Do you want to read that first comment again? The point was that radical movements are not necessarily reflective of the whole, and an example was given to illustrate that. At no point was it suggested that the crimes of radical Islam are equivalent to the crimes of radical Christianity - that's a whole other (and very tired) debate.
Are you implying having anything in common with religion is a bad thing? Are you seriously suggesting religion and academia are somehow incompatible? Are you really sure that rms and religion really have that much in common, or are these the same tired attributes you'd pin on anyone or anything popular that you disagree with? Do you wear your underpants on the outside?
I've used GNOME2, GNOME3, KDE4 and XFCE each for at least a year (some 2 or 3), and I've enjoyed all of them. I felt GNOME2 was solid and featured, though perhaps a little stale in some areas. XFCE was fast and efficient, though at times felt a little cold/empty. GNOME3 feels solid and has plenty of interesting ideas that are worth developing, but I found it hard to feel grounded (perhaps due to it being so unusual). I'm currently using KDE4(.8) and have been impressed by the k* range of software. It certainly has the most in common with the Windows 7 experience (as a result I tend to encourage new users towards Kubuntu), and has an average bugfix turnaround I've been very pleased with. In my opinion KDE is also by far the prettiest (I judge by the default "theme" since I deliberately avoid heavy customisation (I don't enjoy it)).
I haven't used other DEs for long enough to comment fairly (LXDE, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, etc), but I've come away with a strong opinion that debating the best DE is as pointless as debating the best Linux distro. We all have different tastes and priorities, and different solutions must exist to cater for them.
In my experience there is a divide between scientists and followers of science. I'm well aware that not all scientists are the same person, and I've met very few scientists who subscribe to any 4 of my points. However, I think this article's comments contain many fine examples of my points.
While the guy you originally replied to doesn't seem to have had a point to make; with respect, it doesn't sound like you know what you're talking about either.
In just the past 4 years they've got from ALSA to Pulse, GNOME 2 to 3 and KDE 3 to 4, it was just a fucking mess!
Who is "they"? There simply isn't a centralised institution that maintains and coordinates every Linux distribution. If there was, your criticisms would have a legitimate platform, and the Linux vs. Windows argument might actually progress.
Honestly, I think anyone that feels the need to point out "Linux"'s position regarding the desktop (ie. is it "better" than Windows yet), should read up on open source projects and their ecosystems, or just stick to what they're familiar with.
Modern science isn't that conceptually different to most religions (talking organised religions here). Its followers believe in empirical evidence (evidence collated by our senses alone). Most religions share this belief, but add further avenues of perception on top. More importantly, almost every religion (amongst other things):
1. Believes it deprecates all previous religions.
2. Insists it is incompatible with other religions (despite evidence to the contrary).
3. Claims to answer all the questions you have (and if not now it will in the future).
4. Hates being compared on the same platform as other religions.
Go ahead and mod me down if you think I don't "understand science" or am a troll sent from the Vatican, but you'll only be confirming point 4.
Its best if we just backed the fuck out of there and let nature take its course. When was the last time someone wanted to invade Switzerland?
If only it worked like that. Despite the numbers of Christian immigrants to the EU substantially outweighing the number of Muslim immigrants, Anders Behring Breivik is currently facing trial in Norway for the murders of 77 people (largely members and associates of a political party favouring multiculturalism) in an attempt to defend against a Muslim invasion of Europe. If militant xenophobes aren't actually being attacked by people who aren't like them, they will feign an offence to instigate it.
My point is an anti-NATO army of highly-trained brown people coming to steal your women and burn your churches doesn't have to exist for people to think it's attacking them.
If you think a quarter of the world's population can be branded evil, you have a lot more in common with the Nazis than that quarter of the world's population.
In 5 nested comments we've gotten to progress == loss of human life. I think a better case for lack of progress is expressing binary opinions in an argument that obviously demands compromise.
Configuring packages individually isn't actually as big a deal as it first seems. The defaults for most packages often do fine, and you tweak them to your liking if absolutely necessary. Thing is, I realise now I spend a lot of time tweaking things to my liking regardless of the OS - even if it's out-of-the-box and tweaking is supposedly unnecessary. Arch just allows you the extra freedom to tweak so much more, and you actually learn about the software as you do it. Bug reports - a backbone for these kinds of projects - benefit hugely from a userbase that is often capable of providing far more insight into an issue than your average Windows/Mac/Ubuntu user.
It took me a few months to get my first Arch installation perfect, with lots of looking stuff up in the wiki. The second time there were a few things that I couldn't remember, but it took around a week in all. Now, I can install it exactly as I like it in about 15 minutes. However, I can't speak for others but the time I spent learning the system pays off when things break - I can actually get them fixed. When things break in Ubuntu (for example) I can waste hours searching for people with the same issue and trying to work out at which layer the bug occurs (exactly the reason I stopped using Windows previously).
Yeah, that rampant inconsistency of theirs can't have anything to do with their use of theocracy as a disguise for tyrannical rule by a megalomaniac elite. No siree, they just haven't thought about God long enough. Eventually they'll realise their error and come over our place for beer and hamburgers.
Who was honestly hoping the videogame in question might be one we'd heard of? I was hoping the real news item would be about blowing open an intelligence body manipulating game developers covertly. Not so. This is their site:
http://www.kumawar.com/
"Kuma War is a series of playable recreations of real events in the War on Terror. Nearly 100 playable missions bring our soldiers' heroic stories to life, and you can get them all right now, for free. Stop watching the news and get in the game!"
Free games that are openly biased towards the US campaign, all the while encouraging you to not watch the news. CIA-funded? Wait, REALLY?! Gasp.
Eye-for-an-eye justice for WB may be funny, but doesn't it also validate their own approach to piracy? I'd like to see WB fight and win this battle to highlight the absurdity of the wider war they're involved in, but by taking a sword to the armpit instead they can suggest the anti-piracy policing they seek to enforce affects and serves all people equally, and is an unfortunate omission in our society's moral fabric.
Maybe people would upgrade if they rolled the new services out where people don't already have decent internet connections. All these new networks are being laid in major cities, where services are already pretty reasonable anyway (they get Facebook at a reasonable speed and price). I live in the darkest bowels of the British countryside and would KILL for ADSL over 1Mbps, let alone bloody fibre optic. Not even my local city has fibre optic, nor the city after that. The nearest available is almost 40 miles away.
I got this working on Wine only an hour after it arrived in the post, using v1.3.32 on x86_64 Arch Linux. Additionally you'll need to install vcrun2008 via winetricks, and set it to use d3dx9_27 as a native library. After that it a very reasonable speed on ultra-high settings using an Intel i7 2600k and a 570GTX Nvidia card. Overjoyed to see the new game has a bright future with Wine, just like its predecessor.:D I've submitted it to the app database on WineHQ too, hopefully it'll be approved shortly.
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Do you want to read that first comment again? The point was that radical movements are not necessarily reflective of the whole, and an example was given to illustrate that. At no point was it suggested that the crimes of radical Islam are equivalent to the crimes of radical Christianity - that's a whole other (and very tired) debate.
Yep.
Are you implying having anything in common with religion is a bad thing? Are you seriously suggesting religion and academia are somehow incompatible? Are you really sure that rms and religion really have that much in common, or are these the same tired attributes you'd pin on anyone or anything popular that you disagree with? Do you wear your underpants on the outside?
I've used GNOME2, GNOME3, KDE4 and XFCE each for at least a year (some 2 or 3), and I've enjoyed all of them. I felt GNOME2 was solid and featured, though perhaps a little stale in some areas. XFCE was fast and efficient, though at times felt a little cold/empty. GNOME3 feels solid and has plenty of interesting ideas that are worth developing, but I found it hard to feel grounded (perhaps due to it being so unusual). I'm currently using KDE4(.8) and have been impressed by the k* range of software. It certainly has the most in common with the Windows 7 experience (as a result I tend to encourage new users towards Kubuntu), and has an average bugfix turnaround I've been very pleased with. In my opinion KDE is also by far the prettiest (I judge by the default "theme" since I deliberately avoid heavy customisation (I don't enjoy it)).
I haven't used other DEs for long enough to comment fairly (LXDE, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, etc), but I've come away with a strong opinion that debating the best DE is as pointless as debating the best Linux distro. We all have different tastes and priorities, and different solutions must exist to cater for them.
In my experience there is a divide between scientists and followers of science. I'm well aware that not all scientists are the same person, and I've met very few scientists who subscribe to any 4 of my points. However, I think this article's comments contain many fine examples of my points.
While the guy you originally replied to doesn't seem to have had a point to make; with respect, it doesn't sound like you know what you're talking about either.
In just the past 4 years they've got from ALSA to Pulse, GNOME 2 to 3 and KDE 3 to 4, it was just a fucking mess!
Who is "they"? There simply isn't a centralised institution that maintains and coordinates every Linux distribution. If there was, your criticisms would have a legitimate platform, and the Linux vs. Windows argument might actually progress.
Honestly, I think anyone that feels the need to point out "Linux"'s position regarding the desktop (ie. is it "better" than Windows yet), should read up on open source projects and their ecosystems, or just stick to what they're familiar with.
Modern science isn't that conceptually different to most religions (talking organised religions here). Its followers believe in empirical evidence (evidence collated by our senses alone). Most religions share this belief, but add further avenues of perception on top. More importantly, almost every religion (amongst other things):
1. Believes it deprecates all previous religions.
2. Insists it is incompatible with other religions (despite evidence to the contrary).
3. Claims to answer all the questions you have (and if not now it will in the future).
4. Hates being compared on the same platform as other religions.
Go ahead and mod me down if you think I don't "understand science" or am a troll sent from the Vatican, but you'll only be confirming point 4.
Bear in mind that a real-life implementation of that is Vladimir Putin.
Its best if we just backed the fuck out of there and let nature take its course. When was the last time someone wanted to invade Switzerland?
If only it worked like that. Despite the numbers of Christian immigrants to the EU substantially outweighing the number of Muslim immigrants, Anders Behring Breivik is currently facing trial in Norway for the murders of 77 people (largely members and associates of a political party favouring multiculturalism) in an attempt to defend against a Muslim invasion of Europe. If militant xenophobes aren't actually being attacked by people who aren't like them, they will feign an offence to instigate it.
My point is an anti-NATO army of highly-trained brown people coming to steal your women and burn your churches doesn't have to exist for people to think it's attacking them.
Is that why they have the death penalty?
"They" is a variable, not a constant.
If you think a quarter of the world's population can be branded evil, you have a lot more in common with the Nazis than that quarter of the world's population.
My prediction, sales of this SatNav will plummet if people know that they will be monitored constantly.
Like how the number of people using [insert social media site] plummeted when it was discovered that users' data was being collected and sold?
In 5 nested comments we've gotten to progress == loss of human life. I think a better case for lack of progress is expressing binary opinions in an argument that obviously demands compromise.
Open-source software can be patched.
Configuring packages individually isn't actually as big a deal as it first seems. The defaults for most packages often do fine, and you tweak them to your liking if absolutely necessary. Thing is, I realise now I spend a lot of time tweaking things to my liking regardless of the OS - even if it's out-of-the-box and tweaking is supposedly unnecessary. Arch just allows you the extra freedom to tweak so much more, and you actually learn about the software as you do it. Bug reports - a backbone for these kinds of projects - benefit hugely from a userbase that is often capable of providing far more insight into an issue than your average Windows/Mac/Ubuntu user.
It took me a few months to get my first Arch installation perfect, with lots of looking stuff up in the wiki. The second time there were a few things that I couldn't remember, but it took around a week in all. Now, I can install it exactly as I like it in about 15 minutes. However, I can't speak for others but the time I spent learning the system pays off when things break - I can actually get them fixed. When things break in Ubuntu (for example) I can waste hours searching for people with the same issue and trying to work out at which layer the bug occurs (exactly the reason I stopped using Windows previously).
can I has root?
Since when were environmentalists in charge?
It's not new. The patent was filed in September 2006.
Yeah, that rampant inconsistency of theirs can't have anything to do with their use of theocracy as a disguise for tyrannical rule by a megalomaniac elite. No siree, they just haven't thought about God long enough. Eventually they'll realise their error and come over our place for beer and hamburgers.
Who was honestly hoping the videogame in question might be one we'd heard of? I was hoping the real news item would be about blowing open an intelligence body manipulating game developers covertly. Not so. This is their site:
http://www.kumawar.com/
"Kuma War is a series of playable recreations of real events in the War on Terror. Nearly 100 playable missions bring our soldiers' heroic stories to life, and you can get them all right now, for free. Stop watching the news and get in the game!"
Free games that are openly biased towards the US campaign, all the while encouraging you to not watch the news. CIA-funded? Wait, REALLY?! Gasp.
Eye-for-an-eye justice for WB may be funny, but doesn't it also validate their own approach to piracy? I'd like to see WB fight and win this battle to highlight the absurdity of the wider war they're involved in, but by taking a sword to the armpit instead they can suggest the anti-piracy policing they seek to enforce affects and serves all people equally, and is an unfortunate omission in our society's moral fabric.
Maybe people would upgrade if they rolled the new services out where people don't already have decent internet connections. All these new networks are being laid in major cities, where services are already pretty reasonable anyway (they get Facebook at a reasonable speed and price). I live in the darkest bowels of the British countryside and would KILL for ADSL over 1Mbps, let alone bloody fibre optic. Not even my local city has fibre optic, nor the city after that. The nearest available is almost 40 miles away.
Nope, Steam works out-of-the-box for me on the system described above (besides a few annoying quirks that don't affect functionality).
I got this working on Wine only an hour after it arrived in the post, using v1.3.32 on x86_64 Arch Linux. Additionally you'll need to install vcrun2008 via winetricks, and set it to use d3dx9_27 as a native library. After that it a very reasonable speed on ultra-high settings using an Intel i7 2600k and a 570GTX Nvidia card. Overjoyed to see the new game has a bright future with Wine, just like its predecessor. :D I've submitted it to the app database on WineHQ too, hopefully it'll be approved shortly.