Indeed. Forking is not "violating the spirit of the license". I'd say it's more like celebrating the spirit of the license. If the community is unable to fork a project away from a hostile developer, then there's no point in having the GPL at all.
Well, I'll have to take your word for it. I've not used the GIMP extensively on Windows, but I use it frequently on my GNOME systems, where I rely heavily on virtual desktops. I'd be pretty pissed if they started shipping a GIMP that crammed itself inside an old-school MDI window.
I've heard that they revamped the window manager for Vista, though, so perhaps a fork won't be necessary after all.
For a while, I actually believed the folks that repeated ad nauseum the mantra that GIMP's user interface was difficult compared to their beloved Photoshop. Then one day I sat down to try to do some quick photo edits on a Photoshop box. Two hours later, I gave up on its bizarre layer model and just installed the GIMP so I could get some work done.
The ease-of-use of a graphic user interface, in general, correlates far more with the user's pre-existing familiarity with the interface than it does with any design decisions of the interface itself. There are certainly areas where GIMP's user interface could be improved, but let's not pretend like it's some kind of embarrassment -- because it's not.
Sorry, but Vim eats those "advanced GUI editors" for breakfast, with enough features left over to make a small snack of your favorite scripting language as well. Your complaint is merely that you're using an unfamiliar system. What you're requesting is that Linux be more like Windows so it's easier to learn without having to think or read. That will never happen, and we shouldn't want it to anyway.
This works with any textarea, by the way, not just GMail. Not sure why the summary doesn't mention that.
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Soccer, hockey, football, basketball... a bunch of dudes running back and forth trying to put the ball in the hole. What's fun about baseball is that there is always something really exciting about to happen. Any pitch could explode into a home run.
Actually, being about 60% of the way through law school, I'm quite aware that "intellectual property" is a category of property that is no more a "fiction" than, say, "personal property".
I, too, support unreasonably huge subsidies to the brain slug planet.
Well, rather than "artificial scarcity", which applies well to DeBeers' diamonds, I think it would be more accurate to describe the proprietary software situation as "fictional scarcity". That is, it is a scarcity that only exists in the mind of the least attentive and most uncritical shareholder. Any bittorrent user can tell you that this alleged scarcity doesn't actually exist in reality.
eh, you're not missing anything anyway. TFA is just one of those meager gear review sites with 20 words per page spread out onto 8 pages all mostly covered with a bunch of empty rectangles.
what is the DEAL with all those empty rectangles anyway?
I prefer records because they're more fun to collect and play, and it occasionally provides the opportunity to troubleshoot an old machine. The sound quality is great (although, of course, technically and perceptually inferior to CD digital audio), and I find its most common failure modes less annoying than those of CDs.
Well, the way I did it was by refusing delivery on that useless "cable box" Comcast tried to send me. Then I just screwed the tuner's coax directly into the wall and went on my merry way.
I should not have to violate the DMCA in order to do what I want with the things I've purchased. I'm certainly not going to go through that extra inconvenience merely to enjoy the additional expense and inconvenience of the iTunes store.
Yeah, I've yet to hear a 100% success story -- on Windows or Linux -- with those JMicron IDE controllers. They are absolute pieces of shit, and the drivers are even worse than the controllers.
Putty is a poor imitation of Xterm, and an even worse simulation of a Linux VT. The X servers are alright, but are not in the same league as Xorg.
Sure, these tools are what I'd need to just barely do my job from a Windows workstation, but what you've suggested is similar to telling a Windows admin to "just use Rdesktop, it's close enough". Although I'd happily provide a copy in an emergency, I'd never presume to tell a Windows admin that the wrong OS is good enough for him to do his job. One should not have to operate under emergency conditions for 40 hours a week.
The OP needs a real Unix desktop. Period. If his IT department doesn't get this, well, they're a weird exception in a world that gives all its other Unix admins appropriate workstations.
No, things like plausible deniability, unidentifiable partition headers, multi-algorithm cascades, and steganographically hidden volumes are not so important to Apple's market, which consists pretty much exclusively of consumers in free nations in the developed world.
For those living in developing nations, the cost of OS X is prohibitive. For those living under oppressive regimes, Disk Utility's encryption is basically a toy. There are people in this world who need to protect data against extremely high levels of scrutiny, and do it for free on 5-year old hardware. This software is an excellent choice for those groups, as it costs nothing and provides very high levels of security.
Or perhaps all those kids out in Tiananmen Square back in 1989 were just part of the "tinfoil hat crowd".
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Indeed. Forking is not "violating the spirit of the license". I'd say it's more like celebrating the spirit of the license. If the community is unable to fork a project away from a hostile developer, then there's no point in having the GPL at all.
Well, I'll have to take your word for it. I've not used the GIMP extensively on Windows, but I use it frequently on my GNOME systems, where I rely heavily on virtual desktops. I'd be pretty pissed if they started shipping a GIMP that crammed itself inside an old-school MDI window.
I've heard that they revamped the window manager for Vista, though, so perhaps a fork won't be necessary after all.
For a while, I actually believed the folks that repeated ad nauseum the mantra that GIMP's user interface was difficult compared to their beloved Photoshop. Then one day I sat down to try to do some quick photo edits on a Photoshop box. Two hours later, I gave up on its bizarre layer model and just installed the GIMP so I could get some work done.
The ease-of-use of a graphic user interface, in general, correlates far more with the user's pre-existing familiarity with the interface than it does with any design decisions of the interface itself. There are certainly areas where GIMP's user interface could be improved, but let's not pretend like it's some kind of embarrassment -- because it's not.
wait... so... you want us to go back to the unfiltered cigarettes? but i thought they were even worse!
oh, well.
*flickflick* *pufpufpuff*
Except when it works better as an EP.
While we're on the topic of pedantry, what clueless fucking marketroid decided to call this architecture "x64"??
Concert hall systems actually tend to be among the most troublesome. The example you were looking for was "studio reference system".
Well, you can't blame them for the slow transition. The RIAA only has four customers, anyway.
Sorry, but Vim eats those "advanced GUI editors" for breakfast, with enough features left over to make a small snack of your favorite scripting language as well. Your complaint is merely that you're using an unfamiliar system. What you're requesting is that Linux be more like Windows so it's easier to learn without having to think or read. That will never happen, and we shouldn't want it to anyway.
Read more: Linux is Not Windows
Linux is not "Windows, only free",
and those of us answering questions in the IRC channel would appreciate it if you'd stop saying that.
Thanks.
Soccer, hockey, football, basketball... a bunch of dudes running back and forth trying to put the ball in the hole. What's fun about baseball is that there is always something really exciting about to happen. Any pitch could explode into a home run.
I, too, support unreasonably huge subsidies to the brain slug planet.
Well, rather than "artificial scarcity", which applies well to DeBeers' diamonds, I think it would be more accurate to describe the proprietary software situation as "fictional scarcity". That is, it is a scarcity that only exists in the mind of the least attentive and most uncritical shareholder. Any bittorrent user can tell you that this alleged scarcity doesn't actually exist in reality.
In other news, the Pope reveals he is Catholic, and prominent climatologists describe the sky as "blue".
eh, you're not missing anything anyway. TFA is just one of those meager gear review sites with 20 words per page spread out onto 8 pages all mostly covered with a bunch of empty rectangles.
what is the DEAL with all those empty rectangles anyway?
I prefer records because they're more fun to collect and play, and it occasionally provides the opportunity to troubleshoot an old machine. The sound quality is great (although, of course, technically and perceptually inferior to CD digital audio), and I find its most common failure modes less annoying than those of CDs.
No need to get into esoteric acoustics at all!
Well, the way I did it was by refusing delivery on that useless "cable box" Comcast tried to send me. Then I just screwed the tuner's coax directly into the wall and went on my merry way.
No! On CETI Alpha 5 there was life! A fair chance!
I should not have to violate the DMCA in order to do what I want with the things I've purchased. I'm certainly not going to go through that extra inconvenience merely to enjoy the additional expense and inconvenience of the iTunes store.
Also helps to know the Robots Exclusion Standard, to keep the riff-raff out.
Yeah, I've yet to hear a 100% success story -- on Windows or Linux -- with those JMicron IDE controllers. They are absolute pieces of shit, and the drivers are even worse than the controllers.
Wolfy's fine, honey. Where are you?
Putty is a poor imitation of Xterm, and an even worse simulation of a Linux VT. The X servers are alright, but are not in the same league as Xorg.
Sure, these tools are what I'd need to just barely do my job from a Windows workstation, but what you've suggested is similar to telling a Windows admin to "just use Rdesktop, it's close enough". Although I'd happily provide a copy in an emergency, I'd never presume to tell a Windows admin that the wrong OS is good enough for him to do his job. One should not have to operate under emergency conditions for 40 hours a week.
The OP needs a real Unix desktop. Period. If his IT department doesn't get this, well, they're a weird exception in a world that gives all its other Unix admins appropriate workstations.
No, things like plausible deniability, unidentifiable partition headers, multi-algorithm cascades, and steganographically hidden volumes are not so important to Apple's market, which consists pretty much exclusively of consumers in free nations in the developed world.
For those living in developing nations, the cost of OS X is prohibitive. For those living under oppressive regimes, Disk Utility's encryption is basically a toy. There are people in this world who need to protect data against extremely high levels of scrutiny, and do it for free on 5-year old hardware. This software is an excellent choice for those groups, as it costs nothing and provides very high levels of security.
Or perhaps all those kids out in Tiananmen Square back in 1989 were just part of the "tinfoil hat crowd".