um... are you saying Microsoft can't make notepad open large text files and add shortcut keys with out huge bloat and waiting forever for it to load? Er... well it's microsoft so perhaps I just answered my own question...
yes, notepad has been around for 10 years and it still sucks. Hell I still can't open large text files with it. No shortcut keys? What is with that??? And yes Microsoft still does spend the time with each new windows release to update the "About" dialog and change the copy right info. Well admittedly notepad had a MAJOR upgrade with windows 98 when they allowed you to do something as revolutionary as change the freaking font.
This from the company that is supposed to innovate so much...
well maybe with any luck, advertisements will go to Active X. That would be another good reason to switch to a different OS - no support for advertisements on the web.
alright, I mean that argument about "support your local band" sounds good, but not all of us have that option. I'm a hardcore metal fan. Want to take a guess at how many metal bands there are in the middle of North Dakota (USA)? And as an aside, almost all the bands I like are from Sweden, Norway, or in some other country. How did I get exposure? I got it through the internet of course, I mean many people such as myself don't have many options. No I've never used napster, I actually poke around the net looking for things I might like.
On the Internet I've downloaded around 3 songs from my favorite band Opeth (who in my opinion have an unparalleled genius in creating music). Thus far I've bought all their albums, but there is no way in hell I would ever find my taste in music where I live.
I'll agree that everyone is probably trying to make a buck, but distributing information is an innovation brought by the internet (nothing new, just faster and easier). Just like I can download Japanese p0rn, and chat with some girl in France: it's Internet that's the innovation. I guess I'd just like to point out that not everyone has a local "show" they can go see, and that assumes that I can find stuff like Norse folk music, Japanese Pop or whatever other music I like, right around the corner.
Well I have to wonder if this isn't sort of missing the point in a way. I mean there is more to a language than just the raw benchmark. Many languages have a domain over things they do very well. I don't think there are many people who think to themselves, "why process all this in PERL when I can use Fortran because it's faster?" There is a lot to be said about maintainability, or just the tools in a language itself. What does s/^\s{33}\r\n/\n/ look like in assembly? Do I care? Will I know what in the hell this is even doing in 8 months since it looks like a jumble of crap? Every programming language has some strongpoint. Even VB.
I think God would be more into quantum computing. I mean, I'm pretty sure God could figure it out - and maybe use something better than 0's and 1's, and give it a more origonal name instead of something with an 'X' in it.
Um... so reading this article the most visible app I could see that they were talking about was something that could analyze core dumps, I certainly hope this isn't the new killer app for linux. I mean what Linux needs over anything else is a good office suite of some sort, and it didn't seem like anything of that sort was coming off in this deal. If IBM wants to help Linux along why don't they print off a bunch of propaganda about how Sun Microsystems sucks because Star Office is Sooooo slow. Maybe give Sun a kick in the ass to get Star Office moving in the right direction.
I mean I like Star Office and all, I just have a hard time using it because I tend to fall asleep waiting for it to load.
My mom always asks me (since I'm the supposid computer "expert") why China seems to pirate so much software. [I think she read that somewhere] It seems obvious to me since generally I imagine that Windows would be extremely expensive to the average Chinese person who probably makes (quite a bit) less than the average American. Well that's going out on a limb since I truely can't say for sure, but I know when I was in Korea that I don't think I saw a single lagit CD that wasn't burned somewhere (maybe I don't shop at the right places either, I don't know). It seems to me that countries such as this would be the perfect breeding ground for Linux - where getting the hardware probably isn't so much of a problem, but getting an OS and software is due to the cost. I imagine if Microsoft really was going after people in these countries it would strengthen the position of Linux.
yeah, I found that rather odd. I mean I'm sure they probably have some sort of law in the UK where government buildings need to be handicap accessible, but then they basically discriminate (even unintentionally) against computer users who choose not to use M$ products. Maybe it's all that freedom of choice stuff that's getting in the way.
Well I'm probably wrong, but it seems to me that there is a difference between truth and "politically correct". PC is more or less trying to portray certain aspects without that which is deemed to be steriotypical or racist, or something of that line.
Okay, I'll put it like this. Say there was a native american guy (yeah, using them for an example again) who hated white people, killed them left and right, and did all sorts of horrible things. Someone makes a movie about it. The movie isn't considered politically correct (by the general populace) because it portrays native americans to be "evil", despite being the truth about this ONE guy. Now of course native americans on a whole aren't like this, but there is maybe a couple cases that say otherwise. Now say we change this so that he's just "misunderstood", and always happens to end up being portrayed as the bad guy even though he's not. Is it PC? yes. Is it truthful? no.
What I meant by too PC basically people overact and take a generalizatoin way out of context. Like that whole Jarjar blinks thing in star wars which was making the movie racist because he acted stupid and supposidly had a Jamacan accent. Maybe too PC isn't the right way to put it, but "stupidity" is a very broad term that covers way too many people.
Okay, I'll definatly go with you on that. I mean because we got attacked first it was a dirty sneak attack. Had we (for some reason) attacked them first, it would have been a briliant military strike.
Well the Japanese WERE the bad guys, I mean it was a sneak attack after all. The things that the Japanese did during the war are really pretty terrible, and I really don't think even the Japanese delude themselves by ignoring what they did. How much some old koreans still hate the Japanese is testament to how bad they could get at times.
Somehow I doubt any Japanese person would go to the movie and NOT expect to be portrayed as a bad guy. Sort of like going to a politically correct western movie about what the U.S. did to native Americans - could you expect the "white man" not to be the bad guy? But of course things are differently now days - we ARE politically correct (too much so if you ask me) and we admit that we made mistakes. The Japanese too are quite different in some respects, being a people known for their politeness and being rather non violent.
Still seems odd that they have to alter the movie, like trying to tell the Japanese "Oh, sure you guys attacked us but see? It's not that bad!". Lets face it, you do bad things in war, that's what war is all about. I doubt the Japanese are very happy about us nuking 2 of their cities, but we did. It was war. That's that.
Personally I believe both points are valid, and really I wouldn't want my kid on the computer much at least until a certain age (say 6-7th grade). Truthfully I'd rather have a kid who is more social than more intelligent. Ignorance is bliss, and I'd rather have a happy kid.
And I certainly wouldn't want my kid getting me into trouble for something like... oh, say reverse engineering CSS or something.
hee hee... reminds me of my cousin. Apperently he had been using IE whach he claimed had screwed up and ended up with the history on the side. I was like, "dude, just right click on it and it gives you a close option". He'd been using it that way for 2 months too.
The problem might be Netscape. Using KDE, KDE apps went to other KDE and Gnome apps fine, and so did most of the other programs, but cutting and pasteing with Netscape I've always found really unpredictable for some reason.
Um... windows XP? Don't know about functionality, but it looks like a candy store by default... seems microsoft is willing to bet on "prettier" is better. Maybe give you more insentive to restart crashed programs to see the pretty again, I donno.
Would I rather use but uggly Motif that worked over Windows that crashed? Yeah. Would I rather use a command line program over either? yeah. But most people aren't such stick-in-the-muds like programmers and old school computer users.
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um... are you saying Microsoft can't make notepad open large text files and add shortcut keys with out huge bloat and waiting forever for it to load? Er... well it's microsoft so perhaps I just answered my own question...
yes, notepad has been around for 10 years and it still sucks. Hell I still can't open large text files with it. No shortcut keys? What is with that??? And yes Microsoft still does spend the time with each new windows release to update the "About" dialog and change the copy right info. Well admittedly notepad had a MAJOR upgrade with windows 98 when they allowed you to do something as revolutionary as change the freaking font.
This from the company that is supposed to innovate so much...
well maybe with any luck, advertisements will go to Active X. That would be another good reason to switch to a different OS - no support for advertisements on the web.
alright, I mean that argument about "support your local band" sounds good, but not all of us have that option. I'm a hardcore metal fan. Want to take a guess at how many metal bands there are in the middle of North Dakota (USA)? And as an aside, almost all the bands I like are from Sweden, Norway, or in some other country. How did I get exposure? I got it through the internet of course, I mean many people such as myself don't have many options. No I've never used napster, I actually poke around the net looking for things I might like.
On the Internet I've downloaded around 3 songs from my favorite band Opeth (who in my opinion have an unparalleled genius in creating music). Thus far I've bought all their albums, but there is no way in hell I would ever find my taste in music where I live.
I'll agree that everyone is probably trying to make a buck, but distributing information is an innovation brought by the internet (nothing new, just faster and easier). Just like I can download Japanese p0rn, and chat with some girl in France: it's Internet that's the innovation. I guess I'd just like to point out that not everyone has a local "show" they can go see, and that assumes that I can find stuff like Norse folk music, Japanese Pop or whatever other music I like, right around the corner.
I think opec would rather have us studying shower curtains...
yeah, see if you watch too much dubbed anime you start to build up a tollerence to crappy voice acting. Even though it's getting better now days...
yeah, that would suck... paying people in India and China to write write all those cool viruses for us.
um... and that legal type stuff too.
but the graphing sucks =P
maybe a more interesting question would be, how many Linux users don't have a windows partition (or separate machine) for games?
Well I have to wonder if this isn't sort of missing the point in a way. I mean there is more to a language than just the raw benchmark. Many languages have a domain over things they do very well. I don't think there are many people who think to themselves, "why process all this in PERL when I can use Fortran because it's faster?" There is a lot to be said about maintainability, or just the tools in a language itself. What does s/^\s{33}\r\n/\n/ look like in assembly? Do I care? Will I know what in the hell this is even doing in 8 months since it looks like a jumble of crap? Every programming language has some strongpoint. Even VB.
That's a pretty good idea actually. Surprising how much Opera innovates more than any other browser but gets hardly any market share. Hmm...
I think God would be more into quantum computing. I mean, I'm pretty sure God could figure it out - and maybe use something better than 0's and 1's, and give it a more origonal name instead of something with an 'X' in it.
Um... so reading this article the most visible app I could see that they were talking about was something that could analyze core dumps, I certainly hope this isn't the new killer app for linux. I mean what Linux needs over anything else is a good office suite of some sort, and it didn't seem like anything of that sort was coming off in this deal. If IBM wants to help Linux along why don't they print off a bunch of propaganda about how Sun Microsystems sucks because Star Office is Sooooo slow. Maybe give Sun a kick in the ass to get Star Office moving in the right direction.
I mean I like Star Office and all, I just have a hard time using it because I tend to fall asleep waiting for it to load.
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My mom always asks me (since I'm the supposid computer "expert") why China seems to pirate so much software. [I think she read that somewhere] It seems obvious to me since generally I imagine that Windows would be extremely expensive to the average Chinese person who probably makes (quite a bit) less than the average American. Well that's going out on a limb since I truely can't say for sure, but I know when I was in Korea that I don't think I saw a single lagit CD that wasn't burned somewhere (maybe I don't shop at the right places either, I don't know). It seems to me that countries such as this would be the perfect breeding ground for Linux - where getting the hardware probably isn't so much of a problem, but getting an OS and software is due to the cost. I imagine if Microsoft really was going after people in these countries it would strengthen the position of Linux.
yeah, I found that rather odd. I mean I'm sure they probably have some sort of law in the UK where government buildings need to be handicap accessible, but then they basically discriminate (even unintentionally) against computer users who choose not to use M$ products. Maybe it's all that freedom of choice stuff that's getting in the way.
Well I'm probably wrong, but it seems to me that there is a difference between truth and "politically correct". PC is more or less trying to portray certain aspects without that which is deemed to be steriotypical or racist, or something of that line.
Okay, I'll put it like this. Say there was a native american guy (yeah, using them for an example again) who hated white people, killed them left and right, and did all sorts of horrible things. Someone makes a movie about it. The movie isn't considered politically correct (by the general populace) because it portrays native americans to be "evil", despite being the truth about this ONE guy. Now of course native americans on a whole aren't like this, but there is maybe a couple cases that say otherwise. Now say we change this so that he's just "misunderstood", and always happens to end up being portrayed as the bad guy even though he's not. Is it PC? yes. Is it truthful? no.
What I meant by too PC basically people overact and take a generalizatoin way out of context. Like that whole Jarjar blinks thing in star wars which was making the movie racist because he acted stupid and supposidly had a Jamacan accent. Maybe too PC isn't the right way to put it, but "stupidity" is a very broad term that covers way too many people.
That's only because the japanese lost.
Okay, I'll definatly go with you on that. I mean because we got attacked first it was a dirty sneak attack. Had we (for some reason) attacked them first, it would have been a briliant military strike.
Well the Japanese WERE the bad guys, I mean it was a sneak attack after all. The things that the Japanese did during the war are really pretty terrible, and I really don't think even the Japanese delude themselves by ignoring what they did. How much some old koreans still hate the Japanese is testament to how bad they could get at times.
Somehow I doubt any Japanese person would go to the movie and NOT expect to be portrayed as a bad guy. Sort of like going to a politically correct western movie about what the U.S. did to native Americans - could you expect the "white man" not to be the bad guy? But of course things are differently now days - we ARE politically correct (too much so if you ask me) and we admit that we made mistakes. The Japanese too are quite different in some respects, being a people known for their politeness and being rather non violent.
Still seems odd that they have to alter the movie, like trying to tell the Japanese "Oh, sure you guys attacked us but see? It's not that bad!". Lets face it, you do bad things in war, that's what war is all about. I doubt the Japanese are very happy about us nuking 2 of their cities, but we did. It was war. That's that.
When forced to choose between a girlfriend and a kernel upgrade, a REAL geek chooses the kernel upgrade
Or upgrades to a girlfriend that wants to mess around with the kernel too.
Think I'll stick to sex tho. Don't have to wait for the download. =P
Personally I believe both points are valid, and really I wouldn't want my kid on the computer much at least until a certain age (say 6-7th grade). Truthfully I'd rather have a kid who is more social than more intelligent. Ignorance is bliss, and I'd rather have a happy kid.
And I certainly wouldn't want my kid getting me into trouble for something like... oh, say reverse engineering CSS or something.
maybe give VQFs a try
hee hee... reminds me of my cousin. Apperently he had been using IE whach he claimed had screwed up and ended up with the history on the side. I was like, "dude, just right click on it and it gives you a close option". He'd been using it that way for 2 months too.
The problem might be Netscape. Using KDE, KDE apps went to other KDE and Gnome apps fine, and so did most of the other programs, but cutting and pasteing with Netscape I've always found really unpredictable for some reason.
Um... windows XP? Don't know about functionality, but it looks like a candy store by default... seems microsoft is willing to bet on "prettier" is better. Maybe give you more insentive to restart crashed programs to see the pretty again, I donno.
Would I rather use but uggly Motif that worked over Windows that crashed? Yeah. Would I rather use a command line program over either? yeah. But most people aren't such stick-in-the-muds like programmers and old school computer users.