Yeah, right, good ol' MS way: it's not the software's fault, it's not Windows's fault, it's USB's fault. We makes ze great softwere, you makes ze bad hardwere.
And continue like: wow, look at that, so many years late and so much nothing to show. One could name at least 3 desktops out there that had better default looks than that, years earlier.
Ironically -- although this might be what Taylor is talking about -- I *do* find that I have difficulty installing proprietary software on Linux.
A very good point here. I've been using linux OSes for many years now. Of course there have been problems, small or huge, from time to time. Still, from what I have seen, _proprietary_ linux apps are inherently more difficult to install on some linux distros. Mostly because many of them are packaged for exactly one of them. I've seen problems with e.g. oracle or maya, big name apps, from which you'd expect a certain amount of "taking care". I mean come on, if people working for free can generally provide usable packaging for thousands of apps, why can't big bug companies' well paid staff behave somewhat similar ? Of course I know I'm broadly generalizing here, but still, this is a problem, that FOSS people can't solve, because it's not in their hands or jurisdiction.
All in all, I'd never say that managing linux apps is easy for sixpacks. But then again, for them managing a windows server isn't a piece of cake either. And Microsoft always does push their notion of linux as a toy desktop piece of crap junk, which probably doesn't help, considering the sheer number of those sixpacks.
There's nothing more secure in asking three "passwords" instead of one. It's just text, people will use the same everyplace, not many will be willing to keep in mind 3 times more sh*t. And anyways, asking more text won't make phishings' job any less hard. And that button thing ? Oh come on, how many browser exploits [on many different browsers] do you wish us to list here which could be used to trick whatever button you place ?
Just use a password over https and hope for the best, until something more useful and usable comes around. This above ain't smelling like any of those.
given no indication that he planned to honor an agreement not to work for a direct competitor for one year
So please educate me, who's not a direct competitor of Microsoft these days ?:] Anyway, fun aside, somebody could probably offer me so much that I'd go into signing such an agreement after some thinking, but unless they would provide me with an absolutely unresistable offer, I'd never do it. I guess different people, different subjective needs for personal freedom.
I'm not listening, ta-da-daaa, la-la-laaa, I don't hear you, la-la-laaa, can't hear a thing but I see your lips are moving [Deep Purple: Razzle Dazzle].
Whatever, just somebody please shut this guy off before my older neighbors drop dead from my loud curses.
I mean, ideally, your new hardware purchasing habits should be guided by your needs. That is, if your current hardware [or parts of it] can't fill your needs anymore, you change it. Not the other way around, as the above does the fact that you can remain compatible with today's applications and data on hardware that is almost a decade old, impede PC sales?. Why should I even care about how PC sales are going, if they can't sell their hardware, that's their problem, they are doing something wrong. That includes the inability to recognize peoples' needs in certain hardware areas. But this world's most companies are not, for long now, following peoples' needs anymore, they push their products, and the interest is not high enough, they drop a few tons of cash on the pr wagon to get things going.
Of course, that is an important question from sellers' point of view, but they also know that the vast majority of those people that give them their money for new prebuilt boxes are not those who will get the idea of running older [but still good] software on older [but still good performing] hardware. But from the peoples' point of view, as usual, the whole thing is just the result of decades of evolution of market behavior.
For some time, I also had this urge of always having the fastest, latest hardware. Then I grew up and have learnt to buy stuff to suit my needs. Unfortunately (?) I'm doing quite computationally expensive stuff, so I'm buying. Yet, my sister has only a thin client using remote desktop accessing a windows on a virtual machine on my linux box. She will not be increasing PC sells numbers anytime soon.
No. It look exactly like (super)karamba integrated into the desktop. Which [(super)karamba] was inspired by Samurize on Windows. Both are rockstars of my desktop pop scene:D
If you wanty to see something like expose, better take a look at kompose.
As more and more features get implemented, some of them constantly eating performance, the ressource usage of the system increases.
That's all stupid, just like the "arguments" saying the problem with kde is its high configurability. I only speak for myself here, but I have to tell you my current kde 3.3.2 desktop with superkaramba is the best desktop [in functionality, usability, speed and niceness] I've had for years, both on highly customized windows versions and on earlier kde/gnome/xfce/e versions. Since I know kde fairly well, it took me about 10-15 minutes to configure all the available options from looks to behavior, from menu items to mime associations, to suit my needs. And no, the availability of the many customizable options doesn't make it more resource hungry, bad configuration does.
At some point you need a freaking 3GHz GPU just to run a text editor.
Also, highly and badly stupid. [And I'm not surpised you get a 5 Informative for that, either.] One just needs to know the neighborhood before moving in. I could in this moment show you quite normal [i.e. fast enough, no unnecessary wait] launch times for kate, kwrite, kedit, kword and even oo.org writer.
Now that I've "upgraded" and messed up my X config, I'm not so sure about that...
Maybe that tells a bit also about your abilities besides sid's abilitites of successful automatic xfree-xorg migration. SOme machines here with complex x configs, also with xinerama and twinview and tvout support upgraded without a hitch.
As for linux being ready or not: if you ask a twelveadozen "journalist" they will say it's not, it's hard, it's crap, it's bad, and so on. If you ask those who know what they do, they will mostly say it has already been ready for some time now. You just simpy can't get a definitive answer, simply because linux is a real OS, a complicated OS, but a very good OS. I have been using linux along windows at home for many years. But I ditched windows totally only about half a year ago. I do many things on that machine, from simple/.-ing to development, capture and others. And I don't feel the need of a windows box at home.
...will obviously be: developers can start work now to prepare for IE 7 involves the UA (user agent) string, just so you know. I would be much happier if they had ever began warning web "developers" to change their codes to conform to html/xhtml and css2 standards. Instead they warn to check for the new IE version string, probably to be able to write yet another customized hack for your pages to work.
Hell, last time of such a hack [regarding IE6] happened when I rewrote a javascript menu into a quite simple and clean css version: it was pretty in firefox, konqueror, mozilla and opera, but it didn't even look like a menu in IE6 (w/ xpsp2). It took me 2 hours and about a dozen customized lines of code especially for IE, to make it look like it did elsewhere, in real browsers.
I don't care how high levels of enlightened self-interest [:] G'Kar if your friend ] drive MS as a company, and how lame-proof they want to make their OS and software. Make software that 1). is good, 2). that works, 3). isn't bloated [does it's function, nothing more, but does it well], 4). doesn't cost a fortune [at many places on this planet].
Sometimes MS reminds me of good old OCP from Robocop movies: it's so big and it's so alone that you have no choice but to live with it.
I'll probably be OT for this but: I think the SG-1 retooling as real potential too... now, you really think SG-1 transformed into Farscape-1 can make the sometimes rockingly good [and soemtimes dullish] SG series "better" ? I, for one, am happy that it lasted 8 seasons long, and I'm done with it. If I want to watch Farscape, I watch it. Now there's only two more things missing from the new SG-1: a little fella resembling a numb duck and a large pinkish fella with tentacles.
As for the BG2k season 2, I was very happy to learn back then that there will indeed be more to follow the originally said 13 episodes. I hope this second season will be just as good as the first one turned out to be. Good job people, keep it comin' !
Yeah, right. Like having a huge army should be necessary. It wouldn't hurt realizing that there are plenty of other countries out there and that not everything the US has and does is desired to be followed by everyone on this planet. The goal would be a planet with less army and weapons, not more. Sure you can argue that a huge army and a wast spending on army is justified by terrorism. Thing is, what's its use if you can't defend yourself from kamikaze planes and/or tube bombings ? Such events have always been the reason behind sudden huge increase on military spending in some countries. There are times when I would say it's ok. But stating that the lack of huge armies and unreasonably large military spending means a country is less developed is just out of any reason. But generally huge investments on reducing general citizen freedom [which is just the result of the above] is not something I or many have as a future dream.
Okay, too many posters up above have tried to interpret the guys' words. Thing is, he's either not in line with the FOSS development model and the huge crowd of contributors (which can't be the case considering his background) or he's deliberately talking bullshit. If the latter is the case, I don't think any time wasted on interpreting his words this way or the other is worth the effort.
Sorry about your "problem" but you were most probably lamely using IE with quite low sec. settings and no good av software. E.g. [I'm not affiliated] avast even proposes to break connection to websites trying to do anything malicious and with Firefox you really can't have a without-click-automatic.exe execution, unless you really really desire it. Simple precautions, especially since you say you know what you're doing [generally, in this case obviously not].
Of course it would, I see no surprises here. First, this is the U.S. we're talking about here, now come on. Second, the simple rule, if it's not broken [enough
This sounds like an excuse for someone who doesn't meet the yearly quota with publications:] Hey prof, look, it's not my fault, it's the scientific world that's on a way down to hell.
but this is clearly and act of war on their part if it is true
Looking at how the recent US-conducted wars have been going, you'd better think a bit more than twice before saying such things. War is not the answer to a lot of things. Find another way to test your weapons.
I guess that many of you think that our brains are working like clusters of computers
Uhm. No. In fact this cries out loud for BS: we design A to mimic B, then say B works like A. Get lost.
But each of these processors, in our brain or in a cluster of computers, is supposed to act sequentially.
Uhm. No. Again, galactical bullshit. It wouldn't hurt to read a bit about neurobiology [e.g. it was a compulsory subject in our IT course back then] before writing crap.
Sometimes I just seem to have enough./. used to be a technology news site, not some magazine for 6pack rice farmers.
My main problems with almos all biometrics identification & recognition systems for public use is that - none of them works good enough (see below) - if you combine multiple biometrics to raise the efficiency they will become exponentially more inconvenient and expensive, and still not being 100% - very many biometrics can be falsified and there probably are levels where even cutting a hand isn't a big deal to get to the information; in cases when you need the hand/finger/etc. alive there's kidnapping and remember, one doesn't have to interrogate the fella, just to take him
Ok, so about efficiency. If you care to dig a bit deep and read research regarding different types of biometrics, you'll easily find quite high numbers on %. There's two things one has to constantly keep in mind: - most if them give those high % only in specific working conditions - if you read one biometrics works at 9x%, always think on the reverse: e.g. how many real people does that 100%-9x% mean in the real life like airports with multi-million guests a day ? even 99% goodness means 10000 from 1mil. people falsly angered and that's a lot
As it stands, I've seen quite a lot more service outages during the many years since we have cable than the multiple-that-many-years-many-times-over during we had been watching OTA broadcasts. As things stand, I trust their availability much less than the good old analog boradcasts. And also let's suppose you have some small house somewhere out in the "wild" where there's no cable, analog OTA can serve quite a purpose for providing news and stuff. I hope you guys won't be needing it anymore, still, I never liked the idea of completely ditching it out.
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when Linux geeks start to understand that not everyone wants to know the details of how a computer and OS work
And so they are most welcome to stay on Windows and forget saying sh*t about Linuxes.
Yeah, right, good ol' MS way: it's not the software's fault, it's not Windows's fault, it's USB's fault. We makes ze great softwere, you makes ze bad hardwere.
Wow, look at that.
And continue like: wow, look at that, so many years late and so much nothing to show. One could name at least 3 desktops out there that had better default looks than that, years earlier.
Ironically -- although this might be what Taylor is talking about -- I *do* find that I have difficulty installing proprietary software on Linux.
A very good point here. I've been using linux OSes for many years now. Of course there have been problems, small or huge, from time to time. Still, from what I have seen, _proprietary_ linux apps are inherently more difficult to install on some linux distros. Mostly because many of them are packaged for exactly one of them. I've seen problems with e.g. oracle or maya, big name apps, from which you'd expect a certain amount of "taking care". I mean come on, if people working for free can generally provide usable packaging for thousands of apps, why can't big bug companies' well paid staff behave somewhat similar ? Of course I know I'm broadly generalizing here, but still, this is a problem, that FOSS people can't solve, because it's not in their hands or jurisdiction.
All in all, I'd never say that managing linux apps is easy for sixpacks. But then again, for them managing a windows server isn't a piece of cake either. And Microsoft always does push their notion of linux as a toy desktop piece of crap junk, which probably doesn't help, considering the sheer number of those sixpacks.
There's nothing more secure in asking three "passwords" instead of one. It's just text, people will use the same everyplace, not many will be willing to keep in mind 3 times more sh*t. And anyways, asking more text won't make phishings' job any less hard. And that button thing ? Oh come on, how many browser exploits [on many different browsers] do you wish us to list here which could be used to trick whatever button you place ?
Just use a password over https and hope for the best, until something more useful and usable comes around. This above ain't smelling like any of those.
given no indication that he planned to honor an agreement not to work for a direct competitor for one year
:] Anyway, fun aside, somebody could probably offer me so much that I'd go into signing such an agreement after some thinking, but unless they would provide me with an absolutely unresistable offer, I'd never do it. I guess different people, different subjective needs for personal freedom.
So please educate me, who's not a direct competitor of Microsoft these days ?
[ok, long time no troll, here it comes]
I'm not listening, ta-da-daaa, la-la-laaa, I don't hear you, la-la-laaa, can't hear a thing but I see your lips are moving [Deep Purple: Razzle Dazzle].
Whatever, just somebody please shut this guy off before my older neighbors drop dead from my loud curses.
impede PC sales
I mean, ideally, your new hardware purchasing habits should be guided by your needs. That is, if your current hardware [or parts of it] can't fill your needs anymore, you change it. Not the other way around, as the above does the fact that you can remain compatible with today's applications and data on hardware that is almost a decade old, impede PC sales?. Why should I even care about how PC sales are going, if they can't sell their hardware, that's their problem, they are doing something wrong. That includes the inability to recognize peoples' needs in certain hardware areas. But this world's most companies are not, for long now, following peoples' needs anymore, they push their products, and the interest is not high enough, they drop a few tons of cash on the pr wagon to get things going.
Of course, that is an important question from sellers' point of view, but they also know that the vast majority of those people that give them their money for new prebuilt boxes are not those who will get the idea of running older [but still good] software on older [but still good performing] hardware. But from the peoples' point of view, as usual, the whole thing is just the result of decades of evolution of market behavior.
For some time, I also had this urge of always having the fastest, latest hardware. Then I grew up and have learnt to buy stuff to suit my needs. Unfortunately (?) I'm doing quite computationally expensive stuff, so I'm buying. Yet, my sister has only a thin client using remote desktop accessing a windows on a virtual machine on my linux box. She will not be increasing PC sells numbers anytime soon.
No. It look exactly like (super)karamba integrated into the desktop. Which [(super)karamba] was inspired by Samurize on Windows. Both are rockstars of my desktop pop scene :D
If you wanty to see something like expose, better take a look at kompose.
As more and more features get implemented, some of them constantly eating performance, the ressource usage of the system increases.
That's all stupid, just like the "arguments" saying the problem with kde is its high configurability. I only speak for myself here, but I have to tell you my current kde 3.3.2 desktop with superkaramba is the best desktop [in functionality, usability, speed and niceness] I've had for years, both on highly customized windows versions and on earlier kde/gnome/xfce/e versions. Since I know kde fairly well, it took me about 10-15 minutes to configure all the available options from looks to behavior, from menu items to mime associations, to suit my needs. And no, the availability of the many customizable options doesn't make it more resource hungry, bad configuration does.
At some point you need a freaking 3GHz GPU just to run a text editor.
Also, highly and badly stupid. [And I'm not surpised you get a 5 Informative for that, either.] One just needs to know the neighborhood before moving in. I could in this moment show you quite normal [i.e. fast enough, no unnecessary wait] launch times for kate, kwrite, kedit, kword and even oo.org writer.
Now that I've "upgraded" and messed up my X config, I'm not so sure about that...
/.-ing to development, capture and others. And I don't feel the need of a windows box at home.
Maybe that tells a bit also about your abilities besides sid's abilitites of successful automatic xfree-xorg migration. SOme machines here with complex x configs, also with xinerama and twinview and tvout support upgraded without a hitch.
As for linux being ready or not: if you ask a twelveadozen "journalist" they will say it's not, it's hard, it's crap, it's bad, and so on. If you ask those who know what they do, they will mostly say it has already been ready for some time now. You just simpy can't get a definitive answer, simply because linux is a real OS, a complicated OS, but a very good OS. I have been using linux along windows at home for many years. But I ditched windows totally only about half a year ago. I do many things on that machine, from simple
...will obviously be: developers can start work now to prepare for IE 7 involves the UA (user agent) string, just so you know. I would be much happier if they had ever began warning web "developers" to change their codes to conform to html/xhtml and css2 standards. Instead they warn to check for the new IE version string, probably to be able to write yet another customized hack for your pages to work.
:] G'Kar if your friend ] drive MS as a company, and how lame-proof they want to make their OS and software. Make software that 1). is good, 2). that works, 3). isn't bloated [does it's function, nothing more, but does it well], 4). doesn't cost a fortune [at many places on this planet].
Hell, last time of such a hack [regarding IE6] happened when I rewrote a javascript menu into a quite simple and clean css version: it was pretty in firefox, konqueror, mozilla and opera, but it didn't even look like a menu in IE6 (w/ xpsp2). It took me 2 hours and about a dozen customized lines of code especially for IE, to make it look like it did elsewhere, in real browsers.
I don't care how high levels of enlightened self-interest [
Sometimes MS reminds me of good old OCP from Robocop movies: it's so big and it's so alone that you have no choice but to live with it.
I'll probably be OT for this but: I think the SG-1 retooling as real potential too... now, you really think SG-1 transformed into Farscape-1 can make the sometimes rockingly good [and soemtimes dullish] SG series "better" ? I, for one, am happy that it lasted 8 seasons long, and I'm done with it. If I want to watch Farscape, I watch it. Now there's only two more things missing from the new SG-1: a little fella resembling a numb duck and a large pinkish fella with tentacles.
As for the BG2k season 2, I was very happy to learn back then that there will indeed be more to follow the originally said 13 episodes. I hope this second season will be just as good as the first one turned out to be. Good job people, keep it comin' !
who can't be bothered to maintain a decent army
Yeah, right. Like having a huge army should be necessary. It wouldn't hurt realizing that there are plenty of other countries out there and that not everything the US has and does is desired to be followed by everyone on this planet. The goal would be a planet with less army and weapons, not more. Sure you can argue that a huge army and a wast spending on army is justified by terrorism. Thing is, what's its use if you can't defend yourself from kamikaze planes and/or tube bombings ? Such events have always been the reason behind sudden huge increase on military spending in some countries. There are times when I would say it's ok. But stating that the lack of huge armies and unreasonably large military spending means a country is less developed is just out of any reason. But generally huge investments on reducing general citizen freedom [which is just the result of the above] is not something I or many have as a future dream.
What the guy is saying is [...] He's just saying
Okay, too many posters up above have tried to interpret the guys' words. Thing is, he's either not in line with the FOSS development model and the huge crowd of contributors (which can't be the case considering his background) or he's deliberately talking bullshit. If the latter is the case, I don't think any time wasted on interpreting his words this way or the other is worth the effort.
Sorry about your "problem" but you were most probably lamely using IE with quite low sec. settings and no good av software. E.g. [I'm not affiliated] avast even proposes to break connection to websites trying to do anything malicious and with Firefox you really can't have a without-click-automatic .exe execution, unless you really really desire it. Simple precautions, especially since you say you know what you're doing [generally, in this case obviously not].
Redundant or offtopic, don't care:
;)
Lets just say Gnome is better than KDE regardless of distro.
And you get Informative when starting an post with that line.
Go Gnome-ers, just please, keep it [i.e. Gnome] out of my face.
...[enough] don't fix it.
Of course it would, I see no surprises here. First, this is the U.S. we're talking about here, now come on. Second, the simple rule, if it's not broken [enough
This sounds like an excuse for someone who doesn't meet the yearly quota with publications :] Hey prof, look, it's not my fault, it's the scientific world that's on a way down to hell.
ex-ter-mi-nate ex-ter-mi-nate ex-ter-mi-nate
but this is clearly and act of war on their part if it is true
Looking at how the recent US-conducted wars have been going, you'd better think a bit more than twice before saying such things. War is not the answer to a lot of things. Find another way to test your weapons.
I guess that many of you think that our brains are working like clusters of computers
/. used to be a technology news site, not some magazine for 6pack rice farmers.
Uhm. No. In fact this cries out loud for BS: we design A to mimic B, then say B works like A. Get lost.
But each of these processors, in our brain or in a cluster of computers, is supposed to act sequentially.
Uhm. No. Again, galactical bullshit. It wouldn't hurt to read a bit about neurobiology [e.g. it was a compulsory subject in our IT course back then] before writing crap.
Sometimes I just seem to have enough.
My main problems with almos all biometrics identification & recognition systems for public use is that
- none of them works good enough (see below)
- if you combine multiple biometrics to raise the efficiency they will become exponentially more inconvenient and expensive, and still not being 100%
- very many biometrics can be falsified and there probably are levels where even cutting a hand isn't a big deal to get to the information; in cases when you need the hand/finger/etc. alive there's kidnapping and remember, one doesn't have to interrogate the fella, just to take him
Ok, so about efficiency. If you care to dig a bit deep and read research regarding different types of biometrics, you'll easily find quite high numbers on %. There's two things one has to constantly keep in mind:
- most if them give those high % only in specific working conditions
- if you read one biometrics works at 9x%, always think on the reverse: e.g. how many real people does that 100%-9x% mean in the real life like airports with multi-million guests a day ? even 99% goodness means 10000 from 1mil. people falsly angered and that's a lot
As it stands, I've seen quite a lot more service outages during the many years since we have cable than the multiple-that-many-years-many-times-over during we had been watching OTA broadcasts. As things stand, I trust their availability much less than the good old analog boradcasts. And also let's suppose you have some small house somewhere out in the "wild" where there's no cable, analog OTA can serve quite a purpose for providing news and stuff. I hope you guys won't be needing it anymore, still, I never liked the idea of completely ditching it out.