You know what apps made it easier for me to switch to linux (years ago)? AbiWord and Mozilla, because they were cross platform. Ya know what kept a windows install on that computer for years? mIRC and Eudora. Why? Because I looked at the native linux apps (xchat and the old kmail) and was thoroughly unimpressed. I spent a lot of time on mIRC and had lots of scripts that made it do exactly what I wanted to do, I didn't want to spend the time to convert those to xchat scripts. I personally still don't like the way xchat looks (xchat2 is a nice improvment, though). Similarly, my mail, addresses and filters were already set up and working great in Eudora, I didn't want to mess with importing that to KMail which I liked a lot less at the time.
I eventually did switch over, but native applications weren't much of a selling point to me. It's hard to justify switching from one application to another one that isn't compatible.
If the aforementioned butt-rocket man were to accidentally explode over my house and injure my family I'd be pissed.
Seriously man, that would be...
shitty.
Sorry, sorry... I couldn't help myself
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Uhhh... I don't think you'd want to play The Sims on a console. Or FPS games. Or most RTS games. I'm not terribly familiar with the Civ series, but would it really lend itself to a controller?
But beyond the typos, their "Client Showcase" features a testimonial from "Secnet Q&A Services" which Google doesn't have any information on (hmm, a Q&A company without a web presence?).
Maybe the "Secnet" thing is a typo too? And it's supposed to be "Secret Q&A Services" Which would explain their lack of info on google! They're Secret!
How long, honestly, do you think it will take before America concedes the point and puts a "document authorization mark" (like the 2D barcodes used by UPS) on each document made, which copiers will check before copying? Sure, we have billions and billions of pages of "legacy" documents with no such mark, but they could be stamped... and we can see where this is going.
Ahhh, let's hear it for the latest Copy Protection scheme soon to be foiled by a Sharpie!
So you don't buy anything that is 'Made in China'? Because that's supporting communism and pseudo-facists, too. I'm willing to bet if you took an honest look around your house, at least half of what you own is made in China. This very keyboard is. This monitor is. The mouse I'm using is.
I personally don't see many people concerned with this outside of/. Oddly enough, we (as a nation) have decided to refuse to deal (economically) with Cuba, but really, China is worse. Why? Because it's cheap labor, and lord knows we'd rather pay 6.99 for a keyboard than 9.99 for one from China
not to sound like an/. fanboy, but I think its safe to say that at least part of the problem is that/. isn't some tiny hobby weblog. We're not talking an index page with a few intersite links. You've got an entire Website programmed in perl with probably close to a million regular visitors. The vocal majority of which will criticize nearly anything put in front of them. Slashcode is open source. If converting it is so easy, why hasn't it been done by now? But you've got a 3 digit userID. You should know all that.
If it were me, I'd either do it quietly with no announcments til the day I planned on releasing it, or just not do it at all, and enjoy my evenings knowing that even if I were trying, I'd still get flamed for some little mistake.
Wesnoth is awesome. If you ever played Panzer General or Fantasy General, you'll *love* this game. Age of Wonders fans won't feel too out of place, either. The game's only about a year old, but its stable as hell (have yet to see a crash in over 2 months of using it), cross platform (Linux, Windows, OSX, *BeOS*), and very challenging.
On what planet is KDE 'simular' to Windows? Oh... its probably the IOSlaves that let you transparently save files to different networks via ftp, ssh, etc. Oh, wait, no thats not it. Maybe its that you can get an mp3 or an ogg from a music track on a CD simply by putting the cd in, and typing in audiocd:/ and picking the files you want. Oh, windows doesn't have that either? Seriously. The similarity begins and ends with the fact that they both have a taskbar, a cursor, and windows.
And how is Gnome not?? And they're both easy to install, because they come with the freaking distro!
Other open-source projects are moving towards cross-platform (eg. AbiWord and Gnumeric will both be available for Windows soon)
Err... I don't know about Gnumeric, but AbiWord has had a windows port for well over 4 years... normally I wouldn't be anal about this, but AbiWord's a good program, and I wouldn't want people to think its not available for windows yet when it certainly is.
And thats pretty much the way all the major distros do it.
And thats pretty much the way KDE says to do it. Thats why its an option (again, one thats defaulted this way in most distros) under the Desktop settings in Control Center. I personally don't even notice the K's anymore...
But really, this practice (as has been said before by many others) certainly didn't start with KDE, or Gnome. Look at MSOfice, MSWord, MSIE, MSMoney, MSPaint, etc, etc, etc. It's just branding. Sometimes, it can be helpful... if I'm looking for a paint program, and I've got Gnome and KDE both on my system, but I use KDE, I'd rather find a KDE program to do the job. I know that if I find a program called "KPaint" chances are, it'll look and feel like the rest of my apps.
I'd personally settle for getting rid of aRts, but from what I've read, thats planned for somewhere around KDE4.
if this was a Microsoft problem the amount of bitching and conspiracy theories would never end. Lets see how it plays out.
If this was a microsoft problem, people would wonder if it was done on purpose... but since it was an Open Source project (and a highly visible one at that) it is undoubtably a bug and not an attempt at incompatibility. And, more than likely, will likely be adressed within the next day or two. Especially now that it has even more eyes working on it than it did a few hours ago.
Bashing zealots is one thing, but don't make yourself an anti-zealot zealot in the process.
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Does anyone else think that Cloud looks a lot like David Bowie?
Cloud:
Face
Standing
Close up
Bowie:
Face
Standing
Close up
Ok. So maybe these pictures aren't the best examples...
Bill
actually, you answered your own question! it's because they always get robbed!
What are you, stoned?
You know what apps made it easier for me to switch to linux (years ago)? AbiWord and Mozilla, because they were cross platform. Ya know what kept a windows install on that computer for years? mIRC and Eudora. Why? Because I looked at the native linux apps (xchat and the old kmail) and was thoroughly unimpressed. I spent a lot of time on mIRC and had lots of scripts that made it do exactly what I wanted to do, I didn't want to spend the time to convert those to xchat scripts. I personally still don't like the way xchat looks (xchat2 is a nice improvment, though). Similarly, my mail, addresses and filters were already set up and working great in Eudora, I didn't want to mess with importing that to KMail which I liked a lot less at the time.
I eventually did switch over, but native applications weren't much of a selling point to me. It's hard to justify switching from one application to another one that isn't compatible.
Bill
Umm... Steam?
Well, Gabe at least, doesn't drink much at all... I recall the reason being something about fear of losing control, which I can relate to.
Seriously man, that would be...
shitty.
Sorry, sorry... I couldn't help myself
Uhhh... I don't think you'd want to play The Sims on a console. Or FPS games. Or most RTS games. I'm not terribly familiar with the Civ series, but would it really lend itself to a controller?
Maybe the "Secnet" thing is a typo too? And it's supposed to be "Secret Q&A Services" Which would explain their lack of info on google! They're Secret!
Ahhh, let's hear it for the latest Copy Protection scheme soon to be foiled by a Sharpie!
So you don't buy anything that is 'Made in China'? Because that's supporting communism and pseudo-facists, too. I'm willing to bet if you took an honest look around your house, at least half of what you own is made in China. This very keyboard is. This monitor is. The mouse I'm using is.
/. Oddly enough, we (as a nation) have decided to refuse to deal (economically) with Cuba, but really, China is worse. Why? Because it's cheap labor, and lord knows we'd rather pay 6.99 for a keyboard than 9.99 for one from China
I personally don't see many people concerned with this outside of
Bill
I use firefox, Mozilla, and Camino daily (on Windows, Linux, and Mac, respectively) and I have *never* seen that in any version of any of the above.
Maybe this bug isn't reproducable enough... a brief search on bugzilla doesn't turn it up... searching for 'slashdot' I get three bugs on bugzilla.
Bill
Flashlights!
not to sound like an /. fanboy, but I think its safe to say that at least part of the problem is that /. isn't some tiny hobby weblog. We're not talking an index page with a few intersite links. You've got an entire Website programmed in perl with probably close to a million regular visitors. The vocal majority of which will criticize nearly anything put in front of them. Slashcode is open source. If converting it is so easy, why hasn't it been done by now? But you've got a 3 digit userID. You should know all that.
If it were me, I'd either do it quietly with no announcments til the day I planned on releasing it, or just not do it at all, and enjoy my evenings knowing that even if I were trying, I'd still get flamed for some little mistake.
Bill
Could not agree more.
Wesnoth is awesome. If you ever played Panzer General or Fantasy General, you'll *love* this game. Age of Wonders fans won't feel too out of place, either. The game's only about a year old, but its stable as hell (have yet to see a crash in over 2 months of using it), cross platform (Linux, Windows, OSX, *BeOS*), and very challenging.
Bill
On what planet is KDE 'simular' to Windows? Oh... its probably the IOSlaves that let you transparently save files to different networks via ftp, ssh, etc. Oh, wait, no thats not it. Maybe its that you can get an mp3 or an ogg from a music track on a CD simply by putting the cd in, and typing in audiocd:/ and picking the files you want. Oh, windows doesn't have that either? Seriously. The similarity begins and ends with the fact that they both have a taskbar, a cursor, and windows.
And how is Gnome not?? And they're both easy to install, because they come with the freaking distro!
Little testy.....
Slackware didn't have it. (Yes, Slack10 comes with 2.6, its just not defualt)
Bill
Err... I don't know about Gnumeric, but AbiWord has had a windows port for well over 4 years... normally I wouldn't be anal about this, but AbiWord's a good program, and I wouldn't want people to think its not available for windows yet when it certainly is.
And thats pretty much the way all the major distros do it.
And thats pretty much the way KDE says to do it. Thats why its an option (again, one thats defaulted this way in most distros) under the Desktop settings in Control Center. I personally don't even notice the K's anymore...
But really, this practice (as has been said before by many others) certainly didn't start with KDE, or Gnome. Look at MSOfice, MSWord, MSIE, MSMoney, MSPaint, etc, etc, etc. It's just branding. Sometimes, it can be helpful... if I'm looking for a paint program, and I've got Gnome and KDE both on my system, but I use KDE, I'd rather find a KDE program to do the job. I know that if I find a program called "KPaint" chances are, it'll look and feel like the rest of my apps.
I'd personally settle for getting rid of aRts, but from what I've read, thats planned for somewhere around KDE4.
Screw Konqueror... Dillo all the way, baby!
If this was a microsoft problem, people would wonder if it was done on purpose... but since it was an Open Source project (and a highly visible one at that) it is undoubtably a bug and not an attempt at incompatibility. And, more than likely, will likely be adressed within the next day or two. Especially now that it has even more eyes working on it than it did a few hours ago.
Bashing zealots is one thing, but don't make yourself an anti-zealot zealot in the process.
Yeah. Lucky Bastards.
I own two Asus A7N8X Deluxe nForce2 mobo's and they are rock solid. There's drivers for linux, too.
I for one am waiting for the protests and petitions demanding to be able to buy an iPod without an iPodOS tax...
"I can happily say that GNOME 2.6 is up to the level of MAC OS X usability."
"Don't get me wrong; I hope he's correct. If so, Linux will really start to make some serious inroads on the desktop."
Yeah, look what its done for the Apple platform!
(typed from my ibook, don't flame too hard!)
Bill
I've been totally planning on doing this myself in the past few weeks, as sort of a next project to teach myself some more perl.
cool.
Bill