a single button mouse in a major pain in the neither regions to use in X
Not really. When I installed Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 on my iBook I had no problem configuring an F-Key and the right "Apple" key as a second and third mouse button (and I was a complete newbie to Linux!).
Ubuntu has the LTS releases, but honestly, who doesn't upgrade when the next Ubuntu comes out
I don't. I'm happily running 6.10 and I'll upgrade when the next LTS release comes out. Actually, even then I'll wait a couple of months just to make sure there aren't problems with it. I couldn't care less about the "bleeding edge" and I've got better things to do than install, tweak, upgrade, tweak, test, tweak, reinstall, tweak, etc. I do security upgrades to single packages when needed, and that's it.
especially since they refuse to backport newer versions of software to older versions of Ubuntu
I am shocked that an article discussing who is the real inventor of the telephone doesn't even mention Antonio Meucci. He was the first to invent the phone, and even the Congress has acknowledged that if he had had the money to renew his patent, Bell would have never obtained his own patent.
I often wonder if I'm the only desktop user in the world who couldn't care less about eye-candy. Given the current trends, it sure looks that way.
For me, nothing beats the sheer elegance of the Motif window manager. I just love that classic 90's look!
This story suggests to me a new version of Fermi's paradox: "If we are not alone in the universe [and we are damaging it], where is everyone? [Shouldn't all the advanced civilizations allegedly populating the galaxies be shouting at us to "stop it NOW!" ?]
And making a huge salary while you grow your grey beard and tell the world about how free[dom] software is the best and write Linux apps that less than 1% of the world's internet using population will ever see or care about. Reality is a bitch isn't it?
I've never met a web designer who earns "a huge salary". Not even close. Dream on, Anonymous Coward.
I understand you are ignorant, so I'll clear it up for you.
Explorer isn't just the file browser (though it does handle that), the whole desktop manager in windows, is explorer.
You'd better mind your own ignorance instead. KDE is not just a file or desktop manager, it's an environment made of lots of apps and applets.
The Windows panel, for example, is not part of Explorer. KDE's Kicker is part of KDE. Microsoft's window manager is not part of Explorer. KWin is part of KDE. Just to name two examples out of many.
I am in university, and the attitude from many first-year CS students I have spoken with is that "Linux sucks", even if they have only used PuTTY on their Winblows boxes to program their small C apps to the server with GCC. And they are all asking "Why not Visual Studio?", which they all have pirated of course. It is ridiculous. They do not believe me about the crappiness of proprietary software, and some even choose to use Vista just because it is the "latest".
They have a great future as "Microsoft-certified" code monkeys at some crappy software house developing crappy websites that only work with Explorer.
What if, for example, Microsoft decided to plop a new GUI atop the Linux kernel and enter the fray with its own version of Linux?
[...] Apple has done very well doing exactly that with BSD.
Good job, Joe: a classic Usenet-advocacy-group-style "analysis".
> That makes sense, because I couldn't possibly defame you on, say for example, Slashdot, right moron?
Yes, you could and you would get your ass sued.
The difference is that those sites are there for the exact purpose of letting their users spoil other people's reputations. So, of course, the users there will do just that.
That's why those sites are much more likely to turn into "lawsuit incubators" than most other sites. Do you get it now?
I think you're missing the point: the site is not going to get sued for being a parody. Its own users are the ones at risk of lawsuit for publicly defaming people.
Are record sales low because of bad content, or does the music industry not invest a lot of time and work on content because revenues are low?
As a music industry insider, I can witness to the fact that many records are produced in less time and by less qualified people nowadays because record companies have to lower their break-even point. This of course fuels the downwards spiral.
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Jaguar is OSX, and - as such - it kicks ass. But on a G3 slower than, say, 600MHz it's gonna be slow.
I am shocked that an article discussing who is the real inventor of the telephone doesn't even mention Antonio Meucci. He was the first to invent the phone, and even the Congress has acknowledged that if he had had the money to renew his patent, Bell would have never obtained his own patent.
Now they have a way to redeem their memory forever: release SCO UNIX's full source code to the public domain.
meh.
Who would have thought it, such an innocent domain name...
Note that, if you are a Windows user, you are *still* buying "specific hardware" for it.
Not that weird... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
For those who can't afford it, there will always be crap music made by amateurs, for free on the Internet.
This story suggests to me a new version of Fermi's paradox: "If we are not alone in the universe [and we are damaging it], where is everyone? [Shouldn't all the advanced civilizations allegedly populating the galaxies be shouting at us to "stop it NOW!" ?]
I've never met a web designer who earns "a huge salary". Not even close. Dream on, Anonymous Coward.
You'd better mind your own ignorance instead. KDE is not just a file or desktop manager, it's an environment made of lots of apps and applets.
The Windows panel, for example, is not part of Explorer. KDE's Kicker is part of KDE. Microsoft's window manager is not part of Explorer. KWin is part of KDE. Just to name two examples out of many.
Good job, Joe: a classic Usenet-advocacy-group-style "analysis".
No, but I probably look like new because I avoid using silly /. memes.
> That makes sense, because I couldn't possibly defame you on, say for example, Slashdot, right moron?
Yes, you could and you would get your ass sued.
The difference is that those sites are there for the exact purpose of letting their users spoil other people's reputations. So, of course, the users there will do just that.
That's why those sites are much more likely to turn into "lawsuit incubators" than most other sites. Do you get it now?
I think you're missing the point: the site is not going to get sued for being a parody. Its own users are the ones at risk of lawsuit for publicly defaming people.
Are record sales low because of bad content, or does the music industry not invest a lot of time and work on content because revenues are low?
As a music industry insider, I can witness to the fact that many records are produced in less time and by less qualified people nowadays because record companies have to lower their break-even point. This of course fuels the downwards spiral.