Add "you" to that last one and it becomes very US-centric, with FL (Florida) garnering 3 of the top ten spots. Never would have guessed that "Providence, RI, USA" would take the cake, though.
An op-amp is basically two transistors with the emitters joined together and connected to ground through a large resistance (ideally, a constant-current sink; but bear with me for now). The collectors are connected to supply via load resistors, and one of them is labeled as the output.......
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Guess what I'm saying is, the whole "bloat" argument used to be so pro-Gnome. Today, it's just a tired, out-dated argument. Can we at least get a better one going?;-) I think the Gnome as distro-default makes sense from a political point of view. It's probably the case that more Gnome developers know Red Hat, GIMP, Firefox developers than do KDE devs. But from an end-user's perspective, I still can't understand Gnome's popularity.
It's like the Motorola 68020 architecture and Assembly instruction set vs Intel's convoluted silicon / Assembly instruction set. Why, oh why did the Intel processor have to become the most popular?! Well, back in the day, when board layout and Assembly code mattered, it mattered, OK?;-)
Agreed. Hard to understand what people are even talking about when it comes to "bloat". Gnome, KDE, Windows -- with today's hardware it's not like one has to wait for minutes for an application to load any more.
I use KDE for the sheer convenience and ease of use. Windows seems like it's virtually stood still in time for the last four or five years. KDE has far surpassed it, ease-of-use-wise. Gnome is still such a joke. I don't get it. How is it that Firefox, Thunderbird (at least on Linux) and other packages have to emulate Gnome when it comes to: finding files (GIMP and Firefox try to be so Gnome-like -- sucks!), the whole "Would you like to do this? No? Yes?" anti-natural-language (but oh-so geek-orthodox) OK / Cancel thing. Why do so many distros (Red Hat, Ubuntu) have Gnome as the default? Makes no sense.
I'll trade a little "bloat" for "getting things done" any time. /rant
Emacs is the ultimate productivity suite. Edit, using macros, compile, jump-to-errors, debug (e.g. gdb) all within the comfort of a lisp-extensible platform. Used to be, when all one had was a 1200bps modem, it was amazing to watch how Emacs re-drew a page of text -- very efficient.
In related news, the stock has plummeted for McAffee and Intuit as researchers discover a cure for all computer related viruses:
"The universal 'vaccine' focuses on a different program called Outlook, which has barely changed during the last 100 years."
Bottom line: Managing Word exploits is bad for business and probably for the economy. Cleaning malware off of small business computers is hard, backbreaking work. But for many home-based IT businesses, it puts food on the table. So, go ahead. Manage your Word exploits -- if you want to put thousands of business owners in the poorhouse and, ultimately, risk crashing our economy.
"Would you like some coffee? No? Yes?" isn't natural (unless you're a Gnome, I guess). But -- and this is just one example -- you can't pry the "logical way" out of the hands of Gnome developers. Can't convince a highly-technical (nerd) person that "practical" isn't always "logical".
Yeah. Yeah. Let the flames about "Microsoft's way; Not 'natural' way!" begin. But who do you think has spent the most on usability studies? Who's studied how people like things presented, the most? Nerds should deal with the UI / machine layers and UI practitioners should tell us nerds where to place the buttons and window trimmings.
How much damage has Linux gotten from Gnome-pushers? "I hated Linux" is so unfair if you haven't tried any other DE.../end of rant
Not a word? Sure it is, amigo. It's like the word "infamous". It means the same as "in" and "famous"; In-n-n famous. See? So, "irregardless" simply means the same as "ir" and... never mind...
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Many, if not most, Linux systems are embedded
And what of those who use Linux, daily, in the form of Google, Amazon, et al? How does one (MS in this case) sway users away from these?
Sounds like a big job.
Woa! Look! The magically disappearing tag. Ok, they're good for something. ;-) [posts plain-text this time]
Heh, I was trying to be funny. Next time I'll use a tag
:-p
Why? Does that make the un-funny magically funny? I'll have to try it.
Nope. Still not funny.
"Dude! You Slashdotted Dell!"
There's already a drug fer dat. It's called, uh, "concrete boots". Yeah. Dat's de ticket. Concrete boots. F'getabout it. -- Vinny
Moth finds nice, warm computer home. "Ooh! Pretty lights!" And a legendary term acquires new meaning.
Add "you" to that last one and it becomes very US-centric, with FL (Florida) garnering 3 of the top ten spots. Never would have guessed that "Providence, RI, USA" would take the cake, though.
An op-amp is basically two transistors with the emitters joined together and connected to ground through a large resistance (ideally, a constant-current sink; but bear with me for now). The collectors are connected to supply via load resistors, and one of them is labeled as the output.......
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I have around 300 users^Wtesters.....
:-p
And there's what's wrong with OSS in a nutshell.
No, the GP was referring to portion of code the GP developed for Vista.
Guess what I'm saying is, the whole "bloat" argument used to be so pro-Gnome. Today, it's just a tired, out-dated argument. Can we at least get a better one going? ;-) I think the Gnome as distro-default makes sense from a political point of view. It's probably the case that more Gnome developers know Red Hat, GIMP, Firefox developers than do KDE devs. But from an end-user's perspective, I still can't understand Gnome's popularity.
;-)
It's like the Motorola 68020 architecture and Assembly instruction set vs Intel's convoluted silicon / Assembly instruction set. Why, oh why did the Intel processor have to become the most popular?! Well, back in the day, when board layout and Assembly code mattered, it mattered, OK?
Agreed. Hard to understand what people are even talking about when it comes to "bloat". Gnome, KDE, Windows -- with today's hardware it's not like one has to wait for minutes for an application to load any more.
/rant
I use KDE for the sheer convenience and ease of use. Windows seems like it's virtually stood still in time for the last four or five years. KDE has far surpassed it, ease-of-use-wise. Gnome is still such a joke. I don't get it. How is it that Firefox, Thunderbird (at least on Linux) and other packages have to emulate Gnome when it comes to: finding files (GIMP and Firefox try to be so Gnome-like -- sucks!), the whole "Would you like to do this? No? Yes?" anti-natural-language (but oh-so geek-orthodox) OK / Cancel thing. Why do so many distros (Red Hat, Ubuntu) have Gnome as the default? Makes no sense.
I'll trade a little "bloat" for "getting things done" any time.
Emacs is the ultimate productivity suite. Edit, using macros, compile, jump-to-errors, debug (e.g. gdb) all within the comfort of a lisp-extensible platform. Used to be, when all one had was a 1200bps modem, it was amazing to watch how Emacs re-drew a page of text -- very efficient.
At 6AM in the morning, the delay is a welcome "feature".
Given the choice between Windows for around £50, or OS/2 for around £500, people went with Windows. OS/2 was better, but it wasn't ten times better.
;-)
Interesting. Because Vista is, say, $300(?) and Linux is $0. So, by your calculations, is Vista infinitely better?
Aw... Ruined it: s/McAffee and Intuit/McAfee and Symantec/ ...too hasty.
In related news, the stock has plummeted for McAffee and Intuit as researchers discover a cure for all computer related viruses:
"The universal 'vaccine' focuses on a different program called Outlook, which has barely changed during the last 100 years."
We care about our curds, man!
No whey, man. You do?
I was going to have first post, but...
Bottom line: Managing Word exploits is bad for business and probably for the economy. Cleaning malware off of small business computers is hard, backbreaking work. But for many home-based IT businesses, it puts food on the table. So, go ahead. Manage your Word exploits -- if you want to put thousands of business owners in the poorhouse and, ultimately, risk crashing our economy.
Gnome==Different/Rebel/Grunge/"Logical" in a techno-nerd kind of logic
/totally *my* opinion
KDE==Practical/"Don't make me think"/Get-stuff-done
"Would you like some coffee? No? Yes?" isn't natural (unless you're a Gnome, I guess). But -- and this is just one example -- you can't pry the "logical way" out of the hands of Gnome developers. Can't convince a highly-technical (nerd) person that "practical" isn't always "logical".
/end of rant
Yeah. Yeah. Let the flames about "Microsoft's way; Not 'natural' way!" begin. But who do you think has spent the most on usability studies? Who's studied how people like things presented, the most? Nerds should deal with the UI / machine layers and UI practitioners should tell us nerds where to place the buttons and window trimmings.
How much damage has Linux gotten from Gnome-pushers? "I hated Linux" is so unfair if you haven't tried any other DE...
Not a word? Sure it is, amigo. It's like the word "infamous". It means the same as "in" and "famous"; In-n-n famous. See? So, "irregardless" simply means the same as "ir" and... never mind...
Remember FL in 2000? Paper ballots...
I just remember my office buddy, who's first name was "Chad".
Punch. Punched. Dangling. Hanging. Pregnant... Somehow, he took it all pretty well.
"You'd like the bottons reversed? No, yes?" Who even speaks like this?! It's not natural.
A google-and-one?
Monk would freak!