The average computer user doesn't even know what Windows IS. Windows makes their computer operate, but for all they know it's their Word Processor.
The average computer user gets Windows installed on their new PCs, and it just goes.
Businesses tend to understand that they have choices. And can weigh those choices. And may actually be better served or at least served the same by other choices.
You missed the point that it was in fact his point, that Linux is NOT a corporation, therefore there is no marketing department, therefore there is no one to identify what the average user want things to do.
On the clipboard thing, you have utterly failed to notice that there are (at least?) two seperate clipboards in X. Many applications use one or the other, but not both, some use both, which screws up the other one, and the cut and paste is really a farking nightmare.
Not to mention that I don't think anyone has ever been successful in getting copy/paste of anything beyond text to work.
X does many things very well, and many many many things very, very, very poorly.
Ever want to install something that isn't provided by Debian (or Ubuntu, or whatever other distro you're having that uses that wretched excuse for an installer)
Funny, that has been the norm, and still is, for virtually everything. It either comes as a shell archive, or a source archive.
This doesn't count for things that your distribution has a built in package for. But that's problematic in and of itself. I don't know HOW many times I've told Debian to install something, and it tells me that it needs to install an older version of something, which will require removing the newer version of something, which will then cause all of the packages that depend on that newer version to be erased.
I found a way around that. I develop all my web stuff for Opera. 99.9999% of the time it then works in Firefox, then I do a few tweaks to get it in IE. It doesn't always look right in IE, but it works.
But, they already do have it: Exchange and Outlook.
Though, honestly, I have poked around with Outlook, it doesn't seem like it's any better than any other contact management and calendar program, but then I don't play with advanced features.
I've never had a reason to use a computer in a professional office environment with lots of communicating people, except in my last "real" job, but they had inhouse applications for -everything- unless you were upper management, then you got access to the real Office apps.
...and we were required to post "Premises may be under audio/video surveillance(sp)" posters somewhere where employees would see it, I always posted it eye level from sitting position on the crapper.
Problem is just plain that Unreal can't handle it. The only way you could realistically do it is to replace the corpses with much lower-poly versions, and turn off their Karma after a while. Also, there are problems with making Karma ragdoll corpses that collide with other mesh-actors, in that if you have it collide with a living mesh, it will destroy it upon impact.
*thinks* i'm going to attempt to implement that "turning Karma off" after the bodies come to rest, maybe that'll do something useful. Still, you've got 3k poly count corpses, although a properly zoned map would probably not be incredibly harmed by them, especially on current hardware, which is WAY more powerful than the hardware UT2003 or UT2004 engines were built for. MIGHT even be able to turn collision back on, without destroying everything around it... then set a many seconds timer instead of a "when i can't see it anymore, kill it" limit.
Exactly what does this output? I can't believe that it outputs well formed HTML, of a modern version, with CSS formatting, and all that happy stuff. Well, I guess I COULD believe it, but i'm not going to until someone confirms otherwise.
Guy right above you says "use the VESA drivers".. that's great, but the distributions default to using the NV drivers, which results in an instant black screen and system lockup. So, I had to fark with the distributions before I could get that running. Then, to get the Official NV drivers (which run better than their Windows counterparts! although they don't seem to have the overclock option) up and running, I had to install the kernel headers, then the kernel source, then compile and load a custom kernel. And because I did that, I couldn't use another binary-only driver that I needed to use for other hardware.
On your post, I can't comment,as I am not aware of how bad Solaris support is for anything. What I am aware of, is that NVidia hardware seems to work beautifully, but requires a ton of work to get it going.
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The average computer user doesn't even know what Windows IS. Windows makes their computer operate, but for all they know it's their Word Processor.
The average computer user gets Windows installed on their new PCs, and it just goes.
Businesses tend to understand that they have choices. And can weigh those choices. And may actually be better served or at least served the same by other choices.
Who are you going to try to keep happy?
I suggest that update your definition of "Awful".
In addition to probably dozens of books about the topic, you'd look here:
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http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383749
Win32 API Complete Reference.
How about pick up a piece of software online that looks interesting, and install it? (don't go to your distribution)
They could all provide a standard NE2K interface.....
You missed the point that it was in fact his point, that Linux is NOT a corporation, therefore there is no marketing department, therefore there is no one to identify what the average user want things to do.
On the clipboard thing, you have utterly failed to notice that there are (at least?) two seperate clipboards in X. Many applications use one or the other, but not both, some use both, which screws up the other one, and the cut and paste is really a farking nightmare.
Not to mention that I don't think anyone has ever been successful in getting copy/paste of anything beyond text to work.
X does many things very well, and many many many things very, very, very poorly.
Ever want to install something that isn't provided by Debian (or Ubuntu, or whatever other distro you're having that uses that wretched excuse for an installer)
Funny, that has been the norm, and still is, for virtually everything. It either comes as a shell archive, or a source archive.
This doesn't count for things that your distribution has a built in package for. But that's problematic in and of itself. I don't know HOW many times I've told Debian to install something, and it tells me that it needs to install an older version of something, which will require removing the newer version of something, which will then cause all of the packages that depend on that newer version to be erased.
It has been this way for every DOS and Windows upgrade, EVER.
Hello?
McFly?!
Maybe you failed to notice that the Win32 spec is pretty much completely documented.
True that. I can't think of one GPL X-windows application that isn't awful.
Are you trolling, or are you this dumb?
Does it crash every time you click somewhere that it isn't expecting a click, like Windows Gimp does?
I suppose a major failing point for this effort, is that it uses GTK. GTK sucks, and WinGTK sucks much harder.
I see emblazoned on their website, that they have received the RED HERRING award.
Why would anyone want a RED HERRING award?!
I found a way around that. I develop all my web stuff for Opera. 99.9999% of the time it then works in Firefox, then I do a few tweaks to get it in IE. It doesn't always look right in IE, but it works.
But, they already do have it: Exchange and Outlook.
Though, honestly, I have poked around with Outlook, it doesn't seem like it's any better than any other contact management and calendar program, but then I don't play with advanced features.
I've never had a reason to use a computer in a professional office environment with lots of communicating people, except in my last "real" job, but they had inhouse applications for -everything- unless you were upper management, then you got access to the real Office apps.
...and we were required to post "Premises may be under audio/video surveillance(sp)" posters somewhere where employees would see it, I always posted it eye level from sitting position on the crapper.
CIOs are nerds. CEOs have to be able to deal with people.
Why are there no useful benchmarks? Danger of cooling system dying off?
...how is it that you count readers?
My website keeps no logs at all, except for the PHP error log.
And what about sites that are outside the country?
game of Magic? Do you realise that Magic is a card game?
Problem is just plain that Unreal can't handle it. The only way you could realistically do it is to replace the corpses with much lower-poly versions, and turn off their Karma after a while. Also, there are problems with making Karma ragdoll corpses that collide with other mesh-actors, in that if you have it collide with a living mesh, it will destroy it upon impact.
... then set a many seconds timer instead of a "when i can't see it anymore, kill it" limit.
*thinks* i'm going to attempt to implement that "turning Karma off" after the bodies come to rest, maybe that'll do something useful. Still, you've got 3k poly count corpses, although a properly zoned map would probably not be incredibly harmed by them, especially on current hardware, which is WAY more powerful than the hardware UT2003 or UT2004 engines were built for. MIGHT even be able to turn collision back on, without destroying everything around it
*modding a UT2003 based game*
Exactly what does this output? I can't believe that it outputs well formed HTML, of a modern version, with CSS formatting, and all that happy stuff. Well, I guess I COULD believe it, but i'm not going to until someone confirms otherwise.
in the Amiga day, all we had were digital sticks....
Guy right above you says "use the VESA drivers" .. that's great, but the distributions default to using the NV drivers, which results in an instant black screen and system lockup. So, I had to fark with the distributions before I could get that running. Then, to get the Official NV drivers (which run better than their Windows counterparts! although they don't seem to have the overclock option) up and running, I had to install the kernel headers, then the kernel source, then compile and load a custom kernel. And because I did that, I couldn't use another binary-only driver that I needed to use for other hardware.
,as I am not aware of how bad Solaris support is for anything. What I am aware of, is that NVidia hardware seems to work beautifully, but requires a ton of work to get it going.
On your post, I can't comment