Really? After all this time of being told that it's better than the alternatives we should expect that it's not?
OSS software should be held to the same quality standards as commercial software. Otherwise it's never going to be anything more than hobbiest software.
Oh, yes. The "code or shut up" argument. How does that make their statements untrue? It doesn't.
And here's a surprise for you, Sparky: most users these days can't code. That might be a shock to you, but it's true. So how do they help make a product better? Submit cadly written and buggy code that they don't even understand? That sounds like a dandy idea! Only not.
No, what they can do is let the developers know what things need to change in order to improve the product.
Without feedback, good and bad, a developer has no idea if anyone other than the developer can make heads or tails of the program.
And why shouldn't people look a gif horse in the mouth? A free tool that someone can't use is worse than a not-free tool that is usefull.
Who cares if it's open source? I don't. What I care about is being able to use it. If the interface is horrid and badly thiought out I'm not going to bother with it. Yeah, PSP isn't free, but it's interface is easy and well thought out. That lets me do what I need to do.
I use the best tool available in my price range. If that tool is free, geat. I'll use it. If that tool is not free, fine. I'll save up my lunch money and buy it.
I loathe The Gimp. Why? The interface is one of the worst I have ever seen. Ever. Including MS Word for DOS!
That being said, I find the interface for Photoshop to be a complete pain in the ass as well. If it wasn't for the fact that there isn't a Mac version of PaintShopPro, I wouldn't be using Photoshop (okay, Photoshop Elements, but it's still the same interface) at all.
The embargo against Cuba has nothing to do with himan rights. It is based on two factors:
1: Cuba is the only Communist state in the western hemisphere that America failed to overthrow.
2: There is a huge population of former Cubans in Florida that keep riding the governments ass about ending Castro's reign. Not that most of these people would ever move back to Cuba to save their lives.
Cheap labor to build all those gadgets we want. It's all about money. Our current president has already sold our future down the toilet for money. He'd probably sell his own mother to a meat packing plant if they offered him enough money.
Prince Hamlet:You killed my father, stole his crown, married his widow and usurped the crown of Chronos. King Claudius:This is all true. Prince Hamlet:Impressive. King Claudius:Hey, I can see my house from here!
Noah's ark however was designed to show why there is only a given number of animals surviving and perhaps it was used to explain dinosaur bones found at the time?
Forgetting that they had not discovered dinosaur bones at the time. Ohm sure, they had a few here and there, but they were simply assumed to be the bones of giants.
Noah's Ark "exsits" to explain how we came to survive the Great Flood. The Gret Flood is an embelished retelling previous legends that were based on the fact that most early civilizations were located near rivers and got flooded from time to time.
Richard Clarke also served under Bush Sr. Who, like Mr. Clinton, listened to Mr. Clark. My beef with Clinton has nothing to do with his terrorism record, and is not relavant to this discussion.
As for the other statement: Training camps? For whome? Al Quada? Not likely. They hated Saddam. For people attacking Israel? Maybe. But that's Israel's problem, not ours.
Money? A few thousand dollars to the families of suicide bombers after the fact. And? Do you really think these pople blew themselves up for money? No. They blew themselves up for religious reasons. The money was given in order to annoy the US and stick a thorn into the side of the Israelie government. But again, this is Israel's problem, not ours.
Or are we little more that Israel's bitch, doing tricks to earn them cigarrette money?
Simple. The president should not discount the advise of his top terrorism advisor while drawing up plans to invade a country that has nothing to do with any terrorist attacks on American soil and while cutting the anti-terrorism budget at the same time.
We don't need new laws to deal with terrorism. What we need is an administration that pays attention to its advisors.
Except that Bill spent more mony on anti-terrorism than GW has and without trampling our rights in the process. Matter of fact, the White House reduced anti-terrorism money on September 10, 2001. Kinda funny that.
You might want to remember that there were no foreign terrorist attacks on American soil from just after the 1993 attack on the WTC and 9/11. And whio was president for most of that time? Slick Willie.
While there are lots of things I dislike about Bill Clinton, ignoring his advisors about terrorist threats is not one of them.
The computer is as it always has been: a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. That has never changed and never will.
What has changed is what purpose the tool is used. In the Oldent Days(TM) people wrote programs because there wasn't a whole hell of a lot else to do with that shiny new computer. Now programs abound. And computer systems used to be a lot simpler than they are today. Back in the hayday of the Tandy CoCo I wrote a disk copy utility based on little more than the incorrect information in the DOS user manual. Today making said tool without a prebuilt toolkit is next to impossible without a lot of training.
The computer, like the automobile, has moved from a specialty item owned by the rich (or otherwise "elite") to a commodity owned by the masses. And now being a computer owner/user no longer makes you special or requires special knowledge.
So what? Get on with your life and quit whining about how other people use their computers. So what if most people can't program? Can most programmers fix a modern automobile?
They created an Evil Empire! *DUM DUM DUMDUM* For, it was BASIC that gave Microsoft its start in life. Without BASIC MS would never have been built and Uncle Bill would be monopolizing timeshare condominiums or something.
So, you never bothere to sign up. So, you don't even know if what you are saying is true or if you are simply pulling it out of your ass, do you?
The simple fact is that redemtion rates are always extremely low in any kind of promotion. And if Pepsi's ability to ship promotional bottles is anywhere near their historic rates, I bet many people didn't even start seeing iTunes bottles until very recently.
Because many people have this idea that anything that exists in an easily duplicatable format should be free because it's so easy to duplicate. That and they are greedy, selfish little twits who have never tried to make a living with their intellectual gifts. They insulate themselves from their twinges of guilt by beleiving that because recording artists are getting screwed by the RIAA that it is okay for them to screw the artists even more. They claim that artits whould give their creations (music, games, movies, what have you) away for free (the stuff they want) and make money selling t-shirts, posters, mugs and performing live in concert (things that don't want).
What the planet of Hell do you need a workaround for? Just upgrade the other machines! iTunes is *DUM, DUM, DUMDUM* FREE (as in beer)! Is it really so hard to upgrade a free program?
But you knew going in that iTunes only runs under MacOS and Windows. You knew that when you agreed to the EULA. You agreed to their conditions when you signed up.
You are under obligation to abide by the terms of the agreement you entered with Apple. Apple is under no obligation to support every OS out there.
If you don't like the conditions Apple places in iTunes Music Store, including the limited number of supported platforms, don't use the service.
For the love of all that you hold dear. don't rent "Kite". it is the most soul destroying waste of film I've ever seen in my life. The ONLY redeeming aspect of the whole movie is fact that everybody dies. I have never seen a movie more pointless and dehumanizing.
Nope. Support calls didn't eat into thier bottom line in time. What killed them was their refusal to make a Windows version of WP. And when they did finally release the windows version, WP 5.2 for Windows, it was complete shit. Among the many problems with it was their abject refusal to let Windows handle the printer. They had built such a reputation for outstanding printer support in the DOS world that they could not concieve of the idea that Windows could run the printer. Add to that a broken file export system and a horrible user interface and it was all over for WordPerfect.
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS is still the best CUI based word processing program ever made. But they completely fucked themselves over with Windows.
WordPerfect Corp. lived in denial, claiming that their loyal customers would stick with them in the DOS world and not migrate to Windows. They didn't even think about making a Windows version until MS Word was eating their testicles.
I, too, bought AppleWorks. And I hate it. Other than its piddling database, I don't use it anymore. I moved all of my documents and spreadsheets to OOo because it just works better than AppleWorks. Sure, you can't cut and paste and it's not all shiney and purty like an Aqua app, but so what? Having used many different GUIs it doesn't bother me. The horrid text scaling in AppeWorks kills my eyes, however.
And I also removed the Office X test drive long ago.
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You realize that all you are doing is making them evolve into stronger forms that are resistant to bleach. don't you?
Your best be is to just make sure your shower curtain dries completely and then replace it when you see it start to get funky looking.
As is the current governor of California.
*DUM DUM DUMDUM!!!!!1*
Really? After all this time of being told that it's better than the alternatives we should expect that it's not?
OSS software should be held to the same quality standards as commercial software. Otherwise it's never going to be anything more than hobbiest software.
Oh, yes. The "code or shut up" argument. How does that make their statements untrue? It doesn't.
And here's a surprise for you, Sparky: most users these days can't code. That might be a shock to you, but it's true. So how do they help make a product better? Submit cadly written and buggy code that they don't even understand? That sounds like a dandy idea! Only not.
No, what they can do is let the developers know what things need to change in order to improve the product.
Without feedback, good and bad, a developer has no idea if anyone other than the developer can make heads or tails of the program.
And why shouldn't people look a gif horse in the mouth? A free tool that someone can't use is worse than a not-free tool that is usefull.
Who cares if it's open source? I don't. What I care about is being able to use it. If the interface is horrid and badly thiought out I'm not going to bother with it. Yeah, PSP isn't free, but it's interface is easy and well thought out. That lets me do what I need to do.
I use the best tool available in my price range. If that tool is free, geat. I'll use it. If that tool is not free, fine. I'll save up my lunch money and buy it.
I loathe The Gimp. Why? The interface is one of the worst I have ever seen. Ever. Including MS Word for DOS!
That being said, I find the interface for Photoshop to be a complete pain in the ass as well. If it wasn't for the fact that there isn't a Mac version of PaintShopPro, I wouldn't be using Photoshop (okay, Photoshop Elements, but it's still the same interface) at all.
Followed by a nice pair of steel bracelets and a new shiny bullet lodged in the back of your skull.
You think these machines will even have exposed drives of ANY kind?
The embargo against Cuba has nothing to do with himan rights. It is based on two factors:
1: Cuba is the only Communist state in the western hemisphere that America failed to overthrow.
2: There is a huge population of former Cubans in Florida that keep riding the governments ass about ending Castro's reign. Not that most of these people would ever move back to Cuba to save their lives.
Cheap labor to build all those gadgets we want. It's all about money. Our current president has already sold our future down the toilet for money. He'd probably sell his own mother to a meat packing plant if they offered him enough money.
Prince Hamlet: You killed my father, stole his crown, married his widow and usurped the crown of Chronos.
King Claudius: This is all true.
Prince Hamlet: Impressive.
King Claudius: Hey, I can see my house from here!
Forgetting that they had not discovered dinosaur bones at the time. Ohm sure, they had a few here and there, but they were simply assumed to be the bones of giants.
Noah's Ark "exsits" to explain how we came to survive the Great Flood. The Gret Flood is an embelished retelling previous legends that were based on the fact that most early civilizations were located near rivers and got flooded from time to time.
Richard Clarke also served under Bush Sr. Who, like Mr. Clinton, listened to Mr. Clark. My beef with Clinton has nothing to do with his terrorism record, and is not relavant to this discussion.
As for the other statement:
Training camps? For whome? Al Quada? Not likely. They hated Saddam. For people attacking Israel? Maybe. But that's Israel's problem, not ours.
Money? A few thousand dollars to the families of suicide bombers after the fact. And? Do you really think these pople blew themselves up for money? No. They blew themselves up for religious reasons. The money was given in order to annoy the US and stick a thorn into the side of the Israelie government. But again, this is Israel's problem, not ours.
Or are we little more that Israel's bitch, doing tricks to earn them cigarrette money?
Simple. The president should not discount the advise of his top terrorism advisor while drawing up plans to invade a country that has nothing to do with any terrorist attacks on American soil and while cutting the anti-terrorism budget at the same time.
We don't need new laws to deal with terrorism. What we need is an administration that pays attention to its advisors.
Except that Bill spent more mony on anti-terrorism than GW has and without trampling our rights in the process. Matter of fact, the White House reduced anti-terrorism money on September 10, 2001. Kinda funny that.
You might want to remember that there were no foreign terrorist attacks on American soil from just after the 1993 attack on the WTC and 9/11. And whio was president for most of that time? Slick Willie.
While there are lots of things I dislike about Bill Clinton, ignoring his advisors about terrorist threats is not one of them.
Oh, and it's the "Twin Towers".
You should replace 30 - 60 with:
30 ON I GOTO 100, 120, 140, 70
And then there is the matter of range checking...
(Damn, I'm a nerd.)
The computer is as it always has been: a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. That has never changed and never will.
What has changed is what purpose the tool is used. In the Oldent Days(TM) people wrote programs because there wasn't a whole hell of a lot else to do with that shiny new computer. Now programs abound. And computer systems used to be a lot simpler than they are today. Back in the hayday of the Tandy CoCo I wrote a disk copy utility based on little more than the incorrect information in the DOS user manual. Today making said tool without a prebuilt toolkit is next to impossible without a lot of training.
The computer, like the automobile, has moved from a specialty item owned by the rich (or otherwise "elite") to a commodity owned by the masses. And now being a computer owner/user no longer makes you special or requires special knowledge.
So what? Get on with your life and quit whining about how other people use their computers. So what if most people can't program? Can most programmers fix a modern automobile?
They created an Evil Empire! *DUM DUM DUMDUM* For, it was BASIC that gave Microsoft its start in life. Without BASIC MS would never have been built and Uncle Bill would be monopolizing timeshare condominiums or something.
So, you never bothere to sign up. So, you don't even know if what you are saying is true or if you are simply pulling it out of your ass, do you?
The simple fact is that redemtion rates are always extremely low in any kind of promotion. And if Pepsi's ability to ship promotional bottles is anywhere near their historic rates, I bet many people didn't even start seeing iTunes bottles until very recently.
"Teh information wants to be free!!!!1"
Because many people have this idea that anything that exists in an easily duplicatable format should be free because it's so easy to duplicate. That and they are greedy, selfish little twits who have never tried to make a living with their intellectual gifts. They insulate themselves from their twinges of guilt by beleiving that because recording artists are getting screwed by the RIAA that it is okay for them to screw the artists even more. They claim that artits whould give their creations (music, games, movies, what have you) away for free (the stuff they want) and make money selling t-shirts, posters, mugs and performing live in concert (things that don't want).
What the planet of Hell do you need a workaround for? Just upgrade the other machines! iTunes is *DUM, DUM, DUMDUM* FREE (as in beer)! Is it really so hard to upgrade a free program?
But you knew going in that iTunes only runs under MacOS and Windows. You knew that when you agreed to the EULA. You agreed to their conditions when you signed up.
You are under obligation to abide by the terms of the agreement you entered with Apple. Apple is under no obligation to support every OS out there.
If you don't like the conditions Apple places in iTunes Music Store, including the limited number of supported platforms, don't use the service.
For the love of all that you hold dear. don't rent "Kite". it is the most soul destroying waste of film I've ever seen in my life. The ONLY redeeming aspect of the whole movie is fact that everybody dies. I have never seen a movie more pointless and dehumanizing.
Yeah, and my Sims had cleaner houses than I ever did.
Nope. Support calls didn't eat into thier bottom line in time. What killed them was their refusal to make a Windows version of WP. And when they did finally release the windows version, WP 5.2 for Windows, it was complete shit. Among the many problems with it was their abject refusal to let Windows handle the printer. They had built such a reputation for outstanding printer support in the DOS world that they could not concieve of the idea that Windows could run the printer. Add to that a broken file export system and a horrible user interface and it was all over for WordPerfect.
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS is still the best CUI based word processing program ever made. But they completely fucked themselves over with Windows.
WordPerfect Corp. lived in denial, claiming that their loyal customers would stick with them in the DOS world and not migrate to Windows. They didn't even think about making a Windows version until MS Word was eating their testicles.
I, too, bought AppleWorks. And I hate it. Other than its piddling database, I don't use it anymore. I moved all of my documents and spreadsheets to OOo because it just works better than AppleWorks. Sure, you can't cut and paste and it's not all shiney and purty like an Aqua app, but so what? Having used many different GUIs it doesn't bother me. The horrid text scaling in AppeWorks kills my eyes, however.
And I also removed the Office X test drive long ago.