Comment Re:Still kinda messy. (Score 1) 409
That's an option for people with a brain cloud.
Never mod points when I need them!
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That's an option for people with a brain cloud.
Never mod points when I need them!
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I think the reason that Google isn't releasing Android 3 source is that they don't want it installed on every crappy phone and tablet coming out of China, and giving it a bad name.
This sounds a lot like the argument Apple fanboys use for not allowing other OSes on iShinies.
I never had any trouble from Apple with installing Linux on my G3.
I never had any trouble from Apple with installing Linux, Windows, or FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro.
I'm pretty sure people have installed alternate OSes on iPods and maybe iPhones as well.
So where's Apple stopping people from putting other OSes on Apple devices? They take exception to putting Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, but that's the opposite of what you're complaining about.
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I came across this yesterday and found it interesting (comparisons of what Samsung's tablets looked like before and after the iPad came out):
It seems like it's not quite as silly as it's usually been presented. (Don't get me wrong, I do think it's silly.)
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I've never seen "font" misspelled as "browser" and "OS" before...</pedant>
Link?
Now - type something, move right (or left) hand to the mouse - highlight - move mouse to menu - select - press mouse button - find "home" row again and start typing.
While that's certainly one way to do it, I've never seen anyone actually do it that pessimally.
'Cmd-B' to start the bolding (or 'Cmd-I' for italics), type whatever you need, and then 'Cmd-B' again to end the bolding. Hands never leave the keyboard. Or if you need to italicize something that's already there, select the text (keyboard is usually faster if it's just a few words away, mouse is often faster if the target text is far from the text-cursor location), and hit 'Cmd-I' (though if your hand is already on the mouse because you used it to select distant text, then it might be faster to pick from the menu).
Short version: TMTOWTDI; the "right" one might depend on the context.
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At least you have a good reason not to use the feature, since Command (and even Ctrl) are in very impractical places on Apple keyboards.
I'll grant you Ctrl (but the keyboard that came with my old Apple
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Profession, Isaac Asimov, July 1957
Full text (But the design of the site... the googles do nothing!)
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... Honestly the only thing holding me to linux at this point is a lack of desire to have to repartition my disks using bsd slices,
Don't let that stop you - FreeBSD at least has supported GPT partitioning for some time, so you don't have to mess around with slices if you don't want to.
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... if you need a microkernel and some POSIX, well there's FreeBSD.
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The FreeBSD kernel is not a microkernel - it's a modular monolithic kernel, not unlike the Linux kernel.
It's called "NVM Express", and they're working on it.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.