If I had a nickle for every crappy microsoft-os and application quirk, I probably could make hundreds of great applications.
Wait, before you respond, an ICQ message pops up in front of your browser and you send an empty message to your friend because you hit the send button instead of the submit on Slashdot.
Or maybe you have the ICQ that just blinks at the bottom, reminding you that ICQ still isn't quite as convenient as IRC's interface?
While I'll admit that copying in X isn't exactly the most friendly thing, I found myself using Gnome and having the same kinds of complaints that I have using windows. Namely, there's a bunch of stuff that makes no sense to me as to why anyone would want things to be that way. I don't understand why windows is mainstream. I avoided it in college, and now that I use it more often at work, I bang my head on my desk in amazement at how difficult it is for MAINSTREAM users to use. Anytime I FIND a problem in windows, I can't ask anyone how to fix it, because most likely, they don't know. Why does Alt-F4 in Powerpoint XP close only 1 window, when ALT-F4 in any other office app closes all the windows? Why does hitting the OUTSIDE X in powerpoint XP close only 1 window? That's right, if you somehow ended up with 1000 powerpoint presentations opened, you would have to click 1000 times or hold down ALT-F4 until they all went away. Mainstream users seem to be able to put up with this sort of behavior though. And when I used gnome and saw how utterly similar it was in all the pain aspects of windows, I had the cynical thought, "Let 'em suffer with their easy-to-use interface."
You can diss the BATB animated film all you want, I suppose.
But the Beauty and the Beast is the BEST musical I've ever seen. (Although, I suppose I'm only comparing it to Phantom of the Opera in Phantages and Les Miserables on Broadway).
I think that Into The Woods has the potential to be the Best musical of all time, but no professional production has a chorus of Trees like my high school did. And I can't think that my high school did the best performance of those songs.
Yeah, that's why there needs to be healthcare reform or something. Our healthcare shouldn't be a shackle to our job. Sadly, my comment does not help your predicament.
One thing I took in college was a business administration minor. It was very boring, yet if I didn't have my current job, I could fall back on that. Maybe become a certified public accountant or something. Then use my spare time to code some GPL projects to keep from getting rusty. So if you can't get a job in the computer science field, get some job, and just hobby in the computer science field until things get better.
OTOH, you can always go back to the academic world as well.
Hey, we've got to stop bickering and tell the congresss people to support it. Remember how the CBPTDA( whatever) got defeated by the "huge grassroots" movement? We can not afford to be apathetic here. Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot.
Are you sure people followed or understood the process? Right now I'm involved with a project where we aren't following the process because we don't understand the process and things are being unsuccessful.
And what about Extreme Programming? I don't know too much about it, but I hear it's starting to gain popularity.
Although a friend of mine suggests that the reason process doesn't work is because in the end, you have to meld the software with the hardware. Usually since your processes don't address the quirks of hardware, you end up having to rewrite a lot of code to get it to work.
If we're really upset, then at least we can pick up our guns and start a revolution. We always have that as a last resort. Thankfully, we don't tend to get too upset about the results here.
They forgot an EASY target. "Life of the author". So if you copyright some book, and then you cryogenically freeze yourself, you get the coypright for as long as you are alive, right? So then your children get to inherit that money for all time, while you're alive in stasis.
I hated LWM. I used a whole bunch of window managers during one year (my window manager year) and LWM took the worst parts of all WMs and combined them into one.
But maybe I'm just too stupid to know how to use it.
Am I, as the owner of the computer, going to have final say in what can and what can't run on my computer? Or am I going to have to get permission from some sort of "slavemaster" to be allowed to run some programs on my computer?
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If I had a nickle for every crappy microsoft-os and application quirk, I probably could make hundreds of great applications.
Wait, before you respond, an ICQ message pops up in front of your browser and you send an empty message to your friend because you hit the send button instead of the submit on Slashdot.
Or maybe you have the ICQ that just blinks at the bottom, reminding you that ICQ still isn't quite as convenient as IRC's interface?
Or that AOL still makes ICQ and AIM?
And they can't talk to each other?
While I'll admit that copying in X isn't exactly the most friendly thing, I found myself using Gnome and having the same kinds of complaints that I have using windows. Namely, there's a bunch of stuff that makes no sense to me as to why anyone would want things to be that way. I don't understand why windows is mainstream. I avoided it in college, and now that I use it more often at work, I bang my head on my desk in amazement at how difficult it is for MAINSTREAM users to use. Anytime I FIND a problem in windows, I can't ask anyone how to fix it, because most likely, they don't know. Why does Alt-F4 in Powerpoint XP close only 1 window, when ALT-F4 in any other office app closes all the windows? Why does hitting the OUTSIDE X in powerpoint XP close only 1 window? That's right, if you somehow ended up with 1000 powerpoint presentations opened, you would have to click 1000 times or hold down ALT-F4 until they all went away. Mainstream users seem to be able to put up with this sort of behavior though. And when I used gnome and saw how utterly similar it was in all the pain aspects of windows, I had the cynical thought, "Let 'em suffer with their easy-to-use interface."
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Lady and the Tramp
You can diss the BATB animated film all you want, I suppose.
But the Beauty and the Beast is the BEST musical I've ever seen. (Although, I suppose I'm only comparing it to Phantom of the Opera in Phantages and Les Miserables on Broadway).
I think that Into The Woods has the potential to be the Best musical of all time, but no professional production has a chorus of Trees like my high school did. And I can't think that my high school did the best performance of those songs.
Use Microsoft Security Holes to Auto-Install Open Source Replacements for Everyone.
Yeah, that's why there needs to be healthcare reform or something. Our healthcare shouldn't be a shackle to our job. Sadly, my comment does not help your predicament.
One thing I took in college was a business administration minor. It was very boring, yet if I didn't have my current job, I could fall back on that. Maybe become a certified public accountant or something. Then use my spare time to code some GPL projects to keep from getting rusty. So if you can't get a job in the computer science field, get some job, and just hobby in the computer science field until things get better.
OTOH, you can always go back to the academic world as well.
Hey, we've got to stop bickering and tell the congresss people to support it. Remember how the CBPTDA( whatever) got defeated by the "huge grassroots" movement? We can not afford to be apathetic here. Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot.
kinda like terminator 2
only I think these dogs are scarier
(am I the only one who wasn't impressed with terminator 2 at all?)
"as if they are controlling an interactive, 3D cartoon"
surprise surprise. That seems to be all they can make these days. Interactive cartoon movies.
grep -i "access internet" *.src
Change all these lines to "!access internet"
I for one will ONLY pay for GPL software since that is the only software I OWN after I pay for it.
Are you sure people followed or understood the process? Right now I'm involved with a project where we aren't following the process because we don't understand the process and things are being unsuccessful.
And what about Extreme Programming? I don't know too much about it, but I hear it's starting to gain popularity.
Although a friend of mine suggests that the reason process doesn't work is because in the end, you have to meld the software with the hardware. Usually since your processes don't address the quirks of hardware, you end up having to rewrite a lot of code to get it to work.
Maybe what we need is NO PRIVACY.
Everyone knows what everyone else is doing.
Intellectual property is what you keep to yourself.
He always said the fish were rising up, and now there's a land shark that travels at 200 mph!
If we're really upset, then at least we can pick up our guns and start a revolution. We always have that as a last resort. Thankfully, we don't tend to get too upset about the results here.
Chevy Chase Bank in Maryland works with Mozilla, but I don't know if they especially tried to do that.
Giving away any of that "cheap" apple hardware though.
They forgot an EASY target. "Life of the author". So if you copyright some book, and then you cryogenically freeze yourself, you get the coypright for as long as you are alive, right? So then your children get to inherit that money for all time, while you're alive in stasis.
I'm not sure, but it might be running WordStar ;)
When my friends and I would play Starcraft, the winpopup was my secret weapon ;)
That's a shame. Ada is a better language than C.
I hated LWM. I used a whole bunch of window managers during one year (my window manager year) and LWM took the worst parts of all WMs and combined them into one.
But maybe I'm just too stupid to know how to use it.
Am I, as the owner of the computer, going to have final say in what can and what can't run on my computer? Or am I going to have to get permission from some sort of "slavemaster" to be allowed to run some programs on my computer?