This thing is pointless for people like me that live in a huge, sprawling metroplex (Dallas/Fort Worth) where there's easily 40 miles of commute per day. But for the same markets that eat up scooters... just think about that.
Blah blah, ha ha, motocycles kill. Dude, look, shit happens no matter what you drive. I know people that have driven a motorcycle daily for 20 years or better that have never had a wreck, and I know people that can't keep their cars out of the shop. It's all in the driver.
What advantage did the car have over the carriage? Gasoline wasn't common when they were introduced, they were arguably less comfortable and more unreliable than a horsedrawn cart, and they cost a great deal more.
Yes, I think she could set up a Windows box. She knows how to click a fucking button. You are taking what was a passing comment and making it sound like an actual point. It was not. The point was that even someone such as myself, that had been using Free Software on Windows for over a year at the time I decided to switch, STILL had a difficult time choosing which application to use. The parent made a comment about how the people that would potentially switch to Linux wouldn't be confused by the many choices. I proved his point wrong. And really, next time you want to jump up someones ass for an offhand comment, try to use a better insult than shitbat, okay?
Highlight -> middle click. I don't see what the big fuss is over the copy and paste thing. I've never had any problems copying and pasting and neither has anyone that has ever used my computer, and I'm the only Linux user of anyone I know.
You're missing the point. NOBODY GIVES TWO SHITS IF IT'S PROPRIETARY. As long as it works, as long as it does the job, people don't care. You think the sky is falling because people run proprietary software on Linux? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I sure as fuck bet that MS doesn't give a damn about Emacs on Windows. Think about that a bit before it pisses you off too much.
Bullshit. You are NOT an ordinary computer user. Ordinary computer users don't program, don't post on Slashdot, don't use the term "hacker" in the proper sense, and don't refer to other computer users as a "Lowest common denominator".
Ordinary computer users don't want to fuck about with shit they don't want to know.
It was a fucking three week journey through messageboards and help files to get my NVIDIA drivers installed. It wouldn't find any usable resolutions on my monitor at all. It turns out I have to turn on an option called "IgnoreEDID" in my XF86Config file to disable some error checking or some shit. I'm a borderline geek and I still have no clue what it is. Do you think an average computer user would even know where to BEGIN looking for help with a problem like this?
That doesn't even bring up the question of "What happens if the kernel that I'm using doesn't have a proper precompiled module for the NVIDIA drivers?" I've been down that road a bit too, but it isn't one that most users will ever see (if they're lucky).
This is one place where I can safely say that a choice would be a GOOD idea.
I used KDE to start out with, but its slowness on my machine annoyed me and I couldn't stand Gnome's default layout with the panel at the top and it acted weird anyway so I ended up switching to BlackBox. I loved it.
Then I installed Redhat 8.
Gnome is much faster than KDE, and IMO manages to look and feel much better in the default setup under Redhat.
A choice here would be a Good Thing(TM). It's when you ask people which web server they want to use that their eyes glaze over.
My 500Mhz K6-2 with 192 MB SDRAM kicks the shit out of my parent's eMachines 2.2Ghz Pentium with 384MB DDR. Granted, it's an eMachines, but it shouldn't be able to do anything so much faster I actually get pissed at how slow it is.
Horsepucky! "Too many choices" is hardly the problem. The people who could very well migrate to GNU/Linux but don't are hardly intimidated by choices. After all, they have a much larger selection of realistic possible banks to choose from, but this doesn't prevent them from opening checking accounts.
Bullpuckey! "Too many choices" is a HUGE problem when it comes to SOFTWARE. Whether people here want to admit it or not, SOFTWARE IS NOT THE REAL WORLD TO ANYONE BUT GEEKS. People spend time finding a bank because it costs them money, because the bank HAS their money, and basically anything involving money is something you want to make sure you're not getting screwed on. People just don't want to mess with software that much. They want whatever is easiest, plain and simple.
Make your Microsoft jokes here. Go on, I'll give you some breaks to do so.
Using myself as an example, I was fucking TERRIFIED when I decided to ditch Windows and start running Linux 24/7. I had been planning on doing so, but when I finally switched it was a snap decision and it scared the hell out of me. I LOVE THAT! I had no clue whether pressing X would cause Y and F to shut down, or if tweaking Y would cause Z to malfunction, and it was FUN FOR ME. I can't say the same for the rather mundane task of choosing which distro.
Do I go with a full distro that has everything and a jar of pickles or do I go with something lighter? More stuff, or less filling? Great taste or difficult installation? It was confusing as fuck. I ended up going with Mandrake due to its ease of installation. Several months later I switched to Redhat 8 and haven't looked back. I am a borderline geek, and it was still a daunting task to choose which distro I wanted to use. Imagine how it would be for your grandma.
I can vouch for that, and extend it to say that ALL band members look at the drummer that way. Is there anyone else in the band that can be replaced by a machine and have nobody notice?;)
All critics can bite my shiny metal ass. Being a critic means nothing more than being pretentious enough to bullshit your way into a job writing about movies. The problem with most critics is that they can't separate art and entertainment. Most moviegoers don't care if the movie they're seeing makes an allegorical statement of the condition of Tibetan tree slugs, all they care about is a lot of things that go boom. This doesn't make them wrong. Not everything has to be artistic, and not everyone has to appreactiate things that are.
Aliens does share one other thing with Alien. The same paranoia that the heating duct above you might jump down and shove its mandibles through your forehead. I like Aliens a lot more because it managed to keep the action moving while having the same amount of tension.
Also, the reviews on Amazon and anyplace else for that matter are always going to be completely biased. I don't know of anyone that can give a truly unbiased review of ANYTHING.
Or, you know, it's actually a decision of the artists that make the songs that one part of the title simply isn't as important as the other. Or that they want to convey something else in the title. Megadeth's Holy Wars(Punishment Due), Floor's Kallisti(Song for Eris), Isis' Celestial(The Tower), etc. There are many reasons for doing that, and none of them involve marketing. Nobody ever calls that Blue Oyster Cult song "The Reaper", you know?
Lightwave began life on the relatively low powered Amiga. It was split into two different parts in order to conserve memory and processor usage. It remains split for those same reasons. The UI has simply grown from the old Amiga days, and can actually be quite nice if you put in the effort to learn it.
Softimage was designed around high-end SGI workstations and as a result looks and feels more like an Irix app because, well, it IS. Softimage|XSI is a bit different, but works in roughly the same way with the same layout conventions.
3d artists at a certain level move past the UI limitations. 3d software in general has the same features from one app to another, and it's all a matter of learning new conventions. It is not a very difficult process. I've managed to become proficient in 3ds max, Lightwave, and Cinema 4d. I can also work my way through Softimage and Houdini a bit, but Maya hurts my brain. It's like the difference in driving one car, then another. Some things aren't in the exact same place, maybe the seats aren't as comfortable as your car, or maybe the turn signals make a clicking noise that annoys you... but it's still a car.
It sounds similar to Lightwave's hub, although on a grande scale. Lightwave is broken into two parts, Layout and Modeler. If you make changes in one the hub automatically updates the other if neccesary. That could get very interesting as far as collaborative modeling goes.
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Scooters.
You heard me. Scooters.
This thing is pointless for people like me that live in a huge, sprawling metroplex (Dallas/Fort Worth) where there's easily 40 miles of commute per day. But for the same markets that eat up scooters... just think about that.
Yeah, 'cause there's no such thing as exportation of goods.
Wow, that joke didn't even enter the atmosphere around your hear it was so far over it.
Blah blah, ha ha, motocycles kill. Dude, look, shit happens no matter what you drive. I know people that have driven a motorcycle daily for 20 years or better that have never had a wreck, and I know people that can't keep their cars out of the shop. It's all in the driver.
What advantage did the car have over the carriage? Gasoline wasn't common when they were introduced, they were arguably less comfortable and more unreliable than a horsedrawn cart, and they cost a great deal more.
Yes, I think she could set up a Windows box. She knows how to click a fucking button. You are taking what was a passing comment and making it sound like an actual point. It was not. The point was that even someone such as myself, that had been using Free Software on Windows for over a year at the time I decided to switch, STILL had a difficult time choosing which application to use. The parent made a comment about how the people that would potentially switch to Linux wouldn't be confused by the many choices. I proved his point wrong. And really, next time you want to jump up someones ass for an offhand comment, try to use a better insult than shitbat, okay?
Highlight -> middle click. I don't see what the big fuss is over the copy and paste thing. I've never had any problems copying and pasting and neither has anyone that has ever used my computer, and I'm the only Linux user of anyone I know.
You're missing the point. NOBODY GIVES TWO SHITS IF IT'S PROPRIETARY. As long as it works, as long as it does the job, people don't care. You think the sky is falling because people run proprietary software on Linux? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I sure as fuck bet that MS doesn't give a damn about Emacs on Windows. Think about that a bit before it pisses you off too much.
Bullshit. You are NOT an ordinary computer user. Ordinary computer users don't program, don't post on Slashdot, don't use the term "hacker" in the proper sense, and don't refer to other computer users as a "Lowest common denominator".
Ordinary computer users don't want to fuck about with shit they don't want to know.
It was a fucking three week journey through messageboards and help files to get my NVIDIA drivers installed. It wouldn't find any usable resolutions on my monitor at all. It turns out I have to turn on an option called "IgnoreEDID" in my XF86Config file to disable some error checking or some shit. I'm a borderline geek and I still have no clue what it is. Do you think an average computer user would even know where to BEGIN looking for help with a problem like this?
That doesn't even bring up the question of "What happens if the kernel that I'm using doesn't have a proper precompiled module for the NVIDIA drivers?" I've been down that road a bit too, but it isn't one that most users will ever see (if they're lucky).
This is one place where I can safely say that a choice would be a GOOD idea.
I used KDE to start out with, but its slowness on my machine annoyed me and I couldn't stand Gnome's default layout with the panel at the top and it acted weird anyway so I ended up switching to BlackBox. I loved it.
Then I installed Redhat 8.
Gnome is much faster than KDE, and IMO manages to look and feel much better in the default setup under Redhat.
A choice here would be a Good Thing(TM). It's when you ask people which web server they want to use that their eyes glaze over.
My 500Mhz K6-2 with 192 MB SDRAM kicks the shit out of my parent's eMachines 2.2Ghz Pentium with 384MB DDR. Granted, it's an eMachines, but it shouldn't be able to do anything so much faster I actually get pissed at how slow it is.
Debian's adherence to a strict Free Software-only attitude is the most likely reason.
Horsepucky! "Too many choices" is hardly the problem. The people who could very well migrate to GNU/Linux but don't are hardly intimidated by choices. After all, they have a much larger selection of realistic possible banks to choose from, but this doesn't prevent them from opening checking accounts.
Bullpuckey! "Too many choices" is a HUGE problem when it comes to SOFTWARE. Whether people here want to admit it or not, SOFTWARE IS NOT THE REAL WORLD TO ANYONE BUT GEEKS. People spend time finding a bank because it costs them money, because the bank HAS their money, and basically anything involving money is something you want to make sure you're not getting screwed on. People just don't want to mess with software that much. They want whatever is easiest, plain and simple.
Make your Microsoft jokes here. Go on, I'll give you some breaks to do so.
Using myself as an example, I was fucking TERRIFIED when I decided to ditch Windows and start running Linux 24/7. I had been planning on doing so, but when I finally switched it was a snap decision and it scared the hell out of me. I LOVE THAT! I had no clue whether pressing X would cause Y and F to shut down, or if tweaking Y would cause Z to malfunction, and it was FUN FOR ME. I can't say the same for the rather mundane task of choosing which distro.
Do I go with a full distro that has everything and a jar of pickles or do I go with something lighter? More stuff, or less filling? Great taste or difficult installation? It was confusing as fuck. I ended up going with Mandrake due to its ease of installation. Several months later I switched to Redhat 8 and haven't looked back. I am a borderline geek, and it was still a daunting task to choose which distro I wanted to use. Imagine how it would be for your grandma.
Besides that, it isn't like open source software hasn't raped MS for all they're worth. A feature here, a feature there...
Or, MS just uses the same "Allow requested popups" option that Opera has.
I can vouch for that, and extend it to say that ALL band members look at the drummer that way. Is there anyone else in the band that can be replaced by a machine and have nobody notice? ;)
All critics can bite my shiny metal ass. Being a critic means nothing more than being pretentious enough to bullshit your way into a job writing about movies. The problem with most critics is that they can't separate art and entertainment. Most moviegoers don't care if the movie they're seeing makes an allegorical statement of the condition of Tibetan tree slugs, all they care about is a lot of things that go boom. This doesn't make them wrong. Not everything has to be artistic, and not everyone has to appreactiate things that are.
Aliens does share one other thing with Alien. The same paranoia that the heating duct above you might jump down and shove its mandibles through your forehead. I like Aliens a lot more because it managed to keep the action moving while having the same amount of tension.
Also, the reviews on Amazon and anyplace else for that matter are always going to be completely biased. I don't know of anyone that can give a truly unbiased review of ANYTHING.
They have an on/off switch, and never get headaches.
Or, you know, it's actually a decision of the artists that make the songs that one part of the title simply isn't as important as the other. Or that they want to convey something else in the title. Megadeth's Holy Wars(Punishment Due), Floor's Kallisti(Song for Eris), Isis' Celestial(The Tower), etc. There are many reasons for doing that, and none of them involve marketing. Nobody ever calls that Blue Oyster Cult song "The Reaper", you know?
Yeah, they can add some tentacle rape and head explosions.
Then don't go around trying to revoke their licenses on software they made in the first place. Simple enough answer, isn't it?
The answer is in the application's histories.
Lightwave began life on the relatively low powered Amiga. It was split into two different parts in order to conserve memory and processor usage. It remains split for those same reasons. The UI has simply grown from the old Amiga days, and can actually be quite nice if you put in the effort to learn it.
Softimage was designed around high-end SGI workstations and as a result looks and feels more like an Irix app because, well, it IS. Softimage|XSI is a bit different, but works in roughly the same way with the same layout conventions.
3d artists at a certain level move past the UI limitations. 3d software in general has the same features from one app to another, and it's all a matter of learning new conventions. It is not a very difficult process. I've managed to become proficient in 3ds max, Lightwave, and Cinema 4d. I can also work my way through Softimage and Houdini a bit, but Maya hurts my brain. It's like the difference in driving one car, then another. Some things aren't in the exact same place, maybe the seats aren't as comfortable as your car, or maybe the turn signals make a clicking noise that annoys you... but it's still a car.
It sounds similar to Lightwave's hub, although on a grande scale. Lightwave is broken into two parts, Layout and Modeler. If you make changes in one the hub automatically updates the other if neccesary. That could get very interesting as far as collaborative modeling goes.