I, for one, do not block Google ads.
The reason is simple: they do not annoy me too much. They are textual, unobtrusive; they do not move, they do not dance, they do not require me to punch anything, they most certainly do not flash, and even though I rarely even look at them, sometimes they make me laugh.
Internet surfers in general would not go to such lengths to block ads if most ads were not really, really annoying.
For most people, believe it or not, Windows works well enough.
I dislike Windows and only boot into it for gaming purposes; otherwise I use Linux and, lately primarily, OS X. For all ordinary purposes, I find Windows the worst of the lot, but it is still usable enough.
While you may or may not be joking, giving out Ubuntu live CDs to people, advising them to use it to surf for porn so as to not leave any traces and be safe from viruses, might very well increase its adoption.
The downside is, using Linux may become a tacit admission of surfing for porn.
Believe it or not, people do not like rebooting. If Windows runs their application du jour and does the rest fairly well, which it does, they will have no real incentive to change.
Many people will not even consider the switch unless their application of choice works under Linux, and I know a fair number of gamers who would love to use Linux, if only it were a gaming platform.
Both my father and my grandfather got Ubuntu as their first operating system. I did not want to have to fix all the viruses and spyware and whatnot they'd get from porn and other stuff the internet is for. As complete newbies, there was nothing to impede their learning process, and my father for one is getting along quite nicely. Him I've given a Windows partition, too, and he uses Windows for some tasks, but he largely prefers Linux.
Thing is, the only thing that really prevents learning a new system is the magical, ritualistic thinking acquired from rote learning. I let my father explore Linux, explained him the basic concepts and had him understand the basics of the filesystem. Then I showed him Windows, and let him notice the ways in which it was similar. That was enough to let him continue on his own for the most part; I still have to teach him some things, which is rare because we live in different countries, but it is enough for me to show him the basics. Sometimes I don't know more than that because I do not use all the things he needs, but he does learn.
My grandfather is a more recent initiate in the arts of computing, but he seems to have taken fairly well to the internet, organizing his photos, and card games. Now I'm teaching him how to rip his CDs to disk. Still, he does learn more by rote; his memory is not what it used to be, and his attention span is rather like a 4-year-old's.
It is REALLY hard to prove discrimination as it is. When it is discovered, it should then be actionable in some way. As it stands, there is probably nothing in the law books that would stand against it, but social networking sites could potentially show damages because of their use being discouraged.
Personally? I don't appear on any social networking sites... other than this one. If you really want to know who I am, you gotta know who I am and then read all my comments. But there are no pictures and so to confirm my identity would not be a simple matter for most.
(Please, this is not a challenge...)
Of course it is not a challenge. Everyone here is a twitter sockpuppet.
Yes, it is expected and better than nothing, but I would prefer a complete font which would not have to borrow. It does not look all that well, though it is legible.
Well, he could just be a wee bit tipsy and, having mistaken the address, thought he had forgotten his keys and decided to enter through the window... An honest mistake, really.
On OS X, I cannot get myself to use OpenOffice.org. I just can't.
It ignores the system modifier key conventions, so I can't move through words with Option-LArrow/RArrow and Home/End with Command-LArrow/RArrow. Instead it uses some other scheme, which I can't be bothered to adopt.
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I, for one, do not block Google ads.
The reason is simple: they do not annoy me too much. They are textual, unobtrusive; they do not move, they do not dance, they do not require me to punch anything, they most certainly do not flash, and even though I rarely even look at them, sometimes they make me laugh.
Internet surfers in general would not go to such lengths to block ads if most ads were not really, really annoying.
For most people, believe it or not, Windows works well enough.
I dislike Windows and only boot into it for gaming purposes; otherwise I use Linux and, lately primarily, OS X. For all ordinary purposes, I find Windows the worst of the lot, but it is still usable enough.
While you may or may not be joking, giving out Ubuntu live CDs to people, advising them to use it to surf for porn so as to not leave any traces and be safe from viruses, might very well increase its adoption.
The downside is, using Linux may become a tacit admission of surfing for porn.
Believe it or not, people do not like rebooting. If Windows runs their application du jour and does the rest fairly well, which it does, they will have no real incentive to change.
I did not want to have to fix all the viruses and spyware and whatnot they'd get from porn and other stuff the internet is for.
Like what, exactly?
Not sure, exactly. But allegedly there are other uses, too.
And Android, once it takes off.
It's not the OS, it's the applications.
Many people will not even consider the switch unless their application of choice works under Linux, and I know a fair number of gamers who would love to use Linux, if only it were a gaming platform.
Both my father and my grandfather got Ubuntu as their first operating system. I did not want to have to fix all the viruses and spyware and whatnot they'd get from porn and other stuff the internet is for. As complete newbies, there was nothing to impede their learning process, and my father for one is getting along quite nicely. Him I've given a Windows partition, too, and he uses Windows for some tasks, but he largely prefers Linux.
Thing is, the only thing that really prevents learning a new system is the magical, ritualistic thinking acquired from rote learning. I let my father explore Linux, explained him the basic concepts and had him understand the basics of the filesystem. Then I showed him Windows, and let him notice the ways in which it was similar. That was enough to let him continue on his own for the most part; I still have to teach him some things, which is rare because we live in different countries, but it is enough for me to show him the basics. Sometimes I don't know more than that because I do not use all the things he needs, but he does learn.
My grandfather is a more recent initiate in the arts of computing, but he seems to have taken fairly well to the internet, organizing his photos, and card games. Now I'm teaching him how to rip his CDs to disk. Still, he does learn more by rote; his memory is not what it used to be, and his attention span is rather like a 4-year-old's.
Question: how do you burn a digital book?
Answer: bit by bit.
It is REALLY hard to prove discrimination as it is. When it is discovered, it should then be actionable in some way. As it stands, there is probably nothing in the law books that would stand against it, but social networking sites could potentially show damages because of their use being discouraged.
Personally? I don't appear on any social networking sites... other than this one. If you really want to know who I am, you gotta know who I am and then read all my comments. But there are no pictures and so to confirm my identity would not be a simple matter for most.
(Please, this is not a challenge...)
Of course it is not a challenge. Everyone here is a twitter sockpuppet.
Every second alien ship would take over the computer just by looking at it... yep, an eerily accurate prediction.
Now, is it because Open Source won, or because Microsoft won?
You do realize that Star Trek was fictional, right?
... but now it's true?
TIC = Tongue In Cheek
It's what happens without Rohypnol.
What is that? The Gnome version of cat?
What's that got to do with anything?
</tic>
Yes, it is expected and better than nothing, but I would prefer a complete font which would not have to borrow. It does not look all that well, though it is legible.
Ah, yes. Chalkboard.
It did sound familiar, so I went to check. And lo! -- it is the font I use in Adium.
It could be better, though; it lacks Croatian diacritic marks, which OS X then borrows from other fonts.
That song was invented by Shampoo.
For extra points, tell him to put some sugar in the water.
S&M -- Sales and Marketing. Unfortunately.
As stated here, a rose by any other name, Stef.
However, could we count on IBM to solve the problem of incompatible licenses and, say, relicence ZFS?
Or would it be a bad decision for them?
Well, he could just be a wee bit tipsy and, having mistaken the address, thought he had forgotten his keys and decided to enter through the window... An honest mistake, really.
Yeah. Who knows, maybe Google actually gets permission beforehand?
On OS X, I cannot get myself to use OpenOffice.org. I just can't.
It ignores the system modifier key conventions, so I can't move through words with Option-LArrow/RArrow and Home/End with Command-LArrow/RArrow. Instead it uses some other scheme, which I can't be bothered to adopt.
And it is much slower than iWork.
No, it means "I'm too lazy to install Gentoo and have better things to do."
As a Gentoo user, I should know.