The accountants doing the computation just called and they need a little more time before they have a good estimate on the cost of this: they are waiting for their computers to finish defragmenting their disks and for their antivirus apps to scan every word file for vba worms.
The fact that his ignorance of the facts indicates that he went to a public school is a clear sign of a failure on your part personally and on many other people's parts, in many levels. You, though, seem to find it to be a cause of denigrating him? I don't know what school you went to, but they surely made a mess of you.
In the name of $SOMETHING, just let the `reversed OK and Cancel buttons' meme die.
Of course, you are free to define `usability' as `whatever is closest to Windows' if yu want.
I, for one, prefer having the most frequently used button always be put in the same place relative to the bottom right corner.
If you're doing anything BUT breaking the law, they won't give a rat's arse.
Heh. You were doing pretty well, until you just had to use this, the well-known analogue of but-I-have-lots-of-jewish-friends in the context of privacy arguments.
Stallman is right, but he should realize that for average Janes and Joes, the 'freedom' and 'source code available' aspect matter *shit* when it comes to software.
But it matters very much when it comes to how that software was made: the freedom the Janes and Joes do not care much for is precisely the reason why FOSS code exists.
That's a very, very skewed point of view. After that, I wouldn't be surprised if you were to vote for your current president again, if you had the choice.
I read somewhere that Adolf Hitler was really into Metropolis, and that he held it up as an example that all filmmakers should strive for. Food for thought.
What kind of thought? The kind that goes evaluates X along the line of ÂY had a good/bad opinion of it, and Y is good/bad?, therefore X is good/bad? for various possible choices of the several alternatives?
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It must be a case of YMMV. I have been using linux on consumer hardware since Slackware 2.something around 1995...
Darwin awards are, by definition, given post-mortem... no need to be retroactive.
You must beone of the REAL PROGRAMMERS one keeps hearing about who do not use compilers...
you probably do not know what 'valid' means in this context...
The accountants doing the computation just called and they need a little more time before they have a good estimate on the cost of this: they are waiting for their computers to finish defragmenting their disks and for their antivirus apps to scan every word file for vba worms.
keeping your password to yourself is not security through obscurity.
Funny how the US didn't boycott Chile under Pinochet
Huh? The US set up Pinochet in his place!
The fact that his ignorance of the facts indicates that he went to a public school is a clear sign of a failure on your part personally and on many other people's parts, in many levels. You, though, seem to find it to be a cause of denigrating him? I don't know what school you went to, but they surely made a mess of you.
You seem to think that you are the only one who knows about the beast around here...
It is impossible to read tor previous message as anything but trolling. Either you were trolling or you need to re-evaluate your communication skills.
Why is the code bad? Why is gconf that bad?
Generic whining like yours is sooooo 2002ish...
In the name of $SOMETHING, just let the `reversed OK and Cancel buttons' meme die.
Of course, you are free to define `usability' as `whatever is closest to Windows' if yu want. I, for one, prefer having the most frequently used button always be put in the same place relative to the bottom right corner.
Cut & Paste is only finally beginning to reach a state of usefulness.
Ah, the cut-n-paste meme....
Care to elaborate what has changed that things have become `better' now?
Richard Dawkins, rabid atheist, [...]
You say that as if it were a bad thing?
If you're doing anything BUT breaking the law, they won't give a rat's arse.
Heh. You were doing pretty well, until you just had to use this, the well-known analogue of but-I-have-lots-of-jewish-friends in the context of privacy arguments.
So you are including bison in your own apps and its `bloatedness' becomes a problem? Maybe you should read the manpage...
Why would you need something like Putty in Linux?!
I'm pretty sure the current Linux GUIs owe a lot to to Motif.
Indeed. The violent urge to get rid of Motif has been a driving force in most of the modern GUI development.
The CIA, you mean?
Stallman is right, but he should realize that for average Janes and Joes, the 'freedom' and 'source code available' aspect matter *shit* when it comes to software.
But it matters very much when it comes to how that software was made: the freedom the Janes and Joes do not care much for is precisely the reason why FOSS code exists.
I wonder where you get this idea that OSS is not being taken seriously from...
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That's a very, very skewed point of view. After that, I wouldn't be surprised if you were to vote for your current president again, if you had the choice.
It encourages competition in other areas. For example, well-known OSS vendors compete on the quality of their service.
I read somewhere that Adolf Hitler was really into Metropolis, and that he held it up as an example that all filmmakers should strive for. Food for thought.
What kind of thought? The kind that goes evaluates X along the line of ÂY had a good/bad opinion of it, and Y is good/bad?, therefore X is good/bad? for various possible choices of the several alternatives?
If you are quite certain of that, then you are also quite wrong.