Actually, if you really want to get picky about plot...
They're fighting a war on machines and the machines have an army. Why send one lone Terminator to go back in time to kill off Linda Hamilton when you can send fifty, or one hundred and then use the same drones to start attacking early and repopulate before humans are even close to having the power to defend themselves? Why not teleport your whole military back in time? James Cameron was a bit of a dink.
I used Red Hat from 5.1 to 7.3. Good distribution in my opinion (I've used Caldera, Debian, Suse, Corel [ya, sorry about that], and some others that aren't important enough to me to mention). But I'll never forgive them for f***ing with KDE. Seriously. I have no qualms with them not preferring KDE. But making KDE appear as GNOME and f***ing up the way KDE is setup just drove me to anger. I really *hate* when someone takes something that has tremendous value to me and to many others and tries to diminish it to a (in my opinion) lower common denominator.
I'm not the typical user either. I see the value in GNOME, and I see the value in it for users who prefer it. Which is why I think Red Hat should not have hijacked the desire to use KDE as it was intended from the users. It almost makes me feel dirty to think about it.
So I switched form Red Hat 7.3 to Mandrake 9.1. So, here's my pitch. MDK 9.1 is the best OS I've ever used. They do create their own custom menus for KDE and GNOME, but you can choose to revert them. Other than that everything was seamless. The install was completely painless. The fact that MDK picked up all the devices I have attached to and inside of this computer was a relief (Red Hat had real troubles with my printer *all the time*). I went from having to worry about hardware to having to worry about what wallpaper I was going to use once I started to configure my desktop. Mandrake is by far the most end-user friendly OS I've seen to date. Their value-added configuration utilities are well organized, intuitive and actually useful. Performing software updates, adding software, and doing almost anything else to the core of the system is just stupid-simple. Now, where I do often prefer to compile something, sometimes it's preferable just to find the RPM if you're in a hurry.
So yes, Mandrake gets more than my thumbs up, they get my money.
It's my favourite Neal Stephenson book. If you haven't read this, buy it bar none. It takes place a little ways into the future and during WWII as well.
I was amazed by the sheer total of universes he was able to combine. To find The Gunstar from The Last Starfighter on that site was really amazingly cool.
Unfortunately, my Star Trek Technical Manual shows the Constitution Class and the Galaxy Class in different scale. On his site, the original Enteprises ship class looks about half as big as the Galaxy Class, which it's not, it's about 1/4 - 1/3. But seeing the size of the Sovereign Class as it compares way up there to the Super Star Destroyer (and it's comparison to the original unfinished Death Star) was even more cool.
This guy should get an award from someone for his patience.
I never saw it in theatres, and I'm pretty sure there was no real publicity blitz over it, but this movie was just amazing. William Shatner plays himself, and oddly enough it's a very well written love story incorporating a whole massive ton of great geek history in it.
If you haven't yet, find this movie and enjoy. There is no sanctuary.
That can be the only explanation as to why me and my friends walked out of the theatre feeling so totally cheated out of $13.50. I'll tell ya, I don't know how the cast agreed to put their faces in this film.
What it all comes down to is it's just a bad movie. Plain and simple. I figured after Star Trek VI that Star Trek movies were going to get really good, really exciting, filled with a good plot and characters coming out of the closet and being vibrant. Instead what I got was terrible humour, and update on the soap opera tidbits of the series, some explosions and one dead android. I think those responsible for the story (and it's approval) and the direction of the movie have forgotten what Star Trek was about.
It almost seemed like they were taking the ST:TNG cast, the universe they belong to, and sold out to make a typical Hollywood movie. I'll continue watching Enterprise because it's a great series, and Ensign Hoshi Sato makes me get wood the likes of which God has never seen. But to go see another movie? I don't even think the $13.50 is a concern at this point, it's the one and a half hours of my own time I could be using for something more useful like gutting myself and playing with my insides.
I think as a joke someone should ship a bottle of scotch to Rick with this post attached to it.
There have been a lot of nice popup blocker software packages in the past that sort of negate this horrible thing. Konqueror even has built in support to ask you what to do when a popup comes into question. I personally like to have Konqueror ask me before showing me the popup, this avoids me missing popup windows on links that I click on and specifically want one from.
I think your web browsing experience is regulated solely by the browser you use.
...Earth: Above and Beyond. It was one of my favourite sci-fi series, lasted one season on Fox. I think it has something to do with the viewer audience Fox gets. Judge Judy, I mean come on. I don't think the regular viewers of Fox are capable of rooting for something with intelligence, something engaging, and something original. Now E:A&B wasn't so original, very much like Starship Troopers, but next to Babylon 5 is my favourite sci-fi series.
Fox can't really change their audience quickly, so they just drop the good stuff.
I was a Windows user back in 1997. I didn't know that there was an alternative, didn't know that Linux even existed. I touted Windows to people who ran the Mac, letting them know that Microsoft's OS was superior to the Mac's, and that hey, the hardware was much cheaper. That was about all I could say. I had no other reason to not use another OS.
Then one fine day, a friend of mine let me back up all my files on his server, he installed Linux on my box (with KDE 0.98 I believe) and my trip began. I spent two months confused, wondering what I was going to do with the box, then lo and behold, as I used it regularily, I realized that it wasn't complicated, it's just another OS. Once you learn where to configure what, the rest of the OS reveals itself to you.
You start to learn how to compile software from tarballs, you learn that RPMs are scary (RedHat 5.1 at the time I believe) and you get used to the community. Yes, there were people who were less than helpful to a new user, almost rude at times, but don't let the people get you. If you don't use Linux because someone's being an ass, that's your fault, not theirs.
I went through KDE, GNOME, stuck with WindowMaker for quite a while, then hit Enlightenment up until KDE 2.0 came out and I figured I'd give it a try again. I was as pleased as peaches. I've been running KDE again since 2.0, I'm a huge fan, and there's nothing I don't do with Linux except play games (and yes, I have a Windows partition for that, I'm not fearful of admitting it). To be honest, I like Windows, I like what it offers, but I just don't know what to do with it except play games. It just seems kinda useless to me unless I want to buy $300.00 worth of shareware to get good apps running.
I've recently used a copy of my friend's Mac OS X and I applaud them on their new OS, but it has nothing on Linux with KDE for me. Nothing kept me from using Linux except me not knowing it existed. I guess sometimes you just have to have an open mind.
I love Star Trek, I mean I really do. I've never been able to watch an episode of any of the five franchises and not at the very least enjoy myself. But this whole time travel thing gets out of hand. Berman and Braga have this habit of setting up what could be a really cool show and then they do a "Oh, all we had to do was press this button on the tricorder and we were fine! Dr. Crusher, come rub my bald head!"
See, they come up with great initial ideas, and then sort of shlop them right afterwards. This is getting tremedously annoying. I don't know what's worse, the pain of waiting for it or the disappointment of the delivery of something horrible. I'll watch, probably enjoy most of it, then go to a coffee shop later and wonder why I put so much faith in two guys who constantly make me feel like an idiot viewer (maybe I am, but I think more than the other guys).
We live in a capitalist society, where competition forces others to improve their standards while you move to improve yours in counterpoint. This is how you get two bodies being sure they don't let the public down by trying to out-do the other guy.
The trouble with RedHat (in my opinion) doing this is that they're going to end up having a mismatched desktop that will not in any way be representative of either one. I'm perfectly happy using only KDE applications. I think the only GTK apps I use are GIMP and grip. So why, when I upgrade to RH8.0 will I have to have Mozilla as my default browser? What the hell good is that to me? I like Konqueror.
To comment on what you said about "making a unified desktop for Linux", I would have to say I disagree in two ways. I'm pretty sure RedHat doesn't have brain control over Miguel de Icaza and Matthias Ettrich. If I were either of them I wouldn't let a distro dictate the OSS desktop, considering the other distros and unices these desktops run on.
I'm also pretty sure that if the Linux desktop did unite the quality would likely drop off in some cases. It's good to think about that. Besides, I'm not really cognizant of GNOME very much. I really don't pay attention to the project or it's apps because I spend most of my time using Qt/KDE applications. RedHat won't be my distro of choice come RH8.0. I'd rather switch to Mandrake.
The rudest thing in the history of business happened to me about eight months ago. Rogers Cable has a phone system that will phone you and tell you to hold the line, someone has important information about my account. You know, it's a new low when we use machines to call us up and put us on hold. So I got upset, stayed on the line until a person took me out of the queue and said "Hello sir, we've noticed that you don't have...." and I let it rip.
"If you sons-of-bitches wanna bloody well talk to me about some stupid offer you have you can call me yourself and sit on hold for 15 minutes while I watch the REST OF THE SHOW I WAS WATCHING THAT I BLOODY MISSED BECAUSE YOU FUCKING NUMPTYS CALLED ME AND PUT ME ON HOLD!! FACK OFF!!" I was quite satisfied.:)
The troubles with TurboLinux and the now changing Caldera does not bode well for the United Linux effort. Is Caldera re-adjusting itself for the United Linux effort, or does Caldera have no faith in the idea and trying to acquire new business oportunities?
I know a lot of people who have been playing EverQuest for a really long time now. Personally, the only MMORPG I'm interested in playing is Earth and Beyond. I've been working on the Beta and it's bloody awesome. If any of you out there are Jen'quai Defenders and want to group up and go hunting, you let me know. I'll provide the Progen beat-em-up party favours.:)
Our laws are somewhat strange up here. We have pretty loose and relaxed laws towards copyrights, so it's hard to know when you're breaking the law in that respect, but still, "ignorance of the law is not a reasonable excuse for breaking the law". When was the last time that any of you tried to digest the Criminal Code of Canada, figure out how it applies to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and then factor in all of the precedents to find out what's shady or not?
Also, when was the last time any of you tried to get a copy of the criminal code in a portable format?
Maybe he should have talked to his lawyer first.:)
This is my own personal opinion, but I think that Rasterman's view of things isn't well justified. I've been using KDE since 2.0 (and Linux since RedHat 5.1) and to tell you the truth, I've never been happier.
They complain about apps, and well, we have some great ones! KMail, Konqueror, KNode, Kate, Konsole, Noatun, Kopete, KSirc, GIMP, Grip, KDevelop, Quanta (once it's stable again), and a whole ton of other stuff I use on a daily basis that's just sort of behind the scenes.
It's sad to see one of the most innovative people in the window manager scene saying that he believes it's time to quit. With that attitude from the leaders, we'll never get to where we need to be. It's time to buck up little buddy, it's not nearly dead yet.
Yes, there are a lot of MS only sites out there, and it's kinda sad. The company I work for uses four browsers to verify layout, JavaScript compatibility and overall look and feel: MSIE, Konqueror, Mozilla and Opera. By covering these bases, everyone can view these sites. If you write HTML 3.2 or HTML 4.0 you can be sure that these browsers will handle it without much tweaking.
The real sad thing about this is not that the web is becoming MSIEized, it's that web developers are not telling their clients that they are going to lose part of the market due to laziness, or the cost of supporting everyone (which doesn't take much more effort, or even less if you know the HTML 4.0 spec).
Project managers are best suited for knowing when the project is due, making sure all the milestones are met, and being sure to get you the materials you need on time. Managing that for 35 people with all the data that has to be considered requires little of a technical background.
However, I think you might need a Product Manager, someone who is a developer who can manage how the product is produced, how the development works, how QA works with the development, etc. A Product/Project Manager rolled into one is great, but seldom found in today's industry in my experience.
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They're fighting a war on machines and the machines have an army. Why send one lone Terminator to go back in time to kill off Linda Hamilton when you can send fifty, or one hundred and then use the same drones to start attacking early and repopulate before humans are even close to having the power to defend themselves? Why not teleport your whole military back in time? James Cameron was a bit of a dink.
I used Red Hat from 5.1 to 7.3. Good distribution in my opinion (I've used Caldera, Debian, Suse, Corel [ya, sorry about that], and some others that aren't important enough to me to mention). But I'll never forgive them for f***ing with KDE. Seriously. I have no qualms with them not preferring KDE. But making KDE appear as GNOME and f***ing up the way KDE is setup just drove me to anger. I really *hate* when someone takes something that has tremendous value to me and to many others and tries to diminish it to a (in my opinion) lower common denominator.
I'm not the typical user either. I see the value in GNOME, and I see the value in it for users who prefer it. Which is why I think Red Hat should not have hijacked the desire to use KDE as it was intended from the users. It almost makes me feel dirty to think about it.
So I switched form Red Hat 7.3 to Mandrake 9.1. So, here's my pitch. MDK 9.1 is the best OS I've ever used. They do create their own custom menus for KDE and GNOME, but you can choose to revert them. Other than that everything was seamless. The install was completely painless. The fact that MDK picked up all the devices I have attached to and inside of this computer was a relief (Red Hat had real troubles with my printer *all the time*). I went from having to worry about hardware to having to worry about what wallpaper I was going to use once I started to configure my desktop. Mandrake is by far the most end-user friendly OS I've seen to date. Their value-added configuration utilities are well organized, intuitive and actually useful. Performing software updates, adding software, and doing almost anything else to the core of the system is just stupid-simple. Now, where I do often prefer to compile something, sometimes it's preferable just to find the RPM if you're in a hurry.
So yes, Mandrake gets more than my thumbs up, they get my money.
Seriously, this is *the* book.
Funny thing is, it's not compliant HTML and Konqueror rendered it. I don't know if that's good or bad. :)
Unfortunately, my Star Trek Technical Manual shows the Constitution Class and the Galaxy Class in different scale. On his site, the original Enteprises ship class looks about half as big as the Galaxy Class, which it's not, it's about 1/4 - 1/3. But seeing the size of the Sovereign Class as it compares way up there to the Super Star Destroyer (and it's comparison to the original unfinished Death Star) was even more cool.
This guy should get an award from someone for his patience.
If you haven't yet, find this movie and enjoy. There is no sanctuary.
...remember the tooth young Leto...
What it all comes down to is it's just a bad movie. Plain and simple. I figured after Star Trek VI that Star Trek movies were going to get really good, really exciting, filled with a good plot and characters coming out of the closet and being vibrant. Instead what I got was terrible humour, and update on the soap opera tidbits of the series, some explosions and one dead android. I think those responsible for the story (and it's approval) and the direction of the movie have forgotten what Star Trek was about.
It almost seemed like they were taking the ST:TNG cast, the universe they belong to, and sold out to make a typical Hollywood movie. I'll continue watching Enterprise because it's a great series, and Ensign Hoshi Sato makes me get wood the likes of which God has never seen. But to go see another movie? I don't even think the $13.50 is a concern at this point, it's the one and a half hours of my own time I could be using for something more useful like gutting myself and playing with my insides.
I think as a joke someone should ship a bottle of scotch to Rick with this post attached to it.
I think your web browsing experience is regulated solely by the browser you use.
Fox can't really change their audience quickly, so they just drop the good stuff.
Then one fine day, a friend of mine let me back up all my files on his server, he installed Linux on my box (with KDE 0.98 I believe) and my trip began. I spent two months confused, wondering what I was going to do with the box, then lo and behold, as I used it regularily, I realized that it wasn't complicated, it's just another OS. Once you learn where to configure what, the rest of the OS reveals itself to you.
You start to learn how to compile software from tarballs, you learn that RPMs are scary (RedHat 5.1 at the time I believe) and you get used to the community. Yes, there were people who were less than helpful to a new user, almost rude at times, but don't let the people get you. If you don't use Linux because someone's being an ass, that's your fault, not theirs.
I went through KDE, GNOME, stuck with WindowMaker for quite a while, then hit Enlightenment up until KDE 2.0 came out and I figured I'd give it a try again. I was as pleased as peaches. I've been running KDE again since 2.0, I'm a huge fan, and there's nothing I don't do with Linux except play games (and yes, I have a Windows partition for that, I'm not fearful of admitting it). To be honest, I like Windows, I like what it offers, but I just don't know what to do with it except play games. It just seems kinda useless to me unless I want to buy $300.00 worth of shareware to get good apps running.
I've recently used a copy of my friend's Mac OS X and I applaud them on their new OS, but it has nothing on Linux with KDE for me. Nothing kept me from using Linux except me not knowing it existed. I guess sometimes you just have to have an open mind.
How could Pluto not be considered a planetoid when it has a satellite (Charon)? Does this make any sense to anyone?
Depends on how much you pay for the 945 pages. ;)
See, they come up with great initial ideas, and then sort of shlop them right afterwards. This is getting tremedously annoying. I don't know what's worse, the pain of waiting for it or the disappointment of the delivery of something horrible. I'll watch, probably enjoy most of it, then go to a coffee shop later and wonder why I put so much faith in two guys who constantly make me feel like an idiot viewer (maybe I am, but I think more than the other guys).
The trouble with RedHat (in my opinion) doing this is that they're going to end up having a mismatched desktop that will not in any way be representative of either one. I'm perfectly happy using only KDE applications. I think the only GTK apps I use are GIMP and grip. So why, when I upgrade to RH8.0 will I have to have Mozilla as my default browser? What the hell good is that to me? I like Konqueror.
To comment on what you said about "making a unified desktop for Linux", I would have to say I disagree in two ways. I'm pretty sure RedHat doesn't have brain control over Miguel de Icaza and Matthias Ettrich. If I were either of them I wouldn't let a distro dictate the OSS desktop, considering the other distros and unices these desktops run on.
I'm also pretty sure that if the Linux desktop did unite the quality would likely drop off in some cases. It's good to think about that. Besides, I'm not really cognizant of GNOME very much. I really don't pay attention to the project or it's apps because I spend most of my time using Qt/KDE applications. RedHat won't be my distro of choice come RH8.0. I'd rather switch to Mandrake.
...so it hasn't really, sadly enough to say. But I think the even affected everyone on the continent in some way or another.
I do, but only because I can't get a dish in the building I'm in. I'm cursed by geography. :P
"If you sons-of-bitches wanna bloody well talk to me about some stupid offer you have you can call me yourself and sit on hold for 15 minutes while I watch the REST OF THE SHOW I WAS WATCHING THAT I BLOODY MISSED BECAUSE YOU FUCKING NUMPTYS CALLED ME AND PUT ME ON HOLD!! FACK OFF!!" I was quite satisfied. :)
The troubles with TurboLinux and the now changing Caldera does not bode well for the United Linux effort. Is Caldera re-adjusting itself for the United Linux effort, or does Caldera have no faith in the idea and trying to acquire new business oportunities?
I know a lot of people who have been playing EverQuest for a really long time now. Personally, the only MMORPG I'm interested in playing is Earth and Beyond. I've been working on the Beta and it's bloody awesome. If any of you out there are Jen'quai Defenders and want to group up and go hunting, you let me know. I'll provide the Progen beat-em-up party favours. :)
Also, when was the last time any of you tried to get a copy of the criminal code in a portable format?
Maybe he should have talked to his lawyer first. :)
They complain about apps, and well, we have some great ones! KMail, Konqueror, KNode, Kate, Konsole, Noatun, Kopete, KSirc, GIMP, Grip, KDevelop, Quanta (once it's stable again), and a whole ton of other stuff I use on a daily basis that's just sort of behind the scenes.
It's sad to see one of the most innovative people in the window manager scene saying that he believes it's time to quit. With that attitude from the leaders, we'll never get to where we need to be. It's time to buck up little buddy, it's not nearly dead yet.
The real sad thing about this is not that the web is becoming MSIEized, it's that web developers are not telling their clients that they are going to lose part of the market due to laziness, or the cost of supporting everyone (which doesn't take much more effort, or even less if you know the HTML 4.0 spec).
However, I think you might need a Product Manager, someone who is a developer who can manage how the product is produced, how the development works, how QA works with the development, etc. A Product/Project Manager rolled into one is great, but seldom found in today's industry in my experience.
RedHat will not join while their list of "Main components" includes KDE 3.0 and excludes GNOME completely.