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Comment Yeah, sort of nice (Score 1) 159

It looks nice and kinda cool. Good concept. I see designers and hipsters as a good target group for this. For us that use the computer for a lot of typing, I don't think a touch keyboard will do the job. I also imagine the horror of that speaker/power-supply entangled in the cable mess under my table. Overall I think it's a fun concept, I wouldn't buy it, but I know people who would.

Comment I disagree with the article (Score 1) 417

The idea of the article seems to be that "trolls" always are people that can be reasoned with. A few years back I used to moderate on a casual all-purpose help forum, where we got our fair share of trolls. The trolling was everything from fake complaints/problems, like fatal-butt-illness and wanting to commit suicide to posting pictures of gay sex (seems like a very popular subject for trolls) and mutilated corpses. Now THAT is trolling... and how do you talk those people down?

Ok, I agree that some of the trolls could have been converted, but that would mean we would have to spend 57 hours a day talking to people without real problems, except for a major brain dysfunction (for which we lacked the proper credentials to diagnose and treat). If someone trolled, we banned or wiped the account, if they came back on a new account we blocked the IP (cut a few schools off once in a while.. goodtimes), if they came back using a proxy site, we banned that IP. Usually they would give up within 10 minutes. Ban, wipe and block... sounds like something out of Karate Kid :D

Comment It's not so abstract... (Score 2) 407

I live in Denmark, and I pay a TV license because I own a computer. Around $400 a year.

Apparently, since the TV network is a "public service", they can charge me, because MAYBE I might go on their website and look at their stream, which isn't even HD. Greed in high places always manages to fuck everyone over in the end... I guess that's the lesson learned.

If I had those $400 extra a year, maybe I could afford a TV set.

Comment Change for the sake of change... (Score 1) 797

I originally chose Gnome because it was an interface I liked and felt at home in. I've felt all along that gnome-shell was kinda like the Gnome team giving me the finger, saying that what I liked in Gnome 2.xx was wrong and I shouldn't like it because I'm an idiot and shouldn't be allowed to think for myself.

For me this is a case of change for the sake of change. It's not about improving design/usability. It's about changing stuff that wasn't broken and - in my case - ruin the user experience.

I think they should leave Gnome as it is and focus on making THAT interface smoother, and the whole gnome-shell crap could be called something else... like crap-sprinkled-with-glitter-wm. CSWGWM for short... now isn't that catchy?

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