How old are you? For me, it was standard procedure to virus scan every floppy before accessing it. Forgot it once and promptly got a very nasty virus that hid for a few weeks, then displayed funny messages and wiped my partition table.
This doesn't translate to a number of software packages. It just means that there are more pages mentioning free Windows software, which is to expect, as you have to search for and download software manually in Windows.
Erm... mobile phone texting is still called SMS. GSM designates the whole mobile communication standard, which also includes being able to launch a web browser on the phone and follow HTML links.
Fully agree. During a really ugly debugging session, I find that consuming a few beers helps me not to get scared of the big picture, and fully concentrate on the smaller aspects of the problem one by one.
Microsoft is sucessful because it is the most pratical o.s for most people.
Hardly. Windows seems "most practical" to you because I suppose it is the only OS you are really used to. Aside of that, it's not the end users that keep Microsoft in the market. Microsoft doesn't even care about them. To a very large extent, it is exclusive long term contracts with businesses and hardware vendors that keep them afloat.
Excel is also a very good "multi-calculator" when doing math. I'm glad I don't have to use it for anything serious, like obtaining a predictable arithmetic result.
If it were that easy, I would have ditched x86 a long time ago and be using an UltraSPARC laptop as my workhorse. A big problem is that even today you'll have a hard time finding non-x86 laptops (or desktops) with a price tag mere mortals can afford.
Intel might not need them in the niche market of netbooks, but they do need them and their patents when it comes to the actual desktop and laptop computers out there.
What? Like it or not, the market leader in graphics is still Intel, because their integrated chipsets absolutely dominate BOTH netbooks and laptops.
There was a reason KDE 4.0.x and 4.1.x were explicitely not recommended for production use... the stuff you listed, some of which I never encountered at any time, has been sorted out in 4.2 which is the first version I consider as rock solid as 3.5.10 and use as my main desktop now.
The aussie video was just an example I googled BTW. Put some screenshots side by side and you will see that the Windows 7 taskbar in its current state looks very KDE like, rather than Vista like. On the other hand, the KDE 4 panel might resemble the Vista color scheme, nevertheless it functions in a very original, customizable way that doesn't borrow from somewhere else.
Not a good idea, as it would be easier to accidentally click somewhere you didn't intend. With the trigger-on-button-up behavior you can still move the mouse away with the button already down and not trigger the widget.
You should be fine with any non-ancient graphics hardware. KDE 4 does hardware checks during startup and disables desktop acceleration on hardware that fails the checks. You can alternatively switch to an XRender backend in that case which will disable most of the fancier effects, though, as it only accelerates 2D.
Full OpenGL desktop acceleration works on my eee 701 netbook (Intel 910GM) but not on my crappy old laptop (Mobility Radeon M6).
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On the page you linked, Comic Sans is displayed using a proper sans font with proper kerning. Glad I'm using Linux :-)
I think there are more fake As and Bs than fake Ds, many women undergo surgery because of the back pain associated with big breasts.
This story offends me. It is anti-Linux.
Bah, H-Pee is so elitist crap. My Casio has 12 programmable firewall registers!
How old are you? For me, it was standard procedure to virus scan every floppy before accessing it. Forgot it once and promptly got a very nasty virus that hid for a few weeks, then displayed funny messages and wiped my partition table.
This wins the prize for the best car analogy ever.
This doesn't translate to a number of software packages. It just means that there are more pages mentioning free Windows software, which is to expect, as you have to search for and download software manually in Windows.
There is more free software available for Linux then there is for all other operating systems combined.
This screamed for a factual correction. Very loudly.
Erm... mobile phone texting is still called SMS. GSM designates the whole mobile communication standard, which also includes being able to launch a web browser on the phone and follow HTML links.
Fully agree. During a really ugly debugging session, I find that consuming a few beers helps me not to get scared of the big picture, and fully concentrate on the smaller aspects of the problem one by one.
Microsoft is sucessful because it is the most pratical o.s for most people.
Hardly. Windows seems "most practical" to you because I suppose it is the only OS you are really used to. Aside of that, it's not the end users that keep Microsoft in the market. Microsoft doesn't even care about them. To a very large extent, it is exclusive long term contracts with businesses and hardware vendors that keep them afloat.
Excel is also a very good "multi-calculator" when doing math. I'm glad I don't have to use it for anything serious, like obtaining a predictable arithmetic result.
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I expect this will be modded troll.
Rightfully, because "they" are trolls and you repeat it.
I'm scared of your thoughts. There are already enough monopolies around that charge us extra for basic goods and services.
Actually, Red Hat is the company working most actively on the Linux kernel. Source (scroll down to the "Who is Sponsoring the Work" paragraph).
If it were that easy, I would have ditched x86 a long time ago and be using an UltraSPARC laptop as my workhorse. A big problem is that even today you'll have a hard time finding non-x86 laptops (or desktops) with a price tag mere mortals can afford.
Intel might not need them in the niche market of netbooks, but they do need them and their patents when it comes to the actual desktop and laptop computers out there.
What? Like it or not, the market leader in graphics is still Intel, because their integrated chipsets absolutely dominate BOTH netbooks and laptops.
Turn the desktop effects off to make it run fast. Actually, it even uses slightly less RAM then KDE 3.
But after booting he will notice there is no more RAM free for applications.
There was a reason KDE 4.0.x and 4.1.x were explicitely not recommended for production use... the stuff you listed, some of which I never encountered at any time, has been sorted out in 4.2 which is the first version I consider as rock solid as 3.5.10 and use as my main desktop now.
The aussie video was just an example I googled BTW. Put some screenshots side by side and you will see that the Windows 7 taskbar in its current state looks very KDE like, rather than Vista like. On the other hand, the KDE 4 panel might resemble the Vista color scheme, nevertheless it functions in a very original, customizable way that doesn't borrow from somewhere else.
And I'm anticipating similar functionality appearing in Kontact really soon... this sort of friendly competition makes Open Source progress so fast.
They have a distinctive color texture and can be thrown like a frisbee.
Not a good idea, as it would be easier to accidentally click somewhere you didn't intend. With the trigger-on-button-up behavior you can still move the mouse away with the button already down and not trigger the widget.
You should be fine with any non-ancient graphics hardware. KDE 4 does hardware checks during startup and disables desktop acceleration on hardware that fails the checks. You can alternatively switch to an XRender backend in that case which will disable most of the fancier effects, though, as it only accelerates 2D.
Full OpenGL desktop acceleration works on my eee 701 netbook (Intel 910GM) but not on my crappy old laptop (Mobility Radeon M6).