They don't. That's why I put the disclaimer at the end. The point I was making is that saying that Linux is hard to use is bull. I'm going to install Mandrake 7.2 with the KDE 2.1 upgrade for my dad, because he's curious about it and I'd to like to be able to answer questions with something other than 'you need to reinstall Windows'.
Ignoring the fact that printer support under BOTH OSes is not perfect, open up DrakConf and select 'Configure printer'. Choose local and choose your printer. Done.
Install a game under Linux Got me there, I've not tried yet.
Connect to your ISP under Linux Click on the Internet Dialer, enter userid, password and telephone number. Click Connect.
Download and print your digital camera pictures under Linux Use GPhoto.
Change your screen from 640x480 @ 256 colours to 1024x768 16.7 million colours under Linux. In DrakConf, select 'Change screen resolution'
In all these instances the Windows2000 answer could have included a reboot as well. All these answers are as simple as their Windows2000 counterparts thanks to Mandrake 7.2. You might say, 'well what if I'm using SuSE, RedHat or Caldera (or others)'. Chances are those distros have a similar mechanism, although I'm sure someone will tell me otherwise.
Perhaps, but until something like the Diamond Rio can play them then it won't be as mainstream as MP3. Give it time though. Linux wasn't built in a day.
How to set up PPP in Linux Mandrake:
Click on Internet Dialer, userid and password. Go to Setup and enter the phone number of your ISP. Return to the main dialer window and click Connect. Wow, what a nightmare. I suppose I'd better return to Windows. Good troll though.
Speaking as a mainframe programmer, there are many thousands of people that have had to deal with different UIs, all ugly 24x80 4 colour screens and have managed fine. To say that these people would then not be able to manage KDE2 is utter rubbish. Mandrake Linux requires you to use the command line about as much as Win9x does (i.e. occasionally). I'm going to show it to my (slightly) computer-phobic dad and I bet he stops using Windows for everything except games.
Manufacturers of non-clunky desktops have cognitive psychologists, physiologists, and experts in other interface-related fields at their disposal.
A cognitive psychologist is someone that teaches you to change your thinking about something that you're miserable about. Do Microsoft have a special hotline to them when Windows BSODs for the 5th time that day?
That's because a lot of people are only impressed by the gee-whizz crap. I think Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most playable games ever, I was on it for 2 months straight, and one of my friends reckons it's crap because the graphics aren't as good as PC graphics, despite the playability.
OK, perhaps sport was a bad example. Suppose someone goes away on business for 3 days but doesn't want to miss the latest Friends and Ally McBeal. How pissed off would this person be with the MPAA and the DVD-RW manufacturer when it doesn't work. Just conduct a straw-poll amongst your friends and colleagues and see how happy they would be if their ability to record TV for later was taken off them. If you don't get at least 95% 'bloody furious' answers I'd be surprised.
Fair use cannot be stopped. Joe Public may not understand all the legal implications, but take away his ability to record the big game when he's at work and you'll get trampled in the rush to return HDTVs & DVD-Rs.
If you want to be pedantic then, it was the NCSA web server, improved on by the Apache project. It's still an innovation and still OSS. Unix when it first came out was innovative, I'm not talking about now.
Unix, apache, sendmail, Mosaic (where both Netscape and IE sprang from) to name just 4. There is no one true path to innovation, it just irks me that the great imitator throws the word about as if they've had one original idea in the whole of their existence (unless you count Microsoft Bob or the dancing paperclip, I suppose).
Every academic I've ever met has been a pedant to various degrees (no pun intended). I don't think RMS is a particularly bad example compared to some. I just think he wants his organisation to get just as much credit as the kernel hackers do which is fair enough.
You need to get a clue. You have to pay for Windows9x whether it is installed or not. That's the terms that PC manufacturers have to agree to in order to get a discount from Microsoft. Sounds like a tax to me.
That's OK if you can see at a glance what the application does. The current system I'm working on has the logic so obfuscated by programmers trying to protect their jobs that it's quicker to just put in hacks and workarounds than to rewrite it - even though it offends my sensibilities as a programmer. The reason code sucks in the commercial world is almost completely due to poor project managers and butt-kissing incompetents. Remove these from the industry and good code will flow from good coders. Easier said than done, but chromatic should at least focus on project manager education as well as this is a large part of the problem.
You're not obligated to pay sales tax (at least in the UK), since essentials are not taxed. A tax is also a levy on goods that is paid every time you purchase those goods. Since a percentage of the cost of every PC sold (apart from very small dealers or if you build it yourself) includes the price of Windows 9x, that is a tax.
Interesting ideas. Had medeval monks had the power and desire to, would they have opposed the printing press?
IIRC, the church was very against the idea of printed books. Someone that published an English edition of the Bible was punished for heresy.
What OSS will bring an end to is a lot of shrink-wrapped software, but it won't stop people making money from it in support, enhancements and bespoke software. I've been in IT for nearly 12 years and I haven't written a single piece of commercial software, it's all been in-house to meet a specific requirement.
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They don't. That's why I put the disclaimer at the end. The point I was making is that saying that Linux is hard to use is bull. I'm going to install Mandrake 7.2 with the KDE 2.1 upgrade for my dad, because he's curious about it and I'd to like to be able to answer questions with something other than 'you need to reinstall Windows'.
Add a printer under Linux
Ignoring the fact that printer support under BOTH OSes is not perfect, open up DrakConf and select 'Configure printer'. Choose local and choose your printer. Done.
Install a game under Linux
Got me there, I've not tried yet.
Connect to your ISP under Linux
Click on the Internet Dialer, enter userid, password and telephone number. Click Connect.
Download and print your digital camera pictures under Linux
Use GPhoto.
Change your screen from 640x480 @ 256 colours to 1024x768 16.7 million colours under Linux.
In DrakConf, select 'Change screen resolution'
In all these instances the Windows2000 answer could have included a reboot as well. All these answers are as simple as their Windows2000 counterparts thanks to Mandrake 7.2. You might say, 'well what if I'm using SuSE, RedHat or Caldera (or others)'. Chances are those distros have a similar mechanism, although I'm sure someone will tell me otherwise.
Yes SuSE is. The previous poster should have mentioned Sun, IBM, Compaq, HP and even AOL as they're not going away any time soon.
Yeah right, insightful, not a troll or flamebait at all.
Perhaps, but until something like the Diamond Rio can play them then it won't be as mainstream as MP3. Give it time though. Linux wasn't built in a day.
Better than re-inventing them as square wheels.
Not forgetting the userid and password, d'oh :-)
How to set up PPP in Linux Mandrake:
Click on Internet Dialer, userid and password. Go to Setup and enter the phone number of your ISP. Return to the main dialer window and click Connect. Wow, what a nightmare. I suppose I'd better return to Windows. Good troll though.
Speaking as a mainframe programmer, there are many thousands of people that have had to deal with different UIs, all ugly 24x80 4 colour screens and have managed fine. To say that these people would then not be able to manage KDE2 is utter rubbish. Mandrake Linux requires you to use the command line about as much as Win9x does (i.e. occasionally). I'm going to show it to my (slightly) computer-phobic dad and I bet he stops using Windows for everything except games.
At a certain level of karma you automatically post at +2, like I do, unless you choose not to.
Manufacturers of non-clunky desktops have cognitive psychologists, physiologists, and experts in other interface-related fields at their disposal.
A cognitive psychologist is someone that teaches you to change your thinking about something that you're miserable about. Do Microsoft have a special hotline to them when Windows BSODs for the 5th time that day?
That's because a lot of people are only impressed by the gee-whizz crap. I think Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most playable games ever, I was on it for 2 months straight, and one of my friends reckons it's crap because the graphics aren't as good as PC graphics, despite the playability.
OK, perhaps sport was a bad example. Suppose someone goes away on business for 3 days but doesn't want to miss the latest Friends and Ally McBeal. How pissed off would this person be with the MPAA and the DVD-RW manufacturer when it doesn't work. Just conduct a straw-poll amongst your friends and colleagues and see how happy they would be if their ability to record TV for later was taken off them. If you don't get at least 95% 'bloody furious' answers I'd be surprised.
Fair use cannot be stopped. Joe Public may not understand all the legal implications, but take away his ability to record the big game when he's at work and you'll get trampled in the rush to return HDTVs & DVD-Rs.
Netscape were sued by the NCSA for the use of the name Mosaic, not the actual source, see here for details.
Oops, pressed submit too soon. Netscape were sued by the NCSA for the use of the name Mosaic, not the actual source, see here for details.
If you want to be pedantic then, it was the NCSA web server, improved on by the Apache project. It's still an innovation and still OSS. Unix when it first came out was innovative, I'm not talking about now.
Unix, apache, sendmail, Mosaic (where both Netscape and IE sprang from) to name just 4. There is no one true path to innovation, it just irks me that the great imitator throws the word about as if they've had one original idea in the whole of their existence (unless you count Microsoft Bob or the dancing paperclip, I suppose).
Every academic I've ever met has been a pedant to various degrees (no pun intended). I don't think RMS is a particularly bad example compared to some. I just think he wants his organisation to get just as much credit as the kernel hackers do which is fair enough.
...and then you woke and realised you'd creamed your bedsheets.
You need to get a clue. You have to pay for Windows9x whether it is installed or not. That's the terms that PC manufacturers have to agree to in order to get a discount from Microsoft. Sounds like a tax to me.
That's OK if you can see at a glance what the application does. The current system I'm working on has the logic so obfuscated by programmers trying to protect their jobs that it's quicker to just put in hacks and workarounds than to rewrite it - even though it offends my sensibilities as a programmer. The reason code sucks in the commercial world is almost completely due to poor project managers and butt-kissing incompetents. Remove these from the industry and good code will flow from good coders. Easier said than done, but chromatic should at least focus on project manager education as well as this is a large part of the problem.
And in related news, the French government, on hearing that Linux is un-American, immediately ordered 2 million copies of Mandrake.
You're not obligated to pay sales tax (at least in the UK), since essentials are not taxed. A tax is also a levy on goods that is paid every time you purchase those goods. Since a percentage of the cost of every PC sold (apart from very small dealers or if you build it yourself) includes the price of Windows 9x, that is a tax.
Interesting ideas. Had medeval monks had the power and desire to, would they have opposed the printing press?
IIRC, the church was very against the idea of printed books. Someone that published an English edition of the Bible was punished for heresy.
What OSS will bring an end to is a lot of shrink-wrapped software, but it won't stop people making money from it in support, enhancements and bespoke software. I've been in IT for nearly 12 years and I haven't written a single piece of commercial software, it's all been in-house to meet a specific requirement.