But isn't that just for exposing the desktop? A place where icons never should been located in the first place? Amazing how everyone is now running NeXT but they're still pretending they're running MacOS.
Worse yet is that employers will demand a thumb print to clock on/off in minimum wage jobs or to use company resources in white collar jobs. Piss off your employer, your name will go onto a blacklist and you won't be able to find another job. Best way to get people to tow the line.
and ya gotta admit, attacking KDE (or GNOME) is pretty easy for Microsoft.. all they've gotta do is plug in a piece of hardware. Of course, attacking Windows is pretty easy for Debian based linux distributions too, all you've gotta do is fire up Synaptic. If you control the demo you can lie just as well, if not better, than you can with statistics.
Using some window managers on Linux as soon as you move the window it goes transparent. The result is that you only have to move the window a tiny bit to see what is under it. That saves you time, therefore increasing your productivity.
Oh yeah? How did they configure their printer? On Windows: plug it in, insert driver disc if needed. On Linux ????? dunno, I can't get my printer to work under Linux. Brother even supplies drivers for Linux but it still doesn't work. Rather than pretending Linux is perfect we should be fixing it. In this case, that means asking Brother for the source code to their printer drivers. I know why they don't release their source code BTW, it's because it is so horrid. I can tell you that because I've reverse engineered their drivers to see what was wrong and found buffer overflows, bad programming style, whole blocks of unused code, etc. We need to convince these companies that we're not going to laugh at them.. we're going to help them better service their customers.
Yeah! Stop wasting time posting on Slashdot, build a robot army, overthrow the government, conquer europe and start a socialist paradise! What the hell is taking you so long! Go do it now!
It's amazing to me that people still do this stuff. Yeah, hacking on games is fun, but why do most modders keep their software proprietary? Why do they find it "cool" to hack on proprietary games but not on open source games? It's like they enjoy being enslaved to this corporations that see them as just another one of their "community assets".
Since when is anyone who writes software accountable for anything? Programmers have disclaimed responsibility and the courts have upheld such for decades.
So you gave up, yep, gotcha. If you really want it to work in WINE you'd figure out why it doesn't work and fix it. But instead, you want to use my tax dollars to write a Linux version of the software. That's rediculous.
Filling out a tax return is so simple in Australia that a koala with a pencil wedged in its mouth could do it. If your tax return is remotely complicated you're expected to go to an accountant anyway.
Yah!! Someone finally made the Free Software argument. Jesus we're slow these days. How can a government ever justify not releasing source code to the public? It's developed with public funds, therefore we own it. It's not made for profit, therefore there's no economic case for keeping it secret. For all we know there could be glaring bugs in this software (there was in the version that came out last year) and we'll be unable to fix them before submitting a tax return (meaning we'll be responsible for them). I recommended in another post that we use the Freedom Of Information Act to get the source code. I wonder what loophole there is in the law that would prevent us from doing that. I'm sure there is one. Of course, there's also the distinct possibility that the government didn't even get the source code to this software from the contractors they paid to make it.
And they charge you like $60 and don't even ask for it upfront (they take it out of your return). Most of them even offer a moneyback guarentee if they don't get you the biggest return you're entitled to.
How about you just wait until next year when your new Mac has an x86 chip in it? WINE will work just fine then. Ahhh, you Mac hippies are in for some real pain when companies that would previously have said "right, we need a Windows version first, then we'll code a Mac version and those Linux dweebs can use WINE if they want to use our product" start saying "right, we just need a Windows version, everyone else can use WINE."
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If there ever comes a time when religious nuts start protesting quantum computers I'm gunna break out the shotgun.
But isn't that just for exposing the desktop? A place where icons never should been located in the first place? Amazing how everyone is now running NeXT but they're still pretending they're running MacOS.
Yeah, I have trouble with writing verbal idioms.
Dunno if you've read this or not.
Worse yet is that employers will demand a thumb print to clock on/off in minimum wage jobs or to use company resources in white collar jobs. Piss off your employer, your name will go onto a blacklist and you won't be able to find another job. Best way to get people to tow the line.
Then you have to go hunt for the app you just minimized on the task bar, how stupid is that?
Sure, if you only have two windows. Unfortunately there's no button for "expose the windows under this one" although there should be.
Ok, I admit it, I don't even know how to begin this troll.
Yep. Of course, there's a heck of a lot of difference between semi-transparent windows and fully transparent windows :)
and ya gotta admit, attacking KDE (or GNOME) is pretty easy for Microsoft.. all they've gotta do is plug in a piece of hardware. Of course, attacking Windows is pretty easy for Debian based linux distributions too, all you've gotta do is fire up Synaptic. If you control the demo you can lie just as well, if not better, than you can with statistics.
Using some window managers on Linux as soon as you move the window it goes transparent. The result is that you only have to move the window a tiny bit to see what is under it. That saves you time, therefore increasing your productivity.
Wow! That is SO EASY! How could I possibly have missed that!
Oh yeah? How did they configure their printer? On Windows: plug it in, insert driver disc if needed. On Linux ????? dunno, I can't get my printer to work under Linux. Brother even supplies drivers for Linux but it still doesn't work. Rather than pretending Linux is perfect we should be fixing it. In this case, that means asking Brother for the source code to their printer drivers. I know why they don't release their source code BTW, it's because it is so horrid. I can tell you that because I've reverse engineered their drivers to see what was wrong and found buffer overflows, bad programming style, whole blocks of unused code, etc. We need to convince these companies that we're not going to laugh at them.. we're going to help them better service their customers.
Yep, he must be the Ned Flanders of Slashdot.
Can we stay at your place? Do you have spare beds? Does your Mom make good tuna salad?
Yeah! Stop wasting time posting on Slashdot, build a robot army, overthrow the government, conquer europe and start a socialist paradise! What the hell is taking you so long! Go do it now!
Blah. You're just another dude forecasting the end of PC gaming. It's never gunna happen.
It's amazing to me that people still do this stuff. Yeah, hacking on games is fun, but why do most modders keep their software proprietary? Why do they find it "cool" to hack on proprietary games but not on open source games? It's like they enjoy being enslaved to this corporations that see them as just another one of their "community assets".
I like making money.
Since when is anyone who writes software accountable for anything? Programmers have disclaimed responsibility and the courts have upheld such for decades.
So you gave up, yep, gotcha. If you really want it to work in WINE you'd figure out why it doesn't work and fix it. But instead, you want to use my tax dollars to write a Linux version of the software. That's rediculous.
Filling out a tax return is so simple in Australia that a koala with a pencil wedged in its mouth could do it. If your tax return is remotely complicated you're expected to go to an accountant anyway.
Yah!! Someone finally made the Free Software argument. Jesus we're slow these days. How can a government ever justify not releasing source code to the public? It's developed with public funds, therefore we own it. It's not made for profit, therefore there's no economic case for keeping it secret. For all we know there could be glaring bugs in this software (there was in the version that came out last year) and we'll be unable to fix them before submitting a tax return (meaning we'll be responsible for them). I recommended in another post that we use the Freedom Of Information Act to get the source code. I wonder what loophole there is in the law that would prevent us from doing that. I'm sure there is one. Of course, there's also the distinct possibility that the government didn't even get the source code to this software from the contractors they paid to make it.
And they charge you like $60 and don't even ask for it upfront (they take it out of your return). Most of them even offer a moneyback guarentee if they don't get you the biggest return you're entitled to.
How about you just wait until next year when your new Mac has an x86 chip in it? WINE will work just fine then. Ahhh, you Mac hippies are in for some real pain when companies that would previously have said "right, we need a Windows version first, then we'll code a Mac version and those Linux dweebs can use WINE if they want to use our product" start saying "right, we just need a Windows version, everyone else can use WINE."