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Don't know why others are giving you sensible answers, but you using the words 'Brendan Eich baby' shows your level of trolling. If you want a _good_ discussion, stop doing that.

The buttons looks a little pale, but I loved the overall design!

Apple had a point, that they were cooler. They were saying, "hey, we are different". How does what Microsoft's saying about Google not apply to it? MS doesn't care about your privacy any more than Google. With the Snowden revelations and all, they have no case to make.

Wow, didn't expect they were selling merchandise. This is a new low even for Microsoft. Microsoft were never considered to be a company which puts ethics over money, and this just shows that they are jealous. They would do worse if they were in Google's place.

But selling merchandise? Come on, really! Is there at least one person in the world who could use these items and make it seem like they are making a fair point?

Dash, sometimes, is horribly slow. Rest of Unity has gotten usable, but Dash is a pain even now. Canonical should really focus on it's performance since it's the most important part of Unity experience.

I like having them separate too, you can use the Omnibar add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/ to have Chrome-like functionality.

Been using this on the UX branch for a while now, loving it. Been very stable, excited to see this is finally merged.

I am using pdf.js with Firefox 27 Nightly on Ubuntu, and its rendering fine for me.

My parents are both 50+. My Dad's a Sales guy and my mom is a high school teacher in a primarily non-English, government school. They use Ubuntu for all their tasks. Mostly includes Browsing(YouTube, Epapers), talking to my sister in the States (Hangouts), Media (music, photos and videos) and LibreOffice. The stuff they discover sometimes amazes me, all along I've been believing this would be too hard for them.

> I just get the feeling that Oracle doesn't really give a shit about anything other than that god damned boat.

I was helping out a cousin install Oracle on Oracle Linux, and I found it way too complicated to set up. Installing their flagship product on their official distribution was a pain. All they could have done is provide proper repos/rpms. It's sad that they couldn't get that right.

I use the Nightlies, and am really digging the new stuff that's coming in. What I want the most is, a DevTools-level universal shortcut to focus onto the Web Console prompt. I know that C-S-k is the Web Console short-cut, but when focus is on the other parts of the Web Console, pressing C-S-k just closes Dev Tools. I like how Chrome uses 'Esc' to focus on the prompt, and I find it a very superior UX.

Yes, they do. These laptops are not different from their Windows counter-parts. They were manufactured/assembled with Windows as the target OS, but in a country like India, where financial feasibility is a major factor, providing options with free OS (thus reducing the Windows tax) helps. It was Free DOS for several years, now it's Ubuntu. I think this is one such example, where GNU/Linux being 'free as in free beer', really matters.

Yes. At the least,all the ones I've seen come with 12.04.

Several retail outlets in India sell Dell laptops pre-installed with Ubuntu. It is considered equivalent to DOS, in that, choosing an Ubuntu laptop will save you a few thousand rupees compared to the same laptop with Windows (also helps that most such configurations also omit the almost-ubiquitous and mostly un-neccessary NVIDIA graphic cards). Many customers prefer this because they have easy access to pirated Windows copies. Though due to this, several of them get introduced to Ubuntu, and many continue using it. It especially helps having someone you know who is a Linux user and can help with any gotchas. I've helped several friends and cousins who got Ubuntu with their laptops.

For me though, having a pre-installed Ubuntu is a great way to ensure all the parts of the laptop are working properly.

Adding to what others said, someone I know is planning to use this as a starting point for understanding version control systems. The reason stated was it's simplicity.

Is there a mass CoffeeScript-answers-to-JS-Questions taking place on SO? Without even pointing to some instances of CoffeeScript-ers arrogance/mischief, ranting like that is not a nice thing to do.

I think you should first explore Computer Science in general. You should start with a good programming language, a high-level, beginner-friendly, very web-favored one. Pick Ruby or Python. Then grab courses on Algorithms, Databases, Computer Networks and an other area you wanna explore. You don't need to complete them, but just get a feel of what they have in store for you. Make sure you write some code as part of the Algorithms course.

Web development is not just using frameworks. There is real Computer Science involved for building and maintaining any substantially complex web-app. Apart from this, there will almost certainly be domain-specific knowledge required for a complex web-app.

If you get a hang of programming, and love the CS concepts you are trying to learn, you can then build a career path accordingly (may be college?). If you are dis-inclined, then you can get to learn Rails/Django, and keep free-lancing.

I think at the age you are in, you should not miss out on getting a chance to learn some serious CS.

This is a totally bullshit way of managing a FOSS project. You should never remove working code from a FOSS project if someone is already maintaining it and that someone represents a major chunk of your users. I hate that Ubuntu guys are moving away from X/Wayland (so suddenly and in a close-is way), but treating them like this indirectly is wrong. We got to play fair with the FOSS eco-system.

> People in India don't even have the reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death

Why so many negative votes? What was wrong about me being offended by such an insensitive statement. The statement was factually incorrect. Is it not arrogant to comment on a country like that without data?

Yes, I got that. Here's my take on it, which might contradict most of the stories out there. I don't think the many number of such recent cases is a new occurrence. It's just that the media is using 'Rape cases' as their 'News topic for the year', making sure they make a big deal out of such cases, which is a good thing.

But media concentrating so much on this topic is because people are finally ready to talk about such stuff. I've heard of dozens of rumors of rape that were allegedly subdued over the last few years. I think the Delhi rape incident was the tipping point.

I don't think rape cases have increased, I think the reporting and public outcry have gone up. India is finally dealing with the most shameful parts of a society whose discussion was until now anti-cultural, any discussion related to sex is anti-cultural. In our movies the most just thing for a rape victim was to get them married to the rapist, that was considered giving the victim a life, go figure that out.

Despite all that, I and several other people go by our day mostly care free. There is a sense of security in our social lives. Shit still happens, where doesn't it not happen. But this shit is not new, it is not unique to us. Making such lame shallow comment about a culture is insensitive.

> People in India don't even have the reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death

That was very, very offensive. Are you an Indian? or at the least been to India? My mother has been using public transport for 25 years (now traveling upto 150Kms for her job). She never had a problem. Show some data and or shut up your arrogant mouth.

I think the rush to make everything 'web' is primarily because we finally are building an open, free, accessible, write-once-run-everywhere platform. That's the most exciting part of the web, and privacy is a bug we still have to fix.

EDIT: When I say 'privacy is a bug', I mean the ability to provide privacy is still immature, and susceptible of exploits.

The product description indeed is a bit vague, though you get the gist of what they are trying to accomplish. You might want to ask more specific questions instead of just ridiculing them. Some of us are not good at PR and those of us who are good should help others.

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Comment quoted here for ease:

Although Ubuntu is a variant of the GNU operating system that I launched (see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html), it has major ethical flaws: it contains software that is not free/libre (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) and it spies on the user (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html).

The Free Software Foundation challenged the developers of the Ubuntu Edge to design it so that it would run without user-restricting nonfree software, but they rejected that goal.

Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation www.fsf.org www.gnu.org

I am from India, and our parties do not give a shit for the ideals engraved in our constitution. Like the ones in most(all?) other countries, they have transformed from leveraging a shitty status quo to enforcing a shittier status quo.

Back to your post. What I understand is, you want to show to the existing parties that a sizable population wants something the parties are not offering, and hope that they will notice. And you yourself cannot support any of the existing parties because you disagree with several of their policies. Won't your proposed party face a similar problem? It probably will be less of a problem because the degree of disagreement on issues won't be so big, because the kind of people you will gather think similarly of most issues, have a similar (modern, liberal?) morality.

But I think you have to relay the implicit message of your post explicitly. LETS STOP BEING FUCKING LAZY.

This is a far better mockery/attack on Google's strategy than Microsoft's Scroogle campaign ever was. They should learn from this. I especially loved the cute & funny one-liners.

(Not that I support Scroogle, it's a cheap shot. I hate negative marketing. It's setting a bad example in tech, which has mostly kept the negative marketing away.)

I love Ubuntu. Been a fan from, lets see, 5.04. It's been a long sweet experience. But lately I've got many areas which I vehemently disagree with them.

I guess the most important issue with Ubuntu nowadays is the one of privacy. With the recent revelations of mass surveillance, exposing desktop searches to a 3rd party by default is a catastrophic decision. I can't understand how the folks at Canonical could accept such a feature. They could have made it opt-in, with flashing popups and shit, asking you to signup. But making it default is a nightmarish situation. I was able to recommend non-technical users (like my parents and relatives) to install Ubuntu by themselves, arguing there was nothing to change that would need someone with know-how. But not now with stuff like this. I don't think the major chunk of the user-base (home users), would understand the implications of this feature.

I can't help but wonder how such a system can be practically implemented. I cannot imagine that engineers at companies like Google, Apple, MS etc, the ones working on stuff like Gmail, YouTube, iOS, would co-operate with such unethical practices.

But it has been proved again and again that authority trumps conscious.

I really love the latest FF23 dev tools, been using Nightly for quite a while now. The dark theme is nice. But I think the keyboard-bindings need some work.

- Chrome has this nifty feature where pressing 'Esc' in any of the dev tools brings the Web Console.

- Also, consider this use case. Let's say I enable dev tools on a page, use the Web Console, do some investigation and focus back on the page leaving the dev tools enabled. Now I want to get the focus back to Web Console, but using Ctrl-Shift-K disables the Web Console all together and I will have to re-enable it. Some key binding that brings focus back to the dev tools would be nice.

One can do the same stuff in Photoshop with less learning. But this also shows it to the GIMP skeptics that if you put a little more hardwork GIMP can do outstanding stuff too and you will also save a good amount of money. GIMP is a boon to beginners (& students specifically). It's free, capable and accessible. Stuff like this should be showcased a little more so that beginners don't run away from GIMP.

I for one am happy they put all the stuff in a single window. GIMP & Blender are those FOSS killer apps in multimedia/graphic tools, they give lots of power to the user. I would like to see some FOSS app do so well in video editing & FX. The ones we have now are not even comparable to Adobe/Autodesk ones.