Everyone else probably threw rocks at him afterwards until someone else realized they could steal the wheel, make a wheelbarrow, and then dump even more rocks on him.
Read the help documentation in Lyx for like five minutes. It will save you twenty minutes of aggravation setting things "just right" in toy programs like Word.
Why the fuck do you think people like LaTeX? Do you think anyone enjoys wasting their time? Word is a toy for math. It's crap. I know... it's FUCKING required for some (internal) submissions on my campus and it fucks equations up like a third-grader.
Oh, BTW, if you don't vomit when you get those popups requesting that you purchase the "real" math editor for Word, what the fuck is wrong with you?:)
As a self-proclaimed scientist you should understand that printing pretty pictures, plots, and formulaes is absolutely essential to getting your work understood. If you spend all your time font engineering in Word then you're not doing real science.
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My fiance and I do this all the time.
Usually one will login through KDM, then leave the computer and make dinner or something. The other will come to use the computer, press CTRL-ALT-F1,
login at the terminal, and run startx --:1.
Away you go. CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to the first
login, and CTRL-ALT-F8 to get to the new one.
Ancient stuff, man.
If you have to ask, you don't know.
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This was an interesting editorial, but the thought that kept going through my head was why?
Why ask people to change away from something THEY are comfortable with? Why ask your fellow caveman to use conversational skills which might be undeveloped? (Language - most people don't know it's there, or what it does).
What is the normal tool used to initiate mating - a club. Right or wrong, it's there. A sophisticated user probably understands the options available, and the audience of their message and chooses an appropriate strategy. A normal caveman, which is the current majority, doesn't care, doesn't WANT to care, and more importantly, SHOULDN'T care about how to get women.
These people want to share something they have. They don't want to have to learn a new communication paradigm to do it - they just want it to happen.
If I club a woman over the head, there's probably a good reason for it. Getting a reply back from someone that says "Please don't do that" is not going to endear that person to me. I don't really worry about whether that person PREFERS a certain mating ritual or not - after all.
Could one accomplish something similar with a message like "I'm sorry but I'm unable to read documents in Microsoft Word format because I use Linux. Please send your document in a format that I can read, such as ASCII Text or PDF."
No. The general response (from my experience) has been, "Then you suck and there's nothing I can do about it. You should use Windows."
You _must_ explain why Word attachments themselves are the problem and how to get around them.
I've found the "size of the attachment" argument to be the most effective (and that's relative... it's a massive uphill battle). Next is inconvenience to me, but that presumes that the sender really cares, and last is the "for the good of computing".
Actually, recently, many users have been bitten enough times with transferring documents up through old versions of Word that they pay attention to, "Do you really want to be using a program which saves information in a form which may be unusable or, most probably, improperly read in a year or two?"
Finally, sometimes I just outright lie and say, "Oh, man, I'm sorry I don't have Word XP (or whatever), could you maybe save it in Word 95 format... or better yet, save it in text since that's all I really need." Just about everyone gets that.
Word documents, along with other proprietary formats, especially ones which may or may not be able to be opened with future software, are a bad idea for information transfer.
It's a stupid, terrible, dumb standard which Microsoft revels in because it helps to ensure their position and sales.
It behooves everyone who uses computers to compose documents and share information to break the current standard... not just Open Source advocates.
This, I believe, is RMS's point. The fact that he has Open Source advocates' ears is a fact of reality, not the ideal.
Nobody really uses vi anymore, so your comment sounds like "Unlike ed, Emacs is highly self-documenting". Run vim without a file and it says the same stuff as Emacs (how to get help).
I grew up in Southern California and may be defensive of Mexican culture. There are a lot of bad attitudes about how much Spanish is necessary to "get what you need".
I've heard "I know enough Spanish to get me a prostitute" to mean "Why learn more when that's all they're good for?"
What are you getting at? There is an excellent description of the entire hobbit culture and it is trivially easy to imagine how their lives would have gone on uninterrupted.
What else should they have talked about? US Politics? I don't see your point.
Slashdot Mirror
("Eight bucks for a Kiss album? Fuck that, man!")
Man, I totally agree. They're not even worth the diskspace.
It only took one man to invent the wheel.
Everyone else probably threw rocks at him afterwards until someone else realized they could steal the wheel, make a wheelbarrow, and then dump even more rocks on him.
I'm guessing that he means:
BZ:Quake::wooden chess set:sold gold checkers
In other words, complex, in depth game, vs. pretty simplistic game.
But, I'm guessing.
I care.
It all depends on the amount of sarcasm that was intended.
You wanna SUCK MY ASS?
You can! I'll let you!!
What about California surf dudes that prefer vi(m)?
There are a few.
Read the help documentation in Lyx for like five minutes. It will save you twenty minutes of aggravation setting things "just right" in toy programs like Word.
... it's FUCKING required for some (internal) submissions on my campus and it fucks equations up like a third-grader.
:)
Why the fuck do you think people like LaTeX? Do you think anyone enjoys wasting their time? Word is a toy for math. It's crap. I know
Oh, BTW, if you don't vomit when you get those popups requesting that you purchase the "real" math editor for Word, what the fuck is wrong with you?
As a self-proclaimed scientist you should understand that printing pretty pictures, plots, and formulaes is absolutely essential to getting your work understood. If you spend all your time font engineering in Word then you're not doing real science.
It made it on Slashdot!
WOOT!
WOOT!
It's not arithmAtic dammit!
mame, shmame
It's not a torus!
It's not a torus!
He had to practice, neh?
My fiance and I do this all the time.
:1.
Usually one will login through KDM, then leave the computer and make dinner or something. The other will come to use the computer, press CTRL-ALT-F1,
login at the terminal, and run startx --
Away you go. CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to the first
login, and CTRL-ALT-F8 to get to the new one.
Ancient stuff, man.
But I'll give you a hint, "There Is No Cabal."
I bored with you:
A capitalist != lazy fucker.
A capitalist != wannabe monopolist.
An immigrant running their own laundromat is most probably a capitalist.
Why don't you rewrite your speech with "current bigwigs" instead of capitalist and see how ridiculous it is to bring in capitalism.
BTW, just because you claim Markist [sic] theory defines something in a certain way doesn't mean it's so. It's not even relevant, really.
I declare that Einstein defined E=mc^2 and therefore the web has a long way to go to revolutionize our lives.
I thought this was funny.
There is a funny moderation.
This was an interesting editorial, but the thought that kept going through my head was why?
Why ask people to change away from something THEY are comfortable with? Why ask your fellow caveman to use conversational skills which might be undeveloped? (Language - most people don't know it's there, or what it does).
What is the normal tool used to initiate mating - a club. Right or wrong, it's there. A sophisticated user probably understands the options available, and the audience of their message and chooses an appropriate strategy. A normal caveman, which is the current majority, doesn't care, doesn't WANT to care, and more importantly, SHOULDN'T care about how to get women.
These people want to share something they have. They don't want to have to learn a new communication paradigm to do it - they just want it to happen.
If I club a woman over the head, there's probably a good reason for it. Getting a reply back from someone that says "Please don't do that" is not going to endear that person to me. I don't really worry about whether that person PREFERS a certain mating ritual or not - after all.
Could one accomplish something similar with a message like "I'm sorry but I'm unable to read documents in Microsoft Word format because I use Linux. Please send your document in a format that I can read, such as ASCII Text or PDF."
... it's a massive uphill battle). Next is inconvenience to me, but that presumes that the sender really cares, and last is the "for the good of computing".
... or better yet, save it in text since that's all I really need." Just about everyone gets that.
No. The general response (from my experience) has been, "Then you suck and there's nothing I can do about it. You should use Windows."
You _must_ explain why Word attachments themselves are the problem and how to get around them.
I've found the "size of the attachment" argument to be the most effective (and that's relative
Actually, recently, many users have been bitten enough times with transferring documents up through old versions of Word that they pay attention to, "Do you really want to be using a program which saves information in a form which may be unusable or, most probably, improperly read in a year or two?"
Finally, sometimes I just outright lie and say, "Oh, man, I'm sorry I don't have Word XP (or whatever), could you maybe save it in Word 95 format
Open-source is already marginalized.
... not just Open Source advocates.
Word documents, along with other proprietary formats, especially ones which may or may not be able to be opened with future software, are a bad idea for information transfer.
It's a stupid, terrible, dumb standard which Microsoft revels in because it helps to ensure their position and sales.
It behooves everyone who uses computers to compose documents and share information to break the current standard
This, I believe, is RMS's point. The fact that he has Open Source advocates' ears is a fact of reality, not the ideal.
kawai == scary
kawaii == cute
I don't think you meant scary, neh?
Nobody really uses vi anymore, so your comment sounds like "Unlike ed, Emacs is highly self-documenting". Run vim without a file and it says the same stuff as Emacs (how to get help).
I grew up in Southern California and may be defensive of Mexican culture. There are a lot of bad attitudes about how much Spanish is necessary to "get what you need".
I've heard "I know enough Spanish to get me a prostitute" to mean "Why learn more when that's all they're good for?"
What are you getting at? There is an excellent description of the entire hobbit culture and it is trivially easy to imagine how their lives would have gone on uninterrupted.
What else should they have talked about? US Politics? I don't see your point.
The OS needs memory ... maybe two 1.5GB matrices.