That is a matter your opinion. I never work with LAB and CYMK colors, so for me "the lack of LAB and CYMK modes isn't that bad". However I don't like the multiwindow stuff.
I've yet to find a piece of (supported) hardware that Microsoft didn't already have a driver for in Windows Update
My point was that claiming that everything works in Windows isn't true, just like it is in Ubuntu.
Howso? Be specific. They seem pretty much exactly equivalent to me...
Ubuntu: "update every single progam I've installed, as well as the operative system, now! (click)"
Windows: "The update manager needs to reboot your machine, now!. You have 34 applications installed. Go to the website of every single one of them, find an updated version, and reinstall each one manually! Buahahahaha!".
Vista didn't cruft-up like XP did after 2 years of high techy use (meaning: frequent installs/uninstalls of software, frequent reconfiguration, stuff like that.) You are correct that previous versions had this problem, but I'm putting this one into the "solved" bucket.
I'd like to see that computer after 2 years of browsing stuff with IE, clicking on every link that says "click here to win a price". That's the kind of punishment I'm talking about I mean when I say "grandma usage". Your "Techy usage" can't compare with that.
Now, both drawing tools and equation editors are lame.
I didn't want to imply that OpenOffice's Draw or Equation Editor were not lame. I'm just saying that they are better than Office.
Regarding Excel, well I too preffer it to Calc, but with a small margin. Where calc has limitations, Excel has shenanigans: the 'forgetful' copy-paste, the scripting language, the way it handles localization (changes keyboard shortcuts and function names depend on the language) and the CSV export (which is also localization-dependant. In some countries you get a comma sepparator and in others you get a semicolon). Filesize is also huge.
I've tried hard for two years to like Linux (I installed Ubuntu on two computers during that time and used it reasonably frequently), and it just never happened.
I think you should try installing windows more often then. It is not exactly "click-click-done" either. After you install the "Operative System", you have to install all the drivers (IF they exist at all; I remind you that lots of 5-year old hardware actually don't have drivers for Vista). And then compressors. Oh, video decoders. And Office. And an antivirus. And then you have something more or less functional (I'd install a bunch more stuff, like firefox+plugins, CCleaner, decent unfragmenter, im-client, DVD-burning tool, etc).
Not to mention the update process. Ubuntu wins hands-on on that one to windows.
Give it to grandma, and in one year and a half, reformat and reinstall.
(OpenOffice versus Microsoft Office, for example)
I'll take OpenOffice writer over MS Office Word any day. I'm not a linux fanboy, I use OpenOffice on windows. 35 MB for a 30-pages word document is just not cutting it for me. Excel is better in some parts, and worse in others, than OO's Calc - it's a tie for me. I preffer Powerpoint to its OpenOffice equivalent. And then, drawing tool and equation editors are just plain better in OpenOffice. So it's 1.5 points to MS, versus ~3 points for OO (I'm giving.5 to each the drawing tool and equation editor). I'm talking about MS office 2003 - 2007 interface's just wrong.
I can't say much about Apple, except that windows at least can run my games.
I encourage you to see the whole thing. It gets more interesting from part 3 onwards.
I believe that those people were able to describe Han Solo better than Padme or Qui Gon because, well, it is a better developed character, yes... but also because they have watched the first 3 movies like 7 times each (TV repositions, nostalgia, etc). In contrast, I doubt any of those people watched TPM more than once. So it is understandable that they aren't as familiar with the characters as with the others.
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Derka derrrr!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brj2UkUPjCI
"in USA"
Has this person or anyone else from the Chinese government provided any demostration that information "harms stability or the people"?
I mean, hard evidence. With concrete examples, measurements and definitions of "stability" and "harm".
I found the "Budget Box" guide helpful. Thanks.
Couldn't find the guides you mention in Tom's Hardware's. Do you happen do know the links?
What has no beginning can have no end.
Hi, I am the Historian from the Future.
I've travelled to the past to tell you that no one in my time cares about your websites.
(points at the Aussies faces)
ah-ha!
The future generations will just not care about us. Just stop thinking about this already.
return 4
If you learn ruby (& probably rails), when you go back to Java, you will write better code.
And you will miss ruby :)
In other order of things, guice might be a nice addemtum for you.
Or recursion.
Trolls also drag their knuckles.
That is a matter your opinion. I never work with LAB and CYMK colors, so for me "the lack of LAB and CYMK modes isn't that bad". However I don't like the multiwindow stuff.
So you first lease, and then release.
mmmm ... cheese
I've yet to find a piece of (supported) hardware that Microsoft didn't already have a driver for in Windows Update
My point was that claiming that everything works in Windows isn't true, just like it is in Ubuntu.
Howso? Be specific. They seem pretty much exactly equivalent to me...
Ubuntu: "update every single progam I've installed, as well as the operative system, now! (click)"
Windows: "The update manager needs to reboot your machine, now!. You have 34 applications installed. Go to the website of every single one of them, find an updated version, and reinstall each one manually! Buahahahaha!".
Vista didn't cruft-up like XP did after 2 years of high techy use (meaning: frequent installs/uninstalls of software, frequent reconfiguration, stuff like that.) You are correct that previous versions had this problem, but I'm putting this one into the "solved" bucket.
I'd like to see that computer after 2 years of browsing stuff with IE, clicking on every link that says "click here to win a price". That's the kind of punishment I'm talking about I mean when I say "grandma usage". Your "Techy usage" can't compare with that.
I read what is important for *me*, thank you.
That's the best thing you can do. Make it ROCK.
Now, both drawing tools and equation editors are lame.
I didn't want to imply that OpenOffice's Draw or Equation Editor were not lame. I'm just saying that they are better than Office.
Regarding Excel, well I too preffer it to Calc, but with a small margin. Where calc has limitations, Excel has shenanigans: the 'forgetful' copy-paste, the scripting language, the way it handles localization (changes keyboard shortcuts and function names depend on the language) and the CSV export (which is also localization-dependant. In some countries you get a comma sepparator and in others you get a semicolon). Filesize is also huge.
Please list your components, and where you bought them!
I've tried hard for two years to like Linux (I installed Ubuntu on two computers during that time and used it reasonably frequently), and it just never happened.
I think you should try installing windows more often then. It is not exactly "click-click-done" either. After you install the "Operative System", you have to install all the drivers (IF they exist at all; I remind you that lots of 5-year old hardware actually don't have drivers for Vista). And then compressors. Oh, video decoders. And Office. And an antivirus. And then you have something more or less functional (I'd install a bunch more stuff, like firefox+plugins, CCleaner, decent unfragmenter, im-client, DVD-burning tool, etc).
Not to mention the update process. Ubuntu wins hands-on on that one to windows.
Give it to grandma, and in one year and a half, reformat and reinstall.
(OpenOffice versus Microsoft Office, for example)
I'll take OpenOffice writer over MS Office Word any day. I'm not a linux fanboy, I use OpenOffice on windows. 35 MB for a 30-pages word document is just not cutting it for me. Excel is better in some parts, and worse in others, than OO's Calc - it's a tie for me. I preffer Powerpoint to its OpenOffice equivalent. And then, drawing tool and equation editors are just plain better in OpenOffice. So it's 1.5 points to MS, versus ~3 points for OO (I'm giving .5 to each the drawing tool and equation editor). I'm talking about MS office 2003 - 2007 interface's just wrong.
I can't say much about Apple, except that windows at least can run my games.
The same happens with telephone conversations, or radio emissions. Except in some specific cases, it is just not worth the hassle.
... just next to their own wall!
I encourage you to see the whole thing. It gets more interesting from part 3 onwards.
I believe that those people were able to describe Han Solo better than Padme or Qui Gon because, well, it is a better developed character, yes... but also because they have watched the first 3 movies like 7 times each (TV repositions, nostalgia, etc). In contrast, I doubt any of those people watched TPM more than once. So it is understandable that they aren't as familiar with the characters as with the others.