Having a Google account also allows you to block results from certain pages. Expert exchange is long gone. Gotta give it to them, they know how to optimize their pagerank, but it's utterly useless for someone who just wants answers without some stupid subscription.
I was looking at them just the other day. Too bad it's MP3 only (and some FLAC). I've decided long ago that even though I'm not actively deleting the MP3s I do have, I'm not adding any new music in a patented format and I'm sure as hell not gonna pay for the "priviledge". It just wouldn't be right.
You completely missing the joke and going into fanboy mode aside:
A shell script on Ubuntu can't masquerade as anything else as the contents is analyzed. If there is doubt, as in a conflict between extension and contents, the system refuses to run the file - not limited to executables, but also including opening image or media files or indeed any file. That's why it was a "fix".
and can run ordinary productivity software
Yes, plenty. OpenOffice is common enough to be called ordinary today, and there's plenty more. And with some help from CrossOver, plenty more can easily be run, includign Photoshop and MS Office.
in a commercially supported OS environment from a major vendor?
Very much so. The Gnome and KDE desktops have many major backers, and Ubuntu itself is commercially supported by Canonical. What defines major?
Oh, and it's free. So you can just try it and see if it's for you, without losing anything but some time.
You know, a downtime of 1 percent is almost 4 whole days a year. That is a lot of "sorry we're closed" (or "building is gone") if you are supposed to have a 24/7 business. I don't think it's unreasonable to have slightly higher demands than that.
I'm mostly a little disappointed that they didn't write their apps in a cross platform manner to start with. There really is no good reason for that, is there? Especially as they most certainly would know there would be a demand for it? It's one thing to have old legacy apps that would be hell to port, quite another to paint yourself into the corner with eyes wide open.
All in all, I like what they are doing, but I am a bit unhappy that Windows is treated so special.
You know, we have the same system in Sweden, which is a tax for every TV owner which in turn pays for public access TV. Which I don't mind at all. Except that they are complicating matters way too much - and a lot of the money simply goes to administration and "catching the dodgers".
So what I don't get is why they don't simply spread it over the normal taxes and let everybody pay. Almost everyone has a TV or a PC anyways so there's little need to sort it out. It'd be a lower sum for everyone instead and no administration. And it isn't like it is the only tax that some have to pay without getting anything back, in this case the few without TV.
I don't mind paying taxes because I think we get something for it - TV, police, hospitals and the like - it's like an automatic insurance. What I don't like is when they waste it on the way.
As powerful as GIMP is, I find myself struggling to complete tasks that would be easier in Photoshop.
You mean stuff like resizing the brush with a keypress? After reading the manual, going to google, setting any arcanely named binding that might be it in the shortcuts preferences, the Gimp just sits there and stares stubbornly at me when I try it. Do these people never paint anything? OTOH, this is the same people that think that CTRL-K is much more logical for deleteing stuff than say, oh, I don't know... delete, maybe?
Apart from that, a lot of why the Gimp is such a struggle to use is those right click menus and image menus that the Gimp people are so proud of because they can do anything. Sure, they can do anything - but it also lists *everything*, always! It's called a context menu, and it could be incredibly powerful if it had any context. Oh, and things sorted in real categories.
I could very well live without a Photoshop interface, but I want a human interface.
That's exactly the kind of reasoning that made the web an unusable hellhole for so many years, unless you were using IE on Windows.
If a web server (say IIS) starts to send back unexpected garbage (say generated by Frontpage, or Word, or with embedded ActiveX controls, or whatever else MS-specific) we would all expect the web browser (say Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Omniweb, whatever else was in use) to handle such replies without problem.
They have to be developed in a way to deal with bad data, and if they aren't then they are a low-quality software product (= not from Microsoft).
I don't actually accuse Apple for MS-like malice and embrace/extend-tactics, although they aren't any good guys in my book either what with all litigation and DRM they get their hands dirty with these days. I'm just pointing out that there is plenty and good reasons for strong reactions to this, we do not want history to repeat itself on this. .
We had copy protection on software 20 years ago until everybody took a firm stand against it.
I don't know who gave you that idea, but software is very much copy protected still, and it even gets more and more agressive. I don't recall what the name is, Starforce something maybe, is on many games and probably other applications - my brother recently could not install his legally bought and paid for, expensive game because it detected that he had Daemon Tools installed.
Here at work, we have 25ish installations of Maya that won't run unless a license server is present on the network - if the machine dies, everybodys Maya instantly closes without saving... and so on.
There's probably some software that simply refrains from using any technical measures, and that is the smart thing to do - all protections (except online subscriptions) get circumvented anyways, so all they are doing is throwing money away, right into the pockets of the people developing consumer-hostile addons. Copy protection never works and only hurts the legitimate users, but that hasn't stopped many. It's still very common. Just like DRM...
They have gaping holes in their firewall, so why not in more products?
Explanation: a fresh install of Windows XP on my father machine, SP1 because that was the CD that came with the machine, then an install of the Norton firewall that also came with the purchase - firewall set on as paranoid as the settings allowed... plug in network, and bam! Instant infection. There aren't any settings in the stupid product for "block everything" or anything either, just security levels or whatever it was. In any case, highest whatever apparently still left ports open... impressive.
The reinstall was because their firewall and antivirus had already failed to protect the computer btw. Why anyone would use thir products is way beyond comprehension. It's utter crap.
"Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain. But when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooohh! Suddenly you've gone too far!" -- Professor Farnsworth
ALT+ should stick to activating buttons and menus. In other languages, there are menus that should have the accelerator D, and there are more of these examples of these collisions. I'm pretty sure the designers of IE has had plenty of reason to smack themselves in the head for not thinking this through beforehand.
Epiphany for instance refuses to follow the conventions on this one, and while it is a bit annoying the first period of time, I do think they are making the right descision. CTRL+L still works, of course, and in the same smooth way as Firefox. Being consistent and catering to all users of all nationalities are both worthwhile goals IMO. Copying an old mistake from a mostly obsolete dinosaur is not.
Since the format is XML, I don't see why it should be such a big deal. The difference from rendering XHTML, which is also XML is not that big. There's text in different sizes with different fonts, images, lists, tables... for charts and graphics, I think ODF is going to use SVG anyways?
I think it would probably mean very little "bloat" (how I hate that word) actually.
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As far as I can tell, it installs and runs perfectly under Wine (0.9.1). One thing though: it seems I couldn't drag and drop files from my desktop into it, otherwise everything I tried behaved as expected.
Then again, I don't know what your needs are, and running the editor this way might be a bit on the silly side. =)
"Look at you, Consumer. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you buy what I tell you. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?";-)
Otherwise, I do agree with you. I just had to go through that to get Steam to work under Wine, or rather to have it display any text. Later I found out that it's possible to change what font should be used instead. (Btw, Steam and for instance CS 1.6 runs almost flawlessly under vanilla Wine 0.9.1, I am quite impressed).
Not sure what you mean by "Normal", but in OOo, you can go to the View menu and uncheck the first entry (Print Layout). If that is not what you mean, maybe you can explain further.
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Yeah, doesn't most commercial software also come with NO WARRANTY in bold caps?
Having a Google account also allows you to block results from certain pages. Expert exchange is long gone. Gotta give it to them, they know how to optimize their pagerank, but it's utterly useless for someone who just wants answers without some stupid subscription.
I was looking at them just the other day. Too bad it's MP3 only (and some FLAC). I've decided long ago that even though I'm not actively deleting the MP3s I do have, I'm not adding any new music in a patented format and I'm sure as hell not gonna pay for the "priviledge". It just wouldn't be right.
Concerts.
You completely missing the joke and going into fanboy mode aside:
A shell script on Ubuntu can't masquerade as anything else as the contents is analyzed. If there is doubt, as in a conflict between extension and contents, the system refuses to run the file - not limited to executables, but also including opening image or media files or indeed any file. That's why it was a "fix".
and can run ordinary productivity software
Yes, plenty. OpenOffice is common enough to be called ordinary today, and there's plenty more. And with some help from CrossOver, plenty more can easily be run, includign Photoshop and MS Office.
in a commercially supported OS environment from a major vendor?
Very much so. The Gnome and KDE desktops have many major backers, and Ubuntu itself is commercially supported by Canonical. What defines major?
Oh, and it's free. So you can just try it and see if it's for you, without losing anything but some time.
Thanks for the link! Sounds like some of the annoyances are addressed by that, at least.
You know, a downtime of 1 percent is almost 4 whole days a year. That is a lot of "sorry we're closed" (or "building is gone") if you are supposed to have a 24/7 business. I don't think it's unreasonable to have slightly higher demands than that.
I'm mostly a little disappointed that they didn't write their apps in a cross platform manner to start with. There really is no good reason for that, is there? Especially as they most certainly would know there would be a demand for it? It's one thing to have old legacy apps that would be hell to port, quite another to paint yourself into the corner with eyes wide open.
All in all, I like what they are doing, but I am a bit unhappy that Windows is treated so special.
You know, we have the same system in Sweden, which is a tax for every TV owner which in turn pays for public access TV. Which I don't mind at all. Except that they are complicating matters way too much - and a lot of the money simply goes to administration and "catching the dodgers".
So what I don't get is why they don't simply spread it over the normal taxes and let everybody pay. Almost everyone has a TV or a PC anyways so there's little need to sort it out. It'd be a lower sum for everyone instead and no administration. And it isn't like it is the only tax that some have to pay without getting anything back, in this case the few without TV.
I don't mind paying taxes because I think we get something for it - TV, police, hospitals and the like - it's like an automatic insurance. What I don't like is when they waste it on the way.
I wish that VNC software would allow file transfers
FreeNX does. And is a *lot* smoother than old-style VNC anyways.
As powerful as GIMP is, I find myself struggling to complete tasks that would be easier in Photoshop.
You mean stuff like resizing the brush with a keypress? After reading the manual, going to google, setting any arcanely named binding that might be it in the shortcuts preferences, the Gimp just sits there and stares stubbornly at me when I try it. Do these people never paint anything? OTOH, this is the same people that think that CTRL-K is much more logical for deleteing stuff than say, oh, I don't know... delete, maybe?
Apart from that, a lot of why the Gimp is such a struggle to use is those right click menus and image menus that the Gimp people are so proud of because they can do anything. Sure, they can do anything - but it also lists *everything*, always! It's called a context menu, and it could be incredibly powerful if it had any context. Oh, and things sorted in real categories.
I could very well live without a Photoshop interface, but I want a human interface.
Sweden and Totem too.
I don't actually accuse Apple for MS-like malice and embrace/extend-tactics, although they aren't any good guys in my book either what with all litigation and DRM they get their hands dirty with these days. I'm just pointing out that there is plenty and good reasons for strong reactions to this, we do not want history to repeat itself on this.
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I don't know who gave you that idea, but software is very much copy protected still, and it even gets more and more agressive. I don't recall what the name is, Starforce something maybe, is on many games and probably other applications - my brother recently could not install his legally bought and paid for, expensive game because it detected that he had Daemon Tools installed.
Here at work, we have 25ish installations of Maya that won't run unless a license server is present on the network - if the machine dies, everybodys Maya instantly closes without saving... and so on.
There's probably some software that simply refrains from using any technical measures, and that is the smart thing to do - all protections (except online subscriptions) get circumvented anyways, so all they are doing is throwing money away, right into the pockets of the people developing consumer-hostile addons. Copy protection never works and only hurts the legitimate users, but that hasn't stopped many. It's still very common. Just like DRM...
They have gaping holes in their firewall, so why not in more products?
Explanation: a fresh install of Windows XP on my father machine, SP1 because that was the CD that came with the machine, then an install of the Norton firewall that also came with the purchase - firewall set on as paranoid as the settings allowed... plug in network, and bam! Instant infection. There aren't any settings in the stupid product for "block everything" or anything either, just security levels or whatever it was. In any case, highest whatever apparently still left ports open... impressive.
The reinstall was because their firewall and antivirus had already failed to protect the computer btw. Why anyone would use thir products is way beyond comprehension. It's utter crap.
"Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain. But when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooohh! Suddenly you've gone too far!" -- Professor Farnsworth
Funding.
ALT+ should stick to activating buttons and menus. In other languages, there are menus that should have the accelerator D, and there are more of these examples of these collisions. I'm pretty sure the designers of IE has had plenty of reason to smack themselves in the head for not thinking this through beforehand.
Epiphany for instance refuses to follow the conventions on this one, and while it is a bit annoying the first period of time, I do think they are making the right descision. CTRL+L still works, of course, and in the same smooth way as Firefox. Being consistent and catering to all users of all nationalities are both worthwhile goals IMO. Copying an old mistake from a mostly obsolete dinosaur is not.
Since the format is XML, I don't see why it should be such a big deal. The difference from rendering XHTML, which is also XML is not that big. There's text in different sizes with different fonts, images, lists, tables... for charts and graphics, I think ODF is going to use SVG anyways?
I think it would probably mean very little "bloat" (how I hate that word) actually.
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Agree or not, but that's the gist of the argument.
As far as I can tell, it installs and runs perfectly under Wine (0.9.1). One thing though: it seems I couldn't drag and drop files from my desktop into it, otherwise everything I tried behaved as expected.
Then again, I don't know what your needs are, and running the editor this way might be a bit on the silly side. =)
But I just had to try it.
"Look at you, Consumer. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you buy what I tell you. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?" ;-)
They are just linked from the main download page, right under the header "Ubuntu DVD Releases"...
For Ubuntu, this works: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=82318
Otherwise, I do agree with you. I just had to go through that to get Steam to work under Wine, or rather to have it display any text. Later I found out that it's possible to change what font should be used instead. (Btw, Steam and for instance CS 1.6 runs almost flawlessly under vanilla Wine 0.9.1, I am quite impressed).
Not sure what you mean by "Normal", but in OOo, you can go to the View menu and uncheck the first entry (Print Layout). If that is not what you mean, maybe you can explain further.