Well, you can have my word that if I ever create an innovative new distro and ride it all the way to the Distrowatch top ten, I'll make a great big stink about Ballmer in your honor.
In fact, while I'm at it, I might just bundle nVidia's binary drivers with it too, and make another big stink for the benefit of the FSF.
By the time I'm finished, the software world will be so busy gagging and crawling towards the door that nobody will want to stick around to hand me a subpoena.
Ballmer isn't borg enough. The thing with Gates is that he's always been at least a little bit about the technology, hence the borg icon. Ballmer doesn't know his intertubes from his whatchamadoodads. His special ability is vague legal threats and his starter weapon is an office chair.
If he was interesting enough to nerds to deserve an icon, which he isn't, it'd probably have to be something to do with one of the following:
"The Mono Project announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."
There are only a few very specific reasons why some people say GNU/Linux instead of Linux. If you believe in them strongly enough that you're willing to add those three entire syllables to the name, how on earth can you reconcile that with being indifferent enough to use the more common form "Linux" only a few lines later?
In fact, using them like that implies a certain interchangeability between the two. RMS must be turning in his grave.
Fuck knows why you had to bring religion into this. Religion did not invent instinct.The drive for expansion is an evolutionary instinct. It's fairly fundamental to life. Even bacteria do it.
Don't like it? Get out of the gene pool. Leave life to those of us who value it and wish to perpetuate its existence.
I can see where you're coming from with that. During my brief period using Konqueror as my main browser, I used that stuff all the time. Mainly wp for wikipedia searches.
But, if you take the time to click on the G logo on the extreme left of the search bar, you will see that it comes with a whole bunch of other sites for you to search. So if you're doing most of your searching on only one website, the search bar retains its usefulness.
It's good that this address bar search functionality is available in Firefox, but a visible search bar that comes with a bunch of preset sites and displays a picture to tell you what site you're searching is orders of magnitude more useful to casual users.
Why the hell would anyone want the search bar if you can simply type "google xxx"?
It's a lot more effort to type "google" than it is to press CTRL+K
I use this all the time, and I definitely don't consider it a waste of screen real estate. The only time I ever remove the Google toolbar is when I'm setting up KDE on a small desktop.
As for wikipedia... well, that's all Google's really for nowadays anyway: a faster search engine for wikipedia with a decent built in spellchecker.
This is all over the big news sites. Why? IRC has had/ignore and Usenet has had the kill file since the dawn of time. The ability to ignore stuff you don't like is hardly a big new addition to the internet.
At most this is a UI revision to a videogame sequel.
That's really all gaming is (and this probably applies to sport too). You create a simpler universe with problems to solve and challenges to face. The problems are designed to be entertaining, and you can derive a sense of satisfaction from it because many familiar rules from our own universe are programmed into the games. Online multiplayer adds human conflict as another source of entertainment. That's a big part of why it's so fun.
What people do in their leisure time usually doesn't detract from what they can accomplish in "serious time". Just because they enjoy stuff like this during their time off doesn't prevent them from working towards world peace at the U.N. from 9 to 5.
Okay, so we've established that you're a cool-headed individual not easily shaken by idle criticism.
If you don't care about...
If you think...
Way to put words into my mouth.
The simple fact is that a few thousand operating system enthusiasts pushing their favourite operating system onto people they meet at random isn't anything like as grandiose as "steering how computing will influence our lives". If you want to do that, get a job in an Open Source company, or better, an Open Source advocacy company (yes, they exist).
Look at how the mormons are doing with their door-to-door campaigns. Everybody hates them, and going off about free computing options to anyone who'll listen is no different.
Advocate: Here, just take this copy of our bible/copy of Ubuntu! If you have any further questions about getting saved/installing it, we'll be happy to send someone over to your house to help you out! Guy in street: Uh... yeah... I'll definitely take a look at this later.
If the situation changes then the informed person may change his point of view or attitudes.
Kind of like how Ubuntu's rep was completely ruined and people turned away from it when it was discovered that it stored the root password in plaintext somewhere in the filesystem, and now no sane advocate will touch it with a 10 foot barge pole, right?
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Those Arabs will give us the flag-burning of a lifetime if we ever fuck with them. I bet you didn't think of that, did you?
I've noticed this one a lot lately. It's also my most favourite troll one-liner right now. Whoever you are, please, please keep posting this.
Also, in before "you must be a real hoot at parties".
Animated GIFs? In my Slashdot? It's more annoying than you think!
Well, you can have my word that if I ever create an innovative new distro and ride it all the way to the Distrowatch top ten, I'll make a great big stink about Ballmer in your honor.
In fact, while I'm at it, I might just bundle nVidia's binary drivers with it too, and make another big stink for the benefit of the FSF.
By the time I'm finished, the software world will be so busy gagging and crawling towards the door that nobody will want to stick around to hand me a subpoena.
Ballmer isn't borg enough. The thing with Gates is that he's always been at least a little bit about the technology, hence the borg icon. Ballmer doesn't know his intertubes from his whatchamadoodads. His special ability is vague legal threats and his starter weapon is an office chair.
If he was interesting enough to nerds to deserve an icon, which he isn't, it'd probably have to be something to do with one of the following:
There are only a few very specific reasons why some people say GNU/Linux instead of Linux. If you believe in them strongly enough that you're willing to add those three entire syllables to the name, how on earth can you reconcile that with being indifferent enough to use the more common form "Linux" only a few lines later?
In fact, using them like that implies a certain interchangeability between the two. RMS must be turning in his grave.
Fuck knows why you had to bring religion into this. Religion did not invent instinct.The drive for expansion is an evolutionary instinct. It's fairly fundamental to life. Even bacteria do it.
Don't like it? Get out of the gene pool. Leave life to those of us who value it and wish to perpetuate its existence.
IHL
Here's what a realistic YouTube meetup would look like:
I would go with a name like 'Elf' or 'Dwarf'. While we're at it we can rename all the apps to get rid of the G prefix.
That was some epic shit. I want whatever you're drinking.
I can see where you're coming from with that. During my brief period using Konqueror as my main browser, I used that stuff all the time. Mainly wp for wikipedia searches.
But, if you take the time to click on the G logo on the extreme left of the search bar, you will see that it comes with a whole bunch of other sites for you to search. So if you're doing most of your searching on only one website, the search bar retains its usefulness.
It's good that this address bar search functionality is available in Firefox, but a visible search bar that comes with a bunch of preset sites and displays a picture to tell you what site you're searching is orders of magnitude more useful to casual users.
Parent post is Tesla. He's back, promoting his crackpot bullshit from beyond the grave.
Mythbusters said it, I believe it, that settles it.
Additional keys are all well and good, but what I think really irks people about this particular key is that it has the Windows logo on it.
It would be exactly as useful and 0% as annoying if they kept the key but printed something else on it, like a star, or a light bulb or something.
I use this all the time, and I definitely don't consider it a waste of screen real estate. The only time I ever remove the Google toolbar is when I'm setting up KDE on a small desktop.
As for wikipedia... well, that's all Google's really for nowadays anyway: a faster search engine for wikipedia with a decent built in spellchecker.
What the hell? How can you write about captchas without showing pictures?
How else do you get this point across properly?This is all over the big news sites. Why? IRC has had /ignore and Usenet has had the kill file since the dawn of time. The ability to ignore stuff you don't like is hardly a big new addition to the internet.
At most this is a UI revision to a videogame sequel.
The downfall of Web 2.0: people realising that they're providing all the content that's making the site owners rich
That's really all gaming is (and this probably applies to sport too). You create a simpler universe with problems to solve and challenges to face. The problems are designed to be entertaining, and you can derive a sense of satisfaction from it because many familiar rules from our own universe are programmed into the games. Online multiplayer adds human conflict as another source of entertainment. That's a big part of why it's so fun.
What people do in their leisure time usually doesn't detract from what they can accomplish in "serious time". Just because they enjoy stuff like this during their time off doesn't prevent them from working towards world peace at the U.N. from 9 to 5.
There are no real conclusions to be drawn from this list. I'm really just pointing a bunch of stuff out.
That image is as old as the internets.
Okay, so we've established that you're a cool-headed individual not easily shaken by idle criticism.
Way to put words into my mouth.
The simple fact is that a few thousand operating system enthusiasts pushing their favourite operating system onto people they meet at random isn't anything like as grandiose as "steering how computing will influence our lives". If you want to do that, get a job in an Open Source company, or better, an Open Source advocacy company (yes, they exist).
Look at how the mormons are doing with their door-to-door campaigns. Everybody hates them, and going off about free computing options to anyone who'll listen is no different.
Kind of like how Ubuntu's rep was completely ruined and people turned away from it when it was discovered that it stored the root password in plaintext somewhere in the filesystem, and now no sane advocate will touch it with a 10 foot barge pole, right?