It's because it would be inaccurate. The amount of genetic difference we see in human "races" is lower than would be required to distinguish races in other animals. I don't know if that would make calling them races fascist or just inaccurate, but either way we shouldn't do it. The only thing it really does is distract a whole lot of people from the real things they should be hating each other over.
So yeah, when are we going to see a font that actually doesn't burn the eyes in a *nix setup?
Whenever you want? When are we going to see fonts on a mac that aren't all blurry, a window theme that isn't ugly as shit, and not have to install third party addons (usually commercial) just to make it work properly?
Oh yeah, never.
There are tons of "*nix geeks" who disagree with me. I fucking hate gnome, sysv-style init scripts, and package managers that handle dependencies. You do realize that not everything is like your cult of mac where you all agree with each other on everything because you all follow the steve blindly, right?
Please, from now on just keep your mouth shut and your hands off your silly-looking mac keyboard.
I've read a few reviews on his site that were linked from somewhere else. Only one by him though. I actually kind of think game reviewers could learn a thing or two from his reviews (at least the thumbs up, thumbs down ones they did on TV). Because he'd usually give a movie a thumbs up if he thought people would enjoy going to see it and didn't nitpick about how "innovative" and ground breaking it was.
Of course there's a lot higher buy in price on a video game, but maybe someone should do something about that too. Shorter games with prices approaching that of a movie ticket would be pretty nice. Too bad almost everything that fits that category right now is either a throw away "casual game" that probably has an equally good free equivalent or is a 10-20 year-old ROM that's been encrypted and shoveled onto a proprietary emulator.
I never use alt-tab. Focus follows mouse, auto-raise, and window functions do the job a whole lot better. Virtual desktops are useful for organizing the apps you're using, but that has nothing to do with maximizing, which is really kind of a nuisance.
Of course none of this is practical on windows or mac where the window managers both suck.
Is that supposed to be some kind of troll or something? Or are there really so few people using that crap these days that you have to spam links just to get some attention?
Why not just make the screen one big button? Can't miss that and it takes less movement of the eye and won't confuse anyone as to what app the button belongs to because it obviously belongs to the only one taking up the whole screen.
FUD? "Goodies" in Excel spreadsheets? I'm talking INTERFACE. Calc is ridiculously hard to use to even do simple tasks because it's interface is poor and even when it can do something (which I'm not always sure it can) it's impossible to find out how to do it. Most of the time when I go looking for how to do something the answer is "it doesn't do that and we like it this way."
Just because Calc blows and I realize it doesn't mean I have anything to do with microsoft.
They're not particularly straight forward on Slackware. Before you say I should try another distribution keep in mind that I don't actually like Linux, I like Slackware.
Not that you COULDN'T do it in Calc, it's just fucking horrible to do so. If you don't realize this it's because your use of spreadsheets is extremely light.
What's the free alternative to Excel? Not that Excel doesn't have tons of flaws, but all the open source spreadsheets are a fucking nightmare to use. It's possible gnumeric isn't, but it's gnome so it's a nightmare to install and run, but OOo Calc is horrible and KSpread is even worse.
Not true at all. Voters (at least in the United States) largely do NOT vote their self interest. If they did we would have a whole lot fewer people voting republican while making little more than minimum wage just because that candidate talks favorably of their imaginary friend.
Writer is more or less alright, it does what I need. This is possibly not true for some people, but I don't think the number of people with really hardcore word processing needs is that high. Calc on the other hand BLOWS. Not that there aren't numerous things that I'd change in Excel if given the opportunity, but there really aren't any usable spreadsheets (I run Slackware so it's quite a PITA to get gnumeric up and running, so many it's better than the others, but I don't know) on Linux. There are a ton of things that would take literally seconds in Excel that can take 20 minutes to do in Calc. I'm sure there are ways to make Calc more useful but it seems to be exceptionally difficult to find out how to do them if they exist.
It's really too bad, because the parts seem to be there (more than once given the multiple projects working on the problem) but none of them really seem like they want to do it right. In the case of KSpread, the KOffice spreadsheet, I'm not even sure anyone uses the damn thing because it's missing functionality (Freeze being the prime example) that make doing anything more than compiling lists just about useless, and even then only small lists.
They said something about having a (large?) number of pre-made levels. I don't remember if they gave a ballpark number of the count, or if they gave one at all. Don't remember hearing that it would be a story or campaign mode, but I also don't remember hearing that it wouldn't be.
Looks pretty neat. Too bad everyone but the super hardcore fans will have moved on by the time PS3 is priced low enough for me to care. DAMN YOU SONY!
The word you are looking for is etymology, and I don't think that it means what you think it means.
Etymology is the study of the history of words - when they entered a language, from what source, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.
I don't care about having it better than you Brits. That's to be expected, we whooped your asses. But not having it better than the French is just an affront to democracy and freedom!
That is not why I'm forced to pay $55/month for a 6MBit connection. That blame lies solely with our cable monopolies. If you think they're a good idea you must be a fucking communist and I'll ask you kindly to get out of my country before I find my gun.
I'll just continue to point to the dictionary as evidence that anyone who takes up the debate is wrong. The definition of "art" is so broad that it can encompass just about anything people make or do.
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It's because it would be inaccurate. The amount of genetic difference we see in human "races" is lower than would be required to distinguish races in other animals. I don't know if that would make calling them races fascist or just inaccurate, but either way we shouldn't do it. The only thing it really does is distract a whole lot of people from the real things they should be hating each other over.
People don't come in races.
So yeah, when are we going to see a font that actually doesn't burn the eyes in a *nix setup?
Whenever you want? When are we going to see fonts on a mac that aren't all blurry, a window theme that isn't ugly as shit, and not have to install third party addons (usually commercial) just to make it work properly?
Oh yeah, never.
There are tons of "*nix geeks" who disagree with me. I fucking hate gnome, sysv-style init scripts, and package managers that handle dependencies. You do realize that not everything is like your cult of mac where you all agree with each other on everything because you all follow the steve blindly, right?
Please, from now on just keep your mouth shut and your hands off your silly-looking mac keyboard.
I've read a few reviews on his site that were linked from somewhere else. Only one by him though. I actually kind of think game reviewers could learn a thing or two from his reviews (at least the thumbs up, thumbs down ones they did on TV). Because he'd usually give a movie a thumbs up if he thought people would enjoy going to see it and didn't nitpick about how "innovative" and ground breaking it was.
Of course there's a lot higher buy in price on a video game, but maybe someone should do something about that too. Shorter games with prices approaching that of a movie ticket would be pretty nice. Too bad almost everything that fits that category right now is either a throw away "casual game" that probably has an equally good free equivalent or is a 10-20 year-old ROM that's been encrypted and shoveled onto a proprietary emulator.
I never use alt-tab. Focus follows mouse, auto-raise, and window functions do the job a whole lot better. Virtual desktops are useful for organizing the apps you're using, but that has nothing to do with maximizing, which is really kind of a nuisance.
Of course none of this is practical on windows or mac where the window managers both suck.
Is that supposed to be some kind of troll or something? Or are there really so few people using that crap these days that you have to spam links just to get some attention?
Putting the menu on the top neither increases or decreases functionality. It does however reduce usability and disrupts work flow.
Why not just make the screen one big button? Can't miss that and it takes less movement of the eye and won't confuse anyone as to what app the button belongs to because it obviously belongs to the only one taking up the whole screen.
So how'd they compromise on the license they are using? Maybe you should think this through a few more times before posting on the topic.
FUD? "Goodies" in Excel spreadsheets? I'm talking INTERFACE. Calc is ridiculously hard to use to even do simple tasks because it's interface is poor and even when it can do something (which I'm not always sure it can) it's impossible to find out how to do it. Most of the time when I go looking for how to do something the answer is "it doesn't do that and we like it this way."
Just because Calc blows and I realize it doesn't mean I have anything to do with microsoft.
Fuck that. And fuck you.
They're not particularly straight forward on Slackware. Before you say I should try another distribution keep in mind that I don't actually like Linux, I like Slackware.
Not that you COULDN'T do it in Calc, it's just fucking horrible to do so. If you don't realize this it's because your use of spreadsheets is extremely light.
What's the free alternative to Excel? Not that Excel doesn't have tons of flaws, but all the open source spreadsheets are a fucking nightmare to use. It's possible gnumeric isn't, but it's gnome so it's a nightmare to install and run, but OOo Calc is horrible and KSpread is even worse.
Not true at all. Voters (at least in the United States) largely do NOT vote their self interest. If they did we would have a whole lot fewer people voting republican while making little more than minimum wage just because that candidate talks favorably of their imaginary friend.
Writer is more or less alright, it does what I need. This is possibly not true for some people, but I don't think the number of people with really hardcore word processing needs is that high. Calc on the other hand BLOWS. Not that there aren't numerous things that I'd change in Excel if given the opportunity, but there really aren't any usable spreadsheets (I run Slackware so it's quite a PITA to get gnumeric up and running, so many it's better than the others, but I don't know) on Linux. There are a ton of things that would take literally seconds in Excel that can take 20 minutes to do in Calc. I'm sure there are ways to make Calc more useful but it seems to be exceptionally difficult to find out how to do them if they exist.
It's really too bad, because the parts seem to be there (more than once given the multiple projects working on the problem) but none of them really seem like they want to do it right. In the case of KSpread, the KOffice spreadsheet, I'm not even sure anyone uses the damn thing because it's missing functionality (Freeze being the prime example) that make doing anything more than compiling lists just about useless, and even then only small lists.
Remind me why you'd want to run NTFS again? I'm not sure that ext2/3 would really be the ultimate solution, but I'd take that over NTFS crap.
They said something about having a (large?) number of pre-made levels. I don't remember if they gave a ballpark number of the count, or if they gave one at all. Don't remember hearing that it would be a story or campaign mode, but I also don't remember hearing that it wouldn't be.
Looks pretty neat. Too bad everyone but the super hardcore fans will have moved on by the time PS3 is priced low enough for me to care. DAMN YOU SONY!
No, my xterm has colors.
I don't care about having it better than you Brits. That's to be expected, we whooped your asses. But not having it better than the French is just an affront to democracy and freedom!
That is not why I'm forced to pay $55/month for a 6MBit connection. That blame lies solely with our cable monopolies. If you think they're a good idea you must be a fucking communist and I'll ask you kindly to get out of my country before I find my gun.
I don't think it's gotten bad enough for drastic measures like that.
I would have, but the bitch keeps asking for it.
I'll just continue to point to the dictionary as evidence that anyone who takes up the debate is wrong. The definition of "art" is so broad that it can encompass just about anything people make or do.
No, actually I didn't. It really is just that easy to make a "Zork dupes articles" joke almost every day on /.. Also, can't karma whore for funny anyway. It doesn't increase karma anymore, and hasn't in a long time.