In response to your comment about KDE there is a very good reason that RedHat use Gnome by default (IMHO): It is more like windows.
The problem with KDE is that the people who design the interface refuse to acknowledge that Windows is what everyone is used to and you need to make the transition away from that as easy as possible. Gnome has certain key features (like cut and paste) that are as close to the windows functionality as possible.
You have it exactly backwards. GNOME's user interface has become more and more like Mac OS X in several important ways, like the file chooser dialog, spatial file manager, program menu at the top of the screen, etc. etc. while KDE emulates Windows in just about every way (except it adds a bunch of features Windows doesn't have).
And where on earth did you get the mistaken idea that KDE does not support Windows-style cut and paste? It always has.
No, the real reason GNOME is dominant in business-oriented distributions is GTK's more liberal licensing: LGPL instead of Qt's GPL/commercial dual licensing. That means you can make a GTK/GNOME-based commercial, closed-source product without having to buy a license from the GUI toolkit's maker. With Qt and hence with KDE, that is not possible.
I'd say that having control of my operating system matters a lot more then advertising on the web. I read your link and all I can say is that it's pure paranoia.
It's evident that you did not actually read my link, since the link you offer in return purports to refute Daniel Brandt, while the academic report offered for download in my link was not written by Daniel Brandt but by Prof. Hermann Maurer of Graz University of Technology in Austria.
Google bashing about how they can see your every move is so stupid. A combination of not using Google search and No Script pretty much rules out them getting any data on you, unless you purposely use other Google products.
That is not relevant to the general non-geek population, since almost everyone uses Google by default and doesn't know or care that there is anything else. What a few hundred thousand geeks do doesn't make a difference to Google's status as a monopoly in the field of playing Big Brother.
the fact that you referenced google-watch completely invalidates your entire post.
Yeah, after all Google is sacrosanct and therefore nothing on google-watch could possibly have any validity (even if the research on that page does not come from google-watch at all, but from Graz University in Austria).
Meanwhile, the search giant is pushing open source in every way it can.
While remaining even more secretive and becoming even more of a monopoly than Microsoft on things that actually matter, like their search and advertising business, to say nothing of their total disregard for privacy.
Can you say 'divide and conquer'? Thought you could.
For what it's worth, I'm a Linux user and avoid proprietary software wherever possible, but I've been taught not to look a gift horse in the mouth, and not to complain when you can't offer an alternative.
It's not a gift horse. Access is restricted (at least in theory) to UK citizens, who have already paid for this service through their TV licence fees.
This is not just a bit dubious, it is plain and simple copyright infringement on a massive scale.
Of course, Google itself does the exact same thing when you view a "cached copy" of any page. So how is Google's cache not a case of massive copyright infringement then?
The fact that you got modded down to the gutter for daring to express an anti-The Register, pro-Wikipedia viewpoint on Slashdot is a nice illustration of the fact that abuses of power happen everywhere, not just on Wikipedia.
But... but... but...::gasp:: I thought GNOME was supposed to be completely unusable, with every new release having fewer features than the one before it?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!111?!/!11
The GPL pushes that one step further by making sharing a requirement. Now receiving obliges you to give in return (if copyright wasn't the basis for the GPL, would Stallman have required distribution too?).
Sigh. No, it doesn't. The GPL sets forth rules you need to follow if you choose to share (i.e. distribute) the software. But nothing in the GPL obliges you to share anything.
As you can see below, their website runs "Sun-ONE-Web-Server/6.1", but behind a Microsoft-IIS proxy. How strange is that?
breedzicht:~ martijn$ telnet www.telstra.com 80 Trying 144.135.18.10... Connected to www.telstra.com. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.telstra.com
HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:05:43 GMT X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Set-Cookie: SMSESSION=(long string deleted due to Slashdot lameness filter) path=/ Location: http://telstra.com/index.jsp Content-Length: 149 Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQSDRRSSS=ILGEHGFBPODHONPEHDGJGAOC; path=/ Cache-control: private
HEAD/index.jsp HTTP/1.1 Host: telstra.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:05:51 GMT Content-Type: text/html Expires: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:05:51 GMT Cache-Control: private, no-cache Connection: close Server: Sun-ONE-Web-Server/6.1 Set-Cookie: SMIDENTITY=(long string deleted due to Slashdot lameness filter) expires=Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:05:57 GMT; path=/ Pragma: no-cache Set-cookie: JSESSIONID=39606BC3B5E845B5ED4B46A280ABF628;Path=/ Via: 1.1 pitt8-tcom-nc03 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.6)
Connection closed by foreign host. breedzicht:~ martijn$
I am from holland and we got the SAME crime rate as the US when you stop and think. You got to look at the crimes that are crimes in BOTH countries, murder rate, same.
If this isn't a strong argument that blacklisting systems are unethical, I don't know what is. Imagine being targeted by vigilantes because you bought a house which was previously occupied by a sex offender and so the addreess is listed on the local sex offender registry. That's essentially what's happening here.
If this isn't hysterical hyperbole, I don't know what is. What's happening is that he is having trouble getting a few emails delivered. No one is getting "targeted".
There is no such thing as an "evil IP address" any more than there is an "evil house."
There are, however, shitty neighbourhoods. If you live in a high crime area, don't expect to get pizza delivered. If you rent an IP address from a spammer-infested slumlord ISP, don't expect to get email delivered from there.
The Internet is a network based on voluntary collaboration. If you don't keep your net neighbourhood clean, the rest of the Internet will refuse to play with you, and rightly so. It's that simple.
These systems are technically, logically, as well as ethically flawed. Anybody who buys into blacklist-based technology is a reactionary and a bigot.
Then bitch to your telecom companies and/or Government until they upgrade their links to the rest of the world. This has nothing to do with ICANN's control over the DNS root.
You can upgrade the links all you want, but you can't upgrade physics. The speed of light will always ensure that intercontinental ping times don't get much faster than what grandparent is experiencing.
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You have it exactly backwards. GNOME's user interface has become more and more like Mac OS X in several important ways, like the file chooser dialog, spatial file manager, program menu at the top of the screen, etc. etc. while KDE emulates Windows in just about every way (except it adds a bunch of features Windows doesn't have).
And where on earth did you get the mistaken idea that KDE does not support Windows-style cut and paste? It always has.
No, the real reason GNOME is dominant in business-oriented distributions is GTK's more liberal licensing: LGPL instead of Qt's GPL/commercial dual licensing. That means you can make a GTK/GNOME-based commercial, closed-source product without having to buy a license from the GUI toolkit's maker. With Qt and hence with KDE, that is not possible.
Anyone who has to start with that, really doesn't.
It's evident that you did not actually read my link, since the link you offer in return purports to refute Daniel Brandt, while the academic report offered for download in my link was not written by Daniel Brandt but by Prof. Hermann Maurer of Graz University of Technology in Austria.
That is not relevant to the general non-geek population, since almost everyone uses Google by default and doesn't know or care that there is anything else. What a few hundred thousand geeks do doesn't make a difference to Google's status as a monopoly in the field of playing Big Brother.
Yeah, after all Google is sacrosanct and therefore nothing on google-watch could possibly have any validity (even if the research on that page does not come from google-watch at all, but from Graz University in Austria).
While remaining even more secretive and becoming even more of a monopoly than Microsoft on things that actually matter, like their search and advertising business, to say nothing of their total disregard for privacy.
Can you say 'divide and conquer'? Thought you could.
No no no, the Teletubbies designed that one.
Bullcrap. It runs smoothly on my gf's G3/400MHz iMac.
The analog hole is a way to circumvent the DRM, ergo the DCMA prohibits it. Legally, there is no analog hole.
It's not a gift horse. Access is restricted (at least in theory) to UK citizens, who have already paid for this service through their TV licence fees.
Of course, Google itself does the exact same thing when you view a "cached copy" of any page. So how is Google's cache not a case of massive copyright infringement then?
FYI, Microsoft is whining in the Dutch-language press (Google translation) about how unfair to them this all is and how disadvantaged they would be if the government used open standards.
You're kidding... right?
Just in case you're not, you might want to read about peer review (at Wikipedia, of all places) as you don't seem to have a clue what it is...
Wikipedia can misappropriate the term "peer review" for itself all it wants, but that doesn't make it peer reviewed.
The fact that you got modded down to the gutter for daring to express an anti-The Register, pro-Wikipedia viewpoint on Slashdot is a nice illustration of the fact that abuses of power happen everywhere, not just on Wikipedia.
But... but... but... ::gasp:: I thought GNOME was supposed to be completely unusable, with every new release having fewer features than the one before it?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!111?!/!11
Sigh. No, it doesn't. The GPL sets forth rules you need to follow if you choose to share (i.e. distribute) the software. But nothing in the GPL obliges you to share anything.
That means Gmail is broken, period. If it /dev/nulls any message at all without your consent, it's broken. So, as usual, you get what you pay for.
(dum, dum, dum) Another hoax bites the dust.
If this isn't hysterical hyperbole, I don't know what is. What's happening is that he is having trouble getting a few emails delivered. No one is getting "targeted".
There are, however, shitty neighbourhoods. If you live in a high crime area, don't expect to get pizza delivered. If you rent an IP address from a spammer-infested slumlord ISP, don't expect to get email delivered from there.
The Internet is a network based on voluntary collaboration. If you don't keep your net neighbourhood clean, the rest of the Internet will refuse to play with you, and rightly so. It's that simple.
Wah wah wah! Grow up. You sound like a spammer.
You can upgrade the links all you want, but you can't upgrade physics. The speed of light will always ensure that intercontinental ping times don't get much faster than what grandparent is experiencing.
But you do, in fact.
Content is not infrastructure.
KDE is cross-platform, therefore Konqueror is too.