And can confidently say your are talking from that part of yours where the sun don't dare to grace you with its warming light.
Usability has to do with familiarity and feedback, so it is not surprising that people like you, completely ignorant about usability, get so confussed when trying to explain what in reality is plain familiarity. Usability increases with familiriaty, no matter how complex a system is to use.
There are other factors that contribute to usability, but most people say Windows is usable because they are familiar with it. Well, yes, duh!
That does not mean other systems lack usability, it means they have a disadvantage when it comes to familiarity in respect to Windows.
Any person with normal cognitive capacities (i.e. not completely retarded) can be instructed to install an application in any OS, even if that means using a command line, as long as the process is consistent, repeatable and provides enough feedback to the user it can become very user friendly.
Some people in the US just can't get over the fact that there are people that disagree with the US's goverment policies (the "preemptive strike" policy, after yesterday's congressional report on US "intelligence" is a complete joke).
It is not anti-USianism, all the same people that oppose your muddle in Iraq where with you all the way on 9-11, We were all NYers.
Your goverment blew all that. The US found wide support for attacking Afghanistan, because it was a justified response.
Iraq is a disgrace, one does not need to hate the US to realize that.
.... don't get their knowledge from God (because it does not exist, flammage below please) but from many hours of hard work testing things and becoming an expert.
Not only that, but some of us prefer not to deal or use products from a company that consistently is engaged in immoral and illegal practices.
Many folks don't care bout corporate ethics and morals, I do and do not benefit companies that misbehave with my custom (even if the product they are peddling is free).
In place of reading one of the greatest minds of all time, aspiring to share his joy of the ENglish language, you are suggesting to replace it with the rants of a teenager that most likely will write worst than me.
Stay Intarweb only, you will never reach the complex mental process involved in understanding a great novel, which is a skill with many lateral benefits. The reachness of the langauge you speak and write can be only enriched by great minds that devote their full time to craft the language.
Stay with people at your same or lower level (like most people posting and writing in the "Intarweb") and your language will stagnate in stillness.
If the amount of work to be done is such that you can't do it no matter how many hours you work per day, the "what it takes" nonsense becomes the irrelevance it is.
We are paid to work for a fixed amount of time. Look it up, it must be in your contracts.
If your contract says "whatever time as required for the work" then you have allowed to be abused, but that does not mean you should invite all of us to your masochist lifestyle.
There are places where you are allowed that freedom and, since they are professionals, you are compensated for the extra work you put and of course all work related expenses are paid for, as it should be.
But I guess some people live in the last century regarding work practices (or even in the 19th....)
Give us a brake and come down from your high horse.
Poeple like you that decide to sell themselves cheap in the pursuit of a carrier are a burden that the rest of the people in the industry have to deal with.
The consequences of not going the unreasonble extra mile are that you will not work for unreasonable companies. And fucked startups are included. I don't see why an startup seems to have carte blanche in the mind of some people to abuse their employees, and why employees seem to think that an startup requires to do stupid things like working 20 hours in a row for several weeks to no end.
Startups should have a business plan that forecasts how much work needs to be done and then obtain the correct amount of people to do the work. If they rely on the "professionalism" of people putting 80 hours per week they are abusing you, and you are an idiot for allowing the abuese (and paying for the privilege, fod goodness sake, give me a better example of a masochist).
I am pretty sure I earn more than most and never in my whole life I have allowed any of my employers to abuse me. If I work more it is because I am compensated properly then and there, not in a fictional future in which I may want to go with my son to the park (yeah sure, bring the violins).
Companies should provide for the means to do your work, otherwise you should refuse to do the work.
Boot machine using USB device/CD ROM/floppy or even network using Linux.
Using Samaba authenticate yourself in the Windows network, mount your loacal and network drives, copy to your USB device that has now bee recognized.
When you are finished reboot in your "secure" machine.
The only sane way to avoid foreing devices is to put a physical barrier on the computer ports (thinking about all-in-one critters) or remove the ports when possible. Anything else is just pretending you are doing something.
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You can nowadays, horrors of horrors, double click in an application package and that will launch the distro's tool to install it.
What sad to be trying to spread misinformation as a hobby.
And can confidently say your are talking from that part of yours where the sun don't dare to grace you with its warming light.
Usability has to do with familiarity and feedback, so it is not surprising that people like you, completely ignorant about usability, get so confussed when trying to explain what in reality is plain familiarity. Usability increases with familiriaty, no matter how complex a system is to use.
There are other factors that contribute to usability, but most people say Windows is usable because they are familiar with it. Well, yes, duh!
That does not mean other systems lack usability, it means they have a disadvantage when it comes to familiarity in respect to Windows.
Any person with normal cognitive capacities (i.e. not completely retarded) can be instructed to install an application in any OS, even if that means using a command line, as long as the process is consistent, repeatable and provides enough feedback to the user it can become very user friendly.
Thank you very much.
Now, come down from your high horse, put your feet firmly on the earth and repeate after me: "not everybody is a programmer".
Frankly answers like this give FLOSS a bad reputation.
Your mom will need no time to getting working, is is already configured for here.
In the unlikely situation that she had problems all what it takes is to replace one or two lines in a text file.
Some people in the US just can't get over the fact that there are people that disagree with the US's goverment policies (the "preemptive strike" policy, after yesterday's congressional report on US "intelligence" is a complete joke).
It is not anti-USianism, all the same people that oppose your muddle in Iraq where with you all the way on 9-11, We were all NYers.
Your goverment blew all that. The US found wide support for attacking Afghanistan, because it was a justified response.
Iraq is a disgrace, one does not need to hate the US to realize that.
.... sure as hell is the most dangerous terrorist ever expelled from the US.
McCarthy was right all along. Lets build a monument to his memory
It would have been illegal to do so.
At least one Bush new this.
.... don't get their knowledge from God (because it does not exist, flammage below please) but from many hours of hard work testing things and becoming an expert.
Not only that, but some of us prefer not to deal or use products from a company that consistently is engaged in immoral and illegal practices.
Many folks don't care bout corporate ethics and morals, I do and do not benefit companies that misbehave with my custom (even if the product they are peddling is free).
People are giving up the posibility of relate to complex ideas and narrations.
The Internet, in all its reachness, is a medium for short time attention spans.
There is no way that you can absorb complex ideas that require many ours of concentration in such an uncomfortable medium as a computer.
In place of reading one of the greatest minds of all time, aspiring to share his joy of the ENglish language, you are suggesting to replace it with the rants of a teenager that most likely will write worst than me.
Stay Intarweb only, you will never reach the complex mental process involved in understanding a great novel, which is a skill with many lateral benefits. The reachness of the langauge you speak and write can be only enriched by great minds that devote their full time to craft the language.
Stay with people at your same or lower level (like most people posting and writing in the "Intarweb") and your language will stagnate in stillness.
Are you telling us they are not allowing access to a, *grasp*, BETA product!
Holly doors Batman, those guys are brilliant!
... because the "emergencies" are not fixed at 16:55?
No. Accept it. Most things calssed as emergencies are just self inflicted pressure.
I can think of vey few jobs in which you can't drop everything and go home at 17:00.
If the amount of work to be done is such that you can't do it no matter how many hours you work per day, the "what it takes" nonsense becomes the irrelevance it is.
We are paid to work for a fixed amount of time. Look it up, it must be in your contracts.
If your contract says "whatever time as required for the work" then you have allowed to be abused, but that does not mean you should invite all of us to your masochist lifestyle.
Agreement?
If one of the parts is getting the "ass end" of an "agreement" then maybe there is no agreeement proper we can talk about here.
There are places where you are allowed that freedom and, since they are professionals, you are compensated for the extra work you put and of course all work related expenses are paid for, as it should be.
But I guess some people live in the last century regarding work practices (or even in the 19th....)
Give us a brake and come down from your high horse.
Poeple like you that decide to sell themselves cheap in the pursuit of a carrier are a burden that the rest of the people in the industry have to deal with.
The consequences of not going the unreasonble extra mile are that you will not work for unreasonable companies. And fucked startups are included. I don't see why an startup seems to have carte blanche in the mind of some people to abuse their employees, and why employees seem to think that an startup requires to do stupid things like working 20 hours in a row for several weeks to no end.
Startups should have a business plan that forecasts how much work needs to be done and then obtain the correct amount of people to do the work. If they rely on the "professionalism" of people putting 80 hours per week they are abusing you, and you are an idiot for allowing the abuese (and paying for the privilege, fod goodness sake, give me a better example of a masochist).
I am pretty sure I earn more than most and never in my whole life I have allowed any of my employers to abuse me. If I work more it is because I am compensated properly then and there, not in a fictional future in which I may want to go with my son to the park (yeah sure, bring the violins).
Companies should provide for the means to do your work, otherwise you should refuse to do the work.
As plain and simple as that.
If you decided to finance a corporation with your time and money, that is your problem.
I am a professional, do not work for free, and do not lease my stuff fro free to anybody, specially a multimillion dollar corporation.
The day games become art nobody will tell us it has happened, we will just know it.
The best book ever written, why to pussy foot with other stuff if you can give the best?
Minimalist nitpicker?
Jeez.
Because they said so?
Lets say yo go to the trouble to find out who reviewed a given article about a topic close to your heart. And the name is Joe Six Pack.
Great, you know a guy called Joe Six Pack reviewed the article. Does that make it credible?
In Wikipedia you can see a log of what hsa changed an in many cases the argumentaion of the different contributors to why it changed.
Try that with Britannica or any other traditional encyclopedia.
And what guarantees somebody is not threatening you in order to steal data?
Or that you lost money in Vegas and need to moake up for it?
Boot machine using USB device/CD ROM/floppy or even network using Linux.
Using Samaba authenticate yourself in the Windows network, mount your loacal and network drives, copy to your USB device that has now bee recognized.
When you are finished reboot in your "secure" machine.
The only sane way to avoid foreing devices is to put a physical barrier on the computer ports (thinking about all-in-one critters) or remove the ports when possible. Anything else is just pretending you are doing something.
There are many other legitimate reasons for using https.
ANd shopping becomes a legitimate activity if the alternative is people sneaking out of the office in order to get to ashop before it closes.
You can make pretty much any DVD player play any region disks.
I regularly play region 1 DVDs in my supposedely Region 2 only DVD...