If John Travolta from the infamous church of scientology is involved, surely you risk getting sued by saying anything bad about the film.
Hey, maybe that's why we've had so many critics badmouthing the movie! I mean, it makes sense, right? Get enough folks revealing the movie for what it is, and then it becomes infeasable for the Church to move on them all - and if they try to, they'll quickly go bankrupt.
Brilliant plan, movie critics of the world! Fight the power! We support you!
(yerf. this is the last time I post after emptying the pantry of chocolate)
While discussing the movie in IRC someone (I can't remember who it was, but he's a known MST3K fan) decided that the ideal thing to do would be to start a petition to bring back MST3K just so Battlefield Earth could be MSTed.
I don't think he's done anything *more* with this idea, but it's certainly worth trying. I mean, I'd sign it...:)
As a former Windows user (re: three days ago:) ), I find that freedom, while important, does not necessicarily have to be the bottom line.
I view freedom in software as more of a serious selling point. I.e. if I was using netscape right now, and Mozilla became more stable, I'd toss Netscape and bring up Mozilla. (incidentally I'm using Mozilla right now...)
However, when the Opera for Linux port is a release product, I will most certainly grab a copy and start using it instead.
Specifically why is because of the UI. I seriously hate, and have always hated the concept of skins, no matter what the flavor or form or whatever, because their sole purpose has always been pretty looks over functionality - and Mozilla is a prime example of this. Opera doesn't buy into this "skinning" nonsense, and so since I am free to choose, I would choose Opera over Mozilla.
The instant someone tosses a Opera-like interface over Gecko and puts together a functionally identical free browser, tho, down to the multiwindow capabilities and everything, Opera would be gone too.
*That* is what freedom of software means to me. It's not about whether or not I can download source code. It's whether or not I'm allowed to choose. Since I'm not a programmer, the only thing GPL really does for me is think things like "awesome initiative" and actual reliability with 1.0 releases. (flamebait-prevent: do not mention GNOME, that one was too early)
(Incidentally, my position on the whole "remove non-free" thing is simple - it's Debian's distribution, it's their choice. Being in the wonderful free world that we are, tho, most certainly someone's going to mirror non-free, so if I get a burr up my tail to install pine or xv I can just add them to my sources.list and I'll be just fine. And if noone starts it, well, maybe I might try it. (don't take me up on that tho:) ) )
p.s. ('cause I just *have* to say it somewhere_ Mozilla is NOT ready. It crashed when I tried to post this the first time. Not even IE5 did that:)
'Snot like they have a *choice* about it. Law (especially most of U.S. law) is pretty easily misunderstood and twisted, and the lawyers have the ability (and funds) to enforce it the way they want. Jo(e) Schmoe typically does not.
They don't trust the lawyers, but they have to play along anyways (or at least they believe they have to).
Walk into bank with gun concealed then walk up to bank teller and point gun and make threats if mask off; or leap into bank with gun out while shouting threats if mask on.
Demand bank teller hand over money. (note: Be sure to be gruff and demanding, i.e. "Give me all your money, f###er!". Being polite will NOT do if you have a gun to their head.)
Provide teller with sack so as to have money placed into it.
Get out of the bank, making sure that no security guards are planning on shooting you.
Hop into getaway car and get away.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIVE AND CAUTIONARY NOTES:
Money may not be of any use after you have stolen it.
You could easily be shot during this procedure. Be sure to wear a flak jacket.
Don't shoot anyone of you can help it. You are robbing a bank here, not killing.
Above all, have fun! And have a good getaway plan!
DISCLAIMER: poster of this slashdot post is not liable for anything resulting from this posting or anyone reading this posting, including but not limited to hospital bills, equipment availablity, money availability, bank availability, brain availability, and any other problems associated with robbing a bank, judged at the poster's discretion.
(Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to skip the country, since this posting makes me a criminal. Yeah.:) )
...wears things like the Linux sweatshirt with a slogan that takes a swipe at Windows98: "For those whose IQs are higher than 98."
I was tested at 136, thankyouverymuch, and I run Windows 98.
I really think that that title "King Of Linux Advocates" ought to be reconsidered, considering that pissing people off with stuff like this doesn't get them running Linux. What it does do is get them pissed off and more determined to stick with Microsoft, or Apple, or whatever.
Open hand of friendship, not closed hand around a flamethrower's trigger.
Unfortunately, in keeping with our two fisted keyboard design, we've really, really, limited what we can do with the GUI.
My workaround for this is that my Toshiba laptop (which I do pretty much everything on) has a trackpoint. Thusly you can do much of what is necesicary with the mouse without taking your hands off the keyboard.
Unfortunately, this still isn't as good as a regular mouse for most because a trackpoint can easily be rather difficult to use. You really need to practice with the sensitivity of the thing to see what setting's right for you, and what works for you doesn't necessicarily work for others.
(Incidentally, this is another reason why I'm still using Windows. I know how to change mouse sensitivity with it - just look in the Control Panel, do some browsing for mice, look for something about mouse sensitivity. I've heard that there's something similar somewhere in some GNU/Linux distributions that you can hack with, but I don't want to hack in that case, I want to get it working)
(completely off-topic probable flamebait: Please check your apostrophes. It's a small thing, but it annoys me to no end.:) )
Please explain to me how [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[+/-] is not easy.
I did not have clue one about this key combination after reading several books, skimming through howtos and manpages, et cetera, et cetera. And even now that you've mentioned it here I can only guess as to what it does (increase/decrease resolution?)
I'll admit it, I'm American, I don't live 'cross the pond, but how prolific is USB over there, anyways? I know of one friend of mine over there who has no computers with USB and can't really get any pretty soon since spends the vast, vast majority of his disposable income on Internet access...
Are ethernet cards just a little overly expensive, or do people find them massively inconvenient, or what?
I think they're more concentrating on using the Linux kernel rather than some interface like, say, bash or insert-yer-favorite-X-window-setup-here. (And if they do *dare* use X, I'll nuke Korea myself:) )
Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing what they'll come up with in the interface area. Who knows, maybe they'll actually make that power level of PDA workable for the thirtyodd folks who want one that way.:)
Hehheh. First thing that popped into my head when I looked at the specs for this thing is "Guess they couldn't afford the WinCE licence.":)
Seriously, tho, you're absolutely right. Nearly $1 billion (that's a 1 followed by approximately nine zeroes, which represents a number of US Dollars) got dumped on PDA after PDA that tried for More Is Better without any results - one would think that folks would have noted that, then noted Palm's near-instant success, then have started to clue in.
There's a few specifics about this thing that have me worried: * PC sychronization - traditionally WinCE is kind of blah here, so you'd think this would be a competition point. Instead they don't say much about said syncing. On what OSes will this be supported? (The FAQ mentions Linux, but what about those of us using "legacy" OSes, like, say, Windows?). Will they include PIM software for your computer or do you have to find your own and mess with it? * Organizer functions. Does this thing even *have* a To Do list? It sounds more like it's touting a handheld Web client than an organizer, which, while nifty, *isn't* what a PDA is supposed to be. They *do* mention something called "PIMS", which might mean a Calendar/Datebook/whatever and a To Do list of some kind, and other such tools... maybe... * Size. 128.8mm(H)x83.5mm(W)x19.9mm(D) roughly translates to 5.1"(h)x3.3"(w)x0.8"(d) (rounding up about.02" for each of those numbers). That wouldn't fit in the palm of my hand - heck, it'd barely fit *in* my hand, and I've got really big hands.:)
Of course, some of the things there that worry me could be not detailed simply because this thing isn't in production yet, and these fears might not turn out to be problematic, but, well, who knows?
(Totally aside, but... yes, it does look like a rushed translation. Especially here in the FAQ: "Basically YOPY support Linux OS and it's the very first products based on Linux and we believe this new OS will be run over as main platform in the near future." Run over? Linux is going to be flattened by the competition? Wow, they seem really confident:) )
If this is what I think it's about, this could easily be Palm's death sentence.
Seriously.
The Palm's setup is a very delicate balance of features and power, and changing it around needs to be done pretty carefully. Add a color screen, for example, and battery life might suffer. Change the serial port on the bottom, and suddenly several accessories don't work.
Swap the processor chip for a larger one? You get a *big* ripple.
Think about it. Yes, a lot of apps could be solved by a simple recompile. But what about those of us who use applications that are no longer being developed by the authors? We'll have to make do without those, which is one point against.
If Palm does include an emulation layer, that's going to require an even stronger processor. Thus, more power to said processor. And thusly, less battery efficiency. Another point against.
Consider, then, that there are three major things that get the Palm sold:
1) The size and simplicity of the device;
2) The gigantic number of accessories;
3) The *very* long term reliability.
Swap out the processor and 2 gets hurt badly, and 3 takes a hit as well.
(Oh, and as a totally aside thought - I'm not a Palm developer, so i don't know for certain, but... what happens to HackMaster, and all the hacks that come with it? Would *they* make it with just a recompile? Would they work reliably on an emulation layer?)
That is something I know and understand - hell, I go through that with Windows all the damn time:)
Just so long as you *point that out* with that tone, and don't whine about newbies, then I'm fine, and (hopefully) so are the newbies.
And it *would* be nice if you could possibly refer folks to someone or something that *would* know, with something a little more polite or specific than "RTFM"...
Windows has a pretty paint job, but the foundation is made out of a bunch of toothpicks and glue.
Yes, but I know how to rebuild the toothpicks and glue foundation and put the pretty paint job back on.
I *don't* know how to do that with Linux.
(I do recognize that Linux does have a superior base for that sorta thing tho, and that's why I'm still determined to use it someday, despite going thru everything that turns off all us "Winbabies" from using it, and much more...)
I've been playing with Linux for a few months or so off and on, and because I'm a bit of an obsessive-complusive type I'm able to figure some things out about it (i.e., I think I have an idea how the directory structure is supposed to be like and why it doesn't have a "C:").
However, for the longest time all of those man pages and even the howtos at linux-howto and linuxnewbie were completely useless, because they assumed knowledge I never had. By far the biggest betrayal was the "From DOS/Windows to Linux Howto", because it never covered Windows, just DOS.
Frankly, I keep asking questions because I have gotten more reliable and more helpful and useful information from my Linux-loving friends than I have from *any* manual, book, man page, howto, or whatever.
(This despite the fact that my first four or five visits to any linux irc channel got me back "Go back home winbaby", "RTFM", "U Suck" and the like. If I wasn't so damned sure that I wasn't going to pay for the hardware Win2k is demanding, I'd be far far far away from Linux.)
I disagree in part, seeing as though despite the fact that for me Windows-based interfaces have been consistently superior (IMHO, for me, YMMV), I am not going to use Win2K, and that's for only one reason:
Hardware costs.
I have about four systems in my possesion. Three minitower machines and the laptop I'm typing this comment on. Not a single one of them meets the minimum requirements for Win2K, and one of the minitowers and this laptop are both pretty recent machines too.
Whereas Linux runs just damn fine on that aforementioned minitower, and I'm making efforts to put it on the other two, and as soon as Opera comes out for Linux (and I find a good Everything's-Integrated-So-You-Don't-Need-To-Play- With-Config-Files email client) my laptop becomes a portable Linux box.
Skip the price of the software. The price of the hardware is so unreasonably high for Win2k that it's certainly going to put a few folks off of it.
Perhaps the form of binary compatibility they were referring to was Binary Compatibility That Is Stupid Eazy To Use. For many many Windows users (I ought to know, I've been one for quite some time) something doesn't actually exist unless you can see it in the dialog box.
Which is probably why Microsoft always gets praised for "new innovative features" when they're just grabbing old ones - they didn't create it, they just simply put it in easy-to-swallow integrated form.
I guess folks expect Linux to start doing the same.
What was that saying again? Like those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it?
Call me crazy ("You're crazy!") but this sounds to me very much reminicient of Prohibition here in the US in the 1920s (For those who somehow don't know, it was a constitutional amendment banning alcohol), which manged to do the following:
Piss off a lot of people,
Create an undergrould crime network the likes of which America had never seen before, and
generally cause more alcohol abuse problems than it solved.
If I was in a very amused mood I'd draw a lot of paralells between the two, such as noncompliant ISPs that can't take the hassle as opposed to speakeasies, offshore shell accounts as opposed to bathtub gin, and the like, but it's almost 0130 and I haven't had any coffee.
It's also one of those things that keeps me using Windows 98. I *heavily* rely on Microsoft-style alt-tabbing, and the fact that so far KDE is the only way I've been able to see it work properly (with that tasks panel that you mentioned) is rather painful, 'cause there's a lot else about KDE that I simply just can't work with.
Opera for Windows has a feature similar to this. Q and A move to previous and next link on a page, respectively. (Assuming your keyboard focus is away from a form, which can also be handled by a keyboard command...)
I'm certain that this and all the other dozens of cool keyboard commands will be retained in the Linux port.
So yes, this is a great development. All nice and good and such. Nice to see an enterprise tool ported to Linux.
But, frankly, Domino? Notes?
Considering that every single last implementation of it in any environment that I've seen from corporate center to university campus has Sucked because of low speed, inefficency, and an incredibly poor user interface (see http://www.iarchitect.com/lotus.htm for a small review of Notes and how poor it is)...
Yes, enterprise tools are cool, shows some real strength behind Linux. But this particular enterprise tool has a rather deservedly poor reputation:) Do we really want this attached to Linux?
"lotus notes: it's not just a mail program, it's a complete denial of service attack in one box"
"I don't believe that there is one, single, perfect spiritual way and, in realizing that, obviously you become a lot more open."
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Um... considering that the Visor doesn't have flash ROM, how would you install this on the Visor in the first place?
I would think you wouldn't be able to...
"I don't believe that there is one, single, perfect spiritual way and, in realizing that, obviously you become a lot more open."
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Hey, maybe that's why we've had so many critics badmouthing the movie! I mean, it makes sense, right? Get enough folks revealing the movie for what it is, and then it becomes infeasable for the Church to move on them all - and if they try to, they'll quickly go bankrupt.
Brilliant plan, movie critics of the world! Fight the power! We support you!
(yerf. this is the last time I post after emptying the pantry of chocolate)
-Jo Hunter
While discussing the movie in IRC someone (I can't remember who it was, but he's a known MST3K fan) decided that the ideal thing to do would be to start a petition to bring back MST3K just so Battlefield Earth could be MSTed.
I don't think he's done anything *more* with this idea, but it's certainly worth trying. I mean, I'd sign it... :)
-Jo Hunter
-Jo Hunter
I view freedom in software as more of a serious selling point. I.e. if I was using netscape right now, and Mozilla became more stable, I'd toss Netscape and bring up Mozilla. (incidentally I'm using Mozilla right now...)
However, when the Opera for Linux port is a release product, I will most certainly grab a copy and start using it instead.
Specifically why is because of the UI. I seriously hate, and have always hated the concept of skins, no matter what the flavor or form or whatever, because their sole purpose has always been pretty looks over functionality - and Mozilla is a prime example of this. Opera doesn't buy into this "skinning" nonsense, and so since I am free to choose, I would choose Opera over Mozilla.
The instant someone tosses a Opera-like interface over Gecko and puts together a functionally identical free browser, tho, down to the multiwindow capabilities and everything, Opera would be gone too.
*That* is what freedom of software means to me. It's not about whether or not I can download source code. It's whether or not I'm allowed to choose. Since I'm not a programmer, the only thing GPL really does for me is think things like "awesome initiative" and actual reliability with 1.0 releases. (flamebait-prevent: do not mention GNOME, that one was too early)
(Incidentally, my position on the whole "remove non-free" thing is simple - it's Debian's distribution, it's their choice. Being in the wonderful free world that we are, tho, most certainly someone's going to mirror non-free, so if I get a burr up my tail to install pine or xv I can just add them to my sources.list and I'll be just fine. And if noone starts it, well, maybe I might try it. (don't take me up on that tho :) ) )
p.s. ('cause I just *have* to say it somewhere_ Mozilla is NOT ready. It crashed when I tried to post this the first time. Not even IE5 did that :)
-Jo Hunter
They don't trust the lawyers, but they have to play along anyways (or at least they believe they have to).
-Jo Hunter
- Get gun, sack, and mask (mask optional)
- Walk into bank with gun concealed then walk up to bank teller and point gun and make threats if mask off; or leap into bank with gun out while shouting threats if mask on.
- Demand bank teller hand over money. (note: Be sure to be gruff and demanding, i.e. "Give me all your money, f###er!". Being polite will NOT do if you have a gun to their head.)
- Provide teller with sack so as to have money placed into it.
- Get out of the bank, making sure that no security guards are planning on shooting you.
- Hop into getaway car and get away.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIVE AND CAUTIONARY NOTES:- Money may not be of any use after you have stolen it.
- You could easily be shot during this procedure. Be sure to wear a flak jacket.
- Don't shoot anyone of you can help it. You are robbing a bank here, not killing.
- Above all, have fun! And have a good getaway plan!
DISCLAIMER: poster of this slashdot post is not liable for anything resulting from this posting or anyone reading this posting, including but not limited to hospital bills, equipment availablity, money availability, bank availability, brain availability, and any other problems associated with robbing a bank, judged at the poster's discretion.(Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to skip the country, since this posting makes me a criminal. Yeah. :) )
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-Jo Hunter
I was tested at 136, thankyouverymuch, and I run Windows 98.
I really think that that title "King Of Linux Advocates" ought to be reconsidered, considering that pissing people off with stuff like this doesn't get them running Linux. What it does do is get them pissed off and more determined to stick with Microsoft, or Apple, or whatever.
Open hand of friendship, not closed hand around a flamethrower's trigger.
-Jo Hunter
My workaround for this is that my Toshiba laptop (which I do pretty much everything on) has a trackpoint. Thusly you can do much of what is necesicary with the mouse without taking your hands off the keyboard.
Unfortunately, this still isn't as good as a regular mouse for most because a trackpoint can easily be rather difficult to use. You really need to practice with the sensitivity of the thing to see what setting's right for you, and what works for you doesn't necessicarily work for others.
(Incidentally, this is another reason why I'm still using Windows. I know how to change mouse sensitivity with it - just look in the Control Panel, do some browsing for mice, look for something about mouse sensitivity. I've heard that there's something similar somewhere in some GNU/Linux distributions that you can hack with, but I don't want to hack in that case, I want to get it working)
(completely off-topic probable flamebait: Please check your apostrophes. It's a small thing, but it annoys me to no end.
-Jo Hunter
I did not have clue one about this key combination after reading several books, skimming through howtos and manpages, et cetera, et cetera. And even now that you've mentioned it here I can only guess as to what it does (increase/decrease resolution?)
That is how it is not easy.
-Jo Hunter
Are ethernet cards just a little overly expensive, or do people find them massively inconvenient, or what?
-Jo Hunter
Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing what they'll come up with in the interface area. Who knows, maybe they'll actually make that power level of PDA workable for the thirtyodd folks who want one that way.
-Jo Hunter
Seriously, tho, you're absolutely right. Nearly $1 billion (that's a 1 followed by approximately nine zeroes, which represents a number of US Dollars) got dumped on PDA after PDA that tried for More Is Better without any results - one would think that folks would have noted that, then noted Palm's near-instant success, then have started to clue in.
There's a few specifics about this thing that have me worried:
* PC sychronization - traditionally WinCE is kind of blah here, so you'd think this would be a competition point. Instead they don't say much about said syncing. On what OSes will this be supported? (The FAQ mentions Linux, but what about those of us using "legacy" OSes, like, say, Windows?). Will they include PIM software for your computer or do you have to find your own and mess with it?
* Organizer functions. Does this thing even *have* a To Do list? It sounds more like it's touting a handheld Web client than an organizer, which, while nifty, *isn't* what a PDA is supposed to be. They *do* mention something called "PIMS", which might mean a Calendar/Datebook/whatever and a To Do list of some kind, and other such tools... maybe...
* Size. 128.8mm(H)x83.5mm(W)x19.9mm(D) roughly translates to 5.1"(h)x3.3"(w)x0.8"(d) (rounding up about
Of course, some of the things there that worry me could be not detailed simply because this thing isn't in production yet, and these fears might not turn out to be problematic, but, well, who knows?
(Totally aside, but... yes, it does look like a rushed translation. Especially here in the FAQ:
"Basically YOPY support Linux OS and it's the very first products based on Linux and we believe this new OS will be run over as main platform in the near future."
Run over? Linux is going to be flattened by the competition? Wow, they seem really confident
-Jo Hunter
If this is what I think it's about, this could easily be Palm's death sentence.
Seriously.
The Palm's setup is a very delicate balance of features and power, and changing it around needs to be done pretty carefully. Add a color screen, for example, and battery life might suffer. Change the serial port on the bottom, and suddenly several accessories don't work.
Swap the processor chip for a larger one? You get a *big* ripple.
Think about it. Yes, a lot of apps could be solved by a simple recompile. But what about those of us who use applications that are no longer being developed by the authors? We'll have to make do without those, which is one point against.
If Palm does include an emulation layer, that's going to require an even stronger processor. Thus, more power to said processor. And thusly, less battery efficiency. Another point against.
Consider, then, that there are three major things that get the Palm sold:
1) The size and simplicity of the device;
2) The gigantic number of accessories;
3) The *very* long term reliability.
Swap out the processor and 2 gets hurt badly, and 3 takes a hit as well.
(Oh, and as a totally aside thought - I'm not a Palm developer, so i don't know for certain, but... what happens to HackMaster, and all the hacks that come with it? Would *they* make it with just a recompile? Would they work reliably on an emulation layer?)
I'm not impressed... :)
That is something I know and understand - hell, I go through that with Windows all the damn time :)
Just so long as you *point that out* with that tone, and don't whine about newbies, then I'm fine, and (hopefully) so are the newbies.
And it *would* be nice if you could possibly refer folks to someone or something that *would* know, with something a little more polite or specific than "RTFM"...
Windows has a pretty paint job, but the foundation is made out of a bunch of toothpicks and glue.
Yes, but I know how to rebuild the toothpicks and glue foundation and put the pretty paint job back on.
I *don't* know how to do that with Linux.
(I do recognize that Linux does have a superior base for that sorta thing tho, and that's why I'm still determined to use it someday, despite going thru everything that turns off all us "Winbabies" from using it, and much more...)
(Moderate that last comment up! More if ya can!)
I've been playing with Linux for a few months or so off and on, and because I'm a bit of an obsessive-complusive type I'm able to figure some things out about it (i.e., I think I have an idea how the directory structure is supposed to be like and why it doesn't have a "C:").
However, for the longest time all of those man pages and even the howtos at linux-howto and linuxnewbie were completely useless, because they assumed knowledge I never had. By far the biggest betrayal was the "From DOS/Windows to Linux Howto", because it never covered Windows, just DOS.
Frankly, I keep asking questions because I have gotten more reliable and more helpful and useful information from my Linux-loving friends than I have from *any* manual, book, man page, howto, or whatever.
(This despite the fact that my first four or five visits to any linux irc channel got me back "Go back home winbaby", "RTFM", "U Suck" and the like. If I wasn't so damned sure that I wasn't going to pay for the hardware Win2k is demanding, I'd be far far far away from Linux.)
I disagree in part, seeing as though despite the fact that for me Windows-based interfaces have been consistently superior (IMHO, for me, YMMV), I am not going to use Win2K, and that's for only one reason:
- With-Config-Files email client) my laptop becomes a portable Linux box.
Hardware costs.
I have about four systems in my possesion. Three minitower machines and the laptop I'm typing this comment on. Not a single one of them meets the minimum requirements for Win2K, and one of the minitowers and this laptop are both pretty recent machines too.
Whereas Linux runs just damn fine on that aforementioned minitower, and I'm making efforts to put it on the other two, and as soon as Opera comes out for Linux (and I find a good Everything's-Integrated-So-You-Don't-Need-To-Play
Skip the price of the software. The price of the hardware is so unreasonably high for Win2k that it's certainly going to put a few folks off of it.
Perhaps the form of binary compatibility they were referring to was Binary Compatibility That Is Stupid Eazy To Use. For many many Windows users (I ought to know, I've been one for quite some time) something doesn't actually exist unless you can see it in the dialog box.
Which is probably why Microsoft always gets praised for "new innovative features" when they're just grabbing old ones - they didn't create it, they just simply put it in easy-to-swallow integrated form.
I guess folks expect Linux to start doing the same.
Call me crazy ("You're crazy!") but this sounds to me very much reminicient of Prohibition here in the US in the 1920s (For those who somehow don't know, it was a constitutional amendment banning alcohol), which manged to do the following:
- Piss off a lot of people,
- Create an undergrould crime network the likes of which America had never seen before, and
- generally cause more alcohol abuse problems than it solved.
If I was in a very amused mood I'd draw a lot of paralells between the two, such as noncompliant ISPs that can't take the hassle as opposed to speakeasies, offshore shell accounts as opposed to bathtub gin, and the like, but it's almost 0130 and I haven't had any coffee.It's also one of those things that keeps me using Windows 98. I *heavily* rely on Microsoft-style alt-tabbing, and the fact that so far KDE is the only way I've been able to see it work properly (with that tasks panel that you mentioned) is rather painful, 'cause there's a lot else about KDE that I simply just can't work with.
*sighhh*
Opera for Windows has a feature similar to this. Q and A move to previous and next link on a page, respectively. (Assuming your keyboard focus is away from a form, which can also be handled by a keyboard command...)
I'm certain that this and all the other dozens of cool keyboard commands will be retained in the Linux port.
Sheesh. I go off and I start working on a small rant, preview, post, and THEN I find out that the point I'm making is already made. Twice. :)
:)
Damn if I'm not a pro
"I don't believe that there is one, single, perfect spiritual way and, in realizing that, obviously you become a lot more open."
So yes, this is a great development. All nice and good and such. Nice to see an enterprise tool ported to Linux.
:)
But, frankly, Domino? Notes?
Considering that every single last implementation of it in any environment that I've seen from corporate center to university campus has Sucked because of low speed, inefficency, and an incredibly poor user interface (see http://www.iarchitect.com/lotus.htm for a small review of Notes and how poor it is)...
Yes, enterprise tools are cool, shows some real strength behind Linux. But this particular enterprise tool has a rather deservedly poor reputation
Do we really want this attached to Linux?
"lotus notes: it's not just a mail program, it's a complete denial of service attack in one box"
"I don't believe that there is one, single, perfect spiritual way and, in realizing that, obviously you become a lot more open."
Um... considering that the Visor doesn't have flash ROM, how would you install this on the Visor in the first place?
I would think you wouldn't be able to...
"I don't believe that there is one, single, perfect spiritual way and, in realizing that, obviously you become a lot more open."