Not at all. I think what holds them back is the license.
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Software for archival purposes.
Is there a way to get rid of the menu at the top? I prefer right clicking to get the menu, and I don't need another menu to take up space.
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Yeah, I will finally get to know how to use it eaither. These floating window schema was the dummiest thing ever.
I disagree. I prefer it. I think the "window within a window" style that microsoft often employs is cumbersome. I want to be able to put a window anywhere on the screen that I want to put it. It's much more managable. I guess when using windows it could get confusing if you have multiple apps open, and the gimp windows are scattered around. With Linux though I keep my apps spread out over multiple virtual workspaces so it's not an issue.
I think you're being a little paranoid. When every other email you receive can potentially turn your computer into a zombie then you should really start worrying. Linux is actively persuing security. Take a look at things like propolice and grsecurity, both projects that you can use right now.
Except the definition is wrong because it is also based on popular culture. Fishes is in the dictionary too but it's not really a fucking word. Idiots using the word forced it to become a word in the dictionary.
But let's be real, here. Last year in the span of six months, Debian, Gentoo, and GNU (twice!) were compromised. Now GNOME.
You must be one of those people that just reads headlines. Gentoo was never hacked. I have to constantly correct people on this. A mirror, which also served other platforms, was hacked. The system wasn't running Gentoo or specific to Gentoo at all. It was a mirror, that's it. Gentoo just happened to be the first ones to report it because they are very open about security issues and bugs.
Yeah, and the rest of the world supports the killing of Jews you ignorant dumbass
So are you saying we should support the killing of palestinians or other arabs because it is the opposite of killing jews?
Perhaps you should check your history books as to who set up the state of Israel...it was NOT the USA
Maybe you should check your histroy books and find out who has been protecting Israel while they expand their borders, or who has allowed Israel to continue to recieve aid despite their possesion of nuclear weapons.
I hate to tell you, the Jews would crush the Arabs in a matter of weeks
They could certainly cause a lot of nuclear destruction but there are far more arabs in the world that could come together and eliminate Israel. Remember the Russians in Afganistan?
I love these ultra liberal socialist idiots
Ah your true colors show. You are against anything liberal (like the founders of the constitution) and socialist (our european allies). That makes a lot of sense.
Don't forget that there is no AOL for Linux. All the lazy and apathetic people use it and couldn't do without their "You have mail", and their crappy built-in IM.
it doesn't need an extension to be custoamizable or reorderable.
That's a feature though, not a bug. Firefox was meant to be modular. You can have a really stripped down browser or have one loaded up with extensions. I do have to agree that the default galeon tabs behaviour is preferable to firefox though. At least it was the last time I used it around a year or so ago.
1. Firefox is NOT ready for prime time. While it is perfectly usable for normal web browsing, many features are still lacking, incomplete, and/or buggy. For instance, if you right click on a deeply nested frame and choose 'this frame -> view frame info', the browser will crash. Well, it does in Linux, I haven't checked it in Windows.
In my opinion it's almost always bad. There are very few sites that use flash that actually benefit from it. Most of the time it just slows everything down and sometimes looks a littler prettier, at the expense of being useful. Coding every link and every picture to use flash instead of HTML is such a waste.
Have you ever actually paid attention to US media? Except for Fox News, which is terrible, almost nothing positive ever gets said about G.W..
I am an American and I can say that the media has most definfitely said a lot of good things about GW. It has fallen off in recent months but that has to be expected considering the lack of jobs and the current situation in Iraq that hasn't exactly gone as planned.
The problem with our foreign aid policies is that we deprive people of help that actually need it to satisfy our own wants and needs. If the US doesn't like a forein government policy then the people have to suffer because of it. It is understandable in certain situations but there are far too many that make no sense other than an attempt to subjugate other countries.
Economic theory says that given a minimum wage, which is necessary for survival, unemployment will be proportional to the minimum wage. Thus welfare is necessary for a percentage of the population, which throws your whole point out the window. Yes, it may be the best in terms of average wage but it still allows for people to die on the streets. This is a society, not a business, and should be treated as such.
This is very tin-foil hat. There is absolutely no evidence that reasonable crypto like blowfish, AES, or RSA can be cracked without enormous amounts (read: more than currently exists) of computing power if you use a reasonable key size. The NSA may have some top-notch people, but the private sector has more.
Sorry but you're wrong about that. The NSA hires more mathematicians than any public or private entity in the world. They also purchase more computer hardware than any other entity in the world. They are years ahead of any other group when it comes to cryptography. They can undoubtedly can break encryption that no one else can. The question is how far ahead are they?
There is no reason to rob other people through the power of the government and then re distribute it to everyone
I consider paying hundreds of dollars to go see a concert or a baseball/football game robbery. I don't consider taxing millionaires who play sports for a living, or inherited a bundle of money, robbery. They aren't helping society out and some of the people that are end up jobless, homeless, and miserable.
Freedom of Life, Liberty and the freedom to own/buy/sell Property are the root rights of every person in the world
The problem with your line of thought is that it is western-centric. You may be surprised to learn this, but many cultures did not believe in property.
In the second place, my point is, why in the world would you expect someone from another country to know the name of a social program from the US half a century ago?
I didn't expect that at all. I was responding to an article written about American laws and American society. It is not my fault if you don't know about American society. If you don't then you have no place making comments about how I should learn Canadian history. I'm not the one making assinine comments about a culture I don't know about.
Evidence: Most of it is general economic theory, that allowing people to spend their own resources in their own best interest, as they see it, results in the best (or at least, much better than any other practical system known) overall level of wealth and comfort
This is where you and I disagree. If you want to talk about theory then communism is the best economic solution. We don't live in theory though, we live in reality. Communism failed in reality because human nature never allowed communism to actually be instituted in its purest form. The same goes for capitalism. Actaully, capitalism allows for all kinds of abuses even in its purest form. Government, and the welfare of society should not be based on economics. We are not numbers. Society must work together for the benefit of all to succeed.
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Is there a way to get rid of the menu at the top? I prefer right clicking to get the menu, and I don't need another menu to take up space.
I disagree. I prefer it. I think the "window within a window" style that microsoft often employs is cumbersome. I want to be able to put a window anywhere on the screen that I want to put it. It's much more managable. I guess when using windows it could get confusing if you have multiple apps open, and the gimp windows are scattered around. With Linux though I keep my apps spread out over multiple virtual workspaces so it's not an issue.
I think you're being a little paranoid. When every other email you receive can potentially turn your computer into a zombie then you should really start worrying. Linux is actively persuing security. Take a look at things like propolice and grsecurity, both projects that you can use right now.
Except the definition is wrong because it is also based on popular culture. Fishes is in the dictionary too but it's not really a fucking word. Idiots using the word forced it to become a word in the dictionary.
You must be one of those people that just reads headlines. Gentoo was never hacked. I have to constantly correct people on this. A mirror, which also served other platforms, was hacked. The system wasn't running Gentoo or specific to Gentoo at all. It was a mirror, that's it. Gentoo just happened to be the first ones to report it because they are very open about security issues and bugs.
It worked for me at 3 levels deep.
There is nothing civilized about civilization.
So are you saying we should support the killing of palestinians or other arabs because it is the opposite of killing jews?
Perhaps you should check your history books as to who set up the state of Israel...it was NOT the USA
Maybe you should check your histroy books and find out who has been protecting Israel while they expand their borders, or who has allowed Israel to continue to recieve aid despite their possesion of nuclear weapons.
I hate to tell you, the Jews would crush the Arabs in a matter of weeks
They could certainly cause a lot of nuclear destruction but there are far more arabs in the world that could come together and eliminate Israel. Remember the Russians in Afganistan?
I love these ultra liberal socialist idiots
Ah your true colors show. You are against anything liberal (like the founders of the constitution) and socialist (our european allies). That makes a lot of sense.
Don't forget that there is no AOL for Linux. All the lazy and apathetic people use it and couldn't do without their "You have mail", and their crappy built-in IM.
Yeah because no one uses CVS or subversion.
That's a feature though, not a bug. Firefox was meant to be modular. You can have a really stripped down browser or have one loaded up with extensions. I do have to agree that the default galeon tabs behaviour is preferable to firefox though. At least it was the last time I used it around a year or so ago.
What distro are you using? It works fine for me.
That was the biggest laugh I've had all week. Thanks.
In my opinion it's almost always bad. There are very few sites that use flash that actually benefit from it. Most of the time it just slows everything down and sometimes looks a littler prettier, at the expense of being useful. Coding every link and every picture to use flash instead of HTML is such a waste.
Close. Money and wealth to me take a back seat to human life and society in general.
I don't see how the LGPL could be a problem at all.
I am an American and I can say that the media has most definfitely said a lot of good things about GW. It has fallen off in recent months but that has to be expected considering the lack of jobs and the current situation in Iraq that hasn't exactly gone as planned.
The problem with our foreign aid policies is that we deprive people of help that actually need it to satisfy our own wants and needs. If the US doesn't like a forein government policy then the people have to suffer because of it. It is understandable in certain situations but there are far too many that make no sense other than an attempt to subjugate other countries.
Do you know they are terrorists? Most of the people held there for years have been let go because they were NOT terrorists.
Economic theory says that given a minimum wage, which is necessary for survival, unemployment will be proportional to the minimum wage. Thus welfare is necessary for a percentage of the population, which throws your whole point out the window. Yes, it may be the best in terms of average wage but it still allows for people to die on the streets. This is a society, not a business, and should be treated as such.
It's more than just that. Even in theory it is a failure. Capitalism allows for monopolies, which can destroy the whole system.
Sorry but you're wrong about that. The NSA hires more mathematicians than any public or private entity in the world. They also purchase more computer hardware than any other entity in the world. They are years ahead of any other group when it comes to cryptography. They can undoubtedly can break encryption that no one else can. The question is how far ahead are they?
I consider paying hundreds of dollars to go see a concert or a baseball/football game robbery. I don't consider taxing millionaires who play sports for a living, or inherited a bundle of money, robbery. They aren't helping society out and some of the people that are end up jobless, homeless, and miserable.
Freedom of Life, Liberty and the freedom to own/buy/sell Property are the root rights of every person in the world
The problem with your line of thought is that it is western-centric. You may be surprised to learn this, but many cultures did not believe in property.
I didn't expect that at all. I was responding to an article written about American laws and American society. It is not my fault if you don't know about American society. If you don't then you have no place making comments about how I should learn Canadian history. I'm not the one making assinine comments about a culture I don't know about.
This is where you and I disagree. If you want to talk about theory then communism is the best economic solution. We don't live in theory though, we live in reality. Communism failed in reality because human nature never allowed communism to actually be instituted in its purest form. The same goes for capitalism. Actaully, capitalism allows for all kinds of abuses even in its purest form. Government, and the welfare of society should not be based on economics. We are not numbers. Society must work together for the benefit of all to succeed.