Last year? No, try right now, because I still prefer 2K! And it's not because of the (lack of eye candy). The XP theming service I like; it's just the particular MS-supplied theme that sucks. The sole reason I dislike XP is that it's "defective by design" due to the activation requirement. It's a small thing, but it's enough to make me avoid it on principle whenever possible.
The only reason I'm running XP on my laptop, and considering Vista, is that it's a Tablet PC (which is, as far as I can tell, the only area in which the newer Windows versions make an improvement). My other Windows machine (a few-months-old AMD 64 desktop) runs 2K, and I intend to keep it that way.
Also note that I have nothing against upgrading; in fact, I'm eagerly awaiting Leopard for my Mac, and plan to add the latest Ubuntu and Xen to my tablet once the semester ends and I have time. It's only Windows where the "upgrades" are really downgrades.
Oh, if only Linux or Mac OS had reasonable tablet support (including applications)! Then I could dump Windows on my laptop entirely...
By that logic, MS should be continuing to hold it back, because it's still not ready! Not only does it still have plenty of bugs as it is, the only way MS was able to even pretend it was "ready" was by cutting out almost everything that would have made it actually "new" (e.g. WinFS)!
Hey dumbass, here's a conundrum for you: why the fuck would anybody else bother to create an independent implementation when the one the Xiph people made already exists, works perfectly well, and is free in both senses of the word? Maybe you're stupid enough to waste your time doing something like that, but the rest of the world isn't.
Having only one implementation doesn't make the thing "proprietary," except perhaps in your twisted little mind!
"Why Linux users continue to buy products that don't work with free software is beyond me."... ummm... some of us keep our systems for a couple of years. That's longer than the intel product has been available. And... AMD systems?
In that case, get the most recent ATi card that can use the Free Software driver (i.e., "radeon" not "fglrx"). It's probably not much worse, if at all, than Intel graphics anyway...
But in terms of casual use of an office suite, which is all office is good for anyway (again, with the exception of excel, IMO Microsoft's only worthwhile program period full stop) there is simply nothing significant missing from OO.o.
As a *nix user who loathes Microsoft in general and Office in particular, but who also owns a Tablet PC (which only really works well in Windows) and frequently takes notes in class, I have one word for you:
OneNote.
I couldn't care less about Word, PowerPoint, or even Excel (except in the rare occasion I have to make a bar chart with "whiskers," which OO.o Chart can't do), but my demo copy of OneNote is so wonderful I'm actually considering buying the student version of Office (which, if you knew me, would make you wonder if I'd been replaced by a pod person).
No, because it would have to be more than just a cron job. What it really needs to be is a script that would run emerge, dispatch-conf, revdep-rebuild, detect if the build failed and notify the user, etc. It wouldn't be a huge piece of software, but it wouldn't be trivial.
Updateing without you knowing is a bad idea, on any operating system.
I never said it couldn't notify me (e.g. by email), only that I shouldn't have to manually initiate it. The operating system is supposed to be "stable" (unless I was using ~, of course), so updating it shouldn't break anything.
But surely if you wanted to you could write a cron job which did it?
NO! See, that's the whole point of my post: as a user, I shouldn't have to write the thing myself! Instead, the Gentoo developers should write it and integrate it into Portage, so that it just gets emerged and added to the rc scripts during installation, like cron and ssh and whatnot.
The difference basically is that you also have the intellect to understand _why_ something is done, _when_ it's done, and when _not_ to do it. It's not just stimulus-reaction reflexes based on pure association. You have the mental power to realize when an existing reflex is stupid, and force yourself to stop or develop a better one.
I think you'd be surprised to realize just how much like the rest of the apes we really are. Do you actually think this "intellect" is inherent to being human? It's not; it's "trained" too! How do we know this? By observing children that don't get the training. They act more like animals than most chimps (trained or untrained -- even the "untrained" ones are still trained in chimp society) do!
Since when did the output of ls look anything like Windows Explorer? And that's the point -- everything shows up as files in the sense that they can be operated on with normal utility programs that work on files, like ls, cat, grep, etc.
Court cases notwithstanding, there are those who argue that income tax is unconstitutional because the 16th Amendment was never actually properly ratified.
FYI, there are actually two Mozilla calendar projects: Lightning, which integrates into Thunderbird, and Sunbird, which is stand-alone (and also doesn't support extensions yet for some reason).
My big gripe about both of them is that they don't sync with PDAs (Palm or WinCE) yet.
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Last year? No, try right now, because I still prefer 2K! And it's not because of the (lack of eye candy). The XP theming service I like; it's just the particular MS-supplied theme that sucks. The sole reason I dislike XP is that it's "defective by design" due to the activation requirement. It's a small thing, but it's enough to make me avoid it on principle whenever possible.
The only reason I'm running XP on my laptop, and considering Vista, is that it's a Tablet PC (which is, as far as I can tell, the only area in which the newer Windows versions make an improvement). My other Windows machine (a few-months-old AMD 64 desktop) runs 2K, and I intend to keep it that way.
Also note that I have nothing against upgrading; in fact, I'm eagerly awaiting Leopard for my Mac, and plan to add the latest Ubuntu and Xen to my tablet once the semester ends and I have time. It's only Windows where the "upgrades" are really downgrades.
Oh, if only Linux or Mac OS had reasonable tablet support (including applications)! Then I could dump Windows on my laptop entirely...
By that logic, MS should be continuing to hold it back, because it's still not ready! Not only does it still have plenty of bugs as it is, the only way MS was able to even pretend it was "ready" was by cutting out almost everything that would have made it actually "new" (e.g. WinFS)!
Bah, it's still not the real Coca-Cola until they put the cocaine back!
You're missing the point. What if "Susan" says "no, you can't have a code?" You're shit outta luck, that's what!
What, you mean like the US under the Bush Admninistration?
A Tablet PC running Mac OS. I'm planning on trying it with my X60 when Leopard comes out, at least...
THEY HAVE A COMPLETE SPECIFICATION, YOU MORON!
Hey dumbass, here's a conundrum for you: why the fuck would anybody else bother to create an independent implementation when the one the Xiph people made already exists, works perfectly well, and is free in both senses of the word? Maybe you're stupid enough to waste your time doing something like that, but the rest of the world isn't.
Having only one implementation doesn't make the thing "proprietary," except perhaps in your twisted little mind!
In that case, get the most recent ATi card that can use the Free Software driver (i.e., "radeon" not "fglrx"). It's probably not much worse, if at all, than Intel graphics anyway...
Name one PC (not including PDAs) that has 802.11 but not an ethernet port.
So how do I resolve this for my X60, which doesn't have any sort of optical drive?
As a *nix user who loathes Microsoft in general and Office in particular, but who also owns a Tablet PC (which only really works well in Windows) and frequently takes notes in class, I have one word for you:
OneNote.
I couldn't care less about Word, PowerPoint, or even Excel (except in the rare occasion I have to make a bar chart with "whiskers," which OO.o Chart can't do), but my demo copy of OneNote is so wonderful I'm actually considering buying the student version of Office (which, if you knew me, would make you wonder if I'd been replaced by a pod person).
If only OO.o had an equivalent...
No, because it would have to be more than just a cron job. What it really needs to be is a script that would run emerge, dispatch-conf, revdep-rebuild, detect if the build failed and notify the user, etc. It wouldn't be a huge piece of software, but it wouldn't be trivial.
I never said it couldn't notify me (e.g. by email), only that I shouldn't have to manually initiate it. The operating system is supposed to be "stable" (unless I was using ~, of course), so updating it shouldn't break anything.
NO! See, that's the whole point of my post: as a user, I shouldn't have to write the thing myself! Instead, the Gentoo developers should write it and integrate it into Portage, so that it just gets emerged and added to the rc scripts during installation, like cron and ssh and whatnot.
I think you'd be surprised to realize just how much like the rest of the apes we really are. Do you actually think this "intellect" is inherent to being human? It's not; it's "trained" too! How do we know this? By observing children that don't get the training. They act more like animals than most chimps (trained or untrained -- even the "untrained" ones are still trained in chimp society) do!
Then the Gentoo people ought to make it easy to have that happen automatically, so that I don't have to manually log in and do it all the time!
Since when did the output of ls look anything like Windows Explorer? And that's the point -- everything shows up as files in the sense that they can be operated on with normal utility programs that work on files, like ls, cat, grep, etc.
Exactly. If you really want everything to be a file, you need to use Plan 9 instead.
Court cases notwithstanding, there are those who argue that income tax is unconstitutional because the 16th Amendment was never actually properly ratified.
If it's MY CREDIT, what gives the credit reporting agencies the right to have it at all?
Maybe it's just me, but I would have called it farcical instead...
Even so, shouldn't a deponent have a reasonable amount of time to prepare for it?
FYI, there are actually two Mozilla calendar projects: Lightning, which integrates into Thunderbird, and Sunbird, which is stand-alone (and also doesn't support extensions yet for some reason).
My big gripe about both of them is that they don't sync with PDAs (Palm or WinCE) yet.
Wouldn't a tunnel be superior in that it wouldn't have problems in the winter?
If they've got it so good, why don't you move to Alaska and cash in?