought to be allowed a convenient way of forcing the menu to stay open rather than have it randomly closing at times.
Not really, that kind of a device would have to be a lot more complicated. Plus, this sort of thing is going to block airflow, making any applications in speech therapy pretty useless.
More than that, there's saliva and hormones involved. Part of why humans kiss is to transfer those fluids. Otherwise, why bother with open mouth kisses? Considering how many things can be transferred like that I doubt we'd be doing it if there wasn't a reason. I mean most other animals don't kiss.
Do we even have drives that can saturate a SATA connection though? SATA 3.0 is about 600 MB/s and even the older SATA can handle 150 MB/s. Or to put it another way, for most computers 150 MB/s is more than they're typically going to see anyways because the disks aren't keeping up.
I've been starting to use it, but it's kind of meh. My main annoyance with it is that the bar doesn't seem to work very well. Getting it to stay open long enough to click has been sort of hit or miss so far, but it is somewhat interesting. It really should have an obvious way of getting it to open up and stay open as it is sometimes it stays open and sometimes it doesn't. Plus it doesn't work very well in virtual box if you haven't a hard monitor border on that side.
I could be wrong, but I doubt most Europeans are fluent in more than two languages, and I bet a significant number aren't fluent in multiple languages. The reason I'm singling out Africa there is that in parts it's very common for people to speak not just one or two, but three, four or more languages and to have to learn a new language at marriage so that they can communicate.
If the message doesn't require a double check there's no reason for them to store it as they don't have any way of knowing whether or not it was accurate. However, for ones that they do have to go back and analyze, there's a good reason why they'd want to store them. In a word regressions. Without a body of samples which were tough, they don't have any way of gauging whether or not they're truly making progress as improvements could just as easily be in the quality of the samples that they are trying to transcribe.
I had one and it sucked, I wasn't ever sure whether it was that terribly Windows implementation or if the chip itself wasn't as fast as advertised, but the thing wasn't particularly responsive.
So, only Apple is allowed to blatantly copy? The allegations that Apple has leveled are tantamount to a toddler throwing a hissy fit because somebody else has a similar teddy bear.
Considering that outside of Africa only a very small fraction of the population speaks more than two languages let alone fluently, I don't think that it's a basic request.
An extended warranty on laptops is usually a good idea. Most other things the extended warranty is a waste of money, but for laptops it's a good deal. I wouldn't go with one longer than about 3 years though, I've found that to be sufficient to make it worthwhile. Just make sure to know the terms, some will replace it with an equivalent model, but a good one will replace it with one that is of similar price if they can't find the same one.
I think Japanese companies seem to like that. I remember having a PCG-GRX560 at one point, I'm not buying any more Sony products after the last set of fiascos, the hardware was really nice, but the software was crap.
That's beside the point, people shouldn't have to go that route just because the ISP doesn't feel like upgrading their infrastructure. Around here Qwest doesn't have caps and all is good in that respect, but the top connection speed they provide is 5mpbs, for roughly the cost of a 40mbps connection on fiber and they aren't even giving us the 5mbps they're promising. With Century link buying them out, I'm not sure if we're going to have unlimited connections for much longer, given that Comcrap does have caps.
I wouldn't blame the programmer for that, that's more a result of the fragmented nature of browsers. The people designing these sites aren't necessarily paid to test every possible browser version and type, I remember back years ago when people would have a hard time getting approval to test for Firefox.
The proper solution for that is to have a test suite that can make such determinations, unfortunately things are rarely that simple and I have a feeling that such an undertaking would be rather involved. Which is really stupid since theoretically there are standards, thankfully they're more respected now than during the 90s.
Which leads to bloat. Certain things like greasemonkey, noscript and flashblock make more sense as add ons than they do in the browser proper. The bigger issue is that they haven't finished their extension sandboxing yet and that they make stupid decisions like taking away the status bar without really considering that most users have the space for them, and that it could easily be enabled/disabled from a configuration menu. I'd be curious as to who thought it was a good idea to make that text appear in the URL bar when you're hovering over a link. Thankfully they did end up backing down on that.
To add the the ACs point, I use Firefox on my Nexus One, it's not like perfect, but it runs pretty well at this point, and certainly better than whatever crap it is that they bundled with Android. I get my tabs and everything is works fine. There are still some issues, but the progress has been just astonishing since I first installed it.
That is true, however it's not really appropriate to force companies to sell their medications at a loss because people can't afford it. Which is the point, a lot of these second and third world countries are demanding prices which are below the cost of production, meaning that not only are these companies being expected to create medications for their problems, but pay for the treatments as well. And yes, by not paying the cost of development you can sell them for less, but that also means that nobody is working on the next generation of medication since they know that they aren't going to get paid. That money that you spend on medications is what goes to paying for the next generation of treatment. If people don't pay, pharmaceutical producers will focus even more heavily on expensive blockbuster treatments for things like impotence and hair loss.
Like I said previously, this will come back to bite them on the ass when pharmaceutical companies refuse to work on things that are more needed in the developing world than in the developed world.
That there is precisely the problem. It costs billions typically to bring a new drug to market, after the research and trials are completed. Many medications don't even make it past trials. There are a couple ways of handling the cost, you can lower the safety and testing requirements to make it easier, and risk dangerous drugs being introduced at a higher rate or you can just pay labs to work on producing the medications and have them be produced immediately as generics by any pharmaceutical line willing to do the work.
Indeed, I moved my mother over to Linux awhile back because Vista was being stupid, I had to temporarily move her back to Vista because the back up solutions weren't working in Linux. But now that it's a Linux compatible backup solution, she'll be back on it as soon as she actually wants to use that computer again. People tend to get really annoyed once they know how quickly a computer can boot when it's not loading down with cruft.
If you buy a decent printer it shouldn't be a problem. And even a considerable number of less than decent printers. For an agency like NSA, getting a postscript printer isn't hard, and really an enterprise printer ought to be able to handle postscript without too much worry.
Likewise with scanners, there's a huge number that are supported by SANE, if you're going to be buying a lot of scanners then it's not really that much more work than you'd otherwise be doing to make sure that the work properly for the intended use.
And in the process doomed a large number of future patients when the pharmaceutical companies couldn't pay for the cost of producing future medications. I'm all for patent reform and affordable healthcare, but breaking patents on things like anti-retrovirals is a really great way to tell a pharmaceutical company to not bother looking into any treatments that are primarily affecting your citizens.
Anti-retrovirals are not cheap to develop, and unlike most types of medications definitely do get less effective as more doses are sold, when countries like Brazil break that patents in this fashion it just tells the companies that they shouldn't bother wasting a lot of money on it, because they'll never break even.
That's what I was wondering about. I don't think that I've paid for anything via PSN, if I buy a game, I do it as disc and so it's unlikely that Sony has any information beyond my contact information. And let's be honest about that, it's been lost to crackers at least 3 times at this point, and I think it's probably been a few more times than that.
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I'd say this is definitely an epic lulz for Ubuntu. I think once they fix the bugs you're referring to, it should be fine, but at this point it's only marginally usable and damned confusing. We should be able to move the bar from the left to the right, and having the bar at the top the same color as the titlebars makes it tough to see where the application's bar ends and that top bar begins.
I do think that there's plenty of potential with the new system, I just think they rushed it way too soon and need to do quite a bit of QA before it's ready for release. I didn't think that I was upgrading to a development release when the option appeared in the update manager.
You can find that under the start menu thingy in the upper left. Just type uni and it'll pop up the correct item.
But the random window movements and the unity bar thing randomly staying open at times and closing others has been a serious annoyance. It's pretty clear that this was rushed and that they didn't get around to doing any QA on it, as I can't imagine that my set up is really that strange.
I think that it has potential, but that they tried to remove too many settings, we ought to be allowed a convenient way of forcing the menu to stay open rather than have it randomly closing at times.
Not really, that kind of a device would have to be a lot more complicated. Plus, this sort of thing is going to block airflow, making any applications in speech therapy pretty useless.
More than that, there's saliva and hormones involved. Part of why humans kiss is to transfer those fluids. Otherwise, why bother with open mouth kisses? Considering how many things can be transferred like that I doubt we'd be doing it if there wasn't a reason. I mean most other animals don't kiss.
Do we even have drives that can saturate a SATA connection though? SATA 3.0 is about 600 MB/s and even the older SATA can handle 150 MB/s. Or to put it another way, for most computers 150 MB/s is more than they're typically going to see anyways because the disks aren't keeping up.
I've been starting to use it, but it's kind of meh. My main annoyance with it is that the bar doesn't seem to work very well. Getting it to stay open long enough to click has been sort of hit or miss so far, but it is somewhat interesting. It really should have an obvious way of getting it to open up and stay open as it is sometimes it stays open and sometimes it doesn't. Plus it doesn't work very well in virtual box if you haven't a hard monitor border on that side.
I could be wrong, but I doubt most Europeans are fluent in more than two languages, and I bet a significant number aren't fluent in multiple languages. The reason I'm singling out Africa there is that in parts it's very common for people to speak not just one or two, but three, four or more languages and to have to learn a new language at marriage so that they can communicate.
Trust me, Europeans have nothing on that.
If the message doesn't require a double check there's no reason for them to store it as they don't have any way of knowing whether or not it was accurate. However, for ones that they do have to go back and analyze, there's a good reason why they'd want to store them. In a word regressions. Without a body of samples which were tough, they don't have any way of gauging whether or not they're truly making progress as improvements could just as easily be in the quality of the samples that they are trying to transcribe.
I had one and it sucked, I wasn't ever sure whether it was that terribly Windows implementation or if the chip itself wasn't as fast as advertised, but the thing wasn't particularly responsive.
So, only Apple is allowed to blatantly copy? The allegations that Apple has leveled are tantamount to a toddler throwing a hissy fit because somebody else has a similar teddy bear.
Considering that outside of Africa only a very small fraction of the population speaks more than two languages let alone fluently, I don't think that it's a basic request.
An extended warranty on laptops is usually a good idea. Most other things the extended warranty is a waste of money, but for laptops it's a good deal. I wouldn't go with one longer than about 3 years though, I've found that to be sufficient to make it worthwhile. Just make sure to know the terms, some will replace it with an equivalent model, but a good one will replace it with one that is of similar price if they can't find the same one.
I think Japanese companies seem to like that. I remember having a PCG-GRX560 at one point, I'm not buying any more Sony products after the last set of fiascos, the hardware was really nice, but the software was crap.
That's beside the point, people shouldn't have to go that route just because the ISP doesn't feel like upgrading their infrastructure. Around here Qwest doesn't have caps and all is good in that respect, but the top connection speed they provide is 5mpbs, for roughly the cost of a 40mbps connection on fiber and they aren't even giving us the 5mbps they're promising. With Century link buying them out, I'm not sure if we're going to have unlimited connections for much longer, given that Comcrap does have caps.
Yeah, Firefox only has that silly App tab thing, which is not to be confused with site pinning.
I wouldn't blame the programmer for that, that's more a result of the fragmented nature of browsers. The people designing these sites aren't necessarily paid to test every possible browser version and type, I remember back years ago when people would have a hard time getting approval to test for Firefox.
The proper solution for that is to have a test suite that can make such determinations, unfortunately things are rarely that simple and I have a feeling that such an undertaking would be rather involved. Which is really stupid since theoretically there are standards, thankfully they're more respected now than during the 90s.
Which leads to bloat. Certain things like greasemonkey, noscript and flashblock make more sense as add ons than they do in the browser proper. The bigger issue is that they haven't finished their extension sandboxing yet and that they make stupid decisions like taking away the status bar without really considering that most users have the space for them, and that it could easily be enabled/disabled from a configuration menu. I'd be curious as to who thought it was a good idea to make that text appear in the URL bar when you're hovering over a link. Thankfully they did end up backing down on that.
To add the the ACs point, I use Firefox on my Nexus One, it's not like perfect, but it runs pretty well at this point, and certainly better than whatever crap it is that they bundled with Android. I get my tabs and everything is works fine. There are still some issues, but the progress has been just astonishing since I first installed it.
That is true, however it's not really appropriate to force companies to sell their medications at a loss because people can't afford it. Which is the point, a lot of these second and third world countries are demanding prices which are below the cost of production, meaning that not only are these companies being expected to create medications for their problems, but pay for the treatments as well. And yes, by not paying the cost of development you can sell them for less, but that also means that nobody is working on the next generation of medication since they know that they aren't going to get paid. That money that you spend on medications is what goes to paying for the next generation of treatment. If people don't pay, pharmaceutical producers will focus even more heavily on expensive blockbuster treatments for things like impotence and hair loss.
Like I said previously, this will come back to bite them on the ass when pharmaceutical companies refuse to work on things that are more needed in the developing world than in the developed world.
That there is precisely the problem. It costs billions typically to bring a new drug to market, after the research and trials are completed. Many medications don't even make it past trials. There are a couple ways of handling the cost, you can lower the safety and testing requirements to make it easier, and risk dangerous drugs being introduced at a higher rate or you can just pay labs to work on producing the medications and have them be produced immediately as generics by any pharmaceutical line willing to do the work.
Indeed, I moved my mother over to Linux awhile back because Vista was being stupid, I had to temporarily move her back to Vista because the back up solutions weren't working in Linux. But now that it's a Linux compatible backup solution, she'll be back on it as soon as she actually wants to use that computer again. People tend to get really annoyed once they know how quickly a computer can boot when it's not loading down with cruft.
If you buy a decent printer it shouldn't be a problem. And even a considerable number of less than decent printers. For an agency like NSA, getting a postscript printer isn't hard, and really an enterprise printer ought to be able to handle postscript without too much worry.
Likewise with scanners, there's a huge number that are supported by SANE, if you're going to be buying a lot of scanners then it's not really that much more work than you'd otherwise be doing to make sure that the work properly for the intended use.
It would save a lot of time and effort if accounts would start at -1 for posting shortened URLs.
And in the process doomed a large number of future patients when the pharmaceutical companies couldn't pay for the cost of producing future medications. I'm all for patent reform and affordable healthcare, but breaking patents on things like anti-retrovirals is a really great way to tell a pharmaceutical company to not bother looking into any treatments that are primarily affecting your citizens.
Anti-retrovirals are not cheap to develop, and unlike most types of medications definitely do get less effective as more doses are sold, when countries like Brazil break that patents in this fashion it just tells the companies that they shouldn't bother wasting a lot of money on it, because they'll never break even.
That's what I was wondering about. I don't think that I've paid for anything via PSN, if I buy a game, I do it as disc and so it's unlikely that Sony has any information beyond my contact information. And let's be honest about that, it's been lost to crackers at least 3 times at this point, and I think it's probably been a few more times than that.