As long as most printers and wireless cards and such are windows-only, as long as people send you docx files, as long as there are non-standard behaviors in MSIE that have to be tested for, as long as netflix uses silverlight... the windows monopoly still causes the linux user some annoyance in every day life.
1 - Turn all citizens into criminals.
2 - Be the one in charge to decide which citizens to prosecute.
3 - Make your position inheritable.
4 - Construct large pyramidal tombs in the desert to be remembered forever.
Most people don't have time to be creative and invent new things. They spend 8 hours a day doing what someone else is telling them to do. All because you need money just to live.
IMHO, git is a shining example of bad design. You need too much info on how it works on the inside, to be able to use it. It is simply way too complicated. I regret the fact that it seems to be the most popular VCS for open-source projects. I'd prefer something simpler like bzr.
If we invest poorly, as Obama will have us do with his "Drill, baby! Drill!" energy plan......well, if we actually follow through with that, we're well and truly fucked.
Politicians are bound to make stupid decisions by only considering the here and now. Why? Because if they make wise decisions for long-term benefit, voters are going to be pissed because of the short-term inconveniences. Voters are dumb, selfish and can only see the drawbacks they are suffering right now. They lack the insight to see beyond the here and now, and fail to consider long-term consequences. As a result they will get a negative opinion about the politician and punish him in the next election. So what will politicians do? They will try to please the voters, because the system was simply designed to have the majority get what they want. Even if what they want will have very bad consequences later.
Question: will the programmers of the car's driving software be required to have such a (high standard) driving license to be allowed to work on the software?
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As long as most printers and wireless cards and such are windows-only, as long as people send you docx files, as long as there are non-standard behaviors in MSIE that have to be tested for, as long as netflix uses silverlight... the windows monopoly still causes the linux user some annoyance in every day life.
"some"???
Where's your facial expression? :-)
Or this one:
http://megaglest.org
Not sure how it compares to Warzone 2100 though.
But they should not be allowed to print FIRE on a sheet that's to be used in a theater.
Right?
We are all criminals.
1 - Turn all citizens into criminals. 2 - Be the one in charge to decide which citizens to prosecute. 3 - Make your position inheritable. 4 - Construct large pyramidal tombs in the desert to be remembered forever.
5 - PROPHET!
6 - EXODUS
One does not simply...
...win from Warner Bros.
Or maybe they have a unicorn-repelling rock.
Extortion is just one way to exploit a broken system.
GCC is C.
Not anymore.
For rich people, money is their god. They worship it.
Most people don't have time to be creative and invent new things. They spend 8 hours a day doing what someone else is telling them to do. All because you need money just to live.
"It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" --Antoine de Saint Exupéry
This might just be the motto of the GNOME folks.
DOS was also better than punched cards. Would you still be satisfied with it in this century?
It's a funny time when we start to trade in /actual/ correctness for political correctness.
It's not funny, it's sad. Very sad only.
Why only the first two groups? They are also a subset of the third group.
oh wait...
ImageMagick!
IMHO, git is a shining example of bad design. You need too much info on how it works on the inside, to be able to use it. It is simply way too complicated. I regret the fact that it seems to be the most popular VCS for open-source projects. I'd prefer something simpler like bzr.
Me too.
A stock image supplier would already be smart enough to use a watermark, no?
And now the question is: when will Linux support it?
If we invest poorly, as Obama will have us do with his "Drill, baby! Drill!" energy plan... ...well, if we actually follow through with that, we're well and truly fucked.
Politicians are bound to make stupid decisions by only considering the here and now. Why? Because if they make wise decisions for long-term benefit, voters are going to be pissed because of the short-term inconveniences. Voters are dumb, selfish and can only see the drawbacks they are suffering right now. They lack the insight to see beyond the here and now, and fail to consider long-term consequences. As a result they will get a negative opinion about the politician and punish him in the next election. So what will politicians do? They will try to please the voters, because the system was simply designed to have the majority get what they want. Even if what they want will have very bad consequences later.
Just like Windows is 'POSIX-compliant' *rolls eyes*
But then again, him reproducing may not be what's best for everyone.
Question: will the programmers of the car's driving software be required to have such a (high standard) driving license to be allowed to work on the software?
But someone who is in a hurry to get home is likely to switch off the auto-pilot and drive manually, because it "drives too slowly".
I agree with you though, but we need to keep in mind that simply introducing self-driving cars is not a panacea.