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by downx3 14y ago
Right. I don't think it's a stupid aim to have. All you need to do is make an OS, that is stupidly easy to use... I still see people flounder over windows. I put Salix with a bare amount of apps on an older family member's computer -
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by downx3 14y ago
Sounds like you are in a sea of technology! Nice point though.
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by downx3 14y ago
I'm running Gnome Classic as I don't fancy Gnome Shell at the moment. And it's nearly there for me. My quit applet hangs my machine, my cpu applet has redraw issues. And nautilus and gedit are giving me some agro, but that's going off t
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by downx3 14y ago
I find network-manager takes more time than anything else getting a foot hold onto my wireless network. Other than that Debian Wheezy, with Gnome Classic is pretty good for me on an ancient SATA 1.0 spinner.
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by downx3 14y ago
I think that there is middle ground to be had, with some sensible defaults, and sensible configuration options. Make it good for the mouse, good for touch and good for keyboard! And let me mix it up a bit. And good for small and large scr
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by downx3 14y ago
Is that Ubuntu specific? I'm running Debian Wheezy with an Intel GM45, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that hot plugging of my monitor worked. I'd read in the past, that that was Intel specific. Either way it's very welcome. I'd
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by downx3 14y ago
I don't fancy hostname clashes.
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by downx3 14y ago
What a load of rot. You're better to advertise something generic such as 'visit the <brand> website.' or 'find us online', rather than a barrage of non memorable domain names and various social media urls. This is such an elab
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by downx3 14y ago
pepsi.com or www.pepsi or site.pepsi or brand.pepsi. You've then just got a multitude of hostname parts to guess - which is more confusing.
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by downx3 14y ago
Thought it might be better to sniff the device resolution, but apparently the ipad3 lies! http://www.priteshgupta.com/2012/04/detecting-ipad-3-for-spe...
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by downx3 14y ago
Might be just as well to sniff the user agent.
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by downx3 14y ago
Would it be better to sniff the header? Accept: RETINA Something like that, at least then you could turn it off in the browser.
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by downx3 14y ago
I thought it might have been inspired to mimic a cursor blink. But no.
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by downx3 14y ago
Semantically it might have been better authored as the 'pester' element, with blinking being one implementation.
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by downx3 14y ago
Thanks for this. I wonder how this interferes with on device picture optimisation - scaling etc. The leather always put me off the chumby.
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by downx3 14y ago
I must add then that it was just below 0 degrees C! Don't fancy minus eighteen at all.
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by downx3 14y ago
That's pretty cool. I was thinking about something similar. Just the ability to easily blend video signals. Say two inputs on the TV. It would be good to then plugin a 'computer' something like the Raspberry Pi, that would overlay the
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by downx3 14y ago
I didn't know you could do this, faster loads would help. But by the time you've done this you may as well just run some web services/pages.
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by downx3 14y ago
Agree - why so slow? Would be nice to see an open implementation here. I was kind of thinking that Google Tv might be that. But you really need the ability to overlay the picture. I've considered placing a low resolution lcd next to t
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by downx3 14y ago
You could use solar water heating as a vector to trap the suns heat in an underground heat store, that you then release at night. How cold does it get? Edit: I just tried to find out about night time temperatures. On the wikipedia page 'd
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by downx3 14y ago
I like the idea of taking the water back out the sea and placing it in underground aquifers. Some are are seriously depleted through industrial agricultural farming. Would be nice if you could just pull a cloud or two down from the sky.
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by downx3 14y ago
I doubt you'd care for hot water in the dessert. You could just fill a black bag. Cool clean water is probably preferential.
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by downx3 14y ago
Nice, and I thought this was good: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/living-without-water...
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by downx3 14y ago
Agreed, so annoying. Tried in Google Chrome on Debian Wheezy AMD64 with Intel GM45. Place feedback and alternative links at the top of the page also. Otherwise users are just left puzzled.
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by downx3 14y ago
I was so looking forward to a more 'web like' replacement for Ceefax/Teletext, to augment broadcasts. I never use the digital TV red button as it feels even slower than the 70s technology. Add to that that I can't even read what is on th
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by downx3 14y ago
See also a discussion here about Teletext, a similar service: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996889
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by downx3 14y ago
Surprised to see Google advertising on the TV in the UK for G+, a week later they change the navigation - that's pretty bad timing for any new adopters.
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by downx3 14y ago
I was quite relieved to find that this iteration is actually semi-usable without JS. Still doesn't degrade as well as facebook mobile. Can't tell what the buttons are without the rollover, unless you have learnt them. Both Gmail and G+
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by downx3 14y ago
False assertion.
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by downx3 14y ago
That's good to know though. As it's pretty easy to waste a year learning framework X.

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