Based on what I've seen about windows, yes, it would be large in the chest, but this would be due to implants. Cheap, low quality implants that hurt it and make it cranky.
If you really, truly believe this, try installing a Win 95 driver on an XP system. I give even odds on that actually working. I'll give better odds that the hardware came with specialized XP drivers.
Re:My Linux Annoyances as a Hardended Windows user
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Sorry your experience is so sucky so far. It's been a long time since I switched, my poor annoyed friend, so I'll try to help you as best I can.
1. No fecking media support! I get XMMS inform me on first attempt at playing an MP3 that it won't because of licensing conflict. Wtf? Codecs for avi's and DVDs were a simular story; all had to be downloaded via yum (bloody excellent tool!). Seriously; not good, but fixed in the end.
Law is the bane of most media in open source -- many codec makers won't tell you how their codec works unless you promise to only write closed-source drivers for it, which is unacceptable for technical and political reasons in the open source world. We're working on automating it more with package-handling tools like yum, but we're not at the windows "automatically get new licenses" level yet.
2. Why the hell do I have to install a new kernel? Why? I've never had to on Windows - why is Linux different? Is it so buggy? I installed with a factory version something ending 054. Now I have something ending 122 I believe. I did it ok, but that's not the point I'm making; were there really 68 cock-ups so great in the kernel build from release-time until that now they had to re-release 68 times? I'm guessing probablly not, but still.
You have to install new kernels for the same reasons that you have to buy new versions of windows. (You're not still running Windows 3.1, are you?) You get new drivers, methods, and all those fun things you expect from your operating system. I can write you scripts to mostly automate the process of building new kernels, which should take 94% of the pain out of the process, but it will involve answering stupid questions about new drivers. It doesn't know. Hotplugging is our weakness right now.
3. Point 2 also breaks my nvidia drivers. I don't want to re-compile new drivers everytime there's a new 'patch'. For the love of god, why?!
Driver has to go with the kernel for it to work. Nvidia won't provide binary drivers. I'll have to add that to your kernel compiling script.
4. X-Windows. What a mess. Why do I have to tell it my x & y refresh rates for my monitor? Windows just 'knows'. Many more things here I feel that X-Windows should just 'know' - the number of buttons on my USB mouse for-instance. If Windows can do it, there's no reason why Linux can't. Also, X-Windows 'feels' slower than Windows. I'm sure there's good reasons for this, but I don't care; Windows is snappier.
X-Windows *IS* a mess. We mostly inherited it from our UNIX-based predecessors and will break too many things if we replace it, since UNIX, (on which Linux's interfaces are based) was intended as a command-line operating system, and GUIs were mostly an afterthought. There are things I can do to make snappier your X-windows. Upgrading to a 2.6 kernel inexplicably made my X-windows much, much, snappier. Also, some distributions have gotten very good at auto-writing an X-windows configuration that is exactly perfect for you with a little probing , a little guesswork, and some minor information from you. ("My monitor is 17", and I use "blah" graphics card.")
I also recommend the "xvidtune" application, which helps you find the best sync information, then gives you the line to paste into the configuration.
5. Lack of decent file-browser. The best I've come across is Nautilus in a mode that resembles Windows Explorer. It'll do for now, but as far as I'm aware, offers no context-sensitive menus for applications (like the Winamp "Play in Winamp" right-click menu on folders.
Most of us Linux users do our file maintenence in the command line, which is the main reason for the file-browsers being so bad. It's just too far out of our everyday experience. I'll keep your suggestions in mind for how to improve Nautilus and other file browsers.
...I would withdraw him or her immediately on the grounds that this school shows an inappropriate interest in his or her outside-of-school activities a-la stalking. Furthermore, I would seek a restraining order for this alarmingly pedophillic behavior.
They had best be glad that I have no children at this time.
Other websites ALSO do this, and it takes me some time to figure out why clicking their links don't work. Namely that:
1) It tries to open a popup for the link. 2) But my blocker blocked it 3) So it needs an exception to show me the page that I wanted, because for some stupid reason, it can't just show me the content in the current window.
"How so ? how does an ad-blocker/pop-up blocker hinder your ability to read a page?"
My University's class registration page, for instance, pops up in a separate window. This window is blocked by popup blockers, so I have to provide them with an exception to sign up for classes. You must use this system to sign up for classes. They will not do it in person, by telephone, or any other means. This annoys me, and it would give me great pleasure if I could boot the entire IT department in their gonads without being charged with assault for it.
It wasn't always this way, but it seems like the IT department is going out of their way to make the process as annoying as possible.
I hate ads. The vast majority irritate the hell out of me. They're like a salesman running up to your face and screaming "HI, WE HAVE A NEW CHEST OF DRAWS SET, HOW MANY CAN WE PUT YOU DOWN FOR?" I have had flashblock ever since I was surfing and came across some "Genius's" idea to make a really noisy commercial, which I ran into at 11 at night and worried that I woke the neighbors. Yes, thank you, blasting my speakers so loud that it wakes my neighbors really makes me want to buy.
When I'm watching TV, I usually mute the set during commercials and wish for it to hurry up and get back to the show. (I do not own a PVR.) When I come across two consecutive pages of ads in magazines I go, I excise the page. Literally tear it from the magazine and throw it away.
We've reached a definite oversaturation point with advertising, and the more gets put it, the less effective any of it is. The marketing companies seem to be responding to this with even more ads.
If I were the Spanish Authorities, I would cut all funding to this university. Clearly they have no spine, and they'll cave to whatever stupid interest comes knocking. It is not in the interests of a nation to have it's students bought like this.
I could handle emerge. What I couldn't handle was all the constant re-configuring of all the little/etc files.
That's why I use debian. Debian makes the/etc files based on silly questions that it asks me, and then puts helpful comments in the file so that should I need to change it later, I can.
Config tools, please.
Other than that, I was able to get the hang of Gentoo.
I intend to charge all sites that circumvent my ad-blocking with terrorism* under the patriot act.
Now, if a site wishes to deny me access to the content due to a lack of ads appearing on my computer, that's fine with me. I'll just not read your content.
Mind you, I block very few graphical ads, I cannot block text ads, (but don't mind them,) I block 100% of flash and popup ads. Choose the ads you run carefully, young content manager.
* Part of the ruling with the patriot act equated computer hacking with terrorism. Forcing my computer to do something I ordered it not to do is hacking.
I suppose I don't know enough about the 17-18th century's politics to orient him. It's always disorienting to deal with politics in the past, since the issues have changed.
Alchemy was quite common pre-chemistry. The assumptions of alchemy were wrong, but chemistry would probably never have been discovered if alchemy had not been dabbled with.
I say that Newton would be a creationist because he was extremely religious, and rather significantly conservative. Creationism would appeal to him significantly. (Among other things, I've read that Newton was very proud, on his deathbed, to have died a virgin.)
I have no reason to believe that an unsupported object weighing more than the surrounding air will suddenly hover in midair.
I can name things that will not fall when dropped.
Yes, I am going to have to insist that anyone denying that "unsupported things will generally fall down" is insane.
Much of what Newton wrote about was, in fact, stupid bullshit. His Physics have endured because they're "Close enough" for most real world situations. Einstein's relativity replaced most of Newton's principles when accuracy is necessary.
Newton was exactly the sort of person who would be a creationist today, so being a creationist doesn't mean being wrong about all things.
It offers an unfalsifiable account, religiously inspired, that it orders me to accept or denounces me as evil.
If it was true, I'd expect to see a fossil layer populated equally and evenly with the same animals I see today. And I do not. But when I bring up this objection, I'm retorted with:
"SATAN IS TRYING TO FOOL YOU! Clearly, God is testing your faith by making the earth with the appearance of age."
This is not science. This is religion dressed up as science.
I have no faith. Otherwise, why not assume the universe was made ten minutes ago? By Satan? As a practical joke?
You can prove gravity exists. Drop something. It is accelerated towards the center of the earth.
They might argue about how it works, but no sane person would try to deny that there is such a thing.
(Pre-newton, it was argued that things just "belonged down," and without a better theory, that's what was accepted.)
I argue that evolution is in the same phase. It's definitely there, there's big arguments about exactly how it works, and there's lots of experiments being run to learn more about it.
The only difference is that evolution bothers certain people's sense of religion, because they want to feel like some super-being with a divine mandate, and not, as all evidence suggests, a primate who has learned to philosophize.
While it's possible that evolution could be replaced by other theory, at this point evolution is as accepted as gravity. You want to argue that gravity is not fact because it's merely been accepted for 300 years and has defeated every challenge to it?
Is GNOME's goal to be a window manager for developers? Then it's done, and it can ignore her.
Is GNOME's goal to replace proprietary software? Then it had better listen to her, or windows is going to gain another user.
There is only one project I have seen that did not have rude developers. ReactOS's developers have always been polite and professional when I have a problem. I think this is because if React rubs me the wrong way, it is a victory for Windows.
I also had a technical problem with the HURD, and when I reached the developers, they called me "Retarded" and "a troll" and "a f***ing pest." When I explained that No, I could not reboot into the HURD right now, because I only have one computer, and I'm using it to talk to you, they really flew off the handle.
I can understand their additude, though. HURD is for developers. If I don't use it, they don't care.
Yes, this does sound truly excellent. And maybe in 20 or so years, I can afford to buy one. By which time, a new, more excellent technology will be developed which I won't be able to afford.
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Based on what I've seen about windows, yes, it would be large in the chest, but this would be due to implants. Cheap, low quality implants that hurt it and make it cranky.
If you really, truly believe this, try installing a Win 95 driver on an XP system. I give even odds on that actually working. I'll give better odds that the hardware came with specialized XP drivers.
...I would withdraw him or her immediately on the grounds that this school shows an inappropriate interest in his or her outside-of-school activities a-la stalking. Furthermore, I would seek a restraining order for this alarmingly pedophillic behavior.
They had best be glad that I have no children at this time.
Other websites ALSO do this, and it takes me some time to figure out why clicking their links don't work. Namely that:
1) It tries to open a popup for the link.
2) But my blocker blocked it
3) So it needs an exception to show me the page that I wanted, because for some stupid reason, it can't just show me the content in the current window.
Arrrghhhh, damn windows-centric IT people.
"How so ? how does an ad-blocker/pop-up blocker hinder your ability to read a page?"
My University's class registration page, for instance, pops up in a separate window. This window is blocked by popup blockers, so I have to provide them with an exception to sign up for classes. You must use this system to sign up for classes. They will not do it in person, by telephone, or any other means. This annoys me, and it would give me great pleasure if I could boot the entire IT department in their gonads without being charged with assault for it.
It wasn't always this way, but it seems like the IT department is going out of their way to make the process as annoying as possible.
I hate ads. The vast majority irritate the hell out of me. They're like a salesman running up to your face and screaming "HI, WE HAVE A NEW CHEST OF DRAWS SET, HOW MANY CAN WE PUT YOU DOWN FOR?" I have had flashblock ever since I was surfing and came across some "Genius's" idea to make a really noisy commercial, which I ran into at 11 at night and worried that I woke the neighbors. Yes, thank you, blasting my speakers so loud that it wakes my neighbors really makes me want to buy.
When I'm watching TV, I usually mute the set during commercials and wish for it to hurry up and get back to the show. (I do not own a PVR.) When I come across two consecutive pages of ads in magazines I go, I excise the page. Literally tear it from the magazine and throw it away.
We've reached a definite oversaturation point with advertising, and the more gets put it, the less effective any of it is. The marketing companies seem to be responding to this with even more ads.
If I were the Spanish Authorities, I would cut all funding to this university. Clearly they have no spine, and they'll cave to whatever stupid interest comes knocking. It is not in the interests of a nation to have it's students bought like this.
I have a reserve of food. Shopping is not mandatory every day or even every week. I can afford to take out my frustrations like that.
And it takes at most 15 minutes to fill up my cart. No big loss.
If I pulled a hundred things off the shelf, but get too frustrated with the lines, I'm going to abandon the cart.
If they don't want to restock, they should have had clerks ready to help me.
I could handle emerge. What I couldn't handle was all the constant re-configuring of all the little /etc files.
/etc files based on silly questions that it asks me, and then puts helpful comments in the file so that should I need to change it later, I can.
That's why I use debian. Debian makes the
Config tools, please.
Other than that, I was able to get the hang of Gentoo.
I intend to charge all sites that circumvent my ad-blocking with terrorism* under the patriot act.
Now, if a site wishes to deny me access to the content due to a lack of ads appearing on my computer, that's fine with me. I'll just not read your content.
Mind you, I block very few graphical ads, I cannot block text ads, (but don't mind them,) I block 100% of flash and popup ads. Choose the ads you run carefully, young content manager.
* Part of the ruling with the patriot act equated computer hacking with terrorism. Forcing my computer to do something I ordered it not to do is hacking.
Biology students work evolution all the time. With fruit flies.
I suppose I don't know enough about the 17-18th century's politics to orient him. It's always disorienting to deal with politics in the past, since the issues have changed.
"Down" is undefined in space.
Alchemy was quite common pre-chemistry. The assumptions of alchemy were wrong, but chemistry would probably never have been discovered if alchemy had not been dabbled with.
I say that Newton would be a creationist because he was extremely religious, and rather significantly conservative. Creationism would appeal to him significantly. (Among other things, I've read that Newton was very proud, on his deathbed, to have died a virgin.)
You've given me a bit to think about.
I have no reason to believe that an unsupported object weighing more than the surrounding air will suddenly hover in midair.
I can name things that will not fall when dropped.
Yes, I am going to have to insist that anyone denying that "unsupported things will generally fall down" is insane.
Much of what Newton wrote about was, in fact, stupid bullshit. His Physics have endured because they're "Close enough" for most real world situations. Einstein's relativity replaced most of Newton's principles when accuracy is necessary.
Newton was exactly the sort of person who would be a creationist today, so being a creationist doesn't mean being wrong about all things.
It offers an unfalsifiable account, religiously inspired, that it orders me to accept or denounces me as evil.
If it was true, I'd expect to see a fossil layer populated equally and evenly with the same animals I see today. And I do not. But when I bring up this objection, I'm retorted with:
"SATAN IS TRYING TO FOOL YOU! Clearly, God is testing your faith by making the earth with the appearance of age."
This is not science. This is religion dressed up as science.
I have no faith. Otherwise, why not assume the universe was made ten minutes ago? By Satan? As a practical joke?
You can prove gravity exists. Drop something. It is accelerated towards the center of the earth.
They might argue about how it works, but no sane person would try to deny that there is such a thing.
(Pre-newton, it was argued that things just "belonged down," and without a better theory, that's what was accepted.)
I argue that evolution is in the same phase. It's definitely there, there's big arguments about exactly how it works, and there's lots of experiments being run to learn more about it.
The only difference is that evolution bothers certain people's sense of religion, because they want to feel like some super-being with a divine mandate, and not, as all evidence suggests, a primate who has learned to philosophize.
While it's possible that evolution could be replaced by other theory, at this point evolution is as accepted as gravity. You want to argue that gravity is not fact because it's merely been accepted for 300 years and has defeated every challenge to it?
Evolution IS fact. It's been scientifically accepted for something like 100 years, and has defeated every serious challenge to date.
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Just because YOU feel insulted that you are the descendant of (essentially) pond scum doesn't make it not true.
We're going to be a nation of idiots in the biological field if we keep this crap up.
....of the open source project itself.
Is GNOME's goal to be a window manager for developers? Then it's done, and it can ignore her.
Is GNOME's goal to replace proprietary software? Then it had better listen to her, or windows is going to gain another user.
There is only one project I have seen that did not have rude developers. ReactOS's developers have always been polite and professional when I have a problem. I think this is because if React rubs me the wrong way, it is a victory for Windows.
I also had a technical problem with the HURD, and when I reached the developers, they called me "Retarded" and "a troll" and "a f***ing pest."
When I explained that No, I could not reboot into the HURD right now, because I only have one computer, and I'm using it to talk to you, they really flew off the handle.
I can understand their additude, though. HURD is for developers. If I don't use it, they don't care.
So....how long before firefox develops a popup blocker blocker blocker?
I think I just confused myself. Yikes.
I do listen to my body. I sleep when I'm tired, I eat when I'm hungry.
My body has never WANTED to exercise, screams bloody murder while I'm doing it, and cramps immensely afterwards.
Is there something WRONG with me?
Yes, this does sound truly excellent. And maybe in 20 or so years, I can afford to buy one. By which time, a new, more excellent technology will be developed which I won't be able to afford.
I'm still using CRTs. Bleh.
I want to work for Sriram Krishnan now.
Oh, and Joel? You've lost all respect I ever had for you. You sound like those imbiciles that I talked to at the last job fare.
They deserved the buzzword-language monkeys they hired out of the fare.