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Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick MeerkatShuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick MeerkatPosted Apr 2, 2010 14:55 UTC (Fri) by jwb (guest, #15467)Parent article: Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat
Maybe they'll move the title bar to the bottom of the window.
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Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 2, 2010 15:14 UTC (Fri) by sharms (subscriber, #57357) [Link]
For some reason the anti window button movement uses the same strategy as the anti US healthcare
movement, and expects people to listen to them. Odd.
Beating a dead horse, citing vague opinions, and offering nothing tangible or even remotely
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 2, 2010 16:11 UTC (Fri) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link]
It's like a sore tooth. Just let it go.
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 2, 2010 16:40 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Yes. The USA constitution is the dead horse being beaten, apparently.Our Government in action.... Problem: Our USA health care system is out of control with expenses and whatnot. The reason this is happenning is because health care institutions are evil capitalists and are rasing premiums in a ugodly rate. Solution: Part A) Make it illegal not to purchase health care insurance from those corporations. Part B) Require insurance companies to pay out compensation to people that have health problems while not on insurance. Results: PRIOR to health care reform bill: Your group insurance premiums are expected to double in the next couple years. Individual insurance premiums rise at similar rate. AFTER the health care reform bill: Your group insurance premums are expected to double in the next couple years. Individual insurance premiums will rise 13% immediately then double in the next couple years. ----------------- Why this is happenning... Imagine your living in a city with 100 people. There is only enough food to feed 80 people. So the cost of food rises until 20 people cannot afford it anymore and they begin to starve. Our solution to solve this problem is require everybody to purchase food insurance and raise the premiums until there is enough money in the system so that those 20 people can now afford to purchase food again. Now everybody has enough food because of food insurance!! Yay; the system works! ---------------------- The USA's health care economic system is one of the biggest economic systems in the entire world. It is bigger then most of the GDP of the countries in Europe... combined. In terms of socialized medacine our USA system is already HEAVILY socialized. For example.. The U.K. Government spends about 15.8% of it's revenue on health. France: 14.2%, Norway: 17.9%, Canada: 17.7%, etc etc etc. In the USA the amount of government revenue that goes to socialized healthcare (remember this is all PRIOR to the bill being passed) is 18.5%. Our government already spends more, as a percentage of revenue, then pretty much any other country in terms of socialized medicine. The raw amount of money is staggering. Nobody... NOBODY, in our country gets turned away from a hospital because they don't have health care insurance. Anybody that says otherwise is a lier. You can come in here illegally from Iran full of cancer and TB and our health care system will STILL take care of you. And it'll get paid, not by government, but by the other customers of the hospital. What is really happenning is that the USA government is staging the largest take over of a major economy in all of human history. In terms of dollars, in terms of percentage, in terms of everything... This is the biggest power and money grab in all of human history. Nothing else comes close. All of this is more expensive then the Revolutionary war, WW1, WW2, Vienam War, Civil War, Iraq, etc etc... COMBINED... In terms of today's dollars. The rules and regulations being set up make it impossible for insurance to ever work. It's just stupid to think it is. Yet they are still requiring you, by law, to pay money to these 'evil' corporations. Why? (a person may ask) Because these corporations are facing a economic crisis and this is how the Democrates are saving their friend's asses. Sure it looks like they are doing good now because they have huge profits... but the profits are not that impressive if you compare it to just the raw amount of cash flowing through system. Just trillions and trillions of dollars. So this is how the government is going to solve this... make the whole concept of health care 'insurance' a joke, and then finance those companies through a combination of several involentary payment plans. They make it illegal for you not to purchase insurance and then on top of that they are going to raise your taxes. This means that your effectively being taxed twice and all of this extra money is going to be filtered through the 'insurance companies'. Effectively, with government backing, being a health care insurance company becomes a purely profitable enterprise. Pure profits, no Risk. If you need money they will just print out more money for you in addition to the fact that you can raise premiums and people are required by law to pay you. You stop being a insurance company and simply become a money handler. You take the premiums and taxes and pay them out to hospitals. And then you take a 2-5% cut out of money your handling. This health care bill is not really designed to solve our health care crisis... it's designed to create billionares. And with the health care bill it puts the political party in power firmly in control of who gets to access to these huge profits. The only risk insurance companies face is if they fail to pay the correct level of respect and money to whatever political party is in power. Everything your being told by the Government about this health care bill and what it's goals and methods are... is a _lie_.
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 2, 2010 16:56 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
I think you're on the wrong site. This site is about Linux.
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 2, 2010 20:01 UTC (Fri) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link] There are many, many, other fine forums for
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 3, 2010 1:09 UTC (Sat) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
drag,
Normally your posts are excellent and often amusing. This one is not. Keep
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 3, 2010 2:27 UTC (Sat) by PO8 (guest, #41661) [Link]
I thought the whole point of professionally-written articles, subscriber-only comments and editor discretion was to keep LWN from turning into Slashdot. Could this whole sub-thread (including my comment) be taken down, please? Thanks.
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 9, 2010 9:58 UTC (Fri) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]
And why do you think your rant is of interest to us? Look it up, moron, this is LWN.net, not Slashdot.
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 2, 2010 16:44 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
I think that places the responsibility on the wrong side. If you make a particular change, without offering a good
explanation, you don't really expect others to justify it. The fact of the matter is, the explanation that it leaves room on the right side is incomplete and makes it all sound rather mysterious.
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 2, 2010 18:31 UTC (Fri) by ESRI (guest, #52806) [Link]
Kudos on the flamebait!
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 8, 2010 13:18 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Please point out the usability testing done by the Ubuntu team to demonstrate why moving the windows buttons to the left is an improvement. A change that annoys users like this should have some tangible justification, just as GNOME and others have done usability testing for their changes.
And please stop using guilt by association as a rhetorical device, it's not very effective.
Note that I didn't compare you to an unpopular group at all...
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 2, 2010 15:21 UTC (Fri) by ableal (guest, #57174) [Link]
Moving it to the _side_ of the window (title bar, plus application tabs, buttons, menus, whatever) would be an innovative way of dealing with those 'widescreen' displays foisted on us nowadays ...
Design for wide screens please Posted Apr 2, 2010 15:47 UTC (Fri) by mrjk (subscriber, #48482) [Link]
Yeah that is a pet peeve of mine. With all common distributions. (And Windows and OSX for that
matter) Why are all the default window manager options set with bars at the top and bottom of screens. Since the screens are so wide now (too wide for me) I wish they were designed to be vertical sidebars. You can switch some, but nothing is really engineered that way. Everything is still set as if we have almost square screens.
Design for wide screens please Posted Apr 2, 2010 16:11 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
Give a shot to flwm. You'll proibably change your mind (about using vertical title bars).
Design for wide screens please Posted Apr 2, 2010 18:00 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
xrandr --rotate should fix it ;-)
Design for wide screens please Posted Apr 2, 2010 19:23 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I tried and now I have neckache and everyone's wondering why I walk around
with my neck craned to one side. :)
Design for wide screens please Posted Apr 2, 2010 19:29 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
You've looked at kernel.org too much on Apr 1.
Design for wide screens please Posted Apr 3, 2010 0:58 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Actually I didn't look at it then at all (I was too busy laughing over the
Unix-shell-prompt-with-added-adventure-game-in-Javascript which had replaced the xkcd front page). What did they do? Turn it on its side? :)
Design for wide screens please Posted Apr 3, 2010 8:46 UTC (Sat) by robertwall (guest, #64484) [Link] It got flipped upside down. There's a mirror of it if you'd like some more neck cramps ;P
Design for wide screens please Posted Apr 3, 2010 11:47 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Nice. Needs a bunch of fonts I don't have though :)
Design for wide screens please Posted Apr 3, 2010 18:00 UTC (Sat) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link]
My 24" monitor can turn 90°, and I sometimes use it like that. Believe me, it's as if the web was invented to be used in portrait mode ! Everything looks totally gorgeous like that.
Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat Posted Apr 2, 2010 16:08 UTC (Fri) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link]
Back in the day I used FLWM under Gnome, which had side title bars. Even without a widescreen display, it made a difference because so much content is optimized for vertical scrolling.
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