Money-chasers are either into real-estate or the medical field these days. I'm sure you can find plenty of 2000-era IT folks in both lines of work today.
Either. "Best" is a relative term, and I don't know of a better browser than firefox, secret bugs and spoofable UI and all. I'm not saying it doesn't bother me (mainly the secrecy), but what would I switch to that would be better?
And it's another cognitive burden for a someone who already knows how to use Windows, which is almost everybody. If this were 1983 and users were blank slates, maybe GNOME's button order would be better (I really don't think it would matter much, if at all), but it's 2004 and every weird little change away from what normal people (windows users) are used to makes it harder for them to switch.
The USA's wealth distribution was much more equitable at the time that we become the country with the largest per-capita GDP, so the super-rich aren't responsible for our success. And middle-class (and below) people fund growth too, through indirect loans to entrepreneurs via pension plans, bank accounts, etc, and directly through stock purchases.
The super-rich need a better way to justify their existence than sitting on their asses collecting stock dividends.
What, you're willing to spend many hours learning the material but you can't spend 30 seconds searching for a book on amazon.com?
Also, if you're self-studying you can probably get away with using an old edition, which will be available cheap. Publishers' unnecessary textbook upgrade treadmill makes Microsoft look like saints.
What's more, they require Shockwave which is apparently unavailable without the Crossover plugin, whatever that.
I guess I'll just have to die not knowing about causal reasoning.
SimHouston sucks. Surfing the web feels about like using Netscape circa 1996. Why did the city waste the money on this browser when Mozilla is available for free?
I'm not a big perl fan, but the most of the code I saw in my month-long foray into perl was pretty readable, probably because it was written by excellent programmers. The code I wrote, OTOH, was horrifically unreadable, because I don't really like perl (for personal quirk reasons, not that it's not a useful or powerful language) and just wanted to get it done as soon as possible.
Since a semi-literate monkey could write useful perl scripts while only knowing a tenth of the language (that's what I did), I can see that perl scripts would tend to be unreadable.
I also have a 400 Mhz PC and KDE runs slow as hell on it as well. So I run fluxbox. It's true that fluxbox is not ideal for the average non-techie type (my wife hates it), but someone who wants to use a 6 year old PC really can't complain. If I wanted to run Windows, I'd have to use Windows 98 (ugh) to get reasonable speed.
So those are your choices. Buggy Windows 98 running fast, KDE running slow, or fluxbox (or another lightweight WM) running in a non-windows-like manner which requires you to learn something new. Or spend some money on a faster PC. There are always tradeoffs. Such is life.
BTW, you should consider IceWM. It's windows-like enough that it won't weird you out (like fluxbox might), but it's way faster than KDE on old hardware like you're using.
1) I'm too cheap to buy Windows and too paranoid to pirate it
2) you can't "apt-get" on it
3) adware
4) Some software that I use doesn't run on Windows. And even some that theoretically does (Emacs, the Gimp, wget..) would probably be a big pain in the ass to get to work. I recall installing Cygwin 3 or so years ago when I was using Windows and it was painful. I prefer "apt-get install whatever"
5) I want my GNU/soul to get into GNU/heaven when I die
I haven't tried the new Nautilus, but if you've been using the old Windows start menu for 9 years, it's very efficient and logical. This isn't 1983. Everyone is already familiar with computers (mostly Windows), and it's easier to stick with what you know instead of learning a new system. Same with file managers. And the situation is even worse when you consider that Gnome is targeting Windows users, who will now have one more weird, different Linux thing to deal with if they make the switch. As if having to learn a bunch of new applications wasn't enough.
That's what I did when I had a problem with a transaction. They charged it back, I got my money back, and that was the last I ever heard about it. It could be that ebay or paypal would give you trouble if you did that often (I don't know) but it's only come up once in 4 years and 100 or more auctions.
My dad was a professor, and he wrote a few textbooks. The writer doesn't make much money off of them unless it's something like a popular Econ 101 textbook which will sell lots of copies. More specialized books for higher level courses (like this heat transfer book) don't sell many copies, and if you're in it for the money you'd be better off mowing lawns than writing one. Professors do get recognition, better raises, etc. for publishing a textbook and that's probably more of an incentive.
The editors and the publishing company are in it for the money, though. I don't know how important they really are, and how much of a substitute direct contact with the readers is for them. We'll see.
And third-world countries have lots of capable people who can do the same work most Americans, (even rural Americans) do for a fraction of the cost. If companies would ditch the cities for cheaper rural areas, why wouldn't they ditch rural areas for poor countries?
Froogle's been around for a long time, though it's only recently been linked on google's front page. It's not really ready yet - in other words it sucks. You could usually get a better price from amazon. Pretty disappointing given what we're used to from google. Maybe next year...
So did I. It asked me questions about the refresh rate of my monitor, or some other low-level crap I don't want to have to know about. In terms of ease of use, it's light-years away from Mandrake, which a Downs child could install.
Really? With debian I had to install gphoto, I had to read a lot of gphoto docs and hand edit files in/etc. It was maybe the biggest Linux headache I've had, and I don't think most non-geeky people could have done it. I wonder what Suse does differently.
This should be illegal. Universities are funded (for the most part) by the government.. the taxpayers. They have no right to make their research unavailable to the public that funds them. Research would go faster if information was shared, and as a member of the taxpaying public, that's what I care about, not which professor gets credit for it.
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Money-chasers are either into real-estate or the medical field these days. I'm sure you can find plenty of 2000-era IT folks in both lines of work today.
They wrote enough tickets to Yankees going 3 mph above the speed limit to buy them.
Either. "Best" is a relative term, and I don't know of a better browser than firefox, secret bugs and spoofable UI and all. I'm not saying it doesn't bother me (mainly the secrecy), but what would I switch to that would be better?
If you're waiting for a web browser without serious faults, you'll be waiting a long time. Firefox is still the best, AFAIK, despite this weakness.
Parent poster has obviously been frozen in an iceberg since 2000.
And it's another cognitive burden for a someone who already knows how to use Windows, which is almost everybody. If this were 1983 and users were blank slates, maybe GNOME's button order would be better (I really don't think it would matter much, if at all), but it's 2004 and every weird little change away from what normal people (windows users) are used to makes it harder for them to switch.
The super-rich need a better way to justify their existence than sitting on their asses collecting stock dividends.
What the hell is your point? The courses don't work with Mozilla under Linux (I tried).
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What, you're willing to spend many hours learning the material but you can't spend 30 seconds searching for a book on amazon.com? Also, if you're self-studying you can probably get away with using an old edition, which will be available cheap. Publishers' unnecessary textbook upgrade treadmill makes Microsoft look like saints.
What's more, they require Shockwave which is apparently unavailable without the Crossover plugin, whatever that. I guess I'll just have to die not knowing about causal reasoning.
SimHouston sucks. Surfing the web feels about like using Netscape circa 1996. Why did the city waste the money on this browser when Mozilla is available for free?
I tried Slackware as a newb. I wouldn't recommend it. Installing it wasn't a problem, but getting the peripherals to work was.
Gun ownership? Screw that, it's all about RPGs these days. They'll pry my rocket launcher from my cold dead hands!
Since a semi-literate monkey could write useful perl scripts while only knowing a tenth of the language (that's what I did), I can see that perl scripts would tend to be unreadable.
So those are your choices. Buggy Windows 98 running fast, KDE running slow, or fluxbox (or another lightweight WM) running in a non-windows-like manner which requires you to learn something new. Or spend some money on a faster PC. There are always tradeoffs. Such is life.
BTW, you should consider IceWM. It's windows-like enough that it won't weird you out (like fluxbox might), but it's way faster than KDE on old hardware like you're using.
1) I'm too cheap to buy Windows and too paranoid to pirate it 2) you can't "apt-get" on it 3) adware 4) Some software that I use doesn't run on Windows. And even some that theoretically does (Emacs, the Gimp, wget..) would probably be a big pain in the ass to get to work. I recall installing Cygwin 3 or so years ago when I was using Windows and it was painful. I prefer "apt-get install whatever" 5) I want my GNU/soul to get into GNU/heaven when I die
I haven't tried the new Nautilus, but if you've been using the old Windows start menu for 9 years, it's very efficient and logical. This isn't 1983. Everyone is already familiar with computers (mostly Windows), and it's easier to stick with what you know instead of learning a new system. Same with file managers. And the situation is even worse when you consider that Gnome is targeting Windows users, who will now have one more weird, different Linux thing to deal with if they make the switch. As if having to learn a bunch of new applications wasn't enough.
That's what I did when I had a problem with a transaction. They charged it back, I got my money back, and that was the last I ever heard about it. It could be that ebay or paypal would give you trouble if you did that often (I don't know) but it's only come up once in 4 years and 100 or more auctions.
The editors and the publishing company are in it for the money, though. I don't know how important they really are, and how much of a substitute direct contact with the readers is for them. We'll see.
And third-world countries have lots of capable people who can do the same work most Americans, (even rural Americans) do for a fraction of the cost. If companies would ditch the cities for cheaper rural areas, why wouldn't they ditch rural areas for poor countries?
Froogle's been around for a long time, though it's only recently been linked on google's front page. It's not really ready yet - in other words it sucks. You could usually get a better price from amazon. Pretty disappointing given what we're used to from google. Maybe next year...
So did I. It asked me questions about the refresh rate of my monitor, or some other low-level crap I don't want to have to know about. In terms of ease of use, it's light-years away from Mandrake, which a Downs child could install.
Really? With debian I had to install gphoto, I had to read a lot of gphoto docs and hand edit files in /etc. It was maybe the biggest Linux headache I've had, and I don't think most non-geeky people could have done it. I wonder what Suse does differently.
This should be illegal. Universities are funded (for the most part) by the government.. the taxpayers. They have no right to make their research unavailable to the public that funds them. Research would go faster if information was shared, and as a member of the taxpaying public, that's what I care about, not which professor gets credit for it.