You haven't tried a distribution except Slack for the last ten years, have you? Synaptic is far easier to use than ANY Windows.xpi package has ever been. And it resolves dependencies without asking for permission.
All modern desktop environments (KDE and GNOME) has some kind of aggregator for all kinds of help: info, man, html and so on. At least KDE has good docs for all the "KDE apps" in a very friendly docbook-based format, which integrates nicely together with all man and info pages into a little app which per default sits right of the K button. GNOME has its scrollkeeper, but I'm not familiar with it.
System-wide defaults and blocking access to specific programs (like OE) on a system-wide basis. You know, Windows has become a multi-user OS these days.
Amazingly, HTML compatibility was easier before it was "standards" this and "standards" that.
If you're referring to the days of Netscape 3 and IE 1, you must have a very bad memory or never been engaged in making a webpage these days. The XHTML standard, for instance, is really easy to understand, and as long as you use simple CSS, you'll get the same result in a lot of browsers. Yes, IE has misunderstood some of the CSS specification, and the CSS2 layers model is far too advanced for today's browsers. But the differences are extremely small now compared to that of 1996.
There is a strategy, and it is based on heuristics - counting the number of times humans start with different hands. Players who are not "professional" - who haven't learned this - start with scissors far too often (because it's the symbol of the game to many people).
If you play against someone who is likely to know this, the strategy to aim for is true randomness. Let yourself be controlled by, lets say, the modulo 3 of some random number sequence.
OK. But your arguments for OOo not driving the MS Office prices down was that OOo is just the same as MS Office? If that is true, then OOo should be driving MS Office's prices down, because they are equal (equally bad, you seem to argue).
Your argument probably had some hidden between-the-lines information; maybe you think OOo isn't advertising enough or isn't stable enough. It can't simply be unused because it is similar to MS Office.
For anybody out there wondering why you can't go faster than the speed of light, this equation is the reason.
An equation cannot be a reason, only an explanation or description. In this case, it is just a description. But since you couldn't go faster than light before Einstein created this equation, the equation can't be the reason for this "rule".
OpenOffice is nice and all, but it's just as bloated as Microsoft Office, and it's got the same nightmarish, crappy user interface. OpenOffice is too busy trying to imitate Microsoft Office.
So basically you're saying: OpenOffice doesn't compete with MS Office because it generally is the same (with the same disadvantages) and is cheaper? I don't think your logics teacher will be too impressed.
You know what's enough to keep me away from any Creative MP3 player? The fact that they come with a whole 90 days of warranty on them.
You should come to Norway, where warranty is 3 or 5 years (depending on "expected lifetime") no matter which product you sell. It's the law, and you must follow it to be allowed to sell anything here.
OTOH, the cost of the player is probably 1.2x the US cost.
Uh. Why would you want to install a package without the other packages which DEPEND on it? Apt (at least) does install a conservative number of dependencies, and presents you with a list of recommended packages (if any are optional).
When I originally created the Windows version I simply put all the files into one directory, zipped that up [...] I had complaints with this simple scheme.
No wonder, considering the fact that Windows did not ship with any kind of unzip until Windows XP. I too hated zip installs - mainly when I was reinstalling Windows or helping someone else install stuff - and most of all when the machine wasn't on the Internet. And WinZip is like 3MB, which takes a while on a 28.8 modem.
It is really quite funny that Windows didn't ship with unzip, but maybe it was because they were afraid of being accused of monopoly abuse?
How on earth are you going to make an open standard for reading, but not writing? Either the specs are available, or they are not. If OOO is going to be able to read a format, it doesn't require much intelligence to do the opposite.
So, to make your point a little shorter: "All ideologies that make a "humans are X" assumption are wrong; capitalism is successfull because it assumes humans are diverse"?
Yeah, but christianity added together has killed more people. After all, Hitler, Bush, the Inquisition and the european colonists were all christian.
Grandparents point was that such labels are meaningless, due to the point that it wasn't communism that made Stalin kill people, it wasn't capitalism that made the US kill people in Vietnam, it wasn't even christianity that made the Inquisition kill people: it was the people in power of the respective authorities that killed people. All ideologies can be abused; all fanatism is dangerous.
That is funny. I guess you've just discovered that following your own logic, every state on earth is communist? Here's why:
Ideologies are never found in their extreme, pure form, because a) the ideology doesn't contain rules for every thinkable situation; and b) the most successful countries have always used the best from different ideologies.
You are simply reinventing the term communism, and then applying it to small areas of society, and voilá: it fits! But it doesn't make sense to say that the US is communist due to the fact that many people have state-funded jobs or get goverment subsidies. Capitalistic democracies need large beaurocracies - to control that capitalism works as planned.
Tsunamis are very rare events, and it is ridiculous to create a system just to warn people when they're coming.
OTOH, a communication system designed to quickly get emergency messages to people on a geographic basis (like our Emergency {Broadcast|Alert} System, and the NOAA weather radio that can automatically signal people on a county-by-county basis) would be a great idea.
Ok, I know this is off-topic, but what exactly do you think a tsunami warning system is, if not a system "designed to quickly get emergency messages to people on a geographic basis"? The sensors are not expensive (and probably exist), monitoring is not expensive; the problem is the warning phase.
Ah, seriously, this is the tenth post attached to this article which boldly assumes I support Eolas. Please! Not one single comment has been close to supporting Eolas.
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You haven't tried a distribution except Slack for the last ten years, have you? Synaptic is far easier to use than ANY Windows .xpi package has ever been. And it resolves dependencies without asking for permission.
All modern desktop environments (KDE and GNOME) has some kind of aggregator for all kinds of help: info, man, html and so on. At least KDE has good docs for all the "KDE apps" in a very friendly docbook-based format, which integrates nicely together with all man and info pages into a little app which per default sits right of the K button. GNOME has its scrollkeeper, but I'm not familiar with it.
So what is a control panel supposed to achieve?
System-wide defaults and blocking access to specific programs (like OE) on a system-wide basis. You know, Windows has become a multi-user OS these days.
Amazingly, HTML compatibility was easier before it was "standards" this and "standards" that.
If you're referring to the days of Netscape 3 and IE 1, you must have a very bad memory or never been engaged in making a webpage these days. The XHTML standard, for instance, is really easy to understand, and as long as you use simple CSS, you'll get the same result in a lot of browsers. Yes, IE has misunderstood some of the CSS specification, and the CSS2 layers model is far too advanced for today's browsers. But the differences are extremely small now compared to that of 1996.
Buying a dishwasher is reaaally suspicious. Terrorists wash their clothes all the time.
Well, that could be true, dependent on which movie you compare it with.
There is a strategy, and it is based on heuristics - counting the number of times humans start with different hands. Players who are not "professional" - who haven't learned this - start with scissors far too often (because it's the symbol of the game to many people).
If you play against someone who is likely to know this, the strategy to aim for is true randomness. Let yourself be controlled by, lets say, the modulo 3 of some random number sequence.
OK. But your arguments for OOo not driving the MS Office prices down was that OOo is just the same as MS Office? If that is true, then OOo should be driving MS Office's prices down, because they are equal (equally bad, you seem to argue).
Your argument probably had some hidden between-the-lines information; maybe you think OOo isn't advertising enough or isn't stable enough. It can't simply be unused because it is similar to MS Office.
For anybody out there wondering why you can't go faster than the speed of light, this equation is the reason.
An equation cannot be a reason, only an explanation or description. In this case, it is just a description. But since you couldn't go faster than light before Einstein created this equation, the equation can't be the reason for this "rule".
OpenOffice is nice and all, but it's just as bloated as Microsoft Office, and it's got the same nightmarish, crappy user interface. OpenOffice is too busy trying to imitate Microsoft Office.
So basically you're saying: OpenOffice doesn't compete with MS Office because it generally is the same (with the same disadvantages) and is cheaper? I don't think your logics teacher will be too impressed.
Those are awesome.
Don't worry, it's quite human to forget the "^H^H^H^Hful." part of a message.
Don't you love how people are trying to "beat" apple in this market?
Well, maybe they're not aiming for the top, but rather making some money? I don't think Creative loses any money trying to "beat" Apple.
You know what's enough to keep me away from any Creative MP3 player? The fact that they come with a whole 90 days of warranty on them.
You should come to Norway, where warranty is 3 or 5 years (depending on "expected lifetime") no matter which product you sell. It's the law, and you must follow it to be allowed to sell anything here.
OTOH, the cost of the player is probably 1.2x the US cost.
Uh, IFRAME is in the W3C standard. (here, actually). It is HTMLs concept of an "inline frame". But the javascript part may very well be a problem :-)
Uh. Why would you want to install a package without the other packages which DEPEND on it? Apt (at least) does install a conservative number of dependencies, and presents you with a list of recommended packages (if any are optional).
When I originally created the Windows version I simply put all the files into one directory, zipped that up [...] I had complaints with this simple scheme.
No wonder, considering the fact that Windows did not ship with any kind of unzip until Windows XP. I too hated zip installs - mainly when I was reinstalling Windows or helping someone else install stuff - and most of all when the machine wasn't on the Internet. And WinZip is like 3MB, which takes a while on a 28.8 modem.
It is really quite funny that Windows didn't ship with unzip, but maybe it was because they were afraid of being accused of monopoly abuse?
How on earth are you going to make an open standard for reading, but not writing? Either the specs are available, or they are not. If OOO is going to be able to read a format, it doesn't require much intelligence to do the opposite.
At least it happened here, in Norway, but probably other places as well.
So, to make your point a little shorter: "All ideologies that make a "humans are X" assumption are wrong; capitalism is successfull because it assumes humans are diverse"?
Your theory is on shaky ground.
Yeah, but christianity added together has killed more people. After all, Hitler, Bush, the Inquisition and the european colonists were all christian.
Grandparents point was that such labels are meaningless, due to the point that it wasn't communism that made Stalin kill people, it wasn't capitalism that made the US kill people in Vietnam, it wasn't even christianity that made the Inquisition kill people: it was the people in power of the respective authorities that killed people. All ideologies can be abused; all fanatism is dangerous.
That is funny. I guess you've just discovered that following your own logic, every state on earth is communist? Here's why:
Ideologies are never found in their extreme, pure form, because a) the ideology doesn't contain rules for every thinkable situation; and b) the most successful countries have always used the best from different ideologies.
You are simply reinventing the term communism, and then applying it to small areas of society, and voilá: it fits! But it doesn't make sense to say that the US is communist due to the fact that many people have state-funded jobs or get goverment subsidies. Capitalistic democracies need large beaurocracies - to control that capitalism works as planned.
Tsunamis are very rare events, and it is ridiculous to create a system just to warn people when they're coming.
OTOH, a communication system designed to quickly get emergency messages to people on a geographic basis (like our Emergency {Broadcast|Alert} System, and the NOAA weather radio that can automatically signal people on a county-by-county basis) would be a great idea.
Ok, I know this is off-topic, but what exactly do you think a tsunami warning system is, if not a system "designed to quickly get emergency messages to people on a geographic basis"? The sensors are not expensive (and probably exist), monitoring is not expensive; the problem is the warning phase.
You guys just don't realize that
Ah, seriously, this is the tenth post attached to this article which boldly assumes I support Eolas. Please! Not one single comment has been close to supporting Eolas.
You can blame the schools all you want. But blaming them won't change the results.
So, changing the parents will be easier than changing the schools?
So that's why PINE is a PAIN to pull from apt.