You obviously don't know dick about the Gospels. They're actually a collection of unrelated works (except inasmuch as they describe the same events) by several people. The four canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) were not the only accounts of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, and several other works of the era corroborate a great deal of the narrative.
In other words, if a bunch of guys all independently said the guy could read, the guy could probably read.
Oh, and in closing, save your venomous atheist bullshit for somebody else. I'm not a Christian, just someone who's not a fucking idiot and knows how to read. Like Jesus, probably.
Maybe that's your morality. My morality says if I'm not willing to abide by the terms that someone is releasing their work under, I don't need their product. There are plenty of other entertainment options if (like me) you find the practices of Big Media unsupportable. But if you really want the new Green Day album or whatever, then fucking pony up like everybody else.
I assumed that said unaroused man would also be very scared, which would render it more difficult.
You would be incorrect.
Plus he'd need to be restrained - the woman would need both arms just to hold him, and I imagine it'd be rather hard to both stimulate a man and keep him from escaping without the aid of some rope.
It'd be easier just to get him drunk.
I was talking about your erroneous assumptions about human anatomy, not your sexist worldview.
Not the OP, but I assume (and certainly fucking hope) that they meant to say something "This doesn't need to be a problem anymore." I mean, maybe they're stupid, but that would be pretty over the top.
Sigh. If I had mod points left I'd mod you down. I mean, I'm not an adherent of any religion, but every goddamn time anything happens anywhere in the world you can trust a militant atheist to come beat their drum on/. I anxiously await your insightful commentary on how Judaism caused the Nokia/Microsoft deal.
Thanks for the kind words. I consider myself damn fortunate to get to do what I do every day. I don't know too many people who love their job this much.
I'm also...well, not "surprised" so much, but really pleased that KDE is looking viable. I remember when 4.0 came out, the unholy mess that that was, and even then I thought "Damn, one of these days this is gonna blow everybody's socks off." I think that day has come. I'm not too concerned about Nokia, to tell the truth. KDE was around before Nokia came on the scene, and it'll be here long after Nokia comes and goes, because KDE's exciting in a way that Gnome is not, and people are always gonna want to work on the exciting projects. (No offense to Gnome devs and the work they do.)
Finally, to your last point, I do ship Digikam, but you may also want to have a look at Kphotoalbum. It's a little more spartan, very accessible.
I like the way KDE does that "drag to top to maximize" thing. When your mouse hits the top of the screen you see an outline of the maximized window, but it doesn't actually change size til you let go.
When are we going to get an interface that is totally configurable to user preferences?
When you stop using Gnome.
Someday, I'd love to sit down at a computer, point it to the URL where my interface preferences live, and presto - it instantly becomes the desktop I'm most familiar with.
If I'm setting up a new machine, I just copy over my.kde folder from my main desktop. This does have drawbacks and pain points, though, and I too would like to see a simplified way to achieve this.
Interesting. Next time my mother wines about the computer perhaps I should take a ubuntu live cd over to her place and show her around... I've tried this many times but I think I have to simplify ubuntu further to get her to not nod it down as too complicated, like for instance removing the multiple desktops which are ace when you know how, but just "where did my window go?" for beginners...
Part of the service I provide is a brief tutorial on "how the desktop works." It usually only takes me an hour or so to walk folks through it, but I consider the most important hour I spend with a new customer. As an aside, most people really like multiple desktops once I show them how to use them. One tweak I make is to disable "scroll wheel switches desktops," because that does fuck people up.
I'm currently running digikam but that's almost to complex.
I do ship Digikam. You may also want to look at Kphotoalbum.
I use the buttons. On KDE, left-click on the maximize buttons maxes horizontally, middle-click maxes vertically. In particular, I use middle-click all the time.
When I first went into business five years ago, I shipped a not-quite-stock Ubuntu desktop stack. In the last year and some, I (more to the point, several of my customers) started to get fed up with Ubuntu constantly dicking with their interface, and at the same time, KDE really has started to shine on its 4.x series. I am in the process of transitioning some of my more adventurous clients to KDE, and if that goes well, that's going to be my default stack going forward.
I'm excited about this, because I personally like KDE a lot more than even straight Gnome, and a damn sight more than Ubuntu's bastardized version. I think the application suite blows Gnome away, which means it's simpler for me to ship out of the box without stuffing a bunch of other shit in there, and as a vendor, the ease of desktop customization is a huge win for me. I have a custom color scheme, font scheme, and widget theme that I can ship on KDE with zero effort, and that's awesome. I'm really encouraged so far by the feedback I've gotten from the early adopters (who are obviously non-tech people, BTW, or they sure as hell wouldn't be coming to me), and expect to be shipping nothing but KDE going forward if this experiment keeps going well.
And then they wonder why they can't play their newly bought game? Or the game that someone gave them on x-mas?
Actually they don't. Everyone knows you can't put a Playstation game in a Wii. It's not a terribly hard concept to get your head around.
I'm an avid linux user, but I'm yet to push it onto my family or friends because they have other needs than me. As parent said, windows compability is key for those people.
Apparently it's not. I'm paying the bills. Document compatibility's still pretty important, but even that's becoming less of an issue than it was even five years ago when I went into business. Binary compatibility, I assure you, is a non-issue the overwhelming majority of the time.
Because we're all sharing our code freely with each other, rather than keeping it secret like most Android developers. All of that sharing should make it easier to build and share apps...
And it obviously does. Look at the ecosystem that exists around Debian. That's all "building and sharing," and Debian makes that possible by making it easy. You seem to think easy means "They should accept my code." That's not what it means. Easy means "They make it easy for me to base my work on it." And it does. Any idiot can set up their own Debian repository. You could too (which you don't seem to have). For God's sake, there's not even a.deb on your download page.
It's falling behind Android and iOS.
At what? What exactly is it you think Debian's trying to do?
I sell consumer desktops with Linux. I can assure you it is succeeding in paying my bills. Maybe no one else is trying, but when people come to me with either a broken Windows machine or wanting a new machine that doesn't suffer the same ailments as their old broken Windows machine, Linux pretty much sells itself.
That's the beauty of the whole system. The fact that we have a base like Debian to build on promotes diversity. So I'd say the answer is "both of the above."
In theory, it should be easier to publish an app in Debian than Android, but this is not the case at all.
Why on earth should that be the case?
I call this the Debian Red Tape. It's suffocating innovation in the open-source community
Obviously it is not.
and it's the reason Android is kicking Debian butt.
At what?
I believe there is a solution
To what?
but it requires a completely new packaging system.
Hoo boy, here we go. Doesn't it always?
publishing new packages should be as easy as creating a repo on github.net. You simply declare that it's available, and everyone can use it. Whether a developer decides to depend on your code should be a matter of trust, which could be scored based on developer reputation, code stability and what other packages use it.
That's brilliant! So it should be just like...Debian? Waitaminute...
Without a major upgrade to our packaging system, Debian will continue to fall further and further behind.
Behind whom? At what?
Why do so many people feel they have to build a custom Debian based distro?
Oooh, I know this one! Because Debian provides the simplest, most robust base upon which to build a distro!
Because Debian incapable of addressing the needs of modern users.
Um. No. Actually, you're not even close.
Frankly, even with the total lack of libraries available for Android, and with Google having their heads up there arse with respect to accepting contributions from the community, I am able to contribute more to Android than I can to Debian. Check out my library that I've made available to both at dev.vinux-project.org/sonic [vinux-project.org]. I'm basically done for Android, while I'm still waiting for a Debian sponsor over in Debian land.
Oh, so this is all about you being pissy that your package hasn't made it into Debian? Shit, you should have said so, I wouldn't have had to waste my time on this.
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You obviously don't know dick about the Gospels. They're actually a collection of unrelated works (except inasmuch as they describe the same events) by several people. The four canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) were not the only accounts of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, and several other works of the era corroborate a great deal of the narrative.
In other words, if a bunch of guys all independently said the guy could read, the guy could probably read.
Oh, and in closing, save your venomous atheist bullshit for somebody else. I'm not a Christian, just someone who's not a fucking idiot and knows how to read. Like Jesus, probably.
Maybe that's your morality. My morality says if I'm not willing to abide by the terms that someone is releasing their work under, I don't need their product. There are plenty of other entertainment options if (like me) you find the practices of Big Media unsupportable. But if you really want the new Green Day album or whatever, then fucking pony up like everybody else.
I assumed that said unaroused man would also be very scared, which would render it more difficult.
You would be incorrect.
Plus he'd need to be restrained - the woman would need both arms just to hold him, and I imagine it'd be rather hard to both stimulate a man and keep him from escaping without the aid of some rope.
It'd be easier just to get him drunk.
I was talking about your erroneous assumptions about human anatomy, not your sexist worldview.
Wrong. Manual stimulation can force an erection in an unaroused man.
Because any game that treats sex "properly"
Such as? Just out of curiosity.
I frankly don't think your stereotype-ridden piece of flamebait stands a snowball's chance in hell of getting modded up.
Not the OP, but I assume (and certainly fucking hope) that they meant to say something "This doesn't need to be a problem anymore." I mean, maybe they're stupid, but that would be pretty over the top.
Consider also that a man can't easliy be forced to have sexual intercourse against his will by a woman because he wont get hard if he isn't turned on.
This is untrue.
Sigh. If I had mod points left I'd mod you down. I mean, I'm not an adherent of any religion, but every goddamn time anything happens anywhere in the world you can trust a militant atheist to come beat their drum on /. I anxiously await your insightful commentary on how Judaism caused the Nokia/Microsoft deal.
Thanks for the kind words. I consider myself damn fortunate to get to do what I do every day. I don't know too many people who love their job this much.
I'm also...well, not "surprised" so much, but really pleased that KDE is looking viable. I remember when 4.0 came out, the unholy mess that that was, and even then I thought "Damn, one of these days this is gonna blow everybody's socks off." I think that day has come. I'm not too concerned about Nokia, to tell the truth. KDE was around before Nokia came on the scene, and it'll be here long after Nokia comes and goes, because KDE's exciting in a way that Gnome is not, and people are always gonna want to work on the exciting projects. (No offense to Gnome devs and the work they do.)
Finally, to your last point, I do ship Digikam, but you may also want to have a look at Kphotoalbum. It's a little more spartan, very accessible.
Fluxbox is alive and well: http://fluxbox.org/news/
Also, double-click the title bar to maximize? WTF? Isn't that supposed to be 'shade'? Am I the only one who still uses that?
Yes, no, and yes.
I like the way KDE does that "drag to top to maximize" thing. When your mouse hits the top of the screen you see an outline of the maximized window, but it doesn't actually change size til you let go.
When are we going to get an interface that is totally configurable to user preferences?
When you stop using Gnome.
Someday, I'd love to sit down at a computer, point it to the URL where my interface preferences live, and presto - it instantly becomes the desktop I'm most familiar with.
If I'm setting up a new machine, I just copy over my .kde folder from my main desktop. This does have drawbacks and pain points, though, and I too would like to see a simplified way to achieve this.
That's not just Gnome, but I agree.
Interesting. Next time my mother wines about the computer perhaps I should take a ubuntu live cd over to her place and show her around... I've tried this many times but I think I have to simplify ubuntu further to get her to not nod it down as too complicated, like for instance removing the multiple desktops which are ace when you know how, but just "where did my window go?" for beginners...
Part of the service I provide is a brief tutorial on "how the desktop works." It usually only takes me an hour or so to walk folks through it, but I consider the most important hour I spend with a new customer. As an aside, most people really like multiple desktops once I show them how to use them. One tweak I make is to disable "scroll wheel switches desktops," because that does fuck people up.
I'm currently running digikam but that's almost to complex.
I do ship Digikam. You may also want to look at Kphotoalbum.
I use the buttons. On KDE, left-click on the maximize buttons maxes horizontally, middle-click maxes vertically. In particular, I use middle-click all the time.
We did that already. The answers are Emacs and "it depends," respectively. Next question.
When I first went into business five years ago, I shipped a not-quite-stock Ubuntu desktop stack. In the last year and some, I (more to the point, several of my customers) started to get fed up with Ubuntu constantly dicking with their interface, and at the same time, KDE really has started to shine on its 4.x series. I am in the process of transitioning some of my more adventurous clients to KDE, and if that goes well, that's going to be my default stack going forward.
I'm excited about this, because I personally like KDE a lot more than even straight Gnome, and a damn sight more than Ubuntu's bastardized version. I think the application suite blows Gnome away, which means it's simpler for me to ship out of the box without stuffing a bunch of other shit in there, and as a vendor, the ease of desktop customization is a huge win for me. I have a custom color scheme, font scheme, and widget theme that I can ship on KDE with zero effort, and that's awesome. I'm really encouraged so far by the feedback I've gotten from the early adopters (who are obviously non-tech people, BTW, or they sure as hell wouldn't be coming to me), and expect to be shipping nothing but KDE going forward if this experiment keeps going well.
And then they wonder why they can't play their newly bought game? Or the game that someone gave them on x-mas?
Actually they don't. Everyone knows you can't put a Playstation game in a Wii. It's not a terribly hard concept to get your head around.
I'm an avid linux user, but I'm yet to push it onto my family or friends because they have other needs than me. As parent said, windows compability is key for those people.
Apparently it's not. I'm paying the bills. Document compatibility's still pretty important, but even that's becoming less of an issue than it was even five years ago when I went into business. Binary compatibility, I assure you, is a non-issue the overwhelming majority of the time.
Because we're all sharing our code freely with each other, rather than keeping it secret like most Android developers. All of that sharing should make it easier to build and share apps...
And it obviously does. Look at the ecosystem that exists around Debian. That's all "building and sharing," and Debian makes that possible by making it easy. You seem to think easy means "They should accept my code." That's not what it means. Easy means "They make it easy for me to base my work on it." And it does. Any idiot can set up their own Debian repository. You could too (which you don't seem to have). For God's sake, there's not even a .deb on your download page.
It's falling behind Android and iOS.
At what? What exactly is it you think Debian's trying to do?
Arch's kernels are pretty much stock.
I sell consumer desktops with Linux. I can assure you it is succeeding in paying my bills. Maybe no one else is trying, but when people come to me with either a broken Windows machine or wanting a new machine that doesn't suffer the same ailments as their old broken Windows machine, Linux pretty much sells itself.
That's the beauty of the whole system. The fact that we have a base like Debian to build on promotes diversity. So I'd say the answer is "both of the above."
In theory, it should be easier to publish an app in Debian than Android, but this is not the case at all.
Why on earth should that be the case?
I call this the Debian Red Tape. It's suffocating innovation in the open-source community
Obviously it is not.
and it's the reason Android is kicking Debian butt.
At what?
I believe there is a solution
To what?
but it requires a completely new packaging system.
Hoo boy, here we go. Doesn't it always?
publishing new packages should be as easy as creating a repo on github.net. You simply declare that it's available, and everyone can use it. Whether a developer decides to depend on your code should be a matter of trust, which could be scored based on developer reputation, code stability and what other packages use it.
That's brilliant! So it should be just like...Debian? Waitaminute...
Without a major upgrade to our packaging system, Debian will continue to fall further and further behind.
Behind whom? At what?
Why do so many people feel they have to build a custom Debian based distro?
Oooh, I know this one! Because Debian provides the simplest, most robust base upon which to build a distro!
Because Debian incapable of addressing the needs of modern users.
Um. No. Actually, you're not even close.
Frankly, even with the total lack of libraries available for Android, and with Google having their heads up there arse with respect to accepting contributions from the community, I am able to contribute more to Android than I can to Debian. Check out my library that I've made available to both at dev.vinux-project.org/sonic [vinux-project.org]. I'm basically done for Android, while I'm still waiting for a Debian sponsor over in Debian land.
Oh, so this is all about you being pissy that your package hasn't made it into Debian? Shit, you should have said so, I wouldn't have had to waste my time on this.