look, if you want to configure a piece of software that contains 15 different configurable parameters it is amatter of choice what you prefer to see.
You prefer Wizards? Fine. I just hope you don't have to back track (have you seen that "back" button on the wizards I suppose) to the 2nd or 3rd stage of your configuration once you are almost finished.
With a config file you have everything there, you can search for specific keywords, you can automatize configurations or installations and even use scripts to change aspects of the configuration under certain conditions.
Honestly, many people are trading power for eye candy, to each one his own.
Lolita is one of the greatest works of fiction in English language. If we would accept your view of the world we would be poorer.
Anything should be expressed, otherwise there is no way to dissect and understand things, what you are suggesting is a dictatorship in which a selected few decide what the populace can and can't think. Well, it has been tried, it does not work. Learn from history and get down to earth from that cloud of purity you think you can live in.
You are confussing expresssion and action, which are completely different things.
I was going to suggest o use that high tech artifact called door, but then I realized you live in one of those post modern one bedroom appartments.... Or next time you go to IKEA buy one of the modules for your bookshelf that can act as a cage.
Same sex marriage? Since when? And although not everywhere in the EU gay marriage is recognized only people in the fringes of political ideology even suggest that gay unions are somehow immoral.
Cheerleaders? Give me a brake, you should go to Amsterdam, Hamburg if you want to see scantly dressed women.
Naked cowboys? Pass frankly, but there are multitude of naturist associations in Europe and in most places to be naked in public is not even illegal and in most situations will be looked at with amusement.
Playboy mansion? Marquis Sade.
So I think the US has little to teach others on this field of human endeavour as well.
In most countries there are consumer associations and fair trade offices.
You can raise a complaint in exactly those grounds: they are trying to sell something which they can't probe they own.
SCO should STFU regarding charging anybody until all legal maneouvering is done and dusted.
We can force them to retreat regarding this today, in a couple of years they will be history, but I want them to stop now because there are many of us out there trying to make business while this litigious bastards are trying to steal something to which they have no right whatsoever.
I just made my complain, the details of SCO in the UK are the following:
Trader's Name SCO
Trader's Address: Titan Court 3 Bishop Square Hatfield Business Park Hatfield
Trader's Phone No 01707 226014
Trader's Fax No 01707 226190
I verified the phone number and it is current.
Remember, this company is trying to charge you for something whose owenrship is dubious to say the least. I equalled it with somebody tryng to sell you the right to "Lord of the Rings" without showing he actually has the legal rights to do so.
Complain! It takes 5 minutes and could help (for once let the goverment do something useful).
.... is only measurable when both parts have the same bargaining power.
If the strongest part asks for something and has a track record of getting what they want, one way or another (Stac Electronics) then I think willingness is not a word I would use so freely.
Afte a polite request from the biggest and meanest Software company in the world, with enough cash to burn a million a day for years, with enough lawyers to equal the GDP of small countries, etc....
No wonder they "gave thought to the situation" and decided to change their name.
MS new slogan: do you want to be sued today? And the other one "Awwwwhhh, look, they are suing us today. How cute!".
I never opened my first computer until 2 years after graduating, just out of natural curiosity, but I could have lived happily ever after without doing so.
By then I had improved algorithms to search hughe databases with data stored on magnetic tape, been working in a research Institute building their infrastructure, connecting them to the Internet, and had installed and configured full datacentres all around my country with cutting edge technology.
Your worldview seems pretty narrow to me, a view in which is you don't waste time opening computers you are not worthy of doing real computing work.
THe example taken is a legitimate question of sombody that is clearly getting to grips with the vagueries of Solaris in particular and UNIX in general.
This person is not claimin he is a guru or that he is a super duper certified Batman.
If that is the best example you could come with, it clearly show things are not as you make them appear to be.
All would be great if your hero Bush and his gang of four (Cheney, Rumsfield, Rice and regrettably Powell) where not pretending they were absolutely sure the weapons existed.
They showed us satellite photographs, they have witnesses (that has turned out where parroting what Rumsfeld and his chums wanted to hear).
You have been lied or misled, and here you are, blaming the journalists for asking the most basic question: you say this was so, why it is not?
Are you saying, you unpatriotic, anty western, freedom hater, child molester, are you saying tha thge leader of the freeworld is using a variation of the Chewbacca defense?
I hope you like mambo, you will need in in Gauntanamo.
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look, if you want to configure a piece of software that contains 15 different configurable parameters it is amatter of choice what you prefer to see.
You prefer Wizards? Fine. I just hope you don't have to back track (have you seen that "back" button on the wizards I suppose) to the 2nd or 3rd stage of your configuration once you are almost finished.
With a config file you have everything there, you can search for specific keywords, you can automatize configurations or installations and even use scripts to change aspects of the configuration under certain conditions.
Honestly, many people are trading power for eye candy, to each one his own.
If TYAD is all what it takes in order to be the master of my software, I will TYAD.
It costs little, it is fun, I learn, and saves me a good deal of money.
Freedom of choice comes with a price, those not prepared to invest a bit on their own freedom are condemned to be dependent on others.
I just drag and drop files in Xandros. It actually recognizes if I am grabbing an iso and does the burning as it should be done.
There are people doing greart things in OSS, unfortunately not all put theoir worg in the same distro...
.... should be moderated as what they fear.
I was going to do so, because I am frankly tired of this behaviour, but better to make the point.
Because there is nothing intuitive about working with a piece of hardware running software designed by another person.
Heck, there i nothing intuitive about dealing with other people, specially in today's diverse world.
Lolita is one of the greatest works of fiction in English language. If we would accept your view of the world we would be poorer.
Anything should be expressed, otherwise there is no way to dissect and understand things, what you are suggesting is a dictatorship in which a selected few decide what the populace can and can't think. Well, it has been tried, it does not work. Learn from history and get down to earth from that cloud of purity you think you can live in.
You are confussing expresssion and action, which are completely different things.
Period.
I was going to suggest o use that high tech artifact called door, but then I realized you live in one of those post modern one bedroom appartments .... Or next time you go to IKEA buy one of the modules for your bookshelf that can act as a cage.
Cut a small chili (the smaller and greener, the better, habaneros are particularly fiery) in half and rub it on your cables.
I swear to $DEITY that your cat will not forget that one. Or he will start demanding curry dinner, in both cases, you win.
There was an overriding technical need to put everything and the kitchen sink in one integrated mass of bloat.
In the other hand other options do the same functions giving choice to people and keeping design simpler.
In Windows if one thing does not work it affects many other aspects in unintended ways.
Same sex marriage? Since when? And although not everywhere in the EU gay marriage is recognized only people in the fringes of political ideology even suggest that gay unions are somehow immoral.
Cheerleaders? Give me a brake, you should go to Amsterdam, Hamburg if you want to see scantly dressed women.
Naked cowboys? Pass frankly, but there are multitude of naturist associations in Europe and in most places to be naked in public is not even illegal and in most situations will be looked at with amusement.
Playboy mansion? Marquis Sade.
So I think the US has little to teach others on this field of human endeavour as well.
How many times do we have to repeat that monopolies are bound by different rules?
What do we need to do for that simple idea to sink in the tired cerebral organ of multitudes of people that can't grasp such a simple concept?
I find tres dificile the technical stuff, so I get real joy de vivre every time I read Monsieur Gagne's articles in le magazin.
But there are some people around here that take life tres seriouse and would jump to the Seine from the Eiffel Tower beacuse a fly flies close by.
Ces't la vie I suppose.
In most countries there are consumer associations and fair trade offices.
You can raise a complaint in exactly those grounds: they are trying to sell something which they can't probe they own.
SCO should STFU regarding charging anybody until all legal maneouvering is done and dusted.
We can force them to retreat regarding this today, in a couple of years they will be history, but I want them to stop now because there are many of us out there trying to make business while this litigious bastards are trying to steal something to which they have no right whatsoever.
Otherwise Al Capone would have called as witnesses the business owners for which "protection" was successfully sold.
What are you waiting for? Complain!
I just made my complain, the details of SCO in the UK are the following:
Trader's Name
SCO
Trader's Address:
Titan Court
3 Bishop Square
Hatfield Business Park
Hatfield
Trader's Phone No
01707 226014
Trader's Fax No
01707 226190
I verified the phone number and it is current.
Remember, this company is trying to charge you for something whose owenrship is dubious to say the least. I equalled it with somebody tryng to sell you the right to "Lord of the Rings" without showing he actually has the legal rights to do so.
Complain! It takes 5 minutes and could help (for once let the goverment do something useful).
.... is only measurable when both parts have the same bargaining power.
If the strongest part asks for something and has a track record of getting what they want, one way or another (Stac Electronics) then I think willingness is not a word I would use so freely.
Afte a polite request from the biggest and meanest Software company in the world, with enough cash to burn a million a day for years, with enough lawyers to equal the GDP of small countries, etc....
No wonder they "gave thought to the situation" and decided to change their name.
MS new slogan: do you want to be sued today? And the other one "Awwwwhhh, look, they are suing us today. How cute!".
I never opened my first computer until 2 years after graduating, just out of natural curiosity, but I could have lived happily ever after without doing so.
By then I had improved algorithms to search hughe databases with data stored on magnetic tape, been working in a research Institute building their infrastructure, connecting them to the Internet, and had installed and configured full datacentres all around my country with cutting edge technology.
Your worldview seems pretty narrow to me, a view in which is you don't waste time opening computers you are not worthy of doing real computing work.
.... for a Computer Scientist to be wasting time opening commodity hardware.
It is not like they are going to improve computational algorhitms by looking at some RAM chips.
THe example taken is a legitimate question of sombody that is clearly getting to grips with the vagueries of Solaris in particular and UNIX in general.
This person is not claimin he is a guru or that he is a super duper certified Batman.
If that is the best example you could come with, it clearly show things are not as you make them appear to be.
being the PM and his cabinet the executive and part of the legislative, the balance of power is greatly diminished.
.... are you sying these pople are ideologaically dishonest in order to gain power?
If they are like that to woe supporters, what woul stop them to be equally deceitful to get ahead of detractors?
In other words: dear USians, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SMOKING!
All would be great if your hero Bush and his gang of four (Cheney, Rumsfield, Rice and regrettably Powell) where not pretending they were absolutely sure the weapons existed.
They showed us satellite photographs, they have witnesses (that has turned out where parroting what Rumsfeld and his chums wanted to hear).
You have been lied or misled, and here you are, blaming the journalists for asking the most basic question: you say this was so, why it is not?
Are you saying, you unpatriotic, anty western, freedom hater, child molester, are you saying tha thge leader of the freeworld is using a variation of the Chewbacca defense?
I hope you like mambo, you will need in in Gauntanamo.