Microsoft method: Milk them for every cent.
Linux method: Free is free. Nobody can hold a gun to your head under the GPL.
But some money backing seems to just create much higher quality software. I would actually pay money for a Linux distribution if the desktop worked as nicely as Windows or Mac. That being said, Microsoft should have more commercial competition. Competition also makes higher quality software.
HipsterDE (today) is XFCE. Super, super retro. Works a lot like windows 95 but without all the "modern" stuff like being able to sort icons. At least until the corporations just ruin it by adding basic features.
I think a basic, bug-free and fast desktop is exactly what Linux needs. A "best thing since sliced ham" kind of thing.
Back in high school one guy encountered the message "netscape.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down", and pondered "why would just going to a website be illegal?"
so as a power user you actually navigate to what you want to run instead of just hitting the windows key types the first few letters of the app and hitting enter?
You can do exactly the same in Windows 7, and for that purpose the small Start menu is still nicer to use than the full screen one.
He was talking about the year of Linux desktop. The Linux kernel has been doing fine for a decade and is widespread on various embedded devices. And the kernel itself is not anymore a bottleneck to build an awesome desktop upon, either. It's all about the GUI stuff on top of it now.
There are few advantages, such as minor performance improvements and some of the Metro apps are actually quite nice for a notebook or tablet: IE10, Windows Mail, the 3rd party Wikipedia and Khan Academy apps. That being said, I felt that the constant flicking through Start screen, Desktop and Metro apps was ultimately rather painful. They really are like two worlds that don't integrate at all. Also, the graphics are crappy. You could say it is minimalism, but I see it just as having no style at all. Just look at the startup logo or the volume indicator popup as examples. As a little side issue, I experienced audio buffer underruns which does not happen under Win7 with the same laptop.
For a Joe Sixpack machine, I suppose Win8 is just fine. For a power user desktop, it's a turd.
This has always been a bit stupid argument. If 50% of TPB files were non-pirated material then we could start talking. However if you have a pirate ship on the front page and the great majority of the stuff is pirated, it does not make a big difference if there is an odd Linux ISO there somewhere.
Despite which, even if it were, the links are not copyrighted nor copyrightable.
The site responsible for holding the torrent links (or, possibly more specifically, the tracker) should be considered as hosting the copyrighted material, because without the torrents no file sharing would be possible. It's not the same as a simple web link (which address you can type in manually, not needing the link), torrents are the way to directly tap to the warez.
There is a feature that I very much like in Firefox: if you have ordinary horizontal tab bar and you open a lot of tabs, it makes the tab strip scrollable, instead of squeezing the tabs smaller and smaller. With all other browsers you just end up with tiny tabs which text you can't read, which is horrible.
Reminds me how I've wished for a new http "undo" feature.
Basically, if I make a request of a page from a server and decide it was a mistake, I want to invoke "undo" and have my browser history go back, wipe any cookies or history or cache trace, plus delete anything downloaded... AND THEN ALSO send an "undo" header to Apache to request wiping my visit from the logs.
Of course that would be open to abuse. So servers should only honor such "undo" requests if they happen within X seconds (say, 120) after the last non-ajax bit was sent to the browser, and as long as no further requests are made by the browser after the first one. For example, click a link on the page, interact with a form widget, or invoke a new ajax request... and you'd totally kill the ability to "undo".
That would just make things unnecessarily complicated.
However, from the point of view of an electronics hobbyist, I just look at the web site and think "where the fuck is the datasheet?"
There was a datasheet some time before the release, but I haven't been able to find it anymore. Maybe it's still buried on their website somewhere, or available by request. It leaves me to repeat your comment: where the fuck is the datasheet?!
Further materials analysis showed it to be a piece of the wrapper of a Mars chocolate bar, therefore proving that intelligent life exists on the red planet.
A friend of mine has a small business selling specialized shoes, and needs a new inventory system. Quickbooks just doesn't cut the load and such large inventories. Ideally, it should be an open source solution, either LAN or web-based, with very comprehensive inventory management and customer relationship management, barcode reading/printing, possibly unique ID (serial number) generation, and ideally some accounting/quickbooks integration.
I don't see what your friend would benefit from open source in this case. How about Microsoft Dynamics NAV?
My room is a disaster. My bed isn't made, nobody can find anything in here but me, and I have a couple bras right now hanging on the lamp to dry because there's nowhere else to put them. According to this article, I should be a major, successful retail vendor.
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Microsoft method: Milk them for every cent.
Linux method: Free is free. Nobody can hold a gun to your head under the GPL.
But some money backing seems to just create much higher quality software. I would actually pay money for a Linux distribution if the desktop worked as nicely as Windows or Mac. That being said, Microsoft should have more commercial competition. Competition also makes higher quality software.
Insightful comment.
Also the "most those" part should probably be "most of those".
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HipsterDE (today) is XFCE. Super, super retro. Works a lot like windows 95 but without all the "modern" stuff like being able to sort icons. At least until the corporations just ruin it by adding basic features.
I think a basic, bug-free and fast desktop is exactly what Linux needs. A "best thing since sliced ham" kind of thing.
Back in high school one guy encountered the message "netscape.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down", and pondered "why would just going to a website be illegal?"
so as a power user you actually navigate to what you want to run instead of just hitting the windows key types the first few letters of the app and hitting enter?
You can do exactly the same in Windows 7, and for that purpose the small Start menu is still nicer to use than the full screen one.
He was talking about the year of Linux desktop. The Linux kernel has been doing fine for a decade and is widespread on various embedded devices. And the kernel itself is not anymore a bottleneck to build an awesome desktop upon, either. It's all about the GUI stuff on top of it now.
Let me know when Ubuntu can do something simple like change the amount of lines scrolled with the mouse wheel.
KDE allows configuring this.
It's just that using the Windows 2000 theme turns off desktop compositing.
There are few advantages, such as minor performance improvements and some of the Metro apps are actually quite nice for a notebook or tablet: IE10, Windows Mail, the 3rd party Wikipedia and Khan Academy apps. That being said, I felt that the constant flicking through Start screen, Desktop and Metro apps was ultimately rather painful. They really are like two worlds that don't integrate at all. Also, the graphics are crappy. You could say it is minimalism, but I see it just as having no style at all. Just look at the startup logo or the volume indicator popup as examples. As a little side issue, I experienced audio buffer underruns which does not happen under Win7 with the same laptop.
For a Joe Sixpack machine, I suppose Win8 is just fine. For a power user desktop, it's a turd.
By the way, if you guys want to see what the Finland's largest magazine (Pelit) looks like, there's a torrent.
If you are tall, then it should be no problem indeed.
Try playing with this tool for a while.
http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html
Exactly. I don't understand how people can pay the price of a Mac and put up with that glossy crap.
I just picked up a "WQHD" (Widescreen Quad-"HD" for values of HD meaning 1280x720, so a total of 2560x1440) 27" IPS LCD monitor online for $300 US.
Those large displays just have the problem that they can cause neck pain, being so tall.
TPB DOES host links to non pirated material!
This has always been a bit stupid argument. If 50% of TPB files were non-pirated material then we could start talking. However if you have a pirate ship on the front page and the great majority of the stuff is pirated, it does not make a big difference if there is an odd Linux ISO there somewhere.
Despite which, even if it were, the links are not copyrighted nor copyrightable.
The site responsible for holding the torrent links (or, possibly more specifically, the tracker) should be considered as hosting the copyrighted material, because without the torrents no file sharing would be possible. It's not the same as a simple web link (which address you can type in manually, not needing the link), torrents are the way to directly tap to the warez.
There is a feature that I very much like in Firefox: if you have ordinary horizontal tab bar and you open a lot of tabs, it makes the tab strip scrollable, instead of squeezing the tabs smaller and smaller. With all other browsers you just end up with tiny tabs which text you can't read, which is horrible.
Reminds me how I've wished for a new http "undo" feature.
Basically, if I make a request of a page from a server and decide it was a mistake, I want to invoke "undo" and have my browser history go back, wipe any cookies or history or cache trace, plus delete anything downloaded... AND THEN ALSO send an "undo" header to Apache to request wiping my visit from the logs.
Of course that would be open to abuse. So servers should only honor such "undo" requests if they happen within X seconds (say, 120) after the last non-ajax bit was sent to the browser, and as long as no further requests are made by the browser after the first one. For example, click a link on the page, interact with a form widget, or invoke a new ajax request... and you'd totally kill the ability to "undo".
That would just make things unnecessarily complicated.
However, from the point of view of an electronics hobbyist, I just look at the web site and think "where the fuck is the datasheet?"
There was a datasheet some time before the release, but I haven't been able to find it anymore. Maybe it's still buried on their website somewhere, or available by request. It leaves me to repeat your comment: where the fuck is the datasheet?!
Further materials analysis showed it to be a piece of the wrapper of a Mars chocolate bar, therefore proving that intelligent life exists on the red planet.
A friend of mine has a small business selling specialized shoes, and needs a new inventory system. Quickbooks just doesn't cut the load and such large inventories. Ideally, it should be an open source solution, either LAN or web-based, with very comprehensive inventory management and customer relationship management, barcode reading/printing, possibly unique ID (serial number) generation, and ideally some accounting/quickbooks integration.
I don't see what your friend would benefit from open source in this case. How about Microsoft Dynamics NAV?
My room is a disaster. My bed isn't made, nobody can find anything in here but me, and I have a couple bras right now hanging on the lamp to dry because there's nowhere else to put them. According to this article, I should be a major, successful retail vendor.
Correlation is not causation!
I wonder what the NNTP server admins like about the huge data usage?
I don't see how this is garbage.
JS
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