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> Is Ubuntu Driving Users Away?

It drow me away for sure.

The main reason I run Unix is the freedom it gives me to make my system the way I like it. For me Unix=freedom to customize. Considering that, the direction they've took at Cannonical is absurd. With each new release it's harder and harder to customize your system. If you want to configure it you have to hack it. Today, it's easier to customize Windows than it is to customize Ubuntu.

In the last few months I've played with Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint LXDE, Debian, OpenBSD, Arch, and ArchBang. I'm running ArchBang now and I love it!

P.S.
I would have stayed with OpenBSD if it had a better support for flash. Flash on Linux sucks, but on OpenBSD it blows. Other than that, I was really impressed with it, installation is fast, it runs fast, it's stable, and it's secure, but you knew that already :)
Going to court is a lot of effort (at least in mine country).
The best solution would be to keep the website on your servers, and hand it over after the payment, just like it happens in case of e.g. grocery store - you don't get anything until you pay for it.

If anything else fails then trashing the website is quite a good solution - all in all it's your website, until they pay for it.
You always have the option to use classic gnome with Ubuntu. That's what I use. I am not particularly thrilled with the idea of taking a netbook interface and slapping it on regular users. I tried it, didn't like it,switched back to classic.
I used to use powerpoint for my classes. A few years ago, something messed up, and I could only use the blackboard. Guess what? Best. Class. Ever. Now, my scheme is to teach the way people taught 100 years ago. I talk to my students. I write important things on the board (at, it should be said, the exact same speed as they can take notes). I have a stack of slides with illustrations of things that are too complicated to draw on the board, and I select from this stack occasionally. (Those slides are also on the course website, so students can print them if they want to insert them in their notes.) All of this works very well. At first, the students are freaked out by the fact that they have to attend class, and pay attention, and take notes. But, in the end, quite a lot of the class reviews point out that the blackboard is much better than powerpoint.
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You can always opt for traditional Gnome (Shell will be available on 11.10). It's a one-time change (you choose it on login) and works well. You'll never have to look at Unity again.

And, of course, you can run Debian or Fedora or any other distro you want.
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> My desktop is even able to resume and suspend (Ubuntu stopped to do it with the version 9.04)

Well... works here, flawlessly (has been, since 6.04, across five different computers)
Short answer: in California, no, and given the extent of the CA tech industry and the reach of its boilerplate, ypu might be pleased to see that the clause from Cali is in your contract in Georgia.
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Canonical have always said that they're aiming for a general user product, not power or niche users. There really isn't a distro for that kind of user at the moment, but there are plenty for power users.
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I recently installed 10.10 because 10.04 does not work with Unity.

The distro tries to use the nvidia open source drivers and it conflicts with the only that fully works and is needed. I had to blacklist nouveau for it to display X.

Now that I can use Unity, it is Alpha software, not even beta, the main launcher has icons witch do not display text to know what they are for, like the stupid fullscreen one that I though was like the apple resize, but it didn't work, until I finally realize that you need to click on it like an normal icon, not drag it(why then you put it in the corner instead of the main menu?)

The file manager is ugly without borders and full screen while put itself behind the icon launcher.

Search does not work either, it can't find my pictures or music or books unless I use the "official" folders for it I suppose(they do not find it right now).

Alt-F2 and 3d cube does not work either.

They copied mac without the design and aesthetics(and talent) that mac designers have.

Wait for X to wayland transition to come to see new bugs coming that makes it hard for me to recommend linux to anyone for two years.

Don't get me wrong, I love linux and I have been tweaking and loosing so much of my time trying to make linux work since 12 years ago, it was funny then. I don't use it in my main machine anymore, I use mac on it as it just works.
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> Not that that makes it right.

But it is. Every once and then you should start off a clean slate. You should throw away old code, even if it works, and rewrite it in better ways than possible when it was originally written. You have to incorporate what you learned into it.

The fact Windows probably contains code written for release 2.x is a weakness, not a strength.
Long before Unity, Ubuntu began to frustrate me for two reasons. Gratuitous changes in the default apps and failure to separate concerns.

I switched to Arch and I'm much happier with it.
> We need bigger telescopes.

Or faster rockets.
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> You don't ever need bullet points.

This intrigues me. How would you present summaries or pros/cons of options?

I'm talking e.g. a presentation that compares various web UI frameworks for a to-be-developed project that involved multiple parties / departments. Not the typical startup situation no, but common nonetheless.
You would raise more children.

Oh no, wait, this is something only icky brown people and redneck Christian fundamentalists do...
>There is a population of U.S. citizens who live overseas and may never have paid U.S. taxes on their non-U.S. earnings and non-U.S. accounts.

This really pisses me off. If I don't live in the US why on earth would I pay taxes on my non-US earnings? No other first world country expects this and no country has a right to it. Am I slave who's very soul belongs to the US government?

>Now that the IRS is enforcing the rules, with criminal penalties for scofflaws

Scofflaws? If I ignore laws of countries I don't live in I'm a scofflaw?
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Thanks to the web, linux doesn't have to have a good desktop UI. I 've always used ubuntu, because it's the one you can easily install on a new laptop, but my desktop has always been xfce4. I hate unity and even the default ubuntu gnome, and consider them to be unworth hacks over a great bsd + kernel subsystem. As long as Chrome, Firefox and the terminal still work, i 'm a happy xubuntu user. Now, if only xorg didn't hang at random times i would be happier.
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I've done research in speech recognition, a branch of machine learning, and analyzing the same data over and over again is the classic blunder. It is called "testing on the training data" and it over-estimates accuracy to an uncontrollable degree.

People do try to avoid this by splitting their corpus into two, training on one half and testing on the other half, which works the first few times. Pretty soon though you have tuned your methods to get good results on the second half of the corpus and it is used up as a source of new data for an independent assessment of accuracy. There is a technique called "jack knifing" that sometimes helps a little.

If the Vapnik–Chervonenkis dimension of your model is low enough then success on the training data does guarantee success on fresh test data. This never works in practice. Getting decent results always requires lots of tunable parameters and your VC dimension ends up way too high. Machine learning only works, to the extent that it works at all, because many of your parameters only affect part of your model. You have an effective VC dimension much lower than the parameter count indicates, so you do get some generalisation, but if you want to know you have to gather fresh test data.

If you are doing research in machine learning you have to have a rolling program of data collection so that you can do genuine forecast testing. Hindcasting, that is to say "testing on the training data" is only really useful for finding bugs in your software. You should always be able to get good hindcast accuracy by dialing up the model dimension. If you cannot, you will never get good forecast accuracy. If you can get good hindcast accuracy that basically means that your software has passed one kind of bug test. You don't know your forecast accuracy until you gather fresh data.

There is a human side to this. Doing research in machine learning is a ordeal of perpetual disappointment. Your research runs ahead of data collection. So you measure your hindcast accuracy. It is great. You have broken through. Then fresh data comes and you measure your forecast accuracy. Terrible disappointment. Science is hard!
Isn't this just like G+'s circles or Facebook's friend-list feature?
Better yet, faster physics. :)
I have not signed up, but from examining your site it seems that you don't have payed accounts, as a user I'll be afraid to trust you my files for a long time, even for free accounts, because it will seem that you're not sustainable and will go bust some time in the future and I will lose my files.
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The biggest fun of the project was that I was completely free to design the system from the ground up (except the canvas drawing functions).
Regarding the amount of work I have to be strategical.
I try to concentrate on a relatively small core system: get the philosophy right, tune the performance as much as possible. The components which are 'ready' right now: Window, Button, ScrollBar, ScrollPanel, GridPanel, TextEditor, StaticDoc. (StaticDoc is a read-only RichText component, kind of the original HTML.)
The other absolute necessary things needed in the near future: TabPanel, DataTable, CheckBox, ComboBox.

To go further I will certainly need outside help (either other programmers or funding or third party component creators). I cannot create a huge component lib myself. But 10 people can do lots of things I think.
I wonder whether all this would have been different if a ppt file (and similar) wasn't commonly called "a presentation" but e.g. "a deck".
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Better yet, here's the single-page version:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13gene.html?hp=&...
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I don't know if you only have data for the US but I get absolutely no results on anything. I live in Oslo, Norway, no results for '7-eleven', 'coffee', 'burgers'. Nothing at all.

I still don't see exactly what this site offers compared to Google Maps. Searching for "coffee oslo" (in Norwegian) returns a long list of places nearby.
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We are planning to develop a eCommerce/ticketing website where people can book their movie tickets through online. Please guide me with steps, best practices, programming languages, resources.
In India, there is no good webservice that collates information of all theatres.
Thanks for your help.
Ok, wait a minute. I always thought people preferred HTML5 over <insert platform specific API here> is that well, it's platform independent.

So I opened this app on my android phone... and nothing happened. Basically it said 'this (web) app is available for iOS only'.

Then what is the use of 'open web standards'? Am I missing something? Is this using a feature that android phones don't support yet?
People like that tend not to surround themselves with friends like that.
Pah, real programmers are doing that every day.
Although one of the side effects of speculation is that price volatility should be reduced.
I'll tell you what: since it's so easy, why don't you make a list of 100% guaranteed ways to make money on the internet. Lord knows I'd rather be in my own business than working for a huge corporation.
> "And because the data is encrypted on the client side, Bitcasa doesn’t even know what it’s storing." ... "If you have an MP3 file, someone else probably has the same one, for example." ..."Using patented de-duplication algorithms, compression techniques and encryption, Bitcasa keeps costs down (way, way down, but that’s it’s secret sauce), which is what makes it so affordable."

If the data is encrypted such that "Bigcasa doesn't even know what it's storing." then how is it possible that it knows that my MP3 file is "the same one" as "someone else"? In order to know my MP3 file is "the same one" it has to somehow know what it is storing.
I'm ashamed. Came to work after lunch and just then got told it's today. Why didn't I read HN in the morning? Now have to figure out a way to make a hack in the office to awww everybody.
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I've been using Ubuntu on all my home computers since 8.04, and generally I'm quite happy. But I do sometimes feel Ubuntu does tend to spend a lot of effort on things that don't really match my priorities. The XKCD comic springs to mind: http://xkcd.com/619/ (although in this case it is a new form of 3D desktop effects to replace the previous effects.. sigh.)
Maybe from his perspective? I'm sure people with a startup idea may have a different opinion?
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It was built as a tech demo and will work on iOS, Android and WebOS… but we built it primarily for iOS as a bit of an experiment to try to make something that "felt native".

¬ Of course you can fork it and mess around with it to make the experience better for android now too.
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Ah, I forgot, all generalizations are wrong ;)

Sometimes presenting every point on a separate slide works quite well - never done it myself, but I have seen some good presentations where this technique was used. I guess this could become quite annoying when overused. But it might work for comparisons: One slide for every aspect that is compared.

You could also prepare a separate handout that contains the detailed pros/cons or comparisons and keep the slides minimalistic.
A presentation is someone telling a story. it's an emotionel Endeavour, not a presentation of facts. if it was you could just write a report or send out a memo. As a presenter you need to bear this in mind.

Like any other story it should be engaging, interesting, fun and memorable. It should also have a beginning and an end. If you think of your slides in this context things change. Their goal is to amplify your point, make a technical point clearer, or something Else to underline what you're saying. The main focus should be the speaker, not the slides.

If you want to see a true Master look at some of Steve Jobs keynotes. There are three kind of slides:

- pictures to show what the product looks like.

- short bullets to give an overview (a phone, an iPod, an internet communications device)

- simple graphs to show a point or a trend.
Am I the only one who tried Unity, decided they didn't like it, clicked "Ubuntu classic" in the next login and went on with their lives?

It looks like it's easier to write a blog post complaining than to select Gnome in that damn combo box...
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Otherwise, it's like writing the introduction to a book before you've written the book.

Isn't that the standard operating procedure?
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Funny to see this here. There's a follow up on what to use: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/what-to-use-instead-of-pie-chart...
> I recently installed 10.10 because 10.04 does not work with Unity.

I assume you say 11.10. If not, you should try to use a newer release.

> I had to blacklist nouveau for it to display X.

When someone tells me they have an Nvidia board and ask for help, my first advice is to buy a decent computer and stop supporting manufacturers that don't publish free drivers (or sufficient specs so that driver writers can do their work for them). I have no respect for manufacturers like them. Seriously, stop complaining and support manufacturers that care about open source.

> Now that I can use Unity, it is Alpha software

Ubuntu gets unstable when major upgrades are done. Unity is receiving a huge one right now and some turbulences are to be expected.

> The file manager is ugly without borders

It's been acknowledged. Something that didn't work out as expected and they had to go back to older pieces for a while.

> They copied mac without the design and aesthetics(and talent) that mac designers have.

I have a Mac to the left of this machine and I can't see much similarity except the use of the menu on the top of the screen, which makes a lot of sense if your screen is small and much less if you have multiple big ones (much like Macs) and the window buttons to the left, which makes the transition from Macs much easier (and punishes Windows users, but, by now and after Vista, those seem to be used to if, if not anxious for some more abuse (Metro on Win8, anyone?). I'm not sure if Gnome 3 has the same menu, but it's a huge departure from the Gnome desktop we have been using since the early 2000's.

> Wait for X to wayland transition to come to see new bugs coming that makes it hard for me to recommend linux to anyone for two years.

I'm actually anxious to get wayland available. X has served us well for the past 20 or so years, but it's time to go forward. New bugs will manifest themselves and be corrected. In the meantime, I bet you'll still be able to use X, specially with hardware whose manufacturers will take years to come up with new drivers.
Wow I seem to remember in the blurb that accompanied the horrible new dashboard (that assumes it knows all about us and who we want to share with and will nag and nag and nag until you conform to their way) something about pages loading 3 times faster. Either my computer has suddenly developed problems or they made a typo and it should have been 3 times slower.

I can't even delete a page. Gutted because I moved a lot of stuff here from Slinkset (which was awesome, although not a blogging platform). I had to because Slinkset closed down after being bought up by Posterous (why buy something so you can destroy it ? What am I missing here ?). Now I have to work out how to move everything on again. Let's hope Posterous are as amenable about you exporting your blogs to other platforms as they are about you importing them.

I'm tired of this sort of thing.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Investigation and exploration is directly related to imagination and emotion. Because of the great political impact involved, we need to have plans in place to directly image these planets.

Show people a picture of another Earth and that will drive a lot of scientific research. When Columbus returned from the New World, the idea that there was another world out there had just as big (or bigger) impact for the first few decades as people actually going there.

I'm with Hawking on this. Earth is getting crowded, stale, stagnant, and in some ways unstable. We need a very clear vision that there is somewhere else to go should we put forth the effort.
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Come on. Unity is not that bad. And with Gnome 3, I fear this will no longer be an option. Between Shell and Unity... Tough choice, but I'll stick to Unity. I like the pixels it frees up. I have paid for them.

And think of the poor Windows 8 users who will be confronted with a Metro UI on boot. Think of all the moms who will desperately call their children (on the phone, because they'll never be able to find Microsoft Live Skype Premium by themselves)
I know that and I respect it. What I don't know is why are they investing so much time in making it impossible to customize Ubuntu? What it has to do with their mission? Is it impossible to build a system with good defaults so that general population can use it with no configuration requiered, and let more advanced users pimp it up the way they want it.

The Unity developers had been answering questions on redit some time ago (http://gd.is/dgzY) and the majority of people were complaining about it only to find out that the developers have no authority to implement some basic conf tool.
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