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Comment Re:Trisquel? (Score 1) 274

No flash(no hulu, or flash games or about 90% of streamed media) no Silverlight(by extension no netflix) no Adobe reader(so no overdrive ebooks from the local library) no idevice support.

Should be an unofficial repo somewhere for Flash. I could install Silverlight from Moonlight, but fuck it. I don't even use Netflix. Adobe Reader? Are you kidding me? Ever heard of xpdf and Okular? I am not sure but Amarok/Clementine might have sync capabilities, if you need that. (Clementine works fine with my Android).

Comment Re:Good luck with that (Score 1) 274

...I totally see how it is easier to type yum install [whatever] or apt-get install [whatever]...

Or pacman -S whatever, or emerge whatever, or equo install whatever... or zypper install whatever (unless you are using an older version of Suse where you use rug install whatever), or slapt-get --install whatever.

AND

-- that makes most people balk.

Comment Re:Numbers don't lie (Score 1) 349

For a continuous distribution, integration of a PDF over a range [A, B] wrt variable 'x' to give P(A (less than or equal to) x (less or equal to) B) is the same as:

  • P(A (less than) x (less than) B)
  • P(A (less than or equal to) x (less than) B)
  • P(A (less than) x (less than or equal to) B)

That is, you can just ignore the = sign wherever you want, because that by itself doesn't have any area.

PS: It just looks messy without the mathematical notation. /. doesn't allow me to use (less than) signs because they are interpreted as HTML. ;)

Comment Re:Good lord NO!!!!! (Score 2) 208

Gnome3 is probably a LOT more intuitive.

Are you telling me you did NOT search for a shutdown button in the initial GNOME release? I mean, who the fuck presses Alt just to see "logoff" change to "shutdown" (It was the default, don't know about the current GNOME release. I hope they fixed it)

Support your statement with facts.

Comment Re:Good lord NO!!!!! (Score 1) 208

It's probably got something to do with the boot processes more than the GUI. Try checking how much time it requires for you to boot into a non-X environment, and see how systemd helps (systemd boots into X in less than two seconds, but that is for Lennart Poettering :P)

It sounds scary, but if you can live with - and appreciate, Haiku's GUI, then you can also use something like Fluxbox. As scary it sounds, my shift to Awesome WM just made me more productive.

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