Posts by John Sanders

Re: GNOME == Red Hat?

There is no problem whatsoever in linking Gnome. That is not the point.

The point is that a majority of users rejected it and after tiring of being ignored we all decided to left.

Not all of the recent work in Gnome is bad (Ie: decent scaling on High Res screens).

However in my opinion they can go S**** themselves big time as not only have they broke the Gnome desktop, they have promoted breaking apps and libraries widely used by other projects with no regrets.

This is from one of the Gnome developers:

"""I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app unfortunately. I’m sorry that this is the case but it wasn’t GNOME’s fault that Ubuntu has started this fork. And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry."""

Read this article: http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotting-in-threes/

Gnome has been actively harming the OSS desktop for the last 3-5 years.

Re: 1 in 10 reasons probably invalid, so all invalid?

"""The health aspect is just one of many reasons why one might buy organics"""

I dare you to buy and consume inorganic food.

Re: comparison

You do not get it the performance gains are like the invisible guy in Mystery Men, they happen when absolutely nobody is looking.

Re: Pattern matching

Agreed.

Re: Requires Adobe Flash?

They should have never abandoned the old QT management interface.

And they should return to it.

The .net based one is shit, the flash based one is bloody shit.

I will always fail to understand the fixation with stupid run-times when deploying sophisticated c++ software.

You said it right

More cloud bollocks.

It's the raise of stupidity.

Users are too stupid to use the company's FTP/SFTP server but know how to use dropbox.

Users are too stupid to know how to copy and paste files on a windows share, but are clever enough to share company documents on Google Docs.

Re: Sounds about right

I was so sick of having to deal with the computers of relatives that I decided that I will only help them if they want assistance to install/use Linux.

Nothing MS does or produce is even remotely interesting.

Linux may not be for everybody, but what I'm sure of is that MS is not for me, the overwhelming feeling of not being able to tell what the F*** the computer is doing is too much to bear.

Re: IS MICROSOFT AN INNOVATOR?

"""So what you're saying is that the market had a choice between the Amiga and MS-DOS, and it picked MS-DOS."""

Not many people at the time understood what it mean to have a graphical environment, audio, multitasking and other things we take now for granted.

Commodore was the first one that did not understand this. The Amiga was way ahead at the time, but sadly in the wrong hands.

Re: Sharing the Blame

"""A lot of China’s industry is exported to the rest of the world where we low prices are so important that we don’t care who suffers and how."""

And why should we care? Do not get me wrong, it doesn't make anybody happy to learn that other people is suffering, but how the heck do you think that we're responsible?

Because we have good living standards and they don't?

Ask yourself this question before you make us all guilty of something we have no part with.

So why do they not have good living standards? Answer: Because they live under a Communist-dictatorship state where people are told what to do and their lives are planned by the state who has no regards for anybody else but themselves.

"""It is absurd to think that importing goods from overseas more cheaply than manufacturing them locally is not a distortion of reality. In this case, it is achieved by poor wages and working conditions, unreliable quality control, and a disregard for the environment."""

And how are we responsible for this? Because when we go to the shops we buy something that we can afford and interest us? Do not make me laugh.

"""The medium to long term consequences may well include higher prices as manufacturing and food production in China gets trickier."""

Yes because you can only make things cheap in China, and the rest of the world has forgotten how to make stuff.

Re: here is what nobody likes about servers

1) That is not always true.

2) That is not always true.

3) I agree with this.

4) That is not always true.

5) This is how computing works.

Re: How about

Office 365 is not browser based!

The anger at binary drivers

It is not about the binary drivers, no one cares about their precious binary drivers, IMHO they can stick them up where they store their stools.

What they get angry about is that Nvidia doesn't release the specs of the cards so the open source developers can get on with developing open source drivers.

It is not going to cost them much, and they will not be revealing any "trade secrets", "secret sauce" or whatever.

Nvidia is either retarded or on MS's pocket or both.

Re: Let me point the obvious:

"""The point is..."""

How long have you been here sir?

Re: the people will not notice thing...

"""One of the wonders made possible by the internet is that the several million [Insert Evil Telco] subscribers who had their Netflix blocked or degraded find out pretty quickly that *only* [Insert Evil Telco] is doing it. Especially with Neutrality activists on the alert. So it's every implausible that [Insert Evil Telco] could get away with it. Word gets around."""

And one of the wonders of companies operating on the same sector to have under the table agreements.

They do it all the time, on every industry.

Remember certain 'recent' financial scandal about the banks fixing rate prices?

There is nothing that would prevent two ISPs in a given zone from having an agreement to screw a third party.

Hey it is not personal, it is just business.