Or my business-oriented suitemate who endorsed everything I listed in the hope that I would do the same for him. Because apparently that's something that the kids in Business School brag about to each other? (he says it is)
I was actually really excited by the "...you can get the next 9 posts delivered to your email by signing up here:" at the bottom. I like it. I like email, because I can read it anywhere and filter it any way I want. I dislike unsubscribing from email updates about as much as I dislike getting updates I'll never read. By making it easy to get emailed only about a story I've already demonstrated interest in (by reading all the way through), you've made sure I'll come back for your next 9 posts.
I'd like to see more people use something like this.
Or, if I've misunderstood how this works...well, the concept was exciting.
I've been playing with it a bit and I've been seeing the same thing. I do like that this gives me a little flexibility, so I'll probably continue to use multiple cursors for the smaller stuff and the more traditional vim methods for anything larger.
If I recall correctly, Gabe expressed his fears that Microsoft and Apple would move against Steam, as it provides an "App Store" that would compete with that shipping with the OS, motivating his desire for a Linux-powered steambox and to make Linux a viable gaming platform.
I've never even used OSX Lion, but I still prefer "natural" scrolling. I just run a script on login that contains "xinput set-prop 13 303 -111 -111". Obviously, you'll have to find the numbers in your current xinput as to obtain the device and preserve your optimal scroll speed (My example was for a Lenovo W510). This reverses the scroll direction on my trackpad, but not on the scroll wheel of my physical mouse or my lenovo nipple mouse.
He's right, but Red Hat isn't necessarily wrong. Red Hat's doing what's right for their consumers, but Linus is speaking about what's right for the ecosystem. They're different groups/people with different priorities. While I tend to side with Linus on this, I see the values of Red Hat coming up with a working solution, even if it is catering to Microsoft. I'd love to see something in userland and I don't see why the kernel team needs to concern itself with what vendors want to trust. Leave that to Red Hat and Canonical.
Regarding his words:
I honestly don't know why I'm still surprised when he does/says things like this, and I still don't know how I feel about it. The way he instantly reaches for his bag of obscenities seems a bit childish, but he does more often than not get his point across.
I have to wonder if he uses such language so often because he knows tech news is going to report on it when they might not if he were to gently rebuke a kernel dev? It should be noted that after his rant at Nvidia (http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/17/3092829/linus-torvalds-fuc...), Nvidia driver support became a hotly discussed topic and very soon became significantly better. In that regard, Linus seems to get things done and for that, I commend him.
On the other hand, he tends to curse and complain a lot on his g+. It's fairly likely that's just all him.
Generally, Linux has pretty great support for reading and writing on ntfs (I want to say ntfs-3g is usually a default on most distros?), but Windows can't natively read ext3/ext4/btrfs. It's doable, though, with programs like diskinternals linux reader and explore2fs. However, these programs tend to be read-only, forcing you to copy files across to a windows-readable fs.
I'm not actually a fanboy or anything- I used a first-gen iPad for about a week once and hated it, but I won't deny that it redefined the word tablet. Perhaps my language was a bit clunky; I was reaching for a word to convey the importance of the original iPad in shaping tablets and genesis was the best I could do after midnight.
Apple's been incredibly anti-stylus in the past, if I recall correctly. Didn't Jobs say something along the lines of "if your tablet uses a stylus, you're doing it wrong" at the genesis of the iPad? Although we've seen that isn't necessarily the case, I can't see Apple eating their words in this case. Especially not with the success and visibility of Samsung's Note line.
With Skype around, I'd imagine that microphones are actually pretty standard on tablets nowadays? And it's not terribly uncommon to see tablets with HPSA+ connections (or even LTE), right? Tablets and phones are rapidly becoming one in the same, just with different screen sizes.
I sort of regard lifehacker as a web site for teenagers and hobbyists nowadays, so I'm not particularly surprised at the quality and tone of their technical work.
If you did this, would there be a significant lag from i/o? I assume sticking a Class 10 SD card in it and booting archARM would be pretty quick, but still slower than the SSD that ships with the machine.
While Sublime Text is nice (and rather attractive), many people still prefer vim and emacs. It's a matter of personal preference, in the end, as both vim and emacs are quite extensible. With the existence of tools such as YouCompleteMe, syntastic, delimitmate, etc., one can outfit vim with the functionality of Sublime Text or even some heavier IDEs in a matter of minutes (using vundle and pathogen to handle the extensions). My largest reason for preferring vim is its presence by default in almost every UNIX system I've touched. I just have to pull my .vimrc over to whatever machine I'm working in, if I'm spending enough time there to warrant it, and I'm almost immediately at home.
I'm a vim guy so I can't really speak on emacs, but I imagine things work in a similar fashion.
That's not terribly unexpected, to be honest. Apple's building the machines for the average consumer first, so the "just works" is their priority. Ubuntu, as much as they've been trying to emulate OSX recently, is still a full Linux system under the Mac-y gui. There'll be a little less "just works" for the average consumer, but a bit more for the developer.
The thing that killed chrome for me was the way it uses the same UI as desktop chrome for browser tabs. On my nexus 7 (I can't speak for larger tablets, maybe it works there?), the tabs are simply too small for me to be precise about any interaction I have with them.
I've actually been incredibly curious about how well the on-screen keyboard works for these windows 8 machines on a long-term basis (or at least actual usage, not just fiddling around in the shop), but nobody talks about them.
I can therefore only conclude that they're quite terrible?
I think they actually copy-pasted code straight out of ideaware's source... Hence
> line 173: <script src="./smacontech_files/ideaware.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
I wasn't even aware this was a thing. Google's been busy updating their older stuff as of late- the new image search took me by surprise just earlier today.