I've been listening to a non-argument. You still have yet to make an point that ID, which is religion, should be taught in school. You make no logical argument at all in any of these threads, just some vague BS about some "teachers" somewhere that might have said things like "the Bible is BS". Where is your proof of any of this at all?
I want to see proof of school science text stating flat out "Genesis is wrong", in those words. When I learned evolution in school, the topic of how it pertained to religion wasn't ever discussed. The straight facts of the origin of the solar system based upon our observations, and the early formation of the earth and on up to how life evolved on the planet. Genesis was never discussed in class or in books.
In short, I don't believe a single bit of what you're saying.
Uhmmmm, how exactly is teaching evolution in school preventing you from believing whatever you want to believe? It doesn't. It lays out scientific facts. It doesn't dictate what your religion has to be. Whatever conclusions your children draw from that is not the fault of teaching facts. Yes, evolution exposes a lot of flaws in the story told in Genesis, but that isn't the fault of the schools. That's the fault of the religion for blindly believing ridiculous 3000 year old myth as fact.
Short answer, teaching evolution is not teaching religion. Teaching ID is. You have no Constitutional argument here, as it isn't preventing you from practicing any religion you want to. That is the only protection you have, to not have religion taught in school (evolution is not religion), and to not be prohibited from believing whatever you want (teaching evolution doesn't prevent you from believing anything if you choose to not believe it).
My god. For 7 years now that I've been reading Slashdot, and even now in every single article, there is someone who somehow still thinks that is funny. And posts it.
Meme police: Soviet Russia was stupid when it became a meme, the overlord one was stupid right after it was used the second time.
Dear god you guys are worse than Barrens chat and Chuck Norris...
And that also doesn't mean Gnome is the desktop actually used. I installed Ubuntu first, and being a long time Slack user I preferred KDE, thus installed the Kubuntu "package", and now I'm a KDE user on Ubuntu. It really isn't that hard to do, and I wager many users don't ever use the defaults unless they really like them.
Just like when I worked at a computer shop and worked on random people's computers, over half that had XP had reset the UI to look like Win2k instead of the default. Seriously, how does anything being "default" actually represent it's merits or desirability?
Wow. You're plain crazy. I just installed Ubuntu on a Thinkpad a20m without any issues whatsoever, and it runs the awesome transparencies without a problem. Those were made in 1999 as well, and that's running with the eyecandy. I think you are lying.
So, before the fact that Windows made you admin by default was a good thing for Grandma, but now it's a good thing that it doesn't? Vista is finally doing what Linux has done for years, and what used to be a "fault" of Linux is now a virtue of Vista?
Ah hell, sorry. I haven't been on Slashdot in a long time and I'm still having problems with this new-fangled thread system. I meant to reply to a post above yours.
I once worked in a computer retail shop on commission, and I completely disagree.
If having a commission causes the salesperson to be pushy to get a sale, then most people walk out and they don't get the sale. If you are faced with a salesperson that wants to sell to you, they will tend to answer any questions you have, they will not lie to you because you will return it and they lose the commission, and will do anything to keep you coming back. If they are pushy, then walk away. That teaches them quickly.
The fact is, most sales people suck, and most sales people are not on commission. What does that tell you? If you walk away from a shitty sales person not on commission, they don't care. If you walk away from a shitty salesperson on commission, they learn very quickly how to be better or lose their salary.
As a salesperson, I often would knock prices down for a customer, even though I only get a commission on the sale price, so lower price == lower commission. I would throw in free printer cables, again losing sales. I would do whatever I could do to make the customer happy, because I learned quickly that being a kickass salesman to one customer meant they come back two weeks later with their friends/family with my name as the person to ask for. Or, sometimes I wouldn't sell anything to a person when they came in, I'd just answer all questions for them, or even FIX their computers and talk them out of buying unnecessary items. Why? Because a month later the same customer would be back to buy anything and everything from me, thus bringing in a LOT of cash to me, and the store. I was top salesman for my entire period of employment there, because I had a family to feed. I competed in my small Mom n Pop computer store against the Best Buy that was across the street. If non-commissioned sales reps were better, then why did they choose to stop at my store and buy from me when there's a Best Buy right over there selling things $5-$10 cheaper?
Again, most salesmen are not on commission, yet most of them completely suck ballsacks. Tell me again, how is that the commission's fault?
Are you reading a different article than I? Because I do not see any references to putting a drive into a freezer in there.
And actually, the freezer thing does work. I had a laptop drive die, would not seek to pull my homework off of it. Drive out, into a plastic baggy, and into the freezer for 30 minutes, then back into the laptop and I could boot the drive, cp my homework to floppy, and browse around for a while looking for anything else I needed before it warmed up and died again.
UH, yes that is exactly what I'm saying. It is crippled. It is not the same as a real-life product where the features all cost money to put into every unit. The code was already written, it cost them no more money to replicate. They took what was already done, something they could replicate for free over and over, and disabled portions of it, thus actually spending more money to remove features. It was crippled. Plain and simple, and if you can't get that then I question your ability to understand logic.
So, it can use Photoshop plugins. Which Gimp also has it's own suite of plugins. Perhaps it doesn't have one for your scanner. Does that make it worth $99, a single plugin? What is cheaper, spending that much on software, or just buying another scanner that does have a plugin? What about someone who's scanner is supported in Gimp? What about those that aren't using scanners and just copy photos from a camera? Is it worth $99 to them?
Again, what exactly makes Photoshop Elements worth $99 over Gimp? What else can it do better that most people actually care about?
Again, this all goes back to your assertion that Gimp isn't as good as Photoshop Elements. That is a faulty statement, and again the price of that software isn't worth the differences to most people.
Oh? Since when did Photoshop Elements become anything other than a crippled version of regular Photoshop?
It is crippled. They purposefully blocked some of the functionality that regular Photoshop can do to provide the product.
You dodged the question, by the by. Tell me, what can it do that Gimp can't do, that makes it worth $99?
The real question is, does Photoshop Elements do $99 worth more? Is the minor difference in UI worth $99? Everyone I've shown Gimp to didn't think so, problem is most people don't know Gimp exists. If they install Ubuntu, search for "photo", find Gimp, install it, and it was free, a whole lot more people would not be paying $99 for a crippled photo program to resize their digital camera photos. Everyone online I've suggested the Windows Gimp port loved it. Anecdote, yes, but at least in my experience common people don't rate what Photoshop Elements can do over Gimp to be worth $99. Especially not for what they intend to use it for.
You are comparing software bought at a store that was written expressly for Windows to somehow being a merit of Windows? That has nothing to do with comparing Ubuntu vs Vista. Compare the two OS's themselves.
Besides, screw "sudo apt-get". Menu->Add/Remove Software->Search "photo"->Click button next to Gimp->Click "Apply"->installed.
Funny. All I had to do was run "Add/Remove Software", search for "Flash", click the box next to it, click "Apply", and I had the package installed in about 2 minutes. I had more problems trying to get Flash or Java installed in WindowsXP than I did in Ubuntu.
TBC still came out badly. And their patches since have been a disappointment. I've quit WoW since 2.3, I'm tired of everything being random drops, class/spec specific drops no one can use, the whole "pvp/pve spec" ideal is retarded too. The problem is they tied each style of playing a class to being "PvP/PvE", so that you are forced to play a specific style of a class in order to be viable for one of them. Maybe I want to PvP as a dual-wield warrior? Or do anything as a destruction lock or enhancement shaman? They shot themselves in the foot by tying those two together.
Plus the community is full of retards who would be more at home playing CounterStrike. There's no "RP" in that RPG.
"The weapon is to be used against Japan between now and August 10th. I have told the Sec. of War, Mr. Stimson, to use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop this terrible bomb on the old capital or the new [Kyoto or Tokyo]. ...
He [Stimson] and I are in accord. The target will be a purely military one and we will issue a warning statement [known as the Potsdam Proclamation] asking the Japs to surrender and save lives. I'm sure they will not do that, but we will have given them the chance. It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful."
[7/26/45: The U.S., Great Britain, and China issued the Potsdam Proclamation, which called for Japan's "unconditional surrender". It made no reference to the future status of the Emperor, Russia's secret agreement to declare war on Japan, or the atomic bomb. It was rejected by Japan's Prime Minister Suzuki.]
Bombs dropped.
[8/10/45: Japan makes surrender offer to Allies.]
[8/10/45: Having received reports and photographs of the effects of the Hiroshima bomb, Truman ordered a halt to further atomic bombings. Sec. of Commerce Henry Wallace recorded in his diary on the 10th, "Truman said he had given orders to stop atomic bombing. He said the thought of wiping out another 100,000 people was too horrible. He didn't like the idea of killing, as he said, 'all those kids'." (John Blum, ed., "The Price of Vision: the Diary of Henry A. Wallace, 1942-1946", pg. 473-474).]
For one, he didn't expect it to kill as many civilians. Second, they offered the Japanese surrender prior to this. The Japanese REFUSED. That was the whole problem, they were defeated yet still refused to end the war, even if they couldn't win. Which just reinforced the prior intel that Japan would fight to the last child before surrendering.
The bomb was necessary. Truman didn't have the results of the first bomb until the 10th, well after the second bomb was dropped. This wasn't an age of the internet where he received information instantly, it took DAYS to get photographs from Japan to the President. The times were different, and you seem to be harboring an overly emotional grudge in the present times over it. You weren't there, and don't have the perspective of the times.
Since you feel "justified" in your anger because your family was involved, perhaps I should be equally angry that you and your ancestors brutally attacked my great-uncle and killed him on Dec 7th, 1941? Would that really be reasonable?
For the record, I've come to love and appreciate the Japanese culture. That still doesn't change that they killed my family, but you guys paid for it in the end. Let it go.
As a parent of two, I hate parents like you. Oh, you don't trust your child, and so you fault everyone else but yourself? It's the big bad internet's fault, right? Take responsiblity for your own child and PARENT them. It's like those parents whose children are running about tearing things up on the street or harassing other kids or beating up homeless people, and the parent blame TV. No, perhaps YOU should have put some discipline in them from the start! My children aren't rude to other people because ever since they were little I reprimanded that behavior. My kids rarely lie because ever time they ever have I have punished them for it. My kids don't disrespect other people because...I think you get the point. Even if you think "it's their friends, they get around other kids and do this stuff", well why don't you try reprimanding THEIR FRIENDS when they do stupid behaviors around you? Some harsh words is all that is needed, and it shows your child that Dad trumps even their friends. They will consider the consequences of "what will Dad say if I do this?" every time they are away from you as a result. Every one of my son's friends become respectful in my presence. Try being a parent instead of expecting MySpace to do it for you.
I am a parent of two children myself. A soon-to-be 6yr old and a soon-to-be one yr old.
My son is in major Star Wars mode right now. He's obsessed with ALL of the movies, from Ep1 to Ep6. I myself am very much a fan of all 6 movies. I was there opening week for Ep 1-3. However, my wife and I opted to leave our son home for Ep3 knowing the increased violence. There were parts we weren't comfortable letting him see. After about a month of discussing with him and warning him that there were bad parts in the movie, and explaining to him what happened and how those bad things happened because Anakin was a bad person in this movie, he understood it very well and enjoyed the movie (I did cover his eyes when Anakin was being burnt alive though. There's some things I don't want him to see). Because we had the chance to know it wasn't outright appropriate, and we could view it and discuss the 'problem areas' with him beforehand.
That said, I've been playing the GTA series since its first game, on the PS1. I DO NOT let my son watch me play this last installment, and I do not let him play it either. I don't feel its appropriate for him at all. However, as pointed out, children cannot buy this game as is. Pushing legislation or taking action is not needed here. What is needed is moronic parents to preview material before giving it to their kids. I'm not one of those goodness-nazi parents, there's just some things I don't want my son to see at age 5. I can judge when he is mature enough to handle it. Parents going ape-shit over this are, simply, IMO, bad parents.
While this is true, people have a limited amount of space in their brain to remember where they put their files. I have a 160GB HDD in my Mac, and I can't remember where at least 80GB of those files are.
Neither can I. Thing is, I don't store it in my head as, FILE=/path/to/file. I think, ok, the file I'm looking for is a work file, its a script I've written, for this customer. Its a database script too. So I open up my browser, oh, there's a folder called "Work". Then there's a folder called, "Scripting". Then there's a folder named with the customer name. Then there's a folder "DBA". Then there's a folder named for the function of the script. In there is the script, and there's its associated sql files to go with it, along with some notes I made last time I ran it. To add another DBA project/script, all I have to do is go to the DBA folder, create one new folder, and there, I have all my of files organized. It doesn't take much to get a good organization going. I can't pass comment on this new search as the folder thing, until I see the implementation, but most I have seen where far lacking in comparison to what I was after. Search is a complement to a well organized file structure. The main thing I would like is having the same file in under two directories. In linux I can just create a symlink so thats all I need. I would not be opposed to having SmartFolders ADDED to the usual FSH, but I LOATHE the idea of having it REPLACE the directories. Why is it that things have to only be one way? Why can't people understand that both approaches have their merits, and allow them to coexist?
Yea, except that it got old, QUICK. Plus the BS of encrypting the hell out of your character profiles so that you could not just reinstall/move your character sucked so bad. They give you some stupid code to write down to enter if you reinstall, please tell me the damn purpose of that?
Not to mention the multiplay had so much promise, but was plagued by bugs that pissed me off into never playing it again. Also, your char is stored encrypted on the server, so if your favorite server you spent a ton of time on building up your char disappears or gets too busy to log into, they can't just give you your char and you lose it. I spent way too much time coming up with profitable trade routes, finding rare weapons, and getting a good ship, only to lose it all in a flash.
I have to date never reinstalled that game. Sad too, it had a LOT of promise, and was actually pretty fun for a while (though it did eventually get boring).
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I've been listening to a non-argument. You still have yet to make an point that ID, which is religion, should be taught in school. You make no logical argument at all in any of these threads, just some vague BS about some "teachers" somewhere that might have said things like "the Bible is BS". Where is your proof of any of this at all?
In short, I don't believe a single bit of what you're saying.
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Short answer, teaching evolution is not teaching religion. Teaching ID is. You have no Constitutional argument here, as it isn't preventing you from practicing any religion you want to. That is the only protection you have, to not have religion taught in school (evolution is not religion), and to not be prohibited from believing whatever you want (teaching evolution doesn't prevent you from believing anything if you choose to not believe it).
Meme police: Soviet Russia was stupid when it became a meme, the overlord one was stupid right after it was used the second time.
Dear god you guys are worse than Barrens chat and Chuck Norris...
Just like when I worked at a computer shop and worked on random people's computers, over half that had XP had reset the UI to look like Win2k instead of the default. Seriously, how does anything being "default" actually represent it's merits or desirability?
Wow. You're plain crazy. I just installed Ubuntu on a Thinkpad a20m without any issues whatsoever, and it runs the awesome transparencies without a problem. Those were made in 1999 as well, and that's running with the eyecandy. I think you are lying.
Love the logic there.
Ah hell, sorry. I haven't been on Slashdot in a long time and I'm still having problems with this new-fangled thread system. I meant to reply to a post above yours.
I once worked in a computer retail shop on commission, and I completely disagree.
If having a commission causes the salesperson to be pushy to get a sale, then most people walk out and they don't get the sale. If you are faced with a salesperson that wants to sell to you, they will tend to answer any questions you have, they will not lie to you because you will return it and they lose the commission, and will do anything to keep you coming back. If they are pushy, then walk away. That teaches them quickly.
The fact is, most sales people suck, and most sales people are not on commission. What does that tell you? If you walk away from a shitty sales person not on commission, they don't care. If you walk away from a shitty salesperson on commission, they learn very quickly how to be better or lose their salary.
As a salesperson, I often would knock prices down for a customer, even though I only get a commission on the sale price, so lower price == lower commission. I would throw in free printer cables, again losing sales. I would do whatever I could do to make the customer happy, because I learned quickly that being a kickass salesman to one customer meant they come back two weeks later with their friends/family with my name as the person to ask for. Or, sometimes I wouldn't sell anything to a person when they came in, I'd just answer all questions for them, or even FIX their computers and talk them out of buying unnecessary items. Why? Because a month later the same customer would be back to buy anything and everything from me, thus bringing in a LOT of cash to me, and the store. I was top salesman for my entire period of employment there, because I had a family to feed. I competed in my small Mom n Pop computer store against the Best Buy that was across the street. If non-commissioned sales reps were better, then why did they choose to stop at my store and buy from me when there's a Best Buy right over there selling things $5-$10 cheaper?
Again, most salesmen are not on commission, yet most of them completely suck ballsacks. Tell me again, how is that the commission's fault?
Are you reading a different article than I? Because I do not see any references to putting a drive into a freezer in there. And actually, the freezer thing does work. I had a laptop drive die, would not seek to pull my homework off of it. Drive out, into a plastic baggy, and into the freezer for 30 minutes, then back into the laptop and I could boot the drive, cp my homework to floppy, and browse around for a while looking for anything else I needed before it warmed up and died again.
UH, yes that is exactly what I'm saying. It is crippled. It is not the same as a real-life product where the features all cost money to put into every unit. The code was already written, it cost them no more money to replicate. They took what was already done, something they could replicate for free over and over, and disabled portions of it, thus actually spending more money to remove features. It was crippled. Plain and simple, and if you can't get that then I question your ability to understand logic. So, it can use Photoshop plugins. Which Gimp also has it's own suite of plugins. Perhaps it doesn't have one for your scanner. Does that make it worth $99, a single plugin? What is cheaper, spending that much on software, or just buying another scanner that does have a plugin? What about someone who's scanner is supported in Gimp? What about those that aren't using scanners and just copy photos from a camera? Is it worth $99 to them? Again, what exactly makes Photoshop Elements worth $99 over Gimp? What else can it do better that most people actually care about? Again, this all goes back to your assertion that Gimp isn't as good as Photoshop Elements. That is a faulty statement, and again the price of that software isn't worth the differences to most people.
Oh? Since when did Photoshop Elements become anything other than a crippled version of regular Photoshop? It is crippled. They purposefully blocked some of the functionality that regular Photoshop can do to provide the product. You dodged the question, by the by. Tell me, what can it do that Gimp can't do, that makes it worth $99?
The real question is, does Photoshop Elements do $99 worth more? Is the minor difference in UI worth $99? Everyone I've shown Gimp to didn't think so, problem is most people don't know Gimp exists. If they install Ubuntu, search for "photo", find Gimp, install it, and it was free, a whole lot more people would not be paying $99 for a crippled photo program to resize their digital camera photos. Everyone online I've suggested the Windows Gimp port loved it. Anecdote, yes, but at least in my experience common people don't rate what Photoshop Elements can do over Gimp to be worth $99. Especially not for what they intend to use it for.
You are comparing software bought at a store that was written expressly for Windows to somehow being a merit of Windows? That has nothing to do with comparing Ubuntu vs Vista. Compare the two OS's themselves. Besides, screw "sudo apt-get". Menu->Add/Remove Software->Search "photo"->Click button next to Gimp->Click "Apply"->installed.
Funny. All I had to do was run "Add/Remove Software", search for "Flash", click the box next to it, click "Apply", and I had the package installed in about 2 minutes. I had more problems trying to get Flash or Java installed in WindowsXP than I did in Ubuntu.
TBC still came out badly. And their patches since have been a disappointment. I've quit WoW since 2.3, I'm tired of everything being random drops, class/spec specific drops no one can use, the whole "pvp/pve spec" ideal is retarded too. The problem is they tied each style of playing a class to being "PvP/PvE", so that you are forced to play a specific style of a class in order to be viable for one of them. Maybe I want to PvP as a dual-wield warrior? Or do anything as a destruction lock or enhancement shaman? They shot themselves in the foot by tying those two together. Plus the community is full of retards who would be more at home playing CounterStrike. There's no "RP" in that RPG.
http://www.doug-long.com/hst.htm
7/25/45 Diary Entry:
"The weapon is to be used against Japan between now and August 10th. I have told the Sec. of War, Mr. Stimson, to use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop this terrible bomb on the old capital or the new [Kyoto or Tokyo].
...
He [Stimson] and I are in accord. The target will be a purely military one and we will issue a warning statement [known as the Potsdam Proclamation] asking the Japs to surrender and save lives. I'm sure they will not do that, but we will have given them the chance. It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful."
[7/26/45: The U.S., Great Britain, and China issued the Potsdam Proclamation, which called for Japan's "unconditional surrender". It made no reference to the future status of the Emperor, Russia's secret agreement to declare war on Japan, or the atomic bomb. It was rejected by Japan's Prime Minister Suzuki.]
Bombs dropped.
[8/10/45: Japan makes surrender offer to Allies.]
[8/10/45: Having received reports and photographs of the effects of the Hiroshima bomb, Truman ordered a halt to further atomic bombings. Sec. of Commerce Henry Wallace recorded in his diary on the 10th, "Truman said he had given orders to stop atomic bombing. He said the thought of wiping out another 100,000 people was too horrible. He didn't like the idea of killing, as he said, 'all those kids'." (John Blum, ed., "The Price of Vision: the Diary of Henry A. Wallace, 1942-1946", pg. 473-474).]
For one, he didn't expect it to kill as many civilians. Second, they offered the Japanese surrender prior to this. The Japanese REFUSED. That was the whole problem, they were defeated yet still refused to end the war, even if they couldn't win. Which just reinforced the prior intel that Japan would fight to the last child before surrendering.
The bomb was necessary. Truman didn't have the results of the first bomb until the 10th, well after the second bomb was dropped. This wasn't an age of the internet where he received information instantly, it took DAYS to get photographs from Japan to the President. The times were different, and you seem to be harboring an overly emotional grudge in the present times over it. You weren't there, and don't have the perspective of the times.
Since you feel "justified" in your anger because your family was involved, perhaps I should be equally angry that you and your ancestors brutally attacked my great-uncle and killed him on Dec 7th, 1941? Would that really be reasonable?
For the record, I've come to love and appreciate the Japanese culture. That still doesn't change that they killed my family, but you guys paid for it in the end. Let it go.
As a parent of two, I hate parents like you. Oh, you don't trust your child, and so you fault everyone else but yourself? It's the big bad internet's fault, right? Take responsiblity for your own child and PARENT them. It's like those parents whose children are running about tearing things up on the street or harassing other kids or beating up homeless people, and the parent blame TV. No, perhaps YOU should have put some discipline in them from the start! My children aren't rude to other people because ever since they were little I reprimanded that behavior. My kids rarely lie because ever time they ever have I have punished them for it. My kids don't disrespect other people because...I think you get the point. Even if you think "it's their friends, they get around other kids and do this stuff", well why don't you try reprimanding THEIR FRIENDS when they do stupid behaviors around you? Some harsh words is all that is needed, and it shows your child that Dad trumps even their friends. They will consider the consequences of "what will Dad say if I do this?" every time they are away from you as a result. Every one of my son's friends become respectful in my presence. Try being a parent instead of expecting MySpace to do it for you.
I am a parent of two children myself. A soon-to-be 6yr old and a soon-to-be one yr old.
My son is in major Star Wars mode right now. He's obsessed with ALL of the movies, from Ep1 to Ep6. I myself am very much a fan of all 6 movies. I was there opening week for Ep 1-3. However, my wife and I opted to leave our son home for Ep3 knowing the increased violence. There were parts we weren't comfortable letting him see. After about a month of discussing with him and warning him that there were bad parts in the movie, and explaining to him what happened and how those bad things happened because Anakin was a bad person in this movie, he understood it very well and enjoyed the movie (I did cover his eyes when Anakin was being burnt alive though. There's some things I don't want him to see). Because we had the chance to know it wasn't outright appropriate, and we could view it and discuss the 'problem areas' with him beforehand.
That said, I've been playing the GTA series since its first game, on the PS1. I DO NOT let my son watch me play this last installment, and I do not let him play it either. I don't feel its appropriate for him at all. However, as pointed out, children cannot buy this game as is. Pushing legislation or taking action is not needed here. What is needed is moronic parents to preview material before giving it to their kids. I'm not one of those goodness-nazi parents, there's just some things I don't want my son to see at age 5. I can judge when he is mature enough to handle it. Parents going ape-shit over this are, simply, IMO, bad parents.
While this is true, people have a limited amount of space in their brain to remember where they put their files. I have a 160GB HDD in my Mac, and I can't remember where at least 80GB of those files are.
Neither can I. Thing is, I don't store it in my head as, FILE=/path/to/file. I think, ok, the file I'm looking for is a work file, its a script I've written, for this customer. Its a database script too. So I open up my browser, oh, there's a folder called "Work". Then there's a folder called, "Scripting". Then there's a folder named with the customer name. Then there's a folder "DBA". Then there's a folder named for the function of the script. In there is the script, and there's its associated sql files to go with it, along with some notes I made last time I ran it. To add another DBA project/script, all I have to do is go to the DBA folder, create one new folder, and there, I have all my of files organized. It doesn't take much to get a good organization going. I can't pass comment on this new search as the folder thing, until I see the implementation, but most I have seen where far lacking in comparison to what I was after. Search is a complement to a well organized file structure. The main thing I would like is having the same file in under two directories. In linux I can just create a symlink so thats all I need. I would not be opposed to having SmartFolders ADDED to the usual FSH, but I LOATHE the idea of having it REPLACE the directories. Why is it that things have to only be one way? Why can't people understand that both approaches have their merits, and allow them to coexist?
Not to mention the multiplay had so much promise, but was plagued by bugs that pissed me off into never playing it again. Also, your char is stored encrypted on the server, so if your favorite server you spent a ton of time on building up your char disappears or gets too busy to log into, they can't just give you your char and you lose it. I spent way too much time coming up with profitable trade routes, finding rare weapons, and getting a good ship, only to lose it all in a flash.
I have to date never reinstalled that game. Sad too, it had a LOT of promise, and was actually pretty fun for a while (though it did eventually get boring).
Not in slackware. The stock version of KDE has not had this problem that I have ever seen.
Care to flesh that comment out a bit? I think you hit submit before finishing your post, friend.
What is wrong with the menu editor, and why should this be a priority?
Novell is a linux company, they own and develop a distro of linux, so I'd say in this case its safe to say they are linux-friendly.......
Do you even think before you type?