but any window manager can put a spreadsheet and a graphics app on the same screen
I completely agree.
I use my Linux laptop for word processing and photo/video/audio editing. It feels so much better using fluxbox than Gnome or KDE. What some people call eye candy, I usually call big useless clutter, always getting in the way, trying to tell me how to run my computer.
By the way, I have chosen to install Arch Linux, a bleading edge distibution, optimised for i686, with a rolling release system. It almost never takes more than a week after a new version of a program is released, until there is a package ready. And one short command updates all new packages in one go. Even though there are a lot of packages available, the install CD dosn't come with either KDE or Gnome, since most of the users want a clean and powerfull system anyway.
That's just to say that I disagree about Linux getting very much heavier. It's just that Linux is about choice, and some people actually want Santa with his reindeers flying over the screen every 2 minutes, and some people don't. They can all get what they wish for.
At least some companies don't take any kind of risks. A friend of mine, who works in a security complany, told me he often get assigned to take a big load of computers, often fairly new ones, to the dump, and there, using a sledge hammer, destroy all components in the computers, including the hard drives.
Hearing about such things makes me angry, since all those computers could have been put to good use. If sensitive information really has to be stored in a computer, then they should take the precautions first, and use good encrypted file systems.
MS Windows paradoxical
Black Boxes,
and my computer is white and pure.
They don't match at all.
Windows as I know them are transparent,
Microsoft has made some very dark windows for
my taste.
Let's follow the trend
and find some new and fitting terms
like
MS Locked Doors
MS Lid
MS Walls
Now I got it:
MS Barbed Wire Fences
P.S I Love blackbox:)
Seriously, I want the whole world to catch the ideas of the free software, open source way of doing things, creating things. And not only for making software.
And in 25 years after 36500025 * 10kg garbage thrown at Earth's untill now pure and romantic little sister in space, we will be able to smell it all the way through the vast space, and the scientists have to change all their theories about the speed of odour through vacuum.
I hope I can trust the world to provide me with the means to get everything I need. Then I have to trust myself to use those means. Very few people need guns to get either food or shelter.
But I didn't say I was against guns. What I meant was that I don't belive in violence as an answer to our fears. If I would take my gun out hunting, it wouldn't be because of my fear of starvation, but in hope of getting a good meal, and an exiting weekend in the forest. At least that is how I think it should be.
I used to love C, but then I found something much better: Assembly language; pure and clean machine code.
It has lots of advantages:
You get full control. Turn off this multi tasking nonsense. Search into the depths of power you never knew existed in your box.
Unending possibilities for optimalization of your code. You could use a whole lifetime to figure out the quickest way of calculating the distance the Earth travels during the time you are coding the routine.
You can make code that works on your own machine, and no one else's. So if someone likes your program, they have to pay you to create a new one for their machine as well.
Nobody but you will understand the code you're making. So you can release your program as Free Open Source, and people still have to pay you to make changes and updates.
You're right. I'm sorry.
It's wrong of me to accuse individual people of being ruthless, without even having met them. I think there are very few ruthless, and no purely evil people around. And I don't really belive weapon makers are worse than anybody else. We are all the victims of fear and greed, and we all try to find ways to cope with this. Everyone does that differently. Nobody can tell anyone what is really right. The rule I try my best to follow is that submitting to my fears will only bring me more fear. Therefore I hope I can choose trust rather than violence, even when I risk getting hurt.
Therefore I still mean we should have trust in the skies, and not submit to our fears and build protections that could destroy us.
Just to be pessimistic; I'm sure if anyone ever manage to agree on some way to protect the earth from celestial bodies, it will be in the form of some weapon that is capable of destroying the whole planet before anything else can hit it.
Ruthless men control the weapon's industry, and the weapon's industry controls the money that goes to persuade the desicion makers.
It would be better, at least more senisble, to let the heavenly bodies decide our fate, than these fellows.
Well, they have already used gods from both the Greek and Roman pantheon; the Greek god Uranus was better known as Coelus among Romans, as far as I know. So widening the culture span further should really not be a problem, I think.
I get the feeling this man has a bitter taste in his mouth writing this. It's as if he's declaring to all the world: 'I did all this!', so that he can tell himself that he can stand by his actions, and convince himself that he's not feeling guilty.
It's the voice of hypocrisy.
Although I have more sympathy for this kind of hidden guilt, than for the greed and stupidity I have heard in many voices lately.
I have understood that Photoshop is a program for manipulating images. So why would anyone trying to conterfeit money want a $500 program to manipulate the image? To make the notes different, so people will know they're fake? Make a signature, so everyone can see who made them?
No, what they need is a good scanner, a good printer and some very good, feel-like-money-like paper. Scanners usually come with some kind of scanning software, even with copy functions sometimes. Scan and print, and that's it: Sweet luxurious life forever - until they get caught.
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but any window manager can put a spreadsheet and a graphics app on the same screen
I completely agree.
I use my Linux laptop for word processing and photo/video/audio editing. It feels so much better using fluxbox than Gnome or KDE. What some people call eye candy, I usually call big useless clutter, always getting in the way, trying to tell me how to run my computer.
By the way, I have chosen to install Arch Linux, a bleading edge distibution, optimised for i686, with a rolling release system. It almost never takes more than a week after a new version of a program is released, until there is a package ready. And one short command updates all new packages in one go. Even though there are a lot of packages available, the install CD dosn't come with either KDE or Gnome, since most of the users want a clean and powerfull system anyway.
That's just to say that I disagree about Linux getting very much heavier. It's just that Linux is about choice, and some people actually want Santa with his reindeers flying over the screen every 2 minutes, and some people don't. They can all get what they wish for.
At least some companies don't take any kind of risks. A friend of mine, who works in a security complany, told me he often get assigned to take a big load of computers, often fairly new ones, to the dump, and there, using a sledge hammer, destroy all components in the computers, including the hard drives.
Hearing about such things makes me angry, since all those computers could have been put to good use. If sensitive information really has to be stored in a computer, then they should take the precautions first, and use good encrypted file systems.
MS Windows paradoxical
Black Boxes,
and my computer is white and pure.
They don't match at all.
Windows as I know them are transparent,
Microsoft has made some very dark windows for my taste.
Let's follow the trend
and find some new and fitting terms
like
MS Locked Doors
MS Lid
MS Walls
Now I got it:
MS Barbed Wire Fences
P.S I Love blackbox :)
Seriously, I want the whole world to catch the ideas of the free software, open source way of doing things, creating things. And not only for making software.
In my business, the only goal is to create something so good that people will make sure I continue doing it, often by giveing me money.
Great, and then I'll have a patent on "complaining", and then I'll be the richest guy in the world!
And in 25 years after 36500025 * 10kg garbage thrown at Earth's untill now pure and romantic little sister in space, we will be able to smell it all the way through the vast space, and the scientists have to change all their theories about the speed of odour through vacuum.
I hope I can trust the world to provide me with the means to get everything I need. Then I have to trust myself to use those means. Very few people need guns to get either food or shelter.
But I didn't say I was against guns. What I meant was that I don't belive in violence as an answer to our fears. If I would take my gun out hunting, it wouldn't be because of my fear of starvation, but in hope of getting a good meal, and an exiting weekend in the forest. At least that is how I think it should be.
Since Linus Torvalds used to work for Transmeta, I would like to know if Linux is well optimized for this processor.
I used to love C, but then I found something much better: Assembly language; pure and clean machine code. It has lots of advantages:
Therefore I still mean we should have trust in the skies, and not submit to our fears and build protections that could destroy us.
Just to be pessimistic; I'm sure if anyone ever manage to agree on some way to protect the earth from celestial bodies, it will be in the form of some weapon that is capable of destroying the whole planet before anything else can hit it.
Ruthless men control the weapon's industry, and the weapon's industry controls the money that goes to persuade the desicion makers.
It would be better, at least more senisble, to let the heavenly bodies decide our fate, than these fellows.
Well, they have already used gods from both the Greek and Roman pantheon; the Greek god Uranus was better known as Coelus among Romans, as far as I know. So widening the culture span further should really not be a problem, I think.
I get the feeling this man has a bitter taste in his mouth writing this. It's as if he's declaring to all the world: 'I did all this!', so that he can tell himself that he can stand by his actions, and convince himself that he's not feeling guilty.
It's the voice of hypocrisy.
Although I have more sympathy for this kind of hidden guilt, than for the greed and stupidity I have heard in many voices lately.
No, what they need is a good scanner, a good printer and some very good, feel-like-money-like paper. Scanners usually come with some kind of scanning software, even with copy functions sometimes. Scan and print, and that's it: Sweet luxurious life forever - until they get caught.