I don't really know about Gnome fading away. (I'm not trying to flame, I'm just giving my 2 cents.) Personally, I really do not like Qt and the way it interacts with the user. I have tried to use KDE many times, but it just doesn't feel right and it is not aesthetically pleasing like GNOME.
I agree that the KDE/GNOME split has hurt Linux, but not the way that you are talking about. The lack of cooperation between the two communities has hurt Linux. Having two large desktop environments is not a bad thing because it gives the user choice. (If we didn't have two, one of us would not get what we want!)
The whole, "Linus hates GNOME" thing really just needs to die. There has been a lot of recent activity to help KDE and GNOME folks work together, but Linus is really hurting this. He is throwing salt into the wound and trying to get rid of a window manager just because he doesn't like it. Linux is about choice and he is alienating a large plurality of the Linux community.
I realize that some KDE users are happy to see Linus flaming GNOME because they absolutely hate any other desktop other than their beloved KDE. (I'm not saying you are of this opinion... I am generalizing.) However, what if the shoe was on the other foot? If Linus was attacking KDE, the attitudes of many KDE users would be much different (as well as GNOME users).
As for the whole patch situation, Linus just sounds like a 2 year old. "Take my patches now, or you are obviously suck doodoo!" Honestly Linus, this is ridiculous. I haven't seen the patches, so maybe they should be included. However, just because GNOME doesn't hold the same goals as you Linus, doesn't mean that it sucks. Most of the default options on GNOME are those that I would choose, so I don't have the need to do much configuration. And if I did, I would use another window manager. It is as simple as that.
I just think Linus needs to focus on kernel development, his domain of specialty. Leave user interface design to those that specialize in that. All he is doing is, as I stated before, throwing salt on the wounds...
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I mean, look at all of the indications that we see from the company today. It is obvious that Microsoft realizes that Windows isn't always going to be a big cash cow. They have expanded their business so much over the past few years to add the Xbox, ramping up the search engine, expanding tools included in Office as well as adding new applications to their arsenal. I mean, how often do you see a Windows commercial anymore? You don't... you see commercials about their other products.
The problem for Microsoft is that people usually upgrade to the new version of Windows when they buy a new computer. There are still people running 98 (and possibly even 95)! Much to my dismay (I'm a Linux guy), Vista will gain dominance in the marketplace eventually. However, people do not upgrade their computers as often anymore just because hardware is not improving at such a fast pace as before. I guess we'll just have to wait to see what the future holds.
Well, this is good and bad. First of all, most of the jobs that are being outsourced are not senior-level development jobs. Also, I believe that most of the people going into CS careers now are those that actually enjoy it. These people usually know what they are doing. Yes, there are exceptions, but since there are less people going in, I believe it is filtering out the type of people that think they are awesome just because they can use FrontPage...
People say how there are no jobs available, but I am very close to graduation and I have been turning down employers left and right because I already have a job lined up...
I don't know if that would even work, you would need:
'Has been reported to work on Ubuntu Linux!'
'Has been reported to work on RedHat Linux!'
'Has been reported to work on Fedora Core Linux!'
'Has been reported to work on Slackware Linux!'
'Has been reported to work on Gentoo Linux!'
'Has been reported to work on Debian Linux!'
'Has been reported to work on Suse Linux!'
and the list goes on...
Like, that would be great, like, if they did that. But, like, you know people can't write, like, good english. Hehe.
But in all seriousness, how many programmers do you know that use correct grammer? A compiler for a language such as that would just be terribly difficult. (Yes, I know that you are probably meaning this post as a joke, but I have had interest in this type of language for some time. I believe they were trying to do something like this at MIT, but it didn't seem too promising.)
If I hear another "fake moon landing" joke, I think I might kill myself. Seriously folks, it's an old joke and isn't funny the 100th time it is posted for the same story...
I agree with your point about using GPS to add locators to the machines. The problem is that, if someone steals it, what's stopping the thief from pulling out the hard drive and just mounting the partition. You need the encryption to prevent this as well.
The problem is that it is the luck of the draw. Everything on my laptop including sound, wireless, printing, etc worked out of the box. It will come down to some of the bigger Linux companies pulling their weight and forcing hardware companies to make Linux support a priority. However, it's such a big chicken and the egg problem...
It really all depends on your interpretation. I, along most of the people in the church I attend, take a more liberal approach to the Bible when it comes to the story of creation. Times are represented in "days" just to make them more understandable to humans.
I, personally, agree with evolution because the theory doesn't state how life began. It states how it evolved, ignoring the phenomena of creating the original, single celled organism. We see evolution and adaptation around us all of the time and cannot ignore it, but that still does not mean that religion and science cannot coincide.
I mean, for many years people believed that the earth was flat, but it says in Isaiah that it is round. Of course, I realize that the "earth is round" fact was shot down by the catholic church, but the catholic church is a conservative Christian organization that has a bad habit of creating rules that were not originally prescribed in the Bible.
Really, the interpretation of Genesis comes down to one thing... how long is one day. Remember that it states (in Hebrews I think? don't quote me on that location though) that one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day to God. The concept of a day just puts things into context for a lot of humans that have difficulty realizing that time is irrelevant in an eternal existence. Most people don't consider that the 7th day of rest was simply God's way of giving us time to evolve into what we are today and what we will become in the future...
Of course, everyone has the right to their own beliefs. The only reason I posted all of this is because I wanted to express that not every Christian has their head in the sand.:)
Why is it that everyone seems to assume that science and religion cannot coexist? I'm not trying to flamebait here at all. I'm only trying to say that not all of we Christians are completely ignorant to science.
I had no idea it took that long in other states... here in PA I went in, filled out a short form. Once I gave them the paper, the picture & printing took all of 2 minutes and I was out of there.
Besides, just because I'm giving software away for free, doesn't mean that I don't want credit for it. I would still like to be able to claim credit on my resume...
Yes, but even if they learn something from another teen... it had to come from somewhere at some point. I'm not trying to bait a flame & I understand where you are coming from. I realize that a lot of teenagers do a lot of stupid things, but as one of the good ones in my day, I didn't really appreciate people assuming I'm irresponsible just because of my age. I think monitoring should be allowed, a parent should just only use extreme measures if they have reason to do so.
I agree that teenagers don't always make the best decisions... I was just one a few years ago. But that attitude is what causes teenagers to rebel against their parents. They shouldn't be treated as adults, but if you don't trust them, they will just do stupid things.
I agree that parents should have full access to their children's whereabouts, but there comes a point where parents have to realise that in a few short years, that is going to be abruptly cut off. If you don't have a reason to not trust the child, why should you?
Besides... contrary to what most adults think, not all teenagers are bad. And those who are, where do you think they learn it? The parents of course!
I actually use it very often when typing different preprocessor macros. I'm writing a book and have to continually type enumeration values as well. I could see replacing the "Windows" key (or just relabeling it). But then again, I just remap the keys I don't like.:)
I really don't see an Intel acquisition of nVidia in the future. As for the Linux drivers, I agree with you that it's not a _big_ deal, but to someone that wants the driver support, it can be a big deal. Although, enough comments are enough about that... I think I've read about 500 billion comments on Linux drivers from ATI, LOL.
Isn't the point of an online OS to get rid of the local OS? But I need to have a local OS to run the browser to run the operating system which includes a browser. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
The Linux landscape is a lot different than in 1998. I have not had any problems for the 4 years I have been using Linux.
Second, not every Linux user is a zealot. There are some of us that just prefer it, just as some people prefer Windows.
There are just as many Windows zealots as Linux zealots, it's just that the Windows ones are much more diffused since there are more users.
Why would you _want_ to put Windows on a Mac? Isn't the purpose of using Apple products to get away from Windows? I mean, if you want to dual boot, atleast use Linux. OSX and Linux can both do anything that Windows does (unless you are a preteen that feels that a computer is for nothing but gaming).
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I don't really know about Gnome fading away. (I'm not trying to flame, I'm just giving my 2 cents.) Personally, I really do not like Qt and the way it interacts with the user. I have tried to use KDE many times, but it just doesn't feel right and it is not aesthetically pleasing like GNOME.
... I am generalizing.) However, what if the shoe was on the other foot? If Linus was attacking KDE, the attitudes of many KDE users would be much different (as well as GNOME users).
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I agree that the KDE/GNOME split has hurt Linux, but not the way that you are talking about. The lack of cooperation between the two communities has hurt Linux. Having two large desktop environments is not a bad thing because it gives the user choice. (If we didn't have two, one of us would not get what we want!)
The whole, "Linus hates GNOME" thing really just needs to die. There has been a lot of recent activity to help KDE and GNOME folks work together, but Linus is really hurting this. He is throwing salt into the wound and trying to get rid of a window manager just because he doesn't like it. Linux is about choice and he is alienating a large plurality of the Linux community.
I realize that some KDE users are happy to see Linus flaming GNOME because they absolutely hate any other desktop other than their beloved KDE. (I'm not saying you are of this opinion
As for the whole patch situation, Linus just sounds like a 2 year old. "Take my patches now, or you are obviously suck doodoo!" Honestly Linus, this is ridiculous. I haven't seen the patches, so maybe they should be included. However, just because GNOME doesn't hold the same goals as you Linus, doesn't mean that it sucks. Most of the default options on GNOME are those that I would choose, so I don't have the need to do much configuration. And if I did, I would use another window manager. It is as simple as that.
I just think Linus needs to focus on kernel development, his domain of specialty. Leave user interface design to those that specialize in that. All he is doing is, as I stated before, throwing salt on the wounds
Wait ... where did you find cheap bandwidth? I need some of that!
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I mean, look at all of the indications that we see from the company today. It is obvious that Microsoft realizes that Windows isn't always going to be a big cash cow. They have expanded their business so much over the past few years to add the Xbox, ramping up the search engine, expanding tools included in Office as well as adding new applications to their arsenal. I mean, how often do you see a Windows commercial anymore? You don't ... you see commercials about their other products.
The problem for Microsoft is that people usually upgrade to the new version of Windows when they buy a new computer. There are still people running 98 (and possibly even 95)! Much to my dismay (I'm a Linux guy), Vista will gain dominance in the marketplace eventually. However, people do not upgrade their computers as often anymore just because hardware is not improving at such a fast pace as before. I guess we'll just have to wait to see what the future holds.
Well, this is good and bad. First of all, most of the jobs that are being outsourced are not senior-level development jobs. Also, I believe that most of the people going into CS careers now are those that actually enjoy it. These people usually know what they are doing. Yes, there are exceptions, but since there are less people going in, I believe it is filtering out the type of people that think they are awesome just because they can use FrontPage ...
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People say how there are no jobs available, but I am very close to graduation and I have been turning down employers left and right because I already have a job lined up
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I don't know if that would even work, you would need: 'Has been reported to work on Ubuntu Linux!' 'Has been reported to work on RedHat Linux!' 'Has been reported to work on Fedora Core Linux!' 'Has been reported to work on Slackware Linux!' 'Has been reported to work on Gentoo Linux!' 'Has been reported to work on Debian Linux!' 'Has been reported to work on Suse Linux!' and the list goes on ...
Like, that would be great, like, if they did that. But, like, you know people can't write, like, good english. Hehe. But in all seriousness, how many programmers do you know that use correct grammer? A compiler for a language such as that would just be terribly difficult. (Yes, I know that you are probably meaning this post as a joke, but I have had interest in this type of language for some time. I believe they were trying to do something like this at MIT, but it didn't seem too promising.)
If I hear another "fake moon landing" joke, I think I might kill myself. Seriously folks, it's an old joke and isn't funny the 100th time it is posted for the same story ...
I agree with your point about using GPS to add locators to the machines. The problem is that, if someone steals it, what's stopping the thief from pulling out the hard drive and just mounting the partition. You need the encryption to prevent this as well.
The problem is that it is the luck of the draw. Everything on my laptop including sound, wireless, printing, etc worked out of the box. It will come down to some of the bigger Linux companies pulling their weight and forcing hardware companies to make Linux support a priority. However, it's such a big chicken and the egg problem ...
It really all depends on your interpretation. I, along most of the people in the church I attend, take a more liberal approach to the Bible when it comes to the story of creation. Times are represented in "days" just to make them more understandable to humans. I, personally, agree with evolution because the theory doesn't state how life began. It states how it evolved, ignoring the phenomena of creating the original, single celled organism. We see evolution and adaptation around us all of the time and cannot ignore it, but that still does not mean that religion and science cannot coincide. I mean, for many years people believed that the earth was flat, but it says in Isaiah that it is round. Of course, I realize that the "earth is round" fact was shot down by the catholic church, but the catholic church is a conservative Christian organization that has a bad habit of creating rules that were not originally prescribed in the Bible. Really, the interpretation of Genesis comes down to one thing ... how long is one day. Remember that it states (in Hebrews I think? don't quote me on that location though) that one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day to God. The concept of a day just puts things into context for a lot of humans that have difficulty realizing that time is irrelevant in an eternal existence. Most people don't consider that the 7th day of rest was simply God's way of giving us time to evolve into what we are today and what we will become in the future ...
Of course, everyone has the right to their own beliefs. The only reason I posted all of this is because I wanted to express that not every Christian has their head in the sand. :)
Why is it that everyone seems to assume that science and religion cannot coexist? I'm not trying to flamebait here at all. I'm only trying to say that not all of we Christians are completely ignorant to science.
I had no idea it took that long in other states ... here in PA I went in, filled out a short form. Once I gave them the paper, the picture & printing took all of 2 minutes and I was out of there.
Besides, just because I'm giving software away for free, doesn't mean that I don't want credit for it. I would still like to be able to claim credit on my resume ...
Holy crap, so did I ... I was wondering about that title. I wouldn't have even checked it a second time if it wasn't for you post.
Yes, but even if they learn something from another teen ... it had to come from somewhere at some point. I'm not trying to bait a flame & I understand where you are coming from. I realize that a lot of teenagers do a lot of stupid things, but as one of the good ones in my day, I didn't really appreciate people assuming I'm irresponsible just because of my age. I think monitoring should be allowed, a parent should just only use extreme measures if they have reason to do so.
I agree that teenagers don't always make the best decisions ... I was just one a few years ago. But that attitude is what causes teenagers to rebel against their parents. They shouldn't be treated as adults, but if you don't trust them, they will just do stupid things.
I agree that parents should have full access to their children's whereabouts, but there comes a point where parents have to realise that in a few short years, that is going to be abruptly cut off. If you don't have a reason to not trust the child, why should you?
Besides ... contrary to what most adults think, not all teenagers are bad. And those who are, where do you think they learn it? The parents of course!
I actually use it very often when typing different preprocessor macros. I'm writing a book and have to continually type enumeration values as well. I could see replacing the "Windows" key (or just relabeling it). But then again, I just remap the keys I don't like. :)
I really don't see an Intel acquisition of nVidia in the future. As for the Linux drivers, I agree with you that it's not a _big_ deal, but to someone that wants the driver support, it can be a big deal. Although, enough comments are enough about that ... I think I've read about 500 billion comments on Linux drivers from ATI, LOL.
Isn't the point of an online OS to get rid of the local OS? But I need to have a local OS to run the browser to run the operating system which includes a browser. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
I seem to remember a few scandals that Democrats have been at the heart of ... quite a few actually. It's just that the liberal media is more vocal.
The Linux landscape is a lot different than in 1998. I have not had any problems for the 4 years I have been using Linux. Second, not every Linux user is a zealot. There are some of us that just prefer it, just as some people prefer Windows. There are just as many Windows zealots as Linux zealots, it's just that the Windows ones are much more diffused since there are more users.
What are you talking about? I have 7 tabs open right now & am using only 47MB of memory ...
Yes, and I find it funny that AMD's 90nm processors run faster than Intel's 65nm processors ...
Why would you _want_ to put Windows on a Mac? Isn't the purpose of using Apple products to get away from Windows? I mean, if you want to dual boot, atleast use Linux. OSX and Linux can both do anything that Windows does (unless you are a preteen that feels that a computer is for nothing but gaming).