Gnome is a mess from all perspectives. I've used Gnome for the past few years, but have grown tired of the constant *COUGH* "improvements" (spatial browsing anyone?) I'm quite content with browsing my file system in a single window. The dialog button re-ordering was the most annoying change. For all of their talk about "humane" and "friendly" UI design, they forgot that most people have settled into habits and changing the layout has only decreased productivity, forcing users to take extra time to scrutinize the dialog box.
From a developers perspective, they have nearly as many complicated, overlapping technologies with funny names as the crew from Redmond. All the time that Gnome developers spend creating "exciting new technology" (Beagle, Dashboard) should instead be focused on streamlining the API, fixing any long-standing bugs and cleaning up the build system.
I realize that sometimes people get the itch to try out a new idea, but when you're pushing your desktop as an alternative to a supposedly unfriendly, buggy and half-assed OS, you need to make sure that your desktop is not unfriendly, buggy or half-assed!
The price of a CD is so outragous. Even my Mom is using P2P software to get music because she dosen't want to pay $17 bucks for a CD that contains two good songs out of twelve. The "filler factor," as I call it, is another hit against CDs. Most CDs have a few good songs with the bulk of the album consisting of substandard, half-baked songs. Why buy the CD when you can get the two good songs of a P2P network.
It seems like the US government has done quit a bit to protect corporations and business models. The DMCA, DRM legislation and those that target Open Source software are to protect these companies. While the DMCA and DRM legislation have a partially valid purpose; preventing software piracy. I'm not a fan of the DMCA or DRM, but I do see the reasoning behind such laws.
This broadcast flag treaty just adds to the list of the government turning its back on what the consumer, while the media conglomerates line the pockets, underwear and socks of politicians.
It all amounts to revenue. TiVo and other PVR technologies have spared us from the hell known as commercials. Forcing folks to watch commercials is not the solution to the problem. There will be ways around this technology once it comes into widespread use.
And lets not kid ourselves, it's all about people skipping commercials. People capturing, burning then selling last weeks episode of "Friends" is not really a major problem. The logic is that if people skip through commercials, they won't buy the product featured, which in turn make advertisers less likely to purchase airtime and the network losses money.
This is just another case of big business wanting to maintain their antiquated business models instead of adapting to new technologies.
Wow, instead of fragging your opponents into oblivion, you can now bore them to death will the sordid details of your life!
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The formation of diamonds requires both heat AND pressure. Wired ran an article about artificial diamond production. The article mentions that the process requires a temperature of 2,200 F and a pressure of 50,000 atmospheres.
The "advertisement clause" that everyone keeps referring to states that ADVERTISMENTS for the software must include a statement giving credit to the original developers of the software. This new license states that you must include such a statement in the DOCUMENTATION for the derived software.
This argument is completely ridiculous. It is just as silly as some of the arguments of the past. Who is going to take us seriously if we keep arguing about two or three lines of text placed in the documentation for an application?
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No, I haven't. I use KDE now. GoneME is such an unfortunate name, don't you think?
Gnome is a mess from all perspectives. I've used Gnome for the past few years, but have grown tired of the constant *COUGH* "improvements" (spatial browsing anyone?) I'm quite content with browsing my file system in a single window. The dialog button re-ordering was the most annoying change. For all of their talk about "humane" and "friendly" UI design, they forgot that most people have settled into habits and changing the layout has only decreased productivity, forcing users to take extra time to scrutinize the dialog box.
From a developers perspective, they have nearly as many complicated, overlapping technologies with funny names as the crew from Redmond. All the time that Gnome developers spend creating "exciting new technology" (Beagle, Dashboard) should instead be focused on streamlining the API, fixing any long-standing bugs and cleaning up the build system.
I realize that sometimes people get the itch to try out a new idea, but when you're pushing your desktop as an alternative to a supposedly unfriendly, buggy and half-assed OS, you need to make sure that your desktop is not unfriendly, buggy or half-assed!
They have to buy SCO in order to do that!
The price of a CD is so outragous. Even my Mom is using P2P software to get music because she dosen't want to pay $17 bucks for a CD that contains two good songs out of twelve. The "filler factor," as I call it, is another hit against CDs. Most CDs have a few good songs with the bulk of the album consisting of substandard, half-baked songs. Why buy the CD when you can get the two good songs of a P2P network.
It seems like the US government has done quit a bit to protect corporations and business models. The DMCA, DRM legislation and those that target Open Source software are to protect these companies. While the DMCA and DRM legislation have a partially valid purpose; preventing software piracy. I'm not a fan of the DMCA or DRM, but I do see the reasoning behind such laws.
This broadcast flag treaty just adds to the list of the government turning its back on what the consumer, while the media conglomerates line the pockets, underwear and socks of politicians.
It all amounts to revenue. TiVo and other PVR technologies have spared us from the hell known as commercials. Forcing folks to watch commercials is not the solution to the problem. There will be ways around this technology once it comes into widespread use. And lets not kid ourselves, it's all about people skipping commercials. People capturing, burning then selling last weeks episode of "Friends" is not really a major problem. The logic is that if people skip through commercials, they won't buy the product featured, which in turn make advertisers less likely to purchase airtime and the network losses money. This is just another case of big business wanting to maintain their antiquated business models instead of adapting to new technologies.
Wow, instead of fragging your opponents into oblivion, you can now bore them to death will the sordid details of your life!
The formation of diamonds requires both heat AND pressure. Wired ran an article about artificial diamond production. The article mentions that the process requires a temperature of 2,200 F and a pressure of 50,000 atmospheres.
The "advertisement clause" that everyone keeps referring to states that ADVERTISMENTS for the software must include a statement giving credit to the original developers of the software. This new license states that you must include such a statement in the DOCUMENTATION for the derived software. This argument is completely ridiculous. It is just as silly as some of the arguments of the past. Who is going to take us seriously if we keep arguing about two or three lines of text placed in the documentation for an application?
Redhat 9.0 might be cool, but not as cool as MergedBSD with IPv4 "evil bit" support and Enlightenment 1.0 running on George Forman iGrill