Punished? You call that punishment? I'm not saying google is innocent at all, I'm just saying the big fat bastards at Microsoft weren't punished in a meaningful way. And, for the record, I have installed 5 windows machines and have never seen the "browser ballot". Nor did I see it in existing machines.
Well, but we (I'm part of the rest of the world) still are forced to live with corruption. Democracy (even if it is ironically a two-party system) doesn't work. However, what better choices do we have?
Hehe, who to vote for, then? Everybody is or becomes corrupt in this shitty political system that dominates the world. Nothing we can do about it, since we are yet to come up with something better.
The point is not that Obama is innocent, but rather that he is guilty because of the way the system works, not because of something else. Not that I agree or disagree, since I don't live in the US, I just get fucked by them.
When I open up an unknown app and want to configure it, I click configure. In KDE, that didn't lead to anything like that -- it lead to per-app configuration point-click-reload-oh-noes-now-it's-stuck-madness. Get that fixed.
I'll have to disagree, but it's obviously a matter of taste. I hate the excessive amount of point-and-click in KDE: I think it's "fat", slow (tried many distros and even different *nixes) and confusing. I don't like Gnome either and just use openbox+fbpanel+pcmanfm+nm-applet+gedit+QtCreator+gnome-term+ario+smplayer+chromium+libreoffice+my own apps.
OTOH, I'm known to be picky. However, I'd take Gnome anytime instead of KDE: I might add that my first Linux experience was with KDE 3 and, well, let's say I was very glad once I saw the likes of gnome at that time.
Agreed. That's why I roll my own desktop environments built from what I like. I tend to chose more gnome-like things, though I much, much, prefer to code GUIs with Qt.
Seriously? Is this still a question to be posed? This is why this particular use of the cloud is pathetic. Don't come and act all surprised that you lost your stuff after you put it out of your safe reach!
I fully agree. Visual Studio is amazing, even for someone as "anti-Microsoft" as myself to admit it. Qt Creator is the closest thing I get to pure satisfaction when I code C++ without Visual Studio. It indents it right, it has great themes, great shortcuts, great everything!
What's up with iThis, eThat and whatnot? Nothing beats the way we are taught (or, better, it's not iThis and eCrap that will significantly change it), at least here where I live. No need for fancy technology. If someone wants to learn, they do, and we've spun our share of geniuses. It's ridiculous to think that 50 to 70 year old teachers will actually learn to use this technology to teach. it's equally as pathetic to think that it will substantially change the way the pupils learn. This is strong and pathetic fad. I'm all for computers, but I've had enough of this ridiculous idea that they can help teachers teach in every possible way. Sure, I can learn through a computer, but it's not the same when it's enforced on us.
I'm not selling Linux. I'm selling my way of running and maintaining my desktop-based Linux OS. I really was agreeing that many distros (and even kernel patches) consistently break some feature or package that previously worked. What I don't get is why people keep doing these distro upgrades (or even radical package upgrades) and kernel recompiles. While I said that "I do it very often", I meant that I upgrade/rebuild (some of) my packages very often (not necessarily the kernel, I should've pointed that out). Now, when we get to a distro upgrade, most things just get changed -- massively -- and, indeed, many times it's worth reinstalling from scratch. I remember the last distro upgrade I watched was that of an Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.10. Not pretty at all. Let's just say nothing worked.
Yeah, I figured within an hour too, but with PC-BSD. Strangely enough, spent the following week installing my first-ever Gentoo. Even more strange: I've never looked back; now my installs take around 1-2 days, and that's if I really want it to look and work MY WAY.
That's because you kept updating and recompiling your machine! Seriously, I'm a Gentoo user, so I do it very often, but I don't get why so many people need to pointlessly update their systems. When I used Ubuntu, I used LTS and when I needed a more up to date package I'd just build it myself. No full-system updates. No more "oh-noes-Pulseaudio-fucked-me".
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Punished? You call that punishment? I'm not saying google is innocent at all, I'm just saying the big fat bastards at Microsoft weren't punished in a meaningful way. And, for the record, I have installed 5 windows machines and have never seen the "browser ballot". Nor did I see it in existing machines.
The whole world is married to the US, just like the US is married to the world -- though one gets the most out of the relationship.
Oh, wait, you were trying to be funny!
Well, but we (I'm part of the rest of the world) still are forced to live with corruption. Democracy (even if it is ironically a two-party system) doesn't work. However, what better choices do we have?
Same thing they're all there: fuck us and get happy.
Hehe, who to vote for, then? Everybody is or becomes corrupt in this shitty political system that dominates the world. Nothing we can do about it, since we are yet to come up with something better.
The point is not that Obama is innocent, but rather that he is guilty because of the way the system works, not because of something else. Not that I agree or disagree, since I don't live in the US, I just get fucked by them.
More shit from Wall Street. Nothing to see, just ultra-capitalist and crazy people dancing naked around a statue of money.
When I open up an unknown app and want to configure it, I click configure. In KDE, that didn't lead to anything like that -- it lead to per-app configuration point-click-reload-oh-noes-now-it's-stuck-madness. Get that fixed.
Sure. It's not a marketing fail of them not to publicize it. No, it's always the end-user's fault, isn't it? Oh, right, you're being a bitch.
Agreed, has never failed me.
Except those times I shut-down those servers.
I still prefer gnome-terminal. But I need to find a really good, fast, configurable, screen-like term.
Or just type screen.
Yeah, but they grabbed the source from emacs!
I'll have to disagree, but it's obviously a matter of taste. I hate the excessive amount of point-and-click in KDE: I think it's "fat", slow (tried many distros and even different *nixes) and confusing. I don't like Gnome either and just use openbox+fbpanel+pcmanfm+nm-applet+gedit+QtCreator+gnome-term+ario+smplayer+chromium+libreoffice+my own apps.
OTOH, I'm known to be picky. However, I'd take Gnome anytime instead of KDE: I might add that my first Linux experience was with KDE 3 and, well, let's say I was very glad once I saw the likes of gnome at that time.
Agreed. That's why I roll my own desktop environments built from what I like. I tend to chose more gnome-like things, though I much, much, prefer to code GUIs with Qt.
Seriously? Is this still a question to be posed? This is why this particular use of the cloud is pathetic. Don't come and act all surprised that you lost your stuff after you put it out of your safe reach!
Pathetic.
I've started to believe that everything that country does with respect to the internet or money is bullshit.
Yes, AFAIR, I added them to the project after that.
I've had projects with folders (and symlinks). They've worked perfectly.
I fully agree. Visual Studio is amazing, even for someone as "anti-Microsoft" as myself to admit it. Qt Creator is the closest thing I get to pure satisfaction when I code C++ without Visual Studio. It indents it right, it has great themes, great shortcuts, great everything!
What's up with iThis, eThat and whatnot? Nothing beats the way we are taught (or, better, it's not iThis and eCrap that will significantly change it), at least here where I live. No need for fancy technology. If someone wants to learn, they do, and we've spun our share of geniuses. It's ridiculous to think that 50 to 70 year old teachers will actually learn to use this technology to teach. it's equally as pathetic to think that it will substantially change the way the pupils learn. This is strong and pathetic fad. I'm all for computers, but I've had enough of this ridiculous idea that they can help teachers teach in every possible way. Sure, I can learn through a computer, but it's not the same when it's enforced on us.
I'm really fed up with this stupid fad.
Seconded. We might suck at many things, but we are starting to drive technology forward instead of being driven by it.
I don't think you got the joke ;)
I'm not selling Linux. I'm selling my way of running and maintaining my desktop-based Linux OS. I really was agreeing that many distros (and even kernel patches) consistently break some feature or package that previously worked. What I don't get is why people keep doing these distro upgrades (or even radical package upgrades) and kernel recompiles. While I said that "I do it very often", I meant that I upgrade/rebuild (some of) my packages very often (not necessarily the kernel, I should've pointed that out). Now, when we get to a distro upgrade, most things just get changed -- massively -- and, indeed, many times it's worth reinstalling from scratch. I remember the last distro upgrade I watched was that of an Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.10. Not pretty at all. Let's just say nothing worked.
Yeah, I figured within an hour too, but with PC-BSD. Strangely enough, spent the following week installing my first-ever Gentoo. Even more strange: I've never looked back; now my installs take around 1-2 days, and that's if I really want it to look and work MY WAY.
That's because you kept updating and recompiling your machine! Seriously, I'm a Gentoo user, so I do it very often, but I don't get why so many people need to pointlessly update their systems. When I used Ubuntu, I used LTS and when I needed a more up to date package I'd just build it myself. No full-system updates. No more "oh-noes-Pulseaudio-fucked-me".