I hate to throw my voice in with all the negative stuff, but it's how I feel.
First, GNOME has shown future promise, but it's done that for a while now. Great proof-of-concept; now, let's move on to what the real desktop's going to be like. Oh, this is the real desktop? You're kidding, right?
Second, GNOME was the desktop that was started largely because KDE had showstopper legal issues. Now that Miguel is hellbent on pushing Mono and Novell is throwing energy behind it, GNOME has showstopper legal issues, and of a much higher magnitude at that.
Seriously, what's with this? Red Hat shat on KDE when it had legal issues; why is everyone jumping on the GNOME bandwagon now despite the legal issues? If they want to be consistent, Red Hat and Co. should be treating GNOME like the leper it is.
It's just a vocal minority. Chill. Most people aren't that particular.
Seriously, I love the fact that people are passionate enough about something that they're willing to write Open/Free Software for Windows. After all, it's a VERY popular platform, and unlikely to go away any time soon. Firefox? Sure! OpenOffice.org? Yes, please! These two projects are helping keep things at the office I work at both safe and legal. ClamWin? Why not? I could go on, but I won't.
A good analogy would be the days when kuro5hin.org was worth reading. You'd have material that was getting voted to sections and the front page all the time, but you'd only see comments like "stop posting this crap, we don't want to read it!"
It'd be funnier if the original poster weren't actually talking about a commercial mail server Yes, I got the joke, and it wasn't funny. Not merely because I'm a humorless fuck; rather, it's just not funny. Also, Apple's mail program is called, oddly enough, Mail. Some people call it Mail.app, 'coz that's essentially what it is. I may bug the *Step diehards by mentioning that, but, well, sorry but it is.:-)
Maybe in a month or two, people will stop bursting into #ubuntu and #kubuntu IRC channels asking "is Breezy released yet?" Now we can look forward to people bitching about the stability of, erm, whatever the new unstable version is.:-}
You're fortunate. And it's not just IE-only. You have these AJAX weenies producing content that does include Mozilla-based products, yes, but excludes Safari users, and I'll not mention blind people who can't use AJAX-dependent sites at all.
I know people who're big fans of Opera who'll be thrilled to hear this. Me, I'm posting this comment in Firefox and will likely post the next 100 comments (at least) in Firefox, or possibly Safari or Konqueror.
I keep thinking to myself, "Hey, if they'd bought an Apple solution, it would have been dead easy."
Of course, done properly the setup they chose is dead easy, but I'd expect that someone was put in charge of the project that has some other sort of duties. If that's true, for that reason I can sympathise, as that's why I have to make as many uninformed last-minute decisions as I do.
I think the innovation phase of the GNOME project is scheduled to start in a decade or so.
Seriously, I use Ubuntu, and it's a nice, solid desktop. Boring as hell, definitely designed for the cubicle drones; hell, even MacOS is more fun and more tweak-fiend-friendly these days.
I'll take an OS X box with Quicksilver over this boring-as-hell desktop any day. And this is from a current user. And don't tell me "if you don't like it, hack the source" because that doesn't do any good. People were doing that, and mountains of code were thrown away because it wasn't cubicle-drone-friendly enough.
I was about to disagree, but, um, I can't. Linspire sounds sweet, and it sounds like something I'd be interested in, if I was trying to convert someone else to Linux, or at least something cheaper/with less strings than Windows or OS X.
Am I missing something? Google is evil like Microsoft...because they're being sued by Perfect 10 because, um, I dunno, Google spiders sites that rip off Perfect 10?
...there's interest being shown toward running your OS on generic Intel-based hardware, and you release the hounds???!? Goddamnit, John Scully was right to fire you.
I celebrated it by watching someone have a nervous breakdown and nearly had one myself while I got chewed out for my "lousy attitude." As a result I'm back to being bossed around by everyone at the office. Hooray, what a great holiday.:-P
I gave RoR a shot, and never got past the head-scratching stage. It did, however, get me interested in Ruby. I never grokked Perl, thought Python was a neat idea, but have been using Ruby any time I get handed an "impossible" task at work.
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I'll step in just for giggles: Category Error
Should we mention the blatant error in the .sig?
I hate to throw my voice in with all the negative stuff, but it's how I feel.
First, GNOME has shown future promise, but it's done that for a while now. Great proof-of-concept; now, let's move on to what the real desktop's going to be like. Oh, this is the real desktop? You're kidding, right?
Second, GNOME was the desktop that was started largely because KDE had showstopper legal issues. Now that Miguel is hellbent on pushing Mono and Novell is throwing energy behind it, GNOME has showstopper legal issues, and of a much higher magnitude at that.
Seriously, what's with this? Red Hat shat on KDE when it had legal issues; why is everyone jumping on the GNOME bandwagon now despite the legal issues? If they want to be consistent, Red Hat and Co. should be treating GNOME like the leper it is.
I use Kubuntu. Surprisingly good when you consider that it's part of Ubuntu, one of the most GNOME-centric distributions out there...
It's just a vocal minority. Chill. Most people aren't that particular.
Seriously, I love the fact that people are passionate enough about something that they're willing to write Open/Free Software for Windows. After all, it's a VERY popular platform, and unlikely to go away any time soon. Firefox? Sure! OpenOffice.org? Yes, please! These two projects are helping keep things at the office I work at both safe and legal. ClamWin? Why not? I could go on, but I won't.
A good analogy would be the days when kuro5hin.org was worth reading. You'd have material that was getting voted to sections and the front page all the time, but you'd only see comments like "stop posting this crap, we don't want to read it!"
Who's "we"?
It'd be funnier if the original poster weren't actually talking about a commercial mail server Yes, I got the joke, and it wasn't funny. Not merely because I'm a humorless fuck; rather, it's just not funny. Also, Apple's mail program is called, oddly enough, Mail. Some people call it Mail.app, 'coz that's essentially what it is. I may bug the *Step diehards by mentioning that, but, well, sorry but it is. :-)
When the Dvorak Reality Distortion Field is fully engaged, it's possible to rail on other members of the press for bias while ignoring your own.
...an uber ultra-fast fixed-point math library!
Neither. The amazing thing about Ubuntu is that stuff just works, usually with little to no wankery.
Maybe in a month or two, people will stop bursting into #ubuntu and #kubuntu IRC channels asking "is Breezy released yet?" Now we can look forward to people bitching about the stability of, erm, whatever the new unstable version is. :-}
Indeed. And KDE-Look.org even has a section devoted just to X11 mouse themes. Ook.
You're fortunate. And it's not just IE-only. You have these AJAX weenies producing content that does include Mozilla-based products, yes, but excludes Safari users, and I'll not mention blind people who can't use AJAX-dependent sites at all.
Low pay, long hours, and a narcisisstic boss?
'Coz I'm there right now.
At least they don't bitch about my iTunes lib or about taking data home with me. From what I hear from other people, both are remarkable.
...I was thinking that their legal machine was funded by the money I spend on CDs.
It's very simple, people. If the record companies are pissing you off, stop paying for the dreck they keep cranking out.
I know people who're big fans of Opera who'll be thrilled to hear this. Me, I'm posting this comment in Firefox and will likely post the next 100 comments (at least) in Firefox, or possibly Safari or Konqueror.
I keep thinking to myself, "Hey, if they'd bought an Apple solution, it would have been dead easy."
Of course, done properly the setup they chose is dead easy, but I'd expect that someone was put in charge of the project that has some other sort of duties. If that's true, for that reason I can sympathise, as that's why I have to make as many uninformed last-minute decisions as I do.
I think the innovation phase of the GNOME project is scheduled to start in a decade or so.
Seriously, I use Ubuntu, and it's a nice, solid desktop. Boring as hell, definitely designed for the cubicle drones; hell, even MacOS is more fun and more tweak-fiend-friendly these days.
I'll take an OS X box with Quicksilver over this boring-as-hell desktop any day. And this is from a current user. And don't tell me "if you don't like it, hack the source" because that doesn't do any good. People were doing that, and mountains of code were thrown away because it wasn't cubicle-drone-friendly enough.
I was about to disagree, but, um, I can't. Linspire sounds sweet, and it sounds like something I'd be interested in, if I was trying to convert someone else to Linux, or at least something cheaper/with less strings than Windows or OS X.
Yes, surely it's beneath all of us to comment on this issue.
Am I missing something? Google is evil like Microsoft...because they're being sued by Perfect 10 because, um, I dunno, Google spiders sites that rip off Perfect 10?
I feel pretty dumb today.
...there's interest being shown toward running your OS on generic Intel-based hardware, and you release the hounds???!? Goddamnit, John Scully was right to fire you.
I celebrated it by watching someone have a nervous breakdown and nearly had one myself while I got chewed out for my "lousy attitude." As a result I'm back to being bossed around by everyone at the office. Hooray, what a great holiday. :-P
Oh, come on, that was minimum effort at best. True, at the time of this writing, you got one biter, but that's hardly a success story on Slashdot.
I'm assuming you're a troll because it would be rude of me to assume that you're an idiot.
I gave RoR a shot, and never got past the head-scratching stage. It did, however, get me interested in Ruby. I never grokked Perl, thought Python was a neat idea, but have been using Ruby any time I get handed an "impossible" task at work.
An idea: You could use a modified version of a tickler file.