I wouldn't know how to work on a project with clearly defined requirements - where is my scope for creative interpretation of vague ambiguous poorly written fantasy?
Worse than that, I get my requirements in stages. This means I finish the first stage, everything looks good, then they give me the second stage. This usually means rewriting a lot of the original stage to accommodate the second part. Ad infinitum.
Change is inevitable, but you'd think you'd want to get as much of the design into the original codebase as possible.
Why can't solar-powered cars be built using modern safety technology? What do seatbelts
The car had a full racing harness and he was wearing a helmet. They showed the damage on the news, and there was essentially nothing left of the vehicle.
I hope you are being sarcastic. It's tools like apt, portage, etc. that put Linux miles ahead of Windows. With Windows, tracking down the software is a chore in itself, but what is even worse is upgrading the software.
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there is PLENTY of innovation left to do in these "basic layers"
Not really, they already solve the problem as they are. You said yourself they have remained unchanged for 20+ years. If there was innovation to be had, you would think there would be at least some incremental change.
I'm not saying innovation on them is impossible, but what is the incentive to improve on them while other problems remain unsolved?
Granted it's been a few years now, but when I was in high school it was mostly PCs with Windows. There were some old Macs, but they were slow and generally hated by all. There was one media class with a few high-end Macs and a dozen SGI O2s. The network was managed by Novell and Solaris. And there may have been a Linux machine or two around;)
The cost of living is lower, but that 40% is based on the exchange rate.
If you made $100,000US / year in the US, and moved to Canada under this scheme, you'd still be making $100,000CDN / year. It's just the US company only has to pay $60,000US to give you $100,000.
It took me five seconds. If you want to waste five minutes installing software (multiplied by each time you want to upgrade), be my guest. I can't be bothered.
How about for the user who is new to Linux? You think they are just going to open up a terminal and know to type that?
Imagine... a GUI frontend to apt.
Anyway, my circumstantial evidence is pretty meaningless to those who have not seriously tried other methods, but once you have you'll understand.
Which apt repository did you use? Any distro I've used that had a mechanism like apt (yum, etc.), I had to manually select and enter the server names in a config file before I got anything to work at all.
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
The installer automatically puts the repository information in.
Now on linux. I go the nvidia site and find the graphics driver it is a.run package. I type ""sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run". I am presented with an error, "X server must not be running before installation". Now I must figure out how to stop X. Logging out and attemping to login using the "failsafe" mode (console only) fails to fix the problem (X is still running) so I login as my user account again and fire up a browser and point it to google. After sorting through several results I find my answer type "init 3" in a terminal window. Boy was that intuitive. After typing out the long command to install the graphics driver, all goes smoothly and I reboot.
I'd just run: apt-get install nvidia-glx (I assume that's what you're talking about, I don't have that video card)
If you took the time to install and customize a linux system, this obviously isn't true.
Ignoring download times, it takes at most around ten minutes to have the system up and ready to be used, including all the software I need. The only customizing I need to do is get KDE setup to suit me (the default settings are awful). And since I've already done that once, I don't need to do it ever again.
I'll give you a reason. Windows is too hard to use.
For example, I wanted to install OpenOffice on a Windows 2000 computer today. Easy right? I though it would be too.
First I had to find my way to the openoffice website and eventually find the right download link. Then I had to download it. It came as a zip file so I had to unzip that. After that I ran the setup programs and had to answer at least five questions. Finally after all that hassle it was ready to be used.
On the other hand, on my Linux machine, it was just a matter of typing:
apt-get install openoffice.org
Of course it doesn't end at software installation, but I thought that was a good example as I was just about ready to give up installing it on Windows because it was too much work (I get lazy when it comes to doing things computers should be doing). And now the next time the next version of OO comes out I'll have to go through the same hassle I went through installing it in the first place. On my Linux machine it will be automatically upgraded.
I hate places that don't answer the phone with something like "Hello". I typed in the phone number, so I already know where I'm calling. I don't need to wait five minutes for you to ramble off the name of your company or similar information I could care less about.
I've always wanted this feature. I hate using other people's computers and I hate lugging my own around. So this is the perfect solution to the problem.
Konqueror is not a web browser and file viewer. It's a framework for applications to embed themselves into. It just so happens the file viewer and KHTML are the most commonly used applications in it, but it doesn't have to stop there.
KDE is really the only GUI system I'm familiar with that does try to follow the UNIX philosophy. It's a shame that the underlying system of KDE isn't better understood because the misinformation about it gives KDE a bad name.
I disagree. They are already predicting the death of email due to spam & worms & other crap.
Just like the Windows RPC worms and spy/adware will be the death of Windows right?
No, HTTP -- and even FTP -- are available for distributing files: those protocols were made to do that; SMTP wasn't.
I realize from a technical standpoint that SMTP isn't well suited for file transfers. But HTTP and FTP do not address the problems that e-mail file sharing solves. The only thing that has been limiting the practice in the past is storage space and transfer limits, Google has changed all that.
I disagree. I think e-mail will become the next platform for file sharing. E-mail already handles poor man's multicasting and you can download the files at your leasure. Just because your e-mail client doesn't work properly, doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
I know you use Windows, because Windows was designed for lower resolution screens. This means the system is designed so each application uses the entire limited screen space. Now that we've moved to high resolution displays the concept is no longer necessary, yet Windows has not been changed to keep up with current trends.
Systems that were designed for high end workstations did not have the same resolution limits and so they do not have to same concepts as Windows. This makes it so they do not lend themselves very well towards a single fullscreen application at a time.
Browsers, in my opinion, look funny if you go beyond around 800-1000 pixels anyway. Do you really need all your information flowed across 1600 pixels in width, and then it ends up only using 100 pixels in height?
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Make it so it can be used from the command prompt.
All KDE applications can be used from the command prompt.
I wouldn't know how to work on a project with clearly defined requirements - where is my scope for creative interpretation of vague ambiguous poorly written fantasy?
Worse than that, I get my requirements in stages. This means I finish the first stage, everything looks good, then they give me the second stage. This usually means rewriting a lot of the original stage to accommodate the second part. Ad infinitum.
Change is inevitable, but you'd think you'd want to get as much of the design into the original codebase as possible.
especially considering "up" was chosen fairly arbitrarily...
It's all historical. Back when the earth was flat, there was only an "up" side.
Why can't solar-powered cars be built using modern safety technology? What do seatbelts
The car had a full racing harness and he was wearing a helmet. They showed the damage on the news, and there was essentially nothing left of the vehicle.
He hit a van, not an SUV. Though we do have our fair share of the SUVs.
I hope you are being sarcastic. It's tools like apt, portage, etc. that put Linux miles ahead of Windows. With Windows, tracking down the software is a chore in itself, but what is even worse is upgrading the software.
there is PLENTY of innovation left to do in these "basic layers"
Not really, they already solve the problem as they are. You said yourself they have remained unchanged for 20+ years. If there was innovation to be had, you would think there would be at least some incremental change.
I'm not saying innovation on them is impossible, but what is the incentive to improve on them while other problems remain unsolved?
Granted it's been a few years now, but when I was in high school it was mostly PCs with Windows. There were some old Macs, but they were slow and generally hated by all. There was one media class with a few high-end Macs and a dozen SGI O2s. The network was managed by Novell and Solaris. And there may have been a Linux machine or two around ;)
But even "standard" code can render differently in different browsers on different platforms.
So? I, as a user, couldn't care less. As long as the content is visible and the navigation works, I'll be happy.
The cost of living is lower, but that 40% is based on the exchange rate.
If you made $100,000US / year in the US, and moved to Canada under this scheme, you'd still be making $100,000CDN / year. It's just the US company only has to pay $60,000US to give you $100,000.
I think we can assume coLinux will run under Longhorn. But only time will tell us for sure.
It took me five seconds. If you want to waste five minutes installing software (multiplied by each time you want to upgrade), be my guest. I can't be bothered.
Imagine... a GUI frontend to apt.
Anyway, my circumstantial evidence is pretty meaningless to those who have not seriously tried other methods, but once you have you'll understand.
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
The installer automatically puts the repository information in.
I'd just run: apt-get install nvidia-glx
(I assume that's what you're talking about, I don't have that video card)
Ignoring download times, it takes at most around ten minutes to have the system up and ready to be used, including all the software I need. The only customizing I need to do is get KDE setup to suit me (the default settings are awful). And since I've already done that once, I don't need to do it ever again.
It did use a Windows installer. You can ignore the ZIP step and I've still described just about every Windows application installation procedure.
I didn't.
Okay, sudo apt-get install openoffice.org. You have to switch to an Administrator in Windows, so I figured that point was not pertenent.
Not on my system I didn't.
I hear this all the time. I can't think of any text files I need to modify, ever.
For example, I wanted to install OpenOffice on a Windows 2000 computer today. Easy right? I though it would be too.
First I had to find my way to the openoffice website and eventually find the right download link. Then I had to download it. It came as a zip file so I had to unzip that. After that I ran the setup programs and had to answer at least five questions. Finally after all that hassle it was ready to be used.
On the other hand, on my Linux machine, it was just a matter of typing: Of course it doesn't end at software installation, but I thought that was a good example as I was just about ready to give up installing it on Windows because it was too much work (I get lazy when it comes to doing things computers should be doing). And now the next time the next version of OO comes out I'll have to go through the same hassle I went through installing it in the first place. On my Linux machine it will be automatically upgraded.
I hate places that don't answer the phone with something like "Hello". I typed in the phone number, so I already know where I'm calling. I don't need to wait five minutes for you to ramble off the name of your company or similar information I could care less about.
Ummmmm.....What else would you want to use exactly???
I've always wanted this feature. I hate using other people's computers and I hate lugging my own around. So this is the perfect solution to the problem.
Konqueror is not a web browser and file viewer. It's a framework for applications to embed themselves into. It just so happens the file viewer and KHTML are the most commonly used applications in it, but it doesn't have to stop there.
KDE is really the only GUI system I'm familiar with that does try to follow the UNIX philosophy. It's a shame that the underlying system of KDE isn't better understood because the misinformation about it gives KDE a bad name.
If the RIAA can't sell those CDs, how do you expect anyone else to? Just look at the titles. Trust me, they won't be going anywhere.
Just like the Windows RPC worms and spy/adware will be the death of Windows right?
I realize from a technical standpoint that SMTP isn't well suited for file transfers. But HTTP and FTP do not address the problems that e-mail file sharing solves. The only thing that has been limiting the practice in the past is storage space and transfer limits, Google has changed all that.
I disagree. I think e-mail will become the next platform for file sharing. E-mail already handles poor man's multicasting and you can download the files at your leasure. Just because your e-mail client doesn't work properly, doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
Did you not hear some of it was leaked?
Why??
And here we have another Windows user.
I know you use Windows, because Windows was designed for lower resolution screens. This means the system is designed so each application uses the entire limited screen space. Now that we've moved to high resolution displays the concept is no longer necessary, yet Windows has not been changed to keep up with current trends.
Systems that were designed for high end workstations did not have the same resolution limits and so they do not have to same concepts as Windows. This makes it so they do not lend themselves very well towards a single fullscreen application at a time.
Browsers, in my opinion, look funny if you go beyond around 800-1000 pixels anyway. Do you really need all your information flowed across 1600 pixels in width, and then it ends up only using 100 pixels in height?