I run GNOME, on all my machines. There are maybe one or two apps left that I need that don't have a GNOME interface, and they number that don't meet the GNOME HIG are decreasing as well. When I consider a new app for something having a GNOME or at least GTK+ interface is an important part of the decision. It wouldn't make me give up an app that I need or really want, but consistancy is so much more conducive to efficient computing (I find, at least) that its extremely important.
For example until recently the GNOME calculator was too simple for anything but math I can do quicker in my head (no hex or octal etc...) so I would use kcalc. well since it was the only KDE app I needed, and since I need a hex calculator only rarely I wasn't about to investigate how to change the god-aweful default KDE theme, but it sucked. Now I have gcalctool and my life is that much simpler and happier because of it.
GNOME has a great UI, I just can't wait till every little GUI app I want/need uses it. pcb anyone ?:)
I tried gentoo. I switched back to Debian within two months. None of the claimed benifits were there and it was way less user friendly, emerge would fail with cryptic messages that required investigation, and this wasn't even with 'unstable' ebuilds. - I've been running a debian box since ham, and have never had apt fail even on unstable (of course except for cases where I forced things it didn't want:)
It would be so great if there was a open implmentation of java. I know there are groups working on it, but if only sun would get involved then it would have a greater chance of staying current. I've always thought it wouldn't hurt Sun to open up the Java SDK and classes a little, what exactly is the benifit they get from it being closed? The version they released would still be considered the standard regardless of its openess or of potention forks.
Forget GCJ, just think of the advantages to Sun if there was a kernel driver to run plain java natively, if done right, and of course open enough to be compatible it could only bolster java greatly, especially now that.net is a big threat.
I have to admit I like java for some tasks but am apprehensive that the two biggest hyped technologies nowadays are both controlled by a single company each, and both have closed source reference implementations.
No you don't understand the original post. When he said "network aware display system" he meant "I hate X for no reason and will blame any performance issues on network-awareness because everyone else does"
You clearly don't have your copy of the "Anti-X because it's a popular target, even though I won't do any contribution to change that to english" dictionary handy.
I beg to differ with you. I think the politics crap is totally off mark. I think a better answer is that political opinion is not tied to hacking. I have met many "leftist" hackers, and many "rightist" hackers, but ESR is clearly pushing his crazy political views into the description.
if you would like evidence of his crazy views just watch "Revolution OS" (I think thats the title) and wit for the scene wear the ask him about the Free Software / COmmunist connection. The man gets rabidly defensive, yet fails to make a SINGLE political statement or reason.
I tell you I do no kernel coding, and I am familiar with C. This is a severely restrictive agreement, but doesn't it just make you wonder what the hell they have? Is this all a big bluff, or is there something that actually is damning? I can think of compelling reasons why SCO would be so restrictively secretive in both cases. Of course, IANAL, but it seems I would be tempted to sign just to see what the heck its all about, the same way we are tempted to look at an accident on the road, sure we are giving up attention to driving, and may possibly see something we actually don't want to, but we just can't resist.
I can see why everyone is saying not to sign it, it is terrible, but don't you just wish we could find someone to bite the bullet?
Am I the only one not convinced that SCO is entirelly bluffing and once the time comes for the flop they will have to fold?
Well I KNOW mozilla.org has stated in the past that the browser/suite they release is for testing and that end users should use a third party app if they want user support. I cannot find reference to this on thier site at this time.
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When I worked in retail I used to totally baffle my coworkers. They all depended on the register to tell them what to give back, then they would carefully count largest to smallest. (as they were trained) I never entered the amount the customer gave me in ther register, as it took too much time, and I would count back the change randomly (as I could/can easily figure out in my head what the best use of the coins is) I swear there were times that it seems they thought simple math was magic, and my manager thought I more than one occassion that I was doing it to steal. quite amusing.
My last "Java In a Nutshell" practically fell apart from all the API look-ups. I rather like the API reference at the end of the book. and my current Enterprise in a nutshell is heading the same way, along with my Perl in a nutshell while I'm at it.
You see I forgot to mention that when I think something is unreasonably priced I don't steal it, or violate its copyright, I simply don't buy it or use it.
Back to my music theft? I've never stolen music, (and I also don't copy it without paying for it;) I don't have and P2P software installed on my system, as a matter of fact this apple business has made me think about eMusic.
If any other company, MS, and RIAA member, or even the FSF opened a music store and choose a closed proprietary format over MP3 or of course Vorbis this/. crowd would be all over them. If this was Warner Brothers Music people would be screaming how AOL was trying to destroy open formats with DRM that restricted yadda yadda yadda.
but no, its apple, so everyone creams in their pants and begs for more. I can't understand how a company whose practices go against everything FS/OS stands for in such a drastic way is so loved by the same crowd.
Imagine what the world would be like if MS had the monopoly *and* the control apple has over its products and customers. man I'll leave the over priced/ closed / hardware-software lockin at the door thank you very much.
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I have a small blue "DiskDoubler" sitting on my desk to this day. Oddly a few months back it came in handy for retrieving a *really* old piece of software to verify a problem a long lost customer was having with an embedded system.:)
Why does anyone run software on their machine that allows a third party to do something they don't want?
If the next word processor allowed third parties to alter your documents (forcing you to delete the insertions) nobody would use it. So why do people use web browsers that allow third parties to do these productivity destroying things?
I have nothing against adds, but I sure as hell don't find it unreasonable to expect my software NOT to accept commands from a third party telling it to do something I don't want.
This is why I havent seen a pop-up ad in months, maybe even years.
Exactly. I was so appalled by Episode II that I certainly will not be buying a ticket to Episode III. I know its even more apalling that a geek would skip a Star Wars film, but guess what I actually Want to enjoy the films I spend money on.
And with this Lucas's conversion to the dark side will be complete. Does he really have to shit all over every character from the original trilogy by associating them with the crap he's been making?
I'd rather see chewbacca appear in a romantic comedy with sandra bullock before the shit that will be Episode III. at least then the plot would most likely make sense to anyone over the age of three.
"Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does."
In other words not only do you NOT have to accept the GPL to use the software, but the GPL states that it doesn't even include use in its scope. It has nothing to say about use AT ALL.
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I run GNOME, on all my machines. There are maybe one or two apps left that I need that don't have a GNOME interface, and they number that don't meet the GNOME HIG are decreasing as well. When I consider a new app for something having a GNOME or at least GTK+ interface is an important part of the decision. It wouldn't make me give up an app that I need or really want, but consistancy is so much more conducive to efficient computing (I find, at least) that its extremely important.
:)
For example until recently the GNOME calculator was too simple for anything but math I can do quicker in my head (no hex or octal etc...) so I would use kcalc. well since it was the only KDE app I needed, and since I need a hex calculator only rarely I wasn't about to investigate how to change the god-aweful default KDE theme, but it sucked. Now I have gcalctool and my life is that much simpler and happier because of it.
GNOME has a great UI, I just can't wait till every little GUI app I want/need uses it. pcb anyone ?
I tried gentoo. I switched back to Debian within two months. None of the claimed benifits were there and it was way less user friendly, emerge would fail with cryptic messages that required investigation, and this wasn't even with 'unstable' ebuilds. - I've been running a debian box since ham, and have never had apt fail even on unstable (of course except for cases where I forced things it didn't want :)
You haven't been paying attention, have you? Gnumeric now supports ALL excel functions and then some.
It would be so great if there was a open implmentation of java. I know there are groups working on it, but if only sun would get involved then it would have a greater chance of staying current. I've always thought it wouldn't hurt Sun to open up the Java SDK and classes a little, what exactly is the benifit they get from it being closed? The version they released would still be considered the standard regardless of its openess or of potention forks.
.net is a big threat.
Forget GCJ, just think of the advantages to Sun if there was a kernel driver to run plain java natively, if done right, and of course open enough to be compatible it could only bolster java greatly, especially now that
I have to admit I like java for some tasks but am apprehensive that the two biggest hyped technologies nowadays are both controlled by a single company each, and both have closed source reference implementations.
No you don't understand the original post. When he said "network aware display system" he meant "I hate X for no reason and will blame any performance issues on network-awareness because everyone else does"
You clearly don't have your copy of the "Anti-X because it's a popular target, even though I won't do any contribution to change that to english" dictionary handy.
The article was by John Markoff, what did you expect? Accuracy?
So your saying that your not an IT pro or hobbyist? since I must assume your not in either group when you read slashdot and you think they don't.
I beg to differ with you. I think the politics crap is totally off mark. I think a better answer is that political opinion is not tied to hacking. I have met many "leftist" hackers, and many "rightist" hackers, but ESR is clearly pushing his crazy political views into the description.
if you would like evidence of his crazy views just watch "Revolution OS" (I think thats the title) and wit for the scene wear the ask him about the Free Software / COmmunist connection. The man gets rabidly defensive, yet fails to make a SINGLE political statement or reason.
I tell you I do no kernel coding, and I am familiar with C. This is a severely restrictive agreement, but doesn't it just make you wonder what the hell they have? Is this all a big bluff, or is there something that actually is damning? I can think of compelling reasons why SCO would be so restrictively secretive in both cases. Of course, IANAL, but it seems I would be tempted to sign just to see what the heck its all about, the same way we are tempted to look at an accident on the road, sure we are giving up attention to driving, and may possibly see something we actually don't want to, but we just can't resist.
I can see why everyone is saying not to sign it, it is terrible, but don't you just wish we could find someone to bite the bullet?
Am I the only one not convinced that SCO is entirelly bluffing and once the time comes for the flop they will have to fold?
Maybe since sewing grandmas don't have the same image as Eric Corley, this would be a good case to take the DMCA to the Supreme Court over?
if /etc and /opt aren't 'intuitive' for you you could just type this at a prompt:
/etc /configuration
/opt /optional_programs
# ln -s
then:
# ln -s
hows that for intuitive?
Clearly you have not used AbiWord. It is fine program and more 'powerful' than wordpad (assuming wordpad is the program that comes with MS Windows).
I think most every one had trouble understanding the plot of Attack of The Clones, for no reason other than its mind numbing stupidity.
Well I KNOW mozilla.org has stated in the past that the browser/suite they release is for testing and that end users should use a third party app if they want user support. I cannot find reference to this on thier site at this time.
When I worked in retail I used to totally baffle my coworkers. They all depended on the register to tell them what to give back, then they would carefully count largest to smallest. (as they were trained) I never entered the amount the customer gave me in ther register, as it took too much time, and I would count back the change randomly (as I could/can easily figure out in my head what the best use of the coins is) I swear there were times that it seems they thought simple math was magic, and my manager thought I more than one occassion that I was doing it to steal. quite amusing.
My last "Java In a Nutshell" practically fell apart from all the API look-ups. I rather like the API reference at the end of the book. and my current Enterprise in a nutshell is heading the same way, along with my Perl in a nutshell while I'm at it.
You see I forgot to mention that when I think something is unreasonably priced I don't steal it, or violate its copyright, I simply don't buy it or use it.
Back to my music theft? I've never stolen music, (and I also don't copy it without paying for it ;) I don't have and P2P software installed on my system, as a matter of fact this apple business has made me think about eMusic.
If any other company, MS, and RIAA member, or even the FSF opened a music store and choose a closed proprietary format over MP3 or of course Vorbis this /. crowd would be all over them. If this was Warner Brothers Music people would be screaming how AOL was trying to destroy open formats with DRM that restricted yadda yadda yadda.
but no, its apple, so everyone creams in their pants and begs for more. I can't understand how a company whose practices go against everything FS/OS stands for in such a drastic way is so loved by the same crowd.
Imagine what the world would be like if MS had the monopoly *and* the control apple has over its products and customers. man I'll leave the over priced/ closed / hardware-software lockin at the door thank you very much.
I have a small blue "DiskDoubler" sitting on my desk to this day. Oddly a few months back it came in handy for retrieving a *really* old piece of software to verify a problem a long lost customer was having with an embedded system. :)
Why does anyone run software on their machine that allows a third party to do something they don't want?
If the next word processor allowed third parties to alter your documents (forcing you to delete the insertions) nobody would use it. So why do people use web browsers that allow third parties to do these productivity destroying things?
I have nothing against adds, but I sure as hell don't find it unreasonable to expect my software NOT to accept commands from a third party telling it to do something I don't want.
This is why I havent seen a pop-up ad in months, maybe even years.
And to think everyone thought the bombing was the "Shock & Awe" part of the campaign....
Exactly. I was so appalled by Episode II that I certainly will not be buying a ticket to Episode III. I know its even more apalling that a geek would skip a Star Wars film, but guess what I actually Want to enjoy the films I spend money on.
And with this Lucas's conversion to the dark side will be complete. Does he really have to shit all over every character from the original trilogy by associating them with the crap he's been making?
I'd rather see chewbacca appear in a romantic comedy with sandra bullock before the shit that will be Episode III. at least then the plot would most likely make sense to anyone over the age of three.
From the GPL:
"Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does."
In other words not only do you NOT have to accept the GPL to use the software, but the GPL states that it doesn't even include use in its scope. It has nothing to say about use AT ALL.