When I was in highschool it was cool to be on the bus in the morning and get the driver to put on that cool hip hop or grunge station.
Now that i'm older I find myself not liking most music thats played and so I don't listen to music much. I do find that talk shows are somewhat amusing at times, but even howard stern I only find funny about once a week.
At my home I don't have a stereo, I don't have a bad-ass sound system on my computer. I have a few mp3's and a few cd's I own and listen too rarely. In my car I have cd's I listen too rarely as well.
I think in a current week I hear about 6-8 songs and listen to 1-3 partial radio shows. I just can't be bothered with that media. I don't know if it's just because I am not fond of music as much as other people are or if it's really based on something more - like the lack of quality in the mainstreams current music. But then again everyone has their own opinion on what is good. Obviously Britney Spears wouldn't be making more money than I will ever see in my entire life if people didn't like her.
So I keep seeing slashdot (News for nerds. Stuff that matters.) post these essential email/message board post skirmish (not even a war) between Linus and "Some guy" who's name I don't care enough about to remember. In these posts "Some Guy" makes fun of linus and jokingly says Linus didn't write the linux kernal, and Linus replied jokingly that he didn't and something about space aliens or something silly, then this guy rebuttles....
Um who cares? This really isn't news, even for nerds this really isn't something I would bat an eye at, maybe if I was tipsy i'd give a brief chuckle. And this really doesn't matter at all, so uh...why's it here?
What would be interesting is maybe seeing posts about Venus Passing the Sun (rare couple hundred year occurance definately news worthy) and articles about someone developing yet another hopeful aids vaccine (stuff that matters)
I mean if you guys are gonna change your forte, why not go all out and start posting links/blurbs to Tux Comics, and Linux bashing forums? That'd be somewhat entertaining still.
Sorry I am no longer impressed with animation that consist 3 polygons and crappy "artificial voices" i'd rather just watch FF:Spirits Within (and thats not even a good movie)
If OS's were really faster they'd require LESS processing power and LESS memory. If only OSX would boot up on my G4 the way OS9 did on my G4....If only XP booted up as fast on my P4 as Win2K did on my P3....:(
It doesn't really matter to me how you explain why an OS is "faster" if when I upgrade to it, I have to upgrade my hardware to "see" the speed increase...
#2 I thought region coded DVD's was more for controlling censorship than reducing piracy I could be wrong, but yeah I agree it's annoying.
I don't agree with #3 - The idea of releasing the DVD some time after the movie dies out is because companies want to make the most money they can. This doesn't happen all at once. By staggering Movie--couple months---DVD---couple months---DVD w/ Extras you can make money for a year off of the 1 movie, where as if you released everything at once you would make a lot of money but not everyone would purchase your stuff and it would all be forgotten within a couple months later. Even if it's a good movie it'd be "out of site, out of mind" for the general public (die hard slashdotters and sci-fi fanboys are th eonly exceptions)
#4 this would suck right now. Even with my 1.5mbs DSL connection watching streaming music videos off of yahoo or news off of foxnews/cnn etc.. sucks. The quality is terrible, and the video usually choppy. We'd need a lot better streaming technology or at least a lot better bandwidth on both sides fo rthis to really be worthwhile.
#5 movie ticket prices have very little to do with the cost of the movie....There three theatres in my area, 1 is an AMC theatre that charges around $10 per person, another is a Century theatre that charges around $8 and one is a Camera theatre that charges around $6. It has more to do with the sound, screen size, and comfortability of the theatre than anything else. Also movies and video games ar etotally different markets (sometimes) and for the most part video games get used a lot more often and more frequently than movies. You buy a movie watch it with friends, then maybe a few months later will watch it again, a video game is bought you play it for 120 hours - since it lasts longer and is used more it...costs more - makes sense to me.
"it is exactly what people demand" - only those younger than 10 years old could ever appreciate Jar Jar Binks....I don't think he was demanded at all.
"American culture makes this movie inevitably what it will be" - In that everyone who enjoyed episodes 4-7, hates episodes 1-3? ok, but I don't see how thats "American Culture's" fault....it's more like Lucas's fault for writing and directing 3 shitty movies made for kids(kids=10yrs and younger)
Seriously, with NTFS and HFS+ I see very little fragmentation on both my Wintel and Apple machines.
Both have 40gig HD's and both have applications installed/uninstalled quite often. My PC feels the worst of this as he gets games installed and uninstalled in addition to the apps.
For example the last time I reinstalled either of these machines was back in january(new year fresh install) and since then my pc has felt the install/uninstal of various games usually ranging from 2-5 gigs each. The Apple has been installed and with the exception of updates, plugins, video codecs and basic small apps that get added/upgraded often has done alright.
Right now Norton System Works on my PC is saying the drive is 4% fragmented. Disk Warrior on my Apple is saying the drive is 2% fragmented.
Conclusion: Fragmentation is no longer an issue for the HOME USER(note how i'm not saying your companies network doesn't need to be concerned), unless there still running a FAT32 partition >. which well they deserve to have there computer explode at that point anyway.
LOL you sound like one of those pathetic VNboards complainers. I played FFXI from October to March casually (read: 1-2 hours a day) and killed several NM's including Leaping Lizzy, Leech King, and several others. I got the drops them decked out my level 50 character (passed limit 1) and sold my gil and my account on player auctions for a couple hundred bucks.
I never used bots, and I am in and play in the NA....FFXI community is made up of whiny ass first time MMORPG players who think everyone is using a bot because they have apparently more patience then them. Oh and lets not forget the JP bashers, the SE fanboys, and all the people who/shout in cities for handouts....
Note: I have owned a Zaurus 5500 since 2002 and paid $400 for it new.
1) - Are you like a lead hand when pressing on touch screens? You must be, because I've never had a problem with my screen breaking. But i've also never broken my laptop screen either.
2) - I've never owned a Palm but my friend has one and he's a pretty big guy, and has never broken his screen.
PDA's = PDA's...um yeah Personal Data Assistant, sounds right to me.
As far as it getting pocketed in.03 seconds...uh so would your laptop if you left it on a bench inthe middle of nowhere...in fact if you took your home desktop and left it by itself in some random place it'd get stolen just as quickly...so uh yeah whats the point? Don't leave your shit lieing around.
Dropping it would definately break it I agree...but so would your laptop unless you got some extra "ruggid" type. As for an mp3 player - uh yeah most of them if you drop them they will break, and if you bust the LCD on an iPod your kinda screwed. Also if you reak it, why replace it? These types of items are NOT meant to be repaired like that, it's usually cheeper and more efficient to just replace the item.
I have a feeling you must be really clumsy and break a LOT of items. No one I know that has owned a PDA has broken anything on it...but we also have never dropped them, never left them on a park bench, and never flushed them down the toilet...apparently some people do it looks like....
it's made by open source programers for open source users.
Honestly Graphic Designers are NOT programers. There visual people who like pretty things and easy to use GUI's - thats why Apple is a great platform for us:) We want to be able to use ourcomputer quickly and efficiently. IE: I Hit record in photoshop, do some coomands hit stop and I can now use that macro for anything.
Theres no need for me to write a script or make sure I have some other dependency programs/file sinstalled. The Program works exactly like the other programs I use in the print industry Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign - they all use a similar UI.
Theres no reason for a graphic designer to touch linux ever. Maybe a windows machine, always an apple, but never linux.
The makers of GIMP are open source programmers who know nothing about graphic design in the professional world. Look at the prettines of their site compared to adobe's. The GIMP could have millions of dollars of money put into it and never be as good as phhotoshop, because they don't know or understand that CODERS ARE NOT GRAPHIC DESIGNERS and vice versa.
So i'm assuming you meant the 10 programs you install after the 100 bazillion updates and patches you install right after windows finishes installing....
My first 10 programs after Windows are:
1) MS Office 2-5) Macromedia Studio (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Freehand) 6-9) Adobe Design Studio (Photoshop/Imageready, Indesign, Illustrator, Acrobat) 10) Quark Express
Then after a few more essentials like AutoCad 2004, CuteFtp, and various plugins for the above listed appz, comes things like Trillian and PowerDVD....
Most of you don't even know what this software does, and you start bashing Adobe for discontinuing it.
First off Adobe creates new software ever few years and competes it against itself, then adds features form both to eachother and slowly makes a new product. Indesign is a more robust application and after creating the software and advancing it over several years with both pagemaker and indesign being available, Adobe is trying to really push people to switch to InDesign over Pagemaker, I imagine once more places make the switch you'll see Pagemaker support drop as well.
They did the same with Framemaker and InCopy. If you are using Framemaker still well thats the old software they've been trying to get rid of...InCopy is it's replcement and what you should be switching to and upgrading too.
Just buy the laptop from an american site and ship it to your address in the UK. I've had to buy tons of movies from other Region Codes from amazon.co.uk, even though I have an amazon.com account as well. I imagine if Amazon doesn't mind this, Dell wouldn't notice/mind either....Worst case that happens is they tell you know.
Which plan B would be to have a friend in the states get your laptop and then send it to you. Or just do what most people do and buy it in a store....
For the record I hate most Apple Fans, the same way I hate Linux Fans, and WIndows Fans there usually onesided and think their favorite app is god's gift to the world.
However, this is a pretty lame ass article. I don't like the iPods (for various reasons) but they ARE a great little machine and very popular. Looking around the office I see 4 people atm who have one on there desk, I know 3 freinds that own one, and at school I see them all over the place. So even if Apple lost some money on these in the first year or two they now have there name ALL OVER THE PLACE. This is basically Marketing 101, you get your name out there at any cost, eventually it comes back to you, this is why companies will spend $1+ on superbowl commercials. It's also why in San Jose if you buy any new 04 VW you get an iPod for free.
Now iTunes. I don't know anyone who uses this, as most still use Kazaa for any thing they want. However if I recall correctly there was a/. article in the past talking about X amount of music downloaded in the first day or something, and from what I remember it was a fairly large number. The thing is this is a new service, and if it has lost money, well it's only been out for a year and most business as a rule of thumb don't see a profit for 3 years, it takes 1 the first year to work on doing whatever it takes to get the name out, the second year your more known and the name really starts to be branded at that point, then the third year is when you actually have enough of a customer base that you start breaking even and/or seeing a profit.
Anyway, all in all, Apple over the last 4 years has really gotten their name out, and made a huge difference. I think their really starting to gain a larger market share because of these endeavors, and in the next year or two I expect to see them raking in a lot of money.
I actually had not noticed Googles Local search, there text renders small on my screen and I don't notice a lot of subtle changes they make. Anyway because of it I was able to find some local escorts in my town. Now I don't have to go to eros-guide.com and see all the chicks who are in every other city but mine YAY
I just tried Mandrake 9x recently and it couldn't see/recognize my 3Com NIC. It also didn't see my Netgear Wireless NIC. It also didn't see the AC97 Sound Card I have or the Olympus digicam.
Did they really make all those things magically work in 10?
Also please don't refer to GIMP or Open Office as Graphic and Business apps, they are far behind that of Adobe and Microsoft software in general.
Seriously. Windows and OSX I go to a store buy a product plug it in and it works. If its a camera I plug it in a icon on my desktop or in "my computer" show sup and I can drag and drop the photos from it. Don't even need to install anything (like SMB support). Anything I want to install I just double click and it installs then the program runs. I don't have to see if some dependencies are turned on/off I don't have to install anything. I buy a new soundcard I plug it in Windows finds a driver and I hear sound instantly.
I'm not a programmer. I use my computer to work on projects that require typing, graphics, spreadsheets, browsing the net, watching movies, and I want to do it without having to install/setup anything. And if I do need to install somethign I just want to click the "install" file and hit "ok" and run the "shortcut" thats been put on my desktop. Windows and OSX does that, Linux has you jumping through 100 different hurdles to ge tthe simplest things to work the way you want.
Slashdot Mirror
Followed by slashdot posters who insist on beeting a dead horse. ;)
MS Rep: Microsoft is now more secure than ever, not to mention our proven track record of security in the past.
Person 1: Hasn't your security been laughed at in the past?
MS Rep: Microsoft's NT and 2000 platforms set the ground work for our current XP OS.
Person 1: Maybe, but hasn't your Windows 95, and 98 OS's been nothing but trouble?
Person 2: Yeah and what about Millenium?
MS Rep: Windows 95 and 98 are just older and so are not supported anymore, I have no idea what this Millenium is you speak of.
Person 2: What are you talking about of course you do I have a install disk righ there.
MS Rep2: We don't know what you are talking about, security please escort this man out.
Person 3: Hay what about the bug reports on IE that occur every week.
MS Rep: Ok will security please escort out all the slashdot and wired readers, thanks.
MS Rep: So what do we think of MS now?
MS Rep2: I think its great
When I was in highschool it was cool to be on the bus in the morning and get the driver to put on that cool hip hop or grunge station.
Now that i'm older I find myself not liking most music thats played and so I don't listen to music much. I do find that talk shows are somewhat amusing at times, but even howard stern I only find funny about once a week.
At my home I don't have a stereo, I don't have a bad-ass sound system on my computer. I have a few mp3's and a few cd's I own and listen too rarely. In my car I have cd's I listen too rarely as well.
I think in a current week I hear about 6-8 songs and listen to 1-3 partial radio shows. I just can't be bothered with that media. I don't know if it's just because I am not fond of music as much as other people are or if it's really based on something more - like the lack of quality in the mainstreams current music. But then again everyone has their own opinion on what is good. Obviously Britney Spears wouldn't be making more money than I will ever see in my entire life if people didn't like her.
Oh well life continues on for me I guess...
Since when?
Now give me my fucking Half-Life 2....PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
So I keep seeing slashdot (News for nerds. Stuff that matters.) post these essential email/message board post skirmish (not even a war) between Linus and "Some guy" who's name I don't care enough about to remember. In these posts "Some Guy" makes fun of linus and jokingly says Linus didn't write the linux kernal, and Linus replied jokingly that he didn't and something about space aliens or something silly, then this guy rebuttles....
Um who cares? This really isn't news, even for nerds this really isn't something I would bat an eye at, maybe if I was tipsy i'd give a brief chuckle. And this really doesn't matter at all, so uh...why's it here?
What would be interesting is maybe seeing posts about Venus Passing the Sun (rare couple hundred year occurance definately news worthy) and articles about someone developing yet another hopeful aids vaccine (stuff that matters)
I mean if you guys are gonna change your forte, why not go all out and start posting links/blurbs to Tux Comics, and Linux bashing forums? That'd be somewhat entertaining still.
Sorry I am no longer impressed with animation that consist 3 polygons and crappy "artificial voices" i'd rather just watch FF:Spirits Within (and thats not even a good movie)
If OS's were really faster they'd require LESS processing power and LESS memory. If only OSX would boot up on my G4 the way OS9 did on my G4....If only XP booted up as fast on my P4 as Win2K did on my P3.... :(
It doesn't really matter to me how you explain why an OS is "faster" if when I upgrade to it, I have to upgrade my hardware to "see" the speed increase...
eeewwww.....
looks like a windows 95 or maybe 98 user.
I agree with #1
#2 I thought region coded DVD's was more for controlling censorship than reducing piracy I could be wrong, but yeah I agree it's annoying.
I don't agree with #3
- The idea of releasing the DVD some time after the movie dies out is because companies want to make the most money they can. This doesn't happen all at once. By staggering Movie--couple months---DVD---couple months---DVD w/ Extras you can make money for a year off of the 1 movie, where as if you released everything at once you would make a lot of money but not everyone would purchase your stuff and it would all be forgotten within a couple months later. Even if it's a good movie it'd be "out of site, out of mind" for the general public (die hard slashdotters and sci-fi fanboys are th eonly exceptions)
#4 this would suck right now. Even with my 1.5mbs DSL connection watching streaming music videos off of yahoo or news off of foxnews/cnn etc.. sucks. The quality is terrible, and the video usually choppy. We'd need a lot better streaming technology or at least a lot better bandwidth on both sides fo rthis to really be worthwhile.
#5 movie ticket prices have very little to do with the cost of the movie....There three theatres in my area, 1 is an AMC theatre that charges around $10 per person, another is a Century theatre that charges around $8 and one is a Camera theatre that charges around $6. It has more to do with the sound, screen size, and comfortability of the theatre than anything else. Also movies and video games ar etotally different markets (sometimes) and for the most part video games get used a lot more often and more frequently than movies. You buy a movie watch it with friends, then maybe a few months later will watch it again, a video game is bought you play it for 120 hours - since it lasts longer and is used more it...costs more - makes sense to me.
"I would like the vast audience here to help me understand the disease through experiences and that it might help me aid my sister"
Um yeah I guarantee 80% of all the posts will be some jackass making fun of you/your sister or the disorder in general....GO INTERNET.
"it is exactly what people demand"
- only those younger than 10 years old could ever appreciate Jar Jar Binks....I don't think he was demanded at all.
"American culture makes this movie inevitably what it will be"
- In that everyone who enjoyed episodes 4-7, hates episodes 1-3? ok, but I don't see how thats "American Culture's" fault....it's more like Lucas's fault for writing and directing 3 shitty movies made for kids(kids=10yrs and younger)
in my opinion, 12% and higher is probably when I notice the "Hay is my system running slow?" (Checks) (Defrags)
Seriously, with NTFS and HFS+ I see very little fragmentation on both my Wintel and Apple machines.
Both have 40gig HD's and both have applications installed/uninstalled quite often. My PC feels the worst of this as he gets games installed and uninstalled in addition to the apps.
For example the last time I reinstalled either of these machines was back in january(new year fresh install) and since then my pc has felt the install/uninstal of various games usually ranging from 2-5 gigs each. The Apple has been installed and with the exception of updates, plugins, video codecs and basic small apps that get added/upgraded often has done alright.
Right now Norton System Works on my PC is saying the drive is 4% fragmented. Disk Warrior on my Apple is saying the drive is 2% fragmented.
Conclusion: Fragmentation is no longer an issue for the HOME USER(note how i'm not saying your companies network doesn't need to be concerned), unless there still running a FAT32 partition >. which well they deserve to have there computer explode at that point anyway.
LOL you sound like one of those pathetic VNboards complainers. I played FFXI from October to March casually (read: 1-2 hours a day) and killed several NM's including Leaping Lizzy, Leech King, and several others. I got the drops them decked out my level 50 character (passed limit 1) and sold my gil and my account on player auctions for a couple hundred bucks.
/shout in cities for handouts....
I never used bots, and I am in and play in the NA....FFXI community is made up of whiny ass first time MMORPG players who think everyone is using a bot because they have apparently more patience then them. Oh and lets not forget the JP bashers, the SE fanboys, and all the people who
That game sucked so bad.
WOW you can't possible be serious?!
.03 seconds...uh so would your laptop if you left it on a bench inthe middle of nowhere...in fact if you took your home desktop and left it by itself in some random place it'd get stolen just as quickly...so uh yeah whats the point? Don't leave your shit lieing around.
Note: I have owned a Zaurus 5500 since 2002 and paid $400 for it new.
1) - Are you like a lead hand when pressing on touch screens? You must be, because I've never had a problem with my screen breaking. But i've also never broken my laptop screen either.
2) - I've never owned a Palm but my friend has one and he's a pretty big guy, and has never broken his screen.
PDA's = PDA's...um yeah Personal Data Assistant, sounds right to me.
As far as it getting pocketed in
Dropping it would definately break it I agree...but so would your laptop unless you got some extra "ruggid" type. As for an mp3 player - uh yeah most of them if you drop them they will break, and if you bust the LCD on an iPod your kinda screwed. Also if you reak it, why replace it? These types of items are NOT meant to be repaired like that, it's usually cheeper and more efficient to just replace the item.
I have a feeling you must be really clumsy and break a LOT of items. No one I know that has owned a PDA has broken anything on it...but we also have never dropped them, never left them on a park bench, and never flushed them down the toilet...apparently some people do it looks like....
it's made by open source programers for open source users.
:) We want to be able to use ourcomputer quickly and efficiently. IE: I Hit record in photoshop, do some coomands hit stop and I can now use that macro for anything.
Honestly Graphic Designers are NOT programers. There visual people who like pretty things and easy to use GUI's - thats why Apple is a great platform for us
Theres no need for me to write a script or make sure I have some other dependency programs/file sinstalled. The Program works exactly like the other programs I use in the print industry Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign - they all use a similar UI.
Theres no reason for a graphic designer to touch linux ever. Maybe a windows machine, always an apple, but never linux.
The makers of GIMP are open source programmers who know nothing about graphic design in the professional world. Look at the prettines of their site compared to adobe's. The GIMP could have millions of dollars of money put into it and never be as good as phhotoshop, because they don't know or understand that CODERS ARE NOT GRAPHIC DESIGNERS and vice versa.
So i'm assuming you meant the 10 programs you install after the 100 bazillion updates and patches you install right after windows finishes installing....
My first 10 programs after Windows are:
1) MS Office
2-5) Macromedia Studio (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Freehand)
6-9) Adobe Design Studio (Photoshop/Imageready, Indesign, Illustrator, Acrobat)
10) Quark Express
Then after a few more essentials like AutoCad 2004, CuteFtp, and various plugins for the above listed appz, comes things like Trillian and PowerDVD....
Guess my Priorities are just WAY off.....
Not.
Most of you don't even know what this software does, and you start bashing Adobe for discontinuing it.
First off Adobe creates new software ever few years and competes it against itself, then adds features form both to eachother and slowly makes a new product. Indesign is a more robust application and after creating the software and advancing it over several years with both pagemaker and indesign being available, Adobe is trying to really push people to switch to InDesign over Pagemaker, I imagine once more places make the switch you'll see Pagemaker support drop as well.
They did the same with Framemaker and InCopy. If you are using Framemaker still well thats the old software they've been trying to get rid of...InCopy is it's replcement and what you should be switching to and upgrading too.
Just buy the laptop from an american site and ship it to your address in the UK. I've had to buy tons of movies from other Region Codes from amazon.co.uk, even though I have an amazon.com account as well. I imagine if Amazon doesn't mind this, Dell wouldn't notice/mind either....Worst case that happens is they tell you know.
Which plan B would be to have a friend in the states get your laptop and then send it to you. Or just do what most people do and buy it in a store....
For the record I hate most Apple Fans, the same way I hate Linux Fans, and WIndows Fans there usually onesided and think their favorite app is god's gift to the world.
/. article in the past talking about X amount of music downloaded in the first day or something, and from what I remember it was a fairly large number. The thing is this is a new service, and if it has lost money, well it's only been out for a year and most business as a rule of thumb don't see a profit for 3 years, it takes 1 the first year to work on doing whatever it takes to get the name out, the second year your more known and the name really starts to be branded at that point, then the third year is when you actually have enough of a customer base that you start breaking even and/or seeing a profit.
However, this is a pretty lame ass article. I don't like the iPods (for various reasons) but they ARE a great little machine and very popular. Looking around the office I see 4 people atm who have one on there desk, I know 3 freinds that own one, and at school I see them all over the place. So even if Apple lost some money on these in the first year or two they now have there name ALL OVER THE PLACE. This is basically Marketing 101, you get your name out there at any cost, eventually it comes back to you, this is why companies will spend $1+ on superbowl commercials. It's also why in San Jose if you buy any new 04 VW you get an iPod for free.
Now iTunes. I don't know anyone who uses this, as most still use Kazaa for any thing they want. However if I recall correctly there was a
Anyway, all in all, Apple over the last 4 years has really gotten their name out, and made a huge difference. I think their really starting to gain a larger market share because of these endeavors, and in the next year or two I expect to see them raking in a lot of money.
I actually had not noticed Googles Local search, there text renders small on my screen and I don't notice a lot of subtle changes they make. Anyway because of it I was able to find some local escorts in my town. Now I don't have to go to eros-guide.com and see all the chicks who are in every other city but mine YAY
I just tried Mandrake 9x recently and it couldn't see/recognize my 3Com NIC. It also didn't see my Netgear Wireless NIC. It also didn't see the AC97 Sound Card I have or the Olympus digicam.
Did they really make all those things magically work in 10?
Also please don't refer to GIMP or Open Office as Graphic and Business apps, they are far behind that of Adobe and Microsoft software in general.
Seriously. Windows and OSX I go to a store buy a product plug it in and it works. If its a camera I plug it in a icon on my desktop or in "my computer" show sup and I can drag and drop the photos from it. Don't even need to install anything (like SMB support). Anything I want to install I just double click and it installs then the program runs. I don't have to see if some dependencies are turned on/off I don't have to install anything. I buy a new soundcard I plug it in Windows finds a driver and I hear sound instantly.
I'm not a programmer. I use my computer to work on projects that require typing, graphics, spreadsheets, browsing the net, watching movies, and I want to do it without having to install/setup anything. And if I do need to install somethign I just want to click the "install" file and hit "ok" and run the "shortcut" thats been put on my desktop. Windows and OSX does that, Linux has you jumping through 100 different hurdles to ge tthe simplest things to work the way you want.