Knives are used to murder people every year, but they are not illegal. **AA needs a grip on reality. Their business model is failing. Quit tinkering with legislation and find a profitable venue.
It doesn't need to remain Beta for that. Debian isn't beta, yet is distributed with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRENTY (as it says in caps when you login) and whatnot. I don't think Gmail being beta has anything to do with liability or freedom from promises.
Notice the superfluous bordering especially on the right and left of konqueror and konsole and the lack of such extra bordering on nautilus and gnome-terminal?
First off, a wide range of apps already runs on Linux. I don't have a problem using it as my desktop OS, nor does anyone else I know once you factor out the difficulty of installing, which is negligible. In fact, my computer illiterate anti-technology parents don't have a single issue using pre installed Linux. It's all the same to them. Click icon here, browse web. Click icon there, read email. Click icon up there, play solitaire.
"Oh, but you maintain it for them!" Sure I do. But I'd be doing the same damn thing if they ran Windows. Except then I'd be scanning for viruses, removing spyware, etc. There's really no difference.
As for consistency, that's a mute point. There already is a huge number of statically compiled apps which run in any distro. And apps that aren't are provided by your distro's package manager. Why is consistency even an issue at this point? Because you want a ubiquitous distro? Sure, that'd be nice but the world doesn't work that way atm.
If you're talking about ease of use and installation, I'll have sympathy for you. But once installed, the Quake3 tastes just as sweet. All it needs is a little popularity and the real world performance materializes nicely. Stuff like that is proof that Linux IS ready for the desktop and that people are just unwilling to change due to some legacy nonported application or just their unwillingness to learn something new.
To such people I say "what do you really need windows for?" In most cases the answer is nothing except proprietary games. In which case I convince them that games are not as important as running a proper and moral OS (in the sense of free and open as well as unpirated), or I at least encourage them to dual boot. (Even I do that.)
Besides, Linux gets more games all the time. There are only TWO games left that necessitates my windows install. When I stop playing them or they are ported, I will never maintain a windows install again.
You say Linux needs consistency to be a successful desktop OS and I say it needs time. I'm switching people. Friends of mine are switching people. Convincing people to drop the MS monopoly like the bad habit it is is a painfully one-person-at-a-time process.
- MS monopolizes the industry. - Alternative OS attempts competition but saturates the market a fraction of a percent - Hardware manufacturers are reluctant to release any drivers for alternative OS, or they do release drives which suck (like ATI) - Software authors are reluctant to write software or port to alternative OS due to its low saturation.
Software monoculture is an extremely bad thing. Especially when the dominent OS is closed source, poorly engineered, and is actively developed in an anti competitive way. These anti competitive tactics have real-world results. The stifle competition's ability to compete.
There really isn't much of a difference besides the superfluous bordering everywhere in QT apps, which drives me up the wall. Seriously. Look at it it.
Which is why I believe the "desktop Linux" is doomed to fail, ultimately.
Uh, they got these great things called standards. When people unite behind them, stuff works better. Linux just needs more and better standards and it's getting better all the time. Quit singing the *BSD^H^H^H^H Linux is dying tune cause it just hasn't happened yet and it won't any time soon so long as it remains free, open, and organized.
I'd be more worried about its closed source corporate controlled counterparts. They could fail and/or cease development at ANY TIME should the company act accordingly. Quite frankly, using software controlled by a relatively small group of people doesn't sit well with a number of people. Using open source unrestricted software unencumbered by EULAs developed by millions worldwide just makes sense. Software as a corporate product is a flawed business model. That is, when you take anti competitive tactics out of the picture.
Look what capitalist American has done to the computer industry. Is this what Adam Smith had in mind when he wrote The Wealth of Nations?
A man who cares about performance on the KDE team? Well if it works out, the result might be something good.
KDE's performance is fine. What they need is better usability, better defaults, and most importantly, a better looking QT. Even when you theme QT and GTK with Bluecurve to make them look as identical as possible, open konsole then open gnome-terminal and place them side by side. konsole, like all QT apps, has needless bordering everywhere, whereas gnome-terminal, like all GTK apps, is so much cleaner looking.
This is why many notably amazing Linux apps (GIMP, gaim, evolution, hell even firefox) reject QT in favor of GTK. If QT was made to look cleaner and KDE's defaults/usability was more refined, it would be far more successful.
There's just too much breadth of software to shift away from the platform.
If you are speaking about your own situation, what software are you talking about? If it's software in general, I disagree -- as far as personal computing is concerned, the only area in which Linux and Mac OS are not viable platforms is gaming.
Exactly. Windows has been obsolete for me for a long time. I only maintain a Windows install for the same reason most people don't switch. Legacy applications which translates mostly to games.
Even then, more and more I find myself not needing to reboot into Linux. ZSNES works better in Linux than Windows with its native OpenGL support. ePSXe works just as good in Linux as in Windows. Mupen64 emulates many n64 games. Not as good as Windows/PJ64 but still damn good.
If I could WINE Subspace/Continuum and FUO, I'd never touch windows again. A few years ago, my list of apps would have been much bigger.
Nothing you present is admissable evidence supporting the existence of god. Learn what pseudoscience is, then reexamine your "evidence".
Science is the study of our universe using testable methods. Religion is conclusions drawn about our unvierse arising from story based on faith. Since religious conclusions cannot be tested using the scientific method, religion is not science.
I can prove to you that Alexander conquered Mesopotamia. You cannot prove to me that god exists.
I agree entirely. The only thing Photoshop is better at IMHO is image compression. Photoshop's "save for web" is simply beautiful. PSP wins every other battle though. My favorite PSP feature is the scroll wheel zooming.
Take a large image, something huge, say 3200x2400. It will open zoomed at a faction of its actual size. But much of the time, you're not going to want it that small. In PSP, just place the mouse cursor in the the direction you want to go to and zoom in and out via the scroll wheel. Because the zooming process also has the side effect of changing the center focus of the image to wherever your mouse cursor is, you can navigate the entire image without ever clicking. It is very speedy, elegant, and natural.
To do this in other image editing programs, you have to mess with moving scrollbars around, which is ridiculously clumsy compared to PSP's elegant solution.
Hmm, not quite. The Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with ours. Estimates say that the collision will take place in about 3 billion years and create a merger of the two galaxies. A collision between galaxies isn't like a collision between planets. I would predict a merger before a catastrophic explosion.
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Knives are used to murder people every year, but they are not illegal. **AA needs a grip on reality. Their business model is failing. Quit tinkering with legislation and find a profitable venue.
Do you like both vim and emacs too?
It doesn't need to remain Beta for that. Debian isn't beta, yet is distributed with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRENTY (as it says in caps when you login) and whatnot. I don't think Gmail being beta has anything to do with liability or freedom from promises.
Konqueror and Kate do have these problems. Look closer.
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Thanks, I'll keep that in mind next time.
Notice the superfluous bordering especially on the right and left of konqueror and konsole and the lack of such extra bordering on nautilus and gnome-terminal?
First off, a wide range of apps already runs on Linux. I don't have a problem using it as my desktop OS, nor does anyone else I know once you factor out the difficulty of installing, which is negligible. In fact, my computer illiterate anti-technology parents don't have a single issue using pre installed Linux. It's all the same to them. Click icon here, browse web. Click icon there, read email. Click icon up there, play solitaire.
"Oh, but you maintain it for them!"
Sure I do. But I'd be doing the same damn thing if they ran Windows. Except then I'd be scanning for viruses, removing spyware, etc. There's really no difference.
As for consistency, that's a mute point. There already is a huge number of statically compiled apps which run in any distro. And apps that aren't are provided by your distro's package manager. Why is consistency even an issue at this point? Because you want a ubiquitous distro? Sure, that'd be nice but the world doesn't work that way atm.
If you're talking about ease of use and installation, I'll have sympathy for you. But once installed, the Quake3 tastes just as sweet. All it needs is a little popularity and the real world performance materializes nicely. Stuff like that is proof that Linux IS ready for the desktop and that people are just unwilling to change due to some legacy nonported application or just their unwillingness to learn something new.
To such people I say "what do you really need windows for?" In most cases the answer is nothing except proprietary games. In which case I convince them that games are not as important as running a proper and moral OS (in the sense of free and open as well as unpirated), or I at least encourage them to dual boot. (Even I do that.)
Besides, Linux gets more games all the time. There are only TWO games left that necessitates my windows install. When I stop playing them or they are ported, I will never maintain a windows install again.
You say Linux needs consistency to be a successful desktop OS and I say it needs time. I'm switching people. Friends of mine are switching people. Convincing people to drop the MS monopoly like the bad habit it is is a painfully one-person-at-a-time process.
But each person is worth it.
Isn't it obvious?
- MS monopolizes the industry.
- Alternative OS attempts competition but saturates the market a fraction of a percent
- Hardware manufacturers are reluctant to release any drivers for alternative OS, or they do release drives which suck (like ATI)
- Software authors are reluctant to write software or port to alternative OS due to its low saturation.
Software monoculture is an extremely bad thing. Especially when the dominent OS is closed source, poorly engineered, and is actively developed in an anti competitive way. These anti competitive tactics have real-world results. The stifle competition's ability to compete.
There really isn't much of a difference besides the superfluous bordering everywhere in QT apps, which drives me up the wall. Seriously. Look at it it.
I'd be more worried about its closed source corporate controlled counterparts. They could fail and/or cease development at ANY TIME should the company act accordingly. Quite frankly, using software controlled by a relatively small group of people doesn't sit well with a number of people. Using open source unrestricted software unencumbered by EULAs developed by millions worldwide just makes sense. Software as a corporate product is a flawed business model. That is, when you take anti competitive tactics out of the picture.
Look what capitalist American has done to the computer industry. Is this what Adam Smith had in mind when he wrote The Wealth of Nations?
This is why many notably amazing Linux apps (GIMP, gaim, evolution, hell even firefox) reject QT in favor of GTK. If QT was made to look cleaner and KDE's defaults/usability was more refined, it would be far more successful.
Even then, more and more I find myself not needing to reboot into Linux. ZSNES works better in Linux than Windows with its native OpenGL support. ePSXe works just as good in Linux as in Windows. Mupen64 emulates many n64 games. Not as good as Windows/PJ64 but still damn good.
If I could WINE Subspace/Continuum and FUO, I'd never touch windows again. A few years ago, my list of apps would have been much bigger.
Pretty sad world we live in when nobody takes anybody at their word.
As someone only recently getting into Hip Hop, I'd be interested to know what artist that was.
Not according to Netcraft
Nothing you present is admissable evidence supporting the existence of god. Learn what pseudoscience is, then reexamine your "evidence".
Science is the study of our universe using testable methods. Religion is conclusions drawn about our unvierse arising from story based on faith. Since religious conclusions cannot be tested using the scientific method, religion is not science.
I can prove to you that Alexander conquered Mesopotamia. You cannot prove to me that god exists.
I find your use of Windows XP disturbing.
I agree entirely. The only thing Photoshop is better at IMHO is image compression. Photoshop's "save for web" is simply beautiful. PSP wins every other battle though. My favorite PSP feature is the scroll wheel zooming.
Take a large image, something huge, say 3200x2400. It will open zoomed at a faction of its actual size. But much of the time, you're not going to want it that small. In PSP, just place the mouse cursor in the the direction you want to go to and zoom in and out via the scroll wheel. Because the zooming process also has the side effect of changing the center focus of the image to wherever your mouse cursor is, you can navigate the entire image without ever clicking. It is very speedy, elegant, and natural.
To do this in other image editing programs, you have to mess with moving scrollbars around, which is ridiculously clumsy compared to PSP's elegant solution.
100+ comments in the article and the videos loaded for me just fine.
Hmm, not quite. The Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with ours. Estimates say that the collision will take place in about 3 billion years and create a merger of the two galaxies. A collision between galaxies isn't like a collision between planets. I would predict a merger before a catastrophic explosion.
How the hell does suprnova remain in operation for so long? Why isn't the **AA all over that place whacking it with the litigation stick?
Spot on.
As someone studying elementary education, I couldn't recommend this approach more.