Although there is some truth in what you say, I believe it is insidious. The fact is that in the modern world, people need real educations even to do vocational jobs. The vocational jobs have gotten more automated, as well as more integrated with other complex systems which require some intelligence to participate in.
Uh, I call BS. Who's dependent on Russia for natural gas in the winter?
European taxes aren't about foresight, they're simply about the socialistic philosophy. And that's fine. But don't try to paint your leaders as advanced thinkers. They aren't any brighter than our dumb bastards this side of the pond.
Yahoo is fine, if they are given time by their shareholders. And a new leader. Yahoo has failed to innovate significantly in years. For example, I know I started using Yahoo Maps in the late nineties. By 2005 it was exactly the same, but now Google Maps was on the scene and had the cool ajax interface, satellite imagery overlays, and other cool stuff. Yahoo started rolling that stuff out like, last year.
They do have an extended userbase, and there is value in that, but they are right back where they found their stock price 8 years ago for a reason--a failure to innovate in an industry that values effective innovation over all things. I mean, it takes them several years to copy what Google did years ago...new management is needed (but not MS! that would be a disaster for both companies).
You bring up some valid points about normal users trying to use Linux. A lot of that is down to vendor support--but that doesn't matter, does it?
However, you purport yourself to be tech savvy, and so I must urge you to spend that 100 hours (trivial!) which would indeed make a huge difference in your enjoyment of Linux. You cannot be truly tech savvy without a basic working knowledge of a unix commandline. You will see this to be true if you master even a few simple commands; such as grep, which, once learned, you will never ever want to live without again, as a savvy tech.
You are correct, those incancations are no good for regular folks. However, it bears observing what I think you know to be true, which is, that they are not magic. They are logical, and make sense. As a techy, I assure you you will come to appreciate it greatly.
I suggest this to you not as a normal user, but as a techie. You simply can't do so many things in Windows that are trivial and easy to do in a bash shell, once you get the hang of it. As a techie, Linux is very much worth your time, today.
You mention mentors--contact me via my forum on singularityfps.com and I'll be glad to help out!
No shit man. I figured non-profit file sharing would be legal or openly tolerated by 1998.
These guys inherited (as opposed to founded) an industry, they're not innovators, which is a nice way of saying they really aren't very bright. I mean damn I figured two years or so for them to figure it all out...good lord...*cries*
If this is your idea of a short post, I'd hate to see a long one:-)
Seriously though, as someone with long winded tendencies myself, if you want to be more effective then I would suggest Shakespeare's proverb--"Brevity is the essense of wit".
No, you're absolutely right, the Gnome file dialog (and hence Firefox's) is shit. It doesn't make any sense.
But on a more practical note, it might be worth your while to try Opera for your mother in law. It uses a normal file dialog, and I _think_ it might even be available now in Ubuntu's default repositories.
You know, I think a really big part of that is the fact that the Mac knows, pretty much, what hardware it's going to be driving. PC's/Linux have to work with a much vaster array of hardware, so it has no choice but to use like, intelligence and stuff, which takes time.
Another "Think you like but is bad for you can actually be good for you sorta if you except that you won't like it any more because they'll make it suck" story.
It's because our country's government has been hijacked by looters for some time now. We once had the wherewithal to build the interstate highway system and send a man to the moon. But that sort of thing is much too expensive when you would rather give all the government's money to your friends.
Ultimately it's down to the military industrial complex, which has morphed into a general corporate-government complex, which will destroy our country if we let it.
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What are we benchmarking, exactly? And how can I verify it?
I view all these pre-release type benchmarks as so much aerial masturbation. It's just nothing.
Man you got modded funny, but I was sitting here thinking how deep you are.
True, I am high. But still, I'm just sayin'
Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Although there is some truth in what you say, I believe it is insidious. The fact is that in the modern world, people need real educations even to do vocational jobs. The vocational jobs have gotten more automated, as well as more integrated with other complex systems which require some intelligence to participate in.
You are a fool, or you just don't know yet. Look at CEO's of major corporations. Engineering degrees? I don't think so.
Liberal arts and social science degrees are gold to those who know how to use the knowledge they gained.
Trust me, I know
BA Psych U of Houston for crying out loud 1996 and not poor at all....
Uh, I call BS. Who's dependent on Russia for natural gas in the winter?
European taxes aren't about foresight, they're simply about the socialistic philosophy. And that's fine. But don't try to paint your leaders as advanced thinkers. They aren't any brighter than our dumb bastards this side of the pond.
Frankly, if Obama can't pull the U.S. out of its slide into authoritarianism, I don't know what can. And then the EU and us are both screwed.
Nothing at allll to see here, move along...
lol don't worry, they won't actually do it. Not anytime soon, anyway.
Yahoo is fine, if they are given time by their shareholders. And a new leader. Yahoo has failed to innovate significantly in years. For example, I know I started using Yahoo Maps in the late nineties. By 2005 it was exactly the same, but now Google Maps was on the scene and had the cool ajax interface, satellite imagery overlays, and other cool stuff. Yahoo started rolling that stuff out like, last year.
They do have an extended userbase, and there is value in that, but they are right back where they found their stock price 8 years ago for a reason--a failure to innovate in an industry that values effective innovation over all things. I mean, it takes them several years to copy what Google did years ago...new management is needed (but not MS! that would be a disaster for both companies).
I'm going to answer your serious post seriously.
You bring up some valid points about normal users trying to use Linux. A lot of that is down to vendor support--but that doesn't matter, does it?
However, you purport yourself to be tech savvy, and so I must urge you to spend that 100 hours (trivial!) which would indeed make a huge difference in your enjoyment of Linux. You cannot be truly tech savvy without a basic working knowledge of a unix commandline. You will see this to be true if you master even a few simple commands; such as grep, which, once learned, you will never ever want to live without again, as a savvy tech.
You are correct, those incancations are no good for regular folks. However, it bears observing what I think you know to be true, which is, that they are not magic. They are logical, and make sense. As a techy, I assure you you will come to appreciate it greatly.
I suggest this to you not as a normal user, but as a techie. You simply can't do so many things in Windows that are trivial and easy to do in a bash shell, once you get the hang of it. As a techie, Linux is very much worth your time, today.
You mention mentors--contact me via my forum on singularityfps.com and I'll be glad to help out!
I do find that in this situation, when I show them Synaptic, they are impressed.
You're quite right about the reflex, though.
No shit man. I figured non-profit file sharing would be legal or openly tolerated by 1998.
These guys inherited (as opposed to founded) an industry, they're not innovators, which is a nice way of saying they really aren't very bright. I mean damn I figured two years or so for them to figure it all out...good lord...*cries*
While I agree with everything you say, I think it's worth contemplating the consequences if they were to actually do this.
Are you really ready to have your life depend on biometric readings, for example?
If this is your idea of a short post, I'd hate to see a long one :-)
Seriously though, as someone with long winded tendencies myself, if you want to be more effective then I would suggest Shakespeare's proverb--"Brevity is the essense of wit".
Oh I'm sure. It'll be just like the one we elected in 2000 by a slight margin. He respected the spit decision and didn't go to radical at all.
Whatever.
XP does this too. Turn off swap and watch your Windows machine run fine. Such as it is.
I'm more concerned about the freedom of the wires than preservation of data at this point.
No, you're absolutely right, the Gnome file dialog (and hence Firefox's) is shit. It doesn't make any sense.
But on a more practical note, it might be worth your while to try Opera for your mother in law. It uses a normal file dialog, and I _think_ it might even be available now in Ubuntu's default repositories.
You know, I think a really big part of that is the fact that the Mac knows, pretty much, what hardware it's going to be driving. PC's/Linux have to work with a much vaster array of hardware, so it has no choice but to use like, intelligence and stuff, which takes time.
Another "Think you like but is bad for you can actually be good for you sorta if you except that you won't like it any more because they'll make it suck" story.
It's because our country's government has been hijacked by looters for some time now. We once had the wherewithal to build the interstate highway system and send a man to the moon. But that sort of thing is much too expensive when you would rather give all the government's money to your friends.
Ultimately it's down to the military industrial complex, which has morphed into a general corporate-government complex, which will destroy our country if we let it.
Perhaps that's the idea?
These exact arguments could be used to justify Palladium and other such nonsense on home PC's.
that's fine, but you won't get my money.