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Comment: Re:Waaay to much money for those things (Score 1) 92

by hotfireball (#41372137) Attached to: Roomba Celebrates 10 Years of Cleaning Up After You

No.

1. Really good regular vacuum cleaner costs ~300 EUR. Things like Dyson costs even more.
2. If you toss in extra motors and a battery in it, making it 500 EUR, it still does not autonomously cleans your house.
3. Roomba starts from 270 EUR: http://www.irobot.com/de/store/store_products.aspx?id=487

I own one and I love it (and I do have vacuum cleaner too, BTW).

Comment: Re:Faster is fine - do we need thinner? (Score 1) 470

by hotfireball (#41359873) Attached to: iPhone 5 GeekBench Results

I saw something else with my eyes. One of my colleagues got Galaxy S3 and by accident dropped it at home on the wooden floor (no carpet). The thing is that the case was of course totally OK, gorilla glass was like no scratch. Well, the only inner glass of the screen itself was broken per half. :-D

Comment: Easy and impossible (Score 1) 1154

by hotfireball (#41272083) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop?

To fix it for new generation installations:

1. Make it possible to have packages with non-free proprietary software for sale (Ubuntu finally did that)
2. Make sure there is one standard for major distributions (Ubuntu is trying that hard).
3. Merge KDE and Gnome together tightly, so KDE software won't look like alien crap on Gnome and vice-versa.
4. Make sure LibreOffice opens MS Excel and MS Word documents flawlessly, so you can print-out Word document from MS Office and LibreOffice, put two papers on a window and see they're not different a milimeter (they do this in Japan, JFYI).
5. Fuck free-only ideology to slurp all sources into repository and build everything from sources only. Allow proprietary closed-source software.
6. Keep LSB as a fucking Holy Cow and never fucking violate it!
7. Make sure developers can make money from it. They want eat as well.

Oh, but that above will never happen, because everyone wants to have a choice and be free. And choice = chaos and shitload of knobs that a regular user never needs... Too bad, this is mostly geeks-only. Only Ubuntu makes some limited sense on a desktop so non-geeks can use it for a regular daily e-mail/web-browsing/music-playing box.

Linux desktop is too little for too late.

Comment: Re:It's not broken. (Score 1) 1154

by hotfireball (#41272037) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop?

A satisfied user doesn't help "spread the Linux base"? Why not, I ask seriously?

Instead of putting a tag WORKSFORME (which implies Torvalds/Icaza are idiots in this particular case) is not helping, especially when it obviously is NOT working for many people. Integration absence is a primary target where I would say "not working". It gets better though.

Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out?

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