Isn't that just you announcing your ignorant of which tools to use? Are you that kid in gym class that was always trying to put his shoes back on without untying them, rather than take the seconds to untie/re-tie he'd stomp himself around the locker room for minutes until they fit right. Oh and, how long would it take you to create and print a tri-fold pamphlet using sed? Perhaps you're the problem, not the app. Damn straight. It would have taken him just as long to attempt the same operation in Linux, using OpenOffice. He's a tard for using a "full featured word processor" for a "simple find and replace". That's like using a pneumatic jack hammer to put in my 2-man camping tent spikes, and complaining that the setup and take down of my "spike-putter-in device" was far too excessive compared to the linux-rubber-mallet. What a fucking retard.
The sad part is that despite your perfectly good retort and explanation to the gym-class idiot, he probably read a quarter of your post, mentally tagged you as a MS fanboy, and kept giggling. Makes all the non-idiotic GNU/Linux advocates look like idiots standing next to him.
Glad to see someone else saw this glaring piece of obviousness.
Just because a product wasn't plug-and-play in 1997 when you last used it, doesn't mean it still sucks a decade later.
The amount of testing/development that takes place in the fedora community all funnels directly into a more stable and usable product(i.e. RHEL). That subscription to RHN ensures those engineers bust their ass to fix whats wrong and get it delivered to you: it also means that if your the IT staff in said hospitable and something doesn't make 100%, you can call someone who it does make 100% to and get an answer/fix instead of diagnosing it for 45 minutes while a doctor needing to do a simple task breathes down your neck and wastes both their time and yours.
Ugh, too true. All the solutions that come to mind for this problem...like publishing encrypted docs that can't be downloaded...blah blah blah...too much work to expect someone else to comply with. It's depressing just trying to think up a solution, wish we had one.
Not all free software is "free" per-say. Look at MySQL, making money while we all use their software. That's just one example, so here are a few more that produce free products while still earning significant income:
Sun Microsystems Novell Mozilla Foundation Spiceworks(a personal favorite)
I'm not furious as you imply, I'm just suggesting we kill him. It seems a pretty cut and dry solution to me..people can't seem to find a way to cope with Dvorak. Even if you ignore him: he will still exist. So, why not plant the idea of someone helping him cease to exist?
So once again, I'm not furious at all. Besides, killing someone when furious would probably increase your chances of making a mistake, and we can't have that, can we?
and...
#1. make death threats on the public web with your unique id At what point did I state that I plan to murder Dvorak? I just suggested it as a good idea, not a statement of intent. I say it in the hopes someone else will do it, that way:
1 - I get what I want 2 - Someone else takes responsibility
Now we just need someone willing to take my suggestion to heart, conceive a plan, and execute it. The key is someone else, know anyone?
I agree, and yes: I use this software. Albeit I use Blender badly..the rest I use extensively.
GIMP I can use like the back of my hand, replicating most work done in Photoshop..but every time I've tried to recommend it to a friend or co-worker: it ends in "this is too hard, I can't find anything". Alot of this could be blamed on new GIMP-users being so accustomed to Photoshop, but there is still a fair portion of blame on bad UI-design. I think I heard some time ago about a fork of GIMP specifically to create a more Photoshop-ish UI, but the name/link of it escapes me...anyone?
Inkscape is great, I have only 1 complaint, and that is it's inability to open native Adobe Illustrator file formats. Other than that, Inkscape is a truly top-notch vector graphics package.
Sadly yes, there is a type of very expensive commercial software who's market is unable to be challenged by free software.
That market is custom database design: it's where your company pays $10,000 per license of some "cutting-edge" VB6.0 front-end to a MS Access database file because it has been completely customized to their business model. They are rampant with bugs, bag programming procedures, and hidden [usually annual] costs.
Doesn't look like it's going anywhere either, until corporate purchasing mindsets evolve from "price = value".
One of the key reasons for poor salesmanship in your experiences at best buy is that employees do not receive commission. I worked at the Best Buy in North Little Rock, AR once upon a time: and was paid $10.15 an hour to explain the computer sales section to customers. I would clarify what the technical terms on the price tag meant, and was also to encourage them to buy it. They really put alot of stock in the "encouragement" part, I was to recommend credit, attempt to rationalize how this would be more valuable to them than say: that upgrade for their auto, a new deck, etc.
And...if they bought it, what did I get? Nothing, nada, zilch. Motivation to keep busting your balls? None.
I don't know if the *other* departments in the store operate on a commission scale, but computer sales, music equipment, and music sales certainly did not, so you'll find the employees sales enthusiasm on par with the sub-standard compensation.
IANAL.
Do you have to be present in the courtroom yourself, or can your attorney represent you without your actual presence being required in this type of suit?
Would a judge not see through their attempt to forcibly his/her anonymity by getting him to show up in court?
Wouldn't a "private lab" be just as susceptible to government pressure/warrants?
I [meant to] imply that a private lab would turn over all results to you.
How long until government(i.e. USA) orders them to hand over the DNA of Citizen X, a suspect in a crime, so they can match it against suspect DNA from a crime scene?
This basically provides governments with a large bank of DNA they can strong-arm their way into whenever they feel the need, regardless of whatever "privacy statement" the company itself claims to adhere to.
If privacy and your DNA being mapped are important, consider a private laboratory.
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
That's the comment I was looking for, seems pretty cut and dry to me.
Pushing around smaller and less reputable colleges and students may be fine and dandy...but trying to shove your weight around against Harvard is like lil timmy firing his peashooter at the deathstar, the RIAA would be decimated and a huge precedent would be set. Better to just leav'em be.
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You hit it on the head. When people view the average distro's "out-of-the-box" hardware support, it's vastly superior to the mainstream competition.
The sad part is that despite your perfectly good retort and explanation to the gym-class idiot, he probably read a quarter of your post, mentally tagged you as a MS fanboy, and kept giggling. Makes all the non-idiotic GNU/Linux advocates look like idiots standing next to him.
Glad to see someone else saw this glaring piece of obviousness.
Just because a product wasn't plug-and-play in 1997 when you last used it, doesn't mean it still sucks a decade later.
The amount of testing/development that takes place in the fedora community all funnels directly into a more stable and usable product(i.e. RHEL). That subscription to RHN ensures those engineers bust their ass to fix whats wrong and get it delivered to you: it also means that if your the IT staff in said hospitable and something doesn't make 100%, you can call someone who it does make 100% to and get an answer/fix instead of diagnosing it for 45 minutes while a doctor needing to do a simple task breathes down your neck and wastes both their time and yours.
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Ugh, too true. All the solutions that come to mind for this problem...like publishing encrypted docs that can't be downloaded...blah blah blah...too much work to expect someone else to comply with. It's depressing just trying to think up a solution, wish we had one.
Not all free software is "free" per-say. Look at MySQL, making money while we all use their software. That's just one example, so here are a few more that produce free products while still earning significant income:
Sun Microsystems
Novell
Mozilla Foundation
Spiceworks(a personal favorite)
So once again, I'm not furious at all. Besides, killing someone when furious would probably increase your chances of making a mistake, and we can't have that, can we?
and... #1. make death threats on the public web with your unique id At what point did I state that I plan to murder Dvorak? I just suggested it as a good idea, not a statement of intent. I say it in the hopes someone else will do it, that way:
1 - I get what I want
2 - Someone else takes responsibility
Now we just need someone willing to take my suggestion to heart, conceive a plan, and execute it. The key is someone else, know anyone?
Lets murder him.
Seeing eye dogs are more intelligent than the editor of this article.
I agree, and yes: I use this software. Albeit I use Blender badly..the rest I use extensively.
GIMP I can use like the back of my hand, replicating most work done in Photoshop..but every time I've tried to recommend it to a friend or co-worker: it ends in "this is too hard, I can't find anything". Alot of this could be blamed on new GIMP-users being so accustomed to Photoshop, but there is still a fair portion of blame on bad UI-design. I think I heard some time ago about a fork of GIMP specifically to create a more Photoshop-ish UI, but the name/link of it escapes me...anyone?
Inkscape is great, I have only 1 complaint, and that is it's inability to open native Adobe Illustrator file formats. Other than that, Inkscape is a truly top-notch vector graphics package.
Sadly yes, there is a type of very expensive commercial software who's market is unable to be challenged by free software.
That market is custom database design: it's where your company pays $10,000 per license of some "cutting-edge" VB6.0 front-end to a MS Access database file because it has been completely customized to their business model. They are rampant with bugs, bag programming procedures, and hidden [usually annual] costs.
Doesn't look like it's going anywhere either, until corporate purchasing mindsets evolve from "price = value".
One of the key reasons for poor salesmanship in your experiences at best buy is that employees do not receive commission. I worked at the Best Buy in North Little Rock, AR once upon a time: and was paid $10.15 an hour to explain the computer sales section to customers. I would clarify what the technical terms on the price tag meant, and was also to encourage them to buy it. They really put alot of stock in the "encouragement" part, I was to recommend credit, attempt to rationalize how this would be more valuable to them than say: that upgrade for their auto, a new deck, etc.
.02 cents.
And...if they bought it, what did I get? Nothing, nada, zilch. Motivation to keep busting your balls? None.
I don't know if the *other* departments in the store operate on a commission scale, but computer sales, music equipment, and music sales certainly did not, so you'll find the employees sales enthusiasm on par with the sub-standard compensation.
That's my
I suggest Kenny G to engage your enthusiasm.
IANAL.
Do you have to be present in the courtroom yourself, or can your attorney represent you without your actual presence being required in this type of suit?
Would a judge not see through their attempt to forcibly his/her anonymity by getting him to show up in court?
My God, that was awesome.
I [meant to] imply that a private lab would turn over all results to you.
How long until government(i.e. USA) orders them to hand over the DNA of Citizen X, a suspect in a crime, so they can match it against suspect DNA from a crime scene?
This basically provides governments with a large bank of DNA they can strong-arm their way into whenever they feel the need, regardless of whatever "privacy statement" the company itself claims to adhere to.
If privacy and your DNA being mapped are important, consider a private laboratory.
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
Enough said.
Hey fanboy, GTA:VC wasn't the title that anyone went up in arms over. That was San Andreas. Get your facts straight dipshit.
Go play your naked Sims mod or something kiddo. off our intraweb.
That's the comment I was looking for, seems pretty cut and dry to me.
Pushing around smaller and less reputable colleges and students may be fine and dandy...but trying to shove your weight around against Harvard is like lil timmy firing his peashooter at the deathstar, the RIAA would be decimated and a huge precedent would be set. Better to just leav'em be.
My name is Bob, and I support this comment.
...."There goes another one of those self-satisfied doors", said Marvin.
I like the first Star-trek themed theator I read about on /. in Jaunary.
The original
Looks more like the bridge itself.