Don't forget Hageee's whole idea that the goal of US foreign policy should be to promote apocalyptic war in Israel so Jesus can return and take all the white strait people away in the rapture.
Here's what it boils down to: for every option that only one out of a thousand people need, that one person likely needs it a whole lot more than the other 999 people don't need it.
Ubuntu adds that on. Gnome upstream considers choice of window managers an unsupported legacy feature, meaning they can and will break compatibility with everything but metacity whenever they feel like it.
Compiz doesn't work with the savage chipset so I've never messed with it. 90% of its features seem like a waste of CPU cycles anyway.
Persistent per-application window-manager settings are a big one for me. Some apps should always be visible on all desktops, some should always be on top, etc.
I HATE panels on the bottom. Keep all that crap at the top so I never have to move the mouse below the top couple inches of the screen.
Anybody who buys that crap you quoted should be forced to use emacs for the rest of their lives.
I have a background in adaptive technology and interfaces for special needs individuals. Amongst other things, lack of configuration options makes computers difficult to use for individuals with assorted disabilities. There is no such thing as a "one size fits all" UI. Any attempts to design such a thing is inherently discriminatory.
People who are too lazy to learn to use their computers have a choice. I'd prefer that that they chose the shut the fuck up, quit whining, and use a typewriter. People who have any of the hundreds of disabilities that require a UI be specially customized for their specific needs do not have a choice.
The GNOME approach to UI design is inherently bigoted. It's got a big "normal people only" sign on it. They do make a few concessions to people with some visual disabilities, but that's only a small fraction of what's out there.
Is there a KDE user out there who doesn't change every single panel and menu around first thing? My impression has always been that the KDE devs don't care much about defaults because 1) That should be left to the distros and 2) The user is going to change it all around anyway. Criticizing the default UI for KDE is dumb. You're not supposed to use it.
This is the polar opposite of the Gnome policy of assuming the user is too stupid to know how they work best.
This is the US. Public financing here would be used as yet another way to lock out third parties. I'm willing to bet that funding would be tied to either how many votes a party got in the last election or
If the result is public financing putting the Greens, Libertarians and SWP on the same footing as the Democrats and Republicans, that would be a dream come true for me. Since it's going to be the Republicans and Democrats passing any such law, I have no reason to think they are going to let go of their monopoly easily.
You really want a separate floor vote every time a federal building needs a new elevator or a post office parking lot need repaving? They would never have time for important stuff.
Something else that a lot of people seem to miss is that pork=jobs. A congressman who brings jobs to a district with high unemployment will always be reelected.
A lot of Americans live out in the boondoggles where there is no work and industry has no reason to build. It takes public works programs and bribing industry to relocate to keep these people from starving to death. The alternatives are direct public assistance or paying relocation costs for everyone who lives in the boonies.
My family comes from Appalachian coal country. Between automation and the move away from using coal in homes and industry, there is no work in these one-time company towns unless someone wants to build a new road or widen a highway. It's no coincidence that everyone sells weed and meth in these places. It's how you feed your kids.
I'm all for public financing, but the kneejerk assumption that all earmarks are bad are insane. Sure there are a lot of boondoggles but there are a lot of valid ones as well.
The problem is that all the desktops are being dumbed down to the point of being useless. I wouldn't care if it wasn't for the fact that sometimes RSI issues make me need to minimize keyboard use.
Ubuntu is no fun. That's why I don't use it. It's as boring as shit. Unfortunately, your point of view seems to be infecting the linux ecosystem in general. If KDE4 end up going the direction of Gnome, I'm totally installing Open Solaris and never leaving Emacs.
The linux desktop is leaving behind the hobbyists whose twenty years of tinkering and tweaking made it possible.
You want to know how you can thank us for this? Let us work the way we're used to and when we complain because you took all the configurability and options away, don't say there's something wrong with our workflow.
The biggest threat to the linux desktop right now is the cult of self-styled usability experts. The attempt to define the Platonic form of the desktop is damned to fail. The ideal desktop was actualized by NeXT in the 90s. Nobody gave a damn.
If you or anyone in your family ever suffer from mental illness or addiction, getting treatment could be significantly harder than it should be because the Scientology has invested millions upon millions of hollers into propaganda and lobbying to make it more likely that you'll pay them $5000 to deal with the fact that you're possessed by ten million year old aliens.
If he can help stop bills that would make sysadmins criminals for doing their jobs, I'll be happy. Between the media content industry and the "think of the children" crowd, there's a lot of legislation floating around that mandates the equivalent of building concrete pontoon votes.
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Don't forget Hageee's whole idea that the goal of US foreign policy should be to promote apocalyptic war in Israel so Jesus can return and take all the white strait people away in the rapture.
You must have hated tinker toys as a kid.
In event of natural disaster, I'd rather have an AM radio than VoIP.
AM radio is a really durable technology. You can listen to solar powered broadcasts on crank powered radios.
I wasn't speaking just about the panel.
Here's what it boils down to: for every option that only one out of a thousand people need, that one person likely needs it a whole lot more than the other 999 people don't need it.
Ubuntu adds that on. Gnome upstream considers choice of window managers an unsupported legacy feature, meaning they can and will break compatibility with everything but metacity whenever they feel like it.
Compiz doesn't work with the savage chipset so I've never messed with it. 90% of its features seem like a waste of CPU cycles anyway.
Actualy, changing window managers has been depreciated and unsupported for quite a while.
When I use GNOME, I use openbox but there are problems
In short, it's one-stop identity-theft. It's everything anyone would need to get a passport with your name on it.
OK. What's your name, address, social security number, and mother's maiden name?
Identity fraud is a problem for anyone. For high level politicians, it has national security implications.
Persistent per-application window-manager settings are a big one for me. Some apps should always be visible on all desktops, some should always be on top, etc.
Usable for who? That approach discriminates against people with unusual requirements.
I have different wallpaper on each desktop with tasks sorted by desktop. I really like the way the default Afterstep configuration does this.
I HATE panels on the bottom. Keep all that crap at the top so I never have to move the mouse below the top couple inches of the screen.
Anybody who buys that crap you quoted should be forced to use emacs for the rest of their lives.
I have a background in adaptive technology and interfaces for special needs individuals. Amongst other things, lack of configuration options makes computers difficult to use for individuals with assorted disabilities. There is no such thing as a "one size fits all" UI. Any attempts to design such a thing is inherently discriminatory.
People who are too lazy to learn to use their computers have a choice. I'd prefer that that they chose the shut the fuck up, quit whining, and use a typewriter. People who have any of the hundreds of disabilities that require a UI be specially customized for their specific needs do not have a choice.
The GNOME approach to UI design is inherently bigoted. It's got a big "normal people only" sign on it. They do make a few concessions to people with some visual disabilities, but that's only a small fraction of what's out there.
Is there a KDE user out there who doesn't change every single panel and menu around first thing? My impression has always been that the KDE devs don't care much about defaults because 1) That should be left to the distros and 2) The user is going to change it all around anyway. Criticizing the default UI for KDE is dumb. You're not supposed to use it.
This is the polar opposite of the Gnome policy of assuming the user is too stupid to know how they work best.
This is the US. Public financing here would be used as yet another way to lock out third parties. I'm willing to bet that funding would be tied to either how many votes a party got in the last election or
If the result is public financing putting the Greens, Libertarians and SWP on the same footing as the Democrats and Republicans, that would be a dream come true for me. Since it's going to be the Republicans and Democrats passing any such law, I have no reason to think they are going to let go of their monopoly easily.
You really want a separate floor vote every time a federal building needs a new elevator or a post office parking lot need repaving? They would never have time for important stuff.
Something else that a lot of people seem to miss is that pork=jobs. A congressman who brings jobs to a district with high unemployment will always be reelected.
A lot of Americans live out in the boondoggles where there is no work and industry has no reason to build. It takes public works programs and bribing industry to relocate to keep these people from starving to death. The alternatives are direct public assistance or paying relocation costs for everyone who lives in the boonies.
My family comes from Appalachian coal country. Between automation and the move away from using coal in homes and industry, there is no work in these one-time company towns unless someone wants to build a new road or widen a highway. It's no coincidence that everyone sells weed and meth in these places. It's how you feed your kids.
I'm all for public financing, but the kneejerk assumption that all earmarks are bad are insane. Sure there are a lot of boondoggles but there are a lot of valid ones as well.
I assume the limited functionality = KDE4 and the one for sane people who want to do stuff other than sit around looking at their desktops is 3.5.9.
Information wants to be free. Bandwidth wants to cost money.
slackware is what I've got.
The problem is that all the desktops are being dumbed down to the point of being useless. I wouldn't care if it wasn't for the fact that sometimes RSI issues make me need to minimize keyboard use.
Ubuntu is no fun. That's why I don't use it. It's as boring as shit. Unfortunately, your point of view seems to be infecting the linux ecosystem in general. If KDE4 end up going the direction of Gnome, I'm totally installing Open Solaris and never leaving Emacs.
The linux desktop is leaving behind the hobbyists whose twenty years of tinkering and tweaking made it possible.
You want to know how you can thank us for this? Let us work the way we're used to and when we complain because you took all the configurability and options away, don't say there's something wrong with our workflow.
The biggest threat to the linux desktop right now is the cult of self-styled usability experts. The attempt to define the Platonic form of the desktop is damned to fail. The ideal desktop was actualized by NeXT in the 90s. Nobody gave a damn.
which makes them different from Hal Turner how?
hollers and dollars
I'm still not sure that Firefox spellcheck is a net gain
actually, they have.
If you or anyone in your family ever suffer from mental illness or addiction, getting treatment could be significantly harder than it should be because the Scientology has invested millions upon millions of hollers into propaganda and lobbying to make it more likely that you'll pay them $5000 to deal with the fact that you're possessed by ten million year old aliens.
Let's compare the bible and Battlefield Earth. One is a disjointed and confusing work of cult propaganda. The other is Battlefield Earth.
And by votes I mean boats.
heh.
If he can help stop bills that would make sysadmins criminals for doing their jobs, I'll be happy. Between the media content industry and the "think of the children" crowd, there's a lot of legislation floating around that mandates the equivalent of building concrete pontoon votes.