My point is that I don't want to spend 20 minutes to configure the damn thing to look right. Mandrake 9.0 has ok fonts, not great, but ok. Mozilla 1.3 uses them just fine. But I have to tell Opera to use them because it is to stupid to use nice standard fonts? WTF?? And they wonder why most people use IE or Netscape or Mozilla?
Too much wasted screen real estate. Those of us that only have 1024*768 screen resolutions hate that wasted junk at the top. And no, I don't buy web browsers. Too many free alternatives to do that.
Fonts are ugly as hell. Konqueror / Nautilus / Mozilla all look much better. Even on/.
The speed is nice. So is a functional "cnn" takes you to "http://www.cnn.com/" and such.
That being said... I will try it for a week or so (using it now).
They don't meet American safety or emissions standards. To do so, would kill the concept of the car(s) in question. Light weight, good handling, and of course powerfull.
Google is great, as long as your problem is not related to getting online. A real bitch when the network card in my IBM laptop is acting up, or the cable modem goes down (only happened once in 6 months). Redhat got to the point that I just used Mandrake instead (better hardware recognition for some reason)! Same would apply for OS X or Windows or whatever.
Consider the current skirmish in Iraq (the word war requires some sort of 2 sided conflict). If we, the public population, were to have voted on whether to use military force or not, there would have been no military action. Now that it has started, a journalist has already been fired for speaking his opinion.
We are at a state where the differences to, and the similarities to, those we deem to be 'evil' are striking. We can't be the savior and the opressor at the same time. One or the other man, not both.
On a side note, is anyone else thinking the BlackHawk should not be in service?
And a computer is great, because it is a tool that can act like a virtually limitless number of other tools, each different. Depending on user need.
I thought we were talking about the system layer, not the application layer. ie: "The stuff that makes it work..." Not the work itself.
The point is to get away from a system that has 12 pointers to get at something. The shorter the list is for searching for a library that is needed, the faster that program can make its calls and get its work done. In Windows they call it "defrag" in OS 9 there was Disk Warrior (I think that's the name... defrag for macs basically). In UNIX, this is not necessary, if things are done properly, and the same way every time (think Slackware).
The best way to do something is usally the simplest, right? I always think of driving a car, sure you can turn right 90deg 3 times and get the same effect as turning left 90deg one time (assuming equally spaced grid of 2-way streets), but what's the point? Use the system to your advantage...
This is a very long-winded article with many rants, and little substance.
In essence:
1. Macs rule 2. OS X sucks 3. OS 9 is the shiznit
The author describes what he/she wants. Which is fine. But a little organization on the users part goes a long way towards making things easier. UNIX is very particular in how it wants things placed. There is good reason for this; it makes things run faster and more reliably. Mac people understand this when talking about a visual interface (continuity) yet are absolutely against it when it comes to organizing files/folders. Why? Just because you have always done something one way, does not make it the best way to do it. Nor is changing it somthing else always the best way to do it. UNIX was designed by people who demand organization and intelligence; in short, it was designed by engineers. Not the 'software engineers' of today, but good old fashioned classicly trained pencil and paper engineers. They don't employ hacks, they do it the right way. The only way. The best way. Maybe not _all_ that, but they try. The people that make the decisions at Apple have seen the simplistic beauty of all of this. What worked in 1987 with 20-80MB of data is not the best way to do things in 2003 with 60-120GB of data that many people have to try to manipulate. Apple noticed that. Most of their "old school" users have not. If people can't make the jump from OS 9 to OS X, then keep using 9. Just don't bitch that Apple is no longer going to sell new hardware that supports OS 9. If OS X _needs_ to be fixed, than fix it yourself. If you can't, then learn. If you don't want to learn, and you want to bitch, then fine. Just don't expect compassion from the community for much longer. You can always try to get a job with Quark.;)
As to all the spatial stuff... geez! You want Safari to be your hard disk browser with a few flashy additions. Akin to Konqueror on KDE (hard disk and internet browser). To the author I say; "start coding."
diversification is not the key for internet companies. find something that works, and stick with it.
buying paypal was absolutely retarded on ebay's part. way to many problems with it right now. i mean come on, is it a bank or not? paypal thought they would be the western union of the digital world... NOT.
[irony]Do you think Bill Gates is annoyed that the story on pages 10 & 11 of the whitepaper (PDF) refers to "Lisa" using a laptop instead of a Tablet?[/irony]
I have a hard time "keeping faith" in a company. Times were when a lot of us looked forward to the next release from Microsoft. That isn't the case now, for most of us.
At my office, we had a lot of discussions about Windows XP Pro and using it or not in our "new" server. Last I knew was no, due to the licensing issues we all have. Guess what is on the server Monday morning when I got to work? You guessed it! I asked if that meant we were moving to XP for the desktops (using win98 right now) and the answer was "not likely, but maybe..." And this is from a old school Novell guy who hates all things Microsoft.
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My point is that I don't want to spend 20 minutes to configure the damn thing to look right. Mandrake 9.0 has ok fonts, not great, but ok. Mozilla 1.3 uses them just fine. But I have to tell Opera to use them because it is to stupid to use nice standard fonts? WTF?? And they wonder why most people use IE or Netscape or Mozilla?
doesn't work
plus it only is supposed to add "www" and ".com" which is useless for something like slashdot
Too much wasted screen real estate. Those of us that only have 1024*768 screen resolutions hate that wasted junk at the top. And no, I don't buy web browsers. Too many free alternatives to do that.
/.
Fonts are ugly as hell. Konqueror / Nautilus / Mozilla all look much better. Even on
The speed is nice. So is a functional "cnn" takes you to "http://www.cnn.com/" and such.
That being said... I will try it for a week or so (using it now).
...so much for the idea that linux is ideal for older hardware.
They don't meet American safety or emissions standards. To do so, would kill the concept of the car(s) in question. Light weight, good handling, and of course powerfull.
Google is great, as long as your problem is not related to getting online. A real bitch when the network card in my IBM laptop is acting up, or the cable modem goes down (only happened once in 6 months). Redhat got to the point that I just used Mandrake instead (better hardware recognition for some reason)! Same would apply for OS X or Windows or whatever.
In short, aint none here (USA).
Consider the current skirmish in Iraq (the word war requires some sort of 2 sided conflict). If we, the public population, were to have voted on whether to use military force or not, there would have been no military action. Now that it has started, a journalist has already been fired for speaking his opinion.
We are at a state where the differences to, and the similarities to, those we deem to be 'evil' are striking. We can't be the savior and the opressor at the same time. One or the other man, not both.
On a side note, is anyone else thinking the BlackHawk should not be in service?
with approx 25,000+ students enrolled.
I thought we were talking about the system layer, not the application layer. ie: "The stuff that makes it work..." Not the work itself.
The point is to get away from a system that has 12 pointers to get at something. The shorter the list is for searching for a library that is needed, the faster that program can make its calls and get its work done. In Windows they call it "defrag" in OS 9 there was Disk Warrior (I think that's the name... defrag for macs basically). In UNIX, this is not necessary, if things are done properly, and the same way every time (think Slackware).
The best way to do something is usally the simplest, right? I always think of driving a car, sure you can turn right 90deg 3 times and get the same effect as turning left 90deg one time (assuming equally spaced grid of 2-way streets), but what's the point? Use the system to your advantage...
A hammer is a tool. There is a proper way to use it, and all the other ways. A computer is a tool.
sounds kinda like Amiga... use the Mac hardware, but do it right...
shnifty!
This is a very long-winded article with many rants, and little substance.
;)
In essence:
1. Macs rule
2. OS X sucks
3. OS 9 is the shiznit
The author describes what he/she wants. Which is fine. But a little organization on the users part goes a long way towards making things easier. UNIX is very particular in how it wants things placed. There is good reason for this; it makes things run faster and more reliably. Mac people understand this when talking about a visual interface (continuity) yet are absolutely against it when it comes to organizing files/folders. Why? Just because you have always done something one way, does not make it the best way to do it. Nor is changing it somthing else always the best way to do it. UNIX was designed by people who demand organization and intelligence; in short, it was designed by engineers. Not the 'software engineers' of today, but good old fashioned classicly trained pencil and paper engineers. They don't employ hacks, they do it the right way. The only way. The best way. Maybe not _all_ that, but they try. The people that make the decisions at Apple have seen the simplistic beauty of all of this. What worked in 1987 with 20-80MB of data is not the best way to do things in 2003 with 60-120GB of data that many people have to try to manipulate. Apple noticed that. Most of their "old school" users have not. If people can't make the jump from OS 9 to OS X, then keep using 9. Just don't bitch that Apple is no longer going to sell new hardware that supports OS 9. If OS X _needs_ to be fixed, than fix it yourself. If you can't, then learn. If you don't want to learn, and you want to bitch, then fine. Just don't expect compassion from the community for much longer. You can always try to get a job with Quark.
As to all the spatial stuff... geez! You want Safari to be your hard disk browser with a few flashy additions. Akin to Konqueror on KDE (hard disk and internet browser). To the author I say; "start coding."
It's Sunday already? ;-)
haha
:)
Seriously, I am downloading Ark now to check it out. Nothing wrong with another distro to play with
diversification is not the key for internet companies. find something that works, and stick with it.
buying paypal was absolutely retarded on ebay's part. way to many problems with it right now. i mean come on, is it a bank or not? paypal thought they would be the western union of the digital world... NOT.
Is this going to be offered in a package deal with AOL Broadband?
here
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mega ultra
super mega ultra
ludicrous (spaceballs)
[irony]Do you think Bill Gates is annoyed that the story on pages 10 & 11 of the whitepaper (PDF) refers to "Lisa" using a laptop instead of a Tablet?[/irony]
I never knew ego was such a problem for humans.
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command click
function click
control click
and all the combo's thereof.
versus: left, right, ctrl-left, and ctrl-right (or left/middle/right etc)
the point is, right click is faster and easier than comm/fn/ctrl click is, especially when your fingers are doing something else.
apple doesn't have left and right for one reason, IMO, they can't make it look pretty enough for their own taste.
I have a hard time "keeping faith" in a company. Times were when a lot of us looked forward to the next release from Microsoft. That isn't the case now, for most of us.
At my office, we had a lot of discussions about Windows XP Pro and using it or not in our "new" server. Last I knew was no, due to the licensing issues we all have. Guess what is on the server Monday morning when I got to work? You guessed it! I asked if that meant we were moving to XP for the desktops (using win98 right now) and the answer was "not likely, but maybe..." And this is from a old school Novell guy who hates all things Microsoft.
sure... call it the subscriber model, and it is ok for redhat. microsoft moves to the idea, and they are the devil reincarnate. uh huh... yeah.
dmca... riaa...
some corporations actually try to provide a decent product (yamaha and apple come to mind) too.