"One of the reasons the Mac has such a well-loved interface (how many PC interface zealots do you know?)"
The reason you dont often see PC (by PC I presume you mean Windows) interface zealots is that the interface isnt this great thing we (I dare to speak for other Windows users) hold up high as our reason for living (Im speaking from experience of knowing several Mac fanatics). The interface is just their and it allows us to get work done. I find the interface enhancements in each new version of Windows useful but it isnt the sort of thing I sit and wonder over.
I think its because Windows users see it as simply an OS not the greatest invention of the last century as many deluded Mac users seem to suggest of MacOS.
"Installing programs under Windoze is a total fuckup because of all the DLLs and inevitable scores of data files that have to be installed along with the application itself. "
Why do critics of Windows continue to use childlike name calling (i.e. Windoze etc etc)? Do I feel need to stupidly insult other OS's? NO I grew up a while back.
Feel free to make constructive criticism's of Windows and MS but dont resort to rhetoric and name calling.
"It never seems to work quite right with browsers other than IE, at least in my experience. IIRC, it even crashed Netscape under Linux when I tried it."
I use Outlook Web Access almost everyday and I have run it from IE5, IE5.5, Netscape 4.x/6, Opera and Mozilla 0.6. It has some small problems in Opera (everytime a new window is opened the exisiting ones goto half size) but in all the others it works fine. Im interested if anyother people have had problems with it.
"Do they have a big Open Source name working on it?"
do you think that many people outside the Linux and programming communities even know who Linus is nevermind buy one product over another because of him?
"During the day, he recalled, he would write the code. Then, at night, after returning to jail, he would study the paper list of programming commands, looking for errors. "It was an ideal situation," he said. "It forced me to get off the computer and think and debug my program."
Gotta admit its one hell of a way to increase productivity. I can just see some evil project manager chuckling with glee and reaching for the number of the nearest jail....
Are you so cold and pompous that you find the idea of millions of people dying is morally justifiable because, in your opinion, they would probably just starve anyway?
Or is it because its 'just' Africans? If this was happening in the US or Western Europe would you still have the same attitude? Is my life worth more because I was born in the UK rather than Nigeria?
Try experiencing a thought other than selfish self-centered ones.
Try getting a student loan in the UK! As our beloved government is being so generous to withhold interest on the loans they make you dance through hoops to qualify. You have to prove citzenship and that your parental income is below a certain level to get any real amount. I'd moved three times in as many years leading up to going to Uni so that added to the complication.
After you get accepted it doesnt get any better. They distribute the loans AFTER you register for Uni, which means that if you in Halls you recieve a £600-900 bill without any way to pay (good thing I worked over the holidays or I would have been screwed).
Jon
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They dont have any mandate, but what good would it be to give everyone a Linux laptop? Only a very small amount of the students would even know how to use the OS, and I suspect that almost no teachers would be able to use it. If more technically minded people wish to use Linux, then they can install it themselves.
I never saw the rationale behind optical mice. The extra accuracy gained seems small compared to the massive increase in complexity, although it makes you wonder how companies like MS can charge £10 for a simple analogue one and only £35 for a mouse with an optical camera and significant processing hardware...
What would happen if (very big IF) MS actually start producing Linux software that is well wrote and shows off what Linux can do? Would the Linux community snub any software simply because of who created it? or would they be more impartial and judge the software on its merits?
Can practicality overrule principle?
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"One of the reasons the Mac has such a well-loved interface (how many PC interface zealots do you know?)"
The reason you dont often see PC (by PC I presume you mean Windows) interface zealots is that the interface isnt this great thing we (I dare to speak for other Windows users) hold up high as our reason for living (Im speaking from experience of knowing several Mac fanatics). The interface is just their and it allows us to get work done. I find the interface enhancements in each new version of Windows useful but it isnt the sort of thing I sit and wonder over.
I think its because Windows users see it as simply an OS not the greatest invention of the last century as many deluded Mac users seem to suggest of MacOS.
Jon
"Installing programs under Windoze is a total fuckup because of all the DLLs and inevitable scores of data files that have to be installed along with the application itself. "
Why do critics of Windows continue to use childlike name calling (i.e. Windoze etc etc)? Do I feel need to stupidly insult other OS's? NO I grew up a while back.
Feel free to make constructive criticism's of Windows and MS but dont resort to rhetoric and name calling.
"It never seems to work quite right with browsers other than IE, at least in my experience. IIRC, it even crashed Netscape under Linux when I tried it."
I use Outlook Web Access almost everyday and I have run it from IE5, IE5.5, Netscape 4.x/6, Opera and Mozilla 0.6. It has some small problems in Opera (everytime a new window is opened the exisiting ones goto half size) but in all the others it works fine. Im interested if anyother people have had problems with it.
Jon
"Do they have a big Open Source name working on it?"
do you think that many people outside the Linux and programming communities even know who Linus is nevermind buy one product over another because of him?
Jon
this has to be the least clever link to 'that' site (sorry shite).
/. story next week:
Can just see the
"Trolling causes brain damage"
lets face it theirs plenty of evidence.
"During the day, he recalled, he would write the code. Then, at night, after returning to jail, he would study the paper list of programming commands, looking for errors. "It was an ideal situation," he said. "It forced me to get off the computer and think and debug my program."
Gotta admit its one hell of a way to increase productivity. I can just see some evil project manager chuckling with glee and reaching for the number of the nearest jail....
Jon
Are you so cold and pompous that you find the idea of millions of people dying is morally justifiable because, in your opinion, they would probably just starve anyway?
Or is it because its 'just' Africans? If this was happening in the US or Western Europe would you still have the same attitude? Is my life worth more because I was born in the UK rather than Nigeria?
Try experiencing a thought other than selfish self-centered ones.
Water may be free but I still prefer beer.
No Stephen King in your library, god, some people just dont have any culture :)
Jon
Try getting a student loan in the UK! As our beloved government is being so generous to withhold interest on the loans they make you dance through hoops to qualify. You have to prove citzenship and that your parental income is below a certain level to get any real amount. I'd moved three times in as many years leading up to going to Uni so that added to the complication.
After you get accepted it doesnt get any better. They distribute the loans AFTER you register for Uni, which means that if you in Halls you recieve a £600-900 bill without any way to pay (good thing I worked over the holidays or I would have been screwed).
Jon
Not my faith :-)
Wasnt that Jesus?
They dont have any mandate, but what good would it be to give everyone a Linux laptop? Only a very small amount of the students would even know how to use the OS, and I suspect that almost no teachers would be able to use it. If more technically minded people wish to use Linux, then they can install it themselves.
I never saw the rationale behind optical mice. The extra accuracy gained seems small compared to the massive increase in complexity, although it makes you wonder how companies like MS can charge £10 for a simple analogue one and only £35 for a mouse with an optical camera and significant processing hardware...
Yet you would pay $12.99 for 10 songs whose quality is (in most peoples frame of reference) little better than mp3 quality.
What would happen if (very big IF) MS actually start producing Linux software that is well wrote and shows off what Linux can do? Would the Linux community snub any software simply because of who created it? or would they be more impartial and judge the software on its merits? Can practicality overrule principle?
-Down with the moral majority. I want to be the minority Green Day Rock