I hate it exactly because it's a clone of backasswards-working, unintuitive, 1990's style shitware. They even emulate the Windoz style mouse click selections. I understand they want to make MS users comfortable, but how about impressing them instead with something better?
And 99% of the time I just have to view a.doc or.xls. Why do I have to run such a resource pig just for that? And what's with search popping up a question window saying that it searched to the end, and do I want to search from the beginning? Of fucking course I do; it's like a time machine to 20 years ago; or a spaceship to retardo world.
That's a good testimonial.
Unfortunately, there are not enough like it to convince anyone.
Also, plenty of people find what they need to be satisfied in a minimal OS like Windows.
Comparing Mac to x86 with M$ is not differentiating enough to make a valid comparison.
Some people my Mac for the OS ("It just works"). Some for the hardware (sexy). The same for M$ ("It sometimes works for some things"), and commodity HW (you get what you pay for).
It always depends on what you are going to use a computer for, and what nobody has said in this particular Mac vs. PC thread yet, is that they are marrying into an OS.
You can always buy whatever level of quality in a commodity x86 and then install some other OS, maybe even OSX, but certainly the *nixes. Probably a lot of people do, judging by the hit counter on distrowatch.org (here is a subset of today's:)
A standards organization that charges these big fees is part of the problem rather than part of the solution to the stated goal of reducing health care costs.
The purpose of the legal entity known as a corporation is to make a company an indivisible entity and shield it's officers and shareholders from responsibility for the actions of the officers and shareholders.
Companies don't exist as indivisible entities. Somewhere there are people saying "lets violate people's privacy" and they should be personally held accountable because they are personally responsible.
What does it mean to standardize a "workflow"? Suppose my job is to xxx that consists of yyy and zzz. Do I have to yyy before I zzz because that's how you do it? Idiot.
Results are what matter.
Newsflash: "photog" is pretty standard.
One of the worst travesties lately is community colleges that purport to teach web development, but instead of focusing on a result, are just teaching the mechanics of using specific common MSWin based packages (Photoshit, etc.).
It's a shame. It's not an education. Anyone can play around with these expensive packages, and learn how to use them, but not how to produce commercially acceptable content, which could have been created with many other different applications, many of them free and open source.
Maybe you have an agenda? Are you one of those community college teachers who don't know anything except MSWin and the expensive commercial packages?
So, let me get this straight. It's an FOSS imitation of Microsoft's proprietary imitation of Java, except it runs on only one OS? And it's named after a disease?
Aren't these "rough areas" actually applications, rather than the operating system?
Do windows users differentiate between the two, or has Microsoft convinced you that when you install "windows", you don't need anything other than the costly upgrades they offer?
Is "prettier" an important function in an operating system?
Something supporting TFA seems to be a new calculation of the lifetime of the black holes that might be produced, indicating that they might live much longer than previously thought (but not reaching a "catastrophic" size before drifting off into space).
How would a modern government disseminate propaganda, control the ignorant masses, and encourage profligate spending to boost the economy without the boob tube?
"Stair, please click the 'Print' link so I don't have to see only a third of the short article squeezed into 1/5 of the space on the page," says the man seated at a conference room table. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot, standing nearby, replies in a nasal monotone, "OK, but the print version still wastes most of your screen with white background."
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And 99% of the time I just have to view a .doc or .xls. Why do I have to run such a resource pig just for that? And what's with search popping up a question window saying that it searched to the end, and do I want to search from the beginning? Of fucking course I do; it's like a time machine to 20 years ago; or a spaceship to retardo world.
They could just keep selling the OS that people want. Oh, wait...
Two floppies: one to boot, one for the root fs. What apps? I just wanted anything but windoz.
That's a good testimonial. Unfortunately, there are not enough like it to convince anyone.
Also, plenty of people find what they need to be satisfied in a minimal OS like Windows. Comparing Mac to x86 with M$ is not differentiating enough to make a valid comparison. Some people my Mac for the OS ("It just works"). Some for the hardware (sexy). The same for M$ ("It sometimes works for some things"), and commodity HW (you get what you pay for).
It always depends on what you are going to use a computer for, and what nobody has said in this particular Mac vs. PC thread yet, is that they are marrying into an OS. You can always buy whatever level of quality in a commodity x86 and then install some other OS, maybe even OSX, but certainly the *nixes. Probably a lot of people do, judging by the hit counter on distrowatch.org (here is a subset of today's:)
According to this 2008 interview, http://guiodic.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/richard-stallman-interview/, he uses a Lemote which has a free bios.
Don't reply to someone like this. A rock would listen and understand you better.
Me too. We need a way to recognize these people. This is the next best thing to tatooing "RETARD" on their forehead.
Sometimes I can't believe what I read on /.
Cinepaint (film gimp) has the wider colors.
Sun, like DEC, contributed a lot of technologies that we use today despite the worst efforts of IBM, like Microsoft, to retard progress.
A standards organization that charges these big fees is part of the problem rather than part of the solution to the stated goal of reducing health care costs.
What? You say you have to? Okay, then live with this horseshit.
Companies don't exist as indivisible entities. Somewhere there are people saying "lets violate people's privacy" and they should be personally held accountable because they are personally responsible.
I agree. Linux users should be allowed to develop for it too.
What does it mean to standardize a "workflow"? Suppose my job is to xxx that consists of yyy and zzz. Do I have to yyy before I zzz because that's how you do it? Idiot.
Results are what matter.
Newsflash: "photog" is pretty standard.
One of the worst travesties lately is community colleges that purport to teach web development, but instead of focusing on a result, are just teaching the mechanics of using specific common MSWin based packages (Photoshit, etc.).
It's a shame. It's not an education. Anyone can play around with these expensive packages, and learn how to use them, but not how to produce commercially acceptable content, which could have been created with many other different applications, many of them free and open source.
Maybe you have an agenda? Are you one of those community college teachers who don't know anything except MSWin and the expensive commercial packages?
It's a funny world!
but those who buy new PCs have Vista installed
If it weren't for this, Microsoft would go out of business.
If consumers shopped for OS's like we do for cars or refrigerators, there would be more choice, and then who would choose M$?
Ok, fine. But some people want control over their computer, instead of their computer telling them what they can and can't do.
Call me a conspiracy nut, but I think "New Coke" was a subterfuge to hide the increasing of the substitution of corn syrup for sugar in "Classic Coke"
Would Microsucks deliberately introduce a shitty product to make the next one look better?
but as crazy as it may seem, they actually got a few things right with 7 and it easily stands apart from Vista.
How impressive.
But don't take my word for it, go ahead and install both Vista and 7 side by side and see what the difference is.
Why?
I have yet to see any "windows" fanboy explain what can be done with a newer "windows" that can't be done with win2k.
And for that matter, why "windows" at all?
Why does anybody care? Is this just about gaming, or what?
Who cares.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2948
How would a modern government disseminate propaganda, control the ignorant masses, and encourage profligate spending to boost the economy without the boob tube?
"Stair, please click the 'Print' link so I don't have to see only a third of the short article squeezed into 1/5 of the space on the page," says the man seated at a conference room table. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot, standing nearby, replies in a nasal monotone, "OK, but the print version still wastes most of your screen with white background."