Add the fact that it is harder to make a good GUI application on Linux than on Windows. You can of course make a good GUI in Linux, but you spend more time and resources than to do the same thing in Windows.
That was intended as a generalized reflection of the attitude, not a quote from anyone in particular. I can fake quotes if I wanted to but they'd be much more entertaining than that.
"...shrugging this off as Windows and Mac dominate the Mozilla user landscape today."
And that is a big part of why Windows and Mac continue to dominate the landscape. The Linux versions of many apps tend to be second rate. Then the developers look at it and say "see, nobody really wanted it on that platform anyway."
That's a pretty sad statement for an open project to make.
Personally, I hope Ballmer has a very long tenure at Microsoft and that the past twelve years or so are only the beginning of his impact on that company.
If it looked like Google Reader with my hundreds of friends on the left with a little number of how many items I have not viewed that are new, it would be easy to keep up with everything.
I would love to see that! That, and an open protocol that you could use with various clients would make it truely useful. Still, I'd probably be better off just cancelling my acocunt like I've been threatening to do for a long time.
I tried this at work but the custodial staff kept finding my little piles of rocks and removing them from my office. Sometimes it doesn't pay to plan ahead.
...other than to disagree. Of those 7, 3 are conservatives who believe that things would be just fine if we could undo the damage those liberals have created. Three more think that Obama is too conservative and has abandoned the very people who elected him. The other one is just sick of the other six.
That's all these protests are about. I live in a community where a series of wind towers were installed. Some of the residents got completely irrational about things. Some may not even be talking to each other now. Most of the arguments were like acts of desperation: the sound will be a problem, no sound? then the Very Low Frequency sound is bad for your health, the wildlife will all leave and die, wind turbines kill birds by the thousands, our property values will drop because of big windmill 3 miles away, they use oil to lubricate the generators so it's not sustainable, the energy will be sold out of our community/state, it's just "big business" trying to exploit rural communities, it's not economically viable, the government shouldn't be subsidizing it, etc... The rallying cry is to "save the ridge lines" which indicates that it's more about aesthetics than anything tangible. Same thing with the project proposed off of Cape Cod, MA.
I loved PMView and PMmail. Too bad they don't run on OS X.
AntEater, you should check the link in my sig. Your misuse of its vs it's is distracting to the reader. I know that techies think grammar doesn't matter, but your smartest readers see that mistake as a cognitive speedbump.
Well, that's embarrassing. Grammar matters. It's just that I didn't see its presence until too late. I failed to proofread my post.
I ran OS/2 extensively from '93 to '03. OS/2 was way ahead of it's time in many ways - maybe too much so. It was a great solid system and the GUI was much better than most of what we have today. it's a shame that IBM couldn't market it properly but they were working against the massive marketing force that MS had back then. That, and the fact that OS really ran best with at least 16mb or RAM back in a time when 8mb was considered excessive. Once Win95 came out OS/2 was pretty much on a fast path to it's death. That clearly demonstrated that the PC industry was more about marketing and deals than producing a better product because windows 95 was absolute trash in comparison.
If tracking is the only way the "free" internet can survive then it deserves to die. I think you'd find the creativity of people will work around such a limitation.
- The divide between the wealthy and the poor continues to grow. Globally, the middle-class is virtually non-existent. Most of the world lives just above a subsistence level. - Biodiversity reaches an unprecedented minimum. Between over harvesting and habitat destruction, whole ecosystems have disappeared from the earth. People debate whether many of the large land mammal species ever actually existed or if they were part of a mythology. - Petroleum is unquestionably depleted and too expensive for use other than by the military and the extremely wealthy. - War continues as we fight over the dwindling remains of our natural resources. - Welcome to the surveillance state. - World population continues to increase, although at slower rates due to famine, disease and widespread war. - The US has virtually no national transportation infrastructure since the social and political will never appeared to move away from the automobile before before gasoline prices and the maintenance of our roads became financially untenable. - global warming continues with unimaginable impacts on coastal regions. - chaos is the only predictable quality of life. - No Linux on the desktop and the desktop computer itself will be an antiquated notion.
I wish I could jump on board with the techo-fantasies but I don't think that's where we are going - at least not for the majority. Now I'm depressed...
Slashdot Mirror
Like Facebook and Twitter, without the people.
Sounds perfect.
Heartless and Evil, that's what you are. I've gone almost 30 years since I last had that song stuck in my head. Thanks!
Where did you find that article? I'd like to read the rest of it. URL?
Add the fact that it is harder to make a good GUI application on Linux than on Windows. You can of course make a good GUI in Linux, but you spend more time and resources than to do the same thing in Windows.
That can't be true. Look at the GIMP!
That was intended as a generalized reflection of the attitude, not a quote from anyone in particular. I can fake quotes if I wanted to but they'd be much more entertaining than that.
"...shrugging this off as Windows and Mac dominate the Mozilla user landscape today."
And that is a big part of why Windows and Mac continue to dominate the landscape. The Linux versions of many apps tend to be second rate. Then the developers look at it and say "see, nobody really wanted it on that platform anyway."
That's a pretty sad statement for an open project to make.
Personally, I hope Ballmer has a very long tenure at Microsoft and that the past twelve years or so are only the beginning of his impact on that company.
If it looked like Google Reader with my hundreds of friends on the left with a little number of how many items I have not viewed that are new, it would be easy to keep up with everything.
I would love to see that! That, and an open protocol that you could use with various clients would make it truely useful. Still, I'd probably be better off just cancelling my acocunt like I've been threatening to do for a long time.
I've been axiously waiting for someone to put an affordable, technolgically advanced TV out on the market that will respect the user's freedom.
I tried this at work but the custodial staff kept finding my little piles of rocks and removing them from my office. Sometimes it doesn't pay to plan ahead.
I can't argue with you on that one.
...other than to disagree. Of those 7, 3 are conservatives who believe that things would be just fine if we could undo the damage those liberals have created. Three more think that Obama is too conservative and has abandoned the very people who elected him. The other one is just sick of the other six.
Amazingly, the same people who protest wind turbines have no problem with coal plants spewing ash and sulfur dioxide on their land.
No, they have no problem with coal plants spewing ash and sulfur dioxide on other people's land.
Not In My Back Yard.
That's all these protests are about. I live in a community where a series of wind towers were installed. Some of the residents got completely irrational about things. Some may not even be talking to each other now. Most of the arguments were like acts of desperation: the sound will be a problem, no sound? then the Very Low Frequency sound is bad for your health, the wildlife will all leave and die, wind turbines kill birds by the thousands, our property values will drop because of big windmill 3 miles away, they use oil to lubricate the generators so it's not sustainable, the energy will be sold out of our community/state, it's just "big business" trying to exploit rural communities, it's not economically viable, the government shouldn't be subsidizing it, etc... The rallying cry is to "save the ridge lines" which indicates that it's more about aesthetics than anything tangible. Same thing with the project proposed off of Cape Cod, MA.
I loved PMView and PMmail. Too bad they don't run on OS X.
AntEater, you should check the link in my sig. Your misuse of its vs it's is distracting to the reader. I know that techies think grammar doesn't matter, but your smartest readers see that mistake as a cognitive speedbump.
Well, that's embarrassing. Grammar matters. It's just that I didn't see its presence until too late. I failed to proofread my post.
I ran OS/2 extensively from '93 to '03. OS/2 was way ahead of it's time in many ways - maybe too much so. It was a great solid system and the GUI was much better than most of what we have today. it's a shame that IBM couldn't market it properly but they were working against the massive marketing force that MS had back then. That, and the fact that OS really ran best with at least 16mb or RAM back in a time when 8mb was considered excessive. Once Win95 came out OS/2 was pretty much on a fast path to it's death. That clearly demonstrated that the PC industry was more about marketing and deals than producing a better product because windows 95 was absolute trash in comparison.
Reality doesn't care about your ideology at all, actually.
Don't anthropomorphize reality; It hates that.
Like chicken. What else?
Slackware is great if you want to learn how Linux works - not how one specific distribution does things for you.
If tracking is the only way the "free" internet can survive then it deserves to die. I think you'd find the creativity of people will work around such a limitation.
Combining both of these decisions under the 'Windows' brand could be disastrous...
I, for one, welcome more disasterous actions from our anti-trust overlords.
not because Microsoft is evil,
Obviously, someone is very inexperienced in this field.
Why Slackware?
Because Slackware has a very good KDE build. It is a great system to maintain with no extraneous garbage. It's ultra stable. FUN!!
- The divide between the wealthy and the poor continues to grow. Globally, the middle-class is virtually non-existent. Most of the world lives just above a subsistence level.
- Biodiversity reaches an unprecedented minimum. Between over harvesting and habitat destruction, whole ecosystems have disappeared from the earth. People debate whether many of the large land mammal species ever actually existed or if they were part of a mythology.
- Petroleum is unquestionably depleted and too expensive for use other than by the military and the extremely wealthy.
- War continues as we fight over the dwindling remains of our natural resources.
- Welcome to the surveillance state.
- World population continues to increase, although at slower rates due to famine, disease and widespread war.
- The US has virtually no national transportation infrastructure since the social and political will never appeared to move away from the automobile before before gasoline prices and the maintenance of our roads became financially untenable.
- global warming continues with unimaginable impacts on coastal regions.
- chaos is the only predictable quality of life.
- No Linux on the desktop and the desktop computer itself will be an antiquated notion.
I wish I could jump on board with the techo-fantasies but I don't think that's where we are going - at least not for the majority. Now I'm depressed...
...and voting for a government or party that is for regular citizens not the mega wealthy...
Do you know of any?
You're not alone. I had to read it through a second time because the connection between Thai food and hard drives wasn't making sense to me.