Well considering he was a language professor at Oxford it makes sense doesn't it? He was fascinated with languages. It'd be like a programmer creating a new programming language just because they are fascinated with programming. Look at the number of books about Perl. Also look at the number of pages in each of those books. It's the same shit new toilet.
Well considering that the books were written at a time before everyone could go to the theater to see a movie, I think it's good that Tolkien described everything the way he did. Books aren't written like movies. All good authors took care in describing everything in great detail. They couldn't cheat by using a big screen. They had to use words. I know it's unbelievable. Try to imagine it.
BTW, the books pwnd the movies, and I liked the movies.
Also, wtf is the other prequel? The Hobbit is the prequel? Dear God they aren't going to try to make a movie out of the Silmarillion are they? I don't think I'd let Jackson around that one either. That would take some serious hacking to make into a friggin movie.
I meant to reply to this the other day and forgot. Yes I knew that cxoffice uses wine. Your post sorta contradicts itself though because most office versions are in the compatibility database. That was my whole point. If he can't get it to work with stock wine perhaps he should try cxoffice since it's made to do exactly what he wants.
Let's step back and imagine a world where Linux had the majority desktop OS market share . All the problems this article and most of the anti-linux posts here talk about would not exist.
Drivers: Hardware manufacturers would support Linux 100%. You wouldn't have any difficulty installing your drivers. At the moment most drivers are hacked together by people who want the hardware to work on Linux but the manufacture made it to work in Windows only.
Games: If most users are using Linux what OS do you think game manufacturers would write their games for?
Installation: Most distros of Linux have an easier to use installer than Windows ever thought about having. Some ever let you USE your computer while the OS is being installed. You can check your email and look at all the porn you want while the OS is installing. Plus, after I install the OS, use it for a few months and theres a new version of the OS available, I won't have to buy the new version. I can just click update and poof, like magic, I'm now in the newest version.
Look it doesn't take a genius to install Linux. It doesn't take a genius to use it. Just because you use Windows doesn't mean you are dumb. Using Linux doesn't make you smart. I personally don't care what OS you use, but before you all state these ignorant (notice i didn't say dumb...it is mearly that you don't know the facts and are ignorant) claims that Linux should support this and do that and blah blah blah....just stop and read more on the subject. You are asking a group of mostly volunteer developers to find magic wands that make businesses cooperate with them. This is Slashdot "news for nerds", not Slashdot "news for ignorant people who love to trash talk volunteers, freedom, and operating systems that they don't even fscking use".
Also isn't this like the 5th time an article titled "why the world isn't ready for Linux" has headlined here. Let's beat this dead horse till it turns to dog food.
1. Support more freakin' video games. I know you people think that others just want to sit around and play with ping and tracroute all day, but yea some people actually do like to have some lesiure time on the PC.
The Linux community can't wave a magical wand and make game developers port games to Linux. That requires more users, to show game developers that there is a business in it.
2. Fully support NTFS so I can dual boot and not only be able to work with my linux files from linux and my windows files from windows. At least have full read-write support on NTFS so I can really be able to use it in linux.
This would be another magic wand because it would require MS to allow that to happen. It isn't like the Linux community is boycotting NTFS, games, certain hardware manufactures, and such. The other guys are boycotting Linux.
I wonder if these people are using apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade. When you change your sources.list to a new release of a Debian-based OS, you should always use dist-upgrade to perform the upgrade. Some people change their sources to the new version and run apt-get upgrade. I believe this is probably their problem. It's a faulty keyboard to chair adapter.
I would have to say if your X is crashing every hour or so then you have in fact configured something incorrectly or did something to cause this. I've been using NVidia's drivers for a long time and never had X crash because of it.
NVidia drivers are the best drivers available for linux on anything. I've never had a problem with them at all. ATI's Linux support has sucked in the past not NVidia. My last three video cards have been NVidia because of this. I've never had X lock up, much less every 2 days. So enlighten me as to why so many people love NVidia's Linux support and you hate their drivers.
"Five or More" and "Same Gnome" are like my solitaire and minesweeper.
Just something to pass the time and I always try to beat my highscores. Many of the nice commercial games tend to get boring after a few hours of play. Why is it that the simple games get the most game play? Like tetris for instance, it's not a very complicated game but it's still being played a ton.
Agent Orange is SPRAYED not dropped. From the agent orange wiki page: Most of Agent Orange sprayed during the program was delivered from modified US Air Force C-123K Provider aircraft under a program known as Operation Ranch Hand. Other delivery methods included helicopters, truck and hand spraying, notably for the areas directly around US bases.
Think of it as crop dusting which is basically what it was. It was used to kill the dense foliage of the jungle. It was not a bomb at all, it was a spray. Say it with me. SPRAY. The F-14 had nothing NOTHING what-so-ever to do with Agent Orange. Now can we drop it?
Oh but the real odd are on whether I play or not. In that there is a 50/50 chance. So if I play your game I go bankrupt and if I don't play I keep all my money. Everything is 50/50.
Personally I hate odds and statistics. Maybe the odds of me winning the lottery are lower than the neutron star but I like to think of everything as 50/50. Either I win or I don't win. I may be stupid for thinking this way, but logically speaking it's correct. It'll either happen or it won't. Now the probability is very slim. If I don't buy a ticket however I have no chance at all. Some chance is better than none. This dunc-tank idea. Do we get to put people from the #debian channel in a dunktank and then when they say RTFM, we throw the ball and hit them in the head?
Personally I think things are perfect the way they are in the Debian and Ubuntu Camps. I use both, Ubuntu on my desktop and Debian on my servers. They both have their place and they both do their jobs well. If anything the Ubuntu people should have called themselves Desktop Debian or something. Debian developers shouldn't hang it up. They are already working on Ubuntu directly. Ubuntu just takes their work and adds a little to it.
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Well considering he was a language professor at Oxford it makes sense doesn't it? He was fascinated with languages. It'd be like a programmer creating a new programming language just because they are fascinated with programming. Look at the number of books about Perl. Also look at the number of pages in each of those books. It's the same shit new toilet.
Well considering that the books were written at a time before everyone could go to the theater to see a movie, I think it's good that Tolkien described everything the way he did. Books aren't written like movies. All good authors took care in describing everything in great detail. They couldn't cheat by using a big screen. They had to use words. I know it's unbelievable. Try to imagine it. BTW, the books pwnd the movies, and I liked the movies. Also, wtf is the other prequel? The Hobbit is the prequel? Dear God they aren't going to try to make a movie out of the Silmarillion are they? I don't think I'd let Jackson around that one either. That would take some serious hacking to make into a friggin movie.
Very much so....I can see the IE popups already....or the "updates are available, vote for bill" dialog boxes.
Is "evironment" a new buzzword I haven't heard of?
starts compiling LFS for his new Po-Mans Linux Christmas release!
I'm just glad MS is partnering with a distro I never use anyway. Thanks MS for not currupting a good distro.
I meant to reply to this the other day and forgot. Yes I knew that cxoffice uses wine. Your post sorta contradicts itself though because most office versions are in the compatibility database. That was my whole point. If he can't get it to work with stock wine perhaps he should try cxoffice since it's made to do exactly what he wants.
Let's step back and imagine a world where Linux had the majority desktop OS market share . All the problems this article and most of the anti-linux posts here talk about would not exist.
Drivers: Hardware manufacturers would support Linux 100%. You wouldn't have any difficulty installing your drivers. At the moment most drivers are hacked together by people who want the hardware to work on Linux but the manufacture made it to work in Windows only.
Games: If most users are using Linux what OS do you think game manufacturers would write their games for?
Installation: Most distros of Linux have an easier to use installer than Windows ever thought about having. Some ever let you USE your computer while the OS is being installed. You can check your email and look at all the porn you want while the OS is installing. Plus, after I install the OS, use it for a few months and theres a new version of the OS available, I won't have to buy the new version. I can just click update and poof, like magic, I'm now in the newest version.
Look it doesn't take a genius to install Linux. It doesn't take a genius to use it. Just because you use Windows doesn't mean you are dumb. Using Linux doesn't make you smart. I personally don't care what OS you use, but before you all state these ignorant (notice i didn't say dumb...it is mearly that you don't know the facts and are ignorant) claims that Linux should support this and do that and blah blah blah....just stop and read more on the subject. You are asking a group of mostly volunteer developers to find magic wands that make businesses cooperate with them. This is Slashdot "news for nerds", not Slashdot "news for ignorant people who love to trash talk volunteers, freedom, and operating systems that they don't even fscking use".
Also isn't this like the 5th time an article titled "why the world isn't ready for Linux" has headlined here. Let's beat this dead horse till it turns to dog food.
This would be another magic wand because it would require MS to allow that to happen. It isn't like the Linux community is boycotting NTFS, games, certain hardware manufactures, and such. The other guys are boycotting Linux.
CrossOver Office for Linux will run MS Office, I believe.
I think I'd drool over a quad-core PC more cause it'd be cheaper.
I wonder if these people are using apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade. When you change your sources.list to a new release of a Debian-based OS, you should always use dist-upgrade to perform the upgrade. Some people change their sources to the new version and run apt-get upgrade. I believe this is probably their problem. It's a faulty keyboard to chair adapter.
I would have to say if your X is crashing every hour or so then you have in fact configured something incorrectly or did something to cause this. I've been using NVidia's drivers for a long time and never had X crash because of it.
NVidia drivers are the best drivers available for linux on anything. I've never had a problem with them at all. ATI's Linux support has sucked in the past not NVidia. My last three video cards have been NVidia because of this. I've never had X lock up, much less every 2 days. So enlighten me as to why so many people love NVidia's Linux support and you hate their drivers.
"Five or More" and "Same Gnome" are like my solitaire and minesweeper. Just something to pass the time and I always try to beat my highscores. Many of the nice commercial games tend to get boring after a few hours of play. Why is it that the simple games get the most game play? Like tetris for instance, it's not a very complicated game but it's still being played a ton.
In other news, a staggering number of youths are members of slashdot.org...
Agent Orange is SPRAYED not dropped. From the agent orange wiki page:
Most of Agent Orange sprayed during the program was delivered from modified US Air Force C-123K Provider aircraft under a program known as Operation Ranch Hand. Other delivery methods included helicopters, truck and hand spraying, notably for the areas directly around US bases.
Think of it as crop dusting which is basically what it was. It was used to kill the dense foliage of the jungle. It was not a bomb at all, it was a spray. Say it with me. SPRAY. The F-14 had nothing NOTHING what-so-ever to do with Agent Orange. Now can we drop it?
Oh but the real odd are on whether I play or not. In that there is a 50/50 chance. So if I play your game I go bankrupt and if I don't play I keep all my money. Everything is 50/50.
Personally I hate odds and statistics. Maybe the odds of me winning the lottery are lower than the neutron star but I like to think of everything as 50/50. Either I win or I don't win. I may be stupid for thinking this way, but logically speaking it's correct. It'll either happen or it won't. Now the probability is very slim. If I don't buy a ticket however I have no chance at all. Some chance is better than none. This dunc-tank idea. Do we get to put people from the #debian channel in a dunktank and then when they say RTFM, we throw the ball and hit them in the head?
Tell that to the people who CHOSE the winning numbers.
Personally I think things are perfect the way they are in the Debian and Ubuntu Camps. I use both, Ubuntu on my desktop and Debian on my servers. They both have their place and they both do their jobs well. If anything the Ubuntu people should have called themselves Desktop Debian or something. Debian developers shouldn't hang it up. They are already working on Ubuntu directly. Ubuntu just takes their work and adds a little to it.
I've seen a lot more people win the lottery than neutron stars lately so maybe I should take a course in statistics. I don't get it.
"This is the type of elitist attitude that will keep normal users from adopting Linux."
I'd like to have a dollar everytime I've heard that remark. I believe that remark is the reason users don't adopt Linux.
I guess he'll understand when I don't read TFA
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.