Except that it is released, and you can go try it now. The UI is clean and responsive, at least that much is true. Not that any of the sexually repressed, RMS clones that troll slashdot have any interest in sharing an objective opinion regarding anything that isn't linux circa 4 years ago.
Yes, and Steam is definitely NOT chock full of advertising. And yes, your $800+ gaming PC is almost as easy to maintain than a $250 console if you don't use it for anything but gaming. Where do you morons come from?
When technology writers happen upon a slow news day, it seems the first thing that comes to mind is to cry about something meaningless. Often times, it's a trend driven by consumer demand that they don't particularly like, that they're not at all obligated to take part in. Seriously, what's next, somebody crying that that the packaging for some tablet device isn't aesthetically pleasing enough?
I'm always entertained by diehard linux folks who simultaneously desire greater adoption of linux on the desktop while wildly opposing any actual steps to make it a reality.
No reasonable person would cache credit card details. It's not exactly the type of data, regardless of its sensitivity, that would need to be cached anyway. Let's face the real issue at hand: There is a *huge* market for anti-Microsoft "journalism." You monkeys will piss pageviews on anything that makes any absurd claim, and you won't think twice about whether or not it's credible.
Yes, because once you reach your destination, all you have to do is look in a phone book under "dope" to score some weed. Either that, or yell very loudly in a crowded area, "DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND SOME WEED?"
Anyway, after years of smoking "dope" myself, I'm still able to use the correct version of "you're" in my writing.
W.r.t. your appeal to pragmatism: that works both ways. Both H.264 and WebM are here now, so adopting either is a pragmatic choice.
Overall, you make good points, and I agree with you except the quote above, which is the meat and potatoes of the argument.
The reason adopting H264 is the pragmatic choice is because the vast majority of mobile devices have hardware support for encoding/decoding H264. How many people are going to adopt FireFox mobile if it can't decode H264 video? Software decoding WebM would not only be absurdly slow, but drain the battery extremely quickly. H264 has become a defacto standard because of its technical superiority. In order for some open standard to even begin to supplant it, it will need to be superior in some fashion, beyond just being free of patents.
Your particular example isn't one of pragmatism, it was of necessity. Some people needed a modern browser on a non-Windows platform, or a browser that was more secure. Comparing this to the current H264 fiasco is apples and oranges. H264 is still technically superior to open alternatives. What they are trying to do is shove their ideology down their user's throats.
The death of FOSS is going to be the inability to adopt pragmatic solutions to problems, and instead trying to achieve some ideal solution that aligns with their fundamentally flawed ideology. RIP GPL, you've grown to old and stuck in your ways. The younger, better looking, not-as-cynical-and-angry bsd-style licenses are quickly replacing you.
Oh yes, because there are SO many jobs that require javascript experience and NOTHING else. You'll get laughed out of an interview if your only experience is with javascript and you don't understand simple, classical inheritance.
Yes, what a wonderful idea. Teach people a language that doesn't use classical inheritance, that constantly violates the principle of least astonishment, and that google is trying to replace (and is hopefully successful in doing so).
Typical of slashdot, people are either ignorant to the fact, or ignore the fact, that the desktop interface still exists, and that metro is not intended to be used in a desktop environment.
4g does mean something right now. It means you can advertise a phone as have another "g." Regardless of whether or not you can use that fourth "g," consumers are generally idiots that are easily swayed by such things. It's got 4 g's? Well it must be better than a phone with 3 g's. It's got a 5 megapixel camera instead of a 4 megapixel camera? More megapixels are better!
Because once a 4g enabled iPhone is released, it will be introduced as being "revolutionary, the first to implement such technology." So really, the article is just forward-looking.
Contrary to popular belief here at slashdot, the vast majority of people don't hold a 20 year grudge against a company that has been releasing quality software as of late.
the fact that Microsoft has decided the Desktop is no longer relevant.
I suggest people actually watch the keynote before running off at the mouth with uninformed comments. You can switch between the new "metro" interface and the standard desktop interface. Metro is an alternative to the desktop interface, it doesn't replace it. One is geared toward tablet like devices, the other toward desktop, but you have the choice to use either interface on either form factor. You can switch between the two seamlessly, and it appears to work surprisingly well.
I now look forward to comments accusing me of astroturfing.
How about Ubuntu? Where do I start... Oh yes. How about something as fundamental as a launcher bar, that by default auto-hides. A bad default, IMO, but easily remedied by altering a setting. Except, THERE IS NOT SETTING to disable auto-hide. Yes, you actually have to install a plug-in to disable auto-hide of the launcher bar. That's not the worst part though.
The edge detection for the auto-hiding launcher bar is horrendous. The cursor literally has to be touching the edge of the screen for it to pop out, and then once the cursor leaves the edge, even if its hovering over an icon, the bar will auto-hide. A comedy of errors.
Of course, let's not forget the intermittent dropping of my wired internet connection, the terrible multi-monitor support (hell, let's just put it out there: desktop linux is built on top a steaming pile of shit, x.org).
Desktop Linux is also much slower, with features like pre-fetching requiring manual setup (whereas the Windows equivalent superfetch is just there).
Windows has only recently caught up to Linux in stability.
If we're talking just the kernel, sure. Desktop linux as a whole is absurdly bug-ridden. It's a joke. You can stop perpetuating this myth that desktop linux is a viable replacement for commercial operating systems. That train left like 5 years ago.
Well, Windows users enjoy a relatively stable and bug-free experience. Linux Desktop distros are a joke. It may be free, but you're certainly getting what you pay for.
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In fairness, twitter isn't usable in opera either because it is unable to process so many lines of non semi-colon delimited javascript statements.
Exactly. The comment was way too obvious. Neckbeards are easily trolled.
Except that it is released, and you can go try it now. The UI is clean and responsive, at least that much is true. Not that any of the sexually repressed, RMS clones that troll slashdot have any interest in sharing an objective opinion regarding anything that isn't linux circa 4 years ago.
This is all you need to know about sexual harassment and how to prevent it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVuAGFcGKY
Please bless us with the specs of your 4-year old $300 PC so we can all point and laugh at the big, fat liar.
Yes, and Steam is definitely NOT chock full of advertising. And yes, your $800+ gaming PC is almost as easy to maintain than a $250 console if you don't use it for anything but gaming. Where do you morons come from?
When technology writers happen upon a slow news day, it seems the first thing that comes to mind is to cry about something meaningless. Often times, it's a trend driven by consumer demand that they don't particularly like, that they're not at all obligated to take part in. Seriously, what's next, somebody crying that that the packaging for some tablet device isn't aesthetically pleasing enough?
I'm always entertained by diehard linux folks who simultaneously desire greater adoption of linux on the desktop while wildly opposing any actual steps to make it a reality.
No reasonable person would cache credit card details. It's not exactly the type of data, regardless of its sensitivity, that would need to be cached anyway. Let's face the real issue at hand: There is a *huge* market for anti-Microsoft "journalism." You monkeys will piss pageviews on anything that makes any absurd claim, and you won't think twice about whether or not it's credible.
I got four words for you:
GNU Image Manipulation Program
Yes, because once you reach your destination, all you have to do is look in a phone book under "dope" to score some weed. Either that, or yell very loudly in a crowded area, "DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND SOME WEED?"
Anyway, after years of smoking "dope" myself, I'm still able to use the correct version of "you're" in my writing.
W.r.t. your appeal to pragmatism: that works both ways. Both H.264 and WebM are here now, so adopting either is a pragmatic choice.
Overall, you make good points, and I agree with you except the quote above, which is the meat and potatoes of the argument.
The reason adopting H264 is the pragmatic choice is because the vast majority of mobile devices have hardware support for encoding/decoding H264. How many people are going to adopt FireFox mobile if it can't decode H264 video? Software decoding WebM would not only be absurdly slow, but drain the battery extremely quickly. H264 has become a defacto standard because of its technical superiority. In order for some open standard to even begin to supplant it, it will need to be superior in some fashion, beyond just being free of patents.
Your particular example isn't one of pragmatism, it was of necessity. Some people needed a modern browser on a non-Windows platform, or a browser that was more secure. Comparing this to the current H264 fiasco is apples and oranges. H264 is still technically superior to open alternatives. What they are trying to do is shove their ideology down their user's throats.
The death of FOSS is going to be the inability to adopt pragmatic solutions to problems, and instead trying to achieve some ideal solution that aligns with their fundamentally flawed ideology. RIP GPL, you've grown to old and stuck in your ways. The younger, better looking, not-as-cynical-and-angry bsd-style licenses are quickly replacing you.
Oh yes, because there are SO many jobs that require javascript experience and NOTHING else. You'll get laughed out of an interview if your only experience is with javascript and you don't understand simple, classical inheritance.
Because every program requires inheritance
My bad, I was under the impression that people might desire marketable skills.
least astonishment isn't controlled by the programmer
Oh, you're right. Javascript semantics are totally reasonable and consistent. It's the programmers fault that there appear to be a million nuances.
everything Google does is good.
What would a wildly successful company who's invested heavily in javascript know about its shortcomings? You got me man, you got me.
Yes, what a wonderful idea. Teach people a language that doesn't use classical inheritance, that constantly violates the principle of least astonishment, and that google is trying to replace (and is hopefully successful in doing so).
Typical of slashdot, people are either ignorant to the fact, or ignore the fact, that the desktop interface still exists, and that metro is not intended to be used in a desktop environment.
4g does mean something right now. It means you can advertise a phone as have another "g." Regardless of whether or not you can use that fourth "g," consumers are generally idiots that are easily swayed by such things. It's got 4 g's? Well it must be better than a phone with 3 g's. It's got a 5 megapixel camera instead of a 4 megapixel camera? More megapixels are better!
Because once a 4g enabled iPhone is released, it will be introduced as being "revolutionary, the first to implement such technology." So really, the article is just forward-looking.
Go to the desired wikipedia article, open up your browser's javascript console and enter the following:
document.getElementById('mw-sopaOverlay').style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById('content').style.display = 'block';
Problem solved!
Such a deal will cost them users.
Contrary to popular belief here at slashdot, the vast majority of people don't hold a 20 year grudge against a company that has been releasing quality software as of late.
I see this as the rise of Linux on the Desktop
This again? Ha!
the fact that Microsoft has decided the Desktop is no longer relevant.
I suggest people actually watch the keynote before running off at the mouth with uninformed comments. You can switch between the new "metro" interface and the standard desktop interface. Metro is an alternative to the desktop interface, it doesn't replace it. One is geared toward tablet like devices, the other toward desktop, but you have the choice to use either interface on either form factor. You can switch between the two seamlessly, and it appears to work surprisingly well.
I now look forward to comments accusing me of astroturfing.
What distros are you using that are so buggy?
How about Ubuntu? Where do I start... Oh yes. How about something as fundamental as a launcher bar, that by default auto-hides. A bad default, IMO, but easily remedied by altering a setting. Except, THERE IS NOT SETTING to disable auto-hide. Yes, you actually have to install a plug-in to disable auto-hide of the launcher bar. That's not the worst part though.
The edge detection for the auto-hiding launcher bar is horrendous. The cursor literally has to be touching the edge of the screen for it to pop out, and then once the cursor leaves the edge, even if its hovering over an icon, the bar will auto-hide. A comedy of errors.
Of course, let's not forget the intermittent dropping of my wired internet connection, the terrible multi-monitor support (hell, let's just put it out there: desktop linux is built on top a steaming pile of shit, x.org).
Desktop Linux is also much slower, with features like pre-fetching requiring manual setup (whereas the Windows equivalent superfetch is just there).
Windows has only recently caught up to Linux in stability.
If we're talking just the kernel, sure. Desktop linux as a whole is absurdly bug-ridden. It's a joke. You can stop perpetuating this myth that desktop linux is a viable replacement for commercial operating systems. That train left like 5 years ago.
Well, Windows users enjoy a relatively stable and bug-free experience. Linux Desktop distros are a joke. It may be free, but you're certainly getting what you pay for.