Actually its not a bad idea. It's an awesome way to extort more money for domain hosting to offset the steadily dropping costs. If you don't register your XXX domain, someone else will. It's practically legalized extortion!
You'd think they were trying to copy Win7 and OS X's shinies in some half-arsed attempt to gain followers...
Oh, wait...
Not everyone is using BOINC to abuse their CPU (and now their GPU). Not everyone is running 4 virtual machines simultaneously. Not everyone is attempting to use wine to run Crysis. Not everyone is compiling their own software. If you prefer the windows world not everyone is running Furmark to compare their 600 dollar graphics card in synthetic benchmarks involving a rotating fuzzy torus.
The facts are: for the typical home user, the computer needs to get on the internet and do office work while looking modern. When even budget OEM machines are packing duel core 1.5+Ghz CPUs and 4GB of ram, with a 128MB+ embedded graphics card (that happens to be supported out of the box by most distros), there's room for "ooh pretty".
Maybe not everyone who uses Linux is a mega nerd? I set my grandma up on Linux after I got tired of removing viruses from her XP install. She uses the computer for (shockface) office work and internet access. Your average person doesn't want to use a window manager that looks like it belongs in 1995 because it's somewhat faster when they won't even notice the performance benefits because all they use is Writer and Firefox.
For the record, I use KDE4 for my general work and LXDE when I need more performance. I used to use Gnome 2. My grandma uses Gnome 2 right now with desktop effects (she likes the wobbly windows).
I'd like to remind you that many students in high school can barely handle Algebra III/Precalculus (whatever you call it). If you're proposing making Calculus a graduation requirement for high school or something moronic like that, you're going to do a lot of damage. I'm a college freshman right now, so I actually do remember my senior year of high school very well.
But I'm not blaming students, I'm blaming the curriculum and instruction methods in high schools. High school math classes don't have enough time to teach the material. Every high school math class I was in dedicated the first half of the class to going over homework sets (generally 10-40 problems of varying complexity) which takes away from instructional time. Many math classes ran out of time so if you wanted to get the last 10 minutes of the lesson you had to stay after class (how exactly is this supposed to work in a world where your next class starts in 6 minutes, unlike college where you might have 2 hours to your next class). I went to 3 different high schools in 2 different states, and this was a general theme everywhere.
I've also done 2 years of physics, at 2 different high schools, and those were well taught classes that had time to cover their material. They didn't go over homework at the start of class. In fact, one of my teachers didn't actually grade the homework, just strongly advised doing it. There was an extremely strong relationship between doing the homework and passing, and everyone figured that out very quickly. Even though the homework wasn't graded, everyone who cared about the class still completed it.
As a wine app maintainer, let me say wine is always improving. You should contribute, contributing testing data is helpful in directing development. And using a native DLL to fix a compatibility isn't uncommon with wine. The point is that if everyone thought like you we'd still have punchcard storage for fear of migrating our old punchcard programs over to tape. But from your posts you don't think Linux has a chance, so whatever. The spirit of OSS involves developing then sharing solutions for ourselves and not waiting for everyone else to do it for us.
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I have two choices for ISP: ATT and Comcast.
Another kink in the armor of American freedom.
Do you have any idea how many applications, from business tools to video games, depend on the .NET framework?
Microsoft and open source? What's the catch?
Humanity plural is awesome. People suck.
Just in time for the .xxx domains.
Actually its not a bad idea. It's an awesome way to extort more money for domain hosting to offset the steadily dropping costs. If you don't register your XXX domain, someone else will. It's practically legalized extortion!
So if I asked to see your SSN and Birth Certificate you'd be ok with it?
Sounds kind of sticky.
If I can run unsigned code on this guy I can do anything, including find a way to get Linux on it.
It's sad when Microsoft is more forward thinking than Apple isn't it.
They could be made of water.
They've set their sights too narrow, Stargate had the right idea.
And McKay.
You'd think they were trying to copy Win7 and OS X's shinies in some half-arsed attempt to gain followers... Oh, wait...
Not everyone is using BOINC to abuse their CPU (and now their GPU). Not everyone is running 4 virtual machines simultaneously. Not everyone is attempting to use wine to run Crysis. Not everyone is compiling their own software. If you prefer the windows world not everyone is running Furmark to compare their 600 dollar graphics card in synthetic benchmarks involving a rotating fuzzy torus.
The facts are: for the typical home user, the computer needs to get on the internet and do office work while looking modern. When even budget OEM machines are packing duel core 1.5+Ghz CPUs and 4GB of ram, with a 128MB+ embedded graphics card (that happens to be supported out of the box by most distros), there's room for "ooh pretty".
Maybe not everyone who uses Linux is a mega nerd? I set my grandma up on Linux after I got tired of removing viruses from her XP install. She uses the computer for (shockface) office work and internet access. Your average person doesn't want to use a window manager that looks like it belongs in 1995 because it's somewhat faster when they won't even notice the performance benefits because all they use is Writer and Firefox.
For the record, I use KDE4 for my general work and LXDE when I need more performance. I used to use Gnome 2. My grandma uses Gnome 2 right now with desktop effects (she likes the wobbly windows).
Is slow. I'm not sure that this is an advantage.
Teaching is very political, he would end up getting fired.
In ST:TNG "Relics" it was revealed that Scotty made captain before going to retirement. But that might be an isolated incident.
I took both, first the algebra based one and then the calculus based on. That seemed like the logical approach to me. Did well in both.
But I'm not blaming students, I'm blaming the curriculum and instruction methods in high schools. High school math classes don't have enough time to teach the material. Every high school math class I was in dedicated the first half of the class to going over homework sets (generally 10-40 problems of varying complexity) which takes away from instructional time. Many math classes ran out of time so if you wanted to get the last 10 minutes of the lesson you had to stay after class (how exactly is this supposed to work in a world where your next class starts in 6 minutes, unlike college where you might have 2 hours to your next class). I went to 3 different high schools in 2 different states, and this was a general theme everywhere.
I've also done 2 years of physics, at 2 different high schools, and those were well taught classes that had time to cover their material. They didn't go over homework at the start of class. In fact, one of my teachers didn't actually grade the homework, just strongly advised doing it. There was an extremely strong relationship between doing the homework and passing, and everyone figured that out very quickly. Even though the homework wasn't graded, everyone who cared about the class still completed it.
As a wine app maintainer, let me say wine is always improving. You should contribute, contributing testing data is helpful in directing development. And using a native DLL to fix a compatibility isn't uncommon with wine. The point is that if everyone thought like you we'd still have punchcard storage for fear of migrating our old punchcard programs over to tape. But from your posts you don't think Linux has a chance, so whatever. The spirit of OSS involves developing then sharing solutions for ourselves and not waiting for everyone else to do it for us.
No, I'm telling you that "like omg my favorite app don't work on de linuxes" isn't an excuse to say that Linux isn't useful.
Linux (and any OS worth its salt) has plenty of [applications].
GNU/Linux has plenty of free applications but not a lot of well-known non-free applications. There are some kinds of applications for which nobody has figured out how to make a free software model work. Let me know when these applications get ported.
Oh not one of these again. Let me fix that for you.
Netflix Watch Instantly - Admittedly limited (VM or Duelboot, Use Hulu)
Adobe Photoshop, including those high-end features that distinguish it from GIMP mods such as GIMPshop - wine
Adobe Flash CS3 - wine
TurboTax - wine
Stone Edge Order Manager - wine
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - wine
Diablo II - wine
Starcraft - wine
Street Fighter IV - wine
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - wine
According to WineHQ these applications don't present a problem. Here's your precious photoshop
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=17
Gold/Silver consistently!
Was that hard?
Oh man, only an anonymous coward would post something like that. Mod this -1 Flamebait.
"App" is short for application, of which Linux (and any OS worth its salt) has plenty of.