Well yeah, but if you say "Doctor Who" people know exactly who you're talking about, whereas if you say "The Doctor" everyone who hasn't seen the show and doesn't hail from Great Britain has no idea.
Ah, poor naive liberal Americans. They believe that just because they don't keep racial preferences nobody else will.
Actually, couldn't you sue the company in case of "Indo-critical mass"? If the department actually ends up 100% Indian, I think it would be relatively easy to prove in court that the phenomenon came from national favoritism rather than selection for skill or cheap labor (because plenty of Chinese and Russian emigres are willing to work for cheap).
Decreases the genetic diversity of our species. Genetic diversity is the thing that allows us to survive things like the Black Death and AIDS. Without it, the chances of vast swaths of humanity dying from one little thing go up. A lot.
Parent is not a troll. He's just telling the truth. When an Indian man always hires the same Indian company to do his work for 3 different American firms, it's ethnic/racial favoritism plain and simple.
Yeah, Compiz comes installed by default on Ubuntu these days. I just mean that the default hot-keys and settings are, respectively, retarded and unimpressive. I shouldn't have to press CTRL-SHIFT-E or something to activate the window picker. Apple got it exactly right when they bound Expose to F8. After all, what applications actually use function keys anymore?
Many people uphold OSX or Vista as the pinnacles of desktop beauty, and in the case of Mac, usability and user experience, yet the beauty possible on modern Linuxen desktops is not only equal to that of the Big Two, but in fact far surpassing them. Yes, I am talking a lot about "beauty" and "aesthetics", terms that programmers and techheads usually spurn or dismiss as irrelevant or superfluous. However, because it is not in the front of many geeks' minds does not mean it is irrelevant (especially considered I being a programmer myself) - beauty is important! In KDE, in particular KDE4, and especially coupled with technologies such as Compiz-Fusion and/or Metisse, the Linux desktop is far ahead any competition in presentation aesthetics, a fact seldom recognised.
You're correct, but only mostly correct. YES, we can now create Linux desktops more beautiful and more usable than both OS X and Vista. However, by default the Linux desktop usually comes set up to imitate Windows XP, with the neat features hidden away in configuration dialogs or bound to stupidly obscure hot-keys. It still takes a power-user to configure a Linux desktop that a noob would find impressive.
Waiting for clones. That is precisely why OSS has *always* been behind.
That's funny. Linux had virtual desktops (and on that kickass cube, too) and compositing effects before Vista or OSX. Apple just found the right keyboard shortcuts for activating everything and developed Expose.
It's mostly the philosophy and lack of understanding thing. I've configured a GNOME install under Ubuntu to pretty much look and act like Aqua, minus the menu bar being at the top of the screen (which I don't even like). The Linux community's problem is that they don't realize that an OSX-like setup will make their desktops look cooler and behave in ways that users find more intuitive. Instead, they leave it to the power-user to create an environment that looks and acts the way they want it.
Very interesting thing. I just found that Linux has codecs for playing an mms-based internet-radio station I like (Galgalatz) that iTunes simply can't play.
How's Gentoo on codec issues nowadays? At this point I'll probably repartition my hard drive (and backup drive) to give Linux some more room and switch to Gentoo (leaving OS X just for my iPod and DVDs and a couple of other things) as soon as Portato makes that release the developer says he'll make this July.
DAMN STRAIGHT, BROTHER! How ridiculous is this web-app crap? If we actually ran a decent OS like Plan 9, I could just dial() the server, mount my own/dev over the server's as a union-fs, chroot() into its filesystem, and run the desired app natively.
Actually, I've got a pretty good idea for an OS that would combine ideas from Plan 9 with a D-Bus like messaging system.
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Wait a second, where did I say that in my signature? My sig when I posted that was:
"900 years of time and space and I've never been slapped by someone's mother!"
Now it's: "Melange in the spice of life!"
Oh, wait. I think I just got the incredibly cheap, crappy pun you made. Holy shit that's horrible.
Well yeah, but if you say "Doctor Who" people know exactly who you're talking about, whereas if you say "The Doctor" everyone who hasn't seen the show and doesn't hail from Great Britain has no idea.
The Fourth and Tenth.
And he is... DOCTOR WHO!
Ah, poor naive liberal Americans. They believe that just because they don't keep racial preferences nobody else will.
Actually, couldn't you sue the company in case of "Indo-critical mass"? If the department actually ends up 100% Indian, I think it would be relatively easy to prove in court that the phenomenon came from national favoritism rather than selection for skill or cheap labor (because plenty of Chinese and Russian emigres are willing to work for cheap).
IA-IA! PHP, the Black Goat on the Web with a Thousand Page-Loading Errors!
I'm sorry, but I believe the scientific name for that species is vashta nerada.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
You must be Japanese. The rest of the world does not share your perversions.
Actually, most Windows games have standardized on a single user-interface API: DirectX.
Are you my mummy?
Yeah, and the Lisp Nazis will finally be able to EX-TER-MIN-ATE everyone else with their "superior" programming language.
obsession with redheads/gingers in Israel (skin cancer central)
That is completely and utterly retarded. I would dare call it the stupidest thing I've ever seen my people collectively do.
I mean, seriously? Gingerism? In a hot-desert country?! We don't even have the genes for gingerism; you need Scottish or Irish blood for that!
God damn it.
Decreases the genetic diversity of our species. Genetic diversity is the thing that allows us to survive things like the Black Death and AIDS. Without it, the chances of vast swaths of humanity dying from one little thing go up. A lot.
Once again, I see no reason you've been modded flamebait. You actually make a decent point.
Read this. Most H1B visas go to outsourcing companies, with the remainder going to exactly the intention of the program.
Parent is not a troll. He's just telling the truth. When an Indian man always hires the same Indian company to do his work for 3 different American firms, it's ethnic/racial favoritism plain and simple.
Yeah, Compiz comes installed by default on Ubuntu these days. I just mean that the default hot-keys and settings are, respectively, retarded and unimpressive. I shouldn't have to press CTRL-SHIFT-E or something to activate the window picker. Apple got it exactly right when they bound Expose to F8. After all, what applications actually use function keys anymore?
Many people uphold OSX or Vista as the pinnacles of desktop beauty, and in the case of Mac, usability and user experience, yet the beauty possible on modern Linuxen desktops is not only equal to that of the Big Two, but in fact far surpassing them. Yes, I am talking a lot about "beauty" and "aesthetics", terms that programmers and techheads usually spurn or dismiss as irrelevant or superfluous. However, because it is not in the front of many geeks' minds does not mean it is irrelevant (especially considered I being a programmer myself) - beauty is important! In KDE, in particular KDE4, and especially coupled with technologies such as Compiz-Fusion and/or Metisse, the Linux desktop is far ahead any competition in presentation aesthetics, a fact seldom recognised.
You're correct, but only mostly correct. YES, we can now create Linux desktops more beautiful and more usable than both OS X and Vista. However, by default the Linux desktop usually comes set up to imitate Windows XP, with the neat features hidden away in configuration dialogs or bound to stupidly obscure hot-keys. It still takes a power-user to configure a Linux desktop that a noob would find impressive.
Waiting for clones. That is precisely why OSS has *always* been behind.
That's funny. Linux had virtual desktops (and on that kickass cube, too) and compositing effects before Vista or OSX. Apple just found the right keyboard shortcuts for activating everything and developed Expose.
It's mostly the philosophy and lack of understanding thing. I've configured a GNOME install under Ubuntu to pretty much look and act like Aqua, minus the menu bar being at the top of the screen (which I don't even like). The Linux community's problem is that they don't realize that an OSX-like setup will make their desktops look cooler and behave in ways that users find more intuitive. Instead, they leave it to the power-user to create an environment that looks and acts the way they want it.
Well yeah, the British are, quite frankly, utter pussies. They fear everything, worse than Americans. Poor people.
4chan user detected!!! Launch missiles, Exterminate! EXTERMINATE! EXTERRMINAAAAATEEE!!!
Very interesting thing. I just found that Linux has codecs for playing an mms-based internet-radio station I like (Galgalatz) that iTunes simply can't play.
How's Gentoo on codec issues nowadays? At this point I'll probably repartition my hard drive (and backup drive) to give Linux some more room and switch to Gentoo (leaving OS X just for my iPod and DVDs and a couple of other things) as soon as Portato makes that release the developer says he'll make this July.
DAMN STRAIGHT, BROTHER! How ridiculous is this web-app crap? If we actually ran a decent OS like Plan 9, I could just dial() the server, mount my own /dev over the server's as a union-fs, chroot() into its filesystem, and run the desired app natively.
Actually, I've got a pretty good idea for an OS that would combine ideas from Plan 9 with a D-Bus like messaging system.