Firefox pisses me off enough with its shoving GNOME's horrible hig down my throat. I'm an Ion user, and I don't want anything to do with GNOME. I want the OK button first and the Preferences menu under Tools, dammit. I'd actually like to see if there's a way to compile the Windows version for Linux without running it under WINE.
Finally, someone else who likes 1280x960 and hates 1280x1024!
Granted, I'm no LCD fan, but it doesn't matter. 4:3 forever! Some people think I'm odd in that I'm giving up 64 columns, but it's worth it to have a non-distorted resolution.
Tolerances are a really shitty solution to any problem. It's why the Japanese made better cars than most anyone else--they had no tolerance for tolerances, and most other automakers were happy to rely on tolerances without realising that they're fucking themselves over.
BT is a useful tool for downloading certain things, but it wreaks enough havoc on my connection that I only use it when I absolutely have to. If I'm just trying to get an update, BT is a massive waste of bandwidth, and if that becomes the preferred method of updating Firefox, I'd rather not update Firefox.
While Firefox was the right approach in this direction it still is a huge monster compared to solutions such as KHTML (Apple WebCore or GTK+ WebCore).
I really agree with this. Normally, I'm strongly anti-anti-bloat (see this post for why), but KHTML is so much faster than Gecko, without sacrificing features, it's insane. As an HTML renderer, it's just as capable as Gecko, and it's faster. It also has far better CJK support than Gecko--I still can't get Japanese text to display right in Firefox, but I have no problems with Konqueror. There are only two reason I still use Firefox: JavaScript and AdBlock.
KHTML still lacks a good JS engine for Linux--KJS just plain blows, and I've not seen Safari/WebCore's JS engine ported to Linux yet. As for ads, Privoxy is decent, but going through a proxy server (even a local one) causes a whole host of problems, not to mention that since it's not in the browser, I don't have that handy AdBlock button and dialog.
Er...shooting yourself is just as risky as hanging yourself or jumping off a building.
If you shoot yourself in the head, especially towards the front of your head, you may very well end up just giving yourself severe brain damage, maybe even ending up as a vegetable.
If you shoot yourself anywhere else...well, you won't end up brain-damaged, but it still might not kill you. Let's say you try to shoot yourself in the heart and miss--you now have a nice, painful bullet stuck in your chest.
So if someone were to goad your neighbour into trying to kill you, you'd be okay with that?
Maybe you're a minority, and your neighbour has some prejudices...not much, but some. Then, some sick fuck comes and exploits them, playing on your neighbour's prejudices to get him to try to kill you.
Do you honestly think that the above sick fuck should be allowed to get away with that?
There's no need for anything more than a decent heatsink/fan.
I think I paid somewhere in the $30s for my HSF, and I probably spent too much money. Hell, before I had this one, I just used the stock HSF, and only switched because my new motherboard wouldn't recognise my old fan.
The only reason you'd need anything more is if you're an overclocker, and overclockers are stupid. Only a moron would destroy their CPU's stability in return for a tiny gain that isn't even detectable to humans.
We don't need another section. Hell, the IT and Linux sections are superfluous--there's almost nothing in the main index anymore. We need less sections, not more.
What they're doing is a form of terrorism that's sadly not illegal. In fact, it's terrorism through the legal system. It's "legal terrorism" in two meanings at once.
Dammit, Bush, if you want to fight a war against terrorism, fight one against legal terrorism too. We could use one.
One way would be to use Ctrl-A instead of Home and Ctrl-E instead of End.
I had to use some iMacs in a class once, and the braindead Home/End usage bugged the hell out of me until I realised that OS X apps supported common Unix editor shortcuts.
Even Keramik would be tolerable if they switched to Bitstream Vera fonts by default.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....
I hate hate hate hate hate the Bitstream Vera fonts with a burning passion. They're horribly ugly and they take up far more space than any font should be able to. I tried using them once and all of my screen real estate disappeared--the size of everything on my screen had to be doubled to accomodate those horribly wide fonts.
I've found that Luxi Sans (for sans serif), Times (for serif), Terminal (for console windows), and Lucida Typewriter (for any other use of monospaced fonts) make the perfect set of fonts.
The theme they used before Keramik (in versions 2.x and 3.0.x) was pretty good. I like it a lot, though I prefer the Light Style 2nd Revision widget style (NOT 3rd revision) and the Pale Gray colour scheme.
Keramik, on the other hand, was a massive mistake that seriously damaged KDE's reputation. I've heard on various boarda about how KDE looks like a hyperactive 12-year-old girl drew it. That's only half-true. Keramik looks like a hyperactive 12-year-old girl drew it. KDE can look incredibly good if you're not using Keramik, and it's a damn shame that Keramik is so ugly that it turns people off to KDE as a whole. I'm still pissed at whoever developer had the braindead idea of making Keramik the default style.
Plastik is a dramatic improvement on Keramik, but it's still a tad too flashy for my tastes, and the bloody huge window decorations are just a waste of space.
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Yup, and SCO is at the top of that list.
Now, if only someone could fix the open and save dialogs they broke in GIMP 2.2, that would be great. Anyone?
I'd like to be able to install 2.2, but that won't happen if I have to deal with those broken dialogs.
That's a stupid idea.
Firefox pisses me off enough with its shoving GNOME's horrible hig down my throat. I'm an Ion user, and I don't want anything to do with GNOME. I want the OK button first and the Preferences menu under Tools, dammit. I'd actually like to see if there's a way to compile the Windows version for Linux without running it under WINE.
Eh, widescreen's overrated. Anything other than 4:3 drives me nuts...
Finally, someone else who likes 1280x960 and hates 1280x1024!
Granted, I'm no LCD fan, but it doesn't matter. 4:3 forever! Some people think I'm odd in that I'm giving up 64 columns, but it's worth it to have a non-distorted resolution.
Deming must be spinning in his grave right now.
Tolerances are a really shitty solution to any problem. It's why the Japanese made better cars than most anyone else--they had no tolerance for tolerances, and most other automakers were happy to rely on tolerances without realising that they're fucking themselves over.
BT is a useful tool for downloading certain things, but it wreaks enough havoc on my connection that I only use it when I absolutely have to. If I'm just trying to get an update, BT is a massive waste of bandwidth, and if that becomes the preferred method of updating Firefox, I'd rather not update Firefox.
Trade secrets have nothing to do with personal privacy.
Corporations don't have rights. Only people have rights.
Damn, I should learn to wake up before I post...should be "understand", not "udnerstanding".
Because I honestly can't udnerstanding why you're posting here otherwise.
Trade Secret laws are Immoral, unconstitutional violations of free speech. The employees did the right thing and broke an Immoral law.
They are heroes.
The developers are just being smart. If they were to implement every little thing every little user wanted, it would bloat.
*sigh*
Feature bloat is a good thing, dammit.
While Firefox was the right approach in this direction it still is a huge monster compared to solutions such as KHTML (Apple WebCore or GTK+ WebCore).
I really agree with this. Normally, I'm strongly anti-anti-bloat (see this post for why), but KHTML is so much faster than Gecko, without sacrificing features, it's insane. As an HTML renderer, it's just as capable as Gecko, and it's faster. It also has far better CJK support than Gecko--I still can't get Japanese text to display right in Firefox, but I have no problems with Konqueror. There are only two reason I still use Firefox: JavaScript and AdBlock.
KHTML still lacks a good JS engine for Linux--KJS just plain blows, and I've not seen Safari/WebCore's JS engine ported to Linux yet. As for ads, Privoxy is decent, but going through a proxy server (even a local one) causes a whole host of problems, not to mention that since it's not in the browser, I don't have that handy AdBlock button and dialog.
Er...shooting yourself is just as risky as hanging yourself or jumping off a building.
If you shoot yourself in the head, especially towards the front of your head, you may very well end up just giving yourself severe brain damage, maybe even ending up as a vegetable.
If you shoot yourself anywhere else...well, you won't end up brain-damaged, but it still might not kill you. Let's say you try to shoot yourself in the heart and miss--you now have a nice, painful bullet stuck in your chest.
So if someone were to goad your neighbour into trying to kill you, you'd be okay with that?
Maybe you're a minority, and your neighbour has some prejudices...not much, but some. Then, some sick fuck comes and exploits them, playing on your neighbour's prejudices to get him to try to kill you.
Do you honestly think that the above sick fuck should be allowed to get away with that?
There's no need for anything more than a decent heatsink/fan.
I think I paid somewhere in the $30s for my HSF, and I probably spent too much money. Hell, before I had this one, I just used the stock HSF, and only switched because my new motherboard wouldn't recognise my old fan.
The only reason you'd need anything more is if you're an overclocker, and overclockers are stupid. Only a moron would destroy their CPU's stability in return for a tiny gain that isn't even detectable to humans.
Ha, your post was brilliant!
I swear, I'm going to link to your post every time someone whines about bloat.
*sigh*
We don't need another section. Hell, the IT and Linux sections are superfluous--there's almost nothing in the main index anymore. We need less sections, not more.
Should we call them Symanterrorists now?
What they're doing is a form of terrorism that's sadly not illegal. In fact, it's terrorism through the legal system. It's "legal terrorism" in two meanings at once.
Dammit, Bush, if you want to fight a war against terrorism, fight one against legal terrorism too. We could use one.
One way would be to use Ctrl-A instead of Home and Ctrl-E instead of End.
I had to use some iMacs in a class once, and the braindead Home/End usage bugged the hell out of me until I realised that OS X apps supported common Unix editor shortcuts.
So now we're even.
:P
I never said I hated you. I said I hated those horrible fonts
So, the server hardware is created by the Magical Hardware Fairy, then?
Riiiiight.
Even Keramik would be tolerable if they switched to Bitstream Vera fonts by default.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....
I hate hate hate hate hate the Bitstream Vera fonts with a burning passion. They're horribly ugly and they take up far more space than any font should be able to. I tried using them once and all of my screen real estate disappeared--the size of everything on my screen had to be doubled to accomodate those horribly wide fonts.
I've found that Luxi Sans (for sans serif), Times (for serif), Terminal (for console windows), and Lucida Typewriter (for any other use of monospaced fonts) make the perfect set of fonts.
You're not the only one to be annoyed by this.
Overly flat themes have always bugged the hell out of me. I like lots of bevels and hard edges, and anything other than that tends to annoy me.
The theme they used before Keramik (in versions 2.x and 3.0.x) was pretty good. I like it a lot, though I prefer the Light Style 2nd Revision widget style (NOT 3rd revision) and the Pale Gray colour scheme.
Keramik, on the other hand, was a massive mistake that seriously damaged KDE's reputation. I've heard on various boarda about how KDE looks like a hyperactive 12-year-old girl drew it. That's only half-true. Keramik looks like a hyperactive 12-year-old girl drew it. KDE can look incredibly good if you're not using Keramik, and it's a damn shame that Keramik is so ugly that it turns people off to KDE as a whole. I'm still pissed at whoever developer had the braindead idea of making Keramik the default style.
Plastik is a dramatic improvement on Keramik, but it's still a tad too flashy for my tastes, and the bloody huge window decorations are just a waste of space.