I know plenty of people that use MSN, but they're all relatively new to computers (i.e. they got their own computers after 2000, when MSN IM was starting to get popular.) They use MSN IM because it came with their computers. It's Internet Explorer all over again, especially if AOL isn't careful. A little ironic considering that they bought Netscape.
This isn't entirely a joke. When Ian Murdock started out, there were no distributions like what we have today. A person had to compile this, find out it depends on that, then compile that and so on. If people think Linux is difficult today, in 1993, things were ten times harder (that's a subjective statement.) There were no package management systems back then, but Ian Murdock still really liked Linux, and being in college, it was a great Unix-learning tool without the cost. He wanted other students to be able to use Linux and utilities (GNUtilities?). Debian's original goal really was to make Linux easier to use. It's a little ironic that it turned out to have the reputation of being a hardcore hacker's distribution. Honestly, if apt is supposed to be hard to use, I worry about humanity and its future.
I'm not saying that everyone should be a computer expert, but people shouldn't fear a computer's complexity. People shouldn't think that it's hard to use, merely something they haven't yet learned to use.
Apt is like going out to a grocery store, buying TV dinners (which I hate, but I digress), and popping it into the microwave (once you get home, that is.) That's not difficult to do, but a person has to be taught to do that, or they will perceive as difficult to do.
"That happens to me all the time. I see the donuts on the table in the waiting room and completely forget the reason I'm there. I just grab them and walk out the door. Suddenly, I feel a prick in my ass, and I realize it's just the pretty nurse admiring the beauty in front of her. All while doing a good deed for me." --Vash the Stampede
Not only does he want a good wm and some good libraries, he want's those libraries to be portable to embedded devices, epsecially since that's where he thinks part of the future for Linux is. The drawing library, Evas, has been ported to a number of devices.
Why have you been keeping the reindeer propulsion system a secret from the world? You should really consider putting it under the GPL for the world to benefit. Yeah, I know, you got laughed at when you tried to sell it, and so you see no potential profit from it, but that's exactly the reason why you need to GPL it! If you GPL your tech, then once people stop laughing, they'll see that's it actually works. The world could really use something like that.
If you can get presents to all the world's children in one night, you certainly have something that can move faster than anything we have now.
Speaking of children, I'm going to be taking care of a child this Christmas and he really, really wants a new NVidia card. Maybe you could come here early and drop it off so I can make sure it works on our computer! I'll be sure to not let him see it before Christmas, promise!
I doubt that. Real Estate is a massive business world wide.
That's probably true, but I think we need to look at this question from a different perspective.
I wouldn't doubt that real estate is a big business. In fact, I know it is, I know quite a number of real estate agents to confirm this fact. However, not many software developers are going to be all that concerned about real estate and so therefore, software like this won't scratch an itch for them. The only ones that will be are the ones that work in IT departments for real estate companies. Real estate people generally don't know much about software, much less open source software, except for the software that everyone else uses in the office (Word, email stuff, etc.), and some other software to get their properties listed, and perhaps some others specific to their industry. Generally, software developers have a lot more knowledge about what type of software is available to the field they work on, and the only software developers whose itch will be scratched by the submitter's software are the ones who work in the industry, and I would bet that there aren't very many of them.
I would say, RTFA, but I realize that this is slashdot:
Although Brooks considered and even tried to use several open-source alternatives, including GIMP, or GNU Image Manipulation Program (see related story), and Cinepaint (formerly FilmGimp), he said he ran into performance issues with the two programs. Artists also found the open-source programs less intuitive to use than Photoshop.
And while Photoshop is the program of choice among Disney's artist base, Disney is keeping an eye on Cinepaint and is even using the program in a few cases, Brooks said.
"There's this whole artistic community built around Photoshop, and we couldn't easily move these people to free alternatives," Brooks said. "[But] we hope [Cinepaint] will get to the point where we can use it for more tasks."
Hey, wait, why are you guys suing me? I didn't do anything wrong. What about those MP3s? Those are songs written by my friends. Belittled_Mermaid.mp3 has nothing to do with The Little Mermaid movie and Beauty's_Swan_Song.mp3 was also written by one of my friends. Stupid Disney...
Why can't you just be the evil company that you're supposed to be?!
ARGH!!!
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Ugh, you just gave me the most horrible of thoughts...
Scene: Nursing Home (Nurse is passing out dinner, walks up to Old Geezer to hand him his dinner.) Old Geezer: Hey young lady, how about dinner with an overclocked heart tonight, baby? Oh, trust me (taps on chest), this heart can keep up with you youngin' any time!
The next "what if" is "what happens when Linux rules the desktop?" I tend to see a touch of chaos in the future. Very unpredictable. The next "what if" is about innovation. If Linux becomes king of the hill, where will innovation lead? Where will it come from? I don't want to open the debate about whether or not Microsoft "innovated" anything but when Linux finally captures the hill, where will it come from?
Innovation will lead to where the marketplace demands that it goes, just like how normal economics works without a monopoly, and it will come from everywhere, just like a normal economy without the deadweight of a monopoly.
Does all the innovation in the car industry come from one organization and flow in only the direction that that organization dictates? Of course, the automotive industry has a healthy marketplace. In a way, they're no different from the desktop software industry. The automotive industry also has to deal quite a bit with human-machine interaction. They've dictated most of the standard interfaces, but no dashboard in two different models of cars is exactly the same. Would dealing with different cars make it easier if all dashboards we're the same? Of course. If the car industry were like that, they would be in the same position that the software industry faces right now.
meetings were held between college representatives, music industry reps, and online music services
I guess the student representative had a class or something, right? How is it that we, the students, have no say in something that will inevitably effect the cost of tuition, which is already sky high at most places? Not all college students infringe copyrights. Some of us actually respect them, even if we don't like them. All that means is that our music selection is much more limited than the guy in the dorm next to me. Why should we have to pay up the wazoo for his deeds? So what happens next, the RIAA gets to dictate where our tuition money goes?!
Crossing Over with John Edwards... Ricky Lake and Jerry Springer, yea!!! Big Brother 25, oh yeah Pet Psychic?! Most Sexy Artists of All Time, sure "This girl is going to choose one guy to marry out of a million, let's see what happens..."
Uh, gee, I can't see why they don't watch so much TV these...
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I know plenty of people that use MSN, but they're all relatively new to computers (i.e. they got their own computers after 2000, when MSN IM was starting to get popular.) They use MSN IM because it came with their computers. It's Internet Explorer all over again, especially if AOL isn't careful. A little ironic considering that they bought Netscape.
Why is it that sodipodi and the GIMP are only trying to be second best?!
This isn't entirely a joke. When Ian Murdock started out, there were no distributions like what we have today. A person had to compile this, find out it depends on that, then compile that and so on. If people think Linux is difficult today, in 1993, things were ten times harder (that's a subjective statement.) There were no package management systems back then, but Ian Murdock still really liked Linux, and being in college, it was a great Unix-learning tool without the cost. He wanted other students to be able to use Linux and utilities (GNUtilities?). Debian's original goal really was to make Linux easier to use. It's a little ironic that it turned out to have the reputation of being a hardcore hacker's distribution. Honestly, if apt is supposed to be hard to use, I worry about humanity and its future.
I'm not saying that everyone should be a computer expert, but people shouldn't fear a computer's complexity. People shouldn't think that it's hard to use, merely something they haven't yet learned to use.
Apt is like going out to a grocery store, buying TV dinners (which I hate, but I digress), and popping it into the microwave (once you get home, that is.) That's not difficult to do, but a person has to be taught to do that, or they will perceive as difficult to do.
"That happens to me all the time. I see the donuts on the table in the waiting room and completely forget the reason I'm there. I just grab them and walk out the door. Suddenly, I feel a prick in my ass, and I realize it's just the pretty nurse admiring the beauty in front of her. All while doing a good deed for me."
--Vash the Stampede
RTFA has never been more relevant.
Is a uick trip quicker than a quick trip because it lacks a q?
Not only does he want a good wm and some good libraries, he want's those libraries to be portable to embedded devices, epsecially since that's where he thinks part of the future for Linux is. The drawing library, Evas, has been ported to a number of devices.
Including spelling, which also used to be innocent and beautiful until Slashdot came around.
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that...because I've been slashdotted!"
http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdebase/konqueror/enhan ced-browsing.html
Why have you been keeping the reindeer propulsion system a secret from the world? You should really consider putting it under the GPL for the world to benefit. Yeah, I know, you got laughed at when you tried to sell it, and so you see no potential profit from it, but that's exactly the reason why you need to GPL it! If you GPL your tech, then once people stop laughing, they'll see that's it actually works. The world could really use something like that.
If you can get presents to all the world's children in one night, you certainly have something that can move faster than anything we have now.
Speaking of children, I'm going to be taking care of a child this Christmas and he really, really wants a new NVidia card. Maybe you could come here early and drop it off so I can make sure it works on our computer! I'll be sure to not let him see it before Christmas, promise!
Shouldn't we be worrying about the Christian PETA members?
Sit boy! Err...girl...
Just like NVidia did, huh?
You remember that? Wow, I wasn't even alive back then.
I wouldn't doubt that real estate is a big business. In fact, I know it is, I know quite a number of real estate agents to confirm this fact. However, not many software developers are going to be all that concerned about real estate and so therefore, software like this won't scratch an itch for them. The only ones that will be are the ones that work in IT departments for real estate companies. Real estate people generally don't know much about software, much less open source software, except for the software that everyone else uses in the office (Word, email stuff, etc.), and some other software to get their properties listed, and perhaps some others specific to their industry. Generally, software developers have a lot more knowledge about what type of software is available to the field they work on, and the only software developers whose itch will be scratched by the submitter's software are the ones who work in the industry, and I would bet that there aren't very many of them.
Yeah, Disney!
Hey, wait, why are you guys suing me? I didn't do anything wrong. What about those MP3s? Those are songs written by my friends. Belittled_Mermaid.mp3 has nothing to do with The Little Mermaid movie and Beauty's_Swan_Song.mp3 was also written by one of my friends. Stupid Disney...
Why can't you just be the evil company that you're supposed to be?!
ARGH!!!
Ugh, you just gave me the most horrible of thoughts...
Scene: Nursing Home
(Nurse is passing out dinner, walks up to Old Geezer to hand him his dinner.)
Old Geezer: Hey young lady, how about dinner with an overclocked heart tonight, baby? Oh, trust me (taps on chest), this heart can keep up with you youngin' any time!
*shudder*
Innovation will lead to where the marketplace demands that it goes, just like how normal economics works without a monopoly, and it will come from everywhere, just like a normal economy without the deadweight of a monopoly.
Does all the innovation in the car industry come from one organization and flow in only the direction that that organization dictates? Of course, the automotive industry has a healthy marketplace. In a way, they're no different from the desktop software industry. The automotive industry also has to deal quite a bit with human-machine interaction. They've dictated most of the standard interfaces, but no dashboard in two different models of cars is exactly the same. Would dealing with different cars make it easier if all dashboards we're the same? Of course. If the car industry were like that, they would be in the same position that the software industry faces right now.
First person to win a wet t-shirt contest with one of them...
I guess the student representative had a class or something, right? How is it that we, the students, have no say in something that will inevitably effect the cost of tuition, which is already sky high at most places? Not all college students infringe copyrights. Some of us actually respect them, even if we don't like them. All that means is that our music selection is much more limited than the guy in the dorm next to me. Why should we have to pay up the wazoo for his deeds? So what happens next, the RIAA gets to dictate where our tuition money goes?!
Hmm...
Crossing Over with John Edwards...
Ricky Lake and Jerry Springer, yea!!!
Big Brother 25, oh yeah
Pet Psychic?!
Most Sexy Artists of All Time, sure
"This girl is going to choose one guy to marry out of a million, let's see what happens..."
Uh, gee, I can't see why they don't watch so much TV these...