I should have written "includes GNOME 2.6". FC2 doesn't depend on GNOME, and it includes alternatives, which makes the review picking on FC2 for this even more irrelevant.
I don't think that the reviewer should have knocked FC2 for the fundamental design flaws of GNOME 2.6. They are/will be there in any distro that uses GNOME 2.6.
The reviewer mentioned the new file requester. That is retarded. Let me copy-and-paste a post I made on this topic over at FedoraForum.org:
Some googling (certainly not the included GNOME "documentation") let me know that hitting Ctrl-L while in a file requester will pop up a text entry gadget, with tab completion.
Ain't that obvious and user friendly? I can feel my productivity soar through the roof!
NOT THAT IT F-ING WORKS OR ANYTHING!
1. Today, I'd sure like to edit.bash_profile.
2. Start gedit.
3. Choose to open a file.
4. As per the tradition of usability downward spiralling, I can't see any files beginning with a period. Being a GNOME user, I'm considered too stupid to be allowed to see things like that. There's no (apparent or documented) way to change this. Ooooh, a purdy little house icon!
5. Oh yeah, the intuitive Ctrl-L. I get a text entry gadget, type ".ba", I get a drop-down list of pattern matches and choose ".bash_profile". Great, this feature (choosing a file) should of course be in the main file requester.
6. I click on "Open".
7. Of course nothing opens when I click "Open". That would probably go smack in the face of the GNOME2 Human Interface Guidelines. The text entry box disappears, and my "Home" directory is reloaded in the main requester list.
8. Maybe.bash_profile is selected now, even though you can't see it? I hit "Open" in the main requester.
9. Nothing happens.
10. I click "Cancel", curse the f-ing idiocy that seems to rule GNOME development today, and decide to take a look at how far KDE has come these days. Ooooh, a purdy little house icon!
(Seriously, I'm getting tired of this. GNOME is getting slicker and faster all the time, but these steps forwards are always followed by twice the number of steps backwards.)
While you're at it, ask them to compile their Flash player for Linux on PowerPC. In addition to filling out their "wish form", you can add your name to this petition (there used to be one here as well...).
Most casemods I've seen make me wanna puke, with all the tacky cliché 31337 g4m3r stuff. I love this HL2 case, too bad he had to go and make the case useless by putting the usual frigging HOLE (a.k.a. "window") in the side - they do make cases for RF emitting/sensitive devices like Faraday's cages for a reason.
An Enigma case is something I'd expect to see here. All these small form factors really seem to get people's creative juices flowing. Telefunken radios, cigar humidors, oscilloscopes, WindowsXP retail boxes... I remember seeing a replica of the type of typewriter-ish computer used in "Brazil", so an Enigma would be a piece of cake. Breaking in to a museum to get a real Enigma case might prove difficult though.
I'm not from the UK, I'm from Sweden. Maybe you're confused by the domainname under my username? And last I checked the UK was a European nation...
Speak for your own mind.
That was the point of my post. All "Europeans" don't all think one thing, and all "Americans" don't just think something else. This outrageous scandal is the fault of the current Cannes Film Festival jury, not of every "European". It's an embarrassment to the Cannes Film Festival and a devaluation of the (formerly) prestigious Palm d'Or award, not to/of every "European".
Some do, and unfortunately the majority of the Cannes jury does it to the degree that they're willing to sacrifice the credibility of the festival and the Palme d'Or award, just to make a political statement.
Agreed. I'm utterly saddened to see the Cannes festival jury stoop so low. Let's see if there's still a jury left that at least takes artistic achievement into consideration ! Berlin? Venice?
And "documentary"? No matter what you think of the message the movie is conveying, it's a political satire, just like "Bowling for Columbine" was. "The problems this film encounters", with a link to the usual marketing on michaelmoore.com?
My pet peeve with Disney, the final straw as it were, is that they bought Winnie The Pooh(!) and turned it from a beautifully illustrated and profoundly philosophical book for all ages, into another hysterical and loud franchise, inflicting even more ADHD on an already obnoxious generation of disturbed brats.
Milne and Shepard are spinning in their graves, while obese brats chewing on Happy Meal plastic toys piss on them.:P
I think it's even more scary that one of her hands (the one holding the player, we can't be sure of just how many hands this creature has) is a man's hand!
Of course you can trust him! The URL has the word "security" in it! I get e-mail from Citibank, eBay and PayPal all the time, and since the URLs in those e-mails contain the word "secure" somewhere, I know I can trust them with my account details and passwords. I mean, come on, a patch for a silly computer operating system is nothing important compared to my bank accounts!
Gotta appreciate Citibank et al's customer service though. Even though I'm not one of their customers, they send these helpful e-mails as if I were one.
I hope you'll make more of it than Sweden has, and I want you to know that not all Swedes endorse our government's attempts to deny you the rights that every other EU citizen has.
It also goes to show that our "let 20% of the population support the remaining 80%" socialist policy doesn't work if we are to be considered full members of the EU. Maybe the plan is to adapt the EU to socialism, and in some aspects it's already happened, as you indicate.
Heck, one of these days Sweden might even advance to the level where former Soviet republics are today, and gladly welcome the Euro currency cooperation and join the NATO!;)
As others have pointed out, only counting the one tax that's listed as "income tax" on your montly salary specification isn't very useful.
All in all, 50-70% of most Swedes' wages are lost to various taxes. This figure is consistent with the percentage of our GNP that's constituted by taxes.
Think of it this way: If you work 5 days a week, then on Monday, Tuesday, and most of Wednesday you work only to pay taxes.
As the broadband example (among just about every other thing in this country that's funded by taxes) shows, there's no reason to believe that bureaucrats (who might even have finished highschool, if we're lucky) for some inexplicable reason would be more capable of handling YOUR money to do something, than you yourself or commercial interests would.
But hey, the same sort of useful idiots who have helped the One Party State persist here for 70 years almost uninterrupted get to walk the streets with red flags once a year, protesting against themselves and the "incompetentocracy" that they insist on electing every 4 years. Teh Swedish Model r0xx0rz!!!11:P
School and healthcare aren't properly funded? They're OVERFUNDED, at least healthcare and political schooling. With the funding/taxes we pay, we should have the best healthcare in the world, but instead patients rot away in corridors, old people get one cooked meal a day and have to go to bed at 3 pm because there's no staff, and physicians and nurses move abroad where they get the chance to make more money than a car mechanic. In education, things like political indoctrination and "native language education" to immigrants take precendence over teaching fundamentals like how to read and write. The problem is administration, and the total "politisation" of administration at every level from the lowest to the highest in both healthcare as well as the rest of our country. Now this is too deeply rooted to change, even if a non-socialist government would be elected for two consecutive terms (yeah, right).
We're still a Soviet republic, even more so than the real former Soviet republics. In 10 years we'll be crossing the Baltic to look for menial jobs and sell homemade "Absolut" in Riga.
But AFAIK, ABasiC only shipped with AmigaOS/Workbench up to v 1.1. That would mean it only came with the Amiga 1000, wouldn't it? I got my first own Amiga (A500) when WB 1.3 was new, and remember missing a BASIC interpreter from my C=64, so I got AmigaBASIC from a friend who had an early A500 and WB 1.2.
They had several versions of it. For example, it was Microsoft that supplied Commodore with the abomination known as AmigaBASIC, which defiled AmigaOS up to v1.2, IIRC.
10 GOTO 1985 20 Get a spiffy new Übercomputer. 30 Discover AmigaBASIC. 40 ??? 50 Give up any dreams of becoming a programmer!!!
Luckily for budding programmers, stuff like ARexx and AMOS eventually appeared.
AFAIK, TurboLinux is/was one of the bigger PPC Linux distros. I saw nothing specifically mentioned in the PR about this, but does this mean that WM9, RA8 and reasonably up to date Flash support has finally spread from x86? I hope other vendors like Terra Soft (Yellow Dog Linux) will follow suit or sublicense from TurboLinux. At least for their not-downloaded-for-free versions.
It is more like going into a store, asking for a Pepsi, and then getting handed a Coke with a Pepsi label on it.
No, not at all.
If you clicked on a link claiming to lead to this AXA insurance company, but instead was taken to the website of AXA's competitor, then your analogy would be appropriate.
This is however NOT what's happening here.
1. You search for "AXA", and get AXA's website as a search result.
2. Next to the list of search results, you ALSO get an ad from a company in the same line of business, that does NOT claim to be affiliated with AXA in any way, and it's clearly separated from the search results, preceded by a text saying "Sponsored link".
I mean, "why"?? Does he run in really complex patterns so he can't remember them and draw them on a map by hand? What's he going to use the maps with his joint cartilage destroying routes superimposed on for?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an ugly thing. Combined with a fetish for electronic gadgetry it gets expensive, too.
Then I RTFA, and saw that it was an art project, and it all makes sense (well, it's explained anyway). Maybe this little detail could have been mentioned in the Slashdot story?:P
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... any distro that uses GNOME 2.6.
I should have written "includes GNOME 2.6". FC2 doesn't depend on GNOME, and it includes alternatives, which makes the review picking on FC2 for this even more irrelevant.
I don't think that the reviewer should have knocked FC2 for the fundamental design flaws of GNOME 2.6. They are/will be there in any distro that uses GNOME 2.6.
.bash_profile.
.bash_profile is selected now, even though you can't see it? I hit "Open" in the main requester.
The reviewer mentioned the new file requester. That is retarded. Let me copy-and-paste a post I made on this topic over at FedoraForum.org:
Some googling (certainly not the included GNOME "documentation") let me know that hitting Ctrl-L while in a file requester will pop up a text entry gadget, with tab completion.
Ain't that obvious and user friendly? I can feel my productivity soar through the roof!
NOT THAT IT F-ING WORKS OR ANYTHING!
1. Today, I'd sure like to edit
2. Start gedit.
3. Choose to open a file.
4. As per the tradition of usability downward spiralling, I can't see any files beginning with a period. Being a GNOME user, I'm considered too stupid to be allowed to see things like that. There's no (apparent or documented) way to change this. Ooooh, a purdy little house icon!
5. Oh yeah, the intuitive Ctrl-L. I get a text entry gadget, type ".ba", I get a drop-down list of pattern matches and choose ".bash_profile". Great, this feature (choosing a file) should of course be in the main file requester.
6. I click on "Open".
7. Of course nothing opens when I click "Open". That would probably go smack in the face of the GNOME2 Human Interface Guidelines. The text entry box disappears, and my "Home" directory is reloaded in the main requester list.
8. Maybe
9. Nothing happens.
10. I click "Cancel", curse the f-ing idiocy that seems to rule GNOME development today, and decide to take a look at how far KDE has come these days. Ooooh, a purdy little house icon!
(Seriously, I'm getting tired of this. GNOME is getting slicker and faster all the time, but these steps forwards are always followed by twice the number of steps backwards.)
While you're at it, ask them to compile their Flash player for Linux on PowerPC. In addition to filling out their "wish form", you can add your name to this petition (there used to be one here as well...).
That's a good-looking piece of mesh, but I suppose it's for decoration only as it doesn't completely cover or encase the stuff.
Mod parent up: +1, And One lyrics
Most casemods I've seen make me wanna puke, with all the tacky cliché 31337 g4m3r stuff. I love this HL2 case, too bad he had to go and make the case useless by putting the usual frigging HOLE (a.k.a. "window") in the side - they do make cases for RF emitting/sensitive devices like Faraday's cages for a reason.
An Enigma case is something I'd expect to see here. All these small form factors really seem to get people's creative juices flowing. Telefunken radios, cigar humidors, oscilloscopes, WindowsXP retail boxes...
I remember seeing a replica of the type of typewriter-ish computer used in "Brazil", so an Enigma would be a piece of cake. Breaking in to a museum to get a real Enigma case might prove difficult though.
Here is another idea for a good looking case mod, which I think captures and contains the HL2 feel just as well. ;)
MOD PARENT UP!
+1, Kraftwerk signature
-1, Kraftwerk signature in English
MOD THIS DOWN, Offtopic. Thank you.
You are from UK, not Europe.
I'm not from the UK, I'm from Sweden. Maybe you're confused by the domainname under my username? And last I checked the UK was a European nation...
Speak for your own mind.
That was the point of my post. All "Europeans" don't all think one thing, and all "Americans" don't just think something else. This outrageous scandal is the fault of the current Cannes Film Festival jury, not of every "European". It's an embarrassment to the Cannes Film Festival and a devaluation of the (formerly) prestigious Palm d'Or award, not to/of every "European".
Europeans hate America politics at the moment
No, we don't.
Some do, and unfortunately the majority of the Cannes jury does it to the degree that they're willing to sacrifice the credibility of the festival and the Palme d'Or award, just to make a political statement.
Agreed. I'm utterly saddened to see the Cannes festival jury stoop so low. Let's see if there's still a jury left that at least takes artistic achievement into consideration ! Berlin? Venice?
And "documentary"? No matter what you think of the message the movie is conveying, it's a political satire, just like "Bowling for Columbine" was. "The problems this film encounters", with a link to the usual marketing on michaelmoore.com?
Slashdot Story: -1, Troll.
Oh, wait...
Damn you Slashdot, IHBT!
...can be read here.
My pet peeve with Disney, the final straw as it were, is that they bought Winnie The Pooh(!) and turned it from a beautifully illustrated and profoundly philosophical book for all ages, into another hysterical and loud franchise, inflicting even more ADHD on an already obnoxious generation of disturbed brats.
:P
Milne and Shepard are spinning in their graves, while obese brats chewing on Happy Meal plastic toys piss on them.
... which I think reflects on the products designed by this company.
This company doesn't design products. They rebrand products and jack up the original price.
Too bad that Jens Of Korea^H^H^H^H^HSweden's only "product" of their own, i.e. the brand (logotype), is so horribly ugly and amateurish looking IMO.
He's probably trying to say that any sub-10,000 RPM HDD is "close enough" to being solid state... Think different, and all that. ;)
I think it's even more scary that one of her hands (the one holding the player, we can't be sure of just how many hands this creature has) is a man's hand!
ms11, eh? Well, that makes it as good as an official Microsoft release in my book!
Of course you can trust him! The URL has the word "security" in it! I get e-mail from Citibank, eBay and PayPal all the time, and since the URLs in those e-mails contain the word "secure" somewhere, I know I can trust them with my account details and passwords. I mean, come on, a patch for a silly computer operating system is nothing important compared to my bank accounts!
Gotta appreciate Citibank et al's customer service though. Even though I'm not one of their customers, they send these helpful e-mails as if I were one.
Welcome to the EU!
;)
I hope you'll make more of it than Sweden has, and I want you to know that not all Swedes endorse our government's attempts to deny you the rights that every other EU citizen has.
It also goes to show that our "let 20% of the population support the remaining 80%" socialist policy doesn't work if we are to be considered full members of the EU. Maybe the plan is to adapt the EU to socialism, and in some aspects it's already happened, as you indicate.
Heck, one of these days Sweden might even advance to the level where former Soviet republics are today, and gladly welcome the Euro currency cooperation and join the NATO!
As others have pointed out, only counting the one tax that's listed as "income tax" on your montly salary specification isn't very useful.
:P
All in all, 50-70% of most Swedes' wages are lost to various taxes. This figure is consistent with the percentage of our GNP that's constituted by taxes.
Think of it this way: If you work 5 days a week, then on Monday, Tuesday, and most of Wednesday you work only to pay taxes.
As the broadband example (among just about every other thing in this country that's funded by taxes) shows, there's no reason to believe that bureaucrats (who might even have finished highschool, if we're lucky) for some inexplicable reason would be more capable of handling YOUR money to do something, than you yourself or commercial interests would.
But hey, the same sort of useful idiots who have helped the One Party State persist here for 70 years almost uninterrupted get to walk the streets with red flags once a year, protesting against themselves and the "incompetentocracy" that they insist on electing every 4 years. Teh Swedish Model r0xx0rz!!!11
School and healthcare aren't properly funded? They're OVERFUNDED, at least healthcare and political schooling. With the funding/taxes we pay, we should have the best healthcare in the world, but instead patients rot away in corridors, old people get one cooked meal a day and have to go to bed at 3 pm because there's no staff, and physicians and nurses move abroad where they get the chance to make more money than a car mechanic. In education, things like political indoctrination and "native language education" to immigrants take precendence over teaching fundamentals like how to read and write. The problem is administration, and the total "politisation" of administration at every level from the lowest to the highest in both healthcare as well as the rest of our country. Now this is too deeply rooted to change, even if a non-socialist government would be elected for two consecutive terms (yeah, right).
We're still a Soviet republic, even more so than the real former Soviet republics. In 10 years we'll be crossing the Baltic to look for menial jobs and sell homemade "Absolut" in Riga.
Thanks for that info, I've never tried ABasiC.
But AFAIK, ABasiC only shipped with AmigaOS/Workbench up to v 1.1. That would mean it only came with the Amiga 1000, wouldn't it? I got my first own Amiga (A500) when WB 1.3 was new, and remember missing a BASIC interpreter from my C=64, so I got AmigaBASIC from a friend who had an early A500 and WB 1.2.
They had several versions of it. For example, it was Microsoft that supplied Commodore with the abomination known as AmigaBASIC, which defiled AmigaOS up to v1.2, IIRC.
10 GOTO 1985
20 Get a spiffy new Übercomputer.
30 Discover AmigaBASIC.
40 ???
50 Give up any dreams of becoming a programmer!!!
Luckily for budding programmers, stuff like ARexx and AMOS eventually appeared.
AFAIK, TurboLinux is/was one of the bigger PPC Linux distros. I saw nothing specifically mentioned in the PR about this, but does this mean that WM9, RA8 and reasonably up to date Flash support has finally spread from x86? I hope other vendors like Terra Soft (Yellow Dog Linux) will follow suit or sublicense from TurboLinux. At least for their not-downloaded-for-free versions.
It is more like going into a store, asking for a Pepsi, and then getting handed a Coke with a Pepsi label on it.
No, not at all.
If you clicked on a link claiming to lead to this AXA insurance company, but instead was taken to the website of AXA's competitor, then your analogy would be appropriate.
This is however NOT what's happening here.
1. You search for "AXA", and get AXA's website as a search result.
2. Next to the list of search results, you ALSO get an ad from a company in the same line of business, that does NOT claim to be affiliated with AXA in any way, and it's clearly separated from the search results, preceded by a text saying "Sponsored link".
See wallhacker.
See wallhacker run.
Run, wallhacker, run.
See wallhacker break nose on wall.
Agreed.
:P
I mean, "why"?? Does he run in really complex patterns so he can't remember them and draw them on a map by hand? What's he going to use the maps with his joint cartilage destroying routes superimposed on for?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an ugly thing. Combined with a fetish for electronic gadgetry it gets expensive, too.
Then I RTFA, and saw that it was an art project, and it all makes sense (well, it's explained anyway). Maybe this little detail could have been mentioned in the Slashdot story?