Not that I would ever use Gnome, but Windows had this same crap by default for a long time, as did MacOS, and it sucked then and sucks now. The Gnome kids are just writing themselves into oblivion with moves like this.
Everyone's going to jump ship to KDE or opt for a lighter weight, bullshit-free window manager like Fluxbox.
Yeah, but most of those conservatives only want the government to give back in a way that they can make proprietary products and personally profit from it.
Allow me to refer you back to your own words:
If cars worked like exploits and patches, then every time a safer car came out, your car would suddenly become less safe than it had been yesterday- and it would become incumbent upon you to get it fixed. Cars, being physical objects, do not behave this way.
Notice where you said "every time a safer car came out, your car would suddenly become less safe than it had been yesterday".
A patch being available for an unpatched system doesn't make that system any less safe than it already was, in the same way that a new model car doesn't make a current one less safe than it was before.
If cars worked like exploits and patches, then every time a safer car came out, your car would suddenly become less safe than it had been yesterday- and it would become incumbent upon you to get it fixed. Cars, being physical objects, do not behave this way.
You're a moron.
When a patch comes out for software, it doesn't make the software "suddenly" less secure than it was the day before. It makes the software that's patched that much more secure.
If you buy a car that explodes when it is hit from the side and the next year the manufacturer releases a new model minus this magic exploding "exploit", your car is similarly not any LESS safe than it was before. It's just relatively less safe when compared to the car that doesn't explode so easily.
That's why IE is integrated into the shell, and that's why it doesn't have tabs.
Ok, that is THE most asinine thing I have ever heard. IE doesn't have tabs because the people at micros~1 are a) too stupid to implement it, b) too lazy to implement it because they know they don't have to and idiot will continue to use their browser anyway, or c) have the worst UI designers in the world. Take one, two, or three of the above. It doesn't matter much.
Furthermore, even if that were the analogy they are going for, how do you explain when "documents" crash?
Hopefully not. With their history of killing off industry leading products like Nothing Real's Shake compositor I'd rather they got their hands on a piece of crappy software. Perhaps buy out Discreet and price everyone but Mac users out of the market so that I wouldn't have to put up with it anymore.
By that logic digital effects companies could also just pirate a bunch of copies and have a couple of licensed copies for rendering, or just use pirated ones anyway if the watermark were the thing that kept them buying the software. The watermark isn't what is keeping professional companies from pirating the software they use or from circumventing software licenses. They play it straight because a) the cost of software is nothing compared to the total cost of production, b) they get official software support which cuts costs on having to train internal tech support staff, c) they're totally and completely boned if they get caught cheating licenses or pirating software.
If they're going to tax the Internet, tax the catalog sales that have gone tax free across state lines forever!
Or better yet, do away with the sales tax completely. It's regressive and a poor excuse for a tiered income tax anyway.
It seems to me that if you are running a non-windows operating system or if you just don't install their software that it is just a normal cd with a useless filesystem on it filled with useless files.
And then you have idiots like yourself that think peace comes by being able to take on #2-10 all at once and then armed with than knowledge suppressing the rest of the world. Grow up or move to Canada... or just jump into the Pacific Ocean.
If you want to look at where money is being wasted, look no further than the bloated, wasteful military and "intelligence" apparatus. What are they running now? Somewhere in the 350-400 BILLION $/year range?
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Not that I would ever use Gnome, but Windows had this same crap by default for a long time, as did MacOS, and it sucked then and sucks now. The Gnome kids are just writing themselves into oblivion with moves like this. Everyone's going to jump ship to KDE or opt for a lighter weight, bullshit-free window manager like Fluxbox.
I've got to agree with that. Fluxbox+terminal beats any graphical file managers.
Yeah, but most of those conservatives only want the government to give back in a way that they can make proprietary products and personally profit from it.
Allow me to refer you back to your own words: If cars worked like exploits and patches, then every time a safer car came out, your car would suddenly become less safe than it had been yesterday- and it would become incumbent upon you to get it fixed. Cars, being physical objects, do not behave this way. Notice where you said "every time a safer car came out, your car would suddenly become less safe than it had been yesterday". A patch being available for an unpatched system doesn't make that system any less safe than it already was, in the same way that a new model car doesn't make a current one less safe than it was before.
So what's your excuse for Windows which actually DOES get exploited. Constantly.
If cars worked like exploits and patches, then every time a safer car came out, your car would suddenly become less safe than it had been yesterday- and it would become incumbent upon you to get it fixed. Cars, being physical objects, do not behave this way. You're a moron. When a patch comes out for software, it doesn't make the software "suddenly" less secure than it was the day before. It makes the software that's patched that much more secure. If you buy a car that explodes when it is hit from the side and the next year the manufacturer releases a new model minus this magic exploding "exploit", your car is similarly not any LESS safe than it was before. It's just relatively less safe when compared to the car that doesn't explode so easily.
That's why IE is integrated into the shell, and that's why it doesn't have tabs. Ok, that is THE most asinine thing I have ever heard. IE doesn't have tabs because the people at micros~1 are a) too stupid to implement it, b) too lazy to implement it because they know they don't have to and idiot will continue to use their browser anyway, or c) have the worst UI designers in the world. Take one, two, or three of the above. It doesn't matter much. Furthermore, even if that were the analogy they are going for, how do you explain when "documents" crash?
And that isn't even a "feature" of KDE. That has to do with the way The Gimp was written. And in my opinion is something that needs to be fixed.
As an Opera user I just mouse gesture down to get a new tab and then middle-click the browser pane if I want to open the link in a new tab.
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1. A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.
2. pl. anecdotes or anecdota (-dt) Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biography.
Hopefully not. With their history of killing off industry leading products like Nothing Real's Shake compositor I'd rather they got their hands on a piece of crappy software. Perhaps buy out Discreet and price everyone but Mac users out of the market so that I wouldn't have to put up with it anymore.
By that logic digital effects companies could also just pirate a bunch of copies and have a couple of licensed copies for rendering, or just use pirated ones anyway if the watermark were the thing that kept them buying the software. The watermark isn't what is keeping professional companies from pirating the software they use or from circumventing software licenses. They play it straight because a) the cost of software is nothing compared to the total cost of production, b) they get official software support which cuts costs on having to train internal tech support staff, c) they're totally and completely boned if they get caught cheating licenses or pirating software.
It's their own fucking fault it got out. And who even gives a fuck, it's not like their games are any good.
If they're going to tax the Internet, tax the catalog sales that have gone tax free across state lines forever! Or better yet, do away with the sales tax completely. It's regressive and a poor excuse for a tiered income tax anyway.
It seems to me that if you are running a non-windows operating system or if you just don't install their software that it is just a normal cd with a useless filesystem on it filled with useless files.
Chemotheropy is the use of CHEMICALS to treat cancer. Radiation is something different.
And then you have idiots like yourself that think peace comes by being able to take on #2-10 all at once and then armed with than knowledge suppressing the rest of the world. Grow up or move to Canada... or just jump into the Pacific Ocean.
If you want to look at where money is being wasted, look no further than the bloated, wasteful military and "intelligence" apparatus. What are they running now? Somewhere in the 350-400 BILLION $/year range?