The drooling morons just use the defaults anyway and never use the control panel, so they are the least affected user group
Ok, so we can see where your coming from then !
Anyone who doesn't care to change the defaults is a drooling Moron ? How so ? Please explain that concept further to enlighten the drooling Morons.
Why should I have to fiddle with all sorts of settings to make a program work ? Surely the defaults should be setup so that the program functions correctly and work can be done.
Not everyone is into customising thier preferences to the Nth degree - some of us "Drooling Morons" actually want to do other things aside from meddle with preferences.
Having said that, obviously preferences have thier important place in the grand scheme of things - but NEVER assume someone is a moron because they accept the default !
You make that sound like some kind of nasty conspiracy !:)
I'm using Redhat 8.0 as my primary Linux Distro because I find the Bluecurve Theme for Gnome so elegant and pleasing to the eye and feel it's the best Desktop implementation I've yet seen for Linux.
I'm sincerely hoping that Mandrake 9.1 will make me switch back to Mandrake as my primary distro, as I was dissapointed with 9.0 which felt slow and scrappy compared to RedHat 8.0
Getting involved in a 'gnome is better' or 'kde is better' argument/discussion isn't anything I'm willing to do, I don't really care so long as I can do stuff easily and quickly - Gnome presently affords me more stability and useability than KDE.
I find that I mainly use Desktop Linux for watching movies, surfing the web, playing quake3 etc. so for Desktop entertainment use, it's perfectly adaquate.
I've also investigated using the RedHat on the Desktop in an office environment by doing several quotes in Open Office and saving/printing to a windows box - it was just as easy as windows, however, I encountered numerous incompatabilities when saving as an MS Word Doc, which is a problem considering how wide the MS Word userbase is.
Linux is most definately ready for the Desktop, or at least, this is the year it will prove itself.
Why do some many prefer Gnome then ?
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If all of what this article implies is a reasonable "comparison" between the way KDE and Gnome function, why is it that so many prefer Gnome over KDE ?
I've used both for years and have finally settled on Gnome as I find it faster, more intuitive and less "bloated" than KDE, yet the authour of the article finds pretty much the opposite to be true.
I'm no programmer, so what happens behind 'the scenes' is not something I can use to compare the different desktops.
It would be great to have an idea of the cost implications of the new chipset - the fact that you'll need a new motherboard, CPU and graphics card means this setup isn't going to be for the masses right away. The price to upgrade could easily reach $1200 US for early adopters.
I don't see much of a problem with the PCI slots as the majority of current modern systems have a lot of components onboard already, such as LAN, Sound, Video etc. I guess the safe bet is they'll include 2xPCI slots which should be enough for most peoples purposes.
In case AOL hadn't noticed, even your grandmother has downloaded illegal mp3 files for free !
Music piracy has gone too far to make a workable online business model out of it and there's no way they can stop the piracy with p2p applications and the rise of wireless internet.
When are these guys going to wake up and smell the roses ?
Rocci: "I sold some Enigmah mod-chips, they gave me 5 years"
Bubba: "Heck, I murdered some guy and I only got 10, now pick up that soap over there !"
What a wierd world we live in - this guy is going to get 5 years for a silly "crime" which is a very debatable case - why don't the Enigmah mod-chip manuafacturers have legal actions taken against them ?
Surely you can do what you want with your own hardware ? Hmm, apparently not anymore !
Must admit, I don't follow any kind of samba dev, I just use the default samba install in whatever disty I'm using (use it on a tiny 12 people network), as it always works 'out the box'
Goooooo Samba ! *spoken like al pacino watching flamingos on tv*
Wonderful software is few and far between - samba falls into that category.
They movie houses have always played this tactic in one form or another.
The good movies are like gems amongst the crud, just like they always have been - only now, there's so much money at stake, you can buy your film good reviews and spend more money on the trailer than the final production.
The USA is not the only country with a Space Agency, yet from the tone of the questioning, once again USAcentric/. forgets about the rest of the world !
quote: <i>"About what's next for human space exploration. Most of the punditry agrees that extending the shuttle program for many more years is a bad idea. So what are the practical alternatives?"</i>
I love that "so what's next for human Space exploration" heh - so basically, what your saying, is that you've totally forgot something:-
The Chinese are agressively persuing Space Exploration and it's entirely possible they'll have a man on the moon within a decade.
Seeing as IT stands for Information Technology, I would imagine that as long as humans desire Information, there will be Technology around to provide that Information.
The problem with a long-term career in IT is that it favours youth, as 'burn out' is a big issue.
The trick to a lifetime career in IT is to acknowledge that eventually youth will surpass you and to make plans to take a different route, such as starting a small company or move up the food-chain in a larger company:)
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I can't remember the last time I ever considered Gnutella as an operable and useful P2P application.
It was a mission to connect and even more of a problem to actually download useful content !
Unless you were a l33t bandwidth wh0r3, it remains to this day, a useless p2p application.
Kazaa on the other hand actually works !
On a low bandwidth pipe, you can still obtain large files, even if it takes you a week to do it.
The drooling morons just use the defaults anyway and never use the control panel, so they are the least affected user group
Ok, so we can see where your coming from then !
Anyone who doesn't care to change the defaults is a drooling Moron ?
How so ?
Please explain that concept further to enlighten the drooling Morons.
Why should I have to fiddle with all sorts of settings to make a program work ?
Surely the defaults should be setup so that the program functions correctly and work can be done.
Not everyone is into customising thier preferences to the Nth degree - some of us "Drooling Morons" actually want to do other things aside from meddle with preferences.
Having said that, obviously preferences have thier important place in the grand scheme of things - but NEVER assume someone is a moron because they accept the default !
You make that sound like some kind of nasty conspiracy ! :)
I'm using Redhat 8.0 as my primary Linux Distro because I find the Bluecurve Theme for Gnome so elegant and pleasing to the eye and feel it's the best Desktop implementation I've yet seen for Linux.
I'm sincerely hoping that Mandrake 9.1 will make me switch back to Mandrake as my primary distro, as I was dissapointed with 9.0 which felt slow and scrappy compared to RedHat 8.0
Getting involved in a 'gnome is better' or 'kde is better' argument/discussion isn't anything I'm willing to do, I don't really care so long as I can do stuff easily and quickly - Gnome presently affords me more stability and useability than KDE.
I find that I mainly use Desktop Linux for watching movies, surfing the web, playing quake3 etc. so for Desktop entertainment use, it's perfectly adaquate.
I've also investigated using the RedHat on the Desktop in an office environment by doing several quotes in Open Office and saving/printing to a windows box - it was just as easy as windows, however, I encountered numerous incompatabilities when saving as an MS Word Doc, which is a problem considering how wide the MS Word userbase is.
Linux is most definately ready for the Desktop, or at least, this is the year it will prove itself.
If all of what this article implies is a reasonable "comparison" between the way KDE and Gnome function, why is it that so many prefer Gnome over KDE ?
I've used both for years and have finally settled on Gnome as I find it faster, more intuitive and less "bloated" than KDE, yet the authour of the article finds pretty much the opposite to be true.
I'm no programmer, so what happens behind 'the scenes' is not something I can use to compare the different desktops.
All I know is that I much prefer Gnome over KDE.
It would be great to have an idea of the cost implications of the new chipset - the fact that you'll need a new motherboard, CPU and graphics card means this setup isn't going to be for the masses right away.
The price to upgrade could easily reach $1200 US for early adopters.
I don't see much of a problem with the PCI slots as the majority of current modern systems have a lot of components onboard already, such as LAN, Sound, Video etc.
I guess the safe bet is they'll include 2xPCI slots which should be enough for most peoples purposes.
What a wonderfully stupid business model.
In case AOL hadn't noticed, even your grandmother has downloaded illegal mp3 files for free !
Music piracy has gone too far to make a workable online business model out of it and there's no way they can stop the piracy with p2p applications and the rise of wireless internet.
When are these guys going to wake up and smell the roses ?
What ?
And the planet you live on is ?
If you consider buffy the vampire slayer one of the best shows ever, you really need HELP now !
Bubba: "So, Rocci, what you inside for ?"
Rocci: "I sold some Enigmah mod-chips, they gave me 5 years"
Bubba: "Heck, I murdered some guy and I only got 10, now pick up that soap over there !"
What a wierd world we live in - this guy is going to get 5 years for a silly "crime" which is a very debatable case - why don't the Enigmah mod-chip manuafacturers have legal actions taken against them ?
Surely you can do what you want with your own hardware ?
Hmm, apparently not anymore !
Ah Butt !
One group PROGRAMMES and another SCRIPTS.
You have to draw a line right inbetween them and say "YOU SUCK MORE FUX0R !"
Why do you assume that all /. readers were nerdy 12 year olds ?
;)
What about the 'well balanced' people, probably making up 60% of any given population ?
Or don't they count ?
This article is 7 years old.
It's debatable what relevance it has today.
The assumption that anyone who is athletic and popular is a few pennies short of a buck upstairs ?
That's just like saying that someone who wears coke-bottle-glasses and doesn't do sport is hyper-intelligent.
As usual, vague generalisations have been used to support someones argument.
So this guy got picked on at school ? - get over it and move on.
Must admit, I don't follow any kind of samba dev, I just use the default samba install in whatever disty I'm using (use it on a tiny 12 people network), as it always works 'out the box'
Goooooo Samba ! *spoken like al pacino watching flamingos on tv*
Wonderful software is few and far between - samba falls into that category.
They movie houses have always played this tactic in one form or another.
The good movies are like gems amongst the crud, just like they always have been - only now, there's so much money at stake, you can buy your film good reviews and spend more money on the trailer than the final production.
Bums into seats mentality.
Slow down cowboy, you got too drunk and replied to an online discussion.
That is a un-inforced 'no-no'
Have a nice day now.
American animation is amazing when compared with Manga.
I don't get it - the animation in The Simpsons is just so much better than any Manga animation.
"But it's the story, the elegance ?"
Bollocks.
It's lazy animation - very cool style of drawing, but lazy none-the-less.
American animation has been king since the beggining - heck, Americans perfected animation.
I'm not even American either, oh God.
No, your sense of reality is dying.
Time to wake up.
You know it as Mozilla, many others don't.
They still think Netscape.
A specific browser is not plain ignorance, it's an attempt to convey information.
I think you miss the point,
99% of people don't give a shit.
Anyone here use Opera (I hear .01% of the crowd)
Who uses Netscape (10%)
And Mozilla ? (0.01%)
And what is a browser ?
I KNOW (5%)
I DON'T KNOW (85%)
The USA is not the only country with a Space Agency, yet from the tone of the questioning, once again USAcentric /. forgets about the rest of the world !
:-
quote:
<i>"About what's next for human space exploration. Most of the punditry agrees that extending the shuttle program for many more years is a bad idea. So what are the practical alternatives?"</i>
I love that "so what's next for human Space exploration" heh - so basically, what your saying, is that you've totally forgot something
The Chinese are agressively persuing Space Exploration and it's entirely possible they'll have a man on the moon within a decade.
Wakey Wakey.
Seeing as IT stands for Information Technology, I would imagine that as long as humans desire Information, there will be Technology around to provide that Information.
:)
The problem with a long-term career in IT is that it favours youth, as 'burn out' is a big issue.
The trick to a lifetime career in IT is to acknowledge that eventually youth will surpass you and to make plans to take a different route, such as starting a small company or move up the food-chain in a larger company
So, they have no nicotine but you still get cancer ?
*Cough*
Brilliant idea by those clever Amish dudes !
This is a joke article, right ?
Can I have some of what your smoking ?
How many messages in your inbox since you've been away ? - Or are you still busy downloading them ?