most preinstalled linux machines are truly pathetic.
Hear, hear. That's true. I've seen some preinstalled linux machines, most were some obscure distros, and none of them properly detected the resolution in wide monitors. This certainly gives a bad impression about Linux.
The role of a democratic government is precisely what the voting citizens define it to be. No more, and no less.
The full extent of that reasoning: if 51% of the people say the other 49% should be enslaved, the ballot makes it right.
Hell no, that can't be right. The purpose of the government is to uphold every citizen's inalienable rights; and it must be as small as it can be while remaining capable of fulfilling that purpose. No more, no less -- with emphasis on the "no more" bit.
The original goal of this design was to give you access to the desktop at any time. Select from a piece of text and drag it to the desktop, that creates a text clipping. From an image editor, you get an image clipping. Drag an image from a browser, you save the image. Drag a link, that creates a web location file. Then you can store those or drag them into other documents or other applications. So subtle, detailed, flexible.
You know... when you look back at the old Mac interface, and see how much on OSX is still the same, how it all makes sense, how original it all was back then, and how they simply got it right the first time -- you can't help but feel tremendous respect for the original Mac team.
Until recently, Gran Turismo had no damage modeling at all, and even GT5 is rumored to only have a simple and incomplete system. That's a downside of using real cars: makers really don't like if you show their product damaged. If you use fictional cars, a la FlatOut or Daytona USA, you can annihilate them as much as you want.
What did you have him listen? If my music knowledge was restricted to the simplistic, autotuned and range-compressed shit that's popular nowadays, I'd be stunned by quality music, even on 128k MP3 and shitty iEarbuds!
It strikes me that he is not the right person for this management job if he can't retain top-tier talent because of a job title. The good people don't care what their job-title is, just what the work involves.
How would they attract the talents in the first place? If I'm a skilled developer or whatever, I won't take a job that could be phone tech support. I have to know what I'm being hired for. I mean, consider this: rock band Tommy James and the Shondells were in Hawaii when their secretary called. "Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field." Of course, they declined -- and thus missed Woodstock. Just as well, a company may be offering great jobs, but fail to put a good name on those jobs and no one will be interested -- no one will know they should be.
That's technically different; Compaq used the clean room to create a new BIOS that was compatible with IBM's. It's just like Microsoft can't do a thing about ReactOS, a free system designed to run all Windows apps.
What's killing it for me is how some editors go overzealous in making things good for "fair use"; that is, images are too often made so damn tiny that they're barely any bigger than the thumbnails in the articles' infoboxes. I mean, imagine a screenshot of an operating system... sloppily resized to 1/5th of the original size, without filtering. All you see is a tiny, ugly mess, a little square full of jaggies and moire. Because showing a full quality pic is going to hurt the developer somehow!
and if I choose, voluntarily, after having tried the alternatives, to stay with IE instead of Firefox, or Windows instead of Linux, then the/. community should embrace that decision.
I can understand Windows, it has tons of software and all, and moving to a whole different system can be a lot to learn... but IE? Why would ANYONE want to stay with that ugly, sluggish, bug-ridden piece of shit?
Sometimes I feel that there are people on/. who will not be satisfied until there is no OS besides Linux. Ironic, really.
Keep in mind, we're talking schools here. And indeed, I think proprietary software should be avoided in education. You're pretty much imposing your choice of tools on the kids anyway; so why not go for one that will give them FREEDOM - to use, to study, to share, to improve - rather than keep them dependent on any specific company?
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They did mention SCO.
Wait, are you talking about the church, or copyright holders?
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Hear, hear. That's true. I've seen some preinstalled linux machines, most were some obscure distros, and none of them properly detected the resolution in wide monitors. This certainly gives a bad impression about Linux.
A far better solution to copyright violations: abolish copyright entirely.
Except, for once, MS is innocent. They did many nasty things, no question, but that Lotus thing is probably a myth.
Are you serious? I wonder, have you ever heard of:
* The AARD code?
* OOXML?
* The Halloween documents?
* Embrace, extend and extinguish?
* Samizdat?
"Have some faith", you say? Indeed, to trust Microsoft to act ethically is a matter of faith: to believe in something incredible against all evidence.
The full extent of that reasoning: if 51% of the people say the other 49% should be enslaved, the ballot makes it right.
Hell no, that can't be right. The purpose of the government is to uphold every citizen's inalienable rights; and it must be as small as it can be while remaining capable of fulfilling that purpose. No more, no less -- with emphasis on the "no more" bit.
Ah, true... my first Mac ran System 7. :P
The original goal of this design was to give you access to the desktop at any time. Select from a piece of text and drag it to the desktop, that creates a text clipping. From an image editor, you get an image clipping. Drag an image from a browser, you save the image. Drag a link, that creates a web location file. Then you can store those or drag them into other documents or other applications. So subtle, detailed, flexible.
You know... when you look back at the old Mac interface, and see how much on OSX is still the same, how it all makes sense, how original it all was back then, and how they simply got it right the first time -- you can't help but feel tremendous respect for the original Mac team.
Until recently, Gran Turismo had no damage modeling at all, and even GT5 is rumored to only have a simple and incomplete system. That's a downside of using real cars: makers really don't like if you show their product damaged. If you use fictional cars, a la FlatOut or Daytona USA, you can annihilate them as much as you want.
What did you have him listen? If my music knowledge was restricted to the simplistic, autotuned and range-compressed shit that's popular nowadays, I'd be stunned by quality music, even on 128k MP3 and shitty iEarbuds!
Isn't moving to Windows, by definition, a downgrade?
How would they attract the talents in the first place? If I'm a skilled developer or whatever, I won't take a job that could be phone tech support. I have to know what I'm being hired for. I mean, consider this: rock band Tommy James and the Shondells were in Hawaii when their secretary called. "Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field." Of course, they declined -- and thus missed Woodstock. Just as well, a company may be offering great jobs, but fail to put a good name on those jobs and no one will be interested -- no one will know they should be.
That's technically different; Compaq used the clean room to create a new BIOS that was compatible with IBM's. It's just like Microsoft can't do a thing about ReactOS, a free system designed to run all Windows apps.
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"Queue"? You surely mean "cue".
What's killing it for me is how some editors go overzealous in making things good for "fair use"; that is, images are too often made so damn tiny that they're barely any bigger than the thumbnails in the articles' infoboxes. I mean, imagine a screenshot of an operating system... sloppily resized to 1/5th of the original size, without filtering. All you see is a tiny, ugly mess, a little square full of jaggies and moire. Because showing a full quality pic is going to hurt the developer somehow!
And who said being a second world country was any better than being a third world one?
And, uh, pocket watches as well.
You DO know the Development team at 3D Realms got sacked for not producing a game, right?
Not necessarily their fault. Rumors told of terrible management preventing developers from getting anything done.
*sigh* Why do people insist in this lie? The Matrix had no sequels or video games.
Nope, tears are not my usual reaction to boredom. It sure had some great visuals, but the plot was terribly hokey.
I can understand Windows, it has tons of software and all, and moving to a whole different system can be a lot to learn... but IE? Why would ANYONE want to stay with that ugly, sluggish, bug-ridden piece of shit?
Keep in mind, we're talking schools here. And indeed, I think proprietary software should be avoided in education. You're pretty much imposing your choice of tools on the kids anyway; so why not go for one that will give them FREEDOM - to use, to study, to share, to improve - rather than keep them dependent on any specific company?