Amen. I'm forced to use Notes at work as well. I hate it. Hate hate hate. In fact, hate isn't a strong enough word for Notes.
If IBM spent $6 billion on Lotus, you'd think they'd spent a few hundred thousand and actually make it not painful to use. Or, you know, let people sort their email by subject line. Or, perhaps, let people search the *content* of emails and not just the headers. Or, perhaps, let people use the scrollwhell on their mouse in a normal manner. Or decide once and for all whether to sort people by first name (Open Database, a few other places) or last name (Address Book.) (Oh, and no, there's no way to change the sort order.) They could remove the misleadingly-named features that cause data loss, like "Edit Attachment," or at least allow admins to turn it off so we'd onlt get "where did my document go?" three times a week instead of twenty. Ditto with mail folders. Or they could make mail filters and Out Of Office messages actually work, instead of randomly triggering for no reason and staying around long after they're deleted. They could make it easy to change a user's name which, right now, is so difficult that it's usually quicker for us to just create a new user with the new name and copy-and-paste their email over to it.
Bah. It would be nice if the original poster who's already done it would answer my damn question. Oh well, I'll stick with the default ringtones and wallpaper for now I guess.
Another poster pointed this out, but other consoles weren't released when a sizeable fraction of the population instantly posted every detail of their lives on the web in either a blog, messageboard, or whatever.
It doesn't mean they were better, it just means it was easier for the company to control the news of the defects. I had a defective Genesis.
Are you talking about OS X or Linux? OS X gives me "AppleUSBCDCACMData: Version number - 3.1.4A, Input buffers 8, Output buffers 4" when I plug it in, whatever the hell that means.
Did you pay $30 for Motorola's driver, or is there some other way to get stuff on there?
I wanted to transfer some wallpapers and tunes to my v180, but Apple's iSync can't do it (it only does address book entries), and Motorola's driver is Windows-only. Do you know of a OS X/Linux way of doing it?
Word's.doc format supports more features than OpenDocument format. They'd either have to change the OpenDocument format or remove features from Word. Using it is a lose-lose for Microsoft. This is a much better alternative from their perspective.
When I call for the end of copyright, people say that creation would die if the artist couldn't protect their income. How much do artists today get from the cartels? Nearly 0. Thanks to copyright and those who "own" that right.
A few thoughts here.
1) Artists willingly sign away their rights to record companies. If they didn't understand the contract, well, that's their own fault. If the record companies don't offer any reasonable terms, well, too bad. But the point is that every artist being distributed my a RIAA member is doing so willingly... nothing is forced.
2) Just because one group of people abuse copyright, all copyright is bad? What about the open source movement? It relies on copyright laws to function as open source... if there were no copyright on the code, there'd be nothing preventing an open source product from being sold as closed source by a slimy company. (Heck, even with copyright law, some companies try it-- like with PearPC.)
I think you need to rethink your position a little bit. Copyright is a tool, it's neither good nor bad. It covers Joe Citizen just as well as it covers HugeComglom-O-Corp. Now, I wouldn't mind shorter terms, but removing a system that isn't broken because one party abuses it is a little short-sighted.
Isn't the entire *point* of WINE to run Windows programs?
Since I already have a Windows XP and Linux partition, I figured I'd be able to run it in WINE without *also* having a Windows 98 partition. It didn't work. So now I have three partitions and substantially less disk space than I would if WINE ran it.
Now, obviously, Dungeon Keeper II probably isn't the best example, but the point is that an experienced computer user can't get a single program to run in WINE with 8 hours worth of tinkering to the point that it was quicker to repartition and install Windows 98 to run it. That point applies regardless of what the application is.
It looked like it would work for a few minutes, then it ended up crashing right in the middle of the levels. So I guess technically it worked, but I need it to stay working long enough to finish the entire level.;)
I checked a bunch of forums, and it looked to me that it worked for some people but not for others, so I don't know exactly what the deal was.
Do you see how the original poster said it doesn't work for "most people" and your reply is that it works for "you?" Do you see how your reply doesn't address his original point whatsoever? All we've determined from reading it is that you aren't "most people." Congratulations!
iTunes can be run with Wine. I consider amaroK to be superior (AND it has neat iPod integration but who wants alternatives eh?)
Ok, so my buddy tells me about iTunes, and I go to Apple.com and get the download... but, oh wait, it's only available for Windows and OS X. Where's the Linux download? There is none. Chalk one up to the original poster. Since you don't know what "WINE" is, other than the alcoholic drink, you don't have that alternative open to you.
(BTW, Wine is not easy to use. If you think it is, your brain has been warped by using too many bad open source UIs. I'm a pretty savvy OS X and Windows user, and I've never been able to get anything to run on WINE. Which is a shame, because Dungeon Keeper II doesn't run in Windows XP and I thought WINE might provide a way of running it.)
What? You mean the horrible software with giant buttons and "register for email functionality" crap? I don't see how this is any kind of disadvantage. In KDE, it's integrated, you plug the camera in, a camera icon appears on the desktop, you click it and you can view/edit/mail/save the photos.
You're dodging the point. The point is that the software doesn't work. It doesn't matter how good/bad the software is, it doesn't work. You put in the CD and nothing happens. (This is like when you point out that, for instance, Linux doesn't have an alternative program to Microsoft Project, and you get the reply, "well, nobody uses Project anyway.")
That is the fault of the hardware manufacturers and I think printers that don't work with CUPS are generally the exception rather than the rule - I have yet to encounter a non-working, new, low end inkjet printer for family. HP and others even have open source drivers so you're safe there.
I agree that it's the manufacturer's problem, but that doesn't make it not a problem. Linux developers need to make it easier to write a Linux driver than Windows driver or make it easier to write a cross-platform driver than a Windows-only driver. Until they happens, Linux will lack driver support because there's no business case for it. (If you can gain 5% more sales, but have to spend 75% more time on driver development, no driver. If you gain 5% sales and spend only 5% more on driver development, now it's a no-brainer.)
Bring it on, what the hell is wrong with the GIMP? How about Krita? How about the million and one other simple image manipulation packages?
GIMP doesn't organize images like iPhoto. GIMP isn't easy to use in any way, shape, or form. It doesn't offer (or I haven't found) a truly simple red-eye removal tool. It doesn't allow you to print 2-up, 3-up, 4-up, etc images on photo paper.
I've never used Krita because, until this moment, I've never heard of it before.
None of the millions of little special interest applications won't work.
It's not specific, but it's still valid. Say my uncle has an interest in model planes. There's a model plane simulator software package out there, but it only runs in Windows. Well, why would he switch if he can't play with his virtual model planes in bad weather?
Say my aunt likes to weave rugs. Well, there's a great package on Windows to design rug patterns and print out specific instructions to use while weaving. No equivalent in Linux, no sale.
Say my dad like model railroads...
I think you get the point. And this is only home users; it doesn't even cover the millions of VB programs businesses out there are using.
Yeah, but Netscape killed themselves. They stopped making a web browser, and started making some kind of strangely huge and complicated "communicator" that crashed every ten minutes. Their flagship product couldn't keep browsing webpages for more than an hour without crashing, and they blamed *Microsoft* for it?
The simple fact of the matter is that people used IE because, at the time and ignoring all revisionist history, IE was a much better browser than Netscape. And you know how you can tell this wasn't Microsoft's fault? Because Mac users almost all used IE also-- because it worked plain better than Netscape.
Anyway, Netscape killed themselves. That would have happened whether they started that lawsuit or not.
I think Microsoft should have taken their ball and gone home. If the EU doesn't want a MS "monopoly" in Europe, Microsoft should just say "ok" and not sell anything at all. Two weeks of that, and the EU would be *begging* for copies of Windows and Office.
What bothers me the most is that Europe isn't full of morons, it's not stupid. But where's their computer industry? Where's Europe's OS? They were totally asleep during the entire computer revolution, and *now* they want involvement in the industry? You snooze, you lose, that's what I say.
"Authority-maddened?" They went "bonkers?" They just held him until he removed the foil so they could scan his badge. That's "bonkers" now?
Has it ever occurred to you that they use RFID badges because it makes their job, keeping the UN secure, easier?
If Stallman was opposed to the badge, he should have said so, POLITELY, when it was issued. He waved around foil because he wanted to get his face in the papers the next day. If he wanted to actually protest the usage of RFID badges, he'd have talked to the Head of Security, or whoever recommended them in the first place. Being a jerk to the security guards, probably some of the lowest-paid employees there, isn't helping.
End of story? Because your opinion obviously supersedes everybody else's. In fact, I don't know why I'm even posting this, seeing as how you've stated what you think, which is undoubtedly without question, and there's no point in discussing it further.
Sarcasm aside... the UN could have been more polite on this issue. RMS could have been more polite on this issue. For instance, why didn't RMS protest the badge when handed it in the first place? Why did he, instead, go out and buy a roll of foil and start covering it up? Did he even attempt to talk to the organizers to obtain a badge with no RFID strip?
There's still no excuse for acting like a jackass, and being a pain to people (the security guards) who have nothing to do with the decision to use RFID badges. (If he was being a pain to, say, the Head of Security, or somebody else who was involved in the decision and had the ability to revoke it, then that would be a different story.) If you want to get something changed, being a jerk to innocent guys just trying to do their job isn't the way.
Yeah, he was being an asshole. Of course he was harassed; he deserved to be harassed.
Whatever happened to being polite when visiting somebody? If he didn't want to follow the rules, he could have just left instead of coming in like a crazy guy waving foil around.
And how was his privacy invaded? You haven't explained that part, yet. Is a security guard buying stuff with his credit card on Amazon because he scanned his name badge?
It's a goddamned NAME BADGE! It's not the Illuminadi, it's not the "Pentaveret" or whatever the hell secret society you think is covering up UFO's. It's to identify which doors he should be able to unlock and which he shouldn't have access to. Millions of people were RFID name badges every day. Thousands of businesses require them. Why is everyone on Slashdot, a Linux-oriented website, so technophobic and paranoid? And half of the people posting here probably wear a RFID name badge to work, also.
Look, there are legitimate reasons to oppose *some* RFID tags. For instance, RFID tags put on clothing which are not removed at purchase. But clowning like this only serves to distract from the real issue.
What are you, kidding? He's a total asshole. If he didn't want a name badge with RFID in it (which is moronic itself), he could have just asked politely for a plain paper one. Oh, but if you're polite, and ask nicely, you're not "fighting THE MAN!" or whatever the hell Stallman thinks he's doing. So instead he has to be an asshole to the security guys who are just trying to do their job. And here's a news flash RMS: the security guys who had to deal with your bull aren't the people who decided to use RFID name badges and have no power to reverse that decision. So you're just being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole.
Why is it stupid? Millions of people wear RFID name badges every hour of every day, and I've not yet heard of anybody's privacy being compromised. I work at a county hospital in the middle of nowhere, and we have a RFID badge system. When you're talking about RFID tags you don't know are there, then you might have something to protest, but this is just stupid as all hell.
Everyone played with Lego as a child. And everyone laughs at some episodes of Red Dwarf (Legion, in particular, has pretty much every type of humor there is.) I think your test sucks.
It would be great to hear more about his involvement in game development back in the early days, but this article is about Everquest II... and *only* about Everquest II. The quote from the summary just provides a bit of background, the rest is all EQII all the time. Kind of disappointing.
Word has more features than OpenDocument could store. That means that if MS *did* support OpenDocument, you'd be whining that they changed the file format to be incompatible (because it was needed to store the additional data in the Doc format), or they'd make it not the default format, meaning you'd whine that Word encourages people to open OpenDocument and save as.doc.
It's a lose-lose for Microsoft. Maybe when OpenDocument's standard supports enough features to save a Word document to, they'll switch over. Until then, why would they bother?
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Or MS Word, that hasn't been able to figure out yet, how to do numbering.
Looks like your grammar checker is broken also.
Amen. I'm forced to use Notes at work as well. I hate it. Hate hate hate. In fact, hate isn't a strong enough word for Notes.
If IBM spent $6 billion on Lotus, you'd think they'd spent a few hundred thousand and actually make it not painful to use. Or, you know, let people sort their email by subject line. Or, perhaps, let people search the *content* of emails and not just the headers. Or, perhaps, let people use the scrollwhell on their mouse in a normal manner. Or decide once and for all whether to sort people by first name (Open Database, a few other places) or last name (Address Book.) (Oh, and no, there's no way to change the sort order.) They could remove the misleadingly-named features that cause data loss, like "Edit Attachment," or at least allow admins to turn it off so we'd onlt get "where did my document go?" three times a week instead of twenty. Ditto with mail folders. Or they could make mail filters and Out Of Office messages actually work, instead of randomly triggering for no reason and staying around long after they're deleted. They could make it easy to change a user's name which, right now, is so difficult that it's usually quicker for us to just create a new user with the new name and copy-and-paste their email over to it.
Guh I hate Notes.
Who cares? They all come from Fark.com in the first place, anyway. As does the material for 80% of the morning DJs out there.
Bah. It would be nice if the original poster who's already done it would answer my damn question. Oh well, I'll stick with the default ringtones and wallpaper for now I guess.
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I wanted a Godzilla phone.
Another poster pointed this out, but other consoles weren't released when a sizeable fraction of the population instantly posted every detail of their lives on the web in either a blog, messageboard, or whatever.
It doesn't mean they were better, it just means it was easier for the company to control the news of the defects. I had a defective Genesis.
Are you talking about OS X or Linux? OS X gives me "AppleUSBCDCACMData: Version number - 3.1.4A, Input buffers 8, Output buffers 4" when I plug it in, whatever the hell that means.
Did you pay $30 for Motorola's driver, or is there some other way to get stuff on there?
I wanted to transfer some wallpapers and tunes to my v180, but Apple's iSync can't do it (it only does address book entries), and Motorola's driver is Windows-only. Do you know of a OS X/Linux way of doing it?
Word's .doc format supports more features than OpenDocument format. They'd either have to change the OpenDocument format or remove features from Word. Using it is a lose-lose for Microsoft. This is a much better alternative from their perspective.
When I call for the end of copyright, people say that creation would die if the artist couldn't protect their income. How much do artists today get from the cartels? Nearly 0. Thanks to copyright and those who "own" that right.
A few thoughts here.
1) Artists willingly sign away their rights to record companies. If they didn't understand the contract, well, that's their own fault. If the record companies don't offer any reasonable terms, well, too bad. But the point is that every artist being distributed my a RIAA member is doing so willingly... nothing is forced.
2) Just because one group of people abuse copyright, all copyright is bad? What about the open source movement? It relies on copyright laws to function as open source... if there were no copyright on the code, there'd be nothing preventing an open source product from being sold as closed source by a slimy company. (Heck, even with copyright law, some companies try it-- like with PearPC.)
I think you need to rethink your position a little bit. Copyright is a tool, it's neither good nor bad. It covers Joe Citizen just as well as it covers HugeComglom-O-Corp. Now, I wouldn't mind shorter terms, but removing a system that isn't broken because one party abuses it is a little short-sighted.
Isn't the entire *point* of WINE to run Windows programs?
Since I already have a Windows XP and Linux partition, I figured I'd be able to run it in WINE without *also* having a Windows 98 partition. It didn't work. So now I have three partitions and substantially less disk space than I would if WINE ran it.
Now, obviously, Dungeon Keeper II probably isn't the best example, but the point is that an experienced computer user can't get a single program to run in WINE with 8 hours worth of tinkering to the point that it was quicker to repartition and install Windows 98 to run it. That point applies regardless of what the application is.
It looked like it would work for a few minutes, then it ended up crashing right in the middle of the levels. So I guess technically it worked, but I need it to stay working long enough to finish the entire level. ;)
I checked a bunch of forums, and it looked to me that it worked for some people but not for others, so I don't know exactly what the deal was.
Do you see how the original poster said it doesn't work for "most people" and your reply is that it works for "you?" Do you see how your reply doesn't address his original point whatsoever? All we've determined from reading it is that you aren't "most people." Congratulations!
iTunes can be run with Wine. I consider amaroK to be superior (AND it has neat iPod integration but who wants alternatives eh?)
Ok, so my buddy tells me about iTunes, and I go to Apple.com and get the download... but, oh wait, it's only available for Windows and OS X. Where's the Linux download? There is none. Chalk one up to the original poster. Since you don't know what "WINE" is, other than the alcoholic drink, you don't have that alternative open to you.
(BTW, Wine is not easy to use. If you think it is, your brain has been warped by using too many bad open source UIs. I'm a pretty savvy OS X and Windows user, and I've never been able to get anything to run on WINE. Which is a shame, because Dungeon Keeper II doesn't run in Windows XP and I thought WINE might provide a way of running it.)
What? You mean the horrible software with giant buttons and "register for email functionality" crap? I don't see how this is any kind of disadvantage. In KDE, it's integrated, you plug the camera in, a camera icon appears on the desktop, you click it and you can view/edit/mail/save the photos.
You're dodging the point. The point is that the software doesn't work. It doesn't matter how good/bad the software is, it doesn't work. You put in the CD and nothing happens. (This is like when you point out that, for instance, Linux doesn't have an alternative program to Microsoft Project, and you get the reply, "well, nobody uses Project anyway.")
That is the fault of the hardware manufacturers and I think printers that don't work with CUPS are generally the exception rather than the rule - I have yet to encounter a non-working, new, low end inkjet printer for family. HP and others even have open source drivers so you're safe there.
I agree that it's the manufacturer's problem, but that doesn't make it not a problem. Linux developers need to make it easier to write a Linux driver than Windows driver or make it easier to write a cross-platform driver than a Windows-only driver. Until they happens, Linux will lack driver support because there's no business case for it. (If you can gain 5% more sales, but have to spend 75% more time on driver development, no driver. If you gain 5% sales and spend only 5% more on driver development, now it's a no-brainer.)
Bring it on, what the hell is wrong with the GIMP? How about Krita? How about the million and one other simple image manipulation packages?
GIMP doesn't organize images like iPhoto. GIMP isn't easy to use in any way, shape, or form. It doesn't offer (or I haven't found) a truly simple red-eye removal tool. It doesn't allow you to print 2-up, 3-up, 4-up, etc images on photo paper.
I've never used Krita because, until this moment, I've never heard of it before.
None of the millions of little special interest applications won't work.
It's not specific, but it's still valid. Say my uncle has an interest in model planes. There's a model plane simulator software package out there, but it only runs in Windows. Well, why would he switch if he can't play with his virtual model planes in bad weather?
Say my aunt likes to weave rugs. Well, there's a great package on Windows to design rug patterns and print out specific instructions to use while weaving. No equivalent in Linux, no sale.
Say my dad like model railroads...
I think you get the point. And this is only home users; it doesn't even cover the millions of VB programs businesses out there are using.
Actually, the word "paranoid" doesn't imply "delusional." So if they actually *are* out to get you, you're still paranoid, just justifiably so.
That said, you're both paranoid and delusional. Assuming you believe the crap you typed a few messages up.
Yeah, but Netscape killed themselves. They stopped making a web browser, and started making some kind of strangely huge and complicated "communicator" that crashed every ten minutes. Their flagship product couldn't keep browsing webpages for more than an hour without crashing, and they blamed *Microsoft* for it?
The simple fact of the matter is that people used IE because, at the time and ignoring all revisionist history, IE was a much better browser than Netscape. And you know how you can tell this wasn't Microsoft's fault? Because Mac users almost all used IE also-- because it worked plain better than Netscape.
Anyway, Netscape killed themselves. That would have happened whether they started that lawsuit or not.
I think Microsoft should have taken their ball and gone home. If the EU doesn't want a MS "monopoly" in Europe, Microsoft should just say "ok" and not sell anything at all. Two weeks of that, and the EU would be *begging* for copies of Windows and Office.
What bothers me the most is that Europe isn't full of morons, it's not stupid. But where's their computer industry? Where's Europe's OS? They were totally asleep during the entire computer revolution, and *now* they want involvement in the industry? You snooze, you lose, that's what I say.
Short and simple:
You're paranoid. Seek help.
"Authority-maddened?" They went "bonkers?" They just held him until he removed the foil so they could scan his badge. That's "bonkers" now?
Has it ever occurred to you that they use RFID badges because it makes their job, keeping the UN secure, easier?
If Stallman was opposed to the badge, he should have said so, POLITELY, when it was issued. He waved around foil because he wanted to get his face in the papers the next day. If he wanted to actually protest the usage of RFID badges, he'd have talked to the Head of Security, or whoever recommended them in the first place. Being a jerk to the security guards, probably some of the lowest-paid employees there, isn't helping.
End of story? Because your opinion obviously supersedes everybody else's. In fact, I don't know why I'm even posting this, seeing as how you've stated what you think, which is undoubtedly without question, and there's no point in discussing it further.
Sarcasm aside... the UN could have been more polite on this issue. RMS could have been more polite on this issue. For instance, why didn't RMS protest the badge when handed it in the first place? Why did he, instead, go out and buy a roll of foil and start covering it up? Did he even attempt to talk to the organizers to obtain a badge with no RFID strip?
There's still no excuse for acting like a jackass, and being a pain to people (the security guards) who have nothing to do with the decision to use RFID badges. (If he was being a pain to, say, the Head of Security, or somebody else who was involved in the decision and had the ability to revoke it, then that would be a different story.) If you want to get something changed, being a jerk to innocent guys just trying to do their job isn't the way.
Yeah, he was being an asshole. Of course he was harassed; he deserved to be harassed.
Whatever happened to being polite when visiting somebody? If he didn't want to follow the rules, he could have just left instead of coming in like a crazy guy waving foil around.
And how was his privacy invaded? You haven't explained that part, yet. Is a security guard buying stuff with his credit card on Amazon because he scanned his name badge?
It's a goddamned NAME BADGE! It's not the Illuminadi, it's not the "Pentaveret" or whatever the hell secret society you think is covering up UFO's. It's to identify which doors he should be able to unlock and which he shouldn't have access to. Millions of people were RFID name badges every day. Thousands of businesses require them. Why is everyone on Slashdot, a Linux-oriented website, so technophobic and paranoid? And half of the people posting here probably wear a RFID name badge to work, also.
Look, there are legitimate reasons to oppose *some* RFID tags. For instance, RFID tags put on clothing which are not removed at purchase. But clowning like this only serves to distract from the real issue.
What are you, kidding? He's a total asshole. If he didn't want a name badge with RFID in it (which is moronic itself), he could have just asked politely for a plain paper one. Oh, but if you're polite, and ask nicely, you're not "fighting THE MAN!" or whatever the hell Stallman thinks he's doing. So instead he has to be an asshole to the security guys who are just trying to do their job. And here's a news flash RMS: the security guys who had to deal with your bull aren't the people who decided to use RFID name badges and have no power to reverse that decision. So you're just being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole.
Why is it stupid? Millions of people wear RFID name badges every hour of every day, and I've not yet heard of anybody's privacy being compromised. I work at a county hospital in the middle of nowhere, and we have a RFID badge system. When you're talking about RFID tags you don't know are there, then you might have something to protest, but this is just stupid as all hell.
Everyone played with Lego as a child. And everyone laughs at some episodes of Red Dwarf (Legion, in particular, has pretty much every type of humor there is.) I think your test sucks.
It would be great to hear more about his involvement in game development back in the early days, but this article is about Everquest II... and *only* about Everquest II. The quote from the summary just provides a bit of background, the rest is all EQII all the time. Kind of disappointing.
Word has more features than OpenDocument could store. That means that if MS *did* support OpenDocument, you'd be whining that they changed the file format to be incompatible (because it was needed to store the additional data in the Doc format), or they'd make it not the default format, meaning you'd whine that Word encourages people to open OpenDocument and save as .doc.
It's a lose-lose for Microsoft. Maybe when OpenDocument's standard supports enough features to save a Word document to, they'll switch over. Until then, why would they bother?