Figure this out, common people use degrees, not radians, we got those little angle-measuring-devices-I-dont-know-how-they-call- them-in-english that use degrees, not radians, (note that using radians there would be franctly retarded considering the amount of decimals they would need).
I interpret that as saying that the Firefox installer messed with Windows and Internet Explorer, opening a hole. Is Window/IE really to blame when another application adds "features" that end up being holes?
hmm, hell yeah? Why allow such things like letting an installer create a whole protocol anyways ? It looks like the whole idea of letting that happen is pretty lame...
You can try to act like a serious person and say we didn't need, and that it is a conspiracy to sell air line tickets and that the Communists and etc... Sometimes we got to stop complaining like old ladies about everything we listen in the news...
For me this was the definitive year of Ubuntu on the desktop. The rest I don't really care. It worked totally fine in my computer, and unlike windows XP I didn't require any driver CD to make my hardware work. All the apps are good enough for my needs, and since I was very used to programming on light weight IDES (that means no bloat or the need to have funny features beyond code completion) code::blocks is doing fine for me.
The reason I switched is that it is is far easier to customize and make it do what I want. Very few people might notice that MS hates when you customize windows, and Apple won't even let you do more than changing the wallpaper.
Games? Well... what happened is that I... grew up. I don't really need those flashy 3d accelerated games out there that now sound so expensive, I guess I am getting old already, but can survive with just Sudoku, I am afraid I don't think anymore my computer should be somekind of game station, consoles would do that job better anyways.
Look? I think I made my gnome look absolutely gorgeous, It is MY computer thus I don't really care about how much people think OS/X is the prettiest thing ever invented.
Show off value? I tried compiz-fusion and emerald and It makes the desktop absolutely awesome, I made it a toggle button so if somebody is gonna look and my desktop I enable those effects.
App compability? My emergency plan is using a virtual machine, but what's fun Is that I don't really need any windows app anymore... Yes, it is a different story for everybody, I know
Easy of use? I use this ubuntu OS and it hasn't really given me issues yet, I don't spend 3 hours trying to make everything work like some guys out there say they do when they use Linux.
Multimedia? Totem tells me when I have to download
Applications? I just use firefox , gedit , code::blocks , brazero, nautilus and the terminal. For odd reasons I don't need more things, I was surprised I can have a totally usable (for me) computer without any cost besides of hardware (This is country almost have no OEMs)
The winner: Organization has made me more productive, I like emblems and workspaces, those are features I now find essential.
All in one to me Ubuntu was complete and does the job correctly for me, and I switched.
Go ahead, and post all the reasons you think Linux is not ready for the desktop, all of them are wrong. People will switch once they like it, and this is a war that is not going to be won instantly, it is the satisfaction it can give to each person.
I've seen it since 3 years ago and I know how fast it can improve, I think i evolves faster than OS/X and windows, in fact Vista always copies Mac OS/X features and I found recently that Linux got so good, that apple is now stealing its ideas! so I think we are gonna do fine.
On alternative situations, like OLPC, education, servers , even Bolivarian PCs, etc. Linux has already won. And we just got to wait
And then we have KDE4, it is getting that Mac OS/X look that so much people like, yet it is implemented in a cleaner way and also getting some very outstanding features, and it gets the advantage of being free. KDE4 might just need some luck to give the world a great surprise.
I think even MS is noticing it, that's the reason they are being much more aggressive towards the open source world.
So go ahead and say "NO 2008 IS NO LINUXYEAR AND NEVER WILL HAPPEN " or "2008 is OS/X year because 2 guys and I decided to SWITCH!" I don't care, I think Linux is doing fine, I also don't think getting a good market share is any important, I think Linux is improving faster than the rest and will eventually surpass the rest (although for me it already has)
The rest is sipmply chicken-egg paradox with cycles like "Nobody will use linux until it has good apps and nobody will make good apps for linux until it gets a lot of users" (cliche also works with "games", and "hardware support")
I think Adobe is Linux's worst enemy. They aren't a company incapable of making cross platform software, afaik they do, But for some reason they will never make their apps work on Linux, even though that means unlocking their users.
Hi, you said "if there were better alternatives" but in the previous paragraph you simply mentioned that the company is locked into windows. No, you won't migrate ever, and there are already better alternatives but you are locked in, so that won't happen. It is not a matter of quality of the OS, it is a matter of how well windows allows people to lock themselves into it.
I'd rather have 1000 more vista years than one apple year. Apple is way a worse evil than MS.
Even the hard core linux guys I know are considering buying a mac for their home system
All of the good *nix utilities with the slick user friendly UI and really really good apps.
Yeah nice troll, everybody wants to have the same proprietary BS but without any app compatibility and with "nice look" as if you weren't able to have good looks on windows XP or gnomer or KDE or xcfe or whatever.
By comparison, we had XP running in 30 minutes in one of the boxes,
I will have to call you a troll, unless it is OEM in which it is pretty meaningless.
But seriously man, you got Dells and wanted to run Linux on them? Why not just buy the one that comes with Linux?
God forbid I'd rather have 1000 more years of microsoft than one year of apple.
Until you can take a distribution disk, pop it on a random machine with decent hardware, and have everything up and running without requiring any type of user action 'under the hood', Linux will remain firmly esconced in the realm of server rooms, geek basements, and nerd bedrooms; not in your average household.
I read this cliche over and over again. But I consider it to be BS. Average users don't install windows, average users don't configure hardware. It is NOT the obstacle for Linux at all. Windows' hardware support is void, and its installation is currently substandard , and last time I needed 12 hours to get windows running CORRECTLY with all my hardware, and to install all of its things. But it is not stopping people from using windows. Because users don't do it. It is somebody else who does, and most of the times it is the hardware vendor.
Apple simply advertised the heck out of the world, they didn't do anything else. Macs are not any special for artists yet people seem to buy that somehow.
I guess/hope vista fixed this. But I actually found a USB virus that runs automatically thanks to one of XP's 'features' (even if you got autorun disabled...) Then it copies itself to certain location I won't ellaborate about since I don't want more deadly viruses spread, it causes itself to be executed with admin rights the next boot (awesome isn't it?)
Once you try to clean it, it becomes a biotch , if it detects the string ".exe" in any title bar, it will send the OS a reboot command, this kind of makes you unable to use any tool that can get you rid of it manually.
I had to boot on linux and enable ntfs write support to clean it, it was hard even though (thanks to file dates) I was able to detect ALL the files it installed, I needed such an strange method to boot (recovery mode would equally fail).
These things are getting worse and worse, the other day I could notice another virus copied itself to my USB flash device (the time with the other virus was my brother's mp3 player which got infected) It looks like simply inserting an USB disk to a computer will get it infected and it will infected any other computer from which you open the USB disk, and how about anti virus software? It certainly doesn't work, I tried the disk on many computers with Mcfee, AVG, and Panda and all the three got infected by just inserting the disk.
I had to use Linux to clean the virus so when I used the disk it in windows it didn't infect my computer
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Uh no! god no! Tag request: flamebait
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If you do that you are:
Those 3 things sound like very lame stuff to do
Thanks for an utter dumb comment.
Figure this out, common people use degrees, not radians, we got those little angle-measuring-devices-I-dont-know-how-they-call- them-in-english that use degrees, not radians, (note that using radians there would be franctly retarded considering the amount of decimals they would need).
You can try to act like a serious person and say we didn't need, and that it is a conspiracy to sell air line tickets and that the Communists and etc... Sometimes we got to stop complaining like old ladies about everything we listen in the news...
If you don't want math in CS, you are either incapable OR lazy, neither of those personality traits helps in computer science.
What's great is that it also exports to PDF, what is a great reason to make people use it, I am gonna start by installing it to my parents' computer.
For me this was the definitive year of Ubuntu on the desktop. The rest I don't really care. It worked totally fine in my computer, and unlike windows XP I didn't require any driver CD to make my hardware work. All the apps are good enough for my needs, and since I was very used to programming on light weight IDES (that means no bloat or the need to have funny features beyond code completion) code::blocks is doing fine for me.
The reason I switched is that it is is far easier to customize and make it do what I want. Very few people might notice that MS hates when you customize windows, and Apple won't even let you do more than changing the wallpaper.
Games? Well... what happened is that I... grew up. I don't really need those flashy 3d accelerated games out there that now sound so expensive, I guess I am getting old already, but can survive with just Sudoku, I am afraid I don't think anymore my computer should be somekind of game station, consoles would do that job better anyways.
Look? I think I made my gnome look absolutely gorgeous, It is MY computer thus I don't really care about how much people think OS/X is the prettiest thing ever invented.
Show off value? I tried compiz-fusion and emerald and It makes the desktop absolutely awesome, I made it a toggle button so if somebody is gonna look and my desktop I enable those effects.
App compability? My emergency plan is using a virtual machine, but what's fun Is that I don't really need any windows app anymore... Yes, it is a different story for everybody, I know
Easy of use? I use this ubuntu OS and it hasn't really given me issues yet, I don't spend 3 hours trying to make everything work like some guys out there say they do when they use Linux.
Multimedia? Totem tells me when I have to download
Applications? I just use firefox , gedit , code::blocks , brazero, nautilus and the terminal. For odd reasons I don't need more things, I was surprised I can have a totally usable (for me) computer without any cost besides of hardware (This is country almost have no OEMs)
The winner: Organization has made me more productive, I like emblems and workspaces, those are features I now find essential.
All in one to me Ubuntu was complete and does the job correctly for me, and I switched.
Go ahead, and post all the reasons you think Linux is not ready for the desktop, all of them are wrong. People will switch once they like it, and this is a war that is not going to be won instantly, it is the satisfaction it can give to each person.
I've seen it since 3 years ago and I know how fast it can improve, I think i evolves faster than OS/X and windows, in fact Vista always copies Mac OS/X features and I found recently that Linux got so good, that apple is now stealing its ideas! so I think we are gonna do fine.
On alternative situations, like OLPC, education, servers , even Bolivarian PCs, etc. Linux has already won. And we just got to wait
And then we have KDE4, it is getting that Mac OS/X look that so much people like, yet it is implemented in a cleaner way and also getting some very outstanding features, and it gets the advantage of being free. KDE4 might just need some luck to give the world a great surprise.
I think even MS is noticing it, that's the reason they are being much more aggressive towards the open source world.
So go ahead and say "NO 2008 IS NO LINUXYEAR AND NEVER WILL HAPPEN " or "2008 is OS/X year because 2 guys and I decided to SWITCH!" I don't care, I think Linux is doing fine, I also don't think getting a good market share is any important, I think Linux is improving faster than the rest and will eventually surpass the rest (although for me it already has)
The rest is sipmply chicken-egg paradox with cycles like "Nobody will use linux until it has good apps and nobody will make good apps for linux until it gets a lot of users" (cliche also works with "games", and "hardware support")
I found it pretty easy to make people switch to firefox. I just don't tell them...
I think Adobe is Linux's worst enemy. They aren't a company incapable of making cross platform software, afaik they do, But for some reason they will never make their apps work on Linux, even though that means unlocking their users.
Your over expensive apple computer, is not the only thing in the world that can have internet, email, photos and multimedia, so please STFU.
Hi, you said "if there were better alternatives" but in the previous paragraph you simply mentioned that the company is locked into windows. No, you won't migrate ever, and there are already better alternatives but you are locked in, so that won't happen. It is not a matter of quality of the OS, it is a matter of how well windows allows people to lock themselves into it.
It is scary for me that an Apple troll got +1 Insightful. Please if any mod is looking, please mod this guy troll.
I read this cliche over and over again. But I consider it to be BS. Average users don't install windows, average users don't configure hardware. It is NOT the obstacle for Linux at all. Windows' hardware support is void, and its installation is currently substandard , and last time I needed 12 hours to get windows running CORRECTLY with all my hardware, and to install all of its things. But it is not stopping people from using windows. Because users don't do it. It is somebody else who does, and most of the times it is the hardware vendor.
Apple simply advertised the heck out of the world, they didn't do anything else. Macs are not any special for artists yet people seem to buy that somehow.
I think you meant: shame on US
Articles get tagged, not modded...
GP has offended apple by not reading source material !! omgWTF.
Was it really a phone? Did people really buy it because it was a phone?
I guess/hope vista fixed this. But I actually found a USB virus that runs automatically thanks to one of XP's 'features' (even if you got autorun disabled...) Then it copies itself to certain location I won't ellaborate about since I don't want more deadly viruses spread, it causes itself to be executed with admin rights the next boot (awesome isn't it?)
Once you try to clean it, it becomes a biotch , if it detects the string ".exe" in any title bar, it will send the OS a reboot command, this kind of makes you unable to use any tool that can get you rid of it manually.
I had to boot on linux and enable ntfs write support to clean it, it was hard even though (thanks to file dates) I was able to detect ALL the files it installed, I needed such an strange method to boot (recovery mode would equally fail) .
These things are getting worse and worse, the other day I could notice another virus copied itself to my USB flash device (the time with the other virus was my brother's mp3 player which got infected) It looks like simply inserting an USB disk to a computer will get it infected and it will infected any other computer from which you open the USB disk, and how about anti virus software? It certainly doesn't work, I tried the disk on many computers with Mcfee, AVG, and Panda and all the three got infected by just inserting the disk.
I had to use Linux to clean the virus so when I used the disk it in windows it didn't infect my computer