Of course, this still doesn't explain the lack of flying cars...
Yes it does. As far as I recall, everyone as always said "We'll have flying cars soon." If only there would be a prevailing belief that it's impossible, then we'd have them by next year.
All I have to do is double click a link to get my game to work.... what do YOU have to do? =/
All I have to do is type its name. Ever tried to show a newbie how to add icons to their desktop? Well it's a lot simpler to tell them "See this box here? Whatever you want to run, just type it in there and hit enter. It will run." which is exactly what I do. So they have to remember the names of a few things; so what? Simple sh scripts and aliases make it easy for them to say "mail" and "solitaire" and "web" without needing to remember that "Outlook" means mail and "Explorer" means a web browser, or sometimes a file manager.
I got used to running programs this wa with LSXCommand under LiteStep under windows. It's really the best interface ever.
So what? It is better to have an ADEQUATE alternative to MS Office which works for SOME people PART of the time then to have no choice at all.
Personally, I've never used footnotes. For me docbook support is more important. But it's not about what I want, or what are 'necessary' features. It's all about what people are willing to do, and I am glad to have whatever they offer.
It's not a question of doing feature X that you think is unimportant over feature Y which the whole world wants. A developer is not a drone capable of having his skill allocated just anywhere you please. I don't write 90% of the things I have the skill to write, and that's because I don't want to write them. If I weren't doing what I'm doing, however useless, I'd be doing something even less useful. I would not be fixing the bits that you need fixing.
What I'm saying here is it's not either/or, choose a feature. It's "Do you want this feature, or would you rather get nothing?" I'd much rather have a guy working on Flash export on OOo than have him off on some pet project which goes nowhere.
I have cable internet access. How hard would it be to set up a unique-ID'd TV/cable combo which sends a packet back to the company every 10 seconds with current channel information? 90% of everybody uses cable or satelite anyway. If you give a few years for TVs/cable boxen smart enough to send this ping to be created and permiate, then you'll start getting real, useful results. WHY RELY ON NIELSEN GUESSING WHEN YOU CAN POLL EVERYBODY AND KNOW FOR SURE?
Moderators: parent post was not so much a troll as the bitter, bitter truth. No verifiable connection has ever been made between Iraq and the destruction of the towers in new york. This is simply another Bush wanting his name in the history books selecting a scapegoat of opportunity. America is the aggressor here; we were not in any way under attack from Iraq.
You can't call it self defense when it's preemtive.
I've had the same thing happen to me. Under windows I was addicted to explorer (and explorer plus, a much-better replacement). Under Linux I existed in quiet dispair until I learned to do it by command line, because there was no better way.
Linux does not have any FM close to as good as Windows Explorer (or any one of the five replacements I had installed). Konqueror/KFM is a nice try, but it's way too slow and KDE-centric. If this XPde FM gives Linux a decent FM, I don't care what else they do.
I thought Elm and Pine were mail programs and Pico and Nano were text editors
This is true. However, PICO standa for PIne COmposer and is used as the default text editor for Pine.
The developers took the name of the existing mailer (elm) and chose another tree (pine) as the name for their new mailer. They then made an editor based on the new mailer (pico) and chose a name based on the name of the new mailer. Those cloning the editor chose a name related to the acronym for the name of the editor (nano).
In this way, the cause of nano being called what it is can be traced easily back to the fact that the original mailer on this chain had an acronym that is the name of a tree.
It's not that I have something against embassys, it's that I've got something against Microsoft. Can you imagine all of the bad press they'd get from something like that?:::drools:::
Actually, nevermind. They'd probably say the army should have updated their drivers, and that poor third party drivers are the cause of ALL problems known to man. And they'd get away with it. Damn them.
Yeah, but you shouldn't Just because it's technically correct doesn't mean it's right. Some credible people should get together and invent a new word to be the gender neutral s/he for english, and then decree it to be valid and correct. It might not get into common usage for some years, but I'd use it pon day one.
When I am forced to go to the local community college computers to do some homework, I bring along my trusty Knoppx CD. Pop it in, boot up, and poof. Instant security. Knoppix even grabs one of their local DHCP addrsses and gets online right away. Of course, I could still be monitored if they really want to do it, but the runo-of-the-mill key loggers would be thwarted, and that makes me feel much safer. The fact that it's an effective local log/cookie deleter doesn't hurt either.
They have a policy about using unauthorized software, but after careful reading I decided that its intent was to prevent system instability and whatnot by disallowing all software installs. They might still disallow me if someone in charge knew, but I don't care.
A little blind ideology will go a long way. That's why the republicans are winning: Their competition are wishy-washy and commited to polls, whereas they are willing to stand for their demented and religiously-induced ideas. They have passion and a SLIGHT disregard for statistics, so they win.
By the same token, "America opposes war with Iraq" I doubt you could get a majority for it, at the least, and I recall a recent stat showing that only 20% were for it.
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You probably don't want to hear this, but have you tried Libranet? It's Debian-based, so you absolutely will not run in to those dependancy problems (unless you WANT to, which some of us actually do) but it's made for personal, desktop use, so it autodetects everything. I actually was most dissapointed after I found that my accumulated "How to get the fucking PPP connection working" knowledge, which I acquired from Red Hat, turned out to be totally useless under Libranet as the first time I booted I could hit "connect" and get online. Libranet (2.0 and later) uses grub, so no cylinder limit applies. Libranet's default kernel comes with most things anybody will need compiled as modules; I only recompile because I'm keen on playing "Let's break the system" and not out of any functional need.
Yes, it's true that on Linux you will spend a lot of time looking up/figuring out how to do what's easily point-and-clickable in those other OSs. I use Linux as my only OS, and it can be frusterating saying "I know this is possible, if I could only find what the hell it's called so I can at least do a google on the right keyword" and similar. I'm not defending Linux's shortcomings here (I'll do it next time, if you like) all I'm saying is your experiences are probably atypical.
(Why yes, this was a "Change your distribution" solution. Can I help it that all non-Debian distros are so fragile in the way they're put together that any attempt to touch them causes them to shatter?)
"For some reason, people designing media players have it stuck in their heads that anyone who wants to watch a movie wants a non-standard, hard-to-use pixmapped interface."
Quicktime started it.
"Hey, we're Apple, the hip design company! We make software easy, consistant and fun! We spent millions designing in terface guidelines which I fanatically insist everyone follow... AND THEN WE BREAK THEM ALL! VIVA LA TITANIUM!"
But from how he fails to describe it, it sounds as if this is a "Let's make crypto faster and more integral by having a dedicated, onboard hardware encryption module to replace all the thousands of possibly-not-as-good software versions."
That sounds like a decent idea to me, as long as it doesn't uniquely identify me and doesn't allow an application to circumvent my control.
"Keep this in mind though... Soldering chips on a motherboard is not something my gandma could do and also not something the vast majority of the market would do. Keep in mind that one of the main reasons Palladium will be used is to allow RIAA companies, amongst others, to distribute their media "safely" to grand mothers that paid for it. So they probably don't care (right now) about people that are willing to take the risk of frying their PC."
Not to mention: Coming soon, DMCA-backed lawsuits claiming that nullifying Palladium is circumventing copyright protections. It wont even get to court, most of the time, because sane people don't like multimillion dollar battles against beefy media lawyers.
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Yes it does. As far as I recall, everyone as always said "We'll have flying cars soon." If only there would be a prevailing belief that it's impossible, then we'd have them by next year.
All I have to do is type its name. Ever tried to show a newbie how to add icons to their desktop? Well it's a lot simpler to tell them "See this box here? Whatever you want to run, just type it in there and hit enter. It will run." which is exactly what I do. So they have to remember the names of a few things; so what? Simple sh scripts and aliases make it easy for them to say "mail" and "solitaire" and "web" without needing to remember that "Outlook" means mail and "Explorer" means a web browser, or sometimes a file manager.
I got used to running programs this wa with LSXCommand under LiteStep under windows. It's really the best interface ever.
So what? It is better to have an ADEQUATE alternative to MS Office which works for SOME people PART of the time then to have no choice at all.
Personally, I've never used footnotes. For me docbook support is more important. But it's not about what I want, or what are 'necessary' features. It's all about what people are willing to do, and I am glad to have whatever they offer.
It's not a question of doing feature X that you think is unimportant over feature Y which the whole world wants. A developer is not a drone capable of having his skill allocated just anywhere you please. I don't write 90% of the things I have the skill to write, and that's because I don't want to write them. If I weren't doing what I'm doing, however useless, I'd be doing something even less useful. I would not be fixing the bits that you need fixing.
What I'm saying here is it's not either/or, choose a feature. It's "Do you want this feature, or would you rather get nothing?" I'd much rather have a guy working on Flash export on OOo than have him off on some pet project which goes nowhere.
I have cable internet access. How hard would it be to set up a unique-ID'd TV/cable combo which sends a packet back to the company every 10 seconds with current channel information? 90% of everybody uses cable or satelite anyway. If you give a few years for TVs/cable boxen smart enough to send this ping to be created and permiate, then you'll start getting real, useful results. WHY RELY ON NIELSEN GUESSING WHEN YOU CAN POLL EVERYBODY AND KNOW FOR SURE?
Why? What's so hard about typing three commands that are always the same, or close to the same? ...
Whoa. Clock me! Nine months using Linux exclusively and I have become an elitist!
Set your stop watches for "hacker" and watch me go again.
Moderators: parent post was not so much a troll as the bitter, bitter truth. No verifiable connection has ever been made between Iraq and the destruction of the towers in new york. This is simply another Bush wanting his name in the history books selecting a scapegoat of opportunity. America is the aggressor here; we were not in any way under attack from Iraq.
You can't call it self defense when it's preemtive.
I've had the same thing happen to me. Under windows I was addicted to explorer (and explorer plus, a much-better replacement). Under Linux I existed in quiet dispair until I learned to do it by command line, because there was no better way.
Linux does not have any FM close to as good as Windows Explorer (or any one of the five replacements I had installed). Konqueror/KFM is a nice try, but it's way too slow and KDE-centric. If this XPde FM gives Linux a decent FM, I don't care what else they do.
This is true. However, PICO standa for PIne COmposer and is used as the default text editor for Pine.
The developers took the name of the existing mailer (elm) and chose another tree (pine) as the name for their new mailer. They then made an editor based on the new mailer (pico) and chose a name based on the name of the new mailer. Those cloning the editor chose a name related to the acronym for the name of the editor (nano).
In this way, the cause of nano being called what it is can be traced easily back to the fact that the original mailer on this chain had an acronym that is the name of a tree.
And who can forget the nifty Elm->Pine->Pico->Nano evolution?
"Why is it called 'Nano'?"
"Because 'elm' is also the name of a tree."
"What?"
It's not that I have something against embassys, it's that I've got something against Microsoft. Can you imagine all of the bad press they'd get from something like that? :::drools:::
Actually, nevermind. They'd probably say the army should have updated their drivers, and that poor third party drivers are the cause of ALL problems known to man. And they'd get away with it. Damn them.
I do.
Yeah, but you shouldn't Just because it's technically correct doesn't mean it's right. Some credible people should get together and invent a new word to be the gender neutral s/he for english, and then decree it to be valid and correct. It might not get into common usage for some years, but I'd use it pon day one.
That's odd. I've used djbdns and didn't find it at all difficult to install.
Oh, wait. I run Debian. Nevermind.
Like I said, if they're really keen on it I can still easily be monitored, but the chances of a random third party doing it are somewhat reduced.
This makes me glad I use Knoppix.
When I am forced to go to the local community college computers to do some homework, I bring along my trusty Knoppx CD. Pop it in, boot up, and poof. Instant security. Knoppix even grabs one of their local DHCP addrsses and gets online right away. Of course, I could still be monitored if they really want to do it, but the runo-of-the-mill key loggers would be thwarted, and that makes me feel much safer. The fact that it's an effective local log/cookie deleter doesn't hurt either.
They have a policy about using unauthorized software, but after careful reading I decided that its intent was to prevent system instability and whatnot by disallowing all software installs. They might still disallow me if someone in charge knew, but I don't care.
A little blind ideology will go a long way. That's why the republicans are winning: Their competition are wishy-washy and commited to polls, whereas they are willing to stand for their demented and religiously-induced ideas. They have passion and a SLIGHT disregard for statistics, so they win.
By the same token, "America opposes war with Iraq" I doubt you could get a majority for it, at the least, and I recall a recent stat showing that only 20% were for it.
me@box2$ ssh box1
Password:
me@box1$ export SPEAKER="box2:0"
me@box1$ ogg123 cool_sounds.ogg
And hear it where I'm sitting, at box 2. Try THAt with esound or artsd.
You probably don't want to hear this, but have you tried Libranet? It's Debian-based, so you absolutely will not run in to those dependancy problems (unless you WANT to, which some of us actually do) but it's made for personal, desktop use, so it autodetects everything. I actually was most dissapointed after I found that my accumulated "How to get the fucking PPP connection working" knowledge, which I acquired from Red Hat, turned out to be totally useless under Libranet as the first time I booted I could hit "connect" and get online. Libranet (2.0 and later) uses grub, so no cylinder limit applies. Libranet's default kernel comes with most things anybody will need compiled as modules; I only recompile because I'm keen on playing "Let's break the system" and not out of any functional need.
Yes, it's true that on Linux you will spend a lot of time looking up/figuring out how to do what's easily point-and-clickable in those other OSs. I use Linux as my only OS, and it can be frusterating saying "I know this is possible, if I could only find what the hell it's called so I can at least do a google on the right keyword" and similar. I'm not defending Linux's shortcomings here (I'll do it next time, if you like) all I'm saying is your experiences are probably atypical.
(Why yes, this was a "Change your distribution" solution. Can I help it that all non-Debian distros are so fragile in the way they're put together that any attempt to touch them causes them to shatter?)
"For some reason, people designing media players have it stuck in their heads that anyone who wants to watch a movie wants a non-standard, hard-to-use pixmapped interface."
Quicktime started it.
"Hey, we're Apple, the hip design company! We make software easy, consistant and fun! We spent millions designing in terface guidelines which I fanatically insist everyone follow... AND THEN WE BREAK THEM ALL! VIVA LA TITANIUM!"
But from how he fails to describe it, it sounds as if this is a "Let's make crypto faster and more integral by having a dedicated, onboard hardware encryption module to replace all the thousands of possibly-not-as-good software versions."
That sounds like a decent idea to me, as long as it doesn't uniquely identify me and doesn't allow an application to circumvent my control.
www.mplayerhq.hu
If you can't watch WMV, you're just not trying.
Or you don't run x86, but that wuld be nutty.
"Keep this in mind though... Soldering chips on a motherboard is not something my gandma could do and also not something the vast majority of the market would do. Keep in mind that one of the main reasons Palladium will be used is to allow RIAA companies, amongst others, to distribute their media "safely" to grand mothers that paid for it. So they probably don't care (right now) about people that are willing to take the risk of frying their PC."
Not to mention: Coming soon, DMCA-backed lawsuits claiming that nullifying Palladium is circumventing copyright protections. It wont even get to court, most of the time, because sane people don't like multimillion dollar battles against beefy media lawyers.
What? Freedom? Never heard of it.
You don't like tabs at the app level? How about at the window manager level?