William Thomas is a right wing guy? He's fringe, for sure, but he's kind of all over the political spectrum. He lives in one of the last true hippy bastions of the world, B.C.'s Gulf Islands, offshore from where I am.
I'd say "omnivorous fringe conspiracy theorist" about covers it;)
I just can't figure out why I should respect this guy. He fought against birth control, represents an anti-science institution, and generally represented much that I hate. I'm about as saddened by his death as I am by any other random death of someone that I didn't know and had no reason to respect: not at all.
So let's get back to talking about more interesting things, like this nerdy motorhome.
Oh come on. You and I know the meanings of sudo, apt, etc. etc. To her, it's a meaningless stream of characters. A gui is much more intuitive.
And the package names are often cryptic. Look, it works for me (except for the lack of security updates in testing, the broken unstable repository, and all the other stuff that makes Debian suck these days), but there's a reason they invented the gui.
Er, no. My mom can install Windows software. Nice, descriptive dialogues and buttons for easy clicking. She sure as hell can't use apt-get, and don't get me started on the piece of shit that is Synaptic. Plus, unstable is broken way too often these days. I used Debian for years and years, but now I'm finally abandoning it for greener pastures.
What, I'm going to run Kicker as a separate X app? Sure it will launch an app if I click on a button, but will I see it? No. It's not the same as having the whole desktop as a cohesive whole.
Sort of - you can use kprinter from the command line, or use it from other applications if they allow you to enter a custom printing command (most do; just type "kprinter"). Then you'll get the KDE dialogue, regardless of what app you're in. This way, any app can print to PDF.
Note that it's only in KDE, though;) That's why every KDE app can do this by default.
KDE has this capability. Example: I am writing code in Kate right now, a rather nifty text editor. If I click File->Print..., I can select "Print to PDF" in the dialogue box. This is pervasive throughout KDE.
Actually, printing in general in KDE is very good.
FreeNX works great over a DSL line, which is how I use it. It gives you the Windows Terminal Server experience, more or less. It installs cleanly onto gentoo using emerge, and comes built-in to Knoppix if you want to try it out.
X over SSH is not an option. X sucks over the WAN, and graphical apps tend to be practically unusable for any length of time. Plus, you don't get your entire desktop, which is what the submitter wants.
A fully functioning RDP server for Linux would be awesome, however.
I'm convinced that there are creationists and right-wingers out there who simply patrol the internet and either shout down dissenters, or, in the case of user-moderated sites like Slashdot, mod up like-minded beliefs. It is horrible. Surely the general Slashdot population is not dumb enough to support the ideas of "creation science" (for example) as the moderations would suggest.
No, it's a poor programmer who doesn't choose to use simpler, cleaner tools that do the exact same thing instead, and costs his/her employer money by not doing so. So who's the poor programmer here again?
Or do you not write code for a living? My money is on "no".
If you have to read 6 books and 200 columns to learn a language, then the language is a fucking mess, and should be abandoned to the scrapheap of history.
I program in Python (and C) every day. Learning it was a matter of glancing through one book, and some common sense. No implicit weirdness, no hateful, arbitrary syntax, all code is r/w for everyone.
Nope. You're wrong. It works in Windows, which I use on my laptop (Linux at work; it's the platform for our product).
In modern desktops, cut and paste is cut and paste, regardless of what the object being cut is.
That image is displayed on my screen. Therefore, there is a jpeg that got downloaded somehow. It is now local to me. I should be able to cut and paste it, "dude". The fact that I cannot is sad.
Really? That's funny. If I highlight a jpeg on a web page in Firefox, then middle click in KView, it doesn't seem to copy and paste it. Any idea why? Or has it never occured to you that copy and paste is about way more than just text?
I'd take the option to work at home and forfeit the raise. My best time is from about 6:00 am - 10:00 am, so it's good for me to do my "energetic" things then - work on a coding issue, hit the gym, and so forth. Then during the day I like to be outside, especially if it's nice out. Mid-afternoon until dinner, I can do routine coding, documentation, and so forth. After dinner might be a bit of the same. I still put in the time, but it's on my terms.
It's not proprietary. Get your facts straight, please.
Also, KDE 4 will be very interesting: it's undergoing a complete HIG review, and there will be a lot of deep changes. Luckily, the features and solid architecture are already there for the new interface to take advantage of - unlike Gnome.
No, actually, you wouldn't think that. I'm not going to explain why; instead, I suggest you read Richard Dawkins' "The Blind Watchmaker". It's a very good, readable laymen's explanation of the workings of evolution, and it debunks a lot of silly creationist myths.
Actually, we atheists really only complain when you force your beliefs on the rest of us: abortion is evil, homos are evil, etc. It's fine for you to believe that claptrap personally, but keep it away from the public domain, if you please. Otherwise, you can worship giant pink rabbits for all I care.
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William Thomas is a right wing guy? He's fringe, for sure, but he's kind of all over the political spectrum. He lives in one of the last true hippy bastions of the world, B.C.'s Gulf Islands, offshore from where I am.
;)
I'd say "omnivorous fringe conspiracy theorist" about covers it
Google "slave laogai".
Please mod this up. China is getting away with murder with their currency, which needs a serious revaluation.
Of course, they're also getting away with a more literal form of murder in their brutal factories and in Tibet, but that's another matter.
I just can't figure out why I should respect this guy. He fought against birth control, represents an anti-science institution, and generally represented much that I hate. I'm about as saddened by his death as I am by any other random death of someone that I didn't know and had no reason to respect: not at all.
So let's get back to talking about more interesting things, like this nerdy motorhome.
Note: not posting anonymously.
Bah! IP addresses are just DNS for MACs. 0x2004F200696d for me!
Oh come on. You and I know the meanings of sudo, apt, etc. etc. To her, it's a meaningless stream of characters. A gui is much more intuitive.
And the package names are often cryptic. Look, it works for me (except for the lack of security updates in testing, the broken unstable repository, and all the other stuff that makes Debian suck these days), but there's a reason they invented the gui.
Sorry, this is the truth.
Er, no. My mom can install Windows software. Nice, descriptive dialogues and buttons for easy clicking. She sure as hell can't use apt-get, and don't get me started on the piece of shit that is Synaptic. Plus, unstable is broken way too often these days. I used Debian for years and years, but now I'm finally abandoning it for greener pastures.
Wonderful, thanks very much.
As an off-topic aside, I'd like to learn APL just for the hell of it...any pointers to good sites with tutorials, or good books?
What, I'm going to run Kicker as a separate X app? Sure it will launch an app if I click on a button, but will I see it? No. It's not the same as having the whole desktop as a cohesive whole.
Sort of - you can use kprinter from the command line, or use it from other applications if they allow you to enter a custom printing command (most do; just type "kprinter"). Then you'll get the KDE dialogue, regardless of what app you're in. This way, any app can print to PDF.
;) That's why every KDE app can do this by default.
Note that it's only in KDE, though
KDE has this capability. Example: I am writing code in Kate right now, a rather nifty text editor. If I click File->Print..., I can select "Print to PDF" in the dialogue box. This is pervasive throughout KDE.
Actually, printing in general in KDE is very good.
FreeNX works great over a DSL line, which is how I use it. It gives you the Windows Terminal Server experience, more or less. It installs cleanly onto gentoo using emerge, and comes built-in to Knoppix if you want to try it out.
X over SSH is not an option. X sucks over the WAN, and graphical apps tend to be practically unusable for any length of time. Plus, you don't get your entire desktop, which is what the submitter wants.
A fully functioning RDP server for Linux would be awesome, however.
Er...in scientific writing, certain primary sources are inadmissable right from the get-go. This site would be one of those obvious time-wasters.
And it's "its", not "it's" (for both times you used it).
I'm convinced that there are creationists and right-wingers out there who simply patrol the internet and either shout down dissenters, or, in the case of user-moderated sites like Slashdot, mod up like-minded beliefs. It is horrible. Surely the general Slashdot population is not dumb enough to support the ideas of "creation science" (for example) as the moderations would suggest.
Er...that link is without any sort of credibility. For anyone that wants a good laugh, edit the URL to go to www.pathlights.com. Nice cheesy painting.
"Ferd" is the obvious answer.
No, it's a poor programmer who doesn't choose to use simpler, cleaner tools that do the exact same thing instead, and costs his/her employer money by not doing so. So who's the poor programmer here again?
Or do you not write code for a living? My money is on "no".
If you have to read 6 books and 200 columns to learn a language, then the language is a fucking mess, and should be abandoned to the scrapheap of history.
I program in Python (and C) every day. Learning it was a matter of glancing through one book, and some common sense. No implicit weirdness, no hateful, arbitrary syntax, all code is r/w for everyone.
Nope. You're wrong. It works in Windows, which I use on my laptop (Linux at work; it's the platform for our product).
In modern desktops, cut and paste is cut and paste, regardless of what the object being cut is.
That image is displayed on my screen. Therefore, there is a jpeg that got downloaded somehow. It is now local to me. I should be able to cut and paste it, "dude". The fact that I cannot is sad.
Really? That's funny. If I highlight a jpeg on a web page in Firefox, then middle click in KView, it doesn't seem to copy and paste it. Any idea why? Or has it never occured to you that copy and paste is about way more than just text?
I'd take the option to work at home and forfeit the raise. My best time is from about 6:00 am - 10:00 am, so it's good for me to do my "energetic" things then - work on a coding issue, hit the gym, and so forth. Then during the day I like to be outside, especially if it's nice out. Mid-afternoon until dinner, I can do routine coding, documentation, and so forth. After dinner might be a bit of the same. I still put in the time, but it's on my terms.
It's not proprietary. Get your facts straight, please.
Also, KDE 4 will be very interesting: it's undergoing a complete HIG review, and there will be a lot of deep changes. Luckily, the features and solid architecture are already there for the new interface to take advantage of - unlike Gnome.
No, actually, you wouldn't think that. I'm not going to explain why; instead, I suggest you read Richard Dawkins' "The Blind Watchmaker". It's a very good, readable laymen's explanation of the workings of evolution, and it debunks a lot of silly creationist myths.
Actually, we atheists really only complain when you force your beliefs on the rest of us: abortion is evil, homos are evil, etc. It's fine for you to believe that claptrap personally, but keep it away from the public domain, if you please. Otherwise, you can worship giant pink rabbits for all I care.