No. You don't understand the rest of the world. I said I'm American. Get your contry a proper name! (Or at least don't try to use a generic name that belongs to all of us).
Perhaps you mean United States of America.
You now, I'm American (from South America) and I have nothing to do with these guys.
I also have other american friends (from central an north America) who are not from the USA.
Stop using our continent as a country name, please.
PS: although we also must get a grip on ourselves.:-D
As a Psychiatrist and long-time Slashdot reader I feel really disappointed reading the reactions of people whose oppinion in technical matters I respect a lot.
But after > 20 years of "in-the-trench" psychiatry (public and private settings) I've seen (BY FAR) more good than harm as consequence of our practice. I can say I helped a number of people, lots of them using SSRI.
We are aware of the industry and its tactics, and the wax-and-wane of science. But most of my colleagues act in good faith following procedures tested in our gold-standard double blind placebo-controlled trials.
Medicine CAN do harm sometimes, that's not new. But when you add all up, there's a net benefit.
Just my 0.02
One example (among many): you can tweak every aspect of the "look" and "feel" (icons, fonts, etc) AND save it as a "Theme" you can load anytime. You can do this *without* a third party application. It's an "out-of-the-box" feature.
I'm from Uruguay. Never heard of Uruguay Syndrom. If it exists it must be related to happy stress-free life or something like that. We are all happy hobbits here.
Please stop repeating something like it is new. Since its origins the concept is called "the schizophrenias". We knew that 100 years before now: http://schizophreniabulletin.o...
If you are > 40, you should now Time is relative. I have kids. Playing is something I share with them, tinkering (sadly) not. I didn't want to buy them a game console. I like to share with them other values.
Steam doesn't "waste" my time. I decide to waste my time with Steam.
That's the kind of reasoning that harms our community. I'll rephrase it to you (in my very primitive English):
For lost of reasons I decide to waste my time playing instead of tinkering so I wellcome those who make this possible.
If Debian community can't conceive this scenario, then perhaps it's time to move to another distro (or another OS).
What happen to you guys? I'm no engineer, but i'm no newbie. I'm a doctor, I don't have time to tinker with everything in my PC. So when I installed steam on one of my Debian machines (I had Ubuntu but for ethical reasons returned to Debian) and it didn't work out I felt disappointed. I DON'T HAVE TIME to make the changes myself. So, when someone does it an shares it I'd say good for us all.
And the one that said "...Ubuntu is an African word that means "I can't configure Debian"...": that's old, boring, false, trollish, etc. I CAN configure lots of things in all of my Debian machines.
Debian could be the acronym of "I can't stand Unity" or "I don't sell myself to corporations".
But, seriously, guys... that attitude is NOT what makes out OS a great one.
So: F'You (quoting Linux). And thanks to the guy doing the real work.
I tried to get my account deleted: the say they can't (!!!!). There's an option to "deactivate" my account. We need laws enforcing our right to disappear from a service.
Agree with that. I have an Acer Iconia W500 with Kubuntu in it. You can get a very satisfactory tablet experience using the "Search" desktop and any of the KDE applications. Okular for example (PDF viewer and more) is one of the most finger-friendly applications.
GTK3 based applications on the other hand are NOT finger friendly. One example (among many): the changes they made in the layout of scrollbars (they are nearly invisible until you touch a 3 pixel wide zone).
I tried GS, Unity, XFCE and the only DE that isn't a pain to use with a touch interface is KDE (but it still isn't a touch-ready DE). To have a decent browsing experience you have to install an extension to Firefox (Grab and Drag). I still can't make multitouch work though (no 2-finger zoom).
I have an Acer Iconia W500 with Kubuntu and I'm very happy with it. KDE was the best DE I've found (after trying Unity, Gnome 3, XFCE, etc.). Okular is jus amazing to read PDFs and browse using touch interface. You have to make some adjustmenst (third button emulation). GTK based DE have the problem of the new scrollbars (not touch-friendly). KDE has Plasma and you can make an Android-like interface with few clicks. I have few tips about it : http://conalambre.wordpress.com/
Reminds me of Minority Report. They would end with something like pre-crime. The proof that there was a plot is that the crime never ocurred!!! Brillant. Like locking yourself and throwing the key.
They both did get such; I suspect you mean that each desrves a separate note.
You are correct.
Yes, sorry, my fault, my lame English.... My wife is an English teacher and I'm a Psychiatrist... Yes... your conclusion (whatever it is) is probably right...:-)
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Typo: "country". By the way. If I don't understand English, how I am writing this? Do you speak spanish?
No. You don't understand the rest of the world. I said I'm American. Get your contry a proper name! (Or at least don't try to use a generic name that belongs to all of us).
Perhaps you mean United States of America. You now, I'm American (from South America) and I have nothing to do with these guys. I also have other american friends (from central an north America) who are not from the USA. Stop using our continent as a country name, please. PS: although we also must get a grip on ourselves. :-D
I thik it's NorthrOp not NorthrUp.
As a Psychiatrist and long-time Slashdot reader I feel really disappointed reading the reactions of people whose oppinion in technical matters I respect a lot. But after > 20 years of "in-the-trench" psychiatry (public and private settings) I've seen (BY FAR) more good than harm as consequence of our practice. I can say I helped a number of people, lots of them using SSRI. We are aware of the industry and its tactics, and the wax-and-wane of science. But most of my colleagues act in good faith following procedures tested in our gold-standard double blind placebo-controlled trials. Medicine CAN do harm sometimes, that's not new. But when you add all up, there's a net benefit. Just my 0.02
One example (among many): you can tweak every aspect of the "look" and "feel" (icons, fonts, etc) AND save it as a "Theme" you can load anytime. You can do this *without* a third party application. It's an "out-of-the-box" feature.
I'm from Uruguay. Never heard of Uruguay Syndrom. If it exists it must be related to happy stress-free life or something like that. We are all happy hobbits here.
Please stop repeating something like it is new. Since its origins the concept is called "the schizophrenias". We knew that 100 years before now: http://schizophreniabulletin.o...
So, Mr oBama would have a Levenshtein distance of 1 with oSama then? Good job there.
And 0 distance with Hussein...
I know my English is bad, but your lack of understanding exceeds it.
Do I need "excuses" and am I "lazy" because I don't want to write a script myself and choose to play a game ???????????
Back to the original question: "what's wrong with you guys?"
Answer: I don't know, but I feel something is very wrong from the community perspective. Everybody seems turning to the "dark side".
If you are > 40, you should now Time is relative. I have kids. Playing is something I share with them, tinkering (sadly) not. I didn't want to buy them a game console. I like to share with them other values.
Steam doesn't "waste" my time. I decide to waste my time with Steam.
That's the kind of reasoning that harms our community. I'll rephrase it to you (in my very primitive English):
For lost of reasons I decide to waste my time playing instead of tinkering so I wellcome those who make this possible.
If Debian community can't conceive this scenario, then perhaps it's time to move to another distro (or another OS).
What happen to you guys? I'm no engineer, but i'm no newbie. I'm a doctor, I don't have time to tinker with everything in my PC. So when I installed steam on one of my Debian machines (I had Ubuntu but for ethical reasons returned to Debian) and it didn't work out I felt disappointed. I DON'T HAVE TIME to make the changes myself. So, when someone does it an shares it I'd say good for us all. And the one that said "...Ubuntu is an African word that means "I can't configure Debian"...": that's old, boring, false, trollish, etc. I CAN configure lots of things in all of my Debian machines. Debian could be the acronym of "I can't stand Unity" or "I don't sell myself to corporations". But, seriously, guys... that attitude is NOT what makes out OS a great one. So: F'You (quoting Linux). And thanks to the guy doing the real work.
I tried to get my account deleted: the say they can't (!!!!). There's an option to "deactivate" my account. We need laws enforcing our right to disappear from a service.
Agree with that. I have an Acer Iconia W500 with Kubuntu in it. You can get a very satisfactory tablet experience using the "Search" desktop and any of the KDE applications. Okular for example (PDF viewer and more) is one of the most finger-friendly applications. GTK3 based applications on the other hand are NOT finger friendly. One example (among many): the changes they made in the layout of scrollbars (they are nearly invisible until you touch a 3 pixel wide zone). I tried GS, Unity, XFCE and the only DE that isn't a pain to use with a touch interface is KDE (but it still isn't a touch-ready DE). To have a decent browsing experience you have to install an extension to Firefox (Grab and Drag). I still can't make multitouch work though (no 2-finger zoom).
I have an Acer Iconia W500 with Kubuntu and I'm very happy with it. KDE was the best DE I've found (after trying Unity, Gnome 3, XFCE, etc.). Okular is jus amazing to read PDFs and browse using touch interface. You have to make some adjustmenst (third button emulation). GTK based DE have the problem of the new scrollbars (not touch-friendly). KDE has Plasma and you can make an Android-like interface with few clicks. I have few tips about it : http://conalambre.wordpress.com/
Skynet!!!!
They still have no web site (Error 500). Is it a joke?
That's why i'm still here. The other reason might be related to cognitive dissonance that makes me justify my own choices. But I agree with you.
I have a 7 digit ID and I'm getting tired of these things. Poor 6 digit guys! Are we really getting short of worthy news?
From Social Psychology an interesting construct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Reminds me of Minority Report. They would end with something like pre-crime. The proof that there was a plot is that the crime never ocurred!!! Brillant. Like locking yourself and throwing the key.
They both did get such; I suspect you mean that each desrves a separate note.
You are correct.
Yes, sorry, my fault, my lame English.... My wife is an English teacher and I'm a Psychiatrist... Yes... your conclusion (whatever it is) is probably right... :-)
Doesn't both news deserve a separate note?
Agree. The fact that they can do it at all IS the success. Other things will come with time.
That's a pretty risky assumption (from the southern hemisphere point of view).