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Where stories about weight loss, Hollywood-grade entertainment industry rumors and get-rich-quick speculators routinely get voted up to the top, while kick-ass Rails API documentation site I submitted yesterday was not even noticed.
What's next? Britney's next pregnancy prediction?
I used to work under a CTO who's been in OS/2 kernel group at the time of their cooperation with MS. He's still claiming them all idiots and arrogant pricks, only "their" OS/2 eventually worked out, but "his" OS/2 silently died.
You can't beat at the same time the mighty gorilla (IBM) and ambitious uprising young startup (Apple) on marketing or luck alone, you'd need an engineering arm slightly above mediocre level.
So... I call BS on your comment. I bet Microsoft in the 80s was more exciting place to be than Google is today.
Well... gVim is pretty nicely integrated into Gnome, picks up theme/colors/icons, etc. I like it a lot.
Thank you for replying BTW: I will definitely install 4.1 myself. If FF and Gimp experience won't suffer, I may actually consider switching.
Soon, however, we invented ways to record sound cheaply, thus one didn't have to spend as much on recording/reproducing hardware, giving people ability to do it themselves, and the "industry" started to bitch about VCRs and cassette recorders.
Now we've come up with even cheaper way to record, copy and even manipulate (!) sound. And a way to distribute it for free.
The "industry" is clearly not needed anymore, there is no "product" behind it, just a bunch of useless "distributors" and "promoters". Why would we want to save THAT?
Nothing is going to happen to music, the music has been around for thousands of years, long before all these inventions took place, and the best musical creations happened without any help from the "industry".
We (engineers) gave them (the industry) an exclusive monopoly to charge for a short-lived privilege of storing and transporting sound, now we're taking it back. In that sense everything goes back to normal: nothing to be saved here.
The only KDE app that is worth using compared to GTK counterparts that comes to mind is probably Amarok [and I still prefer Rythmobx].
Am I missing something here?
And I never had to recompile the kernel. In fact, the only software I ever had to compile on Linux was mine (I did compile my own builds of a few apps, but only because I wanted to enable some "experimental" features not available in standard repositories).
An isomorphic Windows comic would be about computer virus eating your cat or a pop-ups window bumping your grandma in the forehead.
What? They're not only "better", they're actually _threads_, i.e. are able to run in parallel, you know? What are Ruby 1.8 threads good for, except for sitting on sockets?
