Wow, at last a post which describes the defects of Linux in an appropiate manner and gets a +5 Insightful.
I hope this is going to continue, I'm sick of raving fanboys.
If you make a statement "the stuff isn't that hard, really", you should stop right there. You're not any better than those who claim "Vista isn't that bad, really".
I don't like to label myself, but let's say I'm a photographer/graphic artist and a casual gamer. I don't need to point out the games, so I'll move onto the artistical side.
My favourite mouse, Logitech MX500, has seven buttons, with the three default, back/forward and three customs, which I use in Photoshop. The only support for these extra buttons in Ubuntu was a tutorial of how to customize the xorg.conf to use back/forward-support to the file manager and browser. What the hell? This is the great hardware-support Linux boasts with? I'd like to use my less than 5-year-old mouse, rather than a 20-year-old dot matrix printer, thank you.
Well, after the configuration, when booting up, X announced to be broken. With my skills, I had to reinstall the whole OS from scratch because I followed the guide.
So yes, I don't think Linux is ready for mass-adoption. I'm not an idiot with computers, either.
You talk like Europe is an another planet. Wake up, there are whole other continents than North America.
Granted, the media there doesn't necessary tell that 'Europe is still under the domination of MS' or anything other from here, but the world or life outside US is not very different than yours.
Torvalds does indeed live in this country, but I don't think that makes Linux any more popular. If a company has international connections, everyone has to use the same system, right? MS still rules the world.
Word on the street was that [Uppsala University] was going to go completely FOSS, or at least completely non-MS, on its workstations. Many other institutions were heading that way until 2000-2002. Turku was a notable case, but there were quite a few others that weren't able to move even that far before MSofters flew in and thus didn't get as much press. I assume you know, but I'd like to point out that Turku is in Finland.
This is new to me, do you know what was the outcome?
Coffee tends to taste burned when it stands too long in the pot with the warming plate on. I usually shut off my brewer almost immediately when the water is used up.
Coffee doesn't get burned if it's instantly brewed, and even better if it's from freshly ground beans. I don't know about Starbucks, they haven't arrived to Finland (yet).
Americans are supposed to be leaders in creativeness and innovation That is the maybe worst bullshit I've read here in a long time.
I'm not going to flame about superior japanese or other foreign-to-US products, because frankly, my statements are probably not correct.
I suggest you think about exactly the same before you post such a load of crap.
Just because both are located in Scandinavia, doesn't mean they are related.
And why should they pay? What if cell phone companies do not support these studies, because if someone finds proof that cell phones cause cancer, how do you think that will affect the whole business.
The thing is... if that's how our solar system formed, then we're able to measure the age of the solar system by looking at the age of some of the other objects in the solar system. Fact is that most of the objects out in the kuiper belt and oort cloud (think in the 50-100,000 AU radius) are about 4.5-5 billion years old. Are you indicating to the results from the Deep Impact probe?
I've thought that a direct method to measure the age of the Sun is to analyze its fuel balance from the basis of its spectrum. We know what type of star it is and its mass, so isn't it possible to find out how much hydrogen it has used?
I thought at least SOHO would have a load of elaborate technology to measure these things.
It strikes me odd that we all are laughing about how robots will kill us all with every news of development, and still we strive to accelerate the development. After 30 years or so, will we be laughing about how stupid we were?
I totally agree, buzzwords works for a lot of people.
The people to whom 'nuclear' sounds very bad because of the weapons and waste, can't or don't want to shift their point of view to a more secure one, only because they think they know better.
I've begun to think that there are utterly simple people in my country, because now that some ex-Misses and useless celebrities have begun to air commercials where they say that global warming is an issue that touches us all, and they're not even the ones who are going so suffer most of it, so please, think of children, the press has begun to write headlines as "THE CLIMATE IS WARMING" (true headline), and only then are people going to think about their actions.
When thousands of scientists who actually know what they are talking about are warning everyone, they just think it's too scientific for them, that can't have something to do with me, I want to hear relevant information from our Idols-winners or from Lordi, they won the latest Eurovision, they must be smart.
Maybe it has already exploded. Just wait 38,000 years to find out.
If we see the effects of the explosion by the light it emits, say tomorrow, and assuming the effect/shockwave travels slower than light, we will have some exciting years to wait for it.
My father's co-worker once told him that he doesn't use the signal at all, he can't understand its point. Why should he need to tell other cars where is going, it's he who is driving the car, not others. He was dead serious.
This is obviously the mentality in Finland, so you're not alone in this.
Writing information like this in the FAQ scares me.
I shouldn't have to search for the signature for longer than 5 seconds in the Profile-page on a common forum.
And with my experience, MS likes to write things such as "Why our product is so much better than X" in the help files, when I am trying to look for something useful. Smaller FAQ:s means better sites.
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The Inhibitors have to speed up a bit.
Wow, at last a post which describes the defects of Linux in an appropiate manner and gets a +5 Insightful.
I hope this is going to continue, I'm sick of raving fanboys.
If you make a statement "the stuff isn't that hard, really", you should stop right there. You're not any better than those who claim "Vista isn't that bad, really".
I don't like to label myself, but let's say I'm a photographer/graphic artist and a casual gamer. I don't need to point out the games, so I'll move onto the artistical side.
My favourite mouse, Logitech MX500, has seven buttons, with the three default, back/forward and three customs, which I use in Photoshop. The only support for these extra buttons in Ubuntu was a tutorial of how to customize the xorg.conf to use back/forward-support to the file manager and browser. What the hell? This is the great hardware-support Linux boasts with? I'd like to use my less than 5-year-old mouse, rather than a 20-year-old dot matrix printer, thank you.
Well, after the configuration, when booting up, X announced to be broken. With my skills, I had to reinstall the whole OS from scratch because I followed the guide.
So yes, I don't think Linux is ready for mass-adoption. I'm not an idiot with computers, either.
Obviously not, the summary says "to power Windows."
You talk like Europe is an another planet. Wake up, there are whole other continents than North America.
Granted, the media there doesn't necessary tell that 'Europe is still under the domination of MS' or anything other from here, but the world or life outside US is not very different than yours.
Torvalds does indeed live in this country, but I don't think that makes Linux any more popular. If a company has international connections, everyone has to use the same system, right? MS still rules the world.
This is new to me, do you know what was the outcome?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitable_zone
Coffee tends to taste burned when it stands too long in the pot with the warming plate on. I usually shut off my brewer almost immediately when the water is used up. Coffee doesn't get burned if it's instantly brewed, and even better if it's from freshly ground beans. I don't know about Starbucks, they haven't arrived to Finland (yet).
I'm not going to flame about superior japanese or other foreign-to-US products, because frankly, my statements are probably not correct.
I suggest you think about exactly the same before you post such a load of crap.
Just because both are located in Scandinavia, doesn't mean they are related.
And why should they pay? What if cell phone companies do not support these studies, because if someone finds proof that cell phones cause cancer, how do you think that will affect the whole business.
I've thought that a direct method to measure the age of the Sun is to analyze its fuel balance from the basis of its spectrum. We know what type of star it is and its mass, so isn't it possible to find out how much hydrogen it has used?
I thought at least SOHO would have a load of elaborate technology to measure these things.
It strikes me odd that we all are laughing about how robots will kill us all with every news of development, and still we strive to accelerate the development. After 30 years or so, will we be laughing about how stupid we were?
I totally agree, buzzwords works for a lot of people.
The people to whom 'nuclear' sounds very bad because of the weapons and waste, can't or don't want to shift their point of view to a more secure one, only because they think they know better.
I've begun to think that there are utterly simple people in my country, because now that some ex-Misses and useless celebrities have begun to air commercials where they say that global warming is an issue that touches us all, and they're not even the ones who are going so suffer most of it, so please, think of children, the press has begun to write headlines as "THE CLIMATE IS WARMING" (true headline), and only then are people going to think about their actions.
When thousands of scientists who actually know what they are talking about are warning everyone, they just think it's too scientific for them, that can't have something to do with me, I want to hear relevant information from our Idols-winners or from Lordi, they won the latest Eurovision, they must be smart.
My father's co-worker once told him that he doesn't use the signal at all, he can't understand its point. Why should he need to tell other cars where is going, it's he who is driving the car, not others. He was dead serious.
This is obviously the mentality in Finland, so you're not alone in this.
Writing information like this in the FAQ scares me.
I shouldn't have to search for the signature for longer than 5 seconds in the Profile-page on a common forum.
And with my experience, MS likes to write things such as "Why our product is so much better than X" in the help files, when I am trying to look for something useful. Smaller FAQ:s means better sites.
My thoughts exactly. Would the robots have some function that digests (human) flesh? And for what purpose?
I would expect them to be dependant on solar power until we would scorch the sky.