Everything I do should be logged to storage in some format either temporarily or permanently, depending on the type of work.
I should be able to open a word processor, type and print a document and close it. Tomorrow, if I didn't assign it some other intelligent title, I should be able to easily see that I have a recent document I printed that I can edit again if I like.
This doesn't require a complete paradigm shift in desktop development of course, just an underlying change in how applications handle user data.
You sure he didn't just have a long hit from the pipe named Next? Some interesting ideas, but only if you're willing to pull an Apple and make your hardware and software and sell it in a big bundle... otherwise you risk being another BeOS at best.
By 'we' you don't mean all Americans of course. Americans who can't afford health care or housing, who can't afford drugs or food are not 'free' in the same qualitative sense that you consider yourself to be free, now are they?
You cannot easily argue against high taxes while arguing that any taxation is acceptable. If any taxation is acceptable, then taxes lay on a sliding value scale. If such is the case (if you're not arguing for zero taxes), then what is wrong with higher taxes resulting in better services and personal happiness?
These aren't faked statistics -- those people really do report much higher personal happiness and satisfaction than Americans.
Uh, direct what? Seriously, what productivity software uses Direct-X? None.
DirectX is a library interface, one that is fairly adequately implemented on Linux as well FYI.
If you want to instead state that Windows is presently a better gaming platform than Linux, then I'll let you win that one hands down. No problem. Way to go Windows, you got games. Whoopie.
Stupid question: Why do games need an Operating System as bloated as Windows? They don't. That's why Direct-X exists, ironically.
An awful lot of value. Your average Windows user doesn't do a single thing Linux can't do in a default install.
Log into Facebook, talk to their MP3 player (with a couple notable exceptions), listen to music, watch Youtube videos, catch the TV shows they missed online, upload their pictures to Flickr, chat with their friends on MSN and Yahoo, place phone calls with Skype, read their E-mail, and play some online Flash and Java games.
That's the average Windows user, who should really be given a Linux desktop that's less likely to arbitrarily change itself as 3rd party software moves on on the task bar.
That 4GB includes software. I'm sick and tired of people complaining about the "size of Linux" when they're getting a desktop environment (or two), several major applications like OpenOffice or Evolution, major browser and E-mail software, several games, graphic and photo editors, music and media players, etc.
This is not 4GB of desktop manager. The kernel and all its drivers are 64MiB, give or take, and the C library is almost 13MiB.
On my 64-bit Fedora desktop, the largest entries are OpenOffice, AdobeReader, JDK, and Eclipse. Evolution, the kernel, some font packages and some compilers come in next.
Dear reader, these comparative benchmarks are no worse than most of those published by major computing magazines every week or month of the year. Get over it and use some common sense when reading any statistics.
That's not even remotely true. Every major flavour of Linux comes with more usable applications installed by default than any version of Windows can.
Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook don't come with Windows, real games don't come with Windows, a C compiler, Python, and Java don't come with Windows, there's only one media player installed with Windows and only one browser as well.
What pray tell, besides Microsoft's video editing tool, do you think comes with Windows that isn't on Linux?
As a Canadian, I'm proud of our military legacy. We have a tiny fraction of the spending power of our larger neighbour to the south but we try to use what we have cautiously and with purpose.
My countrymen aren't often as proud of our military history as we ought to be, but our efforts in WW1 and WW2 are well recognized in Europe (where it matters) and our involvement in NATO is beneficial to both ourselves and the United States.
Our role in originating UN peace keeping operations often goes unreported because we tend toward humility (and a little ignorance too).
You do realize that everyone from Canada to Panama to Venezuela lives in America right? North or South, but America nonetheless. You, on the other hand live in this country called the United States of America. That is, you are part of the Americas, just like Canada and Mexico are.
We have all just bowed gracefully and kindly allowed you to usurp the word that does not exclusively apply to the United States for a long time, but it would be inaccurate to claim that is what it means, or that it exclusively refers to people of the United States.
I agree that USAian is a horrible term, but you need to find something more specific than 'American' to win this argument.
I'm sure some intelligence groups are more concerned with the ability of Iran and its allies to bypass American GPS-blocking measures during a potential attack by launching their own geo-stationary guidance and communications satellites.
I'm pretty sure the X 'kill bill' game would qualify (included in Linux distros for the last 10+ years). Have the little Jack replacing video games with Barney videos.
I'm sure more people care about his opinion of the story in GTA4 than care about your opinion on his opinion.
Honestly, you didn't just 'foe' him, or ignore the post, or use mod points, you actually bothered to reply and rant about how much of a pent-up opinionated jerk you are?
PS, ellipses are frequently used in place of commas when pausing for a thought even though commas are a more correct punctuation... go rant about the difference between colons and semi-colons instead.
The level cap seemed designed for those who play through the main plot directly.
If you explore at all, you'll hit the level cap way too soon. I miss the old D&D days where leveling up took a long time, but kids these days...:-)
Anyway, I just looked at the trophies for doing your 'career' as each good, bad and neutral characters as an excuse to start over and explore the places I hadn't gone the first time.
Quite a few people totally lack the ability to strategize and prefer having a game spoon-feed them all their encounters.
They assume (for some unknown reason) that an encounter that exists is one that must be undertaken when it may be perfectly acceptable to avoid it instead.
This would seem to be the underlying belief at Microsoft.
If you believe Vista is fine, then re-releasing it with a few patches and application upgrades (new IE, new Media Player) makes perfect sense because its just marketing.
If on the other hand, you believe there's something fundamentally wrong with how Vista works, and that a lot of the FUD is justified, then this isn't going to help.
Indeed, Fedora releases multiple candidates of the OS before sounding the all-clear. The kernel in question is vetted by the distro, not by the user (in general).
... and then I restored from my last saved game, and went off exploring the rest of the world instead of beginning the final mission of the game. At 20+ hours of additional questing, I still simply have that one final mission to do to end the game whenever I decide to do so.
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Auto-save really is stupid.
Everything I do should be logged to storage in some format either temporarily or permanently, depending on the type of work.
I should be able to open a word processor, type and print a document and close it. Tomorrow, if I didn't assign it some other intelligent title, I should be able to easily see that I have a recent document I printed that I can edit again if I like.
This doesn't require a complete paradigm shift in desktop development of course, just an underlying change in how applications handle user data.
You sure he didn't just have a long hit from the pipe named Next? Some interesting ideas, but only if you're willing to pull an Apple and make your hardware and software and sell it in a big bundle ... otherwise you risk being another BeOS at best.
Have you used Zope?
Have you read why Microsoft wanted to go to a more database-driven file system?
These ideas are not hokum, even if they are far-flung for a desktop.
The sloup system on the Newton was brilliant for its time, and deserves recognition in modern desktop OS design IMHO.
Just a few ramblings ... move along.
By 'we' you don't mean all Americans of course. Americans who can't afford health care or housing, who can't afford drugs or food are not 'free' in the same qualitative sense that you consider yourself to be free, now are they?
You cannot easily argue against high taxes while arguing that any taxation is acceptable. If any taxation is acceptable, then taxes lay on a sliding value scale. If such is the case (if you're not arguing for zero taxes), then what is wrong with higher taxes resulting in better services and personal happiness?
These aren't faked statistics -- those people really do report much higher personal happiness and satisfaction than Americans.
Feel free to make a cogent rebuttal if you don't like my assertions. All I see is a kindergarten level red herring of a reply.
Uh, direct what? Seriously, what productivity software uses Direct-X? None.
DirectX is a library interface, one that is fairly adequately implemented on Linux as well FYI.
If you want to instead state that Windows is presently a better gaming platform than Linux, then I'll let you win that one hands down. No problem. Way to go Windows, you got games. Whoopie.
Stupid question: Why do games need an Operating System as bloated as Windows? They don't. That's why Direct-X exists, ironically.
No you troll, it comes fully equipped.
That's the software you buy or download for your Windows PC because Windows is useless without it.
Windows is a platform. A Linux distribution is an entire working set of productivity software designed to work together.
An awful lot of value. Your average Windows user doesn't do a single thing Linux can't do in a default install.
Log into Facebook, talk to their MP3 player (with a couple notable exceptions), listen to music, watch Youtube videos, catch the TV shows they missed online, upload their pictures to Flickr, chat with their friends on MSN and Yahoo, place phone calls with Skype, read their E-mail, and play some online Flash and Java games.
That's the average Windows user, who should really be given a Linux desktop that's less likely to arbitrarily change itself as 3rd party software moves on on the task bar.
That 4GB includes software. I'm sick and tired of people complaining about the "size of Linux" when they're getting a desktop environment (or two), several major applications like OpenOffice or Evolution, major browser and E-mail software, several games, graphic and photo editors, music and media players, etc.
This is not 4GB of desktop manager. The kernel and all its drivers are 64MiB, give or take, and the C library is almost 13MiB.
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{size} %{name}\n" \
| sort -g | less -S
On my 64-bit Fedora desktop, the largest entries are OpenOffice, AdobeReader, JDK, and Eclipse. Evolution, the kernel, some font packages and some compilers come in next.
Dear reader, these comparative benchmarks are no worse than most of those published by major computing magazines every week or month of the year. Get over it and use some common sense when reading any statistics.
That's not even remotely true. Every major flavour of Linux comes with more usable applications installed by default than any version of Windows can.
Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook don't come with Windows, real games don't come with Windows, a C compiler, Python, and Java don't come with Windows, there's only one media player installed with Windows and only one browser as well.
What pray tell, besides Microsoft's video editing tool, do you think comes with Windows that isn't on Linux?
Its too bad he didn't manage to go out of phase and just walk out through the door invisibly.
Thanks for the recognition. We appreciate it.
As a Canadian, I'm proud of our military legacy. We have a tiny fraction of the spending power of our larger neighbour to the south but we try to use what we have cautiously and with purpose.
My countrymen aren't often as proud of our military history as we ought to be, but our efforts in WW1 and WW2 are well recognized in Europe (where it matters) and our involvement in NATO is beneficial to both ourselves and the United States.
Our role in originating UN peace keeping operations often goes unreported because we tend toward humility (and a little ignorance too).
Except you kinda sound like an ignorant American.
You do realize that everyone from Canada to Panama to Venezuela lives in America right? North or South, but America nonetheless. You, on the other hand live in this country called the United States of America. That is, you are part of the Americas, just like Canada and Mexico are.
We have all just bowed gracefully and kindly allowed you to usurp the word that does not exclusively apply to the United States for a long time, but it would be inaccurate to claim that is what it means, or that it exclusively refers to people of the United States.
I agree that USAian is a horrible term, but you need to find something more specific than 'American' to win this argument.
And they keep wondering why we haven't done it yet.
I'm sure some intelligence groups are more concerned with the ability of Iran and its allies to bypass American GPS-blocking measures during a potential attack by launching their own geo-stationary guidance and communications satellites.
I'm pretty sure the X 'kill bill' game would qualify (included in Linux distros for the last 10+ years). Have the little Jack replacing video games with Barney videos.
I'm sure more people care about his opinion of the story in GTA4 than care about your opinion on his opinion.
Honestly, you didn't just 'foe' him, or ignore the post, or use mod points, you actually bothered to reply and rant about how much of a pent-up opinionated jerk you are?
PS, ellipses are frequently used in place of commas when pausing for a thought even though commas are a more correct punctuation ... go rant about the difference between colons and semi-colons instead.
In other news, the world is full of idiots.
The level cap seemed designed for those who play through the main plot directly.
If you explore at all, you'll hit the level cap way too soon. I miss the old D&D days where leveling up took a long time, but kids these days ... :-)
Anyway, I just looked at the trophies for doing your 'career' as each good, bad and neutral characters as an excuse to start over and explore the places I hadn't gone the first time.
Quite a few people totally lack the ability to strategize and prefer having a game spoon-feed them all their encounters.
They assume (for some unknown reason) that an encounter that exists is one that must be undertaken when it may be perfectly acceptable to avoid it instead.
This would seem to be the underlying belief at Microsoft.
If you believe Vista is fine, then re-releasing it with a few patches and application upgrades (new IE, new Media Player) makes perfect sense because its just marketing.
If on the other hand, you believe there's something fundamentally wrong with how Vista works, and that a lot of the FUD is justified, then this isn't going to help.
Making look completely different or not has nothing to do with the underlying code structures and stability.
I can 'theme' Windows to look nothing like Vista but it will still be Vista.
Indeed, Fedora releases multiple candidates of the OS before sounding the all-clear. The kernel in question is vetted by the distro, not by the user (in general).
... and then I restored from my last saved game, and went off exploring the rest of the world instead of beginning the final mission of the game. At 20+ hours of additional questing, I still simply have that one final mission to do to end the game whenever I decide to do so.