Or use English abbrevs like 'frex.' and 'IOW', which would probably freak out some people (*argh!!!!!* someone knows English and isn't afraid to use it! The world's going to end!), but will make you look less like an idiot because it looks like you're doing something reasonable on purpose.
'Hey everyone and most especially the police, we've been blackmailed? We Googled for "google blackmailer" (w/out quotes) and turned up Thagg/Thad from Hammerhead, so go off and arrest him'?
But now that I've read the comments on this page, I've realised that you were talking about free as in beer, and realised that you're a hopelessly lost cause.
As soon as you said OSS advocates said all software should be free, I decided it wasn't worth my time because you don't even know what you're talking about.
I'm not. I'm happy once there's one that's useable to me. And with recent advances in the world of ROX Desktop, I can safely say the future's looking bright for me!
In the faq there's a link to a site that uses XHTML 2.0 already... I think it has the source there somewhere. No guarantees though. Otherwise they'll turn up soon enough I'm sure. If nothing else I might write one after I've learnt XSLT, and once I've done that it'd be GPLed:)
Well, except the Bitstream Vera Sans (and Mono) fonts are pretty good. I'll admit the seriffed font sucks majorly, especially because of the lack of an italic font...
At one point a lot of people were complaining that the GPL was better because GPLed software was less likely than e.g. BSD to fork. Perhaps this is the reason...
No, what I meant was that someone else's body might've left something that you can use... I think it's probably more applicable between different species though...
I would've thought someone else's piss would be better for you than your own. After all, a lot of what's in your piss is there because your body decided it didn't want it. Not that I know jack about biology though...
You don't have to. God invented this thing called XML. It's convertible into other file formats. It'd be possible to have an XSL transformer convert from XHTML 2.0 into XHTML 1.0 transitional. You would lose all the snazy things like having paragraphs contain tables or the new way of doing images/links, but you could still give IE something it could read.
The Gnome buttonorder isn't broken, so it can't be fixed. It's just different.
BTW, can I chose my own buttonorder, or are you just imposing another decision on me? I might find some other aspects of GnoME interesting, but if the only option is Windows buttonorder or old-style Nautilus, you haven't 'fixed' anything. You've just imposed your own preferences.
Last time I installed Gentoo (1.4 I think, but I'm on Slackware now), it _was_ easy to install. Just time consuming and involved lots of instruction-following. It just so happened that the instructions I followed were from a browser window instead of built-in to the install system.
Now, of course, that's not to say Gentoo is for everyone. Gentoo is most emphatically *not* for everyone. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that Gentoo is probably for nearly no-one. But that doesn't mean the installation is hard.
That's not actually a fundamental principle of law, though it may be a fundamental principle of American law. In at least Australia and New Zealand, it is possible to pass retrospective legislation, thereby causing something that was legal at the time you did it to have become illegal at the time you commit it. This is of course dispicable and horribly unethical, and one of a few things that will cause me to straightaway vote for a particular party if they promise to fix it (all else being equal).
Oh, I'm not sitting here whingeing about the fact that Apple's jibbing me of a few hundred dollars, and I don't think I would have a use for a 30 inch screen, as you say. I reckon I'd be struggling to use a rez of 1600x1200 (I'm currently struggling to fit in 1024x768, but that's because I was spoilt by an 1200x1200 virtual resoultion when I only had an 800x600 screen).
So yeah. I'm just acknowledging that Apple has some reasonably-priced mid-end stuff and some premiumly-priced ultra-high-end stuff. That's the way it is. But I'm not buying any hardware till after I've seen Europe, so I don't think the issue fo prices is one I should be fretting about:)
I hadn't factored in the cost of the video card, but in Australia tax is included in the price. I suppose if the video card's $600 in the US, it's probably about $1000 here, so the total cost would be $7000, which makes me cry.
Talking about either neXtBoxes or NeXTBOXes or NeXTBoxes or anything like that on an Apple thread is probably a bit misleading. Even if NeXT haven't made any hardware in over ten years.
Apple prices aren't looking too bad these days. That doesn't mean I can afford them, though. (Well, some things are outrageous---A$6000 for a computer screen---but in general their better now than they were last year. If I were buying my laptop this year instead of last, I'd look for an iBook first.)
(I realise that that A$6000 screen is almost certainly bloody good and probably worth every dollar, but it's still an enormous cost. But I reckon that A$6000 is probably more like US$6000 than US$3300 to the customer...)
I don't think you understood it. In fact, I'd almost go as far as saying you purposefully misunderstood it. Notice the word 'can'.
I think the OP meant that because Microsoft (and other Windows developers) isn't satisfying their customers in ease-of-use, free software developers can produce software that is easier to use than their proprietry counterparts. In doing so, we can use the easier-to-use software as a selling point for free platforms.
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I call your bluff! No house has been constructed without at least two in every room, and half a dozen in the kitchen!
Or use English abbrevs like 'frex.' and 'IOW', which would probably freak out some people (*argh!!!!!* someone knows English and isn't afraid to use it! The world's going to end!), but will make you look less like an idiot because it looks like you're doing something reasonable on purpose.
'Hey everyone and most especially the police, we've been blackmailed? We Googled for "google blackmailer" (w/out quotes) and turned up Thagg/Thad from Hammerhead, so go off and arrest him'?
But now that I've read the comments on this page, I've realised that you were talking about free as in beer, and realised that you're a hopelessly lost cause.
As soon as you said OSS advocates said all software should be free, I decided it wasn't worth my time because you don't even know what you're talking about.
I didn't think quotes mattered to copyright. Quotes matter to plagiarism, but plagiarism and copyright infringement are two entirely different topics.
I'm not. I'm happy once there's one that's useable to me. And with recent advances in the world of ROX Desktop, I can safely say the future's looking bright for me!
In the faq there's a link to a site that uses XHTML 2.0 already... I think it has the source there somewhere. No guarantees though. Otherwise they'll turn up soon enough I'm sure. If nothing else I might write one after I've learnt XSLT, and once I've done that it'd be GPLed :)
Well, except the Bitstream Vera Sans (and Mono) fonts are pretty good. I'll admit the seriffed font sucks majorly, especially because of the lack of an italic font...
At one point a lot of people were complaining that the GPL was better because GPLed software was less likely than e.g. BSD to fork. Perhaps this is the reason...
No, what I meant was that someone else's body might've left something that you can use... I think it's probably more applicable between different species though...
The American government wouldn't waste taxpayers' money, surely?
I would've thought someone else's piss would be better for you than your own. After all, a lot of what's in your piss is there because your body decided it didn't want it. Not that I know jack about biology though...
You don't have to. God invented this thing called XML. It's convertible into other file formats. It'd be possible to have an XSL transformer convert from XHTML 2.0 into XHTML 1.0 transitional. You would lose all the snazy things like having paragraphs contain tables or the new way of doing images/links, but you could still give IE something it could read.
Analogies are great, aren't they? You can use them to argue your point, and mostly no-one else questions whether you're taking it to far. Are you?
The Gnome buttonorder isn't broken, so it can't be fixed. It's just different.
BTW, can I chose my own buttonorder, or are you just imposing another decision on me? I might find some other aspects of GnoME interesting, but if the only option is Windows buttonorder or old-style Nautilus, you haven't 'fixed' anything. You've just imposed your own preferences.
Last time I installed Gentoo (1.4 I think, but I'm on Slackware now), it _was_ easy to install. Just time consuming and involved lots of instruction-following. It just so happened that the instructions I followed were from a browser window instead of built-in to the install system.
Now, of course, that's not to say Gentoo is for everyone. Gentoo is most emphatically *not* for everyone. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that Gentoo is probably for nearly no-one. But that doesn't mean the installation is hard.
I do that already :)
That's not actually a fundamental principle of law, though it may be a fundamental principle of American law. In at least Australia and New Zealand, it is possible to pass retrospective legislation, thereby causing something that was legal at the time you did it to have become illegal at the time you commit it. This is of course dispicable and horribly unethical, and one of a few things that will cause me to straightaway vote for a particular party if they promise to fix it (all else being equal).
Oh, I'm not sitting here whingeing about the fact that Apple's jibbing me of a few hundred dollars, and I don't think I would have a use for a 30 inch screen, as you say. I reckon I'd be struggling to use a rez of 1600x1200 (I'm currently struggling to fit in 1024x768, but that's because I was spoilt by an 1200x1200 virtual resoultion when I only had an 800x600 screen).
:)
So yeah. I'm just acknowledging that Apple has some reasonably-priced mid-end stuff and some premiumly-priced ultra-high-end stuff. That's the way it is. But I'm not buying any hardware till after I've seen Europe, so I don't think the issue fo prices is one I should be fretting about
I hadn't factored in the cost of the video card, but in Australia tax is included in the price. I suppose if the video card's $600 in the US, it's probably about $1000 here, so the total cost would be $7000, which makes me cry.
Talking about either neXtBoxes or NeXTBOXes or NeXTBoxes or anything like that on an Apple thread is probably a bit misleading. Even if NeXT haven't made any hardware in over ten years.
Apple prices aren't looking too bad these days. That doesn't mean I can afford them, though. (Well, some things are outrageous---A$6000 for a computer screen---but in general their better now than they were last year. If I were buying my laptop this year instead of last, I'd look for an iBook first.)
(I realise that that A$6000 screen is almost certainly bloody good and probably worth every dollar, but it's still an enormous cost. But I reckon that A$6000 is probably more like US$6000 than US$3300 to the customer...)
All I have to do is give Apple an imaginary concept and I get an iMac? I can't see any reason not to join in!
I don't think you understood it. In fact, I'd almost go as far as saying you purposefully misunderstood it. Notice the word 'can'.
I think the OP meant that because Microsoft (and other Windows developers) isn't satisfying their customers in ease-of-use, free software developers can produce software that is easier to use than their proprietry counterparts. In doing so, we can use the easier-to-use software as a selling point for free platforms.