Note I did not say that the actual skins are bad: I mean that skinability is brain-dead in most cases. Why oh why does an antivirus app need to look different from the other apps? In the particular case of an antivirus app, they should be working in fact in making it so that the users does not even *know* it is there instead!
In the name of $DEITY... they've had more users and success in beta state than most apps out there, webbeased or not. Why do you possibly case if they call it a beta, a gamma or a zeta?
For one thing, I am not talking (exclusively if you want) about oppression. Plain bad decisions made by the`market' about, say, technology outnumber the good ones.
Next, `market' does not mean anything: you need to qualify it. `Market' as used in the context of SMS price policies in the US is quite different from `market' in the Norwegian health system. Also, the
scary monster that comunism-as-implemented became after both a catastrphically misguided implementation and decades of propaganda is not the only other alternative to having your wallet raped systematically to `market' forces while smiling in bliss at the marvels of the invisible hand.
If you think that history shows nothing better than examples such as the SMS price `market', then you need to travel a bit more (not in time... just geographically: you'll see wondrous things!
Gravity cannot be proved `wrong'. (The quotes come from the fact that it doesn't make any sense to say that a fact is `right' or `wrong')
What can be proved wrong are the various theories that try to model it. The aristotelian theory of gravitation (according to which, for example, if you throw a stone, its trajectiry is composed of two straight line segments...), the Newtonian theory of gravitation, general relativity, and so on.
Likewise, evolution canot be proved `wrong', because we see it happening. What can be wrong are the various explanations given for its mechanisms.
But you are acknowledging that the problem is that is it possibly illegal to support the encoding, or at the very least puts Ubuntu at risk of being sued.
This is an obstacle which cannot be avoided in any way.
Of course, in this context one refers to the marginal cost of making an extra copy of the PDF file. `cp file.pdf new-copy.pdf' costs, marginally, zero.
Copyright does not prevent from having ideas `stolen', it prevents concrete realizations of ideas not to be reproduced without the copyright holder's agreement. At the very least, find out what the words you use mean...
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Note I did not say that the actual skins are bad: I mean that skinability is brain-dead in most cases. Why oh why does an antivirus app need to look different from the other apps? In the particular case of an antivirus app, they should be working in fact in making it so that the users does not even *know* it is there instead!
The interface could use some work (it's skinable, at least!)
Skinability is in 97.5% of the cases the worst thing you can do to an interface...
In the name of $DEITY... they've had more users and success in beta state than most apps out there, webbeased or not. Why do you possibly case if they call it a beta, a gamma or a zeta?
For one thing, I am not talking (exclusively if you want) about oppression. Plain bad decisions made by the`market' about, say, technology outnumber the good ones.
Next, `market' does not mean anything: you need to qualify it. `Market' as used in the context of SMS price policies in the US is quite different from `market' in the Norwegian health system. Also, the scary monster that comunism-as-implemented became after both a catastrphically misguided implementation and decades of propaganda is not the only other alternative to having your wallet raped systematically to `market' forces while smiling in bliss at the marvels of the invisible hand.
If you think that history shows nothing better than examples such as the SMS price `market', then you need to travel a bit more (not in time... just geographically: you'll see wondrous things!
When was the last time a country `liberated' another to get a hold on their free SMS supply? It is a rather different situation.
Have you been following the news about oil prices worldwide? It is a rather different situation to the price of an SMS bit in the market...
In the Land of the Free, the receiving party also pays.
And, as history shows, the market always makes correct, sound decisions that maximize the present and future wellbeing for all involved?
The problem with having multiple copies of the same message is not (nowadays) the extra bits: it's that you lose the connection between the copies.
And then what do you get? Multiple copies of the same message...
Gmail: no folders? WTF is with that? Labels are not like folders, and they're not better.
That is a design choice. They chose to provide labels, and not folders. You may not agree with they choice, but that is not half-bakedness.
I'd surely would not want to be an user of one of your fully-baked software products that provide every single design choice simultaneously...
That you call DOS (or CMD, these days) a `full command line environment' really shows that you know very little about what you are talking about.
Gravity cannot be proved `wrong'. (The quotes come from the fact that it doesn't make any sense to say that a fact is `right' or `wrong')
What can be proved wrong are the various theories that try to model it. The aristotelian theory of gravitation (according to which, for example, if you throw a stone, its trajectiry is composed of two straight line segments...), the Newtonian theory of gravitation, general relativity, and so on.
Likewise, evolution canot be proved `wrong', because we see it happening. What can be wrong are the various explanations given for its mechanisms.
That is not what double-think means.
While technically true, that is mostly irrelevant.
There are OSes out there which allow you to change the kernel while it is running.
But you are acknowledging that the problem is that is it possibly illegal to support the encoding, or at the very least puts Ubuntu at risk of being sued.
This is an obstacle which cannot be avoided in any way.
You can actually replace most of the kernel, which comes in modules...
That's completely separate from the name making obvious the function, wouldn't you say?
KDE and GNOME are *not* window managers. In fact, the window managing code in GNOME, for example, is very much under 2% of the code.
Do you find being vegan and `raw foodist' impressive?
What good is a browser user that cannot figure out what the `Add more dictionaries' entry in their context menus is for?
Of course, in this context one refers to the marginal cost of making an extra copy of the PDF file. `cp file.pdf new-copy.pdf' costs, marginally, zero.
Copyright does not prevent from having ideas `stolen', it prevents concrete realizations of ideas not to be reproduced without the copyright holder's agreement. At the very least, find out what the words you use mean...
"But--- but--- but--- they are WORSE than we are!"
A great argument for a 5 year old.