You know GNOME supports something like kioslaves: GNOME-VFS. SFTP, FTP, CDDA, HTTP, DAV and many other things (apparently on the fly decompression too but I don't know how that works or if that works -- file roller sucks).
I agree in that Konqueror is likely more powerful than Nautilus, however, I very rarely find the need to use many of Konqueror's features, despite being quite a heavy computer user/programmer - most just confuse me or distract me. For anything that requires ungodly amounts of file operations, a quick "Open shell here" and small bash one-liner will often be quicker IMO (yes I find bash less confusing than Konqueror;))
That said, there is great potential for ease of use and usability in the KDE project, I feel that their UIs could just do with a bit of polish. I find they always have the impression of being tacky, where they do what you want, and you can find most of the features, but it's a bit messy and takes longer to get used to and use than it should.
EFF or some other organisation that is trying to fight for the rights of US citizens need to get a good amount of airtime and marketing to try and educate the masses on what allowing these laws will do, and get everyone to oppose it so that they wouldn't dare to pass it.
Here it's the same, pretty much. They have some McAffee or Norton thing that restricts pages about sex, porn, gambling, online shopping, gaming, religion, drugs, alcohol, downloads, guitar tabs, email, chat, image search, bad language, "portal sites" (isn't every site pretty much a portal site)...
Thanks to the pro-MS attitude in the schools, they also block off many free/opensource software sites - even ones that offer no downloads, but just serve information. They're blocked as "User defined category 0".
This sucks for many reasons: often one needs to look up stuff about controversial issues (religion, drugs, slavery), and it will usually be blocked off. I don't know their motivation for blocking these sort of sites. Maybe it's political correctness or "Think of the children" type stuff. Yeah, of course nobody in our school has ever had a drink...
It seems to go along with the attitude in todays society of protecting the kids by restricting what they can do and see. I'm only 16, but whatever happened to parents talking to their kids and just trying to get them to behave responsibly? What's going to happen to to kids when they suddenly get released from the "Under 18" restrictions and the power goes to their head, without them having any childhood training in acting responsibly? I'm not pro-child abuse or anything - I just think that parents should only restrict things when they have a reason to do so, for instance if the child abused the home computer by looking up porn (if parents think that is bad)... give the child space to embrace their rights and responsibilities, then see how they handle it.
Anyway, surely if you're never exposed to anything violent, then when you're 24 and you first see a violent slasher horror film, then it's going to have the same effect as if you were 12 and had just seen your first horror film, except now you are out of the control of your parents. Some film about serial killers might make this 24 year old go "Hmm yeah that sounds like a good idea", but if he was with his parents when he was first exposed, then his parents might have diffused it by explaining about right vs wrong. That is, rather than just pretending to the kid there's no such thing as wrong.
Ok.. that might have been a little bit melodramatic, but my point is that just restricting everything kids can see is probably a stupid idea, unless they censor everything and people grow up brainwashed and unable to think for themselves... wait.. that sounds like Nazi Germany;)
I think that pornographic and violent imagery is probably a good thing to deny on public internet points, because it'd be very distracting if the person next to you was searching S&M and occasionally re-shuffling their trousers, trying to hide the thrill they're getting off of looking at porn in public.... Plus it's not really a free speech like thing. (Though artistic erotica would be a difficult one to decide)
An uncensored internet is great, but for things like schools and libraries, enforcing metadata to be sent along with page requests describing the content of the page is probably a good idea. Provided it's not actually censoring.. it should be left up to the admin of the network/computer. The worry is that ISPs might start doing blanket censoring with proxies, so they can say "We're supportive of the good old fashioned right-winged Christian American family."
The PICS ratings and stuff always seemed like a good idea, considering the majority of well funded (more advertising) porn sites aren't trying to serve their pages to 5 year old kids, but it never really took off. Anyway, isn't IE the only browser that supports this sort of thing? Probably a way to block it off from squid or something though.
Summer of code: - Working on something you enjoy - Possibility of getting 4500 USD personally and 500 USD for your favourite OSS project - Doing something that will benefit at least one person somewhere else in the world, if not many thousands. - Practice for future job probably - Something reasonably unique to put on CV
McDonalds - Boring, hot, horrid job - Shit money - Further perpetuating the problem of obesity and heart problems by providing overweight middle aged men and women and their kids, for whom they can't be bothered to cook a nutritious meal, with their daily dose of fatty dead animal - Time spent doing repetitive tasks that require no skill or thought - Just another generic teenage job to put on your CV, if mentioned at all
I love linux as much as the next guy, but how the hell?
Simply starting Eclipse on my 256MB RAM laptop with GNOME sends it about 300MB deep into the swap and makes it a total pain to use, and I don't even have Apache, MySQL, Postfix or any other server services running...
However, my 512MB desktop is very responsive with *loads* of stuff running -- even if it's using the swap.
Amen. I suppose you could say that thinking about all the different bits of code working together, and the bigger picture, is multitasking, but it's not really in my opinion. When I code, I don't even notice if I'm hungry or tired usually... or at least until I finish a big block of code and give myself a short break. It's like athletics apparently, where they just lose all sense of everything other than the task at hand.
I tend to close all distractions and not even debug or re-read my code until I've finished a large section. Overall, I find I make more logic mistakes if I stop every few minutes to recompile and fix errors, unit test, etc. I leave all that till I've finished a file or class. Grammar mistakes and typos are easy to fix, logic mistakes aren't so easy.
Why stop at merging KDE and GNOME? Let's merge Linux and Windows too...
Both desktops have different philosophies and ideals, for instance, GNOME tries to do what just works without configuration, and minimise the amount of configuration the user can do/would want to do, whereas KDE's main focus seems to be so that the user can configure everything they could ever dream of in the GUI, and get a desktop completely customised to them.
Personally I stick with GNOME. The most config I do is killing some of the toolbars in Nautilus and changing the wallpaper. I tried KDE but it was too much upkeep and wasn't particularly sane by default. Plus with a lot more configurability comes complexity, and I can't be bothered sifting through it all...
The more work they do in cross-compatibility, the better, since it will allow users to choose their desktop and applications almost independently. I'm mostly satisified with what I have, but the odd KDE application would be nice in GNOME. It'd certainly make commercial app development less scary, since they're going to be satisfying the majority of the users of the platform, rather than less than half.
Well, fucking up a gconf tree will at most break a particular user's UI or settings (in theory, the applications shouldn't break, but I've seen it happen before) Also, it's not a binary file, it's usually an XML tree so it's harder to screw up.
Windows registry contains loads of system settings and things that really shouldn't be in the registry, doesn't have schema or decent type support, doesn't have a standardised structure -- even among Microsoft stuff sometimes. Gconf is also a lot easier and more powerful to configure in a multi-user environment if you know what it's doing (which, as an admin, you should). It actually makes sense, unlike my experience with AD/Registry/etc. and it's horrible mix of standards and what doing different things is actually doing. It's particularly good with these new Gnome 2.14 admin tools.
Personally I think gconf is better than a load of config files in the home directory, because it actually makes sense to do it that way. It's not such a good idea to do it for system-wide config though.
They already do release updates other than plain XP... XPSP1, XPSP2.
What Windows needs is a good package manager (no: Windows update, MSI and SUS are not good) and the ability to download newly built XP CDs with the latest packages. If you want an entire list of software, the package manager can provide it, a little like the windows update logs.
I think Linux does support a fair amount of those features or the Linux equivalent of the features (I don't know what some of them are, however), though the Linux stuff can be a bit harder to configure at first. There are a couple of projects to provide an all-in-one sort of solution for Linux firewalls.
Similarly, there are certain things that Linux does that you can't do on Cisco stuff... e.g. complete control over source code and ability to patch in/pay for patches of missing features or support for other protocols. There are certain cases where this will be useful, and many where it will not.
It all depends on what you need too though, in all networks I've seen that use Linux routers, they tend to use mid-range systems and design the network accordingly. If you're going to have loads of traffic going to a particular box, then the chances are that you'll need hardware acceleration. In most networks with Cisco hardware I've seen, it's nothing particularly amazing or using loads of the features that Cisco provide, but it's the support that was the main factor in purchasing it.
The main problem about using Linux for routers isn't so much about the lack of features, but since it's a generic kernel that usually runs on standard x86 hardware, it's not usually going to be as fast as Cisco stuff. In theory, Cisco stuff should also be more stable, but that seems to vary....
Linux can do most advanced network tasks, which would be classed as an opensource router. Speed and hardware accelerated support is another issue though...
Early in my computing days, I used to love features. I'd select the application with the most menus, I'd open loads of toolbars in Office and I'd have all of the tweaking tools for Windows. As I grew, I started to become less bothered about the specifics of my system and started to want things that just worked and did what I wanted with little or no configuration... It seems to be an evolution that most people I know have went through at some point.
The simple "advanced"/"beginner" mode stuff, where advanced has more options doesn't generally work, since everyone ends up going to advanced mode when they can't find a feature, but a good thing would be, similar to what you stated, a system-wide user level which provides a hint to applications on how to organise their menus...
Same for the GNOME Office programs, currently Abiword, Gnumeric and GNOME-DB. Abiword recently implemented collaborative editing via Jabber. Personally, I find Koffice and GNOME Office better than Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. Just need a good presentation program now.
Oh.. if only there were answers to your questions then maybe it'd be easier to sleep at night... they sound a bit nihilistic.
I'm vegetarian since I think that, being a human, it's possible to try and cause less harm to other animals without causing harm to ourselves.. yet occasionally I find myself questioning it on "Well we evolved to be like this so why shouldn't we?". It's a bit like the taking animals into zoos to breed them up and release them back into the wild. Is there any point releasing seemingly evolutionally deficient animals back into the wild? Are we taking them in because essentially it's humans causing them to go extinct and we have "morals"? God knows... (maybe).
Sometimes I wish I was religious.. then I could believe that there is one correct path. It'd be so much easier, but you can't believe in something you don't believe in...
Mutations are not always destructive (whatever that means anyway). Mutations are just.. well... mutations. They can increase or decrease chance of reproduction, or not affect it, and naturally, the ones that increase the chance for reproduction are more likely to be passed onto decendents of the squirrel.
If mutations are always destructive, how come there are people with different colours of hair and skin?
In most companies I've seen, most users don't really interact with the Windows desktop anyway... they usually have some weird, awfully designed GUI running fullscreen or maximised when they log in, and it encompasses everything they do.
At the tourism place here they use some software that was custom built, and encompasses a spreadsheet, word processor, basic HTML parser and custom database-frontend thing that looks a bit like an MS Access form, all wrapped up into a frontend that provides basically no advantages to using individual applications other than some half assed attempt at integrating it... and it crashes about 3 times an hour. It took something like a year to develop and cost in the reigon of £500k.
How about if for everything that's being downloaded, the server will multicast packets in a loop. I mean, so that if you don't catch the first five minutes, your computer will just keep downloading until it loops to the start again, and download the first five minutes it missed.
Obviously this won't work for streaming, but a similar method could be employed.. in particular, it could start multicasting a movie every 5 minutes, so that you'll never be more than 5 minutes away from the start of a movie, and servers will be able to offer higher quality lag. Yeah, 5 minutes is a longer wait than desirable, but still quicker than going to the shop. Software could be used to figure out what movies are popular and adjust the broadcast interval appropriately.
The corporate obsession with meetings must be something to do with it too... Nothing like settling down into a task then getting an alert: "Meeting in 5 minutes", and it's usually to discuss something completely pointless that doesn't particularly concern you;)
Um, I'm not so sure. If it's in the company building, the chances are that the security is such that only people employed by the company would be able to access the room, and it'd likely have some form of security camera.
All the server rooms I've seen that have important, confidential data restrict access based on two of: - something you have - something you know - something you are
And then, only a few people in the company are even allowed in.
Not only that, with a laptop, you can misplace it by leaving it on a park bench or something, just totally open for someone completely to take it without any CCTV footage.
Take special care with this part: Instead of asking "How does this contradict my beliefs?" ask: "What does this mean?"
Note that most of what I said wasn't relative, but rather factual. I never even suggested you use a binary distribution, I just said if you don't want to see everything compile, then you could use binary, ccache or a make-type thing. I suppose you could be trying to disagree with things like Gtk+ being a toolkit, or machine code being required to show a button, but you don't provide any reasoning.
And also, buttons may well "suck", but that's irrelevant. If you don't want buttons, X and toolkits you could just stick with a CLI interface- nobody is forcing you to use GTK or Qt. Pretty much everything can be done with a CLI (and possibly a framebuffer of some type, even X, for images and graphs and such).
Just an interesting point... on my TV, PS2, microwave, cooker and laptop (what I can see at the moment), the power button or control panel is on the right hand side of the device.
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You know GNOME supports something like kioslaves: GNOME-VFS. SFTP, FTP, CDDA, HTTP, DAV and many other things (apparently on the fly decompression too but I don't know how that works or if that works -- file roller sucks).
;))
I agree in that Konqueror is likely more powerful than Nautilus, however, I very rarely find the need to use many of Konqueror's features, despite being quite a heavy computer user/programmer - most just confuse me or distract me. For anything that requires ungodly amounts of file operations, a quick "Open shell here" and small bash one-liner will often be quicker IMO (yes I find bash less confusing than Konqueror
That said, there is great potential for ease of use and usability in the KDE project, I feel that their UIs could just do with a bit of polish. I find they always have the impression of being tacky, where they do what you want, and you can find most of the features, but it's a bit messy and takes longer to get used to and use than it should.
Yeah, I actually thought it might have been referring to some brand new prison education program ;)
EFF or some other organisation that is trying to fight for the rights of US citizens need to get a good amount of airtime and marketing to try and educate the masses on what allowing these laws will do, and get everyone to oppose it so that they wouldn't dare to pass it.
Here it's the same, pretty much. They have some McAffee or Norton thing that restricts pages about sex, porn, gambling, online shopping, gaming, religion, drugs, alcohol, downloads, guitar tabs, email, chat, image search, bad language, "portal sites" (isn't every site pretty much a portal site)...
;)
Thanks to the pro-MS attitude in the schools, they also block off many free/opensource software sites - even ones that offer no downloads, but just serve information. They're blocked as "User defined category 0".
This sucks for many reasons: often one needs to look up stuff about controversial issues (religion, drugs, slavery), and it will usually be blocked off. I don't know their motivation for blocking these sort of sites. Maybe it's political correctness or "Think of the children" type stuff. Yeah, of course nobody in our school has ever had a drink...
It seems to go along with the attitude in todays society of protecting the kids by restricting what they can do and see. I'm only 16, but whatever happened to parents talking to their kids and just trying to get them to behave responsibly? What's going to happen to to kids when they suddenly get released from the "Under 18" restrictions and the power goes to their head, without them having any childhood training in acting responsibly? I'm not pro-child abuse or anything - I just think that parents should only restrict things when they have a reason to do so, for instance if the child abused the home computer by looking up porn (if parents think that is bad)... give the child space to embrace their rights and responsibilities, then see how they handle it.
Anyway, surely if you're never exposed to anything violent, then when you're 24 and you first see a violent slasher horror film, then it's going to have the same effect as if you were 12 and had just seen your first horror film, except now you are out of the control of your parents. Some film about serial killers might make this 24 year old go "Hmm yeah that sounds like a good idea", but if he was with his parents when he was first exposed, then his parents might have diffused it by explaining about right vs wrong. That is, rather than just pretending to the kid there's no such thing as wrong.
Ok.. that might have been a little bit melodramatic, but my point is that just restricting everything kids can see is probably a stupid idea, unless they censor everything and people grow up brainwashed and unable to think for themselves... wait.. that sounds like Nazi Germany
I think that pornographic and violent imagery is probably a good thing to deny on public internet points, because it'd be very distracting if the person next to you was searching S&M and occasionally re-shuffling their trousers, trying to hide the thrill they're getting off of looking at porn in public.... Plus it's not really a free speech like thing. (Though artistic erotica would be a difficult one to decide)
An uncensored internet is great, but for things like schools and libraries, enforcing metadata to be sent along with page requests describing the content of the page is probably a good idea. Provided it's not actually censoring.. it should be left up to the admin of the network/computer. The worry is that ISPs might start doing blanket censoring with proxies, so they can say "We're supportive of the good old fashioned right-winged Christian American family."
The PICS ratings and stuff always seemed like a good idea, considering the majority of well funded (more advertising) porn sites aren't trying to serve their pages to 5 year old kids, but it never really took off. Anyway, isn't IE the only browser that supports this sort of thing? Probably a way to block it off from squid or something though.
Summer of code:
- Working on something you enjoy
- Possibility of getting 4500 USD personally and 500 USD for your favourite OSS project
- Doing something that will benefit at least one person somewhere else in the world, if not many thousands.
- Practice for future job probably
- Something reasonably unique to put on CV
McDonalds
- Boring, hot, horrid job
- Shit money
- Further perpetuating the problem of obesity and heart problems by providing overweight middle aged men and women and their kids, for whom they can't be bothered to cook a nutritious meal, with their daily dose of fatty dead animal
- Time spent doing repetitive tasks that require no skill or thought
- Just another generic teenage job to put on your CV, if mentioned at all
I love linux as much as the next guy, but how the hell?
Simply starting Eclipse on my 256MB RAM laptop with GNOME sends it about 300MB deep into the swap and makes it a total pain to use, and I don't even have Apache, MySQL, Postfix or any other server services running...
However, my 512MB desktop is very responsive with *loads* of stuff running -- even if it's using the swap.
Amen. I suppose you could say that thinking about all the different bits of code working together, and the bigger picture, is multitasking, but it's not really in my opinion. When I code, I don't even notice if I'm hungry or tired usually... or at least until I finish a big block of code and give myself a short break. It's like athletics apparently, where they just lose all sense of everything other than the task at hand.
I tend to close all distractions and not even debug or re-read my code until I've finished a large section. Overall, I find I make more logic mistakes if I stop every few minutes to recompile and fix errors, unit test, etc. I leave all that till I've finished a file or class. Grammar mistakes and typos are easy to fix, logic mistakes aren't so easy.
Why stop at merging KDE and GNOME? Let's merge Linux and Windows too...
Both desktops have different philosophies and ideals, for instance, GNOME tries to do what just works without configuration, and minimise the amount of configuration the user can do/would want to do, whereas KDE's main focus seems to be so that the user can configure everything they could ever dream of in the GUI, and get a desktop completely customised to them.
Personally I stick with GNOME. The most config I do is killing some of the toolbars in Nautilus and changing the wallpaper. I tried KDE but it was too much upkeep and wasn't particularly sane by default. Plus with a lot more configurability comes complexity, and I can't be bothered sifting through it all...
The more work they do in cross-compatibility, the better, since it will allow users to choose their desktop and applications almost independently. I'm mostly satisified with what I have, but the odd KDE application would be nice in GNOME. It'd certainly make commercial app development less scary, since they're going to be satisfying the majority of the users of the platform, rather than less than half.
Well, fucking up a gconf tree will at most break a particular user's UI or settings (in theory, the applications shouldn't break, but I've seen it happen before) Also, it's not a binary file, it's usually an XML tree so it's harder to screw up.
Windows registry contains loads of system settings and things that really shouldn't be in the registry, doesn't have schema or decent type support, doesn't have a standardised structure -- even among Microsoft stuff sometimes. Gconf is also a lot easier and more powerful to configure in a multi-user environment if you know what it's doing (which, as an admin, you should). It actually makes sense, unlike my experience with AD/Registry/etc. and it's horrible mix of standards and what doing different things is actually doing. It's particularly good with these new Gnome 2.14 admin tools.
Personally I think gconf is better than a load of config files in the home directory, because it actually makes sense to do it that way. It's not such a good idea to do it for system-wide config though.
They already do release updates other than plain XP... XPSP1, XPSP2.
What Windows needs is a good package manager (no: Windows update, MSI and SUS are not good) and the ability to download newly built XP CDs with the latest packages. If you want an entire list of software, the package manager can provide it, a little like the windows update logs.
I think Linux does support a fair amount of those features or the Linux equivalent of the features (I don't know what some of them are, however), though the Linux stuff can be a bit harder to configure at first. There are a couple of projects to provide an all-in-one sort of solution for Linux firewalls.
Similarly, there are certain things that Linux does that you can't do on Cisco stuff... e.g. complete control over source code and ability to patch in/pay for patches of missing features or support for other protocols. There are certain cases where this will be useful, and many where it will not.
It all depends on what you need too though, in all networks I've seen that use Linux routers, they tend to use mid-range systems and design the network accordingly. If you're going to have loads of traffic going to a particular box, then the chances are that you'll need hardware acceleration. In most networks with Cisco hardware I've seen, it's nothing particularly amazing or using loads of the features that Cisco provide, but it's the support that was the main factor in purchasing it.
The main problem about using Linux for routers isn't so much about the lack of features, but since it's a generic kernel that usually runs on standard x86 hardware, it's not usually going to be as fast as Cisco stuff. In theory, Cisco stuff should also be more stable, but that seems to vary....
Linux can do most advanced network tasks, which would be classed as an opensource router. Speed and hardware accelerated support is another issue though...
Early in my computing days, I used to love features. I'd select the application with the most menus, I'd open loads of toolbars in Office and I'd have all of the tweaking tools for Windows. As I grew, I started to become less bothered about the specifics of my system and started to want things that just worked and did what I wanted with little or no configuration... It seems to be an evolution that most people I know have went through at some point.
The simple "advanced"/"beginner" mode stuff, where advanced has more options doesn't generally work, since everyone ends up going to advanced mode when they can't find a feature, but a good thing would be, similar to what you stated, a system-wide user level which provides a hint to applications on how to organise their menus...
Same for the GNOME Office programs, currently Abiword, Gnumeric and GNOME-DB. Abiword recently implemented collaborative editing via Jabber. Personally, I find Koffice and GNOME Office better than Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. Just need a good presentation program now.
Oh.. if only there were answers to your questions then maybe it'd be easier to sleep at night... they sound a bit nihilistic.
I'm vegetarian since I think that, being a human, it's possible to try and cause less harm to other animals without causing harm to ourselves.. yet occasionally I find myself questioning it on "Well we evolved to be like this so why shouldn't we?". It's a bit like the taking animals into zoos to breed them up and release them back into the wild. Is there any point releasing seemingly evolutionally deficient animals back into the wild? Are we taking them in because essentially it's humans causing them to go extinct and we have "morals"? God knows... (maybe).
Sometimes I wish I was religious.. then I could believe that there is one correct path. It'd be so much easier, but you can't believe in something you don't believe in...
Mutations are not always destructive (whatever that means anyway). Mutations are just.. well... mutations. They can increase or decrease chance of reproduction, or not affect it, and naturally, the ones that increase the chance for reproduction are more likely to be passed onto decendents of the squirrel.
If mutations are always destructive, how come there are people with different colours of hair and skin?
In most companies I've seen, most users don't really interact with the Windows desktop anyway... they usually have some weird, awfully designed GUI running fullscreen or maximised when they log in, and it encompasses everything they do.
At the tourism place here they use some software that was custom built, and encompasses a spreadsheet, word processor, basic HTML parser and custom database-frontend thing that looks a bit like an MS Access form, all wrapped up into a frontend that provides basically no advantages to using individual applications other than some half assed attempt at integrating it... and it crashes about 3 times an hour. It took something like a year to develop and cost in the reigon of £500k.
How about if for everything that's being downloaded, the server will multicast packets in a loop. I mean, so that if you don't catch the first five minutes, your computer will just keep downloading until it loops to the start again, and download the first five minutes it missed.
;)
Obviously this won't work for streaming, but a similar method could be employed.. in particular, it could start multicasting a movie every 5 minutes, so that you'll never be more than 5 minutes away from the start of a movie, and servers will be able to offer higher quality lag. Yeah, 5 minutes is a longer wait than desirable, but still quicker than going to the shop. Software could be used to figure out what movies are popular and adjust the broadcast interval appropriately.
Just my ideas
The corporate obsession with meetings must be something to do with it too... ;)
Nothing like settling down into a task then getting an alert: "Meeting in 5 minutes", and it's usually to discuss something completely pointless that doesn't particularly concern you
Um, I'm not so sure. If it's in the company building, the chances are that the security is such that only people employed by the company would be able to access the room, and it'd likely have some form of security camera.
All the server rooms I've seen that have important, confidential data restrict access based on two of:
- something you have
- something you know
- something you are
And then, only a few people in the company are even allowed in.
Not only that, with a laptop, you can misplace it by leaving it on a park bench or something, just totally open for someone completely to take it without any CCTV footage.
They're working on it: cairo is vector based so it can be scaled well.
Agreed in that most spacialised sound is unrealistic, if not worse than the original, however have you heard any holophonic stuff?
i %20-%20Holophonic.mp3
http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/Ceren
In all headphones I've listened to that stuff with, it sounds really convincing.
You clearly don't understand logic, since you're replying to posts without providing providing any support to your conclusions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
Take special care with this part: Instead of asking "How does this contradict my beliefs?" ask: "What does this mean?"
Note that most of what I said wasn't relative, but rather factual. I never even suggested you use a binary distribution, I just said if you don't want to see everything compile, then you could use binary, ccache or a make-type thing. I suppose you could be trying to disagree with things like Gtk+ being a toolkit, or machine code being required to show a button, but you don't provide any reasoning.
And also, buttons may well "suck", but that's irrelevant. If you don't want buttons, X and toolkits you could just stick with a CLI interface- nobody is forcing you to use GTK or Qt. Pretty much everything can be done with a CLI (and possibly a framebuffer of some type, even X, for images and graphs and such).
Just an interesting point... on my TV, PS2, microwave, cooker and laptop (what I can see at the moment), the power button or control panel is on the right hand side of the device.