1. Geos for the PC is still around--I saw Freedom Desktop recently uns great on little memory, has a full suite of applications...
2. Geos for the PC/PDAs uses Motif.:^)
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Why not? What do you think you do when you subscribe to a cable TV network? Or buy a TV, for that matter? Or get a telephone line hookup? These are channels for advertising as well...ones that people pay for.
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Can't agree with you on two points:
1. To make everything easier, we need to make [Linux] have all "that kewl graphical stuff" Windows has. Microsoft Windows stole most of it's ideas from other systems, including NeXT. What we think of as the modern GUI originated at Xerox in the late 60s.
2. Only a few out of every hundred hackers can understand a web browser. Wow, the hacking world has gotten *really* dumb.
True, but how many mothers have a Masters in chemistry? The original poster is (probably) right, most mothers don't care about what an OS is (just as many non-technically-minded young folks don't give a rat's ass, either.:^)
It's a holdover from productivity measurement developed when the United States was part of the Industrial Age. The more you make, the better you are; quality be damned!
No mention of how the data were collected...for all we know, Meta Group's people could have merely mailed out a survey. There are just too many variables to do this...and I suspect this is what was done, because I seriously doubt that the researchers did line counts themselves.
I'm still in the academic world (unfortunately) and have noticed that programmers from other countries (students, actually) tend to write kludgy code with lots of unnecessary code. Rewriting basic functions, that sort of thing.
Yeah--time to start putting that extraneous debugging code back in, too. Do sorts on data, then throw away the results. Add stuff like "i = i;" too, for good measure.:^)
I agree with Linus Torvalds on the subject of eror checking. If it's programmed right, then there's no need for error checking. If error checking is necessary, it's time for a rewrite.
Y'all are stupid if you're comparing KDE to AfterStep. You have no idea. KDE is a group of aplications, which happens to include a windowmanager. AfterStep is a windowmanager.
I quite frankly don't know what Gates is talking about, and I don't think he does either.
Unless he's referring to CDE, KDE, GNOME...uh, I just ran out...we could throw XFCE in, and some consider Window Maker to be more of an environment than a mere window manager...
There are certainly more window managers than five...:^/
Are we talking *audible* quality, or are we talking *measurable* quality? I have a good ear (and think MP3s sound absolutely horrible--kinda like a metal cassette just about to crinkle itself into a little ball in a cassette deck) and I can rarely tell the difference between CD players.
OK, so you're right... *sighs* Many CD players seem to add their own "color." I have an oldish JVC 6-disc changer sitting next to me right now, and it sounds vastly different from most other CD players I've heard...but that's because it mucks around with the signal, upsampling to 18 bit (like I said, it's oldish) and then smoothing the wave. Ugh. Gimme the crappy high end over pseudo-vinyl anyday.:^)
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Erm...I suppose that's why Apple sued DR for using the smiley, a direct copy from the MacOS.
You know what's sad?
:^)
1. Geos for the PC is still around--I saw Freedom Desktop recently uns great on little memory, has a full suite of applications...
2. Geos for the PC/PDAs uses Motif.
Why not? What do you think you do when you subscribe to a cable TV network? Or buy a TV, for that matter? Or get a telephone line hookup? These are channels for advertising as well...ones that people pay for.
Can't agree with you on two points:
1. To make everything easier, we need to make [Linux] have all "that kewl graphical stuff" Windows has. Microsoft Windows stole most of it's ideas from other systems, including NeXT. What we think of as the modern GUI originated at Xerox in the late 60s.
2. Only a few out of every hundred hackers can understand a web browser. Wow, the hacking world has gotten *really* dumb.
True, but how many mothers have a Masters in chemistry? The original poster is (probably) right, most mothers don't care about what an OS is (just as many non-technically-minded young folks don't give a rat's ass, either. :^)
Quite right, yet quite wrong.
The original poster was correct...the possessive is unwarranted here. It seems you dropped a comma, too...along with capitalization...
It's a holdover from productivity measurement developed when the United States was part of the Industrial Age. The more you make, the better you are; quality be damned!
Yes, along with most the programming world. :^P
No mention of how the data were collected...for all we know, Meta Group's people could have merely mailed out a survey. There are just too many variables to do this...and I suspect this is what was done, because I seriously doubt that the researchers did line counts themselves.
I'm still in the academic world (unfortunately) and have noticed that programmers from other countries (students, actually) tend to write kludgy code with lots of unnecessary code. Rewriting basic functions, that sort of thing.
Yeah--time to start putting that extraneous debugging code back in, too. Do sorts on data, then throw away the results. Add stuff like "i = i;" too, for good measure. :^)
I agree with Linus Torvalds on the subject of eror checking. If it's programmed right, then there's no need for error checking. If error checking is necessary, it's time for a rewrite.
Leave the BS out and debug instead.
Yes, but unfortunately, the management types that know nothing about programming buy this crap about lines of code.
If there's one thing I've learned, studies are the most effective way of lying.
Wow. What an incredibly lame coment.
Remember DR-DOS? Neither does most of the post-Win95 world. :^(
Y'all are stupid if you're comparing KDE to AfterStep. You have no idea. KDE is a group of aplications, which happens to include a windowmanager. AfterStep is a windowmanager.
Get a clue.
Aren't the five kinds of people European, stupid, tall, smart, and readheaded? I think that maybe that's right...
I quite frankly don't know what Gates is talking about, and I don't think he does either.
:^/
Unless he's referring to CDE, KDE, GNOME...uh, I just ran out...we could throw XFCE in, and some consider Window Maker to be more of an environment than a mere window manager...
There are certainly more window managers than five...
!ease of use = total world domination....
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not ease of use = total world domination
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I think you should seek therapy. Seriously.
No joke.
Seems that the clueless variety of computer users are under the delusion that you *have* to go through the CLI at all times to have a non-sucking OS.
It's like masturbation. You're just fscking yourself.
Quite frankly, I pity the folks
...but SuSE Linux 6.0 ships with the 2.2.x kernel (albiet only as an option.)
Are we talking *audible* quality, or are we talking *measurable* quality? I have a good ear (and think MP3s sound absolutely horrible--kinda like a metal cassette just about to crinkle itself into a little ball in a cassette deck) and I can rarely tell the difference between CD players.
:^)
OK, so you're right... *sighs* Many CD players seem to add their own "color." I have an oldish JVC 6-disc changer sitting next to me right now, and it sounds vastly different from most other CD players I've heard...but that's because it mucks around with the signal, upsampling to 18 bit (like I said, it's oldish) and then smoothing the wave. Ugh. Gimme the crappy high end over pseudo-vinyl anyday.
Better sound quality just isn't enough--yeah, the pundits said that about CD vs. LP, too. :^P
I wonder if those audiophile idiots will *still* claim they can hear the individual samples? :^)