MSDN good? Oh please. I still have nightmares about searching for a Win32 API function, and ending up on WinCE pages.
I guess it got better now though (I haven't done Microsoft development in years, save for VB6 which has its own traditional help system that doesn't end up in something else you don't care about).
Well, podcasting was a bad choice of a term to begin with. IMHO the idiots who made up that word were basically begging for the general public to think Apple invented it.
(And yes, I'm fully aware that Apple never claimed they invented podcasting. But that's the worst part of it...)
All non-US stores are still empty, including Canada.
Hello? Internet is global? When will they fucking understand? (note: I'm not blaming Apple, I know it's not their fault the companies they're making deals with are completely missing the boat)
"I hate to go all Godwinian here, but the same technology that destroyed the World Trade Center has also been used to revolutionize the world for the better."
Come on now, exacto knives are great but they never were revolutionary.
Believe it or not, patents can be applied not only to software, but hardware too. I think that's what they were made for, actually. But I'm not too sure. I'll have to verify that.
Non-geek people I've converted (read: forced) to Firefox don't use tabs. They don't understand the concept, and/or don't think about using it.
Everything else you mentionned is technical stuff, or requires configuration. All minor stuff that won't convince people to install a new browser instead of simply using that blue 'e' that has always been there all along on their desktop, and that before you told them, thought *it* was *the Internet*.
"We shouldn't lose sight of the initial raison-d'etre of FF, which is to be an open-source browser, not a "more secure" browser (which is an added side benefit)."
Mozilla evangelists keep praising Firefox's security because they really want to make it to the mainstream, but the average people does not care about open source, much less actually understand it (and god knows I've long given up trying to explain non-programmers what open source means).
Sadly, being more secure than IE (which is not saying much) is really the only "selling point" of Firefox, really.
"I think the BSD license is still far superior to the GPL anyday."
Sigh... The BSD and GPL are two different licences that cover different needs and are appropriate for different situations. Anyone who claims one is "superior" to the other is either misinformed, trolling, or just stupid.
"Think Secret's report notices that a 3.5" HD might be in the cards (instead of the current 2.5") which would, even after adding bulk to the relatively small machine, be a good move as it would allow for more storage and cheaper drives."
And don't forget performance. The 4300RPM 2.5" drives in the current Mac Minis are ridiculously slow. That alone makes the mini an uninteresting deal to me. (Sure you can plug in an external drive, but they don't give an option to order a mini sans internal drive.)
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Sigh... The problem with your reasoning is that you see "Linux" as one big project and a single community. That's not true at all. Hell, Linux is not even an operating system, it's just a fucking kernel, and all those projects you mention aren't part of Linux at all, it's just the most popular platform to run them on.
Projects like KDE and Gnome have different communities, and different developers and sponsors with different goals and ideas. You can't just "pick one". That doesn't make any sense.
No, this is why the GCC C++ team sucks. It's not C++'s fault the GCC devs don't seem to grasp the concept that binary compatibility breakage is a total PITA that screws up everyone.
I have yet to see similar large-scale breakage issues in Microsoft's C++ library and compiler.
Me too. Very few lefties actually use their pointing device with the left hand.
And yeah, being able to use the mouse while having your dominant hand available for something else is good. I laugh everytime I see someone get his hand off his/her mouse to write something.
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You're missing the point. It's functional decisions we're talking about, not the visual appearance.
MSDN good? Oh please. I still have nightmares about searching for a Win32 API function, and ending up on WinCE pages.
I guess it got better now though (I haven't done Microsoft development in years, save for VB6 which has its own traditional help system that doesn't end up in something else you don't care about).
Well, podcasting was a bad choice of a term to begin with. IMHO the idiots who made up that word were basically begging for the general public to think Apple invented it.
(And yes, I'm fully aware that Apple never claimed they invented podcasting. But that's the worst part of it...)
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out the concept applies just as well to computer graphics.
There's that FUCKING ANNOYING beeping noise every time you plug in a power-less VMU though...
All non-US stores are still empty, including Canada.
Hello? Internet is global? When will they fucking understand? (note: I'm not blaming Apple, I know it's not their fault the companies they're making deals with are completely missing the boat)
"Meanwhile Sun Microsystems came out with 8 cores _this_ year."
And meanwhile, no one gives a shit about Sun's new overpriced hardware.
And I thought it was about the Italian metal group Rhapsody.
Let's face it, Rhapsody is a vastly overused name. Real could've picked something better.
"I hate to go all Godwinian here, but the same technology that destroyed the World Trade Center has also been used to revolutionize the world for the better."
Come on now, exacto knives are great but they never were revolutionary.
Believe it or not, patents can be applied not only to software, but hardware too. I think that's what they were made for, actually. But I'm not too sure. I'll have to verify that.
To average people? No, they're not.
Non-geek people I've converted (read: forced) to Firefox don't use tabs. They don't understand the concept, and/or don't think about using it.
Everything else you mentionned is technical stuff, or requires configuration. All minor stuff that won't convince people to install a new browser instead of simply using that blue 'e' that has always been there all along on their desktop, and that before you told them, thought *it* was *the Internet*.
"We shouldn't lose sight of the initial raison-d'etre of FF, which is to be an open-source browser, not a "more secure" browser (which is an added side benefit)."
Mozilla evangelists keep praising Firefox's security because they really want to make it to the mainstream, but the average people does not care about open source, much less actually understand it (and god knows I've long given up trying to explain non-programmers what open source means).
Sadly, being more secure than IE (which is not saying much) is really the only "selling point" of Firefox, really.
Yes. Your point is...?
"I think the BSD license is still far superior to the GPL anyday."
Sigh... The BSD and GPL are two different licences that cover different needs and are appropriate for different situations. Anyone who claims one is "superior" to the other is either misinformed, trolling, or just stupid.
Tell me about it. About 90% of all linux.slashdot.org articles aren't about Linux, just FOSS in general. sigh...
"Think Secret's report notices that a 3.5" HD might be in the cards (instead of the current 2.5") which would, even after adding bulk to the relatively small machine, be a good move as it would allow for more storage and cheaper drives."
And don't forget performance. The 4300RPM 2.5" drives in the current Mac Minis are ridiculously slow. That alone makes the mini an uninteresting deal to me. (Sure you can plug in an external drive, but they don't give an option to order a mini sans internal drive.)
Sigh... The problem with your reasoning is that you see "Linux" as one big project and a single community. That's not true at all. Hell, Linux is not even an operating system, it's just a fucking kernel, and all those projects you mention aren't part of Linux at all, it's just the most popular platform to run them on.
Projects like KDE and Gnome have different communities, and different developers and sponsors with different goals and ideas. You can't just "pick one". That doesn't make any sense.
That's part of kdepim, not koffice.
"programming for the CBE is like programming for no processor you've ever met before"
Which is exactly why it will never take off.
Wrong, it's just a license. A license for a specific physical media, but only a license regardless.
Yep, that too.
No, this is why the GCC C++ team sucks. It's not C++'s fault the GCC devs don't seem to grasp the concept that binary compatibility breakage is a total PITA that screws up everyone.
I have yet to see similar large-scale breakage issues in Microsoft's C++ library and compiler.
Windows laptop? There's no such thing. Windows is not tied to hardware.
Me too. Very few lefties actually use their pointing device with the left hand.
And yeah, being able to use the mouse while having your dominant hand available for something else is good. I laugh everytime I see someone get his hand off his/her mouse to write something.
Buying an XBox does not actually make Microsoft lose money. It only makes them lose less money.