I agree with you at one point: discussion on message boards is pretty worthless as far a science goes. I hold your comment, which only uses hearsay as evidence, as a good example.
Notice, however, that there's a difference between my comment and yours: mine is actually empirically verifiable, whereas yours is pure fabrication.
It's certainly very revealing. Not so much for the "warmist" side as for himself, who lets his own irrational fear of global communism be the deciding factor when evaluating natural sciences.
1) You can use it as a 90s desktop computer. The setting is 2 clicks away. 2) You evidently don't know how to operate a computer. Hello, you just provided evidence yourself. See 1). 3) Your inability to learn new things and grasp simple concepts suggest that you're not very smart indeed, and further that as in 2), you're not much more than a trained monkey. Oh noes, now you need new training!
Actually, it's a less valid point of view. He just doesn't get it. He doesn't get what a GUI is, what an application is, what a desktop environment is.
Windowmaker is fine, but it doesn't make you more productive than others who are as proficient with their preferred desktop. You're just arrogant and stupid, like the GGP.
Wrong. Nokia's solution to the ultimate Linux (and Symbian) UI is/was Qt, which is pretty much agnostic as to which rendering system it runs on, and which already does run on Wayland (so this future switch isn't exactly a surprise to them).
They know what they're trying to kill off. Oh, and Wayland will also have an X server.
This is one of the disingenuous arguments trotted out like clockwork every time. You can get X servers for Windows and OSX. They both suck compared to Linux because the X clients are always second class programsn and don't integrate properly. It will be the same with Wayland.
Wayland is pretty much "X.org without X11" (plus some other stuff) -- that is, the most modern rendering technologies used by current X.org will also be used by Wayland: DRI, Mesa, Gallium3, etc. X.org and Wayland are integrated at the core.
Sure, there will be inconsistencies between X apps and native apps, but it's not like people will be using X11 apps if they don't specifically need X11.
On the other hand, you can take your Steam folder with games and all, copy it to a new computer with a different version of Windows, double-click the Steam.exe, and your old games will work. Or download the games again, even if you switch from Mac to Windows. Usually, things aren't quite so easy with Windows games, even with self-contained game folders like Quake3. So Steam is simply a much better game service than pretty much anything else.
You may jabber on about not "owning" your games due to DRM, but the simple fact is you don't "own" all those other games you bought either. The games you bought for Windows 98 often won't work properly for Windows XP and later, and there's nothing you can do to fix them. You don't have the source.
Looks like you're already a bitch, but kinda accept it.
Correct. But although 'time is money' isn't a metaphor, it's neither a simile, as it doesn't ascribe any likeness to the concepts. Time 'is' money because time should be spent making money. It's related by closeness, i.e. a metonymy.
GNU Emacs went from 1.12 directly to 13 since the major number wasn't expected to change. Linux can probably do one better and go from 2.6.41 to 42, considering it is the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything.
AFAIK, it's not active censorship (i.e. silencing certain content), but rather the way the trending topics algorithm works, in that it will ditch topics after a sharp spike, to limit itself to 'breaking news'. You still find loads of tweets if you search for Ryan Giggs.
Back here in reality, that's not the question at all.
Facebook won't be bailed out by government when people have drifted to another social networking site, just like Myspace wasn't bailed out, and just like AOL wasn't.
Untrue. The technical inferiority of classic MacOS was a real, quantifiable usability problem at times, and the UI never really was all that much better than the one found in Windows 95. Hell, even Steve Jobs knew it had to be replaced.
What are you talking about? Gnome 3.0 is out, and it does have a totally new interface, some kind of weird tablet-desktop hybrid, which does alienate lots of users.
What's with attaching your comment to a completely unrelated early top level comment? And what the fuck is so special about inaccuracy in Slashdot stories? It's been the norm since the very beginning. Also, there's nothing in the linked articles "sniping at the image of Mac security", nothing that claims there is anything more than social engineering at play. What's with the inaccuracy, the exaggeration and deception of your own comment?
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It has. Also, anyone bothering to check facts, such as the public git repository, can see that it's still actively developed.
That's just utter bullshit and marketing hype.
I agree with you at one point: discussion on message boards is pretty worthless as far a science goes. I hold your comment, which only uses hearsay as evidence, as a good example.
Notice, however, that there's a difference between my comment and yours: mine is actually empirically verifiable, whereas yours is pure fabrication.
What you're saying is that you can't take a problem seriously before it's solved -- and by someone else. Speaking of hypocrisy.
You're confusing internet message boards with scientific debate.
It's certainly very revealing. Not so much for the "warmist" side as for himself, who lets his own irrational fear of global communism be the deciding factor when evaluating natural sciences.
1) You can use it as a 90s desktop computer. The setting is 2 clicks away.
2) You evidently don't know how to operate a computer. Hello, you just provided evidence yourself. See 1).
3) Your inability to learn new things and grasp simple concepts suggest that you're not very smart indeed, and further that as in 2), you're not much more than a trained monkey. Oh noes, now you need new training!
It doesn't need an explanation to the rest of us. Consider that.
Actually, it's a less valid point of view. He just doesn't get it. He doesn't get what a GUI is, what an application is, what a desktop environment is.
Windowmaker is fine, but it doesn't make you more productive than others who are as proficient with their preferred desktop. You're just arrogant and stupid, like the GGP.
Not quite, I'm just saying the rest of us don't care.
Wrong. Nokia's solution to the ultimate Linux (and Symbian) UI is/was Qt, which is pretty much agnostic as to which rendering system it runs on, and which already does run on Wayland (so this future switch isn't exactly a surprise to them).
They know what they're trying to kill off. Oh, and Wayland will also have an X server.
This is one of the disingenuous arguments trotted out like clockwork every time. You can get X servers for Windows and OSX. They both suck compared to Linux because the X clients are always second class programsn and don't integrate properly. It will be the same with Wayland.
Wayland is pretty much "X.org without X11" (plus some other stuff) -- that is, the most modern rendering technologies used by current X.org will also be used by Wayland: DRI, Mesa, Gallium3, etc. X.org and Wayland are integrated at the core.
Sure, there will be inconsistencies between X apps and native apps, but it's not like people will be using X11 apps if they don't specifically need X11.
Yes, and normally a Steam account will work, which is more than can be said about the games you pretend playing in virtual machines.
Guess you're a little sore.
On the other hand, you can take your Steam folder with games and all, copy it to a new computer with a different version of Windows, double-click the Steam.exe, and your old games will work. Or download the games again, even if you switch from Mac to Windows. Usually, things aren't quite so easy with Windows games, even with self-contained game folders like Quake3. So Steam is simply a much better game service than pretty much anything else.
You may jabber on about not "owning" your games due to DRM, but the simple fact is you don't "own" all those other games you bought either. The games you bought for Windows 98 often won't work properly for Windows XP and later, and there's nothing you can do to fix them. You don't have the source.
Looks like you're already a bitch, but kinda accept it.
Correct. But although 'time is money' isn't a metaphor, it's neither a simile, as it doesn't ascribe any likeness to the concepts. Time 'is' money because time should be spent making money. It's related by closeness, i.e. a metonymy.
You sound like you must be really scared of this internet thing.
GNU Emacs went from 1.12 directly to 13 since the major number wasn't expected to change. Linux can probably do one better and go from 2.6.41 to 42, considering it is the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything.
AFAIK, it's not active censorship (i.e. silencing certain content), but rather the way the trending topics algorithm works, in that it will ditch topics after a sharp spike, to limit itself to 'breaking news'. You still find loads of tweets if you search for Ryan Giggs.
Fix as in neuter, I suppose.
Back here in reality, that's not the question at all.
Facebook won't be bailed out by government when people have drifted to another social networking site, just like Myspace wasn't bailed out, and just like AOL wasn't.
Untrue. The technical inferiority of classic MacOS was a real, quantifiable usability problem at times, and the UI never really was all that much better than the one found in Windows 95. Hell, even Steve Jobs knew it had to be replaced.
What are you talking about? Gnome 3.0 is out, and it does have a totally new interface, some kind of weird tablet-desktop hybrid, which does alienate lots of users.
Sure. Just like Star Wars fans are more devoted than general film fans simply because Star Wars is the best film series ever.
Atheism is a religion in the sense that the belief in the non-existence of ghosts is a superstition. (Hint: it's not.)
What's with attaching your comment to a completely unrelated early top level comment? And what the fuck is so special about inaccuracy in Slashdot stories? It's been the norm since the very beginning. Also, there's nothing in the linked articles "sniping at the image of Mac security", nothing that claims there is anything more than social engineering at play. What's with the inaccuracy, the exaggeration and deception of your own comment?