Applying a markup language (xhtml) to text is hardly "programming", but the limitations of the medium all but preclude the kind of elegance nostalgically associated with *some* book typography. First, there's been quite a decline in typography in general, since the advent of "desktop publishing", apart from the perhaps overwrought efforts of a few revivalists. One can find plenty of terrible typography in print, it's pretty much the norm. Secondly, there's a lack of standards across devices (and for that matter, platform releases), which tends to enforce a 'lowest common denominator' approach. See, believe it or not, publishing is a business. I suppose once the demand is established for high-end typography in ebooks, and some better tools come out, you will see some improvement. But good luck with the whingeing.
Well, you set the bar so low, it's difficult to to know how to add any useful observations. Virtually every digicam these days will address the most egregious technical faults (focus, exposure, motion blur). So just buy something, start snapping away to your heart's content, and maybe you'll learn what the heck it is you want. It's difficult to envisage what you might find satis/unsatis -factory, or how spending any particular sum on gear might resolve that.
For what it's worth (I suspect not much), I don't like digital cameras, and still use film gear.
Apple has had quite a long history of denial about everything from product defects to the conditions under which its products are made. When I buy a product that carries a 150% (and often much, much higher) brand premium, I expect the brand to stand behind its products. And that is why I do not buy Apple products.
Linus is of course entitled to use any DE, and to criticize any particular piece of GNU/Linux (or anything else under the sun) he pleases. I used xfce for a couple of years mainly for it's alleged, 'lightweight' aspect. Then it turned out it uses nearly as much system resources as Gnome 2 and for that matter, KDE 4x for several common tasks. To be frank, in comparison to Gnome and KDE's current iterations, XFCE feels old, kludgy and primitive (the most recent XFCE release shows some incremental improvements buttressing the same, outdated philosophy and poor underlying design principles). I don't hate XFCE, and I don't wish it didn't exist, I just think there are far better alternatives. For lightweight DE's, look instead at something like Openbox (as implemented e.g. on the Crunchbang debian distro).
Gnome 3 can best be described as a work in progress. We don't yet know how it's many shortcomings are going to be addressed. Still, I'm glad it's here, and I think it's a very necessary step for the Gnome project. If you really want to try it, skip the vm nonsense (actually, it ran very well for me in VirtualBox), and keep it updated, because the improvements are coming fast and thick.
By tossing off these kind of unreasoning and reactive quips about topics on which he has few valid insights, Linus only diminishes his own stature. Just sayin...
You know the old saw about those who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing. I can't speak to the situation today, because for a whole host of factors there seems to have been a general, across-the-board decline in standards and quality for undergraduate study. Suffice to say I did not complete my first round of college (I quit after 3 years), but went on to get a degree in another (somewhat related) discipline much later in life. Perhaps I was fortunate to encounter a few stellar teachers, and I mean world-class, in both situations. I owe them everything. Maybe you can teach yourself coding and/or business at home. Pity if that's all you'll ever learn....
Here's the thing: Apple products aren't cheap, are they? Now... where does that >$60-billion mountain of cash Apple is sitting on come from? Hmm? Care to hazard a guess?
Well, America is accelerating rapidly and inexorably towards failed state status.
Perhaps when it reaches that destination in the not-too-distant future, North Korea will be a "superpower", relatively speaking, of course...
Um, yeah, actually, Oracle is simply carrying out Sun's strategy of attempting to monetize various 'opensauce' offerings, which, if you read the fine print... Oh hang on, you thought Sun was just kidding? We may hate Oracle for acting on Sun's edicts, and I personally wish them ill will, but hardly new, or surprising.
"I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful."
Oh gosh, that's a tough call... Invade their country? Kill their family, neighbors and friends? Install a corrupt puppet regime that tortures everyone in sight? Steal their land?
Why did Steve Jobs get personally involved in this? Is he out of his f*cking mind? The man has gone from being a hero, to a loose cannon, an embarrassment, and now, perhaps Apple's own worst nemesis. Is his new liver being rejected? Does he have blood poisoning? Has his monstrous id finally burst all restraints?
WTF indeed.
30 Mb [compressed], uses minimal resources, runs on a wide range of hardware, including some really old stuff.
Not ubuntu or fedora -based, but solid if minimalistic linux distro. A bit more challenging than the mainstream, in that pre-cooked solutions aren't always just a google away, which is possibly a good thing assuming you want people to learn.
An aside: if you want ubunto or fedora, just use it and stop faffing about -- nothing wrong with either that some half-assed 'reskinning' will cure.
It wil take all of 10-minutes of your time (including the download) to test out slitaz.
The way in which windows are controlled matters a great deal.
Not enough to go off frothing at the mouth...
I use XP, Tiger, Leopard, and several Linux distros (including 2 'buntu releases) pretty much every day.
Have done for many years.
So no, the way in which windows are controlled [among these many variants] matters very litle to me on any practical, and aesthetic level. YMMV (obviously).
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That's the only way you'll ever put a stop to this kind of thing.
And this seems to be a disincentive to "upgrade".
If by that you mean a 'jury of his peers', any trial in southern Florida might not have the outcome you want.
It will only kill furriners and turncoats.
Applying a markup language (xhtml) to text is hardly "programming", but the limitations of the medium all but preclude the kind of elegance nostalgically associated with *some* book typography. First, there's been quite a decline in typography in general, since the advent of "desktop publishing", apart from the perhaps overwrought efforts of a few revivalists. One can find plenty of terrible typography in print, it's pretty much the norm. Secondly, there's a lack of standards across devices (and for that matter, platform releases), which tends to enforce a 'lowest common denominator' approach. See, believe it or not, publishing is a business. I suppose once the demand is established for high-end typography in ebooks, and some better tools come out, you will see some improvement. But good luck with the whingeing.
Well, you set the bar so low, it's difficult to to know how to add any useful observations. Virtually every digicam these days will address the most egregious technical faults (focus, exposure, motion blur). So just buy something, start snapping away to your heart's content, and maybe you'll learn what the heck it is you want. It's difficult to envisage what you might find satis/unsatis -factory, or how spending any particular sum on gear might resolve that. For what it's worth (I suspect not much), I don't like digital cameras, and still use film gear.
Apple has had quite a long history of denial about everything from product defects to the conditions under which its products are made. When I buy a product that carries a 150% (and often much, much higher) brand premium, I expect the brand to stand behind its products. And that is why I do not buy Apple products.
"Gimme a break." No. You don't get a break. Windows, life sentence. Enjoy.
Linus is of course entitled to use any DE, and to criticize any particular piece of GNU/Linux (or anything else under the sun) he pleases. I used xfce for a couple of years mainly for it's alleged, 'lightweight' aspect. Then it turned out it uses nearly as much system resources as Gnome 2 and for that matter, KDE 4x for several common tasks. To be frank, in comparison to Gnome and KDE's current iterations, XFCE feels old, kludgy and primitive (the most recent XFCE release shows some incremental improvements buttressing the same, outdated philosophy and poor underlying design principles). I don't hate XFCE, and I don't wish it didn't exist, I just think there are far better alternatives. For lightweight DE's, look instead at something like Openbox (as implemented e.g. on the Crunchbang debian distro). Gnome 3 can best be described as a work in progress. We don't yet know how it's many shortcomings are going to be addressed. Still, I'm glad it's here, and I think it's a very necessary step for the Gnome project. If you really want to try it, skip the vm nonsense (actually, it ran very well for me in VirtualBox), and keep it updated, because the improvements are coming fast and thick. By tossing off these kind of unreasoning and reactive quips about topics on which he has few valid insights, Linus only diminishes his own stature. Just sayin...
You know the old saw about those who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing. I can't speak to the situation today, because for a whole host of factors there seems to have been a general, across-the-board decline in standards and quality for undergraduate study. Suffice to say I did not complete my first round of college (I quit after 3 years), but went on to get a degree in another (somewhat related) discipline much later in life. Perhaps I was fortunate to encounter a few stellar teachers, and I mean world-class, in both situations. I owe them everything. Maybe you can teach yourself coding and/or business at home. Pity if that's all you'll ever learn....
When you contemplate your future dental and insulin bills...
Here's the thing: Apple products aren't cheap, are they? Now... where does that >$60-billion mountain of cash Apple is sitting on come from? Hmm? Care to hazard a guess?
Well, America is accelerating rapidly and inexorably towards failed state status. Perhaps when it reaches that destination in the not-too-distant future, North Korea will be a "superpower", relatively speaking, of course...
Get a life, STFU. FTP just works. Do you hate that? If you have something truly better, it will replace FTP. Otherwise...
Remind me: how many land-based nukes have been subjected to turrists ?
You need to be more afraid of Goldfinger's bimbos with radioactive warhead spear guns!
But the IPhone does suck.
Um, yeah, actually, Oracle is simply carrying out Sun's strategy of attempting to monetize various 'opensauce' offerings, which, if you read the fine print... Oh hang on, you thought Sun was just kidding? We may hate Oracle for acting on Sun's edicts, and I personally wish them ill will, but hardly new, or surprising.
>it will basically end investigative journalism and take the US one step closer to being like Russia or China I think we're seeing a trend here...
"I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful." Oh gosh, that's a tough call... Invade their country? Kill their family, neighbors and friends? Install a corrupt puppet regime that tortures everyone in sight? Steal their land?
Why did Steve Jobs get personally involved in this? Is he out of his f*cking mind? The man has gone from being a hero, to a loose cannon, an embarrassment, and now, perhaps Apple's own worst nemesis. Is his new liver being rejected? Does he have blood poisoning? Has his monstrous id finally burst all restraints? WTF indeed.
Is it just possible, that as part of a Steve Jobs exit strategy, Apple is providing Steve with enough rope... ?
30 Mb [compressed], uses minimal resources, runs on a wide range of hardware, including some really old stuff. Not ubuntu or fedora -based, but solid if minimalistic linux distro. A bit more challenging than the mainstream, in that pre-cooked solutions aren't always just a google away, which is possibly a good thing assuming you want people to learn. An aside: if you want ubunto or fedora, just use it and stop faffing about -- nothing wrong with either that some half-assed 'reskinning' will cure. It wil take all of 10-minutes of your time (including the download) to test out slitaz.
Er... how timely.
The way in which windows are controlled matters a great deal.
Not enough to go off frothing at the mouth... I use XP, Tiger, Leopard, and several Linux distros (including 2 'buntu releases) pretty much every day. Have done for many years. So no, the way in which windows are controlled [among these many variants] matters very litle to me on any practical, and aesthetic level. YMMV (obviously).