Comment Re:There goes another one (Score 1) 79
GIMP isn't named GIMP because it used GTK.
GIMP isn't named GIMP because it used GTK.
What is most absurd is that this HTML5 app runs far more slowly than a direct emulation of the original 6502 code.
That's the fault of your browser.
100% usage is 100% usage... of one core. Some OS' measure CPU usage in a meaningful way.
Its intentions aside, there is absolutely no proof that it spurs innovation or creativity, whichever industry you look in, whatever the term, and however you quantify the goods.
Devil's advocate: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Also, you don't need to put carriage returns to wrap your text, the site does that for you. It just makes it obnoxious for people who want to quote a section of your reply.
Please don't go around holding up the worst examples of us as, well, examples of us.
And I am not sure that finding out you have high blood pressure, really does much in the long run except maybe prevent you from dying of a heart attack earlier.
Clearly that's something nobody should care about, I mean what... death? Peh! Hardly an inconvenience.
I'll let Brian Boyko explain it, he does a much better job of it than I could. The entire UX is fucked.
Hey, I thought I'd fit in better! You're just further proving my point.
We're talking about Ubuntu - the official Ubuntu from Canonical. Not what you linked, but what Canonical puts on UBUNTU.COM
I know all this, but I realize not everyone reading these comments does.
My core point is that when you go to Ubuntu's website and download it, the interface you see on the live CD and receive on installation (by default anyway) is Unity (or that gnome3 fallback thing) and not something else.
No. xUbuntu does. Ubuntu ships with Unity.
Unless things have changed and when you go to ubuntu.com and click download, it actually forwards you to xubuntu instead?
Eh, just install cygwin or whatever and you can do it locally without rebooting.
FIrewall time...
There's more broken with than just integration. The whole UX is fucked.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.