Demanding for instant gratification seems more along the lines of what some kid that grew up glued to electronic devices and the internet would expect. Precisely what I am opposed to.
All this "compare it to medicating a kid" talk completely overlooks the safety aspect of the situation.
Ah yes, the good old "won't somebody think of the children" argument. Tell me, exactly how many children die in schoolbus related accidents that were caused by children rough-housing in the back of the bus, and not a drunk or stoned bus driver in the past year? Now how many children have ridden on a bus in the past year?
Now that you have those two figures, compute the likelihood of a student actually being in such an accident. Do you see why this argument is absurd now?
What exactly would be the point of that? Infections senselessly trashing systems is pretty 1990. If the recovery partition is ever actually needed, that would mean the rootkit is effectively dead already, so why should it care what happens next?
They could just have their update installer flip shit if checksums don't check out right, and refuse to take any actions. That would be the sane default anyways...
He was implying that the poster has only played those games, since he hasn't been using windows and those games are pretty famous for being cross platform.
What I don't understand is why "you can't play games" is supposed to be some sort of universal knock against people who don't use windows. I never played games even when I did use windows, it's just not my thing.
It's actually pretty slick, apparently they use it for editing those little open movies they do once in a while to demonstrate what blender can do. There are a few tutorials out there, I'm kind of surprised nobody had mentioned it in this article yet.
Well if that is not true, then using XP and being a geek definitely are. No self respecting geek would use an operating system that is almost a decade old when several more modern versions from the same vendor exist.
If you ever need to do video editing on linux again, I highly suggest you try out Blender. Besides being a 3d program, it also works pretty damned well as a very intuitive video editor. I'm not terribly familiar with professional grade video editing, but I hear Blender is a bit untraditional. It was insanely easy for me to pick up though (I never used blender for 3d stuff either), and I can't imagine why you would need anything more complex just to make a commercial.
See the response you got in your other comment. X really doesn't care how many monitors you use. If you can plug them all in, you can use all of them at once. You may have had issues, but it certainly is not the fault of the kernel...
I really don't see how it could possibly take anyone hours to configure KDE. Firing up System Settings, choosing/creating a colorscheme, window decorations, focus style, window behavior, keyboard settings, etc should all take no more then a few minutes. All you need to do is click your mouse. From there you can create whatever panels you want and add whatever plasmoids you want in each, again all with just clicking your mouse a few times. If I were to completely wipe out my ~/.kde/ directory right now, it would probably take me no more than 10 minutes to get my settings back where I wanted them. That includes more obscure settings like making xterm instead of konsole my default terminal emulator, and changing my default webbrowser to a non-standard one.
Even if it takes you an entire half an hour to do, which strikes me as quite unlikely, the important thing to remember is you really only need to do this once...
Really the only way I can see it taking hours to do is if you decided to edit all of the configuration files by hand, in which case I'd argue that you really don't understand the point of KDE and are a lost cause.
I'm not complaining about the complexity of Amarok 2. I'm asserting that, at least while I was putting up with it (for more than about a year since it was released. I tried to like it, I really did.), it was a broken piece of crap that was completely unable to correctly scan a folder and create a database of my music. It crashed constantly, the collection scanner would completely fail utterly numerous times in numerous different ways, and it chewed up memory and cpu like no media player should.
The icing on the shit cake is that Amarok 2 was ugly as hell while sucking this hard.
It's a goddamned music player, why should I have to "make an effort" at all? Not to mention, that is hardly the only thing wrong with it.
I was patient with Amarok 2 for a long time. Far too long. Eventually I got fed up and wrote my own fucking client for xmms2 so I could finally listen to music with something that wasn't a complete pain in the ass and could reliably scan my music collection without placing all of my Rush albums under random jazz artists.
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Demanding for instant gratification seems more along the lines of what some kid that grew up glued to electronic devices and the internet would expect. Precisely what I am opposed to.
Nice ad hominem though.
Ah yes, the good old "won't somebody think of the children" argument. Tell me, exactly how many children die in schoolbus related accidents that were caused by children rough-housing in the back of the bus, and not a drunk or stoned bus driver in the past year? Now how many children have ridden on a bus in the past year?
Now that you have those two figures, compute the likelihood of a student actually being in such an accident. Do you see why this argument is absurd now?
http://tinypic.com/fk5ctf.gif
Scary indeed, and incredibly sad.
Actually, it's ideonexus. As in: "ideonexus writes"
Now granted, kdawson is pretty dumb too...
What exactly would be the point of that? Infections senselessly trashing systems is pretty 1990. If the recovery partition is ever actually needed, that would mean the rootkit is effectively dead already, so why should it care what happens next?
Well if I'm reading this right, this one at least didn't catch filesystem writes...
They could just have their update installer flip shit if checksums don't check out right, and refuse to take any actions. That would be the sane default anyways...
Uuuuuuuh..... A home user? Re-read that quotation that you so handily provided one more time.
See it?
It's singular. He applied updates to a single computer.
What sort of loon thinks that expecting home users to somehow test patches from their goddamn vendor before applying them is acceptable?
No shit Sherlock.
He was implying that the poster has only played those games, since he hasn't been using windows and those games are pretty famous for being cross platform.
What I don't understand is why "you can't play games" is supposed to be some sort of universal knock against people who don't use windows. I never played games even when I did use windows, it's just not my thing.
Well, technically all of the distros are open. Some of them just aren't gratis.
I really love [WHATEVER] but... [REASON THEY DO NOT LOVE WHATEVER]"
is a classic astroturfer pattern.
Sure.
Hell, you can have Xinerama running across multiple distinct computers with distinct X servers running on each one with a little bit of work.
I use an ATI graphics card (r500 series, about 2 years old) and the FOSS 'radeon' driver. Fairly common stuff.
File a bug report. They work for me every day.
It's actually pretty slick, apparently they use it for editing those little open movies they do once in a while to demonstrate what blender can do. There are a few tutorials out there, I'm kind of surprised nobody had mentioned it in this article yet.
Well if that is not true, then using XP and being a geek definitely are. No self respecting geek would use an operating system that is almost a decade old when several more modern versions from the same vendor exist.
If you ever need to do video editing on linux again, I highly suggest you try out Blender. Besides being a 3d program, it also works pretty damned well as a very intuitive video editor. I'm not terribly familiar with professional grade video editing, but I hear Blender is a bit untraditional. It was insanely easy for me to pick up though (I never used blender for 3d stuff either), and I can't imagine why you would need anything more complex just to make a commercial.
Hell, multiple monitor support doesn't even require using closed source drivers, I haven't used one for almost 2 years now.
See the response you got in your other comment. X really doesn't care how many monitors you use. If you can plug them all in, you can use all of them at once. You may have had issues, but it certainly is not the fault of the kernel...
I really don't see how it could possibly take anyone hours to configure KDE. Firing up System Settings, choosing/creating a colorscheme, window decorations, focus style, window behavior, keyboard settings, etc should all take no more then a few minutes. All you need to do is click your mouse. From there you can create whatever panels you want and add whatever plasmoids you want in each, again all with just clicking your mouse a few times. If I were to completely wipe out my ~/.kde/ directory right now, it would probably take me no more than 10 minutes to get my settings back where I wanted them. That includes more obscure settings like making xterm instead of konsole my default terminal emulator, and changing my default webbrowser to a non-standard one.
Even if it takes you an entire half an hour to do, which strikes me as quite unlikely, the important thing to remember is you really only need to do this once...
Really the only way I can see it taking hours to do is if you decided to edit all of the configuration files by hand, in which case I'd argue that you really don't understand the point of KDE and are a lost cause.
I'm not complaining about the complexity of Amarok 2. I'm asserting that, at least while I was putting up with it (for more than about a year since it was released. I tried to like it, I really did.), it was a broken piece of crap that was completely unable to correctly scan a folder and create a database of my music. It crashed constantly, the collection scanner would completely fail utterly numerous times in numerous different ways, and it chewed up memory and cpu like no media player should.
The icing on the shit cake is that Amarok 2 was ugly as hell while sucking this hard.
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I can't say it's ready for general consumption, but more or less it works for my day to day needs.
It's a goddamned music player, why should I have to "make an effort" at all? Not to mention, that is hardly the only thing wrong with it.
I was patient with Amarok 2 for a long time. Far too long. Eventually I got fed up and wrote my own fucking client for xmms2 so I could finally listen to music with something that wasn't a complete pain in the ass and could reliably scan my music collection without placing all of my Rush albums under random jazz artists.
Fedora.
I hear OpenSuse is good as well, though I cannot personally attest for that.
Yes, you are right. I read that wrong.