Debian isn't famed for its userfriendliness. Try using a distro designed to be userfriendly. The people I know who have used Linux without having to install it but don't currently stopped because of either hardware or software support, not ease of use. (And no, these weren't people signficantly geekier than the average population, though admittedly they were all younger people and so less groundlessly terrified of technology than my grandmothers are.)
Oh, and I didn't say that the Office monopoly needs to die. I said that for Linux to be a reasonable alternative, the Office monopoly needs to die. And again, I specifically said that Office can survive---it's the monopoly that needs to die. You seem to have ignored that. How could we kill the monopoly? It would be both abhorrent and ineffectual to outlaw Office (another monopoly could just be born). Office should either open the Office formats or start defaulting to open formats. I really don't care if 80 per cent of people use Word, so long as I can read and write the files just the same. As for marketing, you are entirely correct, though it's a bit difficult for a group that charges nothing for each copy to compete with one that charges $700.
Mods: Please stop being 'impartial' and modding flamebait and inaccuracies up.
You can argue all you want that it's because they have a monopoly but you'd be conveniently ignoring facts. Why do people use Windows XP? It's not relatively stable, but its stable enough for the average user and more importantly: It's user friendly. No Linux distro can compete with that level ease, and Apple is too expensive.
Nonsense. The reason people use Windows is because they don't care. How many shops aimed at the joe-user offer computers with Linux installed? And even if more (any) did, how many users are going to want to care to have one operating system on the home computers and another on work? The major reason my father's next computer (and the last one, and the one before that) will be a Windows one because that's what he uses at work and he really can't be bothered learning two UIs.
And furthermore it doesn't matter how user friendly a UI is. It won't make an ounce of difference. You know this when people ask you to do basic things like centring text in Microsoft.* Gnome is plenty good enough.
All that Linux (Mac, Amiga, RiscOS, or any of the others just holding on) needs to get into a better position is more corporate/government users. What does it need for that? The Office monopoly to die (Office can live, it's the monopoly that's the problem).
* Users consider Microsoft to be the operating system and office suite. Therefore I'm using that terminology.
But you fail to grasp the difference between commercial and propriatary. Ximian Gnome is a commercial program. It is free. Many freeware Windows apps a propriatary programs. They are non-free.
The US Constitution provides security for Freedom. I think we should give Congress the ability to pass any law they want; let's* repeal the first amendment!
* Note: Although I've used a contraction for first-person pronoun, I'm actually incapable of repealing the first amendment, either alone or in conjunction with my fellow contrymen, as I'm not American and and the country I come from changes the wording of the constitution rather than adding amendments.
Language !== vocabulary !== a couple of words. Just because English has borrowed the word 'kangaroo' from Guudu Yimmidhirr doesn't mean we know anything at all about its syntax, frinstance...
Actually, the Slashdot editors have begun to care about spelling. Your article was rejected because you cannot spell 'coming'. Unbelievable!
As to your plan, I don't think it would work. If you make even a slight change to a file, doesn't that significantly change the hash key? I thought that was one of the points? As has a number of times, only first-year fools ever copy source-code verbatim. been said So how could you protect against the case where half a dozen methods were copied and changed around? I don't think it can be successfully done automatically...
Indeed... funny differences between countries... When I got my Tax File Number in Australia, it was quite thoroughly drilled into me that I should absolutely never give it out except to employers and the like (and then it's optional but if you don't give it you get taxed at the maximum bracket).
In some parts of the world (i.e. Britain, Australia), groups (companies etc.) take plural verbs and pronouns. Thus it seemed perfectly fine to me. English is not, and has never been, a standardised language.
I'd guess that they can't be applied anymore, since nobody seems to be interested in them anymore.
Being based on Gnome 1.4, that would seem a valid conclusion.
In my opinion having a global menu becomes a bad idea as the desktop size keeps growing and the monitor resolution improving and you have more and more windows open.
I'll agree there. It also gives application-based UI design, I prefer file-based (object-based?). Personally I prefer to have the menu under my pointer. This, though, has some discoverability problems...
1. More consistentcy between apps due to the Human Interface Guidelines
This used to be a point in favor of KDE didn't it?:)
2. Nicer interface layout. Better spacing, and I like the OS 9 style menu up the top, feels less like a windows clone, taking the best from both worlds. Also less flashly, more standard than KDE.
The menubar isn't OS 9 style. KDE can do an OS9 style menubar up the top, GTK can't. OS9 style menubars are per-application, not for the desktop. The two are incomparible because they create a different user intereface style, one that focusses on the application more than the file.
(Disclaimer: I prefer Gnome-apps to KDE apps, but run ROX.)
Some people think all software should be free. Some people think you should use free software when it's good. Others think free software can only suck.
That's life. Unless you have a good argument to back up your position, all you're doing is posting flamebait, a fact you appear to have acknowledged.
This is the first time I've ever got worms sent to me. It's also in the first month I've ever had more than a couple spams. But that aside, if you want the worm, I can email it to you...:)
That being said, the money that Gates has contributed to research for a malaria vaccine - probably the world's most pressing health problem, and one that is shamefully underfunded by our government - could potentially save the lives of millions. And the money he's donated to charter schools across the country (including the one at which my brother teaches) is offering real educational opportunity to many poor kids who otherwise would be stuck in shitty public schools.
So the ends justify the means, and evil people deserve praise. His money didn't come from a desire to do good in the world. His money came from a desire to get the most money, no matter the cost. He's a dispicable person he deserves little more than my saliva projected onto his face.
Promote good behavior and let it be profitted from.
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Debian isn't famed for its userfriendliness. Try using a distro designed to be userfriendly. The people I know who have used Linux without having to install it but don't currently stopped because of either hardware or software support, not ease of use. (And no, these weren't people signficantly geekier than the average population, though admittedly they were all younger people and so less groundlessly terrified of technology than my grandmothers are.)
Oh, and I didn't say that the Office monopoly needs to die. I said that for Linux to be a reasonable alternative, the Office monopoly needs to die. And again, I specifically said that Office can survive---it's the monopoly that needs to die. You seem to have ignored that. How could we kill the monopoly? It would be both abhorrent and ineffectual to outlaw Office (another monopoly could just be born). Office should either open the Office formats or start defaulting to open formats. I really don't care if 80 per cent of people use Word, so long as I can read and write the files just the same. As for marketing, you are entirely correct, though it's a bit difficult for a group that charges nothing for each copy to compete with one that charges $700.
IAMAL? What's the M stand for? Mostly? Mauling?
Mods: Please stop being 'impartial' and modding flamebait and inaccuracies up.
You can argue all you want that it's because they have a monopoly but you'd be conveniently ignoring facts. Why do people use Windows XP? It's not relatively stable, but its stable enough for the average user and more importantly: It's user friendly. No Linux distro can compete with that level ease, and Apple is too expensive.
Nonsense. The reason people use Windows is because they don't care. How many shops aimed at the joe-user offer computers with Linux installed? And even if more (any) did, how many users are going to want to care to have one operating system on the home computers and another on work? The major reason my father's next computer (and the last one, and the one before that) will be a Windows one because that's what he uses at work and he really can't be bothered learning two UIs.
And furthermore it doesn't matter how user friendly a UI is. It won't make an ounce of difference. You know this when people ask you to do basic things like centring text in Microsoft.* Gnome is plenty good enough.
All that Linux (Mac, Amiga, RiscOS, or any of the others just holding on) needs to get into a better position is more corporate/government users. What does it need for that? The Office monopoly to die (Office can live, it's the monopoly that's the problem).
* Users consider Microsoft to be the operating system and office suite. Therefore I'm using that terminology.
But you fail to grasp the difference between commercial and propriatary. Ximian Gnome is a commercial program. It is free. Many freeware Windows apps a propriatary programs. They are non-free.
The US Constitution provides security for Freedom. I think we should give Congress the ability to pass any law they want; let's* repeal the first amendment!
* Note: Although I've used a contraction for first-person pronoun, I'm actually incapable of repealing the first amendment, either alone or in conjunction with my fellow contrymen, as I'm not American and and the country I come from changes the wording of the constitution rather than adding amendments.
Language !== vocabulary !== a couple of words. Just because English has borrowed the word 'kangaroo' from Guudu Yimmidhirr doesn't mean we know anything at all about its syntax, frinstance...
Actually, the Slashdot editors have begun to care about spelling. Your article was rejected because you cannot spell 'coming'. Unbelievable!
As to your plan, I don't think it would work. If you make even a slight change to a file, doesn't that significantly change the hash key? I thought that was one of the points? As has a number of times, only first-year fools ever copy source-code verbatim. been said So how could you protect against the case where half a dozen methods were copied and changed around? I don't think it can be successfully done automatically...
Indeed... funny differences between countries... When I got my Tax File Number in Australia, it was quite thoroughly drilled into me that I should absolutely never give it out except to employers and the like (and then it's optional but if you don't give it you get taxed at the maximum bracket).
I haven't RTFAed, by how does that differ from Javascript+XHTML?
In some parts of the world (i.e. Britain, Australia), groups (companies etc.) take plural verbs and pronouns. Thus it seemed perfectly fine to me. English is not, and has never been, a standardised language.
When it comes to the Net, a lot of us suffer from Repetitive Mistake Syndrome.
One symptom of which is surely underlining things which aren't links...
You forgot:
????
Profit!
This is especially true for English which is weird because it is a mix of many different tongues.
Actually, that's simplified it to a degree. No genders, no case inflexions, adjectives don't agree with nouns...
And you can't be grammatically incorrect speaking your native language, either.
You don't own Windows, you've only licenced it.
'Licenced' was spelt thus on purpose.
You can't copyright what isn't yours, or you don't have whoever's it was permission.
I'd guess that they can't be applied anymore, since nobody seems to be interested in them anymore.
Being based on Gnome 1.4, that would seem a valid conclusion.
In my opinion having a global menu becomes a bad idea as the desktop size keeps growing and the monitor resolution improving and you have more and more windows open.
I'll agree there. It also gives application-based UI design, I prefer file-based (object-based?). Personally I prefer to have the menu under my pointer. This, though, has some discoverability problems...
1. More consistentcy between apps due to the Human Interface Guidelines
:)
This used to be a point in favor of KDE didn't it?
2. Nicer interface layout. Better spacing, and I like the OS 9 style menu up the top, feels less like a windows clone, taking the best from both worlds. Also less flashly, more standard than KDE.
The menubar isn't OS 9 style. KDE can do an OS9 style menubar up the top, GTK can't. OS9 style menubars are per-application, not for the desktop. The two are incomparible because they create a different user intereface style, one that focusses on the application more than the file.
(Disclaimer: I prefer Gnome-apps to KDE apps, but run ROX.)
Well think about it. In his day, writing was something very special; today you see writing everywhere.
Some people think all software should be free. Some people think you should use free software when it's good. Others think free software can only suck.
That's life. Unless you have a good argument to back up your position, all you're doing is posting flamebait, a fact you appear to have acknowledged.
Yeah, so? They own the IP
sed: -e expression #1, char 7: Unterminated `s' command
This is the first time I've ever got worms sent to me. It's also in the first month I've ever had more than a couple spams. But that aside, if you want the worm, I can email it to you ... :)
You mustn't have very many flies where you came from. If I tried to slap all the flies that went round my head, I'd've slapped myself to death...
Oh crap. I'm doing Cognitive Science *and* computer science.
That being said, the money that Gates has contributed to research for a malaria vaccine - probably the world's most pressing health problem, and one that is shamefully underfunded by our government - could potentially save the lives of millions. And the money he's donated to charter schools across the country (including the one at which my brother teaches) is offering real educational opportunity to many poor kids who otherwise would be stuck in shitty public schools.
So the ends justify the means, and evil people deserve praise. His money didn't come from a desire to do good in the world. His money came from a desire to get the most money, no matter the cost. He's a dispicable person he deserves little more than my saliva projected onto his face.
Promote good behavior and let it be profitted from.