I used to think any hardware manufacturer that didn't ship OS reinstallation CD/DVDs with the computer would be committing business suicide too. Didn't take long for that to become the norm. Thankfully we reinstall with site licenses anyway, but home Windows users are often screwed when their HDD dies and the system didn't prompt to create OS recovery DVDs from the recovery partition. But that's a rare enough occurrence, and the users just play musical chairs with their favorite companies.
I'm not saying that this is a good standard. It seems to be one that we're being force-fed though, like 3D TVs (although not as blatant as the digital TV switch).
It's called Tablet App Gaming. Thy computer shalt have no native input device save the screen. You shall not have full control of the device. Some of your data must needs live in the cloud.
What's this - Bash Ubuntu-day? Ubuntu is at the moment the only serious desktopcontender for linux.
Not entirely true, but it was for a few years, and it's still neck and neck with the others. And that's why I'm personally ticked that it's losing its way. Competition is a good thing, but Ubuntu now has a different goal in mind.
How is this Informative? It's just an opinion, a totally unsupported one.
Beats me; I didn't get to moderate it.:)
And btw, your "part of the allure was beryl/compiz" recollection is telling. Ever you ever thought that maybe Canonical is going after a more mainstream target than people who enjoyed playing with Beryl and Emerald?
My point is that Ubuntu is one of the first mainstream distros to use compiz by default, which appealed to the mainstream audience. I participated in a few Linux fairs where ordinary people happened to be walking through the area, and the geeks were taking our DSL mini CDs, but the mainstream people took the Ubuntu CDs after seeing the spinning cube desktop demo (even understanding that this wasn't a program that worked in Windows, that it would "destroy" their current system in favor of the new one. Most of them said "I've got an old computer to use").
Amazon searches? Deriding users who dislike Unity instead of useful dialogue? Now an admission that Unity was about tablets and the cloud after all?
Ubuntu started by offering candy and jewelry, and now it's getting a little controlling. If we don't leave soon, abuse will be the end result.
I cannot possibly believe that Ubuntu is that out of touch with what its users really want.
Shuttleworth doesn't care about his users. They represent only a minor percentage of the market. He wants new users, and is willing to destroy everything for his pyhrric victory.
The bad thing is, Ubuntu was something of great value just four years ago. At the time, it was the only version of Linux that you could show someone out of the box and get them excited about using a new operating system. Part of the allure was beryl/compiz, but most of what made it special in the Linux world was that it played nicer with the mandatory binary blobs (like wireless firmware and graphics drivers). It was an acceptable compromise between the GNU way and everyone else.
And a lot of us geeks spread the gospel of Ubuntu to the unwashed masses. Now it's turned out that Ubuntu was a false prophet, so we're having to do a lot of damage control (and further explanations of why Ubuntu's off the deep end).
The second does not lead directly to the first. It almost sounds like an art review. Imagine a GUI that is all black: the buttons all work, there are menus, windows, etc., but they're all one color. That's innovative. It's art (it evokes an emotional response of frustration). But it's not a great design for an interface.
It seriously escapes me why everyone is on the race to the cloud and tablets
And the farmers in a certain area thought it was silly for a man to waste time and money building a castle until he became their lord, prevented them from leaving the land, and forced them to give him grain and coin taxes in exchange for protection from other lords with castles.
Anyone pushing cloud and tablets wants to be a digital liege-lord.
He didn't just go "down the GNOME route". He left it, trying to walk parallel to the route, hoping to keep it in site, but then some brambles got in the way, and then a ravine, a lake, and suddenly, he couldn't even see the GNOME route anymore.
And if they did, it would only take a couple days for people to start to tune it out, and a couple more for "political statement blocker" plugins to be developed and downloaded for FF and Chrome (not by Big Brother, but by the users themselves).
Dunno, I made my own fedora spin with ddrescue, gparted et al. If you can stomach the newer Ubuntu live CDs, it's easy to apt-get ddrescue to the live OS. Just make sure you have a flash drive or a second (third)HDD to store the log file. Without the log file, you can't retry sectors or restart copying only uncopied or failed sectors.
My usual routine when a drive starts to go back is to back its data up using dd
ddrescue is the tool for backing up a failing drive unless you really want to manually check every failed sector read then restart a new dd (skipping to the next sector).
the entire chain of events that led to police finding whatever they found make it all the fruit of the poisonous tree.
IANAL, but drawing pictures of guns just doesn't count as sufficient evidence to get a warrant in any sane world.
IAANAL, but the cops could have come to the judge with a Grimm fairytale, and if the warrant is issued by the judge, the search is still valid, no?
Unless you can teleport it, it will change in temperature/pressure by the time it reaches the new location. And if you can teleport it, why waste teleportation on a mad energy equalization scheme?
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I used to think any hardware manufacturer that didn't ship OS reinstallation CD/DVDs with the computer would be committing business suicide too. Didn't take long for that to become the norm. Thankfully we reinstall with site licenses anyway, but home Windows users are often screwed when their HDD dies and the system didn't prompt to create OS recovery DVDs from the recovery partition. But that's a rare enough occurrence, and the users just play musical chairs with their favorite companies.
I'm not saying that this is a good standard. It seems to be one that we're being force-fed though, like 3D TVs (although not as blatant as the digital TV switch).
It's called Tablet App Gaming. Thy computer shalt have no native input device save the screen. You shall not have full control of the device. Some of your data must needs live in the cloud.
DVDs may be cheap, but I see plenty of them being resold. Also, try search for mp3 resale. that way, you skip the verb "used".
What's this - Bash Ubuntu-day? Ubuntu is at the moment the only serious desktopcontender for linux.
Not entirely true, but it was for a few years, and it's still neck and neck with the others. And that's why I'm personally ticked that it's losing its way. Competition is a good thing, but Ubuntu now has a different goal in mind.
How is this Informative? It's just an opinion, a totally unsupported one.
Beats me; I didn't get to moderate it. :)
And btw, your "part of the allure was beryl/compiz" recollection is telling. Ever you ever thought that maybe Canonical is going after a more mainstream target than people who enjoyed playing with Beryl and Emerald?
My point is that Ubuntu is one of the first mainstream distros to use compiz by default, which appealed to the mainstream audience. I participated in a few Linux fairs where ordinary people happened to be walking through the area, and the geeks were taking our DSL mini CDs, but the mainstream people took the Ubuntu CDs after seeing the spinning cube desktop demo (even understanding that this wasn't a program that worked in Windows, that it would "destroy" their current system in favor of the new one. Most of them said "I've got an old computer to use").
Amazon searches? Deriding users who dislike Unity instead of useful dialogue? Now an admission that Unity was about tablets and the cloud after all?
Ubuntu started by offering candy and jewelry, and now it's getting a little controlling. If we don't leave soon, abuse will be the end result.
I cannot possibly believe that Ubuntu is that out of touch with what its users really want.
Shuttleworth doesn't care about his users. They represent only a minor percentage of the market. He wants new users, and is willing to destroy everything for his pyhrric victory.
The bad thing is, Ubuntu was something of great value just four years ago. At the time, it was the only version of Linux that you could show someone out of the box and get them excited about using a new operating system. Part of the allure was beryl/compiz, but most of what made it special in the Linux world was that it played nicer with the mandatory binary blobs (like wireless firmware and graphics drivers). It was an acceptable compromise between the GNU way and everyone else.
And a lot of us geeks spread the gospel of Ubuntu to the unwashed masses. Now it's turned out that Ubuntu was a false prophet, so we're having to do a lot of damage control (and further explanations of why Ubuntu's off the deep end).
No, it's a great design.
Most innovative thing
The second does not lead directly to the first. It almost sounds like an art review. Imagine a GUI that is all black: the buttons all work, there are menus, windows, etc., but they're all one color. That's innovative. It's art (it evokes an emotional response of frustration). But it's not a great design for an interface.
It seriously escapes me why everyone is on the race to the cloud and tablets
And the farmers in a certain area thought it was silly for a man to waste time and money building a castle until he became their lord, prevented them from leaving the land, and forced them to give him grain and coin taxes in exchange for protection from other lords with castles.
Anyone pushing cloud and tablets wants to be a digital liege-lord.
He didn't just go "down the GNOME route". He left it, trying to walk parallel to the route, hoping to keep it in site, but then some brambles got in the way, and then a ravine, a lake, and suddenly, he couldn't even see the GNOME route anymore.
It's not like tablets are full-fledged PCs
Retina displays are on amd64 laptops too.
Web-based 3D gaming. They wouldn't get a cut.
And if they did, it would only take a couple days for people to start to tune it out, and a couple more for "political statement blocker" plugins to be developed and downloaded for FF and Chrome (not by Big Brother, but by the users themselves).
Any other side. "We won, they won't try that again!" is a message of "Stop caring, stop being vigilant." No matter what the political viewpoint is.
Dunno, I made my own fedora spin with ddrescue, gparted et al. If you can stomach the newer Ubuntu live CDs, it's easy to apt-get ddrescue to the live OS. Just make sure you have a flash drive or a second (third)HDD to store the log file. Without the log file, you can't retry sectors or restart copying only uncopied or failed sectors.
If this produced more honey, I could see prices reducing. Otherwise, I don't tell my boss to pay me less just because my stocks do well.
This is a LASER rainbow.
the police found something which made them feel an arrest was warranted
The likely course of events:
My usual routine when a drive starts to go back is to back its data up using dd
ddrescue is the tool for backing up a failing drive unless you really want to manually check every failed sector read then restart a new dd (skipping to the next sector).
the entire chain of events that led to police finding whatever they found make it all the fruit of the poisonous tree. IANAL, but drawing pictures of guns just doesn't count as sufficient evidence to get a warrant in any sane world.
IAANAL, but the cops could have come to the judge with a Grimm fairytale, and if the warrant is issued by the judge, the search is still valid, no?
Unless you can teleport it, it will change in temperature/pressure by the time it reaches the new location. And if you can teleport it, why waste teleportation on a mad energy equalization scheme?
They were prohibited long before that, which led to the creation of kama, kusari-gama, nunchaku, etc. people find ways around restrictions.
Who says you can't use remote manipulators to do the work you can't do with a glove box?
Dr. Otto Octavius