1) Connect to the Internet Network connections are automatically detected (unless you made the mistake of buying a wireless adapter with a Broadcom chip set)
2) Configure E-Mail Account Doing this in Thunderbird is no different than doing it in Outlook. Not many people use their ISP's mail anymore, and anyone that needs help setting up the account will need help no matter what OS they use.
3) Develop Spread Sheet with Macros that can be read in Excel.
4) Create company brochure complete with graphics that is ready for the printer and that the boss will approve.
5) Create Database that will track inventory of over 1400 products.
6) Write a 100 page document complete with footnotes and references and then save it in the form of a PDF that can be read in any PDF reader.
7) Using a WSYWIG HTML program, create a website for your small business, upload it to the web and make sure any browser can read it.
8) Write a corporate newsletter and merge all your contacts into it so it seems personalized. How many of those are frequently done by people that aren't specifically trained to do them? Maybe other than creating a web site, they're all tasks of your office suite, so you're no longer really testing the usability of Ubuntu, but of OpenOffice (or KOffice, etc.). As for "real jobs", the only jobs you're really describing are marketing, technical writing, and accounting/inventory management. Neither of my parents ever have to do any of this stuff, but they use a web browser and IM client a hell of a lot.
It's not necessarily good UI design, but a VCR has a much tighter restriction on the number of controls in the interface (i.e. buttons) than software does. Something like "Settings menu -> Date and Time -> type numbers into text boxes (or select boxes, or up and down arrows)" may be good enough, even if it isn't ideal, on a computer, but 20-year-old VCR's simply don't have the ability for that kind of interface. When you only have eight buttons to work with, you have to make some sacrifices in usability.
I also think many of her problems were with gnome rather than with 'Linux'. I'm sure the resize and mp3 locating issues would not have occured with KDE. I wouldn't be sure at all. I don't think KDE will do either of those things any better than Gnome. To be fair, though, I think I've had that same kind of problem with screen resolution in Windows, and finding music files on a second hard drive that has Windows on it doesn't strike me as being a "normal" task.
Maybe the article has been updated since you read it, but there's now a note that the problem is YouTube, not Ubuntu. If you go to a site that has a Flash movie in it, you'll be given the option to install the plugin. YouTube tries to be helpful by detecting if you have Flash and giving you a link to Adobe's site to download it, instead of letting the browser handle the installation how it wants.
Um. Compiz? You've got to be kidding.
The standard Ubuntu desktop requires 256 MB RAM and ~4 GB of disk space.
Maybe those requirements look ultra-minimal compared to Vista, but it's not exactly what I have in mind when I think of a "low power multi terminal solution". Maybe I missed something, but could you point out where the summary or article says anything about these systems running Ubuntu (or Kubuntu)?
On our taxes it asks "Would you like to donate an extra $3 to the candidates?" Please mod this down to get rid of the "Informative". You don't pay an extra amount of money, you allocate to the general campaign financing fund an amount of money from the taxes that you're paying anyway. It does not increase the amount you pay. It even says so right next to the check box.
The Firefox beta is mostly done, though, and ready for regular users. KDE 4.0 isn't really intended for normal use. The basic framework is done, but a fair amount of functionality that will be implemented at the application level probably won't be ready until 4.1. I've heard from a few people that KDE 4.0.3 is stable, but it may be missing some configuration options that currently exist in KDE 3.5.
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Not 20 -minutes- before the official announcement was made, anyone asking whether or not the ISO on the main page was indeed the final release (which it was) was banned. Anyone who posted a link to the ISO, the.torrent, or even the MD5SUM of any of the files was banned. This is because the files could potentially be modified at any time before the official release announcement. If you download a.iso file an hour before the official release, and that file gets replaced half an hour later because of some problem with the disc image, you're basically screwed.
A little extra time taken writing the program isn't much of a price to pay for the hours and hours of processor time and RAM/HD space saved by people using the application either.. The ones paying the developers ten times more than a better CPU, an extra GB of memory, and an extra hundred GB of disk space would cost might disagree with that.
So what? Nothing double is still nothing. If you have one user and gain a second, you've doubled, but quite frankly, given the number of users out there, that is neither hard nor impressive. A small number isn't "nothing". From one to two is double, but if you double every month, you go from one to 16 million in just two years. Reaching 2% of the market may not be impressive by itself, but it won't take an inconceivable amount of time for that growth to get to a point that Linux can no longer be ignored as a desktop operating system.
You still need to cover at least the same surface area, and this is where things get hairy. If you used 200 of these plots -four per state- that's still 6.5 miles on a side. Even if you made 1000 plots -20 for each state- that's still 3.5 miles on each side. Suddenly you have to fit 20 of these into each state? As I said before, this might be viable for California or Texas, but not for Rhode Island (which would actually need more than this to compensate for the relative lack of sunlight) or Hawaii.
It's an interesting thought, but it does not scale to the size of nations. You are aware that not every state is the same size, both in terms of area and population, right? There also isn't some magical barrier that prevents electricity from flowing across state lines. Rhode Island wouldn't have the same energy requirement as Texas, California, or Florida, and facilities in New York, Pennsylvania, or even Maine could provide electricity for the other smaller states in the region.
If I remember correctly, most states have "Sales and Use" tax. If you purchase something from another state, you're supposed to pay the sales tax on it to your state. In theory, if you purchase something in a state where you don't intend to use it, you aren't supposed to pay the sales tax on it to that state. More realistically, of course, the store would still charge the sales tax and you'd be responsible for getting a refund from the state, but for most purchases it isn't worth the trouble.
In the next few weeks Verizon will be rolling out fibre to my neighborhood. And while Verizon may have its own issues, it will be interesting to see what Comcast has to say when I start to think about shifting ISPs. I've already seen what Comcast has to say about it: commercials bragging about how much optical fiber they have in their network.
For not being plausible, there sure are a lot of people calling on God to save them during moments of suffering and death. And, far more importantly, to have their favorite sports team win the big game.
well, it's not my fault they didn't pay attention in 7th grade science class. How do you know that? Depending on the school they went to, creationism may have been taught to them in their 7th grade science class. It's often difficult to get someone to go against what they were told for the first 18 years of their lives.
The problem is that with IM, it's become "Always on, and always advertising me as on". And so as soon as you come online, however many 10s or 100s of people on your list think that means you're up for making random small talk. That's what away messages and invisible mode are for.
Who's to say that your Downloads are any more important than the Hentai downloads? The fact that a 5-second delay in an SSH session makes working very difficult, while a 5-second delay in getting a movie that already takes two hours to download is practically meaningless. Certain protocols are more time-sensitive than others, and anyone that actually understands what Net Neutrality is really about knows this.
Do voice votes require any sort of record of who voted which way? if not, they're just a way of ducking accountability. "Oh no, I wasn't in the group shouting against your rights!" Well, prove it! I couldn't find anything about a voting record on the Library of Congress site. Wikipedia's page on "voice vote" says that no record is kept.
There seem to be several missing preferences. I can't find the list of moderation modifiers (not that I ever used them, but I figured some people do) anywhere. It looks like posts that have a score of 1 are truncated now, and I can't find where to change that.
You people amuse me beyond any measure...
And you all PAY for this, vote for this, and have even come under the impression that these thugs have your best interests in mind... I, for one, welcome our new alien overlord.
If I remember my 5th grade civics correctly, Congress can override a Presidential veto as well. With two-thirds of the members voting to override the veto, yes. The DMCA never even went to a formal vote, though. It passed a voice vote in the House and was passed unanimously in the Senate.
So I just installed 3.0b5 on my Windows box at work, and it does say that Flashblock is incompatible (I guess whatever code does the check doesn't match 3.0b5 to 3.0.*). Unfortunately, Firefox 3 doesn't install completely independently from Firefox 2 on Windows the way it does on Ubuntu (I'm sure I could hack at it until it does, but it's not really worth the effort).
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4) Create company brochure complete with graphics that is ready for the printer and that the boss will approve.
5) Create Database that will track inventory of over 1400 products.
6) Write a 100 page document complete with footnotes and references and then save it in the form of a PDF that can be read in any PDF reader.
7) Using a WSYWIG HTML program, create a website for your small business, upload it to the web and make sure any browser can read it.
8) Write a corporate newsletter and merge all your contacts into it so it seems personalized. How many of those are frequently done by people that aren't specifically trained to do them? Maybe other than creating a web site, they're all tasks of your office suite, so you're no longer really testing the usability of Ubuntu, but of OpenOffice (or KOffice, etc.). As for "real jobs", the only jobs you're really describing are marketing, technical writing, and accounting/inventory management. Neither of my parents ever have to do any of this stuff, but they use a web browser and IM client a hell of a lot.
It's not necessarily good UI design, but a VCR has a much tighter restriction on the number of controls in the interface (i.e. buttons) than software does. Something like "Settings menu -> Date and Time -> type numbers into text boxes (or select boxes, or up and down arrows)" may be good enough, even if it isn't ideal, on a computer, but 20-year-old VCR's simply don't have the ability for that kind of interface. When you only have eight buttons to work with, you have to make some sacrifices in usability.
Maybe the article has been updated since you read it, but there's now a note that the problem is YouTube, not Ubuntu. If you go to a site that has a Flash movie in it, you'll be given the option to install the plugin. YouTube tries to be helpful by detecting if you have Flash and giving you a link to Adobe's site to download it, instead of letting the browser handle the installation how it wants.
Ununbium would be element 112, Unbibium would be element 122.
The Firefox beta is mostly done, though, and ready for regular users. KDE 4.0 isn't really intended for normal use. The basic framework is done, but a fair amount of functionality that will be implemented at the application level probably won't be ready until 4.1. I've heard from a few people that KDE 4.0.3 is stable, but it may be missing some configuration options that currently exist in KDE 3.5.
If I remember correctly, most states have "Sales and Use" tax. If you purchase something from another state, you're supposed to pay the sales tax on it to your state. In theory, if you purchase something in a state where you don't intend to use it, you aren't supposed to pay the sales tax on it to that state. More realistically, of course, the store would still charge the sales tax and you'd be responsible for getting a refund from the state, but for most purchases it isn't worth the trouble.
In the United States, it's more commonly called MSRP (Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price).
There seem to be several missing preferences. I can't find the list of moderation modifiers (not that I ever used them, but I figured some people do) anywhere. It looks like posts that have a score of 1 are truncated now, and I can't find where to change that.
And you all PAY for this, vote for this, and have even come under the impression that these thugs have your best interests in mind... I, for one, welcome our new alien overlord.
So I just installed 3.0b5 on my Windows box at work, and it does say that Flashblock is incompatible (I guess whatever code does the check doesn't match 3.0b5 to 3.0.*). Unfortunately, Firefox 3 doesn't install completely independently from Firefox 2 on Windows the way it does on Ubuntu (I'm sure I could hack at it until it does, but it's not really worth the effort).