If there was something new with the same features it would be a case of living in the past. Sadly not - there are a whole lot of phones that have to be "jailbroken" instead of ones like the N900 where you get full control out of the box - and that's without even considering the keyboard etc.
Step back a bit. You'll see that your example has nothing to do with the software but has everything to do with the experience of the person using it in areas that are totally irrelevant to the software that they habitually use. You may as well have said that Serena Williams is not at a professional level at chess (I'm guessing) for just as irrelevant an example.
Why should we expect text editing experience to apply in 3D drafting anyway? While I do use the text commands in AutoCAD quite a bit, there's still very little between even that use and a text editor.
Are you sure that you are not expecting the CS guy to instantly come up to the same standard as a professional mechanical engineer with hundreds of hours on the drawing board and CAD software? Teach a few classes and you get a bit of perspective that your assumptions about what a default background is are probably wrong. Even being able to think well enough in 3D to draft or use CAD takes people a bit of time, you probably just can't remember because it was so long ago and you've never had to teach it to anyone else.
What part of copyright does the geek find so hard to understand?
Quite a lot really since it keeps changing. The examples below may not even apply in your area since it varies by location as well.
Let's take telephone on-hold music - something a geek in an office can be expected to deal with. A few years ago just sticking a CD into a player did the job since it was not a public performance. A bunch of mp3 files was the same deal later on. It was legally just like having music at a party, if you owned the CD it was perfectly fine to play it. Then for some reason on-hold music WAS classed as a public performance and vultures started circling demanding money. No problem then - plug a radio in to relay something where performance fees had already been paid. After a few years the vultures started circling again wanting a second lot of performance fees and expensive paperwork hassles for anyone that complied. No problem then - move back to CD or mp3 of performances by people that died in 1945 or before - but now the TPP is going to change that too. The alternative of tracking copyright and keeping up the paperwork is the sort of thing radio stations employ people full time to do and is non-trivial even if you have a single track going in a loop. Normally the regulatory bodies absorb all of the fees and nothing gets to the artists so it's all a very pointless waste of time in a lot of cases.
So even without illegal downloads it's a bit of a quagmire.
unless you're going to tell me GIMP was never meant to enter the mainstream
If by the mainstream you mean a single window on a single desktop, then yes, it was not until a few years ago. Now it has the optional photoshop style UI - the stupid thing of everything in one window where the application has to act as a window manager as well as the window manager that's already there. Despite the extra pointless busywork to do that sort of UI it was done, yet you are bitching about it as if it was not!
Maybe the text editor guy's job is not putting together presentations:) You have not told us enough to make your point and for all we know the guys job could be 99.9% manipulating text. High school kids can do better presentations than I but that's not my job apart from maybe an hour every second or third year.
Try moving vim guys to emac, and vice versa.
Why? Both are are cross-platform, free and can be downloaded and installed in less than five minutes. That's like forcing an airbrush artist to use a paintbrush just for the hell of it.
I think (correct me if I'm wrong) it was the fucksticks at GNOME who decided to remove the upper-right minimize/maximize/close buttons
Enlightenment did that at a time too, but the reason you don't hear people bitching about it is because they did it the right way. You didn't have to use the theme with that quirk if you did not want to and themes that kept old behaviours were updated just as quickly as their odd themes. The only two things they took away over time were the direct clone of an Apple GUI (beware of lawyers) and the "pie menu" style radial menus that were difficult to include in a new codebase.
They took a perfectly good interface that was familiar and well-understood, and made a stupid, pointless change just because they could
Hence offices with linux stuck on RHEL6/CentOS6) since the new gnome is not ready for a workplace yet.
Add the current gnome to that list. Enlightenment however has been doing "pretty" and "useful" at the same time for getting close to 20 years. Win7 with the little application snapshot windows looks startlingly like it could be a theme from Enlightenment in 1998.
So you are dumbing down industrial to domestic as well as saying we all need the sack? I put an additive in my radiator in my car. Do you need to do the same for this situation or do you not know either way so are avoiding the question?
should be good for at least 15 years
Based on what exactly? I suppose I shouldn't expect much when you told the earlier poster to "go crawl back under your rock" just for asking a few questions, but please could we have a little bit more than something along the lines of "because I said so" if you really do know a bit about this sort of cooling in practice while the rest of us do not in this situation.
Yes, my point is that they are far more effective with less people per airport. In comparison the TSA looks like a giant welfare program and a money funnel to cronies (eg. Rapiscan).
Humour me because the only water cooling I've had anything to do with was in power stations in the 1990s before I got into IT, but what do you have to do to ensure that the rack will survive long enough to have several generations of equipment go through it? Is it as simple as an additive or do you need demineralized water as well? Are there sacrificial anodes you need to replace after a few years?
My point was very obviously that you were incorrect to the point of being incredibly insulting - this NRA vs Australia shit is the equivalent of an Irish joke or blackface. So, please try leaning a little bit towards reality instead of propagating an incorrect and very insulting fantasy. You see - the point wasn't hidden was it? Why pretend it was?
The security bit explicitly is not provided by VirtualBox either - just the appearance of it for those that haven't read the docs and the disclaimer on the topic right near the start.
My personal view point is if you are not doing racks with water cooled doors then you need the sack unless you are using one of the in rack water cooling systems
So those of us that still have a lot of empty space available and don't have to change to high density yet "need the sack"? WTF is it with the insulting zealotry? It completely demolishes credibility, making any of your points questionable whether they are correct or not.
Also you've said nothing useful about water treatment, condensation, descaling or corrosion. They used to be a pretty big deal back in the day and are today in other systems cooled with water, why not worth mentioning now?
Hang on - your first example is unmeasurable for a start and would be subject to interpretation even if it was - do you REALLY want to start out with something that renders everything written after it irrelevant? Maybe you are going for emotional manipulation instead of reason. Is that the case?
The irony of not even being in a gun club, let alone real military and pretending to be part of a "well organized militia"? That's getting the bit that supposed to be about what became the National Guard backwards. I don't think Bruce is the one getting things wrong this time. It's those who want to use these things as toys without the responsibility of serving their country that are getting it wrong.
Is it just so cowards can pretend they are part of a militia without risking their skin?
Because Charlie Manson and Al Capone had a "family" to "protect" as well? Your think of the kiddies shit to justify a HOBBY is just ridiculous. In reality an axe handle is going to be far more useful in protecting your family than a gun that should should be storing secured and unloaded unless you are a complete and utter fucking idiot that is just asking for a housebreaker to steal your gun and use it on you.
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Such as recyling the classics into a pointless roadtrip of a GUI.
Do you want to install?
Do you want to accept the licence?
Do you want to click on a box?
And another box?
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You have misunderstood my post as if you did not read it.
The software you mentioned has nothing at all to do with having wide experience or not.
If there was something new with the same features it would be a case of living in the past. Sadly not - there are a whole lot of phones that have to be "jailbroken" instead of ones like the N900 where you get full control out of the box - and that's without even considering the keyboard etc.
The "adults" who don't put seatbelts on their kids?
If you were older and had used computers for long enough the nickname would be blindingly obvious.
there's still very little similarity between even that use and a text editor.
Step back a bit. You'll see that your example has nothing to do with the software but has everything to do with the experience of the person using it in areas that are totally irrelevant to the software that they habitually use.
You may as well have said that Serena Williams is not at a professional level at chess (I'm guessing) for just as irrelevant an example.
Why should we expect text editing experience to apply in 3D drafting anyway? While I do use the text commands in AutoCAD quite a bit, there's still very little between even that use and a text editor.
Are you sure that you are not expecting the CS guy to instantly come up to the same standard as a professional mechanical engineer with hundreds of hours on the drawing board and CAD software? Teach a few classes and you get a bit of perspective that your assumptions about what a default background is are probably wrong. Even being able to think well enough in 3D to draft or use CAD takes people a bit of time, you probably just can't remember because it was so long ago and you've never had to teach it to anyone else.
Quite a lot really since it keeps changing. The examples below may not even apply in your area since it varies by location as well.
Let's take telephone on-hold music - something a geek in an office can be expected to deal with.
A few years ago just sticking a CD into a player did the job since it was not a public performance. A bunch of mp3 files was the same deal later on. It was legally just like having music at a party, if you owned the CD it was perfectly fine to play it.
Then for some reason on-hold music WAS classed as a public performance and vultures started circling demanding money. No problem then - plug a radio in to relay something where performance fees had already been paid. After a few years the vultures started circling again wanting a second lot of performance fees and expensive paperwork hassles for anyone that complied.
No problem then - move back to CD or mp3 of performances by people that died in 1945 or before - but now the TPP is going to change that too.
The alternative of tracking copyright and keeping up the paperwork is the sort of thing radio stations employ people full time to do and is non-trivial even if you have a single track going in a loop. Normally the regulatory bodies absorb all of the fees and nothing gets to the artists so it's all a very pointless waste of time in a lot of cases.
So even without illegal downloads it's a bit of a quagmire.
Less storage time of the perp in the isocube citizen.
If by the mainstream you mean a single window on a single desktop, then yes, it was not until a few years ago. Now it has the optional photoshop style UI - the stupid thing of everything in one window where the application has to act as a window manager as well as the window manager that's already there. Despite the extra pointless busywork to do that sort of UI it was done, yet you are bitching about it as if it was not!
Maybe the text editor guy's job is not putting together presentations :)
You have not told us enough to make your point and for all we know the guys job could be 99.9% manipulating text. High school kids can do better presentations than I but that's not my job apart from maybe an hour every second or third year.
Why? Both are are cross-platform, free and can be downloaded and installed in less than five minutes. That's like forcing an airbrush artist to use a paintbrush just for the hell of it.
Enlightenment did that at a time too, but the reason you don't hear people bitching about it is because they did it the right way. You didn't have to use the theme with that quirk if you did not want to and themes that kept old behaviours were updated just as quickly as their odd themes. The only two things they took away over time were the direct clone of an Apple GUI (beware of lawyers) and the "pie menu" style radial menus that were difficult to include in a new codebase.
Hence offices with linux stuck on RHEL6/CentOS6) since the new gnome is not ready for a workplace yet.
Add the current gnome to that list.
Enlightenment however has been doing "pretty" and "useful" at the same time for getting close to 20 years. Win7 with the little application snapshot windows looks startlingly like it could be a theme from Enlightenment in 1998.
So my N900 is safe since it has a real linux and built with security in mind (and is too big, heavy and ugly for physical theft to be considered).
Based on what exactly?
I suppose I shouldn't expect much when you told the earlier poster to "go crawl back under your rock" just for asking a few questions, but please could we have a little bit more than something along the lines of "because I said so" if you really do know a bit about this sort of cooling in practice while the rest of us do not in this situation.
Yes, my point is that they are far more effective with less people per airport.
In comparison the TSA looks like a giant welfare program and a money funnel to cronies (eg. Rapiscan).
Humour me because the only water cooling I've had anything to do with was in power stations in the 1990s before I got into IT, but what do you have to do to ensure that the rack will survive long enough to have several generations of equipment go through it? Is it as simple as an additive or do you need demineralized water as well? Are there sacrificial anodes you need to replace after a few years?
My point was very obviously that you were incorrect to the point of being incredibly insulting - this NRA vs Australia shit is the equivalent of an Irish joke or blackface.
So, please try leaning a little bit towards reality instead of propagating an incorrect and very insulting fantasy.
You see - the point wasn't hidden was it? Why pretend it was?
The security bit explicitly is not provided by VirtualBox either - just the appearance of it for those that haven't read the docs and the disclaimer on the topic right near the start.
So those of us that still have a lot of empty space available and don't have to change to high density yet "need the sack"?
WTF is it with the insulting zealotry? It completely demolishes credibility, making any of your points questionable whether they are correct or not.
Also you've said nothing useful about water treatment, condensation, descaling or corrosion. They used to be a pretty big deal back in the day and are today in other systems cooled with water, why not worth mentioning now?
Normally none but it is a bit easier to get on a few platforms.
Both have been around long enough to tick all boxes for email.
Hang on - your first example is unmeasurable for a start and would be subject to interpretation even if it was - do you REALLY want to start out with something that renders everything written after it irrelevant?
Maybe you are going for emotional manipulation instead of reason. Is that the case?
So the tax on stupidity is very high there? That's what the seat belt fine is FFS!
The irony of not even being in a gun club, let alone real military and pretending to be part of a "well organized militia"? That's getting the bit that supposed to be about what became the National Guard backwards.
I don't think Bruce is the one getting things wrong this time. It's those who want to use these things as toys without the responsibility of serving their country that are getting it wrong.
Is it just so cowards can pretend they are part of a militia without risking their skin?
Because Charlie Manson and Al Capone had a "family" to "protect" as well?
Your think of the kiddies shit to justify a HOBBY is just ridiculous. In reality an axe handle is going to be far more useful in protecting your family than a gun that should should be storing secured and unloaded unless you are a complete and utter fucking idiot that is just asking for a housebreaker to steal your gun and use it on you.