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Sure. I started off by installing cairo-dock (pkg, not ext), a nice OSX-style autohiding dock (tweaks req'd). This allowed me to install Remove Activities Button[1] and Applications Menu[2], which combined to replace the rather useless and annoying Activities menu with a standard Gnome2-style applications menu, and get rid of the ugly dash that was stuck to the left of my screen, hogging real estate. This had the sanity-preserving side-effect of removing the stupid hot corner to Overview that I would accidentally trip every other time I tried to hit the back button in the browser. It can still be accessed with the Tux/Windows key. I also installed Force Quit[3], which puts a little 'x' next to the Applications menu. Click it, then click any misbehaving window to kill -9 all procs associated with it. Haven't had to use it, but it seems handy.

Next, I installed Brightness Control[4], as the fn+arrow keys don't work worth a damn, and Advanced Volume Mixer[5], which replaces the standard volume bar with a separate bar for each app. I installed Remove Accessibility[6], just to de-clutter, and All-in-One Places[7], to give me some handy shortcuts.

Quit Button[8] replaces the username "status" menu with the familiar options from Gnome2, and Settings Center[9] gives me quick and easy access to a variety of settings menus. Finally, Frippery Move Clock[10] puts the clock over in the top-right corner, where it belongs. I'll probably look into installing some workspace-related extensions as I become more comfortable with the system.

The combined result of these small changes is a system that I find far more friendly and usable. As I said above, the only thing I find wrong with Gnome3 is the defaults. Gnome Shell is incredibly extensible, and absolutely gorgeous. It now works for me like a cross between Gnome2 and OSX, with some handy extra features thrown in. Some of these changes are fairly major, while others are tiny tweaks, but I love how simple and easy they are to experiment and play with. Most changes are instant, and enabling/disabling extensions simply involves flipping a toggle switch on the extensions web page. I've only been running F17 for a week, so I'm sure I'll discover more changes to make the GUI just right.

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/292/remove-activities...

[2] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6/applications-menu/

[3] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/102/force-quit/

[4] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/231/brightness-contro...

[5] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/212/advanced-volume-m...

[6] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/112/remove-accesibili...

[7] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/299/all-in-one-places...

[8] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/156/quit-button/

[9] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/341/settingscenter/

[10] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2/move-clock/
$2400 workstation laptop.
36: Continguous timezones are no more than an hour apart. (aka we don't need to test what happens to the avionics when you fly over the International Date Line)
See, I always get this response, but no one has yet to prove to me that VS can open and be ready to use in less than a minute. I'd like to see video, until then I'll keep believing VS users are incapable of keeping time.
I don't really understand why this provides a better environment for producing top-quality media applications over the platforms on the market today.
Latest installment of Microsoft paper-launch was for the Slate (remember all the iSlate->isLate jokes back in Jan 2010?)

That product (they even had HP dialed up as a partner) never shipped, and Apple introduced the iPad to subsequently (re)define the tablet market.
I think his point was that typing on iPad sucks. Feel free to disagree because sucks is a subjective measure.

I think that the integrated keyboard in both covers lets you make the choice which is what the point of the product seems to be.
It's improved in Win8. The results are sorted in some kind of MRU or frequency of use order. So the first time you have to look to not launch iTunes Help, but the second time iTunes will be on top.
Microsoft is trying to straddle two models and risks failing at both. The Surface will apparently be both a touch based device but also a more traditional desktop. The problem will be when buyers expect desktop performance out of a lower power device. For applications that are designed for a touch interface from the start, it's comparatively easy to optimize for performance, or at least the appearance of performance and responsiveness. But load up something huge with a heavy footprint (Office/Outlook etc) and it's a different kettle of fish.

If MS can pull this off, while still hitting battery life and price points, hats off to them.
Corrollary: The same month has the same number of days in it everywhere!
There are iTunes and App store apps on my iOS devices which can't be removed.
So, were you on the Concorde, or was it a Tu-144?
Industry consolidation is only a good thing when the competition it provides drives innovation. When all the players in an industry wallow around at the same level of mediocrity, that isn't really market diversity. The current tablet market is not a healthy one. It has apple at one end, and a theoretical other end that doesnt really matter. Squeezing out 15 companies that don't matter to make room for one competitor which has a chance is not a bad thing.
Without wanting to be negative for the sake of it, many many MANY people have tried to build job boards to compete with the established players. Few if any have succeeded even when well funded. What is it that made you feel that yours would be an different to the legions of others who have thrown themselves against the rocks of the established market leaders. I ask not to be facetious or mean, it's a real question - why is yours different? Honestly, it seems a little ill-advised to be "building a new jobs board".
What makes your job board better than all the others?

Reach out to people posting jobs on other boards telling them about your site. Reach out to tech recruiters telling them about your site.
The Macbook Pro narrator is Peter Coyote, who also narrated Ken Burns' National Parks documentary on PBS.
Buffalo ships a router with DD-WRT preinstalled.

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/wireless/wireless-router...

I'm using the 'stock' DD-WRT firmware on mine, and it handles its duty as a VPN endpoint, a Tunnelbroker endpoint, and does significant QoS'ing without a problem.
dafuq. I wondered what was going to happen to the original surface. pixelsense is an awful name.
I assume your browser came integrated with adobe flash
Just wanted to clarify (and not to trivialize the issue here)

More often than not it's not developers who decide to add the achievements for looking up skirts. It's the business monkeys and other people who have "studied" game design but forgot to do hello world some where along the way.

Usually developers who decide the course of a game work their own indie studio. And are smarter then that.
Take a good look around your iPad if you have one. Mine has iTunes...
this guy should be the next CEO of Microsoft
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"Clearly it does not trust Dell, HP, Lenovo et al to build machines that shows the OS in its best light to help it succeed."

Who could blame them?

Third party laptop vendors have been manufacturing crap for the last decade. The only exception is the thinkpad line(I own one), which mainstream consumers see as ugly. Hardware wise, every other laptop manufacturer has done little to impress or innovate, they're all about two years behind Apple, and any time they try to innovate they have all failed miserably.

On the software side, many of them bloat an excellent Windows 7 with tons of crapware.

I wonder if Microsoft can compete with Apple on the manufacturing side. Apple's manufacturing operations are highly polished and streamlined. While Microsoft, who do manufacture some very decent keyboards, webcams, and other accessories, are relatively inexperienced with manufacturing consumer electronics on a massive scale.

Edit: For Some reason I forgot about Xbox and Kinect. So yes, they do have extensive manufacturing experience, but boy was the Original Xbox a disaster with the RROD.
Thank you kindly for the link good sir!

And thank goodness a technologically competent company is hosting the advertising for this new technological product. Such hosting is apparently beyond the technological capabilities of the maker of said product.

Edit: Ok all snark aside, this looks a pretty freaking cool piece of hardware.

Still, the website being off-and-on down on launch day is pretty facepalm.
I didn't see any anecdotes in the post.
Luckily, Peter Woit is a man after my own heart and is not above a bit of pettiness:

> Update: Matt Strassler has more about this here. He provides about 20 links to his own blog, no link to the source of his information (this posting). It appears that this is because I’m a “non-particle-physicist blogger” engaged in a conspiratorial plot with some of the 6000+ people who know this latest news to “subvert the scientific process” by sharing it with others.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=4772

Preach it, brother.
I think at one point we had some LedgerSMB users using SimpleInvoices and importing data into LedgerSMB.

I think the difficulty with invoicing is that it is so heavily tied to everything else one might try to do in a business, from tracking inventory to CRM to financial accounting. This doesn't mean that one can't do this, but the interconnections seem to be key.
Wow, HN is harsh. This is probably a really solid product that solves a specific problem and you all nit-pick at it's trade-offs and poo-poo it.
As the comments show, there's a clear need for this that lots of great folks are going after (Vero, Intercom, etc) - but it all treads the fine line between usefulness and annoying for the end customer. If I look at some of the key examples on the Vero site, some seem to fit the obviously non-annoying bucket (email people if they haven't logged in in two weeks) while others are more dubious (send a user an email when they buy ten widgets).

Two solutions to this:
- Doing some meaningful analysis that compares successes/failures within the same cohorts to identify really important inflection points (i.e. a user needs to complete setup within 48 hours or they never will)

- Talking to customers to really understand the onboarding process so that you can use these event triggers to provide even better customer service.

These tools are definitely better than nothing, but I'm left thinking that we (as a community online) might be able to do better. Is the answer to better customer service on the web really more sophisticated automated emails? Or is it actual personalization + meaningful analysis?
Or just offer to help the coffeeshop owner replace their router with something better. I replaced the router at my coffeeshop. They're happy to have the help!

There are Tomato variants that offer per-user bandwidth caps. Check the Toastman build: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_(firmware)
I like the proportional font better, anyway. It's still plenty easy enough to notice the punctuation, and this way, the words look nicer. And there are plenty of words - each project has lots of comments and sample text.
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There are multiple Tomato variants (some offer per-user bandwidth limits and other features that are great for coffeshop-like environments).

Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_(firmware) for a nice matrix.
Yuck, it looks like you can't use it w/o a table top so it's useless on a plane, or train , or couch. It's like a half ass competitor to both iPad and MacBook Air.
Twitt? Do people say that? (On the right, in the grey, between the two Microsofts.)
Looking the other way round, any BT accessory created in your language/preference works with the iPad. I'm not holding my breath to see Microsoft covering every keyboard layout flavor existing around the world at launch of the surface.
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One thing you could do is write a really good invoicing app that works with a decent GAAP accounting system, like LedgerSMB. If the system is ok, and the database underneath is solid, you can do the GAAP stuff without having to write a whole accounting package.
Better yet, stick to ISO date format: 2012-6-18

Everyone can tell what that means.
Sounds like it. Which is exactly what microsoft is going to salve here: users demand iPads, no matter what it is they actually need. I'm sure IT didn't just decide that the sales reps all should have iPads, the reps got iPads because that's what they asked for. Microsoft has a product here that does what people need, while actually possibly being what people want as well.
Exactly. Depending on how it feels to type on that keyboard and the weight of the device, this could be a fully functional laptop and tablet.
If you read "several reviews" and still don't know that it will run Windows 8 then you have issues beyond what tablet to buy next.
Game servers for Unity can already be run on Linux. You'd write a multiplayer game in such a way that it just uses vanilla C#, and data structures that are easy to replicate (like Vector3, Transform, etc).

Running Unity apps themselves on the server even with this announcement would be a big mistake, IMO. It is not a stable piece of software.
So these people want to have a low powered laptop? A Netbook? With a confusing split-brain interface?

It's not about how powerful the hardware is, but how powerful and responsive the applications are. If they try to emulate a full blown Windows desktop on a low powered device, then the buyer has the worst of both worlds.
It doesn't - it provides a perfectly equivalent platform.

In all cases, it will be the codecs registered with the OS that would be used - so the quality of the media cannot be better/worse.

Where this differs is from a developer perspective - you don't have to learn a non-standard UI API (XAML/WinForms/MFC/COM/ATL/Qt/Gtk/Swing/awt/whatever) or a language you're not familiar with (C#/C++/Java - pick any). But you can be sure that the experience will be precisely the same - no API hacks to achieve something specific, nothing at all.
The argument of 'but drivers are hard on linux' is a throwback to the days when drivers were also hard on windows, it's just that we were used to the Windows way of doing things so it was familiar. I'm just saying that Windows doesn't get the free pass that the OP was implying.
Some women are put in game journalism roles because they are appealing to their audience for reasons other than their gaming knowledge. PR person misunderstood her silence and made a bad assumption. This misunderstanding could have been easily corrected. Saying, "No thanks I'll drive. What type of damage model do you use?" is plenty to show you mean business.

People shouldn't judge books by covers, but they do. Best you can do is give them one good shot at understanding. This will separate the actual jerks from those who just guessed wrong. Most people don't want to offend you, so don't spend your time walking around with silent resentment over something that's done by mistake.
The only case where that my be true is the case where you have a sole proprietor where the owner is the only one who touches the books. As soon as you have a bookkeeper who is not the owner, or multiple owners you do need that kind of depth.
When talking about businesses, not when talking about people.
This is cool... I started something very similar to this 6 months ago.

I took the Tornado event loop (rather than depending all of Tornado) and made it work with pipes, signals, and child processes (SIGCHLD mainly).

I based it on the Node.js API. Node has the stream1.pipe(stream2) API which is very nice. And I think node has a tee() as well.

Teena's API looks different at first glance -- I'll test it out and see what the advantages are.

I wrote this since I have a server that it starting a lot of child processes and the only way to properly manage timeouts and unexpected child deaths is with an event loop.

I didn't connect it to the server yet but I used it in another project which is like a better xargs -P (and better than GNU parallel). I'll put the code up at some point.
Allow me to explain to you why you're wrong.

My computer is my computer. Not Apple's computer when I'm using iTunes (hah, as if I'd ever use that piece of crap, but stay with me here), not Microsoft's when I'm using Windows Media Player, not Google's when I'm using Chrome and not Mozilla's when I'm using Thunderbird.

I know what I want my user interface to look like. I know what fonts, colours and relative sizes I want things to be. All in exactly the same way that I know what colour I want the walls to be painted in my home and where I want my furniture.

By breaking UI conventions because some idiot thinks that he knows what colours and shapes my monitor should display, I am unable to dictate what my own things should look like. Instead of a designer spending his time on designing a theme for a GUI toolkit and skinning all of the applications on my computer at once, he wastes time on coming up with a visual theme for just one of them.

Intelligence 101 - tend towards abstraction as much as possible. This recent trend clearly has it's roots in the idiot depart... ahem, sorry, I mean marketing department where the thinking went something like "but we need to solidify our brand experience by making our application stand out!". Yeah, buddy, yours and everybody elses. Give me my shit back, provide the functionality I'm buying from you and design a nice theme for KDE or Windows if you feel so inclined.

To hammer the point in further with another example, CSS was designed with, err, designers in mind and look at what a head-fuck that turned out to be. Leave the thinking to people who know how to think - we'll tell you what needs prettying up and how to do it right.

To throw out an idea of how things could be better - why can't GUI toolkits support fluid designs which can be manipulated by central themes? Why can't some people opt for ribbon menus while others use the old drop down menus just by changing a theme? What about if I want all my menus to be ribbon style but in a vertical fashion? Or if I want that list of porn actresses names' to be on the right rather than on the left of the porn database application I use to track my stalking habits? GUI's should adapt to how the individual thinks as opposed to the other way round as it currently is. That is the smart way to do it. This recent trend in UI's and, frankly, many other things, is taking the stupid approach to the problem.
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This would have been great a couple of years ago, but it's too late to bring out something that's almost as good as an iPad, but without the momentum or ecosystem. This was clearly designed by people who still don't understand why the iPad has been such a big success, and think the world is just waiting for an iPad running Windows. This is a desperation move, like the Zune, and will have the same effect on third party tablet hardware partners.
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Shameless plug here: http://search.labs.face.com - a site we developed for face.com lets you scan for faces all your Facebook photos and do some interesting searches on them, like "smiling child, female with glasses" etc.
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Get busy on LinkedIn (and I guess Meetup.com). I get multiple emails a week from recruiters and others looking for iOS and Android developers.
Most of these have OpenVPN in it, some can use it either as client or server as well.
Exactly - I'm trying to think of a recent Apple product launch where they didn't give the price up-front. Both the iPad and the iPhone, which were announced several months before they were launched, were given prices at the keynotes.
It is a bird's eye view of a human holding a laptop in an armchair, said laptop composed of a touchscreen docked into a keyboard/case apparatus thusly.
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Disagree that they reversed a setting I put in place isn't abuse?
Wile E. Coyote makes for an interesting roll model, considering that he's not round at all, but his body does seem to be able to adapt to a rolling mode when enough force is applied.

Also, he is a SU-per Geeen-ius!

I agree, that a good stylus would be a good addition to a tablet. A crappy stylus is worthless, though. It has to be a good one.
but it's too late to bring out something that's almost as good as an iPad, but without the momentum or ecosystem

Are you suggesting that Windows doesn't have an ecosystem?
Also, computer systems have different Gregorian calendars. Your system could use the proper Gregorian calendar and a system you're communicating with could be using the proleptic Gregorian calendar. Most people don't notice the difference because dates aren't frequently slung around < 1582 in the modern world, but if a system has an idea of an "unset" date being equal to 1/1/1 it could lead to an error if transmitted to the other, resulting in an invalid date 12/30/0.
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But then they'd be directly acknowledging the abuse, and then you could quickly change it back - however they want pictures to be tagged of you and to become public so they can be shared to everyone who they think will engage / comment on them, etc..
The stock answer to this is that "actual personalization" doesn't scale. But I think that's BS. It comes from people who think of web business customers as datapoints—heartless automatons traversing A/B test optimized sign-up funnels.

Today's and tomorrow's high-margin businesses do and will invest in real humans. It's truly mind-blowing that Apple can find and very comfortably pay nice, smart, real people who can understand the problems of any customer who walks in off the street and fix them, one by one. But they do.

I think that the future of support / customer service / customer development / marketing involves more humans and less automation. I'm part of the Intercom team and we've designed the first version of our product to fill the gap between now and that future—we have a great amount of automation and a great amount of one-to-one communication features, integrated tightly together. By design, we don't allow our customers to send automated messages that can't be responded to because we know that the real value happens when real people get involved.
So I'm guessing the whole face.com acquisition was to increase awareness of context of photos?
I came to the same thought about the supply chain at first, but Microsoft does sell hardware, the XBox (and I guess the Zune.) Certainly not the same as Apple, but they do have handle on it.

Given how a lot of OEMs are pumping Androids, Microsoft may just have to start hedging its bets.

(On a lighter note maybe we can start a red-ring of death meme).
I just clicked again on a small project just to see the load time. I'm not bullsh*ting but it was up and ready in ~3 seconds.Quadcore 2.5Ghz on some 3 years old Asus MB with 4Gb RAM and a brand new SSD (Crucial m4 i can recommend).
Can you prove your own statement?
It is, but no end-user is going to buy one of those giant devices. They're marketed to corporate customers, for whom PixelSense is probably just fine.
First there is an unspoken assumption in your post. Embezzlement can only happen when someone is handling someone else's money. In many sole proprietors, this is not the case. So for those, sure. But it's important to understand the limitations here.

But still within the core area, I think you have to accept that I would trust your books if they were kept in pencil more than I would trust books kept with software that didn't have proper controls.
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They are pretty terrible, and a dead end in terms of Windows 8 support based on my experience.