Comment Re:Win7 is likely to be my last Windows (Score 1) 302
Nah. Win10 looks like the modern GNOME3 desktop: beatiful as a hand-drawn picture, but just as useful.
Nah. Win10 looks like the modern GNOME3 desktop: beatiful as a hand-drawn picture, but just as useful.
I create graphics for educational materials.
DTP was always a branch on its own. Most of the time you just start PhotoShop/etc, and pretty much never switch to another application. I'm not sure how Win8 could have improved (or changed) your workflow, because you rarely see the OS anyway.
In a way, it is similar to the Internet surfing workflow. The only time you see or use the OS is to start the browser. After that, everything is done inside the browser, which is largely OS independent and can be used to the same effect under literally any OS.
Welcome addition. Who knows, probably Win20 would finally allow users to configure system keyboard shortcuts. Then it would be almost at parity with Linux of 15 years ago.
Interfaces are dumbed down for touch UI. That's the main problem.
Application are also getting increasingly dumber and dumber. Because from perspective of some, if you can't make feature "beautiful" for the touch UI, then there is no point in providing the feature.
The modern OSes, including Win10, as if competing who can make a bigger clusterfuck out of the UI.
Some say it is because of the touchscreen support. But in my experience it sucks even more with the touchscreen. Unless you play movies or listen to music. Because even moderately involved browsing (say going through the bug tracking) is already rather tedious.
At least under Linux, I can replace the UI with something user-friendly like Xfce or LXDE. Useless with touchscreen - but fully usable with the mouse and not fucked up.
And even at that - legal boring stories: USA company comes to another market and ignores the local laws; but drat, USA can't bomb it to ruin provisionally, because unfortunately they are both members of the NATO. Oh tragedy.
I do not see any relevance to - or deep profound effect on- IT/etc.
Really? IT people design and make the "social engineering" software that makes things like Uber possible!
Oh please. Business intelligence is one of the oldest types of software in existence.
That's basically how/why the computers were commercialized. Otherwise they would have stayed a toy of scientists and a tool of military.
Why the hell Uber/etc are on
I do not see any relevance to - or deep profound effect on- IT/etc.
The Uber - and its failing outside USA - are so non-news.
http://cumulusnetworks.com/blo...
http://www.datacenterknowledge...
http://opennetlinux.org/
http://www.opencompute.org/
http://www.wired.com/2013/03/b...
Get with the times, the Big Iron Networking gear (like usead at Google and Facebook) are switches running Linux.
Tried SC, tried FA.
Was somewhat disappointed, and in a sentimental rush came back to the original - TA (and TA Kingdoms) - which are still are fantastic games even by modern standards.
P.S. Also, proportional unit sizes suck.
Since you have become a naturalized U.S. Citizen, you must like living in America. What do you miss about Finland? What are some thing the U.S. does better than Finland?
Several years ago, you were employed by Transmeta designing the Crusoe processor. I understand you are quite knowledgeable about cpu architecture. What are your thoughts on the Current Intel and AMD x86 CPUs particularly in comparison with ARM and IBM's Power8 CPUs? Where do you see the advantages of each one?
Really? Let's ignore the fact taht just about any modern laptop will support Linux with maybe needing to download some Video drivers (or with Optimus, changing a setting in BIOS to disable the dual Optimus setting)
http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspi...
https://www.google.com/search?...
Not as many Windows laptops, but plenty out there.
I'm not sure in what kind of barbaric anarchy you are living to give you that perspective, but you can't be more wrong.
The tax police in Germany is a fact of life that people have to deal with there and ratting out your neighbours is a national past time.
Again, Germany is highly individualistic. Respect for privacy is very high here. What you say is simply fictitious because most neighbors have no idea what other neighbors doing, because they do not poke nose in others affairs - not without an invitation.
But yes, if you do openly something illegal, just like in any other country, you would be reported to authorities. That's because law (which is the same literally all around the world) makes you an accomplice if you do not report crime.
If you were ever convicted in Germany, that might explain your sentiment.
I prefer societies that realize that the individual is more important than the collective personally.
Germany is highly individualistic. Yet, if you put individual over society, than it simply means that there is no cohesive society. And the society is there to deal with global problems of which there were plenty in recent times.
It is hard to find and it is not a society bound by nation borders, it is a society above such notions and limits.
Mafia? Organized international crime syndicates? Fit your requirements perfectly.
Memory fault - where am I?