If it's a Slashdotter's review it can be boiled down to this: "It's Microsoft. It sucks."
Honestly, it's people like you who bash down ANYTHING that isn't open source ("ATI released Linux drivers? BAH! It's not free! It's not as if I'm programming drivers for X or anything, but... ARGH! STUPID COMMUNIST RODENTS!"). Let her have an opinion. She defends it far better than most people who endlessly blab about how horrible Microsoft is.
I'm 15. I'm a sophomore in high school. I'm a geek. Unbelievably enough, I have friends.
I had no trouble getting friends up until 8th grade. For some reason, a shyness struck me then. I was too scared to talk to people in other groups. I did eventually make a few friends in 8th grade (one of which I still talk to today, despite him living in California), but it wasn't a very successful year socially, at all.
9th grade rolls around and... wow. No friends made. At all. Sometime before the first semester ended, I decided that public school sort of, uhm, sucked. I tested to go to a private school (which shall remain nameless) and got in. Ahhh, yes, a perfect opportunity to get my life back on track and make friends!
WRONG. The most I succeeded in doing there was rape my GPA and lose $18,000 (which, by the way, they are still holding my grades hostage until we pay $10,000, though now it's ~$3000 due to the insurance). Even worse, things started going wrong in my family (really sick stuff that I won't go into).
Well, 10th grade rolls around, and I'm still in the private school. I decide to join debate/forensics since it appears to be a fun class. Best choice I ever made in high school. I have made countless friends in debate. _ANY_ geek that is scared of not making friends should make debate a priority. Honestly, debate probably saved my sanity, considering what some of my teachers were telling me that I had learning disabilities and what I was going through at home. (You see, in American literature, we'd take reading quizzes every morning. They consisted of 10 questions, -not- multiple choice. These questions were among the lines of "What color was Gatsby's shirt" and "What do characters A and B spot at the mountains?". I cannot remember things like this. Maybe you can, but _I_ certainly can't.)
Sometime before the semester ended (heh, just like before), I decided to transfer out of the private school, back into public school. The straw that broke the camel's back was an unsatisfactory in English telling me that I was essentially an idiot. There were more events (such as saying something in the computer lab ["badass," to be precise] while the headmaster was walking in. Funny how little old "Reading Disability" Elliot would get "hated" by the headmaster while everyone else was talking about, uhm, more "interesting" things.) that occured that day which convinced me that the private school wasn't worth it too, however.
Well, I eventually rejoin the public high school which was oh-so-evil in 9th grade. In what is a totally unexpected turn of events, I make a bunch of friends. Perhaps the only reason that I have these friends today is because of debate. I automatically made about 5 friends the second day (I didn't have debate the first day) because people knew me from a debate tournament.
Of interest is that my grades at the public school slowly started rising as time passed. I suspect the main cause of the rising of grades was getting back my PSAT scores (80% higher than all sophomores in Verbal Skills. Reading disability my ass! I missed five out of 25 critical reading questions; 4 in Section 1, 1 in Section 3).
In conclusion: JOIN DEBATE! It even made me make a few friends at the private school. Also, Depressed geeks going to a private school really ought to go to public school. It's a lot cheaper and the education quality is the exact same, if not better. And you'll already have a couple of friends made from debate tournaments.;)
I am sick and tired of seeing BeOS 5 PE "Max Edition" mentioned so much in geek news sites. All it is is BeOS 5 Personal Edition with a bunch of crappy icons (look at the screenshots page, they totally screwed the folders and the BeOS menu icon) and broken stuff. All it is is some kid trying to make a name for himself by packaging a bunch of software that he's probably never used in his life.
The default resolution has been moved from 640x480x60hz to 1024x768. WHY?! It was originally that way because not all monitors can do 1024x768! UGH.
What's more, it probably has a bunch of driver conflicts, since all he's doing is supplying the patches to the drivers, so any PCI IDs that were removed from the original driver won't be in the new drivers and the hardware won't be detected.
This is not a troll! I'm just stating all that Max Edition really is -- a dumb modification anyone could've made.
X really isn't as bad as many make it out to be. X is -NOT- slow -- it's just that KDE and Gnome are bloated. Not only that, but while I don't intend to troll, the interfaces aren't very consistent, even with themselves.
As Guillaume Maillard stated on OSNews, X can be made to be fast.
The man reason I don't like X is because of GUI inconsistencies. Even when Redhat used the same theme on KDE and Gnome, I would still see a lot of inconsistency in applications. I don't have a current Redhat install right now, but if I remember correctly, launching KWrite from Gnome would have "bad-feeling" scrollbars. In short, it's not just the look of the widgets that matter, it's also how they behave. CONSISTENCY IS IPMORTANT as far as I am concerned. (Ironically, I prefer using WindowMaker over KDE and Gnome. The desktop's interface feels faster as a whole, but applications are still as inconsistent as ever.)
So really, the problem is not as much speed as it is consistency. If PicoGUI manages to emulate X, what good will that do us if interfaces are still clunky?
If you look at the screenshots section, you'll see that Internet Explorer is running.
If I'm not mistaken, isn't it illegal to run Internet Explorer on another platform than Windows (That is, if you're trying to run the win32 version)? If so, they might as well sue them for violation of the license agreement on IE and other products that use IE...
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If it's a Slashdotter's review it can be boiled down to this: "It's Microsoft. It sucks."
Honestly, it's people like you who bash down ANYTHING that isn't open source ("ATI released Linux drivers? BAH! It's not free! It's not as if I'm programming drivers for X or anything, but... ARGH! STUPID COMMUNIST RODENTS!"). Let her have an opinion. She defends it far better than most people who endlessly blab about how horrible Microsoft is.
I'm 15. I'm a sophomore in high school. I'm a geek. Unbelievably enough, I have friends.
;)
I had no trouble getting friends up until 8th grade. For some reason, a shyness struck me then. I was too scared to talk to people in other groups. I did eventually make a few friends in 8th grade (one of which I still talk to today, despite him living in California), but it wasn't a very successful year socially, at all.
9th grade rolls around and... wow. No friends made. At all. Sometime before the first semester ended, I decided that public school sort of, uhm, sucked. I tested to go to a private school (which shall remain nameless) and got in. Ahhh, yes, a perfect opportunity to get my life back on track and make friends!
WRONG. The most I succeeded in doing there was rape my GPA and lose $18,000 (which, by the way, they are still holding my grades hostage until we pay $10,000, though now it's ~$3000 due to the insurance). Even worse, things started going wrong in my family (really sick stuff that I won't go into).
Well, 10th grade rolls around, and I'm still in the private school. I decide to join debate/forensics since it appears to be a fun class. Best choice I ever made in high school. I have made countless friends in debate. _ANY_ geek that is scared of not making friends should make debate a priority. Honestly, debate probably saved my sanity, considering what some of my teachers were telling me that I had learning disabilities and what I was going through at home. (You see, in American literature, we'd take reading quizzes every morning. They consisted of 10 questions, -not- multiple choice. These questions were among the lines of "What color was Gatsby's shirt" and "What do characters A and B spot at the mountains?". I cannot remember things like this. Maybe you can, but _I_ certainly can't.)
Sometime before the semester ended (heh, just like before), I decided to transfer out of the private school, back into public school. The straw that broke the camel's back was an unsatisfactory in English telling me that I was essentially an idiot. There were more events (such as saying something in the computer lab ["badass," to be precise] while the headmaster was walking in. Funny how little old "Reading Disability" Elliot would get "hated" by the headmaster while everyone else was talking about, uhm, more "interesting" things.) that occured that day which convinced me that the private school wasn't worth it too, however.
Well, I eventually rejoin the public high school which was oh-so-evil in 9th grade. In what is a totally unexpected turn of events, I make a bunch of friends. Perhaps the only reason that I have these friends today is because of debate. I automatically made about 5 friends the second day (I didn't have debate the first day) because people knew me from a debate tournament.
Of interest is that my grades at the public school slowly started rising as time passed. I suspect the main cause of the rising of grades was getting back my PSAT scores (80% higher than all sophomores in Verbal Skills. Reading disability my ass! I missed five out of 25 critical reading questions; 4 in Section 1, 1 in Section 3).
In conclusion: JOIN DEBATE! It even made me make a few friends at the private school. Also, Depressed geeks going to a private school really ought to go to public school. It's a lot cheaper and the education quality is the exact same, if not better. And you'll already have a couple of friends made from debate tournaments.
Because we all know how game watches are so "adult." ;P
I am sick and tired of seeing BeOS 5 PE "Max Edition" mentioned so much in geek news sites. All it is is BeOS 5 Personal Edition with a bunch of crappy icons (look at the screenshots page, they totally screwed the folders and the BeOS menu icon) and broken stuff. All it is is some kid trying to make a name for himself by packaging a bunch of software that he's probably never used in his life.
The default resolution has been moved from 640x480x60hz to 1024x768. WHY?! It was originally that way because not all monitors can do 1024x768! UGH.
What's more, it probably has a bunch of driver conflicts, since all he's doing is supplying the patches to the drivers, so any PCI IDs that were removed from the original driver won't be in the new drivers and the hardware won't be detected.
This is not a troll! I'm just stating all that Max Edition really is -- a dumb modification anyone could've made.
X really isn't as bad as many make it out to be. X is -NOT- slow -- it's just that KDE and Gnome are bloated. Not only that, but while I don't intend to troll, the interfaces aren't very consistent, even with themselves.
As Guillaume Maillard stated on OSNews, X can be made to be fast.
The man reason I don't like X is because of GUI inconsistencies. Even when Redhat used the same theme on KDE and Gnome, I would still see a lot of inconsistency in applications. I don't have a current Redhat install right now, but if I remember correctly, launching KWrite from Gnome would have "bad-feeling" scrollbars. In short, it's not just the look of the widgets that matter, it's also how they behave. CONSISTENCY IS IPMORTANT as far as I am concerned. (Ironically, I prefer using WindowMaker over KDE and Gnome. The desktop's interface feels faster as a whole, but applications are still as inconsistent as ever.)
So really, the problem is not as much speed as it is consistency. If PicoGUI manages to emulate X, what good will that do us if interfaces are still clunky?
If you look at the screenshots section, you'll see that Internet Explorer is running.
If I'm not mistaken, isn't it illegal to run Internet Explorer on another platform than Windows (That is, if you're trying to run the win32 version)? If so, they might as well sue them for violation of the license agreement on IE and other products that use IE...