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  1. Re:Themes... on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Oh my... Think a bit about this... You can not say, arrogantly, "just open the menu" if the distro of choice of the user do not have a menu. If the user chose a distro that has, great, will work! But... what if he chose one that does not have, like Ubuntu/Unity? In short: You can not blindly assume when giving support to a user

  2. Re:The countermeasures will be far more interestin on The Graffiti Drone · · Score: 1

    I do not believe you're so stupid ... I'll summarize for you: I agree with the idea that taggers should be killed. BUT, do not cross your mind at any time the guy overreacted INTENTIONALLY? Do you really, really think someone will use DU bullets against a civilian drone? Geez!

  3. Re:Themes... on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Oh man, another clueless one... Dude, throw alway your colorfull googles and see the ENTIRE problem, please? Just one example: I start KDE, okay. More or less a "expected" desktop Windows-like. Now, open Kate to do some file editing. Ok, works as expected. Now open something GNOME-based. oh oh, copy/paste broken (because the application in question do not like to accept the default KDE way to do this). Try pgAdmin3, or some application using wxWidgets. Oh oh... WTF is going on? Another one have a GUI, but you need the CLI to be able to make then work.

    Short version: IF, and i can't stress enought this IF, you use a more or less sane desktop like KDE, many applications still like to do things in bizarre and obscure ways. And worse, many of them do not like to play nice with the others.

  4. Re:The countermeasures will be far more interestin on The Graffiti Drone · · Score: 1

    Why the GP feels we need these to hunt down some guy with a can of spray paint, I couldn't tell you.

    Wait until your entire neighborhood get covered in gangsta-like tagging, and then you will understand the reason for this.

  5. Tagging on The Graffiti Drone · · Score: 1

    I suppose that what you Americans call "tagging" is known in my country (Brazil) as "pichação". This "art" is made by animals marking their "territory", and the only thing that works well against this urban blight is a good bullet in the head. Or even better, two bullets to ensure. There is no more depressing thing than seeing your entire city tagged by these animals (And believe me, they also act and talk like animals).

  6. Re:You will have the following problems, and wins on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    ...you will be surprised how many users copy/paste files instead of drag/drop...

    It is just easier to control, and copy/paste can be used with keyboard commands when necessary.

  7. Re:Themes... on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    I see you do not have a clue about the problem. Re-read the problem: "re-training Windows users to use Linux desktop." This ALWAYS have costs, period. Time is money on any serious enterprise and time is spent showing users how to do things in a totally different system, and this time costs money given that during this time the staff in training are not producing.

    In short, for those who are too lazy to read: Employees are not unable to adapt, but this adaptation takes time and costs money, and it comes out that the so-called "Linux retraining cost".

  8. Re:Themes... on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    I know, but In the case of the transition from Windows 7 to Windows 8 this is a novelty. Which so far, from windows 95 to Windows 8 the changes were gradual and keeping the key points like the start menu and the general desktop workspace idea.

  9. Re:Themes... on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 0

    Are you fucking nuts? Many Linux desktops do not even have a "start menu" to start, much less a uniform behavior in the common operations like copy / paste! I call YOU bullshit, you look like you never had to help a single normal user in your entire, short life. Go back to the basement of your mother and let the professionals work in peace, okay?

  10. Re:Stop the Tesla Love on Under the Chassis: A Look At Tesla's Battery Shield · · Score: 1

    Add this one too: Anyone who has seen that an electric car is simply the best way to go into a modern city.

  11. Re:The department gives the hint. on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    I agree. Linux Mint with KDE is now reasonably good enough "out of the box" and can be configured to look and function like a Windows desktop, even if running in a completely different way under the hood.

  12. Re:Themes... on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    I hope you are just naive... Imagine that when you return to your home, you discover that someone managed to change every room in place and put your kitchen in your living room and vice versa. It's the same feeling as someone who uses Linux for the first time after having used Windows for years.

  13. Re:Girls just do not like programming as much as b on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    I understand you. But you are an exception, all patterns have exceptions.

  14. Re:Girls just do not like programming as much as b on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    ...those women I mentioned could not manage to find jobs in IT despite having the same degree and the same grades as the boys

    I understand that. But what I asked was why this happens.

  15. Re:Girls just do not like programming as much as b on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    But if so then I do not understand: if women are so interested in programming as men, so why would they are employed less than a male programmer?

  16. Girls just do not like programming as much as boys on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    Simple as that. It's like wanting boys to play with dolls and girls to play with toy cars. Is not lack of competence of women, is lack of interest.

  17. Re:Database Scaleability. on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 1

    Okay, I assume you are the original author of the topic. Looking the whole situation, I guess your primary problem is the ability to handle a large number of simultaneous users, correct? Databases like Postgres support this type of work, only if you had an operation of the size of Facebook you would begin to have problems. However, remember that the database is only part of the chain. You will need the application itself also has high performance (Ruby and performance are mutually exclusive). As an example, I have an application wherever although the client-server communication uses HTTP, the server is a highly specialized application that only pretends to be a "web server", receiving commands over HTTP but executing them in a specialized way and communicating directly with the database without intermediate frameworks. A bit strange, but works very well.

  18. Re:Database Scaleability. on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 1

    We have a winner here. When I saw the number of buzzwords in the article, I already thought the worst too.

  19. Re:here's how stupid this is on AMD Unveils the Liquid-Cooled, Dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 At $1,500 · · Score: 1

    The point of entry-level sealed-loop liquid cooling is to have the required cooling capacity without having to hold almost 1kg of metal directly above the processor, and in most cases into a dangerous motherboard-bending position.

  20. Re:The problem with advice on the internet on Judge (Tech) Advice By Results · · Score: 1

    Exact. And add this one:

    4 responses "google it, moron" (They tell you to search Google, when you already arrived at the forum in question because you have already researched on Google)

  21. Re:Probably due to spin on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    Usually the simplest explanations are correct. Also, my humble guess is that first we need to make sure that it should have the same amount of matter and antimatter in the universe, and then think about what happened to anti-matter.

  22. Re:USAID on ZunZuneo: USAID Funded 'Cuban Twitter' To Undermine Communist Regime · · Score: 1

    ...While I have no idea whether any US agency cares any about government change in Brazil...

    Wow... Just wow... Dude, you are incredibly stupid or ridiculously naive. Think about it. Really try! I want a government that governs for my country, not for U.S. corporations. I do not want a "yes-man" like AC said. The problem is that your government disagrees.

  23. Re:USAID on ZunZuneo: USAID Funded 'Cuban Twitter' To Undermine Communist Regime · · Score: 1

    ...those countries have no right to be pissed at the U.S. for trying to destroy their political institutions in order to replace them with corporate yes-men?

    You hit the target. It's what they're trying here (with more or less success) since the military dictatorship (1964).

  24. Also, you're ignoring a 4th option: they might actually make more money by having reasonable roaming charges.

    It is a very good option, but she has no place in current sociopathic way of thinking of corporations. Currently they only use the option that brings maximum profit in minimum time, no matter the consequences.

  25. Re:USAID on ZunZuneo: USAID Funded 'Cuban Twitter' To Undermine Communist Regime · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is the same thing here on Brazil. USAID here helps every one who wants to overthrow any government that does not comply doggedly what the U.S. told to do.