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The Darkest Side of Clippy.

Why bother with the panda at all?

I don't know how others come to the conclusion BMW == asshole, but I can tell you that I make that association based on the driving I see day to day. For a total number of assholes a, and a subset of assholes in BMWs ab, the ratio of ab:total number of BMWs exceeds a:total number of cars. Also in that category: Crotchrockets, and any tricked out Honda or similar with a coffee-can exhaust. You know who you are.

For more car insight, see here. Beemers are conspicuously absent.

Somewhat related:
http://www.electric-escape.net/node/1475
http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/IRC_Idiot

You mean a captcha like this one?

Related Clippy humor:

http://www.thehumorarchives.com/humor/0001247.html

But Bill Gates gets half.
Just FYI, this was originally published in The Onion, but is no longer available in their archives.

If super villians can use it I'm sure college kids can too.

Oh yeah. I still remember that warm feeling of pain when I used to subscribe to NTL broadband. Eventually you learn to just relax.... lubricants help as well. http://www.thehumorarchives.com/humor/0000872.html

Never worked for me :(

picture of gates

My site the humor archives has been affected by this. I can tell because if you do the following search you can see a bunch of sites that are/were 302ing to my domain. I'm pretty pissed off and I seriously hope Google act soon to rectify the matter.

I use Gnome on my Debian machine and KDE on my Suse machine. Both are b-apt-ized with the sources.

But honestly, I am more productive with KDE than with Gnome. Gnome can be a pain in the arse. I've listed a few of my quirks below.

Nautilus:
In the folder tree (left window), try moving or renaming a folder. You can't. You have click on it's parent folder and scroll down in the right window and find it to move/rename it.
Konquerer in KDE works fine.

Gnome Clipboard Manager (I know, it's not part of the Gnome project...):
Copy and pasting between GTK1/2 and Qt apps while GCM is enabled total screws up your "highlighted" and "copied" clipboards.
Klipper in KDE has never screwed up my clipboard.

Gedit:
In this Gnome 2.10 screenshot example (http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-10/images/ged it-hilite-full.png) gedit is syntax hightlighting an html file. Gedit can even do Java and Perl files. But, It can't syntax highlight simple sh/bash files? I don't understand that.
Kate/Krite in KDE syntax highlights just fine and cleverly adds an expand/collapse icon to your for/while loops.

(I have lots more, but I'll stop there before I piss someone off ;) I don't want to start a KDE/Gnome flame war... And, yes, I am aware of the whole GTK vs Qt licensing problem...)

One excuse I've been told is that Gnome is designed to be a more minimal Desktop. Then why not just use XFCE? It the best (and fastest) minimal GTK based Desktop I've ever used:
http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=users_screensho ts&lang=en

Sometimes I think that the Gnome development team is trying so hard not to be like KDE (or even like Windows) it's development is being hindered.

Am I being rude or too honest?

-Joe

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