whichever simplifies/unites the UI first...
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The trouble with linux GUIs (for me, happy LinuxPPC R4 user) right now is that there's no standard "Command set" which provide basic operations using the same keystrokes in any program. Examples from commercial OSen:
MacOS: no, Apple didn't invent undo/cut/copy/paste, but the same keys do the same thing in every program! *If* a program under GNU/LinuxPPC/KDE allows these commands, it does it its own special way. I have to keep looking down at the keys, thinking "Is it alt-V, option-V, ctrl-V, cmd-V" every time. What a bore.
Windoze: Alt-F4 quits whatever program I'm in. "I'm Done, let's go". There's no (obvious) GNU/LinuxPPC/KDE counterpart.
Don't get me wrong, I like the fact that if something's misbehaving, I can kill [9] anything. The *control* I have over my system is fabulous. I just think some commands should be "global" to the User Interface. Don't tell that I can set them up in a.profile either, because then when I sit down at another desktop (the goal is World Domination, r'mber) it'll be different.
$0.02 from me. Don't forget to give me my change. jaz
I missed "preview" (slipped on those damn slick-ass GUI buttons)
I'll cut to the chase: I'm not cutting the 19th; it'll be the same for me if I go then or that weekend - why sweat the opening crowds? Heck, I see maybe two or three (or perhaps twenty-three) movies a year in the theatres. Wired's article made it sound like the "geeks" will rise as one and make like cattle for this movie.
Not for me, thanks. Lot's o' geek.s *dont* care so much to leave their class/job/committed relationship(s) behind Wednesday to see this. Some of my friends might, but there are a heck of a lot of pencilnecks, dweebs, weeners and wierdos that will be there too. We're all different, every member of our family. But nope, Wired lumps us all together: file under "geek" which is the copywriters' "sexy" word for a propellerhead today.
I'm hot because: there's so much diversity of taste & style in the Hellmouth Alumni Society, and this Hollywood mega-indulgence (of us as much as Lucas, ya'll!) is held up as the be-all-and-end-all for our culture.
Truth: it's a huge part of "our" mythology; the classic SW trilogy *defined* our ideas of heroism, love, friendship, even what it meant to be good and to be evil. (until Dr. Evil rewrote the book, that isSHHH!)
Truth: this will be a "big" movie for a lot of us(I'm thinkin' Lady G. & her sistahs ever'where)
Another Truth: a lot of us think sitting down with a poetree 'zine or string quartet CD is culture. For me, s'kind music( SmileFest: referenced in my post-miscarriage above is going to absolutely kick. There's a helluva lot more live music than new movies anyway.)
"Um...do you have a Point, Tangent Man?" Sure. Our world is a huge, evergrowing, fluffy cloud of sensitive sprites, bristling ardvaarks, playful but plaintive pixies, even frag-happy trolls and hookah-smoking caterpillars. Like it or not, we set the cultural pace for America ("like, Busta Rhymes is so freaky, he's the bomb and stuff!") but don't control the media which reports about the cultural phenomenon. Now ya'll, for most of us, we've "got to be there", but for John Q. Public, the story about the event is far more entertaining than actually attending the event itself. The much-vaunted American "liberal media elite" is no such thing; the dogs will report the easy story (what J.Q.P. wants: more COPS-style edutainment) every time[1]: it's high time to come to grips with this. Brothers and Sistahs, let us stand up & say "HAY" when some r-e-s-p-e-c-t is due. And Brothers and Sistahs, that time of our redemption has come! You've gotta stand up for your polycultural brethren; start by refusing any label you get slapped with, like I'm refusing Wired's notion of a "geek". Pick your own label; wear it proud, wear it loud. If you're Eurotrash, man, don't let them call you Goth! Brats, don't settle for Punk! There's a fine line between a skate-rat and a rave-kid, so it's up to you; make sure everyone gets your label straight and we're on our way.
jaz
[1] props to the news agencies mentioned in Katz's Hellmouth series & their journalists who brought the voices to a wider audience. And to Bonnie, my sister who's been working the pressroom for too long. Speaking of labels, she once (when I was 12) called me a jock; I didn't know what that was...
I'm looking forward to seeming the movie, but I won't be taking time off to see it. I'll probably go in the first week, if Lady Genevieve has her way (It'll probably be the fourth time she goes by the time I swing in there). She's amped about it; lots of us are, just not all of us. I didn't like the way the wired article lumped all geeks into one "two thousand seething, roaring mass" I'm going to a festival two weeks later; I'll be taking Friday off to be there for m'pals' wedding the night before. I was a little tired of the way the
It's not what *we* call it that matters
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RMS's point about changing the name is not that he's trying to brainwash his fellow coders/hackerz into repeating "GNU...GNU..." like a mantra. His point is that the 99.5% of the world who don't read/. don't understand that without the contributions of the FSF, none of this would matter. Of course, Linus' kernel was the key that created "Linux", but without the GNU software, you don't have an OS either. I think he's unlikely to manage a name change at this stage of the game. The masses & the media call the entire system (wrongly) "Linux" and that's pretty much the way it'll stay. Thank you Mr. Stallman, and keep up the fight for freedom, but "Linux" is what everyone but the cognoscienti is going to call the whole ball of wax.
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MacOS: no, Apple didn't invent undo/cut/copy/paste, but the same keys do the same thing in every program! *If* a program under GNU/LinuxPPC/KDE allows these commands, it does it its own special way. I have to keep looking down at the keys, thinking "Is it alt-V, option-V, ctrl-V, cmd-V" every time. What a bore.
Windoze: Alt-F4 quits whatever program I'm in. "I'm Done, let's go". There's no (obvious) GNU/LinuxPPC/KDE counterpart.
Don't get me wrong, I like the fact that if something's misbehaving, I can kill [9] anything. The *control* I have over my system is fabulous. I just think some commands should be "global" to the User Interface. Don't tell that I can set them up in a .profile either, because then when I sit down at another desktop (the goal is World Domination, r'mber) it'll be different.
$0.02 from me. Don't forget to give me my change.
jaz
What be "quine", and do you smoke it or drink it?
XXOX,
jaz
I'll cut to the chase: I'm not cutting the 19th; it'll be the same for me if I go then or that weekend - why sweat the opening crowds? Heck, I see maybe two or three (or perhaps twenty-three) movies a year in the theatres. Wired's article made it sound like the "geeks" will rise as one and make like cattle for this movie.
Not for me, thanks. Lot's o' geek.s *dont* care so much to leave their class/job/committed relationship(s) behind Wednesday to see this. Some of my friends might, but there are a heck of a lot of pencilnecks, dweebs, weeners and wierdos that will be there too. We're all different, every member of our family. But nope, Wired lumps us all together: file under "geek" which is the copywriters' "sexy" word for a propellerhead today.
I'm hot because: there's so much diversity of taste & style in the Hellmouth Alumni Society, and this Hollywood mega-indulgence (of us as much as Lucas, ya'll!) is held up as the be-all-and-end-all for our culture.
Truth: it's a huge part of "our" mythology; the classic SW trilogy *defined* our ideas of heroism, love, friendship, even what it meant to be good and to be evil.
(until Dr. Evil rewrote the book, that isSHHH!)
Truth: this will be a "big" movie for a lot of us(I'm thinkin' Lady G. & her sistahs ever'where)
Another Truth: a lot of us think sitting down with a poetree 'zine or string quartet CD is culture. For me, s'kind music( SmileFest: referenced in my post-miscarriage above is going to absolutely kick. There's a helluva lot more live music than new movies anyway.)
"Um...do you have a Point, Tangent Man?" Sure.
Our world is a huge, evergrowing, fluffy cloud of sensitive sprites, bristling ardvaarks, playful but plaintive pixies, even frag-happy trolls and hookah-smoking caterpillars. Like it or not, we set the cultural pace for America ("like, Busta Rhymes is so freaky, he's the bomb and stuff!") but don't control the media which reports about the cultural phenomenon. Now ya'll, for most of us, we've "got to be there", but for John Q. Public, the story about the event is far more entertaining than actually attending the event itself. The much-vaunted American "liberal media elite" is no such thing; the dogs will report the easy story (what J.Q.P. wants: more COPS-style edutainment) every time[1]: it's high time to come to grips with this. Brothers and Sistahs, let us stand up & say "HAY" when some r-e-s-p-e-c-t is due. And Brothers and Sistahs, that time of our redemption has come! You've gotta stand up for your polycultural brethren; start by refusing any label you get slapped with, like I'm refusing Wired's notion of a "geek". Pick your own label; wear it proud, wear it loud. If you're Eurotrash, man, don't let them call you Goth! Brats, don't settle for Punk! There's a fine line between a skate-rat and a rave-kid, so it's up to you; make sure everyone gets your label straight and we're on our way.
jaz
[1] props to the news agencies mentioned in Katz's Hellmouth series & their journalists who brought the voices to a wider audience. And to Bonnie, my sister who's been working the pressroom for too long. Speaking of labels, she once (when I was 12) called me a jock; I didn't know what that was...
I'm looking forward to seeming the movie, but I won't be taking time off to see it. I'll probably go in the first week, if Lady Genevieve has her way (It'll probably be the fourth time she goes by the time I swing in there). She's amped about it; lots of us are, just not all of us. I didn't like the way the wired article lumped all geeks into one "two thousand seething, roaring mass" I'm going to a festival two weeks later; I'll be taking Friday off to be there for m'pals' wedding the night before. I was a little tired of the way the
RMS's point about changing the name is not that he's trying to brainwash his fellow coders/hackerz into repeating "GNU...GNU..." like a mantra. His point is that the 99.5% of the world who don't read /. don't understand that without the contributions of the FSF, none of this would matter. Of course, Linus' kernel was the key that created "Linux", but without the GNU software, you don't have an OS either.
I think he's unlikely to manage a name change at this stage of the game. The masses & the media call the entire system (wrongly) "Linux" and that's pretty much the way it'll stay. Thank you Mr. Stallman, and keep up the fight for freedom, but "Linux" is what everyone but the cognoscienti is going to call the whole ball of wax.