Then software, you're right that there is a lot of free software for Windows, but for linux all is free.
No. There's "pay" Linux software. There's crossover office, for one (yes you can get the source, but that's apparantly a PITA), and I've seen closed source, pay-for-use Linux apps as well, though none are coming to mind. There was an office application mentioned on/. within the past 3 or 4 months I believe. German manufacture...
The third thing is that yuo can update all software ( in linux) by one click in Update Manager wherease in Windows you usually have to deinstall app and install new version.
No, you *cannot* install all software with the Update Manager, rather you can install/upgrade software for which packages have been made. I'll grant you, that is a large quantity of software, but by no means all. Also you have to tell it to use the appropriate repositories, as, at least in Ubuntu, the default is quite limited.
Likewise, *rarely* do I uninstall a previous version to upgrade in Windows. Only with a few incompetantly designed applications is that neccessary.
Your example is neither complicated (correct), or intuitive (incorrect).
Somebody stopping by and playing with Linux will probably have *no* clue what the etc direcotry is, or even to look there. And then telling them what it is for (everyone I have heard has described it as "configuration settings"), they would never guess to *look* there for starting and stopping applications, they would probably look in the.*/bin or.*/sbin direcotries, since those hold applications, if someone gave them a bit more information.
Yeah, I bough all my hardware, theft is usually frowned upon, even if you are using FOSS...
Or were you talking about software? *Looks at The Gimp icon on his desktop* *Looks at the Open Office Icons*
Yep, paid *so* much for those! They cost me all of $0.00, I'm gonna go broke! Seriously, finding free software for Windows is trivial.
2) install them ( each app in another way )
Yep, I have to install stuff to use it. Darn. Whoda thunk. Oh wait, I install stuff if I use it in Linux. Sometimes by the package fetcher, sometimes by a downloaded package + manager, sometimes by source. Oh, looks there's lots of different ways there too.
In Windows it usually just involves wisards with extremely similar interfaces, where if you want you can put in the CD and keep clicking "next" until done, only having to agree to a EULA. But like Linux, there are the oddballs where you have to go outside of the norm.
3) update them, after paying for the possibilty of update Windows
Yes, because if you have Linux installed, with Xorg 6.9, you will *never* have to upgrade to 7.x to use version 7.x! It's *magical*
Seriously, every complaint in your rant is *just* as applicable to Linux as it is to Windows. The only caveat is that you/have/ to pay for Windows, but you don't have to pay for Linux (you can if you want!), and there's probably more commercial software (but not much less free software) for Windows.
Some people find that Windows and some of that commercial software over the free alternatives. I know, having had a lot of experience with both, I prefer Windows to Linux, Corel Photopaint to The Gimp, etc.
It's all a matter of what you use, how you use it, and you method of looking at and solving problems.
Also, there are some games that will run in windows but not Wine, that's another reason some people use Windows...
People won't always agree with you, get over it.
(And if you try to counter me with that one - I never once said people shouldn't use Linux, I simply said that there are reasons not to use it, which may be valid for some users).
I'm sorry I annoyed you little troll, and made you come out of your cave into the daylight. If it makes you feel any better, the 'was' instead of 'were' makes the sentance easier to misunderstand.
Now please go back to your cave and eat a baby or something, you are annoying.
I think your temp sensor is borked. I think the highest I've seen a standard x86 processor able to survive is around 90-100C without problems. Even then it's a bit buggy. That temp would make a lot more sense in Farenheit.
Actaully, in my case, I more or less agreed with the results that I am familiar with (except I don't find the interface aesthetically pleasing) - however the piece read like a rant in "the ugly" section, and I thought was rather counterproductive to it's own case, especially with flawed, easily verifiable information.
Maybe so, but if he is getting facts incorrect like that, he sucks at his "profession". Even if other journalists do the same, that's more of a critcism of journalism itself than anything else.
I'm not saying he didn't have some good points, I found some of the things he said true to my own experiences with MacOS (His "The Bad" section I thought was fairly well accurate, "The Good" had some things that were just too subjective for my liking, but had it's pros and cons). But if he can't do his research, and puts in fairly obvious falacities, then how can I trust his writings on topics I'm not familiar with? More importantly, does he have a right to be potentially misleading the public?
It can only spread to species the plant can reproduce with.
What that means is...
Only the same plant species, or similar species will be affected.
As for animals. They don't reporduce with plants under any circumstances that I've heard of...
Now, if it were bacteria, the gene could spread to other species of bacteria if it were in a plasmid, but that's a whole 'noter can 'o worms... err... ecoli.
I'll grant you that, but *EVERY* OS has that problem
- Proprietary OSes/software, for not wanting to bother with certain open standards, or standards of other proprietary OSes/software. - OSS OSes/software, for not being able to attain the code for proprietary formats.
So, really, that flaw of *BSD, is a flaw of Apple, a flaw of Windows, and a flaw of other OSes as well. To my experience, Windows is the least likely to be encombered by such a flaw.
But it's easy enough to work around most of the time.
Oh, and I thought of something BSD can't do that Apple can, but it's more of an advantage than a disadvantage... Flash > 7. Even Flash 7 is problematic... So flash is out of the picture. I don't find this objectionable though...
Maybe I'm mistaken, but every task I want to do, I've been able to do on my FreeBSD machine. Although, I admit, some apps aren't quite the quality of what you would find in a Windows or Apple environment, they still function well enough for my uses (and in fact those of most users I suspect).
You can get the full version of Corel Draw Suite for under $400 at newegg I believe. It's got a lot of nice tools. Unfortunately I can't easily check what all formats it can output to - except I know it does a lot, including Photoshop's format.
And of course, you've heard the plethora of gimp protagonists here, so I won't run that into the ground. I use Gimp on my BSD machine, and Draw Suite on my Windows machine.
Or because they use the OpenGL and DirectX specs to develop their card interfaces, both of which cost money and NDAs to attain, and thus they can't release the specs without risk of violating some copyright or patent, setting the leagal war machines of two companies upon them.
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I'm not certain about the rest, but I find them suspect suspect given your other innacuracies
(1) BSD conforms to UNIX standards better than Linux (2) I have The Gimp 2.2.14 on my BSD box, and it works fine. 2.2.15 was only released a couple of days ago, and I really don't feel the need to update at the moment. (3) Open Office has worked for years, and still works. I use it daily. (4) If by "almost no developers left" you mean hundreds of main-stream developers, and thousands of applications porters, I'd say you are right, and you have a very liberal view of the phrase "almost no".
I'll agree with the UI point, I tried it and went back to XMMS. Small, simple, too the point. The main and equilizer interface buttons look like what you'd find on a sterio, making it rather intuitive. The buttons on the playlist have text, making them fairly obvious also. Right click for more options, as most guis do. All of this functionality, without taking up much realestate.
I wasn't complaining about Gentoo - actually I found it the easiest Linux distro to work with in most cases, because, although not the fastest, it's app-installs were the smoothest typically.
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Then software, you're right that there is a lot of free software for Windows, but for linux all is free.
/. within the past 3 or 4 months I believe. German manufacture...
No. There's "pay" Linux software. There's crossover office, for one (yes you can get the source, but that's apparantly a PITA), and I've seen closed source, pay-for-use Linux apps as well, though none are coming to mind. There was an office application mentioned on
The third thing is that yuo can update all software ( in linux) by one click in Update Manager wherease in Windows you usually have to deinstall app and install new version.
No, you *cannot* install all software with the Update Manager, rather you can install/upgrade software for which packages have been made. I'll grant you, that is a large quantity of software, but by no means all. Also you have to tell it to use the appropriate repositories, as, at least in Ubuntu, the default is quite limited.
Likewise, *rarely* do I uninstall a previous version to upgrade in Windows. Only with a few incompetantly designed applications is that neccessary.
Your half right.
.*/bin or .*/sbin direcotries, since those hold applications, if someone gave them a bit more information.
Your example is neither complicated (correct), or intuitive (incorrect).
Somebody stopping by and playing with Linux will probably have *no* clue what the etc direcotry is, or even to look there. And then telling them what it is for (everyone I have heard has described it as "configuration settings"), they would never guess to *look* there for starting and stopping applications, they would probably look in the
huh?
/have/ to pay for Windows, but you don't have to pay for Linux (you can if you want!), and there's probably more commercial software (but not much less free software) for Windows.
1) buy all the thing
Yeah, I bough all my hardware, theft is usually frowned upon, even if you are using FOSS...
Or were you talking about software?
*Looks at The Gimp icon on his desktop*
*Looks at the Open Office Icons*
Yep, paid *so* much for those! They cost me all of $0.00, I'm gonna go broke!
Seriously, finding free software for Windows is trivial.
2) install them ( each app in another way )
Yep, I have to install stuff to use it. Darn. Whoda thunk.
Oh wait, I install stuff if I use it in Linux. Sometimes by the package fetcher, sometimes by a downloaded package + manager, sometimes by source. Oh, looks there's lots of different ways there too.
In Windows it usually just involves wisards with extremely similar interfaces, where if you want you can put in the CD and keep clicking "next" until done, only having to agree to a EULA. But like Linux, there are the oddballs where you have to go outside of the norm.
3) update them, after paying for the possibilty of update Windows
Yes, because if you have Linux installed, with Xorg 6.9, you will *never* have to upgrade to 7.x to use version 7.x! It's *magical*
Seriously, every complaint in your rant is *just* as applicable to Linux as it is to Windows. The only caveat is that you
Some people find that Windows and some of that commercial software over the free alternatives. I know, having had a lot of experience with both, I prefer Windows to Linux, Corel Photopaint to The Gimp, etc.
It's all a matter of what you use, how you use it, and you method of looking at and solving problems.
Also, there are some games that will run in windows but not Wine, that's another reason some people use Windows...
People won't always agree with you, get over it.
(And if you try to counter me with that one - I never once said people shouldn't use Linux, I simply said that there are reasons not to use it, which may be valid for some users).
I'm sorry I annoyed you little troll, and made you come out of your cave into the daylight. If it makes you feel any better, the 'was' instead of 'were' makes the sentance easier to misunderstand.
Now please go back to your cave and eat a baby or something, you are annoying.
I think your temp sensor is borked. I think the highest I've seen a standard x86 processor able to survive is around 90-100C without problems. Even then it's a bit buggy. That temp would make a lot more sense in Farenheit.
Actaully, in my case, I more or less agreed with the results that I am familiar with (except I don't find the interface aesthetically pleasing) - however the piece read like a rant in "the ugly" section, and I thought was rather counterproductive to it's own case, especially with flawed, easily verifiable information.
Maybe so, but if he is getting facts incorrect like that, he sucks at his "profession". Even if other journalists do the same, that's more of a critcism of journalism itself than anything else.
I'm not saying he didn't have some good points, I found some of the things he said true to my own experiences with MacOS (His "The Bad" section I thought was fairly well accurate, "The Good" had some things that were just too subjective for my liking, but had it's pros and cons). But if he can't do his research, and puts in fairly obvious falacities, then how can I trust his writings on topics I'm not familiar with? More importantly, does he have a right to be potentially misleading the public?
There is no *need* for them, but as I stated in my previous response, they can be a convinience.
It can only spread to species the plant can reproduce with.
What that means is...
Only the same plant species, or similar species will be affected.
As for animals. They don't reporduce with plants under any circumstances that I've heard of...
Now, if it were bacteria, the gene could spread to other species of bacteria if it were in a plasmid, but that's a whole 'noter can 'o worms... err... ecoli.
Many things require a "yes/no" answer, and more options, while nice, are silly. Sometimes it's nice to have a quick option that you can do by reflex.
Example:
"Save this phone number?"
[yes][no]
vs.
"Save this phone number?"
[yes][no][go to the apple website][go to the microsoft website][eat a burrito]
I'll grant you that, but *EVERY* OS has that problem
- Proprietary OSes/software, for not wanting to bother with certain open standards, or standards of other proprietary OSes/software.
- OSS OSes/software, for not being able to attain the code for proprietary formats.
So, really, that flaw of *BSD, is a flaw of Apple, a flaw of Windows, and a flaw of other OSes as well. To my experience, Windows is the least likely to be encombered by such a flaw.
But it's easy enough to work around most of the time.
Oh, and I thought of something BSD can't do that Apple can, but it's more of an advantage than a disadvantage... Flash > 7. Even Flash 7 is problematic... So flash is out of the picture. I don't find this objectionable though...
In TFA he said he tried to install a lot of *nix software/X11 stuff, and had a lot of trouble.
Though, honestly, when he called NeoOffice an X11 app, I had to take away his credibility card...
May I ask what it is that BSD can't do?
Maybe I'm mistaken, but every task I want to do, I've been able to do on my FreeBSD machine. Although, I admit, some apps aren't quite the quality of what you would find in a Windows or Apple environment, they still function well enough for my uses (and in fact those of most users I suspect).
You can get the full version of Corel Draw Suite for under $400 at newegg I believe. It's got a lot of nice tools. Unfortunately I can't easily check what all formats it can output to - except I know it does a lot, including Photoshop's format.
And of course, you've heard the plethora of gimp protagonists here, so I won't run that into the ground. I use Gimp on my BSD machine, and Draw Suite on my Windows machine.
Actually, it specifically mentions communication, so I'd say the OP is closer to correct, though a more specific answer would be "driver"
Or because they use the OpenGL and DirectX specs to develop their card interfaces, both of which cost money and NDAs to attain, and thus they can't release the specs without risk of violating some copyright or patent, setting the leagal war machines of two companies upon them.
I only use one-time use pads when sending my emails. It keeps them busy and unable to decrypt the emails!
And you are charging $4 for the old apple, $2 for the new.
except VB.NET, then your hosed.
I'm not certain about the rest, but I find them suspect suspect given your other innacuracies
(1) BSD conforms to UNIX standards better than Linux
(2) I have The Gimp 2.2.14 on my BSD box, and it works fine. 2.2.15 was only released a couple of days ago, and I really don't feel the need to update at the moment.
(3) Open Office has worked for years, and still works. I use it daily.
(4) If by "almost no developers left" you mean hundreds of main-stream developers, and thousands of applications porters, I'd say you are right, and you have a very liberal view of the phrase "almost no".
at least, any language with a networking library?
Add netcat to that as well. It's not a programming language but it's Frickin' useful for network processes.
netcat + bzip2 + dd combine to make my favorite backup tool...
So... You may have bought an iRiver!
They can play MP3, and with the manufacturers firmware updates, many can play ogg or flag (I forget which, or if both are possible).
I'll agree with the UI point, I tried it and went back to XMMS. Small, simple, too the point. The main and equilizer interface buttons look like what you'd find on a sterio, making it rather intuitive. The buttons on the playlist have text, making them fairly obvious also. Right click for more options, as most guis do. All of this functionality, without taking up much realestate.
but, I don't know if it has a sync plugin.
Didn't the original series get new writers with every doctor? Possibly new staff as well.
I agree with you, I don't see why they cant swap out the management - it's been done before, it'll be done again.
I wasn't complaining about Gentoo - actually I found it the easiest Linux distro to work with in most cases, because, although not the fastest, it's app-installs were the smoothest typically.