I don't think the name is one bit of a problem on the other side of the pond; the only place I consistently hear complaints about its name seems to be Slashdot.
Probably because very few people actually use GIMP (everyone else just pirates Photoshop if they can't or won't pay for it), so the sample size of users and people who've even heard of the GIMP is vanishingly small compared to Photoshop. Slashdotters tend to be fans of open source stuff though so it makes sense they'd at least be aware of the GIMP more than anyone else.
Ah, but in your post you made a grave error - you said "other open source advocates". RMS is not an open source advocate, he is a free software advocate. The difference is purely politics but RMS would cut you down where you stand (if he could) if you addressed him as an open source advocate.
Ah good - they've been paying attention and made sure to include the good ol' "child pornography" bit in the list of reasons as justification for breaking into someone else's machine. No bill can be taken seriously without that think-of-the-children element added to it.
The Windows XP -> Vista/7 change happened in 2006. All drivers since then have been using more or less the same driver code base. Drivers for Vista theoretically can work on Windows 8 if they're the only ones available. Despite this, the Windows kernel has progressed significantly since then so it's complete bullshit to think innovation is held back because someone wants to use an older driver. That's only the case due to shortcomings in the Linux kernel's driver architecture.
Fuck man, Eric, Linus and Richard may as well be The Three Stooges when it comes to free/open-source software representatives. Eric's a right-wing gun nut who hates Muslims and believes in 9/11 conspiracies (among other things), Linus is perhaps the most reasonable of the bunch but is far too aggressive against those he believes has wronged the Linux community (whether that be a naive Kernel developer or a company like NVIDIA), and RMS is... well, so out there that virtually no-one pays attention to him anymore, even if some of his points seem reasonable.
No-one in the Linux community (who's contributed something of note) seems to fit the bill as someone who's articulate, presentable and can engage with people and companies on a reasonable level. Even Shuttleworth's become a bit of a dickhead, believing he knows best and disregarding any criticism as being from idiots and "hipsters".
The only one I like is Nixie Pixel, and that's only cos of her physical appearance.
(requiring.NET bullshit for the driver GUI? Really ATI?)
To be fair, Vista onwards had.NET installed as part of the system anyway (not sure if the drivers required a version of.NET higher than the preinstalled one). In any case, more and more applications were requiring.NET anyway so it's useful to have it installed as per the drivers anyway if necessary.
Shit, for Slashdotters priding themselves for being smart it's amazing how many of them can act so dumb sometimes.
Don't you think NVIDIA would have released the specs if it were that easy? I mean, what company wouldn't want the community to help improve their drivers and reap the benefits with basically no cost to themselves? But no, they haven't. Is it because they're stubborn? Probably not - smart companies are not ruled by emotion. So it's likely something legal - patents perhaps? Intellectual property? Licensing of various components of their designs with third-party vendors which might not be so interested in releasing their specs as NVIDIA would require them to do?
If I were running NVIDIA, I'd make a statement about WHY the company hasn't released the specs or hasn't made efforts towards an open-source driver. As a user I'd like to know the real reason even without an open source driver. I'd just like to know anyway. It would stop the rumors at least (hopefully anyway).
Some people argue that a company of NVIDIA's size should be able to release the specs/driver code - they should be able to make that happen if they really wanted. To me, the fact they haven't done so sounds like the Benefitâ"cost ratio is still far too low to bother. And why should they? The Linux community hates them, Linus publically showed his opinion of NVIDIA by pulling the finger and saying "FUCK YOU". The ONLY reason for bothering with Linux at this point is because they have to. But I doubt they're willing to go any further than they have to at this point - certainly not as a show of good will.
While I think he's a smelly hippie with no appreciation of reality, he's still an interesting smelly hippie, because he provides a clearly reasoned argument for his (predictable) position for a given issue.
Unfortunately, because RMS doesn't understand the importance of having even a slightly socially-acceptable physical presentation, people dismiss him because, well, that's how humans are.
The only people who pay attention to him are people who were partial to his viewpoints already. He's not a good spokesman because he deals in absolutes and doesn't not care for compromises (in general; his comments about Steam being acceptable so long as it's on a free OS being a notable exception). To most other techies, he's someone trapped in the 60s who eats shit from his foot.
Precisely! I'm glad someone understands my position.
I know you're being sarcastic but yes, choice is bad (see the infamous TED video about the illusion of choice). Diluting things over too many options makes things more complicated for users. Better to have a small handful of strong options which are still having to compete with other, making the whole set stronger over time. New concepts can always be introduced within that small set of options.
The last thing we need is another mobile operating system. We already have iOS, Android and Windows Mobile, and it's hard enough to get cross-platform support for apps at times, much less having a fourth or fifth entry in the market.
Nothing against the Firefox folks, but just as in Linux, there are problems with having too much choice.
The Windows-based mail service will, however, do far more than the Linux-based ones do, especially on Windows desktops. Exchange + Outlook is a thing of beauty when it's BUILT CORRECTLY. If Windows products sucked for backend use I doubt Microsoft's server division would be having such bumper success.
I used to work in IT for a medium-sized company. Everything was Windows-based, but the guys there were definitely skilled and kept things running pretty smoothly. I once talked to one of the senior ones about Linux and open source and his response was "ah Linux - yeah most people grow out of that phase after a while". I had nothing to contradict it with at the time. I now work in research and use Linux pretty often so I don't care anymore, but I'm also not blind to my experiences.
Can you really blame them though? Windows admins are a dime a dozen; Linux admins cost more and there's no guarantee you'll be able to find one to work in your area. Why deviate from the status quo when no-one else does and there's no immediate payoff?
Thing is, however, game publishers sometimes object to complete video walkthroughs of their games being hosted there and do DMCA takedowns.
I have yet to actually hear about that happening, but I'm not calling you a liar because honestly, I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear about this being commonplace. Shit, given the way a huge number of modern games play more like interactive movies than traditional games (what with everything needed to have cinematics and epic settings), modern games are actually well suited to being watched rather than played sometimes. It's cheaper too.
In any case, so long as sites like this (http://www.longplays.org/) continue to exist, it doesn't really matter what the publishers try - people will continue to make Let's Plays and full playthroughs because hell, it's better than piracy.
I doubt it. 2007 was the one that introduced the ribbon; 2010 and 2013 have different colors but looks very, very similar overall to 2007 (particularly placement of buttons in the ribbon). 2010 introduced a File tab to replace the Office "orb" that apparently confused so many people, so that would have made things even easier I think.
FWIW, I wasn't have a go at you. I have downloaded the code for smaller projects and made modifications to suit my own needs (e.g. converting some tools designed for GNOME to integrate properly in MATE). It's just that for something like Firefox, with regular updates and mammoth code bases that take ages to compile anyway, it's easier to just use the existing extension framework to make changes. Your point still stands though.
With Android nether do I, though I use AdFree to block advertising domains via the hosts file. Has the side benefit of working for not only Angry Birds but other apps as well as web pages (so it's system wide), which is nice.
Google's ads are still OK. Blame everyone else for being intrusive with advertising still.
You gonna do that for every single Firefox update? Or are you gonna make a fork for just one issue and maintain it indefinitely?
Your solution is not practical. An extension that brings this feature back though, is. Extensions are what brought back the status bar and the "Send Link" functionality which were both removed for dubious reasons.
Hmm. How come I only hear this from Slashdot whereas people on ArsTechnica (which are less fanboyish except for perhaps Apple) seem to think Windows is easier to manage? Perhaps Active Directory and GPOs have some uses, eh?
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Probably because very few people actually use GIMP (everyone else just pirates Photoshop if they can't or won't pay for it), so the sample size of users and people who've even heard of the GIMP is vanishingly small compared to Photoshop. Slashdotters tend to be fans of open source stuff though so it makes sense they'd at least be aware of the GIMP more than anyone else.
Ah, but in your post you made a grave error - you said "other open source advocates". RMS is not an open source advocate, he is a free software advocate. The difference is purely politics but RMS would cut you down where you stand (if he could) if you addressed him as an open source advocate.
Ah good - they've been paying attention and made sure to include the good ol' "child pornography" bit in the list of reasons as justification for breaking into someone else's machine. No bill can be taken seriously without that think-of-the-children element added to it.
The Windows XP -> Vista/7 change happened in 2006. All drivers since then have been using more or less the same driver code base. Drivers for Vista theoretically can work on Windows 8 if they're the only ones available. Despite this, the Windows kernel has progressed significantly since then so it's complete bullshit to think innovation is held back because someone wants to use an older driver. That's only the case due to shortcomings in the Linux kernel's driver architecture.
Fuck man, Eric, Linus and Richard may as well be The Three Stooges when it comes to free/open-source software representatives. Eric's a right-wing gun nut who hates Muslims and believes in 9/11 conspiracies (among other things), Linus is perhaps the most reasonable of the bunch but is far too aggressive against those he believes has wronged the Linux community (whether that be a naive Kernel developer or a company like NVIDIA), and RMS is... well, so out there that virtually no-one pays attention to him anymore, even if some of his points seem reasonable.
No-one in the Linux community (who's contributed something of note) seems to fit the bill as someone who's articulate, presentable and can engage with people and companies on a reasonable level. Even Shuttleworth's become a bit of a dickhead, believing he knows best and disregarding any criticism as being from idiots and "hipsters".
The only one I like is Nixie Pixel, and that's only cos of her physical appearance.
So we're paying the Chinese to hack... ourselves?
Sounds like smart Government spending to me!
To be fair, Vista onwards had .NET installed as part of the system anyway (not sure if the drivers required a version of .NET higher than the preinstalled one). In any case, more and more applications were requiring .NET anyway so it's useful to have it installed as per the drivers anyway if necessary.
Shit, for Slashdotters priding themselves for being smart it's amazing how many of them can act so dumb sometimes.
Don't you think NVIDIA would have released the specs if it were that easy? I mean, what company wouldn't want the community to help improve their drivers and reap the benefits with basically no cost to themselves? But no, they haven't. Is it because they're stubborn? Probably not - smart companies are not ruled by emotion. So it's likely something legal - patents perhaps? Intellectual property? Licensing of various components of their designs with third-party vendors which might not be so interested in releasing their specs as NVIDIA would require them to do?
If I were running NVIDIA, I'd make a statement about WHY the company hasn't released the specs or hasn't made efforts towards an open-source driver. As a user I'd like to know the real reason even without an open source driver. I'd just like to know anyway. It would stop the rumors at least (hopefully anyway).
Some people argue that a company of NVIDIA's size should be able to release the specs/driver code - they should be able to make that happen if they really wanted. To me, the fact they haven't done so sounds like the Benefitâ"cost ratio is still far too low to bother. And why should they? The Linux community hates them, Linus publically showed his opinion of NVIDIA by pulling the finger and saying "FUCK YOU". The ONLY reason for bothering with Linux at this point is because they have to. But I doubt they're willing to go any further than they have to at this point - certainly not as a show of good will.
Unfortunately, because RMS doesn't understand the importance of having even a slightly socially-acceptable physical presentation, people dismiss him because, well, that's how humans are.
The only people who pay attention to him are people who were partial to his viewpoints already. He's not a good spokesman because he deals in absolutes and doesn't not care for compromises (in general; his comments about Steam being acceptable so long as it's on a free OS being a notable exception). To most other techies, he's someone trapped in the 60s who eats shit from his foot.
Precisely! I'm glad someone understands my position.
I know you're being sarcastic but yes, choice is bad (see the infamous TED video about the illusion of choice). Diluting things over too many options makes things more complicated for users. Better to have a small handful of strong options which are still having to compete with other, making the whole set stronger over time. New concepts can always be introduced within that small set of options.
Does everything these days have the security of a sheet of toilet paper? Either the Chinese are excellent hackers or we suck at security.
Do you really need to use profanity to make your point, coward?
The last thing we need is another mobile operating system. We already have iOS, Android and Windows Mobile, and it's hard enough to get cross-platform support for apps at times, much less having a fourth or fifth entry in the market.
Nothing against the Firefox folks, but just as in Linux, there are problems with having too much choice.
The Windows-based mail service will, however, do far more than the Linux-based ones do, especially on Windows desktops. Exchange + Outlook is a thing of beauty when it's BUILT CORRECTLY. If Windows products sucked for backend use I doubt Microsoft's server division would be having such bumper success.
I used to work in IT for a medium-sized company. Everything was Windows-based, but the guys there were definitely skilled and kept things running pretty smoothly. I once talked to one of the senior ones about Linux and open source and his response was "ah Linux - yeah most people grow out of that phase after a while". I had nothing to contradict it with at the time. I now work in research and use Linux pretty often so I don't care anymore, but I'm also not blind to my experiences.
Can you really blame them though? Windows admins are a dime a dozen; Linux admins cost more and there's no guarantee you'll be able to find one to work in your area. Why deviate from the status quo when no-one else does and there's no immediate payoff?
I have yet to actually hear about that happening, but I'm not calling you a liar because honestly, I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear about this being commonplace. Shit, given the way a huge number of modern games play more like interactive movies than traditional games (what with everything needed to have cinematics and epic settings), modern games are actually well suited to being watched rather than played sometimes. It's cheaper too.
In any case, so long as sites like this (http://www.longplays.org/) continue to exist, it doesn't really matter what the publishers try - people will continue to make Let's Plays and full playthroughs because hell, it's better than piracy.
I doubt it. 2007 was the one that introduced the ribbon; 2010 and 2013 have different colors but looks very, very similar overall to 2007 (particularly placement of buttons in the ribbon). 2010 introduced a File tab to replace the Office "orb" that apparently confused so many people, so that would have made things even easier I think.
FWIW, I wasn't have a go at you. I have downloaded the code for smaller projects and made modifications to suit my own needs (e.g. converting some tools designed for GNOME to integrate properly in MATE). It's just that for something like Firefox, with regular updates and mammoth code bases that take ages to compile anyway, it's easier to just use the existing extension framework to make changes. Your point still stands though.
I'm not sure if that's suppose to enhance or ruin your argument.
I though the Surface RT was the best selling Windows tablet though (from recent reports)? Not sure if that necessarily means all that much though.
Someone, somewhere, always has to make it clear on the Internet that they don't like what you like. It's so refreshing.
With Android nether do I, though I use AdFree to block advertising domains via the hosts file. Has the side benefit of working for not only Angry Birds but other apps as well as web pages (so it's system wide), which is nice.
Google's ads are still OK. Blame everyone else for being intrusive with advertising still.
You gonna do that for every single Firefox update? Or are you gonna make a fork for just one issue and maintain it indefinitely?
Your solution is not practical. An extension that brings this feature back though, is. Extensions are what brought back the status bar and the "Send Link" functionality which were both removed for dubious reasons.
But hey, at least he makes people laugh at his witty jokes written by his staffers!
Hmm. How come I only hear this from Slashdot whereas people on ArsTechnica (which are less fanboyish except for perhaps Apple) seem to think Windows is easier to manage? Perhaps Active Directory and GPOs have some uses, eh?