"We have a Constitution that guarantees that congress can make no law "abridging the freedom of speech". Errr....wait.....ummmmm. Well, I mean... except POLITICAL speech. "
"As long as people keep doing this, retailers will get the message and keep supplying it. When enough big retailers are losing out on profits because of Vista, they will make their feelings clear enough to Microsoft, and either the problem will go away or the Microsoft executives responsible will start going away."
Yeah, but you are probably a minority, the majority are too stupid to care.
"To most people I've talked to "Copyright infringement" IS a form of stealing, since they personalize the issue. "
Well, they are idiots. Much like when Bush thinks it's ok to torture people if he calls it something else.
"(If I wrote a book and people infringed the copyright by making their own copy and selling it, they're efectively stealing money from me.)"
They are not stealing it. And nobody has taken any money from you.
You MIGHT have lost a sale, but it's not sure - and it's a different thing that stealing. People who call it stealing are amoral and I wouldn't want to give them any money on principle.
"Cause googles totally sucks with it's incompetent design."
Indeed - they don't care about readability for anyone but their little office. Try disabeling fontsize in msie6 and you have a stamp sized window to read the messages in.
I don't think anybody is confusing anything - but this is an attempt at a first strike against *Usenet* - not the dot com site. They just picked them because they think it's going to be easy.
"I assume that what your talking about is opening the GIMP and it opens a gimp window with the tool buttons, it opens a layers windows with the layering and channels widgets and finally it opens the image windows."
Yes and opens them on the desktop, instead of in it's own mother window.
"This is what is supposed to happen and is how things are typically done in the X windows system on unix and Linux systems, I like it because it allows me to move those things to where I want or to mimimise and get them out of the way completely. "
I don't like i have to minimize it all individually, when just minimizing the "mother window" is enough for PC applications.
"Call me wacky, but the UI isn't a problem. Any tool can be learned in a few days or weeks of using it."
You are wacky.
Its not a question of learning, its a question of why waste time on something that looks like crap when what you have works. You may not think that way, most do it seems to me.
"Personally I think "windows" are a horrible idea, but if you're going to have them, having a bunch of nested sub-windows inside a larger window is just awful."
Funny, the lack of that is exactly why I never wanted to use GIMP.
Is that every time I tried it, it opened a ton of windows on the PC desktop. Instead of "windows in windows" like so many other PC programs.
When every I mentioned that I was usually attacked by scores of linux fans who were pointing out that Windows sucks and that the PC sucks and that any proper OS needs to have window managers and that it wasn't a problem with the program but that I was stupid enough to use a stupid OS and oh, did they mention that Windows sucks...
However I see in that blog there is a screenshot of application window in a host window, in what appears to be a Windows environment so perhaps someone has changed their point of view.
"God forbid a company turn a profit. Clearly any game company who sells their game is evil. How dare they charge money for something that cost them tens of millions of dollars!"
Well you are free to think that.
"Please explain to me what I made up or lied about."
You made it sound like they were mother thereas for spending millions of dollars hoping to make billions of dollars.
"I will then in turn bury you in a pile of evidence and facts and expose you for the troll you are."
Slashdot Mirror
And get off their microsoft trip of "we are right"
"Claiming that executives should say their own stock is overvalued, even if true, is unrealistic."
Only if you accept executives who lie.
Have you left the Mists to settle in Kaffiristan ?
"We have a Constitution that guarantees that congress can make no law "abridging the freedom of speech". Errr....wait.....ummmmm. Well, I mean... except POLITICAL speech. "
Or any other kind of speech they deem a problem.
"As long as people keep doing this, retailers will get the message and keep supplying it. When enough big retailers are losing out on profits because of Vista, they will make their feelings clear enough to Microsoft, and either the problem will go away or the Microsoft executives responsible will start going away."
Yeah, but you are probably a minority, the majority are too stupid to care.
"Typical of someone who thinks stealing is acceptable. "
You are your own tagline.
"To most people I've talked to "Copyright infringement" IS a form of stealing, since they personalize the issue. "
Well, they are idiots. Much like when Bush thinks it's ok to torture people if he calls it something else.
"(If I wrote a book and people infringed the copyright by making their own copy and selling it, they're efectively stealing money from me.)"
They are not stealing it. And nobody has taken any money from you.
You MIGHT have lost a sale, but it's not sure - and it's a different thing that stealing. People who call it stealing are amoral and I wouldn't want to give them any money on principle.
"Cause googles totally sucks with it's incompetent design."
Indeed - they don't care about readability for anyone but their little office. Try disabeling fontsize in msie6 and you have a stamp sized window to read the messages in.
It used to be good before Google ruined it.
Anything that cuts down on advertising is a good thing.
Cause googles totally sucks with it's incompetent design.
"The ads are very unobtrusive. "
Who cares - they retain the rights to snoop your entires system, something which is none of their damn business. Greedy idiots.
"Imagine Diablo with full 3d, a physics engine, and exploding barrels ala HL2."
I shall imagine someone will crack it an remove the evilware. Otherwise I hope it dies quickly.
Ever thought about killing yourself? You would help the planet.
And when someone hacks it, they are sure to complain as well.
"Hellgate is not the game to make an outrage over, because the ads in it are so tastefully done that they feel right."
Who cares - they ARE doing it - that's bad enough. The commercial spam is one thing, but the spying on our machine that is the real problem.
""God spoke to me."
If I was God, I'd have called you an asshole."
If there is a god he shouldn't be throwing with stones.
Wow, I wonder what those who mod this up were smoking.
In many countries you can't return a computer once opened (because you could just copy it) - and it it's not opened, does that count?
I don't think anybody is confusing anything - but this is an attempt at a first strike against *Usenet* - not the dot com site. They just picked them because they think it's going to be easy.
"I assume that what your talking about is opening the GIMP and it opens a gimp window with the tool buttons, it opens a layers windows with the layering and channels widgets and finally it opens the image windows."
Yes and opens them on the desktop, instead of in it's own mother window.
"This is what is supposed to happen and is how things are typically done in the X windows system on unix and Linux systems, I like it because it allows me to move those things to where I want or to mimimise and get them out of the way completely. "
I don't like i have to minimize it all individually, when just minimizing the "mother window" is enough for PC applications.
"Call me wacky, but the UI isn't a problem. Any tool can be learned in a few days or weeks of using it."
You are wacky.
Its not a question of learning, its a question of why waste time on something that looks like crap when what you have works. You may not think that way, most do it seems to me.
The irony is that you assume its the same people saying that.
"Personally I think "windows" are a horrible idea, but if you're going to have them, having a bunch of nested sub-windows inside a larger window is just awful."
Funny, the lack of that is exactly why I never wanted to use GIMP.
Is that every time I tried it, it opened a ton of windows on the PC desktop. Instead of "windows in windows" like so many other PC programs.
When every I mentioned that I was usually attacked by scores of linux fans who were pointing out that Windows sucks and that the PC sucks and that any proper OS needs to have window managers and that it wasn't a problem with the program but that I was stupid enough to use a stupid OS and oh, did they mention that Windows sucks...
However I see in that blog there is a screenshot of application window in a host window, in what appears to be a Windows environment so perhaps someone has changed their point of view.
Ah, so its not a real Eudora - thanks for clearing that up.
"God forbid a company turn a profit. Clearly any game company who sells their game is evil. How dare they charge money for something that cost them tens of millions of dollars!"
Well you are free to think that.
"Please explain to me what I made up or lied about."
You made it sound like they were mother thereas for spending millions of dollars hoping to make billions of dollars.
"I will then in turn bury you in a pile of evidence and facts and expose you for the troll you are."
And with a tone like that, don't bother.