I will play the devil's advocate. I love my Gentoo/GNU/Linux/KDE box more than any system before. But you picked the wrong examples (except for Firefox).
Open Office -- this has to be said -- is a pile of trash, that can only be considered good, if you come from MS Office or its clones. If you want to see a good interface, look at the InfoBox of Lotus SmartSuite. (Which is unfortunately a pretty outdated office suite, and is my number one wish for becoming open source.) Oh, and as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), Lotus was the template for both office suites.
Gimp may be nice in features. But it needs an interface made for non-programmers (not going to happen anytime soon) and a new name. Then it can stand a chance against Photoshop. ^^
And you can't seriously position Avidemux and Audacity against such giants as Avid Media Composer / Liquid and Cubase SX + Reason + Reaktor + Absynth + tons of plug-ins, drum- and rhythm machines.
Linux is not quite there...yet:)
Ok, to give you credit, if you compare your list against WinCE software and what might be possible to put on the OLPC 2, then they are a flawless victory.:)
Well, their "About" dialog still says "Based on Mosaic". (And sometimes I have the feeling that they might still patch an old Mosaic, to compile it.) So they will have a hard time, arguing that they invented it.;)
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason that everybody is still using the IE.
Because they CAN
It's always the lame excuse of "But we lose clients!". Then a leading company comes along, and changes the game. Now everybody else jumps to that train too. Suddenly it's OK. So the client is forced to update.
And if you were not the leading company, that's why you will always be playing catch-up, until you're bankrupt.
I worked for too long in that business to have any doubt about how this works. You always get the users/clients/girls/friends you expect. Only that sometimes there are little exceptions. If you bite, and adapt, you will be worse off. But there will still be little exceptions. (Like that one retard client, telling you that he still does find it too complicated.)
The solution is to simply do what you want. As they say: Do not imitate. Innovate. Yes it can be risky. But you will be far better off in the long run.
I stay with my AdBlock Plus, Firebug, BetterSearch,DownloadHelper, FireGestures, Greasmonkey/Greasefire, Venkman, Resurrect Pages, SmoothWheel, TabMix Plus, TagSifter, Web Developer bar, and clean interpretation of the standards. TYVM.
Repeat after me: There is no border between "instinct" and "cogent thought".
It's a made-up separation, invented in times were we thought we could justify our "superiority" by only allowing "cogent thought" to be attributed to us.
In reality, everything is a multi-dimensional gradient with a tiny quantization. (Dimensions, as is parameters/properties/factors.)
So the whole discussion about forethought vs. "programming" (nobody ever knows what it means, because it is not genetic, but it's such a nice term, to separate them from us, isn't it?), or about "alive" vs. "not alive" is primitive and a very outdated and limited way of thinking.
Let's ask: On a scale measuring what exactly, with what defined points, is a chimp's behavior doing what exactly on what position, related to that of a bird or spider doing what exactly? Before that, it is impossible to ever agree on anything that makes sense.
I think it is insulting to the apes, to act all "Ooh, look, the can do basic stuff too, we're not that special anymore. I guess we have to find something else to show that we still are god's gift of perfection.".
I'm sorry. This galaxy is not special. It never was. Earth is not special. It never was. Humans are not special. They never were. The white man is not special. He never was. Same shit, different times.
Unless the system is going to crash while you're doing it and you somehow want the magic computer fairy to make sure that the files are still there when you reboot it.
YES!! That is EXACTLY what I expect the every modern file system to do. So stop talking about it in a ridiculing way. Because the only one that is ridiculed, is you.
A file system should take my data buffer, and after saying "Ok, I got it", *guarantee*, that I can turn off the system in that very moment, without losing data or corrupting the file system in any way. If it does not, it failed its purpose, and I could also directly write do a/dev block file.
All that stuff about creating a backup copy and doing this and that, has to happen inside the file system.
Letting every programmer re-create such an obviously generalizable functionality is not only spaghetti-style programming, it is also an insult to every real, educated programmer out there.
Now get off my lawn, or I will put you on thedailywtf.com!
You mean unlike those Windows "Admins" who tell me how great the Windows "Event Manager" (log files + viewer) is, and tell me "Ha, I bet Linux does not have such a great tool!". I had to explain them, that Unix had those features before Windows even existed. He told me I was talking shit.
Then he tried to enter "some obscure command" into the "black command window", that someone told him would create a VPN. What he meant were a few routing commands at the shell.
And this is not rare. It rather is the normal case with "Windows Admins".
Of course we got our POSIX ACLs and security labels. And PaX, RSbac, SElinux, GRsecurity, LDAP, PAM. And whatever the fuck you want.
And of course, "Active Directory" is -- again -- just a fancy name for a bad copy of those technologies, that existed in Linux/Unix for years before they were "invented" by Microsoft.
Well. In other tests (from the hydrogenaudio forum), real audiophiles could not tell the difference between OGG 128 and lossless CD-quality WAV. But they all could tell the difference to MP3. Even at 320 kb/s, they are worse than 128 kb/s OGGs.
MP3 is just outdated since OGG exists. And the only reason to ever use them are crappy portable players that do only WMA and MP3, and stuff you downloaded off P2P nets.
Unfortunately, nowadays, that last part makes up >95% of an average collection.;)
Sorry, but I got living proof of the cause of Asthma being bad food.
A friend of mine had a bad Asthma every summer. He nearly suffocated without his inhalator. He found a book of some guy claiming that in decades of clinical experience, said that bad food was the reason. He gave it a try, and stopped eating anything denatured. No heated protein. No processed food. Most of all, no sugar / starch / white flour. And what do you know... That summer he did use that inhalator only one singe time. Next summer he had forgotten that he had asthma, and only realized it, after having eaten too much fast-food on a wild party-weekend in late summer.
The reason this is not public knowledge, is that you have to test your assumptions, before they get published. Which is nearly impossible for diseases that grow as slow or slower than asthma. You would have to make trials that last for years. Normally, nobody does that. Luckily, that doctor (author of the book) were the chief physician of a clinic for decades, and had thousands of patients, many of them also for decades. So he could try these things out. in his eyes, most of the so-called age-related diseases come from this bad food.
(By the way: The reason he started to get back a bit of asthma after that fast-food weekend, was that you can't fix all the trash you've eaten in decades, by eating good for only one and a half year.)
Oh, and his name was Dr. med. M.O. Bruker. (I don't know if he published anything in another language than German.)
Well... Has someone who can read assembler read the rest of the file? Because, you know, they apparently do not want us to see the file. So it is still very likely that there is something inside that they do not want us to see.
Or in other words: I know. I even read the only two interviews he gave in the last 10 years. I partially make music the way I do, because of him.
For example, I connect self-built electronics on the sound-card's line connections, and use them as modules in NI Reaktor, for functionality that you can't really simulate in software. With those electronics playing kits, you can even reconnect them on-the-fly. But don't fry your computer with it! ^^
No. For it to be secure, you would have to first disable all access to anything, and then only open what is needed, on very very tight parameters. Like plug-in checksub plus application checksum plus source URL plus whatever you can parametrize it by.
Sorry, but when have you seen the last ActiveX anything?
The only plug-ìns that are widely spread are Flash and Java. They both can run as NSplugin. So if IE9 adopts that interface, and maybe another new one, they are good.
So I take it, you haven't listened to Aphex Twin's album "Druqs" then?
I recommend "Omgyjya-Switch7" (also known as the "zen music" from Children of Men), and of course his promo video "Rubber Johnny" (Warning: Do not watch this if you do not want to have nightmares!;)
Also recommended is the classic, and execptionally great "Come To Daddy".
Slashdot Mirror
On torrent site's what?
The whole USA is the MTV generation??
I will play the devil's advocate. I love my Gentoo/GNU/Linux/KDE box more than any system before. But you picked the wrong examples (except for Firefox).
Open Office -- this has to be said -- is a pile of trash, that can only be considered good, if you come from MS Office or its clones. If you want to see a good interface, look at the InfoBox of Lotus SmartSuite. (Which is unfortunately a pretty outdated office suite, and is my number one wish for becoming open source.) Oh, and as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), Lotus was the template for both office suites.
Gimp may be nice in features. But it needs an interface made for non-programmers (not going to happen anytime soon) and a new name. Then it can stand a chance against Photoshop. ^^
And you can't seriously position Avidemux and Audacity against such giants as Avid Media Composer / Liquid and Cubase SX + Reason + Reaktor + Absynth + tons of plug-ins, drum- and rhythm machines.
Linux is not quite there ...yet :)
Ok, to give you credit, if you compare your list against WinCE software and what might be possible to put on the OLPC 2, then they are a flawless victory. :)
In Germany, where we usually write things together, if they describe one thing, we call that error a "Deppenleerzeichen" ("moron's blank"?).
[citation needed] ^^
It's what we do for fun. Who are you, AC nonetheless, to judge us?
Well, their "About" dialog still says "Based on Mosaic". (And sometimes I have the feeling that they might still patch an old Mosaic, to compile it.) So they will have a hard time, arguing that they invented it. ;)
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason that everybody is still using the IE.
Because they CAN
It's always the lame excuse of "But we lose clients!".
Then a leading company comes along, and changes the game.
Now everybody else jumps to that train too. Suddenly it's OK.
So the client is forced to update.
And if you were not the leading company, that's why you will always be playing catch-up, until you're bankrupt.
I worked for too long in that business to have any doubt about how this works.
You always get the users/clients/girls/friends you expect. Only that sometimes there are little exceptions. If you bite, and adapt, you will be worse off. But there will still be little exceptions. (Like that one retard client, telling you that he still does find it too complicated.)
The solution is to simply do what you want. As they say: Do not imitate. Innovate.
Yes it can be risky. But you will be far better off in the long run.
... it has not a single add-in running too...
I stay with my AdBlock Plus, Firebug, BetterSearch,DownloadHelper, FireGestures, Greasmonkey/Greasefire, Venkman, Resurrect Pages, SmoothWheel, TabMix Plus, TagSifter, Web Developer bar, and clean interpretation of the standards. TYVM.
...IE loads some sites quicker?
Because it does not even understand half of the features of the site (some CSS stuff, much DOM stuff), and just ignores them. ;)
Repeat after me: There is no border between "instinct" and "cogent thought".
It's a made-up separation, invented in times were we thought we could justify our "superiority" by only allowing "cogent thought" to be attributed to us.
In reality, everything is a multi-dimensional gradient with a tiny quantization. (Dimensions, as is parameters/properties/factors.)
So the whole discussion about forethought vs. "programming" (nobody ever knows what it means, because it is not genetic, but it's such a nice term, to separate them from us, isn't it?),
or about "alive" vs. "not alive"
is primitive and a very outdated and limited way of thinking.
Let's ask: On a scale measuring what exactly, with what defined points, is a chimp's behavior doing what exactly on what position, related to that of a bird or spider doing what exactly?
Before that, it is impossible to ever agree on anything that makes sense.
I think it is insulting to the apes, to act all "Ooh, look, the can do basic stuff too, we're not that special anymore. I guess we have to find something else to show that we still are god's gift of perfection.".
I'm sorry. This galaxy is not special. It never was. Earth is not special. It never was. Humans are not special. They never were. The white man is not special. He never was.
Same shit, different times.
Unless the system is going to crash while you're doing it and you somehow want the magic computer fairy to make sure that the files are still there when you reboot it.
YES!! That is EXACTLY what I expect the every modern file system to do. So stop talking about it in a ridiculing way. Because the only one that is ridiculed, is you.
A file system should take my data buffer, and after saying "Ok, I got it", *guarantee*, that I can turn off the system in that very moment, without losing data or corrupting the file system in any way. /dev block file.
If it does not, it failed its purpose, and I could also directly write do a
All that stuff about creating a backup copy and doing this and that, has to happen inside the file system.
Letting every programmer re-create such an obviously generalizable functionality is not only spaghetti-style programming, it is also an insult to every real, educated programmer out there.
Now get off my lawn, or I will put you on thedailywtf.com!
You mean unlike those Windows "Admins" who tell me how great the Windows "Event Manager" (log files + viewer) is, and tell me "Ha, I bet Linux does not have such a great tool!". I had to explain them, that Unix had those features before Windows even existed. He told me I was talking shit.
Then he tried to enter "some obscure command" into the "black command window", that someone told him would create a VPN. What he meant were a few routing commands at the shell.
And this is not rare. It rather is the normal case with "Windows Admins".
Of course we got our POSIX ACLs and security labels. And PaX, RSbac, SElinux, GRsecurity, LDAP, PAM. And whatever the fuck you want.
And of course, "Active Directory" is -- again -- just a fancy name for a bad copy of those technologies, that existed in Linux/Unix for years before they were "invented" by Microsoft.
So I ask you: Who does not know jack?
Well. In other tests (from the hydrogenaudio forum), real audiophiles could not tell the difference between OGG 128 and lossless CD-quality WAV. But they all could tell the difference to MP3. Even at 320 kb/s, they are worse than 128 kb/s OGGs.
MP3 is just outdated since OGG exists. And the only reason to ever use them are crappy portable players that do only WMA and MP3, and stuff you downloaded off P2P nets.
Unfortunately, nowadays, that last part makes up >95% of an average collection. ;)
Unfortunately, the oil that you will get out, will be useless for your coal plant.
Shoulda have buried some plants...
Sorry, but I got living proof of the cause of Asthma being bad food.
A friend of mine had a bad Asthma every summer. He nearly suffocated without his inhalator.
He found a book of some guy claiming that in decades of clinical experience, said that bad food was the reason.
He gave it a try, and stopped eating anything denatured. No heated protein. No processed food. Most of all, no sugar / starch / white flour.
And what do you know... That summer he did use that inhalator only one singe time. Next summer he had forgotten that he had asthma, and only realized it, after having eaten too much fast-food on a wild party-weekend in late summer.
The reason this is not public knowledge, is that you have to test your assumptions, before they get published. Which is nearly impossible for diseases that grow as slow or slower than asthma. You would have to make trials that last for years. Normally, nobody does that.
Luckily, that doctor (author of the book) were the chief physician of a clinic for decades, and had thousands of patients, many of them also for decades. So he could try these things out. in his eyes, most of the so-called age-related diseases come from this bad food.
(By the way: The reason he started to get back a bit of asthma after that fast-food weekend, was that you can't fix all the trash you've eaten in decades, by eating good for only one and a half year.)
Oh, and his name was Dr. med. M.O. Bruker. (I don't know if he published anything in another language than German.)
Well... Has someone who can read assembler read the rest of the file?
Because, you know, they apparently do not want us to see the file. So it is still very likely that there is something inside that they do not want us to see.
The summary about this incident posted to News-for-nerds site Slashdot this morning links to a key 4Chan forum.
What the... Where does the summary link to 4Chan?? What an insult!
We should put links from the Washington Post to 4Chan on their site!
WHOOOOSH... :D
Or in other words: I know. I even read the only two interviews he gave in the last 10 years. I partially make music the way I do, because of him.
For example, I connect self-built electronics on the sound-card's line connections, and use them as modules in NI Reaktor, for functionality that you can't really simulate in software. With those electronics playing kits, you can even reconnect them on-the-fly. But don't fry your computer with it! ^^
Then just disable (by default) certain "reads".
No. For it to be secure, you would have to first disable all access to anything, and then only open what is needed, on very very tight parameters. Like plug-in checksub plus application checksum plus source URL plus whatever you can parametrize it by.
Sorry, but when have you seen the last ActiveX anything?
The only plug-ìns that are widely spread are Flash and Java. They both can run as NSplugin. So if IE9 adopts that interface, and maybe another new one, they are good.
So I take it, you haven't listened to Aphex Twin's album "Druqs" then?
I recommend "Omgyjya-Switch7" (also known as the "zen music" from Children of Men), ;)
and of course his promo video "Rubber Johnny" (Warning: Do not watch this if you do not want to have nightmares!
Also recommended is the classic, and execptionally great "Come To Daddy".
He's like Björk on very strange aggro-drugs. You have to ask: Does he write this stuff, or just slam the keyboard? ;)
Isn't a "shellfish fuck" something that gets fucked by a shellfish?
Only question is: Only the penis, or the whole shellfish.
*runs*
*hides* :D
Because unofficially, I bet they are doing it already. No everyone who pays enough or is a TLA (three letter agency)