Comment Re:Books (Score 0) 465
With a reading time of 30 minutes per day
With a reading time of 30 minutes per day
Amazon claims the Kindle will run for 8 weeks w/o using wifi and a reading time of 30 minutes per day. That's not "months".
TFA alludes to the idea that your phone becomes a full blown PC when you dock it. OK, so Ubuntu doesn't have a good track record with UI, and there is no reason to believe that this phone UI is any better than what they've done to the Linux desktop. But the idea of my phone being my computer is very appealing to me. I dock my phone at the office, and immediately get to use a full display, keyboard, mouse/trackpad, etc. Same thing when I take it home. It's a real Linux OS, with a CLI and everything if I want it. That is very appealing to me.
I definitely don't want this if the OS is owned by the cellular carrier. I want to install my own OS on a commodity phone, and I'm the root user on the system, not Sprint or Verizon or AT&T.
The thing about sprouting the Unity GUI für PC when an external monitor is connected was announced a year ago or so. Explained at http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android at the time of writing
The choreography guys are doing it wrong, agreed. This does not change the fact that martial arts have seen hundreds of years of use by professionals (like the Chinese military prior to the arrival of guns) in real-world situations.
Alternatives: crush face with elbow, for example. Or slap with the back of the hand. Kick in the balls. There is no shortage really
Agreed, but easy to break a finger even with a haymaker to the hard skull behind the soft face. Anyway, maybe hoofs would be a better evolutionary adaptation to punching.
Also, it's not just about callouses, but about breaking bones as well.
See the other posts in this thread, where I already wrote that I know that, and made my point that many martial arts go out of their way to *avoid* punching with the fists, such as the Chinese peasants who codified Tai Chi Chuan in the 18th century, who we can assume to not have lacked knuckle callous.
Yeah, "doing it wrong" in the sense of doing it at all. Sure, calluses and all, not stretching the skin over the knuckles, etc., I know. But fists still are so not good for punching that, as I said, many martial arts don't use it at all (e.g., in Tai Chi Chuan punches are performed only with the back of the (fisted) hand). One would think that if the fists evolved for punching, as the study seems to claim, they would be built for punching, which they aren't really - notwithstanding the fact that with lots of conditioning, practice, and thinking about it you can kind of use them for punching
Absolutely. Also, study author should watch less movies and punch someone for real. He will realize that human hands are really bad for punching, you get open bleeding knuckles in no time, and injuries if your fists and arms are misaligned. It's not an accident that martial arts that use punches spend a lot of practice to getting it right, and many don't use closed-fist punches with exposed first phalanges at all.
Ok, I guess we must have different definitions of what it means for a company to take the linux desktop serious.
"serious"?
Actually Unity would be very poorly suited to a touch interface. See Shuttleworth's answers for some of the reasons.
So he really is the truly arrogant asshole that I figured he must be.
So which other alive Linux company cares for the desktop?
"Informative" mod is utterly wrong. If you had bothered to research what you are posting about (which would have been easy, as a Google query for "ubuntu phone" brings you right here), you would have known that Canonical is aiming for precisely the opposite of what MS tried. MS forces the phone interface on PC users, with the traditional Desktop being forced into Metro). Canonical wants to make it so that if you plug an external monitor/keyboard/mouse into your phone, your phone runs the appropriate PC UI for these devices (while continuing to run the phone UI on the phone in parallel)
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