"Right-clciking and selecting a menu option is a lot slower and less learnable than a button"
I'd say first part of that statement is not true, the second part is.
A button only GUI is the easiest you can get if the icons are done right - you see what you can get. Context menus are somehow halfway between this and the CLI: you have to know and remember the right-click-actions, but if you do, it's much faster than moving your mouse between the object you work with and the button bar.
While the racial problems you describe in Europe are true, they are equally so in the US. Blacks were openly discriminated a few decades ago, today the problems non-whites have concerning getting jobs (or equal payment) is just the same in the US as it is in EU. Or, remember how "Arabic-looking" people were harrassed after 9/11, not only by normal citizens, but also by police, airport controls, etc.? Unfortunately, racism (== fear of the unknown) is very vivid in many people - Americas, Europe, Asia, it doesn't matter.
There is an important difference between immigrants coming to the US and coming to the EU though (somebody pointed this out earlier): The larger part of immigrants come to the US to work hard (often feeding family in their home countries). The larger part of immigrants in the EU came there to live on state welfare.
BTW, the addition of states into the US you mention was on a political level, this has nothing to do with the US successfully assimilating different cultures: people in PR and OH definitely have different lifestyles. Which illustrates a big advantage the US has over EU: much more space for people to live like they want without conflicting with others.
... he's wired differently. As am I. As are the vast majority of people on this planet
This is the single most important reason why technical computer users get desperate over non-technical, and vice-versa. They don't understand each other, they do things differently. The latter are the majority of people who, in most cases and as a few examples, had difficulties programming those video recorders, watch at a distorted and badly adjusted image on their widescreen TV, or continue driving their car although there are warning lamps on in front of them.
Look at what things are commercially successful: MP3 players with one or two buttons; fully automatic cameras; movies with a simple story. Because family/relationship/work/money creates enough problems. This means: simplicity is what most people need. They don't care about maximum effectiveness. GUIs try to provide this, sometimes succeed, more often only partially, but still better than a CLI.
In summary: The CLI almost always is more powerful, but this is irrelevant for most computer users.
Well, I think you illustrated inadvertently the main reason for "whyning": The workarounds of DeCSS, MPlayer, etc. are not included in many major distributions because of the legal dangers. Same applies for Mono and dependent projects if you are a little paranoid (which seems to be a good thing nowadays), and only Novell can currently distribute it without legal worries (at least while their MS contract is valid).
So what you have here already are two classes of Linux, which in the long run could turn out to be the biggest split ever in the history of Linux. And such a split definitely will hurt it.
Although technically maybe a bad comparison, the "evolutionary" steps of the early Internet (cryptic tools, free, available to a small elite) to today's WWW (GUIs, price tag, but available to the "masses") indicate that money will make Open Source most probably bigger and more common. The question though is: does it get also better?
... is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Internet is. You have to see it for yourself.
Future cellular CPUs will dynamically adapt and create a new core for each process. This means, whatever load you throw at it, the speed remains the same. The scheduler will only create, assign and deactivate cores.
Ok, this was fantasy. Forgive me, I had a lot of coffee today...
Very interesting! But I wonder, humans have a longer lifespan than most animals, how is this possible if they are low on a essential vitamin? Could the genetic "defect" actually be a "feature" to enable a longer life? Or a more developed brain? (I'm ignoring the list of other animals you gave here.)
Recent studies actually indicate that vitamin supplements are quite useless, and sometimes even unhealthy. And as a personal anectdotal comment: I've been taking vitamins like crazy for many years. I always got my cold in winter anyway. (Now I hardly get any colds anymore, my personal protection against it is drinking a lot of tea and water.)
Perhaps they were aiming to provide better visibility of streets and buidlings, so it would be easier to find your way around.
BTW, what about date tagging for each given area (whatever size would be best, I can't guess) you see in GoogleEarth? After all, the image data gets updated continuosly, but also irregularily. It would be nice to even have a history for comparison for each area.
Right on. And in addition, if everyone works with the same toolkit and company imposed design rules (and I'm NOT saying that this is bad), all apps obviously look and behave the same. As opposed to Linux, where every programmer has the freedom to design (or not design at all) the user interface. That freedom has led to some great results, more alternatives and options, at the cost of less consistency. Isn't that what Linux is about?
> You are depriving a number of people of having their expectation of being paid for offering their work being satisfied.
Isn't this exactly what is faulty about all of the MI's claims concerning "online piracy"? Because, if one would analyze the mindset of content downloaders (*), the result is that whatever they download, they would not have bought it ANYWAY. So, the only bad thing they're doing is enjoying content without paying. Which would make feel bad those people actually paying for content, but not the copyright holders.
(*) I am, of course, not talking about those who resell downloaded content. It's about the masses of casual downloaders.
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> Oracle did not work well on Red Hat Linux for us, in fact, it worked very badly. > I know that raises cackles here and people say it has worked fine for them and > give anecdotes about their successful experiences.
It's not anecdotes, its about successfully running Oracle on Linux since years. You most likely ran into problems because of one or both of the following typical issues: 1) You had a spare x86 box, some RH version, and tried to run some Oracle version on this combination. Bad idea, start only with proven HW, Linux version and Oracle version combinations. 2) You have expert admins for Oracle on a specific Unix version (Solaris in your case). They did not bother to acquire special Linux knowledge beforehand, because Linux is similar to Unix.
> I'd be curious to hear the names of major companies that are running Oracle on Linux in production.
Running Oracle on Linux is not "cheap". You have to invest and prepare as with any other platform. Therefore, just "trying out" Linux in an Enterprise environment without a proper migration plan often results in disappointment.
That might be funny. But it is the same with all Linux FS discussions: for every major FS, there are people who never had problems, and others who "lost all their data". Which means: one cannot choose a FS based on real world experience. So what do you base your decision on? In the end, it's reiserfs3 for lots of small files, xfs for large (100MB+ ?) files, and ext3 for the rest. Or isn't it?
This remembers me of the same old "be more tolerant" bullshit you hear from smokers. No one asking for natural, sane air (or an acceptable noise level) wants to modify the behaviour of anyone, they have the right in society to ask for it. If you are the one "modifying" standard living conditions (by polluting with smoke or noise), YOU have to take steps to avoid that others suffer. Sadly, this isn't understood be enough people.
I find your post very interesting. So, in summary, if I understood correctly, you as Chinese national think that the political situation in your country is "OK", with maybe some problems, but "on the right way"?
If this is true, we Westeners might have to accept that our lifestyle and values are not the only true and right ones. Oh wait... what did I say? This would even mean the we (western nations and their citizens) actually should STFU about other countries' habits, and refrain from trying to influence?
I think it is a very difficult question. What would we say if the Chinese government would tell us that our "obession with personal freedom is just egoism" and that we must change our habits?
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"Right-clciking and selecting a menu option is a lot slower and less learnable than a button"
I'd say first part of that statement is not true, the second part is.
A button only GUI is the easiest you can get if the icons are done right - you see what you can get. Context menus are somehow halfway between this and the CLI: you have to know and remember the right-click-actions, but if you do, it's much faster than moving your mouse between the object you work with and the button bar.
"hotmail and yahoo can't seem to realize that an email with a message offering "pen1s enlargement" is spam"
It's a feature. They know their user's pen1s size.
(please forgive me, this was not a personal attack, just a cheap joke)
While the racial problems you describe in Europe are true, they are equally so in the US. Blacks were openly discriminated a few decades ago, today the problems non-whites have concerning getting jobs (or equal payment) is just the same in the US as it is in EU. Or, remember how "Arabic-looking" people were harrassed after 9/11, not only by normal citizens, but also by police, airport controls, etc.? Unfortunately, racism (== fear of the unknown) is very vivid in many people - Americas, Europe, Asia, it doesn't matter.
There is an important difference between immigrants coming to the US and coming to the EU though (somebody pointed this out earlier): The larger part of immigrants come to the US to work hard (often feeding family in their home countries). The larger part of immigrants in the EU came there to live on state welfare.
BTW, the addition of states into the US you mention was on a political level, this has nothing to do with the US successfully assimilating different cultures: people in PR and OH definitely have different lifestyles. Which illustrates a big advantage the US has over EU: much more space for people to live like they want without conflicting with others.
> I'm not saying Nina Reiser is alive.
Nina Meyers is NOT alive. I saw her dying - and she deserved it!
This AC post is quite interesting.
This is the single most important reason why technical computer users get desperate over non-technical, and vice-versa. They don't understand each other, they do things differently. The latter are the majority of people who, in most cases and as a few examples, had difficulties programming those video recorders, watch at a distorted and badly adjusted image on their widescreen TV, or continue driving their car although there are warning lamps on in front of them.
Look at what things are commercially successful: MP3 players with one or two buttons; fully automatic cameras; movies with a simple story. Because family/relationship/work/money creates enough problems. This means: simplicity is what most people need. They don't care about maximum effectiveness. GUIs try to provide this, sometimes succeed, more often only partially, but still better than a CLI.
In summary: The CLI almost always is more powerful, but this is irrelevant for most computer users.
So what you have here already are two classes of Linux, which in the long run could turn out to be the biggest split ever in the history of Linux. And such a split definitely will hurt it.
+1+1+1 Sarcasm. I would have laughed if it wasn't so sadly true...
Although technically maybe a bad comparison, the "evolutionary" steps of the early Internet (cryptic tools, free, available to a small elite) to today's WWW (GUIs, price tag, but available to the "masses") indicate that money will make Open Source most probably bigger and more common.
The question though is: does it get also better?
> I am largely talking out of my ass
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Which proves that sound waves come out of black holes
... is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Internet is. You have to see it for yourself.
> there will always be more tasks than cores
Future cellular CPUs will dynamically adapt and create a new core for each process. This means, whatever load you throw at it, the speed remains the same. The scheduler will only create, assign and deactivate cores.
Ok, this was fantasy. Forgive me, I had a lot of coffee today...
> firing bullets straight up in the air ...
I seriously asked myself many times when seeing this on the news: don't get people hit by bullets falling down?
Very interesting! But I wonder, humans have a longer lifespan than most animals, how is this possible if they are low on a essential vitamin? Could the genetic "defect" actually be a "feature" to enable a longer life? Or a more developed brain? (I'm ignoring the list of other animals you gave here.)
Recent studies actually indicate that vitamin supplements are quite useless, and sometimes even unhealthy. And as a personal anectdotal comment: I've been taking vitamins like crazy for many years. I always got my cold in winter anyway. (Now I hardly get any colds anymore, my personal protection against it is drinking a lot of tea and water.)
Perhaps they were aiming to provide better visibility of streets and buidlings, so it would be easier to find your way around.
BTW, what about date tagging for each given area (whatever size would be best, I can't guess) you see in GoogleEarth? After all, the image data gets updated continuosly, but also irregularily. It would be nice to even have a history for comparison for each area.
The days of the memory stick industry are counted ...
> No, HD isn't for the consumer; it's for the electronics and movie industries.
That's what it looks like, and reminds of SACD/DVD-Audio, which are not having success, because of similar reasons.
Right on. And in addition, if everyone works with the same toolkit and company imposed design rules (and I'm NOT saying that this is bad), all apps obviously look and behave the same. As opposed to Linux, where every programmer has the freedom to design (or not design at all) the user interface. That freedom has led to some great results, more alternatives and options, at the cost of less consistency. Isn't that what Linux is about?
> You are depriving a number of people of having their expectation of being paid for offering their work being satisfied.
Isn't this exactly what is faulty about all of the MI's claims concerning "online piracy"? Because, if one would analyze the mindset of content downloaders (*), the result is that whatever they download, they would not have bought it ANYWAY. So, the only bad thing they're doing is enjoying content without paying. Which would make feel bad those people actually paying for content, but not the copyright holders.
(*) I am, of course, not talking about those who resell downloaded content. It's about the masses of casual downloaders.
> Oracle did not work well on Red Hat Linux for us, in fact, it worked very badly.
> I know that raises cackles here and people say it has worked fine for them and
> give anecdotes about their successful experiences.
It's not anecdotes, its about successfully running Oracle on Linux since years. You most likely ran into problems because of one or both of the following typical issues:
1) You had a spare x86 box, some RH version, and tried to run some Oracle version on this combination. Bad idea, start only with proven HW, Linux version and Oracle version combinations.
2) You have expert admins for Oracle on a specific Unix version (Solaris in your case). They did not bother to acquire special Linux knowledge beforehand, because Linux is similar to Unix.
> I'd be curious to hear the names of major companies that are running Oracle on Linux in production.
Take a look at Oracle's success stories.
Running Oracle on Linux is not "cheap". You have to invest and prepare as with any other platform. Therefore, just "trying out" Linux in an Enterprise environment without a proper migration plan often results in disappointment.
That might be funny. But it is the same with all Linux FS discussions: for every major FS, there are people who never had problems, and others who "lost all their data". Which means: one cannot choose a FS based on real world experience. So what do you base your decision on? In the end, it's reiserfs3 for lots of small files, xfs for large (100MB+ ?) files, and ext3 for the rest. Or isn't it?
> the robot lacks, and will probably always lack musical taste
Yeah, just like 80% of humans.
Dude. You're wrong. The payload won't sit in the middle of the ring and won't fall through a wormhole. We're not there yet, SETI is still on it.
This remembers me of the same old "be more tolerant" bullshit you hear from smokers. No one asking for natural, sane air (or an acceptable noise level) wants to modify the behaviour of anyone, they have the right in society to ask for it. If you are the one "modifying" standard living conditions (by polluting with smoke or noise), YOU have to take steps to avoid that others suffer. Sadly, this isn't understood be enough people.
I find your post very interesting. So, in summary, if I understood correctly, you as Chinese national think that the political situation in your country is "OK", with maybe some problems, but "on the right way"?
... what did I say? This would even mean the we (western nations and their citizens) actually should STFU about other countries' habits, and refrain from trying to influence?
If this is true, we Westeners might have to accept that our lifestyle and values are not the only true and right ones. Oh wait
I think it is a very difficult question. What would we say if the Chinese government would tell us that our "obession with personal freedom is just egoism" and that we must change our habits?