Would your opinion be different if the question were about the contents of Quran? Islam has 1.5 billion followers, making it the second popular religion.
pidgin doesn't support those huge animated custom smilies (or the even larger nearly-full-screen animations, whatever they might be called). As a lot of people use them, this might be a deal-breaker.
Web pages people do in MS Word look really horrible, that's one of the reasons. Why would anyone make a web page using Word - because they *have* MS Word installed and it is able to save documents in HTML format, be it hideous HTML or not.
I18N in Windows has poor quality, IMHO. At least Estonian translation is annoying. It's ok most of the time but that is "compensated" by some words that I think Windows translators have invented themselves. As a result I find that Windows is easier to understand in English. You might have noticed that I'm talking about Windows here, not specifically IE -- well, they are almost always bundled together and I wouldn't recommend anyone removing IE entirely.
Just FYI, I'm an active KDE user and have had it in Estonian for ages.
I'm rather curious about your comment on point number 2. Specifically: [...]try copying a few seconds of a video file and pasting it in a word processing document.
How exactly does one do that? Let's say I have a one-hour long video open in Windows Media Player and I want to copy-paste five seconds somewhere in the middle of the video to Word. I've never seen anything like this done before. But then again, I'm no video editor either.
Does doing this require any special plugins/programs?
so what's to stop Microsoft from rolling out a patch to some vulnerability that coincidentally checks that the shell is anything but KDE?
It wouldn't be anything new, they have done stuff like that before.
Some kid breaks one of your windows with an errant baseball. You threaten to sue the kid's father (and drag your feet in court until the father is ready to settle) and then go after all the kid's friends that have a baseball. Because the baseballs are dangerous things and could break windows, so the kids that have baseballs are clearly guilty (in your eyes) for breaking windows.
There have been cases of nazi guys doing some improper stuff. However, I can't seem to remember any city in the world going nuts over a swastika on a wall. At the most the guys that painted that thing are fined and/or have to remove the sign.
In a post-Hitler post 9/11 world I still think people should be allowed to express their feelings (while not doing anyone harm) without the fear of being jailed for life in Guantanamo Bay with no chance of getting out. If I want to shout "Heil Hitler", I'll do that. And probably be beaten up for that, but that's not the point.
The point is that no one should be concerned if a muslim guy walking past them is a terrorist or a guy in military uniform is a nazi. They should be able to assume that other people do not want to blow them up.
Well, as our school didn't have a proper teacher for computer classes, *all* of the school were taught the same things. I mean, everyone from 6th grade up was being taught how to use Paint and Word.
Not a word of programming (as nearly half of the people were struggling to pass the class at that level).
There are two tips I can give for anyone installing Gentoo:
First, read the handbook. Following it step by step, one should not encounter any errors.
Second, Gentoo forums is the best place to look if you do encounter any errors.
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depends on your definition of "100% working"
Would your opinion be different if the question were about the contents of Quran? Islam has 1.5 billion followers, making it the second popular religion.
They could easily call the "extended" version of ODF ODFx or something similar. Problem solved.
what does the "if applicable" mean at the end of the sentence? Under which circumstances cannot one get the full refund?
you mean there are more evil software companies that would like to see GPL disappear? I'm shocked.
what stuff? Bring an example.
pidgin doesn't support those huge animated custom smilies (or the even larger nearly-full-screen animations, whatever they might be called). As a lot of people use them, this might be a deal-breaker.
Having blacklist is, of course, a great idea, as we already know from sexual offenders blacklist and the no-fly list
care to elaborate why KDE is less usable than Gnome?
you could just make a screenshot of their desktop and then hide all the icons
IE not only has bugs, it even has bugs v2.0!
Beat that, Opera
I for one would not like Blizzard to find out what kind of porn I watch
My cardiologist said I really shouldn't drink coffee.
So I drink a regular random-brand coffee with lots of milk in it-
You mean if he knows how fast he wrote the drivers, he has no idea where the drivers are?
Web pages people do in MS Word look really horrible, that's one of the reasons. Why would anyone make a web page using Word - because they *have* MS Word installed and it is able to save documents in HTML format, be it hideous HTML or not.
I18N in Windows has poor quality, IMHO. At least Estonian translation is annoying. It's ok most of the time but that is "compensated" by some words that I think Windows translators have invented themselves. As a result I find that Windows is easier to understand in English. You might have noticed that I'm talking about Windows here, not specifically IE -- well, they are almost always bundled together and I wouldn't recommend anyone removing IE entirely.
Just FYI, I'm an active KDE user and have had it in Estonian for ages.
I'm rather curious about your comment on point number 2. Specifically:
[...]try copying a few seconds of a video file and pasting it in a word processing document.
How exactly does one do that? Let's say I have a one-hour long video open in Windows Media Player and I want to copy-paste five seconds somewhere in the middle of the video to Word. I've never seen anything like this done before. But then again, I'm no video editor either. Does doing this require any special plugins/programs?
so what's to stop Microsoft from rolling out a patch to some vulnerability that coincidentally checks that the shell is anything but KDE?
It wouldn't be anything new, they have done stuff like that before.
[warning: rant]
I think it's more like this:
Some kid breaks one of your windows with an errant baseball. You threaten to sue the kid's father (and drag your feet in court until the father is ready to settle) and then go after all the kid's friends that have a baseball. Because the baseballs are dangerous things and could break windows, so the kids that have baseballs are clearly guilty (in your eyes) for breaking windows.
</rant>
There have been cases of nazi guys doing some improper stuff. However, I can't seem to remember any city in the world going nuts over a swastika on a wall. At the most the guys that painted that thing are fined and/or have to remove the sign.
In a post-Hitler post 9/11 world I still think people should be allowed to express their feelings (while not doing anyone harm) without the fear of being jailed for life in Guantanamo Bay with no chance of getting out. If I want to shout "Heil Hitler", I'll do that. And probably be beaten up for that, but that's not the point.
The point is that no one should be concerned if a muslim guy walking past them is a terrorist or a guy in military uniform is a nazi. They should be able to assume that other people do not want to blow them up.
this article tries to explain why you shouldn't go from XP to Vista.
It's simple -- you just don't hack government computers. Way too much trouble when you get caught for that. Everybody knows that.
At least everybody *should* take note of that.
everybody get yourselves a Prescott and that will generate all the electricity you will need.
Well, as our school didn't have a proper teacher for computer classes, *all* of the school were taught the same things. I mean, everyone from 6th grade up was being taught how to use Paint and Word.
Not a word of programming (as nearly half of the people were struggling to pass the class at that level).
There are two tips I can give for anyone installing Gentoo:
First, read the handbook. Following it step by step, one should not encounter any errors.
Second, Gentoo forums is the best place to look if you do encounter any errors.
No costs whatsoever (except time and the money you pay to your ISP)