They change something that no one wanted changed, the users ask for an option to switch it back or choose between them, and the users are told to go write a plugin if it means that much to them.
Same thing with video support. Adium is built on pidgin/gaim (not sure which, don't have a mac) and it supports video. The video APIs are all well documented and the pidgin devs respond with "Well, we don't want video and besides it's too hard. That means you don't really want video either so stop asking."
It would seem to me that they are exercising their right to drive off their users. If this does turn out to really fork, I'll be happy to stop bothering the pidgin guys by using their app.
Not to nit-pick, but depending on the number/type of files in a folder, Windows (XP at least) will sometimes set the initial view of the folder to thumbnails.
Like most things revolving around the folder view options, it's unpredictable, inexplicable, volatile and almost totally random, so I can't recommend a good way to demonstrate this. However, copying a handful of photos into a new folder which has never been opened yet, will set the default view to filmstrip., which I believe also creates a thumbs.db.
Alex St. John is the single reason I stopped reading CPU Magazine.
He has exactly 2 articles that he resubmits monthly. The first one is how stupid Microsoft is for everything and if they would just call and ask him, he'd explain it to them. The second one is about how awesome Wild Tangent is, and how confused he is that there isn't a single person on earth smart enough to realize this but him, oh and also it's not really spyware despite the data it phones home.
Occasionally he'll get cornered in an OpEd and have to say "Really? I'm sure I write about other stuff."
He may be a blow-hard, but at least he's irrelevant.
He made the same basic argument a few years ago with the original Xbox launch of "Oddworld III: Fish in Wheelchairs"
"Xbox is the future, consoles are the thing, PCs aren't the right platform, blahblahblah."
Then he announced that the game was going to be Xbox only.
Spit right in the faces of those of us who had supported his first two games, and were drooling over the trailers of Scrabs stampeding across the plains for the upcoming title.
The game was critically acclaimed, but by that point, I didn't care. The Xbox club was nothing compared to PCs, and that was back in the day when anyone could play pc games, you just needed a CDrom and almost any video card., and I certainly wasn't going to buy an Xbox for one game, so I lost out.
They will. They'll learn what it's like to have a Democrat in the oval office for 8 years when they lose.
That would be exactly like what happened to Bush Sr. when Ross Perot kept his campaign going. He simply took his votes from the Viable (fsvo=Viable) candidate.
McCain may be able to beat Hillary if it comes to that, although probably not Obama, but he'll never beat her if he loses his margin to some guy that didn't ever have a chance.
Also, at least some OSS IM developers (pidgin) seem to believe that since they don't feel like adding video/voice support to the clients, then clearly no one wants it. Reliable File Transfers tend to get written off as "too hard, use ftp."
Check out their Faq/Feature pages some time. Clearly they know what we really want despite what we're asking for.
A good example of how to do it right would be Adium. It's just gaim/pidgin underneath afaik, but they've added features that users want, so the underpinnings must be in there. Unfortunately, it's mac only, so not much for cross-platform.
Depends, it could easily be a laptop with an inadequate video card, or perhaps an unsupported bios due to an older power management scheme.
I have a Toshiba that by all accounts (including the Vista adviser) should run Vista just fine without Aero, but it won't even install because of the bios power manager.
I didn't say you couldn't remove them, I said you couldn't remove them with the Add/Remove software utility.
I also said that if you removed them with apt, it'd remove the whole desktop. Which is exactly what you described yourself doing. Removing the whole desktop and then adding a different one.
You can find tools such as vlite and nlite to remove windows components while at least leaving you a working desktop. All or nothing is still the choice you get in the gnome/kde desktops.
My only point was so much of the Linux crowd bemoans the inability to remove IE and WMP and whatnot and how inelegant just running the software you want beside them is, and yet with Gnome and KDE you have the exact same issue and have to run Firefox beside Nautilus or Konq.
Yet on a clean install of Ubuntu, there will be instances of Gaim, Epiphany, and a handful of media players that cannot be removed with the Add/Remove tools provided by Gnome.
The same situation occurs with Kubuntu with mainstream obvious changes in the default unremovable software.
These can be removed with apt at the CLI, however doing so also removes the entire desktop environment.
While technically these aren't pieces of the "Linux OS" any more than Freecell and IE are part of Windows, they're still there and "unremovable" to roughly the same degree.
Remember when we used to pick distros based on features, repositories, patch-time turnaround and "stable/unstable/testing?"
Now it's just based on the nail polish. The differences between distros now is no greater than the 7 versions of Vista that Microsoft was so roundly criticized for.
5) VirtualPC runs fine on XP home. It pops up a warning that it is unsupported in XP Home, but you click ok and it finishes the install and runs perfectly.
Me too, and I've been saying it for years. There's no point choosing or not choosing between the candidates we get. Believe it or not, if it was/is anyone but her, I'm content to just ignore it.
Call it what you will, but I'm Anti-Hillary. I don't like her stance, I don't like her agenda, I don't like her politics, and I don't like her ties. She's the only person on earth that I would like to slap harder than G.W.
Maybe I'm spoiled on the system, but I first voted in "Wimp vs. Shrimp." It hasn't gotten any better since.
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While I understand your point, they're not going to notice the loss of customers over the focus shift from Xandros.
They will however notice the loss of customers due to charging $600 for a 2nd gen $300 machine.
To the tune of Mercy Street: ./* ./*
calling up my isp,
all they could see,
was the hole,
in the rack,
when my data should be.
"I am aware of the f/oss accounting apps, like gnucash, or ledgersmb, but none of those are adaquate for most SMBs."
Looks like he might have, yes.
The pidgin devs have always been like this.
They change something that no one wanted changed, the users ask for an option to switch it back or choose between them, and the users are told to go write a plugin if it means that much to them.
Same thing with video support. Adium is built on pidgin/gaim (not sure which, don't have a mac) and it supports video. The video APIs are all well documented and the pidgin devs respond with "Well, we don't want video and besides it's too hard. That means you don't really want video either so stop asking."
It would seem to me that they are exercising their right to drive off their users. If this does turn out to really fork, I'll be happy to stop bothering the pidgin guys by using their app.
Not to nit-pick, but depending on the number/type of files in a folder, Windows (XP at least) will sometimes set the initial view of the folder to thumbnails.
;)
Like most things revolving around the folder view options, it's unpredictable, inexplicable, volatile and almost totally random, so I can't recommend a good way to demonstrate this. However, copying a handful of photos into a new folder which has never been opened yet, will set the default view to filmstrip., which I believe also creates a thumbs.db.
However, it's Folder View Options, YMMV.
The first hit is to a 60-Minutes Video about the OLPC. OLPC, just like you asked for.
What exactly do you feel Amazon is obliged to do with searches for products they don't sell?
Or aren't you bright enough to know that a product that clearly does not say "OLPC" in the Name/Description isn't in fact an OLPC?
I downloaded the ManDribble live cd last week. Checked the md5, burned the image and verified it. It hung during the boot process. I threw it away.
Same as it ever was.
Changing the name from Manrape to ManDribble didn't seem to help.
I know I'm flaming but the distro has always been, and always will be, crap.
See? Not even Botnets use Opera.
*grin*
I would have liked to have know about monoprice sooner...
:)
I just switched over to http://bluejeanscable.com/ not 15 minutes ago.
Now if only he'd return with an ending.
The couple I read didn't have one.
If you click quit, it does go away.
However, you have to tell the updater to ignore it, or it will come back the next time it checks for updates (weekly.)
I'm also calling bullshit on you "being forced to install IE8."
Alex St. John no longer works for Microsoft. In fact he left there in 1997.
Microsoft didn't come up with the conclusion, Alex St. John did.
I'm not sure how the world's most expensive DVDplayer enters into your argument.
Alex St. John is the single reason I stopped reading CPU Magazine.
He has exactly 2 articles that he resubmits monthly. The first one is how stupid Microsoft is for everything and if they would just call and ask him, he'd explain it to them. The second one is about how awesome Wild Tangent is, and how confused he is that there isn't a single person on earth smart enough to realize this but him, oh and also it's not really spyware despite the data it phones home.
Occasionally he'll get cornered in an OpEd and have to say "Really? I'm sure I write about other stuff."
He may be a blow-hard, but at least he's irrelevant.
He made the same basic argument a few years ago with the original Xbox launch of "Oddworld III: Fish in Wheelchairs"
"Xbox is the future, consoles are the thing, PCs aren't the right platform, blahblahblah." Then he announced that the game was going to be Xbox only.
Spit right in the faces of those of us who had supported his first two games, and were drooling over the trailers of Scrabs stampeding across the plains for the upcoming title.
The game was critically acclaimed, but by that point, I didn't care. The Xbox club was nothing compared to PCs, and that was back in the day when anyone could play pc games, you just needed a CDrom and almost any video card., and I certainly wasn't going to buy an Xbox for one game, so I lost out.
Turned out well for him too. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000884458
Hopefully they'll also learn something.
They will. They'll learn what it's like to have a Democrat in the oval office for 8 years when they lose.
That would be exactly like what happened to Bush Sr. when Ross Perot kept his campaign going. He simply took his votes from the Viable (fsvo=Viable) candidate.
McCain may be able to beat Hillary if it comes to that, although probably not Obama, but he'll never beat her if he loses his margin to some guy that didn't ever have a chance.
He said "can." He didn't say "will."
Looking down your nose at others for no reason except your inability to read... No need to guess where you're from either.
ALL YOUR CORN...
I got nothin.
Video, Voice, and File Transfers.
;)
Also, at least some OSS IM developers (pidgin) seem to believe that since they don't feel like adding video/voice support to the clients, then clearly no one wants it. Reliable File Transfers tend to get written off as "too hard, use ftp."
Check out their Faq/Feature pages some time. Clearly they know what we really want despite what we're asking for.
A good example of how to do it right would be Adium. It's just gaim/pidgin underneath afaik, but they've added features that users want, so the underpinnings must be in there. Unfortunately, it's mac only, so not much for cross-platform.
Kopete is way ugly too, does that count?
Depends, it could easily be a laptop with an inadequate video card, or perhaps an unsupported bios due to an older power management scheme.
I have a Toshiba that by all accounts (including the Vista adviser) should run Vista just fine without Aero, but it won't even install because of the bios power manager.
What if the Primary Domain Controller crashes?
Does it reroute all of our airplanes to Redmond for analysis?
Sorry, had to.
I didn't say you couldn't remove them, I said you couldn't remove them with the Add/Remove software utility.
I also said that if you removed them with apt, it'd remove the whole desktop. Which is exactly what you described yourself doing. Removing the whole desktop and then adding a different one.
You can find tools such as vlite and nlite to remove windows components while at least leaving you a working desktop. All or nothing is still the choice you get in the gnome/kde desktops.
My only point was so much of the Linux crowd bemoans the inability to remove IE and WMP and whatnot and how inelegant just running the software you want beside them is, and yet with Gnome and KDE you have the exact same issue and have to run Firefox beside Nautilus or Konq.
Yet on a clean install of Ubuntu, there will be instances of Gaim, Epiphany, and a handful of media players that cannot be removed with the Add/Remove tools provided by Gnome.
The same situation occurs with Kubuntu with mainstream obvious changes in the default unremovable software.
These can be removed with apt at the CLI, however doing so also removes the entire desktop environment.
While technically these aren't pieces of the "Linux OS" any more than Freecell and IE are part of Windows, they're still there and "unremovable" to roughly the same degree.
Remember when we used to pick distros based on features, repositories, patch-time turnaround and "stable/unstable/testing?"
Now it's just based on the nail polish. The differences between distros now is no greater than the 7 versions of Vista that Microsoft was so roundly criticized for.
5) VirtualPC runs fine on XP home. It pops up a warning that it is unsupported in XP Home, but you click ok and it finishes the install and runs perfectly.
I've nearly forgotten which couple of shows even held my attention.
Me too, and I've been saying it for years. There's no point choosing or not choosing between the candidates we get. Believe it or not, if it was/is anyone but her, I'm content to just ignore it.
Call it what you will, but I'm Anti-Hillary. I don't like her stance, I don't like her agenda, I don't like her politics, and I don't like her ties. She's the only person on earth that I would like to slap harder than G.W.
Maybe I'm spoiled on the system, but I first voted in "Wimp vs. Shrimp." It hasn't gotten any better since.