Blame it on GTK. I use Firefox simultaneously, on similarly configured XP and Linux machines. They use the same monitor through a KVM switch. FF on Windows XP is lightning fast and dog slow on Linux (Fedora 5 GNOME for now).
While I applaud the efforts of people who worked hard on GIMP/GTK/GNOME and all related technologies, fact remains that they are dog slow on the same hardware when compared to Windows and QT.
On top of all this, most distros insist on making GNOME the default and KDE the bastard child.
That still makes KDE zippier and therefore more usable.
There are so many things wrong with GTK, the file open/save dialog and the utter wastage of whitespace are the first to come to mind.
I see a XP blue screen every day on my machine. I have tested the hardware and it's perfect. If only happens when I run a particular software over an extented period of time. I decline to name it, but its not a display driver or such and its not even a resource hog. It basically writes to te registry a LOT and the registry size becomes 200+MB. After which I might see an error or find the blue screen. In Windows there are NO logs, no clues, NOTHING to indicate what the problem might be. You're completely blind. The errors are different every time. Don't ask me to re install, I've done that several times. With the latest reinstall, I'm getting another Windows lock up: it only happens randomly with.avi files. The same files on the same drive that Linux has no problem with.
If you compare an equivalent Sony Vaio to a Macbook, certainly both of them have excellent build quality. They both cost more or less the same, but the Sony has more RAM, bigger HDD, better optical drive. Which is why I said, the only reason to prefer the Mac over the Sony would be the OS.
No one can suggest by looking at their exteriors that either one has better quality materials or either one was built with more time...You're basically assuming that Asus spends less time/quality on their own branded laptops. If that were true, then why for example, is news circulating today that the Macbook x1600 GPU is slower clocked than other brands, to keep noise/heat low. Why has Apple had as many problems as other brands (though their service is better than most.) Take a look at Asus laptops. They have excellent quality. And they are always cheaper and/or better equipped than an Apple.
Your automibile analogy would apply to this situation if the Skoda and the Bentley shared the same chassis, tranny, suspension, electrics etc but the Bentley came with slightly better exterior.
Things are OK on the performance side with Apple now that they have Core Duo. They claim the Duo is 5 times faster than G4 on certain benchmarks. That means, the Pentium M is atleast twice as fast. Now just compare the prices of G4 laptops and Pentium M. Ok so this is a bit like Apples to oranges, but yet the fact remains that G4 laptops would be bought today only by the clueless.
Of course,you're right when it comes to brand, people will do almost anything, especially non-techies. I was talking only about techies when comparing Apple offerengs to other laptops.
Most branded laptops are made by a few companies : Asus, Quanta, Chembook(?) and a couple of others. Asus just got a large order to make Apple laptops. What makes you think Asus won't apply the same high standards to Asus brand laptops ? Why won't they apply the same standards when they assemble Higher end laptops for Dell, HP, Sony and others ? Is Asus retarded ? Or is Dell/HP/etc stupid that they ask Asus to make their stuff of a lower quality compared to Apples ?
Other components like the CPU are made in the same fabs. The graphics cards ? Asian fabs...likely TSMC in Taiwan for most ATI and Nvidia chips. The hard drives ? Same old Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba etc. The LCD panels ? LG/Samsung and a few oddly named companies in East Asia... but the same guys who make LCD panels for many others.
You paid Apple extra cash for their admittedly superior software and their well above average service. Their hardware is as pedestrian and as superior as any other PC brand. Wipe the MBP's harddrive and theres nothing in it to recommend it over a higher end Sony/Dell/Toshiba etc.
That said, once the MBP is within 30% more than a comparable Dell, I will buy it.[My first laptop!] OS X, like Linux, is an OS worth paying for.
Almost everyone is aware of Dell coupons. Just follow instructions on sites like these.Dell frequently has coupon for 700 off 2000 etc. Keep looking for deals, and it will be increasingly uncomfortable for you to justify paying almost double simply to run Apple software. Software that some people want but not need.. like me. If I had to pay only a 30% premium over a Dell, I would have bought a Macbook instantly.
Accepted that there might be real criticism of evolution etc.
However, the vast majority of evolution denyers are not critically examining the plausibility of anything(If they did, their books would be the first thing they burnt). They have already made up their minds.
And nor do they have any scientific, alternative theories to present. Even if their criticism arrives from varying angles, their alternative remains the same: "Jeebus did it!!1"
It is ridiculus and demeaning to all human scientific progress to suggest that articles published by researchers are to be used as a "counter argument" to ID.
Please compare: What is their argument and what is ths scientific argument ? Who and where are their researchers ? What "science" do these reseaerhers do ? Is it a coincidence that almost all of them are Fervent Christians ? Do these peope want REAL answers to questions in the Universe or have they decided their answers already ? Imagine what would happen if their "science" becomes mainstream in schools and Universities: Something similar to what would have happened if Nazi bigotry had become mainstream.
What I'm trying to say is, it is stupid, demeaning and a complete waste of time,for example, to present arguments of the level of Einsteins work to someones who's bigotry driven intelligence is barely comparable to a below average high schooler. (not to demean high schoolers).
The only way to tackle these lies is to hit the root of the Big Lie: Who, what and where is this I in ID that they speak of ? Showing them Science journal will come later.
Please. The central focus of $religiousGroup is what its followers choose to interpret on that day.
This interpretation is so open ended for $religiousGroup == Christians, that the same book that you interpret as "love thy nieghbour" was interpreted as "jews killed jesus", Kill the muslims, kill the heathens, kill the blacks, kill the Witches etc.
And today for many christian groups the interpretation is kill the gays, scientists, and muslims again.
love your neighbour as yourself.
Thats hardly rocket science.
Can you think of any other way to make the world a truly better place. My parents think the same (and I'm sure so do yours, even if they had not been westerners)
But what if the REAL interpretation is to kill anyone who dosent agree? Or maybe your god actually DOES want us to fly airplanes into tall buildings ? How do you KNOW he dosent want that ? What if that IS the ticket to get to heaven? If you say "my god is a loving god blah blah" I'd really like to see some proof of that. Or maybe it's in the bible where he kills the egyptions and buries an entire town because some inhabitants are gay.I'm sure you know more.
And what will your children decide tp interpret ? Your childrens childrens children ? What an I to interpret here ?
and tell me where it justifies violence or killing. Bottom line, NOWHERE in the Quran does it say that taking life is sanctioned by any higher authority.
Well it all depends what people believe or choose to believe or interpret.
Please read The end of Faith by Sam Harris.Pretty interesting. Especially pages 108-129. He makes a very good case in saying that the koran is far more open to violent/repressive interpretation than the other books.
To this day I find the Gnome terminal to be terminally slow. And if I'm using Gnome, I make sure I'm using Konsole.
In general, QT apps seem to much zippier than GTK. But Gnome is the chosen Desktop for many distributions including Ubuntu and therefore and their KDE counterpart seems to be buggy and incomplete. Therefore the Gnome desktop seems to be the better choice if you're using a distro like Ubuntu.
However, Suse Knoppix and Mandirva have very a polished KDE setup.
As for the GP, Konqueror as a file manager is miles ahead of Gnome. If you're in the List view in Nautilus, how do you Drag-Select ? How do you paste ? You can't. Nautilus is again much slower than Konqueror. Watch how long each one takes to list filesizes in the same directories. If ever in Gnome, I prefer to use Konqueror as my filemanager. Konqueror has TABs.. even for file management.
GTK apps use too much White space in menus and other areas. It makes my 1600x1200 desktop look like the 1280x1024 one in KDE. No, reducing font size dosent really help and sometimes creates other problems. At the same resolution, Firefox shows a lot less bookmarks than Firefox in Windows. If theres any way to reduce this white space, I'd like to hear it.
Kcontrol is actually usefull. Especially the keyboard shortcuts, which lets you use the Win key. Gnome wouldnt. The help in Kcontrol is again actually usefull and opens much faster then Gnome.
Verizun does.
If you're a DSL subscriber, you can access their Usenet servers. They host a LOT of content, although not everything and have decent retention @15 days. Roadrunner/AOL have content too, but a lot less than Verizun. Not sure about SBC. Comcast gives you a limit of 2GB per month for Giganews access, which has excellent content.
And yes, a lot of the alt.binaries.* are there.
For a lot of Indians, H1B is the first step to immigration. Once you have seen the difference between the first world and the third, few would want to go back. Once you get the H1, you can work nin the US for 3+ years. In that time you apply for the green card. As you might know, the GC gives almost all rights that citizenship does. That means once you get the GC you are set.
The "life came from comets" statement is just a theory, like many other things in science. However, a lot of scientific ponderings and observations have taken place and are taking place about this theory. Therefore, there exists some possibility that it might be true. No scientific organization or any Govt is saying that life happened ONLY this way and NO other way.
Many scientists accept the possibility that comets MIGHT have had a role in evolution or life because of certain observed phenomena that agrees with hypothesis (and vice versa). That is science. OTOH, religious freaks refuse to consider any other point of view except the 'interpretation' of their religious text even if it flies in the face of observable evidence. That's faith. Like those who say dinosaur bones are a Test From God or some shit. While scientists regularly disagree with each other, they atleast have some observations, deductions or calculations to show for it. Religious freaks who fight among each other have nothing to say except "My interpretation r0x0r!!" or "My god is better than yours !".
If scientists could assemble non-living material into a living organism it would certainly help the theory of evolution.
Thats not a very smart argument. It's like those people who refused to believe that the earth is round unless they saw a photo of it from space, even when scientists, astronomers, sailors had known for centuries that the earth was spherical, purely through observation of natural phenomena and calculations... which some people are too stupid to understand or too bigoted to accept. Anyone who needs that kind of 'proof' to 'believe' in evolution... its like talking those people in the US who still belive the Sun moves around the earth.
Especially this: I think it is cultural to a fairly large degree. A friend of mine is an CE grad, but now works in network support. He said that basically, engineering was the only option his family considered acceptable for him. He was going to unviersity, and he was going to be an engineer. Didn't matter what kind, but he was going to be an engineer. He's really not all that interested in it, hence he's working in something else right now (CE has almost nothing to do with network support).
This cultural thing does exist and really gets in the way of smart people. And people look up to Engineers and Doctors (and these days MBA's) BUT only from 'good' schools. That means if a girl/guy says "I'm doing this Masters/PHd in History/Biology/Chem/Physics involving such and such", or if they are from a 'small' school, they are looked down upon! People say: "Not good husband/wife material this one." "Poor fellow... it seems he couldnt get in a good engineering/medical school."
Indians are very smart, but very few are interested in what they are studying. And studying in India basically means memorizing a lot of stuff without understanding it, so a lot of people do not know basic stuff. The other day a girl who has A grade in India and is doing Masters in US, asked me what the Return key was.I kid you not. Most of the Indians I know in the US are doing or have done their MS in some field but are least interested in what they do.
You can't blame them for such a attitude though. India is still a very poor country. And many of the young people you see had parents who faced (or are facing) EXTREME hardship when they were young. It is hammered from childhood how important an education is. You're a looser if you dont do well in school/college. This is true for the entire middle class and thankfully some of the poorer people believe this as well. This makes great drones, but this is not a good atmosphere for following your hobbies or wanting to become an archaeologist or ornithologist or some such.
I see the Scite icon has landed in two placesin the Foot menu. For me the most obvious thing to do is right click and hope theres some menu that'll help me. There no menu entry to remove anything. But lots of options to ADD the Scite icon in various locations in a variety of different ways.
I keep the icon selected and press Delete. nothing happens.
I drag the icon to the Trash bin in a variety of ways. Either nothing happens or it tells me I cannot Copy items to the trash, I can only move them. yay.
I drag the duplicate Icon to the other menu that contains it hoping I can atleast get away with one Icon. No luck.
I browse the.gnome2 directory for some clue. If theres anything there, I certainly couldnt find it.
Ok listen, while I immensely appreciate the efforts of Gnome dev's, I cannot call a shitty menu system by any other name. Why couldnt they simply do it the MS way ?? Windows puts links to apps in directories and each dir automatically becomes a sub menu. Is there any great reason the Freedesktoop standard was not designed this way ? Instead of links, we could have had some other fancy files, but they could have still lived in dirs and sub dirs. Windows also has a 'All Users' dir for links that go in every users menu.
Editing menus in Windows is simple. Right click and select Explore. Or simply Right click and say delete. Since the entries are Win shortcuts, you can also edit them, rename them and add commandline arguments. Why cant i do a 'Add Launcher' with Gnome menus, like I can with Panels?
I'm sure someone can reply to this post giving some extremely long winded, counterintuitive and retarted way to Add and or Delete menu entires, but thats NOT the way I want to do it.
In Gnome, I avoid the menu and put most icons/launchers on the panel. The Command line on the Panel is really nice.
This kind of story is quite irritating, not due to the actual achievement involved (playing with light propogation is actually very cool geek-cred stuff), but the overhype and miscommunication to all the laypersons out there who just go, "Yup, that's an 'oops', they said it was a law and now it ain't. I guess evolution might not really be true, dad-gummit,
So true: if you listen some of those creationist kooks, they will frequently mention that the reason Adam saw stars in the sky instantly and the reason we perceive galaxies to be millions of light years away is because the speed of light was different then !
No longer do they have to do complicated main board design, nor even develop their own support chipsets.
Then I must ask you, why have they been doing this for ages ?
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Blame it on GTK. I use Firefox simultaneously, on similarly configured XP and Linux machines. They use the same monitor through a KVM switch. FF on Windows XP is lightning fast and dog slow on Linux (Fedora 5 GNOME for now) .
While I applaud the efforts of people who worked hard on GIMP/GTK/GNOME and all related technologies, fact remains that they are dog slow on the same hardware when compared to Windows and QT.
On top of all this, most distros insist on making GNOME the default and KDE the bastard child. That still makes KDE zippier and therefore more usable.
There are so many things wrong with GTK, the file open/save dialog and the utter wastage of whitespace are the first to come to mind.
I see a XP blue screen every day on my machine. I have tested the hardware and it's perfect. If only happens when I run a particular software over an extented period of time. I decline to name it, but its not a display driver or such and its not even a resource hog. It basically writes to te registry a LOT and the registry size becomes 200+MB. After which I might see an error or find the blue screen. .avi files. The same files on the same drive that Linux has no problem with.
In Windows there are NO logs, no clues, NOTHING to indicate what the problem might be. You're completely blind. The errors are different every time. Don't ask me to re install, I've done that several times.
With the latest reinstall, I'm getting another Windows lock up: it only happens randomly with
If you compare an equivalent Sony Vaio to a Macbook, certainly both of them have excellent build quality. They both cost more or less the same, but the Sony has more RAM, bigger HDD, better optical drive. Which is why I said, the only reason to prefer the Mac over the Sony would be the OS.
No one can suggest by looking at their exteriors that either one has better quality materials or either one was built with more time...You're basically assuming that Asus spends less time/quality on their own branded laptops. If that were true, then why for example, is news circulating today that the Macbook x1600 GPU is slower clocked than other brands, to keep noise/heat low. Why has Apple had as many problems as other brands (though their service is better than most.) Take a look at Asus laptops. They have excellent quality. And they are always cheaper and/or better equipped than an Apple.
Your automibile analogy would apply to this situation if the Skoda and the Bentley shared the same chassis, tranny, suspension, electrics etc but the Bentley came with slightly better exterior.
Things are OK on the performance side with Apple now that they have Core Duo. They claim the Duo is 5 times faster than G4 on certain benchmarks. That means, the Pentium M is atleast twice as fast. Now just compare the prices of G4 laptops and Pentium M. Ok so this is a bit like Apples to oranges, but yet the fact remains that G4 laptops would be bought today only by the clueless.
Of course,you're right when it comes to brand, people will do almost anything, especially non-techies. I was talking only about techies when comparing Apple offerengs to other laptops.
Most branded laptops are made by a few companies : Asus, Quanta, Chembook(?) and a couple of others. Asus just got a large order to make Apple laptops. What makes you think Asus won't apply the same high standards to Asus brand laptops ? Why won't they apply the same standards when they assemble Higher end laptops for Dell, HP, Sony and others ? Is Asus retarded ? Or is Dell/HP/etc stupid that they ask Asus to make their stuff of a lower quality compared to Apples ?
Other components like the CPU are made in the same fabs. The graphics cards ? Asian fabs...likely TSMC in Taiwan for most ATI and Nvidia chips. The hard drives ? Same old Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba etc. The LCD panels ? LG/Samsung and a few oddly named companies in East Asia... but the same guys who make LCD panels for many others.
You paid Apple extra cash for their admittedly superior software and their well above average service. Their hardware is as pedestrian and as superior as any other PC brand. Wipe the MBP's harddrive and theres nothing in it to recommend it over a higher end Sony/Dell/Toshiba etc.
That said, once the MBP is within 30% more than a comparable Dell, I will buy it.[My first laptop!] OS X, like Linux, is an OS worth paying for.
Almost everyone is aware of Dell coupons. Just follow instructions on sites like these.Dell frequently has coupon for 700 off 2000 etc. Keep looking for deals, and it will be increasingly uncomfortable for you to justify paying almost double simply to run Apple software. Software that some people want but not need.. like me. If I had to pay only a 30% premium over a Dell, I would have bought a Macbook instantly.
A Not Safe for Work University... I'd like to join that!
Accepted that there might be real criticism of evolution etc.
However, the vast majority of evolution denyers are not critically examining the plausibility of anything(If they did, their books would be the first thing they burnt). They have already made up their minds.
And nor do they have any scientific, alternative theories to present. Even if their criticism arrives from varying angles, their alternative remains the same: "Jeebus did it!!1"
I hope you're trying to be funny. I've actually seen people who believe what you've said. "All gods are the same...etc etc"
It is ridiculus and demeaning to all human scientific progress to suggest that articles published by researchers are to be used as a "counter argument" to ID.
Please compare: What is their argument and what is ths scientific argument ? Who and where are their researchers ? What "science" do these reseaerhers do ? Is it a coincidence that almost all of them are Fervent Christians ? Do these peope want REAL answers to questions in the Universe or have they decided their answers already ? Imagine what would happen if their "science" becomes mainstream in schools and Universities: Something similar to what would have happened if Nazi bigotry had become mainstream.
What I'm trying to say is, it is stupid, demeaning and a complete waste of time,for example, to present arguments of the level of Einsteins work to someones who's bigotry driven intelligence is barely comparable to a below average high schooler. (not to demean high schoolers).
The only way to tackle these lies is to hit the root of the Big Lie: Who, what and where is this I in ID that they speak of ? Showing them Science journal will come later.
ugly and nonfunctional.
Couldnt have said it better. Someone needs to give its designer a clue.
Or you could click the print button .. but I agree .. this kind of design is stupid and I love using adblock to defeat their evil plans to show me ads.
I think what he means is that Xen install/configure is much simpler in FC5 vs FC4. I think this qualifies as a new feature. Kind of.
Please. The central focus of $religiousGroup is what its followers choose to interpret on that day. This interpretation is so open ended for $religiousGroup == Christians, that the same book that you interpret as "love thy nieghbour" was interpreted as "jews killed jesus", Kill the muslims, kill the heathens, kill the blacks, kill the Witches etc.
And today for many christian groups the interpretation is kill the gays, scientists, and muslims again.
love your neighbour as yourself.
Thats hardly rocket science. Can you think of any other way to make the world a truly better place. My parents think the same (and I'm sure so do yours, even if they had not been westerners)
But what if the REAL interpretation is to kill anyone who dosent agree? Or maybe your god actually DOES want us to fly airplanes into tall buildings ? How do you KNOW he dosent want that ? What if that IS the ticket to get to heaven? If you say "my god is a loving god blah blah" I'd really like to see some proof of that. Or maybe it's in the bible where he kills the egyptions and buries an entire town because some inhabitants are gay.I'm sure you know more.
And what will your children decide tp interpret ? Your childrens childrens children ? What an I to interpret here ?
There is no such thing as a moderate muslim.
The "moderate" muslim has simply chosen to ignore the basic tenets os his faith which call for hate and bigotry against those not exactly like him.
s/muslim/hindu/g.
s/muslim/christian/g.
s/muslim/judaism/g.
and tell me where it justifies violence or killing. Bottom line, NOWHERE in the Quran does it say that taking life is sanctioned by any higher authority.
Well it all depends what people believe or choose to believe or interpret.
Please read The end of Faith by Sam Harris.Pretty interesting. Especially pages 108-129. He makes a very good case in saying that the koran is far more open to violent/repressive interpretation than the other books.
Why is this modded as troll ?
To this day I find the Gnome terminal to be terminally slow. And if I'm using Gnome, I make sure I'm using Konsole.
In general, QT apps seem to much zippier than GTK. But Gnome is the chosen Desktop for many distributions including Ubuntu and therefore and their KDE counterpart seems to be buggy and incomplete. Therefore the Gnome desktop seems to be the better choice if you're using a distro like Ubuntu.
However, Suse Knoppix and Mandirva have very a polished KDE setup.
As for the GP, Konqueror as a file manager is miles ahead of Gnome. If you're in the List view in Nautilus, how do you Drag-Select ? How do you paste ? You can't. Nautilus is again much slower than Konqueror. Watch how long each one takes to list filesizes in the same directories. If ever in Gnome, I prefer to use Konqueror as my filemanager. Konqueror has TABs.. even for file management.
GTK apps use too much White space in menus and other areas. It makes my 1600x1200 desktop look like the 1280x1024 one in KDE. No, reducing font size dosent really help and sometimes creates other problems. At the same resolution, Firefox shows a lot less bookmarks than Firefox in Windows. If theres any way to reduce this white space, I'd like to hear it.
Kcontrol is actually usefull. Especially the keyboard shortcuts, which lets you use the Win key. Gnome wouldnt. The help in Kcontrol is again actually usefull and opens much faster then Gnome.
Theres lots more.
Verizun does.
If you're a DSL subscriber, you can access their Usenet servers. They host a LOT of content, although not everything and have decent retention @15 days.
Roadrunner/AOL have content too, but a lot less than Verizun. Not sure about SBC. Comcast gives you a limit of 2GB per month for Giganews access, which has excellent content.
And yes, a lot of the alt.binaries.* are there.
For a lot of Indians, H1B is the first step to immigration. Once you have seen the difference between the first world and the third, few would want to go back. Once you get the H1, you can work nin the US for 3+ years. In that time you apply for the green card. As you might know, the GC gives almost all rights that citizenship does. That means once you get the GC you are set.
The "life came from comets" statement is just a theory, like many other things in science. However, a lot of scientific ponderings and observations have taken place and are taking place about this theory. Therefore, there exists some possibility that it might be true. No scientific organization or any Govt is saying that life happened ONLY this way and NO other way.
Many scientists accept the possibility that comets MIGHT have had a role in evolution or life because of certain observed phenomena that agrees with hypothesis (and vice versa). That is science. OTOH, religious freaks refuse to consider any other point of view except the 'interpretation' of their religious text even if it flies in the face of observable evidence. That's faith. Like those who say dinosaur bones are a Test From God or some shit. While scientists regularly disagree with each other, they atleast have some observations, deductions or calculations to show for it. Religious freaks who fight among each other have nothing to say except "My interpretation r0x0r!!" or "My god is better than yours !".
If scientists could assemble non-living material into a living organism it would certainly help the theory of evolution.
Thats not a very smart argument. It's like those people who refused to believe that the earth is round unless they saw a photo of it from space, even when scientists, astronomers, sailors had known for centuries that the earth was spherical, purely through observation of natural phenomena and calculations... which some people are too stupid to understand or too bigoted to accept. Anyone who needs that kind of 'proof' to 'believe' in evolution... its like talking those people in the US who still belive the Sun moves around the earth.
They dont care about what YOU pay for gas. They do care how much money these guys make.
As an Indian, I cannot agree more !
... it seems he couldnt get in a good engineering/medical school."
Especially this: I think it is cultural to a fairly large degree. A friend of mine is an CE grad, but now works in network support. He said that basically, engineering was the only option his family considered acceptable for him. He was going to unviersity, and he was going to be an engineer. Didn't matter what kind, but he was going to be an engineer. He's really not all that interested in it, hence he's working in something else right now (CE has almost nothing to do with network support).
This cultural thing does exist and really gets in the way of smart people. And people look up to Engineers and Doctors (and these days MBA's) BUT only from 'good' schools. That means if a girl/guy says "I'm doing this Masters/PHd in History/Biology/Chem/Physics involving such and such", or if they are from a 'small' school, they are looked down upon! People say: "Not good husband/wife material this one." "Poor fellow
Indians are very smart, but very few are interested in what they are studying. And studying in India basically means memorizing a lot of stuff without understanding it, so a lot of people do not know basic stuff. The other day a girl who has A grade in India and is doing Masters in US, asked me what the Return key was.I kid you not. Most of the Indians I know in the US are doing or have done their MS in some field but are least interested in what they do.
You can't blame them for such a attitude though. India is still a very poor country. And many of the young people you see had parents who faced (or are facing) EXTREME hardship when they were young. It is hammered from childhood how important an education is. You're a looser if you dont do well in school/college. This is true for the entire middle class and thankfully some of the poorer people believe this as well. This makes great drones, but this is not a good atmosphere for following your hobbies or wanting to become an archaeologist or ornithologist or some such.
The Epia is often used to build car-puters, whereas I haven't yet heard of something using a Mini for that purpose. .
There you go. See the entire thread.
Really ???
.gnome2 directory for some clue. If theres anything there, I certainly couldnt find it.
Let me try some intuitiveness.
I see the Scite icon has landed in two placesin the Foot menu. For me the most obvious thing to do is right click and hope theres some menu that'll help me. There no menu entry to remove anything. But lots of options to ADD the Scite icon in various locations in a variety of different ways.
I keep the icon selected and press Delete. nothing happens.
I drag the icon to the Trash bin in a variety of ways. Either nothing happens or it tells me I cannot Copy items to the trash, I can only move them. yay.
I drag the duplicate Icon to the other menu that contains it hoping I can atleast get away with one Icon. No luck.
I browse the
Ok listen, while I immensely appreciate the efforts of Gnome dev's, I cannot call a shitty menu system by any other name. Why couldnt they simply do it the MS way ?? Windows puts links to apps in directories and each dir automatically becomes a sub menu. Is there any great reason the Freedesktoop standard was not designed this way ? Instead of links, we could have had some other fancy files, but they could have still lived in dirs and sub dirs. Windows also has a 'All Users' dir for links that go in every users menu.
Editing menus in Windows is simple. Right click and select Explore. Or simply Right click and say delete. Since the entries are Win shortcuts, you can also edit them, rename them and add commandline arguments. Why cant i do a 'Add Launcher' with Gnome menus, like I can with Panels?
I'm sure someone can reply to this post giving some extremely long winded, counterintuitive and retarted way to Add and or Delete menu entires, but thats NOT the way I want to do it.
In Gnome, I avoid the menu and put most icons/launchers on the panel. The Command line on the Panel is really nice.
This kind of story is quite irritating, not due to the actual achievement involved (playing with light propogation is actually very cool geek-cred stuff), but the overhype and miscommunication to all the laypersons out there who just go, "Yup, that's an 'oops', they said it was a law and now it ain't. I guess evolution might not really be true, dad-gummit,
So true: if you listen some of those creationist kooks, they will frequently mention that the reason Adam saw stars in the sky instantly and the reason we perceive galaxies to be millions of light years away is because the speed of light was different then !
No longer do they have to do complicated main board design, nor even develop their own support chipsets.
Then I must ask you, why have they been doing this for ages ?