To suggest that a police force needs nothing more than a simple text editor is supreme arrogance. You have ZERO CLUE what you are talking about.
Actually he has more clue what he is talking about than most people here. He just forgot to mention that by his criteria most office workers don't need something like MS Office.
I agree with him. If we would cut the layout crap for internal company documents we would probably save millions of work-hours. I don't say the PR department doesn't need layout tools but even they should use something that is readable with a simpler viewer (yes, I know there is a Word document viewer) than word documents.
Liking Gentoo has nothing to do with "being l33t" as you call it. Some people just like it when their config files are not being screwed up permanently by some GUI config tool that doesn't know how to preserve comments or advanced settings (the ones not accesible through the GUI). Some people also like not being forced to install KDE or Gnome (yeah, I am one of these people who doesn't want their Linux look almost like Windows, I like my environment a bit more customized and efficient) just because the compile time option was turned on when the package maintainers compiled all the packages for which using GTK/QT/KDE/Gnome was optional. Gentoo is very easy to use once you get to know it and it allows you to stay away from the mainstream desktop environment with little effort compared to other solutions like rolling your own distro.
Why do you accept Word documents in the first place? Usually scientific documents are much better off when written in Tex, Docbook or something similar. Especially Docbook offers all the options you mention without offering any layout in the content document (total separation of layout and semantics).
I don't think plural is necessary here. If ringtones cost about the same as here in germany (according to the ads, I don't even have a cellphone) you can probably get only one for the $5.
I've never got why people find Windows keys to be incredibly annoying.
I don't know about other people but I hate them when using Windows (they are no problem in Linux) when playing games because I tend to press them when I don't want to and my fullscreen game collapses (minimizes) which is especially annoying in realtime games and games that don't support restoring their fullscreen after the minimizing (even more so if this prevents saving).
If they were smart they would threaten MS with banning of their legal sales in the EU and revoking of their copyrights. That way they would screw MS without screwing their customers in the EU.
He is saying that the views concerning the baby change between the time when abortion is an option and the time when adoption is (usually at least 6 months time difference).
I think the real question isn't "Are these people Amateur Coders or paid?" but "When they started coding this project were they Amateur Coders or paid ones?". It would be interesting to know wether the paid coders worked for those companies from the beginning of their contribution to the Open Source project or did they start out in their free time as well.
Maybe Sex in Movies would be more the "love" and less the "physical" kind if it would happen more in "normal" movies with 90+% story (as compared to porn 90+% sex). But since someone deems showing sex in a normal movies as inappropriate it doesn't surprise me that some might form the total "physical" image of sex in their head. It is not a problem with too much porn but too seldom integration of sex in romantic and other mainstream movies (and other media).
It is normally better to annoy some power-users a little bit rather than baffle newbies.
I believe the opinion wether to do the one or the other is what really separates Windows programmers from (traditional) Unix programmers. Windows programmers cater to the needs of new users above all, unix programmers figure newbies shouldn't stay new all their computer life and thus more people are "powerusers" and the programs should be designed without forgetting them.
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I agree with him. If we would cut the layout crap for internal company documents we would probably save millions of work-hours. I don't say the PR department doesn't need layout tools but even they should use something that is readable with a simpler viewer (yes, I know there is a Word document viewer) than word documents.
So if you cut them out you should increase productivity (as in: produce useful things) by an order of magnitude or two?
Sadly in some universities and schools teachers knowing more than their pupils would indeed be news...
Liking Gentoo has nothing to do with "being l33t" as you call it. Some people just like it when their config files are not being screwed up permanently by some GUI config tool that doesn't know how to preserve comments or advanced settings (the ones not accesible through the GUI). Some people also like not being forced to install KDE or Gnome (yeah, I am one of these people who doesn't want their Linux look almost like Windows, I like my environment a bit more customized and efficient) just because the compile time option was turned on when the package maintainers compiled all the packages for which using GTK/QT/KDE/Gnome was optional. Gentoo is very easy to use once you get to know it and it allows you to stay away from the mainstream desktop environment with little effort compared to other solutions like rolling your own distro.
Why do you accept Word documents in the first place? Usually scientific documents are much better off when written in Tex, Docbook or something similar. Especially Docbook offers all the options you mention without offering any layout in the content document (total separation of layout and semantics).
If they were smart they would threaten MS with banning of their legal sales in the EU and revoking of their copyrights. That way they would screw MS without screwing their customers in the EU.
...or prison camps beginning to resemble Nazi concentration camps built and used by the USA...
We were always at war with Eastasia and Eurasia always was our ally...
I don't know about you but I wouldn't mind if someone took all copyrights and vanished with them, fair use rights however...
He is saying that the views concerning the baby change between the time when abortion is an option and the time when adoption is (usually at least 6 months time difference).
I think the real question isn't "Are these people Amateur Coders or paid?" but "When they started coding this project were they Amateur Coders or paid ones?". It would be interesting to know wether the paid coders worked for those companies from the beginning of their contribution to the Open Source project or did they start out in their free time as well.
The Dragons in D&D were real people???
Every 64 bit CPU should be more than capable to emulate a whole 16 bit era PC at full speed.
Wine uses win98 as default setting but you can emulate xp with it too AFAIK.
So the real problem seems to be that they forgot lots of things during the design phase of the Shuttle.
It might help if you read articles and documentation without the word 'hacker' in the title too.
I believe somebody already did that one 25 years ago.
Newsflash:
Researchers discover: Some people are willing to pay more for a product then others...
Maybe Sex in Movies would be more the "love" and less the "physical" kind if it would happen more in "normal" movies with 90+% story (as compared to porn 90+% sex). But since someone deems showing sex in a normal movies as inappropriate it doesn't surprise me that some might form the total "physical" image of sex in their head. It is not a problem with too much porn but too seldom integration of sex in romantic and other mainstream movies (and other media).
If you think popularity is a good measurement for quality (programming languages or elsewhere) you really need help.
It is actually more like:
1. The Americans want to do X1,X2,X3,...,Xn for a large n
2. X1,...Xn are all bad
3. Therefore the Americans are bad.
qed
Your calculation is flawed. You assume compressing 30 channels real-time 24/7 is possible without melting the living room.