Well, when the few sites amount to some thousands (or at least some hundreds) I'd say it's a good way of maing yourself heard. A powerful silent scream, as it were.
Then I have this used copy of Windows ME I'm sure wou want to buy. It's a great product, totally supported by that rock solid company, Microsoft. And if you call in the next 10 minutes, I have this great MS/DOS software I'm sure you'll like.
So you are saying you just go to the car salesman and say "Gimme a car. I don't care which one, I don't like to choose. I just want to get in it and drive"?
Sorry. I thought that buying a car was something that involved a bit more thinking than "I want it blue. I like blue".
What you are saying is "a novice user is blinded by the incredible differences between all those distributions". But the novice user will normally not use more than one distribution, which (usually) chooses carefully its UI: Red Hat chose Bluecurve, Mandrake has Galaxy, SuSE has (I think) KDE as its default, Lindows also...
Every "Linux Operating System", defined as "a distro you can get on the net" has a well defined UI, even if that UI is the command line. Even Mandrake, that prides itself on letting you choose between 11 WMs has a big bold selection between only Gnome or KDE (the rest are chunked into a subgroup called "Other" in the install. So that difficulty to choose is not something real, in my opinion.
Another poster just told you what to do: copy-paste this rant onto a "Feature request" form on http://openoffice.org.
I want to add that I should go and point to them the lack of good graphing abilities. I studied Chemistry, and I missed the capabilities Excel had for tracing complex charts. Sure, OO,o can do lines, curves, etc. But what if I want a regression curve with experimental (not fixed) error percentages on each point? If it is possible, it is very unclear how.
Raymond has always been an egomaniac blowhard with a self-opinion exceeding his actual worth by several orders of magnitude, and if you don't believe me, just ask any member of the linux kernel mailing list.
[sarcasm]The poster of the parent post is a total jerk. And if you don't believe me, ask any of his past girlfriends.[/sarcasm]
Seriously, I don't like his political opinions, I don't like his answering on this thread as a third person (see Owner of a Whiny Cat thread here) to defend himself, and I don't like to see his personal opinions sprinkled on the Jargon File. I accept the latter only because he does a great amount of necessary work... And because I'm human to know anybody in a position of power sooner or later takes some advantage out of it.
If you don't like what he's doing, write to him stating what you want. I don't like projects forking, so I don't suggest it, but feel free if you are prepared to make the effort. I can't take on the Jargon File, but am prepared to write him a letter saying my mind on this.
I hate to be anal on this, but you really should have checked a bit... It seems you were talking about "Bored of the Rings" and "The Sillibillion" instead of the real works..
Repeat after me:
T O L K I E N, not Tolkein
S I L M A R I L L I O N, not Silmarillian
G A N D A L F, not Gandolf
S A U R O N, not Soron.
Yet Another Tolkien Nerd.
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I don't know about yours, but every Guinness can I had the pleasure to drink said distinctly to drink it cold.
Anyway, "room temperature" is around 20C, not "TC on a hot sunny day"
If you enjoy realist sci-fi, you might want to try this incredible trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
I'm through half of the second book, "Green Mars", and they are an excellent read.
The story tells the colonization and terraforming of the red planet, the social interactions between the pioneers, the wars in a devastated Earth (year 2050) and a lot more, I think (As I said, I still haven't finished it).
Other things I enjoyed a lot lately are Tolkien's works; the Dune saga; and the Discworld books. I highly suggest you get a copy of Pratchett's "The Fifth Elephant" for a great phantasy-mistery-humor book.
Verbatim means "word by word identical". So the source code this guy should be distributing should carry the original notices and names. He'd have to include the GNU GPL (or the relevant) license, plus the appropriate copyright disclaimers.
Actually, you would. They are their satellites, or moons. That has nothing to do with being round, merely with the "goin'-round-a-planet" part. On the other hand, there's the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, which does revolve around the sun; yet they are called "asteroids", not planets, because they are
-many
-too small
-mostly non-planet like.
Actually, I thought the real name for X was "The X window system". So it's nothing like "Microsoft Windows". As for the weight of a random computer user's opinion, it would be valid if the question had been asked when the name was "created", not now.
Dwarves lost their art, their "power to create". Not their technology. Tolkien doesn't think of technology in a good sense in his works; that is supplanted by art. This is because dwarves and elves are magical beings; they do not build, they create.
Americans should also think of changing their popular emergency phone number to something else... After all, 911 is pretty shocking, isn't it? People nowadays are so sensitive. I suggest 912, so it matches the Simpsons (watch the "stonemasons" episode) idea.
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That should be GNU/Deb/Ian
As someone else said, the phrase is
"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes"
meaning "I fear the greeks and those who bring gifts".
Well, when the few sites amount to some thousands (or at least some hundreds) I'd say it's a good way of maing yourself heard. A powerful silent scream, as it were.
Then I have this used copy of Windows ME I'm sure wou want to buy. It's a great product, totally supported by that rock solid company, Microsoft. And if you call in the next 10 minutes, I have this great MS/DOS software I'm sure you'll like.
So you are saying you just go to the car salesman and say "Gimme a car. I don't care which one, I don't like to choose. I just want to get in it and drive"?
Sorry. I thought that buying a car was something that involved a bit more thinking than "I want it blue. I like blue".
What you are saying is "a novice user is blinded by the incredible differences between all those distributions". But the novice user will normally not use more than one distribution, which (usually) chooses carefully its UI: Red Hat chose Bluecurve, Mandrake has Galaxy, SuSE has (I think) KDE as its default, Lindows also...
Every "Linux Operating System", defined as "a distro you can get on the net" has a well defined UI, even if that UI is the command line. Even Mandrake, that prides itself on letting you choose between 11 WMs has a big bold selection between only Gnome or KDE (the rest are chunked into a subgroup called "Other" in the install. So that difficulty to choose is not something real, in my opinion.
Another poster just told you what to do: copy-paste this rant onto a "Feature request" form on http://openoffice.org.
I want to add that I should go and point to them the lack of good graphing abilities. I studied Chemistry, and I missed the capabilities Excel had for tracing complex charts. Sure, OO,o can do lines, curves, etc. But what if I want a regression curve with experimental (not fixed) error percentages on each point? If it is possible, it is very unclear how.
Did you try Mr Project? it's even included in those 3 cds. I haven't tried it myself, but it does look good.
Good luck with it!
[sarcasm]The poster of the parent post is a total jerk. And if you don't believe me, ask any of his past girlfriends.[/sarcasm]
Seriously, I don't like his political opinions, I don't like his answering on this thread as a third person (see Owner of a Whiny Cat thread here) to defend himself, and I don't like to see his personal opinions sprinkled on the Jargon File. I accept the latter only because he does a great amount of necessary work... And because I'm human to know anybody in a position of power sooner or later takes some advantage out of it.
If you don't like what he's doing, write to him stating what you want. I don't like projects forking, so I don't suggest it, but feel free if you are prepared to make the effort. I can't take on the Jargon File, but am prepared to write him a letter saying my mind on this.
I hate to be anal on this, but you really should have checked a bit... It seems you were talking about "Bored of the Rings" and "The Sillibillion" instead of the real works..
Repeat after me:T O L K I E N, not Tolkein
S I L M A R I L L I O N, not Silmarillian
G A N D A L F, not Gandolf
S A U R O N, not Soron.
Yet Another Tolkien Nerd.
I don't know about yours, but every Guinness can I had the pleasure to drink said distinctly to drink it cold.
Anyway, "room temperature" is around 20C, not "TC on a hot sunny day"
If you enjoy realist sci-fi, you might want to try this incredible trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
I'm through half of the second book, "Green Mars", and they are an excellent read.
The story tells the colonization and terraforming of the red planet, the social interactions between the pioneers, the wars in a devastated Earth (year 2050) and a lot more, I think (As I said, I still haven't finished it).
Other things I enjoyed a lot lately are Tolkien's works; the Dune saga; and the Discworld books. I highly suggest you get a copy of Pratchett's "The Fifth Elephant" for a great phantasy-mistery-humor book.
Actually, you would. They are their satellites, or moons. That has nothing to do with being round, merely with the "goin'-round-a-planet" part. On the other hand, there's the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, which does revolve around the sun; yet they are called "asteroids", not planets, because they are -many -too small -mostly non-planet like.
Actually, I thought the real name for X was "The X window system". So it's nothing like "Microsoft Windows". As for the weight of a random computer user's opinion, it would be valid if the question had been asked when the name was "created", not now.
Dwarves lost their art, their "power to create". Not their technology. Tolkien doesn't think of technology in a good sense in his works; that is supplanted by art. This is because dwarves and elves are magical beings; they do not build, they create.
Americans should also think of changing their popular emergency phone number to something else... After all, 911 is pretty shocking, isn't it? People nowadays are so sensitive. I suggest 912, so it matches the Simpsons (watch the "stonemasons" episode) idea.