Then that just underlines thier incompetence even more clearly, since approximately 0% of the "growing phone/tablet market" has any interest in any linux that's not twisted into Android, and they released a "usable" (and I use that word very charitably) desktop installation before any tablet release.
For a product that still hasn't found much marketshare, go where the growth is made sense.
Except that desktop machines are the wrong place to put touch-friendly interfaces, and GNOME is a desktop machine project. They're entirely different use cases, and what they're doing is precisely backwards.
Except the story was poorly written. They aren't having a donation problem they are having a cash flow problem because their women's programming initiatives are too successful.
Who cares? I'm just glad they're failing (that's what schadenfreude is).
Ultimately we need a good quality touch enabled desktop / tablet OS for Unix far more than we needed a slightly improved keyboard and mouse experience
"Touch-enabled interface is more important than keyboard/mouse for a desktop?" You're one of those UX bullshit artists, aren't you?
That's the kind of thinking that's got me soaking in the schadenfreude from this story.
That's the big difference. The big corporate sites who would have been negatively impacted by SOPA (Google, e.g.) carried those protests. The fact that blocking the law turned out better for actual people was really just a happy accident.
. If you are simply storing and sharing files with a select few then Google drive gives you 15 GB which is a huge amount of storage in comparison
Unfortunately, a big part of the objection to Rice is the fear of DB becoming even more hostile to the concept of user privacy. Extra space aside, google isn't a particularly viable alternative.
It strikes me that 500 years, practically the blink of an eye, might not be quite sufficient to determine trends on geological scales...
Wacky global warming deniers are not skeptics, they are credulous fools.
There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of skepticism from the other side of the AGW "debate", for that matter.
So I guess there's no science to be had here, just political dick-waving.
I find the implication that coal miners are somehow too dumb to learn anything else mildly offensive.
Where, exactly, was that implied, outside of a few AC d-bags that you're not posting a reply to? The point is that Zuck's a dipshit, and his Patrick Starr "problem solving"("Take all the miners, and teach them to code") is imbecilic.
You believe one ambiguous clause about Kissinger is the hint that clarifies that Colbert's position on Snowden is sarcastic, that is, the opposite of what Colbert actually is saying.
Well, that, and having an even passing familiarity with his work for the past 8 years...
Nah, Dennis miller is a conservative former comedian. Back when he was still doing comedy, it was pretty centrist, with the social aspect leaning a bit to the left.
After 9/11 made him shit his pants, he started being conservative, and stopped being a comedian, opting to move his "big words and obscure references" style into punditry, where it works about as well as you might expect.
Ever heard of the Sunk Cost fallacy?
The one that's not actually any sort of "fallacy" and certainly has no bearing on replacing hardware that still serves its purpose?
Even if you're right about the software, it makes more sense to wait until one of those "must have" packages goes 64-bit only in "a year or two", since the new hardware will be more current than doing it now for the sake of, as a poster above put it so well, "ooh, shiny!"
No, it's not. "Joie de vivre" (lit. "joy of life") is a personality trait which, while it would likely both inform and be informed by living "the sweet life", is distinct from it.
This only increases the odds of dying while pursuing our occasionally dangerous professions, such as Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio politician defending a man on a charge of murder, who accidentally shot himself demonstrating how the victim might have shot himself while in the process of drawing a weapon when standing from a kneeling position.
Yeah, but was he acquitted?
How is that proof? Everyone knows that's just a giant space dragon swallowing the moon.
Back in 1987, computing was still the "super job of the future" being touted as the next big thing to get rich as the turn of the century rolled up (kind of like the stupid "drop out of school and be a social network entrepreneur" going around now). You had plenty of people of both sexes trying to "break in" to it back then, and the dollar signs they were seeing weren't perl scalars.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
