First let me start by saying that you CANNOT "copy/paste pretty much anything from any program" on Windows. There are programs which prevent this, (ie: Acrobat, Terminal Services) just to name 2 because the list is extensive.
"Pretty much anything" doesn't mean "anything," and applications preventing you from using the feature isn't the same thing as the feature being unavailable.
PacBell out here tried something vaguely similar to that a few years back. Whenever you got a busy signal, instead of the standard beeping, there'd be about a 1.5-2-second delay (seriously... this was the most unhelpful part, because you always wondered if the line were dead) then the phone voice lady would advertise their "Call Repeat" service. This service was basically that their computer would dial you back to notify you whenever the line became free. I don't know if they did this by hammering the line, or what. At any rate, you'd still have to then call the other person after being notified.
Personally, the only graphics that annoyed me were in MM1, and a few places in MM2.
Main thing I want fixed is the horribly slow scrolling when you go up/down a ladder -- this was fixed in 5, then went back to the old crappy scrolling in 6. Grr.
Aren't the majority of packages on Linux CDs third-party extras? Sure, Windows comes with some stuff by default, but nowhere near as much as Linux. A Linux install comparable to what Windows includes on its CD would almost certainly fit on one CD as well.
From the computer's perspective it's different. Case sensitivity is fine if it stays with the computer. However, filenames are generally words, or at the very least something vaguely resembling words. In a word, M means the same thing as m. It's the same letter of the alphabet, the same sound. Even making the first letter of a word capital doesn't (usually) change the denotation of the word; it either changes the connotation (in the case of proper nouns) or aids in sentence structure.
Case sensitivity is only a minor annoyance for me in Linux, but it's still a peeve of mine because there is absolutely no reason to keep it. The only thing case sensitivity in filenames is good for is having two items in the same directory with the same name with different case, and only an idiot would do that, because it decreases the usability by humans.
I agree wholeheartedly. Haven't compared it to Redhat, but I originally tried Mandrake when I wasn't sure whether I was leaning toward GNOME or KDE, and thought rpmdrake was alright, but eventually I decided I'd go all-out for KDE (This decision was aided by the fact that I had completely fried XFree86 on my Mandrake install and just running the install again didn't seem to fix it. Heh.) so I tried SuSE. YaST is a godsend. First of all, unlike RPMDrake, you don't have to run different processes to install and uninstall packages, and the search utility was *far* more useful
Pretty much the only complaint I have with YaST is that after it completes an operation it closes itself. This is fine for packages I've downloaded elsewhere and started installation of via Konqueror, but when I open up the package manager for anything else, I expect it to stay open until I close it.
It also bugs me slightly how sometimes it'll put a shortcut in the SuSE menu, but not the K menu, which I prefer to use.
As far as KDE in general, the main improvements I'd like to see are easier editing of the application menu (I still find myself right-clicking stuff trying to edit it's properties) and a way to stop applications from stealing focus. Some people may find a flashing taskbar annoying, but I consider it a vast improvement over an application bringing itself to the top while you're typing or something.
Perhaps when SCO actually produces something resembling evidence will people start believing IBM released code they shouldn't have. There's nothing subjective about not believing unsubstantiated claims.
In your quest to give a backhanded compliment, you missed the point. He wasn't saying anything about making money being "sinful" -- rather that the "socialist" movement in software is making better quality products, and that Apple is trying to pass itself off falsely as part of the "socialist" crowd.
Saying Apple shouldn't "get away with it" doesn't imply that the government should immediately jump in -- what the FSF is doing counts as part of keeping Apple from "getting away from it."
As has been pointed out further up on this page, and in countless other places, Communism is *not* a form of government. It is an economic model, just as capitalism is. Stalin's government was a totalitarian dictatorship, which is what killed millions of Russians. He was also fond of abandoning bits of Communism whenever he felt it would benefit him.
Or for a similar experience, bang your head against a wall repeatedly. No, I don't think the Bolsheviks were completely in the right, but Ayn Rand is just full of it.
If NS were to be a wrapper for IE, it'd have to be completely rewritten. XUL uses Gecko in the rendering of the UI, so junking Gecko would put them back at square one.
It shows up as fixed now, though the validator still complains about the lack of character coding labelling. Still, I think the layout is nothing short of great.
...so I'm not the only one who notices that IE's Stop button sometimes... doesn't? That bugged me a lot back when I used it, but nobody else I knew had that problem (or noticed it... a lot of my friends are computer-dumb).
The cursor issue has been pointed out in the MozillaZine forums, though I don't know the specific bug. (if there is one.) The general consensus is that the problem is mostly the thickness of the cursor.
Interestingly enough, the "better" cursor is used in the browser UI itself, i.e. the location bar and such.
It's disabled because it's not exactly "complete" yet. I don't use it, but I've heard that it pretty much sucks. Supposedly the SmoothWheel extension does it better, though I haven't tried that one, either. I like my jerky old scrolling.
Perhaps when there's an actual installer there will be options to not have it quite so bare-bones, but with the current zip-only distribution, it makes sense to not package extensions in.
Since when is avoidablity a requirement for being a tax? You can avoid federal taxes by moving to another country, anyway.
Dell PCs might have better hardware, but the OS certainly isn't free, so you're still paying more for it.
The 22 meg.NET download is simply the runtime components, essentially the equivalent of the JRE download and not the JDK download. The JRE download is less than 2 megs.
The equivalent of the JDK download is the.NET SDK download. The SDK download is over 100 megs in addition to the runtime components which you have to download and install first.
I'll admit, once you get up to 100 megs, the extra 22 doesn't make that much of a difference.
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First let me start by saying that you CANNOT "copy/paste pretty much anything from any program" on Windows. There are programs which prevent this, (ie: Acrobat, Terminal Services) just to name 2 because the list is extensive.
"Pretty much anything" doesn't mean "anything," and applications preventing you from using the feature isn't the same thing as the feature being unavailable.
PacBell out here tried something vaguely similar to that a few years back. Whenever you got a busy signal, instead of the standard beeping, there'd be about a 1.5-2-second delay (seriously... this was the most unhelpful part, because you always wondered if the line were dead) then the phone voice lady would advertise their "Call Repeat" service. This service was basically that their computer would dial you back to notify you whenever the line became free. I don't know if they did this by hammering the line, or what. At any rate, you'd still have to then call the other person after being notified.
Thankfully, this got junked after a month or two.
Personally, the only graphics that annoyed me were in MM1, and a few places in MM2.
Main thing I want fixed is the horribly slow scrolling when you go up/down a ladder -- this was fixed in 5, then went back to the old crappy scrolling in 6. Grr.
Aren't the majority of packages on Linux CDs third-party extras? Sure, Windows comes with some stuff by default, but nowhere near as much as Linux. A Linux install comparable to what Windows includes on its CD would almost certainly fit on one CD as well.
From the computer's perspective it's different. Case sensitivity is fine if it stays with the computer. However, filenames are generally words, or at the very least something vaguely resembling words. In a word, M means the same thing as m. It's the same letter of the alphabet, the same sound. Even making the first letter of a word capital doesn't (usually) change the denotation of the word; it either changes the connotation (in the case of proper nouns) or aids in sentence structure.
Case sensitivity is only a minor annoyance for me in Linux, but it's still a peeve of mine because there is absolutely no reason to keep it. The only thing case sensitivity in filenames is good for is having two items in the same directory with the same name with different case, and only an idiot would do that, because it decreases the usability by humans.
I agree wholeheartedly. Haven't compared it to Redhat, but I originally tried Mandrake when I wasn't sure whether I was leaning toward GNOME or KDE, and thought rpmdrake was alright, but eventually I decided I'd go all-out for KDE (This decision was aided by the fact that I had completely fried XFree86 on my Mandrake install and just running the install again didn't seem to fix it. Heh.) so I tried SuSE. YaST is a godsend. First of all, unlike RPMDrake, you don't have to run different processes to install and uninstall packages, and the search utility was *far* more useful
Pretty much the only complaint I have with YaST is that after it completes an operation it closes itself. This is fine for packages I've downloaded elsewhere and started installation of via Konqueror, but when I open up the package manager for anything else, I expect it to stay open until I close it.
It also bugs me slightly how sometimes it'll put a shortcut in the SuSE menu, but not the K menu, which I prefer to use.
As far as KDE in general, the main improvements I'd like to see are easier editing of the application menu (I still find myself right-clicking stuff trying to edit it's properties) and a way to stop applications from stealing focus. Some people may find a flashing taskbar annoying, but I consider it a vast improvement over an application bringing itself to the top while you're typing or something.
Umm... wow. Just wow. Can anybody say "Troll?"
Perhaps when SCO actually produces something resembling evidence will people start believing IBM released code they shouldn't have. There's nothing subjective about not believing unsubstantiated claims.
In your quest to give a backhanded compliment, you missed the point. He wasn't saying anything about making money being "sinful" -- rather that the "socialist" movement in software is making better quality products, and that Apple is trying to pass itself off falsely as part of the "socialist" crowd.
Saying Apple shouldn't "get away with it" doesn't imply that the government should immediately jump in -- what the FSF is doing counts as part of keeping Apple from "getting away from it."
As has been pointed out further up on this page, and in countless other places, Communism is *not* a form of government. It is an economic model, just as capitalism is. Stalin's government was a totalitarian dictatorship, which is what killed millions of Russians. He was also fond of abandoning bits of Communism whenever he felt it would benefit him.
I suggest you read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.
Or for a similar experience, bang your head against a wall repeatedly. No, I don't think the Bolsheviks were completely in the right, but Ayn Rand is just full of it.
If NS were to be a wrapper for IE, it'd have to be completely rewritten. XUL uses Gecko in the rendering of the UI, so junking Gecko would put them back at square one.
It shows up as fixed now, though the validator still complains about the lack of character coding labelling. Still, I think the layout is nothing short of great.
Those were nifty, but the DVD cases were even more useful. I'm actually disappointed I haven't gotten any in a long time. :(
...so I'm not the only one who notices that IE's Stop button sometimes... doesn't? That bugged me a lot back when I used it, but nobody else I knew had that problem (or noticed it... a lot of my friends are computer-dumb).
The cursor issue has been pointed out in the MozillaZine forums, though I don't know the specific bug. (if there is one.) The general consensus is that the problem is mostly the thickness of the cursor.
Interestingly enough, the "better" cursor is used in the browser UI itself, i.e. the location bar and such.
RC3 was just a whole bunch of bug fixes, so if they got them all fixed quickly, why delay the next RC?
It's disabled because it's not exactly "complete" yet. I don't use it, but I've heard that it pretty much sucks. Supposedly the SmoothWheel extension does it better, though I haven't tried that one, either. I like my jerky old scrolling.
Perhaps when there's an actual installer there will be options to not have it quite so bare-bones, but with the current zip-only distribution, it makes sense to not package extensions in.
Since when is avoidablity a requirement for being a tax? You can avoid federal taxes by moving to another country, anyway. Dell PCs might have better hardware, but the OS certainly isn't free, so you're still paying more for it.
The 22 meg .NET download is simply the runtime components, essentially the equivalent of the JRE download and not the JDK download. The JRE download is less than 2 megs.
The equivalent of the JDK download is the .NET SDK download. The SDK download is over 100 megs in addition to the runtime components which you have to download and install first.
I'll admit, once you get up to 100 megs, the extra 22 doesn't make that much of a difference.