Given the rabid fans of OS X and Linux, there would undoubtably be a fair number of people that would just not bother with Longhorn. Until Linux and OSS are outlawed completely, Microsoft will not be able to get a full monopoly.
The FSF is the single point of failure of the GPL. Sure, you can do what Linus does and use "GPL v2 only", but very, very few people do so.
To me it seems that it is the fault of the people if they are not explicitly defining the terms under which they release their code. If there is a point of failure in a system, it is the responsibility of everyone who interacts with the system to make sure that they are prepared to deal with a failure in the system.
True, Original, or Current? The "heathen" celebrations in December would be the original meaning. The true meaning would refer to the christian celebration. And the current meaning can be found out in the stores.
Psyche was the name of Redhat 8.0, Phoebe is the name of the beta of Redhat 8.1. This webpage has a list of the names up to 8.0, and as far as I can tell, there is no real pattern or logic to the names.
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Redhat appears to be intended for those people who want a distro that is easy to install, easy to update, and easy to use. Hiding the differences between KDE and Gnome makes it easy for those people to sit down and use the computer.
But I must agree with you. For my own use Gentoo is preferable. If I want a GUI, I just use Enlightenment, and install the QT and GTK libs.
It is probably because a rather vocal group of people fail to understand that Flash is meant for a GUI environment, and that Lynx and company are meant for a text environment. And from what I have seen, "standard" HTML (4.01 specification) allows for an arbitrary object to be included. A web page with a Flash object is standard compliant.
I have seen flash and applets used in a reasonable and sometimes entertaining fashion in a small handful of web sites. Most web sites, however, most web sites with Flash use it in a very annoying manner.
What would make sense to me is to design a scripting language, perhaps based on Tcl/Tk or Python, that would be found in the html much like JavaScript is, and then have the browser internally "compile" the script into a binary code for faster execution after the initial parsing.
Of course, this scripting language should be an open standard
It would make more sense to write an extension or other add-on for Mozilla that would let you block flash ads while allowing you to view the content you came for. And I am well aware this is far easier said than done.
I agree that there are tasks to which a command-line is ill suited to, if not unusable for, but considering a user interface on it's own merits, and not in light of any particular task, I prefer a command line. Then again, I am also a bit better at programming than I am at working with any sort of digital art.
I would agree that the GUI has improved greatly over the years, but in my experience nothing is ever quite perfect. I would think that there are enough developers in this world for some to work on improving the kernel, for some to work on improving GUIs, and for some to work on the various and sundry projects that exist and have yet to be thought of.
The best user interface that I have yet found is still a command line. Clean, simple and it does nothing except what you tell it to do. There are no maze-like menus, no obscure icons, just a simple prompt, a kind of blank canvas for your thoughts.
But I do understand that for most people, a gui is preferable. And some improvements are slowly showing up. For example, the OptiMoz project could be extended out to other GUI's.
Or it may well be that the companies rejected this protocol because it was not theirs and/or they could not completely control it. Logic and reason can be suprisingly scarce.
The original Tomb Raider was a rather enjoyable game, but I must agree that the games following that did not come close to the quality of the original, and the "modifications" to the main character model did get a bit ridiculous.
Open Office is free (and seems to have a Mozilla-Netscape relation to Star Office, or at least it looks like this to me) and RedHat can be obtained for free legally (it is the support and preferential treatment for the up2date servers that costs money).
Sorry about that, it has been a while since I've used Windows XP, and I've read enough about Microsoft planning on forcing upgrades that I appear to have gotten a bit confused about the control available in Windows Update. Thank you for correcting me.
In Redhat (7.3 and 8.0, at least), up2date is the program used to update the system. This gives you a brief description of each package that it will be downloading, and lets you decide whether or not to download/install this package. up2date give you far more control than the equivalent program in Windows XP.
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Given the rabid fans of OS X and Linux, there would undoubtably be a fair number of people that would just not bother with Longhorn. Until Linux and OSS are outlawed completely, Microsoft will not be able to get a full monopoly.
I've noticed that when people fight fire with fire, the only result is that everybody gets burned.
To me it seems that it is the fault of the people if they are not explicitly defining the terms under which they release their code. If there is a point of failure in a system, it is the responsibility of everyone who interacts with the system to make sure that they are prepared to deal with a failure in the system.
Given the state of politics and politicians these days, I would rather see in power an honorable man than one who says things I agree with.
True, Original, or Current? The "heathen" celebrations in December would be the original meaning. The true meaning would refer to the christian celebration. And the current meaning can be found out in the stores.
Psyche was the name of Redhat 8.0, Phoebe is the name of the beta of Redhat 8.1. This webpage has a list of the names up to 8.0, and as far as I can tell, there is no real pattern or logic to the names.
But I must agree with you. For my own use Gentoo is preferable. If I want a GUI, I just use Enlightenment, and install the QT and GTK libs.
I also found a site here that appears to have more information on her.
Someday's, I think that might be a good thing
Then again, there is OpenNIC and Freenet, so this may be already be happening in a minor way.
It is probably because a rather vocal group of people fail to understand that Flash is meant for a GUI environment, and that Lynx and company are meant for a text environment. And from what I have seen, "standard" HTML (4.01 specification) allows for an arbitrary object to be included. A web page with a Flash object is standard compliant.
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What would make sense to me is to design a scripting language, perhaps based on Tcl/Tk or Python, that would be found in the html much like JavaScript is, and then have the browser internally "compile" the script into a binary code for faster execution after the initial parsing.
Of course, this scripting language should be an open standard
It would make more sense to write an extension or other add-on for Mozilla that would let you block flash ads while allowing you to view the content you came for. And I am well aware this is far easier said than done.
It's not perfect, but I like it
That does make more sense.
I agree that there are tasks to which a command-line is ill suited to, if not unusable for, but considering a user interface on it's own merits, and not in light of any particular task, I prefer a command line. Then again, I am also a bit better at programming than I am at working with any sort of digital art.
I would agree that the GUI has improved greatly over the years, but in my experience nothing is ever quite perfect. I would think that there are enough developers in this world for some to work on improving the kernel, for some to work on improving GUIs, and for some to work on the various and sundry projects that exist and have yet to be thought of.
But I do understand that for most people, a gui is preferable. And some improvements are slowly showing up. For example, the OptiMoz project could be extended out to other GUI's.
Just a thought
Or it may well be that the companies rejected this protocol because it was not theirs and/or they could not completely control it. Logic and reason can be suprisingly scarce.
The original Tomb Raider was a rather enjoyable game, but I must agree that the games following that did not come close to the quality of the original, and the "modifications" to the main character model did get a bit ridiculous.
Open Office is free (and seems to have a Mozilla-Netscape relation to Star Office, or at least it looks like this to me) and RedHat can be obtained for free legally (it is the support and preferential treatment for the up2date servers that costs money).
I've noticed that in any legal document, and a great many nonlegal documents, clarification often leads to obfustication.
Sorry about that, it has been a while since I've used Windows XP, and I've read enough about Microsoft planning on forcing upgrades that I appear to have gotten a bit confused about the control available in Windows Update. Thank you for correcting me.
In Redhat (7.3 and 8.0, at least), up2date is the program used to update the system. This gives you a brief description of each package that it will be downloading, and lets you decide whether or not to download/install this package. up2date give you far more control than the equivalent program in Windows XP.
"...turning toys/into tools..." -Skinny Puppy, Killing Game, off of Last Rights, if I recall correctly. Sums it up nicely, I think.