I think the users are probably the worst thing about Linux. I'm not saying that all users are bad, but what annoys me is the people whose only response to a question is RTFM.
This really irks me. The users of GNU/Linux wrote those fabulous (and freely available) manuals (HOWTOs, FAQs, infos, mans, etc.) to answer your questions. They *are* being helpful. And you complain because you want them to read the answers to you? I don't think it is rude to tell a lazy person to do their own homework.
Quest games (Sierra oldschool) are gone, but they need to be resurrected - both for first time gamers (ages 10+) to develop lateral thinking skills and the idea of following a storyline, but also for us veterans who just miss the genre.
This could happen. There is already an opensource Sierra On-Line Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) in development at sarien.sourceforge.net . It would not be too much of a stretch to develop new AGI titles based on sarien. Any wannabe game developers out there?:)
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In fact, British Airways has an official policy of not seating young children next to men when children fly alone.
Oh, yeah, that sounds like a *real* problem. I would actually request that the airline NOT seat an unsupervised young child next to me on an airplane. Do you really want a mommy-less brat dripping snot and whining next to you for X hours?
24-hour surveillance is never possible with kids (especially since they'll probably be far more competent on the computer than their parents)
I am sorry, but I am tired of hearing this one. What excuse do you have for letting your children be more technically proficient than you? This is effectively the same a saying, "I am an incompetent parent. I have given my children dangerous tools I do not understand. Please parent for me."
Sheesh, I love it when people pass around old barbs that are obviously false.
Try this link for the real deal on "legislature makes pi == 3". Did a state legislature once pass a law saying pi equals 3? or for the goat-fearful
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_341.html Come on down here and say that, boy.
I thought Swindler's Lust had a good hook to it. And besides being a good song, it was cool that PE offered it as a free mp3 download from their official web site, at a time when everyone else was getting their panties in a bunch over that new "internet mp3 thing" that was "stealing money from the artists".
Besides, it was a good enough pun on "Schindler's List" to get the Anti-Defamation League to denounce them. Waahh!
If you want Windows plugins, Windows ActiveX controls, and Windows (DirectX) games, just run Windows! I do not understand why the people who want these things switched to Linux in the first place!
You have missed the point. Apple is asking for registration information. BFD. The alarm clock I bought yesterday came with a registration card to fill out and snail mail. Guess what? It asked for Name, Address, and Phone. That is pretty common.
The problem with WPA is that it ties Windows to a particular machine with a particular configuration. If you crack open that OSX box and swap the RAM about, Apple is not going to require that you reregister. Change the innards of your new WinXP machine, and it will stop working if you don't call up MS and reactivate. That is intrusive.
1. The banner ads are gone.
2. The web bugs for OSDN are gone.
3. I am guaranteed to not see the tasteless link dujour (goatse and that watermellon thing).
4. The moderators get paid for helping to run this site.
5. The submitters get paid for doing Taco's job for him.
6. Jon Katz finally STFU.
Why should I pay for the privilege of sifting through the crap here? Do it for me and I'll pay you. Of course, this will end up just like cable TV. Originally there were no commercials on cable TV (that's what your paying for, right?) but the greedy execs realized you could charge the sheeple and STILL have ads.
This is probably the best Linux laptop one can buy right now, so go get one!"
How can this be the best laptop for Linux when it doesn't even have sound? I think the best laptop for Linux will actually support Linux for all of its hardware.:)
How is this different from EiC? Is it supposed to be better in some way?
Well, the CSS site can handle the slashdot effect. The EIC site crumpled before this story had 50 comments.:)
Mdk RPMs are optimized for Mandrake. It is outline in the Mandrake RPM HOWTO. My favorite difference (from RedHat RPMs) is the use of the Debian menu system. Mandrake packages register themselves with the menu system, and I get consistent Mandrake menus under GNOME, KDE, or any other window manager I may use.
I hate the lack of native widgets for the scrollbars in the mozilla core of Galeon and Nautilus. All of my other apps use the lovely Crux gtk theme. The ONLY thing that makes my Linux system look inelegant are the blasted mozilla scrollbars!
Does anyone know where I can get a Crux theme for mozilla?:)
Oh yeah, American values. A country founded by rich white lawyers and land owners so they wouldn't have to pay their government their taxes. This is what we (Americans) were from the beginning.
How does McDonalds sell billion s (USD) worth of hamburgers in non-US markets? If everyone hates America so much, why does everyone keep buying Big Macs? (or any other "Corporate Republic" product?)
I would gladly pay to send Jon Katz to one of those small precious countries without internet access that are so endangered by the "Corporate Republic", provided he promise to never come back. Go seek your "freedom" elsewhere, wannabe.
(Paid for by the Coalition to Point Out to Jon Katz that he is a Soft American.)
I am sick of the negativity towards to more outspoken (and angry) sections of the Linux community. Why is it alright for big media and big business to disparage Linux (and by proxy Linux users)? Then when a Linuxer gets angry and vocal in reply to said insult, he/she becomes the bad guy? I know all about the Advocacy HOWTO, and I personally am not a flamey mail-bomber. But I believe it IS an effective form of advocacy. This article on slashdot, and last weeks rant about Loki/Blizard ports on LinuxGames shows that people DO pay attention when deluged in hate-mail.
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I think the users are probably the worst thing about Linux. I'm not saying that all users are bad, but what annoys me is the people whose only response to a question is RTFM.
This really irks me. The users of GNU/Linux wrote those fabulous (and freely available) manuals (HOWTOs, FAQs, infos, mans, etc.) to answer your questions. They *are* being helpful. And you complain because you want them to read the answers to you? I don't think it is rude to tell a lazy person to do their own homework.
From the article:
If we are accused again of distributing copyrighted material, we lose our accounts for two weeks instead of one, and face banishment from our ISP.
McCarthyism is alive and well in America. A little finger pointing is all it takes, and you are discredited forever.
Now try to make a 3d engine with the features of Alice or Anarchy Online in OpenGL with OpenGL.
Erm, Alice uses the Quake 3 engine, which is certainly using OpenGL.
Quest games (Sierra oldschool) are gone, but they need to be resurrected - both for first time gamers (ages 10+) to develop lateral thinking skills and the idea of following a storyline, but also for us veterans who just miss the genre.
:)
This could happen. There is already an opensource Sierra On-Line Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) in development at sarien.sourceforge.net . It would not be too much of a stretch to develop new AGI titles based on sarien.
Any wannabe game developers out there?
In fact, British Airways has an official policy of not seating young children next to men when children fly alone.
Oh, yeah, that sounds like a *real* problem. I would actually request that the airline NOT seat an unsupervised young child next to me on an airplane. Do you really want a mommy-less brat dripping snot and whining next to you for X hours?
Just wait until you see IE 6 in XP
:)
Price to IE6 in WinXP: > $89US
the Modern theme is very nice and durable
Price to see Moz 1.0 with Modern: $0US
Thanks, I think I'll pass on IE6.
24-hour surveillance is never possible with kids (especially since they'll probably be far more competent on the computer than their parents)
I am sorry, but I am tired of hearing this one. What excuse do you have for letting your children be more technically proficient than you? This is effectively the same a saying, "I am an incompetent parent. I have given my children dangerous tools I do not understand. Please parent for me."
Sheesh, I love it when people pass around old barbs that are obviously false.
Try this link for the real deal on "legislature makes pi == 3".
Did a state legislature once pass a law saying pi equals 3?
or for the goat-fearful
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_341.html
Come on down here and say that, boy.
Anyone remember when Microsoft helped IBM with OS/2 ?
Was that before or after they helped Digital Research with DR DOS?
I thought Swindler's Lust had a good hook to it. And besides being a good song, it was cool that PE offered it as a free mp3 download from their official web site, at a time when everyone else was getting their panties in a bunch over that new "internet mp3 thing" that was "stealing money from the artists". Besides, it was a good enough pun on "Schindler's List" to get the Anti-Defamation League to denounce them. Waahh!
If you want Windows plugins, Windows ActiveX controls, and Windows (DirectX) games, just run Windows! I do not understand why the people who want these things switched to Linux in the first place!
You have missed the point. Apple is asking for registration information. BFD. The alarm clock I bought yesterday came with a registration card to fill out and snail mail. Guess what? It asked for Name, Address, and Phone. That is pretty common.
The problem with WPA is that it ties Windows to a particular machine with a particular configuration. If you crack open that OSX box and swap the RAM about, Apple is not going to require that you reregister. Change the innards of your new WinXP machine, and it will stop working if you don't call up MS and reactivate. That is intrusive.
1. The banner ads are gone.
2. The web bugs for OSDN are gone.
3. I am guaranteed to not see the tasteless link dujour (goatse and that watermellon thing).
4. The moderators get paid for helping to run this site.
5. The submitters get paid for doing Taco's job for him.
6. Jon Katz finally STFU.
Why should I pay for the privilege of sifting through the crap here? Do it for me and I'll pay you. Of course, this will end up just like cable TV. Originally there were no commercials on cable TV (that's what your paying for, right?) but the greedy execs realized you could charge the sheeple and STILL have ads.
This is probably the best Linux laptop one can buy right now, so go get one!"
:)
How can this be the best laptop for Linux when it doesn't even have sound? I think the best laptop for Linux will actually support Linux for all of its hardware.
...KAdobeSucks :-)
I vote for Killadobe.
How is this different from EiC? Is it supposed to be better in some way? :)
Well, the CSS site can handle the slashdot effect. The EIC site crumpled before this story had 50 comments.
Mdk RPMs are optimized for Mandrake. It is outline in the Mandrake RPM HOWTO. My favorite difference (from RedHat RPMs) is the use of the Debian menu system. Mandrake packages register themselves with the menu system, and I get consistent Mandrake menus under GNOME, KDE, or any other window manager I may use.
I hate the lack of native widgets for the scrollbars in the mozilla core of Galeon and Nautilus. All of my other apps use the lovely Crux gtk theme. The ONLY thing that makes my Linux system look inelegant are the blasted mozilla scrollbars! Does anyone know where I can get a Crux theme for mozilla? :)
Oh yeah, American values. A country founded by rich white lawyers and land owners so they wouldn't have to pay their government their taxes. This is what we (Americans) were from the beginning.
How does McDonalds sell billion s (USD) worth of hamburgers in non-US markets? If everyone hates America so much, why does everyone keep buying Big Macs? (or any other "Corporate Republic" product?)
I would gladly pay to send Jon Katz to one of those small precious countries without internet access that are so endangered by the "Corporate Republic", provided he promise to never come back. Go seek your "freedom" elsewhere, wannabe.
(Paid for by the Coalition to Point Out to Jon Katz that he is a Soft American.)
I am sick of the negativity towards to more outspoken (and angry) sections of the Linux community. Why is it alright for big media and big business to disparage Linux (and by proxy Linux users)? Then when a Linuxer gets angry and vocal in reply to said insult, he/she becomes the bad guy?
I know all about the Advocacy HOWTO, and I personally am not a flamey mail-bomber. But I believe it IS an effective form of advocacy. This article on slashdot, and last weeks rant about Loki/Blizard ports on LinuxGames shows that people DO pay attention when deluged in hate-mail.