Have you seen screenshots of Aero Glass? It looks like the short films of a first year computer animation student http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/longhorn3/Aer o%20Glass%20-%20Contacts.jpg. It is for this same reason Luna in XP gets very old very fast, and anyone wanting to get some serious work done turns it off.
Or, did anyone consider the fact that these all look like crap because they can be turned off--they are only add-ons to the plain style that was introduced with Win95. They get in the way. Would anyone even consider turning off Aqua, even if you could. No, because it is part of the system, part of your work flow. (Disclaimer: I have Win2000, OS X and Ubuntu machines)
Besides, as people have noted, most individuals who are installing pirated versions have computers that can't handle Areo Glass anyway. Any computer capable enough will come with Visa pre-installed, whenever that happens to be. The rest of us be thankful that we can get the garbage out of the way, even if you believe that Visa will be able to do some real work. Me, I'll keep Windows 2000, because really haven't seen any real innovation since then--it is stable and uncluttered, which is about as good as Windows can get.
It is an illusion to think that Stallman believes in freedom. The GFDL fiasco brought that to light, just look at Debian-legal.
The freedom Stallman believes in is an aristocratic one. Freedom, sure, but for those with the resources. But instead of rich political families doing whatever they want while the masses are entirely unfree, we have software developers with all the opportunity to be free and end users we none of the opportunity
Yet when it comes to something we all can do in a fully literate society, read and write, freedom doesn't apply. This post specifically:
I value freedom in documentation just as much as I do for programs. I
value it so much that I designed the GFDL specifically to induce
commercial publishers to publish free documentation.
...
This reminded me of another relevant difference between manuals and
software. It is harder to find good technical writers as volunteers
than good programmers as volunteers. So I decided it was worth while
going quite close to the line, in the GFDL, to try to induce
commercial publishers to use it. I would not think of going so close
to the line in a software license, since I know there's no need.
This motivation by pragmatism, not freedom. We have heard long and hard 'bout how we cannot cosy up to companies just because they make out life easier with non-free software, and yet we can compromise our freedom for plain-text publishers? And, if there were a shortage of programmers, could we make software non-free in order to lure them in as well? This post:
I don't believe that political essays ought
to be free in the same sense as documentation or software, for
instance. I have stated these views in numerous speeches.
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Just remember....you were a n00b yourself once...
Speak for yourself. After my mother re-partitioned her drive and mounted the smaller one at "/womb" I was compiled from source.
Stolen card #'s only come with Pirate Windows Home Premium Edition, Professional Edition, Business Edition and Enterprise Edition
Have you seen screenshots of Aero Glass? It looks like the short films of a first year computer animation student http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/longhorn3/Aer o%20Glass%20-%20Contacts.jpg. It is for this same reason Luna in XP gets very old very fast, and anyone wanting to get some serious work done turns it off.
Or, did anyone consider the fact that these all look like crap because they can be turned off--they are only add-ons to the plain style that was introduced with Win95. They get in the way. Would anyone even consider turning off Aqua, even if you could. No, because it is part of the system, part of your work flow. (Disclaimer: I have Win2000, OS X and Ubuntu machines)
Besides, as people have noted, most individuals who are installing pirated versions have computers that can't handle Areo Glass anyway. Any computer capable enough will come with Visa pre-installed, whenever that happens to be. The rest of us be thankful that we can get the garbage out of the way, even if you believe that Visa will be able to do some real work. Me, I'll keep Windows 2000, because really haven't seen any real innovation since then--it is stable and uncluttered, which is about as good as Windows can get.
Sure, and poor blacks are lazy, they should just get a job and stop whining.
The freedom Stallman believes in is an aristocratic one. Freedom, sure, but for those with the resources. But instead of rich political families doing whatever they want while the masses are entirely unfree, we have software developers with all the opportunity to be free and end users we none of the opportunity
Yet when it comes to something we all can do in a fully literate society, read and write, freedom doesn't apply. This post specifically:
This motivation by pragmatism, not freedom. We have heard long and hard 'bout how we cannot cosy up to companies just because they make out life easier with non-free software, and yet we can compromise our freedom for plain-text publishers? And, if there were a shortage of programmers, could we make software non-free in order to lure them in as well? This post: Is it just me, but shouldn't they be more free?Next Generation continues its end-of-year celebration with a treatise on the 30 finest games of the year.
Come on now. Treatise?
That is not a treatise, that is an article. These are treatises.
treatise a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached
I wouldn't call a list of video games a systematic exposition.