As far as point #1 goes, I have to agree with you. I've been wondering why all the commercial distributions are giving you all the choices that they do for a number of years now. Is it because of those reviews that blast them for not including all the choices? They should make it possible for power users to change it, but they should realize that power users are willing to put in a little more effort to get what they want, and so therefore their needs should be treated differently.
Great. In a few years now, GIFT will become popular and people will be saying how it's a rip-off of Purdue's software, completely forgetting the real history...
We shouldn't be so hard on ourselves. Look at the grandparent post's wording again. He was impressed by Mandrake, not disappointed. From what it sounds like to me, his problem had nothing to do with usability, but rather everything to do with driver support, which is completely understandable. What we need for him to be able to try it again is to make sure that the next release of Linux that has tries addresses these issues. That means we need hardware manufacturers to throw us a bone.
1) Don't you think most of us have already gotten this part?
2) Who's fighting except for a bunch of immature teenagers?
3) What have we been doing over the last few years if not this?
This is all my own personal view of what has been happening with companies like Mandrake, SuSe, Lindows, etc. from the last few years. We're going to continue to have some problems as long as hardware manufacturers, and some software developers (notably Adobe), refuse to help us out. For now, I believe those are our two biggest problems.
That misses the point that the grand parent post was trying to get across. Assembly, C, or Cobol were not broken, so why are there so many different programming languages these days, and yet only one DB language?
It's not a question of whether SQL is broken, but more of the idea of whether or not other lingquistic paradigms for data storage have been explored and experimented with to see if they are better (in terms of readability, efficiency, flexibility, etc.)
I know a lot of people that don't use Windows Update. They just wait until their more tech savvy family members or friends to come over to their place.
My mom doesn't install anything on her Windows machine. Either myself or someone else in the family does so when we're at her house. I highly doubt she knows anything about installing software in Windows.
I give people stuff on CDs all the time to put on their Windows boxen. When someone copies something from those CDs on to their hard drives, they always call me up and ask why they can't modify anything. I always forget that Windows keeps the read-only permission set when it copies from a CD.
Yeah, I know, that probably was meant to be funny, but I'm sure it was also meant to be insightful as well. Debian really ought to do something like that to package FireFox into Debian.
What's funny about the parent's joke is that I actually convinced an English teacher in high school of this, up until he actually walked up to the dictionary.
My best friend is a very bright guy at things historical, political and...litoral? No that's lakes...whatever the word is that means "things dealing with literature." Umm, perhaps you mean literature?
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To be fair, that's not even the default look for 3.2 anyway. This is (although I changed the window decoration to a Be style).
Great, now we're going to have running/biking wars here on slashdot, like the emacs/vim and KDE/Gnome wars.
Saying that without looking in CVS is like not reading the article. Oh, never mind...
I can imagine it now...
So, wanna night with my owner baby?
(gets strange look)
If that's the case, then how about this?
(whips out robotic phallus...)
later...
"Oh yes, yes!" as heard in other room. "Damn robot, I spent all that money and time on him, and for what?!"
manuerable jet aircraft
Eww, why would someone want to fly in that?
Interesting. Sounds like he did this more on his own accord than from prodding from Microsoft.
There is a standard. It's a matter of actually using the standard that is the problem.
You can run Gnome and KDE on top of Emacs?!!! Is there anything Emacs can't do these days?
(disclaimer: I happen to love Emacs, but I can't resist a good joke)
And what's so fucking difficult about laughing at a good joke? I hate it when people set out to ruin a good joke without a good reason.
As far as point #1 goes, I have to agree with you. I've been wondering why all the commercial distributions are giving you all the choices that they do for a number of years now. Is it because of those reviews that blast them for not including all the choices? They should make it possible for power users to change it, but they should realize that power users are willing to put in a little more effort to get what they want, and so therefore their needs should be treated differently.
Great. In a few years now, GIFT will become popular and people will be saying how it's a rip-off of Purdue's software, completely forgetting the real history...
We shouldn't be so hard on ourselves. Look at the grandparent post's wording again. He was impressed by Mandrake, not disappointed. From what it sounds like to me, his problem had nothing to do with usability, but rather everything to do with driver support, which is completely understandable. What we need for him to be able to try it again is to make sure that the next release of Linux that has tries addresses these issues. That means we need hardware manufacturers to throw us a bone.
1) Don't you think most of us have already gotten this part?
2) Who's fighting except for a bunch of immature teenagers?
3) What have we been doing over the last few years if not this?
This is all my own personal view of what has been happening with companies like Mandrake, SuSe, Lindows, etc. from the last few years. We're going to continue to have some problems as long as hardware manufacturers, and some software developers (notably Adobe), refuse to help us out. For now, I believe those are our two biggest problems.
Nancy Cartwright is coming to my college next week. Hopefully I'll be able to ask her about this.
Say, you missed your plane to Sarcasm.
That misses the point that the grand parent post was trying to get across. Assembly, C, or Cobol were not broken, so why are there so many different programming languages these days, and yet only one DB language?
It's not a question of whether SQL is broken, but more of the idea of whether or not other lingquistic paradigms for data storage have been explored and experimented with to see if they are better (in terms of readability, efficiency, flexibility, etc.)
I know a lot of people that don't use Windows Update. They just wait until their more tech savvy family members or friends to come over to their place.
My mom doesn't install anything on her Windows machine. Either myself or someone else in the family does so when we're at her house. I highly doubt she knows anything about installing software in Windows.
Like it's different on Windows?
I give people stuff on CDs all the time to put on their Windows boxen. When someone copies something from those CDs on to their hard drives, they always call me up and ask why they can't modify anything. I always forget that Windows keeps the read-only permission set when it copies from a CD.
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I'm not sure any modern, big budget movie could use CG and get away with not using HDRI.
Yeah, I know, that probably was meant to be funny, but I'm sure it was also meant to be insightful as well. Debian really ought to do something like that to package FireFox into Debian.
What's funny about the parent's joke is that I actually convinced an English teacher in high school of this, up until he actually walked up to the dictionary.
My best friend is a very bright guy at things historical, political and...litoral? No that's lakes...whatever the word is that means "things dealing with literature."
Umm, perhaps you mean literature?
note topic?
Someone has to mod that up as +1 Funny. That was hilarius!!!!