I find it pretty funny that this is one of the things people like to complain about linux, that there are a few different looks and feels across the desktop. However, windows is just as bad, if not worse is this respect. There are many many applications that have their own custom themes and widgets, usually unessisarily so. Where as on linux most people would have at most two different styles for a majority of the applications they use.
Windows drivers can be just as annoying and flaky. I remember the driver for my kodak webcam would make 3D games pause annoyingly every few seconds. The only solution was to keep the camera unplugged or remove it from devices thingo.
But blender wan't originally open source. It wasn't the fact that it was open source that saved it, but that the devolpers and the community were determined to keep it alive by open sourcing it.
I don't know what it is like in the US, but from what have seen here in Australia they public libraries are moving along with the times. I remember in primary school when our library had its name changed from the 'library' to the 'Resource Centre" to acknowledge the fact that is is a facility not just to house and catalogue books but to make all different types of information avaliable.
The local library also does many computer related things, like computers avalible for browsing the web and web interfaces for searching, borrowing and reserving books. There must be many librarians out there that are not as closed minded and conservative as this bloke, which is a good thing.
I'm not to fond of these ALA president people. From what I have superficially seen they make broad sweeping generalisations and knee jerk statements about others who they do not take the time to understand.
I also heard that they don't shower very often and are cruel to puppies. There was a rumour going around that they get their tertiay education from discarded tissue boxes and glue sticks.
If you look into it you will discover that the main points in the above article are actually where Nat has got a lot of his inspiration for the direction of the Hula project. I have seen a few people using this article as a device against Hula, however, those attempts are really misguided.
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http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2084
You mean like this?
That particular example isn't a problem anymore, I just tried it in gnome 2.10 and it took me to a page on configuring sessions in the help browser.
I find it pretty funny that this is one of the things people like to complain about linux, that there are a few different looks and feels across the desktop. However, windows is just as bad, if not worse is this respect. There are many many applications that have their own custom themes and widgets, usually unessisarily so. Where as on linux most people would have at most two different styles for a majority of the applications they use.
Windows drivers can be just as annoying and flaky. I remember the driver for my kodak webcam would make 3D games pause annoyingly every few seconds. The only solution was to keep the camera unplugged or remove it from devices thingo.
But blender wan't originally open source. It wasn't the fact that it was open source that saved it, but that the devolpers and the community were determined to keep it alive by open sourcing it.
I don't know what it is like in the US, but from what have seen here in Australia they public libraries are moving along with the times. I remember in primary school when our library had its name changed from the 'library' to the 'Resource Centre" to acknowledge the fact that is is a facility not just to house and catalogue books but to make all different types of information avaliable.
The local library also does many computer related things, like computers avalible for browsing the web and web interfaces for searching, borrowing and reserving books. There must be many librarians out there that are not as closed minded and conservative as this bloke, which is a good thing.
I'm not to fond of these ALA president people. From what I have superficially seen they make broad sweeping generalisations and knee jerk statements about others who they do not take the time to understand. I also heard that they don't shower very often and are cruel to puppies. There was a rumour going around that they get their tertiay education from discarded tissue boxes and glue sticks.
If you look into it you will discover that the main points in the above article are actually where Nat has got a lot of his inspiration for the direction of the Hula project. I have seen a few people using this article as a device against Hula, however, those attempts are really misguided.
http://www.google.com/mozilla/google.xul/
Yes it does, in the options under advanced settings, privacy there is an option to "Block loading of remote images in mail messages".